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Don't get me wrong its been fun for sure, I love all the creative problem solving going on and conjuration wizard is always great for that. I love Angie H's style of game. I just haven't been able to cough up a character day after day...looking at my post record its closer to like 1-2 a week on average. And again even then its like I'm just reacting to stuff instead of taking the initiative and putting my story out there.

I do still feel like playing wizard, but I might just step away and keep my game count a bit lower so I can spend more effort on DM prep. Thanks for the memories all.

Guys, I'm sorry but I just can't seem to find the motivation to continue here. I get frustrated just making rolls and one-liners instead of doing larger pieces of creative writing. At some point I lost momentum with Ziyad and can't seem to find it again. Some days I'll spend an hour just staring at the screen or writing something only to not post it. I haven't really made a post I was happy with since last June.

Has absolutely nothing to do with DM, game or players; its me not you. Again really sorry for leaving!

Ziyad had an idea with the torchstalks. If they explode sometimes, it was best to light them from a distance. He stuck one in the mud and from a distance of about 50 ft threw one of his firey discs at the tip...

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 Or as many as it takes to light one.

On the boat, I propose a Polynesian Multihull like this but much smaller of course. We would need to cut the log in half, then use another piece for the cross bracing. Ziyad could conjure a 2-man crosscut saw. I could sacrifice my dope poncho and reuse the spider silks like rope lashing...or did we get actual rope from somewhere?

When the cork sloshed around and really didn't do much, the gith furrowed his brow. Taking Alex up on her suggestion, he started looking for any vegetation nearby that might be repurposed into a watercraft of some sort...

Investigation: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Inspiration adv: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Are there mushroom caps around big enough to use as a boat? If so Ziyad could conjure an oar instead.

DM, no worries let me know if it works or not in game with that much material.

Ziyad has the Minor Conjuration ability as a level 2 Conjuration wizard.

Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can use your action to conjure up an inanimate object in your hand or on the ground in an unoccupied space that you can see within 10 feet of you. This object can be no larger than 3 feet on a side and weigh no more than 10 pounds, and its form must be that of a nonmagical object that you have seen. The object is visibly magical, radiating dim light out to 5 feet.

The object disappears after 1 hour, when you use this feature again, or if it takes or deals any damage.

I mistakenly said 5 ft cube without checking reference, but its a 3 ft cube actually.

Not like a boat, but yes a floatation device.

Sorry, lost my voice a bit with this character. Still interested in the game however. I hope to make a nice RP writeup sometime this week.

Despite the strange crystalline growths that erupted from the gith's veins, he was happy to find his old spellbook.

When the trouble of the lake presented itself, Ziyad filled the magic gourd with some of the lakewater, turning it into a Potion of Flying. The gith next held his orb outwards, and it rapidly expanded into a porous flexible material...

Conjuring dimly lit 5 ft cube of cork with handholds. Idea is people can grab the floating cork and I will push them while flying.

Reminder of what happened with Sarith?

Comp: 1d20 ⇒ 14

Ziyad, rather out of breath, forced himself to keep pace with the others through the narrow passage...

Out of dashes so 30. If there is something within 120 I suppose he'll take a pot-shot.

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 4

Does the demon have a form that looks solid?

I believe it may be this...

Complication: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Ziyad continued to follow those ahead of him, hoping to escape the sloppy demons and other strange hostile creatures.

Since there are now people ahead of me, I'll switch back to using my Minor Conjuration as dim light source and take my final Dash.

Is there a reason why you can't dash while using blindvision? You evaded the obstacle, so I think you went the full 60 feet

Each round familiar-vision steals the wizard's action. If I want it during a round, that's where my action goes. Its better for out of combat/round tracking...meaning I can't really make use of it in combat. But since I was at the front, I figured I had better dive in.

Its Complicated: 1d20 ⇒ 2
Con Save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

"Gah...Stool!" losing his cool as the myconid flops on his face for the 3rd time in 20 seconds. Grabbing a bit of decaying muck from the pool "...here just eat that and leave me alone!" shoving it up in his material processing gills.

Wow, same complication 3 times in a row! Stool is slippery, that much has been made clear. Continuing to use familiar blindsight to sense as they go, 30 ft.

Complication: 1d20 ⇒ 2 Poor visibility
Con save vs DC 10: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8 Blinded

Ziyad felt his sight slip away, grasping at his bat companion for guidance...

Using action to meld senses with the bat familiar, giving me blindsight. Then continuing to run forward 30 ft...or 15 ft if it doesnt counter the blindness for some reason.

Complication: 1d20 ⇒ 2 Poor visibility
Con vs DC 10: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15

From the sweat of running, Stool slipped over the wizard's eyes momentarily...but a quick nudge cleared the gith's vision.

Dash for 60

Can Ksenia (with Cunning Action) double dash for 75? Would it count for 2 dashes I mean.

The wizard pushed his frail frame forward, physiologically adapted to the chaos of Limbo but not a survival run like this. The gith was quickly reaching his limit...

Its Not Complicated: 1d20 ⇒ 13

Dash for another 60

The wizard made a quick getaway...

Dash, marked.

Complication: 1d20 ⇒ 11 ==none

60 ft.

Ziyad emerged quickly from the center of the mists, whirling a giant disc of fire and tossing it towards the drow squad...

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 7

...before vanishing again within the fog.

Hey my fire bolt didn't totally suck donkeyb*lls for once. :D

Dex Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Ziyad saw the magic motes light the fog as they streamed towards him, sidestepping it easily.

Should be all set. Its diameter is 40 ft, so roughly 1/3 the distance between us.

The arcane crystals clinging to the gith's blood veins pulsed with a scintillating pattern, as the swamp waters bubbled and boiled quickly creating an obscuring mist...

Fog Cloud, with us on the edge and the bulk of it to our rear. That way people can move out>attack>move back on their turn and stay blocked if we need to.

Wewps, sorry scratch that for another day then. :)

Ziyad again fills the gourd, passing the resultant Potion of Detect Thoughts to Kalanzar. "You will find my mind soon after you drink. It will contain the chaos of Limbo, but do not be alarmed. Pressing deeper, you will feel something resist you, my Ego. But I will allow the Id to destroy the Ego, so you can pass deeper within my psyche unguarded." the strange wizard explains.

Ziyad was happy his companions, save Jimjar, had trusted him at his word and the threat was eliminated. The gith felt he owed Jimjar a deeper explanation however "Jimjar, I've been studying the spores of Stool intimately during our travels. I created a more potent mixture that was able to link our minds together even more deeply, in effect I could see Buppido's thoughts. In this psionic space, I could see the evidence of his guilt clearly. If you don't believe me, I could prepare another of these thought detecting potions and allow you to observe for yourself the effect on me." the wizard diplomatically offered.

"Kalanzar, on guard! The derro! I see in his mind a raw bloodlust! The joy of murder, and murders to come! He killed Alara and will kill us all!" summoning a fiery disk and hurling it at Buppido.

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 1

Ziyad finally let his fog spell drop, it was too confusing to be out in the mists amongst all the back-and-forth. Seeing both Jimjar and Buppido acting strangely, the gith reached for the gourd of magical potion creation. Filling it slowly with fresh water, he recalled a psionic tincture commonly in stock from the apothecaries of his home in Limbo: a Potion of Mind Reading.

Drinking and focusing on Buppido and Jimjar for surface thoughts. Then, I probe deeper on the more suspicious one with spell save Wis 13. Acts as detect thoughts spell.

Ziyad heard the commotion from inside the blindness of his magic fog, only guessing at what was happening.

And like my character, player is pretty lost/unhelpful at this point. XD

From somewhere inside the fog cloud, the wizard's voice pathetically stated "...I don't have any weapons..."

::Hard to believe, its true. But there may be other forces at work...recall the maddening fog near the treasure spring. Perhaps the effect suffuses in other manners, something they ate...something they drank. The dark finds ways of tilting the mind towards psychosis...:: the gith reasoned.

Ziyad maintained concentration on the defensive screen of fog, unsure if any threat still loomed.

It wasn't on the stat sheet I was given, and I think DM is using a different value than the standard myconid sprout for our convenience.

In the roiling colors of his cloud cover, the wizard let his senses slip into the spirit of his familiar...probing the space around.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9 with Blindsight
Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8 advantage if hearing based...oof

Unsure of the foes around him, the student of manifestation summoned forth a opaque fog of chaos...scintillating with the infinite colors of Limbo. Keeping his familiar at hand, the wizard attempted to remain as still and silent as possible...

Casting Fog Cloud positioned to capture me, but leaving the others free if possible...or at least close enough to the edge for them to choose. Don't want to force anyone to be in the cloud, basically.

No worries, thanks for update!

I don't have any food provisions on hand, but the waterskin was filled at the dude's house.

Ziyad was thankful to replenish his energy (both physical and mystical) from the brief respite, crunching a handful of Ksenia's Tasty Bits in a shameless display of entomophagy.

Ziyad, with the eyes and ears of his bat companion, surveyed the area for a good camp...

Survival: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19 Blindsight 60ft radius

Ziyad kept pace quickly and quietly. At times the student of manifestation was in his own mind turning thoughts of loss and the creeping voices of elves. Yet other times he experienced it all through the greater shared expanse of his familiar...the bond had formed a greater consciousness and was new territory for an adventurous intellect.

Stealth: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Ziyad continued to hustle along with the group...

We are just sort of randomly running trying to get away from the monsters at the moment?

Seeing the rope winding up quickly through the pseudo-fire, Ziyad didn't have to be told twice. Heeding Kesnia's call to rout, the gith quickly covered what ground he could to stay in the middle of the party.

Thanks, perfect.

I'm pretty confused actually. Can we get a map update showing firewall illusion and Maddy's position?

We up again? If so...

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 2

Ziyad hurled another fiery disc down at the thing...it did little to damage the hard carapace, but perhaps helped Alex's cold firewall be more convincing...

Dex Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Ziyad did some weird githzerai martial arts timed perfectly as the bundle of badger flesh stormed past. Sneezing in the spore cloud miserably, the wizard looked rather ridiculous...but to the scorpion Ziyad was the Deathbringer, Annihilator of Worlds and the lightning blast within an apocalyptic storm cloud...

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 fart
Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 8

...just as he had formed another disc, the makeshift strap on his new poncho snapped, revealing a rare yellow moon rising in the Underdark. The embarrassment sent the fiery disc spinning off randomly.

Frightened is pretty underrated as a condition, great vs. melee...but just been lucky its not saved yet.

The wizard set sail another fiery disc down into the darkness...

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 4

...but Ziyad had always learned magic for peaceful purposes, and combat was still almost as alien as this realm itself.

Ziyad maintained his concentration on the spell holding the scorpion at bay...hoping it could buy enough time for his companions to cross. From the corner of his eye for a split second, he thought he saw one of the slain elven magi of the summoning coven...

Both good ideas imo. It will eventually make its save against my spell and come at us.

Ziyad pulsed another necromantic wave down into the dark. Fear was natural to all living things, big and small...so he reminded Stool in a comforting mental voice.

...before conjuring a rapidly spinning disc of flame, tossing it down at the thing...

Fire Bolt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Fire Dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 4