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Young New World => Out Into the World => Topic started by: Asinjin on February 11, 2025, 11:36:41 PM

Title: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 11, 2025, 11:36:41 PM
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Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 11, 2025, 11:37:19 PM
Questions, comments, actions for you final day there?

Preparations for your short voyage?
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 11, 2025, 11:39:47 PM
You set sail on the 19th day of the 9th month of 817.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 11, 2025, 11:40:23 PM
Hou Yi was the name of the archery deity.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 11, 2025, 11:41:02 PM
Hersh Bellows is the merchant who lives on the ship.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Malchia on February 12, 2025, 12:51:59 AM
Hou Yi was the name of the archery deity.
If we're sticking with our theme, I suppose this one will now be "Poo Pee."
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 12, 2025, 07:26:35 AM
If we're sticking with our theme, I suppose this one will now be "Poo Pee."
“Who You?” They don’t all need to be low brow.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 12, 2025, 11:11:04 AM
Esra skulks up near Rano later in the day after the Hou Yi encounter and says in a hushed voice: “I’m going back to the shrine to poke around. We left without investigating. I could use someone to watch my back. You interested? Don’t want everyone to know. I suspect you and I have similar motivations that the others don’t share.”
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Post by: Malchia on February 12, 2025, 01:30:01 PM
Esra skulks up near Rano later in the day after the Hou Yi encounter and says in a hushed voice: “I’m going back to the shrine to poke around. We left without investigating. I could use someone to watch my back. You interested? Don’t want everyone to know. I suspect you and I have similar motivations that the others don’t share.”
Rano agrees to help.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Zunder on February 12, 2025, 03:30:33 PM
while we wait, and finding it hard to sit still Barek runs through the city.. seeing if he spots any more of those CB type symbols..   
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 12, 2025, 07:39:47 PM
while we wait, and finding it hard to sit still Barek runs through the city.. seeing if he spots any more of those CB type symbols..

You don't find any in the three days.  You do see a few that are similar, but after some thought and investigation, they are just Horarian writing.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 12, 2025, 09:40:52 PM
Rano agrees to help.
So off we go. Plan is to thoroughly investigate the altar, range, and surrounding area. Mundane search checks plus liberal use of detect magic.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 12, 2025, 10:23:52 PM
So off we go. Plan is to thoroughly investigate the altar, range, and surrounding area. Mundane search checks plus liberal use of detect magic.

Your investigation turns up nothing at the site.  You do learn that he was staying alone in a modest rental house in the starting to fill up outskirts of town.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 13, 2025, 07:32:47 AM
Your investigation turns up nothing at the site.  You do learn that he was staying alone in a modest rental house in the starting to fill up outskirts of town.
What do you think Rano? Should we try to find his home?
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Post by: Malchia on February 13, 2025, 08:51:34 AM
What do you think Rano? Should we try to find his home?
Sure
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 13, 2025, 09:07:50 AM
Sure

It does not take you too long, it is one of the few small wooden homes furnished and not occupied.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 13, 2025, 01:03:14 PM
It does not take you too long, it is one of the few small wooden homes furnished and not occupied.
Can Rano track?
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Malchia on February 13, 2025, 03:00:07 PM
Can Rano track?
Nope
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 13, 2025, 05:24:59 PM
Nope
I have you stereotyped as a ranger.

I somehow missed this even though I responded to it:
It does not take you too long, it is one of the few small wooden homes furnished and not occupied.
Any symbols on the door or building?
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 13, 2025, 11:56:57 PM
I have you stereotyped as a ranger.

I somehow missed this even though I responded to it:Any symbols on the door or building?

None
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 16, 2025, 11:02:14 AM
Okay, if I’m confident we have the right place I ask Rano to wait outside and keep an eye/ear out for trouble inside or out. Then I turn invisible and get to work on the door checking for traps (Search +17 with magic) and then picking the lock (Open Lock +14).

If I fail to unlock the door I’ll shadow jump inside.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Asinjin on February 16, 2025, 12:51:01 PM
Okay, if I’m confident we have the right place I ask Rano to wait outside and keep an eye/ear out for trouble inside or out. Then I turn invisible and get to work on the door checking for traps (Search +17 with magic) and then picking the lock (Open Lock +14).

If I fail to unlock the door I’ll shadow jump inside.

You have little problem opening the door.  There are no traps.  The small house, consisting of three rooms, is clearly only inhabited by one person.  There is some bowyer/Fletcher equipment and a few short books in Horarian.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 16, 2025, 01:10:09 PM
You have little problem opening the door.  There are no traps.  The small house, consisting of three rooms, is clearly only inhabited by one person.  There is some bowyer/Fletcher equipment and a few short books in Horarian.
Thorough search of the interior. Looking for any hidden caches or items bearing Hou Yi’s character. Suspecting there’s a personal shrine somewhere. Search performed mundanely and with detect magic.
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Hero on February 17, 2025, 04:39:48 PM
Esra exits invisibly and closes the door gently behind him. He finds Rano, gets uncomfortably close (still invisible) and whispers as well as a gatori can “Let’s go. Not much here.”

Once his invisibility wears off a few blocks away, he hands Rano a set of crafting tools for a bowyer/fletcher. “I found these. Can you use them? There was also a couple of books written in Horarian. And a candle in this bag that radiates faint conjuration magic. It was at a small shrine. The shrine’s altar was also magical, moderate divination, but was too awkward and heavy to move. We should tell the others so they can deal with it.”
Title: Re: A Few Days in Ermaneo
Post by: Malchia on February 17, 2025, 06:11:32 PM
Esra exits invisibly and closes the door gently behind him. He finds Rano, gets uncomfortably close (still invisible) and whispers as well as a gatori can “Let’s go. Not much here.”

Once his invisibility wears off a few blocks away, he hands Rano a set of crafting tools for a bowyer/fletcher. “I found these. Can you use them? There was also a couple of books written in Horarian. And a candle in this bag that radiates faint conjuration magic. It was at a small shrine. The shrine’s altar was also magical, moderate divination, but was too awkward and heavy to move. We should tell the others so they can deal with it.”
Yes, I can use the bowyer equipment. We can tell the others about the shrine when we see them.