Bluster, then. :)
Oh Rory is like 90% bluster.
Important question: Are the items from the box still in the box?
Unless you open it, you won't be sure. It's still chained and sealed.
Nobody's touched them, as far as I know. Searching back...
the head of the smugglers is Klivant. Formerly Klivant of Ralvaise of Stalmorta..
But did the box ever leave our sight? I wouldn't put it past them to rig it to explode.
Only while you slept at night in the jungle.
On the topic of suppression:
"Even in places where psionic effects do not normally function (such as within a null psionics field), a soulknife can attempt to sustain her mind blade by making a DC 20 Will save. On a successful save, the soulknife maintains her mind blade for a number of rounds equal to her class level before she needs to check again, although the mind blade is treated for all purposes as a non-magical, masterwork weapon while in a place where psionic effects do not normally function. On an unsuccessful attempt, the mind blade vanishes. As a move action on her turn, the soulknife can attempt a new Will save to rematerialize her mind blade while she remains within the psionics-negating effect. She gains a bonus on Will saves made to maintain or form her mind blade equal to the total enhancement bonus of her mind blade."
Here's hoping Alys can roll her Will save really high consistently. :) The rest of us might want to start making some 0-level manifester checks, to find out how strong this field is that we are in.
My power to yell really really loud remains intact.
But you didn't list which languages you know on your character sheet, so I had to ad-lib back into Common there. :)
Well, you guessed correctly. He probably doesn't speak common very well either.:P
Roderick does speak Auran, so I'm curious what you said before switching back to common. :)
When playing one of my other characters, I chose Celestial (Swedish), Dwarven (Icelandic), Elven (Hungarian), and Terran (Kannada). For Auran I chose Macedonian, don't ask me why, it was the first one I clicked on with Google Translate.
So... (In Auran) "We've got a problem;" (Hungarian) "We've got a problem? (In Common) "Blast it, Rory,..."
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Gotcha. Had a GM who liked using this list if you want a few more ideas. :)
Abyssal: Czech
Aklo: Albanian
Aquan: Bellarusian
Auran: Azerbaijani
Celestial: Chinese
Draconic: Yidish
Elven: Gujarati
Giant: Norwegian
Gnome: Irish
Goblin: Malay
Ignan: Afrikaan
Infernal: Hindi
Orc: Polish
Sylvan: Telugu
Terran: Armenian
Undercommon: Basque
Skald: Danish
Tien: Japanese
Oh the joys of having that (Ex) next to all of your abilities. :)
For the record their are (Su) maneuvers out there. Mainly having to do with wonky stuff like teleporting, turning incorporeal and the like. None of which Rory has access to.
Also, I find it infinitely amusing that connor constantly pines for the telepathy, but not the center of it. :P
:)
Pride triggered.
Yep. No problem with that.
The guy's basically like Rory. No diplomacy what so ever. Unfortunately, his talking head is off on an errand.
Sorry, work, then internet failure this week, new modem on order, later this week. Using emergency hot spot to connect enough to do e-mail post apology.
No problem, mdt. We're just waiting to see Roderick do his magic. :)
If anybody needs a named dropped, there's always "Gashon of (West) Kalliert". Or maybe "Grimjowl" would carry more weight with these lizardmen.
Also, I find it infinitely amusing that connor constantly pines for the telepathy, but not the center of it. :P
I don't mind driving the car, I just don't want to own it.
I was talking about the guy it actually belonged to.
Roderick, go for a supply chain from the Surface to these ruins! Our own skyship. Make that pitch.
Trying to think of a term for a grueling long distance flight.
I would name an airline company name here but I wouldn't know which one would be relevant where each of you live.
All of them.
An airline that the middle class is forced to use? I'm with Rory - all of them. You have to pay 1st Class to get what used to be Coach onboard the airlines now. And let's not forget America's Security Theatre called TSA. Number One reason I don't fly. At all.
Of course, if you own/lease the airplane, you have a separate check-in next to the hangar (or the tarmac), your pilot vouches for you so there is no TSA (but there might be Customs), and you never have to worry about crying babies on the flight (unless they're your own).
Best part is studies have shown that if you're in the first 1/3 of the plane in the crash you are guaranteed dead.
So you have a choice between comfort or life.
But seriously I was thinking in the context of being winged people who are generally racist to non-flyers.
"Running" or "jogging" would be considered demeaning terms outside of an indoor context. Even then I imagine most buildings cater more towards flyers with ramps and things for the weak and the infirm to get around.
There would also be a lack of wheels, because wheeled baby carriages and strollers can't go 3D into the air. Everything would either be stairs or maybe elevators for the very rich, because everybody between 5 and 45 can fly. But gliding might have the same social stigma as snowboarders at a black-diamond ski slope. The young would insist they can glide longer, but flying in short hops from tall platform to tall platform would be more acceptable.
Didn't I come up with 'pedestrians'? Otherwise, 'groundlings' is popular, or 'dirt-pounders'.
Wing-Pound it
Hot-Wing it
Feather-Burn it
Beat Wing
Wing Racked Flight
Okay, we have a business offer. 8,000 gp is a nice payoff. We've gotten some intel coming into this anti-magic, anti-psionic, anti-divine zone. Do we:
1.) Have the firepower to fight our way out, killing everyone?
2.) Wait to get paid, probably halfway through the swamp again. Then double back for the killing zone?
3.) Just get paid and decide what to do at the ocean inlet?
We're obviously outnumbered and (without psionics) outgunned here. How to turn this to our advantage?
I want to see how we make our exit first. This makes things very tricky. We don't have a functioning airship.
I'm waiting to see if Roderick and/or Rory take the deal, and how they take the deal. Sounds like #2 above.
Options still open...
I think we're just trying to hammer out all the details here before we can think about it.
Like how do we know they won't follow/escort us out as soon as we leave?
Can we leave the jungle and get back to our boat without immediately being jumped by harpy b~*$* and her goons?
Sorry everyone, work's been killing me, and my wife fell down and dislocated her knee this weekend. That blew my weekend. :( I'll try to keep up better going forward.
Sorry to hear about Mrs. mdt, mdt. No worries!
My wife is pretty clumsy but nothing that bad yet. Take care of her we will be here :)
Ouchies. Take your time then.
Yeah, as always health before games. We can wait,
an obvious "and this man is the one that ensures the money doesn't turn liquid when we leave" glance.
I wonder what exactly that glance looks like.
mdt, any response to Connor's queries to Hero and Tenfa? If you need more time, that's okay.
Connor's about to do a +2 Survival check to hunt some swamp animals on the way back to the campsite. Maybe some Perception checks to see if we're being followed?
I posted something, but apparently it got eaten, reposting.
Well I didn't expect to go back to the city. Let's talk about our options and problems. We just lost the only magical items we had to lure the smugglers with. The harpy in the city was expecting us to go and defeat the smugglers in their hideout. If it had been a normal hideout that I could have overwhelmed with disposable astral constructs with everybody else going for broke, maybe. But those anti-and-nullifying ruins put a stop to that idea, and hard.
We can't assault the ruins with just our people, not against guns and no powers. I don't want Alys making a concentration check every other round. Going into the city for supplies without accomplishing our mission is just asking to be picked up by the patrols again.
I've also got the nagging suspicion that there's an insider somewhere in that city with the magical items. Maybe they think they're doing a good thing, supplying the new anti-aircraft cannons with a steady supply of magical item fuel, and making some money on the side. But that doesn't add up to the reception we got. This is like the US War on Drugs - that you find out the CIA is growing the poppy fields in Afghanistan with US Marines guarding the fields, and shipping the product to dealers in the USA to fund their black budget programs. You might get a few dealers, but if you really dug in and started shooting down an actual percentage of the drug runs, all of a sudden you start to get higher-ups telling you to lay off, go over to this other area for a while. The Vietnam War all over again.
So we might go tell the harpy that the Problem just became a Really Hard Problem, one that might take an army to fix - and the mole in the authorities will be onto us in one second.
Give me a few hours to compose something IC.
Was it literally the whole ruins that were in a null psionics field?
I was under the impression it was just the room we were in.
Jungle was fine.
As soon as you entered the ruins themselves, everything went wonky. So, inside the building. Not outside.
I think we could still handle it. Rory laughs off antimagic fields. Though some of his feats will fail to function his maneuvers will still work.
The other two will lose their armor but they don't suddenly forget to fight.
Alys too is still capable of fighting without her uber cannon.
Connor would be screwed.
Roderick is moderately screwed but certain abilities will still function well enough so he can fight.