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

Game Master Kate Baker

I think that’s a great idea. And I think it’s what the story would demand.
Cedar is not entirely uninterested. Although he’s into history and lore more so than religion. He would like to learn Azlanti too. And the telescope is interesting to him, so I could see him coming back too, although maybe not as much as Purpose lol.

Toby is not particularly anxious to go to summer school.

Should we roll off for the cloak of resist or some other way? Who has the weakest saves?

I'm already using the shield cloak, so I'll abstain on shoulderwear for now!

I think Cedar does.

Oh, I think you’re right.

Silt doesn't need it anymore than someone else. Cedar should take it if he hasn't already.

Cedar will take the cloak with gratitude! Hopefully we’ll all have one at some point.

Not sure I'll take an abjuration implement (potential cloak of resistance analog), but I do like that the occultist's resonant powers emulate Big 6 items in a way that frees up traditionally "claimed" spots. For instance, my mom's eyes give me an enhancement bonus to Dex, so I could conceivably have a belt that doesn't something else without falling behind the math curve!

Yeah, that's one of the neat things with Occultists, though I've found with mine that I quickly stop having enough mental focus to emulate all those things at once, so I ended up buying some of them so that I could concentrate my MF where it was useful.

Added the stuff from the celedons' chest to the loot sheet:

Joli is not well prepped for swarms. Though he can climb and jump away from them. :-p

Hmm, I’ll check my summons but I don’t think Cedar has anything that can do AOE damage yet either, aside from the alchemist fire.

Perhaps air elemental whirlwind?

Toby is pretty well set up to deal with swarms, as his blasts do full damage (though not the AoE bonus damage, I think).

(though not the AoE bonus damage, I think).

Correct.

Air elemental whirlwind is a good idea and magma elementals get a lava puddle that might work too.

Creatures one or more size categories smaller than the whirlwind might take damage when caught in the whirlwind (generally damage equal to the monster’s slam attack for a creature of its size) and may be lifted into the air. An affected creature must succeed on a Reflex save (DC 10 + half monster’s HD + the monster’s Strength modifier) when it comes into contact with the whirlwind or take damage as if it were hit by the whirlwind creature’s slam attack. It must also succeed on a second Reflex save or be picked up bodily and held suspended in the powerful winds...

Given the first sentence about size categories, I'm not sure if a small air elemental can even hurt this swarm, as it's technically Large. But it is composed of smaller critters, so maybe damage but no picking it up?

Yeah, I don’t know. The elemental can move through all of the swarm’s squares. And it’s probably fine or tiny. It’s a try.

We had a bunch more Alchemist fires. Who took the rest?

If you Silt some and he will cast true strike and then throw them.

The critters that make up the swarm are fine, so it should work. The space is large, but the size is listed as Fine in the stat block. I think it works!

Joli can try some alchemy too. Happy to join the Iggi people in a tree.

Silt, I think you could just climb a tree and be safe...?

I’ll check the sheet once I get home, but I only saw the two... Silt could also take the wand of flaming sphere, he could use it without UMD. Maybe I could toss it down to him.

I’ll go through old posts and look for alchemist fire later. I think we only had the ones from the store room where we found the roaches or something?

Silt, I think you could just climb a tree and be safe...?

Have we established they can't climb trees? I might have missed that, which is why having some bait would be nice. Or, without a target they might just roam away to be dealt with again later.

I'll take the wand, Purpose, sure. Maybe you an target a sure to throw it!

I did not wake up to the earthquake. Looks like it was centered in Berkeley?

Also my phone autocorrect now replaces typos with Iggi.

Looking through things, Doug'tchaak, looks like you were sensible and had some alchemist's fire as starting loot. Other than that, I'm pretty sure we only two more from the roach room.
We do have store credit with our local alchemist, so we could certainly get more. There's also Artokus's fire, should we want something a little beefier!

Putting a pin in things, so I remember what to investigate once we stop getting shot:

It's transmutation, but you can't quite make out the spell. You do see the faint tracks from long ago going into and out of the circle. They all appear to be constructs.

!!!!!

is this a wyrwood factory...

Maybe there’s a wyrwood still in here?!

Silt charges the last Skum, drawing his straightforward spear and power attacking.

[dice=TUUUUUUUUBERSSSSS!!!]1d20+7-1+2

[dice=piercing, descructive smite]1d8+11

You're actually hitting things! I'm so proud!

Don't jinx it!!

oh no!

Just to give some context, Purpose Creche is rushing/acting more rash because he thinks the stuff in here is reasonably benign, and that there's a good chance the tower houses something related to wyrwood creation. Aka 99% of the reason he came to the island in the first place! So he's not really putting any mental effort into language or social considerations like he normally does.

Just to give some context, Purpose Creche is rushing/acting more rash because he thinks the stuff in here is reasonably benign, and that there's a good chance the tower houses something related to wyrwood creation. Aka 99% of the reason he came to the island in the first place! So he's not really putting any mental effort into language or social considerations like he normally does.

Cool, I'm totally onboard with this!

We haven't done a safety check-in since the start of the game, so now is a good time! I suspect I'm the most squeamish one here anyway, but if anything is getting to be too much, please use the X card or call for a line or veil.

I can easily put stuff behind spoiler tags if needed; just let me know what people's comfort level is.

Cool, thanks for the check-in Kate! I’m fine. I’m not a fan of gore necessarily but I like suspense and horror and scary things. The Ring and Blair Witch are two of my favorite movies!

Good idea to check in. I'm good where we're at now, and will use our tools if things get uncomfortable!

I'm fine. Thank you for checking!

Toby would gladly take that cloak the skum had to boost his will save, though his other saves are pretty good and I'm fine if someone else needs it more.

Silt's super happy about that greatsword (until now he basically had a dead feat), so he won't worry about the cloak.

I support keeping the kineticist from being mind controlled and murdering the party.

A wyrwood kineticist with that archetype that removes burn could be interesting...

big clues!!!!

Go Toby! That was awesome timing for a nat 20!

Yeah! I was a bit worried. I feel like it would have been pretty in-character for him to completely mangle the thing trying to get the gem out.

pranked by a dang robbit!

Our elemental washing plan may have failed, but I think it was the right character choice!

The idea of an ioun matrix incorporated into a building is extremely cool!
I worry these Ioun Imperative guys are on a eugenics/coercion track, though...

"Alexa, activate Guards and Wards."