I copied and pasted the pages on Familiars from the Arcane Power book (as I have the PDF...so does Swift but on a broken computer ;)) and sent them to Swift so we both have access to the rules for that. You can go to here...
http://www.goddessfantasy.net/...e/Arcane%20Power.pdf
...if you'd like to download it yourself for free. That site also has pretty much every other 4th Edition book as well (the site itself is in Japanese or something so I found each one by Googling for Goddessfantasy <name of book> and generally they came up :). Alternatively I can send you my own PDFs, several of which are from there anyway ;).

I was gonna have a Familiar myself but I swapped it out for Fey Bond when I decided I wanted to get Prestidigitation so I could have a legit method of Nym letting forth small outbursts of magic whenever she wants (not to mention playing around changing the colours of her items and stuff :D). I wouldn't have taken Fey Bond if it wasn't a prerequisite I needed in order to do that, but right now I plan on probably taking a Familiar next level. Maybe. If I don't spot something else really cool that I want instead :D.

Oh yeah I saw that link in my travels, cheers :)


Cool, so I don't need to post rules stuff to you guys then! I might  still do it to make sure my understanding meshes with you lot. 4th edition gets pretty dense with all this added stuff pretty quickly!

Game has started! Not sure if the Chapter 1 post triggered as a post or not, I started it last night.

Yep, can see it :)

Not too sure whether to rewind it or not, or just fill in the backstory with our own conversations (or Meri's griping about having to stop her work just to follow this damn bouncy ball around!  hehe).
I'll wait and see if Ameena has an opinion on the matter :)

Cool :)


Obviously if you rewind and then get too far from where I started chapter 1 I will just change the post, but hopefully it gives you something to steer towards.

Obviously I'm not going to solve themystery of the ball right away, soanother reason to jump was to be able to summarise the whle 'what is this *poke poke poke* stuff.

But I'm equally happy to play it all too.

I suppose we can backtrack a bit or something, to get a clearer idea of why we're travelling (and have some random dialogue to start getting into character), unless we were just wandering becuase why not. Nym probably wouldn't care much anyway ;).

Sorry, I thought I'd made it clearer, the ball has been gesturing and indicating it wants you to go south.




So you guys might have tried to figure out what it was or tried to ignore it, but likely it would have bounced around and got in your way sometimes, and other times tried to be as cute as a ball could be and take on your colours and try to coax you to leaving, and so forth :)


So you can go go back in time, but I'm guessing it would be a lot of poking, prodding, and figuring out what it wants or figuring out what is south that's so important anyway.

I figure that starting after deciding to see where it wants to go, whilst considering some of the decisions and discussions you might have had previously as you walk along might be easier.

Ahh okay. Well I don't imagine Nym knows what's in the area anyay - she just kind of wanders about being curious and playing around with her magic :D.

Yeah, even if you guys have traveled around, I reckon its not unimaginable that an out of the way village sectioned off by a river might not be a place you're immediately familair with. I walk around a lot and there's parts I wasn't aware of were right on my doorstep :D

Obviously you can decide how much travel you have done down this way(Nym might not even reaslie she's been this way by the sounds of it!) and for anythign else there's skill rolls for nature/history :)



So it sounds like Meri's call, maybe weighed a little in favour of backing off a little if for no other reason than to let you guys chat and react to the situation before the ball stops?

So maybe walking along the road by the main forest?

Out of curiosity, how would the ball have reacted to Meri getting extremely annoyed at it interfering with her work and trying to zap it with her magic? ;)  hehe

If Meri's asking that then can I ask how the Ball would've reacted to Nym playing around with it and probably trying to change its colour and stuff? :D

Lol, assuming this is what would have indeed happened, the ball would have been impervious to the actual magic itself. However, it would have still skittered off and rolled in the directionof Nym, taking on Nym's colours and floating in a 'shaking' manner behind her leg.

And then later might have gently rolled on the table trying to bat some item towards Meri as if trying ot help, taking on the appearanceof one of her items or clothes. Or it might have tried to help Timur, then when Meri looked around would have rolled off the table and under the lid of the table, as if hiding... occasionally rolling just over the liptoseeif Meri was still looking and was about to shout/ at it / blast it again :D


Basically, this ball would act like a child where you don't know if its genuinely hurt and wanting you to love it, or if its some sort of evil machiavellian trickster trying to see cute to not get yelled at :D


Sure, kids are cool, but NEVER TRUST THEM AN INCH! :p

Lol cool, probably gets on well with Nym then as she's rather childlike herself :D.

Of course you can, the idea was that even if the story carries on you guys discuss OOC how the ball was before so you can still RP against it now.

As with Meri, direct magic would not have worked. However, the ball would have then after a delay taken on whatever aspect Nym was trying to give it, sometimes with odd quirks. So for example if trying to make it all red and feiry, sometimes it might have just been a blazing orb (teperature wise cool and not actually burning anything) and yet other times the fire might have resembled water, as if the sphere was a globe of burning water, almost transparent.

It sounds as if Nym would have gotten the chance to feel the ball happily sitting in her hand, warm and sleeping kitten like, almost purring :D

The ball would have probably been receptive to attempts to play with it, though always it would have made attempts to include Meri after a while.

Edit:

Lol, I reckon so. Though it would still try to hang with Meri and her familiar too.


Lol, maybe Meri is going to become the grumpy parent of this group, to a trio of well meaning but oblivious child like creatures :D
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Oh,in case it was not clear, the first reply was to Meri's question about being yelled at/magicked. The replies qwith quotes were then to Nym's double posted question :D

Aww, feeling kind of guilty now...  (;~;)

I think in that case, she might have calmed down a little and just glared at it before resuming whatever she was doing.
Probably shooting it another death glare if she noticed it trying to bat stuff around, hehe.

I think she'd only resort to trying to blast it again if it kept getting in her way to the point where her temper just exploded (it is disturbingly easy to push her to that point actually!)
Even so, she wouldn't actually try to destroy it, more just wanting it to stop pestering her.

A tiny part of her is actually kind of intrigued by it.  The Artificer in her definitely wonders how it works, what makes it move and act like it does, and how it came to exist in the first place.
Good luck getting her to admit that though ;)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:46, Tue 02 June 2015.

Lol, don't feel too guilty, it might know exactly what it's doing and this is all an evil scheme...

DON'T TRUST SHINY ROUND THINGS!


Besides, what's the fun of playing a grumpy character if you can't be mean to things. This one is great, it's all the innocent of a puppy or kitten, but you can blast it with magic or kick it and itrs not going to be physically hurt. Emotionally hurt, of course, but not physically hurt...


Lol, would Meri keep being grumpy or reluctantly be nice to it?


Edit: Ah, I see more text :)

Yeah, that's cool. As said in the prologue, the ball would have had the spooky ability to know if Meri was reaching for it in curiosity without any attempt to do anything too nasty, or if she was going to make a move for it to get it out of herway, or do anything a little more...destructive... :p
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I think she'd still be grumpy, but less of a destructive way and more of a "dammit, what the hell do you want, and how can I get you out of my face?!!"  hehe

Meri is basically Team Mum isn't she, while the Ball is the mischievous child, Timur is the child that probably usually tries to help mummy with her work, and Nym is the dreamy child who's usually in a world of her own and likes playing with dangerous things whilst someone completely failing to get hurt :D.

Except Meri is less maternal and more "What did I do to get saddled with all these annoying distractions?!"  hehe :)

(I'm sure she loves you really...  Right?  Right?!  Guys?  Anyone?  (O.o)  Hmm...)

Anyways, I'm thinking that after the ball pestering Meri and getting zapped a few times, Nym might have figured out that it wants us to follow it, or maybe just decided she wanted to anyway.

Then she could have persuaded Meri to go along with her.
Might have been tricky, but Meri's own inner curiosity as to what this thing is, from a magical crafter's viewpoint, would have provided an exploitable weakness to help persuade her.
(And if that failed, maybe telling her that doing what the ball wanted would get it to leave her alone to work in peace, would probably have done the trick!)

She'd likely have complained bitterly about it, including some choice insults in various languages (mostly Goblin and Elven, her two favourite languages for cursing in!) directed at the ball, and threats to introduce it to the furnace in her workshop if whatever it was leading them to wasn't EXTREMELY important.
But she'd have gone along anyway :)
This message was last edited by the player at 21:26, Tue 02 June 2015.

Everyone know Timur is the favoured child, right? :D At least it tries to be helpful!

The Ball may well have even sat in the furnace after that, happily playing there running out of it when Meri spotted it, completely unharmed :D


Ok, so I have to go to bed soon, but you guys have some cool characters here! And seem fun together. So decide if you want to backtrack a little or a lot or just start in media res, and post accordingly. I can then update tomorrow evening if needed, or just leave you all to it for a little bit :D

Or if you prefer I can set you up a second post backing the time up a little first.

Nym probably tries to be helpful sometimes. Sort of. Probably. Well, she probably doesn't try to be unhelpful, anyway ;).

Dammit!  (>.<)  lol