GM Captain Trips Curse of the Crimson Throne (Inactive)

Game Master Chad Newman

Sounds good to me!

Ruke I sent you a PM.

I defer to whomever wants to handle loot tracking to use the their preferred system.

All I have to say is -- thank you!

Gah, my weekends usually give me no time for posting and I see we've made a bunch of progress. Just so everyone knows I typically only post Monday-Friday, so feel free to carry me if there are plot movements over a weekend.

We should get Krojun healed up to full before resting.

Edit: Also, I assume we're doing a watch? Need to let the wizard and bard get 8hrs, so can we just have each of the other 4 of us do a 2 hour shift?

Besides, we’re in a city. We’ll be fine. =)

Famous last words.

I will be traveling starting tomorrow and for the weekend, and may not be available to post. Please bot me as needed!

Similar situation, I'm going to be away this afternoon, running a PFS special event tomorrow, and dealing with my home game of Skull and Shackles on Sunday. So I'm fairly out of the loop until Monday.

I'll be playing in a tabletop game tomorrow as well, so most likely the entire game will slow down this weekend, either way.

Head's up to all my games that I will be out of town visiting Gatlinburg, TN from tomorrow afternoon until Sunday night, so my posting will be infrequent. I will try to get up early enough each morning to get online and make a post and will try to do so at least once in the evenings, but I can't make any promises.

Thank you all for your patience with my lack of posting recently. Things have gone from bad to better to worse recently. While my father-in-law hasn't suffered another dementia related incident since last Thursday and we finally got the VA to schedule an in home evaluation visit, now all we have to do is convince them to go ahead and do it. Now comes word that Monday night my mother-in-law was taken to the hospital with a prolapsed uterus. My wife left Tuesday morning to be with her and her dad at this time, leaving me to take care of our eight year old daughter and play Mr. Mom until her brother gets down there this weekend.
With things getting this crazy this fast I'm afraid I haven't been able to focus on these games as you deserve and I apologize. I hope things will get back to a more normal pace within the next few weeks and that you can hang in with sporadic postings from me until then. If you feel it's necessary I can remove myself from the campaign and seek a replacement GM (or player). Again I appreciate and thank you for your patience in these trying times.
Mike

I appreciate you taking a moment to update us, and my heart goes out to you and your family.

Sympathies to you and your loved ones, Nicolai

That sounds really rough.

Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Since Nicolai might be less able to post for a while, is there anyone who would be interested in rolling for him/directing him in combat when necessary?

I feel it might be better for you guys and more interesting if the character's control was still on the player side, since it might be a bit.

I'll do it myself if no one wants to do it, but I figured I'd ask first.

My deepest sympathies Nicolai.

As far as playing him, I've never played a Wizard, so if at PC plays him as well, it would not be me. I am fine with Rusty having him on autopilot.

I can run his actions. Low level wizards are pretty simple.

Thanks, Krojun, I appreciate it.

So sorry to hear the bad news, Nicolai. Best of luck with everything.

Is everyone okay guys?

You don't get to tell the barbarian to behave if you're not going to take charge yourself. =P

I'm going to need to call off for a day or two, I've got some midterms this week and I'm swamped with studying.

I'll try to find a moment to post, but energy just isn't there right now.

Your favorite corroded iron-based poultry-shaped wind-direction-telling game master will return to his post soon.

Meanwhile, please accept my apologies.

Thanks for the heads up at least.

Should we hope to see you after midterms next week?

I'll be back at full activity this thursday at the latest, and I'll do my best to post before then.

Take the time if you need it. I find hard dates help alleviate the 'Our DM has abandoned us' sensation. =)

Good luck with midterms!

Just saying I'm still here, since I haven't posted in a while. Sera feels bad for these people, but the needs of the many and all that. She has a job to do, and that is her focus.

Hope those midterms went well!

I’m similarly here but waiting on results from Ruke’s info gathering.

They went pretty well, thanks for inquiring. ^^

I've got one left next wednesday, but I'm not in the crazy rush of studying I've been in for a while.

I'm here too. Just following along as best I can.

I just realized we might be waiting on me to give an action for Nicolai.

He'll level his crossbow and fire it at one of the goons he has a shot on.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7

If possible, please post his actions in the gameplay thread, next time. (Will still take this action into account, though)

I'd post this on the gameplay thread next time, but it seems to fit better here this time -- please have Nicolai take some steps back. Staryth will need to back up soon to attack with his glaive.

Dum-dee-dum!

Sorry, university threw a curveball at me last night, and I'm still dealing with it. Expect the post up tomorrow or very late tonight if I have the energy.

...Brom tries to punch Baldrago...

So who's this Brom guy fighting with us? I'm so confused!

:D

:P

Whoops.

For those who do not know: "Brom" is a barbarian in another game I play in who has the same avatar as Krojun, hence the mind-slip.

I apologize for my absence since Thursday. I had to deal with a service outage late Thursday night and into the next morning and it blew my free time out of the water. I'm going to try to get caught up this morning but I'm still dealing with some fallout here at work.

I wonder what the penalty for detecting evil on your monarch is? :)

Hm. Well, I'm going to go out on a limb here: Since a paladin's Detect Evil is a spell like ability, meaning no verbal, material or somatic component, I'm going to say it wouldn't be particularly remarkable unless Staryth showed some kind of reaction to whatever he saw.

You can probably get away with it without an issue.

Loot discussion.

Silvio is interested in the masterwork chain shirt (would it fit Ruke as well?) and some sort of jewelry (worth about 150gp ... it's for the extremely fashionable trait). It can be deducted from his share of the wealth.

Just going to weigh in to say that I think Extremely Fashionable is more about a general outfit than just wearing "something" worth 150 gp. You're probably better off getting some money from the loot and buying fancy clothes for 150 gp rather than than just putting on a fancy necklace.

Well... obviously the "abalone-shell holy symbol of shelyn" is going to draw Staryth's eye. He's either going to want to wear that sucker proudly or turn it into the Shelyn temple

Krojun just needs enough coin to pick up a masterwork weapon.

Someone want to take it upon themselves to coordinate loot?

As I've said in all my other games this comes up in. I believe in gearing up the martial classes and making sure everyone has a respectable AC.

Nothing there specifically screams CLERIC OF ABADAR! to me, though I am at work and could easily have missed something in the list. That said, if anyone wants a loan to get a more expensive item for the good of the group, I'm fine with donating her share.

Wands of CLW are always useful, though I hope they are never needed, lol

Looks like there are some items that still need to be identified.

Just going to weigh in to say that I think Extremely Fashionable is more about a general outfit than just wearing "something" worth 150 gp. You're probably better off getting some money from the loot and buying fancy clothes for 150 gp rather than than just putting on a fancy necklace.

Good point, sorry. Being too munchkinny there. But he's still interested in the emerald pyramid necklace assuming it's not disproportionately expensive. A momento of sorts for the defeat of Gaedrenn.

Giving our mighty Krojun good AC is a priority in my book. I'll contribute to that!

Heh. Mighty Krojun's AC is largely a lost cause.

Just get me a masterwork weapon and I'll be content for now. =P

I really have no preference how we do a split. Simplest way is to break everything down into a coin value total and do an even split, with an extra share set aside for party purchases such as a wand of cure light or the like. There isn't anything specific Ruke would want to claim since he needs smaller gear.

As far as the items that need identification, I'd think Nicolai has the requisite spellcraft for those and like has identify. If not, we should purchase that spell for his book. Ruke can cast it if needed but hasn't had the surplus skill points yet to train spellcraft.

IMO, getting Krojun and Staryth masterwork weaponry, and Staryth better armor would be our best purchases. After that a MW weapon for Silvio and Sera. I believe Sera can have a minor AC upgrade by getting breastplate, but since she already has the highest AC in the group, it's far less important.

Ruke seems to be going the helpful route, so his DC is usually going to be 10, and Nicolai suffers from the curse of a mage, and gains very little from martial improvements.

So... turns out no one in the party has ranks in appraise. I'd rather not saddle you guys with the trouble of finding a jeweler and such (plus that would take a while in RP and I don't think anyone wants to spend a while on shopping and such.) Therefore, with the recommendation of Cressida, you now have access to the help of the guard's seized goods evaluator. (Harumph harumph.)

1517 gp in various denominations, primarily GP.
Jewelry and other valuables:
A small box inlaid with tiny bits of jade. - 75 GP
Three small gold ingots bearing the cheliax coat of arms. - 100 gp each
A silver ring engraved with "For Emmah-the light in my nights" - (Asking around does not turn up any past owners.) - 150 gp
A scandalous ivory figurine with the highly realistic image of two entwined succubi - 450 gp
An abalone-shell holy symbol of shelyn - 30 gp
A garnet amulet - 100 gp
A necklace bearing a small pyramid made of emerald. - 400 gp
A silver chest containing ten gold ingots marked by the Abadar Bank of Korvosa. - The chest itself is worth 50 gp, the ingots are, worth 2000 gp in total

Weapons and Armor (resale at half-price)
A masterwork shuriken - 6 gp
An adamantine arrowhead - 60 gp
A suit of medium leather armor - 10 gp
A suit of small studded leather armor - 25 gp
A suit of medium studded leather armor - 25 gp
A light wooden shield - 3 gp
A flail - 8 gp
A dagger - 2gp
A kukri - 2gp
A light crossbow - 35 gp
A masterwork chain shirt - 250 gp
Two masterwork daggers - 302 gp each
A masterwork hand crossbow - 401 gp
Twenty crossbow bolts - 2 gp

Other

Nicolai spends some time identifying the liquids and wands, all of which radiate some magic.

Three flasks of acid - 10 gp each
A tanglefoot bag - 50 gp
A flask of oil of keen edge - 750 gp
A finely crafted crystalline flask containing a dose of Silversheen - 250 gp for the Silversheen - The flask itself is worth 50 gp
A wand of Magic Missile (23 charges) - 405 gp
A wand of Acid Splash (27 charges) - 202.5 gp
A wand of Cure Light Wounds (39 charges) - 585 gp

The look on Lamm's face when you finally do him in? Priceless.

There are some things GP can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard.