In skill coverage, Gil can handle medicinal skills (Heal, Knowledge Nature), surgical skills (Disable Device, Sleight of Hand), and Perception. Felicia looks like she can handle negotiation skills (Diplomacy, Sense Motive) and survival skills (Handle Animal, Survival). Finally, Thomas can probably cover magic skills (Knowledge Arcana, Spellcraft, Use Magic Device), and Perception.
To my eyes, this gives us pretty decent general coverage. What we're lacking are certain underworld skills (Bluff, Disguise, Intimidate, Knowledge Local) and scholastic skills (background Knowledge, Linguistics). And I'll admit that, without Trapfinding, Gil isn't a perfect replacement for a Rogue when it comes to Disable Device.
So it doesn’t even have to be an actual skill monkey character, just something with 4+ skill points and a good class skill list.
That’s useful!
Been talking with the new party member, and it looks like he’s aiming at being an Investigator.
Does that sound like something that would fit the needs of the party adequately?
Seems ideal, ya. Right class skills, high base skill points, and Intelligence as a primary stat for class abilities, all mean that, among other things, he'll likely be a proper skill monkey. Then it's just a matter of him investing in areas the party is weak, and he should have more than enough skill points to do so.
I thought so as well. He’d fit in nicely with both the party itself and what the campaign will likely need.
Hopefully he can finish up with the other details relatively quickly, and we can get this show back on the road!
Sounds good to me, covers all the things that are needed ATM.
For clarity its the Rogue Investigator archetype, not the Investigator class. I've been away all weekend and haven't had much time during the week. Finishing up the build now and will be sending it over to the GM ASAP.
Oh I misunderstood then!
Rogue works as well, I’d imagine. Maybe even better?
Got the submitted replacement character, taking a look over it before deciding if it's okay and then we'll work on getting started again!
Huzzah.
Apologies, meant to post last night but was sucked into Halloween celebrations.
I have given Terrence my seal of approval, and wonder what you guys think.
Should you all accept it, I shall take a look over the gameplay thread before attempting to get us back on the rails. For the Azorius!
Looks perfectly fine for what we're doing.
Ya, the build looks good.
Looks good
New gameplay up! Attempting to bridge the gap between the precious events and now. Feel free to recap what you know about the case so far, so as to refreshen everyone’s memories.
Let’s get this thing started, shall we?
I don’t feel it’s necessary for me to say anything in this particular part of the conversation, but I’m still reading along and if anyone has any actual questions for me, feel free to put in [ooc] so I know you want me to answer it.
I love the inter-group roleplay we have going on, y’all are doing an amazing job!
For the record, is our intention to retcon Giliad's interview with Uzana as having not taken place, such that the party can conduct an interview moving forward? If not, you may want to have NPC Giliad give a summary of his findings therein before fading into the background.
May as well have Giliad summarize. The last thing we need is for this campaign to go backwards ;-)
If you’re not satisfied with the way he handled the interview, and you’d like to go back and do it ourselves, I wouldn’t mind doing that at all.
Which would the group prefer?
Looking at it, it wasn't much of an interview. Giliad asked a probing question to test for deceit, obtained a file on the cult, and moved on. I'm not necessarily pleased with the brevity, but I'm also not the character that would do much of the question asking, if we redid the interview.
Either way, Giliad left the door open for a follow-up interview, so I don't see much point it retconning it away. Better for NPC Giliad to hand over the file he obtained, and recount the question he asked and answer he received, and then he can fade into the background and we can proceed from there.
Getting Giliad’s response together guys, sorry for the wait! I’ll have it up tonight.
Hey guys, checking in.
Just finishing up some work I need to do tonight, so I'll have a post up tomorrow sometime to keep this going.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Hope you all had a wonderful food-filled Thanksgiving! For those of you that celebrated it anyway.
I'm going to wait for Terrence and Sarv to get a bit further into the conversation, so it's not so conspicuously right after he provided Alabastor's address, and then Gil will excuse herself and someone else to attend to "other matters".
I think two of us should go to the Tin Street address, just to have eyes on it in case something is currently going down. Terrence and whomever stays can catch up to us after the interview. Felicia has advertised herself as being muscle (and is a fellow Selesnyan), so I think Gil will probably feel safer asking her to come with, but I'm open to input from the others.
She'd totally be down to go, as a lot of the details of the conversation are kind of going over her head. She's not the brightest tool in the shed.
Gil wants to go look at the address separately, with Felicia?
Be sure to let me know when they do eventually leave the meeting, and I'll let you know what you find there!
I'm going to be going out of town next week, for probably the whole week. I'll have limited Internet access, so I should be able to post, but my response time will likely be reduced.
I expect slower posts until after New Years' anyway, so no worries.
We'll get back when we get back!
Hello everyone!
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, celebrating whichever of the holidays you observe.
I just got back in, so I won’t be posting tonight, but expect us to get this show going again (and more permanently) tomorrow!
I too am now home.
I want to sincerely apologize for my prolonged absence. I presented flu-like symptoms last week, and have been undergoing tests in the hospital to make sure it was just the flu, and not the new corona virus thing. Luckily, it was just the flu, so I am back home with my internet and computer now.
I will be posting later today and getting things started again!
Just checking in guys, everything okay?