Ice's Island of Relative Order

Game Master icehawk333

Well Lwazi would rather not just leave her here, as he's stated. That doesn't mean he's not partially suspicious, but... well, he's still getting used to his own thoughts getting kind of crowded lately.

Yeah, we can't leave her. If she doesn't kill us, cave camp will be extra safe.

Sorry for the delay. Was slightly stumped on how to move forward.

I think I've got it now, but i need to bed soon. Should hopefully have a post up later todsy.

Once again, so sorry for the delay.

No problem, hope you get some good rest!

Anyone wanna make a knowladge (planes)?

I can't. XD

Not Rivet's thing either. It may seem like an omission considering where we were going, but I'm fairly sure we had someone covering it initially.

Luca dont have that either.

Midioto was the one I think. I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that Roulette has the skill tho'. Want to ask him/her/it/ze, Luca?

Worth a shot.

Edit: Wait, has Roulette been here the whole time?

Yeah, roulette has been following, just always keeping a distance from fighting.

Should I just... roll initative for you guys?

Yeah, just rolling initiative for the group at the beginning of combat would speed things up.

I had forgotten why I hadn't rolled. This creature auto-fails initative.

As far as the staggered goes, I'd say not under these conditions.

I'd been expecting Luca to step in and ask a question, or to translate. Luca, are you still around?

Whoops, yep my bad.

Ok! So.

Bad news-

I kinda leveled you guys up to 7 later then I should have.

Good news-

You're getting level 8 once you rest, to catch up.

We seem to have been handling things pretty well regardless. :D

1d100 ⇒ 58

I believe I'm done leveling up. I'm very glad for Herolab, because Lwazi gets complicated with the whole switching-spirits thing changing large numbers of modifiers on his character sheet.

I've got him channeling Lion starting the next day--this is the bard-like spirit, which allows him to give other party members bonuses as long as he's nominally the 'leader'.

Now I remember what I was doing! I wanted to take Cunning for the Skill Ranks I'd get for Spellcraft, so as to begin crafting wands. But, to do that, I need Craft Wand, which I forgot wasn't the crafting feat I got. And I can't replace any of Luca's current feats or the FCB for it, because he really needs all of those to keep up. But warpriest only gets a few skill ranks per level, and none of those are in Spellcraft.

The long and short of it is I have a feat I never used. Whoops. Toughness sounds nice this time of year. Other ideas? I'm all finished up with lv 8 things.

Mostly done. I think I need to correct a couple of earlier errors. Also how are we doing HP for this game again, is it half max, or rolled, or what?

If you're looking for feat ideas Luca then you might consider improved unarmed strike as the feat tax needed to get a style feat later, or dodge as the prereq to wind stance, or a tengu racial feat like tengu wings or blood beak.

Half max

So I suppose we need to decide on our next plan of action. We've investigated most of the nearby points of interest. Is it time to find this beast our... dubious 'friend' mentioned?

You definatly can investigate it. I won't tell you when you can and can't.

... though I will say yes please do I'm running out of stuff in this region

Should be all set with leveling.

Gin, Roy?

Uh-oh, are we down to just a couple people?

I'm still around. Just getting a bit busy IRL.

Hmm. Concerning.

leveled up.

Hey, sorry about the wait. It's tough to find time I haven't specifically set aside for stuff. Sometimes I don't even get that. But I'm here now and nearly leveled.

Sweet.

Alright, so...

Anything else you all want to do before you head off?

I don't think Lwazi has anything more to contribute.

Once I have a pit in my pocket I'm good to go.

Good to grow.

Edit: Wait, is Lwazi actually still at 16 HP?

What else are we going in with? Luca can prepare the 5 castings of endure elements we'll need if I cut into his Divine Favor uses. Which is just as well, I should have rolled a cleric in hindsight.

Lwazi doesn't really have much magic that would help. :D

Wait, I forgot about the blankie Luca packed for when it gets cold! That'll work right?

There's minor metamorphosis and animal affinity Rivet can use but only on himself, and only for 8 minutes at a time. I'm happy to wait for Luca's assistance but can't really prepare anything to help.

Edit: well, there's making magic items. If I could pluck a couple of feathers off the nearest tengu I might be able to make a campsite feather token, or perhaps I could make a campfire bead (no feathers required).

A tengu? At this hour?

Yeah lets do those. GM, any word on if the blanket Luca has will suffice for an endure elements in this storm? If no, Luca prepares that spell in three first level slots, and two second.

Honestly yes, the blanket could work for that.

Frost gel ward, gain cold resist 5, once it blocks 20 damage it flakes away or lasts an hour before were off. takes a min. to apply.

Might be useful if the creature uses frost attacks, not as useful against a blizzard. would take 3 days to make 5 of them and would use a dose of the fang.

Gin prepares 5 heightened awareness extracts, replacing cure light wounds, enlarge person, two free first levels, and replacing Invisibility.

Don't think invisibility would be that good in this situation.

Yeah, I'm not sure that frost gel is worth waiting three days for. It'd probably either get wiped out by the storm or turn out to not help much against our target. Hopefully some resist energy's will be enough.

Gin, roy, you have until the end of the day before I skip over you.

Hmmm... while I'm thinking about it, are we going to have any special rules for this battle? Something to let us do Colossus Climb-type antics or the like?

Yes. Yes there will be.

I actually have a battle system I intended to introduce with the beast.

This one isn't exactly feasible to climb, but each limb is targetable as a seperate target.

Welcome to primal fights, one of the main themes I intended for this game and we're finally getting to.

Massive creatures with insane amounts of health, that have to be utterly eviscerated before they die.

Each body part has it's own AC, and if it sustains enough damage, usually debilatatung effects.

So basically Monster Hunter fights.

I believe that was one of the stated campaign inspirations. :D