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

Game Master Brainiac

Map updated!

I didn't think I was in the room as Zhi went in first and Mel stays back.

If not. Will: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34

It is a 60 foot spread so it goes out into the hall as well.

Zileska and Zhi still need to make their saves against the spores before I can resolve the round.

Oh damn it i just remembered that undead can't be affected by things requiring a FORT save unless it also applies to objects. F~&~. Could the auto crit from CDG count as a confirmed crit for Outflank?

Yes that is fine.

Mel is holding for now, I wanna see how the damage dealers do with the shade first :)

Sara has my favorite g%%!%~n build of any melee character I've ever played; takes off her shoe and slams it into the side of a shadow and it can't move or act for 7 rounds

Still need the damage roll for the flame strike.

Whoops, Melodie still has an action. The Secret Shade is down but the other enemies are still up.

Sara can act normally this round. Forgot to update map, will do so tomorrow.

Map updated. Still need Sara's actions.

Moved Zhi's token to reflect her actions.

Time to sit back and let the wreckers do their work :D

Pretty sure both inevitable are down after those attacks. Will write up a long post tonight or tomorrow.

Not gonna do the full write-up for levelling because this turned out to be something of a dead level - or a dull one, at least.

+6 HP
+1 Int
A crap-ton of skills because Investigator
Studied Strike increases to 7d6
+1 6th level extract per day
New extract: Walk Through Space

+5 HP
+1 Cha
+1 Ref/Will
10 skill points
2 6th level spells/day
New spells: Irresistable Dance, Overwhelming Presence.
Mes Trick: Cursed Sanction.

Why do Mesmerists not get Dominate Monster as a 6th level spell???

16th - Arcane Trickster

Caster Level is now 13th

+1 REF
+1 WIL

+1 DEX

+1 LVL Sorcerer

Invisible Thief (cast greater invisibility as a free action, # rounds per day equal to Trickster level )
Tricky Spells 5/day (cast spell without verbal and somatic)

9 Skill Points:

Acrobatics +1, Diplomacy +3, Disable Device +1, Perception +1, Sleight of Hand +2, Stealth +1

Spells:

4 - phantasmal killer
5 - mask from divination
6 - disintegrate

@ Brainiac ... Zhi's Dex increased so her Init modifier went up to +7

Thanks for the heads up!

By the way, we are about to start the final book of the AP! We're in the endgame now... :)

I will post in the morning.

I can't wait to get out of the Lawful Boring plane and back to a place where banishment works on outsiders. :P

Yeah going to Axis really threw a wrenxh in my plans, cause I was gonna have Sara spend this book learning magic from the person who sent her the letter (who I had a whole plotline in mind for even), but now I can't super justify her going one level of wizard in the storyline just for +5 to Diplomacy. Like sure she's interested but ain't no one taught her anything.

So I'm guessing she'll be taking another level of fighter?

HP: 1d10 ⇒ 8

She's gonna immediately sell that Orb of Law for the 30k and the bulk of that is gonna go to Bartleby to upgrade her +4 CHA headband to a +4 everything headband, skill points are gonna go into UMD and K. Arcana. The other 6k will go to pay back Maria from the end of the last book, as will 4k of the rest of our loot.

Increase STR to 24 which does a lot for a lot of things, my combat feat'll be Shinigami Manipulation to turn my light improvised weapons to 3d8s and my two handers to 5d8 I think?

Skills: Dip, Intimidate, Perception and Sense Motive. Sleight of Hand and Handle Animal, as always.

Fort and BAB up by one, extra iterative attack, a couple of my weird cad stuff goes up by one.

Also unless she destroyed it, Sara's going to keep the Stabbing Beast's scorpion tail as a trophy and a weapon.

Lastly, Zileska, I'm guessing the misdemeanor date between Zil and Sara already happened then?. Does that work for you? I can hop on starting it back up in backposting if so

This AP was designed with more lawfully inclined characters in mind (Hell's Rebels being more for chaotic characters). As such, the extended detour to Axis was admittedly not the best fit for this group. Hopefully it wasn't too disagreeable for you, the players, at least. We now return to your regularly scheduled Taldan AP.

You can keep the scorpion tail.

I didn't dislike it. I thought it actually brought a nice contrast to some of the more free spirited(?) characters - Zhi and Zileska in particular.

At least in a 'Gods, how can anyone live like this?' kinda way. :)

And it makes it mean that much more when they get to return to their home city with its dirty streets and crime.

Oops, made a mistake earlier. Eutropia's death is not yet public knowledge. Only you and the people in the palace know that she is dead.

Oh I the player loved Axis and thought it was a surprising and amusing diversion. Sara the character hated it; so much that she might even shift over to CN after being exposed to the bureaucracy. I'd love to play this AP as a hardcore worshiper of Norgorber, either as the assassin or as the Reaper of Reputation, it'd be great for this AP.

I don't mind the trip to Axis as a player (though some of their choices about how afterlives work are weird), Zileska just hates it on principle. :)

Sara: Sure, we can backdate our little civil disturbance.

Cleric 16

+1 Wisdom

+1 BAB, Fort and Will saves
+6 hit points

1 7th and 1 8th-level spell
+1 to: Diplomacy, Heal, Knowledge (planes), Knowledge (religion), Spellcraft; Escape Artist, Profession (courtesan)

New minor cohort: Mylene Babineaux, female half-elf ranger - Instructor in woodcraft and nature

Also never chose my minor cohort for 14th level, which is: Odrik Kehrz, male dwarf expert - architect and groundskeeper

My minor cohorts should all be about 12th level now!

DM: Once we are done with Axis and have heard what happened to Eutropia, Zileska will cast soulseeker to find out if her soul is really gone.

Also, I think I forgot to update my loot - I need to go back and find the last loot post. I'm gonna run the numbers, but construction on the academy should be well underway when we return home.

I think there could be... significant problems with that! :P

On the other hand I am playing it in another game as Bartelby and Martella's younger brother, Caspian. :)

Need a poll from my fellow players - should I go for PC-PC romance, or try to romance Eutropia? :D

Zileska, your spell will fail without providing any information.

That is itself good information!

Would Raise Dead work on Taldogis? Then we could Speak with Animal and try to learn some more. Sara loves animals and deffo wants to help the poor pup

You can raise Taldogis.

If we had a 9th-level druid we could follow that with awaken.

Were we given a time of death? Even a rough one? If not, assume Maria asked Mel to get as clear a timeline as possible from anyone she was interviewing.

Some time in the middle of the night 2 nights ago.

Melodie: Any chance you can pick up a way to use retrocognition?

If we grab a scroll I can do it. :)

I found out today for the first time that clerics and shamans and other prepared divine casters don't hafta prep all their spells all at once. Way more versatility than I had thought previously.

Yep, I just found that out a couple of weeks ago. I was like ... 'No Way!'. It drastically changed the nature of those classes in my mind.

Maybe I should actually read this big book that I paid so much money for. ;) :)

Yeah, leave some slots open and take 15 mins to fill them. Works well when you have somewhere to retreat to, but I used to do it with a couple of prepped and we kept getting jumped/wandering into combats so all I had was an empty spell-slot...

Sometimes just filling it so you can burn it with a spontaneous cure is the better choice.

I assume Zileska will have to rest to prepare raise dead, so you can talk to Taldogis in the morning, asssuming you got a scroll of speak with animals. :)

I'm actually kind of surprised that Sara can't do that already.

Can speak with animals be made permanent?

Tongues can but that one cannot.

Zileska, let me know if you are going to try to use speak with souls and I will post accordingly.

Since we need the extra day to raise Taldogis in the first place, might as well.

Helping my wife move their family up north, posting is gonna be wonky for a while.

Ok that pearly white spindle ioun stone is hoss.

It is regeneration. But at 1 HP per ten minutes, at the current rate that we take damage ...? That's not going to put a big dent in our healing requirements.

Have we had any more triumphs? I'm curious about whether the dagger is any more powerful. :)