Sorry for the long posts and doing more stuff then normal. If there is something sopmeone else wanted to do that I touched on, go ahead and squash my post. :)
I am back at work and working really long hours and didn't want to hold things up so this is Atzi's way of staying busy while my schedule is hectic. I will try and cut back so I quit hogging stuff. :/
Just thought I would post this, especially since I really like everyone playing here and don't want to drive a wedge between any of us.
I am really looking forward to the tactical advice we will receive from Caithan eventually, between Setebo and him we got our selfs some Chelxian Commandos ;)
Have fun killing bits of pressed paper. Remember not to call the rocket barrage down on your own men.
Me: Ha! I took the hill!
Him: <smiles> Remember that rocket artillery you called in a few turns ago?
Me: Oh no.
Luckily the rockets deviated off my squads and even caught one of his. Still, felt silly.
I won a "Saved by the incompetence of his own men" award.
Setebo
I think I never posted the updated Amisi. I only had her on my computer as HeroLab file.
She is now updated. Especially the spellbook was pretty out of date as well. So took the time to ensure a more up-to date spell selection.
Cool!
You might want to note somewhere that the wand has 8 charges and creates 1d4+1 images that last for 5 minutes. It can save you from looking it up later.Note this assumes that is the wand was crafted at the minimum CL5
Cool!
You might want to note somewhere that the wand has 8 charges and creates 1d4+1 images that last for 5 minutes. It can save you from looking it up later.Note this assumes that is the wand was crafted at the minimum CL5
I guess the stat block isn't showing the charges. I did add 8 charges.
Oh - and I took the unassigned MW dagger that we found on one of the ships. Not that Amisi truly can do much damage with it but you never know if she needs something to cut - even just a rope.
Cool!
You might want to note somewhere that the wand has 8 charges and creates 1d4+1 images that last for 5 minutes. It can save you from looking it up later.Note this assumes that is the wand was crafted at the minimum CL5
I guess the stat block isn't showing the charges. I did add 8 charges.
Oh - and I took the unassigned MW dagger that we found on one of the ships. Not that Amisi truly can do much damage with it but you never know if she needs something to cut - even just a rope.
Sweet, glad to see stuff getting used. Marked off.
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To all: There are a number of potions that would come in VERY handy in an assualt just sitting back on dead island.
As I see it.
1 cure light potion
1 cure moderate
1 cure disease
4 lesser restoration
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And 4 more cure lights owned by a departed player.
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This is in addition to 2 healers kits, one full one at 8. Should we go back and get them?
We should definitly go get them before we do anything to the savage camp. I (although Natalyah disagrees) think we should try and move camp to the dryad's tree.
You mean the ship wrecked crew? That's a bad idea. Plenty of people mistrust the fey (and rightfully) and we have them in a secure area as it is. No reason to try and uproot them.
Well this turf does favor the nature brigade. Expect that will change though. We haven't really had the kind of focused fight that cav's shine in. That should be changing soon too. I expect at least a chief and a witchdoctor type in the village. Challenge bait if you ask me. And then there is that strange beast the dryad mentioned.
That would make quite the trophy.....
DM I think I made an error... The hand weapons we are taking from the savages. Are they broken Sawtooth Sabers or broken Scimitars?
I have them recorded as Sabers (d8 19x2 35gp) but frankly Scimitars make more sense for a general troop weapon as they are much cheaper (d6 18x2 15gp). Looking back over the thread they are described both as Sabers and as Scimitars. I have no preference either way.
Also were the dudes killed at Six man ford wearing the red pearl things like the other savages?
The AP describes them as broken Scimitars..but I think Dabbler has a point lets just say they are a selection of uncared for and crude slashing weapons
cool. But Setebo is using one of them, helpfully mended by the lovely and occasionally naked Helga, so stats would be useful. I currently have it recorded as a sawtooth saber which is fine from my point of view. I just want to be sure that I did not just accidently upgrade the weapon.
Aha! So the band we took this sword from just happened to be a tad better equipped that the average. That works. Hmmm the savage Setebo took this from probably had the Heirloom Weapon trait.
Now I feel bad. Poor savage was probably on his way to becoming an adventurer. They were probably just walking along tryone to get their head around flurry of blows, spellstrike, and trying to figure out what exactly the Totem warrior archetype actually does when a bunch of strange figures jumped out of the woods and killed him with fire.
Somedays I think we are all wandering monsters.
hmmmm.... This changes things. Being able to open a door where we want it makes fighting the Schiv Dragon optional. I say we ignore it for now.
there are three choke points on the map that leap out to me as useful. The first is the gate but thankfully we can ignore that one. Second is the isolated building on the southern edge. Seperated like that I will bet cash monet it is either high value storage or the home of a high status person. Either case will be good for us we can clear that building before moving forward into the village proper. Which brings up the final choke point. See that odd shaped building on the extreme east? If we can take the southern building and then that one we will have a safe line of retreat and can force the fight to come at us through a single door. I am not even certain that taking the watchtower is that important. At the distance it is from the south edge of the camp they are very unlikely to see us until we reach the eastern building and by that point it will be too late.
thoughts?
I think we have a good shot. The building is really isolated. So long as we don't go too crazy with fire and light I think we can do it. However even if we don't and the balloon goes up there are much worse places to fight. Look at the SE corner, the path between the southmost and eastmost buildings. About halfway down that path the foilage really presses in basically creating a door sized space. We can hold that even if we are fighting who ever is in the southern building.
If Ancenyia can open the door right in front of the south facing door of the southmost building I think we can be inside before anyone realizes they should keep us out. Then we systematiclly move up to the east building take that and then I think the real fight will begin.
I don't think we will be able to take both the path to the firepit and the gate path. If the gods are smiling and we still have suprise then we may want to try for the gate or the northern building but I expect the battle to be joined by then.
If we do start from the south we are in position for a punishing fighting retreat if we need it. If we get made at the exit from the east building as I expect we will then we can hold the exit door before falling back to the entrance door before falling back to the bottleneck in the path before we have to really think of leaving.
It is ugly, defensive, fighting but I think it gives us the best chance to avoid being swarmed.
What building do you mean? The northern most building, the one that connects to the watchtower? If so I can't see how to get to it. The northern and western edges are cliffs remember.
To get there we would have to come in from the east which means passing right by or going through the lizard. We will win but it will either cost us one of Atzi's spells or we will have to fight it and prety much alert the whole camp. I am sure that the beast is quite loud when annoyed. It wouldn't be much of a gate guard if it wasn't.
Or am I missing something?
What chances do we have of sneaking up to the southernmost structure and assassinating everything inside without rousing the guards? I think that would be nifty. Perhaps try and take out as much as we can by stealth?
You would have to make use of the stealthy members of the party, specifically natalayah to make that happen. This is why Caithan's plan is to have the half elves and monstrous creature slip into the structure unnoticed. There's a chance, albeit slim, that you'll manage to murder everything without rousing a single soul. And if you don't? You can retreat quietly back to the whole while Caithan and the loud, noisy, wrecking crew sews chaos.
If there's one thing Caithan has proven it's that he is anything but quiet.
Tark, did you see the armor bit upthread?
Also any thoughts on where the stealth team should go in? Given the village's layout as effectively 2 compounds I say we could all hit the two southern buildings and then split into stealth and gate groups. If we come through the wall just in front of the doors to the southers building we will be inside before stealth becomes an issue.
If I am right and we are REALLY lucky and their witchdoctor/priest/"mother" lives here then a full strike could make the whole fight easier.
I am also a little worried that the split plan puts 2 of the 3 best hth fighters on the team that is not facing the giant lizard. Are you not concerned about the gate group getting wiped out if the Charm Animal fails?
Maybe just Helga and one other on the murder team? That would give the gate group more backup. Mind you Setebo will follow and plan his captain suggests.
Thoughts?
Helga's actually not much good in melee, which is why I suggested her taking position in the tower. That said the village has many more and larger buildings than I expected. I suspect that once the guard tower is taken care of, if it can be done silently, we will have carte blanch to roam at will.
Regarding the shiv dragon, Atzi's charm animal works at a distance, and it's tied down.
How about we charm it first, then make our entry into the village? The silent three can go ahead to take out any awake guards, then the rest can move from building to building.
I did read the armor bit adn agree but it's never occured in game so caithan has thus remained silent on it.
I'm not really worried about the loud group. As the loud group consists of caithan, two casters, and two big fuzzy, and mean bags of clawed fury. I'm pretty sure we can handle it. I'm jsut figuring at night, with good nightvision you guys can sneak in through the wall and start murdering dudes in their sleep. If you do happen to come across a boss who's not asleep you cna come and get us. We're assuming a fort full of blind no dark or low light vision humans.