<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/hPHTR53.jpg)<br/><strong>Acantha (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=288094.msg14157698#msg14157698)</strong></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Current Hp:</strong> 24/24; <strong>AC</strong> 17<br/><strong>Passive: Perception</strong> +3; <strong>Investigation</strong> +4 (Darkvision 60')<br/><strong>Languages:</strong> Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Elvish, Infernal, Deep Speech <br/><br/><strong>Weapons:</strong> Light Crossbow +4 (1d8+2), Dagger +4 (1d4+2)<br/><br/><strong>Pact Magic:</strong><br/>Cantrips: Mage Hand, Prestidigitation <br/>1st Level Known: Hellish Rebuke, Protection from Good and Evil, Unseen Servant<br/>Slots: 2/2 1st Level<br/><br/><strong>Spells:</strong><br/>Cantrips: Guidance, Sacred Flame, Word of Radiance<br/>1st: Bless, Command, Cure Wounds, Guiding Bolt, Identify, Sanctuary <br/>Slots: 2/2 1st Level </div></div><br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/>Acantha rose in her dream and glanced around at the spooky forest. She winced, all too familiar with dreams being a time that dire, dread, elder things liked to send her reminders of where a certain part of her soul may or may not have gotten off too.<br/><br/>"Oh praise Mystara. I dreamed myself some companions at least." Acantha said, noticing she wasn't alone.  She eyed Alexander's manly body up and down with a grin. "Ah yes, this makes sense." She said with a smile to what she assumed was a figment of her dream.<br/><br/>Her eyes trailed over to the elderly form of Melinor. "Uh, this, this is a more puzzling." She squinted her eyes at him. "Does he remind me of someone? Do I just assume he's smart and that's why he's here?" She wracked her mind. "Oh don't tell me you're doing weird things again, brain." She muttered, shivered, and rubbed her arms glancing about the spooky forest. Of course weird eyes were shimmering in the dark and things were moving behind the trees that she couldn't quite make out. Of course her brain felt the need to terrify her in the night, like the elder gibbering thing waiting beyond the stars to consume her wasn't bad enough!<br/><br/>But before she could say anything more it was time to run. Too many things were coming at them. Oh why did it always involve running! Where were her spells? Her focus? Her weapons? She swore and starting running, thinking to herself at least she might be able to keep up with the old man...<br/><br/>And then she was waking up. She breathed a huge sigh of relief and wiped the sleep from her eyes. She had used some water from her skin to clean her face off and get refreshed and was already halfway through the process of reapplying her dark makeup when she realized something was wrong. Pausing, her lips halfway down, lipstick still in hand, she glanced about. "Uh oh."<br/><br/>She saw Alexander was already awake and moving to rouse the others. The others. It was just the travelers. None of the Vistani were still about. She groaned, of course that was it. They'd been robbed and...no wait, all her stuff was still there. She finished putting on her face,  ducked behind a tree to change into her traveling clothes and looked around with a puzzled look on her face.<br/><br/>"Something very strange is going on here..." she said, looking about the trees closely. It wasn't the elder thing at least. This wasn't its style of horror show. Not enough eyes growing from random body parts. So what was it? Was she still dreaming? Some sort of gypsy trick? If so for what purpose?<br/><br/>She tried to apply her mind to the problem...she clutched the symbol of Mystara that hung around her neck and muttered mind-enhancing prayers as she did. She had trouble recalling her magical lessons, moreso than most, but in her paranoid and hyper alert state she seemed to notice every little detail around her...<br/><br/><em>Acantha is going to cast Guidance on herself, use Arcana to see if this is some sort of magic she recognizes, then cast Guidance on herself and use Investigation to see if she can discover anything that explains what is going on.</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Arcana 12</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Full Result: Acantha rolled: 1d20, adding 6 to the total<br/>Comment: Arcana<br/>Result: 2, <br/>Total: 8<br/><br/>Roll Result: Acantha rolled: 1d4<br/>Comment: Guidance for Arcana<br/>Result: 4, <br/>Total: 4</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Investigation 26</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Roll Result: Acantha rolled: 1d20, adding 4 to the total<br/>Comment: Investigation<br/>Result: 18, <br/>Total: 22<br/><br/>Roll Result: Acantha rolled: 1d4<br/>Comment: Guidance for Investigation<br/>Result: 4, <br/>Total: 4<br/></div></div><br/><br/>