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[RAM]

Session is over, had some good fighting in it, Mael was missed...

For profit and profit

I still have a protection from Evil up, and the following spells memorised:

read magic
resistance
create water
detect magic

dDetect secret doors
identify

I sure hope that it was worth it...

[RedWarrior0]

I have a flare and two guidance spells. Leveled up once, got over halfway for time #2. Left the session at the end of the first fight, got back, and first thing was "roll initiative".

[Heron TSG]

Aww, and I just got back. Is the party in the middle of a fight, or something?

[RedWarrior0]

Aww, and I just got back. Is the party in the middle of a fight, or something?

We were. You got ninja'd.

[Lord Shonus]

From the Journal of Corina Chillblood

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have again increased in magical power, this time purely though long practice. The cavern where Finni fell contained a most curious magical object, which we maede every effort to investigate, although it reacted -quite violently- to those investigations. We still have not figured out what it was, and elected to delay any furter investigation because we were too battered and weary to continue. After copying the lone useful spell from Finni's spellbook (she had a great deal of Enchantment and even Necromantic magic, which lowers my opinion of her), I was able to sell it for enough to meet the deficit on our ship price, repay the party for some funds i had borrowed, and still have a comfortable sum for myself. After three days of rest, we ventured once more into the mines, and found them reinfested with a combination of vile blind creatures and insane goblin-kin. The resuilting battle drained my magic completely, forcing me to fight with sling and staff. I must confess that my staff has proved to be a better friend in camp than in battle, and I am strongly considering finding a better weapon for those times when my magic fails, although I can cast more spells than ever before tiring, now. I must look into these mad goblinkin further. A;though they would take poorly to discipline, they could be useful as penetratiors to cause havoc in an enemy's rear areas.

Edit: Character sheet has been updated to the end of this session.

[Heron TSG]

I must confess that my staff has proved to be a better friend in camp than in battle

I didn't know Corina talked to sticks, but I suppose it might be better than talking to any of the various cults.

they could be useful as penetrators to cause havoc in an enemy's rear areas.

To the out-of-context thread!

[RAM]

With the battles over we explored the cavern, discovering an inset with a gem atop it. The thing radiates magic and foreboding, I fear that it is the cause of the troubles. Touching it left me drained, and though I sensed only conjuration from it, its effects seem more necromantic in origin. Conjuration, of course, as I well know, has no shortage of utility, and could easily account for all manner of effects, but the use of it in this way is baffling. It could be summoning forth energy from a negative-aligned plane, or transporting life from its location to elsewhere, and then there are the creatures it brings forth. They do not respond to death as summoned creatures do, and yet they appear to dissolve with time, most unlike a calling effect. Could they be created? Such magics are well beyond even my own knowledge and yet, if it draws upon ambient life energy to call forth an unstable creature formed of extra-planar essences then perhaps... But the creatures are so mundane, could it be forged by wilderness cultists, but they seem to know no more of the device... And why was it left here, some sort of guardian? Were they servants? I will have to try to return with more analytical means.

As I feared, Finni did not recover, this has not been the first death and it will not be the last, I must resolve myself to that and continue my duties.

We have rested for some days now, our wounds were most persistent, but we have resolved to return and undo the curse before the mercenaries arrive. I have prepared many divinations and should be as prepared as I am able to explore the device, I shall have to rely upon the others to guard me.

The peril was far greater than I anticipated, there was an infestation of humanoid brutes, the first band were thugs, the others... Terrible beasts of madness and cunning, I read their minds and saw only battle lust, our injuries are laced with poisons and they did not hesitate to strike an exposed back or injured limb. They did, however, perish, and with fortune we will be able to retire to our vessel with a powerful trinket in our possession...

[The Fool]

I'll post a journal after work and I have decided to multiclass since we flanked so many times in the last battle. I am now a lawful good monk rogue, hooray for sneak attacks. I should mention that I probably won't be picking locks or disabling traps any time soon though.

[RedWarrior0]

I'll post a journal after work and I have decided to multiclass since we flanked so many times in the last battle. I am now a lawful good monk rogue, hooray for sneak attacks. I should mention that I probably won't be picking locks or disabling traps any time soon though.

Yeah the flanking in that battle was ridiculous. I warned you about the sneak attacks bro.

I'll post a journal later today.

[mission0]

Spoiler: Story Time (click to show/hide)

Ugg waking up after a length dose of spider poison is never pleasant, however I am awake now and moving. It seems we had cleared the place of monsters just before I passed out... To bad I couldn't collect any of that venom though it could have been useful.

Anyways I spent several days in my bed not moving at all while some of the others in the group tended to me, my thanks goes to out them. However I discovered that the group was not able to salvage the Giant Cave Spider's corpse claiming that it simple melted away... I find that hard to believe.

Either way we had collected our money and for some reason we re-entered the cave to investigate some kind of gem that the others had seen shortly after our battle with the Giant Spider... *maybe that is that feeling I got while I drifted in the void of my mind*.

However as we descended again into the caves we were immediately beset upon by monsters of the dark. How they managed to get into the caves are beyond me but we dispatched them with some difficulty... all of my higher spells have been exhausted for this day but I can feel new power radiating through me as if some new enlightenment was just over the next corner.

The gem is what I remember from my void, a cursory glance from my eyes told me instantly that the object. However we decided to rest a bit before examining the object further so that we may recoup our strength for any dangers that the object may have.


p.s. I have this odd feeling about me... I look at the other wizards about me casting spells and they seem to lack the same power and natural skill that I have with the Arcane Arts, I must investigate this mystery further.

[Shoruke]

Yesterday, we learned a valuable lesson in GMing, which I will share with you all: "Enemies with high AC, decent saves, and lots of hp, but don't do more than 10 damage at a time, make good, challenging encounters, but they take FOR GODDAMN EVER to kill.

I'll post a journal after work and I have decided to multiclass since we flanked so many times in the last battle. I am now a lawful good monk rogue, hooray for sneak attacks. I should mention that I probably won't be picking locks or disabling traps any time soon though.

You're aware that multiclassing, or even taking a Prestige Class that doesn't specifically say otherwise, prevents you from ever taking any more monk levels?

Corina, Mystellar, and Nael all receive their journal exp.

Spoiler: loot (click to show/hide)

The enemies' equipment:
3 masterwork shortswords
2 masterwork repeating light crossbows
3 masterwork bucklers
5 masterwork studded leather armors
11 doses of Greenblood oil (DC 13 injury poison; 1 con damage, 1d2 con damage)
5 backpacks (what else would they be carrying their mugs in? See below)

The random crap they had in their pockets backpacks:
800 gp, 14,000 cp
a pair of masterwork kukris
a bag of Dust of Dryness
masterwork full plate
a masterwork heavy repeating crossbow
a masterwork falchion
a breastplate (not masterwork)
a magnifying glass
2 tanglefoot bags
a silver ewer
a brass mug (with jade inlays)
a ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel
gloves of dexterity +2

[RedWarrior0]

I'll post a journal after work and I have decided to multiclass since we flanked so many times in the last battle. I am now a lawful good monk rogue, hooray for sneak attacks. I should mention that I probably won't be picking locks or disabling traps any time soon though.

You're aware that multiclassing, or even taking a Prestige Class that doesn't specifically say otherwise, prevents you from ever taking any more monk levels?

Corina, Mystellar, and Nael all receive their journal exp... standby for loots.

Alternatively, Eberron 57 has the Monastic Training feat:

Pick one class. You may now multiclass in the chosen class and still take levels of Monk.
You may take this feat as your 1st, 2nd, or 6th level Monk feat.

[mission0]

I'll post a journal after work and I have decided to multiclass since we flanked so many times in the last battle. I am now a lawful good monk rogue, hooray for sneak attacks. I should mention that I probably won't be picking locks or disabling traps any time soon though.

You're aware that multiclassing, or even taking a Prestige Class that doesn't specifically say otherwise, prevents you from ever taking any more monk levels?

Corina, Mystellar, and Nael all receive their journal exp... standby for loots.

That levels me up to level three.

[Shoruke]

Loots are posted. As usual for a D&D encounter where the enemies were generated before their loot was, they had a bunch of stuff that it doesn't make sense that they would have, and a bunch of stuff that it doesn't make sense that they weren't using it. (Not wearing the gloves of dex, I mean jeez, even if they had been maxxed out at their max dex bonus to AC (they weren't), they could still have given it to the archers for +1 to ranged attacks... or put it on the frontliners for reflex saves, even...)

Also, the monastic training feat looks mostly fine... but you have to possess the feat before you take a level in another class before you multiclass. I SUPPOSE I could let you use your retraining to trade away one of your earlier feats for it, but... do you have any spare feats to trade away? Combat Reflexes is downright useful, especially when you're paired with casters who keep casting grease, and there's an entire subschool of feats dedicated to Stunning Fist, and the only other feat you're even eligible to trade for it is... Vow of Poverty.

And I'm gonna have to say "no" to Neruz's improved fighters. I mean, you can get a better version of Power Attack, Improved Improved Two-Weapon-Fighting (improved twice; it's better than the normal ITWF), and improved critical... one of them every two levels, in addition to longer, cheaper 5-foot steps, less penalties for wearing armor, bonuses to basically everything in combat, huge stat bonuses, spell resistance, energy resistance, free enhancement bonus on weapons... just, no.

(although, imagine that fighter class with some of my rogue builds... two level dip for IITWF? Shonus' game would crack and break under the strain)

[Heron TSG]

Maelrigar could use the gloves for improved dexterity if nobody else needs them, but asides from that the only thing he really needs from that is the crossbow. Sure, he doesn't have the exotic proficiency, but he needs some kind of ranged attack. He's already got a lot of fancy equipment though, so maybe one of the lower level party members can use it more effectively.