Shackled City (Pathfinder) - GM_Chris

Game Master Chris Shannon 719

I incorporated the above opinions and distributed the CMW potions one each and the extra to Atol's backpack. Even after using up half the diamond ring for Finneas's restorations, each person's share is 4369.

Since you having the pearl might keep me alive long enough to spend my money on a +1 sword I am willing to lend you money. As long as I can get to 4000 eventually. Stupid Cold Iron. Oh well.

That plan didn't work out.

I see purchases for everyone except Toffitt.

The "Party Shares" tab of the spreadsheet has been updated. My bookkeeping is:

Current
Atol 5,414.43
Current
Dyrant 3,067.43
Current
Finneas 3,852.27
Current
Glimmil 6,861.10
Current
Toffit 5,721.54

Good night. I'll add some actually roleplaying to all this tomorrow.

Finneas Glenn wrote:

Since you having the pearl might keep me alive long enough to spend my money on a +1 sword I am willing to lend you money. As long as I can get to 4000 eventually. Stupid Cold Iron. Oh well.

That plan didn't work out.

Lolz.

I don't know how you remembered this Chris, nice catch.

potion of cure moderate wounds Keeping? - Keep, Finneas?

potion of cure moderate wounds Keeping? - Keep, Glim?
wand of cure serious wounds (6 charges) Keeping? - Down to 4 charges, Keep, Dyrant
potion of cure light wounds Keeping? - Keep, Dyrant?
scroll of hold person Keeping? Sell, unless Atol wants.
everburning torch Keeping? - Keep, who wants?
Books, books, and more books Keeping? - KEEP, Dyrant wants for now.
Spellbook - Lots of spell Keeping? - See below.
Cloak of Arachnida Keeping? - Keep. Finneas? Dr. Toffee?
scroll of summon monster Keeping? - Sell. It's lvl 1.

wand of burning hands (23 charges) Keeping? - Sell. Down to 21 charges.
elixir of hiding Keeping? - Sell.
bracers of armor +2 Keeping? - Sell. Dyrant is protected by St. C's Angels.
Bracers of armor +1 Keeping? - Sell.
Slippers of spider climbing Keeping? - Keep. Finneas? Dr. Toffee?
Pearl of power (1st) Keeping? - Atol.
Wand of mage armor (39) Keeping? - Keep, Dyrant.
Elixir of hiding Keeping? - Sell.
Goggles of minute seeing Keeping? - Glim has.

Wow, you all have been busy. Sorry to leave you hanging.

I would like to make sure we keep one dose of any elixir or lvl 2 or 3 potion for Toffitt. His Alchemical Allocation elixirs basically allow him to use them as a potion library.

Would also like to get certain scrolls that are on his list—to be copied into his formulae book.

So for Toffitt:

potion of clairaudience/clairvoyance Keeping? - Sell.
scroll of cure moderate wounds Keeping? - Keep, Dyrant?
potion of cure moderate wounds
slippers of spider climbing (although I'll happily take the cloak if finneas does not want)
elixir of hiding

Will catch up on other posts and note my wish list by tomorrow afternoon.

Ok, here is a wish list, in order of priority:

2,000 +1 to dueling blade
1,000 cloak of resistance +1
570 scrolls of invisibility, barkskin, lesser restoration + materials to learn
40 materials to transcribe cure moderate wounds from scroll
750 potion of heroism

He will then want to craft some potions:

300 lesser restoration x 2
75 invisibility x 1
150 barkskin x 2

After that, his next magic items on the docket will be:

1,000 +1 to mithril shirt
2,000 handy haversack

And might as well get rolls out of the way for learning those scrolls. Come on luck...

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26 Cure Mod. Check
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18 Invisibility. Check
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21 Barkskin. Check
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 Lesser Restore. Uncheck

Sigh. Let's add another scroll of lesser restore (unless Atol would like to have scrolled the first and the second, in which case it's just another 40 gp for materials to learn).

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14 Lesser Restore. Uncheck

Me not like. Atol, mind scribing one more scroll?

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20 Lesser Restore. Check!

Sometimes book learnin is expensive.

GM_Chris wrote:

Finneas Glenn wrote:

Since you having the pearl might keep me alive long enough to spend my money on a +1 sword I am willing to lend you money. As long as I can get to 4000 eventually. Stupid Cold Iron. Oh well.

That plan didn't work out.

Lolz.

I don't know how you remembered this Chris, nice catch.

I forgot this too, but yeah, did not work out at all.

Updated with Toffitt's wish list and purchases except mithral shirt and haversack. This does inclue Dyrant's PoP 2 and Finneas's +1 enchantment to his sword.

Current totals
Atol 4,904.43
Dyrant 2,557.43
Finneas 3,342.27
Glimmil 6,351.10
Toffit 326.54

Story Summary #7

Day 16 - Freeday (Festival Day 3)
- Atol moves out of the church 4267
- Wrestling match 2 for Finneas vs. the silent tattoo
- Finneas loses to Mother Tashykk after four rounds of drinking 4279
- Glimmil autowins his drinking contest
- Dyrant commissions art to immortalize the event 4283
- Atol receives cudgel from Jenya 4286

Day 17 -
- Glimmil wins drinking contest vs flower vendor 4299
- Finneas loses wrestling match 4304
- Jenya sends group to Lucky Monkey 4309 to rescue Sarcem
- Battles at Lucky Monkey with baboons and half-orc baboon 4442
- Party rescues Shensen Tesseril (cleric of - 4587

Day 18 -
- Party returns to Cauldron 4610
- Glimmil wins drinking match 4615
- Captain Skellerang identifies woman as Triel, a former guard - 4620

To be continued.

6351gp left eh?

Glimmil will seek out an enchanter to enhance his hook-hammer to a +1 enchantment (2000gp)

He will then seek out a belt of strength +2 (4000gp).

Day 18 - Page 94
- Party returns to Cauldron 4610
- Glimmil wins drinking match 4615
- Captain Skellerang identifies woman as Triel, a former guard - 4620
- Jenya uses Star of Justice - page=93#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.
- Atol cudgels Dyrant - page=94#4661

Day 19 -
- Glimmil beat Vortimax for drinking championship page=94#4652
- Failed attempt to speak with dead on Tongueater page=94#4661
- Failed attempt to meet contact with info about Triel & wands 94#4693

Day 20 -
- Demonskar ball page=95#4709
- Meeting with Tipped Tankard informant page=96#4763

Day 21
- Dyrant gets PoP 2 page=96#4781
- Party goes into lava tube to winch/cage system page=96#4795
- Combat at winch (1st) page=97#4810
- Toffitt sets off trap in winch house - page=98#4865
- Combat with men behind murder holes page=99#4947
- Combat with Triel page=100#4987
- Room with books page=105#5249
- Combat with slaad page=106#5291
- Combat with spiders & ettercaps page=107#5337
- Combat with harpoon spider & halfling
- Dyrant kills gaseous form halflng - page=112#5592
- Combat at winch (2nd) page=113#5631
- Glimmil and Toffitt take wands back to Cauldron

Day 22
- Combat with spawn - page=115#5726
- Combat with undead ogres - page=116#5785
- Finneas dies - page=116#5799
- Combat with t-rex - page=117#5843
- Combat with undead gnoll - page=119#5940
- Combat with swarm & quasit - page=120#5982

Day 23
- Party gets pearl from Lord Vhalantru & Mayor. Agree to help - page=122#6093
- Finneas is raised - page=122#6096

Thanks again to everyone for a great adventure so far. Reading back through the posts to summarize things brought back many fond memories and laughs.

Here's a toast to the next 6000 posts.

Atol quickly swallows some cheese and raises his glass in honor of a great GM!

Thanks Chris! It's been a great ride so far. :)

It has been a great deal of fun, can't wait to see what's in store.

Yes, thanks Chris! Won't it take another 12,000 to finish the campaign? :-p My fingers are tired just thinking about it...

I think I miscalculated the potions of lesser restore. Should have been 150 to craft two. Also not sure, Chris, whether you were open to Atol writing the scrolls Toffitt was using to learn.

I was trusting your math and yes, Atol can scribe. Just let me know what the final number is. Heroism potion is available.

Let's total all that again...

2,000 +1 to dueling blade
1,000 cloak of resistance +1
300 scrolls of invisibility, barkskin; used to learn
225 scrolls of lesser restoration (3); used to learn
200 materials to learn
40 materials to transcribe cure moderate wounds from scroll
750 potion of heroism
150 potions of lesser restoration x 2
75 potion of invisibility x 1
150 potions of barkskin x 2

=5190 gp

531.54 gp remaining

Day 18 - Page 94

Recap of awesome.

I'm still enjoying the heck out of this PbP and recaps like this make it all worth it.

Thanks again, GM Chris.

Toffitt spends some time with his patients and Carts or not. I think you're more interested in playing both sides of this one whereas I've been playing Skie for Glimmil.

No, I'm just trying to leave room for you to have your say in where it's going. I could just narrate where it's going, but not sure if you want to incorporate it into some other plans.

Still, as fans of Tyrion Lannister will note, falling in love with a sex worker can be tricky business.

Notes for Dyrant:

Scribing Scroll over the few days:
Scroll #8: Heroism, Heroism, Heroism, Heroism [-750gp]
Scroll #9: Summon Monster 3, Summon Monster 3 [-375gp]

Gold spent during week of sermonizing: 50 gp

Chris, what's the cost for a simple storefront that might fit an alchemist's lab and small consulting room?

Being lazy I'll refer to my old post.

- A longtime unrented one-story shop space across from the Drunken Morkoth Inn on Obsidian Ave. It's about twice as large as Ghelve's and has a "retail" space in the front and a back room. Rent is 3 gp per day.
Revised price is 2 gp/day. 60 gp/month. Available for purchase for 2 years rent 1440 gp. No garden space, but the roof is flat and you could put pots up there.

I see. I am rethinking some of his purchases. I think I'd like to have him buy:

200 gp Alchemist's lab
180 gp Three months rent
100 gp healer's kit x 2 (likely just used up as part of business)

Rather than the 200 gp of free services.

That leaves him with 51.54 gp. Spendthrift that I am...

Toffitt will be charging for services from some of the more moneyed scoundrels he sees, and offering a certain amount of pro-bono care. He'll also make his alchemical services available, but only of the non-combative variety unless the buyer is clearly good. I suppose this represents his basic income for living, with perhaps a bit extra to take care of an under-employed hustler turned artiste/barber in training...

To the party: happy to craft potions of barkskin, invisibiilty, CMW, etc. for anyone with the coin who is interested.

<--- yes/no?

Little closer to how I picture him.

Makes me nervous. :)

<--- yes/no?

Little closer to how I picture him.

Holy piddlespot!

We *chose* to resurrect that?!?!

We take it back!

Ctrl-Z! Ctrl-Z! UNDO! UNDO!

Yikes! He looks more like a lycanthrope than Toffitt...

Well I always said he was a tattooed half-orc, now I found one. Maybe I'll roll better and die less? Nah. :D

Great picture!

Going to move the storyline ahead another week today unless there are any objections.

Dyrant holds the first book up and reads the title aloud.

"Wizards and Sorcerers. Seekers of knowledge or conduits of the arcane?, by Zurisatro "Zees" Mandurkin." Dyrant stares at the book for a moment. "I'll read this one last. Not likely to be much intelligent meat therein."

What a bunch of claptrap this is likely to be.

Dyrant debates just throwing the book in the fire, but instead just puts it aside.

And that wound had almost scarred over.

Dyrant Maynor, the Pre-Sainted wrote:

Dyrant holds the first book up and reads the title aloud.

"Wizards and Sorcerers. Seekers of knowledge or conduits of the arcane?, by Zurisatro "Zees" Mandurkin." Dyrant stares at the book for a moment. "I'll read this one last. Not likely to be much intelligent meat therein."

What a bunch of claptrap this is likely to be.

Dyrant debates just throwing the book in the fire, but instead just puts it aside.

And that wound had almost scarred over.

It's still painful.

But now more funny.

Since the adventure path doesn't give me anything about the library, please excuse my vagaries. I want to roleplay back but without revealing too much too soon.

On a mechanics level, go ahead and add a +1 (permanent) to your knowledge planes for your week's worth of study.

Such a funny crew. Chris, can we all take a teamwork feat that allows us to collectively cast hideous laughter on our foes?

In training today. I'll progress story 10 hours from now.

@ Toffitt:

The Surprise Round: If some but not all of the combatants are aware of their opponents, a surprise round happens before regular rounds begin. In initiative order (highest to lowest), combatants who started the battle aware of their opponents each take a standard or move action during the surprise round. You can also take free actions during the surprise round. If no one or everyone is surprised, no surprise round occurs.

It's comedy at this point, but drawing a potion, drinking a potion, and drawing a sword? Really?

As far as I am aware, it's just a standard action for an alchemist to drink a mutagen or extract—similar to casting a spell.

And he has quick draw. :-)

On the bright side for you, he just lowered his Will save by 1. :-)

As far as I am aware, it's just a standard action for an alchemist to drink a mutagen or extract—similar to casting a spell.

And he has quick draw. :-)

I learned something new today. :)

Potions and elixirs still work the same, though.

Toffitt has failed the will save for the gaze attack. I believe he will be confused for rounds per caster level unless given a new save by someone. Anyone understand gaze attacks differently?

In other words, someone please lure the monster to him. :-)

Speaking of luring monsters...

From my earlier commend, I never posted which of the 2 spells Glimmil swapped for Divine Favor since he now has that on a scroll thanks to Atol.

I was leaning towards Challenge Evil (and not Knight's Call which would've forced the monster to come towards us).

One other thought, since we have a week of downtime, is Glimmil might see if Atol would consider scribing some scrolls that Glimmil could tuck into his belt for emergencies.

Glimmil might even approach Dyrant first about these scrolls, since he sees Dyrant with paper so often >:)

Divine Favor and Liberating Command are two he'd love to have on emergency scrolls.

I'm looking at Knight's Call or Challenge Evil as the 1st level spell Glim would pray to Ol' Glittergarl for each day - I haven't seen those APG paladin spells used yet.

Glimmil would start praying for Challenge Evil for his lone 1st level slot.

I don't think it's going to come to play in this fight, but if there's no objection I'm going to update Glimmil's sheet as if he prayed for this spell instead of Divine Favor today?

Also if we get at least a couple hours of down-time after this fight, Glim's purchasing a small masterwork lance. :)

Glimmil stops by Skie's to sell the party's goods, check on a belt of giant strength, and perhaps stay a long lunch. Skie takes him to a back room to check for a belt. They spend a long time looking for the belt and come back sweating.

Incidentally, I forgot to LOL about this.

Toffitt acts in the surprise round. It's likely everyone has at least a main weapon with them, but they are not likely to be dining in plate mail. If you think your character is a chain shirt or similar all day long type of person that's fine.

I also forgot to remark on this. Strangely, I think Glimmil does polish up his armor every morning and parade around Cauldron in it trying to be a visible hero of the Cauldron Five. He doesn't sleep in it since it tends to tangle up and tear the sheets on his bed at his parent's place, although sometimes I wonder if Glimmil would sleep in his armor while he dreams of knightly deeds if he didn't get all sore the next day.

As an actual knight (Sir Glimmil the Brave!) I imagine he takes all his meals in plate. :)

On a last note, I'm sure he doesn't have the magic belt yet - what about the enchant on the hook-hammer by this day? (since likely next round he'll be dropping the lance and I'm not sure what else he has on his person)

I <3 Glimmil

All who ordered magic weapon enchantments have them, but no belt yet. And for Glimmil I'd believe he dines in plate.

Did Toffitt get his dueling blade enchanted?