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As soon as Rosina is in position, Johnne presses his fingers to his left temple, squeezing his eyes shut. In his mind's eye, he sees his fingers reach out to the giants, twisting their minds and impulses.

Dropping a persistent confusion in a spot where I can hit the gigas and (hopefully) one or more frost giants without hitting a party member. 15-foot burst. They need to make two DC 25 Will saves; if they fail either, they suffer the full effect of the spell, and are confused for 17 rounds.

Sorry. My moods haven't been good at all lately. I'll do something now.

Hey guys, I just got the internet connected. Might take me a while to get into the swing of things again, but I'm back!

If I'm holding up this combat too much, bot me; otherwise, I'll try to get to this before my society game tomorrow.

First up, I'd like to apologize for my silence. I've been working up to moving house, and the big day was today. We don't have an internet connection yet, and probably won't for several days (though we're working on it). I have a smartphone with a data plan, but 500MB doesn't go far when I'm using it for job-searching as well. However, my mother lives 5 minutes away and I'm welcome there any time, and there's a library within walking distance, so I'll be around.

Please don't write me out of the campaign, as this is temporary. I'll be here, but sporadic. If I'm holding things up, bot me. If there's something Johnne (or Rosina) would reasonably do that would help the party out of combat, have him do it if I don't get to it first. His combat MO is to drop crowd-control debuffs while Rosina stacks on the pain and despair.

Taking some liberties and assuming I'm still on the carpet :P

As the carpet soars easily up the stairs, Johnne closes his eyes and tries to focus on not being motion-sick, even as he sends a spell to his ethereal companion.

Casting touch of gracelessness; Rosina gets a free touch attack to deliver it. Giant needs to make a DC 20 Fort save or take 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9 points of Dexterity damage (save for half).

Oliveo, thanks. That helps. =)

Clinging to the edges of the magic carpet, Johnne's eyes flash as he fixes them on one of the giants, sending pain coursing through its body.

Casting inflict pain on a giant (any giant). DC 23 Will save or take a -4 penalty to attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks for 17 rounds. A successful save reduces the duration to 1 round.

"How will we recognize the Troll Shaman?" Johnne rasps. "We understand there are many giants and giant-kin present."

Having called Rosina back from his subconscious, Johnne stands uncertainly near his phantom, looking around for the source of the voice. "Is anyone going to answer?" he asks in his thin rasp.

Then let's give this a shot.

40% casting chance: 1d100 ⇒ 56

So if I wanted to, say, drop a confusion on the worms behind the wall... how would I do that? Just roll the percentiles once?

Hope Toska's player's doing okay!

Johnne places his fingers against his left temple, focusing on the direction Toska had charged, targeting the remorhaz there.

Casting debilitating portent on the worm in melee with Toska. Each time it attacks, it needs to make a DC 27 Will save or deal half damage.

Sorry, I'm just drawing a complete blank on what to do here! >.>

Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday! Time for me to pick up the slack on my posting >.>

Take your time. Tis the silly season!

No worries. Sorry, I'm just waiting for a map to see what my options are >.>

I'm crazy low on hp! *laughs madly*

Simple weapons, plus the scythe, sap, and kukri. Not much going for me there.

Yeah, Phantom Recall specifies acting as dimension door, but that's when I do it as a swift or immediate action. The standard action use doesn't specify whether it's a teleportation effect or not, so since it doesn't call it out, I'd rule it isn't.

"Sorry to do this, love," Johnne rasps, before closing his eyes and placing his fingertips to his temples. As he focuses, Rosina's misty form slowly fades from the casing of ice, and a faint grey mist forms around his own hands. Within seconds, the ice is empty.

He watches the geysers as Rosaline tries to free Toska, wishing there was more he could do to help.

I didn't buy a weapon. *cackles, then weeps*

Then I stop being a Spiritualist and start being two-thirds of a sorcerer? In all seriousness, I don't know. What happens when an eidolon comes under attack in whatever plane it came from?

It doesn't say, so I assume not.

The phantom does not heal naturally, and can be healed only with magic or by being tended to with the Heal skill while fully manifested in ectoplasmic form. The phantom stays fully manifested until it is either returned to the spiritualist's consciousness (a standard action) or banished to the Ethereal Plane. If the phantom is banished to the Ethereal Plane, it can't return to the spiritualist's consciousness or manifest again for 24 hours.

GM! Before I post, a question for you. It's a standard action to return my phantom to my consciousness; would I be able to do that, or does the magical cursed icy stuff prevent that?

That's genius, actually. Buying cats in bulk, turning them into food, and raking in profits. There's a retirement plan! I am a dog person.

Happy birthday!

That's cruel yet effective. I APPROVE.

Dammit! A problem that can't be solved with hundreds of sacrificial bodies!

Reminder: 150 gp can buy you 5,000 cats. :D

It certainly seems that way. I mean, I'm not surprised that there was such a contingency in a high-level module, and I'm not saying it's unfair (we are 17th level, after all). I'm just an unrepentant whinger.

I think you're right in that we'll have to be extra careful.

Blinded characters must make a DC 10 Acrobatics check to move at more than half speed. Would that still apply to Rosina, or would she have to make a Fly check instead?

Reflex (hot): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29
Reflex (cold): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

Somehow, Johnne's blind stumbling is enough to avoid the worst of the damage, though the markings on his robe writhe and weep in the scalding steam.

Acrobatics to move at full speed: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 Penalties from being blinded included.
Just going to keep moving!

Rosaline's response to the geyser reminded me of this image.

Reflex: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22 Johnne takes full damage.

Johnne's own scream of pain is a death-rattle through his damaged vocal cords; he shakes, his hands held before his scalded eyes, blindly following the sound of Oliveo's voice. "Stay close, love," he rasps to his phantom as he stumbles after the bard. "Just stay close."

She had a good life, in retrospect. Nine years of cuddles and bacon rind. Nine years of good company. She was an inside-outside dog for two years, and an outside dog for seven. She had the run of the backyard, first choice of food bowls, and was the self-appointed overlord of our other three dogs. She never wanted for belly scratches, and never expected anything in return for her affection. It's a shame she never got to move out with me and be an inside dog again, with her own spot on the couch, but... life has other plans.

Just when I was starting to really recover from my recent breakup, my beautiful spaniel Ruby-Charles died this morning. She was my first real pet, and she's left some big fuzzy boots to fill. Posting may be a bit hit-and-miss while I try to heal. Sorry to do this so soon into the game, but sometimes the d20 of life falls on a 1.

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Johnne rubs at his throat, glad to be on solid ground. As he does so, Rosina flits back to his side, trailing grey smoke as she goes, caressing her lover's face and neck. "We fought well. Best not stay too long. Check their pockets and go." He gives his phantom a weak smile, trying to catch one of her hands, but it simply passes through his own, unimpeded by flesh.

Perception to search giants: 1d20 + 31 ⇒ (18) + 31 = 49

Well, I might drop a confusion or two and watch the chaos :D

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Reeling from the boulder that grazed his side, Johnne tightens his grip on the edge of the carpet. "Are you sure this thing is safe?" he asks Oliveo, trying to make his thin voice heard over the din of battle below.

Don't particularly want to spend spells, since we seem to be mopping this up quickly >.>

Bushfires in Australia are terrifying, and too many of them are started by idiots. A stray cigarette butt, an angle grinder... Anything can set it off, and it gets out of control before you know it.

I'm taking the steps I need to make sure I'll be safe if anything happens.

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So, it's coming into summer here in South Australia, and that means it's fire season. We've had several Catastrophic danger levels this month. (The scale is Low - Moderate - High - Very High - Severe - Extreme - Catastrophic, because Australia does not f*$$ around.)

Today, we had a fire start out near my place of employment, which is in a rural area. Even though the wind was blowing away from us, we evacuated the whole site just to play it safe. And because it's a primary school, that resulted in 350 terrified kids and stressed teachers being kept indoors and taking drink and toilet breaks in pairs, while every member of leadership and support staff rang the parents of every child to evacuate them. I'm home now, and all the main roads near me have been closed off. I'm safe, but shaken, and it's made me realize that there may well come a time when I'm affected by a fire and won't be able to get online and let everyone know. If that happens, I'll try to get a real-life friend with a Paizo account to spread the word.

GM, how about I include the 'cheat-notes' of the incorporeal subtype in a spoiler tag with Rosina's vitals? Would that be useful?

Yo, Choon! Just a reminder that Rosina is incorporeal. So she takes no damage from nonmagical weapons, half damage from magical weapons, and full damage from ghost touch weapons.

Please don't tell me every enemy has ghost touch weapons >.>

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Awwww. Have a digital hug. That sounds hellish. =(

Thanks for not punishing my forgetfulness. :D

Johnne clings to the edges of the carpet, peering over the side at the battle below. He watches as Rosina charges through the wall of snow, easily dissipating through it, and plunges a fist into one of the giants. "Well done, love," he whispers, smiling.

How high up are we? I just remembered that if Rosina is more than 50 feet from Johnne in her incorporeal form, she's banished to the ethereal plane and stays there for 24 hours. I'd rather that doesn't happen. :P

"Then I'll join you, if that's alright?" Johnne rasps, looking across at Oliveo. "I have no need to prepare."

So, Johnne has a few tricks up his sleeve. He's picked Spell Perfection for crushing despair, so that's pretty much his bread and butter. His spell selection focuses on fear and emotion effects, so if we come up against things that are immune to those, he'll basically be a sitting duck. If he's within 50 feet of Rosina, she can deliver his touch spells for him, regardless of whether she's in ectoplasmic or incorporeal form.

If Johnne gets hit by a mind-affecting effect, he can immediately call Rosina back into his consciousness and shunt it off to her, effectively negating it, but he can only do this once per day. Still a very nice thing to have. She can also take hit point damage that would drop him to negs - also good to have in a pinch. Other than this, he's mainly a caster, dropping nastiness on the enemies.

Rosina gets a few more tricks. Since she's usually in incorporeal form, she has a 40 foot fly speed and can't be heard with Perception checks unless she wishes it (which is handy, but she has a lower stealth than Alessus, so he'd be better at not being seen). All enemies within 10 feet of her take an automatic -2 penalty to saving throws thanks to her aura of despair (not a fear effect!). She gets a +2 bonus against foes suffering fear or despair effects, and can mimic crushing despair three times per day. She has Combat Reflexes to stack on the hurt in ectoplasmic form, and any creature hit by her slams takes a -2 penalty on attack and damage rolls for 1 round. She has Dazzling Display, and can increase the severity of fear effects, which is really nice.

So, both are rather supporty characters, with an aggressively depressing spellcasting selection.

Me, I dn't have any nifty tricks or anything. I just cast spells, and get my phantom to drag everyone down.

Though I'm really wishing I'd picked up the feat that allows a phantom in incorporeal form to damage corporeal enemies, because right now, I'll be doing a lot of recalling and manifesting :/

Sorry my posts are so short. I live in Australia, so this thread explodes during the hours when I'm unable to post. I like the plan; I hope Johnne can survive (for now); and Oliveo, I'm glad you're enjoying my descriptions! I'll be a bit weird knowing I'm under scrutiny now, though :P

"You're beautiful," Johnne tells her in his strained whisper, rubbing at his throat and smiling faintly. Taking his gift from Percy, he fixes Oliveo in his disconcerting stare. "Your plan is a good one. I have little ability, other than to make others feel my pain and fear. Rosina... she can warp their minds, leave them in mental disarray."

Uh... I think I'll just take two 3rd-level runestones. Helps me stack on the despair.

As for the planetar... I'm honestly not sure. Could be interesting, certainly adds a LOT of power.

"I'm Johnne," the newcomer says, his voice a strained whisper, barely audible above the wind. "This is Rosina." He winces, as if the words cause him discomfort.

He's dressed in well-made clothing, in the style of Ustalavic nobility, though it's in ill repair.His cravat is immaculate, however, knotted neatly and firmly at his throat, covering his neck to the chin. His cloak seems to shimmer and ripple, throwing disconcerting patterns that appear uncomfortably like eyes. His black hair is streaked with grey, and his blue eyes are lined heavily with time - he carries himself with the air of a man who's tired of the world, but wants to face it with dignity.