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Finding the Spark (Pathfinder 1E Quest)
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[X] Ask for a reward, she had plenty to give from
-[X] Her aid in a battle of your choosing
I'm hoping that we can work with her long enough to develop a good enough relationship to buy at least one Djezet Skin and the reading prism. Other stuff I'm ambivalent on, though I'll not argue against whatever the thread wants. We have the sorcerer robe and those gems we'll get for killing the Lord of Veils.
We do need to mention at some point that:
1: Our employer is evil, thinks that we're off to try to kill the dragon (as flattery: "We're not weak, but he has a vastly inflated idea of our strength. Or he's hoping some of us will die. Or both!"), and
2: We intend to kill our employer at some point, and us not attacking Sylestrix might be what forces our hand, unless we successfully lie to Gavhaul about failing to find Sylestrix
-[X] Her aid in a battle of your choosing
I'm hoping that we can work with her long enough to develop a good enough relationship to buy at least one Djezet Skin and the reading prism. Other stuff I'm ambivalent on, though I'll not argue against whatever the thread wants. We have the sorcerer robe and those gems we'll get for killing the Lord of Veils.
We do need to mention at some point that:
1: Our employer is evil, thinks that we're off to try to kill the dragon (as flattery: "We're not weak, but he has a vastly inflated idea of our strength. Or he's hoping some of us will die. Or both!"), and
2: We intend to kill our employer at some point, and us not attacking Sylestrix might be what forces our hand, unless we successfully lie to Gavhaul about failing to find Sylestrix
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@DragonParadox, if the "help with a future battle" option wins, which seems likely, could we still try to convince the Dragon to let us use some of the treasure for dealing with the Demons? The stuff is practically tailor-made for the task.
The Wayfinders can Detect Evil and cast PfE, the spectacles can either detect shapechangers or Evil Outsiders, and the Restorative Ointment and Vial of Efficacious Medicine would both be helpful dealing with poison and other nasty shit Demons might use.
The Wayfinders can Detect Evil and cast PfE, the spectacles can either detect shapechangers or Evil Outsiders, and the Restorative Ointment and Vial of Efficacious Medicine would both be helpful dealing with poison and other nasty shit Demons might use.
There is some chance is all Kori can guess, a roll would be involved.
Welp, turns out I was wrong about how sick I am. My entire digestive system has seemingly chose to go on strike. I'll be going to the doctor on Monday, but in the meantime I feel like hell how so updates will come when and how I feel well enough to right to a quality that I feel is appropriate.
Thanks for your understanding guys and sorry for briefly turning this into a medical diary but if we are going to have a hiatus I felt you guys should know why
Thanks for your understanding guys and sorry for briefly turning this into a medical diary but if we are going to have a hiatus I felt you guys should know why
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Arc 8 Post 37: Balancing the Scales
Balancing the Scales
6th of Neth 4707 A.R. (Absalom Reckoning)
"A battle for a battle then, you pledge to deal with our foes and we shall see an end to these moon-spawned fiends," you offer, more boldly than you feel. True the giants could probably be of great use in the fight, if the dragon should come within axe's reach, but this one seems at most easily distracted, not a fool. Besides, the vaunted worth of dragon hide aside you don't have it in you to kill a youngster over goods stolen from people you just met and have no cause for loyalty too.
"Oh... my mother did say you can tell much about another by the foes they make. Who would you see babbling in my light or torn asunder by my talons?" She pauses, tucking her arrow shaped head behind her wing sheepishly as she falls into more common speech, though none of you wisely comment. "Who then are your foes? Name them that all may be clear as moonlit-glass. "
At that you turn to Gorok, then to the others. Should you tell the dragon? She might refuse and then seek out Gavhaul thinking she can best him. She might simply inform the fey or the people of Fusil and cause Dark-knows that mischief. But on the other hand... a dragon. The work breathes peril and not without cause.
"The Aspis Consortium agent, Loric Gavhaul," Gorok takes the matter into his own hands. "We have made false-skin... ah, lied that we are his servants, though in truth we serve his enemy, the Pathfinder of Almas. Now we seek bloody ambush, an end."
"You speak of treachery with a light voice, mortal, though I sense in it no malice. Tell me of this consortium, that I might judge for myself if I should make your cause mine."
"Merchants and mercenaries with little care for those under them, and less for the world entire. Trading freely in poison, death, treachery, and in living slaves," your friend intones and you are not sure where this is going, for why should a dragon from another world care for the plight of mortals, that is until he adds. "In the city of Katapesh, in a place called the Garden of Unearthly Delights, one of the Aspis-Folks keeps a clutch of brass dragons as though they were common beasts."
Gorok Diplomacy (DC 10/15): 1d20-1 = 17 (Full Success)
Rage fills every line of Sylestrix' svelte form, as though quicksilver itself were made animate with the fires of the deep earth and her eyes flare like stars seen in dark water. Words not in the common tongue, old or new, but in the tongue of dragons fall from her forked tongue and you do not need to speak it to know that they are curses and promises of retribution.
"Death! Death to this Gavhaul-man in the place of his confederate who are still beyond my claws!"
"How did you remember that?" you ask Gorok in a half whisper.
"Asked the Pathfinder," he shrugs as though it's only common sense. "I always like to know the most foolish thing an enemy has done."
Thanks to Gorok's deft diplomacy Sylestrix is enraged and thus willing to keep up her end of the deal before you do yours. Do you take advantage of this?
[] Deal with Gavhaul first
[] Deal with the demons first
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OOC: Gorok continues to be a surprisingly good diplomat for someone with a -1 to his rolls. Also yes, that thing about the dragon zoo is canon.
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Gavhaul probably has better loot than random demons, so getting our hands on that to better fight them might be smart.
Though he is some psychic class, so that loot might be of limited use to us?
Though he is some psychic class, so that loot might be of limited use to us?
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Damned good job, Gorok! That's a good philosophy to live by.
I'm not sure who we should hit first, but for now I'm going to lean toward Gavhaul. The Demon(s) are dangerous and their overall threat level is up in the air, but I have a feeling Gavhaul has an ace hidden up his sleeve that could be difficult for us to deal with safely.
[X] Deal with Gavhaul first
Aww, that's precious. She's trying to talk like a grown-up Dragon. My impression of Sylestrix is improving.
I'm not sure who we should hit first, but for now I'm going to lean toward Gavhaul. The Demon(s) are dangerous and their overall threat level is up in the air, but I have a feeling Gavhaul has an ace hidden up his sleeve that could be difficult for us to deal with safely.
[X] Deal with Gavhaul first
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That also explains why Mina's ability didn't trigger.
She wasn't speaking another language, she was just putting on the affectation of speaking an older dialect.
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I had been hoping that we'd be able to off Gavhaul in a way that doesn't have Aspis divinations point back at us when they investigate what killed one of their agents, but that was unlikely at best.
[X] Deal with Gavhaul first
-[X] Share all tactical information you have on Gavhaul's abilities, including what you know/suspect of the being he has (for the moment) bound.
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Anyone have idea of how we might be able to get the mercs on our side?
My first idea is to just kill Gavhaul away from them, and have it as a 'done deal' sort of thing, though of course that means we have to get him away from the caravan.
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This might be the bare bones of a plan (or it might have fundamental flaws):
Maybe we can head back to the town (having failed to find the dragon, but successfully killed the Lord of Veils who we stumbled upon (thanks to bad bird directions), and the 'person we rescued' (human-from Sylestrix) has news about the people in the escape pods to being to the local CoRM, but we managed to convince them to also share that news with our employer.
Or perhaps we lie to the mercs; say that the being that Gavhaul was talking to was demonic, and that we managed to make a deal with Sylestrix for her help to kill Gavhaul if we help with her demon issues.
[X] Deal with Gavhaul first
-[X] Share all tactical information you have on Gavhaul's abilities, including what you know/suspect of the being he has (for the moment) bound.
----
Anyone have idea of how we might be able to get the mercs on our side?
My first idea is to just kill Gavhaul away from them, and have it as a 'done deal' sort of thing, though of course that means we have to get him away from the caravan.
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This might be the bare bones of a plan (or it might have fundamental flaws):
Maybe we can head back to the town (having failed to find the dragon, but successfully killed the Lord of Veils who we stumbled upon (thanks to bad bird directions), and the 'person we rescued' (human-from Sylestrix) has news about the people in the escape pods to being to the local CoRM, but we managed to convince them to also share that news with our employer.
Or perhaps we lie to the mercs; say that the being that Gavhaul was talking to was demonic, and that we managed to make a deal with Sylestrix for her help to kill Gavhaul if we help with her demon issues.
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When it comes to enemies that can divine us, we have basically Nidal as a state and some of Cheliax' nobility already.
No need to worry about adding the asps.
Fundamentally, I believe that DP is the kind of GM that provides roughly level-appropriate challenges until we act in some pretty obviously stupid ways (for example fighting the Dragon without support), so I'm optimistic that the assassins send after us will be roughly in our CR+3 range.
We don't know shit except "has a voice" about the bound thing though?
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Should we wait for a better ambush position? Bring back a few artifacts willingly given and report dragon escape before moving on to crash site with dragon in wait?
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I was thinking that he has something powerful bound in a object, and am concerned that he'll release said being if he's feeling really desperate, and I just wanted to make Sylestrix aware that might happen.
I don't like the thought of asking a dragon we just met to trust us with her loot. Especially since I think the stuff she took from the town is her only loot.
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I'm rather liking the idea of Kori buffing up his bluff (with rerolls) and convincing the mercs that the entity Gavhaul was contacting is demonic (maybe inventing a fake prophecy that strongly implies such).
As to why we are only attacking Gavhaul now and not shortly after he communed with the entity; we can say that only found this out when we had a day to rest to get our prophecy magic back. Or we can tell the mercs that we went looking for the dragon before confronting Gavhaul, since we misidentified it as a silver dragon and hoped to gain its aid. And while she's not a silver dragon, we still got her aid.
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Also, we could lean on the fact that with the adamantine eggs being hollow, the mercs are now stuck hoping for most of their cut to come from whatever Gavhaul manages to sell the artifacts for - adamantine has a well known price. These artifacts could be worth anything.
Selling artifacs of nebulous value makes it trivally easy for Gavhaul to organise a scam so as to pay the mercs far less than they were promised.
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Trying to return to the expedition now would be really complicated, and would require a lot of lying to pull off successfully. We could probably do it, but the Ohancanu would be difficult to explain.
The longer we delay, the longer the Demon(s) have to do whatever it is they're planning. If we can eliminate Gavhaul quickly enough and with as little hassle as possible, we might be able to secure the assistance of the rest of the expedition. Leontas and his men are quite experienced at fighting against Demons, after all.
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Wait, where is Gavhaul, or what did he indicate he was going to do? I thought he would be with the caravan?
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Too bad that Demons are vulnerable to Cold Iron, not Silver.
I'd have liked the see the surprise when any little scratch from our new ally ignores that particular DR.
Well, maybe Gavhaul has a bound devil, I wouldn't put it past him.
Also the Dragon has Life Bubble as an SLA, which is a pretty good spell. In case any of Gavhaul's aces or tricks involve cloud-spells or vaporized poison, we can be surprisingly immune to that.
I'd have liked the see the surprise when any little scratch from our new ally ignores that particular DR.
Well, maybe Gavhaul has a bound devil, I wouldn't put it past him.
Also the Dragon has Life Bubble as an SLA, which is a pretty good spell. In case any of Gavhaul's aces or tricks involve cloud-spells or vaporized poison, we can be surprisingly immune to that.
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Unfortunately, Sylestrix is only a Young Lunar Dragon. She doesn't get Life Bubble until she becomes a Juvenile. That's a shame, because Life Bubble is a great buff spell she could share with the whole party.
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But she's supposed to have Alien Presence? Pretty sure I could quote DP on that.
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Pretty sure that's because the PFSRD entries for Outer Dragons are kinda barebones/half-assed compared to the more common varieties.
The main Lunar Dragon page only shows them gaining Alien Presence at the Juvenile age category, but the page for Young Lunar Dragons includes it without including mentions of age-related restrictions like it does for the other abilities.
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Kay.
Then she's a precocious little dragon, already driving people insane one step before her Age would usually allow that.