Okay. Terms are unfamiliar. Pround? Legates? Astirax? And Elves riding on landships (sluicing indicates water travel) that they pepper folks with arrows from?

Exactly!  Jack finds the world perplexing as well, often leading to more questions....Hopefully how to summon/pay the ferryman is one I feel like he should answer....
From my understanding a Pround uses acid and brute force to destroy the phylactory,
...like a horcrux in Harry Potter, needs something specific to destroy it.

A pround is a person?

I could probably destroy one. I have a method of bypassing all Hardness and DR and delivering a heavy bludgeoning blow.

I feel like the more people asking questions the better....
Yes my understanding is a pround is a person (though it could be a machine of some sort)....

I am willing to let you try to destroy the thing.....

I am using the scratch pad for my journal information and editing it as time goes on...I would designate days, but not really sure I feel like I have been in this place for about a week....
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Will post something of weight tomorrow, been a long couple of days.

Jack, the thread for your journaling sounds like a choice idea, I'll implement it.

Jacks Journal is going to go live!  Exciting!

For fans of the American version of The Office....
Creed thoughts!

The distant view that you had of Cauldron set off the volcano such that several key channels were overcome with magma. The gods, having sensed this, felt their bellies quake. Their forms would come to dominate the landscape, not just in creation myths, but in living and breathing reality. The magic of Zeus cascaded around the continent, striking up flares in several cities, but this escaped the attentions of you petty mortals. And yet you remain tethered to the gods and Izrador, maintaining a sacred balance. Your arrival in Highwall, with several thousand residents, divides the black realm from the colorful realm, and the city seems to sparkle with the beasts of burden having their backs broken in shipments across the continent. It is clear whether a creature is good or evil, in other words, light or shadow. Light creatures seem to glow with an iridescence with Detect Evil spells, whereas the darkness thrives with a solid attachment to chaos.

I think I get it. This place is extra planar with a reactive environment. It's why we would see the influences of Earthquake or Melf's Acid Arrow even though we have no training in SpellCraft .

I have posted, trying to move the game forward....

Hoping to level someday kill some monsters, (destroy the lich thing and get some XP!!!)
Complete mission, and get some more!

The lich isn't dead? But you have its phylactery.

My understanding is we have to destroy it before the lich reforms.....

mongo's hypothesis is now in my journal



I wonder how I will show up in this city of good and evil?
Jack is TN....
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Ferryman mentioned wogren and astirax. What are they? The symbol on my arm matches that on some of the rangers. What does it signify? The glass is special to this plane. Can it be used as a planar touchstone? And Greek and Egyptian Gods are tied to this Plane. What does this signify? What are the Shackleborn?

 Any other questions we need answered?
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I feel like an appendix of definitions might be a part of my journal eventually......

I think one of the posts stated that the symbol on Mongo marks him as one of the Shackleborn. Which raises the question Shackled , why? And for what purpose? I think we need to know this. Is it part of a prophecy?

Pretty sure a lot of the background is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._City_Adventure_Path

With a whole lot of other stuff and world flavor thrown in....

So it's World of Greyhawk, not an extra dimensional place? With astral wogren and astarix flitting about? And odd glass, which might just be obsidian, given the volcano

If I am not mistaken the world the AP is set in is not the place we are currently.....

I have directly inquired of the DM to help sort some of this out between what we know/do not know.
To start establishing this world's frame of reference.


see my journal for specifics...
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What is Izrador?

Is the glass mentioned Volcanic Glass or Obsidian?

That’d be an oppressive god of darkness, opposing the Greek pantheon. There seems to be a feudal kind of thing among the Greek gods and then the dark one… who is in a conflict with the whole of them; to the best of my knowledge.

Jacks journal updated....

We can assume that wogren and astirax are high fantasy and Midnight, respectively. Wogren are wolf-like beasts, I believe they were called that in LotR. Or maybe it was worgen or worgs, hard to recall. Astirax I have done up as clouds sort of like nano clouds but obviously a fantasy version, I just think they look like nano clouds because they are almost infinitely spinning, but they are black and brown paper mache type things that spin in circles having arranged their forms in space with ever so much audacity.

The Shackleborn mark will become more apparent in meaning as you go on, you may want to inquire in the city, perhaps someone from Highwall will be especially attuned to the Knowledge. The gods and Izrador (Izrador being the dark god who keeps magic out of people's hands, and though the greek gods are trying to destroy him, their elite is the only group that can utilize magic items with any frequency).

All a maelstrom of high and low fantasy, with the world of the greek gods and Izrador being superimposed.

The glass is obsidian-esque but it is taboo to certain people, seen as too alien.

Thanks that clears up a lot.

Do we need to declare magic items for some reason?

One thing the rangers will notice is that all of Mongo's weapons are Ogre sized and MW. And that his armor is so well made that it has a 0 ACP.
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