Well... there is also this Orrville or this one but missing one r :D
Yeah, but I didn't grow up thirty minutes from those. :P
And they don't claim the tallest dam in the US.
Oh, that's right, the Oroville Dam! The one which had a damaged spillway and a possibility that the dam would fail, so they had to evacuate the whole dammed area.
Oh yeah. It was quite the controversy. :)
That's what happens when you skimp on the maintenance budget for decades.
Group has 9109 gold pieces.
Sophie proposes to buy for the group:
10 holy weapon balms (best used on a magic weapon, preferrably ammo - works like ghost salt for magic weapons, and is cheaper than ghost salt) - 300 gp
1 wand of cure light wounds - 750 gp
1 first aid gloves for the sole purpose of Breath of Life (crafted) - 2250 gp
5 Holy water - 125 gp
3 ghost salt weapon blanch (as an emergency item) - 600 gp
6 ambrosia - 600 gp
6 fortifying brew (for saves against fear) - 120 gp
6 wismuth salix (for nauseated/sickened) - 180 gp
6 twitch tonic (for paralysis) - 270 gp.
Are there any objections?
No.
nope
One last thing - Sophiel picks up two scrolls of versatile weapon and two scrolls of magic weapon, handing them to Orri and Annalla respectively. 350 gp, and it allows us to get through DR and powers up our holy weapon balms. For her part, Sophie couldn’t afford a magic bow :(.
Hey Sootscale, see the link here for a spreadsheet I've used for calculating time.
I think you can only make the 6 wismuth salix during our travel. As you can see, even with your big craft alchemy bonus (+22 IIRC) it just takes a long time.
The Master Alchemist Feat allows you to make almost anything on this list in about an hour or two, but it eats a whole feat.
I had it in an IRL AP and it was pretty useful, but it required a lot of work to find useful consumables.
Okay, so here's the handout of elixirs by Sootscale:
Chrysa: Monstrous Physique I, Barkskin, Shield
Bella: Fly, Barkskin, Reduce Person
Sophiel: See Invisibility
Ipmeek: Invisibility, Reduce Person
Orri: Shield
Annalla: Shield
Lots of Shields for everyone (who doesn't already have a Shield bonus).
Don't forget to use these things--you have to drink them yourselves.
I believe mage armor works against incorporeal attacks. It's also better than Sootscale's parade armor.
Dropping a note in all my games. I am hoping things won't change too much, but wanted to forewarn my games that there may be some delays in my posting. My work schedule is usually busiest over the summer months and while it is slow right now I know at some point it will get crazy busy when I start getting shipments in of hundreds of new computers for a rebuild of one of my schools I manage. On top of this I am finishing up my dual MBA/MSIS this summer with three classes in a condensed 8-week semester.
All of this to say, I will do my best to keep up and if I know of major delays I will try to notify people (like when it is finals week), but if I do end up disappearing for a few days here or there just know it won't be long term. All the craziness I have going on over the next couple months should primarily be wrapped up near the end of July.
As always, if you need something quick you can generally ping me on Discord.
Before next turn, just a reminder that we'll be starting a new year. This is my recommendation on the spreadsheet.
1) Copy the current treasury accounting and rename it to 4710AR. (Hide it if you like)
2) Take your Total from Kuthona and add it to Starting on Abadius on the regular treasury accounting sheet.
3) Clear out the rest of the treasury accounting sheet.
4) On the Kingdom Stats set the year to 4711 AR.
Then you are good to go for the new year!
Dropping a note in all my games. Finished up with school yesterday, just waiting on the audit for me to officially be done and graduate even though there are no commencements with the whole virus thing. Wife is doing better after brief stint in the hospital. Looking at starting to get back into my games and get posting again sometime this week. My work is really crazy as first kids were coming back on the 17th but now everything is going to be virtual for an indeterminate amount of time, but teachers are coming back still and there is a lot of questions floating out there so bare with me as I ease into catching up on things and getting back into a regular posting routine again over the next week or so.
I touched base with Dak earlier today and he's tested positive for COVID and has been sick and out of commission for awhile and he still remains sick. He said to let everyone know he'll be back when he recovers.
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Hi guys!
About four months ago when the wedding was going down, I had intended to put together a cool little video for it. About 30% into the project I had an accident and the project file got overwritten and I lost the motivation to restart it.
I thought I'd share with you some of the pictures I created for the project though, there is no reason to let these go to waste! Most of them are unfinished and in draft form as the characters continue to evolve through the process. I think the most finalized version of everyone can be found in the group shot though.
The group at the wedding
Annalla Portrait
Chrysa Portrait
Isabella Portrait
Orri Portait
Sootscale Portrait
Sophie Portrait
Sophie baking the cake
The Dolchas
Chrysa waiting at the gazebo
While I don't have the video I wanted, I hope you enjoy the visuals!
Nonetheless, it is very great! I’d Patreon it if it would encourage you to finish it.
Love that Sophiel gets two :D.
Hey, I wanted to drop in and give all my games an update. I'm still alive, obviously, and I've managed to stay out of the hospital and off a ventilator. However, I'm still not fully recovered. Even though I'm outside my two week symptomatic/infectious period by over a week there are some lingering issues that are still weighing on me (continued shortness of breath, getting light headed, overall fatigue). I doing my best to push through it but it is barely just enough to get me through work everyday and doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else. I would like to give a hard and fast "I'll be back and up to playing again by this time", but sadly at this point I can't. It could be a couple weeks or it could be a couple months for me to get used to this new (hopefully temporary) norm on top of a few other things going on.
All this to say, I'm ok, I'm trying my best to manage, but I can't give you a hard "this is when I will be back". I understand it has been awhile as it is, between this most recent struggle with COVID and my past slowness with finishing up my graduate stuff so if you need to move on without me I completely understand and I'm just sorry that right as I was getting back into things again this whole virus thing came along and knocked me back down again. I'll check in again once I feel I'm up to playing with everything else I am balancing.
So sorry you're still struggling with COVID. Sounds awful, especially when you still have to work. Not fun at all. Hope your situation improves and thanks for checking in.
I updated the loot sheet, I think. It's possible that I broke some formulas.
Thanks Sophie.
Now maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be nowhere on the spreadsheet that tells us the total value of the loot, or how much we each get in shares?
It’s on the bottom right, iirc. Not sure if it’s working properly for Vincent. Dak made these, so I’m not sure if my modifications are correct.
Doesn't look like it, but I'm happy to do things the old fashioned way :)
For reference, check cells W46 and W48 of the Loot - Bear sheet.
Sorry for the long silence a lot been going on and after getting pinged on Discord I wanted to drop a note in all my games. I'm actually doing a lot better now, pretty much fully recovered. However, my wife has been really sick, last month she was in the hospital for a week and I'm sitting in the surgery center now waiting to see how things turn out on a few hour procedure she is currently in. Depending on how invasive the surgery is I may be dealing with a lot for at least a month or so taking care of her and the kids and working. On top of that with the holidays coming and the normal delays that revolve around that I am going to say that it's going to be at least January before I look at picking things up again. Maybe if things get better sooner I will try jumping back in before that but I feel like early January is going to be more realistic.
If you need to move on without me I understand feel free to set my character aside or find a replacement if needed and when I check back we can go from there. Sorry for all the absent time, these last few months have just really kicked my butt first physically, then mentally and emotionally. Hope you all are keeping safe and have a good Thanksgiving and Christmas for those who celebrate.
Sorcerer 8
HP +5
Cha +1
BAB +1
Will +1
New Spells:
Light
Confusion
Skills: 3+2
Diplomacy +1, Sense Motive +2, Knowledge (nobles) +1, Knowledge (history) +1
1 level of progenitor/menhir savant druid
+5 hit points
+1 favored class bonus on skill
Abilities Added: None
Skill Points: 7
+1 diplomacy, +1 knowledge (dungeoneering), +1 knowledge (nature), +2 perception, +3 sense motive,
background: +1 knowledge (history), +1 knowledge (geography)
Spell Slots:
+1 1st
+2 4th
Alchemist 8 / U. Monk 1
+4 HP
+1 BAB
+1 Fort/Ref
Favored class bonus - +1 Bomb
Feat: Extra Discovery
Discovery: Fast Bombs, Force Bomb
Skills: Acrobatics x4, Craft (Alchemhy), Escape Artist, K. Eng, K. Nature, Perception, Stealth, Survival
Arcanist 6
+1 BAB
+1 all saves
3rd level spells 2/day
Skills: plenty
Some minor changes to skills, reducing some, improving others.
New proposed elixir distribution:
Chrysa: Monstrous Physique I, Barkskin, Shield
Bella: Fly, Barkskin, Reduce Person, Shield
Ipmeek: Barkskin, Invisibility, Reduce Person, Shield, See Invisibility
Annalla: Fly
I'm frontloading melee folks. But if someone thinks they'll remember to use the elixir, I'm open to revisions. For Bella, the Shield elixir doesn't stack with her shield bonus, so it's still a boost but not quite as much for her as it might be for others.
Chrysa, I'm going to point out that you can turn yourself into a variety of creatures with flight and multiple attacks using Monstrous Physique. There's a guide here. A rogue with a lot of sneak attacks is pretty deadly.
Sorcerer 9
HP +5
Fort/Ref +1
Pure of Mind
Righteous Fury
New Spells:
2) Resist Energy
3) Lightning Bolt
4) Remove Curse
4) Cure Critical Wounds
Feat:
Steadfast Personality
Skills: 3+2
Diplomacy +1, Perception +1, Sense Motive +1, Knowledge (history) +1, Perform (sing) +1
I need to put Isabella on hold for a little while. I'm not going to drop this game, I have too much invested in this character to do so. But I need to bring my game count down and I need to start archiving some games to get back to a manageable place.
I'll be back, try not to burn down the kingdom and take care of my babies please.
Ignoring the threat of plagiarism, I'm going to repeat what Isabella posted above; Annalla is going to join her wife back in Gealladh Dòchas at first opportunity to rule in relative peace.
Sorry to see you both go. But I understand. Chrysa will kidnap the babies at her earliest opportunity :)
Be seeing you, hope it works out and you could come back!
This means the rest of us and Thron should theoretically have a discussion about a way to more forward with the current set of tasks, both IC and OC.
1) Do we assume Annalla and Isabella get a message or something, and have to leave? Or should we bot them?
2) Afer 1) is decided, could we have a mercenary or two? (or something) if we aren't going to bot them? The mercenary could take a share or whatever.
2) What will happen to their kingdom - basically it'll be suspended and they're NPCs or...?
I know it's very slow going, and difficult for a lot of people now, so I deeply hope that everything gets better for everyone, even if they can't play in this or other games.
I am open to group discussion on the situation. The fairest thing I think will be for the missing peoples (Oreo, Isabella/Annalla) kingdoms to enter a “holding pattern.” That way folks aren’t trying to make decisions on their behalf and adding to their own workloads.
As for the PC’s, that leaves Sophiel, Chrysa, Ipmeek, and Vincent. Close to a full party. Do you want to maybe just continue on as is and I’ll scale the encounters back down to normalish levels. If things are still too rough, we can maybe recruit a new PC who accepts a non-kingdom-owning position.
Sounds good sir. Continuing foward in a semi less crush our bodies and minds way.
I’m okay with this too.
Onward! I support these choices.
Game is meant for 4PC's I think we'll be fine.
Merry Christmas everyone! As my gift to you guys here, I am giving you each a choice of one of the following:
1) Change one skill on your skill list to a Class Skill
2) +1 to any one stat!
3) Free Feat!
oh my goodness! :)
More importantly sir, Merry Christmas to you as well. And to ALL!
Aww, aren't you sweet?
Merry Christmas to you and everyone!
Merry Christmas to you, and to everyone else as well!
As much as the stat point would be nice, Sophiel has been doing a daily devotional via a fey obedience every day anyway, so that's as good of a choice as I can make, I suppose.
Chrysa is being boring and getting weapon focus short sword. Still a lovely christmas present.
Favored prestige class, marked on my character sheet as "festive"
:)
Sorry I didn’t post this sooner! Sootscale will take good old Improved Initiative.
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Plan to learn the following formulae:
Ant Haul
Disguise Self
Alchemical Allocation
Resist Energy: Communal
Protection from Arrows: Communal
Displacement
Note: I don't really understand how communal spells are supposed to work with alchemists, but I'm assuming it's possible to let everyone take a drink as long as we're out of combat.
Need to figure out what potions to buy to go with Alchemical Allocation. Seems like long duration buffs are preferable because it's slow to drink all that stuff. So I'll start with:
Heroism
Magic Circle Against Evil
And I guess having a tooklit of healing status effects is super useful, I could buy the following:
Lesser Restoration
Neutralize Poison
Remove Blindness/Deafness
Remove Curse
Remove Disease
Remove Paralysis