DM Brainiac's Ruins of Azlant: Pretty Women and Green Men (COMPLETE!) (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

Still need Kip's actions for the round.

Sorry, I had to work the weekend and things are just settling down. (Postponed vacation, boo).

Is Kip with Simon & Victrix right nw? Or is he with Ema?

Do we already know where the sea hag's lair is?

EDIT: Never mind--searched through the thread and we do in fact, have a map leading us to the hag's lair.

Simon, I assume you'll want to wait until the morning to visit the locathah? It is currently late at night.

34 posts since last night?? What happened? Are we dead!?

Well, the faceless stalker we took captive is dead.

Simon, I assume you'll want to wait until the morning to visit the locathah? It is currently late at night.

Yes, that is fine. I'm not going out into the night by myself.

Not likely to get a post done until late tonight/early tomorrow as I have a full day of Slot 0s for Gencon, possibly tomorrow as well. I'll have something up as soon as I can manage it though.

It doesn't fit the personalities of the NPCs present, but I really wanted somebody to say, "Well, you don't look a day over nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine!"

i can't recall, which page was the order placed on?

Kip placed his order at the top of the previous discussion page HERE

I placed my custom order on the page before that HERE and apparently ordered a Ring and not an Amulet, so I need to fix that on my character sheet.

I guess I should eventually sell my Ring of Protection now...

As far as I can tell, you and Victrix appear to be saving up for something big.

That's right, thanks for pointing them out to me. Sadly there isn't a lot I can buy that I really need just yet. Add to it that I can craft stuff myself now there isn't a need to. Just gotta get around to doing the crafting.

Map is up on the second slide. The elemental icons are placeholders for the undead.

I will be out of town at Gencon this Wednesday through Sunday so my posting will be very sparse/non-existent until possibly next Monday. Please bot me as needed.

Where are we on the map?

The hole in the ceiling would put you down in the center of the upper room.

@GM: Putting the mossy disk in the Ioun Gauntlet would grant:
+5 Knowledge (Engineering), +1 Appraise, AND +1 Linguistics or is the Appraise only when it is put into a Wayfinder?

@Team: I would love to keep both the gauntlet and the new stone, but am more than willing to give them up to anyone else who wants them.

The Appraise bonus works when it's in a wayfinder or the gauntlet. So you'd get all three bonuses.

Updating list

As a reminder, here are the tasks remaining:

- Survey the island:
- Find a quarry for stone buildings
- Prospect precious metals or ore (the calcite might count for this)
- Flag forests for lumber camps
- Discover peaceful indigenous inhabitants (there might be more)
- Abandoned Ulfen Settlement
- Clear haunt and last room of laboratory
- follow the final coordinates to island
- Waterfall Cave
- Sunken Laboratory
- Crystal Monument
- Ancient Observatory

I am pretty sure we have coordinates for the Strix settlement. The new coordinates might lead to one of Carver's other locations...

Not sure what else we have to go on. I could go either way, but I think the Strix are closest.

Did we fully explore the crater? How far from town are we? If possible I'd like to go gather supplies to dig out the bodies melted into the stone so we can put them to rest before the spirits grow restless again.

You've explored everything here except the locked room. Town is only a few miles away.

Ooh Paizo Campaign Tools appears to be working again :)

I am in for going back to town for that purpose, though trying to dig the skeleton out with picks would make me nervous. Magic would be better.

Maybe we can recruit one of the priests to come along and have an actual burial.

*Eyes light up*

Ohohoh! I have a solution!

BTW: Maybe the rest of you heard this already, but the word "Green" in the link name is what is causing the text to be green.

Weird bug that Paizo is working on fixing.

Great teamwork on that haunt, people.

Ema, I never would have thought to use ths elemental for excavation. Way to know your abilities!

So, we are back to deciding what to do next. We can make a trip to Vriskrisa, but that is 1.5 days each way.

I'm not sure how far it is to the Strix settlement.

The next coordinates require swimming or a boat and sound as if they are a bit of a trip.

I have no preference, but suggest the Strix simply because it is closer.

The coordinates lead to the strix settlement. They are both on the island off the northwest coast.

That makes things easier.

Do people want to borrow a boat, or should we swim?

@GM Just so I understand... The language most of the Strix are speaking is different than the language I know of as Strix?

Yes, it's actually a language called Syrinx. Only the strix of Cheliax speak what you know of as Strix. You may retrain languages when you level up if you like.

No problem Simon, it just leads to more potential story as you "go out of your way" to annoy Ema. I know you aren't meaning too but it's working out that way and I'll likely do something with it it...eventually.

MwaHAHAHAHA!

@GM That's fine. I was going to work Simon's confusion into a gameplay post and just wanted to sure that I understood correctly.

@Ema Some of it is intentional. Simon has never had siblings, and has somewhat adopted each of the party members as surrogates. Ema happens to be the sibling that he has a rivalry with. Not that he understands what he is doing...

Looks like the site is working again, I have a large post ready to go when I get home from work tonight so try not to go too far on me please.

Maybe here, but not in some of my other games.

...is it staying up now?

That's what she said! ;)

:)

I guess I was hoping to maybe spur something happening in the gameplay thread...

I am glad that Simon conveniently is elsewhere every time that Ema discusses her belief that she is Azlanti.

It's... back?

More from me soon. Difficult to type while pinned under a sleepy baby.

I can sympathize.

So, the retraining rules for languages aren't really retraining, if I read them correctly.

You actually gain an additional language that doesn't count against your regular maximum (starting + bonus + linguistics) but it takes 20 days and you have to share a language with someone who knows that language or have a book to help.

That's not going to work with Kalikk.

Maybe I could take a spell tax and use Comprehend Languages to work with her for an hour a day?

I can get a book from the library and help her to learn Common as well.

Looks like leveling up will be the best way to learn to speak with our new friend, but I am willing to try this scenario. I doubt we have 20 days until we have to battle the hag, though.

You can use comprehend languages and work with her while you travel together to allow rudimentary conversation, since Strix and Syrinx are similar enough. You can switch them out when you level up at no charge.

That works :)

Reading up on what I missed and posting soon. (As in tonight)

Huh. No more green text.

I'm both happy and sad this happened.

Yeah, I noticed last night when the site started not displaying nicely on my phone again. I was kind of getting used to it.

Sadly, the website is blocked at work now so I can't post while on breaks anymore. =/

Eager to start hacking away at this clump of bushes!

I will bot Kip if he hasn't posted by the morning.

Sorry about that. It's been much more difficult to post reliably lately.