@Celestia: Aye, family first. I hope all is well.
@St. Freydis: Cheers for reminder and the reduced damage.
I'll post shortly, have a bit of time.
I won't go into details, as I prefer to keep my life to myself, but all is fine, I should be back to regular posting.
Also I dought the water is under 140°F otherwise I'm fine :P endure elements every morning... Helps when your character wears as much clothes as Celestia does...
In my opinion some of the most useful utility spells are the shape stone and wall spells. For one stone shape can make Almost any structure you need, it can even create a good wall between you and whatever your fighting. Honestly I discovered it's usefulness by accident when I almost wiped my whole party out by sealing them inside a tomb. Haha, none of them had picks, and all of them where Dex or stealth builds. So none of them had the damage or str to break through a stone wall just a few feet thick.
Wall of stone isn't as useful (you can't make statues or such with it) but unlike stone shape a wall just appears rather than taking it's time to appear. Meaning you can make a wall appear above your enemies and drop it on them. Where stone shape doesn't allow that.
Honestly I should change what I have prepared and add wall of iron to my list.
Stone shape is amazingly useful. My players in a 3.5 game used it in nearly every fight of consequence once they had access to it.
Well when you can create your own cover or rough terrain and shape the battlefield as you please its very much an advantage.
Anyways, no need to waist spells, I have a staff of life and it's only 1 charge to cast heal with it. I've got us covered in out of combat healing, Except for my minion, he's probably not going to be healed unless we rest and I get a chance to change around my spell list.
Freydis would have definitely preferred to heal them her way but won't ever stop you from healing anyone but herself. She's a stubborn crone, but she'll come in handy for in combat healing. :3
Even a dragon cannot match the flame of Celstia's self-righteousness.
Peice of advice: Never give Celestia a command unless she is asking for one. She prefers to be the one in control, and will make sure others know it.
Anyways, it's time to piss off a dragon, or at minimum antagonize one.
This is a dragon right? Nothing else has such a hoard... Except Naga or brholders, but beholders mostly have one because they don't have a place to store all the dead adventure equipment, and Naga typically don't have hoards as large as a Dragon's.
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I love your outburst, Celestia, but I am the GM. Giving you commands is what I'm supposed to do. As for the dragon, cannot confirm or deny as the only evidence you see is frozen merchandise.
And I think beholders are D&D property, not Paizo.
@Celestia, I'm not sure if you're referring to the new sibilant voice's command, or to a PC such as Tetro.
If you notice, Tetro has tended to phrase a need for healing in terms of requests or pointing out damage. In a soldier's life. he long ago learned the worth of being respectful to healers! The only commands he's giving are in organising ourselves for battle, which he has been acknowledged as being rather good at.
Also, time for a serious enemy methinks!
Okay, if I'm being 100% honest, this will actually be the first dragon I've ever fought seriously. In the past my party has always been very lax, and fights more often then not ended when something awkward happened. Heh, well not today! Today we slay a dragon! ... Or at least greatly incapacitate it.
Tetro can toss out various buffs before getting stuck in himself, and Aghi has a few neat tricks like Prismatic Spray breath.
I'm looking forward to seeing how much of the dragon remains for crafting. ;)
Celestia will probably counter the dragon by becoming one herself with form of the dragon 1, turning silver as to resist the cold. Then follow up by casting persistent Bestow Curse to weaken it.
All the while she tells her skeleton minion to attack, that is if his frost vulnerability hasn't caused him to die yet.
... How valuable would a Zombie dragon be?
Apologies for my tardiness, but the final week of uni and a bit of flu has taken its toll. Back on deck now.
These things happen. Welcome back!
Ah steam... Great. Unfortunately Celestia is dead last, so it looks like your gonna have to deal with the dragon for 2 rounds without a Debuff.
In this case she'll become a red dragon, the form she prefers when using the spell. I'll continue with my Debuff unless an opportunity arises to inflict great damage or completely end the combat(unlikely, but a good charm monster spell could win this almost instantly, unfortunately I'm pretty sure they're already hostile)
S'all good, Chill. Good to see your back and kicking!
Dragon vs dragon? Awesome! Also, zombie dragon? Necromancers, contain yourselves.
Whew, that was a lot of buffing!
I hope it's clear enough. Let me know if you'd like me to write that out in a different format.
Well based off that, I saved from the fear, but still took damage, and bow should be fine if any mind-effects arwncast on us... Glad your not an enemy, because you would make 50% of my spells useless.
I'm backpacking with family till Friday but I should get spotty signal but if not, feel free to bot me! Channel energy away!
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@Celestia: Tetro is a solid fighter himself, but arguably even better at making other people hit harder and get hit less hard themselves.
@Freydis: Cheers for the heads up!
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Same, thnx for the update. Have fun!
@Tetro: Would you mind if I polymorphed your horse Into a gryphon? Or at least something taht could fly and has better stats than a horse?
@Celestia:
Aghi's actually a sleipnir and while he can't fly, he can walk or run on air. But if you can buff or polymorph him in something that hits even harder, I wouldn't object.
Given a little more time, I'd have buffed up more, but that dragon's breath has become a problem. Hopefully he can drive it down, or ye can find a way to attack it!
Unless that dragon has huge damage reduction, it should be at least hurting badly by now. If it's even still alive.
Honestly I feel kinda wierd, I feel like taking advantage of it's confusion at my appearance would have been an excellent idea if the party hadn't already began their blender routine.
I actually forgot about the sense motive check.
@GM: If the dragon doesn't want to fight, can I have Tetro simply not attack after Celestia's turn?
Celestia is casting the curse either way...
Oh,
I forgot dragons have SR. That should be enough to get past her SE though.
Well I can say that my giant is at least trying... Hopefully whatever comes out from my planiar ally spell can aid us better... Even if it will have less HD :P
Also, if it asks for anything Celestia will offer it a portion of the dragon's hoard, haha.
Honestly though anything that arrives should want to serve me regardless, I not only am a high ranking follower of Calistra, but I am utterly obeidient as well as Exaulted to/by her.
@ Celestia Oh Celestia, I have the Inner Sea Gods book. I plan to make the most of that summons, my dear.
Great, remember it can be up to 12 HD, but my God could decide to send something stronger, or even stupidly weaker as I'm not calling for anyone in particular.
I think we're doing quite well considering our opposition.
Though an outsider ally will help speed things up.
Now it's on the ground, I can cut loose.
One of my friends brought up a good point earlier, the summon monster spells don't state you can have only one monster, infact you can even summon multiple monsters from a lower level using a higher level spell.
Meaning if you fill your spell list with Conjuration spells of summon monster you can essentially keep summoning each turn until you are harrassing an enemy with several creatures. It's not something you'd typically do, after all who wants to keep track of 10 creatures of various different species and levels?
I mean, I'm halfway there, I got Celestia, a giant flaming skeleton, and now an extraplaniar ally.
And now the fun begins...
Okay, Celestia is gonna keep casting Dominate person until she has him under her control, I have so many dominates prepared :P each getting worse than the first.
First I have Dominate, then I have persistent dominate (make two saves), then persistent Extended Dominate (two saves, last twice as long), then I have a myriad of spells to help me kill him.
You say you're going to lay down the law, but your goddess is chaotic. shrug To each their own, I suppose.
Now now, just because I don't obey the law doesn't mean the law doesn't have to obey me ;P
I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes!
Tetro? Well, he wants to get the job done, get paid, and get gone.
Im gonna wait for everyone to respond before I start to explain that Celestia is stopping an Ice age, although Freydis could also explain as she saw it too.
Freydis does not speak Elven ;)
No, but she knows it wasn't just some wasp creature
True
I am unlikely to be able to post this weekend.
Tetro does believe what he's saying. An ice age screws him over, so to hell with the original contract. But he's also an old hand at dealing with manipulators so he's naturally wary of sudden changes in jobs.
what good adventurer wouldn't be wary of such a situation?
Very true!
FYI, the Veil is the glacier-temple-thing you guys are in. The Torc is the item you are after.
doh!
Chill is thinking about retiring after this adventure. His employers always seem to betray him lately. Tis a sign. But first, save the world from ice ages. Because retiring on a glacier is no fun.
:D
Tetro's seen a bunch of betrayal. But he keeps ending up on the side that wins out, regardless of who is doing the betrayal. ;)