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After a failed attempt to fool the bandits they force you to activate the enchantments on the Uthaninain Armour. The sorcerer declares he can sense its enchantments are active and the bandit leader dons the armour.
"Haha, yes! With this armour I'm even more invincible!" He turns to you, "Thank you for your service Christof, It's always nice to have a helping hand. Now why don't you be a nice little man and take your girl and get out of here while I'm still in a generours mood?"
One of the bandits tosses you your inventory. All the Talons have been stolen from it although you're not really in a position to take them back. You untie and unblindfold Alina and leave the camp with her. The bandits seem to be packing up their camp.

You walk in silence until you're a good distance from the outlaws and Alina says "I'm sorry Christof, I really messed up there didn't I?"

>"It's not your fault, I didn't realise Aflor bandits were so competent"
>"Next time we're fleeing, don't look back"
>"I'm taking you home to Appleby, this work is too dangerous for you"
>write in

>>1968907

> "Nothing that happened here is your fault Alina. I was overconfident, and because of my hubris you were harmed and a maniac got his hands on a powerful and dangerous artifact. I am truly sorry, and if you no longer wish to travel with me I would understand."

>>1968907

Hello OP. Is life treating you well?

>>1968907
>"It's not your fault, I didn't realise Aflor bandits were so competent"
>being in that situation did feel like crap though, we're lucky to be alive, I mean seriously lucky, like deus ex machina lucky.
>we'll have to be more careful about the fights we pick, and be ready for the ones that come our way.
>but you mark my words, we're gonna find every last one of those merciful bastards and kill 'em all

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>>1968925
>"Nothing that happened here is your fault Alina. I was overconfident, and because of my hubris you were harmed and a maniac got his hands on a powerful and dangerous artifact. I am truly sorry, and if you no longer wish to travel with me I would understand."

"I don't want to go home, I want to stay with you even if I have to fight people like those bandits."

>>1968948
>"being in that situation did feel like crap though, we're lucky to be alive, I mean seriously lucky, like deus ex machina lucky."

"Seems to me that the bandits were the lucky ones"

>"we'll have to be more careful about the fights we pick, and be ready for the ones that come our way. but you mark my words, we're gonna find every last one of those merciful bastards and kill 'em all"

"I was hoping you'd say that, next time we see them I wont hesitate to fight them! So umm, what are we going to do now?"

>"We need to find some weaker opponents to develop our skills"
>"Let's wait for the bandits to finish leaving and harvest some Hypericum, so we can sell them to the Appleby magic emporium."
>"Let's head to Clarcton, we'll continue our investigation of the Wish Granter."
>write in

>>1969000

> "Let's wait for the bandits to finish leaving and harvest some Hypericum, so we can sell them to the Appleby magic emporium."

> "Then we should find some weaker opponents to develop our skills."

>>1969028
I'm good with this, we did just get robbed for all our money.

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>>1969028
>>1969045

>"Let's wait for the bandits to finish leaving and harvest some Hypericum, so we can sell them to the Appleby magic emporium. Then we should find some weaker opponents to develop our skills."

"Oh! There's a place in Appleby called the 'Hunter's Lodge' they're like, place bounties on monsters, they might have some easy contracts for us"

You wait for the bandits to finish packing up and the head off to the east...

You spend some time harvesting berries until you have 5 sacks full.

Where to now?

>Explore wilderness
>Appleby
>write in

>>1969090

> Appleby

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>>1969090
>Appleby

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>>1969116
You return to Appleby, it's just the same as you left it.
Alina stops you by the entrance.
"Hey... Christof. Do you mind if I wait out here? I don't really want to go into Appleby right now"

>"Why?"
>"Okay, I'll come get you as I leave"
>write in

>>1969150
How do captchas like this happen!?

>>1969156
>"Why?"

try to get a straight answer, but also

>"Okay, I'll come get you as I leave"

>>1969156

> "Oh? Trying to avoid your old man?"

> "But seriously no, I don't mind. Hey, here's an idea to kill time while you wait: try to shoot some apples off this tree with your bow. Might make for some decent practice."

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>>1969197
>"Oh? Trying to avoid your old man?"

"He didn't *really* give you permission to take me on a quest did he? I didn't tell my family I was leaving with you because they would never let me. I don't really want to see my them right now."

>"But seriously no, I don't mind. Hey, here's an idea to kill time while you wait: try to shoot some apples off this tree with your bow. Might make for some decent practice."

"Okay, I'll be waiting!"

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Where to?

>Magic Emporium
>Graveyard
>Hunter's Lodge
>Temple
>General Store
>Weapons Store
>Garrison
>Tavern
>Look around
>Talk to random people

>>1969241

As we're about to leave:

> "Well, not exactly. Although, he did give me permission (did not explicitly forbid me) to take you on a date. So if one were to consider our recent travels an extremely protracted date, then technically we've done nothing wrong."

On that note:

> Go to Magic Emporium

>>1969263

Eh, now that I read the update more carefully. That comment doesn't really make sense within the scene. Feel free to exclude it OP...

>>1969249
Sell the bags to the emporium, I suppose.

Also would like to go to the tavern, and do some people watching. Maybe we find someone of use to us.

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>>1969263

>"Well, he didn't exactly give me permission. Although, he did give me permission (did not explicitly forbid me) to take you on a date. So if one were to consider our recent travels an extremely protracted date, then technically we've done nothing wrong."

you go to Magic Emporium

"...huh? date?"

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>>1969280
"Oh you've got my berries? Ah yes these are perfect! For these five sacks, I'll give you 75 Talons"

>You gain 75 Talons
>You now have 75

>You gain 125 XP
>You now have 2800

"Please feel free to browse my new selection"

>Spell: Protect (50 Talons)
>Spell: Chill Touch (10 Talons)
>Spell: True Strike (10 Talons)
>Spell: Burning Hands (10 Talons)
>Spell: Protection from Energy (150 Talons)
>Bewitched Skull (80 Talons)
>talk
>leave
>write in

>>1969358

Could we get descriptions of what these spells, and the skull do?

Could you also tell us what school of magic each spell belongs to?

>>1969358
TRUE STRIKE

as well as burning hands, that'll come in handy.

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>>1969365
>Spell: Protect, Abjuration II, the target's DT is increased by 2
>Spell: Chill Touch, Necromancy I, must make a successful unarmed attack, deals damage, has a chance to reduce targets strength
>Spell: True Strike, Divination I, The next attack you make is an automatic hit.
>Spell: Burning Hands, Evocation I, deals fire damage in a cone shape
>Spell: Protection from Energy, Abjuration III, absorbs 50 hp worth of damage from a designated non physical damage type (150 Talons)
>Bewitched Skull, single use item, creates a permanent skeleton under the control of the user.

Your magic skills
Abjuration: 85
Conjuration: 0
Divination: 0
Enchantment: 0
Evocation: 0
Illusion: 0
Necromancy: 0
Transmutation: 0

>>1969389
You'll need to make a significant investment of skill points to be able to use either of those spells reliably in a combat situation.

>>1969404

> Leave

> Go to General store

Our tent was destroyed again...

>>1969421
aye, in that case save the money, we have precious little

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"Oh hi there, weren't you in here with Ali a few days ago? What will it be?"

>5 Apples (1 Talons)
>Torch (1 Talons)
>Bedroll (3 Talons)
>1 Man Tent (5 Talons)
>Oil (2 Talons)
>Rope (3 Talons)
>Crowbar (5 Talons)
>Potion of Minor Healing (25 Talons)
>Potion of Minor Speed (25 Talons)
>Potion of Brief Invisibility (25 Talons)
>talk
>leave

>>1969438
meant for >>1969404

>>1969440

> Buy 1 Man Tent

Well. I suppose we could also buy another healing potion, and maybe one other potion if the other anons support the idea...

>>1969455

Actually. Do they have more than 1 tent in stock? Given the rate we're destroying these things it might be a good idea to buy in bulk...

>>1969440
>>1969455
>>1969457
I am willing to support 2 tents and one healing potion, we also need ROPE and OIL and CROWBAR and TORCH

>>1969470

Didn't the bandits let us keep our inventory? If so then we should have all that already...

Oh, wait. We don't have any oil. We spent all the oil we had setting the bandit camp on fire...

>>1969470

So are you fine with:

> 2 tents

> 2 flasks of oil

> 1 healing potion

>>1969485
this sounds good to me

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>>1969455
>>1969457
>>1969470
>>1969482 (You still have one oil flask left)

>"Hey how many 1-man tents do you have in stock?"

"About a dozen, how many would you like?"

>"I'd like two tents, one oil, and one healing potion"

"Great, that comes down to 37 Talons!"

>You now have 38 Talons

"Anything else I can help you with?"

Your Inventory

Map
Spellbook
22 apples
11 torches
1 bedroll
2 tent (1 man)
1 oil
3 rope
1 crowbar
1 Lesser Healing Potion
Iron Warhammer (Equipped)
Bronze Armour (Equipped)
Bronze Scimitar
11 Chromatic Potion (red)
scroll (polymorph)
scroll (flight)
Yin-Yang Wand
Bag of Rice
Ardin's scribbles

>"Yeah I'd like to buy something else"
>Talk
>"That's all for now" leave
write in

>>1969497
That's enough for now, it's time to go to the tavern.

What does polymorph potion do? And red potions? And the wand.

>>1969497

> Leave

> Go to Hunter's Lodge

>>1969512
The scrolls are just single use items that cast a spell, I forgot to add them to the inventory list in episode 10, although they probably wouldn't have helped since those spells only affect one person each.
The chromatic potions make your eyes glow red and give you a distorted magical sounding voice.

>>1969512
>>1969513
So tavern or Hunter's Lodge?

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>1969517

Flipping virtual coin...

...

Tavern = 1

Hunter's Lodge = 2

>>1969521
Supporting the coin.

>>1969521
honor the coin

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>>1969521
You decide to go to the tavern to see if you can find any "useful" people.
You sit in a dark corner of the tavern to get a better view of the patrons. To your surprise random adventurers start coming up to you and talking to you.
What kind of people are you looking to talk to anyway?

>Magic Users
>Warriors
>Rogues
>Healers
>Write in

>>1969580
>"introduce yourselves, give me your best action pose, and tell me why I should hire YOU" to all three

>>1969586

Support...

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>>1969586
>>1969591

>"introduce yourselves, give me your best action pose, and tell me why I should hire YOU" to all three

Hey boss, The name's Kilroy, I'm an experienced scout and infiltrationist with a wide array of skills all at your disposal for a mere six payments a month!

I am Salaman the Spectacular. I'm sure my expert conjuration skills and monolithic intellect makes me more than qualified for umm, whatever this is.

I'm Ulric! I have a sword!

(You have enough Charisma for 3 followers)

>"Next"
>Ulric
>Kilroy
>Salaman
>write in

>>1969628

> I'm Ulric! I have a sword!

I like the cut off this guys jib...

Voting for swordbro...

>>1969628
I would say that compatibility with Alina is paramount, followed closely with usefulness in keeping us alive.
Scouting ahead, providing stealth and, more importantly, intel, makes Kilroy a top pick.

Salaman sounds like they could provide much needed offensive magic, maybe, and the intelligence to not, say, walk directly into a bandit camp and demand they surrender to us for no reason. Maybe.
But then, Ulric does have that sword.

I vote Kilroy, then Salaman, then Ulric.
Depending on if they take speculative pay as we only have 38 Talons.

Also, what are our current paying questhooks?
I might dig them out if nobody has them handy.

>>1969628
My votes are Salaman and Ulric, I sense a team forming.

>>1969644
Right now you basically have:
Wipe out harpies (they could be even more dangerous than the bandits)
Do bounties for Hunter's Lodge

You have a couple unvisited locations on the map.

Plus you're free to just explore the wilderness of Aflor and hope you trip over a giant spider lair full of treasure or something.

>>1969639
>>1969644
>>1969666

So the votes are
1 Ulric
1 Kilroy
1 Salaman and Ulric

>>1969671

A reminder that we don't have a great deal of disposable income at the moment. So taking on a bunch of mercenaries at once may not be a great idea...

Incidentally, OP what are the rates they charge for their services?

>>1969639
>I like the cut off this guys jib...
That is a very compelling argument.

>>1969644
>>1969671
>So the votes are
>1 Ulric
>1 Kilroy
>1 Salaman and Ulric
I am officially changing my vote from Kilroy>Salaman>Ulric to Kilroy>Ulric>Salaman
Although I think Kilroy's talents are the best for our needs, he might be too professional for our little band.

Also:
>Wipe out harpies (they could be even more dangerous than the bandits)
Flyingsoullesstoplessdeathfromabovepleasedeargodno.
We'll... work our way up to it maybe?

>>1969679
Kilroy:
"A royalty check of 25% of all gold earnings whenever we enter a town plus first pick of all magic items!"

Salaman:
"Oh, I'd like to be paid in arcana, magic tomes and magical items that are useful for casters. You can keep all the gold as long as you pay for my lodging and healing etc."

Ulric:
"I don't know I didn't realize I was going to get paid..."

>>1969679
Alright, I now vote for Ulric, this is a guy we can use

>>1969693

> for a mere six payments a month!

Kilroy does sound the most useful, but he also strikes me as if money-grubbing conman...

...

On the other hand, Swordman is simple, Swordman is pure...

>>1969697
>Kilroy:
>"A royalty check of 25% of all gold earnings whenever we enter a town
Seems expensive but fair...

>plus first pick of all magic items!"
Thank you. We have your resume. We'll call you if a position opens up.
NEXT!

>Salaman:
>"Oh, I'd like to be paid in arcana, magic tomes and magical items that are useful for casters. You can keep all the gold as long as you pay for my lodging and healing etc."
As we are also interesting in learning spellcraft, we may need to negotiate this along the way, but definitely seems reasonable.

>Ulric:
>"I don't know I didn't realize I was going to get paid..."
You're standing on the wrong side of the table, my good friend and companion!
What do you think of Salaman?

>>1969722

We already have a bunch of magical bullshit that we pilfered from the vegetable mage which we don't need and/or can't really use, so maybe. If the other anon agrees to it then sure...

>>1969724
Alright I'm ok with both Ulric and Salaman, but we're keeping any abjuration stuff.

>>1969722
>>1969724
>>1969728
You guys seem to have this figured out

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>>1969724
>>1969728
>>1969731

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>>1969722
Okay, looks like we're going for Ulric here

>"You're standing on the wrong side of the table, my good friend and companion!"

"Cool, I can't wait to destroy the forces of evil!"

>Ulric joins the party

You whisper to him >"What do you think of Salaman?"

"He smells like he's wearing perfume"

Kilroy speaks "I can see that you are a suave man, I like that in an employer so I'll offer an extra special limited edition deal of 19% Talons royalties (rounded down) with no magical item obligations. Just imagine coming across an indestructible super heavy golden treasure chest and having no one to unlock it!"

>"Thank you for your applications, this interview is over"
>"Okay Kilroy you're in"
>"Gotta go with Salaman"
>Interview more people

>>1969739
We will never run into such a chest, indeed I defy fate to present us with such a chest.

But the fact that Kilroy tried is good enough for me, I'm now voting Kilroy, if we take on a third helper at all.

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>>1969739

> Interview more people

Wait. There are more?

>>1969739
>>"Gotta go with Salaman"
Politely turn down Kilroy's pitch.
(The likelihood of encountering such a chest is less than the likelihood his appraisal of his talents exceed the reality, especially since he is lowering his price in negotiation.)

Besides, I'm already anticipating a humorous and interesting dynamic between Ulric, Alina, and Salaman.
Cue sitcom synopsis.

>>1969747

Support...

>>1969746
Sure if you wait around for more to show up

>>1969749

Nah. Let's wrap this up. Alina is waiting...

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>>1969745
>I defy fate to present us with such a chest.
Damn.
And I thought my post was an "indestructible super heavy golden treasure chest" summoning spell.

>>1969746
>There are more?
Interviewing more could be worthwhile, within reason.

>>1969749
>Sure if you wait around for more to show up
But waiting, not so much.
"Onwards!
Towards... Something!"
"Hunting lodge?"
"Yes, the hunting lodge. Let's find us an adventure!"

>>1969749
>>1969754

Yep, moving on, supporting this, bounties sound good.

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>>1969747
>>1969748
>>1969754

>"Gotta go with Salaman"

"My compliments to your good taste, Salaman the Serendipitous is at you service!"

"But, but... who in your will disable traps and pick locks!?"

"Salaman the Sensational can remove such petty obstacles via Acid Arrow, now begone!"

>"Welcome aboard Ulric and Salaman the something, follow me"

You proceed to the hunter's lodge.

Okay, I think I'll end the session here, hopefully having a full party wont slow things down too much in future sessions.
Thanks for playing and see you next week.

>>1969763

Thanks for running OP...

> inb4 next episode is nothing but boob-traps and locked magically resistant doors

>>1969763
>hopefully having a full party wont slow things down too much in future sessions.
I'd suggest just limiting our control of the others to orders/suggestions.
That way, we aren't getting bogged down with making decisions for each team member.
I'm thinking of combat here, but it more or less applies universally.

>Thanks for playing and see you next week.
Thanks for the session Dolomite!
I had fun.

>"But, but... who in your will disable traps and pick locks!?"
Also, we aren't thieves.
Such stealing scoundrels, skillful scalawags, still support skulduggery.

Ulric's hilarious
inb4 he dies first

Why do I always miss this also Ulric seems too good to be true

>>1971607
>Why do I always miss this
This was the first time I caught it from nearly the start.
I suggest clearing your Saturday night schedule of anything too distracting.