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Come fite me IRL, Johnny Reb! We'll burn down Georgia again! <s> No, I'm not the type to have conniption fits whenever I see a Confederate flag. I am the type to go, "Y'all know that's a naval jack, right?" I'm also not up on all the Confederate war songs, which is good because the Bonnie blue verse was not fitting the meter for Heart of Texas no matter how hard I tried. None of them hold a candle to Battle Hymn of the Republic anyway.😉 Cool story though. I like war history, including the Civil War. That scyther is frankly insane. x7 crits? At will (so always on) Cat's Grace? With 1/encounter Mirror Image? I think you're better off sticking to the Oslecamo class if you're looking for crunch-he balances pretty well, albeit to higher optimization levels than 1st-party WotC material.

"Ax? Oh, right," Irlana said. "Alright, so Medford, then what's the fastest way to San Kyoto? Do you have a map and some paper so I can write this down?" ((Yes, but that was San Fransokyo))

"Don't forget your ax on your way out, dear."

https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Scyther_(3.5e_Monster) What do you think about this?

My first full time teaching contract was "Voter Education Co-Ordinator" on the county level for the 2002 Georgia General Election. We were introducing touch-screen voting and they needed a local in each county to explain it. We stood in banks and grocery stores and went to civic organization meetings. I demonstrated the voting machine for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the NAACP on the same night. The NAACP met at the fried chicken restaurant owned by the husband of the chapter president. I coordinated with the NAACP and SCLC and the local ministerial association. I was dabbling in Civil War enactment at the time, and the SCLC chairman was wandering why I was at the school in a Confederate uniform the week before I was there showing the voting machine. It was a living history presentation about the "Late Great Unpleasantries" and the equipment used and the local impact thereof. "If you are black, and you live in Wrightsville, and your last name is Wright, then your ancestor probably came off of the Wright plantation and kept the name after the war. Mr. Wright was the largest slave owner in the state, and was rich enough to devote time to organizing the state government. That is why our town is named after him. If your last name is Johnson, and you live in Johnson County.... ...The Johnson Grays were at Gettysburg on the charge before Pickett's.... Some of Sherman's troops marched tough over there, about where Kite Road is. By the way, if your last name is Kite...." The SCLC man's response was heartfelt thanks. "No one else is telling them their history." I tend to be either the most liberal or the most conservative person in any given room when I'm in the states. In Asia, it doesn't really matter.

"Bonnie Blue" is a successionist hymn regionally popular, the kind of song old western cowboys are imagined to have sung. The idea being "taking our star out of the Union". There is no political intention, any more than when she starts humming "Cottoneye Joe" or "Yellow Rose". More of a cross planer memory.

"San Kyoto has a red bridge. I'm not sure what color the bridges in Bayport are. I'm sure there are bridges in Riversfall and Cliffton, but they are more famous for other landmarks." (ever see Big Hero 6?)

"What color bridges?" Ilrana asked. ((Yes. I thought I recognized Deep in the Heart of Texas, but the bonnie flag verse is a new one to me.))

A) The kind that has been looking after an altimerz patient since before 2019. There was covid, then superflu, then killer Japanese Ink Hornets, then paper was a lost technology for a couple generations, then ink wasps went extinct and they had to wait for land squids to re-evolve, then the printers wouldn't print black and white without yellow ink, then no one could fix a typewriter anymore, then Staples went out of business... She can make paper, go buy paper, or make take care of the Old Wise Man. 2) The pre/post technological kind with a good memory.

"Dreams can be symbolic or literal. There are waterfalls in Riversfall and Cliffton. There are large bridges in Bayport and San Kyoto. The circle of stones and the goat sounds like the Shrine of the Oracle (tm) near Melford. The goat is their mascot. Lots of houses use stars in their heraldry." (are you American, by any chance?)

What kind of sage doesn't have writing materials? Regardless of when I do it, will the Prestidigitation trick work?

"Dreaming? I had a dream last night. I saw a red bridge by a waterfall, and a ring of robed people around a circle of stones, with a goat. Like a cult sacrifice or something. And another line of the song. 'And rally 'round the bonnie blue flag that bares a single star.' "Any of that sound familiar to you?"

It is probably perfectly safe to put on the unidentified ring and armor, and to use the unidentified dagger. Probably.

You can ask, but she is out of paper. She hasn't been able to go out in quite a while and her journaling project had to be paused... Also, she doesn't want to look at the notes you made. Anyone who studies the ruins for too long has either gone missing or insane. So you choice is to wait until you find some papers, find someone who can read the symbols, or erase to maybe get other clues.

"Or maybe they just never learned, created in the moment from an archetype because the world needed a hero.... and that hero didn't need to talk to do what was needed. Heroes can decide to become heroes, be chosen to be heroes, or be created by magic or the Gods or the Fairies because a hero is needed. They are inclined to be heroes, but they don't always get with the program and act like heroes, so the darkness lasts longer until the next hero arrives. You might be a created or chosen hero... Or you might just be a lost child who had a problem on the road and you will remember once your nerves settle. Or... a lot of conditions can manifest at your age. Hormonal problems, betrothals you'd rather forget, various psychiatric disorders, substance experimentation, family curses.... It wasn't a full moon last night... And being a were-hobbit isn't too bad as curses go. Are your feet hairy? or one foot? (no more than expected) Usually, time and rest will resolve such things.... or large amounts of stress will force you to admit who you are.... or you can take a healing potion or get blessed by a fairy... or touch a Tri-force fragment... near Melford there is an Oracle at the shrine at the Stones, 3 days walk East." "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!" offers the old man. "I don't mean to be rude dear, but you'll have to sort out your memory problems yourself. I already have my hands full taking care of an 3000 year old Alzheimer's patient. The yellow book on that shelf might help, it's from my 4th correspondence Ph.D." The yellow book is titled AutoHypnosis, Lucid Dreaming, and You. --- Location information dialog/info dump, some repeated: "There is a tradition of hospitality. The duty of the Wise to help the hero restore the world has perhaps lapsed. They've done it a dozen of so times already, the last centuries ago. But those evils have been vanquished and those saved kingdoms eventually forgotten after living happily ever after for a time. Since and before, these lands have been fought over and shared by every race. Someone will build a nice kingdom and it will last for a while, then a rock from the sky, an invasion, a wing of dragons, or a plague or whatever will destroy most of it, there will be a dark time and then a new dawn. Now most of the orcs and goblins have been pushed back and mostly elves and men rule, but the woods and roads are still dangerous. The patrols are not often enough. The nearer the cities the safer it is. The next town is Melford, 3 days walk. From there you can go to Harrowford, Tinton, or Orleans on your way to Bayport, Cliffton, Riversfall, or San Kyoto." "Harrowford is new. There is a lumbermill there. Tinton is over the goblin tin mine. Orleans is on the edge of a swamp. Bayfort and Cliffton are on the coast. Bayfort has a bay and Cliffton has a cliff. San Kyoto has many strange peoples from across the Ocean. Riversfall is were rivers meet before a waterfall."

Yes. I forgot about that when I decided to take 10. That's what I get for being lazy I guess. EDIT: When I get around to showing the wisewoman the drawings and then ask for paper and ink to make a higher-quality copy, and I use Prestidigitationyo get rid of the ash scribbles and read what was originally on the paper?

"Maybe it's because they forgot how to talk!" Irlana sniffed into the handkerchief.

She offers a handkerchief. "There, There, dear... The Hero usually arrives confused, often permanently mute. He usually gets into the swing of things soon enough...." (more later, but you can respond)

Regional dialect. The caster level is higher than 1. If I'm reading it properly, the dc is 15 +caster level.

I assume that's supposed to be "mid"-morning. Going back, I don't see a description for the mithral shirt's magical properties.

"I wish I felt better," Irlana mumbled as she took a seat. "I still can't remember anything before I woke up on top of the hill last night. And this morning, when I went to wash up, my eyes, they... changed color! Blue and red! Just for a moment, but I saw it! And then there's my hair! My ear! I don't know what;s happening to me!" she cried, nearly breaking down sobbing into her porridge.

The Wisewoman has set a table for brunch, rye porridge and some kinds of berries. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this!" repeats the Wiseman, only now there is a backpack on the table. (when you check) The backpack contains a bedroll, 30 ft of rough rope, a tinderbox with flint and steel, a whetstone, a canteen, 16 cp, 5 small green crystals, and a fish skull, some garlic, a signal whistle, several dead insects, a spool of purple thread, a deck of playing cards, and a small scorched metallic rock, and 3 days of rations, and a few extraneous conjunctions. Attached to the backpack is a belt and a scabbard that doesn't match but sorta fits your dagger. The pack is sitting on top of a large sack and next to an old picknick basket. (when you check) It contains: some sandwiches, cookies, berries, and a container of potato salad and a checkered tablecloth. "Good min-morning, dear. You look better."

"Who was the guy that woke up and decided 'I need to give my horse charisma'?" Irlana wondered out loud. Taking the papers, she went looking for the wisewoman.

Ok. Good to go for IC. Maybe a conversation with the Wisewoman?

It's part of Oslecamo's homebrew. Linky. It was campaign bonus feat to put the "girl" in "monstergirl". Despite that, it was surprisingly important, not mechanically, but the GM ruled it let me hear and talk, getting around pesky little problem with a Vivisector PC. And I'd appreciate something similar, just because deaf-mute characters are... tough. Also, bards still cast spontaneously in PF like they did in 3.x. You know so many spells per level, with so many slots per level, and you can cast any known spell with a slot of the appropriate level. Full loadout's on the sheet.