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If I don't get it, then I don't get it. In the future though, I should be able to SA from range without any problems
Victor quietly nukes the closest vampire with more of his fire spells.
Victor quickly blasts a Scorching Ray in the general direction of the nearest enemy.
Victor glances at the dusty floor and retracts his earlier idea. "Its true, invisible tricks do not look successful here, unless I cleared the floors with a spell, which I guess limits the purpose of being invisible". Glancing at the trapdoor Cynthia gestures to, Victor frowns at it, before slowly kneeling on the floor as quietly as possible. "I could try and open that door, and/or any trap that lay around it, from a fairly safe distance if required, if we are agreed that this is the way forward".
"Sounds very generous of you" Victor remarks casually while privately thinking they would be unlikely to find any members of the Red Mantis unless such members were overly incompetent or aggressive. "I guess hunting the slums would be the best route forward, Janus, I imagine you would be our urban expert, any strategies that might come to mind. I confess, the only thing I can think of that might draw the Red Mantis out is someone acting as bait, but that seems awfully risky."
Victor listens intently to the discussion between Janus, Cynthia and Flare, but makes no comment. He had never been particularly skillful in creating new objects, and didnt really have much experience solving a humanitarian crisis in the city. What he was good at, was thinking ahead, and planning for eventualities. Victor decides to double check his notes on Vampires and the Red Mantis, so his friends would be prepared if they ever ran into them.
"I imagine that its more likely that this cult has something over the Red Mantis. As you pointed out, they currently have little to gain if the world ultimately ends. Lets not forget though, that it was the Red Mantis that were initially hunting us, so I feel that its important to tread carefully. Running directly into them is certainly a risk.
Victor fires off a Scorching Ray at the captain.
"The rest of us are back on our ship, this is more of a stealth mission friend". Victor remarks, as he quickly checks if the princess is ok. "I can cast Invisibility on the two of you, plus myself, but if you act aggressively, the spell will break and we will find ourselves surrounded by enemies. So my advice would be to accept the spell, and then make a break for our own ship...it shouldn't be too difficult, as its the ship getting attacked right about now."
Victor appears from stealth and promptly full attacks the orc guard, from a flanking position.
Yeah, feel free to attack her. I'm under the effect of Vanish right now, which has a 5 round duration, so it probably expires shortly anyway but yes, I do have 3 invisibility spells ready for use as required. Most of my spells are utility today precisely for this mission, so anytime I dont need to use a spell to beatdown an enemy is a win in my book.
Victor heads down the corridor with his move action. He still has a standard action left, so will use it to either deal with resistance along the way (if applicable), unlock a door (if we find our friends), or use the standard for an extra move if none of the above is required.
Victor attempts to unlock the door (assuming its locked). If the task fails, Victor then looks around searching for who the most likely person would be for carrying the key.
Victor casts Vanish and attempts to make the leap from one side of the ship to the other.
Victor easily avoids most of the arrow barrage and spots that the ships will be next to each other the following round. Quietly popping Shield, Victor uses his move action to leap from cover to cover, trying to get as close (distance wise) to where the two ships will meet, in order to make the most use of his limited duration invisibility spells.
Victor notes that the ships are not close enough to easily board, so while following the excellent suggestion mentioned by Janus, he will also take cover, and begins casting his buffs with Mage Armor, Shield, and then Mirror Image in that order until he can find a safe spot to board, after which he will immediately cast Invisibility and head over.
Victor turns the issue over in his mind before speaking, his words carefully considered. "On religious grounds I have no issue with an arranged marriage, loveless or otherwise, primarily because I'm not really the religious sort. Morally however, I would want to avoid bringing a girl back into a situation she wants to escape from. She will only attempt to escape again, and maybe she might run into a situation beyond her control, with no-one around her this time to protect her. Nor can we realistically be her bounty hunting team chasing her around the world to return her back to her spouse every time she runs away. I'm not opposed to us breaking in and taking her out from the pirates reach, but I would prefer that we find a solution that addresses the root cause of the problem, rather than the result".
"I wish for the Stalkers Legendary Item to appear in the palm of my hand" is still a viable tactic. The only reason the tactic didn't work on my Inquisitor is a combination of having access to surge, legendary power (saving throws), and you know...being a spell breaker Inquisitor with extremely high saving throws. No idea on how to beat this God though, I'm all stuck on ideas.
Also seconding that Undetectable is really good. I remember playing a 14/6 Spellbreaker Inquisitor when I was ambushed by a squad of demons, and a high levee mythicl necromancer, mythic shadow sorcerer, and mythic Battle Oracle. IIRC the total CR was something like CR 22. Even then, the Inquisitor almost escaped after the casters resorted to a combination of Wishs, teleportation, and flying overhead raining down blind Greater Dispel Magics. Had it not been snowing, I would have gotten clean away and then turned around and sniped all of them from Invisibility. Long story short, there are still viable tactics you can use against the Undetectable legendary item ability, but boy is it scary on ranged characters with easy access to Greater Invisibility.
Victor decides to update his companions so that they know precisely what they are up against. "In my research, I heard that Caira Xasten was a celebrated academic, known for her ability to uncover secrets of the past. Unfortunately, her lover was slain by a falling meteor, or perhaps some careless wizard casting Meteor Swarm, and Caira swore vengeance for what she saw as a divine attack or punishment. Obviously, she isn't a very stable person right now, and possibly has a death wish. I recommend that we tread carefully, in my experience, people backed into a corner that see no way out, are generally the most dangerous" "As for locations, the Cult of the End has been active in Varisia, anything else I know about the cult has already been told to us. It seems likely however that Caira might be undead supporters, or even be undead herself."
Anything on my knowledge rolls or is victor clueless on this particular subject
@Janus, I believe its referring to Riven having a negative level or some sort. It would have been nice if tricker god fixed it for her but oh well, I'm sure we will find a cleric somewhere who will remove it for us.
After Lucius leaves, Victor quietly reads his new spellbook, deciding on the spells he intends to use during the day. After casting Heroism, Page-bound Epiphany, and Heightened Awareness, he attempts to learn anything important or useful about the following subjects.
I added a spellbook spoiler in Victor's profile, so everyone knows what spells I have available. Also I thought I'd write some sort of "Craft Wondrous Item" wish list. Aside from the standard stuff like Ring of Invisibility, Cloak of Resistance, + casting stat Headband, + Dex Belt I guess there are Blessed Books, Boots of Spee and Sniper Goggles, are probably the bigger ones. Victor will probably try and spend his personal cash on metamagic rods, or adding spells into his spellbook wherever possible (or for material components for spells) if it helps.
Riven, Janus, Victor trusts both of you, so treat the above spells as your own.
Spellbook of the following spells: Heightened Awareness
=4975 gp I think this covers most situations.
Thats a cool use of that wish, although I'd probably have to calculate the gp cost of the spells Id be adding to this custom spellbook. I'd probably prefer it over a headband tho, especially because then Riv can copy from it, but its up to the GM is this is workable or not.
Kinda wish I could spend all that cash on scrolls / adding spells to my spellbook, but I guess I'll for for a headband of Intellect
Victor frowns skeptically. "So basically, you and Elpis gave my friends and I a small amount of your power, we became your "chosen". Then, both Elpis and you, both fully powered deities, fought this creature of darkness and lost pretty easily. Now you show up and argue that my friends and I have the potential to achieve what you and your allies failed to do, and stop this creature, while having access to much less power than you did in this previous battle? Seems a little unrealistic if you ask me"
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