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With the archer down, Teryll aims for the closest incoming wolf.
"Those things caused a lot of trouble yesterday."
Following for obvious reasons . . .
I'm okay with recruiting an additional one or two with a note that front line martial or Arcane caster would be preferred. (We could even give preference to those, but I would state that outright if we are.) While I realize that we have access to some fairly potent NPC's to fill the roles, if we run that way, I'd prefer actual players covering them as we did with Harrim. It's less time GM has to spend planning for each round or scene to balance being useful versus overshadowing us or handing things to us on a platter.
Making her way back down the dock, Malvessa rewraps the head of her new morningstar with a strip of cloth to blunt the spikes, and places it in her haversack. *whew* That thing is heavy. Probably why Godwin couldn't swing the dammed thing. When we get someplace more populated, I'll see if I can trade up for something better suited to me. Heading back to her room, she cleans up, brushes out her hair before re-braiding it, and does her best to make her clothing presentable. Pulling the wasp punctured and bloodstained blouse from her bag, she washes it thoroughly in the basin, until she's sure it's as clean as can be. I'll need to remember to memorize Mending to patch up those holes, before I run out of clothes to wear. Hanging the shredded wet blouse up to dry, she double checks her appearance in the room's mirror, and settles in to wait for Tenvor's arrival.
Yeah,she's not expecting officer position.
As for demonstrations of her combat ability, just stick around Rickety's for a day or two. I'm sure there'll be a dire weasel tearing up his garden or something given the past few days.
As your crew dies, I'll strike them through in the current crew spoiler in the campaign info tab If the rest of the crew die, I'm sure to get hired right? But if the rest of the crew dies, staying at Rickety's might be the better option.
Just FYI, I'll be traveling for the next few days.
Hello folks!
GM: Happy to be back on dry land, and in a softer bed than the ship's crew quarters had afforded, Malvessa takes the time to go over her belongings to ensure they have all dried out, and remain serviceable. Once she's seen that he clothes are as clean as can be, she heads down to the market where she replaces her now used rations, and looks for some basic alchemy components to refill the ones she'd used back on the ship. That done, she settles in for several drinks at the taproom.
"I'm sure we can come up with some for you Master Bokken."
Spankings do the trick. Usually
We seem to have an interested person.
Silarsha as Sylvia is back at her sewing when "Aiden" mentions the dolphins. She looks up and out over the water, but not seeing them quickly returns to the task at hand.
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Given their earlier computer issues, I'm giving it a day or two more before I assume the worst.
So much for the "Halfling dangling on a stick" method to motivate our undead minions idea.
I'm sorry that you're dropping out Wocket.
GM, no worries, I think we all have times like that. I think a 5th full arcane caster is a good idea, as they cover a gap that the rest of us can't fill. I'll go along with everyone else's decision, but I'm in favor of the extra body. Edit to add, I'll level her up in the next few days, work is going into mid-year evaluations, and I've got 10 due this week.
Hopefully this won't involve any real life demonstrations. Worst LARP ever. . .
Unrelated, GM, what would it take to have my two teddy bears function as saps? Saps? Go big, try to convince him to allow a hand crossbow!
"I can carry it well enough for now. Want me to get that bar for you Timeon? Because the last door you opened kind of got you killed." and then gestures toward the fresh corpse on the floor.
Silarsha sheaths her sword, and looks over the remains of the snakes.
Looking closer at the broken snakes she suddenly exclaims; Hey! Are these things made of Mithril?" she reaches down to touch a piece that had been knocked free. "It is. My Father had his armor made of this stuff. It's very valuable! and she gathers the metal into her backpack
Silarsha reads over the contract carefully, then reads it a second time.
Silarsha sits quietly as the Cardinal speaks, listening carefully and trying to find a hint of falsehood or deception.
After hearing him out, she considers his offer.
Once Heverly has sworn her allegiance to the Cardinal, Silarsha speaks up: "When I was a child, a nearby village was raided. Two ships of other Uflen from another Thane's lands came in the night. They killed, or did worse to unresisting women, children and elders, made Thralls of those too young to take, burned houses and crops. Things done only in outright war. Not in a simple raid." "When my father learned of the raid, he sought out the crews that had done it. And when he learned who they were, he gathered many of the nearby tribes, and their warriors traveled to the raiders home.
"My father said; when a man does something wrong, it's that man who is responsible. But when many men do wrong, that is the responsibility of their leaders. They guide the people. They set the example of what is right and what is acceptable. And they carry the weight of their people's actions. This King and his government of Talingarde, this church of Mitra and its followers have shown me everything I need to know about them. They are corrupt. They are morally weak. And if you and your god plan to cleanse them of that corruption; pull them down from their thrones, drag them out of their churches and into a new and better order, then I who have already sworn to make them pay for the dishonor they have done, will swear allegience to your cause, and I will bring this nation the judgement it deserves!"
As they approach on the door, Silarsha tries to take in the sheer size of the building. This is someone's home? It's huge. You can probably fit two or three whole families in there. At first sight of Tiadora, Silarsha blinks. Wow. She's stunning and smiles shyly when Tiadora turns the grin upon her. However, during the interaction between Tiadora and Grumblejack, she reasses her first impression. Confident. No, more than confident. Certain. I can likely take the ogre in a fight, but it will be a fight. She knows she can beat him. No fear or hesitation. No question in her mind.
As the group is led inside by the slaves, she follows along to her room. Looking around the well appointed room, she dips her hand into the hit wash water and sighs contentedly.
Later, when the slave returns with a small plate of cold meat and bread; Silarsha stands up in the now filthy bathwater and rinses off her body with a pitcher of clean water. Drying off and wrapped up with a large cloth, she walks to the slave, takes the plate and sits down on the bed with the plate.
Once her plate is empty, her hair is detangled, and has been pulled into a neat single braid, she gets up and dresses in the clothing provided to her. Finishing the outfit, is Blackerly's Chainmail and his fine sword at her belt. Smoothing her new long skirt, and stamping her feet into the new boots, she turns back to the ever attendant slave.
Just so that choking/ gagging thing has some context, it's loosely based on something that happened to me many years ago.
My wife's ranged inquisitor just learned the hard way about why she wants Precise Shot over Rapid Shot at level one.
I hope everyone has a good holidays!
Got to say that I’m glad to see a recruitment for this where the PCs aren’t “lol lulz” evil. I'm really impressed with the ideas being posted here. This is one where even if I'm not chosen, I'll want to follow along just to see the characters in play.
Having played a Dwarven core rogue all the way up to level 20 in a game I can feel your pain.
1. One Dagger or Two Weapon Fighting? I used two short swords for the slightly higher damage versus daggers. In retrospect, a rapier is better because of the crit range, but use the weapon that you feel best suits your playstyle and idea of what your character should do. If you go two weapon, you must be prepared to not use it when you absolutely need to hit, because that -2 can be a crusher. 2. What exactly does the Bomber Rogue Talent do? Well handled by others. 3. What kind of armor would you propose for a Rogue? Well handled by others but look into the "shadow" enchantment when you upgrade to magical armor for a +5 (or more) to stealth. 4. What would you propose for Feats to make the Rogue more mobile in Combat? For you, first step is either use your first Rogue Talent to pick up "Finesse Rogue" that will let you use your Dex bonus to hit with a one hand or light weapon. The Rogue Talent "Weapon Training" is also good as it gives you Weapon Focus for a +1 to hit, and should be high up on your "to do" list. Max out your Acrobatics skill so you can tumble around without taking attacks of opportunity, The "Dodge" feat is good for a +1 to AC, and you can use the next Feat "Mobility" to get an AC bonus versus those same AOO's due to movement. But as others said, the rest of the chain to Spring Attack may not be worth it.
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