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It was cool getting to see you all. Looking forward to then get together.

good to meet you - BTW I found myself a mini to represent my gnomeish-dwarflike ranger although now he's going to have to go with crossbow instead of longbow.

Here he should be shipping soon, hopefully he will be painted and ready next time we play!

If anyone wants to draw up the character behind this profile, I would love it. He's a gnome who was born without their magical abilities, so doesn't have all of the youthful brillience that most gnomes have. This makes him rather earth-toned, and a little more gruff (dwarf-like) than other gnomes.. He carries a bow and short sword, and is always carving walking sticks. *click on the picture for the rest of his background*

just in case I loose track of this thread... my email is e-gendron(at)Charter(dot)net

Thanks!
Cpt_Kirstov

Good luck with the character! He sounds great. :)

Thanks - I originally wrote the background for a PBP here (IE the The profile I'm posting with right now) the pathfinder society version is a little different, but very similar to this one.. Stats are the major difference.

Cpt_kirstov

Tamai Shoots again aiming for the one attacking his companion as well

same thing with ivis castle using dmtools

Attack

damage

Tamai aims and fires his bow

Attack and damage on firepelt (1d20 6,1d6 3=[4, 6], [6, 3]) 10 to hit for 9 damage.

Tamai nocks an arrow, and waits to see what happenes. Not knowing how Aldern feels about killing animals that arn't the quarry, or it it was worth hitting the animal where he can see it.

delaying to see if Aldern or the animal attack

Rolls:
Perception (1d20 6=15)
init (1d20 2=19)

nature knowledge (1d20 4=10)

Tamai slows his pony to a stop and holds up a hand pointing silently at the animal.

Glad to see all of you. I'm working on a post, but realized that I neglected to have Jereth write the letter for the sheriff. I'll have something soon.

I'll post tonight - don't have my sheet at work any more ( thought ti was still here....)

Question:

When do we tally XP? After enough for a level advance? Just curious as I never played a PBP before and not sure how it works.

I've seen it go many different ways, from emails after each fight to

Dannie:

personally, I enjoy the email version, because it keeps the realism and does less bogging down the game itself with technical stuff - and its not like your character just poofs into the powers, that way it feel like they have gained them over time.

Tamai Walks over and inspects the animals Aldren has selected for the group, waiting for the nobleman to notice him before Clearing his throat and saying So what are we hunting, and what kind of hunting are going? bow? trap? spear?

I think that Tamai is on vacation until this weekend. I am about to put up a post setting up Aldern so that you all can go there at your own time. If you wanted to put up a post for yourself and Tamai if you think you have a feel for his character, that would make my world a whole lot easier, otherwise I can put up something for him as well.

-Tarlane

Just settling in from vacation now - I won't have the brainpower to post a coherent in character response until tonight (most likly between 8-9 EST)

Tamai doesn't really have anything to do, so He plans on catching up with Hosk during the day, and seeing if he can get the young squire to attempt the trial Hosk had mentioned to him during one of their meetings, he believed the tavern was called The Hagfish, or something like that. Jereth, tonight lets meet, I am a tracker as well.. maybe I can help find your friend. There's a tavern I was told to try out called the Hagfish, I'll buy you a drink or two and we can go over what you know?

Tamai Pokes Jereth So - you gonna be there?

I won 4 movie passes (and a box of twizzlers) on the radio yesterday.. now I can drag the girlfriend to see batman.. AND I have coupons for free large popcorn from those stupid entertainment book thingys

Tamai doesn't really have anything to do, so He plans on catching up with Hosk during the day, and seeing if he can get the young squire to attempt the trial Hosk had mentioned to him during one of their meetings, he believed the tavern was called The Hagfish, or something like that. Jereth, tonight lets meet, I am a tracker as well.. maybe I can help find your friend. There's a tavern I was told to try out called the Hagfish, I'll buy you a drink or two and we can go over what you know?

" I cannot be certain of this, but it would appear that something drove them towards the new cathedral. I suspect that they had some good reason to want to see it burn above the other buildings. Perhaps that is why there were such numbers in the square.”

Or thats just where they thought they could get into the most trouble without running into dogs and horses... with all those people there, the animals wouldn't feel comfortable, and Gobos know their fears pretty well. Tamai nods to the sheriff as he stands I will stay at least until you return. If you permit the use of an animal to send word to Sanos Forest with word of the attack it would be appreciated.

ooc: italics are thought bold is spoken

It is a few minutes later when the sheriff enters the room, giving each a polite nod. He is accompanied by Mayor Deverin as well as a tall and slender elven woman.

Gah, more female elves, she most likly thinks that she is more inheritably Fey than me too

I have some concerns about the fire that was nearly started in the square where you were located. Was this a concentrated effort? Gobbos are known for their love of fires, but normally they burn targets of opportunity. Where we found the wagon, it was further away from the walls then where it was when awaiting the ceremony, so either the goblins are dumber then even I give them credit for, or they were trying for something specific. That seems even more likely since they attacked that square in such numbers.

Or they just spotted all the food - Gobs get distracted by stuff like that..

"They were mostly worthless in their answers, but we did get out of them that they are working for a longshank. So there is a human or elf out there who has stooped to dealing with them."

Defiantly NOT a gnome,1) we aren't 'longshanks' and 2) we would never ally with anything that smelled that bad!

"Now, on to why I called you here. Shalelu here is something of an employee of the town, not quite a guard but certainly more then a mercenary. She does her best to keep the forests around Sandpoint as safe as possible and often warns us before any threats happen. The attack yesterday snuck beneath even her radar, so I brought her in to tell her what has happened here and she is going to try and follow the goblins to their source as we don't even know which tribe the assault came from."

Ah, so maybe I can come to like this maid. Hosk was attacked by Goblins on his way back from getting a prized horse, that's why he's injured, you may want to talk to him about that before you go out. We were just discussing alerting my gnomish settlement when we were interrupted by the events leading to this attack

I do not expect a further attack so soon, since the goblins took heavy losses they will take time to build up enough force to consider returning,

and by the time they are back in their lair they won't even remember that those friends and neighbors even existed. They'll be back...

Tamai is either staying with Hosk of the herbalist, depending on Hosk's condition

After the soldier appears as the door, Tamai decides to pick up the young archer from the day before. Nothing to stop heartache like being recognized for good deeds. He goes to the boy's house to pick him up and hopes that the lad got at least a little sleep the night before.

I tried to find some images of the other party members, but my google-fu is weak where gnomes are concerned

Well... in my description, I say that he appears like a skinny dwarf (since this was the closest to a male gnome in the avatars)

have any idea how hard it is to find a picture of a dwarf without a beard!?

11 Small Leather Armor

9 Dogslicers
1 Small Studded Leather
1 Small Whip
1 Short Sword
1 Potion<Light Blue>
1 Masterwork Horse Chopper
2 Small Short Bows
1 Masterwork Small Studded Leather
1 Potion<Bubbling Red>
1 Small Wooden Shield
40 Arrows

Tamai piles the dogslicers and asks the blacksmith if they ould buy them. If not he asks them to melt the weapons down any way. He takes the masterwork studded armor for himself, and carefully places the potions aside saying "Hannah can help us correctly identify these" As long as none of the other defenders want it, he asks Hosk to hold onto the horsechopper, arrows and bow... telling him to set up targets near his stable that he could teach the kids of town how to shoot.

I'm glad you are feeling so into your character though, it shows in your RP and I've been enjoying it.

-Tarlane

Hehe, even knowing background/personality, I'm still struggling to get Tamai's speech to be in a constant format.. looking something in between a Butler and Yosemite Sam(when mad) when speaking Chelax, and a little more normal vocabulary when talking sylvan.

Sylvan: I agree, I will check the bodies of these goblins for anything useful or worthwhile, clerics do not come without their prices, especially in times of great need He then checks the bodies of the goblins.

perception - 11

Sheriff Belor approaches the trio with his normal grim look. He stops short of directly moving up to Jinn and Dannie when he sees the body at the fighter's feet, frowning a bit. He looks down to the gnome as he digs through the remaining wood and speaks quietly to him. "I would speak with you three and the others who I have heard fought to defend out city. Give him time to mourn, but if you would extend mine and the mayors invitation to meet at the garrison in the morning, I would be very grateful. I should find the others now."

Tamai stops and looks at the sheriff and puts a grim smile on his face "I'll stay with Hosk if you need me - I just met the boy, but I'll do my best to help him" He walks over to Jinn and the elf saying in Sylvan

rolled low on perception

Tamai watches silently and waits. Years as a warden had seen many of his friends die... and he knew that grief is sometimes better with someone standing there able to support you if needed, but as a silent sentinel. This is why churches have so many statues, he thinks. Since, he is still on the wagon with the firewood, he looks absently for a charred, but not actively burned log, which he can carve a pocket-able size bust of the woman's face for Jinn to keep with him.

"What is the meaning of this! This cannot be a product of nature!"

Knowledge: Nature 1d20+6 -> [16+6] = (22)

Anju:

Everyone: The creature climbs out of the box, walks over to Ox and sits on it's haunches as if it is waiting for a command. Ox looks at it in disgust and decides to put it out of it's misery, decapitating it (rolled a double 20) the creature melts where it stood and more knocking can be heard coming from the box, a minute later the koala-like creature climbs out again, with Ox's face, and sits where the original one had. Ox walks over to Arius and Anju and whispers What is that thing, Why is it looking at me like that, and why does it look LIKE me? This part (the creature) isn't actually in the books, its just an awesome wondrous item that I want to see what you'll do with. once you figure it out

Arius:

Tamai looks sideways at Jinn and sighs. Being small, he crawls down to see if he can identify the girl as the Young man's love before he notices the smell/body. perception:sight check (I'm going to look for another roller cause invis castle doesn't like me when I'm at work... keeps giving me errors )

He tries to prevent any larger people from climbing onto the wagon, for he doesn't want a log to roll over and damage the body any more than it is already..

If he does identify the body as that of Jinn's girl, he will first cover it with something before bringing it from the woodpile. If he is not able to do identify it, he will make sure the logs around the bottom are sturdy, and then quietly ask Jinn to carefully join him on top of the pile.

I like to play with fire.

I just hope I don't stab Jinn's fiance...

my director is standing about 15 feet behind me right now, so I can't roll.. I believe gnomish racial gets added to smell perception checks too
Tamai pulls his short sword and starts sorting through the burned wood, hoping that the smell is burned goblin and not a towns-person.

Tamai walks over to the others who helped defend the town and asks if they are ok, thinking that Hosk would be disappointed about missing this fight, and wondering if Hosk's staff had come back to him as a message. He takes out his current piece of work, and starts to whittle a design to remind him of his questions later, when in the company of some who will listen to them and maybe know the answers. Then he looks up at the burning wagon of wood and walks over to the well to help organize a bucket brigade.

shot at the one on the table 1D20+6 damage 1D6+3 I'm leaving for home and invisible castle is erroring out on me

Hey I had to double move just to get that close... I only have 20 move speed you know!

Picking up his bow from the the ground, he moves over and sheathes his sword drawing a bead on the goblin on the table

[occ]I can't access the map right now - keep getting an error, so this is from memory [/ooc]
Tamai Drops his bow and grabs his short sword, stabbing at the goblin who had attacked him (if that the one that died since that time, then he'll shoot at the closest one)

attack
damage

hey! I said the ugly foreman was mine! If the leader is still up he tries to hit it, if she's down then he hits the closest goblin to a party member

12 to hit for 8 damage

I'm good either way with the maps

perception
Tamai stands and looks to the mounted combatant - We have armed resistance - other parts of the city might not - act as a scout!? and use your height as an advantage to spot the junk diggers.

He then takes a shot at the leader

attack
damage

Tamai steps around the barrel and goes to one knee, Firing at the goblin directly in front of him (between himself and and the leader) He yells Leave the leader for me!! Darn Rust wearing waste smelling goblins!

Attack=19

Damage=9

My question then would be how everyone feels about if something changes after you have declared your action, do you want me to try and adapt your action(if I think I can) or do you want me to wait until you repost? For example, if someone declared they were going to attack the injured goblin, but he dropped before their turn came up, should I automatically assume they aim at the next most likely target in range, or should I wait and let them adjust their action?

-Tarlane

You can adapt my posts however you want, either due to circumstance (IE my target died) or to better the story.

If I think there is a possibility my action is going to be invalid before it happens, I will usually either do a OOC portion with what my second option is

Tarlane - although its too late now, I found the fan made maps I was talking about - you can even see the dead dog in them (there is a slight spoiler in the second one for anyone who hasn't read/played past the first fight sequence) Maps

Tamai runs forward and fires another shot, this one at the goblin that has the audacity to attack a young human in the the square.

attack
damage

I know it's not my turn yet, but I'm heading to the GF's house so better to post now and apply as needed. Tamai bares his teeth and replies in sylvan to Dannie use yer ways to help the townsfolk.. m'lady now 'tis not a time for games He fires another shot at whichever goblin looks to be closest to hurting a townsperson and looks back at her also might want to stay back in that slip, won't do much good against those junk swords of theirs.

attack

Tamai grits his teeth and moves a bit closer firing another arrow.

rolls

umm... I do at home, at work.. it depends wich computer I'm on that day

Tamai Leaps immediately forward with a growl like a bear, yelling The menaces! the rowdy good for nothings! you hurt my fried, junk diggers now die! he unslings his bow from his shoulder and fires off a shot at the nearest goblin.

firing one shot off - for Tamai with goblins, think Yosemite Sam from loony toons

Tamai looks at Hosk and replies "I'll go, you lay here, rest, you won't be good to anyone in that condition, least of all those equine you service." He tosses Hosk his staff and follows Hannah out the door. Jogging to keep up with the longer legged humans, his mustache flowing behind him. He looks around puts his current carving away, and absently makes sure his short sword is loose and easy to draw in it's scabbard.

Was there an electronic character sheet we could fill out and email?

the electronic sheet is only good if you can print to a pdf or want to do screen shots of each page. You can't save it to complete later

How strict are you being on

1) ammo

and

2) weight

just for future reference

Also, Sylvan may be a language you can get as a bonus, but I don't think it's free/natural. Could be wrong in alpha...(I used my +1 int to learn it on top of my free ones.)

From the Alpha 3:

Gnomes begin play speaking Common,
Gnome, and Sylvan. Gnomes with high Intelligence scores
can choose any of the following: Draconic, Dwarven, Elven,
Giant, Goblin, and Orc.

I just realized that we have the two paranoid goblin hating rangers sitting there in discussion with each other. I can only imagine what is going to come of this.

-Tarlane

*Cracks knuckles* But one of them is injured... I'll email you the finished sheet tonight.

Tamai glances each way suspiciously "Or the beasts moved it to get me away from the forest, with you injured and me heading in the other direction the gnomes will be much easier to attack. "He looks From Hosk to the store owner. "Do either of you know of a place I could find a creature who would know how to get to Sanos? I could alert the enclave about a possible attack. A burrowing or flying animal would be best, as they would be harder for the pests to try to eat" He puts away his carving knife and looks around nervously.

Tamai: Neat you're guarding the forest I originally came from. That will make it interesting. I'll have to work into my story when we meet that I know, or know of you. Living among Nymphs in the woodlands I think we may even opportunities for fleeting encounters.

The gnome village in the forest is said to have a portal to the realm of the Fey... goes well with your background, we may have stumbled across each other in the forest (you don't have a staff carved with really cool markings all over it do you?)