Leo casts Blessing of Fervor, which should give everyone 30' of extra movement (or extra benefits for Annie's spells), and then moves 60' after the lycanthropes.
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[ooc]Also, the spell Summon Eidolon, which you know, would both allow Mr. Tibbers to appear and act immediately AND give him +4 to Str/Con from Augment Summoning, which is a pretty nice boost.[/oox]
With his silvery weapons, Leo pounces one of the werewolves attacking Schwartz.
Attack Rolls:
Leo doesn't have a problem pressing on, but he's also got no problems watching.
I could do level jump. We could also see what people think about adding a few mythic ranks, if we're going to go do some legendary things..
"Did he say 'servant,' or 'serpent'?" Leo whispers to the others. "And with a 50-gold scroll of Longstrider, I can run as fast as any horse, saving us some expenses."
Well, they could certainly be interesting. It's rare that campaign monsters get beyond Huge. And yeah, -1 level because Wereleopard.
Hmm... Leo's character was designed to be able to kill anything small enough for him to jump on. It might be fun to fight really, really big enemies (once we level up some), or dragons, because nobody ever gets to fight dragons.
I'm alright with the sudden jump forward. Leo's all about jumping.
"Maybe we should trrack down the others."
Leo will attempt to charge the shrine and wail on it a few times with his cold iron war hammer.
Okay... can Schwartz see the creature with his Darkvision?
Leo casts Magic Circle Against Evil, then buffs himself with Invisibility and Astute Fighting.
"We charrge?"
Casting light on his armor, Leo will continue into the cave.
"I can trrry." The next day, after healing and regaining spells, Leo will try to track the thing by scent, this time in hybrid form.
Leo shakes his head. "I can take it from here. That thing had entirely too many arrrms."
Annd once again the creature strikes with ridiculous accuracy; Leo is at -6 hp, and unconscious. He collapses with a beastly scream.
And, finally, Leo is in position to pounce the creature (and with Exploding Critical, he should be able to hit it hard once before it flees).
And he flubs the charge, landing awkwardly and flailing around with all his attacks without hitting any automatic criticals. Attacks:
...it looks like Leo only manages to hit with one katar attack, but it's a lucky exploding critical that hits for 51 attack.
Leo, hurting heavily, casts Grace (allowing him to move without provoking AoOs for one turn), then backs 30 feet away and throws another Cure Serious on himself.
Leo doesn't have a chance to charge the thing thanks to all the cows in the way, but he'll move to attack it.
Now that he's back in his fully-armored hybrid form, Leo will heal himself with a Cure Serious Wounds.
Leo, near unconsciousness, chooses to take a full withdraw action and get as far from the creature as he can (without provoking AoO).
As snow leopards, unlike true leopards, lack the vocal chords to roar, Leo just sort of growls and meows really loudly at the creature as he bites and scratches its face.
Unlike true leopards, snow leopards cannot roar, but Leo growls really loudly and moves to pounce on the creature, still in full animal form.
And, pouncing on the creature (if he can) like a wild animal, Leo delivers his claws and teeth with deadly accuracy. Attack rolls (a lot, because pouncing while leopard):
If he is able to charge, Leo's AC is currently 20 (from a base of 22 in full animal form), and he will of course be unable to charge next turn.
Given that he's not sure how long it'll take to catch up with the others, Leo suggests staying and repeating the same plan for one more night before trying something else.
The next morning, Leo pads back out of the fields, shifts to his human form, and promptly falls asleep. A few hours later, he's out and about again. "What d'you say, Schwartz? One more stake-out, and then we give this up as a hoax and search for the others?"
"GrrrMOOOOOrrrr"
Leo suggests that they do, in fact, do that. Schwartz can stand guard; Leo will memorize a bunch of castings of Disguise Self (a bonus domain spell), each of which lasts for over an hour, then shift into animal form and use the spell to disguise himself as a young cow (since he's now the same creature-type).
Leo is not sure what to do next to track this creature, which, I suspect, means it's time for a stake-out. "Schwartz, you can see in the dark, yes? Perhaps we should hide ourselves among the cows, and wait for the beast to return."
DG: There are handy stats for playing an ogre, although they're quite a few RP. Meanwhile, an excellent (balanced) 3pp option for an ogre-like character is Half-Giant, from Psionics Unleashed.
Yeah, the game kind of slowed down, and we're trying to ramp it back up—but that means we're still waiting for people to reply. Since Schwartz and I were the only ones who weighed in on a path initially, I figured we'd go with that, but we haven't heard from the other party members (there's three more). It would be quite simple to split the party, which is what I was expecting. Not sure where Imperius or Moneez are going, but David requested that he be botted—it's not unreasonable for him to prefer to hunt bandits with Annie (although that doesn't seem like a very good-aligned quest, which is why some of the characters preferred the cow-eater), and one of us could control him on that path.
The big problem with summoners is that the eidolon (or synthesist) mechanic lets you build a character whose stats and abilities aren't limited by the normal character-building rules. (Also, summoning 1d4 celestial tigers with smite and pounce can destroy almost any boss in a single round). That said, the same reason is why lycanthropes are normally banned (and why I wouldn't even try to play one in a non-3pp game).
Oh, I can show you 20 OP summoner builds. The big thing about the summoner is that their abilities don't really stack well with anything, so a multi-classed summoner will always be crippled in a way few other classes can relate to.
Well, Leo will see what his skills as an animal/healer can tell him about the mutilation.
And
The bandits were also described as only attacking people who deserve it--Leo would far rather fight a horrible chaos monster than a nice guy who happens to be a bit robbing-y. Of course, he also feels a bit protective of Moneez and Annie, and if they tried to persuade him it might make a difference.
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