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Wraith was quiet and impassive for most of the exchange, and someone who didn't know better could think that she was just a solid metal fixture on the wall. But the longer it went on the narrower her eyes got in an expression of...confusion? "I do not understand," she admitted, shifting a bit. "You had dreams that some unknown person was going to take your family artifact, but even if it is true, you do not know why? Or who? And for this you have touched and altered the minds of multiple innocent people, attempting to find a magic pool you could not even know truly existed?" "Dangerous is not truly enough," she chided, one arm releasing the wall and becoming a blade as long as most (Earth) men were tall. "I am dangerous, but even if I wanted your stone I do not think I would do evil with it. To have taken such steps with so little information may perhaps make you desperate, not wise. I am tempted to bring him to the spring if only to test the validity of his claims."
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I'm moving into my new place, but it...does not yet have internet. I'll be trying to sneak on and take care of posts and the like, but I may not be online much until the internet things get set up!
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"Don't hurt him!" Tarrant called out over the league communicator, for lack of a better way to reach Fleur. Not that he imagined she would, but a little necessary roughness was sometimes called for in their line of work...and misunderstandings happened. With a hand on Teagan's side he'd seen what she'd seen, and it...didn't seem to fit. "Teagan let us see what happened, but something's wrong here. That guy didn't seem to intend to do much of anything." "He is either a pawn or a witness," Teagan rumbled, her eyes - even normally a startling crimson, lit from within by her own fire - shining solid red as she watched the scene unfold again in the hopes of spotting anything new. "He was praying to his...'Legba': some sort of spirit world guardian deity, from what I can gather of his prayers. When the portal opened he ran away screaming. If he intended to be a part of this, then he is an excellent actor who puts on a play when no one is watching."
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Teagan issued a low, quiet hiss, thoughtfully pondering the gate and her options. Tracing the portal back to its creators by magic would take more time and resources than they had at the moment - she somehow doubted Stesha wanted this thing sitting on her planet for several days - but, maybe, just maybe.... "It'd help to know exactly what happened here, really," Tarrant mused, frowning at the portal and idly rearranging some of his defensive spines. "If they were already gone by the time the bees arrived, there's too much we don't know about who was here...or how many. You did say 'voices', plural?" "....agreed. I will require---ah. Thank you," the dragon said with mild surprise, as her partner held out his hand in concentration; scorched flora were gently pushed aside as a great tablet of earth rose to the surface, providing her with a dragon-sized circular slab of soft stone to work with. One great claw went to thoughtful work, scratching symbols into the rock as quiet, echoing words like fire - perhaps literally fire - fell from her teeth to fill the crude sigils with a terrible crimson light. "<It is in the Fire, and the Breath, and the Word that the past is never truly lost, echoes of time burned into the memory of the world....>"
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Tiamat's going to start jury-rigging a ritual: Super-Senses 5 (Postcognition [+Tracking; Extra: Affects Others; Flaw: Distracting]) [5pp] So that's a DC20 check (10 (base) + 5 (jury-rig) + 5 (pp cost)), taking her about half a minute to complete. Knowledge (Arcane Lore) check, DC20 (jury-rigged ritual) (1d20 + 10=22) Huzzah! GK coughs up 1HP to supply the jury-rig with what it needs. Should grant anyone who cares to look into the past a chance to make Notice and/or Search rolls....the rolls for which I'll go ahead and do for GK and Tiamat: GK: Notice Check (postcognition) (1d20 + 15=20) And he'll just take 10 on the search check, for a check of 12. Tiamat: Notice Check (postcognition); Search Check (postcognition) (1d20 + 10=22, 1d20 + 5=9) Notice: 22 Search: 9 Blegch, those search rolls.... If anyone else wants to take a shot, just touch the dragon to see what she sees.
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"Hrrrmmh. Maybe," Teagan pondered, eyeing the portal with suspicion. "I cannot say for sure, as I don't know how this was done. I know how I would do it, if I lost all sense, but it wouldn't look quite like this...." She pondered for another moment before snorting. "A tracing ritual is an option, if a thin one, but it would take time - hours to do right. Less with some...risk and unreliability, if I could wing it. It's possible that I could smell this on them, too, if it left enough of a mark and we found them quickly. I cannot offer a guarantee." "And we'd have to find them first," Tarrant mused. "We'd have to narrow it down, at the very least, and with all the new arrivals...I somehow doubt we can have Teagan go around sticking her head into every home to sniff people....and that's assuming whoever did this is hiding in plain sight. If they're off in the woods somewhere...who knows. It seems odd to have called this thing up out here and just left it, though."
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"I'm not sure I like the sound of 'horrible things came crawling out of its mouth'," Tarrant observed. He pulled in closer to the ground as the bees filled them in, but his attention was more on the portal than the corpse. If one thing had already come through.... He frowned, sweeping his hands up to direct the soft earth into hard shards of stone, and the shards into a fleet of spines surrounding the portal. He didn't know what else could come through there, and he didn't want to kill it if he didn't have to, but hopefully it'd make would-be invaders think twice...or at least give them a pretty bad day if they tried. And were vulnerable to sharp things. And couldn't relocate the portal. Too many 'and's. "Any ideas, T?" Teagan landed near the mosquito, circling it with her head to the ground before carefully striding closer for a sniff. She almost immediately reared her head back, taking two long strides away from the thing like it was toxic. "Anopheles," she spat, like the very word tasted bad. "Bad news all around. Across that door there's going to be a whole dimension of these things - or things like it. Big, carnivorous bugs doing what big carnivorous bugs do: eating. Eating you, body and soul. Maybe they even let you die first." "It's a little worse than that, though," she grimly added. She swiped a clawed hand at her nostrils, like she was trying to get rid of the smell. "Not sure I've ever heard of these things invading, exactly - some idiot usually calls them, or pokes around where they shouldn't and get an unfortunate surprise. Assuming this thing didn't get him, and we don't have any more like it wandering around, someone around here has a nasty secret."
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GK doesn't know Arcane Lore from a hole in the ground, but what the heck, and the other checks are outside the DC limit for untrained checks! Fortunately.... Knowledge (Arcane Lore) check, DC20 (1d20 + 10=24) ....Tiamat is secretly a smart cookie and a half-decent magic-user.
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Aha - interesting. Neat! The only thing left was the Additional Limbs line, then, which I've taken the liberty of cleaning up for you (in addition to removing the glut of weird font, color, and size tags in the post). APPROVED!
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Aha - makes sense, and fair enough! Thank you very much for clarifying. Lemme know when you've done whatever else you want done.
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Tarrant was supposed to be grading papers - nothing big, mind, he didn't like to spring the truly awful grunt work on his students until a bit later, but it was enough and he'd accrued a bit of a backlog trying to get housing up for all the new Sanctuary residents. Not that he didn't enjoy the work, but the control and attention it took to make a solid, lasting dwelling so many times over had worn him a bit thin. And then there was the grading.... Brain numbed by the dozenth student to assert that granite was a sedimentary stone, Professor McLeod's head slipped off his hands and hit his stone desk just as the first cry tore through the air, and it took him a moment to realize the two weren't connected. A moment later he was dashing off the side of castle wall, one massive brick separating from the rest to form a platform to ride as he shot toward the chaos as fast as he could go. The beat of leathery wings told him his companion wasn't far behind. Teagan's crimson body pulled up beside him, the dirt and small rocks trailing off her claws betraying the haste of her launch off one of her preferred floating napping spots. "Any context here, or are we just charging into danger?" "You know what I know," he grimaced, still strapping his sword to his belt. "I was expecting some kind of collapse, but it looks more like a fight. Who in their right mind would cause trouble with the bees?" "Someone with an extraordinary lack of survival instincts," the dragon mused, though there wasn't a lot of humor in it as she tried to get a bit more speed. "Let's hope it's just some kind of accident."
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Combat You're selling yourself short on Grapple - without powers, Newt still has a grapple bonus of +12, rather than +10. This will never come up in play and I mention it only because it is the only thing I have ever found wrong with one of your sheets, darn you. Powers The pp tally for the power section is incomplete, looks like. Additionally, you've listed Enhanced Feats 8 as costing 9pp, though the actual pp tally of 86pp total appears to be correct.
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General Looks like height and weight have been left blank - I certainly agree that these are frustrating to pin down, but they do help people describe and imagine your character (height is important for narrative stuff, weight's important for a select few mechanic things, like throwing and lifting your character). I highly recommend the Photographic Height/Weight Chart, which has saved me many a time. Combat Strength +1 and a melee attack bonus of +3 gives Trailblazer a grapple bonus of +4, not +3. With +4 base defense, Trailblazer would have a Flat-Footed Defense of +2, not +4. With Toughness +4, Trailblazer would have a Knockback modifier of -2, not -0. Powers You're actually overpaying for the doorstep; Teleport is a base 2pp/rank power. Adding Portal (+2/rank), Accurate (+1/rank), Long-Range (-1/rank), Medium (-1/rank), and the fairy limitation (-1pp) makes it 3pp/rank - 1, or 8pp, not 10. You have room for a couple feats here if you want 'em. I don't think I've ever seen anyone run with Power Resistance. Interesting; I look forward to seeing how it works out in play.
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Combat Oh, you listed the actual breakdown for the Grapple bonus. Completely unnecessary, but a thousand blessings on you and your kin for doing so anyway. Powers You may want to specify that Miracle Girl has immunity to the cold and heat environments, rather than to cold and heat themselves. That would be a lot more expensive! I'm a little confused by the Super-Senses. Radio and Hearing (that is, Auditory) are two different senses - what are you buying here? The ability to receive radio signals would just be 'Radio', but if you're trying to do something with her auditory sense I may need more context.
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Fluff Looks like height, weight, and costume are still undetermined. Costume may come out in play, but height and weight should probably be set so that other people have an easier time envisioning and describing your character. Combat Sweet Inari, someone remembered that you round up for flat-footed defense. You bring hope to us all, horn. Powers I like that the base power of the Goddess array is plain old Light Control. That's a really nice touch. Just need you to weigh in on height/weight/costume here; everything else looks good.
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Combat Half your base defense, rounded down, is your dodge bonus; thus, when you are flat-footed, your defense bonus is half your defense rounded up. In this case, it'd be +4, rather than +3. Powers Additional Libs 2 costs 3pp, not 2pp; I believe it's right in your pp tally up top, but not not on the power itself. You appear to have bought Alt. Power 4 on your Armaments Array, but you're paying for Alt. Power 3...and only list 3 alternate powers. (Also, for the sake of pedantry, the feat is 'Alternate Power', rather than 'Alternative Power'. The latter implies a power that eschews tradition!)
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Alright, let's see, here.... General Did a couple quick formatting fixes - some of your sheet sections (saves, skills, feats) had sorta glommed together, and the Physiology container had some orphaned bbcode tags hanging out in it. Abilities Dex 20 grants a +5 bonus, not +2. Combat Init, Grapple, and knockback need filling out here. Annoying, I know, but it'll save people trouble when they reference the sheet later - do math once now, don't have to do it every time in the future! Skills Acrobatics 8 + Dex 20 = Acrobatics +13, not Acrobatics +10. You bought Languages 1 to get English, but haven't actually noted her native tongue. Powers While priced correctly, Immunity (Aging, Life Support) is a 10-rank power. I'm unsure what you're doing with Communication here, though I may just be missing something. It doesn't require Affects Others (the entire purpose of the power is to affect others!), and be careful with Area - as-built, Ultimate is broadcasting to every intelligent creature within 20 miles (which also makes Subtle silly, since everyone who could eavesdrop is also receiving!). You probably want Selective on here. Final tally While less important to an NPC, the final pp total is useful for a vague sense of NPC power/versatility; the tally here is off (Combat is 24 instead of 48,
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Gaian Knight/Tiamat >Back in the Day (4) 4 posts Dragonfly >By All His Engines (1) >Mystery at Bedside Manor (2) 1+2= 3 posts Wraith >Necklace of Ropes (1) 1 post Ref point to Gaian Knight.
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"...that's...okay. Okay," Mara panted, having had to take the stairs - at three steps a stride it hadn't taken her long, but it was certainly longer than vaulting them. mental note - learn that trick She looked down at the pile with her customary frown, nudging the edge of the sweatshirt with one foot before glancing back up at Ellie. "So...assuming you didn't disintegrate them while I was taking stairs, options: assailant can become intangible. Assailant had second set of clothing available for elaborate ruse. Assailant was vanished by third party. ....assailant is now naked, somewhere in hospital. Last one probably isn't exclusive to first three. Kind of hoping it is, though. Some things I don't need to see. You know area better than I do; what's around here?"
