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Sad to hear, but good luck and thanks for the engaging campaign. :)

I'm having issues with my medication. It'll be a few days before I can post.

Feel better soon

I have 200 XP recorded this level does that jive with everyone else's?

Jade eats her soup, glad to be back around the crew, and spends her time after eating knotting talismans.

"I'd share my tips for dealing with unwanted advances, but mine would probably get you fired. They involve lightning bolts," she says to Stenni.

Thanks. My fever has gone away but my throat is still sore and I have to rest a lot. This is worse than the dreaded 'Con Crude' I've hear convention goers complain about.

Get well soon and drink lots of water.

I'll go as high as 5.46 gp on the chess set

Jade surveys the knickknacks with some interest, as she has had such little opportunity to see treasures so far. The animal skull she quickly dismisses, too reminiscent of the death which had so recently struck the crew. The statuette briefly catches her eye, but Jade isn't especially interested in purely decorative pieces, especially one made of brass rather than gold. The plates are nice, but her line of work is too rough to hope they could survive her journey. The mirror is attractive, but also probably too fragile. The chess set, she decides, is the best of the bunch for someone like her. Valuable, handsome, reasonably sturdy, and might help stave off boredom during long journeys. She decides to pay attention to that piece during the auction.

Then, with a sudden thought, she turns to Okoteck and her other magically-inclined friends. "Do you have any way of determining whether any of the items up for bid are magical? Without handling them, I mean? I'd hate to pass up on a good find no one knows is magic or get tricked into bidding for a dud."

The corners of Jade's mouth quirk as she says, "We'll call that plan B. I vote checking in with the captain and checking out the auction."

Jade spies Freya and asks herself why anyone would go to the market in an evening gown, but keeps her comments to herself.

"At my rates, that'll run you 15 silver. However, while I have most of the materials in stock, volcanic borax is an absolute bastard to find in these parts. There's no telling how long it would take to get it or how much the middlemen's fees will run you."[/b]

Jade beams. "We figured that might be a problem, so we brought our own."

Our GM has an appointment on the 27th to (hopefully) get their internet fixed.

Thanks for the update :)

Thanks for the updates Okoteck

"The people here should probably have input on gunpowder being unleashed into their society. Maybe we should ask Irila what she thinks," Jade muses. She finishes her last potato skin and sighs contentedly.

Yikes! Stay safe GM.

"Yeah, that was probably Captain Ferrino. He and the rest of our surviving crew headed up here to look into getting a new ship," Jade says, tucking into her lamb and potato skins. Between bites, she says, "Hey Okoteck, could your magic rock lead us to the captain? While we're here we might as well report on what we've been up to and find out what he and the crew will be doing in the meantime."

He gives an ingratiating smile at the party. "And if you're not in the mood for a hard drink, I have apple cider, as well as fresh lamb and fried potato skins, hot off the pan!"

Jade's stomach gives a mighty rumble after days of trail rations. "I'm famished. How much for all 3?" Jade asks.

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Zelli turns, takes in the sight of the party with a widening look of shock on her face, then whirls around and dashes back out into the street.

Jade watches amusedly as the goblin flees, then looks at her companions. "Let me guess, bad breakup? Or does she owe one of you money?"

"Without any pressing reason to return, I would prefer we go straight to Oxbane Keep," Okoteck replies.

"Hyggiandi said Irila has gold for us to pay the glassblower, so we might want to stop by Fiskurvellir first," Jade reminds him. "I don't know how much the services of a glassblower cost or how much to have it ground into the correct shape, but it might cost more than we have on us."

”Not the most beautiful morning to the layman, but mist is sacred to our god, so we learn to appreciate its beauty,” he says, breaking the silence.

Jade smiles. "I couldn't agree more. Chaplain Baird always said clouds are the resplendent clothes Kassasi and Mulmano weave together to gird Ilara and the rain and mist are its threads and the dew its stitches."

@GM Where do you get all your maps? They're great

Well, at least I tried the shared grief approach. Maybe Syper can tell the story more ably lol

Noticing the abott's inner conflict, Jade struggles to find the words. "You seem like you're holding something back, like you are ashamed of something." She pauses, unsure of herself. "Let me tell you a story of ours, though I'm no great storyteller. While we were off on an assignment, the cooper back at our camp was afflicted by the tuunbakuit. He killed our compatriots, consumed some of their flesh, set our ship ablaze, and we returned only just in time to watch him soar into the sky, his feet ablaze, as he was carried off by the tuunbaq. We are capable warriors. If we had only hurried a little bit faster, we could have noticed his growing madness and subdued him before he had a chance to kill anyone and burn our way back home. We might have found a way to cleanse him of the influence of the tuunbaq..." Her voice breaks. "Please, whatever you might have done, if you're responsible at all--we're not here to judge. But if we're going to purge Penga's shade, we need to know everything. Don't let us wander in blind."

Jade Diplomacy: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Well nuts. Do we get to know if that was a crit failure before deciding to roll Hero Points? I don't want to risk a crit failure on a reroll if that was a normal failure but if it was already a crit failure, it's probably worth the reroll.

I vote Syper. Jade's strongest social skill is intimidation, and she's not all that skilled at that lol

Okay. Abbot, who's on first?

Re: Kork - again, if you feel like I'm being disruptive to the game, let me know. Erratic goblin vibes. Just making sure.

Kork is probably our MVP roleplaying-wise. Keep the erratic goblin vibes coming! :)

I'd like to take another temperature check in re: how things are going, if you guys are entertained, if there's anything any of you would like to see changed, etc.

If I could get a brief rundown of people's ideas about their IRL schedules for the next few weeks, that would be cool, but not necessary. It's been long enough since the player questionnaire that the information might be outdated for some people.

Still having a lot of fun and really impressed at the consistency with which we've all been posting.

My IRL schedule is still the same, although next Sunday I have no idea about my posting availability since I'll be gone all day and will probably need to call it an early night when I get back.

Jade grabs a bowl and ladles herself some soup. "We went to the hot springs and met a steam mephit and his master, a mist stalker, which turned out to be hostile so we fought it. It left an eye behind when it died, which turned into this turquoise gem--"

She puts the ladle back into the pot and fishes in a pocket for the gem to show Irila. "--and its essence used my kinetic gates to return to Yomul and now I can speak Thalassic. Jaym'row and I found a tunnel full of volcanic gas and the mephit helped Syper go down into it and get the phosphor. Okoteck found the borax we need in the walls of the basin. The mephit also showed us a bag of notebooks that belonged to his master, which Okoteck has had his beak buried in since we got them."

Seeing the soup continue to simmer in her bowl, Jade briefly activates her aura, creates a small chunk of ice, and slides it into the near-boiling soup with her spoon to cool it down before digging in.

I'm ready to get pack animals!

Me too

Jade scans the ground for interesting rocks and other objects to use in her daily talisman-making, but stops for a moment to watch how Syper responds to Kork's wish.

I agree with Okoteck and Kork for gathering more information first. No sense walking in unprepared.

I have two weeks' rations (minus the 2 days? walking here) so I'm fine for a long trip, especially if we can resupply with food at the monastery.

I have an air bladder. I got it to use underwater but it could be useful here. You can hold your breath 5+Con rounds before falling unconscious and the air bladder lets you reset the number of rounds once. You use double rounds any turn you attack or cast a spell (I'm assuming impulses would also count double). I couldn't refill it in there because it would take 2 actions, cost double air, and I can only generate 1 Light Bulk of air per kinesis until level 5. The air bladder is 1 B when inflated.

So I could go in there on my own holding my breath. My Con is 4 so I can last 9 rounds. I could go on a scouting run, triple Stride for 9 rounds, breathe the air in the bladder, and then turn back. If I see the phosphor on my way, I'll know I just have to come out, breathe fresh air, refill the air bladder, and then go back in to get it. If I don't find anything within 9 rounds then we'll know we have to figure something else out.

Does anybody have a nonflammable light source? I have a feeling I don't want to go into a tunnel with strange gases with an open flame lol

Seeing the geologic features and hearing Jaym'row's remark, she puts two and two together. Jade calls out to warn Jaym'row, but instead of Common, or even Cornyrian, she speaks a musical tongue which falls and crests like waves in the ocean, "Jaym'row, sǎ shûnû nǐ toku!"

Jade coughs, confused. "Sǎ shûnû..." She rubs her throat, then draws some water from her aura and drinks it. With one last clearing of her throat, she belts, "That gas is poisonous! Don't breathe it."

She drinks some more water and explains, "That mist stalker used my kinetic gates to return to Yomul and when its essence passed through me, I think it just gave me the ability to speak Thalassic."

She shakes her head and points to a tunnel entrance. "Anyway, I think our phosphor will be down that way."

Then, grabbing her bruised side she says, "I'd like a breather if you don't mind to heal up first. That thing got me good in the rib."

She'll use Ocean's Balm every 10 minutes while we're stopped to heal, starting 10 minutes from when I used it in the fight. If we're in a hurry, I could use potions to heal up.

@GM Was the 14 damage including resistance 2 from Deflecting Wave ↺? (I'm assuming this was bludgeoning damage.)

Jade staggers under the blow, then draws in ice from her aura, coating her fist in thick coating of ice and pummeling the creature with it◆◆.

Elemental Blast (melee) + Anthem ◆◆: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 8 + 1 = 26
DC 5 Flat Check: 1d20 ⇒ 6
Bludgeoning Damage + Str + Con: 1d8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 1 + 4 = 13

Then she places a hand to her side and draws in healing water to reduce the bruising◆.
Ocean's Balm Healing: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Well, I'm relieved to know there's something actually solid to strike in the mist. I worried the thing might just be like a living cloud in a creature-ish shape.

Jade moves◆ out of the aura of mist (1 E, 2 NE) and tries to see if she recognizes the creature◆.

Then she sends an elemental blast◆ at the mist.

(I'll give several options depending on the results of RK. My preference for damage types is d8: bludgeoning, cold and d6: slashing, electricity. I'll use the first damage type I just listed it doesn't have an immunity or resistance to that I know of. If I figure out it has resistance or immunity to all 4, I'll skip the elemental blast and retreat another 25'.)

I'll also share the results of my RK with the party if I know anything.

I would guess it's more to do with the timing than the action itself. The feat lets you do it in 3 actions. 6 seconds to make an impression and make a request is very quick. I'm not sure what the default rules for make an impression are but it's at least a minute of interaction

Crud I probably should have recalled knowledge. Oh well lol. I guess I'll use trial and error to find resistances this round rather than my brain.

It's too bad we aren't 3rd level. Next level I'll be able to Extract Element to deal untyped damage to anything with an [air] or [water] trait and, on anything worse than a crit success on their save, remove or weaken any resistances or immunities to my impulses it has.

Jade runs◆ 5 sq. south and then readies◆◆ an elemental blast for when it gets within 60' (which shouldn't be more than a step or two, by my count.)

So Okoteck and Kork I believe volunteered to test out my talismans, so at the beginning of the day I would have affixed a potency crystal (made of bits of sea glass bound tightly in a small square of mesh cloth) to each of your main weapons.

Jade raises her shield warily and walks bravely forward 5 squares west to the edge of the water to get a better look at the spring.

"A being of air and water, eh? I've heard they're dangerous," Jade grins, then activates her kinetic aura and adjusts her grip on her shield. "We'll be ready for it. We're looking for faint yellow brimstone and an entrance to some caverns, right?"

Jade rubs her ears at the shriek. "What's happening?"

He looks like an elemental of some sort, so I'll see what Jade knows.

I'm not sure how I missed it but I can also make potency crystal talismans. For some reason I thought it was a level 4 item.

When you make an attack with the affixed weapon, you can activate it to make the weapon a +1 striking weapon until the end of the turn

That's one vote for geyser then monastery then quarry. Next?

Geyser, monastery, then quarry sound good to me.

I actually do have Intimidation if we ever need to do it. I provide my own intimidating special effects :D

I know we are far from being able to face them, but I worry for what they might do with other would-be explorers from the south... I cannot think of a way to warn them off, though."[/b]

Jade blanches as the dominoes in her brain fall into place. "Irila, please, my father's ship the Stormweaver was blown from the south towards Thalis in a storm [however long ago a month before signing up for this voyage was] ago. Was--you wouldn't know of any way to find them? I--my only family in the world is on that ship, and she is the only home I've ever known. If they ran into the angakkuk or any of the spirits we've faced--please, if you can help at all--" she asks plaintively, then starts taking deep breaths to calm herself.

You OP, Freckles.

It's definitely nice to have that healing. :D

Aw shucks. Your characters are pretty amazing too.

Does anybody plan on using the heavy crossbow?

I don't. I have no business wielding any weapon XD

So in 2e, you just subtract 1,000 XP from your total after a level-up right? So should we be at 60 xp now from Whitefang or were we higher than 1,000 when we hit level 2?

I'm chuckling a bit at the fact that 16/+3 is the lowest Dexterity score in the party. XD

And that a kineticist in light armor is the party tank XD

He falls silent in thought as he continues working until Jade asks him for the claws. "Certainly, I have no use for them. Though I would be curious about these talismans..."

If you lend me your sword tomorrow morning, I'll attach one for you and you can try it for yourself," Jade says, "Anyone else want to test one out?"

I can make 2 temporary talismans every day for free during daily preparations, so if anyone wants one of them, let me know. I have a repair kit and can (un)affix up to 4 talismans in 10 minutes so I'm happy to attach any other talismans you find/buy for yourself as well.

If you're unfamiliar, talismans are single-use items you affix to weapons or armor and when their trigger happens, you can use their effect as a free action.

They lose their magic at the next daily preparations, so I have to remove the old and replace them with a fresh one every day, even if they were unused.

The two I can make are listed on my profile, but my guess is you all would want Predator's Claws, which let you get the critical specialization effect for the attached weapon when you crit with it. Wolf Fangs are only useful after a successful Trip, and none of you have tried tripping anything yet, though if you'd like to try it let me know. They get affixed to armor instead of weapons.

I wanted to say all this in character but couldn't figure out a way that wasn't super artificial and wouldn't clog up the gameplay thread with a bunch of mechanical info. XD

"I'm Jade Morrow," Jade takes a seat next to the fire and introduces herself to Naïssala, digging herself into her own rations. "Kineticist of wind and water. We came to hunt that bear. We need his heart so a crone can perform a ritual to help us in our quest. We heard it was the pet of a grimstalker. You wouldn't know what happened to the master, would you? The crone said it had moved on, but we'd like to be sure."

She glances over at Okotek as he smokes the bear meat. "Hey, if you're done with the bear over there, I'd like a couple of its claws to make talismans with. I'll bet Kork can find a use for some of them too."

You could use your hero point? They reset to 1 after every long rest so no point in hoarding them.

Jade walks over to Kork with a healing hand.

Kork Ocean's Balm healing: 1d8 ⇒ 6

"The crone said she needs the bear's heart for her ritual. Anyone good at surgery? I suppose it can't be too hard if the patient's already dead."

The dice gods are unhappy with us right now :P

Jade tries to scamper up the rock◆.

Athletics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Athletics (hero point): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

But she can't seem to get up. She tries once more◆.

Athletics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

Finally up the rock, she's out of time to blanket the area in snow, but has enough left in her to send another barrage of hailstones◆ at the bear.

Elemental Blast◆: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9 That's a crit failure :P
B Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7