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#QOTD DND - Group 3 Discussion Chamber
dusty oak
weary terrace
less feasable than getting the gold
dusty oak
yes i suppose that's true
weary terrace
plus itll allow us to actually be a merchant afterwards
instead of yknow, no merchants ever trusting us again
for fear we may take them down next
dusty oak
true enough
damn
how do we even get 240k gold
what is the equivalent of 240k gold in the real world
weary terrace
fucking idk
dusty oak
man
ig the move is head to the trading area, try to haggle our way into getting more than 150 gold for the bombs, and maybe investigate the belltower?
there might be pocket change in there or something
weary terrace
yeah i think thats probably good
ear to the ground research on what else people may need sold
dusty oak
sounds good
i am a little worried, sansfield described the trading area as being overshadowed by the royal dusker company which could bode poorly
loud pebble
Hey guys, Spikebeard here.
We're already going to the trading area for food and ship repairs. We have pretty good persuasion and Intimidation skills, so if you feel like doing some group haggling, we can help.
dusty oak
could be a good idea
we have good persuasion/deception but you guys probably have higher cha than us
dusty oak
ok just to get some confirmed consensus here
<@&1227805575765561385> currently the move is to go along with the captain to haggle and sell our firebombs, and potentially explore the belltower afterwards if we can do that in the same turn
just react to the message if you agree with this course of action or if you want to do something else, share here
split surge
Gotta extort them funds
hollow sand
<@&1227805575765561385> currently the move is to go along with the captain to ha...
But yeh fr we need to find either customers or haggle
The other thing we can look for is infromation/weaknesses we can leverage to ask for debt reductions
dusty oak
that is good to consider
ok ill put our action in and if anyone wants to add anything else, feel free to yell at me
and done
dropped the belltower bit bc i think we want to go all in on getting out of this debt
peak blade
oh yeah the average wage of a days work for a labourer is around 5sp per day
so you would need to work just a little bit to get enough money to pay off your debt
(adventuring pays very well)
molten jetty
So I know they sold for 50 each, but how many firebombs did we have?
It cool if there's like a pinned message for what our debt currently is?
peak blade
you had 6
your debt is 240k
pinned in #events is a sheet with details about items and shit on the ship including how much gold you have
hollow sand
ok gang i know the money is important
and we need to rework our debt or whatever
but the fucking funny dice is calling to my gambler's soul
dusty oak
actually i saw a video about this
gamblers dice is a bad deal
its damn funny but increasing the probability of a 1 to 15% from 5% in exchange for a 16 and 17 means our average roll is actually lower than your typical d20
if we're buying anything, it should be the studded leather armor since that'll improve our ac
split surge
The minor eye seems quite useful
weary terrace
either way i think that we should buy something and maybe ask about any like rumors that may be helpful
dusty oak
yes i think we should trade in our leather armor to get a discount on studded leather armor and then ask around for get rich quick schemes
dusty oak
ok let me poll for this to see what we want to buy
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studded leather will be less than 30gp if we sell our leather armor to get a discount
eye of astrelios is 150gp
gamblers dice is 250gp
hollow sand
get the armour and then probably see if we can get information out using the ol' spikebeard/stella barter tehcnique
dusty oak
and done
peak blade
u guys decided what to buy do you know what ur gonna do action and bonus action wise
wait nvm u guys did my bad
dusty oak
my friends
we are faced with many choices
we can stick around to see what this aarokocra is about though platinum chainmail makes me think police
alternatively we can run back to spikebeard to see what he's doing
weary terrace
big dude seems like big news and also proabbly a bad mix with what we want rn
dusty oak
that is my thought as well but im interested to know what he was up to since he just descended from the sky
hollow sand
Can we stealth and eavesdrop to see what his deal id
*is
If hes useless we go to the river and solve the riddle, but if hes useful then we roll from there
dusty oak
idk if we know the riddle, the hooded figure only told spikebeard
but yea i think that's a good idea, hide and scope out what the birdman's doing
and ig we wouldnt use our bonus action this round since it would depend on what the birdman does
let me poll for this though
<@&1227805575765561385>
hollow sand
can we make our B.A conditional? something like "if the aarokocra makes a threat to us/says something about coming for one of our crew, run back and tell spikebeard?"
that way we can also just stay if he's saying "i will give 1 million dollars to anyone who does this job for me"
dusty oak
actually yea we should be able to make it conditional
split surge
I feel like if we ditch the bird, some wacky shenanigans will ensue
dusty oak
ok we have 4 votes and we're basically agreed on watching the aarokocra so i'll see if we can make our action of running back depending on what the bird says conditional
peak blade
this vanished because you guys were the only ones to decide on something fast lmao
hollow sand
Suffering from success
weary terrace
We’re so good at this
dusty oak
i remember when we were worried about half of us being in different timezones
dusty oak
suddenly international terrorism is back on the table
dusty oak
ok chat we have many options
actually there are 2 options
stop the city from burning down or burn the city down
we should probably confer with spikebeard as to what our plan of attack is
this is a really fun duo i think
dusty oak
iqis does seem cool, tragically we don't know that he knows inverna
hollow sand
I reckon we play a long game: go with spikebeard and use our charisma combo to get a vibe on what the sitch is/where the president is
And if the pres has strong affiliations with the company, we can try and use him to worm our way out of debt (e.g save him from the villagers in exchange for money, rob him, leverage him with the company for debt clearance)
dusty oak
this is a very good idea
so ig the move then is to tell iqis what we have learned to get good with him
hollow sand
yeah, it'd be best if spikebeard went with us so we maximise our information gathering skills
but it'd also be pretty good to get a travelling healer to support our party
dusty oak
yes since our only healer rn is spikebeard
so the move then is tell iqis about what spikebeard has told us and go from there
hollow sand
just checked team spikebeard's forum, their plan is to tell iqis that there's ppl with firebombs who wanna blow up the town to get him on our side, so i've asked if there's a way we can combine our rolls to both get the information and tell him about the bombs
hollow sand
we both kinda want the same thing, but we gotta try and get as much out of this as possible
the vibe rn is that iqis wants to quell rebellion, but if we wanna threaten the president/dusker co, we might have to end up inciting it
dusty oak
yea it depends on how we want to play it
hollow sand
all we can do is yap to iqis and see which side he's willing to play
fucking authoritarians smh
dusty oak
the thing is even if iqis is opposed to dusker co, he's not going to support mass violence
hollow sand
The other thing to consider then is if he doesnt arrest us out of lawful support for the company
Having spikebeard there and having him say "dude we are here to warn you" kinda gets us some leeway to help avoid the worst case
thorn knoll
Hi guys. Popping in to check out stuff for easy coordination. Should have done this earlier.
hollow sand
we are absolutely in no way self interested 
thorn knoll
Uh huh
dusty oak
so i think the general plan is convince iqis we are in no way related to the illegal activity going down yet also provide info about the city potentially burning down and also get info that might help us get out of our debt
the issue is we basically only have our word for it
hollow sand
not if we have spikebeard with us imo, we just ask about the situation in town and spikebeard does all the good person-ing
then if trouble starts, either he vouches for us or we say "nah we're with him and we want to protect people"
its just worse for us if we approach a paladin who loveees law and order alone, but spikebeard gives us a bit of legitness
dusty oak
i just mean more like even if he believes that we’re genuine, we can’t actually prove that people are planning to burn the city down
like we know it’s gonna happen but we only have that persons word to go off of
maybe it won’t matter but like if something bad happens and he’s like why do you think the city’s going to burn down, we won’t have much room to stand on
hollow sand
we just say we saw someone else with the bombs and roll the fattest deception check ever
i believe in the heart of the dice
dusty oak
good plan
peak blade
so deception check to say you arent involved and also tell iqis about the attack
dusty oak
specifically to back up/assist spikebeard
hollow sand
ok so team spikebeard will tell them about the attack, and team stella will back you up and say we saw someone with the firebombs as well
then we can just use our b.a to ask for a situation report about the town
weary terrace
yeah
dusty oak
ok put our action in, if there's anything you want to change about it, just lmk
hollow sand
lessgo team stelle/spikebeard
dusty oak
alright its been a while fellas but now we are back into it
out of character, i think iqis is talking about john golf
in character, i don't think we even know what everyone else is up to so that's not something we can act on
hollow sand
we can basically 50/50 that its either our sick magic dude or someone else
do we go on our own adventure to find the president or stick to this?
dusty oak
i don't think hertak is in the city
i think our options are take advantage of the city burning somehow whether thats helping out iqis or trying to make mad cash via looting
or we can investigate the fields
hollow sand
Yehhhh we gotta get our bread up
weary terrace
we make money mfer
hollow sand
do we wait around the area or do we go and investigate another part of town?
or do we try and find the firebombers and incite some chaos
dusty oak
we might want to investigate another part of town bc the riots not going to be happening immediately
another thing is iqis knows our face so if we're not careful, we're just going to get airbombed by a flying paladin
if we want to exploit the bombing, our best bet is to sneak around and try to make use of the chaos that unfolds, rather than actively inciting it
alternatively we can help out iqis but im not sure how much profit that will lend us
let me poll for this
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i think this covers our major options, im voting for fields bc it's a more proactive version of hanging around and we should be able to return to the city in order to do some looting
molten jetty
Been too busy with other stuff to read D&D recently, so I'll trust you're guys judgement on this
dusty oak
ok we only got 3 votes, but we're unanimous so we'll just take investigating the fields as the move
weary terrace
yeah forgot to vote but i wouldve voted for it lol
peak blade
weeeeeeeeeee
weary terrace
lets fucking kill Marco
(idk if we should i just think its funny for that to be first instinct)
dusty oak
it would be funny
realistically i think we should see what made that crash
we can probably get to the stairs and down without using up our action
peak blade
you guys move 60 feet right
movements being counted so dashing you can make it to the staircase top
dusty oak
we move 50 ft without dashing, so using our cunning action to dash, we can do 100 ft movement
which i think means we need to use our action to dash again so that we can get down the stairs
hollow sand
yehhh that might be the move
peak blade
i forgot about cunning action yeah you guys can get down with a double dash
if u wanna do a poll for it
dusty oak
ok i don’t think we have any other options so
<@&1227805575765561385> all in favor of dashing three times to get down the stairs, react to this message
dusty oak
ok thats a majority, lets get this shit
and done
very complex maneuvering happening here
hollow sand
we are in what the kids call a situation
dusty oak
truly
not really sure what the move is here, i don't really want to approach the cloud of butterflies, especially since john golf appears to be related to that situation
im not sure if we should even be attacking the construct? like sacro did take a swing at it but john golf only did shrinking magic on it
hollow sand
Do we have a ranged way of attacking
dusty oak
we have our shortbow but we'd have to shoot through the butterfly cloud if we stay on the stairs
hollow sand
That would maybeee give us some cover?
fluid carbon
im not sure if we should even be attacking the construct? like sacro did take a ...
hiiiiiiii member of the john team here
We are trying to kill the construct without breaking it, which is what marco is making the poison for. So any-means of diminishing the damage it does or defending yourself, john or sacro until the poison is ready would be ideal
dusty oak
hmmm we really only have direct damaging stuff as in attacks and such
we do have rope but im not sure if we can tie up a struggling creature in the middle of combat
hollow sand
yehhh best we can do is probs aim our bow to protect marco/ourselves
and shoot/dodge if anything happens
dusty oak
sacros already in melee but i wonder if we can do something like shooting when the construct attacks to give it disadvantage or something?
im thinking like ba hide, action prepare to shoot when the construct attacks to throw it off but not damage it
not sure if this is viable though
hollow sand
yehh thats about all i can think of tho
dusty oak
ok in that case
<@&1227805575765561385> all in favor of hiding in the stairs and preparing to provide suppressive fire when the construct attacks, react to this message
and ofc if you have other ideas, please share
dusty oak
wh
dusty oak
oh yea lmao
dusty oak
my friends it has been a long time
but we are once again in it to win it
personally i think we can probably just do the same action again, though we did get screwed by initiative last time
dusty oak
ok wait, even if marco finishes the potion, it'll still take a turn or two for him to bring it down
so ideally we should set up a relay so that we can quickly pass the potion to john
this should be doable since spikebeard is still upstairs
so the move could be staying down on the stairs to try and do what we did before or we can be a little proactive and try to set up this potion delivery chain
though we'd need to go back upstairs in order to do so
peak blade
<@&1227805575765561385> thoughts on the potion chain idea
peak blade
@dusty oak no one else replying you can just put your idea in if you wish
peak blade
@dusty oak (please i need to do this turn before i can move the event to a subserver)
hollow sand
Sorry i forgot to reply
But i dont see why we cant try and move to the stairs, get that chain going
If rbow is still down w the plan then we should full send it
peak blade
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peak blade
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molten jetty
Yea idk if I'll follow along anymore sorry gang
Uni has taken up a lot of my time. And DND is one of those things where if you miss one post or forget what happened it's kind of hard to get back into the groove.
peak blade
all g
dusty oak
i will carry on the torch 🫡