Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"We are a broken little party at times, I think." Grace notes. She looks at the two directions where each has gone. "Elisai, how is it you and I ended up being the sane and rational ones who have not gone off to f%%# or fight our way into a stupor?"
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Grace looks out towards where the dragon in human guise and the ranger have vanished.
"Mmmm." she says, softly to herself as if considering something. "So, we are to liberate this fort? Obviously we don't have the army needed for a frontal attack. We will need to sneak inside like thieves in the night."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Grace looks up. Apparently, she became lost in thought as she sipped hot tea and lemon juice. The last battle was particularly nasty on her vocal chords.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"I believe Mammy is the mother of this lovely little clan of imbreeds." Grace notes before she sings scales and her healing magic flows out into Ragnhildr.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"Ragnhildr, darling, far be it from me to suggest you are anything other than impressively capable and strong, but do you need a spot of healing magic as well?"
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"These poor souls need food and water and the healing touch of our witch." Grace says, though she keeps her voice low. She speaks to the captives. "Don't mind Krysta, dears. She's on our side. Or, I suppose, she would say we are on her's. A dragon comes in handy."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Grace stays well away from the fight and begins to sing.
Like a small boat
On the ocean
Sending big waves
Into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion
Standard +2 bonus to attack and damage and vs charm and fear effects all!
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
In combat, its always safe to assume Grace sings and boosts if I can't show up for some reason.
"I am so fortunate to have so many capable friends." Grace laughs before she begins singing.
Be a man
We must be swift as the coursing river
Be a man
With all the force of a great typhoon
Be a man
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon
Grace grins, knowing Elisai will likely end up singing along with her while she fights. They did this particular opera together not long before leaving Sandpoint.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"If it wasn't for the prisoners, I'd say just set the blasted place on fire and strike them down as they exit." Grace grumbles. She's not feeling particularly charitable toward this bunch.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"A different idea." Grace says, "If I may interject, dears. If I can be taken to the prisoners, or close to them, I can deliver supplies. Weapons. Healing potions. Magic. And then we have allies in this fight instead of liabilities."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"Until we know where the prisoners are we can't risk a fire." Grace says, not turning the idea out of hand. "Krysta, if you can scout for us and find the prisoners... see if they are those still ones, we would very much appreciate it darling."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
The diva leaves the healing for the witch and saves her own spells for later.
"They know we are here." Grace points out the obvious. "Either this mysterious mother is preparing for us or she is watching us. Or someone is, anyway. Should we check the outlying buildings to be sure we won't be ambushed before entering the farm house?"
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"He could at least wait for Yavenee and I to heal people. Ragnhildr sounds as if she has a broken rib of three when she talks." Grace notes, staying put for the moment.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Grace continues to sing, though from her position at the rear of the party she also watches the house, checking to see if anyone comes out to the ogrekin's aid.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Either this ogrekin was charmed or the party was experiencing a rather nasty run of bad luck.
"Glad to see we're on our best game." Grace mutters before she begins singing.
Sing me the kind of song
You hear in an operetta
Sing me the words I long
To hear out of Violetta
In an operetta
She will fast be outcast
From her castle, with nary a friend
But, since she's a princess,
There's hints of a prince
In the end
She'll enjoy some employ as a boy
With her name changed to Pip
Soon, by gum, she'll become
The brave captain of some
Pirate ship
Next round, everyone gets a +2 to attack, damage, and saves vs fear.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"You're very sweet, Yavenee, but perhaps I am just getting old. Few stars of the stage last long. We are like flowers, here for a season and then gone. It used to be I could seduce someone with just a few notes."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"Well, Asmodeus's left testicle." Grace curses as she comes out of the spell and, obviously, stops singing.
"It didn't work. Either he's too stupid to be fascinated or he's too smart. Both are disturbing. I would have thought my image would alone would have been enough to induce fantasy. How upsetting."
Grace sighs and uncurls her whip.
"Either way, the idiot is screaming to his mother saying the pictures are singing to him. I'm sorry. I think we'll have to do this the hard way."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
"I have an idea." Grace says. "Be ready to surprise our guest. Hopefully he will be coming our way."
Grace begins singing. Oddly, though her back is straight and her mouth opens wide, her voice comes not from her body but from somewhere in the distance.
Upon a single poster, near the feet of the patrolling ogrekin, the image of Grace begins singing. Once the ogrekin takes notice she withdraws her attention to a poster further away and then one further still.
Attempting to draw the ogrekin guard away from the house and towards us where we can ambush him, using Fascinate. I know its an unorthodox use of the ability but I'm hoping it will work here. Its a DC 17 Will save for the ogrekin to resist.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Grace closes her eyes and hums, softly, as she works her magic and transfers her mind. Her awareness extending to the posters as they fall into mud and on rooftops, hang on fences and cling to stairs.
"A farm." Grace sings, softly, weaving her observations into her music for the others to hear. "In the east, fields of plagued plants. A barn and a farmhouse, boarded over and heavy with moss to the north. I only see one door into the barn. Big and wide, as if for a cart. The house has two entrances, one from the front porch. One from the side. I see one man. Big. Ugly. Tumors growing on the side of his head. Another ogrekin. He has a giant hook and is ugh... he picked up one of my posters. He's patrolling the perimeter."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
As the dragon and the barbarian comfort Shalelu, Grace walks to Delendir.
"I have an idea. A very odd one." Grace says to the ranger. "I know a spell which allows me to inhabit any image of myself within about three hundred to four hundred feet. If we were able to get close enough and hide, and if your best friend were able to fly above this clan's dwelling and drop posters of my last performance in Sandpoint, perhaps enough would make their way about that I could use the spell to scout for information. I dislike going into this blind. The hunter we just killed unnerved me, the way he so casually spoke about his mother holding prisoners on the one hand and making blankets out of their patches for her adult children on the other."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Grace watches as the would-be hunter is dispatched by the trained blades of her companions.
"It sounds like a clan of these... things has captured what remains of the rangers. One was easy prey. A group of them working together will be more formidable. I doubt they are all as simple or easy to trick as this one. We'll need to find their home and free the rangers. Shalelu will be a problem if she can't keep her temper, though. This mission won't work if she charges into every fight ready to kill without a plan."
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Give it a try, Sunday. If you haven't figured it out by Monday morning, we'll go ahead without you. But we have faith in you or we wouldn't have made the suggestion.
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
So, we each have one blue eye (different shades) and one metallic grey eye with a lightning bolt pupil that crackles with energy when we are emotional or using or magic?
Female Human Bard (Diva) 6 | HP: 40/40 | AC: 14 | T: 11 | FF: 13 | CMD: 14 | Fort: +4 | Ref: +6 | Will: +6 | Init: +1 | Perc: +1 | Sense Motive: +17 || Bardic Music: 19/24 rounds for the day || 1st Lvl Spells: 5/5 for day, 2nd Lvl Spells: 1/4 for day
Branch out! Try something new! Nothing wrong with a bit of finesse. Maybe you went through a period where you got tired of sharing dad's attention and started stealing stuff and acting out?
How about one silver eye each? To represent the power of the storm we were born to help summon.
1/Day Hunter's Surprise - Precision DAM on 1 target until end of round
11/Day Stunning Touch - Stunned, Fatigued, or Sickened (Fort DC:20)
3/Day Cast Light (as 10L Sorcerer)
2/Day Cast Mage Armor (as 10L Sorcerer)
5/Day Ki Pool
(0) Ki Jump - DCs halved on all jumps if any ki in pool
(1) Ki Attack - Make 1 additional Attack
(1) Ki Move - +20' Move
(1) Ki Stealth - +4 to Stealth rolls for 1 round
(1) Darkvision - 60' Darkvision for 1 hour
FEATS:
Power Attack - everyone
Deadly Aim - everyone
Weapon Finesse - everyone
Weapon Focus - Unarmed
Greater Weapon Focus - Unarmed
Weapon Specialization - Unarmed
Eclectic
Monkey Style
Monkey Moves
MONK (Martial Artist):
Fast Movement +30'
WIS bonus to AC
Monk AC +2
Flurry of Blows +8/+8/+3/+3
Stunning Fist
Unarmed Strike DAM 1d10
Martial Arts Master (take Fighter feats)
Evasion & Improved Evasion
Exploit Weakness
High Jump - + Level to Acrobatics roll for Jumping
Extreme Endurance - immune to Fatigue & Exhaustion
Ravarath (Rath for short) is dark-skinned, bald-headed, and clearly fit - as anyone can attest who has glimpsed his body beneath his loose monk's gi and hakama. Despite having some pleasant facial features and unblemished skin, as a whole his face is slightly assymetrical which leads most viewers to consider him homely at best. Rath knows this about himself and is comfortable with it. Just as he also knows that he is not particularly bright or charismatic. He accepts these faults as humbling lessons the Universe provided to keep him grounded while he pursues his goal - which is the focus of his life.
Rath's goal is to achieve self-perfection and free himself from the bonds of karma that are enacted through the process of reincarnation. Rath roams the world(s), seemingly at random, searching for new experiences. He believes that the Universe, or Irori, or the Lords of Karma sets the adventures before him as a path to enlightenment and a test of his worthiness. He feels that every adventure / odd job / learning experience is a stepping stone on the path to spiritual liberation.
Rath is highly self-disciplined, despite his seemingly aimless journey. His brand of lawfulness extends to following his own personal code (regardless of local laws), showing unswerving loyalty to his friends, and an overarching belief in the orderliness of the Universe. In general, he is soft-spoken, introspective, rarely says two words when one will do, and is amiable. Some people, based on his retiring demeanor, assume Rath is a pacifist. This is an error a few have come to regret. Rath believes that combat is as instructive as any other experience and he pursues martial excellence as another test of his own worthiness.
