Ugh sorry, got overworked and just sort of... crashed off the boards for like a week. I'll try not to do it again.
...So, what do people want to do? I'm fine with breaking and gathering info, etc./jumping to whatever parts of our town tasks the GM finds interesting.
Vincent is interested in checking out the various animal enclosures, securing shelter for the evening and visiting the foundry, in no particular order. If others are interested in those things, he'll go with them, but if not, he'll split off and wander a bit on his own.
While he's out and about, he'll also be keeping an eye out for opportunities to learn more about the town, the surrounding area and the planet, as well as anything that might help determine what happened to our mythic abilities. When we settle down for the night I'll probably do some experimentation with mythic power to test what happened since so far all we have to go on is Phai's bad experience.
Isen just want's to see what's what, since we seem like we'll be here a little while. Shopping, shelter and food.
So... do we all want to post with our shopping/recon tasks, then?
That would be Plany, right above you. I think his post could count as declaration of intent.
Kind off...not much was said in terms of concrete plans. But I dare-say we check what the trader has to offer, get a bite to eat if our stomaches are better, check in with a place to sleep, and then see if anybody has an exclamation mark floating above their heads...uhm...I mean if we run into anybody looking like they need help from total strangers.
Ah. Well, three people posted continuing a conversation, but not one of those posts actually involves doing anything. That's what I was asking about.
So uh... we gonna rest the night, then, gather info around the tents/inn and hunt the critter tomorrow?
We might as well explore the camp now, gather any info we can, and set off in the morning. At this point most of the negatives we got travelling here should have worn off.
Sounds like a good plan to me. I plan on working on my shield a bit before resting as well.
Everyone cool skipping to the next day, then?
I still need to pick out my spells for tomorrow. I do so in the evening/early night.
But very busy, these days. If it's permissable to do so a bit later, that would be great. We do have a general idea of the locale and creature - I'd make sure no new information impacts spell choices.
Just got my Spheres of Might playtest documents. Looks like it's shaping up to be a pretty cool system. Would be interesting to run a game in the future using only Spheres of Power and Spheres of Might.
Note sure about only those...then again, the character idea I have that involves duel-wielding Tower Shields needs both a third party feat and Spheres of Might.
Why not only them? Between the two, it seems to cover just about anything you'd need in a party.
You'd want to coordinate with the party to cover different roles of course, but it should work I would think.
Well, give me a whistle if you do, Vincent. I'd definitely feel up for trying that.
Right... cut to next morning, then?
"I think Cayden got drunk and summoned Pac-Man into the Paizo Mainframe...yay Mythic Epic Spells doing Meta-Game stuff swapping over into reality."
Prepped Honeyed Tongue today, so if we can get a good estimate we're within 20 minutes of making contact, I should be able to roll twice on diplomacy checks.
Not bad. If you ask Child for it ahead of time, I can also prep Enhanced Diplomacy to give you an extra +2 (I don't think it stacks with my shard)
Oh man, I haven't seen one of these thing for ages! Probably not since my first playthrough of NWN. Bet it's a cool mythic version too.
Also: I'm at a conference with spotty internet the next few days. Feel free to bot all my characters, if I'm afk for a day (and if anyone can actually figure out what CoP's attack routine is, the math is nasty)
CoP's character sheet is a mysterious black box to me.
Transformiform Stabbitystab Brotherlove?
I really like all of our characters. I agree that they really seem to fit the theme well and make for interesting interactions.
With CoP it's funny because I don't need to feign confusion. As a player I have no idea how his character works.
My original idea for Child was "android who could load the souls of his dead creators as variable combat programming" but I decided to go for a more planar feel.
Basically, I picked the two most variable classes I could think of, which gives me an arbitrary pool of resources that I can dump into whatever, to whatever quantity I can think of.
Oh also: at MR3, I get Ultimate Versatility and can reshuffle any of my 2,000 class abilities 1/day, so we got that to look forward to.
That...is good to know.
It equates to one single mythic Feat(unless more are taken via path abilities or that one is also locked into a pick)
Also, it kind of diminishes the value of picking Legendary Item a second time, adding only 1 ability...albeit a stronger one than the previous ones. Would Tier 4 still enable soul-safe?
Ah well, guess we'll see. If anything, we are currently shown in this plane that we should not assume mythic empowerment is available when needed most. So yeah, we'll see where things go. Thanks for the heads-up.
Looks like tier 4 gives me just barely enough stuff to get what I really really want, so that works out. I'll need to be a bit more picky, but I think it will work out.
Tier 2: Legendary Item (Shield) with Eternal Bond and Unyielding powers
Tier 3: Legendary Item (minor artifact) with Soul Safe power
Tier 3 Feat trade for path ability: Component Freedom
Tier 4: Sacrificial Shield
Component Freedom and Sacrificial Shield might be reversed, depending on how critical I feel it is to move on to full plate (or if I find a really cool set of armor). Being a minor artifact is nice since I won't be able to actually destroy my shield by blocking with it, though I will break it a lot since I'll never get to tier 6's major artifact status.
With Sacrificial Shield, if the damage doesn't exceed the shield's hardness, does it still break the shield? And if it becomes broken while still > 50% hp, how do you remove the broken condition?
*Rereads*
You are totally right. Guess my eyes slid right on by that one.
Still works, just bumps the open legendary item power up to Tier 2. A bit unfortunate that Soul Safe isn't until Tier 4 though, but still totally worth it.
Huh. Thought it was gonna be one tier per book. Ah well. Not sure what my mythic 4 is, but I'll think of something.
Aye...getting Soul Safe that late kind of reduces the usefulness. It's still no doubt worth getting, but I had hoped to get more mileage out of it.(Well, technically I hoped to get no mileage out of it - but thats beside the point)
I had not originally assumed this would be Mythic to begin with, so I guess it's no biggie :)
Should.... we be rolling initiative?
Aye, but he performed no other hostile action, so it could have been that the 40 or so diplomacy initiation roll made him stall his assault.
Is he more than 150 feet or seems to go further than that(I know he's more than 100 up, but did he deccelerate as if planning to hover or is he still climbing)? Mainly asking about medium range-spells-
If this guy is gonna pull some tenth angel(8th rebuild) kinetic orbital bombardement stuff, I want an AT Field. Just saying.
Mmmmmk, I'm gonna shoot him.
Yup, overland flight will be nice... someday. Until then I still have flying long distance pointy sticks, and magical never-miss hurty bolts. :D
...and I just realized that my spell failure was actually 20%, because I can't both Smite and reduce spell failure chance the same round and it's just a tiny bit past being able to edit the post. Fortunately, I rolled plenty high enough, that the spell failure doesn't matter.
Oh... I just figured he couldn't reach me in one round, and used a power based on the assumption that initiative wouldn't matter for that round. I'll fall into order then.
And yeah, "not staying on the ground" works less good when considering that our team is probably more equipped for ranged combat than he is (plus, our melee-only dudes can fly, but with also have weapons).
P.S. Everyone, come hide under the big tent that is Child's AoO radius!
Also apparently I read Fauchard wrong, it's an 18-20/x2 crit threat, so that could be a critical hit, hmm.
I'll be traveling for most of the next week with uncertain internet, feel free to bot me as needed, or just leave Child cowering in a corner or something.