I got the idea from the professor's words that 'Swallow-Whole' is a thing. So don't get grappled I guess? If it eats enough it reproduces right afterward I think. It's immune to bludgeoning and piercing I think too. So make sure you can do slashing damage (a dagger at least) of some sort. As an Ooze...remember you CAN'T crit it. So don't rely on Crits or sneak attack damage to take it out.
Any other questions? I'm sure the Professor can answer most of them.
My thinking at the moment is to shapechange, then
Barkskin, cats grace, bulls strength and magic fang... and go for it from there.
The rest of my spell slots I can use for monkeyfish, water breathing and other buffs for other folk, probably a bulls strength for Oren too as she will bedoing the bulk of our damage.
Hmm, actually, there are some pretty handy druid spells for this.
[ulr=https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/marid-s-mastery]Marid's Mastery[/url] +1 to hit and damage (untyped!) vs creatures in the water. - springs to mind.
Val is still keen to go teeth to slime with it, but stepping backj I'm wondering if we would be better off with her just spamming summons at it.
Just remember that summoned monsters at less than 3rd level I doubt would hurt the creature much and we don't want to feed it MORE food (Let's let the GM decide if summoned monsters are considered possible food or not to it). If we were on land you can summon fire elementals or similar as much as you wish, but while underwater? Unless you can summon a bunch of sharks...
I normally would just suggest summoning electric eels, but this ooze has Electrical Resistance. I doubt it really could hurt it much either.
My suggestion: 1st Round, Summon something big BEHIND the ooze to help distract it from Oren, then Shapeshift to attack it alongside Oren onthe next round.
THe rest of us will attempt to hit it with spells/spell-like abilities and wear it down quickly.
NOTE: We will need to work differently if there are 2 or more of them now.
Summoned monsters vanish when killed, so I don't think they can provide food for it.
Lots of nice summon options for aquatic envrionments.
Level 1 : dolphin
Level 2: small elementals or a squid
level 3: shark or crocodile. Probably shark as we are underwater.
Most elementals and dolphins do slam/bashing damage...useless here. Most octopuses and squids to constrict/bashing damage...again useless. Sharks are the best choice.
I can provide bulls strengths for bot you and oren. Let's use the druid slots for spells Elurius can't prepare.
I can cast Magic Fang on Val for when she goes all bitey. I've even already got a few scrolls on hand for when Kurglunn is available.
I will double-check tonight. If anybody has ANYTHING left they want to do or say. Speak up now or forever hold your pieces...
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Busy day at work today. Will get a post up this evening (in the next few hours).
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Sorry all, PC died and I'm needing to rebuild it or get a new one. And I'll be off on holiday from late next week until mid/late Jan. I may be able to hide laptop, but my posting will be infrequent at best.
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Sorry all, PC died and I'm needing to rebuild it or get a new one. And I'll be off on holiday from late next week until mid/late Jan. I may be able to hide laptop, but my posting will be infrequent at best.
Bot early and bot often.
I misread the first sentence as Val (or another, unrelated character) having died and was very confused initially. But having a dead computer is never fun, I hope you have a good holiday though!
Yep, happy holidays to everyone!
I’ll be out most of the day tomorrow, FYI. Going on a road trip to a concert, so I probably won’t post until Saturday afternoon.
Happy Xmas!
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I'm assuming we are at an impasse until the GM responds?
Anybody have another action to try?
I’m out of ideas currently.
Sorry, been really busy back from holiday and starting a new job, so been cruising this game a bit.
My only other idea of how to get through here, at least to investigate it, is for Kurglunn to go through, but I haven't brought that up yet because he'll need to swim and I don't think he'll be exceptionally talented at that. Also, I have no idea how that would work for him in regards to breathing. I would think he doesn't need to breathe, but I don't want to make any assumptions.
Well if he was incorporeal he wouldn't likely need the swim checks or run into the problem of breathing. He couldn't do anything either, though.
I sent a PM to the GM last week with no response.
I sent one as well recently. Still no response. We have been involved with this game for a while now. I have no problem waiting on the GM to come back if he can. I hope he is OK for his sake, not ours.
Same here. I’m cool with waiting as long as it takes.
And I’m hoping the GM is okay as well. Dropping out without a word is worrisome.
I hope he's doing okay as well! But I am more than willing to wait.
Agreed!
Still here.
I take it we haven't had a response from DM Elan?
Not yet. I'm worried, but there is not much we can do either. Does anybody know him IRL?
Nope. All I know him from is the board.
Do we...want to consider seeing if another GM might be willing to help us finish out the book, or at least move us along until Elan comes back?
I'm not against it. I really want to finish this AP. Underwater combat aside.
I'd be for that as well. i have wanted to play this AP since it came out, and will want to continue to the very end. We have to be near the end of this book!
Also we seem to have lost Talon for good as it's been a very long time since they last posted. We could try taking on another player as well, perhaps?
I’d be up for it, but it’s really hard to pick up a GM mid stream, unless they love the particular AP. I say we give it a go.
Actually I've had pretty good luck getting replacement GM's in the past. I'm currently in at least 3 games not run by the original GM.
My suggestion: Let's all contact all the GM's we know and trust on the boards here and see if any would be interested in taking over. If none do, we can advertise openly for a possible GM.
The fact we are as far as we are and are interested in keeping up the game: I've often seen this is a big draw for GMs who like to finish APs.
Make sense?
Yes, I agree with Lirotha's plan. I'll reach out to some folks individually.
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I've gotten a couple of 'minor' hits with a couple of GMs I trust to run this. If I get anything solid, I will update.
I have a possible major hit!
Here is my GM Fez has said so far:
"Holy crap that's a tangled web. I got to about page 5 of gameplay before realizing none of those characters were in the final pages. Looked at the jumbled mess of previous characters and players. Spent some spare time going over things, now I have a spreadsheet of who was in what time and where they left."
"I can definitely get you guys through the end of the second book, but I'm going to have to do a lot of cleanup once I take control of the threads, so it may be a while (less than a week I think), even if Paizo is quick to move the threads under my banner."
Does that sound cool for you guys?
He's a pretty easy going GM.
Here's the game I am currently working with him on:
Iron Legion
I'm playing Govrina the Kineticist.
I’d be super happy if he’d take over for our merry little band.
That's one vote.
I'm easy. Be nice to finish the book. How close are we?
He said about half-way.
I'm hoping we can convince him to finish us out all the way in the AP, but only if he really wants to do so. No worse GM than one who doesn't want to be one.
I'm in! I'd love to finish the book at least if not continue on.
That's 4 out of 5 I think. I'd like to get Rocco's input too before swinging all out.
I'm definitely down! I love Fez! He's been the GM for an ongoing PFS group I've been part of for a couple years now. Great guy, great GM!
I'd love to finish the book at least, if not the AP as a whole!
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Hello all. I'm happy to be here to try and get everyone through the rest of the second book at the very least. I'll be posting more tonight/tomorrow morning once I figure a good way to pick things up. I've sent Paizo a request to take control of the threads, but with everything happening in the world right now I'm not sure how long that will take. I'll see you all in the gameplay thread!
Understood! WHOO! We are ON again.
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Thank you so much, Fez! Much appreciated!
Yeeesssss! We can get moving again! Thank you GM Fez, it's so nice having you take over this!
I'm going through your exploration thus far and figuring out which encounters are still in place. I'll post something soon.
Hrmm about the cloak, I'm not sure how it works with the bonus from invisibility, but if it stacks I would want to borrow the cloak for this fight, but normally I wouldn't need it.
Second, Val, could you prepare a casting of Negate Aroma? If the Ooze has scent then I could be screwed. Also do you want the wand of Owl's wisdom or do you want me to carry it and cast it at appropriate times? My wisdom is so dismal that casting it on myself would be like throwing money down the drain.
I've added the ring of protection, rod of extend metamagic, and amulet of natural armor to her character sheet and taglines.
For most of this fight, she's going to stay invisible, so flagbearer is not going to be active, however prayer should be. Bull's strength on Val and Oren, as well as Shield Other on both, +3 AC Shield of Faith on both, Heroism on someone (will roll for UMD check in game later), Protection from Evil Communal (on everyone just in case, 2 minutes on Oren), Haste (assuming this is is a leather scroll and not paper), and.... not sure if there are anymore bonuses I can stack in there. So for Oren and Val that would be a +4 to attack rolls; +1 to weapon damage, saves and skills; and a +5 (+7 if the ooze is evil) to AC with a -1 to the thing's attacks, damages and saves. For everyone else that's a +2 to attacks; +1 to weapon damage, skills and saves; and +1 (+3 if it's evil) to AC.
Does anyone want a casting of Heroism on them?
Elurius should be good for the most part.
How many of these buffs would still be active?