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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(Not a bad idea, we can return the horses there and ask around 👏👏.)
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@secularmerlin
So our plan is to find your hirelings and see if they can track the coffin maker?
(It's to fetch the hirelings and go explore to get gold. Why track down the coffin maker? We know where his business/home is. If you want to interrogate the coffin maker go ahead and wait in town right at his shop for him to come back, he's bound to at some point just to gather his things 😂. But we need gold to get our melees weapons that are silvered. Else all this will be for naught cause we'll get facerolled if even a few of the vamps wake up to fight.
3 hags each at CR5(1800 xp) wrecked us. One to two vamps full strength(not fledgelings) will faceroll us even harder each at CR13(10k xp).
3 hags made it an adjusted xp modifier of 2x the 5400 total xp. So it was the equivalent of a 10,800 xp total fight. 2 vamps is 20k xp, multiplied by 1.5 for the adjusted modifier putting it at the equivalent of a 30k xp fight. That number continues to multiply if the realistic potential of having to fight more than just a couple happens.
Keep in mind, the "xp modifier" is for balancing purposes. Its how you gauge the difficulty of encounters, outlined in the DmG. CR isnt really what's factored basically. At 5 level 5's a deadly encounter would constitute as a fight that is at around 10k+ modified exp.
Even at 5 the hags would still be a deadly encounter basically. 1-6 vamps would as well regardless of which specific number. We need to get weaps silvered, to even stand a snowballs chance in hell 😂.)
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@secularmerlin
I have eldrich blast
(This is the big one cause now that we're level 5 our Eldritch blasts do 2d10 as a cantrip 😂😂. We don't really need basic weapons cause EB is essentially both our best "basic" attacks. And by basic i mean an attack that doesn't cost anything like a spell slot.)
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@kindertina
(cool, so well count that copy cost in the silvering weapon cost. So we basically need 400 g. Two weapons for Roberts, one for Grahf, plus 100g for ur spell copy. I have a little over 200 and technically if we pooled our gold we could prob get to 300+ overall so don't need a crazy amount more. But I'd certainly like to not be totally broke as a group after the expenses 😂.)
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@secularmerlin
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@kindertina
(Ok well i guess Roberts and I are gonna go scoop up the hunters waiting at the tavern while everyone else finishes up. Suppose we'll meet up at the gates?)
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(so i was giving it some thought, total side convo but David Bowie's(rip) character in Labyrinth, the Goblin King Jareth, is essentially a bard 😂. Glamour to be more specific. Thoughts?)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(true, which makes we wonder if we should be ready and prepare for an attack tonight)
(We aren't ready for a fight against 6 potentially CR13 monsters. We need silvered weapons, and even then we're in for a fight much harder than the hags unless we can catch them asleep during the day.
We need to get gold so we can silver weapons for you, Eikka, and Grahf. Im iffy on whether i want a weapon silvered, likely just want arrows silvered if anything. But im more geared towards ranged dps with Eldritch Blast as a cantrip. Maybe pick up fire arrows or lightning arrow as my other magical secrets next level. Idk, still contemplating the second one. Maybe command, I like the thought of being able to have that as a spell from the cleric list.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(do you think, the coffin maker will tip them off?
(I find it more likely they'll figure out something is amiss from the bones missing. Hence why Grahf should tell the priest to close the church at night and not let anyone in till we come back and take care of them.)
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@drafterman
(Ok so the vamps wanted to attack tomorrow night, and the festival is two nights away? Or was their plans of attacking tomorrow relayed by the coffin maker a mistake?
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@drafterman
Day 5 at night, yes)
(Wait then why did Vargas say to meet him in two days instead of one? 😮)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
vampires tonight
(No, tomorrow during the day. They plan on attacking at night tomorrow. We can go exploring around overnight. Then come back when it's still daylight tomorrow and take care of em.
Two days from now ive also got the concert in the town square 👍.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(ur not wrong, 4 attacks in one turn is pretty cool 👍.)
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@secularmerlin
I'm pretty fond of Eikka as is.
(Same 👌👏)
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@Earth
We don't need two bards though.
(We dont really "need" him to be anything. He's in a position where he could change his class to anything, or keep it as fighter, and we could make it work, anyone could who has a reroll available tbh.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(Barb and monk are pretty cool if ur not quite liking fighter but wanna stay as a melee fighter 👏 😏, bard is actually another option if you go college of valor or swords 😮.)
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@Earth
(he possibly might. Might as well check it out while we're exploring. Lake has wolves too, so we can hunt and search for the mad mage same time.)
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@secularmerlin
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@kindertina
(I think placing the bones back might have countered the planned attack. But like Roberts said we have some time before they were planning to attack. I think we should go explore the areas around town to pull in some gold so we can silver weapons for everyone, then come back in the afternoon while its still daytime tomorrow and take care of them. We can camp out overnight out of town once tired. Maximize time exploring.
Go fetch the hunters then head out? We should still have plenty of time to get em. I would make sure the priest super secures that location so the bones don't get taken. And also shut the church overnight and let's nobody inside(vampires have to be invited in.) just as a precaution in the interim tbh.
Either we take care of the vamps now, or do it tomorrow. I say tomorrow tbh, we can start getting our weapons silvered when we come back, stake and take care of vamps in the interim. Then festival and then take our time exploring more if need be while we wait for them to be finished? Or just chill in town with a weeks worth of downtime if Drafter allows us?)
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@Earth
(I'd prefer to hold off on the hags till i get my first couple of magical secrets at 6. One of the ones I'll be choosing is counterspell, then I'd feel alot better about taking them on again tbh.)
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@drafterman
Kinder gets faerie fire as well as darkness(1x a day) at this level right? If so, I'll switch out faerie fire for major image then.
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Lulz, +7 perception, +8 persuasion. That's just seems OP af 😂😂
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@drafterman
Nice, I'll choose Dispel Magic, and switch my make friends cantrip to major image 👍.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(if we're gonna stake em and behead em we should do so while it's still daytime. That way we can open up windows in the rooms they're in to let sunlight in.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
area silence spell...if only,
(Right, i have a level 2 spell that I could have chosen that deafens sounds in a radius around a point. Now i regret not taking it 😂. Spell selection for bards is so tough to choose 😂. Level 3 spells are gonna be even more difficult cause there are so many good ones at 3 😂.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(5 of us, 6 of them. We could at least stake 5 of them simultaneously and leave us with 1 more to deal with. But it's questionable whether the rest would make up once one is staked.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I may have played too much Call of Cthulhu way back, you just burned everything down and explained it away lol
(Awesome game. Arkham Horror is another board game based off H.P. Lovecrafts writings that's really good, mostly the Necromicon, which is such a good read. 👏💯)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
was thinking it would take their hps to 0 which would make the staking etc easier.....)
(What? If they're in the boxes, that's means resting. Staking doesn't kill a vampire btw, it just paralyzes it. And again, a vampire regens life every turn unless hit with radiant, or in sunlight/running water. The fire will damage them, they'll regen it.
Smoke blocks light no? start off a house fire, it's gonna produce smoke and lots of it, especially in the house itself They'll take damage, and regen it right after taking it. Then they'll probably be awake and we'd have to fight them.
Vampires(unless fledgelings) are CR13, Hags are CR5. There are 6 vamps, we got rekt by 3 hags. Just saying, fighting them will prob result in us getting rekt 😂.
Fmpov best bet is to stake them to paralyze them. Then cut their heads off and take them to the lake to bury them underwater.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(they're in the boxes resting... We can just stake them while they sleep and then take their heads off and bury them in the lake or a stream. All you're going to accomplish with burning the house is setting off a fire thats liable to spread through the whole city. I really don't feel like getting apprehended for Arson, hoss 😂.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(good idea, back to the tavern to get the hunters? We could set the house on fire, but that's not really gonna do much to a vampire my dude. They regenerate unless they're staked, in running water, or hit with radiant 😮.)
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@drafterman
Yeah, she's here. She's with the Baroness and the other ladies.
Excellent, my sincerest thanks for your help today miss.
Snerp walks out of the house(with Eikka and Roberts once they also confirm leaving.)
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@drafterman
Snerp walks up to the maid.
(The music is still going no? Can I use the bonus action from it on her? If so I do that.)
I'm sorry to bother you again, but I wanted to ask you one more thing before I go. Yesterday a friend, daughter of the Bergomaster in the village of Barovia should have arrived here? I just wanted to make sure she got here fine and is in good hands.
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@drafterman
Snerp begins walking out of the house while looking for any servants he can talk to, if he does, he stops to talk to them 👏
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@secularmerlin
Don't worry they aren't stupid enough to go in there alone but we should make haste.
Ok, let's get out of here then, maybe swing by the tavern for the two hunters i hired?
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@secularmerlin
There you are. Snerp we need you are you almost done here?
Excuse me for a moment Lord.
Snerp walks over to Eikka and lowers his voice to a whisper
Well, i wasn't expecting to see you here. What did you all find?
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@drafterman
Snerp stands and bows.
I'm honored lord, thank you for the high praise.
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@drafterman
Very well
Staying sitting Snerp fingers a quick G Major scale to focus.(Cast Unearthly Chorus)A hum fills the air as if an amp has been turned on and an instrument plugged into it.
Still not playing his lute, he begins singing, sounding as if he is being joined in a three part harmony, the song emanating through the mansion.
Stars are masked above in the sky
southward as you go
there are fish and moss in the trees
Down on Misty Brook Road.
Snerp begins strumming the lute in a rythmic pattern, a familiar tethyrian chord progression, similar to what one might hear in country-western or bluegrass, the progression itself rapid.
I loved you since a child
together as we growed
life was just as if a dream
down on Misty Brook Road
there was moonlight that shone through the trees
when you said you'd never go
and we went through countless yesterday's
without a thought about tomorrow
till the shakes came down that road
and i dont know how or why it came to be
that I only saw tomorrow
down on Misty Brook Road
Snerp stops playing his lute, continuing on singing
Stars are masked above in the sky
Northward as I go
fish and moss are absent from the stream
down on Misty Brook Road.
The song ends and the same chord progression continues softly, almost unnoticeable in the background. (target Vargas with the bonus action of Unearthly Chorus.)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Maybe he uses them to make coffins, or his dead family...
(Orrrrr, just maybe, he uses his dead family to make the coffins, the horror of it all)
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@Earth
(actually, now that you bring up sleeping... if they're spawns its best we go during the day maybe? Sure we wouldn't have the cover of night, but if they are vampire spawns or vampires in general, they would prob be sleeping. Make for an easy stake. Hopefully they are, or you guys might need to hightail it 😂.)
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@drafterman
(are they spawns? I thought we were just notified they're undead?
I'll perform, get a vouchsafe(which after looking it up is basically another way of saying a permit.)
Say to give up the bones and you'll go away maybe? If he doesn't, I suppose once Roberts and I are finished here, we try to get the two hired hands to join and storm the coffin makers.
I'll try to break us in the back door, there's a back door right? Or at least a second door to get inside. Basically one person distracts him at front door, while i break the rest of us in the backdoor, is what I'm picturing as a solid plan of attack?
We'd have to prolly wait for nighttime though. So we can be stealthier.)
(@Drafter- can i see anything behind Vargas where he came from? Any other people in where he just came from while he was walking out or currently if the doorway is open?)
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@Earth
(ehhhh, I don't trust this guy, I'd personally rather not divulge priviledged and inside info like that and otherwise tip off that we didn't come here for the festival.
I'm actually pretty concerned about Ireena. If the Burgomaster really wants to protect and secure Vallaki, turning over Ireena would prolly accomplish that. I'm not gonna bring up Ireena to him at all cause of that.
If he brings her up in the course of me ingratiating myself and getting close, all the better. My suggestion would be, while I work my way into his good graces, somebody else ask around with the servants about Ireena. But I think belying we know Ireena might backfire, and ive got a vibe we're gonna have to break her out of here.)
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Vargas, impatiently: Yes, yes, play now!
Very well then, I couldn't help but overhear you say those in your court desire a performance as well. And of course, I'm not one to refuse such a desire. So shall I perform in your court for them as well?
After all there are visual elements to my performances that add to the enjoyment. For example...
Snerp snaps his fingers and a visual copy of himself appears next to him(minor illusion.) He snaps his fingers again, and the copy dissapears.
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@Earth
(yeah, Vargas. I got this no bueno feel from what he said last. As if what will "do nicely" has little to do with me performing in the festival.)
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@drafterman
(can I do an insight or perception check on this guy? To see if i sense he's not a good dude? Im getting vibes, the vibey kind of vibes that are... vibey...)
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A vouchsafe from intrepid adventurers from beyond the mountains. That would do nicely.
(No idea what vouchsafe means, but do nicely for what? Performing? But what does not being from Barovia have to do with that?)
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@secularmerlin
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
@kindertina
(I'm like, pretty confident this guy is not a good guy hombres.)
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@drafterman
vouchsafe
(What's this mean?)
But of course Lord Vargas, did you want me to perform now? I'm more than ready to hombre.
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