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Damn straight. ;) Or very very gay... :D
I've updated the campaign info tab with information about each of the seven organizations you need to influence, including their starting attitude, biases, and which skills you can use for discovery checks. You'll need to decide if you want to go to Oppara personally or use your agents to try to influence them.
Arcane Trickster: 10
BAB +1
HP +6
+1 Sorcerer CL (now 14th)
Sneak Attack: +1d6 (now 7d6)
Feat:
Accomplished Sneak Attacker
New Spell:
Spell Turning
Skill Points: 7 + 2 background
Acrobatics +1, Diplomacy +1, Disable Device +1, Intimidate +2, Perception +1, Stealth +1, Sleight of Hand +2
Surprise Spells:
At 10th level, an arcane trickster can add her sneak attack damage to any spell that deals damage, if the targets are flat-footed. This additional damage only applies to spells that deal hit point damage, and the additional damage is of the same type as the spell. If the spell allows a saving throw to negate or halve the damage, it also negates or halves the sneak attack damage.
Mesmerist 17.
+5 HP
Feat: Improved Initiative (Initiative now +8)
Manifold Tricks up to 5.
New spell: Waves of Ecstasy.
Extra 5th and 6th level spell/day.
Skill points: many. (6+1+1+2).
Can someone go through and sort out the loot? We'll need it I think!
Cleric 17
Basically get one thing: a 9th-level spell.
Feat too! :D Similar to my level up otherwise. :)
Yeah but at this level most feats are kinda garbage compared to the stuff I'll be doing with spells. I might just take Improved Spell Penetration.
I went improved init simply because going earlier means I can end fights sooner... there was nothing else I wanted.
Incidentally, if we want a really hard-to-breach safe space, I could cast create greater demiplane. :)
Material cost for permenancy on that is foul!
Yeah but a non-permanent one still lasts 17 days. Plenty of time to start our operations.
Investigator 17.
+6 HP
Feat: Improved Initiative (Initiative now +9) - I couldn't think of anything better
New Investigator Talent: Sickening Offensive (When the investigator damages a studied target, that creature is also sickened for 1 round.)
New Formula: True Seeing
Extra 5th and 6th level Extract/day.
Skill points: A bloody mountain!
I'll sort loot if no one else is already doing it. It might take a moment or so though.
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Loot Breakdown!!
Alright, I didn't spend a lot of time formatting this - it's ugly. Here is everything that we could possibly cart away, the individual prices, how many of each and the line total. I cheated on the magic weapons and didn't include the original value of the weapon.
bird feather token 300 14 4200
oil of flame arrow 750 7 5250
potion of blur 300 7 2100
potion of lesser restoration 300 14 4200
potion of shield of faith (CL 12) 600 14 8400
scabbard of keen edges 16000 7 112000
giant wasp poison 210 21 4410
studded leather armor +2 4000 7 28000
composite short bow +1 (+3 str) 2000 7 14000
rapier +2 8000 7 56000
belt of incredible dexterity +2 4000 7 28000
cloak of resistance +2 4000 7 28000
cold-iron fey-bane crossbow bolt +1 200 15 3000
corrosive crossbow bolt +2 360 20 7200
greater hushing bolt 1047 4 4188
wand of deeper darkness (47 charges) 10575 1 10575
shadow leather armor +4 19750 1 19750
heartseeker shortsword +4 50000 1 50000
masterwork hand crossbow 400 1 400
amulet of natural armor +4 32000 1 32000
belt of the weasel 10000 1 10000
cloak of resistance +3 9000 1 9000
ring of protection +1 2000 1 2000
looted furniture 8200 1 8200
first printings of many books 3000 1 3000
preserving table 6000 1 6000
paintings 1800 5 9000
iron bands of binding 26000 1 26000
boro bead (5th lvl) 25000 1 25000
bottled misfortune 500 3 1500
elixir of gold dragon breath 1400 1 1400
oil of stone shape 750 1 750
potion of cure serious wounds 750 8 6000
potion of inflict serious wounds 750 3 2250
potion of remove curse 750 2 1500
gold chain 150 1 150
gem of seeing 75000 1 75000
chalice of poison weeping 8000 1 8000
a rose gold tiara set with flower-shaped diamonds 12300 1 12300
a rope of over 100 pearls 6600 1 6600
twisted platinum ring with a starburst-shaped ruby gem 4900 1 4900
yellow gold navel ring fashioned with a citrine-and-onyx wasp ornament 3150 1 3150
silver-and-jade amulet designed in a complex knotwork pattern 2200 1 2200
shadow chain shirt +4 19750 1 19750
amulet of mighty fists +2 16000 1 16000
belt of incredible dexterity +4 16000 1 16000
cloak of resistance +4 16000 1 16000
staff of conjuration 82000 1 82000
dagger +1 2002 1 2002
amulet of natural armor +3 18000 1 18000
belt of mighty constitution +6 36000 1 36000
cloak of resistance +5 25000 1 25000
headband of vast intelligence +6 36000 1 36000
ring of protection +4 32000 1 32000
small diamond 2500 6 15000
jailor's dungeon ring 16000 1 16000
prisoner's dungeon ring 250 2 500
Gross total 975825
Sell total 487912.5
Share Value 97582.5
returning many family heirlooms and artwork 16000 3200.0 each
Total Share: 100782.5 gp each
Items noted above that people would like:
Melodie wanted the shadow chain shirt +4
Maria was looking at the cloak of resistance +4, but there's one that's a +5 in the list and I put her name on it.
Melodie was indicating having Sara take the amulet of mighty fists +2
After seeing her wife's eyes light up at the sight of it, there's no way Zhi was letting the gold tiara get away. ;)
Please note that if you're taking something out of the above, only reduce your share amount by half of the value.
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Some things I wasn't going to try to value:
The books containing all wizard spells from levels 1 through 7, as well as dimensional lock, etherealness, gate, greater create demiplane, and greater planar binding.
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I'm also assuming that we released the prisoners that were being held in the cells that we told to stay there until we'd cleared the place - kinda forgot about them. :) :)
I'll take the wasp-themed gold navel ring (full value on this because it's jewelry) and giant wasp poison. That's 5,355 off of my share.
Well crap.
I discounted the gems and jewelry as well. Give me a few and I can get an adjusted total. :)
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Thanks for this Zhi - and friggin heck that's stupid money each! Good thing Oppara has huge purchase limits!
Adjusting for the gems/jewelry selling at 100% value gives individual shares of:
105,212.5 gp ea
When you are ready, you can make your first round of three social checks for day 1.
On this first day, Taldor celebrates the naming of its next grand prince and approaching coronation with festivals and military parades, filling the streets with colorful dancers and peddlers. The hustle and bustle on the streets makes it possible to roam the streets relatively unnoticed, eliminating the normal additional agent loss that accompanies the PCs’ physical presence in Oppara. The free-flowing wine helps loosen lips, granting a +2 circumstance bonus on discovery checks.
105,212.5
9,875 -
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95,337.5 gp
Can I get a Mask of the Mesmerist as a necklace or something similar? It might fit better with Melodie singing rather than staring.
Just checking the timeline.
Is the first day of celebration the same day we arrived in Oppara? Spell slots, etc, haven't replenished?
We rested overnight at the base first I think. Then went to Oppara with a full set of spells etc.
Yes, you rested so you are at full capacity.
Melodie can get the mask as a necklace.
If nobody wants that headband of intellect, Maria'll take it as well. Do I subtract their value from Maria's share of currency?
Also, took Divine Fighting Technique—Calistria's Poisoned Lash for my level 17 feat. To go along with that I'm going to buy 6 doses of dragon bile.
If nobody wants that headband of intellect, Maria'll take it as well. Do I subtract their value from Maria's share of currency?
Subtract half of its value from your share. I show the purchase price above.
Zhi's share will end up being:
105,212.5
- 12,300
- 16,000
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76,912.5
Mel's take is above and then I'll drop 25k for my Torc of the Mesmerist.
So Maria's share would be:
105,212.5
-12,500
-18,000
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74712.5
That also gives us a spare cloak of resistance +4 (that I looted earlier in the place) and a spare +2 INT headband if that matters to anyone.
When Maria and Zileska are ready, I'll need Discovery or Influence checks from them.
Discovery on the two investigator groups perhaps? If I'm allowed to suggest strategy ;)
When Maria and Zileska are ready, I'll need Discovery or Influence checks from them.
I have no agents and no ranks in the system so I can't make any rolls.
Zileska should be able to do it herself - hands-on as it were. If I read that correctly, we actually get a penalty if we use our agents (operate at a distance).
Because of the rules for this specific segment, you automatically start taking Charisma damage as soon as you have no agents left. Since I have no agents, I automatically start taking Charisma damage, which can only be mitigated by fleeing, which in turn causes you to lose all accumulated successes. Thus I am incapable of assisting in this phase.
Let’s waive that rule for you Zileska. I don’t want you to sit out the entire section.
What was the roll for a discovery check? Have to admit, I'm really not a fan of the subsystem for this AP.
Brainiac listed them under campaign info - it depends on the group you're investigating.
I think the system is a nice idea but it relies on too much min-maxing. Mel has made use of it because she had crazy bluff from the beginning and could get regular level ups. My other WotC has fluffed his first 2 checks already and I don't know if he'll ever recover from it... And the later books assume that you have a lot to work with...
I like it for the flavor and the options it adds, but some of its just too hard.
Having flubbed the entire first sequence with this character whom I built to have social strengths, I feel you there.
If the system is supposed to be critical for engaging parts of the story, then there needs to be a mechanism by which characters who are supposed to excel at it can do so. And it raises the question of what would happen with a group that didn't have a bunch of social powerhouses - if your team had only one social-strong character, or none at all, do you just lose the war because you can't engage the subsystem?
Having read the AP you don't lose exactly but this bit of the so would be hard. I think the Gm would just have to skip it entirely and go straight into "infiltrate the palace" mode.
That said thus was called out at the start as a 'social skills' AP so you'd like to think people would be ready for that...
Dice on the other hand...
There is an option for this section without agents: “If you aren’t using the optional Agents of Change subsystem, each PC instead begins with a pool of Loyalty points equal to 40 + her Charisma score. Lost agents instead reduce the PC’s Loyalty Points, with the same consequences when the pool is reduced to 0.”
Let’s use that instead.
That sounds great!
Of course we carry on! Mel is having far too much fun to stop now!
4 points to Zhi, 2 to Maria, 3 to Melodie, 6 to Sara, 4 to Zileska. I feel like this will be pretty irrelevant from now on. :)
Mathematically you can't reduce any of us to 0 now. 6d6 will only get you 36 tops. :) Does that mean we win?
If you want to just auto-calculate the rest of this segment, and assume victory, that's okay with me. Let me know if you would rather play things out.
I enjoy the checks, i just meant more generally? :P
Generally, yes, that means you win. :P
Tactis: with the public and the palace servants we've got the two most important groups I think. We should keep working on the Arcanist so that they [hopefully] tell us about the palace defneses etc and the Royal Guard. I think we spend anpther day or so on them (which should be abput 5 days out of 8).
Then we can tackle the ulfen guard and the other I vestogators if we really want/need to, but if we get the physical guards and the magical ones then I think we can deal with the ulfen. I'm not worried about the other informers at this poi t, the loyalty damage is negligible now so they aren't a threat.
Still need rolls for Maria and Zileska.
Sorry, should be able to catch up tomorrow afternoon.
Zil... you have some serious skills!