Agreed. Wait until morning to head in so we'll be at full strength. I doubt it's any secret that we're coming after them, so I'm sure they'll have a contingency prepared for us. However, I DO think we should make camp some distance from the ruins, in the woods, and keep a watch posted, too. We don't want to make it too easy for them to sneak up on us in the night and slit our throats.
Cathyriel's a (former) soldier - she would never sleep without a watch being posted :)
Anyone got 'Keep Watch' prepared?
I think Terana is the only one who even has 'Keep Watch' on a spell list. It's not on Bard or Cleric.
For future reference, Brainiac: I know you've allowed retraining spells already; when we get back to Talmandor's Bounty and have some down time, would you allow ability bonus retraining? If you'd allow it (and if I survive this adventure and we get back home) I'd like to retrain the +1 Strength I took at level 4 to +1 Charisma.
I don't have a spell list Gideon - I traded it out for MORE COMBAT! Decent trade too :)
EDIT: no combat post until I know what spells etc were put up before we started.
Ah! So then I suppose the answer would then be no, we don't have anyone that can cast Keep Watch. Alas. If it were something we were really that concerned about we could try to get a wand with it. Gideon could easily make the DC taking 10.
Sheesh, I've used that option more with Gideon than probably all my other PbP characters combined. I used to always forget about it, but having the option to Take 10 on the majority of Knowledge checks is amazing.
I know I keep making future plans on the assumption that Gideon's gonna keep on living, and with our history that's definitely not guaranteed, but what would you guys think about Gideon taking Craft Wand at level nine? There are a lot of utility/buff spells that would suddenly become a great deal easier to access.
I feel like there was a Craft Clockwork feat somewhere too that would fit Gideon well, but I also think it had a lot of prerequisites that made the feat tax prohibitively steep.
That's fine, Gideon.
I like craft wand. Terana has/can have enough UMD to use wands reliably too so we could hand out buffs at double speed.
I will be on a cruise next week from 4/1-4/6 without Internet access. It will likely take me till the following Monday or Tuesday to get caught up and resume posting.
Hope you have two tons of fun! I've never been on a cruise but it's on my bucket list. A cruise to Alaska, particularly.
This will be our fourth cruise. Heading down to Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico out of Ft. Lauderdale. :)
Very nice, watch out for faceless stalkers and aboleths on the way though!
Think we're waiting on Terana and Tobar?
Huh?
For actions - its your turn Tobar :)
Terana is taking total defense to try and avoid javelins.
Also worth remembering that Brainiac is AFK for a week starting tomorrow, so we'll be waiting a while either way.
Sooo...how's life been treating you guys?
Busy - last week of term, kids are going nuts etc!
You?
I'm good - work is keeping me busy. I'm using the downtime in Brainiac's absence (hadn't realised how many campaigns I'm in are run by him!) to plot out some more of the campaigns I'm running.
Very sick since last Thursday. Just got medication from the doctor. Hoping that the fever finally breaks.
Yikes. I hope it does, too! Being sick always stinks. I'm actually on spring break from teaching this week, so I'm enjoying a bit of time off. Counting down the weeks until the year is over and praying that God helps me not murder any teenagers until then.
Ouch. Get well soon!
Still need Tobar's rolls. I will bot him in the morning if he hasn't rolled by then.
Welcome back! Hope you had a good time on your cruise!
Thank you! It was a lot of fun, but not nearly long enough. ;)
Need actions from Cathyriel and Tobar.
Sorry, missed that! I'll post in a bit
Four 1s in a row. Nice.
Time to play the lottery!
Still need Cathyriel's actions.
My bad - posting now!
Even if some of them ARE human, they've just openly claimed that Onthooth, the presumed instigator of the stalker infiltration and attack on Talmandor's Bounty, killed ALL the former colonists and "needs more test subjects"...presumably us and the rest of the second wave.
I'm not putting any faith in a deal offered by something that sees our entire colony as experimental cattle. Complicity there would make us just as evil as the perpetrator. I'm not ret-conning Gideon's action here; whatever the others do, he's still shooting.
Called out of work today, won't be able to post much until tomorrow.
In case it's not clear, I'm just trying to get them to spill more info, not actually trying to make a bridge with people who kidnap and kill our folks.
(Though the parallels with the colonial era, where the natives kidnap and fight against the colonizers, are evident...)
Still need Cathyriel's actions if she wants to do something besides just Sense Motive.
Not sure what to do here
Okay, I will have you delay for now. Will either update later today or tomorrow depending on when I have time.
Standard Dispel Magic can't work as an area affect thing, right? That's only the Greater version? Can Dispel Magic reverse a Domination effect?
It can dispel a dominate spell if you roll high enough on the caster level check. And yes, only greater dispel can affect an area.
Sorry, last couple days have been a bit manic. I'll post something later.
Tobar is up!
Was I able to save one of the injured humans with my action? Are there any humans left that are still bleeding out?
Yes, sorry forgot to mention it. You saved one human, there's one more bleeding out.
Can we say that I burned a CMW after the fight with the ugothols? Or did we go straight from that into this one?
You could have healed yourself in between.
Hi all - just to let you know that a few weeks back my work pattern changed and I'm now going to have difficulty posting much on Mon, Weds and Thurs.
I will do my best on Mon/Wed/Thurs to post in-combat stuff to keep the game moving, but it will most likely be just a dice roll and a couple lines of text - anything like long RP, exposition, replies to PMs, etc. is going to have to be on other days.
I'm not dropping out, and I'm certainly NOT abandoning the games I'm running. But posting from me has been a lot slower than previously for a while now and I wanted to post the explanation.
Hope that's ok. I will do my best not to be 'that person' who slows everything up :)
So, are you going to turn on the power generator, then?
After unplugging everything but a single worker yes. :)
Agreed!
What could possibly go wrong :/
@DM - just checking that you've remembered that we all have Resist Electricity 10 when you're calculating damage rolls :)