Drongos - The Blakros Connection (Inactive)

Game Master rpblue

I got the lot of you for everything but the Day Job rolls! Check-in here or just in Gameplay and we can get the going!

Also, would you like me to the Drongo thing and have a tavern type experience in between?

Hey GM Bold Strider! Thanks for getting this game up and running so quickly!

Day Job Check... Knowledge(local)-information broker vanity: 1d20 + 17 + 1d6 ⇒ (12) + 17 + (1) = 30

So the bar scenes were usually because we had to wait between release dates of scenarios. I wouldn't mind doing a little scene at some point, might be a good palate cleaner for this group. :)

Looking forward to this one! I fell asleep instead of doing anything constructive last night, so I'll get to making sure there are no purchases Cyrus needs tonight.

Nice to be playing season 7.
Nice of you to be running this for us.
Nice to post without the golem making an appearance.

No need for the tavern experience.

Lort Day Job, (intimidate): 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (12) + 21 = 33

Just for the sake of spoilers, who has and hasn't played the season 6/7 specials (Siege of Serpents and Serpents Rise)?

I played both, but with Durothil - Finarin's brother. Some dude from Minnesota that has a bunch of stars ran it for Jryi and I.

Durothil also played in Mists of Mwgani - set in the museum. Nice to be back.

Thanks BS for running - as always.

Updates - bought 2 sunrods and upgraded my headband of vast intelligence from +2 to +4. How many oil of daylights do we have in the party besides Ibid's dayfinder?

Just trying to figure out if I need to buy one or not.

Cyrus will upgrade his wayfinder to a dayfinder.

Cyrus will also be buying a handful of sunrods

Ibid - even though it will stay on Cyrus' sheet (since we cant give stuff away) Cyrus will give you his snapleaf "at the beginning of every scenario".

Cyrus has a ring of feather fall, and can spend a ki point to vanish, so the snapleaf is now redundant and unnecessary. Plus you don't have enough PP to ressurect yourself. :)

I'm not sure what else Cyrus will be purchasing just yet, I will review that tonight (and might just try to save my gold.... o.O)

Awesome, Season 7! Thanks for running this, GM!

I've played both of the Serpent specials, but neither with Amaranti. I've had also other characters visiting the museum a few times.

I need to check if I want to make any purchases. Probably I'll at least buy a new Oil of Daylight.
What kind of action it is to put on a neck-slot item? (Move+Standard to retrieve and put on?). I found out in a local game here how awesome Swarmbane Clasp is, but Kaisharga's AoMF is already using Amararanti's neck slot.

No day job for Amaranti

Sleight of Hand, Dayjob check via thieves guild vanity: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (12) + 21 = 33

Keep forgetting to do that...

Right - treasure map check #2

Ina e to level Gunari up today, and I will be in. I think I know what he will be doing, but...

Oh yeah, Lort is leveled up. Mostly just BAB, perception and fort saves going up. Also bought some shinier armor (+2 now) so my AC is up by 1.

Big changes to feats:

• No more cleave.
  
• Furious focus.
  
• Vital strike.
  
• Cornugon smash.

Level 9? Hells yeah.

Excited to see you folks running through this. I'll be watching from a dark corner to see how it all goes! I love seeing how people work within a scenario I've designed. Some great characters you've got for this one, too! :)

Excited to see you folks running through this. I'll be watching from a dark corner to see how it all goes! I love seeing how people work within a scenario I've designed. Some great characters you've got for this one, too! :)

Thanks Robert!

No pressure. Just the author reading along. No big deal.

*Ahem*

/sheepish grin

@ Robert Brookes: Awesome! Glad you'll be reading along. Hope it's enjoyable for you following this group. We'll try to make the fun-to-read factor not terrible :)

Ha! Both can be enjoyable! :D

More stalkers! I love it!

@Robert Brookes, you gonna be at Paizo Con or Gen Con?

@here - I am working on a bit of a retrain for Gunari.

1) getting rid of Weapon of the Chosen, Greater. I know its been his signature, but at this point he'll do better with iterative attacks (especially if Amaranti uses Haste a lot)

2) Getting rid of Weapon of the Chosen, Improved (already does that)

So, that means I'll have a few feats to work with.
I think I might get Greater Weapon Focus, and Step up... but will still have a third. I value all y'all's opinions, so let me know what you think.

Thanks!

FYI - I could definitely do a non-combat feat as well :P

I'll definitely be at PaizoCon. I'll probably be spending time pimping my upcoming campaign setting and I'll likely run a table of Blakros Commection, too.

Well, then, we'll have to talk about this then! Very cool!

Cyrus updated in hero lab, very minor (purchases mentioned above)

Trying to decide if he should purchase an adamantine wakizashi as a backup weapon.

I've got the gold for it... just not sure if I want to save it up for something cool like winged boots....

Decisions Decisions...

@Gunari - I'll have to look into what feats make sense another time, I'm already up way to late tonight. What makes it even harder is I am so unaccustomed to being this deep into levels, and I have never played a warpriest...

I'll simmer on it tomorrow.

Looks like we only have Gunari to dot into the gameplay thread -

I don't want this to become a stress point or point of anxiety, but it would be nice if we could finish this in a month or less, so we can get more season 7 stuff in before Gen Con.

If there is anything I can do to help facilitate that, please let me know. I don't want to be a complainer, just want to help gently prod along.

Gunari - Have you considered the weapon specialization feat that is part of the same weapon focus tree? Seems kinda boring, just extra damage, but especially with your crit range adding an extra 2-4 damage per hit (possibly 2 hits per round) is a pretty significant damage increase.

Gunari has dotted in (he did the 'ninja delete dot'). Looks like we're all ready to go! Let's do Robert proud... by smashing through his encounters in true 1-2 round, all or nothing Drongo fashion.

As for weapon specialization, do warpriests get that? It's traditionally been fighter only. I ummed and arred a lot about weapon specialization for Lort, but in the end furious focus and vital strike have more utility for a greatsword-wielding power attacker.

Not that you want to necessarily copy Lort, but +10 intimidate isn't too bad for a Cornugon smash... then all our opponents will be literally shaking in their boots.

Topic: knowledge pool and copying spells into my spellbook.

So a Level 7 Magus ability, Knowledge Pool, grants me the ability to prepare any spell on the Magus list as if it was in my spellbook. Straightforward and cool, but there is an extra caveat that I did not know existed.

Knowledge Pool (Su): At 7th level, when a magus prepares his magus spells, he can decide to expend 1 or more points from his arcane pool, up to his Intelligence bonus. For each point he expends, he can treat any one spell from the magus spell list as if it were in his spellbook and can prepare that spell as normal that day. If he does not cast spells prepared in this way before the next time he prepares spells, he loses those spells. He can also cast spells added in this way using his spell recall ability, but only until he prepares spells again.

It appears that once prepared, I can then scribe it into my Spellbook.

So it is possible that between adventures I can use Knowledge Pool and then scribe it into my spellbook or can this only be done in adventure. If it is the later, I am going to tweak my Prepared spells.

All of this is subject to GM. So please let me know.

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I am just waiting to finish up my character leveling. Still debated on the final feat. AUGH!

I'll figure it out tonight, and will give a typically crazy Gunari post then. :D

Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (history), Linguistics, or Perception.

Skills we can use:
Amaranti: Perception +0 (untrained)
Gunari: Perception +5
Cyrus: Perception +11, Linguistics +8
Finarin: kn: Arcana +15, Perception +9
Ibid: kn:arcana +13+1d6, kn:history +12+1d6, Perception +9
Lort: Perception +17

So, looks like we should do:
Lort, Gunari, Cyrus on Perception
Ibid, Finarin, Amaranti on kn:Arcana

With his lack of skills, Amaranti can't really help anyone, so might as well maximize the two roll sets.

Everyone cool with this analysis?

Kaisharga has +9 perception, so he should join the perception group. Is there point in having four in the same group?

Amaranti can roll Perception untrained, but if we need to have three in the arcana group, he can go there.
Can we even roll three checks in any other skill except perception?

Analysis looks good to me. I agree with Amaranti (if we can have the same people in both groups).

Question for the team - With Amaranti's point, it would actually make sense to just put Kaisharga in Gunari's place, or if we can have a group of 4 and 3, add Kaisharga to the perception group.

Am I the only one with linguistics?

I can't come up with a better way to arrange it. We are "light" on the knowledge/linguistics skills, so there is a limited choice of people to put in that group that all have ranks in the same skills. Perception is the only one that anyone can do.

The thing that is tough is that since Amaranti doesn't have the knowledge skills, he is essentially useless for this, and Ibid/Finarin only really have 2 people in their group. The GM did say specifically that you must have ranks in the skill in order to do it (which makes me wonder if that applies to perception, per the way the scenario is written)

So really it ends up being

Perception Group: Lort, Cyrus, Kaisharga, Gunari

Knowledge (arcana) Group: Finarin, Ibid

Looks like the Ibid-o-pedia and Finar-i-pedia are going to have to shoulder a heavier load here. I don't see another way to do that.

Really enjoying watching the back and forth between the group and Nigel. Also, "Obviously the beer has had its effect by the end." gave me a good laugh.

Glad you're enjoying it! Nigel is such a slacker... ;-)

Was going to update later but I had to check Wayfinder, didn't I?

1) Each group can only have three people. This was alluded to in my post, but I forgot about Kaisharga. If Kai wants to roll for Amaranti, then that is fine.

2) I see four people posting Perception and one posting Kn. Arcana. All members of a group need to post the same check.

3) If it is a trained skill, then you cannot roll it untrained.

4) Can Kaisharga post two more rolls please. (I want three from everyone to speed up the processso we can get to more scenarios before GCon.)

5) Way to put me on the spot Mr. Brookes. First you watch EF's game where I was useless (I was Thorgrim) and now you will watch me GM for these fools? ; (

I hope this clears up any questions.

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So, we only have 2 in the arcana group. Looks like Ibid still needs to post.

If Karshaiga takes Amaranti's spot, then Gunari can be the one out (cheer leading for the kn: arcana group) since he's got the weakest perception of the perception group.

If permissible, he can just use Guidance on the two checking with Arcana.

Thorgrim was kinda great in that, though. Total fish out of water :)

Ok, so I have a minor rules kerfuffle. Upon updating my 'stuff' last night and looking for some spells to add in before the fit hits the shan, I realized that when I upgraded my headband

A headband of vast intelligence has one skill associated with it per +2 bonus it grants.

So I get another skill to call my own, and 8 ranks to put in.

As we seem to have a huge hole in Linguistics, and we are only playing together until Eyes of Ten, I put it in that. Added 8 languages.

So it is pure and utter cheese to use it for this adventure, so beginning next adventure, I will have a +16 to linguistics and 8 additional languages.

Also, I am going to spend 1 Arcane Pool point for Knowledge Pool, and add in Frigid Touch and drop Ablative Barrier.

Before the 2nd day, I am going to spend 2 hours copying it into my Spellbook, for 40 gp.

Spellcraft DC 15, take 10: 21 + 10 = 31

I like cheese...

Finarin, don't forget you get a "starting language" with that headband as well.

Quick note, not only is Ibid bleeding out, but he has 2 bleed damage as well, so he will die very quickly if we don't heal him magically.

If only we had a Warpriest or a Cleric .....

GM. What is the effect of losing 6 secs? He doesn't remember being hit, or hiring, but anything else?

This is the spell effect. "You cause the target to forget what happened from the casting of the spell back to the beginning of its last turn." No in game problems, just whatever you think is appropriate for missing a chunk of time.

Going to post soon. Cyrus will get ibid. UMD don't fail me now...

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Go go Cyrus!

Gotta laugh... Gunari losing his memory? Who would notice? I may post more about his being confused.... Like when did he cast divine favor? Etc...

Go go Cyrus!

Gotta laugh... Gunari losing his memory? Who would notice? I may post more about his being confused.... Like when did he cast divine favor? Etc...

I've got butane in my veins baby...

Also - WTF? I know I updated Cyrus - his stat line and everything is still from the last scenario. Taking care of that right now.

So I know this is probably not what the players want to hear, but I'm so glad that this encounter is challenging you folks. I got the opportunity to play with some really fun toys in building the encounters you'll face. I think you're going to enjoy the rest -- if you get out of the archive in one piece!

You gave me such interesting monsters that I feel compelled to call forth all of their abilities if possible!

I ran this fight in person at low tier and it wasn't nearly as exciting when the invisible creatures got blasted with Glitterdust from the get-go, plus no memory-stealing demons to play with. :D

Don't worry, Cyrus, Gunari forgot to level up also!

Male CG Human (Varisian) Warpriest 8

Yeah, so just following up on the thing I wrote last minute on gameplay. I was figuring out how close Gunari needed to get... and then noticed he'd get pretty much the entire warehouse from where he is.

That is, unless they have a weird other way of staying invisible (but even ethereal counts as invisible, which is purged).

I normally don't like asking for a retcon, but with Cyrus confused and Ibid bleeding heavily, if they are visible, could I change my action please?

They are not visible. The creatures that are attacking you are still unseen.

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Amaranti can cast glitterdust on the one harassing Lort, or the one on the corner. But how do we save Ibid? I don't think Ibid can stabilize because of the bleed effect. And uh.. I hate having player knowledge over character knowledge :(

Lort will channel next up... but please urge him in character to do so!

Also, it may be best to save your glitter dust for when it attacks next (i.e. Ready an action), just in case it moved away farther than 10ft.