GM Peachbottom's Curse of the Crimson Throne (Inactive)

Game Master Peachbottom

I'll give you some more time to finalize your plan.

Planning:

Other than invisibility what other buffs should we prepare before heading across the bridge. It can't be that easy. Cat'S Grace? Protection from Evil? I have those in wand form. I can do Magic Circle Against Evil as well.

Is Laori evil?

Does someone speak orc? Just in case we don't get by unnoticed.

Ayako can use Communal Protection from Evil and that is about it unless people want me to use Feeblemind

Page 14 in the core rule book. That's our situation.

"You take care of those ghosts or drag Zellara away or whatever."

The ghosts are not targetable, but you can try to get Zellara away.

I just want to give Iolana and Sebastian a chance to post. I know its Easter weekend so I'll wait one more day.

Do you put some easter-eggs into the game?

I want mine filled with the dark between stars and screams of the lost.

Now it starts feeling cheesy.

Ran into a trap and Tyrandro and Fluffy are like: So what? :D

You're still having fun with Tyrandro dispatching the enemies just like that?

Well to be fair, these enemies are way under your level. CR 6s. But the castle has a bunch of low level enemies and higher level bosses because of the sheer number of encounters (like almost every room and you can see how big the castle is) so not to drain your resources too fast. If you want me to abbreviate the encounters with the skeletons to make this dungeon run faster I can.

This encounter would be harder, if Tyrandro's abilities wouldn't negate every advantage the skeletons have in this fight.

I'm fine with dispatching row after row of skeletons as long as the others don't stay back and get out the Harrow Deck for a game of cards. Because it sets the atmosphere for this place really well to have these undead behind every nook and corner.

I am more concerned about those murder holes above us.

I am fine sitting back, my spells are either single target or 'Watch your blast radius!'

I don't mink Tyrando mowing down our enemies.

So what's the plan? Are you fighting the skeletons upstairs? Or trying to lift the gate by strength? Or something else?

Well if Tyrando goes up there, he can help Sebastion but then we will be splitting the party.

Peachbottom, please don't laugh like it.

I'm fighting the grate. And I'm going to win!

Ayako swipes Tyrando's bow, she needs to have awesome arrow powa!

You would be disappointed with the results ;)

But how about taking a scythe instead of your sickle. It even has a x4 crit multiplier.

This creature is not undead, it’s an aberration, so Tyrandro May need to adjust his damage slightly but still a very impressive Crit.

That Damage is without the undead bane.

I was already editing it in, but checked the monster before submitting.
With Undead bane I would get one more hit for some 170 Damage total with the additional (2d6 and +2) per arrow included.

It is higher than the last time as I forgot to add in the higher Deadly Aim bonus before, that raised to +8 with level 12.

Gotcha.

Tyrandro opens the door as soon as the fire elemental appears, so we can put it to good use.

Can wraiths be critted? Can't seem to find anything

Try the bestiary:

WRAITH CR 5
XP 1,600
LE Medium undead (incorporeal)

Incorporeal Subtype: An incorporeal creature has no physical body. An incorporeal creature is immune to critical hits and precision-based damage (such as sneak attack damage) unless the attacks are made using a weapon with the ghost touch special weapon quality. In addition, creatures with the incorporeal subtype gain the incorporeal special quality.

Were you going back out? Or continuing forward? If so, which way?

Let us try the west door

Iolana cast SR herself and made it. DR on Tyrandro's first shot applies twice. I need clustered shot next.

Sorry. I missed that. I’ll make corrections. It is not cold resistant so I’ll add the damage from Iolana’s first ray.

Also, Tyrandro will be fine. I know you have at least one resurrection scroll on your gear. I’ll have to look up later how the soul sucking walls work again.

Do I get the incorporeal template?

Here is the relevant text:

Soultrapping: Any living creature that dies inside of Scarwall must make a DC 23 Will save upon death or his soul becomes bound into the walls of the haunted castle. This effect is identical to that created by soul bind (CL 20th), save that the soul is trapped in the physical structure of the castle itself, not a gemstone. In order to resurrect a dead body whose soul has been trapped, a character must dispel the soul bind effect on that particular soul. If the caster knows the name of the soul to be released, he may attempt this dispelling anywhere in the castle—otherwise, he must cast the spell on the corpse (or a fragment thereof ) of the person to be resurrected. The resurrection must then have begun casting within a round of the successful dispelling, otherwise the soul is reclaimed by Scarwall one round after the successful dispelling. Dispel magic, greater dispel magic, and dispel evil can be used to temporarily free a bound soul in this manner.

So, no, Tyrandro does not go incorporeal. Right now, he can make a Will DC 23 save and ignore the soultrapping effect. Otherwise, someone just needs to cast dispel magic (no caster level check; auto-success) before casting the raise. Laori and Sial are also both clerics of sufficient level to cast raise dead, but may need a night to memorize it.

Without machine gun Tyrandro, the rest of the party is going to actually have to fight the bogeyman...gasp! =)

Wow busy last night and wow.

I'll wait one more night to see if Iolana posts.

Sorry busy weekend.

Protection from evil:
This spell wards a creature from attacks by evil creatures, from mental control, and from summoned creatures. It creates a magical barrier around the subject at a distance of 1 foot. The barrier moves with the subject and has three major effects.

Third, the spell prevents bodily contact by evil summoned creatures. This causes the natural weapon attacks of such creatures to fail and the creatures to recoil if such attacks require touching the warded creature. Summoned creatures that are not evil are immune to this effect. The protection against contact by summoned creatures ends if the warded creature makes an attack against or tries to force the barrier against the blocked creature. Spell Resistance can allow a creature to overcome this protection and touch the warded creature.

Sebastian doesn't receive a new roll, he is immune to hold person, as that is an enchantment(compulsion) spell.

Maybe a new action for Ayako then, instead of the failed dispell?

Hmm. I didn't realize hold person fell into that category but it seems Tyrandro is right. Sebastian would be immune to the effect.

And no worries about being busy on the weekend. I'm usually busy too.

Noo..Last act of dying boogyman is to eat Sebastion..

Sorry for the delay, but did Iolana or Ayako want to change their action? They'd know the hold person failed because of the magic circle.

What is that bone castle? A secure shelter spell with bad taste interior? Or something else? Or to be more precise: What is the size of that thing?

Bone House—Minor Artifact
Aura strong conjuration and necromancy; CL 17th
Slot —; Weight 2 lb.

A bone house is a variant of the instant fortress developed by the Brotherhood of Bones. Only a few of these items exist, and they are granted only to the Brotherhood’s favored agents. Each bone house appears as a fist-sized bone carving of a skull-topped fortress. When activated by speaking a command word, it grows to form a tower 20 feet square and 30 feet high, with arrow slits on all sides and a crenellated battlement atop it. The bone walls extend 10 feet into the ground, rooting it to the spot and preventing it from being tipped over. The fortress has a small door that opens only at the command of the owner of the fortress—even knock spells can’t open the door.

The bone walls are magically enhanced to be as hard as stone, and have 100 hit points and hardness 10. The bone house can be repaired by casting inflict spells on the walls, with each 10 points of negative energy repairing 1 point of damage. A bone house springs up in just 1 round, with the door facing the device’s owner. The door opens and closes instantly at his command. People and creatures nearby (except the owner) must be careful not to be caught by the fortress’s sudden growth. Anyone so caught takes 10d6 points of damage (Reflex DC 19 half ). The interior of a bone house is under the constant effects of a desecrate spell (the bone house itself is considered an altar to Zon-Kuthon for the purposes of determining the desecrate’s modifiers).

Once a bone house is expanded into tower size, its owner can create up to four mummies per month from the drifts of bone ash and detritus that litters the inner rooms. Creating a mummy in this manner takes 10 minutes, and the owner must be inside of the bone house the entire time. Mummies created gain +2 hit points per HD (thanks to the desecrate effect), and guard the contents of the bone house without needing to be commanded. If the owner wishes to command these mummies to perform other tasks, he must use other means to do so. No more than four mummies may be active at one time.

A bone house is deactivated by speaking a command word (different from the one used to activate it). It cannot be deactivated unless it is empty.

Creepy.

Are you returning to the spot you left with the bogeyman and continuing from there? Or choosing a new direction?
You want to trade Laori for Sial this time?

Also, I may have previously said Sial is a cleric. He was in the original, but in the anniversary edition, he's now a summoner.

Lets trade our evil buddies! Might as well continue at the old spot.

*Whips Laori*

Ayako would like the extra Celestial Chainmail. +1 bonus and allows her to fly.

Take it.

Spectres are not on the map yet. I rolled for them so I didn’t need to later.

It must have been months ago, but I'll refer you way back to the song Zellara spoke during the Blessing of the Ancestors with the Sun Shaman in the Cinderlands.

"Fate of steel—Serithtial
Her cage for years sustained.
Four enthralled in lost Scarwall;
Undead to keep her chained.
A spirit first, red war his thirst
Still stands at post of old;
A second foe, infernal soul
Waits high in tower cold.
In kennel’s grime, third bides his time
Then vents his killing breath.
And on a stone ’mid ash and bone,
The final dreams of death.
The spirits worn and battle torn
And locked in their damnation,
The chained one’s hold at last grows old
And ushers in salvation.
Yet hope remains amid the chains
When blade’s stone cage has crumbled,
Friends to dread and death of the dead,
Keys to Kazavon humbled."

I’ll be away on and off for the next two weeks.

May 25-28 Paizocon
May 29-May 31 Regularly scheduled programming
June 1-June 5 on vacation.
It is incredibly unlikely that I’ll be able to post each day during the con and the vacation. Please don’t let me slow the games down, and feel free to bot me. I’ll check in as I can.

Thank you for letting me know.

You're going to Paizocon? I'm jealous.

Going anywhere good in June?

I can't wait until my daughter is old enough that I can take some nice trips again.

Have fun at paizocon and with your vacation.

I'd say it might be worth to wait for Iolana. At least if we get out of dungeoncrawl mode or meet the endboss. It would be two players and Peachbottom botting two more. I think we're not that much in a hurry.

Ayako, what do you think?

I can wait some, perhaps find a good place to hole up