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I thought about riding in a bit about passing a copper over to him, just to be snarky. But I decided not to stoke that fire.

You are going to go broke...

OMG. One step forward, two steps backwards. I regret complimenting Jacob on making progress towards being a team player.

OMG you were expecting miracles? lol

Well, that may not have been as gentle a touch as I should have used, but Good Lord, get over yourself man!

Doubt he contains that skill. We need D&D version 5.5e so that we can have humility as a skill. No doubt he'd have a negative modifier for it.

Hahahahahahahaha!

Seriously Jacob? I feel like he did that on purpose. To spite those of us that wanted to pursue the other quests.

He certainly lost patience and just blurted out an general answer without any equivocation, only to say he wanted to go play with his Priestess. "enough of this stupid stuff, DM, I want to lay down song lyrics."

You know what I said to Jacob? "Be a goddamn witty and deceptive bard of spies and intrigue. Let the impatient, brute force approach be Kon's. BTW where is Kon?"

What I really want to say is "Jacob rushes through the gate and sees before him the mastermind behind all of Maztica's woes. He flies to him and stabs him in the eye with his dagger. The villian dies, spurting blood and spitting out a final, impotent curse to him, 'I would have gotten away with it too, except for that meddling bard." THE END."

You know, if your character is all perfect like yourself, then there really is no room for growth or self knowledge. This is how Jacob Vane should be immortalized in the canon of DnD for all time: "A perfect and all knowing character who didn't need anyone or anything more than himself."

Let me tell you how I feel...

I just can't care about his feelers when he's being this obtuse.

Oh my god Nate! Every part of me just loved what you wrote! Before I even realized it, I was actually going, "OOOhhhh buuuurn!"

An accurate portrayal of my face when I saw it lol

Seriously though. I feel like he did it on purpose, cause he was throwing a fit cause we didn't want to leave when he wanted to (okay, sorry, another fit), and thought he was being sneaky about how he did it. So I felt like it needed to be called out.

He is making a villian of himself.

Nate, Thomas and I already had that convo last night:

Re: Ring of Mind Sheilding
FROM
LyricTimeless
WHEN
November 22, 2020 8:48 pm
They are asking you to submit to the zone without doing the save. Thus you have to tell the truth, maybe not the whole truth, but not a lie. They do not need to determine whether you are lying or know your alignment.
Re: Ring of Mind Sheilding

from JacobVane on November 22, 2020 6:54 pm

to LyricTimeless
But isn't the fact that no one can determine whether I am lying or know my alignment part of the magic? Sounds like it.
Re: Ring of Mind Sheilding

from LyricTimeless on November 22, 2020 5:10 pm

to JacobVane
The Zone of Truth does not probe your mind. It only prevents lying:

It is a magical zone that guards against deception in a 15-foot-radius sphere centered on a point of your choice within range.
Ring of Mind Sheilding

from JacobVane on November 22, 2020 4:10 pm

to LyricTimeless
Before approaching the knight, I use an action to make this ring invisible.
When I sign the document, remember I'm wearing this:
Ring of Mind Shielding
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can telepathically communicate with you only if you allow it.
You can use an action to cause the ring to become invisible until you use another action to make it visible, until you remove the ring, or until you die.

He as a person, yes. His character is heading in that direction though.

Honestly, there was a reason when I posted as Kit that I emphasized choosing my words carefully. To point out the obvious fact that we all needed to say that we didn't have contraband when we all knew that we had contraband... How did he miss that?!

and he did what he did anyway. it felt like he did it to spite me, to prove that I was wrong about the magic

Voluntarily submitting to telling the truth doesn't mean that your ring will keep them from knowing that you're lying... If you give up your rights by saying you don't want a piece of cake, you can't bitch and moan because you didn't get a slice despite cutting the piece you wanted.

I don't think he cared. he was careless almost like Nate said, he did it on purpose. he already had a ruling from me that his ring didnt affect the zone of truth. i can't believe it. now it is up tot he party to cover his arrogance

If he speaks again, I'm going to completely do something that'll probably piss him off.

I decided to give Jacob a lesson in talking around something with truths. It's even annotated. I was practically an Aes Sedai (if you know the Wheel of Time series at all).