Monster Mashup - Table 4 (Inactive)

Game Master CaveToad

Will you break down the door or try something else?

I can't do much, was waiting for Goivan or shaeyl to take a swing at it, or grub to knock it down

Shaeyl failed, and Goivan's post with dice roll came out formatted wrong. I can roll for him after a meeting i have now quick.

Aw c'mon, I fixed the formatting almost immediately!

Lol must have been just the wrong timing for me. Back from meeting.

Speaking of the other room we visited, do we have a list of things we've found down here, or should I go through the past posts and figure out what loot we've grabbed?

Might be easier to check past posts. I have a list, but I would have to cross check what you actually looted anyhow.

Really weird, I was getting update counts for discussion but not the game.

Given how unreliable the forums seem to be in general I am not surprised that things don't work as expected some times.

I set up my phone with an RSS reader so I get a little ding when it sees a new post (checks every hour), it's been pretty reliable even when the forum isn't.

But I only have one or two campaigns I'm in, probably not a good idea for cavetoad, hahaha.

Edit:
Re-read from page 11. Looks like the only things we've found were from that sarcophagus we opened. Some jewelery, and then a large magical jewel that reads as Transmutation + Necromancy.

Aury you still aren't sure either, but there seems to be something missing. The particular item seems to be a master control item, and it would be associated with other magic items. Perhaps that is why it has been so troublesome in discerning what it does.

Plus any gear the skeletons dropped. Were they wearing/using weapons?

That's a good idea, although I would probably go crazy from the dings.

So, no one is capable of casting lesser restoration yet? That would mean I'm still down 4 strength, which means a -2 on just about everything. Oh well.

Nope, sorry. I think you're the only one that even has access to it on spell list.

Ah, gotcha. Well, sadly, I'm a spontaneous caster, so I don't get second level spells yet.

I just have this really bad feeling that an evil necromancer with designs on finishing his transformation into a lich is playing with us.

That sounds like a pretty cool plot line to me, if that's what's happening :)

Hey there, sorry, was sick for a while. Some kind of stomach bug, probably. I'm back now, though, and it looks like I didn't miss too much. Can we get that heal check?

Shaeyl did it for you, got a 30 so it probably worked.

Heart of Ab Monar: The wearer receives 50% fortification against critical hits, a +2 untyped bonus against fear effects, and can cast Unbreakable Heart, 1/day at CL 9

Lungs of Ab Monar: The wearer can apply Widen or Empower to a breath weapon effect up to 3/day. Only one can be applied to any breath. The breath weapon can be a spell effect, Spell like ability or supernatural ability. The wearer can cast water breathing on themselves 1/day at CL9, and receives a +6 CON bonus to CON based rolls such as holding their breath, or exhaustive activities such as running for extended periods.

Stomach of Ab Monar: The wearer can cast Allfood 1/day CL9, although the food created can only feed themselves. The can also cast the following spells 1/day each at CL 9: Vomit Twin and Vomit Swarm. In addition the wearer can create an effect once per day called Lead Belly. The duration is 1 minute and during that time the wearer can trade 10' of movement ( all modes ) for DR 1/- up to a maximum of -30' and DR 3/-.

Liver of Ab Monar: The wearer receives a +4 bonus vs all ingested poisons or drugs, and their durations and effects are halved. You may double your CON Mod for alcohol consumption and receive a +6 bonus on saves vs alchohol. The wearer receives Fast healing 2, which becomes Fast Healing 5, if they are under the effects of a non-instantaneous potion. (not an extact, infusion or mutagen).

Intestines of Ab Monar: The wearer receives a +4 enchantment bonus to CON, an additional +4 bonus to saves against disease, and can casting Stinking Cloud 1/day at CL 9.

Gem Encrusted Pectoral: The wearer is able to maintain a continual Status spell that monitors anyone else wearing any of the organs of Ab Monar. The gem acts as a Brooch of Shielding that can absorb up to 40 points of magic missile damage per day (no max). The wearer receives a +2 competence bonus to perception, and 1/day can cast Summon Nature's Ally to summon a medium earth elemental at CL 9.
(You suspect there may yet be more to this item...)

I think stomach's going to Grub, so he can eat his way out of even more problems :p

I'd like either the liver or intestines.

Also, if that liver can be traded around, we have infinite out of combat healing.

I was thinking about that. Liver might be good for my replacement character - oracle with Life Link ability, so we could get infinite healing even without trading it around. Fast healing fits my theme anyway.

Lungs seem super fitting thematically for Sly if/when he returns, and not really fitting for anyone else (unless people have plans for breath weapons).

I think that leaves me with the heart.

Don't forget about the pectoral piece, in case that looks nicer to you.

I think the heart would be really cool thematically with Goivan, but paladins end up immune to fear anyways.

Probably at this point is when I will have Aury switch to Kalora, and I am leaning to bringing Lily into the group as a replacement for Sly.

I need to complete reviews of both of those characters, which I hope to get done today. The story is in a good spot to have them join the group.

Neat! Sounds good.

I had considered Lily, but I realized now that both Lily and Kalora are warders, albeit different archetypes. It's impossible to keep total overlap out and I had planned to bring Lily on to provide some potential in combat healing (although oracle works too).

Thoughts? Two warders might work out fine though.

I think it should work ok if the roles are disparate enough.

Sorry I wasn't able to complete the reviews last night. Still working through them :)

I actually don't think it's an issue, I remember talking a bit about it with them. They focus on different roles. I'm having tanking focused, lily is more support

Grug makes a good wall, I mean tank.

We are definitely light on battle healing/support.

Well I think the problem with grub is that he can take a hit well but as long as he's grappling be can't move to help anyone and loses all progress if he stops.
I've been thinking of him more like a debuff person to make sure a single dangerous enemy isn't doing much.
Warders are built more for moderately bothering anyone that tries to get to allies.

Ill have some more out of combat support and lily has good in combat support so I think we'll be pretty good with the new setup

Agreed. Grub is excellent at tanking bosses or specific powerful enemies, but less so with crowd control. Someone who can corral a load of minions would help a lot, especially considering how brutal that last skeleton fight was.

Ok, I have Lily and Kalora spiffing up their final crunches and are pretty much ready to join in. Lily will post in discussion here at some point and then it will be easy for me to roll them into the story and Aury out.

Essentially the group of your NPC siblings led by Tolhemia back at Cliffort, have been sending small scout groups out as well. Lily and Kalora will be part of one of these groups, and we can make the swap as the other group heads off again back to town.

Hi all. I've been catching up on the thread, and cleaning up profile stuff today at work. (It's still messy, so much to track).

As I told CaveToad my warder side is filled with counters and is basically my passive part of the gestalt. My active in combat role is support-caster. Out of combat I'm a diviner/healer although I can't judge just yet how much to focus on either of those. Beyond that I'm probably picking up profession/craft skills. Future plans include jumping into dragon fury in the warder column.

If there's anything in particular you're wanting me to put in Lily's spellbook, speak up. Lily's general spell preferences are based on ranking the schools in order from her specialization to her prohibited schools. The closer to divination you are the more likely she'd pick it up on her own. If you want something from enchantment/necromancy please think up some reason I can work into her backstory to explain why she'd bother scribing it.

Divination > Conjuration/Illusion/Evocation > Abjuration/Transmutation >> Enchantment > Necromancy

That's a third party class, then? I'm not familiar with it. Also, I probably don't want to be familiar with it, but I'll try not to let my bias against third party classes affect my impression of your character.

Hi lily! Welcome.

I'm currently filling the role of melee skirmisher but would prefer to move to a spelled role of battlefield control and then support with flanking support.

Since we're both wizards, take a look at my spell list. We'll be able to copy spells from each other once we get some supplies.

Particulars on the river?

How wide, approximately how deep? Having traveled near it, and some of us crossing it, we should get an idea of depth.

How fast is it moving? (narrow may run faster than wide; deep will run slower then shallow).

Apologies for the delay! Had a major presentation and then convention to visit yesterday.

Since we have all of our players now, I think the final set up for the magic items we found is:

Goivan - Intestines
Lily - Pectoral
Shaeyl - Heart
Kalora - Liver
Grub - Stomach

So just remember to write them down. The lungs aren't claimed, so I will just hold on to them until we find a use.

Ok.

GM Cavetoad - Lily has dream feast prepped each day as a cleric spell (to make up for joining the group without buying more rations than the wizard's kit), so she's -1 meal overnight/morning depending on how you're tracking that. (I just noticed the header).

The river at this point is close to 100' across, about 20' deep at the middle and very slow moving.

Anyone else want to offer up any ideas or should we move onto the next day/event?

We should probably just keep moving - we don't know for sure another boat is coming, so waiting around too long to prevent them isn't great.

Howdy all,

I'm sorry that I've been away for so long. I couldn't help it.

I am a quadriplegic(car accident 15 years ago), which exacerbated my issues with the pneumonia. My left lung filled with fluid and eventually collapsed. They had me in a half-coma for three weeks and on a crazy amount of sedatives and painkillers. Since then, I had to go to respiratory rehab and deal with some more medical issues that arose.

I'm finally healthy and at home. Thank you for all your well-wishes, and I'll do my best to catch up quickly if there is still room for Sly.

-Sly

Hey Sly, welcome back! Glad you were able to recover. There has been some reconfiguration on this table, but I will ponder where you put you. If you stayed on this one it would be at 6, which is doable, but there is the possibility of a new table starting. I had your character head off to town, but there are a lot of roaming NPC groups lately ;)

Give me a bit to figure out the plan.

Hi Sly! Really glad you're okay

Unfortunately I switched characters to Kalora, wasn't really enjoying the mechanics of Aury. Which is too bad cause I liked the rp between Sly and her :(

Apologies if my posting has been slowing down as of late. I have an extremely busy week of school coming up and I'm heavily stressing over it. Please DMPC as needed.

Roll call!

I'm kinda getting disgruntled at the low frequency of posting.

Our group is diverse enough to be able to, at the very LEAST, chat in character with each other if we are waiting on CT. Most often I think he is waiting for more than one or two people to make a post.

Sorry for my low post rate the last few days. Weekends are hard/impossible for me given all the stuff i have to do either socially or task wise around the house ( giant victorian home with a huge garden and a ton of projects ). I do most of my posting at work, and some days there is a lot of actual work ;)

I will get an update in here after lunch today.

I'm more concerned about 5 players, 3 of whom have posted in the last week. And this last week is pretty typical of only a few of the players posting.

It isn't to hard to say "hi, still here, nothing to add"