Stats:
HP: 11/22
Str: 17
Dex: 17
Con: 13
Int: 13
Wis: 19
Cha: 13
Land Speed: 35 ft
Climb Speed: 15 ft
Size: Medium

Weapons:
Bite

Personal Inventory:
Prisoner's Garb

Home Inventory (current state unknown: probably still at the lodgings you claimed after eating its owner):
Corroded Sword
Puzzle Box
Dark Glasses
Weird Lens
Priestess's Letter
Enforcer's Club
Sack of Trinkets

Skills:
Climb +8 natural bonus
Knowledge: Local 4 ranks
Knowledge: Religion 1 rank
Stealth 16 ranks + 4 natural bonus

Feats:
Toughness
Weapon Finesse
Fleet
Simple Weapon Proficiency

Special Abilities:
Sneak Attack +1d6
Low-Light Vision
Scent
Assimilate: Appearance, special abilities, attributes, skill ranks, and feats are taken from devoured kills. You may only take 1/4 of a person's learned skill ranks through a kill, and only from people with more ranks than you; skill ranks stack.
Shape Memory: The current form you possess can be imprinted into your memory, allowing you to shift back to it after gaining a new form. This shapeshifting takes one minute. Only one extra form may be had at a time, imprinting a new form will overwrite the other one.
Finally, Tolly's General Rules:
First choice of action to receive 3 votes, no matter how stupid or suicidal, will be undertaken. Especially retarded choices may receive a "Are you sure?", first.
Addendum: If there just aren't enough posts after about 10 minutes, first to two (or just plain first) decides.

All consequences are decided in the end by my dice. If something attacks you, and the dice say it crits and nearly kills you, you better get ready to run.

Joke options may be given when I am tired and think they are hilarious. See: Death Blossom. These options are not actually on the table.

Please do not accuse me of railroading; I can quite honestly tell you I have no idea where this is going plot-wise. Just enjoy yourselves instead.


>Ladies and gentlemen, you may begin.

>look around

>You awaken to find yourself in a small cell with multiple other prisoners. There are three men in the cell with you. Two of them look rather intimidating. The cell is surprisingly dry and clean, save for a patch of something in the corner you don't feel disposed to examine closer. There is one barred door and no windows.

>What do you do?

>>14290422
Ask the unintimidating prisoner "What time is it."

>>14290422
Examine SOMETHING IN CORNER. Grapple PRISIONER. Get JOLLIES.

>>14290463
>>14290479
Which prisoner to grapple? The big one with the ham-hock fists?
>You decide against your better judgement to investigate the patch of unknown substance. Eugh. Somebody threw up earlier. In the dim light, you can't tell what time of day it is. You turn to your least imposing cellmate. You groan out "What time is it...?" The headache you've been ignoring spikes in full force. Ouch.
>"I don't know" he says in a slightly quavery voice. "Maybe late evening?"

Can we fade into the background by not talking to anyone for a few mins? We have all those ranks into stealth it is a real fucking shame to just attack someone in the open. Or just because we can roll a 40 in stealth doesn't remove the fact that it is us and 3 people in a cramp room, we can't go invisible after all. But if we can, fade into the corner. Actually I think we just do that and wait a bit. If we can sneak out when the guard comes back, all the better. The guard should see that someone is missing, and make a fit out of it, maybe even open the door.

There's three other people in a cramped cell. Speaking of guards:
>You hear footsteps outside the door. Two guards stops in front of the cell. Hey unlocks the cell door. "Alright, you there, the madman. Get out here."

What type of gear are these guards packing? Obviously they have stuff we don't (Read: They actually have stuff) so attacking them is a bad idea. I'm just curious as to what sort of stuff we're near in case one of them gets...distracted.

>>14290719
Start to get up and then pause and look around awkwardly and point to your chest and mouth the word "me?"

May I start by saying:
Can we please rethink jump-attacks and rushing headfirst into rooms of people who are aware of us? We have the +22 stealth (or is that +26?), let's use it.

>>14290776
Indeed, in the last quest we ended up with roughly the same stats, but with a godly climb and run. We pretty much played like a hunter from L4D. Pounce on victim from darkness, consume, if detected, run away at breakneck speeds.

>>14290776
Sure. But I need alternatives up. I think there was two people in the thread at the time of the poorly-thought-out decisions last night.
>>14290758
>>14290761

>The guards are wearing light, padded armour and metal helmets. They're carrying shortspears.
At the one's summons, you look around the cell at the other prisoners, then point at yourself in pantomime query. The guard nods. "Right, you. Get out here."

>>14290479
Oh, and also: Let us not start raping things, for that is the way to the falling rocks.

What form were we in when we Derped the Herp during the home invasion? Merchant, right? If we can spend any length of time alone, we can probably shift forms - though we'll also need different clothes, and we'll PROBABLY also need to find a new form, as well.

>>14290719
In any case, shrug, walk out door, keep eyes open for surroundings. We can run when we get a chance, or we can simply wait out the sentence if we only get pegged for burglary.

>>14290719

Don't react. If it's one of the other guys he's talking to, we'd just get into more trouble by getting up.

>>14290825

Dang it. Alright, let's do what he says, while making a bluff to appear as non-threatening as possible.

>>14290869
This.

>>14290825
Specify:
Be compliant.
Do not attack guard.
Do not attempt to grapple guard.
Do not attempt to steal any of guard's shit.
Do not attempt to run (at least, not yet).
Do not even use prestidigitation on guard.
Also, avoid doing anything illegal on bystanders until situation changes.

Basically, don't go full retard.

disarm a guard, kill the other guard with frst guard's weapon. eat bodies. If any prisioners haven't run yet, reward them for their trust by eating them, too.

>>14290923
:P

>>14290923

Fucking Veto! This kind of reckless shit is why we're in prison! Wait and bide your time. They're bound to leave us alone with a careless guard eventually, and then we can tear his throat out with our teeth and take his form.

Seems a pretty good consensus. Also, CA. Are you indicating to pretend deafness?
>As you step out into the hallway, you notice that unlike the cell, it's actually pretty well lit. After a couple minutes' walking, one of the guards asks you "Is it true you broke into the Kerdo villa nearly naked?"

>>14290953
>"Is it true you broke into the Kerdo villa nearly naked?"
Respond with silence. Best to keep options open.
Say "Yes" and they know we're insane enough to do it, say "No" and it's a damn lie, act insane and they'll probably buy it and lock us in a damn straitjacket.
Just keep your damn head down and move forward.

Also: Continue not going full retard.

>>14290953

"I don't remember :("

Bluff to seem sad and helpless and confused.

>>14291049
I can't agree; Guards have a high sense motive and our bluff is untrained.

>>14290953
I was not.
>>14290990
This sounds good.

>>14290953
Ask if it's true a different guard slept with speaking guards mother to incite some commotion and possibly slip away

>>14291073
You know what I said about not going full retard?
Yep. Don't do this.

My browser's messed up, so I'm not going to reference specific replies anymore.

>You shake your head. "I don't remember... I was going about my day and then I woke up here."

>The guard shakes his head. "We'll see if the court believes that. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get off with an easy sentence."

The rest of the walk is quiet. The two guards don't indulge themselves in conversation on the job much, it seems. After a few twisting passages, you find yourself in a small windowless stone room with multiple guards and a couple prisoners.

What do you do?

>>14291129

Continue to play along. Our time will come.

>>14291129
This is a prison in a medieval fantasy world. There has GOT to be a rat or two around to take the form of. It'd be the easiest way out.

>>14291129
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>>14291129
We wait.
Ask prisoners if there's anything the judge and/or jury particularily like or dislike - if there's any flaw in their logic, or strong emotion, we can play on to increase our chances of getting an easier sentence or earning their favor.

Also, do not attack anything, or attempt to eat anything, or attempt to steal anything, or show of any doppleganger abilities, or try to run.
Basically, continue not going full retard.

>>14291166
Cannot take form of anything without Humanoid subtype. However, that's a damn good idea.

>>14291157
This is a good idea and I support this.

>>14291202
I was under the impression that we can take the form of anything yet can only have humanoid templates for formshifting at will.

Wow, you guys are playing it cautious. Wonder why?
Also, my javascript's been enabled the whole time. I wonder if it has anything to do with all pictures on 4chan being unviewable from the thread pages.

>You wait for about half an hour. Finally, the guards drag you through a door into a court. The courtroom is massive, and built from massive rough-hewn red stone blocks. Large rows of stone benches sit mostly empty; seems that there's no high-profile trials ongoing. High on a dais, three men sit on a single mat. You're left standing alone below the judges.
>The three judges speak simultaneously. "Prisoner, what is your name?"

>Wow, you guys are playing it cautious. Wonder why?
We have seen, sir, what happens to players who do not take it cautious.

>Prisoner, what is your name?
"I don't remember."
We never did get the merchant's name. Might as well go with the honest answer for now.
Are we currently shackled or bound in any way?
Look around for any exits that would require a Climb check to reach (for those without a climb speed, like us). Those are our ways out if we get an opportunity.

>>14291246
Our name is Kull.

We'll blame insulting a gnome for our actions

>>14291246
Do we know any languages besides whatever passes for Common?

If not, lesse...we're in human form...Erhard Fiedler? Let's go Germanic up in this bitch.

>>14291246
Also, these are motherfucking JUDGES. Their Sense motive can and will be through the fucking roof, and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a Zone of Truth or a Detect Lies around here somewhere.
If you bullshit them, EXPECT them to pick up on it.

>We'll blame insulting a gnome for our actions
This seems to be the best idea we have.
However, as a merchant and resident of this town, I'm not sure if we -can- reliably lie to the judges about our name. They might very well know us.
Entirely possible to blame the goddamn gnome for everything, though.

"H-Ham, I think..."

Act befuddled, slightly dazed. (Maybe not so far from the truth at this point, since we just barely escaped bleeding to death.)

I have sort of a plan if anybody cares to hear it. Play ourselves off as being generally confused and out of it and subtly imply that gnomes bewitched us and were responsible for our actions. When we get a good opportunity, activate our Prestidigitation ability (or whatever it was called, can't find it on the list), and use it to create general chaos to back our our "gnome bewitchment" story.

sure is tripfag in here.

Our name is Nom, remember?

>>14291275
I wouldn't suggest escaping in a room full of guards presumably armed w/ crossbows, but yea might as well say we don't know/remember our name and don't look too crazy. Don't want to get locked in an asylum.

>>14291246
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius
Husband to a murdered wife
Father to a murdered son
and I will have my vengeance

>Our name is Nom, remember?
That is why the very LAST response we will ever give these people is the word "Nom". Power of names.

>>14291319
I'd like to avoid using a magic ability. They could recognize the magic.

>>14291320
>>14291340
I wasn't aware that Nom was supposed to be a permenant name, I thought it was just supposed to be an alias for our current child form, to be discarded when we discard that form.

Fine, not Nom.

HASTUR.

>You do your best to look confused. "Good sirs, I-I have no idea what happened. I can't remember my name, or what I was doing. The only thing I can remember was berating a gnome for... for... something."

>The judges confer amongst themselves. The middle one speaks. "Nameless prisoner. You stand convicted of invading the Kerdo villa and assaulting a servant thereof. For your crimes, you will serve in the city labor force for 1 year. Do you have anything to say?"

>>14291365

This. Nom is a small, ratty childlike gnome. We're whatever the hell ends up coming out of our mouths.

>>14291396
accept the punishment, it isn't like we can't just shape shift our way out of it

>>14291396

Quietly defer to the wisdom of the judges. Look like a sad puppy dog.

>>14291396
I broke into a house and hurt someone? They weren't hurt badly were they?

>>14291396
Not much we can do at the moment. Just keep looking for an opportunity as it presents itself.

>>14291396
"If Your Honours insist, but Good Sirs...what did I do? All I remember is waking up with a horrible headache."

Technically true, going back to DBQ I. Although I'm not sure about the headache.

We need to play up the fact that we are in the image of the trinket seller that is usually at market. As far as anyone is concerned, the last time anyone saw us, was right after a gnome chased after us into a dark ally. Then showed up again, naked, in some rich house.

We have no idea what our name is.

>You remain silent. At some unseen signal, two guards take you away. You're shackled, stuffed in a cart with multiple other prisoners and transported across the city. You are then unshackled and marched with the other prisoners into what appear to be barracks. You're placed in with a fairly hard-bitten looking group of men as they bunk down for the night.

Actions?

>>14291455
I don't know about that, we have no real idea who our current form was beyond him being a merchant with a family.

>>14291478
Alright, lets scope the place out, they can't hold a shapeshifter.

>>14291478
pretend to be asleep until the dead of the night, then slit a mans throat. hide the body somewhere and smear blood over a prisoner, with the knife of the crime next to him

>>14291483

Dude didn't really have a family. All his abilities and skills that we had the option of taking from him indicated that he was a liar and a charlatan.

>>14291396
>>14291478
Action: wait until I see where they send us to labor.
They're probably watching for escapees on the first night, after all.

... Come to think of it, Hide checks. Lots of them. Spot and Listen to see if the prisoners are all asleep, and how the guards react to us hiding. Exactly ~how~ closely are they watching the barracks?

>>14291506
We have no knife

>>14291506
And of course we'll hide the body in our stomachs, carefully.

Hey, if we take Unfortunate Dude's form, and instead smear the blood on OUR bunk...Profit? Have the judges think we're dead, obviously not really be...

Of course, we have to be damn sure we can do it. Also, we have no knife.

>>14291478
Make a shiv in secret. Wait til someone is alone or some other good opportunity. Always be on the lookout for a small animal or something.

>>14291499
Not sure if they can or can't, but something tells me this won't be the easiest place to escape from. At the very least, we can wait a day to see where they march us, and then escape from where-ever's easiest.

>>14291506
I am against this because I do not see the 'reward' to go with this risk.

>>14291512
Ah, good to know.

Anyway, before the question pops up and we get asked what our bloody name is, let's pick something generic and easy. Someone suggested "Kull">>14291287, and that'll be good enough.

>>14291538
Stealing the body of a prisoner and assuming his identity will not change our current situation.

>>14291478

We do need to consider replenishing our missing HPs. Still, let's take this slow at first, give it a few days before we make a move.

>You decide to remain passive until you see a good chance to escape. You sleep rather lightly that night. The next morning at dawn, the barracks is awakened with the sound of a massive gong. The guards escort your column of prisoners through the streets, shackled and chained foot-to-foot. Your work assignment for the day appears to be digging a large pit into the earth.
Do you wish to take action during the morning hours?

Also, I really don't like this scheme, whatever it is. You know, with the pink and such. Eugh. I can't change it either.

>>14291617

Try to remain vigilant. If we get a chance, we may be able to steal some keys from a guard with our magic. Other than that, just keep up our persona of a sad, befuddled, helpless man.

>>14291649
This is reasonable and I agree entirely with it.
Memorise the locations we walk through if possible.

>>14291617
I'm with >>14291649 on this. Also what is our hps at this time?

>>14291617
watch how the guards act and are patrolling for now

HP is 13/22.
>Checking your body during the night, it seems they healed you somewhat before throwing you in a cell. Crossbow wounds still hurt like hell, though. Probably a good thing you can't see your face.
>You try to figure out if there are any weaknesses in the placement of the guards watching you.
Perception check 17
>You can't pick out any way to escape yet. Over the morning, you try to watch out for an out. One of the guards yells at you to get back on the job. "There's nowhere to run, convict! Back to work!"
>By the midday hours, the pit is at least a hundred feet deep, and about 30 feet wide. Wooden supports are being placed as you dig down. The guards halt work, and march the detail in formation back to the barracks.

Keep watching?

>>14291759
Yes. Are we still shackled?
I'd rather escape at night if possible.

>>14291759
When the fuck do they feed the prisoners?

>>14291617
Righto, chain-ganged. Welp, let's get through the day and see if we don't pass out from heat/hunger. We can start fashioning lockpicking tools...maybe...from stray things we find, and eventually get the fuck outta Dodge.

>>14291649
Also this.


Hey, our forms are merchantdude and Nom, right? So...Nom's smaller than the merchant...which means he can slip through shackles that would bind the merchant. I'll just leave this here and wait for a chance to use it...

How far up/down the chaingang are we?

>>14291805
>>14291617
Eh, too late. Either way, it holds true. As for the pink and such, try the styles on the bottom right. /tg/'s is Yotsuba B.

>which means he can slip through shackles that would bind the merchant.
Takes 1 minute to do.
In view of guards.
We will get our faces completely and utterly bashed in, crossbowed, and dead if we try it.

>>14291805

Night would be good, but if we can get a guard alone to nom, that would be even better.

>>14291835
Smart guards never work alone. Even if we did, we can't take one in a straight up fight.

>During the midday respite in the barracks, an absolutely massive cauldron of stew is wheeled about the barracks. Mess is taken in the group quarters. You notice several new arrivals holding on to their spoons. The guards don't seem to care. After a few hours rest, the detail is brought back out the worksite.
Assuming you want another Perception check: 6
You still notice nothing. Late in the afternoon, the detail hits an underground tunnel. The walls of the shaft above collapse.
Reflex save 18
You manage to somehow dodge the falling wall of dirt, stone, sand and debris. You hear wounded men in the darkness.

>>14291841

We might be able to. We have a natural bite and sneak attack, and enough magic to make a distraction long enough to chomp someone.

Assuming we don't get the chance, we'll have to come up with a plan using our cell mates.

Speaking of, let's start talking to those guys when we get the chance. Learn about them, and from them. It'll make it easier to decide who to eat. Hell, maybe one of them will be getting out of here soon.

>>14291852
How many men are UNwounded in the darkness?
Are we still shackled?
Do we hear guards approaching?

Limp our way out of the hole and FEIGN BEING WOUNDED. They might take us off the chain and to a medic, and that's really all the opening we'll need.

>>14291852
suddenly wish we had taken darkvision instead of prestidigitation.

Alright can we go deeper into the tunnel? And if so, would it be possible to drag a prisoner with us and eat him?

>>14291852

I hear lunch in the darkness! OM NOM NOM NOM

>>14291852
>>14291881
Also, don't eat any of them unless they're damn clearly the only one alive and there isn't anyone approaching. We get seen eating while we're chain-ganged, and we DIE.

>>14291852
What side of the collapse are we on, the side leading out or the side going deeper?

>>14291824
Herp. Very well.

Examine surroundings, anything we can use to smash our bindings with in this newfound tunnel? Alternatively, shapeshift nao. I doubt the guards are in the pit with us.

>>14291890
>>14291885
About the eat someone options, if we are on the side of the tunnel not accessible to the outside, then eating is fine, but only after we shift to child form and slip out of our shackles.

>>14291909

Seconding shapeshift now. Change to Nom to get out of the shackles, then if it doesn't look like anyone's coming, find the nearest injured man and quickly devour him to speed up our healing.

>>14291926
ADDENDUM: See eating the others in that situation will make it look like our merchant form got eaten too.

Clarification of your situation.
>You are in total darkness. The stone floor beneath your feet would be smooth, if it weren't for loose debris. You can hear the cries of at least three wounded men, and can smell the metallic tang of blood in the dusty air. You cannot hear any sounds from the outside world.

>>14291934
TOLLY, we need more info on the condition of the cave!

>>14291950
Shapeshift and slip out of our shackles NOW!

>>14291961

TRANSFORM AND NOM OUT

>>14291950
Really wish we had taken darkvision instead of prestidigitation.

>>14291984

Hey now, we might be able to make a light source with prestidigitation. We don't know until we try.

>>14291971
>>14291961
WAIT! NO! We can't do this, it's too dark for our low light vision in here. We have to stay shackled and *sigh* try and save these guys. Then try and dig out and hope the tunnel is important enough to be dug out by another crew

>>14292001
Consensus suggests we're going to try shapeshifting out of shackles, in view of whoever else is working down here, who probably don't like monsters, and then either running into an unknown area in the dark -or- climbing up a long deep hole with crossbow guards.

I'd say: Let's see how this works out!

It's the perfect chance to escape. For all we know, they may never bother to dig this place out. We're just prisoners, remember? They're more likely to collapse the tunnel on our heads and dig out what's left later.

>>14292019
>>14292019
If we can't see, none of them can. Though now that I think about it that's going to make finding them and eating them more difficult

>>14291852
Go go gadget DM.

>>14291950
Is the tunnel blocked by debris? If we venture into the darkness we should be able to find something with darkvision.

>>14291950
'save' the men, and then eat them

Right then.
>You shift form to the little ragamuffin. The prison uniform is rather encumbering now, but you quickly roll the sleeves and legs and try to make the best of it. You pull your now-smaller feet through the shackles, and listen more carefully.
Perception check 21
>You can smell an unconscious wounded man near your position. He's only about 8 feet away. Beyond that, you can tell by hearing there's about 3 other men with you on this side. 2 are wounded. 1 is either unconscious or uninjured. You hear clinking. Sounds like he's fine, and trying to take off the manacles. You break the unconscious man's skull with a rock, then attempt to eat him quietly. One of the other men screams in terror. "Something's in here with us!"

>>14292083
"IT'S COMING FROM THE TUNNEL!"
Noting that we are, in fact, nowhere near the goddamn tunnel.
Distractions for the win.

contd.
HP: 14/22
Choose one:
Bluff +3 ranks
Diplomacy +3 ranks
Sense Motive +2 ranks
Sleight of Hand +1 rank
Deceitful

>>14292083
That's exactly the kind of reaction I wanted, finish our meal can we tell which of the men is closest? If not just tug on the chains, If they pull back then it's one of the guys who is awake, if not it's the unconscious one and we can grab him, drag him out of reach, and eat him to.

>>14292083
They're in the dark and terrified which means easy prey. Also I doubt any guards will come in for rescue immediately, especially with a monster in the tunnel...wait is he even talking about us!?

>>14292115
What is Deceitful?

Bluff +3 ranks, please.
Also he doesn't have any higher CON? Blast.

And before anyone asks, deceitful is +2 to disguise and forgery.

Bluff.

Bash in the head of the guy that's yelling and nom him.

>>14292151
I'm for Bluff+3 as well

>>14292137
OOh, good point. Better take a quick look behind us for glowing eyes or something, it's supposed to be pitch black, so if it's us he's talking about then we must be a pretty noisy eater.

>>14292115
Unfortunately we can't take advantage of the damn confusion to escape, still, because people will be like "Lol no shackles, shooty shooty". Hope the tunnel's safe to exit.
Any of these men have a light source?

Deceitful is +2 bluff, +2 disguise in pathfinder.
>Little bits of knowledge of just how to get people to want to believe you, things like how to stand, how to speak, and such filter through you. Your hunger, ignored for the past 24 hours or so, rages to life.
Perception 23
>Besides the earlier noises, you can now hear something in the dark. It's an unfamiliar noise... almost a snuffling sound.

I'm taking a short break, be back in 20-30 minutes.

Let's finish eating and then try prestidigitation to see if we can make some light.

>>14292213
Well, shit. How high is the ceiling I wonder? We could climb the walls and hide above/beside the other prisoners, if the thing is hostile, it will go for them first as they will be closest?

>>14292213
Which of the men nearest to us looks the toughest (high CON)? Eat him, then get the HELL out.
Do not eat everyone, leave some of the weaker ones for the snuffling monster to eat.
What snuffling monster would you find underground, anyway? A Mole? A Badger? whatever it is, it's giant enough to make this tunnel, so GTFOin's advised after we NOM some CON.

>How high is the ceiling I wonder?
However high it is, the tunneling creature can reach it. But the size of the tunnel is important to know.

>>14292242
We can't see, and the tunnel out may very well be blocked, meaning we have to go deeper to go anywhere. If we can ambush this thing in here with us, we may be able to take a trait that will make navigating the darkness easier.

>>14292260
Wait until we can see the thing before ambushing it. We don't know how powerful or weak it is.

>>14292256
Doesn't matter if it can reach the ceiling as long as we can sneak by the other workers and put them between it and us. While it does whatever it will do with them, we may be able to ambush it. The snuffleing means it probably is tracking by scent, so if the other workers are in front of us it may not be able to notice us until we have the drop on it.

>>14292266

We CAN'T SEE. We are in total darkness >>14291950 Our low light vision won't help us here.

I saw we climb up a wall and use our Scent ability to track it, wait until it's distracted, them sneak attack it.

>>14292295
Thus, moving towards a more well-lit area is advisable.

>>14292318
Isn't the more well lit area on the other side of the cave in though?

All right, I'm back. What's consensus? Try to edge around whatever's there and flee? Eat a few convicts? Fight? Any combination thereof?

>>14292393
Climb the wall and move to put the convicts between us and the thing, prepare ambush.

>>14292393
No consensus.
We can't fight the damn thing in the dark; do you know how much -hit penalty we get from that?
I'd say head towards the light and see what's going on, listen for the monster and for guard reactions.

If possible, eat a convict, but not the one furthest into the darkness - we sacrifice that one to the creature.

>>14292430
What light? He said we were in total darkness, if there was light we could see via our low light vision

>>14292443
Weren't we digging a hole at one point, when we sidebreached an underground tunnel?
Holes presumably have light.

>>14292429

Again, climb the wall and use our scent to track it. If it starts to eat any of the prisoners, sneak up to it and jump on it's back and bite/sneak attack.

>>14292393
eat another convict
we need all we can get

>>14292449
We hit the tunnel and the walls ABOVE us collapsed. >>14291852

No light.

>You hear the snuffling noise come closer. You can also hear a sort of scraping, sweeping noise as well. You quietly step off to the side. You can hear the other two prisoners panicking. One pulls something from a concealed place in his uniform. Then you hear a whip-crack of a noise, and one of the men screams suddenly, trailing off far too quickly.

>>14292479
We can't finish the convicts while something dangerous is coming up on us though? Better to use them as a distraction and then eat them after we are done with the whateveritis?

>>14292500
Where's the closest GTFO?
That beast just ATE A DAMN PRISONER IN ONE ROUND.
we need to GTFO, and now.

>>14292500

Listen check, is it eating them?

Nah, prisoner's still there. He just isn't screaming anymore.

>>14292520
this. time to gtfo

>>14292500
another hunter, attempt to dominate the area surrounding your prey to coy it into backing away
by pissing and growling
yes, you heard me

>>14292520
We don't know exactly what it did, Thanks to our messy eating we must smell more like blood than like a living thing though, if we stay quiet and listen carefully we may be able to ambush it as it goes for the convicts. Or go unnoticed.

>>14292534
Listen/smell check, what's it sound like it's doing, how close is it. Hide check, stay still

>>14292540
Lol
No

>>14292544
Nah, it owns a prisoner in one round, we can't take it. GTFO.

>>14292544

This. Let's flatten ourselves against a wall, hold our breath, and wait to see what it does.

>>14292568
GTFO where?! the only way out is in the direction of that thing.

>>14292568

A completely helpless, probably wounded prisoner.

>>14292568
Shut up Ken. It might have tremorsense, if we move alot it could know exacly where we are

>You attempt to sidle along the edge of the tunnel, avoiding whatever just attacked the prisoner. Whatever it is, a large object slams against you, smashing you against the side of the tunnel as you attempt to pass it. You feel rough scales and tufts of fur, then crushing pain. You think a rib might be broken.

> the only way out is in the direction of that thing.
Bah. Wait for it to pass then move past it, then.
Thankfully, anything that lives underground has a pissweak move speed.

Dammit, forgot this
HP: 9/22

>>14292601
What? Damnit I could have sworn there were more votes for stay still than for escape

>>14292601
>>14292606
... Was this unavoidable or was there a way to escape it WITHOUT going past it?
Okay, it's a giant burrowing mammal and it does 6 without even trying. Can we PLEASE run away now?

>>14292601

Well, most animals don't attack by smashing you against a wall. It still doesn't know we are there. Stay still and our stealth roll should have it ignoring us. When it passes by, we can eat the dead prisoners it left in it's wake.

>>14292636
Honestly I could really use a map here.

>>14292636

Second. In this complete darkness, I'm not sure how many other choices we have. I'm assuming the thing is simply huge and it's smooshing us against the tunnel wall as it moves.

>>14292601

Jump on it's back and hold on, bite attacks on it's spine if we can

>>14292652
>>14292636
I'm agreeing with these two, because

>>14292666
is incredibly stupid.

>You elect to remain still. You hear the whip crack again, then the thing stops for a moment. It snuffles again, then the snuffling comes closer. It stops about a foot away from your head. You can smell oily fur and mucus, the aroma coming off what is probably the creature's head.

>>14292667
You know many tunnel dwellers that have good jumping abilities? If we are on it's back it can't smash us against the wall, and if it's as large as we think it won't be able to roll over and crush us

>>14292673
Stay still. It's now that we see whether the "Stay still and hide" people are correct, or have led us to death.

>>14292673

Nobody. Move.

>>14292673
>>14292673
Go low while we have a chance, and go for the throat!

>>14292681
Did you know that tunnels have things called Ceilings, and creatures have things called Spines that can Bend?
By Bending it's Spine, it can Crush us into the Ceiling.
Derp.

>>14292695
Lol. Yes, let's take on something 5 times our body weight, in the dark, when it's already poised to attack us, while our HP is low.
No.

>>14292698
You know, we never did get to find out how high this ceiling is.

The thing snuffles once more, then it slowly turns back to the convicts. You hear a slow and protracted sucking noise.

>>14292706
If it's a scavenger in any capacity, we smell like blood, and we are fucked if we stay still.

>>14292710
Map. Now.
What is in the "Direction the Snuffler went" direction of the tunnel?
What is in the "Direction we can move WITHOUT passing the Snuffler" direction of the tunnel?

Activate Prestidigitation. Let's see if we can make a little light to look at this thing.

>>14292733
Not anywhere within 20ft of us, of course.

>>14292710
I'm going through my MM but as of yet I cant seem to ID this thing

>>14292710
I'm imagining something like Shivering Isle's Hungers

>>14292743
Giant mole.

>>14292755
How do you explain the protracted sucking noise and scales?

We only have a 35ft land speed, and down here we could run right into a giant spiders web.

Fuck this is a shitty situation. I miss Jack's 2 claws 1 bite full attack round.

>>14292729
>What is in the "Direction we can move WITHOUT passing the Snuffler" direction of the tunnel?
How the fuck are we supposed to know that shit if we can't see?!

I love how you assume I use these resources. I'm a homebrew fanatic; it cuts down on metagaming.

You really don't need a map. There's you, there's the thing, there's a cave-in to one side, and unknown territory on the other.

Also, prestidigitation can't summon lights.

>You hear the sucking sound end. The beast shifts itself. Then the wet, slurping, inhaling noise begins again.

Has anyone actually stated an action for this round?

>>14292841

I did, trying to create some light, but it apparently won't work. Fuck, this sucks. Let's use the wall to help us along and move slowly and quietly away from this thing.

No. But idle discussion of what it could be based on resources I'm not using are boring. I'm just stimulating some interesting things, like panic and fear.

>>14292839
Ok, it kills or paralyzes and swallows it's victims or liquifies their insides and the sucks them out. It ignored us because it thought we were dead. There is one more convict over there, we should run and then climb up the wall to as close to the ceiling as we can

>>14292841
not sure but so far standing still and wishing we didn't exist at this current moment has worked beautifully

I still say we should have gone for the throat when we had a chance.

>>14292879

We have 9 HP, we're standing in pitch darkness, facing an unknown foe and our only method of attack is a relatively weak bite attack. I hate cowardice, but we got fucked hard at the end of the last session. I'm not going to risk our lives on such shitty odds. If we're lucky, maybe we'll find something to eat that'll help us even the odds.

>>14292868
>>14292872
Well, what's the vote? run or stay still?

Run away from the damn thing, and follow the wall.

>The thing finishes, then shifts around. It snuffles at you again then blows mucus over you. It shuffle/scrapes around again, then disappears in the other direction. After about 10 minutes or so, the noise fades.

Sniff around, see if there's anything left for us to eat.

>>14292939
Wonderful, and we still can't see. Well, best stealth our way over to the cave in and try and figure out what it did to those guys, maybe we can pick up whatever thing that one guy pulled from his clothing

>>14292950
second!

>>14292939
It may have used the mucus as a form of tracking. We will have to wash this stuff off as soon as we find an underground river or something.

>>14292939
check the corpses

>After what feels like ages, you get up. Your ribs feels sore, but you're alive. You carefully make your way over to where the two men were. They're gone. Completely. No trace, save for a small object one dropped. It's a spoon, with cloth wrapped around the handle and the bowl snapped off. The stump is sharpened. Seems to be an improvised weapon.
What do you do?

>>14293006
Wasn't there a third? possibly unconsious?

Inventory check: Prison Clothes, chains nearby, whatever we dug with, rock, "remains" of other prisoners (if there are any). Anything we can start a fire with, or even get some sparks going with? If so, aquire them, shapechange back to the merchant, and start getting some light. Hell, throw the damn chain up the well into some dirt, and climb up that back to the surface. Make it look like we're not using innate climban skills, but actually use them.

Pic related: We should've known better than to dig straight down.

>>14293006
Quoteing you:
>You can smell an unconscious wounded man near your position. He's only about 8 feet away. Beyond that, you can tell by hearing there's about 3 other men with you on this side. 2 are wounded. 1 is either unconscious or uninjured.

Apart from the one we ate you said we could tell there were 3 others

>>14293006
>>14293021
>>14293047
So did it eat all three and you just forgot about 1 or did it overlook a guy due to him being knocked out/dead? And if so can we eat him?

>missing persons
Personally, I'd just chalk that up to mental typos. Also the thing ate the entire body anyways (Possible romance option?), so it really doesn't matter how many there WERE, since there aren't any anymore.

We're stuck due to that cave in, right? How big rocks we talking here? Or just a metric fuckton of sand/dirt? If it's just sand and dirt, let's get excavating, sitting here all day won't do diddly for us. If it's rock...eh. Climb the pile and start pulling the ones highest up off. We should also change back to Merchant form, just for when/if we do get through the debris. I doubt the guards'll lower themselves down any time soon...

Easiest way out = ?

Nope, it ate two, you ate one, and the other man's missing.

>You decide to start digging at the debris. Maybe you'll get out. You shift into the adult form and start working.
>After hours of labor that feel more like days, you begin to hear muffled noises from above.

Let's place a hand against the wall and go the opposite direction of that thing for awhile before we try to dig up and out. It would really suck if we burrowed right back up into prison.

>>14293121
And how the fuck do we explain how we survived?

>>14293145
Hide and let the voices from above break the last few meters.
If we hide, we'll have a massive advantage to making a break for it.
Stay in Merchant form.
Try to stain the prison uniform so it isn't so noticable - make it dusty, in other words.

And just hide, wait for the others to break through, and sprint away when they aren't paying attention.

>>14293159
>+22 Hide
>Dark area
I'm hidden I ain't gotta explain shit.

>>14293145
Make sure we are in man form

>>14293159
We say we layed still until it went away

>>14293164

This, let's use our crazy stealth skills to hide in the shadows and let dinner come to us.

>You rub dirt and dust into your uniform, then flatten against the wall near the ceiling. You hear scraping noises, and the voices get louder. "...ut your backs int..." You begin to make out the guards, shouting at the prisoners to dig. Then light breaks through. The hole widens. A guard peers through the hole. "Something happened on this side! They're gone!"

What do you do?

>>14293222
Hide. Wait for the guards to either Go away, or Go past us.
Say nothing.
And for the love of god, no jump attacks, no peeing on anyone, no "Jollies", and no clinging to anyone's spine

>>14293222

Make a pathetic sounding wailing noise, pleading for help. When the guard pulls his head out of the hole, move to a different spot and hide again.

>>14293235
hide and say nothing. if we can manage to sneak out after they have left then we are home free

Knock PRISIONERS unconcious with ROCK. Remove their CLOTHING. Get JOLLIES.

Grab a nice sized rock that we can use as a weapon. Wait to see if a guard comes in.

>You remain clinging to the wall as the hole widens, as they send men to search down the tunnel. You scuttle into a better hiding place when nobody's near. The men search for some distance, then give up. They come back empty-handed. A few hours later, all searchers have left the cavern. Your muscles have been cramping with the uncomfortable position, and when you attempt to move you fall onto the cavern floor, adding to your bruises. It would seem you're free now. Elation fills you, despite your injuries and exhaustion

What do you do?

Get out of there, and start looking for our next shape, because the merchant one is no good any more. Catch some rats if we need to in order to heal up.

Go all Shawshank Redemption. Climb out that hole, and go revel in the rain, falling to your knees and throwing your hands out sideways.

Except I actually mean approach the entrance, lurk in the shadows, take a fucking 20 on perception, and if you seem clear, climb out.

>>14293303
Okay. Here's what we do.
We get a large distance away from the digsite.
We stay the hell away from the barracks.
We go to where we can't be seen.
We morph into Ratboy.
Then we go investigate the Gnome's house. If it's still safe, we sleep there. If it's not, we go find somewhere else to sleep.
Keep a look out for laundry or spare clothes or even some rags, so we aren't in prison gear.
And, as always, keep an eye out for easy food.

I assume it's night-time by now.

Fuck getting out of there. Let's explore this place.

>>14293303
We should change to kid before it's too late. That'll be our ticket out of prison.

>>14293321
Addin' on, do some Knowledge: Local. Mainly, where are some places to get a map, so we can see what's in the surrounding area? This town won't exactly stay favourable for us for long.

And let's head back to that crack den, on the way, in Merchant Man form. Get a couple quick meals, etc.

>>14293326
>>14293326
Exploring a dark place with no nightvision and no source of light strikes me as being not the brightest of ideas.

DM, throw something at us that gives us Common Sense. :P

Let's get out of here and go topside. Change into Nom, head home so we can clean up and change, and go find somebody we can eat to replace our old alternate disguise.

Question: When we picked up Shape Memory, we had Nom and our old default grey form. Did our second humanoid form replace the default, or do we effectively have three forms now?

>>14293348
Dude, stop syncing your timing with mine. It's kinda getting creepy...

But for reals, you seem to not be advocating indirect suicide, so I wish ye good luck as I must retire for the evening. Cheers.

>picture unrelated

Screw this, I'm done. Server problems are driving me up a wall. I'm concluding here. Any questions? Comments? Complaints?

>>14293372
When is the next session?

Friday or Saturday. This week's 3-day special was a feature of Spring Break. I don't have that much time at college, due to the world's worst major. Tolly out.

I has a sad.

It ends as soon as I get here? Dammit.