I can just see a trap going off behind us and the drag litter getting caught on the other side from Qhude. ;P
I'm honestly not sure that Ansha really needs to be carrying more scrolls with her, and she'd only be able to scribe one scroll per day anyway.
But maybe Ansha can cheat Qhude out of 350gp at dice or cards. ;P I mean, he does have an 8 WIS.
I can just see a trap going off behind us and the drag litter getting caught on the other side from Qhude. ;P
Which would likely mean a split party too though... considering it'll probably be Kieran and Qhude on point and Ansha back from anything stabby... so at least you'd keep said food.
Cheating the emotionally unstable and violent man out of money isn't a very good plan... how about you y'know.. maybe apologize or ask nicely instead?
Ansha's Wisdom is only 10. ;P
Besides, it's not like Ansha really has anything to spend it on here. "Hey, sugar-dad--I mean, Qhude--can I have 350 gold? Just because you love me? What am I going to do with it? Uh. Uhhh...hangontoitforlater?"
Congrats on post 3000 in the IC thread, Tebati. Hopefully AK doesn't turn you into a newt. ;P
Didn't realize it was a milestone until after I posted. He's going to have to be quicker on the draw to claim his trophies. ;)
Advanced warning that your friendly neighborhood rage and self-mutilation junkie will be on vacation starting 27th June all the way through to 17th July. We will be taking our first big ol' vacation in six years and swanning off to Hawaii (both Kauai and Oahu). Our first trip to the US, and despite needing about 16 hours in a plane to get there - we are still super excited :)
However since we'll be travelling with only an i-pad for computer support both my predeliction for sesquipedalian loquaciousness and the relative alacrity and frequency of posts shall suffer most terribly during that time. So in essence Qhude will be relatively inactive while I'm off sinking deep into Kalua pig, malasadas and loco moco. Fear not for I shall return fully recharged and reinforced for the onward push onwards upwards and inwards to the ziggurat.
If in the case that DMPC or PCPC will be required, Qhude's responses will tend to follow the following logic:
1) Lash out in petulant anger while feeling depressed.
2) Glare with barely restrained nascent agression at all and sundry.
3) Whatever Tebati tells him to do.
I saw that bump over in that game with MythrilDragon, Joana. ;P Don't make me pull an oKoYa on you!
Hey, I'm asking for 2 d20s and accompanying damage rolls, not a DM update! ;P
Actually, I thought he might not even have noticed it was up to his action. I originally thought we were waiting on the DM before I went back to see who had acted this round; we've had quite a bit of out-of-order posting.
Qhude would be a no to the squad - no point risking their lives with ours.
Ansha's list is ready, and although she would like the presence of Albert's squad, she won't push for it. Probably better that they stay at camp to help defend it, anyway.
Busy day. Give me a couple of hours to take a look at Tebati's spells.
P.S. N'bellocq, you tried the arrow-string thing at the end of this post. Neither arrow nor string went through. The teleporty effect seems to be specific to living things.
thanks, I missed that entire post somehow, and unfortunately it was in large a response to me. I thought there was talk, but did not see the results......carry on.
Spells updated and added another dagger. Have we decided how many days of rations to take?
Two seems sufficient to me.
What are you taking instead?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.
Sticking w/friend to animals for the revelation and going with Lightning reflexes for the feat in place of Extra Revelation (bonded mount).
Also sorry for going silent. Work ramped up. Have my head around it now. Catching up.....
Have we decided how many days of rations to take?
Two seems sufficient to me.
Er, I meant to say two weeks seems sufficient to me. (For some reason, I thought you asked how many 'weeks' would be sufficient.)
Pity Jakob didn't go with the horse... would've done for a lot of rations in a pinch ;)
Two weeks should be more than ample to figure out whatever we're going to figure out. If it takes longer than that then we're likely proper buggered anyway.
That's 84 pounds of rations, if my math's right. Can we split that up without encumbering anyone? (If not, what about a pack goat?) Tebati has 6 pounds of leeway.
Good news is, the burden gets 6 pounds lighter every day.
Also, Tebati is okay with the soldiers staying behind. Unless one of them wants to come to carry the rations. ;)
I've never done Qhude's encumbrance math - but I'd think that he could carry the whole lot on his own and only go up to medium encumbrance. Which wouldn't adversely affect AC for him, and he'd still get 30ft move speed.
So Qhude can shoulder that as long as it's in a shoulder sack that's easily dropped if he cares to.
You're at 58.7 lbs, plus your lion skin. Suppose that would be "Furs?" They're 5 lbs.
So, yeah, 84 pounds of food and a bag to put it in would put you somewhere between light and medium.
Next question is, are they actually going to charge us for the food to keep us alive while on their suicide mission? ;)
Nah :).
Post is up. Sorry for the wait. I hope I managed to convey some feeling into that post, I tried to be quite vivid with description!
A plaque was engraved onto the figure's chest, just above the well, with small, neat script.
Odds that it's written in Common? Because I just didn't prep comprehend languages. :P
I knew that scribing a Comprehend Languages scroll would come in handy! ;)
Currently on call at the hospital. Will post tomorrow.
Now you've done it Qhude! :P.
Just a note that I will be botting actions at my earliest convenience 24 hours after any of your turns comes up in initiative blocks; I want to keep momentum up. Might bot Qhude earlier as I know his net access is spotty.
Heh, least now we can stop pussyfooting about :P
Please feel free to bot when needed, standard will be rage, then power attack with the big stick.
Freaking racist Azlanti. What do they have against Bonuwat? :P
I'll be waiting for Jakob and Qhude to act (or be botted) before posting Tebati's action.
At least these golem-things aren't smart enough to try to get at the wizard....
Or maybe they're smart enough to know the wizard can't do anything to hurt them so they're safe saving her for last. ;P
...Or dumb enough to think that the wizard doesn't have spells that don't allow SR in her repertoire. ;P
Really wishing I had stolen that Acid Arrow scroll and some scribing materials before we left now, though. But hey, Acid Splash is still something.
Net access has dropped to nil now that I am back on Waikiki... So please bot till I am back in KL
And Qhude is back in the saddle :)
Oahu and Kauai were indeed most excellent and nascent plans are in place for spending of accrued long service leave time on Kauai. 16 hours in a plane yesterday and 6 hours time difference to acclimatise to will make recovery relatively slow - but at least I'm at work dealing with just myself... pity my wife with two jet-lagged little'uns at home ;)
By my count Qhude is down 3 rounds of rage and 6 hp - have updated profile to suit. Will have my first in game action pending resolution of spoiler.
So while in Hawaii I was struck by the banyan trees and how both awesome and alien they looked - with their large canopy and aerial roots descending from branches to form new trunks and such.... and figured that they would serve as good inspiration for a deity or form of nature worship - one that focuses on the symbiotic relationship shared between plants and animals. It's purview would emcompass all forms of symbiosis - beneficial, benign and destructive.
Since I've always been telling myself in my head that I should at least make some kind of an attempt to funnel some creativity into a short module or something of the like I thought I might use this as an inspiration for sparking that off.
Pondering slightly more I'm thinking that a minor deity would be the more apt choice and that led me towards the Eldest and the First World. A home within the Evergrove or the Riftwood - and the avatar of the deity itself taking on that of a strangler fig. At the fig's core is a long dead treant - choked of life by the fig's branches and merely acting as an empty shell, a dead heart of an indifferent deity.
Servants would be leshy, fungi and other animals that thrive off the life and death of others. The deity itself would be true neutral giving the spectrum of both good and evil followers depending on the nature of the symbiosis they venerated.
Adventure idea would be along the lines of a rift / portal from the first world opening up and dumping one of it's more powerful subjects into the material world. (Something like a Yellow Musk Creeper, but I'd build up a custom creature). The plant begins to affect those that encounter it leading to a need to act. Would attempt to build ambiguity into the situation as the plant improves some subjects while killing others.
So... good-ish idea? - or total pish?
I like it.
One way to play up the threat would be to have the first world parasite-plant be too good at it's job. In the first world the host plants grow fast enough to support the things appetite but here it acts like Kudzu crossed with Morning Glory crossed with a strip mall, consuming and draining everything it can reach....
Another interesting bit would be to have the Treant be alive. Rendered immortal and immobile by the fig. Perhaps the treant was a willing sacrifice? One treant per generation given to the Fig for some reason....
Perhaps the personality of the treant shapes the personality of the deity? Perhaps the current treant has gone round the bend and the rift was an attempt by the now half crippled deity to summon help? Perhaps a pc will be called on to take the treants place....
The treant being alive would be an interesting take on it indeed.
Unless Kieran gives him reason for pause - Qhude will go right ahead and grab a hold of the bejeweled scepter...
might want to rethink that.
Back of envelope math so could be wrong but assuming it is as tall as Kerian/Qhude means about 5'10" and guessing a 3" diameter means a volume of 495 cubic inches. Assuming 50% gold as the staff has to bear it's own weight gives 247.5 cubic inches of gold. 1 cubic inch of pure gold weighs about .7 of a pound so.....
Your stick weighs {247.5 x.7=} 173 pounds for the gold. Assuming the rest is copper as the incas did means 247.5 of copper at .31 pounds per cubic inch adding {247.5 x .31=} 76.73 lbs.
Total weight of stick 249.73lbs not counting gems. That is a heavy load for 18 str. Note I purposely chose low purity gold for this. Folks who could manage that magic door could strengthen gold meaning 75% or even pure gold would be an option.
Nope... here's Qhude's logic at the moment:
Jakob said it's a bad idea... therefore it must be good.
He doesn't have a very high opinion of you at present after your denigrating him in front of what serves for a father figure back at the camp.
Still, that is some impressive math dude! :-)
Plus... what makes you think that a barbarian that can likely barely read is really going to know how heavy something is until he actually... you know... tries to lift the bloody thing?
Hey if I didn't want him to do something I would have recommended doing it. Jakob is quite aware of Qhude's opinion.
'sides given how things have gone I can't really fault you taking the thing.
AK: You're bumping Slumbering Tsar when we're still waiting to hear what happens with N'bellocq's arrow? ;P
(P.S. Haven't looked at the spoiler, so for all I know it missed horribly, but still.)
Sorry I wanted to finish a section of the map for this part before I updated. I'm on it.
The DM having to make a new map before resolving an action is never a good sign. :P
Is that kind of like "Roll initiative. And everyone has backup characters correct?"
Now, see, this is why I hate gearing up and heading out. I always forget something until it's too late. I thought of swarms, didn't think of just setting things on fire. :P
Looks like Jakob and Kieran have torches and flint & steel, though. Good thing other people's PCs are more prepared than mine. (Tebati really ought to be better at this than I am, though, with the high Wisdom.)
Now, see, this is why I hate gearing up and heading out. I always forget something until it's too late. I thought of swarms, didn't think of just setting things on fire. :P
Particularly as your quite fond of playing the small folk :).