Reign of Winter (Inactive)

Game Master Just a Mort

Ah, so when its a +1 Flaming Amulet of Mighty Fists, THEN his bite allows him to bypass DR/Magic. Gotcha.

does it? I didn't think of that? does it count even if it's not +1 and just fire?

Spectating

"Ah, well thank you for the healing at least", Hirah smiles at the Jyoti, """and I guess for saving my head!"

Its so weird talking to this creature when I work with someone called Jyoti.

Thats what I was trying to check Einar. I looked up the FAQ before posting so I didn't look like a nub, but apparently if its a +3 AoMF then it bypasses Cold Iron. Therefore, I'm assuming (and just assuming mind you), that a +1 AoMF would bypass DR Magic

You can add properties on AMOF without the +1 requirement which is what Einar did, so it gives 1d6 fire, but does not count as a +1. Spend money upgrading it and sure, you can get a +1 AMOF

Einar's first claw catches Grundir on his head and he looks stunned at the blow, then topples to the ground, landing with a resounding crash like a large tree being felled.

Making the assumption you'll stop at 1, you don't need to kill him per se. Hirah was sort of an accident...

"Grundir down, Victory to the mortals!" The female gnome announces.

Several large air elementals whisk Grundir over to the gnome, while grumbling in Auran about the weight. She who checks him over. "Still kicking." The Jyoti walks over then places a hand on him. "Wake up."

CSW: 3d8 + 11 ⇒ (6, 1, 4) + 11 = 22

Grundir sits up, and looks around groggily."Oh yeah! That was great! Hey Einar, if you ever feel bored with the mortal world, do stop by and look me up down here for a brawl. I'm getting soft, and golly it shows!"

The Jyoti facepalms. "What can I say about fighter-types? I swear the armor they wear squeezes all the brain juices out of their heads."

"You have proven yourself worthy in this trial by arms, mortals, and I shall aid you in your quest."A chest appears in her hands, and she hands it to Ravathiel who gives it to Einar. In the chest there is an emerald green headband(headband of inspired wisdom +2), a topaz runestone (runestone of power level 1) and a scepter studded with rubies.(Lesser metamagic rod of extend)

"Would you wish to enjoy our hospitality for a while, or return to the mortal realms?" Queen Titania asks."Should you wish to requisition anything from the First World, feel free to speak to Lirisiel." A leprechaun steps up at the mention of her name.

Hospitality=food and drink, but I'm not surprised if you decline since there's a whole host of tales about eating and drinking in Fairyland

Thats some seriously useful loot. Can I get the headband if no-one else wants it? Einar, how short are you for a +1 upgrade on your AoMF? I probably have about 3K handy to make up your shortfall.

Thats some seriously useful loot.

I don't know, no big glowing sword... Of course I can't complaint too much, since Einars in mitheral plate.

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How short are you for your amulet +1 upgrade?

Crummock breathes a sigh of relief when the giant goes down.

I said that Einar was useful to have around... glad to see I wasnae bluffin'!

I assume Hirah wants the headband, and Mr Whiskers wants the stone and the rod?

Alright, selling off all the loot we have acquired on the current crawl nets each PC 1715.92gp. Spend it wisely!

Crummock nods thoughtfully.

"Aye, I wouldnae mind a big bag o' holly berries, if ye dinnae mind..."

What precise price would we set on that?

Einar is 12k short of getting it +1

Yeah, I barely have 5K now so thats not enough to make up that difference. Sorry Einar :9

If its spell components, everything is considered to be in your spell component pouch and for that, free, as long as the material component did not state the price.

"Huh, if you want holly berries, you can have them all for free. They grow here, so pick as many as you want. I suppose if you need to pay me SOMETHING, you can give me a copper piece." Lirisel hands over a bag of holly berries to Crummock.

You may buy anything you want here. Of any quantity.

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How short are you for your amulet +1 upgrade?

I doubt if I will upgrade it, he gets flaming claws at 12th level, so he may do something else, just not sure yet.

'He's down, that's enough right? I should rip his heart out for what he did to Hirah but that wouldn't be polite I suppose.' Seeing the swordsman go down, Einar stops, mid attack. Stepping back from the fey, blood dripping from both claws he releases the rage.

As the queen speaks, and Einar receives the chest, setting it down, he opens it so the party can see the contents. When Grundir calls out his invitation, Einar turns smiling showing a row of Fangs. "I may take you up on that someday Grundir, In the mean time, do you have anything to drink, before we came here there were three beautiful woman inviting us to a party but Ravathiel said we didn't have the time."

Hmm, if I blow all of my wealth, I can upgrade my chainshirt to +2 and get an amulet of natural amour which takes my AC to 20. Do you guys reckon this is a fair investment? Hmm yeah objectively, I really should. Its a bad call my having the lowest AC in the party I think

I wouldn't bother if I were you. Mithril BP coming soon!

AH, I'll save it for now. Will we get an opportunity to restock before the start of Book 3?

This is all you'll ever have =(

Edit: Buy amulet of natural armor if you want, but you probably don't want to upgrade your armor

Mr. Whiskers let's out a sigh of relief when Grundir goes down. When he wakes and mentions brawling, Mr. Whiskers chuckles.

At the queens proclaimation, he bows to her and says "Thank you, your majesty!"

At mention of hospitality, he looks at Einar for a moment. I'm not sure if we have time for him to recover from such an event, to say nothing of how long he might celebrate. I can just imagine the trouble he and Grundir could get into!

After a few seconds thought, he turns back to the queen and says "Though the offer is quite tempting your majesty, I fear it would delay us too long. We should return to the mortal realm and resume our quest."

When he has a chance, he goes over to Grundir and congratulates him on the battle. "It was only our numbers that allowed us to succeed! I hope if ever I see you again in battle, we will be fighting on the same side!"

He also approaches the gnome and jyoti, thanking them for the healing.

Bed time. Will deal with the rest tomorrow.

Hmm, well if Mithril Breastplate is arriving for my in my future, I'll pick it up, but if someone else (like maybe Einar) might want it, then I'm probably better off stocking up on armor now. Einar thoughts?

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NVM I'll avoid spoilers and just trust I'll get an upgrade at some point down the track. I'll buy a AoNA +1 now and take things as it comes.

Einar currently has mithral full plate. I doubt he will fight you for the breastplate ;-)

Ah, thanks. I checked the sheet but I think I must have skimmed over and missed it. That makes things easier.

Yeah, it's on the loot sheet on the 'Book 2' tab ;-)

It was in Longrivitch's treasure stash actually.

Ah, thanks. I checked the sheet but I think I must have skimmed over and missed it. That makes things easier.

I have it on his sheet, but I realize now that's not what you meant ;) feel free to take the future mitheral breast plate, I feel guilty that Einar is using so much of the stuff we've found all ready.

'Thank you for the offer...delay too long?' Einar quickly looks at Mister Whiskers, "It wouldn't take that long to... Oh, never mind. No rest for the wicked right?" Turning to Grundir, he waves. "Maybe the next time we'll see if you drink as well as you fight, Yes?" Einar points down to the chest asking; "Do you mind if I keep the chest, we can carry stuff in it."

Einar

"Oh, you can have my aleskin!" He tosses an aleskin at Einar. "Cheers! To many more brawls!" He pulls out another aleskin, and smacks Einar's aleskin from it, then takes a swig out of his own aleskin.

Queen Titania motions Einar to go ahead.

Hirah

Grundir peers at Hirah. "You're fine now, right? No hard feelings, right?" He offers her a huge paw of a hand to shake.

Mr Whiskers

"But I've never been so thoroughly bested and I love it! And yeah you guys run a good fight!" He answers Mr Whiskers.

Hirah takes the hand and gives it a firm shake. "No hard feelings" she confirms, before offering a wry smile "I would have been more upset if you held back after all, it was a good fight."

"That is a fair statement." Queen Titania nods. "We should not delay your quest any further. Ravathiel, take them back." She commands.

Ravathiel touches the party and the world shimmers for a moment. Then the party finds themselves back in cold, dreary Irrisen, in the part of the forest where the reality siphon used to be. The reality siphon is now gone, and the party hears the hoots of a snow owl from the trees and sees a raging Ulfen man in a spiked grey breastplate with a polar bear on it, wielding a guisarme(Earl Bynjar), and a woman(Nazhema) in blue robes, flying 35 ft in the air.

"And so, the exile returns. I should have had you hanged back then." Earl Bynjar growls. The party notices Earl Bynjar's outlined seems a little blurred. (20% concealment against melee and ranged attacks)

"I suppose I should thank you for ridding me of this fey incursion,”Nazhema says coldly, “but we both know what you’ve cost me already."

Behind them both is a two-story wooden hut dominating the clearing. The hovel stands on enormous chicken legs that restlessly scratch at the ground, but a gigantic manacle of iron, attached to a huge chain bolted to a spike in the earth, shackles the hut in place. An osseous fence surrounds the structure, and two corpses are impaled upon the sharpened bone pickets. A few ravens hop and flutter over the bodies, picking at the choicest bits of flesh.

Slide 26

Mr Whiskers Init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Hirah Init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
Einar Init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
Crummock Init: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4

Earl init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Nazhema init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Roll off

Earl init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Mr Whiskers Init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Hirah, Earl, Mr Whiskers, Einar, Nazhema, Crummock

I apologize if I'm raining on anyones parade here, but I don't see a diplomatic way forward here, so excuse me, but I might as well try to get a free demoralize before hostilities (eventually), break out. Also this Earl Bynjar sounds like a colossal jerk without having really met him before.

Hirah strides into a more prominent position, Greatsword half drawn. "Nonsense, you can thank us by kneeling, dropping all weapons and accepting us as your new superiors" Hirah smirks, attempting a rather cocky attitude in the face of an ice cold winter witch (thats what she is right?). "We handled the fey incursion without too much difficulty, whats to be worried about a man in polarbear pajamas and a women that needs a better social life"

Intimidate: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24

I came up with a dozen worse insults but idk, I didn't want to cross any lines so I went with something very G rated and probably lame. Sorry :(

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Oh, GM updated while I was posting. Do I just retcon my demoralize pre combat GM?

Roll intimidate

Oh yes, he had Einar exiled. Then go get started with your turn.

2 rounds of demoralize done on him - 10 above DC. You're up. I just unveiled the map.

Technically, I should wait / delay for Mr Whiskers here to see who wants that position of Fly (since whoever has it has the best shot against Ms Witch. Since he is asleep though, I'll might post something conditional, since I think squares = 5 feet and I couldn't close to anyone in reach right?

Each square is 10 ft. Can see on slide 26 on slide. Do you want to delay?

If each square is 10 feet, I'll summon the hell out of something. Aint no way he can close with me in melee which equals a free summon round. I'll summon a Lanturn Archon that flies, and readies an action to smack her with a Light Beam if she looks like shes going to cast something.

Go ahead and summon away.

I think I placed it at max summon range which is all I really want at this stage. Something high up where its out of melee range, ideally so it can keep its aura online, and still in a place where it can fire lasers if she tries sneaky spellcasting.

Earl Bynjar will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Nazhema will: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

Both the Earl and Nazhema are unaffected by the aura. The Earl chugs a potion and grows to twice his size.

Mr Whiskers, Einar, Nazhema, Crummock, Hirah

The earl is enlarged, has 20 ft reach, so if your lantern archon makes light beam attacks, will take AOO, as it is now threatened.

Demoralize was factored in.

If I'm 30 feet high, does he still hit me though?

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Actually there should be no reason for my Archon to be in range. When selecting placement, the only thing I cared about was hitting X with my Light Ray without provoking. That's legitimately it. Therefore, the Lanturn Archon should in no way be anywhere close to the distance of Enlarge Person + Reach Weapon - its always going to be in a safe region, especially as Hirah saw Einar pull off the same trick earlier and knows what a "safe ceiling" is. I don't see what the issue is, she will probably make the concentration check anyway so why is this strategy so OP that I'm apparently forced to take an AoO in order to use it?

Going to sleep now.

I thought you were trying to catch BOTH the Earl and Nazhema in the aura, which IS possible(but exposes you to reach issues, once enlarged) - which isn't a bad idea. If you want I can just place it so that it catches only Nazhema in the aura, and out of the Earl's reach. Then the earl would use his save only when he came into the aura. Im fine with that result as well, and for all intents and purposes, it will be out of the Earl's melee reach.

Mr. Whiskers casts glitterdust on the Earl, pumping the difficulty, and moves out of the way!

DC 18 will for the Earl, thanks for the debuff Hirah! Haste next round.

GM Mort Is it difficult terrain?

Oh yes it certainly is. Whole place is DT.

Will save again: 1d20 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 3 = 23

+3 for against Spells, spell like abilities, and gee, I didn't realize, would have applied to Su abilities as well. I think I need to go back to beatstick skool.

The Earl is covered with sparkles but is not blinded.

Earlier
’That will work!’ Catching the aleskin, he nods to Grundir, and seeing the queen nod, it lifts it in a silent toast and takes a quick swig. ”I shall drink the rest tonight to your health m’lady.”

Now
’Earl Bynjar and the flier must be Nazhema, killing him may not get me closer to owning my families land again, but I’ll still enjoy it. I don’t need to be in a hurry lets see if I can bait him a little.’ Looking at the ground as the Earl drinks his potion, "Well old man, your time has past. But if you want to try I'm here now." Einar shrugs and drawing his bow, he fires a couple cold iron arrows at Nazhema.

Full Attack: MW Longbow:
attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11 for damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 for damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Mort, I realize while we were in the fairyland we were at full stats, but did we remain there or did we return to our normal numbers when we returned?

"Remember your potions, Einar!"

We each have a potion of Featherstep if you are worried about DT!

I did forget about the potions, but I wanted to see if I could bait him to come to me, he doesn't know I can enlarge since that happened well after I left.

Earlier

The sweet mead tastes like honey and burns all the way down Einar's throat. Einar gains the effects of barbarian chew for the rest of the day.

The effect lasts on Golarion, so you just got 1 more rage round for the day. There are enough for 7 more swigs in that Aleskin.

Now

The first arrow bounces off an invisible force field. The second arrow hits Nazhema, causing her to hiss in pain.

Nazhema begins to cast a spell. The lantern archon fires on her.

Lantern archon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Nazhema's concentration check: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22

Nazhema grits her teeth and continues her spellcasting.

Mr Whiskers Spellcraft: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

Ooops. Mr Whiskers has no idea what the heck Nazhema is doing.

Nazhema has fly skill +19. Not bothering to roll hover. Crummock and Hirah up before Earl.

Knowledge (arcana) to recognize what happened with the arrow: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20 Missed it by one is my bet!