The Gossip Board

[Sierra]

Mari is obliged to accompany Knight to any place that sells alcoholic beverages. Asking around to see if anyone knows when that elemental showed up in town might not be a bad idea; I'd generally suggest we keep together as much as possible just in case he or someone else in the employ of the enemy is still around.

[Zephyrus]

Nikko will probably spend a lot of his time cowering, angsting, and generally being a pain in the ass as he reverts back to the tendencies he first displayed when he met everyone. Hopefully, this gives everyone some general idea of just how 'OMGI'MSHITTINGMYPANTS' terrified he is. I mean, the Lich sent a tough Air Elemental and 5 stinkin' Wyverns just to bring me home. Who wouldn't be terrified?

I'll also be doing my best to ferret out any information about Her location. There's no way that someone didn't see where those things came from. Once I find out where she is, I'll do my ample best to go the OPPOSITE direction.

[Dracos]

>_>; Kamvakua observes that fighting for your escape leads to you being uninterested in sticking around?

[Anastasia]

1. Knight picks up Bel.
2. Knight goes cruising in a strange tavern for...ah...information. Yes. Planar information. Mari tags along because drunken Knight is her target.
3. Kamvakua whimpers and stabs poison in the face until it dies, while resting up in bed for a few days.
4. Nikkolai digs up information then runs away from it like Kamvakua from a dicebot.

That all guys?

[Dracos]

* Dracos senses a hunt for more of a guiding presence from us?  Is that the case?

[Anastasia]

I'm getting my shit together. Why yes, that does involve the PCs saying what they want to do! Isn't this awesome guys?!

If that's all, it's fine. Last call for things to-do.

[Dracos]

Heh, the net is ever tone adjusting.  Was seeing anyhow. :)  Didn't really write much as I figure kamvakua is all five feet under and digging his way out anyway.

[Anastasia]

Go reply in the other topic then. <_<

[Anastasia]

Note: Your rate is 15 GP per person per day.

[Anastasia]

Session thoughts:

Decent session, covered a lot of ground and a bunch of light encounters. Michum is an asshole, will comment on him more later. The dragon was meant to be a diplo session, fighting him on Dimblock would have been grossly unwise.  He wasn't impossible to beat(Though Kam's trip spam would've had a chance of making him rely on his breath only) but had serious breath based damage. The mercane were a simple encounter, though if you'd asked about buying you could've made a purchase for a minor magical item.

[Dracos]

I pretty much saw that dragon battle as "If we start it, we lose because the merchants will get fried anyway we dance with it."

Also, hey neat, normal xorns.  I could do trip denial defense without needing to stack rage on it.  Yay.  Dice were wacky as ever.  Tons of ones, and then double twenties for a crit.  I think this was the first session ever Kam did not take damage and damaging elements existed.  Michum came across as a bit over the top on gruff asshole, which I think everyone commented on at some point, but it made for some interesting scenes, so why really complain? 

Him challenging nikkolai to hit him though was surreal, and his response to being charmed also sorta surreal.

Appreciated the foreshadowing of the xorn encounter with the micsomethin merchants.  Kind of odd that they went for us first and not our goods (which would've made for an interesting defensive challenge and probably something to take advantage during our guard duty rounds).

I got noticeably confused with the order around the caravan, thus me trying to talk to adail who was over in front (Since it seemed a weird picture shouting out chatter like that.  May just be my internal picture of a caravan being some kind of traveling wagon, horses, 4ish people in said wagon, and us walking ahead and behind it (so roughly shouting distance from each other). 

For a 'traveling for travels sake" session, it was pretty good I thought.

Let's catch for a chat t'night.  Else its unlikely to catch me till next session.

[Carthrat]

Dunno about the dragon. It was just there, and it doesn't even take the same paths we use, so the odds of us encountering each other in the first place are pretty slim. The only thing we really wanted from each other was to go our separate ways, so what diplomacy was needed? If it was lying in wait for us or lived there or something...

Him challenging nikkolai to hit him though was surreal, and his response to being charmed also sorta surreal.

<-this. Getting mind-controlled in any way always struck me as enormously creepy, personally, but I guess he's used to it, being a merchant with valuable goods and all. <_<

I suppose the Xorns want to either kill us, personally, or kill everyone wandering around these tunnels to 'send a message' on behalf of their new ruler. Or maybe they really are just thieves, but are exceptionally greedy and want the lot.

[Sierra]

Anyone want to try using detect evil on Michum? Just so we're sure who we're dealing with, I mean. That whole "think like a Baatorian bit" was uh.

[Carthrat]

At least if he's Baatorian he'll surely keep his word. >_>

[Dracos]

Kam would probably have spotted it during detecting evil on the dragon from in back, but regardless, I'm not sure it matters.

Being an evil traveling merchant is hardly the most wicked of professions.  If he starts hauling out soul bricks or something, we have a problem, if he's 'evil jerk that just wants to hawk his mineral wares and will rip you off in a bartering session' well?  I ain't a paladin.  Last I checked, neither is anyone else in the party.