Three Goddesses IC - Thread #3a

[MikelaC1]

With a sudden BAMF!, you find yourself in a room, the recipients of an obvious teleport. However, several things about this situation are not to your liking. First of all, not all the members of your group made it to the same location, as only Lil, Setsuna, and Dot are in your group. Second of all, while you did not expect to get teleported to this location, the large and angry fire giant in the room knew you were coming, and scores a hit on Setsuna for 33 points of damage as you arrive in the room.

Roll initiative: giant [23]

[Toliudar]

Dot

Initiative, using Nerveskitter: [roll0]

[Before posting an initial action for Dot, what information is she picking up on both the giant and the room, with Magic Aura and Dragonsight active. How big is the room, and where are we in the room, in relation to the giant. Is the giant armed and dressed much like the guards we fought earlier, or is there something different about this one?]

[MikelaC1]

Current initiative

Dot 30
Lil 28
Giant 23
Setsuna 15

The room is about 60X60. There dont appear to be any auras on the giant, or in the room, other than a residual fading aura of conjuration (teleportation). Setsuna is engaged in melee range with it, you and Lil are both about 10 feet away. The giant is dressed the same as the others, although he seems to be a bit bigger. There is one door leading out of the room.

[lostsole31]

Lildorrinene's Initiative [roll0]

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

Taken completely off-guard, Setsuna staggers back a few steps, a small spray of blood trailing from her mouth. She regains her balance, rapidly glancing around at her surroundings.

"Lil! Lok! Dot! You know where we are?"

Initiative (w/ nerveskitter): [roll0]

Conditions/Effects:Spells:
Aid (entire party): 21 min
Arcane Sight: Permanent
Blur: 37 hrs 30 min
Energy Immunity (fire, cold): 23 hrs 30 min
Freedom of Movement: 2 hrs 40 min
Foresight: 2 hrs 40 min
Imbue Familiar with Spell Ability (dimensional anchor, dispel magic, glitterdust, major image (5th), sending, solid fog): 18 hrs 30 min
Mage Armor: 18 hrs 30 min
Mind Blank: 23 hrs 30 min
Mirror Image, Greater: 8 min
Resist Energy (electricity, acid, sonic): 18 hrs 30 min
See Invisibility: Permanent
Superior Resistance: 23 hrs 30 min

Minor shadow Light of Lunia: 5 hrs 50 min
Minor shadow Light of Mercuria: 5 hrs 50 min
Minor shadow Light of Venya: 5 hrs 50 min

HP: 120/153
Spells: 12 (15) 18 (16) 14 (14) 13 (13) 11 (7)

Condition and Effects:
+5 to saves against death effects, negative energy, energy drain; 1/day reroll failed save.
+5 to saves against poison and disease; 1/day reroll failed save.
+2 bonus to overcome SR.
50% chance of deflecting a ranged attack if move 10 or more ft.
Fast Healing 1.
Resistance to fire 5, cold 5, electricity 5.
Invisible.
Doubled carrying capacity.
Ignore all hostile planar effects.
Breathe in any environment, ignore harmful vapors/gases.
Suppress all confusion, fear and stunning conditions in allies in 20 ft radius.
No need to eat or drink.
Sleep 2 hours to gain effects of 8.

Immune: blinded, confusion, dazzled, exhaustion, fatigue, fear, grappling, mind-affecting, movement penalties, stunning.

[Toliudar]

Dot

"Not yet. One thing at a time, though."

Taking a step back to make sure she was out of the giant's reach, Dot gestured up at him.

"Stop that."

She gestured, and sent a ball of dust up at the giant's head, which explodes into a cloud of dust. She reached back into her pack and pulled out a slender white cylinder.

5' step away from the giant.
Standard action: cast glitterdust, aimed so that it hits the giant but none of us. Will DC 24 or blinded.
Move action: pull out her rod of quicken spell.

On the giant's next turn, she casts Hesitate (PH2 pg 114, Will DC 23 negates, can only take a move action, gets an additional save as a swift action on subsequent turns. If the giant is blinded or otherwise denied dex to AC, the DC for this goes up by 2 thanks to cloaked casting.

[MikelaC1]

[roll0] will save

Dot casts her dust in the air, however some of it is pulled to the northwest corner of the room, where it falls harmlessly to the ground. Her arcane sight showed her that some of the spell energy was being drawn off in a fashion she does not understand. However enough of the dust (stupid natural 1) reached the target to blind the giant momentarily.

Lil up, giant on deck.

[lostsole31]

Just to take care of unseen tricks right away, Lildorrinene casts greater dispel magic on the giant.
CL checks
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
[roll3]
[roll4]
[roll5]
[roll6]
[roll7]
[roll8]
[roll9]

[MikelaC1]

Lil's magic does dispel any buffs that might be present on the giant, unfortunately, it also manages to dispel the glitterdust effect on the creature. The giant moves to strike Setsuna and Dot casts her Hesitate spell. Once again, she sees the same weird "splitting" effect on her spell, the giant is partially affected (only gets a standard action instead of full attack) and strikes once at Setsuna

[roll0] attack & [roll1] damage

[MikelaC1]

[roll0] attack & [roll1] damage

While its only one attack, its a successful one, dealing 71 points to the mage

Setsuna up, END ROUND 1

[lostsole31]

Lil sighs (though figuring the giant merely managed to throw Dot's spell), "It would figure that three mages would go up against a fire giant in an enclosed area."

[Toliudar]

Dot

The wizard tries to figure out how to deal with the menace of this giant in a way less reliant on spell power.

"More specifically, an enclosed area that is sucking magical energy over into that corner."

[lostsole31]

"What?! All, or some? Do you think it will suck any magic cast, or just any attack against the giant?"

[MikelaC1]

Dot

"More specifically, an enclosed area that is sucking magical energy over into that corner."


"What?! All, or some? Do you think it will suck any magic cast, or just any attack against the giant?"

Dot clearly saw that not all of her spell power was sucked into the corner, only part of it was. Thus, her glitterdust could only blind the giant for a short period of time (and was then dispeled by Lil as she tried to bring down all magic effects on the giant) and the hesitate spell which should have prevented the giant from taking anything else than a move action, was only able to restrict him to a standard action (although given what he did in that one attack on Setsuna probably saved her life)

[lostsole31]

"Well," says Lildorrinene, "you have fantastical magical defenses, but I help the three of us in others ways."

Lildorrinene tumbles to Setsuna and taps her with the healing wand for 52 healing.

[MikelaC1]

(This will take place after Setsuna takes her round 1 action and Dot takes her round 2 action)

[Toliudar]

Dot

Feel free to retcon this in after Setsuna's action as well.

Dot glances sharply over at Lil. Since the demon had already seen other magic take hold, including her own, Dot felt like Lil already had an answer to her own question.

"Just stop dispelling things."

In the meantime, it was time to do something that didn't rely on spells. Lifting a hand, Dot brought her now-familiar earth elemental up out of the floor in between her and the giant, and it smacked the larger figure with two rock-hard fists. She turned to examine the apparent source of the magic-splitting - trying to determine whether the effect permeated the room, or was localized in one spot.

Hesitate is still active until he makes a save.

Dot takes a standard action to summon her large earth elemental, ideally in a way that blocks the giant from reaching her, and giving the others a meat shield if they want it. This is a supernatural ability, not a spell. The elemental makes two slam attacks against the giant:
Slam 1 attack: [roll0] Damage: [roll1]
Slam 2 attack: [roll2] Damage: [roll3]

Dot then makes a spellcraft check, based on what she's observed (visually and through Arcane Sight) to determine whether the magic-splitting/sucking effect is emanating from a point or seems to permeate the room. Under the 'identify a strange or unique magical effect' aspect of the skill: [roll4]

[Toliudar]

Crit confirmation on the elemental's first slam attack: [roll0] Extra damage: [roll1]

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

Setsuna winces as two of her decoys are smashed to bits by the creature's attacks. "Stupid restrictive spaces!"

She crouches down and skips backward, then slams her open hand on the ground, forming [roll0] shadowy creatures in front of her.

5' step back.

Full-round: Major shadow Summon Monster VII to summon 1d3 bralanis. They will come into being at the beginning of her next turn. Uses defensive casting to avoid AoOs.
Conditions/Effects:Spells:
Aid (entire party): 21 min
Arcane Sight: Permanent
Blur: 37 hrs
Energy Immunity (fire, cold): 23 hrs
Freedom of Movement: 2 hrs 10 min
Foresight: 2 hrs 10 min
Imbue Familiar with Spell Ability (dimensional anchor, dispel magic, glitterdust, major image (5th), sending, solid fog): 18 hrs
Mage Armor: 18 hrs
Mind Blank: 23 hrs
Mirror Image, Greater: 16 min (6)
Resist Energy (electricity, acid, sonic): 18 hrs
See Invisibility: Permanent
Superior Resistance: 23 hrs

Minor shadow Light of Lunia: 5 hrs 20 min
Minor shadow Light of Mercuria: 5 hrs 20 min
Minor shadow Light of Venya: 5 hrs 20 min

HP: 153/153
Spells: 12 (15) 18 (16) 13 (14) 13 (12) 11 (7)

Condition and Effects:
+5 to saves against death effects, negative energy, energy drain; 1/day reroll failed save.
+5 to saves against poison and disease; 1/day reroll failed save.
+2 bonus to overcome SR.
50% chance of deflecting a ranged attack if move 10 or more ft.
Fast Healing 1.
Resistance to fire 5, cold 5, electricity 5.
Invisible.
Doubled carrying capacity.
Ignore all hostile planar effects.
Breathe in any environment, ignore harmful vapors/gases.
Suppress all confusion, fear and stunning conditions in allies in 20 ft radius.
No need to eat or drink.
Sleep 2 hours to gain effects of 8.

Immune: blinded, confusion, dazzled, exhaustion, fatigue, fear, grappling, mind-affecting, movement penalties, stunning.

[MikelaC1]

The two bralani come into existance, waiting for orders from Setsuna. Following that, Dot brings her favourite earth elemental into existance and sends it in to attack the fire giant. His first strike connects, although not as powerfully as he might have hoped, but his second strike goes wide of the target. Lil gets into the action, curing Setsuna of some of her wounds as the mage backs out of the fray.
The giant seems to shake off the effect of the hesitate spell and full attacks the earth elemental
[roll0] attack & [roll1] damage
[roll2] attack & [roll3] damage
[roll4] attack & [roll5] damage
[roll6] attack & [roll7] damage

[MikelaC1]

3 of the fire giant attacks connect with the elemental, dealing him 95 points of damage.
Meanwhile, Dot studies the room and the giant. As near as she can figure, the effect permeates the room, but seems to only affect a spell cast at the giant. As to why the split part of spell energy flies to the northwest corner, that her examination cannot answer.

Setsuna up (twice in one day), END ROUND 2

[Toliudar]

The giant's final blow pulverizes the elemental, and it collapses into dirt and vanishes. For now.

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

Setsuna moves even further back, gesturing at her two summons. They nod as one, and two lines of lightning blaze forth, presumably being drawn off as well.

As they attack, the shadowcaster glances at the corner in which their spells were drawn. She then snaps her finger, a large sphere of acid forming someways behind the giant. It falls, splashing her fiery foe with a wash of caustic fluid.

Lightning bolts, targeting giant, DC 15 Reflex half.
Bolt 1: [roll0] lightning
Bolt 2: [roll1] lightning

Setsuna Move: Backward! To about 5' away from the wall.

Setsuna Standard: Vitriolic Sphere, target giant such that the bralani/party members aren't caught in the radius. DC 25 Reflex half for damage and DC 25 Reflex or take 6d4 and 3d4 damage in following two rounds.
Damage: [roll2]

Testing if indirect damage gets drawn away too (ie, SR: No spells). :smallwink:
Conditions/Effects:Spells:
Aid (entire party): 21 min
Arcane Sight: Permanent
Blur: 37 hrs
Energy Immunity (fire, cold): 23 hrs
Freedom of Movement: 2 hrs 10 min
Foresight: 2 hrs 10 min
Imbue Familiar with Spell Ability (dimensional anchor, dispel magic, glitterdust, major image (5th), sending, solid fog): 18 hrs
Mage Armor: 18 hrs
Mind Blank: 23 hrs
Mirror Image, Greater: 16 min (6)
Resist Energy (electricity, acid, sonic): 18 hrs
See Invisibility: Permanent
Superior Resistance: 23 hrs

Minor shadow Light of Lunia: 5 hrs 20 min
Minor shadow Light of Mercuria: 5 hrs 20 min
Minor shadow Light of Venya: 5 hrs 20 min

HP: 153/153
Spells: 12 (15) 18 (16) 13 (13) 13 (12) 11 (7)

Condition and Effects:
+5 to saves against death effects, negative energy, energy drain; 1/day reroll failed save.
+5 to saves against poison and disease; 1/day reroll failed save.
+2 bonus to overcome SR.
50% chance of deflecting a ranged attack if move 10 or more ft.
Fast Healing 1.
Resistance to fire 5, cold 5, electricity 5.
Invisible.
Doubled carrying capacity.
Ignore all hostile planar effects.
Breathe in any environment, ignore harmful vapors/gases.
Suppress all confusion, fear and stunning conditions in allies in 20 ft radius.
No need to eat or drink.
Sleep 2 hours to gain effects of 8.

Immune: blinded, confusion, dazzled, exhaustion, fatigue, fear, grappling, mind-affecting, movement penalties, stunning.

[MikelaC1]

[roll0] reflex
[roll1] reflex
[roll2] reflex

A small amount the bralani's bolts are pulled to the side and the giant is able to evade the smaller bolts. However, the flask of acid catches him fully, putting horrible, acidic burns on him. Not enough, however, to even hope of stopping him.

OOC
Before you make the mistake of saying it has something to do with the fact that its an SR:no, it isnt. Dont want you going down that road.

ROUND TWO over, ROUND THREE
Dot up, Lil on deck, post out of order if needed. Setsuna waits until after giant.

[Toliudar]

Dot

The little mage gave a mental shrug and lifted another elemental from the floor, making sure not to get in the way of the lightning-flinging angels. The elemental flails away at the giant as soon as it appears. She muttered a hasty enchantment and eight duplicates of her appeared around her.

Standard action: bring in another large earth elemental adjacent to the giant. It immediately attacks:
Slam 1: [roll0] Damage: [roll1]
Slam 2: [roll2] Damage: [roll3]

Swift action: casting greater mirror image to bring in eight duplicates.

On the giant's action, she'll once again cast Hesitate as a immediate action. Will DC 23 negates.

[MikelaC1]

Its slow slogging for the elemental as only one of his attacks hits true, and the damage dealt is fairly minimal. Its clear that this is one situation where either Atarath or Taleira would be really useful...but for now, the party will have to make do with what they have.

Lil up

[lostsole31]

Lildorrinene begins channeling a summons through Talbot.

[MikelaC1]

Lil begins a summoning through Talbot, who cant help but make a comment...let my awesome power be directed straight at the giant, I'll show him whose boss

[roll0] will save

The giant is unable to resist this casting of Dot's spell, and is unable to attack the giant.

Setsuna up, END ROUND3

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

Setsuna smirks as she sees the lack of spell drainage. With another gesture, she sends another burst of acid washing over her foe. "Hey, I may have found something that doesn't get drained away!"

Her two summons both step forth and cut at the giant simultaneously from opposite sides.

Both bralani 5' step (if needed) and full attack. Bralani 1 provides flanking bonus for bralani 2.
Attack 1a: [roll0]
Damage 1a: [roll1]

Attack 2a: [roll2]
Damage 2a: [roll3]

Attack 1b: [roll4]
Damage 1b: [roll5]

Attack 2b: [roll6]
Damage 2b: [roll7]

Move: Fly upward! Hovering near the ceiling.

Standard: Cast another vitriolic sphere. DC 25 Reflex for half damage and DC 25 Reflex or take 6d4 and 3d4 over next two rounds.
Damage: [roll8] acid
Damage from last round's VS: [roll9] acid
Conditions/Effects:Spells:
Aid (entire party): 21 min
Arcane Sight: Permanent
Blur: 37 hrs
Energy Immunity (fire, cold): 23 hrs
Freedom of Movement: 2 hrs 10 min
Foresight: 2 hrs 10 min
Imbue Familiar with Spell Ability (dimensional anchor, dispel magic, glitterdust, major image (5th), sending, solid fog): 18 hrs
Mage Armor: 18 hrs
Mind Blank: 23 hrs
Mirror Image, Greater: 16 min (6)
Resist Energy (electricity, acid, sonic): 18 hrs
See Invisibility: Permanent
Superior Resistance: 23 hrs

Minor shadow Light of Lunia: 5 hrs 20 min
Minor shadow Light of Mercuria: 5 hrs 20 min
Minor shadow Light of Venya: 5 hrs 20 min

HP: 153/153
Spells: 12 (15) 18 (16) 13 (12) 13 (12) 11 (7)

Condition and Effects:
+5 to saves against death effects, negative energy, energy drain; 1/day reroll failed save.
+5 to saves against poison and disease; 1/day reroll failed save.
+2 bonus to overcome SR.
50% chance of deflecting a ranged attack if move 10 or more ft.
Fast Healing 1.
Resistance to fire 5, cold 5, electricity 5.
Invisible.
Doubled carrying capacity.
Ignore all hostile planar effects.
Breathe in any environment, ignore harmful vapors/gases.
Suppress all confusion, fear and stunning conditions in allies in 20 ft radius.
No need to eat or drink.
Sleep 2 hours to gain effects of 8.

Immune: blinded, confusion, dazzled, exhaustion, fatigue, fear, grappling, mind-affecting, movement penalties, stunning.

[MikelaC1]

The damage from the group is slowly catching up to the giant, but he's not done yet.

END ROUND 3, BEGIN ROUND 4
Dot and Lil up, giant on deck.

[Toliudar]

Dot

Attempting to quite literally hasten the giant's end, Dot gives a burst of speed and energy to all of the group.

Assisted by the distraction of the two bralani, Dot's elemental swings away at the giant again, as relentless as a mountain. Now, a slightly faster mountain.

Dot casts Haste on all of us (except, of course, the giant!).

Elemental attacks three times. Now factoring in flanking from the Bralani.
Slam 1: 2d8+9[/roll]
Slam 2: 2d8+9[/roll]
Slam 3: 2d8+9[/roll]

If the giant seems to break free of Dot's other Hesitate effect, she will cast another one on him as an immediate action.

[MikelaC1]

3 more slugs from the elemental are all that is needed to finish off the giant. The group looks around and sees only one door leading out of the room.

[Toliudar]

Dot

Eager to find a way to rejoin the group, Dot stepped forward to do a cursory search of the giant, in case it had keys or other markers that might be of use in the situation. She gestured to the door and spoke gruffly to her elemental in terran.

"Well done. Now please go open that door and tell me what you see on the other side."

She glanced briefly from Setsuna to the Bralani.

"It might be useful to ask them to look ahead, go down side passages as needed, and report back. It would speed up our efforts to find our companions - and quickly. The others may not have been as fortunate as us in their landing."

Searching the giant: [roll0]

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

Nodding emphatically, Setsuna glances at her summons and gestures at the door. "Transform, then go check out the passageway. Standard procedure, and be careful. We don't want you finding something, then being destroyed before you can report back."

They nod, swirling into a pair of whirlwinds, and fly off!

In essence, one will stay in front, to fend of any attacks, while the other stays in the back to flee if necessary.

[MikelaC1]

(going to do some FF here to speed things up)
The bralani and the elemental open up the door and explore down the passageway. The passage is very short and almost immediately ends in another door. Both sets of creatures go through the door and then come back to report that there are no living opponents and several unusual things. (BTW, the giant has no keys on him)
When the group comes into the room, they see what confused the elemental and bralanis. There are two tables in this room. On one table are figurines of humans, each one is labelled with a different name: Gloria Greene, Wilbur Watson and Trudie Tipler. On the other table are three sets of cards, the first set has names of cities in the Isharrah Empire, Isharrah, Myrinnh, and Khoram-Al-Rudah, the second set has numbers on it, 100 gold, 120 gold and 150 gold and the final set has names listed, Oman, Yemen and Abdul. The human figurines each have 3 slots carved in their base, large enough to hold of each type of card. The door leading out of the room has 3 slots in it, shaped in such a way that a human figurine could be placed in each one. Finally, on the table with the figurines is a scroll. On the scroll is written the following:

Three people from Erandol have just returned from a holiday in the Isharrah Empire where they each purchased a handmade sarcophagus. Can you work out where each person bought their sarcophagus, the name of the maker and how much each sarcophagus cost, 100, 120, or 150 gold?

1. Gloria Greene didn't buy the cheapest sarcophagus and it wasn't the one manufactured by Abdul.
2. The sarcophagus bought in Isharrah was manufactured by Oman and was
cheaper than the one bought by Wilbur Watson.
3. Trudie Tipler didn't buy her sarcophagus in Myrinnh.
4. The most expensive sarcophagus was purchased in Khoram-Al-Rudah but wasn't the one manufactured by Yemen.

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

After several long, silent minutes of silent thought, Setsuna perks up, and begins shuffling through the cards. She places the Isharrah, 120 gold and Oman cards by Gloria's figure, the Myrinnh, 100 gold and Yemen cards by Wilbur's and the Khoram-Al-Rudah, 150 gold and Abdul cards by the final figurine, Trudie.

With a look back at her companions, the shadowcaster gives a grin. "I think this is right... you guys wanna come check?"

My logic table for this problem. :smallsmile:

{table=head] |Ish|Myr|Kho||100|120|150||Om|Ye|Ab
Gloria|:smallsmile:|X|X||X|:smallsmile:|X||:smalls mile:|X|X
Wilbur|X|:smallsmile:|X||:smallsmile:|X|X||X|:smal lsmile:|X
Trudie|X|X|:smallsmile:||X|X|:smallsmile:||X|X|:sm allsmile:[/table]

[MikelaC1]

Setsuna attempts to arrange the cards and figures as above, however for some reason, the door will not open.

[Toliudar]

Dot's eyes flick over the cards for a moment.

"This is how the giants travel to their mountain-obliterating volcano maker? Perhaps we've taken a wrong turn somewhere."

Hastily, she rearranges the cards slightly from Furude's assessment. She places the Ishtara, 100 and Oman cards into Trudie's slots, the Khoram, 150 and Abdul cards into Gloria's, and the remaining cards into Wilbur's figurine.

[MikelaC1]

Dot's eyes flick over the cards for a moment.

"This is how the giants travel to their mountain-obliterating volcano maker? Perhaps we've taken a wrong turn somewhere."

Hastily, she rearranges the cards slightly from Furude's assessment. She places the Ishtara, 100 and Oman cards into Trudie's slots, the Khoram, 150 and Abdul cards into Gloria's, and the remaining cards into Wilbur's figurine.

Actually, you're very close with this one, but....
By this rule:
1. Gloria Greene didn't buy the cheapest sarcophagus and it wasn't the one manufactured by Abdul

[Toliudar]

Ah, then there's just a different understanding of what the 'it' means in that clue. I had assumed that 'it' referred to the object of the previous clause, the cheapest sacophagus. I'm assuming that you intended 'it' to refer to Gloria's sarcophagus. In which case, Dot would swap the Oman and Abdul cards around, I think. I'd have to go back to my notes.

[MikelaC1]

What else could the "it" refer to, other than the sarco bought by Gloria?

[Toliudar]

The object of the initial clause is 'the cheapest sarcophagus.' I...work with grammar police on a regular basis. Don't turn me into one.

[MikelaC1]

I'm not sure I understand your objection. Gloria didnt buy the cheapest sarco and 'it' (Gloria's sarco) wasnt the one made by Abdul. There isnt anything else in the sentence that "it" could be refering to...Gloria's sarco is the only thing mentioned in the sentence.

[Morcleon]

Furude Setsuna

With a small pout at her first attempt being rejected, Setsuna quickly finds her error, and places the Myrinnh, 120 gold and Yemen cards with Gloria, the Khoram, 150 gold and Abdul cards with Wilbur, and the Isharrah, 100 gold and Oman cards with Trudie.

"There! That should do it."

Yeah, my first try's mistake was in writing down the clues incorrectly... I had done everything out on a sheet of paper, but put a ">" (more expensive) rather than a "<" (cheaper) for clue number 2... >.<

{table=head] |Ish|Myr|Kho||100|120|150||Om|Ye|Ab
Gloria|X|:smallsmile:|X||X|:smallsmile:|X||X|:smal lsmile:|X
Wilbur|X|X|:smallsmile:||X|X|:smallsmile:||X|X|:sm allsmile:
Trudie|:smallsmile:|X|X||:smallsmile:|X|X||:smalls mile:|X|X[/table]

[lostsole31]

To make sure that she is not 'infected' by others' calculations (leading them into the hivemind issue), Lildorrinene figures that trying to solve on her own with Talbot, and then trying to cross-check with others would be the best bet.

With Talbot, she figurs out the following:
Gloria in Myrinnh with the Yemen card paid 120 gp.
Trudie in Isharrah with the Oman card paid 100 gp.
Wilbur in Khoram-al-Rudah with the Abdul card paid 150 gp.

Lildorrinene comes back to the others with their findings and listens to Setsuna. "I agree, though Talbot was the main helper on this one. Let's try it."

[Toliudar]

I'm not sure I understand your objection. Gloria didnt buy the cheapest sarco and 'it' (Gloria's sarco) wasnt the one made by Abdul. There isnt anything else in the sentence that "it" could be refering to...Gloria's sarco is the only thing mentioned in the sentence.

Okay, here we go. Gloria's sarcophagus isn't actually referenced in the first sentence. What's referenced is the cheapest sarcophagus. The descriptive element ascribed to the cheapest sarcophagus is that Gloria didn't buy "it".

Please, please can we move on?

[MikelaC1]

The arrangement proposed by Setsuna and seconded by Lil/Talbot proves successful, and door fades away to nothing. The group looks through and sees....


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