GM Leinathan's Carrion Crown (Inactive)

Game Master leinathan

Yeah, the same thing's been driving me nuts too. :-/

Did we ever find out exactly when the festival starts?

It's tonight! It starts after sundown, perhaps in 90 minutes.

Great, I'm so hungry I could eat a small child!

Let's make the investigation quick then. The last thing we need is to miss something important because we were nosing around on the other side of town.

Tassa's absolutely going to eat. That said, I'm not sure if (since she's from a village that's similar in many ways) it's likely she's eaten this stuff, or stuff like it...or if this is weird even to her.

Once I know how to play it, I'll post.

Thanks,

Argh! I'm almost positive I know what this is out of character, but Henry doesn't and it's driving me up the wall.

You rolled high enough that I wanted to give it to you, but I decided that you just need another important detail to put it together.

Hey leinathan, did you see my Q about familiarity with the food, above?

Oh, whoops! Sorry, didn't totally register that as a question.

Let's see... I'd say that you're familiar with smoked tick legs (quite delicious), flayleaf salad (flayleaf is one of the few respites for rural Ustalavic farmers) and deep-fried silkworms. Mushroom farming is common out here, but this particular kind of mushroom looks weird and freaky to you, and you've certainly never had stirge sausages. No one outside of Ravenmoor keeps stirges for anything.

Thanks!

My thought process here is that Shel seemed to have met Elias before, but her father interrupted before she could say anything last time we talked to her. And she seemed interested enough in Elias (even if it was just in the 'wants a piece of him' sense) that she might have heard something useful. Plus, she might let something important slip about the festival if she's willing to talk, and anything that keeps us from getting caught off-guard would be useful.

I see a swarm and an ochre jelly in the initiative order--and see at least the jelly on the map--but didn't see them yet in your post. Do we as characters see one or both yet?

You don't see the jelly, but you are aware that the air is completely ass-full of mosquitoes. They're just coalescing into a swarm for combat.

Oh, has it been less than 3 minutes since I killed the scarecrow? If so, I've got +2 profane to AC from Spellkiller.

Sure! It's been less than 3 minutes. I'll put it in the header.

Ok, I just double-checked: since Constitution gives double value to wounds, 'Khar is currently at 18/34 wounds and is, in fact, not staggered. He will be at 17.

Many apologies for the rule mistake.

No worries, the rage-con/wounds thing is strange and this is the first time we've dealt with it. Same strangeness as temp hp and wound thresholds in WotR.

Hey, did we ever work out a "bot" schedule? 36 hours in my other game seems to be fair, though a bit hard to keep track of. Thoughts?

We didn't but that seems reasonable. Usually a day or two is good to keep combat moving.

Okay! We've just got some wrap-up to do, so I might as well announce that you Level Up! Please post what you get from the level in this here thread.

This prologue adventure has given me a lot of info about how your party functions in combat! Thanks for putting up with it. Next up, Chapter II of Carrion Crown, the Trial of the Beast.

To make Constitution matter more, I am adding two adjustments to Wounds and Vigor.

First, when you take a night's rest, you heal an extra number of Vigor points equal to your Constitution modifier (typically only equal to your level).

Second, when you gain a level, your Constitution modifier is added to your max health. You can have this benefit retroactively.

I will record these in the Campaign Info tab.

Cool. I enjoyed the prologue...and it's funny how many similarities it had to Tassa's background.

I'm traveling for the next few days but excited to level up soon.

That should be everything. Depending how things go in the future, I might look into some Path of War stuff to give Urick something a little more interesting to do than shoot for damage every round. Maybe the Martial Training feat chain?

So con will now add to each HD worth of vigor? If so that'd be +4 extra vigor for 'Khar, and +8 vigor/+8 wounds while raging yes?

I have a couple of questions I need to ask before I level up.

1) Will we have some down time before the events of the second book kick off? I would like to spend some cash to buy a few formulae off some of Henry's colleagues at the university. If I can't, it would probably change what starting formulae I take.

2) I noticed a potentially useful, but weird interaction between my gestalt. There's a rogue power that gives you alchemist bombs, though fewer per day and without the ability that adds Int to damage. It's normally useless for an Archeaologist because they don't get sneak attack, but I also have sneak attack from Vivisectionist and I still keep the Int to all splash damage alchemist ability. If I take the talent, can the bombs still work at full power then?

EDIT: 3) Also a not level-up related question. Can I use the trophy rules to dissect and collect some useful parts from the Blightspawn?

Sorry, I mis-typed after posting in Starfinder. Con modifier adds to WOUNDS. So, I guess Khar will be double-dipping a bit on Sudden Barbarian Death Syndrome.

@Henry: yes, but only a little bit.

I thought Vivisectionist gave up Throw Anything? If it didn't, yeah sure. That's fine. Its only 3 bombs per day any way.

Yes, you may.

A day or two to have time to write in my formulae book is all I need. I would like to pick up Cure Moderate Wounds and Lesser Restoration at least.

Vivisectionist gives up almost nothing other than bombs. It's weird.

Awesome. I'll post that shortly then.

Perdita has taken Cure moderate wounds & Restoration (Lesser) as her Oracle spells if you wish to take something else?

I mean, Henry is a doctor. Him not learning healing extracts feels weird to me. I might pick up False Life, Resist Energy, or See Invisibility at some point. I don't need a lot of magic items, so I can afford to pay to transcribe some formulas.

As an Oracle of Bone Perdita's spells are weighted on the Necromacy side. :)

OK, a further adjustment.

When you're staggered from being below Wound Threshold, move actions don't prompt Constitution checks. This way, it's the same as the base rule for being at 0 hp. Also the same as base - stabilization checks get harder as your HP gets lower.

I imagine that (maybe over breakfast tomorrow, since it's past midnight in game currently) folks might have questions for Tassa about the thing inside her...or at least she might catch uneasy glances her. Could be fun to RP, if there's nothing else to RP for tonight (and before we get back to Ledidstadt).

Not sure exactly what'Khar's at HP-wise now. I wanna verify that I have this right:
During Rage - 18w/0v
Post Rage - 10w/0v
Henry Heals - 10w/5v
Long-term care/sleep - 12w/15v (max 26w/44v)

Is that right?

I have hp totals in campaign info. I added your level hp to current and total, so you're in better shape.

*Waves* Hello there! I'll be joining you as Ila, the Spiritualist whose Spirit was stolen!

As a result, she is now a Phantom Blade, keeping little snippets of her phantom's personality in the form of her memories of her mother! In addition to that, her time chasing the way has resulted in growing up fast and learning knacks from all the walks of life that she's touched upon.

My primary question to each of you is what excites you about your character?

I think I enjoy the hint of mad scientist I gave Henry. I like playing characters who are a little off and despite him being a mostly nice guy, I have fun picturing him dropping everything so he can break out the scalpels a start cutting up the corpse of something interesting the party just killed.

Having a character whose motivation is somewhere between fun and a deathwish, and who *really* appreciates the fact that he's a monster. Like Henry, there's also fun to be had in toying with the edge of sanity, as well as playing with the fine line between good and evil, both of which 'Khar definitely toes.

Honestly? I don't know yet. I do suppose that being something of a moral compass for the group interests me, since even without alignment, Urick is still very much Lawful Good.

A couple of questions real quick, if it's not too much trouble:

1) Does the alchemy stuff we got from the mayor's place count as a full alchemy lab?
2) Would the university pay a 'finder's fee' for the Blightspawn parts? It seems like the thing Henry would want to do with the samples, but I don't want to be selfish with loot.

How about you just let me know the sum total of things you wish to offload in exchange for money, and I write up a post detailing who you can sell those to and for how much?

To answer your questions more directly, yes, it counts as an alchemy lab and yes, you can sell the parts for money.

Honestly, I think the better question is do we actually want to keep anything other than the potions?

We have:
- Cruel Shortspear
- Training Longsword (Powerful Maneuvers)
- Masterwork Hide Armor
- Alchemist Lab
- Blightspawn Samples (300 gp trophy)

Additionally we should decide who's taking each potion since we have:
- Potion of CMW (2)
- Potion of CLW
- Potion of Divine Favor +2
- Potion of Invisibility
- Potion of Reduce Person
- Potion of Remove Fear

Hey Hotaru, good to play with you again.

Tassa's a lot of fun so far. Like Khar, she's a monster (or has a monster inside her). Unlike Khar, she's quite ambivalent about it. She's also pretty sheltered (having lived her life in a small village of cultists to the Old God Bokrug). I like playing with her fear of and attraction to the power (and hunger for destruction) inside of her.

Also, she's never really come across faiths other than the cult she was raised in, and I'm curious if/how she develops a faith in a god or gods eventually.

EDIT:
I'd love to carry at least one of the healing potions, partly as a front-liner...but also as someone who's fairly mobile (some limited teleportation, often a 45' move, and a 10' reach) so I'm a reasonable person to get a potion to someone.

And I personally am happy with selling all the non-potions.

Hi buddy! I see you're still going fast!

That's a lot of things to like. I'm really interested in seeing how things are presented to Ila with each of these to hopefully elevate your enjoyment of those things. Other than stealing the MORAL HIGH GROUND from Urick. :P

I am unreasonably proud of something as simple as a palette swap and minor edits, but I'm gonna share them anyway. This is a picture of Ila. If you happen to use Paizo Campaign Tools (which I very much endorse!), there's also This, which I'm using as a custom avatar on here.

Wrapped up with her own problems Perdita will tend to ignore you, unless you have some information she wants. She is very much the silent observer, unless she feels the need to speak up regarding danger or to supply needed facts.

Occasionally she lets fly with some ladylike acid showing she's offended by where she is, or by someone in the area. Currently she's staring holes through Khar for giving her a nickname.

I couldn't find a good image on the Paizo board for her, so the portrait link is what she really looks like.

Also Perdita is taking the Cruel short spear. Just in case verbal prodding fails to be enough.

Noted, and updated the avatar for your character. :)

Alright, so unless someone else wants something else, we're selling:
- Training Longsword
- Masterwork Hide Armor
- Alchemist Lab
- Blightspawn Samples

For the potions, I think that one of each of the CMW should go to Tassa and Khar since they're more likely to need them. The CLW can probably go to one of them as well, since most of the rest of us can cast cure spells on ourselves if we need them. One of them could take the Divine Favor potion as well, since it's a useful combat buff and they might get the most use out of it. I can hang onto the potion of Remove Fear and Reduce Person until we need them.

Does that sound good to everyone?

Works for me.

OK, that's..

1,160gp for the longsword
85gp for the hide armor,
200gp for the alchemy supplies
300gp for the blightspawn trophy
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1,745gp total / 5 = 349gp

Plus the payment from Judge Daramid means each character gets 1,349 gold.

Woot!