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Random Check-up on you guys: I'm one of those mean GMs that would have auto-fail/success for skills, but only if there was something major to be risked or gained. Mostly it was to make some skills useful and obtainable at low levels and still instill some risk and danger at really high levels.
I'm very sorry, but I am going to have to drop out of the game. Haven't been able to really keep up with it as of late. Feel free to use Ivanna as an NPC. I may check in on occasion to see how things are playing out because there are a few things that I am still curious about regarding this adventure.
"We have fared as well as one can when up against strange and unexpected foes. So this place is a castle of sorts? What else have you uncovered? Azulth and I haven't really found much of anything," says Ivanna with a gracious nod.
"Things do seem to be quite different. Perhaps there are other changes that have taken place. She we go back through and re-investigate that hallway?" suggests Ivanna. "Besides, we can always come back here if that search does not turn up any results."
"Very much so. But where to look first do you suppose?" says Ivanna as they make their way into back to the previous romm.
"And what exactly is this place? I have only recently arrived here and have very little information thus far."
"Yes, Master Jahns, perhaps we may be of help to one another," says Ivanna as she drops her invisibility. "How can I be of service? And please excuse my companions, I like to travel in company." Ivanna does not try indicate where Azulth went as she does not want to give him away. "Accuser! Please come here so that you can help me keep track of any important details in our conversation."
I think the ones that work best for Ivanna are: Nobility, Charm, Law (mostly slavery), and possibly Travel as well.
I might be using my blood money spell more than I had planned because I forgot to purchase my own. I knew I had way more money than intended at the beginning.
"Excuse me, master scholar, my name is Ivanna and I have traveled a long way in search of answers. If I may, what is this place?" asks Ivanna sheepishly.
Sensing that things are about to get ugly, Ivanna draws her rod of absorption as well her Suzerain Scepter. She then readies a standard action to cast Mage's Disjunction should the hellcats or the scribe attack.
"Hmm... might be better to be cautious. And perhaps that elf might know something that will be important to us. Give me a minute and I'll follow you there," says Ivanna before opening up her spell book to prepare a couple of spells in her open slots.
After preparing her two spells, Ivanna casts True Seeing and Greater Invisibility on herself. Aiden hops on her shoulder and uses his self-invisibility. "Okay, Lead the way. I'll follow you."
"Hmm... do you see anything inside? Aiden, do help the Accuser. Small hidden compartments always have a reason for being there," says Ivanna. While Aiden and the accuser try to get anything useful out, Ivanna takes note of the book that had to be pulled and also thumbs rifles through the pages.
"I've got a better idea. I'll catch up with you in a moment," says Ivanna. She immediately starts summoning a new minion . Within seconds, Ivanna finishes casting Summon Accuser. When the demonic, winged infant appears, Ivanna instructs it in Infernal, "See what you can find down there. Do not travel further than half an hour. Come back to me when you find something, you are in danger, or the thirty minutes is over. I'll be waiting in that room with those books. If something happens, I'll leave you a note."
"I'm sensing something. Come over here with me. I think there might be some kind of secret passage around here somewhere," says Ivanna to Azulth as she begins trying to search as well. Ivanna moves towards the area that she senses the secret door and continues to concentrate. Aiden just continues to be lazy and ride on her backpack.
"Perhaps I could aid you with that invisibility of yours. It seems sporadic and short-lived," says Ivanna. "I can give you a weaker form for a longer period of time, or one similar to your own that will be short, but still longer than your own."
After finishing thumbins through a few books, Ivanna looks around and sees that she is 'alone.' "Hey, are you still in here? So far I haven't found anything useful yet. Perhaps we should see what else this place has for us," says Ivanna while waiting for an answer. Ivanna also takes a moment to concentrate to use her racial spell-like ability to detect secret doors.
[b]"I'm not entirely certain. We were transported here. I am not sure what this place is, but it might hold some of the secrets for which I.. err... we are looking. I'm going to finish thumbing through these books. Let me know if you find anything," says Ivanna without looking up. She doesn't even realize that Azulth is invisible again.
Meh, I really only want it for flavor. Since it is only for use on a 6th level or lower summoning spell. I'm sure I could find something more useful for myself and others, but that doesn't sound like something Ivanna would want to do, lol.
"Ahh, now this is more like it!" exclaims Ivanna as she takes some time to look over the books for anything interesting.
Here! As far as an item... well, I guess a Standard Book of Extended Summoning because I didn't see it before we began. But depending on where things go, I can always have Ivanna buy one as I didn't spend all her gold.
[b]"Trust me on this one. I specialize in the arts of calling and teleportation. I think this strange orb is a specific point where several spells are centered. If you are so afraid of it, back up while I try something,"[b/] Ivanna say to allievate the worries of her companion. After giving Azulth a chance to back away if he chooses, Ivanna bites the side of her ruby lips and attempts to grasp the orb.
Not now, can't you see I'm trying to figure out what this thing is?" says Ivanna as she continues to concentrate.
I guess my action was skipped over. But Ivanna was trying to identify the black orb. Had a 46 Spellcraft check so should be able to identify the magical properties with a caster level of 31 or lower (33 or lower for the conjuration aura due to her conjuration sub-school specialization).
"Good work my pet shadows. Now stand down until I have need of you," Ivanna tells the two greater shadows. Noticing the black orb, Ivanna and Aiden move in for a closer look. "I wonder what this could be. It is absorbing everything around it." Readying to cast time stop in case something happens, Ivanna reaches out carefully to pick up the black orb.
and I made Ivanna to hide behind everyone else and just issue orders without really lifting a finger >.>
Feeling it a bit safer, Ivanna and Aiden walk steadily closer to the vines. Ivanna casts detect magic and begins searching alongside Aiden.
It might be a plant, but it is still vulnerable to many things. Watch," she says to her invisible compatriot. Besides, I have to figure out how it stopped my last minion. Shadows! Attack the vines. Make sure they can't move. Make sure to take out anything else that moves."
Being cautious and not wishing to near the viney creature until she is certain it is dead, she summons forth one last set of aid. Calling forth upon the forces wielded and passed down from her ancestors, Ivanna summons greater shadows to do her bidding.
Within seconds, the twin shadows appear. "Let's see how you deal with these!"
Have an idea of what I am doing next, but giving Azulth a a chance to do whatever he would like since he his character has knowledge mine doesn't and I don't want to interfere too much with what he might have planned. Just letting you know so you don't think I dropped out or anything.
Question on the vines and pit: I understand that it won't fall and take the falling damage, but does any portion of it go into the pit? The hungry pit deals damage to anyone caught inside, not just at the bottom.
Letting her temper subside over her useless minion, Ivanna gives into to reason once more and takes note of the vines. "Hiding are we? Perhaps this will get your attention!" Ivanna moves as far back as she can in a single movement and casts a spell to toy with the viney creature. She centers the radius of a Hungry Pit spell where the roper creature was or at the center of from which the vines radiate.
Clearly upset about the demon not fulfilling at least his minimal obligations of time and having to do some footwork for herself, Ivanna made her way towards where the creature had been to search the area.
"Best I could tell was that it was related to a roper. They are abberations normally found underground. I tried to intice this one with conversation, but it was much different than the rest. It was particularly more dangerous than any of them that I have encountered before. I'll make sure not let another like that one catch me by surprise," Ivanna says to Azulth; a touch of her previous arrogance now faded. After taking a moment to gather her 'royal clout', she commands more than says to both Azulth and the Demon, "Now that I have dealt with that, why don't you two make yourselves useful and find out what it was doing here. I expect that it was guarding something."
Ivanna's excitement is short-lived as the shards of force spray out towards her.
Ivanna winces as the shards pierce and slash across her skin; her body shields Aiden from all the shards.
There is a difference between death effect and death by hp. I'll try to make this as simple and contiguous as I can. 1)Phantasmal Killer -School illusion (phantasm) [emotion, fear, mind-affecting]; "If that save fails, the phantasm touches the subject, and the subject must succeed on a Fortitude save or die from fear." 2)From Summoner's Eidolon class feature: "A summoner can summon his eidolon in a ritual that takes 1 minute to perform. When summoned in this way, the eidolon hit points are unchanged from the last time it was dismissed or banished. The only exception to this is if the eidolon was slain, in which case it returns with half its normal hit points. The eidolon does not heal naturally. The eidolon remains until dismissed by the summoner (a standard action). If the eidolon is sent back to its home plane due to death, it cannot be summoned again until the following day. 3)Summon Eidolon Spell: "Treat this as if you had summoned your eidolon normally, except that it only remains with you for the duration of this spell. While summoned in this way, your eidolon cannot touch any creature warded by protection from evil or a similar effect and your eidolon can be sent back to its home plane by dispel magic. If you cast this spell while your eidolon is already on your plane, this spell has no effect. This spell allows you to summon your eidolon even if it has been returned to its home plane due to damage." Both by RAW and RAI, there is a distinction made between being slain by damage and slain by death effects. If the spell was intended to over-ride death effects, it would simply have said "even it is has been returned to its home plane due to death." It seems very clear to me, but beyond the point, I do not have the spell on my list and so there really doesn't matter in the end; especially since I'm the only summoner by class in the game thread and thus the only one affected by it. I'm not too worried about not having my eidolon as I didn't even take my free cohort from leadership since it is just for fluff.
Decided it best to move this to this area of the campaign. It only ignores death due to damage, not death effects. I'll double check the FAQs, but the spell does it it acts as if you summoned it normally with a few exceptions. Death effects are not one of the exceptions. It seems pretty straight forward to me as it lists the exact exceptions from normal eidolon summoning rules.
Knowing that something is wrong by the creature's unusual behavior, Ivanna thinks it best to go on the offensive. "Let's take this beast down!" she shouts to her companions sending both the demon and Oneiros to attack the creature. As Oneiros and the Demon charge at the roper-like creature, each are hit by it's strange tentacles.
Seeing the loss of her companion and the poor attack form of her demon minion, Ivanna unleashes a bolt of pure destruction against the beast.
Getting the feeling that the situation might not call for violence, Ivanna decides to call out to the roper-type creature. Shouting in undercommon, Ivanna asks the creature, "I say, whatever are you doing above ground? If you are seeking conversation, I have been known to debate for days on end about the various places I have seen!" She was clearly trying to towards the creature's intellectual curiosity.
We have been split up into 4 groups. Right now, Ziggles, TTT, and Wilbur are in the lake getting to this temple. Alcarin, Tinkerer, and Alton went to through this white, magic door into some kind of maze. Oom and the NPC halfling went into the building and down holes made for very small folk. Ivanna is currently looking at this aberration that looks like a tree. Each of the four groups are a different task that involves stopping or taking control of some device. The device, from what I gather, is/used to create/summon some kind of BBEG(s) (I'm guessing here). There are some fights taking place as well at some of the locations (Like underwater). We needed only up to 3 people at each site. If you can make yourself small, you can catch up to Oom and the NPC. Otherwise, you are free to join me or just do your own thing like set-up a lawn chair and catch a few drinks while watching the show. XD
Round 1?
"This is definitely no plant! It must be some strange aberration," Ivanna says out loud, mostly for herself.
Ivanna would have walked directly into the vine laiden path if it not for Oneiros stopping her. "Why have you stopped me so aburptly?" Ivanna exlcaimed to Oneiros. "Forgive me, my queen, but there are strange things coming out from the under the tree, said Oneiros to Ivanna. Spending a moment to bond her senses with Oneiros, Ivanna took a better look to see what he was talking about.
"Besides the fact that it is blackened, I do not believe this is any normal tree. Be prepared, all of you," Ivanna tells all three of her companions.
Ivanna draws her her Greater Quickened Metamagic Rod while Oneiros draws all six of his rods for battle. Aiden comes out of hiding, at first afraid, but feeling more comfortable when he sees the huge demon Ivanna summoned.
@icehawk: see this thread: Basically Gods It was the recruitment thread. We have a couple of people on stand-by, but it would be a good place to also post your character concept and application. Maybe we will see you in the game thread down the road! :)
Or I can just bring them back as themselves via summoning and paying for the components.
"Alone again... finally!" thought Ivanna; her thoughts betraying her true emotions. Fearing being without company, especially in dangerous times, she immediately set to work to summon another bodyguard. Calling out out into the abyss, fell magics summoned forth just the creature she would need. One to stand watch and be difficult to take down, Ivanna summoned forth a Glabrezu Demon to do her bidding. She would extend his contract until this unforseen threat was overcome.
Upon the arrival of her new minion, Ivanna commands the demon, "Use your Mirror Image effect and keep a look out for me. Your eyes as better than mine. I do not know what threat we face, but I am sure it is one that will require all our efforts." |
