PFS 6-15 The Overflow Archives (Inactive)

Game Master Mike Andersen 351

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Day Job: [OOC]Please roll as well if applicable.[/b]
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If we're playing up, I'll do my best to keep everyone alive as the resident level 5!

Player Name: Mike Tuholski aka Endless Forms
Character Name: Shahrazad
PFS ID: 55162-20
Day Job: Perform (wind instruments): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28
Any items Sold: nope
Any items Purchased: nope

I had an environmental law professor named Jack Tuholski

Player Name: Derek Larsen or Tyranius
Character Name: Dalangi
PFS ID: 95737-7
Day Job: Perform Act: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Any items Sold: None
Any items Purchased:

Wand of Bane - 2 PP
Wrist Sheath x 2- 2 gp

Player Name: PJP
Character Name: Fuzzfoot Hogan
PFS ID: #150786-1
Day Job: Perform Oratory: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Any items Sold: None
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Used 2 PP to purchase Wand, Cure Light Wounds
Purchase 3 daggers (6gp)

Ah since we're playing up, I might switch to a level 5 over the Professor (level 3) if that's still okay (I'll assume it is) - especially with Shahrazad among us to cover knowledges and bardic goodness.

Player: DM Panic / wakedown
Character Name: Charles Pascal Quillen
PFS ID: 15,208-2
Track: Slow Track (not normal)
Day Job: +1 Prestige Point (Fangwood Keep)

Nothing sold or purchased yet!

you can play anything you like level 1-5. Not much will change the math at this point, especially if you play a higher level character

I am picturing Quillen as René Artois from Allo, Allo!

Heya everyone!

I might switch up my character too. Will decide by tomorrow.

Player Name: Eric
Character Name: Caith Skullcrusher
PFS ID: 13475-14
Day Job: None
Any items Sold: None yet
Any items Purchased: None yet

Just wanted to say that I think this is a good initiative.

Both to get more people to try to GM (and thus more GM's) and get them some help while doing it (not to mention giving GM's more chances to play ;)

I'm not sure if you intentionally didn't give access to the map yet to prevent spoilers or if you plan to give out individual access as opposed to anyone can view/edit. But I couldn't access it just now (don't have permission) when I wanted to add my avatar.

And as far as I can tell, you are doing a great job so far

I had an environmental law professor named Jack Tuholski

Wow, that's interesting. Where was he from? I'm guessing not from the Indiana clan because I've never of him before. I think there's a few out in Oregon or something. Unless you got the name wrong; my brother Andy is getting his PhD in political science and has taught courses about environmental policy before.

Oh, actually I just looked him up. His name is spelled "Tuholske" with an -e at the end. Mine is "Tuholski" with an -i at the end. So we're probably not related. The -ski ending is strictly Polish as far as I know, whereas -sky and -ske are more common in Russia and other Slavic countries.

I'm not sure what the Tuhol- part of the name means but -ski/-sky/-ske just means "of" or "from", so I'm guessing it's just a coincidence the way that a lot of English people have last names like Baker, Miller, and Smith that derived from their occupation without necessarily being related.

Very interesting though!

Changed character to take advantage of the Dark Archives goal of this scenario.

Player Name: DM Rah
Character Name: Zahaz
PFS ID: 7162-14
Day Job: none
Any items Sold: none
Any items Purchased: none

The map is now shared, feel free to add your miniatures to the map.

If you are able, pleas put yourselves in the uncovered room on the map. The stairs to the south seem to lead to the scriptorium, as those are the stairs Virmil headed up when ordered by Shain to head to the scriptorium.

The map is now shared, feel free to add your miniatures to the map.

Seems I have viewing rights, but not editing rights. So I can't add (or move) anything, but I am able to see the map.

Player Name: Kyshkumen
Character Name: Gob
PFS ID: 28641-14
Day Job: Craft books 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
Any items sold: None
Any items purchased: Not yet

There, I think I enabled editing.

Yup you got it. :)

Yay!

I am working late, and will be unable t post maps and the like from my work computers. google.drive.com from the state.

So, instead a brief OOC explanation:

All of the creatures you have met are the creation of a scroll of riddles created by some unknown fey. That scroll is now in six parts. It appears the scroll used to contain something or someone. The pieces of the riddle are pseudo sub riddles that reference the creatures released from their verse(s). Koi would like you to collect all six parts and return them to her so that she can get something or someone back into the scroll by repairing the scroll. In the mean time, she will stop flooding the archives.

I hope that was all somewhat clear from the discussions with the creatures. At any rate, I should be done with work in 1-2 hours, and I will post up then

Oh, would everyone please post their Initiative rolls here? It would be nice to have them consolidated before tomorrow. I have reason to believe combat will ensue.

Init is +3 and Perception is +4 for Dalangi.

+7 Init
+7 Perception

Init +7
Perception 0

A neat little trick I've seen other GMs do is put a text block on the map with the full board commands for init. That way you can just copy and paste when ever you need to post init.

Zahaz
Init +1
Perception +13

Samaeon
Init +2
Perception -1

If it's easier, you can roll one Initiative check at +1 for Zahaz who is really the one in charge.

Sorry a slight typo Init is +2
Not sure how I hit 7

Caith
Init +0
Perception +0

To add to Gob's comment about posting a text block with everyone's init on the map to just copy&paste when you need it, I do something similar, but I just put it in the campaign info tab. In case you need to use multiple maps you have your stat block at one location for easy access.

And in case you meant actual rolls;

Initiative Caith: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (14) + 0 = 14

It's up to you how you want to handle initiative, but I've found that in pbp it really speeds things up if the GM rolls initiative for everyone (it saves almost a day (sometimes even more) of real time as opposed to having everyone roll their own initiative)

And what also helps is to do block initiative - since you can as players decide to delay after each other - to have players act in the order that they post when their block is up

So initiative would look something like:

init
Caith, Gob, Quillen
Enemy 1
Zahaz, Dalangi
Enemy 2
etc.

Which allows the people who are bold, in this case me, Quillen and Gob to do something when we want as opposed to Gob and Quillen having to wait for me to post my action.

There are a few downsides, most likely to do with wanting someone else to do something first ( for example move out the way ), but if you just include a line like; I will do X after Y has done something I find it mostly works out.

But as I said, it's up to you how you want to handle initiative, just making a suggestion to how you could handle it based on my experience (both as GM and player) in various pbp games.

Yeah, I also add it to the Campaign Info tab rather than the map for the above stated reasons. It also tends to clutter the map page up in my opinion.

Shah Init: +2
Shah Perc: +6

Another thing I do to prevent delays is average the initiative bonuses of all enemies and roll them all together so that the party essentially all acts as one unit and the bad guys all act as one unit.

There's cons to this as well, but it ensures the players can each post when they do their check-in versus getting stuck waiting for a single monster to act (when there's say 4 monsters).

Fuzzfoot Init: +3
Fuzzfoot Perc: +3

for the sake of making my life a little easier:

Are any of you casters essentially permanently operating under the effects of Detect Magic? I know with my casters, I get tired of eternally saying, I cast detect magic.

So if any of you are casting detect magic over and over and over and over again in order to have it up at all times not in combat, please let me know.

I can cast detect magic, but I don't think I would be casting it constantly.

same. I tend to just roll play it out when it makes sense only.

I appologize for the drastic slowing of my ability to post. Work is nuts, death in family, other family member diagnosed with cancer. Bad month. Not sure when I will be back to full speed, but I will keep on plugging away. This is the last encounter.

Still there, GM?

I have a timing issue with this character, and am wondering if I just missed the chronicle or if GM just got delayed due to RL (which sounds very likely and understandable).

I grabbed this scenario to run it in an upcoming gameday.

The gold from this scenario is:

1,177 out of tier
1,847 tier 4-5

We appear to have completed the success conditions to gain 2pp as well.

You can probably start another game while you wait for the chronicle... I know this happens in in-store games sometimes too when a GM doesn't bring enough chronicle sheets to hand out.

Thanks, Quillen! I have, in the past, just missed that chronicles were posted, so I like to double check. I am reworking this character before level 2, and just needed to know if I could proceed. It sounds like I should be ok.

Curious though - what happens if a GM fails to report a session? Surely it must happen...

You'd hit up the local venture officer if it's an in-store game and they'd likely issue you the chronicle.

For online games, there's a VO of online play.

I'm sure our GM will take care of us though. I'm in another PbP with him and he just checked in.

I'm sorry

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Overflow/OPD-BTE-20150508100440.pdf?_subject _uid=405026610&w=AADrx6ipUH84Zgsf2FWnWywqggBquwZ791Y2puZ56mVpbQ

Should be chronicles

That link doesn't seem to work.

Doesn't work for me either. You might need to try putting it in the [url=][/url] form to turn it into an actual hyperlink. See the "How to format your text" thing below if you need help.

Edit: Actually, I think the problem may be that we don't have permission to view/download them.

this one should work

Got it, thanks for that.

Thanks much, Epo - I hope things are starting to look up for you.

Got it now!

Got mine as well. Thanks again for running this for us.