GM Tyranius Race for the Runecarved Key Tier 5-6 (Inactive)

Game Master Tyranius

Discussion here.

Name:
Faction:
PFS#:
Day Job Roll:

Anything special about your character I should know about.

Hello all!
Name: Patrick
Character: Amelia Rose
Faction: Grand Lodge
PFS#: 95823-3
Day Job Roll: None yet. Looking at maybe purchasing a vanity or something. Will post further.

Anything special about your character I should know about.
Nothing really. I have some shopping and housekeeping I have to knock out that I have been neglecting, but other than that, she is pretty run of the mill.

Name: supervillan
Character: Kiboko
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS#: 75577-6
Day Job Roll: survival (hunting lodge); but I sometimes forgo it to complete faction card goals, so I will roll later.

Anything special about your character I should know about.

Kiboko is a hunter/barbarian: his main shtick is his raging hippo companion, Mvumbu. Kiboko has the scarred rager archetype which allows a form of limited rage-cycling, but at the moment he has very little reason to rage cycle (no 1/rage powers).

I need to level Kiboko up to 6. He's getting a GMxp.

What's our actual start date please?

January 05 is the start date.

January 05 is the start date.

That's the date I was expecting, thanks. Yogadragon is in the pbp I am currently running with the character he intends to play here. We'll be finished by 5 Jan.

grimdog73
Rallas Linnderil
Grand Lodge
125048-01
no day job.

Name: Tim P/Batpony
Character: Kelumur
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS#: 222036-5
Day Job Roll:NA

This character has undergone a full rebuild due to Lore Warden fighter levels. He is essentially the same character in personality but mechanically plays slightly different. This will be his first scenario after the full rebuild, I will get his full profile up before the weekend.

I look forward to playing with everyone! Especially since there's a lot of familiar faces :D

Name: yogadragon
Faction:Grand Lodge
PFS#: 239325-1
Day Job Roll:None

Should be fun! I look forward to playing with Kiboko again, as well as playing in a module with the illustrious Batpony!

Player Name: Zoomba
Character: Brother Marsius
Faction: Silver Crusade
PFS#: 127063-13
Day Job Roll: Profession Herbalist: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14

Marsius is a Tian Xia transplant, venturing all the way across the world to follow the teachings of Irori and learn as much he can about as many things as possible. He has recently been delighted to acquire and finally mend the intelligent sword Gamin, whose experiences are fascinating new tales to the nagaji.

Marsius can heal plenty, and like toprotect those he adventures with. Other main point is that he has the intellignet sword Gamin the Re-forged with him.

I'm far from illustrious!

Also, just a heads up, as I am one of the GMs for the other table, I will be taking a back seat on decision making. I will, however, make in-character suggestions that would be relevant to Kelumur's personality.

Since I already lost track of who's who, I though I'd make a little list.

Here's what we know. I propose to update this when we make new discoveries:

The Bidders:
Pathfinder society (VC Heidmarch)
Maiveer Sloan: identified, a guant, fashionable chelaxian. has hangers-on/bodyguards
Dymal Rinks: identified, a squat halfling merchants agent. Has left building
Falrig Sneve: identified, a superstitious middle aged human male merchant and collector; has two bodyguards.
Kresh Vaor: identified, a poorly dressed woman
Duchess: identified, two varisian women from out of town.
Doctor Ernst Landis, from museum of ages: unidentified
Zimandi Kaddren: unidentified

Update: all bidders identified.

Pathfinder society (VC Heidmarch)
Maiveer Sloan: a guant, fashionable chelaxian. has hangers-on/bodyguards
Dymal Rinks: a squat halfling merchants agent. Has left building
Falrig Sneve: a superstitious middle aged human male merchant and collector; has two bodyguards.
Kresh Vaor: a poorly dressed woman. Has left building
Duchess: two varisian women from out of town.
Doctor Ernst Landis, from museum of ages: an academic.
Zimandi Kaddren: a Magnimar matriarch with arcane connections.

What next?

But did we ever get a positive ID on this Sheila lady? She sounds shifty!

You can interact with them or ask around about them. Your call really. Open sandbox on this part.

Did Kelumur tailing the Aspis yield any results?

Nothing of interest. Just back to their inn for the night. He seems confident as he is joined by a pair of bodyguards. Sorry must have missed that.

Haha. Stealthy Hippo. Love it.

Mvumbu the Wise and Beautiful is a hippo of many talents, as Yogadragon and Batpony will attest!

She'll get a bit more cumbersome when she becomes Large ("full grown") at level 7, but I'll probably have Kiboko learn Reduce Animal.

Mvumbu is by far the most graceful animal I've seen in society!

As a character, pretty bummed that the stealthy approach failed us. As a player, I'm so excited for combat, look at all them flank buddies!

Since we are on a tight schedule, might I suggest some of us post in advance in anticipation? We don't want to fall behind!

That makes sense to me Kelemur, but at this stage I want to see what Amelia, Marsius, and Red Merc do.

Also, ouch bulette pounce!

Yes of course! I'm in the same boat. I meant it to mean, when it does make sense so we don't fall behind. For us who are 24/7 on the boards, It may not make sense :P

Having played and run specials in PbP before, fine with pre-posting if it may help out. Especially during week

(Right now I'm just showing my rust on this character by forehead slapping Marisu didn't lifelink with several of you already.)

Has everyone put botting instructions in their character profile? That'll speed things up.

I can bot most though don't normally get in habit of it until they are absent for 24 hours or unless they have stated being gone for a certain period.

Doesn't tend to sit well when your turn comes up and GM auto bots you due to a couple hours.

Sucks with the timing on PbP Specials but we will get the rhythm going.

I agree with waiting 24 hours before botting.

We've been unlucky with the initiative split for this fight. It's just one or two PCs in between enemy actions.

Just to let you know, I'm away at a convention from this evening till Sunday evening (GMT).

I will have wifi, and should still be able to post 1/day. If I'm slowing things down too much please bot me though. This fight has probably demonstrated Kiboko's typical tactics, with the exception that he normally has Pack Flanking with Mvumbu - traded that for Stealth Synergy here, but will likely swap back after the fight.

I appreciate everyone stepping up the posting / posting early when they could so we could make it through this encounter. I was a little worried when it was Thursday and we weren't even through round 1 that we wouldn't finish it. Good job all!

Yes, thanks for keeping the pace up all. This is a good pace for a timed special :). And I appreciate the awesome Roleplaying as well. it definitely makes a game a lot more fun!

Just to confirm: this is still the same 'adventuring day', correct? I know the meet-and-greet was the day before the auction (which we're now a few hours away from), but I'm just wondering if we hit the caravan last night or this morning (and thus any chance to rest).

Assuming it's all one day, but thought I'd check to make sure I understand the timeline.

The caravan raid was right after the party, and the auction the day after. Since we are a few hours before the auction, I believe it is a new day.

It is indeed a new day. All of your spells and abilities have been reset.

Just to note that Kiboko's Caster Level is 6 thanks to magical knack, so duration on the buffs is 60 mins, 6 hours for longstrider.

I'm so ill prepared for incorporeals, I see Kramac and I don't own a magic weapon yet so we're sitting ducks!

Might try to give it the shaken condition next.

I have a magic weapon.

Incorporeals are horrible monsters.

List of countermeasures: Magic weapons, oils of magic weapon (an oil of magic weapon is just 50gp), oil of bless weapon, holy water, positive energy. Wand of CLW works if you can activate it.

I have a magic weapon.

Ah, you do, so we're not that bad off then if we can consistently hit it. I had looked at your offense blocks and it wasn't evident that your chicken saber was +1

3 from Rallas as it is an incorporeal creature. half damage from corporeal sources that are able to cause damage. The creature has 12 damage cause it had 5 temp HP from striking Rallas.

It is immune to all nonmagical attack forms. Even when hit by spells or magic weapons, it takes only half damage from a corporeal source (except for channel energy).

linky.

Holy water works similarly to channeled energy against undead I believe, but I can't find the link just now.

Yes, holy water should do full dmg vs incorporeal, so it's at -15. I didn't realise about the temporary up, so that cleared the part about Kramac's attack.

Even when hit by spells or magic weapons, it takes only half damage from a corporeal source (except for channel energy). Although it is not a magical attack, holy water can affect incorporeal undead. Corporeal spells and effects that do not cause...

link d20pfsrd

I'll take it as Holy water is created by bless water which fills the water with positive energy.

Poor Mr. Rinks. I feel a little bad for smacking him around like that. I'm a little surprised I didn't KO him with that.

I'm beginning to see why so many people dislike Sheila Heidmarch

Yea there is a lot of complaints on this special. Making Pathfinders look like common street thugs.

I actually kinda like it. The Pathfinder society isn't really a bunch of goody goody do gooders (Except for Silver Crusade), so it is nice to see a mod that plays up some of the potential not-so-nice aspects of the society. Gives it a little more flavor.

Can we assume that we know what languages we each speak, based on time spent chatting with each other "off-camera"?

Yup.

I actually kinda like it. The Pathfinder society isn't really a bunch of goody goody do gooders (Except for Silver Crusade), so it is nice to see a mod that plays up some of the potential not-so-nice aspects of the society. Gives it a little more flavor.

Yea same here. I definitely makes a moral hard place for paladins.

Yeah part of the charm of this module is trying to navigate the moral quagmire - and a sharp reminder that the Society is not always a benevolent organisation, there are some terrible people in it, and some of them occupy senior positions.

I also like it, because it represents a real challenge - how does one achieve the goals, whilst maintaining a level of self-respect. The Aspis Consortium might have a point when they say that the Society is a bunch of grave robbing thugs. :p

I had run a game for newbies as an introduction to PFS yesterday (House of Harmonious Wisdom). One guy chose the Paladin pre-gen. After the game, he had decided he was never going to play paladin again!

He was forced to sit out a little bit as the Pathfinder society questions his LG morality in their acts. Specifically, asking to steal from a school!

in case you were wondering why Rallas didn't go in, i felt that too many chances to screw up with 3 ppl and a ninja hippo. Also good eyes outside i felt were needed.

I defintiely don't mind it: Pathfinders are a broad organization and there [i]should be times where the goal of the society runs into likely unethical means. And I'm enjoying trying to have Marsius react and try to 'Cooperate' without betraying his principles.

I think I'm more just bemused how Shiela is fitting in season's worth of questionable mission assignments into a span of hours :)