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Conan Ruleset v1.73.3312 for Fantasy Grounds Copyright 2020 Modiphius Entertainment, Ltd.
Core RPG ruleset v3.3.12A for Fantasy Grounds Copyright 2019 Smiteworks USA, LLC
Tack: Conan Ruleset v1.73.3312 for Fantasy Grounds Copyright 2020 Modiphius Entertainment, Ltd.
Voice on other side of the Door: Who's there?
Rhotinia: Yuz-Bashi Rhotinia, is that you Lefty?
Rhotinia's question goes unanswered. Sounds of fighting from nearby streets echo and the acrid strench of burning wafts down the street. About a minute passes, and you hear multiple bolts being removed from the door and then a large bar being removed.
A skinny waif of a boy slides the door open and looks the group over.
Boy: Hmm... Lefty didn't say anything about visitors, but I remember you.
Boy: Come in before the monsters get here.
Volmalric: Much obliged
Boy gestures for everyone to enter the building.
Rhotinia: Thank you child, apologies for the unanounced visit
Rhotinia rolls a Society test:
Target: 17 Focus: 5 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 3 Momentum: 2 [1d20.10+1d20.2 = 12]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Tilpi rolls a Discipline test:
Target: 8 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 1 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.1+1d20.19 = 20]
You did succeed!
Volmalric heads inside
Tilpi feels a little awkward going into a closed space
Boy waits for the group to enter, then closes and re-seals the door.
Volmalric: Whew. Quite the night tonight, huh?
Tilpi rolls an Insight test:
Target: 12 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.10+1d20.9 = 19]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
You are in an abandoned looking warehouse, there is dim light flickering from a few small laterns scattered around piles of haphazardly strewn empty crates and broken furniture.
Asgrim: This place is locked up tight, might look like simple wood on the outside, but this place would work well for a Nordheimer border farm.
Rhotinia: Yes, I suspect the undead hordes outside would not be able to enter uninvited
Rhotinia: Which begs the question what this child is so worried about
Democles is scanning for sewer entrances and floor-based exits.
Rhotinia: Out with it son, what has got your hair on end?
Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.5+1d20.8 = 13]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Tack (Tilpi): 'Accessories sold separately'
Sophie takes Bridgit off Rhotinia's horse and sets her on pile of bolts of ragged looking cloth. Bridgit whimpers a little bit and curls tighter into a ball.
Sophie: She's normally not this bad.
Sophie actually looks concerned.
Rhotinia: These are hardly normal times
Democles is not sure which is scarier, Bridgit being this bad or Sophie actually caring.
Boy: Well, we have had other visitors ma'am. Seems like everyone wants something.
Volmalric: Who came earlier?
Boy: Lots of rich, fat nobles who suddenly seemed to think the world was ending and they needed out.
Rhotinia: I wonder what gave them that impression
Boy: Sure, don't care about people like me until their children get eaten by ghouls.
Tilpi comforts the shaken and disturbed Brigit.
Tilpi rolls a Counsel test:
Target: 13 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.13+1d20.14 = 27]
You did succeed!

Tack:
[1d20.1 = 1]
Rhotinia: Well we're not looking for a way out, we just came back in as a matter of fact
Rhotinia: We're looking for something that we think will help us stop this cut-rate apocalypse and get back to some semblance of normallcy
Democles: Before you go too far, if you don't mind, I'm going to stay back here with Sophie and Bridgit.
Democles is waiting near the entrance with the animals, Sophie, and Bridgit.
Tilpi attempts to make Rhotinia's horse into a therapy animal
Tilpi rolls an Animal Handling test:
Target: 12 Focus: 2 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.14+1d20.15 = 29]
You did not succeed.
Rhotinia: We were hoping that in all the chaos, some of your little sticky-fingered friends may have come across it
Boy: Well, I'm sure Lefty might have something for you. This way.
Volmalric: Ah
Rhotinia's Horse considers a future as a malicious and spiteful animal that will kick small children to teach them a valuable lesson about cute animals being untrustworthy.
Rhotinia pulls out the copy of the symbol from Rhiveth
Rhotinia: nods and follows
Boy guides whoever is going to follow through a maze of crates that smell of mold and rot.
Tilpi rolls a Discipline test:
Target: 8 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.14+1d20.15 = 29]
You did not succeed.
Tilpi does not follow, staying with Bridgit.
Volmalric follows through, grimacing at the smells
Boy arrives in the middle of the warehouse, pushes a "heavy looking" stack of crates out of the way, revealing a well-lit but short flight of stairs heading down.
Several cloaked men with crossbows point at the group menacingly, but the boy gestures and they relax.
Democles strikes up a long conversation with Tilpi about life in Hyrkania
Asgrim heads down the stairs after the boy, occupying the valuable role as both tank and red shirt in the event of combat.
The boy leads the group past a series of doors and into a room where a skinny man with a panicked expression, who has his right hand cut off and the stump ends in a hook, looks relieved to see you.
Lefty: Well, if it is not Yuz-Bashi Rhotinia. You picked a fun time to return to Messantia.
Rhotinia: It's good to see you again old friend, I too wish it were under better circumstances
Lefty: Well, what brings you to my parlor?
Rhotinia shows lefty the symbol
Tilpi rolls an Animal Handling test:
Target: 12 Focus: 2 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.19+1d20.7 = 26]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia: We're looking for an ancient Lemurian or Acheronian scroll bearing this symbol
Rhotinia: We think it may help us to stop this madness
Volmalric rolls an Insight test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.13+1d20.5 = 18]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia rolls an Insight test:
Target: 8 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.4+1d20.5 = 9]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Both Rhotinia and Volmalric note that Lefty gets REALLY NERVOUS, his eyes widen, and he has clearly seen this symbol before, recently, and it was not a happy conversation.
Rhotinia: It seems we are not the first people to ask after this....
Volmalric: I do hate being a step behind
Lefty: Oh, what? Well, you know, I do dabble from time to time in Acheronian artifacts. If the city was not in the midst of an invasion I would suggest you have more luck over on Seaward Street.
Rhotinia: I can still smell their cologne... If we are a step behind, we had better get a move on. We will head to Seward street at once
Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.18+1d20.9 = 27]
You did succeed!
Lefty: Ah yes, well, that might be best, I would suggest not right now though. Maybe you'd like to wait here a bit?
Tilpi rolls an Observation test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [2d20.6 = 12]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Rhotinia: Of course, we can have a drink like old times. Something strong, Hyrkanian whiskey?
Rhotinia: Something that really lights your fire
Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.17+1d20.4 = 21]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia: This reminds me of that scrap we found ourselves in... Oh must have been 15 years ago, in Shamir
Lefty: Oh yes, those were quite the times.
Volmalric rolls an Insight test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.1+1d20.14 = 15]
You did succeed!
Lefty: Granted, a little less apocalyptic and more human caused.
Rhotinia: Volmalric, join us. I am sure you have something in that bag of yours that would pair wonderfully with a strong spirit
Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 3 Momentum: 2 [1d20.2+1d20.6 = 8]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Volmalric gets what's going on, even if he doesn't have the full context
Tilpi rolls an Insight test:
Target: 12 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.13+1d20.8 = 21]
You did succeed!

Tack:
[1d20.20 = 20]
Lefty finds a large bottle of a strong smelling bottle of liquor.
Rhotinia: Asgrim, be a dear and get us some glasses. But be careful, the rats here are truly enormous and they'll bite your arms off if you aren't prepared
Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.19+1d20.2 = 21]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Rhotinia: The glasses are in there
Rhotinia points to the door
Asgrim: Right ma'am.
Volmalric: I've got quite a bit, though I have to reorganize my bag here to find it. I stuffed it full before we left this morning and the stuff on the top is not something you want to drink
Volmalric: Unless your goal is to prevent something from possessing you, in which case it can at least prevent that
Rhotinia grasps two large bottles of hyrkanian spirits and nods to Asgrim and Volmalric
Volmalric hums to himself as he goes through and gets together the necessary materials for a fireball
Asgrim: Oh, well, I'm all for spirits possessing me, if the proof on the bottle is high enough.
Volmalric gestures the door we entered from, and a bottle in his hand with a wick in it
Rhotinia: Well, here's to old friends and new problems. May you never have an enemy you can't outwit, outrun or outlast.
Asgrim walks over to a door, making "Thor-looking-for-a-flagon-of-ale" faces while gesturing around the room to make sure he is going to the right spot.
Rhotinia nods when Asgrim gets to the right door
Lefty is starting to turn pale as a sheet as he figures out what the rest of the group is up to.
Rhotinia smashes her glass on the ground to signal Asgrim and Volmalric
Volmalric rolls an Alchemy test:
Target: 14 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 4 Momentum: 3 [1d20.3+1d20.4 = 7]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Asgrim kicks the door open.
Rhotinia: As Asgrim kicks the door down, Rhotinia hurls two large bottles of spirits through, pausing only momentarily to assess the figures behind the door
Asgrim dives back out of the way.
Rhotinia rolls a Ranged test:
Target: 13 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.5+1d20.9 = 14]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Rhotinia rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.16+1d20.7 = 23]
You did succeed!
The small storage room is filled with flames and several heavily armored men scream in pain and come flailing out of the room as they are set on fire. The heavy amounts of floating saw dust in the room ignite the fireball, along with all the other flammable contents explode, sending lacerating debris outward in a wave of shrapnel and heat.
Tilpi hears a "thump" noise, and feels like, in the future, someone would yell, "Fire in the Hole" in this situation.
Lefty: Now would be a good time to run.
Rhotinia: Who are these people, why are they after this tome of Skelos?
Lefty heads for a different door.
Rhotinia follows Lefty
The door you entered through is kicked open and the men with crossbows enter, firing wildly.
Rhotinia: I take it these crossbowmen are not yours?

Guard: 11
[1d20.12 = 12]
GM: [11]
GM rolls a test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.3+1d20.9 = 12]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
GM: [11]
GM rolls a test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.4+1d20.8 = 12]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
GM: [11]
GM rolls a test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.17+1d20.6 = 23]
You did succeed!
GM: [11]
GM rolls a test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.13+1d20.8 = 21]
You did succeed!
GM: [11]
GM rolls a test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.16+1d20.17 = 33]
You did not succeed.
GM: [11]
GM rolls a test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.12+1d20.7 = 19]
You did succeed!

Guard:
[1d6.2+1d6.5+3d6.6 = 25]

Guard:
[4d6.2+1d6.6 = 14]

Guard:
[2d6.1+1d6.3+1d6.5 = 10]

Guard:
[3d6.1+1d6.2 = 5]
One of the crossbow bolts makes a loud clang and stuns Rhotinia for a second as it deflects off the top of her helmet. If she had not been wearing it, the shot likely would have been very painful.
Volmalric gets shot in the left leg with a bolt that sticks in place and is quite painful.
Volmalric rolls an Acrobatics test:
Target: 9 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.17+1d20.7 = 24]
You did succeed!
...but wait... Volmalric spryly leaps out of danger at the last second!
Rhotinia: Lefty, are these Cilissa's men?
Lefty did not have a nice helmet, takes 14 points of damage to the head, and answers Rhotinia's question with his head exploding like an overripe melon.
Volmalric: Damn it!
A crossbow bolt strikes Asgrim in the chest, most of the impact is absorbed by his armor and the burly Norseman seems to be more aggravated than hurt by the shot.
Rhotinia: This has not gone according to plan, but this seems like a great time to leave
Rhotinia grabs Volmalric and runs through the door Lefty was heading for
Asgrim rolls a test:
Target: 14 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.1+1d20.18 = 19]
You succeeded and generated momentum!

Asgrim:
[2d6.2+1d6.3+2d6.4+2d6.5+1d6.6 = 31]
Volmalric: Asgrim, this way!
Rhotinia: Volmalric, can you cover our escape?
Asgrim hacks down one of the crossbow firing guards who leapt into the room to try and put out the fire on one of the four burning men in the room.
Volmalric: I can
Asgrim lets out loud and menacing battlecry, then backs towards the door Rhotinia and Volmalric fled out of.
Tilpi used a Fortune point to add a Natural 1 to their dice pool
Tilpi rolls an Animal Handling test:
Target: 12 Focus: 2 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 3 Momentum: 2 [1d20.15+1d20.5 = 20]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Tilpi rolls an Animal Handling test:
Target: 12 Focus: 2 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.13+1d20.19 = 32]
You did not succeed.
Volmalric pours powder into a glass vial, corking it and shaking it before throwing the bottle of choking, pressurized gas into the room between them and the guards. Hopefully they don't get it in their eyes...
Volmalric rolls an Alchemy test:
Target: 14 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.1+1d20.17 = 18]
You succeeded and generated momentum!

Kazemi:
[1d20.13 = 13]
The glass bottle explodes in the room, a sickly yellow gas exploding forth in a noxious fume that coats its surroundings, including the crossbowmen heading into the room. It clings to everything, but is especially unpleasant to eyes, nose, mouth, and throat.
Asgrim looks suitably impressed as the group makes their escape!