DR 5/Adamantine, Vulnerability to electricity, Vulnerable to critical hits,special attacks: None
Local Ties…Your association with Khonnir has given you insight into how technology works. Choose Disable Device or Knowledge (engineering). You gain a +1 trait bonus on checks with this skill, and it is a class skill for you. In addition, you are treated as if you possessed the Technologist feat for the purposes of resolving checks associated with that skill. If you gain the Technologist feat, your trait bonus for the selected skill increases to +3.
A IF I make a spoiler for ONE PERSON... it is for THAT person.
B If you read correctly he has local ties with THAT SKILL. THAT skill is Disable device so he CAN NOT use it with Kn. Engeneering!
Tamoq
Kunala
K23-1
Rest
Post and I will try to sort it out.
Your attack hit but it bounced of its armor. You used your surprise round.
Seeing that his well aimed arrow failed to get through it's metallic shell, he charges the metal monster. Dropping his bow as he goes. He flicks his wrist, his trusted less seen weapon appears in his hand. Bring it down in a slash across the thing, a powerful rush of motion but one that left him slightly exposed.
Being attacked now twice the Robot riposts.
Tamoq moves forward along with Korba. He tells Korba
Transform! Flank!
Korba will use a Swift action to become his "primal" form, his tail gaining a sting attack (imagine the tail of an Andalite from the old Animorphs books), his body gaining dragon-like scales, and his teeth glowing with magical energy. Then both Tamoq and Korba will then attempt to flank the robot and each attack.
(+2 if flanking)
(+1 if flanking)
(+2 flanking)
(+1 if flanking, counts as magic for DR)
Raffinyaler heads towards the fleeing Val attempting to interpose himself between her and the device, awkwardly fishing a dagger out of it's sheath and calling back to Okrin as he does, "Okrin, I can get Val. Any way to disable that thing without destroying it?"
I will bot for Okrin
Okrin will wave his hand a spark of electricity flys to the robot.
but misses badly.
Now the group has a full turn, as the robot is trapped in a logic loop.
So all, then Kunala and Kimos, then robot. Yes that means Kunala and Kimos now go twice.
Kimos shrugged off the metal creatures counter, bring his families blade Esuro across the beast again.
While the robot shows off it's toughness, Kimos keeps chipping away. With his wickedly sharp blade as it never failed him in the past.
Tamoq and Korba will both attack again, trying to get flanking with five-foot steps if necessary, Korba getting two attacks now, a bite and sting.
(+2 if flanking)
(+1 if flanking)
(+2 if flanking)
(+1 if flanking, magic damage if it matters)
(+2 if flanking)
(+1 if flanking, magic damage if it matters)
+4 from his dex mod. +1 from studied target class ability. Total +5.
Raffinyaler grabs Val by the arm, half dragging her with him, as he heads back towards Okrin and the door, dagger at the ready in the event the machine breaks off towards them.
Waiting for Okrin to post. The robot is almost broken.
BOT-Okrin casts another jolt at the automaton.
But again misses badly.
This round a few of the heroes hit, but only Kunala barely manages to damage it and Kimos, with a lucky hit, manages to finally break enough wires to wreck the robot.
With a sigh Val reappears. "I do not know what I did, but suddenly this thing came to live. Thank you very much for your help, I would have been helpless against it. I am Val, daughter of Baine. And you have my gratitude. What can I do for you?"
Kimos quickly puts Esuro away. Turning his back to hide it's location in his wrist sheath, which he resprings. Afterwards he walks over to where he dropped his bow and replaces it on his back. He looked over to his fired arrow, it was ruined and he left it where it fell. Keeping silent and listening to how things would unfold.
"Yep, this is the automaton Pops found in the cave. Well, the tavern is closed but the drinks go on me. I can also offer you to stay in the tavern, free of charge.
She is 14, and as Okrin is her stepbrother and you saved her she is quite helpful. Well pops has the foundry, but he has written all down in his notebook, wich he carried with him. He was looking for clues why the flame went out. As he found some footprints at the pools he investigated. And he found an entrance under the water. Thats it. And to gear. We are a foundry, and most he rook with him. Anything you need in particular?
Wakizashi are between 1 and 2 foot long. Daggers are 1 foot long. So a wakizashi can fit unless it was made towards the far end of the spectrum. Just like it's strange to find a dagger longer then 1 foot I would consider a wakizashi towards the 2 foot mark to be strange. So I leave it to you. Personally I consider a wakizashi to be super sharp honor dagger. Just like the katana is a super sharp sword. Let me know what you decide.
"My name is Kimos and I would prefer to get started. If I wanted to drink and waste time I would have stayed at the tavern."
Ok, I have to take a big breath now. History and Martial sience mode activated. In Japan the samurai had usually 2 swords to show their rank, combined called the daisho. One was the Katana, or longsword, usually used in either one handed or twohanded grip, depending on school, showing that you belonged to the bushi, or the fighting type. The wakazashi was a symbol of the nobility, and were used to fight in close quarters, to fight with the dualswordstyle (Niten), sometimes (RARELY) to throw and for commiting suicide. The fitting dagger was the tanto, who had no tsuba, or parry disk. A Katana usually had a blade of at least 2 shaku (1 shaku = 30,3cm), the wakazashi had a blade of less than two shaku meaning about less than 60cm and at least one shaku (30cm) and the tanto had less then one shaku. This is just the length of the blade. Then you had a grip.
A wakazashi has about 20 cm of grip. Meaning it is between 50cm to 80cm in total. Now I am pretty big guy 1.89m and the distance between my hand and my elbow is a little less than 30cm. So I have to say it won´t fit there. This is real life. Gamemode on. A wrist sheath is for a dagger or a wand. A dagger is a d4 weapon. The wakazashi is a d6 weapon. So I would say that won´t work. Mechanically.
Magically all gloves come off. Once you have saved Baine, he should be able to make you a custom sheath.
AND. If you come with a good idea, I am totally open for the rule of cool!
It is not yet noon, the weather is decent. You won´t need cold weather gear.
Something diffrent. I have contacted Okrin and did not get an answer yet. How long shall I wait till I check for a replacement, and do you want a replacement?
"I will go to the nearest market and buy a few scrolls which will allow us to deal with this underwater issue. Kunala, I can also make your weapon fire reliably underwater, if you'd like. If each of you could give me 25 gold for the scroll, and two from Kunala (for himself and his weapon) then we should have no problems with the water."
Raffinyaler looks at Val. "Are you going to be alright here on your own?"
"Tamoq, you may wish for one of us to accompany you and Korba to the market. Your kind is not often seen here and some of the residents of Torch are... prejudiced. In addition, I've not the cash for the scroll, so let's stop by the temple and see if they can help us out.
Kunala, I'll pay Garritt a visit. Hopefully he's not hiding anything but if he is I'll find it."
so we can hopefully pick up anything we might need/can afford to help fight them.
Gremlins understand that they lack physical power, and thus are usually encountered in large groups that work together to defend each other and their lair. While all gremlins share certain traits in common, such as a resistance to damage from weapons save those made of cold iron, a cruel and sadistic sense of humor, the ability to use prestidigitation to enhance their mischievous plans, and their slight statures, the single trait that gremlins are most well known for is their ability to break, curse, and otherwise ruin the works of other creatures. Gremlins take great delight in ruining and breaking things, and while each gremlin race has a particular “specialty” (be it magical auras, complex machinery, coordinated tactics, or even luck itself), all gremlins are fascinated by complex devices and intricate social constructs. Nothing pleases a gremlin more than being involved in the collapse of something complex.
Although gremlins originally hailed from the mysterious realm of the fey, they have lived upon the Material Plane for countless generations. In that time, they have become natives of this realm, both in body and soul. Yet not all gremlins have managed to retain their strange powers to disrupt and destroy—the most unfortunate gremlins are not even commonly known as gremlins at all. These bizarre creatures are known as mites. While they retain the gremlin ability to use a few spell-like abilities, mites represent to their fellow gremlins the ultimate shame and horror—a fall into pathetic self-loathing and pitiful cowardice. As a result, gremlins grow particularly sadistic and violent when presented with an opportunity to torment a tribe of mites, abandoning their more subtle methods of disrupting communities and machinery in favor of all-out war, invading mite homes and lairs with tiny knives in hand and murder on their minds. Only mite tribes that have managed to ally themselves with particularly dangerous vermin generally have any chance at all to withstand an invasion of this sort, and most tribes quickly surrender to the gremlins. In some cases, the wholesale act of surrender can cool the gremlins’ rage, and the attackers simply take steps to subjugate and enslave the tribe of mites, using them from that point on as a slave class to serve their whims, but in other cases not even the mite tribe’s complete surrender can save them.
Against larger creatures, particularly humanoids (whom gremlins particularly love to torment and vex), gremlins adopt a much more subtle approach. Gremlins know that they lack the physical strength to withstand a fight against even the weakest humanoid societies, and thus keep to the shadows when moving through cities and villages. Gremlins seek out regions within urban areas where the “big folk” don’t bother to visit often—places like sewers, dumps, graveyards, and abandoned buildings make for perfect gremlin lairs. Once a gremlin tribe establishes itself in the shadows of a humanoid society, it begins its work. Operating in pairs or even alone, the gremlins move out into the society, seeking ways to undo anything that can be undone. If a gremlin can arrange it, it prefers to leave an object, relationship, or situation in such a condition that it may seem stable and undamaged to the casual observer, but falls apart or fails spectacularly the next time it is used or encountered. A gremlin often waits in hiding nearby so it can observe the calamitous results of its mayhem, but takes pains to be well out of reach when such a disaster occurs. Gremlins know that it’s not good to be in arm’s reach of an angry humanoid once it realizes it’s been visited by a gremlin.
In areas where gremlin activity is well established, many societies have developed unique and clever ways to both protect themselves from gremlin-related mayhem and root out the little monsters from their lairs. One common method of dealing with gremlins is to use objects known as gremlin bells. Crafted from bronze, brass, or other semiprecious metals and measuring no more than an inch tall, gremlin bells are hung from delicate chains or silken cords over door frames and windows, or affixed to precious objects. The belief is that the presence of a gremlin bell sickens the creatures and even renders their supernatural and spell-like abilities useless. Strangely enough, many gremlins believe this as well, and even when the gremlin bells aren’t magic, gremlins won’t risk tinkering with most objects that seem to be warded in such a manner.
Other communities take a much more active path in ridding themselves of gremlins, training small animals like cats, dogs, falcons, or even weasels to seek out and attack gremlins on sight. Tiny trained animals can pursue gremlins into their cramped warrens with ease and, when their claws are fitted with cleverly constructed cold iron spikes, can inflict significant damage on a tribe of these creatures. Many gremlin tribes have learned from such tactics, however, and utilize trained (or not) animals in their on lairs for protection.
"Ah, yes let us all stop by the temple first and see if they can provide us with needed materials before we spend our hard-earned gold."
It seemed Kimos was the only one listening. While he goes along he points a few things out.
"They said they possessed a scroll to raise the dead, they did not say they would give it to us. Which would be pointless if he was alive as it has not been confirmed one way or the other. If he is dead then we simply bring back the body. Does not make sense to take something so valuable into danger or give it to the first group that shows up saying they will try. Concerning the water, the priest has agreed to cast spells on us to breath water, their was no mention of underwater danger. Outside that of drowning for being a bad swimmer."
He had said his peace and felt no need to point out his earlier statement of making assumptions.
"As for gold I have little. My lifestyle is not one of soft beds or rooted roofs."
Yeah the problem with magic is price, but if I have a grateful wizard that's easier. Anyways idea wise I am going to steal from movies and a little tech sense that's what this AP is about. If it is too big for hand to elbow. How about a spring loaded leg sheath, should be long enough between foot to knee. Granted he will need to wear pants with slits around the knee. Let's just call it a style. Yes, No, Maybe? ;)
"Ah, your memory is much better than ours, Kimos. You are correct. Let us go get these water breathing spells cast on us and get going."
"We're not takin' that specific scroll. We're looking for a scroll or five that'll let us breathe while underwater. Just cause we've a priest that can do it to get us in, doesn't mean we've a priest that can do it to get us out. And also doesn't mean he can do it right now. May be tomorrow before he can get us in."
Kimos gives the gnome a look between someone that knows something and someone who wonders if they should say it. Clearly the former won out.
"I would think that the council did not make this decision in haste or without asking the priest ahead of time. Otherwise why would they offer something like that if it would be delayed. More so others have gone before us, I doubt we were the first to consider that little problem. Lastly in my experience it is harder to get into something underwater then leave it. We simply float to the surface. I suggest we avoid any predictions and stick to what we do know to be true. The priest has the answers, maybe scrolls too or not."
He was starting to wonder if this group had any experience outside the safety of the town or the like. They seemed more concerned with planning things then doing them, plans could not account for everything. A hunter could become prey in a split second only to return once more with fickle luck or fate.