Main» Standard Operating Procedure

A list of actions that are taken by the party on a regular basis, unless otherwise specified.

This spreadsheet lists buffs and effects by source, target, and duration.

It can also be found on Dropbox at Beyond Ragnarok/SOP Effects.xlsx.

Daily/Permanent

Buffs

• Sven casts greater magic fang and longstrider on himself daily.
• Sven casts pass without trace on the entire party daily.
• Vasily casts mage armor, Kerensky's crystal constellation, overland flight, mind blank, darkvision, and moment of prescience on himself daily
• Nikolai casts delay poison on himself daily
• Nikolai casts mind blank on himself daily unless otherwise noted
• Nikolai casts moment of prescience on himself daily unless otherwise noted
• Nikolai casts mage armor on himself daily
• Nikolai casts false life (1d10+10 temporary HP to be rolled when it matters) on himself daily
• Nikolai casts greater status on the entire party daily
• Nikolai casts magic vestment (+5) on Albrecht's shield, Boris' armor, and Sven's armor daily.
• Nikolai casts greater magic weapon (+5) on Taras's glaive and Boris' sword

Stored Spells/Effects

• Nikolai stores miracle in a miracle→spellstaff
• Vasily stores wish in a wish→spellstaff
• Sven stores transport via plants in a spellstaff.
• Vasily's dagger is set to counterspell dimensional anchor when cast on Vasily.
• Albrecht discharges any spell levels stored in his Iron Mask Shield.
• At the end of any day, Vasily or Nikolai replenish the darkbolt in Boris' spell storing dagger.
• Vasily (unless otherwise specified) maintains two charges on his Stolen Eye circlet, discharging uses or blinding himself as necessary.
• Once per day at the beginning of the day, Nikolai casts summon monster V to summon a bearded devil, then uses Steal Spell-like Ability (Su) to take its dimension jump ability.

Contingencies

• Vasily has a contingency for mirror image for the situation: "Vasily is targeted by a melee or ranged attack"
• Nikolai has a miracle→contingency for displacement for the situation: "Nikolai is targeted by a melee or ranged attack" (last recorded casting expires: Oct 20).

Information Gathering

• Once per day prior to going to sleep. Vasily uses his circlet to cast locate object to find one object from the set { Shadow Metal [??????], Shadow Leather [??????], shadow assassin's ring, Armor made from Shadow Leather }.
  • Prior to casting the spell, Vasily ensures that all matching objects in the party's possession are in a bag of holding.
  • If Vasily knows that an object is present within Long range (eg, the party just sold one), he will not choose that object.
  • (suspended when not on the prime material plane)

Perception/Detection

• Vasily is affected by a permanent detect scrying that alerts him to any scrying sensor within 40 feet of him (due to his circlet).
• Nikolai has the true perception ability of the supreme nexus class and is permanently under the effects of greater arcane sight.
• Albrecht has the auravision ability of the occult slayer class and can detect the number of magical auras as per detect magic as a free action.

Situational

Buffs

At the start of any predominantly diplomatic encounter, Vasily takes a swig from his Flask of Glibness.

10 minute per level (or longer-duration) buffs:

• Sven casts barkskin on Albrecht, Taras and himself.
• Nikolai casts stoneskin on the entire party from his staff.
• Nikolai casts the following spells on himself:
  • see invisibility
  • freedom of movement
  • eyes of the avoral
  • fiendish clarity
• Vasily casts the following spells on himself:
  • see invisibility
  • light crystal
  • devil's eye
• Vasily casts mass fly on the party

1 minute per level buffs:

• Vasily casts invisibility sphere on the party and crown of darkness on himself
• Nikolai casts death ward on the entire party from his staff.
• Nikolai casts the following spells on himself:
  • commanding voice of Nessus
  • shield
  • spell resistance
  • rapture of rupture
  • true seeing
  • shield of faith
  • entropic shield
  • mirror image

1 round per level buffs:

• Vasily casts haste on the party and displacement on Taras. During combat, Vasily is typically hidden by his cloak.

Gear

• When adventuring, Vasily wears his robe of the invincible; when noted, Vasily switches to his robe of sincerity.

On the Road

• When not in a town with an inn available, the party sleeps in an Amir's instant refuge from Vasily's item of the same name
  • create food and water — 3/day
  • heroes' feast — 1/week

Periodic

Communication

• Once during each party downtime, Vasily casts scrying + message to check on Lars.
• Once during each party downtime, Sven contacts the teen druid squad?.
• During downtime on our cube, Albrecht provides Juliane with limited and supervised access to the Eye of Colothys to communicate with her agents.

Hidden Items

• Vasily keeps his spellbook [??????], and 4 masterwork darts hidden on himself at all times (unless they're being used)