Revival of the Runelords (Inactive)

Game Master Cellion

I think I'm going to be extremely boring and upgrade my cloak of resistance to +2 (3000gp) along with a +1 ring of protection and a +1 amulet of natural armor (2000gp each).

Guiness is saving up his money (in platinum coins) and storing it in his handy haversack until he has enough to upgrade some items. What he would really like to do is upgrade his belt of strength to a lesser belt of mighty hurling so he can be more effective at a distance when he is in his defensive stance…needs more funds for that, of course.

I meant on the way to our Ford's headquarters. Kellek's not going to want to carry it all.

OOC question: the map in the handout shows a cave in the wall of the canyon, is that something our characters can easily spot if they check? Ziva is interested in ways in that don't involved revealing ourselves to the encampment.

You probably wouldn't be able to spot it from the mountain bluff, but you could if you surveyed the perimeter of the valley, or if you went airborne and scouted. Muninn scouting would also spot it. It's not hidden, so it's likely something you would spot eventually.

@Ziva: You generally can't maintain a stance outside of combat (per the rules for stance feats), nor do I generally allow continuously maintaining fighting defensively or total defense outside of combat. You'll still be able to activate crane stance as a swift on round 1 though.

Can you break down your +5 dodge bonus? Crane style + fighting defensively + 3 ranks of acrobatics = +4 vs. all attacks. Crane wing is +4 more, as Astrid points out, but only vs. melee, so it's important to keep it separate.

So I didn't realized the +4 for Crane Wing was "in addition" as opposed to just replacing the regular +2. So I had +4 Crane Wing and my bonus +1 Crane Style, and forgot about the Acrobatics bonus completely.

So we'll say the stance isn't mechanically active, then, but it'll be +4 (+8 vs melee)? That'd be AC27/31 depending on the type of attack, Touch17/21

Yep, that sounds right. It's a pretty darn chunky bonus to AC.

First fight with our new party member and she gets a 20 on initiative :)

Adventure awaits!

So what are we thinking for the wyvern? Wyverns are generally greedy and often vicious but not typically evil, and we did invade their home first so Ziva is reluctant to kill the last wyvern now that it's no longer fighting.

But we don't seem to have any good options for restraining it either, and I am concerned about it ratting us out to the giants. I suppose we could knock it out?

Beyond the moral question of using violence on someone who clearly doesn't want to fight us, I think logistically it would be difficult since we'd have to keep getting up to knock it senseless again at regular intervals, since creatures recover non-lethal damage at 1HD/level per hour.

It might rat us out, but Astrid wouldn't be comfortable killing someone based on what they might do, and I doubt it's on good terms with the giants and their harpies anyway.

Or, it can rat THEM out. ~Wizard thinking

So it sounds like Astrid is leaning towards letting it go, which Ziva would reluctantly go along with given the alternatives. Kellek do you have some spells handy that could let us question it a bit first?

Ah, that's a good point. I forgot each Linguistics rank gives a whole language...because that's a silly rule, but so it goes. I'll try to get that fixed shortly.

Well, considering both the sheer variety of languages spoken in the Inner Sea, and that you can basically make language fluency obsolete with comprehend languages or tongues, it's not that silly.

Kellek do you have some spells handy that could let us question it a bit first?

Prepare yourselves for some potentially lethal eye-rolls from Kellek if you think he is going waste his precious spell slots for the rest of the party's apparent lack of language skills.

Posting this in all my games. I'm going to be traveling from June 8th through June 12th. I'll do my best to keep up in my free time, but don't let me hold you up.

I'm back!

Hey everyone, my spouse and I will be leaving for vacation on Friday and won't be back until the following weekend. My posting rate is likely to be low during that time.

Sorry guys, I was waiting for someone to say whether they thought summoning that was a good idea. Didn't mean to hold us up.

Sorry guys, I was waiting for someone to say whether they thought summoning that was a good idea. Didn't mean to hold us up.

No worries. Kellek just has the mind of an efficiency expert.

I'm out camping this weekend, and unfortunately don't have reliable data at the site. I'll be back on Monday and will catch back up then.

No rush on this since you're camping, but if we try to leave (towards the mess hall?) does the kobold let us go?

Yes, you're definitely left to go free

I guess if we don't hear from our casters by tomorrow Ziva will give Guiness a nod and they can head into the dining hall to confront those giants.

Heads up for everyone: I'm going to traveling from the 23rd through August 6th. A lot of that is going to be me very bored while I ride in a car, so I'll probably still get some posts in.

Kellek would rather deal with the elder giant, worrying that they may be a caster but that they may have some control over the younger giants.

Still here. Just waiting on Astrid.

I'll be posting soon and taking care of Kellek. There is actually a way for him to disengage with no AoO and get to you.

Thanks! But no real worries. I (the player) am good either way. ;)

I would have posted earlier, but I got covid again, and I'm in and out of consciousness these last few days.

Been there, feel that. Get well soon. My first bout kept me off my game for about a month.

Colvyn, who are your attacks aimed at? Trying to game out the best move(s) for Astrid and Ziva.

Also, sorry to hear you've got covid, I hope you're getting plenty of rest and are recovered as soon as possible.

Colvyn, who are your attacks aimed at? Trying to game out the best move(s) for Astrid and Ziva.

Also, sorry to hear you've got covid, I hope you're getting plenty of rest and are recovered as soon as possible.

Shooting at the green one first, then remaining arrows at the purple ones. If they are like the other giant we killed in this fight, this should kill one, maybe two. This way, Guiness can make it back to the group to help with the white one and the kobold we should've killed in the previous room.

Astrid could channel energy to heal Kellek, herself, and me. Hopefully, this will make it possible to survive the next round for me.

As for Covid, well, I'm starting to get better, but I hope this is the last time I get it, cause this time was worst than the previous time.

Glad you're feeling a bit better Colvyn! So many people seem to get getting it these days.

Dang, Enga's fast!

Remember that we are currently fast too.

As a heads up, I'm traveling from tomorrow until the 17th of August. I should be able to get some updates in fairly frequently, but hang tight if you don't hear from me for a few days.

I'm back! I had way less downtime than I was hoping I would get on a vacation, and the bit I did get was usually in places with no signal. Not even in fun places, like a national forest, but in dumb places, like a motel with no cell service or wifi. Like being in the dark ages.

Amazing we still have places without wifi that still qualify as motels. Welcome back!

Crap! Sorry about the cross-post, Ziva. I'm thinking either one of our attack combos would kill it, but both together make it a near-certainty.

Since Ziva beat me by like 2 minutes, if she takes down the giant in the way, Guiness will instead double move to engage the three giants and activate his Defensive Stance. Of course, if it is still up after her shots, Guiness will stay with his original action and bat cleanup...

Hey everyone, really sorry but there's been a bunch of fairly time/brain intensive stuff at both work and school, so I'm needing to get that sorted out.

I appreciate everyone's patience. IRL stuff is all sorted out for now.

Cellion, just a heads up that I'm waiting to see whether Ziva and Guinness are able to finish off the red giant, since that will affect what I do on my turn.

Red's down! Guiness' attack was enough.

Thank you!

I'd like to peek into the centra pit-chamber just to reveal it on the map, but otherwise let's go to that area at "2 o'clock" on the map

Guiness proposed a counter-clockwise exploration and that seems as good a route as any. Let's do that.

I'd like to peek into the centra pit-chamber just to reveal it on the map, but otherwise let's go to that area at "2 o'clock" on the map

That's fine, though Kellek would prefer to deal with the big stuff now since he's sort of empowered and still has access to a few of his more powerful spells.

Guiness needs some boots of speed!

I forgot to ask previously, but with spellcasting nearby this will become relevant:

GM, does Ziva count as having fulfilled her Divine Obedience for today? I'm thinking specifically of those giant smiths who she witnesses murdering prisoners. The other giants were evil, but she didn't personally witness them commit atrocities before she killed them--for the smiths, she did.

If so she'll have an extra +4 on saves vs evil creatures.