In reply to Diata Yuari (msg # 862):

No, that was my fault. Corrected now, and thank you for pointing it out!

Greetings, greetings!

Glad to be part of the team, still catching up with everything you guys have already done.

The details are still negotiable, but Nár is an immortal wanderer who spends much of her time pretending to be someone else, usually sequentially. Mortals tend to die eventually, so any persona has to eventually be discarded as well.

Her 'primary' persona is that of a master elven archer and mage, one of the first people on her world to put the idea of magic and a bow together. She's forgotten more magic and martial skills than most people have time to master but can dredge up the memories when they are useful; so a bit of jack of all trades.

Oh and a dedicated cook/baker; should any challenge involve a great Sourdough recipe, garnishing a cake or baking a perfectly flakey and fluffy croissant, Nár has a persona dedicated to such pursuits.

In reply to Nar (msg # 864):

Welcome, welcome!

September is also quite old; he's an enormous intelligent hammer that teleports, controls the weather, and plays almost any instrument well.  He solves problems using his head and fancies himself a paladin.

Glad to have another someone in the group who knows you don't need to hold the pointy metal when you stick it in the other person!  You mention magic-- what spheres do you have in mind?

Also, September encouraged everyone in the party to take his Mantle at the start of the adventure-- check the buffs thread and let me know what you think once you've finished Nar!
This message was last edited by the player at 20:31, Sat 23 July 2022.

Destruction for various fiery and non-fiery forms of death, at least a touch of Alteration or Illusion to manage disguises (maybe a bit of both). The other big focus is likely to be Veilweaving Sphere.

Are there any spheres that the group has no talents in whatsoever? No promises, but I'll see if any could make sense to weave in.

Hello and welcome!

I'm not sure what everyone else has, but Halasik is primarily focused on the Spirit abilities of the Nature sphere, but also has some limited talents from destruction, warp, and death.

Edit: check out back here: link to a message in this game for more descriptions of the party mechanically.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:20, Sat 23 July 2022.

In reply to Nar (msg # 866):

There are many spheres we don't have or don't have much of (only one person is a primary caster, among other things).  Fallen Fey, for instance, we have zero talents of.

As far as what we -need-...  We have a lot of Destruction, Warp, Conjuration, and Life (and some things done with War, Light, and Alteration that I can't clearly assess).  I haven't seen anyone showing off strong Divination or Illusion powers (or Mind/death/telekinesis/etc, but those are hardly staples).

I just want to note that, as far as I'm personally concerned, outside of long-range communication capabilities (which you are currently working on), your team isn't actually missing any fundamental skill that I would consider irreplaceable. I'm saying this because I don't want anybody to pick things they would not enjoy using in play in some misguided effort to compensate for other people's builds lacking them.

Also, why would anybody care that you don't have any user of the Fallen Fey sphere? That's about the least useful set of abilities in the entire sphere system I can think of.

In reply to Supervisor of reality (msg # 869):

I don't know. Why do people in RPGs hoard every potion, scroll and magic item they can get their hands on? :P

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Fallen Fey has a few nice abilities in it, along with a lot of junk. Pugwampi's aura is a pretty solid no-save debuff that applies against most enemies, Cloak of leaves grants long duration area minor displacement, Fey Potency is nice for primary casters, and for a few talents you can get multiple hour/level natural attacks, better than alteration can give for non-Shifters. But yeah, it's not one of the stronger spheres, and certainly nothing that is essential that can't be gotten in various other ways.

I think the spheres system has a number of ways to get to the same place, especially on the magic side, so even though the system is sort of "flavor-agnostic" there are different flavored options just at the base sphere level.

I agree to that, there's a lot of versatility to the system and multiple ways to achieve the same thing. It's just a matter of finding something that works for your character concept. :)

Although some spheres makes it easier on you than others.

In reply to Supervisor of reality (msg # 873):

Trap Wielder: The other Destruction Sphere.

Asmodeus take me if I know-- I was trying to make a small joke while drawing a line between "spheres we don't have" and "spheres we don't have that'd significantly change the options available to us as a group."

Discs meaning the tokens I got from my fight?

I believe so, yes.

Actually, I meant the discs that Khepri gave Verik right at the start of our adventure, back in the palace.

In reply to September (msg # 878):

Really? I apologize for misunderstanding then.

I'm curious to see how that ties in with the current situation.

Kind've a longshot-- Khepri gave us a bunch of illustrated discs, and this contest centers on illustrated discs.  I have no idea if they're even close to the same kind of thing.

Hm, this is probably my fault for not providing good enough visuals with my descriptions.

The tokens that you are earning from the competition are chips of wood, each one about the size of a d20; they're not all shaped the same - some are small and circular (closer to coins than disks), but others are square-shaped, diamond-shaped, or even more complex shapes, and a few even straight up carved in the shape of the thing the token is meant to symbolize.

Meanwhile, the painted disks you got from Khepri are all in the same shape, flat disks the size of Compat Disks, although they're made of wood, and are painted with magnificent artworks, of a quality almost comparable with paintings, not the simpler symbols carved on the tokens.

A skilled woodcutter would also be able to tell that the quality of woods and level of carving skill used to craft them are on entirely different levels, but I don't think any of you has any skill in that field that would let you know this in character.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:41, Wed 27 July 2022.

Everyone has one of those disks, that's how were communicating telepathically,  I thought.

Nope!  We can communicate telepathically because of Cube, Iona, or September (each of which does it differently).  The discs are, to my knowledge, nonmagical.

September is trying to get a hide-and-seek team to go win better telepathic communication options.

Post 22 over there.  I'm not crazy!  ^_^
This message was last edited by the player at 02:11, Thu 28 July 2022.

QQ, Sep. I'm now in the group's telepathic range, right?

In reply to Verik (msg # 884):

This message confuses me.

In reply to September (msg # 886):

Remembering that I might be wrong, I think that Verik is confusing the painted disks (which, September, you are correct are non-magical) with the Khepri golden holy symbols (which are part of what allows Iona's type of telepathic communication).

Verik, September is referring to the chest of artwork you received in msg #374, I believe.
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:59, Thu 28 July 2022.