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

Game Master Brainiac

Yes, you can roll to assist Ema, Victrix.

Out of town unexpectedly this weekend, my sister just had her baby so I'm on my way to see my newest little nephew.

Assume I pass info on and not me as needed.

Victrix prepares to take flight up to the second floor of the building.

Are you going to Alter Self or do you want Kip's spell?

I'll take the spell.

OK, then.

Can you carry me up? (~250 lbs)

Kip can climb. I could as well, but I'd have to take a minute to brew an extract first, and it doesn't feel like we have that kind of time.

I think I can...

Would I be able to fly over the fire by the stairs with my 60 feet of flight speed?

Yes, the fire only reaches up 5 feet.

I think we need to get some backup in here.

You can send Oorka out for help. She could make it back in a few rounds with somebody...

I know Not-Carver implied that he has been a stalker the whole time, but how would he have passed the food test at the party, if that were the case?

Irrelevant at the moment, naturally.

He had a higher Fortitude save and Bluff check, so he was able to hide his discomfort better and keep down the food before throwing it up later.

Will post combat update in morning when I have more time.

If anyone has some way of getting these stalkers off me, now's a good time to do it.

I think I can try to free myself from the grapple and then 5'step out of the flank to the north, but I'm going to wait on everyone else's actions before I do something.

I don't have any way to help other than attacking.

I think this fight may be too tough for us. We're going to have to sacrifice the building, and at this point I'm not sure if we can spare the time to save Medrinnah.

Kalikk is probably already dead in the fire. A general channel may be her only chance at getting out of this death trap.

We definitely need to get out of being surrounded and I'm not sure we can keep this fight going for the couple of rounds it is going to take for Oorka to get us some support.

Well, the water elemental's touch can extinguish fires up to Large size. Now that the flames have joined together on the east wall, it can put them all out at once with a single standard action. So there's that, at least...

Seriously, I really need healing before I attempt to escape.

Kip can hit you with cure moderate wounds. You can roll for it: 2d8+6.

Here in this thread or in the gameplay thread?

Either one.

CMW: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 5) + 6 = 16

And no more bleed damage! Yay!

Wow, just caught up and it looks like we're having a bad day. I've got one more channel that could help after this round, though I'd be healing the enemies more too, and 3-18 is a really big range, and doesn't help as much when we're getting cut down for almost 40 damage in a round.

On the map, who's the brown haired person? I assume the upside down/white haired person is Kalikk?

He’s only doing that much damage because we didn’t kill the mooks first. That was a serious tactical blunder on our part.

Also, should I take the channel HP instead of the CMW heal?

Medrinnah is the brown-haired girl on the map. Kalikk is upside down.

The lesser stalkers have AC 14 and 32 hp. They would indeed have been much easier to take out first, denying Not!Carver his sneak attacks.

I'll have Kip use his cmw this round and move out the window, then I'll apply the channel healing next round. Round update coming soon.

The psychic cavalry has arrived!

In other news, I have family in town this weekend, so I might not be able to post much until Monday morning.

Yay! Have a good weekend!

And this quote feels quite appropriate right now. :)

Sorry if I messed up the order. I couldn't tell if the Cure Mod was this round or last round.

No worries. Just need Emma's actions now.

I think we should try to keep one of the mooks alive. We'll need to find their village to put an end to their attacks.

Does the government building have a basement?

No, but there is a private office where you interrogated the last faceless stalker.

Just as a note, diamond spray would have torn up the front part of the building pretty well as it ignores hardness iirc.

I’d like to conduct the interrogation there once I get healing.

Happy 3000 posts!

Sorry about that. Was away this weekend for my brother's bachelor party. Victrix, please remember that if you need healing while we're out of combat, Kip will happily heal you with the wand of cure light wounds. It's currently got 13 charges left (in my profile under "Tracked Resources", and if you post how many charges you're using I'll update the tracker as soon as I'm able to post.

I'll bring the interrogation scene to a close once I get home. I'll probably need another lesser restoration once I'm done.

Sorry for the delay in posting. I’ll try to put a post up this afternoon.

No problem. I'll move things along after your post.

In the meantime, everybody has gained enough XP to reach level 7, so you can go ahead and level up while you wait. :)

Level Up Summary

+1 Barbarian

+2 Rage Rounds

+9 HP

+1 Fort/Ref/Will Saves

+1 BaB

+1 Fire Resistance

+1 Damage Reduction

New Feat: Quick Draw

New Rage Power: Regenerative Stance

5 Skill Ranks
--2 Diplomacy
--2 Sense Motive
--1 Perception

My leveling is nearly complete.

Notable: Sickening Strike Investigator Talent, 3rd level extracts.

I won't be able to post much over the weekend.

Everyone please look at the loot spreadsheet and see if you want anything.

I could probably swap my machete for that enchanted short sword if no one else wants it.

The machete can stay at home.

I'll be working on this tonight/this weekend. Been too busy to do much posting in general the last day or so let alone level.

Ring of protection would be nice but it should go to a front liner before me. I'll likely take the scrolls I can cast and scribe them into my book so we have them available whenever and in numbers.

I would keep the necklaces of adaptation for party use if we need them.

Also, those constructs we have been finding, what kind were they in general, clockwork or something else. Taking craft construct this level and I will need to start putting ranks into the necessary skills to work on them.

They are mostly clockworks.

I have a ring of protection. I think Victrix does as well.

I'd like the Boots of Elvenkind, but I feel like I've been taking more than my share of treasure.

I think I will return the Cloak of the Manta Ray to the list of loot. If nobody wants it, we can sell it.

It is mostly duplicative for me now, with the Enchanted Eelskin.

I may try to scribe formulas from some of the scrolls, but there isn't much else that I'm interested in.

Loot Distribution:

Moved to storage:
2x Necklace of Air Adaptation
Pewter Cufflink with Andoren Seal
Silver Statue of Desna and Pharasma
Carver's Wayfinder

Ema:
Ring of Protection
Scrolls of Corrosive Touch, Mage Armor, Fox's Cunning

Kip:
Scrolls of Darkness, Delay Poison, Restoration

Simon
Signaling Mirror, Spyglass

Victrix
+1 Short sword, 2 potions CMW

Being Sold
+1 Chain Shirt
+1 Light Steel Shield (spiral and star symbol)
Alchemical Reagents
Spellguard Bracers
Wand Expeditious Retreat (26)
Spell Lattice (Disfiguring Touch)
Longsword (4)
Oil of Darkness
+1 Glamered Leather Armor
Mwk Light Crossbow
Mwk Longsword
Boots of Elvenkind
Bottles of Messages (2)
Dust of Tracelessness
Cloak of Manta Ray
Liquid Assets

From Sale: 14,465.5
Share: 2,893.1

Party Fund at 6,430.26

Purchases:
Mwk Thieves' Tools

With all of this talk of constructs, I'm beginning to get worried about encountering some. I have a healthy fear of constructs that appear to be random statues or columns.

@GM Are there any Deathwatch Eyes available?

1d100 ⇒ 49

Yes, you can buy a pair.

Done. Construct/Undead detection enabled.