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Serpent's Skull Book 2: Racing To Ruin
Part 1: A Gathering of Scavengers

The PC's return to civilization, but now they must organize an expedition!


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Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

I'm back.
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

Me too.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Ok Heroes, I head out of town tomorrow for another vacation in the lands of "wifi is very spotty if at all."

I should definitely be back online next Saturday, the 24th. Keep me alive until I return!
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

Ok, folks. I'm going to be heading out of town for the next two weeks to a place where I have no wifi and the towers are spotty -- all that to say, my access to the interwebs will be sketchy at best from tomorrow (Saturday the 31) until the Monday the 16th.

I imagine I'll pop in a bit at night when possible, but, don't count on me over the period. Feel free to bot as necessary -- barring anything too weird, it's a standard try to set up the flank, try to get Blackleaf to trip and smash things with a staff (after studying them). ;)
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Travel safe!
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

Enjoy!
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

Starting this Saturday, 09/20, I will be visiting family for two weeks. I hope to keep up with posting, but can't guarantee it.
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Neltji wrote:
Is Neltji considered flat footed? Otherwise with mage armor I believe that should not crit. Big difference from 5 damage to 20 damage at this level. Also did Neltji identify what the purpose of necromantic waters were for.

I don't think I ever came across this before. I know some of you are GMs. How do you handle attack traps and initiatives?

Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Absolutely flat footed. But even flat footed, his mage armor still protects him.
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

I have played it both ways. If no one suspects a trap then flat footed. If they suspect a trap then up to the gm based on the trap mechanics. I am not too worried as Neltji can just heal with the cure wands at this point once we are all outside the door.
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

If there's no warning of the trap, then flat-footed. If they have reason to know it's coming, then I let 'em have their dex.
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

I'll be away on a family holiday starting tomorrow (the 27) and back the 5th -- but given the need to unpack with small child, probably not actually able to be online to catch up and post before the 8th.

In the meantime, please feel free to bot Nothus and Blackleaf -- generally, he'll do studied combat and try to smack things with the staff while the cat flanks and goes for the trip. (This isn't a good place to cast entangle, and Stone's Call would make it hard to get to her, and she looks like a caster...) If we can cast a spell before combat, he'll bull's strength - probably himself.
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Please be a little patient with me. This semester of Grad School is winding down, but there is still a group project that is due in a few weeks that my group and I have been working furiously on...
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

Good luck
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

No problem.
Male Human bard 5 HP 45/45 | AC 17 F 33 T 14 |F +4, R +7, W +6 | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +3 | Perc +1 | Know (A,L,N,P,R)+9| Diplo +12

I have been there. I finish grad school a year and a half ago. Keep on plugging away it is worth it on the other side.
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

Ugh, Grad School workloads are the worst... and yet... I can say that some twisted part of you will end up missing Grad School later. ;)
Male Human bard 5 HP 45/45 | AC 17 F 33 T 14 |F +4, R +7, W +6 | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +3 | Perc +1 | Know (A,L,N,P,R)+9| Diplo +12

Nothus is correct.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Grad school was great, much better than undergrad. In grad school, everyone can actually legally drink. That change alone was worth the price of admission.
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

I started doing my MBA right after undergraduate school about 25 years ago and never finished. I want to be able to cross it off my bucket list!
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

25 years in graduate school has to be some sort of record!!

I've debated the merits of getting a second Masters, not anything that I'd care to market, just like maybe a MA in History, just for me.
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

I will be visiting family from this Saturday until after the new year. I hope to keep up with the boards.
Male Human bard 5 HP 45/45 | AC 17 F 33 T 14 |F +4, R +7, W +6 | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +3 | Perc +1 | Know (A,L,N,P,R)+9| Diplo +12

No worries I'm sure things will slow down over the holidays. I use the boards as a reason to pull out my laptop. The extend fam think I have to spend 30min checking on work and I can a bit of quiet time.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

All, going into our third day of no power here. Just a quick note to say I’m alive, and I’ll post when things get going here again.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Power came back on today, after 102 hours. Give me the weekend to clean the place up and such, and I'll be all set come Monday.
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

If Neltji can get close enough could she cast hold person on Nothus and have him voluntarily fail till he gets tied up?
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

Problem is, he's enchanted. He thinks going to wait to be rescued makes sense right now. I mean, if you lie to him and say it's a a spell that'll help, I suppose he would voluntarily fail his save.
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

On Saturday I will be visiting family for two weeks. I will try to keep up, but just in case, I am throwing it out there.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)
DM RichD wrote:
On Saturday I will be visiting family for two weeks. I will try to keep up, but just in case, I am throwing it out there.

We'll bot you if necessary.

Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)
Ndombe wrote:
DM RichD wrote:
On Saturday I will be visiting family for two weeks. I will try to keep up, but just in case, I am throwing it out there.
We'll bot you if necessary.

Lol. Can I run GMBot? There's a bunch of cool treasure we should all find.

NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

Hi All!

That concludes Book 1. I know when I started this campaign way, way back, it was only supposed to be for book 1.

What are your thoughts on continuing? I'm game if you all are. If so and we have enough PC's interested, then level up and will start book 2.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

I'll just say that I'm not sure I have another 4.5 years in me to complete book 2!
Male NG Human Fighter (Gloomblade) 3 | HP 35/35 | AC 16 T 14 FF 12 | CMB +3, CMD 17 | F: +6, R: +6, W: +3 | Init: +4 | Perc: +5, SM: +0 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: None.

I'm cutting back on my 1e play, so I'm probably out. I wanted to make sure I stuck around for the end of the book.
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

I am always up for more adventures but if this is here easy good bye it is a good place to end.
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

I'd keep going, but I'll go along with the group.
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

So...I did hear back from some people that they would like to continue, but at a little bit faster pace.

As some of you who have played in my games, I cover EVERY encounter in the AP. If you played in any of my campaigns and go back and read the book, all the encounters would be familiar to you! LOL!

That being said, I could go through and pick the 10-15 best encounters from each of the books of the Serpent's Skull AP and run those. This might actually be good, because from what I understand, something happened with book 4 with the writer not being able to finish the book and they had replacement writers come in at the last minute to keep the schedule and basically you retrace your steps and now there are new encounters there. My table hated it when I ran it.

So...If you want to have an abbreviated Serpent Skull run with just the highlights, let me know. Also if you do want to do an abbreviated run, how do you feel about RP encounters? Skip 'em or run 'em?
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

I'm good with your streamlined idea. I'm also ok with doing RP encounters, otherwise, we'd miss the story that's being told, right?
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

Definitely not skip the RP encounters. I would be good with a streamlined version if that keeps people focused.
Male Human bard 5 HP 45/45 | AC 17 F 33 T 14 |F +4, R +7, W +6 | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +3 | Perc +1 | Know (A,L,N,P,R)+9| Diplo +12

I love a streamlined option. I tend to give RP options for combat encounters and skip the filler combat encounters for my games. But it does not work for every group.
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

Sounds like everyone, except Galdon, is on board for an abbreviated campaign.

@Galdon: Any chance you'd reconsider?

@Everyone: Level up and then we will start the next adventure with your rescue.
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Level 4 then? 1st Mythic Tier?
Male NG Human Fighter (Gloomblade) 3 | HP 35/35 | AC 16 T 14 FF 12 | CMB +3, CMD 17 | F: +6, R: +6, W: +3 | Init: +4 | Perc: +5, SM: +0 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: None.

Sorry, I've been struggling to keep up with the games I'm GMing, so I'm going to bow out. Thanks so much for running; I had a lot of fun!
NARRATOR GS Map / SS MAP/

@Galdon: Maybe I see you again in a 2E game some time. Haven't tried 2E yet...

@Everyone else: Yes just regular level 4.
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

Take care Galdon.

Will get a chance to update the character tomorrow to level 4! Adding a level of Witch of course.
Male Human bard 5 HP 45/45 | AC 17 F 33 T 14 |F +4, R +7, W +6 | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +3 | Perc +1 | Know (A,L,N,P,R)+9| Diplo +12

I will be going with another level of bard!
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

Apologies for the prolonged absence -- I've just had a delightful week without electricity following a terrible storm. Will catch up now.

But, yes, on board (and will level up)
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Glad you're ok!
Vitals:
(HP: 55/55 AC: 17/12/15; Percep: +12; Init: +2; Fort +6, Ref: +4, Will: +6 (+2 v. enchantment); CMD: 19; CMB +7; Speed: 30)
Male Half-Elven (Chelish) Druid (Nature Fang) 5
Blackleaf's Vitals:
(HP: 50/50 AC: 22/19/14; Percep: +6 (low-light,scent); Init: +8; Fort +6, Ref: +12, Will: +2); CMD: 22 (26 v trip); CMB +10; Speed: 50)

Woo-hoo! 4th is the Slayer Talent and Sneak Attack level.

Druid 4: +1 str (no effect other than carrying capacity)
- +10 hp (max)
- +1 BAB
- +1 Fort, Will
- Spells Per Day: +1 1st, +1 2nd
- Sneak Attack: +1d6
- Slayer Talent: Ranger Combat Style: TWF
Female Human Witch 5 HP: 41/41 hp AC: 12(16)/12/10(14) Saves: 4/3/4 perc: +0 Init +6. hex save DC 17 misfortune 19

Sorry guys but some major storms have hit the last 2 days and trying to get everything cleaned up. Should be back by Wednesday
Male Mwangi Umngane HP (50/50) AC 23 Cleric 5 (AC: 20[T: 13 FF: 17] | HP: 50/50(0NL) | F+6, R+4, W+8 | Init: +2 |Perc: +3)

Be safe!
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