[6/12/2026, 4:57:22 PM] CBN
~oasis plays~
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[6/12/2026, 5:05:34 PM] Dammitwho
Who we got. Banana?
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[6/12/2026, 5:06:06 PM] CBN
that damned eepy man
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[6/12/2026, 5:07:09 PM] Crion
he was waylaid by the demon "Windows Update"
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[6/12/2026, 5:07:26 PM] Gul Banana
yes
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[6/12/2026, 5:07:50 PM] Gul Banana
i am now here (although briefly preoccupied receiving bagels)
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[6/12/2026, 5:12:09 PM] Nicolae
oh right i'm here
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[6/12/2026, 5:12:34 PM] Gul Banana
they wrote "Have a Lovely Day xoxo" on the bag... and i think i shall
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[6/12/2026, 5:13:00 PM] Dammitwho
Well, you may have a lovely day... if your character isn't MURDERED!!!
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[6/12/2026, 5:13:38 PM] Gul Banana
what, has one of the innkeeper or staffer revealed their true allegiance and pulled out a wand?
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[6/12/2026, 5:13:39 PM] CBN
maybe that would be a lovely day too. revenant time >.> <.<
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[6/12/2026, 5:15:45 PM] Dammitwho
We begin! The four of you sleep peacefully through the night, untroubled by any further nocturnal assailants. You are awakened by the smell of cooking food wafting up from below, and sunlight streaming in from the window onto your balcony. There's a brief, gentle knock on your door.
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[6/12/2026, 5:16:14 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran sits bolt upright in the chair he's been sleeping in, weapon at hand.
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[6/12/2026, 5:16:26 PM] Imran Traveler
"Mmmhhr. Yes. Yes! One moment."
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[6/12/2026, 5:17:52 PM] Imran Traveler
He'll compose himself slightly before answering the door.
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[6/12/2026, 5:18:25 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom, sprawled hanging half off the foot of the bed. "More minutes. Almost killed...dragon..." eyes still closed.
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[6/12/2026, 5:20:54 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal stretches in the hammock-like arrangement he's made by stringing a sheet between chimney pots. Doesn't have the practiced twist of a real sailor, but it's also a lot less cramped. The scents of the inn below and the city all about conflict, in his nose, and the inn definitely wins here.
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[6/12/2026, 5:21:23 PM] Dammitwho
There's no one at the door when Imran opens it, but on a small shelf next to the door (apparently for this purpose?) there are four steaming mugs of what smells like coffee, and a small stack of the "news-papers" of which Absalomians are so proud. There's a small note laid atop the stack, which reads "With our apologies for your interrupted sleep - THE MGMT". There's a small drawing of a smiling gnome at the bottom, posed to look like she's announcing it.
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[6/12/2026, 5:21:38 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak raises a hand to keep the sunlight out of his eyes as he wakes up. He drags his hand down over his face, making waking-up noises. He does a quick check to see if we've been waylaid again in the night, sees we have not, and slides off the bed to stretch. "Morning, fellas."
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[6/12/2026, 5:22:03 PM] Imran Traveler
"Ah. Excellent." Imran, still in armor, will carefully bring the tray and papers into the room and close the door with his foot.
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[6/12/2026, 5:23:59 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran will distribute the cups and examine some of the papers while sipping his own.
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[6/12/2026, 5:24:11 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Dragon smells like...not tea..." he awakens. "Friend Imran! You brought the newsing papers!" Dubnoom makes gimme hands without otherwise moving.
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[6/12/2026, 5:24:15 PM] Imran Traveler
How fares Steve this morning?
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[6/12/2026, 5:24:31 PM] Imran Traveler
Ah, a paper for the wise one.
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[6/12/2026, 5:24:37 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal's head appears briefly, upside-down, in the window; next comes his hand, bearing a frog, and then the whole of him flips into the room. "We're really here, hey?"
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[6/12/2026, 5:24:38 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran leans over to hand it to him.
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[6/12/2026, 5:25:05 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"*Still* here, despite the traditional Absalom welcome!"
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[6/12/2026, 5:25:26 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom accepts graciously. What news, of the papers?
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[6/12/2026, 5:25:40 PM] Imran Traveler
"Indeed. And the coffee is bracing."
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[6/12/2026, 5:26:07 PM] Dammitwho
just a sec, i wrote up a lot re: the newspapers so im still typin lol
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[6/12/2026, 5:27:22 PM] Imran Traveler
"Tak, good morn. Coffee and papers. We should perhaps consider what we'd like to eat as well; and if it should be a meal sufficient for a hunting party."
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[6/12/2026, 5:27:29 PM] Gul Banana
it's worth waiting for a comprehensive daily briefing
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[6/12/2026, 5:27:41 PM] Dammitwho
The coffee at least is pretty good, and there's a surprisingly comprehensive selection of newspapers here. You've got:
The Sennight Star (Absalom's 'paper of record', its longest-running and most popular broadsheet)
Eyes on Absalom (A relatively young illustrated broadsheet focused almost exclusively on the criminal, the lurid, and the sadistic)
Anon & Afar (Anon & Afar — A monthly journal of news from beyond the Isle of Kortos, mostly reprinted from foreign broadsheets carried in by ship and assembled by a dedicated multilingual staff)
The Kortos Quorum (A biweekly covering the Starstone Isle outside Absalom's walls, heavily backed by the Kortos Consortium)
Ear to the Inner Sea (divination-sourced news shorts)
Mother's Message (general weekly, domestic pages)
and, probably slipped in accidentally, a copy of the Greenlift Post, a neighborhood newsletter for Eastgate
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[6/12/2026, 5:27:42 PM] Gul Banana
lindal supports journalism (or will once it's explained to him)
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[6/12/2026, 5:28:12 PM] Dammitwho
So, you can skim the headlines or look into something that piques your interest, if you've a mind.
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[6/12/2026, 5:28:31 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Are we *in* Eastgate?
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[6/12/2026, 5:28:35 PM] Dammitwho
Steve and the orbfella (will you name him, or is orbfella his name?) are still asleep.
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[6/12/2026, 5:28:53 PM] Imran Traveler
We will at some point name the orbfella, but nothing comes to mind at the moment.
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[6/12/2026, 5:29:01 PM] Dammitwho
No, you're in the Coins District now. You came here from Eastgate, after entering Absalom via the more imaginatively named Widdershins Gate.
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[6/12/2026, 5:30:52 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
In that case, Lindal would like to check out Eyes on Absalom if nobody's claimed it. *Illustrated* reports of exciting events? What a great service.
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[6/12/2026, 5:31:31 PM] Imran Traveler
Eyes on Absalom likely has some of the more relevant information to last night's misadventures, if not necessarily the most trustworthy of such. Let Lindal peruse that, yes. Imran will start with the paper of record, the Sennight Star.
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[6/12/2026, 5:32:47 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
One wonders just how many eyes the paper's editor has.
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[6/12/2026, 5:33:42 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom MUST learn of Eastgate. There are no accidents, only opportunities.
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[6/12/2026, 5:33:43 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak accepts the coffee gratefully. "Smells like there's some breakfast downstairs. We could see what's on the griddle." He looks over the newspapers that have not yet been snatched up, settles on Anon and Afar, skimming for news from Dongun Hold, Alkenstar City, or the Mana Wastes in general. Probably nothing in there specifically about an evil wizard who trains up magicians to steal their magical potency and life energies to fuel his horrible power and unnatural life... couldn't hurt to check, though.
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[6/12/2026, 5:34:02 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Also he may or may not think "Greenlift Post" is forest news. So he'll start there.
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[6/12/2026, 5:34:07 PM] Dammitwho
The front page headline for the Sennight Star is "COUNCIL ADJOURNS NINTH SESSION WITHOUT PRIMARCH VOTE; CAPTAIN STARBORN PRAISED FOR "'STEADY HAND AT THE TILLER'". Looks like the Grand Council has, yet again, declined to schedule a vote on a permanent primarch. The story includes quotes from three noble scion lords along the lines of 'deliberation is wisdom', a paragraph noting Primarch Starborn's continued popularity with the garrisons, and no analysis as to why the votes keep slipping nor any comment from the Primarch himself.
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[6/12/2026, 5:35:49 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
What's Tak's concern with such wizards - is he thinking of the Highleaf legacy, or hoping to encounter more of 'em?
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[6/12/2026, 5:36:04 PM] Imran Traveler
Interesting. And you can learn something from what they're not willing to write, as much as what they are. If nothing else immediately jumps out, he'll hand it off to one of the others and take Anon and Afar off Tak's hands when he's done with it, looking for any particular word out of Old Cheliax.
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[6/12/2026, 5:36:23 PM] Imran Traveler
On the whole, he's keeping one eye open for the movements of the Hellknights. The remit of one Lictor in particular.
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[6/12/2026, 5:36:47 PM] Dammitwho
The Eyes on Absalom headline is a little less highbrow. "LORD FILTH STRIKES AGAIN! SEWER COMMISSIONER LARRETT SEEN AT IVY DISTRICT TAILOR SAME WEEK COMMISSION RAISES DRAINAGE LEVY; OUR ARTIST IMAGINES THE FITTING".
A drainage levy of two coppers per household, reported by a half-page caricature of Commissioner of Sewers Larrett being measured for a new silk coat while knee-deep in sewage. The accompanying text contains exactly one verifiable fact (that the levy exists).
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[6/12/2026, 5:36:48 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak's concern is that he's looking for the Man in Black, which, now that he thinks of it, he might not have regaled his cohorts with the tale just yet. Well. We'll get to that eventually, no doubt.
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[6/12/2026, 5:37:02 PM] Nicolae
lmao
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[6/12/2026, 5:37:24 PM] Nicolae
Hannibal Lictor.
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[6/12/2026, 5:39:26 PM] Dammitwho
Now, Dubnoom gets to the real shit, the kind of news that inquiring minds want to know. The Greenlift Post: "GIANT MARROW CONTEST JUDGING DISPUTED FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR; GRAND HOLT DRUIDS DECLINE, AGAIN, TO ARBITRATE".
Eastgate's vegetable-growing competition has again turned acrimonious as the winning entry is accused of using magical enhancement. The Circle of Stones has issued a one-sentence statement to the effect that they protect the natural order on the isle of Kortos and do not judge garden festivals. Oh, the shoonies get a byline on the weather corner! That's nice.
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[6/12/2026, 5:40:55 PM] Dammitwho
Okay, to make sure i'm not missing anything:
Tak is looking through Anon & Afar for news from Dongun/Alkenstar/the Mana Wastes
Once Tak is finished, Imran is going to check for news from Old Cheliax
Anyone else with particular interests?
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[6/12/2026, 5:41:32 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran is eventually going to at least glance at all of them except maybe the Eastgate newsletter, if someone wants to get that. There's probably not any news of Uro Adom in the Eastgate newsletter.
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[6/12/2026, 5:42:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lord Filth is hilarious, but Lindal will also be looking for reports of Crime. Might as well check whether there's any that's Norgorber-schism-inflected...
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[6/12/2026, 5:42:40 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
It's a good thing (with apologies to Dubnoom) we can all read.
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[6/12/2026, 5:44:27 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom will be keeping the Greenlift Post in his bags. Henceforth he will be attempting to get any additional copies any time he is in a position to visit a newsman, or a library, or maybe a trashcan. "There are MANY things afoot in the Eastgate, friends."
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[6/12/2026, 5:45:08 PM] Imran Traveler
Ahh. Let him keep his secrets...
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[6/12/2026, 5:45:59 PM] Imran Traveler
What's Mother's Message got? Anything about the Norgorberite schismatics? In fact, do any of the papers discuss that?
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[6/12/2026, 5:46:09 PM] Dammitwho
Anon & Afar's news from the Mana Wastes is primarily taken up by concerns of increased hostility between Nex and Geb (the countries, not the men). The paper notes that the drive towards war appears to be coming from the very top in both countries, with quotes from an Arclord and a Blood Lord downplaying the possibility of renewed war in ways that suggest, according to A&A's analysts, that both countries' mystic upper classes oppose the move.
They conclude by suggesting it's unlikely any real conflict will erupt until and unless Nex openly declares his return to the country that bears his name.
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[6/12/2026, 5:49:34 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak sighs, shakes his head. He does a cursory flip through the rest of it, and sets it down for someone else to take. "And all these papers just get printed and delivered, all over the city, every morning?" he asks rhetorically, in amazement.
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[6/12/2026, 5:50:04 PM] Gul Banana
the men/ghosts are presumably at Maximum Hostility already
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[6/12/2026, 5:50:37 PM] Dammitwho
The section on Cheliax is interesting. The country has simultaneously recalled a number of its prominent officials, excruciated several more for unspecified 'blasphemies', and increased border skirmishes with Andoran. Their analyst concludes that, in fact, these skirmishes are *unlikely* to result in open war - rather, they are an attempt to avoid an appearance of weakness. The article sorrowfully ends with a note that they have lost contact with a number of their correspondents in Egorian, and suggests the possibility of significant internal conflict in the tight-lipped infernal regime.
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[6/12/2026, 5:50:56 PM] Imran Traveler
"An immense accomplishment. I always wondered what the cities and armies of men could do if not dedicated to, well, whip-torture and knifeplay and whatever else concerns the great institutions of Nidal."
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[6/12/2026, 5:51:30 PM] Imran Traveler
That is not ENTIRELY fair, but Imran is not inclined to be entirely fair to Nidal in any respect, and that includes logistically.
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[6/12/2026, 5:51:57 PM] Dammitwho
Tak: Most of the newspapers aren't dailies - some are, some come out weekly, some are quarterlies. Next day stories are unusual except for really big things, so it's unlikely a story about your attack in your rooms will hit the papers (if it ever does) for a few days.
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[6/12/2026, 5:52:06 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"What do you mean, excruciated? That's an adjective."
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[6/12/2026, 5:52:36 PM] Imran Traveler
Is it a manner of execution? Imran knows but his player might not.
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[6/12/2026, 5:53:55 PM] Dammitwho
Excruciation is, Imran knows and the other players can guess by implication, a form of public execution in Old Cheliax. By further implication, not one of the ones you want to have happen to you. It isn't really practiced in Nidal, so Imran may not have heard the details unless he was specifically curious or went to Cheliax in person.
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[6/12/2026, 5:55:11 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Nidal sounds like a place that those men from last night would like." Dubnoom pushes one of the pillows off the bed onto the floor to cover a little dried-up blood on the floorboards. Unsightly.
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[6/12/2026, 5:55:14 PM] Imran Traveler
"Excrutiation is a form of public execution. I've heard it's quite painful. I haven't seen it done myself, thankfully; it's more a House Thrune thing."
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[6/12/2026, 5:55:43 PM] Imran Traveler
"Well. You could guess the pain bit from the name, probably."
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[6/12/2026, 5:56:11 PM] Dammitwho
Regarding the Norgorber schism: the papers don't talk about it in those terms, but the crime sections do have something interesting; whenever a murder is suspected (either by the guards or by the journalists) to have been the work of Skinsaw cultists, there's often an exasperated denial by someone named Samel Maleagant of the Court of Black Paper.
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[6/12/2026, 5:57:04 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom nods. "Thruning." Like that means anything. Maybe it does!
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[6/12/2026, 5:57:04 PM] Imran Traveler
Interesting. Imran commits that name to memory.
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[6/12/2026, 5:57:48 PM] Dammitwho
Oh! Here's something Imran almost missed, in the society pages.
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[6/12/2026, 5:58:06 PM] Imran Traveler
"Thruning" does perhaps have a meaning, but it refers to a specific form of recuperative imperial politics employed as part of a program against reformists and radicals on the Chelaxian periphery.
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[6/12/2026, 5:58:28 PM] Imran Traveler
Old Abrogail is quite the politician, here and in Hell.
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[6/12/2026, 6:01:38 PM] Dammitwho
The Ravounel Consulate, located in the Ivy District (opened shortly after the former province declared its independence) has made an announcement via Ambassador Vita Aulamaxa that they are working tirelessly to bring the famed opera singers of Kintargo to Absalom for what she promises will be one of the greatest performances in the Ivy Playhouse's history. The players include the famed diva Shensen (a name Imran remembers bandied about by the Silver Ravens), and they intend to open a new opera called Ilvanar du Vanlieu Valliar.
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[6/12/2026, 6:02:15 PM] Dammitwho
Mother's Message amusedly informs its readers that this translates as "The Teen Queen's Tantrum", and includes in its article a stiff denunciation by one Lictor Udo Arom.
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[6/12/2026, 6:03:11 PM] Imran Traveler
Ha ha ha.
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[6/12/2026, 6:04:42 PM] Imran Traveler
Arom is a tenacious and skilled foe, so the Ravens should be careful. But this is still faintly ridiculous work for the plane's greatest detective to be putting himself towards.
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[6/12/2026, 6:05:36 PM] Dammitwho
Maybe he was just the first Hellknight Mother's Message found, or he lost a bet and had to be the one to deliver the official statement. Well, probably not "lost a bet", but you know what I mean.
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[6/12/2026, 6:06:43 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom shakes around his copy of the Greenlift Post before stuffing it in his bag. "Dubnoom's unfortunately has no 'leads' on where to learn more of our orb, or of other relevant business at this time. Anyone else?"
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[6/12/2026, 6:06:47 PM] Imran Traveler
Him commenting directly on suspected Raven activity in Absalom means his eye is fixed here at the moment. That's information in and of itself.
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[6/12/2026, 6:07:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"I've only the same lead from yesterday - the sewer door into which that man fled."
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[6/12/2026, 6:07:20 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"We could follow up on him, or politely ignore the whole situation and begin our search for sages and paying work."
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[6/12/2026, 6:07:32 PM] Dammitwho
Doesn't trip pleasingly off the tongue the way "cellar door" does.
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[6/12/2026, 6:07:33 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran nods. "Are we agreed to take up the trail, rested on a full stomach?"
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[6/12/2026, 6:08:20 PM] Imran Traveler
"While I don't wish to run blindly after them into sewers at night, I'm not inclined to simply let an attempt on our lives go."
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[6/12/2026, 6:08:34 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"I judge it considerably less likely to bear fruit this morning than it would've at the time... but sure, it IS pretty nasty to go around assassinating people without even getting their identities right."
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[6/12/2026, 6:09:16 PM] Tak Ironflame
Normally in such nice accommodations, Tak would at least shower first in the morning. But given that we're headed into a sewer right afterwards, it seems a bit silly to bother. "Agreed. Let's find out what kind of morning grub we've got."
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[6/12/2026, 6:09:26 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"It does feel somehow... rude? to actually follow up on it. Like we're novices to the city getting offended at a basic fact of urban life. However, we are, and we are."
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[6/12/2026, 6:10:22 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Agreed all around! And friend Lindal makes a good point. Fresh fruit WOULD be good for keeping our energy up today."
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[6/12/2026, 6:11:42 PM] Tak Ironflame
"If nighttime assassinations were a regular feature of life in Absalom, I reckon the innkeeper wouldn't have made such a fuss last night."
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[6/12/2026, 6:12:04 PM] Imran Traveler
Let's go see about breakfast proper, and pay up what we need to in order to maintain the room through our sewer spelunking. I forget if we paid through the week.
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[6/12/2026, 6:12:26 PM] Dammitwho
Nope, right now you're on a day-by-day basis.
(Oh, I can't remember if anyone asked about Mother's Message in general rather than specifically about Cheliaxian stuff. If that's the case, the front page headline is "GARLIC FESTIVAL COMMITTEE SPLITS OVER STALL PLACEMENT; ASCENDANT COURT GRANDMOTHERS THREATEN RIVAL FESTIVAL 'WITH BETTER SOUP'")
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[6/12/2026, 6:12:43 PM] Imran Traveler
As they should.
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[6/12/2026, 6:15:04 PM] Dammitwho
You head downstairs, where the innkeeper and Neji are attending to the morning's patrons. "Oh, good morning!" Neji sings out. "Please sit wherever you'd like and I'll be with you in a second!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:15:42 PM] Imran Traveler
I think the Kortos Quorum is the only paper we didn't get anything directly from? If so, Imran will take it to breakfast.
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[6/12/2026, 6:17:13 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom, fading without his fast yet broken, dramatically hurls himself into a seat. "Victuals please!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:17:31 PM] Imran Traveler
We will sit around where the wise one has thrown himself.
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[6/12/2026, 6:18:11 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Hello again. Sorry about transitively waking you both last night!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:21:29 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak joins the group around the breakfast table. Remembering the earlier conversation back in the room: "Does that kind of thing happen a lot around here?"
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[6/12/2026, 6:22:49 PM] Dammitwho
"I'm just pleased you survived, sirs." To Tak: "No! I pride myself on providing safe relatively clean accomodation at a reasonable price! This city's going to the dogs, if you'll pardon the expression master goblin; I wish the primarch would whip the Token Guard into shape!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:24:14 PM] Imran Traveler
"Bread and fruit, and some lean meat as you're able, for our breakfast. Eggs if no meat suggests itself. We're off to look into our assailants from here. I would also like to settle up with the innkeep for the next two nights."
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[6/12/2026, 6:24:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
The city going to the shoonies would be kind of nice.
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[6/12/2026, 6:24:41 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
At the mention of the Token Guard, Dubnoom makes a mental note to glamorize-enhance the size of his buttons again when the go out. "Yes! Foods." He points at Imran and nods in agreement.
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[6/12/2026, 6:27:01 PM] Imran Traveler
He pays attention to how Neji reacts, if at all, to the information that they're out to hunt Norgorberites.
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[6/12/2026, 6:27:27 PM] Dammitwho
The Kortos Quorum is largely agricultural news by the Kortos Consortium, with a side order of broadsides against Absalom's trade guilds and Lord Avid of House Arnsen. The headline: "SWARDLANDS BARLEY COMES IN HEAVY; CONSORTIUM WAREHOUSES FULL TO THE RAFTERS; MEANWHILE LORD AVID SUMMERS COMFORTABLY, SOURCES CONFIRM"
A useful harvest report, if you're an investor or someone who regularly buys or sells barley - yields, storage capacity, expected bread prices in Diobel and Meravon. The bit about Lord Avid doesn't appear to have anything about what he's actually done, so much as sneering at him for the manner in which he's done it.
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[6/12/2026, 6:29:35 PM] Dammitwho
The back page is more humorous; evidently the Quorum has a long-running satirical feature about the once-grand but now ruined settlement of High Harbor in the northeastern corner of the isle of Kortos. "OUR HIGH HARBOR CORRESPONDENT REPORTS: RUINED TOWN'S 'MAYOR' RE-ELECTED UNANIMOUSLY BY ELECTORATE OF GULLS"
This issue covers the civic elections (one candidate, zero living residents, strong turnout among the seabirds) and the municipal budget (four crabs and a promising piece of driftwood).
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[6/12/2026, 6:30:15 PM] Imran Traveler
Interesting how the businessmen spend their money. Less malevolent than back home (?).
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[6/12/2026, 6:30:38 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal's wandering about peering into the kitchen and so on; he'll sit when and if food materialises. In the meantime, he's reading over peoples' shoulders. "Why not 'Konsortium'? Why not Kuorum?"
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[6/12/2026, 6:31:18 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran makes a face. "Some of the more enthusiastic and less dignified organs of Zon-Kuthon engage in that. And they replace S with Z as well."
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[6/12/2026, 6:31:54 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"You have to admit, the deity has his aesthetics straight."
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[6/12/2026, 6:31:58 PM] Dammitwho
Neji turns solemn. "Take care, if you're going after the Skinsaw Men. And buy some chalk if you're headed into the sewers - out of towners sometimes don't realize how big our undercity is, get lost, and well..."
(I don't actually remember if Neji was made aware the last cultist fled into the sewers, so if she doesn't she didn't say this.)
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[6/12/2026, 6:32:05 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
While waiting for food, Dubnoom occupies himself fiddling with the ring he'd found awhile back. Oops, now there's a tiny Dubnoom Sigil on the table. Oops. Now there's a tiny Dubnoom sigil on the chair. Oops. Oops.
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[6/12/2026, 6:32:34 PM] Imran Traveler
Now that is interesting. A great big underworks...
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[6/12/2026, 6:35:59 PM] Tak Ironflame
(Fortunately, a standard adventurer's kit includes chalk!)
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[6/12/2026, 6:35:59 PM] Dammitwho
Neji soon returns with your ordered food. Decent bread and meat, with sliced apple (though Lindal has another stack of bananas), and fried eggs. Neji quietly asks Imran if it would be all right to give Steve a pair of raw eggs before you leave.
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[6/12/2026, 6:36:01 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"That's a good idea. Given the drawings all over the city's streets" (and walls) "I expect we can get some chalk from various stall-sellers. ...maybe a different colour each!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:36:14 PM] Imran Traveler
It would! On the eggs.
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[6/12/2026, 6:37:11 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak tucks in heartily.
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[6/12/2026, 6:37:21 PM] Imran Traveler
Once we're fed and Imran's made some payment to the innkeep to keep the room and the orbfella within it as they are until they return (in a timely fashion), Imran will be ready to move.
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[6/12/2026, 6:37:53 PM] Imran Traveler
Hmm. Orbfella CAN detect magical items...we might want to bring him, if we can manage having two little fellas with us at once.
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[6/12/2026, 6:38:39 PM] Dammitwho
Well, Lindal can also detect magical items.
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[6/12/2026, 6:39:36 PM] Gul Banana
i THINK he can still do that, let me just check
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[6/12/2026, 6:40:01 PM] Gul Banana
yep
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[6/12/2026, 6:40:06 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom has hollowed out the end of the loaf and packed it with apple and egg. Now he feasts the feast of kings. A delight to the senses. "MMhmh!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:40:44 PM] Imran Traveler
Then the orbfella may sleep.
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[6/12/2026, 6:40:56 PM] Dammitwho
Lemme check the logs real quick
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[6/12/2026, 6:41:03 PM] Imran Traveler
Whoa. Such sandwich technology...
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[6/12/2026, 6:44:51 PM] Dammitwho
Imran: @Check[society|dc:22|adjustment:-2|traits:secret]{Discussing with the innkeep}
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[6/12/2026, 6:45:21 PM] Dammitwho
hopefully i typed that correctly
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[6/12/2026, 6:45:56 PM] Imran Traveler
17
1d20 + 12 = 5 + 12 = 17
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[6/12/2026, 6:47:35 PM] Dammitwho
The innkeeper accepts 20 silver for the next two days, and Steve happily snaps up the eggs that Neji delightedly feeds him.
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[6/12/2026, 6:47:54 PM] Gul Banana
10s/egg/day
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[6/12/2026, 6:48:06 PM] Imran Traveler
That'll do. Imran takes an apple for the road and is ready to go.
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[6/12/2026, 6:49:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Ah, one last question for our hosts before we set out- if we can catch the last assassin, where should we deposit him? Do the Token Guard have watch stations where you can dump someone without them becoming suspicious and taking you in as well?"
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[6/12/2026, 6:51:44 PM] Dammitwho
Tobiah the innkeeper rumbles "If you catch him in the undercity, leave him where he drops. No sense hauling corpses about the city. I've already let the Token Guard know about our - " He winces a bit, no doubt frustrated by having to say this in front of other customers "break-in."
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[6/12/2026, 6:52:24 PM] Imran Traveler
"Is there any reward for cleaning out nests of Norgorborites, I wonder? Perhaps we should inquire."
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[6/12/2026, 6:53:30 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran is inclined to do it for free, but he's learned from the wider world to always see if you can get paid for what you'd otherwise do on the house.
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[6/12/2026, 6:53:39 PM] Dammitwho
Neji adds helpfully "Only if you have a mandate from the guard!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:54:38 PM] Dammitwho
She explains: "Then you're acting on behalf of the city. Adventuring parties can apply for one!"
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[6/12/2026, 6:55:05 PM] Imran Traveler
We should probably do that.
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[6/12/2026, 6:55:29 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"The way of guard forces everywhere," scoffs Lindal - a tone the others haven't heard from him very often. "They think they define justice.. and then it turns out that their paymasters do."
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[6/12/2026, 6:55:42 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"We don't need a mandated reward to find this guy."
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[6/12/2026, 6:56:25 PM] Tak Ironflame
"Still, never hurts to get paid to find this guy."
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[6/12/2026, 6:56:44 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran shrugs. To the group: "If we're not going to make money on it, and I agree that should not be our priority, then we should also look into ways to stop paying rents while we're down there."
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[6/12/2026, 6:57:33 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"They may have objects we can sell later. When they do not need them."
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[6/12/2026, 6:57:50 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran makes another face. "They're murder cultists."
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[6/12/2026, 6:58:18 PM] Imran Traveler
"I don't mean to stereotype, but."
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[6/12/2026, 6:59:30 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom furrows his brow. It is counter to Goblin Thought that people would not drop loot on death. Yet to be disproven, too.
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[6/12/2026, 6:59:53 PM] Imran Traveler
Oh, there will be loot. 1 silver piece loot, all the way down.
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[6/12/2026, 7:00:20 PM] Imran Traveler
But Imran doesn't feel strongly about getting a guard warrant, especially if Lindal does about not getting one.
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[6/12/2026, 7:00:23 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"It should make our sleep easier. Eventually."
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[6/12/2026, 7:00:39 PM] Imran Traveler
He is eager to see what the underside of this city looks like.
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[6/12/2026, 7:01:07 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
If we happened to come across a wanted poster or something, fine - what he objects to is seeking authorities' permission in advance of going after a killer. Or at least a thief.
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[6/12/2026, 7:02:15 PM] Dammitwho
Heading out? The sewer entrance you saw the cultist fleeing down is lit'rally across the street, so you won't have to go far if that's your destination.
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[6/12/2026, 7:04:28 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak grabs an apple for the road. Or at least across the road. Let's do this.
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[6/12/2026, 7:04:31 PM] Imran Traveler
I think Lindal wanted to grab colored chalks? Shouldn't be much of a detour. Otherwise Imran will gather Steve and be ready to proceed.
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[6/12/2026, 7:05:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Yeah, if there are any stalls in the nearby markets, (and if we have't already got some in our kits) - Neji's warning was probably pretty accurate.
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[6/12/2026, 7:05:30 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Then we'll see whether Lord Filth keeps the sewers locked!
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[6/12/2026, 7:06:46 PM] Dammitwho
I'm gonna let you already have some colored chalk, especially if Tak has a standard adventuring kit or something in that nature.
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[6/12/2026, 7:06:58 PM] Tak Ironflame
He does.
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[6/12/2026, 7:08:28 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
My First Adventuring & Colour Kit (age 3+)
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[6/12/2026, 7:09:06 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Does any person or thing bar us from opening this door?
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[6/12/2026, 7:09:19 PM] Dammitwho
Then, across the street in an alleyway, you come across the entrance to the sewers: evidently this comes down on a major artery, or whatever the city hygiene term is, because it's a narrow set of stone stairs covered with a heavy metal grate hinged on one side. It's not locked, and you're able to lift it with one or more of you working at it.
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[6/12/2026, 7:10:18 PM] Imran Traveler
27
1d20 + 8 = 19 + 8 = 27
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[6/12/2026, 7:10:25 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
16
1d20 + 12 = 4 + 12 = 16
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[6/12/2026, 7:11:46 PM] Tak Ironflame
19
1d20 + 12 = 7 + 12 = 19
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[6/12/2026, 7:12:21 PM] Gul Banana
whoops, i closed it
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[6/12/2026, 7:12:34 PM] Crion
it's amusing to be unable to see my roll and thus not know if i should hero point it
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[6/12/2026, 7:14:05 PM] Dammitwho
Banana, do a Survival check
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[6/12/2026, 7:14:17 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
8
1d20 = 8 = 8
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[6/12/2026, 7:15:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal's experience with Not Getting In Trouble: "maybe someday".
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[6/12/2026, 7:16:36 PM] Dammitwho
Dubnoom is entranced. The smells! The sights! This isn't an ordinary municipal sewer, no. Or rather, it is, but it's one that a crowd of goblins passed through relatively recently! Within the past few weeks! Those markings on the wall - an announcement of victory! That half-eaten dead rat tells the tale: the noble Goblindustrialists completed their rounds and got some pies!
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[6/12/2026, 7:17:35 PM] Dammitwho
Imran, however, is more focused. That smear on the wall - it's a bloody handprint left by a wounded man staggering in... that direction. Fresh. Less than eighteen hours old. Imran's got the trail.
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[6/12/2026, 7:17:47 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
!!! "Pie passage ahead..."
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[6/12/2026, 7:17:48 PM] Imran Traveler
"Got it. Here. Here. There."
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[6/12/2026, 7:17:59 PM] Imran Traveler
"Blood on the bricks."
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[6/12/2026, 7:18:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Depends how many wounded men stumble bloody-handed into this undercity, of course.
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[6/12/2026, 7:19:02 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran will lead, shield up. What is Steve's preferred posture? Does he want to perch or walk beside?
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[6/12/2026, 7:19:30 PM] Dammitwho
The trail leads to a metal ladder bolted to the wall: an inspection shaft, leading down into darkness. The sewer was comparatively well-lit up to this point, with sunlight coming in through grates and sluices. From here on, you'll need your light sources or darkvision.
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[6/12/2026, 7:19:42 PM] Dammitwho
Steve is, for now, perching on your shoulder.
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[6/12/2026, 7:20:01 PM] Imran Traveler
"Goggles on."
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[6/12/2026, 7:20:11 PM] Imran Traveler
Obsidian Goggles
Invested Magical
The sleek, black lenses of these goggles somehow make everything seem more brightly lit. While wearing the goggles, you gain a +1 item bonus to Perception checks involving sight. Activate—Darkvision 1 (manipulate) Frequency once per day Effect Adjusting your goggles, you gain darkvision for 1 hour. Effect: Obsidian Goggles
Item 5 Price: 150 gp
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[6/12/2026, 7:20:28 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak takes a peek down the inspection shaft. Anything obviously dangerous down there?
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[6/12/2026, 7:20:49 PM] Dammitwho
Well, it's pretty dark. Ladder looks safe enough?
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[6/12/2026, 7:21:17 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom's darkvision carries his day. "Friends, does anyone need light?" He rummages through his journals. "Dubnoom is sure there is something in here about how to make lights that are not hot or even warm, but are bright. For a time."
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[6/12/2026, 7:22:19 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak tugs his pistol into his holster and takes point, descending first.
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[6/12/2026, 7:23:05 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"I have no goggles, but I've consulted the spirits of light. Personal light-equivalents."
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[6/12/2026, 7:23:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Darkvision 2 Spell 2 Concentrate Divine Manipulate Duration 1 hour You grant yourself supernatural sight in areas of darkness. You gain Darkvision. Spell Effect: Darkvision Spell Effect: Darkvision (24 hours) Heightened (3rd) The spell's range is touch and it targets 1 willing creature. Heightened (5th) The spell's range is touch and it targets 1 willing creature. The duration is until the next time you make your daily preparations.
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[6/12/2026, 7:23:26 PM] Crion
actually removing the goggles for now if we've got a stable in party light source since i only have 1 hr and we might be down here for a bit
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[6/12/2026, 7:27:15 PM] Imran Traveler
Tak first is fine, but he should be ready to step back behind the shield. Imran will follow closely.
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[6/12/2026, 7:27:22 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Light 2 Cantrip 3 Arcane Cantrip Concentrate Light Manipulate Range 120 feet Duration until your next daily preparations You create an orb of light that sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius (and dim light for the next 20 feet) in a color you choose. If you create the light in the same space as a willing creature, you can attach the light to the creature, causing it to float near that creature as it moves. You can Sustain the spell to move the light up to 60 feet; you can attach or detach it from a creature as part of this movement. You can Dismiss the spell. If you Cast the Spell while you already have four light spells active, you must choose one of the existing spells to end. Spell Effect: Light Heightened (4th) The orb sheds light in a 60-foot radius (and dim light for the next 60 feet). Base: 1st Heightened: +2
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[6/12/2026, 7:27:27 PM] CBN
for ref
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[6/12/2026, 7:27:44 PM] Gul Banana
lol that you get up to four orbs
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[6/12/2026, 7:27:44 PM] Imran Traveler
"Light please, Dubnoom."
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[6/12/2026, 7:28:03 PM] Crion
is imran now the only party member without darkvision. these lacking humies
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[6/12/2026, 7:29:13 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Of course! Minion!" He claps his hands. Maybe the phantasmal minion fetches some lightbugs from his bag. Maybe Will is Work'd. Either way, with a little *fzzp* Imran has a little ball of light hovering over his shoulder. He could swear it's scowling and kind of looks like it's holding tiny knives.
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[6/12/2026, 7:29:31 PM] Imran Traveler
That's fine. Other shoulder from Steve.
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[6/12/2026, 7:30:18 PM] Imran Traveler
To Dubnoom: "In a fight, if you think our foe can't see in the dark, kill the light. I can activate the goggles."
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[6/12/2026, 7:31:30 PM] Dammitwho
You descend, hand over hand, to another tunnel. This one is dry - the only smells of stone and patient moss. The bloody trail slopes down at an angle (broken stone in the floor suggests this tunnel was originally built straight, but settling earth over the years has broken it), winding into the Absalom undercity. You take another ladder down, slip through a near-total tunnel collapse.
You pass, for a brief period, a section of tunnel where the sewer wall has collapsed, revealing what's behind it. You can see that successive building campaigns have simply buried old surfaces rather than demolish them, showing you the strata of Absalom's history like rings in a tree. Low down, practically below the level of the floor, you can see fine dressed stonework with Vudran geometric inlay. Above that, cheaper, faster masonry in a mechanically precise style. Then a crude repair in crumbling brick, and at the top more modern sewer pipe of the kind you were walking through at the beginning.
A ground-floor shop front (from the Age of Excess perhaps? A thousand years ago?) sticks out from the wall next to it, stone shelving still intact, a carving of a fish over the lintel advertising some ancient fishmonger. The bottom foot of its doorway is entombed in the next century's street level.
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[6/12/2026, 7:31:45 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"In fight, kill. Yes." He steeples his fingers. "Yes...."
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[6/12/2026, 7:31:46 PM] Dammitwho
Absalom never forgets its past, it just paves over it.
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[6/12/2026, 7:31:48 PM] Imran Traveler
Oh my.
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[6/12/2026, 7:31:52 PM] Imran Traveler
This is very interesting.
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[6/12/2026, 7:32:19 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Wow, this is much better than rivers of crap."
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[6/12/2026, 7:32:21 PM] CBN
oh, absalom is seattle. today i learned
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[6/12/2026, 7:32:29 PM] Imran Traveler
Cities upon cities...Imran is keeping his eye open for any convenient landing point. Any place that might be off the beaten path in these thoroughfares, but still on the mainline to the surface.
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[6/12/2026, 7:32:43 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Is this what they keep under all large cities? Other large cities?!" Dubnoom is concerned about the implications.
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[6/12/2026, 7:32:44 PM] Imran Traveler
We need a place to make our own and protect.
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[6/12/2026, 7:33:21 PM] Imran Traveler
At least to last us our time here in the city. Otherwise it's staying in rooms at the mercy of Skinsaw cultists and Armigers and whoever else has real or imagined problems with us.
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[6/12/2026, 7:35:14 PM] Imran Traveler
How's this shop front look in that regard? Might there be rooms behind it? Do we want to stop to look, or carry on the hunt?
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[6/12/2026, 7:35:19 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Is this where cities come from? Other cities?"
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[6/12/2026, 7:36:14 PM] Tak Ironflame
"All this space, going to waste. You could fit..." He eyeballs the open space. "Two, three ore smelters in here easy."
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[6/12/2026, 7:36:17 PM] Dammitwho
Most of where the shop would have been has collapsed. All four of you wouldn't even fit in the hollow still present.
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[6/12/2026, 7:36:28 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal flits from wall to wall as they walk, tossing Ram Banaram from hand to hand to keep the group's proportions in balance (the frog shakes his large head a little, but doesn't otherwise object). "Surely *all* the passages can't head down into history like this. What was so wrong with the old streets that they built new ones?"
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[6/12/2026, 7:37:41 PM] Gul Banana
brb
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[6/12/2026, 7:38:09 PM] Dammitwho
At last, Imran leads you into a moderately-sized stone room, empty but for a drain in the floor, a sealed pipe in the east wall, and a passageway leading to your south. The trail stops here. Perhaps the man was able to bind his wounds, perhaps he died and his corpse was taken away... but it doesn't matter. You're close, very close. Imran can sense it. You can't follow the cultist's exact path, but his destination is nearby.
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[6/12/2026, 7:40:01 PM] Tak Ironflame
"Soil builds up over time, and people would rather just build new buildings on top instead of digging it out." As a dwarf in every way but the actual, he says this last part with disdain.
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[6/12/2026, 7:40:13 PM] Crion
i think we should have light right now,,
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[6/12/2026, 7:40:31 PM] Dammitwho
(Imran can't see, alas!)
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[6/12/2026, 7:40:44 PM] CBN
he should have a light spell hanging off of him!
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[6/12/2026, 7:40:56 PM] Crion
why can't he see, dubnoom cast light
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[6/12/2026, 7:41:11 PM] Dammitwho
Oh, this is a different token
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[6/12/2026, 7:41:11 PM] Crion
have we been betrayed...
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[6/12/2026, 7:41:22 PM] Dammitwho
Just put the proper effect on
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[6/12/2026, 7:41:52 PM] Dammitwho
(i put new party tokens in each scene rather than try to drag them from scene to scene)
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[6/12/2026, 7:42:11 PM] Crion
hmm. i still cannot see anything even after a reload
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[6/12/2026, 7:42:48 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Light 2 Cantrip 3 Arcane Cantrip Concentrate Light Manipulate Range 120 feet Duration until your next daily preparations You create an orb of light that sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius (and dim light for the next 20 feet) in a color you choose. If you create the light in the same space as a willing creature, you can attach the light to the creature, causing it to float near that creature as it moves. You can Sustain the spell to move the light up to 60 feet; you can attach or detach it from a creature as part of this movement. You can Dismiss the spell. If you Cast the Spell while you already have four light spells active, you must choose one of the existing spells to end. Spell Effect: Light Heightened (4th) The orb sheds light in a 60-foot radius (and dim light for the next 60 feet). Base: 1st Heightened: +2
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[6/12/2026, 7:42:59 PM] Crion
there we go
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[6/12/2026, 7:43:53 PM] Imran Traveler
"Passage to the south. Do we kill the light and go in dark?"
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[6/12/2026, 7:44:12 PM] Crion
here is where having asked for the light i then IC advocate against it.
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[6/12/2026, 7:44:23 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"If they are used to running around in the dark down here...maybe they can already see in dark?"
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[6/12/2026, 7:44:38 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"They did attack US in mostly-dark, too, didn't they?"
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[6/12/2026, 7:44:39 PM] Imran Traveler
"That would make sense. And I do not mind making myself the target."
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[6/12/2026, 7:44:47 PM] Imran Traveler
"That works to our advantage."
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[6/12/2026, 7:44:56 PM] Imran Traveler
"Form on me, I'll lead."
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[6/12/2026, 7:47:39 PM] Crion
ram token also necessary
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[6/12/2026, 7:48:49 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak will follow, drawing his jezail from where it's slung on his back, hanging against the walls as stealthily as one can manage in the shadows against enemies who might be able to see in the dark.
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[6/12/2026, 7:49:44 PM] Imran Traveler
When we're ready, Imran will proceed south.
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[6/12/2026, 7:50:07 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom hangs back-ish. Never know when you'll get cultist'd from the side. Or back! Or, worst of all...the front.
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[6/12/2026, 7:51:41 PM] Tak Ironflame
Actually, Tak will fall back a bit and take the rear of the party.
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[6/12/2026, 7:52:26 PM] Crion
do we need to declare exploratory poses or w/e
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[6/12/2026, 7:52:31 PM] Crion
detect trap
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[6/12/2026, 7:52:44 PM] Dammitwho
Probably should
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[6/12/2026, 7:54:07 PM] Crion
i believe then i declare Search
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[6/12/2026, 7:54:16 PM] Dammitwho
@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{Search}
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[6/12/2026, 7:54:51 PM] Crion
one of us should declare Scout for the init bonus
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[6/12/2026, 7:55:09 PM] Crion
but i think the beneficent decision is 3 search 1 scout?
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[6/12/2026, 7:55:19 PM] CBN
dubnoom shall! unless someone else is a better scoutsman
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[6/12/2026, 7:55:39 PM] Dammitwho
(Exploration activities are page 438 in the Player Core, choose at your leh-zhoor)
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[6/12/2026, 7:55:39 PM] Crion
perhaps one of us could Investigate if they have good mental skills
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[6/12/2026, 7:56:11 PM] CBN
i swear we had exploration macros at one point...
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[6/12/2026, 7:56:18 PM] Crion
they appear to have vanished
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[6/12/2026, 7:56:30 PM] Crion
imran could defend so he mechanically gets the raised shield
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[6/12/2026, 7:56:47 PM] Dammitwho
@UUID[Compendium.xdy-pf2e-workbench.xdy-pf2e-workbench-macros.Macro.GvrfytBHgVlPyRai]{Basic Action Macros}
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[6/12/2026, 7:56:50 PM] Crion
i had forgotten that got action taxed instead of being something you could just declare. silly
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[6/12/2026, 7:56:52 PM] Nicolae
what's the skill for scout? if i sneak i get my "first shot does extra dice" perk when the situation becomes Kinetic but obviously that means i can't contribute elsewise
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[6/12/2026, 7:57:08 PM] Nicolae
oh hey yeah where'd my dang ol macros go
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[6/12/2026, 7:57:12 PM] Crion
no roll it looks like
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[6/12/2026, 7:57:30 PM] Dammitwho
I did some updates so it might have dropped things from your hotbar
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[6/12/2026, 7:57:35 PM] Crion
you just move half speed
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[6/12/2026, 7:57:44 PM] CBN
yeah no roll. Dubnoom Will Scout, everyone gets +1 to initiative!
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[6/12/2026, 7:57:44 PM] Crion
i don't see it in the macros section either
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[6/12/2026, 7:58:01 PM] Crion
wait yes i do
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[6/12/2026, 7:58:10 PM] Crion
no i don't
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[6/12/2026, 7:58:17 PM] Crion
that macro is the switch facing macro.
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[6/12/2026, 7:59:27 PM] Crion
imran defends, dubnoom scouts, lindal and tak can search (one can investigate instead)
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[6/12/2026, 7:59:37 PM] Crion
i think multiple search DOES benefit us
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[6/12/2026, 7:59:50 PM] Crion
confirm dwho? do you do multiple secret rolls in that case
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[6/12/2026, 8:00:11 PM] Dammitwho
Yeah I roll Seek for everyone who's Searching
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[6/12/2026, 8:00:27 PM] Nicolae
In that case, Tak will also Search.
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[6/12/2026, 8:00:33 PM] Dammitwho
(also where are you looking for the exploration macros that you're not finding them?)
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[6/12/2026, 8:01:05 PM] Crion
we used to have a suite of clickable stuff on our hotbar 1 that was an alternative to the built out stuff in the top left of the screen that's token based
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[6/12/2026, 8:01:13 PM] Crion
it had all the off-action stuff in it
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[6/12/2026, 8:01:44 PM] Dammitwho
@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.Item.kV3XM0YJeS2KCSOb]{Scout}
@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.Item.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{Search}
@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.Item.EwgTZBWsc8qKaViP]{Investigate}
@UUID[Compendium.xdy-pf2e-workbench.xdy-pf2e-workbench-macros.Macro.GvrfytBHgVlPyRai]{Basic Action Macros}
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[6/12/2026, 8:01:53 PM] Crion
it was pretty much only useful for exploration
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[6/12/2026, 8:02:06 PM] CBN
if you go up to where dwho linked it in chat, you can just click and drag it back onto your own shortcuts bar at the bottom and get the single-button-for-everything
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[6/12/2026, 8:02:10 PM] CBN
at least that's what i did
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[6/12/2026, 8:02:19 PM] Dammitwho
yea
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[6/12/2026, 8:02:21 PM] Crion
yerp
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[6/12/2026, 8:02:41 PM] Crion
hilarious after all that Defend isn't even in there
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[6/12/2026, 8:02:59 PM] Dammitwho
@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.Item.cYtYKa1gDEl7y2N0]{Defend}
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[6/12/2026, 8:03:10 PM] Dammitwho
some of them are in the pf2e Compendium
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[6/12/2026, 8:03:41 PM] Crion
i assume lindal is searching? banana
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[6/12/2026, 8:03:45 PM] Dammitwho
foundry pf2e is somewhat confusingly-organized
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[6/12/2026, 8:04:27 PM] Gul Banana
b
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[6/12/2026, 8:05:02 PM] Gul Banana
lindal will be ~detecting magic~ as we go
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[6/12/2026, 8:05:33 PM] Gul Banana
which isn't in the basic action macros unfortunately. but it is an exploration action nevertheless
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[6/12/2026, 8:05:53 PM] Crion
alright. i am taking my half speed move...twice, so we get to the intersection. i guess dwho should stop me after the first move if there's a roll before the turn
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[6/12/2026, 8:06:22 PM] Crion
that's one move
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[6/12/2026, 8:06:31 PM] Dammitwho
No need to roll yet
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[6/12/2026, 8:06:40 PM] Crion
that's two
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[6/12/2026, 8:07:04 PM] Crion
and will pause there until the rest attend
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[6/12/2026, 8:07:25 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"The thief was human, right? How much blood is in a human?"
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[6/12/2026, 8:07:27 PM] Dammitwho
As you round the corner, you come across a barred gate. It should swing open, but there's an (old, rusty) padlock holding it shut. Odd. This is the first lock you've come across in your undercity odyssey.
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[6/12/2026, 8:07:31 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"I'd say he's probably still alive..."
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[6/12/2026, 8:08:27 PM] Tak Ironflame
"Both more and less than you think."
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[6/12/2026, 8:08:41 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"More than you'd like, less than you'd think." Dubnoom nods in agreement with Tak.
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[6/12/2026, 8:09:12 PM] Tak Ironflame
Padlock seems like Tak time.
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[6/12/2026, 8:09:21 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran doesn't give an opinion. He does have knowledge of the matter.
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[6/12/2026, 8:09:55 PM] Imran Traveler
He stands back from Tak, ready to switch places if something preempts his work on the door.
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[6/12/2026, 8:10:23 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal can pick locks too, though he's never had cause to mention it. Tak may well be better, and it seems like the sort of thing that's handy to keep under your fur.
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[6/12/2026, 8:10:29 PM] Dammitwho
Group Perception Roller Name Roll + Mod Total Dubnoom "The Wise" 15 + 12 27 P. P. Lindalsivranragdya 3 + 8 11 Imran Traveler 5 + 10 15 Tak Ironflame 19 + 14 33 Ram Banaram 16 + 9 25
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[6/12/2026, 8:11:00 PM] Nicolae
hm, my thieves' toolkit shows up in the proficiencies page but it's grayed out...
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[6/12/2026, 8:11:26 PM] Dammitwho
So, just for my own memory:
Lindal: Detect Magic
Dubnoom: Search
Tak: Search
Imran: Defend
is that right?
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[6/12/2026, 8:11:42 PM] Crion
dubnoom is scout iirc
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[6/12/2026, 8:12:17 PM] Gul Banana
✅
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[6/12/2026, 8:12:40 PM] Gul Banana
we've got a good spread of Lookers, or in imran's case Lookers-Out
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[6/12/2026, 8:13:26 PM] Dammitwho
Tak: The thieves toolkit only gives you a bonus on rolls explicitly to Pick Locks or Disable Devices (both of whom are in the basic action macro thingy)
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[6/12/2026, 8:13:27 PM] Dammitwho
argh
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[6/12/2026, 8:13:28 PM] Tak Ironflame
28
1d20 + 13 = 15 + 13 = 28
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[6/12/2026, 8:13:37 PM] Nicolae
ah, sick, danke
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[6/12/2026, 8:14:07 PM] Dammitwho
Roll Disable Device!
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[6/12/2026, 8:14:10 PM] CBN
dubscout. scoutnoom.
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[6/12/2026, 8:14:22 PM] Tak Ironflame
26
1d20 + 13 = 13 + 13 = 26
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[6/12/2026, 8:14:52 PM] Nicolae
guess i shoulda asked what the dc was first,
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[6/12/2026, 8:16:28 PM] Gul Banana
26 or lower, hopefully
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[6/12/2026, 8:17:19 PM] Dammitwho
Whew! Tak is able to get the gate unlocked, and before he swings it wide, he notices an old metal tripwire set to pull when the gate hits it. There's a section of the ceiling that looks rough and dripping (normal from what you've seen), but embedded in the ceiling is an old metal cage filled with compacted silt and gravel, held shut by a corroded latch connected to the wire. Tak carefully unhooks it, and avoids having approximately 40 pounds of wet near-stone dumped on himself and Imran.
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[6/12/2026, 8:17:36 PM] Imran Traveler
Well done!
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[6/12/2026, 8:18:04 PM] Dammitwho
Dubnoom! @Check[survival|dc:15]{Say...}
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[6/12/2026, 8:18:25 PM] Gul Banana
noises!!
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[6/12/2026, 8:18:39 PM] Dammitwho
(that's the gate swinging open)
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[6/12/2026, 8:18:57 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
1d20 + 12
1d20 1 1
13
1d20 + 12
1d20 18 18
30
1d20 + 12 = 18 + 12 = 30
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[6/12/2026, 8:19:02 PM] Crion
having breakfast for two hours...building the hero points
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[6/12/2026, 8:19:14 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Ah, a critical fai- I mean success to survive.
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[6/12/2026, 8:19:16 PM] CBN
rolling a 1 to immediately eat one. the dicebot is hungry too
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[6/12/2026, 8:19:34 PM] Tak Ironflame
"Now that would've been a helluva wallop."
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[6/12/2026, 8:19:55 PM] Dammitwho
I've only given you the one additional hero point this session. One per hour is a guideline
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[6/12/2026, 8:20:58 PM] Tak Ironflame
The door opened and the trap disabled, Tak falls back once again.
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[6/12/2026, 8:21:58 PM] Dammitwho
Ah, Dubnoom realizes: this is a classic old kobold trap, but quite poorly maintained. Whatever kobold tribe built this has long abandoned the area, or been driven out. There may be more traps between you and your quarry, but whoever's kept them in place (someone must have, the man you're tracking locked the door and reset the trap behind him!), doesn't have the particular trap-skill to make them as deadly as they could be.
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[6/12/2026, 8:23:21 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Friend Tak! Also other friends who are further away from it! Beware. These traps are shadows of what they were. But there are probably many, because kobolds---" here, he spits, a lot, like, a LOT a lot,"---put traps everywhere." Wipes his drool off his beard and onto his sleeve.
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[6/12/2026, 8:23:52 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"They love falling on your head traps and falling into a pit traps especially. They are not creative. Also they smell bad. And are dumb."
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[6/12/2026, 8:24:02 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak nods. "Thankee, I'll keep an eye out. Ceilings and floors especially."
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[6/12/2026, 8:26:07 PM] Crion
CAPTAIN BARBOSSA VOICE: One per hour is a...suggestion
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[6/12/2026, 8:26:43 PM] Nicolae
I have altered the guidelines. Pray I do not alter them further.
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[6/12/2026, 8:26:52 PM] Dammitwho
you'd best start believing in sewer levels... you're in one
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[6/12/2026, 8:27:03 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"So the children of Father Skinsaw are using a second-hand lair. Bodes well!"
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[6/12/2026, 8:27:05 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"For us, not them."
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[6/12/2026, 8:27:23 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Still, Imran can stay in the lead if he likes.
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[6/12/2026, 8:28:10 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"If we are lucky they are not using zombie kobolds in addition to zombie kobold traps. The smell on THOSE!"
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[6/12/2026, 8:29:04 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran does prefer to stay in the lead. He'll proceed.
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[6/12/2026, 8:29:33 PM] Nicolae
whoops, i think i clicked on the door at the same time as someone else
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[6/12/2026, 8:29:40 PM] Dammitwho
Lol.
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[6/12/2026, 8:29:40 PM] Crion
very funny
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[6/12/2026, 8:29:57 PM] Nicolae
*three stooges noises but in western-accented dwarvish*
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[6/12/2026, 8:31:05 PM] Dammitwho
Imran and Tak continue onward, and spy in front of them greenish-tinted water, more like that from a swamp than a sewer. It doesn't smell *better*, but it smells *not like city refuse*. Maybe that's actually better?
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[6/12/2026, 8:31:48 PM] Tak Ironflame
Is the green just from, say, algae or moss or the like? Or is it more chemical?
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[6/12/2026, 8:32:07 PM] Dammitwho
It flows toward you until it reaches a drain set in the bottom of the canal in front of you. Yes, it's an organic green. Algae, moss, dead whatsits, etc.
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[6/12/2026, 8:33:03 PM] Tak Ironflame
Well, that's what the boots are for... Tak galoshes through the green water.
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[6/12/2026, 8:33:49 PM] Crion
everyone else please maintain formation,,
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[6/12/2026, 8:34:09 PM] Nicolae
dubnoom and lindal hang back and are eaten
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[6/12/2026, 8:34:55 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Undergoop. Understuff?"
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[6/12/2026, 8:35:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Underslime. Egh." Lindal will try to stick to or even cling to the walls.
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[6/12/2026, 8:35:12 PM] Dammitwho
As Imran moves forward, he reaches an area where... something odd happens.
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[6/12/2026, 8:36:27 PM] Imran Traveler
Some such cases.
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[6/12/2026, 8:36:33 PM] Dammitwho
Everything goes quiet. Not the muffled quiet of deep stone; a complete, unnatural absence of sound. The water makes no noise, footsteps make no echo. He steps back a pace, and sound returns.
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[6/12/2026, 8:37:12 PM] Imran Traveler
"Something wrong with that part of the sewer."
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[6/12/2026, 8:37:30 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"How so?! Is there poison gas?" Dubnoom covers his face.
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[6/12/2026, 8:38:07 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal can detect (very faint) magic in front of you, radiating from about a twenty-foot segment of the tunnel.
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[6/12/2026, 8:38:39 PM] Dammitwho
To learn more, he (or one of the rest of you) will have to Identify Magic
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[6/12/2026, 8:40:36 PM] Gul Banana
Lindal sniffs hugely, makes a hex sign in front of his nose, then sniffs again.
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[6/12/2026, 8:40:43 PM] CBN
hmmm........
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[6/12/2026, 8:40:45 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Magic, weak, widespread."
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:12 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Wise one?"
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:21 PM] Dammitwho
Those who choose to do so, roll one of the four magical tradition skills (Arcana, Occult, Nature, Religion)
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:27 PM] Crion
what's the DC, do we get it in advance
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
14
1d20 + 8 = 6 + 8 = 14
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:40 PM] Dammitwho
DC 20
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:46 PM] Tak Ironflame
23
1d20 + 12 = 11 + 12 = 23
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[6/12/2026, 8:41:53 PM] Imran Traveler
24
1d20 + 12 = 12 + 12 = 24
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[6/12/2026, 8:42:04 PM] Dammitwho
lindal T__T
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[6/12/2026, 8:42:17 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
He's an intellectual about everything *except* magic.
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[6/12/2026, 8:42:42 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
True magic... comes from the heart,
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[6/12/2026, 8:42:49 PM] Dammitwho
is dubnoom rolling, or is he remaining safely well to the rear
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[6/12/2026, 8:44:39 PM] Crion
wisdom...
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[6/12/2026, 8:44:41 PM] Dammitwho
(while we're waiting: imran and tak successfully identify the magic, and can pitch me on an absalom history or local knowledge roll to have historical context for what's going on here)
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[6/12/2026, 8:45:32 PM] CBN
safely well to the rear, here
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[6/12/2026, 8:45:39 PM] Crion
hmm. imran has probably read and heard a lot about absalom in the abstract, from outside, in his travels. legends about its magic as well. idk that i have a great pitch for specific context and knowledge though
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[6/12/2026, 8:45:45 PM] CBN
don't truck too much with kobold magic. dragon magic. vast wickedness
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[6/12/2026, 8:45:55 PM] Nicolae
i don't really have any skills that could apply, i guess i could half-ass a society roll, unless i can somehow finagle you into letting me do engineering lore,
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[6/12/2026, 8:47:00 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal pokes his nightstick into the zone of silence and waves it about a bit.
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[6/12/2026, 8:48:34 PM] Dammitwho
The engineering lore roll wouldn't tell you much more than the nature roll already did: i'll accept a Society roll if anyone cares to make one
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[6/12/2026, 8:48:47 PM] Imran Traveler
1d20 + 12
1d20 1 1
13
1d20 + 12
1d20 3 3
25
1d20 + 12 + 10 = 3 + 12 + 10 = 25
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[6/12/2026, 8:48:49 PM] Tak Ironflame
13
1d20 + 2 = 11 + 2 = 13
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[6/12/2026, 8:48:56 PM] Nicolae
not going to bother hero pointing that
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[6/12/2026, 8:51:04 PM] Dammitwho
Tak and Imran both determine that this isn't active magic, not exactly - rather, it's the remnants of magic that came through this way, and some quirk of the stone or the world-soul or who knows what bound a remnant of it into the stone. An aura of suppressed sound came this way, and this is the mystic echo of it, fading slowly.
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[6/12/2026, 8:51:31 PM] Imran Traveler
Wild. Literally so, possible wild magic. We should step carefully around it and continue.
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[6/12/2026, 8:51:43 PM] Dammitwho
Imran can guess where it came from, too: about eight years ago the Fiendflesh siege (also known as the Black Echelon Uprising) occurred here in Absalom.
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[6/12/2026, 8:51:52 PM] Imran Traveler
Ahh.
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[6/12/2026, 8:52:34 PM] Dammitwho
The Silent Tide, oath-bound undead, came up from tunnels beneath Absalom. A cadre of them must have come this way, and left behind residue of their nature. All defeated and destroyed now.
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:01 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Good!
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:10 PM] Dammitwho
Norgorberite cultists probably considered this magical anomaly a good omen.
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:16 PM] Dammitwho
But, it's safe enough to pass through.
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:26 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
It might even be fun, to tread in the sound-shadow of those broken bones.
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:30 PM] CBN
don't like the sound of 'silent tide' one bit
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:48 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
From the back: "What kind of bad magic is the bad magic? A trap?"
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[6/12/2026, 8:53:55 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak nods. "Seen something like this back home in the Wastes. Lingering traces of old spells stuck in the stone. Guessing someone a while ago wanted to keep quiet. Try not to need help while we're walking through here..."
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[6/12/2026, 8:54:13 PM] Tak Ironflame
(Since, of course, if you cry for help we won't hear it.)
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[6/12/2026, 8:55:50 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Is it being-quiet magic? Those are fun! You can wear them out."
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[6/12/2026, 8:55:57 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Advance and Dubnoom will demonstrate."
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[6/12/2026, 8:55:59 PM] Gul Banana
oh, ancient lingering magic reminds me: we slept overnight, yes?
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[6/12/2026, 8:56:08 PM] Crion
we did
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[6/12/2026, 8:56:12 PM] Crion
surely
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[6/12/2026, 8:56:14 PM] Gul Banana
or does the Disturbance mean that consumed spells remain consumed
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[6/12/2026, 8:57:43 PM] Dammitwho
Yes, you had a full night's rest + preparations
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[6/12/2026, 8:58:01 PM] Gul Banana
nice
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[6/12/2026, 8:58:05 PM] P. P. Lindalsivranragdya
P. P. Lindalsivranragdya awakens well-rested. All spell slots restored.
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[6/12/2026, 8:58:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Darkvision 2 Spell 2 Concentrate Divine Manipulate Duration 1 hour You grant yourself supernatural sight in areas of darkness. You gain Darkvision. Spell Effect: Darkvision Spell Effect: Darkvision (24 hours) Heightened (3rd) The spell's range is touch and it targets 1 willing creature. Heightened (5th) The spell's range is touch and it targets 1 willing creature. The duration is until the next time you make your daily preparations.
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[6/12/2026, 8:58:21 PM] Dammitwho
spell slots? or hell plots
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[6/12/2026, 8:58:27 PM] Gul Banana
"or"...?
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[6/12/2026, 8:58:36 PM] Nicolae
dammitwho, of course, subscribes to the notion that humans experienced biphasic sleep prior to the industrial revolution, so a brief period of wakefulness in the middle of the night was quite normal
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[6/12/2026, 8:59:42 PM] Dammitwho
only one of you is human though....
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[6/12/2026, 9:00:13 PM] Nicolae
shh shh shh
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[6/12/2026, 9:00:36 PM] Dammitwho
Anyhow: Imran (and possibly the rest of you) can see at the edge of the light that the tunnel splits up ahead. North and south.
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[6/12/2026, 9:01:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Oh good, that's not just an abyss.
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[6/12/2026, 9:01:08 PM] Crion
moving ahead again a standard half move
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[6/12/2026, 9:02:00 PM] Nicolae
brb after moving my token
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[6/12/2026, 9:02:39 PM] Dammitwho
You notice nothing out of the ordinary.
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[6/12/2026, 9:02:46 PM] Dammitwho
Well, ordinary for where you are.
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[6/12/2026, 9:03:22 PM] Crion
moving up to the intersection
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[6/12/2026, 9:03:43 PM] Crion
join me, gentlemen,
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[6/12/2026, 9:04:38 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Psst, traveller." Can Lindal hear himself speak?
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[6/12/2026, 9:05:09 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom walks forward, speaking the Goblin tongue, which presumably no one else here speaks. Waiting to see when it becomes inaudible.
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[6/12/2026, 9:05:39 PM] Gul Banana
https://i.imgur.com/Ux3zlkX.png >:-D
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[6/12/2026, 9:06:04 PM] Nicolae
b
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[6/12/2026, 9:06:08 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Swears. It's all swears.
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[6/12/2026, 9:06:50 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal is past the silence zone, so yes.
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[6/12/2026, 9:07:42 PM] Dammitwho
Everyone can hear Dubnoom saying something no doubt very wise in the ancient and hallowed language of the goblins (except for Lindal, who can tell it's all swears), fading into silence, and then fading back into audibility again once he gets past the silence zone.
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[6/12/2026, 9:08:40 PM] Tak Ironflame
Sometimes it can be wise to swear. Dubnoom has so much to teach us.
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[6/12/2026, 9:08:42 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Oh, it's gone!"
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[6/12/2026, 9:09:14 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
He's up to the REAL paint-stripper-level words by the time he emerges from the zone.
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[6/12/2026, 9:09:17 PM] Imran Traveler
"Hey there, traveller. I think the silence zone might be a vertical spike moving through a horizontal tunnel. Now we should look ahead."
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[6/12/2026, 9:10:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Ah, but which ahead?"
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[6/12/2026, 9:10:44 PM] Tak Ironflame
"Looks like it just curves in both directions." Tak gestures with his hands in a way intended to evoke the direction of curvature of both sides of the tunnel.
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[6/12/2026, 9:10:53 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Any obvious/inobvious stumblemarks?
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[6/12/2026, 9:10:56 PM] Dammitwho
Yep. The silent zone is about twenty feet wide.
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[6/12/2026, 9:11:22 PM] Dammitwho
Group Perception Roller Name Roll + Mod Total Dubnoom "The Wise" 17 + 12 29 Imran Traveler 10 + 10 20 Tak Ironflame 20 + 14 34 P. P. Lindalsivranragdya 1 + 8 9 Ram Banaram 7 + 9 16
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[6/12/2026, 9:11:37 PM] Dammitwho
There doesn't appear to be any tracks you can follow. Or at least, none you're able to see.
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[6/12/2026, 9:12:27 PM] Imran Traveler
"That a wall to our right?"
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[6/12/2026, 9:12:51 PM] CBN
the baseballers have returned home, so my time here is drawing short tonight
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[6/12/2026, 9:12:53 PM] Nicolae
it looks like a decorative bit of the ceiling
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[6/12/2026, 9:13:06 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"In dungeons, always go left first!"
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[6/12/2026, 9:13:37 PM] Crion
i am good to go...but also good to stop here. dammitwho do you want to marathon,
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[6/12/2026, 9:13:42 PM] Dammitwho
(not a wall, it's an arch in the ceiling)
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[6/12/2026, 9:14:19 PM] Dammitwho
if CBN's gotta split I'd prefer we stop, i want all of you here for my beautiful map which i slaved away over
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[6/12/2026, 9:14:39 PM] Gul Banana
i look forward to jittering around it further... next week!
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:04 PM] CBN
LOVE a dungeon crawl
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:13 PM] Dammitwho
The four heroes are faced with their most grim task yet: making a decision as to whether to go left or right. What will they choose? Find out.... NEXT WEEK!
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:35 PM] Dammitwho
i discovered Foundry has a Map Notes tool so i can remember where i put all the atmosphere bits lolll
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:38 PM] Nicolae
nice
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:39 PM] Crion
ggggggg
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:43 PM] CBN
gg! gg!
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[6/12/2026, 9:15:47 PM] Dammitwho
chears to one and all