Vance tries to help Nikka get Jakur into the ropes calmly, but seems just shy of understanding the best way to act. With a sheepish shrug he slowly makes his way up the rope, waiting at the top.
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"Unguarded. At the very least we should be clear to head up, although we should be wary of ambushes."
"Well the ladders seem slightly smarter, but still somewhat obvious, no?" He raises his arm, causing Tiltha to jump to his forearm. He takes out a strip of jerky, feeding it to the ravenous bird. "Tiltha, scout above the ladder and on the wall, count how many people there are." The bird caws, then flaps and takes to the air to scout.
"Oh of course! I would never perform any magic that's experimental on anybody!" Vance says, hastily scratching out a note
"Well yes, yes, but my point is for future magic! I have an idea for enhancing strength without altering form, perhaps that would be more to your liking? Is it the magic itself that makes you wary or just the physical alteration aspect of it?" He asks eagerly, taking out a journal to make notes.
Vance shifts through all of his prepared scrolls, organizing them so he can find them quickly when needed. He double and triple checks lots of gear, more so that he has something to do to calm his nerves than actually preparing. Before they head out he clenches his jaw and goes to talk to Olaff. "Olaff...I know you're not the keenest on magic...but I really think you should consider the advantages. Remember when I made Ryn massive and he was crushing those who would harm us? Imagine if you had the same power! And I'm doing some research into alternative enhancement spells as well...well I'm trying to make you all as deadly as possible, as evocation has never been my strong suit...I mean I'm not bad at it, I passed with well enough grades, but lighting the air just seems to simple compared to the challenges of altering flesh! Not to mention it tends to get less attention..." Vance keeps rambling nervously, and Olaff doesn't see a stopping point anywhere in sight.
"Tiltha can help with stealth and scouting. She's much smarter than an animal and can understand common. Just make sure she's well fed." He says with a playful smirk.
"I think stealth is our best option." Vance cautiously advises. "The elemental of surprise seems our greatest weapon here...plus if we see the odds are against us we may be able to leave before conflict erupts."
Vance begins to collect his nerves once they are away from the creature. "We...need to be more careful on where we wander to. That was something clearly beyond our abilities." [i]The old songs never mentioned the heroes accidentally running into threats beyond them."[/b]
Vance begins stuttering. "I-I-I h-h-have..." He stumbles back, moving away from the creature before breaking and running!
Oh I thought it was just "There is EEEVIL down here", and we were going to end up fighting undead or demons or something. Yeeee, let's get outta here :)
Vance stays near the back, hand on his spell component pouch as his eyes glance around nervously. "Well, rule of left anybody? Keep moving, following the left wall?" He suggests.
Vance looks uneasy, but steels his resolve. "We must move forward, it is our only path. Well, other than backwards." He says with a nervous chuckle.
"As long as somebody else has some jerky left, I'm running out." Vance says, only half joking.
I knew that adventuring would have hardships. Keep your chin up Vance. He tries to look around the area as the others talk with the now-helpful fey.
Vance gives a sigh of relief as diplomacy starts. He is glad Nikka is here to help them talk through situations like this.
Vance has a compassionate look, but keeps his mouth shut. He knows he's one to put his foot in his mouth and doesn't want to risk his tongue in the volatile situation. Instead, he begins scanning the area for magic.
"Tiltha believes something is back there, may be a threat." Vance advises.
"Yes, Desna is a good goddess, her worshipers will likely be friendly to us." "Tiltha, scout." He preemptively takes out jerky this time, feeding it to the aggressive bird before tossing her into the air.
Vance follows along quietly, staring at the ruined remains of the village with wide-eyes like a young child. He nods numbly to Ryn and follows him without thought.
Vance nods slowly. "Very well, let us make haste forward than so we can come back quickly."
"Uhh, worth a shot. Yes, let's move back a little and see if she gets better, if not we rush forward. Agreed?"
"Erm, yes. Of course!" Vance stands awkwardly around, inept at healing and unable to even help carry her due to his thin frame.
Is there anything you're waiting on from us ScorchedOne?
"Ameiko!" Vance moves to her side with a concerned look. He has nothing in the way of healing magic or skills, but he scans over her for magic in case this ailment was magical in nature.
Yeah I emphasize with that. I once ran a 3 year homebrew game that ended with a Balor, only for the greataxe-wielding paladin to get a max damage smiting crit and nearly one shot it.
Hey it's not us versus you, remember? :P
Agreed. I was expecting somebody to take a brutal beating. But we had very efficient tactics. Olaff distracted one while intentionally boosting his AC very high, and we had some dice luck with a save-or-lose spell. Definitely not an easy encounter. We just had good tactics and a little luck.
"Oontanx xiekiv...oontanx xiekiv...oontanx xiekiv!" Vance's longer spell finishes, and Ryn's form begins to grow up with the sound of creaking branches as his skin takes on a faintly green hue.
With that spell complete, Vance makes his way over to Sunishi. He places a hand on the ninja's back. "Rifst!" The sunlight starts to shine through him, and a moment later he is gone.
Meanwhile as Vance manipulates reality to their advantage, Tiltha falls on the dying ogre with a piercing cry!
Vance begins weaving a spell...
Vance steps out from behind the wagon nervously, looking at the closer ogre. He pulls out a handful of multicolored sand and weaves an arcane sign in the air. "Kluchuduun ingis!" A colorful blast of light erupts into ogre!
As a general rule of thumb, Vance will always identify monsters as quickly as possible and share all information he knows. However I typically wait until I'm up in initiative since speaking is not an immediate action :P Although in this case there probably won't be anything of much significance. "They're ogres. Big, stupid, and strong." 'Bout sums it up.
Make sure somebody notes the healing scrolls I purchased with party funds. Vance has all of his shopping/crafting done. He purchased the mirror image scroll available in town and crafted a number of other scrolls. Ready to go!
Alright, I'm actually glad because as efficient as crafting is it makes for a rather boring build, and I am already feat-intensive for a wizard since it's going to take 3 feats to turn Tiltha into a full terror.
Oh 3 days should provide more than enough time to craft whatever scrolls I'm going to need. Further in this campaign does there continue to be significant amounts of downtime? Would I be able to get mileage out of crafting feats? With a party size this large we will be splitting the loot fairly small so I'm sure crafting will be much appreciated.
Done. How about curing potions? How many of those suckers sitting around? Also how much downtime will we have, both before the journey starts and day to day on the journey? Vance has many scrolls he will need to make.
Vance can hardly believe the amount of wealth at his fingertips. It ends up being split eight ways (well 7, but 8 shares), but it's so much gold he can hardly wrap his head around it. I could have stayed in my own room with this much money! My entire education! Still, he must master himself. They had a long journey ahead of them, and if the fights they had are any indication, they were going to need more healing. Vance goes to the Cathedral and asks about purchasing a wand, sad when they come back and tell him they don't have one. He continues forward and sees about purchasing what healing they do have, then walks away with six scrolls.
How many (if any) cure light wounds scroll could we purchase?
Damn, lost a 75% chance. Oh well. I suppose we will look to see how many cure light wounds scrolls we can purchase. Those are relatively cost effective.
Damn, and no merchants happen to have one on hand either? Well that's unfortunate. Are any scrolls available? What about my previous question as far as available magic/alchemical items?
If we each donate 11.75 gp, bringing our shares down to 328 gp, then the party fund becomes 750 gp and we can use it on a wand of cure light wounds. Assuming this town has such gear available.
1363 liquidated coin
Total liquidated wealth = 2718 gp Split 8 ways = 339.75 gp per share Each party member receives 339.75 gp, and 679.5 gp goes into the party fund I'm slightly confused by the loot tracker so I would prefer not to tamper with it at this point in time. @ScorchedOne - What magical and/or alchemical items are available to purchase in town?
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