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Really depends on whether you think she will follow you or not. As one of the undead her motivations are not-quite-humanoid.
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I don't think she'll follow, else she would have already. Let's get an hour or two away and camp for the night, strategize, and get our cold iron ready.
Vallen doesn't have any cold iron bullets (I must have forgotten), does Jenya? Vallen probably won't be shooting much, instead casting spells for buffs/debuffs while the rest of you try to bring her down.
I'll have to go over the cleric spell list later and figure out some counters. Illystria we can coordinate on how to get past that thing's dance and spell resistance.
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If she can't move, she can't dance. Wouldn't Vallen be a master of stone shape or something like that?
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Vallen gets stone shape next level, otherwise I would totally do that.
This is the spell list I came up with:
0th: (DC 13)
Create water
Guidance
Resistance
Detect magic
1st: (DC 14)
+ Forbid Action
+ Obscuring Mist
+ Aspect of Nightingale
+ Divine Favor
+ Animate Rope (Domain)
2nd: (DC 15)
+ Protection from Evil, Communal
+ Spear of Purity
+ Tremor Blast
+ Wood Shape (Domain)
The plan:
Before we ascend the stairs to face the Unseelie, Vallen casts Aspect of the Nightingale, Divine favor, and Resistance on himself, then Protection from Evil, communal on everyone. Lastly he will cast Animate Rope on his 50 ft silk rope and hold it as they ascend the stairs.
When we see the unseelie hopefully everyone will make their will save and we beat it up. That may not happen, but given that Vallen will be able to a) roll twice on the first save and take the best result and b)roll again if those two fail, he will hopefully make the save on the third try.
Then Vallen will throw his animated rope at the unseelie and try to entangle it, preventing its dance all together. If that fails he will try to use Tremor Blast and trip it.
That's what I have... everyone else? Anything that can trip, entangle, or grapple is a huge help. Anyone bring along tanglefoot bags?
Sadly we don't know what else this creature is capable of, so it might have some surprises if we stop it from dancing...
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Just wanted to point out that I think we would be effectively immune to her dancing if we're all under the effects of protection from evil.
Second,... While under the effects of this spell, the target is immune to any new attempts to possess or exercise mental control over the target. This spell does not expel a controlling life force (such as a ghost or spellcaster using magic jar), but it does prevent them from controlling the target. This second effect only functions against spells and effects created by evil creatures or objects, subject to GM discretion.
Otherwise, aggressive thundercloud provides concealment for anything inside the cloud, so I think it could break line of sight for any of us that fail our saves against the dancing again. Problem is it only covers a single square, so she'd be able to 5'-step out every round. Then there's Lily's entangle SLA, but I'm pretty sure a 40' radius circle would cover the entire room.
As far as getting through her spell resistance, Ilystria's sonic blast exploit is a supernatural ability and not subject to SR, so that's good.
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Hmm. For the Protection from Evil thing, I think that only applies to abilities that would cause you to be possessed or otherwise be mind controlled. It's up to the GM though.
Yeah, I'm trying to the animate rope trick to get past her SR as well.
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I see, I see. But the saving throw re-roll and morale bonus also only apply to abilities that possess or exercise mental control over the target, which is why I thought the temporary immunity would also apply to her entrancing dance. Just pointing it out since there are a lot of easily overlooked parts to that particular spell, but I agree that it's definitely GM Jesse's call.
Not like I'm trying to make this fight too easy for us or anything...
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I think we need to come with a plan and spells and put it into action!
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I'm a fan of Vallen's plan. It involves less risk, I think, than my initial plan, which was to send an invisible, enlarged, barkskinned, bloodraging Vladric up to try and sneak grapple the fey. If anyone has any suggestions on spells I should prepare, I'm happy to take them. Otherwise I'll probably go with what I have now.
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I would much prefer luring it outside or collapsing the building. The infestation of plants is also a problem that may make it unsafe for later. It doesn't look like it will leave, at least not during the day, and destruction may hamper construction later. So Vallen's plan for now. If that fails, bring it down.
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I noted earlier that the rules for this specific monster are a little unclear but the power has all the hallmarks of mind control (it's not puppeteering your muscles, it's addling your mind to make you want to dance), and if it dances like a duck and quacks like a duck, then protection from ducks will work against it.
No problem with Vallen's plan here; should we go and rest up some distance outside of the keep in another wilderness area? We'd have to setup watches and take all the rope that we climbed up to on the keep walls with us, maybe? If dancing unseelie is a fey, Vladric could use the cold iron bayonet on it too.
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So Protection From Evil will stop its enthrallment or whatever?
That's great! I'm going to throw a rope at it because it sounds fun, but that takes care of overcoming the death dance!
Going to prepare two Protections from Evil... just in case.
Spell List:
0th: (DC 13)
Create water
Guidance
Resistance
Detect magic
1st: (DC 14)
+ Forbid Action
+ Obscuring Mist
+ Aspect of Nightingale
+ Divine Favor
+ Animate Rope (Domain)
2nd: (DC 15)
+ Protection from Evil, Communal
+ Protection from Evil, Communal
+ Spear of Purity
+ Wood Shape (Domain)
I think we're good to go. Shall we camp and return the next day?
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Our new expansion just launched, so I'm doing a little post-launch cleanup and after that the overtime should trickle down.
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Never been into Star Trek and I stopped playing MMOs years ago, but that certainly looks cool!
Making video games is hard, and if you just released that you must have been under some serious crunch time. Hope you'll get to relax a bit soon!
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That's super impressive. Hope what I've heard of crunch doesn't apply to your studio or if it does I hope you can take a well deserved break!
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I forgot Vallen had some Wisdom damage. So I'm changing my prepared spell list again weeee
0th: (DC 13)
Create water
Guidance
Resistance
Detect magic
1st: (DC 14)
+ Forbid Action
+ Obscuring Mist
+ Aspect of Nightingale
+ Divine Favor
+ Animate Rope (Domain)
2nd: (DC 15)
+ Protection from Evil, Communal
+ Protection from Evil, Communal
+ Restoration, Lesser
+ Wood Shape (Domain)
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Don't forget that if you rest you'll heal a point of ability damage.
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That's just one though, he took 3 damage in total. My dwarf needs all his wits about him for this foe!
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My team wound up going crunch-to-crunch. We finished our release but I have a post-release piece coming this week, and then we have to crunch to a new release coming in a few months. :/
I am still here, just been doing a loooot of overtime.
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Ouch that sounds absolutely awful. I'm always saddened by the work conditions the gaming industry, you all bring us such great enntertainment at the cost of your own time.
As for our strategy here, we can try to draw them out, but why would they leave the main tower (which is where I assume they are)? They're waiting for us, probably behind a bunch of new traps.
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Your call. If you're getting too antsy you can always put a pin in it, leave, explore a few more places, gain a level, and come back. Fae aren't likely to just up and leave or die of old age.
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I will be going camping in Glacier National Park July 7th-14! You might get some posts out of me on the weekend (we'll be taking a train out to Montana) but otherwise I will be unavailable.
Please bot Vallen as needed.
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Just so everyone knows, I caught a really bad cold, and just fought that off; but I also have something going wrong in my guts that the doctors haven't figured out, which is why I've been a little off lately. I'll keep folks posted as the situation develops. Hopefully I won't be off to surgery or dying or anything awful. (Posting this note to all the games I run.)
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Ugh geeze that sounds awful. I hope they figure out what's going on soon so you can get to feeling better. We'll be here.
Game-related stuff:
If we're not going to use it, we should give out a bunch of this magical and high-quality loot we've found to our subordinates or donate it to the town. Lots of weapons and armor people would appreciate/use.
Vallen (should) be getting Craft Wonderous Item next level, so we could also sell it if we want to money for him to fix us up some gear. It will be another 2 levels before he gets Craft Magical Arms and Armor though.
GM:
Could you remove the AMulet of Natural Armor from the Swag bag, please? Vlad took it.
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Nevemind my post about the Fairy Nest. That is much further north than the tatzylwyrms.
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I struck thru the amulet of natural armor +1 on the swag bag and put Vladric's name next to it.
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On vacation for next two weeks. Might be hard to get a post in!
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Level 5
HP: +5
Channel Positive Energy: 3d8
Access to 3rd level spells (woo!) 2 regular + 1 domain
5th level Feat: Craft Wondrous Item
8 skill points:
+1 Knw: Religion
+1 Craft: Sculptures
+1 Spellcraft:
+2 Disable Device
+1 Knw: Engineering (background)
+1 Stonemasonry (background)
+1 Diplomacy (Favored class bonus)
Current spell list:
0th: (DC 13)
Create water
Spark
Guidance
Detect magic
1st: (DC 14)
+ Divine Favor
+ Comprehend Languages
+ Magic Weapon
+ (Open)
+ Animate Rope (Domain)
2nd: (DC 15)
+ Protection from Evil, Communal
+ Spear of Purity
+ (Open)
+ Wood Shape (Domain)
3rd: (DC 16)
+ Dispel Magic
+ (Open)
+ Stone Shape (Domain)
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Lots of really cool 3rd level spells. Prepare for major shenanigans, like Enter Image.
I'm imagining Vallen carrying around a pocket full of little statues of himself, lol. We can attach them to Cass' arrows and shoot them into places!
If you want any cool magic items crafted or enhanced just say so! They probably won't end up cursed :D
At level 7th we'll pick up Craft Magic Arms and Armor, and then we can have some real fun...
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Ilystria, a thought:
Do you want Vallen to have Dispel Magic on hand, or do you want to have it at the ready? Yours would be more likely to succeed because Ilystria has a higher intelligence, but if Vallen didn't have a dispel ready it would just be replaced with another support or buff spell like Archon Aura or Badger's Ferocity something, so eh?
Just thinking out loud. There's also nothing wrong with us both having it ready and just dispelling everything all te time.
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Level 5
HP: +7
Hunter’s bond: Animal companion
Spells!
5th level Feat: Boon Companion
8 skill points:
+s Acrobatics
+1 Escape artist
+1 Handle Animal
+1 Knw: Nature
+1 Perception
+1 Stealth
+1 Survival
Background Skills
+1 Craft (Bower)
+1 Knw: Geography
+1 BAB
+1 Fort
+1 Ref
1st:
+ Gravity Bow
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@Vallen I have to wait one more level to gain 3rd level spells, so if Vallen can have it on hand until then, Ilystria can take over once we get to level 6.
FCB +1 HP
BAB +2
Base Saves +1 Fort, +1 Reflex, +4 Will
Feat TBD
Class Features Spell Mastery
Skills +1 to Bluff, Diplomacy, Knowledge (Arcana), Knowledge (Planes), Spellcraft, Use Magic Device
Background Skills +1 to Handle Animal, Linguistics (First Speech)
New Spells
- 2nd—blindness/deafness, scorching ray, sickening entanglement (Druid spell)
For 5th level, Vladric will take another level in Swashbuckler, gaining a total of 44 hit points, +1 to Fortitude and Will, +1 in BAB and CMB and CMD, +6 in Skill points plus +2 Background Skill points, and his FCB will go to Skill.
His 5th level Feat will be Natural Ruler (Cha); his new 3rd level deeds now include Eye of Abendego, Inevitable Victory, Kip-up, Precise Strike, and Swagger.
His skills taken will be tba (either edited in post or in another new post).
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Guys bot me for the next week please. On Vacation.
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In addition to my liver crapping out, my grandpa-in-law just died, so I'm heading to the funeral. Really sorry folks. Will do my best to get SOMETHING up this weekend. :/
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No need to rush it, Jesse. Take your time and be with your family instead!
In addition to my liver crapping out, my grandpa-in-law just died, so I'm heading to the funeral. Really sorry folks. Will do my best to get SOMETHING up this weekend. :/
No need to rush it, Jesse. Take your time and be with your family instead!
Seconded, family is always important.
Maybe you could try Milk Thistle herbal supplements for the liver stuff; most major drugstores will have them in the herbs and vitamin sections.
For 5th level, Vladric will take another level in Swashbuckler, gaining a total of 44 hit points, +1 to Fortitude and Will, +1 in BAB and CMB and CMD, +6 in Skill points plus +2 Background Skill points, and his FCB will go to Skill.
His 5th level Feat will be Natural Ruler (Cha); his new 3rd level deeds now include Eye of Abendego, Inevitable Victory, Kip-up, Precise Strike, and Swagger.
His skills taken will be tba (either edited in post or in another new post).
Finally got those skills arranged for 5th level. They will be as follows:
Adventuring Skills:
+1 rank to Perception for +7 total.
+1 rank to Spellcraft for +5 total.
+1 rank to Heal for +3 total.
+1 rank to Bluff for +8 total.
+1 rank to Diplomacy for +10 total.
+1 rank to Stealth for +0 total (ACP included).
Background Skills:
+1 rank to Know:Nobility for +6 total.
+1 rank to Craft:Ships for +4 total.
Extras:
Swagger gives +1 to Intimidate and Prof:Sailor checks
+3 damage to Precise Strike.
If the Natural Ruler feat is not available for use, I can also find some other feat to use, such as Steadfast Personality. Will also get to updating his profile page soon. ;)
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Natural Ruler is fine!
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Wow, completely forgot to level up!
BAB goes up by 1
HP goes up by 7
Take QuickDraw feat
The big one, Pistol training, Dex to damage for pistols.
Skills Increase
Adventuring:
Swim
Survival
Perception
Acrobatics
Disable Device
Background:
Craft Alchemy
Handle Animal
And that is that for gunslinger. Next going to go into Desnan Inquisitor.
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These site outages have been killers!
Natural Ruler is fine!
Good to hear. ;)
These site outages have been killers!
Inbetween them outages and a recent hard-disk crash, haven't gotten around to posting until today. ;)
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Are we back? It looks like the boards are finally stable. I know that notifications have been failing for people, I'll start sending PMs if I don't see folks trickling back in.
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I think it's back. They did say there would be scheduled outage at some point but they would inform us of that.
Natural Ruler is fine!
Good to hear. ;)
Vladric also gets another free feat, Dazzling Display, from his Inevitable Victory deed but it only is applicable to Aldori Dueling Swords and 1 Panache point must be spent to access that feat.
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I think we're waiting on the GM correct?
Thank you, DM Jesse Heinig, for botting Vladric during my extended posting absence due to RL circumstance- very much appreciated.
Happy new Year to all as it starts to come around for people! Hope your 2018 was great and may your 2019 be even better.
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So, I have some bad post-holiday news.
My S.O. is starting chemo this month and I'll likely be spending time keeping her intact. The good part is it's a fairly short treatment and caught early, but, y'know, this is never good, and the medicine itself is sooo toxic...
Anyway, long story short, I just won't have the bandwidth to keep running a bunch of games on here. I will probably still be able to play here and there as long as I can keep my time investment low, but managing campaigns is just going to be too much. :(
Regardless, I enjoyed our time together for what little we were able to accomplish, and if you can find a new GM to take over, I hope you are able to carry on!
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I am so sorry to hear this, GM. Your health and your SO's health come first and foremost, and I can only hope you both live the best and happiest life you can imagine regardless of circumstances.
I personally need to reduce my number of games, so I will be stepping out. Thank you all for the wonderful experience, it was fun being able to play Vallen again.
Best of luck to you all.
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While the news is terrible it's really good to hear that you guys caught it early. Don't worry at all about the game. It was a fun ride while it lasted which is all one can hope for!
Best wishes for the future.