[Lendria, Day 1 still] [You guys are like outside the temple, planning to sneak into the castle or some such while Raxa and Josh take a break. Excitement ensues.] [Start] * zimboptoo has joined #mcdc * zimboptoo has quit IRC (Quit: ) * zimboptoo1 has joined #mcdc -bagel.sandwich.net:@#mcdc- Brett invited Dicesuke into channel #mcdc * Dicesuke has joined #mcdc sorry about that, crappy wireless. (Hey, get IC!) * zimboptoo1 is now known as Logan * Billie is outside of the temple! And so she heads towards the castle, Yuki in her arms, to check out what it is they're trying to sneak into. * Logan runs to catch up. "Hey, don't leave without me! This is right up my alley." * Billie looks back at Logan as she walks. "Oh yeah?" * Logan concentrates a moment, and his clothes become closer-fitting and darker colored. He's also now wearing leather-soled climbing shoes. [It's a castle, made of carved stone blocks. It's got a moat and a drawbridge. The walls are about 20 feet high.] * Logan adjusts his collar. "Well, I did a fair bit of sneaking and tailing in my day." "Comes with the territory." * Yuki looks back at Logan and lets out a bunny-shrug. "You're sneaky-sneaky? Let's go then." * May has joined #mcdc * Logan grins. "Yes, lets." "So... what exactly are we looking for?" (Hey May. ^^) ('lo May!) (Hi. ^_^) Probably to see if the princess is there, and what she's doing, and if this other group is there, and what they're doing. And how hard it would be to get everyone else in, right? Yes. Because most of the others... Yoshiko included, aren't very stealthy. * Billie looks around for guards and easy entrance points, like doors or windows. (And is the drawbridge down?) ( Of course not :P ) [There's no guards visible from the outside. No windows, either. Gimme architecture rolls ] 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+7) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 11. (*sigh*) (It's okay, I still love you.) (Well, not really, you're weird, but still.) (other rolls?) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yuki (2d6+5) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 9. * Logan carefully examines the outer walls for a moment, and then shrugs. "I have to admit, I don't know much about castles. More of an urban investigator myself." (Finding my sheet!) 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+6) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 17. (I beat all of you!) (...yes you did.) (Ninja have to know castles. It's in the job manual.) (:D) (Fair enough) (Hahaha.) (Nice!) I think we're just going to have to cross the moat and scale that wall. The castle itself is past it. * Logan grins and pulls a length of rope and a felt-wrapped grappling hook out from under his coat. Maybe I shouldn't do that. I hate getting wet. Oh hey, maybe you can just make a big thing of wood that goes across the moat? "We can toss you across..." Nono, that's all right. * Billie frowns a little as she looks at the castle. "I got this feeling..." "Hmm?" [The moat goes right up to the castle wall. Gimme an sight check!] 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+8) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 16. 2d6+11 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+11) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 19. [You both die instantly!] [I mean you both see the gators in the moat. Whoops.] (I was wondering about that...) "What's your feeling?" 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yuki (2d6+7) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 13. Well, I'm just wondering if I can use my deva powers or whatever to get over there... I kind of think I can, somehow. Also, there are alligators in there. I know I can fly, but I don't know about you guys. * Logan chuckles "Yeah, I saw them too." You're a flying rabbit? That's awesome! To Billie: "Well, might as well give it a try. We still need to figure out how our powers work." "I'm not getting any particular feeling about my abilities at the moment, so I'm going to assume I've got nothing special up my sleeve." Nono, I turn into an owl. Although being a rabbit with wings. That would be really awesome! * Billie looks slightly disappointed. "Yeah, the owl thing is cool, but definitely less awesome." "I was picturing some sort of ears flapping thing." (Hey Brett, how many points would it run me to drop into a shadow here and pop up into a shadow on the wall? Out of curiosity.) ( Uhhhhhhhhhhhh ) ( I dunno .-. ) (It'd be good to know!) ( 5 ) (Yeah, that's kinda important. :P) ( Well, make it 4 since it's night. ) (If we add more shadows, can it be lower? :D) (It's night, that's like maximum shadowage!~) (OH SHI-) (Okay, now how many points would it take to bring Logan and Yuki with me? :D) (What if I add, like, a bazillion lights, making millions of shadows? :o) ( 7 ) (Yuki's really small, I can't imagine her being much more than an 'inventory item' for most things.) (That's a lot. I only have 13. Hum.) ( It's double -1 :p ) ( You're esentially doing a mass teleport. Not gonna be cheap. ) (I can fly over.) (Just costs 1 EP to transform then change back.) (Just figure out what tower she's in and mass teleport there. That'll teach her.) (Right right. I'll just teleport the M way. It'll only take one or two EP anyway, yeah.) (Hahahaha. That WOULD make getting back easier!) Okay, so I'm pretty sure I can get there... you know how you're going to, Logan? "Well, not swimming, that's for sure." (How wide is the moat?) ( About ten feet. ) "I've got an idea... We should probably approach from slightly different angles, just in case someone sees one of us." "It involves my magical form though... I assume yours does as well?" Yup! * Yuki looks around and, presuminb she doesn't see or hear any bad guys, jumps off of Billie's shoulder and changes into her owl form, flying across the moat completely silently, then changes back and lands on the other side as a rabbit. * Billie decides to put word to action now, and concentrates on changing into her 'natural' form... which basically means the shadows she's standing in rise to envelop her, somehow becoming smoky, and then all that's left is an androgynous, silent ninja. Which is subsequently ruined by her whispering in your heads: ~Going!~ * Billie crouches and disappears in a puff of smoke and instantly reappears, crouched, on top of the wall. She looks around. [Below the wall is a courtyard, with soldiers regularly patrolling across it. Unlike the Empire's sleek black mailed knights, these are all guys in chainmail with bullet-shaped open-faced helmets and red tabbards.] [The inside of the castle consists of a keep with three towers: a big central one and two smaller ones in the back. It actually looks kinda like a powerplant.] * Yuki whispers. "Buncha red shirts." * Logan grins, closes his eyes, and grows. He gets about 2 feet taller and about 200 lbs heavier, his arm becomes giant and cybernetic, and his eye starts glowing. He cracks his neck, takes a running leap over the moat, and (at the peak of the jump), fires his mechanical hand up to the top of the wall. It grabs the edge and he reels himself in, before pulling himself over the edge and crouching next to Billie. (3x jumping distance, 10 meter arm stretch, 1 ton lifting strength.) * Billie snerks a little, or would if she had a mouth. ~Yeah.~ She watches the soldiers, trying to get a sense of their pattern. * Logan tries to project in his mind ~Can you two hear me, or are you just projection only?~ * Yuki looks around, then down. "Hehe, I could make a bunch of them fall over." (Do you have telepathy, Logan?) (No, I was just hoping you guys had some sort of two-way connection...) ~I think that'd sound an alarm, Yuki.~ * Billie doesn't respond to Logan! * Logan shrugs. Very quietly: "Oh well..." "Well, I imagine that the big tower is our primary target. But we may have to go through the smaller ones." * Logan squinches up his face and shrinks back to his normal form. "That's fun, but not quite so subtle." * Yuki looks up, does the tower have a window of some kind? * Billie shifts back to her normal form too, at least for now. She remains crouched so she's mostly shielded. [It does! Several, in fact, at regular intervals. There's also at least two floors to the actual keep. The big tower probably rises an additional 5 stories. The smallers are about 2.] (Any windows closish to the wall?) (Are they open windows or closed glass ones?) * Logan shifts his clothes to look like the guards, along with [whatever weapons they're carrying]. ( Spears, swords and axes mostly. The keep's a good 20 feet away from the walls.] ) * Billie whispers to Yuki, "Hey, want to fly over there and check it out?" * Logan has a spear, and a sword at his side. * Billie has no weapons! Awesome! * Yuki doesn't have weapons either! (We could strap a dagger to your back...?) * Yuki nods and changes form, taking flight over and around to get a good view of the area from the skies, taking in the details of the area. Depending on the details, she might do something else, but presumably she'll fly back to the others and change back. * Logan studies the movement of the soldiers, waiting for Yuki to get back. * Yuki returns and changes back. "I got a good view, it's pretty much exactly as it looks from all the angles. Inside there are a few guards, and there's a spiral staircase that goes around inside." Inside of that are the rooms. Did you see anything interesting in the rooms? Like the other group or maybe this princess? * Yuki shakes her head. "Just a few guards from what I saw." "Seems to me like we need to get up to the top of the tower." (Is there any way down off the wall?) ( There's stairs down. ) (How big is the courtyard? ^^) * Billie sighs. "Yeah..." Pause. "Wanna risk the stairs?" * Logan spends a minute listening to the guards with his super-hearing and memorizing the dialect and picking up the lingo. * Yuki takes a listen as well, trying to pick up on the patterns of the guard movements. ( Gimme hearing checks ) 2d6+11 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+11) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 18. "Sometimes the easiest way in is through the front door." He hefts his spear. 2d6+10 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yuki (2d6+10) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 16. 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+8) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 12. * zimboptoo has joined #mcdc [Yuki and Logan over hear the guards talking about stuff guards talk about: Booze, sleeping on the job, stealing food, how much worse everything has been since the king got a new advisor...] * Logan has quit IRC (Ping timeout) (sorry, what did I miss?) * zimboptoo is now known as Logan (murr?) (Sent it to you.) (In /msg.) (tankee. I think I'm getting some lag.) "Hah, well, we were at least half right." Always a chancelor. Or new advisor. * Logan adopts a guard-like stance and marches down the stairs, trying to look just as alert (or not alert) as the rest of the guards. ( Where you headed? Main gate? ) (Sure, why not?) * Billie tags along behind Logan, trying to stay a little more hidden. She looks nothing like a guard. "Hey Logan," she murmurs, "You can change your clothes..." (Were any of the guards female?) ( No, all male ) (Shoulda took me along.) (... why are you following if you're not dressed like a guard...) (I dunno, I want to get down, and you didn't tell us not to!) ( Logan needs a stealth or acting roll, depending on whether or not he's trying to blend in. Billie needs a stealth roll. ) (Hmm, actually, hey Brett. How much would it run me to meld into Logan's shadow? XD) ( Depends how long you did it for. 1 to start :P ) 2d6+9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+9) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 12. (And how long does that one last?) (Trying to blend in, not attract attention. Just a regular old guard.) 2d6+9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+9) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 13. * Yuki sneaks under Logan's helmet, provided there's room. If not, she'll just sneak along. (sorry, more lag) * Billie steps onto Logan's shadow and... melts into it, turning into shadow herself. [There's room!] [Logan wanders past without trouble.] (Man, I feel like we're a Zelda crew.) (I'm hiding in the hat, Billie's hiding in the shadow.) * zimboptoo has joined #mcdc * zimboptoo has left #mcdc (Good lord, Zim!) Sorry guys, I think I'm going to have to bow out, I can't keep a connection. (Aww.) * Logan has quit IRC (Ping timeout) (Can we continue on Tuesday? Can everyone make it then, this time? XP) (Aw.) (Sure thing.) [End]