Go ahead and start again. I assume your characters know what is going on.
Today I discovered Gnomes get Sylvan as a starting language, not a potential bonus one. I've been using this system for 6 years now?
The more you know...
Huh. I didn't know that either.
I see some good ideas being thrown around, keep the discussion up! When you've decided on a course of action just let me explicitly know, saying something like "DM, we've decided to do X".
Expect an update tomorrow or Wednesday evening. School is swamping me right now.
So is Bjorkus some kind of freakish giant gnome?
The magic makes you look small, but you are not actually small.
Do your gnomes have to deal with the same first world/bleaching thing that they have in Pathfinder?
I don't know what you're referring to.
Heh, that'd be a no then.
In Pathfinder, the reasons gnomes often have such intense wanderlust is because they have an affliction that causes them to lose their sanity/die if they don't experience new things often enough.
Uhh, I know they're a very adventurous race but I'm not aware of any actual affliction. I just reread the entire gnome entry too.
You can read a bit about it here.
I had never heard about that.
It is a closely golarion style world, so such a thing would exist, but it's not a major component or a vital plot point in any way, so it most likely won't be touched upon.
Poor fighters.
I just looked at their pack mule archetype on the SRD. Name says it all!
Do remind me about the pasta house. I vaguely remember it but I don't have my campaign notes on me at the moment.
It was the place we suspected was connected to Villichi's gang. It's the last thread that we haven't tugged on.
It's a little annoying that our first "in" to the current arc was so abruptly cut short since we haven't made any meaningful inroads yet. But it probably means that the old boss is bugged or something. Sigh.
Ah, wish I could tell you what's going on, but that would be spoilers. Let's just say your "in" hasn't been nearly as cut as you think...
So is it back to Alziver than?
So is it back to Alziver than?
Yes.
I could be reading the situation wrong, but I believe there is much silence due the tenuous nature of various factions' intentions in the setting; going from point A to B to see Mr. X may very well not happen without incident, and some of the assumptions made about such errands may be anything but ordinary.
You very well could be! But I'm not going to let you know one way or the other; subterfuge games >.>
You very well could be! But I'm not going to let you know one way or the other; subterfuge games >.>
Is that your way of saying a colossal undead ensorcelled platypus is going to envenom us with an otherworldly malady on our trip?
I will have a busy weekend, but do assume Dalton acquiesces with any plans that aren't completely bonkers.
This isn't to say I won't post, but my windows will be questionable and narrow.
I imagine Omen is waiting for input for the rest of the party. Dalton is - especially suggested actions from Rilka.
Sorry. I have had a crazy last week. Responding now.
My thoughts are as follows:
1. Check in with our putative employers. See what they know.
2. See if the gnome woman comes by for healing.
3. Maybe abduct the reading rainbow half-orc.
4. Check out Al's leads.
Thoughts?
Sounds good. Checking in with the powers that be should definitely be a top priority.
I was just looking at the map, and Yenrick's city names remind me of names from CO and PA. :-p
Omen, are you waiting on us?
Posting will be mostly non-existent until Wednesday night. Finals week. If nobody else has posted by that time I will move ahead with the plan in place.
Omen the goal is to have house throughly warded by alarm spells courtesy of Dalton, so that we can gather in a central location for the attack. Ianna wants to do a double warding if possible. Something like a Burst of Radiance when they enter and then a glyph linked to a Lantern Archon when they come into the room where we plan to fight. Ianna will link the trigger of these glyphs to someone with an evil alignment.
Ianna will also purchase a few scrolls of magic aura so that these traps can be hidden from detect magic.
You guys will have the rest of the afternoon and evening before the morning papers are distributed and your words reach out to Calios. What do you want to do during that time, if anything?
Ragnar will bum around town looking for rumors.
Feel free to purchase the magic aura scrolls, they are easily available.
Did you want me to roll some diplomacy checks?
What is it you're trying to learn?
Any rumors going around about Villichi or the museum theft.
Also how long have we been on this mission in Grastle Hollow? I think at one point we time jumped 'days' but I don't think that was ever defined.
I'd have to go look in my notes, but I believe it's been about a week or a week and a half or so. Luckily you guys are moving at a very quick pace, as I've come to expect.
Go ahead and roll a gather info check! Also some description on where and how you go about it would be nice :D
As far as everybody else, I am going to assume Ianna stays at the inn to start planning her trap as well as wait for the waitress. Is anybody else doing anything?
Nat 20, nice roll! Although in order to damage from an attack in a grapple you need to first establish the grapple, so you can do that next turn. But you definitely grabbed onto him!
Should we have gotten the opportunity to role for initiative for a surprise round, by RAW?
Also, could Ianna have used Adoration as an immediate action since this is some kind of range attack?
Omen, he is using this ability:
Raging Grappler Whenever you succeed at a check to start a grapple, you can choose to deal damage as if you had also succeeded at a check to maintain the grapple. In addition, while raging, whenever you succeed at a combat maneuver check to maintain a grapple, you can choose to give yourself, the target of your grapple, or both the prone condition as a free action while continuing to maintain the grapple.
You did not get the surprise round.
You cannot use an immediate action if you are flat-footed.
Ah, good catch. Yes you will damage him in that case! He is still alive, but I will take that into account when we get Rilka's action and we move into the next round.
I didn't know that about immediate actions.
I'm not super thrilled that he got a free standard action on us without contest. But it does make for a nice story.
Yeah I actually learned that rule very recently because one of my players is a wizard who likes to use "Emergency Force Sphere" to prevent anybody from ever hurting him. Turns out if they get the jump on him he can't cast it.
Yeah, he just got the surprise round on you. I did give you guys an opportunity to respond to the knocking, and unfortunately Ianna assumed it was that gnome waitress and wasn't on guard. The guy would actually have done really well except he got a nat 1 on his reflex and he destroyed the quick runner's shirt he was going to use to run away. Karma at it's finest.
I must be misremembering how surprise rounds work. I thought they had initiative too.
Whatever he used on us, it wasn't a grenade. In pathfinder those take a round to go off. It was pretty impressive.
Quick runner's shirt?! Noooooooo.
Well Make Whole can fix it. We need all the treasure we can get!
Surprise rounds do have their own initiatives. But you did not have the chance to act in the surprise round because you weren't aware of your opponent. I could have just had him slip the item through the crack in the door when Ianna began opening it, but then he couldn't have delivered his witty remark!
Yeah no, grenades don't exist yet. At least not in the modern form. This was definitely magical in nature, that much is clear.
Yeah haha, he was going to use a move action to toss the item into the room (which he did) and then use an extra move action from the quick runner's shirt to get the hell out of their. But luck was against him in this case.
Did we get a chance to see the explosive before it went off so we can be on the lookout for similar things in the future?
It it was magical then, the siblings get their saving bonus. If that matters.