The Gossip Board

[Sierra]

I know. Just saying, it couldn't hurt to ascertain his alignment (or at least know what it isn't.)

[Zephyrus]

I really intended him to kiss my boots or something. I probably would have paid for that later, but it would have been worth it.

That being said, his reaction during and after being charmed was kind of...."Uh...what?" I fully expected him to fire us. Or deck me. I dunno what the whole deal with him, but he grates on my nerves a great deal.

As for the dragon...where the HELL did it come from? I was all WTFing at it, even though I had a pretty decent amount of confidence in my CHA tanking skills.

To be honest, I'm also really surprised that there hasn't been any real effort on the elemental's part (and this half human aide of his) to pursue us onto Earth. Hope to find out more about that.

[Carthrat]

We killed like half his dudes, and he's an *air* elemental looking at chasing us into the *earth* plane. >_>

[Zephyrus]

DO NOT REPLY WITH YOUR LOGIC, SIR. IT KILLS MANY CATGIRLS.

[Carthrat]

But logic is all I have... :(

[Dracos]

Zeph:

Dune tends to play a little more on the wild side encounter wise.  Think of it outside the box of gameable scenario.  We're traveling the planes that do have all these kinds of epic stuff going on.  Sometimes we're gonna cross stuff outside our area, and they aren't always going to care really because they might just be on their way to buy some milk and kick someone else's ass.

Truthfully, air elemental dude is probably doing way more damage giving rather decent descriptions of all of your troublesome companions to the lich who could then Scry and die any of us :P

[Carthrat]

It's actually kind of hard to scry/die from remote planes, isn't it? Travelling keeps us safe <_<

[Anastasia]

It's actually kind of hard to scry/die from remote planes, isn't it? Travelling keeps us safe <_<

It's harder. A determined assassin can do it if they desire to.

[Dracos]

And even if not, having a good idea of the forces he's traveling with is a vast improvement over 'he's a lone scared sorcerer.  Take a half dozen guys and bring him back'.  Costly information to get at the price he paid for it but not worthless.

[Anastasia]

As a note I'm not going to deeply comment on any of your speculations here. Obvious reasons apply.

[Carthrat]

Well, I actually think we can rule out scry-die just by circumstance. If she could pull that off, Nikki wouldn't have got ten feet in the first place.

[Dracos]

Noted dune.  Wasn't expecting ya to :)  Gossipy yammering is part of the game.

Carth:
Or just that she didn't want to bother going personally. :3

anyhow, it's an antagonist.  Just like your evil sister who wants to reunite the cards under her banner and not yours.

[Anastasia]

Okay, for info gathering? Declare what you're doing with it and make  a GI check. If someone is with you they can assist, roll all of them at once and post the results.

[Carthrat]

@Drac: Disbelief checks, they will be rolled, I'll bet. >_

On GIing: Can competent people do all of it?

If someone could gather info on the whereabouts of the Gruesome Ruby for me, that'd be awesome, and good for one dead whatever-you-want-me-to-kill.

[Sierra]

Mari doesn't exactly qualify as competent but she'll do it anyway (if we're hanging around town then loitering in bars and listening to gossip would likely be her default activity anyway). Besides, she already has to ask around town to see if "Mari" got up to any mischief while she was away (I doubt anything interesting will turn up, but I have to check). I'll try and grab Dune for rolling after work or tonight.