HP: 15/15 | AC:17+2 to AC as a Reaction via Nimble Dodge feat: Explorer's | Speed: 25' |Senses: Low-light vision; Keen EyesYour eyes are sharp, allowing you to make out small details about concealed or even invisible creatures that others might miss. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus when using the Seek action to find hidden or undetected creatures within 30 feet of you. When you target an opponent that is concealed from you or hidden from you, reduce the DC of the flat check to 3 for a concealed target or 9 for a hidden one. | Lang: Common; Halfling; Gnome; Varisian

Perception (E): +7 | Fort (T): +4 | Ref (E): +9| Will (E): +7 |

| SkillsTrained:
Acrobatics (+7); Athletics (+2); Deception (+4); Diplomacy (+4); Intimidation (+4); Lore/Cerulean Society (+5); Lore/Circus (+5); Lore/Games (+5); Medicine (+5); Stealth (+7);Society (+5); Survival (+5); Thievery (+7)

Untrained:
Acrana (+2); Crafting (+2); Nature (+2); Occultism (+2); Performance (+1); Religion (+2);  | AttributesSTR -1 [8]
DEX +4 [18]
CON +1 [12]
INT +2 [14]
WIS +2 [14]
CHA +1 [12] | AttacksUnarmed:

Fist +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d4-1 B (Crit 2d4-2); Agile; Finesse; Nonlethal; Unarmed

Melee/Thrown:

Rapier +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d6+4 P (Crit 2d6+8+1d8); Deadly d8; Disarm; Finesse.

Dagger +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d4+4 P/S (Crit 2d4+8); Agile; Finesse; Thrown 10' (1d4-1 P); Versatile S.

Ranged:

Shortbow +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d6 P (Crit 2d6+1d10); Deadly d10; Range 60'.
:  | Sneak Atk Dmg+ 1d6 |Hero Pts.Heroic Effort: When you Fail or Critically Fail any, non-secret, check you may spend a Hero Point and improve your degree of Success by a single step, a Critical Failure becomes a Failure, and a Failure becomes a Success.

Heroic Recovery: At the end of any turn in which you would gain the Dying condition, or your current Dying condition would increase you may spend a single Hero Point to stabilize with zero Hit Points. You do not gain the Wounded condition or increase it's value from losing the Dying condition in this way, but if you already had that condition, you don't lose it or decrease it's value.

Undying Heroism: At the start of any turn in which you have zero Hit Points and are not currently Dying you may spend a single Hero Point to recover a number of Hit Points equal to your level.: 1

Having seen the revelatory nature of the reverse side of Lira's card, Caltrix quickly flips over her own.

Would a Perception Check be needed?

After a few moments, her stomach growls ... embarrassingly audible.

Dropping off her chair, cushions tumbling, she hastened to the nearest window to assess the time -- and the weather (does it appear that the storm broke overnight and there is a lot of water draining or does the weather still threaten or ...?).

HP: 15/15 | AC:17+2 to AC as a Reaction via Nimble Dodge feat: Explorer's | Speed: 25' |Senses: Low-light vision; Keen EyesYour eyes are sharp, allowing you to make out small details about concealed or even invisible creatures that others might miss. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus when using the Seek action to find hidden or undetected creatures within 30 feet of you. When you target an opponent that is concealed from you or hidden from you, reduce the DC of the flat check to 3 for a concealed target or 9 for a hidden one. | Lang: Common; Halfling; Gnome; Varisian

Perception (E): +7 | Fort (T): +4 | Ref (E): +9| Will (E): +7 |

| SkillsTrained:
Acrobatics (+7); Athletics (+2); Deception (+4); Diplomacy (+4); Intimidation (+4); Lore/Cerulean Society (+5); Lore/Circus (+5); Lore/Games (+5); Medicine (+5); Stealth (+7);Society (+5); Survival (+5); Thievery (+7)

Untrained:
Acrana (+2); Crafting (+2); Nature (+2); Occultism (+2); Performance (+1); Religion (+2);  | AttributesSTR -1 [8]
DEX +4 [18]
CON +1 [12]
INT +2 [14]
WIS +2 [14]
CHA +1 [12] | AttacksUnarmed:

Fist +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d4-1 B (Crit 2d4-2); Agile; Finesse; Nonlethal; Unarmed

Melee/Thrown:

Rapier +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d6+4 P (Crit 2d6+8+1d8); Deadly d8; Disarm; Finesse.

Dagger +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d4+4 P/S (Crit 2d4+8); Agile; Finesse; Thrown 10' (1d4-1 P); Versatile S.

Ranged:

Shortbow +7 (Dex 4; Trained 3); 1d6 P (Crit 2d6+1d10); Deadly d10; Range 60'.
:  | Sneak Atk Dmg+ 1d6 |Hero Pts.Heroic Effort: When you Fail or Critically Fail any, non-secret, check you may spend a Hero Point and improve your degree of Success by a single step, a Critical Failure becomes a Failure, and a Failure becomes a Success.

Heroic Recovery: At the end of any turn in which you would gain the Dying condition, or your current Dying condition would increase you may spend a single Hero Point to stabilize with zero Hit Points. You do not gain the Wounded condition or increase it's value from losing the Dying condition in this way, but if you already had that condition, you don't lose it or decrease it's value.

Undying Heroism: At the start of any turn in which you have zero Hit Points and are not currently Dying you may spend a single Hero Point to recover a number of Hit Points equal to your level.: 1

Caltrix required a few moments to adjust to events.

It made a sort of sense, after all. The ramshackle street; the warehouses; the lack of traffic -- not in keeping with an active occult curio shoppe in the vicinity. Still, the halfling had had little traffic in her life with the ars magica. Of course, magic and its evidences were all about ... pseudodragons and imps flew over the city, after all ... but that was a far cry from having directly experienced a spell or magical effect.

Collecting her wits, though, she introduced herself to Lira as Caltrix, the ... the Locksmith.

She then gave those assembled a précis version of her background touching on:

• Lamm's embezzling of funds from The Gamester's Roll, a gambling den run by the Cerulean Society.
• That she and Lollifar had discovered this, but were in turn set-up by Lamm to take the blame (and the fall).
• That Lollifar was taken captive (whereabouts and fate unknown) whilst she had been chased up into the Shingles.
• Leaves the fate of Conso ambiguous -- well, other than that he had made a gruesome mess on the street after his fall. Her face reflects a certain grim satisfaction when relating this.
• That she'd been living by street performing (acrobatics and card tricks) whilst trying to evade the Cerulean Society until such time as she could make her case for innocence.
• And, of course, that she had been keeping her eyes and ears open for word of Lamm or one of his minions.

I can use a blade, though I'm not much of a warrior, she continued. I can find my way around quietly and usually quick to spot things out of place; am good with ... er ... devices ... and know my way around a circus and gambling games.

She concluded after this brief monologue.

Hopefully, she thought, I've made it clear what I can offer to a group effort to rid the world of Gaedren Lamm - and why - without giving away too much information.

The little halfling-with-more-than-a-dash-of-gnome was a happy-go-lucky sort of personality. Her nature was often at odds with what was seemingly becoming her more clandestine professional calling. Fate would reveal, she supposed. In any case, the Game was to be enjoyed.