Thanks for dealing with the treasure stuff guys. It all looks fine to me.
I may still be posting slowly for a couple more weeks. Things havenn't lightened up yet.
Sorry folks I'm having a hell of a week will catch up when I can. Bot me for now, probably good to go by Sunday.
And don't live in a city surrounded by forest fires either. It's distracting.
Yeah, that doesn't sound good. Stay safe!
Living in a forest fire zone in Canada, the American west is going through a lot of my worst nightmares. Hope you're safe :\
Thanks guys. I'm not directly affected by the fires except for the layer of brown pea soup smoke hanging over the city for the last several days. There are quite a few people at the various offices who do live farther out or family who do though. A few of them have been evacuated, and a lot of people are on standby in case they have to.
Obviously they aren't coming in or telecommuting so we're down more workers and it's still incredibly busy.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say there's a 98.6% chance I forget about haste next round...
Two Natural 20s...
Kayleigh, on the off-chance I stole them from you, I'm deeply sorry.
Never mind! Hooray for crits! :D
Never mind! Hooray for crits! :D
Heh. PLUS, it happens the one time she attacks with a x3 crit weapon!
(Of course, she's also got the -2 Str penalty, but I'm looking at this as a totally 'glass half full' deal.)
Stabitha has a certain ring to it....
Stab-aton?
Would I be allowed to use two lightning lances while I'm under the haste spell?
Yes.
It's a supernatural ability that grants you an attack. I see no reason that attack couldn't be taken as a full attack, thus qualifying Tassira for another attack under Haste, which lightning lance qualifies as, as long as you burn two reserve points. Since it's a full attack you would only be allowed a 5' step for movement the same round, but underwater rules take that away from non-swimming characters - so no movement at all this round.
(did i get it right?)
Wow, that was bad. Sorry for my absence. It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week week at work. I needed the weekend to lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling while I recovered.
Very sorry to hear it Rick. I'm definitely ready to see 2020 firmly escorted out the doors of my life. This campaign we're running has so many parallels to real life these days I'm tempted to just write out a happy ending and see if it bleeds through into reality...
By my reading of haste, Emi's movement increases back to 20' because of haste (20' + 20')/2 for walking on the bottom....
Is she really considered to be walking on the bottom, though, or is she walking on the mostly-sound deck of a recently-sunk ship? I'm asking because Kayleigh's got lots of movement considerations herself (heavy armor, medium encumbrance in her weakened condition, haste, then the environmental stuff.
Yeah, Luke the last several months have been a bear. My son and I have retreated to the Olympic Peninsula for a long weekend of rainforest hiking and beach walking to regroup.
This is the first actual vacation thing I've done in over 2 years and I've really needed it.
Hope the hike went well; also hope things have gotten better for our GM. Hell, I hope everyone's getting along as best they can in these crappy times.
Got a question for Luke: If Kayleigh's now off-balance, how does she get back on balance? A successful Swim check (That's unlikely to happen!)? Or can she lean on her spear and stand from prone (taking a move action and some AoOs in the process)?
Geez that's a pretty good question. For swimmers it's definitely a successful swim check. But the Aquatic Adventures supplement doesn't say how to interpret off-balance in the context of someone walking on the bottom. I think the logical rule zero response is that Kayleigh actually falls prone when tripped (or at least slips to a knee), so standing and provoking the AoOs feels like the correct call.
Let's go with that.
Oh and thanks for the well-wishes. My teenage son went through his first real heartbreak, and let's just say there was a Romeo and Juliette vibe to it that provoked a crisis in two families.
Poor boy is too much like his dad, a committer to his core. Happily I *think* we're past the mausoleum scene, sans poison. He's a senior, and this moment was coming one way or another for them. I just hope the girl's ok at this point, honestly. I don't think her support structure is as strong as his.
And 2020 can suck it.
The Year of Hindsight will not be missed.
Thanks Kayleigh. It was a nice relaxing few days. I'm feeling a lot less stressed and a little more sane than I did a week ago.
Yikes Luke! Hugo's 13 so I'm glad I'll have at least a couple more years of respite before I'm in your situation. I'm not looking forward to the 'serious' teen years one bit. I hope things ease up and smooth out for all involved soon.
Thanks Rick. I think I remember 13. :) I vaguely remember alot of soccer?
My (admittedly unsolicited) advice is to squeeze everything you can out of every day. Before you know it they're gone and you're left trying to remember what you were before you were dad all the time. Some parts of these 'serious' teenage years are scary (driving & dating!!!), but its also pretty durn rewarding to see what they can do when they apply themselves at this age. He comes to me with fewer problems, the older he gets. But the problems he does bring me are a little bigger. I suppose that's how it's supposed to go.
What sort of check would it be to decipher the book's contents?
Just a heads-up that I don't know how much posting I'll be doing the rest of the week (not going anywhere, but spending time with my wife, who's on vacation). Should be back to normal on Sunday/Monday.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone (who's in the U.S.)!
Happy Thanksgiving! Be smart and stay safe to those celebrating.*
Happy Last Thursday in November to Regeris and Tassira.
* Obligatory Kayleighesque health-related public service announcement.
Yeah on behalf of Canada Thanksgiving is bad, lol. Alberta is rapidly turning into a petri dish.
Happy belated turkey day for those who observed it. We ate a chicken and played some board games with the kids. The daughter coming home from college is our one vector but she's pretty careful so we're optimistic we haven't contributed to the awful Blood Veil... er, Covid numbers.
@Tassira - I whiffed on this question entirely. It's not encoded, just obscured/partially missing. When you guys take the in-thread action of studying it (or declare you've studied it during some down-time), I'll just reveal what's written. Most of the margin notes are just illegible. The contents you do find may provoke other kinds of Knowledge checks and whatnot.
The books from the bookstore, including scriptum extereri still merit some study as well.
So I think first thing to do is decide what we want to do about the church. Kayleigh suggested staying there and trying to remove signs of the veil. Other option is to try to spirit at least some people to another hospice site, but we don't actually have one of those yet.
After that, let's study these books and see what we can figure out. We also still have the Keylock Killer out there and not sure what our next step is there.
F+*$ing people in Korvosa get it! Why can't everyone else?!
Yeah. People near me seem pretty good about masks. I saw some 50% off sales recently for masks and said, "Screw that! I've got enough already!" Like 2 minutes later I read an article online saying that you need to replace your masks once they start to stretch or fray. Then I reminded myself that half of my masks don't have the filter slit for extra protection (my smart sis taught me a trick: use dried-out, non-scented baby wipes as makeshift filters...though they're a royal pain to get inside the mask!) Long story short, I bought another dozen with the filter slit because I figure we'll be wearing masks for a while yet (and I have several factors that put me at higher risk).
Back to game stuff.... I also want to go after the Keylock Killer soon. Right after Kayleigh and Ishan (finally) set up a local hospice.
Heads-up this week is going to be rough for me so posting may be limited. Bot as necessary.
On the subject of masks, here in the FL I'm stunned by the number of people not wearing masks. We're overrun by folks in denial down here, of alot of things really. But today my wife had to go into a convenience store and none of the employees were wearing masks. Maybe they've given up?
I try to stay in my house. Play with the dogs in the backyard. My daughter's down from college, finishing her term from here since everything's remote for her at UF anyway. Our christmas bubble is pretty much complete now.
I feel like most people around here are pretty solid about masks, but I was grocery shopping today (I try to do a monthly haul now), and was stunned to see a woman wandering around with no mask at all (there are some nose breathers, but no mask at all?). I almost yelled at her, but I think I was so stunned...
...and I'm self-quarantining. :(
Hopefully just for the 48-72 hours it'll take my sister to get her test results.
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Ugh. Fingers crossed.
Oh no! Good luck with the isolation/test cycle, Smith. My crew went through this twice in the last wave, once when the test took 10 days to come back. Anytime we felt nervous about it we'd eat some stinky cheese or something really sweet to confirm we could still taste stuff. :/
Good excuse to eat jelly donuts.
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I wish I had some jelly donuts! I DID sneak out earlier this morning to take out the trash while no one else was around, partly because it had stinky chicken bones in it, so that's a good sign, I guess. Baked chicken thighs with Old Bay Hot Sauce is scheduled for supper, so if I can't taste that I'll know for certain I'm infected! No fever or other symptoms, so I'm hopeful I dodged a bullet.
In other news, my laptop seems to have died. Luckily, my old one (which I moved on from because it was so slow (almost 10 mins. to boot up each time)) seems to be working pretty well, so it shouldn't affect me much. I gifted myself a new one for Christmas, but with the holiday shipping rush, who knows when I'll get it.
What'd you get? I'm in need of a new computer I think, and probably going to switch from my trusty desktop to a laptop (though I still imagine I'll mostly just keep it in my office).
Nothing the cool kids today would like! ;)
Basic HP 17.3" non-touchscreen. I bumped up the memory and storage a bit in the hopes this one will last longer.
What I really need is something that doesn't crap out with copious amounts of Adobe Acrobat going on. I constantly have to close out of the program and restart it (I use it for a lot of game PDFs when I'm writing).
First off, I'm no computer expert. And, generally speaking, desktops tend to last longer than laptops.
Pretty sure my old laptop had 8 GB (SD?)RAM. I didn't have the full Adobe Acrobat--just Adobe Reader--but I often would have 8-10 Paizo PDFs open at once. At first I had no issues; over the past several months, I'd occasionally get a "Memory Full" error message and would have to close one of two PDFs to get it functional again. I don't recall ever having to actually shut Reader down completely.
I start getting that memory full with just 3-4 open. Granted, I'm doing lots of searches in them, so that might be the issue, but it's very frustrating. Trying to decide if I want to just bite the bullet on the new computer or wait until it's safe to do in-person shopping, which I prefer.
Sorry to hold things up. I had some shifts to work at a christmas tree lot over the weekend, and I had no idea how rough a job it is. My son's scout troop runs a lot every year to make money to pay for their biannual summer trip to Hawaii. This is our first year doing it so I didn't know what to expect. Working for 6 hours outdoors in the rain when it's 40 degrees is no joke!
Working for 6 hours outdoors in the rain when it's 40 degrees is no joke!
Nope. Better to have it 30 degrees and snowing. It's colder, but you don't get as wet. I read somewhere that Christmas tree sales are up this year.
Speaking of snow, seems there's a storm coming my way on Thursday. Got the all-clear this morning--my sister's covid test came back negative--so I made a beer run and will be making a supermarket run next.
Congrats Kayleigh! I'm glad that test was negative. Stock up and dig in! I miss the snow, it's becoming rarer and rarer here.
Yeah, I was thrilled when I went out to walk the dog this morning and the rain had already turned to snow. So much better!
I felt like a very beneficial boss, telling my direct reports they could all work from home amid the anticipated snow today and Wednesday. Then one of the ungrateful jerks pointed out we've all been working from home since March. So I fired them.
@motteditor: Are you actually Donald Trump? That's very Donald Trump... :p
Ugh! (But, yeah, it is.)
It's a treatise on cannibalism.
Is she sure it's "How to Cook Humans" and not [url=https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/How_to_Cook_for_Forty_Humans]How to Cook for Forty Humans"?
Hi everyone I just had a close friend pass so will be out for a couple more days. Thanks.
My condolences, Spidey.