BUT FIRST...
Copy of Daha aṭē	The blood of the innocent shall spill!
Copy of Aerlin	Yes, together, we will make them pay.
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Aerlin	what im getting at is that it might just be us
Rochelle Gwerm	well we could do some shenanigans on our own
Aerlin	which is fine because me and roch are the best ones anyway, right
Rochelle Gwerm	or go to tts or wait for golurk
Drufle (GM)	i mean we can just wait
Aerlin	but its 16 seconds past midnight
Drufle (GM)	you guys can start cleaning up the scrubs in the dungeon
Rochelle Gwerm	we need to go back to camp and deal with these fools
Aerlin	well we do have htis interrogation
Drufle (GM)	oh right that
Rochelle Gwerm	we have a sleeping dwarf here also Rochelle is literally at 1 hp right now
Aerlin	maybe we should head out and rest then
Rochelle Gwerm	I would like to get that checked out
Drufle (GM)	yeah resting sounds good
Rochelle Gwerm	we got the new mythic modifications now, right?
Aerlin	we can take the dwarf back to camp as a prisoner?
Drufle (GM)	what new mythic mods also yeah you can drag him back
Rochelle Gwerm	the nerfs? drag?
Drufle (GM)	oh right those
Rochelle Gwerm	Rochelle can totally carry this dwerf
Aerlin	will he fit in my quiver
Drufle (GM)	hes not that small
Rochelle Gwerm	he is below the dwarven average though
Aerlin	well i know he's evil but lets not be too rough on him we'd like some info from him
Rochelle Gwerm	right, lets heal we can heal right? no sudden Soltegrebe?
Aerlin	paladins swarm you
Drufle (GM)	What's that, more Soltengrebbes?
Rochelle Gwerm	Rochelle will just sleep this one off no drufle, save it for when we have a full party
Drufle (GM)	Yeah, you can just take a nap.
Rochelle Gwerm	do I roll HD or just heal up?
Drufle (GM)	I don't even remember how natural healing works.
Rochelle Gwerm	uhhh
Aerlin	how much MP do we get now
Rochelle Gwerm	1?
Drufle (GM)	1 per night. Half your tier.
Aerlin	then im at 5
Rochelle Gwerm	I'll just...try this rolling 9d10 ( 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 8 + 6 + 6 + 5 + 9 ) = 41 wow okay no lets not do that
Drufle (GM)	Those are some funky symbols.
Rochelle Gwerm	d10s mah man
Aerlin	Well i'll use my CSW on you since you hate paladins
Rochelle Gwerm	I'll just heal to full
Aerlin	i still had one prepped
Rochelle Gwerm	I can burn Rage rounds anyways to heal
Aerlin	HRRRRRNG Rochelle Gwerm meditates angrily
Rochelle Gwerm	this is the fast healing's major purpose now
Drufle (GM)	Oh, that's fun. You only recover hp equal to your level.
Rochelle Gwerm	no HD? what's HD for then?
Drufle (GM)	Well it's equal to your HD.
Rochelle Gwerm	so we roll HD or???
Drufle (GM)	And HD determine your maximum anyway. You heal 9 hp.
Rochelle Gwerm	I'll just rage-meditate instead for a few days
Drufle (GM)	A few days?
Rochelle Gwerm	27 rounds per day need to reach 118 health
Drufle (GM)	I mean. There are literally a hundred healers around you.
Rochelle Gwerm	you know why that's an issue, drufle
Aerlin	I'll use all the heal spells I had prepped Just assume that's a full heal? Navaya too
Drufle (GM)	Both Navaya and Aerlin both have good heals. I'm just saying, maybe just sitting in camp for like half a week isn't a good idea. That citadel ain't empty.
Aerlin	they'll start breeding then we'll have issues
Rochelle Gwerm	oh right
Drufle (GM)	There's not exactly a hard time limit or anything but I will start tossing encounters into camp if you guys take too long.
Rochelle Gwerm	I'll let the party heal me no paladins shoo Rochelle needs empty space to rage-meditate
Drufle (GM)	Navaya seriously has a spell that heals 6d8+18.
Aerlin	"I don't understand your aversion, Rochelle, the paladins are always so nice to me." "But I am happy to accommodate you."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Thank you" "I can't trust all of them...One of them has to have it out for me, considering what I am"
Aerlin	"That does sound concerning." "A paladin can never commit an evil act, though, and you are a good person."
Rochelle Gwerm	"..."
Aerlin	"At least, I think so."
Drufle (GM)	Both of those statements are incorrect, which is hilarious.
Rochelle Gwerm	"...How'd you get mixed up in this anyways?"
Aerlin	I flubbed my knowledge roll. Don't worry about it.
Rochelle Gwerm	"You were looking for someone?"
Aerlin	"My mother, yes." "Actually, my father too, I suppose."
Rochelle Gwerm	"The whole family then?"
Aerlin	"I've never actually met them." "My kind reincarnates, so we don't really do parents."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Ah..." "Well uh...what'ya know about them?"
Aerlin	"Very little. They were Riftwardens, based in Kenabres, but they went into the Worldwound a while ago and haven't been seen since." "I don't even know how long ago that was. And the records will be hard to find now that the city was destroyed."
Rochelle Gwerm	"...What're expecting to find?" "Err...do they reincarnate too?"
Aerlin	"Yes, assuming they have lived a righteous and balanced life."
Rochelle Gwerm	"They'd have to be pretty great people to want to risk coming out here..."
Aerlin	"I'm looking into this arcane mark on my back. It's related to my bloodline, apparently." "It appeared recently, and it's causing some pain, so I'd love to get rid of it."
Rochelle Gwerm	can I spellcraft to learn what it is?
Aerlin	I can show it to you, sure.
Rochelle Gwerm	I have...a Spellcheck roll that isn't negative drufle? is this a thing that can be done?
Aerlin	Not sure how much you'd be able to tell me, I know it's an Arcane Mark, and that Navaya also has one.
Rochelle Gwerm	"Marks usually don't just show for no reason" "Maybe its...some kind of signal?"
Drufle (GM)	To figure out the mark?
Rochelle Gwerm	yus dorfal
Drufle (GM)	Yeah, there's nothing you can decipher that Aerlin doesn't already know.
Aerlin	"It has certainly given me a purpose in this life. Before this, I was just a wanderer."
Rochelle Gwerm	oh well
Aerlin	"I lived in the woods, mostly." "Lovely place, The Woods."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Woods, eh?" "I don't think I've seen a woods before" "At least I haven't been in one"
Aerlin	"It's a bunch of trees and grass and stuff." "Lots of animals around."
Drufle (GM)	>A woods.
Rochelle Gwerm	its Rochelle working off 9 int here
Drufle (GM)	What is this tree you speak of?
Aerlin	Is she weak to Grass
Drufle (GM)	Well, she is a rock type.
Rochelle Gwerm	its certainly possible though she might be a Rock/Angry type Angry resists grass
Aerlin	"Anyway, it is not just that. Samsarans typically recall some details of their past lives, but I am having issues remembering my more recent lives." "I can't say for sure that it's connected to the mark, but it is strange." "Meeting another of my kind that's lived much longer than me would be helpful."
Rochelle Gwerm	"hrmmmmmm..." has Rochelle met a person like this before... thinking probably not "The place where I'm from was pretty much all just humans" "Your the only one of your kind I've ever met"
Drufle (GM)	It was so weird, all these humans...
Aerlin	"That is not unusual, we are rather rare."
Rochelle Gwerm	it was a Dull Town until the Oni nation attacked
Aerlin	"Tell me more about your home."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Eh? My home?"
Aerlin	"If you don't mind, of course."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Uhhh...I lived in a cave on a mountain next to some dumb little town" "There wasn't much to see there" "More farms than buildings"
Aerlin	"Sounds cosy. If not a little boring."
Rochelle Gwerm	"The mayor was a piece of auroch dung though" "Well...I wasn't allowed to do a whole lot in town" "At least not officially" "Guard was not particularly good at doing their job" "The whole Oni showing up kinda proved that" "They needed someone else to deal with it"
Aerlin	"Oh no..."
Rochelle Gwerm	"After the oni was dealt with they had...Me" "...I really hated that place..."
Aerlin	"Well, you've got your own life now, at least."
Rochelle Gwerm	"...I suppose so" "..." "You asked why I was so ... what was the word" "Averse" "To paladins"
Aerlin	"I did, yes."
Rochelle Gwerm	"The Oni was killed by a Paladin wielding a spear" "The town says he got em right through the heart" "That paladin is still out there" "And I'm that Oni's gods-damned daughter" Rochelle Gwerm sinks to the ground
Aerlin	"Rochelle...I'm sorry."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Its stupid, he'd have done something if he were here"
Drufle (GM)	Also that paladin must be hella strong to single-handedly take out a CR 13 oni.
Aerlin	"This paladin, is he looking for you?"
Rochelle Gwerm	he was hella buff "I don't know" "He left after he killed the Oni...I wasn't born until a month later"
Aerlin	"Not knowing must make you uneasy..."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Few months, actually" "Its awful" "He probably knows though, that I'm alive" "He would've had to check on the town later"
Aerlin	"Well, I want to help with this, at the very least, to find out what this misguided fool is up to now."
Rochelle Gwerm	"Please please please don't tell anyone I said this..." "I don't want any of the paladins knowing" "They might know him"
Aerlin	"Divination isn't my strong suit, but I bet I can find something out." "Of course not. This is between us." And anyone who reads the logs.
Rochelle Gwerm	shhhh :P "...thank you"
Drufle (GM)	Divination is only 4.54% of Aerlin's capacity. She's not good at finding things.
Aerlin	"How much do you know about this paladin? A name, or who he follows?" Rochelle Gwerm shakes her head
Rochelle Gwerm	"He's just the hero of "Lenmas""
Aerlin	"That's a good start." Is Lenmas the name of your hometown?
Rochelle Gwerm	yes Drufle write that down
Aerlin	Righto
Drufle (GM)	Don't ask me to write these things down! I am super gonna forget them.
Rochelle Gwerm	I've written it down but I thought you might want it in your toolbelt or whatever GMs have
Aerlin	I'd roll for that but it's probably so small there's no way I'd know about it.
Drufle (GM)	It'd be a Society roll.
Aerlin	But if I figure out what region it's in, and what paladins are nearby... Aerlin : Society Check 33
Craftsmanship	Encompasses Craft, Appraise, Knowledge (engineering) Total - Ranks 18 7 + IntMod + 3 (CS)
Rochelle Gwerm	oh right, really really high int goodness that's a big roll
Aerlin	Maybe I can find out what God this paladin may have sworn to??
Drufle (GM)	Yeah, uh, I would tell you things about Lemnas, but I know nothing about it.
Rochelle Gwerm	right so
Aerlin	psh
Drufle (GM)	Where even is it?
Rochelle Gwerm	East of Kenabras
Aerlin	we'll just say I'm doing research in the background
Rochelle Gwerm	there was a small mountain range I found
Aerlin	its not like i just knew this right away
Drufle (GM)	There are multiple things east of Kenabres.
Rochelle Gwerm	Tiny town, known (barely) for its wheat and beer pretty much all they grow
Drufle (GM)	So it's in Mendev, that's at least good to know.
Rochelle Gwerm	its not very far
Drufle (GM)	Statistically speaking then, he'd be a paladin of Iomedae.
Rochelle Gwerm	Also known for a local oni-spawn causing trouble about the town
Drufle (GM)	Mendev is LG as all hell.
Aerlin	do we get a level up for rp exp
Drufle (GM)	Or heaven, I suppose.
Aerlin	wink wink
Drufle (GM)	You literally just levelled up, so no :P
Rochelle Gwerm	Mayor is unusually rich even for someone of his standing
Drufle (GM)	So, I don't think I quite understand the thing here.
Rochelle Gwerm	I'm literally throwing out random nonsense
Drufle (GM)	Is he a good guy, and Rochelle's just scared of him, or is he a bad paladin? Because killing an Oni doesn't seem like a bad thing.
Rochelle Gwerm	oh he is super LG full blown paladin he's not called the Hero for nothing
Aerlin	is this a kore situation then
Drufle (GM)	It'll be absurdly hard to track him down, I think.
Rochelle Gwerm	Rochelle is just the daughter of an evil monster and she herself spent a long time in the E and N regions
Aerlin	are you tainted by evils
Rochelle Gwerm	he's Powerful as well though if that helps
Drufle (GM)	I mean, Mendev is kind of in the middle of a major crusade.
Rochelle Gwerm	Spear is his primary weapon choice
Drufle (GM)	In addition to the giant pile of Iomedaean paladins they already had, paladins of all faiths are coming in from across the world to help out.
Rochelle Gwerm	this was also a while ago I don't know if that helps or hurts
Drufle (GM)	Spear?
Aerlin	This fella's a hero, so the trail can't be that cold.
Rochelle Gwerm	was it a spear or...let me check my notes
Drufle (GM)	Oh wow. Shit man, is he a paladin of Arqueros?
Rochelle Gwerm	yeah, its a spear let me check yeah that fits the bill this lord is a badass
Drufle (GM)	That's what we in the business like to call "A bad guy for Rochelle."
Rochelle Gwerm	oh dear
Aerlin	Well, I'm not looking to start a fight.
Drufle (GM)	Arqueros is the LG empyreal lord of bodyguards and protection.
Rochelle Gwerm	he probably outlevels us
Aerlin	If anything, that's what we'd want to avoid.
Drufle (GM)	He killed a CR 13 monster by himself, that'd put him at least at level 15 or so himself. Arqueros is also the deity of "Really Liking Armor".
Rochelle Gwerm	one more town fact, its known for many abandoned mines I felt I needed to throw that in before I forgot so this paladin is probably really heavily armored
Drufle (GM)	Arqueros' obedience is literally praying under a heavy shield.
Rochelle Gwerm	does this narrow down who it is a bit?
Drufle (GM)	This basically is Kore situation.
Rochelle Gwerm	since it isn't Iomedae
Drufle (GM)	There are far fewer paladins of Arqueros in the world than Iomedae, that's for sure.
Aerlin	Certainly helps.
Rochelle Gwerm	does this satisfy a roll of 33? I can keep throwing out information
Drufle (GM)	That seems like a good amount of information for Aerlin to inexplicably know. Or for her to get from Vash's books.
Rochelle Gwerm	she reads a lot, clearly
Aerlin	Researched over time you mean! Let's not be SILLY.
Rochelle Gwerm	Eidetic Memory
Drufle (GM)	Aerlin does have a library in her bag, but I think that's only on planar stuff.
Aerlin	Yes, it is.
Rochelle Gwerm	not too useful when looking up Emperyeon Lords
Drufle (GM)	Uh, yeah it would be.
Rochelle Gwerm	oh nvm go ahead then research it
Drufle (GM)	It's not just Abyss stuff, it's planes in general. Aerlin gets a flat +4 to Spellcraft when using that library.
Rochelle Gwerm	I thought it might count Religion as a seperate thingy
Aerlin	its religion checks concerning planes i think not spellcraft
Drufle (GM)	Oh right.
Rochelle Gwerm	very specific
Drufle (GM)	So it's been like 50 minutes and I haven't even dropped the session number yet.
Rochelle Gwerm	This is just the talkshow session
Aerlin	yeah none of that is going in the log because you forgot to say the number
Rochelle Gwerm	oh noooo
Aerlin	thems the rules
Drufle (GM)	Well if this ends up being a thing, this is session 21.
Rochelle Gwerm	all this content is gone unfortunate
Drufle (GM)	Thus surpassing evil pathfinder in length and tying SotDL for first.
Rochelle Gwerm	woo and we're not even half way there lets just...roleplay the research?
Drufle (GM)	Not even a third of the way there.
Rochelle Gwerm	we're kinda just waiting around hoping for Golurk to show
Drufle (GM)	Yeah, I think he might not be coming.
Rochelle Gwerm	we're here, might as well do some book-keeping and schenanigans
Drufle (GM)	So much more to learn. Except I don't think there's many other questions to be asked?
Rochelle Gwerm	we will find the mystery paladin surprise, he was this guy all along
Aerlin	aw shit
Rochelle Gwerm	wait thats a sword not a spear dang it
Drufle (GM)	He's been deliberately weakening himself. It's nice that you can identify divine casters by their weapons. Usually.
Rochelle Gwerm	he's craftier than we thought
Drufle (GM)	Did you know that there isn't a single core deity that uses spears?
Rochelle Gwerm	wow I find that surprising
Drufle (GM)	Gozreh uses tridents, that's kinda similar.
Rochelle Gwerm	its such a basic weapon
Drufle (GM)	It honestly kinda weirds me out that Shelyn's favored weapon is a glaive. It doesn't seem like the right weapon for an NG goddess of beauty and love and art.
Rochelle Gwerm	glaive = grace?
Drufle (GM)	Although that might just be because Baphomet's weapon is the glaive. So it kinda has an association for me now.
Rochelle Gwerm	you could argue it doesn't make sense for either of them Glaives are not known for brutality
Aerlin	Wonder what Red's doing over there with the dwarf and...is that the dretch?
Rochelle Gwerm	the Dretch appears to be helping with negotiations good cop / bad cop
Aerlin	If only we could RP that.
Rochelle Gwerm	it would certainly be funny though I think we'd need a lot of coordination to pull that off
Drufle (GM)	I'd have to RP all three parts and I don't really feel like doing that. Also yes, that is the dretch.
Aerlin	Drufle slowly loses it, talking to himself.
Drufle (GM)	I don't think he has a name yet aside from "The Dretch".
Rochelle Gwerm	Dr. Dretch
Drufle (GM)	No.
Aerlin	Scrundle
Drufle (GM)	That is a bad joke, Rochelle. You should be ashamed.
Rochelle Gwerm	:P
Drufle (GM)	Not sure if Scrundle is much better. You know, I wonder...
Rochelle Gwerm	what names do demons usually have? Steve?
Drufle (GM)	I found me a demon name generator.
Rochelle Gwerm	there's a name generator for everything
Drufle (GM)	Or'gaxaath is pretty great.
Rochelle Gwerm	well now he needs a character sheet
Drufle (GM)	Or Drath'tameg.
Rochelle Gwerm	or she its kinda hard to tell
Drufle (GM)	How about Dakun. Oroch.
Rochelle Gwerm	one of those
Drufle (GM)	Igres.
Rochelle Gwerm	solely because I can pronounce them
Drufle (GM)	Tenok. Oh man, Boz'gomoz.
Rochelle Gwerm	what setting did you press to get from Or'gaxaath to Tenok?
Drufle (GM)	None, this generator gives 10 names at a time. With varying complexities.
Rochelle Gwerm	ah something simple so we remember it
Drufle (GM)	I kinda like Boz'gomoz honestly, we can just call him Boz.
Rochelle Gwerm	this ain't some lovecraftian entity we are trying to summon Boz is fine
Aerlin	B'ob
Drufle (GM)	We can't do the 8 bit theater thing, it's too obvious.
Aerlin	That's where that's from I couldn't remember What was the Susan one...
Rochelle Gwerm	most things come from 8 bit theater
Drufle (GM)	Where the cultists had names like J'nifur. or Soo'zan.
Aerlin	Very good.
Rochelle Gwerm	very silly names this is what I meant by bookkeeping very important that we had this session
Drufle (GM)	Clearly. There, now Boz is on the map properly.
Aerlin	Plus I got to reference The Woods. Remember that??? Now you do..
Drufle (GM)	I won't give him an actual sheet because I don't foresee him ever being in combat. But there he is.
Rochelle Gwerm	those reading the logs will be very confused it looks like nothing changed
Drufle (GM)	Well, you guys got your hp and a little bit of mp back. That's about it.
Rochelle Gwerm	I get my Rage and Spells back
Drufle (GM)	I'm fine with not doing actual combat, that would mean I'd have to prepare spells for Navaya. I think we're about to the point that we should just call it.
Rochelle Gwerm	do we want to just break off or do we want to try TTS?
Aerlin	I actually have an early morning anyway.
Drufle (GM)	Nah, no tts tonight.
Rochelle Gwerm	alright well it was fun a shame it might not be logged Progress was made
Drufle (GM)	Arguably.
Aerlin	Well it will be obviously.
Rochelle Gwerm	things have been learned
Aerlin	And no 21.5 nonsense we're just making this a full session.
Drufle (GM)	But is this session 21 or 20.5... Ah.
Rochelle Gwerm	its about long enough
Drufle (GM)	The most important hour of the campaign.
Aerlin	With sessions, it's not the size that matters... That's what I'm told.
Drufle (GM)	cough
Rochelle Gwerm	potential future plot hooks: parents and paladins addition
Drufle (GM)	Parents have been in the game for a while. I already know what happened to them.
Rochelle Gwerm	gasp
Aerlin	Oh ho. I can't wait for that to come up.
Drufle (GM)	I mean, it's part of the archmage campaign trait.
Rochelle Gwerm	the campaign traits are all just built in
Drufle (GM)	I kinda have to know how it gets resolved.
Rochelle Gwerm	at some point
Drufle (GM)	They all get resolved in book 3. At various points.
Rochelle Gwerm	arn't we in book 2?
Aerlin	Whee.
Drufle (GM)	Yeah. At the very, very end of book 2.
Rochelle Gwerm	ah crap what'll we do for books 4, 5, and 6? the character arks end too soon
Drufle (GM)	The game-built arcs end too soon. You guys can keep doing whatever you want.
Aerlin	We'll see what we make of it. Could get interesting.
Rochelle Gwerm	I really want to meet this apparently level 15 paladin me the player Rochelle is noping away from that with all foce force
Drufle (GM)	I make no promises that he'll actually be in the campaign.
Rochelle Gwerm	its an integral part of Rochelle's backstory I know how GMs work
Aerlin	It could be fit into a downtime period
Drufle (GM)	Yeah, but it's probably gonna end up being an epilogue thing.
Aerlin	Like we go off and investigate.
Drufle (GM)	I mean first off, he was level 15 decades ago, so he's almost certainly higher than that now.
Aerlin	Well I'm pretty old and I never got past level 1... Who knows how that works...
Drufle (GM)	And by the time we can even think about facing someone of that level, there most certainly won't be any place to put a paladin as an encounter.
Rochelle Gwerm	it'd pretty much have to be downtime use doing our own thing
Aerlin	Who says we have to fight him...
Rochelle Gwerm	we ARE mythic though and we don't HAVE to fight him unless there is some Arquaros schenanigans
Aerlin	Heck fighting a Paladin is probably not a very Good thing to do anyway.
Drufle (GM)	Not exactly, no. And considering Arqueros is the deity of vigilance, purity, and protection, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy whose paladins turn bad.
Rochelle Gwerm	its more of a case of how he reacts to Rochelle
Drufle (GM)	Something supremely bad would have to happen to do something like that. Yeah, true.
Aerlin	Like I suggested, he's likely misguided.
Rochelle Gwerm	or Rochelle is just paranoid
Aerlin	Or in fact, he's not even chasing Rochelle.
Rochelle Gwerm	this is something that I do not know
Drufle (GM)	My money's on paranoia, but that's an answer for another time.
Rochelle Gwerm	but as a player I would like Rochelle to have to confront him in some way to force her to get over this paladin fear
Drufle (GM)	Alright, I think I know where I can try to slot him.
Rochelle Gwerm	drufle you can't be betting on events you yourself can control
Drufle (GM)	Yes I can, it's just morally bad.
Rochelle Gwerm	there's like, regulations for that
Drufle (GM)	But what if I also write the regulations?
Rochelle Gwerm	shit, he's thought ahead
Aerlin	Roll to revolt against the system. rolling 1d20 ( 7 ) = 7
Rochelle Gwerm	rolling 1d20 + 15( 4 )+15 = 19
Aerlin	Crud.
Rochelle Gwerm	Revolt failed abort
Drufle (GM)	Those are mediocre numbers. Out with all of you!
Aerlin	We're gonna die next session, huh.
Rochelle Gwerm	see ya'll next time
Drufle (GM)	Probably not. Probably.
Aerlin	Hrm.