Falcon's Hollow is a small town so it's prosperous enough for the soulspeaker to be sold.
Let's say the start of the next module will happen a few weeks from now with the arrival of a trading caravan coming to Falcon's Hollow. The news of a mysterious disease in the small town has been contradicted by news that the disease has been cured, or gone away. Some outsiders think it was all just exaggerated hogwash.
I need to look at my options. I may actually keep Virdel and maybe tweak him a little bit. I'm going out of town on Tuesday night for a week. I will be able to check in on my phone but I will get my character squared away before then for sure. I just might not have time to do a complete rebuild.
I honestly really struggle with loot management so I appreciate you guys taking it on. :) If I keep Virdel I will look through the list and see if there's anything else he wants.
So we are picking up a new 4th right? Have you started recruiting for that or have someone in mind?
Well, I was thinking of the original recruitment. There were two characters I liked, a rogue and an Inquisitor. What do you guys think of one of those two?
April is probably a good time to start the sequel?
Also an exit interview if you guys could indulge me.
1. What was the best part of the game?
2. What was the weakest?
3. What did you think of the challenge the enemies provided?
I sent you a PM about the exit interview and original recruitment, GM Stargin. ;)
April works for me. It's right around the corner, but gives us some time to get things squared away with our characters and maybe meet the new party member.
April is good for me for the same reasons Aelerie gave above. I'll be writing my responses today and PM when ready.
The best part to me was your roleplay/writing style. I thought you did a great job fleshing out the NPC's in a way that really engaged the characters in the story.
Weakest part? I would say just developing experience and confidence, but that comes with time. You don't need to ask if everything is ok with us- feel free to push the story forward, especially in Pbp. We will ask to retcon if necessary. This is pretty minor though. You did really well!
I thought the enemies were appropriate. Most of the fights were fairly easy but the big bad had me worried that we might not survive. That's the way I like it. :D
Also April would be great! I'm leaning more and more towards keeping Virdel but rebuilding him a bit and I would appreciate having a couple days to do that when I get back in town next week. An April start date is perfect for me.
In the housekeeping dept. 354 gold, masterwork light crossbow, potion and wand from the worg. Albus would suggest dividing the coin equally and while the crossbow is nice he's happy with his shortbow, the potion of Bull's strength and wand don't really interest him, but if the effect of the potion is identified then he would take it or give it to Church of Iomedae. Whatever share of coin he gets he will tithe a tenth to the Church.
Coin will be split three ways making a nice round 118 each.
MW light crossbow is wrong size for Virdel so let's say it's with Aelerie. On same note let's say Virdel has, and has first dibs on, all small sized equipment.
Bull' Strength potion is with Albus, I think Aeleire would have no trouble identifying it.
CLW wand I think Virdel should have as he can cast it while I think Arcanist doesn't have it on spell list.
Actually will help Laurel until they're done with Scourge or he collapses whatever comes first.
Laurel wouldn't let you do that but will gladly take the help. After a fair bit of the cure is made she will have you work with the Sheriff to find the people actually affected by the taint and bring them in to Laurel for the cure. Then open it up to the public where only those who she's certain has the disease gets the actual cure, everyone else gets a very expensive placebo.
Speaking of, Virdel did you take Laurel up on selling your brother the placebo? There's 25 gold extra for you if you dooo...
Looking back from the witch hut you guys only took the soulspeaker and the herbs and the pouch of summoning salts.
At the tatzlwyrm we left the items behind for the weight of them, Albus will try to get back there to recover them and give them to the dead men's heirs in a week or so.
Going back to the tree is a pretty dangerous trek even for a level 2 ranger.
When Laurel is less busy Albus will ask her if she wants him to recover the herbs from the witch's hut.
It's a pretty dangerous trek though Laurel would have no problem at all with getting a good supply of the moss, the herb, and more mushrooms too. Will pay a reasonable amount for such rare ingredients and you guys are the expert on where to find those things now.
What he does thereafter depends on events, either working somehow for the Sheriff or returning to the Legion.
Plan to start the next adventure about three weeks or so after the end of this one. I think it's reasonable for Albus to spend that amount of time in Falcon's Hollow?
Unless otherwise stated I think we left all of the Hobgoblin's gear behind, if not I guess Astrianna has it.
Pretty sure Astrianna had all of that, which means you guys have it now. You also have her one CLW and one vial of Holy Water. I'm basically giving all of this stuff to Albus for safekeeping.
For the bodies at the Elder Tree, we took the money and the signet ring and the rations. Albus will return all those to the family after the scourge is dealt with and will try to get the rest back to them as he can.
The families are grateful to have even that much as they'd given the men up for dead and weren't expecting to get anything back.
Don't think I need to mention Astrianna again but her father called her back from her initial posting for some unknown reason. The stature of the Church of Iomedae and the Mayor and Hildrensocks has gone up because of your efforts though and you guys are local Heroes which makes the Lumber Consortium really uneasy.
So everyone please add the Trait: "Heroes of the Hollow"
Your characters get +5 to any Cha based check with the residents of the Hollow, to anyone deeply connected with The Lumber Consortium you get -2 instead of +5.
Update Let me know if I missed anything:
Item When Why Who
Quiver and 10 MW Arrows Start Gift from Sheriff Albus
Pouch of 50 gold Start Gift from Vamros Virdel
Level 2 magic missile (4 charges) Start Gift from Hildrensocks Aelerie
2 X CLW Start Gift from Chritiana Albus (one used on Albus, one left)
Holy Water Start Gift from Chritiana Albus
Hide Shirt Fireday Hobgoblin loot Albus
Longbow average quality Fireday Hobgoblin loot Albus
Dagger Fireday Hobgoblin loot Albus
20 arrows Fireday Hobgoblin loot Albus
Pelts Fireday Hobgoblin loot Albus
Crude trapmaking kit Fireday Hobgoblin loot Albus
Two Crossbows Starday Elder tree loot Buried
Two short swords Starday Elder tree loot Buried
MW shortbow Starday Elder tree loot Buried
signet ring Starday Elder tree loot Given back to family
9 gp 12 sp Starday Elder tree loot Given back to family
8 days rations Starday Elder tree loot -6 for use leaves 2 extra with Albus
Soulspeaker Starday Witch hut Aelerie
Pouch of summoning familiar salts Starday Witch hut Given to Hildrensocks
Beautiful dwarf hymn book Sunday Dwarf Monastery Aelerie and Virdel joint?
Small 4x daggers Sunday Kobold Virdel
Potion of CLW Sunday Kobold Virdel
Small thief tools Sunday Kobold Virdel
small mw shortsword Sunday Kobold Virdel
small leather armor Sunday Kobold Virdel
A bag with 354 gp Sunday Worg (Split 3 ways means 118 each)
a masterwork light crossbow Sunday Worg Aelerie (wrong size for Virdel)
a potion of bull’s strength Sunday Worg Albus
wand of light (CL 1st, 28 charges) Sunday Worg Virdel
Well unfortunately the inquisitor is no longer available :(.
I will start a recruitment for a frontliner. What do you guys think of offering the rogue a position too? An idea I've been playing around with is that it's better to have a larger party than a smaller one because dropouts are so sadly common. Party of 5 means that we will have a bit of a buffer in case one drops out.
Thoughts?
Hehe. 'Party of 5.' Haven't heard that in a while.
Anyway, I'm fine with the idea. The more the merrier.
I'm fine with 5 as well. Will rebuild my character soon. Was the soulspeaker sold or not? I'm good either way but it would influence my purchases.
I was under the impression that it would be sold at the beginning of the next module with the arrival of the trading caravan, but if I'm mistaken, then we could say Aelerie sold it off to the highest bidder in town and then tracked down Albus and Virdel to give them their shares of the gold. But let's see what GM Stargin has to say.
And FYI, as far as new spells for Aelerie, I'm leaning toward protection from evil and snowball, but I'm open to suggestions if anyone thinks there's something more useful to the party I could pick up.
5 sounds good to me. I like bigger parties. Also those sound like good spell choices to me! :D
Alriight I'll start a recruitment thread on Monday and that'll be the start of the new thread for us. We can do the shopping and the caravan and introduce the rogue in while the recruitment goes on.
Alright guys, new threads have been created!
http://paizo.com/campaigns/TheChildrenOfTheHollow
Please check in on the discussion tab and you can start doing stuff in gameplay while the recuritment runs and I get the rogue to check in! Then I think I'll inactivate this campaign with a job well done to us all!