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Coross sees the hobgoblin land two crushing blows on Hack and waves his hand while the creature his shoulder chitters vaguely malevolently before creeping into the brush.
Creature on Coross' shoulders whips its head around and hisses in the direction of the sound.
So a total of 8 new HP.
Coross' familiar seems to agree with Garlon that goblins would be pretty delicious.
Coross looks around. Well we'll leave you to those traps then; thank you for pointing us in the right direction. Nice place you have here. There may or may not be a note of sarcasm in his second sentence, but wither or not he is sincere, the odd animal perched on his shoulder begins making a sound which could be mistaken for a chuckle.
Well then gentlemen. I am Coross Archorious Valerius Kelson, rightful scion of the House of Kelson. I cannot help but notice that you have not volunteered your names, however. Coross gives a brief nod of acknowledgement to the woman who had been menaced by goblins. M'lady, I hope that you are unharmed from your ordeal.
The man in the trees emerges into the light. He is fairly tall and has oddly colored eyes. He is wearing trousers and a large bulky assh around his torso. On his shoulder sits a creature like none you have ever seen before. It is small and covered in downy jet black feathers, with eyes the same color as its master's and a maw full of tiny teeth. Man and beast alike look you up and down for a moment. What direction would you...gentlemen...happen to be heading in?
The man in the shadows continues to silently observe the fight in the clearing. He smiles faintly at the sight of Clifford lumbering into meele. It is not clear what he is doing but you get the feeling that he is supporting your efforts.
In the trees nearby , you can see the shadowy figure of a man watching the fight unfold. He waves his hand and the goblin who Hack is fighting seems to stagger under an invisible force for a moment.
I think that I will go with the East River Group, just to balance out the arcane casting a little bit. Also I look forward to making friends with Clifford over making potions.
If Garlon is joining the East River group does that mean I should join the Nor-Ham group. That would be interesting to have a party will all of the arcane spellcasters.
I was going to keep exactly which ruin I got my powers in vague, but the Oasis Plateau in the East sounds cool. The Forest of Pain seems a little intense for someone who is only level 1 as you mentioned. Which party am I joining once I get the OK?
Ah, I was not aware of the lack of dinosaurs. I would like to keep the familiar though, since I like the image of the small dinosaur curling around my neck. My backstory does say that I got my powers in an ancient ruin. Maybe I found a fossilized egg and the night that my patron first interacted with me it hatched into my familiar. Does that justify me having a dinosaur familiar even if they no longer exist?
You are correct, the last +4 to initiative comes from my familiar. I found it first in the SRD here. I took me a while to track down the source, but it is under the compsagnathus entry in the Bestiary 2 (pg 90).
The +4 is his perception. I just added that stat there since my familiar might be making Perception checks independently of my but he would probably not make a separate initiative roll. His initiative is the same as mine.
The Cauldron hex gives me +4.
Unfortunately I do not have the required CHA to take the succubus feats, which look very cool, so I think that I will go with the Abyssal Heritor feats. I am unlikely to take more than one or maybe two. DM: I know that you specifically called out CN as risky alignment-wise, but I think that Coross' overall character arc should be a gradual transition from CN to CG, fighting against the (probably evil) nature of his patron who has chosen to grant him spells due to his unknown demonic taint.
Here is Coross Kelson, Human Witch. I am almost done with his profile, I just need to choose feats and traits and buy the rest of my starting equipment. Someone should also check the math on my familiar, it has been a long long time since I played a character with one.
Coross casts his protective spell and his sword begins shimmering with a blur of arcane energy.
Coross awakes at Zachary's cry and looks around. What is it this time. Come out so we can deal with you and then go back to bed where we belong.
Coross moves through the ruins towards where the library would have been, trying not to look at the faces of people he knew, which is difficult since the entire student body of the academy is scattered around dead. He mechanically picks over the remains for any books which may be of value (ie, spellbooks, books about the gods/demons/creation myths/crystals) that people had grabbed in their haste to escape.
Coross is torn away from his contemplation of the crysatal in his hand by the sight of the mountain coming down around the academy. He runs alongside Skender. We need to get as many people as possible out and have them rescue what they can of the academy! Tell everyone go gather up what books and scrolls and magic items they can!.
Coross picks through the remains of the dragon, clearly amused that he had something to do with making a dragon explode. As everyone seems to be leaving he looks up. Oh, time to be off then. Very well. He moves to leave through the new tunnel, still flexing his hand around the facinating crystal now embedded in it.
Ooh, a name. Makes it that much easier for us to be immortalized in legend...Anyone have any ideas?
Coross is definitely far more interested in the crystal which is now part of his hand than even the appearance of a deity before them. He appears to be trying to channel his spells through it to dubious effect. Godsbane? What is this power which it siphons exatly, and how can we use it?
Coross considers what the bird has said for a moment and examines the crystal now embedded in his hand. Was it your will which sent me this sword, to bring me here? He gestures with his clearly unatural sword. Did you bring all of us here? What do you need of us?
Coross runs over to Skender and is clearly relieved to see him still breathing. I agree that we should stay here at least untill Skender wakes. Also it will give us time to study this dragon, and its relation to the other crystal creatures.
Seeing Skender fall, and with a quick glance to see that he is being ministered to by Darche, Coross redoubles his efforts against the dragon, he stabs again with his sword at the Dragon's face, while his hand crackles with an eldritch arc of electricity. As the dragon flinches from his sword strike, Coross plants the ball of energy directly in the creature's eye. Spell (DC 16):
Shocking Grasp
Coross jumps to the side and aims a precise slash at the dragon's snout.
Coross leaps sideways as the dragon breaths it's breath weapon, and comes out of his roll within striking distance of the dragon, his sword shimmering with arcane energy. He swings at the dragon, and the light from his sword sends rainbows around the cavern as it reflects off the crystalline dragon.
Coross continues to look at the dragon in fascination. What are you? Besides angry that is. He says to no one in particular as he prepares for battle. He casts a familiar spell and moves to interpose himself between the dragon and the rest of the party. Spell (DC 16):
Sheild
Coross walks around the crystal, looking at the blow which seems to have damaged it.
Coross advances into the cave next to Skender, his sword held up with Light cast on it to provide illumination.
Coross has been walking with Rafael, behind the rest of the group, but seeing the cavern he runs forward to the rest of the group. to get a better look.
Why thank you. I don't mind if I do. As he munches on a peice of trail rations, Coross comes over and asks for some of the water that Rafael is creating.
Coross has been leafing through his spellbook and muttering under his breath, preparing spells. When he sees the rest of the party getting ready to break camp, he closes the book and returns it to it's place strapped to his belt opposite his sword.
Coross then notices that the crystals along the walls have changed color during the night. Does anybody remember what color the walls were yesterday? I think they changed during the night.
As the hours go past, Coross pulls a book out of his pack, entitled The Collected Drama and Romance of Valafar and resumes reading where he had presumably left off reading before. He occasionally look up from his book to shoot a glance up and down the hall. Looking over his shoulder, it appears the page he is on contains an illustration of a Knight being dismembered by some sort of monster.
Coross looks up and down the corridor, contemplating the layout of the area. Can we erect a barricades of some sort to block the passage from both directions? That would make me at least feel a little more secure.
Cooss looks up and down the length of the passageway. If we found a safe place to make camp, we could use it as a base to explore the extent of these caves. Also I must admit I did not think to prepapre appropriate spells for our situation. He holds up his spellbook. Tomorrow I would be able to prepare some more useful magics.
Coross sheathes his sword again with a flourish, and looks around at his and Skender's handiwork, obviously pleased with himself. @Skender: Well, this is my kind of trip now. Best one I've been on. Coross then bends down and picks up the severed head of the creature that he had just killed, giving it a cursory examination before moving to take samples from it like Rafael suggested. He carefully uses a small knife to pry a sliver off of the head into one of the vials and then takes a sample of the body on the floor in another vial, each of which is carefully labeled "head" and "body" respectively.
@Rafael: Here you go, Professor Ler'it. I'm as interested to analyze these as you are.
Coross tosses his sword to the other hand as he kicks the pile of crystals which moments before had been attempting to evicerate him. He returns Skender's handshake. I wouldn't have it any other way.
That sounds like a really good idea since we are the party's meele. We'll have plenty of time to pick the feats for whatever strategies seem to work best.
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