He hasn't posted anywhere since Monday as far as I can tell. Since he's already used his smite I'll have him withdraw.
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Man... shades of Crypt of the Everflame. Lets take fresh PC's and throw them against a Shadow.
What? Can't understand why they are dying? Don't understand that newbie characters don't normally pack silver weapons, magic weapons, oils of enchant/bless weapon etc? Oh there's a magic DAGGER... but its where the damn PCs won't have the time to look while the shadow tears them apart... and even if they do, its a damn dagger!
Now lets take that, remove the slim comfort of the dagger and THEN add a wight to the dungeon... sheeesh.
Not bagging the GM here and luckily we have some experienced pathfinders here but can the writers of these low level games take a deep breath and understand the limitations that new characters have?
There's not really any useful warnings or extra resources gained from the town as Thornkeep is not a happy friendly place (If you have a halfling you can end up with cursed gloves of fumbling). Although you might go venture down into the Accursed Halls, get about this far, retreat and do a side quest or two to gain level 2 before venturing back down.
I think you guys will likely kill the shadow without losing anybody or at the very worst flee with only 1 party member down. At which point you will probably want to return to town and rest even if you risk a wandering monster and give the goblins time to regroup.
That said, I totally agree that wights and shadows are unreasonable monsters to send against level 1 PCs. The wight especially is a weird monster that quickly becomes irreverent but is insanely deadly against level 1 characters.
The one important thing you do miss out on from not doing town are clues on how to open the door but I'm confident you guys can make short work of it once you're not being pursued by horrible monsters.
Ni hao from Guangzhou, only got a few free minutes, but wanted to at least check in and say hi. It is looking increasingly unlikely I'll be able to advance the game till I get back on the 24th. Other than spending 6+ hours on a bus every day trip has been great. I'll share my picture album once I get back
Pictures!
Eventually I may add labels and stuff, this is a pretty raw feed with just duplicates removed.
As a note I've spent most of today in bed with the flu so my responses may be a little slow, but you should still hear from me at least once a day.
You are welcome to sell the bows etc to get the cash, it'll still show up as an expense on your chronicle sheet at the end of things. Note that 24hrs of rest cures 2 points, so to fully get rid of the STR damage it'll only take 3 days of rest and 3gp from everybody.
There's the question about what to do about Kardak's negative level.
As mentioned before it's a DC 15 fort save (I'll give you a +1 circumstance bonus for being well fed and in a nice warm bed) to see if the negative level becomes permanent or not.
Unfortunately your negative level is permanent until you have restoration cast with the additional 1000gp material component (total cost 1280gp) or 4PP (Note would cost 9pp in Thornkeep due to its small size, but would easily be normal cost at the end of the adventure).
Not as written, but a couple points wouldn't help anyway, he's 4 short and I've already given +1 for the bed rest and hot meals.
I'm happy to handle the missing people, sounds like there's a general consensus to head down the SW stairs that are through the open door. (Or at least no objection to heading that way. I'll play for Barrin/Arryn till they return, just don't expect many ideas from them about what to do :) Posting further description in gameplay thread...
Welcome back, I hope you're feeling better.
As a note we are now past the 2/3 mark and thus you are entitled to full rewards. I am happy to continue running if desired but am aware that we are significantly past my initial time estimate and down a player (Christopher).
So I see 3 main options:
Call it quits here.
Continue as normal.
Give you guys a nice summary/description of your heroic efforts to clear the last few rooms.
If we do continue I would rather not include Barin (Christopher's character) as he's been gone so long I would feel quite uncomfortable getting him killed at this point. This still leaves you with 5 hearty adventures though.
Thoughts, comments? Let me know what you guys want.
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Well, I would hate to get killed...but would like to finish. Barrin was one of our frontliners. Hmm...that's a tough call. Not sure what happened to Christopher. I sent him a PM, but he never responded. He has quit posting in another PbP we were in together also, though I have seen him post on the boards. I guess we lost another one to the VC whirlpool/vortex? I'll wait for the others to weigh in on what to do.
It also just occurred to me that that the following is an option as well:
I am happy to call it done, send out chronicle sheets and run the remaining section for fun as a 4th option.
"If a character participates in more than 2/3 of the module, she should receive the full rewards." OP Guide pg 30.
With passing through the wet pillar room you've completed over 2/3rds and thus are eligible for full rewards.
Due to circumstances outside of my control things have gotten even busier than expected for Thursday/Friday of this week and I do not expect to be able to post until Saturday at this point. Thanks for your patience.
Since I have a preference for continuing officially instead of non-officially and there appears to be at least a slight leaning that way, we shall do such baring any major objections.
Could you note heights on the map?
Added to the map and noted here for clarification.
The pool reaches up to height 0.
The passageway you're currently at is -5ft.
The next landing is 5ft above the water.
The second landing is 15ft above the water.
The 3rd landing is 25ft above the the water.
Visibility is pretty limited from down where you are so you can only see parts of the landings straight ahead of you and only the very edge of the top landing.
Congrats on the new job!
You get the impression that the rest of the goblins are in the next chamber, although the passage curves a bit before it gets there and that there's a horrible goblin killing mist in the chamber after that that has them stymied.
Goblins however are not very good at counting and you are unable to get accurate numbers on how many goblins remain but Murgmo is not alone.
Rambling in Goblin is a lot of work, even online, so I summarized the additional relevant information from Xurg.
Congratulations everyone. Please email me axey@shadowsofcommand.com with your real name, character name, PFS # and faction and I will email you back a chronicle sheet asap. Once I've collected all the information I'll report the slot.
Thank you all for your patience in an event that went significantly over schedule. I hope you all had a blast, and look forward to seeing you again soon.
Also, if you happen to be on the slow track, I should probably know that as well.