Whisper in the Mists Epic 6 (Inactive)

Game Master Davachido

Firearms aren't all that common amongst the normal townsfolk though if you need one it is relatively easy to find one if you have the money and the know how.

Hi all - life is still bad. Please - if you can - bot me. I feel bad not contributing but work is a nightmare (16+hr days).

This may continue (on and off) for about 3 months.

IF you want me to back out I will do so but if you want to bot me around I'd be very grateful - E6 is something I really enjoy and its hard to find.

I will bot you for now, if you can post once in a while it would be cool but I understand life can get in the way. I won't do anything to get your character killed or perma damaged while you aren't here. Hope work isn't too bad.

I'm gonna be tied up again next week (flying out to India) but in the 1-2 days will try to post 1 day until they put me on a plane. Once I am there its gonna be balls to the walls for 2 weeks. Weekends in Bangalore will be boring so I will try to catch up on posting then.

Whoops, sorry, I missed that we were waiting on me in that last round. Thanks for moving things along, Davachido :)

Hey guys just a warning that I will be tooling around the countryside on a motorbike for the next couple of days (4-6) and internet might be scarce.

Thanks for the heads up, sounds like you're going on a fun trip there!

The party has gotten most of the information and things from inside the tower now. Would you like to move back to town or would you like to explore somewhere else first before heading back? Or do something else entirely?

Woo, levelling!

Level 3:-
+5 hp
+1 Fort/Ref
+1 1st level spell known
+1 1st level spell per day

3 skill points: Fly, Perception, Spellcraft
Favoured class bonus: +1/2 bonus damage on cold spells
Feat: Draconic Breath (White)

Bloodline power: elemental resistances (resist cold 10)
Bloodline spell: mage armor
New spell known: grease

Yay for leveling! Jazz will be continuing his level progression in Magus for the rest of the game.

Davachido, how would you like to handle Jazz obtaining a spellbook? I know it's a relatively low magic campaign, so I feel like spellbooks wouldn't be something you just see lying around in shops in small villages here and there :P.

Will update character sheet soon.

wha? We levelled? - Thats what happens when I am trapped in work.

I should be clear of this latest abomination by June but will stick in there as best I can until then as this is a good game.

Ok...

Level 3:-
+4 hp + 1 con + 1 for favoured class = 20 hps
+1 Fort/Ref saves
+2 2nd level spell known
- Glitterdust
- Frost Fall

6 skill points: Acrobatics, Intimidate, Perception, Use Magic Device, Knowledge Local, Knowledge History

Feat: Weapon Finesse

Will update character sheet later but with 20 hps and a +4 to hit with my rapier (or dagger) I can now fight my way out of the end of a sufficiently wet paper bag.

That said, the BEAUTY of E6 is that as most mooks, people etc remain the same, I can be considered a 'competent' swordsman now by the average reckoning.

I have several scrolls I will attempt to learn later.

Level 3:-
+5 hp + 2 con = 25 hps
+1 Ref save
+2 2nd level spells

4+1 FCB skill points: Climb, Handle Animal, Perception, Knowledge Geography, Spellcraft

Feat: Augment Summoning

What's residuum?

+2 Nat Armor
+1 Str/Dex
+1 Trick (fetch)
Evasion

Angry Badger - now the most heavily armored thing in the room with 20 AC.

What's residuum?

I was wondering the same thing, so I dictionary'd it and got this: "A substance or thing that remains or is left behind, in particular, a chemical residue." So basically, moneys left behind for us to take!

Shall we split the gold evenly 6 ways?

Whoever has the highest UMD should probably be the one with the wand of Bless, since I don't think any of us can use it.

Beren's the only one who would benefit much from the Bull's Strength, so having Trogg drop it on him before fights should probably be our new SOP.

Residuum is a 4e thing I think. In that you use it for ritual components and I think magical item crafting? Not sure. Maybe Davachido got his editions mixed up :)

I can use it once I learn my Masterwork Transformation spell... But one thing at a time.

I'm actually reconsidering my skill selections, I will go with:
Spellcraft (2 ranks), Linguistics (1 rank, Draconic) to continue expanding Jazz's language repertoire and open up for secretive communication with Rikaku :), aaand... Perception (1 rank). Acrobatics and Stealth are high enough already for now, I think.

Feat-wise, I was thinking Arcane Strike. But does anyone know if Arcane Strike stacks with the Magus' Arcane Pool ability? If it doesn't, I'd look into something else and would appreciate anyone's advice... I've never played a Magus before and there seems like lots of interesting options! Combat Casting is another strong contender.

It stacks and is a solid magus choice

Arcane Strike is a typeless bonus, so it stacks with everything! The only problem is that activating Arcane Strike is a swift action, and Arcane Pool is ALSO a swift action, and you can only make one of those in a round. But considering that Arcane Pool lasts for 1 minute, you can certainly use Arcane Strike every round after activating it.

Depending on how long this goes, and the amount of combat we see, the amount of combat *I* personally get involved in I am wavering between weapon focus and arcane strike at level 5... I like 'Gish' concepts and at the upper levels of E6 play a wizard/witch can make a credible combatant (assuming E6 remains true to its principal concepts on how enemies scale). I love where Gandalf gets into it in LotR... At level 5 Orcs and Goblins make good foes for wizards, the warriors can handle any cave trolls ;)

Decided to move the point in Spellcraft to Linguistics (Terran), so we can use earth elementals to scout.

Some of you have guessed, yes getting names mixed up here. The residuum is meant to be for Variel's spell so if he wishes to enchant or masterwork items later in the campaign.

@Jazz: I'll let you learn the first few spells from Magus by 'rote' so you can prepare them normally. By the time you get your 2nd Magus level I should hopefully have worked a way into you getting a spellbook into the story.

@Variel: The way I've hashed out the rest of the campaign you should deal in a fair few combats (provided you don't find another solution which you could,) in terms of levels you should get to the level cap and 3-4 feats past level cap before the campaign ends hopefully.

Alright I'm going to guess "normally" means w/out a spellbook :P so should I choose the spells I'd like to know based on what a starting magus knows? I'll plan for that and do otherwise if you tell me!

Thanks!

Yes so the 3+Int level 1 spells you start off with I'll consider you can prepare from memory until you get your spellbook, that will hopefully be before you level next.

Beren Level 3: Ranger
HP: +9 (7,+1 con, +1 Favored class)
Will Save +1

Class Abilities: Favored terrain (forest), Endurance

Feat: Deadly Aim

Skills: Acrobatics +1, Climb +1, Handle Animal +1, Knowledge (Nature) +1, Perception +1, Stealth +1, Survival +1

I will update my profile later this week, I am bombed at work.

I'm sorry for not posting recently guys, i will post when there are combats, but, my mother just lost her job, so i have to work two jobs and go to school in order to support the family, so i'll be outside most of the day, and when i come back home, i'm usually so incoherent that i can't post anything worthwhile.

My mother is looking for a job, so this might change soon.

I promise that i will post as often as i can.

Family first mate - do what you gotta do!

Good luck to your mother on finding a new job. Don't burn yourself out too much Hama.

Will be on travel to India and an aggressive work schedule for the next few week. Posting will be delayed.

Speaking of which - apart from Hama, are we caught on any other scheduling issues? the game seems to have stuck.

I'm still here! I imagine Davachido got caught up on something and is taking a bit longer than usual to update.

Since I've got a moment just to assure everyone. I am still at my conference like I said in my last post. I am back this evening.

Hey everyone, at some point in the next 3-4 days I will be returning to a tropical island I was at a few months ago where internet is hard to find and expensive by the minute. I'll probably only be getting access for maybe an hour every few days (that was what I averaged last time I was there). This will likely last until around the 20th. Hope that it's not too much trouble, and if I'm ever slowing the game down please DMPC or somebody feel free to run my character if necessary! I'll be around, but I'll just be there slowly.

Sventon leveling

hp +5 (+1 class)
saves: Fort+1, Will +1
Bab+1

Class features No trace, sneak attack +2d6

Skills (11) Acrobatics +1, Appraise +1, Climb +1, Disable Device +1, Escape Artist +1, Knowledge (Local) +1, Knowledge (Nobility) +1, Perception +1, Stealth +1, Swim +1, Use Magic Device +1

Feat: Improved Dirty Trick

I'm back, mostly and will try my damnedest to post whenever i can (mostly early morning or late evening CET)

Will be on travel to India and an aggressive work schedule for the next few week. Posting will be delayed.

Repeat for this week... especially at the end of the week when I travel back to Aust.

I've been not posting for a few days now due to sickness and business travel though should be ok now.

I'm going back to the land of common internet in two days, so I'll be back on a steady posting schedule soon!

Next update will be Friday evening GMT as I'm travelling from now till then. So expect a little bit later than normal update.

Sorry swamped with a couple things coming back. I will post as soon as I can, likely tomorrow at some point.

Going to be busy this week with midterms. I may or may not get a chance to post. Go ahead and move for me if necessary.

Beren hasn't logged on in a long while so when you guys get back to town he'll leave the party there. I'll DMNPC him till then. Sventon is likely having problems posting again as I haven't seen him post in over two weeks now. Four should be more than enough to run though.

Okies... I am really enjoying the story running here. We're just on the surface but its sure creepy.

That said, I wouldn't mind having a 5th player if you want to do a new recruiting drive for a spare so to speak... just in case we lose another.

I can run another recruiting drive for 1-2 more players, what do other people think? I will do the same thing with them linking them to your backstories so they will feel more involved instead of just random townsfolk that decided to join.

That guy is lucky he isnt screaming... I was an moment away from slitting his throat to put him out of his misery

The only reason he isn't screaming is he can't feel his body. If he could oh by god would he be screaming. Imagine waking up in the middle of an operation.

I'm OK with recruiting another player or two.

Recruitment sounds fine to me. I'm also really enjoying this. Super creepy mystery :) and Rikaku is very interested in investigating that journal!

Okay then will make another recruitment thread soon.

I'm up for recruitment. I almost think it'd be easier if the new characters' integration be more story-based than backstory-based, if that makes sense, but whatever works is fine with me!

I suppose we'll be wanting another beefy melee contender to replace Beren, and we don't really have as strong of a divine presence, do we?