Varisian, but not particularly in touch with his heritage.
Ok. ;)
Khrondak, thanks for running with the dead Shoanti warrior. Funny how a small almost insignificant part of the background in a module can lead to some RP possibilities.
Boy, there are days when I wonder if Bel'tanis is deliberately avoiding seeing Scoria's affection. It still makes for good roleplay over all, especially if everyone else sees it but him.
Bel'Tanis is clueless for 2 big reasons.
1) He's used to girls being WAAAY too forward like Shayliss was, just brazenly blatant.
2) He's 16 and it sounds like Scoria's older than either of his parents, so the thought is completely foreign to him.
So yeah, that's why he's oblivious - because he is!
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lol you two are so cute together...will Bel'Tanis notice Scoria's flirting or will she become more brazen? Find out tomorrow on The Young and the Restless...
Ah, that is the rub I've always thought of with the long-lived races. Physically speaking, Scoria's got the body of a twenty year old human meticulously trained. She is learned mentally, but emotionally, she's very stunted. She's very much a person who expresses herself in actions than words. Which is why she keeps sort of touching him, on the shoulders and chest and the like.
Though it's possible after the end of this dungeon crawl she might just come out with it. Hopefully to favorable returns.
I thought Aasimar are long-lived as well. I didn't realize Bel'Tanis was so young. All the same, Thaddeus (but not I) has also missed the signs.
I just checked the Advanced Race Guide and it looks like Paizo updated the aasimar's aging rate from what had been published in Blood of Angels, which is what I used to build Bel'Tanis.
In Blood of Angels, aasimar are said to age only slightly slower than their parent race (in this case, human). In the ARG, it looks like all six of the planetouched races are defaulted to longer life spans.
I hadn't realized the age tables had been modified between the two books. I do rather like the more variable approach presented in Blood of Angels, though.
Yeah, I used the ARG for Scoria - seeing as Blood of Elements isn't out yet. But I've found that people tend to go with it in several ways - one, that planetouched actually age physically slower, or that they age normally until they finish puberty, in which case they grow older vastly slower, but take longer to master things mentally as well.
So while she's outlived her human father and master, that hardly means she's as mentally mature as a human person her age. I rather like that idea a lot - look at elves as well with their long lifespans.
The main reason they changed it was because of this adventure...Nualia's backstory doesn't make sense if her lifespan is the one from the ARG.
I'm saving to buy some magic items but I'm lost about the loot. I went over the earlier splits and it's not helping. Since Thaddeus and Bel'Tanis have been paying attention to it, could anyone please tell me how much gold Khrondak should have, considering he hasn't bought anything? Thanks!
Apart from what we found after that nasty vine thing, the most current totals of our phat l00tz are in the Inventory Log, Khrondak.
Each character has their own sheet within the log. If you can't access it for some reason, your personal gp total is currently 1,153.5.
Wow, great! Thanks.
[EDIT] I'm about a 1,000 gp behind everyone else, so I call dibs on the next piece of treasure. :)
I thought I was rolling really badly overall, but this goes to prove that statistics are real.
D20 (62 rolls, avg. 10.2)
1d20 = 13
1d20 = 8
1d20 = 5
1d20 = 5
1d20 = 8
1d20 = 12
1d20 = 10
1d20 = 15
1d20 = 3
1d20 = 2
1d10 = 11
1d20 = 10
1d20 = 16
1d20 = 13
1d20 = 4
1d20 = 12
1d20 = 9
1d20 = 16
1d20 = 18
1d20 = 15
1d20 = 9
1d20 = 20
1d20 = 18
1d20 = 3
1d20 = 12
1d20 = 20
1d20 = 17
1d20 = 5
1d20 = 6
1d20 = 11
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 3
1d20 = 9
1d20 = 14
1d20 = 20
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 5
1d20 = 14
1d20 = 1
1d20 = 3
1d20 = 8
1d20 = 9
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 20
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 8
1d20 = 12
1d20 = 16
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 10
1d20 = 19
1d20 = 8
1d20 = 4
1d20 = 16
1d20 = 8
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 9
1d20 = 12
1d20 = 7
1d20 = 4
1d20 = 19
D8 (6 roll, avg. 3.5)
1d8 = 5
1d8 = 6
1d8 = 3
1d8 = 3
1d8 = 2
1d8 = 2
D6 (47 rolls, avg. 3.4)
1d6 = 2
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 5
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 5
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 5
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 4
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 4
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 2
1d6 = 5
1d6 = 4
1d6 = 2
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 5
1d6 = 4
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 5
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 2
1d6 = 1
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 3
1d6 = 4
1d6 = 6
1d6 = 4
1d6 = 5
D4 (1 roll, avg. 1)
1d4 = 1
If you want to be technical about it, your averages are average, but I get what you mean. Nothing worse than rolling minimal damage on a critical hit.
Whoooo! 2000 gameplay posts! Congrats, team! =D
Still going strong!
The shadows were certainly the toughest fight of the campaign so far.
And we are almost done with Burnt Offerings! Bring on the Skinsaw Murders.
Hey all, we have a combat coming up but I had to drive into the office today, I'll post it up later this evening.
So we have for the most part finished Burnt Offerings.
At this point we can get the treasure tallied and distributed. I'll also do XP and roll for new magic items available for sale.
Treasure not identified/appraised.
40 gemstones x 10gp (each)
Helmet-3,000gp !
Amulet of Natural Armor.
Does a month of downtime (gametime) sound good before the Skinsaw Murders? That should give people time to craft and do other stuff.
One month works for me. I need to create me some scrolls!
Are we still 3rd level?
Huzzah, and though we didn't get to Nualia, hopefully we'll encounter her in the future. A month of down time seems quite fair - certainly Scoria will use that time to put her stonemasonry skills to good use.
I'll suggest that either Khrondak or Thaddeus get the Amulet of Nat Armor - both of them could use the AC boost. Scoria of course is going to invest in a nice wand of Mage Armor - our resident wizard can use it on her to keep her AC nice and high in combat.
Matthias would be happy to help with that! In fact, depending on how much loot Matthias gets, I'd be happy to go halfsies with you, if that's alright.
You will probably be still 3rd, but close to 4th. I tally up the XP tomorrow and see where everybody is at.
I don't think I'll have a chance to get the loot updated tonight, but I should be able to tomorrow evening.
As for downtime, I'd like for Bel'Tanis to be able to sell this fevered iron scimitar and comission a +1 falchion. We've reached the point where I'd like to start transitioning him over to the two-handed heavy hitter I hope he can be. =)
Thaddeus will spend most of his downtime working with integrating Orik into the town guard, trying to guide an mentor him. When he is off in the evening he's will try and copy the spells from the Lyrie's book into his own.
Week 1:
Burning Hands - failed first attempt a couple days earlier, has to wait 1/week to try again.
Grease - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16 - Failed, can't try to learn it again for a week.
Obscuring Mist - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16
Invisibility - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17 - Failed, can't try to learn it again for a week.
Minor Image - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17 - Failed, can't try to learn it again for a week.
Mirror Image - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Shatter - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Spider Climb - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Total: 19 hours/130 gp
Week 2:
Burning Hands - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16 - Failed, can't try to learn it again for a week.
Grease - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16
Invisibility - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17 - Failed, can't try to learn it again for a week.
Minor Image - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Total: 10 hours/50 gp
Week 3:
Burning Hands - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16
Invisibility - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Total: 5 hours/50 gp
All together, 34 hours and 230 gp
Also, he will offer Matthias access to the book to learn any spells from it that he may want at the same time.
Old Total XP:4,262
Bruthazmus
800
Goblin Wives
135x4=540
Orik Vancaskerkin (Diplomacy)
800
Lyrie (Captured)
800
Tentamort
1200
Trapped Hall
1200
Shadows
800x3=2400
Giant Hermit Crab
1600
Shadowmist(Advanced Horse) (Rescued)
600
XP Total:9,940
9940/6
XP Per Person: 1,657
New Total XP Per Person: 5,919xp
Need for 4th: 6,000 (Fast)
Khrondak rides away to prepare and consecrate a burial site for his cousin, which gets him out of town for a few days. Upon return, he stays with Daviren, drinking, sharing stories, training and planning how to track Nualia down. He also spends time in town looking for any signs of her return. He also looks for Notick, worried about his sudden disappearance, but his inquiries lead him nowhere.
He visits the new cathedral often, learning about the other Gods, and exchanges a few words with Scoria on such occasions. With his earnings from adventuring, Khrondak also commissions a new armor and mastework earth breaker, gearing up for his next encounter with Nualia.
He asks Daviren to teach his horse a few new tricks (stay and fetch).
Don't forget if you're selling things that they sell for 60% instead of 50% thanks to my friendship with Ameiko!
So, we only need 486 XP total to level all of us?
How does everyone feel about looking behind that sealed door? ;)
EDIT: the helmet wasn't magical, just gold, heavy, and valuable.
I would prefer that you get the amulet if you want it. I don't want to keep getting items to shore up a flaw that is part of the character's build. In all reality, he was my first Magus, and for what I wanted to do, I didn't realize how reliant the class was on Dex as a whole. I'm fine with it, and wouldn't change it, as it pretty much makes him who he is.
EDIT 2: Also, once Matthias and I get what we need from the spellbook, that can be a pretty penny, and I have the wand of missles in case Midori wants it for added firepower. If not her, Matthias, as Thaddeus is more than likely going to be up front in the thick with the other three meleers.
Can we sell the helmet full price?
...We're 81xp from level four. I feel we ought to find a few giant rats to punch to death and get to that next level. Just...SO CLOSE.
Scoria's downtime will have her returning to her regular job as a stonemason, attending to the last finishing touches for the cathedral, as well as looking for a new job for the future - if nothing new is being built in Sandpoint, she'll stick around until she's heard back from her mason's guild about any new projects that may need her skills.
On a personal level, she'll spend time both checking on Bel'tanis - every day, in fact - and performing deputy duties, should she never be undeputized.
My Skull & Shackles game died, and I have decided to scrap it and start over with Mummy's Mask. As such I have started an invite only recruitment thread, and everyone here is encouraged to apply to the game. I still have a few players from the previous game, so am only looking for 2 players. I may possibly need up to 4, based on whether all my S&S players are staying or not, in order to get a 6 person team.
Link to the recruitment
A chance to plunder a captured spellbook? Color me excited!
Week one:
Burning Hands - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16
Grease - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16
Obscuring Mist - 2 hours/10 gp - Spellcraft DC 16
Invisibility - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17 -failed
Minor Image - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Mirror Image - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Shatter - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Spider Climb - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17 - failed
Week two:
Invisibility - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Spider Climb - 3 hours/40 gp - Spellcraft DC 17
Total cost: 310 gp
Matthias, realizing his talents lie away from the world of combat, will sell his masterwork heavy crossbow for 210 gp. Using his remaining gold of 307 gp, Matthias will set about his scribing madness!
Scribing:
1 Comprehend Languages scroll = 37.5 gp
1 Burning Hands = 37.5 gp
1 Restore Corpse = 37.5 gp
1 Detect Undead = 37.5 gp
1 Spider Climb = 75 gp
1 Scorching Ray = 75 gp
TOTAL: 300 gp
Cash remaining: 7 gp (not counting any loot split)
I don't think Midori can use the wand without Use Magic Device checks. That being said, if she doesn't want it, Matthias would love it!
Well there is that bit about the missing son of the blacksmith that Thaddeus and Midori met when they went to see to the Sage. It may be an opportunity for a quick adventure as an option, if you all don't want to brave the horrors behind the Rune Door.
I'd be up for either, or both.
Scoria would prefer only opening the door should they be prepared for whatever lurks behind it. Possibly with a ballista. Or a cannon. But searching for a missing son sounds like a good in between.
I had totally forgotten about that, and had even stated I would do what I could. So, yes, count me in for finding the son.
I'm game for the son-search!
Sounds like a plan to me.
And...Midori actually has a +7 to UMD.
As for how I'm spending my share; let me think a bit. As a Bard, I don't need to research, but a few scrolls couldn't hurt.
Okay we will go with the missing son plot hook. I'll set it three days from the end of Thistletop, that should give everybody time heal and buy some gear. Then back to some downtime before the start of Skinsaw.
Sorry for the slowness in situating the monies and stuff, gang. I've been sick the last couple of days and haven't had the energy to sift through the threads and do maths.
As for our next steps, I have no memory whatsoever of a missing son, so this sounds great! Plus, I'm very nervous to open that door after seeing nearly half our team beaten within an inch of their lives by a big hermit crab in a fancy hat-shell, so as a player I'm happy to postpone opening that ominous door.
Magic Items for Sale Update:
44. The Feathered Serpent
Robe of Useful Items 7,000 GP-Removed
Summon Minor Ally Scroll CL1 25GP - Removed
Mask of the Krenshar 7,200 GP-New
Endure Elements Scroll CL1 Cost 25GP -New
Staff of the Scout Cost 9,600 GP -New
I'll do the first post tomorrow for the missing son.
Can you also let us know what that mask and staff do (even though they're way out of our price range)? =)
Staff of the Scout:
Know direction (1 charge)
Pass without trace (1 charge)
Summon nature’s ally I (2 charges)
Mask of the Krenshar:
This simple leather mask depicts an earless catlike creature. When worn, it melds into its wearer’s face and vanishes, leaving the wearer’s face just as it looked before.
Three times per day the wearer can command the mask to appear to retract the wearer’s skin, revealing an illusion of the wearer’s glistening skull and musculature. Creatures within 100 feet who see this display must succeed at a DC 13 Will save or become frightened (if the target has 6 or fewer Hit Dice) or shaken (if the target has more than 6 HD) for 1d4 rounds. This is a mind-affecting fear effect and a glamer. Anyone who can see through illusions (such as by true seeing) is unaffected.
Both are on PFSRD.
I keep forgetting where all we've found the Sihedron, and what we learned from the (gnome?) historian.
I know there was one on the door we didn't open, where we think the demon is, and now the one on the isle. Did we find one under the glassworks in that temple anywhere?
I'll have to check my notes, but I believe you found Sihedrons in the Catacombs, Chopper's Isle and Thistlepoint.
The sage Brodert Quink(human) also told you of the Thassolian Empire, the Runelords and what the Sihedrons represented.
Also there is not much left to the Island, we could just hand wave it and start the Skinsaw Murders.
We went after Das' son in the hopes of leveling so we could then go open what we surmise to be a prison of sorts back under thistletop =P