I've been scarce lately too, mostly stress about the upcoming election and then more stress about the outcome. But I'll keep coming back, and I apologize if I've delayed anything about the game.
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Elen does the best she can to find food in the frozen wilds, taking advantage of her ability to ignore the cold to run barefoot through the snow and dig for anything she can find.
No particular interest in the belt. I mean, long-term it'd be good, but Dexterity is more important to Elen than constitution at the moment.
Elen is quiet during most of the meeting with the villagers, finding herself tongue-tied by shyness at the many strange humans. Oddly, she finds no such feelings when speaking to Warden -- perhaps it is so different from elves and humans that it doesn't make her feel self-conscious. Earlier conversation with Warden and Droviz: "In nearly all cases, it is unholy. Ragnar... seems to be unique. I've never encountered or heard of a necromancer who is followed around by lingering spirits of the dead, and rather than trapping a fragment of the original living creature's soul, gives the spirits who follow him the power to take on the bodies as if they were clothing."
Sorry I haven't been posting. Computer is still on the fritz. New hardware on its way, hopefully will be up and running later this week.
"Perhaps you could help us, then... we've been charged with a greater purpose than just closing the portals. Burdened, one might say."
"Most of the unliving are created by evil beings looking to cause destruction and fear, and they do this by trapping the soul -- either the whole thing, in the case of sentient undead, or a fragment of it, in the case of mindless undead, in the dead body. That's why most undead are evil, and why people fear them."
"Yes... I know you're giving it to one of your spirits to inhabit, so it's not the same as a normal necromancer, but it's still giving me the creepy crawlies. As cold as it is, it won't decay, which makes it less unpleasant to be around, but Nadya might mistake it for her daughter still alive, which would be cruel to her." "Ragnar, if we do find the spirit of Thora around somewhere, and she inhabits the body, would she even be able to act like she did while she was alive?"
"Ragnar, my friend, are you looking for the shade of Thora?" When Droviz asks, Elen remembers her early training for the Desnan priesthood, before she left on her journeys. "Lady, Tiny voice, like the hidden sounds that moths make, call to me in the silence of the night. Like moths beating their wings against the screen, You beat against the shutters of my mind, demanding entrance. The candle of the moon is dark, granting no direction. Yet, veiled though You are, Your nearness brushes me like fragile wings against the fire’s flame. New beginnings are Your gift, to unfold as the many-petalled moon, or the iridescent wings of Your desire." "I don't remember the prayer for death, but that's the prayer for rebirth of the new moon, and I hope that wherever her soul is now, it feels reborn."
I can't quite update my character yet because herolab is on my busted PC. But at least I can post! Went through an entire level without preparing spells -- imagine that!
My computer has developed major issues and I will need to try to get my backup laptop working. Please bot me if needed. -Posted with Wayfinder
Elen studies the lines, trying to see if there are portals linked elsewhere on Golarion.
"Feral part... an animal companion? Fang, you said? What kind of creature is Fang?"
"Did we find a key that might fit those shackles?" -Posted with Wayfinder
I think it might be a treant. I'll try the sylvan tongue, Elen signs to Droviz. Sylvan:
"Greetings, friend. You seem to be a prisoner here. Would you like our help?" When she gets the opportunity, Elen will examine the magical aura in the crate. (+2 to the spellcraft roll if identifying magical items applies.)
I think Elen would like the cloak and the potion of fly.
I couldn't find the loot tracker at first. Let me look at things and I'll get back to you today.
"I'm not talking about undead, right, I'm talking about trapping souls in a doll, that's a totally different thing. The spirits of the dead that follow you, Ragnar, aren't trapped. They aren't being prevented from following their destiny -- this is their destiny. "
Elen listens without qualm as Krystae reveals her role as a witch hunter. She seems to focus on the 'evil witch' part most intently. "If the child's soul was trapped in the doll, as seems likely, we did her a favor in releasing her. She went on to the boneyard, most likely, or perhaps is still in the Ether, waiting for us to return to her mother. I do not think any soul would wish to remain in such a prison." "Krystae, do not feel that you have failed. You didn't recognize what the doll was, but in the end, we would have done the same thing we did anyway -- destroyed the doll and released the dead child's soul to the afterlife she is due. I was training for the desnan priesthood myself before I left Kyonin, and I remember learning of the river of souls and how angry Pharasma and the other great deities are to those who would prevent souls from following their natural path."
I'll make a post Tuesday to get back into the swing of things. Sorry for the delay.
Elen starts casting Enlarge Person on Ragnar.
"She's speaking to the ravens, telling them to attack!"
Elen can't see the spellcaster, so...
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"You'll have to tell me more about her later," Elen murmurs, glad for the distraction from her fears. "Any mirror could be one of the magic mirrors the witches watch through. Not all mirrors are, I don't think." Just in case, if they see any mirrors, Elen will detect magic to see if they radiate it.
Elen can't help feeling proud of the way Droviz shows not the least bit of fear. She herself can't help being a little bit terrified of how she is in the land that her powerful, wise mentor had to flee. "Is there any possibility that the girl whom the doppelganger was imitating is still alive?" she wonders out loud.
"You're lying!" Elen cries with another haunting, eldritch laugh.
Elen curses the creature to weaken its attacks. She then summons her eldritch laugh, hauntingly hanging in the air.
"Divination. Perhaps someone is scrying on her? If so, we're already seen," she whispers to the others.
Elen, too, scans the room and the girl along with it. "Don't worry, child, we're doing this to protect you, there's dangerous magic here."
Elen hugs Droviz and nods vigorously at whatever it was he just whispered in her ear.
Axiously, Elen begins pulling the potions from the guards pouches, checking them to make sure they're healing, and all but pouring them down Droviz's throat. "You had me worried, all that blood," she whispers to him. She also hands potions to Ragnar when she notices his fatigue and injuries.
Elen brings down a curse of bad luck on the captain as well, laughing with a shrill, eldritch cackle that rings in her ears.
Elen targets the sergeant with Slumber.
"One of them is about to get much bigger!"
Elen targets one of the sergeants with her sleeping hex.
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Elen targets the nearest guard with a sleep hex. "Move forward, close on that spellcaster! We need to stop him from casting more spells!"
Elen, too, aims a shot, though a little less accurate than Krystae's.
I think bombs have a range increment of 20 ft. Linky
Elen uses a scroll of Mage Armor to protect herself.
The robe would be useful for almost any of us to wear. I'd claim it except part of Elen's schtick is walking around in winter weather wearing nothing but a summer dress, and putting on warmer clothes feels like she'd be going against her teachings.
Alchemists can't use spell-completion items like scrolls, though. Only Spell-trigger items like wands and staves. I guess all the scrolls will go to Elen since she's the only one who can use them.
So Krystae and Ragnar wouldn't be able to use them without multiple UMD checks right?
Are you making distinction between divine and arcane scrolls, GM? -Posted with Wayfinder
I guess we're all adapting to updates on this campaign no longer taking 2 weeks between them. That's a huge haul. Fortunately the bag of holding ought to hold the bulky items. Can we put the cauldron in it as well? Finally, do you need us to do spellcraft checks to identify it all? |