[ACG][OutPost I]Hawkmoon269's Season of Plundered Tombs Table 3 (Inactive)

Game Master Hawkmoon269

I don’t think I can help? I handed off my dagger to Estra and all my alchemical items are in my canteen. I can bury the canteen to get them back, but I only think I can do that on my turn?

I don’t think I can help? I handed off my dagger to Estra and all my alchemical items are in my canteen. I can bury the canteen to get them back, but I only think I can do that on my turn?

You can bury the canteen to get them back on other player's turns. You can play any card you want (which includes using a power on a displayed card) off-turn with almost no restriction (you just can't explore on other player's turns). Blessings, Cure, Remove Curse, Canteen, anything.

However, you cannot do so once someone's already in an encounter, since you can only play cards that are directly relevant when an encounter/check is occurring, so you can't get a grenade after Qualzar started making checks against the villain (though we could probably say that on a physical table gameplay he'd have warned you about it in advance).

Anyway, Estra is of no help here... though she could take the summoned henchman and just take the damage to her armor. I'll do that, but only Skizza is in position to finish the villain off here.

Don't forget the bonus 1d10+1d4+4 I'm offering to his combat check, though, and a full reroll or single die reroll!

Anyway, Estra is of no help here... though she could take the summoned henchman and just take the damage to her armor.

After using the Hand to uncurse yourself, of course. Got to keep you an Honest Man ;)

Ah yes.

Hm. The GM may have to clarify if banishing a Curse of Vulnerability is directly affecting the check or not. It might not, because I'd have to banish it and then play an Armor.

If I can't banish it, then I'll just Bury my Binder's Tome to evade the summoned Gnoll, which means it's not available for +1d4s for the checks to defeat.

(Incidentally, especially with curses around, we really need to learn to pause before taking on significant events so that other players can play cards legally to prepare, because it seems like going into a check to fight the villain without giving us the opening to play cards has potentially hampered both Cogsnap and Estra here. But it's also a consequence of Play-by-Post.)

Sorry for being hasty. Guess I got too excited with victory at hand.

No worries. To clarify, Inflict Pain is free either way, and I'm certain that Skizza can take on the final combat check against the villain with his guns, my Inflict Pain, and any blessings from around the table combined. Feel free to take us home to victory, Skizza!

Alright it is blasting time then!

Hm. The GM may have to clarify if banishing a Curse of Vulnerability is directly affecting the check or not. It might not, because I'd have to banish it and then play an Armor.

I'd say removing Curse of Vulnerability doesn't directly effect the check. Here is where Vic says other curses being removed do effect the check.

BR-I believe you may have skipped over the alchemist’s kit I acquired, though I sincerely doubt it matters.

I don’t think I’m taking a deck upgrade. I don’t have a need for any item until I can get Item 4s, I like my blessings, and I need to wait on my role cards before picking up new allies so. . . I got nothing I want.

Will look at feat and upgrade choices in a bit.

And interesting re curse removal! Good to know going forward. (Although, yeah, I see where Yewstance's confusion with Caustic Fog comes from.)

(dice roll in wrong thread, but it was a 6)

1st choice would be the Spell 3 (Dimension Leap).
Otherwise, I'll take an Item 2 (Ivory Dice). I don't really have the item slots yet to justify prioritizing myself for the Item 3 upgrade, unless somehow no one else wants it.

1st choice would be the Spell 3 (Dimension Leap).

Otherwise, I'll take an Item 2 (Ivory Dice). I don't really have the item slots yet to justify prioritizing myself for the Item 3 upgrade, unless somehow no one else wants it.

Remember, I can't take ANY '3's into my deck until the end of the NEXT game.

Reward?: 1d20 ⇒ 14

Is anyone playing their character in Assault on Absalom?

[dice=Reward?]1d20

Is anyone playing their character in Assault on Absalom?

I am not playing THIS CHARACTER on assault on Absolom

Nope, not Qualzar.

Nope, not I.

Nor I!

Ok. Then I'll set up the next one. Once AoA starts, my attention might be distracted by that, but we can keep this going as best as we can.

question for 3-3C: when you summon silver chain smuggler to acquire a boon, does his BYA power trigger and make EVERYONE face him as normal? If so that is terrible.

No. A summoned card can't cause you to summon copies of itself or the card that summoned it.

No. A summoned card can't cause you to summon copies of itself or the card that summoned it.

Thank goodness!

Note that there are 41 boons (not counting Kafar and Nefti) available to us; we only need to set aside 8. (I'm not sure from the BR's note whether we want to set aside Kafar and Nefti or not, or if matters?)
The point is, we don't need to be shy about keeping boons that are immediately useful.

I'll evaluate my loot choices after seeing what my trade options are, but I'm not sure I'll have the slots to take Elemental Treaty, since I think I'm certainly going to want Remove Curse. Over 1/3 of the boons are allies; surely there are WIS-based animals among them.

I'm expecting to start at the Smoking Den; seems like it can't hurt to get that bonus online quickly.

It doesn't matter whether we set aside Kafar or Nefti or not - they're still acquired, that's all that matters. (I own the PDF for this adventure)

(I'm not sure from the BR's note whether we want to set aside Kafar and Nefti or not, or if matters?)

The point is, we don't need to be shy about keeping boons that are immediately useful.

There is a part of the reward you only get for acquiring Kafar, and a part you only get for acquire Nefti. You can earn both.

Actually, with that shiny Chain Lightning, I can afford to swap out 2 attack spells. So Qualzar can take both Remove Curse and Elemental Treaty!

Note that Qualzar has a fun combination available of Dimension Leap + Elemental Treaty + his evasion ability.

FYI: I've switched this game over to the online to make it more accessible. The format will look a little different, but should be familiar. If you experience any issues, let me know.

Qualzar's starting location should actually be the Smoking Den.

Qualzar typically goes after Skizza?

Also, any input regarding where I go to cast Elemental Treaty? All things being equal, I’d do Vizier’s Hill because of the closing check. But I suppose an argument could be made for Tooth and Hookah for having the extra boons. (Although, there are 10 cards there- were the bonus allies added?) Or possibly even Pleasure Barge, since between the location rule and it have all boons, some Poison damage is likely happening at some point.
Or to put it another way: does anyone want to choose in advance to fight Silver Chain Smugglers?

That might be something i messed up in the transition. Go ahead and have Qualzar go.

As far as Elemental Treaty input...

From a character by character perspective:

Well, I tried to set up Elemental Treaty to go do Team Gnome, but got a little carried away...
Uh, anyone need any armor?

NICE turn! Well any spare boons can go towards automatic acquires over at the Canny Jackal, so Qualzar's already well "suited" to this mission, clearly.

Over to Cogsnap!

I don't think I need to worry about lacking attack spells when I just picked up 5. :) Very well suited, indeed!

As mentioned in gameplay, I'm waiting on my turn to see if Cogsnap will draw anything from his location deck from the henchman effect, or will choose to retroactively use the scenario power (if the GM has no issue with that).

I noticed in your post earlier it said we had no boons displayed but I displayed the canteen I acquired on my first turn. That should make 2 after the one recently added.

My turn added 2 to make it 4 and I somehow still only drew a weapon on my last card for my reset, lol.

My mistake on missing your first display; I think I thought you were displaying the Canteen for its power. ^^'

Nice turn! Well, I'm no longer even slightly worried about the count of displayed boons.

Ah yeah that makes sense. I didn't even think about it having a display power I was just ready to put it up for the scenario.

Cogsnap gets to summon an ally after the Canny Jackal closes. Because you clearly didn't get enough boons on your turn :)

(Although I'm not sure how the The Canny Jackal's When Permanently Closed interacts with the scenario rule.
"When you acquire a boon, you may display it next to the scenario."
vs
"if you acquire it, draw it.")

I'd say he can choose to display it. The "draw it" there is supposed to make it clear that even though it is summoned, you don't have to return it to the box.

I think that is correct? IIRC, scenario rules override individual card rules.

Just a reminder for Skizza/Agent Eclipse (and the party as a whole):

Since Skizza has Tetisurah in hand, he's got a full hand reset ready for when he starts his turn. It's an optimal time to spend his cards off-turn, including (I suggest) discarding Scarab Buckler to heal at the end of Estra's turn, since he suffers no loss of cards in hand from doing so (and if any weapons/healing/etc is used, he may just draw it all back anyway).

Also, by the way, I'm really glad you ended up coming over to the Tooth and Hookah, or else Estra would have ended up triggering that Grave Goods!

Figured Remove Curse was more flexible than Game of Afterlife, but that either way Qualzar could get the Curse banished.

Qualzar, I think you forgot that the difficulty to acquire boons is +1d4

Oops. Thanks for the catch, VampByDay.
Just rolled it retroactively; making the check for the Blessing of the Ancients an impossible Divine 6. Hm.

I don't see an especially clean way of fixing this. Best I can suggest is that I banish Blessing of the Ancients and skip Qualzar's next turn (representing the exploration that I took erroneously from the misacquired blessing).
Hawkmoon, would that be acceptable?

Oops. Thanks for the catch, VampByDay.

Just rolled it retroactively; making the check for the Blessing of the Ancients an impossible Divine 6. Hm.

I don't see an especially clean way of fixing this. Best I can suggest is that I banish Blessing of the Ancients and skip Qualzar's next turn (representing the exploration that I took erroneously from the misacquired blessing).
Hawkmoon, would that be acceptable?

I think skipping your next free exploration (not your whole turn) would be perfectly acceptable solution.

I'm torn on the Game of Afterlife vs Remove Curse. Using Game of Afterlife doesn't cost us an immediate resource, because Skizza will reset his hand as soon as he starts his turn. But it's likely going to be buried and Skizza has less cards available - Cogsnap has a full deck and plenty of healing.

It's a case that I think using Game of Afterlife is a more optimal play, but Cogsnap's remove curse is a safer play. Eh.

Sounds like a good solution.

I know Cogsnap ended his turn due to time constraints, but it's fine if he'd like me to wait a bit more for him to continue. He could single-handedly finish off the location on his own turn by just discarding allies to explore, then Twitch Tonic to redraw a bunch from his discard pile, then draw Twitch Tonic (and more) from his discard pile with Alchemist's Kit, then discard the allies again to explore, then discard Twitch Tonic to draw them back again...

...Alchemists are absurd. To be fair, specifically Twitch Tonic (and Alchemist's Kit) - probably mostly Twitch Tonic.

Ah, we're not exactly on a strict time limit. I've continued my turn. Note that there were a couple of oddities with the scenario update - we've got enough boons displayed and Mahga Threefingers should've been removed from the Tooth and Hookah.

Nefti and Kafar have been acquired, so the main goals of the scenario have been met. Let's finish this off!

I would definitely like the Blessing 3 as that gives me another Blessing of Alkenstar!

Blessing 3: 1d1000 ⇒ 559