oh ok so at 4 lvls of druid it'd be a +3? and np, i didnt want to hold you guys up like last time so I got it done early.

It's +2 at 3rd level,
+3 at 6th level
+4 at 9th level
+5 at 12th level

Still a great bonus for natural armor I think. Everything helps... most of the time

I just require a post from Vesper, Drakar and Valimar to continue, or a message about their action. I would like to be able to update today, or sunday. I've already added the extra XP for those of you who posted, in the first post of this Q/A.

There's an update waiting for all of you.

If the party wishes to negotiate then that's fine. Troshba will hold to her old wishes (food, preferably that cow she wanted). If anybody wants to make a sense motive check against her please PM me and I'll let you know what the result is.

My last chance to update is on coming friday. After that I'll be traveling until the 6th of January, and unable to post. If we can come to a conclusion before that, it would be a perfect ending of the prologue part. My first update in January would then be a merging of the party and Geim.
If you can't come to an arrangement with Troshba before friday, so be it. We will all have to wait a bit longer for the prologue to end.

I personally would like to see Troshba Dead. We could eat her children!

We got more XP if we negotiate! The DM said so!

I'm sorry to inform you guys that he XP bonus is no longer available. If you had all agreed on going with the peaceful solution in the first place than the bonus would be granted. The moment I said there was a bonus, it did not apply anymore.

Elessar is beginning to feel like frog jumping from the frying pan, into the fire, and back again.

What's the Elven word for Ouch?

No extra XP?!? In that case, let's kill the Beastie!

(Just kidding)

I figured the XP had gone south the moment we started fightin' the thing.

Don't matter... Tobin's still looking to renegotiate.

My Character Generator says that to get to 5 lvl one must have 15000 points. Your Exp allotmentsfrom 1st Q&A post lists the Characters including Elessarae as level 5 and having 10,050

Your character generator is wrong, according to the Player's Handbook. You reach level 5 at 10.000 xp, and level 6 at 15.000. Be glad, now it takes you less time and XP to go up a level. The 50 XP is the extra I promised to those who would post before the set time, after my last and late update.
Sorry I'm giving Elessar such a hard time, but you're also having bad luck with dice, AND this is supposed to be a difficult test. She is proving herself worthy right now.

Blammm, Tobin's negotiations reached home. Troshba's willing to reconsider, though she's not happy. But Manticore don't come with more patience than this, so this better turn out good! (That's the first time I've actually refered to Troshba as what she is, but you had all figured that one out long ago, of course).

How much of what Elessar is wearing has been burned and where is she burned. Also is the rapier wound on the right or left side.

I thought long and hard about what her reaction would be like. It seems the bad dice rolls sort of leant themselves for her getting the wrong idea about what has been happening to her. Being almost strangled to unconsciousness and then the pain of the Fireball, then the Orc/Elf's attack. Bingo, they don't want her around.

Pain clouds reason.

I figure you will have to make Fortitude and Will saves if she is going to make it to the forest.

All this time I thought the DM was just trying to kill the party.

, killing of players is my favorite thing to do after dinner. *goes to cook* Be back later....

haha... j/k. I'm not giving you all an easy time, because I think that challenges are cool when they are actually hard to overcome. If it's easy, what's the fun?

I think we all should just try an get rid of the Manticore, and negotiate with her. I want to end this prologue soon, we'll have plenty more chances to get XP, plus I dont wanna die!

Well at least you guys and gals are not trying to kill yourself.

I seem to be doing a good job of it. Which means the DM's dice don't like me.