Ruins of Azlant (Inactive)

Game Master Nathan Goodrich

Is there a saving throw against the Charisma drain on these Hollows? I ask because Tettia analogized them to Wraiths, and those do allow a saving throw. There is confusion sometimes because the attack line doesn't look like a save exists on Wraiths, but the creature ability text allows it.

The existence of a save vs Wraiths helped one of my PFS parties out greatly once upon a time.

Yes, thanks for the reminder and you are right on you getting hit.

Everyone make sure you've logged into Roll20. Going to be going to a tactical map for exploration soon.

Do you have the link saved? I think maybe it's supposed to be the "-" in your header?

Yup, it is at the top of the page here. I will add it to my header soon.

Some minor bookkeeping. I failed to pay attention to hp damage in the last encounter since I was focused heavily on the Charisma drain. Sarine had her rage temp hp up before the attack, so the minor damage didn't get to her real hp at all. That leaves her very slightly injured, but not worth bothering about.

I'll add in really quick for Dak that Sarine's bloodline is giving her natural AC when she rages, so her effective rage penalty for non-touch AC is only -1. It will be zero starting next level.

How do you want to handle Sarine's DR 1/--, Dak? I've seen GM take it into account themselves and leave it up to the player. Either is fine with me.

If Zay has a Barkskin they can spare, Sarine wouldn't complain if she got a little extra defense going into this place when we get a second.

I will do my best to remember about the DR. To be clear on your Stat line, your base AC is 19, 18 while raging yes?

Yes, that was the intent. So 22 with Shield up.

And now I see that I missed Haste by acting too soon. She still has it though, so 23 AC!

Next time we rest I'll try and free up some barkskins, though right now I may need to use those 2nd level slots on more l. restorations. :P

Now that Sarine is finally suffering rage fatigue in an actual combat, that brings up another question we never resolved before. Normal rage fatigues the barbarian for rounds equal to double the rage duration, while unchained rage fatigues for one minute. Since I'm using unchained bloodrage, should I be using its rage fatigue duration as well? Our first GM never decided and it never came up.

Let's keep it unchained since you are using the unchained bonuses.

Tettia is pretty much out of spells. She's got the wand of flaming sphere, but that's it. We should probably fall back, rest and recover.

I'm participating in Paizocon all next week with multiple games a day, so my posting will be slow. Please ding me on discord if I'm holding things up and I'll get a post in soonest.

Dropping a note in all my games. I am hoping things won't change too much, but wanted to forewarn my games that there may be some delays in my posting. My work schedule is usually busiest over the summer months and while it is slow right now I know at some point it will get crazy busy when I start getting shipments in of hundreds of new computers for a rebuild of one of my schools I manage. On top of this I am finishing up my dual MBA/MSIS this summer with three classes in a condensed 8-week semester.

All of this to say, I will do my best to keep up and if I know of major delays I will try to notify people (like when it is finals week), but if I do end up disappearing for a few days here or there just know it won't be long term. All the craziness I have going on over the next couple months should primarily be wrapped up near the end of July.

As always, if you need something quick you can generally ping me on Discord.

Thanks for the notice. (I'm a little slow right now because of PaizoCon, but hopefully will be back to normal after the weekend.)

Also, wow on the MBA/MSIS. Congrats!

Hope you are doing OK, GM! You said you might get super busy, so not alarmed.

Yup, midterm tonight so been busy prepping for that.

Hope your test went well!

Yeah, think it did. Finally a little bit of a chance to breath going into the weekend!

Sorry for the delay all. Down to my last two and half weeks of class, so its been a bit of crunch time. In any case, got a post up! :D

woot! Good luck with the classes.

Dropping a note in all my games. Finished up with school yesterday, just waiting on the audit for me to officially be done and graduate even though there are no commencements with the whole virus thing. Wife is doing better after brief stint in the hospital. Looking at starting to get back into my games and get posting again sometime this week. My work is really crazy as first kids were coming back on the 17th but now everything is going to be virtual for an indeterminate amount of time, but teachers are coming back still and there is a lot of questions floating out there so bare with me as I ease into catching up on things and getting back into a regular posting routine again over the next week or so.

Huzzah! Sorry, I know this time must be terribly chaotic. But delighted to hear we MIGHT be able to resume. Take care of yourself.

Still listening in. Take care everyone!

Yep. Still here as well.

Ditto

I talked to Dak earlier this week. He was sick with covid-like symptoms and wasn't feeling well. Hopefully he's getting better!

Yikes. Hope he's getting better!

Get well soon, Dak!

Dropping a note here for Dak. I touched base with him earlier today and he's tested positive for COVID and has been sick and out of commission for awhile and he still remains sick. He said to let everyone know he'll be back when he recovers.

Yeep. Fingers crossed for his welfare.

Same. Get better soon GM & take all the time you need!

FYI, I'll be out of town, and not posting Tuesday-Saturday (just in case Dak gets back -- fingers crossed he's doing OK).

Hey, I wanted to drop in and give all my games an update. I'm still alive, obviously, and I've managed to stay out of the hospital and off a ventilator. However, I'm still not fully recovered. Even though I'm outside my two week symptomatic/infectious period by over a week there are some lingering issues that are still weighing on me (continued shortness of breath, getting light headed, overall fatigue). I doing my best to push through it but it is barely just enough to get me through work everyday and doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else. I would like to give a hard and fast "I'll be back and up to playing again by this time", but sadly at this point I can't. It could be a couple weeks or it could be a couple months for me to get used to this new (hopefully temporary) norm on top of a few other things going on.

All this to say, I'm ok, I'm trying my best to manage, but I can't give you a hard "this is when I will be back". I understand it has been awhile as it is, between this most recent struggle with COVID and my past slowness with finishing up my graduate stuff so if you need to move on without me I completely understand and I'm just sorry that right as I was getting back into things again this whole virus thing came along and knocked me back down again. I'll check in again once I feel I'm up to playing with everything else I am balancing.

'COVID' is a pretty damn legitimate reason to be struggling. We wish you the best. Don't try and push yourself past what's comfortable, and I hope the lingering complications clear up really quickly for your sake.

Yikes. Sorry to hear it hit you so hard, Dak. Hope you fully recover soon!

Has anyone heard anything from Dak recently? Hopefully he's feeling better now at least. COVID isn't a joke.

Sorry for the long silence a lot been going on and after getting pinged on Discord I wanted to drop a note in all my games. I'm actually doing a lot better now, pretty much fully recovered. However, my wife has been really sick, last month she was in the hospital for a week and I'm sitting in the surgery center now waiting to see how things turn out on a few hour procedure she is currently in. Depending on how invasive the surgery is I may be dealing with a lot for at least a month or so taking care of her and the kids and working. On top of that with the holidays coming and the normal delays that revolve around that I am going to say that it's going to be at least January before I look at picking things up again. Maybe if things get better sooner I will try jumping back in before that but I feel like early January is going to be more realistic.

If you need to move on without me I understand feel free to find a replacement if needed and when I check back we can go from there. Sorry for all the absent time, these last few months have just really kicked my butt first physically, then mentally and emotionally. Hope you all are keeping safe and have a good Thanksgiving and Christmas for those who celebrate.

Thanks for the update, Dak, and I hope everything turns out ok for your wife.

Thank you for the update. Glad to hear that you are feeling better, but sorry about your wife's health problems.

I don't feel an urgent need to rush ahead.

Take care!

Agreed. I do want to get back to this game and Aurelian at some point, but we can wait.

I tried asking in the discord chat, but no one said anything back. Have we heard from Dak recently?

So with half the party leaving (as per Discord) I don't know that we'll be able to continue this one on. I am open to suggestions, but at least as of right now with all the other games I am having to catch up on I don't think I want to work on re-recruiting for this. I am open to suggestions though.

I think it's more than fair if you want to focus your efforts on other games given that this one isn't very functional at the moment.

I think our first step should be getting in touch with dien since they haven't responded in the Discord chat yet. Once we know who is still here, we can make decisions about the future of the game.

Unless Aurelian has a better way to get in touch with dien, I can send him a Private Message.

I have no better way. If it's just the two of us going on (or even three, if dien is still in), I'm afraid I'm not sure it's worth it. I'm sure we could pretty easily refill the roster, but I think maybe it's time to let it go. :(

Sorry, I had the discord server muted. I'm still around and would still be willing to keep going if it's feasible, but.... it has been a while. IDK, I really like the characters.

Dak, I'm glad you recovered okay.

Up to you guys, or I guess Dak. I love Aurelian, so I'm willing to continue.

Between the discord (or another similar group I'm on), I think we could easily replace the two characters. It's easy enough to have them be enchanted folks in the current fight who we're freeing as a way of introducing them (or maybe even have a wyrwood PC).

I also like Aurelian! And Sarine, and my own character. ;) I guess we'll see what Dak's feelings are?

I guess the only question I have left is whether Dak is up to running this campaign still if we can fill the roster again. I don't wamt to make an assumption either way.

If he is, we should get that recruitment going. If not, we'll have to figure out the GM issue first.

Sent a PM to Dak this morning to try to get their attention.

I haven't heard back from Dak yet. I'm assuming we should try to move forward without them at this point.

I've been toying with the idea of GMing this myself. That would mostly lose us Sarine, unfortunately, though I might have her show up here & there still.

Any other thoughts? We could try to find another GM in Recruitment again I guess.