A Thorn In The Hand OOC

[Malak'ai]

Your still within 250 from Eleanora and Verossa and you can still see them, it's just that your far enough away that nothing from over there will be able to affect you in anyway.

[Machuchang]

If Daranad shot at the warg, he'd suffer a penalty for shooting into melee, right?

[Malak'ai]

Yes, he would. In fact, at the moment, both Eleanora and Verossa are almost totally blocking your view of it.

[Machuchang]

Alrighty, that's what I figured. Is it possible to drop my bow, draw my sword, and attack the gobbo?

[Malak'ai]

Yep. Drop the bow and draw the sword as part of your move action, and because it'd be on the diagonal then it would count as moving 15' so you could actually make it a charge as well .

[Machuchang]

Sounds like a plan!

EDIT: Sorry, redoing the attack and damage due to some major typos. A 1d26 is not a thing.

[Malak'ai]

But if only it were .

And I think I'm going a bit over the top with the descriptions of your attacks... Doing 8 points of damage doesn't really lead itself to being impressive enough to have chopped the top of someones head off, but oh well.

[Machuchang]

Hey, he's dead isn't he?

[Malak'ai]

True, but might take the 'WOW' factor out of it if anyone gets a crit.

[Malak'ai]

New round, Arranis, it's your turn.

[Marlowe]

Funny, it never really sank in to me how much taller Verossa is than everyone else.

I'm going to have to be careful with how I write her. If she's too assertive she could come across like a bully.

[Arranis Thelmos]

It's all the same to me, everyone is taller than me.

[Wordplay]

I realised last night that I did something quiet noobish - forgot that Raif should have bonus spells from his 18 WIS. (hey, just because my character has 18 WIS...)

Anyhow, if you're wondering why Raif has a couple more spells next time he prepares them, that's why. (In my defence, first time playing a Cleric).

@Malak'ai: On that note, is it OK if Raif burns prepared spells for cures? It's not been addressed whether Raif burns spells for inflict, or cure wounds, but he did take Healing Domain, and Celestial as his bonus language.

I guess the other question is whether Clerics can do that in this setting.

[Marlowe]

You're not evil, and you don't serve Wee Jas (the only god for whom the neutral clerics of Must be a Rebuker/Wounder) so it's up to you.

Bear in mind, Rebuking is more useful than turning, and that "Spontaneous Healer" and "Spontaneous Wounder" are feats that any neutral Cleric with a decent K/Religion can take.

[Malak'ai]

DING DING DING!!!

We have our first crit people!
And the winner is.... MACHUCHANG!!!

Here's your prize:

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Also, Wordplay: Normal rules for Clerics apply, so it's up to you if Raif is a turner/rebuker or healer/harmer.... Though it looks like you've made the healer choice already.

[Machuchang]

WOOHOO! YEAH! FREE CAKE!!!

[Malak'ai]

Damnit... Forgot to say, Machuchang, you can write the Worg's death scene .

[Machuchang]

Wait, seriously? That's so cool! Thanks dude! Geez, I'm looking forward to seeing what the other folks'll do!

In the meanwhile, time to gore it up!

[Malak'ai]

Umm.. Just so we're clear, the Worg is now dead... Eleanora's hit took it out.

[Wordplay]

Ouch...a 1 on Sense Motive.

@Marlowe: much appreciated - needed the extra time to get my post in.

[Marlowe]

I have no idea why I'm playing Verossa as a masochist. Oh well, Hexblade. Probably an appropriate paraphilia.

[Wordplay]

Incidentally, Raif's response to Verossa is me RPing some of that natural 1. Obvious plan to torture somehow went over his head.

RP it now, and hopefully some of the sting will be taken out of it...

If Verossa's going to be masochistic that's going to set some...interesting resonances with Raif. Verossa's already pretty close to the state that he considers saved - the state he's trying to convert everyone to - and yet, interestingly, they disagree about so much...

Edit: Interesting. Just looking over the character sheets, and I had no idea how many languages the party had between us. 2 speakers each for Dwarven, Elven and Orcish, 1 for Goblin, Gnome, Undercommon and Celestial.

[Arranis Thelmos]

I am the 1%!

[Marlowe]

I can honestly say I have no idea what state Raif would consider saved...

Verossa's quite conscious that she's where she is because people played by the rules with her when they might have done something completely different, and she repays this by being a good girl and staying in her place. That was partially behind why she reacted so badly to all those "My Ladys" a few pages pages ago. She's no lady, and is frightened of what might happen if people thought she was trying to be one. Currently, that's an irrational fear, but old habits die hard.

And curse it, why can't these goblins speak common? All it takes is INT 13 for them and they know it automatically.

I know it's realistic, but still, awkward.

[Malak'ai]

I know what you mean about the Goblin's speaking Common. I always thought that they did speak it, it wasn't until I actually checked them on the SRD when you captured him i was like "Ahh... Ok, this is gunna get annoying...".
Bugbear's on the other hand speak Common .

Also... Are you suggesting that you travel a week out of your way to the Goblin's village?

[Wordplay]

No-one mentioned it was a week - to Verossa and Raif anyway.

@Malak'ai: You know I thought Talhruamy had given us something to keep in contact with him, but after looking back, IC and OC I can't find any mention of such a thing. Did I imagine it?

[Malak'ai]

@Wordplay: Yes, yes he did give you something... The Silver amulet with the light blue gem in it. If I remember correctly, without trawling through the first few pages, Drayner has it.

And no, no-one said it was a week away, I'm saying it OOC just to make you think about time frames.

[Marlowe]

Well, that's going to be something Verossa will ask, but currently she's taking one thing at a time.

EDIT: And currently she's busy making embarrassing verbal slips. Well, that's still a thing.

BTW Malak'ai, any progress on the Blenheim version of this campaign? It's been a couple of months, G and D might have bothered to roll some dice by now.

[Malak'ai]

That's fine.

Also, seeing it has been almost 2 months since EE said he'd be gone for a month, I think it might be time we discussed having Daranard wander off and find his own destiny .
Since this game is geared towards 6 players I'm gunna put it to you lot to try and enlist new players.
I'll take submissions and make my selection and then bring them in when the best opportunity arises

@Marlowe: Nope... Haven't seen of heard from G in about 2 months. Also S has had a change of shifts at work so is now working afternoons/evenings.

[Marlowe]

That's a shame.

We could send Daranand off with the goblin to try to convert Loknarg through the power of diplomacy. He wants to be a leader. Let him try to win himself an army.

That said, he'd probably just get killed.

Shall we put up a "looking for one player" thread?