Always happy to play in another one!
What stopped me is that I am often unwilling to stop talking and start fighting, and the guy does semi legally have a point.
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Perhaps we can uncover more clues in other areas? Ciapha suggest, not saying "Paintfellow" out loud for a change.
sense motive 27 for Mr. Paintfellow, probably free for the party: Ciapha tries to make him the most pissed at her, and not at Telias whom Ciapha assumes to be less capable of taking a sudden assault.
Ciapha gives Mr. Paintfellow an almost beatific smile.
Art criticsCiapha chuckles. The situation may be more complex then you assume Mr. Telias
There are multiple actors in the little play, Mr. Gauthfellow, Monsiuer Paintfellow and Mr. Archerus at the least. The question of who of these acteurs acually created Mr. Monsieuer Paintfellow has not yet conclusively answered, nor is une construct neccessarily to blame for the deed of his creator. I would propose to investigate other areas before casting. She speaks, causually but sensually twirling her hair, which suddenly seems far more shiny, around one of her fingers. She pauses Judgement She finishes with an omnious tone. I let someone else speak through me, and I do receive a degree of compensation if I do so. I concurr with her that I am unwilling to "cast judgement" based on the currently available information. Ciapha says in her normal tone, subtly moving between Mr. Paintfellow and Telias. Who is Mr. Acherus? Ciapha thinks as she does so.
Any of these for sale? Also, are you taking comissions?
Ciapha banters raising an eyebrow.
Not quite sure what to do, mass perception checks and next room?
Îl găsesc destul de amuzant. Ai înțeles ce a fost de râs cu acel Lich bolnav de dragoste care a făcut un Trompe De Loil cu Lady Nocticula? Lich-ul este incredibil de mort, adică mult mai mult decât înainte, Nocticula are o nouă sosie, una care chiar îi poate imita abilitățile. Din câte am înțeles, astfel de tablouri nu au neapărat suflet, dar pot fi simțitoare, sau pot deveni pe deplin simțitoare dacă sunt înzestrate cu suficientă individualitate inițială. Dacă își depășește designul și nu ne trădează, sunt dispus să îl tratez ca pe o ființă vie.
Celestial:
I find him kind of amusing. Did you get the gist of the hilarity with that love-sick-Lich making a Trompe De Loil of Lady Nocticula? The Lich is incredibly dead, as in much much more so then before, Nocticula has a new double, one that can actually mimick her abilities. My understanding is that such paintings do not neccessarily have souls, but that they can be sentient, or become fully sentient if endowed with enough initial individuality. If he overcomes his design and does not betray us, I am willing to treat him as a living being. Ciapha answers.
Also, if a sudden demonic hitsquad pops in, and I murder most of them, and you sell the surprisingly multicolored blood and goo stains resulting from that as "your painting" then I am demanding a full 50% commision from the resulting sales.
Ciapha is cocky, not trusting. She picked up her grannys catchphrase of "I give your inevietable but badly executed betrayal a 2 out of 10".
Ciapha Autobiography is titled "bad idea" so go nuts.
I post to make people laugh :). Horrible Horrible puns await him should he turn on us!
Yeap, sure do. As does the lovely Lady over there. She points at Valtyra.
Eh, I havent even tried intimidating anyone yet? Also, I am very much not brick shaped, as a surprisingly diverse cast of admirers would indeed state. Ciapha chuckles The guy would fit in reasonable well in Abyssal A-Town, could last some weeks. She thinks as she speaks. She does put herself between Mr. Paintfellow and Telias as she does so.
You want me to make people frown? Easy. Buckle up for some Demon humor. Ciapha, getting out of her bloodrage and shrinking to medium size, speaks.
You see, I did make the mistake of asking my dear granny to tell me a joke so... Bob the dretch waddles through the streets of Alyushinyrra. Suddenly he sees his partner-in-crime Tim the Dretch, at a "Soul-Fuel-station", and with a soul-fuel-tap inserted in his well, anal orrifice. She pauses Hi Tim Bob Says
Is he one of these Trompe L’oeil things? They are actually outlawed in Alyushinyrra, after Socothbenoth painted Lady Nocticula 6 times and tried to get the copies to murder the original. They mostly failed and disappeared, or at least everyone thinks they did. Ciapha quips quite conversationally. Although, according to Granny 2 of the Trompe Loeils may have turned against their "creator", and serve their erstwhile target, it is my understanding that they may well have a degree of free will and agency. She continues while absentmindedly using the reflection of her Falchion to correct her hairdo.
sense motive 32:
The intonation is a bit too flat, using her Falchion as a mirror is out of character for her. She seems to aim to frazzle him further, and perhaps get him to turn on his creator, mostly for gathering more information. Edit: Forgot to roll sense motive
Assuming I beat him with that for fun: Download of the Lie detection App complete, praise the Lady in Shadows Only Ciapha heard her internal assistant speak. The f++*, I never gave it download permissions into my conciousness She thought. Subject "Mr. Gauthfellow displays the following telltale tales of lying, elevated eye movement, too regular breath patterns for an elderly man face to face with you while only hitting for d8+2, optical glitch when being looked at in the infrared sprectrum at the right angle... Her Phantom informs her. Thats pretty useful, but whats a D8+2 Ciapha inquires Beginning download of Meta-App She receives an answer ABORT DOWNLOAD, KEEP THE ACCURSED META KNOWLEDGE AWAY FROM ME, IT WILL LEAD TO MY TOTAL MUNCHKINIZATION OTHERWISE Aborting download So, the bugger is a painting?
Rich? Good Sir, are you impinging my mercenary credentials? Adding together acclaimed Hag kills, verified by organizations such as the Grey Gardeners of Galt, the Eagle knights of Andoran, the Pathfinder lodge or Alyushinyrras main Assassins guild, I am by now to be credited with 3 full Covens and one 1 extra Hag on top, which isnt the highest hag total by Mortals, currently alive, from Golarion, but I am in the top 10.
Hmm, as a professional interplanetary mercenary, the level of enemies so far is considerably below what I faced in Alyushinyrra but above what I faced during some incidients in Galt. Who or what causes this I can not attest based on current levels of knowledge, but the magical resources committed are considerable. I would tentatively exclude Hag covens from the list of feasible culplrits, on accounts of a lack of cackling as well as because Hags have a strong urge to be physically present when murdering, and also consider a demonic influence to be unlikely, as there have been insufficient mental attacks for that. Ciapha speaks to back up Telias tale.
I am at least pretty sure the guy is not Ciapha's evil grandma!
As far as I understand it: 1: We were fighting the Barb painting
Greetings Mr. ? Ciapha, cleaining paint of her blade, says to the new arrival. The servant constructs are pretty inferior enemies, the Barbarian on was pretty meaty though.
@GM if that does not ping the new arrival as supsicious, and if noone signals to Ciapha to keep Bloodraging, she will end her Bloodrage.
No need to apologize for things outside of your control! On an unrelated sidenote: Ciapha and Val are both models and know each other from that. Are there other people knowing each other? Ciaphas TLDR background is that she is a Callistria worshipping Model-Mercenary who has a crazy powerful demon grandmother. She is at beast opportunistically attached to the concept of observable reality, pretty fun at most parties, likes barbecue and hates hags, especially of the barbecue ruining variety. She also holds the Absalom record for farthest distance a grabby halfling bard got thrown.
Contact outside, voice inconsistent with Telias, Martyn, Val, you first? I am currently enlarged and not the most mobile.
Sense motive DC20, 15 for Val: In contrast to other Bloodragers, Ciapha seems to become more calm and collected when Bloodraging.
That being my next action is fine!
Ciapa power attacks into the remaining servant, as soon as she is up.
Ciapha bulks up, before unleashing heavy blows, lethally, and the construct closest to her, her attacks being far more fluent when she does not have to squeeze.
If you arent a constructs, and thats how you were born, well, I will put you out of your misery. AoOs:
I have bloodraged for dex, and thus have 4+1-1=4 AoOs.
Să le cerem să se arate, sau să lovim cu nonlealitate în timp ce ei cred că nu-i vedem? Celestial:
Do we demand they show themselfs, or do we strike nonlethally while they think we do not see them?
Ciapha gives a quick nod in Martins direction, clearly thankfull for the information. Val, există vreun motiv pentru care ar trebui să dau foc la aceste umflături?
She asks Val, whom she knows to be considerably wiser then her, a question in a language she does not think the possible enemy would speak. Val: You remember from a barbecue that Ciaphas Burning hands spells are something else, especially if she is raging.
May your foes be blinded by your glimmering abs Ciapha speaks with reverence to Valtyra, wishing to have her have a chuckle after a near death experience.
Wishing to prevent doors, the enemy of all play by posts, from delaying their progress longer then fighting a young black dragon would, Ciapha moves a bit past the door on the left, and phantomimes her readiness to open it in 10 seconds. And waiting for anoher one to also approach the door. She listens in meanwhile, having moved their as "Stealthily" as she can.
The enemy came from the north. I could take point, without needing a light source, but that would preclude me from interfering with attacks by other enemies. Ciapha offers.
I actually asked for an "Amicus Curae" assesment of the Abadarian inqusition about the legality of extraplanar mercenary contracts.
If not for your bodyguard action Ciapha, I'd be at -7hp right now. Happy it worked! I thought you were at full hp before, which is why ciapha was like "nah you would have lived" :).
You are a tought cookie, Val, would have survived that. Ciapha says.
Kn Planes 32: From the roundabout description, no eyes, really good with claws, normally eschews direct fighting, "Granny" is probably a Lilitu.
Черт возьми, Вэл, ты в порядке?
Switching back to common, and knowing a bit of Valtyras capabilities in terms of healing, she exists her bloodrage and announces I need 36 seconds of a breather, lets protect Val while she fixes herself back up.
I have a wand of infernal healing, but I know you dont like that and have better healing stuff available, but feel free to use it if you want She whispers to val, pointing at a wand in her belt.
Just did so, I did negate the first, no amount of aid another stacking would negate the second. I put next rounds aid into a GM only spoiler. Mechanically for the party: It triggers as soon as an ally is attacked, but before the dice is rolled, so it goes off immidiatly, against the enemies first 2 attacks, Ciapha can not interfere with the third one currently (only has 2 AoOs while enlarged), but may be able to do so in other fights (if I distribute my urban bloodrage differently I can boost dex, or I can not enlarge). It does fail on a nat 1, so it is not 100% certain.
Ciapha, though squeezing, narrowly manages to stop the first blow on Val, but vinces as the image inficted a devastating hit on her. Empty night, you are going down
Inflicting sizeable damage upon it. Bodyguard next turn if applicable, GM only: Ciapha will use her AoOs to counter its blows, she only has 2, and she uses them as soon as an adjacent ally is attacked, meaning that the guys 3rd iterative is unaffected by it. Fails!, Aid another uses to hit modifiers, therefor it is imho subject to fails on a nat 1.
And then tries to knock him out.
Ciapha moves to to interpose herself between the soon charging wildman and the party, letting Martyn past her as she thinks he reach is sufficiently larger then his.
She is however, unwilling to directly murder someone who is just security.
Now being large and having a reach weapon, she readies a hopefully devastating strike once the avdversary charges.
readied attack at 20 feet, AoO as target moves from 20 to 15 feet:
[ooc]One round of bloodrage, +4 to STR, used her AC decreases by 2 due to size increase and the accompanying Dex reduction variable stats: AC decreased by 2 to currently 23, CMD increased by 2 due to +4 STR-2Dex and the size increase, to 29.
Awesome sauce, I dont currently see the bad guy, and I dont have control of my token, but lets show our might :). Also, is the floor high enough for a large creature, or would I be squeezing?
Ciapha has dimdweller for darkvision 60. Its a pretty good alternate racial trait, although it costs skilled.
Ciapha moves in front of Telias, to assist others in their search
Hi Mr. Stag, have you heard that walking flame throwers like me are really bad enemies for tapestries? Can you talk? Perhaps we can find a degree of common cause Lucy outright asks the Stag tapestry. My dear Granny was wearing an Adherer shroud, but not smelly and silky, as a sash, and a surprise for assassins, wonder if that thing attacks like that as well She does try to assess the tapestries dimensions.
Likely foes upstairs? Well well, just stand by and let the creep-far-throw-champion handle smeshing related things She grins as he arms elongate and a invisible barrier appears around her.
Tasteless Tapestries? Did you bite them to know they are tasteless? Ciapha inquires. Is that what you need muscles for? Claws I can offer, but biting is too risky, too many things out there you absolutely dont want to be biting. She chuckles.
Just point me at fools and I smash them. Fill me up on why the smeshing was/is happening later. I spend some renumerated family time with my great grandmother, at her place.
Martin, that is Valtyra, Valtyra, that is Martin, from what I get also good at face smeshing. val: Renumerated means it was a mercenary contract. Her great grandmother would be the source of her Abyssal bloodline. From what you understand a demonic noble in Alysushinyrra.
Ciapha walks in, weapon not drawn yet, faces Valtyra and says
Val: You know she is a Bloodrager, can grow claws, and automatically increase her size. You also know that she likes violence, and is good at it.
Yeap Ciapha heads for the inside as well, feeling quite confident about the pairs abilities to handle a dog non-lethally. |