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Super minor and unimportant.

The NPC called "Theatre Doorman, Stonebuilder's Guild" that appears within the Open Door whenever the ambient message, "Word spreads that the Little Yellow Dragon Theatre has opened for some fun. Folk can be seen heading inside the Open Door Inn toward the theatre." triggers, remains a Stonebuilder rather than a Butcher, as opposed to the rest of Ticker Square's current enforcers.

The creatures summoned by this spell and theme attempt to cast Improved Invisibility before initiating combat, but they seem to have some spell failure from armor. So often they'll try to cast that single spell multiple times in a row and just stand there ineffectively for a long time if they get unlucky.

Hugely minor, and mostly a personal preference.

Would it be possible for the barracks in the Butcher's base to have a table and a couple chairs somewhere off to the side? Mostly to facilitate longer meetings with friendly guests.

I attempted to purchase a potion from the Butcher faction shop and ran into a small issue. I haven't had this issue previously.

Freedom of Movement allows you to run with the King's Gifts. Whether or not this is a bug, it seems likely that it's definitely a bug that the flag and all indication you're carrying the gifts vanishes along with the movement speed debuff.

Lori was my first character on EFU. Unfortunately, as a result, there's some big blank spaces in my library of screenshots before I realized their importance, and even after due to a habit of getting a bit too immersed and distracted by what's going on. Some of Sylyn's obituary can fill in the blanks but still. I'm gonna try to make up for the lack of screenshots with written bits, so apologies in advance if this is a little long.

That said. It was an incredible ride start to finish, and a hundred times more than what I expected to experience during my first peek into this server. The basis of Lori was, "NG Unpredictable Sorceress. Kind to a fault and tragically plagued by chaos magic that she refuses to use to directly harm others", and the entirety of my playing her, and writing her journal, was done with the full assumption that I'd roll poorly on the Unpredictable table and explode at level 8, as I tend to have terrible luck. As a result, everything after surviving felt like borrowed time, especially as her niche of support magic Sorcerer made her ill-suited to defend herself alone... at least until she could Polymorph.




Lori, Argus Haffard, Daniel Brandybuck, Sylyn Nine-fingers and Milos Andelko were the first to overcome Ring 92 and the first to reach Ring 88. Lori's first development of confidence in herself, despite still fearing her magic, was the result of her part in defeating 92, having saved her team from death through quick trickery rather than her own spells. In addition to this, her team had been placed in a position where they could have chosen to sacrifice Lori to proceed safely, and refused immediately, cementing her trust in them. She came to view them as family.

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Unfortunately, resupplying after this success led to Lori's reaching level 8. It was during a locked room meeting with The Five in the Open Door that she made her rolls. The first, harmless, gave her skin an ethereal glow. The second and third, though, were much less pleasant... despite the powers that came with them including a convenient 1/day allowing Lori to emulate the dazing white light from her dreams, among other strong effects.

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A prompt Pondfolk as a result, hiding away, Lori spent a lot of time sobbing and moping. Despite this, a ridiculous number of the friends she'd made along the way came out in droves to assist, supply and comfort her while working on a ritual to restore her. New friends were made as well, even as a goblin, from Pondfolk to adventurers under duress she, foolishly, couldn't stop herself from sneaking out of the Ponds to assist. Driftwood Company even accepted her as a member, greenskin or not, and were often her wall while traveling.

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Just a day before she was to be restored, Lori was visited by a hag in the Ponds, invited to tea. Upon accepting, she was ferried into deep woods and told an odd fable, then asked who the mysterious subject of it truly was. Upon landing on "Pzatharun", she was rewarded with a laugh and a reveal of the hag's true form. A nymph, a changeling, who encouraged Lori to see her transformation into a goblin as a path she'd learned from, and Lori agreed to see future fresh paths as learning experiences as well. A thanks given to Pzatharun, later events compelling her to worship him over the Hin pantheon, and she was rewarded with a charm to keep her safe.

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The day of the ritual eventually came. All together, Lori and friends had gathered a raw 20,000 groats on top of roughly 5,000 groats in relics and expensive other items suited to being reagents. Morale was high, but a few fumbles of the intricacies of it all paired with a saboteur swiping a key relic led to a truly awful result. And when the Arbiters stormed in to demand the destruction of the abomination that resulted, Lori fled first to an old meeting spot, then deep below the waters of the ponds. She never forgave herself for the defenders that died there or soon after, Milos a father figure and Grunskogal one of her closest friends.

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As a goblin, Lori had still been capable of making new friends. As a maggot, she was truly disgusting, though still retained her speech, intelligence and casting ability. Unable to make new friends, she had to rely on the old, chiefly Sylyn Nine-fingers, to manuever, bribe and kill in her defense. In the Ponds, Lori spent nearly all her time hiding beneath the water, taking advantage of her form's ability to breathe beneath, or delivering stealthy gifts of fish to Pondsmen who defended her or warded hunters away. It wasn't until she managed to reach level 9 that, through polymorphing, she began peeking at and speaking with strangers in small doses. Miserable, bitter and trapped in a fleshy prison that ached and writhed, the ability to change shape kept her sane, as did close friends and the possibility of evolving.

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Aetherwine Silver soon earned the title of Royal Court Wizard and the tower that came with it, and he didn't hesitate to shelter and work on finding Lori what it was she needed to change shape permanently, out of both friendship and perceived penance for the ritual gone awry. A much more active time, their friendship was strengthened by gathering material for the tower as a team, with Lori becoming awfully attached to her wizard pal, falling into the role of monstrous magical assistant/bodyguard and finally working out of her exhausted depression bit by bit.

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After a long haul, it was through the assistance of Varthan, Quarterdragon, Wilbert, and Alastor that Lori and Silver were finally able to simultaneously quash a longstanding threat while giving Lori access to enough consumable magical energy to fuel her metamorphosis. An exhausted, finally fully confident Lori got to return to the Tower and enjoy a tearful hug with her surrogate elder sister and most zelous of defenders, Sylyn Nine-fingers... only for her to be slain the next day.

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Grief drove Lori into a mad dash back to Ring 99, but ultimately she failed to see Syl's body a final time. She settled into Ticker Square as best she was able, taking advantage of the growing acceptance of planar travelers and stumbling her way through politics that had become wildly different in her months away. Going by "Chit", covered up in a uniform taken from where she was restored, she tried and failed to take on a new identity.

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A positive came with the Arbiters foiling Lori's new identity. New friends, both curious and eager to defend her upon hearing of her plight. Her own kindness making her too trusting, Lori was incredibly lucky to forge the bond she did with Braiden Kale, who came to view her as a daughter. Their adventures together made up the last of Lori's journey, his encouragement and protection of her finally having started to build back up a self-confidence marred by an awful lot of guilt in the face of those who'd sacrificed themselves for her time and time again.

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Sorry to anyone not mentioned, or mentioned too lightly. Lori had a lot of folks who played a big part in her continued survival and retained sanity, but unfortunately my screenshot taking habits still need work, so I missed far too many genuinely heartwarming quotes. I'm going to miss maintaining Lori's journal most of all.

Also, I'm silly. So I saved all these.
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Heya! Non-scroll, Baleful Polymorph seems to work fine. A scroll of it used on a Veteran Bandit, however, didn't do anything when he failed the save.

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It'd be great if there was some way for stronghold interiors to be available to those who have set them as their spawnpoint, even if the actual owner of the stronghold has not logged on for a given reset.

But, understood if this is an intentional design decision and/or unavoidable aspect of the system. I can understand the importance of the actual owner being present to represent their stronghold.

Niche and not a huge deal, but could there be a command for toggling the +4 armor AC from Shield, gained when you have GSF: Abjuration, on or off? It's mostly an issue of casting Mage Armor long before a fight, casting Shield just before a fight, then Shield wearing off and taking away the +4 armor AC you already had from Mage Armor, along with the base +4 deflection AC.

When using Polymorph Self to assume animal forms, the size of the form seems to be tied to the size of your base model. For example, a gnome became a gorilla at half scale, while an oversized monster PC became a dog four times larger than usual.

Used a scroll of Rouse on an area in which there was a sleeping creature, rather than directly on a sleeping creature, and it didn't wake them up.

The 1/day domain power doesn't seem to work. I don't have martial prof for trying it with a hammer, but at the very least it doesn't apply +1 fire damage or the flame weapon visual to non-hammers.

With Exceptional Turning not functioning under the current system, I think it'd be neat for the Sun Domain to gain some other benefit. Something stopgap like Extra Turning, or closer to the original like Turn Undead effects being treated as if you have slightly higher charisma than you actually do, would be neat!

Even through rests, resets and reequipping , I can't seem to get Unpredictable's chaos shield to appear on cloth I wear anymore.

Edit: Most recent reset seems to have finally fixed it. Sorry for the bother!

Flame Weapon and Magic Weapon seem to correctly apply to throwing darts, but not to slings. I'm not entirely certain that flame weapon is meant to apply to slings, though they are technically throwing weapons, but magic weapon I'm sure is meant to apply.

Sorry in advance if this is user error. I'm still stumbling my way through NWN mechanics.