Kenderella relays what the bird says to the others and answers the bird. "We're not poisonous, but we're looking for friends. Do you want to be our friend? We'll feed you and give you more fish if you can tell us what you see when you fly around."
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At Father Kerndrew's prodding she asks the question. "[b]Have you seen any other creatures like us?[/dice]" Kenderella takes a moment to focus on making herself as charming and attractive as possible, infusing herself with the otherworldly charisma of the fey in her blood.
Kenderella unfortunately doesn't have much knowledge of nature yet, but maybe she will learn in time to differentiate the different species. Regardless, she's quite happy to see the flying dinosaur approach them and she focuses for a moment as she activates her magic to be able to talk to the birds. There's a faint green flash in her eyes as the magic is activated, but otherwise she looks completely normal. "Hi, we bring fish and would like to talk. I'm Kenderella. If you talk good, maybe more fish." She pauses for a bit to let the words sink in. "We are new here on the island and would like to know more about what else is here. What other creatures are there and where are they located? Are there any peculiar landmarks or strange things to keep a note of?" She moves closer to pet the bird in what she hopes will be a comforting manner. "What others are dangerous and should be avoided? And where might it be good to look for food? Are there any shiny or unnatural structures anywhere? What about caves or holes? Are there any creatures living in them?" Kenderella is careful to space out her questions to give the creature time to answer each one instead of overwhelming it with a barrage of them. She tries to phrase it in a way the creature can understand.
"Some of my family were rather fond of birds. There was one in particular, Hamuki that seemed to spend more time with birds than with rest of us. I've learned how to deal with them from him." Kenderella lets out a string of chirping calls, flapping her arms like wings to get the birds' attention and get it to come down to them.
"Snakes are dangerous creatures. We could surely find better targets to hunt. That said, we should be vary. If some of us are bit, the poison could be our undoing. We should try to avoid it. I could perhaps talk to it, but that might not save us if it's hungry. I think we should approach the birds, though I'm not sure how to best get it to talk to us in a friendly manner. Enzi should definetly stay out of sight. Maybe me and Sasha should approach first, offering the fish? I'll try to lure it down and if it approach us, I'll cast my spell. It'll only last a minute, so I don't want to waste it if we can't get it to get close to us." Kenderella says as she motions for Enzi to wait for her while she moves to approach closer to the birst. Though she doesn't want to go further away than she can call for him if needed.
Kenderella shakes her head in disappointment. "I'm sad we didn't find more interesting things yesterday. But today is another day we can find new things. I will also keep a lookout for these herbs. Sasha, I believe you wanted to go see the birds? If we can get close to one, I can use my magic to try to talk to one. Maybe it can tell us more about what it sees on the island, what dangers to avoid or other inhabitants there are. Who are going with me and Sasha to the birds? Are you coming with us Gregor, or going of on your own hunting?"
Kenderella get speak with animals as a SLA, it's part of the Gnome Magic racial trait.
Kenderella has ridden around as in a daze most of the, enjoying the sights, smells and sounds of the jungle. Remembering something that was brought up earlier she says. "I can actually use my magic to talk to animals. But I'm unsure how much we'll get out of it. They aren't exactly intelligent. Maybe we can get them to tell us about predators or areas to stay away from though." She poders. "I think we should continue. But if the majority wants to continue I guess I'll follow along with you. I certainly don't want to camp out here alone."
I use discord a lot, but I pretty much never use the voice functionality. It's also great to be able to chat back and forth in text in a more real time format.
Using discord sounds like a good idea. Just create a server and send us all a link so we can join :). As for how to create: There should be a + button at the bottom of the server list where you can click to create a new server for this game.
I want to follow the trail from yesterday and get as far away as we can possibly get to explore as much as possible. I don't know if that aligns with any of the other options or not.
Before setting out for the day Kenderella corners Ishirou. "Hi, I notice you don't seem to great this morning. I don't know what's wrong, but know that we are all here for you. I'm willing to listen if you want to talk. Or try to help if there's something that can be fixed. We all do our best and it will be enough. No matter what happens, we just got to enjoy each other's company and do our best to keep everyone alive and happy, right? Talk to me, please?"
I think it's best to swap the NPCs around so Sasha doesn't do hunting.
"That sounds wonderful Sasha." Kenderella beams at the girl. "I wish I could have seen it." "As for we found... I wish we had anything as nice to tell. First we discovered that the beach is quite difficult to treck along. We found an old shipwreck a bit off the shore. Then we turned back to try to find an easier route, but it was just dense jungle. I hope that the path we cleared through the jungle today will make it easier to travel tomorrow though..."
Kenderella shakes her head in dismay at the outcome of the day. "Well, that didn't go so well. If we're returning to camp every night, we won't get much exploration done. I think it might be a good idea to go further, on trips for at least a couple days. Too bad we decided to turn around today, but I guess it was already late. Hopefully we can use the same path again tomorrow to make our travel easier. I say we set out early to make the most of the day. Then we rest during the mid day heat and continue as far as we get. Then we'll have to make a decision about continuing further or coming back." She gives a smile to the people left back at the camp. "It seems like you guys made way more progress than us though. Good job everyone. How has your day been? How do you feel about tomorrow? Do any of you want to join us?" After listening to them she brings up another point. "[B]We encountered a giant spider right on top of the cliffs, but none of us know much about them. It seemed like it could sense us through my magic, which is weird. Any of you know anything about them.
After Davor is healed up Kenderella gives him a quick hug then moves over to Enzi to mount up. "Thanks again. It's good to have you here. Now let's get going. We've wasted enough of the day." Once they move into the forest, Kenderella moves into position alongside Davor. "With us fighting for life and death alongside each other, it would be nice to know each other better. As I mentioned previously I grew up in the jungle. I lived with my mother and siblings living among a group of fay. It was fun times and the nature of fey made all the dangers seem like just a game. Of course it's still dangerous, but when you're able to relax and have fun, you make better decisions and stress less, so their attitude was pretty well suited I would say. How about you. Where did you grow up? Were you a sailor for long?"
You understand the rules correctly, for most monsters you need to be trained to identify them. For common things the DC is 5 + CR, so we might still be able to identify such creatures (though the rules don't define what is common). As I mentioned previously our party has a real problem with knowledges. We have no investigator, inquisitor, bard, alchemist or int-based caster. Our low point buy makes this problems worse as we don't have much points to spare on intelligence (most APs are made with the expectations of 20 point buy). Even if someone is trained in a knowledge skill they won't have a very good chance at success. Usually you also want to beat the DCs with several multiples of 5 to get to know enough useful information to get help to defeat the enemies. I'll probably put a point in my class skill knowledges eventually, but I don't have much skill points to help out with.
Kenderella moves over the Davor and puts a soft hand on his arm. "You did well in taking down the spider, we could not have done it without you, but you don't look too well... I can't heal you, but perhaps the potions will help? The lesser restoration potion should work for removing some of the weakness from the poison and the cure light wounds potion is good for closing wounds. Though Hewit did channel to heal us yesterday, maybe he got more healing magic to patch you up?" Kenderella studies the slain spider with curiosity. "Anyone know anything about these giant spiders? I'll be better able to use my magic if I know more about them. It seemed like it had some weird way to sense us through the illusion and knowing the strength, weaknesses and defenses of things we fight will always be useful."
Given that Davor haven't actually said anything. Is it possible to see that he has been poisoned? The current situation reminds me of this.
"Thank Desna you're here! We're not doing too well. The spider could somehow sense us though my illusion. Gregor was bitten twice." Kenderella exclaims as she sees Gregor making it up the cliff. She jumps into yet another series of arcane gestures as she hurls another glob of acid at the creature. Enzi lashes out again with his claws and tries to bite the creature.
Strength damage is kinda wierd, you don't actually take any penalties until you've taken 2 damage.
@Davor: You could move to flank with Enzi to get +2 to attack and sneak attack.
Kenderella drops the illusion with a sad face as the monster attacks. "Damn, it saw through it." She motions for Enzi to step to the side of the spider. "Flank it together!" She then quickly jump into chanting arcane words as she flings a glob of acid at the creature, using her flask of acid as a focus while doing so.
"The creature is still out there, right beyond the wall, studying something directly to your left intently. If it tries to move in or attack us, you and Enzi should flank it so we'll have a better chance of fighting it off." Kenderella keeps up the illusion as long as the spider seems affects by it.
Oh, I missed the last post on the previous page, so sorry :(
I think we're all waiting to see if the spider manages to get through the illusion to initiate the battle and/or the rest to join us so we can attack together, so I wouldn't mind forwarding until something happens. Do note that it takes several minutes to remove armor...
The cube dome of stone extends a bit past the edge of the cliff and forms a hollow shaft down around the rope. For the climbers it'll seem like they'll climb into the hollow shaft to climb into the dome. "I threw up a protective illusion to stop the spider from attacking us. Just climb up here into the stone shaft and we can all deal with it together. If anyone could identify this giant either legged creature with two bulbous parts in the middle that would also be nice. I don't know if my magic can affect it. Davor just study the illusion and try to believe it's not real. If you keep at it, you'll eventually be able to see through it." Kenderella says as she dismounts Enzi while focusing on the illusion, ready to send him into battle once everyone are up there.
"A giant spider!" Kenderella cries out as she sees the giant monster approaching. I wonder if I can affect it with my magic... But if it fails, there won't be many here to help fight it off. Better to go the safe route. She chants a quick series of arcane words and suddenly they are surrounded by stone on all sides. A hollow cube dome of stone protects them from intruders, the sides are completely straight without any holds to climb up. "It's just an illusion. If you focus you should be able to see through it and fire at the spider." She pats Enzi on the side then points, trying to make him understand that the rock wall isn't real and to stay in place to protect her in case the monster gets in.
While they rest Kenderella points out that her light and airy clothes are perfect for hot weather. "These clothes are well suited for hot weather, they are light and airy and transfer heat away from the body. You should all get something similar if possible. Though acquiring new clothes out here might be difficult."
"I'll just ride Enzi up, then I can help to secure the rope up there with Davor." Kenderella says as she mounts up then rides up the cliffside.
Kendrella tries to keep up the mood up as they walk, keeping chatter going, pointing out the flows and birds they see as if it's something worthwhile to look at. "If there are survivors from that shipwreck, maybe we can meet them? Either way, I feel like we've had enough of this treck through the difficult terrain. Perhaps it'll be easier if we go more inland? We should try to find a path where it's easier to move though. That might also take us away from these dangerous birds that you mentioned."
"Yeeha, let's go!" Kenderella says cheerily as she stashes the two potions, mount up on Enzi and rides forth after Gregor.
At least Kenderella is good for something... Even if it isn't the survival skills :). I vote for going east, west is just a small tounge of land, east and south there's much more to see.
That's the problem differentiating between IC and OOC. Kenderella doesn't really care that we don't have all knowledges covered and since she's not great at knowledges, she doesn't know that swarms is a thing we should be worried about. Let's just roll along the coast as that seems to be the majority vote and go with Gregor's list for which NPCs do what by removing all the PCs.
I don't think Kenderella would make a very good job as a healer, guard or defend fits better. If we can't do the camp roles while exploring I would much rather explore though. We are missing some in knowledges as mentioned previously, we also have very poor ability to deal with swarms. Do any of the npcs help with that? Do we even have anyone with acid/alchemist fire? I found the descriptions in the shiv logbook, but unfortunately it doesn't include the new explanations we got of their skills, but it's a nice a start and good enough to jog my memory of who is who. I suggest we bring the potions along, just in case. Everyone except Hewit should probably carry a healing potion.
"With access to fresh water through magic, finding a source of water is probably less important, right Gregor? Sure, if we find one, that could lessen the burden on Hewit, which would be nice, but it's not actually essential. It's very nice that you can provide this for us Hewit." Kenderella smiles at the lumber-priest. "That said, I don't really care which direction we explore first, we can follow the low-lands as you say, even if my inclination is to check what's up this cliff." She points to the cliff behind them.
Seems like Kenderella doesn't really fit in any of those roles... She's more about dealing with people, so I guess Entertainer sorta fits, but she doesn't have any of the preform skills. Though I still wonder what exactly we need the camp for? Can't we just travel around and explore? Could we get a list of the npcs and their descriptions somewhere, perhaps in the campaign tab or on onedrive? I don't recall which NPCs are which nor what they are supposed to be good at...
Kenderella wanders around the camp in the morning, trying to cheer up the others. She repeats her words about from the yesterday, but also continues to tell of her experiences from the jungle. "I grew up in the jungle myself. There were plenty of dangers there, but obviously I survived them all. My family helped a lot of course, but we all did what we could. When danger appears, it's important to remain calm and act quickly. Panic can kill you, but so can hesitation, we just got to rely on each other and try our very best to survive. Great work on the nets Aerys, that's a really smart idea." She strokes Sasha gently on the arm and whispers with a gentle smile. "It's natural to be afraid. The dangers out there are very real. It's how we face them that counts. I'm sure that we'll be able to react with sufficient skill and pull through, cheer up."
"I'm ready to explore. Who's going with me?" She says looking expectantly at everyone.
"I guess there's not much more to do than get back to watching. It's going to be eerie, but hopefully we'll be fine. Thanks for your help, both of you. She smiles. Later during her watch she'll ask Ishirou about his time before coming here and what he was doing. She'll try to pay attention to both him and the watch.
"What happened? Were you too slow? Or was it all just a trick of the light? It certainly wasn't an illusion. I hope there wasn't someone that died because we were tardy." Kenderella frowns slightly at the unfulfilling conclusion to their rescue mission. Once Davor makes it back on land she mutters a series of arcane phrases and brushes against his clothes slightly, upon which they all become dry. "At least my magic can help to get you dry."
Kenderella helps tying the rope around Davor, though she cautions him as she does so. "Maybe it's better to throw the rope out. It's not sure they'll know to grab it, but then you won't be risking your life. You should have a signal if you think you're in danger for us to pull you back in." She ties the other end around Enzi because she knows she won't be strong enough to haul Davor in by herself, though hopefully the other two can help.
"I'm not seeing it, but I trust you. Let's find a rope." Kendrella says as she urges the other two to help her locate a rope to give to Davor.
Kendrella ponders for a moment then goes over to shake Davor awake. "I don't know what it is, but I'll rather be safe than sorry. We can go back to sleep if it's nothing, but if it ends up being a fight, it would be good to have more people awake. Maybe they'll be better able to help with the situation. Davor has the next shift anyway." She gently stirs the half-orc. "There's something wierd happening. I hope perhaps you can help us figure out what it is."
Kendrella shouts out to Isharou with hushed tones. "Are you seeing the glow? Something wierd is happening. Should we wake the others? I'll check it for magic." She starts chanting to detect magic to figure out if it's a natural phenomena.
We both have low light vision and Enzi have scent. Senses really should be in the quick lookup stats under the alias along with scent. It looks like all the humans went with the default skilled instead of dimweller + darkvision.
With this group knowledges might be a bit of a problem. We don't have anyone with great int and most of us have rather few skill points. I'm not even sure we have all as class skills. I probably won't be able to contribute much, but I'll probably be able to put a point in those I have as class skills. What's the actual plan now? I'm ready to start exploring, but I'm not sure what else we have to do...
Kendrella moves over to pat Ishirou's arm. "Don't give up hope yet. We might be stranded here on this island, but we're still alive, healthy and with the skills necessary for survival. This will be another part of our lives now and it's up to us to make the most of it. I certainly plan to do my best to enjoy exploring this island, doing what we can to take care of each other and to enjoy each others company." The little gnome shakes her head at the mention of the snake. "I don't know about any such creature. We just have to stay on our guard and react appropriately. Do we have a full list over the passengers? Is it really only one person that's not accounted for? That would be quite weird, but it does sound suspicious."
Kendrella smiles as it's her turn to speak. "Thank you for taking this initiative Gregor. Getting to know each other is both nice and useful. However we all have our history. If you disagree with the way something is done, it'll be a lot easier to get it changed of you're nice about it and explain why rather than insult or make fun of someone. I'm sure Aerys is as stressed as the rest of us by these violent changes of plans. If any of you have concerns or worries you don't want to share with everyone I would be more than happy to lend you a willing ear." She speaks loudly so that Aerys is sure to hear what she's saying. She looks around at the crowd while talking, trying to meet the gaze of as many people as possible with a smile and a look of her own. "As for me, I'm Kendrella Lefuriel. I grew up in the jungle surrounded by fantastical and magical creatures. I can draw upon my bond to the land to create awesome illusions or to make the land itself come alive. I'm sorry if the acid earlier scared you. There was little time to explain or to even think of a great solution. It worked to confound the creatures, though sadly it caused some disarray among our own ranks as well. I'll try to think of better measures next time, but if any of you have suggestions for images that could fool the enemy, please let me know." "As for what to do next, I don't like splitting up into small hunting or exploration parties much. Anyone who wants can remain here of course, it if we all left there wouldn't even be a need to return here at all. Greater numbers give much better protection anyway. If we do split up, I don't think we should split into more than two groups. The six of us that went to check out the ship, could continue the exploration inland tomorrow for example. I don't have much skills hunting, but my magic can disorient or even knock out dangers we might face and I can also speak with animals. I came on this trip to explore the world anyway. I'm quite happy to explore more of the jungle. "
I'm a big fan of minority rule in pbp. If two people post in favour of one direction and no one objects then it'll happen. This lets leadership\responsibility be split between several people without slowing tings down overly much. It also let different people take charge in different situations depending on their skill sets and interests.
The batch of 4 is already identified though. I do think most of the identification can wait until we're off the ship though. The perception check is more difficult, but our bonus is also higher. The other people with +6 bonus would probably have a higher chance of success if they get guidance. The perception check is also significantly faster, requiring one round instead of 3.
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