Not sure specifically at the moment, if say having Snow head back to town would be a good idea for the time being.
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As much as I like this game some IRL stuff is limiting my ability to participate here so I may need to drop out or perhaps if Cave is fine with it simply go idle for a while.
Chanting a few words Snow casts Ant Haul on Aurora bolstering her companion's carrying capacity significantly before finishing up reloading her Crossbow grinning Snow pulls back on the lever of her crossbow loading it with a blot "Lets go Aurora Zar needs help!"
With Snow's crossbow out of ammunition she will take the time to reload it calling Aurora in close so that when next she can act she can hop onto her feathered friend and take to the sky!
Snow takes a shot at the horrible wolf creature cranking her crossbow to reload it she then rushes forward ordering Aurora to move into a better opsition as she takes up a flanking position on the wolf to better allow her avian companion a chance to hit it, Aurora heeding Snows command shifts her position before unleashing a flurry of attacks on the hound.
Pouting slightly as her bolt flies past her target Snow simply lines up another shot letting out a breath as she does and whispering to herself reminders of instructions given to her by her teachers and by her father on how best to fire the heavy weapon while taking a step back to better provide herself with a shot on her new target, the hound facing off with Aurora. Meanwhile Aurora now in melee with the hound begins tearing into it with her mighty talons and beak.
vs touch AC
Seeing two of the two Hounds focuing on Goggh Snow decides to take action "Aurora help Goggh!" Aurora ordered pointing out the hound she wants Aurora to attack with a screech the large bird of prey tears forward landing beside the hound and promptly pecking at it "Lets Gettem!" Aurora shouts her words brimming with energy that would flow out from herself and into her allies, she would then take a shot at the other Hound seeking to harm Goggh.
I had thought I had done Aurora's tricks but it appears I was wrong! Question Cave, an Animal with int of 2 can know a max of 6 tricks, and as my companion Aurora has a bonus trick, is it fine for me to simply have all of those slots filled? I've had a GM or two make it such that at level 1 a companion has to be taught its 6 non-bonus tricks. Ideally I'd like to just have the Combat Training purpose(accounting for all 6 of her normal tricks) and the Flank trick as well via bonus tricks. I was hoping to simply increase Aurora's intelligence over time to remove the need for tricks which is probably why I forgot to list them.
Snow frowns as she realizes the creatures are not natural and thus her attempts to sooth them result in little effect, with the creatures likely intending on attacking she readies her crossbow preparing to take a shot at the first of them to make a hostile action "These things arent natural guys, can anyone figure out what they are?" she asks as she prepares her shot "Aurora, get ready" she says her signal for Aurora to act if necessary, the large bird spreads her wings wide and awaits at Snow's side ready to peck at anything that might seek to harm Snow.
Aurora will ready an action to attack anything that gets within her reach but otherwise remain next to Snow for the time being. EDIT: forgot to actually post my rolls!
Snow perks up as Auroras squawks and the growling begins grabbing hold of her crossbow as she begins searching for the source of the growling. "It might be a or a pack of animals who's territory we have stumbled on, I... I might be able to calm them though" Snow suggests seeking a look at one of the creatures in order to attempt to identify it.
Once she has gotten a look at one of the creatures and regardless of if she can identify it Snow will attempt to calm them down if they appear to be animals of some sort
Auroras will remain ready to protect Auroras if anything hostile gets too close.
"Good morning everyone" Snow says taking a few moments to help Aurora with her preening before venturing over to where the others are consulting the map taking hopping a few times in order to catch a better look at the map while the others try to plot a good route. "This looks like a good route!" Snow says once she feels she has gotten a good enough look reaching up to run a scaley finger along the route she believes to be best. "I hope that angry man from before is wrong, I hope we can solve these problems without having to resort to violence... I think father would like that better" 20 if Snow gets a +2 from the Map or Compass
"Ooh! Our things are here!" Snow says excitedly as she opens the door revealing the dwarf with the cart, she looks back to the rest of the group with the need to sign Snow briefly looks to the other curious if any of them will choose to do so, if not she does so herself signing for the equipment as 'Snow Goodwin' rather than using the name of her Kobold 'family' "I hope the scarf is nice, I wanted something warm and comfortable, I don't like cold very much" Snow says eagerly awaiting her chance to start digging through the equipment for her things.
Cure Light Wounds potions would be 50 GP a pop which since Ive spend 55 gold puts them outside my range
Spoiler:
Worn by Snow:
Cold Weather Outfit: 8 GP, 7 LB Pocketed Scarf: 8 GP, ½ LB Belt Pouch: 1 GP, ½ LB Common Backpack: 2 GP, 2 LB Inside Belt Pouch:
Worn by Aurora:
Inside Saddlebags:
55.4 GP Spent Did not spend the full amount so if anyone has suggestions feel free to post them! Trying to keep weight relatively low since both snow and Aurora have fairly low strength scores.
Bit busy with work! But I will have my list up tonight most likely!
"I dont think I need much.. probably just some new clothes, I suppose armor coulden't hurt. Oh and a saddle for Aurora! I did not have a chance to grab her saddle" Snow says looking slightly downcast at the last part "If we are not going to stay near the fort the survival gear would probably be a good idea, I do not do so well in the cold so I would like something warm to wear. We probably wont need a whole lot of food, a lot of us are good at hunting and gathering.. ooh maybe some pots I could cook better with some real cooking equipment" Snow says her mind beginning to trail off of properly 'useful' equipment and veering into things she would like.
Snow frowns slightly and shrinks back further behind the cover provided by one of Gogghs legs feeling even more uncomfortable without Aurora around under the fiery vitreol of the Thain not quite used to such an aggresive response to her suggestions "I suppose if there is no other way..." Snow chirps back from the safety of Goggh peeking back out briefly to look upon Vamik briefly considering suggesting something before biting her tongue deciding it best to wait until they are no longer with the Thain "I will go if everyone else does I suppose"
Remaining mostly quiet due to her nervousness over being seperated from her companion Snow simply remained in Goggh's shadow and listened to the others converse with the Thain "Have you tried talking to them?" Snow piped up as the Thain suggested that they might be best served aiding the Dwarves against the Giant army in order to recieve aid in the search for father, but her time with Goodwin had taught her that sometimes people just needed to be given the chance to be good, so many of her siblings were perfect evidence of this, Goggh among them especially! "I think maybe it could be a good idea for us to help, especially if you can help us find Father, but does there have to be fighting? Wouldent it be better if your people and the giants worked together in stead of killing each other? Father's work showed us that if you give people no matter what they are, a chance to be good, they can take it. Ogres are not usually very pleasant but Goggh is very nice so maybe the giants could change too." Snow suggested hopeful for an outcome that did not NEED bloodshed, the sort of outcome she believe Goodwin would have sought after.
Driver errors on my computer strike again, I SHOOOOOULD BE good now though finally
Snow looks excitedly between the woman and Quercus as the two begin speaking excited to see that at least Quercus can converse with the humans and that at the very least nothing the woman has said so far has seemed to give Quercus reason to worry. Not entirely sure of the specifics of the conversation Snow merely busys herself with looking over the human woman quite curios about just about everything about her though clearly just a bit too wary to actually approach. "Humans are so interesting"
Sorry for vanishing everyone had a bit of bad luck between a computer malfunction and catching a really bad cold, I thought I posted here about it but apparently my phone did not send it properly.
Following along with the others and seeing the large and possibly in charge human greeting them in what appears to be a somewhat friendly manner Snow waves excitedly at the large man "Hello!" she chirps back hoping that he was in fact greeting them and that perhaps he would understand that she was doing the same.
Snow watches on with nervous excitement as ZArr casts her spell and explains the situation to the humans on horseback, knowing she can do little else Snow simply stand near her siblings and does her best to give the humans a friendly smile.
Since you can take a familiar 1 step away from your alignment and Vamik is CN he should be fine to pick up the Ratling right? Also the item system looks really interesting
"But.. but I cant understand them and they probably cant understand me" Snow says slightly worried about pursueing the griffon riders and yet also quite excited to meet with others who ride flying creatures. "Zarr can your spell effect me or would it just be you? If I have your magic on me I could try catching up to them"
"ALWAYS!" Wolfrager shouts back triumphantly shifting her club around in her hand before bringing it down on the Rustbug once more and if the bug does not die on the first swing she brings it down upon it once more to finish the job.
If the Rust monster is defeated Wolfrager grins at Tigerwolf and the others "Onward?" She questions and presuming no objections will proceed on to the hall south of B
"Aurora and I can take watch after you Vamik. The humans seemed nervous and all but your magic also seemed to do a good job of calming them down so I do not think we will need to worry about an ambush from them. Hopefully nothing will go wrong and all we will need to do is get a good nights rest, prepare our magic, and finally have a nice conversation with them. Snow says hopeful for tomorrow going better than today.
We can have all the trees we want!
Snow lets out a sigh of relief as the humans begin moving away rather than getting more aggressive and with the return of Vamik to the group she smiles "Your use of that spell was great Vamik I think it really helped to keep things from getting worse" "My skills are probably not exceptionally oriented toward logging... I suppose I could use Ant Haul and Summoning to help us with moving the trees?" Snow pauses for a moment thinking over her skills and how they could be useful in this situation "Actually I suppose since it is heavy physical work my ability to summon water would be useful to keep everyone refreshed! And I could provide properly cooked food as well if I can get some ingredients" She adds with a nod becoming slightly more convinced by her ability to help.
Snow watches Vamik's creation of the silent image with interest and laughs briefly at the caricatures of them and the humans from atop Aurora motioning for the Roc to move back a bit to where Goggh has retreated just in case Vamik's efforts prove futile.
Snow perks up slightly as Vamik suggests perhaps completing the logging work in an effort to show them that they mean no harm "Oh! I like that idea, that could be a lot of fun!" She says excitedly already running through the logistics of how they would as a group start getting to work with the logging, her plans however were halted by the return of the humans now significantly better armed. Snow shrinks back a bit until she is at Aurora's side and seeing her companion decides to climb atop the large bird in order to feel more safe. "This does not look good, maybe we should leave until we have a way to explain ourselves to them"
Following Goggh as he approaches Snow frowns at the humans do not take particularly kindly to the arrival of the Ogre with the bulk of them fleeing leaving just a single human behind, the only one that seemed to understand Goggh meant no harm. Peeking out from behind Goggh again Snow takes a moment to look the remaining human over giving him her best smile and a small wave, Aurora remains stationed protectively near Snow mostly indifferent to the whole situation. "Does anyone have magic that can help him understand us or us understand him?" Snow questions looking to the other spellcasters in the group.
Snow watches from behind Goggh using her larger sibling as cover clinging slightly to his leg as she watches "Can anyone understand them?" Snow questions worried now that perhaps with all the time that had passed that what they all knew as a common language might very well be a dead language at this point.
Base Hunter seems to have received no changes which is great, and it looks like I actually just get a bit of a boost from the Bolt Ace changes since I now have full proficiency in crossbows and assuming I can treat my Bonded Crossbow as the one I start with from Bolt Ace it is now Masterwork! All it really changed was that I cant take Signature Deed with Sharp Shoot but I did not have that yet so that changes nothing really so I appear to be all good.
Snow chuckles at Vamik's suggestion that Quercus would make a nice cabinet picturing the treeman as a particularly well crafted Cabinet but retaining his face bearing a friendly smile on the door choosing to ignore the fact that the construction of such a cabinet would not involve Quercus to no longer be alive. "I'm not very good with other people so I guess I'll stay back" Snow said quietly, she generally prefereed the company of animals such as Aurora and had spent more time learning her skills as a hunter and developing her bond with Aurora then bothering to learn how to properly negotiate with others, now she was beginning to regret that as it was apparent that such skills would be the ones most necessary for the search for Father.
"Should I stay down here with everyone else? They seem to be getting a bit more anxious when I made a second fly by and I do not want to scare them any more" Snow questioned lauhing at the thought of a young fluffy Vamik.
Mounting Aurora and taking off in the direction indicated by Vamik Snow hums quietly for herself and Aurora more than a little worried about what she might find, she knew vaguely from the others assumptions that there was a good chance this was a human settlement that she would be encountering. Her exposure to Humans before Goodwin had been very minimal, mostly just through those who had attacked the tribe and who the tribe attacked. She had never developed a particularly strong feeling about them outside of a a nagging fear as they had always been the big terrifying warriors capable of taking down numerous Kobolds. She had learned through Father that this was not precisely the case, just as all of her siblings and she herself were not beholden to being monstrous, humans were also not always viscous hunters out to kill and take. Snow's jaw dropped a bit as she flew over the town. It was rather remarkable to see a real live thriving town in person, she could see numerous people dotting the land below her, some even noticed her and while some looked a bit fearful others looked just as curious of her as she was of them. Snow was rather tempted to just land right then or at the very least swoop in closer but with some of them clearly fearful she thought it best to return to the others. Once Snow caught back up with the group she landed close enough to hop off Aurora her expression clearly excited as she rushed to them "Theres people! A lot of them, some of them were a bit scared of Aurora but they did not attack, maybe they will be friendly!"
"It would be easiest if I used a bit of magic to do so, Aurora is still a bit young to do prolonged flight with me on her back, but the magic involved lasts pretty long so it should be fine." Snow says brushing a hand down Aurora's flank before clambing atop the large bird of prey. "If I see anything dangerous I will head back immedietly, otherwise I will try to get a good look before we return"
Finding it difficult to get a particularly 'good' sleep through the night due to a combination of the not particularly comfortable conditions and the ever present feeling of loss over Goodwin's disappearance Snow finds herself awake rather early and knowing it is likely that the others will begin waking soon enough she decides it best to simply stay awake and get ready for the day ahead. With the fair abundance of food they acquired for day before Snow decides to prepare a meal for the group to awake to, gathering up anything near the camp site that she can find to add a bit of extra flavor to the meal she quickly scurries back and begins her work hoping that a nice fresh cooked meal will do a lot to raise everyone's spirits and start the day off strong. if necessary, the bonus is the same on both rolls so whichever is relevant I suppose.
Booooo, fair, but still booooo heh. Oh well. I just got my Occult Mysteries book and I almost wish it had been out when I was brewing up what Snow would be because some of it seems rather interesting.
Snow frowns a bit at her card and shuffles a bit closer to Aurora in an effort to hide herself "I am not very good at setting up camp but if someone helps me I can try, or maybe I could start preparing the food so we have something nice to eat before we get some rest?" Snow finally suggests after Vamik and the others speak up. "I think I mostly agree with Vamik's idea, hopefully they will be friendly with us. The goat people were nice enough once they understood what was going on so maybe it will be a bit like that, we will just have to explain the situation to them."
Hey Cave out of curiosity, how is Aurora's carrying capacity calculated? I have found a few people who say that all animals generally use quadraped carrying capacity, mostly curious as it it will be a bit relevent in the early portion of things as it would put Aurora on only a medium load for carrying Snow currently without any magic(nearly light load)
"We do not know what the Humans are like now, it has been so long since any of us have been in this world they could be completely different from what we knew. I did not personally even know any humans until Father took me in. We do not even know what most of our own people might be like any more for that matter." Snow suggested hoping to alleviate some of Goggh's worries. "I do not have much of a preference for where we end up so long as we think it is out best bet for finding Father. Do we think that the Human settlement would be the best?" Snow said with a nod.
I believe I have made all the necessary updates to Snow's sheet, also upgraded to Zarr's suggested sheet.
I'll pick up any Teamwork Feat that anyone else picks up since the major benefit there is that Aurora will also gain it and if I have Snow seperate from Aurora for a combat that means there will be a larger amount of opportunity to initiate the feats. If any of us are going to be doing a lot of charging Distracting Charge could be useuful. Intercept Charge could be really useful with Aurora if she become reasonably 'tanky' since she has a fly speed of 80.
As the others introduced themselves and at Zarr's suggestion began explaining what they were capable of Snow did her best to settle Aurora who had become quite agitated by the arrival of Vamik, thankfully it took little more than a bit of hushing to keep her companion reasonably calm "It is ok Aurora, Vamik is family" Snow said stroking the young Roc's head soothingly. While Snow did not know Vamik particularly well that did not change the fact that much like herself he was one of Goodwin's adopted children and thus that made him family in Snow's mind just as it did Zarr, Quercus, Goggh and everyone else. "Oh thank you" Snow says as she takes berry(s) offered to her though only after the others had already taken what they wanted, Snow was somewhat familiar with what Zarrisa could do though having it all explained more fully was pleasant even if she had little practical understanding of how Zarr did what she did with her cards. Snow was left a bit unsure how she felt about what Vamik described about where his talents lay as they were a bit morally questionable but if those talents were being put towards finding father then perhaps it was not SO bad after all? Gogghs were the most simple of those who had explained there talents so far but almost certainly his ability to 'grab and crush' more than made up for the simplicity if for no reason other than his size. "Aurora and I work together, im not very strong but I have magic and I have my crossbow and Father and the Golems have always said I have some skill for finding ways to make others fight better, usually just Aurora though..." Snow says shifting the heavy ranged weapon into both hands to better display it to the others "Aurora is still is not quite fully grown so we have to use magic to make me riding her particularly effective. Aurora flies incredibly fast and her beak and talons are very sharp." Snow explains as Aurora stands a bit taller under the praise "I can also cook and I have always been very good with animals, usually better than with people."
Oh I just realized I have not added Auroras stats to her alias, I will do that either on my break or when I get home(Shes got a +2 to str and con over standard doc stats, fly by attack, a rank in perception, and a +1 to all attacks which should sum up the differences between her and the base Doc stats) |