GM Fyren's WotW Brimstone

Game Master Fyren

Right now Malum is quite happy... when his soul shows up in the 9 Hells he might be less so... :)

Soul? What is this "sooouuul" of which you speak?

What? Did you not get in line for when Asmodeus was handing out 'souls'? Or did you think it was 'soles' and since you already had footwear you didn't get any? :)

Okay, I usually have an appreciation for decent puns, not just a tolerance for them. But Malum and Fyren are really, um, moving the bar, shall we say?

Is it a Canadian thing?

Could be, could be.
My brother-in-laws are much worse than mine though. :)

bar? did Felrin say something about a bar? So this termite walks into a bar and asks is the bar tender here?

off to do the update on what the young filly is up to...

"Two Terran Marines walk into a bar...there is no counter."

@Twigs - no... your pet rat didn't make it but you may have the opportunity to acquire another one soon since yer banging on the haunted house. :D

Update in a bit - I have a meeting scheduled in 15 mins so I'll get to it later this morning.

...and just to counter (ha! see wut I dun did dere?) Gil's quip about terran marines - A sad kelpie walks into a bar. The bartender says Hey, why the long face?

Are ya about ready to drop out of this AP yet Felrin? ;)

How about - Two guys are walking down the street. One walks into a bar. The other one ducks.

Note that at this time the moor group (FelMalGil) is about 24 hrs behind the haunted house group. While it is morning in both cases, the kelpie encounter they're going through is on the morning of the following day.

This confuses me slightly. If the kelpie encounter is on Tuesday morning, does that mean the haunted hause events are happening on Wednesday? Or is the haunted housiness happening on Monday?

Btw, I should mention that my posting will be very sporadic coming up. Something about getting married and the honeymoon. I'll post when I can, but don't hold up on account of me. Things should normalize around the 24th-25th of Nov.

I believe congratulations are in order then, even if you are a filthy demon :P

Filthy demon or a lucky devil?

Congratulations!

GM Fyren wrote:

Note that at this time the moor group (FelMalGil) is about 24 hrs behind the haunted house group. While it is morning in both cases, the kelpie encounter they're going through is on the morning of the following day.

This confuses me slightly. If the kelpie encounter is on Tuesday morning, does that mean the haunted hause events are happening on Wednesday? Or is the haunted housiness happening on Monday?

moor group is behind... izzy and the rest are at the house 24 hrs before the kelpie encounter... they took the carriage, the moor group spent just over a day in the moors...

congrats malum :)

Lol, ok, so I'm playing this game The Last Door: Chapter 2, and there's some latin writing on the wall. When I go to read it, it says "Malum in se", and it translates to "Evil in itself"

So Malums name is literally "Evil"

Roflmao!

:)

I do like to pull names from doing language translations. :)
Especially if they seem cool.

Btw Izabelle, Twigs and Numair - please move your characters along to level 2. Just post a brief summary here on what your adds/changes are (favored class skill, new class if multiclassing, any new feats etc.) and update your character profile/headers with details. You three need something to do anyway while the other three catch up a day later (hopefully) ;)

So Malums name is literally "Evil"

Yeah, I had five years of Latin in school, so it was pretty clear to me that Malum was not meant to be a very nice guy.

I was going for a similar effect with Felrin's name - I like the similarity to 'felon' and the fact that the shortened form of it - Fel - sounds just like 'fell', which means 'fierce, cruel or terrible.'

Btw Izabelle, Twigs and Numair - please move your characters along to level 2. Just post a brief summary here on what your adds/changes are (favored class skill, new class if multiclassing, any new feats etc.) and update your character profile/headers with details. You three need something to do anyway while the other three catch up a day later (hopefully) ;)

OK, remind me ... do we roll or take average for hit points? Also, just a question - I'm supposed to get new spells; will I be getting an opportunity for a new spellbook in the near future? :-)

OK, remind me ... do we roll or take average for hit points? Also, just a question - I'm supposed to get new spells; will I be getting an opportunity for a new spellbook in the near future? :-)

avg for hp

Twigs gains +1 BAB, +1 Ref and to reflex savs with a level of monk (following the fractional BAB rules that Fyren's graciously allowed). He also gains a boost to his unarmed damage, improved unarmed strike and stunning fist. He also gains 4+1+Con hit points (8hp for a total of 19) and 3 skill points that I'll add to his profile as soon as I can.

Isnt average HP = half + 1? It is in PFS anyway.

Sorry, I've been down with the flu for a bit. Will post shortly.

I updated Gil already, since im hazarding a guess we will level once we hit the manor as well?

Took a Fighter level (Lore Warden)

...And so ends Act 1 of our little story thus far. I hope everyone is still enjoying themselves. There's still a long, long road ahead with plenty of opportunities for getting side-tracked with more misadventures.

As always, any and all feedback/comments you may have is always welcome and appreciated - either in discussion or via PM. This is *your* game... I merely facilitate and move things along as necessary. :)

If there were any particular high points or low points in your adventure thus far, I'd love to hear about them.

What lies ahead you ask?

Today's Thursday... I'll introduce 'Master' on Monday. Take the next couple days to move your characters up to level 2 if not already done so and to RP amongst yourselves now that all six of you and the ogre are together again. I'm sure some of you might have some abandonment issues... you can also use this opportunity to divvy up the loot in the loot table to see who gets what if you like.

The only thing off-limits is physical violence or an attempt at such upon another PC. Try it and Tiadora will not be happy. ;) Other than that, the world is your oyster.

Thanks for being a great group thus far! I hope the game is meeting your expectations.

Very much been enjoying it. Only "low point" was caused my ourselves, spending a lot of time agreeing on what to do, but that was a fleeting thing.

I just checked the date on the first posts, and we are already 3-ish months into this. That the pace is holding so steady considering the time since the "new PbP posting frenzy" keeps me hopeful for this games future (You grow a bit pessimistic after the first bunch of disbands or MIA GMs)

Id also like to add that it hasn't felt like 3 months since we started. That's usually a good sign you are having more fun than you thought you did.

TL;DR: Very much enjoying myself, bring on the next challenge!!

I'd agree with Gil - the game has been a lot of fun so far, and the fact that the pace is still so good after 3 months is really great.

I think you handled the split-up party well, and I definitely felt like there were many moments where I wasn't at all sure we were going to make it out of whatever jam we were in, which is one of my favorite aspects of RPGs - the narrow escape. (Now I'm in for trouble for sure...)

One particular point I enjoyed a lot - the detailed description of the unpleasant creature at the pond, and the mystery around what it was, were very cool. Even if on a meta level we all could have said what it was, you didn't say "You see a kelpie" and "The kelpie does this..." You continued to describe what we were seeing and what it was doing - and this sentence for some reason was particularly creepy:

"The tall willowy waif's mouth looks tiny in proportion to her long'ish face as her lips curl into a small smile."

Keep it up, I'm having a blast!

I have another half-elf character, and another play just informed me that you cannot chose a Prestige Class as one of your favoured classes. So ill be changing Eldritch Knight into Fighter instead.

Agreed. I'm very much enjoying the game. I the only (semi) low point for me was when I was unconscious, but that's to be expected. Better than dying!

All good so far.

Fyren, just to clarify, what do you mean by "Average HP"?

I usually means half the dice + 1 (the standard of PFS)

Sabel only listed 4 as base, so was wondering.

I used the 3.0 alternating low-high average (Low on even, high on odd. eg 1d8 is 4 or 5), but that's just a holdover from statting a billion monsters. I wasn't aware that it had changed.

Sorry - I missed that question earlier Gil - I was referring to PFS standard - half the dice + 1

Malum will take another level of cleric (fiendish vessel).
I'll see if I can update the stats... but with the wedding this close, my focus is kind of diverted. :)

Funnily enough, the base HP of the animal companion was calculated with the PFS system ;)

Glad to hear no one missed Lashtongue :) It was there but I made it optional rather than a mandatory encounter. The dice didn't hit it during the trek. :P

I'm messing with spells as I level up, thinking of what other first-level spell to take. I've got CLW and Protection from Good (fun to be able to take that, and should be useful in the land of Mitra). Some of the ones I'm considering are:
Bane (though might leave this kind of casting to Malum et al.)
Ear-Piercing Scream (nice to have another kind of damage, though it's not that much)
Expeditious Retreat (+30 move is a good thing)
Divine Favor (+1 to hit and dmg, goes up as I level)
True Strike

Thoughts and suggestions welcome.

One random bit of fun - with Felrin's alter self ability and 1 rank in Disguise, he can have a +15 on Disguise checks if we need it. Not a much-used skill, but might be worth keeping in mind, as we're the only bad guys in a land of goodie-two-shoes. And it fits so nicely with him having passed as a human for 80 or 90 years.

Felrin is now level 2 in inquisitor - significant changes: +1 BAB, +8 hp, +1 Fort and Will saves, picked up spells resistance and expeditious retreat, initiative is now +5 from Cunning Initiative and can detect alignment at will. Got some skill ranks too.

Gil took a level of Fighter (Lorewarden)

Gil gained 8 HP (6 base + 1 con + 1 favoured class)

Gained +2 Fortitude

Gained +1 BAB

Put skill ranks into Perception, Disable Device, Spellcraft and Knowledge(Arcana)

Selected Power Attack as Fighter Bonus

Malum another level of cleric.
+1 BAB, +7 hp (5 cleric, +1 Con, +1 favored class)
Fort/Will +1 increase.

Will need to hammer out skills and spells.

Now married and busy packing for the honeymoon... so little time!

Enjoying Hawaii... posting will be alas infrequent. :(

No worries Malum... Enjoy your vacation!

I like Iz - she's really nice.

Btw there will be a brief interlude to get everyone re-equipped before the next big thing soooooo... make up a shopping list of what you all want with a limit of about 150 gp. It can be the same as the initial equipment list you folks had or you can change it around if you like.

*IF* you want to go beyond 150gp, the group can work on divvying up the loot listed in the spreadsheet first. From what I can tell, there's about 894gp in gold plus another 30gp in Tomas' coin purse being carried by Twigs. The vial I believe the group failed to identify so maybe asking around on what it could be might help... the kraken and ring have yet to be appraise/rolled for.

Once the loot is divvy'ed I assume, everyone will end up with xxx gold which you can add to the 150gp to go above your threshold for items you need/want.

For items, the group doesn't want and would rather sell for gp (figurines, jewels etc.) - down the road you may have the opportunity for contacts you can trade these with... but since you folks are actively being hunted right now, perhaps your new friend(s) can help dispose of the goodies on your behalf if you ask nice... :)

Once ownership is decided for the items on the loot tracker, I'll move them off the 'loot to be divided' list and you can add them to your char profiles.

Malum will appraise the kraken and the ring.
Kraken Appraisal 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Ring Appraisal 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

I think if our 'new friends' can change this stuff into gold for us and or help identify that potion it would be very helpful.

We might consider using the 894gp to purchase a wand of cure light wounds... that might go a long way for party survival.

Shouldn't you be busy mooning the honey????

And isn't it 5:30 am in Hawaii?

Hehe, well right now it is 8am... but not 100% adapted from the 3 hr time change.
And it is very odd, normally when it gets dark it starts getting cold... not so here. :)