Planning

[Ebiris]

That all sounds good to me.

Also see if there are quests back home about rampaging dragons/hydras/warlords.

And I need to figure out some way to give Friday her cha score back before sticking the demon heart inside her, or that unholy toughness goes right to waste. Either that or find a new vessel for my experiments, but I really want to stick with her, since she has the living wings and all.

[Ebiris]

Party guest list (everyone can bring their own pals as well)

Marcus Massif
Thalia & Melpomene
Calixta
Ron
Marina Marigold
Mercedes
Charlotte
Brenna (if she can spare the time from her heroing)
Thela Ilvari
Ione Demetrinous
Vigilia
Anton Levesque (if we can find him)
Lorice? (maybe only invite her if we can't get Brenna and Vigilia)
Midnight Alice

[Carthrat]

Let's not invite Lorice.

I'll add Flora to that list, though. And the Alcembrons, if Ione can work some magic with Brigid.

[Sierra]

Being the one undoubtedly transmitting invitations (via Sending), Rosemund is in a position to resolutely state that she will not be inviting any demons.

[Carthrat]

FFFF

I was immune to critical hits!

[Sierra]

I forgot too. (Geez you have no idea how much stuff I forget all the time.)

You can have that hero point back due to GM stupidity.

[Corwin]

Let's talk options! I don't mind going for the geas route if I get to work out the phrasing of the geas. OOC, I think that the geas would be probably safe but unleash something terrible (that only Julia will possibly need to deal with within her lifetime) and that the brain drain is probably treatable. IC, I'd be okay with trying any solution.

What does Rosemund prefer? Vigilia?

Can we use divinations to narrow down the location so that Worm goes back into play as another option? If so, we have the three existing options and the fourth option of going away and leaving the elf to his suffering.

[Ebiris]

Heal cures insanity right? What if we use heal on one of the wandering lunatics, and then make him/her pay it back by donating to the Skirl?

[Carthrat]

Eb's idea seems the most palatable to me, actually. We could even heal a few and spread the damage out. I am really nervous about being geassed into completing strange tasks for weird beings.

In fact, after going over the logs IC, Steph would think the Collective is a horrible affront to life and sanity and would be a bit opposed to helping them out on principle. The Skirl is by far the ancient cluegiver(tm) she likes the most, so I'd like a solution that helps her out over others.

I'm also interested in what Rosemund and Vigilia(+Tiel) think since our personal stake in this hunt is actually pretty low, let's hear it! Maybe we can talk Vigilia into making the sacrifice if other options don't pan out.

[Carthrat]

Also, the collective reminds me of those conjoined elf soothsayer twins, and that's no good either.

This universe is a terrible place!

[Sierra]

Heal does cure insanity. Rosey approves of a plan where you might help people while helping yourselves.

Tiel strongly opposes any bargain that would regress Vigilia towards the native state of Pandemonium; Vigilia herself appears content to let the archon speak for her in this matter. Neither is comfortable with any aspect of the Collective's offer. Tiel finds the worm somewhat less distasteful; Vigilia considers that the corpse eater is performing little more than a basic ecological function, but wouldn't be happy about killing someone just to feed it.

Rosey might point out that Remove Curse can lift a geas, if you wanted to avoid paying anyone; however, she doesn't personally know the spell, and she also adds that the divine caster must be notably more skillful than the caster of the geas in order to break it. She isn't prepared to speculate about what the Collective's capacity might be in this regard.

Divination can occur. Who would you seek out about this?

[Carthrat]

We could tap the Church of Pelor. Surely they have clerics of sufficient might.

[Carthrat]

So I think we're settled?

Visit the Church of Pelor, divination get, then if that doesn't work we go punch out some maniacs, heal them of their wounds and insanity, and proceed to gather infos?

I'm sure Julia can find a corpse or two lying around to donate for the cause, too.

We rely on her so much. Julia is simply the best.

[Ebiris]

Well you know what they say. "A stranger is a corpse you haven't killed."

[Carthrat]

Hey, I did want to do one thing on Pandemonium still; see if I can track down that merchant back at Howler's Crag. Wat the Worm said he was sending people to the tower? That's worth a stabbing.

...and I want his merchandise, but it's about justice guys honest.

I suppose I should make sure he's actually scum rather than take the word of a thing that eats corpses. Do we have any quick wins for truth-determining here?