Mission 4: Mikawa Recruitment

[Squall255]

Rainer uses a swift action to switch out his death ray for his thieves tools and then tries to pick the lock:

[Zanaikin]

The door's built-in lock does not budge...

( next: Shigeru/Marty + Terasaka/Judson )

[TheDude51]

Terasaka finishes casting the Wall of Stone.

[Sajuuk]

Shigeru continues to monitor the wavering shadow.
(Perception: 1d20+18 = 29)

[Zanaikin]

( the shadow seems like it's totally normal )

The guards still don't seem to notice anything, and the patrols you see stop for a break but are still examining their surroundings in relative alertness...

( next up: Yuuta/Dave, Yumi/Judson )

[TheDude51]

Yumi holds her position and scans the wall below.
(Perception 1d20+20=38)

[Laharl]

Yuuta looks around again, trying to figure out where the damn key might be. (Perception 33, See Invis)

(Dammit I wish Knock were on the Witch list...and that I weren't cursed to make it useless even if it were.)

[Zanaikin]

Yumi sees a person's silhouette at E5, although not very clearly since they were hiding behind the battlements

Yuuta actually sees a ninja there, looking towards the southeast (although not at any party member) as though he realized something. There are also two shadows that might be more of them. He still doesn't spot the dam key though and wonders if its even anywhere close to here.

( back to Yuuta/Dave + Yumi/Judson if you want to do anything; active perception check took only a move action. I'll update at end-of-day if there aren't any posts )
( EDIT: holding off till tomorrow morning per Dave's request )

[Laharl]

Yuuta whispers the locations of the ninjas he sees and suspects he sees, before chugging the extract of Improved Invisibility.

Invisibility rounds remaining: 11

[Zanaikin]

The 'ninja' moves to E6 and casts a spell that slammed into the illusion field, causing the entire barrier to flare for a brief second, but didn't do anything other than that...

Sugire: "Crap, I think that was a Dispel. Illusion is still up though, but I bet someone saw that..."

Another ninja moves to G6 and tosses a rock down, bouncing it hard off the armory gate with a deafening BANG.

( Rainer, Terasaka, Yuuta : make a Fortitude save vs DC15 or be deafened for 1 hour )

( next up : Rainer/Squall + Shigeru/Marty )

[Squall255]

Rainer is deafened:
He then tries really hard to pick the lock: Hero point for +8: 36

(fuck you dice, out of my last 3 d20 rolls I've yet to roll above a 6 T_T)

[Zanaikin]

Rainer felt a click as the lock finally opened. The slight nudge he gave the door proved that it was also pretty heavy--- may actually take a few seconds of time, or some extra help, to open.

( next : Shigeru/Marty + Terasaka/Judson )

[Sajuuk]

Shigeru descends to 120' towards I11, deciding that offensive action right now would be a bad idea.

[TheDude51]

Fort Save: 1d20+6 = 18

Terasaka activates his curse, then steps forward and slams the door open to push his way into the armory.

Strength check: 1d20+14 = 20

[Zanaikin]

( judson activated a trap card... )

As Terasaka slams into the door, pushing it aside and moving into the armory, a piercing alarm began to shriek from within dark room, and a thick layer of fog suddenly pours out of its depth, stopping at the gates but obscuring all vision within.
( the inside of the room is completely dark; and the fog also cuts any vision beyond 5ft even if you have light/darkvision )

"Intruders!" shouts were resounding across this side of the castle, and the two nearby patrol teams moved in. But both of them looked confused as they saw the guard still standing besides the warehouse. Sugire was doing a good job making the guard seem just as confused as everyone else, shouting back to their inquiries: "I don't know what happened! The alarm just went off from within!"

"What was that bang earlier!" asked the samurai.

"I have no idea!"

"Maybe we should check," an ashigaru (archer3) on the southern patrol asked the samurai in command, "magical break-in or something..."

( next up: Yuuta/Dave + Yumi/Judson )
( Dave I still need your fortitude save vs. deafening )