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So you don't want to tell me why you're playing with our bones. Yeah, that's not creepy at all.
Now you listen here. I'm not playing with your bones, I'm trying to bury them. So, you admit you lied about the whole 2 days thing and being alive then? If you knew you were dead, why act like you weren't?
@Earth- (you aren't in the room bud lol)
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Rose: Just what are you doing?!
I am momentarily startled, but regain my composure and look at Rose's spirit with a concerned expression.
Sweetheart, please don't make me answer that question
(I don't think they know they're dead and might go mad and become specters or apparitions if they find out)
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(Eikka and Grahf get stuck in the door frame as they try to enter at the same time. j/k)
(😂😂 would be better if you weren't kidding)
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I grab the blankets off the slender bed, and the childrens beds, then gently wrap the blankets around the children's remains.
Eikka, please help me with this in praying to Zud to take away the children's spirits indecision in moving on. I'm glad their spirits haven't gone mad yet, but it's bound to happen sooner rather than later.
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A single bed and a rocking chair? Grandma or Grandpa perhaps?
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(my characters persona wouldn't allow for me to agree to that. They deserve better 😔)
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[Snerp Perception Check: d20 (4) + 1 = 5]
(Told you, my perception is garbage lol. What I was going for was a gnome, naturally inquisitive and kind, but so focused in finding things out and deducing things he tends to miss what's right in front of his face lol.
Pretty obvs Earth is our guy for finding traps. If we can find thieves tools, with my dexterity I'd probably be the guy best fit to disarm them.)
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We should give them a proper burial, so their spirits can move on and be at peace. Those poor children 😔
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@secularmerlin
(I think it's still a specific rogue ability, but noticing traps is less investigation, more perception apart from any potential specific ability. For example, though it's likely safe to deduce a trap is present, that doesn't belie where it is, what kind it is, etc. Seeing say, a tripwire before you "trip" it, is less deductioon, more perception. Ergo a wisdom throw, not an intelligence one. At least, that's my understanding of it)
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@secularmerlin
(keep in mind I have investigation, not perception. Prolly not gonna be too good at finding traps, with no bonus from that skill and only 12 wisdom. Though I do have advantage on wisdom throws being a gnome).
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@secularmerlin
I look around for traps in the hallway.
That key we found is probably for the locked door
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@secularmerlin
I wasn't thinking undead, I was thinking more along the lines of the werewolves that were said to possibly be in this area
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And if there is a monster in the basement. The absence of a clear way to and from would likely explain why it hasn't escaped in the 200 years since, if not already dead due to that amount of time passing.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I can see your point. We've known this very well could be a trap from the beginning. But if we're being lead anywhere by forces or evils unknown, it's not to the attic in my opinion. The note lead us to town. The children pointed to this house, specifically the 3rd floor and basement. Something tells me we'll find something good that, whomever or whatever has set this likely trap, didn't want us to find or did not know of.
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We were given information that encouraged us to go to the 3rd floor and stay away from the basement.
(The information wasnt "given" in the sense of for free, or from anythimg but my characters proficienciea. It was the result of an investigation check 👌.
It was done automatically though,so you might have a point that Drafter is nudging us somewhere, but if he is it's probably to move the story along imho. Plus, the information provided, in line with investigation as a skill, was already known/deducable from present information)
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After searching along the walls they uncover a hidden panel door.
(🔍 💯 👌)
I head upstairs with Eikka
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(let's search for the way up on the 3rd floor first, if that fails we'll try the dumbwaiter. I would have said hell no if I hadn't of changed my spells to at least give me a little more offensive ability. Nobody has a revive yet, so if one of us dies right now they're pretty well screwed lol 😂)
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Hey won't the gnome fit in the dumb waiter?
Brilliant idea! Instead of searching from below(the attic) or above(the basement) for the entrance, I can open it up from the other side 👌
(Didn't even notice we hadn't found an entrance to the basement. Yet the kids said their parents had locked a monster in the basement, hrmmmmm 🔍)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I swear on Eikka swearing to Zud, there was 4 floors... unless my own eyes decieved me 😐.
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Also, wasn't there a 4th floor to this place? I remember seeing 4 floors when we first approached the house. We should check the 3rd floor for an attic entrance. It might be a drop down ladder to get up there.
I head to the third floor and begin looking for an entrance to the top floor
(Drafter did an investigation check and referred back to the view from outside the house. There was 4 floors, not just 3)
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@drafterman
(Thanks, everything looks in order regarding the character. 👍)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I agree, let's scour the house for clues, see if there is anything else to find before heading to the basement. It might be worth checking to see if the storm from last night has cleared up and if the children are still safe, although, they might have been illusions 😐
I check the house with Roberts
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please and thank you. After a couple combat encounters I found myself going, "what can I do to monsters? Nothing but weapon damage 😂
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@drafterman
(*I'm also gonna reroll. Want to keep most things the same, just tweak stats and spells lol.)
Stats
Str 08
Dex 14
Con 10
Int 13
Wis 12
Chr 15
Cantrips
Vicious Mockery
Presdigitation
Spells
Thunderwave
Cure Wounds
Illusory Script
Heroism
Oh and instead of sleight of hand, investigation. 👌
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@secularmerlin
@Earth
@TheDredPriateRoberts
(/ on resting / we might need to gather books we want to read before resting, it only allows for light activity. Also, i'm gonna )
The first floor den seems a good place to hole up. Its possible there might be some food in the kitchen on the first floor too.
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@secularmerlin
I'll have you know im well known in the Feywild. Maybe one of these days we'll all go there and you'll see whole towns show up to listen 😎
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@secularmerlin
yeah, arquebus and succubus, that's totally what I was thinking...
note to self: lets find a way to include anus in the song
(btw, italics is thought, but I guess i'll change it to bold lol)
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@secularmerlin
I don't, ive never heard of this secret order before, and this is going to make for an excellent song! i'll take second watch and use the opportunity to pour over the books and other stuff in the secret room 😬😬
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I'll head with Eikka to get the children.
Im not sure about staying in the house with the supposed monster in the basement, but based upon what the rest of the town looked like, this house might be the only choice.
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@drafterman
(oh, well yeah. Two battles and a 5 hour journey. Def makes for an tuckered out party.
@everyone- If i may suggest gathering what was in the secret room, heading back outside to let the children know what's going on. It appears somehow the children are not aware a long time has passed, not just two days 🤔
Also, we need food, but not sure what there is to be done about that)
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(We should wait up an hour to re-prepare at least one spell slot for Earth and I) 🤔.
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@Earth
(its got resistance to most everything. So use ur cantrips or physical weapon, its not gonna do much damage, but 3-4 people at once on it should be accomplishable 👌)
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@Greyparrot
Idk, the regulatory agency positions are assigned by elected officials though either directly or indirectly though, no? Some might have agreed, some might have objected 🤔
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(oh shit, not an apparition. Different ball game. Pour damage into it, its got 22 life or so, not that bad. If it hits with touching you merlin, you take 10(3d6) damage 😐.
Cast Bardic Inspiration of Grahf.
Cast Heroism on Merlin, I'll channel it with my lute.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
(also, keep in mind the mirror might not be what I think it is. I was free to speculate, but under it being stressed that the speech of my character was speculation. Bringing it close to the mirror could spectacularly backfire, in other words 😂)
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
We should retreat and go to the basement, I don't think that the ghost will follow.
(There's a monster in the basement. Out of the frying pan into the fire comes to mind. It could def drop aggro it we turn around. Not sure about being able to trap it in the mirror, but that some clever thinking.
I think we got this handled as is, but if merlin and earth wanna turn around, so do i 😂)
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@Greyparrot
I mean, he pretty much nailed it fmpov. This hyperfocus on the importance of the Supreme Court is symptomatic of a lack of congressional action.
The hearing itself is great theatre though 💯. Harris/Booker 2020?
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I have to say though, mobile functionality is actually pretty good RN. Other than the above minor tweak, theres not anything serious that ive encountered thus far that needs addressal in terms of something not being functional. Well done 💯
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A larger button for going straight to the last page of a thread would be njce. In essence its there functionally cause the last page is always an option. So this is more an aesthetic thing. "Next page" being on the bottom, with "last page" being the option at the top right, just seems more convenient. Plus, i use this mostly on mobile, and the button for going to the last page of a thread is small and hard to properly hit. End up clicking the wrong page option more often than not xD
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@Greyparrot
I died young, of mesothelioma.
(If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma... 😂)
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@secularmerlin
(physically the apparition should be harmless in the sense that it cant strike you. If it is a standard apparition, it can however summon spawns that are capable of physical attacks 🤔)
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@secularmerlin
(if it's spectral strangulation, first you have a saving throw to being stricken with fear. Then the next round you have a saving throw on either dying, or being paralyzed for a few turns). If you get stricken with fear, my heroism should be able to negate that cause it makes the person I cast it on fearless, or so I presume as last time when I cast it on Roberts he got a lifeboost and fearless 🤔)
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That's not proven on any level and is gun maker propaganda
I must have missed the part where the CDC manufactures guns 😂😂😂(referring to the attempted burial of a DGU study done by the CDC)
To claim statistics on defensive gun use are not relevant or otherwise unknowable is ignorant of what happens during shootings. Last I checked, these mass shootings that predominantly happen in gun free zones don't result in most or all people rushing to the person shooting people up, they run away and/or hide.
The claim of guns acting as deterrance to a crime being committed, or one potentially going to be committed, is just looking at the predominant reaction to a gun, that being running or hiding in fear, and going, "wow, people are afraid of guns who ever would have thought that one?"
Kinda like the Sutherland Springs shooting. The mass shooter was fired at by a concealed carry holder, that shooter turned tail and ran.
Furthermore, oh boy, advocating for prosecuting people with crimes for crimes that are committed with a possesion stolen from them? Please, oh paragon of rationality, please explain how a person is culpable for crimes committed with what was stolen from them? Did they intend to have that possesion stolen? Without the intent of aiding and abetting the commission of a crime, how is that at all in line with the necessity of intent to prosecution?
"Free thinking" ah yes, such a free thinker, wanting to turn the clock back to systems of unjust jurisprudence. What other gems of adjudicatory wisdom are you gonna come out with in the future i wonder?
"Show me the man and 'ill show you the crime"?
"Its better that 100 innocents are jailed so long as 1 guilty man does not go free?"
After abandoning the necessity of intent to prosecution, who knows, tune in next time to find out on the next episode of "I have a Perverted Sense of Justice and Morality" with special guest host, Ravensjt.
Its 100 dollars for the entire seat during a live show, but you'll only need the edge.
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