Horp, actually having to look up at the boy, nods, "I'll be there in a bit. Just need to make sure I look decent."
With that he turns back into the room and starts to wash his ears.
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We have something of his already, a note with his handwriting
Horp still needs the mirror before he can do anything though
Not the only one, Horp can also cast Scrying, he just doesn't have the focus (yet)
"Well, maybe I could try and scry on this guy?" The corners of his mouth crack into a smile the moment Horp realises his words rhymed. "I just need a big reflective surface, a good silver mirror I think." While talking he moves his feet on the rhythm of Valeria's song, he never seems able to resist a song and always reacts in some way.
Horp notices Cerenity sneak off but ignores it. It was something he'd have to figure out later. Horp ignores Shalelu's jibe at him but when she scolds Cerenity he buds in, "As cheerful as ever, aren't you miss Shalelu? How is your father? He seemed very appreciative of the help a lowly goblin lent in saving his life. Now this is our friend Cerenity, she helped us destroy the threat behind the ogres at the Fort."
Horp gets a disgusted look on his face the moment the name Shalelu falls, "Why did it have to be Shalelu? She blames me personally for every goblin attack in Varisia and I never did anything against her. She is probably trying to figure out a way to blame me for the ogre attack on the fort as well." He shakes his head. Shalelu was good for Sandpoint but she was a silly, stubborn elfshanks.
I'm moving some things around when it comes to Horp. I got stuck trying to make mechanics fit the fantasy I had of the character so now I'm switching it around and making my life a lot easier. Instead of still using the spellbook of our deceased Wizard/Magus/Arcanist/Alchemist/Investigator as an implement he would have accidentally eaten the book during a moment of grief over his lost friend. He then got himself a new tome made in Magnimar that is more to his size, allowing it to actually hang from a chain on his belt, and that has taken precautions to prevent himself from eating the book again. The outside of the book is covered in copper plating and embossed with brass details but most importantly, the book is almost empty, only having the name of the lost friend printed on the first page.
If it counts as an improvised weapon its going to be 1d4 Not necessarily, there is no golden standard for it. All the rules say is find a comparable real weapon and use that. That in turn leads to questions about size and material to determine how many hands would be needed to swing it and determine how hard it would hit.
Horp hurries to the front as Ameiko approaches, waving enthusiastically. "Good day miss Kaijitsu! How are you doing? How is business? Any new foods since last time we visited?" His voice didn't seem to match the way he spoke, the raspy goblin voice and perfect articulations and intonation just did not match. Sandpoint was a good place. Here he could actually walk around as himself whereas in Magnimar he had to disguise himself.
Oh it's not really a spellbook as in the thing that contains my spells, but it is my main implement which I need in order to actually cast them and I need access to it at the start of the day to be able to use my abilities. I can bond a new one but that takes a 24 hour ritual. I am sure to grab Catch Off-Guard no matter which way I go, a surprise whack with the book should always be an option. I won't need the Greater Magic Weapon due to my Legacy Weapon ability:
I'd still need to know what damage it would do, besides being bludgeoning. That and whether or not I could enchant it as a weapon or otherwise. The rapier is the safer way to go. As for getting up in combat, that's basically what the Occultist is designed to do. I mean, I'm a 6 level caster with 3/4 BAB so martial combat really is part of what I do. As for the Red Mantis, do keep in mind that they are only "semi" criminal. Most leaders don't mind them as they don't assassinate the rightful leaders. Even the gods of good aren't truly opposed to their god, though they aren't fond of him either. If anything they are the setting's most widely accepted necessary evil. They also are very strict on who and what they kill so I'd say they are quite civil as far as assassins go. EDIT: As far as devotion goes, Horp isn't very pious. He does have a fondness for Sivanah.
I'd personally love some feedback on my last post of page 1, from both my fellow players and our esteemed GM.
I could see Horp figuring it out. The guy is very curious and loves to snoop. He wouldn't see the point in telling the rest though, not caring too much and frankly not knowing what the Red Mantis are. His interests are in books, food and ancient history, not secretive assassin orders.
I'm still trying to figure out how I'll play Horp. On the one hand I like the idea of going Catch Off-Guard and Improvised Weapon Mastery, hitting people with his book (what kind of damage dice would that be anyway? No idea whether it's 1h or 2h). The main reason for this is that while his spells don't require verbal or somatic components he does need to "display" his tome to cast them and he can't really hang it from a chain on his belt, considering the size of a goblin. Another combat option would be going rapier and Fencing Grace so I can stab things while holding the book in my off hand (mostly because Slashing Grace doesn't allow that any more). Ranged isn't really an option as that would require me to do something fancy with the tome as well as all ranged weapon that are actually worth it require 2 hands to use. Beyond that, Horp will have quite a bit of knowledge, be sneaky, speak a ton of languages and a few other things. Not entirely sold on spell list.
Out of curiosity, how does your familiar use UMD if it can't speak?
If we lost a group member if we could turn him or her into a Wizard or Arcanist Horp would use that person's spellbook as his tome implement instead of the Thassilonian ledger. As far as appearance goes, Horp would have started out more or less a typical goblin, just a lot scrawnier. He also has a very large mouth, even by goblin standards. Later on he would have changed quite a bit. He'd generally look a lot healthier and actually have a bit of a belly now. He'd also is incredibly clean and has very high standards for personal hygiene. These high standards don't extend to his diet though and while he prefers high quality meals (or a good book) he'd just as easily eat an ogre-made stew.
It never hurts to double up on skills in a group our size, especially one as useful as UMD
Cuan would you be able to give us the cliff notes of what an occultist does as well? It's rather difficult to give a short run down of the occultist as it highly depends on choices made. Basically an Occultist gets implements and based on those implements he gets access to different schools of magic and different class abilities. In my case, as a Tome Eater, I only have a single implement that can have schools of magic added to it. How that works is that if I pick a school I get 1 spell of every spell level on my list of known spells as soon as I'm high enough level to cast it. I can pick a school again to get one extra spell at each level. I also get the base power, resonant(scaling) power and some other focus powers of the schools I selected, if I pick a school a second time I only get an extra focus power of that school. At this point I have 4 school choices, of which I already know Transmutation will be one. I also have a resource called Mental Focus, which is used to power the implement powers. Basically I put point of mental focus into a specific school at the start of the day and use those points to power the various abilities associated with that school. The resonant power scales with the amount of points invested at the start of the day and does not decrease as points are spent. In addition, as a Tome Eater, I can spend points 3/day to increase either the caster level or the DC of a spell by 1 by expending a point of MF from the matching school. I can also choose to not invest points but those are spent at double cost and can't be invested later. As a Tome Eater, I can once per day eat scrolls and books to regain points of MF, which I can instantly invest.The amounts of points I get depends on what is consumed. In addition I can ready an action to consume a spell someone casts from a scroll, dispelling it, and, if I haven't eaten writing yet that day, the scroll with it. Sadly this won't be an immediate action until 16th level. Next level I'll also be able to spell turn the spell to the caster instead of eating the scroll. Lastly, I'm also a master of the UMD skill and of any writing, being under the effect of a constant read magic and able to look at a book or other writing and figure out what's written inside and whether or not it contains magic. I'm also able to figure out what a magic item does, what it's command words are and who last used it by simply turning it over in my hands for a minute. As for the meeting of the group, like I mentioned Horp would have joined during the raid on Sandpoint as that is when he found the first tome he ate as well as his current implement (which just so happens to be a priceless ledger used to keep inventory in Karzoug's home. Formerly priceless at least, it's now damaged beyond repair to it's historic value). He'd have gladly joined in the attacks on the goblins in order to take vengeance for the bullying he had to endure.
Horp, aka Cuan, reporting I'm still working on the crunch, as is quite obvious. One thing I'm still a bit torn on is weapon choice as I'll need to present my tome when casting spells, which takes up a hand, and while using the tome as an improvised weapon would be fun the thing is way to precious to Horp to hit people with it. |