Aurelia starts to walk out of the group of people and hopes to be able to slip behind the guards and to the door while her image does everything for her. Her breathing grows quicker, though she is still trying to breathe quietly, as the excitement of freedom starts to build up. Finally, I can leave this place. The heavens will forgive me if I don't feel like standing around to be questioned and murdered over a misunderstanding.
he man who came to question you barks orders and the man by the door steps back, away from you but towards the door. The "crowd" starts to spread out along the wall as you image walks beside you as you head towards the door. The door man keeps glancing at it but does not lunge again, staying in the way of the door now.
Aurelia sighs in frustration before moving to put her illusion on the opposite side of the guard and the door from herself, to move the guards vision away from me. All of that to give me the opportunity to find something like a cup and use Wielding the Invisible Sling to throw it at the guards head just before I reach him.
The spell has already passed from your control, so you cannot chose the image's location. The plus side is that you do not require a concentration roll to use the invisible sling spell on the inkwell sitting on the desk- roll for the spell and then finesse to aim it.
Aurelia doesn't bother trying to hide her spellcasting, she pulls free her tools and thrusts her arm out, and within seconds Wielding the Invisible Sling is ready to activate, to throw the inkwell into the poor guards face. She doesn't stop to aim, simply moving forwards to try and get to that door while the guard is distracted.
(12 to activate spell, a 1 to aim)
The guard flinches to the side to avoid the clumsily thrown inkwell as Aurellia lunges forward. He doesn't move as far as she anticipated and she bumps into him on the way out, and he attempts to grab her. Attack of 8, roll defense- since you ran into him you only get +4 defense from the spell (he has a lot less room to "search")
Defense Roll: 2
He grabs hold of you with a grapple strength of 6, you can attack him to try and break free, or try less conventional methods.
Is it possible to loosen his fingers with the ink I carry? If that doesn't sound plausible, what stats would a normal cane use to bash the man's fingers (I dont remember them taking any of my stuff, so I should still have it)?
A cane would be considered a bludgeon- attk +2 and dmg:+2
Rolled a 9 to hit the guards fingers with her cane.
The guard get a 10, avoiding the rap of the cane on his knuckles and attempts to improve his grip (attk:6) while the other guards come over trying to assist, watching your image squirm a pace away in response to how he is grappling you and trying to figure out how to best help.
Assuming I still have the same defensive bonus of a +4 due to spell, despite proximity, because he has to let go and grab again.
I got an 8 for defending.
He doesn't have to let go (at least not with both hands) but you do still have a +4 because he can't see what he is trying to grab, just feel where he has already got you. His grip strength remains at 6.
So Roll attack again to knock his hand off me? I should still have time for that before the others reach me?
yes, you have time for that- not before they reach you but before they decide what to do.
A 3.
He gets a 3 as well...
The remainder of the guard starts reaching for where you are, swinging arms through the area to grab you- this will be three more grapple attempts if you want to resist or you can stop resisting and let them haul you back to the cell.
Aurelia simply stands there and lets the spell drop, but not before attempting to hide her spellcasting tools within her clothes.
You are hauled back to your cell and your hands are bound. The man who had come to question you looks you over "What are you, I wonder. I had thought you a patsy, for no real agent could be so incompetent. Then I see you working these tricks, and I have to wonder if the priest's charges are right. Perhaps you are a fool, used by the devil and by Venice alike. What do you say?"