Bastarache, Welcome to the Nightmare

Game Master Rysky

Sooo she was originally exiled from her home in the WK due to political intrigue (her parents were killed, too), and she wound up traveling a long way to get away from home and the problems there. She ran afoul of the clergy in a city - since she's a foreigner who uses strange magic - and was banished to Bastarache as a result. The clergyman "cursed" her but it's not clear if that was an actual magical curse or just showmanship.

Gotcha, hmmm, think think think.

And how would you have liked Yasmin to have come to Bastarache? For reference, Yelenn came by boat and Mylyna got teleported in a dream through a storybook.

Jury's out on whether the cleric was evil or not. Yasmin was a foreigner in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she got exiled on suspicion of being an evil foreign sorceress. Up to you to decide the details on the priest in question.

Presumably after she was charged with all kinds of trumped-up nonsense, she was sentenced to be exiled, and trussed up as a prisoner on a ship and then dumped in the ocean somewhere off the coast of Bastarache by a bunch of jeering sailors. Little did they know that she can cast touch of the sea without components, and her water elemental could come find her and carry her gear to her.

*nods*

Hmmm, thinking, sentenced to Bastarache isn't a light sentence, it's usually cause they can't kill you because they deem you to dangerous to leave nearby, alive or not. can't kill ya, curse might infect the land or pass on to someone else, can't kill ya, it will make you a martyr.

Though I am liking a Ghul or Div or Efreeti being behind this pulling the strings, even if the cleric wasn't Evil, but duped, hmmm...

Sorry, I ramble when I think.

Can't kill ya, those elemental spirits that follow you around might go crazy and attack people?

That too.

Might also cause an elemental imbalance in the land. No rain forevermore, or constant blizzard year round.

Reading back on the history of the game I just realized that I wound up unintentionally similar to one of your originals, the summoner with the oceanic eidolon! Fortunately there are some significant differences. :)

Heh, funny how things work out :3

And yep.

Good news! A close reading showed me that I was missing a power - I thought that sha'ir didn't get any mental focus powers, but that's not true; there just aren't mental focus powers associated with elemental schools. They still get focus powers from their regular wizard schools of magic. Since I took Conjuration, that means I get the focus power that summons last longer (largely worthless since I didn't take Summon Monster I), I can conjure a Servitor, and I took the Mind Steed power, which lets me create a spectral horse that lasts for 10 mins/level. And next time I get a focus power (next level) I can get a power that lets me use Mental Focus to do healing! So that's exciting. :)

Yay! Ghost horsey! Yay! Healing!

Unless I missed something, a Sha'ir adds the relevant Wizard spells to her Occultist spell list to pick from, rather than only having them.

Edit: nvm, just read over how base Occultist works.

Tangent, but something I've been thinking about is since Genies don't have an Alignment subtype how innate their Alignment is and how much of it is culture/nurture, as opposed to their innate animosity towards other certain members of geniekind, which I've always attributed to their Element.

Granted I can see the reasoning for say, an Efreeti, to be Evil. In addition to folklore, mythology, and common depictions there's also the fact where if you have an Evil and selfish creature that can spam wishes, and you have a Good creature that do so, leads to two veeeeeerrrrrryyyy scenarios (a lot of different scenarios actually).

Sorry I didn't get back with you sooner Azura, been a little out of it and unmotivated due to pain meds. A few more days and I'm done with them, and hopefully the issue that's been causing me troubles the last month. You build what you like, male, female, I don't care. This is your character and I'll enjoy playing with you (innuendo fully intended) regardless.

When you get right down to it even an alignment subtype doesn't mean you have to be evil, or stay that way. There is a good example of an NPC from Wrath of the Righteous (which I will play through someday damnit) that proves it as well as information on a certain Lusty Demonlord's possible intentions. That being said more often than not they are the alignment they are subtyped.

Elemental types are different, I think that, excepting pure elementals, they are can vary more though their tendency is to be what their alignment is in the bestiary from their culture.

;_;

*offers tummy wubs*

That example kinda got mindf!&$ed by a Goddess, so Divine Intervention is at play there.

Nocticula is a better example though since shes slowly been shifting throughout the aeons (and I'd like to play one day too, it's one of my cursed campaigns though I guess).

As for Elementals, *nods*

True....for example, Mylyna isn't bad, she's just drawn that way....heh.

On a side note water elemental powers will be fascinating since an aspect of Yelenn's curse tends to drown people inadvertently.

(Well when Lava gets that scene done that will literally be true :3)

And... oh.

>_>

<_<

:3

Ok, well, I'm ready to go whenever! Either just washed ashore after being dumped, or has been here for a little while - can go whichever way is convenient. Yasmin has some minimal survival skills so she isn't completely doomed if she is stuck in the wild for a few days.

@Mylyna I hope you recover soon and feel great again!

Very eager to jump in, in case you couldn't tell. :D

Yes, sorry!!!

Ended up being very busy today so I didn’t have any downtime at work -_-

It's no trouble at all. I'm just excited for the game. Take your time, no pressure. You're doing us all a favor by running. :)

Thank you.

Got done with the banking at work, gonna reset the computer now and get to work on your entrance!

A very healthy dose of paranoia.

Hehehe.

SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY AWRY

<_<

>_>

:3

Amusingly, if Mylyna were in this place instead, she's probably just go "are you seducing me? Yes please thank you," tire out the blue lady (marid?), and live happily ever after!

May~be :3

Pretty much.

She's gonna check tomorrow and be like "Twenty-eight new posts? What the heck?"

I think the record has been like 150 or something in one day.

Well now I know what I have to do to set a new record!

One of my games has managed 300 in a day once.

Damn.

I think it was like, thanksgiving or something.

Game goals! :D

Heh, don’t forget the pocket dimension the RoW GM set up since he didn’t think anyone would be playing over the holidays.

That was fun

Ye!

I think I was waiting on you Yelenn, or did you respond to my last post already?

I did, right under it

Hmmm, I must have missed it in the flurry of posting.

Sowwy!

Sorry Mylyna, I kinda got on a roll!

Heh. Went to bed when you posted. Getting ready for work. Will post in a bit

Delightful Storyteller, I still need a Campaign Trait!

Also, should my starting wealth be simply by class, or as a level 2 character?

Also also, snowball was just errata'd and changed to an evocation spell, so I need to swap that for a conjuration now. Taking grease instead.

Sorry about they delay, I fell asleep >_<

Yes, yes you do.

Simple by class works.

And Okies.

The second most underrated spell. Nice.

Also handy for lubrication!

Indeed! I always assumed there was an unmentioned cantrip version called "lube".

All the apprentices know it. lol

I guess prestidigitation could count it as a simple fragile object.