5E Adventure's in Midgard – North (Reaver's Spring)

Game Master Tareth

I keep forgetting about those winged boots

Sorry for the delay. I’m having problems seeing updates.
I’ll post tomorrow

@Tareth

Before the damage from the cavern, can Lutheal kiss Raseri and give her air? Suppose that would be an Action

Luthael: I'll give you a choice. A 'quick' kiss will give Raseri Advantage on the CON check and you can still move to the exit. A 'long' kiss removes the need for CON check for this round and the next, but you automatically do not reach the exit.

I'll hold off on posting until Luthael does.

Lutheal long kisses Raseri

Everyone heals 10 HP

Ingryd could carry you both

That's the most Scramsax deception roll that ever Scramsax'ed.

Tareth, is the river blockage something that could be fixed with paints? An aqueduct featuring stunning halfling architecture inserted into the landscape? Or at least a pit to clear the blockage?

Team, are we camping here at this spot? I can maybe paint 25 gp of charcoal or something else burnable.

I actually had something else in mind.

Why not ask the forest what punishment or remedy it wants of us?

Tareth, is the river blockage something that could be fixed with paints? An aqueduct featuring stunning halfling architecture inserted into the landscape? Or at least a pit to clear the blockage?

Team, are we camping here at this spot? I can maybe paint 25 gp of charcoal or something else burnable.

Hmmm....possibly. However, I think size is going to be a challenge and certainly the GP value cap prevents anything like an aqueduct or other 'constructed' type object. Most certainly any attempt to do so will use up the entirety of the remaining paints.

I've got a busy morning this morning, but will try to get a description of the landscape and what's happening behind the cliff later this afternoon as that might help decide what you all want to do, if anything.

Roman style aqueducts were around 2 million sesterces per kilometer during the Augustan period. That's about 610 sesterces per foot.

One sesterce was 1/336 of a pound of silver. So about 2 pounds of silver per foot. Then I'd have to assume Roman silver is anywhere near the value of dnd silver. But 50 coins are a pound in this edition, so 2 pounds of silver is 200 silver, or 20 gp.

So yeah, roughly 1 pot use per foot aqueduct (assuming the height dimensions also fit within the square footage limitations) would make it pretty short.

I don't think we're fixing this. We still have to slay that hag and return the eggs to the boreal dragon, and we're under a time limit. How long do we have before the dragon goes on a rampage?

Either we fix it quickly and let the water do our work for us, or the water finds its way and we will soon be unable to direct it.

I think we still have a decent amount of time left on the dragon’s schedule.

Is the main concern here that we have lost our quick way back by boat? Wasn't this going to be the end of our river journey anyways?

Gunnar is concerned about doing serious damage to the ecosystem of the forest and incurring its wrath. He is already horrified by the damage done by the collapsing cavern--though he did not directly cause it, it was triggered by actions taken by people in his group.

...so would now be a bad time for Scram to tell you about the incoming robot army?

You realize Gunnar dove into a mass of tentacles to save her from drowning, risking his own life and saving her with his magic. Perhaps one cataclysmic larceny spree per day would be a good limit.

Yeah sorry, Scramsax really isn't the best character for this kind of campaign. Oddball out and completely useless skillset...always just causing problems for everyone. Forgive me for wanting to have a little fun and be the jewel thief inside my imagination. I thought the DM was opening a story door for me by plopping a priceless jewel down. Honestly I was expecting and prepared to either get the gem or die. Neither happened.

Weren’t we getting ready for a long rest after traveling when Scramsax went exploring?

That’s what I thought. Gunnar wasn’t able to finish his short rest, but if he does so he can use Wall of Stone again. He can also do some identify rituals for the new items too.

As far as items,

Construct's Diamond Ring
Cow Statue's Armlet
Jade Spear (minus shaft)
Void Hammer
Shocky Sword
Shield

The ring might just be a ring, but that would make 2 diamonds for spell components.

So, all uses of paints consumed?

Were the new items ID'ed?

Yes. All paints consumed.

Gunnar has worked to ID the items, I just haven't had time to post the descriptions and narrative yet. Wanted to wrap up the bit with the lake/river first. Will try to get to it today, but it may need to wait until later in the long weekend because I've got to wrap stuff up for work and we've got family coming to the house tomorrow.

Also, everyone gains Inspiration for all of the excellent RP over the last several days/weeks.

Did we get the benefits of a long rest, partial benefits, or no benefits?

Scramsax would steal a few spells as usual to refill the ring, both from Raseri (fog cloud, locate object).

Hrm, having Mythweavers issues...anyone else?

Also happy holidays. ;)

They're doing updates to the site, and apparently blocking a lot of AI bots.

Ah nice, I had assumed the gaggle of turkeys was making its final offensive.

That's crazy about having to block it on the server side even after they changed the login requirement, and the impact it had. Fictitious human writing must be some juicy stuff for those bots.

Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of AI models right now. It's all about the data, especially for GenAI. I don't use it, but apparently a lot of people do. I've always felt better about being able to do it myself, even if I don't have the time I'd need to do it like I would want.

Besides, I like writing and drawing, I find it relaxing it. Why in the world would I try to automate that?

I'm a fan of the image generators. I love putting in purple prose and seeing the crazy interpretations. I use them in games I run a lot (I love drawing too but I'm not going to compose an actual painting every time I post).

I have a lot of interest in the ones being developed for theoretical mathematics.

But yeah, I think I mentioned this before, but one of my DMs on mythweavers seems to use it for every post...its pretty stale. I hit it up for inspiration sometimes, its good for getting through blocks. But yes, just copy/pasting the result is totally lame.

The text ones are better for editing and summaries, imo. Not composing.

It's like any new technology. Back in my childhood in the 80s/early 90s it was 'television rots your brain out'. There was no hope for children who watched TV. Now social media is doing the same purportedly, absolutely no hope for those kids. In my great grandfathers day people were freaking out about power lines being above ground (the horror!).

And then ironically the tech that we actually should be worried about sneaks by. Plastics, my boy!

I'm of two minds about plastics. On the one hand, yeah, I know why they are bad in general and for the environment in particular. On the other hand, they are amazing. Without plastics we wouldn't have 3d printing. Without plastics, containers, electronics, power tools, and many other things would be much, much heavier or not exist at all, and that would raise emissions due to the added weight. As a geologist friend of mine once opined, there's so much interesting stuff you can do with crude and natural gas that it's a waste to burn it for energy. The main issue is recycling, and well, if we have more nuclear power I think we could afford the energy expenditures to reduce unsorted plastic waste back into feed stock. Not perfect, but far better than just dumping it in the ground or, worse yet, the ocean.

It's the microplastics in human brain tissue (4800 μg per g!) and human testicles that freaks me out about them, not to mention nearly every other organism. xD No metabolic pathways exist to handle them. No one was thinking of that when they ditched their glass glasses and wooden bowls in the 1950s. That the cute farting tuperware would end up in their testes, I mean. And if someone said that back then, they'd probably be wtf'd.

Totally agree with your geologist friend though.

The hammer weighs twice that of a regular hammer simply because of its attitude.

Hahaha :D

Ingryd would take the Hammer and Shield. It would great boost her combat.

What happened to the spearhead? I was thinking about making a new haft for it.

It should have been there, also a diamond ring looted from a construct...but I think that was mundane.

Yeah My Maul is two handed is the Warhammer. If I get the Warhammer and the Shield i'll be able to boost my defense and still have great offensive power.

That way we can offer my maul as a sacrifice to my goddess. Or sell it.

I don't really have a strong opinion on who gets what. I can definitely see Void Hammer getting stung 1000 times a day by bees and not giving a flip. xD

I think Gunnar made a great argument for the shield to go to Ingryd IC, as well.

What happened to the spearhead? I was thinking about making a new haft for it.

I thought the spear got left behind. Dropped in the lake to duel the dagger armed fish? I might have missed Scram picking it back up. I'll have to go back and check.

And yes, the diamond is just a mundane ring 5,000GP value.

On the AI front, I don't use it. This should be obvious by the numerous spelling and grammatical errors as well as the incoherent nonsense you all are forced to read. Of course, given the quality of most AI generated content and with the high plastic and PFAS content surely floating around in my system maybe it all just means I actually am an AI. ;)

And I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

Iirc, juggling Scram was given an impossible choice to lose a toe and get the fish, or keep her toe and get the spear. Chose spear. :)

Ah! Right. Thanks for the reminder. If only I had the actual data recall abilities of an AI. :)

Okay, will try to get a spear description posted today or tomorrow along with a response to Raseri's question to the forest. Then I'll set things up so we can move forward.

Gunnar plans to describe the items and offer them to the people he thinks can use them best, but of course who wants what is up to the full group.

Well if the spear head is good, Ingryd may take it. To utilize the shield a nice one handed weapon would be good and a small spear would be great.

Don't forget weapon smithing is Raseri's focus. She can maybe rework whatever weapon into a preferred style. The fire damage on your old hammer might be handy to smash ice hyena faces.

Raseri Whitescale wrote:

What happened to the spearhead? I was thinking about making a new haft for it.

I thought the spear got left behind. Dropped in the lake to duel the dagger armed fish? I might have missed Scram picking it back up. I'll have to go back and check.

And yes, the diamond is just a mundane ring 5,000GP value.

On the AI front, I don't use it. This should be obvious by the numerous spelling and grammatical errors as well as the incoherent nonsense you all are forced to read. Of course, given the quality of most AI generated content and with the high plastic and PFAS content surely floating around in my system maybe it all just means I actually am an AI. ;)

And I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

Dude, you should read some of my YouTube comments. Trust me, you're doing great.

And I had a great Thanksgiving. We celebrated this afternoon/evening during the Iron Bowl (Roll Tide Roll!) since my sister had to work on Thanksgiving and the night before. I apparently did well enough with the turkey that I'm doing it again for Christmas.

DM-Tareth,

Sorry, yet more annoying crunchy questions (YMACQ).

1. Is hp restoration normal for this long rest?
2. Bracers of the Deft Defender. Is the intent that each day the wielder choose 1 of the three options, then gets 3 uses? Or can the wielder mix and match any 3 combination of the 3 powers? For example, 2 teleports and an illusion (3), or 1 AC increase, 1 illusion and 1 teleport (3). Or is it declared at long rest what the bracer ability will be that day, and wielder gets 3 (illusions, AC boosts, teleports)?
3. Is attunement required for the Bracers of the Deft Defender?

Dude, you should read some of my YouTube comments.

Link?

Warnockery wrote:

Dude, you should read some of my YouTube comments.

Link?

Sadly YouTube doesn't allow direct linking of comments, as far as I know, and I don't even know if I can search through them (I don't think I can, though) much less how.

If you see @thedabblingwarlock, that's me.

DM-Tareth,

Sorry, yet more annoying crunchy questions (YMACQ).

1. Is hp restoration normal for this long rest?
2. Bracers of the Deft Defender. Is the intent that each day the wielder choose 1 of the three options, then gets 3 uses? Or can the wielder mix and match any 3 combination of the 3 powers? For example, 2 teleports and an illusion (3), or 1 AC increase, 1 illusion and 1 teleport (3). Or is it declared at long rest what the bracer ability will be that day, and wielder gets 3 (illusions, AC boosts, teleports)?
3. Is attunement required for the Bracers of the Deft Defender?

1. Thanks to the restoration of the river, yes, you all get a normal long rest. Just an FYI, if the river had not been restored to some form of its original course I would have only allowed Short Rests while within the Margreve.

2. Good question. It is a mix and match. So the 2 illusions and 1 AC increase or whatever combination ends up working for that day. Total uses cannot exceed 3 in a day.

3. And yes, just in case I forgot to put it in the OOC notes for all of these items, they all require attunement.

My apologies if I seem like I haven't been all there over the past few weeks. Both of my grandmothers have wound up in the hospital, one for falling and hitting her head, the other for RSV and pneumonia. On top of this I also found out that my remote work agreement would not be renewed by my employer, meaning I either have to move, make a 180 mile (190 km) three hour commute to work and back each day, or find a new job. For a variety of reasons, I've elected to go job hunting. Yesterday and today, I've received some news that is likely to make things more erratic in the near term.

While visiting with my mom and sister yesterday I learned that my nana, my mom's mom and the one that's in the hospital with RSV and pneumomia, is ready to die. The doctors say she's doing well and is recovering, but some of the things she's said, like waiting on Papa James to come get her though he's been gone since 2006, are just... I dunno if I can describe it. She'll be 96 this coming Saturday.

Just now, I got a text message from my uncle, my dad's brother. Grammy, the one that fell and hit her head, has been getting worse since Friday. She can't move much on her own anymore and is only mumbling when she tries to talk. She's 81.

Please, just keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Oh man, so sorry about all of that. That is a lot happening at the same time. No worries at all about the game. Do what you need to do take care of yourself. I hope the job search lands you something great and that both of your grandparents pull through.