Deus Est Machina: Dragoncat's Iron Gods (Inactive)

Game Master Dragoncat

I am here. Just a bit... Exhausted from helping out at a food pantry. So don't mind me.

Sorry, the board malfunctions are messing me up. I keep going to post and then not be able to.

Sorry, weekend filled with familial obligations and ongoing funerary rites. I won't be able to post until tomorrow night, my time.

Unfortunately I'll be off the boards until my Wednesday (your Tuesday) due to familial and funerary obligations. Please bot Dejah where necessary until then. Thank you, kindly.

Well, unless folks want to grill Triax on its shennigans right now, I'm all for us leaving.

Note to self: learn Androffan.

Tonight, some poor schmuck learns about the joys of having darkvision. :p

Oh dear, are we going to have a surprise?

Also, just updated my little tag line to be slightly clearer. I hope it is alright. I decided that skills can be checked on her profile. Hope it helps.

Dang-it, forgot to buy a sap.

@Triax: Maybe one of these Ropefist thugs has a sap you can commandeer. ;)

So, I clarified with Jasper via PM that his guy is now positioned to the side of the unguarded door on the south side. I have moved his avatar (per his permission) accordingly on the map as well as my own and Tabitha's. If I was incorrect in my assumptions via the narratives given, please move your avatar to the correct position. Triax, I didn't move yours. Kadosh, I only moved yours slightly. Thanks!

Warehouse Map

Looks about right. Thanks very much. :)

Thanks; I may often forget to move my icon as I don't let my players do it in my games and forget that I need to do it as a player. I'll try to remember.

Edited my post to account for Dejah's perception roll. :)

Chuffing. Huh. Learn something new every day.

Tigers do it, too. :)

Dejah: You're about 10 feet high above the work floor.

Thank you for the info!

Also... Not to be rude, but does it truly matter if Tabitha could see her? More of a story thing. And she is not looking for Dejah. She is listening for when the guards get in.

I get story flavour, but your roll wasn't high enough to see in the dark a hidden Dejah so how does that add to the story? Plus, if your roll is to listen for the guards, why, even for story flavour would you note Dejah there? She isn't on the floor but right up against the dark wall ahead and being smaller in stature - she has a easier time blending in. Tabitha, being so naive, she'd be singularly focused on the guards, and might be surprised to discover (later) that Dejah was close by and hidden.

Alright, I changed it. I do not wish to get into a rules debate for a little bit of story. I hope that is smooths things over.

I'm heading out of town for another family member's funeral tomorrow morning (third in a month, sadly). I will be back in my later afternoon and will catch up and post then. Thanks.

Eeh... Tabitha did something crazy. >.<

Eh, it's only crazy if it doesn't work.

sorry for the lack of posting, works been kicking my ass

I'll be posting to move things along on Monday. Sorry to keep you guys waiting this long for me.

Once again, sorry if anyone wanted to some more roleplaying, but I wanted to get things moving along.

Pfff, I want the site to be more stable.

I'm on vacation 24th - 29th - not sure about internet availability. Feel free to android me as needed.

I take it the calvary is former players?

Yep.

I thought it'd be an appropriate official send-off before you guys finally get back to delving underneath the Black Hill. :)

I like it! ^_^ This should be fun.

Also, Jasper, your snow leopard is officially your animal companion. Go ahead and take control of her.

Use the Small Cat animal companion stats for her.

Enjoy your vacation, Triax.

Just a heads-up, the coming Easter long weekend (Friday through to Monday) is going to be a very busy one filled with family celebrations and sightseeing (I have relatives visiting from Ireland as well). I will try to post in my (late) evenings over that period, but if something urgently needs to be posted before I am able to get on the board, please bot Dejah where needed. Thanks. :)

(I will be able to post as normal until then.)

Sweet thanks!

Updated the Important NPCs tab in Campaign Info. :)

Thanks, GM Ironcat. :)

And cool name for the snow leopard, Jasper! ;)

FWIW, you can perception to identify potions too :)

So, it seems my Friday, Sunday and Monday will be my busy days with family stuff. Saturday is free, so I may be able to post in a timely fashion. So, if by chance you need Dejah to act on my busy days and I can only post in my evenings, then I nominate Jasper to bot Dejah in those urgent moments. Thanks!

Happy to do so Dejah! ...although i make no promises that Dejah will not suddenly fall madly in love with Jasper. ;-)

Thanks!

If you can make it work storywise that Dejah suddenly falls madly and deeply in love with Jasper as they're burying the dead bodies, then I will give you a gold star. ;) (Best romantic scenario ever - no one said. Well, maybe serial killer lovers.)

LOL

I hope everyone had a happy & safe Easter holiday. :)

I saw the Arecibo radio telescope. It's big.

Jasper won't be able to post until tomorrow as his eldest is having a slumber party at their house tonight and he'll have his hands full.

List of our loot (if I've missed anything please let me know):

From corpse in pond under the Black Hill:
* 42gp
* Small Silver Pickaxe with unholy symbol of Zyphus, god of accidental death, 25gp
* 2 CLW Potions: Dejah claimed one potion.

From dead Halfling under the Black Hill:
*1 garnet, 55gp (edited). (GM Ironcat, I have a feeling we discovered more of these garnets (a small pouch worth?) but I couldn't find a post in relation to them. Is this correct?)

In Rubble:
*7 small silver discs - batteries used as currency in Torch, worth 1 platinum each.

From Sef, leader of the Skulks for killing the Jinkin Gremlins:
* 5 black cards with brown stripes - technology keys - worth 3 gp each
* Pouch with 49 batteries, worth 10gp/1platinum each.

BAG 1 from previous adventuring party:
* 3 suits of masterwork studded leather armour (Dejah claimed one and Jasper claimed one).
* 1 masterwork buckler

BAG 2:
* 1 shortbow
* Quiver with 11 common arrows
* 1 rapier - claimed by Jasper
* 2 shortswords
* 1 masterwork sap

BAG 3:
* 2 CMW Potions - Cade and Viorec took them to carry.
* 1 sunrod
* 2 sets of Masterwork Thieves' Tools - Dejah claimed one. Tabitha, did you claim the other set?
* 1 scroll of Shield - Tabitha, did you claim this?
* 1 scroll of Identify - Tabitha, did you claim this?
* 143gp

From young guard outside Garmen Ulreth's warehouse:
* 1 shortsword
* 1 suit of studded leather armour
* 1 sap - Triax, did you claim this?
* 10gp

From secret compartment in Garmen Ulreth's office in the warehouse:
* 1 burlap sack with 50 unmarked silver discs - Dejah divided these among the group, each person got 7 silver discs except for Jasper who got 8 silver discs due to Malin's contribution to the fight.

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It's late here (after midnight) - I/Dejah will reply to Tabitha in my morning.

Dejah: It's mostly right.

Regarding the garnet: turns out I misread the value of that gemstone when I first looked at it. It's actually worth about 55 GP.

The batteries are each worth 10 GP, or 1 platinum.

Yes, Tabitha would like the two scrolls and the other MW thieves tools. ANd would like one of those brown tech keys. Since if I remember correctly, they are considered similar to how thieves tools are, but just for tech.

So Tabitha receives these items so far:

• Scroll of Shield
  
• Scroll of Identify
  
• MW Thieves Tools
  
• A Brown Tech Key
  
• 7 Silverdisks worth 70 Gold

Also, who got Garmen's armor? It was enchanted, so it is somewhat better than what we got so far.

Amended List of our loot:

From corpse in pond under the Black Hill:
* 42gp
* Small Silver Pickaxe with unholy symbol of Zyphus, god of accidental death, 25gp
* 2 CLW Potions: Dejah claimed one potion.

From dead Halfling under the Black Hill:
*1 garnet, 55gp.

In Rubble:
*7 small silver discs - batteries used as currency in Torch, worth 1 platinum each.

From Sef, leader of the Skulks for killing the Jinkin Gremlins:
* 5 black cards with brown stripes - technology keys - worth 3 gp each - One claimed by Tabitha and one claimed by Dejah.
* Pouch with 49 batteries, worth 10gp/1 platinum each.

BAG 1 from previous adventuring party:
* 3 suits of masterwork studded leather armour (Dejah claimed one and Jasper claimed one).
* 1 masterwork buckler

BAG 2:
* 1 shortbow
* Quiver with 11 common arrows
* 1 rapier - claimed by Jasper
* 2 shortswords
* 1 masterwork sap

BAG 3:
* 2 CMW Potions - Cade and Viorec took them to carry.
* 1 sunrod
* 2 sets of Masterwork Thieves' Tools - Dejah claimed one. Tabitha claimed the other.
* 1 scroll of Shield - Claimed by Tabitha.
* 1 scroll of Identify - Claimed by Tabitha.
* 143gp

From young guard outside Garmen Ulreth's warehouse:
* 1 shortsword
* 1 suit of studded leather armour
* 1 sap - Triax, did you claim this?
* 10gp

From secret compartment in Garmen Ulreth's office in the warehouse:
* 1 burlap sack with 50 unmarked silver discs - Dejah divided these among the group, each person got 7 silver discs except for Jasper who got 8 silver discs due to Malin's contribution to the fight.

On Garmen at warehouse:
--1 Masterwork rapier
--1 suit of masterwork studded leather decorated with images of shields (+1 Studded Leather)
--1 Hand crossbow
--10 bolts
--2 potion vials of Invisibility
--1 set of masterwork thieves' tools
--A pouch containing 89 GP

On the remaining Ropefists:
--5 potion vials of CLW.
--5 suits of masterwork studded leather
--5 sunrods

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Any of these items will need to be shared with Cade and Viorec as they were part of the adventure at the time (even though their players are not with us anymore).

As to the items we don't want, we should sell them - GM Ironcat, how do you want us to handle to sale of the unclaimed loot? Do we go back to the General Store and make a deal with the proprietor?

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Of the gold coins in the loot (totalling 284gp), the coin is divided 8 ways (Dejah, Jasper, Tabitha, Kadosh, Triax, Val, Cade, Viorec). Each person gets 35gp - but Val gets 39gp to help cover some of the cost of the food and drink we've had at the Foundry.

Summary of Potions that we have (unclaimed):

* 6 x Cure Light Wounds
* 2 x Potion of Invisibility

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Summary of Armour and Shields (unclaimed):

* 6 x Masterwork Studded Leather armour
* 1 x +1 Studded Leather (armour)
* 1 x ordinary studded leather armour
* 1 x Masterwork Buckler

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Summary of Weapons and Ammo (unclaimed):

* 3 x shortswords
* 1 x shortbow (with quiver with 11 common arrows)
* 1 x hand crossbow (with 10 bolts)
* 1 x masterwork rapier
* 1 x ordinary rapier (Thrown back into kitty by Jasper)
* 1 x masterwork sap
* 1 x ordinary sap (unless Triax already claimed this - I wasn't sure)

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Summary of Gear/General Equipment (unclaimed):

* 1 x Masterwork Thieves' Tools
* 6 x sunrods
* 1 x small silver pickaxe with unholy symbol

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Summary of Gems (unclaimed):
* 1 x garnet

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Summary of Silver discs/batteries (unclaimed):
* 56 - valued at 1 platinum each (Total value: 56 platinum pieces)

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Summary of Black cards/Technology keys (unclaimed):
* 3 remaining, valued at 3 gp each

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Once people have claimed whatever they want, are people happy to sell the rest to help fund the expedition?

That looks good. And maybe we can get more for the batteries and the tech keys from that merchant I bought the scroll of magic weapon from. Sanvil Trett. He seems quite interested in such items. ^_^

Also, we may not want to sell the card keys. They are one use items by the look of it.

I wouldn't say no to Garmen's armor, swapping out for the mw I have but it's not necessary if someone else wants it. I'm more offense than defense.

@Tabitha: Thanks, and, sure - we can try selling those items to Sanvil.

@Jasper: I don't have an issue with you taking Garmen's old armour (+1 studded leather). Then you can toss back into the kitty your previous masterwork studded leather armour.

And another thing, are the silverdisks we found burnt out, or in pristine condition? The reason I ask is that the pristine ones are worth normally 100 gold. The burnt out ones are worth 10 gold.

And the key cards have a single charge, but are able to be used 10 times before needing to be recharged. Still a good idea to hold onto them, just in case.