GM Aeon's Phantom Phenomena (Inactive)

Game Master ckelley83

Hello and welcome. Once everyone has checked in we'll get underway.

Player Name: Adam Horne (Ietsuna)
Character Name: Hadzi Ubuntu
PFS ID: 204997-13
Faction: Silver Crusade
A Day Job Roll: None
Fresh character so no PP, no Fame, no XP yet.

Oh yeah, make sure I have the info for your Chronicles. Name, character, #, faction, etc.

Player Name: Otha
Character Name: Daedîn
PFS ID: 239913-6
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job: None

Thanks for running this!

Player Name: I'm Hiding In Your Closet
Character Name: Heraclitus Ourobouros
PFS ID: #40025-17
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Day Job: Perform (Comedy): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24

The Gameplay thread is open, go ahead and do your introductions and read the letter from Dr. Quolorum.

Player Name: Ray Chiang
Character Name: Callus Asiatia
PFS ID: 40644-9
Faction: Grand Lodge
A Day Job Roll: Craft (Alchemy), Take 10: 10 + 15 = 25
Starting: 1 XP/0 PP/2 Fame

I'll likely need to do some more alchemical crafting at the end of the scenario.

Player Name: RePete
Character Name: Jazk Rhatszi
PFS #: 126566-08
Faction: Dark Archives
Day Job: Profession (Snitch): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Starting: 1 XP/0 PP/2 Fame

Sorry, between power outages in Memphis, and Paizo outages everywhere, getting in to post has been tough. Power part is all good now. Hopefully Paizo will cooperate too.

Player: Robert Thomson
Character Name: Thalionwen
PFS#: 106968-68
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Day Job: Perform (Dance): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Starting XP: 0 XP/0 PP/0 Fame

Tell me about it. This week has been great for the forums being down.

I forgot to mention this, should have earlier. Hadzi has terrible strength and cannot carry all his stuff, so he has a mule that carries stuff for him. The mule can stay at camp, it carries my bedroll, and all that jazz. Cannot wait for a bag or holding.

10's not terrible, it's average. Unless you have an extraordinary supply of stuff, Organized Play's lax approach to carrying capacity rules should mean that it's enough most of the time.

The carrying capacity for a light load is 33 pounds. My armour weighs 20, familiar satchel weighs 6, quarterstaff is 4, empty backpack is 2 and spell component pouch is 2 so I am 1 pound over already with no actual gear. I may have been a bit overly cautious, but it didn't seem to me to be much wiggle room.

Heraclitus, you take 1 nonlethal damage from the horseshoe. Also, do you have a preferred pronoun for Heraclitus?

"It" - honestly, if the recent RL sociopolitical upheaval surrounding the issue has taught me anything, it's that perhaps that should be the *only* 3rd-person singular pronoun. The very concept of preferred pronouns just makes the concept of "gender" STRONGER, which is the opposite of what we want, isn't it?

Map is set as view only currently.

Of course it is :( Always forget to check that.

Will likely be light posting over the weekend.

I'd like to request no more use of "crash server" haunts in this game, even if it is written into the adventure. It seems to have gone beyond this game and affected my others as well.

No update since Tuesday. I hope things are okay.

Me too...got another session I'm in that's going on a week since the GM has last posted...wondering if some folks are having trouble with the Paizo site?

ETA: Saw the GM posted on another session he's running early this morning, so hopefully he's OK. Maybe he'll update us today...

Sorry, got slammed at work over the last couple days due to the upcoming holiday.

I'll get the next post up now.

And I just noticed that my post was eaten by the board! Awesome.

How often does that happen? A couple of GMs in other sessions I'm in have had that happen recently as well...

Just a heads up, it'll likely be this evening before I get a post up. Training someone today

It happens a decent amount. Between the way Paizo's website authentication works and the slowness of the website means you can get some kind of "you're not logged in" failure in the time it takes you to write up and submit the post.

I used to never have it happen. I've had it happen a ton in the last 6-8 weeks. With power/internet outages with storms being common, and some modem/windows10 issues adding to the problem. It's been hell on posting. I know it's affected games I've been in both as a player and GM. I can't count the "eaten" posts however. It seems to always happen on big posts for me just to make it worse.

Yes, just nothing to add at the moment.

I just (I hope) wrapped up being persistently harassed and abused for the better part of a 24-hour cycle by someone on DailyKos, so kind of feeling extra-down at the moment.

Glad you're still with us...sorry to hear you were being harassed, sadly seems like that's not a rare thing on the net any more...

Hey GM, not sure how far along we are, but do you think we'll be finished by Gameday? No worries, but I had Daedin signed up for one of the Aug 25th sessions and might need to do some rearranging if not; want to be able to give the GM plenty of notice if I need to change characters or drop out. Thanks!

Once we finish this section we'll be at the halfway point. I'll look over the remaining encounters and get an idea of how long it might be.

Dammit, my post was eaten again! Give me a moment.

Thanks! Completely forgot I had flasks now... I even wrote it down on my notes. :-/

-Posted with Wayfinder

No worries, been a while, and it's easy to forget...

I've only got a single flask of alchemist's fire, which is actually a bit expensive at 1st level, so I'm waiting a tad to see if I need to throw it.

I'll be travelling to see the eclipse the next couple days, but I should be able to keep up.

Would it be too late to swap out Heraclitus for a different character and give the new character full credit for the adventure?

I've got a Sylph thief (not "Rogue" - THIEF!) and a shadowy Dhampir Spiritualist, both level 1, who would be ready and eager to join.

@GM: Any chance we finish this before the second session of Gameday VI starts on October 6th?

There's three chapters left. I'll kick up the pace.

Heraclitus, pm me if you want to switch out.

Never mind, both of those characters have since found games.

Jazk and I have the highest combined strength and it's only 25...does that mean there's no way we can lift the stone lid? And thus, no way to move it? Or do we just need a DC12 check to get it to a rolling position and another to roll it 5'?

Can we just push the lid into position? With just a 12 strength, I can push or drag 650 lbs...seems like Jazk and I could push a 300 lb lid over the pit...

Callus, just read through your profile...you can brew a mutagen that increases strength by 4....any of us (except Heraclitus) could drink it and we'd have the combined strength to lift it...we'd have to watch over the pit for an hour while you brewed it, but I don't see another option...

I believe it can be done with strength checks, but I don't recall the exact rules, because usually there is a strong person who can do it automatically.

Yeah, I think every other group I've been in had at least one guy who's 16+ strength...we're at 13, 12, 10, 10, 10, and 8...but Callus' mutagen could get it to where two of us are at 26+ so I'm guessing we'd be good...

I'm betting the strength rolls will be faster IC than spending 10 minutes on brewing a mutagen. OOC, I think we just need a bunch of them.

You may be right...looks like I totally misunderstood...

I'm guessing we won't be finishing this up by October 6, will we? Just want to confirm so I can let the GM of a Gameday Session 2 event to find a replacement for Daedin...

Is there just one more quest after this one?

In my experience the quest scenarios tend to have 5 quests.

Phantom Phenomena has 6 parts.

Saw that Daedin posted in the Flaxseed about your missing GM. Are you looking for someone to take over and finish this off?