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[Vherid]

Yeah sorry it's prob going to be a few weeks before I play again. The random play dates have screwed me over a bit, not that I mean that in a negative or your fault manner, it just has. I don't really mind. I also just leased an apartment in another city and have been prepping to move into my first apartment and such, and college will be starting soon, so getting ready for that as well.

[Shoruke]

Server is up.
If it takes you 2 minutes to connect, it is because my IP address refreshed and I'm redoing the port forwarding.
I even went and redid the port forwarding already. Ahead of time. Yes. *cough*

[Shoruke]

Successful journals for the August 16 session: Stihe, Izaak, Rumus, and Andre. Wait... only 4?
Quick note: bananas are actually reasonably priced in the desert. Lore or Knowledge(local) checks can be made during the session to determine why.

Andre, Stihe, Rumus: 400
Izaak: 460

EDIT: Also Vaba, from the next post, got 400.

[syvarris]

Successful journals for the August 16 session: Stihe, Izaak, Rumus, and Andre. Wait... only 4?

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

Once the room we had fought the tentacle monster in was cleared we began discussing where we would go next.  Izaak and a few others wanted to continue onwards, and possibly see what had happened to the other adventurers.  Stihe decided to run away before we could come to a decision, and we followed.  Once we arrived back at the hub we were surprised to see all the guards had been killed, they were covered in claw marks.  Izaak and Andre began examining their wounds while I tried to figure out where the killer had come from and gone to.  Strangely, a trail of blood went from one guard to another and then up the stairs.  The guards were all in the same spots as last time we saw them, they hadn't even drawn their weapons.  So it was either very fast, or the guards were under some sort of spell.

We left up the stairs towards the surface.  We met nothing until the we neared the surface, when I spotted a panther-like corpse melting into purple smoke.  I immediately ran to see what it was, and took a deep breath of the haze.  I then spent a few minutes coughing.  The room was also populated by guards, most of whom were dead or dying, but eight were still standing.  Izaak immediately began tending to the wounded females among them.  We were going to leave, when the lead guard said they would pay us to stay and help them defend.  For nearly an hour we waited for some monsters to show up.  Then we were relieved by a small group of militiamen and clerics. 

The clerics went around the room, healing the wounded.  Then one of them walked up to us and asked us if we needed any potions.  We said yes, and were handed a large collection of vials.  The leader of the guards also gave us a payment coupon.  We then left the caves and split up; Izaak, Ethan and Andre went looking for Stihe while the rest of us went our various ways.  I went and bought more ammo, the went and found Rumus.  He was sleeping in a local inn.  I woke him up and gave him my old arrows and some useless pocket change.  I then headed off to find the payment office.  Rumus followed.

Once inside we were greeted by a old man.  He asked one of us to sit in a chair so he could read their mind.  I volunteered.  We cashed in the coupon and He counted out our gold, then we left.  Izaak set up a side circus on one of the busier streets, and I joined as a trick shooter.  I made a few gold, then returned to bote after Izaak started telling a boring story.

I went wandering to a park, and amazingly found a horse!  A friesian if I remember that book correctly.  I went and found Andre, who promised to train my horse over the next few days.

[Heron TSG]

The things PCs will do to get items...

[Shoruke]

The things PCs will do to get items...

You're telling me. Breaking into churches... Why, just look at my sig.

[Heron TSG]

I have an awesome spell to replace Bladeweave with, though. One that will shake the very foundations of churches worldwide.

[Shoruke]

Hey, uh Theoboldi. What's up with your connection?

[Shoruke]

Experience Points for defeating 3 thingers of corruption:
Maelrigar, Mystellar, Ethan: 701
Andre: 825
Stihe, Vaba, Raspul: 880
Izaak: 990

[Heron TSG]

When multiple enemies form a line that is not intercepted by my fellow party members, it's always time to throw something sharp.

[Shoruke]

Yay, cliffhangers!
DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNN

Gotta feel a bit bad for Red, who left 2 minutes before he would've heard it.

[Heron TSG]

That roll-to-skim thing sounds like it would be the best for Haika's character, followed by a general loot dumping to save time. Everyone wins that way!

[Haika]

I don't know what I'm going to do. Every time I try and deal with loot here, all I do is make issues and drama. I don't feel happy with my character, but don't really know the system well enough to deal with making one properly anew. And I was behind the party in levels and gear already.

All I know is, I feel like crap, because this keeps coming up.

[RAM]

Well, what do you want to do?

D&D 3.5 rules are mostly about combat. If you want to be awesome outside of combat, read through the skills thoroughly and think about what you could do with magic. If you want to create objects, control people, mutate yourself, or whatever else with magic, then we can help point out some useful spells and classes.

As for combat, well ,you need to figure out what you want to do. Typically people want some elements of assisting other characters, dealing damage, not being damaged, surviving being damaged, controlling enemies, and role-playing at things, be it sitting down to chronicle the proceedings mid-fight, or making insinuations about character's parentage...

Typically characters will have a style, be it moving around, standing still, acting at a distance, looking like part of the furniture, whatever...


P.S.

Spoiler: I just added this to my character builds list... (click to show/hide)

Human Minor Djinni bloodline
Abilities: st 10(2), de 18(16), co 14(6), in 14(6), wi 8(0), ch 10(2)
1:Scout 1, Point blank shot, Precise shot, rapid shot, non-combatant flaw, quick trait, slippery trait.
2:Fighter 1, Quick Draw
3:Fighter 2, Two-weapon fighting, weapon focus(dagger)
4:Scout 2
5:Scout 3
6:Scout 4, Combat Expertise, dodge, Sleight of Hand 4
7:Master Thrower 1, exchange quick draw for mobility, palm throw, Perform(dance) 3, Tumble 3
8:Dervish 1

[Heron TSG]

Here's the thing, Haika. Out of combat, how things go is largely affected by skills, roleplaying, and some utility-type spells. (Fly, for example.) In combat, almost anything will work. There are many types of characters in combat, such as these examples,

Those who heal (reactive defense)
Those who abjure/summon (active defense/battlefield control)
Those who absorb damage (meatshields)
Those who deal damage to one or two targets (Maelrigar Can be anyone, with differing methods.)
     Ranged
     Melee
Those who deal damage to everything they can (Generally spellcasters)
     Ranged
     Melee

...but all of them are important. Also, in general those optimized for combat are not so optimized for out-of-combat work. Fighters might be able to use their strength to climb cliffs and whatnot, but their diplomacy is probably too low to convince an NPC to do anything. Your character appears to be largely roleplaying based with some sneaky elements thrown in. That doesn't mean it's a bad character, that means it's better at different things.