You're right, swapped a couple of scores at one point and forgot to add the charisma bump.
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As for me, I'll likely just drop this one. I've had a hard, had a hard time getting into it and it'll lighten my load of games up some.
Her note taking finished Seliina stepped towards the ghost and said, "I'm sorry we couldn't do more for him, and Ingrid is right, we will succeed, it just may take us a while if this trip was any indication."
This was an odd encounter, the first friendly ghost Seliina had ever heard of. While her natural inclination was to begin questioning and researching the spirit she also knew enough to let the soul of this woman grieve. Instead she began to take notes in a notebook about what she picked up telepathically and via a magic detection spell. Otherwise she let the others speak with the spirit.
"Haunts huh, I agree, let's get through here as fast as we can." With that said she quickly followed her companions making sure to follow the footsteps of those who had been here before to avoid triggering anything new in this haunted hell hole.
Seliina was worried now, the attack of more things that go bump in the night could be a problem. she looked at her companions and asked, "What exactly were the spirits in here before? What should I know about them?"
Seliina saw what Terrance did and realized ti was probably a good idea so she waited her turn and then did the same, tying off her gear before she began climbing.
Her first attempt wasn't bad, it just wasn't good enough, and so she gave it yet another try.
The second time, her determination and discipline shown through as she easily made the ascent and then pulled her gear up behind her before dropping the rope down again.
Seliina took Terrance's warning to heart and retraced her exact steps back through to where they came in fromt.
"That seems like a wise decision to me." With that Seliina followed Terrance and Ingrid towards the exit.
Seliina was quickly wishing she wasn't here, this place was both creepy and filled with literal ghost and monsters. She couldn't help but reply, "I know the feeling, this is one of the most disturbing places I've ever been."
Having heard Henric call for her help Seliina swallowed her revulsion for the room and rushed in to try and help. She gasped as she saw Henric's wounds and said, "What happened? What can I do to help?" She was in such a rush and tried so hard to not look at the tortured deputy that she failed to notice the crawling hands as she reached the iron maiden.
Seliina, who had remained outside the door, had no idea that anything was happening in there yet. She was determined not to go in if she didn't have to and so resolutely stayed out in the hallway.
Henric moved quickly, he seemed to see something and it caused him obvious panic. Seliina's worry became fear when she saw the hideous device slam shut on him, his screams grated on her senses and caused some kind of sympathetic reaction in her mind preventing her from trying to help him. She stood there clutching her head in pain as it pounded.
Seliina heard Henric call for her and made her way back to the door though she stayed in the hall and made sure not to loos at the wrack. "What's wrong," she asked.
Come to the conclusion that I need to take ranks in appraise so I can use the psychometry skill unlock. was just reading through the various skill uses a pychic caster has and some of them are freaking awesome.
Seliina followed along and entered the room with the other, the grisly scene was horrifying and, more so than the rest of the place, the room grated on her sense. She quickly moved back out into the hallway while making a gagging sound and stepped into a nearby hall of cells while she got control of her stomach once more.
I can't move myself from my tablet but I will as soon as I get home from work.
"Once more into the breash it seems," Seliina seemed rather nervous but followed along. Her antennae twitched restlessly and she finally asked, "What can you tell me about this Marauder person?"
good luck to you Ioann.
With the last of the skeleton's dead Seliina attempted to recover the bolt she shot that missed the target. As she looked for her missing projectile she found the eerie sight of an abandoned and haunted prison with no dust on the floors where no one should be rather disturbed her. "Is it just me or should this place be far dustier than this?" With multiple directions to go she asked, "So, you're more familiar with this place than I am, any suggestions on where to search next?"
Seliina reloaded her crossbow and took another shot at the skeleton, her bolt flying down range at it.
Deliina moved into the room and, seeing the number of enemies around, lined up a shot with her crossbow at one of the skeletons and sent a bolt in it's direction.
Seliina moved into the room, keeping a good distance between herself and the skeletons, and lined a shot up with her crossbow. She pulled the trigger and sent the quarrel downrange at one of the skeletal forms.
Seliina was seemingly oblivious of Heinric's observation of her and followed along when she failed to find anything in the murk. She kept the bouncing lights with them making sure to keep the things in a position to not blond them while providing light to see by. When they reached the intersection she said, "So, bunch of skeletons in the middle, if they stay that way when we get closer I'll be truly shocked, and three other exits. We should probably do something about those first."
Seliina looked rather disgusted by the lack of success, her antenae wriggling in a more agitated manner than normal as she said, "I haven't found anything, maybe it's under some debris, or was taken further into the ruins by something?" She stood there thinking a moment, the wriggling slowing as she did, she tapped the index finger of her right hand against her lips and had cocked her hip to the left as she did. After a moment she continued, "Let me try something before we do, just to make sure we didn't miss anything under the water here." With a moments focus four balls of light appeared and dipped down into the water as they spread out. With the new light source she began to look once more at the floor.
Relief flooded her at the second death of the spirits, it wasn't what she expected to say the least, "Well, I'm glad that's over with. Are all the things we'll run into here like that?"
With her crossbow ready and loaded Seliina moved to get a better angle on one of the specters and then fired her crossbow at it.
Seliina unlimbered her crossbow and loaded it in preparation for an attack if she got the opportunity.
Seliina stepped away from the vicious floating skull to get some space and then focused on the other undead attacking them. She focused her thoughts and drew upon her pool of psychic energy to imbue her spell with the ability to affect these things and then sent the energy coursing into her chosen target. The thing felt the unwelcome sensation of it's mind being blasted with powerful energy that it had to try and shake off.
With everyone safely at the bottom Seliina began to look around with both her eyes, and her mind for anything of interest.
Seliina decided Ioann was just this disagreeable and sarcastic by nature and decided to ignore any implied insult She simply stepped up, gave him a peck on the cheek, and said "Thank you," as he lowered her down.
Seliina looked down, and down, and DOWN and swallowed with some difficulty. She asked hesitantly, "I don't suppose you can just lower me down can you? I don't do well with heights."
Realizing the hurt that had to be in Kendra's eyes right now, at least it felt like hurt and sorrow from what the Lashunta woman could sense, she moved up and laid a gentle hand on the woman's shoulder and offered her a hand up. "I agree, we should get to work and put these ghosts to rest if we can."
Henric:
A dwarf you say? so THAT's what a dwarf looks like. I've heard elves mention them in disgust before, I can see why. As for drinking, I wouldn't challenge one to that, now one of the men of my species might give him a good challenge. As for reincarnation, yes, I'm familiar with the concept. My people have a lot of druids among them so re-incarnation is more common than some other forms of resurrection. I must admit that your people are intriguing, I've never heard of a race like yours before, one that reincarnates every time they die automatically, very fascinating. I wonder how it started? A mystery for another day I think. There was a pause before she continued, As for meeting one of my people in a past life, it wouldn't surprise me, we have been coming here for some time now though we rarely leave Kyonin when we do. I heard rumors that a few went to study the ruins in Numeria, maybe you were there at some point. Seliina pulled her hood up and said, "I'm ready as well." She rose and followed the two towards the door.
It allows telepathic communication ao long as we're close enough and share a common language. As far as I know it's two way communication though the bestiary entry doesn't specify for sure it mentions carrying on telepathic conversations. My personal thought is that it requires the telepath to "listen" to the other's thoughts.
Realizing that Terrance is doing a personal errand Seliina sat back down and tried to relax a bit while they waited.
Seliina finished reading the pages herself and said, "Judging by the short wide one we're leaving right now." Seliina, having not even put her things away or rested yet, rose and went to follow. Henric: As Seliina moved to follow the dwarf outside there was a strange, alien sensation that touched Henric's mind. The thoughts resolved into "words" that carried the timbre of Seliina's voice, What is Terrance anyway? For that matter what are you? I've never seen anything like you two before and you seem to be very knowledgeable since you know what I am so I figure you can tell me.
The average is 10+cr, really common are base 5+cr and rarer ones can start at 15+cr or higher. I rather figured the rarity of Lashunta would be very high due to their origins on castrovel instead of golarian, the most common place for the is in Kyonin, though at least one is somewhere in numeria. Ultimately not a big deal to me.
Finally having finished her food Seliina listened to the discussion. With the production of the paper Seliina decided to leave her warm place and go look at them, she moved to stand behind Henric and leaned over his shoulder, "So what do these entail anyway?"
Seliina listened with interest to all that was being said. While she preferred dealing with planar troubles herself, especially portal troubles, she found this problem fascinating. One couldn't spend any time with the professor and not find such things of interest, his enthusiasm for his work was second to none and she had found herself drawn into his stories. She decided that even if this all became a bust when it came to her goals she was going to help them. "So evil spirits escaped from wherever the hell they were at, a good one trying to help, and cursed objects to get rid of the specters. Sound like fun!"
Seliina nodded in turn to each as she ate when they introduced themselves. When Ioann asked what she was she replied, "All in good time. With the last introduction she noticed that none of them said what they were so she made her best guesses, "I recognize an aasimar when I see one Ingrid, and you're simple to clasify as human Ionan." She looked then at Henric, Tyrrol, then Terrance and said, "You three I have no clue, I've never seen your kinds before. I'm guessing the short hairy one is Terrence? If you weren't lacking certain anatomical features and quite so short I'd think you one of the males of my people, sadly both of those are true so I know you aren't. Kendra, you too are human like your father I assume. As for me, well, I'm most decidedly the first and only of my kind you'll likely ever meet." She reached up and pulled down her hood, she looked largely human though her hair was somewhat purplish in color and she had the build of a half-elf with human ears. The thing that stood out the most, and explained the movements with in her hood, were a pair of short antennae that constantly wriggled. She went back to eating and paused long enough to say, "I'm a Lashunta, and I would be shocked if you knew what a Lashunta was and where we came from." With that she dug back into her food once more.
Seliina was shocked at the revelation the professor may have been murdered, "Really? I guess it doesn't surprise me, he could be very passionate about things, and making enemies is easy when you are like that. Still, whoever did that has now made an enemy in all of those who cared for the professor, not a wise decision on their part I think." Without missing a beat she said, "Count me in on avenging the professor I won't let such an affront go un-avenged."
Seliina smiled and said, "I would love breakfast, thank you!" With that the woman moved to the table, her hood still up, and had a seat as close to a heat source as she could get. As she heaped her plate full of food, far more than a woman her size would be expected to eat, she turned her attention to everyone at the table, "I'm Seliina, I became a student of the professor when I was sent to this area to investigate a possible source of the strangeness that occurs around Harrowstone. He helped me learn to read your language and what to look for within the various tomes I needed to consult. I was actually following a lead when he died." Her lilting voice became rather down but didn't seem to curb her appetite. "I would've been here sooner but I was detained, almost forceably so, and it delayed my arrival by a great deal. Who, and what, are the rest of you?"
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