Merlin is down 8 with only 1 spell slot left.
Heads-up: I am going to be out of town from the 13th through the 21st and will have spotty network access. Feel free to bot Aberus as needed. I'll make sure his stats reflect his current resources.
Italian Festival this weekend, so I may not be able to post.
I work at an Italian food market; as a chef, so we will be working 15+ hours both days.
You're a chef?! Cool! :D
Wow, cool. Good luck.
Thanks; it's going to be busy...lol.
So what you're saying is, put in our orders now? :)
Aberus's stat block on his profile page is up to date, including resources expended (3 channels left, and a couple of spells).
General tactics:
I have been holding back on Sound Burst because it will alert everyone in the building to our presence here, but if it becomes obvious we can't sustain this incursion then he'll fire it off.
The demons require weaponry Aberus doesn't have, so there is not much he can do to contribute to the fight directly beyond his meager offensive spells. As such I've been keeping him in a support roll.
We may be using the running away Action....lol.
Also remember that you can use Aid Another in combat and if you hit AC 10 while you are adjacent to both an enemy and an ally, you give your ally +2 to attack vs. that enemy. Super-handy when you want to make sure that one person in the group hits (presumably the one who can penetrate the DR of the enemy).
Which I can do, btw. Radiance counts as a cold iron weapon.
My best friend is coming in to town on Sunday and will be here for a week. I am not sure if I will be able to post during that time.
Just so everyone knows, I caught a really bad cold, and just fought that off; but I also have something going wrong in my guts that the doctors haven't figured out, which is why I've been a little off lately. I'll keep folks posted as the situation develops. Hopefully I won't be off to surgery or dying or anything awful. (Posting this note to all the games I run.)
Get well soon, Azura!
I figure I should probably get this out of the way. Don't worry, I'm not announcing my departure. I've spoken about rebuilding Arloric on this thread before as different types of Druid, but after Ultimate Wilderness came out, I've discovered basically what I had in mind when I created Arloric: the Filidh Bard archetype. Azura has given me permission to change Arloric once we actually have downtime to retrain. When we do, I will likely rebuild Arloric completely from the ground up as a Bard with the Filidh archetype. My plans are still to take Green Faith Acolyte as a prestige class, which I can still qualify for as a Filidh's bard spells are divine rather than arcane, and this actually works really well considering historical bards and druids were two parts of the same priesthood. In addition, since I'll now have access to longswords by default as a bard, I'll replace my proficiency feat with the Druidic Decoder feat so I can "re-learn" Druidic as a bard.
I'm not sure what to do about Red Branch, though. Once Arloric is rebuilt, I won't qualify for an animal companion again until around 8th or 9th level.
I am back and will get caught up shortly.
Uriel still missed even with our aid anothers?
Uriel still missed even with our aid anothers?
I dunno, did he include those in his die roll?
No.
Then it hit!
Get well soon, Azura!
I figure I should probably get this out of the way. Don't worry, I'm not announcing my departure. I've spoken about rebuilding Arloric on this thread before as different types of Druid, but after Ultimate Wilderness came out, I've discovered basically what I had in mind when I created Arloric: the Filidh Bard archetype. Azura has given me permission to change Arloric once we actually have downtime to retrain. When we do, I will likely rebuild Arloric completely from the ground up as a Bard with the Filidh archetype. My plans are still to take Green Faith Acolyte as a prestige class, which I can still qualify for as a Filidh's bard spells are divine rather than arcane, and this actually works really well considering historical bards and druids were two parts of the same priesthood. In addition, since I'll now have access to longswords by default as a bard, I'll replace my proficiency feat with the Druidic Decoder feat so I can "re-learn" Druidic as a bard.
I'm not sure what to do about Red Branch, though. Once Arloric is rebuilt, I won't qualify for an animal companion again until around 8th or 9th level.
I will have to look that archetype up.
There's a link in the post to its entry on Archives of Nethys.
In addition to my liver crapping out, my grandpa-in-law just died, so I'm heading to the funeral. Really sorry folks. Will do my best to get SOMETHING up this weekend. :/
Sory for your loss, and hope you get better soon.
Sorry for your loss.
So sorry for your loss. And also, healing thoughts to you.
Take whatever time you need.
I am sorry for your loss.
Any one's thoughts on the playtest?
I hate to hear that, Azura.
Btw, I’ve been out of pocket since Sunday. I’m away from home at training for a new job. I’ll be flying back on 08/11, until then my posting may be a bit sporadic.
Wow! Some of the most memorable sounds in TV history. Very cool. May his memory be a blessing.
Teachers are back to school this week. Next week student's return.
I know how that goes...
It has been an awful week so far. We are being asked to do things with grading that are against the negotiated agreement with the Union and the District.
Ugh! That is awful. :(
Sounds like it's been a bad week or two for pretty much everyone.
I believe a retreat is in order. We are not in a position to press this fight.
Ya, they want us to create due dates for when you will begin to accept and assignment. Every assignment has to have two options for kids. THen there is a deadline that is to be a cut off date but we are to be flexible for that. We cannot take off for late work or kids being late. "We need to champion for children [these are high school students] and not take away their hope because if we do we are mean"/
The PD this morning was the Principal and one of the Assistant Principals crying about advocating for kids. Having high standards does not hurt kids if you help them to reach your standards.
I believe a retreat is in order. We are not in a position to press this fight.
Seconded.
Thumbs up.
I don't like it, but I guess we're basically out of options at this point.
If Uriel could hit, he could turn this around, but the die roller seems to hate him.
Tactically, if everyone withdraws through the door, Uriel can hold the line (since his weapon can damage them, they have to really be careful of trying to get past him). If you manage to make it out the front door the other crusaders who are making attacks around the perimeter may be able to help you.
The enemy will be alerted when you come back, of course, but that can't be helped!
The subtle approach can only work if it isn't slowed down, so when that happens, the only thing to do is return with MORE FIREPOWER!
lol
Run! Forest! Run!
Do you want to make your retreat tactical (i.e. we keep running the battle) in case something turns the battle around, or would you prefer to handwave it and regroup in a story fashion so you can decide your next plan of assault?
I like stories!
I like stories!
Seconded!
Agree that we should hand-wave the retreat. Even if this battle were to turn around, we'd be spent and couldn't push on.
Should I roleplay Red Branch leaving since I won't qualify for him until later when I retrain my class? I'm not sure how to do it in a way that wouldn't be super-sad...