GM Faelyn' Falcon's Hollow Series

Game Master Faelyn

I'm ready to move on

I think we've all had our say, kinda.

Okay, I was waiting for anyone else who wanted to add anything. I'll give one more night for anyone else to add their input. If there's nothing else, I will have an update tomorrow afternoon!

Okay, post up! Also, I'm working on making up a list of the notable NPCs you have encountered thus far and place them in a spoiler in the Campaign thread!

Thanks Mr.GM! Much appreciated

Okay, so here I am with my first full day off trying to explain my absence. Basically, the company I worked for was dissolved, and we merged into a larger company owned by the mega corporation Fluor. All of June was a nightmare, and July we began revising our procedures and finally got new org charts. I am still, sort of, doing the same job, but my immediate manager, well he got a new boss and he really doesn’t like his new boss and I think he is taking out his frustrations on us. We’ve been having stupid long meetings every day. Three employees were fired for time card fraud (which is sort of the catch all excuse for firing people who work on government projects). I know I shouldn’t post from work, but I often do during the week, but with all the changes and scrutiny I was being very cautious. Things are still pretty chaotic at work, but I think things will settle down by the end of July.

On top of that we had a new granddaughter born at the end of June, baby was fine, but mom had a small set back from the c-section she had, and my wife and I were spending a lot of time helping our son and his little family.

I know that’s a lot of silly personal real life stuff to put on the forum but I wanted everyone to know where I’ve been. I have this whole day to try to get all my games caught up and I know some of you have been waiting a very long time. I hope you can find interest in the games again and come back to play when you can.

Thanks, everyone

Totally understood, Terquem! Hopefully things slow down a little bit for you soon.

I will have an update in roughly two hours or so. I'm out and about and don't have access to my notes, but when I get home you ash all have it!

I'm going to take a few days off posting. Sorry for this but I am swamped at work and need to catch up. I'll be back this weekend.

No worries, Zilka. I completely understand.

Back now and ready to post as soon as events need a reaction from me.

I'm here, still following the action, don't see anyone asking me anything or trying to strike up a conversation with me so I've been on the quiet side of things.

I think that's mostly because we know you've been having life issues making posting difficult for a while.

Got my first set of stitches out today and the lab report says the cancer was fully excised so I am going to have a great recovery. I hope to be updating games tomorrow. I've been a little weak, and work is still a bit rough, but I have no intention of quitting my games, so

Thank you for being patient with this old man

Very glad to hear that, Terquem! Take your time and make sure to devote your energy to recovery. Art isn't going anywhere as long as you have the heart to keep him going.

Glad you're going to be alright.

Good to hear that you're gonna be okay!

Well-wishes all around from me as well.

Hey Bella, what ever happened to your Fox? I haven't seen it mentioned in a while.

Good point. Well, he could take a nap every now and then right? =D

Checking in.

We seem to be delayed. Did I miss a notification about that, or are we waiting on someone?

I'm not sure...

I'll have an update shortly. I was giving folks to weekend to wrap anything else and the last two days of work have been intense. Just going to have a nice, cold adult beverage and then have the update for you guys!

...you're drinking apple juice from a sippy cup, aren't you?

Damn you, Caine, and your cleverness!

My computer has developed major issues and I will need to try to get my backup laptop working. Please bot me if needed.

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Finally, after several failed attempts to bring you this list, it is finally complete. I have most everything listed that we found, not taking anything out save for the Healing wand Caine's been using since Ulizmilla's hut. Someone else will have to do the basic math right now, very tired.

Heart of the Forest:
two light crossbows,
two shortswords,
A masterwork shortbow,
one quiver of crossbow bolts (10),
one quiver of arrows (20),
a signet ring with the image of a flaming hawk (worth 5gp),
coin pouch with 9-gp 12-sp.
small, ivory statue carved in the likeness of a fly (worth 15gp)
4 darkwood, dead fall branches around the clearing which look as if they could be shaped into staves, clubs, or possibly spear shafts.

Witches Hut
Soul speaker- 2,400 gp, 1,200 gp.
Masterwork Backpack, (Probably keeping)
Snakeskin in oil cloth 40( 50 gold)
Fire foot skins x2, 70 gold, (100 gold each)
small ivory statue of a werewolf worth 15gp
handful of rare stones worth 15gp

The Ruins:
Ring of Torag - This simple golden ring has a large red gemstone set into it that sparkles with an inner fire. The wearer of the ring gains fire resistance 10 against the first fire attack that hits him that day. This protection renews itself every morning at dawn. In addition, the wearer receives a +1 resistance bonus on saves made against fire spells and effects. The ring must be worn for 24 hours to have any effect.
Masterwork Shortsword With a beautiful Fire Opal
Masterwork (Darkwood/Mithral) Light Corssbow
longbow
silver light hammer with a religious symbol (Droskar) carved into the head. 21-200 gp. to the right collector.
Cold Iron Handaxe +1
a small leather purse containing 100 pp
prayer book 50gp
a bag with 354 gp,
a masterwork light crossbow,
a potion of bull’s strength,
a wand of light (CL 1st, 28 charges)

I'm using the darkwood/mithril crossbow.

Is that a second wand of cure light?

I have the ring of Torag, and the Mwk light crossbow.

I also have a heavy crossbow, and a medium sized short sword that I would be happy to get rid of.

Yes, there was 1 cure light wounds from the Witches Hut, CL.2 with a good amount of charges when we found it. I didn't put it down because I knew you had it for sure.

The 2nd one came from the stash we found after beating the Worg. There was also a Darkwood Buckler you got Caine.

Right. Thanks for reminding me.

Did I end up with the handle too? I seem to remember no one else being able to use it due to size issues or non-proficiency.

GM, are you house-ruling how not sleeping works? I don't remember exactly what the rules say, but I think there's usually Con checks involved with a DC based on activity level and how long someone has been up.

Hmmm, for some reason I thought PCs were fatigued if they did not sleep. Let me look back over the rules and I will let you know...

grrrrr I just missed the edit window...

After searching and searching through the CRB and the GMG, I cannot seem to actually find any specific rules about sleep and the lack thereof. James Jacobs chimed in back in 2011 in one of his posts that stated there are no rules, but that a good rule of thumb would be a lack of sleep results in Fatigue. Also, I found this that could be a good basis. Sleepless (Su)

So that being said... Given how many of you were at the building, I don't see why you wouldn't get enough rest to not be fatigued.

Characters who do not get a full night's sleep may suffer the effects of fatigue. If a PC does not get at least 6 hours of sleep, she must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or be fatigued and take a –1 penalty on all other checks and saving throws against sleep effects. A second night without sleep requires another DC 15 Fortitude save. A failed save results in the character becoming exhausted and the penalties increasing to –2. A third failed save on the next night increases the penalties to –3.

Weirdly enough, this rule is from the Armor Check Penalty section.

....okay then. That is just weird, why would that be in the armor section??? I even searched for the word sleep on the PRD and that didn't come up. Caine's googlefu is clearly much stronger than mine! So those are the rules we will be using for sleep deprivation going forward.

I know that in the 2nd book of the Wrath of the Righteous Campaign, there is a minor enemy, Stanton Vaugn's brother who is a Dwarven Cleric of Droskar, it is mentioned in his brief backstory that he doesn't sleep any longer. Partly in order to serve his god and party because he doesn't trust the other demons in the fortress. Because of this, he would normally be fatigued, except that every day he uses a Lesser Restoration spell to remove the fatigue. Just a thought.

Okay, we seemed to have hit a lull. Do you all want to use this opportunity for some RP? Or would you all rather wrap up the few loose ends off screen? I'm okay with either options as this is your story! I just need to know the wishes of the group so that I knew how to better continue the story onward!

I wrapped up Caine's "day." I'm content to let the rest of the group play out whatever scenes they want to. I don't mind waiting.

Since we were up all night again, I'd imagine everyone's pretty tired by now. Sleeping the day away and reconvening at the Duck in the evening for dinner would be a good way of getting the group together to talk about our next steps.

Story-goal wise, I think the only thing left to do is go back and check the lower level of the dungeon.

Sorry about that, I was kind of waiting to see whether Zilka was planning on joining or not. But I've got Art so that'll be good enough.

Also, I wasn't entirely sure if Zirren was just running out into the markets that would be closed due to everything going on in town or if there would indeed be people out and about. He would be going to the lower markets first as that would be the best way to start.

Also completely overlooked the fact that we just had a decent amount of raw wealth with us. Guess we wouldn't necessarily need to go sell everything right now, but it wouldn't be bad to get started on calculating that out either.

So after a quick calculation, and selling all the gear save for the following:
+1, cold iron axe,
x4 Darkwood clubs
Mithral/Darkwood, Masterwork Crossbow,
Masterwork backpack
The ring of Torag
The Cure wounds wands x2
Potion of Bulls strength
Silver hammer with Droskar religious symbol
and the longbow

We should be able to sell off our gear for 4,300.6 gold. Dividing it by 6 gives everyone 716 gold, 7 silver, and 6 copper.

Of course it that ebony statue in the likeness of a fly turned out to be a Figurine of wondrous power I'll be kicking myself.

There were a couple of pieces of the loot that might interest Ruhk, being the dandy that he is, like the signet ring and the statuette, I'll deduct the value of them from my share.

I was mainly waiting to see if Bella would introduce Ruhk to the family or if we were just glossing that over.

I was just really confused about what was going on. For now, I'd like to gloss over the family because I'm at my girlfriend's house and I don't have my notes about her family.

I'm not sure what to do with the monies. I know it'll be very important to keep some to make sure our WBL stays at least slightly in line, but I know Belladonna would want to use it to enrich the life of her fellow Valers.

I'd also like Belladonna to just sleep off the fatigue. She'll be really grumpy if she doesn't get her sleep.

I know that Bella has a sister named Roseanne who works as a barmaid at the Sitting Duck. I think that's all we've learned about her family so far.

Would you like me to set off my little side scene?

Sure, Zirren, might as well. I wasn't sure exactly what you had planned.

This is the way I'm going to try and lay out the events, as follows:

1.) Go to the low market to find and speak with Sara Nelley (Aaron's mother.)

2.)Keeping true to his word, Zirren is not going to say exactly what Aaron did, but is going to deliver the bad news that he won't be coming back. He will explain that he met the man before his the end of the chain of events that led to his demise and learned why he was trying to earn money.

3.) He will explain that he made a promise to help him and his family and what Aaron had intended to do if successful.

4.) Either way, he will offer to directly assist with them the problem and will offer them 250 gold (from his own cut) to get out of the vale. (I realized that is often pocket change for higher level adventurers but that is a small fortune for your average NPC.)

5.) He will then mention Aaron's sister, Nelly, and ask if the mother knows of her predicament. He will explain that he, Zilka, and Art are some of the people who returned from the forest with the cure for the plague and that they are willing to confront Nelly's abusive husband and help remove her from that situation.

That is my plan.

What penalties happen if a character stays up all night without sleep?

Zilka will go with and will chip in for part of the funds to help Aaron's mother.

Sweet, thanks Zilka! Also, my next update probably won't happen until Tuesday or Wednesday. I got roped into a big mess at work and will probably be quite busy with it for sometime. I apologize folks! If something changes, I will try to get us back on track very soon.

Hey all, so very sorry about my unexplained absence. My last night of work last week (Sunday), I was told I had rifle training Monday-Wednesday on no notice. The last three days were very fun, but very time-consuming and tiring. I was exhausted after getting home and tag on taking care of a toddler solo... well, I'm sorry I didn't at least get in to explain my absence.

I will get the long awaited update a little later this afternoon. Need to go over some of my notes real quick!