Here is Kayri_Khaos' submission, an Elven Investigator.
Once I've finished typing up her background and description I'll join in the RP.
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I miss this game Same :( Me too. :( Do you think we should consider recruiting a new GM?
Hope everything is ok. LCF hasn't been on, so you haven't missed anything. Thanks, I just need to take better care of myself. I hope he's ok too.
Hi all, I am terribly sorry for disappearing for so long. I just got out of hospital and have been without internet access for two weeks. I’m getting myself back together and it’ll take me a few days to catch up. Please bear with me while I do so. Once again, I apologize for my absence.
Checking in?
Without a word Chaetris ascends to the top of the stairs and looses her arrow at the necromancer. Enough talk. He's not listening.
PaleDim, welcome aboard. We do (in our way) have the four standards covered. As we level I should also be able to assist in the buffing and healing, but for now I can only affect myself. Go with whatever you're comfortable with. Make something you'll enjoy playing. With the Feat Tax Rules, we'll all be pretty good at combat later on when we need it.
Chaetris lays a hand on Percival's shoulder, with quiet, gentle words she gives what comfort she can. "Look, I know you're in a darkness you haven't had to deal with in a very long time. We all learned how to see in the dark down there with the dwarves. But right now, we need you. This Filge guy is worse than all the corrupt mine foremen in town. We have an opportunity, (as Pythia would say, a destiny) make things better here. You can still help do that."
I also totally understand the whole herding cats horror. Hopefully you'll be able to get some rest soon. And sometime after that a post. Good luck!
Chaetris pulls out her own bow and readies an arrow. "Ok, lets do this." She looks over at Percival, "Are you going to be ok?" Concern evident on her face.
Chaetris sighs. "Pythia, stay with them. Hopefully his sight with return soon and whatever is affecting Cerise will pass. I'm going to go make sure Kael is ok." She follows the sounds of his terrified screams.
Chaetris watches the chaos all around her. "I think we'd better go after Kael. We'll be better off if we stick together. Percy, grab Cerise and get her down the stairs." She reaches out and takes Pythia's arm. "C'mon, we have to go this way now. We'll come back and finish them."
I’m on board with bringing in a new player. As for a tactical regrouping, that may be harder than it sounds. But I’m up for it. If Percival grabs Cerise, I can nudge Pythia.
Chaetris drops the other borrowed crossbow and steps forward drawing her rapier. Standing beside her fellow mineworker, she thrusts her blade at the nearest zombie. "I hope this thing works better on zombies than it did on those skeletons."
Dropping the spent crossbow, Chaetris moves further into the room while readying her second borrowed crossbow. Once out of the rotting stench she draws a bead on Filge and lets her second bolt fly.
She mutters to herself in frustration as the bolt flies wildly off target and drops the last of her borrowed weapons.
"Cerise, if we remove Filge, will they stop?" Chaetris steps up to the edge of the stairs and braces the first of her borrowed crossbows there. She aims at Filge and pulls the release.
Chaetris frowns, "Look, we're not here to steal anything. All we want are the four bodies that Smenk's half-orc and his friends brought you. Continuing to use them makes you an accessory to his grave robbing. We're trying to stop a haunting and their well earned rest is standing in our way."
Chaetris takes in the room and the body on the table. "Is your assistant Colderan or Gertia? We found Anders and Bemissa downstairs. Either way, their brother and son wishes to rest with them. And you are standing in the way." She raises the borrowed crossbow and aims it at Filge. "I'm certain that Captian Trask would like a word with you. Please come quietly."
Chaetris carefully ascends the next staircase looking for anything out of the ordinary.
I'm ok either way. For the time being he could simply wind up staying in town. Possibly his dad getting hurt in the mine or ill. He'd probably spend some time helping family. Unless we find that we need more damage output, we can probably manage on our current party. But long term we may find that another set of hands would be useful.
Yup. And that's why we love her. :)
Chaetris eyes the ascending stairs. "I guess there's nothing else to do but go up. Hopefully the last member of the Land family will be up there." She gives Pythia and Percival a sidelong glance. "Along with our destiny."
Chaetris looks back at the others. "Ok. Everything looks pretty safe. Don't touch the head." She gestures to the severed head on the platter. "That's nasty. And it's got some sort of magical trap on it." Taking a step into the room she continues. "Also, try not to step on that rug. It's safe, but it could be valuable if we can keep it clean." She takes a closer look at the desk. "Now this letter could be interesting." She takes a moment to double check that the pile of papers is actually safe before sliding it out from under the others.
"Don't touch anything! We don't know what any of this stuff is, let alone what it might do." Without touching anything, Chaetris begins by checking the stone angel. Then she works her way around the room.
I just noticed the color tags work on my PC but not on my phone. Are they working for you guys? Not working for me, I keep seeing the code.
Having given the lower level a rudimentary search, Chaetris moves to the stairs. "Alright, lets see if this Filge is upstairs. Shall we?"
"Ego stroking, lovely." Chaetris smirks as the undead mockery comes to a firey halt. Master Filge isn't a local to my knowledge. And he definitely has an inferiority complex." Having finished her circuit of the room, she shares her findings with the others. "Nothing's locked, doesn't look like there's any surprises either. Also there's a couple hundred gold worth of silver place settings not the shelves, but I don't know if we should claim it."
Chaetris slowly picks up the spare crossbow. "This is ... ugh." She swallows hard. "This is wrong. Who would do such a thing?" Keeping her crossbow trained on guests at the table, she works her way clockwise along the wall, checking out the doors and the bookshelf.
Chaetris loads a bolt into two of the heavy crossbows and lugs them to the door at the northern end of the hall. Placing one at her feet and aiming the other at the closed door, she whispers to the two men. "Right, it's unlocked and looks to be untrapped. Kael, Percy, who wants to do the honors?"
The three crossbows are heavy crossbows in serviceable shape, the skeletons drop the crossbows and pick up freshly loaded ones.
Nodding to Cerise, Chaetris chips in, "Oh, they could be. Unless they've made a lot of skeletons in here they probably are. But there were four empty graves and only three skeletons. We should expect at least one more." She bends down over the skeletons and picks up a crossbow as well as any bolts she can easily find. "This might be useful." She pulls a chunk of wood and carefully jams it under the stuck door. "We don't need anything sneaking out behind us."
Chaetris shoulders her bow and picks up her pack. Carefully stepping into the room she makes her way to the barricade. She looks over and examines the heaps of skeletal remains. "Huh? I think I need to consider some options for skeletons if we're going to continue this. They seem particularly unaffected by pokey things." She begins to rummage around in the debris looking for something serviceable as a club.
Percival, you around? He hasn't posted in any of his games since Monday. Maybe the server updates broke something in his bookmarks?
Bracing against the doorframe Chaetris aims at the closest skeleton and draws back her bow.
Chaetris finds the pathway and the door free of traps, though the door is locked. (ooc)I took five minutes to do so while Cerise talked to Phee.[/ooc] When Cerise is done with her questions, and everyone has gathered on the landing to enter the observatory, Chaetris kneels down to the lock and pulls her goggles over her eyes. She begins working her makeshift tools at the lock.
As Cerise questions the rough bundle of dead parts, Chaetris backs away and carefully begins examining the stairs as she heads for the door.
Chaetris takes a step back. She looks back and forth between Phee and Cerise a few times before stopping at the dark priestess. "Ok. Can you ask it what we might expect upstairs?"
Chaetris watches as the dark priestess exerts control over the tiny undead thing. "Is it safe? will it let us past? To see if there's anything we can use in there?"
So, I think the important line from Power Over Undead is this: You can channel energy a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Intelligence modifier, but only to use the selected feat. Emphasis mine. (Basically she can't use Channel Energy for anything else.) The other issue is that School Understanding mentions spending a point from the arcane reservoir to increase the duration, but that is basically Instantaneous for this ability. However this would also grant a second 1st level ability from the associated school. If that school were Undead and she gained the Bolster ability, that ability would normally be limited to that of a 1st level wizard, but would be boosted to having her Wizard levels count as Arcanist levels which would count as Wizard levels for the duration of the ability. (I think)
OK, just did a rules dive and here's what I was able to find in the SRD:
The arcanist can select one arcane school from any of the schools available to a character with the arcane school wizard class feature, but does not have to select any opposition schools. The arcanist gains one ability of that arcane school as though she were a 1st-level wizard, using her Charisma modifier in place of her Intelligence modifier for this ability. The ability must be one gained at 1st level and is limited in its use per day to 3 + the arcanist’s Charisma modifier. As a swift action, the arcanist can expend 1 point from her arcane reservoir to bolster her understanding, allowing her to treat her arcanist level as her wizard level for the purpose of using this ability for a number of rounds equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 1). During this time, she also gains use of the other ability gained at 1st level for her selected school. She does not gain any other abilities when using this exploit in this way, such as those gained at 8th level. If the arcanist already has an arcane school (or gains one later), taking this exploit instead allows her arcanist levels to stack with the levels of the class that granted the arcane school when determining the powers and abilities of her arcane school.
As a standard action, you can use one of your uses of channel negative energy to enslave undead within 30 feet. Undead receive a Will save to negate the effect. The DC for this Will save is equal to 10 + 1/2 your cleric level + your Charisma modifier. Undead that fail their saves fall under your control, obeying your commands to the best of their ability, as if under the effects of control undead. Intelligent undead receive a new saving throw each day to resist your command. You can control any number of undead, so long as their total Hit Dice do not exceed your cleric level. If you use channel energy in this way, it has no other effect (it does not heal or harm nearby creatures). If an undead creature is under the control of another creature, you must make an opposed Charisma check whenever your orders conflict. I'm not seeing anything reducing the HD controlled using these abilities. Lots of swapping Arcanist and Wizard and Cleric levels, but nothing limiting or reducing them. Let me know if I'm wrong.
Chaetris pulls the goggles down over her eyes and slides some tools out of her pouch and begins to work on the lock.
Chaetris carefully steps up to the wooden door under the stairs. She takes her time with the examination, making sure to listen for anything on the other side.
Leaving Allustan’s library, Chaetris takes a fond, slow look behind her as they pass through the door. A few stops on the way to unload things found in the crypt and they finally walk into the Feral Dog just before the mines empty into town. She never spent much time in places like this, just long enough to eat before heading back to her bunk to read. Her discomfort keeps her quiet as the others face down the pale half-orc. ------ Approaching the observatory Chaetris keeps an eye on Percival. ”I’m not sure if we want to do this tipsy, but we’re ready when you are." She pats him on the shoulder. "Darkness isn’t much of an issue for us, after all Kael, those of us who cannot see in the dark have their own ways of dealing with it.” She slides a bolt into her crossbow and pulls back the string. ”Best to be prepared.”
Home again at last. It'll take me a little while to catch up. I'll try to have something posted tonight. Sorry for disappearing on you guys.
To all my campaigns, this weekend there was a death in the family. I will be traveling to the funeral this week. I have no idea what my posting capabilities will be. Please bot if necessary.
Chaetris stands and makes a small bow. "I don't think I do. Thank you very much for your time. We have a few more stops to make here in town as well."
Chaetris looks a little chagrined for a moment "Sorry, I didn't mean to just ramble on like that. I have a copy of The Chronicles of Chan on order with Taggin. Just think it's supposed to be here by the end of the week. If that'll help."
Chaetris enters Allustan's home with Kael and Cerise. Stepping into the foyer she doesn't even notice when Allustan's magic dries her. Instead her attention is focused on the library. With her eyes wide she wanders the room gently touching the books and reading the titles before sitting at the table with the former adventurer. Chaetris begins with an awkward stutter. "Um, sir. Thank you. Er, we think we may have found an unexplored crypt. Well, at least unsuccessfully explored anyway." She quickly looks around to make sure no one else is around. Suddenly realizing she may already have said too much. "We may have run into a bit of an issue though." And then the floodgates open and the whole exploration comes pouring out in a mad rush.
Also, if you're trying to be discreet at all, I would go read the descriptions of any of the NPCs you're selling to. Ah yes, if we want to be discreet we'll need to avoid Tyrol Ebberly.
Not as pretty, but these are basically the points I tried to hit. Loot Options Merchants in Diamond Lake that we can sell to or make enquiries with:
----- Shiny Black 'Glass' Shards - Allustan?
[[gibberish]] Dang! That looked fine after I posted it. It was giving me issues with posting at the time. Let me see if I can recreate it
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