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(For this check, the making of the check is you studying the blades, then jumping through based on a perceived pattern (whether or not your perception is correct). If you aren't going to jump through, there is no check to be made.)

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(wouldn't this be more of an investigation check? Would i be able to impart the pattern to others if correct and guarantee their safe passage or otherwise make it more likely?)
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(Anyone attempting to jump through the blades will have to make their own check)
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(awwww dang, well back to the drawing board then lol)

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While Eikka assesses the integrity of the boards I pull out my dagger and begin using it in an attempt to pry the floorboards up. 
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Anyone attempting to jump through the blades will have to make their own check

(So one person couldn't study the blades and then shout "go" to the others?)
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(So one person couldn't study the blades and then shout "go" to the others?)

(That would probably just mean 3 separate checks all done via me fmpov)
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(do you have a dagger or sword on you? If you do try to pry or smash the floorboards then pry open what's exposed if anything. We gotta try that real quick then hightail it back down and up thru the stairs to first floor and out where Roberts and Earth made it if that fails.)
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(though each separate person can do their check with assistance from another and roll with advantage, no?)
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(And I can cast guidance)
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(So one person couldn't study the blades and then shout "go" to the others?)
(Sure, a person could study the blades for someone else, but it's still three separate checks)

(though each separate person can do their check with assistance from another and roll with advantage, no?)
(If you could explain how one person could assist another in doing this, sure)
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RAW under "working together" is 

"a character can only provide help if the task is one that he or she could attempt alone." 

This could honestly go either way though cause though assessing the blades can be done alone, I'm puzzled as to how it would be working together and not realistically one person coaching another instead/making that check themselves in lieu of the other doing so.)




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If you could explain how one person could assist another in doing this, sure

(Yeah, that's the same issue I was having with the idea. How it would realistically be assistance, rather than coaching or commanding ex: "jump now")
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(It's was an Intel check when Drafter mistakenly did it, so me or kinder would prob make the most sense.

@Drafter, would Kindertina or I be better at studying the blades. By that i mean who would have the higher bonus?)
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(Likely Kindertina, though not by much)
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(I'm confused why it's not an investigation check and just straight intelligence, but given that, yeah she prolly does have a higher one. 

I have inspiration so I'll probably check for myself and use that to ensure it if that's what we decide. 


Honestly though, I think our best bet is to try to pry the floorboards up and get to a lower floor, or just go back down the attic stairs and up the stairs to the first floor.

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(we should have probably just turned around to begin with tbh. If any of us gets hit by the blades we're likely to be too damaged to survive even a jump from the second floor and the light damage that would do. Plus the windows have been bricked from what Drafter relayed, so jumping out the second floor might not even be an option.

Honestly, given second thought. I think we should just stop trying to get out this way cause its wasting time and go straight for the way Roberts and Grahf did.)
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(Eikka will not turn from her intended course of action unless you prompt her to. That would be against her character.)
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(I dunno why its not Perception, but it goes off of INT🤔)

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@Earth
Your Wisdom (Perception) check lets you spot, hear, or otherwise detect the presence of something. It measures your general awareness of your surroundings and the keenness of your senses [link]

When you look around for clues and make deductions based on those clues, you make an Intelligence (Investigation) check

It seems like either could honestly be used in this situation tbh

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(ok that's cool, but do you think we should keep trying or stop and reverse course to what Grahf and Earth took?)
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(Out of character the most prudent course would be to go the way that is already been cleared. Would Snerp have any in game reason to suggest that?)
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(Maybe its INT because you need to detect a pattern 🤔?)
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I stop trying to pry the floorboards and look at Merlin and Kindertina

We need to stop this and take the way Grahf and Roberts took. Maybe they had better luck, but we're not having much here and it doesn't look like we have much time to keep trying to find a way down.

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But that is behind us. Eikka says in surprise. Shouldn't we go forward?
(If I were you I'd argue with her.)
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But that is behind us. Eikka says in surprise. Shouldn't we go forward

We've hit a path that will take us too long to continue forward. We're going backwards yes, but so we can move forward again! Hurry

I dash through the hole in the wall and back down the stairs. Running for the stairway that leads to the first floor, and out the way Roberts and Grahf went.  

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I follow Snerp dragging the drow behind me. But Snerp we're going backwards!
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Snerp, Eikk and Luraxt head back down the stairs and up the secret stairs Roberts and Grahf took. Amid the smoke-filled room, they see an opening leading outside.
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Hold your breath elf. Having found the way forward Eikka does not hesitate.
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I rush out the opening covering my nose and mouth from the smoke with my shirt, then get a safe distance away from the house by Roberts and Grahf