GM Helio's Ballad of the Stolen Lands

Game Master Helio

Guys, my home computer died. I need to replace the hard drive. But I will be in a three day class starting tomorrow. So my presence on line will be limited til Monday.

Fair enough. As I read, we are waiting for you/your falcon to return to us.

That sucks. Hope you had everything backed up!

Did you want to hop on the GM-run train or just have your actions wait until Monday? Weekends are typically slower anyway.

As for everyone else - Dendarial signaled for Acio to return to you guys. There was some kind of prearranged signal he mentioned, so you know that if the bird comes back there's something up. What you do with that information before or after Dendarial himself returns is up to you.

I think we can wait until monday, but if overruled, no biggy on my part. :)

I rather not wait, but that's my default setting. So ether way is good. x)

Posting from phone. Please bot Den. Just do not forget his favored enemy of human and his point blank shot feat.

Oh, and if Den did a full move back towards the party they may be able to see him now Anyway.

Karina, I am also having RNG hate in my games. :(

I be thinking the RNG is going to kill everyone in this game. low numbers to hit, low numbers for damage.

The RNG has been incredibly brutal to you guys. Clearly Desna is feeling slighted!

We're all doomed.^^

I can only promise to make your death as quick and painful as possible!

Painless. I meant painless.

Probably.

Who knows, maybe Fate will smile at us.
Most probably, it will ROFL at us. :-)

I am hoping that this run of bad luck is only for this period of our campaign. Otherwise it will hurt.

Good play can overcome a lot of dice rolls, but not every dice roll.

I have parent-teacher conferences tomorrow, so feel free to NPC me. Assuming the foes don't attempt last-ditch offenses, Wetscale will not pursue/be hostile towards them.

I am thinking appraise for interesting things. :)

Here is my attempt at a loot list: does anyone need any of this now? Den will carry one of the three nice hand axes and check out the chain shirt to see what shape its in. Perhaps a mending might help it as well.

2 shortswords
3 longbows
3 hand axes - Masterwork?
4 daggers
5 suits of leather armor
1 battered chain shirt
142 gp, 8 sp, and 7 cp in various coinage.
1 potion vial -
long, curled horn with a leather strap
A few cheap-looking tents
a canvas tarp
several crates and sacks stuffed with food and supplies necessary for survival
old wagon
90 gp, 321 sp
1 pair of silver earrings worth 150 gp
1 wooden music box worth perhaps 50 gp
polished wooden case containing a greenish liquor. There's 8 bottles of the foul-smelling stuff left, and each would probably fetch 15 to 20 gold from a purveyor of alcohol.

3 crates holding furs and hides of various size, shape, and quality. They're probably worth about 50 gold per, but they also probably belong to Oleg.

If you look at the loot sheet, it should be mostly there.
The only thing that wasn't put in was the horn, tents, tarp, foodstuffs.

I will be snagging one of the longbows back at Olegs, and can do a mending on the chain shirt in camp.

We should arrange for a standardized watch shift list, so that it's not an issue every time camping comes up. Also whether we want to roll for our watch perceptions or just go with a take-10/20 perception for each watchman during their shift.

Opinions?

Agree with the standard watch. Den and Aico can take the middle watch with one other.

I say roll for each encounter. I like the possibility of some variability.

I agree. Hadin will take whatever watch is needed, to let our spellcaster rest.

I like the possibility of variability, so rolling works. :)

Alchemists, and by extension Investigators, have to prepare extracts every day regardless of whether they used them or not. I'm always going to need the 8 hours of rest.

So...

1st Watch: Wetscale and Tyanos(?)
2nd Watch: Dendarial, Acio, and Hadin
3rd Watch: Thomas and Karina(?)

That should give the spellcasters 8 hours of straight rest each. Unless Karina or Tyanos wants to opt out entirely and sleep in :)

Hadin will take both his and Karina's watch turn, so the lady can rest.
But hush... ;-)

Are you going to fully explore/map the hexes on the way back to Oleg's? If so, do you want to start with the hex that has the bandit camp and river ford, or do the very edge of the Narlmarches between you and Oleg? There's also the rolling plains/lowlands that Oleg's is in, which could use a proper mapping.

Map updates later today. Can't fiddle with that in my 5-10 minute breaks at work ;.;

Got a question: how would you handle attempts at prozelitism, GM? If Hadin would like to sparkle some faith (for Erastil, of course) into the reluctant bandits?

Go for it! If they do decide to follow the faith, I can't guarantee they'd always see eye to eye with yourself or even stick with it, but who knows where they might end up. Could be followers for leadership down the road, or just help found a proper temple at some indeterminate date.

Diplomacy checks, general acts of kindness and faith, displays through example: the usual ways you'd sway someone to your cause over a longer period would go a long way towards converting them, whether they be bandits or the Levetons!

Alright guys... I'm traveling around the world today.

I'll be going dark for the next 24-48 hours as I move from Korea back to 'Murica. And then stop at Taco Bell and eat my weight in fat.

Wishing everyone the best weekend!

Welcome home, in advance!

Starting Saturday, I will be haphazard for being online.
I will be travelling, so might not have net access.
Please DMPC me if I haven’t posted within 24 hours.
This condition will persist until early Jan.

Let me also welcome you back as well.

Save Travels!

Put up the cast in the campaign info tab. I keep meaning to update the map... but in my last attempt to update it, I ended up breaking everything.

Might just have to replace the nice looking one with one from paint for the moment, until I figure out what went wrong with my files.

happy new year to all!

Happy new years, pretty sure it's reached most time zones now. xP

Thanks for the NPC list, I think Drekel got beheaded back at the camp. Otherwise looks about right. So Tyanos will be talking to Torik about his mopping and we still have to question and judge Siril.

Happy new year.

Well, the next couple of days I will be travelling home. If I have not posted within 24 hours, please gm pc me. I should be home by the 5th.

Happy new year!

And just whose idea was it to have so many holidays and deadlines all at the same time I'm moving back from the other side of the world?

Sorry for the delay... Things should be back to normal in a day or two, when my hangover goes away and my boxes are (finally) unpacked.

Edit: Drekel's still alive - he's Kesten Garess's right hand man, not Kressle the Bandit. Stupid K-names. Think Zapp and Kif from Futurama, because that's totally Kesten and pretty much anyone he works with.

Will update the treasure sheet tomorrow. Just walked in the door from my trip. Cold weather delayed me, due to my truck not starting. :(

Was my in game post missed DM?

Also got two bandits to deal with, if you prefer we could do things via PM.

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I swear I posted a reply to that. I hate when the website eats posts. I'll fix it when I wake up. (I promise!)

Did we do anything with the loot we found? Will Oleg buy it from us?

Not as far as I know. also no one responded about my request for some of the communal money to make durable bolts.

I will be traveling for the next week. I hope to have internet in the mornings and evenings, but no promises. Please bot me if needed.

Sorry for the delay! I kind of accidentally Top 32'd and with my inability to art I've been spending most of my free time on trying to make a map that doesn't look like scribbles.

Congrats and welcome back :)

So just to confirm on the map, Yellow dots are fully explored, and blue dots are not ?

Yellow is partly explored (or just walked through, as is the case for most of these), and blue is fully mapped.

in that case, I think we need to spend more time mapping around olegs and including his hex. :)

But thank you for the clarification.