[PFS Gameday V] GM Hmm 7-00 Sky Key Solution [Tier 5-6] (Inactive)

Game Master Hmm

After thinking about it, I've decided to wait until morning. We can all try and catch up after this major holiday weekend, when all of us are hopefully here.

Hmm

Sorry for being slow, I managed to leave a piece of my luggage at home and had to go to Target Friday night and get supplies. Then Saturday 8-00 went to 1am. I managed a few posts that night but I should be back up to speed by Monday night going into Tuesday.

Especially since I've played this before please feel free to bot me to keep up the pacing if necessary. I should be back up to speed by Monday night though.

Congratulations for surviving the Slaugrak! I was terrified that I was going to TPK you... Not at all my idea of giving players a good time. Excellent teamwork dealing with a monster whose weaknesses you did not know.

BTW, anyone who enjoys reading after the fact villain dialogue now has my permission to click through the draconic spoilers.

I'll be moving you forward once I get home. Thanks for all your patience with the botting this weekend!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like we have to choose between EITHER: 1) focusing on finding out more about serpentfolk culture, OR 2) focusing on helping the enslaved humans?

I wanted to check since I don't know if we're being very clear about which one we're choosing in the gameplay thread. My vote is for the second option: focus on helping the enslaved humans at the cost of losing the opportunity for more knowledge. My diplomacy check can Aid Another either way, though.

Oh, my reading was we could try both. If I am wrong, ignore my post since it seems the others first posted for the other option.

And I was thinking that we, as individuals could pick one or the other. Seems reasonable that several people could be doing different things simultaneously... *shrugs*

If we do have to choose, I am also in favor of healing over interrogating... even if they are humans. XD

It's alright. Y'all made the Victory Point already... I'm just waiting to give Balon and Cacumattus a chance to talk.

I've got a map to draw tonight, and chances are I'm not going to be able to move you forward at all tomorrow except maybe in the early morning and during my lunch hour.

I've got work and then gaming. I'll be GMing Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts. But if they post tonight or really early, I might be able to move you on to the next challenge during one of those two times.

Some very nice posts, by the way!

I think we're finally finding our groove!

Hmm

Ooh! I'm running that one too during second half of gameday. Have to go update the guys in the prequel game now.

Have fun, Hmm!

Hey Gang,

I tried to compose a proper post at lunchtime and failed miserably. I've been home sick half the day, but am rousting myself to GM tonight.

Rather than give you a partially digested GM post, I'll try to get you a better composed post tomorrow morning.

Hmm

Hope you feel better, Hmm! It's the start of cold and flu season so drink plenty of fluids, eat vitamin C and all that good stuff!

Finally was able to move you all forward!

I do feel better, Reesa. I managed to rally a great game of Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts for my group last night. Scared the daylights out of them, but they had great fun, despite not having a bard with them.

I'll be walking into work shortly. I hope that all of you have fun with the research encounter. So sorry for not being as cogent yesterday as I would have liked, but Wednesdays are rotten for me anyway. I am going to try to keep us ahead of the curve most of the time so that we can absorb the occasional rotten Wednesday or con date.

Speaking of Con dates, two weeks from now is Skal Con. During that time, I'll likely only be getting in a post or two a day for you. But I'll try to get us far enough ahead that it won't matter.

Sounds good?

Hmm

Sounds good! Glad to hear you're feeling better. :)

Question for all of you..... I have the option of throwing more monsters at you whenever we finish a section early. The advantage: we can earn more victory points, perhaps to make up for tables that are less successful and skilled. And it would keep things going if we ever get days ahead. (Right now, though... we're pretty much in time.) The disadvantage: it's random melee encounters. No real story.

Do you want me to do this in the future, or do you want me to just pace us to keep us in time with the rest of the group?

Hmm

Are you allowed to tell us anything more about Victory Points? Obviously we'll want as many as possible, but I don't know if there's a specific number we're aiming for; and if there is, whether that's hidden information or not and that's part of the challenge.

In any case, I feel like we're doing pretty well already. I think you should hold off unless we're ahead of schedule and waiting for other tables to catch up.

Sorry for the gap in my posting... Apparently there are more things in my to-do-before-starting-new-job list than I realised ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Expect about 0.5ppd for the next few days, ramping back to ~2ppd by the middle of the week.

On the extra encounters, as a spell-resource-limited character I'd be worried about them being draining; but if we did get days ahead it would be good to keep the momentum up. Happy to follow the group decision either way.

There is a specific number of Successes that the average of all tables must earn in order to acheive the secondary success condition. Our table is doing great so far. (Victory points in this scenario are also fairly complex and come in different types.) But some tables might be much slower than ours. I know that when this was first played at Gencon, the House did not acheive the secondary success condition.

Hmm

I have no real problem with random extra encounters, as long as we as a group agree not to expend precious resources on them, at least as few as possible. For example, Balon will probably rely on his scythe for such encounters almost exclusively, and not cast his spells.

Healing after shouldn't be a problem, since I have wands of both healing types, and I'm sure others do as well.

My pacing has been near perfect so far! I've been within hours of the Overseer each time. Muahahahaha!

(Allow me these little moments. I need them, really I do.)

Okay, so we'll slip in extra encounters as we have time. Has the pace worked for everyone so far? I hope that you're enjoying this, despite us rushing from place to place due to this being a timed special.

EDIT: Murder's Mark of Crows is finishing up! Yes! Soon you will be the only PbP game In my universe and will have my undivided attention!

Hmm

Been doing great, I've been sick so I haven't been posting quite as much as I would like, but I'm sure this stupid cough will go away any day now.

I think things are going great! I've been sick as well and really overbooked myself for gameday, but I have still been managing to keep up with the pace. I went to the Doc yesterday, so hopefully my sinus infection will be bothering me less soon.

Daeris would actually like to see an encounter without a big huge thing capable of squashing Guen in one hit/bite etc. I'm starting to doubt if she was a good selection for this character. She'll be a lot more effective against a big group of lower CR things, so if randoms are more likely to have that sort of combat, I'm all for them.

Pacing has been great as far as im concerned!

I got a post up for all of you to play with... Sorry that it took a while, but I was closing out my Murder's Mark game. Now the curtains have closed on that PbP, and I'm all yours!

I do work tomorrow, but I'll try to check in from time to time throughout the day!

Hmm

Click. Whirr.

I protest these actions against my serpentine brethren. Construct abuse! Freedom for robots!

Lol, create pit is the greatest spell ever created against constructs. Can't hurt them? Just dump them in a hole and run away!

Whirr. Click.

I will bot the Salty Kraken soon if she doesn't get a chance to post in the next hour.

Ely, I don't know how many of those enlarges you have in a day, so I didn't enlarge you for this fight. I hope that's okay!

Hmm

That's okay! Sorry for the delay, I've been unexpectedly busy today. I will also be fairly busy tomorrow, as I'm going to a Con and it's also my anniversary with my partner, but I'll try to get some posts in if I can. ;D

Edit: Oh, and I can enlarge myself for the cost of 1 Mental Focus (listed in my quick reference bar). That's also the pool I draw from to do some of my other tricks (an elemental damage ray or weapon enhancement on my adamantine guisarme), so I feel like I can afford to enlarge myself most fights. I don't have a great feel for it yet, though, since this is the first time I've actually played this character since the playtest, so I haven't tried out my psychometrist abilities yet until now!

This Sunday I'm GMing Shades of Ice Part III. After the game, I'll bot Balon and Cacumattus if they haven't taken their turns already.

Balon, should I just plan on botting you every weekend? If I know in advance, I'll just do it.

Hmm

PS How old is your little one?

Thanks for the botting. First day at new job is over and the new work machine now has internet etc set up, so posting should be back to normal.

Probably a good idea, I'll try to post as much as I can on weekends but most of them will likely include some botting.

I will bot you liberally on weekends then, Balon, unless I hear otherwise. Does this sound good?

Now, my pretties... Let's kill this thing!

Hmm

Ok, let's see. Daeris' best skill on this one is Disable Device at +14.
Second best is Perception at +11, but this might be the best best since I think we could all roll it and take the best roll as primary with the others counting toward aid. What do we think?

Okay, what skill are we going to use that we can get several assists in? I think I saw that we could use Perception. We can all try to assist on that. Who's the best at Percepting in our little crew?

Perception does sound like a good option. Cacumattus has +14 in that, which looks like the equal highest (with Orin the eidolon) of the group from a glance at everyone's stat lines, and then there are a +11 and a couple of +8 for assists?

Cacumattus's next best of the options we can use are K(arc) and Spellcraft at +12, then Disable Device at +10 but I suspect there won't be as many assists available for those.

Ok, I'm gonna go ahead and post the perception under a spoiler since I am turning in very early tonight.

Perception it is, then!

You specifically cannot take 10 on an Aid Another check, btw

Gotcha. I'll go back and make a roll.

Perception does sound like a good option. Cacumattus has +14 in that, which looks like the equal highest (with Orin the eidolon) of the group from a glance at everyone's stat lines, and then there are a +11 and a couple of +8 for assists?

Cacumattus's next best of the options we can use are K(arc) and Spellcraft at +12, then Disable Device at +10 but I suspect there won't be as many assists available for those.

So I'm waiting to give you official word until I get the "take ten" lead perception roll from either Cacumattus or Orin the Eidolon. Though I'd love to have everyone post commentary and fluff if they can!

See you all in the morning!

Hmm

I'm going to roll my between-encounter healing here:

Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Thank you, Ely!

Click. Whirr.

FYI, I'll be botting Balon's take ten at lunchtime if he doesn't get a chance to post before then.

I'm Botilicious!

You're not needed this morning, Bot Buddy! Back in the box with you!

Hmm

Click. Whirr.

No. Nooooo. Freeeedom for robots!

*slips a robo-snack into the box as it closes*

Skipping optional encounters for now and moving you forward!

Hmm

* POKE *

Where are my brave warriors? Remember that your GM is going to be dragged off to SkalCon in a couple days...

Hmm

Click. Whirr.

Bot Buddy bangs on the inside of his box!

Played PFS last night and slept in this morning, I'm here now though :)