Random DM nagging.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Who's casting Probe Thoughts and what's the CL on it?

[Ebiris]

Vul'lath has 2 of them prepped on his sheet so lets use him. CL 17.

[Anastasia]

For future reference: You guys are sealing away the Deck of Many Things, right? How precisely are you doing this?

[Merc]

I don't know, but I think I'm going to draw three cards by the time the weekend ends after all. (I'm weak to temptation)

Just so that if I get sealed away someplace horrible, the others have a quest for the week!

[Yuthirin]

Maybe you'll get lucky and be imprisoned with a celestial that likes us!

Also, if you want combat buffs beforehand in case you pull the skull card, let me know.

[Anastasia]

I figure all these fireballs you guys are getting hit with are rubbing off.

[Yuthirin]

So Mei can cast Freedom of Movement like a billion times per day, on a bunch of targets each time. We should take her with us when we go dragon hunting.

[Corwin]

We'll be fine on our own.

[Yuthirin]

We'll be fine on our own.

I'll hold you to that.

[Anastasia]

I admit I wondered why you didn't even mention Mei there, since she has multitarget FoM on demand.

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Today's todo list. If you have anything else speak up.

1. Update army for Celeblasson's+Triune's contributions.
2. Update shops.

[Corwin]

Because I just want it to be the PCs, pretty much.

[Yuthirin]

...why? We have all these awesome dudes that help us stay alive. What's the point of recruiting them if we don't take them along?

[Corwin]

I kind of raised this 10 days ago so it's weird to have it come back now all of a sudden. But okay. I'll try to be detailed so I don't miss anything.

In any case, it's a very simple reasoning. We're going to fight a dragon as a group thing since Dune was getting tired of us not doing stuff together. There will be a ton of NPCs already. Bringing some on our side will just clutter things some more. We are much stronger than most NPCs save Baleruk, The Master or Sylvie, so most NPCs who would come with us will likely die. The other IC reason to go kill dragons is to get cash. Mei is VoP-girl and will burn that cash, making it counter-productive. I originally suggested Gisfal since he is a fellow leader and we never got a chance to get to know him (plus he's epic and probably won't die from this). But Mei doesn't actually talk so I doubt we'll get a chance to know her in any meaningful way in a group combat situation since her condition will likely require an extra effort to get to know her.

On Freedom of Movement, I have it. So does Afina, effectively, from memory. It's not a difficult spell to cast.

[Anastasia]

By NPCs you mean everyone there, including bad guys and neutrals?

[Corwin]

Yep.