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Vala twitches slightly at the use of her first name but then remembers who said it. "Its valanaestra. Or Valab. Ot Vala. Professionals it is. And fast is the only way I do anything. So, Countess, have a cover story in mind?" she grinned, looking around at the others, making a mental note of each, wondering if any of them would be difficult to explain as a normal person

"Persuasion, profession, plunder, all works for me. I too have some healing abilities, as well as a few other handy tricks designed for infiltration, though I'd rather not give away all my secrets. But healing is something that I can help with, if need be." She looks to their host though, eyeing him curiously. "If it was mentioned, I seem to have missed it-is there some form of compensation for all this? Fun as it is to test skills out on the real world, I'd much rather be paid in more than exposure and entertainment."

Vala looks to the countess curiously "I'm not opposed to trying to con our way in. Only issue with that is if things go south, someone has seen your face, at which point violence ensues. Unless you wear that of another. Which I can also help with, should we go that route." andn considering she'd been a man with a limp only a few minutes before she clearly had the skills to back up her claim

The younger girl nods at the Countesses words. "Mmm, I cant imagine grabbing something like this would be too difficult-the catch is the most interesting part, please, don't leave it out." She looks around, curious as to if any of them were surprised when she dropped her disguise. "For what it's worth, infiltration is a specialty of mine. Was ah... testing my skills when I received my summons. Plenty of catches there. Again, wha is yours?"

Animoira har to admit, she was intrigued. This many people, with their strange skills and ability to track them all down... maybe they could beused fpget her back home. Standing to her feet quickly, the facade of the older, injured man fading, revealing a fairly young woman with short blonde hair and a light brown, almost yellow leather jacket. Following alonfn she smiled at the setup "Nice set up. Seems like a war room. What sort of business did you have in mind for us?"

Vala in disguise merely shrugged "I might just be a regular with a bad leg exo comes here from time to time to drown his sorrows. Or maybe I'm the fastest woman alive in disguise tryin fp figure out dinvaya's going on. I will say, I'm not used to this place being so crowded. What sort of services?"

The man with the cane grins at the face woman, though is also keeping an eye on the newly freed prisoner "I'll have a glass of what ever j strongest" his voice was a bit raspy. Looking around at them she figured it was likely they'd all received invitations as well. I have to say, your all an odd assembly of folks from all over-what brings you here?" je does eye the game of dice, thpugh waits for an invitation before playing

Vala sighed as she looked around the lab, pondering, wondering where she could've put it. Almost faster than could be tracked, she zipped over to one cabinet, then the next. No, not in the cabinets. If it was there, she would've found it by now. Maybe under one of the desks? Alas, it wasn't there either. Still, if it was easy yp find, what was inside was hardly worth taking. Aaronson over ove of the bodies, she moved to the bookshelf, giving it a quick lookover before she found a book that seemed out of place. Pulling it from the shelf revealed not a door, but a poisonous dart!

With it sticking out of her arm, she chuckled. Pulling it out and giving it a whiff, then a taste, she nodded approvingly. That would killed a lesser being. Still, it meant she was close. Looking to the wall in front of her, Vala pressed herself against it, vibrating her molecules until she slipped through the wall into a secret hallway. Much better. Still vibrating, a few more traps went off, though each phased through her harmlessly until she reached a vault door.

Finding it had a wall of force blocking her from entry but with a locking mechanism, she went to work on it with a few odd looking devices before opening it with ease. Entering the room, she found a variety of oddities, though the one that intrigued her most was what she came here for-an odd clockwork device. Picking it up gingerly, Vala studied it intently, though excitement turned to frustration as lightning crackled in her hands, destroying the object. It wasn't what she was looking for.

As she started to leave though, she noticed an envelope under where the item had been. Reading the contents, she frowned. Someone knew who she was, and that she'd been coming here, something she'd just decided on. This was worth finding out.

Taking he long way by running, she made or to the tavern rather quickly. Drinking an extract shes prepared, her appearance changed to that of an older man with black hair and glasses. Walking in with a limp, she settled in and began eavesdropping on the others in the bar

So who gets to post, anyone with a background and an alias? Or was the recruitment for that separate?

Animoira Valanaestra wrote:

Never used Spheres of Might before, to the talents replace the feats?

It depends on how deep you want to dip. You can buy talents with feats 1:1, or trade a set of feats for a greater number of talents. It’s difficult to work the progression into an existing build, though, so I only recommended the two feats “Extra Combat Talent” it would take to get a better speed bonus.

Edit: since you are unfamiliar with SoM, taking two feats from Fleet x2 to Extra Combat Talent x2 for Athletics: Run and Swift Movement would give you: 10 ranks in acrobatics, a 20’ competence bonus to speed that will eventually reach 30 if you put ranks in acrobatics, and the equivalent of the Run feat.

Wait, taking those talents gives me a 20ft boost in speed and 10 free ranks in acrobatics? Done and done, will update (and clean up my crunch to be normal presentable) tonight

Never used Spheres of Might before, to the talents replace the feats?

Cool feat! Just need top give up one of the three fleets, but that puts my movement at an even 100, and that's fine with me lol.

Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, and lightning...

Animoira Valanaestra wrote:

stuff... and Ring of Protection.

Take a closer look at ABP; you get a +2 deflection as part of it, and cannot get a Ring of Protection with that ruleset active. Also, snake style uses your immediate action, meaning your next turn has no swift action; be cautious you are not loading up on things that use swift actions if you also intend to use Snake Style frequently.

EDIT: I needed to take a closer look myself, apparently, as I forgot to include that in my first reply to you. With Barkskin up and with the Ioun stone, you should have an AC of 31.

True, though I like Snake Fang better than the rest of the Crane feats. No penalty to hit, if you miss me I can strike you twice instead of once without using a Ki point, and since you mentioned feinting, taking Greater Feint would give me 2 attacks w/ sneak attack. The abilities I do have with swift actions are mostly utility, so saving them for out of combat and getting 1 more strike than if I had used it is neat.. though I'll need to look at Crane Style a bit more for sure...

And awesome about the AC! Missed a few things with ABP. Think I got it worked out now, and I think we got almost green there, and that's not counting some miss chance things and elemental overflow stuff :)

Animoira Valanaestra wrote:

My rough, non-gear stats are in my profile description. If anyone has any advice as to how I can get more AC or a bigger attack bonus, I'm welcome to suggestions, currently new to Automatic Bonus Progression, so that's all without gear.

Edit::Correction. That's with an Agile Amulet of Mighty Fists

Assuming I parsed everything correctly... you are going to be a switch hitter, using your kineticist blast from both range and as a blade? That's not a bad thing, but be aware that you will stretch your resources thin trying to optimize both while also focusing on being a speedster.

Cracked Pale green prism Ioun Stones are 4,000 each, and can provide a +1 competence to saves or attack; Dusty rose Ioun stone is 5,000 for +1 insight to AC. Your AC calculation seems off; you should have 10 + 5 (dex) + 4 (wis) +2 (monk) +2 (ABP enhancement) + 1 (ABP Natural Armor enhancement) + 1 (dodge). With barkskin up that would be +3 more; it doesn't stack with ABP and will eventually be redundant. Barkskin is long enough duration to be considered up for combat, in general. That's 29 AC with the Ioun Stone. Fighting defensively or using Crane style can also increase your AC, at the expense of your attack bonus.

I'd swap one of your formulae known - maybe CSW? for heroism; that will be +2 morale to attacks and saves. If you have the feat for it, Extreme Mood Swings increases all morale bonuses you receive by 1. The classes you picked do not really have built in accuracy buffs, so you may have to look at reducing your opponents AC; feinting, making them flat footed, attacking vs touch AC, becoming invisible (+2 to attack), etc. You could trade Stoneskin for Greater Invisibility; it would take a round to setup, but give you great defense vs most sighted enemies without True Seeing and increase your attack bonus.

Those are the main things I can see from a quick look. You might consider copying the format of an established stat block for clarity - listing things out is great when...

Switch hitter yes but with a focus on flurrying in melee. The blade is a backup weapon in case AC is too high, at which point I try the Kinetic blade. It's my backup weapon that can target Touch AC.

I missed something in the ABP so that means 25 AC normally. And while crane style is interesting, snake I think works better for me. I roll sense motive and that total becomes my AC from one attack. Since my sense motive is +25, I basically add a d20 to my AC for a single attack each round.

Liking the formula suggestions. Since I actually need to add 5 more to each list, I'll definitely be adding those. Thanks! And sorry for the rough format, it's just copied from the notepad I was making the character in on my phone

And yes, that amulet isnt needed for sure, that was my brain forgetting how I had dex to damage. Can I still pick up a ring of protection for that deflection bonus to AC?

My rough, non-gear stats are in my profile description. If anyone has any advice as to how I can get more AC or a bigger attack bonus, I'm welcome to suggestions, currently new to Automatic Bonus Progression, so that's all without gear.

Edit::Correction. That's with an Agile Amulet of Mighty Fists

So that benchpress bit is making me worried- I'm barely orange on most things except AC for certain attacks. Should i be worried?

MAD is always fun. I heavily rely on 4 stats :( Dex to hit, Int for elixirs, wis for speed points, and con for lightning throwing

Animoira Valanaestra wrote:

My Alias is ready as well, just need to attach all the stats and the backstory and... well I have the name and picture lol. Prefers to be called Valanaestra, Valan, Vala, or, to a select few, Vee. Only the dead or tormented have called her Animoira

You know someone is going to end up calling you Animoira yeah?

Eventually. And they will either have earned it or will have opened themselves to a world of torture, torment, and turmoil ;)

My Alias is ready as well, just need to attach all the stats and the backstory and... well I have the name and picture lol. Prefers to be called Valanaestra, Valan, Vala, or, to a select few, Vee. Only the dead or tormented have called her Animoira

Good luck to everyone! I know mine wasn't the most pirate-y character, but if something happens, I'd life to be kept in mind as a backup

Good luck everyone!

Here's my link to the sample rp from the game I've been keeping up with regularly. I play the dwarven gun bard Garfaulk Sharpstone, a dwarf who's a bit rough around the edges.

Sample Rp-The Interrogation

And yes, I know it's weird Animoira is currently lawful good. Realistically, she's probably more neutral good. But I do not expect her to stay that way and intend to evolve her as she progresses

At least once a day and once a weekend is exactly what I'd hope for for expectations! Here's my submission, though I'll be adding the rp sample on my lunch break

When I get home I'll be uploading my female elven stormborn sorcerer. Still working out the details of the story, but the crunch is at home