DM CH-P's CoT: The Bastards of Erebus
Game Master Are

Random roll of DOOM: 1d100 ⇒ 100

DOOOOM

Doom is mildly disconcerting, but dungeons full of things that scream, "Yahirma, please make full use of your class abilities," are pretty amazing.

I'm sorry, slightly misunderstood undead abominations. I would adopt you all if I could...

Oh don't you start too, I get enough undead love with all the Twilight fanatics around.
Ah, and we are off to fight a vampire too, my day is complete...

I finally had time to look over the character sheets (except The Beast's stats.. one of these days I'll have to look those over, too). There are only a few minor things to mention:

Appario: "Quick Stats" should have +1 natural armor to AC and +1 attack/AC with smite. Lay on hands should be 6/day in both "Quick Stats" and "Build". Potions haven't been updated in "Build". Also note that each use of channel positive energy spends 2 uses of lay on hands; it doesn't have an x/day of its own.

Derek: "Skills" should have a +4 class bonus (rather than +3) to all knowledge skills (not just local).

Maddok: Either hp should be +1, or one skill rank should be added, due to favored class bonus. Speed should be 40 ft due to fast movement. Intimidate should be +18, Swim should be +10.

Xerath: I'm assuming attacks and saves already incorporate greater magic fang and heroism?

Fixed the HP and skill bonuses.

Speed is 30 feet because Maddok is technically in medium armor (mithril breastplate is light but adding the armored kilt makes it medium again).

Yes. I update as soon as I can.

Edit: Bah. Never mind. I'm stupid.

Edit: LOL, it's okay. It's Tuesday.

Yeah, I know, I've used the +4 bonus on my rolls, just forgot to change it in the profile.
But hey, one lv up without misstakes at last.

I started a thread in the rules forums. Not many hits yet.

Magic Circle and Movement

How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Oh boy. Here it comes...

I don't know. How many?

FISH!

o/~ Appario lobster, then he flounder. o/~

You guys...

***

I see you guys are meeting Livia.

It will be interesting to see if that meeting plays out similarly to yours.. Yahirma's diplomacy check was pretty high, after all :)

It looks like their party isn't as open to alliances with alignment-impaired creatures.

Oh well.

Xerath's at work currently. Hopefully he'll be able to post during his lunch break.

Aligament-impaired? That's good that is, I may have to use that one.
But I mean, how can you not love Livia? She is more fun than a whole barrel of albino monkeys.

We might be ending up face first in a lake of poo. Our plate-mailed fighter mighty just be pulling an Indiana Jones boulder on us.

Apologies for not being around the last two hours, and for ending my last post without the otyugh replying to Derek; other family members needed to use the computer :)

How dare they?!

You're forgiven. =P

I rolled all the Reflexes at the same time because that's a lot more efficient than having to wait until everyone involved posts before being able to adjudicate the situation.

It's certainly not a problem for me if Appario moves before the lightning bolt occurs, just like it's not a problem for me that Yahirma uses misfortune on one swarm even though her "actual" turn is after Xerath's :)

If Appario's Reflex had been a success (resulting in no damage), I doubt anyone would have minded (much), and we would instead have had a nice, new roleplaying spike driven between Xerath and Appario!

I for one was looking forward to some solid evidence in the "Xerath is a werewolf/vampire spy".

I'm sorry, I'm having some serious computer problems that will most likely force me to hand it in for service, I may still be able to borrow a computer to post with, but you'll have to bot me for now at least.
Just what I needed, another expense...

Any updates Derek? =(

Also, I am very looking forward to the battle with Illnerik. This is a pretty big story-milestone! Hopefully Derek's able to get computer-capable again before that starts.

Ah, how I have missed this play. There really should be a non-lethal rendition put on at some point.

It was definitely good time.

I can only hope this version ends as well.

Faced with a room of eight shadows(!!!) and a vampire, I can only say...play along? I'll be leading some bluffing/diplomacy/acting soon.

I think that's the plan. =P

Appario headed out for the gym just as the servers were coming back up. He said he'd post when he got back.

Perfectly grouped for Sunburst

We've used our Sunburst for the day.

The Morrowfall does have all of its Sunbeams left though.

Premature Burstination!

Sunburst is pretty hard to use in most situations. The radius is enormous and your risk blinding the party most of the time.

I'm bracing myself to sustain minor image while playing the part of Ilsandra. This should be pretty awesome.

Yep, Yahirma has a multi-part plan that might just allow us to destroy the shadows, lull a vampiress into a false sense of security, and (knowing us), acquire a temporary ally. I offer no promises about seducing an NPC into a long-term alliance, but we all know the option is never entirely off the table.

I'll just mention that she has +17 to sense motive, so there might be some opposed bluff vs sense motive rolls within that plan :)

I love it, though!

(Besides, right now you're doing exactly what she wants!)

Oh my. brace for potental 7d4 STR drain

Oh my. brace for potental 7d4 STR drain

Please, 8d6 Strength damage. I would have a slim chance of surviving 7d4.

You had me at 'seducing'.

Andrea1 wrote:

Oh my. brace for potental 7d4 STR drain

Please, 8d6 Strength damage. I would have a slim chance of surviving 7d4.

I should have a post up in about 30 minutes...just got home, want to eat food, read a bit of the debate coverage and whatnot.

Btw, don't we have a wand of Death "Screw You Shadows" Ward?

Yes, we do have a wand of that, and it's in Yahirma's hand at this very moment. If things turn sour, she hopes to be able to ping herself with it, get out, and douse Appario and Maddok in protective magic.

I'm just not sure how magic-savvy our vampire friend is.

Maddok is going to play along regardless but does Derek have a plan? Going through the whole play seems like a bad idea.

Death ward is pretty good against shadows.

Death ward is pretty good against shadows.

Word.

Yup!

You know, this encounter has played out in a vastly different form compared to how I envisioned it :)

Lol.

Yep.

Appario is more confuzzled than usual.

How is that even possible?

Words I never thought to hear from Appario's lips!

If we're in combat (acting or not), I'm surprised you understood them. ;)