As the Flaxseed Lodge winds down for the evening and Ace's bar is in full use, the sound of trumpets erupts from the front of the Lodge as Karu boldly opens the door, hoisting a smallish sarcophagus with three of his lieutenants. Behind the sarcophagus and its pallbearers, four Pathfinders and a faerie dragon follow.
"Attention, Lodge!" he yells as several of the trainees from the Bold Striders immediately stand to attention. "We have grim... terrible news." he says, correcting himself once he realizes his error. His face remains somber.
"The mighty dwarf Grimdoc has perished in combat. The unstoppable force of the Emissary from Beyond descended on Dustpawn a few days ago. Grimdoc and the valiant Pathfinders behind me were the only ones to stand their ground against the monstrosity." he says proudly.
"In its last breath, the Emissary stripped away Grimdoc's soul before the valiant Ennoia the Bold could finish off the slimy beast." he informs the Lodge. "The remains of Grimdoc shall be interred with his family, however we shall erect a statue of this mighty warrior in the Training Hall in order to inspire those here."
Karu closes his eyes for a moment and composes himself. "We will place this sarcophagus in the catacombs beneath the Lodge as he was both a Pathfinder as well as a dwarf and deserves to be recognized as such!" he yells before marching towards the entrance to the Catacombs. The trainees of the Bold Striders immediately bow as deep as possible when the entourage passes.
GM Aarvid's Brother Grimdoc has permanently perished in service to the Society. His sacrifice allowed for the rest of the group to survive and the costs of retrieving his soul were deemed too high by the dwarf once he was contacted via Speak with Dead. Huzzah for the mighty Grimdoc!
I would only be able to make one meaningful post a day. Would that be an issue for players? I think I saw some guides say that as a GM, I should make a couple of posts a day.
I try to commit to posting six days a week with one substantive post per day. A substantive post is one that moves the story along.
If it works for you, then I'm sure you will find players as long as you are consistent.
"Ah, you failed to mention that Durvin Gest is possibly the most famous Pathfinder in all of history, hence why his blade is not given to fresh recruits." he says, fairly impressed by Wynn's knowledge.
Karu chuckles as you ask about the second mission. "Well, the second mission is a secret." he says as he refuses the blade's return, leaving it with Morrin. "Why do keep trying to give it back?" he asks as a reaction to both Morrin and Kalendir trying to give it to him.
"Take this blade to Eliza... I mean, Venture Captain Petulengro, and she will give you the details." Karu says with a knowing grin. "Make your preparations carefully and try to avoid any resistance fighters in Galt. I hear they have decided to make trouble again." he comments, though Galt's political instability is well-known around all of Golarion.
With that, he taps Braugher on the shoulder and the tengu easily stands from the lotus position. The pair leave you to your thoughts, cutting off any questions you may have as Venture-Captain Karu and his lieutenant Braugher remain in the Zone of Silence that surrounds the tengu.
The scenario recommends that you discuss tactics and group composition here. Please do it in character with little to no OOC chat! :D
Based off that roll, you would get this knowledge.
"Durvin Gest is perhaps the most famous of all pathfinders and his exploits feature prominently in several of the earliest volumes of the Pathfinder Chronicles. He is best known for his exploration of Old Azlant, the destruction of the treacherous Lens of Galundari, and his commandeering of The Silken Purse and piloting it around the southern tip of Garund. Even centuries after his final disappearance in 4360 AR, Gest remains one of the most legendary names in Golarion and statues of him grace many of the Pathfinder Society's facilities, including a 20-foot likeness in Absalom's Grand Lodge."
Seeing Atum take out two of the Adrils in a moment, Karu sets his mind to the task of felling the one next to him. "Prepare yourself, Adril! I won't hold back!" he yells as he adopts his Dragon Style and releases a flurry of attacks, imbuing the first strike with acid and calling down holy vengeance.
Smite Evil on Green Adril as Swift. Dragon Style as Free Action due to Combat Style Master. Elemental Fist on First Attack.
Karu pulls back his fist after it connects with the druid's jaw, happy that his power has felled the summoner. "Sigh... this magician has left me exhausted. I need a few minutes." he remarks.
As Kynrac blesses him, he feels rejuvenated and stands up boldly, ready to move forward.
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Seeing that Faldoc has approved the next lever, Karu strides forward and boldly pulls the metal rod. "Gird your loins, men!" he calls out as he pulls with vigor.
Swarm Saves; Not 1s:2d20 ⇒ (2, 9) = 11 The onslaught of centipedes is an annoyance as the woman falls unconscious to the ground. The elementals, equally so, but these block his way to the caster. "Atum! Let's make a path! " he bellows.
Target is Blue. Any remainder of attacks on Yellow. 5' step north if blue falls from my attacks.
Karu steps forward as the woman blasts Atum with the same ray that tried to exhaust his endless stores of energy. "Learn a respectable fighting style, woman!" he yells as he pivots and sends four quick jabs her way, activating his Boots of Speed.
Karu feels the centipedes bite a few more times before as he is hit by the ray of yellow energy. He feels a bit tired from the blast. "Your feeble energies are no match for the power of Irori!" he roars as he takes three quick, large steps forward into the face of the woman.
@DM: Where is the language of that text so I can keep it handy in case I forget or need to relay that information to others?
As the centipedes wash over Karu, he feels their little mandibles break through the Stoneskin and pierce his flesh. He begins to slap at them, squashing a few, but there are just so many...
7 damage after Stoneskin; 120 on Stoneskin remaining.
Fort-Dex-DC 21 aka Don't Roll a 1:1d20 + 21 ⇒ (7) + 21 = 28 Fort-Nauseated-DC 21 aka Don't Roll a 1:1d20 + 21 ⇒ (18) + 21 = 39
Reflex: +16 mod with BoF+Evasion:2d20 ⇒ (12, 9) = 21
Karu easily avoids the clockwork explosions as they harmlessly clatter about. "Are you all ok? " he asks as they are beset by more trouble father into the sanctum.
Karu, looking for the device to contact the Society, spies the geode. "Anyone have thoughts on how to use a rock to contact the Society?" he asks as he picks it up and looks it over with Detect Magic.
I hope this is it and not something else in this room... he thinks to himself, imagining the embarrassment. Surreptitiously, he looks around the room to see if there is anything else of note.
"Oh... Well that was disappointing." remarks Karu, envisioning a large bird of prey perched on his shoulder for the final confrontation with Adril. As the bird takes its leave of the Decimvirate's sanctum, he waves at it. "Good luck on doing whatever it is you are doing, bird!"
Smiling, he turns to Faldoc. "Alright, let's press on with your idea Faldoc!" he says in encouragement to the archer. He exeunts the room to the south and head to the east, finding a door. "Steel yourselves, men!" he says confidently as he opens the door, shield at the ready.
Karu tries to activate the statue to determine its purpose. "Perhaps this thing can help us take down Adril if it has combat power. Maybe it will summon a set of ospreys? Or perhaps it will just summon Osprey. That'd be entertaining." he remarks.
"One second... that bird is looking at us." Karu remarks quietly as Faldoc insists on moving onward.
Noticing the osprey's eyes following him, Karu boldly moves to inspect the ivory carving. He hefts the bird into his hands if he is able and casts Detect Magic on it, as well as the other statues, trying to see if these items are magical in nature and possibly dangerous.
Karu returns to inform the group about the room filled with tusks. "Quite... odd." he adds.
Now that the northeast section of the floor has been checked, Karu feels comfortable pressing onward. "Be ready for anything." he tells everyone as he pulls open the door behind the black blood column.
Karu looks kindly at Kynrac and bows his head. "Thank you for your aid! We shall share a kale smoothie once we are back to the Lodge!" he says proudly before moving to inspect the door opened by Faldoc.
Karu stands in the entrance and gazes into the darkness, scowling at what he sees.
"There is something... trapped in some sort of column that seems to be causing the darkness." Karu tells Faldoc as he shudders from the unnatural chill. "It does not seem that Adril is in this room, however." he adds.
"Let's move on. I care not to deal with the trappings of the Decimvirate without extensive knowledge." Karu reasons as he looks around.
The purplish room to the west looks to be a good starting point and he moves into the long room and up to the door, pulling it open to check the contents. Provided moving into 7 doesn't cause some sort of event.
Karu cringes as he feels his strength sapped from him. He grips the wall as the group dispatches the enemy. "Bloody shadows stealing my strength." he curses.
As the group decides to head north, Karu puts on a stoic face. "Yes. We will handle the front line, bold Faldoc and Mark." he reassures the group as he keeps his shield strapped to his arm and moves to the north.
Karu looks around the room and see a figure heading towards a vaguely green portal as two other seem to congregate with a fifth standing alone.
Shrugging, Karu wordlessly moves to the grouping and barely makes out the basin, choosing to take an ioun stone from the grouping in the bottom of the container ,and set it to orbit around his head.
Karu hand Kynrac a small pouch of his last remaining diamond dust. "Thank you. " he says as he clasps the man arm in solidarity.
Turning to Atum, Faldoc and Mark, the Champion nods to each before speaking. "Aye. Let's save this Society that has brought us together despite is flaws."
Once he has said his piece, he waits for the rifting.
"Oh, well that is convenient." Karu says as he motions for Faldoc to stop shoveling the ex-Adril water into his canteen.
Pointing to the four men previously pledged to Adril, Karu bellows to them in his drillmaster voice. "Gather up Kol Voss' remains and his gear from the wreck! You will be carrying it back as penance for your crimes against the princess."
Turning to the princess, he offers her his shoulder as the group sets off towards the city.
"I know that our Society has only proved trouble for your land between two corrupt Venture-Captains, but perhaps we may prove our worth by helping you back to your city and then we can open up talks with you and your people." Karu suggests to the lady as he helps her walk across the alien landscape.
"Make sure not to shoot me with those arrows, Faldoc." Karu says with a wink before moving to secure the princess.
What the hell caused Adril to melt into a puddle? wonders the perplexed Champion, but he doesn't deign to show his confusion in front of the newly captured Akitonians.
He slams his fist into the chains, breaking them with a few well-placed strikes. As the metal shatters, Karu helps the lady to her feet. "Kol Voss is dead madam. Slain by one of Adril's lackeys on the airship before we crashed. Apologies." he says with a bow.
"Well, that was short-lived." comments Karu as the undead near him are the only foes left after Faldoc's barrage of arrows as the biting cold sweeps through the hold of the ship.
That's fine. It was more of a roleplay thing, so no worries.
Trying to lift the dog, Karu struggles under the hound's weight. "If you insist Faldoc, at least I can..." he starts as he places a finger on the furry, decapitated body and blesses it with Irori's favor.
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At the sudden news of a faulty airship, the Champion rushes with the rest to the engine room. "We can't let Adril escape! "
Karu sighs as he helps deliver the knockout blow to the traitorous Jarl. When the man falls and Voss challenges Adril, the Champion waits expectantly in the arena as Kynrac teens to the wounds.
"I appreciate your aid, Kynrac, however my wounds are nothing compared to Atum. Tend to him. " he tells the ranking member of the faith.
Karu has 2 nonlethal only after the mass CLW. Use the extra CSW on Atum. :D
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Karu hoists Boomer onto his shoulder as the group pursues the coward. "We will find solace for your hound, Faldoc." he assures the man.
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As the group rushes into the airship, Karu nods to Atum, Faldoc, Mark and Kynrac. Once on the deck, near the railing, the aasimar sets down Boomer and lashes his body to the railing to prevent the loss of the beloved pet.
Turning to the group, he starts planning. "Let's quickly board their ship once we catch up. Hopefully, we have some long range artillery or ideas to make that happen..." he says, looking expectantly at the two miracle creators.
Karu quickly moves through the sand, stepping over the carcass of Boomer as his eyes stay locked on Skelg.
The Champion flanks with Atum using the speed granted by Mark before striking. "How dare you lay hands on Atum." he says with a scowl before stroking towards the man's face.
Karu looks at the body of Voss and shakes his head. "Idiot..." he mutters.
Seeing the killing power of the Jarl's sword, Karu slips beneath the sands, moving towards his compatriot, Atum. He emerges next to the man and readies a strike. "Let's take this traitor down together, brother."
First, it does need to be said. Thank you for picking up the game after the departure of Tektite. The players you have here are all very strong players and you are a well- versed GM.
Second, I think my words misled you. I am not insinuating anything. I don't think you did anything iffy by the rules of Pathfinder or PFS. What you did was completely legal.
Third, I have not been spoiled for the scenarios, so I do not know Voss's importance, but I am well aware of PFS' obsession with lose a ton of gold and Prestige if you let a helper NPC die.
Fourth, my complaint was just that a round was spent where we all keep our distance and Voss failed to read the room. He charged in and died to a full attack, which is the expected result of his actions. Is that a plausible scenario? Definitely. Is it even plausible within a single GM post? Of course. Why does it leave a bitter taste in my mouth? The GM controls both characters and the one aiding us died (possibly affecting our Chronicle) due to bad tactics, having other options, not realizing that he is weaker than Skelg despite the rolling dog head, etc.
This is a critique, yes, but this single incident doesn't imply you are a bad GM or that I think you are a bad GM. Far from it, you know the rules and FAQS and errata far better than I know them. Please don't think that I am trying to undermine or mock or insinuate. I just wanted to bring it up before we moved away from it.
You are doing a great job of keeping everything in order and providing great role-playing even while in combat.
I'm asking because we will probably lose a Campaign Point or Prestige Point for his death and it was unilaterally decided that he die in a single post with no possibility of intervention based on "Hurr durr. I'mma barbarian." logic.
An animal companion was cut down in a single blow. One of the frontliners readied a strike when he approached. The other missed. So Voss charges in. Eats an Aoo. Then eats a full attack and die before we can react as everyone acts warily to the threat. He negates my action and then dies because of GM fiat. Is it legal? Sure. Does it leave a bad taste in the mouth? For me, yes.
"Time to spar, Adril. Unless you're chicken..." Karu taunts as he deactivates his Merciful fists. The Champion heals himself once more when the Jarl enters the ring, moving to the center of the arena.
"I'm not sure we are quite the people to have a sorry that would impress, Sir Max. " says the blonde. "We are simple women living alone out here after the town fled to Lepidstadt. We opened a windmill on the edge of town, perhaps you saw that? " she asks.
"That was quite interesting actually! " chimes the brunette. "The paperwork to get it approved was delayed and we had to travel to the capital to get it! " She starts.
Karu kicks up a splash of sand as he strikes the air. "Let's take this guy out!" he bellows as the sand coalesces into a small rock that flits at the last creature.
Karu slithers through the sand slightly to emerge on the other side of the giant. In Ancient Osiriani, Karu yells, "Sand Dragon Strike!" as Kynrac immediately blesses the group.
I keep forgetting about my Tongues curse.
Seeing his opportunity, Karu flips to his feet and sends a flurry of strikes at the giant.
5' Step using Burrow; Swift Action to Stand; Full Attack Action.
Goal (want) I want to understand why I am magical.
Drive I need to right the wrongs for the harm I've caused.
Seed (originating thought) I harmed innocents.
Fear I harm people around me.
Secret I wish my sister had the Mark of Making, not me.
Embodiment The Dragonmarked asset/The revolutionary
Scions of innately magical bloodlines, the chosen of deities, the spawn of monsters, pawns of fate and destiny, or simply flukes of fickle magic, sorcerers look within themselves for arcane prowess and draw forth might few mortals can imagine.
I have a crossblooded bloodline that combines the powers of two distinct heritages, and a wildblooded sorcerer with a mutated version of a more common bloodline. In most cases, sorcerers with this bloodline are the offspring of two sorcerers from different ancestries, but occasionally a crossblooded sorcerer arises from the conjunction of other powers. I was raised in the arcane schooling college, more like a wizard, while also in the cloistered life of a scion of House Cannith, receiving the wisdom of my elders to guide me.
My family has always been skilled in the eldritch art of magic. While many of my relatives were accomplished wizards, my powers developed without the need for study and practice. Scholars of the arcane are always creating new means to use magic, while House Cannith has members that are well known for their innovation and advancements in technology.
I possess a deep bond to Siberys, the Dragon Above, which shapes my sorcerous powers. Many believe the Dragon Above is the source of all arcane magic, and the first dragons were born from the blood that fell when Khyber slew Siberys. My bond to the Dragon Above enhances my ability to channel magic.
==DEFENSE== Defense +0 (+0 Dex) AC +0 Tch +0 FF +0 (+0 Dex)
DR none
MaxDex - ACP - ASF 0%
HP 16/16 (10+6) EHP: 16/16 WP: 20/20
Clobbered/Massive damage: 10/20
0 staggered; -1 to -20, unconscious
FRW 11/11/13; -1 to all fear-related saving throws.
==OFFENSE== Spd 30 ft. x4 (6 squares) (8 counts)
Melee
- Dagger +0 (1d4-1, 19/x2) Init count 38+2+1d4
Ranged
- Dagger +2 (1d4-1, 19/x2) 10 ft. Init count 38+2+1d4
-Special Attacks-
Sorcerer (cross-blooded & wild-blooded) spells known CL 1st; Concentration +5
Sorcerer Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st; concentration +5)
• 7/day—arcane bolt (1d4 force)
Sorcerer cantrips 5/day DC 14
• Detect magic (જાદુ શોધો) Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Light (Ilûm "আলো")
• Message Sorcerer 1st level spells 3+2 (5)/day DC 15
• Magic missile (জাদু ক্ষেপণাস্ত্র) Bloodlines Arcane, Sage
Space 5 ft. Reach 5 ft.
==STATISTICS & ABILITIES== Str 8 (-1) Dex 10 (+0) Con 10 (+0) Int 18 (+4) Wis 14 (+2) Cha 12 (+1)
Bab +0 CMB +1 CMD +3
Feats
• Agile Maneuvers - You’ve learned to use your quickness in place of brute force when performing combat maneuvers.
• Dragonmarked Sorcerer - You possess greater magical versatility than most of those who share your dragonmark.
• Eschew Materials - You can cast many spells without needing to utilize minor material components.
• Simple weapons - You are trained in the use of basic weapons.
• Spell-casting prodigy (INT) - You have an exceptional gift for magic.
Traits
• Magical Knack (Sorcery & wizardry) - Pick a class when you gain this trait—your caster level in that class gains a +2 trait bonus as long as this bonus doesn’t raise your caster level above your current Hit Dice.
• Kin Bonds Twin - Choose a willing single sibling with whom to share this bond. 1/day when you fail a saving throw while your sibling is within 30 ft., you may re-roll that saving throw using your sibling’s saving throw modifier. If you and the sibling are twins or otherwise part of multiple births, you gain a +2 trait bonus on the re-rolled saving throw. If you fail the saving throw, you and your sibling are dazed for 1 round.
• Hidden Reserve (Su) - Cast any spell the sorcerer could normally cast, but the sorcerer is fatigued after the spell is completed. If the spell is of the highest level that the sorcerer could normally cast, he is instead exhausted. This ability can not be used while fatigued or exhausted. It may be used a number of times per day equal to the sorcerer's Intelligence bonus (6 per day).
Flaws
• Haunted - You are unable to prevent the occurrence of strange noises in your immediate vicinity.
• Cautious - You are uneasy engaging in behavior that carries a chance of failure.
Drawbacks
• Cowardly - You might face dangerous situations with bravado, but you are constantly afraid.
• Spooked - You had a traumatic experience with a spirit at a young age that colors your reactions to such creatures even to this day.
Special Qualities
• Agile Maneuvers - You add your Dexterity bonus to your base attack bonus and size bonus when determining your Combat Maneuver Bonus instead of your Strength bonus.
• Blood of Siberys - You add +4 to your effective Charisma for purposes of determining bonus sorcerer spells and the maximum level of spells you can cast. For example, even if your natural Charisma is 14, you can still cast up to 8th-level sorcerer spells. This bonus does not affect saving throw DCs, skill rolls, or provide any other benefits that are dependent on Charisma.
• Bloodline Arcana: Arcane (Ex) - When a metamagic feat increases a spell level, the spell gains +1 DC.
• Cautious (Flaw)- You must spend twice as long performing any skill that requires an action. For example, deciphering a page of text would take 2 minutes for you instead of 1, while the Concentration skill is not affected by this flaw as it does not require an action. You also suffer a -2 penalty on initiative checks. Dragon Magazine #328
• Cowardly (Drawback) - Your base speed when frightened and fleeing, and the penalties you take for having the cowering, frightened, panicked or shaken conditions increases by 1. increases by 5 feet. If you are normally immune to fear, you do not take these penalties but instead lose your immunity to fear. Anti-heroes' handbook.
• Dragonmarked Sorcerer - Add all sorcerer spells from your dragonmarked house's least, lesser, and greater dragonmarks to your list of known spells, even if you are too low of a level to cast them yet (you cannot cast these spells until you are of the appropriate level to do so). You also gain a physical dragonmark, although this does not provide you with spell-like abilities. Initially, this resembles the least dragonmark of your house. When you gain the ability to cast a spell replicating the power of a lesser or greater dragonmark, your mark changes to the appropriate shape and size.
• Eschew Materials - You can cast any spell with a material component costing 1 gp or less without needing that component. The casting of the spell still provokes attacks of opportunity as normal. If the spell requires a material component that costs more than 1 gp, you must have the material component on hand to cast the spell, as normal.
• Favored Class: Wizard
• Finesse Weapon Attack Attribute - Finesse weapons use Dexterity on attack rolls.
• Haunted (Flaw) - Spontaneous noises sometimes arise in your immediate vicinity. These noises are completely out of your control and cannot be used to communicate or distract other creatures. These sounds cease when you are unconscious, petrified, asleep, or dead. You suffer a -4 penalty on all Perception and Stealth skill checks. Dragon Magazine #327
• Sage - Unlike most sorcerers, whose innate magic is powered by the force of personality, you use your intellect to understand and master your mystic powers. You use your Intelligence, rather than your Charisma, to determine all class features and effects relating to your sorcerer class, such as bonus spells per day, the maximum spell level you can cast, the save DCs of your spells, and the number of daily uses of your bloodline powers. You gain a +2 bonus on all Knowledge (arcana) and Spellcraft checks.
• Spooked (Drawback) - Whenever you perceive a fey, outsider, or undead from within 60 feet, you become shaken for 1d4 rounds unless you succeed at a Will save with a DC equal to 15 + the creature’s Charisma modifier. Immunity to fear effects does not allow you to forgo this saving throw; even if you are immune to fear, you must roll the Will saving throw for this drawback when applicable, albeit with a +4 bonus. Quests & Campaigns.
• Heart of the Fields - Humans born in rural areas are used to hard labor. They gain a racial bonus equal to half their character level to any one Craft or Profession skill, and once per day, they may ignore an effect that would cause them to become fatigued or exhausted. This racial trait replaces skill.
Languages
• Common
• Cyran
• Elven
• Gnome
• Goblin
Age 26 Height 5 ft. 6 in. Weight 118 lbs.
Hair Deep brown Eyes Light blue
Birthplace Little Mingin, Cyre
House renegade. You will not be controlled or used by Cannith. Rebellious. Used to luxury. Educated in vocabulary and strong grammar. Cares about Cyre which is why she walked away from Cannith.
Ceilidh's blue eyes are light and mysterious and stark against her bronze skin. Her dark brown hair graces her shoulders. She has a noble posture, almost challenging. A tattoo of an upside-down tree runs down her neck, spreading across her shoulders. It's actually not one tattoo, but hundreds of tiny magical sigil tattoos, forming the image of an upside-down barren tree.
Personality:
Ceilidh is very against inequality. She has been homeless and an outcast (often by choice) for good portions of her life, so she feels for the underdog, the marginalized. She fears people blame and suspect her for attacks against people and places, because of her magic, and even for just unfortunate events happening. She worries she's a bit of an unintended terrorist. So she has latched onto a few incidences she's read about that involved real terrorists...elves. Because of her frustration over her own situation, she tends to read the worst in elves and comes across as passively racist.
She's brilliant, but a bit of an alcoholic. She can't sleep without a drink. She loves a good cigar but will complain about someone tracking in dirt, or not washing their face. Calculating and thoughtful in her planning, she often doesn't think about what she is going to say before she says it in conversation.
Background:
Ceilidh is a hard woman to love. She's brilliant and believes she is on a mission to civilize the world, one person at a time. She believes that society is doomed because of the way people treat each other, and the way the species treat each other. She believes that there is a problem with the rich crushing the poor, even though she doesn't believe that there is something inherently wrong with being rich.
She distrusts magic, feels it is only abused, and dislikes religion, feeling it is a big con. The conundrum of her life lies in the fact that she seems to seep magic from every pore. She would prefer to just read a book, cook an extravagant meal, enjoy an expensive scotch and cigar, and live out her life in a warm place overlooking the sea.
She believes in the best of mankind, but also believes that most people are idiots; sheep, with no willpower, to make an informed choice for themselves, bent on treating each other poorly simply for a lack of understanding, or because they want a cookie.
She was born in the southeast of Cyre, in the small village of Little Mingin, an upscale village on the edge of Lake Cyre, made up mostly of House members. Her family sent her away to school in Metrol because "weird things always happened around her", the final straw being when she gave a House manager from Thrane's daughter a purple beard.
At fifteen her tattoo appeared, growing steadily down her back. She was afraid it was a disease or infection of some sort. Her fears, it seems to her, were confirmed. She is infected with magical energy. It took the form of a slowly growing upside-down tree, made of thousands of tiny arcane symbols, one by one appearing on her skin, bleeding down her back, slowly over the years. Every time something strange happened around her, the tattoo grew a little more.
At the age of 21, she awoke in an inn she was staying at in a city on the shores of Kraken Bay while working as a freelance researcher for Venture-Captain Obo...or what remained of the inn. Her bed alone stood unharmed, on an untouched rise in a crater where the 'Three Barmaids' once stood. She believes she destroyed it with her magic. That was when her Mark changed from a tiny shoot to a tiny sapling on her back. It was also the Day of Mourning.
She wants nothing more than to control this magic, so it can't hurt anyone else. She can't let this thing inside her destroy everything around her.
Over the next year, driven by fear of hurting anyone, she made her way to Sharn, where the amount of alcohol they served seemed to match her thirst well.
She is a human, and rumor had it her grandmother was a Tiefling, being from Metrol, but she honestly considers herself human (no matter what those kids said). She cannot stand racism, and will quickly lose her cool if she sees it in practice.
She is not a hero and has done nothing she considers special.
Goals:
Ceilidh wants to figure out why her tree tattoo began to develop...and what it means.
Aside from that, she is really wanting to learn how to cook rice the way they did back home. It was like little pillows of air. That, and the perfect scotch. She hears rumors that there is a scotch from the Demon Wastes that has stopped the battle there, simply so demons and Paladins could share it.
• [ooc]Magical Knack (Sorcery & wizardry) - Pick a class when you gain this trait—your caster level in that class gains a +2 trait bonus as long as this bonus doesn’t raise your caster level above your current Hit Dice.
• Kin Bonds Twin - Choose a willing single sibling with whom to share this bond. 1/day when you fail a saving throw while your sibling is within 30 ft., you may re-roll that saving throw using your sibling’s saving throw modifier. If you and the sibling are twins or otherwise part of multiple births, you gain a +2 trait bonus on the re-rolled saving throw. If you fail the saving throw, you and your sibling are dazed for 1 round.
• Hidden Reserve (Su) - Cast any spell the sorcerer could normally cast, but the sorcerer is fatigued after the spell is completed. If the spell is of the highest level that the sorcerer could normally cast, he is instead exhausted. This ability can not be used while fatigued or exhausted. It may be used a number of times per day equal to the sorcerer's Intelligence bonus (6 per day).
• Dragonmarked sorcerer Dr351
• Ultimate magus
• Alacritous cogitation
• Retributive spell
• Reserve feats
• level 4 wizard
• Maximize spell
• Prepare second-level spells.
Skill points + 1/2 other class base
Grant +1 for 1d6, +2 for 1d8, +3 for 1d10, and +4 for 1d12 hp
+1 to 2 attributes at 4, 8, 16, 20, and +1 to all attributes at 12
Any skill shared by both classes gets a +1 bonus (untyped)
Grant +1 (untyped) bonus save if both classes have good saves
At 3,000 xp add wizard level.
3,000 for each flaw, drawback, feat, and trait
