Hamogan (Tryll, 89 days left)

[Anastasia]

Oooooh, I was wondering where you were drawing this all from. I told you that you needed a few things, right? I thought it was pretty straight forward there. Do you need a refresher on that?

[Yuthirin]

Let's clear things up and please explain how you think the ritual should go in detail, because very clearly I have no idea after reading your explanation several times.

[Anastasia]

Gladly and apologies for any confusion.

It's coming in the next post.

[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 does not guarantee success.

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This was meant to be fairly inclusive and not get into a lot of details. My apologies if this wasn't clear, I figured the price on reagents was sufficient and then it was a huge derail since oh yeah, blood's a real problem for Tryll.  The 50,000 in reagents is meant to be encompassing over what you need to perform the ritual.

[Yuthirin]

- 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.

This part right here what's it mean? This is what I thought I was supposed to be doing. Gathering items that "distilled me to my utmost."

Explain!

EXPLAIN!

[Anastasia]

Oh. Oooooooooh. I assumed you'd do that as part of the ritual rather than making that big a deal about it. I thought you were just trying to boost it up a bit and invest in it.

Clearly there was a serious breakdown in communications here, or that or I was more tired and out of it during that session than I thought.

[Yuthirin]

Ok. So what exactly do I, the player, have to do for this ritual? Drop the gold and do the thing OC? Will there be questions? Riddles? An exam?

I'm all for gathering materials to enhance it. Does it matter?

[Anastasia]

Get the money together, do the week of purifications and get to it.

Obviously time is a factor, so gathering more materials could reduce the purification time and help you not be on the shelf. This is advisable.

It couldn't hurt and see above about it helping with the purification.

[Yuthirin]

'I need it for a ritual, actually. Two portions in containers, if you don't mind.'

[Yuthirin]

Let's get rolling then!

[Anastasia]

"I will have it delivered to your room," Hamogan says, "It will be yours as a favor."

[Yuthirin]

'Very kind of you, Hamogan. I'll leave you to your preparations, then.' Calleigh manages not to destroy anything as the pair leaves.

Let's return to Bubbles, then. Time to play dress-up, I think.

[Anastasia]

Sure. Strike through this on your todo list, one task down.

Bubbles isn't in her room for once. She's training, a dagger in hand as she practices against Mirima. They're practicing in the Courtyard, near the Graceful Blow's tower. Mirima's largely avoiding her strikes and pointing out counters, even as Bubbles attacks blindingly fast. A small crowd watches them, while others spar nearby.

[Yuthirin]

After a moment, Calleigh starts shadow boxing along with Bubbles' movements, juking left and right and throwing clumsy punches and kicks.

[Anastasia]

"Ooof!" Bubbles steps back after Mirima lightly taps her stomach with the flat of her blade. "Your win, dearie."

Mirima lowers her blade, "Keep on that. You have potential for speed, don't go to bigger weapons. Stay small and use your aim rather than trying to overpower enemies like a brute. Calleigh has the right idea," she glances over at you, "What are you doing?"