AOP 005 Cat chase

8:26 PM] Entropy: will watch where Boredom goes chasing the cat.

[8:27 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom swoops down and around.  Make a survival check for Boredom, please.

[8:27 PM] Entropy: Mine or Boredoms?

[8:28 PM] Entropy: ((17 if Boredom’s))

[8:28 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Boredom's.  Ok.))

[8:30 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom pursues and, in the lower decks, you hear through him "Un tel gâchis.  Such trouble these ones cause.  Ugh...we shall have to...wait...ROWR!"

[8:30 PM] The Blue Scale: The cat leaps out and pounces on Boredom.

[8:33 PM] Entropy: Is it an attack or a save?

[8:33 PM] The Blue Scale: Let's call it a save.  Make an athletics or acrobatics roll.

[8:34 PM] Entropy: ((15))

[8:37 PM] The Blue Scale: ((I am afraid that's not quite enough, as she gets a 16.))

[8:37 PM] The Blue Scale: The cat deals two points of damage to Boredom as she bounces off his head, sends him flying back and disappears into the darkness.

[8:38 PM] Entropy: has Boredom come back to me.

[8:38 PM] Entropy: Actually no.

[8:38 PM] Entropy: has Boredom keep looking.

8:43 PM] The Blue Scale: Here's where stuff going on in the hold will go.

[8:43 PM] The Blue Scale: Coppelia, you spy a fleck of yellow tail above.

[8:44 PM] The Blue Scale: You all hear a voice call out in common: "Must you mettle so?  It's such a pain."

[8:44 PM] Entropy: Boredom will be sticking relatively close to the Gray cat.

[8:44 PM] Coppelia: Stays invisible but looks towards where she saw the tail

[8:46 PM] Entropy: Boredom also goes back to being invisible.

[8:46 PM] The Blue Scale: Voice: "Uh.  Bon nuit to you all.  I bid you, adieu."

[8:46 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Saiph, you can also see where she is, up in the rafters.))

[8:47 PM] Saiph: is trying to get up to Goldie.  "Hey, why'd you run off?"

[8:47 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "Oh, it's you.  You can also be a cat, how strange?"

[8:47 PM] Saiph: Not uncommon where I"m from.

[8:48 PM] Saiph: Sorry about that, my friends were interested in your collar and they gave me very bad news I thought you should know.

[8:48 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "Oh?  What sort of bad news?"

[8:49 PM] Saiph: It's magic.  When you have it on, people can find you whenever they want to.  You won't be able to hide properly.

[8:49 PM] Saiph: Can you imagine how horrible that would be?

[8:50 PM] The Blue Scale: Roll deception, Saiph.

[8:50 PM] Saiph: To be honest, Saiph doesn't think he's lying.  It is magic and people can find it by looking for it.))(edited)

[8:50 PM] Saiph: ((I mean, my Persuasion is pretty much the same bonus so it doesn't really matter, I'm just rolling a d20 here.))

[8:51 PM] Saiph: ((ooh!  16.))

[8:51 PM] The Blue Scale: ((You can go for persuasion, then.  Ok.))

[8:51 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "...I am not sure I believe that.  It is an awakening charm."

[8:51 PM] Saiph: It's magic.  People can find magic pretty easily.

[8:52 PM] Saiph: What's an awakening charm?

[8:53 PM] Coppelia: ((While they’re talking do I notice anything unusual in this room?))

[8:54 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "It is a charm that gives me sapience on the level of humanoids...and better than many, frankly.  I can speak the common tongue, think critically, and engage with the charming fellow who shared it with me.  Mr. Dandy."

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[8:55 PM] The Blue Scale: Coppelia, roll perception.

[8:55 PM] Coppelia: ((17))

[8:55 PM] Saiph: ((19 insight.  Does she seem particularly sapient or is she being deceived?))

[8:56 PM] Entropy: ((The whole conversation has been in cat right?))

[8:56 PM] The Blue Scale: Coppelia You see a lot of crates and supplies.  Nothing terribly interesting, but you do see what looks to be some fancy mulch being transported.

[8:56 PM] The Blue Scale: ((This part has, yes.))

[8:56 PM] Coppelia: She walks over as quietly as possible to investigate

@Saiph

((19 insight.  Does she seem particularly sapient or is she being deceived?))

[8:56 PM] The Blue Scale: It's hard to tell as you only speak to her in cat, but she does seem smarter than your average cat.

[8:57 PM] Saiph: ((I was wondering if I got any insight because of the Speak with Animals I'm using.))

[8:58 PM] Saiph: You met this Mr. Dandy in Maylin, yeah?

[8:58 PM] The Blue Scale: ((It means you're not at disadv to read her when speaking in cat.))

[8:58 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "Indeed I did."

[8:58 PM] Saiph: And he just gave it to you?

[9:00 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "Indeed.  So generous."

[9:01 PM] Saiph: Mmm hmmm.  And you just... accepted it?  There was no trade?

[9:01 PM] Saiph: looks incredulous in cat.

[9:02 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "He had a request.  I board this ship.  Keep an eye on the sailors.  Especially the one you call Ephrim."

[9:03 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "And I'm bored now.  Once again, adieu."

[9:03 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie goes to leave.

[9:04 PM] Saiph: So with that critical-thinking brain, you didn't stop to think that Mr. Dandy might have put a spell on you to make you do what he wanted?  Let's try a hypothetical.  You find Mr. Dandy dead on the floor.  How long till you start eating him?

[9:05 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie leaps from the scaffolding to the floor. "You are so grotesque."

[9:05 PM] Saiph: Wow, you're not even a cat anymore.

[9:05 PM] Saiph: Gross.

[9:05 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie hisses and speaks in common now.  "You bite your tongue.  I am more a cat than you."

[9:05 PM] Saiph: I'm not too sure about that.

[9:06 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie goes to attack Saiph.

[9:06 PM] Coppelia: ((Do I see the cat fight start?))

[9:06 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Yes))

[9:07 PM] Coppelia: Goes to grab Cat Saiph

[9:07 PM] The Blue Scale: Roll athletics or acrobatics.

[9:07 PM] Saiph: ((I got stats for cat pulled up.))

[9:08 PM] Coppelia: ((23 for acrobatics))

[9:08 PM] Saiph: ((Saiph would try to resist.))

[9:09 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph, the cat lunges at you, and is stopped in midair by unseen hands.

[9:10 PM] Saiph: Okay.

[9:10 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie (in common) "Unhand me, specter!"

[9:10 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie lunges and swipes at the air.

[9:11 PM] Coppelia: Holds the cat as far from her person as possible without letting go

[9:11 PM] Saiph: ((Who is holding who?))

[9:11 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Coppelia has Goldie))

[9:11 PM] Coppelia: ((Invisible Coppelia))

[9:11 PM] Saiph: ((I thought she grabbed Saiph.))

[9:12 PM] The Blue Scale: ((No.  She has Goldie.))

[9:12 PM] Coppelia: ((She was just trying to stop the fight))

[9:12 PM] Saiph: yells at Coppelia and the imp, then.  In cat, so it's probably not terribly useful.(edited)

[9:14 PM] Coppelia: Keeps holding up Goldie, unsure how to proceed

[9:15 PM] Saiph: sighs, and reverts back to Saiph, and goes to grab the collar off of her.

[9:15 PM] Coppelia: Undoes Invisibility

[9:17 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "Well...this is undignified."

[9:18 PM] Saiph: Sorry, Goldie.  Can't let a cat be a stooge.

[9:18 PM] Saiph: I'll fix the collar if we can.

[9:18 PM] The Blue Scale: Give me a WIS save, Saiph.

[9:19 PM] Saiph: ((22.))

[9:19 PM] The Blue Scale: You reach over to grab the color and you feel a pull on your mind.  You're able to break through it though and release the collar.

[9:20 PM] Saiph: Yeah, definitely some mind messery going on.

[9:20 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie (still in common): "...and now I can't call anyone.  Thank you so much."

[9:20 PM] Saiph: LIke I said, if we can get the mind control garbage off of it, you can have it back.

[9:20 PM] Coppelia: Shakes her head at Goldie, as if in disappointment

[9:20 PM] Saiph: If not, I'll get you something better.

[9:20 PM] Saiph: All right?

[9:21 PM] Saiph: Maybe something with telekinesis.

[9:21 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "It wasn't just the awakening.  I was going to lead a crew, have a ship.  How many pirate captain cats are you aware of, you condescending, two-legged, ungroomed trogladyte?!?"

[9:21 PM] Saiph: Seven.

[9:22 PM] Coppelia: Shrugs

[9:22 PM] Saiph: No, eight.

[9:22 PM] The Blue Scale: Goldie: "...you are far more irritating now than when I first met you."

[9:22 PM] Saiph: Welcome to sapience.

[9:24 PM] Saiph: See, this is why I don't bother to try to be nice.

[9:24 PM] Coppelia: Shrugs again, unable to write or sign