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Yeah, she was definitely written originally as a later character. The inconsistencies have been taken care of.
Ack! Missed that. I'll get it tweaked to correct those issues ASAP.
So here is Drogeney's submission. Rizolla is a character I ran in a previous Hell's Rebels game and has been reset to level 1.
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Turning to Rizolla, she said, "If your mother has calmed down, can you not convince her to fight WITH us, and not AGAINST us? Surely she's more tractable now?" Rizolla had been quiet after the chastisement she'd gotten about her mother and considered thoughtfully. "I don't honestly know, it might be possible." She sighed, "But I couldn't do it unless we lifted Caleb's spell on her and I think we need some kind of guarantee she won't just attack us again out of spite." She squared her shoulders, "I'm willing to try though, maybe if we had something to offer her, a sop to her vanity and power, she would change sides. It's in her nature to make people her cats paw, maybe we can use that, let her believe she is the puppet master to us or something."
When they reached safety for the time being Rizolla squirmed slightly under the questioning and finally said, "I never realized what her breath weapon was exactly, I told you that before, I was too badly hurt by it register that it was unholy fire. I just knew it was obscenely painful. I wasn't able to give you the information about her being devil-bound because she was watching me the whole time I spoke with you magically. I made sure she couodn't find the base when I got there but I couldn't speak openly or do anything that to warn you." She swallowed and looked nervous but not ashamed, "She had taken my, Gezrond and Terrena, and my boyfriend Xeno hostage to force my compliance. I used her distraction here to get them free and then came to help you as soon as I could." She looked at the group defiantly and said, "Can any one of you say you'd have done things differently in such a situation?" Rizolla's gaze drifted towards the outside, "As for going to find her, that diminished capacity is exactly why I must go alone. She will see any of you as a threat to her, an enemy, she may even view me that way after I dispatched the devil, though how she knows I did anything to it is beyond me since he was down the pit and she couldn't see exactly what happened." She sighed as she looked back to the others, "Look, she may see me as an enemy but she also instinctually knows I am her's. If any one else is there she may well attack but if it's just me she might not. I don't plan to go there right now regardless, she needs time to cool off. I was going to summon Silithax to go find her and keep an eye on her until she calms and then come and get me." She looked at the gathered Raven and said, "I know you think she has to die but I want to try and find another way. She may not be my Mom but she is my Mother and there are question only she can answer for me if her mind is ever restored. If nothing else I want to get her soul back so that she isn't eternally damned. I know I killed the devil and maybe that freed her soul, I don't know, but I have to try. No matter how vial she's been I don't think she deserves to be damned, nor do I think we really want hell claiming her soul."
Watching Rivozair fly off Rizolla was aggravated. At least she knew where the dragon was going, or thought she did, and she looked to the water as Tillia managed to call out to her friends, "Could someone help me get out of this water? I would rather not become any more soaked than I already am." Flying over Rizolla reached down to grab Tillia under her arms and flew them both to where the others were while the wizardess dripped a trail of water from her sodden garments in their wake. Rizolla set Tillia down and looked to the other Ravens as she said, "I think I know where Rivozair is going. I'll give her some time to calm down and then go see if I can do something about her. Maybe I can find a way to keep her from being a problem any longer." She sighed then and said, "I just wish I could convince her to join us. I'd hoped that devil would return her soul before I killed it, maybe destroying the fiendish bastard did the trick. I'll have to see what I can come up with. If nothing else..." She shuddered back from the thought she had and said, "No there has to be some other way. Look, I'll help you all get back and then send a scout to try and find where she's gone to ground."
Aggravated at the devil's death and her lack of success in getting the dragon's soul back Rizolla flew up out of the pit to try and calm the beast down. She hoped that the dragon would recognize her as kin and that she could get through to her to end this peacefully. Why she cared about the monster that spawned her and abused her so recently she couldn't say but she did and she would prefer not letting her birth mother die without a chance to try and change her. She flew towards Rivozair as Caleb disappeared and pulled fortha mantle of her power as she yelled out in a commanding voice, "MOTHER! Stop this now! There is no need to fight any longer. Calm down and come with me!"
Rizolla cursed at the devil as it smote her but managed to stave off the worst of the effects as she yelled, "Fine, we'll just see if your hold goes when you die!" With that she channeled another bolt of lightning into the devil.
Rizolla heard Tillia's words as the pit opened beneath the devil and flew up above it. She chanted and sent a ray of foul black energy into it this time. She saw the magic impact the creature and she felt sure that it had an effect this time as she demanded again, "Devil! Release the dragon from your pact in exchange for you eternal life! Refuse and you will be destroyed!" Her voice rang with the rage of a dragon wronged and promised destruction to the hellish being.
Rizolla had accomplished what she set out to do. What she hadn't, couldn't, tell anyone was that Rivozair had taken her adoptive parents and her boyfriend Xeno as hostages to force her into giving the Ravens false information. Rizolla hadn't wanted to but she couldn't sacrifice her family like that. Fortunately for her she had a way around that if she could get lucky. Using the fight as a distraction she infiltrated her Mother's layer and managed to free her family while the great beast was distracted and then made her way as quickly as she could to where the fighting was.
She was just coming in to view of the fighting and hovering invisibly overhead when Rivozair was affected by Caleb's spell and taken out of the fight and in time to see Jillian a second time. She was right over the devil as she screamed out in rage, "Give my Mother back her soul!" Almost instantly she became visible as a lightning bolt, amplified by her powers, slammed down on the devil from above with vicious intensity. Which was followed by a second, smaller jolt from the rod in her hands.
Noravia's mind was racing and she tried to calm it by focusing on voicing some of her questions. "Rizolla, you said that this dragon plagued Kintargo before. Why did she leave and why did she come back? There has to be a reason she didn't raze the city the first time, right? Maybe we can do something similar to chase her off." Rizolla shook her head and said, "I don't know, I think maybe the original Silver Ravens had something to do with it? She didn't really say, only ranted about what she was going to do to the place, sorry I can't be more help."
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Rizolla shuddered at the memories of what she had experienced and then said, "I'm not dying anymore, she took care of that, said she had uses for me." She looked up with fear in her eyes as she said, "Please, deal with her, quickly, she isn't lying when she says she'll raze this city."
One Week Ago:
Looking up at the roof line she saw a great outline of a beast far larger than she, and winged, and rumbling with laughter. "How does it feel my daughter? How does destroying those who wrong you feel? They dared to try and arrest you for walking the streets while fulfilling my commands. You are as far above them as I am above you daughter, and you will earn to revel in your superiority to them." Rizolla looked up in fear at the shape, the horror running through her and lending her uncommon courage, she cast a pair of spells and sent twin strikes of lightning at the creature above her. The splashed harmlessly off of the scales of the great beast, the dragon, above her and a flash of anger flashed through the monster's eyes. "You would dare raise your magic against your mother!?" the great creature cried, "This is how you strike with lightning!" There was a great inhale and rumbling and then from the belly of the dragon came a crackling that shot down her throat and out of her mouth in a massive blast of energy that hit Rizolla dead center when she couldn't dodge it. Rizolla let out a scream of agony as the lightning coursed through her body and left her in a huddled heap. She would likely have died if the dragon hadn't obviously pulled the strike so as not to kill her. The dragon began to shrink then and came down to the ground and knelt, in a human form, beside the sorceress. Reaching out she lay a hand on Rizolla's head and said, "Good, you live child." She rolled the sorceress over and pulled her head into her lap as she pulled a wand out and applied it causing the wounds to start to heal. She sat there stroking Rizolla's hair and said gently, "There there daughter, it's over now. You must behave or you will wake the dragon, and as you've seen you won't like it when you wake the dragon." She smiled viciously, "You are mine child, never raise your hand against your mother again." Her expression became somewhat more kind then as she said, "But if you behave, and follow my directions, you will be well rewarded. Join me and we will rule this city, you will be second in power only to me." Rizolla whimpered at the touch of this being that claimed to be her mother and lay there as she was tended to by the same being that had hurt her. "Mother, I will..." Action 2
Ecclisiathurge can work as well.
There are a few ways to build a caster cleric, depends on what you want to go for. I've found the following guide to give some good information to work with.
Eirik's plan sounds good to me as well.
Works for me.
Rizolla kept holding onto Ves, startled by the wasp becoming a woman, and gave Caleb an ugly growl as he pawed her. She thought about letting him have it with lightning, she knew she could instinctively, but instead growled intimidatingly to make him back off as her draconic blood didn't like the man coming after her treasure.
With her ward now held close Rizolla began to think only of safety. Her primitive mind couldn't handle much more than that and seeing the demoness appear kicked in her flight or flight response to be flight. She quickly moved back the only safe way she could, the way she had come down here trying to get herself and her ward, child?, safely away from here.
Rizolla saw some kind of black foulness wash over some of those in the room and wasn't sure what happened, though by their sounds whatever it was hurt them. In particular the wasp thing seemed in terrible condition. With no real thought behind it, only instinct, she knew that she needed to protect her own and Rizolla quickly moved to where the wasp lay and picked her up so she could try and protect her.
The creature that was Rizolla didn't understand anything going on. These people she felt she trusted were flailing and it made no sense. That there was an invisible creature they were fighting couldn't begin to make sense to her and she stared there dumbfounded at their actions. Her primitive instincts were all she had to work with and they said she should hurt something but she couldn't figure out what to hurt. With no clue what to do she stood there as her instincts left her with nothing else she could do...for now.
As for spamming stoneskin, she likely can't. The material cost for that spell is significant and it's unclear just how much she has available. Exchew Materials won't negate the cost on that one either.
Fabian: Looked up the spell so I would know what I can and can't do and had one question. It states that I can't cast spells but what about using a supernatural ability? My breath weapons is supernatural not spell/spell-like and thus technically doesn't fall under that restriction but it is an ability from my sorcerer class and uses charisma to determine part of the saving through. If I can use it I would assume that the charisma penalty would reduce the saving throw.
Rizolla realized from Vandomir's flurry of arrows at seeming nothing that something was up but she had no idea what that was. Having no magic that could help to locate something invisible she instead cast a spell on herself, an aura of malice seeming to emanate from her, before she began to move forward to try and draw out whatever might be in hiding. She looked around and said, "Come out come out wherever you are."
Rizolla entered the room with her companions now that the door was open.
Knowing that her allies could use the boost Rizolla began chanting and when she was done sent a spell out onto her companions. All of them felt their senses begin to speed up and their enemies suddenly seemed to move very slowly for a change.
Stuck with little she could do until the door was opened Rizolla took the chance to cast yet another spell, this time one that would affect her. She pulled on the power of unlife and used it to coat herself in a protection of psuedo life once more. She would once again have a buffer between herself and being harmed directly by attacks directed at her.
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I'll get something posted when I get home, out of state til later and this game is hard to post to from my phone due to the recaps.
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I was sure I had but I might have only thought I did. Sorry about that.
I thought I told you I was off at Gencon Wed-Sunday last week. Only got back late yesterday and started trying to get caught up. Since it seemed we were about ready for a recap I worried more about other games so I could slip back into this one afterwards. Still working on catching up on some games so I will get something up in a bit for this one. Action 1
As they entered the next room and found the tiefling woman Rizolla knew something was off. She looked at her closely as she tried to determine what it was and why the woman looked so familiar to her as she asked, "Who says we aren't welcomed here?"
NP, not the first time I've had to explain that to someone.
pbs=Point Blank Shot
Spontaneous metamagic takes place at the end of my turn, it is an exception to the rule. It takes a full round action to cast but isn't the same as a 1 round cast time. It's basically like a full attack, it goes off on my turn but I can only do a swift/free actions with it. If the spell’s normal casting time is a standard action, casting a metamagic version is a full-round action for a sorcerer or bard. (This isn’t the same as a 1-round casting time.) A spell that takes 1 round to cast is a full-round action. It comes into effect just before the beginning of your turn in the round after you began casting the spell. You then act normally after the spell is completed. e.g. all 1round casts are full-round actions but not all full round actions are 1 round casts. We did it just like my post when we raided the keep.
Rizolla felt the lightning bolt tingle through her and then laughed at the naga. She had come away completely unharmed and gave it a vicious glare as she said, "This is how you do lightning." With a snap of her fingers a rod appeared in her hand and she focused, drawing in her magic, lengthening the range of it with her chants and gestures then focused the magic through the rod and out at the naga. From the tip of the rod leapt an arc of electricity which flew across the distance at the naga.
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As they made their way into the sewers to get into the place Hetamon was supposedly at Rizolla cast a pair of protection spell to keep her safe from harm. How, exactly, Hetamon got down here and the Ravens found out the strikingly draconic looking woman didn't know. The fact they were entering through the sewers was rather annoying as the smell was going to be atrocious but at least they wouldn't have to worry much about the Dottari. Her worry left Rizolla a bit too relaxed and she failed to see the danger beneath the waves/
Rizolla level up:
+0 Fort
Skills +7 (+2 Class, +1 int, +1 human, +1 fc, +1 bs)
Bluff +15=+4+8+3 +1 rank
Feats: spell penetration Spells per day: +1 3rd and 4th per day Spells Know:
Misc:
Added Gear:
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