Shackled City (Pathfinder) - GM_Chris

Game Master Chris Shannon 719

Er, 'buy her a drink.'

Er, 'buy her a drink.'

I require Potion #9.

Doctor Abner Svengalu Toffitt wrote:

Er, 'buy her a drink.'

I require Potion #9.

'Milady, I believe you mistake my intent.'

I'll be AFK basically the entire day tomorrow, and won't be able to check things again until Monday morning - so if anything gets stuck on Glimmil, sorry!

Picked up from Skie's:

Toffitt: Darkwood masterwork composite (+1) longbow
Toffitt: Mithral shirt not purchased since one was found
Toffitt: Wand of Shield

Party (150 gp each): Wand of cure light wounds

Dyrant: Pearl of Power 2 has arrived, but exceeds the usual small overage allowed. Keep saving.

Treasure updated:

Atol 1,343.33
Dyrant 1,782.33
Finneas 2,567.17
Glimmil 1,901.00
Toffit 436.44

Be sure to check the "Kept Treasure" tab for any items you want to have on your person. Otherwise I assume it's just shoved in Atol's pack.

Feel free to make any mundane item purchases you'd like. Also, you can always check Skie's inventory.

Some people inquired about weapon enhancements, but didn't follow up on it. Depending on your mood, you could say that you dropped it off day one of the festival and have already gotten it back.

Please be sure to update you character page tonight if you haven't already. I'm going to update my initiative, perception check forms tomorrow.

I'm still 1.5k short of +1 on my sword, so I'll have 2500 banked with the enchanter...whose name I have now forgotten. The other 57.17 I'll carry and there's 10 less for the beerfest entry fee. Probably another 5 gold down for my satay habit as well.

Story Summary #6

Day 13 - Godsday
- Party emerges with Drakthar's body at 1 am #4117
- Party finishes off Drakthar
- Party exlpores caverns that end up exiting onto the side of the volcano. Party finds a campsite and follows path to main road on west side of volcano.

Day 14 - Watersday (Festival Day 1)
- Drink down the flood Round 1
- Finneas outdrinks young man
- Glimmil outdrinks a grandma

The day passes without any unusual events. Hundreds of duplicate boats are floated on the lake as rain storms move through quickly, dumping several inches of water and raising the level of the lake a few inches.

Day 15 - Earthday (Festival Day 2)
- Wrestling match 1 for Finneas vs. Thud
- Round 2 of drinking contest
- Finneas outdrinks
- Glimmil outdrinks Ellywinkle
- Finneas and Toffitt swim in the lake and lose to Geleth
- Toffitt buys Geleth a drink
- Haunted Jzadirune opens with Ellywinkle Nerfoodle

Day 16 - Freeday (Festival Day 3)
- Wrestling match 2 for Finneas vs. the silent tattoo
- Finneas loses to Mother Tashykk after four rounds of drinking
- Glimmil autowins his drinking contest
- Dyrant commissions art to immortalize the event
- Atol moves out of the church

Haven't looked at mounted rules in a while.

A horse moves 5 miles an hour.
A mount can hustle for one hour. (10 miles an hour)
The second hour causes 1 point of damage.
The third hour causes 2 points of damage.
The fourth hours causes 4 points of damage.
fifth = 8 (at which point a horse is at 0 HP).

The Lucky Monkey is 40 miles away, half of it down a mountain (3/4 speed).

So three hours hustling down the mountain equals 22.5 miles.

Then 2 hours hustling equals 20 miles, which means you get there just before the horses are ready to drop--assuming you are interuppted along the way.

5 hours of horse riding at a fast trot. Just what the doctor ordered.

The doctor ordered pillows to keep form getting saddle sore during those five hours. I should know!

As a side note: I assume that the Doctor will have gotten his wand of shield by now...?

My posting will be a little off/on starting tomorrow afternoon, I'm going in for elective eye surgery and while I'm sure the painkillers will have me feeling smurfy I won't be allowed to strain my eyes for a few days.

Sorry to hear about the surgery, but I hope it goes well for you! 'See' you when you get back!

When did Cog get spider climbing as a special ability? :-p

Spidercog, spidercog...

I think I answered my own question about the intricacies of Cog's bull rushing. A bull rush is simply made in place of a melee attack, so Cog would forego his usual attempt to bite to bull rush instead, and Glimmil would operate just as if Cog was making an ordinary melee attack (thus the ride check mechanic).

Reference: Bull Rush

I agree with you on the Cog bull rush. Just be sure to make sure you let me know where you end up. In this case you mention an attack at the end, so I'm assuming you're moving with the baboon but will wait a bit. If you do you'll provoke from the other creatures.

Oops!

I had forgotten Glim's BAB is now +4 and to adjust his power attacks accordingly!

Will fix this in future posts.

Can he fight defensively and power attack at the same time? I don't see any mention that this isn't allowed, but it is somewhat counter-intuitive (hitting harder but defending yourself?)

1d20+6 - Handy haversack fails saving throw. How many hit points does a sack have?

DC 13 makes the save...half damage: 8.

Which gets halved again: Energy Attacks and hardness/hp table

Leather/hide has hardness 2 and 5hp per inch of thickness.

Of course, it does matter if this is an attended or unattended haversack.

I leave that up to you.

I see 14 for the reflex save.

"When a sphere arrives at the end of its trajectory, it detonates as a fireball spell (Reflex DC 14 half)."

I see 14 for the reflex save.

"When a sphere arrives at the end of its trajectory, it detonates as a fireball spell (Reflex DC 14 half)."

Oh, 14! You're totally right! Such is the power of St. Cuthbert! Go me!

We'll see if the haversack lives.

Saw Dyrant was getting close to a 1000 posts and wondered what the competition was like. Not even close:

Dyrant: 909
Atol: 615
Toffitt: 661 (but started late)
Finneas: 744
Glimmil: 658
Me: 1566, but I'm everyone else

I can't even tell what's going on anymore, I'm just going to sit in my corner and swing at anything in 5' feet.

Toffitt: 661 (but started late)

What is that, like four rounds of attack/edits for Toffitt? ;)

GM_Chris wrote:

Toffitt: 661 (but started late)

What is that, like for rounds of attack/edits for Toffitt? ;)

And that's just the one's I don't delete. Don't worry though, Glimmil will catch up soon.

Final ruling on the haversack:

HP = 41 + 8 for rage = 49
Con = 21 when raging = 70 for dead/dead
Still standing in negatives with orc ferocity

-5 Atol,
-17 Toffitt = 22
-16 Finneas = 38
- 14 Glimmil, = 52
-8 Atol = 60
-5 Atol = 65
-16 Dyrant = 81

The haversack was attended and lives. I apologize for my earlier miscalculations.

So Dyrant did the kill. Sweeeeet. Atol would have wept over the destroyed Haversack.

Heh, when we pull 3 encounters at once, it gets complicated...

Just like tabletop!

I apologize for clarifications/complexities caused by Glimmil's actions - I just don't want to die if I don't have to!

So Dyrant did the kill. Sweeeeet. Atol would have wept over the destroyed Haversack.

Twas not Dyrant...twas the fiery gifts of St. Cuthbert.

Dyrant will learn from this necklace...oh yes, he will.

Sarcem got a job right away! Good for him. I don't remember what I was doing while I was dead. Probably just standing in line to be judged, I wasn't gone that long...

Only a couple minutes available to check on things, but this was great.

Atol Lem wrote:

Sarcem got a job right away! Good for him. I don't remember what I was doing while I was dead. Probably just standing in line to be judged, I wasn't gone that long...

Only a couple minutes available to check on things, but this was great.

Agreed.

I laughed.

Thanks. It just came to me, but I did giggle as I wrote it. Thanks muse!

Tried to save this to the campaign page, but it's not working.

Tried to save this to campaign page, but it's not working.

Edit and focus are both broken. They are working on it.

3rd f'ing try. Good thing this is a day off. At least the story is being set firmly in my head

Story Summary #7

Day 17 - Starday (Day 4 of Festival)
- Jenya calls for Atol
- Finneas loses wrestling match
- Glimmil beats flower vendor for drinking contest
- Party gets message from Sarcem via Jenya
- Party rides hard to Lucky Monkey
- Bodies being eaten by giant lizards
- Fight with Alleybashers (crossed cudgels tattoos) and local thugs
- Fight with half-orc baboon (Tongueater) and baboons
- Dyrant uses one of the beads from necklace of fireballs (#4500)
- Discovery of Ebon Triad holy symbol. A black iron triangle with a symbol carved into one of the triangle's three points. Erythnul, Hextor, and Vecna. A group of heretics from these three churches who seek to merge their three malign deities into one powerful Overdeity of unsurpassed malevolence. No known cultists of the Ebon Triad or the three churches are known of in Cauldron. (page 92)
- Party finds Sarcem's body and head
- Party rescues Shensen Tesseril, resident of inn and caretaker of shrine of Fharlanghn.
- Bodies buried

Day 18 - Sunday(Day 5 of Festival)
(page 93)
- Shensen casts silent image of red-headed woman (#4610)
- Party trudges back to Cauldron with bodies and prisoners
- Party arrives in evening. Teseron Skellerang identies red-haired woman as Triel Eldurast
- Prisoners interrogated and can only reveal that they were hired by Triel
- Jenya advises Sarcem would not want to be raised
- Jenya uses Star of Justice for divination (#4643)
Wands locked away beneath your feet
Can be reached by watery maze
Or tip the laughing man who sells
Tips for gold but no drinks at all.
- Dyrant ignores provocation from Stormblade (Cora Lathenmire, #4627)
- Glimmil wins day's round of drinking

Day 19 - Moonday (Day 6 of Festival)
(page 93)
- Jenya casts speak with dead on Tongueater (results pending)

Loots from the Inn:

2680 copper pieces = 26.8 gp
1953 silver pieces = 195.3 gp
742 gold pieces = 742 gp
18 platinum pieces = 180 gp

=1144.1 gp

Give 25% back to the Church? Leaves us with 858.075 gp to share.

Banded Mail +1 - Sell?

* * *

Ring of Protection +1 (who took?)
Potion of Jump (Dyrant)
2 Potions of CLW (we drank 2) - who wants?

Now the dice roller is broken. ^&*()&*)(&!!!! Breaking out the normal dice for restocking of Skie's.

25-3 - Major potion, Cure Serious Wounds, 750
36-3 - Major rod, Core, Python 13,000
15-2 - Medium weapon, Core, Slaying Arrow (greater) 4057
94-1 - Minor wondrous item, Core, Silversheen 250
62-1 - Minor scroll, Detect Undead, 25
37-1 - Minor potion, Cure light wounds, 50
16-2 - Medium weapon, Core, Javelin of Lightning, 1500
18-1 - Minor potion, Mage Armor, 50
75-3 - Medium stave, Core, Swarming Insects 22,800
99-2 - Meium wondrous item, Core, Pale Blue Ioun stone (+2 STR) 8000

Glimmil's currently carrying (and wearing) the ring - let me know if this is in error?

No, all good. Tis yours now. Just remember it doesn't stack with your smite AC bonus.

Er, have we tracked the large number of masterwork weapons and armors that the thugs at the inn were wearing? I'm pretty sure we would've wanted to keep those...

Two encounters with chainmail and masterwork weapons:

1. "The chainmail men have chainmail, masterwork large steel shields, and masterwork longswords. ... The studded leather men have studded leather, masterwork rapiers, shortbows. ... The men in chainmail look rough and are likely from outside the city. The two in studded leather look like city folk. All six men are wearing red sashes."

2. Baboon fight: 4 chainmail guys, 4 studded leather guys

Totals:

1,200 gp = 150 x 8 suits chainmail
1,360 gp = 170 x 8 masterwork large steel shields
2,520 gp = 315 x 8 masterwork longswords
2,560 gp = 320 x 6 masterwork rapiers
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7,640 gp = total
3,820 gp = usual price
764 gp = share at usual price

Other stuff that is probably too low value for Atol's mule back.

""There's probably free food?"

hahahah! Go Glimmil! :D

Back from DunDraCon...twas really dang good. More on that later.

Wanted to highlight some funny stuff as I got caught up...

"What, no, that won't work. Why would I want to wear a cart costume? Atol to pull me?"

HA!

" I don't know, strap horns and chains and this stack of used of flyers from one of Dyrant's speeches. Where did I get them? They were in the outhouse. No, nobody was using them. Well of course I left some."

:(

Glim, nice fake mustache.

Dr. Toffitt sees Finneas acting his part, and does his best to play along. Strutting out in a goat-like way, he ruffles his cloak wings and preens.

"My lord Nabthatoron, none is more powerful than you. Tell me, oh master, whose soul may I dine on tonight?"

Awesome! I can completely see it!

Finneas paces the circle like a caged animal, hands flexing and greatsword cutting great swathes of air with each casual swing. He is careful to keep it pointed towards ZAsII at all times, switching hands as needed.

Very nice... I could totally see this, and was almost worried for "Surabar" that Finneas was "too into" character!

Yeah. He made his bluff check for me. I had hope he'd do something really stupid.

Who me? >.>

Well done you two. Very entertaining!

Alas, I missed
Pet of the action today. Well done!