GM Blood's Age of Worms in Golarion

Game Master David James Olsen

Allustan has it in his spellbook and could make it

I believe we are looking at using Smenk's ruse the following day, which, if Allustan is willing to drop everything, could work. Eight hours to scribe, one hour Rauno to study and two hours for Rauno to scribe.

I'll post in the main thread on it.

Please note that, starting Thursday, I will have very reduced access to Internet and might not be able to post, or not so often, for a week and a half.

Didn't mean to ignore this question, but it kinda got lost in the scramble

Incidentally, what *is* our legal standing at the moment? Not that Quintus is going to walk away from an evil and heretical cult that threatens all that he holds dear, but it'd be nice to know how the eventual class action suit against the party is going to go down.

While none of you are lawyers, it is a borderline issue.

First, technically they may not have done anything illegal, or at least you don't have any proof they have.

Second, Everything so far has been to defend their temple

But overall I doubt the legal system is that complex. Sure you might be technically breaking the law, but it is an evil cult, you have the mayor's brother on your side, and they have been hidden in a mine, not open on the street. (A temple on the street that you ransack would probably be an issue)

There may be some ex post facto justification, too, if we find evidence that the cult was planning on releasing their worms into the town.

Probable cause, after the fact :)

I'm going to be out on the road through Sunday, so posting will be intermittent. Phones kind of suck for that sort of thing :-(. GM Blood, DMPC me as needed.

This is GenCon week, so I expect to be unable to post Wed-Sun. Please GM NPC as needed to keep things moving.

My idea is to go today and tomorrow then take a break until Monday if that works for everyone. Otherwise it feels like I will be running 3 or 4 of you :)

Works for me.

I'll be away until Monday.

Just FYI for everyone, I want to remind you that you gain a hero point every level. I'm pretty sure I let everyone know that, but I am doubting myself now. Some of you have used some so far I know, but just reminded everyone just in case.

Also I will be going on a short vacation leaving tomorrow and returning Sunday. I will have my laptop and my phone, but will probably only update once later in the night, but I will still be updating! Hopefully we can get everyone back soon!

A heads-up in advance: I'll be largely afk from 8/30 through 9/3; I'll be at WorldCon in Chicago. Anyone else going to be there?

I live in Chicago (Western Suburbs and work downtown), but hadn't even realized it was coming up. Will have to look into it. We're all big readers. Is there any gaming associated with it?

There's nothing specific listed on their website, although it's mentioned in the general activities list and they have a couple of people listed on the committee as dealing with gaming.

Not going to that one, but will be going to RockCon

Hmmm, might be worth day-tripping that one. It's on top of the monthly session of a Madison group I occasionally take the long drive up to game with, but most of those players will likely be down at the con anyway.

Thanks for the heads-up on that. Didn't know about that one either. Going to contact the organizers right now to see if they need GM help.

I well be coming from the madison area, will be there friday and saturday

We've got our annual Director's Conference in Jackson Hole through Friday so unless it really wraps Thursday night, I probably won't make Friday. And it turns out my son has the PSAT on Saturday. So I'm most likely looking at Sunday (almost for sure) and possibly Saturday. Will let you know what I figure out. Its only an hour and a half from my house.

GM Blood, a certain feathered alter ego of yours might be interested in a recent Discussion thread post from Pirate King Lane.

OK, hate to do it, but need to throw it out there. Lessien has been gone for about 6 weeks now and they were going to be gone about 3. So I'd like to take a vote on what everyone thinks we should do.

Start looking for a replacement or wait? If the decision to replace is made, they wouldn't join until the current battle is over, but I would like to give them some time to get their character done and get them caught up in the game so far.

Thanks.

Same pattern for the game he GMs. Can we continue with five for now? If not, it's up to you, but I'm fine also with recruiting.

Have you sent a PM? Lately, anybody who hasn't posted in a thread for a week or more loses their dot. If Lessien checked the thread but didn't post when he got back, he might think there's been no activity.

Otherwise, yeah let's replace. I'd say don't kill her off quite yet just in case, but start looking for a replacement, or take a recommendation from somebody here.

I agree. Try a PM if you haven't already. Then recruit or see if we can find someone from one of our other games.

I agree on the PM tactic. If that's been tried or it doesn't work, then perhaps let one or two of your players here drop a note in another online game rather than go through open recruitment.

I know RL can take you out for weeks at a time, but we have no way of knowing if it is a computer virus, family or fiscal issues, etc., so I'm all in favor of trying to contact first.

Seems like everyone is thinking the same as me, I would like to keep things the same, but also have tuned the game for six and don't feel I can run someone else's character well enough to contribute effectively. The current terrain has made Lessien's low involvement ok for now, but this fight will soon be over and I'd like full participation.

I'm not going to make any move until after labor day, which is one more week for them to reply or be back.

Or, Trevor, that's a good third option! :)

Please note I'll be away until Monday night. I'll have very very limited access from time to time, but don't expect much.

As we are disclosing, this is Labor day weekend and I will be gaming this weekend so Saturday night/Sunday will probably be a wash for me other than a quick check in, so starting Saturday, not much from me until Monday

Today, tomorrow, and Saturday early I will be available and try to keep things moving as best as I can.

Just to clarify, the potion of Ghoul Touch in the syringe... The person injected is then considered the subject of the spell and can touch another to paralyze them, right? I want to make sure I'm not going to plunge this into an ally and paralyze them. :) So the person injected becomes the subject of the spell (imbued with negative energy and able to touch others and paralyze them), right?

So the person injected becomes the subject of the spell (imbued with negative energy and able to touch others and paralyze them), right?

Correct

Ok, with a sad heart I am going to make the call today that Lessien will be out. I will DMPC the character through this fight. I have picked out a replacement already, they have been in another game with me and has been following the AoW #2 game. I think they will fit in good and is a reliable poster.

This gives them some time to get their character in order for inclusion in the game after labor day.

All right, sorry to see you leave Lessien, but look forward to meeting our new entrant next week. Perhaps we have a sacrifice to save!

Hey everyone,

Just posting to say 'hi' for now and dot the Discussion. Like GM Blood said, I've been reading Group 2 (because it was my first-ever PbP application, but didn't make the cut) so I'm sort of familiar with the plot-thus-far as well as posting conventions.

I still have to get my character sheet squared away and finalize trait/feat/spell selections. My take on things / the-group-as-described is that you don't have a lot of (primary) ranged combat, so in that light I've made her to try and fit that slot. If anyone has any recommendations or feedback for how to best complement existing play I'd love to hear it.

We have a lot of focus on the Empyreal Lords in this group (not sure about the other group). A Zen Archer follower of Korada could be fun (personal bias aside;)).

Rangers and fighters make good ranged folk as well (obviously), and sorcerers make excellent ranged blasty types. Bards work well, too.

Welcome Jirin. Yes, definitely a lot of Empyreal focus here. I think you're right that anything ranged ought to work pretty well.

I forgot to mention I'm going with a Witch to be a supplementary arcane caster and backup healer.

I anticipate focusing on debuffing spells to help out all you melee folks, and using a bow because it's Pure Flavor™.

Back from Worldcon, though not entirely conscious yet. I'll get back into the game thread tomorrow. Welcome, Jirin!

Had a busy weekend here too. Will get things moving again tomorrow at some point

Welcome Jirin!

Welcome Jirin! I look forward to gaming with you.

With Lessien gone, I note a lack of anyone with Disable Device in the party. Will that be a problem?

That could be an issue. Remember anyone can use perception to find non magical traps. Opening locked doors/chests and disabling traps will be harder to get past.

I've never looked at the rules for this; would you allow someone (e.g., Rauno) to use detect magic to look for and analyze magical traps?

I could play a trapper-archtype ranger; ranger was my [very close] #2 choice for class and the character background would require minimal tweaking.

Quintus, Rauno could detect there was something magical, but not that it was a trap per se. So say a door had a glyph of warding on it, Detect Magic would detect a magical aura on the door and that it was abjuration magic. You could deduce it was a trap from that maybe, but you wouldn't know for sure.

May be I will need to make a new character soon :)

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