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[syvarris]

Spoiler: Vaba's Journal (click to show/hide)

 I have been given this... book and told to record my thoughts in it by the Van' Bandolier fellow, upon asking what he wanted in return he said it was free; he's a curious helf or whatever it's called.
Anyways the group I had joined seems friendly enough, if a bit dull- One of them, a deer-man (dan?) thinks he is human despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary!  Another (a druid he says) has a pet wolf which I am now a friend of named "lyca" -from what I know of the language an un-inventive name, but it's fur is quite soft.

 Anyways they had been exploring a large knocked down tower which I had been using as a crows nest when we met, the deer-man dragging a piece of platemail for some gith-forsaken reason.  They copied AND took a logbook telling how some dragon had come and knocked over my crows nest.  After the extreme safety precaution's they left to find some ship (upon seeing it i am horrified and amazed) but first ran into a few tornado's.  And of all things they tried to BARGAIN with them!  Air elementals are tricky critters as I have learned from years of fighting their kind and we only survived because the sandfish warned us and scared off the tornado's. We also found a claw that was torn off the dragon when he knocked over my crows nest, serves him right.
 
 Finally upon reaching the rest of the party I found that three new adventurers I had not been told about apparently joined up with our boat people.  Two of which appear to be in a relationship.  _{one of which is a canine woman(camine?) and is apparently named "foxy".  Ug, none-planars.}  The other newcomer is a gritty cowboy-ish bard who is trying to save his kidnapped family from the government a deadly disease.  His name is "Gedin" and keeps saying that lute he carries is a mandolin because it has 8 strings instead of ten and is tuned fancily, I think i may just cut two lute strings, then he will have a spare mandolin!  How great would that be?!
_{AndohgodIbetterstopwritingi'mgoingtobesandsick}

Also, I keep forgetting to ask, how much does desert clothing weigh?  I put down the weight of travelers clothing, but van had given Vaba his desert robe which weighs only 2 pounds.
And ARG MYTHWEAVERS IS RE-DIRECTING TO RANDOM SITES AGAIN!

[Heron TSG]

Air elementals are tricky critters as I have learned from years of fighting their kind and we only survived because the sandfish warned us and scared off the tornado's.

Huzzah! The sandfish of the future may once again foretell the mystic future, but for now it sleeps.

if Maelrigar didn't kill them, they must not be hostile.

Moral compass of the party, am I? This could be fun.

Journal coming when my eyes don't feel like spherical blobs of sandpaper and scar tissue. That image-surfing for pogs really did a number on them. Fox person indeed. 

[The Fool]

It might not be the best or longest journal that I've ever written, but here it is.

Spoiler: Van's Tale: A Twister in the Wind (click to show/hide)

After finding the Mage’s Guild’s cellar and running around the elevators we finally caught up with the others. We gleefully showed them the cactus that we found, but they looked at us like a deer in the torchlight, except for Pheron who looked at us like he was in the torchlight. Now that I think about it, why DID we take that cactus? Although I will concede that it will make a fantastic addition to our ship. Regardless, a barrier obstructs our path into the dorms which is the only place that hasn’t been searched yet. Unable to breach the barrier we decided to head back to the docks to meet up with Maelrigar and the rest of the group. However, before we could head out Ethan headed back into the cellar only to emerge a few moments later. Both Pheron and I thought that he simply forgot something in the guild. As it turns out Ethan just wanted to see if the lift could work outside the guild.

Heading back to the docks we came across a small group of wispy rouge twisters. They seemed friendly enough, with their violent gusts of air around them, so I walked towards them in good faith. Vaba visibly disagreed with my actions and drew a bow and nocked an arrow as if to fire at a moment’s notice. Despite Ethan’s warnings that they may not know Common I walked forward. I mean seriously, everyone knows Common in some way or another. It appeared as if I was right because the twisters moved off to one side of the road as a sign of good faith. The twisters thankfully ignored Vabas, who was ferociously aiming the business end of a bow at them. We thanked them and moved on before Vabas had second thoughts about not firing.

We crossed by a destroyed house, and a dragon’s claw was sticking out of the wall of all the things. We pulled the claw for purposes that I simply can’t imagine. We met up with the others several blocks from the docks. No one could find any clues on how to get Akoth back home, so after much deliberation we decided to go to the mages of Sands Edge to see if they could return him home. It was kind of convenient since we were headed that way anyways, perhaps that’s why it was suggested...

I'm glad that we only have one group again, it will give me more material to work with for the journals.

EDIT: Oh, and journals don't have to be this long for anyone looking for a point of reference on length.

[asfghn]

I'm hoping journals don't have to be posted immediately, either? I'm still cogitating (read: being lazy).

But yeah, it actually goes into Edmund and Foxy in some detail on Foxy's character sheet—basically, the first working backstory was that she was created to be a servitor by some mad-scientist type, and when he died/was murdered by villagers with pitchforks, Edmund came across her with the intents of being An Hero and taking her to the nearest town or something, but instead she latched onto him as her "creator"—her "master", since she was designed to be a servant and all that hooey. Dani was talking about her mind actually being twisted by conditioning to require having a "master", but I'm not sure if she's actually keeping that idea?

Kogan (though I am afraid I will never be able to think of you as anything but Pheron, sorry  ) suggested her being sold/leased/whatever to Edmund's family though, since he's actually the illegitimate cast-off from some noble and was probably raised until at least his majority in said noble's household, and I think she liked that idea enough to adopt it, but the base concept is still the same. There is most definitely no hanky-panky going on between them! He's just gotten tired of explaining that, and figures people will think what they want to think anyway. BUT I MEAN REALLY, THAT POG

Though that does remind me, I need to write up a backstory for Edmund! I will work on that this week when I am not playing Dwarf Fortress, god damn whichever of you mentioned microcline!


Also syv I love Vaba like you would not believe and the fact that his journal is riddled with run-on sentences forever. I love him so much.

[Heron TSG]

Foxy has a character sheet?

[Danichu]

I am so sorry Kogan but you will always be Pheron in my head now. 8( But asfghn has it exactly for both preliminary notion and new plan (which will get onto the character sheet when it gets fully updated): Foxy is a prototype of similar experimentation to Pheron, but the experiment was cut short and she was seized early and sold off to Edmund's family to be something akin to his pet, at the time, though her status was elevated to servitor as they grew.  It's been pretty well ingrained on her since she was "born" that she's to be subservient, so thinking for herself -- and especially thinking for her own sake -- doesn't come easily, since she's been trained to think for her 'master's' needs and safety before her own.  So yeah, her mind is a little twisted.

[syvarris]

Also syv I love Vaba like you would not believe and the fact that his journal is riddled with run-on sentences forever. I love him so much.

Heh.  Thanks, you have no idea how much that does for my paranoia and anti-socialness

WooHooo mythweaveres is working again!

Danichu, you need to choose a favored enemy and combat style, flat-footed AC should be 10 (Flat footed means you are denied dex bonus to AC)
Also, I would suggest some armor_{(or even some clothes...)}; masterwork studded leather and buckler would cost only 340 gp, and would provide +4 AC without a armor check penalty.
Which, come to think of it, would put you over your weight limit,  so... Ah why do you need a winter blanket, Block and tackle in a desert?[/nitpickyness]

Other than that I see no holes in the sheet, well done!

[Heron TSG]

I'll nitpick for the sake of nitpicking, but don't get offended. (I'm just bored.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but your height to weight ratio seems very low. I remember when I was 5'2" a couple years ago (I'm 5'10" now, thank you puberty.), and I was extraordinarily sticklike. I weighed about 95 pounds, and that was with next to no muscle mass. I don't know about Vr'ufen, but if your character were human they would look skeletal. Here's some reference.

I currently have a BMI of ~17.5, and 18.5 is the threshold for underweight. (between 18.5 and 25 is generally healthy) I am 5'10" and ~120 pounds. When I was 5'2" and 95 pounds, I also had a BMI of ~17.5.

Your character has a BMI of 15.5, which is classified in the 'dangerously underweight' part.

Spoiler: The kid in front is me. (click to show/hide)

Proportionally, you would have to take 12 pounds off of the person in this image to reach the BMI your character has. I'm not sure how, without removing some of the necessary stuff.

Oh look, I just did that thing again where I unnecessarily nitpick to the disadvantage of the party. (Pressure plates and flying mount carrying capacities get pretty specific in most of the games I've been in.)

[Cthulhu]

I always put "pff" or "I dunno" for my character's weight.

[Heron TSG]

I use the weight tables, but generally it doesn't even matter. I guess the main things you use weight for are the carrying capacities of mounts, activating pressure plates, and other such things.

[The Fool]

@asfghn: Normally you just have until the next session to post a journal. We just post our journals quickly sometimes.

@Barbarossa: BMI is not always a good way to judge what is normal for someone. I for example am slightly overweight, but my BMI says that I'm morbidly obese. Muscle mass really messes with the BMI.

In the case of Vaba the weight could be lower because of a lightweight bone structure, or from a lower muscle density. I don't think that the weight should really matter for anyone that's not human.

[Heron TSG]

Yes, I know that BMI is horribly inaccurate, and I know that weight doesn't really matter.

I'll nitpick for the sake of nitpicking

I get bored on the weekends.

[The Fool]

Actually I intended that to be read with the last bit to explain of why the character could be that light. In retrospect I'm not sure why I dragged the BMI into this though.

[Danichu]

Sorry for the late response time, the rest of the weekend was really busy for me, and I just got back to my computer.  Thanks a lot for all the suggestions, though!  I don't take any offense -- really, I need all the help I can get.  I'll admit that my equipment might not have been so well thought out... XD I had been trying initially to build a list based on what supplies would be good on any general trek, rather than customizing it to the desert terrain.  I'll definitely adjust for armor and probably remove the fishing gear.  The blanket, though, will stay: it may be searing hot during the day, but it gets wickedly cold at night in the desert. 

As for the weight and height issue, I'm an incredibly poor judge across the whole scale.  I don't trust BMI, either, to be honest, just because the sheer variety of bone structures and muscle mass don't seem to come into play there at all, which can throw things fairly far off.  I'm up for any suggestions for her weight, though, given that she's small and has a fairly light skeletal structure with lean muscle.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Githzerai are tall and light as a race.

Also, It's a little odd that after a single session I make such an impression as a person that you all will forever associate stone boats as deermen, but meh