Blizzard at Revel's End (OOC) Temporary Hiatus

[KahlessNestor]

Let's look at this (I have never paid any attention to material components before, beyond being vaguely aware of them as fluff while playing a spellcaster - which I don't do very often at all):

Friends "a little makeup applied to the face"
Hex "a petrified newt's eye"
Mage Armour "a piece of cured leather"
Minor Illusion "a bit of fleece"

Unless you think Burton has been following the prison rules to the letter, I think he could have squirrelled all of that about his person (say, sewn into a false pocket in his prison trousers). Just in case. (No pun on your name).

Of course, the 'makeup' is a bit of soot soaked in rationed beer, the 'petrified newt's eye' is a dried rat's eye, the 'cured leather' is a piece stolen from a worn-out shoe, and the fleece is from your bedding (you got fleece instead of straw because of your nobility, lucky you).

If you have a spell focus, you don't need the M components, unless a price is specified.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

If you have a spell focus, you don't need the M components, unless a price is specified.

Oh yeah, that's true too. Although in this case, it might be easier to hide the material components. They'd probably search occasionally for wands (which is probably the easiest focus to make/hide). This shouldn't bother Burton, who can pretty much just will a weapon to appear when he's not in the anti-magic cells.

 

[VLAD the Destroyer]

Yeah my issue is that I need a holy symbol for many of my spells. It is going to be interesting until I can find/make one. Though I did just think about a tattooed holy symbol. I wonder if that would work. It would be thematic for a pirate who is a cleric to tattoo their symbol somewhere so they always have it on them.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Yeah my issue is that I need a holy symbol for many of my spells. It is going to be interesting until I can find/make one. Though I did just think about a tattooed holy symbol. I wonder if that would work. It would be thematic for a pirate who is a cleric to tattoo their symbol somewhere so they always have it on them.

I'm okay with that. If a fighting cleric can have their holy symbol on their shield (as I believe they can), then a tattoo seems reasonable. The only flaw to that is that I believe the use of a holy symbol requires the caster to "present" the symbol - so, if your tattoo was on your chest (for example), you'd need to open your shirt Superman-style (or Gaston, really)

 

[VLAD the Destroyer]

That or tattoo it to your palm which was my first thought, or the back of the hand. Now that will be a painful tattoo to get.

 

[Kobold Stew]

I think the point is that it "takes a hand" -- A tattoo means it can't be disarmed, but that seems trivial in the big scheme -- tattoo'd to the palm and needing to present it would seem an awesome character move.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

In case that's not clear, there's one sahuagin left attacking Jathlin, one still attacking Valrin, one on Burton, and two on Doc Halfhand. The dock is clear, at the moment, and the Ship has Seven sahuagin on the main deck (with only the mate alive up there).

The crab and rider are 80 feet up. Only halfway. I really thought that a crab ought to have a climb speed. I guess I could have given it one arbitrarily, but I figure I'm not making it roll climb checks, but I can at least half its speed (it's carrying a rider up a cliff out of its favored element, that's gotta be hard enough).

Any questions?

 

[Leatherhead]

I had forgotten that melons are a real thing.

 

[Leatherhead]

Oh wait, here is a relevant question:
Can Py'Cott see what is happening under the water?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Oh wait, here is a relevant question:
Can Py'Cott see what is happening under the water?

It's hard to see under the water from the dock (frothy slush-covered surface) but Red Ghost can dive under to look or surface, whichever you prefer, if that works for you.