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The other hit page 50, so here's a new one.
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Of course I hear things when it isn't my turn. :P
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Of course I hear things when it isn't my turn. :P
Blame the game designers. They're the ones that made Listen reactive to Move Silently :D
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Subscribing to this thread. :)
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me too
sry been busy dealing w a main breaker sparking, possible fire damage. hired someone to fix it, but they can't until monday :(
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Where on the map did the noises I heard come from?
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Where on the map did the noises I heard come from?
Starting from roughly the opposite side of the troll (but several feet beyond it), then heading away toward the south. There wasn't any snapping of twigs or branches, so it probably skirted the east edge of the undergrowth.
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She could kind of shove Thane over to the left one square, and take his space. Would that be OK? Or would it require a move action to Handle Animal? I want to help burn that bastard, and that gets her closer to the troll-witch, which IIRC went into the shed, right?
Technically, no, you can't just shove Thane aside for free.
The flying tanarukk female did go into the longhouse, yes.
I've got dinner plans this evening, so I won't be able to update the map until late tonight.
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Double move to GG30.
Okay, first you're going to have to tell me some way-points as to how you get there. (The possibility always exists of you running into something that is making the noise).
Second, GG30 is inside the building. To get there you have to enter the door (HH31 -> HH30). So far as I can tell, you don't have the speed to get there. Unless you can walk through walls?
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Double move to GG30.
Okay, first you're going to have to tell me some way-points as to how you get there. (The possibility always exists of you running into something that is making the noise).
Making my way around the troll (U28) then along the treeline (to W28 to X28 to X29 to BB31) and then straight down from there.
Second, GG30 is inside the building. To get there you have to enter the door (HH31 -> HH30). So far as I can tell, you don't have the speed to get there. Unless you can walk through walls?
Your map has too many squares. I meant GG31.
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She could kind of shove Thane over to the left one square, and take his space. Would that be OK? Or would it require a move action to Handle Animal? I want to help burn that bastard, and that gets her closer to the troll-witch, which IIRC went into the shed, right?
Technically, no, you can't just shove Thane aside for free.
The flying tanarukk female did go into the longhouse, yes.
I've got dinner plans this evening, so I won't be able to update the map until late tonight.
Thane could have taken a 5' step before his full attack, though. Mechanically that's how it would work. Fluff/description-wise, Skulda would just move up and nudge him over.
It hardly matters, as you said this guy is as good as dead, anyway.
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Sorry for the delay; the weekend got busy. It is Risada's/Agni's turn.
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So my modem crapped out last night. Time Warner said they didn't have any techs available for 2 weeks...
But they did file it as an emergency, so they should be sending someone out tonight. We'll see if that happens or not.
It's Thorgrim's turn; hopefully I'll be able to update the map tonight...
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So my modem crapped out last night. Time Warner said they didn't have any techs available for 2 weeks...
But they did file it as an emergency, so they should be sending someone out tonight. We'll see if that happens or not.
It's Thorgrim's turn; hopefully I'll be able to update the map tonight...
2 weeks... :rolleyes Can't they just mail you one? It's not like they're hard to install.
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2 weeks... :rolleyes Can't they just mail you one? It's not like they're hard to install.
Yeah, this will be my third external cable modem from them in less than 5 years. I've already signed up for Google Fiber; hopefully that will be installed by the end of the summer. TWC can take their $62 a month for 5 mbps internet, and shove it.
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Okay, back up and running again. A small part of me feels bad that TWC will go to the time and expense to bury the new line to my house (in 2 - 3 weeks), when I'm just going to dump them once Google Fiber is installed. But oh well.
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Okay, SDK is now delaying. Zook1shoe is up! (Hymir just continues to approach and play music).
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whats near Fzoul... i mean Nanshork
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whats near Fzoul... i mean Nanshork
To mundane eyesight? Nothing beyond the ordinary.
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Zook is delaying.
Phaedrus, take your turn. ;)
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Got two tests tomorrow. If you want to roll, Skulda is going to Coup de Grace the troll, and her cat will also attack it.
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No problem. It seems SDK just had some nasty dental work, and we're heading into a holiday weekend. We'll just suspend until next week sometime.
Have a good Memorial Day. :)
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See the edit to my last post in the game thread. I'm a dunce and failed to roll the troll's Fort save (it was late, coup de grace mechanics didn't even enter my mind). I have now rolled it, and he failed, terribly. Roasted troll, anyone?
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I should have said she just seared his windpipe shut, since you said he was already decapitated. :P
Since Thane has scent, he should be able to find the invisible target nearby. Will post again later.
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I should have said she just seared his windpipe shut, since you said he was already decapitated. :P
Eh, minor flub in the course of play. Inconsequential. ;)
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It's Phaedrus' / Nanshork's turns.
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Sorry, I've been busy lately and had to drop a handful of PbP's (not this one, just fyi).
So, looking back Vita is running at me (forgive me but I don't know who that is...) and I ran into something invisible and the witch is flying around with a box correct (basically)?
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Sorry, I've been busy lately and had to drop a handful of PbP's (not this one, just fyi).
So, looking back Vita is running at me (forgive me but I don't know who that is...) and I ran into something invisible and the witch is flying around with a box correct (basically)?
I think the witch is invisible with the box, not sure if she's flying (probably). I'd like Thane to go get her, and since he's already been attacking the troll (which is now dead), will that need a command? (again... probably... so will have to wait till next turn since Coup De Grace is a full round action...).
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Sorry, I've been busy lately and had to drop a handful of PbP's (not this one, just fyi).
So, looking back Vita is running at me (forgive me but I don't know who that is...) and I ran into something invisible and the witch is flying around with a box correct (basically)?
Vita is Bjartr's raven familiar. It is trying to deliver a curative spell to you. It can fly at a speed of 40 ft, so it'll catch you eventually ;)
The crone tanarukk is flying (she is still ~20 feet in the air again, and is in the bottom right corner of the map), and she is holding some sort of box. You did run into something invisible that caused you to stop short of your destination. You heard whatever that was chant something, and then everything got real quiet for a moment, but now you can hear sound again.
Yeah, telling Thane to seek or track or something will take a move action.
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So.....since no matter what I'm making an attack can I just use the same roll for either and just apply whatever relevant modifiers there are? :flutter
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Sure? Meaning you're going to swing twice into the square in front of you, and if the first misses due to concealment, you want the confirmation roll to be your iterative attack instead?
If not that, I'm confused as to what you mean.
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Sure? Meaning you're going to swing twice into the square in front of you, and if the first misses due to concealment, you want the confirmation roll to be your iterative attack instead?
If not that, I'm confused as to what you mean.
I mean that I'm going to run under the witch and throw my dagger at her but if I smack into the invisible guy first I'm going to stab at him.
Also I rolled a natural 20. So yeah, I want to use that. :D
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Ah, I understand. Sure, sound good.
Without a little context I was like :shrug :???
Remember to give me some waypoints to see if you run into the invisible thing.
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Will do.
Edit: Done, now I can go to bed.
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The tanarukks left are those under Three's control, right?
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The tanarukks left are those under Three's control, right?
Yep.
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ksb, would you allow Agni to reroll the Knowledge check regarding the troll if I use the spell Ancient Knowledge? I need to keep his monster knowledge database updated :P
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Woo, gonna take that hag down!
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ksb, would you allow Agni to reroll the Knowledge check regarding the troll if I use the spell Ancient Knowledge? I need to keep his monster knowledge database updated :P
Sure, after combat is done. (Ancient Knowledge has a 1 minute casting time, making it impractical until everything is dealt with.)
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Noticing the troll is finally dead, Agni looks around... and finds two other trolls following Three, apparently with no intention to attack.
Just in case, he goes closer to Three.
So... where exactly is it that you want to go? Just as far as you can? Or did you intend to give me a target square?
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Noticing the troll is finally dead, Agni looks around... and finds two other trolls following Three, apparently with no intention to attack.
Just in case, he goes closer to Three.
So... where exactly is it that you want to go? Just as far as you can? Or did you intend to give me a target square?
Sorry for that... My boss called me and I couldn't finish my post.
Agni moves to T15 (already edited in my post)
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Not sure if it really matters, but Thorgrim had double-moved towards the party and that's not reflected on the battle map. Though unless another wave shows up, we should probably have one of the resident giant-speakers start interrogating the captivated trolls.
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Not sure if it really matters, but Thorgrim had double-moved towards the party and that's not reflected on the battle map. Though unless another wave shows up, we should probably have one of the resident giant-speakers start interrogating the captivated trolls.
That is 100% my fault. I'll fix it this evening.
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Not sure if it really matters, but Thorgrim had double-moved towards the party and that's not reflected on the battle map. Though unless another wave shows up, we should probably have one of the resident giant-speakers start interrogating the captivated trolls.
Well... we still have a flying troll witch and an invisible creature to deal with. I think the thralls will be around for a bit longer. I guess it is a free action to speak, but if I have to use diplomacy, that's multiple rounds worth of actions.
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It is skydragonknight's turn. If zook1shoe wants to act while we're waiting, go right ahead.
Edit: Zook1shoe's turn.
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Skulda and/or Einar can go.
The only visible foes right now are the tanarukk crone (off the map to the southeast by 120 feet, but within range for spells, arrows, etc), the tanarukk attacking Three, and the one still under her control (with the dot in his token.)
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She's what, 120 feet away? Hmmm, go get her/the box or find Mr. Invisible...
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Yep, 120 feet from your location.
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Have we gotten a ruling on talking out of turn?
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For this style of game, sure, go ahead.
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I forgot to have Geirr the wolf go on Bjartr's turn. I'll have to do it later tonight. Feel free to act in the interim.
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Phaedrus, the AoO from Agni ended Adoration of the Frightful on that tanarukk. Trying to talk with them will be good, but someone'll have to intimidate them again, first.
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Phaedrus and Nanshork, feel free to go.
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Will continue to keep an eye out
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Risada, how are you getting an attack roll of 1d20+10?
You are normally at +9, then you took a -2 for Power Attack, which would put you at +7. Were you attempting to factor in the -4 the tanarukk takes to his AC for being prone?
I'm a dunce. You have a bonus from Knowledge Devotion...
Edit 2: but that's only a +2, which would get you back up to +9. Where's the extra +1 coming from?
I don't think it much matters. His AC is 15, then -4 for prone = 11, so you hit even without whatever the extra +1 is coming from.
Edit: don't forget that you get an iterative attack; you can attack the healthier of the two as well.
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Any results on my Detect Magic? I know it would take 3 rounds to pinpoint locations, but I should at least know if they're within range in the first, right?
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Risada, how are you getting an attack roll of 1d20+10?
You are normally at +9, then you took a -2 for Power Attack, which would put you at +7. Were you attempting to factor in the -4 the tanarukk takes to his AC for being prone?
I'm a dunce. You have a bonus from Knowledge Devotion...
Edit 2: but that's only a +2, which would get you back up to +9. Where's the extra +1 coming from?
I don't think it much matters. His AC is 15, then -4 for prone = 11, so you hit even without whatever the extra +1 is coming from.
Edit: don't forget that you get an iterative attack; you can attack the healthier of the two as well.
I get the +1 from Bjartr's Bless. Gotta remember to never forget my combat stats ever again :rolleyes
And rolling the second attack.
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Any results on my Detect Magic? I know it would take 3 rounds to pinpoint locations, but I should at least know if they're within range in the first, right?
Hymir's not actually on the map yet. On his turn (end of the round) he'll swing by and pick you up.
I'll go into more detail as you start moving around with Hymir, but you'll need to tell me what direction you are looking:
Each round, you can turn to detect magic in a new area.
The area is a 60-foot cone. You get to tell me which 60-foot cone you are looking at each round. So, tell me what direction you are looking the first round when you cast it, and I'll include that information when Hymir picks you up. The next round I'll have Hymir just delay and go on your turn (round 16), and you can just direct him, then tell me what 60-foot cone area you are examining that round.
I get the +1 from Bjartr's Bless.
And rolling the second attack.
Excellent on both counts ;)
Heh... I forgot to give Bjartr his own Bless. Oh well, didn't matter.
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Okay, the lone live tanarukk remaining on the map is going to stand up. Agni can't use the AoO to trip him again, but the question is... does he want to attack him or not? He looks pretty bad; one hit will likely kill him.
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Okay, the lone live tanarukk remaining on the map is going to stand up. Agni can't use the AoO to trip him again, but the question is... does he want to attack him or not? He looks pretty bad; one hit will likely kill him.
Are you asking me?
If he is getting up but not trying to hit Agni, he might let him flee.
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Okay, the lone live tanarukk remaining on the map is going to stand up. Agni can't use the AoO to trip him again, but the question is... does he want to attack him or not? He looks pretty bad; one hit will likely kill him.
Are you asking me?
If he is getting up but not trying to hit Agni, he might let him flee.
I don't think we should let him flee. Taking one prisoner to question might be a good idea. So maybe hit him with the flat of your blade (subdual damage).
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Okay, the lone live tanarukk remaining on the map is going to stand up. Agni can't use the AoO to trip him again, but the question is... does he want to attack him or not? He looks pretty bad; one hit will likely kill him.
Are you asking me?
If he is getting up but not trying to hit Agni, he might let him flee.
I don't think we should let him flee. Taking one prisoner to question might be a good idea. So maybe hit him with the flat of your blade (subdual damage).
Yeah, maybe... But I don't have any more attacks this round...
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Okay, the lone live tanarukk remaining on the map is going to stand up. Agni can't use the AoO to trip him again, but the question is... does he want to attack him or not? He looks pretty bad; one hit will likely kill him.
Are you asking me?
If he is getting up but not trying to hit Agni, he might let him flee.
I don't think we should let him flee. Taking one prisoner to question might be a good idea. So maybe hit him with the flat of your blade (subdual damage).
Yeah, maybe... But I don't have any more attacks this round...
The AoO for him standing up?
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Okay, the lone live tanarukk remaining on the map is going to stand up. Agni can't use the AoO to trip him again, but the question is... does he want to attack him or not? He looks pretty bad; one hit will likely kill him.
Are you asking me?
If he is getting up but not trying to hit Agni, he might let him flee.
I don't think we should let him flee. Taking one prisoner to question might be a good idea. So maybe hit him with the flat of your blade (subdual damage).
Yeah, maybe... But I don't have any more attacks this round...
The AoO for him standing up?
ksb already rolled it for me to trip the healthy tanarukk, IIRC.
Or is it another round already?
Edit: it IS another round... :banghead
Edit2: sorry about the mess... Got a little lost in the last actions. I blame my current sleepy condition while working :P
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No worries. Yeah, this is the same tanarukk you tripped with your AoO last round, so you definitely have your AoO back.
Okay, so ... did you want that to be subdual? If so, you forgot the -4.
Edit: I see you did describe it as such. No problem, your attack roll was high enough it still hits after applying the -4 after the fact.
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You get to tell me which 60-foot cone you are looking at each round.
She'll look due south, at the bottom of the map, on the first round.
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Okay, so you have lots of dead tanarukk, one unconscious tanarukk, a dead troll, two dead winter wolves, and a tanarukk crone splayed out on the ground. You have something invisible that appears to have run away, and you have a serious threat of a forest fire getting completely out of control.
Zook1shoe, what is Three going to do?
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Thin Air... cool idea. Though the spell technically only affects creatures, I like the idea enough that I'll cause it to give a +2 bonus (however that may end up applying) to whatever other attempts are made to smother the fire. :clap
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Thin Air... cool idea. Though the spell technically only affects creatures, I like the idea enough that I'll cause it to give a +2 bonus (however that may end up applying) to whatever other attempts are made to smother the fire. :clap
What exactly are you expecting us to do? I have no idea how to put out a fire according to the RAW. Since whatever we do is basically going to have to be made up, why not just let the spell work? Frankly, I'm annoyed that we have to deal with a forest fire in the first place. It seems like the DM punishing us for using our abilities (Fair warning: My feelings on this may be a bit out of proportion, as this isn't the first game where I've had a DM create a forest fire from a Fireball. Last time, I was a ranger and it burned down my home forest.).
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Thin Air... cool idea. Though the spell technically only affects creatures, I like the idea enough that I'll cause it to give a +2 bonus (however that may end up applying) to whatever other attempts are made to smother the fire. :clap
What exactly are you expecting us to do? I have no idea how to put out a fire according to the RAW. Since whatever we do is basically going to have to be made up, why not just let the spell work? Frankly, I'm annoyed that we have to deal with a forest fire in the first place. It seems like the DM punishing us for using our abilities (Fair warning: My feelings on this may be a bit out of proportion, as this isn't the first game where I've had a DM create a forest fire from a Fireball. Last time, I was a ranger and it burned down my home forest.).
There's the Quench (http://The http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/quench.htm) spell that could help here... But it's such a situational spell it's unlikely anyone ever prepares it in the first place...
Edit: anyone with Create Water (the 0 level spell)? Perhaps someone could use it to put down the fire like a firefighter? :lol
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Combat is over... Anyone with knowledge (the planes) can go ahead and give me another roll.
Heck, I'll roll them, just give me a couple minutes.
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Combat is over... Anyone with knowledge (the planes) can go ahead and give me another roll.
Heck, I'll roll them, just give me a couple minutes.
I was going to ask if I could roll after casting Ancient Knowledge... But I was too late.
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Hymir has Create Water prepared, but honestly how much can that help with a big fire like this? I guess we can try...
He also has a good bardic knowledge bonus (+12), which might be useable instead of Knowledge (Planes).
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Bjartr and Einar both got a 15, which allows them to recall some useful information, like the fact that tanarukk have an ability that allows them to control flame.
Yeah, Agni/Risada can use the spell. No problem to apply it after the fact. That also gives you a 15, so you also recall something like the above.
Let's try Bardic Knowledge:
Bardic KNowledge 1d20+12 : 5 + 12, total 17
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Hmm. If only there was a tanarukk who wasn't dead who we could make friendly towards us... :whistle
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Hmm. If only there was a tanarukk who wasn't dead who we could make friendly towards us... :whistle
Ding ding ding!
Wake him up with a Cure Light Wounds, Intimidate the crap out of him (one or multiple checks, with some Aid Another, however you guys want), and I'll let Skulda speak for whomever actually won the check (easy to "gang up" now that combat is over)...
What tanarukk have is a unique SLA:
Control Flame (Sp): Tanarukks can cause a nonmagical fire within 10 feet of them to diminish to the level of coals or flare to the brightness of daylight and double the normal radius of illumination. This ability does not change the heat output or fuel consumption of the fire source, lasts 5 minutes, and may be done once per day. They use this ability as 5th-level sorcerers.
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Hmm. If only there was a tanarukk who wasn't dead who we could make friendly towards us... :whistle
Ding ding ding!
:lmao I think this is going to be up to Three and/or Skulda. Hymir has Charm Person, but IIRC the tannaruk are outsiders.
Skulda's intimidate is +12, and Three's is +19. I think she still has that Adoration of the Frightful going, right? So let's all huddle up, Hymir can throw up a Mass Lesser Vigor to top off our HPs and bring the Tannaruk back to consciousness, then we can intimidate him into being our friend. :P
Skulda also has Diplomacy of +18, but I think that will take too much time (without having Naberius bound, so she can take 10 as a standard action).
Edit: Unfortunately, the longer we mess around with this, the more time our invisible "friend" has to scurry away...
We need to divide our efforts, I guess. Maybe Hymir can just let Skulda take his horse, and he stays to cast MLV. Then she can help our trackers and animals try to find this invisible person.
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Just FYI - lesser vigor will take a good minute or more to wake him up.
CLW will do it immediately, because it heals a like amount of nonlethal damage.
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I guess it's up to Bjartr, then... NPCs save the day! :lmao
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By the time Thorgrim catches up I'll assume the troll is conscious and being "persuaded".
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Thin Air... cool idea. Though the spell technically only affects creatures, I like the idea enough that I'll cause it to give a +2 bonus (however that may end up applying) to whatever other attempts are made to smother the fire. :clap
thx... Yeah thought it'd be outside the box.
know planes 1d20+8 : 5 + 8, total 13
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I'll be traveling some the next few days, so I won't get to post but once per day, likely. Make whatever intimidate and aid another checks you want, and I'll move things along with the results tonight or tomorrow morning.
I suppose we're going to fall out of initiative rounds; does Nanshork want to deal with the fallen crone first, or does he want to track down the invisible thing? It seems like everyone else is helping deal with the fire.
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I want to know what's in the box. :)
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Actually I think I'll let Three take care of intimidating the tannaruk into helping out with the fire, and Skulda will ride around on Hymir's horse and scan for the invisible "thing" with Detect Magic, using Einar's and the animals tracking skills to give her clues as where to look.
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If SDK is willing to go after the box/crone Einar would rather track down the invisible thing.
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Okay, so Thorgrim will check out the crone, Einar and Skulda/Hymir will look for the invisible thing, and everyone else will deal with the tanarukk and the fire (after Hymir uses a CLW on him).
I'll be updating sometime this morning, making checks for people as needed.
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Sorry for the hiatus. I was in Wisconsin for a wedding, and just ran out of time. Then we went to my in-laws', who have crappy internet (and well, spending time with family and all). I'm taking the day off of work tomorrow, too (a vacation from my "vacation") so will update then.
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No worries, hope that was fun
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Hymir just cast and touch as you were mounting. Nothing more than that. A round at most.
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Ahem, would somebody remember to grab my sword that I just remembered Einar dropped in front of the house? :bigeyes
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Waiting on SDK to take a turn. Then I'll describe the fire-dousing, fiddle with the invisible guy, and go back to the top of the round.
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My target is off the map you said? Then exactly how far is the crone from Thorgrim? Is the box that it dropped still on the ground?
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My target is off the map you said? Then exactly how far is the crone from Thorgrim? Is the box that it dropped still on the ground?
Sorry, after I said that, Phaedrus rolled an initiative check, beat both of you, and I allowed his action to happen first, knocking the crone unconscious once again. She is in the square indicated on the last map, just a few squares away from you.
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So sorry for the delay. I spent 6 hours doing some spring cleaning on Saturday, and it wiped me out. Busy Sunday, live game tonight, etc, etc.
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No problem man... I understand being busy. :D I thought maybe we were waiting on other PCs to post anyway.
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No, I was going to post, stating what's happening "off screen" with Bjartr, Three, Agni, and the tanarukk putting out the fire.
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Yeah, sounds good
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*Eagerly awaiting for Skulda and the rest to catch the invisible creep* :whistle
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Sorry, was on a 1300 mile road trip this weekend. Had to go to Wisconsin for a wedding. My third wedding in 4 weeks, and the last of the summer; praise the Lord that's all done.
I have a live game tonight, but will update late tonight or tomorrow, most likely. Attempts by Einar, et al, to search out the invisible dude in the interim would be great; elsewise I'm likely to wrap things up (it's generally quite difficult to catch someone via tracking until they stop moving, due to you needing to go slow or take large penalties).
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Sorry, was on a 1300 mile road trip this weekend. Had to go to Wisconsin for a wedding. My third wedding in 4 weeks, and the last of the summer; praise the Lord that's all done.
I have a live game tonight, but will update late tonight or tomorrow, most likely. Attempts by Einar, et al, to search out the invisible dude in the interim would be great; elsewise I'm likely to wrap things up (it's generally quite difficult to catch someone via tracking until they stop moving, due to you needing to go slow or take large penalties).
Oh... I wasn't complaining or anything. Just felt like posting something since it was quiet for a while...
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I hope everyone (in the US, at least) had a great Independence Day weekend. I don't know about you, but I'm curious to see what's in the box (insert obligatory Se7en reference here). The fighting is basically done (someone needs to coup de grace the crone with some fire or something), so we can move ahead and figure out what's happened here.
Also, just a reminder that I sent Risada some info about the troll, which was the result of his Knowledge check.
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Skulda still has Produce Flame going. So she can CDG the crone. I'm going to be out of town for this week and a bit of next, so might not be posting as frequently, but I do have internet. So I'll try to get on at least once per day.
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No problem. I know it is summer for most of us, and trips abound. My June was nuts in that regard.
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I hope everyone (in the US, at least) had a great Independence Day weekend. I don't know about you, but I'm curious to see what's in the box (insert obligatory Se7en reference here). The fighting is basically done (someone needs to coup de grace the crone with some fire or something), so we can move ahead and figure out what's happened here.
Also, just a reminder that I sent Risada some info about the troll, which was the result of his Knowledge check.
I did not forget that... Just that couldn't find the time to post since people are scattered. Gonna post the info when everyone is reunited...
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I did not forget that... Just that couldn't find the time to post since people are scattered. Gonna post the info when everyone is reunited...
Got it. With the break I just didn't want you to forget.
I've edited the below into the spoiler block of my last post, which talked about an ehwaz rune. This is the symbol found on the cover of the black leather-bound book:
(http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk48/ksbsnowowl/RHoDtrilithon_zpscbeb8bb7.gif) (http://s277.photobucket.com/user/ksbsnowowl/media/RHoDtrilithon_zpscbeb8bb7.gif.html)
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How far are Thorgrim, Einar and Skulda? Did Agni see where they went?
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You can see them. At most Einar is ~300 feet south of the farmhouse, near the tree line (now trudging back north, looking pissed off; actually, given the time it took to de-limb the burning tree, he's probably back). Thorgrim and Skulda are standing near the crone's body, ~120 feet south of the farmhouse. I forget if Hymir is with Einar or Thorgrim and Skulda.
It would be no issue to call everyone together. We're fully out of combat rounds now.
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Sorry for not posting today. Crappy day involving a flooded garage, a plumber, and buying/using a new shop vac. Now I'm drinking. Yup.
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With a quick look around... Is it possible to identify possible tanarukks and/or trolls that might carry something? Don't want to lose time looking for stuff while interrogating this fellow...
Up near the road (which is where I presume you are with this tanarukk, since he doused the fire), the tanarukk you see laying about look mostly similar. All were unarmored and carried battleaxes. It's difficult to do at a glance, but you can tell one dead tanarukk face from another. They are all wearing rough leather leggings/pants with a belt, and have cloth-wrapped feet. They are also all wearing heavy metal gauntlets on their hands.
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You bunch of bloodthristy murderers, you! Killing helpless and tied up tanarukk like they are a threat! >:( :lmao
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I would do it, but I have my hands full at the moment. It's not easy to carry this many things. :P
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57 damage. (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=11182.msg248218#msg248218) I am guessing no need for a Fort save.
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Go ahead and chat while on the road, or just wait and I'll update more tonight or tomorrow, and get you to Niðarós.
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Go ahead and chat while on the road, or just wait and I'll update more tonight or tomorrow, and get you to Niðarós.
Already started it :P
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I observed this comment and am passing it along.
My toddler poured a glass of water on my laptop... May be out of commission for a few days while I get a new one... Luckily everything important was set to auto-backup to google...
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Sorry for the delay. Very busy weekend (Guardians of the Galaxy was good, by the way), and then last night and this morning I'm dealing with a flat tire... Good weekend, crappy ending.
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Sorry for the delay. Very busy weekend (Guardians of the Galaxy was good, by the way), and then last night and this morning I'm dealing with a flat tire... Good weekend, crappy ending.
Very good movie.
No problem... You should enjoy your tabletop game today and then come play with us poor mortals tomorrow.
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I am Gro....I mean, I look forward to continuing.
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I am Gro....I mean, I look forward to continuing.
:lmao
Yup.
Just a heads up that http://www.teefury.com has an AWESOME Rocket-Groot/Han-Chewbacca mash-up right now. I ordered mine in silver (I thought it looked more '80's retro than the other colors).
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Would we rather have Malphus' bird for scouting ahead, or Mounts (from the Green Lady)? Or maybe I should Identify things? Any opinions?
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Would we rather have Malphus' bird for scouting ahead, or Mounts (from the Green Lady)? Or maybe I should Identify things? Any opinions?
Yeah, although Ospak was looking to you to scout, how you did it doesn't much matter. Do whatever you guys would like.
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If I'd actually read your post, I would have seen that it doesn't really matter... as you basically skipped over the day's uneventful travels. :P So let's say she bound Malphas last evening and used his bird to help scout. She would have been under his influence, which is markedly different from the previous vestige's (Green Lady). So her partymates would have noted her behavior change.
Now that we're at evening again, she can bind a new vestige. Since we're in a populous area, I'll probably go with Naberius.
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Could she have identified things last night? There are still unidentified things since the dwarf encounter (in the party spoils at the bottom of my sheet).
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Clarification needed: First post of the prologue made it sound like we were going to Eyrrinberg, not Niðarós.
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Could she have identified things last night? There are still unidentified things since the dwarf encounter (in the party spoils at the bottom of my sheet).
Nope. She can only know one spell as a SLA per day, and yesterday she had Mount.
I guess I could bind the Green Lady for Identify now that we're in town, and relatively safe. I don't think we particularly need Naberius... So let's do that, I guess.
I don't remember the time when she expelled the vestige earlier. That's basically the time that I'm now rebinding vestiges. I know it was in the afternoon/evening.
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Could she have identified things last night? There are still unidentified things since the dwarf encounter (in the party spoils at the bottom of my sheet).
So long as she has Expel Vestige (I don't recall if she can to that or not, yet), I don't have a problem with it. Doesn't that involve another binding check, and if she fails, she can't expel the first one?
Nevermind, Phaedrus answered better than I while I got busy with work.
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Hymir, who loves to hear himself talk almost as he loves the feel of a woman against him, says "Ah Sire, thank you so much for this feast, for we are weary from our trials and tribulations. Not long after we'd set out, we pursued some trolls under the mountain, and found ourselves within the realm of Midguard, where we had to deal with a scheming dwarf, and his two giant enemies. Then..."
He continues on for some time, even breaking into song occasionally, as he retells the adventures of the group over the last few days, with little embellishment even needed, due to its inherently dramatic nature.
Excellent telling, but a few minor corrections:
1) Although it occurred shortly after the campaign started, it was actually over two weeks since Ospak left Rapolla. I don't recall how/when Hymir joined up with them (though I seem to recall he was with the caravan since Rapolla; Ospak ordered him to help scout out the first overturned wagon, which led to you backtracking to the tanarukk cave), but I know some, like Thorgrim, were guards since Rapolla.
You could say something like "shortly after she [Skulda] joined us," or "shortly after we left the road to Niðarós..."
(Which reminds me... I just screwed up the name of the village you are in... this is Eyrrinberg, not Niðarós... time to go edit corrections!)
2) Midgard is the world of men. You guys crossed over into Nidavellir, the world of dwarves.
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Fixed. It was late, and I wrote that in a hurry without doing any research to check for errors. :P
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Fixed. It was late, and I wrote that in a hurry without doing any research to check for errors. :P
No problem, I just noticed a BIG goof on my part that I had to go back and edit over the last two pages of posts in the game thread.
Just so everyone is on the same page, the village you are currently in is Eyrrinberg, not Niðarós. Niðarós is down the coast about 50 miles to the south. I blundered that the last few pages...
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I'm thinking I should bind Astaroth/Diabolus (http://ethar-dnd.wikidot.com/forum/t-360322/non-standard-binder-vestiges) for a Divination on where to look for the trolls, then bind Malphas to send the bird to scout ahead of us, while we move towards their position.
Maybe we should find another way to identify things, if we think we're in a time crunch... because for Skulda to do that takes up one of her daily vestiges. I guess I could quickly go use Expel Vestige, bind Diabolus, and do the Divination. Then when he/it expires, bind the Green Lady for Identify as a SLA, then expel HER and rebind Malphus for the bird... I'm going to be going around suffering from failed bindings for days, though... :P
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Let's try to identify as much stuff as possible before leaving...
If I can get an Artificer's Monocle, I can help with identifying stuff...
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So... we're going to have to do without something, if we're actually going to head out and do stuff tomorrow. Here are the three vestiges/options, of which we can get two:
1) Divination at will
2) Identify at will
3) the bird, which Skulda can see through, for scouting
I'm thinking I'll go with #2 for now, ID all of our stuff, then expel it and bind #1 in the wee hours of the morning and do a bunch of Divinations (the combat abilities of that vestige are semi-OK, also). We'll have to rely on actual scouts for scouting instead of the bird.
When we actually have a bit of time, I could craft an Artificer's Monocle by binding Astaroth (http://therafimrpg.wikidot.com/astaroth). It would take 2 days, 60 XP and 750 gp. I'd also need someone with 5 ranks in Know: Arcana to participate to fulfill that prereq. However... since I can ID everything for free by binding the right vestige, I think it's probably not worth it. /shrug
For Divinations, I'm thinking of the following questions:
1) Who or what is organizing the trolls?
2) How many trolls are organizing?
3) Where are the trolls gathering?
4) Is the King's son still alive?
I can cast it once every 10 minutes while I have the vestige bound, so offer up some suggestions if you can think of anything else.
Another interesting option might be to use this spell (instead of and/or before using Divination): http://dndtools.eu/spells/book-of-exalted-deeds--52/path-of-the-exalted--40/
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I'm thinking I'll go with #2 for now, ID all of our stuff, then expel it and bind #1 in the wee hours of the morning and do a bunch of Divinations (the combat abilities of that vestige are semi-OK, also). We'll have to rely on actual scouts for scouting instead of the bird.
When we actually have a bit of time, I could craft an Artificer's Monocle by binding Astaroth (http://therafimrpg.wikidot.com/astaroth). It would take 2 days, 60 XP and 750 gp. I'd also need someone with 5 ranks in Know: Arcana to participate to fulfill that prereq. However... since I can ID everything for free by binding the right vestige, I think it's probably not worth it. /shrug
I vote for crafting the Monocle... So you can pass the "Identifying Stuff" task to me... I can provide the ranks in Knowledge (Arcana)... Even pay for the XP.
For Divinations, I'm thinking of the following questions:
1) Who or what is organizing the trolls?
2) How many trolls are organizing?
3) Where are the trolls gathering?
4) Is the King's son still alive?
I can cast it once every 10 minutes while I have the vestige bound, so offer up some suggestions if you can think of anything else.
Another interesting option might be to use this spell (instead of and/or before using Divination): http://dndtools.eu/spells/book-of-exalted-deeds--52/path-of-the-exalted--40/
I don't know... Maybe ask if there's some area near the village where might exist a seal where they could be leaking into the material plane?
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i'm dealing with probably depression and need some time to get things together. i'm pulling out of all my games. sry about this
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We understand. Do whatever you think you need to do. You are always welcome to come back at any time.
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thank you and everyone for understanding
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Agreed, take what time you need.
Okay, just a quick listing of what characters are here and active:
Einar (Nanshork)
Thorgrim (SDK)
Skulda (Phaedrus)
Agni (Risada)
We also have Hymir and Bjartr being run as NPC's/extra PC's. I know when dna1 left, he was expecting to be too busy until approximately summer. Summer is here and nearly past; a quick look at his activity shows he's not been on-line in a week and a half. I'm cool with keeping the two of those NPC's going as NPC's for the time being. I was planning to "retire" Bjartr in town here, but with the loss of zook1shoe's Three, I'll keep him on instead (a little extra NPC healing-battery never hurts, right?)
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Out of combat healing isn't really a problem, as we can just use wands/healing belts/etc. There have been a couple times we used in combat healing, though, and the versatility of his spell list would certainly missed...
I think we'd probably be fine either way, though.
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I'm fine either way as well, I hope things go well for you zook.
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thanks. if you want to run her as an NPC go for it
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I will reprepare spells, also. With him bound, half of any fire damage she does is vile. So she'll even be able to damage tannaruk with Fireballs today. :devil[/spoiler]
And impossible to heal with normal means :smirk
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Quick question about Binders and their CL for the effects of their granted SU's and SLA's. Skulda's caster level for the divinations is 6? Or is there a feat or something that would alter that caster level?
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Quick question about Binders and their CL for the effects of their granted SU's and SLA's. Skulda's caster level for the divinations is 6? Or is there a feat or something that would alter that caster level?
It is 6. Improved Binding doesn't affect that (only the level of vestige that you can bind).
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One more thing. You can use Identify at will as an SLA... but it still takes an hour per casting.
A spell-like ability takes the same amount of time to complete as the spell that it mimics (usually 1 standard action) unless otherwise stated.
Nothing in the description of the Green Lady speeds that up.
Just curious exactly how long into the night Skulda will work. She still has several items to potentially identify:
1 x Ring (Dwarf's)
1 x Necklace (of Fireballs?)
1 x Dwarf's Axe
1 x Leather Gloves
1 x Brown Sack
1 x Pearl
1 x Silver Ring
1 x Metal Flask
Stone with shining flecks in it
Small ceramic bead
A feather
The jar of lineament that Litr the dwarf used to heal Moeid
However, do keep in mind that the sun rises around 7:15 in the morning, and sets about 5:30 in the evening, so there's plenty of dark hours in which to work and sleep. Just not enough to do all those things this evening.
Once I know how many and which things you want identified tonight, I'll post with that info, as well as with answers to your divinations.
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All of that stuff is magical? Wow...
She can actually try to ID things with Spellcraft checks from the Green Lady vestige, but I'm pretty sure I'd already tried that on at least some of that stuff... and the vestige says you can't try again (is that like... that day, or ever?)...
Trying that only takes a minute. So I'll try using that method first, then we can see what's left.
Edit: OK here (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=11182.msg216523;topicseen#msg216523)is where she tried before. I guess that failed on all of those, including the dwarf's ring?
Man... I really need a way to boost her Spellcraft checks...
Edit2: I guess we'll go with these.
1 x Ring (Dwarf's)
1 x Dwarf's Axe
1 x Leather Gloves
1 x Silver Ring
Stone with shining flecks in it
Small ceramic bead
That should still give her 8 hours of sleep, I think.
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Inspire Confidence? We have a bard. All you have to do is ask him before he gets drunk.
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Yeah, it's one try ever (just like it's one try ever to use spellcraft to ID a potion).
You did correctly ID the dwarf's ring. I also rolled in the very next dice thread post for the other items that weren't listed in Thorgrim's character sheet, and you ID'ed one of them, too. So that leaves you with nine more items (the aforementioned pearl is NOT magical; I was away from home and was trying to go by memory on some of this).
*Dwarf's ring - Ring of Protection +1
Dwarf's Necklace of golden baubles - throwing them produces a fireball
small battleaxe
leather gloves
a Brown Sack
A silver ring
metal flask
Jar of Ointment - you saw this heal Moied when used on her.
Feather
*Small Ceramic Bead - Daylight Pellet (MIC)
stone with reflective flecks
Inspire Confidence? We have a bard. All you have to do is ask him before he gets drunk.
For future items, that's not a bad idea...
Edit:
Edit2: I guess we'll go with these.
1 x Ring (Dwarf's)
1 x Dwarf's Axe
1 x Leather Gloves
1 x Silver Ring
Stone with shining flecks in it
Small ceramic bead
That should still give her 8 hours of sleep, I think.
The dwarf's ring and the ceramic bead are already identified (see bolded portions above). What two one other items do you want? The metal flask and or the brown sack? (Keep in mind, you'll be spending nearly an hour on divinations, too.)
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Let's go with the flask, I guess... We can just try using the sack (or wait... or maybe the cleric can ID it, since he is a cloistered cleric IIRC, which means he has the knowledge domain and Identify with no material component).
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It seems there is some serious shit going on, huh...
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Definitely. :D
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But I know that our melee
brutes PCs can deal with it without a sweat... While we squishy casters hang back behind them :P
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So I was skimming back to try to remember the name of something from the first (BG boards) game and ran across something that seems to be related to this one. Hooray for keeping the same character! :)
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That's awesome. :D
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So I was skimming back to try to remember the name of something from the first (BG boards) game and ran across something that seems to be related to this one. Hooray for keeping the same character! :)
:smirk
Consider yourself to have 100 bonus XP. Given the nature of a pbp, XP doesn't directly factor into leveling a whole lot (I keep a running tally in an excel sheet, but at the pace things go, and the lack of "sessions" makes normal XP awards rather counter-intuitive. I just keep a running tally, and tell everyone when to level up. But, this bonus XP could be used for other things (spells, item creation, etc). I know you aren't planning to go into anything that would really use it, but if Nanshork were to get some, it would eventually be useful for his runescars, and that sort of thing.
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Wait... We didn't pass those farms on the way in, did we?
Another of the bodies looks to be fairly well dressed; too bad about the dried blood splashed across the finery.
Party spoils
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1 x good outfit from well-dressed man - bloody, needs prestidigitation
Umm....err....it's probably nothing.
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You could show the clothing to Northri, and see if it belonged to Eyvind. But Eyvind did head out with ten or twelve other men; you didn't find anywhere near those many corpses at the farm.
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Heads up to everybody, I'm leaving the country Monday the 15th and won't be back until the night of Thursday the 25th. I will have no internet access during this time.
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Heads up to everybody, I'm leaving the country Monday the 15th and won't be back until the night of Thursday the 25th. I will have no internet access during this time.
Where are you headed? Work or fun time?
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Heads up to everybody, I'm leaving the country Monday the 15th and won't be back until the night of Thursday the 25th. I will have no internet access during this time.
Where are you headed? Work or fun time?
Australia, and fun time. I'm going to go visit my dad (and scuba dive at the great barrier reef).
I'm a systems administrator, I never have to/get to travel for work.
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Well have fun, and don't worry about us ;)
Things will probably be slow for a while anyways. Phaedrus and I have both gotten quite busy of late. By the 25th we probably will have only just gotten back to the farm site of the ambush (that is where we're planning to go, right?)
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Is that where the King's son went? If it is, then that's our target.
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Just looked through the post with world's information and couldn't find anything about an Angel of Death. Who are they? What is their role in society/world?
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Probably a priestess of Hel. ;)
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Wise women, seers, that sort of thing. Sort of your stereotypical hedge witch old woman. Primarily, what we know of them is that they served a function during elaborate funerals for norse kings and earls.
From wikipedia about Ibn Fadlan's account:
Ibn Fadlan account[edit]
A 10th-century Arab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan produced a description of a funeral of a Scandinavian,[8] probably Swedish,[9] chieftain who was on an expedition on the eastern route.[9] The account is a unique source on the ceremonies surrounding the Viking funeral[9][10] of a chieftain.[10]
The dead chieftain was put in a temporary grave, which was covered for ten days until they had sewn new clothes for him. One of his thrall women volunteered to join him in the afterlife and she was guarded day and night, being given a great amount of intoxicating drinks while she sang happily. When the time had arrived for cremation, they pulled his longship ashore and put it on a platform of wood, and they made a bed for the dead chieftain on the ship. Thereafter, an old woman referred to as the "Angel of Death" put cushions on the bed. She was responsible for the ritual.[9]
Then they disinterred the chieftain and gave him new clothes. In his grave, he received intoxicating drinks, fruits and a stringed instrument. The chieftain was put into his bed with all his weapons and grave offerings around him. Then they had two horses run themselves sweaty, cut them to pieces, and threw the meat into the ship. Finally, they sacrificed a hen and a cock.[9]
Meanwhile, the thrall girl went from one tent to the other and had sexual intercourse with the men. Every man told her: "Tell your master that I did this because of my love to him". In the afternoon, they moved the thrall girl to something that looked like a door frame, where she was lifted on the palms of the men three times. Every time, the girl told of what she saw. The first time, she saw her father and mother, the second time, she saw all her relatives, and the third time she saw her master in the afterworld. There, it was green and beautiful and together with him, she saw men and young boys. She saw that her master beckoned for her.[9] By using intoxicating drinks, they thought to put the thrall girl in an ecstatic trance that made her psychic and through the symbolic action with the door frame, she would then see into the realm of the dead.[10] The same ritual also appears in the Icelandic short story "Völsa þáttr", where two pagan Norwegian men lift the lady of the household over a door frame to help her look into the otherworld.[11]
Thereafter, the thrall girl was taken away to the ship. She removed her bracelets and gave them to the old woman. Thereafter she removed her finger rings and gave them to the old woman's daughters, who had guarded her. Then they took her aboard the ship, but they did not allow her to enter the tent where the dead chieftain lay. The girl received several vessels of intoxicating drinks and she sang and bade her friends farewell.[9]
Then the girl was pulled into the tent and the men started to beat on the shields so her screams could not be heard. Six men entered the tent to rape the girl,[12] after which they forced her onto her master's bed. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death put a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. Thereafter, the relatives of the dead chieftain arrived with a burning torch and set the ship aflame.[9] It is said that the fire facilitates the voyage to the realm of the dead.
Afterwards, a round barrow was built over the ashes, and in the centre of the mound they erected a staff of birch wood, where they carved the names of the dead chieftain and his king. Then they departed in their ships.[13]
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I asked for the Angel of Death, but considering she only takes care of the dead... I don't really have any idea about what to ask...
I am thinking on the matter regarding the seals... See if she knows anything about it.
What do you guys think?
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Who knows? We have no idea what this woman knows... :P Just go for it.
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Who knows? We have no idea what this woman knows... :P Just go for it.
Indeed, give a go at picking her brain :smirk
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Thanks for the chuckle, Phaedrus. Two old ladies in a cat fight!
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:D
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Holy crap she must be old. :lmao You added that pointy ear bit in there on the last, didn't you? :P
I did previously mention that delicate features were barely yet noticeable beneath her wrinkles. I hadn't mentioned her ears because they were covered by her hair; I had thought of mentioning it, but decided it wouldn't be noticeable until her hair was out of the way. No, I did not alter her race on a whim. :nonono
:P
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Hilarious scene. I think we should definitely file her away to visit with again later. :D
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Oh, she'll remember you. That's a certainty :smirk
Edit: Just letting you know that I made a new Cast of Characters (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=14723.0) thread. Just to help all of you (and honestly, myself) remember the names of NPC's.
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I'm back.
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I'm back.
:clap :D
Sorry, I'm tipsy. What? It's Friday night.
So, you all want to go visit this Bram character first?
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Yes.
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Sorry for the delay; it's been a busy week. Yesterday my wife defended her doctoral thesis in toxicology. In-laws in from out of town, etc. Will be a busy weekend, yet.
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Sorry for the delay; it's been a busy week. Yesterday my wife defended her doctoral thesis in toxicology. In-laws in from out of town, etc. Will be a busy weekend, yet.
Tell your wife congrats! (Or don't... if she's like mine and hates this stuff :P )
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Very nice. Also: better to have in-laws visit you than to have outlaws visit you!
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No post in a month? I hope everyone is healthy?
I've read the whole thread, prologue and chapter.... Y'all gonna' continue?
thanks for everything....
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My assumption is that ksb has been busy, it happens with PbP games.
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My assumption is that ksb has been busy, it happens with PbP games.
He hadn't been posting in the other one I'm a PC in either. So yeah, I'd assumed as much.
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Much apologies. October was a very busy month. My wife got her PhD in toxicology, was offered a new job, and my hometown Kansas City Royals treated me to a very fun (but time-consuming) World Series run. Now to get back in the swing of things ;)
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Wow, that's great about your wife! Will you be moving for the new job, or is it close enough to commute?
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Thanks. Still in KC. Actually just a post-doc in a different department at the same medical center. She had been studying liver, but her new lab is in cancer biology, though her new boss' research in metastasis has been leading in a liver direction. We're just very thankful we don't have to move (my family is here, well-established D&D group, etc). Very excited for the pay raise, though...
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Congratulations!
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You live in KC? How interesting. I lived there for 10 years, and still visit every couple a years.
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No one wants to take Bram up on his hospitality? :P
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Oh I just assumed we were... guess I should actually reply. :P I also was trying not to be the only one doing actual dialogue. :D
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Given Einar's backstory would he know anyone appropriate that can pass messages to the Hathran?
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Given Einar's backstory would he know anyone appropriate that can pass messages to the Hathran?
Most likely. Other than the town of Urling, Hathran and Ethran are pretty well dispersed in settlements around the country. Ethran (any Rashemi female that has taken the Ethran feat) number in the thousands. Even a backwater fishing village is likely to have at least an Ethran. If you spent any time in a "Large Town," then that location would at the least have one Hathran in town or nearby. Almost anyone that lived in such a town would know who the local Hathran was, and how to get in touch with her (assuming she's in town).
Make up a name/one-line backstory for the contact, if you want. The teenage nephew of a berserker-lodge member, the local cobbler, the local blacksmith, etc.
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So... Trogdor, the berserker practitioner of fire magics... What would you say he is?
Barb 1/Wiz 1?
Barb 1/Duskblade 5?
:smirk
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I like Dusblade for Trogdor.
Trogdor the Burninator is a Barbarian 1/ Duskblade 5/Rage Mage 1 (or working up to that depending on how high of a level Trogdor should be) with the Energy Substitution (Fire) feat.
He and Einar went troll hunting together back when Einar was still in Rashemen.
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Trogdor... :lmao
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Trogdor... :lmao
It was the first name I could think of, so I ran with it!
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Unless anyone has any other topics you want to bring up with Bram, I'll skim through to tomorrow morning, when he can prepare to do the things he's just talked about.
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I'd like Skulda to talk to him a bit more about "their people" guarding the standing stone prisons (I'm guessing he's a MotY? I was wanting her to join them, eventually :) ). I don't know that I'll have time to actually RP out much IC till next week, though. Not much free time on the weekends (that's reserved for family, mostly).
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Happy Turkey Day!
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Happy Turkey Day!
Indeed. The fat bird and a wedding kept me pretty busy the last week or so. But no live game tonight, so I can actually get around to posting something ;)
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Got a test tomorrow. Will post when I have time. :)
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Got a test tomorrow. Will post when I have time. :)
Good luck on the test!
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Phaedrus, do you mind if I run Skulda on "autopilot" in my next post, when Bram poses a question or two? Just to get the question and answering done quickly.
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no problem
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That's one of the advantages of PbP... The DM actually gets enough time to make awesome answers to a player's Divination and such. And this group here possess some of the best players to play with...
Really, thank you guys. :clap :clap
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I feel the same. My consideration for a game goes way up whenever I see one ( or more) of your names as applicants.
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I feel the same about you guys. :D
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Aw... Warm fuzzies all around :flutter
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Einar stays quiet, unsure of how to respond to all of this.
Einar just wants to slay trolls... :smirk
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Einar stays quiet, unsure of how to respond to all of this.
Einar just wants to slay trolls... :smirk
Pretty much. All these people with their feelings, what's up with that? :P
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I'll move us through to the morning when I get a chance, but I've got a busy day ahead of me, so it might not happen until tomorrow.
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I feel the same. My consideration for a game goes way up whenever I see one ( or more) of your names as applicants.
Definitely.
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Let's say I
am a slave work with the Hathran... How bad would be if I sent a message to them with our current situation with the trolls? Could I direct it to the one who "hired" me back then?
Edit: Tentative Letter (just so I don't forget it).
To the person who find this letter: please give it to any Hathran. It is a very important message.
The demons stir from their stone prisons and are manipulating the trolls in order to raise an army. There are signs from their stirring around Eyrrinberg. Something must be done to suppress their uprising.
Agni, member of Hathran Iskra's guard
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I will be very busy today, and then of course its the weekend. So I'm not sure when I'll get around to posting, or updating my prepared spells and bound vestige.
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Let's say I am a slave work with the Hathran... How bad would be if I sent a message to them with our current situation with the trolls? Could I direct it to the one who "hired" me back then?
I don't think that would be bad at all. Animal messenger is solely based on the caster's knowledge; since Bram has never been to Rashemen, he's planning to just instruct the bird to fly east, then turn north up the coast until he sees a village. There, he'll allow anyone to approach him and retrieve the letter.
So, other than needing to somehow address it to the Hathran in general (so the first literate person to find it will forward it on), the letter you propose looks good.
Phaedrus, don't worry about it. You're going to fight trolls; what extra info you might glean from any descriptions in the next few days isn't likely to alter your preps very much. Just get to it when you can.
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Did we ever finish ID'ing everything? I know I planned to bind the Green Lady to ID some stuff at some point. I think I was supposed to do that now..
Edit: On second thought, maybe I should bind something more useful, like Malphus for his bird.
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Did we ever finish ID'ing everything? I know I planned to bind the Green Lady to ID some stuff at some point. I think I was supposed to do that now...
I guess so too... ksb could make you do that for us now, before we go troll hunting.
Also, ksb... Is there any Hathran NPC you could share the name with me so I can put her name as reference on the message? I will post the message with another name just in case you tell me to think on something...
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Pretty sure phaedrus ID'd everything (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=12392.msg254111#msg254111) during the night at Northri's hall. Then you expelled the vestige and bound the one allowing you to make the divinations.
Hathran name.... mid-level... Here are two, pick whichever you wish:
Groa of Immilmar or Astrid of Levanger.
Levanger is a small coastal village. Immilmar is a "Large Town" (cities as large as the stats for Immilmar in UE just don't exist in this region of the world).
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Pretty sure phaedrus ID'd everything (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=12392.msg254111#msg254111) during the night at Northri's hall. Then you expelled the vestige and bound the one allowing you to make the divinations.
Awesome. We should divide that loot up, then (and properly label it in SKD's inventory :D ).
I guess she'll bind Malphus for the day, then, to scout with the bird. I'm somewhat tempted to rebind Astaroth, though... since he gives me the ability to cast Fireball 3x/day (on top of her gloves 3x/day conversion ability), and also makes half her fire damage from all sources Vile, which will allow her to even damage the tannaruk with it, should we encounter some more... Plus Divination at will... I'm sure that will come in handy. :P Einar and/or Bjart's familiar can scout for us, right? :D
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Just checking... the vile damage thing from Astaroth...
Which does it do?
1) All the fire damage is fire damage, but half of it is considered vile (and thus won't heal normally)
or
2) Half the fire damage is instead vile damage (much like half of Flame Strike is "divine" damage), thus overcoming resistance/immunity, but not counting as fire damage (for things like regeneration, etc)
I don't have the sources handy to look it up. I'm assuming it is #2, but need to make sure before it comes up ;)
Also, how would vile damage interact with regeneration? It is converted to nonlethal, but the regeneration can't heal the nonlethal? Or it's converted to nonlethal, then regeneration doesn't care, and removes it anyway? :??? I'll google around later today and see if anyone has dealt with this before.
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Done. Bigger is better, right? :P
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Oh man... I'm not sure. Vile damage is handled in the BoVD. I think it is its own damage type (like "divine"), and can only be healed under certain conditions (cure spells cast on Hallowed ground, or something like that). I don't have the BoVD handy to check right now either, though, and am not sure how it would work vs. regeneration either.
A quick google search turned this (http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?51052-Healing-Vile-Damage) up.
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A quick google search turned this (http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?51052-Healing-Vile-Damage) up.
Yeah, that's the first one I found. There was also a 339 boards one that seemed to disagree. I'm tempted to say the potential vile damage is just converted to nonlethal and regenerated normally, but I'll research it some more before I finally decide how I'll run it.
Regardless, assuming my number 2 is correct, it will hurt the tanarukk buggers.
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Here's what I have as far as magic item:
Identified or obvious in use:
1 x Ring of Protection+1
1 x Ring of Jumping
1 x Eversmoking Bottle
1 x Gloves of Dexterity +2
1 x Jar of Ointment (Healing)
1 x Necklace of Fireballs (unknown Type)
Same, but less useful to this party:
1 x Small +1 Keen Battleaxe
1 x Glitter Stone
1 x Daylight Pellet (MIC)
Things we can guess but our characters probably can't (low magic item setting):
1 x Brown Sack (unidentified)
1 x Pearl (unidentified)
1 x Feather (Unidentified)
The two that interest me are Gloves of Dex (combat reflexes) and Ring of Jumping. But as I have Leap Attack and am wearing Brute Gauntlets, I'll go for the Ring.
I think Phaudrus may have expressed some interest in the smoking bottle? I don't remember anyone claiming the Ring of Protection of Gloves of Dexterity, but that might just be my memory.
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I don't want the Ring of Protection since my spirit can grant me a sizable deflection bonus to AC.
The Dex gloves... I don't have use for it aside from the bigger bonuses it grants.
I guess it leaves the Necklace of Fireballs to me? I think the Pearl of Power should be with Phaedrus...
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PoP benefits a prepared caster more than a spontaneous one. No reason we can't keep it as a communal object, though. You don't need to attune it or anything...
I'm quite happy to take the smoking bottle. :D
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Ugh, if that weapon wasn't small I'd take it. My character is all about carrying random weapons around in case I might need them.
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Ugh, if that weapon wasn't small I'd take it. My character is all about carrying random weapons around in case I might need them.
Damn Norse dwarves being small and all...
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If anyone was down on hit points at all, we've had plenty of time to top off.
Edit: Found something that pretty clearly indicates RAI on vile damage:
VIOLATE SPELL [METAMAGIC]
The character can transform one of his spells into an evil
spell, and the wounds the spell inflicts are tainted with the
foulest evil.
Prerequisite: Any evil alignment.
Benefit: This feat adds the evil descriptor to a spell. Furthermore,
if the spell deals damage, half of the damage dealt
is vile damage. For example, a violated lightning bolt cast by
an 8th-level wizard deals 8d6 points of damage: 4d6 points of
electricity damage and 4d6 points of vile electricity damage
(but creatures immune to electricity take no damage). A violated
spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the
spell’s actual level.
Special: A character may take this feat multiple times,
choosing a different spell each time.
So it is not its own damage type. It just modifies the existing damage type to make it unhealable, but if you're immune to the base damage then it has no effect on you (and so a Vile Fireball won't hurt the tannaruk who are immune to fire).
So I decided to bind Malphus instead of Astaroth, and my spells prepared are good enough. I'm ready to go.
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Yeah, I just came across that, too. Makes it less useful against Tanarukk, but potentially more useful against trolls. (I keep finding conflicting arguments and statements from WotC; one Customer Service answer said vile damage would lessen a troll's HP's, and not convert to nonlethal... but that just flat out ignores the fact that if its not fire or acid, it's NEVER lethal damage to a troll...) But, a fireball affected by Violate Spell would be bad news for a troll, as it would be fire damage, and it would be vile. Not good for the regenerating buggers...
Also, which vestige was it that granted the vile damage? Because it doesn't appear to be Astaroth (which is from the Cityscape Web Enhancement, and grants a stinky breath weapon, and a bonus crafting feat, but no vile damage ability that I can see).
Edit: nevermind, it appears there are two Astaroth vestiges (why in God's name would they do that...?)
VILE DAMAGE
Vile damage, like regular damage, results in the loss of hit points or ability score points. Unlike regular damage, vile damage can only be healed by magic cast within the area of a consecrate or hallow spell. Vile damage represents such an evil violation to a character’s body or soul that only in a holy place can healing magic repair the damage.
Man, could they be any more vague and non-specific?
Blackflame: Your spells, spell-like abilities, and magic item abilities with the fire descriptor deal half fire damage and half vile damage. You can cast fireball, as per the spell, three times per day (caster level equals your effective binder level).
Despite the wording seeming misleading, it's basically saying exactly the same thing as the first description of vile damage in the Violate Spell feat ("half the damage dealt is vile damage").
So, with the clarity provided in the example within Violate Spell, what it really seems they were trying to convey is that vile damage is a descriptor, that could be added and coexist with other descriptors [fire, electricity, healing, whatever]. So, any fire spell affected by Blackflame would still deal 100% the same type of damage, but half the damage would also carry, what is in effect, the [vile] descriptor.
So, most of the spells where this comes into play will screw a troll hardcore, because it will be both fire and vile, thus unquestioningly reduce its hit points.
On something like Fiendish Trolls, they will resist some amount of it, but whatever gets through, half inflicted will be vile damage.
Now the only pertinent question seems to be a Blackflame-effected Flame Strike. Is it straight-up half fire and half vile? Or is it 1/4 [fire], 1/4 [fire, vile], 1/4 [divine], 1/4 [divine, vile]?
Also, at some point I may have to figure out how vile damage will interact with Regeneration if it is of a type not overcome by fire. Say something like a War Troll, with Regen 9 (Acid). A [fire, vile] spell effect is not acid, so would not deal normal damage. But I'll have to figure out between the following two:
1) The vile damage is converted to vile nonlethal damage, but then won't regenerate.
2) The vile damage is converted to nonlethal damage, and is regenerated as normal.
I'll figure that out later, though. It won't come up for a long while.
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Nothing else visible there except the scary demon? :D
Not yet :smirk
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Thorgrim raises an eyebrow. "You can summon weapons? I didn't know you were an arms dealer."
:lol :lmao :clap
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Sorry for the delay. Christmas festivities have kept me from making the new background map to upload to ditzie. When I get a chance to do that, I'll pick things up, as that's right where we are headed.
Everybody have a happy and safe Christmas.
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Everybody have a happy and safe Christmas.
I wish the same for all of you guys :)
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Happy Holidays to everyone. I will be on a cruise, with little to no internet access, from Dec 28th to Jan 4th. If I forget to post in some other game I'm in with you, if you could pass the word along I'd appreciate it. :D
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Casts Shield (Will 6 minutes last until they arrive?)
More than enough time. Two and a half minutes of walking will get the trolls to your position from the edge of the clearing.
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I'm trying to make sure that the trolls don't try to run back to the demon.
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Einar moves about twenty-five feet up the path from his companions...
Feel free to move your token and post a link to a new map.
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Einar moves about twenty-five feet up the path from his companions...
Feel free to move your token and post a link to a new map.
Done. :)
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Tweaked my post a little to simplify the timing of things so I wouldn't need a second a post later. Also, I love that his Con score is almost twice his armor class.
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I am going to interpret that as Hymir delaying.
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I am going to interpret that as Hymir delaying.
No problem. He would have just activated dragon-fire inspiration anyway, as he wouldn't have started singing before the trolls noticed anyone, I wouldn't think. But, if Hymir delays enough, phaedrus can do both Hymir's and Skulda's actions together, which will probably help things flow better.
Damn... hoped dna1 was back.
I think he will be eventually, but he's not said anything on this game's forum, and he said it would be a bit when I last posted with him in the Ravenloft board.
I'll add a black bear icon to the map sometime this weekend.
-4 range penalty included. ...
Once per encounter ranged attack!
Daggernabbit 1d20+4 : 16 + 4, total 20
Daggeramage 1d4+8 : 2 + 8, total 10
Additional Fire Damage 3d6 : 1, 6, 1, total 8
At a range of 40 feet, a thrown dagger would suffer a –8 penalty to the attack roll (–2 per range increment). Luckily, after adjusting your attack roll with an additional –4, it still hits the troll's flat-footed AC (and its normal AC, too).
Unfortunately, you can't use a ranged attack while in Battle Fury...
While in his fury, a berserk cannot use skills or abilities that require patience and concentration, such as moving silently or casting spells (the only class skills he can’t use are Animal Empathy and Wilderness Lore). He cannot use ranged weapons.
I'll let you reuse the d20 roll for melee if you can close the distance.
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Hmm. I had forgotten that tidbit. I checked Righteous Wrath as well and it is fairly specific on what restrictions it eliminates (can deal nonlethal, distinguish friend from foe, stop attacking).
Alright. He won't go into melee yet - still would be nice to get them closer to everyone - but thanks to his boots he is always considered readied for a charge (2x damage). If he gets charged, feel free use that attack roll. His statblock reflects Savage Species' "more hands is good rule," which gives .5 Str for each additional hand used.
I thought the range penalty was -2 for each increment beyond the first? Just for future reference.
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I thought the range penalty was -2 for each increment beyond the first? Just for future reference.
Uh... yeah, that's what I meant. [Sure I did...] :embarrassed
Troll is 40 feet away, so that would be 3 increments beyond the first, or –6. Sorry 'bout that.
... Well, technically, at 10 feet you suffer the penalty, too, and at 40 it would be –8, but I don't think anyone ever actually plays it that way, because then it's impossible to use a dagger thrown without either taking a penalty, or suffering an AoO. So, technically I was right, but I would never actually play it that way ;)
I treat range increments as inclusive of the last square, not exclusive of the last square (which, though RAW, is dumb). So yeah, it would have been –6.
Yeah, the extra hands adding Str damage is all good.
And that d20 roll is just waiting for the inevitable charge... :smirk
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Guys, sorry for posting so many days later. RL has been a bitch lately...
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Guys, sorry for posting so many days later. RL has been a bitch lately...
No troubles. We all get sucked away every now and then. Cripes, I let things lay fallow for two months last fall; I got no room to gripe ;)
A few days is nothin'.
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And we still made over 400 posts in the last year despite the real life chaos (1 year ago was the end of the Prologue).
Not too shabby, in my opinion. Maybe not the fastest PbP game I've been in, but it is the most persistent.
As an aside, I'm going to be taking over as DM for my Skype group for a while. I've already decided on one of the recurring villain groups since one of the players is a follower of Odin (mixed pantheon sandbox setting). There's going to be a group of Shifters and Lycanthropes who revere Fenrir and want to unchain the 'Lord of Beasts'. Needless to say, Odin will not be delicious...I mean, delighted, to hear that.
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That sounds cool. Hope you have fun with it. I never have given Skype a real try in attempting long-distance gaming. Never know what the future hold. But for now I'm full up trying to DM four games at once (two table-top, two message board). When life gets busy, sadly, it's you guys that suffer for a bit.
On that note, sorry for the delay; I was in small-town Kansas for a funeral over the weekend. At least the travel time gave me plenty of time to read through a large chunk of Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, which is what one of my table-top groups will be entering in the near future.
Edit: It looks like most everyone is delaying/readying until the troll's engage in melee. It is Skulda's turn. I'll try to get back to this tonight; if phaedrus hasn't gone by then, I'll have the trolls go, and then the delayed actions can all occur, and Skulda can jump in when she's able.
Skydragonknight, were you wanting to ready an action? I know your turn got discombobulated; so far as I can tell, all you ended up doing was moving onto the road and speaking. You still had a standard action left. If you want to have readied an attack against the trolls, that's all good with me ;)
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Readied action to trip->Improved trip then. If it's a charge, the "readied vs charge" from the boots will take priority (sweet double damage). I have no idea how multiple readied actions works, but however you want to do it is fine with me.
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Technically, the boots don't interfere with any of your normal actions, so you'd get both, I suppose. Yeah, the boots are powerful in the right situation, but I think it'll be alright. If it becomes a problem I might revisit it, but I doubt it'll come up often enough to matter.
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A small note on Dragonfire Inspiration, it doesn't apply to spell damage.
Dragonfire Inspiration
Type: Draconic
Source: Dragon Magic
You can channel the power of your draconic ancestry into the attacks of your allies.
Prerequisite: Cha 11, dragonblood subtype, bardic music.
Benefit: When you use your bardic music to inspire courage, you can choose to imbue your allies with dragonfire. This choice made when first activating the ability, and the choice applies to all allies affected.
Special: Each ally so inspired loses the standard morale bonus on weapon attack rolls and damage rolls. Instead, he deals an extra 1d6 points of fire damage with his weapons for every point of morale bonus that your inspire courage ability would normally add to the attack roll. For example ...
It doesn't really affect the current battle that much, as the troll whore would have been unconscious anyway, and phaedrus forgot to add his CL to the produce flame damage, so it only resulted in 5 extra points of damage. Just something to note for the future.
I also forgot to add the DFI fire damage to Thorgrim's attacks; I just added average damage after the fact for the two attacks that landed against the troll (it was already unconscious; now it will be for several more rounds).
Einar, Agni, or Hymir can go at their leisure.
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Doesn't the whole "weaponlike spells" thing from Complete Arcane (or was it Tome and Blood) apply here? I forget how generally that was worded, but if it lets you apply damage from feats like Weapon Specialization to spell damage that involves attack rolls (and I'm pretty sure it specifically said you could take Weapon Focus: Rays, for example), then it should apply to DFI as well, I'd think.
Edit: It seems it says the exact opposite, in fact (http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?203687-Inspire-Courage-weaponlike-spells). :P Sorry about that. I assumed that if one feat would apply, then other feats should as well.
Edit2: Although it is interesting that it says that "combat feats" apply, but bardic inspire courage specifically doesn't. It's odd that they split those two things up as being different.
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No problem. It is a convoluted game we play ;)
Like I said, it didn't really have much of an affect on this battle.
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It's totally up to you if you want to chase after the other troll. As phaedrus mentioned, you got the whore, which is what Bram was concerned with.
If you're done, or once the troll is dealt with, Bram can try contacting Trogdor.
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ksb, I've been thinking on my character for a while and wanted to know if you would allow me to swap one feat... If you allow it, I will drop Improved Trip for Improved Initiative.
I realized that it will take quite a while to not suck on trip and spells help me do some small BFC...
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Bumping this, because I don't want this to fall in the depths of Niflheim...
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Yes, that feat swap is fine.
So sorry for the delay. I've began having daily headaches the weekend of Superbowl Sunday, and I'm just now beginning to manage them down to a tolerable level. That, plus added work load at my job have been wiping me out a lot of the time. It'll be a few days yet before I'm able to kick things back into gear, but I've not forgotten about all of you.
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No problem man. Take care of yourself!
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No problem man. Take care of yourself!
This.
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So how is everyone these days?
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Busy... Step 1 board exam for med school is on July 7th, so I'm in high gear for studying. And my Dad is dying of cancer...
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Well that sounds horrible. I've had a couple of people close to me die of cancer, not fun.
I'm still unemployed and living on a friend's couch...
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Any chance we could get this going again in the near/mid future? ...
So here's what's been going on with me. I narrowed down my headache situation to deriving from a new duty of my job that involved working with small, detailed objects close up for hours on end. Each time I would do this, it would cause headaches that would ebb and flow for about 40 hours thereafter. I would typically do this duty every-other day, MWF. So, nearly constant headaches.
A silver lining to an approaching storm-cloud is that I won't be performing this duty much longer... because funding for my position has been lost. I'm on the job hunt, though I haven't had many bites yet. Thankfully my wife makes semi-decent money, and we have always been fiscally responsible, so have a sizable emergency fund.
I'll need to do the head-ache-forming duty a few more times over the next few weeks, but I'll work at getting this all ramped up again. I have no intention of abandoning this campaign ;)
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Great! It's not a matter of needing reading glasses, is it? (I don't know how old you are... but I need them for that kind of stuff...)
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Great! It's not a matter of needing reading glasses, is it? (I don't know how old you are... but I need them for that kind of stuff...)
I don't think so. I'm 34. I do have glasses (I've been nearsighted since the age of 20). I can still see just fine out to about arms' length without glasses.
But, that doesn't mean I'm not wrong. I've never used reading glasses before, so no clue if they would help or not.
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You might consider trying it, although at your age it's probably unlikely. As people get older, the lenses of their eye get more stiff, preventing them from "accomodating" as well (accomodation = get squished into a rounder shape by the eye muscles to let you focus on close-up things). So they find it harder to see things very close to their faces. That's why you see older people holding the newspaper at full arms' length to read it... :P I can still read just fine without them (without holding the material at arms' length...), but if I want to work on something really small, I'll need the glasses. Otherwise I can't see it (if I hold it out too far, it's too far to see, and if it is too close I can't focus on it).
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I can still focus on close things just fine. I think it's just the extended periods of doing it. Could be wrong, though. But then again, when I was on vacation a couple weeks ago, despite reading for a few hours at a stretch, I didn't have a headache the entire time. Don't know exactly what to make of it, I just know I'm looking forward to not having to do that duty any more.
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Take care of your eyes and head, ksb.
When you feel better, come back. We will try to have cookies waiting for you :)
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I am having trouble imagining Thorgrim in a nurse's outfit handing out cookies after a medical exam. But I wish you well regardless. ;)
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I am having trouble imagining Thorgrim in a nurse's outfit handing out cookies after a medical exam. But I wish you well regardless. ;)
:lmao
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Note to self and ksb: Divine Companion's protection ability is not an immediate action. It is a swift action.
May I never again forget this when we get back...
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Will we ever resurrect this game?
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Will we ever resurrect this game?
YESSSSSS. YESSSSSS WE WILL!!
Ahem.
Whenever it happens, I will be here.
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Will we ever resurrect this game?
YESSSSSS. YESSSSSS WE WILL!!
Ahem.
Whenever it happens, I will be here.
I'm still waiting...
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Will we ever resurrect this game?
YESSSSSS. YESSSSSS WE WILL!!
Ahem.
Whenever it happens, I will be here.
I'm still waiting...
Ditto. :D
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Hey guys. I've been thinking of you lately. ;)
If any of you were regular readers of my Sunless Citadel campaign journal, you know that I've pretty much dropped off the planet for half a year due to a new job. The job is hell. My boss ran me a hairsbreadth from a mental breakdown, then later told me "I did that so I could learn where your breaking point was." Yeah, not the best way to treat your employees. :eh There is also a coworker that I'm convinced is a psychopath, and she doesn't like me...
Anyway, I've finally had enough, and I quit the job. My last day is Friday. My wife earns just enough for us to break even, and we've got savings, so I'm going to be taking some time off from work to regain my sense of self, because honestly, I haven't felt like myself in months. All my down time is spent either decompressing from this insane job, or running the live D&D games I host each week (and that was the only sense of self I was able to maintain).
I'm looking forward to slowly getting caught up on my Sunless Citadel campaign journal, and I also want to resurrect this game. We are far from being finished with this story ;) It may take a few weeks for me to get everything I want in my life back up and running, so don't be surprised if it's a couple weeks before I start making regular posts to advance Mythic Sagas, but I will get there.
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HOORAY!!!
:birthday
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:jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping :jumping
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So I just spent the early part of the afternoon watching Wichita State lose in the NCAA tournament, and reading through the last 6 or 7 pages of the game thread.
When we last left off, it looks like phaedrus was running Skulda, as well as running Hymir part time (split with me; hey, NPC's are handy to get things moving sometimes (maybe I need more NPC's in my life... :thought). I had fully taken over Bjartr as an NPC, and Risada, Nanshork, and SDK were each running Agni, Einar, and Thorgrim. I see that dna1 did visit the boards a few days ago; I might message him later this week and see about him joining back on (which was his plan, originally).
I'll compose a short recap of events thus far, to help us all reacquaint ourselves with what is going on, and post it in the next few days. Most recently, you had traveled north from Eyrrinberg to meet up with Bram, a Druid who watches over the demons trapped in the Stonehenge rings. You just helped him killed a troll whore who had just been raped by a massive demon.
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A recap would be good as I'm assuming that we're not doing another reboot.
Hopefully dna1 (and Risada) can/will come back and then we'll be set.
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Yeah, I'm just planning to pick up where we left off.
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Thorgrim is ready when everyone else is.
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Thorgrim is ready when everyone else is.
Awesome.
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AND IT FINALLY HAPPENS! BACK TO THE GAME, B*****S
Ahem. Sorry for my lack of composure.
Thorgrim is ready when everyone else is.
This.
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Well, I sent dna1 a PM. He was just on the boards a few days ago, but he hasn't posted in months. Maybe he'll chime in by the time I get a recap put together. If not, we can start after I get the recap done, and he can join back in and take over Hymir once again whenever he does check in.
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KSB, have you looked at the Pathfinder adventure path The Northlands Saga? It's Nordic based.
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KSB, have you looked at the Pathfinder adventure path The Northlands Saga? It's Nordic based.
I have not. Might have to, at some point.
I got a response from dna1, and he's game for running Hymir again. He'll only be able to check in once or twice a week, but that'll be fine, I think.
I took an impromptu trip to visit a friend earlier this week, but now I'm back and hammering out a Sunless Citadel post or two. My plan is to get the recap post up by Monday, and then we'll get this thing going in the game thread next week sometime.
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Fixed the broken reference links I had for my feats in anticipation.
I might want to end up doing some rebuilding (when it makes sense in game), nothing major but I'm no longer in tune with what I wanted to do even with the future progression spoiler on my sheet.
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No problem. Not surprised goals would change after this long of a layoff.
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No problem. Not surprised goals would change after this long of a layoff.
Actually after digging around I think I'm pretty satisfied unless I can take the Drow Fighter ACF and also go Skirmish Hunter with half of my gestalt.
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What is skirmish hunter?
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:facepalm
Swift Hunter, the Scout/Ranger multiclass feat (since the current build is 1 level of Ranger for favored enemy giants and full BAB).
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Ah! Swift Hunter. Just recall that the "gestalt feats" (for lack of a better term) from Complete Adventurer and Complete Scoundrel can be taken, but the stacking effects don't work. Thus, if you have Favored Enemy (Undead), Swift Hunter would allow you to skirmish undead, but its class feature stacking aspects don't function in (my) gestalt.
Here is a recap for the Prologue. Got a little busy with family stuff this weekend, and haven't gotten the one done for Chapter 1 yet.
Mythic Sagas II Events Recap
Prologue
Several of you were traveling with a merchant, returning to Niðarós from a city far out west. The merchant had ended up selling enough of his wares that he decided to take a different road northeast, and head straight home to the town of Eyrrinberg, rather than push on through the larger town of Niðarós with no wares to sell. You were either headed that way anyway, or decided to stay on as guards, and followed him up the north road.
Skulda had been sending ravens forward to scout ahead, and she noticed an overturned wagon. She sent the raven in for a closer look, and found the horse slain, with a leg hacked off, and not immediate sign of the wagon’s owners. The party broke away from the merchant retinue and investigated in person, finding signs of a troll attack. Einar lead the party along some tracks up a rocky slope, and shortly before sundown you found a cave, fought some tanarukk at the entrance, then delved into the dark depths of the cave. After several skirmishes, and noting evidence that the tanarukk were eating the remains of a human, you neared the back of the cave, and the tanarukk chief dragged a screaming girl down a rear tunnel.
You followed after, slaying the chief and two female tanarukk, thus saving a teenage girl, Moeid. She was unconscious, and concerned about her safety, Einar beckoned everyone to head back. You turned back and started walking… and walking… the tunnel kept going, and the tanarukk cave seemed to have disappeared. The party continues to move the same direction, worrying how they will return to Midgard, when the light carried by Skulda’s scouting raven standing watch the other way, beyond where they killed the tanarukk chief, winked out, its magic dead. Through the raven’s eyes, minus the blinding light, Skulda now saw a faint light far in the distance.
The party also noted the sound of gurgling water ahead of them. As Skulda sent the raven across a wide dark space the party came upon a small cavern with a spring trickling water into a small pool. The raven approached the light source, finding a narrow window into a cramped stairwell, turning and leading up to a door with a barred window, and firelight shining through.
Agni went to inspect the pool of water, and the water surged up to attack. A few ineffectual bladed attacks are met by Einar’s knowledge, and soon Thorgrim began bludgeoning the watery creature to death with his flail. The watery threat over, Skulda returned her attention to the raven, and saw a short little man come out of the door her bird had found.
It takes the party an hour or so to walk back toward the site of the tanarukk chief battle, and beyond, to where the raven noticed the dim light. You extinguish your lights and see the same thing, then travel ahead across a large cavern. You search the far side for a bit and find an opening into a stairwell, and as you begin to ascend it, Agni calls out in dwarven. You are met by an invisible dwarf who reveals himself and invites you into his workshop.
You enter and discuss how you came to be there as he hunts down an ointment which he applied to Moeid’s head, healing her and bringing her back to consciousness. He offers to tell you how to return to Midgard if you will retrieve a few items stolen by a thief, and kill the thief in the process. He introduces himself at Litr just before he retires for the “night.” You learn a bit of Moeid’s story and break the news of her father’s and brother’s deaths, and awake in the “morning,” ready to take on the rock giant thief.
Litr provides the party with a crude map, and you head off through the tunnels. After hearing clanging sounds ahead, Skulda sends another raven forward with a magical light, and eventually finds a stone giant etching runes into the cavern wall. The rock giant and his companion note the raven, and make ready for your approach, so Skulda presents a softer touch, greeting them as she enters their small cavern, and playing quite the diplomat. She learns that Litr’s story was partly false, laying blame on the giant when some rested with the dwarf as well, and convinced the giant to give back the items stolen, and pay for the item commissioned from the dwarf.
You returned to Litr’s workshop and teased the answers about how to get home out of him as you handed items back one by one. The passageway would open at dusk, and it is because it is a full moon. Then Skulda comes clean, and tells Litr that you hadn’t killed the giant. Litr became enraged by this information, and your veiled threats, and tried to kill you all with a bauble from a necklace of fireballs. You slew him before he could toss another.
You looted Litr’s body, and his home, finding several magical items, and foodstuffs to last you a few days. You make it back to the scene of the tanarukk chief’s death, and some careful tracking by Bjartr finds the first clawed tanarukk track in the tunnel. Skulda sets a summoned raven to coursing up and down the tunnel with a glowing pebble of light, and after several hours the path back to the party is blocked. She summons another, sending it with a new light, and the way forward is as you hoped, and leads back to the tanarukk cave.
You search the caves and set up a camp for the night. Einar finds some bones laid carefully in some carved alcoves, along with two smooth sticks and a scroll of runes written on leather tanned from a human’s back skin.
Thus ended the prologue, and everyone leveled up to 6th level.
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Given that I have favored enemy giants that would be completely useless. :P
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And a recap of Chapter 1 thus far:
Chapter 1
Bjartr uses magic to read the human-skin scroll, and it implores the reader to “breed furiously,” mentioning a future need for the reader and his children.
You descend from the tanarukk cave, and Skulda’s raven notes someone investigating the overturned cart you had found a day and a half earlier. By the time you get to the road the individual is gone, but Skulda watched her through the raven’s eyes, and the wild looking woman presents herself as the party reaches the road. The woman joins up for the trek back toward Eyrrinberg, which is still several days ahead.
Over the course of five days you slowly gain on the merchant caravan, learning of their passing or campsites as you ask at farms you pass. Late on the fifth day Skulda finds something she had been watching for; a trio of burial mounds near the road gives her the opportunity to bind the Green Lady, and she summons Mounts for everyone, greatly speeding your travels. You galloped the horses for an hour or more, and caught up to the caravan just before the light failed.
The merchant, Ospak, welcomed your return, and mentioned that the farm they currently camped at is empty of people and animals. A search around the area turns up only the bones of a pony in a field of grass that is two different heights (different stages of harvest). Other fields were free of crops and weeds, so whatever the reason for the farm being abandoned, it must have happened since the harvest in August. Skulda identifies a few of the items you gained in Nidavellir. Everyone sleeps in the longhouse, with some taking turns at watch, and Ospak informs you less than two days of travel should see you all to Eyrrinberg.
You pass several working farms the next morning, and learn the husband from the farm you stayed at the previous night had died in a troll attack a few months back; the widow was living with family elsewhere. By noon you start to notice there is no movement at the farms you pass, despite evidence of recent activity. Though the farms are much closer together now, they seem more and more abandoned. Wicker goat pens are smashed or burned. Items have been left abandoned in the road.
Soon after midday you pass yet another abandoned farm, but this one holds a hostile ambush. An epic (4.5 month) battle ensues, where you kill a first wave of six tanarukk and a winter wolf, a second wave consisting of another winter wolf, a fiendish troll, and a flying tanarukk trollwife, and a third wave of six additional tanarukk. Toward the end of the fight, the flying tanarukk crone retrieved a box from inside the nearby farmhouse, and dropped it in a field as she died, Einar’s knife sticking out of her ribs, and Skulda’s boulder striking her in the back of the head as she fled through the air toward the south. There was also some invisible, unseen foe that escaped the battle; Einar tracked him back to a stream at the back edge of the field, but a quick scan could see no tracks on the far bank. One of Three’s awestruck tanarukk was used to quiet the flames of a burning tree, and the embers were doused with summoned water.
The box the crone dropped wasn’t a box at all, but rather a book, with an oddly-shaped ehwaz rune on the cover, red over yellow. (If you want to see it again, the symbol is in my post from July 7, 2014). The book’s pages are filled with runes, much like a collection of scrolls, or a spellbook. An interrogation of a captured tanarukk gives a broken, pidgin response that you get the gist of… warbands and days of ruin, a foreboding sense of something that is coming…
You loot the tanarukk bodies, getting a dozen battleaxes, eleven longbows, and over 200 arrows. You also find four human bodies in the longhouse, one wearing finery, as well as a pack with the equivalent of 29 gp inside (mostly in silver), and two fine longswords. You kill the tanarukk captive, and the caravan carries on.
You see copious evidence of hurried packing and fleeing. Various bit of detritus dropped in the road. All the farms you pass are empty. The caravan stops at one such farm for the night. You press on the next day, alert and at a fast pace. Salt tinges the smell of the air, and your bellies are growling for supper by the time you see Eyrrinberg before you. You enter the 10-foot high turf and palisade wall, and see the village is stuffed beyond capacity, filled with far to many people and livestock.
At news of your troll encounters, the guards say the foul beasts have been skulking near town for days, and tell you to inform King Northri of the attack you suffered. You accompany Ospak to Northri’s hall, and the king feeds you as you tell him your tale. His face pales as you speak of the note written on tanned human hide, and the ominous information divulged from your captive. He and his Jarl, Svala, tell you that the trolls have increased their predations in the last week, and at least three different warbands like the one you fought have been seen in different locations at the same time. Northri worries what will become of the farmer’s livelihoods if they must stay penned in Eyrrinberg, where there is not nearly enough feed for their cattle, and he asks if you all can help clear the troll menace from his lands. You also learned that Northri had sent his son, Eyvind, with a dozen men to investigate the troll raids, starting at the farms and hopefully backtracking them to the trolls’ home. He hadn’t heard from any of them in nearly a week.
Skulda then binds a new vestige, identifying several of the items from Nidavellir, then expelled the Green Lady and bound another vestige to perform several telling and ominous Divinations. (August 27, 2014 post). With news of an army of trolls readying for war, you seek to inform the Hathran, and asking Northri if any Witches of Rashemen are in town, he instead introduces you to an Angel of Death. When asked about Seals, she says she knows nothing, but she does know of prisons…
This leads to information about Bram, a druid who watches over a Stonehenge a day’s travel north of Eyrrinberg. After an epic cat fight, the party departs, minus the wild woman, Three, and heads north through heavy fog, and eventually meets up with Bram, who first watchs them through the eyes of a bird. Bram flies in and reverts to half-elf form, making his introduction. He is happy to receive the “trinket” you brought him from the Angel of Death, and is concerned about the news of a troll army. He sets right a few of your misconceptions concerning the stonehenges, and the fiends bound there. He also speaks with Skulda about the work that the Masters of the Yuirwood do, and their ability to travel between menhir circles, and he implies she might be able to join in the work, if she wanted.
You retire to his home, formed into a cliff face, and Skulda offers to perform Divinations for him, which provides information about a troll whore who would sell herself to a nearby fiend the following morning, and she divines some touching information about her son. In return for this divinatory aid, and your help in killing the trolls, Bram offers to send word to the Hathran for you. The next morning he sends a note tied to the leg of a bird capable of flying for days on end, and will send a more direct message after the trolls are dealt with.
You reach the location of the stonehenge, a 100-foot diameter circle of megaliths, inside a 250-foot diameter circle of menhirs, all near a cliff overlooking the Ashane sea. Skulda watches through the eyes of her summoned raven as a trio of trolls approaches the clearing, fall to the damage from the Forbiddance affects surrounding the prison, get up and push forward, haggling with the huge pig-faced demon inside the henge. The female troll enters the demon’s prison, and a horrifically brutal rape ensues.
You use the time to circle around behind the trolls’ path. Skulda gets a new raven’s eyes on the situation, and the party hangs well back, out of the reach of the demon’s wrath, and set an ambush for the trolls. The three trolls eventually make their way toward the party, and they are dealt with swiftly. One of the males does run away, back toward the stonehenge, but you succeeded in killing the troll whore, which is Bram’s main concern.
That is where we left off.
Feel free to ask questions about other details that you vaguely remember, but want a little better clarification on. If your characters would know, I'll clarify those points.
Like I said, I'll get the main story thread up and running again later this week sometime.
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I'm good to go whenever you are.
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Took me a little longer than I thought it would to get back to a semblance of normal. I'm still not all back to my old self, but each day I'm getting closer. I made a post today! :cool Posts may be a bit slow here at the outset, but I'll get into the groove of it again.
My real life Ravenloft game fell apart, so I also started a new 1st level homebrew game last week. That might sap some of my creative juices, but it might also prime the pump. Just bare with me as we go forward.
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I need to re-learn how to talk as Einar before I post, but I forgot about my friend Trogdor the Burninator the fire spell specialist. :lmao
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I need to re-learn how to talk as Einar before I post, but I forgot about my friend Trogdor the Burninator the fire spell specialist. :lmao
lol, me too! So glad to see this game get going again, though. :D
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I forgot if our business with Bram was concluded with this, but I was digging to see what we were doing and just wanted to bring that point closer to present.
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I'd forgotten about that so I'm glad you did!
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I will post as soon as I get at home... Within the next 4 hours.
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Took me some 24 hours more than predicted, but here it is.
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And a good question too.
Hmm. I remember from my last digging through posts that the son went west of the city to scout by the farmland, but unfortunately I have no idea where we even are at the moment relative to the city to be able to make a guess of how long a "quick survey" would take. :/
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And a good question too.
Hmm. I remember from my last digging through posts that the son went west of the city to scout by the farmland, but unfortunately I have no idea where we even are at the moment relative to the city to be able to make a guess of how long a "quick survey" would take. :/
You are correct. King Northri's son went west of Eyrrinberg to investigate the troll raids. That would correlate to the area where you were ambushed, but who knows where he may have gone from there. Your ambush site was about a day and a half west of Eyrrinberg (by foot).
Currently, you are approximately one day's travel north of Eyrrinberg.
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Hmm... I think Ásdís had tried to scry on him and failed, IIRC. So likely Bram might fail as well, although I guess we could ask him to try...
There were some wonky divination results that Skulda got about Nothri's son also, I think. Something about him being turned into a demon, maybe? I see that that was mostly speculation on my/Skulda's part. The divination said that his seed was choked out by another. Either way, it probably means that he is dead or beyond help. Given that he's far from here, I think our decision on whether to go that way should be at least partially based on where we're planning to go next, and if the area King Nothri's son was at is on our way or not.
How many warriors does Nothri command, anyway? And where would we need to go to get the word to the largest group of warriors/witches/etc?
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Hmm... I think Ásdís had tried to scry on [Eyvind] and failed, IIRC.
Nope, she never said anything to that effect, at least so far as I can find. So likely Bram might fail as well, although I guess we could ask him to try...
That's a possibility, though he only prepared one instance today of the spell you failed to identify :flutter
There were some wonky divination results that Skulda got about Nothri's son also, I think. ... The divination said that his seed was choked out by another. Either way, it probably means that he is dead or beyond help. Given that he's far from here, I think our decision on whether to go that way should be at least partially based on where we're planning to go next, and if the area King Nothri's son was at is on our way or not.
Once Bram finishes contacting Trogdor, what is your plan? You only have a small handful of leads at the moment, though the possible avenues of action are pretty wide open.
How many warriors does Nothri command, anyway? And where would we need to go to get the word to the largest group of warriors/witches/etc?
Eyrrinberg is normally home to less than 300 people. Of those normally in town (not counting those that set out with Eyvind), there are eight active or retired adventurer types, ranging from 3rd - 5th level (this includes the regular guards), and eighteen others could be outfitted for a fight in a time of need (3rd level and lower).
With the surrounding farms having retreated to Eyrrinberg, there are probably two to three times those numbers here now. If things get really dire, others could probably be convinced to fight.
As for getting word to the largest group of warriors, etc, you've already started working on that. Contacting the Hathran is a good idea. There is also a larger town (Niðarós) two days (by foot) south of Eyrrinberg, along the shore of the Ashane Sea (ie - the Baltic Sea). It has 800 - 900 people, and is a trading center (if you recall, that's where Ospak's caravan was originally heading, before he decided to cut the return trip a bit short and just head straight for Eyrrinberg [all that happened in the very first post of the prologue]).
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So... what are we doing guys? And what was Trogdor doing again? I forget what we've already got going...
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KSB has a wall-of-text recap on the previous page. At the very least it might give you a better idea of what you want to ask.
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OK, so if Skulda summons horses I guess moving around won't take too long. Since Bram (and Trogdor) will be contacting the Hathran for us, we don't need to worry about that. So I guess we can go looking for King Nothri's son, then head to the city (unless something more pressing comes up). I think we might want to try sending a message to the city ahead of us though, to give them more of a forewarning (and as insurance... in case we don't make it...).
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Can your bird double as carrier pigeon?
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Can your bird double as carrier pigeon?
My bird can do about anything, as I can directly control it and see through it. The only limitation really is that it can last a maximum of 24 hours and I can only have one at a time.
So I could send the bird to scout/deliver a message/etc while we did something completely different.
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So....
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Dead Again?
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Dead Again?
Google Fiber is awesome when it works, and really crappy when it doesn't. I was without internet at my house for a week...
Glad that's over.
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Dead Again?
Google Fiber is awesome when it works, and really crappy when it doesn't. I was without internet at my house for a week...
Glad that's over.
That sounds pretty shitty.
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It was certainly boring.
So, the plan is to head west of Eyrrinberg? Just tell me where you intend to start investigating, and I'll fast track us there.
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I guess Skulda will bind the Green Lady, and we'll ride on summoned Mounts. Of course, that's going to leave us without scouting... so we may blunder into trouble. It's slow and sure or quick and risky, I think.
Will make the rolls and change her prepared spells around a bit later tonight, and then post IC.
Edit: Crap... I need a graveyard, or a place sacred to Hel... Otherwise I can't bind her.
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All I remember is there being farmland to the west, so that's my only frame of reference really. I suppose we could start around the outskirts of that area unless there's other notable locations?
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All I remember is there being farmland to the west, so that's my only frame of reference really. I suppose we could start [investigting?] around the outskirts of that area unless there's other notable locations?
That correlates roughly with where Eyvind's party was headed, so not a bad plan, assuming I understood your meaning correctly.
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Correct.
And the mounts are certainly more useful the first couple days when there's a lot of distance to cover. When there is less than a day's travel left by foot, having the bird makes sense.
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So what's going on?
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Real Life decided to call ksb over, probably.
Let's wait and see.