TURN 10KineseN (Recital Sky)Now that I'm in the courtyard I'm going to run a few laps so I collect the bulk of the guards and then try to navigate into the throne room. If I succeed yell "SURPRISE!" as high as possible at the now presumably surprised king.
(2+1=3) You get ready for the big one, the ultimate prank! You run around the castle, get all the guards, and run to the throne room! But when you get there, the king is in the bathroom! Maybe you can still improvise something.
RandomNumberGenerator (Viper)Steal some clothes from the closet to act as a disguise, then slip out of the room and start walking through the hallways, looking for clues to the gem's whereabouts.
(?) You put on the blue silk robes. They fit fine, but they're a little gaudy. You head outside. Your guess is that the gem is in the treasury- even if everyone knows where that is, it's not openly advertised. You hear footsteps coming down the hall. You try your best to act casual. But it's not a guard, it's a drunk noble! "Ohh, there y'are, I toldja, Jerry, yeh were gonna mish the party if ye take sho long in yer bath. C'mon!" He takes your arm and leads you towards the Duke's quarters.
jay Kayell (Urist McAsskicker)I use my hammer to destroy the kneecaps of the fool running around with all the guards following him. Then I leave him there and try to figure out who gave me this box, they must suffer for their insolence! The fact that I wasn't technically given the box, but rather found it lying on the ground, is not important.
Eh, it had your name on it. Anyway, you run after the Yakety Sax guy. (1) You trip over and are trampled by the wave of guards. (6) You are unharmed, but several guards are fatally impaled on your spikey armor. Whatever, just rent-a-guards. Just before entering the throne room, you stop you hammer the guy who gave you the bogus present. (5+2=7)(4+2=6) VS (4)(4)
OH FUCK! You broke my kneecaps man! What the hell was that?
tehstefan (Roderick)Jim will die for his transgression!
Quietly enter the forest, being all ninja stealth like.
(3) You walk into the forest. Nothing has disemboweled you yet, but you're pretty sure you weren't quiet about it. You're going to have to go deeper in to find Jim's trail.
Wimdit (Laodike)Go to the CRIME SCENE where the Crafter Regnant was murdered. Surely there will be clues there.
It ain't pretty. He's in the shipwright's warehouse by the shore of the south River Fondue, nearly under the Cheesebridge itself. Reginald/Regnant (whatever you're going to call him) was stabbed in the back with a fine butterfly knife, still in the wound. In the sawdust, a set of bloody tracks lead out of the warehouse to the river, but only an expert tracker is going to get much farther than that. Reginald is holding a broken gold chain. One of the tarps that the shipwright uses to cover up planks and sometimes projects is lying on the ground, which isn't like him because he's extremely organized. The shipwright is at the Duke's latest party and if he isn't the murderer, probably hasn't found out about it yet (those parties can go on for days on end). The captain of the guard is here as well. Perhaps when everyone has cleared out you can do a more thorough investigation.