Amazing Red's You Have What You Hold (Inactive)

Game Master Daxter

Oh I did miss that. She will only fly up 30 feet. Will do an update post.

@GM - Apologies...I forgot the spell only has a range of 15'. Las would obviously know the bird was out of range, so with your permission, I'll redo his action...so no entangled condition for the bird. I'll just have to eat the extract.

Yea it's fine.

@GM - going to post this now in case I forget...

Las will alter his fire crackers to all have short fuses so that they will go off on the same round that they are lit.

Shortening Fuses: A character with 2 or more ranks in Craft (alchemy) can cut a fuse so that the firework detonates at the end of her turn; however, if the wielder rolls a natural 1 on her attack roll when throwing a firework with a shortened fuse, the firework misfires in her hand

Since I won't be throwing the fuses lit, I shouldn't have to worry about a 1.

Las will also communicate with Morvuis and Tali about Las' throwing the fireworks and one of them lighting it with spark as a future tactic.

I have to say, I'm interested to see what happens as a result of capturing the druid or any of the pirates. In situations like this, I always wonder how much the author anticipates.

@Tali - If the GM will allow it, I was hoping the bard could make a performance check on the fighting style of the pirates. Perhaps when we get back to town, we can check on the more popular contestants and see if there is a match in fighting style.

@Taili - ugh...no interest in Taking 10 with such high modifiers?

@GM - on a completely separate note, are players allowed to have their crossbows loaded and cocked before drawing them for combat?

Yea, having a weapon loaded before combat is fine. I assume that anyhow unless you have a reason not to.

She tells Lajas everything he wishes to know even though none of it is relevant to the task at hand.

???

I thought we were suppose to put an end to the piracy?

I think we know enough to make our next move at least.

Let's chat IC...

Apologies, I feel like I've missed something.

If we are talking about going to the base, why is information regarding who and what is defending it not relevant?

She said it was guarded by 'lots' of men. What other information could we need?

lol...Is that 8 or 200?

Are there traps or wards or creatures that guard it?

What type of abilities does Deremin have? Caster, summoner, fighter, cleric?

Can we approach from land?

How long is the trip?

Why not draw out more of his men and pick them off in small groups?

There's only four of us and we've burned through all the bards high level spells, so Las is not thinking we are ready for another fight.

Based on the description I was under the impression Deremin's base was fairly far away. That'll give us time to recover our resources.

Enough that a party of 3-7 would find it reasonably challenging so 200 is unlikely. You can only approach by river. It is 5 miles away from where you are at.

River travel is super slow. A day of travel by river is 5 miles. If it's the middle of the day now we'll reach the camp/base middle of the day tomorrow.

Well, it depends on whether you're going downstream or upstream. Downstream, it'd be less than 2 hours, upstream it would be 10. Regardless, if we can get a day's rest, then it's not a problem.

Apologies if I seem difficult, Las is an Investigator, so he's not one to just go with the flow. My Barbarian...much more so.

PTSD aside, try to have faith. You're in good hands here.

Truk is extremely impressive.

Okay...frontal assault.

@GM -

1. Do I have time to craft?

2. Do we benefit from any natural healing?

3 @Talisien - if allowed to craft, there are couple of things that could help your spells as power components, and some of these I already have:

- Alchemical Grease - increase Grease DC by 1
- Acid - 1 point of damage/round to anyone caught in grease spell (already have this).
- Itching Power - designate someone caught in Glitterdust to suffer the effects of itching powder.

4. Las will drink his Meditation Tea just before the attack begins

5. Las will put his Magic Missile wand in his spring loaded wrist sheath

6. Las' extracts will be: Shield, Adhesive Spittle x2, Illusion of Calm

7. Las will drink the Shield and Illusion of Calm if it's clear from the Druid that the base doesn't have any walls that prevent immediate access.

Yes and yes.

Are we able to rest and regain spells before moving on?

If anyone needs me to roll charges of their wand, feel free to roll and assume I used it for you.

Las will craft some alchemical grease (DC 15)

Las is also going to create 2 doses (20gp) of gold dust and he's going to load his Poison Blecher with gold dust and Essence of Independence.

Was wondering if M's target is alive or dead? Also, is he side by side with Truk?

Posted.

@Tali

Yes, we got all our spells back and Las offers Tali Acid (1 pont of damage per round) and alchemical grease (+1 on DC) as a reagents for her Grease spell and Itching Powder as components for her Glitterdust spells

You can only use one reagent at a time per spell.

Great, thanks!

Was trying to find out about their religion....faux deity, etc.

Alright, so are we taking the captives back to the VC? Letting them go? Tying them to building and burning it down?

@GM - Does Las have any insight on what happens if we take these people back to Tymor? Can they demand their freedom and insist they were falsely accused, etc?

I don't know that we have time to take them back to the VC. I think we're going straight to confronting Helkit. Tying them up and leaving them here is probably good enough. Someone will come along to set them free eventually.

I think we need to at least report to the VC before we go on to Helkit.

I suppose we could do that.

I just want to make sure that they don't get free and warn Helkit or someone else. Maybe we could chop off their heads and bury them in forest so that will slow them down by a day at least?

So what is the official plan?

The VC told us to kill any pirates we found, so let's do that. We have the information we need from this one.

So straight to the arena then?

Truk isn't quite cold enough to kill defeated enemies. Does Morvius mind pulling the trigger?

So straight to the arena then?

I think we are going to see the VC first. Though I think this will be the first time I've been in a scenario where we had a chance to visit the VC before the scenario was complete.

Truk isn't quite cold enough to kill defeated enemies. Does Morvius mind pulling the trigger?

Ditto on Las. We can use their personal gear as divination objects if they have to be found again.

@GM - So I'm dying to know if the scenario contemplates the characters asking the VC to join them in the battle, or what the VC says if the characters suggests more experienced Pathfinders should take it to Helkit?

@GM - Moving on...

Who much time do we get between calling out Helkit and having to fight? Las will probably try and craft a few things.

I'll also ask the team if they can find out if Helkit mistreats her animal and verify what type of animal she'll be riding. Rhino was it before left? We should also try and figure out if Helkit has an tricks or cheats up her sleeve. And possible investigate the arena floor to make sure there are no traps.

@Talisein, don't know if you have the Alchemy Manual, but there are a few reagents you can buy for your spells that will boost them. I mentioned some of them earlier.

Like I have mentioned, Helkit will set the terms, i.e. the time when it would take place so as of right now you don't know.

If we have time to shop, Tali will buy alchemical grease and itching powder before we head out.

Thanks, Lajas!

Well, I say we challenge Helkit to a spelling bee.

Quick question on these alchemical components. Are they used up when you cast the spell, or are they kind of a focus item that you can retain after casting the spell?

There are two labels: Material component (M) which get used up, or Focus (F), which don't.

Itching Powder and Grease appear to only be used as (M) for the spells they affect. Las can craft these at 1/3 the cost and just give them to you for the scenario. I'll keep them if you don't use them.

Also note that there are some reagents that work on entire schools, sub schools. For example, cold iron:

PFS Legal Cold Iron

Source Alchemy Manual pg. 0 (Amazon)
Price 1 gp; Weight —
Cold iron is often used to produce alloyed metals, catalysts, and items that interfere with magic.
Power Component
Doses 5 (5 gp); Spells abjuration school
Effect +1 caster level for the purpose of caster level and dispel checks

So if you have any abjuration spells, you could cast them at +1 caster level if you include cold iron as a material component at the cost of 5 gp per spell.

Las will add to his crafting since the fort:

Crafting:
Meditation Tea (DC20) - 30 gp
itching Powder (DC 25) 60gp
Alchemical Grease (DC 15) 5gp
Noxious Aromatic Flask (DC 20)15gp
Boulderhead Bock

Purchases
Reagents:
Silver reagent (10gp) - will add +1 to the DC to disbelieve Illusion of Calm
10gp of gold powder - used with Poison Belcher
Darkwood (20gp) - will add +1 the DC of Adhesive spittle

@GM

The PFS FAQ on crafting says alchemist can't sell or trade crafted items. However, there doesn't appear to be any restriction on another character providing the materials and the alchemist crafting those items for the character.

How can alchemists craft in Pathfinder Society Organized Play?

Alchemists can use the Craft (alchemy) skill to produce items with their Alchemy ability. Follow the Craft rules on pages 91–93 of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook as well as in the alchemist’s Alchemy ability description. Any item created must be properly noted on that scenario’s Chronicle sheet. Under "Items Bought", note the amount of gold spent and the item created. Alchemists are assumed, for Pathfinder Society Organized Play, to carry the necessary items and tools with them to use available resources to create alchemical items. If they have a base of operations from which to do so, they may use an alchemy lab to gain the +2 bonus on their Craft (alchemy) check. Alchemists may never sell any of their created items nor may they trade them to another PC. However, they may allow other PCs to borrow or use items they’ve created (so long as the alchemist class ability being used allows them to do so).

I'll also check with the On-line VC to see if there is an official answer to this question.

As long as those crafted items go to the one who bought the materials, it should be fine.