Bard, shush. This isn't nearly as bad. In fact, I'm dropping it. If Krylo sees it my way, yay!
If not, and he thinks needing 18 STR to resist a first-level spell is balanced, I'll just get the spell myself. Win-win.

Then Krylo will just throw enemies that can break out of or are immune to Lock at group 2, but not group 1.

I was referring to the who "Bello frightened the Witch" thing.

I'll try and get a post up soonish.

I'm kinda confused myself... Half of us are not taking combat actions despite Bello seeming to intentionally fail his speech/diplomacy roll. What exactly ARE we doing?

I know Ark actually did the result of the scan, but aside from that, are we actually attacking?

Teal, you think it would be viable to try to put buff Ark or Elsa's weapons to make them holy type? Combined with Bello's Holy boosting song, that might be a neat kicker to boost damage output without melting the ring.

(Although we might have to do that next round)

Elsa has three points of Shadow affiliation. Would that affect her ability to use a Holy weapon?

Anyway, yeah, I'm planning on having Elsa move into medium or short range, and possibly start casting Lock.

Why in the world are you asking me?

I'm not the GM.

Coincidentally, I do know the answer though!

Casting Restore on a weapon while you're attacking might give it Holy Strike for a turn, but on its own, I suspect it would only bestow Recovery Strike or (more likely) clean the weapon. To get a Holy Strike, you'd need to combine Restore with Jhennek's Thunder Spell - would strengthen the Holy energy and work strengthen the bond to the weapon (Good Enchantments need to last longer than a turn). Arden would only know what Restore would do, not how to correctly combine two spells to get a lasting Elemental Strike.

Her training would be limited to combining basic spells with other casters. In-Character, she knew Restore and Thunder mix well because of experiences on her Uncle's Ship - basic offensive spells and Restore usually create a Dual Element Attack, if combined correctly. Essentially, she knows the basics of Combo Magic.

Thunder+Restore+Weapon would be a Teamwork attack - she'd need to experiment with the team before trying it.

It might!

Nothing in the rules says it would, of course, but I suspect there'd be some penalty.

Your weapon hates you.

Holy weapons smell like rainbows and shimmer like children's laughter when they strike.

We wrongly assumed that he wouldn't try to make things, y'know, objectively worse.