GM Beckett's "the Frozen Fingers of Midnight" Game Day Event PbP (Inactive)

Game Master Beckett

Please let me know if there are any major changes since your last game, like leveling up.

Also, does anyone want the old Faction Missions? It's just for flavor and fun, it doesn't get you anything, but I personally like them over the new style.

I bought some stuff. The only super-notable thing is a Cloak of Resistance +1

Yanbrel has purchased:

Haramaki (3 gp)
Alchemist's fire, 2 (40 gp)
Chalk, 10 (0.1 gp)
Candle, 10 (0.1 gp)
Earplugs (0.03 gp)
Masterwork backpack (50 gp)
Blue book: Absalom (5 gp)
Pathfinder's chronicle: arcana (50 gp)
Spring-loaded wrist sheath (5 gp)
Wand of infernal healing (2 pp)
Scroll box (5 gp)
Scrivener's kit (2 gp)
Ink (8 gp)

Plus one each of the following scrolls:
air bubble, beguiling gift, charm person, comprehend languages, delay disease, detect secret doors, hypnotism, sow thought, karmic blessing, unseen servant (250 gp)

Total cost of 418.23 gp, 2 pp

Sorry, slammed with work. Hopefully tomorrow will be easier to post.

Hey guys, it's the guy who played Las Lajas. I thought I'd join up with a new level 1 from the Playtest options. This will give you all first hand experience teaming with on you can report on. Right now I'm trying to choose between an Investigator and a Warpriest. I'm partial to the Investigator, because I'm worried that it's a little to good at skills and overshadows the Bard and Rogue. But won't know until we play it. I'll work on builds for both and hopefully join up by the end of the day.

Okay, finally get this guy built. Took me forever. I welcome all to look it over and let me know if I made mistakes, or ask questions about why. This class is a lot harder to build than I thought it would be.

My goal was a bookwormish type. Think of the evil German guy in the first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The guy in black leather who was trying to track down the Eye of whoever it was.

The one who gets half of the amulet burned into his hand? You should probably wear gloves.

Darnit. I knew I forgot to buy something!

@borax - me too. I have a tankard, but nothing to fill it with. I must remember to purchase some booze for cold nights, and weak-willed guards.

Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted. Had a super-busy weekend and now am having some PC issues that I'm trying to resolve. I'll try to get back to normal posting schedule ASAP.

"Get your doom here! Lots of doom, on special today! Extra sides of mystery - two for one. Step right up to Bengar's Warehouse of Doom and Mystery! Everything must go, one day only!"

I have been having severe dental pain the last few days, and have gone to the dentist 4 times without relief. I'm trying to keep up, but am having a lot of issue concentrating. Hopefully that should be over soon and I can back in some more.

I've also just gotten word that I am deploying shortly after Christmas, and that shouldn't affect this game, but it's possible. So just a Head's up.

Computer issues resolved - for now... :/

Don't worry about the game, get yourself healthy first.

@DM

As far as I'm concerned, the GM can go ahead and roll Init for my character to speed things up next battle.

@DM

As far as I'm concerned, the GM can go ahead and roll Init for my character to speed things up next battle.

Will do. The only reason I didn't this time is because the group was split up and I didn't want to confuse people with too many different Init rosters.

So help me out with the legality of what we are doing? The term murder hobo is often used in conjunction with pathfinder activities. Borax is Chaotic Neutral, but I am wondering what kind of deadly force we can use?

That is up to you. No one has actually damaged them (minus unmentionables), and you do notice from outside that the noise has drawn a bit of notice, though it is small at the moment.

@Borax - you may want to note that Angruf is trying to 'fascinate' the guard, rather than sucker-punch him... Although, as it turns out, that had a 50/50 chance of working and... not so much.

Remember that the Pathfinders are a bit of an exception to the law or are seen as some auxiliary part of the law. We're acting under their authority. Think of us like all those 'special task forces' in TV and movies. Hawaii 5-0, especially comes to mind. We roll up, bust the bad guys and the normal cops clean it up. We've essentially declared this warehouse to be under suspicion and we're conducting surveillance/infiltration. It's just gone bad, and now we go into shoot 'em up mode.

That's not to say, you can't ask them surrender...

Kargen, is that in a sourcebook somewhere?

@Angruf - Yes, I was aware of that. Though I got the sense the fighting inside was ruining the spell. yes, no?

Actually, just for a bit of clarification, Pathfinders are not at all above the law, though they often believe they are, which is a big reason why the organization has such a horrible reputation world wide to most governments and the common folk. Now, on the other hand, they did attack first (though you did break into their warehouse), and it is unclear at the moment if they stole from Skelg or if Skelg actually stole from them and they are reclaiming what is actually their property. What you do know is that you need that lantern (the Beacon of the North) to solve the problems of the curse, and time is short. And I do want to point out, and it will become clear soon, there actually is the threat that the onlookers will react. So far, they really have not seen anything bad happen, it's just drawn their notice, but that is written into the scenario.

@Angruf -Then it sounds like Angruf may need to calm the crowd. Borax would do it, but he's got no charisma.

I was going to have it work, but I realized that Bard's Fascinate only affects 1 target at his level. :( However, you could try to keep it contained inside, or attempt a few different social checks to try to work the crowd, but that would also break the Fascinate.

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas (Christian or religious or not), and hope everyone gets a nice holiday break and some awesome loot.

Yes! I hope that whatever your alignment on the religious spectrum, you are all having fun!

Merry Christmas and Joyous Yule to all!

Happy Holidays!

I'm off to non-internet land until Monday. I may be able to log in at some point, but no guarantee until then.

Stay safe Mol!

Since Yanbrel still has to spend a standard action on his next turn to complete the full-round cast of Sleep (even though it will fail), if he isn't in imminent danger when it comes up, feel free to skip over him in the interest of time. I'll be traveling tomorrow, but back in action on Monday.

@kargen

FYI, if Beringerr is unarmed, you can use a melee weapon and attempt to disarm him without provoking any AoO

I realize that is entirely coherent advice in game terms, but colloquially it looks like all kinds of nonsense.

heh. Kind of like saying we should go down a level if we want to level up.

The scenario does describe Bengeirr as both wielding the Lantern and also holding his greatsword, but because it's a 2 handed weapon, he can not threaten with it. So yes, disarming the Lantern is a definite possibility.

I didn't think this combat would take so long, and honestly, I hate dropping characters (it means they have to sit out for a bit). After this, there is a little bit of exploration (when things really start to get good, and possibly two combats. We might make the game day deadline (Jan 4th) still, but need to push it a bit. Yanbrel, Kargen, and Angruf are also the only acting characters for the moment, and things are not really turning out as I had thought. So we will see.

Don't count us out yet! If we can get some luck with the dice for a couple rounds, we can still end this well.

Angruf is all kindsa itching to jump in - but as a player I'm working hard to remember just how quick a 'round' is. From the non-combatant perspective, those guys just walked in the door, and I'm still 'giving them a minute' before working the guard towards the door and 'inevitable capture'. <gnawing on my knuckles>

Angruf is also in zero sum game. Unless he can channel heal, he's only going to bring another combatant to the fight and possibly the ill-will of the crowd.

Don't get me wrong y'all - as I said, this is Angruf's perfect idea of a problem solution - minimize the number of bad guys engaged, without needing to make them dead. But I very much like the idea of a charm person to 'convince' the guard to head off for a moment or two.

I had also been hoarding the first level spells for CLW... but the call is a spur to action.

@Kargen,

If the movement cost is not a factor, you can make an Acrobatics check untrained to avoid the AoO.

That is true, and unless you have a minus, there is a good chance.

ooh... nice map.

So I just got word about how the game day event is going to work for games that have not completed, and just wanted to know your thoughts.

I'm thinking I could report it now to have it count, and we could finish it up a little unofficially. There would be a small (I think) cut in gold, and I would like to actually finish up. But I'm fine doing whatever. If we just keep playing and report it normally, that means possibly full everything, but would not count for Boons or whatever else the VO's might grant.

But I really want to leave that up to you guys/gals. There are really 3 options:
1.) Continue to play as is, and report when finished <not Game Day>
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2.) Report now with a limited rewards, and continue to play to the end, (which technically would also mean your character is free to play). <would not be able to alter the Chronicle sheet rewards though, would just be to finish the story>
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3.) Report now and just call the game.

I'd like to finish, whichever way. I'll let other folks make a call on Games Day reporting.

I'm ok with finishing this not as a Game Day game.

I'd vote for playing through normally as well, but if everyone else really wants another bite at the Game Day apple, I'm amenable to the other options.

I agree with the others. There was no guarantee on your part we'd finish this and I think the integrity of the game is more important than some boon that we've already qualified for with the other game.

Not a problem. Like I said, I wanted you guys/gals to have a say.