After an extended rest? Sounds like your big boss fight is happening in a shade under five minutes.

Oh honestly it's silly enough trying to stall your level up, but I'm hardly going to let you break it into convenient stages. You're all leveling up at the same time and you're all going to level up completely when you do it.

Zerg, imagine how upset you'll be if Cal gets killed during the party's inevitable "Running for the surface being chased by an angry Murkelmor" scene (Unless you guys are nuts and choose to make a stand) and you never get to level up at all? Seize the day, go balls deep now, the new feat might just be what saves you from an angry pursuer.

If there are any feats that allow you to run faster for example, you might want to think about those.

Heh, we have tons of human shields left! ('Sides, Cal runs 3.6576 kilometers per hour faster than Garrmondo, Glockenspiel, and Gheth) :33:

Pang, may I request for a zoomed out portion of everything that has been explored so far in the Horned Hold?

Sure.

http://www.saxypunch.com/missile/theholdinfull.png

Thanks.

Also, ahahahaha dissension in the ranks. Hard to think those two were colleagues in a hospital. One wonders how the heck Gheth and Glock got together in the first place...!

Also just for my bribing pleasure, how much do commoners, magistrates, and lawmen earn in a year in your D&D world? Cal could always use a flunky to carry all his biological experiments.

The Realms are kind of a broad place, but speaking purely in terms of Freeport:

An untrained laborer can expect to see no more than 100 GP over the course of a year, barely enough to feed and house himself after the tax collectors are done with him.

Members of the Watch officially make about thrice that, although most of them are none too shy about supplementing this by looking the other way from time to time.

Freeport's six judges are appointed directly by the Sea Lord, and consequently want for nothing. This isn't to say that they aren't thoroughly corrupt, but only that their motivations aren't in the form of coin. Open attempts to bribe them are as likely to get you hanged as anything.

Mmm, that works out to about 8 GP and 34 SP per month for untrained labor. Maybe add extra for hazard pay and overtime. Say about 10 GP/month?

Cool, gonna try to hire myself a non-combatant dude to carry my non-precious stuff, prolly a strapping adolescent so he doesn't get any ideas about robbing us while we sleep.

That is, if Cal can't buy himself a nice affordable beast of burden. The Adventurer's Vault only stated the acquisition cost, so I'd have to take cost of stabling and foodstuff into account. At least humanoids are less high-maintenance.

Leave it to the cleric to be an ol' fuddy-duddy

I promise, next character we'll drizzle honey on the peasants when we fight the dire bears.

I do hope one of the party's bards comes up with a suitably heroic song about the G-Unit's exploits in the stronghold.

You guys should totally wait near the entrance for the smug fuckers to leave then mug them for all the good loot.

Pang totally should've named them the Unicorn or Teddybear company

it's the only way to make this more embarrassing

sissies

But how? How did those incompetents defeat Murkelmor? :(

That can't be a shapeshifter masquerading as a dead Murkelmor, can it?

So are we going to level up or are you guys gonna sit there and pick your noses?

Before we leave, I wanna see the shopping lists in the Seven-Pillared Hall, in case they got stuff that Freeport doesn't :)

Cal's feeling a little jealous, being the only one who exited the Horned Hold without buying/finding some nice magical trinket.

I totally expected Cal to be enthused about wearing a gory eyeball on his neck :(

Cal prefers to collect his own specimens. Kord knows where those eyes have been, seeing as how it belonged to Gnasc :(

And on a totally metagaming basis, Gheth will get into situations where enemies have combat advantage against him a lot more frequently than Cal probably will. Plus I prefer the +5 poison resistance!

I would think you'd be the last person to suggest making a stand and hoping for the best. -_o

I'll be damned if I'm gonna be the only person who dies because of someone else's bad decision KNKWZRD

YOUR GLORIOUS BEARD WILL NOT SAVE YOU FROM MY ETERNAL WRATH

As for leveling up, here's my choices:

Feat: Weapon Expertise- Spear
Power: Bastion of Health
Retrain: Cascade of Light --> Moment of Glory

Cal's Level Up Choices:

Retrain: Split the Tree --> Guardian Arrow
Feat: Mark of Making
Power: Weave through the Fray

Alright, so. If I don't hear something in regards to Garrmondo and Gordok's level up by Tuesday I'm just going to start taking suggestions from the peanut gallery. Maybe Garrmondo would make an excellent multiclass psion! Maybe Gordok should specialize in boomerangs! The possibilities are endless!

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/too...der/DDI_CB.exe

Then when it asks for credentials you just plug in the email/password I PMed to you guys, after which it should update your Builder to the newest (January) version. You'll know it worked if you have Artificer available as an option for a Hybrid class, since that was just added.

You did get the PM right? Everybody but Zerg should have received one since he bought his own access for a month. If the CD-Swap is any indication the PM system is buggy as hell lately though. :(

You're the only person Pang's actually killed so far aren't you? Everyone else has retired or been killed by Skills.