AP #67-72 - Reign of Winter: Misfits Unchained (Inactive)

Game Master Wilmannator

It is outlined in red on the third floor. Logrivich broke it in his rage at Aoife's graffiti

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Quite right Ishbaad!

Please do keep in mind that, while some of you may be invisible, you know that dragons have blindsense. If he's awake, he is very unlikely to be surprised by your arrival. Cover works as per usual to block 'vision' using blindsense.

I'll try to get a gameplay post up very soon.

Due to server issues lately, I'm at about my patience's limit with these Paizo servers. The servers are behaving so consistently poorly that Paizo's page rank is dropping on Google! When looking for modules (eg. "pathfinder feast of ravenmoor") I often get an Amazon product page, the Wikia page, even a pirated PDF before Paizo's official page!

Anyway, due to server issues, I'm going to delay the game until March 11.

Feel free to respond to my next post over that time and get in position to fight Logrivich. In fact, please do move yourselves some time in the next 10 days so that we can begin with initiative.

Last day of the sale and the servers are still chugging. They should be up and running again tomorrow, so please do try to get yourselves into position by tomorrow night so I can kick it up a notch on Friday.

I will be going to Mexico for Spring Break (5 days starting this Sunday). I expect to be posting once a day still, unless the Internet connection at the hotel is crap. Anyway, the start to this fight might be a slow one, but that means you can take your time to do it right.

Hey guys, I've just had a chat to Chris. He's struggling with his RL load lately. With me in Mexico as well, I think it's best all around if we just wait until after Spring Break for getting back into this one.

WE WILL RESUME MARCH 21st

Thank you everyone for your continued patience regarding the Paizo server issues, my Mexico trip and waiting for our best girl Aoife's real life to be relieved a little.

SIGH. So much WAITING!!!

Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight is NOT PATIENT! BOMBS ARE READY!!!

Hahaha :) as Mumford and sons says, I will wait.

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Oh yeah, I'll be travelling next week in the far north (until 27th). It's pretty much in the middle of nowhere, but I hope there's a good mobile data coverage. But if you don't hear of me, then there wasn't coverage :)

No problems. I understand. If your coverage doesn't work, it will be a looooong round 1, but I don't want to do this by botting anyone.

Posts on gameplay coming up some time today. It's a set, and I want to make sure it's all good before I post. I may not get time to do initiative in the same time block as gameplay, so please just bear with me if I get some posts up and you're still not rolling dice! Do feel free to post reactions, though.

Also, Chris will not be joining us for the fight. RL is really getting the better of him right now and he doesn't have the time or head space to post. Can't say much more than that on his behalf.

So, I'll be making the fight easier by GM fiat and simultaneously removing Aoife from it. You'll know it when it happens.

If Aoife can't get back to the game by the end of Book 2, let's evaluate our position then. The choice will be to delay a little longer or to plough ahead through Book 3 without Aoife (until such time as Chris is ready to return).

@Chris: Hope you can join us again soon, mate.

Please read gameplay first.

Okay, so now Aoife is out of the fight. I'm not sure where I'll take the narrative of her continued absence from here, but I'm happy for all of you to help me out in that regard.

I'll roll up initiative and get the first post out as soon as I can. I've included Logrivich on the tactical and given Kuragin a Lockwood to his most likely position based on his last post - but please feel free to move him if you don't like the spot, Jyri.

@GM Damo: Has this happened yet? drinking targeted bomb admixture post

The plan was to do this as Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight moved up.

Yep. No idea what that does, but it happened in round 39.

Yep. No idea what that does, but it happened in round 39.

Fair enough.

Simple stated, for 6 rounds, my bombs will only hit one target, and will not splash. However, the bomb does base + 2*INT bonus instead of base + INT.

Read gemeplay first!

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Done?

Good.

Wow. I guess that's what an exceptional amount of prep-work will do for you. I'm still surprised I didn't get a single round of melee in against you. It could have been very deadly, but we'll never know. Really well done on all the buffs.

I wanted to float the option of going straight to the forest while buffed up. While you're all flying, you can easily make it. No-one is damaged at all... and you've got some nice protective magics on you. Ishbaad and Jorvik believe the distraction of Logrivich being currently dead, combined with the threat of Winter Wolves and the Iron Guard would be enough to get the Winter Guard away from the forest and allow you all to get at the Dancing Hut. If you only do a cursory search of the tower, I'll say you can notify the Winter Wolves and the Iron Guard, and get there in 30 rounds. I will hand-wave whatever you decide to do with Aoife (ie. I'm not going to mechanically penalize you for Chris's absence).

I will get the horde as well as the tower's full set of treasure out to you when you decide what you'll do. Either way, you'll get the full horde - but not necessarily 100% of the loot in the tower. The main advantage here will be maintaining your minute / level buffs - including protections from cold (very useful in most Irriseni combat circumstances).

As a reminder, it's round 41, and your buffs are...

Round 44:

• Ishbaad: Flames of the faithful

Round 58:

• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Shield

Round 62:

• Ishbaad: Enlarge person

Round 66:

• Ishbaad, Jorvik, Kuragin: Invisibility

Round 67:

• All: Protection from evil (staggered buff expiry)
  
• Ishbaad, Jorvik, Kuragin: Blur

Round 83:

• Ishbaad: Expeditious retreat

Round 85:

• Ishbaad, Jorvik: Fly

Round 94:

• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Cat's grace

Round 95:

• All: Remove fear (staggered buff expiry)
  
• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Fox's cunning

Round 97:

• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Fly

Round 98:

• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Reduce person

Round 101+:

• All: Resist cold (10), 30 minutes (60 minutes for IMQiS)
  
• All: Heroism, 50 minutes
  
• Kuragin: See invisibility, 50 minutes + 35 rds
  
• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Spider climb, 60 minutes
  
• Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Mutagen (+4 DEX, -2 WIS, +2 Nat Armor), 60 minutes
  
• Kuragin: Mage armor, 60 minutes
  
• Kuragin, Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight: Elixir of hiding, 60 minutes
  
• All: Protection from cold, 80 minutes + 35 rds
  
• Jorvik: Greater magic weapon (+1), 5 hours

Oh, and did I tell you I amped up the treasure to match the CR and more? Well, I did. This will cover you for the next few levels (and I think the authors probably intended this). Some customization, but the base horde matched you guys quite well anyway!

The Horde

• Small +1 Cold iron fey bane greatsword
  
• Boro bead (2nd level)
  
• Pauldrons of the bull
  
• Belt of physical might +2 (Dex, Con)
  
• Amulet of natural armor +2
  
• Cloak of resistance +2
  
• Ring of protection +3
  
• Bag of holding III
  
• Fey slaying arrow x 1
  
• Plant slaying arrow x 1
  
• Searing arrows x 2
  
• +1 seeking adaptive composite longbow
  
• Mithral agile breastplate +1
  
• Small Mithral agile chain shirt +1
  
• +1 Adamantine Full Plate armor
  
• +1 Heavy wooden shield
  
• Serpentine owl figurine of wondrous power
  
• Wand of silent image (12 charges)
  
• Wand of true strike (5 charges)
  
• 12 potions (roll randomly)*
  
• 20 scrolls (roll randomly, 1st: 10, 2nd: 5, 3rd: 3, 4th: 2)**
  
• 12,000 gp in gems, platinum, gold and silver.
  

On Granny Nan

• Cackling Hag's Blouse
  
• Ring of protection +1
  
• Amulet of natural armor +1
  
• Potions of fly, cure moderate wounds, invisibility and spider climb
  

* Find a way to roll randomly yourselves, old-school style! Could be fun.
** Roll randomly between arcane vs divine first, but assume cleric or wizard spells, caster level minimum required. For divine spells, roll 1d4. On a 4, choose a druid spell instead.

I will say that the greatsword goes to Aoife. The rest, though, feel free to divide among the 4 of you. When Chris returns, keep in mind that Aoife will be under-treasured when considering whether or not to share.

Wow.... just wow!

I can't believe we did it in one round, incredibly impressive visuals too Damien. I will be re-reading that more than once.

As for breaking for the forest and the dancing hut, I say strike while the iron is hot. Let's go for it. The first casualty of war is the battle plan. No point in resting when we are so uber-buffed right now.

Weeeeeeee LOOT!!!

The Horde

• ...
  
• Pauldrons of the bull
  
• +1 Adamantine Full Plate armor
  
• ...
  

*swoons* *wakes up a few minutes later in a hot sweat*

I don't know what to say... I'm a little giddy right now. :)

I'll work on getting this into the Loot sheet. A couple of notes - I really really want those two things, everything else is up for debate.

@Jorvik - Take your choice between the bow in the horde, and the one you have now. I'll "chip in" gold to cover what you would have gotten had you been able to sell.

I'm sure I have other thoughts, lots to digest with this, and coming up with an appropriate conclusion post.

Oh sweet! Almost un-epic in the way it played out in the end. But we prepared quite well for this...

Please ignore Kuragin's last post. Had it in notepad, and didn't notice GM post on until later. Will check the loot later tonight.

Yeah, wow. Certainly didn't expect IMQiS to throw out 81 damage in a single round, followed by that massive smack by Ishbaad. Of course I didn't. :D

So yeah, we can run on to the next stage.

@GM Damo What is an agile mithral shirt? (FYI - IMQiS already has a +1 Mithral Shirt).

IMQiS would like the following (I'll put his name to it when I get to the loot sheet as well):

Boro Bead (2nd)
He wouldn't mind the belt of physical perfection, but I can see it going to someone else first.

Random Potion Generator
I am using "Medium" for all of these:

---1st Potion: Medium---

Enlarge person (potion) 250gp
---2nd Potion: Medium---
Displacement (potion) 750gp
---3rd Potion: Medium---
Protection from energy (Cold) (potion) 750gp
---4th Potion: Medium---
Keen edge (oil) 750gp
---5th Potion: Medium---
Tongues (potion) 750gp
---6th Potion: Medium---
Owl's wisdom (potion) 300gp
---7th Potion: Medium---
Displacement (potion) 750gp
---8th Potion: Medium---
Greater magic fang +1 (potion) 750gp
---9th Potion: Medium---
Neutralize poison (potion) 750gp
---10th Potion: Medium---
Enlarge person (potion) 250gp
---11th Potion: Medium---
Cure serious wounds (potion) 750gp
---12th Potion: Medium---
Lesser restoration (potion) 300gp

That is:

• Enlarge Person (1st) X 2
  
• Displacement (3rd) X2
  
• Protection vs Cold (3rd)
  
• Keen Edge (Oil) (3rd)
  
• Tongues (3rd)
  
• Owl's Wisdom (2nd)
  
• Greater Magic Fang (3rd)
  
• Neutralize Poison (3rd?) (This one might need to be replaced?)
  
• Cure Serious Wounds (3rd)
  
• Restoration, Lesser (2nd)
  

Kuragin has interest in Cackling Hags Blouse, Ring of Prot +1, Cloak +2, Bag of Holding (fine with other versions as well, if someone wants this).

And some of the scrolls, of course. I'll try to find a way to randomize them tomorrow.

Scrolls, I am just going to use The Hypertext d20 SRD for... it is good enough for our needs.

At this point, I am just going with it. We may need to confirm that spell levels, etc., haven't changed.
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First:
1: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 60 Hide From Undead
2: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 66 Longstrider
3: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 90 Sanctuary
4: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 62 Mount
5: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 29 Deathwatch
6: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 45 Endure Elements
7: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 99 Summon Nature's Ally I
8: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 77 Reduce Person
9: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 19 Command
10:1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 58 Hide from Animals

Second:
1: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 4 Bear's Endurance
2: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 96 Warp Wood
3: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 38 Flaming Sphere
4: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 97 Warp Wood
5: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 49 Hypnotic Pattern

Third:
1: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 69 Protection from Energy
2: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 66 Nondetection
3: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 30 Glyph of Warding

Fourth
1: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 51 Holy Sword
2: 1: Arcane, 2:Divine => roll: 1d2 ⇒ 21d100 ⇒ 99 Tree Stride

Note: This handles the druid vs cleric, effectively... though after-the-fact I realized not in the way Damo proposed.

So, back to IMQiS's requests...

Boro Bead II for sure.

Would like:
- any potion (especially higher level ones) -- he'll use 'em forever, basically.
- Ring +3 (has a ring +1) or
- Cloak +2 (has +1) or
- Amulet +2

The chain shirt and greatsword should go to Aoife.

Note: I see a 8000gp, 10000gp, 12450gp, 16600gp, 18000gp item in the list. Wow, we made out well

Ice I have no idea what you just did.

GM Damo asked us to randomly generate the scrolls and potions, which I did.

If approved, we have the following potions:
Enlarge Person (1st) X 2
Displacement (3rd) X2
Protection vs Cold (3rd)
Keen Edge (Oil) (3rd)
Tongues (3rd)
Owl's Wisdom (2nd)
Greater Magic Fang (3rd)
Neutralize Poison (3rd?) (This one might need to be replaced?)
Cure Serious Wounds (3rd)
Restoration, Lesser (2nd)

And the following scrolls
Hide From Undead
Longstrider
Sanctuary
Mount
Deathwatch
Endure Elements
Summon Nature's Ally I
Reduce Person
Command
Hide from Animals

Bear's Endurance
Warp Wood X2
Flaming Sphere
Hypnotic Pattern

Protection from Energy
Nondetection
Glyph of Warding

Holy Sword
Tree Stride

• Belt of physical might +2 (Dex, Con) I assume we would all like this -roll for it?
  
• Amulet of natural armor +2 interested
  
• Cloak of resistance +2 interested
  
• Ring of protection +3 interested
  
• Fey slaying arrow x 1 Mine, mine, mine!
  
• Plant slaying arrow x 1 Mine, mine, mine!
  
• Searing arrows x 2 Mine, mine, mine!
  
• +1 seeking adaptive composite longbow Mine, mine, mine!
  
• Mithral agile breastplate +1 Mine, mine, mine!
  

First up, thank you Jack for rolling all those random items for us. Great work.

Let's make the potion of neutralize poison a rare ranger potion. That'll sort it out. The 'agile' was a transcription error. It should read:

Huh, I hate to say it, but amorphous armor has to be made of organic material. Seems neat, though, something that Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight would like. Interesting dilemma.

As for the belt, I am fine with Jorvik getting it, as Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight can boost with a potion or extract.

After this, he will, for sure, be maxing out on alchemical allocation extracts to make good use of some of these potions! To that end, he would like to carry the tongues, cure serious wounds, and one of the displacements. If he didn't use alchemical allocation on the protection from energy, he'd like that as well..

He will use the boro bead to recover an alchemical allocations immediately, though.

I am definitely interested in the pro ring +3 as well since I will be the primary melee, but I don't want to be a hog (already taking the pauldrons and adamantine full plate). Totally ok with whatever we decide as a group. I still need to move stuff to the loot sheet so we can get a more organized look at things.

If/When Aoife returns to us, I think the pro ring +3 would be ideal to pass back to her.

Crapola on the amorphous. Hero Lab didn't throw up any errors and I clearly didn't read through to the end. Sorry.

Studded leather it is instead, then (and clearly not mithral).

Well, that's too bad. That is then statistically worse for Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight (the mithral being +4 w/ +6 DEX).

Well, at least it will fetch some decent change. Thanks for trying, Damo

Okay, just went through the enchantments and I found something mechanically similar that can be applied to mithral. Final change:

Oh yeah, greetings from the north side of polar circle. Internet is surprisingly good up here, seems I was worried for nothing. Daytime I'm busy freezing my ass off, but if I can just stay awake long enough, I have plenty of time for posting on evenings.

Nice! Take a picture of a polar bear for me :) (that is the right side of the planet, right?)

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"I am so f~$+ing jealous right now," says Lort with his lower teeth protruding in a pout that any four year old would be proud of, "I love the Frozen North."

Ice Melts Quietly in Sunlight quickly produces his potion of fly, and hands it to Ishbaad. "You should totally do that. It would be SO COOL! And we should get some red enamel for your armor, and then some ermine furs for trim. We should totally do that! "

That visual is $&%ing cool...

So yea, the +1 Adamantine full plate is getting red enamel and lined with white ermine fur, plus a bump to the enchantment as soon as we are somewhere that someone can bump the enchantment.

Thanks for that idea!

"We also have to come back here, so that we can harvest the hide of Logrivitch. Armor made from a white dragon would be perfect here... Well. Truth be told, might raise some suspicions, but anyone with the balls to wear it would get respect at the least!"

I can't say why, but I am so glad you don't have time to harvest his skin at this moment! Phew. ;-)

Also, @Ishbaad, Jorvik has Artistry (Carving) as a skill... just saying.

@ Jorvik - Ishbaad is going to be requesting some sweet personalizing of his armor from you... :)

Also, I had been thinking about the dragon scale harvesting for armor for a while now... it would be cool.

Maybe eventually....

Have a great Easter weekend everyone! Whether you celebrate it or not, enjoy the time with your families. I'll post as and when I can, but please don't feel the need to if you're busy. I'll move it along if it makes sense, but I won't bot any of you.

Jyri, hope the Easter bunny makes it all the way up there for you, mate. May the most bizarre religious holiday perversion (a sentient rabbit who hides chocolate eggs in order to celebrate a case of a spontaneous raise dead) manage to avoid the polar bears in your region.

No polar bears here, just raindeers... The greatest danger around are the kids overdosing on sugar and going nuts.

Happy Easter, everyone!

Jyri, hope the Easter bunny makes it all the way up there for you, mate. May the most bizarre religious holiday perversion (a sentient rabbit who hides chocolate eggs in order to celebrate a case of a spontaneous raise dead) manage to avoid the polar bears in your region.

hahahaha, that made me laugh :)

There is something inherently nerdy and awesome about drawing pathfinder mechanics to real life.

Seriously though... Bunnies and Eggs?

Heh. Jyri's spelling made me think of this threadless t-shirt (I'm a big fan of their shirts... pretty much the only time I'm not wearing one is when I'm getting a bonus reroll by wearing a PFS tee).

Back from vacation, and my apologies all around. I was offline basically the entire trip, except for a short post from Heafoc. I had this cool idea to juxtapose the flight from the tower to the fey forest first from Heafoc's point of view, then Jorvik's. but alas some randoms at the bar I was at wanted to make small talk, and the girls shopped way less than I thought.

All caught up, those fey are super cool and I can only imagine what clues we missed there.

Due to the obscenely bad Paizo.com servers and the apparent incompetence of the team maintaining them, we have moved this game elsewhere.

Due to the clunkiness of the Roll20 forums and the learning curve, we are temporarily back.

As for SR, I just checked and it does not actually apply to supernatural abilities.. So I guess I don't need to roll for bombs. Just wanted to be sure..

It does apply to spells and spell like abilities.

Swamped at work... doing my best to read and keep up. Should be able to get a post up on lunch here.

Sorry for the delay will get caught up today. Cool scenes here.

Posting note - I will be offline Friday, and spotty posting Sat/Sunday depending on WiFi.

Okay, thanks for the notice. Glad you're liking the scene. :-)

So I spent some long overdue time giving Benaiah and his profile some TLC, and now its time to do the same for Ishbaad. His updating is far less involved, and really is just for the new gear we got from the Dragon's horde. (minus the adamantium plate that I won't have time to don until after this little forest tryst).

That and I want to spend some time with the Dragon's Loot to make sure we got it split up correctly. I might not get to it tonight, but I will make it a point to do it soon.

Really enjoying this little riddle and "forest crawl" actually. I like the feeling of urgency, even though a good chunk of the buffs have worn off. I am really curious how the second encounter with the first dawn piper is going to go...

Glad you're enjoying it, and thanks for keeping up with the paperwork!

Sorry, nasty stomach bug in da house...
Haven't caught it myself (yet), but been busy cleaning up the mess.