Maintain Readied.
If Kheled doesn't have any healing resources left, then we might as well go out and fight. Dumah can lead the charge against whatever they might have readied for us.
Thank you for your patience all.
I believe the party still has healing potions at their disposal. And some useful scrolls.
Am now honeymooning until the 4th of October apologies and please bot me Jacob
Am now honeymooning until the 4th of October apologies and please bot me Jacob
Will do. Enjoy your trip.
GM, what's your ruling on speaking while stunned? RAW, it's a free action and the stunned condition states that you can't do any actions.
I would say no talking. :/
Not coherently anyway. :)
I will update tomorrow. Too tired today. Work is actively trying to kill me. :P
Sorry for the continuing delays. Still getting slammed at work with end of season craziness. Should be home tomorrow night with some time to post.
Next Saturday, my step-daughter is getting married and I am officiating the ceremony. So with preparations and family coming from out of town, the next week and a half to two weeks is going to be dicey for my posting. I'll try to keep posting normal, but feel free to bot me if it looks like I'd be holding anything up.
Congrats and have fun! :)
Thanks! It went really well, and I'm working now on getting everything back to normal. :)
Thanks for covering, Kheled. I have been swamped at work trying to catch up from the time off I took for the wedding. I should be back to normal posting this weekend. I appreciate your patience!
No point in retconing now, but the next time an enemy adjacent to Rakara feels the urge to 5-ft step away and cast a spell or use a ranged attack, remember that Rakara has Step Up and can make that enemy eat a concentration check or AoO.
I was operating under the wands don't provoke rule. As such Velriana did not worry about provoking and moved accordingly.
Rakara is free to use her rolled attack as her AoO and roll a new attack if she wishes.
If her own player fails to remember her feat I'm not sure why I should be held to a higher standard. :P
And the provoked AoO is kind of a screwy rule seeing as how using wands doesn't provoke but the ranged touch does. So one can shoot a fireball from a wand and not provoke but a scorching ray does. Casting defensively won't work as activating the wand doesn't need a check and as per rules: "Ranged touch attacks provoke an attack of opportunity, even if the spell that causes the attacks was cast defensively."
You are absolutely correct, Chad, and that's why I said it was probably a moot point to retcon.
In general, Step Up (and the other feats in the chain) are easy to forget, but can have a huge impact on the fight, especially when fighting a caster or archer. And the PbP format does not help.
On one hand, you are correct in that it should not be the responsibility of the GM to remind players to use their character abilities. On the other hand, in PbP you either have to wait and ask, or risk having to retcon, possibly several actions.
I never have a problem retconning things. :)
I forgot about Step Up, and didn't think Velriana was provoking anyhow. If I had I wouldn't have stayed adjacent to Idorii.
I could have retconned a step to I,10 but this combat has gone on long enough and is past the point of determination. :)
You guys don't find the fireball vs scorching ray difference a little kooky at least? :P
I find a lot of the Pathfinder rules a little kooky. :-)
And I fully agree. Let's blow this joint and go home!
I also forgot about step up. I have never had it before and always thought it would be super useful, but not if I don't ever remember to use it eh?
My character from our Kingmaker campaign has Step Up, so I know how easy it can be to forget. We'll keep reminding you until you get into the habit of using it. :-)
Thanks :)
3rd level changes:
+1 BAB
+1 FORT/REF Saves
HP: 5+2+1
Revelation: Energy Body
Feat: Extra Channel
Spell:
Protection from Evil
Skills:
+1 Diplomacy, Heal, Knowledge Religion, Perception, Sense Motive, Spellcraft,
Myron is updated to level 3:
+1 level in rogue (knife master)
+8 hp (5 base+ 2 con + favored class)
+2 Ref save
Feat: Weapon Focus (kukri)
Skills - +1 rank in:
- acrobatics
- disable device
- escape artist
- perception
- Sense motive
- sleight of hand
- stealth
Paladin 3
BAB +1, Ref +1
Add Aura of Courage
Add Divine Health
Add Ghost Touch Aura
Skill Points +2: Diplomacy, Knowledge (religion)
Hit Points +9 (6 HD, 1 FC, 2 Con)
Feat: Extra Lay on Hands
Will try to get to updating El to level 3 in the next couple of days.
Paladin 3
BAB +1, Ref +1
Add Aura of Courage
Add Divine Health
Add Ghost Touch Aura
Skill Points +2: Diplomacy, Knowledge (religion)
Hit Points +9 (6 HD, 1 FC, 2 Con)
Feat: Extra Lay on Hands
Both of us took extra healing. Once I get a wand we should be fully stocked for the next delve on healing at least.
Treasure from Senenmerek and the Scorched Hand:
Senenmerek - masterwork mithral chain shirt, holy symbol of Nethys (wooden), ring of keys and
PRICE 8,462 GP SLOT none CL 5th WEIGHT 6 lbs. AURA faint transmutation
This magically strengthened bronze-tipped +1 spear enables its wielder to better face a variety of foes. Originally created by priests of Nethys for use by their temple guards, a spear of the watchful guardian also grants its wielder arcane aid to strike true. Once per day as a standard action, the wielder of a spear of the watchful guardian can alter the physical properties of the weapon, allowing it to bypass damage reduction of one of the following types: bludgeoning, cold iron, silver, or slashing. This change lasts for 5 minutes.
In addition, if the wielder of a spear of the watchful guardian fails an attack roll, as an immediate action once per day, she can retroactively add a +1 competence bonus on that roll. If this bonus is enough to make the failure a success, the attack roll succeeds.
Finally, a spear of the watchful guardian sharpens the senses of its wielder, granting her a +2 insight bonus on Perception checks.
CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS
COST 4,382 GP Craft Magic Arms and Armor, timely inspirationAPG, versatile weaponAPG
Velriana - light crossbow w/10 bolts, dagger, bracers of armor +1, ioun torch, scrolls of [charm person, invisibility, warding weapons], wand of scorching ray (2 charges), wand of shield (8 charges), holy symbol of Nethys (silver), signet ring, spell component pouch and
Khelru - masterwork quarterstaff, sling w/14 bullets, scale mail, scrolls of [bless x2, CMW, effortless armor, hold person, magic weapon, sound burst], wand of CLW (25 charges), everburning torch, spell component pouch and 29 gp
Azaz - club, 2 daggers, potion of hide from undead, scrolls of [burning hands (CL 2), flaming sphere, identify, levitate, magic missile, shocking grasp (CL 2)], wand of grease (8 charges), wand of vanish (8 charges), holy symbol of Nethys (wooden), small steel mirror, spell component pouch and
Are the rest of the team going to be able to level your characters in the next week?
Is pretty obvious what kheled will be taking. Divine scrolls and the wand of CLW. I will give first dibs to all the other equipment to the front liners.
Much of this is well suited for our divine and arcane spellcasters. Any of our Medium-sized melee types who fancy a magic spear?
Myron may want to grab the ion torch and the potion, but otherwise there's not much of this he can really use.
Senenmerek's keys should come in handy as we explore the remaining dungeon.
Dumah could make use of the spear. I don't know that it would be his go to weapon of choice, but when faced with a foe with immunities it could make an appearance.
Rakara would like the mithral chain shirt, but that is about it. I have made a 3rd level. Will update it here shortly.
I'm not sure your rules about dividing treasure but I always assume that most consumables are used for party benefit are not counted into the value when dividing stuff up. How do you work it?
The scrolls may be a different case but the wand of CLW I was assuming would be a party item.
I was thinking we would sell the spear unless someone wants to use it? It is worth a fair amount. We also need to take into account that the bracers of armor +1 might be going to our new "friend" as she gets first dibs of Velriana's treasure.
Kheled is completely updated and ready to go once the GM is back.
Anyone want to fight me for the chain shirt? I just would like to know so I can update my character if I get it.
Also we have the adamantine flail that I am carrying. I would like to not carry it as it puts me into a medium load and affects my AC among other things.
As far as I am concerned, you can have the chain shirt. And Dumah can carry the flail as a back up weapon, unless we want to sell it.
Maybe your info should say: Male Pack-Orc Paladin
Sorry, work has been absolute smurfing hell for the past weeks. Updating character tomorrow night, just got in from 07:30-23:30 day.
We should sell the items we are not using once we get out of this place...but carry what we have for now. It will be more useful to get low level gear we want.
Rakara and Ahkenaten, don't forget to level and update your characters before we move out.
is done.
Leaving for a 3-day work related trip to London tomorrow morning. Wi-fi will probably be available, but time to post will be limited. Please bot Myron as needed.
Happy holidays to all you explorers.
And Merry Christmas to you as well!
Merry XMas everyone.
Kheled is just excited that Amerika will be great again...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to one and all!
It occurs to me that while little of the Sanctum remains to be explored on the lower level, much more remains on the ground floor. In the interest of wrapping up this chapter and getting on to the next what are everyone's thoughts about a montage/summary post from me to finish the Sanctum?
I'm good with a narrated summary of the remaining sanctum search. It seems we're losing a bit off steam, and I think it would be a shame to drag out the resolution on this chapter.
I'm ok with that.
Works for me.