Eyes of the Ten 2019 --- GM Xavier Kahlvet (Inactive)

Game Master KingTreyIII

You're doing fine, GM. And we have a plan for how to get out of this sticky situation.

That's pretty reassuring, actually. I was wondering what the party of people who did this were smoking if it was gonna be a cascade of "no save, we're breaking all the rules and ignoring causality".

I don't hate losing, I hate losing to Paizo ignoring their own mechanics.

My word. I appear to be stuck inside a bubble. Is there anything I can do regarding that?

Well failing that... posting IC.

And I do have heals in general, in the form of a wand of infernal healing. 500 points of healing for 2 prestige. :P

Oh believe me, I am making a shopping list. Also thinking about an improved familiar when we level up solely for wands and first aid gloves.

If you are not a divine spellcasting class, after a certain level (7? 8? 9?) You should always have first aid gloves. Yeah they're spendy, but they're not resurrection + 2 full resto's spendy.

Updated my HP, but it's not my turn yet. I think I'm coming down with some kind of sickness, too, thanks to having to work in this petri dish of a security job site. So if I seem cranky, that's why.

Technically it was your turn, but seeing as how you weren't conscious when it came around I just did the stabilization check for you.

Also, that really sucks! Hope you get better!

I'll drop the Universal Extract for Cure Serious next round, that ought to cut it for Soothing Performance.

Sounds good! Granted, is everyone else fine to wait that long?

Apologies in advance.

This week is my midterm week right before Spring Break, so I've got a lot of work to do. My Play by Post commitments are getting the backburner. I'll still attempt to post every day, but I can make no guarantees for about a week. Once my paper, homework, lab report, midterm, and various other commitments are taken care of, I'll update here.

That sounds like a "bot me" if I've ever heard one!

I don't like all those readied actions.

I really don't like that rod of wonder.

Thankfully, I can take inspiration from the great Darth Cheeto and build a wall.

I've never run someone over with this spell before so if this isn't how it works then that's fine too but I think I'm reading it right.

"It is possible, but difficult, to trap mobile opponents within or under a wall of stone, provided the wall is shaped so it can hold the creatures. Creatures can avoid entrapment with successful Reflex saves." Emphasis: mine. That line is meant to say that you can make a cage around a person to trap them, not trap them in the wall. For further proof: "The wall cannot be conjured so that it occupies the same space as a creature or another object."

Nice try, though.

Dang.

Can I still run it that way along the edges of spaces?

As long as you don't go over the limit for the spell.

I've got 9 squares of 2 inch thick wall or 18 of 1 inch thick wall. I'd prefer the first but I know the second is long enough.

I'm stuck in Ready Action Limbo. Nothing to do this turn but wait.

"And we're stuck here in Readied Action Limbo!"

Alternatively:

"Hey, let's do the Limbo Rock!"

Zhu Li, are you sure you still want to ready to cast wall of stone? Having a wall right down the middle of everything kinda invalidates Arnaut's readied action. (I personally run it that if multiple readied actions go off at the same time, then they resolve in the order of who was readying the longest in a given round relative to when the trigger occurred).

I guess I just lose a turn, that's fine, this is better anyway.

Edit: If Sahess can make a hole through one of these scallywags I can step forward and give Cale his present.

I'll try to write my turn when I get up in the morning for work. I just haven't had any spoons left today, and I'm sorry, but everything feels awful and I'm about to have to go two hours away for work again.

No worries - take care of yourself. We’re not on a time crunch.

Alright! Time to pull the lever and see if this is the one time an enemy fails a saving throw against one of my abilities.

Did... He not Spellcraft the spell that hit him?

If he doesn't get back to his body in 12 hours he dies. If he could only pick one thing to take with him it really should have been himself.

Edit: Well, not die so much as permanently becoming comatose until someone slaps him back together with a Regeneration, but it's effectively a kill.

Son of Edit: Anyone mind me trying to sucker punch someone with a name what for interrogation purposes? Since I have unarmed strikes I can do nonlethal Studied Strike/Kirin Strike. Nice big buffer of nonlethal to stop people from dying.

A) It’s Spellcraft to identify a spell as it’s being cast. You don’t cast spells, you imbibe extracts. Completely different. He also doesn’t have Knowledge (arcana)
B) Carrying Capacity exists. He physically COULDN’T take his body with him (trust me, I checked; he could only take up to 30 lbs and a healthy adult male elf is around 110 lbs at a minimum).

There are a lot of minutiae to the situation that just occurred, making that sendskin A LOT worse for him than you initially intended.

Couldn't Cale just dismiss the skinsend? It would still do terrible things to his health, but he wouldn't have to worry about someone lightly tapping his body and killing him next round, no matter where he teleported to.

Alternatively, we can bring him back (albeit without the Pale Maiden) with a heal spell. Bit of a waste of a scroll, but Zhu could ask more questions than she could of a dead body. Or does she have a scroll of speak with dead?

He's not the "caster" of the spell, Zhu Li is. Also, how could he dismiss something that he didn't recognize? And it's also not explained how much HP he would be at once the spell is dismissed. This course of action was the one where I had to make the least GM calls.

He doesn't have Arcana.

He's an Arcane magic user!

Well, his body's here, and if that isn't a material link for a Scrying or some such I don't know what is.

Ah, well. Everything I did to him was perfectly reversible. If he wanted to pull a Luke Skywalker, be extra as all hell, and fall into the proverbial bottomless pit, that's on him. XD

Did I mention that Cale is a horribly-built NPC?

Wasn't there some FAQ on the imbiber of the spell being the caster? It might have been with potions or extracts, I forget. But that is an excellent point on the Spellcraft check to recognize the spell in order to dismiss it.

So the question is really if we want to kill him now or later.

Murder is a solution, but just once, just once in years of PFS, maybe it isn't the only one?

If we can find someone to use Sending, maybe we can exchange his body for the Pale Maiden and information. "12 hour spell, you need body at end, bring sword to Lodge, negotiate like normal people."

We're talking about a guy whose skin has been ripped from him by a bookish woman who [s]does drugs[/i] drinks potions; "Normal" is about thirty miles back.

Now, to be fair, his skin ripped itself off through a magical process that I facilitated with drugs and alcohol.

There's probably something deeply wrong with me for using that spell in any context.

I almost lost that post to the hotel wifi deciding I need to reauthenticate. Talk about your heart attacks.

I see no updated handouts.

Technical difficulty. Standby

I think that worked...You all should be able to see them now.

I believe we can now.

So, is the Maze of the Open Road a hedge maze deal or are the walls stone? If they're stone, some chalk for markings and Trail of the Rose in a scroll could be a serious help, and if we're in the maze longer than 3 hours we might have a problem.

I have the Scroll of Buggering Off (aka Greater TP) already, so we have one Get Out of Jail Free card, and it's a Wizard spell so it's INT based and easier to use for me.

Anything else sound useful? Maybe pick up Planar Adaptation (Mass) just in case, because I trust random portals about as much as Geralt of Rivia does.

Regarding Hard Mode: I don't care, but I will advise everyone that we don't know when we'll have a chance to nap...

Dangit! That's what I forgot!

Someone remind me when we find civilization again: two scrolls of Nap Stack, one scroll of Rope Trick, one scroll of Extended Rope Trick. I used all mine and never restocked.

But yeah, I'm the person with the lowest chance of depleting my daily resources here. I could go for it, if only for the hell of it, but it may well screw us later.

You'll have to do the other fights eventually, it's more a question of if you want to do it NOW. The scenario allows me to do it (almost) all at once if the PCs are having "too easy of a time," but I'm a horrible judge of that, so I'm opening the option up to you guys.

I think we're currently having a good time. I don't think we need much more "added difficulty" especially after earlier.

The way fights work in Pathfinder makes adding encounters together an imprecise art at the best of times.

For instance, that naga? Depending on her spells, she could be a massive force multiplier for anything else, even if she wasn't a threat independently. And she already is an independent threat.

Yeah, after what happened to start the scenario, I want to be sure these encounters come one at a time. Two too close knocked most of us out. True that's what they were supposed to do, but, I vote no to "hard mode".

Hey, all. I think I’ve come down with a stomach bug or something because I feel horrible. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to post anything today.

S'ok, feel better, still waiting on Jordan anyway.

I feel a terrible urge.

The urge to signal the invisible creature's location with a bird call if I find it.

Specifically an osprey call.

... What in the heck happened to my character picture in my last gameplay post? You guys see that too, right?

XD

What the—?! I don’t...WHAT?!?! That’s hilarious!!!