Well, I'm up for a mission, maybe scouting out a route through the sewers to the Greens? If not that then I saw we at least cash in one favor for some coin and I can craft scrolls of Fly/Invis for the group to have on hand as needed. Unless, of course, someone has a wondrous item they have a pressing need for and I could start working on that.
Happy new year all!
Happy New Year!
Happy new year everyone! May the dice gods favor you in the year to come.
Alright, can I get a sound off of everyone that's back from the holidays? I'd like to get back into the swing of things as quickly as we can, though I realize that may not be till sometime next week.
As far as your downtime, I believe Matiscio had mentioned he was interested in getting an amulet of mighty fists at one point, so that might be something to consider. Celia mentioned cashing in at least one favor, so let me know exactly how many of those you want to cash in. (You have a total of 8 to use).
*waves* present
And indeed, Matiscio would love to acquire one of those. Sadly, they're a tad expensive, and I'm some 350 gold short according to the spreadsheet :)
Here.
Again, I'm at a loss for anything Gregor wanted to accomplish in his downtime beyond ingratiating himself with the Torrent. Though he is amenable to as many access tunnels they can find to get them secretly around the city.
He's also fine with cashing a single favor for the coin to get some things done.
Since I don't know/remember if I was saving up for anything, Gregor would offer the 350 Matiscio needs.
I’m here as well.
For the amulet, is that the purchase price you are short on? Would have to look at the requirements but since it is a wondrous item I can craft it at half the cost with a litttle time.
Here as well.
I'd like to talk to the Fushi sisters about looking for abandoned buildings that would make for good temporary safe houses or equipment caches. As for the rest of my downtime, I don't have much in the way of gold at the moment, so while I'd like to drop a +1 on my rapier, I can't do that right now. Celia doesn't have the feat, either, so she can't do it for me at half cost - which I also don't have.
I would, however, like to copy See Invisibility and Resist Energy from Celia's spellbook, if possible.
Correct. It costs 2000 to craft and 4000 to purchase. They're awfully expensive.
Alright, it looks like everyone's back except Gilda. Hopefully we'll hear from her soon.
As far as downtime goes, if y'all end up doing crafting or just general rp with some of the NPCs, we could potentially move the main plot along in the meantime.
So, let me ask, would y'all prefer me to go ahead and fast forward a week to the next part of the story? You can still decide/do stuff during your week of the downtime, we just hopefully wouldn't be twirling our thumbs as much while everyone decides exactly what to do.
As far as the things a couple of you have already mentioned - talking to the Torrent and the Fushi Sisters - go ahead and give me a post in the gameplay thread as to how you approach them and what you say. The same goes for anyone else who wants to speak to someone or someones specifically.
That would be fine with me. Anything and everything Matiscio does in the meantime will be of little consequence, things like training, sparring, fraternizing and spending time with the people he really likes.
@Evander: maybe we should buy a vial of oil of magic weapon or two for you. Just in case we run into something nasty. They're 50g a pop.
Yup, I'm fine with moving ahead.
Here is my final thought on the downtime since no one else has a particular goal in mind.
1) We cash in one favor for the 2000 gold. Set that aside as a 'Party Fund'.
2) I work on crafting the Amulet of Mighty Fist +1. It is a CL 5 + 5 + 5 for missing component to craft (don't have greater magic fang). So DC 15. I can take 10 for a 23 Spellcraft. will take 2 days to craft and cost 2000 gold from what Matiscio has been saving.
3) The remaining 5 days I can craft scrolls for the group to use as needed. I was thinking spend 4 days to craft 3 scrolls of fly and 1 scroll of Invis. sphere. Comes out to 750. Then the remaining 1 day craft 4 scrolls of Invisibility at 500. So we would have 750 left over from the favor for other party needs.
Thoughts?
As a side note, I was looking back over the loot sheet. There was still some stuff on there that I don't remember if we ever claimed/sold off so we may need to do that as well. I also think, we should maybe create another separate tab to keep track of Party Supplies, ie stuff we have, but is for general party use and not one particular characters wealth. Unless anyone thinks otherwise I can work on that.
The party supplies tab is a good idea. My suggestion is to put a scroll of Remove Paralysis and Daylight in there as well. Spells you won't use on a daily basis, but when you need them, you *need* them.
Assuming you can craft the amulet like that, I can then use the remainder of my money to get my armor a shiny +1 enchantment.
How much would you need to get yourself a +1 rapier, Evander?
The full 2000 - I only have 137 GP, before copying spells into extracts from Celia's Spell book.
Buying me a couple oils of magic weapon isn't a bad idea, though, that way I have them if I need them.
I also second the idea of a Party pool tab.
Celia, I noticed you have Craft Wands. Instead of crafting all those scrolls of invisibility, would it be easier for you to craft a wand of it?
I considered that, and eventually want to go that route, but it costs 2,250 to craft at minimum level (3), or 3,750 at current max level (5). Definitely though if people would rather save the money and work toward that we can do that instead. 2,250 for 50 casts of Invis is a much better price than 500 for only 4.
With a week of downtime, I couldn't remember, but were we still doing anything with the Rebellion stuff or just kind of letting that run in the background?
Hmmm, I checked the game yesterday morning and didn't see the new messages in the OOC thread.
Back, though.
This seems like a good AP for subterfuge so I can get behind a wand of invisibility.
I'm a fan of an Oil of Daylight vs a scroll since often reading it in the dark can be problematic. :)
Perhaps we cash in two favors for the wand?
The forum seems to like playing tricks some days, Gilda. Glad you're back!
Thank you for putting together a party tab, Celia! Spreadsheets aren't exactly my thing (as I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before) so any and all help is greatly appreciated.
As far as rebellion stuff, we're not doing the formal rebellion weeks anymore. You still have the teams you recruited before, but you don't have to feel compelled to do things with them 24/7. That said, you can still do things with them, you would just need to specify what you have in mind and we can make some rolls in the background as needed. The rebellion actions listed in the Player's Guide are probably still good guides to what kind of activities you could have your teams do.
Alright, I'll move the main plot forward while y'all continue working out what exactly you want to buy/spend/craft/etc during your downtime.
We might as well cash in while we can :)
Just a note: if you plan to have any new items for your current operation, you need to go ahead and firm up your purchases and/or crafting now.
1) Amulet of Mighty Fists +1 (for 2000 with the help of our dear Celia)
2) Chainshirt +1 (1200 gold - 1000 for +1, 150 for masterwork, 100 for new chainshirt and minus 50 for selling my old one)
= 3200 gold gone.
I think the only final thing we need to decide is if we want to only cash in the one favor or cash in two and have me spend time making the Invisibility wand instead of some of the scrolls.
Cash in two, make the wand. It's more efficient than the scrolls.
I'll spend 40 gp each to copy See Invisibility and resist energy into my formula book, for 80 gp total.
Ok, if that is the case, will take the remaining 5 days after the Amulet for Matiscio to do 3 days on the wand at 2,250 and 2 days for 1 scroll each of fly and invis. sphere for 375, total of 2,625 which leaves 1,375 gold for party use and 6/8 favors remaining.
Ok made a PARTY tab on the loot sheet and moved all the scrolls/wand that I have for Party use to that sheet. I added the gold left over from the Favors and marked the number of favors left.
If the rest of you want to move anything off your character sheet that is for party use feel free to move it there.
Does anyone remember whether we split/sold the loot that is on the LOOT sheet? If not we should sort that out and sell things off as part of the downtime. That way we can track any new stuff we find in our present adventure.
Thank you, Celia!
And thank you, everyone, for specifying your items. If everyone can work on keeping their individual tabs on the loot sheet up-to-date, I would greatly appreciate it.
Will do.
Celia, I took the time to dig through the discussion and gameplay threads and found out that the soul tomes are still in our possession. Rexus gave them to you and I'm unsure how we could 'collect' the 800gp value for them because selling them doesn't seem right to me.
Matiscio took a lesser restoration potion and a cure moderate wounds potion. I made the corresponding changes to the sheet.
Here's what people can and should claim plus my thoughts:
-Pearl of Power level 1 (Gilda or Celia?)
-Two potions of Lesser Restoration
-One potion of Cure Moderate Wounds
-Tanglefoot bag (Gilda or Celia?)
-Silver bloodstone dagger (Gregor? Sell?)
-Wand of Cure Light Wounds (42 charges)
-Scroll of Remove Fear (Gilda?)
-Scroll of Dispel Magic (Celia?)
-Diamond Dust (valuable component for Stoneskin and Restoration, from the top of my head)
-Masterwork tools for Knowledge: The Planes (Celia)
-Cloak of Resistance (sell it if everyone already has one)
-Scroll of Identify (Celia)
-Scroll of Air Bubble (Celia)
Odd items:
-Soul tomes (can't sell them, put them on Celia's character sheet?)
-Mithral key (I can't remember what it's for, ah!)
-Vial of silver dust (spell component? circle of protection? will anyone cast that? if no, sell it)
The mithral key was from the Monastery where we found the soul tomes and killed Nox - Hocum's Fantasmagorium or whatever it was.
I thought Gilda had the Pearl of Power?
Yeah, that Pearl's been used by Gilda many times, I think mostly for extra Gather Info checks using Ears of the City.
Check! If so, mind moving it to Gilda's tab? That way we can start clearing the common loot tab and start translating what needs selling into gold pieces :D
I'm afraid that's the only way to keep oversight.
I forgot to mention that I added a picture of one of the changelings to the info slides.
Sorry for my silence. My wife hurt her leg (nothing too serious), so I've been busier last few days.
Sorry to hear that, Gregor. Hope she recovers soon and things get back to normal. Thank you for the heads up.
Hehe wow, that crit on the crit confirm :D
Now Gregor can't say he never rolls well. : )
How about we distribute this before it starts to catch dust on the loot sheet!
-Potion of Bear’s Endurance
-Potion of Cure Light Wounds
-Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds
-Scroll of Glyph of Warding
-a +1 Chain Shirt
-a Cloak of Resistance +1
-a Ring of Protection +1
Matiscio can use the ring. The healing potions should simply be claimed. Bear's Endurance is nice for either a dedicated frontliner or a low hp squishie who might need to tank up on HP/+Fort.
Matiscio should take the Cure Mod potion. I'll take the Cure Light, since I can make my own extracts of it.
If you don't have one already, Matiscio should take the Chain Shirt. I have a mithral shirt +1, so I'm good there. If Matiscio does have a +1 chain shirt, then Gregor should take it if he doesn't have one.
If Gregor has one, then...does Gilda wear armor?
Whose saves need the most shoring up from the cloak?
From what I am seeing on the loot sheet there is still a Cloak of Resistance +1 from before as well that wasn't claimed. If everyone already has one Celia will take one of them. I could use the Ring just to help with AC, but if a front liner doesn't already have one they should take it first.
Other loot that is still marked as unclaimed Celia could take are one each of the Scrolls of Air Bubble and Identify to scribe them into her Spellbook. Also, unless someone else wants she can hold onto the bead of force for emergency use at some later point.
Do take one of the cloaks. Matiscio has pretty solid saves so I figure the Cloak of Elvenkind is more useful for now. That, and Gilda's Ward hex gives a +2 Deflection bonus to AC *and* Resistance bonus to saves.
So yes, maybe someone else ought to take the ring so we can keep on maximizing that hex :)
I bought a +1 chain shirt before we went into this place, hah! Go figure. So please, feel free to claim it.
I already have a +1 cloak of resistance, so I'm good there.
Gregor or Gilda should get the chain shirt then, if Gilda wears armor.
The armor would only be a single point upgrade for me, but might offer more for Gilda. Though, maybe she doesn't wear more armor due to her strength. *Shrug*
I'd rather get Gregor the extra +1 AC.
Gilda shouldn't be getting attacked that much still, and if she does she has the HP to take it.
Gilda shouldn't be getting attacked that much still, and if she does she has the HP to take it.
Famous last words. ; )
Heh, I enjoy tempting the Fates!
Plus, she could always take his old armor.
Since we are in the room where we entered my vote would be the southern area first, then the double doors to the east, then to the north for where we go next.
I'm good with that plan.
I went ahead and moved us along in accordance with what Celia and Gilda said to keep us going.
I really want to encourage everyone to try to be more consistent about posting at least once over the weekend (as well as daily during the week). Momentum is really important for pbps, so the more we post, the more momentum we can build. Plus, it just tends to make for a better story in general. Thank you for your efforts!
I'm going to be traveling this weekend. I'll have my phone, but may be unable to post. Please bot me if necessary.
Just a quick note I am posting to all my games. It is Spring Break week so I get the week off. As such, I won't be around the PC as often as I am usually. Posting may be slowed a bit, but will do my best to get in at least one post a day.
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