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By the way, Seamus, the song I was referencing in the post about the hammer: Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles.
Bayani continues rubbing his wounded eyes, waiting for the effects to wear off. Over time, he gradually becomes able to see again, then looks over the loot. "This silver amulet looks like a holy or unholy symbol, but I don't know of what deity. It's a pick with a skull on it. Some minor evil deity associated with death, I imagine."
"Yes, this is very painful but it will pass," Bayani says, involuntary tears trickling down his cheeks from his wounded eyes.
"Good boy, good bAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Bayani says as his attempt to coax the creature fail miserably. He rubs his eyes furiously, then hears a loud SPLUT as Seamus's lucern hammer came down upon its head, and Seamus's lucern hammer made sure that it was dead.
Bayani throws up a hand to shield his eyes as he draws his rapier.
"It looks like it maybe was tamed by someone at some point, given that brand and hood -- Down! Stay! Good boy!"
"Ugh, slime molds! Just little ones though, not quite as bad as I thought at first. Watch out, though, they can dissolve flesh off your bones!"
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"Wait, don't touch them..."
"Seamus, do you have a rope to toss down to us?"
Bayani offers his opinion when the issue of technology comes up as they walk. "Some of the mechanisms the Technic League have found show an indication of intelligence beyond what a mere clockwork could display. I would not be surprised to find that some such devices, were we to play a game where the device tried to pretend to be a humanoid, and we were to ask questions to try to figure out what we were talking to, a humanoid or a device, would fool us as often as not, or even more. And if a device can produce the appearance of a humanoid thinking, why can we not say that such a device is itself thinking? Ah, this is all irrelevant to the task we have at hand."
Bayani follows close behind Seamus.
"Gremlins? Hmm."
"Let's not be impatient -- we should fully understand the ramifications of this before we decide to depend on it."
"Well! Your father never told me he had a secret room under the tavern! I guess if he told me it wouldn't be all that secret anymore, though. That's quite a boon. Let us see this room, and then prepare to begin the rescue mission!"
"The League would make sense, but it could be any of a number of other groups. The wall of skymetal, though... It must be another fragment of the Silver Mount from the Rain of Stars. Any assistance we could gain would be most welcome. Val, or Dame Freddert, if there is anything else specific you'd like us to do in this search, let us know now."
"I don't know what they do, but it doesn't seem like this thing will be able to hurt us further in any case. Val, your father is a good man, and I don't think I can let him just disappear without making some kind of attempt to find him. Would you like to come with us?" -Posted with Wayfinder
Bayani examines the metal contraption as well.
Pseudo-Random Number Generator
Bayani drinks a Shield extract and steps to one side of the robot, trying to distract it by giving it more targets.
"Aim for vulnerable joints and openings, and if anyone can create electrical energy to attack it, that would be most optimal!"
Bayani runs towards the nearest door in Baine's house, drawing his dagger. "That sounds like Val, I pray she is alright!"
Bayani follows a little more slowly, looking around the tavern to see if anyone reacts in a way different from what one would expect. -Posted with Wayfinder
"Oh, indubitably, Ori -- the thought had occurred to me as well, except that I just saw her duck out the door. So... if she was involved in some way, the dwarf just told her exactly what we plan to do. Seems like some stereotypes are at least sometimes accurate. Tell you what, m'dear, if you hear anything more about her, make sure to let me know." When Balgrim makes his statement, Bayani aggrees: "Purple hair is very rare among humans, true, so the principle of Gardan's Dagger indicates the most likely hypothesis is that that woman and the one we just saw are one and the same."
"I am if you'll join me. What I mean to say is, there's no reason to assume Khonnir has been taken prisoner by some evil clockwork army. We may be able to rescue him easily. Sorry, I do tend to ramble a bit when I drink."
Bayani rubs the ear closest to Balgrim. "Quite a set of lungs you have." He takes a sip of the sky-beer and considers the possibilities. "It could be as simple as Khonnir has fallen and suffered an injury that makes him unable to return to the entrance. He is an older human, and with no offense intended, you folk do lose some resiliency as you age."
"Anything worth doing is worth doing with a bit of good wine in you. Well, that doesn't quite describe this stuff, though," Bayani comments softly. He notices Merelinda taking Oriana's side against the thugs, and decides it'd be best to back her up. He stands up, moving next to Mere, and says, "Aye, she's no wench, she's a fine barmaid, so apologies are needed - which are in your own best interest as she determines how good your drinks are when you order," Bayani makes a rational argument in favor of politeness to serving staff.
Bayani also studies the man who spoke carefully, imagining how he'd move in a fight, preparing for the possibility of a brawl.
"Well, as I see it, we have two choices. One," he says, holding up a slender index finger, "Get drunk and find someone sexy and available to forget our troubles with, or two," holding a second finger up, "find some comrades with more courage than sense and go after him. Although I suppose one could combine the two, get drunk and find comrades who are sexy, available, AND have more courage than sense."
Bayani is nursing a glass of cheap wine -- he is unable to afford anything better with his patron missing -- and is apparently in a foul mood. He glances around at the revelry going on in the tavern, and grouses to Seamus, sitting nearby, "Not a bit of concern in these folks for Khonnir, they're just worried their garbage disposal isn't operating. Proper sanitation practice is well known in most parts of the world, but here they just dump it in the torch and assume it's going to sustain them forever. Nethys take uncurious fools!"
Ah, the tavern is owned by the wizard, that's pretty cool. Works for Bayani spending time there, and in fact it's probably where he has a room -- his employment with Baine probably includes room and board at the tavern.
Bayani would certainly have frequented the tavern, for meals and entertainment, and probably would have chatted with Seamus on many occasions. I am ready. -Posted with Wayfinder
Bayani is updated to his new state as an Investigator.
Um. The character or the player?
Hee! So we can do drawbacks right? A few quick questions about some corner cases with the investigator: Can the investigator activate spell-trigger items like an alchemist can? It seems logical but the class lacks the specific wording enabling it. Can an investigator take Brew Potion as a feat and use his extracts to create potions? Likewise can he take other item creation feats? If later on I take Kirin Style and Kirin strike as feats, can I keep the style active at all times, rather than having to enter it as a swift action at the beginning of combat? Is anyone interested in being a close friend, family member, or something like that?
Are we using drawbacks still?
The investigator could make very good use of firearms I suppose! I'd probably take a level of gunslinger or something when it comes to that.
Guns work great if you are a gunslinger. The most important part of the way guns work in pathfinder is misfires and reloading. If you're a gunslinger, or a class that works with guns similar to a gunslinger, you can get class features that let you reload faster, reduce misfire rates, and clear misfires faster. Otherwise they're not practical. Gunslingers also get Dex to damage with guns at level 5, which is key to doing lots of damage. I thought about doing a myrmidarch magus who starts out with bows and changes to guns later, but the myrmidarch gives up too much and ranged spellstrike doesn't really work until you can quicken spells like Scorching Ray, letting you do a full attack with all the rays.
I'll play an investigator as long as someone else is covering the arcane caster role. Investigator just isn't good enough in that role by himself. Otherwise I'll play something else.
Iomedae is a little of an unusual choice for Iron Gods but hey whatever works for you. I'm considering an investigator. Skills would be useful.
Warpriest of whom, Mere? I'm going to stick with Bayani as the character but change to some other sort of fighty caster, perhaps a magus or an arcanist.
Not a big deal for me either. I've got a PbP RoW, Skulls&Shackles, Kingmaker, Curse of the Crimson Throne, and second darkness game in progress. I wouldn't want to duplicate any of those. I've already got some characters worked out for a few other APs, but I'd be happy with IG, WotR, or whatever else we want to use. Even Giantslayer if you have a subscription and expect to be getting the first volume soon.
Bayani draws two Chakrams and walks behind Klorak, keeping a close eye on the wizard as well as looking around for any danger.
"I can't think of one called the Traveler, but Triaxis is known as the Wanderer -- is that the one you mean? Your astrological traditions may differ from those I was taught. The seventh -- or sixth depending on how one counts Eox -- from the Sun."
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