I can't take over the campaign at all either, but I also will be happy to continue if I can after as long as it takes until you're ready.
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"Let's get her!" Empheria cries. She maneuvers herself in accordance with James' instructions and shoots a flame through the air at the monster.
"They come out, BOOM! That's what I would do, anyway," Empheria says, nodding sagely.
Empheria's gaze passes over the stone because she has no idea what an altar is. Instead, she looks at the door. "I'm scared," Empheria confesses. "I hear people here, or maybe monsters who can speak. I don't want them to find us before we find them."
"Nice room, but nothing interesting in it," Empheria yawns. "Next?"
After enough time playing, the fun begins to be marred by guilt, and so she finally Empheria says, "We should move on. Ameiko's waiting for us. And the pictures in this book are kinda starting to scare me."
"I'm not ready yet... I mean, I guess if the rest of you are, then I am too," Empheria corrects herself sheepishly.
Empheria remembers the unexplored rooms as soon as James mentions them, but suppresses the memory as soon as Ameiko implicitly approves of entering the room. She walks in after Isaac, picks up the book and looks through it.
"There's no other way forward, right?" Empheria looks around for confirmation, eager to enter the room and eager to justify her eagerness. "Either we go through the room or head back. Vorim seemed fine, so..."
"Ameiko, am I allowed to walk in too?" asks Empheria, who is beginning to feel a bit jealous of Vorin's opportunity to play in the room.
"Thanks Vorin!" Empheria sings when she finds herself cured. "I feel great. Just like I did at the beginning. No rest for me!"
Empheria finally manages to get over her stomach pains to fire a blast of fire, but she's still dizzy and can barely see the goblic, so that it misses wildly.
Between Ameiko's song and the conversation in Goblin, Empheria misses the blood thrown at her and shrieks in pain. She quickly regains control and shoots a missile of fire at the goblin.
Empheria bounds ahead to the east, then remembers that she is supposed to be behind everyone else, and gets back into the formation that had just begun to try to keep up with her.
Empheria shakes her head. "I dunno what he said, but if I had to guess, I would say it was something like 'Go away!'" she proposes. "But then again, he might have been saying 'Yummy, cooked gnome for dinner!' In any case, I'm sure it wasn't 'Nice to meet you!'"
Empheria begins the battle with a bang, firing an enormous explosion which fills the area occupied by both of the guards.
"Is someone trying to capture prisoners?" Empheria gasps. "If I weren't a professional-in-training, I would run away as fast as possible!" She tries to see if anyone is in the room, or kept in the cells.
Empheria snorts with laughter. "Why didn't you intend that pun? It was a good one! Anyway, maybe there's an inscription or something on the statue?" She moves forward to check.
"Yuck!" Empheria exclaims upon seeing the humanoid. She directs a line of fire that spins around her and propels her up, then shoots directly at the monster. For the few moments she has in the air, she tries to get a good glance at whatever was gurgling in the branch.
Empheria brings along two newly-purchased silk ropes to the Glassworks, having followed Ameiko's advice to the letter. Empheria halts at Ameiko's signal and listens. "There's somebody there, she whispers. "I think I hear gurgling, someone sounding really sick. Maybe someone's even trapped there. What should we do?"
"I want a stone just like Vorin has!" Empheria decides as soon as she sees him with the stone whirring around his head. Her plan is soon abandoned when she enters the shop herself, and sees all the trinkets to choose from. She finally decides on buying a cloak . After checking the price of the ropes, she comes back to tell James, "I already have a torch. But I have enough credit left to buy 200 ropes! How many do you want? I think I can only carry one or two..."
"Yeah!" Empheria answers, enthusiastically and immediately. "If we go with you, does that mean we're professionals?"
I don't see any overlap with my abilities, so at least for my part they all would help. My only concern would be if Drowning Blast extinguishes fire (the status effect of being burned). But if so, I could just change my own blast from Fire Blast to Searing Blast, which deals more damage instead of causing burning each round (which would make sense, since Empheria is learning to control her fire better).
My changes: - +6 hp (average of 1d6+2), BAB +1, Will +1
I want to take a talent from the Nature sphere. This one gives a (limited) ability to fly: Ride the Flames:
You may use heat waves to push yourself upward, granting a fly speed of 15 ft. + 5 ft. per 5 caster levels, with a maneuverability of clumsy for as long as you concentrate, or for 1 minute per caster level if you spend a spell point. This fly speed only functions on your turn (requiring you to spend separate actions for movement). If you are not on a surface that can support you on the end of your turn, you glide safely to the ground, at a speed of 60 ft. per round, taking no falling damage. Anyone using ride the flames cannot use its fly speed to hover. But it seems a little more powerful than normal level 2 abilities. Is it too much for this level? If so, my second choice would be Nature Barrier:
As an instantaneous effect, you may, as a standard action, spend 2 spell points to create a 5-ft tall barrier in a number of unoccupied 5-ft squares equal to your caster level. The walls must be placed on a flat surface and is a number of inches thick equal to 1/2 your caster level (minimum: Thin Sheet at 1/10th of an inch). You may choose to have the barrier to have a transparent (allows line of sight) or opaque (blocks line of sight) appearance, both of which block line of effect. Regardless of your geomancing or the appearance of the barrier, all the walls have a hardness of 0 and 10 hit points per inch thickness. The walls, while instantaneous proceed to lose hit points at the rate of 1 per hour. In addition, while the walls appear to be made out elements associated to their geomancing packages, they are only the manifested nature spirits of those elements and cannot be used for meeting geomancing prerequisites. I don't see any relevant teamwork feats I could help in (though my next feat is level 3 anyway).
"Minodora, you alright? Maybe we should go back home to rest?" Empheria adds with a yawn.
Empheria cheers as she finally manages to aim correctly, thanks to Minodora's music. "Oh, can you sing the one about the hobgoblin that tried to catch the will o' wisp and accidentally spanked himself? I mean, when you finish this one, of course..."
"How about helping us get rid of these monsters so we know you really mean it?" Empheria responds a little distrustfully. She herself fires another fiery missile at the same target, but it accidentally shoots backwards instead.
Empheria strikes the bird again with another flame, but is too distracted by what is happening with Minodora to aim.
"Minny?" Empheria says weakly in response to her friend's gasp despite her anger.
"Oops!" Empheria attacks the bird a lot more carefully this time, so carefully that it hardly seems as if she's aiming towards it.
"We came all the way here just to rescue you, and you're trying to kill us?" Empheria whines. Empheria mutters some words to herself, and a blast of fire explodes in front of one of the skeletal birds and burning two of the nearest altars. She doesn't really care anymore that it also hits Minodora.
"Yeah, but, uh, we kinda just tied her up though," Empheria confesses with a tinge of guilt.
"Anyone got a rope?" Empheria asks frantically, both to the other kids and to the adults nearby.
Empheria doesn't understand half of what Minodora says. She understands what Vorin says, and she nods whole-heartedly. "Minny, don't say the p-guy's name, 'cause whatever trouble you're in, that only makes it worse," she says, echoing what she had heard from Ilsoari earlier. "I was also really sad when Milosh said I was an abyssal doofus nitwit, and he made me cry, and I thought I would never forget it, but my sister told me that Milosh was the real doofus nitwit and I'm okay now, without calling any demons."
"Onwards!" Empheria assents with a wave of the torch. "Argh! Sorry Quiin!" she adds, when she notices her torch had gotten a bit too close to his hair, and quickly extinguishes the new unwanted fire before any harm is done.
"That's what I was trying to do! I can't see in the dark either," Empheria says. She fumbles around with her backpack, distracted by Sir Korvaski's protestations. When she finds a torch, she holds it up in one hand and waves the other, causing a small flame on the torch to light up.
"Sir Korvaski?" Empheria says on a flash of inspiration. "Father Zantus said that Minodora needs to be forced to act against her nature. So maybe she needs to see us first, and try to attack us, because we know her best."
"Cool! A secret passageway!" Empheria points out to Isaac, but also loud enough for the upstairs group to hear. "Do you guys think the demon took Minodora into there?" she asks.
Empheria slides down the rope. "Maybe someone did take up residence. Let's find out," she says as she looks around.
"Yes... no!" Empheria says, changing her mind halfway through. "We just attacked our friend. We're not okay till she gets back to normal."
"Me too!" Empheria joins in. "We're not gonna let the demon take Minodora!"
Empheria is a bit insulted at Ilsoari's question. "We never look for trouble!" she exclaims. "We were looking to be helpful!"
"And she's running away really really fast!" Empheria says. She starts panting for effect, just to impress on him the urgency of the situation.
"She's too far away for me to get her, no matter how fast I run," Empheria notes resignedly. "Maybe one of you can catch up, or use a bow. I'll blow on the whistle some more." She proceeds to do just that.
"Come back! We're not going to let you kidnap Minadora!" Empheria screeches, and chases after the demon-possessed girl.
Empheria is shocked by the realization that she had been fighting Minodora. She gladly takes James' suggestion to call for help rather than harm her friend. She blows into the flute, playing the tune she had prepared as loudly as she can.
"What's he doing here?" Empheria whispers frantically. She hesitates until she sees the man attack, for fear of waking someone up. It would be really embarrassing for her and her friends to be caught up at this hour. Deciding that she would rather be in trouble than dead, she joins the fight and fires an enormous, destructive blast of fire. It makes Empheria more upset than proud; the noise was unusally loud and she had wanted to finish the battle quietly.
"Or... we could find out when the grown-ups are coming to get her, and then come half an hour or an hour before them, so that they don't kill her, but if something goes wrong we'll know the grown-ups are coming?" Empheria suggests.
"One girl is enough to save. We don't want to have to save you too, Isaac!" Empheria exclaims.
Empheria grasps the hand of whoever happens to be closest to her. "This isn't what I wanted to hear," she says softly. "Maybe Ilsoari's wrong?" she adds after a long pause.
Empheria waits to speak until Ilsoari leaves. "Uh, maybe we actually should go to bed? We saw goblins before, but never demons. I'm afraid of seeing one of those. I'm even a little scared to be in the same room as the paper where he wrote the demon's name..."
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