Alusair: Smite evil! ...should I bother adding the bonuses in, or just write it off for today with no effect?
Arothir: Try it
Arothir: Lets see
Arothir: :P
Alusair: blink
Alusair: whatever
Arothir: I like numbers
Alusair: [1d20+9<!- Official Roll ->] => [20,9] = (29)
Alusair: Subtract 3 if its no smite
Alusair: [1d20+9<!- Official Roll ->] => [19,9] = (28) crit confirm
Arothir: Roll damage?
Alusair: crit or nah?
Shenvallei: here we go, 3.5
Arothir: Crit
Alusair: [1d10+9+3+6<!- Official Roll ->] => [6,9,3,6] = (24)
Alusair: [1d10+9+3+6<!- Official Roll ->] => [6,9,3,6] = (24)
Alusair: 48
Alusair: err, 45… smite doesn’t get doubled
Alusair: if you want the breakdown…
Alusair: ...or 42 if no smite at all
Arothir: Alusair’s mighty swing tears the man’s head off, splattering it, quite like an art-deco Van Gogh painting all over the wall beyond the door when it hits. The man’s neck sprays blood onto the cieling, and into the ‘bartender’s’ eyes.
Alusair: ... I like crits with this character already.
Arothir: me too
Arothir: :P

• Shenvallei cringes from the display of carnage *
  Arothir: Inits!
  Alusair: [1d20+2<!- Official Roll ->] => [15,2] = (17)
  whispering to Arothir, [1d20<!- Official Roll ->] => [19] = (19)
  Shenvallei: [1d20<!- Official Roll ->] => [10] = (10)
  Shenvallei: +4
  Arothir: Alusair, go. The fucker is blinded, and spends his time wiping his eyes and getting a weapon.
  Alusair: uh…
  Alusair: Can I try to slap him up-side the head with the flat of the blade?
  Arothir: yeah
  Arothir: Easily
  Alusair: [1d20<!- Official Roll ->] => [15] = (15)
  Alusair: want the damage roll?
  Arothir: Sure, for SAGS
  Alusair: [1d10<!- Official Roll ->] => [6] = (6)
  Alusair: +.
  Alusair: I’m going to pay for these decent rolls.. right now I seem to be making up for last friday.
  Alusair: I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so many ones.
  Arothir: The man gets knocked sideways, off his feet, and into a puddle of pain as Alusair takes the unused momentum from her killing blow and delivers it with an audible crack to the man behind the counter.
  Arothir: lol
  Alusair: So you’re saying
  Alusair: I took the guy’s head clean off, angled the blade, kept spinning, and slapped him upside the head on the spin-around?
  Arothir: ...yeah
  Alusair: ...
  Alusair: That looks unbelievably cool in my head
  Shenvallei: fantastic
  Arothir: ...I know, dunnit? I like the fact that I was able to come up with it
  Arothir: :P
  Alusair: the only bad part is
  Alusair: I’m also seeing him being slammed face-first into Tim’s gut on the bar, and bouncing backwards off of it
  Arothir: ...lawl
  Alusair: but taht could be because of my interpretatio of the positioning
  Arothir: While that would be funny
  Alusair: interpretation that
  Arothir: From how I see it, it couldn’t happen
  Arothir: As you ran along the bar
  Alusair: yeah.. it all depends on the locations
  Alusair: anyway!
  Arothir: Kay
  Arothir: Combat over!
  Arothir: :P
  Alusair: There say a stone mantle?
  Alusair: over a fireplace?
  Arothir: Yeah
  Alusair: k..
  Arothir: There’s a big empty pot in it
  Arothir: too
  Alusair: “OK.. lets get Tim out of here and burn the place..”
  Arothir: for soup
  Arothir: and stuff
  Alusair: I got Zero’s bottle already I believe, yeah?
  Arothir: You did
  Alusair: “Could you do me a favor and grab a few bottles out of the cabinet, Shen?”
  Alusair: “Shame to leave it all here.. might as well bring it back to the hideout to celebrate.”
  Shenvallei: “Definately, was just about to do that.”
  
• Shenvallei rumages through the wine closet for a few more interesting bottles. *
  Alusair: Drag Tim out the door and go back in.. I’ll get him on the way out
  Shenvallei: Ill do a listen check while Im there.
  Alusair: Secure the rose we were given to the stonework – I’m reasonably sure it’ll survive there
  Shenvallei: And before I leave try to get an empathic link with Luna to see if she is in danger.
  Arothir: When you drag Tim out
  Arothir: You see a small bag next to the fallen man behind the bar
  Arothir: that’s wriggling quite a bit
  Shenvallei: I open it.
  Arothir: It’s your favoritist cat ever!
  Arothir: And you’re probably right Alusair
  Arothir: it most likely will survive there.
  Alusair: Get Tim out.. get Shen and the wine and the cat out
  Arothir: You do so.
  Alusair: “Get clear…”
  Shenvallei: “Luna thank the gods!” I pick her up and the wine and go. Ill do a quick search on the dead guy.
  Arothir: The one with the no head?
  Shenvallei: yes
  Arothir: Breastplate, longsword, dagger, chainmail, 150 gold, flask of acid, Bag of Torture
  Arothir: It’s like a bag of holding
  Arothir: but MUCH worse
  Shenvallei: Bag of torture? as in torture tools?
  Arothir: lol
  Arothir: Pretty much.
  Arothir: Tim only got the end of the dagger
  Arothir: there’s things in there that would make Caligula nervous
  Alusair: ooooo
  Shenvallei: Ill take it… for now till I can find a way to destroy it.
  Shenvallei: And the gold of course.
  Shenvallei: And the acid
  Arothir: Indeed.
  Arothir: Shenvallei is a druggy
  Arothir: :P
  Alusair: Flee the premises not long after Shen does
  Shenvallei: Cast a detect magic on the bar, take a final quick glance back, and if I see nothing I run
  Arothir: Alright
  Alusair: and try to drag Tim away from the blast radius
  Arothir: No magic left
  Arothir: You exit the bar
  Arothir: And start dragging tim
  Arothir: It’s dark, at this point
  Alusair: in that case..
  Arothir: And you’re about to cross the middle of the street
  Arothir: When a massive explosion occurs in the bar
  Arothir: Sending the chimney flying skyward
  Alusair: “So much for the alcohol..”
  Arothir: Reflex saves to avoid getting knocked the fuck over
  Alusair: [1d20<!- Official Roll ->] => [17] = (17)
  Shenvallei: [1d20<!- Official Roll ->] => [5] = (5)
  Shenvallei: +4
  Arothir: Shen, you get bowled over as a brick strikes you in the back for 2 damage
  Arothir: With a squeak
  Arothir: You realize it’s not a brick after all
  Arothir: as it scurries off of your back
  Shenvallei: lol poor rat
  Arothir: It still has rope bound to its feet
  Arothir: and burning pieces of wood attached to the rope
  Alusair: LOL.
  Arothir: it looks like it ripped free from the wall
  Shenvallei: Is it alive? can I untie it?
  Arothir: and is trying to make it somewhere in a jiffy
  Alusair: well, it DID scurry off your back..
  Shenvallei: could have just been nerves
  Arothir: And yes, it can be untied
  Arothir: lol
  Arothir: True, Shen
  Shenvallei: I help it.
  Alusair: yes.. but dead things don’t often squeak
  Arothir: unless it’s the Grim Squeaker
  Alusair: ...
  Arothir: but you haven’t met him yet.
  Alusair: or they’re wet
  Alusair: and walking on linoleum
  Arothir: LOL
  Arothir: You rescue the rat
  Alusair: people, I hate to be the one to put a dampener on things
  Shenvallei: As a matter of fact. “Al, would you like a pet?”
  Alusair: but its 4 / 1 in the morning
  Arothir: Yeah, it’s late, I know.
  Alusair: ”....”
  Alusair: “I’m a Bast worshipper. And you offer me a rat?”
  Arothir: You chaps want to head to sleep?
  Arothir: Now’s a good a time as any to call it a break
  Shenvallei: “So be it.” I release the rat.
  Alusair: “I have a feeling wel’l see it again anyway..”
  Shenvallei: And yes good idea.
  Kiergath: god yes its a good idea
  Shenvallei: As I said Im free tommorrow all day so just hit me up.
  Kiergath: ah cool
  whispering to Arothir, [1350/2<!- Official Roll ->] => 675
  Arothir: 675 XP to you, a piece.
  Kiergath: so.. 3,675?
  Arothir: yeah
  Kiergath: K
  Shenvallei: is that our total now?
  Kiergath: yeah
  Kiergath: 3,000 is L3..
  Shenvallei: k give me a hand leveling up tommorrow before we start.
  Arothir: Kay
  Shenvallei: talk to you tommorrow. nite.
  Arothir: When are we wanting to start tomorrow?
  Kiergath: Alex, when you around tomorrow?
  Arothir: Ciao Shen
  Shenvallei: Disconnecting from server…
  Shenvallei (exit): 04:19
  Kiergath: ...lol
  Arothir: I can be around whenever in theory
  Kiergath: Looks like we’re starting “whenever”, then
  Kiergath: :P
  Arothir: Okay, just FYI, I thought I had royally screwed the pooch today
  Arothir: when you said that you were thinking about Blackguard
  Arothir: lol
  Kiergath: I’m not rushing forward for blackguard-dom, for the record.. I’m just saying if I end up that way, I don’t want to until after I hit 10ish on pali
  Kiergath: but honestly.. if Alusair DID turn “evil” for any reason related to today.. she probably wouldn’t change personality much
  Kiergath: simply because.. well..
  Kiergath: she wouldn’t really see herself as being evil.
  Arothir: I mean, all it would really entail, I think
  Arothir: is a shift of belief
  Arothir: not a shift of action
  Arothir: possibly
  Kiergath: pretty much..
  Arothir: but even at that point
  Kiergath: she’d do the same things she is now, most likely
  Kiergath: maybe for a different Power, but..
  Arothir: I don’t even know what the point would be to shift to BG
  Kiergath: when it comes right down to it.. alignment has very little effect on her.
  Kiergath: she is who she is
  Kiergath: uh.. its not a bad little class.
  Arothir: because, well, what you say exactly is true
  Kiergath: Kind’ve neat, actually
  Kiergath: but its sort’ve a watered down paladin.
  Kiergath: which bites.
  Kiergath: it gets poison use, though, which is cool
  Arothir: lol
  Arothir: Also, pry more Alusairesque
  Kiergath: also gets sneak attacks
  Kiergath: lol
  Arothir: As far as alignment for class purposes
  Kiergath: the problem is
  Kiergath: the Blackguard class benefits FAR more suit Alusair than the paladin ones
  Kiergath: the ISSUE is the alignment requirements for both
  Arothir: Patron deity doesn’t mean much to me as a person
  Arothir: especially when it comes down to how your character behaves
  Arothir: Because, well, alignment and tendencies are completely different things
  Arothir: Because, lets look at it this way
  Kiergath: ugh
  Kiergath: this character would make any good, decent, upstanding paladin cringe
  Arothir: Christian religion – From the side of the christians, the warriors were paladins
  Arothir: From the side of the enemy, the opposite
  Arothir: With the planes, we get absolute good and evil
  Arothir: But you can worship evil and not be evil
  Arothir: savvy?
  Arothir: I mean, sure, it helps
  Kiergath: its really all in the interpretation
  Arothir: But in actuality
  Arothir: That demigod
  Arothir: isn’t any more evil than Bast, really
  Kiergath: So here’s my question.. how much of what the cat told me was bunk?
  Arothir: Some of it
  Arothir: Some of it was creative interpretation
  Kiergath: Part of Alusair’s problem..
  Arothir: some of it was me flying by the seat of my pants, until the inspiration sunk home
  Kiergath: is that she’s a worshipper of a deity that includes Vengeance in her portfolio
  Kiergath: ...which, unfortunately
  Arothir: is exactly what the cat was setting out to achieve
  Kiergath: means she can very much understand the point of view of the formerly imprisoned cat
  Kiergath: Eyup..
  Arothir: See, here’s what I’m starting to like about the campaign
  Arothir: We have, on one level, the very real struggle of the PCs to survive
  Kiergath: ..its got more character development than most of our long ones in the past have
  Arothir: Namely, will they survive Shen.
  Arothir: ...and this is in two sessions
  Arothir: :P
  Kiergath: ...
  Kiergath: You know which toon I miss?
  Kiergath: my crazy dwarf.
  Kiergath: The one who killed a campaign in two days.
  Arothir: Second, we have the Sigilian developments, which you’re just starting to see bits of
  Arothir: ...lol
  Kiergath: he was hillarious.
  Arothir: I can’t remember much about it
  Kiergath: the Crazy just rolled right off of him
  Arothir: That alone is impressive
  Kiergath: I think Chris was DMing
  Arothir: Oh, and Third. Thanks to you, we now have Diety conflict as well, and the well needed element of philosophy
  Arothir: Yeah he was
  Arothir: I was in the camp, i know that much
  Kiergath: LOL..
  Arothir: but I can’t remember any of it
  Kiergath: yeah..
  Kiergath: but you were a late addition
  Arothir: very
  Kiergath: because I think I was screaming out of my tent at you
  Arothir: before it tanked
  Kiergath: when you showed up outside camp
  Kiergath: in the middle of the night
  Kiergath: :P
  Arothir: pry
  Kiergath: ah lord…
  Arothir: I really like this camp.
  Kiergath: the exciting sub-plot…
  Kiergath: THEOLOGY AND YOUR PALADIN
  Kiergath: or… who’s side am I on?
  Arothir: ppsh
  Kiergath: lord save me from a paladin that thinks too much
  Arothir: I actually think it is interesting and exciting
  Kiergath: I should’ve known
  Kiergath: that I couldn’t just play a paladin and be a simple crusader against all that was evil
  Kiergath: no, I had to complicate things
  Arothir: lol
  Arothir: Yeah
  Arothir: I knew it too
  Kiergath: so what do I do?
  Kiergath: I ABANDON MY PARTY!
  Arothir: and I’m glad I could help
  Kiergath: to talk to a cat.
  Kiergath: :P
  Arothir: ...yep
  Arothir: that was a bold move
  Arothir: that…was…well, hilarious
  Arothir: Because of what Shen did
  Arothir: and what resulted
  Kiergath: dude!
  Kiergath: dude wasn’t evil
  Kiergath: shen was doing OK when I left
  Arothir: lawl
  Kiergath: figured I might as well move on
  Kiergath: lol
  Arothir: Shen is a great interrogator
  Arothir: Who do you work for!
  Kiergath: this campaign is already great depths of awesome
  Arothir: I’m suprised it’s going so well, honestly
  Arothir: Due to, well, how little planning happened
  Kiergath: planning is for the birds
  Kiergath: I try to play for fridays and things tank
  Kiergath: so I stop
  Kiergath: and things still tank
  Kiergath: fuck
  Kiergath: party’s screwed… they just don’t get it..
  Kiergath: they’re not in kansas anymore..
  Kiergath: if you do dumb things, you CAN get into situations you can’t beat
  Kiergath: the world doesn’t cater to your stupidity
  Kiergath: you’re level 8! DON’T TRY TO TACKLE AN ENTIRE DROW FORTRESS BECAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO TURN AROUND
  Arothir: lol
  Arothir: I would
  Kiergath: ah well
  Arothir: But that’s Rase speaking
  Kiergath: they can either negotiate or die
  Arothir: Rase was, at some point
  Kiergath: thats pretty much their choices at this point
  Arothir: trying to kill himself
  Arothir: :P
  Kiergath: they’re surrounded, although they arent’ aware of it yet
  Arothir: ahh
  Arothir: nice.
  Kiergath: funny part is..
  Kiergath: on the way through.. they raided a spider’s larder..
  Kiergath: and now have a short company of NPCs with them..
  Arothir: lawl
  Kiergath: like.. 8 rescued NPC combatants, effectively..
  Kiergath: and 8 PCs..
  Arothir: nice
  Kiergath: but it doesn’t matter..
  Kiergath: they’re surrounded..
  Kiergath: drums..
  Kiergath: drums in the deep…
  Kiergath: they cannot get out.
  Arothir: lol
  Kiergath: drow infront..
  Kiergath: drow behind..
  Kiergath: and they’re bringing up the reapers to guard the retreat lane..
  Kiergath: that or they’ll just cut the bridge.
  Kiergath: maybe both
  Kiergath: :P
  Kiergath: Anyway…
  Kiergath: night, chief.. sleep, otherwise we won’t be conscious tomorrow to continue
  Kiergath: :P
  Kiergath: Disconnecting from server…
  Kiergath (exit): 04:36
  

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