Also, a bit of a build question. I'm planning on eventually going arcane trickster, but you cannot be lawful to be an arcane trickster. However, my social identity is lawful, whereas my vigilante identity is not. So my question, essentially, is which would be considered my "true" alignment? Would I be counted as lawful due to my social identity or nonlawful due to my vigilante identity? How I interpret it is that I'd probably be able to go arcane trickster because I'm essentially chaotic good, only lawful neutral to the public, but the rules interpretations are ultimately up to you GM Aarvid.
Putting an additional point in Knowledge local.
@Arcos - you'd probably only use the arcane trickster in your "non-public" persona, I would think. Which fits the rebel theme. I have no problem with it.
Sounds great. That was my reasoning as well.
We have 2 potions of Cure Moderate Wounds from the Salt Works. My suggestion is that Arcos and Talvek (the PCs that can't cast CLW) each take one. That way, everyone has healing capability.
@GM Aarvid: Is the Silver Ravens treasury updated? If it's getting low, we could add some of the coins from the Salt Works. I have already deducted the 10 GP for the boat fare, so there's 50 GP left over. Note that we had previously allocated 9 GP to the treasury during the last loot split.
I had the treasury at 22gp. I know I did not add the 9gp.
So that puts it at 31gp before any additional donations or expenses.
Note: I figured the cost of the funeral was sufficient to "restore" the team. So consider those a wash (10gp)
Let me know you do with the 50gp. Or you 4 can keep it on your persons.
Also, Update the loot sheet for any items you want to keep or sell from Kossrani etc.
We might as well divide the gold between us, which brings up the question, does Vendalfek get a share?
When it comes time to hire a mason, we can pay for that from the Silver Ravens treasury.
Do we still have a Disguise kit?
Yes. Based on the timing of the posts when we prepared for the Salt Works mission, I'm not sure if Talvek used it then, so the Disguise Kit has either 6 or 7 uses left.
so the Disguise Kit has either 6 or 7 uses left.
Duh — Arcos didn't need to use the Disguise Kit, so either 7 or 8 uses left.
I suggest that Aldren might be best to remain on watch, given that clerics don't have the best reflex saves. I tried to pick out a decent hiding spot to help with stealth. One other person could stay with him if they so choose; at least one person should probably help Lubella search.
For my level up, I went with a +1 hit point bonus for the favored class. That left me with 2 skill points, plus the 1-time bonus from the rebellion. Those went to Bluff, Diplomacy, and for background skills one in Linguistics (picked Celestial) and one into the oldest profession. For my feat, I went with Channel Alignment (evil). Profile and snapshot summary should both be fully updated now.
I'll point out that the rebellion reached rank 3 (which gave us boons — a single free skill point and a potion), but we're still 2nd lvl.
Ah s@##. I totally read "You just vaulted to rank 3 !!!" as a level up. Oh well. I'll fix. Doesn't affect the craptastic rolls I just made anyway.
Yeah, that reflected that the rebellion got enough additional supporters to take it from rank 1 straight to rank 3 (which is why we got the rank 2 and rank 3 boons at the same time).
One thing to note for planning purposes: "With the title of Guardian at [rebellion] rank 4, each PC gains one of the following as a bonus feat: Alertness, Deceitful, Persuasive, or Stealthy."
"With the title of Sentinel at rank 9, each PC gains one of the following as a bonus feat: Great Fortitude, Iron Will, or Lightning Reflexes."
"With the title of Warden at rank 14, each PC gains one of the following as a bonus feat: Fleet, Improved Initiative, or Toughness."
"With the title of Savior at rank 19, each PC gains any feat for which he otherwise qualifies as a bonus feat."
In Lubella's case, I'll probably wait for rebellion rank 14 to get Improved Initiative as a bonus feat, instead of taking it at 7th lvl, when I otherwise would (she already has Toughness).
We are not too far from level 3...but not quite there yet.
I will try to make sure I only use "rank" to refer to the Rebellion and "level" to refer to characters.
As Lubella points out, there are some nice bonuses to be had by building the level of supporters.
All fixed. :-)
Late meeting tonight. May not get a post until tomorrow
@Lubella, eventually she would learn, if she did not already...there was no special ward, just a limitation of her spell.
Mage Hand:
Target one non-magical, unattended object weighing up to 5 lbs.
Forgot about that, sorry!
My understanding is that we don't know exactly where the Red Jills are based; we just have a general idea of their territory. Is that correct?
Correct.
What I worry about is the encounter when the GM's two rolls in the surprise round are natural 20s!
LOL - not 20's this time. But those can be rough combats to be sure.
Sorry for the delay. Was trying to post last night but site crashed.
I had the same issues all day yesterday; got the goblin 404 screen every time I tried. Sorry for any delay on my part.
I'm not using Lubella's Battle Dance, because I don't know how you would really do that in the dark. No non-lethal damage either.
This situation is looking pretty rough for us, even with the bad enemy rolls. It's hard to do much when you can't see.
A reminder of the rules for casting defensively (I never remember the details and have to look it up):
Casting a spell while on the defensive does not provoke an attack of opportunity. It does, however, require a concentration check (DC 15 + double the spell's level) to successfully cast the spell. Failure means that you lose the spell.
When you make a concentration check, you roll d20 and add your caster level and the ability score modifier used to determine bonus spells of the same type.
So for example, if Aldren were to try to cast Cure Light Wounds defensively, his bonus would be 2(caster lvl)+4(Wis)=6, and the target DC would be 15+2*1=17, so he would need to roll 11 or higher.
The other alternative is to cast normally, and hope that either you don't get hit, or that you can pass the concentration check if you do (10+damage+spell lvl), assuming that you're still conscious.
Yes, that is what Arcos did (I assumed his +5 concentration check was correct on his sheet) and he beat the DC17 by 1 for shield.
Getting hit for damage is almost always harder to make, but if you have a good AC or mirror images, it can be worth risking it.
+5 looks correct for Arcos: 2(caster lvl)+3(Int)=5
At 5th lvl, Lubella's Spinning Spellcaster archetype class feature will give her +4 to cast defensively.
Sorry for my absence. Getting hit by back to back projects and been working almost non-stop since last week.
My intention was to wait until the captive out of sight before hiding the body.
Ok, no worries. If one of the others takes the captive out of sight, we can retcon. I just missed being able to update the post by 8 mins.
It would be nice if we could find out about Scarplume's abilities, but it sounds like this guy may not know much about those. Still, we know that she presumably can fly, so ranged weapons will be important; that's actually a pretty helpful piece of information.
We should probably buy an ioun torch (costs 75 GP), to counter magical darkness.
I'm guessing we'll want to cover the body with a blanket, and weight it down with stones when we drop it in the river.
It wasn't specified where we 'buried' the previous bodies in the river, but we'll try not to do it in the same place.
Talvek could optionally help with the scouting, since he can see in the dark. Lubella won't be much help carrying the body.
I should also add that Lubella is still in disguise from earlier in the day.
I think the ioun torch is a wise investment. That darkness was devastating.
The Paizo site is very unstable - I am going to refrain from any long posts until tomorrow to see if they resolve the issues.
"Unstable" is kind. Very kind.
Progress ?
It's still really flaky — it can take a few tries for me to post.
We're back!
Let's hope they have resolved everything completely. I have my first few posts up and it looks good so far.
Thanks for your patience. :)
[Edit] And since we were offline so long, as a reminder we are still on the day/evening as the ambush by the 4 red cloaked thugs in the alley.[]
Hi all. Just saw a twitter update the site was back up. I’ve been traveling since Wednesday and every time I’ve tried to logon the site has been down. Will be home again on Wednesday and will try to update the next day or two while traveling if the site allows it. Hopefully things will stabilize soon and this is the end of it.
It has been up for at least an hour. Will see how long it lasts. I will get a post tonight if it stays good.
Let's see how long the site stays up this time!
Still seems like they are figuring out the fix and not quite solved.
If it continues to be unstable- would there be any interest in moving to another platform or just wait It out? I have played some on mythweavers and d20roll but do not like either of those as much as paizo. I am still hoping for a permanent fix.
I'm OK waiting a little longer. I like playing on paizo — I just want the site to be up and working most of the time.
Since the site is just recently back...again...we hope. Will give Arcos a chance to post before continuing tomorrow.
I just hope that the site can stay up for more than a few hours.
Invisible casters are very difficult to deal with, especially at low level; casting a summon spell doesn't make you visible.