Schwartz double moves to wind up in front of the retreating werecreatures.
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Slightly surprised, Schwartz jumps back as the first creature attacks him, nimbly dodging the first attack , but is still hit by 2 more. Swinging his sword through the air, he then full power attacks the were-tiger.
12 hours later on the path and 10 miles down the road
Vat kind of a man vould whore out his own daughters? But if zey are snakes, perhaps he keeps zem more as pets zan true family. Schwartz still seems skeptical of the king, but is willing to overlook his misgivings for money. "I cannot speak for mine companions, but if you loan me ein horse to carry me, I vill agree."
Schwartz blinks slowly, becoming more and more suspicious of this king as he manages to say nothing but sketchy things. "Vhy not pay zee ransom? You are a king, yes? Vat sum do zey ask zat you do not accept?"
I'm still here; just trying to remember what I was actually trying to do with Schwartz. I think I might end up retraining all of his levels or something.
Schwartz nudges Leo and then walks over to where Annie is eating. "So, vaat hafe you been up to? Vee managed to be killink ein gug creature terrorizink some farmer and his cows."
Schwartz shrugs. "Sure. I sink vee are done here." Then he turns back to the farmer. "Let us know if you hafe any ozer trouble."
"Vell, it looks like ve're done here. Let us go and report to zee farmer zat zere are no more gug creatures." Schwartz hands Leo the warhammer and heads back to the farmer, keeping an eye on the bats as he leaves.
Seeing no real threats in the area, Schwartz pauses to contemplate the bats. "Do you sink zee bats are a danger to zee farmers?"
When he's done, he picks up the warhammer, ignoring the body of the dwarf. "Zees varhammer looks nice. Probably magic? Vee could sell it, since I don't sink any ov us use zem."
"Leo, ven you are done, perhaps you vill be good enough to look for signs of more zaan von ov those beasts livink here?" In the meantime, Schwartz begins to look around the cave for signs of other inhabitants or other strange things.
Before Leo starts wailing on the shrine for no apparently reason, Schwartz attempts to figure out what kind of a shrine it is.
"No large monster here. Time to be continuink on?"
Schwartz silently nods, pulling his scimitar free.
Just a heads up, I will be traveling/at a conference from this Monday the 10th to the following Monday, Novemeber 17th. I don't know how much time/internet access I'll have during that period, so feel free to bot me.
Schwartz blinks at the now glowing Leo. "Are you sure you vant to draw such attention to yourself like zat? Perhaps I schould sneak in ahead ov you."
"Vaat do you sink Leo? Can you track zee beast back to its lair? Perhaps if vee are more prepared zis time...."
Schwartz does a quick cursory look around to see if it seems like it'd be possible to find where the gug came from.
When morning comes, Schwartz looks around for the farmer or a farmhand to go fetch the farmer, so he can show him the corpse of what had been eating his cows.
"Zeen vee should tell zee farmer zaat vee killed zee monster." He pauses. "Perhaps at dawn in case zeere are more?" With that, Schwartz resumes his hiding and keeping watch, waiting for the dawn to arrive.
Schwartz rushes over to the fallen Leo and quickly pours a potion of healing down his throat.
"Leo, vake oop. Vee hafe beaten zee monster. Ist you needink more healink?"
Hoping to kill the creature and then revive the were-leopard, Schwartz shoots the creature twice.
And probably misses with both shots.
Schwartz moves towards the creature again and shoots his bow at it.
Seeing the beast's vicious attack, Schwartz decides it might be best to switch to ranged attacks. He sheathes his scimitar and moves backwards, drawing his bow as he does so.
Schwartz attacks the creature twice before moving backwards slightly.
He then calls upon the powers of time to aid his ability to dodge.
Schwartz moves forward to swing at the beast with his keen scimitar.
But fails miserably to hit anything. To compensate, he focuses on dodging the beast's next attack.
Schwartz concentrates, focusing the power of time to attack the beast.
Finally, he moves towards Leo, drawing his sword as he goes to give him backup.
"Vorks for me. Do you vant to spend zee day investigatink zis more or do you vant to look into von of zee ozer rumors and come back tonight?"
Schwartz will hunker down in the grass until night fall, at which point he'll start a stealthy, semi-circle patrol around the field (semi-circle because he figures Leo can guard/patrol whichever area of the field he's in).
Schwartz rolls his eyes at the farmhand, saying something in a foreign language. Most likely it's an insult of some kind. Schwartz inclines his head towards Leo. "Yes, I can see in zee dark quite vell. Let us be settink up ein ambush, ja?"
"I do not know vere zee scent of zee dead is comink from. Leo, do you sink you can be trackink zee culprits down?"
Ogre, probably should have level adjustment, which isn't paizo official material anyway, plus since I'm not in control of creation guidelines anymore, it was best I ask. Also trying to simply things instead of doing some crazy multi-class character like I had before. Using same alias, but remaking him and not an Ogre this time, but will have a similar build. Makes sense. Just wondering. :-)
Is there any reason why you wouldn't just use the same character you had before?
I think you are confusing me with my character. Schwartz is judging you thus far based on combat because that is all he's seen. I the player am not judging you based on combat as I know there are other things and that combat is that all I've seen. Also, Schwartz is an android and doesn't have feelings. Therefore, people's value are only in what they can do for him.
I don't know why you're putting such an emphasis on the combat aspect of things. Schwartz is meant to be a stealthy skill monkey trap finder first, combat person second. All we've done so far is combat (because we haven't done much yet), so we haven't had a chance to show off any of our other skills, but I assume that will end up happening. I honestly feel like the reason you got left behind is because I wasn't paying enough attention to what the different quests were and people wound up following me. Whether that's because I directly addressed them in character (which I had to do since my heal and tracking skills suck) or because I posted second, I don't know. But I misunderstood what was going on. Mistakes happen, and I didn't mean it personally. If you want to quit, that's your right. But you could also just keep looking up on the bandits, we'll all meet up and share info or something. One advantage to PBP is that you can split people up and still have everybody doing stuff in parallel.
Well, actually trying to figure out if characters are balanced from just their crunch seems pretty tough to me. Just outright banning summoners seems a lot easier than having to look at all the summoner characters. And summoner is probably one of the easier classes to make super powerful characters for. If you really wanted to play summoners in a PBP, maybe you could try Pathfinder Society games? Unless I'm mistaken, they're legal for that.
The summoner ~can~ be overpowered if you choose to make it that way. I'm sure Leo, and perhaps to a lesser degree myself, could show you an OP summoner build (or you could probably just google for one. I'm sure there are plenty out there). But the default state of a summoner isn't that it's automatically OP. Give me any "OP" class, and I guarantee you I can make an underpowered character with it (just don't ask for a balanced character because I have trouble telling what "balanced" is). Also, literally the only thing Schwartz has seen y'all do is combat. So that's really the only thing he has to judge you on. And Leo was pretty damn impressive.
Well, it's not you personally. Since you basically just met, Schwartz likewise wouldn't care if Moneez or David ran off somewhere either. He might care if Leo ran off given that the guy killed something like 4 ankhegs in one round of melee combat solo, which was a pretty impressive feat. But he'd probably just sort of shrug that off as well.
IC Schwartz is probably unlikely to notice or care. Sorry. :/ Maybe Leo would have left a note or something since he seemed to be looking after you and Moneez?
Schwartz goes with Leo and attempts poorly to aid him in whatever way he can.
Also because I suggested cows first and didn't re-read the list of possible quests before taking an action and therefore didn't realize that the bandit quest was different from the cow quest.
Schwartz pats Sir Leonard on the back. "Come mine formerly furry friend. Let us be goink to see vat may be seen. You are being good vis zee tracking, ja?" He then turns to the rest of the group. "Do vee hafe ein doctor in zee house? To be determinik vat killed zee cows?" With that, the android heads towards the farm, hopefully with Sir Leonard and a doctor, to find a killed cow and investigate the scene of the crime.
"Vell, vee are quite good at zee killink sings. Shall vee check out zee cow problem? Maybe vee vill find some of zee missink ankhegs?"
"Yes, vee took care of many of zee ankhegs. But some still got avay. Zhey had some spellcasters among zem."
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