Fevered Dreams

Game Master JonGarrett

Who knows? Me. I know.

What a twist!

I like to keep them coming.

So is Salim/Fantasmo(?) in our version or Nurai's?

Sounds like we're rolling with Joseph not yet punching the glass, so I'll assume that in my next post.

He's on whatever side Joseph is.

Had a funny thought.
Joseph is concentrating on sensing what is in the display case. He either 'sees' the presence or not, but he also senses a localized evil not far from where he is.

Aw, hear that Jennifer? You're "localized"!

Oh and I should mention @JG my Read Emotions only works against humanoids, which is sort of why I'm using it. To see if the target is humanoid. :)

Aw, hear that Jennifer? You're "localized"!

Gotta keep that shit close to your chest or it causes a lot of hassle.

Sorry for the slowness, folks. House buying + colds = slow GM's.

I will say Solomon will probably be aware that the thing you're picking up isn't humanoid, strictly, but it also wants you to sense what it feels, or doesn't care about you knowing at all.

Sorry, I'm having a hard time with that choice Jon gave me. As a player, I want Jennifer to evolve, but *she* doesn't want to evolve. I need to think how/if I want to handle this.

Sure, take a moment.

I've been locked out of my paizo account for a bit. Sorry for the absence. Will catch up when I can.

...well, Jennifer seems to have a solid idea as to what's happening, yeah. Short version is _ and the Demon are present in all versions of the room, so you can hear everything they say and do, but you only get info from the other instance when somehow connected to one of them.

I like how you include the ellipsis like you were unprepared for me knowing what's going on. :)

Ah! Ok that helps a lot, thank you.

Just me missing things, I'll answer when I post next.

Must’ve misinterpreted the demon. I thought it was the thing that had made the holes, rather than being a side effect.

Well, chock it up to Zaoth being decently evil and having all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

*narrows eyes suspiciously*

Improved Haste on Joseph. This works like the regular Haste spell except you only get a +20 foot enhancement bonus to speed instead of +30.

How is that "improved?"

Because Spheres Haste normally doesn't grant the extra attack; Improved Haste is what gives it. =p

You don't feel sick in the tummy from being a living fairground ride.

Ah, okay.

I'm going to a house in the country from Friday through Monday that will have spotty internet access. Please bot me if I'm holding anything up.

Just as a head's up, Doctor Solomon's player has left the game.

Is everyone else doing OK? I'm waiting for a few posts.

I'm doing good. I'm waiting on whether Joe located the foe in the black smoke?

Derp, says the DM who missed that post.

Weren't there only two doors in this place? That was kind of why we split up to each watch a door, I thought.

It kinda just feels like things are just HAPPENING without us having any ability to impact them. I still don't even know what the taser did; I wasn't told what kind of damage it deals, etc. or whether it had any effect on the guy.

The taser's simply a non-lethal electrical attack. It does damage as a normal weapon. I suppose if I was doing it now I might add a chance for it to stagger it's victim too, but that wasn't in the stat block I popped on the site.

You can check the maps linked in the page description for a clearer picture of what the area is like, but there are effectively three rooms - one of which you had a fight in, and two of which you just checked - along with three other doors, one down into the basement area of the museum, one back into the museum corridor and one into the gallery with the grumpy picture.

The way I'm trying to run this event is that there are things happening in several places, often at once. If you find them you can change them, otherwise certain pre-set things will happen. For example in this case the long-armed thief would have made off with one of the items in the area if not disturbed, but would have left a clue by accident. Having stopped that from happening now something else will occur.

The short version as to what's going on is that when he couldn't win he smoke bombed the area, hid in the smoke to cast invisibility and then sent out an unseen servant to distract you so he could flee. It was why I allowed Joseph to use his Spirit Sense trait at that point.

Median interrupted a similar scenario, then triggered another by going past the lift. If no one had gone near the elevator at all then something would have happened. I hinted at the thing there in a post that got ret-conned with Joseph.

Hopefully that makes things a bit clearer, but please feel free to ask for clarification if not. I know I'm not doing especially well with stuff right now as my mind is on other things, mostly buying a house and moving along with the usual COVID stuff, so don't hesitate to ask what's going on if things aren't clear enough.

Hi Everyone,

Tomorrow I'm having a catheterization on my left side tomorrow, so I won't be on the boards that day. But I hope to be back on during the weekend. Thanks all.

Thank you for the head's up, and good luck.

Thanks, man.

Real life comes first. Take care of yourself, and we'll be here when you get back. :)

Good luck, Joseph.

Apologies for the delay, I'll start botting folks tomorrow to get this fight over with.

Not before Joseph gets some swings in!!

Apologies if I get a touch slow (I know, how can we go slower?) we're getting the keys to the new house later today and my thought process right now is primarily -Screams internally- so coming up with clever writings may suffer. In fairness, the house thing is in part why I've been slow the last few months - did you know buying one was stressful? They should advertise that more! - so with a little luck I should be back to full form. Until something breaks.

Oh, yep... that is totally stressful, but you're at the fun part now. Good luck. :)

Good luck that that it all goes smoothly, Jon. I've been there.

To clarify; the curator was upstairs. Joseph and Salim went up, and I believe Nurai went with them after a moment. Jennifer and Midian are free to remain in the military exhibit and retcon there posts if they prefer, or we can go with everyone heading upstairs. Leaving the metallic being on the roof and staying with it will both have interesting consequences. Both make me smile, if that helps.

As long as the entities are upstairs too, I'm good with going from where we are already... everyone upstairs. Also... I assume I can walk around while still allowing them to be connected through my mind. Let me know if that isn't the case.

Alright, we're at the point where actual moving is happening. Annoyingly my router at the old house broke, and the internet isn't being turned on at the new house until Saturday so I'm not sure how much I'll be around. With a little luck normal-ish posting should resume Monday.

Sorry I've been so slow and meh with posting the last few weeks, this move has taken a lot more out of me than I anticipated.

OK, folks. Move has happened. It went a little worse than expected - the movers were not the best, and when we complained about them destroying our water supply they decided blackmail was the better choice than paying for those repairs - but beyond the chaos that caused we're now mostly settled, and I will hopefully get into a good posting pattern again as my sleep switches back to normal rather than the 'a couple of hours here, a few more there' I've been doing for the last week.

Thanks for bearing with us. It's been a brutally stressful and exhausting few days. But on the plus side, I have a fun reward for you all when we finish this section.

Sorry your move was so stressful.

Thank you, I am very glad I will not be doing that again.

Think I'm going to officially draw out of this one. The premise of the game is cool, and I like my character, but the flow really isn't gelling with me. It's basically felt like instead of one game we're playing in, we're kind of just playing 3-4 different, mostly disconnected games in the same vague place. Never really been a big fan of those freeform/living world games, and it feels a lot like that right now.

Fair enough, thank you for giving it a try.

FYI, I am going to be on vacation from this Friday through next week. Feel free to bot me, or have my character get sick and unable to get out of bed, or whatever. :)

Noted, enjoy your time off!