Neziana frowns with worry. "No matter what happened here, we should finish burying the bodies. Then we should stick together. There's more going on here than is obvious at first glance."
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Neziana does what she can to help, but she's more about speed rather than raw strength. "This could just be someone who died in an isolated incident, but somehow I kinda doubt it. It would be nice to figure out what killed them or who they were. " She leans down to examine the body more closely.
Aleziella cautiously approach the poltergeist again after recovering from her fright. "We want to know what happened to this place too. Of course we will help you. But we have to put this body to rest first."
"Surely the poltergeist in there is the thing that scared away in the village. Even I couldn't stand to be near it. It's terrifying. Still, it would be good to try to put it to rest rather than antagonizing it further by attacking it. Someone have to get the body out and give it a proper burial. But I'm not going back there." Neziana says as she looks back at the chapel with trepidation, ready to bolt if she sees the poltergeist coming out.
"The body have to be laid to rest in a proper burial place in order to placate the poltergeist. But no way I'm going back in there. That thing is just too freaky..." She's almost shaking with fright as she turns to see the new guy. "Wait, who are you. You're all wet. Did you come from the ship?" She makes big eyes with surprise.
I generally prefer that the GM rolls passive checks like this to speed things up. Still, I'm surprised to see that only 3 of the 7 of us have posted. I guess people have been busy and/or on vacation. Here it was a holiday on Monday. Btw, can you please remove/retire my alt Alezeilla? I posted with her by accident (and edited it over to Neziana).
Thanks. And of course I meant proficient sphere progression, not adept (adept cost 8 feats, not 5).
I realize that with me planning to pick up at least 3 shield sphere talents besides my tradition, it would be better long term to trade away 5 feats for adept sphere of might progression. That would however mean one less talent at level 1. I would lose bashing shield, effectively putting me down 3 AC whenever I attack with my offhand. Though given I have a defensive stance already, that's probably not too bad... Would this be an ok trade to make, or is it too late? Basically I'll loose bashing shield for now, but gain it back next level.
Sorry to hear you're going through trying times. For me these games is a way to get a break from the rest of the world, but people are affected differently. I hope things get better for you soon and we'll be here when you get back.
"Disturbing the body might have done this! We need to put it to rest somehow. I'm not sure if replacing it will work, but it's worth a shot." Neziana says as she sprints over and starts replacing the body.
Neziana shakes her head in disappointment as they enter the temple to follow after the others. "We managed to chase down one of the goblins, but unfortunately we couldn't get anything more out of it. It just fought us. The other one got away. Did you guys learn anything of value here?" She looks over at the bow and whistles. "That's an excellent bow. I'll be happy to use it if no one else needs it more. Sarenrae is more dear to my heart, but I'll be happy to take any aid Old Deadeye can lend us. I have a sling as my ranged backup weapon at the moment. Do you have anything better Lalali-Re?" She turns towards the rogue to discuss the usage of the bow as she surveys the rest of the area around the altar.
We're not too far into things. Isn't it easiest to just have him have been with us all along?
Neziana's face heats up in embarrassment as all three of her blows goes wide. She ponders her options for a moment, but decides to press the attack. The tiefling stabs out with her estoc, then moves in close so she can bite at the opponent at the same time as she brings her cestus around to connect with it's skull.
Seeing that the goblin doesn't listen to her Neziana moves to engage. Her movements are graceful as she carefully picks her way across the battlefield to avoid being struck down. Just as she gets close enough she moves to grab her weapon in two hands and stabs out. Her estoc flies with blinding speed and tries to skewer the goblin, one, two, three times. After striking out she moves her weapon back over to one hand, getting into a more defensive posture to ward off any blows coming her way.
"Put down your weapon and lie down on the ground and we won't kill you Neziana." Neziana gasps out in goblin as she catches up to the goblin and Makanaky.
"Sure we will. We can run then down or shoot them from afar. We will beat them, just like we did the other creatures. I'm sure we can do this!" After letting out her encouraging words, she sprints after the goblins. Her lithe form moves in rapid and graceful movements, catching up to the goblins with her weapons at the ready, though not quite able to strike at them yet.
"There are more goblins back there. They are trying to escape!" Neziana rushes forward, eager to stop them form escaping. She calls out loudly in goblin.
goblin: "Stay here and we won't kill you. Run and we might have to. We just want to talk, we need information."
Neziana translates for the others as the goblin speaks. "Sounds like there was some internal strife among the colonists." Then she hears a sound. She continues in goblin: "What's this sound in there? And what do you mean by ours, are there more of you? We will leave in peace if you answer our questions, I don't want to be forced to kill you." She moves towards the sound while keeping her weapon pointed towards the goblin.
In some variants of pazio publications, goblins are almost all unrevocably chaotic evil. In other places they span a much wider range of alignments and some GMs pull this wider still. Are you a fan of hard black and white, or can everything we encounter potentially be good or any shade of grey?
"Ghosthater is only one. We are many. And Neziana and friends are better fighters. Put down your weapon and cooperate or this won't end well for you!" Neziana responds in almost perfect goblin, brandishing her weapons.
If the goblin shows sign of surrendering she steps closer. "There were supposed to be colonists here. What happened to them? How long have you been here and where did you come from?"
I could have sworn I have Neziana goblin as a language, but I see now that my languages are empty... Is it to late to fix that? I want to have common, abyssal, infernal, draconic, goblin and orc since I get 4 extra languages...
"We got company. Goblins!" Neziana says loudly, praying that it'll draw the attention of her companions and not that of other unfriendly creatures. She then rushes over to the house she heard the sound from. Hoping to make it in time before a battle breaks out.
Hope you're doing ok Shadow.
"A surprise approach is probably not possible anymore, but we should still try to be careful. If unfriendly creatures have taken over the camp, we could run into traps or an ambush." Neziana tries to stay in front of the group, ready to take on anything that might face.
I mostly agree.
Neziana takes the lead in towards the village. "We shouldn't stay too far appart, max hundred feet or so, but we could check like two or three buildings at a time. That will be a decent compromise between safety and speed I think. I do agree with Vigny that we should check out the main building first. For marching order, I can take point. I should be able to ward of enemies from striking most of the rest of you. We are such a large group though that we probably need to travel two or three beside each other. Who wants to be in the rear, the middle or up front with me?" Once they get in past the walls Neziana takes another closer look, trying to spot if anything is amiss.
I guess we're waiting for Lalali-Re to come back now..." Neziana sighs. "I'll take the lead venturing in amongst the buildings once she's back."
"There's nothing to hear or see up in the village. We should still go in carefully to investigate though. Who knows what manners of creatures live up there." Neziana looks over at the others. "[BIt's probably Al good idea to stick together. We should wait for Darvan to come back before going in. We wouldn't want to end up fighting some terrible creature alone...[/B]"
Neziana studies the dead bodies as they pass. "Grindylows, the goblins of the sea. They are just as wretched as their land-borne cousins. It's good to be rid of these sadistic creatures. Though I wonder what that means for the settlement." She finishes pensively. Neziana carefully steps off the boat and looks around. Apprehensively she says. "No boats, no people no tracks. There haven't been any people here in a while. Whatever drove them away it's not recent. We should be careful. Maybe something took up residence after the villagers left... Let's go investigate." She starts moving up towards the remnants of the village to figure out what happened.
Yeah I know, but might still be nice to get extra food for the rest of us :).
So, to finalize:
Everyone: +7 travel rations. It's probably a good idea to move the other wandsfrom Lalali-re to Vigny as well, though I believe Darvan can use those too.
"That doesn't look friendly at all to me. If you're able to fire at them from here it's probably a good idea to do it before they get too close..." Neziana says worriedly. She doesn't want to be sent tumbling into the water by the shapes capsizing the boat.
Looking over the craft rules, it looks like with both regular rules and unchained crafting he can probably craft one flask in 3 days, so I guess that doesn't help much...
Ah, maybe you're allowed to craft them ahead of us starting the adventure? The DC is fairly low and that would give us 3 times as many flasks for the same price (or the ability to buy something else in addition).
So what do the rest of you think? Am I paranoid for wanting to buy acid flasks and/or alchemist fire? If we buy 12 acid flasks, that's 2 per person (except Gnarok). I would like to finalize purchases as soon as possible. My suggestion is that in addition to the 2 wands Lalali-Re already have gotten we get: A wand of lesser restoration (375 GP)
"There are two of them in the water! Get ready everyone, we'll get through this. No matter if they try to ram the boat or attack us in the boat, we'll fight them off." Neziana centers herself and readies to strike the things moving in the water.
That's actually a bit weaker since it'll be one less skill that's trained, but I have plenty of skills regardless, so we should be fine. I'll adjust my sheet to account for it.You also get +2 Int and +2 Con. I'm not complaining about the bonuses at all. They're massive and awesome for the level we are at... I'm simply commenting on the statement that the change is a buff.
Our warpriest gets that spell in 3 levels yeah (as does the cleric savant)... But it's a while until then and I'm sure they would like to be able to use spells for other things. Getting a wand of lesser restoration for 375 GP is a super good bargain (it's 4500 to buy one crafted from a cleric). I doubt there are any paladins helping with crafting on the island while there surely were some back in absalom so it makes perfect sense for us to be able to get such a wand.
A wand of burning hands cost 15 GP per charge for 1d4 damage (reflex 11 for half). That's more expensive than acid flasks(10GP for 1d6) or alchemists fire(20GP for 2d6, reflex 15 for half), not to mention that you can't buy it in smaller increments. I'm not sure how relevant endure elements will be for this campaign, we're neither in a desert nor frozen wastes, though of course I don't know what we face. A wand of Touch of the Sea sounds quite interesting to me if we have healing covered, though Lalali-Re already has a swim speed, so that might not make sense for her to have... That's certainly one of the first spells I'm learning once we get to level 2. @Lalali-Re: How much gold do you need for us to get a wand of lesser restoration (cl 1 as paladin spell), clw and endure elements (1500 GP total).
Because swarms can be a pain to deal with for a lot of classes and it makes a lot of thematic sense for them to pop up at some point. A lot of swarms are resistant or even immune to normal weapons. The equipment needed to deal with them are rather cheap and you can get it from the start, but if you don't get it, you could end up with a big problem. I don't think you need to change archetypes to deal with them at all. None of us except Gnarok got any way to affect things immune to weapons.
That's actually a bit weaker since it'll be one less skill that's trained, but I have plenty of skills regardless, so we should be fine. I'll adjust my sheet to account for it.
"There's something in the water!" Neziana shouts in alarm as she draws and point with her Estoc.
Sorry for phrasing my question badly. I did not understand what you meant by your answer. Is the +3 knowledge history instead of the normal skill rank?
What does knowledge HX mean anyway?Knowledge History. Wait, so the Ioun stone gives +3 Knowledge history instead of one skill rank that it normally gives, or is it instead of? My Ioun stone has the same effect after all...
@Lalali-Re: You have two wands listed on your sheet already. Is that correct? Did you buy the CLW wand for half price? If we already bought a CLW wand, I would prefer to buy a paladin-wand of lesser restoration since it'll only cost 375 and I doubt we'll ever be able to acquire a wand like that for anywhere near that price on the island. With 51 gold from Vigny, 19 gold from Darvan, 195 gold from me and and 220 gold from Lalali-Re we'll be able to afford a wand of Lesser Restoration (or another CLW if Lalali-Re's wand isn't enough?) and 11 flasks of Acid. That's nearly 2 per person, which should help quite a bit against any swarms we might encounter. I guess I'll downgrade my armor to studded leather and change out my weapons for a normal estoc and a cold iron cestus.
You can look up the rules of the stones yourself on the various srds. The int stones gives a skill point per level to the same skill every level and I'm guessing it has to be a knowledge skill.
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