Now you all are going to start joined in a meeting, but before that you are going to have to decide how you arranged the meeting and what precautions you took.
"Tk tch nk tkchthik."
I...just realized that it's not "Signifier", it's "Signifer".
My life has been changed.
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Hi all
Thank you for picking me DM
So, how do we find out about each other (in order to set up our meeting)?
Ozil arrived in Golarion several years ago and started doing research almost immediately. It's very likely he would have learned of many of you and privately contacted you (up to you). Indeed, Ven'atorix and I shared some PMs indicating we would know each other already.
If you're not on Golarion, Ozil cold have learned of you in Greyhawk, Krynn, Toril, Ravenloft or Sigil -- those are the other worlds he's lived in.
@ Ven'atorix, how protected can we get your demiplane from divination spells? Or can we go there and just cast a Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum inside a Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion while we all have Mind Blank?
Meeting: Aannraa Sal Da Qill, you have all meet her at one time or another. You knew at once she was a being of power and means, but outside of that she was a odd one. Some may have meet her early in their careerer, just when you needed someone to help with information or a contact. Older PCs would have meet her and seen a fellow traveller of power in deep time. After your meetings with her you got the idea/feeling she was very disapproving of the gods. Yet pining down why you feel this is hard, nothing explicit was said.
Aannraa Sal Da Qill:
Of her, Storeys say she has been on Golarion and other worlds for over 9000 years., she seems to have been doing little but travailing and observing for all that time. Some like the The Techtronic league know more, she has been seen at the Silver Mountain. Others report she tends to show up when some large god linked events happens on a world or plane, but seems to not interferer or interact with those events.
I wasn't anyone of notice until i was brought back from ravenloft. After which i was a wanderer in Golarion. Always disguised as a human but we may have met or you heard of someone searching for secrets and knowledge of the planes and other high powered secrets.
Tik goes wherever the wind takes him, man.
He's doesn't exactly have a subtle appearance. You may have heard of the "bug surgeon".
@ Alexander Torov,
Could you have met Ozil, or could we have learned of each other, while we were in Ravenloft -- and now, out of The Mists, meet (or reunite) in Golarion?
Yea if any of the party know me it would be Ozil. A stroke of luck perhaps recognising each other back on golarion and since I never tried to get in other mages way or hinder them, though we likely weren't friends. But now that your priorities have changed perhaps you saw me as someone who could be useful (he escaped Ravenloft on his own right, he must be powerful).
Alexanders appearance is usually that of a human middle aged man, rather harmless looking, wouldn't hurt a fly, with his walking staff. Patched clothes, cloak, gloves. Certainly not a threat or worth looking at twice.
If your happy with what I posted I will leave it up to you when and where you meet Sal Da Qill, she always looks the same. Always with two small objects like Iion stones ether side of her, unarmed and well dressed in a kind of simple uniform.
In a nut shell she has been working to get this group formed over a long time.
Haven't really thought about how I might know the rest of the party. Arkon is from a rather remote material plane. Eberrons cosmology doesn't even resemble Golarion or other cosmologies.
Turns out that I've accidentally become immune to polymorph (just why are plants immune to polymorph anyway?).
Can I just abstain from this immunity?
Kind of throws a big wrench into things if I'm not.
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Wish your polymorph immunity away haha
K.
Plant are not immune to polymorph this game.
Anyone know a good way for someone immune to mind affecting to have good divination protection?
Ironically my cohort has some very good ways in case anyone needs it.
Unironically my cohort is also extremely useful at very very very long distances through the collective.
Which sadly I can't be a part of.
Call it a minor sacrifice in the interest of flavor.
@ Alexander Torov,
Hey, I read your backstory and took a gander at your PC, pretty cool.
I think it's very possible either Ozil heard of you while he was in Ravenloft or you heard of him when you were there.
I left my background pretty open but my idea regarding Ravenloft was that Ozil visited there purposefully, almost like Vecna, in order to understand the nature of the malevolent and seemingly all-powerful Mists.
Ozil would have spent time travelling just as you did, though mine would have been in field study. I could have heard of you, a strong arcane caster who traveled the Mists and was eventually never heard of again, or you could have heard of me, a strong arcane caster who came to the Mists to learn, and was never heard from again.
Still working on forming my actual backstory, as I've had a general idea of what I want, but have to flesh (ha) out the details.
As for how I would know most of you? Honestly, I probably wouldn't. I would, most likely, just be a member invited because of my combat prowess and connection to Ozil (I don't like the big A either).
He's never left Golarion or the planes connected (the Abyss, Heaven, Fire, Water, Negative, etc.) (but not Hell, because he isn't quite ready to take him down yet), so there's very little chance that he'd have met any of you, unless you happened upon him in one of his many battles (or, as he calls them, "slaughters") on any of the planes he has been to.
@Ozil
Divination (scrying) spells cannot perceive anything within the area...
So, no scrying can see us, and I have a constant Nondetection on me. As for Mind Blank, it probably isn't necessary (as the only effects that could get to this plane are blocked by the Santcum, and even to begin with, no one besides me, my undead on the plane, and Ozil knows about this plane. I have taken great pains (read: kill anyone who discovers it) to keep it a closely-guarded secret, and no scrying works on it.
Nondetection is not enough the gods have huge caster levels even the ones that don't cast spells.
Looks like we'll be looking at flat out immunities, high level hidey holes, that kind of thing.
So get blood money and create greater demiplane and we can make our own hidey hole.
Unfortunately, I cannot Miracle a Mind Blabk, as it's an 8th level wizard spell, not cleric.
I can, however, Miracle a Mage's Magnificient Mansion, which I would have done already.
So, wonderful conspirators, welcome to my home. (It lasts 40 hours).
My mind is suuuuuper blank. And Barred, even.
The gods Omnicisence takes the form of being able to cast greater Scrying at will with unbeatable DC and caster level. Also they can target the past. Also they can use Seek Thoughts though the Scry. If you let your protection lapse after the meeting they can pick it out of your mind.
Take 10, got it.
By the by, you may actually prefer to use this instead, or a more powerful variant thereof.
Wow, cool find, Sundakan. I don't think it applies to what the DM was going for there but still, it looks like it could put other areas of what we're up against in perspective.
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My thought is this: Protect ourselves even at first, sure, but would the gods be out looking for us already? It seems like we should have a bit of time to be under radar, as it were, until we start swimming in their stew and disrupting things on them.
Wow, cool find, Sundakan. I don't think it applies to what the DM was going for there but still, it looks like it could put other areas of what we're up against in perspective.
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My thought is this: Protect ourselves even at first, sure, but would the gods be out looking for us already? It seems like we should have a bit of time to be under radar, as it were, until we start swimming in their stew and disrupting things on them.
As I said they can scry the past so as soon as you appear on their radar they will look up your entire unprotected life history.
I cast mind blank on myself every day, I think that's the best protection I can do. I reckoned the gods don't care about us yet but let's see how this goes.
Surely Iomadae and Asmodeus, given my history, will at least have heard of me.
Depends on how much they would follow my fate after I died.
As for protection, I don't rightly care, and most of my protective measures are for after I've died, or any company I may keep.
I pretty much believe I'm invincible, given how many times I've probably died since I first died.
Every time, I've risen, more powerful and knowledgable than before.
If the gods wish to face me, so I shall face them.
My feelings is when God-likes clash, v this area of space, they can at the power level Block each other. Sal Da Qill was made by god-like AI's for the one task, she was made with Barred mind fixed in place as she could act as their agent. They are a very suspicious group of AIs.
She has been working hard to stay under the radar of the gods for the last 9000 years, watching and studying. Feeling out the lay of the land, events have moved to a point [with a little help] where a anti-god group is forming and if all go's well start to take actions.
Group Mind link she can set up will safe if we all have mindlink/baredmind running. No player PC has SR/PR I think she can't get past so we will be good with out dropping.
when I posted the 3 stage plan aim was to keep us out of sight for as long as possible, while in stage one we run black opps setting the gods up for strife.
Stage 1: War in heaven - We exacerbate and set up new points of conflict between the God-likes and their factions. They have in place, demarcation lines, we orchestrate actions to cross them and set up false trails leading to other God-likes and their factions. This should have the effect if done right of initiating open conflict not just on the prime but also between the sub dimensions controlled by each God-likes and their factions. The aim being to weaken the gods as they fight each other, while massively disrupting their followers/believes lives as they get pulled into the conflicts, as this drags on so resentment to the gods them selves can be encouraged setting the stage for stage 2.
Stage 2: No more souls to feed on - We use this conflict and anti-god resentment to craft a new counter god movement, introducing science, Math-a-magic's and other forms of none faith based thinking to explain being, existence and why the gods are no needed and bad for you. under its banner we will lead an Anti-God-Slave Jihad, Seeking to end the flow of souls to the gods by any and all means. While wee also seek direct ways to block souls being consumed by gods as there power source. Again to weaken the gods and remove artifacts and locations of power from them, this well set us up for Stage 3.
Stage 3: The end Game - If stages one and two have worked the last few gods will band into a group and come after us. We or lose now they will forever be seen a tyrants and slavers, gods they may be but not even a god can fix a bad reputation with out remaking there pocket worlds. But of we set this up right, they will be at a point of weakness so as to be vulnerable, if we have the following and might we can brake them. The aim being they take a lesser place in the order of things a allow the worlds to expand out into the greater cosmos or they are eradicated. The details of each stage practicality will need study and planning but I feel the group here is more than capable of that.
Aannraa can be the one that organised it then. Holding it at Ven's demiplane.
Sounds good to me, let'sa go.
I just want to blow it all up merge the material planes together and institute a cycle of reincarnation.
Interesting idea.... Is there an eleventh level spell I don't know about?
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Post tommorrow. Dealing with legal shit today. Also found out my wife's aunt is basically trying to convince someone to mortgage our house to bail out the boyfriend of hers that molested my daughter.
Tell her to go f$+@ herself.
That's roughly our response yes. Sadly it's not our decision but her uncle who owns the house and would much rather we left him out of this.
It's a long and nasty story that teaches you how nasty family can really get that I do not wish to and have been actively avoiding retelling here. But i'm in a venting mood.
Post tommorrow. Dealing with legal s#@% today. Also found out my wife's aunt is basically trying to convince someone to mortgage our house to bail out the boyfriend of hers that molested my daughter.
Man! that's horrible, really sorry to hear that, hope the police deal with the SOB.
While I'm thinking about it and trying to suppress fury.
My vitalist cohort has collective which lets us do things like use telepathy through it and is not specifically called out as mind affecting.
So if you take a quick look at the vitalist it is really really damn handy and can be used from anywhere on the same plane.
If he was two levels higher he could do this from across planes.
So he provides long distance support and healing.
Arkon himself is a druid that hits hard.
Really really hard.
I dunno which damage chart I'm supposed to follow but the most official one has him slapping people for about 8d6 on an unarmed strike after one buff. So assuming every attack on a charge hits that's between 128-176d6's laid into someone unfortunate demigods face. Which I can throw even more attacks behind if they somehow survive that. Haven't done the full math but it looks rather ugly for the poor bastard on the receiving end.
So if we need to flat out punch Rovagug in the gob there's that going for us.
Being a nihilistic Groot is a bonus.
That's roughly our response yes. Sadly it's not our decision but her uncle who owns the house and would much rather we left him out of this.
It's a long and nasty story that teaches you how nasty family can really get that I do not wish to and have been actively avoiding retelling here. But i'm in a venting mood.
Vent all you like, I know how you feel. I have certain criminal elements and generally unpleasant people in my family too, sometimes you just need to let it all out.
don't mind me, fly on the wall, just want to see what he does to you all
Even your best efforts can't stop people from spying on you though the 4th wall.
Neither really fits. Closer to the second with more cyber though.
I like how in a game where we flip the table on the cosmos we have a pc debate on how hard. Some things never change. :P