Mortika's "Severing Ties" Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Chris Mortika

Well, unless you drop a ton of money on their wifi. I much prefer airports less oriented towards people who get reimbursed for travel expenses.

Agreed.

Oh, incidentally ..

I ran this adventure for table-top players a couple weeks ago. 2nd-level through 4th-level, they decided to play "up". The first place they went after getting Jenk's instructions was the temple of Besmara.

At the high sub-tier, the critters are 4 <url="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/b unyip">bunyips</url>, rather than 3 reefclaws. I had the party fight only three of them, with the fourth hiding in the bottom of the pool as a surprise. No need. The party had no cleric, so no way to effectively deal with 1d6 bleed damage every round.

They just pulled their dead and fallen comrades away, having exhausted their resources, and returned to Magnimar in shame on the next boat.

Thought you'd want to know.

Dang. And I thought we were doing poorly, lol. Getting waxed in the first encounter is a crappy way to go out!

Sounds like a mismatch of capabilities, though. If they'd had a decent healer they might have done better. It's one more piece of evidence for the designer looking at CR and not at monster capabilities. (Not that I should complain; at one point I threw a seugathi at a party of five 4th level characters. I expected it to be a tough fight--not quite CR+2, with the fifth character--but if you're not ready for it the aura on the thing will wipe out a party. On top of its fast healing, DR, poison, weapon use....)

What are we currently waiting on?

It isn't on me, that's all I can say.

Shel is waiting on an update for what she saw.

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As a note I'm going to be running a Thornkeep pbp in the very near future here.

Question - how does that work as a PFS game? I've seen it as something being run as PFS events but don't seem to see how it works - are there chronicles?

yep

wow

I sent Chris a pm checking on things yesterday, but haven't heard anything yet.

he's good people. It may take him a few more days but I think he'll be back in the saddle soon.

We're both in Iowa so I'll start throwing things at him if he takes too long :)

I'm back. Grave apologies for the delay.

While I was at Winter War, a burglar broke into my apartment and stole my computer.

(I can post short forum posts at work, but laying out the scenario book, a spreadsheet with everybody's stats, etc, would be abusive of the work office environment.)

Yesterday, i received a call from the IC police, and this morning, I have my computer back.

Now let's go kick some cultist butt.

Damn, Chris! Having your place broken into is the worst...its happened to me a couple times, and that pisses me off to no end. Glad you at least got your computer back...

So far as I can tell, they didn't take anything other than the computer and a big jar of change.

they collar the guy who did it or recover the comp from a pawn shop?

Yay, allswell that ends well or something. Good to have you back.

Hi All

I am in the SH*T storm to end all SH*T storms at work and will be on a considerable amount of business travel and round the clock meetings.

I'll post as often as I can but it may take 1-2 delay days for combat responses etc. IF the game is bogged on me, the GM (or any player the GM deputises) is fine to make attack actions for me.

Again, not abandoning the game but but will need just a bit of patience on everyones part.

Hey folks.

Just a note: yes, this is a pretty scary fight. If anybody is keeping any "save this for a rainy day" equipment or tactics, this might be the time to use them.

Trust me, I'm pulling out all the stops. Unfortunately, at this level, there aren't many to pull.

Quick suggestion to everyone though, try not to take this construct head on. We need to stick and move as much as possible. Don't give it a chance to get a full attack on you if you can help it. Also, putting stuff in it's way, like 15 bunk beds (heh), might slow it down might give us the chance to recover and let the gunslingers chip away at it from range.

Last note, to the writer of this module: whaaa?

Just want to say that the new rules for the darkness spell are pretty unfair when combined with darkvision.

Quick question though - does Maximo's Ioun torch even out the lighting conditions at all?

Another good question, Max.

The ioun torch uses continual flame, which is a 2nd-level spell. Darkness is also a 2nd-level spell. So there's an overlap in the spells' area. However, the spell description for darkness reads: "Magical light sources only increase the light level in an area if they are of a higher spell level than darkness."

So, if you were to cast continual flameon the same object that holds the darkness spell, it would cancel the darkness effect. And you could cast continual flame to counter someone casting darkness. But just bringing continual flame into an area of darkness won't have any effect. You'll need daylight.

Yeah, thought so. Darkness spell is lame.

Alrighty guys, for e record this is the hardest dang first level adventure I've ever seen!

Agreed. But if we succeed that's major bragging rights.

You know who would be really helpful with the darkness? The Oread being a rock carpet in the hallway.

Great job on fighting like the Aspis out there though ;Þ

I'm currently pondering how to best not get myself killed after waking up in a dark pile of sewage next to a enemy, with my sword no where to be found, and it's dark.

Yeah, unfortunately we have a cultist and construct in the way. And even if we could get to him I'm not sure anyone knows that Rock can see in darkness.

Rob, if you don't have a backup weapon, back up try to heal yourself if you can.

I've got my teeth which are pretty good, the problem is more being at around 4 HP, prone and in the dark. I'll post my action soonish.

Let's just see what happens, as the greatest fake Soviet Boxer Ivan Draego almost said "If we die, we die."

Get me up, Pirate, I have dark vision for all.

Crawl over and 'lay hands' on me. :)

Hmm, you have a point. With divine favor and courage that bite would average around 8 points of damage.

Hey, I have another question for the GM. Is this the regular darkness or deeper darkness? Because regular only drops light by one degree, and if this place is lit by torches (which are two degrees) those with low-light vision still might be able see something.

I'm grasping at straws here, but the only trick left in my arsenal is a rules lawyer. :)

Well here goes!

Mundane lights have no effect on the light level in an area of darkness, Maximo. If y'all were outdoors during the day, you'd have a pretty good shot of seeing something.

Is the thing even scratched yet, DM? We're just about done here, lol!

IIRC, it's taken more than a couple of hits already.

From the gurgling depths of his blackout, Happy Stone wonders if anyone has an alchemist fire or two to throw at the beast.

However, the only thing that escapes from Happy's body is another round of pre-mortem farts.

Yep. Sad Rock's blow struck home, and Badr's shot knocked some of it to pieces.

(I double-checked, by the way. This really is the right sub-tier. At the 4-5 subtier you'd be fighting a Kyton instead of the surgeon, and the construct has the power to send your soul to Hell.)

Ow.

For the record, I have a tanglefoot bag you can pull off my corpse and throw at it as a last resort.

Tanglefoot? Hmm.. probably should have used that on it, though it might be too strong to be affected.

About damage - don't forget Chun crit the thing right off the bat for 21 points of damage. That had to have left a mark.

It did. I am keeping track.

Sorry Chris, I meant that for Shel. I know you're on it. :)

Chris, can we heal at will during this part of the adventure? That was I can just edit the charges on my wand and put in the dice formulas.

Sure; we're out of combat.

"Well my friends..." Maximo coughs blood, staggering against the wall. "I fear I cannot make it to one of the temples for help. This may be..." *cough* "the end.."

"Oppara!" He sings weakly. "The guilded city!"
"Oppara!" *coughcoughcough* "So.. glorious.." He slumps to a seated position, bleary eyes looking far away.
"Oppara!" From somewhere he has produced a bottle of wine, which he raises in a toast, a tear in his eye. "Such... beauty.."

Taking a drink, he leans back and closes his eyes...

Bravo, bravo. Encore. *clap clap clap*