Gurk the Goblin |
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GM Dak |
Hope everyone had a good New Year! Just dropping a note that I am back to a regular schedule again so can post more frequently once again. Hope that we can get back to a quick pace again now that the holidays are over so we can get this thing moving! We are getting close to the end of book 1!
Davor Riverside |
Hi GM Dak!
Happy New Year to you as well!
The campaign description says "Chapter 1, Part 1" but your last post indicate that we are close to the end of book 1. I'm guessing the former was not updated correct?
Davor Riverside |
@GM Dak: I haven't recorded loot since the 250gp we got on a skeleton or the MW Chain Shirt that went to Verris. If we're going to town I'll need to update loot. Did you post any loot since either of these?
GM Dak |
You must not have put down Ayala's loot nor some of the other items on found on the skeleton.
Without looking back I don't remember if maybe some stuff just got 'pocketed'?
But Ayala had on her the following:
bloodroot (2), tanglefoot bags (3); Other Gear masterwork studded leather, +1 bladed scarf, masterwork composite shortbow with 20 arrows, climber’s kit, grappling hook with 50-foot silk rope, masterwork thieves’ tools, second-story harness
In her room there was the following:
Heaped on a table are sections of wall mural, ancient coins, pieces of jewelry, gems, bits and pieces of pottery, and more. These treasures are worth 900 gp in all.
A small chest under the bed in holds 87 gp and 175 sp.
On the Skeleton:
masterwork chain shirt, a masterwork rapier, a pendant of the souk , 50 feet of silk rope, and a leather pouch containing 250 gp.
However, aside from that no there hasn't been any other loot.
Davor Riverside |
Note to fellow players: I'll start writing the shopping list. Mind you this will be limited by loot available. Up to now we have about 2,400gp in disposable cash, not counting sale of any items the PCs have acquired. This amount is subject to a considerable increase as we have not done loot for a while.
List (tentative):
-wand of cure light wounds (750)
-wand of burning hands? (750) OR a bunch alchemist's fire / acid flasks? (helps action economy if we stick one or two on each PC...)
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Davor Riverside |
You must not have put down Ayala's loot nor some of the other items on found on the skeleton.
Without looking back I don't remember if maybe some stuff just got 'pocketed'?
But Ayala had on her the following:
bloodroot (2), tanglefoot bags (3); Other Gear masterwork studded leather, +1 bladed scarf, masterwork composite shortbow with 20 arrows, climber’s kit, grappling hook with 50-foot silk rope, masterwork thieves’ tools, second-story harnessIn her room there was the following:
Heaped on a table are sections of wall mural, ancient coins, pieces of jewelry, gems, bits and pieces of pottery, and more. These treasures are worth 900 gp in all.A small chest under the bed in holds 87 gp and 175 sp.
On the Skeleton:
masterwork chain shirt, a masterwork rapier, a pendant of the souk , 50 feet of silk rope, and a leather pouch containing 250 gp.However, aside from that no there hasn't been any other loot.
Already included the skeleton stuff on the loot sheet; will add the rest in five hours or so. I'm gonna assume we sell the rest unless someone raises their hand and requests the item assigned to them.
Amelexis Dusk |
Lexi can use mwk thieves tools (if Gurk doesn't claim them first).
What does the pendant do again?
Gurk the Goblin |
Gurk has masterwork tools already. Gurk simply wants extra shares of all his collected rations so far. Especially of the fishies.
Adistan Temmer |
Pendant of the souk: This golden pendant is of Qadiran make. Crafted from gold beaten into the image of a lanner falcon and suspended upon a gold chain, it’s the traditional badge of office for the Prince or Princess of the Market in Magnimar’s Bazaar of Sails— although they are often given as rewards to those who are particularly helpful or well-liked by the Prince or Princess.
The wearer of a pendant of the souk gains a +5 competence bonus on Appraise checks. By holding the pendant to her brow, the wearer can gain the effects of an identify spell once per day. Finally, the pendant grows warm in the presence of illusions, granting a +2 insight bonus on saving throws made to disbelieve existing illusion effects.
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This seems like something maybe useful for Lady Dusk, though that illusions aspect won't be very useful, thanks to Copperpot. :)
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I think maybe a wand of burning hands and then some splash weapons for others to carry makes sense. I think otherwise I'm not in need of much.
Davor Riverside |
Pendant: 4,000gp O_O --> SELLING! :)
Wand of Burning Hands --> better to take alchemist's fire or acid, now that I think of it (Bixby will cast those at 3d4 instead... we can buy him the 25gp scroll instead so that he can put it in his spellbook)
PS: waiting another hour or two before firing up the calculator! :)
Gurk the Goblin |
So onto a shopping trip it is~!
Davor Riverside |
Ok, realized Bixby is no wizard, so buying scrolls for him isn't cost effective.
Alchemist's fire is great for group enabled mass burnings, but a wand gets you 50 charges...
I just found out about this spell....
How about we buy a wand of that instead? both Bixby and Lexi can use it... same dmg as burning hand, but long range instead, and it works on swarms due to affecting all creatures in a 5-foot square! (i.e. it's got an AoE!)
Loot will be posted tonight; feel free to add to the shopping list before then!
Adistan Temmer |
OK. I think we had consensus to go back to town and then return, so let's get this sorted so we can keep moving on.
I'm fine with a wand of snapdragon fireworks. If we can get it at 2nd or 3rd level, that actually can start being really useful since it lasts for 1 round per level.
Temmer has 16 PP, so I think I'll get 2 vials of holy water, plus 4 vials of alchemist's fire, to have some of those sort of resources on hand. If I can keep using the mithral sword as needed for the moment, I should be otherwise good in terms of weapons/armor.
Verris "Eagle Eye" Gerdin |
Sorry, thought I'd posted but forgot to submit!
I'm good with the wand of snapdragon fireworks. I think we should get that wand of cure light wounds too with the party share. It would be good to avoid using PC spell slots for healing after a fight if we can.
Verris "Eagle Eye" Gerdin |
Yep, they're basically a requirement! :D
Bixby Copperpot |
I think we ought to buy a wand of CLW before dividing funds.
I also think each of us ought to buy several flasks of acid for now. Later, a wand might be cost-effective, but an entire party with flasks should hold us over cheaply for now.
Gurk the Goblin |
Gurk will probably grab some fires, but will need to know the party split first as he's pretty much broke. Also probably best not to let him out of sight with those. >D
Davor Riverside |
I'm on it- post will come tonight.
Davor Riverside |
Gurk will probably grab some fires, but will need to know the party split first as he's pretty much broke. Also probably best not to let him out of sight with those. >D
Broke? you got the most expensive item in the party!
Edit: correction --> itemS :D
Gurk the Goblin |
Heh, heh, heh! It's all cleverly hidden beneath his food stash, though! Who is willing to search him?
Davor Riverside |
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LOOT UPDATED
Pendant of the Souk sale money of 2,000gp bought the following items:
Wand of CLW 750 Lexi
Wand of Snapdragon Fireworks 750 Bixby
Acid Flasks x20 200 3 to Davor, 4 to Temmer, 4 to Gurk, 3 to Verris, 3 to Lexi, 3 to Bixby
Holy Water x12 300 2 to Davor, 4 to Temmer, 3 to Gurk, 1 to Verris, 1 to Lexi, 1 to Bixby
Rest of the loot was sold and distributed to each adventurer as follows:
Lexi 268
Davor 393
Temmer 182
Bixby 343
Gurk 265
Verris 319
For those using the 'GPs received thus far' tab of the loot sheet to track your purchases, your current personal gold in your wallet, accounting for the most recent distribution above, is as follows:
Lexi 505
Davor 698
Temmer 707
Bixby 1170
Gurk 282
Verris 820
PS: you'll note on the main loot sheet, at the bottom, the 'GPs owing to each PCs' number now stands around 202gp for each adventurer, so most of us are now equal in total character value, except Gurk of course! :P
*Consumables bought with party funds are not factored in these 'GP owing' calculations... only permanent items showed in top part of the main LOOT page (like Gurk's Ring of Feather Falling and Cat Burglar's Boots)
GM Dak |
@Lexi I don't have a problem with you researching and compiling a Journal of sorts. Let's put it at 50gp, so 500sp. Just use the regular crafting rules and substitute in Know. History for the craft check. You'll have to pay 15gp as the cost of 'creating' the item, but then roll against a DC20. If you beat the DC, multiply your roll by the DC and divide by 7 for a days worth of work. Once you've reached 500 you'll know how many days it will take you to craft and can RP it out respectively for times you return to the Lodge.
@Everyone Let me know what purchases you are making and be sure to update your character sheet. Once everyone is done let me know and we will jump back in. The only question I have is do you want to try and deal with the bats or skip past to go back to the room with the ant mounds?
Adistan Temmer |
Purchases noted, and character sheet updated. I'm ready to head back in whenever everyone else is. In the meantime, I think we can continue to skip the bats unless someone else really wants to deal with them.
Amelexis Dusk |
@GM Dak: Lexi's got a +1 bonus on Knowledge (history--Varisia) checks. Since much of Thassilon covered what's now Varisia, should I add that bonus into her rolls or not?
Verris "Eagle Eye" Gerdin |
Great work with the loot Davor!
Verris would like to purchase a Composite Longbow with a +2 Str Rating and top up the acid with alchemists fire (x2). She will also sell off the MW chain shirt assigned to her as loot. She'll accompany Davor and Adistan to sell the loot, helping them carry it there and bring back any purchases.
Finally, she'd like to spend some time crafting to top her arrow stock back to full (13 arrows @ 2sp 2cp total cost). She'll get the materials when she goes to the market.
Take 10 with craft bows = 10+8 = 18
Craft Check x Craft DC = 18 x 12 = 216/7 = 30.8 sp worth of work
So...she should get the arrows crafted very quickly ;)
Bixby Copperpot |
Thanks for the loot division, Davor!
I am not going to purchase anything quite yet. I did add the wand, acid, and holy water to my character sheet, along with my gold.
Thanks!
Davor Riverside |
I am not going to purchase anything quite yet.
Are you holding out for this little gem? If so, I completely understand! :)
Davor Riverside |
Yes, but at your caster level... not bad to have two more scaleable spell known when you're a sorcerer! ;) At level 9 those magic missiles pack quite a punch, and the shield spell is min/level... :P
Davor Riverside |
Made a small adjust to Davor's gear: kept grappling hook and silk rope (Davor bought them at sale value from party loot instead of selling them to a store, so no change in anyone's gold received except Davor: deducted 5.5gp from his total)
Adistan Temmer |
For what it's worth, if we have no indications that one way is better/safer than the other, I'm perfectly happy with the GM (or whoever's first to post) deciding randomly or just saying always take the left-most choice. Especially in a dungeon-heavy AP, I think making sure we have our standard procedure set up can really help us move things along.
GM Dak |
That would be a good idea and definitely would help me to advance things. When you are just following a path I don't mind just moving ahead but when there are multiple paths to choose from I hate making the choice for the players (unless you already specified how you want to handle that)
Adistan Temmer |
I certainly understand not wanting to choose for players. Like I said, for me it's when there's literally nothing we know that would determine one instead of the others, random choice is as good as anything.
Davor Riverside |
Comprehend Languages spell anyone? (didn't pray for it obviously, but we could come back tomorrow and I'd have it... do we care? seems like they're chatty and we could benefit from snooping on them?)
Amelexis Dusk |
Lexi has comprehend languages in her repertoire, but I figured this wasn't the time to use it, as we'd already missed whatever the big voice had said and casting the spell would likely alert the creatures that we weren't more ants/spiders/mites.
Honestly, when I made her short post last night I considered having her whisper all this stuff to Adistan...but I was tired and wanted to get some sleep. :)
Lexi would feel guilty enough about not telling the whole truth that if someone brought up that spell she'd fidget badly for a few seconds before confessing.
Verris "Eagle Eye" Gerdin |
+1 to what Adistan and Davor said.
Gurk the Goblin |
Is the web the same effects as the spell?
motteditor RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 |
Amelexis Dusk |
Well, she's got two things working in her favor. The big one is that if she drops to 0 Str, she'll just be unconscious, not dead. Unfortunately, that 1 point of Str loss already has bumped her up to medium encumbrance; if she gets much weaker she won't be able to move at all. ;)
The bad news is she'll still have to roll a 13 or higher at some point to stop the damage. Given the way Paizo's dice roller's been treating most of my characters in the new year, that's not a sure thing. Hopefully I'll remember that she took resistance for a cantrip: If she casts that each round, then she'll only need to roll a 12.
Davor Riverside |
Are the spiders all dead? is the uncolored one the mite's pet we must retrieve? thx!
Amelexis Dusk |
Pretty sure we're waiting on Dak; I hope he's not sick or something (but it's flu season).
Like Bixby, I'll likely be without internet access for the long holiday weekend (offline some time tomorrow afternoon thru Tuesday morning/afternoon), so Lexi can be botted to move things along if necessary.
Amelexis Dusk |
That stealth roll! Haha I feel like the dice really embrace Lexi as the slightly clumsy person you portray her as! xD
Lexi's not clumsy, per se, but she's inattentive of her surroundings and often unfocused, which makes her appear to be a klutz. She's not the wisest person around, which is why I had her try to stealth-ID the crabshank. And yeah--the dice bot made sure I paid for that bad decision!