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I wasn't thinking of a traditional Recruitment, but offering it up to orphans like us, and a few folks I know who are good posters/players - which I feel you three are too. I'll get the Game set up and then present the concept - if you like it you are in.
@Jereru, Ietsuna, Zanbabe: I'm considering running a PF2e game (or Ietsuna, if you want you could run one!) Likely an old-school module converted, and if it is a success open it up into a further Campaign. Possibly set in Greyhawk. You guys interested?
”What in all the hells just happened to Musami and Zokama?” Kaaro cries to the rest of the group. She steps one step back toward the platform, reflexively acting to escape. She shrugs out of her fear, ”Naghbakh. DO NOT leave my side.” She speaks arcane esoterica, and a shielding light appears before her.
Kaaro frowns at Naghbakh’s failure and subsequent fall, though some mirth is evident as the eidolon stands and steps off the platform. The Suel draws a pattern in the area, ensorcelling her space.
"We were standing on that?" Kaaro breathes, incredulous. She listens with deepening anxiety as Zokama describes the area. "Shadows? That move? I'm fairly certain that those are not pleasant entities. I don't want off this hanging driftwood if we can't get back on easily. Can we make it go any lower?"
Though her eidolon successfully stays the platform, Kaaro can't arrest her own downward momentum, falling to a splayed condition, arms and legs an ungainly akimbo.
"Not too dangerous, just sufficiently dangerous to give me pause!" Kaaro says, her smile reassuring you she is still ready to adventure...
Kaaro bites her lip. "You may be right. Naghbakh has been affected. In time it might totally weaken him and leave us stranded, unless another way is found. Given we know not what lies beneath, how important is this downward venture?" the Suel asks the group generally.
"Is it harming you? Can you ferry us back and forth between the platforms?" Kaaro asks, idly wondering why the fungal bloom seems not to form at Naghbakh's passage.
Kaaro explains: "Cross to the yonder platform, and assess whether you can lower it to whatever surface lies below." Weaving her arms again she brings forth magicks. . "If the platform cannot be moved, climb down. Be careful my friend, the deathly cold of this nacreous rock will challenge you..."
"Understood. Give me a moment." The Suel stows her scythe and makes preparations, most of which consist of small movements in the air with her hands, as if assessing arcane energies or cosmic fields. Kaaro hums, then calls into the darkness, and unintelligible rote or litany of otherwordly importunings. Space seems to warp, and a squelching suck of air is accompanied by the sudden appearance of a creature on the platform, tipping the balance slightly before the creature moves to the centre.
Kaaro peers into the darkness, unable to see much besides Zokama's illuminating stone. Her nostrils flare and she nods to Musami. "I like this not. Do we have further reason to descend? If so, I could send my monstrous companion down to investigate?"
Kaaro’s lips burn blue on her pale face, but she manages to stay upright and balanced. She brings her scythe to bear, but refuses to step off the platform.
Kaaro looks askance at the fiendish corpse, her practised eye taking in its many foul details. The statue holds little interest for her as everything here carries significance she is unsure of. When the group prepares to descend she too prepares. "I guess it is down we go..."
Her summoned magical defense now gone, Kaaro feels somewhat bereft and underwhelmed...she follows sheepishly behind their earlier experiences herein leading her to defer to their directions. She watches with grim foreboding as Zokama and Musami disappear into the small tunnel, assuring herself she need not go in... ”Zokama! Musami!” she calls, trying to determine if they yet breathe.
Darkblade: Kaaro will mutter "That doesn't look good. At all. Even if you don't hit it Musami, I think it will erupt...[/b]"
She will then cast ablative barrier on herself.
”Or is the orb Zokama has found the Eye?” asks Kaaro, somewhat mystified by the altar, pillar, statue etc. ”And these empty indentations - have you come across any of the matching objects? Even should we place them, what would they do - open the pillar? Open a portal of some kind?”
Kaaro rushes to Zokama’s side, cradling the doughty woman’s wracked body. ”What is this place? What manner of evil assailed you - was it Zuggtmoy herself? Ciuld the child receive our aid somehow - I am prepared to re-enter whatever space or place you were taken to and wrest the child away...” Kaaro speaks fiercely. ”Though truthfully I am not sure how to enter...”
Kaaro dreams a dark dream of war and dark powers. When she wakes she is still in the chamber with her friends. She wriggles reflexively, afraid that the fungal infestation might have grown over her. Fortunately it seems she is not yet the correct medium. ”So that was Emridy. A fierce battle it would seem. And this Zuggtmoy was a demoness of some power?”
Kaaro eyes the new-slain creature with barely disguised horror, her eyes goggling, made more explicit by the obfuscation of her other features. "I...have dispatched many of the undead...but this infestation of fungus has me somewhat...scared. Let us not tarry here..."
Kaaro looks in wonder at the blooms of fungus, wide-eyed she follows her new companions, careful not to touch anything. She follows the elf in covering her mouth and nose with an impromptu bandana. ”I too follow, having never been here before...” comes a muffled voice from the monster hunter...
”How many times have you been to this place?” asks Kaaro, looking the structure up and down as they enter.
Kaaro eyes Braggi with boggled orbs as he presses her for exactitude. ”Err. Well. Spells of...mystic nature. I also can summon an otherworldly entity to fight with us. His name is Naghbakhakora. A fearsome creature, and a valuable ally...” she finishes, finally warming to the task.
Kaaro is wholly unversed in the intricacies of architecture or the undoing of same. Mostly the Suel is concerned and dismayed that the small village is so beset, and rumors of lycanthropes, dopplegangers, ancient elemental evils and lurking factions beneath murky moathouses have her tense, but also slightly excited. "I will join you Zokama, Musami, Braggi! I have some magicks to aid you in battle...but am not exactly well placed to destroy mosthouses!"
Ok, leveled up:
For Naghbakh:
The dagger Musami describes is unfamiliar to Kaaro, though it feels her with a vague sense of unease. She asks many questions from the group regarding the layout and forces arrayed below the Moathouse and is quite interested in the obvious and various factions encountered.
Absolutely! As for me, I'm getting smashed with extra work, so have had hardly any time for the forums past few days... I'll try to get to leveling up in the next few days...
Yay, 5th level. I'm away at the moment, so leveling will be hard until tomorrow...
I'm happy with you guys continuing your side quest..,get that evil vampiric fungus laden wereboar...
Changed first name and last name around. I think Kaaro is done now, and her Eidolon - Naghbakh is complete.
Finding the rustic hamlet interesting and quite different to the settlements on the edges of the Sea of Dust or those on the other side of the Hellfurnaces, Egesovax decides to visit the general store to see if she can rustle up any supplies. Having not seen the northern approach to the town the Suel passes the town hall and the tailor's establishment before crossing the well-used if rough bridge. She casts a slightly confused glance at the money changer's, and then sees the mighty edifice of the strange church with the interesting sigil. Locating the traders she smiles and and approaches it. "Helloo?" she calls out upon walking in.
And then I smashed my index finger between a log and a trailer creating a subungual hematoma - a blackened fingernail - the like of which I have never accomplished. I've had blackened nails before but never like this - luckily I didn't need to pierce it to relieve the pressure, but the finger did swell by 50% and throbbed up my arm until I put a cold pack on it and went to sleep... Have now chosen spells, and will work on Eidolon tomorrow night...
Gah. Weirdest set of procedures to get metal off eyeball. Walked into waiting room and there is a guy in there I met a couple days ago at my mechanics. With a streaming left eye. Because of a piece of metal in it. Same eye. Same issue. Same time. Only they couldn't get it out of his eye until the next day at a far hospital with a specialist. I just got my eye scraped to remove the fleck, and then because the fleck had oxidised - in other words....rusted onto my eyeball, they had to buff all the rust off with a tiny dremel-like drill. Really, really weird. No pain due to anaesthetic drops prior to procedure, but extremely uncomfortable. Pretty painful when the anaesthetic wore off.... Thanks for kind words...
Hey guys, go on without me. Won't get much done tonight due to being in hospital waiting room with foreign body in eyeball...
Mostly finished with Egesovax, except spell choices. Site has been screwy and had to reload, backtrack, load, save, redo, tear hair out, save, reload, preview, submit, load, save etc just to get this far. Will tackle eidolon tomorrow.
If you guys want to go to the farmer's place now go for it, it might take a day or so to finish Egesovax and her eidolon. I'll see if I can get it done tonight, but if not, go ahead without her and we can meet up again after.
To Musami: "Yes, I am just arrived, lately of the Hold of the Sea Princes, and the Lendore Isles before that. I was making my way to the Great City, by a rather circuitous route I admit..." To Braggi:
"My apologies. I am Egesovax Kaaro, monster-hunter." she offers another small bow. Her mind seems to turn to calculating a sum as she half looks to the ceiling. "Yes, the weapon was topped with a skull. The man himself was dressed mostly in sky-blue, caparisoned as if for war - and a more determined look on his face I have not seen in aeons. If I am not much mistaken...he had the mien of a priest. Though one set on war to be sure..."
"Did I hear tell of a possible job?" A slight Suel woman with a shock of pale hair and the look of a determined warrior approaches your table. She nods repectfully to your group. "I couldn't help overhearing, so apologies are in order for my impertinent intrusion, but this sleepy hamlet appears to have an abundance of activity not usually associated with mundane farming and agrarian idyll. Why just this morning I passed a rather hurried looking fellow riding south bearing a fairly fell looking weapon..."
This is Navith's replacement Egesovax, a Suel monster hunter from the outskirts of the Sea Princes locality, a scion of ancestral Suel petty noble mercenaries. Given a man's name, and raised as more warrior than mystic artist, so she'll be reluctant to use her summon monster and rely on her own brawn and that of her weird avian/biped eidolon. Also, will not be choosing haste as a 2nd level spell... Still have to choose spells, traits and equipment. Egesovax' eidolon is a biped with the following evolutions: Free evolutions:
1 point evolutions:
And will have AC 17, HP 30, F +4 R +2 W +3 and four claw attacks +7, 1d6 +3. Making an alias for it too...just thought I'd give GM a heads up in case any of that looks outlandish. |
