"I'm thinking I could climb the tower from the outside while y'all might could take a look around on the inside. That way if I scare em back inside, y'all could still confront them, and vice-versa. What do you think?"
There’s plenty to grab onto at low level, but you’re not going to be able to hang onto the wall for more than a few seconds at a time. Best to reach a balcony or dark green foliage.
Pulling yourself up onto a balcony will require a meagre 6 DC Strength check. I’ll tell you what happens should you fail...
It will become harder to climb as you ascend, but not beyond your capabilities.
I think you can edit it, if not just give me a description of where you think you end up.
Rule Reminders
Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling
Each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain) when you’re climbing, swimming, or crawling. You ignore this extra cost if you have a climbing speed and use it to climb or a swimming speed and use it to swim. At the DM’s option, climbing a slippery vertical surface or one with few handholds requires a successful Strength (Athletics) check. Similarly, gaining any distance in rough water might require a successful Strength (Athletics) check.
Jumping
Your Strength determines how far you can jump.
Long Jump. When you make a long jump, you cover a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing long jump, you can leap only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement.
This rule assumes that the height of your jump doesn't matter, such as a jump across a stream or chasm. At your DM's option, you must succeed on a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to clear a low obstacle (no taller than a quarter of the jump's distance), such as a hedge or low wall. Otherwise, you hit it.
When you land in difficult terrain, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to land on your feet. Otherwise, you land prone.
High Jump. When you make a high jump, you leap into the air a number of feet equal to 3 + your Strength modifier (minimum of 0 feet) if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing high jump, you can jump only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement. In some circumstances, your DM might allow you to make a Strength (Athletics) check to jump higher than you normally can.
You can extend your arms half your height above yourself during the jump. Thus, you can reach above you a distance equal to the height of the jump plus 1 1/2 times your height.
The round door slides away at your touch, and light slowly fills the corridor before you.
Marble sized orbs embedded into the walls flicker into life, casting a muted glow. Something like the Dancing Lights spell is held within them, still working, barely.
Along one wall is the following phrase: “go up for living quarters, no merchants, no patrolmen without written note from H”
Up ahead is a room with a half-opened round door. It’s malfunctioning and dormant.
The room has a large statue in it of three pursuers, terrible beasts like a manticore crossed with a cloaker. Today they have three cheap flat masks on their faces, each with a jolly smile painted on. One has a fancy scarf wrapped around it. They are all graffitied with names and pictures of flowers.
Besides the statue is a staircase down to the basement floor.
((OOC, is it fair to assume Gear's been in the basement before as part of her ADVENTURES that lead to flooding Bahar's house that one time? Actually, given that whole incident: How much does gear know about this whole locale? My headcannon is she's definitely explored a lot of dogabag before now, but how exhaustive that's been i'm not sure!)
[OOC: I assumed she moved here from another area after the flooding. However, if she always lived here, any flooding you caused happened on the floor above this one.
Do you want a map of the route it’ll take to get to her apartment? It’s fine for Gear to know the way if you want!]
((Whatever you think would be funnier - i mean, Gear,s trying to AVOID Bahar i think, so it's entirely up to you if you want to thrust her into hilariously uncomfortable social situation because she just wants to deal with the monkeys for her friend, not get lectured about settling down and Helping Rebuild The City. But also i'm trying to figure out stuff if like she's been down in the basement before, or i should just go in on Gear's love of exploring. i should probably do the latter and drag hado along because that's more amusing))
[OOC: I think she moved here after The Incident. This is the last place on your list to explore, or was.]
Gear, you’re not familiar with Cucha, but you know a few things:
1. It was built by dwarf slaves.
2. It’s overgrown with flowers and trees, and has lots of wildlife crawling around.
3. This entire floor was cleared of dangerous traps and monsters decades ago.
4. Spells still linger here, like the lights.
5. The basement level was once used to make weapons of war.
6. There are secret doors in the basement, mostly marked these days.
7. The residents live on the next floor up.
8. Above the living quarters level it gets really wild, and some traps might still be armed.
You might be able to avoid a confrontation if, once you find the staircase up, you sneak passed the apartments. Easy, right?
Gear considers all her info, and decides that maybe she really should have gone climbing outside. Stealth probably isn't thaaaaat bad. Right? Right? Her armor rustles in agreement.
"Hado, we need to be reallll quite on the next level. Please keep bonking us with your sage" (I just love hte mental image of the two of them sneaking around while Hado keeps bonking us for Guidance)
Gear looks aroudn further, and makes a mental note to come back another time and have a look inthe basement. "Some point, we should go basement diving in here, i bet we'd find some interesting stuff" she says to hado. "Huh, i wonder if we could find a link to that underground river we found in Rogo Rogo's cave... that'd be interesting. But i think the monkeys are up. So let's find the stairs and head on up, and... trynot to alert hte people who live upstairs that we're here. One of them Does Not Like Me"
Okay, so Baber starts their climb upwards. They head straight up 4 squares and to the right 1 square (or diagonally up+right if that's allowed), headed for that first balcony.
[OOC: I clicked your link but the spreadsheet came up with all white squares. I think I can describe things well enough for ya though. Also, I'm gonna go ahead and roll my STR check for the beginning of my next turn to pull myself onto the balcony]
Baber, you manage to reach the balcony and pull yourself up a few seconds later. A couple of birds take flight as you get onto your feet. The rain is cool on your skin, helping you get your breath back.
Before you is a large open window draped by moth eaten, dull curtains. Beside it rich, dark green vines run up the wall and reach into a window above.
After a moment faint light shines out from the balcony window.
Directly 5 feet ahead is an obvious trap made of black marble, something like an animal snare, but were it to snap shut it would crush your leg clean off. Parts in the middle of it appear to have been removed.
—
Gear and Hado, following arrows painted on the wall you head to where the staircase leading up will be. You stop momentarily in the corridor as a spooked creature hisses at you; it is an oupsit. Common enough, it’s a officially classed as a monstrosity, not a beast, though it poses no threat. It’s thought some other creature, cats perhaps, fed on rats contaminated by decaying arcana from below the city.
Far ahead of the oupsit a giant cog slowly stops and starts, turning clockwise through the floor, the reason forgotten and redundant.
Behind the cog is a walled off area, and to the right is a thin glass separation between here and a small alcove. Though dark, you’re certain the area will light up as you walk in.
Gear walks forward carefully, leaving the Oupsit room to move around. It's pretty cute, but she's not here to get a pet today. She keeps moving, though the colossal cog catches her attention for a moment. Gear takes a moment to look it over, see if she can figure anything out about it.
Geth roll 1d20+5 for investigate
When she's done, she keeps moving south, looking for the stairs.
The oupsit skitters backwards, then flips upside down and falls upwards. If sprints off along the ceiling.
The giant cog must connects to some kind of forge beneath. It’s made of obsidian, and is flecked with tiny marks of what might be... what do you call it, copper? Too small to be worth scrapping off, but still, this place used to work metal!
You can only assume sections below you have other giant cogs moving in unison.
Looking over to the wall high glass separating a small area, you see there is a 3 foot high lever. How do you get in there?
Just to be on the safe side, Baber takes a javelin and pokes at the trap. It's missing pieces probably mean it's disarmed permanently, but they aren't taking chances. After ascertaining it's safe (or if it gets set off), Baber moves up to the window and takes a peek inside.
Next to the glass wall is a small woven basket full of smooth glass pebbles of various natural colours. They must have been collected from a beach over many months. The basket has a note on it: “make ‘em touch”.
Behind the glass wall is a lever and nothing else. It looks to be clean, but a dusty sandal footprint can be seen by the lever.
—
Baber
The trap closes swiftly 3/4 of the way, then falls back. It’s safe.
Inside the room you see a Floretta woman sat at a table. Her room is full of archaic ornaments, things like battered shields, faded paintings and little statues of animals.
In a very eloquent voice, somewhat interested and certainly not afraid, she says, “Shame about the rain. Is the front door acting up again?”
Gear stares at the note, and attempts to poke the stones together, then against the glass to see if anything happens
((OOC: I am terrible at riddles or guessing games like this, so this si one of those times where i'm going to be relying on my character being a lot smarter than i actually am. aka: HALP))
"I apologize for the intrusion, ma'am. As far as I know the front door is working fine, I'm just out here looking for the monkeys that are bothering Luce over at the Leaner. Would you happen to know where I could find them?"
Baber gives her their most charming smile as they deliver that last line
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Hado takes a pebble from the basket and gently touches it to the glass wall.
You press a pebble to the glass at the same time, and you both fall forward a pace, landing on the other side!
Hado, you land with a hand on the lever and knock it forward. Behind you both you hear a loud THUNK!
A pair of staircases, one going down, the other going up is revealed as walls descend into the floor.
You both gain 10 experience!
—
Baber
“Tsk. Luce, still wasting her time over there. Nice gal though, really cute. The monkeys come and go, but I believe they live on top of the spire covered in trees. They’ve been so noisy lately, and moving together in bigger bands. I haven’t really thought about, don’t think it’s mating season or anything...”
She connects some dots in her head.
“They did reach in and steal a salad I made a couple days ago. They’ve never done that before! Little buggers. Well, good day to you.”
If you want any more out of her, you’ll have to make a Persuasion skill check.
"Hmmm, sounds like something has emboldened the monkeys. Thank you for your assistance, I shall take my leave and continue towards the top"
Baber goes back onto the balcony and continues to the right, and climbs the dark green vines up to the next window and takes a peek inside before attempting to pull themself up into it for a break.
As you climb the vines they give way under your weight! The vines slow your fall a little bit, but ultimately you fall back onto the balcony.
Geth roll 3d4 for Stilted Fall Damage
The Floretta woman leans out the window, “Well, shit.”
The woman gingerly steps out onto the balcony to see if you’re alright. You take 8 bludgeoning damage.
—
Hado and Gear
Each step of the staircase creaks as you walk up it. A bird flutters in and makes a surprised shrill call as you reach the landing, then flies up out of a hole in the ceiling. Lights flicker into life, but go out again every few seconds.
On either side of you is a door to someone’s home.
Ahead of you is a tall tree that grows up through a large hole in the ceiling. Birdsong can be heard coming from it’s canopy on the next level.
Further still is a turn and widening of the corridor, and one more apartment.
[OOC: Obviously you can’t see into any apartments or around the corner, but so you’re aware they’re not as empty as this map indicates so far.]
You hear a quiet thud from outside when you walk forward.
As you turn the corner you spy a barefoot Tunglani in a plain cloth skirt. They’re quite beautiful. They’re sat against the wall, blowing smoke rings. They haven’t noticed you yet.
There are several thin holes in the floor running from right to left between you both.
What do you do?
[OOC: I don’t have it written up properly yet, but...
So the Champion killed the Vilelord, and the rebels moved in to the massive fortress that they named New Zellatia after a magical city state at failed to beat the Vilelord decades prior.
Over time the rebels made the place into a city, with money, jobs, all that stuff.
Some rebels were barbarians though, and to this day pockets of people live tribally or have otherwise different lifestyles in the city, avoiding the expected ways of behaviour in lesser patrolled areas by the law.]
“I’m Bahar. My friends call me Wallflower.”, says the woman, “It’s a sort of pun, because I’m from the finest building family in this whole district—no, the whole city.”
There is an air of pride when she says that. It really means a lot to her.
“Call me that if you like.”
She grabs your hand with two of her’s and pulls you up.
“Hm. Get in, I’ll let you out and take you to the secret stairs. Way quicker.”
Do you enter her home, or try the climb again (you’ll need a Perception check to scope your the best method, then a jump after you climb the vines as part of it is ripped off)?
[OOC: Just to avoid misspelling between her and Baber I’m making Gear’s relative have the nickname Wallflower.
Inside Wallflower’s place the general living area, the bathing and bed space are all partitioned off by hanging silks, leaving you only an impression of what’s here.
Wallflower peers at an old painting on the wall, then adjusts it. The scene it depicts is of a distant snowy mountain you’ve never seen—indeed, there are no snow topped mountains near New Zellatia, just the tall plateau’s jutting up from the earth. As she adjusts it, the clouds in the painting move slightly.
“Right, let’s head out.”
[OOC: We’ll leave you here until Gear and Hado progress together, if they don’t get very far you and Wallflower will bump into them soon!]
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Hado, noting the line of holes in the floor, walks a few feet towards the Tunglani and stops before the holes. "Hello there! We, uh, we're looking for... the monkeys? We were told they were causing trouble around here!"
The feathers on the Tunglani’s head ruffle as they turn to you. They take a puff of their pipe.
“Monkey’s huh?”, they don’t have the voice you expect, they’re hoarse sounding, “Monkeys.”
They turn away, then slide themselves up the wall.
“I don’t know what gang that is, but patrolmen aren’t wanted around here. Still, you’re gonna want to hop over that spike trap; it still works. Nobody’s been able to rip them out, and I think... certain people are okay with that.”
They take a huge puff of smoke and screw their pretty face up.
Gear looks at them somewhat disdainfully. "We're not patrolmen. We're doing a favour for Luce. And we're taking about literal, actual monkeys. The kind with fur that steal your food"
She sighs and keeps moving on with Hado.
((So uh, do we know where this spike trap is? Athletics out acrobatics to jump it?))
Geth roll 1d20+5 for investigate
(Gear is trying to see what see can figure out about the trap, including if she can disarm it with her thieves tools)
[OOC: Yeah it’s very obvious, you can hop over it no trouble. It’s some holes in the floor in front of you. Step in it and spikes come up.]
Looking down you’re pretty sure you could jam the spikes while they’re out, then have Hado snap them off. You’d need to activate it though, so something is gonna get impaled if you do.
Gear decides it's probably not worth pissing off the locals just yet to fix this trap, though she makes a note to tell her family and come back with them sometime to fix it - this is the sort of thing that could injure an adventurous child easily.
“There’s no point.”, says the feathered young woman, “Nothing matters.”
Her voice wavers, unsure.
She kicks the door behind her open suddenly. Behind her is a dimly lit corridor that slopes upwards, and a turn in the corridor. The slope is full of deep cuts from what might have been large talons.
“Don’t go up the slope, it only leads to a drop.”, she says.
—
Baber
Do you have anything to ask before you’re shown the secret staircase?
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Baber, start your ascent!
There’s plenty to grab onto at low level, but you’re not going to be able to hang onto the wall for more than a few seconds at a time. Best to reach a balcony or dark green foliage.
Pulling yourself up onto a balcony will require a meagre 6 DC Strength check. I’ll tell you what happens should you fail...
It will become harder to climb as you ascend, but not beyond your capabilities.
The Map
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17iBdwSv5fTlhLZGfsisIZkWIRl5jy2ANPlzs9-6zGn8/edit
I think you can edit it, if not just give me a description of where you think you end up.
Rule Reminders
Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling
Each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain) when you’re climbing, swimming, or crawling. You ignore this extra cost if you have a climbing speed and use it to climb or a swimming speed and use it to swim. At the DM’s option, climbing a slippery vertical surface or one with few handholds requires a successful Strength (Athletics) check. Similarly, gaining any distance in rough water might require a successful Strength (Athletics) check.
Jumping
Your Strength determines how far you can jump.
Long Jump. When you make a long jump, you cover a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing long jump, you can leap only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement.
This rule assumes that the height of your jump doesn't matter, such as a jump across a stream or chasm. At your DM's option, you must succeed on a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to clear a low obstacle (no taller than a quarter of the jump's distance), such as a hedge or low wall. Otherwise, you hit it.
When you land in difficult terrain, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to land on your feet. Otherwise, you land prone.
High Jump. When you make a high jump, you leap into the air a number of feet equal to 3 + your Strength modifier (minimum of 0 feet) if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing high jump, you can jump only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement. In some circumstances, your DM might allow you to make a Strength (Athletics) check to jump higher than you normally can.
You can extend your arms half your height above yourself during the jump. Thus, you can reach above you a distance equal to the height of the jump plus 1 1/2 times your height.
(Bring on level four, so i can just frigging FLY. Sorry to split the party, Endless!)
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The round door slides away at your touch, and light slowly fills the corridor before you.
Marble sized orbs embedded into the walls flicker into life, casting a muted glow. Something like the Dancing Lights spell is held within them, still working, barely.
Along one wall is the following phrase: “go up for living quarters, no merchants, no patrolmen without written note from H”
Up ahead is a room with a half-opened round door. It’s malfunctioning and dormant.
The room has a large statue in it of three pursuers, terrible beasts like a manticore crossed with a cloaker. Today they have three cheap flat masks on their faces, each with a jolly smile painted on. One has a fancy scarf wrapped around it. They are all graffitied with names and pictures of flowers.
Besides the statue is a staircase down to the basement floor.
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Do you want a map of the route it’ll take to get to her apartment? It’s fine for Gear to know the way if you want!]
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Gear, you’re not familiar with Cucha, but you know a few things:
1. It was built by dwarf slaves.
2. It’s overgrown with flowers and trees, and has lots of wildlife crawling around.
3. This entire floor was cleared of dangerous traps and monsters decades ago.
4. Spells still linger here, like the lights.
5. The basement level was once used to make weapons of war.
6. There are secret doors in the basement, mostly marked these days.
7. The residents live on the next floor up.
8. Above the living quarters level it gets really wild, and some traps might still be armed.
You might be able to avoid a confrontation if, once you find the staircase up, you sneak passed the apartments. Easy, right?
"Hado, we need to be reallll quite on the next level. Please keep bonking us with your sage" (I just love hte mental image of the two of them sneaking around while Hado keeps bonking us for Guidance)
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[OOC: I clicked your link but the spreadsheet came up with all white squares. I think I can describe things well enough for ya though. Also, I'm gonna go ahead and roll my STR check for the beginning of my next turn to pull myself onto the balcony]
Geth roll 1d20+2 for Strength
Before you is a large open window draped by moth eaten, dull curtains. Beside it rich, dark green vines run up the wall and reach into a window above.
After a moment faint light shines out from the balcony window.
Directly 5 feet ahead is an obvious trap made of black marble, something like an animal snare, but were it to snap shut it would crush your leg clean off. Parts in the middle of it appear to have been removed.
—
Gear and Hado, following arrows painted on the wall you head to where the staircase leading up will be. You stop momentarily in the corridor as a spooked creature hisses at you; it is an oupsit. Common enough, it’s a officially classed as a monstrosity, not a beast, though it poses no threat. It’s thought some other creature, cats perhaps, fed on rats contaminated by decaying arcana from below the city.
Far ahead of the oupsit a giant cog slowly stops and starts, turning clockwise through the floor, the reason forgotten and redundant.
Behind the cog is a walled off area, and to the right is a thin glass separation between here and a small alcove. Though dark, you’re certain the area will light up as you walk in.
Geth roll 1d20+5 for investigate
When she's done, she keeps moving south, looking for the stairs.
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The giant cog must connects to some kind of forge beneath. It’s made of obsidian, and is flecked with tiny marks of what might be... what do you call it, copper? Too small to be worth scrapping off, but still, this place used to work metal!
You can only assume sections below you have other giant cogs moving in unison.
Looking over to the wall high glass separating a small area, you see there is a 3 foot high lever. How do you get in there?
Geth roll 1d20+5 for investigate (I... am not sure if we really need to worry about the lever here? feels like a red herring)
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Next to the glass wall is a small woven basket full of smooth glass pebbles of various natural colours. They must have been collected from a beach over many months. The basket has a note on it: “make ‘em touch”.
Behind the glass wall is a lever and nothing else. It looks to be clean, but a dusty sandal footprint can be seen by the lever.
—
Baber
The trap closes swiftly 3/4 of the way, then falls back. It’s safe.
Inside the room you see a Floretta woman sat at a table. Her room is full of archaic ornaments, things like battered shields, faded paintings and little statues of animals.
In a very eloquent voice, somewhat interested and certainly not afraid, she says, “Shame about the rain. Is the front door acting up again?”
Gear stares at the note, and attempts to poke the stones together, then against the glass to see if anything happens
((OOC: I am terrible at riddles or guessing games like this, so this si one of those times where i'm going to be relying on my character being a lot smarter than i actually am. aka: HALP))
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Baber gives her their most charming smile as they deliver that last line
You press a pebble to the glass at the same time, and you both fall forward a pace, landing on the other side!
Hado, you land with a hand on the lever and knock it forward. Behind you both you hear a loud THUNK!
A pair of staircases, one going down, the other going up is revealed as walls descend into the floor.
You both gain 10 experience!
—
Baber
“Tsk. Luce, still wasting her time over there. Nice gal though, really cute. The monkeys come and go, but I believe they live on top of the spire covered in trees. They’ve been so noisy lately, and moving together in bigger bands. I haven’t really thought about, don’t think it’s mating season or anything...”
She connects some dots in her head.
“They did reach in and steal a salad I made a couple days ago. They’ve never done that before! Little buggers. Well, good day to you.”
If you want any more out of her, you’ll have to make a Persuasion skill check.
Baber goes back onto the balcony and continues to the right, and climbs the dark green vines up to the next window and takes a peek inside before attempting to pull themself up into it for a break.
Geth roll 1d20+2 for Strength
Geth roll 1d20+2 for stealth
Geth roll 1d20+2 for stealth (disadvantage)
Geth roll 1d4 for guidance (assuming hados bopping me, ignore if not)
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As you climb the vines they give way under your weight! The vines slow your fall a little bit, but ultimately you fall back onto the balcony.
Geth roll 3d4 for Stilted Fall Damage
The Floretta woman leans out the window, “Well, shit.”
The woman gingerly steps out onto the balcony to see if you’re alright. You take 8 bludgeoning damage.
—
Hado and Gear
Each step of the staircase creaks as you walk up it. A bird flutters in and makes a surprised shrill call as you reach the landing, then flies up out of a hole in the ceiling. Lights flicker into life, but go out again every few seconds.
On either side of you is a door to someone’s home.
Ahead of you is a tall tree that grows up through a large hole in the ceiling. Birdsong can be heard coming from it’s canopy on the next level.
Further still is a turn and widening of the corridor, and one more apartment.
[OOC: Obviously you can’t see into any apartments or around the corner, but so you’re aware they’re not as empty as this map indicates so far.]
Gear maps moving forward, looking for the next way up in this apartment.
((Question, you've mentioned this place is housing counter culture. Can you expand on that?))
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As you turn the corner you spy a barefoot Tunglani in a plain cloth skirt. They’re quite beautiful. They’re sat against the wall, blowing smoke rings. They haven’t noticed you yet.
There are several thin holes in the floor running from right to left between you both.
What do you do?
[OOC: I don’t have it written up properly yet, but...
So the Champion killed the Vilelord, and the rebels moved in to the massive fortress that they named New Zellatia after a magical city state at failed to beat the Vilelord decades prior.
Over time the rebels made the place into a city, with money, jobs, all that stuff.
Some rebels were barbarians though, and to this day pockets of people live tribally or have otherwise different lifestyles in the city, avoiding the expected ways of behaviour in lesser patrolled areas by the law.]
"Well shit, indeed. I don't suppose there's an easier way up from out here, is there?"
They sit up gingerly and look over at the Floretta woman. "Name's Baber, by the way. Pleased to re-meet ya!"
There is an air of pride when she says that. It really means a lot to her.
“Call me that if you like.”
She grabs your hand with two of her’s and pulls you up.
“Hm. Get in, I’ll let you out and take you to the secret stairs. Way quicker.”
Do you enter her home, or try the climb again (you’ll need a Perception check to scope your the best method, then a jump after you climb the vines as part of it is ripped off)?
[OOC: Just to avoid misspelling between her and Baber I’m making Gear’s relative have the nickname Wallflower.
Also she’s represented by the [b*].
Baber follows her inside.
Wallflower peers at an old painting on the wall, then adjusts it. The scene it depicts is of a distant snowy mountain you’ve never seen—indeed, there are no snow topped mountains near New Zellatia, just the tall plateau’s jutting up from the earth. As she adjusts it, the clouds in the painting move slightly.
“Right, let’s head out.”
[OOC: We’ll leave you here until Gear and Hado progress together, if they don’t get very far you and Wallflower will bump into them soon!]
“Monkey’s huh?”, they don’t have the voice you expect, they’re hoarse sounding, “Monkeys.”
They turn away, then slide themselves up the wall.
“I don’t know what gang that is, but patrolmen aren’t wanted around here. Still, you’re gonna want to hop over that spike trap; it still works. Nobody’s been able to rip them out, and I think... certain people are okay with that.”
They take a huge puff of smoke and screw their pretty face up.
She sighs and keeps moving on with Hado.
((So uh, do we know where this spike trap is? Athletics out acrobatics to jump it?))
Geth roll 1d20+5 for investigate
(Gear is trying to see what see can figure out about the trap, including if she can disarm it with her thieves tools)
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Looking down you’re pretty sure you could jam the spikes while they’re out, then have Hado snap them off. You’d need to activate it though, so something is gonna get impaled if you do.
"Let's just jump it Hado"
She bounces over easily
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“There’s no point.”, says the feathered young woman, “Nothing matters.”
Her voice wavers, unsure.
She kicks the door behind her open suddenly. Behind her is a dimly lit corridor that slopes upwards, and a turn in the corridor. The slope is full of deep cuts from what might have been large talons.
“Don’t go up the slope, it only leads to a drop.”, she says.
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Baber
Do you have anything to ask before you’re shown the secret staircase?