The Lost (IC)

[Wiz]

Bill

Bill looks at Annika, "If you want a patron goddess, there's Psyche... but I think she's more a goddess of the soul than psionics or mind. She was a mortal who married Eros. Then there is Athena who sprung from Zeus' head... she is supposed to be wisdom, so there's a mental link there. I know a bit of mythology from gaming, but even though I'm no historical buff, I'm pretty sure the rapier hadn't been invented in Greek times. Of course, if the professor puts us in a place where there are no rapiers, imagine the surprise you'd put everyone in if you had one made, and nobody else knew what the heck it was." He snortlaughs.

[Santanya]

Jason

Jason chuckles a moment, leaning back in his chair and thinking. "Going to have to scribble Hephaestus down, he's the closest one to technology of the Greeks," he says as he leans back and writes down the name in the proper slot of his sheet. "And thank you for dinner," he adds looking towards the Professor.

"I'm sure the professor would have told us if there were historical limitations put upon equipment we can normally get," he says, grinning towards Bill. "Besides, there weren't exactly many magicians, elves, halflings or characters like mine during true Greek times, that we know of at least."

[Wiz]

Bill

Bill holds up his hand and ticks off fingers, "Clarke's third law, William's syndrome, midgets, or Clarke's third law... and of course magic swords might be something like... oh... the first rapier?"

[McSherrie]

"Snicker snack." Kim quotes her favorite poem without even looking up.

[Loghren the Barbarian]

Peter

Peter looks at Bill, then at Kim, then back at Bill, and back to Kim again.
Then, speaking to no one in particular, "And I thought finals turned MY brain to mush."

[Alicorn]

Annika

"Yeah, I don't think Psyche's actually a deity. I considered Athena, but I'm Int-based, not Wis-based, so it'd be a little mismatched. Tyche's close enough considering that Persis isn't, as I said, that religious."

[McSherrie]

"My brain is demonstratively not mush, Peter. It has passed mush long ago and devolved to primordial ooze."

[dauphinous]

Hannah

"Oh, clever, Kim. That makes you nigh unto unknowable, since no one ever puts points into Knowledge Dungeoneering." Hannah nods sagely, then, unable to keep the straight face, starts snickering.

[Lochar]

Brandon

"No, it's just that no one can know her mind. Of course, I think all of us guys forgot to put ranks into 'Knowledge: Inner Workings of the Female Mind' anyways."

[mdsoze]

Douglas

If there's one thing engineering has taught me, it's that you don't need to know the inner workings of something to model it. Just draw a box around it, with input and output, and label it a unit operation. You get enough data on the output for a given input, and you really don't know to know anything about the internal system.

[Daryk]

Aaron

Considering his own religious choices, Aaron asked, "Doc, can we put down more than one god, like, say the Twins? Apollo and Artemis, I mean. Since the elvish pantheon is out, they seem to be the most logical choices."

[wxdruid]

Gwen

Gwen snickers a little Douglas' statement. What if the same input always produces a different output?

[DarkLadyOfTheSith]

"Selecting more than one deity is acceptable, Aaron. As long as you are not a cleric, of course."

[McSherrie]

"Kindly keep your input away from my output, Douglas." Kim laughs nervously, a surprisingly loud sound from a normally quiet person.

[Lochar]

Brandon

"I'm going to be kind and not interpret that the worst way possible." Brandon grins at Kim, and likely ducks the swat coming from any nearby females.

He then looks at the Professor. "Are we about ready to get started then, Professor Benson?"

[DarkLadyOfTheSith]

"Once Kate has finalized her choice of deity, I believe so. There are a few house rules in effect for this game of which you need to be aware. First, the wish and miracle array of spells are only capable of duplicating the effects of other spells. There aren't any true wishes. Second, Reincarnation and Raise Dead are both 8th level spells. Third, Resurrection is a ninth level spell. Fourth, there is no True Resurrection spell. Fifth, the initial supply of potions you'll receive should be treated as made by a caster of 10th level. And, lastly, the rule that the DM is always correct is, of course, in effect. Do not expect everything to always follow the rules as written. Are we clear?" He gives a crooked sort of smile as he finishes up his enumeration.

[Lochar]

Brandon

"So don't die, hoard what you give us, and commoner rail guns don't work. Got it."

[McSherrie]

Kim, faithfully transcribing the House Rules despite the fact that she was not playing a spell caster this game, starts as the Professor makes his statement about written rules. Very meekly she says,"But... Yes, sir." She underlines that one twice.

[TwoCents]

Kate

"Selecting more than one deity is acceptable, Aaron. As long as you are not a cleric, of course."

"So no pantheistic clerics, then, Doc? Oh well... too much to hope for," Kate commented as she continued her internet research.

[Loghren the Barbarian]

Peter

"Alright, professor. You're the boss. Got it.

I'm ready to start, then. No use for a deity at this point."

[mdsoze]

Douglas

Douglas smiles at Gwen after the professor finishes speaking.

Well, then you have to check if they were truly the same input. If they are, you have to add some stochastic variables. Or perhaps it's a high order system, or it could be oscilliatory. There are ways to account for it in your model, if you're clever enough.

And don't worry Kim, I'm always careful not to give my input when it's not wanted.

Douglas glances up at the professor.

Just don't mess with power attack, and I'll be happy.

[Wiz]

Bill

Bill raises a thumb to the professor, "Five by five!"

[wxdruid]

Gwen

Gwen grins back at Douglas, And dark chocolate is always dark chocolate.

[dauphinous]

Hannah

"Sounds like it's even more important than usual that we keep the healers aware of damage." Hannah looks around. "Who all qualifies as 'healer', anyway? Kate, I'm guessing, but anyone else?"

[Lochar]

Brandon

"I've got Cure Light Wounds."

[Wiz]

Bill

Bill snortlaughs, "I've got Cure No Wounds!"

[TwoCents]

Kate

"I've got 'Run Away!'," laughed Kate. "I'm ready, folks. Cleric of Tyche with a willingness to spread the love to the other gods of the pantheon as needed. Don't get on her bad side or you'll never 'get lucky' again...," she added, ominously.

"Professor, I know you said no equipment, but as a Professional Gambler/Priestess of Tyche, can Emmerli have a deck of cards, or a set of dice, or whatever the local gambling devices are? Please?" With a flourish, Kate handed Aaron her amended copy of her character sheet to pass back up the table to the professor.

[mdsoze]

Douglas

Alastair is no healer. But he likes to keep his allies alive. He just prefers to do that by killing the bad guys so his friends don't take more damage. That said, a couple emergency potions will be good for everyone to carry, just in case.

[Lochar]

Brandon

"We'll probably end up hoarding the potions, considering I don't think tenth level casters are going to be just handing them to us every day, like what we're starting with."

[mdsoze]

Douglas

I never understood the point of hoarding. If you need an item, use it.

If I'm down to single digit HP when the healers can't get to me, and I can't kill the monster in 1 shot, I'm downing the potion, caster level be darned. I mean, it doesn't matter if you beat the game with 4 megalixirs in your inventory.