It's definitely not a non-painful option, especially if you hit someone somewhere sensitive, yes.
Ghost salt, however, is a weapon blanch granting full damage against incorporeals. Anyway, ready? Are we writing that we are to be trusted and the mole in the police is Porter?
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Huh, too much Supenatural I guess.
So, to confirm, the plan is to write a return note that Wolfgang has friends in the RHC (the five of you) and that you're aware of Officer Porter's untrustworthiness. Then, you'll send the messenger boy on his way, return to headquarters, and stock up on ghost-hunting equipment in case things get weird on Cauldron Hill.
If this is correct, go ahead and requisition your gear, and we'll advance to the next day.
I think it is? I don't think I'd like to take the cance of either spooking him or getting ambushed alone in the Nettles.
And as for Supernatural, the Scholar has a material imposition for a circle of salt, as well as silver and all the classic tricks.
My requisitions:
- 2x oil of magic weapon - 100 gp
- ioun torch - 75 gp
- 2 pounds of flour - 1 cp I guess?
- 2x holy water - 25 gp
Total: 200 gp and 1 cp
Impressionable as ever, Ellena will copy Alice's requisitions (mostly because I think she got everything).
OK, let's see...Miselle will grab;
Haunt Siphon - 400gp
Climber's Kit - 80gp (It is a mountain, after all).
2 x Oil of Magic Weapon - 100gp
For a total of 580gp of her remaining 1500gp allowance.
Corynne will go with
10 candles, three flasks of holy water, one potion of lesser restoration, four sunrods, one spiritbane spike 653gp
Az, you need anything?
Sorry! I didn't realize that everyone was waiting on me. I put up here a few days ago a list, but I guess it got eaten and I didn't realize it.
Let's go with...
2x firearm bullet (30)
1x weapon blanch (ghost salt)
2x Potion of Lesser Restoration
3x Flask of Holy Water
1x Spiritbane Spike
1x Climber's Kit
1x Sunrod
I couldn't find the cost of all of it; firewall at work denies pretty much any gaming site except, for some reason, paizo itself.
I think that should be well within 1500 GP though, based on me getting some of the same stuff as others. Just to make sure I've got this right, the weapon blanches are the same as the oils, right? Can be used on either a weapon or 50 pieces of ammo?
Ghost salt works on 10 pieces of ammunition or a weapon (in which cast it only lasts for one attack). Oils are more convenient but less effective.
60 bullets are 6gp due to your Gunsmithing, 200gp for the ghost salt, 300gp for the lesser restoration potion, 75gp for the holy water (I had marked it half price above, my bad), 300gp for the spiritbane spike, 80gp for the climber's kit and 2gp for the sunrod, for a total of 963gp
Thanks for doing the math for me Alice! It's much appreciated. So yeah, that sounds good to me. I'll do the sheet updating when I get home tonight.
Looks good, everyone. Let's get the ghost party started. XD
@Azaghal: Ironically, you're in a better position than I am. My work firewall even block Paizo. :-(
Minor question: what are we using for fire (like lighting cigarettes)? Are there cheap matches, like tindertwigs? Or spark-casting lighters?
@Alice: yes and yes
I'll be out of town for the weekend, so there'll be no updates until Monday. It's looking like everyone's pretty much ready to ascend the Hill, but if there's any last-minute preparations, now's the time.
It seems pretty obvious that we should probably locate ourselves on of the two summits and set up decoys on the other.
GM, do the stones block line of sight? If they do then the one on the left makes more sense for us, since it'll be much easier to create a hidden little enclave. Otherwise the one on the right gives us more free room to work with.
If we went with the one on the left and the stones do block line of sight, we'd have to put the line outside the stones. Though I do like the idea of staying hidden in them. Decoys? Maybe, but I doubt they'd fool spirits.
Yeah, I think the only way we'd get decoys to (possibly) work would be to make more than one goat's blood circle, and I'm not convinced we have enough blood for that.
Perhaps we can spare some blood for a second circle? Or use our own?
I vote for the left one too. Lots of visual cover, easier to hide a fire.
Well, we know they like blood and are attracted to fire. I figure a second campfire with some spashes of blood might draw the attention of a few.
True. That could work for a decoy
Yeah...I suppose nothin' says we have to use equal amounts of blood. A few splashes of it probably would work as a temporary decoy. As far as staging grounds go, left one sounds good to me.
Sorry about the delay. I'll have significantly greater availability for the next 10 days or so, though, so we should be able to progress fairly rapidly for a bit.
The stones break line of sight. They're only about 5ft tall, though, so standing creatures (except Azaghal, probably) will be able to see over them if they're close enough.
My ideas on preparations:
- Draw a circle of blood around the left hill, set a tent inside the circle and a fire inside the tent, possibly in a pit in order to shield as much light as possible;
- Use the last bits of blood to make a tiny circle on the other hill and set a small fire on it;
- I'll keep holy water and magic weapon oil on hand, you ready anything you may need, including treating ammunition with ghost salt;
- I say we stand guard in the tent, facing it towards Nevard so that we can keep an eye on him;
- Corynne could be on heavy divination duty, divining for undead and incorporeals;
- And of course, we're all putting on the amulets.
Any other ideas?
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I would suggest instead of setting up a tent we use the tent canvas to form a partition from the rest of the hill, and to raise the stones so we can stand up. Our Skyseer is going to need to see the Sky, after all, and it won't be as easy from inside a tent.
Between both of those recommendations, sounds good to me.
Sounds good.
Are we gonna risk a fire, or are we gonna try the saves?
The cold and stealth saves assume a fire (based on Alice's comments). If you'd prefer to go without, the cold DC increases but the stealth DC decreases.
Sorry got hit with the flu
Everybody doing ok? Just checkin' in! Hope that you're on the mend from the flu, Corynne!
Should've probably made those rolls:
Another thing: Between March 4th and 10th I will be in rural Appalachia with naught but a phone and poor-at-best cell service. Please do bot me if I'm slowing things down.
I may be a little slow too, but should still post most days. It's my daughters birthday followed by mine.
Yay happy birthday to both of you!
Posting shortly
Just holding on Corynne. If there's been no post by the time I'm heading to bed, I'll update. XD
Sorry long day of expensive car trouble, Yesterday
Would my actions in my last post have had any impact on the DC of the saves? I haven't rolled them yet for that reason. If anyone else wants to share the blanket with Az, I'm sure a burly dwarf is a veritable human(ish) oven!
Just checking in really quick to make sure everyone's doing okay. Apparently Paizo's in the middle of a major website redesign, and it's a bit tricky to find the campaign page unless it was already bookmarked.
It's not too bad - click My Account and go to My Profile - but I do miss just clicking my name to see stuff...
No PM notification also sucks
There's also something weird with the tag. I hope the next version of Oladon's extension comes out soon.
Yeah, I'm still hangin' around. The update is a little bit wonky. I'm just hoping that a fixed version of Wayfinder gets released at some point.
My bookmark still seems to be working fine, so no changes here. Well, aside from wishing that the fonts were a consistent size, or that they chose two or three sizes instead of each different thing having its own.
So here's a question we haven't asked: Do factories in Zeitgeist run 24/7? Because it's the middle of the night.
Most factories have a traditional dawn-to-dusk workday.
Just checking in to see how everyone's doing. I'm pleased to see the amount of drama I've caused. XD We can move on if everyone's ready, or we can continue the current scene.
I'm ready to move, I won't do the thing.
I'm ready.