(2) A Haunting at Perdition's Point (Inactive)

Game Master mdt

I don't think anyone's going to fight Eva for the small equipment. :)

The sheath is neat, but I'm passing it up because it would only apply to my backup weapons. It may magically fit to any weapon, but a bardiche just isn't something one sheaths.

Just looked up the tri-point double-edged sword. I didn't realize it was a reach weapon! I think Riley and I should take that and the katana for back up weapons (since we have martial proficiency, and a katana is a martial two-handed weapon). The only thing is that I don't know if I should keep two reach weapons and Riley keep the high-crit swords, or to split it so that we both have reach weapons.

The darkleaf lamellar is also very nice (+4 AC with no ACP!), but I think I'll stick with my MW Breastplate.

Well in that case, I guess I'll go for the scabbard too, unless Riley wants it. In that case by all means take it as that should go to the one who will get the most use out of it, one of our actual front-liners definitely fitting that description!

I'm interested in:
-Traveller's anytool (can be used as thieve's tools)
-MW Darkleaf Lamellar Leather
-MW Katana (back up weapon)

If we could use the money more, I do not NEED any of this. Thoughts?

Thoughts :

When assaulting a keep. The following should not be the plan :

1) Fearless Leader uses spell to shout at enemy and try to Diplomacy bandits into mutinying.
2) Stealthy short range rogue/alchemist should not be kept in back line as Fearless Leader's personal heal bot.
3) Horse riding, Lance/Great sword Wielding, Full Plate wearing Fighter should not be assigned to Stealth Assault team sneaking into fort from underground tunnel.
4) Stealth assault force should not be considered 'distraction' from loud mouthed fearless leader attacking outside of fort.
5) Long Range Blaster Sorcerer should not be put in charge of Stealth Force.

I think perhaps we should part with the backup weapons if we need money, but for now I'd say we hold onto them until we need them.

I don't think any of the items are in Mahb's wheelhouse so ya'll can figure out what you want to do with them.

Sorry Mahb, none of the PP people would have anything that Mahb would be interested in, save maybe the other PCs. :) I'll try to throw you some bones for your cupboard later. :)

No worries! I'm having a great time playing Mahb without toys.

Travelling, sporadic for a few days.

Hey guys, I'm back! ^_^

Wow, there is a metric TON of posts I need to go through before I'm up and running again, might take a little bit...

Anyway, I'm thrilled to be able to play again, and hope I didn't cause too much trouble with my absence.

Great to have you back Elena!

Welcome back Elena, Aurora looks fine. I hope you like the NPC stuff for Elena. Aurora is with the Caravan, so feel free to start posting.

Here's to having Elena back! Glad all the coffee didn't kill you, looking forward to reestablishing a report with your new character! :)

Whoop! Whoop! Elena

I just hope you got some sleep! :)

Here's to having a full party again!

Agreed!

Hey y'all, I have a game in meatspace tonight, so I'd say don't expect multiple posts from me this evening. I'll see about maybe getting one in later in the night.

The GM is having trouble with laughing out loud over Cathran's obvious infatuation with the Paladin. And his wife is wondering why he's laughing out loud all the time. I think she's considering calling the men with butterfly nets. :)

Apparently blondes in uniform do it for everyone. :)

I think they would be adorable. If Cathran can, you know, manage to say something to her.

It's not the saying things too her, that's fairly easy. It not saying them wrong.

"I'm glad to have you on me.. I mean on my team.. I mean on our team!"

"You have the nicest armor! Is molded to fit the actual cup size? Er I mean is it custom made or was it off the rack!"

"Would you like to eat me? I mean would you like me to eat you? I mean would you like me to get you something to eat!" :)

Love the cameo ^^

:)

Seemed an appropriate duo to be the ones passing through who saved the day.

I don't know what's going on, but I like it.

Two of my PCs in another game are making a cameo.

Sorry. I was out of town unexpectedly.

np, feel free to post whenever. :)

Hope they drop the charges*.

Awww... I didn't make the cut for the Superstar Top 16 :(

Now I'm sad...

So sad...

No really, look how sad I am! -> (´Д｀）/

See? Very sad!

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Oh, well, there is always next year I suppose! ^_^

(Also, I'm not that sad, only a little sad, and it was a fun experience! ^_^)

Sorry Aurora!

@Lineera, yeah, at your current level, a Unicorn with two Paladin levels would be a nasty thing for Lineera to run into while tainted. :)

Lost power due to ice on the lines.

Maybe next time, Aurora? :)

And blugh, sorry to hear that Eva. I got about 3 degrees Fahrenheit and that's not counting windchill. Here's hoping it warms up for both of us.

Portland tried to snow today...it was cute.

If you plan on going shopping, selling, or searching for passage, or splitting up to do multiple things, just let me know OOC and I'll do a big update once everyone has figured out what they want to do in town.

If you're selling stuff, I need to know what you're selling, who's selling it, and if you're trying to sell them all at once or piecemeal around town.

Same for buying things, who's negotiating, etc.

Do note that racial diversity is not exactly a common thing in Ustalev, so non core races are going to have penalties on all social checks.

Well that was a fun night. Didn't get power till 5 AM.

Well, looking at what everyone wanted, I think this is our list of selling goods. As to who's selling what, beats me!

Dozen rubies
2 Small Noble Outfits
2 Small Courtiers Outfits
Jewelry
2 amethysts
Rusty dagger and shortsword (Assuming such things possibly could sell)
Small darkwood buckler
Wand of sculpt corpse
Wand of inflict light wounds
Silver comb with ivory handle
4/5 repeating crossbows (not sure if you decided you wanted one or not Eva)
2 spell component pouches
MW studded leather
Large tent (I'm pretty sure through the powers of Mending and a good wash we could sell this no problem. And Lineera came into play with a tent that seats ten, so I doubt we need it.)

Four-Mirror Armor (And anything other old equipment people want to part with)

Kept the expensive wine off the sell list for now in case we want it for something else later (Victory party?).

As for things Lineera wants to buy, here's my list.

Pair of Cestus
Silvered Battle Aspergelium
Sling
Flask of Holy Water

As a secondary if we have money and if it's ok purchases...

MW Darkwood Heavy Shield (257 GP for this guy, and while lower ACs are always nice, I can certainly get by without considering the cost)
Quilted Cloth Armor (This one is more in need of a GM ruling than anything, but can this stack with her current armor? Not in AC of course, but for the DR it comes with. I've ruled in favor in the past since armor of any weight has always used a padding layer to prevent chafing, and absorb impact. But it's not up to me this time obviously)

EDIT: And glad you got power back Eva. We're down to -24 Fahrenheit now.

The only thing on that list that really is of use to me, is the MW Small Dagger. I can't really use any of the rest of it.

Lineera MIGHT want that Inflict wand, for her... undead buddies (I have no issue if she does). I thought about keeping some of the small outfits, but then I thought about would Eva want it... Eva wouldn't want what that evil little cultist wore. :) I mostly want to restock things for alchemy, buy some scrolls for formulas... Maybe update her armor.

I say we should get a cure wand of some sort, even if it's back-up. I can mass do potions of cure, but this gives us a nice back-up. They aren't cheap though.

I figured getting the wand into party funds was more important. Both of the wands could be somewhat useful to Lineera, but Lineera knows inflict light wounds and hasn't had to tap out her resources yet in magic, so getting more funds for the party seemed more important.

Perfectly Fine, I just now we ran short on Healing earlier.

So, in the spreadsheet, mark anything you want to sell with BLUE. And once a consensus is reached on who's selling it, I'll post.

I have 213 leftover starting gold as well, that I just saw I had when I added that MW tri-point edge sword to my stat block. I don't know if other people's personal gold (probably not that much for those who started at level 1, but maybe more for Riley?) is listed on the loot sheet. We could list our personal wealth separately--or at least as much as we're willing to reveal. ;)

EDIT: I marked some things in blue. If anyone doesn't want something to be sold, just clear the fill, or feel free to add your own blue (I used light blue 1 if you want to match the color exactly). I also listed some names next to gear, to indicate who's claimed it. I can't remember who all has claimed what, though, and I'm actually considering selling my MW tri-point edge sword, partially to buy some special material weapons, and partially because it is impossible to remember the name of that thing. x.x

I'll go ahead and go through our loot list and get the things I mentioned in the blue.

As for personal funds, I think Lineera's got... 1 GP or so? So not much I can offer there. I'd say our personal funds should be ours to do with as we see fit. If it helps the party? Thank you kindly? If it doesn't? No big deal. Though I will say that if Cathran feels like putting her available money up for grabs in the communal pot, that'd be mighty kind of her. :)

To begin tackling the matter of who sells what... Depends partially on how much the party knows about each other. From what Lineera has seen, Mahb and Cathran are probably not going to be our best salespeople. And therefore wouldn't really suggest either of them really handle any of the buying or selling.

As generally the more successful of the party's negotiator, Lineera may offer herself up as the best potential salesperson unless it becomes obvious that the merchants of the city are unwilling to deal with a drow. Eva would probably be the next best bet to Lineera as she's an actual merchant unlike the rest of the party. Out of character, Aurora is probably our best option, but it's not terribly certain if this information would be known by the party at large, depends on if this would've come out in the two days since they've met or if discussions of selling loot would cause Aurora to hop to the forefront and offer her services in such. Riley falls into the somewhat rare category of not particularly proving himself bad or good at this task.

Anyway, if someone else handles all the mercantile, Lineera will probably spend the time trying to start a collection to plea the good citizens of Rozenport to help aid the troubled people of Illmarsh.

EDIT: Made a few small adjustments to your initial pass Cathran, everything not mentioned as specifically wanted by anyone is highlighted, with the exceptions of the potions, the wine, and Bertha. Also filled in the names of anything else I noticed as specifically claimed.

Lineera, you would know that Drow are not generally welcome. Basically people will be starting off one category worse (unfriendly instead of indifferent, indifferent instead of friendly, etc), which translates to a penalty on diplomacy check for buying/selling.

True, though even despite that, Lineera's probably still the best negotiator of the bunch if we exclude Aurora. ...Man avoiding meta-game sucks sometimes! :P But as stated, if her attempts were too unsuccessful, she'd probably pass the task over to Eva. And if known that Aurora can bargain like a champ, leave her to it in the first place.

If needed, Aurora has a fairly decent +8 diplomacy mod, and could help sell stuff! :)

EDIT - we crossposted!

But yep, if Aurora overhears the party wants to sell something, she'd probably offer to help. ^_^

Not really metagaming, if I understand Lineera's background, she went to PP to get away from people who didn't like her, and she was in Rozenport at one point. So she knows how people treat her.

Lineera mostly traveled just to try and spread her teachings, and more or less traveled with the expectation of being disliked. That said, she is definitely far more prone to stay where she's welcomed, hence her longer stay at PP even before the plot got rolling.

But since Aurora would be offering her help, then yeah, Lineera would certainly know that a Human Paladin of Sarenrae would definitely meet with much better approval than a heretical priestess of Pharasma, who's a Drow to just ice that cake.

So assuming no one disagrees, that's definitely the way Lineera would lean.

I have no qualms with it. I don't mind being the seller, but I don't mind if Aurora does it. Eva is... a little hyperactive... and possibly channeling a certain scarf-loving bard >.>

There's no real need to sell gems, they're compact cash. The jewelry is trade goods, so it sells for it's value.

The rest of the stuff sold for 50% +/- 16% based on rolls.

This has come up in another game I run, and I'm going to post it in all my games.

How much plot and RP with NPCs you get is directly dependent on how interactive you are with me in your posts. Please do not expect me to give you long, detailed, intricate RP if you are going to post 2 lines which consist of basically 'I go with the flow' or 'I go along with everyone else' or 'I wait to see what happens'. When you do that, what you are doing is saying 'I do not want to RP with you or the NPCs, I just want to read the story'. Which I can accept, but don't turn around and complain to me that other players are getting a much more indepth plot or role play situation.

I will repeat, how much RP you get is directly dependent upon you, and it's up to you to drive it. Get off your butt and make choices, seek out things that interest you, question NPCs, RP with your fellow players.

Look back at your posts, if you have posted some variation of 'I wait around' for more than half the last 10 posts, you are the reason you are not actively roleplaying. Those who wait around do just that, wait around.

I've been the worst at this. I am sorry. I've had a rough 2 weeks at work. I will get better.

Hang in there Riley! As our previous entries into this thread prove, pretty much all of us have been there. Feel free to send me a message if you want to plan any character interactions so we can start weaving your character into the group better.