Guardian Angel Haruki

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@Guardian Angel Haruki

Understood.

BTW, Brut still has a dragon gourd from Telemy Hill. If Jub doesn't find the herbs this time, would throwing the gourd down keep the fish around long enough for one more try?

@rush99999

Yeah, I'll allow it.

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@Guardian Angel Haruki

I just remembered that the help action exists. Would you allow me to apply that retroactively? If so, if Brutrumukk were to use his familiarity with animals to keep the fish calm and still during the search, would that be enough help to negate the disadvantage and give Jub that 24?

@rush99999

I'm going to have to say No on this.

1) Brutrumukk is frightened of this thing. So, he can't really approach the fish to calm it down. It's especially harder to calm something else down, if he himself is not calm at all. All he can do is toss the bits of the Duskmallow pie from afar.
2) Jub is using Mage Hand to fish through the intestines, so apart from your suggestion, there really isn't much else Brutrumukk can do to help the Mage Hand find the herbs.

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Ok.

Hilarious thought: I roll a nat 20 and end up fishing out Zybilna. Turns out she's been in this fish's stomach the whole time.

...

Nevermind, I got a 10.

@XxFellsingxX

You got something!
Roll another d100 for me please.

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That just means he can't get closer to the fish. He could still do other things, right?

@rush99999

He can, but it would be at disadvantage.

A frightened creature has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls while the source of its fear is within line of sight.
The creature can’t willingly move closer to the source of its fear.

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56.

@XxFellsingxX

You fished out a pouch. It has a notebook that shows what's written on it only when held upside down, and 2 Gold Pieces.

You can roll for your final attempt at disadvantage.

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15?

@XxFellsingxX

You got something. Go ahead and roll a d100 for me please.

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@XxFellsingxX 9 is a failure, so Jub got nothing.

Go ahead and roll at disadvantage for the second try.

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@Guardian Angel Haruki

Did you need Brut to roll Initiative too or was it just Jub that needed to roll?

@rush99999

Just Jub since he's fishing through the fish. Brutrumukk is under the Frightened condition when it comes to the fish.

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Got an 18 on the Arcana check.

Do I roll the Sleight of Hand checks all at once or just the first one now?

@XxFellsingxX

We can do the first one for now and go from there.

Let me send you the Arcana check result first. ^_^

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I got a 22. Jub is paying attention this time.

@XxFellsingxX

Fish got a 12. Jub is successful.

Jub now has 3 chances to use Mage Hand to get the herbs out of the fish. This will be a Sleight of Hand or Athletics check.

However, all of these checks will be at disadvantage, because Jub cannot see the herbs, and the Mage Hand does not have that sense of touch that a normal hand would have. So Jub would know if the hand grabbed something, but would not be able to tell the difference between a vase full of herbs or an intestine.

I would also like another Arcana check from you at advantage please.