GM Rennai's The Midnight Mirror (Inactive)

Game Master Rennaivx

You did post, and I worked it into the recap. We just need Tess now and we're all caught up. :)

Good news, everyone! (Permission to read that in Dr. Farnsworth's voice: granted.)

Things have gone back to normal (well, as normal as it gets ;) ) for me, so I should be back in the full swing of things here.

Less good news: we haven't heard from Vandrare in about a week now. I'll be shooting him a private message, but if that's not fruitful, we may find ourselves down another player. If that's the case, I'll leave it to you guys as to whether we continue with four or recruit another.

Thoughts, questions, comments, concerns: as always, feel free to bring them forward and I'll be glad to help.

So, with combat over, Van's absence becomes less of an issue. But it has been about two weeks since his last post anywhere. Ren, I don't know if you got a response to your PM, but I suspect not. We could carry on to the church and the baron (both likely fairly social encounters as far as I can tell) while trying to recruit one or two replacements. I think that the loss of our primary tracker and secondary fighter may be more than our party can adjust to. And this will give us the ability to regain some arcane power as well.

Just my $0.02.

Indeed, I haven't gotten a response from him. I was a couple of hours away from posting something to the same effect myself. :) What does everyone else think re: recruiting new folks? The main things we're missing with Van and Sho gone is arcane and damage (as well as interesting stories and personalities, unfortunately).

I will definitely miss the dynamic that the two Dhampir were working on. Sho left for IRL reasons and told us he was going, that was better. Van's player was just getting established, but was in several campaigns and just disappeared, it's always unnerving when that happens.

I'm hoping everything's ok with him - sudden disappearances unnerve me too, especially when he was seeming really into it, both this campaign and the other I'm in as a player with him.

I guess we can put him at the inn with Sho as a bodyguard. Then if the player returns he can rejoin us.

Xander can track too, so that's not such a big deal. The loss of combat strength is bad, but we still have a full party of four.

Personally I'd like to give Van a bit more time before we replace him.

Sudden disappearances are unnerving as we don't know the cause, but do happen and can happen unexpectantly.

I'm with Xander and give him a bit more time...

So that sounds like one vote for re-recruitment, two votes for waiting a bit longer. I'm fine with either, and if we find ourselves in a bind I'm fine with GMPCing one or the other as needed. Milo, any thoughts?

Sorry, been Hawaii-ing. (I'm typing from an an airport on my way home, actually.) I'm okay with giving Van a little longer; it's a shame to lose him.

Ooh, Hawaii-ing. Think of me, sitting in my car in 33 degree weather waiting for my husband to get off work. :)

I'll hold off a bit on recruitment, then, in hope of Van's return. Our party of four should still do just fine. And as I said before, I'm all right with further GMNPCing if we wind up needing either of them on short notice.

My (actually quite mild) sunburn is more tolerable, when I think of other people's winters. ;)

Let's just say, with how our winters get, it's a good thing I enjoy knitting as a hobby. X)

I'll take the bow and the potion as I'll be in the front at time and the healer may be in the back.

Potion's spoken for, but the bow's yours.

I just realized something that strikes me as amusing: with Van gone :( , our lowest CHA in the party is Tess's 13. We're apparently a really pretty party. ;)

Well, doesn't seem like Van is likely to return, alas. Honestly, I'm fine with continuing as is-- it would break immersion a little to intro a new character in my book, in this tiny town, and we're not really much worse off without Van-- more frontline is always NICE, but we should manage the damage okay with Tess and Milo, I think. Losing Shogunto was more unbalancing than losing Vandrare. I'm okay with working with four if everyone else is.

If we decide we need to introduce a new character at some point, he/she could just be another who was meant to join you in the first place and had traveling troubles along the way. It wouldn't be undoable, although I agree we don't necessarily need another.

And what's wrong with a pretty party? :P I'm running Hell's Rebels for my in-person group once we finish Rise of the Runelords, and we're aiming to be nearly the same across our five-person party. My GMNPC witch is likely to be the lowest, and I think she's at like a 12 Charisma.

(We roll a Comeliness stat as well for physical appearance - it gets a bonus from Charisma and race, but is rolled distinctly. Our oracle, already an aasimar and a Charisma-based character, rolled max.

10-12 is average, 18 is heads-turning-as-you-walk-by. He got a 24.)

Haha, nothing at all wrong with it. :) It's refreshing, really.

Yeah, good point re: introing new characters. IDK, I say we just see how it goes.

(gadzooks, 24)

Shout out if you've got any further business at the church; otherwise, I'll move us along tonight. Also, we'll need to decide if we're going back to the chandlery to deal with Ilquis or going on to the manor.

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(We roll a Comeliness stat as well for physical appearance - it gets a bonus from Charisma and race, but is rolled distinctly. Our oracle, already an aasimar and a Charisma-based character, rolled max.

10-12 is average, 18 is heads-turning-as-you-walk-by. He got a 24.)

You dug out the 2nd edition Unearthed arcana....

@Tess - Probably, but not quite sure; we just refer to the GM's notebook he keeps it in. He's been playing since first edition, so it's entirely possible.

Heads up, I may not be as responsive as usual over the next week or so. Crunch time at work, and that's when I get a lot of my posting in, especially the longer ones. I should still get in at least once a day.

...just in case anyone forgot that Xander was a priest of a death god...

I really love this character.

I really am going to kill that little bastard. It isn't a bluff or intimidate. Xander doesn't do that sort of thing. He takes executions incredibly seriously.

Your actions were clear from the beginning, always interesting how characters can have similar crunch and be so different. Especially divine casters exemplifying different aspects of the same deities. Great bit of RP IMHO.

BTW, I'm going to get this out there now. My posting rate is going to suffer this coming week. The kids daycare will be closed for Thanksgiving here from Wednesday through the weekend. And we'll be having family in town until next Monday. I'll try to keep up as much as I can, but I can't guarantee anything.

Good RP all around. Loving it. :)

No big, I expected as much with the holiday. Mine may slow down, too - the next couple days I either have Thanksgiving with my inlaws or a couple of insane crunch days at work, depending on decisions over the next few hours. Loads of fun.

Sorry the gameplay posts hit a bit of a snag this week - I should be back to form now.

Tess, we haven't heard from you in a bit; you still with us?

Still here, just drained from work and post monster eating a post...

Still here, just drained from work and post monster eating a post...

I hate that so much. It's happened to me so many times that I obsessively select all/copy posts before trying to submit them.

If you're using Firefox, the Lazarus browser extension has saved my ass more times than I can count.

I hate when my posts get eaten. If I'm posting for longer than a few sentences, I type it out in Google Documents (which autosaves) first, then copy it over into the browser.

No, I've had it where I've posted, but then when I come back later the post is gone, though some of those were due to not hitting post and hitting preview again before closing the tab.

Oh, weird. Well, the whole accidentally hitting "preview" instead of "post" makes sense (I think I've done it myself), but just magically disappearing is strange.

Most of those where I've posted and it disappears tends to happen around the paizo site going down for a bit or server maintenance. It's is extremely rare it happens when not near those times (like 1 in a billion), so I might of timed something perfectly to null it, like posting the exact same time (to the pico second) someone else posted and the system gets a bit confused, thinking it went through and did not get stored in the db.

Xander, you still with us? Been a bit since we heard from you.

EDIT: Ooh, nice cover. :P

*wink*

In the morning I'm leaving to do my Christmas thang with my family - I should have Internet while I'm there, but I may be short on time, so I may be slow on posts the next couple of days. (I know, with it being a holiday week, it's entirely possible others will be slow on posting, too, which is fine.)

Have a nice holiday! I usually expect everything to slow down for a few days hereabouts, yeah. :P

Merry Christmas, everyone! Or your winter holiday/non-holiday of choice; hope today's a good day regardless of what you're celebrating. :D

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Milo already has an ioun torch, but I am sitting on 398 gp, so I think I'll go pick up a potion of darkvision just in case (assuming Nadia has those in stock). I'm happy to put the other 98 towards purchase of ghost salt, though with just one hit on a melee weapon, and none of us being particularly built for ranged, it's kind of a pricey one-hit. IDK, I'll let others make that call. My gold is there for the spending.

Is holy water even available in town, given an unholy state religion?

Sorry, I've been knocked on my rear today by a sudden cold/flu thing, and I imagine some have holiday celebrations going as well. We'll move along once everyone has a chance to get whatever preparations made they need.

Nadia does have a potion of darkvision available for the usual price, as well as some ghost salt if you like. Strangely enough, she also has a couple of vials of holy water available - she has a limited source, though she isn't telling who. It's a decent moneymaker lately, what with the panic over shadows and all; with the high demand and low supply, she's selling it at 40 gp instead of the at-cost 25 gp that good-aligned churches will sell it at.

I will also point out that the known inhabitants of the mirror are fetchlings and shaes. From your research, you know that shaes are outsiders, rather than undead shadows, so holy water won't have any special effect on them, and fetchlings are just humanoids with Plane of Shadow ancestry or influence. Definitely doesn't hurt to be prepared, though, as you can't know for sure what you're going up against.

Your not the only one with cold and flu GM.....

I'll get that potion of darkvision from Nadia. Other than that, I got nothin' else I need to do, I think.

If anyone else needs anything, speak up. Otherwise, I'll be moving us along tomorrow morning. Tess, did you want that +1 halberd?

Tess will take the Halberd....
this cold sucks.......

I think I feel pretty prepared. A night's rest to recharge spells and revelations along with anything we can learn from the library.

If there are any potions of Lesser Restoration handy, I'd like to buy a couple.

here's a question- Would using Ghost Salt on a vial of Holy Water be enough to make the vial shatter on impact with an incorporeal creature?

I'm also using Ghost Salt on my Aspergillum and loading it with a vial of Holy Water.

There are a couple of potions of Lesser Restoration available for the usual price.

Yeah, I'll go ahead and allow holy water vials treated with ghost salt to work against incorporeal shadows. It doesn't seem radically unfair. And preparing an aspergillum sounds fine as well.

I can only afford one potion right now. I'll pick it up. Anyone else with a spare 300 gp lying around might want one too.

I'll treat one vial of holy water with my last dose of ghost salt. That vial is in my wrist sheath.

Happy New Year, everyone! (Since I'm on the US West Coast and we're one of the last ones to get to it. :P)