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Click on this alias for a mid-leveled cruoromancer wizard build (minion blocks included!). It's dhampir only, but still very fun. This good thing about this build is the favored class bonus for dhampir wizards which increases the DC of necromancy spells. If you look under her spell sections, her necromancy spell DCs are pretty terrifying. Her backstory is something that creates nightmares too, but that's beside the point.
It appears some of the party was unprepared for the espionage and subterfuge that comes with this campaign, instead wanting to experience the more simple smash and grab kind of adventure. I, for one, am still entirely on board, but there's only so much that can be done if the majority of the party has lost interest.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the ninth knot, Lil made plans for while the rest of them were gone. Secret, diabolical plans that they knew nothing of whilst they left her alone in their private sanctum... Lil's Plan: The biggest tea party ever! Lil has so many good friends now and some of them are so big that she just couldn't pass up on the opportunity! Skeletons and boggards minotaur and treant all around a massive stump that the treant ripped up to serve as a table. Lil giggles as she switches between gossiping with the skeletons to telling jokes with Cowbell to playing pranks on Woody with Kumanda and the other bugbears. In Lil's mind it is a wonderful fantasy full of noise and cheer and good times. But in reality it is a a demented child talking to a bunch of mindless undead in a true display of psychological horror.
What a delight.
I'll be staying, partly because that Lil thinks the others will be better in the social situation but mostly because we need somebody guarding the Horn.
"Don't forget your undetectable alignment spells at the party! Bring me back some food too!" Lil adds.
"We should absolutely go! There's a lot we can learn from the important people of the town. But we still need people here guarding the horn. Vlad should go, and somebody else who can help in social situations."
If you guys want I could take a much more active role in the defenses, doing my best attempt to avoid metagaming. So just to catch up on a few things... This ritual takes 222 days, which is just under 32 weeks. What week are we currently in? We know we need three sacrifices. One is already done, one is a worshiper of Mitra, one is the blood of the Victor. Do we have either of the last two, or do we know where to get them? We need to manage minions and horn defenses. This is the day to day stuff. We need to ask ourselves:
"Ooh, maybe. They're not deadly right now so we should be able to just relocate them like any other plant." If there are no objections, Lil goes to using her green thumb to have the plants relocated with the oozes!
"Ooh, those are baby assassin vines! Deadly little things, they're probably growing really quick because of all the raw magic from the horn. Probably about a week until they're all grown up and ready to kill!" She giggles. "What should we do about them?"
I say we get something like rings of message and just collapse all of the entrances. We can just teleport through the horn with a keyword. As for my undead: The minotaur stays with Lil at all times. The treant guards the front entrance. The burning skeletons circle the horn at night within sight of the treant. If one of them goes out, it will inform the minotaur who will wake Lil. I'm open for suggestions with all my boggards and other bloody skeletons.
Well I still kinda know what's going on, so in an effort not to metagame I'll leave the defenses to the others, but I'm always taking crafting orders!
Lil almost pouts. I could have done a lot with that body... But she moves on, taking out her wand to do some damage control.
Lil frowns as Vlad starts fizzling. That will be annoying to repair. She whips out a dark whip of energy to the nearest creature!
But misses!
Lil gasps at the fire, but she knows she needs to get to the other side to help her allies. Cowbell plows through the fog until they reach the far side, then Lil quickly drops a haste spell on Vlad, Kharn, Cowbell, and herself.
Lil frowns at the burning cloud. This won't do at all. With a hand she tries to dismiss it.
*facepalm* I completely forgot incendiary cloud blocks line of sight. I thought it was just damage.
Lil looks at the pretty creatures and gasps. What an excellent friend it would make! But first it needed an attitude adjustment...
I was much more of a dick with the shades spell. I had one of them use it to cast trap the soul, although admittedly I did target the person with the highest will save.
Lil moves south until she had line of sight, then points at the northern creature and barks a spell.
I would be fine with her returning.
Yes, that is correct for me. I will continue to move until I can see what's going on.
Lil keeps moving towards the noise curiously.
Yeah I always love this topic. Sleeping in any armor is uncomfortable, endurance feat or undead template be damned. Plus it will start to smell.
Lil frowns. What's all the noise about? She says the word to teleport to the second floor, then heads over.
It's ok DM. Thanks for letting us know.
Oh I know. I'll be getting the proper items in town.
Not to metagame, but unless Aku has made some alterations their loot list is pretty sad. A few +1 items is about it.
I don't care about what you can afford. Everybody make a wishlist for what they want should they have infinite money. You guys can 100% leave me to being the merchant and managing money and time; just tell me what you want. Frankly, I wouldn't mind giving some of my wealth to make Vlad more items. He scales off of magic items more than I do.
No worries GM, I hope you feel better soon.
Four weeks of crafting, make your item creation requests!
"Ooh let's get those manacles of cooperation on her! She'll be sure to be nice then!"
"Noooo, you must be my friend!" She quickly casts a spell and touches the cleric!
Lil gives a twisted laugh as the adventurers fall. "Yay!" She floats back up to the cleric and lands on her shoulder. "Let's keep her!"
Lil sucks in some air at the wound, but grins through it. She had suffered far worse before, usually at her own hand. In fact, she would show the silly cleric. Yes, that would show her! With a sick grin Lil flies back five feet, then slits her own wrist with her dagger. Giggling madly, she points at Hallock and a black ray springs from her hand!
Woody is nothing if not persistent. The small moving creature would stop moving eventually under his tender embrace.
It's really interesting playing a "save or suck" caster. Even with my jacked up DCs, it's basically "Well I hope they fail their save lol". But on the other hand, if a cleric takes a -6 to wisdom they're basically going to be a very very bad fighter. With channeling.
"Now that's not very nice, you shouldn't be seeing right now!" Lilpinny giggles and charges the cleric from the air, holding up a hand glowing with black energy.
Woody drools red sap and his small wound mostly closes up. He mindlessly raises his creaking arms and brings them down with ruthless force!
Oh I know! The cleric in my homebrew game had that feat and my first reaction was "Wow that is overpowered!" They were unhappy about it being nerfed, but I wasn't. Good errata.
Ok, only inside the Horn. That's what I thought. Oh I thought that Vetra-Kali Eats-the-Eyes counted as a aligned higher power. I suppose since Thorn mentioned the daemon was powerful but possibly within our abilities that means it's not at epic status. I'm thinking about having alternate stat sheets for most of my undead within the horn when they're effected by the desecrate. Obviously Woody would never benefit from it since he can't fit inside, but everything else can at one time or another.
Wow, even as a cleric that is an impressive fort save. Not that I think it matters when she rolled a 16, but damn. Must be stacking up that con.
Woody slams the insolent who-man!
Just wanting to clarify something before I make any changes. 1) The entire Horn is desecrated, correct? Does that extend outside the horn at all? 2) Does the Horn count as an altar, shrine, or other permanent fixture dedicated to a aligned higher power? I would imagine it does, but I want to double check first.
Lil giggles and flies 90 feet closer, getting 15 feet off the ground. She points at the cleric with a mad cackle. "So blinded by your faith!"
Woody wastes no time. With terrifying speed from the haste spell, he charges and attacks James O'Toole!
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