At least five are ready to move on here. We going?
Ready!
I will be two level behind for a while I guess!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Sorry just also been turning 40. Need to look at Silas to try and find some way to be more helpful against higher CMD enemies as mostly just operating using other people's spells.
Lucretia, I am just waiting for everyone else to update their XP. Silas, I think you should be level 10?
Please finish updating your characters so we can move on please.
Ready.
Need to just sort my character. Changed jobs and computer isn't letting me into the forum so delayed on doing that. Will be sorted and can play via my phone (just not look at the map all that easily).
Thanks for letting us know Silas. Best of luck on the new job:)
Lucretia and Ke'ahilani, level up to level 9 please.
who is your phone carrier, I know over here you can add a 10 in tablet for about 10.00 a month. Much easier than using your phone, we have the 8 inch Elipsis with a detachable keyboard, now they have a 10 inch and its mobile. I will post my character tonight, Level 9, so most are just a level ahead of Lucretia, the experience table will self correct as long as the dm separates experience based on group levels so Lucretia can catch up quickly, and maybe we can gain on Silas some. He is, or was party leader, but he has been preoccupied of late, so if in the interim, maybe we should vote on who should be his alternate so we can move ahead and Silas can catch up.
I nominate Oro-Tu
Feat; Critical Focus
Skills: Acrobatics+1 Diplo+1, Intimidate+1, Perc+1, Use MD +1, Escape A +1 Swim +1
Is Oro Tur back? He also said he is swamped.
Sorry guys, I know I haven't been as active as usual. After the hiatus I've been slammed with work and health issues and family stuff. The slow speed doesn't help any as my attention drifts to work etc when nothing happens for a few days and I forget to check game.
Will try to be more active but until January it will be difficult for me.
I'm around. My issue is usually seeing how the combat map relates to what is going on. But I'm here and there's my last post to respond to.
Yes!
Oro messaged me. He has hard drive failures, but hopes to be back up early in the week. I changed the view on the map recently which I hope will help.
Add level of Alchemist
hp +5
BAB +1/+1
Saves Fort +1, Ref +1
Add extracts: add a level 2, Add a level 3
Poison resistance +6
Add discovery: Smoke Bomb
Add Feat- Extra discovery: Force bomb
Add Skills:
Acrobatics
Climb
Craft (Alchemy)
Escape Artist
Heal
Knowledge:Arcana
Knowledge:Local
Knowledge:Nature
Perception
Spellcraft
Survival
What are everyone's tactics?
Silas has a bit of combat maneuvers, but they usually require them to be armed. I can also use up my spell slots to cast other people's prepared spells without using up your spell. I really need to try and find a role in combat as I don't think I'm doing much at the moment
I am a support caster with potions and extracts, but mostly BOMBS to set people on fire, cover an area with smoke, or heal.
If things get hot I can take a Mutagen and wade in, but that isn't all that effective for me in a fight.
Main tactic is go to the enemy and poke him so often with the pointy end till he is dead, intimidating him on the way and trying to parry and counterattack as many attacks as possible. I can also, as a full round action attack and if I hit, the enemy is either disarmed, tripped, confused or staggered, no save.
Hi guys, I am back. Had to end up replacing both hard drives on my nas. Give me a couple hours to catch up on discussion and game.
I also had to call an electrician and had a wall spring a leak but no one wants to hear about that :)
Ok, glad you are back. All games for just this one?
level up results:
6 skill points: Acrobatics, Perception, Profession Sailor, Stealth, Survival, Swim
+11 HP, +1 BAB, +1 CMB, +1 CMD, +1 Fort Save, +2 rounds rage, +2 superstition, +1 DR
feat: extra rage power, rage powers: strength surge, greater guarded life
back for all games! but need clarification on RA, since I see you posted on recruitment there too.
My Tactics are, hit hard, Heal, Hit Harder, Rage and hit harder, lots of damage in a single swing with a big a*s weapon powered with vengeance of me and my deity. Oh, yes, and to get everyone else to hit harder. Like when I charge my weapon and hand to Oro-Tu to do a lot more damage.
Hmm. Didn't know about weapon handoff. If possible it's better to charge my weapon since it is a +3 weapon when I rage.
Sorry been off sick. Still feel dreadful, but will try and catch up.
Hope you feel better soon Silas.
If ke is holding action and Silas went think eels get to go. Hope you get better Silas!
dimensional hop (80 feet/day)
I was thinking of taking me, Orotu and Lucretia over there and popping in on the fight. or I could just spend time buffing, but if we are going to save the poor souls, we need to move quickly. Ranged attacks like spell casters can launch from where we are.
I like the idea. I would hold action until leialoha and maybe Silas cast surprise fireballs then do it so we don't get in the way of that.
First impulse would be: ke hastes us, leialoha and Silas fireball, Aurora hops me and Lucretia, then we each smack someone in the face. Nice quick impulsive surprise attack lol
Robert from old leialoha sheet:
Cracked Dusty Rose Ioun Stone, Headband of Vast Intelligence +2 (Linguistics), Nose Ring Scrimshaw Fetish, Pearl of Power (1st Level), Potion of Touch of the Sea, Selective Metamagic Rod (3/day [X] [ ] [ ]), Maximize Metamagic Rod (3/day [X] [ ] [ ]), Wand of Fireball (22/25 charges, CL 5, DC 14), Wand of Endure Elements (50/50 charges), Wand of Protection from Evil (50/50 charges), Amulet of Natural Armor +1, Ring of Protection +1
Other Gear Air Crystal x2, Alchemical Grease x5, Scrimshaw Holy Symbol of Pele, Smelling Salts, Spell Component Pouch, Traveler's Outfit, 270 gp
Both are regular not lesser, so work on 1-6th level spells
I was hoping Silas would chime in, but cannot wait on him forever. Yes, let't roll in gameplay.
Sorry sickness and then running a convention where I thought I would get a moment to sit down and post.
"the bringer of death", "the bringer of souls" or "the bringer of the underworld"
Frauline grissa ost drauka
drauka has three meanings: death, as in to kill; spirits, the souls of the dead; or the underworld, the place of the dead.
The prophecy means. "All of the them are true."
It says, "I have killed people with this sword. I am the bringer of death in that sense. That is the first meaning of drauka."
"In order to prevail against otherwise impossible odds, I use my sword's magic to bring forth the spirits of those who have used it before me. I have called the dead forth, called the past into the present. In that way, I am the bringer of spirits. That is the second meaning of drauka."
"As for the third meaning, bringing forth the underworld, I can pierce the veil of life to deliver souls to the afterlife. That is the third meaning of drauka."
My primary title is "bringer of death" in prophecy, although I am also referred to by other names, such as the "pebble in the pond" and the "one who turns the blade white. In the dance with death I call forth the underworld by releasing the spirits. I call myself the bringer of death, painting myself with the twin lightning bolts of the Con Dar (Blood Rage), and use the Confessor's face.
As part of my wardrobe, I wear ruby tear drop amulet as my holy symbol, as a reminder of the Primary Edict.
Primary Edict
"The ruby is meant to represent a drop of blood. It is the symbolic representation of the way of the primary edict.
"It means only one thing, and everything: cut. Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut.
"The lines are a portrayal of the dance. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut with certainty. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into his strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don't allow him a breath. Crush Him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit.
"It is the balance to life: death. It is the dance with death. It is the law a bringer of death lives by, or she dies."
Deaths mistress, the Bringer of Death is one that was born with the gift to use both positive Magic and negative Magic and is proficient in many of the forms those take.
Her power comes from instinct and emotion, particularly driven by need and anger. But those who understand the Eleventh Rule are able to use their magic at will.
THE DANCE WITH DEATH
“Keep your vision all-inclusive, never allowing it to lock on any one thing…look everywhere at once, see nothing to the exclusion of all else—don’t allow the enemy to direct your vision, or you will see what he wishes you to see. He will then come at you as you become bewildered, looking for his attack, and you will lose.
Instead, your vision must open to all there is, never settling, even when cutting. Know your enemy’s moves by instinct, not waiting to see them. To dance with death means to know the enemy’s sword and its speed without waiting to see it. Dancing with death meant being one with the enemy, without looking fixedly, so that you could kill him. Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.”
This passage comes in the context of a warrior in battle. A warrior whose only objective is to eliminate the threat. To obliterate the enemy at all costs.
As my life unfolds, I find that I possess the power to read into things way too much. This is sometimes detrimental, but other times is useful for seeing symbolism and metaphor where there is only normality. To find minute distinction in the hopelessly ordinary. Revealing the nuance in the prose if you will.
In order to understand it fully, you must understand the way the sword works. It’s used in it’s ideal purpose only by the noble and true of heart, warriors who are not corrupt, not selfish. It possesses the knowledge, feelings, and abilities the previous owners sustained. When the sword is used, the person gripping the hilt at once becomes one with the ancestors of the sword, using the same power those before him used. That power is his for the taking.
This is summoning of power, this art of war, ‘The dance with death’ … as it mimics dancing in footwork, and results in the impending reaping of life.
So it is in the spiritual realm.
As disciples of Christ, we already own this ‘sword’. the sword is a symbol of the word of God (Truth and Light), the bible (Hebrews 4:12).
By accepting the title of ‘disciple’ it opens the gateway into the power that the sword gives, as we do with the words of God to guide us through life.
You also gain power through your ancestors before you, who wielded this very sword, the Truth of the Light.
Those ancestors to us are not only the prophets and disciples accounted for in the bible, but also those generations before us, who blazed a trail into the world we know today. We are given power by their heritage, by their strength. (Acts 1:8)
By this we know that we are fully equipped to fight the enemy. We have the power necessary to obliterate any obstacle and overcome any trial.
With power comes skill. Skills that we learn on the battle field, skills we learn through heritage.
That’s what the quote is all about. It’s advice for the warrior on how to kill.
I’ll break it down for ya.
• When fighting the enemy, our first instinct is to focus on them. But when we focus too hard on the enemy we get tunnel vision, and can miss more foes on either side or even solutions to the problem. One of Richard’s favorite quotes is:
“Don’t focus on the problem, focus on the solution.”
• When we are focused so much on the enemy and the problem at hand, we are focusing on the exact thing Satan wants us to focus on: Him. And when we’re focused on him, we aren’t focused on God. We lose sight and direction from who we’re fighting for. Before we know it, we’re so lost in Satan’s will that we become confused and disoriented, primed and ready for yet another attack.
• Even when we gain ground against the enemy, it’s easy to have ourselves a little victory march and forget what’s going on. This line means to never stop anticipating the next move. If you allow yourself to freeze on even the smallest gain, it could be detrimental to yourself and those around you (Nehemiah 4). To never settle is to never become desensitized.
• To fight the adversary is to know the adversary. In battle we are to move by instinct, and that instinct is based in knowledge received from past experiences and by what the word of God tells us.
We are equipped with the knowledge of the enemy, we shouldn’t have to wait for his attack in order to fight back. We know which route sin could take to get to us, and what level of attack it will be. It is up to us to be ready for the attack we know will undoubtedly come. The quote calls it ‘being one with the enemy, without looking fixedly’ … This reiterates the previous advice to not put your focus where the enemy wants it, but to keep enough focus about the enemy in order to predict his next move.
• Bottom line: If you aren’t fully committed to fighting against, and ultimately destroying, the sin in your life, you will succumb to the the wiles of fleshly desire and find yourself defeated. You must be committed to the fight with your heart and soul. (Mark 12:30)
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Are you ready for the dance with death?
I'm down in London the next two days and then in a flurry of meetings on Thursday so may be a little delayed largely by seeing the map.
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Ke last post April 14. Open recruitment? The slowness is killing my desire to play lol.
Dude! I can't see a damn thing, so I'm waiting for something to attack me, or for someone to call for me to throw a bomb.
Oh you are here, lol. Did you not see gameplay?
I didn't see any "New Post" indicators, so no.
I've posted now.
I have family over this weekend and a con trip next weekend so probably a little less active. Bot as needed.
I will be at the same con and gone for most of the following week. Who's turn is it?
Guys, if my smoke bomb is doing more harm than good, just yell out and I'll squelch it.
Not sure whose turn it is.
Ke'ahilani - yeah definitely. Thought that was pretty clear.