The Shards of Oberon

Game Master FangDragon

Zendara Divine Marksman Ranger Arrowsong Minstrel Bard --> Level 5

HP +8
BAB +1

New Favored Enemy: Outsider (evil) +2
Favored Enemy: Humanoid (human) goes up to +4
Vicious Aim goes up to +2

Inspire Courage goes to +2
Spells per day +1 1st level, +1 second level

Spells known:
+1 second level - Track Ship or Cure Mod (depending on DM question)
+1 first level - Animate Rope

Feat: Rapid Shot

Skill levels (10): Bluff, Diplomacy, Perception, Survival, Stealth (4), disguise, intimidate

Re favoured terrain air yes - but some layers of Oberon's atmosphere are sufficiently different to count as their own terrain. Where you are now while hot is just regular air (by far the most common type), but as an example that permanent torrential rain zone the ship flew through would have counted as air-elemental water. Super boulder infested zones would be air-elemental earth (the area below isn't quite that bad, it's still regular air).

Yes track ship works but standard counters apply.

Sorry, not following... what do you mean by "standard counters"?

Counterspells?

It's a divination spell, there's plenty of (usually magical) counters to those.

Okay, I'll take Cure Moderate Wounds instead I guess.

Up to you. I doubt the average civilian vessel has non-detection running, military vessels are another matter.

FYI, I am going to be on vacation from this Friday through next week. Feel free to bot me, or have my character get sick and unable to get out of bed, or whatever. :)

Have a nice time!

Edwin is planning on scouting the dangerous/scary areas using his Mind Eye focus power (Divination Implement):

Mind Eye (Sp): As a standard action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to create a mind eye—a magical sensor through which you can see and hear. The mind eye is invisible and its size is Fine, giving it an AC of 18. Any amount of damage to the eye destroys it, but it can be harmed by only spells or magic weapons. The eye moves with a fly speed of 60 feet with perfect maneuverability and can travel up to 1 mile away from you. You must concentrate as a standard action to direct the eye and receive sensory images through it. The mind eye sees as your eyes see, including any additional senses you possess (such as darkvision or see invisibility). The mind eye lasts for 1 minute per occultist level you possess. You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power.

Just to check before I get my post up, Yukaari is the one who did the taunt to make the thing attack her. Did that not work? Since she's incorporeal, unless the attacks count as magic they will simply pass through her.

Looks like I misread your post (the two names are very similar).

Can you please find a suitable image for Yukaari if she's going to be used in combat. Also can you please clarify which square Yukaari is in? I assume the same square as Yukarii.

Yes the feat worked but you're going to get at most one round of attacks out of it if the antagonized foe is unable to damage Yukaari.

Yes this means you get the two images back.

I figured as much. Didn't even know we had a map. I see it now. I've made a duplicate of me and recolored it to a pale blue color.

GM, a question on the shadow magic thing.
Is it a house rule matter, to spend a move action to disbelieve?

From my past experiences, it didn't require an action. A willsave followed interaction. Unsure, but perhaps even a circumstance bonus if one was able to spellcraft ID the spell, thereby recognizing it is a mimicry spell.

I double checked the rules and yeah I think I'm wrong there.

Sorry Zendara, the dice want to make me attack my allies. :(

Unfortunately, I think Edwin and Zendara will now attack each other until one of them is dead (unless either of them is attacked by something else). There's no save possible.

If a confused creature is attacked, it attacks the creature that last attacked it until that creature is dead or out of sight.

Fantastic. But if the moth attacks you in between my turn and your turn, you would attack it, not me. I'm only attacking you because you went *after* the moth already attacked me this round.

Why is there no save possible? I thought we were rolling confusion checks every round.

Any confused character who is attacked automatically attacks its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still confused when its turn comes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of how the Confused condition is written. The entire entry reads (Archives of Nethys):

Confused: A confused creature is mentally befuddled and cannot act normally. A confused creature cannot tell the difference between ally and foe, treating all creatures as enemies. Allies wishing to cast a beneficial spell that requires a touch on a confused creature must succeed on a melee touch attack. If a confused creature is attacked, it attacks the creature that last attacked it until that creature is dead or out of sight.

Roll on the following table at the beginning of each confused subject’s turn each round to see what the subject does in that round.
d% Behavior
01-25 Act normally.
26-50 Do nothing but babble incoherently.
51-75 Deal 1d8 points of damage + Str modifier to self with item in hand.
76-100 Attack nearest creature (for this purpose, a familiar counts as part of the subject's self).
A confused creature who can’t carry out the indicated action does nothing but babble incoherently. Attackers are not at any special advantage when attacking a confused creature. Any confused creature who is attacked automatically attacks its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still confused when its turn comes. Note that a confused creature will not make attacks of opportunity against anything that it is not already devoted to attacking (either because of its most recent action or because it has just been attacked).

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Perhaps it's possible for the condition to come to an end?

Working on my post in the morning.

I would point out that the argument can be made that by attacking each other you are averting your gaze from the gloom wing and thus freed of confusion the next round.

There is a DC 14 check each round unless you avert your gaze. If you fail you are confused for that round only, so fortunately the nightmare scenario doesn't apply.

This coming Wednesday through Sunday my posting will be extremely slow to non-existent as I will be at Gencon in Indy and then two weeks after that for the same days it will be slow again for Origins in Ohio. I may be able to sneak some posts in but I wouldn't count on it.

So jealous, have fun!

It's a little inconsistent but I thought I'd mention I've tried to keep the player's guide up to date as a sort of Gazetteer.

I will be travelling from Oct 7th through Oct 21st. I'll be checking the boards, but will have a reduced posting frequency during that time.

By the way Dr Munroe mentioned being able to write Aklo, he can but he should have said Necril. That language came up in a different game and I wrote it here for some reason xD

Folks are you still here? :)

I’m out of town, posting from my phone. My activity will be limited until I get back on the 21st.

I am here, but I can't speak the language, so I can't move the story forward. It is Yukarii's play.

Still here.

OK I'm not sure where Yukarii is, so for now let's assume she's translating for you. Please don't wait :)

Highly distracted this weekend, just picked up Metroid Dread on Friday and just finished it a few minutes ago.

If you liked the old metroid games I highly recommend it. There is more story involved in this one and the graphics are absolutely gorgeous.

Ooh that sounds like fun!

It definitely was and it had a really interesting twist at the end.

Started writing a post but I realised it's quite late. Will try and finish it off tomorrow!

Didn't get a chance to go map making tonight, will see if I get some time tomorrow.

Xindrya before combat I don't think you mentioned buffing and after it started there there wasn't time for 3 rounds of buffing.

Your latest attack contains mutagen, happy to retcon you using that instead of attacking for the round I botted you. Let me know if you want to do that.

Sure, i'll take that.

Given i made that attack under the assumption i had chance to buff, i'd step 5ft back, and further buff with a shield extract instead, if you'd allow it.

That'd bring AC to 26.

Nope. Might have to try find that special coat Niles once used to swift action drink a stored extract. Still wonder why the devs thought pulling a flask from your belt and drinking require 2 actions.

You could consider getting a pair of Poisoner's Gloves (they don't have to be used for poison).

Guess I'll bot Yukarii in the morning. The SR is brutal for her.

Hmm I intended to update tonight but it's late and I need some sleep. Will try update tomorrow.

I've granted permission to use the doc for the map btw.

That map is awesome. I'm getting a cyberpunk/shadowrun vibe now.

So I know I didn't get good enough to know what type of spell might be placed on them but I can still tell if there is an aura there. Is there a magical aura that shouldn't be on everyone?

@Xindrya Yeah Cyberpunk/Shadowrun is exactly right and for visuals think Bladerunner. If you can imagine what Tokyo in 200 years might be like you're getting there :) Imagine how alien and exciting such an environment would be for your character. Also most of the tech is tech not magic, but sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...

@Yukarii There's an aura of compulsion magic. Effectively a glamor creating a fascination with the city. It's almost unnecessary because of course you're going to want to explore, but later it may become bothersome... So that's OOC knowledge, lets say over the next few hours Yukarii figures this out. Depending on what actions the party takes this may become obvious anyway.

Personality wise, the line between the spell's fascination and her own, might be a thin one. :)

I can imagine a picture, of someone dragging Xindyra by the collar, while she is still taking notes/sketching. Her boots making a trail along the way.

If shadowrun is also of your interest, said franchise has 3 games on steam. And some very good custom campaigns as well.

Oh I assumed I had no clue what school of magic and such, so that's not a problem, thought their strange behavior in ignoring Yularii completely does imply a magical effect and likely a compulsion of some kind in her thoughts. I figured some kind of magic aura that shouldn't be on them would be obvious and give her some kind of clue about what was going on but not the details yet.

I could see Yukarii doing that except she isn't strong enough to do much to budge anyone. Now send an ectoplasmic Yukaari to walk through your notes and make them all slimy though would be quite amusing. Of course then Yukaari being what she is she'd try to make out with you whether you wanted to or not and ectoplasmic kisses don't sound all that pleasant.

Heh, good thing for my journal she can't. If she's ectoplasmic, she's semi-solid. :)

And for what it's worth, you hadn't given off the indication ectoplasm kisses were all bad, after all.

It'd probably end up somewhere along the line of spoiler.

Yeah, well Yukarii is used to it?

Oh and:

Phase Lurch (Su) A phantom in ectoplasmic form has the ability to pass through walls or material obstacles. In order to use this ability, it must begin and end its turn outside whatever wall or obstacle it’s moving through. An ectoplasmic phantom can’t move through corporeal creatures with this ability, and its movement speed is halved while moving through a wall or obstacle. Any surface it moves through is coated with a thin, silvery mucus that lingers for 1 minute.

So she couldn't stop but she could do a "walkthrough kissing".

Lol! The diary entry is a riot.

I only played a lvl 1 spiritualist once. Same archetype, i believe, so i am not familiar with that feature. :)