conversations.from: system
conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Solophoenix: Characters 
   Dirk Stavington 
   Sentinel 
   Xyshi 
   Don Lorenzo Salvara 
   Posting Guidelines 
   
   Spoiler 
  
   Please use the present tense when referring to your actions. 
   Zeela walks over to the window and gazes out over the city rooftops, her heart aflutter as she contemplates the excitement of the coming day. 
  
  Not
  
   Zeela walked over to the window and gazed out over the city rooftop, her heart aflutter as she contemplated the excitement of the coming day. 
   Anything with a chance of failure, ie, something you need to roll for, please post as an attempt, rather than a resolved action. 
   Ahavel stabs at the goblin leader! 
  
  Not
  
   Ahavel stabs the goblin leader 
   Please roll attack and damage together to save time 
   Attack  - (1d20+10)[ 19 ]
   Damage  - (2d4+8)[ 12 ]
  
   In combat, please keep posting to Initiative order 
   In your combat posts, please write a brief summary of your actions for this turn in a spoiler tag below your main post 
    A trap! I suspected as much...  
  
  Kotung doesn't lose a second as he darts toward the nearest goblin, freeing his falchion as he moves. He raises the weapon above his head and brings it down with great force as he reaches the wretched creature.
  
   Attack  - (1d20+8)[ 18 ]
   Damage  - (2d4+12)[ 20 ]
  
   
   Spoiler 
  
  Move action: Moving to E4, drawing weapon as part of movement. Standard Action: Attacking goblin in E5, Power Attacking for 2.
   
  
   Or... 
    A trap! I suspected as much...  
  
  Kotung dashes into the bushes as he hears the great beast roar. He stares hard at this new foe, and casts  Flesh to Stone .
  
   
   Spoiler 
  Move action: Moving to B6. Standard Action: Cast Flesh to stone, targeted at the big nasty thing. Fort DC 22.
   
  
  
  It's very handy to link the spell if it's one from the SRD, otherwise, try to give a basic description of the effect in the summary. For Flesh to Stone, for example: Target:One creature, Fort DC22 or subject is petrified, SR: Yes
  This way I can respond to your posts faster, and keep combat flowing more smoothly.
  
   "Speech should look like this. In your chosen colour, and surrounded by quotation marks." 
    Internal monologue should look like this. In your chosen colour, and in italics.  
   
   Spoiler 
  
  ((OOC: Out of character comments should be formatted like this, and inside spoiler tags. I don't discourage the use of these in the IC thread like some DMs do. Sometimes you catch something that needs to be pointed out before people post further and make the mistake worse, and not everyone is checking the OOC thread before every post.))
   
  
  
  Sometimes I will post information that is only to be known by particular characters, like this.
  
   Character Name 
   
   Spoiler 
  This is for things that only that particular character knows at this time. If you feel you can keep your knowledge and your character's knowledge well separated, you can read these for other people's characters. But if you would rather enjoy the mystery, avoid these.
   
  
   
  
   Don Lorenzo and Sentinel 
   
   Spoiler 
  
  Your march through the jungle is largely uneventful, and your Drow guides keep almost exclusively to themselves, only ever speaking to you with orders like  "Rest now."  or  "March now." . Uneventful, that is, until early morning on the third day of marching, when the normal din of the jungle is suddenly torn apart by an enormous roar. Split seconds later, a dark green and brown striped tiger bursts into your vision, a swarm of angry locusts in pursuit.
  
   Initiative Order 
  Locusts
  Tiger
  Drow
  Don Lorenzo Salvara
  Sentinel
  
   
  
  The tiger falters in its step as it notices you, slowing just enough to allow the locusts to catch and engulf it. Another massive roar tears through the air and the enraged beast launches itself at the nearest Drow, slashing him deeply with a swipe of claws. The inured Drow seems to ignore the pain as he slashes back at the tiger with his long knives, both slicing through the muddy fur. His companions act in the same instant, knives flashing as they strike the beast.
  
   
   
  
   Dirk and Xyshi 
   
   Spoiler 
  
  You arrive at the rendezvous spot you arranged with Myrynth. It is now mid morning, the day before you expect the attack forces to arrive. As you sit waiting in the jungle, there is a sudden whoosh of wings as an eagle alights a few feet in front of you. In moments, the eagle grows and changes, becoming a familiar tall Drow woman.
  
   "Well?" 
  
  Myrynth asks,
  
   What have you to report? 
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rurik: Knowledge Rolls for start of encounter.
  
  Knowledge Nature for Tiger  (1d20+11)[ 17 ] 
  Knowledge Nature for Locusts  (1d20+11)[ 21 ] 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rurik: Don Lorenzo's head snaps up instantly taking in the brutal scene before him. He races the few step to reach the battle going on ahead of him, as he draws his rapier and mutters the word that sheaths the blade in flame. With a flash of flaming light Salvara strikes at the tiger.
  
  Attack -  (1d20+12)[ 28 ] 
  Damage -  (1d6+5)[ 8 ]  +  (1d6)[ 6 ]  burn damage  (+1 burn damage next round from Phoenix Ash Threat)
  
   
   Spoiler 
  Move action: Moving to L7, drawing weapon and activating "flaming" as part of movement. Standard Action: Attacking Tiger in M8.
   