A'Walkin' Amongst the Lilies OOC

[Raveled]

OOC for this thread.

[Dr Archeville]

William MacDonald "Mac" Paulson = Hillary Norman "Norm" Peterson ;)

[Raveled]

The bag contains a bottle of corner-store whiskey, a score of off-brand cigars, and the plastic-wrapped hand.

[Dr Archeville]

Knowledge/Arcane Lore check (1d20+9=22)

Not bad, not bad.

[Raveled]

Do you just want me to NPC a spirit and tell Dead Head what needs to be said?

[Dr Archeville]

You can do that, or you can PM me all the stuff a spirt'd know and I can fold it into a post for DH.

[Dr Archeville]

Extra Effort to stunt the following off his Comprehend Power

Comprehend 1 (spirits; Extras: Affects Others + Self, Burst Area; PFs: Progression 2/25-ft. burst)

Which'll let Robin (and anyone else within 25 feet of DH) see/speak spirits.

HP to nix the fatigue from the EE.

[Raveled]

Testing, testing, one, two, three.

[Dr Archeville]

Refs are usually busy at the beginning of the month, counting pp awards for you people.

:P

[Raveled]

Actually, that was testing for something else, not tied to this game.

Really.

[Raveled]

Don't know how you want to do this. Gather Info checks strikes me as uncessary. If you want to interview Lewis some more that's fine, but I can't say how much more you'll get out of him. Otherwise, if you just want to say "they get back together xety mins later" that's fine with me.

[Dr Archeville]

"they get back together [X amount of time] later" is fine. But you'll have to tell me what DH found out ;)

[Raveled]

Well, if you're not going to ask specific questions, the only thing you can determine is that they're usually fed at a soup kitchen run by "tha nuns" and "Father Dave."

[Dr Archeville]

Oh, I've got specific questions

First, asking around for Gina, a Gina who knows a (now-dead) guy named Lewis.

Ask Gina if she saw anything the night Lewis was murdered, or if she's seen any other murders or other weirdness.

Ask where the soup kitchen they're referring to it, talk to the nuns and Father Dave. Ask if they've seen or heard anything odd, or noticed if any of their regulars have disappeared.

And finally, unless one of the prior leads has given him something really good to go on, check with the county coroners (who would've handled the body of an unclaimed indignant) and see what they noted about Lewis' body, where it is, and if there's been a spike in transient deaths, or any unusually mutilated bodies.

Also, did Robin leave the Hand of Glory with Dead Head? It appears so, just wanted to make sure.

[Raveled]

I'm thinking it would be better to RP this out after all. Say, curtain goes up when Dead Head gets to the church/soup kitchen?

[Dr Archeville]

Using his assorted Super-Senses to try and find something. Taking 20 on the Notice check, for a 26 total.

[Raveled]

Ghoul's Ini.

1d20+7=21

[Dr Archeville]

Dead Head's initiative (1d20+2=16)

[Raveled]

Ghoul's Attack

1d20+14=16

That's what you get for being Large, I suppose.

[Dr Archeville]

That hits, though!

At the start of a battle, before you have had a chance to act (specifically,

before your first turn in the initiative order), you are flat-footed. You can’t

use your dodge bonus while flat-footed. The Uncanny Dodge feat allows

you to retain your dodge bonus to Defense while flat-footed (see page 65).

DH does not have Uncanny Dodge!

[Raveled]

Since they've been talking a bit, I let DH keep his Defense bonus.

[Dr Archeville]

... yer just lazy and don't wanna re-write your IC post, ain'tcha? ;)

[Raveled]

No, I just want the hero to win. Now are ya gonna take the cookie I gave ya or what?

[Dr Archeville]

Move Action: Draw Shovel

Standard Action: KABONG!

Attack w/ Shovel; DC 24 Toughness save if it hits (1d20+11=18)

[Raveled]

Ghoul Attack

1d20+14=26

Hu-hu-hits! Toughness DC 29 for the ghoul.