HF 048 Creed and Taeral Practice Mad Science

[3/17/17, 8:42:03 PM] Josh: Do you have somewhere you want to go, while everybody does stuff?

[3/17/17, 8:42:12 PM] Josh: Taeral is in the basement if you want some lessons right now.

[3/17/17, 8:42:20 PM] Creed: Creed will go with Taeral then

[3/17/17, 8:43:09 PM] Josh: Taeral sees you in the basement.  "...hello?"

[3/17/17, 8:43:34 PM] Creed: "I'm here to learn more about magic, as I've been without actual lessons for a long while."

[3/17/17, 8:44:33 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Oh...that's fair."  The basement, incidentally, is full of runes and strange contraptions, all seeming to relate to the portal, and a tooldesk set up at the far wall.

[3/17/17, 8:44:48 PM] Creed: "You've been busy down here..."

[3/17/17, 8:45:11 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Well, world holes aren't the sort of thing you just leave lying around...I don't think, anyway."

[3/17/17, 8:45:23 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Would you help me fix the runes and reset the traps?"

[3/17/17, 8:47:20 PM] Creed: "I can try, at least."

[3/17/17, 8:48:10 PM] Josh: Taeral guides you through.  Roll me a straight INT check.

[3/17/17, 8:48:30 PM] Creed: ( 10 )

[3/17/17, 8:49:11 PM] Josh: It's fairly simple, you pick it up, quickly.  "So...um...it's good to see you still take an interest in the arcane arts."

[3/17/17, 8:49:41 PM] Creed: "At first I wasn't, you know. I'm still iffy on the whole thing, but it has proved its usefulness."

[3/17/17, 8:50:06 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Yes.  It certainly can be.  So long as you understand the rules of it."

[3/17/17, 8:50:17 PM] Josh: Taeral: "If you don't, you might end up in a staff."

[3/17/17, 8:50:31 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...care to take a look at something for me?"

[3/17/17, 8:50:47 PM] Creed: "I can, what is it?"

[3/17/17, 8:51:19 PM] Josh: Taeral guides you over to the Staff of Dragonkind.

[3/17/17, 8:51:47 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I've been trying to separate this back into it's components, but none of my tools would work.  You seem rather adept at seeing the magical properties of things."

[3/17/17, 8:57:50 PM] Creed: "Well, yes, but there's so many things going on with the staff that it's all over the place."

[3/17/17, 8:58:42 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Hurm.  Yes."

[3/17/17, 8:58:49 PM] Josh: Taeral: "That is...difficult."

[3/17/17, 9:06:33 PM] Creed: "Unless you have any specific plans for me to do with what little I know, there's not much I can help with until I learn more."

[3/17/17, 9:08:11 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...let me see your dagger."

[3/17/17, 9:08:27 PM] Creed: "My ancestral one, or the fake one made by a sham?"

[3/17/17, 9:09:22 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Whichever you intend to stab someone with."

[3/17/17, 9:09:40 PM] Creed: "Both works." She hands him both.

[3/17/17, 9:10:11 PM] Josh: Taeral looks them over.  "Mind being a test for something?"

[3/17/17, 9:10:18 PM] Creed: "I.. suppose?"

[3/17/17, 9:11:03 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I shall use the false dagger for now.  I'd rather not wreck one that might have sentimental value."

[3/17/17, 9:11:17 PM] Creed: "Good choice."

[3/17/17, 9:11:43 PM] Josh: Taeral takes a green gem and embeds it into the hilt of the dagger.  He binds it in place with some good strong leather and hands it back.

[3/17/17, 9:11:52 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Try casting lightning through it."

[3/17/17, 9:12:06 PM] Creed: Creed uses shocking grasp with the dagger

[3/17/17, 9:13:48 PM] Josh: As you do, the blade glows.

[3/17/17, 9:13:54 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Now, thrust!"

[3/17/17, 9:14:20 PM] Creed: Creed stands straight with the dagger and thrusts it to her side at the wall

[3/17/17, 9:14:51 PM] Josh: As you do, a dagger of electricity shoots out the tip and flies forward, embeding itself in the wall and exploding.

[3/17/17, 9:15:03 PM] Josh: This is a lightning arrow dagger.

[3/17/17, 9:15:12 PM] Creed: Creed 's eyes sparkle

[3/17/17, 9:16:53 PM] Josh: In meta terms, you may now use a casting of shocking grasp to instead charge and prepare a lightning dagger.  Once fired, you make a missile attack at the same range of a dagger.  If it hits a target, they first take dagger damage, then the damage of a shocking grasp is emitted from it to hit all targets within 5 ft of the original target.

[3/17/17, 9:17:24 PM] Josh: All targets in area may make a DEX save to half the damage.

[3/17/17, 9:17:49 PM] Creed: saving that info

[3/17/17, 9:18:09 PM] Josh: Wise.

[3/17/17, 9:20:04 PM] Creed: I'm titling it Shocking Grasp-Lightning Arc

[3/17/17, 9:20:32 PM] Creed: name is still under revisions

[3/17/17, 9:20:39 PM] Josh: Ok.

[3/17/17, 9:20:49 PM] Josh: Taeral is jumping with joy.  "It worked!  Ha ha!"

[3/17/17, 9:21:30 PM] Creed: Creed looks over the dagger, inspecting it for any damage to the leather/gem/metal

[3/17/17, 9:22:16 PM] Josh: Roll investigation.

[3/17/17, 9:22:32 PM] Creed: (( 19 ))

[3/17/17, 9:23:17 PM] Josh: You do see some faint char marks where the blade meets the hilt.  But this seems to only be cosmetic damage.

[3/17/17, 9:26:47 PM] Creed: "It doesn't seem to have done any real damage to it either, so it should work out for quite a while. Thank you Taeral. I've been trying to do something like this for a long while."

[3/17/17, 9:27:52 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I had seen you practicing.  I thought I would help."

[3/17/17, 9:28:07 PM] Creed: "I appreciate the help."

[3/17/17, 9:28:14 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I attempted earlier trials, but the kickback was far too strong.  Threw off the balance, entirely."

[3/17/17, 9:31:28 PM] Creed: "I can imagine, I was always unsure if it was working properly."

[3/17/17, 9:32:08 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I am not sure the spell would work as you desired it to.  The metal in the blade isn't designed for direction."

[3/17/17, 9:36:32 PM] Creed: "It works, if I plunge it into my target."

[3/17/17, 9:37:09 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Channeling wasn't the issue.  If it ever left the blade, it would've been impossible to control."

[3/17/17, 9:37:30 PM] Creed: "How did you work it then, was it the crystal?"

[3/17/17, 9:38:07 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Yes.  The crystal generates a copy of what it's in, provided enough energy."

[3/17/17, 9:38:17 PM] Josh: Taeral: "And your thrust provides a direction."

[3/17/17, 9:38:37 PM] Creed: "...Good work Taeral."

[3/17/17, 9:38:55 PM] Josh: Taeral bows.  "Thank you, Lady Creed."

[3/17/17, 9:41:45 PM] Creed: "You should look into more versions that could be used, possibly for the others as well."

[3/17/17, 9:42:27 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I believe that is a great idea.  But, testing them requires gutting a weapon."

[3/17/17, 9:42:45 PM] Creed: "At least, ones that they would use."

[3/17/17, 9:46:38 PM] Josh: Taeral nods.

[3/17/17, 9:52:59 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...I have some other projects, but they're all kind of...well, I've been busy."

[3/17/17, 9:53:12 PM] Creed: "Do tell."

[3/17/17, 9:53:55 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Well, I set up that trap over the world hole."

[3/17/17, 9:54:12 PM] Creed: Creed looks over to the world hole "Trap?"

[3/17/17, 9:55:09 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Yes, it caught a bee, earlier.  When active, anything that comes in through the hole should pop into the old staff I was trapped in."

[3/17/17, 9:55:33 PM] Creed: "So you have a bee in your old spirit-containment orb?"

[3/17/17, 9:55:56 PM] Josh: Taeral: "No, I moved it to this jar."

[3/17/17, 9:56:07 PM] Josh: He holds up a jar.  There is a purple bee inside.

[3/17/17, 9:56:15 PM] Creed: Creed DM's it

[3/17/17, 9:56:39 PM] Creed: (( Can I try... nature? ))

[3/17/17, 9:56:48 PM] Josh: ((It is not magic.  You may.))

[3/17/17, 9:56:57 PM] Creed: ( 9 across the board )

[3/17/17, 9:57:02 PM] Josh: ((It's a bee...and it's purple.))

[3/17/17, 9:57:13 PM] Creed: "... It's a purple bee"

[3/17/17, 9:57:29 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Oracle says it is from the far realm."

[3/17/17, 9:57:48 PM] Creed: "Why is it purple though?"

[3/17/17, 9:58:08 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Um...because it's from the far realm?  ...I guess?"

[3/17/17, 9:58:32 PM] Creed: "If you don't mind me asking, I actually forget what resides in the Far Realm."

[3/17/17, 9:58:46 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Beholders."

[3/17/17, 9:59:03 PM] Creed: "... Right, good thing you have a trap there then."

[3/17/17, 9:59:06 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Aboleths, I think."

[3/17/17, 9:59:13 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Yes...yes it is."

[3/17/17, 10:01:12 PM] Creed: "Do you have any countermeasures prepared incase that single trap fails?"

[3/17/17, 10:02:13 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Well, these runes should make it very painful to leave the circle, and those are alarms to alert us, and those should slow it down if the other runes stop it."

[3/17/17, 10:02:37 PM] Creed: "So if it continues past that?"

[3/17/17, 10:02:54 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Then we run."

[3/17/17, 10:03:00 PM] Creed: "Good to know."

[3/17/17, 10:03:26 PM] Josh: Taeral: "You know, I've spent five years in this city.  You'd think I'd've known about some of this stuff."

[3/17/17, 10:03:37 PM] Creed: "Didn't you spend most of that time underground?"

[3/17/17, 10:04:06 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Not literally."

[3/17/17, 10:04:21 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I just worked with some...obscure merchants."

[3/17/17, 10:04:45 PM] Creed: "Fair enough, we're both in on that."

[3/17/17, 10:06:06 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...want my advice, Creed?"

[3/17/17, 10:06:21 PM] Creed: "That depends on what your advice is, Taeral."

[3/17/17, 10:06:41 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Leave.  Now.  Get a house.  Get a life.  And forget any of this stuff is here at all."

[3/17/17, 10:07:11 PM] Creed: "Unfortunately, Taeral, This is my life. So there's no leaving it for as far as I've come now."

[3/17/17, 10:07:27 PM] Creed: "Even if I wanted to, I know too much regardless."

[3/17/17, 10:07:52 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...that's probably true.  But I had to tell somebody that.  So I know I gave someone a chance."

[3/17/17, 10:08:13 PM] Creed: "The one that would probably take your advice more seriously would be Rune."

[3/17/17, 10:09:12 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Yes, I think she would.  ...I am not sure if I could do that to everyone else though.  She's...valuable to them, I think.  ...And to me."

[3/17/17, 10:09:27 PM] Creed: "Isn't that all the more reason to warn her, then?"

[3/17/17, 10:38:02 PM] Josh: Taeral: "..."

[3/17/17, 10:38:12 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Thank you...by the way."

[3/17/17, 10:38:18 PM] Creed: "For what, exactly?"

[3/17/17, 10:39:23 PM] Josh: Taeral: "For this.  For walking.  For tinkering.  For my life back."

[3/17/17, 10:40:00 PM] Creed: "Ah, yes. It took a bit of muddling around with how to strike the deal, but I did say we were going to get your body back."

[3/17/17, 10:40:15 PM] Creed: "I don't leave promises unresolved."

[3/17/17, 10:41:02 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...If I may be honest...I kind of found you annoying when we first got to know each other.  But I can see there is a respectability to you I overlooked before."

[3/17/17, 10:41:50 PM] Creed: "The feeling is mutual, everyone is annoying here, but they have their charming sides... Lest you forget, I am still a noble, we're all annoying."

[3/17/17, 10:42:41 PM] Creed: "In regards to what I've said, keep it from the others. I don't want Rune to nag me about calling everyone annoying."

[3/17/17, 10:43:02 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Mum's the word."

[3/17/17, 10:43:48 PM] Josh: Do you head back up?

[3/17/17, 10:43:52 PM] Creed: She does.