You can still post witout tose keys! It's not tat ar! :)
Telv really doesn't need money, and would likely give all of his money to anyone in the group should they ask it of him.
Seeing as how he's a god-crafted ooze, he just makes stuff out of his body, and that's exactly where I want him to be, tbh.
So, in short, Telv isn't really interested by money, he's much more interested in seeing new things and hearing other people's stories.
Ish doesn't look at money as a requirement. His attack and defense is innate. He looks at money as the expansion - adding different capabilities, an extra edge.
I haven't lost interest, just haven't had time to catch up. Had to clear the back yard in prep for new privacy fence going up tomorrow which took way more time and effort this weekend then I thought. That and relaxing in the pool and other things as well as being busy at work. I like this game a lot and whatever Conor decides with the others is fine with me. I will catch up soon I hope and start contributing again. Sorry for my absence :(
Oh, I guess I mostly meant Connor could manifest Everyman if he wanted since it's on my list of powers known and also on the psion list. Hour/level duration means you could do it in the morning if needed. But I guess there's another solution...
So what's so distinctive about Connor's hair and eye, exactly? Nothing in his appearance spoiler indicates anything out of the ordinary.
The hair is just white. Not that distinctive. His eye though has a white discoloration around it, and his pupil is now gold. Something like Domino's eye diamond.
So what's so distinctive about Connor's hair and eye, exactly? Nothing in his appearance spoiler indicates anything out of the ordinary.
Under "Current Status" I have "bone-white hair, right iris white". I use that line to indicate curses, negative levels, missing limbs, etc.
If Connor is unable to change his appearance I'll update the "Appearance" spoiler.
mdt, I don't suppose you have a city map of Atalanta, do you?
Can we retrain feats using the retrain rules? I ask as Psionic body is meh now, I mean its giving me 8hp, I was wanting to retrain it to Vital Strike and Take Mythic Vital Strike as my feat. Fits with Adran's little thug like build and one big blow as an assassin feel. Thanks.
Can we retrain feats using the retrain rules? I ask as Psionic body is meh now, I mean its giving me 8hp, I was wanting to retrain it to Vital Strike and Take Mythic Vital Strike as my feat. Fits with Adran's little thug like build and one big blow as an assassin feel. Thanks.
If you do, heads up that you'll need to retrain 'Deep Focus' too, since Psionic Body is its prerequisite.
oh yeah good catch, can do. I only picked it up to do an additional retaliate. Power attack would be nice as well :)
"I have been thinking about ol' Grimjaw. I will let you know what I come up with."
What Connor has right now is Mindhunter, which takes a full 8 hours of sleep but locates lizardman Grimjowl. Correspond gets us contact with the Dragonbane fleet, via Sanita, maybe.
Grimjowl has some kind of scrying ability, first on Elohir/Sting, probably now on the "old crew/operatives" and the Wandering Elephant. As far as fighting back, we're still just a merchant ship with a couple of cannons and a couple of ballastias. It would be better for Connor to map out where Grimjowl is every day and come up either with the lizard-man's flight patterns or any cities he frequents. And, of course, his headquarters/hideout. I'm having to change Connor's planned psionic powers list up to Level 20 as well. Like adding Remote Viewing and even Remote View Trap. Getting a Ring of Altered Perception (12,000 gp) would be ideal (have to get it forged back on Atalantia, because the ring has to be higher than the person scrying you. Grimjowl assumed to be +3 EL at a minimum). But Grimjowl might be smart enough to just change his focus to a different person on the Elephant at that rate, and it would be too expensive to shield everybody.
Yes, you can retrain feats using the retrain rules.
So I have some cheap ways to mess with or destroy Grimjaws ship but they use magic items and I'm not sure we would know about them since they have not been around so.
So I was thinking we need 2 or 3 of us to be invisible. Person one gets over the ship and has 4 or 5 elemental gyms (2250 each) Fire elementals. The attack starts dropping/throwing a gem down breaking it and telling it to burn everything. Do this over 4 or 5 rounds depending on gems. Would be cool to break them all at once but it says standard action so game wise you can't be for cinematic effect maybe MDT will give us a pass where a cool plan wins out over rules :) While this confusion takes place two of us our bellow the ship with 5-10 tree tokens with sovereign glue (tokens 400 each, glue 2400 ish can't recall off hand. Invis person one sticks tree to hull face up so it sprouts through the ship, invis person two activates. This is done over 5-10 rounds. The rest of us and crew provide support. No attacks made so Invis people should be able to get away. If this doesn't destroy and crash the ship outright it should give us the opportunity to position and finish him it off.
Now gimjaw himself can fly right, I believe he is a half dragon so we could send a 4th person with 2 or 3 elemental gems of Air. If Grimjaw wants to fly off the boat lets see how he does in some whirlwinds. The elementals our only around 9 rounds, but should buy us enough time maybe. If possible.
Now I would like person one dropping the fire gems to be Connor. I think we should drop (8700) on type VII necklace of fireballs. After he drops the gems he pulls off the 10d6 ball from the necklace he then gives the necklace to a flying construct he brought along. The construct will need to be invis as well. Construct then lands near large mass of people now fighting the fire elementals. It is commanded to fail its upcoming save and Connor throws the 10d6 ball exploding the necklace and everything around takes 56d6, well multiple instances of smaller balls they get to save against but still. The Fire elementals are fine because uh Fire.
Now we will still need to be ready to fight Grimjaw in a fight after all above would cost around 35k ish, so leaves 65K to get some new nice engines and cannons.
The issue is are there psionic versions of all above for Adran to even scheme and come up with such a plan as he wouldn't know of magical ones right? So what do you guys think?
I have 'Escape Detection'. Maybe we can figure out a way to make something (which would be tough, bc it wouldn't scale) or to get it on multiple people. Might not be possible for a few levels.
We have Chameleon, which gives +10 stealth. And it's a cheap power to manifest.
The necklace of fireballs could be replicated with energy burst. Psionics isn't great at summoning elementals, but astral constructs would be similar.
We have a gunslinger so we can do kegs of black powder.
We also need to think three-dimensionally. If we can reach the underside of the ship undetected then we can potentially have some time to prepare before we get caught.
We should also make sure that we patrol the underside of our ship regularly as well.
Invisibility is one of psionics' great weaknesses. Cloud Mind is about the only power, and a low levels it's single-person only.
I think what Adran is talking about is the Bombardier archetype. But the bomb-gems have a very short range (20 ft.) that never increases. That means mundane explosives are better.
Grimjowl showed shapeshifting abilities the last time we fought him. He's swallowed the soulgem of a demon - possibly a balor - and is learning how to use the powers of said demon. If Grimjowl is ever killed, the balor comes out, explosively, which is why I have Crystallize on Connor's future powers list. We have recently come across a means of dealing with Grimjowl in a different way (Prison of the Elements), but would require a touch attack. (Crystallize is Medium range.)
I can understand Adran's frustration at our last Grimjowl attack, which turned an ambush into a rout, which I still think is better than being captured or having the ship blown to smithereens with us still on it. But I'd rather have more firepower than just Energy Wall and a few guns on our side.
I'm going to have to look into Elemental Gems. It uses Summon Monster V, which sounds like going to Atalantia and finding out which Guild is in charge of these Small elementals we use in our skyship engines.
I couldn't afford it, but once we get one more level Connor can get Forge Ring, and with some cooperative crafting with Flann that means rings of missile protection for everyone. Connor couldn't afford the ring just yet, he's crafting more than 500 gp at a time for the first time ever.
As for patrolling the underside of the Elephant, that's a valid point. I've been assuming all this time it's a regular event, but maybe we should put PCs on shift giving the skyship a regular once-over.
We do have money this time, but please remember the PCs aversion to all things magical. Still, given a similar attack, with the new PCs and new levels, we have some answers for Grimjowl's attacks.
Not really frustrated just planning :) I know MDT hand waved and some magic things just have a psionic equivalent like my aegis of recovery and sleeves of many garments, eyes of the eagle. I know there are powers that feasibly could do the sameish things. Just thinking out loud. Also love using Tree tokens to solve problems.
Did you guys here the story, I think it made it around Facebook with my D&D friends. GM was setting up the scene for a recurring villain. Party is low level 2-3, the come upon some city guards fighting off a massive werewolf. They watch it slay one or two and are talking about running, regrouping, making a plan. This is what the GM wanted. Party paladin ( I think it was a paladin) runs in. Also I think they are playing 5ed and I don't know the rules so what happens next could be house rules or they follow the rule of cool trumps all. GM thinks one attack will just knock the guy out party can come in save him after the wolf leaves. The wolf goes to bite the paladin. Paladin ask if he can sacrifice his hand to block the attack. GM says with a reflex save and you will lose your hand. Paladin shakes his head and says that's even better. GM shrugs. Paladin makes save and looses his hand. Group looks on in worry wondering now what. GM looks to paladin and ask if he is going to run now or what. Paladin says nope. "Activate Tree Token" GM: "Son of a b+~~&."
Not sure if its made up or true, but I would like to play with that guy :)
Ok, now that Adran is all caught up, we'll be moving forward. I'll get a post up tomorrow taking everyone back to Atalantia.
@Connor : No, I don't have a full city map, sorry. On my list of 100,000 things to do if I ever get time. :P
Thanks for being patient. I will be finished up with gear this morning :)
Let's kick this pig.
Apologies for what appear to be shorter than average posts for this thread; I'm at a slight loss for what to do during this downtime phase (since Kotsi basically just wants to be gone from here) and tend towards shorter posts in more frequency when I do have something to do anyway.
Sorry for hogging the narrative again. I (and Connor) didn't know getting a cargo for the Elephant would take so long. Connor's downtime has to have this "seed money" to start something in the capital, and that means job interviews. Just imagine all those boxes and gears being shoved into the crannies of the cargo hold at the end of the day and into the night. Right now the crew is repairing ropes, swabbing the deck, shifting gunpowder at the cannons, inventorying the supplies, etc.
We'll get underway soon! Connor can't craft until we get normal ship operations started.
Happy Father's Day, everyone!
mdt, if your posts keep getting eaten/missed by Pazio, you might have to do what I do for extra-long posts: use a RTF/Wordpad file to write them down, and copy for posting. Just to have a quick backup.
I'm going to be on Kerr Lake today getting a point of Pro:Sailor. It's actually a powerboat, so it's more like "how not to cause a wake around fishermen and capsize kayakers when going 22 knots (or more)" (more power!). And trying not to get a horrible sunburn like last month.
I tried to throw a "party" for the crew after the Prison of the Elements with 10 gp, but Flann came by and added about 100 gp to it afterwards. Atalantians like their expensive parties, it seems. :-P
I was going to add a line like "and I've paid the tavern barkeeps for the damages" to Connor's cast-off speech, but decided not to. My personal gold is low enough.
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If you don't buy a special pouch to throw onto the table or the floor at the owner's feet, it's considered an insult among the Celestrata clan.
Hi folks, the next three days are going to be tough for me to get online. I'm going from central North Carolina to Norfolk, VA, today, so I'll be on the road. Wednesday is the 4th of July! And Thursday I'll be on Kerr Lake again, trying to tie bowline and sheet knots.
So I'll post when I can.
Hi everyone,
I'm volunteering for Vacation Bible School at my church this week, and it's a morning class, so replies might be delayed.
Don't forget, if Adran looks like he's about to talk to the Surface dwellers, every body pile on!
;)
Just kidding, Adran. (I no longer have panic attacks when I come back online and see 5+ posts waiting and think "Oh no, Adran said something to the employer/boss/royalty.")
He has been scared strait for a bit :) I imagine most of the telepathic conversations you guys have to ask him to quiet down as you hear his whistling and humming pretty non stop :)
I think we're waiting on mdt. Vim's conversation would seem to want a reply from the gnome girl.
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Apologies to my games. As most if not all of you know, I've been out of work since June 1st, and due to having to get a lawyer involved, it was difficult for me to really hit the pavement for a new job until nearly the end of June. So really I've been very active this month, and all the work earlier in the month is heating up finally. I was swamped this week with phone interviews, in person interviews (2.5 hours from home), and prep work for interviews. Next week is looking busy too. This is all a good thing, but it's left me absolutely exhausted (The whole missing the height on the entrance to the garage right before the interview and banging up my wife's truck cap on the parking garage entrance didn't help either). But things are looking good, I've got 2 really really good jobs and 2-3 other potentials, and the two good ones have asked me for 2nd follow up interviews next week (One 2 weeks after the initial, and the other literally 3-4 hours after the first one, yay!). Anyway, sorry for not being as proactive as I should be to keep the threads up, I'll try to push Sunday (my meat game is tomorrow) to get posts and push things forward.
Sorry to hear that, man. One of my clients ghosted me recently too, so it's been a welcome reprieve on my end in some ways too.
Been on that side recently enough; good luck!!
Good luck with your interviews. Fortunately, this is a better time to be looking for a job.
I know what it's like to go without a job for days, weeks, months, and, uh, anyway, good luck with the interviews, mdt! I'll be praying for you!
Thanks for the update. Yeah, I have to agree that slowing down the game to focus on not being homeless is a good thing. Break a leg!
We are here when you’re ready. Best of luck on the really good jobs
Gremlins! Gremlins in the Pazio server room!
Hey guys FYI: I'm off on vacation tomorrow. I will be at War for a week. Pennsic War, SCA. I will have my phone and will try and check in but not sure of service up there. Will resume regular posting on the 13th.
Happy t#*%ching, Adran! (As in, hitting with safe-foamed swords & weapons.)
;D
I'm back guys, I will catch up on things today and tomorrow. No power in camp and spotty service so haven't read any Game play while gone.
Good to see you back!
Test! Is this working?
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Let's take a moment of silence for all the valiant server hamsters that perished. The search for new ones was long and arduous, and they can never truly supplant the originals, but they will struggle on, I'm sure.
All I know is that if the Pazio servers melt down, I only have the adventure copied to 2017. I need to update to this year.
Let's take a moment of silence for all the valiant server hamsters that perished. The search for new ones was long and arduous, and they can never truly supplant the originals, but they will struggle on, I'm sure.
Clearly I spoke too soon, Jesus Christ.
If we're still here tomorrow I'll make a post.