Sylvia draws a stake to match the garlic in her other hand.
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Sylvia asjusts her glasses and asks "How long do vampires take to reform? We might want to hurry."
Sylvia adjusts her glasses and once again thumbs her massive blackened tome hanging from her belt as she unleashes positive energy at the vampire.
Sylvia moves up and drains the magic from the spellbook handing from her side and makes Iniquity equally difficult to see.
Sylvia nods in thanks to Chumwi and then adjusts her glasses. Sylvia then moves behind some rubble and turns Dorrance invisibile.
Sylvia adjusts her glasses away from her nose for once, instead of back up as she makes the gold masked vampire slightly out of focus.
Sylvia follow up with a pair of magic missiles at #2, hoping to reduce the number of foes.
Syvlia starts to take the scroll but then hands it back to Chumwi.
Sylvia nods nervously "Wouldn't want to be caught in that. Glad to avoid that..."
Sylvia refreshes her morning preparations and a trio of spirits begin to flit around her again.
Sylvia sits "I.. I don't feel great." she says clearly looking even more pale than normal as she straightens her glasses.
Taking advantage of the Faerie Fire Sylvia uses more of her necromantic powers to disrupt their connection to the unlife.
Sylvia then protects herself with shield.
Sylvia waits for her allies and then casts shield and guidance on Dorrance and Iniquity.
Sylvia raises her garlic and hits the grabbing undead with a disrupt undead.
Sylvia draws her garlic for future use and continues to provide further magical assistance to Iniquity.
Happy to be protected by Iniquity but unhappy to be grappled again Sylvia works to escape...
But finds things to be even worse. As her next line of defense Sylvia tries to get out the garlic provided earlier.
But can't get it out! Sylvia finally protects herself with shield, not that it'll do much good while she's grappled.
Sylvia struggles to get herself free.
Before embiggening Iniquity.
Sylvia suppresses an uncharacteristic chuckle before realizing her spirits have gone to sleep for the night and protects herself with False Life.
Sylvia listens carefully to Shattermask and is curious to the answer to Iniquity's questions as well.
Sylvia nods and examines the items and then nervously asks "Ta... tell us what you know of the local vampire problem."
Sylvia relaxes a little bit after he doesn't use the letter as an opportunity to spring an attack. "May you receive our words as they are intended." Sylvia will fiddle with her Occult Pendant and provide her allies guidance as they speak.
Sylvia thinks to herself Surely Shattermask knows of Narven and the Pathfinder society, this could just as easily be a trap, as we've made little efforts to hide our presense/allegiance. "Hi... hello" Comments Sylvia nervously as she keeps her distance.
Sylvia will continue to do her best to analyze the tracks.
Sylvia shakes her Wayfinder, at least trying to get some light from it.
Sylvia nervously adjusts her glasses "I'm glad to hear you're such an expert on financial matters. It's good to be an expert in something. I... I myself am an academic regarding magics of death. Probably best that you've been assigned to administrate, and I've been assigned to see to the Vampire problem. " Sylvia takes another moment to adjust her hair and glasses. "We... we were not given a full briefing of the other parties involved. The previous Pathfinder teams, and this Shattermask. Any information you have on either could make the difference for us determining friend from foe in the woods."
Sylvia nervously shares what she knows about vampires. "I've got a feeling that maybe it's just a property dispute and an old guy in a mask, but in case... in case I'm wrong some garlic and a few sharp sticks could be of use..."
Sylvia is a middle aged human woman with long dark hair and somewhat thick spectacles. A trio of spirits seems to float around her at all time, sometimes visible and sometimes not. She nervously adjusts her glasses as she introduces herself "Hi, fellow Pathfinders. I... I still can't believe I'm really a Field Agent. After helping defend our mortuary during that horrible attack on the Grand Lodge during the Siege of Gallowspire... They finally cleared me to go on missions. I've never been to Razmiran before" On the Boat sylvia studies from her well worn spellbook that emits an otherworldly chill while opened. She also spends some time reading over Fola Barun's letter a few times, trying to memorize all the details. Despite clearly having been at it awhile now she seems rather uncomfortable with this whole adventuring thing. Given her book, and frequent spirits flitting around her, necromancy is clearly her focus.
Already tracked my own downtime, but here it is: Sylvia is currently mid crafting 4x scrolls of Earthbind and at 87.5/120gp. Being level 6 and an expert in crafting, with a critical success and Field Commissioned she makes 12 days * 2.5 = 30gp of progress brining her to 117.5/120gp She spends the 2.5 gold to finish crafting the scrolls. --- Thank you very much for GMing, I had a great time.
Sylvia adjusts her glasses and looks to Shulkuru "Think of all the unique flora you have to offer then that you could profit from. Your unique biome gives you great leverage in any trades."
--- Debts to Sargava and its master Cheliax are irrelevant to any new deals with Vidrian. Not only do they not have any claim over them, it would be ludicrous for them to make you pay their former aggressor, instead you could leverage your help in their cause by your witholding of payments to Sargave.
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Sylvia adjusts her glasses and speaks to Inishish's points after drinking her cognative mutagen "Upset, why far the opposite. Your greater strength from greater diversity in training is an advantage to all."
--- Sylvia follows Celestia's path in speaking with Barashk. "Surely you are not suggesting the task of such accounting is impossible for your country. Surely a challenge but one I imagine you are up for,"
--- Sylvia listens to Bouldstrom. "Sure... surely you know that prophecy is not that simple. Avoid certain trade deals I understand, but avoiding all surely couldn't be right?"
Adjusting her glasses, "I... I'm ready."
Sylvia adjusts her glasses but decides to stay out of the dinosaur infested mud.
Sylvia holds her breath for a moment. Panicking for a moment due to the adjacent rat Sylvia reaches out and attempts to suck in its very life force.
Sylvia then holds her ground and sends her sickened skeleton into the bless to try and finish it off.
Whee, skeleton doing work today.
Sylvia fires off a black ray from beyond the grave at the sodhound.
Call of the Grave:
You fire a ray of sickening energy. Make a spell attack roll. Critical Success The target becomes sickened 2 and slowed 1 as long as it's sickened.
The skeleton the heads over to the fire rune and attacks.
Lightning arcs from Sylvia, flying towards both sharks.
Then motions for her skeleton to go finish it one off.
You'll get a 10ft reach to help with that to go with the enlarge if it happens at least.
How does Thrass feel about Enlarge Potentially casting on him depending on how rest of turn went.
Sylvia manages a brief nod to Itka as she adjusts her glasses and sends her skeleton to the rune of death to try and finish off the hawk.
If Kamil attacked black rat:
If Kamil attacked White rat:
Sylvia focuses her magics on embiggening Thrass. Skeletal Defenses:
AC 17; Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +5
Potential Reaction, Trigger: A creature deals piercing, slashing, or persistent bleed damage to you:
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Sylvia frowns as her spirits dissipate and a bit of blood trickles from the new wound on her arm. Adjusting her glasses she mutters. "Maybe something more corporeal will do it."
Sylvia then mutters some eldritch words of power and pulls out a skeleton from beyond the grave. As soon as it appears it assaults the nearby hawk with the swiftness of the grave
It follows up with a second swipe.
Skeletal Defenses:
(+1 Defenses from Family Rune not included) AC 17; Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +5 HP 16 (negative healing); Immunities death effects, disease, mental, paralyzed, poison, unconscious; Resistances cold 5, electricity 5, fire 5, piercing 5, slashing 5 Potential Reaction Trigger A creature deals piercing, slashing, or persistent bleed damage to you: Will DC
Sylvia stands on the Wisdom rune(7) Adjust her glasses Sylvia Sylvia suggests "Itka, do you want to try the wisdom rune? I'll stand on family and help out any allies who end up near me."
No hard please.
Sylvia rubs her pendant of the occult before pondering.
Sylvia looks over the constellations and adjusts her glasses. "I... I think I recognize these various constellations."
Sylvia fixes her hair and throughly washes off any basilisk blood from herself or her clothes. Not because it bothers her, but because she knows the importance of good sanitation when dealing with bodily fluids. The wisps continue to float around Sylvia, remarkably coming away from that fight without any damage. Adjust her glasses Sylvia stutters "Wi.. without Celestia's leadership in the negotiations we would have been lost. That re.. reminds me" Sylvia continues nervously. "How is everybody doing? I can provide a small amount of healing, not all necromancy magic is problematic." Sylvia finishes defensivly.
My apologies for making assumptions, sometimes it's hard to balance pbp between pushing forward and checking on things, Follow the expert is vastly underused and I was excited to bring it up, would have had no objections if you had ruled it in another way. I spend a lot of time thinking about these sorts of things.
Thoughts with minor spoilers for later: I agree it's not entirely clear if we're in exploration or encounter mode here. Could be "direct social interaction usually take place in encounter mode." Or Exploration Mode: "negotiating with merchants" Running Modes of Play has useful bits which I think point to this being exploration but the later bit being an encounter. I had initially thought it was clearly Eexploration and the lack of immediate peril leans me that way but having read into more, I could easily see ruling either way. Seems like a recurring skill check to me, NPC wanted everybody to share, expert goes early and helps set up later PCs for success, just like the expert climber going first and then guiding their allies up. Most conversations play best as free-form roleplaying, with maybe one or two checks for social skills involved. Sometimes, though, a tense situation or crucial parlay requires a social encounter that uses initiative, much like a combat encounter. As with any other encounter, the stakes of a social encounter need to be high! A failed social encounter could mean a character is imprisoned or put to death, a major rival becomes a political powerhouse, or a key ally is disgraced and ostracized.
So talking with a single NPC with a couple checks to feels like it stays in exploration while a tense negotiation with structure and signification consequences feels like an encounter.
Sylvia adjusts their glasses, clearly nervous about the interaction. "Well, see.. we... we were sent to try and make arrangements and understand you were of importance and should be spoken too about these things."
Celestia for hero point please.
Sylvia adjusts her glasses as her hair continues to get worse and worse. "Exsanguinate them quickly and cover Kesstraka, Celestia and Kamil with the blood."
Sylvia knows her allies are counting on her, but force of will is not enough as she begins to slow. "I hope this is enough." says Sylvia defiantly as she fires an electric arc at the remaining basilisk.
Not wanting to throw another fireball blindly Sylvia opens her eyes and nervously adjusts her glasses, rather than scream she focuses and lets out a stream of soot sprites, trying to topple green and work on the next one.
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