Monsters and Madmen: Necromantics and Monstrous MadMen

Game Master Remnant

Remnant, I'll be in the midst of the corpses, checking for valuables and such things, Will this bother any plot points that are coming from this? I can change the circumstances if it would

Sanriel beat it unconscious, it seems to be some form of 'Wolf in sheeps clothing'-esque creature. Remnant made no bones about it being exceptionally heavy and Sanriel now has an exceptionally large spider following him now. So most likely the creature is slung over the back of the giant spider.

I kind of forgot about the thing to be honest. It had no defense against reach/earth gliding so there wasn't much to make me remember it. Sanriel saw it use some form of spore on a companion who walked right up to the obviously dangerous creature.

Hey Illia, do you happen to have feat slot available? It would be awesome if we could both take Precise Strike, and be flanking buddies.

Sanriel, Sorry, but I missed you rising from the ground... Too busy looking at the big spider...

Bah, my spider friend is only huge. So only the size of an elephant.

That would be why the earth-shattering steps garnered my attention more than the silent rising druid....

Yep, though the creature block still has a positive stealth modifier amusingly enough. (A mighty +4!) But it certainly is louder than Sanriel swimming through land.
Plus the whole.. roving carpet of spiders in and around its square making various spider noises as they move.

Okay, I want to get a bit IC scum-baggery, when I scout ahead or skulk around, but I want to try to get you guys to be OOC okay with it...

I want to steal from people and line my pockets... obviously taking the lions share of the treasure and first pick of everything... But I'm not going to take /ALL/ of it, I would just take the small, valuable, and unobtrusive things.... But I want to make sure that you guys wont feel cheated OOC by me trying this...

*shrug*
You are entirely welcome to do so. Sanriel could frankly give less of a damn about personal wealth, unless the objects you steal are critical to the mission it seems entirely within reason.
Though I would say that such actions would mean you will need to keep track of your aqquisitons as the possibility of getting caught, slapped into a zone of truth and getting your wealth redistributed is possible as well.
As a 'Normal' human being I'm pretty sure you would have a very good chance of getting away with quite a lot on account of being considered a non-threat to the creatures you are working with. More so if anyone in the group happens to detect the level of raw animosity that Sanriel projects to pretty much everybody in our group.

I would warn that many of the other characters are less likely to be forgiving if you are caught in such actions. Anaxian fancies himself a proper dragon and Delyliath (scarletrose's Succubus) has at will detect thoughts along with properly frightening mindscrew powers.
Effectively all of the characters in this game are evil mysanthopic jerks but are help in check by the mutually assured destruction quarreling with each other would imply.
.. well except for Illia-. But exceptions aside.

Jhaelwyn would certainly look down on such behaviour and extract payment, one way or another. However! She is easily distracted during the first few moments of looting since she will probably try and salvage some 'spare parts'. At the very least poke and prod the corpses a bit. Argue with the undead raisers about what to do with a particularly curious specimen.

OOC, I think I am okay with it as long as it is within reasonable bonds - pilfering every piece of magical trinkets would get old fast, but some here and there? Shoot!

DK there are no corpses...But I will note what you can find

Posting up. The voices up ahead are which ever other players are ready to go. IF someone feels not totally ready then feel free to lurk some more and there will in a day or so (RL) be another great spot to jump in.

I'm kindof ready - just one thing. I assume Jhaelwyn is already contracted to the Lady in Linnen - so she could totally be part of the talking group up ahead, right =)?

Come on in, you can drop in before I make my next post :D I'll wait for you.

Just so you know, I have no idea who the Lady in linnen is, and I wasn't part of the group of talkers as far as I know.

Eh, no sadly. Illia does not have a free feat, and if she gets one not needed for her martial powers, it's going straight into Skill Focus Perception to to milk more use out of her true seeing.

Meanwhile several new players are entering the field, guided by blind chance or fate, they would think. Never truly realizing the forces operating out of sight and perception that guided them, for now, to this location far below the world of trees, light, and greenery.

I'm fairly sure this part of Remanant's post was effectively the starting gun for anyone not already in the group to start posting. Either a post to enter the area we are in by chance or by intent. Whatever works better to gel your character into the forming group.

Those in the previous group already have their segue established by Anaxian and will have decent reason to arrive whenever they please.

Backstory Element: The Lady in Linen is on par with the most powerful Psychopomps and is focused on Deal Making/MLM/Favor Trading. So the more favors she brokers, the more power she amasses on her way to becoming a Diety.

So it is entirely reasonable that she would decide that asking one person to leave a door open, so that someone else walks through, then to carry a message to a third that leads to someone else asking if you would like to have a cup of coffee, all leads and adds to her power.

So she arranges coincidences along with outright favors to help people get what they want in exchange for a favor.

So any of the characters could have ended up here to aid Sanriel in doing her more overt tasking, all the while helping her own ends that only she knows about.

Mkay. I'm thinking Jhaelwyn has been pointed in your direction by the Lady or one of her minions and given some sort of description. Basically - "Hey Jhaelwyn. Need a job? There is this skeleton-stone-druid guy that need a hand! He's over here somewhere..."

Jhaelwyn is a bit away, so Sanriel and Jaduf and anyone else has a bit of time to play around with (the hour is late over here and I need to fix a few things before going to sleep. We'll see if I manage to slip a post in first or not :) )

So Dris is pretty much now a very fast, murder machine, and that's even without picking his maneuvers and stances.

Remnant, I am not sure if the Dark Iron is like cold iron or if it is just a blackened/burnt Iron dagger...

Or would my character not know either?

Do not steal from dragons, little thief. I might be small, but I can still eat you. It will just take longer.

And then I can animate the chewed mulch that was once you as something that can still suffer.

So... In other words? IC you would hate it, but OOC you're okay with it? or what?

I'm saying I will kill you
If you're comfortable with that, do your thing.

Do I know you will kill me?

I'm talking about the OOC part of it.

Remnant, I am not sure if the Dark Iron is like cold iron or if it is just a blackened/burnt Iron dagger...

Or would my character not know either?

Your character, unless you had very specific knowledge (checking) would not know exactly what it is. No he most likely would have no idea the exact properties. It looks like iron that has been blackened somehow.

Hmmm.... I reckon that I'll figure it out when I stab anything and everything... or I find someone who can research them

In character you probably wouldn't know that, no. At least not yet. Right now, for instance, you know he's a slightly weird cat. Probably not what you'd consider a good mark.

As for later, I'd imagine Anaxian's low murder-justification threshold will be pretty self evident once you get to know him a bit.

The mark of a successful thief is learning to recognize which people just aren't worth stealing from. The top of that list tends to be dragons and liches. I'm both.

Illia- would also take grave offense to your loot stealing, as she hiiighly values money. Money can buy you more defensive items.

Between Anaxian and Illia-'s perception, you'd have to be mighty good at your shtick (and you may well be) to pull it over their eyes for a long period.

Ah... this seems like a terrible idea now...

I too would frown on one person taking the lion's share of the loot as well as getting first pick of items.

That way only seems to lead to pvp, which I am pretty sure is not supposed to occur in this game.

....In character... it fits, out of character... I doubt that a few trinkets will unbalance the game... but thats why I actually asked out of character first.

an unconscious plant aberration? is he just dragging it around? is it in a bag of holding? is it following you around, how is it able to follow if its unconscious? Logic bomb/confusion

Hi .. Actually I've been more busy than predicted the last few days and I still have a question that probably was already asked and answered somewhere but I fail to find...

What about equipment? are we to re equip from scratch based on average gold per level?

also .. if that is the case.. I had a soulgem with the soul of a Dark elf that Anaxian gifeted to me.
Would I be allowed to carry it in this game, should it have a cost attached?

Given Illia's appeareance, I assume we are expectet to just jump in unannounced right?

We all start here with 25000gp. With the exception of meridian who I believe who starts with that ring of telekenisis and nothing else.

Possessing teleport and the area we are at being the 'character intro' zone I believe that just popping by works fine.

....In character... it fits, out of character... I doubt that a few trinkets will unbalance the game... but thats why I actually asked out of character first.

That's appreciated.

Out of character, I feel you are probably right. As long as what you'd be stealing wasn't signifigant, it would not be unbalancing at all.

In character, balance issues aren't the point. It's about certain principals, which are unique to each character. Steal from the Druid, you aren't risking much. Steal from the Fury, you're risking your life. Steal from the Succubus, you're risking your freedom. Steal from the dracolich and you're risking your soul.

Theft is always a risk vs. reward game. It's up to what you're willing to risk.

Given how it has already been demonstrated that it's possible to build an uber-stealth character who could get away with it. Or someone who would be so valuable to the party that people would tolerate it.

But a mere human who hasn't demonstrated his usefulness? People would not take kindly to one of the hired hands trying to increase his share.

STOP BEING SO LOGICAL......!!!!

xP

In training for work. Will try to catch up with the game by tonight.

Regarding loot stealing. Even if you succeed stealing from me, you dont. :-)

Caveat: In most circumstances.

We all start here with 25000gp. With the exception of meridian who I believe who starts with that ring of telekenisis and nothing else.

Possessing teleport and the area we are at being the 'character intro' zone I believe that just popping by works fine.

I believe the decision was that I start with the stuff i have on my character presently. The Ring is simply the only thing really of note.

@Entrance - I'll drop in Jhaelwyn as soon as whatever it is that is happening has happened. Wouldn't want to ruin the mood :P

@Death_Keeper - If you want to be really cunning, you would do as your name suggest and demand a share of the corpses. Then you could haggle away that share for more gold :P (note, this suggestion is about 50% in jest - however about half of our team, including Jhaelwyn, have a use for defeated enemies...)

I love the idea. No seriously, I really love that idea...

We all start here with 25000gp.

wow that's ... way below average.

I'll see what I manage to salvage at that price.

When you're ready I have an idea for my entrance.

It's above average for a 7 class level character.

It's above average for a 7 class level character.

aren't we level 9?

Nope, Level 7

you guys have levels and templates... Class level is seven

We are CR 9, with a maximum of 7 class levels. I presume you are playing a Succubus with two class levels.

Isn't wealth be based on CR vs levels, as its assumed one has the proper wealth when determining CR appropriate challenges?

I think lower level wealth is fine considering the number of party members and the extra abilities we each possess.

As Anaxian mentioned.

Just like before, I don't doubt we'll have any trouble steamrolling the first few encounters till the GM's gotten accustomed to our powers.