conversations: human
conversations:  So I added a joke sub-title...
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  ((Thread Titles for the Thread Title God 😡))
    Yes they could, but you've never explained how one would go about doing that.  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Ritual spells. Such as -10 minute string of completely indecipherable jargon, the equivalent of explaining high level physics to someone learning arethmatic-, of course that's only a basic explanation. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  I imagine it's like following a recipe. Kinda.  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  If your food is constantly in a state of quantum* shift, then yes, kind of. 
  
  *not a literal translation but close enough.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  There you go. Problem solved. Just let me write down the chanting and I should be able to do it.  Are the dwarves done talking yet?
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Nope.
  
   Except that sometimes the chant you need to say can change suddenly with little warning. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  What can change? What do you mean?  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Imagine cooking. Now imagine if while you were cooking your ingredients could change shape, color, texture, flavor, etc.
  
  Or imagine the sea. Now I could tell you simply how to sail, but I can't tell you what wave will come when, how big, or the best way to avoid them all ahead of time. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Why, though?  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Because you're dealing with the bottom-most layer of reality, which constantly shifts and churns like the sea. Why are there waves in the oceans? Even on a calm day they are there, why are there storms? 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Rhetorical questions. Tell me.  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Because such is the natural way of things. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  So the land does its best impressions of liquid by changing shape and churning to unseen, unknown forces just because? Apologies, but that doesn't make much sense.  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Not the land. Existence itself. You know I said you couldn't understand it. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  So the incantation is subject to change mid-chanting because life changes over time? 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You could say. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Is it accurate to say the chances of mid-chant changings are low?  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  With normal magic? The chance of a change happening to make a spell circuit fail is so low as to be effectively 0. The chance that it would happen in a ritual with the Crystals? I can't be certain but I'd say that it's almost a certainty there would be some changes, and without training you couldn't predict them and react properly. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Hm. Well consider the chances of your resurrection are just as good as the chances of me getting the crystals to work right off the bat.  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Which is why we need the book. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Any ideas that are either not completely moronic or do not involve unnecessary conflict? Say...getting the commander to think that giving me the book so you can look at it isn't a terrible idea?  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Define unnecessary conflict. 
  
  The dwarves have begun to disperse, their conversation seems over.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Nobody gets hurt.  
  Malathot looks at the commander.  So, what kind of research is this regarding? 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  There's no such solution. 
   The nature of this realm. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Ah, What did you find? 
    Keep thinking. You have time.  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Mutually exclusive goals, though. 
   Something as to the nature of how portions vanish when their master dies. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Can you elaborate?
   What do you mean?  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  What do you think that maelstrom was?  
   The dwarves want to destroy the Crystals you want to use them. If the dwarves destroy the Crystals you die; and the dwarves will kill you to prevent you using them. 
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Hmm, so if each dragon killed causes this place to shrink, then the maelstrom is just stuff being sucked into the void. That makes sense.
  
   So if the crystals are destroyed I will spontaneously die?  
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  No but you'll continue aging at an exponential rate and die from gravity. 
    That would be the simplest way of putting it.  
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Also, Sarge is trying to scare me right now. When we get the chance, would you let me use the crystals before you destroy them? 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  No but you'll continue aging at an exponential rate and die from gravity. 
    That would be the simplest way of putting it.  
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  ((You just duplicated your prior post))
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  I've already told you, first I have to figure out exactly what they are and what they do. I'm not even sure if I'm going to destroy them.  
  
  ((I have no idea, why or how, I must have gotten off after the first one with it messing up and thought I hadn't posted it 🤨)
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Okay. Sarge just keeps making me nervous, that's all. Expect to answer this question again. Anyways, can I expect those maelstroms to close eventually? 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  They already have.  
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Ah? That's fantastic! If you will excuse me I would like to resume my search. 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  I doubt you'll find anything, the dragon's territory vanished as well.  
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Well that's fantastic. I still want to check it out. 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Don't get yourself killed, then.  
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Deal. 
  He goes north to explore the area.
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You fly out of sight of land, and it continues as a sea covered in red algae. How far will you go if you don't see anything, and do you count islands as something?
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  He goes out an hour north, using a zigzag pattern to look for any unusually large islands that may or may not hold dragon lair entrances.
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You see only one type of island, oddly geometric ones with very regularly placed trees. Make spot and listen checks.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Official Fail Checks of Niflyr AWAY!!
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conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Two creatures fly down from the canopy, attacking you. They look like dragons, roughly the mass of goblins, except their wings seem to be long thin membranes, without the wing bones of your kind and the reds. You don't see them till they have already bitten you for 9 damage total.
  
  (Winning initiative by rolling a total you can't match) They then turn about and swoop past you again, biting you twice more for 13 damage total. They end their movement 50-ft behind you.
  
  It is now your action.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  He casts Wings of Cover against the second attack. He then uses his frost breath against the creatures.
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conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You're still flat-footed against the second attack ((immediate actions, except Nerveskitter, cannot be used when flat-footed)).
  
  Also are you using a move action to begin hovering, or where are you moving?
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Hover for move action, standard action to shoop da whoop. Sorta.
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  One of them looks seriously hurt, the other looks mostly alright. They fly within 20-ft of you, both spray cones of strange gas from their mouths (2 will saves, please) and then retreat back 70-ft (for 90-ft total distance from you).
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Yay. Will saves.
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conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You're completely fine.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Glorious victory!
  He casts Magic Missile at the most weakened one.
   (4d4+4)[ 15 ] 
  And moves 80 ft back.
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  The weakened one crashes into the water, and the other vanishes completely.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Malathot continues his search.
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Make a will save.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  (1d20+5)[ 10 ] 
  This won't end well.
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You're in a small thin mist. You can see out of it just fine, but you don't know where it came from.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Malathot casts Mage Armor, and looks around.
   (1d20-1)[ 3 ] 
  Spot (fail)
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  You see nothing.
  
  Do you hover in the mist or move?
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  He'll try to move out of the mist
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Alright you move out easily enough. Even as you do you see the dragon-creature from earlier blasting a strange gas at you from its mouth once more ((Will save))
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  (1d20+5)[ 9 ] 
  this stuff does attribute damage doesn't it?
  
  Anyways, assuming Malathot is still active, he'll try and charge the creature
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conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Forum ate my post
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  Your body seizes up when the gas hits you ((you're dazed)) and you begin to spiral downward (50-ft per round till you hit the water). The creature dives after you attacking (5 damage before you hit the water). When you strike the water it follows you in still attacking (2 more damage), before breathing the same gas into the water around you ((make another Will save)).
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  (1d20+5)[ 15 ] 
  Oh here we go...
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  ((you are very unlucky, by the way))
  
  It bites you twice more (9 more damage) then breathes on you yet again.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  (1d20+5)[ 23 ] 
  then stop spamming save or loses!
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  ((the funny thing is the fog was the one that mattered; without it you'd not be failing these; that and it keeps rolling max, or 1 less, for duration))
  
  It bites you four more times, missing once (12 damage total), then looses another breath on you.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  ((That was an 18, how the hell did I fail?!))
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conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  ((You were suffering from the effects of mindfog; -10 to Will saves))
  
  It bites you once more (3 damage) and then you regain your mobility.
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  Malathot attempts to breathe on it
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   (1d4)[ 3 ] 
conversations: Emperor Ing:
conversations: human
conversations:  It dies (failed its save).
conversations: Zaydos:
conversations: human
conversations:  He goes to fly back to the dwarven camp.
conversations: Emperor Ing: