Elven team in Campaign Elves vs Dwarves -- Dwarves and Gnomes Keep Out (Inactive)

Game Master Chainmail

I wasnt sure either. I was under the impression we had 150g as a group, so Seltyn used it to augment our bannerman. Also why Mar didnt get anything else.

If its per person, well... He could def use some knives and spear and save up for some fancy bow.

Would you prefer to use Tel's old longspear? I realize they're cheap in general (and this one has ape blood all over it) but if you want it, it's yours.

Guisarme + falchion = 84g, leaving Telethal with 66.

I could easily pick up another potion. Having a second CLW or Enlarge Person would be really handy. Two Enlarge Persons on-hand could mean that Seltyn could prep something else.

Another clutch healing pot could be useful as well.

Thoughts, anyone?

If its per person then I have a number of ideas for what to do. Most of all I really want to look into upgrading my armour, or perhaps getting a rapier. Crit with a lot of hits then, plus I was thinking of taking weapon finesse anyway. I agree though that a masterwork composite longbow +1 strength would be amazing.

Still, I read it as meaning 150 for the group, and hence was happy with you using it for the bannerman and the scrolls.

Did we bring the bannerman this time?

To be honest, I was even thinking of throwing about 50 gold of my pot into a communal pot for things like healing potions. Just think it might be a good idea to do something like that. After all, you can never have too much healing right?

Cool. I'll do the same. i'll toss my remaining 66g into the communal, so we can get more healing pots, or possibly some scrolls of Lesser Restoration or Delay Poison. Those could be some serious life-savers.

Seltyn, would you be willing to track the group cash? Or would you like someone else to do that?

Like I say, this is still dependant on whether we know that the 150 gold is per person or overall, because that is a significant difference.

Yes, Flambeaux is with us this time, with a +1 bonus like you get from a bard. We were being secretive last time, so he was too obvious. As an official delegation, we'd want him along.

I think the 150 was for each of us. That's enough to look the part of a diplomat and her protectors. I've got 25 to pitch in on a partially-charged wand.

Right ok, I have updated Talon on my PC then to assume it was 150 each. Basically bought myself a rapier and chainshirt. He generally looks pretty clean as it is, but is never going to be anything like the diplomat that Elorin is, and so won't be going down that route.

Won't update it here till its confirmed one way or the other.

Btw guys, I just noticed something on my character sheet that could have been useful in that combat had I thought of it. I have a load of thunderstones in my pack. Didn't think to use them at all. Sorry.

If you want I have 57 gold left over from both character creation and from this most recent windfall. If you would like I can give it to you to charge that wand up some more.

could do with a better melee weapon, rapier seems good to me. also soem Armour,being less squishy would be great. so that would give me a ranged, a piercing and a bludgeoning. good mix i hope.

Bwah. Damnitall. Sorry i've been so absent. I'll try harder to be on every day. It just slipped my mind completely. Here now, no real needs as far as equiptment unless you'd like to pick up a masterwork thieves tools kit or some other skill kit (disguise?) Don't much think that either would be the best use of the money though!

Glad you're back! Here, take a dagger... :)

I think the 1000gp payment for the seeds is in a gray area.

We can tell the queen about it, and then remind her that we're poor. LOL

Yah. I was asking because if it was meant as a gift to us personally, we could spend it to equip ourselves now. But if its a gift back to the Elven Nation, then we need to take it back to the Queen first.

Oh well.

I'll happily throw in my last 14 gold :P

We lose little by waiting till this mission is over to find out what to do with it. In the mean time, humans are a trusted enemy

Moving is finally finished and im unpacked, so should be able to get to my normal level of posting now. yay.

By the way, the old song was Break on Through by the Doors. The new song fits much better.

So let us see who we have. Time for a roll call.
Decisions may include and are not limited to"
Return and consult or leave directly.
Keep bow, return bow to queen, or sell bow to queen.
Ferret may still be around, Kalthos can find him again with no problem. Taking others would be a matter of conscience.
Elven intelligence seems to be concentrated on the coast. You would expect them to have limited intelligence on this depot/capital, but are not 100% sure.

I vote for keeping the bow and giving it to Talon to use forever and ever :D

Other than that, we have those boats to look into, up in the frozen wastes and there is the issue of the dryad once more. I don't really know what the best option would be. I know that it would be good however to get some more epic treasure for the minute as we are lacking in items and the like. Certainly something that we could really use are potions of healing or a cleric.

I don't really know guys. I will most likely be taking Talon down the arcane archer route right now, and thus more combat and the like would be appreciated, but where the best place would be I don't know.

If we go to the human city then I get favoured enemy bonuses and the like, meaning that combat will be fantastically lethal from my point of view. However if we fail then there might be massive issues for us all, especially as in a capital city there are normally lots of humans, some of whom might have weapons.

To be honest I have forgotten what the other side missions were that we could do, might be an idea to actually get those up and posted again. If we go elsewhere then there is the chance we piss off Derrick, but also a good chance that we find other things that can be of use to us.

Personally I am torn

Options are basically five.
(1) Inland to the capital. With or without human help.
(2) Up the coast to the seaport and shipyard. Really good ship is underwater, but decent ships may be found above the water. The ship you have is pretty good--significant upgrade may be an underwater adventure.
(3) Short mission down the coast to meet jungle tribes partway to Rovagug lands.
(4) Down the coast to Rovagug lands.
(5) Down the coast past Rovagug lands to see what is beyond. An exploration mission.

Note: After fighting a civil war--beating up other humans from another area doesn't seem so bad. A raid sounds less violent than a full war too.

Sorry to slip off the radar, guys. Life got crazy on me, and I have become a bit stretched thin. I don't know that my posting ability will get much more than it has been lately.

As I don't want to be the reason this game grinds to a halt, I'm gonna go ahead and back out.

Sorry to do it just now, but I'm not sure what else to do.

I apologize to everyone, especially, you Chainmail. I don't like being flakey, but I gotta be honest about my online time.

We could suck up the loss of one character, but this hurts. We need a front-liner. The dwarves are all tougher than we are. We need a serious melee guy, IMO.

I can respec Talon to be a TWF ranger if needed, although its a big change. Might be an idea to get a new character in then I suspect, preferably a paladin or something. If there is one thing we are short on its healing

Sorry guys, not disappeared, having issues with internet in new place, it has decided that it doesn't want to work at all. hopefully it will be sorted Friday.

Thanks Elorin -- I am seeing if we can get some more full BAB elves by opening recruitment.

I would love to know what Derrick's response is to Talon's words earlier. It is a little frustrating sometimes when for example I type something that comes across fairly diplomatic and reasonable with the aim of advancing the story, only for it to be seemingly ignored.

Thanks for advancing story again. Just out of interest, is it reasonable to assume that Talon would most likely have first dibs on the bow? Not trying to be a glory hound or anything else, literally just thinking that from an ooc perspective he can make most use of it mechanically, and in character he uses the bow almost exclusively.

Elorin seems to have disappeared.

For now the bow is Talon's-- I think I will push out some recruiting for the elves. The dwarves have had almost no attrition, but obviously they can't switch sides.

Right so would anyone complain if I were to take the bow and add it to my stats?

Just need to know before I do something silly nad update my statblock

Fine with me. He's the best guy for it.

Had some access issues with Paizo yesterday/ early today. Now that I am up I can do a DM post tonight.

Fantastic news. Last I heard, Talon did his big long speech, we got to the town and then he was off to look for accomodation. We have no reason that I can think of to ask for special accomodation

Thanks for the invite, I look forward to playing with you all! :)

So who is active players and who are Npc's? It's kinda hard to discern at this point. Talon and Sevenleaf I can tell but the rest seem npcish to me... And the character page is no help! Lol

Edit: I also saw that I messed up my stats and missed 1 point. It's fixed now and won't cause a discernable change until level 4. I had to change his armor around as my herolab had loaded up my default piecemeal armor set up. Breastplate + scalemail arms/legs is awesome! :)

+6 breastplate +1 scale ARM +1 scale leg +1 full suit bonus and a buckler gives +10 ac bam!

But my current setup works just as well and is 1 ax lower then the above. Plus its quicker to put on my armor compared to the below.

Let me know if some of this doesn't jive Boss man :)

Dramatis Persona = active characters

Seltyn = Wizard
Talon = Ranger
Marlamin = Druid
Wilaml = Paladin

Nonactive to semiactive (not on this raid)
Kalthos = Rogue
Elorin = Bard

NPC bannerman - Carries an elven standard. Currently has a bless effect (can stack with an actual bless) on entire group.
He is with the group.

K thanks for the list, will post later. I was traveling back to work and starting my 12 hour a day shifts. It's gonna be fun for the next 3 weeks :p

Wilaml, feel free to read to catch up--as you will be given the full update soon anyway.

Party is light in treasure as they escaped the last encounter with their life. They do own a remarkable bow given by to them by the new human king. The grizzled mercenary captain obviously recognizes the aweseome bow that can't be unstrung and the bow can actually talk. You do not recognize the bow, but can read the description -- it is pretty good.

Another traveler to be encountered on the road soon.

Its a pretty damn awesome bow. Also, as far as the leadership is concerned, there isn't any lol. We just kinda muddle along and make the best of an often horribly bad situation

@ chainmail: Wilaml plans on entering the city without a disguise, at this point he finds no reason to hide and since he has only just joined the caravan he has little fear that he will be anything more then a curiosity to the supposed spies. I just haven't had the time to insert a post yet, working long hours right now. But he will enter the city and offer healing services to those in need and eventually make his way to the tavern as well. Taking his time though so its less suspicious about all the elvenish people entering the tavern at once.

It's his poor excuse for subterfuge. :) Paladins are not sneaky sneaky types. LOL

Lol, Paladins don't need to be sneaky, the evil buggers they hunt are usually trying to stay away. As it is, I was considering taking Talon down the route of a Paladin, so expect some heavy social roleplay as he tries to figure out whether it is his route or not. Healing services in the town? Awesome idea.

Wil can also check in at the free company headquarters and check out the rumors and jobs there.

You do know the magistrates of the city have had a massive contract for anyone to clean out the undercity. It has been unclaimed for over a year.

Awesome! Thanks for the info bossman :D Wil has a mission >:)

I'm still rolling with the idea of Wil being a Hospitallar, just minus the archetype. ;) It also makes it easy to get along with people. Can't get mad at the guy healing and sowing your wounds shut. :) Free healing is another way to make diplomacy checks as well. ;)

Well you can swear your head off at the man, so long as you apologise for it later on I suspect. I know I did when I had my stitches put in multiple times. Local anaesthetic doesn't work very well on me

I'm interested in this "clean out the undercity" idea, and I'd like to know more...

Hehe yeah I had to get something surgically removed once that was on my skin. Not a pleasant feeling when you are just numb enough to feel something cold sliding back and forth across your skin. It was wearing off as the stitch work began so yeah it was painful towards the end. It's just eerie to be awake when someone is removing part of your skin.... Blargh....

Oh tell me about it. I hate stitches, simply cause its uncomfortable as anything.

Bump. What's the plan guys?