They’re neat! In general, venom aside, and probably even so if Lina eventually manages to start her own garden of poisonous plants, Lina is cool enough to anything to do with animals that she’ll mostly just help the others out if they’re into this sort of foraging. Her heart belongs to flowers and such.
I’m a bit worried that we’re getting a really really good deal out of them, though, especially the tick chitin. Lina’s not much of a weapon collector, but that sounds like too good a deal to pass up, if she can find the right grapple weapon. – Aaaand, done! She’d have an eye on a sibat, which, as a spear, she’d quite approve of.
But I digress. I know it only activates on a critical, and since she’s not that sort of a magus it’s less of an issue, but 60 gold for mundane ability damage sounds dangerously brilliant.
Lina, are either of the scrolls worth adding to your spellbook? I don't think mage armor is on either of our spell lists, and bull's strength won't be available to the magus until 4th-level, right? But it could come in clutch as a one-off in this book, give one of us a hell of a boost for a few combats. I guess it depends on whether you would want to hold onto it until Level 4 or use it sooner.
Bull’s strength might be handy for a back pocket, though I’m not sure often it’s something Lina would prepare regularly. She can certainly be good and not add it to her spellbook before she can cast it - or at least until one of us can - though that would be her first knowledge-thirsty instinct.
All of us seem to be mostly melee when we use weapons, so it's a handy spell to have around. Of course, it might be a bit too focused for Lina's regular use.
Meneas isn't in his armor at the moment, so he's gonna get hit more often. With his Dex damage, his AC would be at 12, total.
Sooooo
Does anyone know another person they would like to ask to join the game of should I host another recruitment?
I don't think I do, but then, I'm bad at judging that sort of thing.
I'm not sure. At this point, we have most major roles covered to at least a certain extent except for scouting. A stealthy type character could be useful, though there weren't too many of those in the original recruitment. I don't have anyone specific in mind and would be open to a new recruitment thread. Maybe some of the folks who were interested the first time will chime back in again!
Ditto. Did anyone else from the first round stand out that might be a good fit?
I'm not particularly worried about party role - that's sometimes fun to work around - but maybe one of the rangers or swashbucklers from the initial recruitment might be interested in a bit of stealthiness?
Hmmm, Lina, I think you had an illusionist friend that might be fun to play with! Could you ask them or would you prefer if I did?
Also
I FORGOT TO MENTION EVERYONE LEVELS UP!!!!!! HECCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!
Oh, nice!
Level Up details:
+6 HP, +1 HP from Con
New Total: 27 HP
FCB - 1 skill rank
Skills
- Bluff 1 rank
- Diplomacy 1 rank
- Intimidate 2 ranks
- Knowledge (nature) 1 rank
- Ride 1 rank
- Survival 1 rank
Total of 4+1 (Int) +1 FCB +1 Human = 7 ranks of skills.
Feat: Ride-by Attack
+1 to Reflex and Will saves
I also got cavalier's charge, which means a +4 on the charge when mounted, and no penalty to AC from that! So, that's fun.
Veil gets a +2 to her natural armor, +1 to her Strength, Dexterity, and her SR, a new trick (fetch, 'cause I'm running out of them), and Evasion.
Excellent!
Tentative plan (no time to alter much here yet):
24 HP
Skill ranks in Handle Animal, Heal, Knowledge (nature), Linguistics, Perception, Survival, and Swim
(Don't forget background skills, Meneas!)
Feat: Probably Power Attack
New Languages: Undercommon and Aquan
+1 to Reflex save
+1 to BAB
New ability: Mediator's Ear (adds half level (+1) to Diplomacy and Sense Motive). My diplomacy is now a +0!
Because Vodnykel is an elemental companion, he does not gain Evasion (since he got his lesser elemental manifestation last level). His natural armor also goes up +2, Str/Dex/SR +1, and he also gets a new trick. Considering between Serve (in case Meneas needs to give orders) or Exclusive (in case an enemy tries to do something mean). But I'm not sure yet.
Brental certainly won't be instantly fluent in Undercommon yet, but he may not need to look at the codex as often. Good ol' Truespeaker.
Probably going to prep Barkskin and Resist Energy.
(Don't forget background skills, Meneas!)
I actually just forgot to add them to the list of updates. I added one rank to each - Handle Animal and Knowledge (geography).
Hmmm, Lina, I think you had an illusionist friend that might be fun to play with! Could you ask them or would you prefer if I did?
Also
I FORGOT TO MENTION EVERYONE LEVELS UP!!!!!! HECCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!
I'll see how they're doing, and then send them to you for the details of how you'd like to introduce them, if they have the bandwidth for another campaign right now? I think they're in a few.
Oooh, and leveling up! Soon!
I think that’s Lina leveled. Trying to stick to a theme, so Weapon Finesse, coward’s discretion’s cowl for one of her spells known, mostly for when she can hole up someplace with good sightlines while the melee folks do their thing (I could swap it out for déjà vu if that seems to be more immediately useful), and Flamboyant Arcana for her first, because she’s a diva. :)
Momentary pause while our new arrival joins us friends! This way they can be here at the start of the dungeon rather than awkwardly in the middle~
Welcome in advance, new person!
Greetings!
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Hello hello!
I'm Morof, a wizard illusionist! I hope we can be friends and.... maybe build a kingdom (that's not random at all).
Morof is friendly and usually not condescending. He is a half-elf with rogue as secondary fav class, so he may go into arcane trickster if the need for such a character arises.
How are y'all doing?
Yay!
And no worries: I've been thrown for a loop by my second vaccine dose, so I'm sure that taking a bit of time for the fever to die down can only be for the best. We probably want to avoid especially spacey moments of, "Wait, Lina does what?!" :)
Hello hello!
I'm Morof, a wizard illusionist! I hope we can be friends and.... maybe build a kingdom (that's not random at all).
Morof is friendly and usually not condescending. He is a half-elf with rogue as secondary fav class, so he may go into arcane trickster if the need for such a character arises.
How are y'all doing?
Oh, neat. We don't have anyone with Disable Device, I think. We also didn't have a full arcane caster, so that's neat, too.
Welcome aboard! I'm doing alright - just waiting for my other threads to update. xD
Also, for crying out loud, another character who knows Draconic!
All the cool kids speak draconic Meneas~
Also welcome aboard Morof!
Now we just need to think if a way for you to join the group as seemlessly as the last characters exited... I'm thinking giant crow. Thoughts?
Also hope you feep better soon Lina! My second dose really messed me up for a day or so >.>'
Have him studying fey occurrences? I mean, that'd require his input, but I imagine an illusionist might have interest in such things, but he could have accidentally stumbled onto the kobolds' cave whilst looking for fey mischief.
I mean, there were other parties sent out to survey and stop the threat of the Stag Lord, as Rackal had Riftun mention when we signed on. He could be a survivor of one of those.
Hello Morof/Anthorg!
I do like the general idea of Morof having been involved with one of the previous expeditions. We have run into a few people down here who have been semi-alone after being separated from groups, like the nobleman Vincent Surtova who was recently captured by (and subsequently let go from) a tribe of mites. GM, I don't know if that's a possible connection?
Perhaps Morof has become involved in the conflict between the kobolds and the mites?
Or he was waylaid by some of the Stag Lord's bandits and recently escaped, seeking a way out of the Greenbelt.
Well, Morof is indeed interested in the fey and he has interest to the south of Brevoy. I don't really see him wondering alone, though. Maybe he joined a party who got... killed? And he's left for dead? Why am I suggesting this?
Or maybe he honestly just got lost? In my part of the world, one hears a fair number of cautionary tales about how easy it is to get swallowed up by the forest – even with modern black boxes and the like, we even lose a few planes and such, and just an hour or so from the big city back home there are places with no cell reception.
That might fit the profile, since you wrote that Morof can find it difficult to concentrate on conversations and is given to overthink things?
Maybe the folks Morof was travelling with originally are still out there somewhere, worried about him, or, if we want to go dark, maybe he fell in with some people who managed to conceal just how callous they are and they don’t actually worry about their lost party member? They could reappear (or not) at a later date, either way, for good or ill.
The First World also plays with time weirdly, if he accidentally slipped through there. Just a random thought - if it's been several months for the material plane but only a few days or something for him, his companions might've given him up for lost after a week or something, before vanishing/dying themselves.
So, sounds like we are at the point of thinking Morof went out with a group and either they died or he got lost.
So 1. Is Morof lost or is his party dead.
2. If he is lost does his party care?
I like the idea that he was one of the origional groups who came here but was never seen again. Maybe he slipped into a fey portal and lost track of time in a land with a terrifying rook, an eerie pond filled with silent black swans, and other exciting and terrifying things.
He just managed to get out of there through another portal that opened for the rook and lead him back into the middle of the forest (when the rook took Signy and Wisp).
Just some ideas on my part.
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Hey, I think it's coming together. Getting lost is sillier than the party dying so I prefer that. It does indeed sound like he would get curious about a portal and go in disregarding his group. After taking a while to realize he got separated from his party, it was too late to go back and when he emerged back to the material world he was somewhere else entirely.
Which is a learning experience and why he... wouldn't do that to his new party!
... Somehow, the way you phrased that makes me feel dubious, Morof. :P
Hurray for dubiousness.
I took a peek at Morof's profile, looking to see if he had a familiar. No familiar! I was going to try to pressure Lina to take a familiar so that each of us would have some kind of animal companion, but nah. For now at least.
Oh, Brental, don't forget that we don't have Erastil's blessing any more. It's been a day, now.
I'm pretty sure it was supposed to last a week, though. The post where we got it.
Everyone has recieved the Blessing of Erastil and have a +1 to your attack rolls for the next seven days.
Huh. For some reason I thought it was a day.
Morof the half-elf is you! Welcome to the game! The kobold's caught you yesterday as you wandered confused out of the fey portal. They have treated you relatively well aside from calling you Dumb-Dumb and the purple kobold shaman who spoke with a very strange accent who has been, in your opinion, incredibly rude and unhelpful. Not to mention downright insensitive to your current predicament.
Meneas: with share language, you should understand all of the Draconic now! At least for the next 24 hours.
Oh, shoot. That's what I get for not putting it in my profile.
Meneas offers some insight here, the enchanted gift of Draconic aiding him. "It was allied with the mites that captured Mekmek, from what we can tell. A threat, to be sure."
I don't think it fits in with any known sorts of fey... gods, I hope it's not a tarn. That would be catastrophic.
"Jubjub bird!" :)
I'm one of the weirdos who actually liked the live-action Alice, though I wasn't as keen on how tightly they mapped Wonderland onto Miss Liddell's life in England. Anyway. Lina's closer to the White Queen in the film, though. Oh gosh, and how.
And since Liddells naturally bring us to lexicography, I'm fine with using a language some of us might know for whatever, so long as it doesn't bug anyone that the rest of us are letting Google butcher it. The imperfections (to put it mildly) of Translate are a large part of the fun, aren't they? Especially for anyone's who's got more of a reading knowledge than conversational of a given language.
I mean, I know why Google would turns elves into exotika in Greek, and I love it partly because of the dissonance with how folks in Golarion are likely to think of elves. I mean, Lina would mostly hope that folks don't think she's a scary fey creature (though she'd secretly be flattered), but there is the space alien angle, so...
Oh, and I've almost completely shaken off the side effects of my second vaccine dose, so I should be able to loop myself back in!
Whoops, tarn is the linnorm. Tane are the big scary fey creatures.
I imagine that the tane might appear later in this adventure! If we're unlucky ^_^
Congrats on the second dose! I need to see the live action Alice at some point.
Last chance to talk to the kobolds if you want to orrrr you can storm the shaman's chambers and I can begin combat but then questions may linger~
Ha! Trying to narrow down if we can. Got a back pocket resist energy.
Oops. Uh, Meneas proving himself a hypocrite here, as his companions haven't agreed to kill this thing, but he's also not thinking wholly straight.
Annnnd a swing or two and a few misses >.>' Even flat-footed that would have been a no... not sure if he would have qualified as flat footed here since he hadn't gone yet in initiative but was prepared for combat.
I think you're flat-footed until you act, which is why I figured I might as well try. Surprise just results in a surprise round, I think.
But yes, I didn't expect to hit there. Thanks Dice-Roller.
Fair enough~
Glad I can count on you guys for any questions I have xP
Incidentally, Meneas, have I been misunderstanding full attacks all my life, or how are you getting your second attack? I thought it was BAB, two-weapons, or haste shenanigans or whatever, but my mind's ready to be blown.
I'm pretty sure it's total attack bonus? You might be right. I haven't looked in ages...
EDIT: Nope, you're right. My mistake!
Dang. This is what happens when I'm having a full travel day. Missed almost everything. I'll try to catch up when I can. But driving and all.
And yeah, we only get second attacks once we hit +6 BaB, are two weapon fighting, have natural attacks, or are under the effects of haste.