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[Anastasia]

Gildas takes the two treasures and also the herbs from the herb room including his sedative.  -- I never bothered to check as to what all of this actually entailed. Is any of it of any use or value?

Nothing noteworthy.

Gildas also takes some obscure plants! -- This one too. We can just plant them and see what happens someday.

Noted. Mention this in the post game and we'll cover it.

[16:16] <Nephrite> roll 3#1d20+25 for the three spears too because I never actually identified them
[16:16] <Serith> Nephrite roll for Serith < 40, 32, 45 >

[16:11] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+25 for the kobold cloak we never identified
[16:11] <Serith> Nephrite roll for Serith < 26 > [d20=1]
[16:12] <Ko-DireBearsequal2Hannas> Congratulations, your dire bear from is 2 Hannas tall. So it is ruled.
[16:12] <Ko-DireBearsequal2Hannas> Now work.
[16:12] * Ko-DireBearsequal2Hannas is now known as Kowork
[16:12] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+25+2 using Forgar's doodliedoo thing because c'mon Serith
[16:12] <Serith> Nephrite roll for Serith < 35 > [d20=8]



Also, follow-up question, would the scrolls from Forgar's shop sell for half price or full price of the listed SRD numbers?

They'd sell for whatever you could get for them, realistically. I'm not worrying about SRD standard prices much this game. If you're talking about buying them -from- Forgar, normal price-ish. Ask if you have ones you're interested in.

As for the identification shenanigans, port that over to loot.

[Nephrite]

I wanted to sell them to see if I could come up with the 3,000 gold needed for the upgrade to the Claws.

EDIT: Them being the Ankh, the spears, the herbs, etc, and the scrolls too.

[Anastasia]

Quick reminder: Have those new game suggestions ready for when Vastwoods ends. I'll be asking for them and hoping for lots of interesting fodder.

[Anastasia]

A few bits of random material.

1. I treat you all as 13-14th level characters for designing challenges. The bonus dungeon had so many boosts that you're way stronger than you should be. Should be obvious, especially in hit points.

2. The Devil's Mask fight today was a bonus boss. You unlocked it by clearing the bonus dungeon and using the Ourulgia against the Devil's Mask. He wasn't the hardest fight ever, but it was a little extra brawl.

[Anastasia]

Crossposting this in case anyone missed it.

> As far as removing mantles go, John would already know the answer. Could be done, but wouldn't stop new mantles from going out. It's possible powerful Sidhe would also regain mantles over time, too. Extremely powerful ones might even be able to resist if they're old enough, since the connection would be so well established. That might be a scant handful at best, though.

[Anastasia]

Since it can't happen now, let me elaborate how plan Tangles would have worked out.

On hooking her up to the system, there were three choices. I'd roll a d3 to see which happened.

1. The forced connection rouses the natural function of the mantle system. It overcomes the anomaly in her through sheer power and 'fixes' her. This is what happened with the release of energy today, same principal.

2. She's incompatible and the clashing energies would tear her apart. She'd be toast but it wouldn't risk destroying the mantle system. A horrible tragedy, but one that isn't a game over.

3. You manage to impose her akin to an actual mantle to the system. From here, there's three possibilities.

a. Only fey are effected. All fey become like Tangles, albeit with mantle powers. Not a bad result at all.

b. All living, intelligent creatures are affected. Basically, all the world becomes pixies with mantles. It's a thing.

c. The entire world is affected. Reality is directly changed in a way where the concept of pixies is dominant. Everyone is a pixie, everything is based around them and life matches in an innocent sort of way. It's not a bad ending, but it's a radical change in reality.

[Anastasia]

c. The entire world is affected. Reality is directly changed in a way where the concept of pixies is dominant. Everyone is a pixie, everything is based around them and life matches in an innocent sort of way. It's not a bad ending, but it's a radical change in reality.

Rules of pixie reality:

1. Everything is the size of a pixie, with the world adjusted to match. It's a word of pixies living in giant trees, mushroom houses (not entirely Myann's fault here), pixies riding dragonfly horses and so on.

2. The world naturally provides the food pixies need. There is some agriculture for luxury foods and goods, but this is optional.

3. Most people are stuck in an innocent, happy version of late childhood. That sense of discovery and fascination with life never fades away.

4. The world settles into a pleasant, 4-season pattern regardless of geography. Forests and plains dominant, with only a few mountains. More extreme terrains don't occur. There are smallish inland seas, but no true oceans. This results in a huge upswing in inhabitable landmass. Weather patterns cooperate despite how much this change would screw everything up.

5. All pixies can cast dimension door at will. This is instinctively used when a pixie is in any danger of being trapped. Imprisonment is impossible barring extremely rare circumstances. A pixie imprisoned for more than a few weeks will likely die.

6. The Stratum has kittens as everyone up there has a giant WTF. The changes don't reach up there, as what they have with Unison is able to sit the mantle system down and tell it no. What they'll do is anyone's guess.

7. Sexual reproduction ceases to occur. New pixies are born in blossoming flowers. The birth rate is regulated by the mantle system. Some pixies form families and adopt pixies born near them, while others form communal structures. It varies.

8. Gildas is the world's first and only bear pixie. How this works is a mystery best left to the sages.

To be honest, this world would be like something out of a child's cartoon. It's not a bad end at all, so long as you don't mind throwing away maturity and adult perspectives on life.

[Nephrite]

8. Gildas is the world's first and only bear pixie. How this works is a mystery best left to the sages.

I'm almost sad it will never come to pass. Almost.

[Anastasia]

8. Gildas is the world's first and only bear pixie. How this works is a mystery best left to the sages.

I'm almost sad it will never come to pass. Almost.

A six inch tall, snarling bundle of cute bear maiming. What's not to be sad about?

[Anastasia]

Oh and Neph, you saw Cor's post in downtime/away today, right? We're back on today.

[Nephrite]

Si.

[Anastasia]

Awesome, glad you did. So we game today.

[Anastasia]

Congratulations, you did it! The fey mantles are fixed and the world is safe!

What I'd like from each of you is a list of anything you'd like to wrap up next week. Extremely minor things may be handled here if they aren't worthy of a scene. Come next Thursday or Monday (depending on how scheduling and pace works), we'll do a concluding scene to wrap the game up. If you don't have anything you want to do as wrap up, say so.

[Ebiris]

John will gently (as gently as someone with no ranks in diplomacy can anyway) break up with Missy-Anne, I suppose.

He's not going to hit up Em/Lesea/Imaginary Maiden #5 immediately afterwards, so just leave what happens after that open.

Figure that's about it for him.

[Corwin]

I'd like to start something with getting ahead of potential future problems. So that means having Myann assert control over her court of local fey, and probably visits to that old king. And maybe Piney and Lady Valisha? Ideally, get something going with working together in mind, before either local fey or humans decide to just snap and start any fights. Plus, it'd be nice to have an oral/recorded history going so there's at least a chance people won't make the same mistakes in the future (different ones are okay).

Stratum-wise, I think it would be neat if we just heard how things are going there, from Myann or Ribby or even that dragon. Whichever works. If it sounds like there's potential for trouble, we could always end the game by preparing for the next great adventure rather than as 'and then they settled down'.

Let's say hi to Vasili, too, and see if the damned skeleton got killed or something. Even if not, Vasili's the chillest vampire ever and a pal.

Not really forcing my opinions on the others.