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Post by at on Sept 18, 2016 15:42:15 GMT -5
" Emily i have been meaning to have a private word with you but the opportunity has not arised yet. Tho if you have time perhaps now is good? I will also need to talk to Vadania as well at somepoint." Emily looks up from one of the books that she has been reading, "sure, I guess." She looks at George quizzically, "i've not met one of your kind before, do you come from the western kingdoms?" |
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Post by harknail on Sept 18, 2016 15:50:25 GMT -5
Vadania OOC: Sounds like we should head over to the lake this morning, check out the sunken ship in the afternoon, then the next morning we can try to use the lake to scry for whoever Ka' lion wants to send a message to and then George can try sending. Although to tell the truth, I would just as soon leave Ka'lion's powerful family out of it. Unlike Ka'lion's player, I am not fond of NPC's vastly more powerful than the characters were supposed to be the star of the show.
And I think the consensus is that we should leave anything that can be tracked here in the cave with the anti-detection spell. If we ever decide we need it, we can come back. Meanwhile we don't have people following us. As long as all of this stuff is in the cave, the trekkers simply don't work (we can confirm this with Emily's tracker). we can also use Emily's tracker to test anything that Ka'lion wants to bring with him.
Does anyone object to this plan?
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Post by harknail on Sept 18, 2016 15:59:48 GMT -5
Don't bother trying to scry Ka'lions family the odds are - 21 to try so it's a waste of time. Lets go kill the demon. I will be sure to leave all Ka'lions weapons and armor behind. If the gm wants a hopeless encounter I'll give him one that's really hopeless.
The demon path is designed to be appropriate for current level. We won't kill/recapture the demon immediately, we do need to get more powerful to do so. However, by taking the demon path, we are disrupting the demon's plans to become more powerful so that the demon doesn't remain more powerful than we. As for leaving your armor and weapons behind, that sounds typical for Ka'lion. He has consistently been working hard to under power himself. Which makes it harder on the game master to try to balance encounters to make them challenging but not too challenging for us to survive.
I think the game master has been doing a fine job of trying to accommodate us, and a fine job of balancing encounters to make them difficult without being deadly . |
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Post by Jasmine on Sept 18, 2016 16:05:15 GMT -5
I agree on all counts.
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Post by sageaqua on Sept 18, 2016 21:52:57 GMT -5
Ka'lion thinks his families dead and has no reason to live anymore so if he dies he no longer cares. At this point he'll attack the demon with one hit point. ( the player knows he's over reacting but Ka'lion has always been driven by his intellect and his heart. Without family his heart is dead."
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Post by at on Sept 19, 2016 3:06:13 GMT -5
The group start off back along the river, Emily checking that they aren't being tracked - all items from the box are marked while those outside are not (if anyone wants to try and dispel/de-curse anything they can give it a shot now). Moving at a forced march they will reach the valley of the sunken ship before sun-down. Ka'lion thinks his families dead Well technically most of them are dead. But Ka'lion is a thousand miles from home and nothing has changed since yesterday... about normal for Ka'lion really. |
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Post by (George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0) on Sept 19, 2016 3:44:51 GMT -5
( sorry ment to post on my conversation with her, just been busy lately. So this would be when we were still without party around outside the cave. Tho i dont mean to mess with your time line.)
" Lets just say im not from this land and it was hard for others to understand i could talk. It is hard for me to get to know others other then talking with them like this. So i hope its ok that im trying to get to know you better.
Emily i understand ka'lion can at times be well mistrusting of others. I found its because so many have mistreated him that its his way of protection not just for him but for people he cares about.
Thats why i did the holy water and spells on shamious and myself, for i knew it would easy his mind, i did that for his sake.
He did not like me when we first meet and he kept running off but he always when chips were down did all he could to save us.
He saved my life. In due time he learned I had his back. He became one of my best friends for i dont make them easily.
So im am sorry how i acted before that was not who i am, it was rude of me
i am telling you all this because i see him in a different way then the rest of you do. Yet i hope someday at somepoint others will see it too.
Not to go too indepth on my religion for it bores most but its important.
He is the god of paths and journy. My job is to help people on thier journey and to help along it best i can for as long as i can.
Yet this party has a hard time finding thiers. So i do my best to find what each wants and find a path that fits.
So while we are on the topic what do you want your journey to be and how can i help? ."
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Post by at on Sept 19, 2016 4:05:13 GMT -5
"I've only known him for a day", notes Emily. "I came here hoping to find treasure, I guess this" (holding up a book from the cave) "is at least something for my journeys though."
"Just a story book" she adds lest the group think she has found something more valuable amongst the collection. George had seen her leafing through the books during her watch and in the morning before the group left the cave.
George has noted that she bears the symbol of Hamaskis - a western-realm god of Learning and Sorcery, or rather how he is know in these lands. Her accent suggests time spend both in the Steadlands and the west, and she has spoken of the western port of Blacksand on a few occasions including in reply to Ka'lions suggestion they trade the book of golem creation for extraplanar items.
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Post by sageaqua on Sept 19, 2016 4:29:40 GMT -5
I will point out if Emaly found the book in the cave Ka'lion would of already stored it on his horse as he took the entire library and all writings in the room. He had plained to take them back home with him. He likes to read and the party didn't want them or they wouldn't of left them behind.
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Post by at on Sept 19, 2016 4:44:52 GMT -5
I will point out if Emaly found the book in the cave Ka'lion would of already stored it on his horse Ka'lion wouldn't have loaded up the horse until the morning - too many books to burden it during the night - though he can demand the book back if he wishes. In all there are 28 books, averaging 3lbs each. 84lbs in total. The golem tome weights 10lbs. Ka'lion recognises it as one of the story books he had read while in the cave the previous day. Dandilion, Ka'lions horse, has a light capacity of 198lbs (medium 399, maximum 600)
Currently he carries 91lbs of books, 30lbs of rope, 30lbs of barding, a 6lb net, and Ka'lions food, bedding, spare weapons, and assorted possessions. Just short of medium load I believe. |
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Post by sageaqua on Sept 19, 2016 7:57:23 GMT -5
Ka'lion will ask for the book back. But he doesn't mind her reading it. Children story's are often story's about the past.
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Post by at on Sept 20, 2016 3:06:08 GMT -5
(if nothing more is done before leaving the cave I will push on)
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Post by sageaqua on Sept 20, 2016 6:53:46 GMT -5
Push on. Ka;ion asks who the guy that makes bags of holding is and that's where Ka'lion planes to go after the vault.
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Post by at on Sept 20, 2016 8:49:23 GMT -5
Ka;ion asks who the guy that makes bags of holding is and that's where Ka'lion planes to go after the vault. She pauses to think back, "I heard of him from a merchant called Arboros who trades the shore roads all the way up to the moonstone hills, apparently he still gets special materials shipped in from the north - that's why I think he's not as retired as he claims"."You'll want to come into the city from the north near the shore, Weaver Gate, and turn west towards the wharf. Just don't go barging into the city unprepared." Blacksand certainly has quite the reputation, and while most of it is likely little more than that the fact that it has managed to remain independent of the rule of Merebas and Woldegard suggests something more. The port community itself is only a few hundred years old, prior to that it was a pirate town hidden amongst the ruins of a far older city and so far each successive ruler has stepped into power over the body of his predecessor. ------------------ Within an hour the group reaches the mill once more and Emily says her farewells, heading north towards the Hollow and returning the book to Ka'lion - in so much as looted good can be returned. He finds it to be a book on the Tempests of Burr Town. Retracing their old path, though without a cart to drag through the undergrowth, the party make good progress and arrive at the sunken ship before sundown. (if George or the others had anything to discuss with Emily they can do so) |
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Post by sageaqua on Sept 20, 2016 10:41:26 GMT -5
Over the next few days Ka'lion will read book on the Tempests of Burr Town. during his free time. Now that we are back at the ship Ka'lion sends his owls to check out the area.
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Post by at on Sept 20, 2016 11:19:20 GMT -5
The location seems unchanged from their last visit - a modest waterfall some fifteen feet high falling into a large, deep pool of water. The cave behind the waterfall is still flooded, the ship still present, and the shallow valley itself obscures the group from the surrounding land.
This is the place where they first met George. Out in the lake the empty barrel he threw in still floats near the surface.
The owls see no humanoids in the immediate area.
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Post by harknail on Sept 20, 2016 14:16:57 GMT -5
Vadania asks, "So which do we do first, explore the ship or the flooded cave? I've got enough water breathing for all of us expect for Ka'lion's animals."
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Post by sageaqua on Sept 20, 2016 15:05:29 GMT -5
"The cave. Wildlife will be drawn to the caves protection first. says Ka'lion thinking about it for a few moments then adds, "The cave may of been here before the ship was. but it is closer to shore."
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Post by Jasmine on Sept 20, 2016 17:05:55 GMT -5
"All the same to me," says Brennen brightly, always happy to explore.
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Post by (George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0) on Sept 20, 2016 18:54:53 GMT -5
" Well this brings back a few memories."
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