Rise of the Runelords

Game Master Kevin O'Rourke 440

I have a ton of cash to spend, but no time to spend it right now.

I'm ready to move on, and will just retcon the gear I bought when I have a chance to look into it.

You could just upgrade your amulet or mighty fists. Right now it is +2, bump it up to +5.

You should have enough gold for deliquescent gloves, as well as flaming/shocking/freezing enchantment for the amulet.

This would give +4d6 Damage to all of your attacks. And it would feel very natureish to attack with all of the elements.

You're hired, Drazh! You can be my personal shopper. Haha.

Assume I do that. I'll do some math and update my gear list when I have a chance. Trying to keep with every piled on top of everything piled on top of scrabbling to get by right now is kicking my butt.

Drazh is really developing as a character. Magical Item artisan, translator, personal shopper... that dwarf does it all. :)

Drazh is really developing as a character. Magical Item artisan, translator, personal shopper... that dwarf does it all. :)

Perhaps the real secret is that Marten has tossed him so much that some of the magic stuck.

purchases:

41,508 gp (I spent no money before Runeforge)
-20,000 (upgrade headband +4 to +6)
-10,000 (upgrade ring of protection +2 to +3)
-7,000 (upgrade cloak of resistance +3 to +4)
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4,508 gp remaining

*Edit: and a wand of cure moderate wounds (4,500gp), bringing me to 8gp.

Kevin, regarding Vraxeris's spellbooks, you wrote:

including all of the wizard illusion spells in the Core Rulebook-there are no conjuration or transmutation spells in these books.

Is there any more clarity on this? For past spellbooks you've generalized certain spells up to a specific level. Is there anything like that pertains to the other schools of magic?

Given your previous collection the important part is that is has ALL illussion spells from the core rulebook up to an including level 9!

Illusion is one of my opposed schools! What a nice set of paperweights!

Valuable paperweights, for bribing wizards. :D

Anneka: Do you want the Revelation Quill? I feel like it's right up your alley thematically. If you don't want it, Marten will take it. Whomever takes it can use contact other plane during this downtime, and then divination about a week before we head out to find out about the location of Mhar Massif or the Vekkers.

*bump*

I also approve of that tree icon.

Marten Daseto wrote:

Anneka: Do you want the Revelation Quill? I feel like it's right up your alley thematically. If you don't want it, Marten will take it. Whomever takes it can use contact other plane during this downtime, and then divination about a week before we head out to find out about the location of Mhar Massif or the Vekkers.

*bump*

Anneka already claimed the quill.

But do you want to go ahead and use it (retroactively before we headed out)?

If GM allows, that would be great!

If I can get to Ferocia within a round I can cast breath of life!

If you can’t, Marten can cast Kinetic Charge on you. Even if you have to make an unarmed attack, you’ll only hit on a 20 and do Nonlethal damage. Then breadth of life! It would count as being landing on top of the body.

Anneka reacted first in this round, so she would have been the first to be able react to Ferocia going down. I'm pretty sure she could move or fly over to Ferocia in time to cast breat of life on her. This would be instead of casting telekinetic charge on Drazh.

That's fine with me. If GM will let us retcon that turn, I'll roll the heal.

If that’s the case use the rolls I made for the charge for round 2 normal actions

If I've worked this out right, Creydon will have arrived just after Ferocia hits the ground.

Unfortunately, he lacks breath of life...

I currently have an earache so my response time might be affected.

Aww sorry to hear :(...

Cheers, Anneka.

Aww sorry to hear :(...

Don't make puns at Creydon's expense, Anneka. >:(

I've finally finished the stuff I wanted to do for downtime. I tell my co-workers that I work in five minute increments before I have to stop and figure out why a device isn't working, figure out a school assignment, or answer a question about Star Wars. This was a similar situaiton, but it had to get prioritized after work.

Marten's Spellcraft auto-succeeds to understand all spells, at this point.

From Orkidon's spellbooks:
Level 7
Prismatic Spray = 490
Level 5
Cone of Cold = 250
Wall of Force = 250
Level 4
Mass Reduce Person = 160
Stoneskin = 160
Level 3
Protection From Energy = 90

New spells from rented spellbooks:
Level 6
Chains of Light = 360 + 180
Getaway = 360 + 180
Sirocco = 360 + 180
Level 7
Archon's Trumpet = 490 + 245
Grasping Hand = 490 + 245
Mage's Magnificent Mansion = 490 + 245
Waves of Exhaustion = 490 + 245
Level 8
Discern Location = 640 + 320
Prismatic Wall = 640 + 320
Stormbolts = 640 + 320

Total gold spent so far: 9,465 gp

Now to restock some Dweomer's Essence. Kevin, I'm assuming that with greater teleport, Marten can hop around to where he needs to go to find four of them. If you still want me to roll for availability, please let me know. x4 is 2,000 gp

Finally, making some scrolls:

Level 4
Phantom Chariot = 700
Stoneskin = 700 (and pulling spell components out of the communal diamond dust Marten is carrying)

Level 5
Wall of Force = 1125

Level 6
Dispel Magic, Greater = 1650
Getaway = 1650

Level 7
Banishment = 2275
Mage's Magnificent Mansion = 2275

Level 8
Discern Location = 3000 <-- Crossing this out because I ran out of gold. Having 30 Intelligence is expensive. I'm just a few hundred shy if anyone wants to pitch in.

Scroll gold - 10,375 gp

Total Downtime gold spent = 21,840 gp

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I'm selling:

Wand of ray of enfeeblement (38 charges) = 285
Wand of scorching ray (22 charges) = 165

I have 8gp with your name on it!

Azalia will give you the gold you need.

@Marten Sounds reasonable.

I have 8gp with your name on it!

You could write my name on it with the Revelation Quill!

Azalia will give you the gold you need.

Thanks Azalia! Marten needs 600 gold. He is appreciative but annoyingly matter-of-fact about it.

We should have tried to mint some gold in that fabrication room in Runeforge.

Anneka Avertin wrote:

I have 8gp with your name on it!

You could write my name on it with the Revelation Quill!

Need a GM ruling on its availability...

Azalia wrote:

Azalia will give you the gold you need.

Thanks Azalia! Marten needs 600 gold. He is appreciative but annoyingly matter-of-fact about it.

You're welcome... and of course he is. Azalia shrugs it off, reminding herself that he's just a human and she'll far outlive him, and might even get to watch it happen.

Sure you can use it

Let me post this here to avoid cluttering the gameplay thread:

If I'm reading the item description and contact other plane spell correctly (it's late, and my brain is tired), Anneka has to make an Int check or else her Charisma and Int drops to 8 for a week and she cannot cast arcane spells.

Int check: 1d20 ⇒ 17 phew

Here are her questions for contact other plane:

1. Did the Vekkers discover Xin Shalast?
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3.
4.
5.
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8.
9. Can Karzoug be destroyed?
10. Are any runelords besides Karzoug alive?

Her focus for the divination will be destroying Runelord Karzoug.

...and I'm out of time. If anyone has suggestions for questions feel free to post them and Anneka will ask them.

1. Brothers both in blood and spirit found their lusted gold beneath the Kodar's natural hold.
9. Beyond mortal ken he does remain, a ruler who would twart his his peoples bane. Spell and blade in ample amount can settle even this tyrants account.
10. Each now lingers in a tomb of their own devising, disturbing ancient ruins will hasten each Runelords Rising!

Dope rhymes, Kevin! They are mad dope.

Can anyone remind me how time works in Runeforge, again? If we get back before someone finds that guy, we could probably save his life with a clone spell. Create the clone, bring him back to the material plane, watch him horrifically decay before our eyes, watch him re-awaken in his clone, and bring the new him back to the material plane.

I'd try and get a ret-con that we did it during downtime, but it would cost 1,500 gp in materials and a foci, so we couldn't afford it during that period.

I love that idea but wouldn't clone not work against old age deaths? Or am I confusing it with something else?

If the original creature has reached the end of its natural life span (that is, it has died of natural causes), any cloning attempt fails.

Hmm. Good catch. I remember that you don't need food or drink in Runeforge, but does aging happen? If not, then he wouldn't be at the end of his lifespan.

This solution gets more icky, but we could kill him while he's still in Runeforge so that he transfers right to the clone without his age catching up to him on our plane.

The other option is bring him over and raise him from the dead.

That guy is a lost cause... after what he's been through getting sorted and filed by Pharasma is a blessing.

...and I'd say it was mediocre but they're hard. No skill but a bit of effort. Trying to do that around the table is tough, PBP gives me time to go over it.

That guy is a lost cause... after what he's been through getting sorted and filed by Pharasma is a blessing.

Why even include him, then? (That's rhetorical; I'm not asking you to guess Paizo's intent, Kevin.)

To show you the levels Thassilon's leaders had fallen to and how their loyalty to each other was flimsy... beholden most of all to their dark desires no matter how it might hurt others...

Sorry for the delay on my end. Took the weekend to spend with my kids and unplug.

Outrageous... I've never heard the like of it! You're banished. The piddly little PBP game I am running should obviously be the most important thing in your life!

I hope ye had a good time given the circumstances.

Haha.

I did. We played a ton of board games.

Does the positive energy look like it's "hurting" the chain? Maybe it's less animated or something?

Someone with knowledge might try a relevant roll. If it's a haunt I reckon it would be religion.

Here's mine:

k(religion): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

I'm saying it does.

Ghosts have created it but mechanically it's an animated object so a construct... RAW it wouldn't hurt it but thematically it seems appropriate to harm it.

Are we going down this shaft? If so, how?

Marten and Anneka are already flying. Marten can cast fly on the person who can most easily carry one other person, because...

The subject of a fly spell can charge but not run, and it cannot carry aloft more weight than its maximum load, plus any armor it wears.

Marten also has a spider climb spell. And a feather fall ring he can loan.

We can also teleport, but I feel like this is something we should save for combat maneuverability. Or maybe to get back up.

FYI, I'm not going to be able to post for a few days. Bot me as needed. Sorry for being so absent lately.