I echo Tymythy in that it's great to have Cairee back!
I will be camping from the 2nd-6th. My posting will be slower so if you need to bot Zahra, please do. She will have lots to tell the others about her near-death experience once it's just the 4 of them in their quarters. Although I assume that E'gama and Cyn will be housed with us now but they should get a moment to themselves.
Loose ends?
Is there a game underneath the game? The strange phrase in the trap challenge ("When dragon takes ??? form, ??? takes ??? weakness"). The challengers ing the arena (the moon writings, listening to the whispers, Casha's bounty. Was something missed in the first challenge?
What about the woman and the ring? Is there cheating going on? Tymythy suggested investigating past competitors.
The problem of the five pale sisters.
Zaha's near death experiences.
Is there anything I'm forgetting?
Since you made a point about Perm not being around to welcome us back, perhaps add ensuring he's not being bullied again?
You’ve all come across the name Casha before (I am probably constantly changing the spelling) check the narrative
I believe Casha was the women in the red dress who initially took us all. She wasn’t happy we escaped and probably is offering a reward should we be returned
Spelling change would explain it - I just took the name and searched for it, and found no hits ;^)
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Not the woman in the red dress but the wagon/cadge driver. Proper spelling is Casche Anhidar. The woman in the red dress (who lived in alKubiri in a house with two heron sculpturees by the front door - the house Dounia broke into in her earliest posts) handed you over to Casche.
Everyone in relation to eachother:
Dounia does 1hr of searching for Tandyraman and only finds Chrizdoff.
Zahra watches the lake while looking for Prem and the new Blackbirds, E'gama and Cyn.
Sorry, I posted Tymythy and Cairee going to the basements at the same time. Tymythy heads down right away but Cairee spends 1hr looking for Prem with Zahra.
The Scoreboard in the title menu has been updated ;)
Oooh, we're at the top! What door should we do tomorrow? Also, the scoreboard gives some clues on how to do well - like for the mirrored door you lose points if you keep your eyes closes (though maybe worth it?).
Creepiest.
Librarians.
EVER.
Creepy, definitely. I will never look at my see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil owls the same again.
Not the woman in the red dress but the wagon/cadge driver. Proper spelling is Casche Anhidar. The woman in the red dress (who lived in alKubiri in a house with two heron sculpturees by the front door - the house Dounia broke into in her earliest posts) handed you over to Casche.
That was my bad, I thought they were the same person.
Com'on! There are soooo many people - don't worry
Wow, Prem has it bad!!!
I think it’s time for Zahra to make a sense motive check
I love how Tymythy is so polite!
And Zahra definitely needs to finally figure out what's going on!!
I kinda hoped she would roll really low but she actually rolled well for once.
I love how Tymythy is so polite!
Tymythy fears no man...
--- but old people...?
(the respect for elders has been deeply ingrained in the likes of him)
Internet at work is very frustrating and now I have to get started. I have a monster post coming with a good part of it about Cairee. I’ll post as soon as I’m able
The grand maze breaks the pattern, nothing to do with the number 6
True, missed the "single challenge" part since others had the number in name... could still have been a maze with six subsections, so I'm sticking to my conspiracy theory for the time being ;^)
Zahra. In case I forget later. There will be a 'cure moderate wounds' provided by Yoy'ya before the next challenge. Please put it in your inventory but it will only be usable after tomorrow morning.
When it comes to the idea of 'alignment' do you:
like it for your character
find it a necessary part of your character build
dislike it and want to do away with it somehow?
Dislike it - you should naturally write down some sort of personality / code of ethics for your character, but I find that's something that gets defined as you play the character, during the first few sessions (or in case of a PbEM... first few weeks?).
I like PF 2Es edicts and anathemas better. Though still not perfect.
I think everyone possesses aspects of each alignment in their character and based on the situation or direness of the moment can then exhibit the different alignments. Hard to be pigeon-holed by one of many. That being said, there will probably be a dominant one that the character leans towards.
I hate alignment and ignore it whenever possible.
I forget about it most of the time.
I have nothing in-game planned except what is happening in the lake. Please give me a post about your afternoon and we'll play out anything needing more detail.
Alignment
I think I want it a bit like how it used to be done in the old Star Wars RPG. There are those who are 'Force Sensitive' and those not.
Or in the case of Pathfinder, there are aligned people and unaligned people.
Aligned people are people who've chosen a side and need to follow a path. People who have decided Good and Evil exists and are motivated by their relationship to that. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Unaligned people are the worldly, practical people who try to do the best they can everyday under the circumstances. Han Solo.
My issue is I want to respond to the mechanical needs of the game. Do 'protection from evil' spells no longer exist? Do they change into something more like 'protection from malice' spells? Do they stay the same and only work against people who are 'aligned' and 'evil'. How do I respond to the mechanics of the game?
Do people who consider themselves 'unaligned' not receive certain bonuses given to 'aligned' people? A sword that works in the hands of a 'lawful' user wouldn't work for them.
While doing write-up for races, instead of giving races alignments I tried to associate 'values' that are most typical to the race. The race has a character a personality that can be played to whatever degree the player wants. Not all orcs are evil - this is very important.
Are all devils evil?
Dislike it - you should naturally write down some sort of personality / code of ethics for your character, but I find that's something that gets defined as you play the character, during the first few sessions (or in case of a PbEM... first few weeks?).
I like PF 2Es edicts and anathemas better. Though still not perfect.
I tried to check this out but it brought me to a page with only basic information. I'll hunt a little more.
I tried to check this out but it brought me to a page with only basic information. I'll hunt a little more.
Yeah, weird that those things aren't fleshed out on Nethys. Well... you can get examples for edicts and anathema from deities's entries - for example, Iomedea's entry lists:
Edicts: be temperate, fight for justice and honor, hold valor in your heart
Anathema: abandon a companion in need, dishonor yourself, refuse a challenge from an equal
Trying to post more on Nadj and the orcs but the wifi is killing me
And I'm stuck in meeting loops... will try to find time to post soon, but no more really interesting things to do, except wait for the orcs to finish their challenge... witnessing their fight sounds like a honorable thing to do, after all.
I'm leaving the persuasion roll to the girl with a positive charisma.
The Doors left are the mirror door and the riddle door, is that correct? There’s also the Eschelon Door but I think it makes most sense to do that last because that way we can collect more key pieces.
I would lean towards doing the mirror door next because I don’t want it to get even harder but Zahra is happy to do whatever everyone else thinks is best.
I'm OK with the mirror door... seems there's some magical mental tomfoolery to be expected... which means Tymythy will definitely not be taking any sort of leading role there, with his most impressive Will save ;^)
Medical emergency at home. Might not be posting much for a bit.
Sorry to hear! Please take care
Praying for you Tymythy as life throws you this curveball. May you be strengthened and comforted by those around you.
I hope everyone's okay <3
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Seems we got away with a good proper scare this time. Everyone's OK, life is returning to normal.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought your second post meant you were good to go now. Please ignore my most recent post.
No, I could have been more precise - addition to the previous post, not an amendment.
The narrative should be up to date
..."You can't put a dragon to sleep. You can't paralyze a dragon..."
Anyone else getting the feeling we might be facing a dragon soon? GULP
Anyone else getting the feeling we might be facing a dragon soon? GULP
Hopefully Corey's just teasing us with a campaign end boss - at this point in our characters' careers, the worst we could do to a dragon would be to give it indigestion ;^)
Zahra doesn't necessarily think that Kamzar is an actual dragon in human form but she definitely knows he's super powerful and that his power seems to be associated somehow with a red dragon. She could definitely be wrong because she isn't good at thinking things through herself.
I'm also hoping that all the dragon info is from her gather info roll and not because we'll be up against a dragon. As players we know about dragons but Zahra definitely doesn't know a lot about dragons.
the worst we could do to a dragon would be to give it indigestion ;^)
I bet Dounia could hurt its feelings :)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Tymythy, you’re an honourary Canadian for this :)