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Merry Christmas!

I miss rping with you guys. Have a wonderful start to your new year.

Like Garidan, I cannot say that I'm shocked by this outcome, but I'll be in mourning. I love this game, and I pray it will restart sometime in the next year or so.

Hey all. Sorry, been an up and down last week with illness rampant. I'm doing well and trying to get the game back going. Lot's of things to get altered and set for the next stage.

Next week is busy for me as my company's Board is meeting for 3 days. I'll try to post before then, and then should be back with a vengeance come the 26th or so.

Val

So, how did it go?

Wait, didn't we get something about a company board meeting last year, and you kind of got eaten by life immediately after? ;p

The danger of being sorta a big deal in a certain context. :-p

OOG: All we know about Ygrna's motivations is that they are reported to come out of the trauma of watching her family die and possibility of the end of her people at large. I don't imagine she would be thrilled by serving the Soul Bleed who seeks to destroy the Dreaming and who came from the Night Blood.

However, all we know about Ygrna comes from two thousand year old stories of the family that ultimately betrayed her.

So, her motivations and personality might be far different than we "know."

How has the road to recovery been?

Many things would be unleashed were the Dreaming to completely unravel. It is possible to kill immortals. It can be far harder to ensure that they stay dead. Those old mothers we slew in the mountains were weak, nowhere near the power of the crowned queens of their kind. Left to their own devices they could eventually recreate a new body, though do not worry. They will not be left to their own devices. The oldest stories tell us that it is possible for immortals to truly die. They don't often provide exact destruction, and when they do there is little consistency between methods. My belief, and it is but a guess, is that when an immortal kills another immortal there are ways in which they still the power of that slain immortal. Mortals have to find ways to dissipate that power. That is why I believe our ancestors first did these bindings. Overtime is dissipates the power of the immortal into the First Lands. Li'luurant should have been weaker when we faced her than when our ancestors did. If she were to escape again, she would be weaker still until she would have been as easy to kill as one of those old mothers of storm. I can only guess at why Li'luurant wanted to ally with Yrgna specifically. All the other old mothers either drank the Witch Blood or are the daughters of those who did. They share what remains of Zamaz's power. The stories never suggest that Ygrna found and drank of Witch Blood. Nor do they say that she was the daughter of one of the crowned queens of thorn, storm, or any other primacy of witch's power. They tell us that she was a witch who found power 'so great that it could not be put aside. That when people tried to kill her she burned back into life.' If my theories are correct, and I do not know that they are. Ygrna's power will never dissipate over time. She will never be less than what she is. Maybe Li'luurant wanted this secret too. Maybe she thought Ygrna would share it with her."

Malthazir's talk of binding spirits made her feel uncomfortable, but she owed him her aid. For each ritual to which he lent his power, she would help him bind a spirit. Within reason, of course.

"I think I can answer that. The great spirits, may their names be lost to memory, measure their relative stature against each other not only by age but by the mortals souls that sustain them. All immortals can grow in strength by incorporating more vital and spiritual energy into themselves. For tens of thousands of seasons the souls of this land have been gathered in the Dreaming to deny sustenance to the hungers of the great spirits. Better the hungers of the living ancestors who will drink your life than those of the great spirits which will consume all that you are. Her ritual intended to take and consume all the souls within the Dreaming. She wanted, I believe, the power to contend not with the living ancestors but with greater spirits. If she is a bear of the great spirit of war, what displeasure of theirs or even the other old mothers should she fear. She would have outstripped them. She would have outstripped the Primogenitors."

I'm so gratified that everyone is recovering.

Niyut sits enraptured by the story. When it is done, Niyut asks, "Is that the first time she was known to the five clans? I have heard a story that she was of the Night Blood, a mortal witch, who discovered a pool of Witch Blood. That she drank it and ascended to be one of the great queens of the craft, but that she clashed with the kindly mothers: the Patrons of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. That they somehow took some power she had attained and drove her out of the First Lands. But, if she was unknown to us before her first binding, then how did such a one arise in the lowlands?"

I know how isolating being sick can be. I want you to know that you and your family are in my thoughts.

I hope the testing wasn't too rough.

That's terrifying. My heart is with you and all your family. Please take care of each other. I hope everyone has an easy road to recovery.

Any reaction to Garidan not being a bunny?

When Gnisk says that she is a daughter of Nerat, is the word she uses the one when Niyut describes elves as "sons and daughters of Chana" or the one when she refers to herself as "daughter of Asulad"?

The daughter of the El'vitch makes the traditional greetings of gesture to Gnisk and Māheo as they introduced themselves.

She watches the formation of their coven with a wondering eye. By binding Yazgah, Asulad, and the three less fortunate witches, the Soul Bleed seems to have created a path way for mortal witches to dip into the immortal well of hags covens.

This is mystical subject in which Niyut has had an interest ever since she boiled three storm hags in her cauldron.

Great interest.

I want to examine Si’elwaght now more than ever.

But now is not that time. After the five witches establish their coven, Niyut walks over to Garidan, cupping his face gently as she examines his eyes.

Normally, one transmutation breaks another. Unwind one curse and you might unwind several.

However, Garidan's blindness had been caused by the interplay of a curse and the destruction of the Eh’semghédôm. Did her mother's counter charm free him from both? Is Garidan still blind?

She nods. "How may I help, mother? I swore a vow to re-raise Eh’semghédôm since it is in part my fault that it shattered. When Truk buried his axe in the uncrowned queen of nightmare's chest, it looked like she lost control of her power. Could we spin some of her power out of the Dreaming to keep her weak? What remains of Eh’semghédôm are a day's journey to the south."

Garidan has not made it a secret that he wanted some of the Soul-Bleed's essence. Trying to secure some can solve several problems.

Niyut smiles as Raektov approaches. "In part, but have been told that three times makes the charm."

Now that their diminished party is re-united, Niyut introduces each of them in turn to her mother.

Speaking of scrolls, Mal has a couple of spells that he never added to his book. One of which is really good.

I see 4 possibilities concerning the Tower of Conjuration:

1. Scarlet was successful in triggering the wards as we left. The tower is shut up as tight as a drum. I will eat my shorts if the Tower of Conjuration is not warded against illicit teleportation or more brute force. In this scenario. we probably aren't high enough level to break in.

2. Scarlet was not successful in triggering the wards as we left. The Ice Giants took it over. They may or may not have mastered the tower's secrets. If they have not, we could try to loot what remains. If they have, see scenario 1.

3. Scarlet was successful in triggering the wards as we left, but the Ice Giants defeated the wards. They have occupied a tower with sundered defenses. We could try to murder them and take their stuff.

4. The tower was destroyed in the three way struggle against the fire worshiping gnolls, the human defenders, and the Ice Giants. We could pick over the remains.

Now I'm for looting fallen cities as any girl, probably more eager than most given Niyut's hunger for essences. However, we need more information before we blindly go in.

We don't have a ton of divination magic. But, maybe Mal and Niyut can come up with something between them. It's too bad scrying requires you to target a person.

As for the apocalypse zombies, it is a concern that we don't have Cure Disease. However, we can kill at range.

I'm more curious about where they came from. They weren't in the city when we left nor where they there in the sphere's campaign.

I have a theory that there is an evil godling hiding out in Talanor who is empowering the undead there.

@GM: I think our current time stamp of the fourth is inaccurate. We arrived in the First Lands on the 17th of Selefis. It took us three days to reach our village, arriving on the 1st of Dasyris. We spent three days there. It then took us two more days to reach the Living Ancestors. Then two more days to reach the standing stones. It took us a day to reach our present location.

I think today is actually the ninth of Dasyris, Moonday.

Edit: If my calculations are correct, we have been together about 47 days in game.

Now I feel stupid for not having taken larger advantage of the Tower of Conjuration while I was there. Necromancy is an opposition school so that will be of limited use, hopefully they have a vast store of magic from other schools as well.

Hmm, I wonder how long the Tower of Conjuration will be in a war zone, and what its fate will be?

Honestly, I'm down for a rematch between us the gnolls and the giants. But we should probably go track down another Hazard first.

By the time we do that, we should have gone up at least another level and I will have Sending. Then we could coordinate with any of our allies in Haemil (If they are still alive) to drive out the gnolls and the ice giants.

Maybe we could do 1 Hazard, then a side quest, then another Hazard, etc.

It may require two casts of Teleport to get to Mötùrrim, The Tower of Necromancy.

Each teleport can get you 900 miles. The Hazard of Necromancy teleported us all from Mötùrrim, The Tower of Necromancy to the Kragenwood. That was 100 miles away. (His teleportation magic could use a little work, honestly.)

It took us a few days to get from the Kragenwood to High Mark Keep. We found the Chestnut Tree on the 8th of Faelis.

The internet tells me that a laden ox can travel about three miles per hour. Each day we we had two long walks broken up by a two hour rest and an 8 hour rest. We were traveling about 14 hours per day. So at our best we were making 42 miles in a day. Though I bet we were doing less than that.

We arrive at Earthenwork on the the 7th of Selefis, so we had been traveling for 18 days.

100 + (at maximum) 756: 856.

We know that the Iron Mountains are roughly the size of the Rockies, which at their widest are about 300 miles across.

856+300: 1156

We know that the First Lands are broken off from the landmass of Haemil.

Judging distances on the map is difficult, but if it's anything resembling scale the gap is somewhere between 20-50 miles wide. Let's say 35.

1156+35: 1191.

We are in the Forest of Night somewhere. Again, judging from the map, I think we are somewhere between 100-200 miles from the gap. Let's say 150.

1191+150: 1341.

If my calculations are anywhere near accurate that would require two teleports.

I don't think you can currently access the Tower of Conjuration. No invite. No key. No idea how it's warded. (Not to mention it's in a war zone.) Teleporting to the Tower of Necromancy is probably easier since you have the key to open it up. It sounds like Niyut and Garidan are also interested in revisiting that tower. Wherever we go after we leave the First Lands, Niyut will suggest a detour at the Tower of Necromancy, plus on the map it's the closest we have come to the next Hazard we need to track down.

A ring of Sustenance costs 2,500 GP.

From the wiki:

….1 ethereal essence: up to 2,000 gp
….2 ethereal essence: 2,001 to 8,000 gp

So, that would cost 1 Essence if the GM feels generous, 2 Essences if he does not.

It's pretty easy to price magical items based on the guidelines on the wiki.

Speaking of Libraries, we have the key and permission to make full use of the Tower of Necromancy.

We might not be able to get back into the Tower of Conjuration at this time, but if that library has non-Conjuration in it, then perhaps the Tower of Necromancy has non-Necromancy spells as well.

Quickening Summon Monster V is no joke though. Since Summons have that round casting time, reducing that to a swift action is net more efficient than reducing haste (a standard action) to a swift action. (Especially since you don't want to use your candle very often.)

You could get Empower and the next rank of Quicken for 8 Essences leaving 2 Ethereal and your 2 Arcane.

You could get the SR and either Quicken or Empower. That would leave just the two Arcane essences unless you used the Abjuration Essence on the SR ability.

In my opinion, though your mileage may very, Arcane Essences are most powerful (if you aren't after) higher DCs in granting thematic abilities.

Abjuration, for example could either improve your Dispel checks, hedge outsiders, or really anything in theme either by itself or in conjunction with other essences.

Can wizards learn spells from scrolls from other classes if the spell is on both lists? If they can, I know Truk and Niyut's mother, Asulad, has the Scribe Scroll feat. Though she uses carvings instead of ink and parchment.

Maybe she could teach you Scrying since that's important for teleportation.

Also, your staff already kind of knows Summon Monster V. "By teaching the staff any Summon Monster spell, the wielder of the staff may substitute any Summon Monster spell for another prepared spell of equal or greater level. The staff can learn up to a 7th level spell."

Of course, you might want the spell for yourself as well, but if you were deciding between other options, you are safe on Summon Monster until VIII.

@Mal: It was just pointed out to me that Empower Spell can increase the number of your summons when you benefit from summoning more monsters of a lower Rank.

Try this Link.

From the last Ethereal Essences from the weapons of the thralls, you have 10 Ethereal Essences + those Arcane Essences.

Let me know if you want any advice or help.

There is a house rule that you get Full HP every level.

Your HP should be 62 + FCB.

@Mal: Are you back?

As Niyut desperately tries to breathe life into her mother's still form, she sags with relief when she discovers that Asulad yet lives.

"Why does she not awaken? When I shattered the Soul-Bleed's Dream Stone all the souls she had stolen should have winged free. I do not understand."

Running her the back of her fingers down her mother's still face she begs, "Wake up. Please."

Her prayers are interrupted by the sudden and conveniently-timed arrival of Anarzi. Niyut is not so lost to courtesy or to honor that she fails to give the Daughter of Chana a traditional greeting.

A small part of Niyut, perhaps not as small as she might like, is not pleased about having to give up the staff they claimed from Prisca. Maybe it is the staff of the Wiavch; it is certainly potent enough. But where were these witches when we struggled against Li'luraant and Prisca? Where were they when the Soul Bleed was trying to use Eh’semghédôm to destroy the Dream and all the Souls therein?

Hiding and scrying, she would guess.

But, Niyut reminds herself, Magic, no matter how potent is not worth your honor. It is not worth the life of another to be lost in Dream.

She places the staff in the Night Blood's hands and watches in awe as Yazgah awakens. The last time that she saw a witch disolve into black smoke, he had been bound to a stone of Eh’semghédôm. His end had been far more terrifying than it had been inspiring.

But all Niyut can feel when her mother awakens is relief and joy. She buries her face in her mother's bosom as she embraces her.

"Lost. He is lost in Dream. When we returned to village at grandmother's behest, we found our people confused and your staff shattered."

She pulls back and points in the distance towards Raektov pulling a reluctant Tacal. "The young wizard repaired the broken pieces of your staff. I led Malthazir, far son of Chana, and Truk to pull power from the great spirit who preserves, he who is the enemy of time, nameless and forgotten may the great spirits be. By my arts, this power of remembrance resonated with the power that once inhabited your staff. The staff led us to Eh’semghédôm where the Soul Bleed and that traitor Prisca, cursed may she be, were trying to harvest all the souls in Dream. We did battle. To rescue you before she could sacrifice you in her rite, I caused her ritual to fail. Eh’semghédôm shattered. They fled that dark, but sacred place and we pursued. Here we did battle. Truk and I slew her remaining thralls. We vied with the Soul Bleed. Truk and Gruskorb, far son of the Twisted Iron, managed to destroy her body. Truk was glorious, mother! Not even the queen of nightmares, the uncrowned queen, could stand against him. In her death throws, she drew them into the Dream. Prisca, may her name be cursed and bound in iron, was laid low by the arts of Malthazir."

Tears gather in her eyes and she shrinks into herself. "He is lost. I'm sorry, mother. I failed you. But, I will find him, I promise. If I have to go into the Dream and strip all the ichor of Zamaz from the blood of the Soul Bleed I will, if I must, to return your son."

She quivers with silent sobs.

I vote for letting Niyut run him until his storyline concludes and then writing him out.

I will pick up teleport. If we have it as a scroll I'll pick it up that way, so that my freebies aren't limited by what spellbooks or scrolls we have.

Also, woohoo for level up! Malz can access planar binding at this point, so now the real fun begins >:)

I have quite a store of essences at this point. I know at one point I was dabbling with the idea of constructs, I want to make sure I'm not spreading myself too thin though. I'm pretty adept at minion management though, so maybe it will be fun to start turning into a puppet master.

If you want my two cents, I would upgrade Quicken Spell to the next tier with 4 Ethereal Essences. I would pair your Conjuration Essence with some amount of Ethereal Essences to be able to add the advanced simple template to your summons. Our GM could give you a more precise number required. Maybe also invest some into the nice SR ability (6 Ethereal, though I bet your Abjuration Essence could add/give a slight discount to this ability.)

As for constructs, we know that constructs need a Primal Essence of some kind at their core and can be built up through Ethereal Essences. But, we don't yet know anything more specific.

@GM: Silly question, but on the map for the old world there is no southern polar ice cap. But, the world was tilted enough for there to be seasons. Was there a supernatural reason there was a northern ice cap but not a southern one?

As you point out, SR is good. But having a little bit more range on those bone shards would have helped out against Li'luraant (if nothing else, for the reduced range increment penalty). And more AC, improved saves, and maybe even more combat stamina/panache would also be helpful.

Remembering that you could fly and therefore could have flown up and stabbed her with great prejudice is one of the reasons that I ranked my suggestions in the order I did. You already have the necessary tools to lessen some range concerns

It looks like 1 Ethereal Essence is worth about an additional 20' if the secondary is keyed to range as well. (Judging from the Axe in its current incarnation.)

I would Rank order it:

1. SR (Basically you now get two saves for most spells for free. And given your Will Save bonus. It's a greater value than just increased saves.)

2. Increased Range

3. Increased AC (The cheapest way to increase your AC at first is to attach +1 (Insight, Luck, or Sacred/Profane) bonuses on to a Sundry bond in this case, Ruza. It's a +3 for 3 Essences to start. And then you can for greatest value slowly increase these along with the Enhancement bonus on your Armor and you NA bonus.)

4. Increased Saves

5. Stamina/Panache (Your Life Essence and a curio already bolster these. To my mind your stamina pool will naturally increase at a competitive rate the more Life Essences you possess. As for Panache I think the most cost effective method to increase that is either a Life Essence or bonding the feather.

@Malthazir: Now that we are level 10, you probably want to pick up Teleport. It looks like we have a scroll of it already. (Though maybe that's a different spell, you might want to examine the scroll first.) You might want to learn it from the scroll rather than one of your two freebies? Up to you, though.

Nice to see that our hard victory is paying out appropriately, with such a bounty of essences. Of course, aside from what I've already spent on 'Ruza with the new Solar Bloodline--which I'll note on the sheet once Valjoen acknowledges it--I really don't know what I'm going to spend them on. In fact, I think I might actually be at the limit for maximum essences per item according to character level on some of my items.

The Limit only applies to Weapon Abilities, not the Weapon itself.

"Weapon Special Ability: 1 ethereal essence per +1 value
….Levels 1-5: 4 essences towards abilities
….Levels 6-10: 6 essences towards abilities
….Levels 11-15: 8 essences towards abilities
….Levels 16-20: 10 essences towards abilities"

Personally, though, if I were Garidan and had been transformed by an evil witch, I would be dumping 6 Essences into getting the Spell Resistance ability that lets good magic slide through.

"Spell Resistance: 2 ethereal essence (any) for 5+Lvl SR, 4 additional ethereal essences for 10+Lvl SR, auto-pass for beneficial spells."

My opinion, is that if one cannot figure out how to spend essences one is temporarily suffering from a lack of imagination. :-p

Niyut's Current Essence Plan:

Life Essence (Prisca): Improved Familiar to awaken Oseja as a Dreamland Cat Sorcerer. (If approved.) (Imbued into Self)

Ethereal Essence (Prisca): Stone Discus is now a Ranged Touch Spell, but SR applies. (Imbued into Fíkeh’semghédôm)

Requested Secondary Effect: +1 DC bonus to [Curse] Spells? Something witchy?

Ethereal Essence (Prisca) (Second): Improve Lesser Tenebrous Spell to Tenebrous Spell. (Imbued into Fíkeh’semghédôm)

Requested Secondary Effect: Access to Prisca's Patron's Spells. Similar to the Spontaneous Combustion ability but with presumably the Nightmares (?) Patron instead of the Fire Domain. Since, this Essence is upgrading an existing ability, I'm okay with this requested ability subsuming Ventriloquism secondary ability currently granted by Lesser Tenebrous Spell.

Ethereal Essence (Xuh's Breastplate): The Guardian ability imbued into Fíkeh’semghédôm.

Ethereal Essence (Rogue's Axe): Currently, being held depending on if my Improved Familiar is approved.

Essence Sweepstakes Part II: The Minion-Bugaloo

From the Last Round Garidan and Malthazir get the first two.

11-2: 9 (Garidan and Malthazir)
9-5: 4 (Everyone gets 1 Ethereal Essence)

Who Doesn't get an Essence here?: 1d5 ⇒ 2

1: Garidan
2: Gruskorb
3: Malthazir
4: Niyut
5: Truk

Better luck next time, Gruskorb!

Essence Summary

Garidan: +3 Ethereal Essences (Rogue's Axes)
Gruskorb: +1 Ethereal Essences (Rogue's Axe)
Malthazir: +3 Ethereal Essences (Rogue's Axe, 2 from Xuh's Battle Axe)
Niyut: +2 Ethereal Essences (Rogue's Axe, Xuh's Breast Plate)
Truk: +2 Ethereal Essences (both from Xuh's Battle Axe)

Did either of them have more of the gear made from Aśadva’s pelt?

Reaktov mentioned that there were several such items floating out there, so Niyut will be careful as she unbinds the ether of these items.

Not to be a bother, but I think we may have actually fought the bird-orc-axe guy dude at the very beginning of the fight. When this orc died he dropped an Ethereal Essence that returned to the Asulad's staff. This essence and the essence reclaimed from the female rogue completed this staff, and all the orcs in the initial battle (who weren't hags) were glowing from the staff.

The orc corpse to which appears on the map next to the two back clouds is the orc to which I referred. It seems like he even had a name, Xuh?

Cutting and pasting while dealing with Paizo's infuriating "backtrack limit exceeded" IS that bad. Because it might pop up after just a couple of tab switches during an edit, or I might be able to switch between tabs for several minutes, do an edit, and have no problems; it's utterly unpredictable, and readily wipes an entire edit just like that.

It does encourage one to save frequently. :-)

Gah, I thought that the EP rules were for use with the Last Haven campaign, not this one. I'm not even close to ready to redo Garidan's entire profile to account for the EP change.

Cutting and Pasting is not that bad. :-) It took me less than 20 minutes to shift everything over to the character sheet from the wiki.

Besides, everybody but you and Mal has already been converted.

Niyut wrote:

Valjoen_GM wrote:

Detect magic only has a range of 60 feet. The illusion was well above that up in the trees. So when Niyut was searching the area using detect magic she never was within range of the illusion. When standing on or near the ground and looking up, you would see real trees for the first 75 feet or so and then the illusion starts. Similar to movie blue screening. The set directly around the actors might be real but everything in the distance is just a blue screen, or an illusion.

I made several references to oddities about the sky and the canopy of the trees. If anybody went up there and was searching with detect magic, I totally missed it. This battle has been months in the making so I may have forgotten or missed things. No real devious tricks going on.

Wasn't the witch summoning a familiar next to the fire also an illusion? Or did Garidan shove some harmless old lady into the fire?

Valjoen_GM wrote:

The cloaked figure that was by the fire and killed early in the battle was an unseen servant wearing Prisca's cloak used to draw you into their "trap".

Garidan killed the unseen servant and the cloak fell in the fire.

Unseen Servant like the spell? Or did we kill some baby witch that was press ganged into performing the ritual? Because I think I remember that it sounded like they were doing a summoning chant. Though I guess that could have been some from of Ventriloquism projecting her voice?

Valjoen_GM wrote:

Am I safe in assuming the 'Ruza's effective sorcerer level (Gardian's character level -2) must be equal to or greater than the level requirement of the desired bloodline power to select it? And for all level-based improvements to said powers as well?

Further, do the granted spells function much the same way that spells cast via Light Shaper--no components, cast on Garidan's initiative, require Garidan's swift action--do? Are they 1/day each, or 1/day for the Solar Caster ability as a whole?

It looks to me that Ruza has begun the transition to Ethereal Points.

My guess would be that it ends up being 1 EP per use.

Detect magic only has a range of 60 feet. The illusion was well above that up in the trees. So when Niyut was searching the area using detect magic she never was within range of the illusion. When standing on or near the ground and looking up, you would see real trees for the first 75 feet or so and then the illusion starts. Similar to movie blue screening. The set directly around the actors might be real but everything in the distance is just a blue screen, or an illusion.

I made several references to oddities about the sky and the canopy of the trees. If anybody went up there and was searching with detect magic, I totally missed it. This battle has been months in the making so I may have forgotten or missed things. No real devious tricks going on.

Wasn't the witch summoning a familiar next to the fire also an illusion? Or did Garidan shove some harmless old lady into the fire?

Gruskorb:

I can adjust the encounters to deal with 4 PC's very easily. I think having Niyut run him for now is fine. However, once the story arc of the sapling is complete, I'd say we retire him.

Sounds good to me!

Garidan wrote:

Finally, with regards to Garidan's development, Niyut offered some interesting backstory ideas leading into essence usage, and I'm wondering if you'd be willing to consider them.

To summarize the ideas:

Alezra Sharpwit's motivation from parting with the Nightblood and going ruin diving was because she had a Solar bloodline (which, as Niyut pointed out, wouldn't exactly be cool among the Nightblood).

That Solar bloodline, via essences fed into the ioun torch, awakens somewhat in 'Ruza, at least enough so that she can use it as a bloodline and share it with Garidan.

I like the idea and I'm up for it. Adding a bloodline is pretty powerful. Here is an idea: the Fire Essence grants her Solar Caster ability which is the Bloodline Arcana and adds the bonus spells to her casting ability. Then, an Ethereal Essence gets her the 1st level bloodline power. 2 additional EE's gets her the 3rd level bloodline power. Etc. The Bloodline powers can be shared with Garidan as long as she is within reach of him.

That's nicer than the cost I sketched out for Garidan! You are in luck!

You can get the magic item from the rogue, but you never saw the other orc that turned into a bird. The cloaked figure that was by the fire and killed early in the battle was an unseen servant wearing Prisca's cloak used to draw you into their "trap". Li'luraant, Prisca and the Rogue were flying high in the trees using an illusion cast by Prisca to make the...

About the illusions. When Niyut was scouting before the battle she was using Detect Magic to try to spot illusions. Obviously, that didn't work for her. Can you tell me how this was accomplished so that Niyut can borrow this tactic?

Niyut is on he look out for ways that illusions can still work in the face of basic divination. Please, teach me your ways.

Edited: I've also sent you some PMs about some ideas that I had which were on the backburner that I would like preserved if possible.

Also, level 10, huzzah! I hope Calledrym was paying attention and actually accepts this result as fulfilling his mandate regarding Li'luraant. Because I don't think we're getting a second shot at that otherwise.

I would remind you that you should probably offer him pray/praise/whatever when you are less of a bunny. Gods seem to like that kind of attention.

+1 Oracle Level

+1 Fort, +1 Ref, +8 HP

New Spells: Dispel Magic, Night Blindness, Sand Whirlwind (Favored Class Benefit), Restoration

+1 Skill: Bluff, Craft ((Engraving/Carving, Weaving) Knowledge (Arcana, Planes, Religion), Perception, Spell Craft, and Stealth.

+2 Skill Ranks: Sense Motive

Can we get a picture for Asulad on the wiki and remove the deceased notation? She is around 53-54 years old.

@Niyut - Sounds good.

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@All - Truk & I are working out a few ideas via PM. They should be resolved before we move forward. I have a good idea of what actions everyone wants to do next. Is everyone agreeable to let me do a cinematic scene to wrap everything up as the next post?

In that scene, I will have:

1. Niyut collect the essences from Prisca and take possession of Prisca's staff;
2. Garidan's bunny situation resolved;
3. Raektov rejoin the group;
4. Asulad & Yazgah rescued from the trees;
5. Truk'tosh & Gruskorb banishment to the Dreaming resolved; and
6. A few other surprises.

Additionally, I will summarize some of the party's options to move forward in the campaign. Of course, if you all agree, you can take off in any wild direction you want.

Lastly, let's discuss Gruskorb. While every character has a 'bound soul' arc, none of those arc's were part of the original plot to gather the Hazards for Bærwynnd. However, Gruskorb does carry the Sapling of the Ancient Chestnut Tree which may prove useful in the future.

So, the question is: Do we want to recruit someone to take over Gruskorb? Or recruit another player to create a fifth character that takes over the role of Gruskorb but not the character? Or do we want to continue as a foursome with the sapling recovered from the Dreaming?

Or does anyone have another option?

With all that said, welcome to 10th level... finally!

May I add a # to that wrap up list?

7. I want to grab the magic items on the two orcs the one that turned into a bird at the end of the last battle (the male orc) and the female rogue.

As for the next steps, there are several loose ends in the First Lands that I wanted to finish before continuing on with the Hazard plot.

1. Prevent the Dreaming from collapsing. The elven matriarch asked us to secure and fix the "Daguják, the Making Stones" in order to save the Dreaming. It is unclear to me whether these are different standing stones than "Eh’semghédôm," the Ruination, that we accidentally exploded. Verthag referred to them as such here. Are these stones the same stones? If they are, I have a plan to fix them that I shared with them last year.

2. Fix the binding that secured Ygrna, the Bone Mother, like my grandmother asked me to which she called me back to the First Lands.

3. Break down the relic bows and distribute their essences among the party now that I know how to do that.

Some of these things just require down time activity and role-playing, but I wanted you to know about them.

After these tasks are done, and we start back back with the Hazards, Rhykal asked us to go grab the Hazard of Evocation or Abjuration next. I am open to either, what are your guys' thoughts?

As for Gruskorb, I'm happy enough to keep playing him if you guys think I'm doing a good job. I don't want the tree plot thread going defunct. I would be more open to recruiting a new character to fill his slot when and if the GM's schedule slows down and we can pick up daily posting again. I have so much sympathy for our GM's position what with his responsibilities at the bank, his own legal practice, and helping his wife recover. All very important. All more important than the game (though I do hope that we can return to how the game was a couple of years ago.) However, I think it would be hugely unfair to ask a new player to get excited about the campaign build a complex character and then for us only to progress the story once every 1-2 weeks.

Niyut wrote:

At eighth level my bab is +6.

But you can convinced me that ranged touch may be too strong for this spell but bab+dex will never hit someone like the Soul Bleed (and I took the spell specifically to help fight her) (I would have needed an 18 to hit her and a 16 to hit Prisca.) That doesn't feel worth it to me. (It's especially galling in character since the Soul Bleed is immune to the type of magic she is good at.)

Would you be willing to let me switch these essences to a different spell? I truly misread the spell because I thought it was range touch and therefore possible for me to use on her. I have an actual range touch spell that I could change it to.

Or would you be willing to let me spend an essence to use Cha on my spell attack rolls for this spell?

How about letting it use touch attack but Spell Resistance is applicable. This would put it on par with scorching ray. But elemental resistances wont affect.

While I might have magical theory quibbles about that solution, as a practical solution it's one I can endorse.

In case, you are gone during the next round what are you summoning?

I had planned for you to help out with getting the captives free. While neither of us is strong enough to carry them, you can featherfall them and cut them loose from the canopy.

Participated in Siege of the Diamond City @ Gencon (7-8 tier); 1st part was a blast, the repetitions in the 2nd half less so -- but that's for a different place.

Here's the question:

Thanks for the time!