The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Kaitou Kage]

Have a look at my wares! I've got the best deals and lowest prices in all Ravenloft!

We have 16 days' travel time! Does anyone want anything? It's not a lot of time, but several folks can get some nice stuff if you like. Browse the list or skim through the wondrous item section of the SRD.

It's first come, first serve, with preference going to folks who'd want a little bit of RP to go along with the commission.

I'm not entirely sure how Kuzan would approach this IC. Probably, he'd do sorta like I did with this post. "Hey, I know how to make some things you might find useful and they do this. Let me know if you want anything."

There're some neat things that you all might like. Here're some of the nice bits that are useful for anyone.

Healing Belt (750 gp): You get 3 charges per day, and can use a standard action to spend 1 or more charges to heal 2d8 (1 charge), 3d8 (2 charges), or 4d8 (3 charges) hp -- or damage undead!

Amulet of Tears (1725 gp): You get 3 charges per day and can use a swift action to spend 1 or more charges to give yourself 12 (1 charge), 18 (2 charges) or 24 (3 charges) temporary hp for 10 minutes.

Enduring Amulet (1125 gp): You gain the benefits of the endure elements spell, and also gain 3 charges per day. You can use 1 or more charges as an immediate action to gain 10 (1 charge), 15 (2 charges), or 20 (3 charges) cold and fire resistance for 1 round.

Artificer's Monocle (1125 gp): Identify magic items (as the spell) with detect magic.

Arcanist's Gloves (375 gp): Twice per day, you can use a swift action to add 2 to the caster level of the next 1st-level arcane spell you cast before the end of your turn.

Gloves of Manual Prowess (2250 gp): You gain 3 charges per day and may spend 1 or more charges as a swift action to gain +5 (1 charge), +7 (2 charges), or +10 (3 charges) on any one of the followign checks rolled in the next round: Disable Device, Forgery, Open Lock, Sleight of Hand, or Use Rope

Counterstrike Bracers (1875 gp): Twice per day, you may use an immediate action to immediately get an attack against any enemy who missed you with a melee attack.

These are just a few samples, and there's plenty more in the database. I'm getting to several of the single-use or few-times-only-use items now, as well as several tools and things handy for anyone, so keep an eye out as I continue to update the chart.

I'll also update the chart whenever I (or other characters that can cast spells for me) level up, so check it every so often.

EDIT: I also realized there's an error in the cost part of the chart. It doesn't sort by actual price, it sorts by the first digit of the number >_>; I'll try to fix that soon.

[DocBeard]

Lesse...the Belt of Priestly Might, Brute Gauntlets, Reliquary Holy Symbol, and Elemental Cloak all look neat. Sadly, I have...five GP.

[Kaitou Kage]

Is this the part where the players go on strike? >-> <-<

[DocBeard]

Heh.

Acutally, there's a thought: Hey, Neo, how does using Professon or Crafts for spare cash work?

[The Whistler]

Ooh, good call! Don't know how selling guns in Pharazia'd go over with the authorities, but still...

And off-topic: did we ever figure out what that stuff Andre brought out of the mill was?

[NeoTiamat]

Same as the SRD, thinking of earning a bit of cash? Don't see any reason why not.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Update on what we got from the mill:

Lia nearly died opening the book - kudos to Kuzan for saving her, again - and needed Marchand-Renier to translate the contents of what turned out to be a dark magic manual.
Said manual contains some very nasty spells, to wit: Animate Dead, Blindness/Deafness, Skull Watch, Create Undead, Clutch of Orcus, Wrack, Symbol of Pain, Energy Ebb, Fiend Form and Ghoul Gauntlet. Lia was the only one to have her hands on the book apart from Marchand-Renier, who translated the contents for her, and Kuzan, who said he didn't want anything more to do with it, so she's letting Andre see if he wants any of the spells - she'll think less of him if he wants some of the really bad ones - then burn what remains. No budging on this policy.
Lia will report to the others that the book was written in a Darkonese dialect of Gnomish. The original style is a century out of date at least, but there were more modern notes, many of them corrections on the tome's text, presumably written by Cavendish, whom Marchand-Renier believes isn't a native speaker.
So now we know Cavendish has someone with access to Darkonese books on black magic giving him fresh copies of old books, and he knows Gnomish.

... Lia took a Glyph of Warding and a Clutch of Orcus to bring you this valuable knowledge? Yay. -_- *cough* In closing, the loss of this book only hurts Cavendish if he has ranks in the Archivist class, rather than the Cleric class, which I find unlikely considering his use of Trickery domain spells. Then again, I'm not that well-acquainted with the Archivist class. Does it have domain spells? Another way it could hurt him if he has Wizard ranks, rather than Bard ones -- but I personally still find this unlikely.

The jars contained earth and water and were meant for the raising of greater undead.
The spider had a divination aura which dissipated. No clue what spell it was the focus or the material component for, alas. Poor little arachnid ...

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Ooh, good call! Don't know how selling guns in Pharazia'd go over with the authorities, but still...

And off-topic: did we ever figure out what that stuff Andre brought out of the mill was?

You could probably make a bundle if you contact the rebels and supply them with firearms, but they you know the authorities would be unhappy. On the other hand, the authorities might pay you for giving them weapons, but then the rebels would hate you. A real win-win scenario, isn't it?

[yalenusveler]

Oookay. If the bad woogie in that book is divine, we've gotten a nice healthy chunk of useful information. Sorry i wasn't on earlier. One of the children i tutor may have MRSA. Which sucks, because he's an awesome little guy. So today was spent running around kinda crazy.

[Nathan of the FoS]

How come it took us over a month to get there, yet he took very little time? RL magical travel is tricky at best, no? Am I th eonly one who finds this odd?

Eh, not that hard. I've forgotten how NT has the Core scaled size wise, but the events of book 1 happened on March 14 and of book 2 on April 24-25. So if Lancaster left almost immediately after the craziness in Port-a-Lucine he'd have ten days to two weeks to get to Barovia, which is fast but not impossibly fast, I think. (One "man" traveling alone can cover a lot more ground than an expedition full of pack animals and what-not.)

[NeoTiamat]

Major edit to the last post, since I managed to *completely* miff the thinking on that part.

[NeoTiamat]

A note.

I'm afraid that for the nearby future, posting from me is going to be marginally slower than it had been in January. I'm back on campus, which means I actually have classes, and for the next two weeks I'm also up to my elbows in Mock Trial, which is several hours each evening.

I'm not abandoning you guys, heaven forbid, but I'm not going to be able to post *quite* as much as I might like, so I encourage you to talk amongst yourselves as much as you can.

[Kaitou Kage]

I have a task for you all! Please fill out the following form and either email it to me at banditkingjing@gmail.com or PM it to me on the boards!

Some of you did send me info earlier, but please fill out the form anyway. If it's going to compromise the character (i.e., descriptive figure notes for Lia), you don't have to fill it in.

Our esteemed DM is offering a 100 XP reward for filling this out for me, so if you post it here AND PM/email it to me, you receive your end of the bribe Don't just throw a picture at me and call it good ;p Fill out the form, it really helps. You CAN provide visual references for various notes (weapons, accessories, hairstyle, etc., etc.) but make sure to fill out the form since written references help a lot, too!

Delete all sections of the form that are in parentheses.

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Character Name:

Age:

Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Skin Tone/Complexion:

Hair Style: ( Color, length, style, etc. )

Figure Notes: (Simply put, "What the character looks like naked" -- Figure is important when doing the sketch. Intense detail is not required, but if there are specific distinguishing scars or markings like tattoos, etc., to note on the torso that might not ordinarily be seen, feel free to note them. You never know what I'll come up with -- and I hope that worries you. -- Again, ignore this part if it will give away major aspects of the character better left quiet, like Lia)

Clothing Notes: (Describe some typical armor and clothing choices, provide references if you like. If choice of color or design in clothing is important to consider, make note of it here.)

Accessories: (List separate from the clothing, it's easier to see. Things like earrings, rings, jewelry, trinkets, badges, blah blah blah, noticeable details that aren't readily apparent on the original sketch but are distinctive on the character.)

Personality Overview: ( What they act like is pretty integral to drawing a character concept. Gimme a run-down even though we've been playing for 2 months )

Other: (Any other notes to consider that don't fall into the above categories)
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Here's a sample for you guys to look at.

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Character Name: Prof. Charles Devereux

Age: 32

Eye Color: Violet
Hair Color: A mousy shade of brown
Skin Tone/Complexion: Fair, and sunburns very easily.

Hair Style: Should be very apparent in the above, but quite long, about halfway down the back, and gathered up into a loose ponytail.

Figure Notes: Ichabod Crane. Devereux is only average height, but he’s quite thin, and has very long, gangly arms and legs. A long neck with a prominent Adam’s apple, and generally seems to have elbows and knees everywhere, usually bruised, since Dev has horrible hand-eye coordination. His head seems a little small for his body, mostly due to the long neck, and is very fine-featured. He’s not actually bad-looking, in a cute puppy-dog kind of way.

Clothing Notes: Prof. Devereux dresses more radically than most of the other professors, in white, ruffled shirts and double-breasted jackets, often in brighter colors, pale green or ochre, and even one slightly off-putting purple jacket that his tailor told him matched his eyes. Unfortunately, Devereux is rather hard on his clothing, so frayed or patched elbows are common.

Accessories: Large glasses perched on his nose with a polished brass frame, and a small golden chain around his neck with a rather worn holy symbol of Ezra (a shield, with a sprig of holly and a sword on it), and also a strange, circular brass medallion, with an open eye on one side of the medallion and a jagged rune on the other side.

Personality Overview: Absolute academic genius. Cannot be trusted to cross a street by himself. Except when he’s talking about his ideas, Devereux is very nervous, very unsure of himself, particularly in social circles. This of course makes him even clumsier.

Other: Devereux has a nervous tic in his left brow, that tends to come and go depending on how nervous he is.
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Have fun and remember to leave out anything that is OMG SEKRIT. Anything you post here'll be taken entirely in OOC knowledge and will have no bearing on Kuzan's interaction with you in the game!

Remember, you get 100XP and eventually get a nice lineart drawing of your character, so get those to me!

[Nathan of the FoS]

Speaking of not posting much--I broke my left pinkie, oh, about two weeks ago, and when I finally saw the doctor today she decided to slap this huge hand-immobilizing cast on me. So now I get to practice my one-handed typing.

So, no long-winded posts for a while. You'll make do, I'm sure.

[NeoTiamat]

....So, did someone announce a PC strike without telling me? I'm a tad confused by the sudden silence.

Anyways... Unless someone decides to do something unusual, I'll answer Khalil's question and move on to the Red Wizard guy in a few hours.

Hope the cast comes off Nathan! We'll all miss your diplomatic valour. *cough*