I'm happy to wait until you are available again, GM Dak. I know that things can get very busy and overwhelming at times. It happens to all us (at least it happens to me).
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I'm posting this message mainly to make sure that this game doesn't fall off my active games page due to inactivity. I hope our GM is recovering. I know it could take some time so I don't mind waiting. Actually, I'm planning to go back and reread all the postings and maybe make some notes. This is a good break for doing that.
No rush, just hope you are recovering.
I'm glad you're on the road to recovery. I'm willing to wait for you to get back to the point where you can play again.
Yeah, hope he recovers quickly.
Irakalesh nods silently as Nak'T continues to talk to the dragon. When Nak'T finishes speaking to the dragon Irakelesh quickly and quietly summarize to the rest of the group. "He told him that we're searching for something that we need to stop the undead. He reminded the dragon that having all those undead around would likely be a big annoyance so it's best if we can stop them." If Nak'T turns back to see the others, Irakelesh waves and smiles and mouths to him "It's going great!"
"Yeah, it's going great. He -- I'm guessing he's a he, but you really can't tell with dragons you know. I mean, unless they let you get real close to, uh, well, certain areas. But usually people don't do that, of course. As I said, it's going great. The dragon there just was saying hi and want's to know why we're here. He said we're friends. Or that might have been friends with Nak't, not the dragon. He also recognized that Nak't is half dragon. That's got to be good."
No problems. Glad you seem to be through the worst of it.
Irakelesh stays back with the others. "Yeah, I know. This will be perfect." He doesn't seem to notice the sarcasm in Khufu's comment. "I'm so glad that we found Nak'T. This worked out perfectly, right? One dragon, or I guess dragon-like, creature talking to the other. I couldn't have planned it better." Irakelesh cocks his ear to hear what Nak'T says to the dragon and then translates it for his companions. "See? He sounds great, right?"
"What if we offer it a trade? Can we give it a bigger and shinier gem? Actually, that pile looks pretty big. How will we find the one we want in that pile?"
"Ai'sha, really? I've never heard of such a thing. Are you sure?" Irakelesh stares at the sleeping dragon.
"Well look at that. Aliva is prepared." Irakelesh finds a good spot to tie it off. "It's not perfect but it's the best we've got. Let's get to it." Irakelesh wraps his legs around the rope and begins to climb down into the darkness.
Irakelesh runs a hand through his long hair and chuckles. "Well aren't we great adventurers? No rope." He starts looking around. "Maybe we can find some laying around."
"Huh. How are we going to get down there? Anyone have some rope?"
Irakelesh looks where Aliva points. "Great job Khufu. And you too Aliva. Let's follow that guy. Maybe he'll give us back the compass part."
"Ah! Stairs. That will be the traditional way of getting up to the roof." Irakelesh winks at Aliva and moves up the stairs, taking two steps at a time, with complete disregard for traps. On the roof, he examines the compass. "Well, you can see that a piece is missing. I wonder what and why. Maybe it just fell out."
"Sounds good to me." Irakelesh heads to the ladder and starts to climb.
"We can go to the next compass but I thought we were headed to find the xotl first."
Irakelesh shrugs off most of the bites from the snakes but quickly starts to feel sick and starts to feel some of his life energy drain away. He swings the mace at the creatures again before moving away.
Irakalesh sees the swarm of snakes emerges from the rubble. "Look everyone. Snakes." He drops his rapier to the ground with a clatter then grabs the morningstar at his side. "This shouldn't be a problem but if you guys want to help, I won't complain." As the first wave of slithering creatures closes in on him, he smashes down with the weapon.
"Hey guys. Here's an amulet." Irakelesh holds up a worn leather strap that has a small ceramic disc hanging from it. Ancient runes are carved on either side of it. "It looks like it will make you thick skinned if you wear it. Who wants it?"
As they approach the broken machinery, Irakelesh takes a moment to investigate it. He pokes at the bits with the tip of his rapier. He isn't sure if the contraption has broken because of age or more deliberate activity.
Irakelesh listens with excitement. "This all sounds great. We can get in through the secret tunnels and then head straight to the Unwrapped Harmony guy. Right?" He steps up to the map and uses his fingers to measure the distances between some of the points that Sebti pointed out. "You're correct Nak'T, these are close to each other. And on the way, like you said Ai'sha. So we just stop by them and check them out too. Just like a stroll through the desert. Easy as sand through your fingers."
Just a quick note, I had an unexpected death in the family (IRL). I may be a little slow in posting as I work with my family on the arrangements.
"Huh. You keep mentioning a long slumber. Do you mean to say that you were asleep for more than a day or two? What year was it when you went to sleep?" Irakelesh looks genuinely interesed.
"Ah. A spirited bird. If I don't miss my guess, that's a nice little hawk. Or rather, I guess it's a magical version of a hawk. Did you know that real hawks mate for life? I don't suppose your magical one does that Khufu. But that would be interesting, right? If you somehow obtained another magical hawk and then they were a pair. Hmm. I wonder what that would be like." Irakelesh spots a plate of cheese in the center of the table and takes a large piece of some hard, yellow cheese.
All updated. +8hp
"Ah yes, Ra. Very traditional deity, especially for this region. My parents were big into Ra. I wanted to explore, though. I wanted to see what gods and goddesses other peoples worshiped. Eventually my studies lead me to the church of Irori. And you know what is most interesting of Irori? His most revered and sacred animal is the snail. Isn't that awesome?"
Craft(alchemy), if allowed: [ooc]DC * actual roll needs to get to 750 to complete the poison. 19 * 12 = 228. 522 points left. I'll try again next week.
Irakelesh laughs at Nak'T. "Experience? Ha! I've got it all right up here." He taps his head. "Years of reading all the right books and talking to all the right people. You know they say, there's no substitute for a good book. Sure, you can spend your life in battles and pick up some knowledge, but study the works of the masters. That's where you'll really learn."
"Yes, a bit of rest will help. Do you want us to come back tomorrow morning?"
"Ha! Yeah. Those were the rules. So I think that we've clearly won. It's time to call off your attacker."
Ha! Maybe they are waiting for someone to point that out, in character. Since it was your thought, you should do the honors. :-)
I think we're at the point where our only hope to damage the creature is to get a crit. If that's true then we should withdraw. Really don't want to though. :-)
I was hoping it would go the other way. :-)
I was wondering about the DR too. He did say the 8 dmg just bounced off but then my 6 from the arrow caused slight damage. Nice rolls Khufu!
Do you guys want to have a quick discussion about what to do in this combat or does that seem too gamey?
"Thanks Ai'sha. If you still have more of that healing, I'll take it." Irakelesh takes a quick step to add more distance between himself and the vanth. He draws an arrow and fires from his bow.
In another roll20.net game I'm in the players use one of the status indicators for their AC. It looks like you're doing that with the blue marker. When we change our AC (like Total Defense), do you want us to update that?
Irakelesh nearly staggers under the onslaught from the vanth. He steps back away from the creature and accepts Ai'sha's healing. "This is tougher than I thought it would be." He smiles as Nak'T strikes at it. [b]"Great job,"[b] he says in Ancient Osiriani.
"Nak'T, I'll try to keep this thing distracted. Maybe you can attack from the other side." Irakelesh moves another step to the side in hopes that someone can flank the creature. He swings his morningstar again but misses.
Irakelesh grins. "Really? Do we look like a group that gives up? No? We don't. " Irakelsh moves forward again, swinging his morningstar.
"Oh," Irakelesh interjects, "I forgot to tell you all. It works best to attack this thing with adamantine weapons. Everything else just bounces off -- unless you hit it really hard. And same with spells. Especially ones that do cold and electricity damage." Irakelesh cautiously backs away from the creature then pulls a potion from his belt. He downs it quickly.
AoO?:
Iralesh smiles. This is why he closed on the creature. Keep pressure on it.
Irakalesh steps up to the creature and swings his mace at it.
"Well, this has gone on long enough." Irakelesh nods at Nak'T and addresses him in Ancient Osiriani. "Please, dispatch of this crocodile thing. We'll have to keep an eye on Khufu to make sure he doesn't bleed out. I'm going to finish off that abomination over there first." Irakelesh pauses for a couple seconds to study the flying creature then he drops his bow and pulls a small vial from his belt. With his thumb, he pops the cork stopper off the top of the bottle then downs the blue colored liquid it contains. Irakelesh's body becomes blurry and difficult to look at. He moves towards the flying creature and draws his morningstar en route.
Irakelesh shudders at the sight of the flying psychopomp. He remains shaken by the sight but doesn't hesitate to draw another arrow and shoot at the creature.
"Well, not everyone is capable of making decisions based on words and reasoning. Some people have to see physical evidence." Irakelsh shrugs and moves across the floor. He wields his shortbow as he moves and swiftly nocks an arrow. He draws back the string and lets fly.
"Yes, Aliva. That's what I was saying. They should work together. At least the farmer and the priestess. But I don't know if these two should. That doesn't quite match the story. But, well, I guess it does match. Either way, I agree with the esteemed gentleman over there." He points at Ptemenib. "It's a splendid idea. You see, it solves both problems at one time. You have no doubt heard it said that the defense is a strong offense. Or, was it the best offense is a strong defense? Hmm. Either way. Both is better." He nods. "So I agree with Ai'sha's idea, and it looks like Nak'T is too. We should go into the necropolis and find the source of the problem. Should be relatively straight-forward. But what is this talk of a demonstration?" |