In-game problem solving
So, through a series of questionable decisions, two of the PCs of the Skype-game (moderately house-ruled D&D 3.5) have managed to get themselves captured by the enemy. Well, the people we're pretty sure are the enemy. Well, people we're pretty sure are the people we're pretty sure are the enemy.
They're elves, all right, and they were attacking us!
The characters: Ath, rogue 1/paladin 3, and Emgeri, fighter 1/ranger 3. Both human.
The situation: We're in a Zone of Truth, but there's also an unidentified fire-zapping spell (presumably a spell) on the edges of the circle. We are not tied up or restrained in any way besides this fire thing, which seems likely to fry us if we try anything. There was a guard, who was asking us questions, but he left the room.
Ath has 10 HP remaining, Emgeri has 14. Ath has one point of Lay on Hands left, and would like to save it for an emergency. Armor class is way worse than it should be, because we started this day by going to a fancy dress elven party, and guess what doesn't look good with elven fancy dress?
That's right, armor.
The supplies: Emgeri has "a sheet and a half of parchment, a pen (metal nib), some small quantity of dried ink, string, a few pieces of leather that he was braiding or something, small quantity of coins", and a magic ring that locates the rest of the party. Ath has a similar ring, a dagger, a magic ring that improves his ability to use a sword, some rosemary, a wand of Detect Magic, a wooden holy symbol, a whistle, wooden marbles, and a glove. Also, you know, clothes and stuff.
The back-up: There isn't any. We did tell the people we were hanging out with that we were going out to look around, but they're mostly concerned with guarding the elf prince, who just got poisoned (along with the top third of the elven nobility). Three of the other four party members have magic rings they could use to locate us, but all three of them were poisoned and are in various states of semi-consciousness/hallucinations, and may or may not have even noticed we're gone.
. . . Anyone have any brilliant ideas on how we can get out of this?
They're elves, all right, and they were attacking us!
The characters: Ath, rogue 1/paladin 3, and Emgeri, fighter 1/ranger 3. Both human.
The situation: We're in a Zone of Truth, but there's also an unidentified fire-zapping spell (presumably a spell) on the edges of the circle. We are not tied up or restrained in any way besides this fire thing, which seems likely to fry us if we try anything. There was a guard, who was asking us questions, but he left the room.
Ath has 10 HP remaining, Emgeri has 14. Ath has one point of Lay on Hands left, and would like to save it for an emergency. Armor class is way worse than it should be, because we started this day by going to a fancy dress elven party, and guess what doesn't look good with elven fancy dress?
That's right, armor.
The supplies: Emgeri has "a sheet and a half of parchment, a pen (metal nib), some small quantity of dried ink, string, a few pieces of leather that he was braiding or something, small quantity of coins", and a magic ring that locates the rest of the party. Ath has a similar ring, a dagger, a magic ring that improves his ability to use a sword, some rosemary, a wand of Detect Magic, a wooden holy symbol, a whistle, wooden marbles, and a glove. Also, you know, clothes and stuff.
The back-up: There isn't any. We did tell the people we were hanging out with that we were going out to look around, but they're mostly concerned with guarding the elf prince, who just got poisoned (along with the top third of the elven nobility). Three of the other four party members have magic rings they could use to locate us, but all three of them were poisoned and are in various states of semi-consciousness/hallucinations, and may or may not have even noticed we're gone.
. . . Anyone have any brilliant ideas on how we can get out of this?