Tryll's Paragon Quest (Tryll)

[Yuthirin]

"No such thing!"

Barring any random encounters or finding a wild Hanna, yeah.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 73 > [d100=73]

Okay, return'll go without incident. Next move?

[Yuthirin]

Let's check out that book!

[Anastasia]

What languages can you two read?

[Yuthirin]

Tryll can read Common, Auran, Celestial, Infernal, Demonic, Draconic, Ignan, & Terran. As he is telepathic, he can converse freely with any creature that has a language.

Calleigh has Tongues, and presumably can read any language Tryll can. If not, Celestial & Common.

[Anastasia]

The book is well written and complex. The material requires a lot of understanding and...

Make the following checks.

2 K:A checks.
1 K:P checks.
1 Spellcraft check.

[Yuthirin]

Taking 10 for all, Library bonus applied to Knowledge skills.
K: Psionics: 65
K: Psionics: 65
K: Planes: 53
Psicraft: 52

[Anastasia]

- The ritual is complex. It will require a great deal of work to set up. It requires the following: 50,000 gold in reagents, a bit of blood from the creature (or similar bodily fluid if the creature does not have blood) and one week of preparations and purifications.

- The ritual itself will require several K:A, K:P and Spellcraft checks. Failure results in the ritual failing and the reagents being wasted. The person conducting the ritual does not need to be the person seeking to become a paragon.

- The goal of the ritual is to define yourself as a paragon. As such, you must have what you represent as a paragon prepared and distilled to its utmost.

- The ritual is not guaranteed to work. Even if you succeed on everything, the question may not be sufficiently meaningful to your race. Alternately, there may be another paragon who already covers this. If so, you will learn the name of the paragon and the plane he is on. Finally, sometimes the ritual simply fails for reasons the author isn't certain of. It's hard to tell if a proposed question was not meaningful enough or if an unseen factor did it, after all.

- If they are available, taking levels in a racial paragon class (such as human paragon) helps somewhat, but it doe snot guarantee success.

[Yuthirin]

"Awwwww, maaaaan! Why's it gotta always be complicated? Why can't it just be: Push button, receive awesome?" Calleigh whines.

[Anastasia]

"Unfortunately," Sage Vul'lath comments, having been pressed into helping in the library, "Worthwhile things are rarely easy to obtain, or everyone would be powerful mages. The money will not be a concern, I would donate to see the ritual attempted, so long as we can study and analyze it."

[Yuthirin]

"How the heck are we gonna get Tryll's blood? He doesn't have any blood! Or a body!" Calleigh grouses.

[Anastasia]

"That..." Vul'lath says, "Does he shed ectoplasm? That might work as a substitute." He frowns, "Do you, Tryll?"

[Yuthirin]

'I don't, normally. I've never tried.'

[Anastasia]

"Try," Sage Vul'lath says rather shortly, "We have nothing to lose and much to gain if you can."

[Yuthirin]

'That's like asking you to shed ectoplasm. I've never just shed skin before.' There is a grunting-squelching noise, and Tryll's squiddish form turns inside-out. 'This didn't work.'