The Gossip Board

[Dracos]

Yeah, was just surprised by Knight bringing it up.  :)  I didn't think we were.

[Sierra]

I assumed we'd at least take a day or to knock out that geas, get magical IDs and Kam healing in order.

For the sake of something to do, Mari's interested in asking around town to see if any locals might know more about heretical magic ice bitch is using. Not just asking outright about HERETICAL MAGIC obviously, but experts on fey and how they work maybe. Nik could potentially turn this up on his own by asking Balinbom, but Mari doesn't just want to sit around in the inn right now. She might wind up thinking about stuff. Her alternative is getting so smashed that she doesn't remember her name, but this sounds more useful.

I should also have a statue finished by now, so we should totally swing by and check it out at some point.

[Carthrat]

Can we go to Elysium? Or Arcadia? Or any good-aligned plane we haven't gone to before? If we do indeed need to go to one? We need to focus, people! On goals!

[Dracos]

Kam would strongly push for arborea because we know people there who would likely be both up to the task and willing to help immediately, whereas on other good aligned planes we would have to search.  Kam's view is largely that we've passed the 'we'll solve this when we have a chance' with Mari and moved into 'We need to get her to a high powered divine good aligned help asap'.

Largely I view this as a quick sidetrip, likely with entailed favors needed afterwards, before we come back and curbstomp the ice bitch.  Then we go on to other places :P  

But at the moment it seems we're at least temporarily back into 'serious problem needs resolving yesterday'.

Edit: If I'm rushing us too much, lemme know.  I personally like taking things laid back and all.  just seems in character to take what happened to Mari as reason to move quickly for aid.

[VySaika]

Quick poking in, haven't read everything yet, etc.

Adail would suggest Elysium over Arborea. He thinks they're better able to deal with Yugoloth badness being the polar opposite and he's very certain they'd be willing. Finding someone who can might be a problem, but Adail likely(haven't been over all this with Dune OOC yet, hence only 'likely', but he's actually FROM there and all, so.) knows people there who could help or point us to someone else better able to help. Also, good excuse to check Elysium for a Card.

Of course, if another Good plane has a portal that's closer/more accessable, that'll do. He definately agrees on the This Problem Needs Solving NOW, and if Mari is still unsure it's a big deal, he'll suggest we hire a Sending to Granny Tam so SHE can tell Mari how big of a deal it is. <_<

[Dracos]

Well, where'ver we have powerful good contacts/patrons, that's fine.  I'm definitely along the lines of 'hire nearby portal specialist' rather than go portal hunting.

[Carthrat]

We're rushing basically all the time, let us not forget our overarching quests. Sidetrips are fine but we gotta keep a good pace and kill as many birds-per-stone as we can.

For what it's worth, on our second trip to the ice plane I actually want to go find the sibling I've got lost there, rather than leave and be forced to come back later again.

[Dracos]

Uh?  Do we?  That seems even more rushy.  I'm perfectly fine with us taking a trip to x place for one side quest without it fulfilling 3 or 4.  It's nice going back to areas we've already been and also catching up with NPCs we encountered there.

I mean I guess I don't really get the 'we should go get some quests and handle things in a new plane' rather than just go deal with it and come back to deal with the variety of icy quests we currently have (Ice Fae, Card on the ice plane).  But both of those have no intrinsic time rush on them.  Neither does hitting other planes later.  The only really time critical elements are Mari and (possibly) the Lich, who metagamingwise has been fairly accommodating with not hammering us with summons/spells every day we don't go challenge her.

[Zephyrus]

As far as our order of business goes, I think it should be thus:

A) Mari. I think that Mari should take precedent above all else. Remember that I have an angel in the wings that might be able to help us, unless she's gotten tired of hanging around the city. I might be able to ask her aid in exorcising Mari, if we don't want to waste time on a trip to another plane. Simultaneously, I suggest that I or someone else go to the Wizard and turn in the stuff. Surely he can remotely deactivate the geass.

B) I've thought long and hard about this, as far as priority goes. Nikkolai has had some rather...disturbing dreams, to say the least, about the Lich. He's really feeling a tug towards her. Time this stuff needs to be wrapped up and taken care of. On the other hand, there's his duty to Balinbomb and the Fey court, even if it isn't quite official yet, concerning this Fey chica who's messing around with stuff that she shouldn't. I'm going to say that the Fey chick needs to be taken care of first before we make any plans to make our way to the prime. I'll be chatting with Balinbomb on this angle to see if anything needs to be done. Who knows? He might be able to take care of things himself.

C) Take care of various and sundry things like identify/sell/buy stuff that we need. If there's some money left over, I'd dearly love to get a Greater Wand of Metamagic. The more damage I do, the better.

[Anastasia]

Okay! I think the crux of what happens is two things: Returning to get the geases undone and dealing with Mari. There's a lot of suggestions here on how this can be handled. Guys, I'd like you guys to make up your mind on how you want to deal with this. Will you guys go to Elysium or Arborea as suggested? What about Zeph's girlfriend?  I'd like a consensus so I can plan and prep; so talk and decide away guys.

[Dracos]

C) Take care of various and sundry things like identify/sell/buy stuff that we need. If there's some money left over, I'd dearly love to get a Greater Wand of Metamagic. The more damage I do, the better.

Says mr 382 best round :P  *teases*

[Dracos]

so, I'm gonna suggest something a bit crude here.  I listen and hear the 'go to elysium and check out with Adail's friends' as a cool option...but I also spot that adail is gone for the first two sessions of us dealing with this and I have trouble picturing that it's going to take us 3 weeks of play to get to this bit wrapped up, or at least be solidly on a clear path on it.  So basically, whatever route we choose it's going to really be just Nikki, Mari, and Kam playing it out with Knight and Adail largely following.  Not that its cool to discount folks opinions because they're gone for a bit, but...

Basically, I'm not cool with heading somewhere where our lead PC is being robot played and not available, nor do I really think its a great time to push ahead on finding new cards while Knight is unavailable to play mind games with.  It certainly would be a disappointing way in my opinion to introduce one of Adail's big backstory elements.  I'm certain we'll have an excuse to head to Elysium later.  In Arborea both Nikkolai and I have active connections to tap to help solve the problem.

So given who's actively around to play the scenes out, I think the only real options are Arborea, Earth, or 'Dm dropped alternative through nearby church/wizard'.  So really just Arborea.  Mari/Nikki, do you oppose this?  If not, there's a consenseus and Dune can start deciding what crazy adventures hit us there.  And maybe give us a heads up on the going rate for a portal to Arborea from wizard dude.

[Dracos]

Aside, idea for nikkolai:

Even if we have to give up the books, nothing says you couldn't have been reading/copying some of them during the 2ish day trip sitting on a mammoth back to the town.

[Sierra]

Yes, Mari knows it's a serious problem and will not be inclined to stay anywhere alone at the moment for fear of what she might do. She might not want to divert the entire party for her sake but you are free to ignore her if she objects. If she had to make a choice regarding the options suggested so far, it'd be Arborea. Just because.

OOC, this seems like a reasonable thing to do while Rat and Gate are away (because I personally don't like making everyone in a weekly game detour for my own affairs). Geas comes first, of course, but stopping by there shouldn't take long, I think.

~

As a random aside, are we returning Tusky now that we're back in Shivra?

[Dracos]

Re: Tusky
That was the plan.

In fact for convenience, Knight should probably drop off Tusky and handle dealing with the mechanic horse training while rat is away.  That way Knight is doing something toward her goals and doesn't need to be robo played, and we have a time limit to get things resolved or go back and pick up knight.

Re: From Kam's angle, a fellow party member being possessed or hunted by liches or otherwise takes precedence over most other objectives, including card hunting.  Active danger toward a party member > desired wants of a party member.