[2026/07/12 14:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright, not sure where Jassie is and logs aren't up because of the Fucking week
[2026/07/12 14:12] Sapphire: such a week
[2026/07/12 14:12] Joe: it has been a week and a half
[2026/07/12 14:12] Joe: as they used to say
[2026/07/12 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: so... you finally made it into Milton. Congrats, you're now in a besieged city.
[2026/07/12 14:13] Joe: its better than the kobolds camp
[2026/07/12 14:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: And with that recap out of the way, GGGRREEETTTIIINGGGSS Adventurers! Other players get to know what happened last time, you get to gues wtf happened.
[2026/07/12 14:14] Sapphire: in our hubris we have not taken notes
[2026/07/12 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: And we had the intervention of *someone* to save Joe from being hacked to pieces, and given a Mission: Slay the evil monsters, whereever you find them, without mercy
[2026/07/12 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me has said "keep notes"... if you don't... that's on you.
[2026/07/12 14:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Let's start with Joe
[2026/07/12 14:15] Sapphire: /me ponders how one knows if a given monster is evil
[2026/07/12 14:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: Detect Evil
[2026/07/12 14:17] Jassie: is online.
[2026/07/12 14:17] Joe: I was visited upon by an angel, the Gods of light sent a golden angel who instructed me to "Kill Them All" in no uncertain terms because they're all wicked evil. "Spare none of them." These are my divine instructions. I feel a need to blather excitedly about it to the next nearest Paladin who might understand the import of this
[2026/07/12 14:19] Sapphire: "Even if it gets you killed?" Emily asks. "But if you get killed than you can't keep up with the Commands..."
[2026/07/12 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: Such is the lot of a knight.
[2026/07/12 14:20] Joe: also to debate somewhat the practicalities and the moralities, for example use of poison is an evil thing for a paladin, however, if it kills them all efficiently, surely thats not evil, given the context
[2026/07/12 14:20] Jassie: heya sorry sorry
[2026/07/12 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Beware slippery slope arguments.
[2026/07/12 14:20] Joe: firebombing, use of biological weapons, etc. The Holy Mandate was not specific regarding methodology
[2026/07/12 14:21] Joe: hi Jassie
[2026/07/12 14:21] Jassie: heya
[2026/07/12 14:21] Sapphire: "Did the Holy Mandate have anything to say about innocents?"
[2026/07/12 14:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: What's Mecha going to say/do?
[2026/07/12 14:24] Mecha: I look at Joe."What did this angel look like?"
[2026/07/12 14:25] Joe: more beautiful than any mortal I have ever dreamed of (present company excepted of course), glowing radiantly with a brilliant golden aura
[2026/07/12 14:26] Mecha: This one needs a moment
[2026/07/12 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie?
[2026/07/12 14:27] Joe: "Yes, innocents were implied, not directly mentioned. Her exact words were 'Bring justice - kill them all, they are all wicked, evil demons. Spare none of them." This is how I know it is an angel and not a demon, for she specified about bringing justice. I think she meant the kobolds. That aprt was not so specific, but .. y'know, context." frowns and pauses to contemplate this. "I might be reading into it."
[2026/07/12 14:27] Jassie: (just getting back into it)
[2026/07/12 14:28] Jassie: (dont worry bout me for now haha)
[2026/07/12 14:28] Joe: Paladin Joe falls into a meditative quietness until further notice
[2026/07/12 14:28] Mecha: Talia: Golden aura? Anything like the one we saw right after we ran into the woods the first time?
[2026/07/12 14:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Soldiers, or at least, guys in chain mail and waving spears about are surrounding you all. "Explain yourselves!"
[2026/07/12 14:29] Sapphire: "Well, if you dropped poison down a well to get a regiment of kobolds with it... how do you know some innocent wouldn't come back after and get poisoned too? Hard to control stuff like that."
[2026/07/12 14:30] Jassie: /me looks at them pointing spears at us with a shrug, "maybe stop waving those at us first?"
[2026/07/12 14:30] Sapphire: "Ah," she looks up, "We snuck our way through the seige with intent to help Milton break through."
[2026/07/12 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: One of the soldiers: "Are you the advance guard of a relief force?"
[2026/07/12 14:32] Sapphire: "we're adventurers sent by Queen Astrid. The relif force is, I suspect, rather distracted by all the other cities under threat right now.
[2026/07/12 14:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's a muttering of vague discontent, then "You better come see the Captain."
[2026/07/12 14:33] Jassie: /me "why is everyone we meet so grouchy all the time honestly..." sighs to herself
[2026/07/12 14:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Probably because they're busy fighting a whore.
[2026/07/12 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Everyone going along?
[2026/07/12 14:36] Joe: yes
[2026/07/12 14:36] Mecha: Yeah, Talia is going too
[2026/07/12 14:36] Jassie: yup
[2026/07/12 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: The Captain has apparantly set up his office in a rather empty tavern. There's maps and notes scattered about, and he looks hopeful. "So... you're on our side, I take it... leading reinforcements?"
[2026/07/12 14:37] Joe: "not so much 'leading'..."
[2026/07/12 14:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: The Captains' expression slips a little. "So... what do you bring...?"
[2026/07/12 14:38] Joe: "Divine blessings...?"
[2026/07/12 14:39] Jassie: "spells and a hammer
[2026/07/12 14:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: The Captain sighs. "Okay, why are you here?"
[2026/07/12 14:40] Joe: "To redeem myself by killing all the kobolds which beseige ye."
[2026/07/12 14:41] Joe: *besiege
[2026/07/12 14:42] Joe: (Hopes the Captain does not ask 'to redeem yourself from what?'"
[2026/07/12 14:42] Jassie: /me shakes her head a little, "definitely helping with the kobolds for now, the temple of Selune sends is regards as well."
[2026/07/12 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me awaits Sapphire/Mecha to put their $0.02 in
[2026/07/12 14:43] Mecha: we were sent here to try and help break this siege, to be honest.
[2026/07/12 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "What? The four of you against a kobold legion?"
[2026/07/12 14:44] Mecha: I know right?!
[2026/07/12 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "Sent by who? To break the siege how?"
[2026/07/12 14:45] Joe: "The Gods are not to be under-estimated." Paladin Joe is no longer Joe the Cynic, he is now refuelled with renewed vigour and spiritual focus. "We are not to question the righteousness of the Gods of light, only to serve them as best as we are able."
[2026/07/12 14:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain, under his breath: "Great, a zealot. Just what we need."
[2026/07/12 14:46] Mecha: Talia looks at Joe and shakes her head before saying we were sent by Queen Astrid and...someone else who I would rather not say."
[2026/07/12 14:47] Jassie: /me nods, "yes the queen sent us and we would definitely not want to disappoint her...too much at least."
[2026/07/12 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain (growing impatient): "Yeah? Well I'd rather not discuss military strategy with just anyone who wanders in."
[2026/07/12 14:49] Jassie: shrugs to herself at this point...
[2026/07/12 14:50] Mecha: Talia nods."Wise decision." She sighs. "However this is the mission we have been sent on so I would like to offer my help. trust me as far and as much as you want but if we can work together we can take steps on our other missions."
[2026/07/12 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "Right now I trust you as much as any Tom, Dick or Harry with some tall story and unknown backing."
[2026/07/12 14:51] Mecha: Talia nods."Fair enough."
[2026/07/12 14:52] Jassie: /e me nods some, "makes sense."
[2026/07/12 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: yeah.... social encounters and RP... really not your long suit.
[2026/07/12 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire?
[2026/07/12 14:52] Joe: "Captain, listen to her help. If you dismiss or accept it, that is your choice. It wil not incvolve you sharing your strategy with us. There is widsom in what I am saying, you sir as a wise man adept at strategy, surely know it."
[2026/07/12 14:52] Joe: (sorry i spoke out of order)
[2026/07/12 14:53] Jassie: (it is, but not my char haha)
[2026/07/12 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "My ass is for sitting on, not kissing."
[2026/07/12 14:54] Mecha: *Waits for Sapphire.*
[2026/07/12 14:54] Joe: Has no intention of discussing the captains ass or whether he will sit on it during the heat of battle.
[2026/07/12 14:54] Jassie: (lol hahaha! sorry thats funny hehe)
[2026/07/12 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: did we lose Sapphire?
[2026/07/12 14:57] Jassie: (not sure)
[2026/07/12 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay.... I'll tell you now you're on the verge of being slung out of his office... so... what you going to do?
[2026/07/12 14:59] Sapphire: ack
[2026/07/12 14:59] Jassie: (did the sent her by the Queen not count for anything?)
[2026/07/12 14:59] Joe: "I suggest we come up with our own strategy, assuming the Captain is not as proficient at coping with this situation as he might believe. It will fall upon us to save this city, even without his confidence."
[2026/07/12 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: (With a mystery other? Oddly no.)
[2026/07/12 15:00] Mecha: Talia sighs." Sir do you know anything about the whole Emberclaw Sonja debacle a while back?"
[2026/07/12 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: jesus, I know you suck at RP, but really...
[2026/07/12 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "What of it? It's not like that's not common knowledge."
[2026/07/12 15:01] Mecha: do you remember the adventurers that helps take down Emberclaw? That was us."
[2026/07/12 15:01] Sapphire: (( Sorry about that, I'm getting myself back up to... dang it. Work is pinging me again, one moment ))
[2026/07/12 15:01] Jassie: (welcome to my world sapph haha)
[2026/07/12 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "Maybe ye are, maybe ye ain't... what's yer point?"
[2026/07/12 15:02] Mecha: Sonja is the other one who sent us.
[2026/07/12 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "Hmm. Well... so yer saying she's coming...?" (Sounding hopeful)
[2026/07/12 15:03] Sapphire: (( Oh hey, didn't we receive a letter from the queen to validate our position of being sent by her? )
[2026/07/12 15:03] Jassie: "I would say im not sure at this point, but it is a possibilty."
[2026/07/12 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: (You received her seal)
[2026/07/12 15:04] Jassie: (BAHAHA i completely forgot about it)
[2026/07/12 15:04] Mecha: She's the one who dropped us off she has some other thing to do we seem to have multiple areas of fighting.
[2026/07/12 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "Dropped you off, you say... so... she's gone."
[2026/07/12 15:05] Mecha: She told us she would be but our first attempt to get to you did not go well and she was there to insult us.
[2026/07/12 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain (frowns): "...insult you? What'd she do, say you're all fuck ups?"
[2026/07/12 15:07] Sapphire: Emily adds, "That is my understanding as well, yes sir," before looking at the floor in embarrassment. "That we'd been dropped off to assist, and that flying close to the enemies archers was not an acceptable risk."
[2026/07/12 15:07] Mecha: Yeah pretty much.
[2026/07/12 15:07] Jassie: "pretty accurate sometimes."
[2026/07/12 15:07] Sapphire: At that she pauses, considering if they have possible ways to mess with the enemy *archers*. A smaller ask than the whole army.
[2026/07/12 15:08] Jassie: /me pokes sapphire, "maybe show the seal as well?"
[2026/07/12 15:09] Sapphire: Emily checks her pockets for the seal but thought one of the people who *don't* turn into smoke semi often was carrying it.
[2026/07/12 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain (frowning still): "...sounds like a load of... Look, we can hold here for a while, that ain't the real problem. Problem is they're keeping us bottled up here - and we know they're searching for something. I'd suggest if they want it - we don't want them to have it."
[2026/07/12 15:11] Mecha: Since you said something and not what it is I can assume you don't know what?" so it's needle in a haystack
[2026/07/12 15:11] Jassie: "I mean what can we do to help? we cant really fight a whole war with them."
[2026/07/12 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Captain: "Haven't a clue, but they seem to be zeroing in on the swamp to the East. You can probably slip though and get to.... whatever it is... first."
[2026/07/12 15:12] Sapphire: ( Was it Emily who had the Seal? )
[2026/07/12 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: (The party has it.)
[2026/07/12 15:13] Jassie: /me searches her pockets and takes out the seal, "does this at least help?'
[2026/07/12 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: (He's already given you what he can)
[2026/07/12 15:14] Sapphire: "The Eastern Swamp." She repeats, a small amount of distress in her voice, but nodding. Her outfit is not well suited to such a place, but the Captain is not the one to complain to about it. "Finding the relic that Emberclaws forces are looking for seems like a task we'd be well placed at."
[2026/07/12 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm sure you'll be fine. What could possibly go wrong?
[2026/07/12 15:16] Mecha: Talia sighs."Okay, so now we're off to the eastern swamp." Talia walks to joe and lightly slaps his shoulder okay time to get things moving."
[2026/07/12 15:16] Jassie: i get stuck and sink into it with the armour
[2026/07/12 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright, Mecha has to be off early and so do I, but, we got something to do before next session
[2026/07/12 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: I said you'd all level up a while back. Time to roll HP
[2026/07/12 15:17] Jassie: oh early today
[2026/07/12 15:17] Sapphire: She nods. "Might we consult with the quartermaster about... swamp-suitable gear,?"
[2026/07/12 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: I suspect this might take some time, as, you're 9th level
[2026/07/12 15:18] Jassie: /me nods, "that might be really helpful."
[2026/07/12 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe: you get to roll a D10
[2026/07/12 15:18] Sapphire: 9th....
[2026/07/12 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: yep
[2026/07/12 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: important milestone in D&D
[2026/07/12 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: A paladin can cast priest spells once he reaches 9th level. He can cast only spells of the combat, divination, healing, and protective spheres.
[2026/07/12 15:19] Jassie: im still same, just more spells haha
[2026/07/12 15:20] Joe: at the shoulder-tap from Talia, Joe comes out of his meditational prayer and opens his eyes.
[2026/07/12 15:20] D10: Joe rolls 8
[2026/07/12 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire... you're the wizard.... d4
[2026/07/12 15:21] D4: Sapphire rolls 1
[2026/07/12 15:21] Sapphire: 9th is a level at which a new class of spell slot reveals itself?
[2026/07/12 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Joe: what 1st level cleric spell you want to have?
[2026/07/12 15:23] Joe: Healing
[2026/07/12 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Cure Light Wounds?
[2026/07/12 15:24] Joe: yeah that is good. I can use in addition to lay-on-hands, yes?
[2026/07/12 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes. Laying on hands now curse 18hp
[2026/07/12 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: or cures it, maybe, idk
[2026/07/12 15:25] Joe: happy days
[2026/07/12 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire: you now have access to level five magic
[2026/07/12 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: 4 3 3 2 1
[2026/07/12 15:25] Jassie: im guessing its same for me?
[2026/07/12 15:26] Sapphire: once i research or learn a spell of suitable level
[2026/07/12 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: unfortunately you got no 5th level spell....
[2026/07/12 15:26] Sapphire: and mid-war is a tricky time to do research
[2026/07/12 15:26] Jassie: aww what
[2026/07/12 15:26] Sapphire: if I knew some metamagic to make... boosed copies of other spells... hmmmm
[2026/07/12 15:27] Jassie: metamagic is awesome
[2026/07/12 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: reminds me... Mecha, also fighter, D10
[2026/07/12 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: and Jassie, D8
[2026/07/12 15:27] D10: Mecha rolls 8
[2026/07/12 15:27] D8: Jassie rolls 1
[2026/07/12 15:27] Sapphire: And.... I *do* have some ability to turn into smoke already. If I had better control of that, to turn it into a proper spelll.....
[2026/07/12 15:27] Jassie: theres the 1
[2026/07/12 15:28] Jassie: wait what rules we using?
[2026/07/12 15:28] Jassie: adnd 2nd right?
[2026/07/12 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassies spells: 4 4 3 2 1
[2026/07/12 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: so yes, 5th level spell
[2026/07/12 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes
[2026/07/12 15:29] Jassie: ah lucky
[2026/07/12 15:29] Jassie: not so lucky with hp though haha
[2026/07/12 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me slings cards about.... hopefully you got them all right
[2026/07/12 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Jassie, take a look at your spells, see what ones you want... idk, IM me them or send the card back during the week
[2026/07/12 15:31] Jassie: can i change also?
[2026/07/12 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yes, you can pick whatever spells you are able to pick
[2026/07/12 15:31] Jassie: since joe has heals, im gonna take some blasting ones also haha
[2026/07/12 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: did not expect that.