Afternoon

From upstairs, Papa called down to bring up a large pot of the stew, and that he'd be down soon. Girta'a rolled her eyes and told him she would in a moment, then turned back to Karos. "I'm sorry, would you mind? I can't leave the shop in case others come. It'd be a big help, and big fill of your belly," she added with a laugh, and without waiting for him to agree or not, disappeared intot he kitchen. When she returned, she cradled a large steaming stock pot in one arm, and basket laden with loaves and cakes in another. 

"It's just up there," she explained, and gestured with a toss of her head. "thanks agin, I really appreciate this." She quickly filled his arms and snt him on his way. 

"Well met then.".  Karos smiles at Girta'a and waits patiently as her father and her speak.  When she asks for help, he blinks a bit in surprise but nods, a bit grateful for the distraction.  If he didn't have anything to do, then he would just wander around the marketplace, hoping to catch a glimpse of his old crew members. 

Taking the things from Girta'a, he focuses on the work, enjoying the distraction.  

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In the Cellar, Karos quickly glances around, taking note of possible escape avenues as a habit.  Or at the very least a place to hide.  The Gnome is beside him and although Karos would try to smile and such, he felt no need to make small chat or introduce himself.

As he walks further into the Cellar and a familiar voice greets him, Karos relaxes much more and his face breaks out into a genuine smile. 

“Karos!” Castien’s smile returned, full and friendly, at the sight of the young rogue and he stepped forward to greet his friend as they reached the bottom of the steps. “Nae saian lumme’, mellonamin, (It has been too long, my friend)” he grinned, clasping Karos’ forearm in greeting, “You look well.”

Clasping Castien's forearm in return, his mouth opens to respond when a loud knock resounded.  Turning his attention towards it, he smiles at Castien and quickly says "I am well.  We'll chat later.".  

Karos is rather silent while he listens, trying to figure out which mask, which persona or demeanor would be appropriate here...  No you fool, these are supposed to be your companions.  No secrets necessary, no facades.  Dammit Karos.  He curses mentally at himself as he suppresses his instincts.

When his time for introductions come, he speaks "Hello everyone, My name is Karos.  I'm quite well suited for slinking around in the shadows or gathering a lot of attention I find, and I am looking forward to working together with all of you.". 

As for the contents of the mission.. He was not overly worried about it.  Someone has asked me to help Cas and I will.  There is nothing else I need to know then.

I got my final exam on thursday so posts can wait until around that time period.  I'll be getting off school as well so I'll be able to be much more active here

I'm not going to pretend to be a competent DM on RDI, I think i'm decent in person but RDI i'm still learning quite a bit. So take everything I say with a grain of salt

1.  I would say you can handle the rolls, it makes things easier, keeps it honest.  I personally use a dice roller online that I am particularly fond of already and if a player wants to see the rolls, I can just screen shot it and send it to them.

2. I remember when I ran the dark sun campaign, most of the pictures I posted just had a link to imgur.  I don't recall how bad it was uploading pictures directly to the site but you can probably get away with it through image hosting files like that

3. I don't really know enough about that.  i think a lot of people do just post character sheets in the Q&A thread but I got no real clue

4. Again I don't know too much about it, it's nice to have to post quests, lore information and I personally post character sheets for people in supernatural, (tho if it's DnD and everyone knows the system, they can prolly post their own).  

You rolled a 3, 1, and a 4. 

You recall a student of yours, someone who was confused about what to do with the rest of their lives.  they had briefly bounced back and forth between studies, however he seemd to turn his life around about 5 years ago.  He had just graduated from engineering and you recall a collegue of yours speaking about him a few months ago. 

His name is Jonathan M'cloade, and you are able to find him on facebook after about 10 to 15 minutes of searching.  

Thank you kindly  I'm looking forward to Karos' development as a character. Right now I"m just picking one thing and rolling with it haha

Working on post now!  Meant to do it this morning but took longer than I thought I would doing other errands.  

Sounds good, I'll go do the rolls

And yep, WiFi would be included i'd imagine, as for it being your family house works for me  I"ll be a bit more involved later on, just got a bit of exams to study for.  

Right that worked in supernatural as well

Concerning collab posts between karos and castien that might be likely.  I'll send you a PM if he does decide to talk to you

I think I like the PMing idea versus ((assuming positive response)) or other OOC comments.  I'll be sure to give that a shot, hoping to improve my writing for here and the supernatural campaign!

Lady dark, I hope this is okay with you but I was just taking a look at my skills and noticed I had investigation but no performance, I dropped investigation for performance, both have the same modifier.  

If that's not okay, just lemme know and I can drop it back

Alright thanks for the reassurances and letting me know!

I usually run PBP in chat so GM and player goes back and forth very quickly.  In this type of format,  I'm not sure how it works but that makes sense what you told me.

As for the duration of the posts, I"ll just post what I find comfortable! 

haha yea I'm digging the new formatting for chats, I disliked HTML 

Concerning the rolls,  I'm actually porting over a mechanic from another system.  you got 3d6, roll em and for each result upwards of 4, that coutns as a success.

You know this guy so let's say you can roll 3d6 and if you get 2 successes, he's a friend from old that is happy to hear from you and do a favour. 

You get 1, he forgets who you are but can be persuaded to do a favour for you at a cost

you get a 0, well that's a bit of a surprise  You know him and can contact him but there might be a complication

If you get a 3, he was one of those friends that considered you his best friend but maybe you didn't feel the same way.  either way, he's definitely willing to do a favour for you.

You can roll it IRL, electronically or you  can let me roll it electronically.  Entirely up to you.  i trust my players

As for the libraries, that makes sense.  I got no clue how it functions IRL but to make it easier, I"m just gonna devaite from IRL when necessary.  I post infrequently enough, doing research into that might make the posts even longer in between.  

The pastor smiles quite thankfully at the professor, reaching his hand out to his and shaking it.  "Thank you kindly.  The lord and God almighty will notice your kindness.  I will as well.".  

looking at Colum and then Haze, he raises an eyebrow at the two of them.  "Shall we meet there and discuss further?  The young boy here won't take too kindly to our investigating... but I think he should stay with one of us for the time being.  Concerning the letter...I think the professer here should take the documents, no one will bat an eye at him carrying around some files.". 

Aight thanks, I'll get my post in tonight or tomorrow hopefully!  

Taking me a while to digest everyone's posts, they're so detailed!  I'm honestly very impressed  

Just to get a bit of clarification, is the dialogue between NPC's done via lady dark or do you just fill it in yourself?  I don't think I've played enough PBP on this site to know unfortunately.  

I'd like to improve my posts to get nearer to the level of detail of you guys but I sinceerely doubt that'll happen anytime soon.  Nonetheless, I'd like to fix it where I can!  

1) So there's a variety of ways you could go about this.  you would definitely have access to books about this in the school library if not your house.  

Concerning research to the occult, heck yea, you have a bunch of books, I think you research medevial studies so for sure you could attempt to see if there's any folk lore.  

Concerning elctrical company...

googling online, you could take a look at areas of extended blackouts that have been issues to places prior.  However that only tells you big blackouts that are unable to resolved within a few hours.  

The electrical company would be a good way to get information but they are unlikely to give you that information without incentive.  If you would like, you can say Castle knows a colleague that you fell out of touch with that worked in the electrical business. I'd just have to ask you to make a roll to see how well he likes you  

other than that, you could break into the records, disguise your way into the building or a variety of other ways that I have not thought up yet.  

Wow just took some time to read it today and some great roleplaying from you guys  

I'll have a post up by wednesday at the very latest.  Getting excited now that the story is starting to pick up and you guys are all together now!

No problem.  I've been quite awful lately, haven't posted in something like 2 weeks....  I've had time just have had difficulty putting words to paper

I've actually been trying to post in the recruiment thread cause I was a bit hesitant to be the first one to post before peoples char sheets have gotten in!  

I'm super excited for this campaign though, definitely looking forward to it

I am all for suggestions and advice.  I feel like I am a competent GM irl or through voice but it's very difficult to find a good pace for games through weekly postings I find.  

You guys have been active here much longer than I have so I will listen to all of your advice earnestly and will take them to heart. 

I've been having a bit of an issue with writers block, not sure where to go.  

Hopefully with Broms' update, it'll spark something in me 
Again thank you guys for your patience!

I agree with Brom

Thank you guys for being patient with me, I'll have a post out tonight!  IRL issues have been keeping me preoccupied but I have not forgotten this site or the campaign  

Name: Karos "Janus" 

Race (Sex): Human (variant)

Class (Lvl): Rogue (1)

Background: Urchin

Alignment: Chaotic neutral

Height: 6'0"  Weight: 180 lbs

Languages: Common, Elvish

Eyes: Brown  Hair: Black

Backstory
Karos grew up in Watertown and never knew his parents.  His earliest memory was living on the streets, being taken care of by some other children that he would grow up to love and care for, to do anything he could to protect them.  As children, they would plan small 'heists', nothing drastic just a piece of fruit here or a copper piece there.  Their biggest hit was when a wagon overturned at a festival where it dropped a bunch of sweets.  Ah, they ate well that day.  

As time passed on, they grew closer and closer, their bonds thicker than blood.  Some of them started to get actual gold from their little heists.  Their skills started to develop and harder jobs were done, more gold was gotten.  Life was good.

Kairos earned the name Janus among his peers.  There was an old story about a man with two faces and Karos had been the one who could con anyone.  At least among their crew.  During the years, Karos had gotten rather close with another person in the party, a woman named Helena.  Although everyone cared for each other the bond between Karos and Helena ran deeper than the others.  

It appeared that their little crew could never be stopped, they felt young and invincible.  Sure they had gotten beat up, lost a lot of jobs and stuff but who hadn't?  Kairos was particularly fond of a temple that he frequently went to for rest and support, donating a portion of his earnings there.  If he hadn't he wouldn't feel.... right.  Regardless, this feeling of invincibility only got stronger when Helena got her hands on someone's spell book.  

She had learned a few spells and they had bolstered their activity, till soon enough they were getting gold pieces by the day!  It seemed like their dream of leaving the city would be fulfilled in no time.  Until the guards came.  They knew she had cast magic even though no one would have sold her out.  They arrested her, the rest of their band wanting to fight tooth and nail in order to stop them when suddenly the head captain thanked Karos for the tip. 

Dumbfounded, he protested but the captain smiled at him and told him he had earned a decent sum of gold and a favour from the guard.  A striking of his records.  The rest of his group turned on him, the bonds shattered instantly.

Beaten, with nowhere else to turn to, he made his way to the Temple that he had resided at, trying to rest and recover enough to go out but not having much success.  He wasn't a lone wolf and the absence of his friends and family that lived with him throughout his life pained him.  

Quickly taking to one of the workers at the temple, someone named Castien, he attempts to form a new "crew", a new family.  He knows that he has to bide his time. Till the day he can find out whoever ratted on Helena and get his revenge.  He still holds out hope that she is still alive and that they will meet one day, treasuring the scrap of paper he managed to cling onto from her spellbook.

Ability Scores:

• Str: 08 (-1)


• Dex: 16 (+3)


• Con: 12 (+1)


• Int: 14 (+2)


• Wis: 10 (+0)


• Cha: 14 (+2)

Proficiency Bonus: +2

Passive Perception: 10

Armor Class: 14

Hit Points: 9

Saves: Dexterity, intelligence

Speed: 30

Skills:

• Sleight of hand (+5)


• Stealth (+7)


• Deception (+6)


• Acrobatics (+5)


• Performance (+4)


• Insight (+2)


• Persuasion (+4)

Other proficiencies
Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords

Tools: Thieves tools, Disguise kit.  

Spells:

• None yet
  
  

Feats:

• Background: City Secrets: You know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss.  When you are not in combat, you ( and companions you lead) can travael between any two locations in the city twice ad fast as your speed would normally allow.


• - You have advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks when trying to pass yourself off as a different person. - You can mimic the speech of another person or the sounds made by other creatures. You must have heard the person speaking, or heard the creature make the sound, for at least 1 minute. A successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by your Charisma (Deception) check allows a listener to determine that the effect is faked.


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  When one has no family of blood, the family of choice fills that void. The crew meant everything to you, it was home. Without it, you almost feel exposed. When you are with your full crew, once per day you can extend your stealth skills to your companions, giving everyone +5 to stealth checks. This increases to +10 at level 10. Additionally, at level 10, you may use this once per short or long rest. You must be within 30 feet of your farthest companion to use this feat. 

  
  

Weapons:

• Shortsword


• Dagger (x2)


• Shortbow (20 arrows)

Armor:

• Leather

Other Equipment:

• Thieves tools 


•  Backpack (Burglar's kit)
  
  
  
  • a backpack
  
  
  • a bag of 1,000 ball bearings 
  
  
  • 10 feet of string
  
  
  • a bell 
  
  
  • 5 candles
  
  
  • a crowbar 
  
  
  • a hammer 
  
  
  • 10 pitons 
  
  
  • a hooded lantern
  
  
  • 2 flasks of oil 
  
  
  • 5 days rations 
  
  
  • a tinderbox 
  
  
  • a waterskin 
  
  
  • 50 feet of hempen rope
  
  
  
  


• Waterskin


• Small knife


• Token to remember parents by


• Map of the city grew up in (waterdeep?)


• Pet mouse (Reya) 


• Set of common clothes


• Belt pouch containing 10 Gp