I just like reinforcing Ansha's Chaotic and Not-Good credentials ;P (Is she Evil yet?)
That is one of those questions that if you have to ask, you aren't trying hard enough. ;P
;P She isn't trying hard enough, then. Maybe if she murders someone in their sleep just because, as opposed to revenge for their own crimes....
That said, my tabletop DM who has played with Ansha before will often tell me she's CE even when I don't think she has been acting all that bad. I mean, it's not like she goes around murdering people for no good reason! (Although she did recently destroy a major metropolis on his homebrew campaign world with an army of golems...But they asked for it when they executed her for trying to resist arrest when she was around level 9-10! Now that she's level 22+, she's just settling a score....)
So a less-slim Tebati is at the previous link now. Is that more like what you had in mind, Joana? Also, a sketch of the whole kaava musk thing where Ansha about became cat-food.
Yes, those proportions look better on her. (Has to be pretty unusual that a woman comes back to you with "No, no, that picture makes me look too thin.")
I was going to say the boots looked a little stylish for wilderness travel/combat, but I suppose a three-inch heel is Ansha's idea of thoroughly utilitarian footwear for cross-country travel. ;)
You can blame one of my artist girl friends for giving me the idea that Ansha would wear heeled boots as travel-wear, even if Ansha has always struck me as the type to be fashion-conscious even in the wilderness. Originally, Ansha also wore glasses like a hipster...and for the same reasons. (That, and she bought a pair that allowed her to see invisibility when she was being hounded by an imp.)
Sigh. Wrong level to get the Horse. Oh well. Life is suffering. :7)
Why is that? You get a revelation at 3rd, so you should be able to get a bonded mount at 3rd. 4th is only if you're a Small oracle who wants a boar or dog for a mount.
Poor Qhude :(
Sniff - and just when almost all of us were getting along :P
Somehow, I have a feeling that's the best we can hope for. ;P
I wasn't trying to squash any discussion, that was just N'bellocq being oblivious to personal interactions
Sigh. Wrong level to get the Horse. Oh well. Life is suffering. :7)Why is that? You get a revelation at 3rd, so you should be able to get a bonded mount at 3rd. 4th is only if you're a Small oracle who wants a boar or dog for a mount.
meant a mount will not be all that useful as we go Up-Up the Ziggurat. But AK was kind enough to let me swap out the horse.
Down-down :P. The entrance is at the top!
Sigh. Wrong level to get the Horse. Oh well. Life is suffering. :7)Why is that? You get a revelation at 3rd, so you should be able to get a bonded mount at 3rd. 4th is only if you're a Small oracle who wants a boar or dog for a mount.meant a mount will not be all that useful as we go Up-Up the Ziggurat. But AK was kind enough to let me swap out the horse.
What are you taking instead?
You know, there's something amusing about Jakob belonging to a group calling itself the Umkhaya, given his family's Mafia-like personality ("hippy raised by the Cosa Nostra"). May explain why he thinks the group are a "tired, fractious bunch of misfits," though.
Kamishah seemed completely immune to your Beguiling Touch, or perhaps simply very strong-willed.
By the way, did Ansha get a better grasp on Kamishah's strength of will from those two other attempts on the road? There's a loose flex-time conversational thread between Ansha and Kamishah too:
She glances away for a moment, then turns to grin conspiratorially at him. "I understand you've found other things to occupy your time here, as well. It can get pretty boring around here, so believe me, I can completely understand. I don't suppose you're the sort to appreciate a good prank, too, are you?"
Sorry I saw that and forgot to reply to it.
So, AK, since Ultimate Campaign is out, are you planning on incorporating any of it into the Saga outside of the kingdom building rules? For example, drawbacks or the traits or story feats in there? Or even the downtime rules?
Haven't had a good enough perusal of it all yet... Not keen on drawbacks. Story feats could be nice.
Aww...and I was going to give Ansha the Hedonistic drawback too!
...Although I guess there's nothing preventing me from just rolling DC20 Fort saves on my own and giving myself the penalties of fatigue when I (inevitably) fail them.
Guess Ansha needs to find more people to cheat at cards with (or to seduce)!
Congrats on a year's worth of pestering producing results, AK! ;P
I like the idea of Story Feats, but the ones they have listed seem pretty meh to me -- or nichey as all get-out. Apparently, fighters not only can't have nice things; they can't have True Love, either, as the benefits of the feat are caster-specific. :P
Okay, really, we have to make sure we've got everything we need before we go in there because there's no turning around to go back to the store once we've gone in.
We have three people who can create light magically, although none of us can do anything about magical darkness. We might not need torches to see by, but we still might need fire. Light won't do fire damage. Ansha has burning hands, but we might need more than one in a day (or two, if she uses her arcane bond).
Leading from that, burning hands looks to be the only way we can deal with swarms. It's partial metagaming, but I've been in two games recently where we met swarms without any means to deal with them and it stinks. (Personally, I think swarms are poorly designed -- something's wrong with your world when bugs and bats are the most deadly enemies a a low-level party might run into in a dungeon -- but that's another argument.) We need alchemist's fire if they have it; barring that, at least oil and torches.
We need to figure out how many days of rations we can and should carry. Tebati can reserve an orison slot for create water to avoid carrying vats of drinking water in with us. I'd like a backup dagger. Anything else I'm not thinking of? I hate packing. I always forget something important. :P
Qhude has 5 x Alchemist's Fire that he bought after the Trials, one Lesser Restoration potion, a bandages of rapid recovery and 350 unspent gold.
Ansha's already carrying 3 Burning Hands scrolls at CL2. Is Arkus carrying the blank scrolls and ink Ansha would need to create more in his stock, or is that beyond the scope of his mundane inventory?
Your able to purchase spell scribing items, yes :).
On a personal note, one of my most embarrassing character deaths was when my fighter/wizard was swarmed by a swarm of spiders and I cast burning hands on my own square. I don't recall whether it killed the swarm, but it also knocked me out...and the druid who summoned the swarm then coup de graced me.
Also, AK, will Arkus extend a line of credit to me? ;P Otherwise I can't purchase the spell-scribing items anyway.
What did you spend your 350 gold on in Freehold?
...Scrolls. >_>
Specifically, Fox's Cunning and Eagle's Splendor, and the inks to scribe them to her spellbook.
Should have just looted them from Zesaste's tower. I'm not sure who you were buying them from, with the arcane caster AWOL. ;P
Yeah, don't ask me. Some merchant or another who happened to have them in stock. I had PMed AK about Ansha going back and trying to steal more of the scrolls from said merchant, but we were already on the road again and it just wouldn't have worked in flextime.
Schrödinger's elf, simultaneously on the road with us and in jail back in Freehold? :)
Clearly, I was able to steal a Minor Image scroll and leave an illusion of myself in jail even as I fled town.
Out of curiosity, how likely is it that Ansha can make and/or acquire elven trail rations? ;P
Maybe she needs to get in touch with those Ekujae elves after all....
Hey, just noticed I made the campaign tagline again. :)
That's what...two times now? Three? ;P
So it looks like at least some of us have alchemist's fire, Ansha has sunrods and burning hands scrolls, and we have 3 casters who can cast light. One or two weeks of trail rations seems like it's really the only thing we might want to bring that we don't have in our possession already. Two might be better, if people (other than the wizard with 8 STR) can bear the load.
Eagerly awaiting your delve :). Tebati you might want to state IC that you want to go in tomorrow rather than today.
That's what...two times now? Three? ;P
Twice, I think, though I can't for the life of me remember what her first one was.
Tebati's stronger than most of my characters; after picking up an extra dagger, she can still carry 6 days of rations without going into medium encumbrance. How much extra weight can the men carry? We need to leave room to pick up treasure, but it'd be a bit anticlimactic to get inside and then starve because it takes us too long to get back out again. 1d6 points of nonlethal damage adds up pretty quick when there's no way to remove it.
Tebati you might want to state IC that you want to go in tomorrow rather than today.
Meh, but it's so much work. Pick on PWO; Jakob hasn't said anything since insulting our abilities and driving Qhude out of the tent. ;P
Meh, but it's so much work. Pick on PWO; Jakob hasn't said anything since insulting our abilities and driving Qhude out of the tent. ;P
He's good at that. Foot-in-mouth disease and all. ;P
I honestly haven't kept track of Ansha's encumbrance, but she's probably fairly close to Medium encumbrance even with a masterwork backpack upping her effective Strength to 9. I'm guessing Qhude can carry a lot, given his 18 Strength and lack of heavy armor.
Yeah....Ansha's carrying 60 lbs. of gear. So even with her masterwork pack, she's already just under Heavy encumbrance. >_> And that's without even carrying food! (Why does my evening gown weigh 10 lbs.? I mean, I'm visualizing it looking diaphonous like Queen Telandia's outfit in the ISWG, and probably covering less too.)
Hey Qhude, carry my pack for me!
No, apparently it has fifteen petticoats and diamond encrusting at that weight. :)
So, about that line of credit with Arkus, AK....
Nope. The Sargavan Government has already spent a fortune equipping you. This is a struggling nation we're talking about here. Maybe see if your companions will give you a line of credit instead :P.
Okay, what about theft? ;P
You want to steal scrolls, of which he essentially has none except those he uses to requisition equipment for you?
I figured blank paper would be in the "mundane items" category...although maybe magical ink isn't. But yes, if he's got more than one Sending scroll, why not swipe one? Who knows if we'll need it while we're lost in the depths? ;P
Well, if they're telling the truth, sending doesn't work through the pyramid. Or everyone died before they could try to contact them, which doesn't bode well either.
Anyway, don't you remember all the trouble a stolen scroll led to in Freehold? ;P
EDIT: I guess we could use it to try to contact each other if we get separated.
That's more what I was thinking of. Besides, I--er, Ansha--just wants to steal something.
I think if Ansha had invisibility you'd have a shot but considering the supply tent is heavily guarded and you'd be unable to simply just enchant one person to get access, I think Ansha would have ruled it out by now.
Sigh. Just rain on my parade, why don't you? ;P
We just need to get a drag litter (as in a tarp and a few sticks) for the heavy foodstuffs and what not. Qhude can then drag it around and free action drop before any combats and such. Removes much of the problems with overloading - given that Qhude can drag around 1,000 lb or so of gear.
Qhude has 350gp burning a hole in his pocket that Ansha could always try and convince him to relieve himself of...