GM Hyde's Risen from the Sands pbp campaign

Game Master sentaiexpress

Just so everyones up to speed, since combats been a little jumbled, I'm just waiting on Braena before I start round 3.

I've decided to open a new recruitment for a healer, so I'll try to start that up tonight.

I'll update the map when you guys are ready to proceed.

Ready here!

Yep.

Rock n Roll!

I think I'm gonna start an Egyptian themed punk rock band named the Murder Pyramids.

First CD called Tutankamurder with the songs included but not limited to"The Pharaoh's Phylactery", "The Eye of Horus" and "These f*++ing Pyramids are chasing me"

Your concerts would be considered a dull affair if they didn't have at least one live mummification.

Are we still good to go?

Crap! Now that you said it I have checked and Paizo web ate my post!

I will repost it, but now it makes sense nobody answered hahahaha!

Yeah you might have tried to post when they were doing maintenance.

I'll reply to your posts tomorrow.

So what is Braena doing when this is happening?

I'll be dropping in your new healer tomorrow.

And I know of a dwarf that will appreciate it!

Hello and salutations all.
I am glad to have been invited to join this and hope we have a wonderful time.

This is Frank, she is a healer and herbalist.
Story wise she is a local healer coming to the tomb you are all at to obtain plants long forgotten to the world. Some gold would be a nice side benefit but not necessary
Frank is on average a nice person if a bit stand-offish from having lived in the desert as a traveling healer for a good number of years.
Her bedside manner is rather lacking as well.
She has a scorpion familiar who has the capacity to emote to a somewhat disconcerting degree for an arachnid.

Most of her crunch is explained in the recruitment thread but the short of it is that Frank is a healer who can remove status affects/poisons with a skill check. The wand of CLW she has ought to cover situations of HP damage.
She can generate rough terrain, walk through that rough terrain, turn into an ooze and grant a chosen ally a significant boon to AC/Saves.
Beyond that spells and a semi-focus on aid another checks between her and her familiar.

So are we ready to get this show on the road?

I am at your command oh mighty GM.

Yay!

let's do it!

Will post tomorrow morning.

Good to see you are all sticking around to help.

@Hyde
Would Xabu making aid another checks risk him getting stuck to the mimic?

I'm gonna say yes in this case.

I might just have him try to sting it anyway.
Assuming he can land an attack that hits he can just keep pumping venom into the thing.

Hrmm that being a thing how do you want to do familiar actions anyway? Most GM's I play with just have the player run the familiars actions. Do you want to control him or shall I take over once Fran is no longer being digested?

I normally don't even make familiars a factor in combat unless it actively joins in, but I'll let you control yours. The less things for me to worry about the better.

So...I haven't seen any posts in a while.

Sorry bout that, for some reason I was under the impression I was waiting on someone else.

I was waiting for my turn actually, given that my initiative was soooo bad. But I can go ahead and post.

I suppose frank could roll to escape. Assuming the Mimic has a grapple check of higher than 16 Fran only has a chance on a Nat20.

Is fran in a position to speak inside the mimic assuming it opens its mouth and attempts to savage the other players?
I have ranks in a number of knowledge skills that might be helpful in identifying what not to do against a mimic.
I think Dungeoneering is the Knowledge of choice for this particular beastie.

I was waiting for my initiative as well, seeing how a lot can happen between now and then.

I suppose frank could roll to escape. Assuming the Mimic has a grapple check of higher than 16 Fran only has a chance on a Nat20.

Is fran in a position to speak inside the mimic assuming it opens its mouth and attempts to savage the other players?
I have ranks in a number of knowledge skills that might be helpful in identifying what not to do against a mimic.
I think Dungeoneering is the Knowledge of choice for this particular beastie.

I'll give you an opportunity at the top of the next round, though you can post it now if you want.

Looks like I might get a tpk here.

*shrug* Mimics are nasty critters. The best way to fight one is to figure out its a mimic before you are in snacking range.

EDIT:
Welp, that didn't work.
time to try and be clever I guess.

I wonder if there's a way we can convince it to attack Laknir, small delicious snack that he is.

This is starting to get complicated. Starting from round 3 let's all try to denote which round we are posting for.

And from now on, I think I'll save responces for combat till the end of the day.

Fran has dancing lights as a spell, we are good.
I also have no issue with you discovering fran's shoddily spun lies so I'm entirely fine with Take 10.
No idea what GM Hyde's preference is on that though.

I don't allow taking ten on social interactions of that's what you mean.

Anyone else been having trouble with the site as of late?

Yeah, a fricking lot actually. Cause of the Humble Bumdle and all that I think.

Hopefully that'll die down soon.

How thorough is Xabu being in his investigation?

He's got an intelligence of 7 currently.
Creatures who share that level of intellect are trolls, ogres and stereotypical barbarians.

So likely not terribly thorough unless he happens to spot something shiny or interesting in the area. (Movement and strange smells might also work.)
Due to his size and different perspective there is a chance that he might come across things in the room not because he is attentive but because they are eye level to him.

I suspect he will attempt to climb into the reed boat and declare himself the new captain.

Though as to his success that was what I had him roll the Perception check for. Would you like a second one for the room proper?

Right, forgot about the perception check. Alrighty then I will post shortly.

Anyone heard from Braena?

Holy dwarvencrafted crap, Paizo! Stop eating my posts!

Gm, I will be out of town until Tuesday and I don't know if I will be able to post, so feel free to bot me ^^

And nope, I haven't heard about Braena. Sorry

A quick check of her profile shows that her last post was with another game Alias on march 2nd.
So she might be around though weekends are always slow on PbP games. People having real lives and fun things to do rather than office work to avoid.

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. Got my first gaming pc, so my night was dedicated to setting that up.

Man are those ever some garbage Init rolls.