Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
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- Germany
[X] Snowfire
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
@DragonParadox, here's an updated Fellowship page. I swapped out everyone's armor, giving our melee armsmen their Bronze Lamellar and Wanderer his Chain Shirt. I added the Chain Shirts they are no longer wearing to the Armory tab.
Motto: Truth from the Unknown
Leadership: Triumvirate of Antonio, Roland, and Zaia as joint council
The Fellowship
Motto: Truth from the Unknown
Leadership: Triumvirate of Antonio, Roland, and Zaia as joint council
- Fleet of the Company
- Soldiers of the Company
- Finances of the Company
- Fame and Infamy
- Consumables
- Notable possessions
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Books on Alchemy and Metallurgy (+3 to Craft Alchemy and all Metal Craft skills as long as one is in a position to reference the tomes)*
Masterwork Smithing and Alchemy Tools (+2 to relevant rolls)*
Cauldron of Living Bronze (Ikomi-blessed Cauldron of Brewing, +5 competence bonus on Craft (alchemy) skill checks)*
A cauldron of brewing looks like a fine cooking pot with four stout legs. The cauldron is capable of heating any liquid placed in it to a precise temperature (anywhere from just above room temperature to hot enough to boil salt water) and maintaining it indefinitely while still remaining only slightly warm to the touch on the outside. A cauldron of brewing provides a +5 competence bonus on Craft (alchemy) skill checks.
Instructions for Dragon Crafting (a book that when consulted allows an alchemist to act as though they possess Dragoncrafting at the cost of taking twice as long as with the feat)*
Drums of Haste
Fey Gold
While wearing a Fey Gold nugget around the neck, the wearer gains fire resistance 1 and a +1 resistance bonus on Will saving throws.
Northern Fury
Northern Fury
Description: This heavy oaken club, roughly carved, is not quite sentient, but still seems drawn to violence, dragging its wielder into battle with it if it can.
Powers:
- +1 Greatclub
- The wielder takes a -2 penalty on Will saves against any spells or effects that incite rage, compel hostility or otherwise contribute to starting a fight.
- With the first hit made in a combat the club casts Deadly Juggernaut as a free action, but also requires the wielder to make a DC 14 Will save to retreat from melee-range of any opponent still standing. The spell can only be activated once per day.
Horn of the Werebear
Description: A horn in form but not of horn wrought, rather it seems to have been carved from a single piece of ivory by most skillful and loving craft. Carved all about its length with scenes of war that feature men and bears as well as the obviously quite painful transformation between them.
Power: A sacred relic of Olweje, when this horn is blown it can temporarily transform a warrior into large, armored monstrosity of a bear, a Zentragt. The warrior must accept the transformation willingly and after the battle for which he was transformed sacrifice the arms and armor of all foes he has slain to Olweje (by eating them in his bear-form), or else the warrior remains a Zentragt and is driven battle-mad to attack his former comrades.
The transformation takes a full round and lasts for an hour, the target of the transformation must be within 10 feet of the hornblower.
Okunrin Okomo's Hollow Drums (might be used for enchantment)*
Broken Wyrd Lantern (might serve as the base for future enchantments)*
Gold Sheet*
Hedon's skull*
Dragon's corpse (Large; used x2 grip skin, x5 blood, x1 musk)
Red Lion's head*
Ulk's head - Armory
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- Pilipinas
@DragonParadox is it too late to find a houndmaster and dogs? I was hoping that after we defeated the demon and returned here we will have a batch of trained dogs waiting. Do we need a kennel for this though?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
There is space within Wayfarer's Respite that could be used as a kennel. I'm not sure how prevalent domesticated dogs are in this region of the world, though.
If they are relatively common and available, I wouldn't mind getting some for the keep. Some of the Otter-kin might even be able to use them as mounts.
EDIT: Also, Roland has a high Handle Animal skill bonus, so he could easily do some dog training. Better yet, his Handle Animal skill is even more effective when training mounts, and a Riding Dog would be a mount for Otter-kin.
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- Pilipinas
Dragonparadox did reply that we can look for hirelings like a houndmaster in the market, its hirelings like beast tamers that would be rare though. And since a houndmaster's availability is normal, i assumed that a couple of breeding dogs wont be difficult to buy, and once we get back from our island campaign we'll have puppies ready to be trained or even fully trained war/riding/hunting/guard dogs.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
OMG, there are so many cute pictures of kids and animals (dogs, cats, lizards, etc.) riding dogs if you do a Google search. It was all I could do to close the tab before I was sucked into an abyss that might have eaten my entire weekend.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
Instead you'll be busy feeding your weekend to the Realms. Those of the Far variety, I'm sure.
How does anyone else use it, then?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
You can reduce ACP through quality of armor, magic, feats, and equipment modifications, plus you can pump up your Ride skill in much the same way to make the penalty less relevant.
Obviously, our men aren't going to have all of these tricks available to them to overcome ACP penalties from wearing heavier armor, but Ride checks aren't really necessary outside of combat and other special circumstances, and there is nothing saying they can't just switch to their lighter Chain Shirts if mounted combat is expected.
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[X] Snowfire
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
ACP doesn't really have much of an impact outside of a few situations, so it's not a huge burden. The advantage to wearing armor is that you're basically always protected, which is good for ambushes and other instances where combat can break out unexpectedly, while spells need to be cast and that expends a very limited daily resource that can't be used for other purposes. Even learning or preparing the spells is a limit on your abilities and resources, even if you don't need to cast them for one reason or another.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
Eh... I did close the vote rather fast on the shopping update because I wanted to do two updates, sure if you want, you can vote to look for hirelings after this encounter is done.
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- Pilipinas
Awesome! Having dogs as guards would be a force multiplier for our home team as well as a morale boost, and hopefully once we get back, there is at least a couple of well-trained dogs that we can use for war and hunting or sold as needed.
Vote closed, let's see how this goes.
Arc 11 Post 20: In Merry Cloak Grim Herald Garbed
In Merry Cloak Grim Herald Garbed
Thirty Sixth Day of Ikomi-hamba (Ikomi Descendant) 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)
"I doubt any would mistake our Fellowship, good sir. Steel among bronze is rare enough and our blades are far more of the former - not of Ibanoran shores, I'd wager," you reply with as much courtesy as surprise will allow. Perhaps the man had not meant it as a challenge. Then again, perhaps he had, you think as his gaze sharpens and moves from your face to your sword hilt in that quick appraisal that marks a duelist on the field of blood more than it does a shopper browsing the market. Your tone perhaps a touch less cordial, you add: "Still, I would ask the name of one who would offer aid so graciously."
"Sigan Iskhan," he replies with a bow that sends his cloak swirling... and cascading through a dozen colors from rose pink and back to purple as magic plays across the cloth. Even Silver starts at the sight, but the name appears to mean more to Antonio than the show of glamor.
"Strange to meet the Sword of the Purple by chance before so humble a hall. Surely, any merchant you might visit shall thank fate and fortune for delivering so great a warrior to their door," though the words are dipped in honey you sense behind them caution as one might when walking abroad in the woods and finding a wolf in the middle of the path, only the one and well fed, but still dangerous enough to raise a guard. The way he says the color makes you think he means some kind of group that holds sway and power in the city, but the name means nothing to you.
"Thugs who hold sway in Farshore, but strong and rich enough that they have business beyond the slums and have grown respectable enough of late to linger on the margins of polite society," Antonio explains in Sicilian, adding. "This is their most infamous enforcer, in genteel parts of town at least."
You almost choke to hear him say all that in the middle of the street, but Sigan does not seem to have realized anything was amiss in the way he had just been introduced. Of course he hadn't, you chastise yourself, the man is not likely to speak the tongue of another world and not even the magic of Esha's blood can untangle that riddle. How the Devil does one treat a thug in fine silks?
"Ah, I see you heard of me," from the brazen smile you wonder if he would even be troubled by the introduction Antonio had given him. "It is not often that a merchant galley sails into port with two pirate ships in its wake and the piles of weapons and armor to attest that their former occupants will no longer trouble the seas, and so I have come to see myself the folk of the... Fellowship, was it? There was some foreign name also and I do not wish to risk mangling it with an unknowing tongue and give offense. Insulting a man by accident is like laying with a woman blind drunk, a deed not worth the doing."
"Always good to meet a man who is careful with his words," you reply guardedly. "What did you wish to speak to us of?"
"A proposition of sorts, one that is not fit to be bandied about in sight of earth and sky, perhaps a dinner at the Broken Wheel?" the man replies airily, naming one of the finest taverns in the city. "The staff can be counted on not to linger 'round corners for rumors and the walls are thick."
"Ah... we have much yet to do before our journey swift approaching," Antonio demurs, though he does not quite close the door as firmly as you might have, perhaps because he was expecting what came next.
"I can make it worth your while, say to the tune of five hundred Icari." A smile plays on thin lips and eyes glitter beneath carefully groomed eyebrows.
"Five hundred Icari to listen and just that?" Antonio is still wary, true, yet now he is leaning close where before he had been all but pressed against the wall of the shop behind him.
"Five hundred Icari to eat a fine meal and listen to a proposition which I think you shall find sweeter than both the food and the silver," comes the assured reply.
What do you do?
[] Refuse the meeting, private or not you do not wish the Fellowship associated with such dark folk
[] The price he offers would be enough to make your trip to the War Market more profitable than not, hear them out and take the silver, you are doing the world a favor by keeping it out of such hands really (Go to the meeting +500gp)
[] Write in
OOC: Roland was a bit off on reading the body language at the start since there is a difference between the amount of checking out done by a professional warrior and a professional killer and enforcer. If you had chosen to intimidate for instance there would have been a chance he would have escalated if he failed a sense motive check.
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Goldfish
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Shit. @DragonParadox, I forgot that about Tom when figuring up the number of armors to buy. Can we retroactively purchase him a set, too? Lamellar or Breastplate, whichever is available? I can add it into a vote if necessary, but I doubt anyone would have objected during the first vote for it.
Thanks for the heads up, Shine.
There were only eight sets of lamelar armor, you would have to get him a brestplate, as long as you are fine with that you can add it to the next snopping vote while you are still at the market.
You could even get him masterwork armor if you want, though the benefits of that do not seem worth the cost with the current funds you guys have.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
So the Purple are basically the Orinilu mafia? Lovely.
This isn't exactly an offer we can't refuse, but it might very well be one we shouldn't refuse. We're getting ready to depart Orinilu soon, and Wayfarer's Respite is going to be guarded by a relatively small number of people (unless we can convince Odorin to station a good number of House Koire guards there, possibly to continue their training under Neios), so having a group of outright criminals angry or annoyed with us could be a problem.
This isn't exactly an offer we can't refuse, but it might very well be one we shouldn't refuse. We're getting ready to depart Orinilu soon, and Wayfarer's Respite is going to be guarded by a relatively small number of people (unless we can convince Odorin to station a good number of House Koire guards there, possibly to continue their training under Neios), so having a group of outright criminals angry or annoyed with us could be a problem.
Let me put it this way, before they where the Purples they were 'The Purple Neckers' for the calling card of strangling their victims which left recognizable bruising on the neck.
That was shortened and much later it was claimed that it stemmed not from that but from the use of purple dye to show their wealth.
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