GM Kate's Ruins of Azlant (closed) (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

Silt needs better defenses. 19 AC buffed seems low for a level 3 frontliner. However, Ironwood armor and the like might mean he has to wait for boats to arrive from the mainland.

Just two more levels and I’ll sort of be able to channel sometimes.

A few other items from the choker cave:
defoliant, thunderstone, meridian belt, and fireworks would net us 1,110gp (1,090gp if we keep the fireworks because, well, they're fireworks)

There's also the following, which I don't have a value for:

damaged porcelain tea set
steel flask of whisky with elaborate "R"
silver mirror with rose motif
wooden dice in leather cup

They might also be colonist's property; maybe the flask is Rayland Arkley's?

Weird idea, arrived at via serpentine route.

Purpose Creche is made of wood, and has the whole "inanimate object with spark of life" things. He's got a crafting feat. I was gonna flavor making the scavenger's stone as him reshaping and adding to the splinters he's hung onto after the damage he's suffered. Plus wyrwood know the secret methods to make more of themselves...

Since I'm made of wood, and Silt needs wooden armor... could I make some for him, out of myself? I know it's bending the rules, since I don't have Craft Arms and Armor or the like; maybe we could say it takes much, much longer than usual or something?

I really like this idea of Silt wearing a modified like, Purpose Creche molt. It's creepy 'n weird 'n pragmatic 'n slightly considerate, just like our favorite wyrwood!

Weird idea, arrived at via serpentine route.

Purpose Creche is made of wood, and has the whole "inanimate object with spark of life" things. He's got a crafting feat. I was gonna flavor making the scavenger's stone as him reshaping and adding to the splinters he's hung onto after the damage he's suffered. Plus wyrwood know the secret methods to make more of themselves...

Since I'm made of wood, and Silt needs wooden armor... could I make some for him, out of myself? I know it's bending the rules, since I don't have Craft Arms and Armor or the like; maybe we could say it takes much, much longer than usual or something?

I really like this idea of Silt wearing a modified like, Purpose Creche molt. It's creepy 'n weird 'n pragmatic 'n slightly considerate, just like our favorite wyrwood!

Splint-er mail?

Nah, that's a letter from a rat :p

Yay, I had a free moment so I posted and updated my stats. I love everyone’s level up scenes!

I'm gonna go ahead and remove the "to sell" items from the main party loot spreadsheet page and convert them to coins - I'll keep a tab showing that "sale batch" so we can backtrack if need be.

We're at ~3562gp, with a few potentially sellable things still unpriced (tea set, flask, etc). That's after making the scavenger's stone, too!

Toby's mithral shirt plus a masterwork greatsword for Silt puts us at 2112.2gp
A portion of that going for ironwood armor—assuming Kate gives the OK—seems like a good call.

Also updated the various notes files! Proposed action items:

Kate, who among the colonists know Disable Device for aid checks?

Only Luetin, I’m afraid, and he’s not that great at it.

I can level the NPCs, and it might make sense to give Alba Disable Device.

We will probably need Disable Device while we’re out in the field, so I think it makes sense for at least one of us to invest in it. Maybe whoever has the best DEX?

I can reassign a point! My Dex mod's 3, as long as my mom's eyes are charged with psychic energy. Makes sense for a crafter to have Disable Device, too.

Toby's got it already, and is at a +8. I'd be at a +7 with one point.

Yeah I’m pretty sure Dennis said Toby was going to take it.

Toby is actually at +9, now that he put another rank into it at 3rd level. One of these days I'll get my profile updated. Today was not that day.

No worries on the pace, Kate!

Sorry folks! With the site down Saturday, and a game day and a project to finish yesterday, I wasn't able to update the game. I'll get you moving along tonight or tomorrow morning. Is everyone done leveling?

Yes, but I don't have my profile updated. I'll try to get that done when I get home this afternoon.

No worries. I updated Hakkuho's profile as well, just in case we should need him between now and level 4 ;)

I’m all set. Are we fourth level yet? Hahaha

We have 40 metal arrowheads we recovered from the blacksmith—is it cool to say we turned those into arrows at some point during our carpentry apprenticeship?
Maybe at half price, although that's counting pennies.

Kate, is my mithril shirt still under construction? Or do I already have it? It won't change my AC until I can enchant it, but it does matter for my ACP.

Yes to both. I assume you were waiting for stuff to be ready before you started off on your trip.

Purchase costs and crafting prices for the mwk greatsword, mithral shirt, pearl of power, scavenger's stone, and 40 arrows have been subtracted from party loot.
We're at 1,611gp and 2sp

Thanks Purpose!

Ok, then today I'll actually get my profile updated when I get home :P

Ok, then today I'll actually get my profile updated when I get home :P

Does the DM's partner get sent to the dog house for not setting a good example? Hahahaha!

Profile updated. I also sold the MW chain shirt we found that I had been wearing before getting the mithril shirt, and added it to our cash total.

Actually, I'd wear that if no one else is gonna use it! Better ACP, higher max Dex, and lets me move at full speed.
I'll just take the armored plates out of the coat, gotta stay stylish :p

Hm. It was a medium sized shirt, but I bet the blacksmith could resize it for you. I'll put it back on the inventory sheet and subtract 125 from our gold.

Resize it, or Joli and I can wear it at the same time.

My mind went to something else, but only because I had forgotten about that amazing WILTY bit.

Time to try out some new toys.

No. I will put your broken teeth on a warm rock in a rass-berry field to grin forever at the sun!

Oh horror of horros!

Toby is actually at +9, now that he put another rank into it at 3rd level.

With the reduced ACP for mithril armor, Toby is at a +10 now for Disable Device.

Could do Disable Device with no armor at all, yeah? When everyone’s hanging out in the evening or something.

Yeah, though that won't help us if it's a trapped dungeon door or something. With the mithril shirt my ACP is now 0, so no need to remove armor.

Oooooooh right, Disable Device is useful for more than disassembling clockwork spies...

I hope Andrew doesn't mind that I added an extra tab to the spreadsheet!

It occurs to me that we have five players, but the adventure is written for four, so everyone will get less treasure tan they should. I may start seeding a little extra. Just to make sure you get useful stuff, please post items that you're hoping to get. This may end up being your shopping list later, but I can use it for ideas.

I tried to add some things to the spreadsheet, but now it won't load. Let me know if I broke it.

I also added a column for market cost, url to the item, and notes. Some of that is probably redundant but maybe it will save a tiny bit of work for the GM.

Sweet, thanks!

Also, I will move you on your way toward the tower this evening IRL, the next morning in game time, so if you feel like there’s anything you want to do before you leave, speak up!

Cedar smiles at Silt. ”That being said, I don’t want to hang around for a lengthy history lesson either.”

Bah! Humbug!

<Karl shenanigans>

I love this group.

Purpose should come play next time! It's a nice filler when people are at cons (assuming you're not at DundraCon, Andrew).

I would also like to RP learning other languages with the idea of putting a point in linguistics later. We mentioned Silt teaching Aquan to others, and Cedar teaching Aklo. Might be another fun downtime-filler.

I'd love some language RP, and I'll try to jump in next Karltime!

So, I had this idea to put points in Craft: Traps and make some useful traps, either while we were camping out in the wilderness or traps around the house to protect us from chokers or whatever. You know, something along the lines of Home Alone.

But, upon reading the rules for crafting traps, (and forum posts about them because they’re kind of complicated) it seems like the skill is not really for that. It’s more for adding traps to a dungeon system or fortress. There are simple wilderness traps in Heroes of the Wild that use the Survival skill instead. That’s closer to what I had in mind.

So, now I’m not quite sure.

We have this beautiful bottle of Karl’s acid though...

Kate, have you given any thought to crafting traps or a rules system for them? (They almost never come up, which was one reason I wanted to try them.) If it’s not really practical or going to work out, then perhaps I could reallocate that point somewhere else.

Hey guys!

Sorry not to update last night; my super-epic game of Salvation of the Sages went way over time and we got home pretty late. (Awesome scenario, by the way!)

I’ll catch up tonight. Karl interludes are amazing. Yeah, I think we can come up with some good uses for Craft Traps, but give me a little time to mull it over. You can move the skill point later if we can’t come up with something good.

Cool cool, thanks Kate.
Chuck said he’d watch the baby so I can play Slavation at Endgame. I can’t wait! Sounds like your game was pretty awesome.

Now I reeeeaaaallllyyyyy want to see Silt use speak with plants on a raspberry bush!

I do fully intend to go back and learn from the celedons, though obviously not everyone needs to attend. I can't see Purpose Creche not getting as much information as possible about anything Azlanti.