egypt ♔ is this called living or something else

[lissatrinall]

♬ amsterdam - daughter

WHO || Lis'sa, Riddick, Phineas, Ella, Dimitri, Raegos, the Mithril Scarab, and more [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights head to Egypt to try and ascertain the location of a lost pyramid
WHERE || Cairo, Egypt
WHEN || Jan 21st, mid-day[forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The party arrives in the bustling city of Cairo around mid-day, where it's a beautiful 70 degrees outside compared to the cold London January they came from. Along with whatever gear they brought individually for tomb raiding*, Wynn has also sent them with a chest of 2,000 gold pieces - because the woman who has promised to take them to meet Raegos (the only living man who can claim to have seen the lost tomb) plans to meet them at an antiquities auction.

Wynn has pre-arranged with the woman, who goes by the name of the Mithral Scarab, to recognize the party by the fact that they will cast several bids at the auction - and all of their opening bids will always be exactly ten gold more than the starting price. Once she has recognized them, she will find a way to show them a symbol of the Knights of the Silver Dragon discreetly to identify herself, and they are to follow her away from the crowd. Raegos' rumored paranoia concerning anyone else learning his location seems well demonstrated by the levels of security embedded in Scarab's directions.

The auction itself is a direct result of the recent elemental-driven storm that has unearthed a number of structures long buried in the desert. Some industrious tomb raiders have already taken to looting the lesser pyramids, and this underground sale promises to deliver some of the discovered goods into the hands of eager collectors. Wynn's generous supply of furnished gold was delivered to them with explicit instructions to purchase anything that they thought might be an item of actual valuable historical or magical significance, to become the property of the Knighthood.

* Don't forget to make a list of all items your character is carrying in an entry in their journal before tagging into this post! Please try to stick close to your character's maximum carrying capacity.

Comments

[paracount]

I imagine that will be very helpful. [ ... he said, sarcastically. he turns to look at the others, then nods to the wall ] I'll cast a silence spell around us, which will help us move unnoticed across the grounds. We've equipment to scale to the roof, where we can cut a hole in the ceiling, lower down a couple of our number by rope, and retrieve the artifact.

[likeagod]

It's an acceptable enough plan.

[He still hates this whole thing, though. Breaking and entering is not his thing.]

Shall we get on with it?

[paracount]

[ julistar waves a hand, and indeed, all sound stops around them. creepy. he nods to his big friend, who tosses a rope with a hook expertly up to the top of the wall where it gets stuck firmly. he tugs on it a few times to make sure, and then starts slowly climbing up, which isn't easy with that giant tower-shield and shit. the rail thin guy goes behind him, climbing up like a fucking monkey, and then julistar slowly begins to scale it. rope climbing dc is 10! ]

[likeagod]

[So Dimitri sure did crit fail his climb check so I guess that rope is...really slippery or something.

So he just crashes to the ground, landing on the person who was going to climb up behind him. Which is apparently Lis'sa.

Sorry mentor. ;;]

[lissatrinall]

[ oh my god, get off her you oaf x( her ref save was abysmal so he just... falls right on her. ow. SILENTLY~~~ which means she also can't bitch at him to move ]

[likeagod]

[Yeah he'll just...roll off of her. Wow that's...the worst. Ever seen a 6'7" Russian look sheepish? First time for everything.]

1/2

[lissatrinall]

[ whatever, she will just go on ahead of you x(

... or try. climbing is not her strong suit, she's a smart hero. with her climb of 8, this is... not going well. she gets partway up and slides back down, looking up the rope with pursed lips, annoyance only growing. ]

[paracount]

[ julistar looks back down at them, and a phantom smirk passes over his features at the pile of fail, before he jumps down after the others onto the other side. hurry up, team. ]

[thesleeper]

[That was just the rope blowing in the breeze.]

[Totally was not Phineas getting a 6 Climb check. He's invisible, and so is his failure.]

[sorceresslite]

[ EVEN WITH HER -2 MOD, ella has a 17 climb check, so... sigh. you people. she scrambles up like a tiny ginger monkey as if it's no trouble at all. ]

[lissatrinall]

[ ella makes it to the top as the other three are already crossing the grounds towards the black reliquary. a spot check of 15+ means that she notices a pair of guards rounding the corner of the actual manor off to the left.

lis'sa doesn't take failure well, so she's gonna try again and be more fucking successful this time (climb 17). ]

[likeagod]

[Let's try this shit again.

This time his climb check is a 23, so it's literally the easiest shit ever. He's blaming the rope or something idek.]

[sorceresslite]

[ thank god, exactly 15, ella spots the guard but with the whole silence spell.... ITS OKAY, LUCKILY SHE HAS PHONE. and she taps out a message "GUARDS!!!!11!!!1" and shoves it in lis'sa's face when she gets up to the roof, pointing toward where they are patrolling. a+ thinking on her feet tbh. she does not have an invisibility spell, y'all. ]

[lissatrinall]

[ ffffffffuck. lis'sa looks vaguely as if she's considering just fucking flattening herself out on top of the wall here and hoping they walk by but she figures that's not gonna work so she goes to lower herself off the outer side of the wall to hang there, and got a 1 and is actually falling now :') REFLEX SAVE + STR CHECK TO CATCH HER... phineas or riddick, wow love triangle much ]

[thesleeper]

[I doubt that a Reflex of 13 and a Strength of 4 will catch anyone. Nevertheless, he will try, as he is a moron. Maybe, if he's lucky, he'll throw Riddick off enough that they all look as stupid as he would - were he visible - which he isn't. :D ]

[notafraidofthedark]

[and thankfully riddick is as badass as ever. A strength check of 18 and a reflex save of 20 (not nat) means he is able to catch lis'sa easily, his arm snagging her around the waist and slamming her against his chest, back pressed to the wall as he twists the rope between his feet. the grip of his other hand tightens, but lis'sa is so thin he hardly notices her added weight.

He surveys her face a moment, eyes unreadable behind his goggles]

You okay? [his voice is a quiet, barely audible rumble, uttered in her ear.]

[lissatrinall]

[ lis'sa lets out a gasp as he catches her before she even gets near the ground, and she stares down for a moment before dragging her eyes back up to his, a hint of gratitude there. she nods the slightest bit, twice, gripping him back as she looks up and waits for ella to signal that the guards have moved past. ]

[sorceresslite]

[ ella waits until the guards are gone and waves her phone to get their attention again. carry on, my wayward sons. ]

[thesleeper]

[Fuck this rope.]

[Phineas takes another 20 seconds or so (Took me three rounds to roll above 15...) Luckily there's still that silence spell going, so falling on his ass doesn't make any noise - and he's invisible so no one sees his utter failure.]

[lissatrinall]

[ the team can finally head across to the black reliquary, where julistar and his men have already scaled to the roof. julistar seems to be reading off some kind of scroll... and as they climb up, they'll find that the silence spell has been removed now. ]

[likeagod]

[Dimitri makes his way over as the team finally makes it onto the roof in one piece (gr8 job guys), attempting to take a look at the scroll from a short distance away without actually...looking over his shoulder like an asshole. (spot 16)]

[lissatrinall]

[ unless dimitri can read magic, it won't do much good anyway. BUT IT'S DEFINITELY MAGIC. it becomes clear what it's doing soon anyway, as a smooth hole appears in the ceiling's center, at the neck of the ankh shaped building. the giant half-orc takes a rope off his belt, which julistar's pencil-mustached friend grabs hold of. julistar looks at the others, eyebrow raised. ] Probably shouldn't send more than two of your lot.

[likeagod]

I'll go.

[He's good at being sneaky, at least. And he wants to keep an eye on these 'helpers' while they're in there.]

[sorceresslite]

Aye, and me. [ her nose wrinkles at the scroll bc she's a judgy ho. but her eyes cut to lis'sa like yo is that cool beans? ]

[paracount]

[ lis'sa nods almost impercetibly, and julistar nods to the rope ] Wonderful. Now if you'll just hold on, Hroken here will lower you in. [ strength checks for holding the rope, it's just a dc 8, and then spot checks too from you two! ]