I just checked and found the chronicle email in my spam. I rescued it from spam (and told outlook to stop being mean to Redelia) and the chronicle looks fine to me.
Due to various personal issues i dropped off the internet for a few days. I don't really want to go into details but i want to post that i'm now working my way through ongoing games i'm GMing or playing in and getting them back on track.
Specific to this game - I've just caught up on all the posts i missed. I'm now back up to date and ready to post something when Iovarl's next initiative turn comes up. Thank you for botting me while i was away from the game.
{IGNAN}"Let's go my fiery friend." says Iovarl as he pushes through the trees on the edge of the lake.
He sees a perfect spot for a delaying spell. He chants some arcane words and conjures a patch of grease beneath the feet of the kobolds and their slurk. DC16 reflex
The fire elemental rushes round the corner of the trees and heads straight for the nearest Kobold. Pink
fiery slam attack:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
fiery slam damage:1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6+burn
(burn - DC13 or catch on fire, fire damage:1d4 ⇒ 2 for rounds:1d4 ⇒ 3
Iovarl moves off on his own down the snowy path in an uncharacteristically brave manner. He lets his fiery ally lead the way and stops the elemental just before it walks out from behind the trees.
Part way down the path Iovarl realises he's heading for potential trouble and stops to retrieve a wand and cast Mage Armour on himself. Once he feels as prepared as he can be he catches up with the elemental and takes a look around the trees to see what is ahead. He waits to see what happens in the clearing with the kobolds, though he fully expects the situation to turn hostile at any moment.
knowledge (arcana):1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24
When he feels the time is right he'll share whatever insight his knowledge skill gives him. Though for now he's mostly just staying out of sight and keeping warm near the fire elemental.
Iovarl will need to get some warmer clothes for this cold weather. I've also decided to switch out a single spell. Iovarl will memorize Grease in place of Colour Spray.
"There are a lot of trees here. I will summon a creature to quickly dash ahead and scout for us."
Iovarl channels some arcane energy he had reserved for spellcasting and focuses it on calling for aid from another plane. Consume spells to 'eat' a 2nd level spell slot. Using the points that generates to summon the elemental.
In no time at all a small creature made entirely of swirling fire appears about 30ft down the path to the right. "BY FIRE BE PURGED!"
{IGNAN}"Please go look ahead and see if you can see any enemies. Return to me and tell me what you find. And please, don't burn the forest down..." says Iovarl in a language that the little elemental clearly understands.
I was going to summon an air elemental when i noticed that Iovarl doesn't speak Auran. A scout who can't report what they find wouldn't be very useful. I'll have to fix that for next level, but for now i've opted for the fire elemental as they are fast with 50ft land speed. Also, Lil' Ragnaros! :)
Iovarl gestures for his little earthy friend to attack the drake next to the bear. He moves around the tent and fires a bolt of force from his wand to hit the other drake.
knowledge (arcana):1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
"Theses creatures look like shadow drakes. They can't but put to sleep or paralyzed. Cold energy won't effect then either." he yells loudy so he can be heard over the fighting.
slam attack, P. attack:1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 - 1 = 18
slam damage, P. attack:1d6 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 2 = 15
Wow a lot happened since my last post. Sorry all things at work were super busy yesterday and i got stuck working late. When i finally got home and had some food i was so tired i fell asleep watching Netflix... oops.
Iovarl is finding all this walking and fighting to be a bit too much like hard work, even if he did get to help seal some kind of planar rift and defeat a whole bunch on evil undead monsters. But like all good Pathfinder Society field agents he keeps going and just looks forward to finally being able to sit down somewhere and have a nice drink of tea.
With some undead looking wispy humanoids and some floating armour in front of him he takes a deep breath and prepares for another fight.
"The humanoid looking ones can cause unnatural fear with their attacks so take care. The armour looks possessed by a spectral spirit and will be quite resilient. he says as he tries to keep the information precise in the chaos of the fight.
Iovarl stays where he is for now and takes aim with his magic missile wand. He fires out a missile of force at the nearest floating armour while his earthy friend tries to smash it with his small earthy fists.
magic missile!:1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
slam attack, P. attack:1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 8 - 1 = 21
slam damage, P. attack:1d6 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 2 = 11
Iovarl watches as Lilianna cleanses the area and then sends out a burst of positive energy to destroy the endead.[b]"Again, the undead cannot stand against the powers of good!"[b] he cheers at the cleric's triumph.
He moves in to get closer as he calls on his conjuration magic to summon an ally to assist Grubglub in defeating the crawling hand creature. Rising up out of the ground is a rather familiar looking small rocky humanoid shaped form. It
tries to strike the hand thing as hard as it can while it is distracted by Grubglub.
Iovarl moves nearer to the darkened area. He tries to recall anything from his arcane or religious teachings that can help him to understand what is going on.
knowledge:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
Iovarl has knowledge Arcana, Planes and Religion all at +11, if any of those help him.
He experimentally conjures some Dancing Lights so see if his cantrip can push back the strange darkness.
"That certainly doesn't sound like an honourable way to do business. If this hilt is a relic of your tribe and rightfully yours then as Pathfinders i feel obligated to insist that the Blakros Museum return your property to you and apologise. I am curious who this Ivvora is though? Also, who is Vildeis that Ivvora was a champion of? I'd love to know more if we have the time."
Iovarl is also concerned with the spectral figure, but as it has already been mentioned he avoids making a big fuss.
He does however try to recall if anything he knows about undead creatures aligns with what he can currently see.
"Thank you for the offer, friend. But while we still have a task to complete i'll avoid the wine for now. It wouldn't do to slur my speech in the middle of casting a spell now would it!" says Iovarl with a slight chuckle.
The earth elemental will be around for 4 minutes in total. Will there be any travel time or will we be able to take him with us to wherever we're going next?
I'm not sure that is the case. I know it used to be an issue under 3.5 rules but i don't see anything in the construct traits saying they cannot take critical hits.
"I believe that these things are vulnerable to electricty if you have spells that can zap them."
Iovarl calls for elemental aid once once more. This time he calls on a creature made from earth. It appears just behind the construct with a green glow and tries to smash it with all it's might!
slam damage, P. attack:1d6 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 7 + 2 = 10
The sound of rock impacting on metal is almost deafening! Iovarl takes a few steps back while wincing slightly at the loud noise his elemental just made.
"Well met Lancyn. It's always good to meet another follower of Iomedae. I am Iovarl Volarin. If we weren't in such a hostile place i'd love to talk more, but i guess we had best keep moving. Heorn is right. Clearing this floor for other teams sounds the safest option."
As the group move over to the next area Iovarl re-focuses some of his arcane energies so he can be prepared to call on further celestial aid if it is needed.
Using Consume Spells with a 2nd level spell slot to put Iovarl's Arcane Reservoir back to 5 points after using 2 for the summon.
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Iovarl stays to the rear of the group and uses a wand to help protect him for physical harm. Wand of Mage Armour.
"Errrr... good doggies. Anyone good with canines? I only real deal with celestial blooded creatures, and these seem mundane and rather angry."
Iovarl calls on his arcane powers to summon aid from one of the good aligned planes.
A creature shimmers into existence on the far side of the blue banner. It looks like a small vaguely humanoid creature made out of air. Small air elemental.
Iovarl would be quite impressed and in awe of a collection of Shining Crusade relics, but he's more concerned with them floating around and trying to hurt the Pathfinders.
knowledge (arcana):1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18
"Well that banner seems similar to a construct, but i think it may be haunted by a spirit of a soldier of The Shining Crusade. I think positive energy should harm it, but please don't completely destroy it as it is a relic."
He takes a wand out and aims it at the banner. A small bead of force flies from the wand and impacts the banner.
magic missile:1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
"I'm sure that can be fixed with some reparation magics later..."
Nice rolling Mun. As you've opened everything up for us i'll not post rolls.
Iovarl sighs as he hears about trouble at the museum and that the society will be helping out... again.
I sometimes wonder if this place is more trouble for the Pathfinder Society than it's worth. I doubt our researchers get enough out of this place to make up for the effort we all put in to keep in running."
"I have some skill with the arcane and some knowledge of spells and magic. Maybe that can help to sort out these construct ward things." says Iovarl who is keen to get the whole thing over with so he can get back to making allies at a social event.
Iovarl is mingling and chatting to with anyone he can while wearing his freshly cleaned and pressed noble outfit. His holy sylbol of Iomedae is clearly on show and his wayfinder is on his belt in plain sight for all to see. Anyone paying close attention would notice that he isn't actually drinking anything alcoholic.
"I've been taking some lessons in identifying different types of humanoids. I've had trouble telling the difference between lizardmen and a troglodytes in the past. It's the kind of mistake that can lead you into a smelly situation you really don't want to be in!" he says with a friendly laugh.
Iovarl will pick up knowledge (local) as a class skill.
diplomacy:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15Get them 1s out of the way early!
"I heard these events are used by the high ups to keep an eye on promising pathfinders, though no-one i know has ever been singled out." Iovarl makes a point of briefly scanning the room to see if the group is being watched.
There's a super handy website that i use called Summoner's Scribe - it's really handy as you can tell it to apply Augment Summoning Feat as needed.
I'm be generating a new summon list this evening when i update the character, so i'll put the list in my dropbox and link it on my Iovarl's profile. I'll also make sure to post a spoiler for the creature statblock any time i summon for ease of reference.
Player Name: Luthor Volandis
Character Name: Iovarl Volarin
PFS #: 9249-17
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day job: None. Though one day he'll use Knowledge Nobility for dayjob checks thanks to a chronicle boon. :)
Iovarl is an Arcanist who specialises in summoning thanks to the Occultist archetype - he can summon as a standard action and summons last minutes rather than rounds.
Iovarl is a youngish minor noble from Nerosyan in Mendev, and thanks to his missions he's an officially recognised Taldan Noble. He's a devout follower of Iomedae and a diplomat.
He played Solstice Scar A with a couple of the other characters above. I also ran Solstice Scar B at a local convention not too long back, though he GMing credit went to another character so i could enjoy playing version B with this character again. Due to this I'll try to leave decision making to the other players where possible.
"We have done a good ting here today. A great evil was defeated today, and now the Pathfinders and the Twinhorn are allies who will watch over this site together."
Iovarl looks around his smaller group and smiles to himself.
"You were great companions on this journey. I would gladly adventure with you all again. Now let us get some rest, i think we've all earned it!"
Knowing that his Grippli ally will be on his own, Iovarl summons a celestial ally and sends it to help.
"Be careful over there Grubglub!" he yells across the water.
Iovarl moves has quickly as he can towards the enemies, though he has to take the long way round as he isn't as nimble as some of the other members of the group.
Celestial Eagle:
N Small celestial animal
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision Perception +9
DEFENSE
AC 14, touch 13, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +1 natural, +1 size)
hp [7] [1d8+3]
Fort [+5], Ref +4, Will +2
SR 5
Celestial – Resist cold 5, acid 5, electricity 5
OFFENSE
Speed 10ft., fly 80 ft. (average)
Melee 2 talons [+3] [1d4+2], bite [+3] [1d4+2]
Special Attacks smite evil
STATISTICS
Str [14], Dex 15, Con [16], Int 2, Wis 15, Cha 7
Base Atk +0; CMB [+1]; CMD [13]
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Fly +8, Perception +10; Racial Modifiers +8 Perception
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Smite evil 1/day as a swift action (adds CHA bonus (+0) to attack rolls and damage bonus equal to HD (+1) against evil foes; smite persists until target is dead or the celestial creature rests).
The eagle flies over to attack the skeletal creature that is attacking the Grippli. It calls on it's celestial blood to help it strike down the evil creature.
Iovarl looks over the strange humanoid shaped creatures and tries to remember if he's met or read anything about them before.
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19Arcana, Planes and Religeon are all +8, if any of those help at all.
Iovarl shares what he knows, if anything, then moves up behind Grubglub with his wand still in hand.
"I think you have their attention my little friend. Maybe some additional arcane protection would be a good idea." he says as he touches the Grippli and activates the wand.
Iovarl continues to talk to Medda as he tries to convince her to make a stronger stand against leaving.
"The people of this land should fight because that is the right thing for the good people of Golarion to do. If we all were to give up and fall back in times of hardship this would only make it that much easier for evil enemies to get what they want. These great evils must be challenged and pushed back by all who can fight, or those who cannot fight for themselves will end up subjugated or put to death."
Iovarl looks around and takes in the sight of the eclectic mix of warriors, scholars and adventurers gathered around him.
"I know that i am no great warrior like some of my allies, but i use my arcane powers to do what good i can in Iomedae's name. But when your people fight they will not have to fight alone. You have the aid of many of the Pathfinder Societies heroic members to stand at your side and bolster your forces. Come, Medda, let us talk to the others and together we can teach them why we must fight!"
I'm going to use my Sovereign Court Faction Pin for +1 bonus to my skill check.
I have a re-roll available for owning a Pathfinder bag, but i think that looks like a good result so i'll not use it. It's a shame i can't let someone else use my re-roll otherwise i would.
