Revival of the Runelords (Inactive)

Game Master Cellion

Don't worry, Guinness, I've still got some cure spells left.

Guiness’ action will depend on the status of the dragon after those devastating attacks, as well as potentially if Astrid heals him. Also, I think the dragon is out of range for the slow-flying dwarf unless it loses some altitude, as Guiness is 40 feet up but probably out of range of an 80 foot charge.

I can make a conditional post if needed…

After that display, the dragon is definitely down and out! So feel free to act with that knowledge.

Too bad the dragon KO didn't happen over the Rusty Dragon! That would have made quite the decoration for the roof...

And the main floor, and the basement.

Kargas would be so distraught if that happened

Posting this in all my games, so I apologize if you've seen it already.

I'm going through a difficult period right now with my mental health, and it's making it hard for me to keep up with my games on here. I am not planning to quit or anything, but I just need a day or two to kind of unplug from stuff so I can get myself back to where I can be a more active contributor. In the meantime, I ask for your patience, and I will be back soon.

I really appreciate everyone's patience. I'm doing a lot better and I'm ready to get back into it. Might take a minute to catch up but I am here.

I really appreciate everyone's patience. I'm doing a lot better and I'm ready to get back into it. Might take a minute to catch up but I am here.

Guess who's back!

And thank goodness because we're hopeless otherwise. ;)

Alright, given the general dearth of activity in this game recently, do we want to tie a bow on it and call it done? This is a great stopping point narratively, and it seems enough of the party is quite busy with IRL responsibilities and/or other games that we're not able to keep the momentum rolling any longer.

What do you guys want to do?

...And here I just put together the loot log!

Thanks Guiness :)

Sorry for the bad timing. It's been something that's been on my mind for a while as we gradually slipped from having folks posting roughly once/day to the current rates. I'm not enthusiastic GMing when things start dragging, and recently its been particularly slow. When considering that we have three more very meaty books to adventure through, the current rate would take us many many years.

In my opinion, this is a good opportunity for those who have strong ties to Sandpoint to stay and defend it, with perhaps some new heroes rising to join the rest of us to charge off and face Mokmurian and company. Guiness is ready to keep going, but I understand if others are ready to call it a good ending point. I have really enjoyed the game thus far--I just need to find a way to get Guiness to fly a bit faster...

As one of the people whose posting rate has fallen off in a big way, I apologize. I know I've said that before but all the same.

I had discussed this with Cellion on the side, but I was actually hoping to use this point in the story to retire Kargas and replace him with a different character. When the first few versions of this campaign didn't get off the ground I got the chance to play Kargas in an IRL campaign and now he feels a little redundant. However I haven't been particularly on the ball as far as getting backstory and NPC connections put together, though I am progressing on that front.

My personal preference: I think being able to swap Kargas out for a new character that can go through the adventure with some mechanical and narrative novelty will help immensely. That said, I think it's ultimately up to our GM who has put in a lot of work, and if Cellion isn't having fun then we're defeating the purpose. If Cellion is okay with giving me "one more last chance" then I'd like to continue, but if we wind down the campaign I understand.

We can certainly bring in your new character if we continue Kargas.

Kellek can keep going. He has no particular connection with Sandpoint and no in-game NPC relations, being a would-be (will-be?) evil wizard and all. I just need to know if he has any treasure to buy more spells with.

I'd like to continues. My post are slow lately, but that is because I'm working longer hours right now and my two kids are at the end of the seasons for the respective sport. In the next few weeks, I have 2 playoff, 1 provincial tournement and one regional tournement. I should have a life again past April 10th.

I'm also a bit lost as where the group should be heading right now. I know my character knows the stuff, but I am so tire these past days that I have no idea of the clues we have. The only thing I can think of is following that tracks of the giants that survived.

I'd like to keep going. I'm not posting as much as I want to, but mostly like Colvyn I'm just not sure what the next step is. It seems like we don't have any leads, but I'm sure I'm just missing something that should be blindingly obvious.

If you guys are game to continue, then I'll keep things rolling. At this point in the story, the ball is in your court. It's definitely intended to be a trickier lead from here, but you guys have some information, connections, and higher level abilities that can help find a way to track this raid back to its source.

For those of you not able to post often, make sure to make your posts are properly pushing the action and story forward, especially when they're things only you can do (or things only you *want* to do). That way we hold things up the least for everyone else.

I will do a better job of that going forward. Sometimes I hesitate to post because I worry I'll wind up advancing us while others are wanting to focus on character work, but that's way less of a problem than bringing things to a halt while folks wait for me to cast a spell. D:

Please go ahead and look at the loot list. We should have Kellek sell off what we don't want to finance us, then when he returns (or while he is gone), we should try and go rescue the people taken by the giants.

Thanks for putting it together, Guiness!

It looks like the only item on there that would be useful to me is the +2 ring of protection, but obviously that should go to our frontliners first.

That said, we could exchange some of the loot to buy some incense for a few castings of divination, which might help get us on track.

I've marked down what I want to keep in the loot list. Hoping to have enough money after to upgrade my belt of strength from a +2 to a +4

Thanks for putting it together, Guiness!

It looks like the only item on there that would be useful to me is the +2 ring of protection, but obviously that should go to our frontliners first.

That said, we could exchange some of the loot to buy some incense for a few castings of divination, which might help get us on track.

Guiness has a +1 Ring of Protection he would gladly give to Someone in the party who can use it if he gets the +2 one from the loot.

Anyone else wishing to claim some treasure?

Sorry for getting no posts up today, I got re-certified for my first aid/AED/CPR and it's been a weird week.

I will be putting the finishing touches on my replacement character and running it by Cellion for approval, should have a post up beginning her introduction in a day or two! :)

Sounds good Kargas!

Anyone else have a claim on the loot chart, or shall I liquidate? We have a silver pendant of unknown value we may need help with...

I've got no use (yet!) for a +1 dwarf-bane heavy pick.

Guiness would keep the large-sized +1 light pick if it could be repurposed easily to a +1 heavy pick for a medium creature…If not, he would encourage selling it.

So, looking at the loot chart we have:

Kellek wanting some scrolls (5th level), a wand of enervation, and a foe's spellbook.

Guiness wanting a ring of protection +2, and boots of the winterlands.

Colvyn wanting some +1 arrows, some +1 giant bane arrows, and a magic bow

Kargas with nothing specific

Astrid wanting the +2 ring of protection also, but Guiness offered to give her his +1 ring if he gets the +2 one.

Need an appraisal on a silver pendant.

Other items people may consider:
Have a headband of int+2 (nature),
2 potions of cure moderate wounds,
a mind sentinel medallion (+2 saves versus mind-affecting effects and a second save versus confusion/domination)
a headband of int+2 (Arcana)
a belt of dex+2
a cloak of elvenkind

Guiness may take the cure moderates if no one else wants them to start refilling his holy symbol flask -- he'd have to buy another 14 of them to top off all 16 ounces, though.

Anyone with an open belt slot might benefit from the dex bonus, and if you have an open head slot one of the intelligence headbands might be good for you.

Otherwise, I'll plan to liquidate everything and have a total cash-out haul later this weekend...

Question -- how were we dividing the cash loot after selling off unwanted items? Straight down the middle, or adjusted for people who took magic items versus those who did not?

I have adjusted the spreadsheet based on what people have selected. We are missing a magic silver necklace ID/value, but other than that it looks like we have a total of 45242.5 gp for items sold + loot. That gives the 5 of us 9048 gp and 5 sp each. Please feel free to check my math.

Astrid, would you like the +1 ring of protection when Guiness upgrades?

What is the timeline exactly?

I know Kellek is selling the loot. But, when in that time are Astrid and Guiness leaving to pursuit the giants?

I ask, because Colvyn can track. So, he could wait in town until Kellek comes back and then we could rejoin the group that way.

What I've assumed is that you all rested after the battle, then the next day flew out to recover the stone. Guiness cracked it open and found nothing. Kellek immediately left to shop, Kargas stayed behind to help with the town, while Guiness and Astrid pursued. You can choose to go with them if you want.

But how will Kellek find us?

Guiness was expecting Kellek had some kind of magic to track them down, but he hasn’t really thought of it. Between all of us perhaps we can make the survival roll to track at full speed…I think those long giant strides are pulling away from us.

Worst case, I can tell Kellek where we're at by casting sending. I'll write up a goodbye for Kargas, since Astrid wouldn't have just gone "okay bye!" to him. :P

Sorry, clarification for both Kargas and Ziva: is this tracking just a short-to-medium thing to check on where the giants came from? Or is this the group setting off into Book 5? I/Kargas was assuming the former, which is why the post was so short. I kind of envision Ziva spying the still-smoking town as the boat she chartered draws near, and was planning to introduce her that way.

Kargas does also want a more formal goodbye if the party is headed off long-term, though, and Ziva's introduction would need a rework

But how will Kellek find us?

Look and listen for the largest explosion. ;)

@Kargas: I figure its up to the group whether this one day of tracking is going to transition directly into a long-term pursuit.

We can do a more formal goodbye with Kargas in a flashback if folks prefer to not turn back, but since this is not likely to be a quick or easy pursuit (even tracking on foot at full speed, the giants are going to stay ahead, as their capacity to march for days on end is pretty darn good) I'd suggest the party drops back in town for a quality farewell with Kargas and any other townies, and an intro to our new character. This'll also let folks prep for a longer journey.

Note that following the trail with survival is far from guaranteed - the distance the giants are going is considerable and you can probably still fail checks. You may want to think about your backup plan if tracking doesn't work out.

Yes, perhaps we should get a direction the giants are travelling, then return to the town and figure out a magical way of finding where they are or where they are going...scrying perhaps?

We are still waiting on an item ID too from our loot list...

Eastwards so far!

Yes, perhaps we should get a direction the giants are travelling, then return to the town and figure out a magical way of finding where they are or where they are going...scrying perhaps?

We are still waiting on an item ID too from our loot list...

Too high for a take 10 from Kellek? If it is a Spellcraft check it's a total of 30. If it is an Appraise check it's a total of 21.

Kellek is probably going to be gone for a couple of days depending on how much money he has to spend on spells and how much copying he has to do in addition to selling loot, gambling the money at the dog track on a sure thing, trying to make up the gambling losses in an improvised ponzi scheme, and then finally returning.

You know since Kargas won't be needing that adamantine falchion anymore.... ;)

I'm good with maybe retconning the tracking attempt to after CW is able to introduce their new character and say goodbye to Kargas.

Just need to get the final tally on the loot and I'll be good to go.

As for getting information to where we should go, speak with dead could be a good way to get it.

I think we just need the silver necklace and then we are good for final distribution.

You can fairly easily get the necklace appraised (or when Kellek gets back have him appraise it). It's worth 200 gp.

I have adjusted the spreadsheet based on what people have selected. We are missing a magic silver necklace ID/value, but other than that it looks like we have a total of 45242.5 gp for items sold + loot. That gives the 5 of us 9048 gp and 5 sp each. Please feel free to check my math.

Astrid, would you like the +1 ring of protection when Guiness upgrades?

That makes it easy. Add 40 gp per person to the 9048 gp and call it good.

Without the time to have his current items upgraded, Guiness just has Kellek grab a few lower level magic items during his trip--an endless bandolier, a handy haversack, and some cure light wounds potions. He also picks up an extra throwing hammer in town.

With the endless bandolier, he can store his weaponry easily (Dragonfist and shortsword in the two large pockets, 4 throwing hammers in the 4 medium pockets, nothing in the small pockets for now)

He still keeps the mundane bandolier (so it crosses his chest) as that has small pouches big enough for various potions they might find (this is where he puts the CMW potions).

Spending 800 gp on 16 CLW doses, he fills up his holy symbol flask. Incidentally, he refills his cask of Dwarven Stout as well, keeping it in the haversack.

If he can get a tankard with a permanent prestidigitation effect (chill) on it, that would be awesome too...

You're a saint, Guinness.

Kellek, would you be interested in helping me make some scrolls of spells on my list that are nice to have but not necessarily worth prepping every day?

Colvyn will stay in town to wait for Kellek before heading out to rejoin the other if they don't come back before then.

Still think we should try the speak with dead before moving on.