Outpost: GM Kate's Beneath Unbroken Waves (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

Hey, hey! This will be the thread for 9-24: Beneath Unbroken Waves!

Howdy Kate!

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Player Great Green God
Character Shonne
PFS # 139009-1
Faction Silver Crusade
Experience Track Standard
Day Job N/A

Player Michael Hallet
Character Ursahla
PFS # 2608-2
Faction The Exchange
Experience Track Standard
Day Job Kn. Local: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32 Information Brokerage

Player Auke Teeninga
Character The Professor
PFS# 710-22
Faction Scarab Sages
Experience Track Slow
Day Job Craft Alchemy: 1d20 + 20 + 4 + 1 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 20 + 4 + 1 + 7 = 50

Player Feral
Character Leatherhead
PFS # 10774-21
Faction Grand Lodge
Experience Track Standard
Day Job N/A

Yarr

Player: Pirate Rob
Character: Ushaka
PFS: 757- 25
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Speed: Normal

Kate already knows this but for official sake, I have some knowledge of this adventure from a playtest version.

Hey folks! I'll get y'all started on March 11th. I'll do a final call for characters and levels a few days before that. I hope you all enjoy the game!

Hello all. Yarr to Pirate Rob, and hello all.

Player: CariMac
Character: Lyselsa Darklock
PFS: 1102449-5
Faction: Sovereign Court
Speed: Normal

She's a knife master rogue, and has give up Trapfinding to be really good with her kukris.

Hey, folks, it's almost time! Could everyone please fill out the first slide linked from my profile with your initiative and perception modifiers and add your icon to the second slide?

Also, could everyone let me know what character level you are? It looks like we'll probably be high with a 4 player adjustment, but I know headers can sometimes be out of date!

Evangelist of Gozreh 9!

As a note Ushaka has a slightly strange bonus on electricity/water saves noted on his header from Gozreh's Deific Obediance, here's the exact text "Gain a +4 sacred bonus on saving throws against electricity and water spells and effects."

Ursahla is level 9.

Definitely playing a water scenario...

The first 3 characters to fill in their info are Shark (in Zulu) with weird aquatic bonuses, a ranger named Ursahla with aquatic favored terrain and "The Crock"

The People's Champion is level 8.

Lys is level 7

The professor is level 7

9

All right, high tier with no adjustment!

Ursahla, do you have the actual ship vanity?

Yes, I do.

Awesome! You will have a chance to use it.

That reminded me to go look and...

Amusingly enough Ushaka also has the ship vanity.

The Fearsome Tide

A recently repaired Carrack with a thick layer of black coral coating much of the hull and spiraling up the main mast.

Formerly the flagship of Pirate Captain Jemma Redclaw, scourge of the Shackles, it was said to sail indefinitely and was never seen in port.

Upgraded ship vanity from Plunder & Peril

Ah ha ha.

This would make the SECOND time that two players have their own ships for this scenario.

We can make it work.

I am also happy to leave my ship at home if bringing 2 ships doesn't make sense for the mission.

Nah, it works fine. You can totally have two ships.

Think of all the level 1 NPCs we can put in peril!

Just to let y'all know, I am pretty generous with retcons in PBP! If you didn't have time to buy stuff yet, just do it before your next post.

Before my next post. Sort of a pre-post.

Shopping list.
300 gp Potion of darkvision
750 gp Potion of water breathing
6 gp Potion sponges (3)
5 gp Scroll box

Regarding rerolls:

I've got 3 Organized Play Accessory Perk rerolls (with a +5 modifier). One I can use myself and two of which I can grant to another player not using their own Organized Play Accessory Perk reroll. I assume most of the players will have their own, but if not (or if you don't have 5 stars), just ask!

I've also got the correct faction pin.

Can we please avoid sarcastic comments? I’m sure that things are meant jokingly, but I don’t like the tone it’s adding to the game. Thanks.

This undine is my favorite art of the scenario!

Hey, so, I’m not trying to ignore other people’s questions, but how much she will tell you depends on her attitude toward you, and that has been going up and down! I’d like another Diplomacy check if someone wants to try to get on her good side.

Where Remendi said "temple," she should have said "monastery." I apologize for any confusion. The other game I'm GMing is currently in a temple, and I mistyped.

"I have to take care of things here. Please bring them home. Oh, you might need some help underwater: take these."

She hands you a bag with a pair of underwater goggles for each of you, as well as a single belt of incredible dexterity +2, a circlet of persuasion, and a pair of gloves of swimming and climbing.

Goggles might be best served by going to one of our perception monsters (Ushaka?), Shonne has a better belt, and the circlet wouldn't suit her either. If no one takes needs the gloves she might take those, but that is about it.

And if folks are cool with it Shonne might would like to take the previously mentioned potion of invisibility and scroll of freedom of movement.

I read that as enough goggles for everybody.

By Jove you are right! And I even have a slot open!

Yes, goggles for everyone!

I think Shonne has the highest UMD? Those 3 scrolls of Freedom of Movement can make a real difference (and I think no one can use them without UMDing. Maybe Ursahla due to rangerlevels? (don't know if she has an archetype that gets rid of spellcasting?)). The Professor can create two infusions of Free Swim.

Other buffs I can hand out:

Touch of the Sea (3x, cl7)
Barkskin (2x, cl7, +3 Natural AC)

Yes, Ursahla can attempt to use a scroll of freedom of movement. Her caster level is only 3, so it would require a DC 8 caster level check to activate the scroll and each time she fails there would be a 10% chance of a mishap unless someone can boost her wisdom.

That's better odds than my +14 UMD (for scrolls) vs DC 27.

The Professor wishes The People's Champion a Happy Birthday!

I take it back, freedom of movement is not on the wizard spell list (which would allow Shonne to just cast it without a roll--Wizard 5 + magical knack [wizard] = CL 7). It is on the ranger list, and Shonne regularly prepares read magic, but she doesn't have the Wisdom 14, or ranger caster-level needed, nor is she trained in use magical device.

I'd like it if everyone can sort out buffs before we move along, but otherwise, I'll move you underwater tomorrow morning!

Other than chugging his prescribed potion of water breathing, The Croc is good to go.

Ursahla doesn't have or need any buffs. She's as comfortable under water as on land.

Just let me know the intended targets of the freedom of movement scrolls and I'll be happy to roll them.

I think The People's Champion considers Freedom of Movement cheating! :-D

The Professor will use his blightbreaker ability to absorb an infusion of Cure Light Wounds.
He will take an extract of alchemical allocation to rinse and repeat a potion of Heroism.
He will take an extract of alchemical allocation to rinse and repeat the potion of water breathing and put the potion in a potion sponge.
He will drink an extract of Touch of the Sea, Heightened Awareness, Investigative Mind, and Orchid's Drop.
He will apply an alchemical grease on his fur and offer some to people who don't get a Freedom of Movement.

He will offer 2 extracts of Barkskin (+3) to frontliners who actually care about AC.
He will offer 2 extracts of Free Swim for people who don't get a freedom of movement.
He will offer 3 extracts of Touch of the Sea in case the party is unable to succesfully activate the Freedom of Movement scrolls.

He will ask an arcane caster to active his wand of mage armor on him and offer anyone else a mage armor too.

How much time has passed since the Turtle encounter?

Ushaka would like a FoM and a barkskin

As a frontliner is more likely to be grappled I'd say Lyselsa Darklock would benefit from a Freedom of Movement over a Free Swim too!

The professor will give Ushaka one of the extracts of Barkskin