The Gossip Board

[VySaika]

See Cid, basically. Adail will do everything in his power to get her to safety, and would be willing to trust Rogue with her once we got to a safe portal.

I will want to suggest, and will bring up IC, that Nik devotes three of his level 1 spell slots per day to keeping Mage Armor on her at all times. It still won't get her AC up to very much I'm sure, but between that and her just doing full defense every time a fight breaks out, it may get her up out of auto-hit range.

[Carthrat]

Depends the method we find to take her out. If we find a portal that goes to the material plane frankly I'm likely to suggest we send her on her way with enough gold to find her own way.

I have a spare chain shirt she can wear. She's surely not proficient, but oh no, she'll fail some attack rolls and str/dex checks? It's only -1.

I want to bring this up, but can rogue cast prot. evil himself? He should prepare that and use it to defend himself against mental intrusion during fights, since he can apparently cast paladin spells as a swift action...

[Dracos]

Kam is pretty much eye to eye with Mari on this.  Bringing her further down is a death sentence or worse.  And given that it is unlikely a portal from here leads anywhere nice, she will need a guardian when she goes for at least a bit.  We don't want a PC to do it, and we have a good aligned strong NPC who will.  That dovetails very nicely.

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A day out, I think last session was pretty awesome as an entrance to the abyss.  We encountered demons and otherwise, they both talked and attacked, they tried trickery, diplomacy, lies, bartering, and violence.  Our NPCs got to show off flavor.  Our PCs got to do the same.  We had battle, risk, matched with awesome slaughtering in our favor.

I think it did wonderfully in establishing the Abyss as a terrible yet chaotic place and also establishing our party as capable and effective, ready to brave the dangers of more fearsome layers, and up to the challenge of facing deadly foes.  Sure, we won't have it as easy necessarily as we go lower (and we shouldn't), but at the same time we faced a variety of challenges and curbstomped them for the most part, carrying on.  We did this not because the challenges posed no threat, but because we had a suitable set of capabilities to deal with what was going on effectively, knowledge and spells to protect ourselves, wisdom and diplomacy to take advantage of opportunities and not have everything be a fight, and strength and violence when the abyss was a wave of violence like it any Evil realm can be at any time.  Adail even had one of his rare bits where he really got to let his general all purpose abilities shine well, his see invisible and protection spells helping keep us well shielded as we moved on.

Overall, a thumbs up.  Let us continue down the road of chaos and dismay.

[Dracos]

Rogue should be able to.  It is a paladin spell.  I could do it, so I'd expect him with full paladin casting levels would be able to.

[Carthrat]

If it goes to somewhere only marginally less harsh than the abyss I'd not complain if Rogue went along. Relatively nice? She can go it alone, other mortals do.

[Anastasia]

Rogue can cast Protection from Evil; I just posted his stats over in the Songs of Eva. Certain things may be withheld for plot reasons, but that's his basic build. He's built -very- well because he was meant to be a boss from the get-go, not an NPC. He's about on Kam's level of optimization with a few extra things, like permanent freedom of movement, which is sick.

[Dracos]

I appreciate being a measuring stick of char-opt. :)

[Anastasia]

Unrelated: Zeph, I wanna talk to you in the next day or two. Nothing bad, just been meaning to and this is an excellent time.

[Carthrat]

Came to mind, btw. As general practice, some of us wear armour! We can't wear it when sleeping unless it's light, and for the purpose of slot efficiency I think it's better for me to rent out my chain shirt to Baylee.

However, Nikkolai can cast Mage Armor with a 9 hour duration, so if he precasts it on me and Kam before we sleep, we'll be in good shape (and if nothing happens, he'll get the slots back in the morning anyhow.)

[Dracos]

That's actually a pretty cunning strategy.

Kamvakua approved! :P

[Anastasia]

Okay, for discussion of next week: Any plans/ideas, since you have some time whilst boating? What are you guys going to do now if anything?

[Carthrat]

So! What abyssal natives make good mounts?

[Anastasia]

Succubi. DC 20 ride check, DC 20 perform: sex acts check, immunity to energy drain, large sized ones only.

[Anastasia]

Make an K:P or ask others to on your behalf, seriously.

[Sierra]

<Mari> roll 1d20+13 what does Mari know about Abyssal things that Knight could ride?
* Hatbot --> "Mari rolls 1d20+13 what does Mari know about Abyssal things that Knight could ride? and gets 29."12 [1d20=16]