[PFS/DMK] 2-01 The Bloodcove Disguise (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

If the skeleton south of Kelsier's current position is alive, Brodey takes the flanking position to try to finish it. If it is dead, Brodey stands where it was and kicks the skeleton behind him.

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Attack: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 31d6 ⇒ 4
Attack: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (5) - 3 = 21d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Anara and Brodey miss their attacks, while Oleander's arrow hits, but proves rather ineffective. Kelsier's slash sends bones chipping off just as Tyraneus moves and bathes the skeletons in a bright light. When all is settled, three of of the five skeletons have settled as dust.

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Brodey
Anara
Tyraneus
Oleander
Lunaea
Kelsier
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Skeleton(4)
Skeleton(4)
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"Arghh, how are you supposed to put in arrow into something that is only ribs?"

She tries again anyway.

attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Brodey draws his flail, swings at the skeleton in front of him

flail: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 171d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

He then 5' steps into Kelsier's square, using friendly switch to change places with Kelsier, which hopefully lets him 5' step and full-attack the skeleton (if it survived) or give him a clear charge lane to the last skeleton (if it did not)

Brodey makes short work of his skeleton, and Kelsier charges the next one, turning the skeleton into a pile of bone chips with his mighty sword.

Combat over

Brodey unslings his shield, puts away his flail and goes back to retrieve his lucern hammer.

"I've never seen such things. If there are more like them, then my arrows will be useless." says the elf. The frustration, and perhaps a hint of fear, are clear in her voice.

Still, she keeps her bow in hand.

"Did you want me to scout the front, or bring up the rear?"

Kelsier likewise will sheath his double sword and retrieve his dropped Guisarme.

I will follow closely if you take point. Your eyes are better than mine.

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Oleander slips quietly into the lead. She then carefully progresses down the corridor, taking her time to look at the sights, and being increasingly wary of what else may lurk in this corridor.

Takes ten on perception for 18, heads westwards down the corridor.

Brodey looks bemused as Kelsier and Oleander take point.

Well, they need the experience and have to learn sometime. Best to let them try.

He takes position in the rear, behind Lunaea. After all, there is a horde of demon apes or whatnot outside and could break through.

DM, what is the chain shirt I'm wearing? I never caught the identification

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Kelsier, it is a +1 chain shirt

With Oleander and Kelsier taking point, the end of the corridor empties into another room. The fifteen-by-fifteen-foot room is constructed entirely of the same smooth-white material seen on the sphere outside. A single white pillar stretches floor-to-ceiling in the center of the room, and in a niche rests a smooth, white, hand-sized square covered in glyphs and runes similar to those on the complex’s front door.

Oleander looks into the room, without entering.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

"Can any of you read those runes? Or know what that white metal is?" she asks.

Lunaea thinks back to the runes she saw on the door as they entered. Actually, those did look familiar. I'll be happy to take a look if I can have a bodyguard..., she smiles.

linguistics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

The readings on the cube are massively obscure - they combine arcane marks with carvings from times long past. These markings are high Azlanti, and definitely spell out some kind of warning or instruction. Lunaea recognises only one word: 'sentinel'.

Anara whistles as they walk into the next room, impressed by the room they've entered.

Skeletons, crazy glyphs and runes, this place is different.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

disturbed undead is never a good sign Tyraneus says as he observes the seamless room.

Hmm. There is that sphere out in the dig site. I wonder if this cube activates it. We were looking for something that would provide protection - this may be our only hope against that army of apes. Or the last thing we ever do...

The Master did give us the key to this place, which suggests he knows more than he's telling about it. No doubt his High Azlanti is better than mine. she says with a wry smile. We may have no choice but to trust him on that matter.

Oleander cautiously moves into the room. She slowly circles it, taking her time, looking for any other exits.

"The undead guardians don't really fit with the rest of this place, do they?"

Maybe we missed some important clue in the alcoves or the last room?

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Those suits of armor sure looked like guardians or "sentinels"... I'll bet this cube is a key or some form of activator. Let's look and see where it might fit.

Brodey stays close to Lunanea, looking at the armor suspiciously.

The smaller cube seems detached from the main pillar, and can be easily transported.

What suits of armour?

"I wonder what happens if we take the cube?"

She reaches forwards, giving everyone a moment to tell her to stop.

The white ones in the first room.

Lunaea was about to pick up the cube, but is happy to let Oleander do it if she wants to :)

The cube gives way without much resistance. There is no trap, no ambush, no dust even. The cube is perfectly clean.

Outside, the sound of battle is swelling.

C'mon, we've got to help! Let's see if this cube animates the guardians in the first room or the sphere - there's no time to lose!

Lunaea runs back to the first room to see if there's any way to activate the Guardian statues, heedless of any danger.

If nothing happens there, she'll urge the group to go outside and see if they can activate the sphere by pressing the cube into it.

I don't really know what's appropriate here, but let's try this...

Use Magic Device: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Oleander carefully carries the cube back to the first room.

The adventurers emerge from the exploration of the Azlanti site, Oleander having the cube in hand. As soon as the adventurers have climbed up from the dig, a large rock smashes a hole in the palisade wall, and moments later a hoard of screeching, chattering ape-men plunge through it and flood the camp. In the distance, their horrible champion—a four-armed gorilla, fifteen feet tall and causing the ground to shake with each step, intelligently scans his troops and roars at them, causing the ape-men to devolve into a frenzy.

There's battle all around - these are just the monkeys that have been left unattended. An the huge one...

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Tyraneus
Brodey
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Huge four-armed monkey demon
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Anara
Lunaea
(Oleander)
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Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka
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Kelsier
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Tyraneus takes a look at Brodey as he gives him a nod. Protect the artifact and figure out what it does while the rest of us hold off these beasts. The man rushes forward toward the break in the wall.

Double move- end 1 square south of the "B" of B4 and draw scimitar

Brodey's in an environment too cluttered to run, so he will also double move closer to the foe, trusting his smarter teammates to make the right decision without any input from him between playing with the artifact or supporting with ranged attacks.

Brodey ends up one column left of the leftmost tents, and between the bottom tent and the next tent above it. (he goes diagonal until he reaches that column, then goes up 3 squares, lucern hammer ready)

Tyraneus and Brodey take up tactical positions as the huge four-armed monkey demon smashes through defenders as if they're tinder sticks. This creature is powerful beyond imagine.

Oleander, just behind the tents, falls unconscious as the monkey demon swipes through the first defenders.

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Anara
Lunaea
(Oleander)
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Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka
Huge four-armed monkey demon
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Kelsier
Tyraneus
Brodey
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<clump>
<clump>
<clump>
<clump>

Emerging from within the structure is a large, or should that be large creature of iron.

Its steps are slow, measured and completly unstopable.

The creature straightens, once through the door, and then starts to head towards the four armed ape.

"Crung, bing, crun Ogubo Kruing, Guring Boing!" it shouts out as a challenge at the large ape.

Hehe, love it!

Anara senses the murderous intent of the ape-men and begins to fall into her battle trance and then rushes towards the ape-men.

Start Battle Dance, Move 40ft North

Lunaea runs up to just behind Brodey, hoping to get in range to do something useful next round.

The enormous monkey thumps his chest to challenge the emerging automaton, then swipes at another bundle of defenders, sending their limp bodies flying over the palisade.

The monkey starts a cacophonous screeching, and their movement seems to accelerate

One runs up to Brodey (Brodey gets an AoO) and starts whacking the bodyguard with his club.

Attack, Brodey, Haste: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 1 = 17

The other two run at the lone cleric, and start bashing him as well

Attack, Tyraneus, Haste: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 1 = 251d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
Attack, Tyraneus, Haste: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 1 = 251d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Ouch

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Kelsier
Tyraneus
Brodey
Anara
Lunaea
(Oleander)
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Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka
Huge four-armed monkey demon
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Not sure how best to join the fray. I'd like to see what Brodey, Tyr, and Ana do before acting, unless they want me to do something in particular before them.

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Anara pauses and fires quickly at the one of the monkeys attacking Tyraneus.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 1 - 4 = 9
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Frustrated by her lack of open targets, she drops her bow after the shot and charges towards the fray, pulling her kukri as she rushes forward.

Will stop beside Tyraneus.

Trying to assess this confusing situation with her admittedly limited tactical skills, Lunaea decides that two apes is worse than one, and she should help Tyraneus.

Looking at the map, she's actually supposed to be behind Brodey. She would never stand next to him with an army of oncoming apes :D

Seeing Kelsier hesitate, Lunaea yells Help Tyraneus! Free action, I think

She moves two steps to the right from behind Brodey, which should put her two steps to the left of Anara. Move action

She then throws a Slumber hex at the leftmost ape threatening Tyraneus, hoping to put it out of commission. Standard action

I hope the roaring of the Ape-King can't wake it up!

AOO on the ape that charged me:
lucern hammer: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 131d12 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

I'm going to assume that's a miss or it didn't put it down. Brodey drops the hammer, draws his greatsword and tries again:

greatsword: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 112d6 + 6 ⇒ (4, 4) + 6 = 14

Damn those things are nimble. Well I'll keep this one busy anyway.

"Boing, krarng. Sloop. Grunch."
Shoulds the massive golem as it continues on its way towards the huge ape.

double move towards the ape in as straight a line as can be managed. Any apes wanting to AOO the golem are welcome to try.

Uponseeing Oleander drop to the ground Tyraneus gets a concerned look upon his face, even more so as a large metal contraption emerges from the wreakage. Taking a momentary step back from the assault as he raises his palms into the air and unleashes a torrent of flames upon the apes.

Burning Hands: 3d4 ⇒ (4, 3, 4) = 11

5 foot step S DC 14 on burning hands for half.

DM, how many Gorillas are currently left standing, where?

There's one charau-ka (mad shrieking chimp) next to Brodey, and two more next to Tyraneus. The four-armed demon gorilla is near the palisade

Anara's shot misses, but she quickly adapts and moves beside Tyraneus, just in time to see him proceed a cone of fire.

RFX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
RFX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Brodey tries to attack the lone monkey, but the dust whipped up by the passing gargantuan throws him off his usual balance.

Lunaea then moves to within sight of one of the burnt monkey, looks it straight in the eye, and makes it fall asleep.

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

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Kelsier
Tyraneus
Brodey
Anara
Lunaea
(Oleander)
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Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka (11) - zzz
Charau-Ka (11)
Huge four-armed monkey demon
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can't see the map right now but I know I really need to post an action. If Kelsier can get adjacent to the gorillas by Tyraneus he will do so, dropping his guisarme halfway to draw his double sword. Otherwise he'll position himself to attack with the guisarme next round.

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Well, it worked pretty well with the first ape, and Tyraneus got the other one pretty good, so Lunaea will try again with the ape threatening Brodey, hexing it with Slumber.

She sort of feels like a one-trick Witch at the moment, but hey, at least it's working...

The sooner we can get past these apes, the sooner we can help with whatever's going on over there!

You can double move and be next to Tyraneus

Kelsier moves up with his guisarme, to threaten the shrieking monkey. The monkey next to Brodey seems to quite shaken - though lightning fast, the attacks of the creature fail to connect.

The monkey next to Anara is another thing, though, a solid smash of the club is followed up by a nasty bite, and Anara only barely manages to avoid a second blow of the club.

Attack, Brodey, club: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Attack, Brodey, bite: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (5) + 0 = 5
Attack, Brodey, club: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Attack, Anara, club: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 241d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Attack, Anara, bite: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (20) + 0 = 201d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Attack, Anara, club: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Confirm, Anara, bite: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (5) + 0 = 5

The huge monkey charges at the construct, trying to bite it!

Attack: 1d20 + 26 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 26 + 2 = 382d6 + 9 ⇒ (1, 4) + 9 = 14

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Kelsier
Tyraneus
Brodey
Anara
Lunaea
(Oleander)
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Charau-Ka
Charau-Ka (11) - zzz
Charau-Ka (11)
Huge four-armed monkey demon
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Here's the discussion for the new Bloodcove/Azlanti scenarios. Just dot in whenever you are levelling and upgrading.

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Tyraneus is going to purchase

1. Alkali Flask x 1- 15gp
3. +1 Mithral Chain Shirt- 2100 gp
4. Sundrod x 2- 4gp
5. MWK Scimitar- 315 gp
6. Cold Iron Scimitar- 30gp

Total-2464gp

Selling

1. scimitar-7.5gp
2. studded leather- 12.5 gp

Total-20gp

dotting. doing my leveling right now. Should have my purchases finalized soon.

Edit: Done. Not making any purchases this level. Saving till I can get Dervish Dancer feat.

All aboard! The game has started in the gameplay thread.

Anara, did you level? Your stats still say level 1. Let me know if you need more time...

I'll be offline until Wed night. I'll support whatever disguise plan the group agrees upon.

Do you guys want me to recruit additional players? I have a whole list waiting...

I don't like to dismiss anyone... but we've gotten to the point where we're about to start our first battle and we need a fourth. Her participation has been bare minimum in the recent mods and none at all so far in this one. It is nice if players can be present at least once a day.

that said I defer to group consensus and welcome Anara if she's able to start playing.

I agree

dot?

-the count

Welcome!

Let me know if you want me to post a brief recap of what's been going on. Just about to plane shift, but I can probably get something up in the evening (6:49 am for me now)

so umm I take it that walking thru the door asking for pathfinders would not be the best ideal then?

just what initial rolls I should make and what rules to follow :3

also If I have a accomplice or if they will appear later

Checking in with a brand new baby stealth-elf.
(aerondor00 alt)

Checking in.

Do I need to have a deity selected at this point?

I can start playing a little more regularly at this point, but I do apologize. I mentioned on the other thread that I was on vacation (started beginning of June) I am back now, but if I have already been replaced I understand and can back out of this. Will wait on decision before posting anything in gameplay.

Hiya, welcome all, and thanks for joining in on such short notice.

@Kelsier: not necessarily, you can choose to have none, or whatever you want.

@ Anara: I kind of calculated in that that might happen. I'm fine with you joining in - we'll have a seven-player table, which is busy but manageable (and useful for the next encounter, which is tough). You still owe me a disguise/intimidate rolls, though.

Did my last post make any sense? I probably should have said more of it here, out-of-character. Kelsier is not a man of many words. I tried to compromise with short sentences, but I think it was still more words than he likes to speak.

Yes, It made sense and was well stated. Lunaea's just getting annoyed with the general randomness of the discussion and the lack of any sense that we're coalescing on ideas. She's about ready to escape this crowded room and go for a walk in whatever passes for a park or a market around here :D

I'm just trying to move the game along. It looks like we really do have to head to the arena. This is a bit of a side show though, there are a lot of other supplies that need to be moving - from the description at the start it sounded like the potions are a bonus.

I'm loving the discussion - I'm tempted to sit back and grab the pop-corn. Have we converged on 'swaggering in'?

I'm really puzzled by the impatience. The fight took about 12-18 seconds. We tied them up (5-10 minutes?) And we've chatted about what to do (2-4 minutes?). It's not like we've wasted tons of time. The conversation actually overlapped the tying up, so we've been here like 10 minutes max. Pbp is just slow since you have to wait for everyone to react to what's happened before more time can pass.

Brodey is taking some time in-character to remind everybody why we're at the alchemist shop in the first place. He doesn't try to make purchases in a strange, cut-throat economy without some local guidance. It rarely goes well.

Beating up some extortionists who violate contracts and work for Aspis is just a bonus. This would have actually been harder if the alchemist didn't need anything from us. Also, the Society owes its information sources better than to be trapped into a situation like this.

So for Brodey it is a win-win-win. No downside at all, unless of course we somehow get killed. The quality of the opposition so far isn't exactly worrying him though, and as for exotic beasts, well, he's gone toe-to-toe with some pretty bad things already with smaller groups of Pathfinders than this unruly mob :)

At least there wasn't an zombie dragon! Yeesh.

It wasn't impatience with the amount of time spent, more the lack of cohesiveness of the discussion. I'm just used to a smaller group, probably. Sorry if I've been rude, but Lunaea has never known anything other than the small group she started with, and this feels totally chaotic to her.

It's been clear all along that we'd have to go deal with her, and it would be a hard fight. That's why DM brought everyone in to supplement the group when it looked like we might be down to three, and because there were lots of players needing a game. These thugs were easy, but the next ones won't be.

Some background on Brodey and Lunaea - "fawning" is the farthest thing from their relationship with each other, which is strictly professional. Lunaea is a Witch, and Brodey is a Witch-Bodyguard. They've pulled each other out of lots of holes, and have trust between them. The two characters were designed together and share team feats. There's some rather cool things you can do with team feats and we thought it might be fun to try them out. So yes, she is going to look to him first because she trusts his judgment, especially in this type of environment, but not for unprofessional reasons.

LOL - Tyraneus :D Yeah, Lunaea would probably be running for the hills in that case.

Alright, I'm down with this approach (it's the only one Kelsier could easily contribute to anyway). I just feel a little concerned there could be unexpected and undesired repercussions for taking Ichon head-on.

so do we know which of the two Ichon is ?

The smaller one is the summoner, the larger one the eidolon, though you haven't confirmed yet that the summoner is actually ichon.

sorry just got back form playing temple of Empirical enlightenment high tier with my lvl 2 swashbuckler and had a 25+round combat so what is the plan

I think we are in the 'gather information' phase at the moment.

... so are we ready to fight ?

Objectives of this mission

1. not be noticed

If we had arrived and there was nobody there but Ichon and maybe a few retainers sure, we pretend we were hired to "fix" the broken contract as a pure mercenary payment thing.

Starting a brawl with a million bystanders isn't the plan, no. Which is why I'm asking about time of day. If it's daytime we can still maybe deal with the trade portion of our objective while we wait for the crowd to disperse. If it's night time our best bet is likely to hole up and hit them when they're closing up (if we don't know where she lives) or ambush her as she crawls into bed (if we do).

Of course if a fight happens anyway while we're trying to learn things Brodey will defend us all vigorously, but that's not plan A, B or C.

And now we know how to quietly dispose of a body in this town. I'm thinking that maybe the best approach is to make her disappear, rather than do anything to her openly. Kill her when there's no one around, or at least no-one we can't handle. Then find the pig farmers and dispose of her. That way no-one can be sure what really happened with her and won't trace her back to our alchemist, which allows him to reopen his shop and start supplying us with potions again.

Which leaves the thugs in the basement. I'm thinking that given how easily we disposed of them and if their boss mysteriously disappears, we can intimidate them into silence.

So DM your saying raw blah wrar enfeebling ray

I don't recollect saying that ;-)

Now, if you don't want to fight Ichon, remember that one of the reasons you're here is to find a cure for Senzer's boy. The other reason is to break the dominance Ichon has over Senzer, though you might be able to achieve that by other means.

Combat is still an option, though.

I guess I was under the impression from what you said before that I could cure the disease if we could get her out of the picture. if that's not the case then it does change things. Even if the boy would need time for recovery he could reopen the shop and return to business.

If we need a cure from her then we may need to avoid combat until we have that either located or negotiated.

Maybe ask her the price for a full cure, noting that we know she has pulled back on the deal once before.

If she does a second time, well, even summoners sleep and their eldirons are not around then :-)

All OOC knowledge of course.

In case there was some confusion about the cant that Ichon uses:

kip = establishment, joint
to rattle the bone box = to talk
to scrag = to do away with, to kill
berk = person, used disdainfully
to pay the music = to be honest, to own up
to peel = to scam
to put in the dead book = to kill

It's from 2nd ed. Planescape, where it in turn was derived from actually existing London slang - great for thieves' cant.

Couple points on rules.

1. You can not ready an action out of combat. When all are aware of each other, initiative determines who goes first. In this situation it means that she saw spellcasting begin and reaches for a potion, then Brodey and Oleander get to try to act against either person, and because they are faster reflexes, they go first, regardless of who initiated the action.

2. While it is true that PVP is by consent, on the same page there is a rule about not bullying other players. I for one have not enjoyed the sniping and my fun has been greatly reduced by a party member actively sabotaging our undercover mission with her comments and actions. Starting a fight during a negotiation is perilously close to PVP in such a dangerous situation and bullying is an offense that can get you ejected. If the GM is annoyed enough. Players can just choose to walk if they stop having fun. That is also an option, you get zero xp and gold.

This whole thing has me really frustrated. Not enough to leave (not yet). But I don't understand why we (or our characters!) have to put up with having someone on our "team" who intentionally ignores our plans and jeopardizes our objectives.

Let's step on the brake here.

One of the disadvantages of PbP is that it is hard to judge for me when people get annoyed, which consequently makes it hard for me to act upon it. It's good that you voice your opinion here.

At this point, I think the PvP rule is clear, and should be adhered to. The bullying rule is - by design - more subjective, and I would not rule it at this point.

I do observe that the majority of the group wants to have a talking resolution to the conflict, and that a single player is going rogue, which has the potential for significant party friction. Something I'd rather not have.

My proposal: we keep the initiative order, but combat hasn't started yet. Specifically, Anub'arak casting action hasn't started, and Ichon hasn't stated her action (to which, indeed, Brodey and Oleander got to react, hence their superior order in the initiative list - I forgot to explain that). In short, none of that happened - I'm just keeping the initiative list for convenience.

Anub'arak: I strongly suggest to review your action. Please post the action you feel is justified and motivated by your character's personality. Please don't just initiate combat for the sake of forcing a melee.

Everyone: feel free to PM me if you have further concerns.

I will hold off further posts in the game thread until Anub'arak has had the time to respond.

As we are in the discussion phase...

1: I had assumed that Anub'arak (the character) had a thing against full blooded elves - and that is why she was sniping at me.
2: I also think that the player took the DM comment about people not stepping in if we fought Ichon as a hint that is the right activity to be undertaking.

PbP can be a frustrating experience with folk dropping, and all of us having different posting rates (on top of our own preferred styles, and our characters preferred style).

I think the initiative is a bit confusing at the moment, as nothing is actually happening for us to react to. Oleander is just going to stay at the back with bow and arrow ready. She knows she is not a talker.

BTW - I know my own posting rate is pretty high and generally I try to push a game forward. However in this case Oleander can't do that. If you want me to slow down my posting I can (doesn't look like that is a problem in this game, but it can be in others).

Back on topic and on the subject of characters and RP games.

Oleander doesn't really like or trust humans. She also has a low charisma, neither of which makes her a great conversationist with much of the party. That doesn't mean she doesn't want to acheive the same objectives. PFS is nicely set up in that we are all part of an organisation which has "cooperate" as part of its creed.

Anub'arak has decided to withdraw from this table, so he won't be part of this combat.

At some point the GM will roll higher on will saves. Or we'll fight something immune to sleep.

That fight could have been very tough. Using that potion as an opening move was a very strong tactic if it had worked. An invisible summoner means we end up fighting the eidelon, probably with any buffs she knows boosting its abilities, then, when we beat it, we have to run her out of summons, which she can do without making any noise to give away her position.

So while it was a little anticlimactic to have her dropped in one round, I'll take it. I think this team could have handled the longer fight, but it would have been pretty dangerous.

There's a variant where one of the thugs in the store gets away and alerts icon. If that happens, she has a fully buffed eidolon ready to rock as soon as the party comes in. I had that happen once, and it got within an inch of a TPK. The encounter is pretty tough.

ya, with being the only one in melee range, I was definitely concerned if Ichon had been melee capable and they had had good initiative roles to be one round KO'd.

I will be spotty tomorrow, unavailable Sunday and Monday, and spotty on Tuesday also. Bot me on Sun/Mon if needed.