EM - [PFS] Champion's Chalice, the Return (Inactive)

Game Master Evil Minion

Fali has prestidigitation she can probably keep your mouth [slobber specifically] minty fresh! And/or clean up afterwards!

Also I think Tad with a bubble pipe would be amazingly cute!

Intended to update things last night, but got busy, and in meetings all morning today... Will move things along soon as I'm able =)

Hrmm... writing up an update now... and trying to decide whether to lose the hat =) An innocent casualty!

Wha? My hat? No way! Not without at least a check on my end first! Feel free to throw in checks along the way to see if I can succeed in keeping the hat.. its only fair!

Fair?! I'm not supposed to be fair, I'm a cruel and heartless GM!

And it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place! (I can't shake the feeling you're going to use its existence against me at some point!)

Wha? ME? NEVER! Merely (most likely...) just a fun RP prop!

And then he figures some way to animate it, and use his head as a launching platform for its path of destruction!

Well I did include the (most likely) for a reason... just in case.

the online Venture team has asked we link the following survey to all our players, for feedback now that we're nearing the mid point of Gameday VII.

So there it is. Fill it out if you want... or not!

Hey guys! Out on a mini weekend holiday with my girl, so posting will probably be spotty! Fali, feel free to bot me if needed, you know what Monty would get up to. ;)

Hey, I've had a houseguest all weekend and I'm beat now after they've left. I'll get back up to speed on Monday; please bot me if necessary!

Is it me or is this adventure particularly deadly? Seems like running around with no gear and not much for armor just makes for lots of damage. Good thing we've got a Tad with us!

Never seemed too bad, really. You guys are doing great.

just one of those adventures where the players actually have to pay attention, and not just rocket tag everything, and assume they'll walk over it like many other scenarios at these tiers.

I kinda like that a well balanced party makeup actually is relevant.

Even if you guys did have your gear, it really wouldn't have made much of a difference to this point.

In the previous encounter, Cornella was actually built with feats for using fragile weapons. I had all these cool descriptive ideas in my head for how she would jab in her daggers, then snap them off, intentionally leaving the blades embedded, etc... but she never got a chance to use any of it! Good job on you folks. =)

Most of the encounters are triggered as you 'leave hex A' or 'enter hex B', etc.

It is possible, if you do well in certain phases, to trigger a bunch in one day. Price you pay for quick travel! There's always the option to slow down, and allow more resources to renew. =)

Thanks for the explanations. I wonder if they walked you through how that team had time to get ahead of us AND make that many weapons and armor. I'm glad you didn't have the option for any of those auto confirm dagger crits :)

It is nice to have a much higher sense of mortality, but it still makes me and my little non-combat Dale squirm!

The fact that this is a race really makes me feel like we have to push the pace forward, but with the 3 combat encounters so far it makes me want to slow down a bit to regroup and make sure we are ready to fight. Dale will likely be about out of bombs after this.

My kids and I are coming down with something (again... ARGH). I'll try to keep checking in regularly, but if not, please bot me. Feel free to use up Tad's resources if needed, or my folio reroll if it seems a good idea.

cursed plague mites!

Thanks for avoiding Brady on the splash. I had it in my head that I needed to post he wouldn't get hit if I didn't miss but apparently forgot to actually type those words.

I will always assume you're trying to avoid friendlies unless you tell me otherwise =)

A heads up!

I will be heading up to the Great White North this weekend for Thanksgiving. Where I am going will likely have little internet access.

So it might prove to be a quiet weekend from my end!

Thanks for the warning, and enjoy your holiday weekend.

Ah right, Canadian thanksgiving is in October! Enjoy your weekend and meal! Just out of curiosity, what kind of meal is it? It'd be something worth introducing to the kids in Japan, if nothing else!

Heh you celebrate Thanksgiving while we are celebrating Christopher Columbus... I should hop the border for the weekend. At least I'll be shroom hunting all weekend anyhow.

Canadian Thanksgiving is no different than its American counterpart... just happens at a more logical time (for celebrating an end of harvest type of event).

So the typical turkey dinner spread is called for!

Being a Canadian, living in the US, I can easily swing two such turkey spreads each fall, between both of them... and if I time things right, sometimes 3... since American Turkey Day always falls on a Thursday (which is weird).

This is perfect for me; my cousin is getting married this weekend (also up north, but in Michigan, so nowhere near as up north as you, I imagine). So I'll also be out of touch for a while.

I too live in the Great White North ....of France, so no turkey for me. ^^

Ok guys, what do we want to do? I could really really use more bombs, I've only got 3 left. When it comes to combat I can't do diddly without them. Armor would be a plus.

You guys?

Several of you guys are badly hurt still. Tad is down to one channel, which he really wants to save for emergencies, since his spells can't be depended on to work. Three bombs for Dale would get us through most of one more combat, when combined with Tad's fire rays and everyone else's melee attacks. I also feel like there can't be that many combats left.

At least one or two combats left I would think since we're almost out of areas. I can do without the armor if needed but the bombs I'd rather not, especially since 20% are duds.

Work on your bombs, Dale. And sorry for the pick, I know how much time you spend working on it. ^^

Tad, Fali's good with out any restorations or healing, definitely focus on the others! The poison comment was cause I thought the thing might be reoccurring.

Definitely keep up on making bombs, Dale. Those things are really useful! If we are going to slow down some and work on crafting, Fali might attempt to make her longspear, finally, and be a smidge more useful in the future fights. Now the question is, do we try risking a third march, and possible second or third encounter? If we can get out of the jungle by the second shift, and not get too heavily punished by the fight there (?) I think we should possibly try pushing ahead. Tad you wouldn't have happened to memorize that wateralk spell today?

Brady is hurt and could use some healing, for sure, but it's not critical at this point. While he would certainly love some armor, that too seems less than critical. A shield goo ball before our next combat might prove just as effective, and saves us time. Though, I also agree that Dale needs more bombs, so we should probably work in some time to craft. Let's just keep it to a minimum. We were clearly coming behind both the Trail Hounds and the Song'o; we probably need to make up some time at this point.

Hmm, we've blown through some of the checks and areas so far, so I'm almost wondering if the scenario has them ahead of us no matter what, but I agree we should probably hurry and have a couple people work on increasing the overall groups speed and have a couple work on building/gathering things.

Only Dale can gather his bomb materials, and should probably focus on that, and after Dale the person with the best modifier for making things would be Dru. If she'd be willing to try making a longspear, then Fali could probably focus on helping with a fancy foot work check. Is there anything else that people are wanting to have before we get into another fight?

I can do without the armor, just need more bombs.

Who for melee people that use armor don't have any yet? What do we have, 2 sets? I guess we do have 2 sets of medium armor but that slows us down as a group so we should avoid it.

Brady is wearing armor, actually; the rustic studded leather. Forgot about that; I recorded the bonus in my stats but not the item. So Brady is good. He'll continue to boost his AC through Martial Flexibility when we fight.

Fali has some medium armor claimed, but she's probably fine without it and just using a reach weapon and Martial Flexibility.

Am back from Canuckland and ready to go!

Time to put that toque away, hang up that parka, throw off those gloves and get to play by post time!

Ok so who is actually proficient with those dart chuckers besides Dru? Dale is 'half' proficient: -2 vs the -4 to use.

If no one else is going to use the second then Dale will keep it so he doesn't have to always use his bombs. Too bad he doesn't have PBS or Precise. Glad to see they are killing those off in 2e.

EM, I sent you a private message, and the notifications aren't working right now.

I really hate doing this, but I sent you another private message.

Ha. Its amazing how one awol little red dot can make a huge difference =)

edit: hrmm... the drop down menu said I had a message... but I don't see one once I look.

edit2: are are you talking about the message you sent this morning? I saw that one!

Yep, late morning for me.

Ah ok... intended to ponder it some more before responding!
Wasn't expecting such short notice!

Yeah, I understand that.

Actually, you can ignore what I said about timing there. I can always add more in later.

Sorry, couldn't post before now, had a big meeting at work yesterday afternoon, and much to do this French morning.

nah, its fine. I moved things faster than I needed to, just to avoid alot of 'nothing happening' moments =)

Now you're all conspiring against me to save that damn hat!

Curse you!

Thanks for being my hat wingmen Monty and Fal. Its the little things /sniff.

Can someone who is paralised do a reflex save?