Strange Aeons - Solo (Inactive)

Game Master Just a Mort

Well, from a certain point of view, they pretty much are (mostly through ignorance and bigotry, I must admit, but the point still stands).

That said, 99% of undead are inherently evil, which ticks yet another Paladin 'quick murder' box...

And you're behaving like Link. Cutting open plants ;)

Ooo! You mean there might be gems inside it...?

:-)

Also off to take a bath.

What, you *don't* have a water-proof laptop, that doubles as a flotation device? Shocking.

;-)

Come on. You know electronics and water don't mix ;)

Again, there's this

At movies.

Sorry Howard for so long delay but I was trying to check if consume soul ability would have required an SR check. Do you think it should or should not?

Exact words:

When a death coach deals damage to a creature with its touch attack, it can immediately attempt to collect the creature’s soul, forcing the creature to attempt a DC 26 Fortitude save. Creatures under the effects of a fear effect take a –4 penalty on this save. A creature that succeeds at its save takes 3d6+16 points of damage. On a failed save, the creature takes 160 points of damage (as if affected by a CL 16 finger of death).

The soul of a creature slain by this attack becomes trapped in the death coach’s interior. A trapped soul can be restored to life only by a miracle or wish. This is a death effect, and a creature that succeeds at its save is immune to that death coach’s collect soul ability for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Also had you not pounced forward, likely Havigan would have tried to distract it, and it might cost him his life...

Yeah, I *try* not to get my NPC allies killed, so doing what I did seemed like the best idea...

What do you think about my ruling regarding consume soul? Is it right/wrong?

*puzzles*

Eh. Saying supernatural bypasses SR is reasonable.

Your GM was baking a chocolate cake =)

Is it tasty?

:-)

It just came out. Look I'm not so gluttonic as to burn my paws trying to eat a hot cake. Besides I want to put chocolate frosting on it and we all know what happens if you try to put frosting on a hot cake...

Patience, Mort, Patience...

What about now?

;-)

Heh.

You could always stick it in the refrigerator for a few minutes ;-)

It's rather wet to be honest. I did take a little nibble.

Hmmm.

Wet, or just moist?

Do you need to dry it out, or does it need to set?

Hopefully, a layer of chocolate on top should help matters :-D

Wet. I wonder if I baked it long enough >.<

It doesn't help with my mom going every 10 min after the first hour, it's a chocolate cake, you better make sure it doesn't get burnt because you can't see the it getting burnt.

Do you bake, Howard?

I do a little bit of baking - mostly sweet and savory muffins, and focaccia bread.

BTW things are going to go rather slow since I have a lot of conversation to translate twice. I am posting as fast as I can but there are limits.

Well, if it helps, we don't *have* to spoiler the Azlanti, since all participants now speak/understand it.

That said, if you want to keep using Latin, the Classicist in me certainly will not complain ;-)

The issue is I'm giving them french accents + converting it to latin while at it. So it's actually quite a bit of work for me.

Somehow french accents for this place seems right...

Latin also has a nice feel to it. I suspect the inner lawyer is speaking.

Though of course I only know a few latin phases.

Heh.

Fair enough; I certainly don't want to stifle my GM's creativity :-P

I had to take a break to make the chocolate frosting. I'm letting the cake sit a while in the fridge before I'll take it out and box it. And I swear I'm not making frosting/cream for cakes again...arrrgghhh the trouble!

Savory muffins are wrong btw Howard. Muffins should be sweet ;)

Or ideally, orange flavored. In my case, we use Real Orange juice, and of course, orange rinds.

May not be able to update tomorrow morning, out with Master.

Sorry for scrappy activity on Sat, was running, then doing slay the spire with BF.

I wasn't expecting your morning login to be honest.

Yes, well, when I am not working at a weekend, I have time to post ;-)

Done with SG tours. Mekkis is in pretty good shape and actually walks faster then I do. Again even though I walk decently fast for a 5'1 little bit, for those of you who have longer legs, you can outpace me fairly easily. And I heard that you walk faster then he does, lol.

Heh.

Yes, I have been told that I do walk fast ;-)

I probably should have paid more attention when my uncle was showing me the speed walking techniques. To chase up with him I started jogging, since walking at that pace was more tiring then jogging.

Howard, using google translate on your latin phase led to this:

"Bene est, ut victori dedi vobis formam corporalem immutare non... non... vobis underlying naturam, ut dictum quod sperabat. Pater sensit in desperationem versi qui possint prodesse alteri quod ipsi per se quid accidisset; Ab hac ut sensit manus ultro intenderent, quod inferant: et conterritus est. Pono tibi sunt nota cum fabulis de vampires...?

Well, the winner may have given you ... you ... do not form not change underlying nature, as I had hoped. Will be of use to the other what he felt into despair, because the Father is, who do not themselves work out what had happened to flight; From the hands of his own accord to pay attention to the smell of this, for to bring in: and he was afraid. I assume you are familiar with stories about vampires ...?

Now I don't truly understand latin so could you get it properly translated? I tried opening the Azlanti spoilers and it didn't work.

Also, I'm Off to the food fair!

Huh. I can't open the spoiler either!

The gist of what I had written was:

"Well, it is true that the Musician gave you a corporeal form, but it did not... change... your underlying nature as much as had been hoped. Your father understood what had happened to you, and in his despair, reached out to another who personally understood what had happened to you. However, afterwards, he realised what that truly meant, and he was afraid for you. I assume you are familiar with the stories about vampires...?"

You're not singing this? =P

Heh.

So sorry, was at family party.

Mod as written: with regards to Delmaria, between the curse and her time as a ghost, she retains the mindset of a young adult despite her great age.

So yeah, I’ve been putting my bratty teenager adolescent cat hat on.

Though honestly I don't feel I was in RL, ever a bratty teenager. adolescent cat. More like an angsty one.

Badminton day!

Eh. Fair enough. There is a reasonable amount of canon, and IRL lore, to suggest that ghosts tend not to 'improve' their mindset with time, tending to get stuck in specific ruts.

I removed the items, took out vampire template, ended up with stats as 10 str, 14 dex, ? con, 12 int, 14 wis, 18 cha, which is more then a 20 point buy, on a level 2 character. Looks unbalanced. Initial stats would be as follows: Str 8, Dex 13, Con 9, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 14

There's quite a vast stat disparity, even if you assume Azlanti bonus on the initial stats, which would result in 10 str, 15 dex, 11 con, 13 int,12 wis, 14 cha.

Diplo is fine...but what language?

You cannot use Diplomacy against a creature that does not understand you

here

I would cycle through all the languages that I speak (which is a *lot*), to see if there is any spark of recognition, then go from there.

If he worked with Eldarius, presumably, he understands Azlanti (otherwise, how did they communicate?)?

I agree the matter is complicated. For one I’ve never had Night take ability damage/drain to the point of losing his suit. It was mostly just physical damage, and splats. I did have a case of my eid getting smacked off and me standing there looking at the Yeti going wtf, because my con score was higher then my eid (Low level gameplay).

While fused with his eidolon, the synthesist uses the eidolon’s physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution), but retains his own mental ability scores (Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma). The synthesist gains the eidolon’s hit points as temporary hit points. When these hit points reach 0, the eidolon is killed and sent back to its home plane.

Dumping Con as a synthesist can kill you

So there is a significance between dumping con or not. Thankfully for simpler calculations, your eid and you have the same con score.
So you use your eidolon’s con score to determine your hps. It gives you 90 temp hp from eidolon, and 123 of your own.

You were dealt a total of 150 hp from harm spells. So we’ll say your eidolon is at 1 hp, you’re at 62/123 hp.

When you took 3 con drain, your constitution modifier became from a +2 to a +0.

Ability damage:
Ability Damage: Damage to your Constitution score causes you to take penalties on your Fortitude saving throws. In addition, multiply your total Hit Dice by the Ability Damage penalty and subtract that amount from your current and total hit points. Lost hit points are restored when the damage to your Constitution is healed.

Ability drain actually reduces the relevant ability score. Modify all skills and statistics related to that ability. This might cause you to lose skill points, hit points, and other bonuses.

So while you’re in your suit, you have effective constitution of 11, which reduces your hp to 32/93 hp.

Your suit on the other hand due to the constitution drop from 14 to 11, loses another 24 hit points, which would put it at -23, and poof, which you have to sacrifice 23 points of hp, in order to maintain. Which would put you at 9/93.

Then add in the negative energy damage of 19 – you simply do NOT have the hp pool (while in your suit) to maintain your suit and stay conscious.

The good news is when your suit goes – since the con drain was to your suit, you’re still at 14 con, and con drain, or even neg energy damage done doesn’t cover over.

That’s the really lengthy explanation, I hope you get where I’m coming from.

That's fine. As I said, however, it does mean that we simply skip the rest of the manor, since we can't afford to go in; I'll just go and barter for a Wish to fix whatever is wrong with the Musician, and call it a day.

Go ahead. The real fun of the manor was more of the yaking all the way. Avaric had see invis on and some of them have ways to ignore invis so the intrigue way of going in to get Delmaria out was easier, so to speak. All you needed to do is entertain me with shop. Which I prefer to sneaking around like a thief in the night, anyway.

Just as well we did that first, then :-)

That one is easy. Just talk shop with the GM = mission accomplished. The second part is where you can get complications. Especially with the sunburst and 80 ft radius blast ><

Also about why Fawkes feather didn't activate. It'd have to wait till you dropped below 0, so you'd still lose your suit. And after you lose your suit, what you need is to get out of there(which Sir Amrivast did cover), and the Greater Teleport obviously doesn't function in Carcosa.

Now if you died as a result of losing your suit then the BOL function would kick in.

If I knew you weren't staying out permanently I wouldn't have started discussing manor affairs... *grumbles midly*

Howard, slide 6 revealed. Sorry about forgetting about it earlier, I was meeting my BF. Also out with him now so I'll update stuff later.