PbP GameDay 4: GM Aarvid PFS 6-xx Scions of the Sky KeyPart 3 [1-5] (Inactive)

Game Master GM Aarvid

I've bought a Masterwork Quarterstaff, and a Climber's kit. Ready for the next part.

Grax will buy a cloak of resistance +1 (1,000 gp) and a potion of lesser restoration (300 gp), both from his Chronicle of Master of the Fallen Fortress. I can PM you a link to the chronicle if you'd like, Aarvid. :)

He'll also purchase 9 bullets (9 sp) and 9 doses of black powder (9 gp), and 5 paper alchemical cartridges (60 gp). The prices of the first two are modified by Gunsmithing, the last is not.

Can we make another Day Job roll? If so:

Profession (Caravan): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Sessions have been reported to the GD4 staff, so those I cannot change. Let me know if you do not see them show up on the Paizo site by next weekend.

@Graxzos - I thought I already had your day job roll for part-1 ...so that is the one on the sheet...unless you meant to apply this to part-2, which I can do once we finish. :)

Let me know if you have any other questions. I do not need links to chronicles etc unless you bought a +5 holy reaver admantium set of nunchucks...then I might request to see the documentation.

Otherwise, we are good to go for part 2.

Yep, I was intending that to be for Part 2 if needed. :)

I decided to buy nothing this time round. Good to go.

PM sent to Thaia. If she does not join, I will use the 4 player adjustments...unless you know of someone you want to join. It is usually harder to find someone new to play part 2 of a trilogy though.

Still here--just a busy weekend.

I hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving weekend.

FYI - I have not heard or seen any posts from Majal since Nov 19th. I will assume she is still with you and hope for a post prior to the final encounters. If still nothing by then, I can remove her and scale the encounter for 4 PC's. This encounter was lightweight, so I did not adjust.

More or less our situation.

Because this could be important, I wanted to review:

One point of clarification, there were several items found earlier in the mission (arrows, potions, tokens etc).
I did not exactly get a good accounting of who is carrying which since we thought Majal was with the group, but turned out not to be.

You each have 1 egg (5 total, with Jakob having the 5th)

Sapper-1 egg, 1 Magic Pear
Graxzo-1 egg, 1 Alchemist Fire
Yndra-1 egg, 2 Potions(unknown), 2 Oils (Unknown)
Thaia-1 egg,

Jakob-1 egg
Jakata-1 masterwork composite longbow (assumed)

Unclaimed Treasure from two Aspis bodies (to carry):
1 Alchemist Fire
2 Tokens
2 Sleep Arrows
1 Potion - Hide from Animals
100' Silk Rope + Grappling hook
1 Longbow

Unclaimed Treasure from two Aspis bodies (to carry):
1 Alchemist Fire
2 Tokens
1 potion Hide from animals
100' Silk Rope + Grappling hook

I have carried the alchemist fire as replacement for the one I chucked at the swarm. I took the silken rope, so I assume the grappling hook as well. The tokens, I had apparently glossed over when they were first mentioned, but I think it's safe to assume Yndra to them for further study. Same goes for the potion, unless someone else wants that one?

I left the bow and sleep arrows, because I can't use those. They might come in handy now, though. Shoot an archer off the bridge and watch it feel down when asleep. Can anyone use a longbow?

Edit, to discuss the current situation: Those were some seriously nasty rolls. Did you intentionally forget to confirm the crit on Yndra?
Grax, what's your plan with retreating? We can't all take cover behind the tree, as was shown in the first round. I can't really help in ranged combat, as well. My best bet would be to stay below the drawbridge, and take out the stuff on the ground first.

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Grax's items look correct. I agree that the tokens were probably going to be held by Yndra (and she definitely had the alchemist's fire). Other items I'm not sure we specified...as the resident climber, it'd make some sense for Grax to take the rope and grapple, but I'm not sure he did. Unless they were with the same person that had a climbing kit, he took one of those off a corpse at some point.

As to strategy...on the first round they attacked me and Thaia, and I think that I at least had moved myself out from cover to try to spot what was going on. I'm just assuming that if we can all get north of the tree they'll have to at least come around to shoot at us, and the ones above may (?) have to descend. (can they shoot straight down from that platform thing? Or would we have cover?)

I also thought things were slightly more desperate with Thaia's hit points than they actually are, so this isn't quite as urgent, I guess. Still not good, though. :P

Also: I can use the bow, though not as well as my gun.

OK, in that case I'll probably move adjacent to the archer on the ground, and ready an action to follow him around. Will mean he draws an AoO of he wants to shoot, and gives me some decent protection from the archer above, since I'll be on melee. What do you think? Good plan, or suicide?

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Finalize the items and actions and let me know.

Also, as a time-check, in another post I saw 6 days left on GD4 (or maybe that is just for the special). So if we want to wrap this part up with a chance of boons, we need to finish by this weekend.

Part-3 (assuming everyone survives) would definitely not be part of GameDay4.

In the interest of keeping things moving, can we say that Grax has taken the rope and grappling hook, along with the bow and arrows, while Thaia has taken the potion? She had some run-ins with the local wildlife before, after all....

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...Thaia has taken the potion? She had some run-ins with the local wildlife before, after all....

That's fine. Any heavy stuff you don't want to carry can go the the porter.

Works for me...make it so. :-)

All I have it the two potions and oils that we found on the Aspis. I'm taking a chance and bank on it being a healing potion.

I've got nothing better to offer. :S

As far as I know, GD4 finishes tomorrow.
We can try to wrap tomorrow (which would be good and we get a chance for boons) or we continue without rushing. Hopefully we can get one more round in.

For part-3 (after GD4), I suspect we want to recruit another player or two to replace Majal. I think your current party will have major problems in the combats without help.

Finally, I will be driving my family to Florida on Monday, so I will have some short posts. If we wrap tomorrow, I can try to get chronicles out before I leave.

Otherwise I will not have them until after new years most likely (no scanner on the road). Since (I think) you all wanted to continue to part 3 with me that should not be a problem. I can can give details so you can calculate purchases/level etc.

Does a TPK count as "finishing"?

What happens to dead PC's?

We will not have a TPK on this table, but as written, Kalim may make good his escape so it could cost some gold depending on actions and luck of the rolls.

I have to admit the dice bot has it in for you despite my best efforts to have the henchmen help keep you afloat. :-(

Really, this guy could make his escape at any time. It's not like we're in any condition to follow.

I'd like to try and see if we can finish this today. And indeed, some extra punch in combat sounds good for our next scenario.

How about some extra punch in healing?

I just realized I'll be level 2 at the end of this scenario, so that should help a (tiny) bit.

I will be level 2 as well.

Grax will hit 3, but sadly that will not net him any healing prowess... :P

I'm happy to try to finish today, but am probably out for the count...only potion on Grax is a lesser restoration.

Sadly we have to make it to the end first....

Do those posts signal the end?

Yes, this is the wrapup. Sorry for rushing the last combat, but I figure it was going to end one way or another, better or worse. Technically with GD4 ending, it is like being a real-life convention where they are turning out the lights.

I will try to get everything closed before we start our 2 day drive for Christmas Vacation.

Boon Rolls:
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Graxzos: 1d20 ⇒ 5
Sapper: 1d20 ⇒ 12
Thaia: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Yndra: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Boon of players choice on a natural roll of 1 or 20
**Re-Rolls not allowed on boons**

Bummer, none of us get a boon this round. Although I heard there may be some other kind of boon coming, but it may only be for the special. We will not be running part-3 as part of GD4, so we will not need to worry about boons for that part.

Bummer, but at least we finished. And no worries about hurrying the fight.

Indeed; good to finish! And we can always hunt that jackass down later. :P

Session has been reported
PbP Gameday IV

Scenario: 6-14 Scions of the Sky Key, Part 2: Kaava Quarry [1-5]

Please review your respective sheet and let me know if it is ok. I did not mark day jobs, so you can roll or I can re-send it after I get back in January.

Also, so there are 4 of you, but sounded like a couple of you leveled, so that will help. Do any of you know of another player you'd want to add or want to stay with 4? Otherwise, I can post on the boards for a replacement (or two). We will start back up maybe later this week or early the next to give people a chance to level or make purchases.

Please review your respective sheet and let me know if it is ok. I did not mark day jobs, so you can roll or I can re-send it after I get back in January.

** spoiler omitted **

Also, so there are 4 of you, but sounded like a couple of you leveled, so that will help. Do any of you know of another player you'd want to add or want to stay with 4? Otherwise, I can post on the boards for a replacement (or two). We will start back up maybe later this week or early the next to give people a chance to level or make purchases.

I don't know of anyone currently looking for a game (particularly part tree of a three-part game). If you like I have a 2nd level melee fighter who I could replace Thaia with if folks think that would help. Thaia herself won't level until the end of part three.

Got the chronicle, looks good. Yndra doesn't have a day job, I'll cross that off. I'll also cross off the subtier 4-5 rewards, I guess you may have forgotten about those.

I'll update Yndra's stats to level 2 tonight. I'd rather play her than any other of my characters for the third scenario, because of the dwarven connection. With so many possible players on these forums, I'm hoping we'll be able to get one or two more in the PFS recruitment thread, so none of us will have to switch.

Last question: are there limits to the sort of equipment we can buy before the third part?

Edit, because I forgot: I like the way you resolved the last combat. It felt fitting.

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Part 3 mirrors the first two - ending with a tough combat. I can try to find someone - another alternative is buying guard dogs to add some meat to the front line.

I've finished leveling Yndra to level 2. I also picked up the Iconoclast archetype, while I could still rebuild at level 1. It seemed fitting for the direction I'd be taking her.

Will do some final shopping, when I know what's possible.

Grax is leveling up to 3...and I'm debating taking a level of barbarian, which would increase his front-line viability slightly. Any thoughts? (I'd grab the Urban Barbarian archetype so that his rage could boost DEX.)

Aarvid, I'm putting my profession roll below. It'd be handy if you can resend the chronicle with that in, it'd be handy. If not, no worries--otherwise it looks good.

Profession (Intimidate): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Also: can anyone explain the second part of the grippli boon to me? Does it do anything, or do you need a second "part" (ie. a boon from another scenario) to actually create a character with "grippli options?"

I have no idea. I'm not even sure what "grippli options" are...

I will be leveling to 2 soon. :)

Day job, Craft:Alchemy: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
That's +50 gold. It would be nice if that were added to the chronicle.

I should be good to go. I can now disable traps and blow holes in objects like doors that oppose us. :)

I will resend with day jobs once I am back home.

Things are going to be crazy here for Christmas so I may not post for a couple days.

Ditto. No worries.

I have a friend/GM from my other games who is interested in part 3 and willing to help round out the table. I am sending him the link to join.

Nice!

G'Day all, thanks for the invite.

I have a grippli boon from GenCon whose back story ties in nicely with part 2. I haven't played her/him yet, but have built a magus and a druid HALO troop (GI Joe's Ripcord, not the video game). I also have a second level triceratops shaman.

I don't know if you have any holes that need filling, but I can run the grippli as any class (so long as Aspis can be preyed upon :)

Preferences? Choices? Suggestions?