[5/1/2026, 4:30:47 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
i'm partway through swapping lindal back to divine witch. please excuse any odd chat messages this may trigger...
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[5/1/2026, 4:34:49 PM] Dammitwho
Right! Everyone here?
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[5/1/2026, 4:34:56 PM] Crion
oim
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[5/1/2026, 4:35:01 PM] Crion
still missing cbn?
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[5/1/2026, 4:35:42 PM] Crion
there are emoji sets with good salutes
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[5/1/2026, 4:35:45 PM] Crion
this is not one
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[5/1/2026, 4:35:59 PM] Nicolae
i exploded
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[5/1/2026, 4:36:26 PM] Dammitwho
Good.
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[5/1/2026, 4:37:32 PM] Nicolae
i thought you'd appreciate that
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[5/1/2026, 4:40:11 PM] Dammitwho
Whew, I remembered to set your hero points this time
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[5/1/2026, 4:40:55 PM] Gul Banana
hm, i've put that lesson in the wrong slot... what was my class feat before...
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[5/1/2026, 4:42:04 PM] Gul Banana
ah, cantrip expansion
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[5/1/2026, 4:42:31 PM] Nicolae
one sec, pizza just arrove
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[5/1/2026, 4:42:57 PM] Crion
i assume we should all take long rests, except lindal, who already did that,
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[5/1/2026, 4:43:16 PM] Dammitwho
yeah you're all at full whatever
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[5/1/2026, 4:44:17 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak Ironflame awakens well-rested. 12 hit points restored.
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[5/1/2026, 4:44:49 PM] Gul Banana
that text REALLY reminds me of terra ignota
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:09 PM] Crion
i will eventually remember where the rest button is on this interface but it's not on the top macro bar
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:14 PM] Gul Banana
carlyle foster awakened well-rested, for today was the feast of st. six-sided-die,
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:16 PM] Crion
nor is like half the stuff that should be there
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:30 PM] Crion
nvm
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:34 PM] Crion
i had both imrans selected.
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:43 PM] Gul Banana
The Two Travellers
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[5/1/2026, 4:45:43 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran Traveler awakens well-rested. 4 hit points restored.
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[5/1/2026, 4:48:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Life Boost 1 Focus 3 Divine Focus Healing Hex Manipulate Vitality Witch Range 30 feet; Targets 1 creature Duration 4 rounds Life force from your patron floods into the target, ensuring they can continue doing your patron's will for just a little longer. The target gains fast healing 2. Spell Effect: Life Boost Heightened (+1) The fast healing increases by 2.
Faith's Flamekeeper Familiar of Restored Spirit When you Cast or Sustain a hex, one willing creature within 15 feet of your familiar gains temporary Hit Points equal to 2 + half your level, which last until the start of your next turn. Effect: Familiar of Restored Spirit
Base: 1st Heightened: +2
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[5/1/2026, 4:48:21 PM] Crion
!
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[5/1/2026, 4:48:59 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
hmm, i targeted tak but it didn't apply the effect.. i guess i can just drag it
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[5/1/2026, 4:50:28 PM] Dammitwho
maidened behavior
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:04 PM] Dammitwho
cbn...
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:19 PM] Crion
he's here but doing character surgery i believe
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:29 PM] Dammitwho
ahhh
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:35 PM] Dammitwho
So Be It.
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:37 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
chatbox covered by various windows, possibly
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:46 PM] CBN
correct yes
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[5/1/2026, 4:51:52 PM] CBN
i am elbows deep in token edits
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[5/1/2026, 4:52:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
thank goodness for the archives of nethys (remastered)
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[5/1/2026, 4:52:27 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
the in-foundry implementation is surprisingly comprehensive, but not as convenient as "more than one tab"
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[5/1/2026, 4:54:07 PM] CBN
yeah it's Good but also a lot of clicking the right magnifying glass to make sure the hooks sink in
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[5/1/2026, 4:55:25 PM] Dammitwho
*velstracly* Yes. Let the hooks sink in.
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[5/1/2026, 4:55:43 PM] Nicolae
i gotta remember to not order wings on nights when i expect to be doing a lot of typing
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[5/1/2026, 4:55:51 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
lol
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[5/1/2026, 4:56:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
the shameful handwash
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[5/1/2026, 4:57:28 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
lol. i was just expanding my prepared spells to see which ones are on the occult but not the divine spell list, so i can prioritise them for replacement (no need to wait for this, i will work on it in the background)
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[5/1/2026, 4:57:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
anyway, the answer is: all of them
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[5/1/2026, 4:58:14 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
lindal is performing a *hard* u-turn build pivot
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[5/1/2026, 4:59:19 PM] Crion
teh
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[5/1/2026, 5:00:20 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
oh! the character sheet is actually a bit misleading here
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[5/1/2026, 5:00:29 PM] Dammitwho
That's in keeping with his personality, imo
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[5/1/2026, 5:00:29 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
it applies your selected spellcaster type trait to all the spell rows
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[5/1/2026, 5:00:33 PM] Dammitwho
the hard u-turn pivot
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[5/1/2026, 5:01:00 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
oh yes, he's definitely a "run eagerly towards something, see it up close, run away" kind of guy
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[5/1/2026, 5:01:59 PM] CBN
love that there's a whole tab of the character token sheet for "divine intercession" but for the life of me i can't find where to indicate my animist apparitions
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[5/1/2026, 5:02:15 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
probably in feats. but also, it might get added there when you level up *as* an animist
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[5/1/2026, 5:04:27 PM] CBN
yeah, i just added the ones i'll probably always stick with, to my spell list, since animist has a spont list dictated by your apparition choices, and then a prepared list from divine
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[5/1/2026, 5:05:05 PM] CBN
definitely NOT dealing with building a familiar atm though. later. someday.
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[5/1/2026, 5:06:10 PM] Tak Ironflame
until then it'll just be an unfamiliar
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[5/1/2026, 5:06:56 PM] Dammitwho
Funfamiliar.
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[5/1/2026, 5:06:57 PM] CBN
Summon Work Acquaintance
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[5/1/2026, 5:08:43 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
are we waiting on someone or something?
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[5/1/2026, 5:08:56 PM] Crion
i am good to go
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[5/1/2026, 5:09:01 PM] Nicolae
i think we're just waiting for everybody to say their charsheets are gtg
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[5/1/2026, 5:09:19 PM] Tak Ironflame
hm. i don't remember eating much today but i appear to have no appetite.
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[5/1/2026, 5:09:27 PM] Nicolae
that's in character
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[5/1/2026, 5:09:54 PM] Crion
wisely: get a convection oven or air fryer. leftover pizza's best friend
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[5/1/2026, 5:10:15 PM] CBN
mine's good!
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[5/1/2026, 5:10:25 PM] Dammitwho
oh sick. in that case:
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[5/1/2026, 5:10:27 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
try switching from dry to wet food
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[5/1/2026, 5:10:30 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
@nicolae
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[5/1/2026, 5:11:56 PM] Dammitwho
You've saved the town of Moonglow Bay, told the tale to an appreciative crowd of squabbling artists, accepted your just plaudits. Your friend Brun weary of traveling, tells you he plans to settle down here for a time, to defend the town against anyone who might try and track you, and perhaps to enjoy the good life for a while.
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[5/1/2026, 5:12:14 PM] Imran Traveler
He's good with kids. He'll like it here.
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[5/1/2026, 5:12:24 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran isn't good with kids...and there's an Orb to carry.
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[5/1/2026, 5:12:30 PM] Dammitwho
You have, I believe, decided you'll travel next to Absalom?
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[5/1/2026, 5:13:05 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom is polite enough to keep to himself any opinions he has about what paintings Brun might make. Presumably finger-paintings, knuckle-first.
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[5/1/2026, 5:13:06 PM] Imran Traveler
That's Imran's intent. Lose any pursuers in the mass of people moving in and out, and find an expert to examine said orb. Passage most anywhere can be booked out of there.
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[5/1/2026, 5:13:19 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
We're looking for some sage advice - advice from sages - about this Triune Thing. Communicator? It's a thing, of some kind, and also a problem.
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[5/1/2026, 5:13:23 PM] Nicolae
i do have an air fryer, courtesy of my brother the emigrant 8)
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[5/1/2026, 5:13:39 PM] Nicolae
oh, party's started. ahem
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[5/1/2026, 5:14:18 PM] Imran Traveler
Much the better if his companions want to come with him. He's been traveling for years -- hence the name -- but this is the first time he's felt this...coherent.
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[5/1/2026, 5:14:49 PM] Dammitwho
Just so, my dear boys, just so. But first: the mysterious forces of karma swirl about you! Each of you must roll 1d6 for each icon connection point you have slotted. Remember, each die corresponds to a specific point - you cannot choose which die applies to a point after you roll!
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:00 PM] Crion
helll yeeeeaahhhhh
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:12 PM] Imran Traveler
5
1d6 = 5 = 5
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:16 PM] Imran Traveler
6
1d6 = 6 = 6
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:19 PM] Imran Traveler
5
1d6 = 5 = 5
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:22 PM] Dammitwho
holky fuck
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:25 PM] Crion
those are pretty good.
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:26 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindalsivran wants to see the big northern city. There are others, but Absalom is supposedly *the* city. And he had a good time at the end of his last sea voyage, so that's an added incentive...
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:27 PM] Nicolae
oh boy, i knew i was forgetting something
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:48 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
same... but at least i only forgot half of it
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[5/1/2026, 5:15:54 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
or 1/3rd
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[5/1/2026, 5:16:05 PM] Imran Traveler
that is in sheet order, so
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[5/1/2026, 5:16:06 PM] Nicolae
i thought about it and then events happened and i stopped thoughting about it D:
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[5/1/2026, 5:16:07 PM] Crion
The Silver Ravens, Futhark the Anvil: Positive
The Hellknights, Lictor Uro Adom: Negative
The Black Triune: Negative
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[5/1/2026, 5:16:51 PM] Dammitwho
In that case, Nicolae: I assign you one positive connection with the Decemvirate. This point must be used before the next arc and will not return once used, etc etc
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[5/1/2026, 5:17:18 PM] Tak Ironflame
If there's anywhere where someone else is likely to know about the Man in Black, that place is Absalom.
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[5/1/2026, 5:17:32 PM] Nicolae
b (thumbs up emoji)
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[5/1/2026, 5:18:11 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal, CBN!
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[5/1/2026, 5:18:55 PM] Dammitwho
hm. character named and then player named there. not sure what that means. nonetheless!
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[5/1/2026, 5:19:54 PM] Gul Banana
i was just trying to think whether i could pick a second icon on the spot to spend my last point, but: better not rush it
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[5/1/2026, 5:19:59 PM] CBN
The Volume - Conflicted (2)
College of Mysteries, Secrets Reclamation Division - Negative (1)
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:16 PM] Gul Banana
if you have a 2-point connection, you roll two separate dice, right? hence:
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:21 PM] CBN
how do i just roll a die....
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:21 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
3 the Hurricane Queen, positive
2 the Hurricane Queen, positive
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:37 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
4
1d6 = 4 = 4
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:41 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
5
1d6 = 5 = 5
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:41 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
or [[ double square brackets surrounding a die expression
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[5/1/2026, 5:20:44 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
1
1d6 = 1 = 1
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[5/1/2026, 5:21:14 PM] Dammitwho
looks like Dubnoom gets one Conflicted point with The Volume
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[5/1/2026, 5:21:25 PM] CBN
so 4, 5 for the volume, 1 for the college (that relationship in general represents his uhh, repurposing of various arcane materials, journals, etc.)
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[5/1/2026, 5:21:43 PM] Dammitwho
and Lindal, who failed every roll, gets a Pity Point. I'll let him have one with the Hurricane Queen anyway
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[5/1/2026, 5:22:14 PM] Gul Banana
"an icon of the GM's choice"... checks out
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[5/1/2026, 5:22:56 PM] Dammitwho
Thus! Each of you has At Least One connection to a power of the world! Use it wisely...
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[5/1/2026, 5:23:19 PM] Crion
hmm where is the best place to write this down
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[5/1/2026, 5:23:51 PM] Nicolae
i'm gonna use the biography page on my token, which looks to mostly be for notes and things
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[5/1/2026, 5:23:54 PM] Crion
the campaign notes section of the charsheet will do
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[5/1/2026, 5:24:04 PM] CBN
dubnoom can ONLY use things wisely.
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[5/1/2026, 5:25:50 PM] Dammitwho
It's been a few days since your triumph, and the small cargo sloop Butterfly is tying off at the dock built below Moonglow Bay. It makes the run between a number of towns and villages on the coast to Absalom regularly, you're told, and if you let slip that you're heading to Absalom a collection is taken up to buy your passage aboard. (Otherwise, you'll have to pay yourself!)
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[5/1/2026, 5:26:29 PM] Imran Traveler
Wiser to pay our own way.
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[5/1/2026, 5:26:57 PM] Imran Traveler
However, if word of our destination does slip, then yes, we'll pass the plate.
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[5/1/2026, 5:27:27 PM] Dammitwho
That's up to you. How tight-lipped are you being?
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[5/1/2026, 5:27:57 PM] Imran Traveler
Hmm. Actually.
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[5/1/2026, 5:28:07 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
I'm thinking "zero".
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[5/1/2026, 5:28:12 PM] Tak Ironflame
If Vaustin is still in town, he might overhear a rumor or two. It might be best to keep those lips tight.
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[5/1/2026, 5:28:16 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Zero tightness.
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[5/1/2026, 5:28:30 PM] Imran Traveler
If black riders come looking for us, and think the townfolk know something, then they will torture the townfolk to get that information. Better the townfolk just...tell them straight away.
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[5/1/2026, 5:29:00 PM] Imran Traveler
Though Brun might have something to say about that in either direction.
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[5/1/2026, 5:29:11 PM] Imran Traveler
Fine, yes, let's pass the plate. AFTER Vaustin is on the road.
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[5/1/2026, 5:29:38 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran will see his former schoolmate off -- but Vaustin very much does not need to know their destination, and what's more, doesn't seem to want to know.
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[5/1/2026, 5:32:00 PM] Dammitwho
Vaustin has enough money and rubbed-off goodwill to get himself a horse - he bids you farewell, and rides northeast. Lindal's eager chatter informs every townsfolk he happens to come in contact with of where you're going, and so the 3gp per person rate from here to Absalom is paid for you by the grateful village.
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[5/1/2026, 5:32:43 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom is 'going with the flow' as they say. He's always wanted to float down a lazy river on a bit of driftwood and NOT after a boat was scuttled or a bridge collapsed. He is going to attempt to adapt this dream to a method of going through life. At least for today. Where there will be boats! Coincidence, or fate?
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[5/1/2026, 5:33:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"...they've got a whole thing about sieges, you know? The city gets attacked every age. and there's a big heroic battle.. maybe there will be another one while we're around? And even if that doesn't happen, the street food.."
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[5/1/2026, 5:33:30 PM] Nicolae
got logged out somehow?
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[5/1/2026, 5:34:07 PM] Dammitwho
Nicolae: That happened to me too earlier
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[5/1/2026, 5:34:47 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak is looking forward to visiting someplace with an alchemy workshop he might earn some coin in.
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[5/1/2026, 5:36:55 PM] Dammitwho
The captain, a man named Marcellus Drusus whose white hair and beard make him look like an aged lion, stumps about on his wooden leg, supervising the loading and unloading. To you, he says: "Aye, you're lucky. This is our last stop on the coastline 'afore we turn and make for Kortos. Should be about four days, maybe five if the winds are agin' us."
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[5/1/2026, 5:37:16 PM] Tak Ironflame
How big is the ship?
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[5/1/2026, 5:38:02 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
And, more importantly, where is the best view on the ship, for someone who wants to put their feet up and feel the wind in their flowing, magnficient beard?
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[5/1/2026, 5:38:03 PM] Dammitwho
It's a small vessel, relatively speaking. A cargo sloop with only two masts, it's one of the smaller vessels that can still travel away from the coastline.
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[5/1/2026, 5:38:40 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran will thank the captain for taking their custom. Four days is good.
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[5/1/2026, 5:39:13 PM] Dammitwho
Depends on what Dubnoom is looking for. On the bow, you can see the ocean ahead of you. On the stern, you can see the ocean you just left. Likewise port and starboard... he's spoiled for choice, really.
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[5/1/2026, 5:39:34 PM] Imran Traveler
...Thing about going to sea is you don't want to be wearing your armor all the time. In case the ship sinks. Hopefully if they're to be boarded it'll be clear enough that he'll have time to shrug back into it.
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[5/1/2026, 5:39:49 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Ocean ahead it is. A bright, unlimited future. And looking behind you is how you lose a chase, so, habit there.
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[5/1/2026, 5:40:34 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal roams the ship to discover its nooks and crannies. If he finds anything he doesn't understand, he'll bother the sailors until they explain it or get rid of him.
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[5/1/2026, 5:41:27 PM] Dammitwho
Have any of you done much sailing before?
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[5/1/2026, 5:41:43 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran's traveled on a lot of boats.
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[5/1/2026, 5:42:15 PM] Imran Traveler
Occasionally he's had to work them to make his passage. He's a decent enough sailor in a pinch.
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[5/1/2026, 5:42:17 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
It's about a hundred yards before Dubnoom's the furthest from land he's ever been. Best he did before this was either a raft or an especially stranded bit of wood.
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[5/1/2026, 5:42:34 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Maybe clinging to a rock in the middle of a river, if that counts.
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[5/1/2026, 5:43:56 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak has sailed once, when leaving Garund for Avistan. The trip was long, and he spent most of it belowdecks getting seasick. The rest of it was spent abovedecks getting seasick.
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[5/1/2026, 5:44:20 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal spent eight weeks on a ship from Jalmeray to the Taldane coast, but seven of them in the brig. He enjoyed the last part of the journey quite a bit, but he hasn't had time to learn all the nautical mechanisms and mentions.
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[5/1/2026, 5:45:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
It doesn't *seem* too hard, though... scamper up the mast, haul on a sail, etc. The things are admittedly quite difficult to move, ideally wanting strength beyond his small muscles, and you do need to know where to move them.
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[5/1/2026, 5:46:12 PM] Dammitwho
Alright! You may all roll Perception (or pitch a skill) to notice something about the crew, DC 24. Except for Dubnoom, whose lack of experience puts him at DC 27
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[5/1/2026, 5:46:51 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
22
1d20 + 12 = 10 + 12 = 22
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[5/1/2026, 5:47:04 PM] Tak Ironflame
23
1d20 + 14 = 9 + 14 = 23
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[5/1/2026, 5:47:10 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Moisturized. Unbothered. In Dubnoom's lane.
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[5/1/2026, 5:47:12 PM] Imran Traveler
25
1d20 + 10 = 15 + 10 = 25
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[5/1/2026, 5:47:14 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
would Society work, or is this a physical-noticing kind of thing?
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[5/1/2026, 5:47:56 PM] Crion
i think i could probably have pitched athletics for this, but i passed
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[5/1/2026, 5:48:02 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak... almost notices, but there's still a part of him that keeps freaking out about earthquakes and mine collapses whenever the ground moves.
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[5/1/2026, 5:48:22 PM] Tak Ironflame
Hasn't vomited yet, though!
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[5/1/2026, 5:48:26 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal: I'll say yes
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[5/1/2026, 5:48:33 PM] Dammitwho
(society would work)
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[5/1/2026, 5:48:34 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
26
1d20 + 12 = 14 + 12 = 26
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[5/1/2026, 5:48:57 PM] Nicolae
lindal must be someone special, because he's rolling with high society,
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[5/1/2026, 5:49:09 PM] Imran Traveler
So the sea-spray finds Imran in sleeveless shirt and loose trousers, hair tied back and up, sword and shield and armor stowed as he helps with the rigging.
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[5/1/2026, 5:49:30 PM] Gul Banana
booo
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[5/1/2026, 5:49:42 PM] Dammitwho
Imran and Lindal watch the crew. Not that they're suspicious or anything (unless they are), just that there isn't much to do on a ship underway if you're a passenger. They notice... isn't this vessel a bit undermanned?
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[5/1/2026, 5:50:03 PM] Imran Traveler
It's always good to be a little suspicious.
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[5/1/2026, 5:51:43 PM] Dammitwho
There's no doubt about it. The crew is able to handle things so far, but they're just a bit overworked.
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[5/1/2026, 5:52:36 PM] Imran Traveler
Who's deck mate? Or first mate, or leftenant, or whatever the guy who actually runs the crew is called here. Are they amenable to passengers helping out?
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[5/1/2026, 5:52:53 PM] Imran Traveler
If we can get a couple coins back by sweating for it, Imran's run that racket before.
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[5/1/2026, 5:53:01 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Well, Marcellus is likely to know what's up, and there's no reason we shouldn't ask... "Captain Mr. Drusus, hello. Are you low on" Lindal casts about for a moment to pick a term. "Hands?"
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[5/1/2026, 5:55:06 PM] Nicolae
good thing captain drusus has a wooden leg and not a hook hand, or that could have gone very poorly
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[5/1/2026, 5:55:42 PM] Gul Banana
^^^
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[5/1/2026, 5:56:37 PM] Dammitwho
The captain is imperiously surveying the horizon from the quarterdeck. The first mate - a middle-aged woman named Ionnia - apologetically intercepts Lindal. "Nothing to worry about, sirs, only a few of our men had to be left behind before we picked you up. They were--"
The captain's voice rumbles back toward you like the stern sound of Iomedae's judgment. "Drunk."
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[5/1/2026, 5:57:05 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Ah! I know a song about that."
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[5/1/2026, 5:57:41 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"But we haven't got a longboat, right? Or a... 'scupper' with a 'hosepipe bottom'? I think."
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[5/1/2026, 5:58:06 PM] Imran Traveler
"Regionally distinct, that shanty is."
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[5/1/2026, 5:58:21 PM] Dammitwho
In fact, the negligent crewmen in question had encountered a Rahadoumite healer with an ingenious tubing device for getting liquid into blood without needing to take the blood out of the man first - they had purchased it off him, traded the rest of their pay for pure grain alcohol from the local farmers, and boarded themselves up in their rooms ashore. If the metered drip is undisturbed, they should stay drunk for about two and a half years.
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[5/1/2026, 5:59:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Way hey indeed. Lindal will quiz Imran on the versions he's heard... unless he wants to sell our services to the ship?
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[5/1/2026, 6:01:14 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran likes honest work, likes sailing, and since we bought our passage with donations, any money we bring back is pure profit. So yes, let's work up a sweat.
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[5/1/2026, 6:01:16 PM] Dammitwho
"We've a launch rather than a longboat, but scuppers a-plenty, sir." First Mate Ionnia replies, a bit puzzled. She gestures to the rectangular holes cut in the sides of the ship that rise above the weather deck, allowing rain and spray to run back off into the sea.
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[5/1/2026, 6:02:58 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal's been called "Kid", "You" and even "Hero", but "Sir" is new... is that how they treat you when you've had temporary possession of gold pieces?
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[5/1/2026, 6:03:48 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom loves the terror and excitement of the open seas. The wind stinging your face! The salty spray in your eyes! The cawing of seabirds, presumably of innumerable species but they all look basically the same! He has not observed a single issue here. He should've been a river pirate but for the ocean. Whatever those could be.
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[5/1/2026, 6:04:56 PM] Dammitwho
Alright! Those that wish to work as sailors may Earn Income by rolling Athletics! DC 15, and be sure to note your proficiency rank in that skill
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[5/1/2026, 6:05:06 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
If Imran does volunteer us, Lindal would be quite happy to take on work involving clambering, scampering, capering or scrambling.
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[5/1/2026, 6:05:24 PM] Crion
trained in athletics
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[5/1/2026, 6:05:27 PM] Imran Traveler
32
1d20 + 12 = 20 + 12 = 32
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[5/1/2026, 6:05:36 PM] Dammitwho
damn son
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[5/1/2026, 6:05:45 PM] Gul Banana
sailors jelly
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[5/1/2026, 6:05:58 PM] Tak Ironflame
15
1d20 + 8 = 7 + 8 = 15
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[5/1/2026, 6:06:13 PM] Tak Ironflame
Trained... just enough.
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[5/1/2026, 6:06:30 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
24
1d20 + 9 = 15 + 9 = 24
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[5/1/2026, 6:07:02 PM] Gul Banana
also trained. which is good because of the low str
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[5/1/2026, 6:07:03 PM] Dammitwho
Does Dubnoom disdain honest labor?
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[5/1/2026, 6:07:15 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak will help schlep objects around, though if there's anything that needs doing under the purview of Acrobatics, Engineering, or Crafting, perhaps he can volunteer for those also...
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[5/1/2026, 6:08:19 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran, dashing in his loose gear, will engage Ionnia on this subject. "We're not the best sailors, perhaps, but we're sober and we're eager. And we're willing to work. And we've a vested interest in getting where we're going."
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[5/1/2026, 6:09:25 PM] CBN
it's less that he disdains it and more, it disdains him. but he'll try, if he sees any of his party dicking around and wants them to feel less-bad about having to get their hands dirty.
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[5/1/2026, 6:09:42 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
1
1d20 = 1 = 1
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[5/1/2026, 6:09:48 PM] Crion
hahahha
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[5/1/2026, 6:09:49 PM] CBN
Just so.
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[5/1/2026, 6:09:52 PM] Dammitwho
Magnificent.
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[5/1/2026, 6:09:56 PM] Gul Banana
lmao irl
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[5/1/2026, 6:10:07 PM] Dammitwho
Ionnia wearily replies: "You've no need to sell me. If you can tie a knot, get up the rigging without falling, and follow orders, I'll put you on the books 'til Absalom."
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[5/1/2026, 6:10:46 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom, who is already suspended upside-down in a cat's cradle of ship rigging: "Dubnoom can contribute in other ways, perhaps."
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[5/1/2026, 6:10:59 PM] Crion
the consequence of imran's crit success and dubnoom's crit fail should be that imran scoops him up and does his work with dubnoom on his shoulders
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[5/1/2026, 6:11:02 PM] Crion
and they cancel out
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[5/1/2026, 6:11:12 PM] CBN
beautiful teamwork.
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[5/1/2026, 6:12:17 PM] Dammitwho
Alright! Tak and Lindal both earn 2sp for a day's labor. Imran earns 3sp, because he's sternly efficient. Dubnoom is... not as efficient. But he soon learns that sailors delight in the traditional dances of the goblin people, when the off-watch gathers on deck to sing and play music. It gets him 2 copper.
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[5/1/2026, 6:12:40 PM] Dammitwho
You may choose, if you wish, to continue this labor tomorrow. If so, you don't roll and just receive the same amount again.
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
As long as there's a chance of a shanty, Lindal will work the whole trip.
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:08 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran easily digs Dubnoom out. "On my shoulders, wise one. We'll get her square-rigged and squared away."
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:20 PM] Gul Banana
20.61gp..!
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:21 PM] Imran Traveler
Oh, Lindal wants a song?
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:49 PM] Imran Traveler
Nocticula likely does as well...are these men of the sea singers, now that they have helping hands?
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:50 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Yes??
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:53 PM] Tak Ironflame
Dwarven culture has no use for idle hands, and Tak does have use for silver coin. Tak will help out tomorrow.
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:57 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Obviously?
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[5/1/2026, 6:13:59 PM] Tak Ironflame
19
1d20 + 8 = 11 + 8 = 19
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[5/1/2026, 6:14:56 PM] Dammitwho
what's up tak
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[5/1/2026, 6:15:10 PM] Dammitwho
oh sorry: you don't need to roll again, and indeed cannot
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[5/1/2026, 6:15:22 PM] Dammitwho
if you work the next day, your success level carries over
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[5/1/2026, 6:15:57 PM] Crion
imran has a ribald shanty for us to sing
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[5/1/2026, 6:16:04 PM] Dammitwho
so tak and lindal get another 2sp, imran gets another 3sp, and dubnoom (if he dances a merry jig like, i, the GM, demand) gets another 2cp
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[5/1/2026, 6:16:36 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom's merry jig (a direct translation of the name of these steps would be 'The Body Is On Fire And It Is Covered In Dung So Stomping On It Has Also Made Your Feet Covered In Dung, Wipe It Off On The Body Again Oh No That Didn't Help') is also accompanied by a traditional tune that he hums and occasionally spits out a bit of Goblin lyrics, which mostly concerns itself with the virtues of hiding until everyone is dead, and then emerging after the first guys to emergy do so out of greed and are, also, slain. Everyone loves it, enough.
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[5/1/2026, 6:17:06 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Beats silence, if only narrowly.
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[5/1/2026, 6:17:36 PM] Crion
this also works!
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[5/1/2026, 6:18:18 PM] Crion
though i did find a shanty where you can replace the town name with moonglow bay...
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[5/1/2026, 6:19:27 PM] Dammitwho
The gang settle in to work, and do well enough. More than well enough, in Imran's case. You bring the labor of the professional sailors down from 'backbreaking' to merely 'wearying', and are accepted with good cheer for it.
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[5/1/2026, 6:19:40 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak eventually gets into the mood, and sings a traditional dwarven work song. If any of the sailors recognize Dwarven, they are probably surprised to hear it coming out of someone who is about 6'6".
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[5/1/2026, 6:20:38 PM] Dammitwho
It's the morning of the third day, though, when the captain gazes out toward the horizon, at a ominous splotch of darkness moving with stately gravity towards you.
"Damn."
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[5/1/2026, 6:21:01 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran climbs up for a better look.
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[5/1/2026, 6:22:19 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
!!!
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[5/1/2026, 6:23:51 PM] Dammitwho
Imran can see - yep, that's a stormcloud alright.
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[5/1/2026, 6:24:14 PM] Imran Traveler
He'll scramble back down and look to the first mate for orders.
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[5/1/2026, 6:24:24 PM] Dammitwho
"Besmara's piss," curses one old tattooed sailor. Ionnia glares at him, and he hurries to his station, chastened.
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[5/1/2026, 6:25:02 PM] Dammitwho
"Out of season," rumbles Captain Marcellus. "Good fortune you joined up with us, perhaps."
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[5/1/2026, 6:26:31 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
26
1d20 + 9 = 17 + 9 = 26
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[5/1/2026, 6:26:43 PM] Imran Traveler
14
1d20 + 12 = 2 + 12 = 14
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[5/1/2026, 6:27:01 PM] Nicolae
society check? i feel like it would be insulting to even try, but the dialog box DID pop up, so
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[5/1/2026, 6:27:03 PM] Tak Ironflame
18
1d20 + 2 = 16 + 2 = 18
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[5/1/2026, 6:27:13 PM] Crion
good place to put my 2, because obviously all my rolls are an array of dice spread out across the session
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[5/1/2026, 6:27:23 PM] Dammitwho
That's right.
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[5/1/2026, 6:27:53 PM] Nicolae
that's exactly how dice work
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[5/1/2026, 6:28:17 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal?
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[5/1/2026, 6:31:12 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
20
1d20 + 12 = 8 + 12 = 20
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[5/1/2026, 6:32:47 PM] Dammitwho
Tak and Imran don't notice, but Dubnoom (who is wise) and Lindal (who is clever) do. The captain isn't just musing when he talks about good fortune. Sailors are, as everyone knows, superstitious - they could come down on the side of it being bad luck that you're aboard (having brought the unseasonable storm somehow) or good luck (because you'll help them get through it). He's trying to tip the scales in your favor.
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[5/1/2026, 6:33:06 PM] Dammitwho
You've all been working hard alongside them, so the nervous sailors don't argue, and even seem a bit relieved.
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[5/1/2026, 6:33:25 PM] Dammitwho
NOW COMES THE STORM NAVIGATION GAME
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[5/1/2026, 6:33:32 PM] Crion
oh, hell, yeeeeah
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[5/1/2026, 6:34:08 PM] Dammitwho
You've run into a squall on the approach to Kortos! Captain Marcellus Drusus and his first mate Ionnia are competent, but undercrewed! Your help will make a difference!
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[5/1/2026, 6:34:28 PM] Dammitwho
To do this you must accumulate... Storm Points
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[5/1/2026, 6:34:44 PM] Crion
luv 2 storm
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[5/1/2026, 6:34:45 PM] Gul Banana
we wanted those anyway. great opportunity
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[5/1/2026, 6:37:32 PM] Dammitwho
The challenge will be run in multiple phases, each with a defined number of rounds. You each take one primary action per round! You may use a given skill to act AT MOST TWICE across the entire encounter!
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[5/1/2026, 6:38:08 PM] Crion
hmmmm
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[5/1/2026, 6:38:10 PM] Gul Banana
what is the storm's Narrative Intent toward us
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[5/1/2026, 6:38:53 PM] Crion
thankfully, i have a lot of skills that rule
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[5/1/2026, 6:38:56 PM] Dammitwho
It itself wants nothing, as it is mere weather - as a narrative device it would like to sink your ship
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[5/1/2026, 6:39:00 PM] Dammitwho
You can use almost any skill, so long as you have a plausible explanation for how it helps! If you can't think of anything, ask me about a skill and I will try to help you!
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[5/1/2026, 6:39:38 PM] Crion
oim ready
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[5/1/2026, 6:40:02 PM] Dammitwho
Nice! You'll all tell me what you want to do, I'll set your individual DCs, and you'll all roll at once.
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[5/1/2026, 6:41:21 PM] Dammitwho
The sky darkens. The storm will soon be upon you. The captain orders preparations! Batten down the hatches, reef the sails... but what are you instructed to do?
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[5/1/2026, 6:41:28 PM] Dammitwho
Round 1: Begin!
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[5/1/2026, 6:42:01 PM] Nicolae
gonna roll stealth to sneak past the storm-
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[5/1/2026, 6:42:25 PM] Dammitwho
tak simply returns to the shadow plane. gl guys
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[5/1/2026, 6:42:31 PM] Gul Banana
diplomacy probably isn't the play here...
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[5/1/2026, 6:42:52 PM] Nicolae
so this phase is preparing the ship itself, more or less?
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[5/1/2026, 6:42:57 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran first wants to bolster the spirits of the crew as the storm brings itself to bear. There won't be time for that later. It has to be short and punchy, but get over well. He'll have to sell it physically. Probably from up here in the ropes, where it's dangerous.
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[5/1/2026, 6:42:59 PM] Dammitwho
I mean, you can use it to help steady the crew, I bet
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[5/1/2026, 6:43:10 PM] Crion
this strikes me as performance
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[5/1/2026, 6:43:16 PM] Nicolae
well, that's clearly imran's bailiwick
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[5/1/2026, 6:43:25 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom's knowledge of the Most Important Goblin Art should come into play here: Survival. Which here could mean the fine art of knowing how to best withstand environmental hazards. Like, close that, tighten this, hey don't stand next to that or you'll fall off the side if it tips. Etc.
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[5/1/2026, 6:43:47 PM] Dammitwho
Nicolae: anything that would help the ship + crew get ready for the storm to hit. That could include reading the weather to know exactly when it'll strike you, preparing the rigging, helping to bail the bilges, etc
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[5/1/2026, 6:44:31 PM] Crion
and given that imran has been so cool as a sailor previously, i would lobby for a reduced DC on this roll
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[5/1/2026, 6:44:44 PM] Crion
as he's Proved himself
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[5/1/2026, 6:44:44 PM] Dammitwho
So Dubnoom is giving instructions to the other sailors?
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[5/1/2026, 6:45:29 PM] Gul Banana
lindal wants to roll religion to make the appropriate sacrifices and propitiations to some oceanic deities
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[5/1/2026, 6:45:44 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak can bring his Engineering experience to bear on shoring up the keel and other breakables with whatever kind of materials he can find that can be spared for the survival effort.
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[5/1/2026, 6:46:42 PM] Dammitwho
So be it
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[5/1/2026, 6:46:45 PM] CBN
Yes! And also, leading by example (strategic survivalist cowardice)
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[5/1/2026, 6:46:46 PM] Dammitwho
IMRAN: Performance DC 22
DUBNOOM: Survival DC 20
LINDAL: Religion DC 22
TAK: Engineering DC 22
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[5/1/2026, 6:46:50 PM] Dammitwho
You may roll!
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[5/1/2026, 6:47:08 PM] Imran Traveler
1d20 + 10
1d20 1 1
11
1d20 + 10
1d20 17 17
27
1d20 + 10 = 17 + 10 = 27
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[5/1/2026, 6:47:23 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
13
1d20 + 8 = 5 + 8 = 13
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[5/1/2026, 6:47:32 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
31
1d20 + 12 = 19 + 12 = 31
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[5/1/2026, 6:47:32 PM] Tak Ironflame
30
1d20 + 10 = 20 + 10 = 30
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[5/1/2026, 6:47:52 PM] CBN
Critical Success!
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[5/1/2026, 6:48:02 PM] Crion
so we started the session at roughly 8 PM EST, it's 9 47 now, scratch session start time was 7 30. do i have a second hero point or do i wait 13 minutes
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[5/1/2026, 6:48:25 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal... doesn't have any of the appropriate sacrifices. And can't remember as many of the gods as he'd rather. He'll take to the bow and chant a bit - "Embaral, Obari, we beseech your seas! Wadjet, Apep, stay your hand!" - but it's probably not going to impress anyone.
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[5/1/2026, 6:48:26 PM] Nicolae
two crits, if i'm reading that green 30 correctly
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[5/1/2026, 6:48:50 PM] Dammitwho
Crion: i added an extra hero point to account for time passage just now, so you had two and spent one
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[5/1/2026, 6:49:03 PM] Crion
everything's coming up imran
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[5/1/2026, 6:49:08 PM] Crion
except that 1. and that 2
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[5/1/2026, 6:49:41 PM] Gul Banana
everything's, after dice tricks and adjustments, coming up effectively imran
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[5/1/2026, 6:51:24 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal has flavored his failure, Imran, Dubnoom, and Tak - flavor your success! Especially Tak, who did real well.
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[5/1/2026, 6:51:48 PM] Dammitwho
As a result of his crit, in Phase 2, the party will get a one-use reroll for one check!
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[5/1/2026, 6:52:02 PM] Imran Traveler
From up in the rigging, Imran, glistening in the spray and severe, turns to the crew. "Men and women of the Butterfly! The sea is a monster and a mistress. It has killed us before, it will kill us again. But not today. Today it's just a little bit of sea and spray. To stations!"
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[5/1/2026, 6:52:20 PM] Nicolae
i think dub also got a crit, his roll was 11 more than his dc
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[5/1/2026, 6:53:55 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom shouts and gestures, leveraging his biggest outdoors voice: "Everyone can live! And thrive! But not if you stand next to that rope, it could come loose and snatch your neck and pop your head right off! And over there, that's an open side of the boat! Do not stand by that! Grab tight to the big wooden part! No, the other one! Yes, good, that one!"
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[5/1/2026, 6:54:52 PM] Tak Ironflame
Sons of miners quickly learn how to shore up mineshafts with timbers, keeping the weight of thousands of tons of rock from crushing the shaft and its occupants to dust. It turns out a lot of the same principles are applicable for keeping the weight of thousands of tons of water from crushing a ship and its occupants to dust. With the aid of some of the crew, Tak is able to repurpose some wood from around the ship to shore up the weak points in the keel.
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[5/1/2026, 6:54:55 PM] Dammitwho
Oh, that's true. On the first round of phase 2, you'll get a +1 bonus to checks
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[5/1/2026, 6:55:00 PM] Imran Traveler
"And also! The goblin is correct!"
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[5/1/2026, 6:57:47 PM] Dammitwho
PHASE 2, ROUND 1: The Storm Hits
Waves toss the Butterfly as driving rain sheets down and winds make the masts creak under the strain! The first mate barks orders, the captain rumbles instructions to the first mate! At the wheel, a crewman strains to hold her steady! Ropes sing under tension! The topsails look like they might burst!
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[5/1/2026, 6:57:50 PM] Dammitwho
What Do You Do?
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[5/1/2026, 6:58:18 PM] Imran Traveler
This is a good time for Imran to be athletic where it counts.
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[5/1/2026, 6:58:25 PM] Crion
athletics
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[5/1/2026, 6:59:42 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal will take care of those topsails. He can climb these dead trees faster than any human, for all their years in the profession - it's his birthright and his tail.
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[5/1/2026, 6:59:53 PM] Gul Banana
that would be acrobatics
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[5/1/2026, 7:00:43 PM] Dammitwho
What's Imran planning to do, athletically? He might relieve the sailor at the wheel, or bail out the hold, or...?
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[5/1/2026, 7:01:01 PM] Imran Traveler
If Lindal's got the rigging and sails, Imran will take the wheel.
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[5/1/2026, 7:01:25 PM] Nicolae
if that's acrobatics then tak will help lindal with the topsails, he doesn't have a tail but he is quick on his feet, and there's topsails plural but only one lindal,
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[5/1/2026, 7:02:03 PM] Gul Banana
that is/those are true
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[5/1/2026, 7:02:34 PM] CBN
can dubnoom leverage his knowledge of The Enemy here (Nature check) to optimally direct his phantasmal minion to do small dangerous things, grasp objects with telekinetic hand, etc. but definitely he's not doing magic or anything?
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[5/1/2026, 7:03:19 PM] Gul Banana
stab the storm to determine its weak point (rapid temperature changes in the upper atmosphere)
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[5/1/2026, 7:03:32 PM] Nicolae
tak unslings his jezail and takes aim at the storm,
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[5/1/2026, 7:04:11 PM] Dammitwho
Hm, let me look up the phantasmal minion
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[5/1/2026, 7:05:26 PM] Dammitwho
Mmm, no, the phantasmal minion and cantrips are rather physically weak
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[5/1/2026, 7:05:47 PM] Dammitwho
if you have a thematically appropriate spell prepared i'll let you expend the slot to autopass though
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[5/1/2026, 7:06:21 PM] Dammitwho
You could solve this problem.... if only you had more arcane power..........
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[5/1/2026, 7:08:22 PM] CBN
well, he does have Carryall (which can carry 5 bulk), might be useful for supporting something in danger of falling. can't carry people though
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[5/1/2026, 7:08:56 PM] Crion
can it carry water
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[5/1/2026, 7:09:15 PM] Crion
it can help bail out the belowdecks if so
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[5/1/2026, 7:09:42 PM] Dammitwho
The carryall spell platform materializes "just above the ground", which I'm ruling to be the deck you're on. You can go between decks with it but can't go into the rigging
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[5/1/2026, 7:10:16 PM] CBN
yes! bailing belowdecks! i like that!
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[5/1/2026, 7:10:32 PM] CBN
just, make it tilt one side a little more. out you go, water
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[5/1/2026, 7:10:44 PM] Dammitwho
Alright! Dubnoom is, sorcerer's apprenticely, ordering his phantasmal minion and telekinetic hand to fill the carryall platform with water before dumping it overboard?
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[5/1/2026, 7:11:04 PM] CBN
yes! exactly. but with nature. and denying he's doing magic (he's doing magic)
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[5/1/2026, 7:11:30 PM] Dammitwho
What kind of caster is an animist
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[5/1/2026, 7:11:55 PM] CBN
divine for spell list, but all the apparition stuff is like, primal/mixed
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[5/1/2026, 7:12:04 PM] Dammitwho
i mean spontaneous/prepared/what
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[5/1/2026, 7:12:06 PM] CBN
and carryall is from his sorc dedication (arcane)
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[5/1/2026, 7:12:13 PM] CBN
both! they literally half and half it
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[5/1/2026, 7:12:19 PM] Dammitwho
ah so
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[5/1/2026, 7:14:00 PM] Dammitwho
Alright, since Dubnoom is casting a spell he loses that spell use/slot whatever. He'll autocrit this check, but he can't spellcast his way through a check for the rest of the encounter
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[5/1/2026, 7:14:19 PM] CBN
so noted! and will flavo(u)r accordingly.
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[5/1/2026, 7:14:34 PM] Dammitwho
And Tak is using Acrobatics to help Lindal with the topsails?
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[5/1/2026, 7:15:25 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Carryall 2 Spell 1 Arcane Concentrate Force Manipulate Duration 8 hours A small platform of magical force materializes adjacent to you to carry cargo. It is Invisible or has a ghostly appearance, is 2 feet in diameter, and follows 5 feet behind you, floating just above the ground. It holds up to 5 Bulk of objects (if they can fit on it). Any objects atop the platform fall to the ground when the spell ends. You can Sustain the spell to move the platform up to 30 feet along the ground, to make it stay in place, or to have it return to you and resume following you. The spell ends if a creature tries to ride atop the platform, if the platform is overloaded, if anyone tries to lift or force the platform higher above the ground, or if you move more than 60 feet away from the platform.Heightened (4th) The platform can carry 10 Bulk, creatures can ride atop it, and it can hover in the air, not just on the ground
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[5/1/2026, 7:15:43 PM] Gul Banana
Tak and Lindal can toss ropes or other sea-related objects to each other.
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[5/1/2026, 7:15:53 PM] Gul Banana
Shells, idk.
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[5/1/2026, 7:16:25 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran drops off the rigging as Lindal and Tak climb up. Who is trying to handle the wheel? Imran will run up to them and help.
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[5/1/2026, 7:16:43 PM] Dammitwho
IMRAN: Athletics DC 24
DUBNOOM: Autopass +2SP [Magic]
LINDAL: Acrobatics DC 24
TAK: Acrobatics DC 24
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[5/1/2026, 7:16:46 PM] Dammitwho
Go!
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[5/1/2026, 7:16:52 PM] Nicolae
yes! acrobatics, for helping lindal with the topsails
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:02 PM] Dammitwho
Oops, you should all see that counter. There we go.
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:14 PM] Imran Traveler
32
1d20 + 12 = 20 + 12 = 32
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:20 PM] Gul Banana
counter..?
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:22 PM] Crion
we take that.
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:25 PM] Nicolae
remember we get a +1 for checks thanks to dubnoom's crit and one free group reroll thanks to mine
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:30 PM] Dammitwho
upper left
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:50 PM] Crion
i also do not immediately see a counter
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[5/1/2026, 7:17:57 PM] Crion
in the upper left or elsewhere
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:12 PM] Tak Ironflame
21
1d20 + 15 = 6 + 15 = 21
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:22 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
too low. i'm hero
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:35 PM] Nicolae
well, like i said, we can get one free reroll
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:37 PM] Gul Banana
hmm, where di the automatic reroll button thing go
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:42 PM] Crion
right click on your roll
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:47 PM] Crion
it's in the dropdown
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:50 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
1d20 + 16
1d20 4 4
20
1d20 + 16
1d20 8 8
34
1d20 + 16 + 10 = 8 + 16 + 10 = 34
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[5/1/2026, 7:18:55 PM] Gul Banana
takk (as opposed to tak)
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:06 PM] Dammitwho
Oh you might have to turn on Resource Tracking
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:07 PM] Dammitwho
https://i.imgur.com/xUbEtos.png
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:08 PM] Nicolae
i'll see how imran does and if he doesn't need the reroll i'll take it
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:15 PM] Crion
oh buddy
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:19 PM] Dammitwho
Blue thing at the bottom of the first submenu
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:20 PM] Crion
imran hit that nat 20
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:33 PM] Dammitwho
yeah imran crit
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:36 PM] Dammitwho
you guys are crushing it
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:38 PM] Nicolae
ah, in that case
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[5/1/2026, 7:19:52 PM] Crion
aha
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[5/1/2026, 7:20:00 PM] Crion
tracker online
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[5/1/2026, 7:20:10 PM] Nicolae
where's the submenu, and i guess i'll take that hero point,
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[5/1/2026, 7:20:14 PM] Tak Ironflame
1d20 + 15
1d20 3 3
18
1d20 + 15
1d20 18 18
33
1d20 + 15 = 18 + 15 = 33
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[5/1/2026, 7:20:29 PM] Nicolae
whoof. well, it still counts
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[5/1/2026, 7:20:52 PM] Gul Banana
the submenu: https://i.imgur.com/fsoHtvV.png
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[5/1/2026, 7:21:04 PM] Nicolae
aha!
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[5/1/2026, 7:21:08 PM] Nicolae
tak
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[5/1/2026, 7:21:30 PM] Dammitwho
You all succeed, and Imran and Dubnoom crit! Display your prowess for the logs!
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[5/1/2026, 7:21:42 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom tugs his beard, wiggles his gloved fingers, and leverages all his trinkets...but it's not enough. He's going to have to...use book lore. He reaches deep in his bag of tricks (and leftover provisions from the inn, and journals charred, soaked, and/or blank) and uses the first relevant thing to come to mind. "Dubnoom's Lesser Latrine Liberation!" A shimmering disc forms just above the deck. Phantasmal minion hands, telekinetic hands, things of that nature work to pile rapidly-filling buckets onto it, which the disc ever so delicately slosh-dumps out a nearby porthole. Fill, slosh, tilt, repeat. Dubnoom's brow is furrowed. He would be sweating bullets if his face wasn't soaked in seaspray. He is working his will on the world. We must never speak of this again.
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[5/1/2026, 7:21:53 PM] Crion
who's at the wheel right now, Dwho
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[5/1/2026, 7:22:04 PM] Crion
or can i just specify helping a jabroni
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[5/1/2026, 7:22:52 PM] Crion
it's funnier if it's the captain or the mate though
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[5/1/2026, 7:23:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal's up the sails faster than the knowledge of what to do with them. He pauses a moment, one out of four hands on the mast, to lean out and listen to the cries from below - loosen the ropes, is it? With speed a fox would envy he undoes knots and rolls up - excuse me, *furls* the threatened fabric.
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[5/1/2026, 7:25:02 PM] Dammitwho
crion: just a jabroni atm
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[5/1/2026, 7:26:59 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak clambers up onto one of the other masts, and works the sails, furling the other topsail only slightly less gracefully than the man with prehensile feet.
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[5/1/2026, 7:27:35 PM] Imran Traveler
Lindal and Tak have the sky; Dubnoom has the well of the deck. Imran strides up to the wheel and puts one hand on the shoulder of the youngun trying to drag it back to center, before reaching across him and behind him, grabbing the wheel below him on either side, and telling him: "Here is the wisdom right now."
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[5/1/2026, 7:27:42 PM] Imran Traveler
"When I move, you move. Just like that."
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[5/1/2026, 7:28:06 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal out calls from mast to mast. "Good rigging, Tak. Are there underground seas to sail?"
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[5/1/2026, 7:29:36 PM] Dammitwho
There are! Though Tak may not know this.
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[5/1/2026, 7:29:49 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak shouts above the storm. "Thankee! Never seen one! But there's plenty of ropes!"
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[5/1/2026, 7:31:16 PM] Dammitwho
PHASE 2, ROUND 2!
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[5/1/2026, 7:31:56 PM] Crion
in order to not burn my last athletics...i wanna intimidate this young man on the wheel to take it over
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[5/1/2026, 7:32:22 PM] Dammitwho
The wind howls! The masts creak! The frantic efforts of the crew and your heroic aid have kept the Butterfly together and on course... for now! You're reaching the height of the storm- great waves are crashing onto the deck!
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[5/1/2026, 7:32:25 PM] Dammitwho
What Do You Do?
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[5/1/2026, 7:32:54 PM] Crion
if that's not impactful, then he can use it on the entire deck crew
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[5/1/2026, 7:33:04 PM] Crion
the inverse performance roll,
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[5/1/2026, 7:33:06 PM] Gul Banana
waves... unfortunate, but expected of the ocean
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[5/1/2026, 7:33:43 PM] Dammitwho
crion: yeah i'm gonna say your primary action has to be something that helps the situation in itself, not something that you can leverage into helping
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[5/1/2026, 7:34:04 PM] Dammitwho
so you'd have to diplomacy/intimidate him (or everyone) into working better
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[5/1/2026, 7:34:29 PM] CBN
can dubnoom use diplomacy to keep morale high, encouraging the crew that storms can't actually last forever, that everything they've done so far has been great, so from here it's just riding it out, etc.?
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[5/1/2026, 7:34:34 PM] Crion
oh yeah i mean the intimidate is literally the negaverse performance in that i am trying to get a heroic effort out of him
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[5/1/2026, 7:34:39 PM] Crion
i'm just being mean now
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[5/1/2026, 7:34:55 PM] Crion
not like, getting him to maintain his post lol
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[5/1/2026, 7:35:06 PM] Crion
if that doesn't work i can just do athletics again
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[5/1/2026, 7:35:26 PM] Dammitwho
ahh okay got it
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[5/1/2026, 7:35:29 PM] Crion
but on a ship a guy yelling about ME HEARTIES seems on point
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[5/1/2026, 7:35:38 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
pitch: using athletics to help physically keep things together. basically what most of the sailors are doing, frantically lashing things up and grabbing the ones that slide and battening hatches etc
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[5/1/2026, 7:35:56 PM] Dammitwho
CBN: yes
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[5/1/2026, 7:36:22 PM] Dammitwho
Banana: sounds good
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[5/1/2026, 7:38:30 PM] Dammitwho
Nicolae?
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[5/1/2026, 7:38:31 PM] Nicolae
don't want to use up my second Acrobatics but also don't have a lot of other skills to leverage here...
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[5/1/2026, 7:38:35 PM] Nicolae
i'm lookin at my sheet
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[5/1/2026, 7:38:52 PM] Dammitwho
If you like you can give me some skills and I'll help you workshop something
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[5/1/2026, 7:39:32 PM] Crion
crafting, nicolae
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[5/1/2026, 7:39:37 PM] Nicolae
Survival, Nature, Medicine, Thievery all at +12, Engineering and Crafting at +10, Athletics at +8
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[5/1/2026, 7:39:38 PM] Crion
you have crafting
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[5/1/2026, 7:39:58 PM] Crion
engineering!
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[5/1/2026, 7:40:15 PM] Nicolae
ooh and the quick repair feat, which technically doesn't apply but who cares. yeah i can do crafting to patch up stuff belowdecks as they break
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[5/1/2026, 7:40:30 PM] Crion
imo quick repair entirely applies
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[5/1/2026, 7:40:39 PM] Crion
hell yeah
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[5/1/2026, 7:41:06 PM] Nicolae
well as written it's only for Repair actions which isn't quite what we're doing but i will nonetheless ask the gm to take it into consideration when setting the dc
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[5/1/2026, 7:41:22 PM] Crion
look if spells are allowed,
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[5/1/2026, 7:41:49 PM] Dammitwho
Crafting'll work great
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[5/1/2026, 7:42:28 PM] Dammitwho
IMRAN: Intimidate DC 20
DUBNOOM: Diplomacy DC 20
LINDAL: Athletics DC 24
TAK: Crafting DC 24
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[5/1/2026, 7:42:31 PM] Dammitwho
ROLL THEM BONES
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[5/1/2026, 7:42:37 PM] Gul Banana
even Rafting would be appropriate
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[5/1/2026, 7:42:49 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
26
1d20 + 13 = 13 + 13 = 26
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[5/1/2026, 7:42:52 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
1d20 + 9
1d20 5 5
14
1d20 + 9
1d20 1 1
20
1d20 + 9 + 10 = 1 + 9 + 10 = 20
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[5/1/2026, 7:42:58 PM] Tak Ironflame
1d20 + 10
1d20 11 11
21
1d20 + 10
1d20 7 7
27
1d20 + 10 + 10 = 7 + 10 + 10 = 27
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[5/1/2026, 7:43:12 PM] Imran Traveler
1d20 + 12
1d20 3 3
15
1d20 + 12
1d20 1 1
23
1d20 + 12 + 10 = 1 + 12 + 10 = 23
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[5/1/2026, 7:43:26 PM] Crion
thank you mr hero point!
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[5/1/2026, 7:43:30 PM] Nicolae
out of hero points, hopefully there is no need for any more heroics this session,
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[5/1/2026, 7:43:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal remains, while very *practiced* in athletic endeavour, unstrong... he doesn't contribute as much as the professional sailors to their shared task.
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[5/1/2026, 7:43:39 PM] Dammitwho
getting mileage out of those hero points, except for dubnoom the exceptionally moisturized
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[5/1/2026, 7:43:46 PM] Crion
nicolae we just need to vamp for 17 more minutes,
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[5/1/2026, 7:44:00 PM] Nicolae
lmao
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[5/1/2026, 7:44:52 PM] Dammitwho
Imran, Tak, and Dubnoom succeed! Lindal does not! Narrate your contribution to this mighty saga!
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[5/1/2026, 7:45:45 PM] Gul Banana
there must be some way to apply Thievery, Deception and Stealth to this storm,
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[5/1/2026, 7:46:05 PM] Imran Traveler
"GENTLEMEN! AND LADIES! STAY THE FUCKING LINE! You," Imran says, grabbing the young man at the wheel's hands. "Here and here. You don't let go even if you fucking die. If you die, that's up to your god and your ocean. But you living depends on you staying here and doing your fucking job. Nod if you understand me. Good. I'm headed to the quarterdeck."
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[5/1/2026, 7:46:21 PM] Dammitwho
i suppose you could deceive the crew into thinking you've seen a sign of gozreh's favor
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[5/1/2026, 7:46:29 PM] Nicolae
if you can think of a way to roll stealth and thievery, let me know, because i've got some big numbers just sitting there on my sheet uselessly,
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[5/1/2026, 7:46:50 PM] Gul Banana
they'd be a good way to PRETEND we were helping.
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[5/1/2026, 7:47:32 PM] Crion
all of those would actually work if this storm had a malign intelligence
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[5/1/2026, 7:47:41 PM] Crion
but to our knowledge it is just a storm
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[5/1/2026, 7:47:43 PM] Crion
so,
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[5/1/2026, 7:48:09 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Friend Imran is half right!" Dubnoom adds, helpfully, top of his little lungs. "But the worst is almost over! And the best part about it being the worst is, anything after it, is going to be better! So hang in there! Eventually, clear skies ARE ahead!" Dubnoom is thinking about drinking on a beach when they get there. He's pretty sure that's an option. You can drink on a river shore any time.
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[5/1/2026, 7:48:11 PM] Dammitwho
I suppose you could use Thievery to tie and untie rigging knots very quickly and efficiently
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[5/1/2026, 7:48:17 PM] Dammitwho
I've got nothing for Stealth though
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[5/1/2026, 7:48:22 PM] Tak Ironflame
As Tak shimmies down from the rigging, narrowly avoiding getting swung into a mast face-first, a voice calls up from belowdecks: Some of the planks in the hull are giving way! Help!
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[5/1/2026, 7:48:41 PM] Crion
if it was an evil magical storm you could use thievery to steal lightning from the g--[the DM bans me from chat]
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[5/1/2026, 7:49:36 PM] Dammitwho
PHASE 2, ROUND 3!
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[5/1/2026, 7:49:43 PM] Tak Ironflame
Having just been at the peak of the ship, Tak now hurries to its nadir. Crewmembers are already hammering and nailing boards back into place as water gushes through new openings.
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[5/1/2026, 7:50:33 PM] Tak Ironflame
He takes a hammer to hand and makes his adopted ancestors proud. Every nail pounded true and flat in one blow, again and again.
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[5/1/2026, 7:50:48 PM] Crion
DM, how can i use crafting in this phase?
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[5/1/2026, 7:51:14 PM] Dammitwho
"Just a bit longer, lads, I can see the sun on the horizon!" roars the captain, his orders coming quick and sharp now. The Butterfly is holding together well, but the storm hasn't blown its last!
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[5/1/2026, 7:51:33 PM] Dammitwho
crion: you can use it to seal up cracks in the hull by jamming oakum in them
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[5/1/2026, 7:52:13 PM] Dammitwho
(oakum: tarred fibers such as hemp used to caulk the timbers of ships!)
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[5/1/2026, 7:52:29 PM] Crion
then i shall
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[5/1/2026, 7:53:41 PM] CBN
could i use Lore: Goblin to help imran with some classic goblin 'keep it together long enough to get where we need to go' techniques (it's not pretty, but it works)?
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[5/1/2026, 7:54:21 PM] Crion
the aid rules kind of suck for that unless dwho is willing to like make you rolling a success giving me a crit
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[5/1/2026, 7:54:29 PM] Crion
the aid rules kind of suck in general,
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[5/1/2026, 7:54:47 PM] CBN
oh i meant aid in the informal, narrative sense. full roll and all
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[5/1/2026, 7:54:51 PM] Dammitwho
you could use lore: goblin if you can describe doing that *directly*, but not to get imran to do it
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[5/1/2026, 7:55:01 PM] Dammitwho
ah, i see. then yes
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[5/1/2026, 7:55:06 PM] CBN
i can come up with a way to do this directly as well yes
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[5/1/2026, 7:55:24 PM] Dammitwho
goblin jury-rigging, very good
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[5/1/2026, 7:56:39 PM] Gul Banana
lindal will make a second use of Acrobatics; he wants to move rapidly between whoever's having Problems, appearing suddenly to assist with tasks and transfer useful objects or information
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[5/1/2026, 7:57:05 PM] Gul Banana
i've capitalised Problems, but it isn't a skill or game rule as far as i know
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[5/1/2026, 7:57:27 PM] Nicolae
can i claim one of the deckhands helping tak with repairs is injured, but i can patch them up enough so they can keep working, so i can justify using a medicine roll here
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[5/1/2026, 7:59:01 PM] Dammitwho
Yes, you can use medicine to treat injured deckhands
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[5/1/2026, 7:59:02 PM] Nicolae
(i don't know how many more rounds we've got so i'm trying not to double up on skill usages too early)
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[5/1/2026, 7:59:13 PM] Nicolae
yay! i mean, not yay, that they're injured
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[5/1/2026, 7:59:17 PM] Dammitwho
(you needn't limit it to just the one if you're feeling heroic)
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[5/1/2026, 7:59:48 PM] Imran Traveler
"FEEL THE SEA, BOYS AND GIRLS! IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD BUT IT DOES FEEL RIGHT."
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:13 PM] Dammitwho
IMRAN: Crafting DC 24
DUBNOOM: Lore: Goblin DC 22
LINDAL: Acrobatics DC 22
TAK: Medicine DC 22
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:14 PM] Imran Traveler
Then he heads below with an armful of fibers.
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:17 PM] Dammitwho
BEGIN!
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:26 PM] Crion
11 PM. new hero point.
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:36 PM] Tak Ironflame
28
1d20 + 12 = 16 + 12 = 28
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:42 PM] Gul Banana
lol
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:47 PM] Gul Banana
is that really how they work??
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:54 PM] Imran Traveler
33
1d20 + 14 = 19 + 14 = 33
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[5/1/2026, 8:00:54 PM] Nicolae
roughly, yes
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[5/1/2026, 8:01:04 PM] Gul Banana
are you meant to turn over an hourglass or something when playing irl
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[5/1/2026, 8:01:11 PM] Dammitwho
I mean, in actuality I am *encouraged* to give you hero points *roughly* once an hour.
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[5/1/2026, 8:01:20 PM] Crion
aaaaalmost a crit
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[5/1/2026, 8:01:24 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
1d20 + 11
1d20 1 1
12
1d20 + 11
1d20 8 8
29
1d20 + 11 + 10 = 8 + 11 + 10 = 29
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[5/1/2026, 8:01:38 PM] Dammitwho
beware the fate of young lisa simpson, crion
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[5/1/2026, 8:02:02 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom falls back on the oldest lore he's got: how goblins get through situations they are unprepared for. When you're living in half-burnt-out huts on a good day, it can get wet if it starts even drizzling; real weather events can be a killer. Unless you use every part of the horse (metaphorically). Snapped ropes can't be ropes, but they can jam into cracks and block water. Broken boards aren't just kindling, they're leverage to jam into the back end of a barricade. And here, torn and fallen bits of sail are BETTER than ropes --- they're already in easy-to-tie strips, as long as you wring them out first. Perfect may be the enemy of good, but "good enough" is the kingslayer of "I don't know if we can do this." Sure you can! Really shitty! The Goblin Way.
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[5/1/2026, 8:02:03 PM] Dammitwho
she informed the teacher that homework was due and as a result became president of the united states after the trump administration
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[5/1/2026, 8:02:04 PM] Crion
young lisa simpson became president hillary clinton. we exist in a world of fantasy
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[5/1/2026, 8:02:58 PM] Crion
and she has a three point plan to defeat the storm,
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[5/1/2026, 8:05:12 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran moves below with the oakum and a thin wedge tool, probably a scraper in a former life. Grabbed it somewhere between the mast and the wheel and here. The oakum goes in the cracks and small places just above the water line, where the splashes and the tide hit, and then we work down from there. The big hole get plugged with big lumber and then work in the margins.
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[5/1/2026, 8:05:17 PM] Imran Traveler
And we can do that too.
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[5/1/2026, 8:05:30 PM] Dammitwho
Lindal?
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[5/1/2026, 8:06:21 PM] Tak Ironflame
The work continues belowdecks, as nails are hammered into the hull and boards are slapped back into place by Tak and some other deckhands. The ship lurches, and one of the hands is slammed against a beam. There's the sound of a crack, and it's not wooden -- the deckhand's leg is broken. Tak quickly grabs a few bits of board and some cloth; the break is set and splinted, a crutch is jury-rigged. The deckhand is going to have trouble walking, and is going to need actual medical attention once this is over, but they'll be able to stand up long enough to continue the work.
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[5/1/2026, 8:07:12 PM] Imran Traveler
Tak works from below, and Imran from above. He makes sure to do the big grip handshake with his sniper when they encounter each other. Hell yeah brother.
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[5/1/2026, 8:07:20 PM] Tak Ironflame
Hell yeah.
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[5/1/2026, 8:08:03 PM] Crion
slightly embarrassed to be asking this at this late date but
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[5/1/2026, 8:08:17 PM] Crion
are we supposed to be filling the storm meter or preventing it from being filled
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[5/1/2026, 8:08:33 PM] Dammitwho
you are filling it.
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[5/1/2026, 8:08:56 PM] Crion
well, it does seem so
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[5/1/2026, 8:10:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
no
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[5/1/2026, 8:10:05 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
1d20 + 15
1d20 1 1
16
1d20 + 15
1d20 20 20
35
1d20 + 15 = 20 + 15 = 35
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[5/1/2026, 8:10:09 PM] Nicolae
D: :D
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[5/1/2026, 8:10:10 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
yes
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[5/1/2026, 8:10:20 PM] CBN
you have argued it into submission.
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[5/1/2026, 8:10:30 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
i made a straightforward argument
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[5/1/2026, 8:11:37 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
And Lindal's role in the battle against the storm is straightforward - always where an extra hand or four are needed, helping with capstains, booms, splices and haulage. He catches sailors who trip on the slick deck and couriers tools from the dry belowdecks to replace broken ones at pace.
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[5/1/2026, 8:12:17 PM] Dammitwho
ohhhh shiiiiiit
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[5/1/2026, 8:12:32 PM] Dammitwho
PHASE 3!
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[5/1/2026, 8:12:41 PM] Crion
lets gooooooooo
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[5/1/2026, 8:13:16 PM] Crion
oh as for continuing, i am ice cream
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[5/1/2026, 8:13:33 PM] Nicolae
i don't know what ice cream means but i can keep going
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[5/1/2026, 8:13:55 PM] Dammitwho
The storm is breaking up! The winds slow from their fever pitch, the strain loosens on the ropes, the rain is hitting you with less force- then the poor man still in the crow's nest cries out "Captain! We've been blown to the Reef of Erran!"
The captain curses loudly. "Poles to rocks! Sing out when you see them!"
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[5/1/2026, 8:14:23 PM] Nicolae
is perception a skill or is it something different
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[5/1/2026, 8:14:37 PM] Dammitwho
Men rush to the sides of the ship, anxiously looking for rocks that might split the hull and send you all to a watery grave. Some of them carry long poles to help push you away from them.
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[5/1/2026, 8:14:42 PM] Dammitwho
Perception is a skill yes
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[5/1/2026, 8:14:46 PM] Dammitwho
WHAT DO YOU DO????
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[5/1/2026, 8:14:52 PM] Gul Banana
use diplomacy to learn who erran is..?
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[5/1/2026, 8:15:08 PM] Dammitwho
Guy who discovered the reef probly
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[5/1/2026, 8:15:15 PM] Crion
using my second athletics roll for imran
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[5/1/2026, 8:15:30 PM] Crion
unless there's a way to use crafting here
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[5/1/2026, 8:15:51 PM] Crion
helping out the poles?
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[5/1/2026, 8:16:16 PM] Nicolae
my crafting repair work will be all for naught if we slam into a reef, as the storm dies down and the waves stop battering boards out of the hull, tak will head up to keep an eye out for reef bits
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[5/1/2026, 8:16:50 PM] CBN
can i Nature to help point out where the safe places likely are in the reef, based on rock formations, etc.
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[5/1/2026, 8:17:34 PM] Gul Banana
possibility: lore (warfare) to *organise* the poling & rock-spotting?
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[5/1/2026, 8:18:01 PM] Gul Banana
maybe a stretch...
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[5/1/2026, 8:18:27 PM] Dammitwho
Crafting can still work for repairing e.g. sprung planks in the hold, but not for helping the pole guys.
Nature is good for pointing out safe passages through the reef
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[5/1/2026, 8:18:57 PM] Dammitwho
Banana: yeah that's kind of a stretch
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[5/1/2026, 8:19:07 PM] Nicolae
oh i meant perception
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[5/1/2026, 8:19:47 PM] Crion
then second athletics it is
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[5/1/2026, 8:19:54 PM] Crion
helping out with the poles
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[5/1/2026, 8:21:58 PM] Dammitwho
so, nicolae perception, crion athletics, cbn nature, banana tbd?
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[5/1/2026, 8:22:07 PM] Crion
yes for me
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[5/1/2026, 8:22:28 PM] Nicolae
yeppers
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[5/1/2026, 8:22:35 PM] Gul Banana
hm hrm
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[5/1/2026, 8:23:15 PM] Gul Banana
what about using various beam and blast spells to simply smash apart coral formations (environmental vandalism) on which we might founder
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[5/1/2026, 8:23:32 PM] Gul Banana
they're divine spells, so possibly this constitutes a use of Religion
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[5/1/2026, 8:23:53 PM] Dammitwho
yes, using Religion for that (or simply praying for blessings/wardings) is acceptable
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:02 PM] Gul Banana
let's do it
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:25 PM] Crion
dwho i have an amulet that lets me cast bless on everyone in a 15 foot radius. would that work for anything in this situation or is it just for +1 to attack
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:31 PM] Crion
+1 to attacking this problem,
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:47 PM] Dammitwho
nah, sorry
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:52 PM] Nicolae
pushing off reefs with poles is a kind of melee combat
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:54 PM] Nicolae
imo
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[5/1/2026, 8:24:56 PM] Nicolae
bah
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[5/1/2026, 8:25:01 PM] Gul Banana
in this house we @UUID[Actor.na4BvYZuIm8Bnbpr.Item.K2nr31g0uDyrsSJf]{Holy Light} @UUID[Actor.na4BvYZuIm8Bnbpr.Item.rbMA2a5PDdD5nsSD]{Moonlight Ray} @UUID[Actor.na4BvYZuIm8Bnbpr.Item.JB7XGkHMQBhW3NXU]{Chilling Darkness}
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[5/1/2026, 8:25:11 PM] Crion
you do have to ask
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[5/1/2026, 8:26:25 PM] Dammitwho
IMRAN: Athletics DC 24
DUBNOOM: Nature DC 22
LINDAL: Religion DC 24
TAK: Perception DC 22
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[5/1/2026, 8:26:27 PM] Dammitwho
GO!
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[5/1/2026, 8:26:35 PM] Tak Ironflame
25
1d20 + 14 = 11 + 14 = 25
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[5/1/2026, 8:26:52 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
32
1d20 + 14 = 18 + 14 = 32
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[5/1/2026, 8:27:02 PM] CBN
HELL yeah.
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[5/1/2026, 8:27:08 PM] Imran Traveler
1d20 + 12
1d20 8 8
20
1d20 + 12
1d20 15 15
27
1d20 + 12 = 15 + 12 = 27
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[5/1/2026, 8:27:21 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
16
1d20 + 8 = 8 + 8 = 16
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[5/1/2026, 8:28:09 PM] Crion
they call that damn goblin "mister crit"
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[5/1/2026, 8:28:30 PM] Nicolae
that's why wins are called dubs. in honor of dubnoom, who couldn't stop winning
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[5/1/2026, 8:28:37 PM] Gul Banana
that roll doesn't seem to have included my attribute bonus - i think i misclicked - but i also think it wouldn't make a difference
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[5/1/2026, 8:29:54 PM] Dammitwho
Religion is a Wisdom skill, which you have at +0, it seems
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[5/1/2026, 8:30:22 PM] Dammitwho
Tak and Dubnoom could give you a total of +2 to your roll... wouldn't help though
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[5/1/2026, 8:31:49 PM] Gul Banana
normally you see the +0, as in this earlier one: https://i.imgur.com/77UgeGq.png
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[5/1/2026, 8:31:59 PM] Dammitwho
The Butterfly slips between the reefs and the sharp rocks that make up the Reef of Erran. Through diligent work and heroic effort, you make it through the storm! The dark clouds recede into the distance, the sun shines dimly through the overcast day and calmer seas where you find yourself.
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[5/1/2026, 8:32:06 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran runs down to the sidewalls and takes up a pole alongside the rest of the crew. Push - breathe - push - shove - breathe - push - push -
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[5/1/2026, 8:32:46 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak, unimpeded by the darkness of the storm, takes point at the bow of the ship and calls out reefs lurking just below the surface of the water.
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[5/1/2026, 8:33:37 PM] Dammitwho
Captain Marcellus takes out his sextant and calls out a bearing. Another. Ionnia carefully spins a compass 'round on a chart.
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[5/1/2026, 8:34:04 PM] Imran Traveler
"EV'R'ONE UP!"
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[5/1/2026, 8:34:37 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom points. "Rock! Probably rock! Probably rocks under the water! The little spiky ones that hurt in your feet!" "Safe over there!" "Not there!" It helps?
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[5/1/2026, 8:35:09 PM] Dammitwho
In the crow's nest, a sodden crewman shouts "LAND HO!" And indeed, there's a thin grey ribbon far off in the distance!
"Land? What in the Nine Hells?" blurts the captain. He takes out his spyglass and gives the offending terra firma a long hard look, as if he expects it to disappear into a mirage.
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[5/1/2026, 8:35:24 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Not the Isle of Kortos, then?
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[5/1/2026, 8:36:00 PM] Dammitwho
"By all the gods, 'tis Farnfoss!" The normally unflappable captain is stunned for a moment. "Lads, you've kept us together and got us there bloody early!"
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[5/1/2026, 8:36:43 PM] Dammitwho
Congratulations, heroes, your efforts in accumulating Storm Points have reached the threshold of Triumph!
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[5/1/2026, 8:37:22 PM] Nicolae
never estimate four cool dudes who absolutely do not want to fucking drown 8)
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[5/1/2026, 8:37:25 PM] Dammitwho
Your ship is within sight of the isle of Kortos, and you've held the mighty winds of the storm well enough that you've shaved a full day off your journey.
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[5/1/2026, 8:37:36 PM] Nicolae
also, what is farnfoss
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[5/1/2026, 8:37:38 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran grins and leans back over the shipwall. "Yes sir. Nocticula loves a good story."
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[5/1/2026, 8:38:11 PM] Dammitwho
"We'll weigh anchor a bit in Farnfoss." The captain rumbles.
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[5/1/2026, 8:38:29 PM] Dammitwho
"Tis a small village on the east coast of Kortos," Ionnia explains.
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[5/1/2026, 8:38:45 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Huzzah!" Dubnoom hollers. That's what they say when a good thing happens? Surely.
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[5/1/2026, 8:38:56 PM] Imran Traveler
He's correct to do so.
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[5/1/2026, 8:39:30 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak laughs as the captain identifies the land in the distance, and sits down on the deck. He is soaked to the bone, but we're alive.
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[5/1/2026, 8:40:24 PM] Dammitwho
"Let you off there. Ye'd be with us the gods know how long if you stayed aboard going through the docks. Customs, piloting... if you get off at Farnfoss and take a cart in through the Widdershins Gate, you'll be in Absalom quicker, no fuss."
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[5/1/2026, 8:40:39 PM] Dammitwho
"Least we can do, for all the help you've given." The crew cheer.
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[5/1/2026, 8:40:40 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran will direct traffic if the shipmen need it. But he'll also just sit down on the rope pile and take a nap as they go in.
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[5/1/2026, 8:41:13 PM] Imran Traveler
"Farnfoss works for me."
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[5/1/2026, 8:41:36 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom will daydream about how nice it would be to use that floating disc earlier to ride in stable peace. But it is only a beautiful dream for now. "A cart...? He perks up.
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[5/1/2026, 8:41:54 PM] Dammitwho
This makes sense, for those of you that know anything about Absalom. The docks are enormous - a full city district devoted to them - and ships from across Golarion are constantly moving in and out. There's no telling how long you might have to wait, but it could be another full day.
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[5/1/2026, 8:42:25 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Wow, that was a surprisingly helpful storm in the end. Dagon's favor, I guess."
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[5/1/2026, 8:42:38 PM] Imran Traveler
...
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[5/1/2026, 8:42:40 PM] Imran Traveler
......
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[5/1/2026, 8:42:45 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran checks on the orb.
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[5/1/2026, 8:43:01 PM] Tak Ironflame
Getting to bypass the docks would be helpful. Also, you have to worry less about carts when thunderstorms come up.
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[5/1/2026, 8:43:40 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Do we need a.. sloop.. launch.. thing to go ashore, or do we swim for it?"
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[5/1/2026, 8:43:57 PM] Dammitwho
Orb's where Imran left it. The box got rattled around a bit in the storm, but doesn't seem to have been opened.
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[5/1/2026, 8:44:22 PM] Imran Traveler
He'll open it to check briefly, not touch it, close it, and bind it.
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[5/1/2026, 8:44:30 PM] Imran Traveler
Unless there's a consternation.
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[5/1/2026, 8:44:34 PM] Dammitwho
"We'll have one of the lads row you ashore," explains Ionnia to Lindal.
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[5/1/2026, 8:45:59 PM] Dammitwho
After the heart-pounding, adrenaline fueled chaos of the storm, getting near to Farnfoss so the ship can drop anchor and lower its launch feels quite placid. The captain disappears into his cabin, the crew change watches as exhausted men go below.
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[5/1/2026, 8:46:34 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran rearms and rearmors, and collects all his gear.
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[5/1/2026, 8:46:58 PM] Imran Traveler
"Are we ready?" To the gang.
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[5/1/2026, 8:47:04 PM] Dammitwho
Finally, it's time for a gruff able seaman to row you ashore. Captain Marcellus reappears, holding out a folded piece of paper for whichever of the party is standing most prominently. Which of you would that be?
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[5/1/2026, 8:47:30 PM] Imran Traveler
...Well, it's probably Imran. In the armor and all, with the sword and shield.
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[5/1/2026, 8:47:38 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"It was a bit of a short trip..." Lindal would have been happy to spend more time at sea. Then again, his estimation of his own maritime facility has dropped, at least when it comes to the manipulation of a ship's doodads and widgets by main force.
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[5/1/2026, 8:47:48 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Best not spit in the eye of luck.
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[5/1/2026, 8:48:11 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak collects his things from belowdecks. It's dry, at least, and he begins putting on armor and slinging his jezail across his back.
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[5/1/2026, 8:49:36 PM] Dammitwho
"Here you are," he says, handing the paper to Imran. "A letter of introduction to the harbormaster's office. She won't see it herself of course - I'd need a hundred ships like this before she'd care for my word - but it'll let the bureaucracy know you're able and reliable. Could help, if you're looking for work or a friendly ear."
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[5/1/2026, 8:49:55 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom, having confirmed his dark-in-his-heart suspicions that oceans, bays, etc. are Not For Him, is as eager as anyone's seen him to go ashore. All packed up and ready to go.
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:02 PM] Imran Traveler
"Thank you sir."
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:11 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak has also confirmed that the sea is not for him, but at least this time he didn't lose his lunch and also saved a ship from sinking. That counts as a win over the ocean, in his book.
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:16 PM] Dammitwho
A seaman with a long braid sidles up to Lindal. "Mister, ah--"
"Vanara," another, slightly better-read one says.
"Mister vanara, yes. The lads have decided to give you this, as a way of thanking you for bringing us good luck in the storm."
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:29 PM] Crion
is there a way to use an icon point here to influence the letter or would it be better to do that in the harbor itself
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:36 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"Woaw. Wow! Thank you, what is this?"
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:37 PM] Crion
i think i answered that question for myself
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:39 PM] Party Loot
@UUID[Actor.w4BO7UA9Xp6HI6wY.Item.3a3ZsgE9KDiCX4nI]{Potion of Water Breathing}
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[5/1/2026, 8:51:44 PM] Crion
do it in the harbor
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[5/1/2026, 8:52:04 PM] Dammitwho
Probably better in the harbor, but what would you like to do?
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[5/1/2026, 8:52:24 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
This could be taken by a less cheerful vanara as an insult! Lindal can swim, probably. He's never actually tried.
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[5/1/2026, 8:52:47 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"I enjoyed the Butterfly's ropes and personnel very much. May you experience fair seas for a while to come."
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[5/1/2026, 8:53:07 PM] Imran Traveler
Go ashore, go in through the gate, give the letter of introduction in the harbor without being behold to a vessel and see what happens. Get lodging near the water, explore inland, find people who know things. We're getting where we need to be.
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[5/1/2026, 8:53:08 PM] Dammitwho
I mean, to a sailor, a potion that helps you breathe underwater probably has a lot of superstitious value, even if in practical terms, like... you'll probably still drown. It's a deeply felt gesture!
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[5/1/2026, 8:53:10 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya takes Potion of Water Breathing from Party Loot.
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[5/1/2026, 8:53:27 PM] Dammitwho
i mean what did you intend to use the connection point for
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[5/1/2026, 8:53:49 PM] Gul Banana
having an ocean-themed good time? this certainly counts
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[5/1/2026, 8:54:22 PM] Gul Banana
the vague idea i had in mind was to call upon Port Smugglers to buy things or something, idk
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[5/1/2026, 8:54:23 PM] Tak Ironflame
Tak thanks the crew for the voyage and their assistance in getting through the storm safely. Some may thank him in return, which he accepts with grace.
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[5/1/2026, 8:54:57 PM] Dammitwho
i was asking crion sorry re: "is there a way to use an icon point here to influence the letter or would it be better to do that in the harbor itself"
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[5/1/2026, 8:56:01 PM] Crion
well i want to find someone who can explain the orb. and i can use an icon for that in many ways but i don't think the letter involves any of them
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[5/1/2026, 8:56:15 PM] Dammitwho
ah, i see
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[5/1/2026, 8:56:18 PM] Crion
so i was kind of thinking out loud
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[5/1/2026, 8:56:24 PM] Gul Banana
ah ok!
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[5/1/2026, 8:56:36 PM] Crion
once we're in and roaming the harbor i can use them presumably
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[5/1/2026, 8:57:52 PM] Dammitwho
Very well! You're rowed swiftly to the tiny village of Farnfoss, where it's easy to catch a ride on a cart being driven by a man who was heading to Absalom anyway. The Butterfly and its crew weigh anchor and recede into the distance as the cart you're riding drives through the forest on the road west...
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[5/1/2026, 8:58:20 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Riding on a cart...already, luxury rises to meet us. Dubnoom feels blessed by the fates, for all his good work.
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[5/1/2026, 8:58:41 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
He's absolutely hanging his feet off the side and swinging them. The height of indolence.
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[5/1/2026, 8:58:52 PM] Imran Traveler
So wise!
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[5/1/2026, 8:59:09 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
"When will we be able to see the city walls? Are we almost upon it?"
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[5/1/2026, 9:00:11 PM] Dammitwho
After a long time on the road, you crest a hill where the trees part, and you catch your first glimpse of Absalom. The stories don't do it justice. The city spans from horizon to horizon, and even at this distance you can see buildings of tremendous size. Cathedrals that would match the ones in Pangolais for grandeur. Road plans that spiral and split in dizzying complexity. Five gigantic towers of some kind of stone and Azlanti glass that dwarf everything around them.
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[5/1/2026, 9:00:42 PM] Imran Traveler
Damn.
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[5/1/2026, 9:01:30 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom recognizes two sizes of town: not a village, and a village. This is a third thing. He is speechless and confused and mad about it.
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[5/1/2026, 9:01:36 PM] Dammitwho
Even - is that the Starstone Cathedral, where mortals become gods? It might be, it's hard to tell at this distance. The homes and business are a colorful blur, but there looks to be a riot of different architectural styles from 4000 years of continuous occupation. Nidal may sneer at its relative youth, but Absalom is the City At The Center Of The World!
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[5/1/2026, 9:02:02 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran leans back in the cart to Dubnoom. "It's big as hell, isn't it."
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[5/1/2026, 9:02:21 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
Lindal's mouth is a small and almost perfectly round "o".
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[5/1/2026, 9:02:28 PM] Tak Ironflame
"You could damn near fit three or four hells in there."
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[5/1/2026, 9:02:40 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Dubnoom is certain the hells are smaller." He says this quietly though, in more than a little awe.
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[5/1/2026, 9:02:42 PM] Dammitwho
When Absalom breathes in, steel and stone, metal ore and crops by the ton, books, animals, spices, cultural artifacts, they come flooding from all four corners of the world.
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[5/1/2026, 9:03:02 PM] Imran Traveler
Imran has seen cities before. Not this big, maybe, but big. "Okay think of it like this."
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:10 PM] Dammitwho
When Absalom breathes out, finely forged weapons, clockwork inventions found nowhere else, intellectual fads, alcohol, armor, art, fashion, carved lumber of every shape and size, magic items, precious gems, textile goods, everything that human artifice can create races to the hungry cities of Golarion.
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:22 PM] Imran Traveler
"Five assholes, they make five towns. They can't stand each other. They run away from each other. But they're on an island with a lot of trade lanes and resources, so they all grow. They all grow. They look at the horizon; no one there. They do that for 200 years or what have you."
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:35 PM] Imran Traveler
"Then one day they look at the horizon and they all see each other."
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:45 PM] Dammitwho
As any native will tell you, if something happened, it happened here first. And you'll get your chance to set foot in it for the first time...
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:46 PM] Imran Traveler
"They keep growing. They grow into each other."
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:50 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
"Two hundred years..." that's too many generations to consider. Incalculable.
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[5/1/2026, 9:04:50 PM] Dammitwho
Next week!
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:13 PM] CBN
gg!
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:12 PM] Imran Traveler
"And they don't like each other, but they all live here. So they're one big city. But they're really just a whole bunch of small neighborhoods."
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:17 PM] Nicolae
gg! thank you for running! what were the point thresholds for storm points, just ooc in both senses
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:20 PM] Imran Traveler
"So they're not that big."
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:32 PM] Imran Traveler
And they all worship Zon-Kuthon, of course.
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:39 PM] Imran Traveler
But he doesn't say that part.
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:42 PM] Crion
gg!!!!
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[5/1/2026, 9:05:53 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise"
Dubnoom nods. "Too big."
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[5/1/2026, 9:06:00 PM] Dammitwho
i deleted my scratch notes, but the threshold for getting there unscathed was 13 and getting a triumph + extra goodies was 18
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[5/1/2026, 9:06:09 PM] Dammitwho
so lindal got you over the line before the last round
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[5/1/2026, 9:06:18 PM] Crion
lol i thought we had to hit 40
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[5/1/2026, 9:06:30 PM] CBN
same!
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[5/1/2026, 9:06:35 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
presumably if we hit 40, we would have actually come out of the storm with TWO intact ships
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[5/1/2026, 9:06:43 PM] Dammitwho
no lol, that was the absolute maximum points you could get if you all got crits every single roll every round
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[5/1/2026, 9:07:08 PM] Crion
tbh i think it worked well with the information we had
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[5/1/2026, 9:07:11 PM] CBN
the dream...
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[5/1/2026, 9:07:14 PM] Crion
gg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[5/1/2026, 9:07:45 PM] Dammitwho
yeah i don't really like that it showed you an upper limit at all, in future if it's not relevant i'm gonna leave it at 100
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[5/1/2026, 9:07:54 PM] Dammitwho
but: chears one and all, hope you enjoyed your sea voyage
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[5/1/2026, 9:07:59 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya
resource level: yes