[PFS/DMK/EMS] The Emerald Spire Superdungeon

Game Master Kludde

Quick question for Jelani. Is the enlarge person part of your rage and if so would it end once you fall asleep?

Yes, the size is a function of the rage. I kind of forgot about my rage ending if I sleep, so I should be medium sized now actually.

Okay, so Bruce CAN'T disarm the trap after it's already been set off.

Ouch...well guys, the MINIMUM duration of this spell is 30 minutes. Maximum is 3 hours. So, I guess we need to decide whether 3 of us can win this battle. If we can, I guess we press forward. If not, we should try to get our allies out of here and reset.

Just noticed something useful that I hadn't realized before.

Cure light wounds, Mass (level 5 spell) can target 1 creature per level.

Which means I can target each of us, plus the lich (healing and doing damage, unlike channeling)

In addition, it heals 1d8 +1 per level, but with a max of +10, not +5 like the simple CLW spell.

So if/when I use that, its a minimum of +11 HP, plus a chance to chip away at the Lich's HP, even though its a pretty small chip.

Not sure that's enough to turn the tide, but could be useful, especially since I only have 2 channels left. I'm still holding out hope that I can turn undead on this guy at least once and give us a full round of extra actions on him. That might swing the battle in our favor.

Yeah, that could really help, especially once you run out of channels and such.

On another note, checking out Wall of Force, I don't think it helps us to try to destroy it. It has WAY too many hp and hardness. BUT, I also noticed it only lasts a round/level. I'm not sure if this was cast the same way or has a special rule, but it may not be up too much longer.

DM, do we have any idea what round this is?

I've now got haste up another 9 rounds. I think we should focus on taking down mirrors and these terra cotta guys for now, and then if/when the shield goes down, we go for the lich.

FYI, I'm taking a weekend trip with my beautiful wife to get away from the Utah cold. I'll be back on Tuesday.

Hopefully I don't miss much with it being a weekend, but I'm unlikely to post. Please bot me as necessary!

I went on vacation for nine days, come back and Jelani is still sleeping. Wooohoo. Looks like you guys are doing a good job though :)

This post is just a heartbeat post from my end basically.

There's actually a post for jelani and fellgrim, and something to act on

Thistle, with Bruce out for who knows how long, I thought no we will have to kill this. It has taken some good damage, but not enough, and I need to get out of this cloud to see it. What do you think of eating a bunch of opportunity attacks for me so I can get in the room and attack it?

Ok guys ... I really suck at wishes ... so ... if the GM will permit a little table talk here, I could use some ideas?

I'm thinking some form of magic invulnerability or high resistance might be the way to go? Especially since Fellgrim doesn't know much about liche vulnerabilities. A second though would be some sort of powerful bane weapon?

Wish to wake up, then walk through the mirror!!!!

(You both are still useless until you wake up, and I have nothing to remove that condition - all the wishes in the world won't matter if you aren't awake...)

We are close to beating this guy. I have a feeling the pact you are making currently (heart and head) will also take care of this lich's phalactory (sp?)

I'm still worried that mechanical heart is the phalactory...

GM nods empatically....

Yes, wake up! You are under the influence of a sleep spell. Wish to wake up!

Hey guys, I mac make the emperor visible again with invisibility purge, but it will reveal fell grim and Bruce. You guys ok with that? Otherwise let me know what kind of strategy you want to use...

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I agree that seeing the emperor is more important...I think we are close, but need to finish him off.

Purge it! (my vote, anyway)

I vote purge

I think that is probably enough of a yes vote, and I really think it's the right thing to do. Plus, with Caranthir likely opening up a big enough hole I should be able to move into the room to get it all, provoking from the remaining warriors and allowing Jelani to steamroll into the room behind me.

Post up in a few minutes to that effect...

Sorry for the late reply; I was going to attack this round anyway, so the purge is way good here :-)

Ok so we have a few options here as layed out by our DM.

Resto/Breath of Life combo - which I have the ability to cast myself. I believe this will carry the inherent risk of a second failed will save which would compel me to put the heart in my chest... but maybe that is a risk either way. I can do things to help boost my will save to help prevent something like that.

Remove Curse - We could pay for the spellcasting service, but its 1500gp a pop and no guarantee that the 5th level cleric would even be able to hit the caster level check to actually remove it. (1d20+5 seems unlikely to be able to remove a powerful curse)

Of course, we could technically just find a higher level spellcaster for a better chance. No material components at least.

Alternatively, If we are able to finish the level and get chronicles before having to remove the heart (which I kind of doubt, the way PFS is generally structured) I can chose remove curse as my newest 3rd level spell, and be able to cast that myself as well. No material component, so no spellcasting cost. 1d20+11 and a few tries to get a roll high enough to break the curse.

It's up to you Bruce, but one way or another, we will get this heart out of your chest...

As Thistle said, this is Bruce's call.

Sorry for the delay, I'm in Florida on spring break. I'll get a post up as soon as I can, I should have some time tonight

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Hey all, I will be on spring break with my family (Moab Utah).

My posting from Wednesday until Sunday will be spotty, though I hope to check in from time to time.

Apologies for going AWOL on you. I left for holiday, and i forgot to post that here. I will probably resume posting early next week.

No worries...glad we're all still here (especially you). :)

Chronicles! (link)

Purchases

• Upgrade chain shirt to +4 (sell/purchase 15,250gp)
  
• Cloak of Resistance +4 16,000gp
  
• Aegis of Recovery 1,500gp
  
• Lenses of Detection 3,500gp
  

I'm pretty much leveled and ready to go.

I'm almost done leveling, just need to transfer the new stats to my profile and go shopping. Sorry for being so slow, guys.

Okay, I'm leveled and ready to go.

Bruce, are you ready?

Hey guys, sorry for my delay. I'm ready to go. I'll have my profile updated tonight.

Looks like we're just missing Bruce, then...

Sorry things are a bit chaotic between home and work. I'll do my best to finish my level up tonight.

FYI, I'll be traveling in Europe for the next two weeks. I'll try to keep up on posting, but will likely be sporadic. Please bot me as needed.

Bruce takes a moment to examine the strange gold wiring.

Know engineering: 1d20 + 11 + 1d8 ⇒ (5) + 11 + (6) = 22

This is the first time in a week that the Paizo website has actually come up for me....

Not the first time there have been awful problems with this website though.

/sigh

The website has been quite flaky for me too, though I get the impression my browser cache is to blame half of the time. It doesn't hurt clearing out the cache of trying a different browser/device every once in a while.

I'm off on vacation later this morning without a PC. I most likely won't be posting anything significant until I get back next monday.

I'll be backpacking (Ibapah Peak in Utah) for the next little bit, and won't be able to post again until Monday. Please bot me as needed!

While we are on the vacation announcement train, I'll be on vacation starting this Sunday, through the following Sunday. Default action is to heal anyone hurt... :)

I'm home, but exhausted after many days of 100+ degree heat, seeing sights with a small toddler in tow. I'll be catching up and starting to post tomorrow.

Looks like we all had some vacations...we back in action soon?

Kludde, everything alright?

Hmmm...no posts from Kludde since July 28. Very unlike him.

I hope he's doing okay...

I'm still here, will try to get something up today. Life has been busy :-/

Glad to hear it. No pressure, just wanted to make sure you were alright!

There you are. Sorry if my posts are few and far between. This combat has a lot of moving parts, and takes some time investment to keep going. That, and the increase in time pressure that I'm facing these days. Thanks for bearing with me!

In other news: I'm opening a table of the Starfinder quests for the PbP gameday. Feel free to sign up if you want to give the system a try.

Ooh, is there a Starfinder reference document? I was all excited when they first announced but forgot about it since it's been a while. Didn't realize that the system was released now. I'd love to give it a try.

There's no reference doc yet (announcement says it will be up this fall). I managed to get a hold of the core rulebook pdf. The quests aim to showcase the new rules (they were run on Gencon before the release of the Core rulebook), so I suppose it should be ok for someone who is familiar with PFS.

Do we need the books? I don't have any yet.