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@Mae
>Dan stays where he is

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Milo Korvac

While he didn't know about the smoke turning citizens into zombies Milo did know that he had no choice but to stay and help the people of Sveto as it was clear the The Whiteheath Witch was more than they could handle. As the no doubt important blonde haired woman thanked them for their actions the cleric did something he knew was technically wrong, but justified it to himself with the fact that he would need the supplies to help the survivors, and began searching the bodies of the zombies for anything valuable.

when the woman mentioned owing them Milo felt that that was right, they had messed up with their punishing the wrong person but he felt it was an understandable mistake and besides arguing about it wouldn't help so he stayed quiet. One of his companions, apparently wearing very heavy armor, did feel the need to speak up about it though, he also mentioned that it would be smart to get everyone patched up. "Well I do have a healing spell I can cast, but since I'll only be able to use it once I think a good night's rest would be more effective."

Looking for loot

I got a 19 for perception

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

You are beginning to experience Stamina Drain due to lack of sleep.

System:Danny

That wasn't good, luckily Crispy didn't seem likely to start a fight but at the same time negotiation wasn't going great. All of Jason's offers got rejected and since the Goblins had the means to get that stuff themselves it made sense. Eventually Crispy left, taking his troops with him. Danny used the opportunity to finally analyze the weird liquid looking slime and hopefully satisfy his curiosity a little.

"Not great but could have gone worse. Also did you guys get the same message about Stamina drain, cause I think we really need to find a place to sleep before we get attacked by something."

Current abilities

Abilities:

• Mana Orb I and II
• Lesser Force
• Levitation
• Monster Analysis I
• Meditate I

Transformations:

Inventory:

Ruins of Norn: Walking Apocalypse

Thokk

"Trust us or not. Few individuals have the mind or the will to set foot on these accursed lands. Fewer even those who would be willing help some stranger...it would be wise to be more appreciative of these small blessings, madam." Thokk wondered if he should point out that the musketeer just explained the other Orc's unease himself, but the kobold resuming her true form seemed like it could lead to issues even though the Bard offered to provide further healing than the Dragon. With a potential fight coming up he stayed quiet but readied himself.

Ruins of Norn: Walking Apocalypse

@Riaxh Feel free to stop the Kobold from climbing up. Don't think He's going to notice the additional weight much.

Also... Doot.

@Tangletail

I knew it, you are a skeleton

Ruins of Norn: Walking Apocalypse

Thokk

Thokk was surprised that the "corpse" turned out to be a female orc, and an attractive one at that. While her reaction to the group was understandable he felt like trying to calm down was smart, though if it did turn into a fight he wouldn't lose any sleep over killing her. "Don't you think that if we wanted to kill you we would have done so already. I at least have no intention to harm you. Unles you are a Shadow Thrasher."

Diplomacy check

I rolled a 6

Ruins of Norn: Walking Apocalypse

@Searat @Riaxh

While I would prefer to save it remember Thokk has a potion of healing

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

While Danny did wonder what the strange liquid looking Slime was he didn't get the opportunity to analyze it. As Rattleskull's undead body rising up caught his attention instead, luckily it turned out to be the work of some other Slime he had never seen before, but who seemed to be on the side of the former humans.

After revealing its trick the Slime attacked a Goblin holding a torch and Danny got ready to help while still trying to hide from the Goblins. Jason however had a different plan and started negotiating with Crispy, who seemed willing to listen but wanted something in return.

Remembering how the Goblins strip mined Mana Crystal he wondered if the meditation skill might be interesting to the Variant but revealing that Jason's groups had members hidden and watching might set the Goblins off or at the very least Crispy could take someone else making that offer as some kind of sign of weakness on the Slime's part so he stayed quiet.

Current abilities

Abilities:

• Mana Orb I and II
• Lesser Force
• Levitation
• Monster Analysis I
• Meditate I

Transformations:

Inventory:

Ruins of Norn: Walking Apocalypse

Thokk

"Fear not treachery on my end, Thokk. I would rather take my own life than to sully my honor as a man and a royal musketeer of Briston." Roy's words weren't enough to convince the Half-orc after all talk was cheap, but he had no intention of being the one to break the party up. Not only wasn't he dumb enough to think he could survive Norn on his own, there were trustworthy people out there and at least one of the others had to qualify as one.

He followed the others outside and was surprised to see how empty the beach was, there was no way it was natural but it also didn't seem important at the moment so he didn't bring it up. When Angus mentioned the humanoid body and his desire to check it out he drew his sword, not trusting the situation. "Better be careful."

Ruins of Norn: Walking Apocalypse

@Tangletail

Nah it's fine, it's not as if 2nd level casters are "rare" per say. I imagine they're much like doctors of the modern era; there are a lot of them, but becoming one is difficult and requires a lot of training and patience. Some take it to more easily than others. This is especially true since most casters tend to be clerics since healing magic is seen as much more important than say, combat or illusions.

In a world perspective, the average level of humanoid people is 1. A military person might be level 2 or 3, as many of you are. Characters from heroic tales or legends are generally around level 5, possibly 10 depending on the person telling the story. Magic is considered too niche and poorly understood to see mass employment in high risk sectors such as warfare, but have much more prominence in areas such as medicine or science. That's not to say a sufficiently powerful and wealthy nation won't have wizards and such for battle, but those types tend to be super old since magic isn't something casually picked up. Now sorcerers on the other hand, those born with magic, could be expected to be younger, but have a worse stigma; these types of spellcasters tend to be taken away from their family as soon as their magic manifests precisely because they could easily tune into magic compared to wizards who need years of study and attunement.

Bards as somewhat akin to clerics in that they receive their powers from another source, albeit the sources are more "primal" in a sense. For example a cleric would pray to their god for healing magic or to throw out a guiding bolt, and sufficiently enlighten clerics would easily gain their god's approval and the spell happens. In other words, the gods can sense their cleric's wisdom (which manifests as a sort of willpower via their faith) and will assist them accordingly. But a bardic magic need to appeal to these same forces, or at least the manifestation of those forces, in order to use magic. Hence why they use charisma; they need to fast talk magic into serving them.

@Lucius Cypher

With in that mind what is the power source of Eldritch Knights, and how do people feel about them?