Seraphimpunk's Way of the Wicked

Game Master Seraphimpunk

and sure, i can prep two invis. too bad i can't learn Vanish.

i'll do:
2nd - Invis OO, Summon Monster II
1st - expeditious retreat OO, shield OO, and cure light wounds OO

I never noticed that wasn't on the alch list. Weird.

I will disguise to look like Chauncy. He was one of the halbediers that we killed. Hehe.

Disguise: 1d20 + 10 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 10 + 7 = 18

I will disguise to look like an attractive female soldier. If none of them were attractive, then I'll just take one of their existing looks and make her more attractive.
Disguise: 1d20 + 10 + 10 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 10 + 10 + 14 = 35

Huh, two nat 1's in a row. At least is naturally good at this, so it should be enough.

Perception to evaluate disguises: 1d20 ⇒ 4

disguise: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

I have also learned how to Reduce Person, making a person such as myself, to tiny, which can help in the stealthing and invasions.

Disguise as Dwarf: 1d20 + 6 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 10 = 29

Right. You'll be about the size of a cat. A tiny creature like that could hide under our clothing like a familiar and mean we don't have to inviz you. You might also be able to sneak through cracks and get inside to let us in easier. Hmm..useful...

disguise: 1d20 + 5 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 10 = 31

If you wanted to make me tiny, assuming there is a way to get me in, I can summon Spawn, or critters, as a distraction. And it shouldn't make invis stop working on me.

Neji, I can give you a reduce person extract... if you want to be three apples high and go smurf yourself in a corner. You Loran, are hopeless in the ways of magic.

stayed up spending 8 hours to reanimate the captain from the ship as my bloody skeleton. in the process finding out that nope, the ship is gone but the body was where we buried it. presuming we buried it to keep it out of sight, and its an ok plot element for Forsythe to get a new skeleton from.

disguise: 1d20 + 14 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 14 - 2 - 2 = 18 * -2 race, -2 gender. the guards are all male.
someone points out taking 10 that its a bad disguise

disguise: 1d20 + 14 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 14 - 2 - 2 = 23

oh yeah, lol. reminds me we could just be taking 10 like we discussed on disguises. oh well. everyone's all set now.

I'd also really love to find some onyx...
hmmh. where did we leave the dead horses?

Thank you Ash, you are very kind and know how much I love "smurfing" myself any time I can get a chance. Did you get more interesting and blue suddenly or is that me?
Wait, it is me, I'm blue too. That is a powerful extract Ash, if only it had smurfberries in it.

I know exactly where we left the horses, let me see the map.
marks Xs on the map near the river/forest fight..
There you are. Can't miss 'em and they were likely too large for animals to walk away with.

When you type smurf into chat, it gives you a smurf icon for that post. I like that feature, but it really screwed with me the first time.

Heh yeah I love it.

reduce person is also on my spell list.

I'm not offering a scroll of it Loran, i'm offering him one of my extracts for the day. Just because other summoners know it, doesn't mean you know it! Learn your magic fool! The only way Neji is getting a scroll of it, is if Victor copies it from my formula book and makes us some scrolls of it.

or are you just trying to pick a new spell from going up to summoner 5 ? choose it already.

that's just ash being evil btw.

I have learned my magic. Its 6ft tall and has four claws with acid. Would you like to see it up close and personal?

I will take the extract, assuming of course i would be the best option to cause a distraction

Victor can cause the distraction. We need you and spawn in close proximity so that he's at full health for the assault. He can scribe my reduce person to his book and prepare some vanishes and a reduce person for when he makes a distraction.

can i get a bloody skeletal horse up the secret passage somehow? ooh. we have to get back into the Inn. Or are we going to try a frontal approach on the keep this time?

everyone set? you're currently camped out in the woods overnight. did you return to the inn under the cover of darkness after fleeing the watchkeep or decide it safer to sleep out in the woods in the cold?

I believe we were there over night considering sleeping and the dead being risen. Also explains the short tempers among the men. We likely went back riverside camp ground if we were recovering bodies.
We are doing an Inn to Tower to Gatehouse approach. We could always head back leisurely to return by night and attack shortly after.

Well, best to get dressed I assume. Neji, summons her Eidolon, but in place of a tall half-elf is an only slightly larger than Neji version.
I had her tailored, new season, new suit.

I think we slept outside. I'd prefer we head to the inn now. How can we do that without drawing attention to ourselves?

We can disguise as townsfolk or soldiers, but in both cases, seems like it would be a little weird for us to be marching into the closed down inn. We should probably split up and slip in one by one so we draw less attention. Dressed as random townsfolk slipping into the inn 1-by-1 when many people are probably indoors should be sufficient.

We could have a distraction, maybe the Lord shows up to town and announces to the populace that the perpetrators have been apprehended, but one of them escaped and disappeared into the woods, so best to stay indoors and report any dwarven intruders. Thinking that the soldiers know the dwarf ruse is crap, but the townsfolk may not.

Or just brutally murder someone and leave their body in a semi-conspicuous location; that should draw some attention.

Actually, we'll be striking at night. Seems like we can just sneak in at dusk and that should be pretty easy.

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That actually makes sense Victor. Thanks for speaking up. I just wish you were useful more often.

Wayfinder won't post the user that I use as my default user, so expect to see a little more posting from Victor when I'm too lazy to post from a PC

I found a solution to that one, move your default to a toon you will not use in Wayfinder. The only issue is you have to remember to correct the character before you post. Minor inconvenience for those with multiple character issues such as ourselves. Once I moved my default to Alan Giorgi, in my example, Neji Volrata became available again. I have yet to figure out how to remove the "-Posted with Wayfinder" tag or edit posts after posted.

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i have yet to remember my google wallet password to purchase it in europe =P

You sneak in under cover of dusk that night. Forsythe deciding to go with a humanoid skeleton after all, rather than try and lug around a bloody skeletal horse. with the krizzybit (captain kargeld) boxed up, the shuttered Inn is not hard to sneak back into. Many shutters are cold and the town feels a little less friendly. no lights in windows, no smoke from many chimneys. It could be the hour, but by now word has spread that the barber/potion shop and the scroll shop have been burglarized, with a few dead and the barber missing. The lockdown of the keep is probably also known.

The homes appear almost as if they were huddling, even the stone and thatch shivering in the night.

You get in and take the long chilled tunnel to the dwarven secret door and prepare to exit into the emergency ration room.

you'll all go up together, and take a path to the bridge of doom Ash, Temperance, Forsythe, Neji, Leo, Loran, and Spawn to the bridge of death (24), while Victor goes to blow one of the dead guard horns and create a distraction and then reduce himself and vanish. He's been given one of ash's reductions unless he scribed it and will cast it himself. There's 4 invisibilities. 2 from Ash, 2 from Temperance. Everyone is disguised well as guards.

Who is getting the invisibilities? is anyone casting or activating anything yet?

Before entering the Ration Room, I cast Guidance, Message & Mage Armor. I will cast and hold Touch of Fatigue. Are we bringing in pets?
I have reduce, so I think invis should go to either Krizzybit/Spawn or our squishies.

Victor will happily take the reduce person extract, he's using his few slots on other escape spells (vanish,vanish, exp retreat, hold portal).

Tempy plans on casting on Leo and herself. Neji can hide under Tempy's robes or on Leo or whomever. If she needs an extra invis, I can administer it, probably from this scroll so I can conserve my few 2nd level spell slots.

Tempy will also cast Mage Armor on herself, as always. And her familiar will be melded (tattooed sorcerer) but since she can speak with it now, she'll probably be pressing it into service drawing scrolls.

Did Victor get a chance to scribe a few scrolls? Was hoping to get another hold portal and something else (on last page, will have to dig it up).

yup. he had time to craft.

Yea, I replaced what we used last fight: hold portal, expeditious retreat, ant haul and SMI. It cost me 50 gold for supplies, I expect Tempy to reimburse me.

Didn't we get a bunch of supplies when we robbed the magic store? Didn't you just use those?

Victor hands Tempy the scrolls and shuffles off mumbling about how his time isn't worth anything and he's going back to his tent.

ooh. we did.
and didn't we get potions from the apothecary?

do i have materials to craft an invis potion?

ooh i took potions!

if we've got 3 potions of cure light wounds new, i'll change my two cure light wound potions to another reduce person, and a recharge innate magic.

Should I have Spawn summoned now? it'll save me a full round later

Probably not, we're all going in invisible and it's costing a lot of spell slots to do so...spawn would require another one. Unless it's going to cost you a 2nd level spell to summon him, then it may be worth having him with us and spending a scroll on him rather than you spending the 2nd level slot.

If we're quiet one we're in, we can wait outside and you can summon for a minute. Since we'll be invis or concealed, it shouldn't be too hard as long as we aren't spotted.

This party is moving back to the gameplay thread.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry. Away in Texas. Will post when I can soon.

Inconceivable

You evildoers will fail to bring down Balentyne on my watch! I'll consecrate you all to Mitra and see you hang for your crimes!

sorry. going a little bonkers here at work today. thought this would be fun to have a puppet for Lord Havelyn and Father Donnagain.

Bonkers away man. Work is end of year nutzos here too so, the escape is welcome.

Would you like to raise me using your funds?
or will I just be a memory?

ok, so we won't raise leo. We've got Temperance, Loran, Forsythe, Ash, and Neji now.
I was crafting my end of year/start of year work party costume, so the hangout chat flew by me too quickly to keep up.

what was the consensus?

with the wand of cure light wounds we have some light combat healing that either Ash or Forsythe can do.

Temperance will become our CC sorceress ?
Loran will become one of our front liners with a rebuild but keep the personality / race?
Neji will retrain or rebuild a little to a frontliner ? barbarian/summoner, or this Saio thing as our new antipaladin?

Forsythe i'd like swap out for a warpriest maybe, a mixture of Leo/Forsythe. She finally hit 6th and can take Agent of the Grave, she can now animate more undead and gets more hp each level after this, so she's less of a liability. meh. i dunno. the character doesn't seem to mesh greatly. ... but looking at the priestly/warpriestly selections, it looks like the best option for healing is a cleric of a neutral deity that chooses to channel positive energy.

Ash can start to take over as party healer a little, with the right discoveries. I was going to take wings b/c flying is fun, but i can wait till 8th for that, and take Healing Touch at 6th level, letting me touch people and give them 5hp recovery. with a pool of 5x alchemist level to draw from.
its still light healing, but its steady. and he can take some extracts to let him heal a bit in combat too, and use the wand.

And Ash can swift poison... but i don't think throwing him to the Assassin PrC, or straying into Slayer, Ninja (with his -2 cha), or Rogue/Poisoner are great options for gaining Poison Use. =(

in a fit of something, i sketched out some warpriest ideas:

found a deity of Muskets, yeah, a firearm toting warpriest...
longbow warpriest
shuriken warpriest ( kinda fun throwing 1d8 shuriken... but no benefit from the sacred weapon unless it can modify a stack of shurikens )
hand crossbow warpriest
goblin warpriest of zarongel
and a whip warpriest

not great on healing, but can do some fun tricks occasionally. and fills a ranged, healing, support role.

Str: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Dex: 18 = 18

Con: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

Int: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

Wis: 8 = 8

Cha: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

I'm gong to build two Saio's, one who is an "Infernal Life Oracle"/Anti-Paladin and one who is a by-the-books Cleric of Asmodeus. Oradin Saio will be a solid healer/tank and not much of a fighter, Cleric Saio would likely be based on Magic and Trickery and have access to at least lvl 8 spells. As for Neji she will be retraining out of her Sorcerer powers and going straight Barbarian/Synthesist Summoner. I should have these done by Monday.