This is the OOC thread. It will serve as a forum to coordinate your efforts, a place to discuss anything that doesn't go in the IC threads, and a board where to post... Stuff. In a word (well, three words), the OOC thread.

A small favor, if you please: if you can read this thread, it means your background has been accepted. Could you please send me a PM, titled "Background", so that I can reference it later without having to dig through some long thread? That would be appreciated.

Additional tweaks to your character should also be posted as replies to said thread, so that we both know where to find them later on :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:40, Thu 18 Oct 2012.

Just for future reference, what is everybody's Time Zone? Mine is CEST (Amsterdam, Paris, Rome) or GMT+2; incidentally, it will switch back to CET (GMT+1) at the end of October. (Edit: fixed the acronyms.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:04, Fri 19 Oct 2012.

Australia here; UTC +10

Same zone here, CEST

EST here. GMT - 5. I'm on the eastern coast of the US.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:17, Fri 19 Oct 2012.

Same But for the moment its EDT.until the last Sunday of the month

I'm PST...or GMT -8.

Jedies and Lensmen, please make sure your descriptions are up to date, your tag lines are set, and your character color is consistent. All speech is "direct, colored (each character with their own color)", all descriptions are in past tense. Enjoy your IC.

The IC thread is now open.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:19, Sat 17 Nov 2012.

Update on my whereabouts:  I'm going to be away for holidays for a week and a half.  Blame it on American tradition.

I'm here, but I hadn't seen any official invite for me.

Your arrival needs to be chronicled, good sir, we couldn't have it happen while the chronicler is asleep :P

To be honest, I am kinda flip-flopping between flashy and subtle... Well, as subtle as two angels (in appearance if not substance) can be, at least.

Still here, just busy with the Holidays and letting the others pipe in.

Incidentally... The reason I prefer to use a [GM: Game Mechanics here] tag rather than the more usual (OOC: Out Of Character here) one is that, most of the time, a game mechanic isn't exactly OOC: your character is taking an action that is backed by a game mechanic, and quite often, for spellcasters, it's not even a die roll.

Take this excerpt from Zhorr's arrival in the new plane:

[GM: casting Fabricate with Eschew Materials; the resulting product
can cost up to 3 gp.]

This is the very first spell Zhorr casts upon arrival. He's doing it. How is it OOC?

That, and I like square brackets for things that involve numbers :P

Side note: the Pathfinder Society allows masterwork tools of Spellcraft. That's another +2, not that you need it :P

I'm not sure what to do with Tilly, really... Her player hasn't been on in a week and hasn't posted in two weeks and change. I think we are about to lose our oracle.

Hi all,

I should probably drop.  The weeks of rules discussions pretty much made me lose interest.  To be honest, I don't really like DnD rules.  And the game doesn't really seem to have much else to pull me in.  Y'all can have Tilly and give her to another player.  That should make it easier to get a new person in fast-like.

Before you leave... What do you think about the actual IC so far? I was hoping it would make people more interested, not less :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:05, Thu 13 Dec 2012.

Personally, I always have a lot of trouble starting IC so long after I've made my character, unless the GM immediately throws in some strong hooks. If IC starts immediately, my head is still swimming with half formed ideas and personality quirks to throw around, but so long after, there's just not much left to provide hooks.

The downtime did have some positive effects, at least in terms of where the story is going, but losing a player seems to be an exceedingly steep price to pay for a better backstory.

Shall we skip ahead to a minute later (in terms of outside time) when everybody is finished getting their tattoos?



Time: it is now the morning of day -1. At midnight it will be day 0: spellcasters who prepare spells will be able to decide their allotment for day 0. These are the spells you will take with you through the portal.

Just past midnight, at the beginning of day 1, you will start going through the portal.

Once there, you will have about 12 hours (as people go through one at a time, and the portal rests for over an hour after each person goes through) to use (or write down, in Archmage Sider's case) the spells you allocated on day 0.

After that, you will need to let 8 hours elapse before you can prepare your spells for day 1, so that you do not incur the penalty for recent spellcasting; however, if you have a ring of sustenance tattoo, only two of those hours will actually need to be spent resting (rather than, say, crafting magic items that do not require you to cast spells, such as a Pearl of Power or another item worth 1000 gp or less, which would mean it can be made in only 4 hours).

In terms of rest, a single Keep Watch spell will allow the entire party to stay awake while resting: that's story time! Is everyone ready with their first story?


Incidentally, I don't think Archmage Sider will have enough hours on the first day to write down his entire allotment of spells: even Zhorr needs almost 13 hours, and that's considering that he only has spells up to 6th level and almost all of his 1st and 5th and 6th slots will be spent rather than written, which means he only really writes half of his available spells.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:28, Wed 19 Dec 2012.

Let's skip ahead. I for one have long been ready for going through, so why wait ?

Please post your plans for day 1 in the PPP thread so that we can organize the arrival schedule. At the moment, I would logically have Archmage Sider come in second, Mirelinda third, and then either Dekar or Pale.

I'm pretty sure we permanently lost Tilly.

Hi all.  As I told the GM, the game hasn't really been that interesting for me.  I think the weeks of discussing mechanics sort of slowly killed my creative interest.  It'd probably be better if you advertised for another Tilly or looked for a replacement.  It shouldn't be hard for this kind of game.

What do you all think?

Merry Xmas, everyone. Enjoy the holiday season now that you don't have to worry about the presents ;)

Tilly, I think part of the issue is how would we, as players, create characters that would be able to develop a new world in the specific setting that the DM has created. Some of this is cutting edge as there are no mechanics for what we want to do. Part of it may also be that as characters, the world may be set up as the show "Survivor" and we have to make do with what skills we bring with us.

Doing "Survivor" with 8 Green Beret's, Spetsnaz or SEALS would not be worth the time as they all would be able to survive.

Greetings fellows; just letting all my games know that I'm going on a camping thing for three days, starting tomorrow. There's a goodly chance I'll still have internet access but I may not, so I thought I should let you all know in case my posts slow down.

Happy new years, everyone!

Happy New Year in advance everyone!

Happy new year, everyone. We will go back to your regularly scheduled RPG soon enough :)

Happy New Years from Florida.

And back.

Welcome back. I was about to post a short description of how the works are going to proceed from the point of view of the outside world, but I realized you never actually told me f you want to do that.

Specifically, the idea I had was that Sider would open  portal to the mountaintop, and everyone would leave except him, Mirelinda, and one other person, who would then get his or her tattoos.

A few seconds later (outside time), the first vict... Beneficiary of Mirelinda's attentions would leave, and another would come in.

Lather, rinse, repeat, until everyone has their tattoos. Then somebody would have to approach Pale about the money - somebody with good people skills :P

Okay, I've decided to give this another go.  I'll be posting tomorrow!

Excellent news... And seeing how nobody objected, I'll go ahead and post the scene as I had foreseen it to move things along a little.

I'm not entirely dead yet :P Plan: one scene with Pale, for the kit idea, then we rejuvenate everybody, two days of waiting, and we cross the threshold.

Expect one long post with everything Zhorr is going to do once on the other side. I expect you will have long posts of your own with the description of your first day...

So what were these tattoos anyway?

So what were these tattoos anyway?

Still al1ve. Busy with work mostly but got to go to a convention in Gainesville, Fl over the weekend and play Pathfinder. (I miss regular FTF gaming out here in the middle of nowhere.)

Tilly I was going to want two of the Casters (6th) tattoos in the  Ring slots(L/R), along with the spell ones  Fly (Hand), Water Breathing (Wrist)

I thought Tilly had a tattoo... My mistake.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/...tattoo-item-creation

They can emulate just about any magic item, and there is a unique item that can only be made with tattoos:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-.../r-z/tattoo-caster-s

So we are waiting on Pale?

I'm still here, for the record, there's just nothing of note for me to do quite yet.

We are waiting on somebody to talk to Pale. Somebody good with words. 30 Charisma would probably be a better starting point than, say, 16...

Heyo. Sorry, was out all day. Forgive me for not completely understanding, what are you requesting of Pale?

And if you roll dice against Pale, be careful he doesn't roll them back; fear the +35 diplomacy!

I have been kindly requested to skip any more unnecessary steps and move directly to the "let's go through the portal already" part of the story.

Pale was asking me, back when, if there was a way to give his WBL equivalent to somebody else. It appears we found one, and there doesn't seem to be particular interest in character-to-character interaction at the moment, so I would presume that this will go quickly.

Tilly, if you would like some tattoos please let me know; otherwise, can we assume that your own allotment goes into making a second kit?

Ahhhh. Yep, Pale is happy to offer up his stores of gold, and his skin if necessary.

Actually, the character-to-character rp is really what's most interesting to me.  I'm just a little out of the loop, so I'm transitioning back in.

As for tattoos, I don't think Tilly would be up for one in her weakened state.  She's on the edge of the grave to start, and it's all she could do to travel to the summons.

Alright then... You can make two kits, one for Pale and one for Tilly. Maximum market price, 25 kgp per kit. Once on the other side, you will be able to Wish for those as if they were standard kits from the paizo equipment lists.

Remember to give them a unique name.

I would in fact like to see some character-to-character interaction, but that is up to the players...

So if nobody wants to add anything else, I shall post that both Pale and Tilly hve decided to help with the equipment and proceed to the rejuvenation part.

Sounds good.

Let's do that.

Works for me.  Hello Fountain of Youth

I was going to post earlier today, but I had kinda overlooked the fact that I was changing offices and therefore I would not have a computer... Silly, I know.

So it will be a brief post but at least it will advance the story... Do please let me know what kits you want to prepare, though, I kinda need them before you leave.

Baron Sider, you had some awesome posts earlier.  Can we reconvene and do some character interaction on the other side?

In reply to Tilly (msg # 53):

Not a problem. I have been hanging back to let others post in order to let them have a say and not railroad anyone. (The joys of a type A personality)

Not the bazaar!

Better to go there to get it than back to Earth to get it.

Do please note that, if you need many copies of something, you can wish for the same kit multiple times. You are not moving the kit from one dimension to another, you are using an "ideal" version of the kit to make a new one.

I'm about ready to post the departure and Zhorr's arrival; if nobody wants to be the first to go after him, I'll have Dekar and Lareth, but I do kinda need an order of arrival...

I'm second if I'm not first. Because of the bond, Lareth can probably enter with me. Benefits to a Mount bond.

Yes, mounts and familiars go with their master (and do please allow me to ROTFLASTC for a moment here, which is what Lareth would do if she ever heard anyone call Dekar her "master" :P).

Oh, Dekar himself wouldn't let anyone refer to him as her master. Bonds with a dragon do NOT work like that. Horses, sure. Dragon? Heck no. She's your (best) friend, confidant, etc, but sure as heck not subserviant!

No, I'm quite certain we've established that Dekar is just part of her collection of human. Possibly the best part, but just a collectible...

Ah, yes. I forgot I've been 'collected.'

Then again, by the time we get through the portal, she'll technically have 'collected' all of us!

At some point during the game, probably soon (-ish), we'll have a certain amount of combat to go through. Now, a 20-round fight can take hours IRL; on RPoL, it can take months.

So, here are a few quick rules for combat:

Players should set up a few contingency plans for their character - that is, announce beforehand what kind of action their characters will take, given certain circumstances.

During combat, each player has 24 hours from the beginning of the round to declare his actions for said round: if they fail to do so, the closest "contingency" action will be taken for their character. If no contingency plan applies, the character is so surprised by the events that they lose the round trying to make sense of them.

Characters who lose their round are considered to be on total defense, unless they specify a different contingency plan for that (e.g., "if I don't know what to do, use 'aid another' on the nearest attacking ally").
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:32, Sat 02 Feb 2013.

Who's next? Please post your actions on this side for the hour and a half, give or take, that will elapse before the monolith is ready to disintegrate the next victim :P

I should go next, unless someone else feels like it.

Go right ahead.

This is weird... I can't find where I had written the limits for Lesser Wish.

Specifically, I can't remember if I'd said that you could use it to summon minor magic items, and if so up to what cost (1500 or 1000 gp, market price?).
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:01, Sat 02 Feb 2013.

Honestly, this has gone slow enough I don't even remember what I'm wishing for other then gear.

Msg 53 in Prospective players playground.

"Two Miracles cast in a row will allow you to carry across 25000 gp worth of diamond powder, as will two Wishes in a row. Limited Wish can convert that to most things with a market value of 1500 gp or less (up to masterwork items; wondrous items and" the like are out)."

Msg 106

"Just to be clear: one Wizard is allowed to bring across (with a double Wish, one to delay the actual activation of the other until a certain trigger, much like a Contingency spell) 25kgp worth of diamond, meaning you could pass through, trigger the delayed Wish, and then cast another Wish (which you can then presumably prepare from memory the next day assuming you have it in your Spell Mastery list).

A single Wish allows you to create 25kgp worth of "n-of-a-kind" magical items, so "I Wish for two Blessed Books" should give you exactly what you asked for.

Just don't try "I wish for a Blessed Book and..."
This message was last edited by the player at 00:58, Sun 03 Feb 2013.

You seem to have more time to dig up things, Baron.  Can you help me make a kit?

In reply to Tilly (msg # 70):

Been working on that also. (On call today so kind of stuck at home) Here is what I first designed and then the current one.

Survival kit of the Pioneer. Kit designed to sustain 4-6 people/medium sized creatures while they start a settlement in the unknown.

Sustaining spoon     5,400
Restorative ointment 4,000
Cauldron of Brewing  3,000
Ring of sustenance   2,500
Handy Haversack      2,000
Shining Wayfinder    2,000
Versatile vest       2,000
Vest of tools        1,800
Wand Endure elements   750
Campfire bead          720
Feather Token-Tree     400
Travelers Any-tool     250
2 Ioun Torches         150
4 man tent              30   25,000


Current version
Sustaining spoon        5,400  -
Restorative ointment    4,000 1/2
Vest of tools (2)       3,600 10
Cauldron of Brewing     3,000  5
Handy Haversack         2,000  (5)
Shining Wayfinder       2,000  1
Wand endure elements(2) 1,500  -
Campfire bead (2)       1,440  -
Travelers Any-tool (4)  1,000  8
Feather Token-Tree (2)    800  -
Ioun Torch (2)            150  -
Healer kit                 50   1
4 man tent                 30  40
Survival Kit(Common) (4)   20  16
map makers kit             10   2  25,000 in haversack  83.5/120 lbs

If we have the healing part taken care of, then swapping the Restorative ointment for a pot of Marvelous pigments might be better as that will give us 2k of gear if you are up to doing a bit of painting.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:22, Sun 03 Feb 2013.

I can cast Restorations. Indeed, my starting spell selection includes 5 of them so the mages can keep casting.

I do know that at the least, I need to make myself Adamant Full Plate (with as much magic as I can put on it), an Adamant Shield, and an Adamant Longsword (Adamant needs the least amount of upkeep. Then, I guess, get some defensive magic items. My job is essentially 'tank for all the 20th level pure casters'

OK, so... You cannot wish for magic items with Limited Wish, not even in 3.x.

This means items such as campfire beads, or wands of endure elements, or feather tokens, will have to be included in the kits or packs that you are designing now, or crafted by hand by limited-wishing for the components.

The limit I previously stated for Limited Wish was 1500 gp worth of raw materials, so you could for instance "wish for the materials required to craft four wands of endure elements").

I have the healing covered... hmm, Tilly is more of a sculptor and baker than painter.  She can craft constructs, and make us guardian statues.  She can also craft clothing, and a little bit of armor and weapons.

Mirelinda has the painting skill (+25)

Oh, good then!

Mirelinda, would you like Marvelous pigments in place of the Restorative ointment?

Yes please, that way I can paint all the cheap fiddly stuff that is not worth wasting a limited wish on.

How does this look everyone?

Survival kit of the Pioneer. Kit designed to sustain 4 people/medium sized creatures while they start a settlement in the unknown. We do not assume any responsibility for using the trees in the kit as raw materiel and welcome all the hard work that the Druids do in taking care of nature.

Vest of tools (4)       7,200 20
Sustaining spoon        5,400  -
Marvelous pigments      4,000  -
Handy Haversack         2,000  (5)
Wand endure elements(2) 1,500  -
Campfire bead (2)       1,440  -
Feather Token-Tree (3)  1,200  -
Mule back cords         1,000  .25
Travelers Any-tool (4)  1,000  8
Ioun Torch (2)            150  -
Healer kit                 50   1
4 man tent                 30  40
Survival Kit(Common) (4)   20  16
map makers kit             10   2  25,000 in haversack  87.25/120 lbs

Sounds good. Although 2 wands of endure elements ? Mirelinda doesn't need it (at least not as long as the cold is the problem). And I should hope we have that problem licked before the first wand runs out.

And Mirelinda is firmly planning to limited wish herself a lot of comforts very quickly. In fact, back long ago I had this wonderful idea of putting all her wardrobe in a chest, marking it, and then casting limited wish "I wish for a duplicate of the chest which bears my arcane mark, with all its contents". But for some reason at the time the GM said no...

Oh well, Mirelinda can sew, and with arcane forge she'll have a new wardrobe in no time flat.

It would be a unique item and you can't wish for those... However, if you have any room left in your money allotment, you could make two of those, call them "Mirelinda's spring-summer-autumn-winter collection" and treat them as a kit.

Think of the extra wand as back up and can always be used in creating other items that need Endure elements. Besides, if we were all 1st level characters, it would take the three weeks or more to build a decent home. Here we would be like leaders of major countries being dumped on an island and being told to restart civilization with only one staff member each.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:07, Sun 03 Feb 2013.

I give you Mirelinda's Dowry Chest, which she put back together, twice, before leaving. 7 outfits, with extra scarves, and plenty of expensive materials for beautiful dresses:

Large Chest                             10 gp  100 lbs
Entertainer's Outfit x2                  6 gp    8 lbs
Pickpocket Outfit                        5 gp    3 lbs
Traveller's Outfit x3                    3 gp   15 lbs
Cold Weather Outfit                      8 gp    7 lbs
Silk scarves, embroidered, x5 assorted  25 gp    5 lbs
Pocketed scarf                           8 gp    0.5 lbs
Bladed scarf                            12 gp    2 lbs

Bolt of linen, 25 sq.yard              100 gp
Bolt of Silk, 10 sq.yard, dark green   100 gp
Bolt of Silk, 10 sq.yard, deep red     100 gp
Bolt of wool, 10 sq.yard, black         60 gp

Thin leather, 4 sq.yard                  2 gp
Thick leather, 4 sq yard                12 gp

2 beaver pelts                           4 gp
2 ermine pelts                           8 gp
2 fox pelts                              6 gp
2 mink pelts                             6 gp
2 seal pelts                            10 gp

TOTAL                                  500 gp


P.S. yes, I know it's full of useless items that will do us no particular good, but it's Mirelinda's Dowry Chest, so there...

Well, now we will be ready to marry you off to someone!

Baron, I like it.  Just in case, it might help if I shared my spell list?

Spell list:


0: bleed, create water, detect magic, detect poison, guidance, light, mending,
purify food and drink, read magic, resistance, spark, stabilize, virtue (cleric),
ghost sound, mage hand, enhanced diplomacy (cleric)

1: bless, blood money, color spray, cure light wounds, divine favor,
know the enemy, protection from evil, remove fear, sanctuary, shield of faith

2: admonishing ray, align weapon, consecrate, cure moderate wounds,
hypnotic pattern, lesser restoration, levitate, make whole,
masterwork transformation, minor image, status

3: create food and water, cure serious wounds, daylight, invisibility purge,
magic circle, magic vestment, stone shape

4: cure critical wounds, death ward, divine power, freedom of movement,
restoration, protection from energy, rainbow pattern, order's wrath

5: breath of life, cure light wounds (mass), fabricate, life bubble,
overland flight, rapid repair, spell resistance, telekinesis, true seeing, wall of stone

6: animate objects, blade barrier, chain lightning, cure moderate wounds (mass),
harm, heal, greater dispel magic

7: cure serious wounds (mass), destruction, dictum, greater restoration,
greater scrying, greater teleport, jolting portent, prismatic spray, reverse gravity

8: antimagic field, cure critical wounds (mass), discern location, divine vessel,
euphoric tranquility, greater spell immunity, stormbolts, sunburst

9: mass heal, meteor swarm, miracle, true resurrection, time stop

(I can create water and food for us easily.  Create Food makes enough food and water for 60 people for 24 hours.  It is good to have backup, though, since I could get killed!)
This message was last edited by the player at 19:07, Sun 03 Feb 2013.

Here is the spell list that I will be taking. It should help with getting something built on the first day. (5 Walls of stone)

Divine Magic
Level 0 Resistance, Stabilize, Create Water

Arcane
Level 0 Prestidigitation, Mage hand, Mending, Light.

Level 1 Mage Armor x2, Charm Person. Enlarge Person, Feather Fall,
 Endure elements x2
Level 2 Extended endure elements, Fox's cunning, Bull strength, Cats grace, Owl's wisdom, Bears endurance, Eagles grace.

Level 3 Fly, Extended share memory x6

Level 4 Stone Shape x5

Level 5 Fabricate x3, Wall of stone x5

Level 6 Move Earth x3, disintegrate x2

Level 7 Rampart x3, Elemental body IV x2, (split slot)

Level 8 Polymorph any object x4, Sunburst

Level 9 Mass Icy Prison, Mage's Disjunction x2, Meteor Swarm, Mass Hold Monster.

Here's mine for today-

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 0¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Create Water
Know Direction
Light
Read Magic

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 1¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Magic Stone
Dream Feast
Ant Haulx2
Air Bubble
Endure Elements
Blood Moneyx2

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 2¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Soften Earth and Stone
Endure Elements, Communal x2
Lesser Restoration x2
Web Shelter
Wood Shape

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 3¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Stone Shape x5
Daylight
Sky Swim
Water Breathing

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 4¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Spike Stones
Air Walk
Control Water
Dispel Magic
Cure Serious Wounds
Freedom of Movement
Life Bubble

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 5¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Wall of Stonex5
Commune with Nature

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 6¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Stoneskin
Greater Dispel Magic
Ironwood
Move Earthx4

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 7¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Elemental Body IV
Control Weather
Wind Walkx2
True Seeing
Greater Scrying
Rampart

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 8¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Earthquake
Finger of Death
Word of Recall x2
Wall of Lava
Whirlwind

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 9¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Elemental Swarm
Regenerate
Foresight
Shapechange
World Wave
Tsunami

Since we have food taken care of between the spells and pigments, I was thinking that we can swap out the Sustaining spoon for another pot of the pigments and some other goodies, (1,400 gp remaining) Suggestions? Remember, it has to fit in the remaining space in the haversack.

Vest of tools (4)       7,200 20
Marvelous pigments      4,000  -
Handy Haversack         2,000  (5)
Wand endure elements(2) 1,500  -
Campfire bead (2)       1,440  -
Feather Token-Tree (3)  1,200  -
Mule back cords         1,000  .25
Travelers Any-tool (4)  1,000  8
Ioun Torch (2)            150  -
Healer kit                 50   1
4 man tent                 30  40
Survival Kit(Common) (4)   20  16
map makers kit             10   2          in haversack  87.25/120 lbs

How about a lot of spices, so the food tastes good?   :)

Oh and some seeds!  Tilly wants to make a garden at some point, assuming more world generates.

Well, I think that can be covered by the pigments but if you find a magic item or kit that has what we need, let me know.

My spells...

LV1:Blood Money (x5) Keep Watch (x2)

LV2:Bull's Strength (x3) Lesser Resto (x3) Endure Elements (Communal)

LV3:Heal Mount (x3), Dispel Magic (x2), Resist Energy (Communal)

LV4:Restoration (x5!)
This message was last edited by the player at 06:05, Fri 08 Feb 2013.

A couple of things about this selection of spells that your character would be aware of...

- Endure Elements, Communal, is actually pretty terrible: the duration is divided among the targets, so it takes the same number of castings as a standard Endure Elements to cover the same number of people for the same amount of time, except from a higher level slot.

- Keep Watch works on multiple people per casting, so you only really need one, or two in case something happens and you need to recast it.

- Bless Water is (M) (silver worth 25 gp) so you will need Blood Money (1 STR per casting) to fuel it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:05, Mon 04 Feb 2013.

Oops. Do you have better suggestions? I was just trying to help as best I could.

And Restoration costs 100 gp or 1000 gp, depending on the use. For us, that will be 100 gp : once again you need blood money (Well, Mirelinda is bringing along a large stash of diamond dust that could be used for it too).

Lesser Restoration, on the other hand, is free (and level 1 for you): go for it !

Problem: you have too many good spell of level 1 to cast : Blood Money, Endure Element, Lesser Restoration, Create Water, Bless Water... Create Water is actually a cleric orison, which means all of us can take it with our one cleric level and cast it at will, so skip it or take it the same way. Stick with Endure Elements (Communal) after all. Forget Bless Water for now. That way you can take 5 Blood Money for your level 1 slot, fueling your Restorations, and 1 Lesser Restoration. And maybe take more Lesser Restorations in your higher level slots too...

Alternatively, be ready to beg diamond dust from Mirelinda, take one Blood Money per Bless Water (different material component, diamond dust won't help), and skip the lesser restorations. Then you can take Enhance Water and Endure Elements as first level spell.

How does this look in place of the sustenance spoon?

 Robe of Components

Aura moderate conjuration; CL 7th
Slot body; Price 5,000 gp; Weight 1 lb.
DESCRIPTION

The pockets of this simple blue robe always seem to carry just what the wearer needs whenever she casts a spell.

The robe functions as a spell component pouch, providing any spell components or focuses that are necessary for the wearer’s spellcasting. The robe can even produce spell components or focuses with a specific cost, though it provides no more than 50 gp worth of such materials in any single day. The materials supplied by the robe are suitable only for spellcasting, and disappear if they leave the wearer’s person or when the spell requiring them is cast.
CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS

Craft Wondrous Item, minor creation; Cost 2,500 gp.

Well, it's better for you than me, obviously, since I have Eschew Materials: I'll need to recreate my focus components once, then I'll be set. The few spells with costly material components I have are too expensive for this anyway. Still, if it works for you, sure, after all you're the one paying for this :)

We all have eschew materials (at least if we followed the character generation rules).

I was thinking of the robe as it can create foci as needed up top 50 gp but after a few days on the new place, I think we will be creating our own from scratch.

However, since we have food covered between the spells and the paint, here is another revised version of the kit

Marvelous pigments (2)  8,000  -
Vest of tools (4)       7,200  20
Ring of sustenance      2,500
Handy Haversack         2,000  (5)
Wand endure elements(2) 1,500  -
Campfire bead (2)       1,440  -
Travelers Any-tool (4)  1,000  8
Ioun Torch (2)            150  -
potion cure lt wound (2)  100
Healer kit                 50   1
4 man tent                 30  40
Survival Kit(Common) (4)   20  16
map makers kit             10   2    25000      in haversack  87/120 lbs

Sounds good!.

So who is taking a kit?

Updated my spell list.

In reply to Baron Sider (msg # 100):

You don't take a kit, you wish for it once you are on the other side. Or you use two wish spells before crossing to have one created just as you arrived, and I'm already taking tattoos so I can't afford the wishes.

Pale and Tilly are the two characters using their available gold to make kits.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:35, Fri 08 Feb 2013.

Don't forget Mirelinda's wardrobe ! I'm spending a whooping 1,000 gp (500 gp x 2) on this incredible kit !

I'm going for Baron's kit.  After all, he worked so hard on it for me!

Just a side note: upon their arrival, your characters are suddenly finding themselves some 40-50 years younger.

While they fully expect this, and so won't be surprised, they might (and probably should) still be somewhat affected by it... Even in a world where magic is almost as common as technology is in ours, this isn't something that happens every day - it's on par with a Wish, at least.

I am also still unsure what kind of gift pack Pale wants to get. I would suggest including some masterwork artisan tools, including masterwork artisan tools of spellcraft, since these are mundane items and therefore follow the time-consuming rules for crafting.

Finally, RAW sunk my Marble of Magica by making the Runestones of Power have a cost of 2k per level squared, so I will have to double the price of a MoM to 3k per level squared.

So, am I allowed to magic up my sword and armor?  And it's 25k of stuff per wish, right?

You fellows should really consider Pale at your disposal. I'll have a few ideas but you guys seem far more organized so please use his gold and spells at will.

Do we just post through now or what?

I am really supposed to introduce you guys as you arrive, but on the one hand these days have been a little hectic, and on the other I am not even entirely sure who the next one is.

On the gripping hand, I would like to know the details of the second kit, just so that I can save everything for future use.

I will try to fix this in the coming week, and hopefully then we will be all set to start the first week of in-game time.

Who's next?

I can go next if you want!

I'm still unsure what I'm wishing up. Sword and armor?

Zhorr's first day was more than a little messed up... And it isn't even done yet!

The following ones should be much easier, though, and the GM notes will be much shorter as well.

Prepare this set of spells (some of which may have to be borrowed from Archmage Sider's book, since Zhorr only has so many points of Arcane Pool).

Write down that set of spells that were not in the book yet.

Make this item.

Rest & story time.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:18, Wed 20 Feb 2013.

Who's next?

I've been working on a post; hopefully tomorrow!

I'm not quite  sure what to post for game mechanics.

I could certainly make any number of posts otherwise.

I have finished most of my post, so I should definitely finish tomorrow.

Right now I'm not sure what I should be having Pale do. Should I burn my uses of Wall of Stone and start building us a fort? Ditto with Move Earth and Rampart?

I think you should coordinate with Sider... IC, even. These are decisions that your characters need to make. You could discuss it via PM, which should be quicker than IC posts, then make a joint post with your decisions.

However, Pale will have to get to the other side first.

So, Dekar, on your first day I think you should ask Sider for your most expensive possession - the adamantium full plate, which you can immediately make +something, probably +4 seeing how the price limit is 25k.

Then you can ask Mirelinda for the materials required to make it +something else.

Marvelous Pigments may be needed soonish to make such mundane items as whetstones and other tools required for proper weapon and armor maintenance.

Am I forgetting anything?
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:29, Sun 24 Feb 2013.

That makes sense.

Okay, let's do that. (Seriously, making my gear is all that's holding me up)

I'm sending Mirelinda through, so that she can start working on things and stuff... This leaves only Pale, who shall then be the last to cross.

We are still missing a kit for Pale... Along with whatever mundane items may still be missing, perhaps a Ring of Sustenance for pale himself might be an idea.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:57, Mon 25 Feb 2013.

In reply to Pun-Pun (msg # 123):

Maybe diamond dust?  Just in case...

In a kit? Remember that you have to spend 25000 gp in diamond dust to get a kit... Perhaps different material components? Foci, maybe?
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:17, Tue 26 Feb 2013.

Give me a shout when Pale should be heading through.

OK, so Pale's kit was divinely inspired: the gods themselves put their heads together, and devised a kit that will accommodate your needs exactly.

You get 25000 gp worth of nonmagic items, in multiples of two. This means that whenever you decide that something "is in the other kit", you cross off twice its value from the amount of gp remaining in the kit, and get two copies of whatever it is you decided was in there.

There. That takes care of it. Now to post Zhorr's view of Pale's arrival...

Woo; here. Now, what to do...

Planet Bob.

Moved Mirelinda's post up to its rightful place. In the future I will probably have to do the same with some other post to make the thread more readable.

So my employer went and blocked a number of sites... Guess which one is part of them?

This is going to be fun. Or not...

ETA: I have a lot of bookkeeping to do, even though it's probably going to be pointless, but Murphy docet. Combined with the above... This is going to take a while.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:23, Mon 04 Mar 2013.

Well, once you let me know how  big my sword, armor, and shield can be, let me know.

One wish each, so 25kgp apiece. You will need Sider for that, though.

Aren't those from my tatoos, instead of bothering him for 'em?

Or did my tatoos do something else?

I don't have any tattoos listed in your character sheet. Please remind me where we discussed them?

In reply to Pun-Pun (msg # 135):

I never listed them because I was never completely sure what we were doing. I just assumed these things were left 'floating'.


There's a lot of uncertainty on my part on what I'm supposed to be doing and why. However, the money I spent was to be spent on unspecified tatoos to help with magicing up my gear.

So, Dekar does in fact have one wish ready.

Funny, the thing I like the least about d20 is checking the price of every single item 20 times... And yet, here I am.

Sometimes I just want to play with the resource system from Exalted.

Anyway... Everyone, please PM me what you are doing with your day in terms of creating additional resources. The characters will have "dinner" IC during their mandatory two hours of rest (8 for those without the tattooed Ring of Sustenance). The kit with the magic spoon should also be conjured at some point today, for the benefit of said characters.

Are we, by any chance, 'outside at night' ? I seem to recall something about the lack of light when we discussed our arrival ...

Also, how many restorations/lesser restorations are available ? How many Bull's Strength or similar strength boosting spells ? I ask because I'd like to manufacture as much diamond dust as possible for wishes (not that I can cast them, but Baron Sidar can I think), and the limit is really my strength. I can cheat with limited wishes, but that cost me some of my diamond dust ...

Also, if anyone wants a decent outfit, or jewelry, or anything made of leather, talk to me
This message was last edited by the player at 12:00, Sun 10 Mar 2013.

Pale has... only two lesser restorations prepared. Tsk.

I can do (Blood Money + Fabricate + Limited Wish (duplicate Restoration)) twelve times. With my strength, that's a net 7,499 gp of diamond dust each time, or enough dust for three wishes and some left over. That's using only my own resources, and for day 1 when I'm already creating a lot of miscellaneous stuff for myself. And I'm thinking a lot of us could use full wishes (although Sidar would have to cast them, I only know limited wish). There's that nice magic item kit, for starters, and it's the only way I can think of to conjure mithral/adamantine weapons and armor.

A Bull's Strength spell, if someone has one, would add 2,000 gp per cycle, enough for one more wish. Better Strength boosting spell would be even better, and might stack. And any Lesser Restoration/Restoration that come my way (I have plenty of diamond dust for Restorations) saves some more diamond dust and frees some spell slots for more cycles...

I could heal ability damage in a few ways:  based on slots for the appropriate levels, I can do 9 lesser restorations, or 8 heals (cure all at once), or 7 mass heals.

No bull's strength, but I could cast mass bull's strength with a miracle spell.

A nicer outfit would be nice, too!

A nice outfit is easy, I could actually just use the Craft skill and have one in a couple of days, or I can do it in one minute with the arcane forge spell. In fact, I can do several outfits at once with one spell, if there are other takers.

I don't think it's worth using a miracle just to give me a bull's strength, although if it's free (which it seems to be) and you don't have a better use for your spell slot, why not ? But a Heal to restore all lost Strength seems a good use of the spell. Or a Mass Heal, if we coordinate with Sidar and his spellcasting. Or if you don't have anything better to do with your spell slots.

P.S. I have two masterwork daggers and 2 masterwork starknives which are free to anyone who offers them a good home. And if anyone needs a continual flame cast on something, I can oblige too.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:00, Sun 10 Mar 2013.

Well, otherwise, I'd probably just burn them up for stone shapes and walls of stone to help make the well, garden area, and courtyard bigger.

Pale has five Stone Shapes and five Wall of Stones. Would you like some help with your garden-building? Oddly enough a druid would not be opposed to helping :)

Certainly!  I was thinking we could make a walled courtyard with a well.  I'd use meteor swarm to start to get us some of the earth, dirt, and ice for soil.

And if nothing grows, I'll end up sculpting a garden of stone and using craft construct to make it aliiiiiveee!

Actually that's an interesting image.

Monstrous Physique and its brethren give size bonuses to Strength, which stack with the enhancement bonuses from Bull's Strength.

But then, Mighty Strength is a 4th level cleric spell with a minute/level duration that grants a +8 enhancement bonus: combined, monstrous physique III and mighty strength give a +12 strength bonus for 20 minutes, which is more than enough for several castings of fabricate.

Also, when using fabricate to create components for magical use you get 250 full gp per point of strength used, rather than having to reduce the total by 1.

The cost for this +12 enhancement is... Two Limited Wishes. You recover it in one casting.

A reminder: you cannot reduce your Strength below 1 with Blood Money.

I recover the diamond dust in one casting, yes, but it also costs two level 7 (or more) slots, which I could have used to cast a a full cycle if I can scrounge a level 1 slot. So that's 9000 gp that I'm not making + 1,500 extra gp, which I recover in... ok, two cycles, so it's worth it :)



That's 250 gp instead of 499 gp per point of Strength then Because Blood Money normally costs 1 point of Strength per full 500 gp... ?

Or I cast miracle again and you have it.  Boom!  Divine magic!

Those are personal spells, so if you use a miracle to cast them, YOU get them, not me :) Unfortunately...

OK, it's 500 gp. My bad. I remembered incorrectly. Actually, I was about to fix it right now, since I redid some math and I found that it wasn't working out...
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:53, Sun 10 Mar 2013.

About the Miracle thing...

Miracle, like Wish, can do things that are "in line with" the power level of the spells it's emulating.

Giving somebody Monstrous Physique is probably in line with the power of Greater Polymorph, which is a 7th level spell: even though the spell doesn't quite say that, it lists elemental body III, a 6th level arcane spell, which is actually higher than  monstrous physique III. So that would most likely work as a standard Miracle.

Mighty Strength is a 4th level spell, so a 5th or 6th level spell could reasonably have a target of "creature touched" instead. That would also work as a standard Miracle.

It is, after all, a miracle :P

Yeah, what Pun-Pun said!

All right, so if Tully does the buffing with two miracles, and sends 8 heals my way, and 7 mass heals, and a couple of lesser Restorations to clear up the Str I used on my own stuff, that's... 21 full Fabricate that I can do, each fueled by a 30-Str Blood Money, and six of them needing my own Limited Wish to restore Strength. That's...

500*30*21 - 1,500*6 = 306,000 gp worth of diamond dust. 12 full wishes or expensive miracles, and a little left over. No way Baron Sidar can keep up with the wishes :)

Yes, let's do that ! Our wish economy will be going full style for a couple of days at least :)

Remember "Wishes are granted by Gods and administered by Imps." :)

Goodness me, I spent the day (on sick leave) preparing the first of three monsters you will face for your first encounter. Hopefully the next two will go faster. And that did not add a single line to the inventory or the IC thread... And I should post something from Lareth, too. Sigh...

Really, just make them up on the fly.  I won't mind.

P.s. Feel better!

That... Really wouldn't fly ;)

So, today I'm feeling better, got plenty of work (alas, not "work done", just "work"), so I'm wondering... Who is missing in my big list?

I know what Tilly and Mirelinda are doing. What are Pale and Derak doing, in terms of item creation feats? What about spells?

Sider will be writing down a number of spells, I'm sure... What about item creation?

I eagerly await for your replies in the appropriate private thread ;)
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:28, Tue 12 Mar 2013.

In reply to Mirelinda (msg # 155):

Finalizing things, I realized that I do know the spell giant form II, which will do nicely for that +8 Strength size bonus, so I'm only going to need a miracle for that mass bull strength (that way everyone gets it).

OK, but "Everyone" is you and Sider, as nobody else has Fabricate - Zhorr having spent his entire allotment - and he only has 3 of those. Also, Dekar has some Bull's Strength prepared, AFAIR.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 22:10, Tue 12 Mar 2013.

I could help with masterwork transformation, maybe?

Some advice on what I could be doing would be useful. I also have most item creation feats.

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 0¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Create Water
Know Direction
Light
Read Magic

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 1¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Magic Stone
Dream Feast
Ant Haulx2
Air Bubble
Endure Elements
Blood Moneyx2

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 2¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Soften Earth and Stone
Endure Elements, Communal x2
Lesser Restoration x2
Web Shelter
Wood Shape

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 3¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Stone Shape x5
Daylight
Sky Swim
Water Breathing

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 4¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Spike Stones
Air Walk
Control Water
Dispel Magic
Cure Serious Wounds
Freedom of Movement
Life Bubble

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 5¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Wall of Stonex5
Commune with Nature

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 6¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Stoneskin
Greater Dispel Magic
Ironwood
Move Earthx4

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 7¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Elemental Body IV
Control Weather
Wind Walkx2
True Seeing
Greater Scrying
Rampart

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 8¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Earthquake
Finger of Death
Word of Recall x2
Wall of Lava
Whirlwind

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Spell Lvl 9¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Elemental Swarm
Regenerate
Foresight
Shapechange
World Wave
Tsunami

Help me with the garden!  Or create an item as Mirelinda finishes materials.

Hmm I could make a lake.

Can I make a magic item out of diamond dust?

Well, with rampart, wall of stone and stone shape you can help Sider with the construction of our stronghold. It's probably too early for wood shape and ironwood since we haven't gotten around to creating wood yet, but it will come. Most of the rest, well, they'll be good for encounters, but I don't see an obvious way to use them for construction. But that's all right, to each his job.

Item creation, well, either start work on something small you'll have finished in one day or two, figuring to have as many as possible ready when the monster come, or start on something big in the hope of finishing it in time to do a lot of good...

Concur with using Rampart to build defenses around the tower.

Now that you mention it Tilly, I think that we might want to pair up on some of the tasks for the group.

1. Shelter
1a. a natural area (Druid's Grove/long term food)
2. Creating items (Magical/normal)
3. Exploring to see what we got.

I can help with 3.

I've got World Wave, so I could pair with someone who knows teleport, zoom out over the land and note anything we see, then teleport back.

I've got Commune with Nature so I can find out about the land within a twenty mile radius; more, if I can apply Widen Spell.

As far as you can see or detect, before Tilly used her meteor swarm there was absolutely nothing anywhere. Afterwards, there are several large rocks and a huge amount of smaller ones, dust and debris :P

Incidentally, the events that are not listed in the IC before Tilly casts her meteor swarm haven't happened yet. Mirelinda listed her intention to do a full cycle of diamond dust creation, so presumably Tilly helped out with that, and then went to the tower... And fun ensued.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:25, Wed 13 Mar 2013.

*sighs* MIRRY!!! What did you do now!

Stare too long into the abyss and sometimes it sneezes at you!


Edit:  I'll post my response later, but here are the saves:

07:38, Today: Tilly rolled 28 using 1d20+23. Fortitude.
07:38, Today: Tilly rolled 34 using 1d20+20. Reflex Save.
07:38, Today: Tilly rolled 22 using 1d20+4. Dex (flying).

Gotta go!
This message was last edited by the player at 11:41, Wed 13 Mar 2013.

Dekar has all his spells, and so does Pale, neither has yet had the chance to cast anything. Mirelinda and Tilly have both spent a certain amount of spells, as have Sider and Zhorr. I have to figure out exactly how many, add stuff to the inventory, post a reply IC... Fun fun.

Pun-Pun, it's up to you as to whether I'm buried beneath the rubble, I guess.  If I get a chance, I'd like to use Moonlight Bridge to bolster the tower.

Given the uncertainty, I'll hold off on posting for now.

Okay, there we go.  Had to explain that.

I didn't know they were getting cleric spells.  I guess I'll be getting redundant soon enough.  More time for gardening!

Hey, you'll get them too, and I bet your wisdom is better than ours :)

I think it's also pretty hard to cast spells with a tower sitting on your chest... But I hadn't quite considered that greater teleport has no somatic components. Silly me.

So Tilly just moved the timeline ahead by oh, a month or so, real life?

Some other things remain to be done, but overall I think it's been a good day for your characters... More so if you can stop Zhorr from, well, dying.

You'll never be redundant Tilly, aside from the fact that you have the only miracle in town you bring ideas to the table :)

I am frankly lucky: you guys brought a number of things to the game that I hadn't originally planned for, and the game is better for it. Now if I could just finish that inventory...
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:25, Wed 13 Mar 2013.

I also have silent spell, so I don't need the verbal components.  I very much considered it.

Well, thank you!

Speaking of miracles, Tilly, Zhorr could use one :) Or some healing if you still have some of lesser potency.

Okay, I compromised away the unconscious to temporarily stunned/dazed; that has the same effect and allows me to save poor Zhorr.

Since you finished your casting cycle, you may want to post the step-by-step sequence of what you asked Tilly. I don't think she was in the recipient list of that particular PM.

enough lesser restoration to recover 5 strength (a couple should do with any luck), 1 miracle to cast (mass) bull's strength, 8 heals, and 7 mass heals. Before each heal/mass heal I'll be casting blood money and fabricate to make diamond powder, a lot of diamond powder.

If Tilly is unconscious, I did save a couple of level 9 spell slots with which I could cast a limited wish to help, but I can only duplicate up to level 5 cleric spells.

Two additional things:

1) Even a cursory inspection will reveal that Zhorr isn't bleeding from a specific wound: apparently his body has forgotten on which side the red stuff goes, he's bleeding through his skin.

2) While Zhorr's Fabricated outfit are not quite the latest Armani collection, they are, in fact, more than simply functional... They are masterwork pieces of clothing, and are designed to be easily adjusted to account for personal taste. You get a nice +5 to your Craft rolls if you modify one of those outfits to suit your tastes rather than starting from scratch. All you need then is a little color to make them more lively, and that is easily provided by Prestidigitation and made permanent with the help of Create Water and Mending.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:56, Wed 13 Mar 2013.

You are two mass heals over my 9th level limit, because I also used meteor swarm.  Otherwise, I can actually handle that. :)  I'll give you two heals each for those mass heals, out of a higher level slot.

Spells

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (level)

---

6, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7 (normal)
6, 9, 7, 8, 8, 8, 0, 3, 7, 0 (remaining)


I don't think I got to stone shape or anything else yet.

Well, feel free to downgrade all the mass heals to heals if you want. As for stone shape, if you're going to meteor strike what you just created, there's no real point ;)

23:42, Yesterday: Tilly rolled 20 using 1d2+18. Heal.

Uhm... I think you forgot a zero there :)

While you are at it, roll damage from the falling tower please  :)
This message was last updated by the GM at 23:05, Wed 13 Mar 2013.

Fixed and added it in!

Was Sider in the tower? I initially thought he was, then I read the previous posts and thought he wasn't, then I read the latest post and got really confused :)

I figured that he would be in the tower. Last I had left him, he had scribed 4 hours worth of spells into the spell book unless I missed something.

Alright, re-added the baron in the correct place.

Now, what is going on here indeed... An Intelligence check, DC 20, will tell you many things.

Failing that, three checks are needed: Knowledge (Religion), Knowledge (Arcana) and Knowledge (Planes).

And I just noticed that Sider passes them all automatically. OK then :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:01, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Hey, what do you know ?

Mirelinda rolled 23 using 1d20+6. Intelligence check DC 20.

Just in case the Baron does not automatically pass an intelligence check DC 20: that seems a bit high, although I'm sure he has a good chance anyway ;)

17:18, Today: Tilly rolled 42 using 1d20+26. Knowledge Nature.
17:18, Today: Tilly rolled 17 using 1d20+14. Knowledge Planes.
17:18, Today: Tilly rolled 21 using 1d20+9. Knowledge Arcana .
17:17, Today: Tilly rolled 18 using 1d20+5. Int check.

15:33, Today: Dekar rolled 36 using 1d20+22. You better believe I know Religion.
15:32, Today: Dekar rolled 31 using 1d20+16. Okay, but do I know Planes?
15:31, Today: Dekar rolled 21 using 1d20+8. Do I know Arcana?
15:30, Today: Dekar rolled 14 using 1d20+4. I am the smart?

I KNOW THINGS!

I bet you cheated and asked your dragon :).

That's not cheating, that's using a lifeline.

(But I actually rolled those 3 checks with Dekar's own stats.

I know; I'm just teasing :).

If you meet a wizard who can automatically pass a DC 20 intelligence check, run.

Actually, that's the thing I like the least about D20 system: the die has way too much influence over the final outcome of checks. The village idiot, with an int of 4, is about half as likely as the village genius (int 18, +4) to pass a check that the average guy fails 50% of the times. The curve should be a little steeper than that.

Anyway, the int check was your backup, more of a last-ditch attempt than anything else.

The three checks have a very high DC as well, but they reinforce each other: each check you pass gives the other two a +2, retroactively (so if you pass one, fail one by 2 and fail the last by 4, the first makes you pass the second which makes you pass the third).

Dekar passes two checks out of three.

Tilly: Swapping out Religion for Nature usually doesn't quite cut it... Combining the information you got from your very high Heal check, however, you do figure out some things.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:01, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Addendum: changed the recipient list for PLs to include those who passed with flying colors :P

Also updated the reply to Sider a little.

Well with a 60% chance of passing the INT check, rolled a 1 but the knowledge's he has in spades. Now for the fun part as we shape the world around us.

Open to suggestions- you know like "STOP THAT MAD MAN BEFORE HE DESTROYS US ALL!!!"

Objects struck by a tsunami are swept up if they are Huge or smaller and are carried along by the wave, deposited in a pile at the end of the wave's journey. Gargantuan or larger objects, as well as structures or objects firmly attached to the ground, take 8d6 points of bludgeoning damage when a tsunami passes through its space-if this is enough to destroy the object or structure, the remains are carried along by the wave. Hardness does not reduce this damage, nor is it halved as damage dealt to objects normally is. Freedom of movement prevents a creature from being carried along by a tsunami but does not prevent damage caused by it hitting a creature.

First an earthquake, then a tsunami.

Yeah, I think you just lost everything that was in the shelter.

Any counterspell forthcoming?
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:39, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Couldn't resist. I was aiming it away from everything...

Again, open to someone stopping me.

Oh man, if the divine here takes our actions as a template, this is going to be a dangerous world...

With friends like these, who need enemies ?

In that case, perhaps I should impose my benevolence on the universe.

Then it'll copy me.

Lay On Hands on the ground? I don't think that's gonna work...

Alright then, master Pale... Roll Init.

Sent the DM a PM to see what would happen before I do an action. Please give him time to respond.

Wait.  What if I cast reverse gravity in the area of the water and send it flying into the sky?

Tilly wants to protect Zhorr, so she might do something like that.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:00, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Tilly... Are you quite certain you want to cast reverse gravity? Just asking... :)

Also, tsumanis move in a straight line across land or water; reverse gravity would not only catch it but stop its movement.

The area sizes match too  (reverse gravity is slightly taller).

Perfect spontaneous caster thinking, in my opinion!

Reverse gravity would work for those that can fly and avoid smacking into the ground but I think it might be fatal for Zhorr.

This is going to be a very short campaign...

So, Pale is about to throw a tsunami at Lareth's friends. Wonder what she'll do... so far, dragon goes first (rolled 21).

It would not be fatal for Zhorr.  Reverse gravity would only target the area next to Pale and the water, so it would not affect the rest of us.  The water would go up and stop moving, by the spell's description (only moves on land or water), and the tsunami will dissipate in 3 rounds, long before reverse gravity wears off.

Meteor Swarm, Tsunami, now Reverse Gravity... welcome to the new Plane of Perpetual Chaos, where the laws of physics aren't laws at all, and repeating the same action will yield very different consequences, probably deadly.

Forget the magic, let's just wait the damn thing out and see what we can salvage. We started from scratch less than one day ago, we can do it again. I hope.

I was just considering reverse gravity.  I didn't really think I was going to use it.

Anyway, I think I'm going to just grab Zhorr and fly up really really fast.

Oh boy... Tilly please roll an INT check... You go before the mage, and ain't that going to be fun.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:16, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Tilly, if I remember right, you are a Divine caster and if you are using a Divine slot to cast it, I think it will effect the entire planet, not just the area.

OK no INt check needed then. But perhaps you may want to re-read Sider's explanation of what happened when you cast meteor swarm :)

Oh, a planet under permanent reverse gravity, that should be fun, we'll be flying to the void in no time, and I think Mirelinda is the only one who actually like it there.

The entire plane, really... You haven't quite separated the heavens from the earth yet: Meteor Swarm did act as a suggestion in that sense, but reverse gravity is going to make for all sorts of wonky physics, with planets that repel each other rather than attracting each other...

Is Helmut's "let there be light" cast at CL 20?

And the Tsunami will do well in separating water from water...

You are doing pretty well on the timetable, you are just all going to die horribly while doing so. Create Water would have sufficed, really.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:24, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

There isn't any void.  Or, if there is, we are already stepping on it.

CL 3 for Helmut.

Player knowledge, not character knowledge: you just caused the void to come into existence by casting meteor swarm :)

And Helmut's daylight works, but it doesn't cause any effect on the plane(t).

Actually, it's 1/day, so it doesn't work as he already used it before, but you didn't see any change then either.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:31, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

And on the first day, Mirelinda the Creator spoke and said "Let there be diamond dust." And then she spoke again, saying "Give me more !". And so it came to pass that all the beaches in the world are made of diamond dust for sand :)

Y'know... I still have 'Earthquake' prepared...

I love you guys... It's going to be a short campaign, but it will certainly go out with a bang :P

So I rolled Initiative on Pale's behalf... And the dragon is still going first. Anyone missing? I didn't think the first combat would be amongst ourselves, nor that Zhorr would be sitting it out...

And I am sure that I have a few other tricks up my sleeves. ;)

Can I check what the point of Disjunction was? Pale doesn't have any magic items and it does not seem to work on spells.

So, I take it you fellows would rather Pale didn't cast? A quick polite word before he finishes his last syllable could suffice...

I think that "Stop, that Pale! You will flood the entire place and ruin all of the equipment that we have." Counts.

It would also end any spell effects that you had going for 20 minutes. The Druid ability is a spell and is not EX so it can be disrupted.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:53, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Well, it's not instantaneous, it's min/level, so you could read it as "it stops all magic effects within the area for the duration". AMF, except meaner.

Incidentally, when I mentioned to Sider that the CL for the Endure Elements on you was 40 "should it matter", I didn't think somebody would cast mage's disjunction at it...

Not out of the woods yet... Check the IC thread something got a wake-up call ;)

As for our casters, both Tsunami and Mage's disjunction are spent. Sider, you may complete the casting or interrupt the spell halfway through as Pale did.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:59, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Well, I would suggest using a miracle, the expensive version (who cares about a few handful of diamond dust, I have plenty more blood in my veins), to revive Zhorr, except... given what has been happening, that would probably make things worse.

Two words: Greater. Restoration.

Tilly knows what to do :P

Don't forget to choose your level 1 spells and your bonus feat.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:26, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Speaking of level 1 cleric spells, can we learn the lvl 1 bonus spells for our domains as part of them ? As it happens, neither of my bonus spells are normally on the cleric list (longstrider and feather fall).

I don't see why not, but you have to prepare them in your domain slot as normal.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:53, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

AFAIK the bonus spells can not be used in the regular slots.

Per Pathfinder SRD for Clerics/Domains. (added the underline)
"Each domain grants a number of domain powers, dependent upon the level of the cleric, as well as a number of bonus spells. A cleric gains one domain spell slot for each level of cleric spell she can cast, from 1st on up. Each day, a cleric can prepare one of the spells from her two domains in that slot. If a domain spell is not on the cleric spell list, a cleric can prepare it only in her domain spell slot. Domain spells cannot be used to cast spells spontaneously."

Don't feel too bad, I can already do the both of the 1st level domains spells as abilities.

Well, of course, but the other face of that is that only domain spells can be prepared in the domain slot, so if I couldn't learn them I couldn't use my domain slot.

Not that a lvl 1 cleric spell is going to have much impact on a lvl 20 sorceress one way or another...

That does seem unlikely... Nonetheless, you will get WIS spells for each (spell) level with each (class) level, so if you want to include domain spells in there you can certainly do that.

The other powers from your cleric class will eventually start to work as well.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:58, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Just got home, but yes, this is why I asked people for diamond dust.  I was trying to roleplay it a little.

In fact, Tilly already said that she knows what to do:



This message was last edited by the player at 21:29, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

Well, I'm getting you your diamond dust. Missed it the first time, as Sider then went on at great length about what was happening and I completely forgot about the important stuff.

Since there was no tsunami, the Secure Shelter, while a bit worse for wear, is stil standing.

It will last until the natural end of the spell, a day and a half or so from now, and it will keep you protected until some more construction work can be done.

That is, assuming nothing else happens :P

Might I suggest Arcane-Forging a set of foci, including those required for Mage's Magnificent Mansion? It would be significantly safer...
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:49, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

While you choose your spells, remember that all the spells that you could cast from your slots that you can already cast with your primary class are bonus for your cleric - you don't have to choose them again to cast them from your cleric slots.

This applies to domain slots as well: if you can cast a L1 spell from your domain slots that is already in your primary class's list, you can prepare it in your domain slot. Of course it will be a level 1 spell with a CL of 1, whereas in your primary class it might be a higher level spell and will certainly have a higher CL.

Tilly is going to keep her slots open and prepare in them as necessary, since you can always do it whenever you want.  I think that it reflects her attitude as a spontaneous caster.

OK, but I still need to know which spells you chose :)

To clarify: you don't get the full list yet, only a few spells, one per point of wisdom modifier.

You can prepare those spells in your cleric slots, and you can also prepare in them any spells that you can already cast (from your other class) and that a cleric with your domains would normally be able to prepare in the same slot.

Was that clearer? :)

That is much clearer. Now I understand.

Also, I forgot to mention that you get WIS Orisons that you can prepare and use, in addition to the ones you prepared back when; spells you get from your original class that are cleric orisons can of course be prepared in your cleric orison slots.

I think this more or less covers the entire 0th-level list for most characters, seeing how most of them are probably in your other list already.

Interesting object, the Mnemonic Vestment. Seems particularly useful for a certain character in this group.

Oh, please, as if I couldn't cast or UMD... wait, the scroll is not consumed ? Now that's interesting.

Of course it's only once a day, and I kind of like my own take on casting spells I don't know *cough limited wish*, but it is interesting.

The part that surprised me was: scroll *or spellbook*. It's an even more spontaneous version of Page of Spell Knowledge: you can cast any spell that is in a borrowed spellbook, once a day, from your own slots.

BTW, one Wish gets you five of those.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:11, Thu 21 Mar 2013.

Pale, we are waiting on ya!

I might have to look into wishing the spell books into existence in order to speed things up. Even at 10 minutes a spell level its going to take some time to scribe them all.

You are? Damnation, sorry. What are you waiting for from me, exactly? I've already spoken about the planet...

8 hours of magic items creation, 13 hours of scribing spells, 1 hour of spellcasting, 2 hours of rest. That's a full day :)

Happy Easter, everyone. And if you don't don't celebrate it, well, may it be happy anyway :)

Easter's a good holiday for what we're doing IC anyway.

Happy Easter everyone.

(More like 8 hours of magic items creation, 6 hours of scribing spells, 1 hour of spellcasting, 1 hour memorizing spells, 8 hours of rest.)

So, False Focus, just like Eschew Materials, seems to forget about foci - real, arcane foci, not divine ones. If you have better luck than I did in a google search for an errata that specifies that you can use that in place of focus components please let me know.

Otherwise, I'll have to house rule that, much like Eschew Materials, it works as a focus components unless it clearly doesn't make sense - e.g., when the focus is used by the spell's effect to do something that the divine focus would obviously be unable to replicate.

Could we take that as our bonus feat for the new level?

I was thinking the same thing as I like Eschew Materials. (Now if there was a feat called Eschew Focus, (requirements: Eschew Materials, Level 21) I would take it

We did say that we already allow Eschew Materials to ignore costless foci, as long as they aren't required by the effect (i.e., unless the spell alters the focus in some way).

Now you can make a single object that works as your focus for everything, unless the cost of the focus, as specified by the spell, is higher than its value. You have a 100 gp limit for the material component cost, but I'm on the fence about the focus cost: if you make a Focus that is worth more than that, I might let you use its full value if the spell requires a costly focus.

And it doesn't cost you much, either, since you are going to make magic items for all slots anyway.

And yes, since you have received a bonus feat, you may choose to spend it on False Focus.

BTW: The divine focus for a druid or a ranger is a sprig of holly, or some other sacred plant. Since it's costless, it makes sense that Eschew Materials allows Pale to ignore the need for a DF when casting Druid spells. I'll also house rule that False Focus gives divine casters the same benefit as arcane ones - otherwise we have that the same spell cast with a fake divine focus gives arcane casters an advantage over true divine casters.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:34, Tue 09 Apr 2013.

Do I even need a false focus?

My natural Paladin powers are already using something to function here.

False Focus allows you to cast spells with a material component ignoring the material component, up to the value of the divine focus you are using, with a cap of 100 gp.

So basically Holy Water for free.

There's an idea. Wouldn't that be a nice addition for the planet if ALL Water was holy water?

Evil outsiders and undead would all die when it rains :)

Or, we could make all water unholy water, so nobody can drink it before casting a "purify food and water" on it >:)~

Holy rain. That's got to be terrible for the background radiation...

But very tasty!

The Holy Rain would be handy if the world got overran by Zombies.

I was about to launch into a diatribe about foci but after looking at the spells that require them, other than Shapechange, there is not many that would be spells that that I would use anyway. Shapechange use to be the big one in prior editions but it is not the all powerful one now.  Is crafting a 1500 gp jade circlet necessary? Not sure yet as the world is waking up.

Not only would rain purge zombie invasions, but it would become fact on this world that you could kill demons just by pushing 'em in the nearest lake.

In reply to Baron Sider (msg # 268):

You do need a focus to channel energy, and for many cleric spells we'll eventually learn. But it's not like we're going to notice much if we wait a little to have one.

As a matter of fact, I already have a feat to use my harrow deck as a focus for divination spells, I suppose it would be logical (if a bit hilarious) to use my harrow deck as a divine focus too...

By the power of my Holy Deck of Card, Begone, Vile Undead !

It sounds kinda cool, actually: your Harrow Deck would represent the inevitability of Fate (since you are lawful). By the power of Fate you would heal, harm, and channel divine spells that require a focus.

I would still advise against it, however, on the grounds that harrow decks are not really suited to be brought into combat. The concept is interesting though, you may want to adapt it somehow.

Zhorr's pitch will still be that you should, if at all possible, to come up with a common symbol representing your diffrences and commonalities.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:02, Thu 18 Apr 2013.

Still thinking like a Wizard :) and need to remember that I need a holy symbol for a focus for Divine spells. (I give Pale an A+ for his holy symbol) What is to say that the holy symbol for Mirelinda is not a deck of cards that a glowing hand is picking one. I had thought of one that looks like an open spell book with a cats eye looking at it over the book and a quill under it. (Nib pointing to dexter)

Fate is True Neutral. Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to the good.

Well, a Holy Symbol is not a unique object, or even unique to the individual, it is just a symbol of the faith. A priest could carry a dozen around, weight permitting, and they would all work; and they can be objects in their own right or simply painted on something. So in theory I could have one Holy Symbol that's actually an object that's handy to use in combat, and still paint it on the back of all the cards of my Harrow Deck and they'd count as holy symbols...

And that leaves the exact design still wide open. For Mirelinda's part, if we try to come up with a team design, incorporating a star would work quite well...

Dekar might appreciate wings on the symbol, if it's to be a team thing :)

I guess that is why we are going to do the stories or the symbol might look like a platypus. So far a star, wings, spellbook...

Hehehehehehehe.

We are the great and mighty order of the duck billed platypus. FEAR US!

(sometimes, I think a platypus is what got Created when God got drunk one day...)

Long version: Mirelinda, lawful, can choose a harrow deck to represent the inevitability of Fate. A True Neutral character could choose the same symbol, representing the impartiality of Fate, and a chaotic character could choose the same symbol, representing the randomness of Fate.

I think stars would represent both our spontaneous casters - Tilly please correct me if I'm wrong - and the meteor shower ("falling stars") as well.

Now, if the stars were sets of five-pointers or six-pointers, they would represent an arcane symbol as well. Put them around a winged figure - like for instance a dragon wrapped around an egg - and I think we have covered everybody.

Do please correct me if I'm wrong...

Addendum: your combined chosen domains, their parent domains and subdomains (as applicable), and the Law domain and its subdomains, all become available domains for your faith, should it matter for some reason.

ETA: Divine Foci are objects, not material components, therefore they benefit from the 1/3 reduction when you craft one. A Divine Focus made of mithral or adamantine, with a base cost of 34 gp, would be worth 102 gp, which meets and exceeds the maximum value for a False Focus symbol. Six of them, including a long mithral/adamantine chain tying them together by one another's locket, would have a base price << 250 gp, and would be easily made with a single casting of Fabricate. In fact, you could make a few spares, if you felt so inclined, without needing to spend more Strength.

The base DC is 20 (for the expensive adamantium one, cheaper one would have a proportionally lower DC), Crafting skill is Jewelry.



Unfortunately the dragon's arms were off-center, so the egg is off-center, so the stars are off-center... But you get the idea,
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:18, Fri 19 Apr 2013.

That works as a drawing, but the detached stars won't help much with making it an object. Well, unless it's engraved on a medallion or something.

You could perhaps add a star on the egg. If it were distorted as if painted on the rounded surface, it might be interesting... and the little starts could then be omitted on some versions of the holy symbol, depending on the material.

Well, I have the Archon domain, so Both Law and Good are available there.

Right then... Let's try this instead.



So we have an egg-shaped symbol, with a six-pointed star and a dragon on it.

And yes it's meant to go on a medallion or be otherwise engraved.

Addendum: we can add a small image in the center of the star if you find one that think should go in there. Perhaps a five points star, to have a more "starry" star in it?

ETA: removed the blank center from the star, elongated the points instead, as per Sider's suggestion. This necessitated a resize of the star, so there was no room left inside, not that the hexagon was that big to begin with...
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:15, Sun 21 Apr 2013.

He, I new Lareth was our natural leader ! And now she's been promoted to Goddess, too :) Why, just look at our Holy Symbol !

I don't think an image in the center of the star would add much, it would just be too small to matter...

Sometimes I have to wonder... Why don't more actual religions worship dragons?

Anyway...!  It looks nice.

I think that a dragon might eat a few followers along the way

(Nice work, btw Pun-Pun)

As to the star, maybe elongate the top point and every other one. (Or make it 8 point like a compass rose) Another thought is that the dragon is holding the star or trying to eat it
This message was last edited by the player at 04:10, Sun 21 Apr 2013.

Everybody loves Lareth <3

Image modified with the advice from sider.

I like that new star :)

Looks great.

Those who would like to submit their story for review, please feel free to send me a PM.

Zhorr is making a Pearl of Power, Mirelinda a Headband of Alluring Charisma... I would like to know what the others are making to close the first day inventory :)
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 12:50, Sun 28 Apr 2013.

Well, Dekar certainly needs to forge his armor after the sword is made. Since, ya know, he's designed for heavy plate in the event of bad stuff.

The only thing is, you are a little short on resources.

Also, forging an adamantine armor (or weapon) from scratch takes literal years; crafting it through Arcane Forge is a better option (as materials, dirt and diamond dust may well work: dirt for the mass, diamond dust for the magic essence - i.e., gp value).

I can't cast any spells without rewriting reality... so... I will ask someone to make me something I can use to start my garden.  Meanwhile, I'll try to fight off being sick and come up with a good story to tell!

Perhaps rewriting reality to include the existence of adamantine resources might not be such a bad idea... Just saying ;)

Get well soon!

I'm good with such rewrites, though obviously I can't be casting any miracles. Or using Wishes.

In reply to Pun-Pun (msg # 293):

So, how do we do that ? I suppose we would need to cast some sort of divine spell creating adamantine ? But the creation spells tend to be on the arcane side of things, and they specifically exclude adamantine unless we start talking wishes or miracles... and we all know what happened the one time someone tried to call for a miracle !

Bear in mind that that someone was not supposed to use miracles for another 16 levels :)

Any CL 20 divine spell you cast will bring what you cast into existence as a part of the universe.

A divine Meteor Swarm brought into existence meteors, as well as stars (but without light).

A divine Daylight brought into existence starlight - and therefore daylight.

A divine Arcane Forge would bring into existence the forged materials. Using a Miracle to emulate Arcane Forge would do much the same.

This is information Zhorr has, I will have to make sure he shares them with you on his next post...

Are you guys waiting on me? I'm not entirely sure...

Might be as your post from the 30th was that Zhorr was going to dispense some wisdom. the last post on the story board was mine about holy symbols on April 17th.

I thought it might... I had meant "on his next post" as "whenever he post next" rather than "in a post I will make as soon as possible", but that wasn't very clear...

Post is up, do please let me know what you would like to do. I thought Tilly had a kit or two to bring into existence using her Contingent Wish. Did I miss that part?

In reply to Pun-Pun (msg # 299):

I'm sort of between internet service, but i should be active again sometime this week.

I wonder if it's worth doing things like creating Holy Water.

It might, as I said earlier, make ALL Water Holy Water ;)

You will still need to create some water first, in order to bless it... But I suggest you wait until you've made a Holy Symbol with a sufficiently high value and taken False Focus, so that you won't need the material component.

Internet is restored.  Post tomorrow hopefully!

Here, I think this was the final version of Baron's Kit (thanks again, Baron!).



It's practical.  I like it.  Now to post.

Some roleplaying over dinner--perhaps a story told--would be nice...?

Oohhh, storytime!

No problem on the kit. I tend to like mental exercises.

Those were good stories!  I feel like I'm uncreative next to those.  Can I post an "just okay" story and maybe get you a better one later?

Please, go ahead :)

We'll retcon this a little, by the way, to one story per day, so that we have something to cover the two to three weeks at the beginning, which will otherwise be quiet.

Happy new year everyone.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year and thanks for posting. I had forgotten the name of the game after taking it off my list since there was no posting in months. I wanted to save the write up for the Baron.

Are we live again?

Well, happy new year!

Many, many moons ago, Lareth had collected us all. Are to be forever uncollected?

I'm not entirely sure what happened, really... We were supposed to start trading stories that would then shape the world, but we appear to have hit a snag.

In the mean time, the downtime rules came out, and they look like a worthwhile addition to this kind of campaign, so perhaps we can get ourselves uncancelled and use them to help us along.

Do we have stories to share?

One silly story delivered!

Let me know when I'm up.

It's free form, you're up when you're ready, and you can go again when everyone's done.

I gave up on a perfect story.  We aren't going to judge you that much.

Pale, you're up :)

Addendum: to cut down on bookkeeping, I think we're going to use the downtime rules.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:51, Wed 22 Jan 2014.

OK, Pale's story is going to be a hard one to integrate, but I'm sure i'll come up with something...

I like how different the personalities that are coming up for the group are, there is a lot of variety.

So, Dekar, Mirelinda, you guys still with us? I would love to hear your stories...

I'm standing by. Trying to figure out if I had a story lying around somewhere or needed to make a new one.

Maybe remember some old games and blend them together?

I wrote a story you felt you had to respond to? High praise indeed.

I figure that we are talking about the stories after they are told and the good side won out over the lawful side with that one.  It is funny the number of character backgrounds for clerics that get their powers as a child/baby from a Deity but never ask for it.

Here's what's gonna happen: your stories will shape the world, so each story will effectively create something; on the other hand, you guys need to level up, so I need to give you encounters, and the stories will provide a base for those.

The way you deal with the encounter will influence the results on the universe. This latter part was inspired by Pale's story, which isn't a classical "kill them all, let Pharasma sort 'em out" encounter, and will force me to mix things up a little.

Not entirely sure yet how I'll do it, but it's an interesting challenge - much more so than adding templates and applying CR adjustments.

My pleasure

I just threw something out, because trying to come up with a good story wasn't working... so maybe next time I'll do better.  However, I am happy that I managed to have a non-violent ending to mine!

I'm leaving a slot open for Mirelinda's story, just in case, and uploading Zhorr's next one.

I am trying to cut down on the game's maintenance costs, so we are going to use the downtime rules. This basically allows the characters to perform one activity each during the day. We will keep the first day's work as-is, but starting with day 2 I'd suggest the following pattern for the first week:

- Mirelinda and Tilly work on making money (250k gp per day)
- Sider and Zhorr work on rebuilding their spellbooks (9 spells per day each)
- Dekar and Pale work on crafting (4kgp market price per day)

That is about 42kgp per character per day, give or take. Sider and Zhorr won't need to spend money to scribe the spells, it's assumed they use part of their daily allotment to make inks as needed.

Then, after about a week, we switch.

Stories are told one per day: as long as you keep them coming you get time to improve your gear (and give me more stuff to throw at you later on ;) ).

Give me a shout when another is needed.

Baron? Would you have another story for us?

Now, folks, if you are not feeling particularly creative, here's a hint: take a funny story from one of your previous groups, dress it up a little and change the names to protect the guilty make sure that your character covers the appropriate role, run it through a spell checker, post ;)

Hope that helps.

Well, that was great... I think I have to hurry up and finish the third story, and then start working on the next six, apparently :P

I had been waiting to hear from the others before my tale but it looks like the others now need to get posting.

I believe it's now Tilly's turn.

Just a warning, I don't quite have a story yet for the next round: so far I did Zhorr and Lia's story, first I had "spring", then "summer", next story will be "autumn", and it's unfinished for now; then I should do "winter", for which I only have a very very thin thread at present, and after that... Guess I'll have to put my muse on overtime :P

My need to post is duly noted.  I'll think of a story.  Wow, it's my turn again fast!

I think you replied to Zhorr's story but did not post a story. The next time Merlinda logs on, she still needs to post a story from last round.

The fun part for me is trying to remember things that happened to a character over 33 years ago and tie it into his story. Back in 1st edition, only Humans could be Paladins but his story line was that he was the Dwarven version of one and was out to redeem himself.

I did tell a story, actually.  I just haven't told a second one yet.

I was thinking that you were talking about the current round of stories.

Another year has come and gone, Merry Christmas to those who are still around.

Merry Christmas there Zhorr (Or my new name for it Excessive Commercialization Day)

Happy see family day!

Quite.

This game is still alive?

I thought it dies ages ago.

Christmas miracle.

The game still exists, and I had given serious consideration to restarting it with the downtime rules, to simplify bookkeeping; I think, though, the way I had eventually set the game up was not what some (or most) of the players had in mind originally.

I still think the basic idea might be interesting but... Eh.