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Started by Anastasia, April 12, 2018, 12:35:58 PM

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Nephrite

Quote from: Anastasia on April 17, 2018, 04:31:15 PM
Moore and Tryll, how much liquid gold do you two have on you right now?

60,000 and some change, with a few items here and there (His Brightwater writ, for example.)

Quote from: Anastasia on April 17, 2018, 03:49:50 PM
HEY LISTEN!

For each returning PC, I'd like at least a few plot hooks or areas of interest you'd like to explore in this game. Preferably ones tied to your previous games, let me know where you're at on things. Also helps me keep things in order and refresh me on anything that might slip between my wickets.

In no particular order:

1. He'd still like to meet with that wizard from the demiplane he went to. He probably could just teleport himself there at this point rather than continuing on the quest he started, but he's fine completing that part of things.
2. Meet with Oberon and just talk. There's a lot of things he'd been thrust into and he'd like to get some other perspective on it from someone outside the typical norms.
3. Crystalle's quest??
4. Help Cresiel get some gear. Trip to upper levels of Celestia??
5. Re-establish himself as a planar diplomat for Celestia. This may mean going back to Brightwater and other places and just affirming his role for their sake.
6. Moore's goal for himself is to be immune to any sort of knowledge that he can't remember. Once he's attained that goal, he'd like to sit down and enjoy some tea with Elena. And maybe Sylvie.
7. Learn more songs? He does want to revisit Xandra in Celestia sometime, too.

Anastasia

Quote from: Nephrite on April 17, 2018, 05:52:44 PM
Quote from: Anastasia on April 17, 2018, 05:00:34 PM
Tryll, Moore and Alyssa: What sort of NPCs do you want in your node, from a mechanical point of view? Like what mechanical needs do you foresee wanting to fill?

Moore could really use someone who's good at administration. He won't be able to keep up with the various status of everything he'll be involved in, so someone who is good at keeping tabs on things and reporting to him about it would be great.

A Tannin-type, if you will.

Basically someone you can delegate day to day operations to?
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

Quote from: Iron Dragoon on April 17, 2018, 06:25:51 PM
Quote from: Anastasia on April 17, 2018, 05:00:34 PM
Tryll, Moore and Alyssa: What sort of NPCs do you want in your node, from a mechanical point of view? Like what mechanical needs do you foresee wanting to fill?

Well, I kind of had the idea of people being highly skilled and using sorta non-standard classes. Like, for a dungeon crawl damage dealer, a Brawler, Reaping Mauler, Exotic Weapons Master, Invisible Blade, or Master Thrower or the like.

Or the 'tank' being someone who specializes in Trip and Intimidation for defense and control instead of raw AC. Like maybe that Scythe Master build with Beguiler doing a feint and trip never-outnumbered thing. Or something with Imperious Command. Maybe something with a Cha based gestalt class? Warmage maybe?

A scout/DPS being like a Swashbuckler/Rogue/Sorcerer/Spellwarp Sniper type build. Or a Dungeon Delver/Trapmaster?

Or the healer being some sort of Archivist/Combat Medic/Healer/Alchemist Savant.

I'd like to see a group that's built more around like skills and skill tricks than just raw, flat-out power. Builds that work, but you just don't really see a lot.

That said, I dunno how viable that is, or how much work it'll take to be functional. And while I want high skill, I don't think everyone being a 6 or 8+int char is going to be especially fun or work well together.

Sorta, if you've had any off-the-wall builds you've been mulling over or toying with, I wanna hear 'em.

Lemme see and think about it, see how your things work out. It's food for thought, so thanks.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

Quote from: Ebiris on April 17, 2018, 06:35:48 PM
Bonds is I think just a regular steel weapon (albeit y'know, an epic one), can I convert it to shiftsilver (or shiftsilver on one side and cold iron on the other) since multiple typed DR is pretty common at this level?

Yeah, that's pretty doable for you.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Nephrite

Quote from: Anastasia on April 17, 2018, 10:56:26 PM

Basically someone you can delegate day to day operations to?

That and who'd be good at evaluating requests that come in or good at pointing things out to get done. Someone who can point out good opportunities.

Anastasia

Quote200,817g, though none of it's liquid. It's rather solid, really.

That's a good chunk of change to start with. Congratulations. Try not to spend it all right off.

Quote1. Tryll is still down one of the last few irrigo. That one hiding out in the Beastlands being obstinate. Might as well track him down and see if he wants to either party with us or head to Lifasa.

A good early goal.

Quote2. Dana's family quest. We might out-level it substantially by now, but trolling the locals sounds fun. Maybe recruit some faceless mooks for our planar warband. It'd probably make Dana laugh to steal her dad's army from him.

Not a bad idea at all. Get together with Dana on that.

Quote3. Tryll wants to wear an aboleth for a hat.

Sure, if you can manage it.

Quote4. MINDFLAYERS! I know they're out there. They've all gotta go.

Actually, there aren't. I made a decision early on in Balmuria to avoid some of the typical Underdark stuff. While drow are the most common and notable victim of that, mindflayers are another.

Quote5. Find out what Shar's up to. Taelfagn was pretty spooked about it all. If he'd been more reasonable, we could have worked with him. Squicky? Yes. Necessary? Possibly. Hotel? Trivago.

All good goals there.

Quote6. Tryll and Calleigh are on an eternal quest for better loot. If they can't afford it, they've resigned themselves to stealing it from ninjas, pirates, and other nefarious folk. Maybe beat up one of Tiamat's kids.

So noted.

Quote7. RECRUITMENT DRIVE! We need at least one more melee and another ranged person. Tryll would prefer someone intelligent enough to hold a conversation with. Calleigh would prefer people with artistic souls or love in their hearts. Lots of love. Especially for tiny courres. Also, candy and colors. Or someone to troll. She's fine with that, too.

Naturally, so noted.

Quote8. Find a troll to troll.

Terrifying.

Quote9. If unable to find a suitable companion, we're gonna build one. We have the technology. We did it once. We can do it again.

Not a bad idea if needed.

Quote10. Tryll still owes Moore hugely for his work with Crystalle. If he needs help with anything, all he's gotta do is ask. Unless we hear about it first, then we might help without asking for permission!

Noted.

QuoteMelee, tanky, and at least one other blaster. Maybe a healer? Tryll's got blasting pretty handled, though another blaster is always welcome. In spite of his bonuses from being a paragon, he's still rather fragile. Any good set of hits that land could put him down for a bit. That'd be awkward. Dana fills the melee slot well, but she's too prone to causing injury to herself to really be tanky. It's less about offense and more about defense. Dana makes for a better flanker than a blocker.

I'm currently looking at a 5-6 man team.

Tank: ??
Melee: Dana
Blasting: Tryll & Calleigh
Blasting: ??
Physical Ranged: ?? (I dunno if arrows scale real well in epic or not.)
Healer: ??

Okay.

Arrows can scale up if done properly, see Amaryl. She's a swift hunter who does some nasty things.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

Quote60,000 and some change, with a few items here and there (His Brightwater writ, for example.)

Cool, that's a solid resource base.

Quote1. He'd still like to meet with that wizard from the demiplane he went to. He probably could just teleport himself there at this point rather than continuing on the quest he started, but he's fine completing that part of things.

Write up a quick refresher on that one for me.

Quote2. Meet with Oberon and just talk. There's a lot of things he'd been thrust into and he'd like to get some other perspective on it from someone outside the typical norms.

Not a bad quest at all.

Quote3. Crystalle's quest??

This will actually come up very early on with Erathaol. Favors are being traded at high levels here.

Quote4. Help Cresiel get some gear. Trip to upper levels of Celestia??

Yes. I figure that'll be the first quest just for practical reasons.

Quote5. Re-establish himself as a planar diplomat for Celestia. This may mean going back to Brightwater and other places and just affirming his role for their sake.

Good idea.

Quote6. Moore's goal for himself is to be immune to any sort of knowledge that he can't remember. Once he's attained that goal, he'd like to sit down and enjoy some tea with Elena. And maybe Sylvie.

Basically finding a way to stop the anathemic part of anathemic knowledge?

Quote7. Learn more songs? He does want to revisit Xandra in Celestia sometime, too.

Sure.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

Quote from: Nephrite on April 17, 2018, 11:02:30 PM
Quote from: Anastasia on April 17, 2018, 10:56:26 PM

Basically someone you can delegate day to day operations to?

That and who'd be good at evaluating requests that come in or good at pointing things out to get done. Someone who can point out good opportunities.

So noted again.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Nephrite

Most of the pertinent details can be found Here but the short version is: He needs to go to the Gates of Algorand to do [???] to get back to the demiplane he found when he got thrown through the Astral by some wayward Slaad. Last it was he was having Filbrez procure an anatomical chart of a pit fiend for him. He'd just send someone to go pick it up from him.

And yes, to answer your question on anathemic knowledge.

Anastasia

> roll 1d8 Kascha 27
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 5 > [d8=5]
> roll 1d8 Kascha 28
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 2 > [d8=2]
> roll 1d8 Kascha 29
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 4 > [d8=4]
> roll 1d8 Kascha 30
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 5 > [d8=5]
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

Level up note:

Kascha gets a single draconic discovery and two spell knowledges.

Draconic discovery is celestial valor, quicken.

She can select two spells from other class spell lists, one of up to 12th level and one of up to 13th level. Suggestions?
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

I read your revised background, Alyssa. It looks fine and gives me hooks to work with, so that should do. I'd like you to name and briefly describe a few people in the Order, if you don't mind. Broad strokes is fine.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

Yuth, what's the name of that last irrigo?
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Iron Dragoon

Quote from: Anastasia on April 18, 2018, 09:14:25 AM

Yeah, I kind of purposely left names out. Wasn't sure who/how many would be useful or useless. What kinds are you looking for? Other regeants? Minion types?
I read your revised background, Alyssa. It looks fine and gives me hooks to work with, so that should do. I'd like you to name and briefly describe a few people in the Order, if you don't mind. Broad strokes is fine.
This is not the greatest post in the world, no... this is just a tribute.

Anastasia

<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?