I assume you mean Slumbering Tsar?
From what I have heard Tsar is a bit of a beast.
What is the premise, if I may ask? Out of curiosity mostly.
Yeah.
Hey, the cleric with no spells left is on it. :P
Is the amount of hit points Qhude has going to come into play? Because he would undoubtedly have benefitted from some of Tebati's healing in the aftermath. As I don't believe N'bellocq took any damage, after Kieran, he'd be her top priority to get back in fighting fettle once those in danger of bleeding out had been stabilized.
Qhude ended up at an even 0 after his rage faded, so it's all positive from there :)
Hey, the cleric with no spells left is on it. :P
I meant like other soldiers or Morvius himself. But good luck with that no-spells-left thing! ;P
Feel free to track down Jacob for Wand taps if you want to be back up before morning when the Channels come back.
Well, I narrated healing Qhude without actually rolling any dice. Since he was (presumably) surrounded by the dead and dying bodies of his enemies, we'll say she used a cure moderate rather than channeling: . Nice; Shimye-Magalla's pouring on the hard sell. :D
In related news, I just now realized that she had remove paralysis learned. :P Oh well, Bit of Luck did the trick.
It may come in handy yet!
My available net time just went from 'some' to 'almost none' for the rest of the holiday. It would be appreciated if I can be DMPC'd until I get back to KL on the 14th of April.
Apologies for the hassle.
So is anyone doing the Treat Deadly dance with the wounded? It matters as Jakob will help them but that eats a great deal of time.
Also need an ok/not ok on the take 10 w/ the self treat deadly.
Matters only if there is more action before morning.
~Jakob the mouthy
Treating Deadly Wounds is for mundane healers like Unwe, or for huge amounts of downtime that we montage over. Total waste of time for a PC. That's what NPCs do in the background while we're doing the interesting stuff. ;)
Just came home from work and I have been going through my games. I should have a post up later on. :-)
And once again it seems like we should have handled the healing part of the aftermath out of narrative, since we're all trying to run back into harm's way. :P
Kieran should have more than 12 hp, I'd hope, as Tebati would have tried to have him around when she was channeling and would have topped him off with a converted spell slot if necessary.
I'll roll a channel and a clw, to apply to him with DM approval.
For reference, she had 3 channels, 2 cmw slots, and 4 clw slots left at the end of the fight. She used 1 cmw on Qhude already. Just not excluding herself from her own channels will get her back to full hp herself. Her remaining spells are orisons create water, light, resistance, and stabilize and domain spell gust of wind. She also has Bit of Lucks available.
Hopefully Kamishah flubs a save with a 1 when Ansha tells him a joke. That'll spare us all some pain and suffering, I'm sure!
Back in the saddle now in KL, so Qhude shall be returning to his ornery and combative self.
Just watch, the real Chausiku will slip away while Kamishah turns out to be that stupid pilgrim that the shamaness in Freehold sheltered.
Just watch, the real Chausiku will slip away while Kamishah turns out to be that stupid pilgrim that the shamaness in Freehold sheltered.
My money is on Morvious being Chausiku though I admit the possibility is an outlying one.
That seems pretty outlandishly remote, yeah.
Considering Chausiku was in the tent holding Kieran at the same time Morvius was out in the courtyard fighting alongside us?
Have to admit, I considered the possibility before remembering we'd seen them both in the same place.
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Considering Chausiku was in the tent holding Kieran at the same time Morvius was out in the courtyard fighting alongside us?
Have to admit, I considered the possibility before remembering we'd seen them both in the same place.
Was he? Did Morvious do anything that a minion w/ disguise self/Vocal Alteration could not do? I was considering Morvious as a Major Illusion but the bit with killing the ape that wounded Qhude would be difficult to stage manage. Might be worth the effort to establish separate identities but a minion in a Morvious suit would be easier.
Kieran likely saw something in the kitchen but what exactly? Another minion in a costume with Vanish and a Hold wand? \
An illusion to distract him from the hold spell glyph he trod on at the entrance to the tent.
Or Joe Biden with a sandwich and a handy Modify Memory scroll.
At the levels we are hitting reality becomes flexible. We cannot trust what we see or even fully trust what we remember.
It becomes a question of how much effort one is willing to expend vs. the value of the payoff.
Qhude glad he not in camp to hear mumbo jumbo... much easier just punching things in face.
I am glad Jakob is nowhere near that tent at the mo. I do not feel like getting in an argument.
If someone has enough willpower to resist her enchantments, Ansha is pretty well convinced that they're a nut worth cracking. The longer it takes, the more obvious it is that there's something unusual about them--and the more of an accomplishment it is when she succeeds!
...which is pretty much what Tebati told Kamishah about Ansha's motivations. ;P
That's the problem with you high-Wisdom people! You see through all we high-Charisma people!
Happy Easter!
Help guys.
I see an issue coming. Basically if Morvious kills the prisoners Jakop will no longer see any real difference between him and the Order/ Gorilla King. At that point he will walk into the jungle to try some freelance diplomacy once Chausiku picks him up.
He is inches away from going freelance now. He sees this as another opportunity, like the pirate ship, where solo action could have disproportionate impact. However this time the whole thing is not a set up (not that Jakob knows the pirate ship was a set up as the coded message was never made public) so the attempt at unsanctioned diplomacy will likely result in one less Jakob.
And there is no way short of enchantment that he is re-entering the pile until the fate of the prisoners is known. He is already very suspicious of how captives are treated following the pirate ship incident so leaving these fools fate unknown is not an option. Jakob has accepted that he cannot effect their fate but he can witness it and base his further decisions on what he sees.
Any ideas as to a path forward or is Jakob just too G for this CN group?
I'm always in favor of enchantment personally :). I don't know that Morvius is necessarily going to kill the prisoners, though Jakob is likely to assume/fear so.
Will think about it but on my iPhone for now. That said, I don't think it's necessarily that Jakob is too Good so much as too "nice" in a very modern pacifistic Western liberal sort of way.
FWIW - Qhude doesn't want to see them executed any less than he wants to see them subjected to Ansha mind-probes.
PWO - what about Chausiku's actions to date make Jakob even think that he can be reasoned with?
Blind optimism and moral blindness aside that is.
For what its worth its likely going to be a non-issue. Morvius has no intention of killing them with tensions with his ancient ruin explorers so high. He is likely to send them back to Eleder to face trial, in accordance with Sargavan law.
FWIW - Qhude doesn't want to see them executed any less than he wants to see them subjected to Ansha mind-probes.
PWO - what about Chausiku's actions to date make Jakob even think that he can be reasoned with?
Blind optimism and moral blindness aside that is.
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Short version.
1.Chausiku is intelligent (see raid/ ability to hide) so talking is possible.
2. Chausiku very likely knows more about what we are doing than we do. We need to know if the ticking box/ziggurat contains a clock before we open it.
3. We loose nothing by loosing a prisoner in an attempt to open communication and may gain something by showing the Order that we are not the Gorilla King and are open to reason. Perhaps they will choose to explain why we should not be doing what we are doing now that they know that just throwing bodies at the problem will not solve it. By not acting like an enemy some in the Order may start to consider options other than war.
Morvious: thanks for that. I was concerned about the "vigorous interrogation".
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SWEET! Added, many thanks.
Ok all straightened out. Issue averted.
I keep taking things too seriously, sorry.
Glad we could be of help ;P
I seriously did not expect success. Jacob really should start suggesting things he does not want Morvius to do. The DC might be lower if he thinks he is opposing Jakob.
Hmmmm might work in the team as well.....
DM AK - I'm assuming that Morvius wants us back in the ziggurat this afternoon? - which is the immediate day after the attack?
Qhude's down some HP and won't have any rage if that's the case.
Aye he does, but its based on the assumption you've had some sleep since the previous night. What I should have wrote is "you have the afternoon" and he wants you back in there this evening.
You should be fully healed at this point, there was enough channeling and cures going around that I chose to hand waive it. And everyone has spells, rage etc. back.