Clebsch GM Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path

Game Master Clebsch73

So, I'm back. I'm seeing a doctor tomorrow, and I'm feeling better, although still a little off my routine. My classes start back up next Monday, but I think I can post regularly, if I make my GM saving throw vs. calamities.

I hope this battle concludes quickly so we can move forward.

Sorry about the lack of post and lack of attention to detail. I totaled my car last week and was in a whirlwind of car replacement and insurance headaches.

P.S. I am unharmed despite the airbag going off.

Sorry for your misfortune, but glad you're okay. I've been out of it for almost two months, so no worries.

I'll post the actions of G1 and G2 after class tonight, if I can.

Karas?

Sry had some internet issues over the weekend. The botting did exactly what I would've done anyway.

Just a note to inform that I'm experiencing more medical issues that may interrupt my posting. Please be patient if I don't post for a while.

Understood

Take all of the time in the world. I hope you experience a rapid and positive resolution.

Good luck, GM. Hope things go well for you.

I just broke my left foot the other day, speaking of medicals. I’m in a hard cast and crutches for a minimum of six weeks, so I’m pretty darn miserable right now myself. I’ve not been on crutches since high school, and at 46, that’s was a long time ago!

Yikes, y'all take care of yourselves :( I myself am dealing with some life crap so no rush, we resume when we resume.

Thanks for the well wishes and back at you all.

Spring is coming!

(At least it is if you are north of the equator.)

My work situation will be demanding a little more time this week, adjusting to teaching classes remotely to allow classes to continue without the risk of spreading or catching the COVID-19 virus. In theory it should not take any more time than normal, but I expect I'll be in extra meetings and learning how to use the software features. I'll post when I can but it might be every other day.

I hope everyone else is able to stay safe.

Stay safe, do what you need to do :)

I hope everyone is well at this time. <3

Seconded. Scary times for everyone!

I'm about 90% sure I got the coronavirus and have recovered and been symptom-free for 16 days now.

Never got tested so I can't be sure but I had all of the symptoms except breathing issues and it was the most intense and awful sickness of my life.

Our house is prepared for lockdown but three of the people here still leave to go to work so we can't stay in isolation. Stay safe, everyone.

Much love to you, glad you are recovered/recovering. Good luck. Stay safe.

That’s super scary! Glad you are okay now!

I am so glad you weathered through it well.

Anarya's player and I live in the same area. My county has the most cases (so far detected) in the state, so I'm grateful I can stay isolated most of the time. Went out yesterday and stocked up on groceries, we can hunker down for weeks if need be.

Thoughts and prayers are will all who have had the virus and all who must be out in the community.

Sorry it took all week to post, but my time for playing PBP came in dribs and drabs and I knew this post would take some time. In fact, I started the post that just appeared in the Game Play thread around 10 AM and am just finishing it at 3 PM. Lots of details to attend to and a mistake that made me go back and start over.

Anarya: I posed a question about how your Life Link ability works. I think we may have been doing it differently in the past. See the spoiler in the Game Play post.

Anarya's life link is pretty simple. It doesn't transfer any of the damage to Anarya when it's received - it simply applies 5 points of healing to any linked ally at the start of Anarya's turn (if that ally has suffered at least 5 damage), and damages Anarya for the same amount.

The shield other spell is the only thing she uses that splits up damage as it's received, and she typically only uses that on Karas.

Thanks.

I'm probably going to break the shield other spell just trying to get a circle on the archers. Damned 60ft movement increments lol Sorry

I'm gonna get a Reach Metamagic Rod just to lengthen that range, haha.

Oh boy... well time to blender my way back to everyone lol

Anarya can save Tauni, but only if she knows she's down there. Right now she has no reason to think she's anything but safe.

Somebody who has line of sight to Anarya may have to relay Raine's shouted updates, then.

Sry ahead of time, I'm probably going to try to blender this thing down lol. This may be the first time Phantom Blood triggers lol

Hey, if you hadn't gone for it it would have come for you. :P

Sorry, everyone. My thought was to get beyond the illusion and set up a defense against the archers. I underestimated the danger of the pit trap and very much underestimated the magnitude of the encounter. I'll try to be more thoughtful going forward.

I don't know that you per se did anything wrong-- we were sitting ducks for archer spam in the first room, we made a logical decision to try to keep going beyond it once we found the disguised exit, and the ambush was just genuinely well prepared to trick both PCs and NPCs. :P Like, when you find an illusory wall out of a death trap, your first reaction (or at least mine) is, oh, cool, we found the exit to get around this, not, oh no DOUBLE trap because there's a trap beyond this one too!

What Raine said

It probably would not have been so bad if using the standard poison rules. Tauni would have just kept losing strength points until she made a save. If her strength had gone to zero, it would have made her immobile but with no subsequent chance of death.

The extra doses would only have raised the DC from 17 to 21 and the doubled the duration from 6 to 12 rounds. Tauni probably would have come out of it significantly weakened, which wouldn't really affect her much as a wizard. The WOTR AP was written well before the Pathfinder Unchained was published, which has the alternate poison rules.

That said, Tauni was also dogged by a horrendous series of low rolls just when she needed high rolls.

Her rolls (result on the d20) were 2 (Prescience), 7 (acrobatics), 6 (reflex save to avoid spikes), [the spikes had to roll to hit and rolled 16], then 4, 4, 4 (three fortitude saves for the 3 spikes).

On the next round, I mistakenly only made her roll 2 saves, thinking she had made the first one. Those rolls were 6 (prescience), 4, and 18. Next round she had to make just one save: rolls were 3 (prescience) and 10, which only made it using a hero point and mythic surge and then just barely.

So put them all in a row and she rolled 2, 7, 6, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 18, 3, 10.

I think she should get her money back on that prescience ability. :)

Poke: Waiting on Anarya, Avelina, and Raine.

My apologies, I think I was thrown by the listing of Round 3 again and I thought that I was listed as up again in error. Going to post right now.

...crap. I'm so sorry to go inactive for so long. With the way things have been the last week this game just really hasn't been on my mind.

This quarantine stuff has been wearing me thin. Anarya was gonna basically do just that if I'd have posted, so you botted her well. Again, very sorry.

No need to apologize. We're all dealing with a very different world. I just try to count my blessings and help in any way I can. I hope you are feeling okay.

My wife and I are cautious about venturing out, even through some things are opening up. Still too many people not wearing masks or observing proper distancing etiquette.

Unfortunately, Kentucky is similar to the wild Wild West. I was the only person I saw today wearing a mask while running a couple errands. It’s scary.

Its about the same in Ohio Ellena. Some days I see a ton of masks others were the only ones. Its wild. Im justucky to now be permanent work from home

I'm in a red rural town in a blue state. Not many masks around, but there were armed "volunteers" patrolling our downtown to deter looters that were at least thirty miles away.

I'm in a red rural town in a blue state. Not many masks around, but there were armed "volunteers" patrolling our downtown to deter looters that were at least thirty miles away.

that's nice~~~

I'm also in a fairly conservative part of a state that is reliably blue overall, but that doesn't mean our right-leaning voices aren't here and kicking. I feel you.

This is the third day in a row we’ve been out at protests. We’ve been careful, but I’m exhausted

Sending all my love. <3

I never thought LARP skills would be useful in real life...

Three PCs are up in the Gameplay thread.

Richmond VA is purple as a state, trending blue, but the rural areas are still pretty red while the large urban areas and suburbs are blue. The governor is a medical doctor and a Democrat, and the legislature is controlled by the Democrats by a slim margin, so the government response is been measured and science based.

Most people seem to be wearing masks, at least in the places I've gone lately.

There has been some protests and some damage done, monuments to Southern war heroes sprayed with graffiti and the HQ of the Daughters of the Confederacy, a group which has promoted such monuments, was set on fire, although the damage was minimal. Policing has been relatively measured as well. There have been no high profile cases of police using excessive force on people of color while I've been living here.

My wife and I continue to stay home except for essential errands and outdoor exercise. We'll probably continue that for a good while until the infection rate goes down more.

Everyone stay safe and sane and post when you can.

...Have we lost everyone due to the world being the wreck is is? I'd be sad if so. :( Obviously, always, real life comes first and all that that entails, but I really enjoy this group.

I’m still here. Not sure what’s up with most of the others.

I've not been feeling well and been bad about checking. My apologies