Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Rystil Arden]

Hee, no... Rystil brought the OOC thread's suggestion to my attention, and I said I'd seen them and would post. Then a game of Supreme Commander got out of hand and... *cough*

But werry soon I will be fixing Sulannus up real good.

I like Rystil's idea for revising her background story, though I feel it could use some 'punch.' It seems kind of like a dubious, whiny, annoying thing for her to do...though I suppose some would say that fits her to a T.

Mechanicswise, I think I'm finally settling. There won't even be a huge change. Of course the Duskblade retcon could be considered big...but it's explained in game by the lessons and so on. We'll just say she was -almost- a Duskblade before...and this pushed her over the edge.

Sounds like a plan to me. @Story--If you would prefer less of an abdication of responsibility, there are other themes to explore (frex, sister who doesn't like Sulannus becomes heir and brings a man into power making her life miserable), but I fear that they move rather far afield from the original backstory you wrote, which is more-or-less homologous to my above proposal.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Let me know when/if you're ready to continue

 

[Shayuri]

Hee...yes. Sorry, less free time than I anticipated.

I'll put up a proposed revision asap...most likely tomorrow evening. But I am ready to resume the game, since we're not in a crunch-heavy zone right now.

Speaking of resuming, don't forget the Rowaini game.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Hee...yes. Sorry, less free time than I anticipated.

I'll put up a proposed revision asap...most likely tomorrow evening. But I am ready to resume the game, since we're not in a crunch-heavy zone right now.

Speaking of resuming, don't forget the Rowaini game.

I haven't forgotten--I didn't get a chance to update any games for the past few days. Do I need to bump Night's Embrace IC? I thought it was a waiting-for-the-players thing.

 

[Legildur]

I thought we had finished with the halfling cleric and were moving north?

 

[jkason]

I, too, thought we were done with the cleric and were forest-bound.

jason

 

[Shayuri]

Ahem.

After taking so embarrassingly long on this, that I was seriously thinking I should just drop out rather than continue to hold the game up, I've decided the only answer is almost as drastic.

Sulannus will be a paladin or a cleric.

I'm leaning cleric with Elf domain, so she can still be an archer. Corellon, naturally.

That ALSO solves my background issue, because it lets me give her a spiritual calling.

I am -really- sorry I've been such a horror over all this. I will make it up with vigorous posts IC. Thanks to everyone for patience.

In terms of this weirdly affecting the continuity, I have an idea. Perhaps the 'calling' by the Seldarine comes now instead of before...thus explaining why she couldn't heal us before and so on. I could even multiclass, though that has consequences for elves, so I'd rather not.

Anyway, I -will- be posting a revised sheet tonight. It is number one priority on getting home.

Thoughts and comments are welcome.

Once again, thanks for not bawling me out.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Zoinks! If I had known that, I would have sent you guys Dhistan (Nhalia's brother) as the captive earlier instead of Nhalia. All the other groups got him, but since you guys had no healers, I gave you his cleric sister instead. Now we'll have two elven clerics of Corellon and Sehanine. Maybe I can come up with a plausible reason to switch in Dhistan. He's a more amusing NPC anyway.

 

[Shayuri]

Hee. That was one reason I was drawn to this...I didn't want you to feel you had to use Nhalia... Mostly though, it just fits the character in my head better. Duskblade is good, but not for archers. I could ditch the archery, but then we'd be heavy melee, low casting and dependent on an NPC for healing.

It just makes sense. Mechanically, thematically, characterwise...ecumenically?

Plus, she even prayed already! During the fight...and it worked. See?

Anyway...I'm really happy about this idea. It's kindling in my head. BOOOM.

I so rarely play clerics...I usually do druids. This should be fun.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Hmm, I wish I had known that before you guys left the city though.

Looking at stats, assuming you put the 17 in Wisdom, it looks like if you still want to do archery, you'll have to put the 14 from Con into Dex and then the 13 from Str into Con, becoming 11. Would the -3 maximum HP (1 from Con, 2 from lower HD) have changed anything in the first fight?