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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2025, 12:03:43 PM »
Can we get more details on the types of creatures and hazards encountered on Speck? Giants, elementals, and winged magical lizards were mentioned. What types, sizes, quantities, locations?

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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2025, 12:23:32 PM »
Can we get more details on the types of creatures and hazards encountered on Speck? Giants, elementals, and winged magical lizards were mentioned. What types, sizes, quantities, locations?

"We have seen winged creatures of a several chromatic colors.  Elementals of earth origin.  Giants that are 25 feet tall and Treants."

"The come out of nowhere, but no flashes of magical teleportation.  They don't appear to have homes or bases they come from."
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2025, 04:17:35 PM »
Size and color of the winged creatures?

Size of the earth elementals?

What did each of the creatures do when encountered? Breath weapon, cast spells, through rocks, call down lightning.

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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2025, 05:29:57 PM »
Size and color of the winged creatures?

Size of the earth elementals?

What did each of the creatures do when encountered? Breath weapon, cast spells, through rocks, call down lightning.

Gnomlee says, "We don't have a lot of those details.  We were watching from a high altitude through a spyglass.  Its hard to tell the wingspan of a creature or how tall it is from that distance."
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2025, 03:43:16 PM »
Cordero says:

Feels like these are all creations of the wingblade. And if non of these have been defeated, we don't know if they disappear when defeated or die like something physical.  Could we acquire magic that allows us to damage constructs, dismiss, or maybe steam summons?

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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #20 on: December 20, 2025, 03:45:11 PM »
Cordero adds. "maybe we should land some of the crew first, maybe the challenge sent is equal to the threat.  Simply put, if We go down there we end up fighting some outter planer big winged scary, but if that turtle goes down there maybe we are talking goblins..."

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« Reply #21 on: December 20, 2025, 06:58:07 PM »
Cordero adds. "maybe we should land some of the crew first, maybe the challenge sent is equal to the threat.  Simply put, if We go down there we end up fighting some outter planer big winged scary, but if that turtle goes down there maybe we are talking goblins..."

Its possible, the Aeroblade is intelligent enough to evaluate threats."
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #22 on: December 20, 2025, 09:50:50 PM »
HE asks the Illusionist  -  I know of the spell Nystul's Magic Aura, is there a version that be applied to beings?

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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #23 on: December 21, 2025, 01:02:54 AM »
HE asks the Illusionist  -  I know of the spell Nystul's Magic Aura, is there a version that be applied to beings?

"To hide what magical aura's they have?  Yes"
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #24 on: December 21, 2025, 01:31:06 PM »
Gwen chimes in, “I might be able to tell if they creatures are summoned or not, maybe.”

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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #25 on: December 21, 2025, 02:54:10 PM »
Gwen chimes in, “I might be able to tell if they creatures are summoned or not, maybe.”
I'm going to make the leap and say Aeroblade knows as much about magic as the 750 year old mostly diety elf.  It doesn't really matter if they are summoned, or instantly created as a real creature at the will of Spek itself.  The conjecture is, the response might be.. equivalent.   Now that being said, they might be murdered horrendously and instantly.  Maybe we should go back to Maj for some more crew. 

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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #26 on: December 21, 2025, 07:52:21 PM »
I'm going to make the leap and say Aeroblade knows as much about magic as the 750 year old mostly diety elf.  It doesn't really matter if they are summoned, or instantly created as a real creature at the will of Spek itself.  The conjecture is, the response might be.. equivalent.   Now that being said, they might be murdered horrendously and instantly.  Maybe we should go back to Maj for some more crew.

"We can't fit more than 40, so not much more we can do there." replies Agnax the first mate.
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #27 on: December 21, 2025, 07:54:14 PM »
Cordero says:

Feels like these are all creations of the wingblade. And if non of these have been defeated, we don't know if they disappear when defeated or die like something physical.  Could we acquire magic that allows us to damage constructs, dismiss, or maybe steam summons?

The captain says, "I don't know any place except Habololy right now where we might be able to purchase things.  We could go there, but I don't have endless coin to spend."
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #28 on: December 21, 2025, 07:55:39 PM »
Cordero adds. "maybe we should land some of the crew first, maybe the challenge sent is equal to the threat.  Simply put, if We go down there we end up fighting some outter planer big winged scary, but if that turtle goes down there maybe we are talking goblins..."

The captain says, "That's possible, but we'd have to get some to agree to try that, and it stands a real risk of them getting killed quickly and horribly.   I don't know if I can agree to that...ethically."
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Re: Exploring Maj and Planning for Speck
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2025, 08:47:07 AM »
The captain says, "That's possible, but we'd have to get some to agree to try that, and it stands a real risk of them getting killed quickly and horribly.   I don't know if I can agree to that...ethically."


Cordero air quotes..
Ethics..you are going to send Zalthor down there to murder some creatures that are just here trying to survive.  You know giants have mothers and fathers too.  Aren't we doing this for the greater good?