Kingmaker: The Varnhold Vanishing (Inactive)

Game Master wehrpig

I thought my saddle and Lance came in an earlier order and that you guys ordered the second round.

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Ezekial, you find the masterwork kukri at the gatehouse. Everything purchased is found.

You had not been gone long enough for a second round of orders.

Quick note for all my games: Apologies, I've become unexpectedly busy these past few days. I expect to return to normal posting in the next day or so, please bot me as needed in the meantime.

I'll be camping starting tomorrow and will not be back until Monday. I am not sure I will even have cell service where I am headed. Have a good weekend.

25 new posts!! Wow. I'm glad the game has picked up, but that's quite a bit to go through for one game. Sorry ladies and gentlemen, I'll try to catch up, though truth be told I am very tired atm.

If I don't post, bot me as needed and I'll do my best to post by tomorrow night the latest.

I should mention I've been rather busy at work lately, hence my posting rate's been a bit slower than usual. Sorry.

Edit: Well that was a much quicker read than expected. Posting very shortly... I normally enjoy hearty posts, but I'm grateful nobody posted a short novel this time. ;)

I forgot barkskin's duration was 10 minutes per level, thought it was just a number of rounds. I would've cast it earlier, lol.

All,

I will be traveling this weekend to help my daughter move into the house she just bought. I leave tonight and her new house is without internet until next Monday so my posting chance will be slim. I return Sunday night.

May it be a less stressful move than it usually is. :)

I will post as soon as I can see the map. Can't access it mobilely.

My intent is to charge the big Hobbie with the Morningstar if able, having Cinder overrun anyone in the way.

You have a worg on your flank - you'll draw the AoO if you charge.

I'll wait for your post before resolving the round.

Worg wasn't on Roll20 when I posted, but I will charge regardless

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I will be camping and out of contact this weekend. Back Monday! Bot if needed!

I'm going to continue posting less frequently for the next week, between Thanksgiving stuff and an increased workload. I'll try to get in a few, but bot me as needed.

Did we learn about undead somewhere at the keep? Or am I mixing up two different games? I can't find the word undead when I search so, maybe another game? I could have sworn it was this game...

Nope, I think undead hasn't been mentioned in this game until your post right there.

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Huh. Yeah it does seem out of place, though I do have a distinct memory of a captured bandit mentioning something about sending people to a field of undead or something. Maybe it's just my imagination.

Me too. We were warned about them.

Larisa, you have leveled up. You may update your profile immediately.

Please roll HP - re-roll on a 1.

Note that we are using the medium XP track, but I mistakenly leveled up everyone at 4000 instead of 5000, so we will keep that threshold for the new players.

Yay!
hp: 1d10 ⇒ 1
hp: 1d10 ⇒ 8

Dang... I was going to use warp wood on the 3 crossbows, but then realized they're medium-sized objects. Meaning I can only affect one of them. Not worth the 2nd level slot. :/ At least I can summon something with it instead.

If my post isn't clear, my thought is for us to circle all around the inner stockade. Presumably, the owlbear will follow after us, once its distraction with the horse subsides. We can then get inside the inner fort and go for the Stag Lord (assuming he's even there). Focus our efforts on the Stag Lord as much as possible, as we discussed IC. And if the owlbear follows us inside, might be helpful actually... judging by the horse it just mauled, it may not exactly be a tame creature and might attack our enemies as well as us.

Can you wild empathy it?

Should be able to with a -4 penalty

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Usually takes a full minute, though.

I cannot. I have Green Empathy as a treesinger, not Wild Empathy. It is similar except it grants me persuasive abilities with plant creatures (full) and animals (-4), rather than animals (full) and magic beasts (-4).

Ahhh

I am regretting climbing now. I figured it would be the only way to get the crossbow guys out of their cover.

Lol. Our archers are too good. :)

For some reason, I didn't get an update for this campaign all week and never checked in. Holy crap, so sorry! Catching up.

No worries. Are you still up? You've taken 30 points of damage the last two rounds.

Nope, I took my damage off of Cinder's hit point total so it came out all wrong. I'm at -1, so change my attack roll to a stabilization one.

So you are stable, making it exactly. Of course none of the rest of us would know that.

Sincere apologies from me as well. I've been pretty sick and out of it the past few days. I promise to log back in later tonight, I have some more work to catch up on atm...

Per the spoiler in gameplay, Veronica has leveled up. She may take advantage of all level-up benefits immediately.

Cleric 3

+6 hit points
+1 BAB, +1 Ref save

Adventuring Skills: +1 Heal, +1 Knowledge (religion), +1 Perception
Background Skills: +1 Knowledge (history), +1 Handle Animal

Feat: Point-Blank Shot

I could use a little help up here guys. It was not my intent to fight the big boss solo but I just could not let him rain down arrows on the group without challenge. And now I am not sure how to disengage. And without some way to get a flank its likely not going to end the way I want it to. Someone call out an idea to the poor rogue. :)

I wasn't planning to drag everyone along behind me, but if we want Jhod to live I probably can't fight the necromancer alone, either. I suggest you shout for a little help and someone or 2 stays behind to assist you, and then I try to hold off the necromancer with perhaps one other person until you guys can make it to us!

Bullrush him off the walls?

Trying to back him up to the wall so that is a possibility. Then you guys could also shoot at him.

I only climbed up here to get the archers out of the tower but you guys on the ground were so good at shooting them, even with cover that it turned out not to be necessary. No way to know that the Stag Lord would come out up here too.

Well if Ezekial dies at least he would have died fighting.

Flee.

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Withdraw action, run to the group?

Then the stag lord shoots at us for a couple more rounds and maybe gets away. Seems ill advised, but with the timeline imposed maybe the best option. He gets to act before me regardless.

The Stag Lord snarls and jumps the palisade wall next to him - moving out of sight from those on the ground.

I gotta admit, i misread this as he jumped over the wall on to the ground outside (which is why I opened the gate and didn't come up to your aid), but at this point, I think you gotta get back to us ... if he follows, great, we will take him together. Standing toe to toe is suicide.

We're in a tactically bad situation, we don't know what kind of forces the necromancer may bring to bear. But I can channel energy so if he's just using skeletons I may be able to hold him off for a round or two. That's why I suggested that someone else help take out the Stag Lord while I and maybe one other person go to save Jhod. I think Larisa has a shot at doing some serious damage to the Stag Lord; Connor would have trouble getting to him while mounted. If Connor can figure out a shot on him charging, that would be ideal. Otherwise his mount is just a liability for his ability to get into tight battle spots.

wehrpig wrote:

The Stag Lord snarls and jumps the palisade wall next to him - moving out of sight from those on the ground.

I gotta admit, i misread this as he jumped over the wall on to the ground outside (which is why I opened the gate and didn't come up to your aid), but at this point, I think you gotta get back to us ... if he follows, great, we will take him together. Standing toe to toe is suicide.

Well this makes me feel better. I had no idea why you opened the gate. If a horde of undead come in its likely gonna make joining back up with the group problematic.

Since in game there would have been almost no way for Connor to think the the stag lord jumped more than 25 feet to clear the outside wall (palisade) when all he did was to jump over the wall of the adjacent guard tower that we might roll back opening the gate. It simply would not have happened. Thoughts? I hate to have something so potentially game changing happen due to a player misunderstanding that would have never been misunderstood by the character.

Nah, too much work for the DM. And honestly, who knew there was horde of undead. That card is flipped.

Call it parallax or something misseen in the heat of battle. No worries.

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I don't think it is unreasonable that Connor may have thought that the Stag Lord was fleeing when he moved out of sight, but I see how the description could have been confusing. Between Akiros and the entangle spell the zombies are effectively in check, so its not going to dramatically alter the battle. Lets just go with it.

Uy, I'm gone a week and the walking dead are upon us! I should be a bit more regular going forward, with the holidays behind us.

Catching up now and will post soon...

Forgot to check Roll20 for the tactical situation. Intending to move in and shield bash I think, but need to see the layout. I'll update my HPs later as well. 2 heals plus the potion, I'm near max now.

My animal aspect wears off at the end of Round 10 as well.

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Hey everyone. I've decided that I will be leaving this game after the present encounter comes to a close. :(

I've really been enjoying this game. But as you have all probably noticed, I've been unable to keep up my posting rate to anywhere near one per day. This is because I've had a significantly increased workload in real life, between working longer hours and taking on a couple of classes to move my career forward. It's looking like I will continue to have less free time for a while to come, I'm afraid.

I chose to drop this game only because it has the highest expected posting rate and therefore the most demands on my time. I'm in only one other game with similar posting demands, but that one has been going on for over three years so I've opted to try and stay in that one (which has also suffered from my lack of posting lately).

I'm going to try my best to keep up during the rest of this encounter. I would hate to disappear and leave you all high and dry right in the middle of the big boss battle, lol.

I think Aldarion will make an excellent NPC and Councillor to the new realm, should you wish that. My "Back Story" in this profile contains more of my thoughts for Al on kingdom roles. And of course, should he survive Jhod as well, lol.

Perhaps in the future, should you have an opening, my time frees up, and wehrpig is ok with this, maybe Aldarion can return back to PC status and rejoin the group on their adventures in a later chapter.

I figured I'd post this now so as to give our awesome GM some time to consider possible recruitment options.

Thanks all for making this a fun game, especially wehrpig. I'll really miss it.

Sad to hear it, but completely understand. Hopefully we survive this to have a "counselor" option!