Nym, if you're happy to have Wuffles on the outside of the mill i can post a new update and let time move on a little so you you can whatever there is to see.

Meri, let me know if you want to go inside the in or stay outside of it.

Yeah, I just made a post - Nym will stay put and see through her familiar until something happens that's interesting enough for her to physically go over and check it out herself ;).

Lol, first The Shadow and now Stephalee, some poeple hate priests and divine magic it seems!

It's partially not an accident, obviously as mages I'm setting you up a little to be at odds with divine spellcasters for my own nefarious reasons. But rest assured, it's only in-game story reasons, and I'm not bringing any weird religious rants or anything in to the game as a sneaky theme.

Well Meri's thoughts about religion are probably something along the lines of the gods being too nosy and interfering for everyone's good anyway :)

[Private to The Altweaver: Maybe she prayed to Elven gods once in her younger days, but when they did nothing to stop the torment she was suffering at the hands of the bullies, she probably rejected them along with a lot of other things in her life.  So if Stephalee ever talks with Meri about that, she might find someone who agrees that Divine Magic never helps when it's desperately needed.
As for her former mentor in the way of the Artificer, I think he'd have believed more in the power of the individual to forge and shape their own path in life.]

As for my own, well...  I'm somewhere between an atheist and someone who wishes Nature Magic really worked :)  hehe.
Point is, I'm not offended by religious rants.  In fact I might be inclined to agree ;)
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Exactly! :p

Anyway, probably always good with religion and politics to ensure people don't start going 'wait, is this some DM tangent rant thingie...' if you're doing stuff in game, I find!

Hehe well, I don't care for religion, so I tend to try and avoid it as much as possible in games. It's probably why Divine classes are my least favourite in DnD. In games where the existence of gods is a definite thing (eg DnD), I'll just play a character who knows of them but doesn't really care for them one way or another. In games where deities are as real as they are IRL (and with as much proof of their existence), my character will just share my own views. So it's pretty straightforward either way :).

And all my characters basically share my view on politics, which is to say they think it's mostly a load of bollocks and they don't really care about it and would rather focus on stuff that's interesting and has a more obvious and immediate impact on their lives (so, a lot like religion, really) ;).

I'm proud of you both, it's taken more than two weeks since you didn't have to be good in front of Many before you started contemplating child murder and started commiting conspiracy to lie to the police.

This feels just like the time Meri didn't steal from an NPC house way back in Old Stonbridge *tear*

Well she's getting all of those evil urges out of her system now before she meets up with him again :)
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Lol child murder? Hey, I'm completely innocent there - I didn't once suggest doing anything horrible to Stephalee - I think that was mainly you dropping hints as though it was something we were planning ;).

Hey, Meri, our GM wants us to start slaughtering kids - shall we get revenge by erm...doing...something? ;)

Well there's plenty of guards around here that I don't think anyone will miss too much ;)

I'm hoping by the powers of reverse psychology you can not murder people? :p

Hey, it's not murder if they attack us first, then it's self-defence!

I'll explain it in OOC so it doens't become a lingering cause of confusion, the idea was that the magic of the amulet and the magic of Celindara's counterspell picked exactly the wrong moment to react, right when the portal opened.

So the combined spell turned Goodwin to a stick. Celindara just had to reverse her side of the spell, but as explained because Goodwin and the amulet were now combined together, it was impossible for him to reverse his side of the spell in a normal way - even if he knew how to reverse the amulet's effect. However, the magic could just as well be unravelled by Goodwin mentally changing his mind about having cast the spell.

Now, at this point in time you might recall a certain elvish poem Meri found way back in the portal dungeons, that Goodwin was embarrassed about? It seemed to be a poem about how someone's singing was better than nature and trees? So, it could have been Goodwin buttering up Celindara, but, of course, there's another singer closeby... one that maybe Goodwin was trying to say was better than Celindara?

Whether Goodwin was actually writing a poem about Blace because he was smitted, or whether he was simply trying to ingratiate himself with her, clearly he was drawn to her as being an important person to impress and befriend. Perhaps he simply trusted that she seemed to be someone genuining putting herself out and helping everyone, and he actually felt guilty about doing something as selfish as hurt Celindara to safe his own skin. So note when he had doubts about his doing anything to Celindara he went right to Blace. And he did trust her over the two of you when you first met Blace.

So the idea was that even when Celindara undid her part of the spell, and even though Blace had of course rejected him pretty harshly, there was still just that 'no, but...why? I thought you were good? Maybe I misunderstood and I'm just really horrible?' in his mind. Hence why even though he feared she was evil, he was pulling you towards Blace just to confront her. After all, while Goodwin's talk about hope might just sound like the justification of a con man, perhaps Goodwin subconsciously was speaking about himself too...

Really, you just needed to get Goodwin to get angry and go back to being selfish, or engineer Blace basically somehow ruining the 'good' image Goodwin had of Blace.


So when Meri provoked Blace, Blace's torrent of abuse on Goodwin was more than enough to make him go 'oh, she's not the person I thought she was, she's as bad as the phystal and wow did I almost make a huge mistake.' Or maybe Goodwin's last fragment of goodness died that day and he decided everyone sucks and went to being really selfish. Who knows! :D

I mean I think Goodwin didn't trust the phystal enough that the whole Blight thing was needed, but it certainly didn't hurt in making Goodwin regret his decisions either.


Hope that's a little clearer?

So him and Meri might actually have something in common then? :)  hehe.

I kind of guessed there was something like that between him and Blace.
Meri probably worked it out the same way, although she doesn't seem to have drawn attention to it for some reason.
Could be she's trying to spare his feelings by not bringing it up.  Or maybe she just doesn't believe in love and thinks it's too stupid a reason to mention for anything.
Only Meri knows for sure ;)



Wonder if Meri has ever loved anyone...?

Like I said, maybe he just thought she was a genuine person and so would be gullible enough to fall for him being nice. Who knows with Goodwin :D

Yeah, I'll have to make a few Insight checks on that guy as we go along, to keep track of him and make sure he's legit and stuff. I just haven't got round to it yet what with all what's been happening and other conversations seeming more important and stuff.

Well, don't worry.  I'm sure he's figured out Meri definitely isn't the easily trusting type, so she's unlikely to be drawn in by him ;)

Yup, Goodwin is clearly as clever and he is trustworthy :D

Just as a warning, I'll be busy all easter. So I may not be able to do proper updates until Tuesday - as always, it just depends :)

That's okay, I'm sure we can hold out till then ;).

Good to know :)

[Private to Nym: Goodwin just seems more frightened of being left behind than seeming to be scared of you actually stopping The Blight. Though of course he seems equally scared of The Blight, understandably.]
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Oops, might have made a pm to myself before...
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Lol well, at least you can be sure you were the only one who read it, then ;). Looks like we'll be needing a new thread shortly as this one is now four posts short of a thousand...

[Private to GM: Okay, just wanting to make sure he doesn't seem to have any hidden agenda which might run against any of ours - even if he doesn't want the Blight to spread he still might have some kind of ill feelings towards any of us, for whatever reason (even if entirely unrelated ot current events - he might just generally be a Sneaky Bastard who wants to murder us at the firs topportunity and nick all our stuff ;)). Mainly I want to make sure that the "scared wimpy coward" thing isn't just an act. I can see him getting us into trouble even if it isn't an act, just by accidentally saying the wrong thing or being clumsy (worse than Nym!) at precisely the wrong moment, but hopefully if he's legit he'll be too worried about Meri incinerating him (or something) to really slip up too badly ;).]

ooo, really? :)
One of the items I have the recipe for?  Or just any item of my level or lower?

Apologies, I got that wrong - it's at the end of a short rest (and by extention a long rest too!) :p


Yes, it's an item of your level or lower. I actually think that now you are level 5 all your formula recipe are viable, aren't they? You need to research dragonfire tar at some point, but that's only level 3. The level 5 acidic fire, and all the alchemical acid, fire, frost and woundpatch are all createable right now.

Anyway, enjoy your alchemy finally :D