Intermission 3 Page 6
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“Lara’s not here to hurt us! She helped us out earlier when we went, uhh…”
“Out.”
“That’s… true.”
“All she needs is a place to stay for a little while.”
“Oh, so we’ve got the only altruistic arachnomancer in the WORLD sitting at our fire, is that it?”
“For what it’s worth, your fluids probably don’t even taste that good.”
“She DID help us out. And she had plenty of chances before and after that to attack one of us, if that’s what she wanted to do.”
“Human, you’re old enough to know what sort of things these people did before the Empire sealed the underground. The disappearances, the raids, the THINGS they released from the depths!”
“Of course I know. I have all the same reservations as you do.”
“I’m just saying, Lara hasn’t done anything like that since we met her. And I can’t imagine any benefit in biding her time instead of hitting us when she had the chance.”
“Well I want an explanation from her own mouth before I’ll even CONSIDER letting her stay here!”
Lara: Venomous Barrage the lady who wasted one of your smokesWait no.
I sense that the best way for this to resolve is for Lara to tell a story of why she was in the tower.
…you mean “out”, right? 😀
Isn’t it obvious? She’s was a princess locked up in tower and guarded by fearsome dra… I mean faithless. And Ricki with Kamau are shining knights that saved her. Well, sort of. Okay, she saved herself, but hey, a little deconstruction of tropes won’t hurt, right?
… Oh, what large teeth you have. I mean white, sparkling teeth. You probably hear that from your food all the time, but you must bleach or something, because that is one DAZZLING smile you have there. And do I detect a hint of minty freshness? And you know what else? You’re a girl …faithless.
Of -course- you’re a girl … faithless. You’re just reeking of feminine beauty…
Maybe we should have tried that? XD
BACKSTORY TIME!
Also: yeah, Lohk! That’s the way to deal with them cigarettes!
Is Lohk going to hate on all of Ricki’s allies?
“NO ONE is good enough for my little girl”
Bet she will love the kobald we will eventually bring.
Looks like it’s time for some worldbuilding and character development! 🙂
Just occurred to me: Characters with two hands could use two shields. Sure, not while using other handed equipment, but for stealing guarded items or running by enemies that could work well. Lara’s Venomous Sting I also doesn’t mention needing hands to cast, plus it was confirmed when asking about Kamau’s Shield Bash that nothing stops you from attacking with a shield if you don’t care about having a bonus added to your attack that turn.
We can experiment the next time that we find a buckler or shield. It’s worth a look anyway.
Can we strap a third shield to our back and wear a forth one like that:
Wait, there is place at the belly. Do the 5 boni stack?! 😉
If it is possible: As long as we just need to run past enemies or stand back and want to not be attacked, why not try this?
Shields: Increase a character’s Def value. Shields take up one hand when used. Def added by a character’s shield will be indicated on their character sheet with blue shields.
A thri-kreen party member with four hands might load up, but our characters have one or two hands each. I am pretty sure that head-shields exist though, they’re just called “buckets”. (Helmets :P)
Aaww.. I remember I’ve read it as “Shields take up to one hand when used” , but there’s no “to” there 🙁