BoG'r OOC.

I'll get a post off later today and PM you my question. What about buying gear?

Okay, but can I at least ID the daggers and ioun stone. I'll write a post regardless. It won't really affect my actions any.

Please, let's not. :help!!:

Well, I think all the involved NPCs are interesting but I’d rather not fight directly alongside them. Combat slows down with more combatants, and victory feels more hollow when outside forces aided – especially if they’re more powerful than the PCs, which Lahar appears to be.

I guess Daraz is particularly concerned since it further jeopardizes his githzerai cover.

OOC: You said I didn't know the command word, though. Sent annother PM question.

Finally, the forums are working again!

Random musings on mind flayers:

If you're humanoid and fall under 'edible,' fighting against mind flayers is some of the most lethal combat in D&D. Even more so if your Will save isn't great.

Combat against mind-flayers has an odd one-sided quality to it. Either they die so quick it feels too easy, or (more likely) you get stunned and/or grappled and turned into a tasty snack. Your party has ~2-3 rounds to kill a mind flayer (who may have higher than normal HP and AC than standard) once it decides to feast on your delicious brain.

The Extract ability scales nicely with the mind flayer's HP, BAB, armor class, and Str/Dex scores (all of which make grappling easier or make the illithid harder to kill). The physical weapons can output plenty of damage, but more physically adept illithids excel at brain extraction. Ya'shenn hates/fears Tamers for a reason.

Encountering 2 or more mind flayers together, or flayers and their thralls, is more deadly than if you'd encountered all of those separately (i.e., their nastiness is synergistic). The good news is that, under 3.0 rules at least, they have a reason to avoid clipping each other with mind blasts. Unless they have the Inquisition Blast feat from Unveiled Masters...

That's my way of saying this little adventure will be no cakewalk. :shock:

To clarify, Lahar does not jeporadize my cover any more than anyone else. The fact that he's a nutjob Band of Bloodstone guy, and probably takes issue with all the sneaking and such that I do is the bigger problem.

My previous preference was "The Emperor's Palace", ironically because I'd imagine there to be more fighting with non-illithids. Zim is right, fighting 'thids is sort of one-sided - either they stun and eat you, or fail and you squish them. And yes, properly arranged multiple flayers are exponentially lethal, not sure what we could do about that (is there a psionic equivalent to Spell Immunity?).

However, with emphasis on the Brothel and Packing House as major food sources for hundreds of septs throughout the planes, I'm leaning more towards them. I'd rather avoid confronting Will now - he sounds like a TPK at our current level.

I vote in favor of sites that include large numbers of non-illithidae with low to average Will saves. That's probably either the Emperor's Palace or (heh) the Brothel.

Azure, please go ahead and RP Trias via DM fiat at will until late May. Alternatively, if another player wishes, or is willing to RP Trias, alongside his/her character, please go ahead and do so. No need to pause for my input for the time being. My apologies again for being sporadic. Here is the Character Sheet for Rey:

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Rey’arteb
Gitzerai Cleric 6/ Monk 2
Medium Humanoid
Chaotic Neutral
Init +10 (Dex+Feat); Senses Listen +4, Spot +4, Search +1;
Languages: Planar Common, Githzerai, Githyanki, Abyssal
Cleric Domains: Trickery, Destruction
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AC 21, flatfooted 15, touch 21; Only when wearing light, or no Armor
HP 64 (HD 8d8)
Fort +8, Ref +11, Will +14
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Spd 30';
Melee: Bastard Sword (1d10+2/19-20x2); [+8 attack bonus]
Melee: Flurry Fists ( 1d6 + 2) [+6/-1 attack bonus]
Melee: Unarmed Strike (1d6 + 2) [+7 attack bonus]
Base Atk (+7)
Base Damage Bonus (+2)
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Abilities: Str 14 [+2] (14 base), Dex 22 [+6] (15 base +6 Racial, +1 at Level , Con 11 [+0] (11 base), Int 12 [+1] (14 base, -2 Racial), Wis 21 [+5] (16 base, +2 Racial, +1 at level 4, +2 Ioun Stone), Cha 11 [+0] (11 base).
XP: x
Feats: 2 at first level (monk) + 1 at 2nd level (monk) + 1 at 4th level + 1 at 8th level: total chosen (bold) = 5: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Stealthy, Spell Penetration Evasion, Unarmed Strike, Flurry of Blows, Rebuke Undead.
Skills: Skill Pts: 6x(2+2)+4x(4+2)+4+2 = 54 -- Bluff +9 [9], Diplomacy +9 [9], Sense Motive +8 [4], Concentration +9 [9], Hide +17 [9], Move Silently +13 [5], Disguise +4 [4], Tumble +11 [5],

Possessions: Common Robes, Naej’s Locket, Small backpack, belt. (1 gp, 2lbs) , Bastard Sword (35gp, 6lbs), Ioun Stone of Wisdom +2 (8,000 gp),
Money: 1,964 gp

Encumbrance: lbs; Load: 59/117/175

Currently Memorized Spells:

0th Level 5 : Detect Poison, Light , Read Magic, Purify Food and Drink, Resistance
1st Level 5+1: Cure Light Wounds (3), Command (1), Disguise Self (2)
2nd Level 4+1: Cure Moderate Wounds (2), Hold Person(1), Invisibility (2)
3rd Level 3+1: Cure Serious Wounds (1), Inflict Serious Wounds (1), Animate Dead (1), Nondetection (1)

Domain Spells
Destruction Domain Spells
1. Inflict Light Wounds: Touch attack, 1d8 damage +1/level (max +5).
2. Shatter: Sonic vibration damages objects or crystalline creatures.
3. Contagion: Infects subject with chosen disease.
4. Inflict Critical Wounds: Touch attack, 4d8 damage +1/level (max +20).
5. Inflict Light Wounds, Mass: Deals 1d8 damage +1/level to any creatures.
6. Harm: Deals 10 points/level damage to target.
7. Disintegrate: Makes one creature or object vanish.
8. Earthquake: Intense tremor shakes 80-ft.-radius.
9. Implosion: Kills one creature/round.

Trickery Domain Spells
1. Disguise Self: Disguise own appearance.
2. Invisibility: Subject invisible 1 min./level or until it attacks.
3. Nondetection M: Hides subject from divination, scrying.
4. Confusion: Subjects behave oddly for 1 round/level.
5. False Vision M: Fools scrying with an illusion.
6. Mislead: Turns you invisible and creates illusory double.
7. Screen: Illusion hides area from vision, scrying.
8. Polymorph Any Object: Changes any subject into anything else.
9. Time Stop: You act freely for 1d4+1 rounds.

Special:
- 1/day Because of the Destruction Domain, You gain the smite power, the supernatural ability to make a single melee attack with a +4 bonus on attack rolls and a bonus on damage rolls equal to your cleric level (if you hit). You must declare the smite before making the attack.
- Because of the Spell Penetration Feat: +2 bonus to overcome a creature’s Spell Resistance.
- Because of Trickery Domain: Add Bluff, Disguise, and Hide to your list of cleric class skills.
- Because of Githzerai Racial abilities - Psionics: 3/day - daze, feather fall, shatter
- Spell Resistance 13
- When Unarmored – wisdom bonus to AC

Physical Description:

Rey’atreb is tall and slender. His skin is a dull gray with a yellowish tinge. He has a very faint goatee running in a thin line from the center of his bottom lip to the bottom of his chin. The dark brown eyes and short black hair don’t aren’t as attention-grabbing as his angular features. He wears nondescript tan robes, a black belt, black boots, and a black backpack. Attached to his back, pointing downwards is a very long sword – ready to be drawn, should the need arise. He will almost never stand out in a crowd – at least a crowd of street commoners. Spinning around his head, but seldom seen to others is a faintly glowing ioun stone. Around his neck, but hidden by his clothes, Rey wears a locket given to him by his adopted mother, Naej.

Born and raised a commoner in Sigil by hardworking, honest merchants, Rey’atreb’s life was normal until the day his parents didn’t come home, when he was 12 years of age. Thrown out into the streets as an orphan, he learned to survive via scavenging, and did so for 6 months unsuccessfully searching for his parents, and sleeping in the slums of the Hive. He found shelter at the house of a wealthy human Cipher, Naej Zhaira (NG Female Monk6/Cipher2). Naej taught Rey the philosophy of the Transcendent order, and how to be one with the planes. He learned to fight with his body and mind, rather than weapons. 8 years passed like this, and he become closer to Naej than to his original parents. He was as an errand boy, a bodyguard, a keeper of affairs, and most importantly… a son to Naej. Once again, his parent figure was taken from him by an assassination mission.
Before going to bed one night, Naej placed a locket around his neck, and told Rey to lock his room door… something didn’t feel right to her, and she wanted to be prepared for the worst. Surely enough, later that night, Rey was awakened with a loud explosion. He burst into the room to find a wounded Naej attempting to fight off 3 visible, hooded assasins, and several more invisible ones. He attempted to help his mother, but was magically paralyzed as he tried to get closer. He and Naej were both killed that night, the house burned, and both their bodies destroyed to a point beyond normal resurrection. Unknown to him, the locket around his neck had a “Wish” upon it that would resurrect the wearer one week after death into a safe haven.
Exactly a week later, Rey was resurrected inside a temporary extra dimensional pocket, with the locket still on, but now void of its apparent one-time use ‘Wish.’ He gathered himself and vowed to make himself powerful enough to conquer his foes and avenge his famil(ies). No longer were justice, nor the cadence of the planes the main driving forces the source of his motivation, but revenge. He became interested in magic, not the type of mages and sorcerers, but the type that could heal and resurrect. Using the libraries within the Gymnasium, he taught himself those kinds of magics. Because of his temperament, he focused on the domains of destruction and trickery, so that he could first fool his foes, then destroy them. He serves no deity, only himself and his special brand of justice/ revenge. He also used the library to unsuccessfully gather information on assassination guilds within Sigil. It is then he decided to go out to the taverns, to the street corners, to the watering holes of such activity, and find out for himself. In his first attempt, he was able to gain access to, and join a small band of hitmen (7) within the Hive. For one month, he hired himself out as a mercenary. Rey served as a lackey for the time, and quickly proved his usefulness, and gained the trust of the band. After the first month, he had gained enough trust to join them on an assassination mission in the Lower Ward. The target was a Harmonium Lieutenant and his wife. Near antipeak, the band assembled near the house, and were surprised to find 4 Harmonium officers guarding the place. Rey’s job was to stay guard on the street, and come in to heal if the situation became rough. The thugs headed towards the house and attacked the guards.. but were caught off-balance. The guards were much better fighters than anticipated, and not only held their own against the 7 thugs, but were inflicting massive amounts of damage. The leader of the band ordered Rey to summon undead to aid the band in the fight, and so he did. 3 skeletons joined the fray… but not on the side of the band. Rey commanded the skeletons to kill the thugs, and all except the leader of the band were killed. The leader of the band quickly fleed, and so did Rey, with the guards in hot pursuit. They lost sight of the heavily armored guards after a short while, and both went to hide in a corner. Confused, and badly wounded, the leader of the band asked Rey to cure him. Rey cast a spell- that instead of healing, deepened his wounds and inflicted new ones. The leader soon died, and Rey felt gratification like none before within.
Rey now follows this pattern, to join, and then betray thugs, assassins and others of the sort. He is often in disguise as a githyanki (his features are perhaps more yanki, than zerai), or a tiefling. He has taken up residence in the ghetto of Git'riban, and continues in the business of backstabbing assasins.

I did (max first level) + (avg for later levels).

I’d rather avoid Mud Show, if possible.

It sounds like a place where Du’minh cannot contribute in any conceivable way, and I just find all the other sanctuaries sounding so much more interesting. I don’t think Team PCs should prefer attacking from Git’riban, either, since the portals there probably are the ones most watched over by the squiddies.

Otherwise, Zim’s priority list of Brothel > Packing House > Palace list sounds ideal to me.
I agree that the Brothel sounds like a place where Ya’shenn’s powers would work effectively, and so would the abilities of Du’minh and everyone else, I think.

Tsk tsk, at least this time my mind had been pure and innocent.

Now that you mention it, though, I suppose "high-class employees" there might actually have a class level that would complement their line of work.

Sounds good to me.

Sounds like a plan. To be honest my fire-bomb idea would have worked something like this-

Mage/Psion gets carried to directly above target, swigs 'fly' potion, and starts blasting with fire spells.
Ar'dru flies through hole in roof and starts throwing the copious amounts of lamp-oil and alchemists fire that he's carrying about (figured I might want to burn down a building at some point ).
Once the flames catch Ar'dru rides the updraft out, possibly leaving the flying mage/psion to sow some more chaos and destruction while Ar'dru heads to the main target.

I realise that this isn't going to happen because it kind of relies on the person in the building being fire-proof but it made for some really cool mental images so I thought I'd share it.

I am fine with any plan, as Ii'Jyka'Vaar is still 'climatizing' in her new environs... she is a army core, and is not used to an individual based civvy life

Will post more frequent when the shit starts hitting the fan , thats when she hopefully shines...

Let's find out! :help!!:

One down, 3 to go.

If you're interested, just send me stats in a PM.

I send this dude a privat message if he was not somehow in the wrong thread

K'tch seems like the best choice, since he's commanding the other team. (While Jhank'kor looks like the more fun choice, heheh.) So, ya, probably K'tch.

I still haven't seen the whole thing either. I know how to fix one historical inacuracy, though. All the spartans need Australian accents.