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Yeah! This should be pretty awesome, I look forward to it.

Keep in mind that the automatic bonus progression optional rules are in place while building your characters.

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Hi and nice to join you. I should be able to get a first draft for Dove up tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Wave friendly paw a everybody.  Then licks it paw and cleans behind his ears.
Then he looks up at the sky thoughtfully.

I need to sort out skills and a few items but close to finish.

Welcome!

Trimming down some weight on gear but should be finished in an hour.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:51, Sun 24 Oct 2021.

The Snootiest Dungeon Whale.(lore short)

1: "Y'all heard about our dungeon whale?"
2: "You talking about the one that wears the monicle and tophat?"
1: "Yeah, I know you whalers just got here, so I'll fill you in - That whale isn't just snooty.  He is the snootiest dungeon whale ever discovered."
3: "What does that even mean? Snooty dungeon whales are known to be filthy rich in their rewards for completing their dungeons, so are you saying that he has the most lucrative dungeon?"
1: "Welll ... We don't know!  The whale is just too damned snooty to take in any whalers or even to go seek someone worthy.  It just swims there and hmphs at people while pretending to drink tea."
4: "That's not enough to give it tbe snooty, nor the snootiest title, what's going on?"
1: "You got it, but the whaling association has gotten records from the adventurers that have been clearing sunken wizard towers, and several towers have corroborated that the whale we have here is not only a snooty whale, but the snootiest of them all.  You know that some towers have wierd hobbies, the tower the adventurers found records the dungeons and titles of all dungeon whales.  Apparently, the last person to enter our whale was an undine woman, but she hasn't come out.  The tower speculates that she's still clearing the trial at this time, and that's why the snootiest whale is extra snooty, perhaps he feels that he has found a worthy inheritor?"

"Ooooh...."

Orc Chief and the Boyz (Lore Short)

The endless teal ocean shimmers under the blazing sun overhead.  The gentle waves casting light like endless jewels.  The sky is a clear endless blue, with no cloud in sight. The salty scent of sea and fish fills the humid air.

The sounds of helpless flailing and splashing approaches, filling the air with a cacophany of shouts and desperate struggle against the sea.

Hundreds of muscular, hulking green humanoids are thrashing around in the water in some misguided attempt one might call swimming.  These are Orcs of the Very Big Stick tribe, on a journey towards glorious battle to venerate their god, Gorum.

These creatures dove into the sea and began their perilous journey over a month ago.  They are helplessly lost.

The biggest, meanest, muscleist orc among them has his gaze filled with life or death determination.  In fact, the entire tribe wears the same expression on their determined faces.

Then, the scrawniest orc, rather, a half orc shouts, "are...blub blub, are blub... we... there ...blub... yet?!"

The voice wakes the rest of the boyz out if their determined struggling-to-swim trance and cause them all to join in, making the struggling and splashing sound like a public market inside a swimming pool where everyone is drowning while haggling like vicious penny pinching grannies.

"Duhhh yeah... chief Biggest Stick, where is dah fight? I wanna clobber some of dem humies Gorum promised!"

"uhhhh... blub blub... chief... My big saber is thirsting for blood!"

"...BLUB..."

The orcs have stopped advancing and have fallen into a state of confusion with the half-orc's question.  Smallest Twig has single-handedly saved many human lives this day.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:51, Mon 25 Oct 2021.

And done. A little weird by most Undine standards but well suited as a guardian of the deep. He doesn't use magic to squirt people.

I've also decided to make him a little more stoic than I'd originally thought planned.

In reply to Tidale Stromgurd (msg # 9):

I took a quick look over your sheet. I'd think a diving suit would be good...

I'm posting this here to remind the party to pick up some clothes to take along, various sets have good situational bonuses

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/equip...ore/#TOC-Diving-Suit
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:36, Mon 25 Oct 2021.

If without my gear I'm a +8 to swim already and I breathe water. Others might want a dive suit but I had better be okay.

I totally forgot that my armor counts as light armor. I paid a lot to make it count as light so yeah I'm going to get the diving suit and wear it over my armor if you'll allow that.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:40, Mon 25 Oct 2021.

Okay I give up on finding a better character image, Dove's about half (a third?) done and I'm heading to bed. Goodnight all.

Sure, just making sure everyone has clothes, you won't always be fighting. I always recommend picking up a kit or two.

Folding poles, pitons and hammers, rope, folding boat, etc, well, even a Kit, Diver's would be good https://www.d20pfsrd.com/equip...its/#TOC-Kit-Diver-s

Common adventuring goodies, a crowbar, etc.

Even chalk is good for marking the way.

Pitons are great for when you can't remove a door for whatever reason and think it might close behind you to force an encounter, you can hammer pitons down to prevent it from closing.  Using a crowbar to remove the pins and pull the entire door off, or remove a door elsewhere to throw down to wedge a door open.

Block and tackle are great for making rope bridges, or pulling party members up and down in a make-shift elevator, or moving heavy goodies, or ripping off entire sections of wall, even using it to bind down huge critters.  Maybe those statues you spot look extra suspicious, so you block them all down with rope and tackle, tightening them so they can't move if they actually are golems or other things.

That, or just using rope to haul up buddies that fall into a pit.

Scratch head at Tidale Stromgurd.

Unless you have a very very bad str.  Have done something very odd with your character?
You should have a swim skill of at least 12 with just one skill point.
With swim movement of 30ft base and able to take 10 any time.

So you should be able to swim in any condition you like.  Skill of 22.

13 str, 3 ranks, born to water trait, Amphibious racial.

Ok

Base Speed: Undines have a base speed of 30 feet on land. They also have a swim speed of 30 feet, can move in water without making Swim checks, and always treat Swim as a class skill.

So you have 3 skill points.  Swimming is class skill so that 3 more.  1 more for strength.
As you have swim speed you get +8 race bonus and can always take 10.

So swim speed 30 ft Skill of 15 and you can take 10 unless you really really upset the GM.

So you swim with the class and skill of a professional gymnast that just walking down the street.
Does that help?

Little cat character look relived that the fish character is now fast enough and skilled enough not to become his next meal (Whitepaw love fishes, nice fishes).  That would have been embarrassing.

OOC:
Again subject to GM telling me I am wrong.