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[Dracos]

That'd be 3.5 votes yes.  Guess we be mammoth riding :)

Anyhow, while we'll likely get this from the wizard at start of session, Kam is willing to listen to/briefly investigate maps/navigation advice from the locals of the general region.

[Dracos]

Knight should be able to lance things from it's back just fine, I'd think? The rest of us would need to bail to fight, though it might be good for Nikki to stay on the mammoth to cast from as well.

Kam's got reach as well, though both of them are 10 feet.  In a really complex riding fasion, you could argue everyone can get some squares that they get to attack, but nobody can get all around the Mammoth if I recall my huge scale right...which I don't.

3x3 scale would mean that hitting the squares that are forward, back, and sides directly from the center would be doable with 10 foot reach.  Eeeeh, not talkin' on it anymore unless we have to.  It's really complicated to do it without either handwaving or minitures.

[Carthrat]

It's not about speed, it's about enormous crushing power vs. anything cryonax chooses to throw at us, really.  (Although it does actually double our speed because it moves twice as fast as me, our slowest member. Yay!)

I think an advantage of it is that it gives us a solid base to fight from, and in a plane of howling winds and eternal blizzards that's quite the plus. You might lose sight of a human, but a mammoth is a big, looming shadow that can make a loud trumpeting sound. Only Kam can really wander around apart from it, due to blindsense amulet. Adail and Yulia could get lost so easily if they get even a short distance away from us...

I've no idea on attacks; I know at least that Knight will need one hand free to guide the mammoth, and it may well be a full-time job.

[Dracos]

True, anyhow, as I said, I think you have effective consensus unless Mari's gonna argue everyone out.

But you are right.  I thought possibly yulia and adail also had low-light vision (I think that's what will be relevant most the time rather than outright blindsense, at least from Ko's desc), but Kam alone has it, and only due to the amulet.

So we'll want some kind of convenient unextinguishable by cold form of light because even if we're protected magically, I'd expect torches to be kind of wacky.  If there's a reasonable non-magical option (Special iron lanterns or something) that would be wise to pick up.  Otherwise, magical.

[Carthrat]

Let's get some of these?

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/goodsAndServices.htm#everburningTorch

110gp each!

[Dracos]

Down with that.  Kam will buy 1.  Or...actually maybe Adail and Nikkolai should get them?  They're the two that can best fight while also holding a torch thing.

  I guess Yulia in the worst case can also be a ball of light.

[Carthrat]

I could hang mine off the mammoth's tusk? Headlights!

[Anastasia]

Woolly Mammoths have an intelligence score of 2. Remember you'd need to keep the commands simple, but you could do it, Adail.

[Anastasia]

Also while all of you are around, if any of you are making any other checks on Drac's info or the original info prompt, say so and do so. I'm doing prep tonight and over the weekend, so the sooner the better.

[Dracos]

I could hang mine off the mammoth's tusk? Headlights!

The Mammoth option increases in coolness by the moment.

Clearly we also need steel caps for our mammoth's tusks and a giant flag announcing our arrival.

[Carthrat]

Fuck, I'm totally for getting a giant flag and brazenly waving it around. What would be on it? An incomplete deck of cards over a green field?

[Dracos]

Also while all of you are around, if any of you are making any other checks on Drac's info or the original info prompt, say so and do so. I'm doing prep tonight and over the weekend, so the sooner the better.

Anyhow, while we'll likely get this from the wizard at start of session, Kam is willing to listen to/briefly investigate maps/navigation advice from the locals of the general region.

If anyone wants to GI that or if an enterprising merchant wants to try and sell that kind of thing.  Mainly wondering for "When Things go Wrong and We fall off the mountainside" and/or 'hey we're already gearing up for a dangerous trip out there, are there other neat places to loot nearby?'

[Dracos]

Fuck, I'm totally for getting a giant flag and brazenly waving it around. What would be on it? An incomplete deck of cards over a green field?

As cool as that is (and I'm down with incomplete deck of cards), I think the freezing blizzard winds and low visibility would make that less satisifying than it might be.

Maybe your mechahorse can have a flag wave feature.

[Anastasia]

Okay, most of you updated the party status posts. Thanks! Gate and Zeph, make sure to update yours before we start. Gate, if you miss tonight don't worry about it. I'll assume you just rememorized whatever crossed out spells you have in the topic and you can reset it before next week's session.

[Carthrat]

[16:51] <@Knight> Can we switch the casting times of sending and teleport/greater teleport?