Here be dragons! Adventurers keep out! (Inactive)

Game Master Davachido

"Well there's this Druid garden of the forest that I am going need the soul of but other then that ya you can pick. I hope you like sweet. We might be hitting some real goodie goodies."

The eidolon lets out a low growl that might serve as a grunt, and returns to facing the horizon as the group marches homeward. At some point in the journey, just before Aurelie falls asleep, Jingles gently places her on Kitty's back. As the girl drifts off, the eidolon slows down and fades from existence, returning to whatever world it comes from.

I dislike disturbing Aurelie's sleep but this is important. I gently wake her up.
"Sorry to disturb you, but according to my agents we are slightly under-strength on the front. War involve a alot of momentum and we need to have the momentum on our side. Could you please give orders to send Mister Jingles Finest to the front? There is not much time"

don't know if it works on other players but
diplomacy: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (9) + 17 = 26

Aurelie blinks as Min speaks to her, and she immediately looks for her Big Pappy. Not seeing him, the girl bursts into tears, sobbing for her friend, ignoring Min's question for the time being. After a few minutes, as Aurelie is still crying, her eyes squeezed shut, something happens.

Behind her, a rift seems to open slowly in the air, growing wider and longer. Through it, a shadowy form is seen, moving closer and closer. Suddenly, a second form throws it aside, out of view, and then Mister Jingles steps through, its spike facing back through the rift until it closes. Then the eidolon steps up to Aurelie and lets out a moan that sounds almost happy. The girl turns and smiles and squeals with joy, scurrying up onto her Big Pappy's shoulder as Kitty pantomimes cleaning itself, a comical enough image considering it has neither tongue nor fur.

Looking back down at the magician, Aurelie nods. "Okay, I'll send them out!" Not sure exactly how that's done, but I'm doing it!

No need to use diplomacy, Min, but because you did, I'm using Sense Motive!.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15 Pshaw. Obviously they're needed for a surprise birthday celebration for one of the soldiers. Mister Jingles' Finest are excellent party-goers.

I go find the Ears "I hope you are enjoying your stay?" I chat him up a bit to improve his mode
diplomacy: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35
Then I say
"I plan on going and defeating the forest lords tomorrow. I know that they have a portal to the fey-wild in the forest do you know where it is? Also you have stayed here for a little bit and been given the tour see anything you like? Anything you want?"

Leonard will hop on a nightmare from the stables and meet the group in whatever location was agreed upon.

Min's city, it appears! Leiara opted to stay and fill her tank of water, not being pArticularly interested in demons.

Okay the new world map is up. The only person I do not have on there is Leiara, I can't seem to find where she wanted her city and the name. I might have missed it. Do tell me though. ^^

I will push things forward a bit, Vaklam we will still continue your scene in the Village I will just continue to put it in spoilers so you don't miss anything.

At GL52

Everyone walks into a prepared chamber to discuss what they have found out and what theu might like to go next. Old smoky as per most of these meeting is sitting in the back with a pad and quill to take down the minutes. As well as any orders for the minions.

(Assignment) Whenever you want to move troops or send on them on missions write down on this document. Currently it's on week 1. (Min can you put down what you wanted your saboteurs to do I remember you wanted them on a mission but I forgot what.)

Before the meeting starts Old smoky announces "There has been no changes in much of the front though I suspect many you have news of other dealings. The adventurers apparently have headed east across the water if the scouts are to be believed."

Spy saboteurs have a battle front rating of 0 and their ability can't stack. I would like to send one unit of Spy saboteurs on a mission to spread a rumor though the enemy that one of the high command (There has to be someone in the high command with a gotee, a monocle or any other of the signs of evil) is in league with us. It would be best if they came up with a bunch of plausible sounding theories. I doubt the brass will believe it but I want to erode the troops confidence. Who knows maybe some political types back home will believe it or use the opportunely to advance their own career. Hell maybe the heros will hear it and think that it's a plot hock. Also spreading a rumor is a rather low risk mission.

The Spy masters have a mission of creating a counterfeiting ring.

"I believe that we are doing a mission to take over the forest. I feel that we should bring a party of 8 that is how many people I can buff at a time. I think it's the same for others Does anyone want to bring any of their minions?"

"What sort of alignment do you guys guess the creatures of the forest will be?"

The Shard arrives at GL52 with Pytha-Gora (and Korina, Old Smoky would you please verify if she's travelling with me).

"Well I would agree that we need to expand our borders Min, though why is this forest of particular interest to you? I guess I will bring Pytha-Gora along, he could be your guard as I myself might take a more aggressive approach there."

Sense Motive on Min's nature interests: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33

"I can report that we will have no trouble with the raids on our suplly carvans anymore, our supplies to the front should be safe now. To accomplish this I have made an arrangement with the dragonborn that were raiding us, a group of them will serve under me in exchange for peace and food supplies. Those are acceptable terms yes? In addition I will try and start a group of front line fighters, but their training into swordmasters and bow masters might take a while."

I want to try and make a monk training reminiscent of a kind of a samurai training, bow monks and sword monks.

@The shard: Yes she is

"At first I became interested in the forest because I wished to recuit the pugwhamia that live there and make no mistake the pugwhamia powers of un-luck will be a powerful asset. However with further research I have found the forest to be a far greater prize. The forest contains a portal to the feywild and the nature magic of that place permeates the forrest like a spong. The amount of power contained inside that forest is staggering. I know it to be capable of high power dispel magic's and I suspect that it can do much more. In any case the forrest contain many creatures and plants most magical."

"Thanks to Leonard's efforts the supply caravans have become redundant and obsolete in any case. If you wish to hire the out-of-work raiders that is your problem and you will have the responsibility to supply them."

Aurelie perks up at Min's request from her pouting. "I'll go to the forest. I don't like the bad men; they hurt me, and they hurt Mister Jingles, and Kitty, and my angels!" The girl becomes whiny toward the end of her comment, but doesn't start crying again. "I'd much rather go to the woods."

Leiara blinks about the forest, eyeing Min narrowly.

Sense Motive!: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

She says, "I'd love to investigate this forest." She toys with the gem around her neck.

"One more thing, It has come to my attention that we have insurgencies and spys in our capital and possibly in other places in our empire. I believe that our subjects should only have to fear us not other disruptive forces to this end I would like to call for your support in forming a secret police"

help with the ka-ching check to make a themed force

"Hmm.. Agreed Min, but as we all want to know about their findings, I'd suggest they report to Old Smoky as we know he can be trusted and he keeps us posted on these things. Old Smoky, I trust you have no problem with this?"

Now let's hope Old Smoky is not our archnemesis in the end

"No sir, I can make sure to inform you all of any findings of this proposed group. It seems most of you are in favour of entering Kemanwati, what is your plan then mighty ones? Just to enter the forest hoping to find your targets?" Old smoky asks, he sits back down after asking the question. You doubt he actually needs to hear the answer more it looks like he is spurring conversation between yourselves.

Another Dragonborn who came with The shard laughs at Min "Oh he is supplying us well, he'll get far more help from these 'out-of-work' raiders than you."

@The Shard: "Not at all. If I wanted a private force I would pay for it myself"

"The plan is to go directly to the portal and secure it. I expect resistance from some fey Druids"

"Well, of course! You still haven't explained what you want with it." Leiara says.

"didn't I already say? It powerful reservoir of magic nature magic mostly. If I can figure out how to tap into it The Power"

"Would that kill the forest?" Inquireth the suspicious druid.

The Shard quietly stares at Leiara.
That was an excellent question of her, I wonder what Min's answer might be. He knows Leiara and me have druidic powers, we would not so easily let the forest die and wither away. Being evil doesn't necessarily mean to destroy everything else, just crush opposition.

He keeps silent until Min gives an answer about this 'delicate' subject.

"might change it a bit. Also make it allot bigger. I need to the forest to be a much bigger spong"

"O.K. I'll come clean."

I gesture at the city we are standing it.

"I plan on turning the forest into something like this except cooler and more awesome. I have a lot of idea's that I wasn't able to do before not enough power. With the amount of magic in that forest those idea's won't just be possible they'll be practical"

"You wanna build a special city?" Aurelie asks, eyes widening. "Wow! My home is just normal. I wish I could make a special city. I'd want mine to be made of angels."

Leiara scowls, "Leave the trees alone." She says flatly. "Build your city somewhere else."

"You wanna build a special city?" Aurelie asks, eyes widening. "Wow! My home is just normal. I wish I could make a special city. I'd want mine to be made of angels."

"I might be able to help you with that. Although it might be more practical to make the city out of one angel. Do you want it to be mobile? Not quite sure what to use as the base to create it. I will look into it for you."

You can use Sculpt Corpse to make a Corpse one size larger and it has a duration of instantaneous so you could keep using it on the same Corpse again and again to make yourself a huge angel to build a city out of. The only problem is that it does not make it any stronger so if you want it to be able to carry anything you will need something insanely strong with allot of lift boosts. (ant haul, mule-back cords and other stuff)

Leiara scowls, "Leave the trees alone." She says flatly. "Build your city somewhere else."

"You seem to be missing the point. I need a large amount of nature magic make the my new creation which I will call Yggdrasil more alive. Yggdrasil will absorb all the other plants in the forest into itself making a whole far greater then the sum of it's parts. And then after it spends a bit of time growing in power figuratively and literally It will grow beyond the forest's current bounds covering the land in green. I think it might even become a space elevator"

Leiara relaxes a bit. Most of that went over her head, but what she heard was 'cover the world in green', so then she grins at Min. Too bad that just makes her look creepy.

I look over at the dragon born
"Your people are wandering around without a home right now right? That's why you took up banditry. If you have a few strong capable warrors to help me with this mission I could give you this city in a few weeks it's about to become obsolete in any case, but it should for-fill your needs nicely. Unless you don't actually have any warriors in your tribe up to our standards."

I talk to Leonard the Black "with the knowledge I get from working with the fey-wild portal I might be able to figure out some tricks to manipulate your portal. Just in case you decide to take for services elsewhere or being able to control what is able to pass though that portal"

I use detect magic have we got any invisible spys around us? It worked for the good guys.

@Min, Korina still stands outside with Pytha-Gora, I haven't invited her in yet.

"I will tell them you said so Min. If that image of Yggdrasil is what I expect, would you mind creating a place of meditation within it? It needs only to be a small open spot with grass amidst the forest. As I said you'll have my help in conquering this forest."

After a moment of contemplation he continues: As for the creatures inhabiting it, we will experience a lot of trickery from them as they certainly will fight against our incursion. Not to mention what their guardians might be."

Back from vacation. I need to read and catch up, but in the mean time.

Simon rides into the gathering on a black horse with flaming hooves and eyes. Foul smoke and ash pours from it's nostrils. "Wait for me in the courtyard. Do try not to cause too much trouble." He says to the beast. It obediently walks off.

To the group Leonard says,
"I assume my spies have been delivering messages, but just in case What did I miss?"

Waiting for Leonard to chime in with a yay or nay to any plan going on here. Edit: And like magic he posts while I'm typing this up! Vaklam I presume will join too now that the village raid is over.

@Min, Korina still stands outside with Pytha-Gora, I haven't invited her in yet.

"I will tell them you said so Min. If that image of Yggdrasil is what I expect, would you mind creating a place of meditation within it? It needs only to be a small open spot with grass amidst the forest. As I said you'll have my help in conquering this forest."

After a moment of contemplation he continues: As for the creatures inhabiting it, we will experience a lot of trickery from them as they certainly will fight against our incursion. Not to mention what their guardians might be."

"Of course I'll also include surround sound with 9001 different nature sound track. Hmm just how much pressure can you take?"

I start to sketch plan for a mediation waterfall because obversely if you combine two meditation spots in one it's got to be better.
everything worth doing is worth overdoing

"A giant angel city! That sounds awesome!" Aurelie cheers, jumping up and down on the Big Pappy's shoulder.

Hearing the knight's vow, Vaklam shouts back "Your mother sleeps with ogres!!" Then cackles maniacally and leaves with his sister and their new friends in tow.

He eventually arrives at whichever city they agreed to meet up, and sends Malakai to go play with the shadows while he joins the other leaders.

"That went well. Made a new enemy, got a new toy and lots of new friends!" The last two are said with a certain amount of glee.

"One more thing, It has come to my attention that we have insurgencies and spys in our capital and possibly in other places in our empire. I believe that our subjects should only have to fear us not other disruptive forces to this end I would like to call for your support in forming a secret police"

help with the ka-ching check to make a themed force

"The Asmodeun church is particularly adept at forming secret police forces. It's kind of our thing. Lawful Evil and all. I'm sure we can get some acolytes with imps to assist. They'll route out these little upstarts quickly enough. We may want to institute some policies to help with the search, such as a curfew during a time that would make it difficult for them to meet in secret. Stuff like that. I've got a list. We've done this before."

I talk to Leonard the Black "with the knowledge I get from working with the fey-wild portal I might be able to figure out some tricks to manipulate your portal. Just in case you decide to take for services elsewhere or being able to control what is able to pass though that portal"

I use detect magic have we got any invisible spys around us? It worked for the good guys.

"My portal serves a very specific purpose. I'd rather just make a new one and screw around with it before cutting me off from my source of elite troops. "

"So long as taking over the forest helps us with our ultimate goal I'm fine with it, but lets not create an entirely new campaign around it. We've already got the Holy Children to deal with or whatever the hells they call themselves. An elite force that takes over the portal would be a quick precise strike and prevent a drawn out campaign. I'm all for that. "

Min Classified wrote:

I talk to Leonard the Black "with the knowledge I get from working with the fey-wild portal I might be able to figure out some tricks to manipulate your portal. Just in case you decide to take for services elsewhere or being able to control what is able to pass though that portal"

I use detect magic have we got any invisible spys around us? It worked for the good guys.

"My portal serves a very specific purpose. I'd rather just make a new one and screw around with it before cutting me off from my source of elite troops. "

"I think you are underestimating the difficulty in creating a planner portal."

it is a 9th level spell to make a temporary one with no option of making it permeant in the spell

Leonard the Black wrote:

Min Classified wrote:

I talk to Leonard the Black "with the knowledge I get from working with the fey-wild portal I might be able to figure out some tricks to manipulate your portal. Just in case you decide to take for services elsewhere or being able to control what is able to pass though that portal"

I use detect magic have we got any invisible spys around us? It worked for the good guys.

"My portal serves a very specific purpose. I'd rather just make a new one and screw around with it before cutting me off from my source of elite troops. "

"I think you are underestimating the difficulty in creating a planner portal."

it is a 9th level spell to make a temporary one with no option of making it permeant in the spell

" Hence my desire not to screw with the perfectly functional one I have."

"Also it's not a single spell effect, but instead an immobile item built directly into my keep. I had it created using the trap rules to help mitigate the cost. "

"So we are all agreed one a quick expedition to take control of the gate in the forest destroying all who stand against us?"

"So we are all agreed one a quick expedition to take control of the gate in the forest destroying all who stand against us?"

"Works for me, but lets not make a big production of it. I have a stack of paperwork I need to get through. Do you know how complicated the R3C form is to fill out to request the form for permission to request the G453 that will allow me to petition for a demonic cleaning lady? I know it sounds absurd, but they're extremely efficient and double as a night watch."

"On another note I was thinking about the giant undead city idea. I was thinking about a scaled down version of that idea as a mobile war platform from which we can command the battle and just generally ride around in style. We could use the back of some beast of burden, undead or otherwise, or we could commission a massive floating platform with positions at the cardinal points for battle casters or some sort of creature with at will SLA's to use to devastating effect. Just thinking about it gets me excited. I'll make some sketches to show you what I am talking about. "

"Yay! I giant angel city!" Aurelie giggles and hugs her Big Pappy's head. "But don't worry, Mister Jingles, I'll always love you the most."

"The idea is sound, but that is not a cleaver way to execute it. The enemy would just take out the zombies and if we made the zombies strong enough not to be easily taken down why aren't they fighting. I have another suggestion we make floating disks and put iron domes on them with peep holes or arrow slits. The caster's should be very safe inside and still about to cast out. We might want to research a improved version that is a bit bigger."

Smoky gets up from his chair again and bows "I shall make arrangements so that we bring you to the borders of Kemanwati forest. I would prepare yourself to meet resistance I doubt your presence will go unnoticed by the denizens of the forest. I wish you luck." Smoky leaves the room to make preparations.

Since most of the party want to explore the forest I will start that below. You can continue to discuss additional things in spoilers if you wish, just name it "Discussion" or something.

When you get to the forest your spells and abilities refresh. You may buff up before you enter.

The group of overlords is on the edge of the Kemanwati forest, it seems quite an unsettling place. The forest feels as if it isn't truly there yet is at the same time. Every so often out of the corner of your eyes you see leaves flicker out of existence though when you go to look at the leaves they are there as they always were. There is the sound of only a solitary insect instead of a host, other than that when that insect stops chirping the forest is quiet and still.

Occasionally the party can see small flickers of colour go through the air, mostly hues of red and orange. The party feels watched by what they can't say. How would the party like to advance?

Smoky waits on the edge in whichever form of transport the party decided to take.

"I am about to cast Arcane Concordance all spells cast in the next 8 rounds will have double duration and +1 to save DC's. I suggest everyone put up their day per level and 10 minute per level buffs"

I cast Arcane Concordance. Then I cast
Freedom of Movement
overland flight
Circle of protection chaos
Nondetection
Tree stride
Floating disk (then I get on it travel in style)
Mage Armor
Crafter's fortune (to keep me safe from Pugwhampi)

You know I thought I had more good buffs.

Shard will have a different set of Spells for this trip.

I'll cast Longstrider and Greater Magic Fang on me and Pytha-Gora, as well as Cat's Grace, Bull's Strength and Spider Climb on myself.
Also Communal Spider Climb on anyone who wishes it in terms of 20 minute intervals.