The Once & Future KingMaker

Game Master Aest

no problem.

Morning guys! I'll be making an intro pretty soon. Just wanted to mention that I was happy for the invite!

Welcome to the game. ^^

Glad to see Andrei fill the spot.

Welcome

Thanks for stepping up.

Boy am I glad I listed the alternates when I did the results!

Hello Andrei. Welcome to our merry band.

I'm just glad that I was reading the recruitment thread yesterday!

Hey guys. I hate to do this, but I'm afraid I'm not feeling up to this. I have enjoyed the characterization and the group, but I'm afraid that a recent drought of free time due to craziness at work and other competing interests have tipped my hand. I'm dropping out of the game. I wish you luck and I hope that you all have fun.

Well crap. I hate to see y'all lose another player. I've still been following the game. If Kender wants me to step back in I can try to give it my best go round. Just lemme know. I just don't wanna see the whole thing crumble.

I wouldn’t blame yourself. We made a good run at the game, and had fun while it lasted.

I’m going to bow out too. I had a great time roleplaying with all you PCs--I hope we get to play together again sometime. Kenderkin, thanks for organizing it.

Andrei, sorry about the recruitment tease! I promise you’re not driving us all away. :)

Ok time to circle the wagons and figure out what happened.

And how we want to proceed.

No no no no no. If you want to keep running, I want to keep playing. Even if I'm the only one.

Well.. I'm still here. I have been trying to get into a kingmaker forever and a day. I would hate to see it end just as I got in.

So

Valeria is in.
Torod is in.
Andrei is in.

Jennet is out.
Terri is out.

So do we want to pull another player from the alternates?
Level the remaining three Characters?
Other ideas?

I like the idea of leveling, but what player doesn't.
I suggest calling in two more players as Valeria is a bit unsure of how much of a commitment she can make to the game. I mean no disrespect and I appreciate that she is willing to give things a try, but I'd rather hedge my bets here.

I'll try to be as active as possible, but wouldn't expect more than one post a day at best.

Fine!
We will let you be the strong silent type.

1 post a day is all that is required, excluding weekends

Great! Awesome! Though I did notice you (Valeria) did not vote on leveling. :)
That then leaves the question of adding players.

I was kinda waiting to see if Asta was gonna stick around. But what player is ever against leveling up? :-P

Dax and Andrei

No worries as far as that goes, I will keep running even if it does come down to that one last player.

And about that leveling?

Asta?

As a lot has passed since Valeria has posted, I'll sum things up here:

1) She would have seen to the selling of the gear to Oleg for more credit, including extra horses and their tack.

2) She would have greeted the soldiers and cleric politely and shown them respect and probably flirted some with the soldiers as well. What better way to make men defend a small outpost than potential (in their minds) romance?

3) She would prefer to go after Svetlana's ring before heading to the temple, but would make it a point to take care of it for the old cleric.

Torod is all for getting the ring before looking for the temple. He is all for creating good will to help build the community. The temple has been lost for this long. It can wait a while longer.

Yes but is Asta staying on?

So we shall level to 2nd and move forward!

I will level upto 2 and make the changes to my sheet. Do you want us to roll for HP or take an avg?

full hit points/level

Ding!

Leveled up.

Also, here are the spoils from the bandit camp.

The bandits (number?) had:
shortbow, 15 arrows, leather armor, longswords, 10 gold
thunderstone
4 horses
potion of cure light
studded leather armor
2 masterwork handaxes
4 daggers
85 gp

Treasure: The bandits’ spoils,kept hidden under less interesting
supplies like food, firewood, and tents under the platform at area
K2, currently include 321 sp, 90 gp, a pair of silver earrings worth
150 gp, a wooden music box worth 90 gp, three crates of furs and
hides worth 50 gp per crate, and a polished wooden case of potent
greenish herbal liquor. There are still eight bottles with liquor left
in them.

I thought we divided up the money and sold the rest to Oleg for store credit.

Leveled up!

I don't remember.

Current discussions....
1. Kressels disposition
2. An abandoned temple
3. The men at arms and securing Oleg's
4. The cleric

Not sure if you want my imput since I wasn't here but..

1. Kressels disposition
Kill her unless she sells out everything she knows. Then send her back to Brevoy for hard labor. If we *are* going to build a nation we need to decide how we would treat people like this. Kressel seems pretty despicable, I would give her the noose personally.

2. An abandoned temple
I agree that the ring should take priority but I would be interested in this temple.

3. The men at arms and securing Oleg's
I can chat him up the guards find out who sent them and what their orders are. Did you want to set up defenses for Olegs? What preference does Oleg have? I believe there was talk about a ring?

4. The cleric
I can chat him up in my free time and get to know him if you would like, with a diplomacy of +7 given a few days I could probably have him friendly with me.

1. As I understand it, Kressel is on a type of probation. As long as her information pans out, her sentence is suspended. She may even be able to earn her freedom. This is the decision, though it is obvious that Torod would have preferred to just kill her. She does not volunteer information, but is willing to answer questions as long as it does not conflict with her loyalty to the Stag Lord (that loyalty being her one quality of any worth).

2 and 4. Torod is druid who venerates Erastil. He and the Jhod have a good rapport going. Finding and hopefully renovating that temple is very important to him.

3. As important as the temple is to Torod, aiding and building the community is more important. Finding her ring would secure our good will from the Levetons and, through them, everyone that comes thru the Trade Post.

Have you guys explored any hex's yet and if so where are they posted at?

Not entirely sure about that..

No. We went strait to the bandit camp.

I thought we divided up the money and sold the rest to Oleg for store credit.

I did a bit of searching and found that I was wrong. I was thinking about the loot from the attack on the trade post.

The bandits (number?) had:
- shortbow per bandit
- 15 arrows per bandit
- leather armor per bandit
- longswords per bandit
- 10 gold per bandit
- thunderstone per bandit
- 4 horses
- potion of cure light
- studded leather armor
- 2 masterwork handaxes
- 4 daggers
- 85 gp 321 sp, 90 gp,
- silver earrings worth 150 gp,
- wooden music box worth 90 gp
- three crates of furs and hides worth 50 gp per crate
- 7 bottles of potent greenish liquor was 8 but Torod drank one with some help
- Supplies like food, firewood, and tents

Yes but is Asta staying on?

So we shall level to 2nd and move forward!

If I recall, Asta was having some PC issues a little bit ago. Maybe they came back to haunt her.

Valeria would take a tent and the potion.

How much could we get for the rest of this in store credit, and how many standard bandits were there, so we can properly divide up the coinage?

I counted 7 basic bandits in the fight. As such, I am basing my calculations on that.

7 shortbows = 115 gp credit
7 longswords = 52 gp 5 sp credit
7 leather armor = 35 gp credit
7 thunder stones = 115 gp credit
4 horses = 150 gp credit
Studded leather =12 gp 5 sp credit
2 MW hand axes = 306 gp credit
4 daggers = 2 gp credit

Trade goods:
3 crates of furs = 150 gp

Total: 938 gp credit added.

Are the earrings, liquor, and music box trade goods or still half price?

As for gold split: we have 277 gp and 1 sp to divide. Into 4 shares (3 players and 1 group fund) that is 69 gp, 2 sp, 5 cp each.

So this brings the credit at Oleg's to 1138 gp, 50 sp.

If there are no objections, I would like to commission Oleg to have me a MW Cold Iron Bastard Sword made. That would be 370 gp. Anybody opposed?

Well lets see if my haggeling can raise the offer to 60% instead of 50% that would bring it upto 1125.6gp

That brings the current store credit to 1326 gold 1 silver.

*smiles* The bard is paying off already!

I'm still in the game, but my network is being a real *bleep*. Having difficulty logging in and leaving messages. Thank you for your patience. *bows*

Then the gold split is actually 55 gp, 4 sp instead. Making the adjustments now. Also I am gonna keep tabs on the group fund since Terri has left us and it was my idea anyway.

Glad to have you with us still Asta, by the by.

Also, we could use most of our credit to pick up a wand of cure light wounds. Those are always handy to have. I won't make any requests in game until we decide what we want Oleg to order. I don't wanna gank most of our funds from the credit for personal character use unless everybody is ok with it. So, yeah, just lemme know what y'all think.

Masterwork weapons are good. Any weapon I use counts as magical for DR and damage but not for hit. I am primarly melee and can use bastard swords as well so I woulden't mind a copy of Valeria's MW, Cold Iron Bastard Sword when we get the chance. Cure Light Wound Wands are good. I can cast Cure Light Wounds and so can Asta so that's something as well.