Caravan to Minkai - Jade Regent AP (Inactive)

Game Master Azure_Zero

"Do you know exactly where they built this village in the swamp? We've known about the Licktoad tribe, but goblins usually stick to warrens and unsavory hidey-holes, not whole villages. This is something I've got to see for myself! Even if only to landmark it."

Mai replies
"It's a bit of a mess right now, and I don't think Chief Gutward likes tourists visiting."

Alfric leans forward to peer at Parvaneh more closely.
"Hm. You flatter me Madame; to the point of excess. Might I inquire what has brought you to this small village? My pardon if I seem forward, but you seem... more of a big city woman."

"The better question is what keeps me in this small village, traveler. It's a battle where I lose ground, day by day. I've been to big cities and small towns and tribes and caravans, from mountain ridges to forests and seaside beaches. What I think you might mean is that I don't seem like a Sandpoint girl."

She shrugs, leaning back in her chair and idly turning her own beer around. A challenging edge creeps into her voice, meeting his peer point for point. "What is it I should do, then, so as not to confuse a foreigner? To prove my pedigree as a native born daughter of Sandpoint?"

Mai adds
"Alfric is just being a jerk, You tended to go on the caravans with Koya when you were younger."

"The good old days. I always told Shalelu you should come with us on one, but she said you were having way more fun playing with your own friends. And boy, you kids played hard! I guess in some ways you still are. Look at you, going off and kicking goblins around. And don't worry, if their Chief doesn't want tourists, I'm not about to go adding their village to a map for everyone to see. For every sensible person who will look at a map and say, We ought to steer clear of there, that's goblin territory!, you'll have three adventurers wanting to go there specifically to earn quarry."

Alfric looked back and forth between Mai and Parvaneh.
"Wait; you two know one another? When did that happen?"

Mai replies
"How could you forget Parvaneh, she was one of us cute girls.
Though given the amount of whacky stunts you did I would not be surprised if you forgot some things."

Read her background

"So what about a traumatized goblin?"

Mai replies
"Oh that's right you, you only really settled in here a few years ago. but you did pop in for a few months and then pop out of here about 12 and a half years ago with with someone for something."

"As for the traumatized goblin, Parvaneh. When we got into the wrecked Licktoad village, one of the rooms had a traumatized goblin that was rocking back and forth whispering "I don't wanna play with Ray," which is creepy."

"Strange. What wrecked their village? I can't imagine who they might have had a turf war with down in the swamp."

"Skeletons, apparently. We found a cave full of them. Seems the goblins had found the cave and looted it, and, well, the 'owners' were...upset."

She smiles slightly. "I believe we settled that problem. And, of course, kept the stuff for our efforts. Speaking of which, let's look this stuff over."

Mai
"You referring to stuff from the cave or something else."

"If you don't mind your nosy neighborhood priestess prying, I'd like to have a look, too..."

Knowledge (Geo): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 on the chest after cleaning it off with a dishrag

Knowledge (Local): 1d20 ⇒ 16 on the map

Parvaneh takes peculiar interest in the map on the opposite side of the fan. She even runs home, grabs a map of Varisia, and comes back to the tavern, spreading it out over the table and comparing it to the map on the back of the fan.

So that everyone can see it, Parvaneh finally has her Ah hah! moment and unfurls the fan to its full length, and then lays it next to an area on her map of Varisia.

"This is the most recent rendering of Brinestump Marsh. You can clearly see that the line on this fan matches the coastline in that area almost perfectly. Though there's no legend on the fan, I know what these markings indicate. That's a shipwreck. Oh, and so is that one. And this little block right here? That's a cavern entrance. You don't see that on a lot of maps, mostly because your casual traveler doesn't want to wind up in a cave. I usually only see this on maps intended for miners, landscapers, and spelunkers."

Mai adds
"That's is strange, considering that map was in the goblin treasure room and look at this part, it's an odd letter. Did a goblin draw this map?"

I don't think so. Don't recognize the letter. Or this box. But some of the iconography on this treasure looks Tian. Maybe Ameiko would recognize bits and pieces of it. Ameiko! Ameiko?

Parvaneh wanders around trying to find Ameiko to have a look at this stuff, too.

Alfric perused the map on the fan with interest.
Knowledge Local: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

"That's is strange, considering that map was in the goblin treasure room and look at this part, it's an odd letter. Did a goblin draw this map?"

Alfric looks up at this.

"It might be Old Megus's place."

"Old Megus?"

"Local rumour is she's a old witch, who lives in the swamp."

She is still trying to fetch Ameiko.

Ameiko:

Ameiko's in the kitchen focusing on cooking a curry and just mow notices Parvaneh.
"Do you need something?"

"Mai is back and she found some amazing things in a cave down there. Some old Tian stuff, I think. Come take a look at this! The curry won't go anywhere."

Ameiko:
"Curry might not go anywhere, but it'll get burned or taste awful if I don't watch it.
As soon as the dish is done, I can join you."

"Wonderful! We'll be waiting."

Alfric frowns.
"Hm. I don't recall hearing of a Witch in that area. Is Master Shalelu about? She would know if anyone."
He looks around at the common room, hopeful she was here.

"Looks like onee-sama slipped out for something."

"Well, we could always take a road trip out there to see for ourselves."

Alfric raised an eyebrow.
"Well, aside from the excitement with the goblins, it has been fairly quiet lately. I am a little curious as to what is out there as well."

"So demure. Come on, you know it'll be fun." Parvaneh seems confident enough that one would think she's ready to walk right out the door of the tavern and onto the road.

Alfric grins.
"Well, yes. Yet you would not begrudge a gentleman a nights sleep in a real bed would you?"

"Under a roof and everything? By all means, get your beauty rest. Not that you need it. I can be ready to leave tomorrow."

lol

"We just came back from that leech infested swamp, I think a rest from it would be good for a night"

"Yea, I agree Mai. In fact, the next time we go in, I want to bring a wizard with maximum fireballs memorized and just raize the place.Um, don't tell any druids that, though."

"I don't think onee-sama would approve of that action."

Natara chuckles. "Like she'd even LET anyone try it!"

"Your right on that..."

Decisions?

Alfric intends to get a decent night's sleep, then get the team back together to go check out the location marked on the map. Hopefully he can get Shalelu to go along.

I was waiting on Ameiko to finish and take a look at this stuff, too.

Ameiko:

Arrives and looks at the loot and map.

"The map's of Brinestump Marsh, has Megus's house on it and has a very rare goblin looking letter? in the corner.
And it looks like you found some Tian treasure."

"Have you ever met this Megus? And why did goblins have Tian treasure? Any ideas?"

Ameiko:

"I've only heard of her, and I don't know how the goblins got Tian treasure, but likely one is they found it somewhere."

A little place to chat - keep each other updated on RL situations - and maybe a release if you want to yell at me (or a player) even though your character wouldn't LOL.

Hoping to get to that white dragon soon (like two years, this is pbp).

Preview:

AC: 24
HP: 115
melee: bite +17 (2d6+9)

breath weapon - think standing in a freezer over night in your undies >:)

Post for the dot!

I reviewed both the character and the bloodline and corrected some issues.

1: The languages should be correct now.

2: The Draconic Bloodline gets Mage Armor as it's 3rd level bloodline spell, so I swapped out to Magic Missile, which was going to be my next pick anyway.

Oh, and I'm looking forward to...discussions...with that white dragon as well. ;)

I am a little behind in checking characters. Will have it done before an major rolls (like initiative) are needed. ;)

I am liking the RP going on and it has twice stopped me from interrupting, so you know that is always good.

I also need to know about anyone who wishes to have a romance or rivalry.

Sir Alfric has no background but do to his trait he could have a crush on Shalelu. Same with Radko, hmmm... gives me an idea.

Beyond that I am ready to move things along a little and see about getting the group at least into the same room.

Everyone else ready?

OK, background added. He is certainly crushing on Shalelu.

Great RP and keeping things going.

Heading to work in half an hour will update this game first thing tonight.

So you can play/post you have unloaded everything and headed back to the tap room for a drink. Shalelu and the other PCs will enter the Rusty Dragon tonight. Should be home around 10:30pm EST.

And I will have the whole group in the same room. Awesome.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Are we going on foot or mounted? I'm assuming on foot so far, with sir Alfric being the only horseman. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I have a question for you oh Emperor of GMing.

I had debated from the start using the Tattooed Sorcerer archetype. Would you allow a change at this point?

Things that would change:

Class Features: HD [d8]; Skill Ranks [8+]; BaB [as Ninja]; Fort [as Sorcerer]; Ref [as Ninja], Will [as Sorcerer]: Bloodline Powers [Familiar Tattoo; Thrush (+3 diplomacy)], Cantrips, Bonus Feat: Varisian Tattoo [Conjuration (idolis): acid splash], Spells Known [0th: 4; 1st: 2], Spells/day: 1st: 4 (3 + 1 [cha]); Poison Use, Sneak Attack +1d6

I loose the Eschew Materials feat class feature, replaced by the Bonus Feat: Varisian Tattoo and I gain Familiar Tattoo as my 1st level bloodline power instead of claws (which haven't come into play yet). The Thrush familar grants me +3 diplomacy (which also hasn't come into play yet). I also gain acid slpash as a spell-like ability 3x/day.

I would take Eschew Materials as my 3rd level feat and replace the trush familar with a pseudodragon at 7th.

Alternately, this change could be a result of the McGuffin in Brinewall.

If you don't feel you can allow this, it's not a problem, just let me know one way or the other, and if you do allow it, how you want the change to work.

Also, if the rest of the players object, I withdraw the request as well.

Thanks for listening, anyway.

I think it will be ok for everyone to play their characters a bit before "locking" them in.

So everyone will have till level 2 to decide if their current class combo, feats, skills, spell selection, etc. are what they want. But after level up things will be set.

If your sure you wish to make the switch now then that would be alright with me.

NOTE: We aren't using XP we are going by the adventure track in the module which says everyone should be level two after dealing with things in Brinestump Marsh.

Thank you.

GM have you ever heard of
"Us vs Them" Initiative or combat?

Us vs Them is not as tactically fun.

It will happen mostly when you are in a group vs single monster combat.

I am thinking of remaking Radko too. Before we settled for the current party format, he was intended to be a haunted character, a bit of a rogue/hunter type on the run from his past. But now as we are gestalt and have two ninjas, this build doesn't make much sense anymore. I'll try to mold him into some kind of a combat healer, maybe ranger/fighter on one side and cleric/oracle on another.

I think we're going to regret burning all our rolls of 19-20 on diplomacy.

Still no GM. I hope he's OK. What do we want to do if he doesn't post by tomorrow?

If he does not show in a few more days,
I'll take control until his return.

I apprecate the offer, Mai. Thank you.

I checked some of his other games and it seems he's not posted since last weekend. I wonder what happened?

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or which ever holiday you follow to all of you as well!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

Very Merry Christmas to you all!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Happy New year

@flykiller: need a temp GM for Kingmaker?

@flykiller (changing a line from Starship Troopers)
"I'll take the job or you find someone better (or solos returns)"

Helloooo....

I know Azure_Zero and I are still here, is anyone else?

Roll Call
to see who is here and still interested in playing.
and to see if I need to recruit players.

Still here and following the game, though I must admit I'm slightly disoriented as to what the party is going to do next.

Well, me obviously. ;)

Still here and following the game, though I must admit I'm slightly disoriented as to what the party is going to do next.

I thibk that next we get info on the swamp and the goblins from Walthus, then we head out to goblintown to find them and explain to them that they shouldn't be using fireworks on sentients, and that since they can't be trusted to play nice, we're going to have to confiscate the fireworks.

The gobins, of course, will imediately see things in the proper light and hand the fireworks over to us. Or not. In which case we may have to be a little more forceful in persuading them.

And I am here as well!

So all is here,

The game is only alive as long as the players are posting (more than once a week) AND has a GM Running the show and posting.
If the players aren't posting OR the GM vanishes, the game starts to die.

As Few to No posts == players' losing or lost interest.

I'll try to post more often next week, especially if a sense of direction appears. If I fail to do so, I might decide to bow out altogether rather than drag everyone's game. I think this character didn't pan out quite as I envisioned him and I am having difficulties playing him out so far.

Knowledge (Local); yep, one of those things I didn't have room for at first level...;)

I'll try to post more often next week, especially if a sense of direction appears. If I fail to do so, I might decide to bow out altogether rather than drag everyone's game. I think this character didn't pan out quite as I envisioned him and I am having difficulties playing him out so far.

I thought Radko was fun, but if you're not having fun with him then work with the GM on a change. I'd be ok with you making a new character if you'll enjoy the game more that way.

@Radko. BTW, you're right about this part of the AP. Until you hit the last part of the swamp bit, it doesn't seem to make sense. I think that's why 'We Be Goblins' exists, to hint at the connection earlier.

This early bit is just the part before the credits roll...

Since it's early in the game and the Dragon Empire Primer was released, you can opt for some of it's new class options.

Just a quick note: due to a Drs appointment I will not be available until after 2PM at the earliest.

Also, I don't have the Primer yet, just the Gazetter. Anything neat for sorcs or ninjas off-hand?

new sorcerer bloodline (Oni), Wizard school and a new spell (Call of the void),
no ninja stuff, but one new archetype for Bard, Samurai, Witch, and Ranger.

A new game is being made here

Hello....

Sorry guys, I caught a flu and won't be able to keep up for a while. Please bear with me for a few more days.

I, too have minor posting issues this week. My daughter, who is cyber-schooled, is in 11th grade. Here in Pa that means she has to take a battery of state assessment tests. Since she's cyber-schooled, the have to be at an off-campus site. In this case the convention center in downtown Pittsburgh between 2 - 5 PM. it's a 1 hr bus trip. I have to be there, too, as her 'learning coach' and legal guardian.

They do have wi-fi. $50/day. So, I'll be posting either early morning or late evening.

Ack...message board withdrawal!

So the combo's don't really cover a healer,

Options?

We definitely need a healer. I like the combo I currently have, and I'd like to keep at least the ninja part. I was going with a dragon theme, which is why sorc. If no one else wants to be the healer, I could swap out, however I'm a cleric in my other PbP, filling the slot as an NPC in my RL Carrion Crown, and playing a Psychic Theurge in another. I'm kinda Cleric'd out.

I know what you mean, I have played a load of clerics.

One option is the proverbial "Cleric on a stick"; a Wand of Cure Light Wounds.

1. We have to gather 750 gp or loot the wand off somebody to get it.
2. Radko can swap True Strike for CLW, and gain access to 2 castings/day.
3. I was planning on changing Radko anyway, looking at ranger/cleric or paladin/oracle combo.
As Sir Alfric is a ranger already, I'm leaning towards the second option. How does Paladin (Warrior of Holy Light) of Erastil / Oracle of Battle with the Tongues curse sound? That would be more in theme with Radko having divine gifts he's not fully aware of which I've begun setting for him.