To Rappan Athuk (Inactive)

Game Master brvheart

When the party enters this room, they hear a loud rustling sound as an
undulating carpet made up of thousands of roaches scatters for the walls and disappears into the cracks and gaps between the stones. The room once contained several wooden chairs that were apparently broken and scattered; only a few intact pieces give any clue to the fact that they were once furniture.

New Roll20 map is up. @Mojo, as you have trap spotter a passive check is fine and easier.

hope we don't run into the Bug from the Men in Black movie

Inspecting the south door. If no traps, we'll open and go through.
perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31

Over the south door, there is only the word “Forbidden.” Close inspection of the carved word “Forbidden” reveals that some scratches next to it actually read, in very small print, the scrawled words “Until now.”

"Not really sure if that is ominous or not. "

"forbidden... Huh? . Lets see if the north door says anything "

Perception : 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
Perception : 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18

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Thanks brvheart. I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right map - you have the current map listed in your title brvheart and its Castle Calaelen Level 1? If so, then which of the twenty plus doors are we investigating?

Never one to let anyone else be trusted with checking for traps of any kind, the greenskin closely eyes both doors and tries to find out dangers may be hidden below the surface. he continues with the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling. Care must be taken.

Perception (north door): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (2) + 18 = 20
Perception (south door): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27

@Mojo the map can be found at the roll20 site link which is located at the top of the page just above the campaign info and gameplay tabs. . You can sign up for roll20 for free

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Roll20-fu not happening. I had done all of that but when I get on the site for the game all I see are icons for players and a black screen when I join the game. There is a conversation down the right hand side ending with Sorek saying poof. No map even when I shrink or enlarge the inner screen. Help please.

Over the north door, the words “Healing and Recovery” have been carved into the stone.

Mojo, due to Fog of War only the room you are in is not black. Try using the magnifier on 20% then zooming in.

@Mojo I zoom all the way out using the slider in the upper right corner and then scroll down

Let's go through the North door "Healing and Recovery". sounds friendlier than "Forbidden"

The walls of this room are decorated with painted murals of men and women in white robes ministering to the sick and the injured. In addition to the pictures of healing, there is also one large figure wearing a white robe and surrounded with what appears to be a painted golden aura. The significance of the large figure is unclear, but it is likely either a deity or a hero of some kind. All of the murals in the room have been badly defaced; the left hand of each healer has been painted over with black paint, and there are long scratches across all of the figures. The scratches are not in the pattern of claw-marks; they look like deliberate vandalism done with tools or weapons. Beneath the picture of the large figure, there are words written in blood, in some strange language.

"Can anyone read this language?"

What languages do you speak?

lol... Common

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Well, you can make a DC 30 Linguistics check.

Got the map this time. Cheers for that. The goblin speaks common, draconic, dwarven, gnome, goblin, orc. He has a faint chance of deciphering something with an aid another roll 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22. Make that no chance.

The goblin looks up at the marks and tries to decide how big the defacer was from their height and curve.

Are the marks caused by medium creatures?

Good observation, they seem to be small in stature. No more than three feet in height.

Raising an eyebrow, Aggramar stares around at the room, trying to understand what it is exactly they are looking at.

Knowledge (Religion?): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

He then invokes a simple divination spell, which allows him to detect magical auras.

Casting Detect Magic.

"Yep" - he grumbles - "This place is all nasty"

Lomyldyr walks up to the bloody script for a closer look, "I've spent a lot of time studying languages. Let me see if I can make any sense of it."

Linguistics Check: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30

He speaks Abyssal, Aklo, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Elven, Gnoll, Goblin, Infernal, Orc, Undercommon

It is an abyssal dialect and reads: “Heal this if you can, upstart meddlers!”

"They be short as me! not goblin words dat is," frowns the rogue as he scuffs a mark by his nose. He waits to hear what the mage knows as he stares at the various writings. then he adds to the elf,

"can anyone tell what is in their left hand? It's probably the Holy symbol of the Healers God. It might be important to know what God was responsible for the healing. "

Sorek examines the painting closely trying to identify what is in the Healers left hand
Perception : 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
Perception : 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18

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There are no left hands. They all have been blacked out.

looks like that's it for this room. to recap: Looks like agent of the Abyss was not happy with some powerful Healer

Lets go open the South "Forbidden" door

Lomyldyr translates the script to the group, "A paltry attempt to intimidate us. They'll have to do better than that."

Lomyldyr attempts to decipher the central figure in the mural as well as the meaning of the blackened left hands.

Religion: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

It is an old god of healing is all you can determine. The hands?

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As soon as Sorek utters the words, the goblin is off like a rat, desperate to help and prove himself. He checks the "Forbidden" door again for traps see rolls above and then if the door is locked he tries to fix that. Out comes the black lockpick with the narrow bent end.

It is an old god of healing is all you can determine. The hands?

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This is what I garnered from the Knowledge (Religion) roll brvheart?

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"Why tha left hands is what I'm thinkin' - Aggrammar raises an eyebrow as Mojo dashes off - "What's the lad off to?" - he adds, following the goblin.

As he notices the rogue going for the lockpicks, the dwarf crosses his arms over his barrel chest - "Tell ya one thing - I'll be happy ta lend ya a blessing from almighty Thyr whenever ye're up to that. It will help"

Offering to cast Guidance on other Disable Device occasions - it's not much, and you don't seem to need it with a +16, but still :)

Lomyldyr follows the goblin and stands ready at a safe distance from the door. "Be careful Mojo."

All doors on this level are made of locked, iron-reinforced wood. The DD roll fails. It does not appear to be trapped.

The goblin takes what is offered from the dwarf uncertain and still shakes his head, knocking one knuckle against the iron band of the door.

"Dee keys, dee keys, dee keys. dem god."

Know religion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Myrick gives a prayer to his God as he reaches out for any evil presence in the room.

"Shall we clean the hands? A small thing, but maybe restore this place but a bit."

You do not detect evil in the room. It is black paint on the hands, not easily removed.

This is what I garnered from the Knowledge (Religion) roll brvheart?

correct

DD cannot be repeated?

"Try again, Mojo" Lomyldyr encourages. "We're in no rush. Just take a deep breath and focus on picking the lock."

Disable Device is a retriable skill.

The goblin puts his hand out to the dwarf and waits for whatever he does. Then tries again with a slight shake in his hand.

Disable device: 1d20 + 16 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 16 + 1 = 26

"Tanks, Mr Dwarf sorr, dat be verree god god you be havin' dere."

It is not an overwhelming sensation, but there is something indeed when the dwarf places his hand on Mojo's shoulder - a boost in confidence, in realizing that you can do this better.

Aggrammar simply winks at the goblin - "That's it"

With the click of the door, the goblin gently opens the door so that the others can look inside. He brings a wide smile to the way that solid door has been fixed - call it professional skills. But he almost capers on the spot.

"Dere you go."

Seeing the determined goblins success on the second try Sorek gives a broad smile to Mojo "Well done Mojo.... Lead on.. Let's see what we can find down here "

I have family in town till Tuesday. . I probably won't be able to post at my usual pace, but I'll try to keep up . If needed please dmpc me

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Beyond the door is a hallway that goes 10' and then t's.

He stops.

All smiles gone and the goblin raises a hand for everyone to be quiet, if they can then sneaks forwards quietly. When he reaches the T, the greenskin slowly listens and then looks to see if there is a trap waiting for him.

Stealth: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31
Perception(traps): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (6) + 18 = 24
Perception(listening and looking): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24

You do not notice any traps at the intersection.

Myrick sees that there is not much more he can do at the moment. He sprinkles a few drops of holy water and makes a silent prayer before following behind the more stealthy members of the party.

He lets the others know and gestures to each direction with a voluble shrug. Then scratches his left ear.

Myrick sees that there is not much more he can do at the moment. He sprinkles a few drops of holy water and makes a silent prayer before following behind the more stealthy members of the party.

Aggrammar had not forgotten Myrick's words, and joins him in cleansing the defiled portions as best as they can - "Ye're doin' tha right thing lad"

As for the T intersection, any direction is as good as the other in my book. Mojo, scout left?

With a gesture from the dwarf, the greenskin slips to the left ghosting away. He keeps one eye out into the darkness for signs of danger.

Aggrammar allows Mojo enough room to scout in silence, then follows suit.

This is the new Discussion thread.

Having shoulder surgery today, so I'll be offline the rest of the day, and don't hold much hope for tomorrow. Bot as needed.

Hope all goes well!

Good luck.. May the blessings of Cayden and Pekko be with you

Hope the shoulder surgery goes well. Don't think I will need to bot, but will if necessary. The party will be travelling mostly.

surgery went fine, but one handed posting is a bit of an issue. Working on how to do things given the sling. Will resume once that is resolved.

Glad it went well:) Takes me two hands, feet and my nose!

If Stephen hawking can do it with just his mouth, one hand should be easy. .

But Seriously good luck with the recovery

Yeah, Lars. Hope you have a quicky recovery.
Ha, get it? Because we both play in that MM3e game and thats your hero's name. Everyone made the pun there so I'll make it here...where it isn't so... relev... nevermind.

I am not sure how much into the story you all would like to get. If you want, we can get deeply immersed and do some role playing in Zelkor'S Ferry.

Sorry for my lack of posts. Working for one of the world's largest theme parks takes a mental toll. I've got a three-day weekend starting with a trip to the springs early tomorrow. Will try to make a decent post soon.

Which theme park do you work for? One of my players worked as a security guard here for Sea World for many years before finally getting a teaching job. It is up to you all to set the pace. RL has to take priority sometimes.

Universal Orlando. It's just now changing from really slow to stupid busy.

Yeah that is a busy one. We don't quite compare to Orlando here, but we are close.

Well we definitely need both roles filled. One full Divine and one Full Arcane. I agree w/ brv heart the Theurge is an extra but truly doesn't completely fill either role.

BTW I came across this prestige class which I think would come in handy in Rappan Go to Soul Warden.

either Arcane or Divine can become one but as its #channels per day are controlled by CHa the most optimal build would be a Life Oracle but a cleric Sorcerer or Wizard can become one. Take a look.

Sorry to be away the weekend. My home computer decided to tell me "Operating System not found." -.-'

No problem Jark you might want to check out the app Wayfinder. . It's a really convenient way to post from your phone

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What is your OS Jar'k, 7 or 8? I am not much help with 8, never used it.

I had Vista >.< Computer was from 2008. And I really do need to check out wayfinder.

@Good Thomas What did you decide on keeping THomas vs introducing Illirio (the wizard) here IC at the Ferry?

My thoughts: Looks like we're going to the Mouth of Doom not Rappan at first. I think we can get along without a wizard at first but before we reach the point on no return in Rappan(no idea of where that will be) we'll need a wizard or arcanist.

Are you thinking of playing GT (a character that we thoroughly enjoy having with us) for a couple of levels and then introducing your wizard? Or just let things play out and see what happens.

Just asking because if you are planning to do an IC switch at the ferry, now is probably the time to start working on that w/ brvheart.

Do you still have your windows disk? You can boot off of it and run a chkdsk /mbr. Go into the bios and make sure it is seeing the drive your hard disk may have failed also. Make sure you don't have a disk in the drive or a flash disk or phone plugged into it. Those will also cause the error.

Bios showed my hard disk. I was getting an error for a long time it it not recognizing the device plugged into the something that started with an "i". I can't remember right now. Nothing was plugged in and I rebooted several times. I tried to hit F8 for safe mode and the entire just freezes.

My hard disk died 2 years ago. No resurrection spell would work. I bought a windows 8 laptop and found many details frustrating at first but now after multiple updates I'm very happy with the OS.

goodluck i'm not a computer guy so cant offer any meaningful help

Hey Lars.. Hope at least one arm is working well. You don't want to anger Pekko. I'm sure in the religion somewhere there is a bare minimum number of 12 oz. curls required as a daily part of the worship.

The left hand can do the hauling.

A+, Network +, Security +, MCP, MCSE, MCTP, and MCITP. Forced retired by disability.

@brvheart I'd like to get your ruling on this before it comes into play.

On my belt on my right hip I have a specially constructed pouch. The sole purpose of this pouch is to hold my ioun torch securely and to release it quickly when needed. All I need to do to release it is give a quick tug to the cord at the bottom of the pouch and the ioun torch falls out and begins circling my head.

drinking a potion is a standard action. This will take significantly less time and effort.

should this be an immediate, swift or free action

Immediate actions are those that allow you to interrupt the flow of combat such as casting feather fall, free actions are such as drop an item or speak. Since you are not actually retrieving a stowed item it could be argued that this rises to the level of a swift rather than a move being a monk. You are allowed one swift action per round.

Looking at your party:

Aggramar Cleric
Good Thomas up front fighter
Lars secondary fighter and cleric
Koan trapfinder and secondary fighter
Jar'k bard and support character
Sorek to me this is the odd man out and probably the best suited for replacement for wizard, but that is just me. I would hate to see the party lose its up front fighter to fill that role. Just my humble opinion. Otherwise you are looking at recruiting another player.

Well. I could also switch. Not hard to be support and arcane glass cannon. I just wouldn't be up in melee anymore. Maybe.

What? You don't want to be up front with your quarterstaff? I had a wizard that did that in 3.5. He was never further than 2nd in the order of march. Liked being up front so he could cast lighting bolts without worrying about hitting his party. Started out at level 1 standing on tables behind the party fighting with his staff and was just plain lucky with it so he never quit! He never went down in combat though:)

So where we going all?

I really want to keep Sorek.

He does fill a primary melee role. Just not in a traditional way. Damage per round will not be a problem.

MeleeUnarmed Strike with Pugilist Stance +7 (2d6+5/19-20/x2 B,P,S)[+2BAB, +5 WIS] [Damage: 1d6 unarmed strike, +1d6 Pugilist Stance, +5 WIS]
with Flurry +5/+5 (2d6+5/19-20/x2 B,P,S)

If you think his AC is too low and he will lack durability I can replace his lvl1 Stalker Art Evasion with

Options for filling the Arcane role:

A) recruit another player

B) have Jark fill the Arcane role and Aggrammar go back to Evangelist

C) Good Thomas already has Illirio ready to go

If we go with A). Aggrammar has volunteered multiple times to fill the Arcane role. And should be given the opportunity to fill that role and we would have to recruit a full divine caster.

I don't want anyone playing a character they don't want. But I do want to play Sorek.

Lets try to get this ironed out today. I don't want the lvl1 characters in his Old school Rappan Athuk campaign to get to 4th level before us.

Jar'k here.

Alternative option for 'A' going along with Aggrammar's volunteering for Arcane role.

-I have this level 3 oracle of life designed for another game. It was rolled stats, but hers are very near 20-point buy (17 points. Would just need to drop the Kin Guardian trait and extra money. I also need to change spells to normal casting (the DM of that game wanted to use words of power). Also switch stats and class if brvheart would prefer plain cleric. That would free-up Aggrammar to fill arcane if he would rather do that than play cleric.

If we go 'C' It is possible that Sorek and Jar'k can hold the line (maybe) with the aid of Aggrammar up front.

@Brvheart- Why go quarterstaff when sorcerers (multiclass or straight) can pick up all simple weapons for free? Or go half-elf/human to get a better reach weapon on wizard.

I think Jarks proposal is a good one.

It lets:
A)Sorek stay Sorek

B)Good Thomas stay GT

C)Aggrammar fill the arcane role that he has volunteered to multiple times

and fills our need for a full divine and a full arcane

that would give us
Zoey(Jark) life Oracle
Good Thomas up front fighter
Sorek mobile up front fighter
Lars secondary fighter and cleric
Koan trapfinder and secondary fighter
Aggrammar changing to full Arcane

Jar'k, I am 25 pt buy not 20 btw so you can add the points up to that. Well, at least you would have a full arcane and divine. As for the other party well they only have about 200 XP so far so I wouldn't worry too much about that!

Oh, right on the 25 points. Not sure where I got the 20 from. Maybe it is not having coffee this morning that is the issue. I'll work on updating Zoey in case we go that route. Her plan was much different, but as she is from a dead game, well that doesn't matter. Originally, she was going to multi-class paladin, but I will keep her full divine. She is able to still be supportive. Just need to drop power attack for that.

@Aggrammar and Good Thomas

what do you think of the proposed ideas?

They have been out hunting. Bagged a deer and a black bear.

Thomas will probably eat the whole deer by himself

I think Thomas's rations are 1 GP/day. It could be worse, dwarf and elven rations are 2 GP!

makes sense to me. I need to teach him my trick of concentrating for a round to satisfy all my bodies needs for food and water.

Otherwise we are going to need a bag of holding real quick to hold all his food.

I don't know how well he is going to be able to fight with deer slung over each shoulder.

the only reason elf rations are more expensive is they are too picky about their food. I bet Thomas will eat anything

That is why his are cheaper Sorek!

@brvheart you mentioned that your resident power-gamer was going to take a look at Pathfinder Unchained. Has he given you a report on it yet? Doesn't look like it will impact any of our characters, but I'm curious none the less.

There are many different ideas in there. Not all of them have to be implemented. One that comes to mind would be the Stamina System. Specifically giving Fighters automatic access to it, I think it would be cool for Thomas.

Talked to him Saturday and he had not had a chance to pick up his hard copy from his parents house where he had it delivered yet.

So we going to kick this pig?

Hey guys brvhearts old Rappan campaign started on may 29th and they already have 219 posts we have 491. At the rate we're going they'll have more posts than us by the end of the week.

What do you say can we pick it up a bit? We've got a solid GM who has run Rappan multiple times. Let's take advantage of this . If this falls apart it's on us not the GM.

Don't worry I am not going anywhere Sorek. I am used to slow spots. Everyone gets busy sometimes:) Hey, sometime my wife wants to be able to get out of town. Wanted to this last weekend but it didn't work out. Oh well. I have also set the other game up for a faster posting rate, 4-5/day vs 1. Some of my players are good to post 1-2 times a week in Razor Coast. It is up to you to set your own pace:)

ok just wanted to make sure that a this slower pace wasnt going to turn you off.

So it's up to the rest of the group. I'll go along with whatever pace you want to set hopefully a bare minimum of at least one per day during the weekdays.

I know Lars had surgery and it sounds like Koan may have run into a rough spot. so yes RL happens. just hoping to create and sustain some posting momentum. hope everyone is well
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