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I apologize for being absent the past 2.5 weeks, first the work convention, then inundated with family and friends Thanksgiving week, and then there was this week, let's just say it was one of those weeks. I'd like to join back in, but would understand if my protracted absence is problematic. Again, I apologize and would hope you can let me join in the fun again.
Back from the convention - I'm catching up this evening.
I'm flying out in the morning for a convention this week. I'll check in on the campaign probably once a day, but if delayed, now you know why.
As the group makes it way closer to the town, Xeria realizes they've lost their beard. She feels sad for a second at the loss of the wizard's son. But then she looks around at the adventurers and perks up a bit, "Do any of you know wizards who sell scrolls in this town?"
I do like the floating disk plan - and the caster does not need to be within 5' of it. By default it stays within 5' if otherwise not directed, you can direct it anywhere within close range. I always thought it was an excellent if cheesy way to have your fighter get full attacks and still move about - you off load your movement to the wizard. It floats along horizontally within spell range and will accompany you at a rate of no more than your normal speed each round. If not otherwise directed, it maintains a constant interval of 5 feet between itself and you.
You still need to be able to see the spot to summon it, but I like the idea. I can't cast summon monster though, maybe the mage can. Oh wait, Tina can summon now can't she? Or we silence Gorthug and let him try. Both of those seem doable, even together.
Xeria, kneeling down by the injured Ripper, looks up at Goldslip and trying to hold back tears asks, "Please Goldslip, can you help her? I don't know what I'd do if she died."
Dragons take massive damage death rolls? I always assumed in the long list of dragon abilities they'd have have listed immunity to that as well :D
hmmmm... i'm still not crazy about fighting a dragon because most of us do no damage at all. Yes, that's the problem. Our DPS is tiny, if any, and 90% of that is Gorthug. Wow, just looked up the juvenile red dragon - we are going to be sooo pasted if we attack that. Perhaps the trickster party should think of something trickier than BFA. Not that I currently have any bright ideas though.
Xeria will watch the negotiations, but is more worried about Ripper than anything else.
Xeria, in an uncommon moment of emotion and weakness, tells the truth as she worries and tends to Ripper, "We want it gone as much as anyone else. If you promise you won't turn on us when the deed is done, I will promise to keep my part. And that means don't go back and tell others about us so we have to defend ourselves constantly." With a tear in her eye, "For us, this is our only home."
"We will provide you aid. Giving you the lay of the land, possibly access through the secret entrance so you don't have to go through all of the protections in these caves." Xeria comments while she tends Ripper's wounds.
Ripper falls to the ground severely injured.
Xeria shoots a blob of acid at the rogue, "Leave her alone!" And in her anger misses wildly.
I'm back, sorry about that - I don't get to spend an entire weekend with my 7 year grand-daughter very often. Unlike raising my daughter - I don't just tell her to go off and occupy herself for hours - its zoos, science centers, movie marathons, and lots of ice cream :D Catching back up.
I'm babysitting last night, today, tonight, and tomorrow morning. I'll be able to update after that marathon tomorrow afternoon :D
Xeria easily ignores the weak spellcaster.
Ripper slices at the goblin as it moves past her.
However, Ripper doesn't adjust position quickly enough.
Xeria flies up to the roof thinking, "Let's see how powerful that big orc will be if he's taken down a notch." She begins to cast a spell.
Xeria barks to Ripper and then casts a spell.
Ripper maneuvers around the bear trap and comes at the creature from behind.
Xeria goes to pet Bob absent-mindedly, thinking of the dragon, "Yes Bob, I'm your friend. Not mean red dragons." but realizes in time she's about to touch a puddle of acid and stops. "The problem is that he'll want all of the treasure. And unlike our resident miser he won't be placated by distributions of dubious pecuniary desirability." she increases the number of syllables towards the end to hopefully throw Snowball off the scent.
Plan 5: Collapse the passage/room so it can't get out. No idea how to do that yet, but I'd like to see it buried where it can't get out and eventually suffocates from the weight of the rocks on it.
Xeria is seriously shaken seeing Snowball reduced to a burnt, ashen heap. But heartened seeing her start to heal. The diminutive fairy immediately slips out of the workshop. She'll join the rest at the mud hill, "That dragon is seriously powerful, what are we going to do?"
Xeria stops and looks agog at the red dragon for a moment, then says, "Anything you want boss." She goes over to where the alchemical rags are and takes it off.
When she has it pocketed she says, "There you go boss, back with the rags where it belongs." Grumbling a bit she picks up a scrap of one of the rags and throws it over her shoulders, "Better than nothing, I guess."
While rooting around in the lab's remains and casting Detect Magic all over the place, she finds what appears to be a magical rag bunched up in a corner. When she unwads it, it's a wrinkled and dusty old cloak that might have been used to mop up alchemical spills at some point based on the extensive and multi-hued stains. She goes to its collar and as she brings it to her neck it shrinks down to comfortably fit her. She snaps her fingers and her body is surrounded by a glowing set of transparent armor. She snaps her fingers again and nothing happens until she says, "Up Slave!" whereupon an invisible force lifts her into the air. She reclines and orders, "Take me to my demesne! Away from this riff raff!" As the force carries her off with her newly acquired grotty cloak and gaudy ring-cum-belt, she'll blow kisses to everyone, "Good night my loyal subjects!" "Slave, remind me to have you build me a sedan chair." she giggles as it takes her away.
Xeria looks on in astonishment at what's going on thinking, "Who would be so stupid to mess with evil extraplanar things?" Shortly, she gets her answer when Lucien dies. After the shadow thing that is Severn has left, not looking overly surprised at what happened, she'll comment, "Well, that was a hell of a thing." She mugs a big smile then notices no one else either noticed or cared. She grumbles a little but is quickly distracted by shiny objects and starts to dig through the remains of the lab.
As she hears the dragon lumber its way into the room and start to speak, she'll stand up from the lab remains with a big shiny ring that used to be on Lucien's finger but that she is now wearing as a particularly gaudy and ill-fitting belt. She'll twist a little back and forth looking at herself in a fragment of mirror she holds in one hand, "Ah, the height of fashion. Very chic." After the exchange between Tina and the dragon, she'll add, "Oh, yes, many problems with this place. First, the upkeep in goblin chow alone is crazy expensive. The zombies need to be properly rotated and oiled periodically. The front gate is completely undefended and needs to be secured. Bears, adventurers, telepathic oozes, and haunted dolls have already wandered in and I've only been here a short while. As soon as the news gets out, this place will be crawling with looters. And when they hear a dragon is here, well, whoa betcha will they come running." Really getting into it now, "Now, seems to me that a dragon of your prodigious magnificence needs someplace larger to inhabit. This place is already too small for you. Look how you have to demean yourself squeezing and wiggling through the passages already. This place isn't good enough for you! And with the hordes of looters and dragon slayers about to descend on this place, you'll want room to maneuver so they can't come at you from a side passage or someplace you can't fit." Looking in horror as if she just thought of something awful, "I can just see it now, your large corpse rotting, wedged in a passage too small to fit through with a dragon slayer's sword stuck in your side from an even smaller passage you couldn't defend against. Your scales pried off to make armor for the dragon slayer, your blood drained for the amusement of some hack magician, your teeth all pulled and sold on necklaces to ward off evil spirits, your eyes sitting in laboratory pickling jars, and your head mounted on the wall in some seedy bar." Now with concern in her voice, "Boss, you can't do this to yourself! You need to go find some place worthy of you. Someplace with room to grow. If you stick around here, you'll be constantly reminded of the humiliations Lucien heaped on you. No matter how long you stay here you will always be reminded that this place was your prison. You'll look in a room and remember the terrible things Lucien said and did to you. You will always be haunted by those memories. You'll be depressed forever!" Then, as if remembering something, "And that horrible thing that so easily dispatched Lucien and ate the soul of Sevren, I could swear I remember it saying that it would soon be back to deal with the rest of us and claim this place for its own." She nods her head up and down very earnestly as she's saying that.
"ridicostupid" surprisingly that was on my "word of the day" toilet paper today. :D
It's been a crazy couple of days - sorry for not being on since Saturday. I'll catch up today.
Xeria flies over to Ripper and hugs her around her long neck, "I'm sorry that nasty wizard hurt you baby. Let's go and get you comfortable and I'll bring you some nice red meat." She goes off with Ripper to their private little island.
Xeria watches Ripper struggle and she feels both angry and helpless to help her. She fires another blob of acid at the wizard.
Growling in frustration at seeing Ripper hurt she throws a blob of acid at the wizard. If her looks could kill he'd already be dead.
Ripper growls and hisses, snapping and clawing at the rubbery tentacles unable to escape their grasp. Xeria yells, "You jerk, if you hurt Ripper, I'll kill you!" Thinking through her bag of tricks, she despairs at being able to make good on her threat. Most of her usual tricks are designed to be effective against poorly prepared, surprised, or weak foes. Meeting a well-prepared and powerful foe head-on is an affront to her care-free, petty, and casually sadistic lifestyle. Similar to Tina, she realizes that her first goal is to stop the wizard from being able to cast spells, she too follows up with a ball of grease aimed at the spell component pouch. "Silly wizards depending on such obvious crutches to cast spells. Why do they never learn?" she thinks.
Xeria looks at the wizard with an evil smile and calls to Ripper who runs over and tries to claw the wizard.
Xeria lobs a blob of acid at him.
Xeria giggles, "I could always shrink you down, turn you into cloth, and stuff you in my pocket until we get home!"
I'm back from my vacation - I'll catch up on the main thread and advance Xeria.
I'm flying to London Sunday and Monday - I'll be on different hours while I'm there and on maybe once a day for a week.
Ripper tears into the next bandit next to her.
Xeria follows it up with an acid splash.
Ripper tears into the bandit fully this time.
Xeria adds an acid splash to the mix.
Ripper finally makes it up to the top of the hill and attacks the first bandit she sees.
Xeria finishes casting her spell and unleashes it on the bandit near the one that was holding Tina.
I think the moment they changed mount to 1 round was when they realized it was a 1 hour/level Summon Monster I and it had attacks :D
You know, I never thought Enlarge/Reduce Person was powerful enough that it needed a 1 round cast time. I never even looked it up, assuming it was a 1 action cast like 98% of the spells. That's an ability that has now been proven to be even less worthwhile then I originally thought.
Xeria sees that Tina is in the clutches of an enormous human and decides to bring him down a peg or two. She casts a spell at the bandit holding Tina.
Xeria barks over to Ripper who responds. The small dino weaves in and amongst the underbrush moving closer to the ramp up to the camp. Xeria flies up and over to the camp, keeping herself about 15' off the ground and casts a spell at the bandits.
Xeria barks over to Ripper who responds. The small dino weaves in and amongst the underbrush moving closer to the ramp up to the camp. Xeria flies up and over to the camp, keeping herself about 15' off the ground and casts a spell at the bandits.
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