I'm not quite sure I follow, but I don't have elvish

Does what I put in blue make any sense to you?

I speak Elvish and it makes sense.

Oh, I understand. You're doing "Private to group..." so I can't see it at all. You have to use "The language group..."  and then it will show up as giberish.

In reply to Davor Spiritwalker (msg # 210):

Ah my mistake.  I should have used The Language group.
Can you see it now?

Yup. Looks like this:

[Language unknown: Nt ingoneshe ar.  Ce ortou ei.  M teutilri ndeorehis on comfornte ut more ncwesanc.  K Ni i hamaac tieclo.]

That is what I needed.

Thank you very much.

I'm guessing I don't get an AoO on the chuul that grappled me?

It's got grab, sorry Davor! And it did beat your CMD.

No worries, I figured it was something like that. All those AC buffs aren't helping my CMD.

I just have to decide whether to ignore being grabbed and smack it or try and break free.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:26, Thu 09 July 2020.

Hello all! Zenna the Third is here to help out. :)

Welcome. You look different today. :)

Welcome :-)

Moi aussi!

Hello and welcome!

I apologize for the delays, gentlebeings.  I had a writing deadline, and now work is being rather busy today.  If anyone would please give a summary of events so far to bring our new players up to speed, that would be great.  Jerec and Zenna, your sheets looked fine, so once you're up on the plot, you are good to post.

Thank you--sorry that work is being crazy, hang in there.

No worries. Thanks for the update. :)

What you need to know immediately: We're fighting three underground tentacle monsters. Kill. (Especially kill the one closest to me, since I got hit with a paralyze attack and might be in a bit of a spot. I kind of earned it by showing off!)

More generally:

We met Helena at Pearl Fort, where some mongrelfolk were trying to kill us (and did take down some of our first wave of players). We ran away.

We went to the Elven city of Greenbriar, dealing with some monster trouble (by which I mean a chimera - in a halfling village where we were going to have a nice dance! :( ) along the way. Helena helped us get in, and we spoke with the Elven Crowns, who revealed intelligence to us - most pertinently, that Helena's Imperial lineage lets her activate ancient war golems and other weaponry, which is why the guy behind the mongrelfolk wants his hands on Helena.

We decided to come to Vellowgrass, one of the Imperial vaults, to loot the place and be on a better footing for dealing with the mongrels' boss. The party as a whole were in disguise, but Zenna and Teana had separated. Zenna was scouting for the party all stealthily, while Teana was flying openly in a completely different direction from the party and making a big noisy spectacle of herself. The rest of the party (and Zenna) did have monster snake trouble, while Teana knocked off part of a squad of mongrelfolk before they could learn where the party was and where it was going.

After reuniting, the party's come underground into Vellowgrass, where after we blasted some fungi, a group of chuuls came running to attack the party. And here we are.

As a side note, Teana thinks that the Heir has two enemies, and that the guy behind the mongrels and the guy behind the monster attacks are separate threats.

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So. Introducing my character. (I'm sure you've all been waiting with bated breath for this! ^.^)

Teana Florin, "the Windstorm." Half-elf, kineticist, air element. In battle, she flies around and blasts things. She's also the group's social face, 'cause she can lie like a bearskin rug. The party knows that Teana is a freelance adventurer from the South (where the Empire used to be) and that her employer has an interest in keeping the Heir alive.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 08:41, Thu 16 July 2020.

Excellent recap, has the group met Jerec/been adventuring with him yet?

He's right on the battlefield now. Was here from the start.

Jerec, in this battle, you've already busted out a fireball, a lightning bolt, and a burning arc, just FYI.

To add a little detail to Teana's summary (thank you!) - Vellowgrass the name of the plains.  The group had initially fled Pearl Fort to the Farlight Forest, as Helena had come under attack by mongrelfolk.  But when in the Farlight Forest, they were being hunted.  The encountered a myconid (mushroom-folk) who invited them to take the "Low Road", going underground.  The group traveled to the myconids' home, talked to them, and were guided out along the Low Road.  The road contained, on the ceiling of the caverns, fantastical cities and towns, but upside down, as if they'd grown there.  Their myconid guide said that magic of the ancient empire had grown their cities, and they grew "down as well as up".

The group emerged from the Low Road in the Vellowgrass Plains, met the halfings and their village during a festival, killed a chimera party-crasher that seemed to be the property of a well-known wizard from the mountains (who sold such creatures).  They hustled away from Vellowgrass back to the Forest, found Greenbriar, learned a lot of things (and made/had things made, so the stop took a good two weeks), and then decided that if Helena was going to be used to open the Vaults, the group might as well arm themselves with the lesser items in the vault and keep the dangerous stuff away from dangerous people.  One such vault was in the "city" on the ceiling of the Low Road.

Which is where the group is now going.

On their journey back, they were attacked by a huge serpent known as a Coldfang, which had gotten Helena's scent.  The group killed it, but it was likely sent to find her.

The group has now descended to a mushroom "forest" they had to fight their way out of last time, and are now fighting two underdark chuuls (it was three, but one's been killed).

Sorry - a little overload at work.
Can you npc me until 1st August then I can pick thing up again.

Thanks.

If we're doing introductions:

Davor is a half-orc shaman (he's actually an Oracle), raised among an orc tribe living in mountains to the northeast. He claims to hear the voices of his dead ancestors giving him advice, but other than being half-mad he's surprisingly charming. He has recently managed to get free from one of these monsters' claws and is proceeding to chop at it with his signature ethereal greatsword.