That's ok! Combat is over and y'all have pretty much dealt with the Lodge, save for that upstairs room.
I'm gonna leave the three Raiders on the map, but they are down for the count. One's asleep, one's at 0 hp, and one has surrendered.
Sorry, dealing with work deadlines here, will try and post later today.
Sorry, later the same day after I posted the above I managed to wrench my back and lost a day and a half to pain meds. About to crash into bed here but I will try extra hard to post later today. :( Don't mean to hold things up- I'm fine with assuming we open the door to upstairs, Imendri in lead, Chiquq covering with bow, etc, if that works for everyone.
I'm sorry, guys, I'm in the last days of escrow and I have an injured hand (possibly broken?), so I will be slow to post.
Anyone have any recommendations on how to keep all my character data in order? pc apps? android apps?
Currently just using a google doc with info, but it is a bit unwieldy.
For my online doc, I just use this profile page. But to really manage it on my local side, I have HeroLabs. Expensive (especially since you have to pay for all add-on packages), but helpful if you can swallow the expense.
Yeah, I have everyone in HL as a group file. You can use things like Neceros' Modified PDF sheet..
Hopefully we haven't lost Imendri! ...either IC or OOC, ha.
I messaged him a while ago--will do so again.
I've been slow as well--hand injury and house buying/selling has impacted me. However, hand is better! I replaced it with this Vecna thing I found laying about.
Glad you're on the mend ... even if it required an Evil Prosthetic.
And just a heads up, I'm headed out of town this weekend. Don't expect much (if any) posting from me from Thursday until next Tuesday. I'll be in NYC; I hear they don't have internet.
Last minute heads up. My wife and I are on vacation until Monday. Don't expect posts from me until Tuesday. Bot my character as necessary so as not to hold up the game.
My apologies for the last-minute notice.
I am working like a busy bee, packing Saturday, moving Sunday, and unpacking Monday and Tuesday. :D So yeah. I WILL make the snows of summer progress after that!
I don't want to clutter the play thread, but am I missing something? Isn't everyone directly in the skeletons' line of sight, especially once they follow Dez down the stairs?
Yes, they are. Sorry for the slow gameplay, guys, it's taking a while to get back to a normal schedule.
I'm gonna see if Caelum posts, and if not I'll post for the skellies tomorrow and keep moving. Thanks for your patience, everyone.
Possible crossed lines of communication there; I was assuming we were trying to be out of direct line of the skeletons while they were on the stairs. To be completely out of their line of sight once they enter the ground floor of the building would mean we'd all have to totally vacate the ground floor dining room, since vision in PF is essentially 360. I think just getting them down to a point at which we can engage THEM one at a time rather than the position where we have to stick one of us (Imendri) to be engaged one at a time is hopefully sufficient.
Line of sight does not go through obstacles, so Dez was assuming the active combatants would hide around the corner past Dez towards the front porch, with maybe some who can't contribute much out on the front porch. I think Dez's in game comments communicated his plan, but, of course, he may have been unclear and in any event everyone else decides on their own how to react and events will unfold accordingly...
The goal, of course, was to try to neutralize the threat without having to engage the skeletons in melee combat and risk further injury.
I have visions of everyone making a stand at the stairs, and Braegan huddling in the cold outside the window.
"ready when you are, guys."
I went ahead and moved the Lady's icon. I'm sure she headed out with Yrja.
Someone was supposed to stay behind (hidden around the corner) to shut the door on the skeleton from behind. Oh well. Maybe we can keep it distracted long enough for someone to run back in.
I guess Dez is not so effective at communicating his plans. Makes sense I guess.
Object lesson in hashing stuff out more clearly OOCly for us all, I guess. If we leave it up to 'someone' then in the drawn out format of PBP it's easy to assume that 'well, I guess someone else is doing that' and for everyone to focus on what we understand our individual role to be, i.e., getting out. That sort of planning happens organically in table talk but needs to be spelled out online, I've found.
Yep. Although Dezső's charisma is not high, so maybe it is appropriate that his attempt to organize a plan in the middle of combat didn't entirely come off as he intended.
Away from home and internet until Friday evening, feel free to bot Yrja.
I will be camping this weekend and will post again on Sunday. I swear nothing will eat you while you sleep!
]Folks, I apologize, I haven't been tracking HP as best as I should. By my counts you are:
Imendri 17/22
Braegan 12/12
Yrja 13/13
Chiquq 17/17
Dez 17/17
Caelum 16/19
However, I think Imendri probably got another point or two from Infernal Healing...anyhow, close enough.
I do want to do some stuff in town, I've just been slammed this week! Will post later today, promise!
I am off to a cosplay/medieval fair this weekend, so posting will be minimal. In any case, Yrja doesn't have much to do in town other than checking in on Mahb and getting additional cold weather stuff.
No worries--we can RP for a post or three more until we reach Heldren. :)
Ugh, I am so sorry, my weekend exploded on me. I'm going to get the loot tracker updated later today; is there anything I'm needing to add to it beyond the stuff we found on the poor old farmer/ex-soldier fellow?
500 g of gp from Lady Argentea, and she's getting you all snowshoes.
Can we get a who's who in the campaign info? I only vaguely remember who all these NPC names attach to.
Okay, sorry for the delay. Loot tracker is updated (with everything but the snowshoes as I assumed we'd probably try and keep all of those).
Now would be the time to go over the things the loot tracker has you listed as claiming/etc and either add or remove things as necessary! Barring anybody's changes, however, that gives each PC 138 gold, 6 silver. I'll see if there's anything Chiquq wants to buy after people have had a chance to make any changes on the tracker they might need.
Tessarea runs the Willowbark Apothecary and is an alchemist. Viviala runs the General Store. Xanthippe will have weapons and armor, if you're looking for those. Anything else? :)
I think I am pretty well equipped. Haven't had a chance to use any items yet either.
Caelum should be good to go.
Axolotl, looking at Braegan's long(ish) term plans, you down with Improved Familiat at some point to have Aska "evolve" into her true self? (Fire wysp, fire mephit,and faerie dragon all seem pretty cool options)
No problems with that feat. Quite thematic.
The only feats I am shy of are Leadership and...that might be it. I forget if I said "no Tribal Scars traits" for the Northerners, but in case anyone was thinking of picking up Additional Traits and then Tribal Scars, I'm leeeeery of those overpowered traits.
Cool. Though 've found a new candidate for a familiar. THIS LITTLE GUY!
That's an emotionally intense bestiary entry!
Status check--only Braegan is down 4 HP, I think--everyone else should have healed in town due to Caelum's channelling plus a night of sleep on an 'off day'. Or did I miss HP damage to anyone/thing else besides Ila?
Well, it is twelve days since Imendri posted and several weeks since Caelum posted, I think. They are kind of our front-liners; do we want to wait for them or should I just send Chiquq across?
I don't know. We just came off the holidays; maybe Axo should reach out to them?
Yes, I think Axo should reach out to them. By the way, my father is very sick and I am going to be traveling to see him and help my mom. Things may continue this way for awhile. I still plan to check in on the game regularly -- I will have downtime while I am with my dad -- but please excuse me if I miss days or do brief posts. And Axo can bot Dez as necessary. But my intent and expectation is that I will continue to participate regularly.
I'll reach out and check in and I'll bot them for a bit.
Oh gosh, Dez, I hope your Dad will be ok.
Sadly, it really does not look like he is going to be OK. One of the really hard and sad parts of life, as you know.
You need more cats.
Oddly enough, I was at the vet this morning with my familiar. And I will spend around 500 gp...
Ok, map will be up in a second. I have a little drawing program I use for work, called Shapes, that will be useful, as I want to make maps a little more tweakable than I can do in Google Drawings.
That being said--who is familiar with and/or would prefer to use Roll20?
Bonuses: flexible, scrollable, well suited for RPGs.
Minuses: newbies have to learn how to use it and you'd go to another website and log in and all that.
Lemme know. I've used it, albeit only as a player. It works well, but I can go either way.
And Dez, you and your dad are on my mind. Safe journeys.
Fingers crossed, Dez. Like the Dutch say... Sterkte.
@GM: I am using Roll20 pretty regularly, so I'm fine with it.
I keep forgetting to cast Spirit Sense, per my subclass. Hah. "At 1st level, a menhir savant can detect the presence of undead; fey; outsiders; and astral, ethereal, or incorporeal creatures. This ability functions like detect undead, and the druid detects all of these creatures rather than trying to detect one kind."
Hi, folks. I'm back. My Dad passed away a week ago, thus my recent silence in the thread. This adventure is a good distraction from my grief, so I do intend to keep posting regularly -- although Holiday travel may lead to a little more irregularity.