I suppose Yulia's next course of action is going to be using her nightly Seventeen Questions to pinpoint Jörmungandr and get ready for the Hunt. That will likely take a while in-game, so she will also focus on in this order:
1) Getting Rockne's Rangers officially established.
2) Securing the border with Irrisen. Probably will take several years, but it is still a priority.
3) Improving farm outputs. She probably has the most arable farmland in the Linnorm Kingdoms, so time to make use of it. Sending some it to the Thanelands, Hagreach, and the Ironbound Islands will hopefully drum up some good will.
4) Finishing up Jol's new wall; even with the bulk of it built, I imagine that there is some refinement that could be done.
5) Secure the area between the major cities of Southmoor.
6) New roads.
7) Start gathering funds for some new Linnorm Hunting gear.
Okay...so do you want to like fast forward a year or two then? I don't really want to micromanage all the kingdom development stuff. I'm happy to say it just kind of happens, with you handling any problems that arise as they do. You are like insanely powerful, so 99% of stuff isn't going to pose a challenge for you.
As for finding Jörmungandr, I also don't really want to make that an issue. I can make a small dungeon as his lair, and then we can rock that.
RE: $$$ - Can you add up all your gear and tell me how much you have? Thanks. Then I can give you some money based on that.
That was basically what I had in mind; I was just listing out Yulia's priorities since it did not make much sense for her just to run out and start the hunt now.
I will tally everything up and get back to you tomorrow. I'm a bit busy with something, but after I get it finished, I have the next month mostly free.
cool, no rush my own schedule got much more busy lately.
Advancing in age wouldn't be too much of an issue for anyone in Yulia's crew. Imperia was only 22 when the game started. Yulia was 44, but due to her Elven blood, she doesn't hit middle age until seventy-something. While probably a bigger deal for Trigva, he was less than ten years old, and the oldest tiger in captivity lived to be 26. Yulia would keep him well exercised, and her Heal spell would probably nip a lot of age complications in the bud.
Also, as a reminder, I'm going to be gone on vacation until 1/4/2015 starting tomorrow.
I can't actually find anything on Jörmungandr at all. Including a statblock. Where did you find info on him? I assumed it would be in the LotLK book, but I'm not seeing anything.
Kinda waiting on you to answer my question, CDL.
Sorry for not replying. As I said in With Great Power, I had no internet access until today. Holiday vacation with the family.
Jörmungandr isn't a canon Linnorm; sorry if I didn't said anything earlier, but I made him up to serve as Yulia's focus for the Linnorm hunt plotline that you listed in the game synopsis. Sort of like Boiltongue for White Estrid, except it ends with one of them dead.
Here's what I have written for him. Yulia and many others believe him to be Fafnheir's eldest son. Jörmungandr is called The Killer of Heroes because he likes to target individuals making a positive difference in the Linnorm Kingdoms (like Hilda). He's infamous enough for it that Yulia's Snowcaster family is familiar with him. As shown in Yulia's Second Trial, he wanders the Grungir Forest between his hero hunts.
As Yulia learned, like his father, he will occasionally humor people who plead for mercy or ask something of him. It's usually in exchange for their greatest treasure. For Yulia, it was her mother Hilda.
As for a stat block, I imagine Jörmungandr as a slightly tweaked variation of the strongest non-Fafnheir subspecies of Linnorm. He tends to fight a bit smarter than other Linnorms; instead of charging in head-on, he flies around and makes liberal use of his breath weapon. He backs off when he takes too much damage and takes some time to let his regeneration kick in. He also tends to be quite cunning; he couldn't find Yulia while she was invisible, so he used a Greater Dispel Magic to target the general area.
I see. That makes things more clear. Sorry if you told me all this before and I forgot. My mind is like a sieve in some regards. I am back to work/school today and I'm not sure how busy I'm going to be in the near future. However, I will work up a stat block and lair as soon as I get a chance. In the meantime, thanks for your patience :)
Sorry for the delays. I'm going to do the statblock now. I've been trying to finish up another of my games, which is in the final encounter. It'll be done soon and then I'll have more time for homebrewing stuff.
No problem. Thanks for all the hard work that you put into this game.
I'm almost done with the lair.
On the day that she leaves, Yulia will not cast Mythic Mage Armor on Trigva as she normally does. Instead, she will use that point of mythic power to cast Wind Walk via Inspired Spell. I imagine that she would want a way to travel fast to the portal, but since she has not been at the sight long enough to familiarize herself with it, she cannot Almost Greater Teleport there.
Yulia also got two extra mythic spells from the new tiers. I picked Sending and Breath of Life.
Wow. I think we just covered a week or two's worth of posting in thirty-something minutes.
Roll20 is awesome :P
Since you said that she didn't need to fight the skies, I don't think that it would take her twenty minutes to get to the top of the caldera.
Wind Walk has a max speed of 60 miles per hour if you just rocket in one direction. That's 26.8224 meters per second. Since the caldera is described as 4,000 meters tall, my math has her reaching the top in 149.12ish seconds, or 2.49ish minutes.
I'm only bringing this up because she casted a bunch of buffs at the base of the mountain, and those are mostly timed in minutes.
Okay, let's halve that velocity due to the wind and call it five minutes instead.
How much further to the lair itself?
EDIT: I'm also going to be online if you want to play this out in roll20.
I have to head to work in a minute, you're in the lair. Look at the Roll20 map.
I don't know if you can five-foot step while Air Walking, but if not, then Yulia just jumps to the ground. The bones don't seem to be hampering the elementals.
What monsters am I supposed to throw at you when the Tarrasque would need a 15 to hit? You can't be grappled, you can become completely undetectable at will to heal up etc. I just feel like I might as well let you roll all the dice, because all I'm doing is fishing for 20s.
I'll send you a PM.
I'm a bit under the weather right now. I'll have a post up tomorrow.
Okay. Hope you feel better :)
I had to redo some math because I recalled that you can't crit elementals. It ended up taking Yuyu an extra round to beat them, so no big deal.
I’m a teacher IRL, and I’ve just started a new semester of classes. My school needs me to teach more classes than I’ve had in previous terms. Further, I’m starting a second job which has eliminated one of my days off. I’m finding myself without enough time to keep up with all my PBP obligations. Unfortunately, I need to cut back on what I’m running a great deal. I’ve determined I have time to keep running two games, so I’m going to stick with my two games that have the most posts. That means my other four games (including this one) will need to go. I’m sorry to do this to you, but something has to give. Hopefully in the fall my schedule will clear up and we can finish this then.
No problem, Jelani. I was looking to be quite booked until middle May anyway. At least this game is easy to pick up and put away.