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Feeling somewhat relieved after Sarge's remedy, Jeaux rapidly fires a round at Rat I from the back row, loads another round into the golden handcannon, and fires a second shot at Rat J also from the back row.

Jeaux cracks open his vial of smelling salts, he immediatly feels alert and energized. these should not affect and artificial lifeform, and yet.. With the burst of energy Jeaux felt, he quickly loaded a round into the handcannon and fired at one of the glowing rats ( Rat G from the back row)

Jeaux entered the room, keeping a safe distance from the chained creature. <"My companion here was merely asking for your name, and for what reason you have been incarcerated like this.">

Jeaux did a quick glance around the room to be sure the party didn't missed anything. He could see Heckz still attempting to read the papers he had picked up. Jeaux had managed to catch the name Dr. Paracelsior before Heckz had snatched up the documents and started looking over them. If they had been written by a doctor, it was unlikely Heckz would understand what he was looking at, but he waited all the same to hear what Heckz had discovered from the discarded paperwork.

Does fragile come into play before or after SP?

If my math is correct, one hit will deal 3312 damage ((29+11+4+2)*2(Encouraged)*2(Fire)*2(Lightning)*3(Beast Favor)*3(Aquatic Favor))

"Lead the way", Jeaux said while gesturing towards the door.

"If we follow him down the hallway without clearing the other rooms first, we may find quickly find ourselves surrounded."

With some exceptions, Grimwald switched from mage to cleric since he had barely introduced himself when he decided a cleric would be a better class for him. It's probably best to clear it with Sandy first though.

OOC: It was worth a shot. Jeaux relays what the horse had said to his companions. "Sounds like his masters may be undead themselves. Anyway, I supposed we could try to use his reins to direct him off of the door, though that could create a lot of noise and prove somewhat troublesome if he resists. There is also the option of killing him, as you suggested earlier Mr. Mcency."

(Inflicts Doom)

The Pongcanae are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

<"Something like that yes, but you have your orders and I would be acting out of turn if I asked you to ignore them. I'm sure your masters will understand.">

OOC: Sarge speaks horse!? <"And you are doing exactly what you were told as any loyal horse would. It is commendable, a shame that your master will miss out on what is quite possibly the deal of a lifetime, but I am sure he will not hold it against you. After all, you are merely doing what you were told, and who would expect someone of your breed to understand the difference between a command's words and its intent.">

"You continue to assume the hatch is beneath the horse. Though I have seen no indication that is the case; however, if you insist on making this horse move, I will try to reason with him before resorting to bloodshed.". Jeaux opened the gate to the horse's stall and moved to pet the horse on its nose. <"I fail to understand why you are so hostile to me, have I offended you in some way?">

Jeaux addresses the horse once again, "Would you kindly move out of the way, my friend is trying to dig where you are currently standing."

QUESTION: If someone heals an ally outside of combat, does that restore the person to full health costing 1 ether, or does it restore HP equal to the caster's power?

Jeaux tries stomping his foot again at A2, and again listens for a hollow noise

Jeaux wiped the spittle off his face and told Sarge about the secret hatch. He then heads to the one corner of the barn (A1) and stomps his foot down listening for a hollow sound to indicate any sort of enclosure under the floor.

OOC: can we specify 2 squares at a time since both Sarge and Jensen have shovels? Jeaux walked up the horse stabled there, "Excuse me Mr. Horse. Could you tell us where your masters have gone?"

Originally the cart was designed to be dead weight and Mac existed to repair the cart if necessary. I tried to give some of the enemies AOE attacks to place the cart in some danger (the thugs from fight 1, brown horses in fight 2, and warrior in fight 3), but AOE can turn a bad round into a death sentence, and nostrums make them almost non-existent. I tried to make the fights such that they wouldn't become dull if the party wasn't buffed to the limit. Unfortunately, when buffs can increase a hero's damage output to 12x normal it makes it hard to keep a fight between the realm of way too easy and punching a brick wall. I definitely won't underestimate the effects of buffing consumables in the future, especially if hosting gold gaining classes. I added the protection ability to the cart when I decided to include Grimwald on the quest, so he could participate without significant risk of being KO'd from one or two of the AOE attacks. The horses were there because I actually have a lot of lego horses and not many other animals . I had originally thought the horses would be part of something like the HLF (Horse Liberation Front), but since most of the horses I have known in my life were rather stupid, I thought it would be better to have one intelligent horse and the rest were followers. Ed was designed to be a fanatic who believed entirely in his vision and I tried to role play him as a character rather than lead him to a predestined conclusion (though it is hard to alter the path of a fanatic). Sadly, I completely forgot about them after the party left for the next town so had to retcon a little bit to explain their sudden disappearance. What I had planned on implementing was if the party did not bring the horses with them, they would wander off into the forest and get lost without a strong leader to follow. The wight was a soul the necromancer had captured and used to increase his power. Once the necromancer died, his control over the wight ended allowing the wight to finally free itself. It attacked the party because that's what it does, like the story of the scorpion and the turtle.

Jeaux looks inside the cart and around it for dirt that may have been left by a dug-up corpse

"It may be difficult to catch up to the horse on foot, though I fail to see the harm in trying, and we may learn more about these men along the way.". Jeaux follows the tracks as well

"I have no more mystical powers for detecting other lifeforms than you, possibly less given you deal in the mystical.". Jeaux could see that Mcceny was investigating the grave. Likely inspecting it to see if the body was still there. "See anything of note? Did they remove the body?"

Jeaux approached the two strangers Mr. Mcency had just threatened. He was unsure how the ex-sargeant was so confident these men were the grave robbers they sought, and thought it may be advantageous to demonstrate a bit more tact. "Excuse me. My friend and I are currently on patrol in this cemetery as there have been a rash of grave robbings in the last few nights. Would you mind telling us what you are doing at a recent grave with your shovels?"