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I think you can get a printing press in Kingmaker, and iirc Galt and Alkenstar both have them, it is relatively "new tech" though. Some gods in Golarion repress some tech, and magic, be it divine or arcane, would likely be a competitor to technological progress. Divine healing magic would compete pretty well vs. our Medicine, vs. the medicine of 14-15th century tech level?
Reign of winter? There is an Opera by that name! I trained martial arts to play a protagonist! Although I was mostly flung at walls to show the audience how strong the foe is! The Audience loved the part where the party in on that bizarro no magic world and things just start exploding, but its really hard to sing in such conditions! Meanwhile some serious critics were like "explain how these superior firearms dont get stolen by demons!" Lucy pauses Look, this is an opera not a historical treatise!
Meanwhile, Lucy with blood ties to a Succubus Pacing in her room Nocticula is the most competent, pragmatic, reasonable and capable of all demonlords, which makes her the most dangerous one! Just see how effective she is in pretending to no longer be evil, I mean, Pazuzus has been providing free of charge protection from misbirths for about 4 millenia, and noone thinks he isnt evil, in comparison, Nocticulas PR campaign has been so much more effective!
A bit more pacing Although I would be unsurprised if her money is funding that glorious reclamation business behind the scenes, both to troll hell and to make an overabundance of unemployed Paladins because the worldwound is closed someone elses problem.
Even more pacing Now, if Nocticula wants to screw over the Chelish, how should I act if her operatives approach me? Like, a single Succubus can screw a city Kintargos size if she plays her cards right, moreso if she has a bag of holding type 4.
rehearsal: Wings, check. 3 dire bat tails, check. Extraordinarily impractical hairstyle, check. Hooveshoes, yes, I have pretty normal feet actually, check. Stockings with stones on them that drip occassional jam, because actually using fire here would set both myself and the rehearsal room on fire, check. Someone doing a pretty credible impersonation of the demonlord Nocticula says out loud. OK boys, lift me up! A couple of wires click as the tiefling women is lifted in the air Pffffff how am I supposed to sing an Aria while these wires are messing with my air supply? Well I can try She muses as she begins singing in a Soprano voice Raise your blades
urrrrkkk As she tries to draw breath, some of the wires lifting her bind a bit too tightly around her mid section Are you trying to sing "kitchen" in Abyssal Lucy? If so you are missing one z at the end.
I am mostly trying to breathe Shensen the somewhat strung Tiefling retorts Get into character as a demonlord so you dont have to breathe any more the woman says with a chuckle A more realistic approach is some pseudo see through armor so the wires dont semi choke me, or simply a fly spell The tiefling, still dangling in the air, thinks Fly spell? And then some joker in the audience dispells it, nah The other woman says Did you run the libretto past that "Subject matter expert" you spoke off? Tambry or something like that? the tiefling asks a bit quieter. Yeah, but she didnt quite know much, the topic of the play is faaaaar in the past. the white haired woman answers According to a subject matter expert I contacted, the entire plot doesnt quite work because in actuality, Desna curbstomped Aolar like a litte trollop, razed her citadel, farted in specifically Lamashtus general direction, wrote "Hunting hiccups honey?" useing the corpses of demons she killed and then swaggered off to Elysium, daring the Abyss to do something about her.
But there isnt any useable drama in that, no heroic journey, no overcomeing difficult trials, no real threat... nah, I am sticking with Desna the plucky little underling and her merry band of misfit heroes, far more inspirational too. With a friendly shake of her head, Shensen replies, also in a more conspirational tone Yes boss Lucy answers
One of my alternative ideas was a Kellid merc, out of a job now that the worldwound is closed, and who then got a job at the opera as stunt man, but it would be hard to explain why he is level 1, as travel from worldwound adjacent to Kintargo is pretty dangerous. Which is honestly often a showstopper, you come up with a funny and unique twist, and then "ok, realistically, how did I survive this at level 1?"
Orrrrr… we theater geeks could band together and have the most talented rebellion of all time? If that does happen I need to readjust my stats, because oh boy do you take a lot of hits if you are a Skald who is the main frontline. And I dont plan to go down the "Skald Frontline yesyes!" route of having all the Linnorm death curse rage powers while abusing a wand of summon minor monster. This is a great NPC gimmick, but its not really for player characters imho.
Lots of competiton for sure! My Skald would propose to settle the "aspring opera star" in a drinking contest, which is totally absolutely fair and she would not pretend that her elaborate toast is a raging song.
Probably Lucys is like, opera lights shining out of her eyes, but with no actual "light" effects.
Excellent! May I ask what if any visual representation this cantrip has? I tend to visualize it as eyes flaring in a different color, since casting a cantrip is a visible thing for those watching the caster. I played wotr once and the party had both and Asmodean Paladin and an Asmodean Antipaladin, the Asmodean Paladin was a great RPer (probably the most laughs ever caused by a Paladin player at any table) so that concept stuck in mind with me.
Question, there is a cantrip called detect fiendish presence am I correct in assuming:
questions: --A cleric of Nocticula, redeemer queen, would not ping on it (since she is not a demonlord as the redeemer queen). --Technically, a cleric of Lamashtu also would not ping, since she is a full deity rather then a demonlord --A demon following the redeemer queen would probably ping on it (still has the subtype outsider, evil, even if his/her alignment isnt) --Nocticula herself? Probably not, but you likely get a raised eyebrow if you try that. --Its kind of curious that the spell specifically says "Asmodeus, Archdevils, Daemonic harbingers and demonlord" so RAW devils capable of granting prayers who are not archdevils (the 4 queens of the night as well as the many many malebranche and infernal dukes would be that) would not have their clerics ping.
--Even funnier is that according to this spell, it detects Paladins of fiendish deities, although technically, Paladin of Asmodeus can exist via using the pact servant religious trait which makes Asmodeus Lawfull neutral, and thus a valid Paladin deity.
Added an RP sample, wisdom 8 strikes. Lets get a scroll of ancestral communion to ask my demonic ancestor about period-historically accurate costume advice.
Lucy tidbits Tidbits: --Will want to know what happened to Shensen --Is very much for freedom of expression --Is rather suspicious of "Nocticula redeemer queen" --Swears in very colorfull Abyssal when under pressure --Tends to say "Showtime" when initiative is rolled --Had some thoughts of how to rebell, one of the workable ones is using alter self to be a totally different species when doing rebellion things. So far, her prepared Aliases are the 2 Adlets (wolf people) "Powerwolf" and "Steppenwolf", the Charau-Ka "Guano Ape" and the Lizardman "Lizard-Wizzard". The goal is to make the chelish government hunt a group of animal based vigilantes, and not her. She did consider "Earl Earnest" the Pannotti Bard, partly due to the psychic damage it would inflict, but there is exactly one Panotti in Kintargo and she doesnt want to specifically frame him.
Lucy is Liliyashaninas submission, or is there someone else who did the same too? I am making her background a bit less involved because yes, lets not personally know too many major NPCs.
Work in progress profile. I added her own notes in Italics to some of her traits and equipment choices. |