Qik
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Phedilo waits in his storeroom/workshop as the others ferry their prisoner downstairs and out the back door. Resigned to his presumed fate - a prison cell - until now, the halfling's eyes shoot open in surprise when Eanos hands him off to Maui. The others watch as Maui eagerly hustles his charge into the shadows of the alleyway, Taniwha following close behind, licking her lips, as the trio walks off into an unknown fate...
[sblock=OOC]We'll call it there.
That way Maui's secrets stay secrets, at least for the time being. Thanks for the setup, jk.
Thanks for the feedback, all. I'm glad to hear some positive amid the negative. Obviously the first meeting with the summoner was intended to be especially tough. The real motivation for that on my end was that I didn't want your confrontation with him to be one-and-done; seeing how the second fight with him went, I feel right in my judgment: he got some great rolls in the second fight, and you still took him down fairly easily. Were that to have been the only confrontation with him, it most definitely would have felt like a let-down for me.
As far as the way the first fight with him ended: the initial plan was to have him retreat once you had defeated his eidolon. When you all took him out of the fight so quickly, though, and the halfling was unable to get into position to heal him, I decided to keep it going. After a few maxed out summons (made all the more powerful via Superior Summoning), it became clear that a way out was needed. I had thought about a few possible interventions from Phedilo (the See Invisibility wand, or having him cast Glitterdust), or maybe having the stone whisk you all off; you would then have had the opportunity rest up before the stone whisked you back, which would have plopped you right on top of the halfling (who would have had been carrying the stone). But I didn't like the idea of a clear Deus Ex Machina on my part, so I was just trying to ride the wave, and when Maui issued his plea, I rolled a Diplomacy roll, which came out rolled great, so I decided to act in that regard. So anyway, that's a little insight into the how and why of things.
I do intend to keep tying various things I do into the Ears; by keeping things vague ("they're searching for magic items!"), it gives me a lot of flexibility for the future. Eventually, I want to do a much larger-scale adventure based on them in Illi Esse, seeking to "open the doors" to other worlds, but that is very much a work-in-progress at this point.
Thanks again for playing, all, and being such a great group. I'll work on getting the final numbers together sometime today.
Also, jk: my understanding is that yes, you can have multiple ioun stones in use. Ni actually has two right now, and he checked out okay, so I'm assuming that my belief is correct.[/sblock]
[sblock=OOC]We'll call it there.
That way Maui's secrets stay secrets, at least for the time being. Thanks for the setup, jk.Thanks for the feedback, all. I'm glad to hear some positive amid the negative. Obviously the first meeting with the summoner was intended to be especially tough. The real motivation for that on my end was that I didn't want your confrontation with him to be one-and-done; seeing how the second fight with him went, I feel right in my judgment: he got some great rolls in the second fight, and you still took him down fairly easily. Were that to have been the only confrontation with him, it most definitely would have felt like a let-down for me.
As far as the way the first fight with him ended: the initial plan was to have him retreat once you had defeated his eidolon. When you all took him out of the fight so quickly, though, and the halfling was unable to get into position to heal him, I decided to keep it going. After a few maxed out summons (made all the more powerful via Superior Summoning), it became clear that a way out was needed. I had thought about a few possible interventions from Phedilo (the See Invisibility wand, or having him cast Glitterdust), or maybe having the stone whisk you all off; you would then have had the opportunity rest up before the stone whisked you back, which would have plopped you right on top of the halfling (who would have had been carrying the stone). But I didn't like the idea of a clear Deus Ex Machina on my part, so I was just trying to ride the wave, and when Maui issued his plea, I rolled a Diplomacy roll, which came out rolled great, so I decided to act in that regard. So anyway, that's a little insight into the how and why of things.
I do intend to keep tying various things I do into the Ears; by keeping things vague ("they're searching for magic items!"), it gives me a lot of flexibility for the future. Eventually, I want to do a much larger-scale adventure based on them in Illi Esse, seeking to "open the doors" to other worlds, but that is very much a work-in-progress at this point.
Thanks again for playing, all, and being such a great group. I'll work on getting the final numbers together sometime today.
Also, jk: my understanding is that yes, you can have multiple ioun stones in use. Ni actually has two right now, and he checked out okay, so I'm assuming that my belief is correct.[/sblock]
