A Push of the Fates.... Zakhara... You Jewel!

Game Master Insnare

Somebody should stay with the camels, they may wander off

Do you guys want to open one of the biers, or go further in to the back.

I think just go in, unless they like wake up and come for us or something. What do the rest of you guys think? Or if someone has detect magic we could see if any of them are necromantically inclined.

Press forward. No sense inviting trouble.

Your group moves further into the crypt, down the main area, from behind the biers a group of six shadows come into view in your light.

Initiative Party 1d10 ⇒ 3, Shadows 1d10 ⇒ 4

Round 1

Shadow 1 attacks Nura 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (17) = 0 hit 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Shadow 2 attacks Zairiah 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (4) = 13 Miss

Shadow 3 attacks Agrammar 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (9) = 8 Miss

Shadow 4 attacks Fadilah 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (11) = 6 hit 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Shadow 5 attacks Silvertongue 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (16) = 1 hit 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

GM Rolls

Can Nura and Fadilah make a save vs. Polymorph?

Silvertongue Save vs Polymorph 1d20 ⇒ 5

The entire party should have been at full hp before the fight started
Party

Well, now I am *definitely* looting the biers. If they are attacking us anyway, then I'm taking their stuff. But, you know... after the fight. :)

In all seriousness though, not sure if we can fight shadows... do we have a chance here, or should we be running away? In Pathfinder I think shadows drain your strength and eventually turn you into one of them, and they are incorporeal so you can't hit them with regular weapons... or it is half damage or something, can't remember... but these ones just seem to be doing straight damage so not sure if they are similar (but maybe the polymorph part is the scary part)

Zairiah couldn't step back to shoot with two of them on her, so she adopted a defensive stance and swung her jambiya at the first one shadow 2.

Attack (Jambiya): 18 - 1d20 ⇒ 18 - (16) = 2
Damage (piercing and slashing): 1d4 ⇒ 2

To answer your question, the party has more than a chance here. Most of you have magical weapons. Aggrammar is a priest and Fadilah has an option here as well. Aggrammar, feel free to give me a religion check

Save vs. polymorph: 1d20 ⇒ 3 -> Failed

Fadilah feels a little weaker. You have temporary -1 to strength

Religion (Wis)!: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Aggramar

Damned boards! I made a save and posted a response, but it appears to have been eaten.

Save vs. Polymorph (14): 1d20 ⇒ 19

Nura returns the attack, using Jimar the Clean.

THAC0 15: 15 - 1d20 ⇒ 15 - (11) = 4 Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

GM rolls

Nura passes her saving throw. Jimar says, "It does feel good being used again." as it cuts the shadow into thirds.

Zairiah looks like she hits the shadow but her blade passes through it.

Fadilah and Agrammar

Silverthroat attacks the shadow nearest him 18 - 1d20 - 1 ⇒ 18 - (11) - 1 = 6 hitting the shadow 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Fadilah and Aggrammar

Zairah watches her blade pass through the shadow, and realizes that she was going to be unable to help in that way, but perhaps she could dodge and keep these two engaged with her to give the others a better chance.

Not my turn I know, but just getting something in before work so that you guys aren't waiting on me later. Zairiah goes into full defense the rest of the fight... she doesn't have any ability to fight these things, which she has just discovered.

Fadilah stumbles back and tries to get away from the shadows, as spellcasting is impossible while you're taking hits in melee combat.

Attempt to withdraw, though of course the shadows can just follow and there's not really anywhere to go.

Aggrammar pulls out his holy symbol and tries to turn the shadows 1d20 ⇒ 19 turning 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3 of them. Turning 2d4 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6 sending the shadow on him, fadilah and one of the shadows on Zairiah running away.

Initiative Enemies 1d10 ⇒ 1, Party 1d10 ⇒ 1 tie Enemies 1d10 ⇒ 2, Party 1d10 ⇒ 4

Round 2

Party

Zairiah is in full defense mode, but when one of the shadows facing her runs away, she takes the opportunity to shift a little bit towards Fadilah, trying to get in between her and the shadows so that Fadilah had more freedom to act.

Nura slashes at another of the shadows that is not retreating.

THAC0 15: 15 - 1d20 ⇒ 15 - (5) = 10 Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Fetch spell (<= 70): 1d100 ⇒ 4

"Go! Go!" says Fadilah as she ducks and weaves to avoid the shadows. "Burning hands!"

Fetch spell time: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 rounds

Thank you for the bot GMEDWIN, had a crazy busy week. Can I simply turn them again? And how long do they stay 'turned'?

The three you turned fled. The remaining two need to be run from or defeated. They stay turned until you leave or you chase them into a corner or something and then they have to fight. You maintain the turning as long as you don't try to cast a spell which allows you to attack.

Currently, one shadow is on Zairiah and the other is on Silverthroat(tongue)

Agrammar

Agrammar attacks the shadow on Zairiah with his scimitar 18 - 1d20 - 1 ⇒ 18 - (16) - 1 = 1 hitting for 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Silverthroat attacks the one on him 18 - 1d20 - 1 ⇒ 18 - (7) - 1 = 10 missing.

Nura's attack missed. Fadi's gen says, "Of course mistress!

Shadow 2 attacks Zairiah 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (15) = 2 hit 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Shadow 5 attacks Silvertongue 17 - 1d20 ⇒ 17 - (11) = 6 hitting doing 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Silvertongue Saving throw 1d20 ⇒ 5 fail.

Zairiah please give me a saving throw vs. polymorph with your next action

Round 3

Initiative Party 1d10 ⇒ 5, Shadows 1d10 ⇒ 4

Party

Nura lashes out at the shadow again.

THAC0 15: 15 - 1d20 ⇒ 15 - (12) = 3 Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Save vs. Polymorph (11): 1d20 ⇒ 15

Zairiah continues in full defense mode, dodging and trying to keep the enemies off of Fadilah so that she had time to cast a spell.

Agrammar attacks the shadow on Zairiah with his scimitar 18 - 1d20 - 1 ⇒ 18 - (4) - 1 = 13 hitting for 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Silverthroat attacks the one on him 18 - 1d20 - 1 ⇒ 18 - (20) - 1 = -3 ⇒crit 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (4, 2) + 1 = 7

The combination of strikes from Nura, Agrammar and Silverthroat destroyed the two remaining shadows that were attacking.

The turned shadows have made their way to the other end of the crypt you guess.

Combat Over

Agrammar says, "Fadilah, ken yer mini genie grab the spell continual light, that wuld scere the shadows away more."

Jimar says, "Nura, can we do that again?"

Fadilah says to Agrammar, "On what would you want to place such light? Remember, whatever item it is, it would glow forever."

How about a coin? Then if you want to douse the light you could just put it in your pocket, but if you need to scare away shadows, you can get it out easily?

Fadi's gen pops back and says, "Mistress, I have your spell!"

Nura inhales deeply and steadies herself. "We may have a fight sooner rather than later, in this place," she assures the scimitar.

Sorry everybody, I was not able to log in to my Paizo account for over 24 hours.

Jimar the clean says,"That would be delightful."

Do you push further into the crypt, go back and camp for the night or wait for Fadilah to grab the other spell?

I say continue over going back to camp, but if Fadilah wants to get a spell first to help with Shadows, then waiting is a good idea.

Fadilah mumbles, "Why would there be more shadows? I thought tombs always escalated their guardians."

Finally she just bows to peer pressure and sends her gen off for a continual light spell.

Fetch spell (<60%): 1d100 ⇒ 8
Fetch spell time: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 rounds

"Please produce the item upon which you wish this spell cast."

Zairiah starts looking through the nearby crypts while they wait for the gen, but when Fadilah asks for a focus object for the spell, she returns and holds up a silver coin.

Zairiah finds the closest crypt itself contains 1 tall stone bier, carved
with the warrior's name "Kurigalzu." Decrepit armor sheaths the
corpse, whose hands lie folded atop corroded
scimitars. Each body wears a gold ring inscribed with a scimitar design.

GM Rolls

Those who had taken Strength damage feel better after Fadialah's gen returns a second time saying "Mistress, I have your next spell."

Fadilah casts Continual Light on a silver coin which lights up the crypt with bright light for a 60 foot radius and illuminates the entire room. In the far left hand corner of the crypt, where the light is not considered bright you see 6 shadows and in the right hand corner you see another 3 shadows pushing each to get behind a column to avoid the brightness.

The only visible egress stands opposite the main entrance, blocked
by a stone portcullis.

Zairiah takes the gold rings.

After she has a light that seems to drive back the shadows, she feels confident enough to move forward to examine the stone portcullis.

GM Rolls

Zairiah

The crypt’s entrance is
blocked with a thick marble slab, lowered along
recessed grooves in the wall, like a portcullis. Tall
letters chiseled into this red surface spell out an
ancient name that remains visible today: Shaddad, Son
of Ad.

Moving forward, Zairiah notices a pit trap and points it out to the team so that they avoid the outline on the floor in front of the portcullis.

Careful. It is covered in mud so it is hard to see, but it starts here, and goes to there, see the slight dip?

Can we still examine how to open the portcullis without setting off the trap?

I updated the map. The walls around the portcullis are made of sandstone. You can walk around the trapped area without setting it off

Crypt Map

You do not see any handle to open the gate and the portcullis is smooth. The walls on either side and crypt as well is made of sandstone.

How do you guys want to pen the portcullis?

Zairiah says Open Sesame.

When it doesn't work she mumbles

I read that in a storybook once. It was a password to open a magical door. Too bad.

She loots the other biers while she tries to think of another way to solve the puzzle.

Fetch spell: knock (<=60%): 1d100 ⇒ 89
Fetch spell: knock (<=50%): 1d100 ⇒ 42

Fetch spell time (fail): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 rounds
Fetch spell time: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 turns

Fadilah sends her gen off for a knock spell and waits.

And waits.

And waits.

The gen finally returns an hour later. Fadilah thanks it for a job well done and shrugs.

"I guess these spells are in demand right now."

She says, "Someone get ready to hold the portcullis up after I open it."

Fadilah casts her knock spell and finds that the heavy stone slab like a portcullis is not actually locked, but is kept shut by its immense weight and the marble is polished so smooth that it is difficult to get a good grip on it.

Are they any ideas to break it open, or go around it or something?

Fetch spell: strength (<= 60%): 1d100 ⇒ 72
Fetch spell: strength (<= 50%): 1d100 ⇒ 87
Fetch spell: strength (<= 40%): 1d100 ⇒ 90
Fetch spell: strength (<= 30%): 1d100 ⇒ 86

Doing this would take at least 4 hours in game time. Someone else please come up with an option. Nura, don't you have a decent Strength score?

You do have a caravan of pack animals or you could chisel through the sandstone. or something.

Sandstone is crumbly, so Zairiah just takes her knife and starts digging out chunks of the wall to the side of the door, which will eventually get them through, but even if someone is able to lift the door first, it might give them better hand-holds to do that with.

Won't take any less time, but at least it is a non-magical solution.

What does Agrammar or Nura think?

Apologies for the delay - work hit me like a ton of bricks after vacations...

Zairiah finds the closest crypt itself contains 1 tall stone bier, carved

with the warrior's name "Kurigalzu." Decrepit armor sheaths the
corpse, whose hands lie folded atop corroded
scimitars. Each body wears a gold ring inscribed with a scimitar design.

I could use Detect Magic here, but only have it memorized once. So better wait until we can check more items all at once?

"Shaddad, Son of Ad..." - Aggrammar repeats the inscription, trying to get some inspiration on how to open that door - "Either this be a magical door of some sort and we need exactly that - some password of sorts" - he shrugs - "Or we are just missin' the mechanism to open it around here somewhere..." - the dwarf adds, looking around the room.

Apologies if I missed it before GMEDWIN, but do the crypts around the room have names on them?

Hi,

I tried to do this under the name AL-Qadim which is a really cool setting in the Forgotten Realms planet.

I am looking for six heroes up for going mentally toe to toe with Djinn, Jann, Dao and the other creatures of the Land of Fate.

2E AD&D, I am extremely generous going with 5d6 drop the lowest two.
Out of a party of six, I will be cool with two members being Outlanders.( Not from Zakhara)

I have never played 2e, but would be willing to learn especially if we are starting from level 1. I found this site that seems to have a lot of 2e stuff. For me to learn from.

I am a daily active member of the PBP forum. I currently run 2 games and am a player in one more. I am able to keep post most every mornings and evenings. I am going to go ahead and roll some stats and if you allow me then I will dig into character creation.

Stats: 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 10

Awesome, rolling something up.

What are the allowed sources and optional variants in play?

edit: oops, forgot I already rolled in previous thread. Ill use those. You also already answered my question. Sorry! Its been a month.

Great. We will be playing in the Al Qadim setting which has an Arabian Flare. If you need say Arabian Adventures PM me.

Hmmm. Love me some Al-Qadim. Let me dig out my old 2E books and see what I can come up with. ::cracks knuckles::

So, 10/16/15/17/17/6. Ugh, gotta hate the 6, but the other stats balance it out.

NURA (NOO-rah)

STR 17
DEX 17
CON 16
INT 10
WIS 6
CHA 15

Female Human Fighter (Corsair kit)
12 hp

WP: Cutlass, Jambiya, Scimitar, Short Bow
NWP: Direction Sense, Seamanship (B), Swimming, Tumbling

80 gp
Station: 5

I will make an alias and go shopping if I am selected.

My submission from the prior thread.

My repost...

elven beggar-thief

Wow, that's 2 adnd games in as many weeks!

I'll dot in. Rolling in order cause why not?

5d6 - 2 ⇒ (3, 1, 4, 5, 1) - 2 = 12 Str
5d6 - 6 ⇒ (4, 4, 5, 2, 6) - 6 = 15 Dex
5d6 - 3 ⇒ (1, 5, 4, 2, 2) - 3 = 11 Con
5d6 - 2 ⇒ (1, 6, 1, 6, 4) - 2 = 16 Int
5d6 - 3 ⇒ (5, 6, 3, 2, 1) - 3 = 14 Wis
5d6 - 3 ⇒ (3, 4, 1, 6, 2) - 3 = 13 Cha

HP: 1d4 ⇒ 1

I think I would like to take one of the Outlander spots, if one still lives, specifically with a Wizard.

EDIT: and here is my character:

Dotting. Thinking a fighter or paladin will see what the dice say.

ok

Any other takers?

I'm tentatively interested; what's in the group so far?

Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 3, 6, 6) = 19 -> 15
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 3, 6, 5) = 19 -> 15
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 2, 4, 3) = 15 -> 11
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 6, 6, 1) = 18 -> 16
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 2, 1, 1) = 12 -> 10
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 4, 1, 1) = 15 -> 13

Relic rolled, Unknown
WhtKnt Fighter
Igneous Cleric/Thief
mishima Thief
Vrog outlander Wizard
Iron dot, warrior

If no one plays a Sha'ir by the time we start I might switch to one.

Er, according to the PHB under "Multi-Class Combinations," dwarves cannot be cleric/thieves - only fighter/clerics or fighter/thieves.

I'll make a sha'ir.

Great Shairs are awesome!

I am really excited.

Started work on the alias Fadilah al-Qadib, a sha'ir from Qadib, the City of Wands (one of the Free Cities of the northern coast).

Hit points: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Initial funds: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 x10 = 30 gp

Because of the website bugs I can't pick an appropriate picture for the alias.

I would like to get started saturday. Please have all submissions ready. Thanks!

Fadilah is ready to go, though it would be helpful to know where we're going to start!

She is a stock sha'ir who is wholly reliant on getting spells via her gen. She has a wide range of skills that are mostly useful in a social context (I took poetry because it's connected with sha'ir in mythology, and all of the recommended proficiencies for the kit).

I'm a regular boards player and GM, so I'm not going to suddenly disappear. I like good RP and I have a soft spot for the great settings that AD&D produced in the 2nd edition era.

I also like having some kind of connection with other party members, if somebody wants one!

I never rolled for station, its a whopping d3 for beggars. xD

Station: 1d3 ⇒ 1

rofl, lowest of the low.

I'd be down for a connection of some sort, he would be a common sight around the city. I need to finalize some background thoughts first though.

Good call.

Station: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Great! We will be starting in the City of Muluk, I plan to run it both figuratively and literally as a sandbox. I have three or four adventures ideas that could run simultaneously. We should have some fun with this.

Cool, that means that Fadilah probably fled Qadib and headed on the trade route southwest to Muluk and has recently arrived there.

mishima here, I'll be using this alias.

Insnare, I just wanted to double check something to make sure I'm not cheating myself. To take both common and elven as languages I need to spend 1 NWP, since common is free and elven is not?

That is true.

Alrighty, I think I'll change around some NWP then so I can get thieves cant and a few more misc ones. Survival Urban is thematic, but probably not worth it for the 4 pt cost the more I think about it.

Any other questions?

Yes, in purchasing gear without going through the haggling process, do we use the Asking column or the Normal price?

Let's say normal price.

One needs to remember that starting equipment, although given a monetary price could have represented gifts from family, things your character found after a battle or something of the like.

Okay, Nura begins play with:

Leather armor, jambiya, shortbow, 24 arrows, scimitar, waterskin, backpack, whetstone, large belt pouch, 50 feet of silk rope, 1 week of dry rations, 1 gp, 5 sp, and 9 cp.

The daughter of a merchant, Nura has spent much of her life on and around the water. She took her first ride on her father's ship at the tender age of three and found her sea legs almost immediately. She is most at home on the rolling deck of a ship.

She was born in the city of Qudra, but has traveled the length and breadth of Zakhara. She has a friend in every port and counts among her acquaintance's beggars and sheiks, commoners and sha'irs. Nura makes friends easily and is very flirty but has yet to find "the one" to settle down with.

You mean 1 Dinar, 5 Dirhams and 9 bits.

Right, that's what I mean. :)

Ok, we will get started today. So who is with me?

Still here. I'll get an alt created.

Edit: and created one I have.

Ready, if accepted.

I will accept all of your characters, please feel free to check in the game thread. I will post maps of the city of Muluk.

Awesome! Thanks for running, Insnare!

This is a brief message to let everyone know that I am going to be on vacation from Sunday, 23 September until 1 October. As many of you may be aware, my wife is 90% blind from glaucoma. She wanted to see Walt Disney World through the eyes of friends who have never been (or haven't been in many years) before she can't see at all. So I, she, and 9 of our friends are all going to Walt Disney World for a week!

During this time, my posting will be greatly curtailed, if not nonexistent. If you are in my game, I will continue upon my return, just sit tight. If I am in your game, please feel free to bot me as required.

During this week leading up to my vacation, I will be very busy and may be slowed, but I will try to get a post out before leaving for the week.

Good luck WhtKnt, you are quite the guy.

This still open? I have been running an AD&D game and it makes me wanna PLAY it too, lol.

We can use another player.

Stat Roll: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 3, 6) = 22 6,6,4=16
Stat Roll: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 1, 3, 1) = 16 6,5,3=14
Stat Roll: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 6, 2) = 13 6,2,2=10
Stat Roll: 5d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 3, 3, 1) = 14 6,3,3=13
Stat Roll: 5d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 6, 1, 4) = 19 6,6,4=16
Stat Roll: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 3, 4, 5) = 20 5,5,4=14

I could do almost anything except paladin with those numbers. Looking at the kits from Arabian Adventures at the moment, and since I haven't delved deeply into the setting before I am checking to see if I can find other sourcebooks.

Ok, we have a Shai'r, an Outlander Wizard, a Corsair, and a Beggar Thief.

Yeah, I feel like you guys could use a cleric, lol. Considering an elven mystic of Najm. Best image I have in mind right now. I am really tempted to multiclass with bard since I see her as a singer/caller/chanter sort and I love options, but I am not sure yet.

EDIT: going to stick with single classed cleric. My brain started forming the character so I'm going to let it keep flowing, lol.

Alias for Nabila, crunch is being worked on, fluff is in my head but I need to read a little more on the region before getting her backstory fully involved.

Insnare, please let me know how you want me to jump in and what if anything I know from what has happened so far.

HP lvl 1: 1d8 ⇒ 1 lol
Station: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3
Starting Wealth: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 1) = 10
Age: 5d6 + 100 ⇒ (6, 6, 5, 2, 2) + 100 = 121
Height: 1d10 + 50 ⇒ (5) + 50 = 55
Weight: 3d10 + 70 ⇒ (4, 5, 7) + 70 = 86

Well, the group is in Muluk. The city of Kings. They just followed a fish down a well after watching an altercation in the bazaar. They are not really a party yet. So it is possible you followed them to help.

Well, her cousin named her The Cat for a number of reasons, but the thrill of a hunt combined with just plain being curious as to the outcome of such a situation would be compelling.

I think crunch is totally done at this point. Will get the fluff up ASAP and will be catching up on gameplay tonight.