"Let's just kill the guy and get it over with. I think I'm getting kinda lonely."
((Hint hint, this might be a good insight check for ye folks on Alexander. I think it would be amusing if Symon succeeded on it.))
"Yo, Dragonborn. Mind telling me what these two items do? They seem fancy."
Show him the magical bag and lantern.
(7+9) (11+9) The bag is a deepfarers pouch ((a belt pouch that holds 1 hour's worth of air)) and the lantern is a lamp of discerning ((gives a +1 to insight and perception checks to you and all allies in the range (5 bright, 3 low, 2 dim). You do not need to light or refill it)). You hurt your eyes a little bit as Nadarr opens the shutter really quickly as you're gawking at it.
((Since you suggested it...))
Insight check on Alexander and his statement
Karl puts the statue in his Bag for sale and splitting of proceeds in the future, and asks Nadarr (or the spirit possessing him) to try to identify the mastiff statue.
"Perhaps this is a rude question, but how old are you, Thoradin? Giving the shifting we felt, could the awaking of these horrors be cyclical?"
(19+9) It is an Onyx Dog. ((Once/day, summon a black mastiff as a standard action. As a free action, you may spend a healing surge to give temporary HP equal to your healing surge value to the dog. As an at will, when you are attacked and the onyx mastiff is next to you, as an interrupt, the dog makes a bite attack.))
Thoradin laughs and then stands up straight.
"I suppose I keep talking to ya like ye're supposed ta know my age. Sorry about that lads. I'm seventy four years old, but I look younger then I say I am, aye lad? I'm just barely past what most dwarves consider an adult."As strange as it is to say, he does indeed look young, even for a dwarf his age. Thoradin suggests you head downstairs next, but to keep your weapons handy; you may have the height advantage, but one corpse pile on the stairs and height means nothing.
For absolutely no reason whatsoever, a shiver goes up Alexander's spine when he hears the words "how old" and says quietly to himself
"Must be my imagination."
((I hope I'm not breaking anything with this. I just thought I'd put it out there in a comical sense.))
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CRIT vs 2+?) ((I don't even know if he's bluffing or whatever, but you hit the DC nonetheless.))