William casts detect magic at the bottle and then examines it to try and identify it.
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Thank you. Recovery has been up and down and worse than expected. I fear a lot of that has to due with the thyroid surgery being so close to her being hospitalized for diverticulitis. We have a Dr. appt related to each tomorrow and have to go to UNC Wednesday so they can fix my son's tooth again. Busy week. After that things slow down as much as they ever do around here. Sometimes the obvious answers aren't obvious to ourselves and we need someone else to point them out. I'm tempted to just give you access to my google docs drive where I keep them all an let you pick.
I might be able to get you a few. I've got most of my characters at multiple levels My wife has been in the hospital and had surgery all since about Dec. 16th. I'll see what I can do.
William eyes the statues "Those might be guardians of some sort. No need to piss them off right now. Be careful and I wouldn't open those unless we need to."
William steadies himself against the fear.
William stays in the back and looks down the hall "Man I hope that isn't a petrified thing. Anyone know what it is? Careful with that door."
William thinks for a moment and then says "These people have been stone for a while. They won't notice a few hours more. I say we press on. We can come back to this room if we need to rest."
William looks at the room and it's iconography and says "This is dedicated to Folgrit, mother-goddess of all Dwarves. It would be a safe place to rest due to her protection."
William starts to worry as he sees Benedict disappear in the worms mouth. He then slowly breaths in and then out. He then calmly begins to fire arrows at the creature.
Seeing his friend in the maw of the worm William unleashes as slew of arrows at the beast.
William moves to where he can see the creature and tries to identify it. He then fires an arrow at it.
William moves further into the room and keeps an eye on the hallway. He calls after Aerel "Don't get caught under a pile of rubble!"
William does what he can to finish off the creature.
William moves to see the gug and then fires an arrow at it.
William unload on the gug he can see hoping they can drop them quickly before they engage.
William shrugs and says "I can throw a fireball in there but for only two of them I don't know that it is worth it. It may just be better to form a line and hit them from range. I doubt a fireball will drop them both like that." as he snaps his fingers.
Seeing the gug in melee William puts his shots at it.
William moves forward and aims at the Gug that is left, waiting for him to start casting to release his arrow.
William shrugs off the slowness. He takes a step forward and fires at the last gug he can see.
William is suddenly staggard and not his quick self. Sighing he waits a moment and looks around and then casts haste.
Seeing the group concentrating on the one gug William steps to the right and unleashes his arrows at that gug.
Before Grum teleports the group William uses the haste scroll as asked. When they teleport in William unleashes a volley of arrows at the gug next to Benedict.
William sighs and turns to Aerel "Hop on." He then pulls out a scroll and reads it and turns into a large bat.
William thinks for a moment and says "I don't have anyway to dispel the effect. We'd have to teleport or fly over it."
William says "Invisible you say? Got it." He pulls out a scroll of detect invisibility and uses it on himself (assuming he can see, if not he moves carefully to the right until he can see.
William shrugs and says "Not knowing the spell, it's hard to say. At least a few minutes and maybe as many as 10-15. Some spells like my haste spell would only last 2 minutes cast by a very powerful person. Some would last up to 20 minutes and some hours. I wouldn't wait more than 15 minutes max though. But I imagine they may come to us first."
William gets a very surprised look on his face. He then says to the group in Mintan "They just activated a high level magical scroll of some sort. I suggest we back up to the entrance and give it a little time to wear off."
William holds his ground and is ready to launch an arrow if one of the gugs appears.
William follows along but keeps a little more space between him and those in front.
William shrugs "We know there are some wounded ones and there may be more. I suspect this all connects. Let's head north from here and see. I'm gonna stay toward the back to try and stay out of range if I need to shoot at them again."
William whistles "We are probably going to have to track them down once we are done with healing. I don't know if they heal quickly but I doubt any of them can cast curing spells."
William moves slightly to get a better view of the one left and fires off a volley of arrows.
William steps back and then unleashes a volley of arrows at the new threat behind them. He shouts out "Not nice!"
William steps forward and fires a volley of arrows at the creature in the middle.
William nods solemnly to the ghost and says "Any idea what the best way to do that is? I would rather not have to fight you to do it." He then thinks about anything he know about the gugs.
William nods when asked to investigate and adss "We will look into what is going on down below. Hopefully we can put an end to the hostilities between you and Molthune."
William starts the tale of their journey from Longshadow to the Valley of Aloi,"It appeared that the tower in Longshadow was attached to the Valley of Aloi and the Mayor of Longshadow asked us to check it out on our journey here. On our way we came upon something that seemed to be using groundhogs as bait and later a giant ant colony. We passed around both of those. As we were leaving camp we were set upon by earth elementals. Further into the day we ran into a huge giant with large tusks and a third arm. We had fought one before and since we had the drop on it, we filled it with arrows. Then as we descended into the valley we were set upon by two rocs and Aerel was grabbed. Benedict used the dragon figurine and we managed to hurt it enough that it fell out of the sky and was killed. It's mate left. In the southwest corner of the valley was a hastily built camp of wooden buildings and tents. In the center of the camp was a pile of black rocks. I believe that was the remains of the other end of the path to Longshadow. We found ogres left in the camp and dispatched them. That was a long day of fighting."
William tells what he can about the fey but admits he is no expert. When William hears they want proof he pauses and thinks for a second and then smiles and reaches into his haversack and pulls out a black scale and tosses it on the table. His smiles grows larger as he says "You never forget your first dragon but it's nice to have a piece of it. Amkarang was kind enough to get us each a scale from it. I'm sure you can work some divination spells to verify who it was from. We didn't take the ones from Naphexi that Ibzairiak had, they were covered in a thin layer of mold."
William adds any arcane details he can about the mysterious vaults and the Excavator.
I thought you could only wear one item in the neck slot, I've been combining NA and AMoF into one on characters. Each of these crimson leather bracers is emblazoned with the image of a soaring golden falcon scanning the ground for easy prey. They continually grant the wearer the benefits of the aspect of the falcon spell, though without the spell's physical transformation. Is this not correct?
I think I know what I want to do for my purchases.
Any thoughts or other suggestions from anyone?
As Benedict pauses William starts "I was driven from a monastery outside town that focused on Aroden. I have some arcane abilities because of that. I joined the others shortly after they arrived in the cave and as a witness to Grum's fight I will say it was epic. Fighting a hobgoblin on a dire wolf alone took some guts." William pauses here and looks for any reactions.
He then continues "I am going to skip ahead a little to give you my take on what I think may interest you the most. That is the black tower. We got an up close an personal look outside of Longshadow. The runes seem to enable the tower to connect to the Stone Road allowing the hobgoblins to move large amounts of troops quickly from somewhere. I can attempt to draw some of the runes."
William then sketches some out and attempts to give as detailed of an explanation of what he has gleaned from them as he can. He then says "I have shown you this to offer what we know about them. If they are truly dwarven in nature I am confident you will know far more than I." He then sits back and waits for questions or someone else to pick things up.
I don't know how much I can recount. I don't even remember when I came in. I'll get a post up with something. Also I'll get a post of my purchases. I generally find that whenever I have GM'd something I get a lot of characters I don't really care for. You were pretty clear you weren't looking for power builds but you are getting them. I hope you find a group you like.
Great to see you running a game. I am in a CC game as well, though it is a bit slow moving. One of these days I might finish one. I've been lucky enough to pick up a new one around where my old ones have died. I'm on number 3 or 4 now.
I currently have no natural armor but I think the +2 should go to someone in melee first. I can take a hand me down if there is one, if not to biggie. Same with the ring of evasion. The Eyes might be best for Aerel. I have added the wand and scrolls to my list. I wonder if I should put any of them in my spellbook. I've got a bit of money to spend. Have to see what is available first.
William eats his fill and says to a servent "Please send my compliments to our host. This is the best food I have had." When an offer to look at wares arises William looks to Benedict and says "I believe we have a few things to trade and some things to look for."
William listens intently to the description of those who may or may not be there. He then says "If the general can't come to us, for obvious reasons, then we may have to go to him after the meeting. It would be good to confirm if this is the Ironfang army and we may be able to exchange tactics for fighting them. It would be good for both of us."
When Karburtin starts talking to William about the magic, William just smiles knowingly and puts his finger to the side of his knows. William stops and watches Karburtin curiously when he wants to try a gesture. Upon seeing the "bow" he returns it with a proper bow and then walks next to Karburtin and says "As a man of learning I am sure you would want to know more about that. Most humans don't bow in greeting. That is strictly among the upper classes and nobles and the one of lower status bows first. Most humans would be happy with a "Hello!", a hearty slap on the back and being handed a mug of ale! We really appreciate the last part." He then smiles at Karburtin warmly.
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