Of Ghosts and Men (Inactive)

Game Master Twilightrose

If you'd like, but I will likewise be keeping a calendar and other things that will need referenced on the game info page.

Hey! There's a game info page!

(I might have forgotten that it existed.)

Yeah I haven't caught it up yet, but I will!

As of noon, I will not be at home, until Monday / Tuesday. Please bot me as necessary.

I am back, I apologize for the delay!

Welcome back, Ravel!

Thank you. Hopefully I'm not backtracking conversation with Orin and slowing things down!

No, that's a good catch-up post!

Looks like the party is planning to split up for the day. Just give me a clear sound off on who is going where. Once the party splits, to help avoid confusion, I'll have actions be carried out in spoilers. It's OK (for this situation) if you want to read other people's spoilers, just remember to keep character/player knowledge separate and don't forget that you aren't with those people and respond to something that happens in that spoiler.

Taking a goblin into a library isn't going to result in librarians freaking the hell out at all.

Ingrid will pay a visit to the temple, if somone want to tag along that wil be fine with her.

Ioann will definitely stay at the house and read the books that the professsor left.

The books in his library, the books from the chest, or both?

First the book on hunger from the chest, than the other non-locked book from the chest.

I am back, will post when caught up.

OK, because Ravel has such an image problem and Ake needs to know for her disguises I'm putting you lot in charge of the weather! How do you like that?! Seriously, I have enough to worry about than to remember to tell Ravel what the weather is like every single day, so from now on, on each new day in game, whoever posts it firsts will roll a d100 entitled "today's weather". It's currently autumn months so we're going to go on the scale of 1-30 = clear skies, 31-60 = overcast w/o rain, 61-90 = overcast with rain, and 91-100 = roller's choice.

If I roll a 100 you better be prepared to have us encounter a sharknado.

Sharknado ftw, however, you better have a damn good explanation for how there is such an unnatural weather pattern occurring. Obviously, sharknados only happen in summer :D

EDIT: Also, I reserve the right to randomly reroll for weather changes throughout the day.

Ravel, you have to make it more fantastic, what about dire sharknados, or ghoulnados?

Or a necromental air elemental in its whirlwind form, having picked up ghouls from the graveyard to become... Ghoulnado.

Oh fun. . flying undead. . as if we don't have enough on our plates. :)

Gellius, the craft skill is to create something. Craft (alchemy) is used to create alchemical things like acids and bombs. I have zero clue as to what, if anything you could use to identify a source from blood. Anyone have any input on this?

After looking at the rules again - apparently using craft (alchemy) to id substances must be some ingrained house rule locally. Although I will point out that it's not always about creating items. The alchemy class feature of alchemists allows them to ID potions with craft (alchemy).

My next best guess would be either the monster-appropriate knowledge check or heal?

Heal would be CSI'ing a scene.

Heal check it is then?

Yeah, but I reckon that it would make sense for you to be able to identify a potion with a craft (alchemy) skill, because you'd be familiar with the qualities associated with potions since you make them sort of thing.

I'd say Heal is a good check for identifying by composure, Survival is the way to do it Gimli style by taste testing. Alchemy might work if you're popping out vials and whatnot (thinking the way things like hydrogen peroxide bubbles on blood. Surely a fantasy world has reagents that react differently to different types? At least common ones...)

You mean something like this

REAGENT PAPER PRICE 1 GP
WEIGHT —
This slip of paper can aid in the identifying of liquids. Its color changes in accordance to basic traits such as acidity, salinity, or magic. This confers a +2 alchemical bonus on any Craft (alchemy) or Spellcraft check made to identify potions or other liquids.

Either way, I botched the roll, so it's unlikely to matter at this point.

Yeah it can be difficult justifying forensic science in a world where microscopes don't exist yet... but that's the rub of modern players portraying characters in a past-technology world.

Either way, if you want to make a heal roll you can. As for the attempt at craft alchemy, to save face in game, we'll simply say that the sample was too contaminated and/or old to get a clear reading.

Blood biography exists for just this reason.

*makes a note of blood biography*

For the record - my imagination of alchemists is that they are constantly experimenting with stuff at the beginning of their careers - thus causing many explosions and other various bad stuff.

Also meet Gellius - master of skills he's not trained in.

Blood Biography

*makes a note of blood biography*

For the record - my imagination of alchemists is that they are constantly experimenting with stuff at the beginning of their careers - thus causing many explosions and other various bad stuff.

Also meet Gellius - master of skills he's not trained in.

Added to BFF list for obvious reasons, no need to stop with the boom later in your career!

How is blood biography not an alchemist spell? Grr...

(I know the answer to that - it's because extracts have to target me. But still - it really should be...)

I am thinking that Ravel is going to be the face for our half of the party. :)
Seeing as he did talk to the man initially. :)

So, what you're telling me is that I need to take the whipto Dragon and make him post. Gotcha ;)

Hi way robbery, i tell you. Its Hi way robbery.

Time to shake him down with that hammer.

Do I do fire now? I like fire.

I may be neutral, but this guys attitude is driving me to the dark side. . . Luke, I am your father. oops

What a stodgy curmudgeon.

I don't think clouting him soundly about the ears would go over well. Yay for tact. :)

I was too tempted to try to sleep him... but that wouldn't end well for us.

Lol, indeed neither of those actions would play out well for you in the end.

Time to step outside, put on false mustaches, and try again.

Guys, we could do some breaking and entering later. Or fire. Fire tends to fix a lot of things.

Looking at you, Ake

Fire tends to spread. too much paper in there. :)
But it would cover the B&E though, however, don't expect me there if you do that approach.

Lmfao, OK, so you want to burn down a stranger's school and magic shop because he didn't give you, a group of strangers in an obviously wary small town, a discount on his established fee and stood up for himself when he was disrespected on his own property?

Oh this is going to be a fun campaign.

I think it's time for the DM to take a nap.

I am just venting on here. :)

I have dealt with IRL too many empire building bureacrats to like them, and he has the same attitude.

Lol, it's all good. I'm laughing and shaking my head. I foresee a lynch mob in the groups future, but ya know, we'll deal with that when the time comes. :D I'm going to lay down for a bit, I didn't get much sleep last night thanks to the minime.