KC's Age of Worms

Game Master Kobold Catgirl

Hmmm.

Currently you have:

+2 Armor
+2 Cloak
+2 Headband
Lesser Extend Rod
Ring of Sustenance

Of the "big 6" items you are lacking both an Amulet of Natural Armor and a Ring of Protection, so 4000 gp for +2 AC is quite a steal. Snagging both of those actually would have been a better deal than upgrading your armor.

However, you're not exactly a frontliner, so maybe you'd like to save your cash on that for a while. Depends on whether you want to bank on something attacking or not.

A good item for ANY Spontaneous caster is the Mnemonic Vestment. Lets you, once per day, activate a scroll (or a spellbook!) and cast it using your spell slot (and caster level, and save DC, and whatnot) without expending the scroll. Very handy if you want to purchase some expensive scroll like Breath of Life (not ones with a material component though).

While expensive, the Glove of Storing is an incredibly handy item for a caster. Lets you store something important, like a Scroll, or Metamagic Rod, something that you can't really afford to take a Move action to get, and retrieve it as a Free action.

Spellguard Bracers are a LIFE SAVER if you're ever caught in melee.

Runestones of Power if you need more spell slots, or Pages of Spell Knowledge if you need more spells KNOWN.

All are good options for you.

Known as Rary's Mnemonic Vestment in this setting.

Ooh, pages of spell knowledge sound fun. If I had evolution surge we could get more mileage out of Sombra as our universal detector. Thanks for the ideas. I'll look into them.

Hmm. a couple of pages of spell knowledge could net me detect and read magic....

Edit: Oh, wait. they don't come 0th level sized. :-/

I guess I misunderstood that part of the story. Is the Weeping Lass completely unknown to Tanith? I figured it was like a patron saint type thing where Tanith was familiar with the figure even if he wasn’t familiar with her worship.

Hence my clarification. Tanith hasn't heard of the figure—he's pretty ignorant of most of the particulars of Kordian worship, after all, since he just learned about Kord from a wandering priest.

Gotcha.

Sorry, this is what happens when we go off-book. Every adventure becomes an "issue-written-right-before-GenCon" adventure. Confusion is inevitable. :P

You should fire your editor.

Guys, I have to quit the game. I just lost my job.

I realize you’re no longer employed but before you clear out the office I had another question.

Based on what we’ve heard, besides being pointedly less chaotic than Kord would want, was there anything about Varda’s Kordliness and teachings that was unorthodox or strange?

No, Varda was a pretty standard Kordian.

If you're wondering why my AC is 28 now it's because I forgot to add my Trait's bonus to AC.

Does Shield Bearer give you a bonus to AC?

Wait, no it does not. I don't know why I did that.

I had a train of thought there but I forgot it.

I'm assuming you're already including the damage bonus. Funny enough, I don't think I've ever seen Farrukh use the "+2 shield bonus to ally" option. This is actually a really good trait if used right.

It's one of those things where I keep going "I only get one per day, better save it", unfortunately. I keep going "Should I? Naw.".

It helps that the only really scary melee monster we've run into since I got it knocked me out immediately, and it was dead before it would have been relevant.

Short of assaulting more elderly anyone got any other suggestions for ways to figure out what's going on here?

Plan N (necromancy) is looking more and more viable.

Didn't KC say Varda's remains were unsuitable for getting comprehensible results from speak with dead? I can try reanimating him but I dunno if we even have a full corpse to deal with here. Might just be his calves.

Varda was confirmed as being un-speakable. (Guess the fire left him too crispy?) There was the other shopkeeper who drowned himself the day after- his corpse, if it's locatable, might be able to chat.

Laslo's corpse could be found at a local cemetery, if you want to try digging it up..

Speaking of, I forgot to ask, what WAS left of Varda's body? His bones?

Or is it "A pinch of ashes and his left pinky finger" sorta thing?

'Cuz I wanna know if there's any possibility the Phase Spider nabbed him.

Maybe just his legs below the kneecaps . . . I think we may need to break into the mausoleum or Watch archives to know more.

We could try scoping out the area Laslo killed himself or a stakeout at the burned ruins to see if those ghosts make an appearance.

How about until about midnight, and then we go dig up Laslo's grave?

Y'know, I COULD ask the people responsible for the cemetery he's buried in if we could ask his corpse a few questions...

Too straightforward. It'd never work.

Besides, if they ask permission and say no, they'll know who to come after once we do it anyway!

Look, I'm a priest of Olidammara. They'll ask way fewer questions if they find me digging up the grave in the middle of the night than if I go up to them and ask to dig it up really nicely.

So, while Sombra is watching, do the rest of you want to try something?

Having lunch?

We could visit the site of the suicide while we've got some daylight.

Or supper . . . it's been a while since Carina's lunch at least.

Incidentally, there is a clue here that could potentially address one of the heroes' current points of confusion.

This hint is being given because it's not a terribly important point. :P

So, what are we waiting on, here? More conversation? Or do we want to timeskip to Rodrigo's and Sombra's reunion?

I don't think there's a whole lot left to be said.

I think we're good for the Sombra report and then off the check out the suicide site.

Is there any reason to check out a months-old suicide site? Even if it was foul play or something, any evidence has to be long gone. Meanwhile, (after Sombra chats with Rodrigo) we have a secret trapdoor in a fake shrine that begs for attention.

By the way, something I don't think I clarified: The trapdoor is roughly five feet underground. Unearthing it would require quite a bit of unearthing.

I suppose that depends on how the trapdoor was accessed by Forwell. If the 'cube of earth' is the result of say, a move earth spell, then yeah, we'd need to excavate. If it's a mechanism or recurring magical effect, then Disable Device or Use Magic Device might activate it.

Assuming Rodrigo describes the effect, a DC 20 Spellcraft check is sufficient to peg it as an expeditious excavation spell.

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Could a team of earth elementals dig us a passage quickly enough?

Nobody speaks Terran to be able to command them to do so.

Yeah, linguistics rank next level fo' sho.

We could ask Anlathi for help!

Sorry about the sluggishness of updates lately. You know what they say about PbPs and doors? Well, the evil energy-sucking door spirits clearly don't like it when you try to circumvent them. Now we know.

Let me know if anything is confusing anyone. I know it's a bit of a mouthful—two scenes, two spiders, one set in complete darkness and only one guy with Darkvision.

It's okay. All the spare time this weekend allowed me to binge watch all of Daredevil.

Good show. You should join the Daredevil thread so we can rip on Punisher some more.

Did we learn anything about phase spider intelligence or alignment? It occurs to me that Forwell might be the real villain here.

They're dangerous predators that eat people. Otherwise, no.