Yep, I remember. But we're using Pathfinder right? So how would Eidolon's be handled? They'd just hang out in the umbra and pass over when needed?
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For the kitsune, absolutely from Japan. So a fish out of water. (This is probably a more appropriate alt than Risbeth for that). Which would fit better, a were-fox (lycanthrope fox) or a kitsune with the fox form trait? I'm thinking a summoner gunslinger (since the guns will be simple weapons). How do you plan on doing things like summons? Will they be in the spirit world and able to cross over when needed, or able to disguise themselves as normal animals when not using their powers? As I don't think an multi-tailed black fox with flames in it's mouth and dancing on it's fur is going to be accepted in most towns. :P At Vincent : It's been decades since I played WW, but if I remember correctly, Some wolves were in a bitter feud with Some weres. Eastern weres were not in a feud with each other (wolves, sharks, even spiders). And even some western wolves (the dog bred ones and the asian ones) were on good terms with non-wolves? Also think there were coyote ones that were on decent terms with everyone besides the wolves. Basically, if I remember, there were also ravens who were on good terms with everyone. So, it's not exactly a bitter feud, it's more like, there used to be a bitter feud, and now there's just a lot of old resentments and bigotry?
Background: Li Huli Jing worked as a private investigator back in Tien, and one of her first solo cases (a missing young girl who was of the noble clan) had her having to hop on a ship overseas. Exactly what happened is lost to her, upon awakening, her mind was a mish mash of memories and personalities, her original personality fractured into thousands of pieces. The largest piece of her personality became the dominant one, the one now able to bring up the cold that filled her heart when she tried to remember what happened to her. That cold she could now send out to hurt others, to freeze their hearts as hers froze. In each city, a new fragment of her personality comes to the fore, and a new person emerges as her 'day job' persona.
Li Huli Jing's character sheet Jing is a Vigilante Warlock, she throws ice from her fingertips. Each new town she develops a new personality and uses it to generate renown for her 'base' identity.
GM Stuff: Pictures Leaning toward this for her social persona and leaning toward this for her vigilante persona Although I could use this for her social persona and this for her vigilante persona Thoughts? @GM - What would you think of two drawbacks, one for each identity? Umbral Unmasking for the Vigilante Persona, and Paranoid for the Social Persona? Not having a shadow while in Vigilante mode would fit with the wierd vibe, but not having it in social form would be a giant glaring giveaway. On the other hand, paranoia in Social mode would perfectly fit not wanting their vigilante mode being found out? I'm thinking of playing them like split personalities... Finally : It's hard to do a background given we are all amnesiacs. :) Personality wise, Li is a martial artist, so she tends toward patient and thoughtful, preferring to analyze before acting, not liking those who act without thinking. She is generally helpful to others, but not suicidally so.
Li was accepted into this AP, got in about 8 or 9 posts, and the GM vanished. I think she meets the build criteria already.
Well, I think Jing's record of getting into Games where the GM vanishes is intact. *sigh*
There's also major storms on the east coast thanks to the hurricane, so the GM may be having internet connection issues due to the storm.
BTW: Jing is going to need a level dip or two into something that gives more skill points and knowledge skills at some point, probably 2nd level, possibly 4th. Any suggestions other than rogue? I dont' think there is a full bab high skill class. Fortunately, she's using touch attacks. A rogue dip would get her sneak attack. Snakebite Brawler would too, but not the skills.
Jing listens to Jacqueline, and then nods. "Much smarter than painted idiot." She jerks a thumb at 15. Then she takes the keys, and opens the cell door and searches the body of the, now dead, woman. She takes the woman's lab coat, looks at it critically, then tears it into strips, using the cleaner parts. A third go around her chest, forming a top. Another third around her hips and waist, forming a loincloth. The other portions wrap around her hands and forearms. When she's done, she looks something like a ring fighter, and is at least nominally decently covered.
Jing looks at the tattoo'd woman, and sighs. "And now, no way to confirm man telling truth. No way find out if mad woman knew where our things were. No way to find out if mad woman know more about what happen here, or how we here, or how we lose memory." She spits out a few words in Tien*. "Insane person not enemy, insane person is like wolf with infected paw, may lash out randomly in pain and fever. May also be saved, become loyal household protector. Dead, wolf just become worm food. Now only thing woman good for is worm food. You are fool and idiot."
*: Curse words calling 15's parentage into question, something about a goat, a diseases prostitute, and something called a waterclock.
"know not who am." She pauses to look at a tattoo on her arm. "Li... Reason... Huli... Fox... Jing... Spirit. I am apparently Li Huli Jing, Spirit of the Thoughtful Fox." She rubs at the tattoo briefly, then her face clears up, and she continues working on the straps. Language - Tien:
"Can you tell us what is going on here? If so, then do so. If not, it is stupid to kill a potential source of information when it can be contained instead." Jing replies, still working on the restraints.
Everything happens rather fast, and once the cell door is open, Jing carefully drags the insane woman into the cell she was just in, and then locks the cell door behind her, leaving the woman in the cell, and Jing outside. "Why put her on a table when we can put her in a cell?" Then she moves over to the table, and looks at the straps. "These seem easy enough to open." She begins to undo the man's bindings.
Li stays at the back of the cell, beyond the reach of the woman. She takes a move action to drag the wounded woman back with her. Then she flings another bolt of blue energy at the insane woman.
Jing shrugs and her hand flicks toward the woman no more than a microsecond after the implement attacks her.
"Need practice more, focus should come natural, not require self instruction orally." Jing responds. "Suggest you not be stupid and think this a dream. Must always treat what you see as real. If you make a mistake and treat dream as real, worst that happens is you wake up with urine stained sheets. If you mistake reality for a dream, worst that happens is you find out what happens after life ends."
"So... I wonder what has been messing with our heads... I did tell you that running was useless. Apparently fighting was also useless... against a dream."
Just a note, again, Due to Jing's campaign trait, I'm playing her as cold as ice, which seems to be what the trait does. It does seem to fit well with her cold powers as well. Otherwise I'd be playing her as freaking out a lot more.
Jing stands up, her heart racing again. Then, as things clear, her eyes go icy blue again. Frost wafts off her fingers as she pushes her way to her feet. Her eyes narrow, and she looks around the area, watching the woman (?) torture the man. Not liking the chances that the woman is friendly to her, she smiles coldly. "I think you should stop, before I take umbrage to being ignored..." She tells the figure, readying an action to fling cold at the creature (woman?) through the bars if it (she?) doesn't listen.
Jing's cold abilities actually work at range and as melee. They are melee touch attacks or ranged touch attacks. Granted short range touch attacks, but she can do both. She also has spellcasting up to level 6, which includes ranged spells (once she has a spell book). Finally, she gets all simple and martial weapons, so she can use a composite bow equally well for range, although she wont' be speccing as an archery build. All in all, vigilante (especially warlock) works as a very all around switch hitter gish.
I'm not, that's why I don't want to do two games with that sort of theme. One is enough. If I wasn't in this game, I'd have put in for the other one. One is probably my limit for eldritch horror.
I got 27K posts, people are always recognizing me... ...I need a better disguise...
"Don't be foolish. It is outpacing us despite our best speed. If there is to be a fight, we have more likelyhood of success if we work together. At the very least, we will die fighting, rather than running, like cattle." She stops and flings her hand at the creature Jacqueline faces.
"No one person fight it, would take all. If too afraid, we doomed." Jing shakes her head and tries to push ahead of the dark haired male, figuring a coward's death befits a coward.
Li nods. "Up good as any other way, but doubt fog will be stopped by hill." She comments, looking over her shoulder. "Not sure running be best, may be best to fight..." She opines, but keeps pace with the others, to see if they agree. "If keep run, keep picking off straggler, less strength than before already."
"Calm, fear lead to death. Look for answers." The Tien woman responds, her voice still calm, her lips blue.
Jing's eyes snap open, and for a second her heart races, then ice water flows through her veins, and frost drips from her fingers as the ice water reaches her extremities. Keeping an unearthly calm, she begins to jog forward. Seeing two others taking the left fork, she briefly considers taking the right, but then part of her mind figures maybe she doesn't have to outrun the fog, just the other two. Taking the left alley, she catches up with them, her body moving smoothly. Looking to the left, she looks at the red-haired woman, and beyond her the dark haired man. "Hai, hope you know what do, take this alley." Her voice is oddly calm, her skin tinged blue, as are her lips. The whites of her eyes are actually an icy blue, and her pupils a cold blue white. Her dark hair has highlights of white in it, which are obviously frost. Her hands drip with eldritch energy, icy white.
"I gave her the cold shoulder..."
Looks like it.
*pokes at thread to keep it from sleeping* :)
Jing can benefit from it! That's all that's important!
If you're concerned about the cost, Jing was going to give you a very good rate! NO charge! If you don't have enough gold for that, she can forward you enough to meet the price, with a 1 gp per week interest rate, compounded hourly.
Zadok, did you want Jing to fix that 'arm works just fine' thing for you? :)
They are in my character sheet (link where it says 'human HP (9)'. The campaign trait Stocism, +1 Intimidate. The other two give me perception and linguistics as class skills. I'm fine starting whenever. I'm fine with any gore level/etc.
Jing can fix that! No charge!
Is Zadok's arm permanently broken?
Don't get me wrong, a blood rager can do a lot of damage, but you don't need rageshaper for it. Potions of enlarge person are more economical than spell casting it. I forget the archetype, but one of them lets you turn in bloodline powers you don't like for rage powers, which is way better.
I had a bloodrager alt, I like the concept, but they might as well not even have spells, as little as it helps. I liked the character anyway, but quit the game (GM ok'd me buying a tattoo of cat boots, take minimum damage from all falls and land on your feet, and then when it came up in game he stated he never allows any fall from 100 or more feet to not kill you, item or no item, so I spent 7 levels with 2000 gp in an item he never intended to let me use, so I quit). I'll probably recycle him at some point, he was a fun jerk to play. :) I won't take the Rageshaper archetype again though, it's a total trap, you don't get any spells you can use it with until level 16 or so.
@GM - What would you think of two drawbacks, one for each identity? Umbral Unmasking for the Vigilante Persona, and Paranoid for the Social Persona? Not having a shadow while in Vigilante mode would fit with the wierd vibe, but not having it in social form would be a giant glaring giveaway. On the other hand, paranoia in Social mode would perfectly fit not wanting their vigilante mode being found out? I'm thinking of playing them like split personalities... Also, are Li's stat/skill blocks good?
Pictures Leaning toward this for her social persona and leaning toward this for her vigilante persona Although I could use this for her social persona and this for her vigilante persona Thoughts?
All buttoned up. Character sheet link in the profile, see link above under Human HP (9) to see character sheet. Shortcut for stats and skills under spoilers in posting block. Don't think it shows up in the discussion thread. Again, did not do background or equipment, since we start with neither. Only equipment she needs beyond whatever we find is a spellbook, by preference her own so she doesn't have to scribe all the spells, but I'll take what I can get. :)
I may offer a character if it doesn't make it into Grey's game although I suspect it'll be a bit out there for you GM. Android Fighter... :)Ditto... (Although not so far out there, human vigilante/Warlock) Yep! Got in the other one, so thanks and good luck to everyone here!
Hello everyone, Thanks for the invite Grey. I'll finilize Jing in the morning. I finally decided to go with Stoicism for the campaign trait, and if you're ok with it, the Warded Against Nature drawback. It seems like it would fit with Jing's campaign trait really well, and has a lot of flavor for this AP. :) That unnatural aura of hers disturbing people and freightening animals. :)
I may offer a character if it doesn't make it into Grey's game although I suspect it'll be a bit out there for you GM. Android Fighter... :) Ditto... (Although not so far out there, human vigilante/Warlock)
I didn't pick a campaign trait yet, I wanted to see what was needed. Jing naturally fits either Enduring Stoicism, or Methodically Minded.
Neither, she's a Level 1 Vigilante (Warlock). If you look at the character list, it links to her character sheet. If I rebuilt her profile every time I resubmitted her for a game, I'd go nuts. I redo the profile when she actually gets into a game. So far she's been in two, and both imploded before they even began (Trolling GMsters who weren't actually going to GM the game). I've gotten to where I only submit to games where the GM has at least 1000 posts now.
True, and I can move you if you prefer. Most of the classes overlap multiple categories. Alchemists were also difficult to place. Paladins could also be in divine, etc. But I had to lead with something when placing submissions in categories. :) True enough. Jing is a very odd type of build too. She's able to do cold attacks as fast as she can move her hands, she can cast spells like a magus, she can switch between two different minds and pretend to be two different people, and she can use Linguistics to Bluff, Intimidate or Diplomacy others.
Thanks! Although I'd argue that Jing is just as much a skill monkey as she is an arcane caster. :)
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