By the way, are we waiting on someone?
Rednal, I imagine. We're waiting on a meeting with an NPC as I recall.
Mdt. I need to triple check the posting history, but Jebat's identity to being the Dread Pirate is a secret that he does not disclose on land. Only Kharef suspects because he can detect lies.
If that's the case, then she would not have introduced him as the Dread Pirate.
"Dread Pirate? Oh no, you must have misheard, I said Bread Cadet. I come from a long line of bakers."
Um. Bump. Who's waiting to post?
I was waiting for the GM to post NPC reactions and discussion and such.
Ah, sorry. I didn't really have any interjection to make since this seemed kinda like a briefing that Listrana was running.
Well, Listrana could Command the ruins to appear in front of her. :)
Or she could dig them out over the course of 30 straight days going non stop using Endurance. :)
Other than that, the only way I can think of Listrana to do it would be a Miracle to use Artifice.
Is the combo of Khatef and Beatrice's abilities valid?
The Best Course to find one, her Time thing to draw it into being, I mean.
I did put a smiley face on that to indicate a joke. :)
The Best Course from Knowledge, gaining insight, mixed with Prophetic Insight, from Time, to make a prophecy that will come to pass.
Hm. Not being able to accomplish together anything we could not individually makes it kind of pointless for us to be operating as a group.
In any case, I'm still waiting on an answer to this:
Khatef sits down and closes his eyes for a moment, focusing his mind on thinking of way to find previously undiscovered locations to stage their plan.
I'll try to get a prophecy rolling next time I get to a computer (tomorrow).
Do we have any way to get a Miracle or something to tell us if there may already be an appropriate ruin in the area that's undiscovered? No reason to reinvent the wheel if there already is.
That's what we were trying to do, actually. Essentially (I assume, anyway, if we're on the same page) Beatrice would use this power:
Prophetic Insight On Turn Commit Effort for the day. Make a prophecy about a particular event involving a person present. It will come to pass if it is not completely improbable. If it directly involves an unwilling worthy foe, they can make a Spirit save to disrupt the effect. Events that immediately involve more than a hundred people cannot be so ordained, nor can a person’s inevitable death or great ruin be foretold unless they count as a lesser foe. Even then, they are allowed a Spirit saving throw.
To make a prophecy to the tune of "Khatef will find a suitable location for our scheme", and then Khatef would use one of his Knowledge abilities to do so.
That is 1+1 = 2, as I understand it.
*Coughs* You asked about 'undiscovered' ruins, but the damage here was relatively recent, and people know where all the wrecked old towns are. Their locations aren't mysteries. Their contents, however, could be... and that's why specific wording with prophecies and seeking knowledge is fun!
Having that sort of specificity is...difficult unless I know everything my character knows about the setting. Everything in the book is kinda vague as far as exactly WHEN anything happened. I was under the impression the big sundering of the planet happened centuries if not millenia ago (with organizations like the Black Academies springing up in the wake), but is it actually more recent?
If everything DID happen that recently, the concept of an artifact seems very loose in this context in the first place. "Artifact" implies (though I guess doesn't TECHNICALLY mean) something of great age.
@GM - If there is nothing we can do along these lines, can you just tell us 'Go away, think of something else'? Otherwise we'll be here until next year trying to guess ways to do things.
This is a very very open sandbox type setup, so there's no real clues for us to get guidance from on how to start this stuff, so if we are going to waste weeks in OOC posts trying to do something you have decided we can't do, then I would personally prefer not to spend those weeks.
I'm not saying that's the case here, but it's beginning to feel like it, and I'd really rather actually play rather than go around the mulberry bush for a few more weeks.
I'm ready to move on with the plan, don't have any idea- well, any practical idea.
What's the biggest flaw in our plan (invoking a Knowledge ability to get that info)?
So the rumor needs to include that several other black academies are already in the area and close to finding it. Make the rumor a warning to stay out of the valley because the academies are out in force and killing anyone in the valley to keep them from getting the goodies.
That will put all the academies on a time crunch to get in there and find the artifacts before the others do. We do need a week or so for the hunters to get in and get set up though before we unleash this.
Additionally, special encouragement for the liaison to run back to the academy with the news.
Bump.
Myself, I'm ready to spring the trap and improvise if when things go south.
Kind of lost as to what else to post at this point.
I thought we addressed that by saying we needed to wait until the hunters had gotten in position? I was waiting for the NPC to respond to that.
@GM - In the future, if you arent' going to respond to a post we make, please at least state in discussion that you're not going to post a response? Otherwise we spend a week waiting for the GM response tot he post, and then the GM posts that he was waiting for us to post.
So, the plan is to kill this guy to show the academies that we mean business, or to forcibly get him on our side? I got a bit lost.
We want to find someone who's a medium sized fry. This guy came out by himself, he's either a small fry wanting to get something to be a big fry, or he's a big fry who doesn't want to share. The medium fries will be with a big fry, more than likely.
Translation : This guy we kill.
Quick question to the GM, so we know what to build toward.
Because this is a PBP, will most of our martial opponents be 'worthy'? If so, it would be nice to know for sure. That way Listrana doesn't take a bunch of powers that work well against non-worthy but are useless against worthy.
This is not a criticism, just a clarification. I realize that PBP, being slower, may cause us to skip over such encounters to only waste posting on 'worthy' opponents. I just want to know if we're doing that so I know what to buy/not buy.
I think we're waiting for the guy's save, by the by...
I can go for an offensive dispelling on the summoned creatures, but it would burn me out of Effort and I'm not sure it would work.
Hopefully they're undead.
Listrana could zoom around killing summoned creatures, but she's concerned about leaving you all exposed and fighting the wizard by yourself.
If you think she should be used to kill off the monsters instead, let me know. I just don't want to leave you alone and defenseless.