GMG's GD5 special: The Sky Key Solution [Tier 3-4] (Inactive)

Game Master Magabeus

Sigríðr Jǫrðhamarr wrote:

If they chew her face off, it dinnae work.

A rule everyone should know, because it applies to everything. I don't care what you're doing, if snakes are chewing your face off, it didn't work.

^^ Truth.

You have been busy while I was running a game in the local lodge and sleeping!

According to the overseer map, we have an aid token! Hopefully we won't need it for this encounter, but we should try to use it soon so it can be passed on.

Thank you Dekion, I completely missed that. And I agree: use it ASAP, so you can pass it on. That way every table gets to use it .

Busy holiday weekend. Will try to post from phone but will be sporadic. Bot as necessary to move things along. In combat I usually won't overextended myself from group and will make a standard attack.

I'm so sorry about not posting this weekend. I got a call Friday saying my grandma had been rushed to the hospital and spent the weekend with her and my family. Luckily she will be ok and it wasnt as bad as she had thought. Sorry again. I will get a full post up here in a bit.

No problem Vash. I am glad things seem to be going ok for her. Real life happens and is more important than gaming.

Are you running any of the other specials for PbP Gameday V?

No, the requirement is that you have 4 GM stars. I have 3.

That's too bad. You're doing a nice job running this. Is there a way to tell how many stars a GM has?

You can go to their root profile.

Examples:
GMG's can be found here.

Mine could be found here.

You can find if you click on our current alias, and on the following page, right next to our icon where it reads something like, "Alias of Magabeus."

Thanks for the compliment Dekion. I think I will have my 4th star in approximately a year from now.

Being a timed event, we need to keep moving if we want to finish. Are we on pace?

I am waiting to see what the trogs do, because I am still in stealth.

We are doing fine on time. Know that a single table will never get to do all the encounters in a special, there are simply too many of them.

We are doing fine on time. Know that a single table will never get to do all the encounters in a special, there are simply too many of them.

When I ran this at a Con in Feb my 7-8 table actually did make it through every encounter. The 11-12 table missed one (mainly because they started playing with their food).

But generally yes.

We tend to have a good record with specials at our cons. But that is also due to the fact that we don't stick to the 5 hour slot ;-)

GM - at what point in time will you bot people? Posting every other day or less is not going to get us very far in this special. We have been on this battle for a week and are only half way through the 3rd round :(

I am botting if I have no post within 24 hours after I gave the PC the opportunity to act.

That might also depend on my posting schedule. For instance I was able to post yesterday morning, but had a local game yesterday night and a busy day at work without possibility to squeeze in a post this morning.

I will be at SkalCon starting tomorrow around 11:00 AM, so please don't expect anything from me until Monday.

I will be too!!!!!! I should be able to post ok though. I have the afternoon slot off tomorrow ^.^

Have fun!

If we can get rid of the MI, we could use the token for an attack. Otherwise, we could consider inspiration.

Note to self - Buy potion of darkvision

No.
Freaking.
Kidding.

Oil of daylight is the best: also works against deeper darkness (if you bring a sunrod)

A SUUUPER cheap alternative is a scroll of obscuring mist.

Not really, you must be able to see a scroll to read it...

Belvica, I would be surprised if you have the required fame to buy a +2 weapon at lvl 4. A +2 weapon costs 8300 gp + weapon cost, requiring 27 fame or more. When upgrading an item you still need to be able to meet the required fame score for the final item.

Belvica, can you comment on this? I just noticed that you use a cold iron +2 weapon, which puts the price even higher. Until I have received a reaction I will assume this was a mistake and treat your axe as being a +1 cold iron weapon.

Sorry i was running around yesterday. I seem to have 28 fame. The axe isn't cold iron. The plus 2 isnt a huge thing to me.

Its fully possible there is a mistake from the odiron scarab sage change and stuff

Thank you Belvica, can you double-check (and adjust) your profile? With 28 fame I would expect you to have at least 28/2 = 14 xp, which means level 5 or higher.

Please scan your chronicles and inventory sheet once you have checked your profile and send me a link, so I can double-check.

Not really, you must be able to see a scroll to read it...

I'm a dwarf! In seriousness, I've seen Obscuring Mist destroy enough deeper darkness encounters it is in a lot of ways the better option.

How would it destroy the Darkness in this situation. It looks to me like the Darkness is centered on the caster (or an item carried by the caster), so if we popped an Obscuring Mist, wouldn't the caster simply need to move out of the mist?

It levels the playing field. It's really a deeper darkness tactic against things with sneak attack, but it works anywhere.

With darkness - you are essentially at a 50% miss chance and invisible opponents everywhere. With an additional obscuring mist, you get a 20% miss chance, and the guy that can see can't see beyond 5' to know where you are.

I get that, but I'm not sure it's so useful in this situation. Darkness has a duration of (likely at least) 3 minutes for this caster. If we dropped an Obscuring Mist, wouldn't he just have to Withdraw out of the mist—taking the Darkness with him—and we're right back in the same situation?

I'm not saying Obscuring Mist isn't a creative solution to some Darkness/visibility situations, I just don't see that it would have been our "I win" card in this situation.

Thank you Belvica, can you double-check (and adjust) your profile? With 28 fame I would expect you to have at least 28/2 = 14 xp, which means level 5 or higher.

Please scan your chronicles and inventory sheet once you have checked your profile and send me a link, so I can double-check.

Belvica, can you do this on short notice? Thanks!

FYI: I have passed the aid token that you used to table 29

Just so I understand, disrupting the anchors involves attacking a Harbinger spellcaster? If so, maybe we should choose to look for the Sky Key vault instead.

Because you think we'll struggle to incapacitating the spell caster? or because you think we're better suited to the task of seeking?

I just want to make sure I understand your suggestion (because I'm more-or-less fine either way).

I think our party could struggle taking out the spell caster.

I got the impression that it was multiple lesser spell casters. I'm game for either role, but I'm not really shying away from the caster approach.

I'm fine either way, but I agree seeking might be the better path. The casters don't necessarily need to be killed though, it sounds like talking is an option. We've got diplomacy and we've got intimidate, it shouldn't be a problem.

We are coming close to the finish, so I want to prepare chronicles.

I am missing the following information:
Belvica: PFS number
Kiddrik: PFS number and Day Job roll (if applicable)
Vash: PFS number

Can you provide this? Thanks!

I assume you are all on normal advancement, if not this is the time to let me know.

The second sheet i sent you had it. 97166-1

Here it is. :)

Thanks! Vash has probably also posted his information... I am only human...

Boon rolls: 20 or 16 gives you a random boon. Rolling in alphabetical order (by character name, GM last)

Belvica: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Dekion: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Girzog: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Kiddrik: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Sigríðr: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Vash: 1d20 ⇒ 19
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 18

No boons today.

Thank you all for playing, I had a great time with you and hope to see you again!

You have all received a PM from me. I will close this thread on Thursday October 13th.

Tanks for running it.

*Looks at Boons on sheet*

Dang it! We should have killed Arodeth. :D