The Easiest 100gp - OOC 5

[inspiration]

The speaking stone is a pretty simple conduit. Sparrow can send static illusions (which he cannot control once they arrive at Edric's side, and fade fairly quickly) but not dreams.

[inspiration]

I really like (not from a hur hur evil GM perspective, but a story perspective) Zaljan's consequences for overreaching his magical abilities.

Let me know when you guys decide if you're going off the road or not; I don't want to assume anything before I bamf you to the next bit.

[FreakyBoy]

Just for the record: Zaljan could keep using magic, but he'd then venture into the "Bad Juju" territory and, in essence, become an "evil" shaman. He'd be forcing and binding spirits to his will (which the Juju lets him do), rather than asking for their aid and cooperation.

And he's starting to understand how past shaman have gotten wrapped up in the Bad Juju now.

[inspiration]

Thanks for the extra info. All very cool.

Does anyone object to the party going offroad? If there's no opposition I'll go ahead and make it happen.

[Grillick]

Edric will use his magical transmutation abilities to turn the wagons into a boat. It'll hold the gear and the party going across, but probably won't hold the oxen.

In other news, I had my last law school final for the semester today. Ordinarily, this would mean I would be more available to post, but I'm going to Hawaii on Sunday for 2+ weeks, and I think my time in HI would be better-spent not online, so my posting will be about as sporadic has it has been the last couple weeks.

I'll be back to regular posting early January.

Feel free to puppet Edric. FB, Sktiz and Inspy are all authorized to control him for me unless I have posted within the past day.

[inspiration]

I'll assume he shrinks the oxen and carts enough to travel through the forest with them? It's relatively densely wooded between the road and the river (not really shown on the map because I am not a good cartographer).

I'm sure posting in general is going to be wee over the holidays; I just didn't want to hold things up if it turned out everyone was waiting on me to make the next move.

[inspiration]

100gp will be on hiatus until after New Year's, when it will restart with a vengeance! Mine is an evil laugh!

[Dom/SlimKop]

I'm back! Hopefully everyone else will start trickling in.

[CCC]

Sparrow is currently accelerating the growth of some ivy up a wall which he considers far too bare and boring on its own. Once that's done, he'll go and have a quiet chat with the merchandise of the man selling pets and, if they request it, will contrive a great escape.

In other words, exactly the kind of thing he always does.

[FreakyBoy]

Zaljan is grousing about the plan to leave the road after the sacrifices he made to keep the carts mobile.

[inspiration]

Ugh, sorry, I've got a festering turd of an editing project to get off my desk (metaphorically speaking, as it's all digital) before I can give proper attention back to the game. It's due Friday, though, so we're not talking a long hiatus.

If Grillick could specify exactly what he does with the oxen and ox-carts, and what he takes or doesn't take along, that would be helpful so I don't have to guess and get it wrong.

[Grillick]

If Zaljan has a different plan, Edric would be open to suggestions.

[inspiration]

At the risk of sounding naggy or annoyed, because I really really do not mean it like that, I need you guys to come to a decision about what you're doing so we can get the whole group moving again. Within the next couple days would be ideal.

[FreakyBoy]

If Zaljan has a different plan, Edric would be open to suggestions.

Zaljan's plan was to keep going down the road and stop being so worried about a bunch of circus people. I'm pretty sure he said that.

[CCC]

Sparrow's strategy of choice, were he there, would involve using illusion to disguise Edric and Punchy. Since he's not, perhaps they can try something similar with more mundane disguises - false beards or something? It should be possible to disguise Punchy as a dwarf...