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Since the group gets a good night's sleep before leaving Fort Rannick and they know that they'll be hustling to Turtleback Ferry the next day, Isabella strikes up a jaunty but staccato tune on the way. Something about the tune keeps feet up and spirits high during the lengthy slog through the mud.

Casting marching chant, which allows us to hustle without accumulating additional fatigue, which in turn should get us to Turtleback Ferry by nightfall without force marching.

By the time the group reaches the Turtle's Parlor, Isabella is well and truly done with keeping on the magical tune. Though the spell bolsters her to keep singing as long as she focuses on it, eight hours of walking concentration still isn't easy.

She gratefully accepts a mug of a local warm beverage to soothe her throat and nurses that for a while before she, too, decides that she'd best have a bath and a chance to clean her garments.

She heads for the baths just as Kizzy is getting out. Stifling a yawn, she says, "Kizzy, I'm a little worried about all this rain. It's going to come down the mountain and straight through the valley here. You or anyone know how to pilot a boat, just in case?"

Anyone else want a side RP scene?

"There are those who might believe that a Valdemar leaves his mother's breast straight into a life at the Rusty Dragon and the Pixie's Kitten. Not so. Noone sees the early mornings, fishing in the rain, the brutal cold of the end of season. Not sure that it makes me a fisher or a captain, but I logged the time. When my parents were taken from me, at least there was no talk that I hadn't earned my name."

Konrad pauses for just a moment, "My father used to say that a little tain was good fro the soul. As a child, I had always assumed he was speaking of the fish."

"As you might imagine, I too was busy during the Festival, but don't think that absolutely everyone didn't notice all of you that day. I needed to focus on my family and our employees, but you all focused on saving Sandpoint. All this group seems to do is save Varisians. There are far worse things to do with one's time, and I know this because I've done them, well, most of them. I would be proud to travel with you."

"I think you are correct, but the truth is, I should aslo go to Ilsurian; while my family will hear the news of Fort Rannick when it arrives in Magnimar, I should send them a note also."

Konrad smiles at the group

"Hard to say if my decision is opportunism or simply pragmatism, but that note will include my intention to accompany Sandpoint's friends and neighbors, the liberating force of the Fort, as they look to solve the threat to the area."

Konrad then looks a touch pensive, "So the real questions become what's after Ilsurian ... and will Zherxikas' familiar bring word from Magnimar."

LOL well I pretty immediately wrote to IP and asked if that included "me too"

But I also think that because it was only mentioned here in discussion, even though there were a few responses, it got lost in the discussion of the distance to Ilurian: LINK

I'd rather stick together. You end up in situation where on party spends a day travelling while the other is locked into exploration of a dungeon and I'd just rather take the chance that leaving the fort to itself for a week or two causes problems.

Agreed

So we get things kinda sorta into the best shape we can, and then off to Ilsildur to get diamond dust?

Hmm. Did one of our cats have overland flight? Z? I think we need to go to Magnimar if we want to sell everything, lost of gold value and all, but if someone had overland flight maybe they could fly to Ilsurion with request for immediate backup from them and letters to be sent to Magnimar? They could also pick up the diamond dust and whatever else we need in the short term.

Yep, someone did. Spent a boatload of money on 4x Flying Ointments, 1 of which was already used in the battle. But yeah, Konrad has 3 left.

Runt shrugs. "I think we need to get our own restored before we go looking for more trouble, or even wait for trouble to get to us. I'd put that on tippy top of our list."

"So then a supply run while some of us help Captain Vale lay his brothers & sisters to rest seems to be in order. I can send a dispatch to my family is Magnimar as well; I've been out of touch as long as the Fort."

How far away is Magnimar?

The group scours the keep and finds no other magic besides the weapons and few other minor items the ogres had. In the map room you find a map detailing several of the smugglers’ tunnels beneath Riddleport (worth 50 gp to a smuggler), another detailing the first few poisonous levels of Viperwall (worth 400 gp to an interested party), and another of the hidden paths of Lurkwood’s interior (worth 700 gp to explorers set on investigating the mist-shrouded woods). The library has important documents about the Black Arrows, atlases, and bestiaries of the hook mountains. (study in the library gives +2 history, nature, and geography checks for the Hook Mountain area)

Worth 50gp to a "merchant" also: Konrad will gladly part with 5pp to take the map of Riddleport if that is okay with everyone :)

So, yes, I would love anything that could raise Konrad's Dex, absolutely.

At the end of the day, Konrad is actually a rogue at heart, but he's hidden that behind the investigator class. His spellcasting is actually psychic (Psychic Detective Archetype), and THAT allowed him to meet the prerequisites for one of the two Prestige Class Archetypes: the Thought Thief. How cool is that!?

Prestige Archetypes

Thought Thief

To me, it's outrageously cool, and while there is a little scrubbing I need to do when I export him from HeroLab (a couple abilities are not quite the same as an Arcane Trickster), it's possibly one of the coolest most useful builds I've ever put together.

Thanks for letting me try it out, I really appreciate it!

Runt shrugs knowing that it is a dog eat dog world with as much death in it as life, and rarely fair.

"Unlike Forest here, who I agree would make a fine leader" (though it would probably change him and turn him into an a$$h) , I don't really hate the ogres. They are what they are. Cruel, sure, but no more cruel than many a human I have met. And the world could give a crap about who deserves what. Having said that, I would prefer to be the one standing over one of their bodies that them standing over mine. I'd probably taste better though," she ends with a wry grin. Popping a jawbreaker into her mouth she adds, "Much sweeter, and who doesn't like sweets?"

She offers a jawbreaker to Konrad with a raised eyebrow as if asking if he would like one. She has a mighty big bag full of them.

Runt is a small person. Very small. She has dwarfism.

She is about 3' tall, overly muscular, and has a pleasant face though her hair is a mess. Wearing a helmet and camping for days does something really scary to a perm.

"You know, it isn't that I'm looking for my grandfather to expire ... but if you were to tell him that the one thing Sandpoint needed more than any other missing business is a confectionary, that might just drop him where he stood."

Without a gesture being gestured or an incantation being incanted, the jawbreaker rises from Runt's outstretch hand and flies to the waiting lips of the Varisian.

"Probably couldn't have sold me on carry sweets into battle 20 minutes ago either, but after a month in the forest, I need to be honest, this is almost like being back in civilization. Thank you!"

KONRAD

Once the last ogres fall, Kizzy will continue to sing, not to inspire courage, but just as a beacon for the others - the scattered fighters and spellcasters to find their way back together. While Runt loots the ogres, Kizzy can't help but notice Z has returned with another Varisian. She offers a bow with the flourish only a stage performer can give, While there are no more ogres, there do seem to more of "us", she looks at the newcomer. Greetings, I am Kizzy Ilionescu. Who might you be, and more interestingly, how did you wind up here helping us? Then she adds with her usual impish grin as an aside to Z, I assume he is helping and you aren't a hostage or something right?

"Funny thing that ... here I was, on my way home, got turned about in the rain, and then suddenly there was a beacon!

The young man smiles at what was clearly a jest. He appears to be in his mid-twenties and there is absolutely something naggingly familiar about him, like a regular you'd know from the bar but never met. His dark brown hair, even wet from the downpour, seems to want to cover his eyes, which have an odd glimmer like enchanted amber.

"Truth be told, it wasn't a beacon, I think it was a fireball, and I wasn't actually on my way home, I was asleep, having decided for about the 27th time that I would NOT in fact, go home to Sandpoint just yet." He smiles again.

"Konrad Valdemar, at your service Miss Ilionescu, and no, not a hostage of your colleague, only of my family. My being here has been a punishment, a banishment, and most certainly a lesson; but my grandfather would tell you it is a trade investigation. I am glad that you are here. The attack was sudden and overwhelming; the Black Arrows deserved better than this."

Zherxikas wrote:

Ironperenti wrote:

Z, no reaction to the new flying wizard in the area?

oh you mean Konrad ? cuz I was scanning back through looking for an enemy mage.... or ogre magic. If so, not really... he hasn't fired at me, nor the team, and did fire at some ogres with magic missiles, so he must be down to almost no magic left too..

Runt PbP wrote:

Konrad did address you in this post.

We can leave it alone :)

Thank you :)
The whole thing is a little unreal

Sounds like you're in a bad location. Stay safe.

Thanks all; hopefully we will make it out of this severe wind advisory soon. There's a lot to rebuild here :(

IP - thank you for inserting that intro again. Had tried that on December 2nd and I think it may have been too hard for Konrad to be heard.

Apologies for being a touch distant all: happy not to have had to evacuate this past week though. Trying to catch up and hoping for the best these next few days.

Overland flight, oops. I won’t bother tracking it then.

Merry Christmas!!!

Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas as well!

@Kizzy: my apologies, I was thinking it was 1 rd per level.

@Konrad: Z cast fly after the fireball, you theoretically cast fly after the fireball. Therefore I made them equal. Since we hand waved your movement from the woods into the fort I thought it a close approximation.

Ah, okay, I didn't think it was a hand=wave.

Ironperenti wrote:

I moved Konrad, he is now at the far right of the screen. He can just see the ogre threatening Zherxikas at a range of 70'. That is with a 60' move.

@Runt: the ogres are using two-handed ogre hooks so the rules don't seem to apply.

I am going to add names to the tokens to help Konrad see who is who.

Thank you!

Just FYI - Ointment is based on Overland Flight so duration should be 9hrs, not 5min

Let me just find the casting level for MM

EDIT - Konrad sees an Ogre attacking someone who looks like they're about to cast a spell; he stops in mid-air to cast Magic Missle at it.

[dice=MM@CL8(4 missles)]4d4 +4

I'm probably good either way, you can let me know.

Iron - Why do you have Battle Cry listed for 8 rounds; it lasts 1 minute which would be 10 rds, am I missing something or is that on oops?

Yeah, kinda like my FLY duration got reduced to the same as Z's ...

one more time!

MM@CL8(4 missles): 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 1, 3, 2) + 4 = 11

Hoping against hope that he will cast for the take down, Konrad fires again

MM@CL8(4 missles): 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 4, 3, 4) + 4 = 17

Konrad sends yet another series of force missles at the same ogre, now just 35' away from where he is hovering.

MM@CL8(4 missles): 4d4 ⇒ (1, 2, 4, 3) = 10

Flying south a ways, Konrad hovers in the air not far from Zherxikas.

"On a different day in a different sky, I might say 'well met' to you stranger, but I think it is not yet this day, or this sky. Just know that I am glad to see you."

Konrad then send a series of force missles at the ogre to the northwest
MM@CL8(4 missles): 4d4 ⇒ (2, 2, 2, 3) = 9

I moved Konrad, he is now at the far right of the screen. He can just see the ogre threatening Zherxikas at a range of 70'. That is with a 60' move.

@Runt: the ogres are using two-handed ogre hooks so the rules don't seem to apply.

I am going to add names to the tokens to help Konrad see who is who.

Thank you!

Just FYI - Ointment is based on Overland Flight so duration should be 9hrs, not 5min

Let me just find the casting level for MM

EDIT - Konrad sees an Ogre attacking someone who looks like they're about to cast a spell; he stops in mid-air to cast Magic Missle at it.

MM@CL8(4 missles): 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 1, 4, 2) + 4 = 15

Sorry, the map is still a little tough to interpret: can Konrad fly about 60' south and attack the ogre engaged with the person on the wall?

Welcome Konrad!

I hope Iron can work you in before we are all ogre food.

Konrad is flying down now ... he should be able to shake things up at least a little.

That's what I did. You were solid.

Note, I have a fellow player from a different game I have invited to join us to take the place left by Camil.

This is possibly one of the coolest characters I have ever developed, and there have been a few, but I actually had no idea there were Prestige Class Archetypes until I started working on this. There are only TWO.

Konrad is a Thought Thief, an Arcane Trickster based on Psychic Magic.

Not a bad guy overall, any of you could have met him already. Friends with Amiko, generally fun, if a little cranky about how weird his grandfather is, and generally a little pompous about Magnimar, even if everyone knows he's a much bigger fish in a much smaller pond when he's in Sandpoint. His "specialized" skills aren't common knowledge in Sandpoint though.