GM_Pace's Serpent's Skull

Game Master jhpace1

Another Serpent's Skull, but with psionics and 3rd party material. Uses the Pathfinder Reference Document online as well as the Open Gaming License


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Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

Would Adriano be able to wake up Shevan then move 15ft and use fire bolt on on Sea scorpion 3.


Male Human Gamemaster

I'm afraid not. Waking Shevan would be your action.

Sasha's about to make a five-foot step and give our sleeping Paladin a swift kick while she searches for her rapier.

Shevan will wake up normally from his poisoned sleep on Turn 15, anyway. (Turns go down to match your Fortitude checks as the Rounds go up.)


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

Ok then I will wake him up. The more the merrier.


Female Catfolk Rogue(Scout/Knife master) 1

Would you guys hurry up...I'm getting bored just sleeping in the hold of the ship...


Male Human Gamemaster

They're almost all awake, Ashana.

And if you want, I can make things exciting for you right now! :)


GM Pace:

Alright I am back in action. so quick question before I post in next couple of hours or so (need to make dinner for the family) am I up or do I need to make the saves again?


Male Human Gamemaster

for Noel:

By your Tessara's Fortitude roll, which your Dragonrider entry says you should go on the same round anyway, you were both due to wake up next round anyway, Noel. Turn 13, or Round 8. So you'll both wake up normally from the poison without anyone else waking you.


Male Human Gamemaster

for Phillip:

Phillip, I'm re-reading over PE:UP, and I'm wondering where you're getting your AC from. Your character profile says your AC is 17, but you're not wearing any kind of mundane armor. Your Aegis has three Astral Suit types: Astral Skin, Astral Armor, and Astral Juggernaut.

You chose Astral Skin when you woke up on the beach. Astral Skin has no armor bonus, it has the customizations instead. Astral Armor would be masterwork chainmail for +6 AC, and Astral Juggernaut would be masterwork half-plate for +8 AC. But don't forget the penalties to Dex, Armor Checks, Weight, and Speed to those.

Astral Armor and Astral Juggernaut appear to allow customizations, but here's where using up your Customization Points cost you: you can only use Customization Points once per 8 hours. Furthermore, on p.4, the book says you must be "8 hours of concentration" to change your pre-set customizations on an Astral Skin/Armor/Juggernaut, or else spend a full minute of concentration when you form the Astral Suit with "free" points.

This is not much more difficult than a Cleric with Domains having to choose your Domain spell and Cleric spells every day. I can help you by saying "8 hours of customization" is "8 hours of rest, followed by 1 minute of customization" so Phillip isn't staring off into space for 8 hours, ignoring everybody else.

Just realize that the Astral Skin has no AC bonus, while the Astral Armor and Astral Juggernaut do, but changes your free customizations as well. I'll let the AC 17 slide for this first battle, but you might want to type out your 3 Astral Suits and their customizations on your character profile, so you can easily reference them. You can then change them once a day (technically once every 8 hours, 3 times a day), and just say so in your initial "I'm forming an Astral _____ around me." speech.

"Psionic Attacks" technically make your melee attacks /magic, not just masterwork (+1 to attack).

You also get Special Abilities to your Astral Suit at later levels, like Damage Reduction, Augment Suit, etc. You should put those on your character profile as well, to remind yourself when the time comes.


Male Human Aegis 1

GM Pace:

I see the problem.

I forgot to take off the Masterwork Leather Armor that I also have, and is now somewhere in the gear pile. I forgot to take that out once we got onto the beach. My AC should be 15 right now, 5 from dex, and nothing else.


Male Half-Orc Verdant Sorcerer (1)

what's up with 2 1's in a row? some one is out to get me :(


Male Human Gamemaster

Noel, if you are wondering, you and Tessara wake up on your own this turn.

Phillip, that's why I'm trying to help keep track of the temporary effects with my top-of-turn summary. Everyone is +2 atk/+1 dam right now, it counters the sickened effect a little.

It looks like Shevan and Ishiro both get to move and attack next turn.

Sasha took quite a beating from two scorpions.

Varash is down and the clock is ticking.

Phillip has an AOO, will he get his revenge?

It's only been 18 seconds since Aeyrs woke up. Recalling my college experiences from the students' mornings after on Fridays, she's gonna be at the surf's edge a while.

Ashana, I'm sorry you're still on the ship, it's important! Don't leave!


Male Human Aegis 1

No, I meant I had it slightly wrong on my character sheet. I was putting it together correctly, somehow, on my posts, but it was a little off an the CS. I've fixed it now, though.


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

How long would it take for Adriano to find his weapon. I would like to have him grab his Scimitar and head over to Varash and Sasha but won't have him look for his weapon if it will take to long.


Male Human Gamemaster

The book says at least one round because everything was dumped in a pile, Adriano. I've been rolling 1d2 because it's two 5-foot squares. If you've got a non-weapon attack, it might be better to head off without it.


Female Catfolk Rogue(Scout/Knife master) 1

I'm still here...just twiddling my thumbs.


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

Ok I still have Fire Bolt I will head off to Sasha and Varash.


Female Catfolk Rogue(Scout/Knife master) 1

With the battle on the beach seemingly finished does that mean I can finally do something other than just lay unconscious?

For DM eyes only:
I should confess I've DMed through this book twice before. I'm trying my best to play dumb but I am curious how Ashana hasn't drowned yet seeing how she was in the hold of the ship and the ship is currently sinking...though I'm sure you'll reveal this when the time comes lol.


Male Human Gamemaster

for Ashana:

Ashana, thank you for being so patient. If the rest of the gang posts quickly, you could be in the group by Monday. Yes I've got a "plot train", but you'll still have total freedom once you wake up.

Now if I could just get Noel to post on a consistent basis, I really don't want to lose her.


Male Human Gamemaster

ATTENTION PLAYERS

Right now we haven't heard from Noel for over a week and Shevan just said he won't be posting for a while. I don't want you to leave the game! Souls for Smuggler's Shiv is very low-key in that, as you might guess, there are a lot of NPCs. These NPCs weren't meant to "fill in" for missing PCs, they're meant for you to have a base camp to go back to.

So! Anyone that needs a week off, tell me here on the Discussion page and I'll just make your character "inactive" at the base camp. Then you don't have to leave the game. The Shiv might take us several weeks of gaming to get through, so don't let a momentary Real Life problem bar you from the game.

Noel, if you don't come back soon, I'll have to DMPC your character to waking up and staying behind.

Shevan, you can keep your character behind for now. If I need to, I'll just move you with the NPCs.

This agreeable to everyone?


Male Human Aegis 1

Aye, Cap'n.


Male Half-Orc Verdant Sorcerer (1)

sounds reasonable, good job on being flexible. :)


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

Sounds good


sorry....
my grandfather just passed away so things been chaos for the family. should be back after or before thanksgiving depending on the weather.


Male Human Gamemaster

No problem, Noel. I have the policy mentioned above, and things are very "open" for players to come and go, on this module.


Male Human Aegis 1

Sorry to hear that, Noel. Take what time you need.


Male Half-Orc Verdant Sorcerer (1)

this dice roller is NOT nice to me :(.

Noel, i am sorry to here about your grandfather, I hope you and your family have the support you need to deal with these events, definitely do what you have to without worrying about the game.


Male Human Gamemaster

The party of four leaves to the north, while the seven left behind go to the tree line in the shade. The six dead sea scorpions magically turn into roast turkeys with all the trimmings on silver platters on the beach.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!


Male Human Gamemaster

Waiting on a certain cat to post.....it's always the cats! :)


Female Catfolk Rogue(Scout/Knife master) 1

I just posted.


Male Human Gamemaster

for Adriano:

Adriano, your posting of a "-1" to your Climb check puzzled me, so I looked at your character page. You have "Acrobatics -2, Climb -3, Escape Artist -2, Fly -2". Your STR is 10. How the heck are you getting a Climb of -3? Negatives are virtually impossible in skill checks unless you have a stat minus as well. Your STR is a +0, not a -2 or -3.

On Fly, the SRD says "You cannot take ranks in this skill without a natural means of flight or gliding." I don't see "glider" on your Equipment list.

So it looks like you used an automated program to do your stats and skills and that's fine, but it put a lot of errors on your character sheet. I don't want to penalize you for something that's impossible. So I'll take your Climb as +0, not -3, assuming you put no ranks into it.

See if you can correct your character profile so you're not penalized by that automated program.


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

GM_Pace:
I am checking the sheet the penalty is for Medium Encumbrance that is why those skills are negative.


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

GM_Pace:
Also the Armor penalty is -1 for the Studded Leather and -1 for the Shield. I need to switch the Skills based on the lack of Shield and not carrying anything, But I would still be at -1 to climb for the armor.


Male Human Gamemaster

Adriano:

Ok, good work on the calculations. Let's say Sasha helped you up, and move on with the plot. :)


Male Half-Orc Verdant Sorcerer (1)

hey i was looking over color spray, and I think, unless the lobsters are sightless, that color spray would have an effect on creatures of animal intelligence.


Male Human Aegis 1

Mind-affecting spells have no affect on Vermin, unless I'm mistaken. I believe it's part of the vermin traits.

Edit: Link'd


Male Half-Orc Verdant Sorcerer (1)

ok, but animals would be ok. good to know


Male Human Gamemaster

Phillip has it correct. It's actually listed in the book "Immune mind-affecting effects".

And these have been the small eurypterids. Wait until you see what comes next time!

Waiting on Ashana to meet with Phillip, and then maybe we can explore the rest of the ship.

Noel & Shevan, you can come in any time you like, just narrate walking to Varash's location.


sounds good hopefully I will be back in action tomorrow.


Male Human Gamemaster

Ashana, you were only knocked out, not drugged and moved, like the others. So you have all of your stuff. It hasn't slid out of the hold like some of the crates.


Male Half-Orc Verdant Sorcerer (1)

still around, not posting until i see people come out of the ship or towards me on the beach. sadly, i don't have rope, which could have been useful.


Male Human Gamemaster

Sorry to hear about your father, Adriano. Is he getting better?


Male Half-Elf (Varisian) Cleric of Sarenrae 1

He is, he is out of the Hospital for now but needs to go back for observation while they adjust his seizure meds, which we were told it could take 3 to 10 days to figure out. But he is doing better right now.


Male Human Gamemaster

Ashana, you care to pipe up, or should I get Sasha to move the boys along? :)


Male Human Gamemaster

Those looking up see a strange sight: a covey of antlered herd beasts drawing a huge sled carrying a fat Human in red-and-white clothing. If you make your Perception check you can hear the epic-level Wizard calling out "Ho-ho-ho!" as he zooms by.

Merry Christmas, everyone!


Male Human Aegis 1

Merry Christmas!


Female Catfolk Rogue(Scout/Knife master) 1

Merry xmas


Male Human Gamemaster

I was hoping Varash and Noel would say they're still around. Starting with the beach again tomorrow morning!


Male Human Aegis 1

I was hoping they would as well. :/

Varash hasn't posted since the 15th, and Noel hasn't since the 21st.


I should be posting hopefully later today or tomorrow if nothing goes wrong again...sigh I hate my life(it just one thing after another). to top it off 175 posts yeah me....I'll catch up hopefully LOL.


Male Human Aegis 1

I'm gonna be on and off today, as it's my birthday, and stuff's probably going to happen.

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