Zòila, or "Grandmother Time"'s page

She had seen this before - another timeline - the party ignoring the summoning circle, likely to conjure another plant thing, and being overwhelmed. She was just out of her league (Untrained) at being able to deal with it. Why wasn’t anyone else trying?!

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's Balance or Disable check would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) in bright light w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs Thing: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 7 + 1 = 171d10 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Glimpse Weakness: 2 = 2

Our hero’s temporal time stream hiccups - she embraces the loop…

She had seen this before - another timeline - the party ignoring the summoning circle, likely to conjure another plant thing, and being overwhelmed. She was just out of her league (Untrained) at being able to deal with it. Why wasn’t anyone else trying?!

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's Balance or Disable check would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) in bright light w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs Thing: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 1 = 131d10 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Glimpse Weakness: 2 = 2

Desperately putting her mind’s eye upon the filaments of changing this poor outcome…

↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's balance or disable check would miss by exactly 1)

Zoila corrects the future timeline from the past...

Unable to help with the runes, Zoila focuses on the plant.

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) vs Concealed (Flat 5) vs Plant: 1d20 ⇒ 191d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 201d10 ⇒ 1

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Recall Knowledge vs Plant
◆) Strike vs Plant
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

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Arcana (T) vs DC 16 in ten minutes: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

”Unfamiliar to me” our hero shrugs in looking at the stone.

Zoila keeps the rocks coming.

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Reload
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs Thing: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 7 + 1 = 271d10 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Zoila squints, then gets into range.

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Stride
◆) Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) w/ Concealment (flat DC 5) vs Thing: 1d20 ⇒ 101d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 251d10 ⇒ 7
Glimpse Weakness: 2 = 2

Zoila sticks close to Rain, her staffsling loaded and ready on a moment's notice.

No light source, Detect Magic

"Word of your disappearance reached Absalom"

She smles at him. He probably didn't know. Or rather, it didn't exactly register as an emergency.

Viewing multiple possibilities, Zoila tries to stabilize the timeline by knocking out the disturbance!

♥️ 18/18, ☀️☑□
◆) Amped Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs Drake: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 7 + 1 = 211d10 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Amoed Glimpse Weakness: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Zoila timewarps...

...Delay to right before Biold...

Deus ex Machina

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) vs Drale: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 261d10 ⇒ 4
Glimpse Weakness: 2 = 2

Deus ex Machina

♥️ 18/18, ☀️□□
◆) Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) vs Drale: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 151d10 ⇒ 7
Glimpse Weakness: 2 = 2

"Oh! That is well"

"We seek a Second Confirmation with our friend" she explains "Sort of a Rite of Passage"

"It sounds as though he is in good health then?"

Zoila fires at the remaining zombie slug!

♥️ 18/18, ☀️☑□
◆) Glimpse Weakness
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) vs Zombie Slug: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 141d10 ⇒ 1
Glimpse Weakness: 2 = 2

Seeing it weakened, Zoila tries to finish the job!

♥️ 18/18, ☀️☑□
◆) Amped Glimpse Weakness vs Red
◆) Strike vs Red
◆) Reload
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) vs Red Zombie: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 181d10 ⇒ 7
Amped Glimpse Weakness: 2 + 1d4 ⇒ 2 + (1) = 3

Zoila aims for the zombie in the back!

◆) Time Sense
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
+
↺) Amped Guidance (If anyone fails their attack roll or saving throw by exactly 1, retroactive +1 circumstance to that check!)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) w/ Time Sense (+1) vs Green Zombie: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 = 81d10 ⇒ 5

Survival (T) vs Quicksand (DC ??): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Having walked the "wrong" way before Zoila remembers the correct path...

...unless there is more than one "wrong"...

Zoila prepares a pot of tea as substitute for meagre provisions.

She also walks backwards, unsailing the sea, untalking with the venture-captain, and attaches a Lime-Pink Crystal to Leena's boarding pike, Biold's warhammer, and Azorch's longspear.

They look down and notice them there!

1x due Provision plus 2x due Talisman Dabbler!

Who gets to live, and who gets to die?

Biold or Robot: 1d100 ⇒ 53

It works out differently in every timeline. So sorry to see you go, Biold.

Soothe vs Mars: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

◆◆) Soothe (HPs and +2c vs mental)
◆) Strike
↺) Amped Guidance (If anyone fails their attack roll or saving throw by exactly 1, retroactive +1 circumstance to that check!)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) vs Mimic: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 141d10 ⇒ 2

A chair!

◆) Time Sense
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
+
↺) Amped Guidance (If anyone fails their attack roll or saving throw by exactly 1, retroactive +1 circumstance to that check!)

Staffsling (Blunt, 80 feet) w/ Time Sense (+1) vs Mimic: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 1 = 241d10 ⇒ 6

Zoila sleeps like a baby.

She dreams of a dragon wearing the clothes of an Absalom noble, whose breath weapon consists of nothing but hot air, whose wings are too small to actually provide lift, whose teeth are square and flat, whose scales are soft and come apart easily, and whose language capacity is akin to that of a 3-year old halfling, unable to cast even the most meager of cantrips. All these qualities become apparent to her over a 5-course tea party, of which she is not the host, instead, in turn, each one of her teammates, bringing their own pots, crumpets, and jams...

She awakens fully rested.

Zoila arrives through the portal late.

Or early.

Zoila pours a cup for Brask - deep, earthy, brown tea.

"You are welcome to set that amuler down, Observer 1221646, and come have tea with Observer 1221647 and Observer 1221648..."

Diplomacy (T): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

"No good"

Zoila chucks her first batch, and prepares a second batch, fresh...

☘️ Diplomacy (T): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21

Zoila boils a pot of tea.

"How about some of ol' Grandmother Time's tea, deary?"

Diplomacy (T): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Zoila adjusts her position - proximally and temporally - to situate herself between the slipstream in which Leena is swallowed by the drake, in hopes of interrupting it!

◇) Bend Time (to Stride)
◆◆) Soothe (HPs and +2c vs mental)
◆) Reload

Soothe vs Leena: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

She them loads another bolt... ...maybe this time it will play out differently...

Zoila's strike misses - she rewinds her timeline, and tries again from a different angle! (Expending her Hero Point!)

☘️ Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) vs Drakey: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 201d10 ⇒ 6
Ally Glimpse Weakness Damage (rolled upthread): 3 = 3 (Applies +3 damage to next ally's successful strike)

"Oh!" realizing she's seen this scene play out terminally in one parallel timestream, Grandmother Time hedges the outcome by applying more of her brute will to course correct what might come to be!

She tries to draw upon those probable experiences and inform the team of what's to come...

♥️ 12/12, ☀️☑□
◆) Recall Knowledge
◆) Amped Glimpse Weakness vs Drakey
◆) Strike vs Drakey
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) vs Drakey: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 171d10 ⇒ 6
Ally Glimpse Weakness Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Zoila offers Biold her Provision - cooking up a quick pot of tea, she "spikes" it with healing potion!

Healing Potion (Provision) vs Biold: 1d8 ⇒ 6

Zoila reloads and fires again, helping herself and her allies make trageted shots!

♥️ 12/12, ☀️□□
◆) Reload
◆) Glimpse Weakness vs Red
◆) Strike vs Red
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) vs Red: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 221d10 ⇒ 5
Glimpse Weakness Damage: 2 = 2

Zoila aims at the... brooms? The one with the Red elastic.

♥️ 12/12, ☀️□□
◆) Time Sense
◆) Glimpse Weakness vs Red
◆) Strike vs Red
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) w/ Time Sense (+1) vs Red: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 6 + 1 = 121d10 ⇒ 5
Glimpse Weakness Damage: 2 = 2

There is a time blink (.)

Our hero winks back into phase, and hurls another bolt!

♥️ 12/12, ☀️□□
◆) Reload
◆) Glimpse Weakness vs Blue
◆) Strike vs Blue
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) vs Blue: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 221d10 ⇒ 2
Glimpse Weakness Damage: 2 = 2

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Zoila keeps her staff whipping and whirring from the backline. She analyzes the temporal space around the kobold with the yellow bandana, choosing favorable paths through barely perceptable slipstreams.

♥️ 12/12, ☀️□□
◆) Reload
◆) Glimpse Weakness vs Yellow
◆) Strike vs Yellow
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) w/ Time Sense (+1) vs Black: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 141d10 ⇒ 3
Glimpse Weakness Damage: 2 = 2

Faster than the current, Zoila enters a parallel(-ish) temporal slipstream whereupon the entirety of multiple possibilities overwhelm her mind's eye, nearly giving her analysis paralysis!

♥️ 12/12, ☀️□□
◆) Time Sense
◆) Glimpse Weakness vs Black
◆) Strike vs Black
↺) Amped Guidance (Trigger: If an ally's strike would miss by exactly 1)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) w/ Time Sense (+1) vs Black: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 6 + 1 = 221d10 ⇒ 5
Glimpse Weakness Damage: 2 = 2

Fortunately, her mental calculations correct themselves, and she "catches up" by hyperfocusing on one favorable outcomes - one in which her sturdy walking stick / sling shot bullseyes the frontmost kobold totally unknown reptilian foe speaking Draconic!

Zoila follows.

Stealth (U) vs Dragon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

She tells marI/Os to "Ssh!" which is incidentally equally as loud as his clanks!

The future was indeed a strange place.

Looking left, a dwarf clad wielding a strange machine hammer-gun. Looking right, a fully-automated robot with shining visual sensors.

!

"It would make sense that Sorrina Westyr holds office here" she wanders around the building and arrives.

"Ahem" knocking "Is the Master of Spells in?"

Late.

Or early from a different perspective. A flutter of parallel events - or perhaps a daydream - disturbing our whimsical hero while she was having her tea at a cafe nearby the grand lodge. She had spoken to her friend about finding some direction in her life, but really, she just wanted a reason to continue travelling. The future was, well... different than she has expected. And her coinpurse full, chasing several bounties the past couple of years. Chasing. Well really, just being at the right place at the right time.

In one iteration she arrived before everyone else, and introduced herself, and as each new recruit filed in, too introduced the next to the last, mentioning something unique about each person just met, and asking leading questions, so as to lubricate the procession.

But in this one, a hot glass left on the table, unnursed, the passing thought of almost changing one's mind, before a sudden impulse to shoot up, and arrive early. Or rather. Late.

This time, reserved and quiet. It went so differently. It is going so differently. Perhaps they think her a recluse. Perhaps someone will break the ice...

Is she old, or is she young? With some folks, you can’t tell.

Timewarping to the future from the past, Zoila hails from New Thassilon, and is still becoming accustomed with the present day.

A tea enthusiast and Infinite Eye psychic, our dizzy-brained hero has continually-compounded trouble keeping track of reality threads of both temporal and possible nature, rendering her personality pleasant but sometimes vacant…

…um…

…what were we talking about…

Zoila uses a piece of the crab as bait.

Survival (Trained): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

”You did your best, Demed” half heartedly, grandmother time comes to the precocious fisherman’s defense.

Diplomacy (Trained) vs DC 17: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

◆) Amped Glimpse Weakness vs Blue
◆) Interact to Draw Staffsling
◆) Strike vs Blue
↺) Amped Guidance (for saving throws and skill checks, does not stack w/ Bless)

Staffsling (B, 2h, 1r, 80-ft) w/ Bless (+1) vs Blue: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 1 = 101d10 ⇒ 5
Glimpse Weakness vs Blue: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Though her own strike misses, Zoila mindmelds with her team - they suddenly perceive a vision of a "blueprint" of sorts that details the "parts" of the (Blue) Crabby - several colors indicate through a spectrogram the relative densities of it's exoskeleton - highlighting, notably, exactly one weak point!

Next ally to strike Blue gains the 1d4+3 bonus precision damage above!

Zoila rewinds her personal timeline. What was it? Ah yes, slips between their armor. She timewalks to before the fishing tournament even started, explaining to her allies "When the crabs come, if you get one, make sure to place your hooks between their plates, they are weak there" which, incidentally, at the time, seemed a strange remark. However, a temporal anomaly instigated by her is suitable enough to jug their memory. Everyone has the same passing thought: "Between the plates..." wondering why the memory seems so astute so suddenly.

Grandmother Time simply smiles.

◆) Glimpse Weakness (vs Blue)
◆) Glimpse Weakness (vs Orange)
◆) Glimpse Weakness (vs Red)
↺) Amped Guidance

First ally to hit each crab gets +2 precision bonus to damage.
Additionally, first ally to miss a crab with an attack roll or skill check by only 1 instead hits it's AC / DC with a retrocative +1 bonus (she expends a Focus point to do so)

Zoila peaks over at Alleron to see what his secret is.

She copies it!

Survival (Trained): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Zoila briskly walks over "Hmm, let's give it a look shall we?"

Crafting (Trained) to Repair fishing lines (DC 13): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Picking up a spear, she tries her hand at actually bringing fish from the water.

Nature (Trained): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

”The principle is elementary” nested well, our temporal hero assembles a couple of spears from sharpened sticks and nets from torn fabrics and passes them out to her new friends ”If you can imagine where they might swim before they do…” she points to an eddy ”Or if they lodge themselves between streams…” what a wonderful analogy to anchor certain things which she has seen!

Crafting (Trained): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Not being particularly physical, Zoila asks the twins "If you would be so kind as to point me to a decent spot, I will try this activity you call fishing!"

The then Bends Time to arrive at her spot - walking backwards in slow motion at the speed of light to casually arrive!

Expending daily slot of Bend Time

Diplomacy (Trained) vs Twins: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12