Right now I'm waiting for someone to open the next door or manipulate the mysterious ritual installation.
Hmmmm... interesting...
Ri'Kli'Klek wouldn't touch that thing with a ten-foot pole, though, given his history. :D
I have less online time than usual due to storms right now, but Raxus is out of his depth right now and doesn't have a lot to add.
Sorry all, feeling better and catching up.
Hopefully I'm not delaying things too much, but I just realized Ri'Kli'Klek WOULD NOT leave this thing behind with the evidence present that it's being used.
Its evil but not harmful. I thought I made that as clear as possible in my knowledge check descriptions. There's an opportunity here for significant character pumping if you want to take it.
Oh, it's quite clear--I was just realizing that Ri'Kli'Klek, for all that he hates the idea of messing with the Red God's power, hates the idea of leaving it here for someone else with fewer scruples more.
Dotting just to get it to show up. Hey ya'll!
I'll add you in this weekend, is your weapon also done with his sheet?
I think he said he was, so he should just be moving it here.
Playing as an intelligent weapon actually sounds quite amusing to me.
Of course, I've volunteered to play as a familiar before, so my tastes in what to play aren't exactly normal. :D
Oh, it's quite clear--I was just realizing that Ri'Kli'Klek, for all that he hates the idea of messing with the Red God's power, hates the idea of leaving it here for someone else with fewer scruples more.
Why you gotta call out Hamza like that??
Everybody into the mote bath! I'll update the character sheet by tomorrow.
For the feats, are we also considered fighters of our level for meeting pre-reqs?
Ie, since Hamza is level 7, can he take Weapon Specialization?
no, you don't count as fighters if the pre-req for the feat is to be a fighter. If it's just a level requirement, then its admissible.
Still need to pick feats, but the ability score updates are done.
In case it wasn't clear, Raxus won't be accepting anything from the Red God.
To be frank, if something like this comes up again, Ri'Kli'Klek will probably try to stunning fist anyone who looks like they're thinking about trying it. His attempts at stopping things here just made things worse, from his perspective, so he won't be allowing anyone to get close enough to touch it next time if he can help it.
You would need to see Hamza in order to attempt to stunning fist him, lol
Honestly, this may come down to combat between them. He's serious enough about this to try to kill if that's the only way he can prevent it from getting out of hand. It's kind of what his only remaining purpose in life is at this point.
I just want to be clear that don't want this to escalate to where the PLAYERS are fighting with/hating on each other.
The CHARACTERS fighting is okay if you're both down with it, and whoever dies can roll up a new character, very Athasian style.
Oh, no worries about that. Hamza's player and I chat a lot. :D
Ri'Kli'Klek would die in a confrontation with just about anyone else in the party, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't try, though--especially since he has no reason to trust anyone in the party to not be power-hungry fools who will bring doom upon Athas.
Given the wide array of alignments and goals in our party I'd be surprised if it didn't come to bloodshed at one point or another.
feats set. character updated.
Rokan is mostly untrusting (except probably of amunet), but otherwise simply disoriented. Most of his original quest party is gone, so he's simply trying to move forward with what he was tasked with (find ways to detect the dopplegangers and then proceed further into kaliday and deal with the gate).
Amunet-Ra will probably support Ri'Kli'Klek point.
What drove her is more curiosity. She has strong ties with her family and tribe and elves do remember. Also she saw the slaughter of elves at the red gods hands, something she wants to avoid and possibly avenge.
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Obviously, the site has been terrible this weekend.
Let's try to refocus monday--we were about to/going to open the next door. Can I have some confirmation on that, and then I'll also introduce the new players, which are an elf shamen (from a different tribe than Amunet), and her magical weapon (also a PC, kind of fun!)
Love the way where this is going.
Totally don't know wether Ri'Kli'Klek is making this up or if this is part of the official backstory^^
And yeah, Hamza is still pretty shady (pun intended), didn't do a lot to gain more trust so far.
Ri'Kli'Klek - even though a natural elven enemy - did a better and more convincing job :D
Still would avoid PvP if possible.
It's canon that Athas is a desert world with a red sun thanks to Rajaat the Warbringer, the first defiler, whose genocidal campaign against... well, just about everyone is what's left Athas as the fantasy equivalent of a post-apocalyptic world.
As I understand it, for this game we're going with the idea that the Red God was basically the kreen equivalent of Rajaat, meaning he was just as willing to drain the life out of the world to accomplish his designs.
That's the idea -- it's based on a post from the Athas.org forums about homebrew concepts for 'other Dark Lords' of Athas. The idea is that there were figures similar to Rajaat other places who were his allies. The Red God Dargulin is also connected with/founded the Priests of Change of the Kreen Empire.
Yeah that's pretty cool about Dark Sun^^
Ya'll do know Hamza is Lawful Evil right? lol
But, as my brother and I recently discussed, LE is the closest evil alignment to good as possible.
After all, if the society the LE person in is good, and the laws are more or less just, they're going to basically be good, unless they can get away with being evil.
*We* do, but our characters don't.
Of course, if our characters did know that wouldn't exactly make them more inclined to trust him. That is, after all, the price of being evil.
Well yes, he's doing his best to hide is evil.
Because he's not all that evil. Not really. He just dones't have a problem with using whatever means necessary to accomplish his goals.
Which are still shady, those goals^^
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Well of course they're shady!!
How else do you expect him to survive the deadly heat that is a staple of Dark Sun?
Well, this is a Dark Sun game, and I'm also a big advocate of using rules/scenarios other DMs won't allow, so I'll permit PvP melee as long, as I indicated above, both PLAYERS are okay with it as a roleplaying exercise, and they're both cool with rolling up a new character after one kills the other.
The only thing I'm not okay with is people real life hating each other because another dude's demon killed his thri-kreen on online.
That would be abysmal.
If there is PvP all involved should be cool with it i think.
I think we've made it clear there's going to be conflict if someone uses another vortex, so let's move on.
Is there any visible difference in the vortex when Ri'Kli'Klek looks at it?
no
We didn't drain it? Bah, thought that was kinda the point.
Well it isn't a shower. I imagine there's some ritual or something to be done what brings even greater power.
I'm pretty sure the rest of you can hear the three of us talking, if someone else wants to venture an opinion.
If anyone is interested in joining a discord server for the games here let me know. I'll PM you an invite then.
Might be cool.
Okay, I'm moving stuff along with my next post, I'll activate the trap for Rokan and then let's assume we move through the door and into the hallway. I have to leave for work in a second, but I'll post sometime this weekend.
Ill join on the discord. Helps us get to know each other
PM sent.
I'll take the discord.
FYI, I’ll be away on a camping trip this weekend, and unable to post Saturday and most of Sunday. I’ll return late Sunday afternoon to post.
Now to catch up on posts!
I'm going to see if I can get someone else to create an animated weapon character for Eahwee.