It sounds like Carina changed her mind on keeping the bracers so we're back to 6245.83 each.
Oooh. We made out a little better on a mostly treasure-free dungeon delve than I'd thought we would, then.
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DankeSean, I only just now got around to reading it, but that was a really touching Ebenologue. It really showed off Eben at his most genuine.
Unfortunately, I have to admit the chocolates line was actually the very first thing that came to me. It was too good not to use in some fashion. :-P
By the same token, I was tempted to have her turn out to have severe pollen allergies, but I figured that would probably hijack the scene a bit.
So just to be clear on the newly minted Shield of Lightning is that an ADD ON to my current shield (for 1200 gp) or is it an entirely new shield that I then have to enchant separately?
The Lightning Shield is just like the Lightning Sword (+2 shocking burst mithral), but a klar instead of a shortsword. It's entirely separate from the old klar.
Ah. Well, that kinda sucks, unless the Enhancement swaps from a Weapon enhancement to a Shield enhancement, that's an extra 4k I need to spend.
Point. I'll think it over.
A 4k cost of doing business isn't too bad for what Farrukh is getting. Semi-free action fly 3/day is worth way more than that.
True. It's more that I hate redundant features on stuff.
I currently have the cash for it (6k+, then add on the 4k from selling my old scimitar and 2k from selling my old Klar), so it's not a huge deal for now.
The main concern is I want to have enough by the end of the next level to purchase that Full Plate. Hopefully our next payout can cover it (which it should, assuming we get at least 5k each).
Which full plate were you saving pennies for?
+2 Mithral Full Plate would run me 14, 500 gp.
I could settle for a lesser armor, but the plan was to boost my AC, or at least keep it even. With my Dex dropping by 4 points I need it at least +1 to break even (+10 Armor AC and +1 Dex AC vs +8 Armor AC and +3 Dex AC).
And before you ask "But how will you TWF with 12 Dex?", I found this little gem during my rebuild.
These recent releases (the Tactics Toolboxes and the X Master's Handbooks) have been a gold mine for decent (if sometimes niche) martial options.
Gotcha.
Well I'm sure between your currently armor and an even minimal haul you'll be okay.
I apologize in advance if Manzorian smites us all but I'm not going to be able to help myself.
I especially want to hear what his deal is with the moons, and what with the festival it's so perfectly timed to pass up...
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Okay, Gark's out of the game. Need a replacement. Was that Gnick Gnack Paddywack guy still interested?
What about that Blackmagic Ji guy? He seems to post a lot.
Does the party really need a love magic specialist? :D
Well, Farrukh is still single.
You would be shocked to find just how much you two have done together to support my secret OTP idle speculation. One of these days I'll go back and compile a little montage.
EDIT: Like this one!
Damn you, I haven't sighed and said 'I miss Community' for at LEAST three days.
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I'm struggling to find a way to work cravats into the conversation.
Gark and I were joking that the conversation with Manzorian is the entirety of this installment. The whole time, a single misstep means he loses his temper and everybody dies.
Gonna be busy for a lot of today. Got a poetry slam event, a midterm, and an RPG club meeting to run.
Good luck, KC! :)
Any objections to me giving away the evil-talky-scroll?
Can we even do anything with it? Go ahead.
I don't think anyone was especially attached to the thing.
Well, it does have potentially very useful ability in the form of the super-commune, 'ask the GM' ability. But then we haven't been using that (to be honest, I forgot it was even there), so arguably the scroll is expendable.
On the other hand, the guy just asked if he could see it; I don't think that implies 'this must not be held in your easily corruptible hands' quite yet.
Assuming it's a mind-affecting effect, I could just ask for my free-thinker cap back from Farrukh. :)
But yes, perhaps the scroll would be better kept safe in an archmage's vaults instead of my backpack.
Someone remember to ask Mr Archmage for a way to keep folks from scrying on us and/or tracking the rod fragment.
I hope you guys are enjoying meeting exposition Manzorian the famous infodumper archmage.
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Actually, I think Agath has given more (previously unknown) backstory in two lines of dialogue than Manzorian did in multiple paragraphs.
Ouch.
Apologies—I had to stay up to 4:00 am last night to finish a big paper. I'll get a post up later today.
Boom. Reflex save or take 5d6 damage as the bone devils' wall of text separates the party!
Yippee! I made it!
Now, I've just got to figure out what sort of magic item I want to get for the rod...
Poor Thingizzard. She gets a mention on that map too, but doesn't get anywhere near the same level of love as Dragotha.
On one hand heal 1/day is super good and we might need it for plot reasons.
On the other hand, that's a huge allowance that benefits everyone. Also we won't have pit fiends e-stalking us anymore in theory.
Arguing both sides here:
On the one hand, this far eclipses the current 'worth' of the rod fragment. A 1/day heal command word activated item would be around 24K gp. We'd be getting literally ten times the value of such.
On the other hand, it's an artifact, and its powers probably grow geometrically with the number of pieces you get. (Presumably each fragment has its own power, and then there's combined/resonant powers as you gather them up, with some kind of special uberness when you catch 'em all.)
Looking at this from a meta point of view... given that we found segment #1 in the sixth installment of this AP and there being six installments of said AP left, and further given that we're already being hunted by the owner of segment #2, the math makes it look like we'll be getting a full set. Admittedly, we don't know what that can do, and presumably we'll have the opportunity to 'sell' the further pieces to Manzorian as we go. And if the collected whole is needed to defeat Kyuss/Dragotha/The Super Bad Source of All Corruption What Is Behind Everything, I assume Manzorian would give us a loaner. So it still functions as a plot device in that case, the drawback being we presumably won't have it until the AP climax.
On the other hand, it's still an artifact, and it would be fun to have & watch it grow as we progress.
I dunno, I'm inclined to keep it. But then I always tend to ignore common sense and go for the two birds in the bush.
Something that also bugs me is that even if it does grow in power and do other things, Farrukh's still the only one that can use it without being brainwashed. If it ends up being useful in combat, that will start competing with his general wish to move up and full attack things.
Well, one of us could volunteer for brainwashing...
Not it!
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Would a ring of improved invisibility be a possibility?
I'd much rather have the 40k each. If the artifact is important for ending the plot, they will have written in a way for us to access it later. Who knows, the Yellowstone caldera might blow before then anyway, live for the moment, Eben.
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The custom item lure is so, soooo good...but I'd be TORTURED by not knowing what content we missed by giving up the Rod fragment. KC made it sound like there's new story options we wouldn't have otherwise.
On the other other hand, unless we all pick wildly suboptimal items, the party being flush with an extra 240k wealth is going to give us a biiiig push up the scaling ladder of general high level d20 suck - the exact thing we're trying to avoid by being drastically under leveled.