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It's the day-and-a-half before PaizoCon that I'm spending in Vegas that really hurts. I'm just so preoccupied with my helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon my first few hours in Vegas that's keeping me from thinking straight.
Meanwhile I'm so preoccupied with my PaizoCon vacation in two weeks I've let my three PbPs (including this one) be put on a back burner. Every time I get a few free minutes to play on The Boards I spend it all checking PaizoCon threads for updates-- looking at events, talking to other attendees, hoping to get selected in the lottery to play in James Jacobs' Saturday game and Greg Vaughan's Friday game, wondering how much I'll have to offer someone to take their place in James Jacobs' game if I don't get picked in the lottery, etc., etc. ....I have a feeling Perdita Imogen is only going to post a couple times more before PaizoCon and that it'll be after my vacation when I can fully get back to my three PbP campaigns.
Um, since it's become a thing, Perdita Imogen Skills: Deception +7
Persuasion +5
Insight +2 And then the others based only on Ability Score modifier, such as Performance +3; Athletics +2 and Perception +0.
That Warlock won't likely beat my +7 Deceit. We've got two full fighters: Brother Attero and Lissa,....
Full Healing & Full Casting are what we need. I think the Wizard is a better choice.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with!
For trying to find a map of the area: For a favorable reaction adjustment on a map owner/ maker or knowledgeable person: . For a favorable reaction adjustment on townsfolk as I try to learn about Vallaki:
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Good gaming, everyone.
Happy gaming to you, Filios!
"Well, we ought to use a moment to search the cells; see if there's any prayers scratched on the walls, perhaps we can add our prayers in voice." Mechanics:
Perdita Imogen begins a cursory glance in each cell starting on the J side (28, 29, 30,....) -- assuming others move forward as well, checking the H side. Lathander, for whomever died here, I hope they found The Morning somehow.
We step cautiously forward, looking and listening ahead. mechanics:
Hack to I28, Perdita Imogen to I27, Illufaus to J27 and Jiang to K27. We'll search the cells if we see nothing threatening ahead. OOC:
With light from behind them, Perdita Imogen follows Hack's lead, with The Dying Star and the human behind her. Turning the corner at K27 we look ahead and continue forward if nothing peaks our interest. OOC:
In five-feet corridors it makes more sense for Perdita Imogen to go second because she has Reach. But I'll take the lead if you want.
whispering: "If you guys are right behind me, I can lead the way down if Hack doesn't want to...." mechanics: Perdita Imogen will wait until we're all in a line and lead the way down, her Polearm outstretched before her (unless Hack wants to lead the way).
OOC:
N25, J25 N26. J26.
An Infernal Pendant in this alcove! Intriguing. whispers-- "The chanting comes from down there; shall we try to draw them to us, possibly allowing them to prepare, or shall we brazenly enter their spider's web unannounced? ....I vote for going down."
Working clockwise across the room, Perdita Imogen listens at each item briefly, distinguishing whether the chants come from the relics. She names aloud each item as she passes it for the others to hear. She pauses at the ninth artifact and whispers aloud, "Mother." Slowly, purposefully reaching out a hand Perdita Imogen almost, almost, takes the relic from its profane place of rest, before looking sheepishly back at her allies, "This withered Fey finger reminded me of my wicked mother, that's all." OOC:
mechanics: Perdita Imogen is in N25 at the end of her turn.
She uses her Paladin's Divine Sense first at the Direction of the Hag Finger, then the other items in the room, breathing in their smell of Desecration.
Perdita Imogen follows behind, "Psst, Illufaus, I suggest keeping a sharp eye out for more traps; we can afford to move slowly and be careful." Meanwhile I'm going to pay attention to other details. It's hard to believe all of this is underneath so unexceptional a house above, a house of ignorant dilettantes pretending at Abyssal magic. But the House itself -- and the Mists -- still concern me.... Could this be more of the same elaborate illusion? mechanics: Perdita Imogen focuses on 'seeing through' any sort of illusion.
Perdita Imogen follows behind Hack.
Perdita Imogen climbs out of the hole, nodding to her benefactor, and moves quickly back in the hope of at least creating a bottleneck. mechanics: If I still have my Standard Action I'll use Lay on Hands to heal myself.
whispering:
Perdita Imogen slowly gets up off the jagged and broken spikes, Well, at least the spikes broke my fall, and looks around the floor of this hole in the ground before getting help out. "I could use some salve and bandages for these scrapes; and I think I may be concussed."
mechanics: Perdita Imogen quietly steps to I12, her glaive reaching out in front of her.
"Can anyone determine whether any of these are cursed?...." . "Well, let's not tarry."
Mechanics:
I'll grab the 60 Silver pieces, one of the Agates and the ivory hairbrush. OOC:
Perdita continues to the other chambers in this room while Illufaus opens the chest. B4
Perdita Imogen stays quiet as the others discuss small conversation; she does not admit to having been killed, being still raw with emotion and denial. The Fog came in and took us as before; the Lords of the Mists are tricking us. I did not die. I am not dead. Once again she looks at the arcane sigillary on her flesh, momentarily not paying attention to the search of the first 'bedroom.'
"Let's continue our search, but,....
OOC:
Mechanics: If no one wants to make ourselves loud to flush out any undead, Perdita Imogen moves first to D4 to search, then will move to the other rooms in turn, allowing someone else to look at the well. (B4 would be next, etc.) Otherwise, she'll move to and stay at F5, her reach-weapon ready.
Perdita Imogen, upon hearing the conversation ahead of her, steps forward to see who it was that arrived here to speak in such a manner to the Dying-Star. "Illufaus, he has been kidnapped just as he said -- as have we been, by the Mists and the Dark Lords within them. "We were on the road to Waterdeep in Faerun, Sir. From where do you hail? "I am called Perdita Imogen, daughter of a wicked dryad in the Moonwood and one of her human slaves. You are well met by Illufaus. And the one behind me is Hack. "We are trying to learn the mystery of this fog-enshrouded realm, and of this House as well."
I saw the PHB tonight (borrowed it until Thursday) and noticed that I can't get Hunter's Mark until I choose Oath of Vengeance and get it as a Bonus Spell. I will correct this Monday or Tuesday at work.
Leveled-Up Please check ....Could someone post the spell Cure Wounds so I have the details? (It's on my homegame sheet but I never once cast it so I never wrote down the details.)
Perdito Imogen slows down enough to help Hack move silently, even if we slow to one step at a time.
'Spirited away without consent" -- Is this another person the Mists stole from Faerun or another malevolent ghost bent on tricking us to our further doom? Perdita Imogen remains silent.
Thanks. I 'knew' all the stuff; I just didn't know the particulars. The two campaigns started at the same time but in the homegame we were well into 14th level when our PbP reached 2nd level and I had forgotten what low level leveling-up was! And during the last couple months of gaming that homegame I kept forgetting to grab a PHB to level Perdita Imogen to 2nd. Then we finished that campaign (at 17th level) and I no longer have access to the books. (I'm not joining the new game because football season is right around the corner (my Sundays gone) and the WotC system is not to my liking (Pathfinder is preferable). When I get home from work tonight I'll grab my PC sheet (17th level) and look at your posts and will update my PC here Friday morning when I get to work. Meanwhile I'll start by giving Perdita Imogen 6 more HP. Again, thanks!
(If I had a Players Handbook I would've leveled a long time ago. When we started this campaign I was also starting a homegame trying out the new WotC game-system -- there were books there. I'm no longer in that game.) Tonight I'll grab my PC sheet (Paladin) from my last game and use that as reference. I'll post the update (for review) Friday morning.
Can someone give brief instructions on leveling, please? I know I get a d10 HP. Anything else at 2nd level for a Paladin?
Perdita Imogen, hearing Illufaus's challenge to someone ahead in the darkness, silently gestures to Hack for stealth and moves with the shadows toward the Dying Star's sound.
Perdita Imogen seems less confident, less ambitious than the young adventurer on the road to Waterdeep. Like an injured schoolboy who habitually looks at a new scar, or a self-conscious schoolgirl who, in vain, tries to hide her freckles from new friends, Perdita Imogen tries to both cover up and to look at the arcane markings on her flesh. She gazes for a moment at Illufaus as he leaves to go back downstairs. The basement. She does not want to follow. She wants to leave the house. "Well, Hack, should we follow or wait for his return? He seemed confident he would be okay and we can hear him holler if he needs us." I wonder if the others heard the Lords of the Mists, the Lords of Darkness that spoke to me. ....When we leave this house I want to try to find the noble in that letter we found, Strahd von Zarovich. Mayhaps he can answer our questions about the Mists and the Dark Lords. And I want to learn what happened to the ghost of Rose.
So,.... go to level two even though I died? I was unsure because in the Campaign Info it says we lose a level when we die.
Perdita Imogen awakes in the darkness, confused and concussed and concerned. No. The Mists are not from my Mother. This is not the work of evil Fey. ....Could there be something even Darker than the Moonwood? I should pray to Lathander. But I am afraid. Can the Morninglord hear me through the dark Mists? .
I will try to pick up the pace as well. I did get somewhat burned out from PbP for a while, and I felt that the search of the Death House was taking too long -- -- for days and days on end. But I really want to continue and will make an effort to post not just when a question comes up but also just to try to move the game forward.
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