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Filara spends a day in bed following the attack, and then half a day in bath. During the following week she mostly studies and writes reports, quite wary of Narsen.

When the group disbands following the mission she bids the others farewell, seemingly glad of the mission coming to an end.

"Thank you for your help, cooperation and protection. This mission was a lot of ...physical... work. I think I've had enough combat for a few years. I'll stick to written research in the Arcanamirium and the Spells' faculties for a while now."

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Frustrated Filara opts for a common cantrip. A sphere of water explodes inside the skeletal horse’s ribcage, tearing into the rider as well.

◆◆ Spout at the rider and the horse.

DC 19 Basic Ref bludgeoning: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 3) + 4 = 8

She then swings at the skeletal rider with her staff, or at the mount if the rider was destroyed earlier.

◆ Hand of the Apprentice

Spell attack and Bludgeoning: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 261d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

”So much energy for so little effect! I hate this spell!”

Filara slumps back to sit on the stump and sheds a few tears of rage. The tears instantly evaporate into steam from the electric aura crackling on and around her. She feels quite sick and hollow.

Filara ◆◆◆ finishes her chant.

In a desperate moment to control the elemental energy she fails to find a good target with a glance. In panic she aims the huge sphere of lightning to ground in the metal winch of the well. An arc of lightning lashes out to the skeletal mount and its rider.

DC 19 Basic Ref: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 6, 4) = 14

Her hair stands up, charged by electricity.

The elf asks tiredly, eager to get to sleep: "Is it over now?"

Filara mutters something in Elven to the small owl sitting next to her.

Thw owl touches the tip of her staff with its wing. She then mutters weakly: ”You know the drill...”

Drain Bonded Familiar: Level 2; 3/6 Horizon Thunder Sphere

Filara spends the break tiredly dictating notes about the Horizon Thunder Sphere use to her familiar, Vulio, who writes the notes down. In truth she's not interested in the notes at all and would just want to sleep, but she feels obligated to refresh her magic for yet another wave of undead.

Refocus.

This might be a good time to use school consumable healing potions if we can't reach full HP via Treat Wounds.

I don't have one to share unfortunately since I went for a scroll of dispel magic instead...

Her hair fuzzy and cracking from the remaining electricity, Filara ◆◆ chants a spell.

A surge of water plunges at the zombie's side from the ground!

DC 19 basic reflex against bludgeoning: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11

Lastly, she ◆ channels her magic wordlessly at her staff, swinging it down at the zombie despite the distance between.

Spell Attack and bludgeoning: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 101d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Spout and Hand of the Apprentice. On crit double damage and knocked back 10ft.

Filara ◆◆◆ finishes her chant and fires the sphere down from the battlements at the pink zombie.

Hit Pink: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 165d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 6, 1, 6) = 24Half on miss, double and dazzled 1 rounds on crit.

The electricity lashes out at the other zombie as well.

DC 19 Basic Ref: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 4, 5) = 17

Wow, despite the crit I'd say Bo got lucky with all those misses!

I'm waiting until Bo has taken his turn to do mine. Can't speak IC right now due to being middle of casting but for, uh, obvious reasons, I'd love
for Bo to stride away a bit from the zombies.

”Incoming in six seconds!”

Filara starts the long chant of Horizon Thunder Sphere again.

Tiredly, Filara closes her eyes and dictates field notes from the Horizon Thunder Sphere use on the skeletons. Her owl familiar, Vulio, dutifully writes down the remarks.

She doesn't bother with the aftermath of the battle or preparing for the next wave, trusting others to be up for the task.

Refocus.

After a chant, Filara's staff begins to emit a soft, blue light.

Filara looks towards the last remaining skeleton and feebly swings at it with her wizard's staff. The strike manifests at a distance, amplified, causing the skeleton's bones to clatter and possible shatter.

Spell Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 202d8 + 4 ⇒ (5, 1) + 4 = 10

◆◆ Magic Weapon, ◆ Hand of the Apprentice (bludgeoning). Double damage and knocked 10ft back on crit.

Instead of rerolling the recovery check you have to use the other option with Hero Points: automatically stabilizing to Avoid Death. That skips the RNG. Otherwise Rosa dies.

Rosa seems to have a hero point left, so she's bound to survive for a round at least.

I have a lesser healing potion in a retrieval prism, so I can get Rosa up in a single round by jumping down and administering it to her if it comes down to it. I'll go for that later if Rosa ends up using her hero point to Avoid Death.

My plan for next round is to try take Orange down.

Squinting to discern the current status of the battle, the elven wizard stands up again to channel a lengthy spell.

Three arrows of rippling energy fly out from her staff to the more damaged skeleton harrassing Rosa.

◆◆◆Magic Missile at Orange: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (3, 1, 2) + 3 = 9

Please kill them off quickly, the sunlight is pain, even though this position is perfect for an artillery mage like me...

Filara's eyes dart between Jarith and Rosa as she ◆◆◆ finishes the long chant.

She sighs in relief, seeing Rosa barely escape. Filara's concentration breaks and she screams is terror as a huge Ball Lightning ten feet wide jumps from her staff to the skeletons.

Hit Blue: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Electricity damage: 5d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 5, 4, 3) = 23Half on miss, double and dazzled 1 rounds on crit.

The electricity lashes out at the two other skeletons by the well as well.

DC 19 Basic Reflex: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 3, 5) = 15

Exhausted, Filara slumps back to sit on the log and lean on her staff in the shade of her parasol.

Now I get it, I misunderstood what "up" meant.

If I can delay my turn like that, then sure. The group of three would be a very good target.

If Filara targets one of the three skeletons at the top, Rosa will have a chance to stand up and get out of the AoE before the HTS goes off.

I don't understand this. As far as I see there's only two skeletons up over the gate. Also, HTS will go off at my turn, before Rosa can act.

The collateral damage from Horizon Thunder Sphere is 4d6 electricity (Basic Ref DC 19) in 10ft burst around main target. Is it ok to deal it to Bo or Rosa?

"I will target one of them with a massive blast. It will explode in a ten-feet radius, so stay away or group or something..." Filara tries to raise her voice for a warning but feels a bit dizze mid-sentence.

Nevertheless she stands up and begins a long chant with seemingly no end in sight in Elven, albeit with a less clear and booming voice than usual.

Three out of six actions of 2-round Horizon Thunder Sphere.

Filara is very groggy after spending the night and day designing traps. She has hauled a log to function as a chair to sit on. A parasol is affixed on the battlement to shield her tired eyes from the sun.

Leaning on her wizard's staff she grumbles: "That allnighter was a mistake. At least I managed to prepare spells yesterday after Narsen arrived. I'll ...just hang back here and fire at the undead. Please watch out, someof the spells will explode quite violently around the target."

I have two big Horizon Thunder Spheres prepared.

"Of course we will take you in. Why on earth would we not." Filara is surprised at the assumptions Narsen makes and is happy to offer shelter for the villagers.

Ever the overachiever, Filara works hard on all three Crafting projects, hiring the trapper Matthild. She will be very tired on the following day.

Filara's Crafting Deadfalls (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 9 + 2 = 13

Filara's Crafting Pit Traps (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 2 = 23

Filara's Crafting Snares (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 2 = 20

Filara hires Brumm and attempts to finish the roof.

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 9 + 2 = 31

How does the 40gp payment to cleanse the shrine work? Do we have to pay it only once, or is it per attempt somehow?

Filara works two days with Junissa on the Battlements.

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 9 + 2 = 14

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 9 + 2 = 28

"I think we'll be finished with the masonry work tomorrow. Thank you so much, Junissa. Your help has been invaluable and I've learned much from working with you."

Filara recites a long chant in Elven. ◆ True Strike, ◆◆ Admonishing Ray

True Strike: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 261d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Nonlethal bludgeoning damage doubled if crit: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6, 6) = 21

A sharp stream of yellow, dull light emanates from her staff at the gecko, shining on it for a long time while the animal seems like a great weight was on its shoulders.

Yeah the bottleneck should be gone now. One bottleneck day is not that bad, I think. We've got nice critsuccesses on the demanding tasks.

Filara hires Junissa and Brumm to work on and possibly finish the Main Gate.

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 9 + 2 = 28

She is heard grumbling: "This week has been more manual labour than I've ever done thus far..."

"If I only had time to pick up my tertiary spellbook a few dozen miles south across the border... Three Unseen Servants could do wonders here."

Filara fusses over Brumm's ankle for the whole previous day and is throughly embarrassed to invite him back to work on the stairs the following day.

Filara's Crafting on Stairs Repair w. Brumm (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 2 = 19

Filara hires Brumm to start work on the Stairs.

Filara's Crafting w. Brumm and Clue In (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 2 + 1 = 13

Also what do you think about the Villagers' motivations? At which point should we call it a day and hand out the tokens? There's a lot of manual labour left now that the Great Hall is cleared.

I'm a bit uneasy about hiring Wilfred Mayar to help with the carpentry construction because he's unfriendly. I'd like us to priorize the Outer Walls over the Main Gate due to this.

If Rosa finishes the Barracks, that leaves Junissa available. It'd be a waste not to utilize Junissa, so maybe even someone untrained could pick her up to work on the Outer Wall? She gives a +2 bonus and level as proficiency, essentially turning Untrained to Trained. That should be plenty for the DC12.

If I recall correctly, pro hiring bonus was +2

Filara takes up the task of planting the flowers in secret. It's been years since she's done any gardening, so it takes a while for her to recall what she's supposed to do.

Filara's Nature (T): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8Welp! Hero point time!

Filara's Nature w. Heropoint (T): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Nice job with the Barracks!

Junissa isn't needed at the Barracks, so she's free to work on the Outer Wall or Main Gate today.

Can someone without crafting get the Great Hall cleaned today?

If so, then on Day 6 Filara and Cherie can work on the Stairs to the Roof and Rosa can take Junissa to Outer Wall or Main Gate.

Cherie, I'll go power through the planting with possibly a hero point on Day 5. Please pick up the work on Outer Wall or the Main Gate meanwhile with Junissa.

Rosa is good at the barracks right now with the DC 12 check.

The one place where Cherie and Filara should work together is the Stairs to the Roof. Let's go there when Rosa is finished with the Barracks. Stairs doesn't require Junissa's help, so on the days when we work on the Stairs Rosa can take Junissa to work on either the Outer Wall or the Main Gate.

Derp derp. All my optimization has been based on a mistake then. This is fine.

Filara starts work on the outer wall repairs with Junissa and possibly Cherie, spending 2gp herself on the repairs today.

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 9 + 2 + 1 = 22

Assumed a +1 Clue In bonus from Cherie into the roll.

I wagered 2gp on the Main Gate repairs on Day 3 so shouldn't the critical success have been 6 days times 2 gold for 12 total days, making it complete?

Can I have Junissa for today, Jarith?

We have an awkward bottleneck here.

Seeing that the Barracks is not yet cleaned, Filara starts work on the Main Gate with Junissa and Brumm, paying 2gp.

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 9 + 2 = 22

In the evening she coordinates next day's actions with Cherie.

"Let's tackle the Outer Wall together tomorrow. I think we have a shot at getting it done if we work together."

I'd love it if I could get Cherie's Clue In bonus to tomorrow's Outer Wall work. I'll wager 2gp to it. If Cherie matches that with 2gp, we'll likely get it to a state where it can be finished tomorrow. And if we're lucky, we can get it done in a day.

Watchtower should be collapsed now, I think. From tomorrow on we can start tackling the purple Stone-requiring crafting tasks. I'm going to spend 2gp every day on those myself.

If the Barracks is Cleaned today, I'll Repair it tomorrow.

After that there's only one optimization point, I think, and that's Repairing the Outer Wall. That's the one where Filara and Cherie should work together.

Regarding the other Crafting-required goals, I think repairing the Stairs to the Roof have some priority, as that'd free up a new work project for unskilled labourers.

Filara hires Junissa to collapse the watchtower, paying her 2gp for the task.

Filara's Crafting (T): 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 9 + 2 = 26

If possible, she also hires Bessama and Mikkel to Clean the Barracks while she and Junissa work on the watchtower.

As far I understood it, Narsen had paid for our inn stays.

I'd like to get the barracks good personally before going for friends. We don't have a place to stay without it, doing the keep will take a long time, but the barracks feel short.

Tomorrow Bo will start working his diplomatic magic.

I feel the servant for some reason will be a key person... Religious leaders and guards feels like a dead end, because they have it good already. Change wouldn't help them.

100% Agree on Barracks for first Crafting work. Then we can move from the inn to the site. Should help with preventing sabotage when we can watch guard there ourselves.

Heropoint on impressing Brumm. Also using Promotional Vestments boon to gain +1 on the check.

Diplomacy to impress Brumm (Heropoint): 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 20