DM Brainiac's War for the Crown: Table 1 (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

Bartelby has Craft Wand from his previous build. I will give him Forge Ring as his 9th level feat.

Let me know if there's anything specific you guys want to do while waiting for the rakshasas and the monks to perform their assassinations. If not, I'll move things along.

Zhi and I are getting busy. Otherwise Mel has no particular plans!

EDIT: Potions of cure serious wounds (3), scroll of interposing hand, scroll of lightning bolt, scroll of polymorph, +1 mithral full plate, +2 warhammer, cloak of resistance +3, ring of protection +3, keys to keep, Roderus signet ring, teleportation glyph

If we sell -
Full Plate: 5750gp
Warhammer: 4156gp
Cloak: 4500gp
Ring: 9000gp
Signet Ring: 100gp

Total: 23,506 sale.
Shares: 4,701.2 gp.

Mel would like the Cloak and the Ring if no-one else wants them - which costs her 13500, and she can regain 6000 of that selling her old ones so that would be 7500 out of her total share of 16,036.5gp

So:
Mel: Cloak +3, Ring +3, 85036.5
Sara: Ring of Nastyness, 6,036.5
Zil: Candle, Beads, 7236.5gp
Zhi: 16,036.5gp
MAria: 16,036.5gp

I believe there is the matter of certain moneys used for a permanent telepathic bond.

I think Zhi and I can pay you back after this :)

50/50 sweetie or do I pay because it was my idea?

Zhi will pay her half. I don't remember how much we borrowed, though.

Zhi wants to do the bloodline retraining. At her current level it'll cost 1650 gp. I'll put up a fluff post for it in a bit.

Zhi will pay her half. I don't remember how much we borrowed, though.

Zhi wants to do the bloodline retraining. At her current level it'll cost 1650 gp. I'll put up a fluff post for it in a bit.

It cost us 12.5K and you've already paid 8 so I'll pay the other 4.5k to Zil :) You are welcome to use Mel's money too of course!

Mel: Cloak +3, Ring +3, 4036.5
Sara: Ring of Nastyness, 6,036.5
Zil: Candle, Beads, 11,736.5gp
Zhi: 16,036.5gp
Maria: 16,036.5gp

Incidentally; I'm stumped on what to do for the last two persona phases (from before we spoke with the Sin Monks and this latest one). I've just been having really bad writer's block with Maria lately.

That's okay. The Persona Phases seem to have less of an impact the higher level you reach. Missing a couple won't really affect things too much.

In the downtime, would it be possible to add an additional +2 to Zhi's rapier? It looks like, cost-wise, it would be 24k gold which would burn through almost the entirety of her current funds.

Yes, that's fine. Plenty of high level artisans in the city.

I will advance time tomorrow morning to after the monks finish their assignment.

Hope you liked the little synchroncitiy aside. Both campaign's dates happened to briefly coincide, so I thought it would be fun to recognize that.

I approve heartily! Shame we won't be able to bring the girls along to bash the Runelords!

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

Perhaps this may not have been the best of plans...

Probably not but Mel had other, more personal reasons for not going through with this...

Plan? There was a plan?! Nobody tells me nuthin'. *grumble, grumble*

:)

She backed out because she wasn't going to cheat on her pregnant wife! But no-one knew exactly when the assassination was going to be done...

If we gained a triumph for taking over the spy network, what changes affected the Crusader's Band and the Standard?

Standard: The standard bearer and allies within 60 feet who can see the standard gain a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls. When the standard bearer calls for a battle charge, each affected creature is also affected by greater heroism with a duration of 1 minute.

Band: Each element can be activated one additional time each day to use a different spell: the Taldan flag for sending, the eye of Aroden for death ward, and the onyx for wall of stone.

Will be a while till I get the map up, but Sara and Zhi will arrive in position to full attack Dismaal with a 5 ft step. Maria will have to move to attack her. There is room behind her on the bed if you wish to try to set up a flank.

Map is up. Apologies for the poor quality--best I could do on my iPad. Will get a better version up on Monday.

So if all those land, she will be blind and sickened for a d4+(1 round for every five it beats her CMB), and shaken for 12 rounds, and need to spend a standard action to remove either blind or sickened, at which time reinstating that+hitting her with another debuff (entangled probably) will be my highest priority. If we manage to put her down without her calling for help, this'll be rather short.

All of the status effects were successful, so she is in a bad way.

Hey y'all, my Star Wars game is still in recruitment for another couple days. Some strong submissions so far (including one from Zileska), but still plenty of room and concepts that haven't been touched yet, no pressure, just if you're interested, :).

Mel wouldn't have argued if you'd killed Dismaal Sara - but given that 'Jeroth' could simply throw the assassins out that seemed a lot easier than having to fight the entire monastery at once!

She might have argued if your whole show of dominance was to get Dismaal into your bed but at this point I don't think she'd consider it out of the realm of possibility! :P

It's all good, Sara wanted to own a league of assassins, lol

Using the enemy of my enemy... Mel can justify that. Running a league of assassins... no. Not squaring that circle...

All that treasure leads to a fair split of 480 g each, Sara will be taking the wine as her share, and putting in 360 of her own money to cover what the wine would have given everyone else.

Who should get the manual of gainful exercise, Sara or Maria?

Probably Sara.

Zhi will throw in 20gp to take the tea set as her share.

... could we take over the monastery and convert it into something useful?

Sure, if you want a secret sewer lair in the city.

We could have a women's shelter in the sewer?

My thinking is:
1. I don't wanna have to lug all the books out to shelve them at my academy for wayward youth.
2. If we just leave it empty something bad will move in. Though maybe that will give new low-level adventurers (like my cohorts!) something to do.
3. We don't have to spend any money to build it!

But it's in, like, the worst possible location. :(

We could build a new entrance?

If we're looking for something like that then let's just wait until we inevitably have to clear out the rakshasas' manor. That would be a much nicer shelter/school. :)

Last thing I plan to do as 'Jeroth' is to legally transfer the building to someone in the group. (It'll be Zhi unless someone else asks). So that could be a good base!

I wouldn't mind owning the tea shop if we're all claiming properties in the city. Same with Caradinna Farkin's house from Yanmass, actually, which are both places where we've found dead bodies after outing people as having replaced those dead bodies (Inga and the hags)? So that's a weird coincidence, but a fitting one for Sara.

Edited for clarity

I can't really go back to Yanmass, particularly as I have no way of replicating Farkin - but I can convincingly be anyone we've met here so that would work.

:)

Dismaal's gear includes potions of barkskin (2), potions of cure serious wounds (2), potions of owl’s wisdom (3); mwk temple sword, amulet of mighty fists +1, belt of physical might +2 (Dex, Con), cloak of resistance +2, ring of protection +2

Dismaal’s wardrobe contains three noble’s outfits and seven courtier’s outfits, as well as assorted jewelry worth a total of 1,200 gp. The emerald set above the door is worth 2,000 gp.

The monks present Iovinus's gear: potion of protection from fire, potions of shield of faith (2), wand of cure moderate wound (22 charges), +2 gold‑plated adamantine full plate, mwk buckler, +1 light flail, belt of mighty constitution +2, cape of the mountebank, ring of protection +1, Iovinus signet ring, gold holy symbol of Abadar (100 gp)

Lots more gear here. Leaving potions aside we get:

Total: 35,365
Individual: 7,073

I think someone (Zhi?) should have the cloak of the Montebank.

Suggested potions: Owl's Wisdom - Sara (will buff), Barkskin - Sara/Zhi, Cure - whoever, Shield of F - Maria/Zhi?, Prot Fire - Mel (bad memories!), Wand - Zil.

Well Sara reported Inga (or the description of Inga) as having killed Farkin (her "lover") so I imagine the bank owns her house now or however it works in Taldor.

Let me know what you want to do next.

In all seriousness - go to the town notary (or whoever is in charge) and file the paperwork for transfer of ownership on the tea shop and the manor. :)

Mel just became my first ever alias to break 1000 posts. Unlike almost all my other alias's Mel was made for this game and has only ever posted here so thanks to all of you for making this game so awesome that I post a lot! :)

Woo! Very nice.

My DM Brainiac alias has over 9,000 posts, but I don't think that counts! My next closest is Raquel Cailean from the Kingmaker game I'm in. She's currently at 375 posts, but we're only at the end of Book 1.

Great job.

This is my alias with the most posts as well. Well, technically, her pre-marriage alias has the most posts. But in my head, they're the same thing. :)

S&~&, I just realised. Other than the artifact ring, I haven't added any loot to Maria's sheet since we got into Zimar. Bugger.

And you'll go, 'Look at all the cool stuff I've got!'

:)

Like the f#*#ing scads of money we've fallen into

Mostly the cash. I feel like I need some stuff. Maybe to magic up her armour a bit or get some more stat-boosts.

Now that this scene is starting to wind down, let me know what you want to do next. I believe earlier you floated the ideas of either confronting the rakshasas in the manor or trying to track down a hippopotamus.

They do both need to get done (or we could kill the oytugh instead of ceding to his demands). Could I use the holy spear as an improvised holy quarterstaff? RAW, I'm positive the answer is no, but gotta ask.

You wouldn't get the benefits of the holy enchantment unless you use the spear as it is intended to be used. :P