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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9279923" data-attributes="member: 1282"><p><em><We cut to a cavernous chamber with vaulted ceiling deep in the bowels of the Congress of Savagery. Impressive bas reliefs of battle scenes, gladiatorial bouts, and heroes wrestling great monsters adorn the otherwise bare, stone walls. Several dim candles flicker in votive dishes to provide light. Thick, blue plumes of incense rise from a censer. A great four-poster bed with diaphonous curtains predominates. That, and the giant form of Gae'al reclining upon it. Around her, the smaller forms of Chanvati and K'Goren, the blind and deaf Iron Gorgon Tribe Goliath Runecarver, chisel sigils into the chamber's floor. Pa'avu paces nervously about.></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><<Now, our preparations are complete, your real work begins,>> projects K'Goren into the mind of the Psion, and he ushers Pa'avu within the circle of sigils, hastening to join her.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><<Perturbations of the Chronotope never come without cost. I hope you accept this. Sit and dream,>> she commands, and Chanvati and Pa'avu take up cross-legged positions flanking Gae'al's great bed. They close their eyes dutifully.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>K'Goren begins chanting arcane words. The sigils carved in the stone floor flare to life as sizzling points of blue-white light in a circle encapsulating the two heroes and the psychologically broken Gae'al within its compass. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Inside Chanvati's mind--or outside; it is hard to tell--a riot of chaos. Blurred images flickering like a shuffled pack of cards. Helix-ing tunnels criss-crossing one another in a dense tangle.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>On the bed, Gae'al's eyes roll about spasmodically beneath her heavy lids. She gives a mighty groan.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p>Okay, what we're doing here is returning to address the final step in the <em><strong>Assuage Gae'al's Burden </strong></em>Skill Challenge--"The only way to get the final success is to lift the curse. An actual Ritual (if she would accept it)...destroying the one who cursed her...<strong>entering her dreams and felling Gormandt & Grimtail; but that last would have implications for the temporal continuity of your world</strong>"--by pursuing the last of these three options for easing her guilt, entering Gae'al's dreams and the Chronotope to undo her defeat, her subsequent shame, and the actions she took to bring the curse upon herself in trafficking with an agent of Nerull, the Reaver (hopefully!).</p><p></p><p>Per our discussion with [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] , mechanically, this step is undertaken by first "pay[ing] 1/10 of-level item in Coin (900 gp) for auto-success to activate that <strong><em>Enter the Chronotope</em></strong> Ritual. This would be an Arcana Ritual for Chanvati to make an Arcana check w/ +2 circumstance bonus for K'Goren's help. I'm thinking some fiction like the below and then a spread of results:</p><p></p><p><em>The world shimmers around you as the lattice of space and time warp in a reconfiguration you propose. The Chronotope is an alien representation of a world and its events...and there is always a cost for instantiation and meddling...</em></p><p></p><p>Arcana Check Result</p><p>10–19 Team PC takes -2 to Initiative and -2 Defenses in rd 1</p><p>20–29 Both Teams take -2 Defenses in rd 1</p><p>30–39 Team Monster takes -2 to Initiative and -2 Defenses in rd 1</p><p>40 or higher Team Monster takes -2 to Initiative and -2 Defenses in rd 1 and you subtly control the Chronotope. An ally of yours instantiates briefly (Rd 1) to aid your cause and then disappears from this reconfigured reality.</p><p></p><p>Then we'd play out the combat w/ G&G and their gang in the Chronotope surreal-ified Congress of Savagery to determine the fate of things. Afterwards, we'd land on some interesting alternation of continuity where G&G don't defeat Gae'al and claim the CoS."</p><p></p><p>Chanvati pays <strong>900 gp</strong> and makes a Primary Skill <strong>Arcana</strong> check for this Ritual, r4+16+2 K'Goren's aid=<strong>22</strong>. Not a great start! (But not terrible, either...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 9279923, member: 1282"] [I]<We cut to a cavernous chamber with vaulted ceiling deep in the bowels of the Congress of Savagery. Impressive bas reliefs of battle scenes, gladiatorial bouts, and heroes wrestling great monsters adorn the otherwise bare, stone walls. Several dim candles flicker in votive dishes to provide light. Thick, blue plumes of incense rise from a censer. A great four-poster bed with diaphonous curtains predominates. That, and the giant form of Gae'al reclining upon it. Around her, the smaller forms of Chanvati and K'Goren, the blind and deaf Iron Gorgon Tribe Goliath Runecarver, chisel sigils into the chamber's floor. Pa'avu paces nervously about.> <<Now, our preparations are complete, your real work begins,>> projects K'Goren into the mind of the Psion, and he ushers Pa'avu within the circle of sigils, hastening to join her. <<Perturbations of the Chronotope never come without cost. I hope you accept this. Sit and dream,>> she commands, and Chanvati and Pa'avu take up cross-legged positions flanking Gae'al's great bed. They close their eyes dutifully. K'Goren begins chanting arcane words. The sigils carved in the stone floor flare to life as sizzling points of blue-white light in a circle encapsulating the two heroes and the psychologically broken Gae'al within its compass. Inside Chanvati's mind--or outside; it is hard to tell--a riot of chaos. Blurred images flickering like a shuffled pack of cards. Helix-ing tunnels criss-crossing one another in a dense tangle. On the bed, Gae'al's eyes roll about spasmodically beneath her heavy lids. She gives a mighty groan.[/I] [HR][/HR] Okay, what we're doing here is returning to address the final step in the [I][B]Assuage Gae'al's Burden [/B][/I]Skill Challenge--"The only way to get the final success is to lift the curse. An actual Ritual (if she would accept it)...destroying the one who cursed her...[B]entering her dreams and felling Gormandt & Grimtail; but that last would have implications for the temporal continuity of your world[/B]"--by pursuing the last of these three options for easing her guilt, entering Gae'al's dreams and the Chronotope to undo her defeat, her subsequent shame, and the actions she took to bring the curse upon herself in trafficking with an agent of Nerull, the Reaver (hopefully!). Per our discussion with [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] , mechanically, this step is undertaken by first "pay[ing] 1/10 of-level item in Coin (900 gp) for auto-success to activate that [B][I]Enter the Chronotope[/I][/B] Ritual. This would be an Arcana Ritual for Chanvati to make an Arcana check w/ +2 circumstance bonus for K'Goren's help. I'm thinking some fiction like the below and then a spread of results: [I]The world shimmers around you as the lattice of space and time warp in a reconfiguration you propose. The Chronotope is an alien representation of a world and its events...and there is always a cost for instantiation and meddling...[/I] Arcana Check Result 10–19 Team PC takes -2 to Initiative and -2 Defenses in rd 1 20–29 Both Teams take -2 Defenses in rd 1 30–39 Team Monster takes -2 to Initiative and -2 Defenses in rd 1 40 or higher Team Monster takes -2 to Initiative and -2 Defenses in rd 1 and you subtly control the Chronotope. An ally of yours instantiates briefly (Rd 1) to aid your cause and then disappears from this reconfigured reality. Then we'd play out the combat w/ G&G and their gang in the Chronotope surreal-ified Congress of Savagery to determine the fate of things. Afterwards, we'd land on some interesting alternation of continuity where G&G don't defeat Gae'al and claim the CoS." Chanvati pays [B]900 gp[/B] and makes a Primary Skill [B]Arcana[/B] check for this Ritual, r4+16+2 K'Goren's aid=[B]22[/B]. Not a great start! (But not terrible, either...) [/QUOTE]
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