Random DM nagging.

[Anastasia]

Short Sword Mastery

This book is about short sword technique. When read, it explains how to use short swords in detail, showing all manner of tricks, techniques and skills. The exact benefit varies on how skilled the reader is with a short sword. See the table below.

Non-proficient: Gain Martial Weapon Proficiency (Short Sword) as a bonus feat.
Proficient: Gain Weapon Focus (Short Sword) as a bonus feat.
Proficient+Weapon Focus (Short Sword): Gain Swift Strike.

Swift Strike (Ex)

As a standard action, you may make a pair of attacks with a short sword. Both of these attacks use your full base attack bonus but suffer a -1 penalty to hit. If they both hit, you deal an extra 3d6 points of damage.

[Anastasia]

Re: Tower Shield Mastery. Do you want to read that, Jaela? I know you don't use them, so if you have something else in mind, say so.

[Anastasia]

Princess of the Moon

This book tells the story of a lunar princess. It is said she rose from the blood of the moon as a result of a battle there. This princess promptly rose up and began a bloody, endless crusade against the servants of the night. These servants (Ithea is certain they're meant to be Sharrans) get maimed, smashed, smote, electrocuted, burnt, dissolved, disintegrated, crushed, slashed and more throughout the tale. There is no mercy, no respite. The servants of the night are put to the sword until the very end of the book. The fact that the princess does it naked only plays up the lurid, over the top nature of the entire story.

[Merc]

Ithea will make a note to lend the book to Balyss. She'll surely enjoy it.

[Anastasia]

Ithea will make a note to lend the book to Balyss. She'll surely enjoy it.

Do that IC, would you?

[Corwin]

Holding onto it, upon further reflection.

[Merc]

Sure. When I get back from escorting Crystal + Moore.

[Anastasia]

Alphabets

This is a dry and long dissertation of alphabets and the concept of them. It discusses language in many and varied ways. It goes into phonics and various related concepts and ultimately a deep study of language itself. Words are ultimately a vessel for ideas and the alphabet is the building blocks of language and thus ideas. Refined down to the simplest point, letters are the key to power. Much like numerology, it claims that students of the alphabet can use letters in the proper way to gain great power.

Make an Intelligence check, Ithea.

[Merc]

[11:38] <@Sailor_Mercury> roll d20+11 Int check
[11:38] <Serith> Sailor_Mercury roll for Serith < 18 > [d20=7]
[11:39] <@Sailor_Mercury> Well, at least its not a book on cheese. I hope.

[Anastasia]

There's something more here, but it's beyond Ithea to figure out.

[Anastasia]

Surgery for the Advanced Adept

It's complicated medical procedures. Ithea is completely lost. She has no clue about any of it and she can virtually feel the question marks floating over her head. If only this book was read by someone with medical knowledge.

[Corwin]

[19:55] <Franceska> roll 1d20+7+2 ABCs, good hope
[19:55] <Serith> Franceska roll for Serith < 19 > [d20=10]

[Anastasia]

There's something more here, but it's beyond Jaela.

[Anastasia]

Lost Lore of the Abyss: The Sixfold Steel

This series of books is written with a great deal of repetition and reinforcement. The entire writing style is highly ordered, as a preface explains this is desirable to better hold the often mutable lore of chaos.

The Sixfold Steel is a group of six elite steel devils. They were once loyal soldiers in the Blood War, but were turned towards chaos after a confrontation with a demon prince. The six survived the battle through sheer luck but were turned to chaos as a result. They took the name Sixfold Steel and promptly became mercenaries for hire and established a base in Pazunia. They are savage, skilled and noted for getting the job done.

As renegade devils, they are routinely hunted by dogai and other devil assassins. So far they have managed to elude capture and prosper despite them. It's whispered that a demon lord sponsors them and provides sufficient protection to ward the devils off. Indeed, they've gone so far as to manage assaults on Acheron, Mechanus and even Arcadia, suggesting that they are being used by one to assault law.

The most dangerous aspect of the Sixfold Steel is that they multiply in strength when they fight together. One is merely a stronger than usual steel devil. Two are equal to a hezrou. Six are capable of tearing a pit fiend or balor apart in mere moments. In particular, no attack can damage them unless it damages them all. How this works is unclear, but it seems to be remarkably effective.

[Anastasia]

Hanna

This book looks to be an ode to Hanna. It is rambling and inconsistent, comparing Hanna to various things. In fact, it's quite familiar on reflection. No matter if 27 wrote it or not, you find the words have a strange power. Jaela can sense something here, something lurking beneath the surface. Patterns that are not patterns, sights unseen and unknown. A mystery on the edge of completion.