Woodsmoke's Reign of Winter

Game Master Woodsmoke

Hoping to have Skane levelled up and ready to rumble by tomorrow - appreciate the patience shown by one and all.

Our Vikingr hates witches (although he tolerates small puka versions) - I have an pretty cool post up my sleeve regards Granny so bear with and buckle up ;)

Work has wiped me out this week guys, been a long weekend of duty calls and after action meetings. Likely to be closer to Friday before I'm in position to post. Please bot Skane as/when required.

Hi folks, so I created Byakko with an Tian Xia/Eastern flavour and he's attempting to follow something like the bushido code. He, like me, is a neophyte though so its pieced together from what he could learn far away from much Tian Xian influence. I'm going to avoid an accent as, well, being not of eastern lineage, that feels problematic, but I thought I'd see how folks felt if I added some Japanese words and honorifics on occasion?

Might be a good time to deal with loot?

Are we officially losing Katie at as a DMPC at this point?

Treasure round up from tower:
Post#2693:
1 potion of Cure Moderate Wounds
1 potion of Fly
1 potion of Invisibility
1 Ring of Protection +1
1 Cauldron of Brewing
magical garnet gem - an extend metamagic gem
diamond worth 400 gp

Post#2656:
A bone scroll tube containing
-Arcane scroll of blink
-Arcane scroll of scorching ray
-Arcane scroll of see invisibility
Wand of silent image (12 charges)
Wand of true strike (5 charges)
Figurine of wondrous power - serpentine owl
Masterwork Adamantine warhammer (Sell? Useful for smashing stuff)
+1 ghost touch light mace (Mithas can use it and might be useful if we fight ghosts, but sells for a ton)
A golden censer with a platinum inlay of Desna's holy symbol (500 gp)
5 tourmalines (50 gp each)
24 pp
628 gp
1905 sp
7326 cp

Post#2592:
22 gold pieces
leather-bound sketchbook. Within are pages of provocative illustrations of several members of the ruling Jadwiga caste, including Queen Elvanna herself, in various states of undress. (Maybe give to Solveig for propaganda?)

POst#2568
75 gold pieces
masterwork studded leather armor (sell for 1/2 ~75gp)
masterwork ogre hook (sell for 1/2 ~150gp)

Post#2554
75 gold pieces
hand of the mage

Post#2549
767 gold pieces
+1 greatsword with a sapphire in the hilt
potion of spider climb

Post#2541
masterwork mighty composite longbow (+2 str bonus)(Mithas can use it, but doesn't have a strength bonus...)
+1 scale mail
16 GP

Total coin so far for cash, art and masterworks: 3439.76gp

I always advocate for holding onto consumables, since you never know when you might need them.

I wrote down the cauldron for Geedra. The extend gem could be useful for me as well. The rest of it doesn’t do me much good, so you all take what you want.

I'll take the +1 Ring of Protection if its available...

Thanks for compiling that, Mithas. Yes, I'll phase out running Katie at this point as well, so split the loot amongst yourselves. You can sell what you don't want through the black markets/heralds contacts despite the current situation in the city. There may or may not be specific items available so let me know if you want to buy anything and we can ascertain if it can be found.

Sorry for the delay:

Treasure round 2:

Greeda:
- Cauldron of Brewing
- extend metamagic gem
-hand of the mage (mage hand can be useful so someone should hang on to this)

Mithas:
- +1 ghost touch light mace

Byakko:
+1 Ring of Protection

Skäne:
masterwork mighty composite longbow (+2 str bonus)

Sell:
Masterwork Adamantine warhammer 1650gp
+1 greatsword with a sapphire in the hilt - 1185gp
+1 scale mail - 660gp

Party pool (things that might be useful)
1 potion of Cure Moderate Wounds
1 potion of Fly
1 potion of Invisibility
1 potion of spider climb
A bone scroll tube containing
-Arcane scroll of blink
-Arcane scroll of scorching ray
-Arcane scroll of see invisibility
Wand of silent image (12 charges)
Wand of true strike (5 charges)
Figurine of wondrous power - serpentine owl (Can become a large owl and fly us places if needed, seems pretty useful)

Total coin: 6934.76

I would suggest that we chip in to buy s Handy haversack for the party and then split the rest.

Sounds good to me.

Having only contributed in niceties... I'm easy.

Skäne was using the warhammer, not sure if he will want to keep it. Still waiting on his return, I think.

Regardless, I'll move us forward tomorrow and if there's anything else you guys can think of you want to pick up purchase-wise we can say you did on the way.

Is there a handy haversack available for purchase in town?

I'll all for keeping the hammer, if someone will use it.

Also, I assume Krosh gets a full share, but do you want Katie to get a share here, or should it just go to Byakko. (In game, it doesn't make sense for Byakko to get anything, but from a party balance standpoint, I don't know where you set his starting wealth at.)

Skäne was using the warhammer, not sure if he will want to keep it. Still waiting on his return, I think.

Apologies - easing myself back into things after my sojourn. Warhammer was just a weapon of convenience, however as it ignores hardness it does make a damn fine door opener and demolition item. As such I'll keep it if no-one objects.

I'll offer up my MW Longsword as a makeweight for costings.

Haversack (if available) is a good shout.

Forgot to add the MW Longsword comes with a rather fetching decorative filigree scabbard worth 125gp :)

Ok swapping out the hammer, selling the fancy sword and buying a haversack leaves 706gp for each PC, don't spend it all in one place.

Someone with a positive strength modifier should probably carry it.

I've added the potions and holy water to the haversack, but figure Byakko should carry the divine scroll of remove fear.

Thanks, Mithas!

@All: Just clocked that we allocated the masterwork mighty composite longbow (+2 str bonus) to me. I'll pass - prefer throwing stuff and closing for melee. Might as well sell it unless anyone wants?

@Skane: It's just something useful to have if we need it. Kind of a better looking at it, than looking for it, type of thing.

Ah - no worries. Like your thinking :)

I can carry the Haversack if need be. Enii can carry a fair bit as well so I think I can make that work.

Sorry guys, ever since they did maintenance on the site/forums last week, I haven't been able to log in - I sign in and it just loops me back to the main paizo page and keeps me signed out. Finally thought to try on a different browser and that ended up working. Post incoming shortly.

Deleting your cookies/clearing the cache should fix the log in issue. At least it did for me.

Morning all - just a wee heads up that I'm in today for lockdown overdue surgery on my sinuses. Not a major procedure but means I'll likely be out of the loop for 24-72 depending on success, pain meds and all that fun stuff.

Please bot Skäne as necessary until I'm back in the saga.

Hope you're having a swift and strong recovery!

Well opening seized folks! Not quite the result I'd hoped for, I thought we might get some easy/free swings in before he dipped but he had the better initiative I suppose. Note to self: skipping straight to frightening unengaged single foes may not be the ideal target before turn order is decided.

Sorry for my absence gang - been immersed in an audit all week. Ops (my role) came through with flying colours today - so chilling tonight and will get back in the posting tomorrow.

Hey Woodsmoke, I'm a bit unsure how to proceed with this turn. Does the tiger's prepped grapple trigger and/or succeed? It's an opposed roll right?

I'll just separate Inni out for now to keep it rolling.

Oops, that was just me being tired when I posted and forgetting to do the grapple part, even though I mentioned it in the same post. It's been addressed in the current post. As I mention there, sorry this combat is so confusing! Lots of readied actions and AoOs which aren't the most fluid in PBP.

Slammed at work folks, will likely be the morrows eve before my decks are cleared. Please bot as required :)

Apologies all - slammed at work again - weekly rusher. Should be back on track by Friday.

Apologies gang - battered at work. Abnormal service should resume in a day or so. Please bot me as/when/if required.

No worries. I've been slammed too, and I am burnt. I was supposed to have a week off next week, but a coworker ended up getting covid so I had to cancel my time off and now I'll be working every day instead. Joys!

Ouch... That is le balls. Work is the worst.

I was intending to instigate a rest back there so I was thinking I'd dump CLWs in prep for regaining em all back... Not sure where we fall on that now Woodsmoke...

You could rest, though in actuality you guys have only been out and about for a few hours in game time since you rested in town, so you'd need to hunker down for a while. Otherwise, you have Krosh's cure light wounds wand, and I always forget that Krosh has the healing hex, so he can CLW each of you once per day for free. So if you are ever in need of healing, you can in your post say you are using a wand charge or krosh's hex and roll for yourself. I need to double check on how many charges the wand has because I dont think I have been keeping track of it very well, but you guys have only maybe used 10 at most, so still plenty I believe.

Abhh werd, can I swap two of my CLWs for Krosh's. I'm easy on the rest I kinda forgot about that guy too I'll keep him in mind!

Yoikes... Rough Start...

So Byakko obviously has Silence but it'll take till next round I'm noticing (I realize now impossible to use as a readied...) and only last for 6. That's gonna put a serious damper on our collective spellcasting but if I'm correct, will protect from any further sonic damage. Any thoughts? I may need to look into flying options next level...

We have one potion of flying in the Haversack by the way, best used by Skane I think depending on saves maybe...?

I do have a question about tripping a flying creature @Woodsmoke, or anyone with the rules knowledge. Looks like you could potentially CMB trip a creature with wings or poor maneuverability (so probably not applicable here but certainly the last creatures, its come up twice in 4 encounters so I better ask what the ruling would be) to make them fall, is that accurate? Reason: Barbed Chains spell.

FYI Enii actually has Evasion that I forgot about so no damage from the sticks... way too late to edit.

Geedra also has the Flight hex, if anyone else wants to close to melee with her. I assume Skane can use the flight potion.

Apologies folks - work this week (bunch of offshore call-offs, meetings about aforementioned call-offs) and conducting my teams appraisals has stymied me and emptied the energy reserves.

Hope to get a post up tonight/Saturday morn.

Cheers

Looked back to make sure my spell slots were up to date and also updated the Handy Haversack contents. I missed a hint for the "seals" the first time dern it, not sure how we destroy a giant rock, something to ponder...

Also @Mithas I'm not sure if you picked up on the Efficient Quiver we snagged from the Peryton encounter but I assume you'd get the most use out of that, same goes for the MW rapier...?

Ya, I'll take the quiver, but we can just sell the rapier, I wont get any real use from it.

Did the page eat some posts?

It's possible. I also wasn't getting my little blips saying there were new posts..and even today just now posting it's been super slow. Maybe just having a hiccup of sorts.

Apologies folks - we've had power cut since Friday 16:00 and lost all comms too due to Storm Arwen battering the NE of Scotland. Restored late yesterday we were in recharge and reheat mode!

Will try and get up a post up shortly :)

You too eh? I'm learning more meteorological terms than I ever did in school these days... Our sump held out through another atmospheric river, one to go! Stay safe and dry BD!

Are we on baddies turn, or...?

Oof, that's rough. Glad everyone is safe!

My bad, it was technically the enemy's go for the top of the round but Skäne was eligible for an attack at the end of the previous round, and I wanted to resolve that since it could have affected what the fey's action would be.

To one and all I say: Lang May Yer Lum Reek!

Have a great Hogmanay and even better 2022 everyone