GM Parrot's The Ferry and the Depths: Rappan Athuk (Inactive)

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Aurora mentioned making a map. This isn't IC as Anzath doesn't have the gear atm. I'm just a visual person, so visuals help me not go crazy. This is as good a sketch as i can gather up till the talking head. After that I'm not sure how we came to the cathedral room. I have no idea the scale of these rooms so this is a rough sketch, mind. Feel free to edit.

Lvl 2 Map

Check out our Google Drive for a current map of the level. The stone head is in room 32, and the cathedral ceiling room is 37. You are now in 10.

Edit: I cut off a little of the hallway below the door to 10, but it's just a hall with another door directly opposite.

ok, nvm my doodle then :P

It'll be easier this way, but thanks for getting me off my duff to actually make it, it took less than five minutes...

Kudos to Anzath!

So Room #16 is "disabled"?
Also, does anyone have Alarm or Craft traps? If not, Bedlam would take a 20 on it untrained for DC 23?

He could include a Blasting Jelly or other alchemical item or weapon that would be loud.

Room 15, then steam statue room? Disable device is usually a secret roll by the GM so I have taken your efforts into account and you'll see how you did next time you go back in there. If you want to do still more checks, you'll have to head back, as by now you're in room 10.

Nope on the skills.

Hmmm. More blasting jellies could be really useful.

I have 2 left and with time to Craft make more.
Oops, I meant 15.

Moving on...

I don't have alarm, yet.

I have power again! Florence ended up being less than expected in my neck of the woods, but still gave us some trouble and stole the power/interweb. I know plenty of people who didn't fare as well.

I'm glad to hear all is well with you.

I'm glad that you have power. Hopefully same will be restored widely soon.

I've been stuck in New Orleans for weeks without power after Isaac and Gustav. Glad you came through high and dry.

Sister's in Charlotte, all good so far.

I did cleanup after Katrina, I'm always glad when the storms don't live up to the hype.

Aurora Fallowarc wrote:

It's simply terrible where I am. Why, I stepped outside and a slight breeze ruffled my hair! :P

I picture our party cleric in a hoop skirt...

Hoop skirts and armored breastplates are not mutually exclusive, y'know!

If a certain wizard cast Create Pit that paralleled her pit, would she be able to exit by new pit?

The spell says it creates an extra dimensional hole and doesn't displace the actual material, so I don't think it would create a real space parallel to the pit. If the GM rules otherwise, though, I would be glad to use my bonded object casting to carry it out.

I approve of the lateral thinking.

I am trying to figure out if I can use bonded object to cast Message to speak to Anzath. I don't see anything that says I have to be able to see her to cast it on her. Am I missing something?

It says 1ft of stone blocks the spell...

Can we hear each other normally through the slab?

What's funny is, now at least two of us are going to have to praise Orcus.

Yep! Haha! Super busy today, folks, but it's a cool job: I'm working with a computer scientist to identify anonymous texts by Beatrice Hastings , kind of an archival treasure hunt... we're gonna build a program that can find her anonymous texts based on her style! Or rather, she is--I'm happy to consult and speculate though!

That does sound like a cool job. :D

Are you getting paid to do that, or is it just a passion project? Either way, what a cool use of tech!

Not getting paid currently--but with the way the world is now, I figure you gotta do some unpaid work before anyone will pay you to do anything. If I can pull this off, it might lead to a larger-scale, supported version of the project, or, if I'm really lucky, a job.

Well, go for it anyway, and do a good job. :)

Thanks! I'm really lucky that I have programmer friends who are willing to give time to this plan of mine.

I do start a new job tomorrow--after a year of freelancing, I'm really looking forward to regular hours. And I'm gonna go to the dentist.

Congrats and good luck on the new job!

Congratulations!

Congrats on the new job, hope it starts off well!

Thanks all!

The visual image is already awesome enough, but having the blast jelly go off behind Brand as he's walking away would have been sweet! The total action movie slow mo walk with billowing flames and smoke behind the increasingly bad ass halfling.

Good luck on your new job.

To continue the discussion about proofreading, it reaches another level of difficulty when your PC speaks with a dialect or accent! Every post I have to go back and edit because I forgot to change a ‘c’ at the beginning of a word to ‘k’ or likewise an ‘s’ to a ‘z’ or I used an article before a noun or whatever!

GMing is even MORE difficult because you have to keep track of which NPC speaks with which dialect. It’s a lot to remember!

I really appreciate Anzath's accent! Will post in game later tonight, all. Having a job is great! Great. Great...

(PS I love my job)

Glad to here it.
We do have many accents in this group. I at times mix my dwarven and goblin ones...lol.

Do the rest of us know about Anzath's personal quest? Just asking for role playing purposes, so I can keep player/character knowledge separate.

She mentioned she was hunting a man named Yaza Mongro when we first met, but none of you had any info on him. She promised you all a piece of his bounty if she could join you in your delve.

Thanks for the refresher!

Aye, cheers!

TIL that my Tuesday group has been getting Silence wrong the entire time and it, in fact, has a one-round cast time instead of being a standard action.

Should...

Should I be the bearer of bad news and tell them?

Plenty of people miss that; along with Enlarge Person and Sleep. Happens.

I'd say bring it up before or between sessions.

There are indeed substantially more "1 round" casting times than most people realize.

With that knowledge roll, I'm guessing he believes it is the avatar of Gorum, now fully in league with Orcus!

Well, I for one did not expect Anzath’s personal quest to be completed so quickly. I guess she has a decision to make now, to return for the bounty, or to stick it out with y’all.

Although, my gut tells me that there’s a deeper story to Yaza than this encounter, so we’ll see.

Surely Anzath finds some appeal in hunting for more of Orcus' minions? If nothing else, they do seem to have treasure...

@Anzath, I actually gave you a quest in the neighborhood intentionally--your character will be able to collect the bounty in Riddleport, but then, she's a free agent and can rejoin the party as an equal partner. I didn't want your quest to become the party quest, and lo and behold, you walked a beeline right to Yaza's lair (she's in the original book as a dude who also has no full-plate skeletal champion, I added that, you're welcome!)

Thanks!

Well she’s not about to try and waltz outta here and back to civilization alone, so we’ll see where the dungeon takes us ;)

Assuming that's a light mace. Anyone just dying to have it?