GM Kiora's Wrath of the Righteous

Game Master Kiora Atua

Markus-

1. Gotcha on the dayborn thing. I didn't have that written down for some reason :( derp

2. Emanations are a variant of burst - I guess it doesn't specifically refer to them as different words but they are different effects, so I'd like them differentiated in wordcasting. I mean it only really affects Fog Bank and Echo on your list but you have wild arcana :P

Some effect words that use the burst target word are instead emanations, taking up the same area as the burst. These effect words typically have a longer duration and cannot be moved once created. They are noted by the word "emanation" in parentheses after the burst target restriction.

You'll need to be patient with me because I'll probably get the WoP ruleset wrong a few times before I get it right :) It's so cool though and I'm really excited about it!

3. Oooh I didn't read the believer's boon feat that well. I see. That sucks.

4. Ary explains my reasoning on the stuff about the mount, so no need to go into detail there. I basically built her from scratch myself and compared it to yours though, my go at it is below:

Oh, it's an emanation like daylight is an emanation. I'll add it to my target words list and find an appropriate Latin word too.

It does suck - I'm basically only getting it so that she can have Believer's Hands.

I'll change the mount.

Also, I have dayborn amongst my SQ.

Nyserian Manor, actually. I mixed the two names up the entire damned time for some reason... and you know what? We completely forgot to tell the Crusaders about it. :P

Thank you for the correction :)

I remembered last week but we were in the middle of the Grey Garrison - it wasn't the best time to bring it up.

I AM SO pumped about this weekend. I'm pretty behind on bookkeeping for this game, actually. But my f2f group is about to get back into doing AP stuff, which is less work on me.

But I think I only get 2 days off next month. >_> So it's now or never.

I'll definitely share Isilme's journal with my f2f players next week ;) Very, very cool.

Markus, do you have anything further to do tonight? Or would you rather move on to tomorrow morning?

It's been over 24 hrs since you last posted in gameplay is the only reason I'm asking.

I... guess I can do the thing tonight. Hang on.

I didn't forget, I was just under the impression that Nyserian Manor had been wrecked, given that Val found his symbol in the wreckage of a building as we were chasing after Hosilla. Most likely she'd headed for that safe house, and found it... not up to snuff. So she went to the other one.

Does that seem incorrect?

It's funny how little the demons care about their own minions, huh? :)

chaotic evil D:!!!

It makes sense that Markus didn't remember checking it; he wasn't with us at the time, and we never mentioned it to him. :)

*shipping intensifies*

How Annabelle views Markus

Tuxedo Mask would make a great bard. :P

1. Throw rose at bad guy's feet
2. Give protagonist words of encouragement
3. Gets the hell out of dodge
4. ???
5. Profit!

I'm waiting on Horgus to tell Ary she should give the Loumises a bit more money (Or more business!), then Ary will be ready for the next morning and going through those motions quickly. :)

Not at all intending to be pushy, and I'm sure you're just trying to catch Markus up to everyone else, but I wanted to make sure you weren't waiting on Ary while Ary was waiting on Horgus. :)

I figured. I'm waiting for Markus to respond to Annabelle once more and then I'll be moving on to the next morning. Though Markus can continue the scene in spoilers - I'm all about roleplaying with Annabelle ;) - I just don't like holding up too much on one person.

But getting her horse was important so :P

It's been a fun scene to watch! Now we'll see if Markus gets her some roses since she got him something ;)

Hey guys! Go over to Mahorfeus' thread and look at Baalrak's level progression. I want your opinion.

Captain Ary Bishop, Lion of Iomedae, Leader of the heroes who saved Kenabres by shattering the wardstone, and personal assistant to Horgus Gwerm :o

Well, she's not a noble, so from his point of view it makes perfect sense ;)

I'm not sure what he'll do when she becomes a goddess though. XD

He'll probably continue to request that she put in orders for new bedsheets.

Maybe he'll have a change of heart and convert. becoming the head treasurer for the Church of Bishop :)

On the wagon stuff - this is basically the wagon she is talking about. So, with that image in mind, I want you to be exact in your precautions you are taking for Annabelle's sake.

It can seat 6 people inside the body (assuming you aren't hauling a lot of cargo) + it needs one person to direct the wagon with trained Handle Animal. It requires two horses to move.

You can also hire a driver. A fair wage for the round trip is around 50 gp.

With a setup like that, we definitely need a Annabelle-sized trunk inside it in case of emergency.

Non sequitur:

Enjoy this glorious art of Irabeth facing off with Staunton Vhane. I love me some Irabeth lady half-orc paladin awesomeness D:

(I think WoW left me obsessed with orc women)

I didn't share it with you during the vision because I decided I wanted the wardstones to be indoors because.... that makes more sense than having them out in the open like that :P So many demons fly!

That is pretty damn awesome.

That's totally not how I pictured the wardstones at all, too obelisk-y. :) I love the art though!

I wish I knew where I got the mental image from. I have a really strong mental image, so I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere. I visualize them as a large ovoid boulder, rough in texture, decorated much like a sacred stone would be in Shinto, and set upon a stone base. The one in Kenabres has a region in the front of it where it was polished so the runes could be scribed and inlaid with gold.

Ary or Markus, does one of y'all want to handle the wagon setup? (since Kiora asked us to be specific)

Audit Part 3

Level 6 Hinagiku!

1st paladin level... although, she won't be using smite evil for a while. Right now would just feel weird.

Stats and Class Features!
+12 HP

+1 fort
+1 will

+2 Wis (automatic bonus progression)
+1 BaB, CMB, CMD

Skills!
+4 skill ranks
+1 rank to: Acrobatis, K. Religion, K. history, linguistics.

New languages from this level and previous: abyssal, celestial (or any language that would be ley like)

Class features
+Smite evil 1/day
+Detect evil
+Aura of good

• I'd like to know what spells you prepared for travel once you are back.
  
• Your FF AC is 18 (correctly noted on your header but not in your alias)
  
• Your CMD is 25 (27 vs trip). Calculated: 10 + 5 (BAB) + 1 (STR) + 2 (DEX) + 1 (deflection) + 6 (WIS)
  
• Your Perception is +15 (incorrect in your header)
  
• You should be at full mythic power ;)
  
• You now have a Ki pool of 7 due to WIS increase from ABP
  
• Your Ride skill should be +2 because that is your DEX mod
  
• You have overspent your skill ranks. You should only have 16 adventuring skill ranks to spend. But you have 17. (6 [acrobatics] + 6 [K.religion] + 5 [Perception])
  

Audit Part 4

Ehren Ferron LV6

Automatic Bonus Progression
+2 Wisdom

Stats and Class Features
+12 hit points (8 from HD + 2 from Con mod + 1 from Toughness + 1 from favored class)
+1 BAB, CMB, CMD
+1 Fort, +1 Ref, +2 Will
+1 use of wild shape/day
+10 acid resistance
+1 2nd level spell slot
+1 3rd level spell slot

Skills
+1 to Heal, *Knowledge (geography), Knowledge (nature), *Lore (menhir), Perception, Spellcraft, and Survival
+1 to Heal, Perception, and Survival from Wisdom increase

• Your touch AC is 13 (incorrect in your header but correct in your alias)
  
• Why do you have your club listed under ranged but the dagger absent from the statblock? You're goofy... XD
  
• Is your alias up-to-date with the spells you want for travel?
  
• You get 1 more 1st level spell to prepare thanks to your shiny new 20 WIS :)
  
• Do me a favor and list out your spell ranks on your alias. I mean. They're pretty easy right now but should you ever decide to pick some new skills it's gonna get confusing XD
  

I was very surprised to find the wardstone to be inside. Given that they're menhir, I'd have though fortifications would have been built around them on the first floor. I don't think being able to fly does much, when they're mostly indestructible.

And agreed... I was more picturing like the world of warcraft stones you find in elven lands that are basically just egg-shaped rocks with various symbols (mostly swirly etches) all over.

Touch AC fixed!

I dunno about the dagger. Weird, huh? It was never intended to be used as a weapon, so I didn't put it in his statblock. But he was forced to try to shank Vagorg with it when his club broke. I have half a mind to ditch the club, but it has a bit too much history. The sling on the other hand... now that Ehren doesn't have to prepare magic stone every day, he doesn't really need it anymore. :P

I'm staring at the spell list right now! Always hard to decide what to prepare. I was kind of debating on starting to keep some slots open for situational needs, but inspired blessing kind of eliminates the need for that. So I went ahead and prepared ant haul as my 1st-level spell. 14 hours with place magic is a decent duration, and it helps with his crappy carrying capacity. I think I'm happy with my prepared spells, though.

Added a little spoiler with the skill breakdown at the bottom. Hope that works. :)

Audit Part 5

Level 6 Bishop!

Stats and Class Features!
+12 HP (10 HD + 2 con)
+1 to all saves
+2 Wisdom (automatic bonus progression)
+1 BaB, CMB, CMD; Secondary Attacks unlocked.
+1 Tracking
+1 Tracking Demons, K(Planes)v. Demons, Perception to pierce disguises v. Demons.

Skills!
+10 skill ranks (6 class, 0 Int, 1 Race, 1 Favored Class, 2 background)
+1 rank to: P(Soldier), Perception, Survival, K(Nature, Planes, Dungeoneering, Religion), A(Poetry), Spellcraft, Diplomacy.

Spells!
Nothing to see here.

Feats!

Ranger - Iomedae Style - Shield Slam

Wisdom Edit:

Trained Skills Modded: P(Soldier), Perception, Survival, Heal, Sense Motive.
+1 Will

Automated Adjustment:
Combat Reflexes: Ary will bash with her shield on any attack of opportunity that will cause an enemy to collide with a wall if successful.

• Could you list your prepared spells on your alias?
  
• What spells did you prepare for today?
  
• Your Purity of Faith now offers a +2 trait bonus thanks to the blessing from Iomedae.
  
• I believe you are wearing the breastplate from the hidden armory in the Grey Garrison, correct? If so, your AC should now be 22/T14/FF19 and your move speed 20'. It will also increase her ACP penalty which will affect those related skills... which I believe should be -1 acrobatics, +4 climb, -1 escape artist, -1 Fly, +3 ride, +4 stealth, +4 swim
  
• I believe at one point you asked if Faith could morph into a different shield type. I don't think I answered that, did I? Anyway, I'm fine with that as long as Faith is fully legendary when that happens.
  
• You now have 81 HP which is correct on your header but not on your alias.
  
• Your Will saves are now +7, correct on your header but not on your alias.
  
• You have an additional iterative, which should bring your attack routine to +11/+6 when using either Radiance or Faith. Or are you going to TWF now?
  
• Your sense motive is only +3 (incorrect on your header, correct on your mythweavers sheet)
  

Yeah, I'd updated that but I must not have saved it; I update my profile page in pieces due to the 'oops' factor of it just deciding it won't change everything (and I can't just copy paste in different sections, so I do it one at a time). I guess the non-header part didn't make it. :)

I'd not updated anything for the breastplate yet, it seems (oops!).

I'd also not ever updated the trait specifically.

Armor updated, ACPs updated, ACs updated.

Fixed Sense Motive; I'm not sure why I'd listed it wrong at all.

Longstrider and Keep Watch. :)

Also, I forgot to mention during my level 6 update, that my companion bond now lasts 2 rounds instead of 1 when activated (Due to wisdom!). :)

Ary is also going to buy 5 canteens; you never know, and trading in her waterskin. (10 gold; 5 pounds)

She'll also buy two sets of silk rope. (20 gold; 10 pounds)

Audit Part 6

Level 6 Summary

Stats
+1 BAB
+1 Fort,Ref,Will
+10 HP (8 HD +2 Con)
+2 Charisma
Spell Resistance +1
+1 CMD, +1 CMB

Skills
(6 class, 2 Int, 2 background)
-5 ranks Bluff, +5 ranks Perform(Act), +2 ranks Oratory, +1 rank to: Acrobatics, Disable Device, Know(Geography), Linguistics, Perception, Spellcraft, Stealth, Use Magic Device

Languages: Tian

Class Features
Versatile Performance: Act (Bluff/Disguise) Frees up 5 skill points from Bluff
Bardic Performance: Suggestion
Bardic Knowledge +3
+2 rounds performance/day

[/b]Spells[/b]
+1 2nd level spell known (Masterpiece: Pageant of the Peacock)
+1 2nd level spell/day

Favored Class Bonus
+0.5 to effective level for Inspire Courage (+3.0 total)

• You get 18 rounds of bardic performance/day now due to your +2 charisma increase.
  
• You get +19 P.Oratory, +12 P. Wind and +11 P. Dance. You appear to be missing your +2 racial bonus from the calculation.
  
• You get +19 sense motive. You appear to be missing your +2 racial bonus from the calculation.
  
• Please include your concentration check in your alias (+10)
  
• Perhaps the 1/day Blessing of Desna should be included in your abilities tracker?
  
• It is actually spelled "Tien" not "Tian" as the language.
  

Omg I'm done. No perfect audits this time? *wags finger*

:P It really couldn't be helped.

Gaining a level.
Then Mythic.
Then a level.
Then a new set of armor.
Then a boon.

All in the same day...

You get +19 P.Oratory, +12 P. Wind and +11 P. Dance. You appear to be missing your +2 racial bonus from the calculation.

You get +19 sense motive. You appear to be missing your +2 racial
Omg I'm done. No perfect audits this time? *wags finger*

Actually, my racial perform bonus is allocated to Perform(Act). The Muse-touched racial bonus is only supposed to apply to a single perform type as I understand it.

Fixed the other stuff.

It gets harder to have a perfect update the higher in level we go. There's way more moving bits to keep track of :)

No, the racial bonus is to all perform checks, not to one of them :)

Hmm, I could've sworn I'd read somewhere that it was only one, but looking through the boards the consensus seems to be that you do get them all.

In that case Diplomacy should also be +21, yes? Racial bonuses stack, and Isilme gets +2 perform (Oratory) and +2 diplomacy as racial bonuses.

Hmm, I could've sworn I'd read somewhere that it was only one, but looking through the boards the consensus seems to be that you do get them all.

In that case Diplomacy should also be +21, yes? Racial bonuses stack, and Isilme gets +2 perform (Oratory) and +2 diplomacy as racial bonuses.

They do normally, yes, but using versatile performance you effectively swap out your diplomacy check for whatever your perform (oratory) roll is so the racial bonus for diplomacy is never used, only the one for perform.

So your bonus is just a +19 if using versatile performance.

At 2nd level, a bard can choose one type of Perform skill. He can use his bonus in that skill in place of his bonus in associated skills. When substituting in this way, the bard uses his total Perform skill bonus, including class skill bonus, in place of its associated skill's bonus, whether or not he has ranks in that skill or if it is a class skill.

Does this make sense?

EDIT: I really hope so because calculating your skills is the most exhausting out of all 6 of you XD

Probably still not as tiring as trying to remember all of Ary's circumstantials though :p

This is how I've been operating with respect to VP:

Versatile Performance

Per James Jacobs that means you get all the bonuses for the perform, but you also get situational modifiers that would apply to the skill being mimic'd, e.g. boots of elvenkind still provide a benefit when using VP(Dance) for Acrobatics checks, as would the Halfling racial bonus. Instruments (i.e. a tool bonus to perform) don't move over, because you're not actually performing.

There is no official FAQ with regards to how it works, but his argument seems logical to me. If you have a bonus to diplomacy, you're still doing diplomacy when you use Verse. Perf. (Oratory), so you get that bonus, and it's informed by your Perf.(Oratory) skill, so you get bonuses that are applicable to the base skill, but not situational to actually performing.

Interesting! If that's how it is supposed to be, they really should have been more specific in the rules text. But I generally go with dev rulings for crunch so :P

Absolutely, the rules text needed a good bit more elaboration I think. It's one of those things that at first blush seems simple, but turns out to be a mess once you get down in the thick of it. :)

And I'm alright with ruling things like not being able to get a racial bonus twice that way, and such, but it has implications for magical items/spells/etc (e.g. glibness and Pageant of the Peacock) in the future as well, so it was important to bring up.

Edit: My new improved Diplomacy bonus means that I talked Horgus out of three sheets of parchment instead of two! :o

On the topic of avoiding Annabelle flambe, how does her horse travel anyway? Does it have issues with sunlight?

It does not, it'll either hang out nearby up to a maximum distance of 100' ooorrrr Annabelle can call upon it to manifest but then you have to lug around any saddle/barding by hand if it's not manifested.

I'll also let Markus manifest the steed since he did so the first time anyway.

On the topic of wooden carriages, yes, that would be convenient wouldn't it? ;)

Alas, you only have canvas ones. For normal human beings, they are much more comfortable and better ventilated!

Perhaps you could look into buying your own stuffy, wooden one. Perhaps Mavarro has one for sale? ;D

Here's what we need: An appropriate wagon

Edit: Haha, great minds and all that ;)

Varisia isn't too far, right? :)

Versatile Peformance is a lot better than I ever gave it credit for... and it's generally the reason I'm a bard, almost. :P

Should Ary look into getting a hope chest?

Since Annabelle doesn't sleep, does her horse sleep? Is it just always there when she doesn't dismiss it?

Also... I couldn't really do ranger in face to face just because of all the situationals. Like... what happens if I don't know it's a demon? (Not that it's likely for Ary to have that problem, buuuut!)

Her horse never sleeps, being a ghost horse! She's also a lot less whiny about never sleeping than Annabelle is.

Do we know how long the trip is going to be? :)

It's looking like it's either now or never on reincarnating Jeslyn. :P

Two days.

We have what, six more days? Unless we meet a higher level druid than Ehren (unlikely), I'd say she's out of luck.