What? Who said that?
My cloak of elvenkind will not stack with the stealth feature of the chainmail armor. If I am indeed keeping a chainmail, does anyone want the cloak? I did not look to see who else might already have one, but I was thinking Firiel or Xiddik.
Ew. I'd get elf stink on me! Well, even more.
In seriousness, that could work for me. Firiel already has a cloak of resistance, so it may not work for her. In that case, I'll take it. Otherwise, if she wants to play the shuffle game, I'd be happy to hang on to the cloak of resistance for her. ;)
Important question (in Xiddikland): What color is the cloak of elvenkind? Xiddik can hardly go wearing something that clashes with her armor. She's got serious priorities, you know!
Well, it was never discussed. I always imagined it would be muted or mottled considering its nature, but that is not necessarily the case. It should certainly not clash with your wardrobe.
I've got boots that it wouldn't stack with, I think, so Xiddik can have it. :)
One little detail I didn't sort out with leveling up: in order to take greater magic weapon, I need to ditch a 3rd-level spell, which I can do at this level.
The spells I can get rid of are fly, haste and pellet blast. I'm obviously keeping haste. I use pellet blast from time to time, but a hail of telekinetically-hurled magical arrows (doused in appropriate weapon blanch) could easily replace it. I don't use fly much, but it does come in very handy when I need it.
So, I'm thinking I'll ditch pellet blast, unless there's some powerful reason not to that I'm missing.
Consider this, Jtor has fly and could, with the money, make some scrolls, giving you some fly options. He does not have pellet blast. He also has haste.
Yeah, but haste is my thang, ya know? And if I keep fly, I have enough castings of it in a day that I could make all of us fly.
But I will consider your words, Jamleus.
I suggest parting ways with Pellet Blast too. It was fun for a while but TK does the same thing.
In case you're wondering, Xiddik's reaction was a tossup between this and "drow-on-a-stick".
It was very close. ;P
I think it was an excellent reaction. Though I hear drow-on-a-stick is quite good.
I liked the reaction. Well done.
Okay, I'm shopping for crossbow bolts to fling around with telekinesis. Since I can load them by the quiver-full into my haversack and draw them out quickly, I'm getting a bunch. My plan was to get 200 bolts (I fling 10 at a time), broken down thusly:
100 regular
70 cold iron
20 silver blanched
10 adamantine blanched
Now I'm thinking about evil outsider and elf bane arrows, each of which costs 166 gp. A full rain of them in a round would really ruin a BBEG's day (10d4+20d6+40 if I hit with all of them), but that's an expensive round of combat. I can afford 10 bane arrows at this point - 5 of each?
Is there a reason to get silver if you have cold iron? My ranger doesn't carry normal arrows because cold iron are pretty cheap.
Just to throw it out there, what if you used daggers instead for your special-material missiles? You could re-use them in subsequent combats - if the spell allows you to bring them back, you can use the right away.
I don't believe cold iron automatically overcomes DR/silver. Mithral does, but that's not what he's proposing.
Silver and cold iron affect different beasties - as one example, silver gets through devils' DR and cold iron through demons' - with some exceptions, I'm sure.
On the question of daggers, I thought about it, but bolts or arrows seem to make the most sense mechanically. I could keep them in quivers or bundles of 10 or 20, pull them out as one movement and launch them as another. Drawing 10 daggers seemed a bit unlikely, and in terms of pure game mechanics seemed like it would take a long time.
I suppose I could wear bandoliers with 10 daggers and draw and launch them in one go with TK, but my mental picture of Asht'el doesn't really stretch to him geared up like the Mad Biker of the Apocalypse.
Cold iron is also good against fey, incidentally, and silver against lycanthropes. Asht's right, though, you can't substitute one for the other.
Where are my slackers at?
I'm taking off to see this, so will be unavailable (and quite possibly drunk) through the afternoon and evening. Slackin' for real!
Shame on you!
Have fun. =)
Brown Chicken, Brown Cow.
Kid threatening Ash. This would never happen if his hair wasn't horrible...
It's a damn shame. I think the kid might need some black tentacles!
Randall is not only the Gold Goblin Manager and a fighting pit owner, but he's a talent agent.
An impressive resume for sure.
Randall has 3 jobs, why can't you all be like Randall.
[/old SNL skit]
Feral, reading through the tasks everyone's had to tackle, and especially the recent twists in Firiel's task, I have to say - you have a gift, a dark gift.
/blush
More seriously, I like my bad guys to be bad. One of my big pet peeves is villains that are villainous in character sheet only. A CE society should feel CE all the way down to its core. I hope I've done the drow justice.
That's more or less what I was getting at. You definitely have created some squirm-worthy moments, as evidenced by the degree to which Randall and Firiel especially have squirmed, and the degree to which Asht'el was relieved by the pleasant nature of his task.
Eh, I'm not buying it. I bet that kid is still evil—just rebellious.
No way, I'm totally going to redeem him. I'll come back and rescue him before we leave the Darklands, and we'll return to Riddleport, and one day you all will thank me as our new benevolent overlord kills us first, then feeds us to his displacer beast, rather than the other way around.
I'm not going to point any fingers but I've heard there's a kobold in the party...
Kill the drowbold.
What? Who said that?
Our kobold is totally evil.
Well, with our recent posting flurry, I had to check - and Xiddik's post last night moved us into the #13 spot in the annals of most-posted PbP game! 234 posts until the #12 spot!
Hey XiddikZideiripants, I don't suppose you can find a way to justify aiding my Linguistics check and/or inspiring competence in me for it?
I couldn't see Xiddik bursting into song in front of the guards, but have an aid. ;D
So..I guess I am the first one to check kill women and children on the it's a sad sad drow world bingo game!
You think that's bad? I had to convince a child that studying was worthwhile! The horror!
I melted children into a pile of goo. GOO!
Maybe they could make use of the goo over at the Fleshwarpers! I did warn everyone to stay away from the Fleshwarpers. And what do they do? They go straight there, and then they try to rescue a goblin! Just 'cuz Feral makes her seem all cute.
I should have taken that kid's displacer beast. That's what I should have done. A drow would have done it.
*sits in leather chair, touches tip of pencil to tongue*
"And how does that may you feel, Mr. .... Tore? Please, sit back down, we need to be calm."
I feel like a goblin in Troll 2.
Wow, ten new posts? Must be a lotta new words.
*Gasp*
Word! It's drow spelled backwards!
Well as soon as folks are done slacking, we'll have a big party scene.
I thought I was supposed to be slacking. "Randall, you're done for a while." I'm sure that's what I heard.
I've love to stay and discuss, but I need to slack off for a while. Bed time.
One of you hoodlums need to teach me how to use a greatsword!
Sorry about the slacking! I adopted some viruses into my computer and the little scamps made a real mess of things.
You’re for too generous with your HD.
By the way, how would a drow reward a slave? Xiddik was pretty much lying, but could she arrange for it him to have easy jobs for a while? Get him some good meals? She's not exactly gonna pull a Firiel, but it pays to have the slaves seeing you as a good friend to have (plus, Xiddik's not a total jerk).
Well you guys are high-ranking servants but you're not really in a position to offer any material rewards. Just having someone to look out for him would probably mean a lot.