Sorry to hear that as well. I will hope for a painless as possible, speedy, and complete recovery.
I'm looking forward to this battle. It sounds kinda insane from what we've been told so far, but we are kinda insane too. Xanya certainly got a lot of tankiness between her selfhealing, DR, Ikik, Ablative Barrier and massive health pool, though her AC isn't shabby either. Hopefully our surprise move will work too...
Tomorrow are going to the hospital with my son until Friday. Hopefully I'll find the opportunity to post once in a while...
@CT: Did we find the time/opportunity for Xanya to copy Ironskin from Longrius in town? If not I'll just have that as my spell for this level...
You had over night in town at least to copy spells, so it probably was enough time.
Good luck at the hospital.
I am working on the map literally right now. Work has been crazy this week, I feel bad not being able to update any of the tables, but I am the only IT person for the entire place all week, so I don't have much free time to get for pbp. At home its even worse, as my family is coming this weekend for a cookout etc, so i need to get the place shipshape as its a total disaster.
Thanks for the well wishes.
Another alternative to saving a spell could be to get Ironskin for Cryxial as well. He is among the squishiest of us since mounted combat(the ability from the feat) is pretty much useless at this point.
@Longirus: I think you should get some more defensive buffs for yourself. With so many enemies you could easily become the target (unless you plan to stay invisibile the whole time I guess.
@CT: What about everyone touching the casting haste?
I would rule that touch is a valid method for targeting. Normally you need line of effect to the target if not line of sight. I am not sure haste needs line of sight, if you can detect the target somehow. touch is valid enough for me without puzzling over it too long.
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I'm alive! Sorry it has stalled. Life is making it hard to put in the significant amount of time I need to make this a success, but it is still going.
I'm here always will be take your time.
I am lurking as well and I promise not take bites out of people's legs ... ;-)
Sorry folks. At this point I'm committing to a handful of other projects and I'm not certain I'll be able to follow this again when it does pick up. I think I'll be bowing out.
Until Sword Part Longirus! Perhaps see you in other games?
Nice to see us going again. Can you please fix the link in the description? It screws up the mobile view something fierce.
@Quassine: I really hope I misunderstood what you meant by what you posted. I don't have anything against you, but when people post stuff like "I don't plan to contribute anything for a while" it makes me really upset, to the point that I almost don't want to play anymore.
My mission is to get to the scepter and either use it to destroy or teleport us out, and not for me to fight so I can stay invisible. There are things surrounding the scepter which is the plan for the fighter types to lure away. It is not that I am not doing anything, I am simply waiting for a hole to move and I have a movement of 80 so I can cover a lot of distance quickly. If s&## hits the fan to take a more fighting stance, then I will enter the fray. Now if Xanya or anyone else is against that plan, now is the time to say something. We will then kill everything in the room and then retrieve the scepter.
And the words you posted is what you saw in my wording, not what I posted.
You seem to be on an entirely different plan than the rest of us. I thought we had agreed to fight, but apparently not... Both Goliath and Kiki seems to agree with me (read their statements in the gameplay thread). I guess Xanya haven't said much about what we should do, except that fighting is a good thing. It's been so long since this was active I have to read up to see what everyone said.
I guess I need to convince you why fighting is the better option:
- I just don't see how we can realistically steal the scepter without being noticed, if nothing else they will notice it is gone.
- Once they notice, there will be a fight, the only difference from striking first is that we will have given up our surprise and we might have lost our invisibility as well to something like glitterdust or invisibility purge.
- Fighting with just the 3 (well 4 with Cryxial) of us will give us significantly less chance of winning/surviving than if everyone contribute maximum from the start.
You don't have to enter melee though, you could stay back and throw spells. You could hit either two of the guys around the scepter and a fire giant or both fire giants with a lightning bolt(or 1 + 2 + one of the fire giants). You could get off all 3 lightning bolts before any of the enemies can move. Until the Fire giants move snowball is also 8d6 (+50% due to vulnerability) damage per pop. Of course given our fighting style it's not very easy for us to block the enemies to approach you...
@CT: The enemies always spreading out with at least 10 foot in between makes me look stupid for picking up mounted blade...
The plan was always for Q to grab the scepter. The original plan was for Goliath to go in as a distraction, talk fight dance tell them a story whatever just give you guys time to grab the scepter and get back out. Now with the portal closing behind us it may close on this end as well and ruin the plan. We will see.
CT, what are the exact powers of the combined scepter or is it the same?
Yeah Governor is closing offices at Noon under state of emergency. We had/have plans to travel this weekend so if the the Tropical Storm / Supposed to be Hurricane when it makes landfall tonight leaves us without power you may not hear from me for a few days :)
Hope you'll manage to weather the storm Goliath and I hope Kiki is still with us. I wish we had some way to contact him to tell him the game is going again.
I'm still with you, but as I am still traveling my posting schedule will be uncertain
Yay! Great to hear from you Kiki. :D
I'm here too, struggling as usual to try and get enough time to make a decent update that is more than a sentence. big battles like this take time to format :) I think once i get you guys through this i might have to focus on smaller things in order to keep things moving until I can devote as much time as I used to.
Did we have time/money for Masterwork transformation for all of Kiki's weapons? I guess we didn't really have the spell slots to share, unless Longirus did it I suppose did it I guess. We could sell the quick runner's shirt to afford it, it's useless now anyway.
No worries CT. Just happy you wish to continue. I have a blast playing Goliath. :)
No worries CT. Just happy you wish to continue. :)
Likewise
I will check kiki's profile as soon as I can
While Ferocity has been surprisingly nice so far, I'm wondering if not the diehard chain would have been better. Not only would it have let me pick up Stalwart (and improved), but also Fast Healer. That does work with spontaneous healing right?
Nope spontaneous healing is (EX), if it were (SP) then yes for sure. Fast Healer works with rest or magical healing.
bweep!
So, what are we actually waiting for? We kinda planned things out but didn't start it. I guess we need the go ahead from CaveToad whether we've made it to our current positions or not and can start pummeling them. Tossing up an initiative list and the like would also be nice.
@Kiki: Do you need help figuring out your attacks? It's a lot of numbers to add up. Hopefully it'll be a lot of crits, every one grants an extra AoO for both you and me due to Paired Opportunist + Outflank.
@CT: You didn't actually answer if we had time for masterwork transformation for Kiki's weapons (probably with spellslots from yesterday that we could have prepeared on the way in).
What up, I'm ready :)
I am here and ready.
@Xanya, I think you had time for the MW transforms.
currently we are waiting on me to get the actual combat rolling. This epic fight will take a lot of work so its just been a matter of me getting some spare time to make it all come together. the chaos of real life is overwhelming. trying to put new flooring in the house, and paint, and deal with a million things, train for triathlons, prepare for holidays, vacations, weddings, birthdays, blah blah, all the usual stuff.
We bought flooring 2 years ago now. Still have the master bed room and bathroom to do. I feel your pain. Never enough time. I get why my parents always did so much stuff, they had nothing better to do. We have way more distractions in life now :) Take the time you need man, I will be here ready to slay some giants :)
Yes please, take your time to be ready so we can continue normally or at least finish this battle uninterrupted ... :-)
Glad to hear from you.
I believe we haven't actually added the loot from our latest venture to the sheet yet. Though I could remember wrong. We should do that before deducting the price for the mw transforms.
We just bought a house and are planning to put new flooring in three of the rooms. Guess we have something to look forward to.
Happy to hear from you
I will look over kiki's stats again
Ok, checking in, I know we are down one person for sure, just seeing if the rest of you are here and ready to move ahead. Would 'like' to get the combat going, perhaps even try to a round or two. It will still be slow, but I can't handle the complete standstill any more, so I want to get something done.
Ready to go.
I still have everything notated and I am going for the shield in the middle where the scepter is located.
I'm still here.
I seem to still be level 5,
William level up tomorrow/today (depending on your timezone) and then I'm ready too
I seem to still be level 5,
William level up tomorrow/today (depending on your timezone) and then I'm ready too
I see that you posted a levelup summary on the previous page. Though there you have included dampen presence, which is just a strictly worse version of lurker in the shadows (from PoW:e and psionics) that I posted even further back. You probably want to swap that around.
Have most of it, the warlord stuff is still missing and I had the wrong level of rogue on the last page.
None of the talents look good so I picked a combat fead-> hammer the gap
I think CT was unhiding the table not telling us to start combat? ... LOL
Someone has itchy blades.
Maybe it'll inspire him to start things off sooner.
Ah a step in the right direction. Glad your back CT
Maybe it'll inspire him to start things off sooner.
I hope so ... :-)
Ah a step in the right direction. Glad your back CT
I second this!
Happy holidays