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[Anastasia]

Myann will give you a questioning look but shrug. Deduct the 50 gold in loot and then make another save, same as the previous.

[Nephrite]

[19:50] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+12 (+4 Resist Nature's Lure) (+2 if mind affecting)
[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Nephrite rolls 1d20+12 (+4 Resist Nature's Lure) (+2 if mind affecting) and gets 22." [1d20=10]

EDIT: And for whatever it's worth, Myann should be able to see the same thing. Although maybe she already does. Who knows!

[Anastasia]

MUSHROOMS.

The mushrooms weave around Myann like a gown that stretches out farther and farther and farther than you can see. They talk to her, cajole her, plead with her, whisper to her, gossip to her, read to her, preach to her. It's like watching an endless procession of petitioners to a king. The mushrooms, despite being featureless fungi, look on at her with awe, love and all consuming devotion. You feel as if you can see the mantl-

Pain shatters the spell. The greater smoothness of it ends in abrupt pain, another migraine firing up. The spell lingers a moment anyway, and you can see...see...you can't quite make something out. It hurts your mind as you fall to your knees.

You suffer another 2 points of Int damage. I presume it's taken care of like the previous batch.

[Nephrite]

Gildas is going to try one more time, but this time, when he casts the spell he wants to shapeshift into his vermin form. He has a feeling that since fungi and mushrooms generally live in the same habitat as vermin, the increased understanding from the form may help with this.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Mark off another 50 gold and make another save.

[Anastasia]

Also, what's the exact form you take on in your vermin shape?

[Nephrite]

Spiders.

EDIT: More to the point, similar spiders to the crystal ones they met long ago.

[20:00] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+12 (+4 Resist Nature's Lure) (+2 if mind affecting) (+5 more for mind-affecting from the vermin form if it applies)
[20:00] * Hatbot --> "Nephrite rolls 1d20+12 (+4 Resist Nature's Lure) (+2 if mind affecting) (+5 more for mind-affecting from the vermin form if it applies) and gets 16." [1d20=4]

[Anastasia]

MUSHROOMS.

You...mushrooms...mushrooms...mushrooms...mushrooms! MUSHROOMS! Your spider form convulses with laughter. It's so clear now! MUSHROOMS! Like this, with his mind screaming in pain, Gildas races into the embrace of oblivion.

Gildas awakens in his human form a few minutes later. He apparently collapsed into hysterical laughter and reverted. Somehow, the world seems...clearer. There's a secondary post in loot coming up, so hold off on replying to this until you see that.

[Nephrite]

While he's certainly curious to try again, perhaps for now that's enough.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Then the results for commune with nature and the fairy backpack.

He will cast this and ask three things: Powerful unnatural creatures, any minerals that might be especially uncommon, and plants that are likewise uncommon to the area.

Unnatural creatures: Besides Smiley, there's nothing within the 9 mile radius. He counts, as golems are inherently unnatural.

Uncommon minerals: Besides the green rocks (which your spell calls birthstone), there's a small deposit of mithral about 5 miles to the east.

Uncommon plants: Besides anything you're aware of, nothing registers here. It's worth noting that a lot of odd plants call a forest home, so take this one with a grain of salt.

Fairy Backpack

Nothing new or worldshattering here.

[Anastasia]

There may or may not be a flavor post this weekend. I'm aiming to, but shit may happen.

[Anastasia]

Won't be, had all sorts of things come up. I'll try for an extra while Iddy's on vacation, since my evenings will be free that week.

[Nephrite]

Gildas is going to look for Heso and see if he's found anything about Ardaman.

He'd also check into books and if any prices have swung anywhere like before with precious metals.

[Anastasia]

Quick hit: Y'all are fine and don't need to do anything. The edit to houserules is minor and fixing an old mistake.

Details are in the paste spoiler [spoiler]

<Ebiris> (Funny story, my old automatic formula added an extra ten points to CMD. Whoops. Expect a lot of these fixes.) <- isn't that deliberate to put it in line with ac?
* Kotono returns.
> Run that by me again. Head's foggy, I'd laid down for a few minutes and dozed.
<Ebiris> AC is 10 plus dex/armour/etc. CMD is 10 plus bab/str/dex/etc
> I'll take fuck, I dunno, since I fell dead asleep and my brain's in some sort of jellied substance. Lemme go look through houserule changes, since this is the houserule version from B3's houserules"
> CMB = Base attack bonus + Strength modifier + special size modifier + temporary attack bonuses (haste, charge, heroism, knowledge devotion, arcane strike, smite and any other bonuses to hit)
> CMD = Base attack bonus + Strength modifier + special size modifier + Dexterity modifier + miscellaneous modifiers (circumstance, deflection, dodge, insight, luck, morale, profane, and sacred bonuses to AC)
> (I only woke up since my shoulder's sore from last night's work shift. Owwww.)
<Ebiris> There's a 10 at the start!
<Ebiris> http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Combat-Maneuvers
<Ebiris> It doesn't really matter for what you're doing in the Balmuria topic but since it could impact future NPCs/monsters I figured I should comment.
> Gimme a sec to do some logdiving.
> B2's where we started it and I don't see anything in odds'n'ends or houserules that clarifies the point. Just says we take it. At some point in B3 that was added. Lemme do a bit of searching.
> http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101729.msg1028230/topicseen.html#msg1028230
> I think this addresses it.
> Lemme read.
<Ebiris> Well, it also actually affects my PCs, since I've given everyone an unearned +10 cmd if that's what we're doing.
> What I think happened is that 10 was in some point early, was dropped and wasn't fully dropped or something.
> Lemme check vastwoods PCs realq uick.
<Ebiris> CMD: 10+12+3+3ex+1feat+1dervish=30
<Ebiris> Cor's adding the 10 at the start.
<Ebiris> Figure Gildas is too but he doesn't have the math there. Figure looks right.
> It does.
> So I have no idea offhand.
<Ebiris> So's Myann.
<Ebiris> Maybe we should write that post off as an error by Cor and carry on as we all apparently have been doing with the 10+ there?
> She was the botched formula, I suspect.
> Works for me.
> I'll do some houserule editing for Vastwoods in a sec.
> Then edit some posts.
> You're right, don't need to change anything.

[Nephrite]

In addition to the kobold stuff, Gildas will look through his own books for anything that might have something to do with the fire sea. He'll also take a second look if he purchases any books from the kobolds.