Nic should be able to get away on his own.

In reply to Nicolai Romanelli (msg # 148):


Okay, post updated to pull Jenna too.

Hey fellas,

I'm headed up to the mountains for a little off-the-grid R&R with the fam. We're headed up Monday and I'll be back in coms on Thursday. I'd really like to get the next turn up before I go so if you can get up an IC post before tonight, that would be really cool. If not, don't sweat it. One of these days, we'll all get a couple of calm weeks at the same time.

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Dave, did you miss a hit die when leveling up?  I just realized that Nic has more HP than Jenna.

Yeah, I realised after the fight had started that I never actually levelled up from Six to Seven at all. Doing so in the middle of a fight didn’t feel quite right somehow, so I figured I’d wait until we were done with this scene.

I was wondering if that was the case... even with four levels of ranger, Nic isn't that tanky...
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I'm back and ready to go. @Dave, if you want to level up Jenna now, that's fine with me. If you want to wait until this encounter is well and truly over, that's fine too.

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In reply to Raellus (msg # 154):

I'm at work right now, so I'll take care of it later when I'm home.

Corros will continue to run.

It looks like we're in a position to either win this fight or disappear (or first one, then the other).  There are plenty of civilian witnesses.  Do we want to leave a mercenary conscious to take a message back to Kreyg or do we want to kill everyone and leave some misdirecting evidence to confuse the issue?
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Also... Rae, will Nic get a flanking bonus from Jenna this turn if he stays engaged with the guy atop the carriage?

Yes, he'll get to make his sneak attack because Jenna is within 5' of him, but he won't have advantage unless he uses his feinting attack. I can't remember if he has two or one maneuvers left.

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One superiority die left.  He's used a feint and two ripostes.

I was a little worried that y'all couldn't successfully kidnap the emissary and avoid getting captured (or worse) yourselves, but you guys came through again. Well done.



Essentially, without medical assistance, the two downed Redcloaks will die. Medical assistance doesn't meaning healing magic, per se, just application of the medicine skill. What that means is, there's no need to administer a cold-blooded coup-de-gras, unless you're in the mood for it. Since the bodyguard wasn't pierced or cut at all during the fight (just blistered and bludgeoned), he will survive- unless, that is, you want to do something about it.

Given the distance between the ambush site and Vander's safe house (it's only a couple of blocks), witnesses are a bit of a problem. Getting back to the safe house unseen and unremarked is going to be nearly impossible, barring a little creativity on your part. Once you're out of the vicinity of the ambush site/safe house, witnesses become less of an issue.

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I'd rather not let them bleed out.  Not that I am feeling particularly charitable toward them, but it might be bad for business.  Nic is not skilled in Medicine but he does have poultices (from the spell-less ranger class ability) that he can apply to stem the bleeding if we want to go that route.

Also, let's not burn the safe house if we can avoid it...

Jenna is skilled in medicine. Also I don't think Arma would approve of letting them bleed out - mercy to a fallen foe and all that jazz. I won't be in a position to post IC until tomorrow now so if someone posts before then she'll follow their lead.

What sort of sword, specifically?  Acquisitive minds want to know...

To the d ad ward?  That would be unexpected...

Approved!

Fine with me

OK, so I take it that y'all are waiting on me to shift the narrative to Padin's? I'm fine with that, but I've been a bit distracted by the World Series. Game 7 is tonight so, win or lose, I'll be getting back to this project tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

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No prob.  Half my office drag-assed in late this morning.

I was up until 1am last night, hopped up on adrenaline. Two of my fellow Cub fan co-workers called in sick but I didn't.

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Next course of action: wait out the search and see if Padin wants to hold onto our captive?

If so - get back on the streets and do something else unpleasant to the albino?

If not - smuggle the prisoner onto an outbound ship once the search dies down enough to allow it?

Thoughts?

We need to do a bit of interrogation and figure out what the Albino's plan is, but after that...

My only question with smuggling him out is what is the end game?  We send him somewhere safe and then do what?  Hold him for ransom?  Send him home in a box?  That sounds like war stuff.  His value is only going to last as long as his absence tips control away from the Albino.  So striking out hard again seems like our best option.

There's always the other emissary.  Of course, that sounds like a suicide mission.