Ok, guys. I got an idea to turn these curses into our favor.
Basically, when we get to the alter of this blood sacrifice god, I stop my disguise self spell and show all the blood and declare the Deep Father is speaking through me (and with the fish smell declare that he's honored me as a Kuo-tao), and the say he's commanded me to have all Deep Father worhippers to... Something...
What?
Order them to migrate away?
Order them to attack the drow?
Order peace and harmony with the Sea Mother?
What do you think? How can we make this work for us?
Kuo-Toa fighting the drow sounds great to me! I say try it!
Well, maybe. Not sure I want to send the leader's daughter on a suicide mission.
Well, is it worse than us shanking her? Because that's a likely outcome otherwise. I doubt the arch-priest would appreciate us spreading the worship of the "Dark Father" elsewhere through safer migration.
Good to be back!
Everyone, GET ON DISCORD. That's our only way to communicate if this site goes down again. New discord link. You don't even need to download the app if you don't want to. Just create an account (free) and join the server so we can figure out what to do if/when the site crashes again.
Yeah, Discord is very useful to have.
We're back, for now! Everyone, fight for your lives!
Irdril, please get on discord in case the site goes out again. https://discord.gg/pkKUSU
I tried before and the link was dead before I had a chance and then the site went down again. Im on now.. Sorry for the tardiness..
No problem! Thanks for getting it. Now we have a safety net.
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Irdril, technically you can't give up your action to get a second bonus action but I don't really see the need for that rule so you won't see it enforced by me, unless something unexpectedly broken arises.
Ok, yea I wasn't sure how that worked tbh. I don't see it as something I would do often. Bonus action are rarely better than a full action. Is this instance my only heals are bonus so..
300 xp for mostly defeating the tough kuo-toa, 150 XP for helping defeat the arch-priestess, 50*2 for the normal kuo-toa, and 400 for surviving your encounter with Demogorgon to finish chapter 3. Split 6 ways, that's rounded up to 159 XP each. Eddrikk, welcome to level 3.
Yay
Huzzah!
So we're going to skip over a lot of travel here since I made you guys grind through the travel from Velkynvelve to Sloobludop. That was 8 days. It takes 20 days to get from Sloobludop to Gracklstugh on foot so I'd say it takes 8 days to go there as the crow flies. What I'm going to do is make 8 days worth of random encounters rolls and pick the most interesting/hardest day and have us go through that one then hand-wave the rest of the travel. This way, there's still some cost for fast traveling a really long distance (chance of a terrifying day without getting XP to prepare for it!).
Sound good.
Darn, I posted under another alias.
-60 xp
-60 xp
XD
Hoo boy. And I thought one exhaustion got irksome. Three is going to be interesting!
Level Effect
1 Disadvantage on Ability Checks
2 Speed halved
3 Disadvantage on Attack rolls and Saving Throws
4 Hit point maximum halved
5 Speed reduced to 0
6 Death
Yeah Galinndan is now so deadly tired that he might have trouble sleeping... because as we said, this is a con saving throw...
Gotta say guys, it's really nice to see this thread clipping along after the site outage. We're moving along nicely.
Agreed, I'm loving this survival horror escapade!
Heads up; I'm headed to NY tomorrow. Lots of travelling. Please bot me as needed so I don't hold up the game.
I'll try and pitch in on a layer over or when I settle into the hotel, if I get a chance.
Have fun, bookrat!
I'm flying back home tomorrow. May not be able to post. Bot me as needed.
Sorry if my posting gets spotty over the next month, I'm in the final throes of my master's thesis, and it's getting hectic. Don't hesitate to bot me however you see fit during this time.
Congrats, Kanzen! That's an awesome step! Thanks for letting us know.
All the best, Kanzen!
Only two levels of exhaustion for you now, Galinndan. Significantly preferable.
Oh dear...I'll revise. Still, an improvement.
Sry folks i had to xfer to nightshift over the weekend and last night. I have had 0 time to post.
No worries Irdril. These things happen.
Well done to our negotiating team!
For mapping fun, if you find a full body image of your character you’d like to use, share it with me and I’ll remove the background so we can use that on the map from now on. Totally optional but I think it’ll look cool.
Kanzen, you can help but describe how you're helping. Give your dialogue or something.
Yep, was just planning to wait and see how Irdril started going about it, follow her lead, so to speak.
I'll see if I can find someone that fits Galinndan.
Just fyi that a full body version of many of the paizo avatars can be found on google images if you search the avatar's name and paizo. But some may want a different image which is cool too.
I can't find a full body for my current avatar but this is fairly close.
For those interested, the head pic (and only the head pic) of the wild elf that is Galinndan can be found on p7 of Elves of Golarion.
Not exactly right, but close enough.
Hey guys, we're having a lot of momentum trouble here in Gracklstugh. If anyone feels like they have too much IRL for pbp right now, please let me know. There are good opportunities for graceful off-ramps for a character here in the City of Blades.
If there's something I can do to help you feel more engaged, please let me know! I want to keep a lot of enthused, engaged momentum here.
Just a busy weekend for me tbh.. Apologize..
One thought though.. When you have to make a group check at decent numbers not to just get harassed into slavery everyday it might prove difficult to do much other than just leave the city. Which I'm ok with tbh..
It's actually pretty hard to leave the city too. But to make things easier, getting arrested is actually not so bad given certain plot reasons. Wink wink.
Sorry, I've had a very busy weekend, between study, Australia's version of the Superbowl, and running a live game last night. I am very busy still, but I should be able to keep pace from now on. Bear in mind that for the next five weekends I'll be on the road playing at festivals, weddings, and other events, so my weekend posting may be spotty. But I'll try to keep a good posting rate through the week. GM, if at any time you feel that I'm becoming a dead weight, please PM me; I'd be loathe to leave the game, but if it's for the best Kanzen could take a break for a bit, maybe get kidnapped by his nefarious relatives.
Thanks for explaining the hesitance/frustration Irdril, I get that.
Kanzen, thanks for the heads up. I think that 5 spotty weekends will be fine, especially since you're communicating that ahead of time.
I'm not quite done moving, and as it turns out, Internet contract might not be moved over for a fortnight or so. Doing pbp via phone is slower.
That said, I should be able to post daily for the foreseeable future except possibly next weekend.
GM: So I totally missed Galenus's reduce spell on the giant. I thought it was huge, which was why I went for the climbing thing. Otherwise I would have just grappled it - the climbing on rule is for creatures two sizes or more bigger than you. Anyway, fortunately it hasn't wrecked the encounter, just letting you know.
Ah thanks missed that part. Good catch.