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Still being patient but not checking as frequently as before

You both make really valid points.
And I would also prefer same day travel

Batoh grabs Zolaire's shoulder hoping to catch him before Zolaire decided to take off to the sky. "Pardon my rudeness, Zolaire, but I think Lady Delmonte would prefer that we handled this with a bit more guile. As inconspicuous as we are with a winged fiery goddess as a companion, I'm not so sure how much attention those wings of pure fire would draw towards us. Besides, it's best we move together for now. For all we know we're already deep in the Whispering Way's territory."

He let go of Zolaire's shoulder and started walking ahead of the group towards the city of Caliphas. "We've just completed a 3 days walk to Caliphas in a matter of minutes. As any weary traveller, we should head to the busiest pub for pint and a meal; and while we're at it we might be able to find out if anyone has heard of the Steel Ravens coming to Caliphas."

Do we just want to assume that we got the scroll with Zolaire and we are teleporting to the location? The game thread has slowed a bit

"The tracks end about 100 strides in that direction.", Batoh gestured. "I do not think that creature merely stumbled upon us. The forces we are opposing are most likely already aware of our intent. We must hurry." With that, Batoh turned and hustled down into the town to purchase the scroll with Zolaire

Batoh walked back into the room to join his companions. With his head hung low he sheathes his weapon and joins the group. [b]"I agree with Heck. The foes we will be chasing will be worse than any nightmare, but we need to do this to keep the innocent from experiencing the same hell."

Batoh walked over to the large opening the creature had forced through the wall. Taking a close look at the surrounding area, Batoh tries to determine where the creature had come from.

Survival: 1d20 + 16 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 16 + 4 = 33
another +6 if it is undead, +2 if it is a magical beast or evil outsider. And another +4 if this area is in an urban territory.

oof, this stops me for a bit, but I can't do much when I roll a 5 on a fear save. Sorry guys

Batoh steps into action, quickly unsheathing his scimitar and bringing his shield to bear in front of him. He moves forward trying to step between the oncoming creature and Lady Delmont. He stood in a full defensive posture, ready to strike the creature if it dared come near.

Then it hit him, a wave of emotion strong enough to make his stomach churn. Visions of burning buildings and dying villagers flooded his mind. "Not again...", He wanted to fight, he wanted to root himself and bear all he had in this fight against this creature, but his legs betrayed him. He turned away, and ran

The room jumped to life before Batoh could finish his thought. Before he knew it, everyone was moving this way and that. He took one more sip of his tea before he set it down on the sofa table nearby. Zolaire was out the door quickly shouting about some magic-something-or-other. Batoh nodded to Natalya, a knowing gesture, as he slowly grabbed his backpack and sword. He laid one of his large hands on Sour's shoulders and smiled, "Worry not, Sour, we shall stop this ritual before any misfortune befalls us."

"I think the weather is quite nice here. The cold air is refreshing and keeps your senses sharp.", Batoh added with his low resonating voice. He found a seat near the middle of the room in a luxurious armchair painted to appear as if it was made of precious metal, or at least he thought it was painted. He looked quite comical as he tried to delicately hold a teacup in the large paws that he calls hands, being careful all the while to not spill his drink upon the deep-buttoned plush upholstery. "You guys should try this tea. It's very... um...", he trailed off as his eyes wandered in search of the correct word.

Death-Lok wrote:

And yes, you can definitely tweak things like our spell selection, skills, and items.

Probably the biggest concern is we have exactly zero team members with Disable Device. Also, our Knowledges aren't great--we only have about a 25% chance of knowing anything about appropriate-challenge-level aberrations, oozes, humanoids, animals, fey, monstrous humanoids, plants, vermin, and outsiders. We're better with undead, dragons, constructs, and magical beasts, but still will only know anything about them around 50% of the time.

Our perception, survival, use magic device, spellcraft and social skills are solid, nothing extraordinary. Sense motive isn't too good.

I can move Heck's skill ranks around some, make him less of a jack of all trades to shore up some of those weaknesses. But it looks like we're going to be stumbling around in the dark fairly often.

I don't have much in my skills that I can switch around. Right now I have points split between two of my knowledge skills, should I push them all toward one knowledge skill instead?

Sounds like the Hungry Mountains is a likely place where all of our characters could have come in contact with each other. If that's the case, Sour Heck could be the one that collected all of us on that mountain pass. That background and the call to arms makes it an easy way to get the 4 of us together for a common cause.

That works for me. Sour and Zolaire, what do you guys think?

Batoh would have stuck around Ravengro for awhile to before heading south. Caliphas is a good meeting point if you're heading south. If you need a travel companion, Batoh would be willing to travel south. Our path would probably take us down through Andoran and then we could find boats leading to Cassomir and Merab out of the port in Almas. At least that would be Batoh's travel route.

I'm sure there would be plenty of places for Natalya and Batoh to encounter Sour Heck while travelling from Ravengro to Caliphas. Maybe through one of the passes through the Hungry Mountains? Or we could have all met up in Caliphas and Sour could have changed our minds before we left on the boats? So many posibilities....

I think Natalya and Batoh were both invited to Professor Lorrimor's funeral in our backstories. If Natalya is up for it, Batoh could have met her there either in passing or as a companion from the start of the adventure.

After that though I'm sure Batoh would have been wandering around Ustalav (possibly trying to find a way back home to Taldor). If he had encountered Sour Heck on his travels, Batoh would have definitely offered his sword in the fight to oppose evil.

Thanks for having me. I think this is gonna be a lot of fun!