- Location
- Argentina
We are bound to cause some serious confusion out of throwing darkness and blinding light at the same time
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Finding the Spark (Pathfinder 1E Quest)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Fantasy
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We are bound to cause some serious confusion out of throwing darkness and blinding light at the same time
Massgamer
Advance toward the Future
- Location
- The Future
[X] Offer to take the ring to Almas for a price
-[X] 1,500 gp
[X] Kori Level Up
-[X] Class: +1 Oracle
-[X] Favored Class Bonus: +1 Hit Point
-[X] Feat: Cunning
-[X] Skills (10 points): +1 Bluff, +1 Disguise, +1 Perception, +1 Sense Motive, +1 Stealth, +5 Intimidate
-[X] Background Skills (2 points): +2 Lore (Azlanti History)
-[X] Spells:
--[X] Cantrip: Enhanced Diplomacy
--[X] 1st Level: Barbed Chains
--[X] 2nd Level: Burst of Radiance
If the priest is worried about breaking ring even in temple I would not risk it. So road trip.
-[X] 1,500 gp
[X] Kori Level Up
-[X] Class: +1 Oracle
-[X] Favored Class Bonus: +1 Hit Point
-[X] Feat: Cunning
-[X] Skills (10 points): +1 Bluff, +1 Disguise, +1 Perception, +1 Sense Motive, +1 Stealth, +5 Intimidate
-[X] Background Skills (2 points): +2 Lore (Azlanti History)
-[X] Spells:
--[X] Cantrip: Enhanced Diplomacy
--[X] 1st Level: Barbed Chains
--[X] 2nd Level: Burst of Radiance
If the priest is worried about breaking ring even in temple I would not risk it. So road trip.
- Location
- florida
But both priests we've spoken to have made checks to notice our shadow?
And the Desnan was alarmed by it? He just stuck with his goddesses precepts against discrimination.
...and are you sure religious types are the kind to ignore omens and signs?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Okay, to the Temple of Desna we return. Sorry, Mina.
[X] Go to the Temple of Desna instead
[X] Kori Level Up
-[X] Class: +1 Oracle
-[X] Favored Class Bonus: +1 Hit Point
-[X] Feat: Cunning
-[X] Skills (10 points): +1 Bluff, +1 Disguise, +1 Perception, +1 Sense Motive, +1 Stealth, +5 Intimidate
-[X] Background Skills (2 points): +2 Lore (Azlanti History)
-[X] Spells:
--[X] Cantrip: Enhanced Diplomacy
--[X] 1st Level: Barbed Chains
--[X] 2nd Level: Burst of Radiance
[X] Go to the Temple of Desna instead
[X] Kori Level Up
-[X] Class: +1 Oracle
-[X] Favored Class Bonus: +1 Hit Point
-[X] Feat: Cunning
-[X] Skills (10 points): +1 Bluff, +1 Disguise, +1 Perception, +1 Sense Motive, +1 Stealth, +5 Intimidate
-[X] Background Skills (2 points): +2 Lore (Azlanti History)
-[X] Spells:
--[X] Cantrip: Enhanced Diplomacy
--[X] 1st Level: Barbed Chains
--[X] 2nd Level: Burst of Radiance
- Location
- Russia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
By the way, I found an interesting feat for concealing spells. I do not know if it is usefull, but looks cool.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Unfortunately, we don't really have the feats or skill points to make it work. It costs 2 feats, and we would need to max out Sleight of Hand to make it useful, since most of our spells also have Somatic components.
- Location
- florida
For others maybe. For Caligni they have a deep and metaphysical connection to both shadow and blinding light.
"When a dark creeper is slain, its body combusts in a flash of bright white light, leaving its gear in a heap on the ground. All creatures within a 10-foot burst must make a DC 13 Fortitude save or be blinded for 1d6 rounds. Other dark creepers within 10 feet are automatically blinded for at least 1 round, due to their light blindness. The save is Constitution-based."
Dark Stalkers go up in low powered fireballs.
And in this version of the setting they also eat light to supplement their diet
OK, looks like we are going to see what High Loreseeker Jaes has to say about the undead Thyrlien
- Location
- Russia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well, it was an interesting idea, but if build specialist says it will not work, it most likely will not.
But what about Deceitful feat? +2 (and +4 in a future) to Bluff could be useful. Bluff already saved as many times.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
We've already got Skill Focus (Bluff), so picking up Deceitful as well would be focusing a bit too hard on Bluff, IMO.
There are spells and items we can eventually get to boost our social skills further. It won't be long before we need to start prioritizing our fest for more mechanical stuff like Spell Focus (Illusion) and Metamagic.
Arc 5 Post 29: Of Death's Breaking
Of Death's Breaking
27st of Rova 4707 A.R. (Absalom Reckoning)
"I think..." the word stretches out uneasily, but it needs to be said for all that Mina will not enjoy hearing it. "We should speak to High Loreseeker Jaes before we make a decision on whether to take this phylactery out into the wilds. Over stone or under it I fear it can make more mischief out of the dreams and ambitions of those along the way."
As you mention the priestess of Desna, Kastor changes from initial wariness to acceptance, though he does insist that rather than take the ring off of temple grounds and into the city again she should be summoned here by messenger. It's not as though you have anywhere urgent to be today, so neither you nor Mina argue the point and instead spend the next hour recounting more of your adventures, though very deliberately not the story of the silver band, gift of the ancient dead that it was. The snail does a lot of heavy lifting again. To be fair, it was quite a large snail.
"You still have the eggs?" the priest asks, blinking in amazement.
"No one's bought them off us yet," Mina shrugs. What she does not add is that those eggs are what you had all agreed to sell next if the raid in Vale Manor had failed somehow.
The priest is spared from having to consider the logistics of snail egg trading by the appearance of his counterpart garbed still in colorful robes, though bearing a stout walking stick one might break over a foe's head in a pinch.
Alas, Mina looks like she had just swallowed a lump of coal raw, though before you can steel yourself to try explaining the matter, High Priest Kastor presents the facts with only a handful of pauses for Mina to interject if she wishes to.
She mostly doesn't.
"Mina... why did you not speak of this thing when you brought the babe to the temple?" The Loreseeker's tone is as bland as lichen stew, but Mina still jumps to assure her.
"It's not that I didn't trust you, I just... didn't want to to know such a thing could befoul the night."
For a long moment the priestess is quiet, then she speaks again. "Tell me, are you familiar with the tale of Ranja the Cunning?"
Mina Knowledge (Religion) (DC 16): 1d20+11 = 17 (Success)
"He tried to spare his people all wants and sorrows, to smooth the path ahead and veil ugly memories from the songs of the clan, but in so doing took from them the learning of life's lessons. Alas, to his sorrow, when he passed from the earth their sorrows fell thrice as thick, like the Great Summer rains falling all at once and thick with hail," she intoned the almost verse that you had come to associate with Desnan script. "But I am no elder, I'm just... well, me."
"If only elders could make an elder's mistake and only children could make a child's mistakes, oh what a blessed world we would live in," the priestess quips as her Pharasman colleague chuckles knowingly.
"Aye, though I must confess I would rather have to deal with the young making the mistakes of the aged than yet more of the latter made brash as children by the sense of looming Judgement."
Even as he had been speaking the priestess held a butterfly pendant in a well practiced grip, silver between her fingers flashing. For what she prays you are not sure, luck or lore or other stranger things, but when she looked up again upon the ancient rune-scarred ring it is with something balanced almost perfectly between pity and revulsion.
Jaes Knowledge (Religion) (DC 30): 1d20+12+2+2+1 = 33 (Success)
"You say it wanted to go on the finger of a statue that was no statue, but a false succubus?" the priestess asked at last. "Know ye that there were many foul cults in the lands of Azlant in the days of its darkening, but none so foul nor so insidious as the cults of unlife. In an age of plenty, unlike anything we can now imagine, what more could mortal man desire than that the good times would continue endlessly? Temptations for the 'discerning' palette were many, yet all came at a price. I am sure Blessed Tuvius could recount them better than I. So a few, a very few to the world's good fortune, sought another path only hinted at in the oldest and most apocryphal of the records of the old Arodonite faith, to create undeath that was like onto the spirits of the Outer Spheres and to do that..."
"They infected spirits of the Outer Spheres with undeath," Mina finishes, horrified.
"Were I to guess the thoughts of such madmen I would say that though the woman was no demon neither was she purely mortal, but some unhallowed admixture of mortal and immortal mortared with undeath. Though the wings as you say were not grown, neither were the truly false," the priest of Pharasma adds. "I fear that by placing the ring upon her finger you would have woken her, and woe betide the world to have such depraved souls walking it once more "
Tuvius Knowledge Religion (DC 25): 1d20+13 = 29 (Success)
"So if we were to sunder it then she might never wake," you point out.
"Or the soul now, freed of the soul cage, might fly to her and free her," Mina counters speaking barely above a whisper.
What does Akorian say?
[] This talisman is a danger and it will remain one as long as it is whole. Better to break it now than take counsel of our fears
[] Keep it here then, you know what it is and what the dangers are
[] Ask more about these Arodonite texts (Diplomacy DC 15)
[] Write in
OOC: I did not have Kori and Mina roll spellcraft on the buffs Jaes cast on herself since they were both rather preoccupied.
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- Location
- florida
Hear me out. They have spirals on them! Holy symbol of Pharasma and all that.
Too real.
Question for Augury then. Assuming anyone present can cast it.
Though even that divination tends to be... vague.
So this creature is even more of a fucked up nightmare situation than expected.
I am honestly pretty confidant it could get to that statue. Given Desnas creatures power over dreams.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
[X] This talisman is a danger and it will remain one as long as it is whole. Better to break it now than take counsel of our fears
-[X] "Surely, if anyone can help such a tormented soul pass safely into the afterlife, it would be a Cleric of Pharasma."
-[X] "Surely, if anyone can help such a tormented soul pass safely into the afterlife, it would be a Cleric of Pharasma."
- Location
- St. Petersburg
Well, the ring wanted to be delivered, not broken. If breaking it has unforeseen effects, they are likely not to the benefot of whoever designed it.
[x] This talisman is a danger and it will remain one as long as it is whole. Better to break it now than take counsel of our fears
Also, I notice the option to send it away is not present. Was it decided that if the ring were to be kept, it's safer to leave it here? I am not against locking it up for good, provided the lock is good enough.
[x] This talisman is a danger and it will remain one as long as it is whole. Better to break it now than take counsel of our fears
Also, I notice the option to send it away is not present. Was it decided that if the ring were to be kept, it's safer to leave it here? I am not against locking it up for good, provided the lock is good enough.
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Yeah, even if the Pharasmans do not want to keep it the temple of Desna will rather than risk it being lost on the road somewhere. Mind you can attempt to persuade them to give it to you to take to some more secure location if you like.
- Location
- being near locations is my passion.
You know what? Mina needed to hear this.
I'll not say "it's not her place to decide if a Desna cleric should face this pain", becuase it is the place of every thinking mind to make the choices they make.
But the impluse to protect them from the... ugly that is this lich-thing was expressed and acted upon without considering that experienced Desnites have practiced carrying forward in the face of evil.
To follow Desna's teachings - to not just follow those teachings, but to be a full blown cleric - is to face the horror of the world in all it's monstorsity and banaility and do something about it, or to be kind, or create beauty regardless.
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Hopefully Mina will learn to have more faith in the resilience of those who follow Desna's teachings.
- Location
- United States
Best snek was neutral, thank you very much
- Location
- Germany
[X] This talisman is a danger and it will remain one as long as it is whole. Better to break it now than take counsel of our fears
Too short in timeframe to work here, I think.
Nah, even Pharasma can't help those who willingly turn themselves into some kind of half-outsider undead template-massacre.
