How to paint a Raven Silver (Hell's Rebels)

Game Master Jesper Roland Sørensen

My arcane bond is a familiar already. He's at the bottom of the page.

I'll be losing the +4 to initiative he gives me, but at that point it's sort of a little bit overkill.

I remembered you as having a ring, but I most have mistaken you for another wizard using the same avatar

Wouldn't surprise me, this avatar gets around because it's GREAT.

I'ts 7:15 PM on Thursday 12/12 and I'm still in my office working. No posts for me tonight. Feel free to bot me as necessary.

Merry Christmas it's christmas day in Denmark today. I'll be updating the game again on the evening of 26th.

Well merry christmas to you as well.

Still waiting in the US. My daughter is just beginning to figure out that something is going on. Should be fun.

Merry Christmas, folks!

I like to move you along in a couple of days, but as this campaign is relying alot on you to decide what to do next. This is just a reminder I'll give you a day or two to decide on the next course before I send you out to follow up on a random rumor.

Happy deciding rebels.

To my players

This game will go at a slower pace for a while longer, you'd probably already noticed it's been slow the last weeks.
I might be going down with psychological stress from the new work I started after new years. I had barely worked a week before we were told our jobs were in jeopardy and could be lost at any moment. I tried to handle it but instead ended up bottling it untill I broke down last night after I got home.
I have an appointment with my doctor and union tomorrow and will take things from there.
I'll keep you informed and update the game when I have some good moments

If it's anything like when our call center got bought out by a third party vendor site?

You get to things when you can. We'll be around.

D'ya want me to do the next rebel week actions in the meanwhile?

The job I was given, was to be an accountant in the company for a big time costumer, but some things were left out at the interview, the troubles before I started were so big the costumer on the 8th january threaten to pull the job I was just started in, needless to say I couldn't handle that and the workload kept piling on, I had expect to be the 4th man in the team, not replace another who asked to be moved to another team.

Let's do the rebellion, I'll prepared the investigation of the burnt down bar when I'm ready.

As I said in another thread, please do what you need to do. It is PbP we will all chill we just made need a refresher later.

Okay, I'll get to it tomorrow when I'm conscious and able to pull the rules up.

Jesper -

When you get back to a good place, I'll still be here, ready to pick up. Take care of what you have to now.

Take care of yourself. I sympathize with you and the work load. We've been down a person in our accounting department for almost two years. We just can't keep up with the work, and do our best.

We'll be here when you are ready.

For accounting, I am putting Meliora's bonus skill rank into knowledge (local).

Silly Treasure question - On the loot sheet it says the split of the pay outs for canacha is 624.25. Was that actually split out? Just asking so i know how much i can spend/spent in crafting stuff during the week.

I put my bonus skill point into Diplomacy. During the week Canacha would take one day tinkering with her pistol, upgrading it to a masterwork pistol at the cost of 300 gold.

At the cost of 50 gp per potion Canacha could in theory craft like 6-8 potions a day off, of the following types - Disguise self, Long shot, Inflict Light wounds (aka self healing potions), or Shield.

ANy requests for the above potions for any of you guys?

I know at least one of those days Canacha, would want to brew at least 3 inflict light wounds potions to keep on herself in case well there was trouble.

Yeah, that'd be the loot split that was given out after Meliora went out to sell things and spent the rest of the day grumbling over a bunch of figures trying to figure out how to split it all.

No potions for me, thanks. She'll just sort of scribe scrolls at some point. Being limited to 4/day if they're cheapies is hard, but she has a stock already. 8D

I was thinknig potions of disguise self might come in handy later on as things grow, after all eventually their will be wanted posters out or soemthing right? at least I hope so. I think we all would look dashing on a wanted poster. AS long as the picture isnt like that surprised look photo that sometimes happens at the DMV

Knowing Meliora's luck, everyone will look dead on except for her--which will be insultingly ugly.

And she will respond by marching into the opera house and demanding they get it bloody right.

Due to a pending medical procedure, I'll likely be offline Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm hoping to be back by Thursday afternoon. Please bot Jack as needed.

I hope all goes well.

Wish you well Jack
I won't bot you s things look atm, we are in the Sandbox element so it's up to you all to decide on what to do next

Offline Sunday and Monday (Presidents' Day); please bot me if needed!

I’m waiting til Canacha can go, since that’s potentially gamechanging intel.

I will be away from good computer access this weekend starting tomorrow. Feel free to bot me as needed. I may be able to post, but can't guarantee it.

So which of the two missions do you want to do seems to be 1 vs 1 for both of them.

I think the current plan for the next couple days is spell scribing day/downtime > Jills > commence spying on salt mines > knock out everyone and free the prisoners from said mines.

Am I understanding right?

what about spell scribing/downtime, taking out the jills, spying on salt mines then freeing the prisoners from the salt mines?

I know i know totally original plan *coughs* stolen from Meliora *coughs*

No, no, I see what you're saying there.

I like that plan better, let's go with that one.

Looks good. If this was a real time game I would say I would do a quick walk by the salt mines on the scribing day but this makes sense for PbP.

Ok so on the first day Meliora feel free to go look for the spells you want, you have a 75% chance off finding each spell you want.

I will move you ahead with the Red Jills later when I have reread it thoroughly but it will be the day after you have had some downtime so feel free to do what you want untill I move this forward.

Roger that. I'll figure out the list tommorrow after I wake up since I'm about to sleep, but she's also prepping Read Magic that day to check over the scrolls she couldn't decipher before. She'll do that before she heads out so that the party knows what it is, since it'd take like 18 seconds total.

So it takes 1 hour to research, then 1 hour to scribe a 1st level spell into a book... I'll work with an 8 hour assumption. Taking 10 she can spellcraft any level 1 spell, and she has read magic to make the initial translation instant, so, availability! High = bad

First thing she'll look for is Disguise Self. Available: 1d100 ⇒ 64

15gp in scribe costs, 2 hours used.

Heightened Awareness available?: 1d100 ⇒ 26

Another 15, 2 more hours used.

Ray of Enfeeblement available?: 1d100 ⇒ 7

Another 15, 2 more hours of scribing time...

Expeditious Retreat available?: 1d100 ⇒ 90

Well okay, do you have Expeditious Excavation? available: 1d100 ⇒ 18

It'll do, she can make a diversion. 15 more, 2 more hours to finish getting that in, and it's basically time for her to go running home, probably with ink on her nose until she looks in a mirror and remembers to prestidigi it off. This stuff takes some time.

Love Expeditious Excavation. So fun.

I 100% expect her to use it at some point to set up a block of concealing stuff so the enemy can't see past and then just. Run away.

Ive always been a fan of Expeditious construction myself.. at least on my halfling.. instant cover :)

At some point im waiting for Meliora to decide Canacha is cool and ask her for drugs *lawls* cause eventually you know alchemists and their weird potions and things...

Also DM while i dont have the money for things yet, will i be allowed to build custom guns? Like say a triple barreled dragon pistol? an over under blunderbuss/rifle? A portable groundbased culverin capable of delivering alchemist fire? I could probably keep going for a while.

I would like to stick with weapons I can find in the paizo rulebooks. I have no idea how to price custom items.

I was mostly thinking of just adding the costs all up like if it cost 1k for a pistol barrel than 3 would cost 3k? But thats fine too.

When you are ready to deal with the Red Jills explain to me where you want to look around.

So... I seem to be going to Disney the 28th to the 3rd. Short notice, we cancelled my wife's 40th birthday to take a trip.

Well, Meliora probably pulling aggro from the boss makes me have to think about what to do if she dies when her 50% miss chance inevitably fails her.

I'll probably roll a conjurer this time. :P

edit: Wait, I just realized she has total concealment from anything more than 5 feet away from her due to the obscuring mist. Does that mean the boss was flat-footed? Probably not considering the shriek, but now my head hurts.

Standing on the edge of obscuring mist is a little wonky, it's a great tactic for ranged rogues to get lots of sneak dies.
But no matter you are not beating the flat-footed ac anyway of this buffed up spell caster :p

As of 4:30am tomorrow I will not have an actual computer with me. Phone and iPad only so please bot me as needed. I will return to normal activity on the 4th or 5th.

I'm moving you ahead once Micheria is back just continue to roleplay and if you want to scout out the Salt mines you can check it both at night and during the day. Let me know how you are scouting it and what you are looking for in the gameplay.

I figured I'd scout it during the day. If Canacha's the only one coming along, Jack could sort of act the part of a city guide, showing her Old Kintargo's waterfront (while actually spying on the salt works for entrances/exits, guards, work schedules/shifts, etc.).

My plane has landed and I will be catching up over the next day or so.

Jack leads Canacha through the Salt Gate to Old Kintargo's waterfront and docks. It's not entirely what you'd call scenic, but there's enough going on that the pair's alibi is at least somewhat believable, if anyone calls them on being in the area.

Diplomacy Check (gather info) #1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Diplomacy Check (gather info) #2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Hours Taken: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Not sure if those rolls will include any bonuses for Aid Another from Canacha or Jacks favored enemy +2.

Due to an impending medical procedure, I'll likely be unable to post from Sunday - Tuesday. I should be back on Wednesday. Please bot my PC as needed.

Oh dear. I hope all goes well and it is just routine.