Familiars Name: Scintal
Type of familiar: Incorporeal Spirit/Brownie (male)
| Stats | Current | Starting |
STR |  | 6 |
DEX | | 25 |
CON | 10 | 7 |
INT | | 18 |
KNOW | | 14 |
WP | | 16 |
MA | 20 | 18 |
LUCK | | 22 |
CHA | | 16 |
PER | | 20 |
| | |
Level | 5 | |
Strike Chance | 65% |
Damage | 1d4+1 |
Defense | 44% |
Protection | 3 |
Hit Points | 18 |
TMR | 50 |
Normal Save | 28 |
Magic Save | 53 |
Mental Save | 42 |
Luck Save | 59 |
Disbelieve | |
Luck Points | 3 |
Fate Points | 1 |
Contact Range | 10 feet |
Brownie Abilities |
| Ability | Effect | Uses |
| Protection from Evil | As Cleric spell | 1 + (level / 5); round down |
| Ventriloquism | As E&E spell | 1 + (level / 4); round down |
| Torchlight | As Cleric spell | 1 + (level / 3); round down |
| Sunlight | As Cleric spell | 1 + (level / 5); round down |
| Mirror Images | As Illusion spell | 1 + (level / 5); round down |
| Confusion | As E&E spell | 1 + (level / 5); round down |
| Dimension Door | As Phase Magics spell | 1 + (level / 8); round down |
| <Picture/Image of Familiar> |
| Effects of Each Casting
| While the group waited out an essence storm on their way to Kelfour's Landing, Morty cast a Ritual of Find Familiar and summoned an incorporeal spirit named Scintal. The creature is actually the spirit of the familiar of a long dead Jirdunian mage named Arklesong of the Second Fire that should have died when the mage died. However, the mage was killed in an essence storm and the spirit of the familiar got trapped in the storm and was sustained by the magic.
When Morty cast the Find Familiar ritual, it brought Scintal to him. Because Scintal is currently nothing more than an incorporeal spirit, Morty thought his ritual had failed but it did not. Scintal is now linked to him. However, Scintal requires magical energy just to continue to survive and so, for the time being, Morty loses 2 spell points a day just to sustain Scintal. The only other effect of the first Ritual of Find Familiar was that Scintal's CON doubled from 3 to 6. Over the first few days, Morty noted this spell point drain and wondered at its cause. He used a Power Perception and was then able to see a non-corporeal spirit virtually attached to his own magical essence. This caused some consternation on Morty's party but, being a genius (INT 25), Morty quickly realized what happened and knows that the spirit is really his familiar.
Morty is unsure what will happen when he casts a second Ritual of Find Familiar, which is normally done to increase the power of the familiar.
When Morty cast another Find Familiar ritual at rank 2, Scintal took on the form of a Brownie. Stats were rolled normally but I increased many to conform to Brownie stats. Rolled CON was 7 so I see Scintal as somewhat sickly.
Each time Morty casts the Find Familiar ritual after rank 2, there is a chance that CON will improve by 1 point. Chance is equal to 100% minus (Current CON x 4). Thus, with a Current CON of 7, there is a 72% chance that CON will improve by 1 when Morty casts the Find Familiar ritual at rank 2. Luck and Fate points cannot be used to alter this chance.
MA will also increase in the same fashion (100% - (Current MA x 4)).
Scintal is 18" tall. |
09/16/2022
MORTY (GM): I will spend time after the ritual ends puzzling over the seeming failure, absolutely sure I was successful, as you say. Once I get a hint that Scintal is there I will try to go into a very quiet, dim (even dark) place, trying to give him a chance to be seen and heard, or at least felt, and try to get some idea if there's any feeling or feedback. I will tell him my life story, trying to strengthen our bond, and at the end if I have had no feedback or attempts at communication I will muse out loud about whether it's a good idea to do another ritual to strengthen him. A normal familiar is bolstered significantly by each ritual, especially early on, but I'm worried that with his special nature it might do more harm than good to rush it. I'll try to get his opinion on this subject, even if it just means bobbing up and down for yes or side to side for no, or doing slow circles for uncertainty. I will also offer to feed him additional magical energy, trying it once if he's uncertain, just not too much at once.
MORTY (GM): In case an Insight roll is called for, [d100]. I'd even spend the Flash of Insight if it will help. Perhaps I need to build him a vessel of some kind? Presumably not giving him a new animal body to inhabit, though that might be the result of a new ritual...
GM: Morty does not get any response from Scintal at all and finally concludes that the only thing he can really do is cast another Ritual of Find Familiar.
02/09/2023
MORTY: "If you're going to do a ritual I'd like to do one also to strengthen Scintal, I don't think our rituals will interfere with each other, right?"
MORTY TECH: Cast chance with 10 hr ritual of preparation is 74. [rolled 31 vs cast chance of 74 - Successful Cast Chance!] I'm willing to expend a luck point on this to reroll or to improve success if it can improve it to critical or grievous. The chance of his CON improving is 72% [rolled 60] and the chance of his MA improving is 28% [rolled 23]. I would consider another luck point on either of those rolls but we'll see what the rolls are. Also, Scintal himself has luck points...
02/22/2023
MORTY: "Since we're staying around another day for another ritual I'd like to perform another one strengthening Scintal."
MORTY TECH: Cast chance with 10 hr ritual of preparation is 77. [rolled 20 vs cast chance of 77 - Successful Cast Chance!] I'm willing to expend a luck point on this to reroll or to improve success if it can improve it to critical or grievous. The chance of his CON improving is 68% [rolled 20] and the chance of his MA improving is 24% [rolled 5]. I would consider another luck point on either of those rolls but we'll see what the rolls are. Also, Scintal himself has luck points... |