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Yikes! I hope it wasn't a bad case! Glad you're getting better!
Yeah, everything is so crazy right now I'm not expecting there won't be disruptions on the boards as well.
I work for the Oregon Department of Human Services. We're expecting to be hit with maybe the biggest rush of benefits applications ever due to statewide service sector closings. I'm going to be pulled off my normal job to help process intakes somewhere between sometimes and a lot, and it's possible overtime could become involved. I don't know what this is going to do to my availability right now, posts from me could become spotty at times depending on how things unfold. It's getting pretty crazy right now.
Zhalet tries to guide a scimitar stroke through the narrow gap between Thyste and the wall. She fails.
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Zhalet is baffled by the winged, tentacled floating heads aside from knowing for sure they're nasty. That's obvious. She takes a dancelike stance and readies herself in case they advance. Zhalet also reaches out to touch Thyste, asking Sarenrae to give the woman Guidance in the trial before them.
Zhalet turns around to the others and holds up the, honestly rather creepy looking, skull thing for them to see. "Got it! This is what the aura in the nest is coming from. Don't know what it is though."
Zhalet removes the object from the hornets nest to give it a closer look. She hears some noise from over where the box is being worked on, but she's too busy concentrating to give it much notice. "Everything alright over there?"
While Mahzuzi continues to work on the lock, Zhalet decides she might as well keep looking around. She casts Detect Magic herself and concentrates on determining the type of magic that the nest is imbued with. Otherwise she searches any parts of the room not yet covered.
Zhalet is well aware ancient Osirians practically fetishized nasty traps of all types and sizes. With that in mind, she doesn't try to move or open the box. Instead she calls for professional assistance. "I've found something behind a secret panel! It's a chest! Can someone who knows about locks and such take a look?"
Zhalet regards the div mess on the floor for a moment. "Well, that turned out to be simpler than I expected. I suppose I should have saved that spell for another time" she adds ruefully. Zhalet goes back to checking the closet.
Zhalet, who's scimitar IS forged from cold iron, growls in frustration when the div floats up. And again I'm left behind before I can help in any meaningful way!
Zhalet takes a stance with her scimitar forward, pointed at the monster. She grasps her holy symbol and utters a rapid prayer while studying the thing.
Welcome back!
Zhalet begins to look around in the rooms along with the others. She starts with the closets.
The best reply to Thyste's question Zhalet can muster is "Well, this is a house. Maybe we will find some tools lying around?" She joins the others going up the stairs. Looking at their various option from the top, she suggests "Closest one first?" while pointing at the double doors to the north.
When the others voice their willingness to help put the haunts to rest, Zhalet smiles her almost freakishly appealing smile and puts them to work. "Although they are very close to each other, we have encountered two definitely distinct haunting events. The first is at the gate. I have already sprinkled it with holy water. I believe the other thing needed is for the gate to be put back in place, repaired as best we can." "The second will be more difficult. The bodies of the guards who died trying to hold the door should be given a proper burial. We must collect all the bones from the skeletons. The difficulty will be making sure we have the remains of all the guards who fuel the haunt. The ones we came across here might be all of them, or it might not. We will have to continue the process, bringing the remains here and putting them to rest, without knowing precisely when we are finished." "However, putting the dead to rest properly is a good on its own, doing this is a service even if it does not meet our immediate need." For her part Zhalet begins to collect the bones scattered by the door.
Zhalet is mortified when she hears what happened on the other side of the door. Discomfort and embarrassment are evident on her face. "I was much too slow, and it put you all at greater risk. I am sorry. I will do better in the future." Although she feels awkward doing so considering her recent failings, Zhalet does still press the idea of dealing with the haunts rather than ignoring them. "I have some ideas about how to put the haunts we've come across to rest permanently. I really do think it's worth our time to rid this place of them. It would be prudent, we could very well be troubled by them again otherwise."
Zhalet is terribly curious about what's going on inside. She considers shouting to find out if the others can hear her and shout back, but decides doing so might well attract the attention of thing she's rather not be found by. Instead she continues to wait, occasionally trying the doors to see if they are free of the haunt's effect. The effect of the haunt shouldn't be permanent. I suppose I will just have to wait it out. Hopefully it will not last too long.
Zhalet smiles as Thyste and Mahzuzi return to the house. "Ah good, we're all back together." Zhalet tactfully avoids mentioning any reason for their sudden departure. -------------------------------------------- She is a little disappointed when nobody shows an interest in helping her eliminate the haunt at the gate. But, she reasons, the they must all be very excited to begin looking around. In any case the haunt doesn't seem to be a very threatening one. The extra time she waits until she realizes the others mean to go straight on in costs her. She doesn't manage to clear the door before it slams in her face, leaving her alone outside. "Argh, another haunt! What's happening in there?" she tries calling through the doors to everyone else inside. She sure she saw skeletons moving before the door closed. She beats on the door a couple of times, but it is in frustration rather any expectation they will give way. Zhalet does still have one vial of holy water left, but she is unsure if the haunt is tied to the doors themselves or something else inside. Using it on the door and being wrong would needlessly exhaust the resource, so she tries to determine where the holy water would need to be used to quiet the haunt.
Zhalet looks a little paler than she did a few moments ago, but she holds steady in the face of the supernatural manifestation. When it ends, she tells !Kutlwisi, who has remained along with her, "it is a haunt. Unquiet spirits reenacting an event of great suffering. It, haunts are not exactly a 'they' in the way a ghost is, relive a version of what happened." The priestess removes a vial of holy water from her pouch. "I believe I can quiet the haunt with this, but it will not be permanent. Haunts can be removed, but each has its own key to doing so. There is no single, universal solution to all haunts. The voice mentioned 'holding the gate'. Maybe if the gate is repaired so it can hold again the haunt will be dispelled." As Zhalet begins to sprinkle the holy water about, she asks the Mwangi man "can you look at the gate to see if it might be repaired?"
As she looks up at the house, Zhalet smiles to herself upon hearing !Kutlwisi’s comment. He’s funny, whether he meant to be or not. I like that about him. It’s all too rare… Bringing herself back to the current moment, she tells the others ”Well, best get on with this. The daylight won’t last forever.” Zhalet approaches closer with Mahzuzi and concentrates, reaching out to find any magic auras that might linger around the place.
"Your proposal sounds agreeable Professor." Zhalet suggests to her companions "if we intend to go today we should hurry. From what I've heard we don't want to still be there after dark."
Ooh! Good question! Zhalet was ready to say 'yes' from the moment the Professor had finished talking. She'd only asked her question for the sake of appearance, and because she knew it was a question her mother would ask. She decides to hold her tongue just a little longer.
Oh yes! Yes! Thank you, thank you! Thank the Everlight! Zhalet is beyond thrilled hearing there is a chance to still enter the Necropolis as part of the Wati lottery. She keeps it to herself though, maintaining a placid facade. After all, this is a negotiation and she doesn't want to seem an easy mark. She seconds Mahzuzi's expression of interest, contingent on more details. "Yes, it is an interesting offer Professor Moham. Tell us, what specific terms for this working relationship do you have in mind?"
Zhalet picks at the food without appetite. Her stomach feels like a heavy lump and she hasn't slept too well, which makes her feel slightly queazy. She's now entering her third day of turning the same question over and over in her mind. How am I going to tell mother about this? I've failed at the principle thing I was sent here to do before I even started." It's not that there wasn't good reason to help recover the girl from the brigands. Zhalet had taken on the task out of altruism rather than for the reward. Her mother wouldn't fault her motive. But she is convinced that a more experienced priest, a wiser one, would have seen the situation more clearly and made better choices about priorities. Was it really the case that only I could have helped the girl? Certainly not. On the other hand only I could accomplish the task given to me by the Church. I'm a fool. There are other things she has been tasked with in Osirion. Maybe Zhalet would not go home completely empty-handed, But she would go home ashamed.
Well Zhalet has been sent to Wati rather than coming of her own accord. Not that she's complaining in the least, it's easily the most exciting and interesting thing she's ever had the chance to do. She's been well briefed on the setup: the lottery, application by team, and so forth, so she expecting to need to find a group to join. If Mahzuzi is the one doing the inviting she would certainly accept. She's just looking for a open slot on a team somewhere. As long as the group she's invited to join doesn't seem really sketchy she's not going to be picky. It seems Mahzuzi is visibly not a typical gnome. If Zhalet realizes he's aasimar, she'd be thrilled to join. Of course she's aware she' not one-of-a-kind, but she' never actually met another aasimar, and she would jump at the chance to get to know him. Being aasimar isn't always easy. I know, boo hoo. But while Zhalet has no obvious characteristics that mark her as aasimar, she's still sort of off. She's so perfectly, flawlessly, beautiful that for some people she nears a different uncanny valley. She's so right she starts to become kind of wrong and eerie. She would certainly take it as a divine sign (maybe not destiny) that she should be a member of that particular team.
Average for Zhalet. She’s always lived more or less communally before, at temple in Gurat. This will be a great and luxurious treat for her! What about “bronzed” steel? It seems a little odd for Iblydos, which is not isolated or poor, to simply pass on improved technology for aesthetic reasons. But if they have a preference for bronze colored arms and armor, tradition or whatever, so they color the steel to look that way? Bottom line for me though is it doesn’t matter to me, so do what you prefer.
Looks like Mahzuzi is local by birth, !Kutlwisi has become local, and Thyste and Zhalet are not local. ”How about the ’Sun Falcons’ as a name?” Zhalet asks, clearly excited by her cleverness in choosing a name that references both Osirion and her own religion at the same time.
Alright, I believe I'm all set. I won't add the wand to Zhalet's gear until I hear from Mahzuzi and !Kutlwisi on the subject. @D-L: I've given Zhalet 2 vials of holy water free of charge since she can make her own. I figure there would have been downtime to allow the spell to be cast at some point. Sound reasonable? I can see Zhalet really liking this group! Admiration for Thyste, she's tough, experienced, and battle-tested, something Zhalet certainly is not yet, but hopes to be. Great ideological compatibility with !Kutwisi (except for the putting oneself out of business goal), and he's pretty darn adorable otherwise. Mahzuzi is practically a soul mate! Zhalet would never have imagined she'd end up in the company of another Musetouched, or even ever meet one!
Thanks for choosing me D-L! Hello Everyone! I should have gear and formatting done by the end of tomorrow if not tonight. All Players: How do you feel about setting aside a portion of your starting money to purchase a team wand of Cure Light Wounds? It's 750 so a 4 way split would be 187. Both Zhalet and Mahzuzi can cast it (if he has it) but that's not many times considering Zhalet is a 1st level cleric. Her archetype doesn't have spontaneous cure spells. She can also channel but that's not very reliable for significant healing at low levels. It might save a life, but mostly it allows us to have longer adventure days without stopping for rest. Thyste: Here are a couple of links on languages with click consonants. They're cool! Zhalet is also a traicky name to get right. It's Persian. 'Zha-' sounds like the 'Ja' is the French name Jacques. the '-let' has a silent T so it sounds like the end or 'Sorbet' but with an L rather than a B.
Good luck everyone!
Here is my application. All the information on build, background, personality, and appearance (image included) is in the profile. It's almost complete. I still need to finalize gear and I'm sure it needs another edit to catch mistakes. Zhalet will be able to do all the typical cleric stuff, and should be better at skills, especially social, than is usual for a cleric. At this time I expect all future levels to be in Cleric. But I am eyeing the Evangelist prestige class as a possibility on down the line.
As Zhalet passes through the door and starts to look around, she comments "this doesn't seem right. I'd expect this to be a place for more interments, or preparation for them. In either case it should be dry."
Zhalet stays immediately behind Solomon. She thinks back to other Sarenite temples she's visited, read about, or seen pictures of, trying to figure out if the layout of this one is on a standard floor plan or design that will allow her to figure out what the areas ahead will be like.
"Yes, let's keep going. I won't be turned aside from cleaning away this corruption."
Zhalet backpedals from the abomination rubbing her throat. "I'm alright Rukn, thanks, but that was very unpleasant."
I'm not sure Zhalet can adjust since she's grappled. Lurch? Unless I've missed something, Zhalet's down 7 HP, which isn't mortal danger. Of course a grapple could deal ongoing damage, or the undead could have some sort of special choking attack, but at the moment I don't think it's a huge emergency.
Zhalet presses her attack against the monstrosity confronting her.
Fine with me.
It's been a while since Alexander has posted. Anyone heard from him lately? And I guess we're back to this question again...
Zhalet helps Kilarra clean up in the middle.
Then she turns about to support Solomon, coming up beside him.
It's been a while since Alexander has posted. Anyone heard from him lately?
I would be happy to continue if you and the other players want to as well. I haven't played with a party as small as 4 before so I will leave that to others who might have a better idea of how viable we are at that number. From an RP perspective I have noticed a a new person or two recruited in tends to give games a bit of a kickstart as the new personalities are introduced. Organized Play Characters
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Kipp warpriest of Madness
Keziel
Vulpe
Svila
William Gattis
Akemi, Trickster Rogue
General Badger
Hikitsu
Nuova
BeanSí
Nufriend
Witch Deck - Feiya
Zanzarna
Rugburn
Ileana.
Lizeaf
Vikna Nikitich
