We've been hoofing that 20 miles in and out for every long rest anyway. I say we march it. With any luck, the gnomes will let us rest with them.

Also, is there anyone who wants the Dust of Disappearance? I'll take it if we just want to give the stealthy item to the rogue, but I'm already pretty darn good at stealth.

@DM/Lorrain: I specifically grabbed that fishy smelling potion from the cottage last time Rissa pulled it out. Can I have had Lorrain identify it as well?

Don't think I didn't notice! I see what's going on here: Lucien has light sensitivity! He's a drow!!!

"Ostensible justification," indeed! Harumph! :-P

Who is taking the dust of disappearance?

How far do you want to travel before resting?

And, in case you didn't figure it out already, we lost Heldig's player (again). I would like to remove Heldig from the party relatively soon. So at some point, you'll need to return to the surface to let him take his leave.

Not_me for dust.

Far enough that we make good progress, not_far enough to avoid getting fatigued.

Bummer about Heldig. What classes does that leave us with?

Alisandra: Fighter 1/Bard 4-almost-5

Will we be taking on more players or staying as is?

Rissa is Warlock 3/Sorcerer 2-almost-3.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:28, Mon 18 Sept 2023.

If no one else wants to make a pitch for the dust, I'll take it.

Shame about Heldig, we'd managed to hold onto the same party for a long time now. On a related note, I know that I promised an update to "The Story So Far" after we beat the trolls. I'm going to hop on that this week, I promise. I should have done it yesterday, but I got sucked into a space videogame...

I think that in a very technical sense we're short two players for the optimal party size (considering that Snagger is an NPC).

As for travel before resting, have we reached the place where we 'ought' to meet the gnomes? I think it's further back isn't it? They weren't right where the slimy tunnels started.

Lucien is a Rogue 4/Fighter 1-almost-2.

Woo level 6!

@Lucien: the dust could be useful for another character to accompany the rogue when needed if Lucien himself has stealthy enough.  I am just not sure who would be best to second Lucien.  Jinx was quite happy to follow a bit behind to use the flame thrower but I don't know if a fighter would be a better second?
This message was last edited by the player at 08:09, Fri 22 Sept 2023.

My stealth and perception are +9 and +8, respectively, so if we solve the “not stumble around in the dark” problem, I would be well suited to sneak ahead with you.

In lighted areas (e.g., sneaking up on castle guards during the day), I’m already good, but since we’re going deeper into the Underdark, we really need to fix the sight thing, or we’ll have to carry lights and broadcast our presence to all and sundry!

Not trying to harp on the nightvision thing, so sorry if it’s getting annoying!

13872/14000, so freaking close.

No need to apologize, 5e is incredibly Darkvision heavy, and you don't notice it until you do, and then it's all you notice.

I stuck it in my inventory for the time being, we can distribute it out when an occasion arises.

Lorrain has no issues with identifying that potion Lucien unless of course the GM says otherwise.

Lorrain is a 5th lvl Wizard with Bladesinger as his tradition. He also has archaeologist as his background so I have been kind of trying to figure out what kind of personality I would like him to have that fits with both.

Also sorry for lack of posting. I was in a funk and finally broke it.

The potion was identified in Message #116 of the game thread.

Glad you're still with us.

Thanks Lorrain!

Glad you're still with us.

I (the player) have never been in the game while we were on the surface.  Is there any place to spend money?  We have about a gazillion copper piece... hopefully one could buy something to see in the dark with that somewhere :-)

There is a town with a general store, so you can generally get things from the PHB, but there isn't like a magic item shop or anything.

Basically, if you want to put your character in full plate we can easily afford it.

They do charge extra though. Because it's an out of the way town.

Oops, totally missed that we walked for another 12 hours.

I'm dumb.

In regard to three of us getting sick, which of us got some of Three Elks' equipment, exactly? I got the flute; to whom did the other equipment go?

My initial (paranoiac) working theory is that they either poisoned or infested the equipment with disease-bearing powder or something, but if the three of us who are sick don't match who was handling Three Elks' stuff, then we may need to look at other theories...

Waiting to hear the result of my Medicine checks...

In reply to Alisandra (msg # 898):

I don't think Heldig took anything because his player was mostly gone by that point. All I can say for sure is that I didn't take anything personally from Three Elks' stuff, but I did move the stuff that no one wanted into the cabin.

I think it's simpler than that though. The sick people are the melee fighters. The rest of us all kept at range.

So the DM informs me that Alisandra doesn't know how to fix the stat damage and 5' movement penalty that she (and possibly Heldig and Snagger? that wasn't 100% clear) suffered from the disease. We will need to find a healer with more knowledge (and possibly high-level spells, since the only one I know in 5ED that fixes stat damage is greater restoration....

Alisandra will communicate this to the group (but since I've done a whole series of posts IC I didn't want to further hog that channel). And confirm what damage/movement penalty the others are suffering from.

Alisandra, Heldig, and Snagger all suffered the same effects from the lung rot.

I was going to say thanks, but I'll change that to "acknowledged" because I'm not really grateful we've got three people with damage we can't fix!!!

Looks like we need either svirfneblin (who presumably have a wise old healer or two) or a town...

Unrelated, but I got through about the first 25% of the next summary section so far. The next bits involve a lot of fighting trolls so that's probably less dense, but we did a lot roleplay when we were last in town so it took a lot of reading to get through it all.

Edit: Also Lorrain, Lucien has told you his real name. He won't object to you calling him Seliar in character, but I wanted to be sure that you remembered.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:10, Sat 30 Sept 2023.