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

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Thank you. This will be move number six in the last five years. The plan is to not need to do this again for a few years, at least until we are ready to buy a house. I hate renting :(

Ouch! That is rather a lot. I'm still in rentals, but have not had to move so often thankfully.

Renting is awful. At least our landlord has only one rental and lives next door, instead of being a property management company intent on getting every penny by ignoring every problem.

Yeah we are hoping for something other than a management company but the one we are at is our fall back and while it is cheaper it sucks! Ah, shared misery.

aye, indentured servitude by any other name smells as crappy.

I hate moving and renting. A few months ago we bought a new (old) home and moved in. We are expecting this will probably be our forever home, and I hope that is the case. My sympathies to you for having to go through it again.

So we have a good trapsmith in Anzath, but I think we don't have anyone with Trap Spotter anymore. That means you don't get free perception checks for traps. How careful are you going to be? If you decide to move slowly, expect more wandering monster rolls and other sorts of mobile hazards, but I'll let you make trap checks like I did in the game thread.

Damn. I'm inclined towards slow but with a chance of trap finding.

I think it's safe to assume that whenever we move into a new area, searching for traps is an immediate priority. I know it's the kind of thing that grinds dungeon crawls to a, well, crawl, but we gotta play it safe. I want Anzath to live to see Yaza get taken out!

Agreed. Bedlam will automatically assist for both; perception and disable device.

heh, your DD is higher.

Bedlam will lead on nonmagical traps...lol.

New map up!

I was digging in that corpses pockets. Was there nothing beyond the holy symbol?

GM, I am assuming that I do not yet have filled 3rd level spell slots from leveling up to 5th since we haven't rested since then. Is that correct, or do I have those spells available?

Oh yeah I guess I need to decide that. Let's say you and Aurora can fill your slots due to the amazing awesomeness that is leveling up. I dunno, I'd rather do that than send you all scurrying to bed somewhere in the middle of a dungeon.

I can only approve of such raises in spell power. Particularly before a fight!

Also, my posting may be disrupted for the next two days. Feel free to bot Talathel as necessary.

Bedlam, if you didn't have to move or draw your pick, the haste spell should give you an extra attack.

Just noticed that there were three new posts without any activity showing on my campaigns page: beware, looks like they are getting a little screwy again.

Ah damn!

AOOs not kick in for Talathel?

They do now!

Huzzah!

Thanks for the tip (no pun intended) on the knife place. It might be something me and the missus would like to browse on a weekend. On weekdays I pass Kirkland on my commute, but it would be brutal during commuting hours to try and get off and back on 405 to swing by.

How did snow camping go? My two grandsons went this weekend as well with their scout troop.

Winter camping wasn't snow camping for us, thankfully. Just a little chilly. We tried to go camping entirely on public transportation and walking--bus to ferry to hike to Fay Bainbridge Park on the island. The park is quite nice, but hiking on the shoulders of country roads turned out to be a foolish decision--too busy avoiding cars to focus on enjoying the walk. Still, the trip was a success overall, even if we took a cab back to the ferry the next day. Especially considering that we cooked up the whole plan because of the shutdown at Olympic.

Where are your grandsons heading?

Somewhere up Highway 2 towards the pass. I'm not sure of the exact camp grounds. I'm sure I'll get all of the details when they get back. :)

Hey Bedlam, do any of your class abilities let you mix up antiplague on the fly, or do you need to be able to buy the specific ingredients for it?

You guys, I really need to get a crossbow or something.

A light crossbow is a fine backup weapon.

And I'm just catching up after a tiring few days.

I seem to have a plague demon of my own in the real world...

AKA, my kitten has contracted a case of pink eye and is taking the opportunity to lovingly try and headbutt everyone in the face. I have been assured a cat is unlikely to spread it to a human, but my inner germophobe still worries.

One of my parrots (I have two, different species, both females) has been working on a box in the storage loft for years. She engineered a back room with a door and filled the back room with fluff. It's been a good project.

But. A couple weeks ago, she laid eggs in it. Now she's obsessed with brooding on them, only coming down to take care of her physical needs. The internet said to let her have her fun, that she'll get bored of them when she realizes they aren't gonna hatch and if I take them away she'll try to lay replacements. It's been a weird few weeks. I really want her to get back to normal. But also, she's happier than I've ever seen her except for maybe when we first got her from the rescue.

but... a kitten with pink eyes has GOT to be the CUTEST thing ever!

Gonna agree with the idea of a pink eye'd kitty sounding adorable. The head butting makes it better.

Hi folks. Sorry about the delay, it's been a busy week.

55 posts in gameplay I'll get to over the weekend!

Hopefully it's been a productive week, then, Talathel!

I have kicked off a sister campaign here in Seattle--a few former students requested that I DM them a Pathfinder game, and to save time developing a setting, I dropped them into Rappan Athuk. Only, I dropped them into a much deeper level several miles down from where you all are now (semi-evil party so they fit in better than you will when you get there).

It's going to be a hybrid campaign--primarily play by post, but with an occasional in person session. I think that will be interesting. Per their request, we're using Discord to play, but I still hope that someday if you cross paths we can have a crossover extravaganza!

Huh. I hadn't heard of Discord before. It looks interesting.

And...more delay!

But hopefully that's it for now. Some good stuff the last week.

Discord is great, have used it to organise games and even to play them. It was very handy to have it as a backup communication channel for certain games when the forum was shaky.

a crossover event sounds amazing and also like an incredible undertaking.

a heads up: I will be traveling Wednesday and Thursday for my b-day and v-day. I will be unlikely to post for those days.

Do we actually have anyone willing and able to try and negotiate with these guys? If not, we should just roll initiative...

Will roll it when I get home!

I see Vael has a +12 in diplomacy. It's her call.

Vael knows very little about the situation. The scene and what little Aurora has mentioned is all I know. So I will give a try but she is all for violence or peace. And I rolled rather poorly

This is made somewhat tricky in that all our financial and spiritual backing at this point is in Riddleport.

but whatevs, these guys are a--hats.

Well hey, if we go full murderhobo and keep our witnesses silent on the matter.... (;

My weekly game groups have Discord servers for scheduling, chatter, memes, and game-related discussion but we play on either MapTool (which I personally find far more intuitive and quicker to set up maps and NPC tokens on as a DM than Roll20, even if it has a dated interface) or Roll20 depending on which group it is.

& Early happy birthday, Anzath!

Thanks Aurora!

I'm all fine with murderhoboing our way through the dungeon, but it seems our actions topside are going to have, er, political consequences. Which is the way it should be and I applaud our GM and I find myself intrigued by this whole warring city-states subplot.

As the new one to this little plot I like it. Subplots are the best!

Also happy birthday! Or if I am not getting the day right then a very merry unbirthday! In-fact A very merry unbirthday all around!

Very merry unbirthdays to all non-birthday folk!

I'm hoping Tal drops by and makes his move because a reach weapon martial winning initiative in a 20 person fight is almost like it's your birthday. And as much as I enjoy unwrapping other people's presents, well, it's generally frowned upon.

And thanks, Anzath n' Vael! You all are doing a great job embracing the sandbox-with-ripples world. It's so fun for me to roll on a chart and then try to figure out what the ramifications of the random are on the ongoing plot.

yes Tal, please save my butt from the 6 footsoldiers standing next to me with higher initiatives.

I'll give Tal another night, even if it breaks my usual rule of 24 hour bottage. Talbot will walk in the morning if necessary.

Talathel: out of rank curiosity, what are you working on out there? No worries if you'd rather keep IRL out of the fantasy but I am curious.

Bedlam, have you ever encountered Delicious in Dungeon? It reminds me of you.