So long as you don't sparkle in the sun. we're still cool.
So I guess we both work with the icky bits. I just work with the icky bits of websites rather than human bodies. :P
So... you folks are heading well and truly off the beaten track with this one!!! I'll try to keep a steady hand on the tiller and guide us along - and gently back towards the main adventure... also, if the tone of our adventure - I' aware that we've been hanging around with a pimp and his gang for the last week - isn't cool by everyone, please do say!!!
Y'all can get back on track here if you want. I made the suggestion of checking out Mahaas in Festival, but even if you pursue another lead, hopefully our GM will be kind enough to help me reconnect with the group at an opportune moment.
All good here.
I've never played an investigator type before, so this is turning out to be a rather interesting experience for me.
Question for GM Zed on the Shawl of Shadowy Disguise. I am interested in getting the stealth and disguise bonus for this item. Since the caster level of the item is 5th level that would be a +5 stealth and disguise while not in bright light. But on the other hand, the item could be interpreted to give the benefit of hiding The Stirge's appearance but no other benefits. What do you think?
Ouch! Get some rest, hope you feel better soon.
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Oh noes! I caught that last year and it was not fun. If they caught it early enough it probably won't be as bad as I had it, but I was out of commission for a couple of days during the worst of it.
Question for GM Zed on the Shawl of Shadowy Disguise. I am interested in getting the stealth and disguise bonus for this item. Since the caster level of the item is 5th level that would be a +5 stealth and disguise while not in bright light. But on the other hand, the item could be interpreted to give the benefit of hiding The Stirge's appearance but no other benefits. What do you think?
I read it as:
A +5 competency bonus to stealth / disguise skill checks and the constant benefit of not revealing the Stirge's appearance.
A +5 competency bonus to stealth / disguise skill checks.
The cloak is ineffective.
I kinda hope you get well soon Ruby, but then if you're liking the pbp time ... well you know!!!
Hope you feel better soon.
Will be away this weekend, just to let you know I'm not ignoring you.
And just a quick note, I'm loving the story telling going on here ...
Just wanted to say thanks for playing along as I do another set of introductory scenes for the Stirge. Hopefully once we're all acquainted, I can make the transitions seamlessly between the alternate identities with less fanfare.
No problem. Now I jsut need to decide how Tella reacts.
Loving these early interactions with the Stirge!!! Just letting you folks bring that to a natural conclusion before I advance us on into the story...
@Varian: All's well. I just hope that you aren't too upset about me offering you to pay Mr. Mean some of your money. :)
Sides, it's not like I haven't done stuff like this before.
Oh fun! I'd love to play with that someday. :)
Definitely not - seems like the Stirge needs a leash! Whether he'll agree with that sentiment in character is another question.
And I like the Dark Tapestry oracle a lot, plenty of interesting powers. Many Forms is a lot of fun!
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I'll have to have a look at that ... but it sounds a great mystery to have .... great for this game ... he says without looking at any of the details ... ;-)
You sure is not the Darc Tapestry ...
Late addition tot he post, after I read the story continuation.
Just to clarify, Darc has not connected 'The Stirge' with Varian ... so he currently means it ... so hope you don't mind this bit of inter party confrontation ...
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... both Tera and Ruby ...
"Wait! This isn't Magnimar? How did I wind up here?! Help!"
So, Horror in the Sinks by Alastair Rigg - the third of the modules set in the Blight - just landed in my inbox and yeah, wow, that is some dark stuff right there... I will run it, at some point, here on the boards but just to whet your whistle - here's the preamble...
Lurking in the drowning folly that is the aristocratic enclave of the Sinks, the horrific Asylum — shunned by a citizenry terrified of the revelations it may contain — is where the nobles of the City-State of Castorhage bury their secrets. But when too many overseers are killed, and in ways more gruesome than even the brutality of that location might evoke, someone must enter to investigate. Those who do soon learn that life — if it can be called that — within its walls is even worse than they feared and the truths that nestle within its inmates are far more distressing than mere madness.
An insane asylum! Classic. Fits perfectly with the grimy 1800's London feel.
Hmmm. I think I may have an idea for that. Admittedly, the character might make things more gruesome.
Hmmm.. I like it!!
: No worries, shame to see you go but better to trim the number of games you are in than to struggle to get everything written in time!!! I'll GMPC Ruby for the time being - but she may come to a typically sticky ending....
Sorry to see you go, Ruby. Thanks for letting us know, and hope we get to game again in the future!
I'll miss Ruby, but I've still got two games we're in together. :)
Sorry to see you go Ruby, it was fun to play in the game with you and was really looking forward to your Dark Tapestry to shine in the gloom.
Looking forward to the dramatic moment when Maha as drops the bomb!
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Looking forward to the dramatic moment when Maha as drops the bomb!
It would have been quite dramatic if it had been dropped / mishandled... that's for sure!!!
Mahaas withdrew from the combat so no AoO... also, I'm kind of playing loose with the rules so that we can have this bit of the adventure...
aaah, no problem at all, a GM after my own heart. Sometimes you just have to trust the GM to make it dramatic and fun .... noted and happy .. ;-)
The fifth of the Blight 'stand-alone' adventures has just been released... and it's as black-hearted an affair as its twisted brethren!!! ...and now, full of trepidation and fear, we await the main book itself...
At the final reckoning, we have (and I am itching to run each and every one of them):
For decades, Theatre Infernalis offered shocking and frightful entertainment to customers who entered its gaping demonic facade and saw a frightful portrait of the eternal torments that await all sinners. Now rumours tells of the ageing and supposedly-cursed proprietor’s deteriorating health and the theatre’s impending sale, and the Artist’s Quarter has been abuzz with those seeking one final fright with a walk through the crucible-licked walls of the infernal house of the macabre before its final curtain call. But are the theatre’s smoke-and-mirrors and cheap scares hiding a truly wicked secret? What is the nature of the curse and illness that affect the owner? And did foul and profane rites once take place between its walls that outside forces now seek to exploit? What happens when the spookshow’s fun and games transform into a terrifying reality, threatening to spill forth an in infernal malevolence onto the streets of the Blight?
Lurking in the drowning folly that is the aristocratic enclave of the Sinks, the horrific Asylum, shunned by a citizenry terrified of the revelations it may contain, is where the nobles of the Blight bury their living secrets. But when too many overseers are killed, and in ways more gruesome than even the brutality of that location might evoke, someone must enter to investigate. Those who do, soon learn that life - if it can be called that within its walls of that bleak place - is even worse than they feared and the truths that nestle within its inmates are far more distressing than mere madness.
All the children of the Blight know the nursery rhymes about Bloody Jack Carver, cautionary tales for naughty or overly inquisitive children to mind their manners and obey their parents. However, their parents know the true horror of those times 30 years ago when the lunatic serial killer known as Bloody Jack Carver stalked the fog-shrouded streets of the Blight and abducted children. The killing spree finally ended, but the perpetrator was never caught.
When the PCs are deputized to assist in a homicide investigation, they find terrifying clues that point to the three-decade-old Bloody Jack killings and signs to indicate that they were just the beginning. Now the PCs are in a race against time across the breadth of the decrepit and deteriorating city that is the Blight as they attempt to stop a new killing spree before it can start. The PC’s investigation takes them from the halls of the Capitol and the seedy streets and alleys of Toiltown to the garish carnival piers of Festival and the pollutant-crusted banks of the Great Lyme River. Only they stand between the children of this decayed city and new nursery rhymes being written in their blood.
People in the Blight begin to awaken at night burning with an all-too-real fire. Most of them die horribly, spouses or lovers staring in shocked horror at their sudden death throes in the grip of consuming flames. A few of the truly unlucky actually manage to survive — if living in such a state can be called survival. There seems to be no rhyme or reason in the victims of these incinerating dreams, as those among the high and low fall victim to its touch, and the locals each pray that he or she will not be next.
Now no one dares to sleep.
The Blight is a dark place. Children disappear all the time, especially those of the poor. The Harvester of Cribs, one of the city’s strange local gods, is blamed for many of these disappearances. Typically, these disappearances are random, isolated instances, and in many cases, the Harvester has nothing to do with it at all, merely being a convenient explanation or alibi for some other nefarious activity.
This time, however, 36 children have disappeared from their homes - all in a single night - and many of them were not from the houses of the poor. Not even the jaded folk of the City-State of Castorhage will stand for this (especially not a prominent justice and a guild leader who have each lost a child in this rash of disappearances). Now is the time for a call to action. Now is the time for heroes.
Seems like you could string together a mini-AP with these adventures! Just need some sort of party of investigators to run from episode to episode.
...yeah, I reckon you could string a great little story together with all of those beauties!!!
Apologies for no post this evening, the Paizo site has been beyond flaky so I treated myself to an episode of Jessica Jones instead :) I'll endeavour to push us along a little tomorrow...
Yeah...it ws a pain last night ....
Hope you had a good night in.
@GM Zed - sorry you had a visit to the hospital, hope you are feeling better (or the person you were visiting, if it wasn't you).
Ready for the morgue ....
I'm off on a cruise starting tomorrow for a week, back Memorial Day. Posting pace will probably slow a little, so please bot me as needed.
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I know how you feel, and appreciate the effort in rekindling the inspiration. I never think my 2nd posts are half as good as the first, but then that's just the way I'm bad rekindler ... :-)
Yeah, thanks for typing all of that. That said, holy crap! If the fires this thing starts can't be put out by pouring water on them, then Castorhage is about one wrong move from going up in smoke.
Holly, our dog had to be put to sleep today, not in the mood at the moment. Sure you understand ... Back soon.