DM Papa.DRB - Moru Country (Inactive)

Game Master Papa-DRB

Put me down for 5 vials each of Antitoxin and Antiplague. 500gp

Me too. I don't think I need anything else right now, but I'll think on it.

Ack, forgot the rolls for my gear choices:

Looking for less than 75
Large Scorpion Venom: 1d100 ⇒ 52
Blue Whinnis: 1d100 ⇒ 37
Purple Worm: 1d100 ⇒ 37
Antitoxin: 1d100 ⇒ 33
Antiplague: 1d100 ⇒ 22

OK, Kreig is golden!

@Papa: Is there any chance I could work on setting up an Aliens-esque drop trap with these industrious gnomes? I'm thinking of a mounted platform to hold 4 to 6 of these handcrossbows and their finely poisoned tips to use on the baddies. Either the gnomes can keep it as a gesture from Kreig (he has a particular fondness for gnomes) or maybe a mobile version with 2 or 3 crossbows I can plop down in a narrow hallway?

@Kreig - Not sure what you mean by an Aliens-esque drop trap. I remember the movie Aliens, but don't remember a trap. But then I'm old and can't remember my name some days. (lol!)

It would basically be a standing mount with hand crossbows fixed to it and their triggers linked so when a tripwire is hit, they all shoot at once.

@Kreig - ah, ok. Yes, you could do a stationary one for the svirfneblin and a portable one, say two hand crossbows to bring with you and set up as needed.

Excellent!

Everything okay? Been a couple days. Should we be bantering a bit more?

Just waiting to see how our plan will unfold...

Sorry for the delay. Work is at it again, mushing up my brain. I'll get a post up tonight.

Ok. Thanks for the heads up.

Some personal items have come up over the last few days. I will be off line till Wednesday, September 28th. I will pick this up then.

Thanks for your understanding that I needed time off to figure some things out. Now, back to the game!

Wife and I are about ready to go out for lunch, then grocery shopping. Will have a post later this afternoon.

Glad to see you back, Papa!

Ditto!

Time off is a good thing. Sorry for my absence too. Work has been a 60 hr per week nightmare and leaving me with little go juice at the end. I'm here, just swamped!

I will be travelling for work Oct 3-12. I still expect to be able to post some, but likely with less frequency.

It was a good past five days.

Daughter ran her 1st marathon. 5:37:22 in the female 35-39 age bracket.
Packed up and closed up camper for the winter.
Took grand daughter to Bronx Zoo Tuesday
Other than one post, spent the yesterday sleeping while recovering from the Zoo.

Other than a week off in December to visit relatives in Boston MA area, we are home till camping season starts in May 2017.....

-- david

Sounds like a fantastic time!

Had a last minute business trip during which I was gone a week then a cold followed me home. I'll get caught up here today.

Apologies for being away. Many extra shifts at the hospital this week, extra SPCA volunteer canine handling, and just spent all day today at the ER with my wife (she will be OK). I'll get something out tomorrow.

Understood, I've been pretty distracted and busy as well. Glad your wife is okay.

Thanks

Sorry to have been out of it for so long. I'm in a transition now on the job front; learning a new one and training up someone at my old one. Please bot me as necessary.

Papa, sorry to hear about the visit to the ER, but glad your beloved will be ok!

Understand Kreig.

I'll be taking a break with the family Dec 18-22. I should have time to post, but I hear the internet is intermittent where we'll be. Will post as I'm able.

I'm also on the road for a bit, though it looks like the GM will be out longer than I will. :)

Happy holidays everyone!

Got back last Thursday from Boston / Cambridge and brought home a major head / chest cold. Last night was the first that I have not spent most of the night hacking out a lung. Will have a post out late this afternoon / early evening.

Oof, feel better, GM!

Nasty bugs floating around New England right now, hope you heal quickly.

@Rikar - I graduated from Northeastern University, BSEE-1970, when it was still a five year co-op program. Never made it to Harvard Square / University so when my wife saw about the Peabody / Natural History museum on the Harvard Campus we went to it this year.

I went to high school right near there, but when you graduated I was just learning to crawl. My family is all still there, so I visit once or twice a year. The Peabody Museum is pretty cool, I hope you got to enjoy it before you caught that cold.

Question for the group.

Kreig last post was November 17th, over two months ago. He has not posted from his main ID either. Do I continue to bot him? or drop him?

Dropping is as simple as having him stay with the deep gnomes to help rebuild the city and cleanup what the drow have done. That would be after this battle. He would of course give up his "tear".

Opinions?

-- david

If he is gone for good, then a retirement to the svirfneblin town seems in order.

Do we have some means of communication outside paizo, like email or such?

Seems only right we make the effort if possible.

I do not have any other way of communicating with him.

Wow, I knew it had been a while, but didn't realize it had been that long.

I say we put him in stasis for a while at the svirfneblin town, the rest of us can handle things pretty well I think. He's such a great, fun player, I'd like to be sure we give him a chance to return if we can.

Wow, I hadn't realized it had been that long. I thought he had posted since then but the datestamp is clear for all to see. Glancing at his other aliases it seems like he's disappeared full stop from the boards.

While I hope he is okay, a two full months' disappearance is more than enough time to allow, and I think it's time to move on. He's a great player but sounds like whatever job transition or whatever he was going through took more out of him than he was able to handle.

I agree writing him out to help the svirfneblin rebuild would be a good idea... and if he is able to return later and could show ability to commit again we could always have him rejoin. (Ninjaed by Rikar who said much of the same thing)

Misha's no Krieg, but she does have a version of trapfinding and some Disable Device trained up so she can fill in some rogue duties in a pinch. We still have 5 party members and an immensely powerful animal companion to boot so I don't feel like we'll suffer for the numbers loss--just suffer for the loss of a great character.

As far as allowing him to return, that would be easy, excepting the final dungeon level, at the end of the campaign. I would be ok with that.

Once I hear from Telman and Therena, I will take appropriate action.

-- david

Leaving him behind seems like the best option at this point.

agree, leaving him behind still leaves the possibilities open but we can move forward.

My gut says there would be a skill gap without him but reading Misha's post I concur we should be okay for now.

Everyone okay? Are we waiting on Therena, Papa, or both?

Heh, just posted. Messageboards have been down since sometime Tuesday afternoon. I would go to Paizo.com, click messageboards and brought me back to paizo.com main page, and last night wife and I had an early week date night as we went out to dinner.

Yeah, system was all borked for a while.

I could access campaign page by bookmark only, seems they fixed it all up now.

If that happens again, Papa, you can (and could have) accessed the campaign by going to your campaigns tab. The direct link to the messageboards weren't working, but links to threads did, so you should have been able to get any threads you posted in from your Campaigns or Posts tab. I didn't even notice the problem until I was trying to access the boards for something else, because I usually go to these pages from my campaigns tab.

Ah... I did not know that. Ok, I have added a bookmark for that link, just in case. Thanks.

After you do what you are going to do about the brooch, I will bring you back to the Svirneflbin city and Kreig will leave. That puts his "tear" back into the group, and here are the notes from the campaign page.

Notes on the Tears:
Tear; Bonus; +2 saves vs; Who has it

The Bonus does not stack with anything, and all Tears carried by a PC are suppressed if the PC has more than one Tear. When a Tear is placed in an extra-dimensional space, the Tear is suppressed.

Are you going to leave the three that I marked "bag of holding" in the bag, or are you going to swap any of them around.

Also, please level up to 14th level in preparation for descending further under the mountain.

-- david

Because I've been doing a lot of spellcasting and burning of my archeologist's luck, I think I will continue to use the Gold (Charisma) tear. As nice as many of the other tears are! If I ended up seeing more combat, I might consider one of the others, but I personally am good to go.

Thanks for the summary, Papa!

And Misha's leveled. +9 HP, +1 to BAB, Ref, and Will. Learn 1 more 2nd and 5th level spell each, cast 1 more 4th and 5th level spell each. Bardic Knowledge and Clever Explorer improve by 1 (increasing total relevant skill modifiers). Spent favored class in learning 1 new 4th level spell. Skill points spent: 3 in Acrobatics, 1 in Know History, 1 in Perception, 3 in Stealth, and 1 in Use Magic Device.

Spells learned: whispering wind (2nd), legend lore (4th), greater heroism (5th)

Looking at the list of tears, it occurs to me to ask: can Latys wear a tear? She'd do well with a +2 to Dex, and that tear is not being used.

So Therena hits MT10 and gains spell synthesis (cast a cleric and sorcerer spell at the same time once per day). Anybody have any cool ideas for combos?

Things I was considering:

Summon monster spell from each class...instant army
Two wall spells
Multi buff (haste and blessing of fervour)

Looking at the list of tears, it occurs to me to ask: can Latys wear a tear? She'd do well with a +2 to Dex, and that tear is not being used.

Sure, you can get a collar made in the Svernifblin town with the tear mounted on it and she can wear it.

-- david