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I'm certain it's been noticed that my posting's been sparse as of late. I'm afraid that if I continue this will keep happening, and probably just get worse. I've tried a few things to keep up (drop games, schedule posting time, etc), but it hasn't helped enough. At this point I'm just dragging things out. So rather than continue on this course I think the most prudent thing for me to do would be to drop the games I'm in.

I do apologize for taking this course of action. I don't like quitting things, which honestly is just as much part of the problem. I've taken on too much, both professionally and personally, and now I'm at that point where everything I'm doing is suffering from it. It's not just here where I've made mistakes and now I need to get things in order. I hope there are no hard feelings but I do understand if there are. Once again, I'm sorry for this.

Safier stays out of the discussion, though she's curious at what's being said. And a little fearful as well.

Insight: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Safier also follows the others in.

Safier's level up.

Stat increases will go into Dex and Cha

Feat will be White Lotus Enervation

I believe Aubrey is referring to the Crazy Elf that deals in Magic Items that Irvis heard of.

Assuming in a more secluded spot now

"If we seek to hide our presence in the city, it would be best to provide a reasonable cover. If we posed as merchants entering the city it would help to mask our intentions as well as one method to learn of the happenings within without drawing too much of the unwanted kind of attention to ourselves."

I'm working on getting caught back up now from my work trip.

I don't have my book in front of me, but as far as rituals go in 4e if I recall, isn't it a feat to be able to cast rituals? I honestly don't recall and will look it up when I get home later tonight.

Safier is amazed at the performance of the ritual, both the openness of which it was performed and at the end result. She considered the power she possessed a curse, herself a monster to be able to summon it. But with that power she took vengeance upon those who killed the ones who took her in. And that power destroyed this orb of great evil. What more could she accomplish with this power? Traveling with these others could teach much.

She turns her attention back to the discussion of Zavox's allies and listens to the talk. She wants to go to Tyr, to find these men, to deal with them as well. But she didn't want to risk too much of what she had gained thus far from these allies. "Did you have something in mind?"

Safier, you haven't been posting much lately. I appreciate you've had technology problems but could you confirm you are still around?

Sorry about the posting, or lack thereof. It seems time is getting away from me (case in point, I didn't see your post from Tuesday until today, and I thought I updated all my games yesterday). The computer problem is resolved now, I've just been playing catch up since then. Plus I've had a couple other things eating up my time, including a trip for work.

On that note, next week (specifically the 12th to the 16th) I won't be able to post at all. I'll be out of town for work and experience from last year taught me I won't have any free time during this trip. I apologize for my absence.

Computer is fixed. I'll be catching up over the course of this week to get caught back up. Apologies for the delays.

So this morning my computer decided to go all screwy on me. I didn't have time to troubleshoot so I'll be looking at it tonight. I'm hoping it's something minor but wanted to give a heads up if I don't post that's why.

At first Safier is perfectly content to stand towards the back of the group while they greet this apparently old acquaintance of some of them. But her self imposed quietness eventually gets the better of her. "By the way, my name is Safier. A pleasure to meet you."

Arcana: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Safier takes a few steps south and sends lightning into the creature on Jareen, arcing to one of the others.

Move to T17, Standard to Lightning strike B10, arc into B7

Attack vs reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11 If hit, B7 takes 7 lightning damage

Hmm, overall I could be a bit more satisfied with those roles.

Safier transports herself away from the creatures in a flash of light, then summons a whirlwind to knock them flat to avoid their pursuit.

Spatial Trip to Q13, Whirlwind at S10, hitting B5, B6, B7.

Attack B5 vs. Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Attack B6 vs. Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Attack B7 vs. Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Damage: 1d10 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11; And knocked prone

Round 1

At first ready to let the others do the fighting, Jareen's spell pushes Safier onward to help as well.

Lightning Strike to B1, arc to B2.

Lightning Strike vs. Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Damage (lightning): 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 If hits, B2 takes 7 lightning damage.

I plan to run it for my tabletop group, and kind of watching where I'm at right now myself on games.

Inish: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Um, T11 for me I suppose? Not too much tactical sense, but RP sense.

Safier looks to Arakan, then the rest, "Thank you for letting me travel with you."

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (10) + 0 = 10

Having remained quiet on the climb out and the travel, Safier is startled at the question at first, but quickly responds thankful for it to be over such a mundane topic. "I...helped out the caravan I was with. I have some training as a merchant and I used those skills to help them along. I learned how to help with the caravan too." She gives a polite laugh, more to hold herself from tearing up. "I'm actually not too bad at it, at least dealing with people. When my mind isn't elsewhere that is. What about all of you? Where are you traveling?"

Safier wrote:

I had missed a couple rewards (just did an xp audit) and have us at 3238/3750. I've got links to all the XP rewards since I joined in my profile at the bottom.

I ran your audit -- big thanks for keeping it in list form, great idea... going to have to steal it :)

I currently have us at 3338xp
(I'm glad you had the audit, b/c when we were awarded the +146 from your first entry, I had that as +113 which is what Aub gave us originally before saying switch it to +147 !! So another big thanks to your list!)

About the list,
** You have the first +50 titled (11/13/13), but I think it should be +150 on (10/28/13)... I can't find any xp awarded on, or near, 11/13/13 and I can only find one time we were given a +50xp (the one you have on 11/29/13).

Anyway,
If you take that change into account (and if I take the +146 instead of +113) we have the same amount of xp.

I'm thinking the group is at 3338.
It looks like Gart has us 3xp higher, lol

Yea, I don't know how that 11/13/13 entry got in there like that. I fixed everything and came out to 3338 as well. Everything in there is also linked to the post awarded, which helps out imo in tracking XP. Thanks for pointing it out!

I had missed a couple rewards (just did an xp audit) and have us at 3238/3750. I've got links to all the XP rewards since I joined in my profile at the bottom.

Dungeoneering: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (18) + 0 = 18

If it wasn't being averaged, Arakan, I'd trade you dice.

Healing. I'll be using four surges to get up to full.

Boon. Option 2, Master of the Uttercold.

Having found no survivors of the caravan, Safier turns to the ones she's traveled with. "It seems that there weren't any survivors of the caravan I was with. May I...travel with you. At least as far as the next town?"

I have not.

Save vs. Death: 1d20 ⇒ 4

Uh-oh! That's 1 failed.

Safier goes down from the zombies attack, two wounded to continue fighting.

At -6 at present, with 5 ongoing

I forgot about the Ongoing cold damage I was taking, both to take the damage or to make the save. I rolled the save and would've made it (after taking 5 more cold damage). Hope that's okay? And I promise to watch better next time!

Save: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Safier turns to look at the creature crawling towards her, trying to back away. "This isn't you!"

5' step to L12, Lightning Strike to Z1, Arc into the ice creature.

Lightning Strike: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13, 7 to the ice creature if it hit.

Seeing Th'Kals deadly attacks against the ice thing, Safier sends a blast of acid against it as well.

Acid Orb vs Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Damage: 1d10 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Safier turns to face the large creature, still angry at the entire situation, and lashes out with lightning against it.

Lightning strike: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Damage: 1d8 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

Safier screams in terror and fear, seeing the face of a former friend. She suddenly disappears in a golden light, reappearing a few steps away. She brings up her hands, shaking, before sending a blast of acid at the creature. "Why? Why did this happen?"

Spatial Trip to M11 as a move, Standard to Acid Orb.

Acid Orb vs Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Damage (Acid): 1d10 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Save: 1d20 ⇒ 7 Nope.

"What is wrong with this place?!" Safier's mind is stretched to it's limit, one horror after another. She conjure's a whirlwind, attempting to knock...whatever it is down.

Whirlwind vs Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Crit Damage & Prone: 10 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ 10 + 8 + (4) = 22

P8

Inish: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Safier stands and look at the pillars, seeing if she recognizes those within while the others work on recovering the orb.

Last Resort History: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8 Last resort failed me.

Safier unleashes a powerful discharge of lightning this time towards the defiler, continuing to remain prone.

Dancing Lightning: 1d20 + 7 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 7 - 2 + 2 = 27
Crit Damage: 1d6 + 9 + 20 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 20 = 33

Map isn't loading well at work today. I swear sometimes it's a crapshoot if google works here or not. I had it up briefly before IE crashed, and it looked like I would be able to Lightning Strike the arms on Jareen, then arc it to the Defiler. If so that's what I would like to do, if not, priority on getting Jareen free. Also crawl forward two squares, please.

Staying prone, Safier sends out another arc of lightning.

Lightning Strike: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 2 = 20
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

If hits, the arc will deal 7 damage.

Having fallen, Safier redirects her attention on trying to free the others from the hands of the undead, all the while feeling rage build at their treatment.

Lightning Strike K18, if it hits arc to P 16 for 4 lightning damage

Lightning strike: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 7 - 2 = 22
Damage: 1d8 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

A decent idea, but the total concealment prevents me from seeing the defiler. I was hoping to move close enough where I could use the minor eye thing I have to 'see' him, then cast through the concealment, the dice just said no. Plus he's too far for me to blast anyway. Though now that you mention it, I could try to free you guys instead. Let me do that instead of standing then.

Round 1

Frightened by whatever this monster is, Safier for a moment contemplates running, rather chancing the Hejkin than....whatever this is. But somehow, she finds herself moving forward, towards the storm, a plan brewing in her mind. She starts forward to slip upon the ice, falling prone.

I was attempting to move to I14. Do I make any headway at all? Also can I still use the standard to at least stand up?

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

"Safier, concentrate on taking the defiler out, we can do that at range, and hopefully it will cause the whole set of magic to stop."

"I'll do what I can."

Inish: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 10

J20, please.

Safier carefully moves between around the rocks and ice, taking care not to fall.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

"The cold seems to be coming from that way." Safier points towards the east passage. "I'd guess that's the way we should go."

Arcana: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

Safier summons another rain of radiant light, stars descending upon the zombie nearest Th'kal, trying to finish the creature before it gets back up.

Blazing starfall on Z2, shift one square east to B14.

Blazing Starfall vs. Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Damage, radiant: 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Back and getting caught back up now. Sorry for the sudden disappearance like that. Thanks for taking my turn Nevynxxx!

Letting everyone know my boss is in town this week (surprise, surprise!) and it looks like I'll be working some pretty long days all week. I'll try to get posts in when I can, but will be tough. I apologize for the short notice I also suffered from. Please bot me in combat.

I guess about 5000 people were without power Monday in my town, but fortunately I wasn't affected by it. Gotta love the temperature fluctuations. Don't like the weather today, wait until tomorrow.

So far my van's battery has been drained twice now, and it's only 6 months old. I've had everything checked out and it's just the cold sapping it. Where I work we have to maintain temperatures between a certain range, and had to deal with an 80 piece order that they didn't have on pallets, so that was fun trying to have a door open and load it all in before temperatures dropped. Back home they had a pipe freeze and burst, and apparently their homeowners insurance only covers the main pipe, not the one that busted. Driving anywhere is terrible with the iced over roads.

So all in all, not too bad. Work was shut down for one day which gave me a chance to get caught up on quite a few things at home I've been putting off, so I'm focusing on that part of it.

Overcome with grief at what's happened to her friends, she knows all she can do know is end their suffering quickly. She sends an arc of lightning towards the nearest, arcing into another. "Why did it have to be this way?!"

Standard to Lightning Strike Z5, arc into Z1.

Lightning Strike vs reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Damage to Z5: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 If hit, Z1 takes 7 lightning damage.

A14 for me please.
Inish: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

Safier feels herself go dead inside, seeing more of the caravan, not just dead but the dead that walk. "They're....they're from the caravan too."