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"Well of course, my skill and knowledge were essential components in our success! Right, Ember? Right, Jamila? Essential!"
Hi GM, it seems like we're about to wrap up? The PC I want to apply my chronicle to is due to start another pbp on Monday, do you think we'll be done by then? Thanks :)
primary check, UMD:
"Keep it up! These energies are powerful, but together the Concordance can triumph! Guided by my superior knowledge, of course!"
"Aha! The chaotic energies of the portal are resilient, but can be manipulated by an expert such as I, Octaris the Famous Water Wizard! It is time to end this! I will reach out with my knowledge and skill, and impose my will upon the maelstrom!" "But first, a few precations." Octaris takes a few seconds to refresh Mage Armour on himself and Ember, and uses his Scroll of CLW on anybody who was wounded.
UMD vs portal, primary:
"We will only know when we return, Rhyol." Octaris ponders the change in the chaos realm for a moment...
..."I thought we were going to enter Ranginori's city? It doesn't look like this is over yet. Ember! Let's get going before your magic wears off!" Octaris tries to shoo the excited dragon back through the portal. "The wysps will follow us if they want." Octaris encourages the wysps to follow with a combination of gesticulation and friendly words in Auran and Aquan.
Octaris targets the water wysp: "Hey, little water-friend! Come play with the famous Water Wizard Octaris! Much more fun than this guy!" He gestures rudely towards the protean.
"I quite like the wysps as they are! But I fear that if they fortify us, they also fortify the protean! I suggest the smartest course of action is to turn the wysps against the protean." You can try to change a wisp's behavior with a Bluff, Diplomacy, Knowledge (planes), Intimidate, or UMD check as a standard action.
Octaris reaches out to the fire wysp nearby...
"Hey fire-friend! Famous mephit wizards are much more fun than angry protean thingummies! Come play with us!"
"Oh! Elemental wysps! But they've been overwhelmed by Chaos! And no wonder - that's a naunet protean, a native of the maelstrom, and its very touch causes confusion!"
”Oh well, then I suppose you’d better give them to me. I know about these things.”
”Let’s go then!” Once everybody is ready, Octaris flies through the portal.
"So, yes, magic bracers. I'm sure I could use them, being a famous wizard and all. But what do they do?"
Octaris happily spends time looking through the books, although his attention wanders somewhat and he turns quickly from one text to another. "Oh, what's this? 'Concerning the Respiration of Mephtis'?" Octaris leafs through the tome... "Poppycock and codswallop! We don't do that at all! What else have we got here?"
"Oh, yes, Ranginori, the Cloud Dragon godling. That old Djinni must've had the pictures in the other room done. Did you know that Ranginori was said to allow his worshipers to visit him in an ever-changing city at the centre of his realm? That, my dear fellows, is certainly where the portal leads! We should definitely visit! How often do you get a chance to do a thing like this, eh?" Octaris excitedly flies towards the portal of many colours. "Check the other doors first, won't you? But let's not dawdle!"
Octaris joins Ember in the 'conference room.' "Huh, I wonder who used this place?" Octaris peers under the table, out of sheer curiosity, then flies about a bit looking for signs of the former occupants...
Octaris emerges from hiding. "Is it over? What's that? Oh my! The storm's gone. And that - that is - that's... very colourful."
"What's going on? Anyone?" Octaris flies into the corner of the armoury, watching the blue crystal, and looking for cover.
"Djinn? Djinn what? What do they do? Summon a genie?" Octaris files around the armoury, looking over the weapons. "Hmm. A wizard ought to have a staff... But no, I need to keep my hands free for my water magic! Besides, I work my spells with a wand."
"Probably the crystals are what focus the storm that seals the chaos-portal, and the tower is just built around them. You always see crystals in magic like this." Octaris opines.
"Let's do a little experiment!" Octaris uses Create Water to conjure water above one of the open pipes, just to see if he can work out where it goes.
"I bet you're glad you brought me along eh, Jamila? Oh look, mephits! Hmm, interesting artwork, but it doesn't do anything." "Ah, now look over here! Pipes! They must go somewhere!" Octaris flies over towards the pipe-room.
"I agree, my stony friend! A portal into the plane of chaos! Well, it's little wonder that the winds are going awry! It seems that this tower keeps the maelstrom at bay - but it must be failing. We need to fix it! We must explore the various rooms of the tower to learn why it is failing - before it's too late!"
"Indeed! A moment whilst I bolster my defences!"
Octaris then shifts his Shroud of Water into a Shield.
"So, we're in the right place then? Perhaps we can steer our little boat towards one of these areas. The wreckage over there for instance. We might find clues as to the source of the anomaly."
"They don't want to play? Oh, how boring! What did they look like?!"
"Alright, Fzt. When did the winds change? Did you notice anything else strange happening? Were there any other creatures around? Creatures you didn't know?"
"Yes, we fix! What do you know about the wrong winds? Which way do they blow? Which way should they blow? Why is your friend over there sulking in the storm?"
"Hey, what's going on with this place? I am Octaris the mighty Water Wizard, and my associates here from the Concordance of Elements are here to investigate and explore. I know, for I am wise and very clever, that there is a disturbance in the elements. What have you seen that is different or unusual here?"
Octaris tries to help pacify the orange wyrd nearby, whilst holstering his Wand of Tongues in his belt. "Hey, that's a rubbish game! Let's play 'chase the sky-ship' instead! That's our ship over there, come with us and play!"
With the maps secured, or at least stabilised, Octaris makes his way towards the wyrd next to the food and drink supply. "Hello my friend! I, the great and powerful wizard Octaris, would be glad to show you the choicest morsels from amongst our store in exchange for your assistance as a guide. What is your name, friend? What do you call this place?"
"Communicate? Well of course! It's fortunate that you have Octaris the famous Water Wizard on your side!" Octaris pulls another wand as he flies alongside the sky charts. With a flourish he waves the wand around.
He calls to nearest Wyrd: "Greetings friend! I am Octaris the famous Water Wizard, representative of the Concordance of Elements..."
Please pass on our best wishes Woodenman, and thanks Dennis for picking us up.
"Save the knowledge! Food and drink is easily conjured." Octaris flies towards the sky charts, overtaking them and pushing against them to direct the crate back towards the little boat.
As he moves, he draws a wand
Octaris, fearful that a wind that could buffet the ship like that might blow him away, looks to hold onto something sturdy. "Sail into the wind! That's what you're supposed to do!" he calls to everyone and no-one.
Explains why Octaris brought a wand of feather fall to the plane of air!
"There's room for my tub, right?" "I'm quite certain a fellow mephit wouldn't have abandoned us like this. At the very least, she'd fit with us in a jolly-boat."
"Can't manoeuvre through the storms, then? Well, I can't say I'm surprised. What a bore. We are getting crew for this jolly-boat aren't we? Surely we're not expected to sail it ourselves?"
Octaris spends much of his time poring over his spellbook, often whilst luxuriating in his bathtub, which he fills with conjured water. When in the tub, he can be seen in conversation with a small blue-ringed octopus: "Ia, e le mafai ona ou fai atu ua ou matua fiafia lava ia i latou i le taimi nei. E itiiti lava le aoga o le malamalama na faʻaalia, ma o le kapeteni o se avega mamafa. Ou te iloa latou te manaʻomia loʻu mana, ae ou te faʻamoemoe o lenei mea e le o se mea tiga tele ..." aquan: "Well I can't say I'm overly impressed with them as yet. Very little useful knowledge exhibited, and the captain is an absolute bore. I know they need my power, but I do hope this isn't completely excruciating..."
”Well, truthfully Rhyol here is a little on the glowy side, but with Octaris the Water Wizard on board you’ve no need to fear any fire!”
"How does your vessel cope with short-lived interstitial co-axial high-valency vortices? Hmm? Also, what do you like to do on shore leave?"
why bluff?: Because I'm making it up, seeking to impress the captain with arcane sounding nonsense ;)
"Well, I'm not against talking to him. He just seems so dreadfully dull. Be sure to ask him what he does with his time off."
"Sisivel is the obvious choice, but, well, Nix wouldn't worry about his ship so much and will probably be more fun. Razakim is entirely boring. This should be an adventure, after all!"
Octaris approaches the mephit captain and addresses her in the Auran tongue. "A-ha! A fellow mephit in command, as it should be! I am Octaris, renowned Water Wizard of the Concordance of Elements! Tell me, cousin, are you desirous of great adventure, danger and excitement? Do you have a ship and crew capable of great deeds? Only YOU can prevent planar catastrophe!"
GM, Octaris would like to buy 2 scrolls of Cure Light Wounds please (50gp). Then he's ready to go.
"Do you know any brave and skilful airship captains that you might recommend, Ashasar?" says Octaris, reluctant to leave the bubblicious pie behind.
"Have I - ? Have I, Octaris the Far-Seeing, heard of anomalies like this? Why, of course I have! No doubt that is why my presence was requested here" says Octaris inbetween mouthfuls of pie. "Anomalies like this are fairly common on the elemental planes, in fact. I could explain how they are caused by the interplay of cosmic energies, but it would take forever and you wouldn't understand and besides, there's pie! Oh, but it goes without saying that this particular anomaly is much larger and longer lasting than is typical. That is no doubt why we need to investigate. After the pie." "Put that in your chronicle, Ember!"
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