I'm with the dock the ship to a cliffside tree plan while we scout. We are roughly 22 miles away at that point. We can send in the boys or I can fly Kadesh ahead solo. Up to you all, but we are going to need a vigorous watch posted on the ship while it is docked with orders to cut and run at signs of trouble with a predetermined rendezvous point /time should that happen.

Also- we could come up with a signal for emergency extraction that Gil will throw up in the air with an illusion.

Why would you send the one guy we are trying to keep out of their clutches on a scouting mission into the heart of enemy territory? It's like you are working really hard to give them a chance to snatch up Runzyl without much of a fight.

Keep in mind that I have told you IC that someone else is spying on us with scrying. It is not Lady Orlaith. I don't know who it is but they likely have a connection to either Runzyl or the sword he is carrying. So you will send him more or less alone into enemy territory wearing a big beacon around his neck. It's not the best idea.

If you decide to send him scouting anyways, at least get Gil to cast nondetection or misdirection on him- whatever the spell is that throws off scrying. I think she has it. Ezreal does not.

Ok, I’m confused. What did Rod summon, a movanic deva or a justice archon? I can understand the characters not knowing the type of celestial summoned and calling it an angel but which one was summoned.

He went with the justice archon

Just checked Ez’s and Gil’s stats.

Ez
- You’re missing three skill points. You should have a total of 57 but you only have 54.
- Your flat-footed AC should be 14.
- Here’s Kadesh’s pathfinder stats if you wish:

Gil
- Your total AC should be 18
- Your Will save should be +6
- By taking Improved Feint coupled with surprise casting, you can now feint in combat as a swift action.
- You are wearing a +1 glamered mithral shirt. There are no armor check penalties to skills.
- What is Gil’s alignment?

Why would you send the one guy we are trying to keep out of their clutches on a scouting mission into the heart of enemy territory? It's like you are working really hard to give them a chance to snatch up Runzyl without much of a fight.

Keep in mind that I have told you IC that someone else is spying on us with scrying. It is not Lady Orlaith. I don't know who it is but they likely have a connection to either Runzyl or the sword he is carrying. So you will send him more or less alone into enemy territory wearing a big beacon around his neck. It's not the best idea.

If you decide to send him scouting anyways, at least get Gil to cast nondetection or misdirection on him- whatever the spell is that throws off scrying. I think she has it. Ezreal does not.

Excellent point.

I'm a bit concerned about stopping 20 miles away and sending folk out to scout anyway - not much chance for backup if something goes wrong. I think perhaps we should stick to the plan of Kadesh scouting, find somewhere much closer to the cairns to drop everyone off, then go in as a group.

Gil
- Your total AC should be 18
- Your Will save should be +6

At least I didn't make it hard -- just hadn't completed the math

- By taking Improved Feint coupled with surprise casting, you can now feint in combat as a swift action.

Yup, that was my intention.

- You are wearing a +1 glamered mithral shirt. There are no armor check penalties to skills.

*Sigh* And I was trying to be good and cover all the bases. Thanks for the correction, I can use the points I was cheating myself out of.

- What is Gil’s alignment?

That's a secret. Even I don't know. Seriously, it should be true neutral, if the DM allows. If not, she's neutral good.

Green Giant wrote:

- What is Gil’s alignment?

That's a secret. Even I don't know. Seriously, it should be true neutral, if the DM allows. If not, she's neutral good.

Runzyl is chaotic neutral, so I don't see why true neutral should be an issue. Though Runzyl is beginning to lean more and more towards good... I think mostly because of his company. His overarching goal is just to be remembered, and being remembered as a champion and hero is more palatable to him than being remembered as a villain and monster.

Neutral is fine.

What altitude can an airship keep?

I'm thinking it might do to do a flyover of the area high up, like a couple of thousand feet - high enough that we'd be out of bow and spell range (and possibly wouldn't even be noticed unless someone happened to be looking up) but low enough that we could still make out features on the ground. That way, we could probably spot the likely position of the cairns, and maybe identify any nearby spots that we could use to offload.

It can do that.

Let's do that then...

OK, so are we going to go for aerial recon from the ship?

I'm saying YES. I take full responsibility for this decision. I want to go as high as we can and still be able to make something out on the ground.
Eberron spy satellite time....;)

Seconded.

I concur.

Just like U2!

Is the ship, um, skyworthy with a pierced hull, or is its flying ability entirely dependent on the elemental ring? I guess the question is whether we have any chance of repairing the ship and fly away, or if we should plan on swimming back home to Khorvaire...

This should answer your question.

So its a bit of both - it can fly without the elemental, but it's really slow. Hopefully the elemental ring survived the crash.

Hey, everybody, I'm going to be afk from Saturday through probably Sunday the 20th. I'll post if and when I can, but I wouldn't expect much. Please feel free to DMPC Gil as necessary while I'm gone. Thanks!

I'm heading back to the UK today so there will be a break in transmission after about 11.00 Eastern time.

Sorry for being a bit quiet - delayed jetlag sapped my DM'ing mojo. Back on tonight.

Out of town till Monday night. Got an unexpected extended weekend.

I'll be AFK this weekend - off on a little trip to the mountains.

Hey, GG and AG, I've realised for a while we don't really know much about you. Like where you live, what you do, that sort of thing.

Single, straight male age 30+ who hates to travel. Works as a discipline clerk at a middle school in Brownsville, Texas. Oh, and also Hispanic. Anything else?

Hates to travel?

I'll be hating it when my alarm goes off. Just home at about 1 am and that 5am wake up is going to suck.

Oh- I managed to grab the last hardcopy of PFRPG from a french game store. Suck it amazon.

So... What's a "discipline clerk"? Do you do the bookkeeping on the various beatings, whippings and detentions given out by the school employees? Is there so much of it that it requires a full-time employee to keep track of it all? Just curious.

Here's a brief bio: Married, working in IT for a local telecom company, living in the middle of Kansas

and recently returned from the wonder that is Yellowstone National Park. No bears, no moose, but a great many elk and bison made our acquaintance* and we covered better than 28 miles of hiking trails in four days.

And we can't wait to go back and see the parts we haven't seen yet. And revisit some we have. It's an amazing place.

*We did not do anything illegal (like hunt the critters) or foolish (like pet the critters), but we sure got fairly close to a lot of them.

So... What's a "discipline clerk"? Do you do the bookkeeping on the various beatings, whippings and detentions given out by the school employees? Is there so much of it that it requires a full-time employee to keep track of it all? Just curious.

You pretty much hit the mark. I keep the records in order on the kids who have been suspended or been sent to alternative schools. The assn. principals and the principal write the discipline referrals and after the kids have served their time, I enter their punishments in the school system.

It's the ones being sent to alternative schools that are a pain. We have to create a folder on them with a number of forms and records that have to be filled out and signed by their parents and administration and hold a hearing before it can be sent to the alternative school. If there is anything missing, not filled out, or unsigned, the alt. school will send it back and reject any attempts to have the kid sent there until corrections are made.

Here's a brief bio: Married, working in IT for a local telecom company, living in the middle of Kansas

and recently returned from the wonder that is Yellowstone National Park. No bears, no moose, but a great many elk and bison made our acquaintance* and we covered better than 28 miles of hiking trails in four days.

And we can't wait to go back and see the parts we haven't seen yet. And revisit some we have. It's an amazing place.

*We did not do anything illegal (like hunt the critters) or foolish (like pet the critters), but we sure got fairly close to a lot of them.

That's cool; I wanna go there.

That's cool; I wanna go there.

I don't like bears though. Don't want anything to do with them. Don't want to be within 10 feet of them, car or no car. I don't trust a car window between me and them.
They're cute and all, just seen a guy's book of photographed injuries for paramedic school and.......bears can really jack you up bigtime...

I highly recommend it. Seriously, we didn't even see a bear. There was a single report of a sighting, well off the road, and the amateur wildlife photogs were double- and triple-parked on the mountain road to get their perfect shot.

We just drove on by to the next cool hike.

We did get entirely too close to a bison (not counting in cars -- I could have reached out and touched at least two walking by) when we came around a rise and found an occupied buffalo wallow about 25' ahead of us. He eyed us pretty good, but we kept our pace walking by, no sudden moves, and he commenced to rolling around in the wallow again. Wish we could have gotten video of that, but photos were all my amateur photographer dared.

Definitely worth putting on your "see this before I die" list. I've been three times now and am already tentatively planning a fourth.

Vattnisse wrote:

So... What's a "discipline clerk"? Do you do the bookkeeping on the various beatings, whippings and detentions given out by the school employees? Is there so much of it that it requires a full-time employee to keep track of it all? Just curious.

You pretty much hit the mark. I keep the records in order on the kids who have been suspended or been sent to alternative schools. The assn. principals and the principal write the discipline referrals and after the kids have served their time, I enter their punishments in the school system.

It's the ones being sent to alternative schools that are a pain. We have to create a folder on them with a number of forms and records that have to be filled out and signed by their parents and administration and hold a hearing before it can be sent to the alternative school. If there is anything missing, not filled out, or unsigned, the alt. school will send it back and reject any attempts to have the kid sent there until corrections are made.

I put my kid in charter school; we started in the public kindergarten.....went to a meeting pre-schoolyear and the teacher was trying to talk.

Heathansson wrote:

That's cool; I wanna go there.

I don't like bears though. Don't want anything to do with them. Don't want to be within 10 feet of them, car or no car. I don't trust a car window between me and them.
They're cute and all, just seen a guy's book of photographed injuries for paramedic school and.......bears can really jack you up bigtime...

I highly recommend it. Seriously, we didn't even see a bear. There was a single report of a sighting, well off the road, and the amateur wildlife photogs were double- and triple-parked on the mountain road to get their perfect shot.

We just drove on by to the next cool hike.

We did get entirely too close to a bison (not counting in cars -- I could have reached out and touched at least two walking by) when we came around a rise and found an occupied buffalo wallow about 25' ahead of us. He eyed us pretty good, but we kept our pace walking by, no sudden moves, and he commenced to rolling around in the wallow again. Wish we could have gotten video of that, but photos were all my amateur photographer dared.

Definitely worth putting on your "see this before I die" list. I've been three times now and am already tentatively planning a fourth.

There's this Paynes Prairie State Park (more of a marsh than a prairie)

Listen; don't mind me; there's this storm system coming through with the 80 to 90 mile an hour possible winds and hail and all that b*+~*+~!, so I'm in a pissy mood until I figure out what it's going to do to my fence in about an hour and a half. I just had a Just Brakes fiasco, I don't need a fence fiasco right now.

There's this Paynes Prairie State Park (more of a marsh than a prairie)
with bison in there.
I walked past this bison, leaned up against an oak tree. Then this lady and her husband.....she was trying to walk pet the bison.
So I go behind an oak tree and just watch....I wasn't rubbernecking as much as protecting myself if this bison goes a+#!&@$ on these people.
The husband looks at me, then at her;...."uh...honey,....I uh....don't think that's a good idea."
I mean, dude, yeah; she's gonna squawk at you driving home; it's better than a ripped out femoral, shattered spine, and ruptured spleen.

Definitely - there's a bison herd near where I live, been a tradition for the city to keep for decades. A few years ago, they had three separate idiots, I mean, incidents where someone had to reach through the fence and pet the bull. These made the paper because they are the ones that got gored -- who knows how many others got away with that foolishness. One guy caught the horn about mid-thigh and it went up from there -- I think he's whole again, but he was singing a different tune for a while.

Anyway, now there is a fence within the fence to protect the bison petting people from themselves.

I pet a lion once in seventh grade just on the paw though, not on the head or anything crazy like that.....my thought was, "when the hell am I going to be able to pet a lion again im my life?"
I gotta remind myself what a lucky idiot I myself was so I don't get all big-headed.

YAAY! It's blown over and my fence is still standing.

Hooray for the fence! How far is Brownsville from Dallas (remembering that Texas is bigger than the whole of the UK anyway)?

They did a mini-series nature TV programme on Yellowstone (I always want to call it Jellystone for some reason) and the place looked amazing. Having been in the Midwest for a couple of weeks (i.e. no scenery to speak of) I was hankering for even a smallish hill by the end.

Hey guys, had to go away for work at short notice the last two days, hence the lack of posting. Tired tonight, but I'll try to catch up on games if I can ...

Nice to meet you guys btw! ;-)

Hooray for the fence! How far is Brownsville from Dallas (remembering that Texas is bigger than the whole of the UK anyway)?

They did a mini-series nature TV programme on Yellowstone (I always want to call it Jellystone for some reason) and the place looked amazing. Having been in the Midwest for a couple of weeks (i.e. no scenery to speak of) I was hankering for even a smallish hill by the end.

Born and raised in the Midwest, so I have an appreciation for subtle changes in geography. We love to go hiking in the mountains, but we like to drive and just see how Mother Nature's put everything together, too.

That said, I have to agree with GG -- not a fan of travel for travel's sake. It's a means to the end of seeing things we've not yet seen.

And, a plug for those in the US ('cause I don't know if it will be shown elsewhere yet), Ken Burns has done another epic documentary (I believe the American Civil War, baseball, and jazz are his topics thus far) and this ones about the U.S. National Parks - all of them. 12 total hours, but I'll catch all I can -- he usually does very well, even if you're not terribly into the topic to begin with, so this should be a treat for yours truly.

looks like about 540 miles from Dallas to Brownsville.

looks like about 540 miles from Dallas to Brownsville.

Which is about a 9-10 hour drive depending upon how many stops you make along the way.

Justice Archon CR 6
Always LG Medium outsider (archon, extraplanar, good,
lawful)
Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Listen +10,
Spot +10
Aura magic circle against evil (10 ft.), menace (20 ft., DC 17)
Languages Celestial, Draconic, Infernal, tongues

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AC 19, touch 11, flat-footed 18
(+1 Dex, +8 armor)
hp 63 (6 HD); DR 10/evil
Immune electricity and petrification
SR 16
Fort +10 (+14 against poison), Ref +8, Will +8
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Speed 20 ft. (4 squares) in full plate, base
speed 30 ft.; fly 40 ft. (good) in full plate,
base fly speed 60 ft.
Melee +1 greatsword +10/+5 (2d6+5/19–20)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Base Atk +6; Grp +9

Atk Options aligned strike (good, lawful),
justice strike

Special Actions teleport (self plus 50 lb. of
objects only)

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th):
At will—aid, continual flame, detect evil

Abilities Str 16, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 10, Wis 13,
Cha 14

SQ archon traits
Feats Iron Will, Improved Toughness (Complete
Warrior 101), Lightning Reflexes

Skills Concentration +14, Diplomacy +13, Intimidate
+11, Knowledge (the planes) +9, Listen +10, Move
Silently +4, Sense Motive +10, Spot +10, Survival +1
(+3 on other planes)
Advancement by character class; Favored Class paladin;
see text

Possessions full plate armor, +1 greatsword
Tongues (Su) As the tongues spell; continuous; caster
level 14th.
Magic Circle against Evil (Su) As the magic circle against evil
spell; continuous; caster level 14th.
Aura of Menace (Su) –2 penalty on attack rolls, AC, and
saves for 24 hours; Will save negates.
Justice Strike (Su) A justice archon that hits with a melee
attack can choose to use this special ability instead of
dealing normal weapon damage. Justice strike deals the
damage of the struck opponent’s primary melee attack.
This damage includes effects that apply automatically on
a hit, such as energy damage or poison, but not those
from optional effects or feats, such as Power Attack.
Teleport (Su) As the teleport spell; at will; caster level 14th.
Justice archons consider themselves the purest champions
of justice in Celestia. Decisive and self-righteous, their
desire to act swiftly on behalf of justice sometimes leads
them astray.

Strategies and Tactics
A justice archon does not attack without provocation, but its
highly tuned sense of justice and retribution often causes
it to become incensed at the mere sight of an evil being or
even the suspicion of an evil act. If it is unsure of who was
responsible for the wrongdoing, a justice archon uses its detect
evil ability to locate evil creatures and charges headlong into
battle with dreadful cries of vengeance, laying into the nearest
opponent with its greatsword. It uses the weapon’s normal
damage until it can discover the nature of its opponent’s
melee attack (generally as a result of being hit), then uses its
justice strike if that is more effective. If the opponent provides
a serious challenge, the justice archon teleports away
to bring reinforcements or to strike again when it has some
other advantage.

The archon traits are already included throughout the stat block.

GG might have already converted this guy to PF. I couldn't remember and was too lazy to look.

The archon traits are already included throughout the stat block.

GG might have already converted this guy to PF. I couldn't remember and was too lazy to look.

Sorry but I haven't. I did convert Kadesh though as well as posted some errata on Ezreal. It's on the upper part of this page.

Hey, Ithuriel!
I want one of those Parisian chocolat cakes wit' the chocolate coral reef looking thing on top!

looks like about 540 miles from Dallas to Brownsville.

So about the length of the British Isles, then. Man, Texas really is big.

So about the length of the British Isles, then. Man, Texas really is big.

Like a whole other country. Just ask a Texan. ;-)