Soarsled Chase

Encounter Level 2 (625 XP)

Setup

The Koldoran Piece has been stolen, and only the PCs have access to the soarsleds left behind by the assailants. Each soarsled is a disc coursing with elemental energy that taps into Sharn’s manifest zone to enable to fly. The PCs must navigate the hazardous Sharn skyway to catch the thief!

• • Soarsled Chase
  • Level 2
• • Skill Challenge
  • XP 625
• The air rushes madly past your face as you duck underneath a skycab and between towers as you try to keep your fleeing quarry in sight.
• Complexity
• 5 (requires 12 successes before 3 failures).
• Primary Skills
• Acrobatics, Athletics, Perception, Streetwise
• Secondary Skills
• Arcana, Insight
• Victory
• The party catches up in time to see the thief escape into their hideout.
• Defeat
• The party finds the thief’s hideout, but not before he has called up reinforcements: 3 hobgoblin mercenaries, and 8 goblin cutters
• Acrobatics
• DC 11: You weave between skycabs, underneath crenelations, or perform other acrobatic acts to catch the thief. A failed check indicates you hurt yourself, losing one healing surge in addition to accruing a failure.
• Athletics
• DC 16: You use your momentum to barrel through minor obstacles or to careen off other objects to cut some time off your pursuer. A failed check indicates you hurt yourself, losing one healing surge in addition to accruing a failure.
• Perception
• DC 6: You spot a shortcut or a gap in traffic, aiding your chase. Using this skill does not provide a success or failure, but provides a +2 bonus or penalty on the next character’s skill check.
• Streetwise
• DC 16: You’ve traveled the skyways of Sharn to have an idea where the thief is giong.
• Arcana
• DC 16: You understand the workings of the soarsled and get it to work to its full potential. Besides counting at a success, one failure (if any) is removed. This skill can only be attempted once.
• Insight
• DC 16: Get get a general idea of the thief’s route. Use of this skill removes one failure. It can only be used once.

Development

The party has found the thief’s hideout, a sewer entrance near a derelict tower in a bad part of Lower Dura. They must enter it to retrieve the Piece.