Yohoho and a bottle of Rep! (subSPUF Skull and Shackles)

Game Master Rynjin

"The hell is a kitsune?"

Lucy resists the urge to find a fluffy tail on Ace.

"A kitsune is humanoid shapeshifter that can take on the form of a human or an anthromorpized fox."

Addressing Jrahk, Ixrul says, "If I have reason to believe an evil cleric is inbound, I have them go below deck. Simple enough."

Oh yeah he gets a fluffy tail too I forgot to mention, more with levelups

Lucy narrows her eyes at Ixrul slightly, but says nothing.

"A shapeshifter, huh..." Her tail flicks back and forth as she descends into thought.

What armor are the skeletons proficient in? If none, I'll probably shell out for haramakis or padded armor as they have no ACP and are dirt cheap.

These specific skeletons are proficient in light armor.

This, however:

"A kitsune is humanoid shapeshifter that can take on the form of a human or an anthromorpized fox."

Addressing Jrahk, Ixrul says, "If I have reason to believe an evil cleric is inbound, I have them jump overboard or run like hell away for half an hour or so - besides, the bloody skeletons are fairly resistant to channeling, and if a cleric wants to jump in the water to present his symbol where the shark can see it... Heh."

Turning to his small army, Ixrul says, "Follow the orders of Jrahk, unless he gives orders contradictory to mine. Follow Ace's orders, unless he gives orders contradictory to mine or Jrahk's. Follow Sandra's orders, unless she gives orders contradictory to mine, Ace's, or Jrahk's."

He pauses, before continuing. "And follow Lucy's orders, unless she contradicts Jrahk's orders, my orders, Ace's orders, or Sandra's orders."

"Never obey orders to harm me."

Now speaking only to the shark, he says, "Follow our ship at all times. Should I fall overboard, retrieve me, remove me from the area of combat, and keep my head above water, while maintaining sight on our ship."

"If other creatures - save for fish smaller than my torso - or ships are near ours - within 500 feet - surface so you may hear my commands."

"If we are at a port, stay beneath the ship."

That's not gonna fly. The skeletons are not NEARLY smart enough to follow those instructions. Consider this: It would take several weeks and sequentially increasing Handle Animal checks to teach a dog or something to do any of these. The dog is INFINITELY smarter than the skeleton.

The best you can manage is this: Follow my orders, and the orders of <These People>. If at any point they don't have an ongoing order, they cease activity completely. If you die, they become uncontrolled and therefore hostile.

The Shark can be ordered to closely follow the ship, but to get him to do these "If X, then Y" contingencies you need to specifically give him the order at the time. I.E. if you fall overboard, you'd need to specifically say "Catch me and let me ride you".

Jrahk laughs as the skeletons stand there uselessly.

"You see? Dumber than animals. Would have more luck trying to train living shark."

They're clearly stated preconditions. No intelligence required - a computer would have no intelligence, but give it preconditions and it'll do fabulously.

It's not that the dog is smarter - it's that it has intelligence. You have to teach it, because it learns. A skeleton receives and obeys commands. If I told it to solve a puzzle, it couldn't - but if I told it to make this exact sequence of moves when presented with said puzzle, it could, so long as those moves did not require it to actually thing.

All they're doing is following my spoken orders.

A computer has memory, which it can use to store complex instructions. These guys have no brains.

They can obey instructions given in the past, as one explicitly mentioned task is to guard an area, including against specific creature types.

They're clearly stated preconditions. No intelligence required - a computer would have no intelligence, but give it preconditions and it'll do fabulously.

It's not that the dog is smarter - it's that it has intelligence. You have to teach it, because it learns. A skeleton receives and obeys commands. If I told it to solve a puzzle, it couldn't - but if I told it to make this exact sequence of moves when presented with said puzzle, it could, so long as those moves did not require it to actually thing.

All they're doing is following my spoken orders.

They do not have the intelligence to follow those orders. These are not computers, or even golems which can be "programmed" to follow complex orders to the letter. Mindless undead are just that: Mindless. They cannot follow complex orders.

As the Command Undead spell says: "When you control a mindless being, you can communicate only basic commands, such as "come here," "go there," "fight," "stand still," and so on."

I'm already being lenient by allowing "Follow the orders of these other creatures."

Fair enough, then. Redact the entire previous speech, as Ixrul would know their limitations.

You still have time to edit/delete it if you want to wipe it and make a new post.

Edited. Also, -39 GP for 13 Haramakis.

Bought a few spells. Glue seal, grease, acid arrow, gloomblind bolts, dimension door.

I'mma sell my armor (+600 gp) and buy a mithral breastplate (-1200 gp). Once we sell our treasure I'll make it +1(-1000 gp). (Lucy, you might wanna do this too. Forgot to mention. :p)

Might get more goodies depending on how RICH we are.

EDIT: Never mind, I'm 100 gold short for the mithral. LET'S SELL SOME SHIT ALREADY!!!

Might tinker with armor, maybe some new gear

Sell all the plunder and stuff to get Mad Dosh.

After reaching port you're able to sell most of your goods off.

Diplomacy or Intimidate to up the value of your Plunder?

Jrahk makes all potential buyers aware that he is able to grow 12 feet tall and procure claws.

Spent a round of rage for maximum pants-soiling.

Intimidate: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (11) + 18 = 29

Are you keeping the Feather tokens? They're only 200 gp, and can propel your ship without wind for up to 8 hours.

Jrahk is scary enough to eke another 400 gp out of the buggers.

Total gold:

Plunder: 14000 gp
Ring of Animal Friendship (Shark): 2700 gp
Zul: 9197.5 gp
Misc jewels and such: 5290 gp
Deep Platinum neckalces and Circlet: 10000 gp

Total: 41.188k gp

Share per person: 10.297k gp OR 8.2376k gp if you want to add a share to the Party Fund (as-is after Restorations there's about 4k gp in there. Your call, really).

Yeah, I think we should keep the tokens. Might save our lives one day.

I say we put 2K gp in the Party Fund and leave the rest for us. That's 9797 gp per person.

Done. Make it an even 10k apiece, I hate uneven numbers.

Fair enough. 10k apiece leaves 1188 for the Not-Staying-Dead Fund.

Err, sorry, 9800. Thought that said 9997.

Alright, that's 1988 for the fund. We are 800 gp further away from death!

Can Irixul craft wonderous items?

and I though we were keeping zul to use against human baddiess?

Yes, I can. I'll be right back with the CL and stuff of what I can craft.

EDIT: Here we go.

Also, I'm tempted to make a Blessed Book. It's pricey - about half of the money I got (6250 GP) - but it pays for itself after not too long. Worth?

SHOPPING SPREEEEE!!!

Jrahk sells his +1 Breastplate (+600 gp), buys a +1 Mithril Breastplate (-2200 gp), and adds a Furious enchantment to his Falchion (-6000 gp).

He also has Ixrul make him a Quick Runner's Shirt (-500 gp, DC 10).

Think it's worthwhile to get an Amulet of Mighty Fists with just a Furious enchantment (2000 gp)? It would basically give a +2 bonus to my natural attacks, and since I'm usually biting as part of a full-attack it would help make up for the penalty.

Wait, actually that interferes with my Natural Armor amulet. Hmmm.

You can add an extra item for 1.5x the cost of the cheapest.

Also I personally would wait on the Blessed Book. You should have quite a few pages left right now.

Bought the blessed book and burning disarm.

You can add an extra item for 1.5x the cost of the cheapest.

Yeah, but I'm 800 short for that. Meh, I'll just get something else for now.

Jrahk also sells his dumb useless Assisting Gloves (+90 gp) and has Ixrul craft two more Quick Runner's Shirts (-1000 gp) and a Handy Haversack (-1000 gp, DC 19).

I am the world's deadliest pack mule!

I've got about 4 more days of crafting I can do.

just a boots of speed for me for now

I have the spell, so crafted in double-time. One more day of crafting and -6000 GP from Ace.

That is, I have one more day of crafting while in port. I can craft at sea, too.

Ixrul crafts a cracked dusty rose prism ioun stone and purchases false life.

-270 GP

I have ~5000 GP left. Tempted to buy a lesser metamagic rod of extend so I can cast some of the longer-term low-level buffs in the morning to stay safer.

Regardless, Ixrul begins to grow antsy, now that he's spent all the time he had to wait for Ace to get cured of his negative levels.

Why don't you just total up everything you guys are crafting or purchasing in one big post, eh?

Corv should post in a sec to say what he's getting.

Also, everyone: consider a Cracked Dusty Rose Prism Ioun Stone. A mere 250 GP for +1 insight bonus to your initiative.

Yeah sure.

Ill get the one that improves AC.

Why not just make your armor +1? It's the same thing for 1000 gp.

Good point

1000 for armor, 2000 for an Amulet of Natural Armor of Ring of Protection.

Yeah, Ill take the armor, hopefully there will be lootable rings in the future :3

Just realized Ace could basically crossdress now with his powers

heh

How do you figure?

A kitsune can assume the appearance of a specific single human form of the same sex.

"I grow bored. Let's go."

enough shopping

dammit corv :<

We should gather more Infamy while we're in port.

Damn teachers deciding to give everything at once, that's my excuse.

Lucy does some shopping.

Sell old breastplate (+600 gp)
+1 Mithril Breastplate enchantment (-1000 gp)
Furious Falchion enchantment (-10000 gp)
Gauntlets of Skilled Maneuver: Sunder (-2000 gp)
Cracked Dusty Rose Prism stone (-250 gp)