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>>112171
"No!" she doesn't really shout but since everything she says is murmur otherwise it seems that way. "Please, don't" She flails her hooves infront of her in an abortive motion.

"It just thought it was odd to see a dragon with a pony. That's all."

She takes another bite of bread before continuing. You hear her as she mumbles hher thoughts uner her breath. It wasclearly not intended for you to hear since she just voiced her thought to herself unbeknownst to herself but you did.

"She most be powerful to a have a dragon as a companion."

>>112169
/e_e\\
"Don't pet the cowe." she says.

>>112176
> You hear her as she mumbles hher thoughts uner her breath. It wasclearly not intended for you to hear since she just voiced her thought to herself unbeknownst to herself but you did.
>So messy

Sigh. Do you understand what it says or must I clearify.

>>112176
She peers closer to her, clearly concerned, but has a little smile.
"Phospy isn't a bad dragon. He's a nice one. Look."
She whistles Phospy, whom in response, scrambles into a salute.
"Do a barrel roll!"
In response, Phospy does so, ending belly up, expecting some sort of reward, which she gives by telekinetically petting his exposed chest, eliciting a line of steam from his nostrils, clearly content.
She looks back at the unicorn mare.
"See? Completely tame dragon."

>>112179
BTW no need to clarify. I understand she voices thoughts out loud sometimes

>>112181
Her eyes go wide at the display. She is starting to think that something is off. Normally she would have been terrified by this mare who had turned a dragon into a pet but she wasn't.

Has she cast some form of charm on me? She wonders.

"How though? How can you-" She interupts herself as she glances at the dragon, leans in close to Topaz and whispers. "-controll a dragon?"

>>112182
nice-u

>>112169
"Please excuse me, the bottle is yours now." Sonata says with a slight bow, wandering off into the surrounding forest.

>>112191
"Goodbye My Friend. i'll see you later."

>>112191
Don't you go splitting up now.
>>112190
>>112189
Topaz chuckles.
"Oh don't worry about subtlety, Phospy can hear it."
She downgrades her smile into a sheepish one.
"I simply... ask him to do stuff. I can't quite say what's causing him to be so compelled to listen to me. I guess it is because of my charm."

>>112199
"Oh."

She takes a quick peek at the dragon.

Is that true? Why would a dragon find a pony charming?

She looks back at Topaz before returning tp consuming her bread in silence.

Well, she is very pretty. But I thought dragons only cared for crystals, treasure, and gemstones. But I guess it is possible that she reminds him of gems or something.

Wait, did she say "my charm"? Was she saying she put a spell on him?

Is that why I am so calm when I look at her? Has she put a spell on me?

Regardless, if I want to escape her, I must do it later when the dragon isn't present.

Then, again the dragon doesn't seem to be in pain so maybe it souldn't be to bad... No, what am I thinking? What have you done to me?

A momentary glare flashes by on the mares face before it becomes calm again.

Well, I came here for information so I will get it and get out. I will ssimply play along.

She turns to Topaz again.

"I realise I haven't introduced myself. I am Reality Phobia. Who are you?"

>>112209
I don't know if I went overbaord with this one.

>>112209
Topaz smiles.
"I'm Topaz Tower. Nice to meet you Reality. The dragon is Phosphorus."
He lazily waves, suddenly without much worry.
Topaz points at the Earth Pony eating without emotion, only stoicism.
"And that is Diamond Hoof."
However in her mind, she's plotting herself.
(Alright. I have broken that outer exterior full of concrete with the dragon. Now to sneak in the friendship roots!)
"Want to take a closer look at the dragon? I saw you looking at it. Don't worry, it won't bite."

>>112210
You didn't, dun worre.

>>112212
> it won't bite
No, it would probably swallow me whole.

Reality looks at the residue on Topaz's plate and gether the same things she had on her plate aswell since one cannot only live on bread. She is also hungry so.

She stand up from her chair and lifts the plate of food and fork and a knifein her magic aura.

"Okay, but what is that you want to show?" she stutters out. She looks at the dragon as a crease appears between her eyebrows and her lips thines out; she looksat it sceptically.

>>112212
Woah, what a nice schemeXD

>>112219
Iron glances at the taking of her residue.
(Hm. She still seems to be acting cautious.)
"I want to show her how serene he is."

Looking at Topaz, he's basically posing as if he was sunbathing, without a care in the world.
Diamond stands up from his plate, carefully cleaning himself with the proper napkin, then walks to the dragon.
He pokes the dragon's snout, making him open the mouth, in which the Earth Pony puts the whole foreleg, even to the point of stroking its teeth slightly.
"See? He's not afriad he'll bite. Why should you?"
>>112220
She has big brain.

>>112222
*to show you how serene he is."

>>112222
**Topaz glances at the taking of her residue.

>>112222
***Looking at Phospy
Holy shit, how many more mistakes I can make?

>>112227
Hehe, I probably have a lot to. They appear when you wrrite so much on short time I think.

>>112228

kek

>>112222
(Who is Iron?)
>>112222
"I-I-I... Guess?I don't know. I don't really feel comfortable with being near it. What do you want me to do anyway?"

>>112238
Topaz smiles through her concern.
"Well, you could say that is how I managed to get myself a dragon. By not being scared of it."
Diamond is currently patting Phospy.

She looks at you for a moment and then back at the dragon.

Then she put her plate down on the table.

"I'll pet it if you come with."

>>112247
Ah, I see. Arganon is a two timing bastard.XD

>>112246
Topaz smiles ever further.
"Great! Follow me."
She stands up, beckoning Reality to follow while Diamond went back to sitting and eating again.
Phospy looks at Topaz and Reality from his belly up perspective, surprised, but does not move a muscle as his master ordered.
The dragon awaits its pats.
>>112248
>>112247
I is guilty
Sed tiem.

>>112252
Reality meets the gaze of the dragon for a short moment. She look at it t osee if he truly is okay with this. He doesn't indicate that he isn't so she continues forth.

She reaches out her hoof and starts to stoke scales in the direction the they go in.

How does it feel to pet Topaz's dragon?

Candy gets black out drunk

>>112259
Topaz exhales contently.
The feeling of scales on hoof can be considered rocky at this stage, like stroking along a smooth rock road. The heat is a little bit lower to other dragons and Reality could even swear she felt water inbetween the scales at times. Sometimes, he could feel his big heart palpitating through her hoof, clearly showing his young adulthood.
This only makes Phospy throw out a thin line of steam for her efforts.

Topaz, meanwhile, knows she's close to hooking her into the friendship.
"See? Look at how docile and happy he is."

>>112260
Is this your way of saying that you are done for this session?
>>112261
Reality smiles. Petting the dragon was more fun and intresing then she thought. But then her smiles falters and she stops petting him.

Why is she so nice to me?

She turns towards Topaz.

"Topaz. Why did you let me pet him?"

>>112262
Yea its getting kind of late.

>>112263
True. Is the GM still even present?

>>112264
He's probably asleep.

>>112261
Should we also call it a day?

>>112265
yeah

>>112265
I have half the day left.

>>112262
Topaz simply smiles
"You seemed interested in him and you were quite down when you came here."
>>112266
Sure thing.
>4:10 AM here
Have a good night and I hope I've given you a good taste of D&D.

>>112269
>I hope I've given you a good taste of D&D.
It was great.

I have had a blast. It has been so fun.

>>112269
If she has any ulterior motive she is good at hidding it. However, maybe she actually means it.

She didn't know what to think about the unicorn.

Reality shakes her head and give you the warmest smile she had given anyone this evening.

"Thanks. That was sweet of you."

[1d20+18 = 32]
>>112177
Rolling profession (masseuse) to pet cowe.

>>112276
Don't get merc'd

[1d20+75 = 89]
In the time before the next session, I'd like to predict the weather. Just doing this for spell prep.
Rolling Survival, discharge Moment Of Prescience for a +28 insight bonus. Survival predicts the weather for one day, plus an additional day for each 5 points by which the check exceeds 15.

>>112281
If you really want to touch the cowe, I'll entertain that process, but its more complicated than just rolling a dice. The bedroll she had strapped to her is a Personal Oasis so,....

>>112286
Huh?
I mean, Diamond can probably do it with his unwavering stoic personality. Probably would do backflips, too.

[1d20+26 = 40]
>>112286
Rolling to touch the cowe.

>>112287
See >>112276
If one were to attempt to touch the cowe, they would find that there's a 5'x10' tent just outside town, with a campfire that doesn't go out.
I'll give you three guesses what's gonna happen if someone attempts to enter the cowe's tent unannounced.

>>112289
Oh, never mind then.

Sister Ash is busy with divination.

>>112289
Struggle snuggles?
JK, I wasn't gonna pet you. I have Reality to deal with
cue laughter

>>112291
>struggle snuggles
Not what I was going for, but sure.

>>112291
I built a Grapplemancer, but not for this.

>>112294
No one does.
I'd say Diamond can resist a struggle snuggle very well tho.
>>112293
Are you sure? You're dealing with an adept snuggler if I ever send Diamond there.

>>112295
O rly? How many hit dice does Diamond have?

>>112296
Hah! Like I'd tell you without you saying it first!
Although I know you have it multiplied by 25.

>>112297
I'll get you next time gadget,... NEXT TIME....

>>112298
Perhaps I must test your snuggle proficiency, cowe.
>:D

Clerics and Druids are the best grapplemancers, imo; especially if they've got Intuitive Attack. Between Divine power and Righteous Might, priests of all kinds make for some of the best wrestlers, provided they have the time to buff-up (or in the Cleric's case, use DMM to persist their buffs). That's tier 1 for you, I guess.

>>112300
Sheesh.
Never thought clerics were great grapplers.
I would've thought monks were.

>>112281
In Ash's mind a picture appears, almost too real to be her own thoughts.

The creature from earlier appears infront of a map of Equus, showing blue and red weather front lines. Along with some strange orange and pink ones, a few clouds raining tables and chairs. Discord himself is dressed in a suit, giving a good old cheesy weatherman smile. A frame seems to be set around the image, and scrawling text at the bottom says phrases such as "Visit sunny Hevosenmat today!" or temperatures such as 90° in Auritanssi or 57° in Unelakso.

"Hello! And thank you for tuning into Channel 69's 42 o'clock weather! I'm meteorologist Joe Momma, and we'll be starting with a two week weather forecast. Starting tomorrow there will be even more cotton candy clouds and chocolate rain, so be sure to carry an umbrella! This will continue for a few days, reaching hurricane force in some areas before giving way to a beautiful green sky in contrast with the purple grass! Then we'll have a few days of clear weather before the sun and moon stop moving! How about that! After this weather patterns will become sporadic, but will include phenomenon such as, Ahem; raining anvils, raining cats and dogs, frost that is actually rock candy, the air suddenly being replaced with orange juice, feathers weighing as much as a pound of lead, lead weighing as much as a pound of feathers, and my personal favorite! Bug swarms! I've been your host, Joe Momma, and I'm looking forward to seeing you again, if you survive."

The text at the bottom has turned more ominous, the temperatures ranging anywhere from -200° to 1000°, including phrases like "There's no escape" and "enjoy the world while it lasts."

>>112301
Oh no, they're by far the best grapplemancers, even better than Druids. They have access to Enlarge Person, Righteous might, Divine Power, Giant Size, etc. Even a low-op Cleric can rip an optimized Fighter in half if he's got time to buff-up. They put the C in CoDzilla.

>>112302
>lots of wacky stuff
Sister Ash spends several minutes tasting the air with her tongue, before a dark look creeps over her face.
"It seems as though my Circle was right. I would have never expected such wickedness to have encroached on our territory..." she utters through a low growl
Sister Ash then casts Lay Of the Land to immediately know any and all landmarks within a 50 mile radius.
She then casts Commune With Nature, to get a much more in-depth picture of everything she just sensed, looking for any and all details that may point her to the origin points of the energies causing these unnatural weather patterns.

TL;DR: she takes a full ecological survey of everything natural and unnatural going on right now. This takes her 10 minutes.

Commune with Nature is a pretty broad scope of Divination, so I'm just going to post the description:
>You become one with nature, attaining knowledge of the surrounding territory.
>You instantly gain knowledge of as many as three facts from among the following subjects: the ground or terrain, plants, minerals, bodies of water, people, general animal population, presence of woodland creatures, presence of
powerful unnatural creatures, or even the general state of the natural setting.
>For example, you could determine the location of any powerful undead creatures, the location of all major sources of safe drinking water, and the location of any buildings (which register as blind spots).

She uses Reserves Of Strength to bolster her CL up to 29; giving her a 29 mile radius full-scale view of anything and everything that's going on right now.

(For a Druid, "unnatural creatures" may include things like undead, aberrations, outsiders, non-native elementals, templated extraplanar animals, etc)

>>112305
Candy boops Sister Ash

And while I've still got these spells prepared...

Sister Ash casts Elemental Guardian into the air above the town at 28th caster level. This conjures a lesser Elemental Weird in the town, guarding it for 28 days.
https://www.realmshelps.net/monsters/block/Weird,_Lesser_Elemental_Air%7Calpha%7CAll%7CElemental
With Rashemi Eemental Summoning, the Weird becomes an Orglash: a more fearsome, Asiatic version of your typical Air Elemental Weird. It gains the Cold subtype, gains fast healing 3, cone of cold 3/day at 8th caster level, cold damage to its natural attacks, and other things.
The Orglash Weird is given the order to "protect the town", form unnatural creatures that may threaten it. It is completly invisible, and will scout the area around the town for the next 28 days, shooting bolts of lightning at hostiles.

She follows up by casting Liveoak on the largest tree in the vicinity, and speaks the password to the weird, instructing it to awaken the tree if faced with any monster it cannot zap/freeze to death. Upon activation, the LiveOak tree with animate into a Treant, and will stay active for 28 days. She instructs the Orglash to Awaken the treant after the duration of its 28 day summoning expires, if it has not already.
The treant will similarly be commanded to "defend the town", attacking evil and/or unnatural creatures who threaten its territory. Faced with an extraordinary threat, the Treant is ordered to use it's Animate Trees ability, then retreat to defend itself, potentially animating the entire forest into an endless chain of treants.
Orders are given to both the treant and the orglash weird to recognize eachother as friendly. They will fight together when needed. The orglash prioritizing fire-breathing creatures with it's cone of cold ability, taking advantage of it's natural invisibility and perfect Flight. The treant will prioritize monsters resistant to energy, and direct its wooden army towards monsters capable of seeing and/or shooting the flying orglash. The orglash is capable of healing itself by producing small amounts of snow, and it can travel to the elemental plane of air and back at will to retreat if necessary. The treant will use it's animate trees ability before exposing itself to extreme harm. If necessary, it will travel up to a mile to find more suitable trees for its militia. Animated Trees have all of the powers of the original treant, and will animate more trees if necessary. Treants in large groups will attack as Mobs:
https://www.realmshelps.net/monsters/templates/mob.shtml
https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/SRD:Treant
They will swarm the enemy as a CR 10 encounter, while the higher treants animate more trees and form more mobs. If the mobs are broken up, they will attack individually until the enemy is exhausted or dead.
The Elemental Weird will attempt to Dominate any non-good creature with the Air or Cold Subtype, adding these creatures to this militia.

Sister Ash then gives up her Avatar Of Nature spell slot to summon an Octopus tree at 28th caster level. The octopus tree uses its Grow Plants ability on the surrounding region 28 consecutive times in a row, causing the trees to grow enormously and the vegetation to grow lush and dense. It is impossible for Creatures larger than huge to navigate the region without significant injury, let alone go unnoticed.
Also, crops fields in the region will yield 932% of their normal productivity for the , regardless of the weather.

It's not much, but in case something nasty threatens the ponies here, they will have a champion. Also, i might have to put the weather on lockdown with a Thimblewinter, so they're going to want to stock up now in case the going gets tough.

>>112314
roll a touch attack

>>112316
*933% productivity for one year

>>112316
Wheat is easily stored. If they grow too much food, they can just burn it for fuel or bury it in the woods. I trust that earth ponies would know what to do with it all.

>>112316
What i prepared should be able to deal with encounters up to 11th level. The Elemental Weird should be capable of dealing with monsters up to 8th CR without having to activate the liveoak, considering it has a directional and stealth advantage.

Should I set up a Druid's Grove to call a few contingent Siabries for emergency backup? It might be a bit overkill, but I also don't want the town to be destroyed while we're away. I still have spell slots and uses of turn undead left.

>>112323
I have an idea, how about you wait until Friday?

>>112324
I don't want to slow down Friday's session with metaposts, and i'd prefer to declare my uses of today's spell now so that we can begin Friday's session on the dawn of the next day.
I prepared a lot of debuff and utility spells for today. On the next day in game, I'd prefer to prioritize divination and combat spells.

>>112325
Niggers gonna nigg

>>112326
No u.
Not like you've even finished your sheet yet.

I'm just planning ahead, so I don't have to make all of these long posts when the session actually begins.

If it's a question of during what time my PC is doing this, she's got Holy Wake, so she can cast her remaining spells during the ~8 hours while the party would be resting.

Besides, it'd be better if somebody opened a Gate to the demiplane city, so Topaz's believers could get here without having to traverse across the Astral sea. While the party is preparing/resting, I could call them in during the night.

>>112324
>>112326
Anon, It’s not like there’s a different campaign that plays during week days that he could spend his time on

>>112328
>>112302
>>112301
Would it be okay if Sister Ash gated them into the prime material plane during the night? There's still more than 2000 poners in that demiplane.

>>112332
I am all for it, but you'll have to let Topaz know.
There's always using astral caravan to come here, since their surival rolls are above-average, but I don't think she can speak with them without using Correspond.

>>112334
Actually, no you don't. The moment she feels their brethern in mental sight, she'll probably be all for it as well.

>>112334
Sister Ash still has 8th level slots available to channel into Discern Location. She also still has enough uses of Wildshape left for the day to use the Titan's Gate SLA to create a portal to the demiplane.

After finishing the spellcasting above, Sister approaches Topaz at the table.
"Your... followers(?) are still stuck in that unstable demiplane. Shall I bring them here? Only a truly powerful Magi could have created that world, but I doubt it will last forever now. It's been unstablized by having been in contact with Limbo.."

>>112337
Topaz instantly lights up, with a big smile.
"Yes! If you can bring them, please do! I was starting to miss them a little."

>>112340
Oh by the way, she's with Sven Player (Reality Phobia) at her dragon, after Reality petted Phospy at the gem pile.

>>112340
>>112341
I'll wait for GM.
In the meantime, I've got work to do.

>>112342
K. You do that.

>>112340
>>112337
Well to accomplish this, I would need to manifest a gate, and hold it open long enough for ~2000 believers plus the residents of that demiplane to bottleneck through.

Sister Ash can do this this by travelling to the edge of the path in he forest and burning 2 uses of Plant Wildshape to Wildshape into a Titan. Due to her planar wildshape ability, she gain immediate access to the Titan's spell-like abilities, including Gate.
She then burns her prepared Anathema spell to cast Shapechange (CL increased to 28th level, via Reserves Of Strength), and Transmutes herself into a phoenix. Shapechange does not afford her the phoenix's spell-like abilities, but it does afford her the phoenix's Spell-Like metamagic ability, while retaining the Titan's spell-like abilities. This allows her to apply her metamagic feats to the Titan's spell-like abilities by using them as a full-round actin. Thus, he can apply Persistent Spell to Gate, allowing the herd of poners to travel through over the course of 24 hours.

>>112341
"Very well then. It would be better if you were there to receive them. Follow me please.." Sister Ash says, as she turns towards the woods

>>112356
Whew. That's a lot of work to do.
Topaz follows, along with Reality if she wants to.
In case she does want to see even more power and control of the nice unicorn.

>>112357
The real work to do starts now. We've flooded the setting with a herd of poners that amount to more than 20 times (maybe 40 times) the population of this town. They need a place to Sleep.

"I've mltiplied the number of trees in this region thirty-fold. If your followers(?).. followers, that is, if they require lumber, taking a few trees could be permissible.." Sister Ash says, shapechanging back into herself after opening the Gate.

>>112363
She nods, hopping a little.
"Why thank you, Ash. Some of my ponies could get cold and I don't have that many wagons to let that many ponies sleep in relative warmth."
Wait, has it been done already?

>>112365
"It's the least I could do. They'd be better off here than in that demiplane. Sometimes I wonder why ponies keep making those things.."

>>112369
You know they didn't actually went into the chaos realm, right? They're still at the Hub city.
>>112369
Topaz smiles warmly.
"I appreciate it."
Diamond nods in the distance while Phospy does a thumbs up.

>>112380
No. Demiplanes are small planes that spellcasters or manifestes create with magic. They're typically made by high level Wizards for personal reasons, or by extraplanar organizations like Mercane caravans.

The plane of chaos (aka Limbo) is an actual outer plane of existence.

>>112382
Aren't you sure the Hub was a demiplane and not part of the natural plane?

>>112384
THub was a demiplane city. It was only as big as the city itself, iirc.

>>112386
Ohok, but I wanna have the GM confirm it just in case we're opening a portal to nowhere.

[1d20+32 = 45]
>>112387
I guess i could roll Knowledge (the planes)

Anyway, if I use Shapechange to turn into a Tome Dragon (very old) (my favorite form) I could use its Free Metamagick ability to Persist then Extend my remaining spells to increase them to 48 hours duration. If I do so with my prepared Undermaster spell, Sister Ash could build just about any concievable structure over the next 8 hours using repeated uses of Stoneshape, Wall Of Stone, Statue, and Move Earth over the next 8 hours. She could cast it onto her turtle as well.

Then she could move on to casting Extended Shamber, them Extend+Persist a few of Nature's Allies as support for the next mission.