(3) Legend of the Elder Souls (Inactive)

Game Master mdt

Hmm, if it weren't for that material cost I think I'd have my Eldritch Knight Magic Mouth all his ammunition to scream insults. Hmm ... : P

Hmm, true.

Kong, I think it's your turn to drive the plot forward. ;)

Heh. New Kong's fun.

Pretty sure Lina just figures "okay, he's permanently snapped from the stress, but at least crazy Kong has plenty of conviction now"

I've been slammed at work. I'll try to get updates by Monday night.

Let me know what your plans are so I know what to post.

I think our plans is

1) Introduce Kong

Then either

a) Get out of the city

b) Plant some sort of lead to our pursuers

Heh. New Kong's fun.

Pretty sure Lina just figures "okay, he's permanently snapped from the stress, but at least crazy Kong has plenty of conviction now"

Why thank you. Part of his fun is getting to use real life references in game as we are all from real life and part gallows humor. If he's going to die it will be with a smile on his face taking as many of them with him.

He got sick of Mahb alluding to the fact and outright stating it that he should be out killing these guys and finally had enough. It's time to plant as many of them as he can, if he survives, BONUS! That's where his conviction is coming from.

Looks like I managed to ninja in a suggestion before I even noticed Lina's prompt :P

GM Swamped with work and RL, updates this weekend (hopefully) as things settle down.

Happens, see you when you get some free time

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Are people ready to move on from the caverns? It doesn't seem like there's any substantial help or quests for us here (for now, at least), we've got all the new information we can expect, and there were discussions of heading to Demonwatch next.

Sure

Neri's checking some theories, despite other people not being able to garner much from it :P

I guess... but I do feel like we've been asking questions in circles/things we already knew for the last few weeks, and I think we need to prove ourselves a bit more before the locals like us.

I'm ready to move on. I've no more questions for this witness.

Neri abstains. Courteously.

I'm fine with moving on. I don't really have any questions for them.

Let me know what you're doing then, can't post until you do something. :)

Right—that was more a point for players than characters.

That's all I really have, depending on how she responds. Sorry for holding everyone up.

I don't think anyone was holding us up; I think we were all just repeating questions similar to ones previously asked, or generally forgetting what we were doing because of the time elapsed.

Nope. I've had a goal pretty much set into my head for a while now. :)

Oh? What's that goal?

Neri is feeling like we're rapidly discovering that there are large gaps in the spheres left in the wake of our gods... and figures that that kind of justifies that idea by believing that the demons and gods used to be homies. Which makes them gods.

The knowledge that say... the sea tries to turn people crazy (when we know a lawful evil god used to control the sea) suggests that he may just be right. Hence him asking about volcanoes. And pointing out the anecdotal evidence that the church controls only false knowledge, not real knowledge in its books.

The world is seriously messed up, and our 'Demons' seem to be what's missing.

Umm... that first part was strongly suggested a long time ago, though, and our first conversation with these guys confirmed it (atleast to Lina's paranoid ears).

"The sea is crazy" is new info, though. And I thought Ptaleon's domain was more fire than just volcanoes? Not that it matters much.

Then it's safe to assume he's trying to convince the one single intelligent person from outside the wall that's been willing to listen so far. :P

I guess. But deprogramming takes time, not one single conversation; and it'll probably be helpful to come back later with more power/evidence.

EDIT: Now I'm wondering if there's some way we can get the Priest or our Crystals to teach us a "Detect Celestine" spell.

OH MY GOSH I am an idiot!

There's one question we still need to ask: Do all priests and bounty hunter avatars of Celestine/Barathiel carry the same type of weapon, armor, or holy symbol, and if so, does it differentiate them from crystal-less priests?

Heh, glad you're figuring that out, Kong. Lina's alignment is lawful-killjoy (she was neutral-killjoy with her old gem, but shifted once she gathered the willpower to fight off Minestra's influence)

'Is that a gun... or a stick? I'd better break it in half, just in case.' :|

No, Neri. Guns, we keep. (Lina's pistol is an excellent coup de grace weapon!)

But it could go off at any time!

Also, if you missed it, Kong. Between you and Luna, we're able to go get new people. There's a good chance once we reach leadership level, that Neri's gonna wanna yoink someone to fill the teacher or builder role.

More like lawful pain in the a$$ :) It's all good.

We'll cross the leadership bridge if we come to it. Just don't go into the next town and announce we're not from around here, Neri, and I'll be happy.

Mysterious Strangers aren't really viable in a setting that doesn't support guns. :)

:D

Also, as with every random encounter, this can only end well.

I cannot recall: What time of year is it?

Fall, thus the gathering of the crops.

Then that's a good cover. Looking for work helping with the Fall Harvests. That seems like a thing that would happen. :)

Would Neri like to start talking? With Lina's -3 to Bluff, she can basically only speak truth.

Alrighty, my WotR DM is at the point with her face to face group where Mass battles become a thing. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions to make them better via your experiences. She's kind of worried it's just going to be dice roll, consult table, repeat. Which sounds like a really boring session.

Alrighty, my WotR DM is at the point with her face to face group where Mass battles become a thing. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions to make them better via your experiences. She's kind of worried it's just going to be dice roll, consult table, repeat. Which sounds like a really boring session.

That's pretty much what it is. It's the DM and whoever is leading the army. If you know how to handle the battles they can be done quickly and then you can get back to the group adventures. Until you get to the city it's a quick mass battle then back to the small group. Even at the city we got the mass battles done quickly. What took the longest was planning the battles. Where do we go first, which direction do we approach from. It's quickest for the leader to know what he wants to do and then just do it. Some of those final battles the paladin army destroyed the demon army in one round. You could maybe suggest that the mass battles are handled during the week before through email or skype and then the DM could do a description of what happened. Otherwise it's one on one DM/Leader during the battles.

Sorry. That was me being inattentive, not Neri. My brain just completely deleted all relevant information not within five feet of Neri. Any chance we can make him seem a little less crazy by having not asked where the water is at the beach?

I basically didn't retain any of the middle portions, so I was still in 'forest gives way to farms.' I apologize.

Three times a year, I'm swarmed for a couple weeks. This is one of those times... so I'm frazzled. :p. Plus, we all know Neri shouldn't be doing the talking anyway.

LOL, I thought it was funny.

Besides, she's actually come to the conclusion after that question that Lina is a nice person who's taking care of her simple relatives. So it actually helps. :)

Alrighty. :) if you've been paying attention, I'm pretty great at playing dumb. So I'll run with it. :)

@Mass battle - Grab Heroes of Might and Magic or Age of Wonders or something and make a quick custom battle :P?

@Mass Battles - What I usually do is split the party up, and put each of them in charge of a unit on the battlefield. Then they control the tactics of that unit.

Fight out the combat in their area. If it goes well, the main battle rolls get bonuses. If it goes badly, the main battle get's penalties. If it stalemates, the main battle rolls are unaffected.

I find this gives the PCs some feeling of control over the entire battle, but it also allows for them to 'win the battle and lose the war'. I find that using small unit combat works best (treat each group of soldiers as a 'swarm' that does damage and has hit points, and auto-hits). The PCs are individuals that auto-hit, but roll a 'average' dice of damage for them based on level.

Example, Fighter has 3 iterative attacks, each normally does 2d6+28. They get 4d6+49 (2d6+28 + 1d6+14 + 1d6+7) when they attack. Spellcasters roll area of effect damage on swarms normally, or do 1/4 damage with specific target spells (except for attacking a Hero, who takes full damage).

Can get very bloody very quickly for PCs (which given they are in the field of battle, is appropriate). Healing spells do 1/4 repair to a swarm unit, or full repair to a hero.