GM Xavier Kahlvet's Strange Aeons 2e

Game Master KingTreyIII

Please do stay Shohreh!

In other news, Boodiddly is (finally) leveled up! Highlights include:
- Master proficiency in Performance
- Incredible Investiture
- Master proficiency in Perception (woo)
- Expert proficiency in weapons (why)
- New Rank 6 spells: Phantom Orchestra and Roaring Applause
- Swapped spells: Hideous Laughter is out, Mirror Image is in

No ideas on what to spend money on (also no idea what's available here level-wise), so let me know if you have any suggestions or would appreciate a loan to get something for yourself.

Up to level 12

Jevar Shadowmantle wrote:

Rings of Wizardry are uncommon. Are they available here locally?

No in Cassomir, but yes in Katheer.

If Katheer is more likely to have uncommon items Jevar might just do his magic item shopping there after the teleport.

I am also leveled up, but I still need to do some shopping.

Feat: Toughness
Skill Increase: Occultism to Expert

If Katheer is more likely to have uncommon items Jevar might just do his magic item shopping there after the teleport.

OH HOT DAMN! Uh…Just started reading up on Katheer and…dear lord, it’s a MASSIVE city. Like, I’m comparing it to some other settlement statblocks that Paizo has published and…this place is AT LEAST a level 18 settlement. So…I guess the level cap here for items is basically “whatever you can afford.” I mostly just said "yes in Katheer" because I knew it had an arcane academy so I figured it'd have those kinds of arcane items. But now the answer is it DEFINITELY has those items. Hell, you'll probably want to do your purchasing in Katheer instead of Cassomir.

I'm gonna be advancing the story in a bit, but I thought I'd at least let y'all know about the item limit to see if that changed any of your purchases.

Also, you still have to Learn a Spell for the teleport. Magical Shorthand got remastered to only ever take 10 minutes (unless you do it with downtime) and whenever you get a success, it's a critical success instead.

Yup, making the roll momentarily to learn over in gameplay...

Also just realized while we got a nice chunk of change, Jevar has been a big spender and might have to do a little saving here.

Hey, y’all. I just wanted to chime in here expressing my concerns over the lull in posting that’s been happening since Christmas and I’ve been really worried. I will admit that I’m also at fault for this because I have a difficult time forcing a post out at times.

I just wanted to bring this up so it didn’t just go unsaid in my mind for ages.

Maybe it's me for this scene. Jevar is not the best face for convincing. It seems like the play right now is that she's laid out a good amount of the situation and is either suggesting we can help or else we could convince her to let us into the mysterium to help.

Attempted persuasion anyway. Here's hoping the bard isn't disappointed in us :D

Sorry shopping has been difficult as well, but I wanted to grab a few things and make sure it was okay.

Shadow Signet
Grim Sandglass (Greater), assuming its chill touch is replaced by void warp.
Probably inscribe breath of life on my library robes so it stops wasting a 5th rank slot every day.

We've definitely lost some momentum. This is my only PbP game nowadays so as posts have become less frequent I've gotten into the habit of checking for posts less frequently, which I suppose is a negative feedback loop.

I'm not sure what we can do about it though, beyond resolving to maintain a better pace

I actually don't remember if a name for Kolgradd's lost husband had been picked already, I can't find one in my notes, so hopefully that's not a contradiction

I know for a fact that I didn't choose those things because I wanted the finer details to be your choice. Pretty sure this is actually the first time we learned your spouse is even a "he."

So here’s something interesting: teleport requires you to “identify the location precisely both by its position relative to your starting position and by its appearance (or other identifying features).”

So I’m not 100% sure Jevar even COULD do the whole “teleport halfway in one casting then do it again” thing. It’s long past, so I’m not gonna bother retconning, but still a food for thought.

Ah darn. That is a good catch. I suspect that would have meant the same for anyone else casting the spell at 6th rank and we would have needed to find a caster capable of 7th rank *and* familiar with the destination (!!)

I think Jevar is pretty battle-maged up (in his preparations)

Hero Points reset in a week.

Anybody have anything else, or should I move forward with the narrative?

Ready to go forward.

Boodiddly is ready!

I won't be able to post until later, but a quick question before then: could I use the Re-arm ability of the Tactician's Helm to draw a blindfold, tie the blindfold and then pick up my weapon?

Failing that, how many actions do you think it would require to get a blindfold on? Assuming the flavour-blindfold from my earlier post is sufficient of course, I never bought one or anything

I won't be able to post until later, but a quick question before then: could I use the Re-arm ability of the Tactician's Helm to draw a blindfold, tie the blindfold and then pick up my weapon?

I'd allow it. The only problem is that your tactician's helm isn't charged, currently. And for the sake of not completely breaking the game, I'd say it's only a single Interact action, assuming you already have the blindfold in-hand.

Thanks yes I'd forgotten about the charging being reset. Maybe I can use it to take it the blindfold off.

I think you erroneously put "enfeebled" in your attack there. You didn't include any penalty from it (which is correct), but you're definitely not enfeebled.

Spell attack BLUE, B damage: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (11) + 21 = 321d4 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

One of these days you should probably put some runes on that staff so it's more effective. And maybe two-hand it for the d8s.

Yeah, probably should. I've largely not used it at all so it's simply not come up. I'll see if there's a spare in our inventory that I could transfer.

Can you "two-hand" the hand-of-the-apprentice attack?

Anyway, depending on how the hounds set their positions Jevar has an interesting idea to try at some point with Illusory Object.

I don’t think Purple could have attacked Boodiddly this round if they rolled a 30 vs DC 31, but since all the attacks missed I’m not too worried.

Bah! I’m running another game with the party at level 11 and I keep forgetting that I gave y’all apex items, so your spell DCs are higher.

Hello, this is an FYI that I'll be away in nature without access to computers this weekend, 2/17-2/18. I will return late Sunday (US/Pacific time) and resume posting. As this is just the weekend, I expect minimal disruption to the games I'm in.

I've apparently been abbreviating Kolgradd's Reactive Strike to "RE"??? I...don't know why my brain autocorrected to that.

February. Right.

Hero Points reset in a week.

How the hell are the first two months of the year almost gone already :O

Okay, seriousness time:

I have been communicating with Shohreh’s player and they are, to put it bluntly, going through a lot of sh*t; I won’t elaborate further, as that’s not my story to tell. To the point where it is up in the air as to whether or not they’ll be able to continue playing at this table. So I had to lay things down.

I’ve given them 2 weeks to get things under control, during which time I’ll be botting Shohreh (with a bit of input from the player). If, after those 2 weeks, they still feel like they can’t in good faith start posting consistently again, then I’ll have to have a conversation with them about if they can continue playing with us.

I am saying this so the rest of y’all have an idea of what’s going on behind the scenes. And please, show some love toward Shohreh’s player—they’re going through a lot right now and deserve to know that there are people who care about them.

Let me know if the 23 worked and if so he'll stride back towards the party.

Its Athletics bonus is +24, so the 23 was actually a critical failure. So, uh…Jevar can’t make any Escape attempts this turn after that first one. So you now have the actions to, say, cast a spell.

Waiting on Jevar to see if he does anything else with those last two actions, since the first Escape attempt was a crit fail.

Sorry, catching up now (always me bringing up the rear in US/Pacific time :D)

Hey Kolgradd. Something very interesting came to my attention: the tactician’s helm can only be used once per hour.

Oops, sorry! It did seem a tremendously strong item. I'd have to skip the Move-It then and assuming it still successfully escapes he'd have another action, with which he'd cast Shield.

Just for clarity, Jevar, are you targeting White (Miacknian, who’s calmed) or Black (Akie, who’s raging)?

The rager.

Hero Points reset in a week

Hero Points have reset

Anyone have any further questions for Mun?

Sorry, has this particular scene run its course, and I should just move on to the next thing? Or have folks just been busy with offline stuff?

Was giving a chance for others to chime in before posting again, but Jevar can suggest a plan.

My apologies if I'm losing the plot here! Is there anywhere left we haven't exploired? Kolgradd would be wanting to find Elder Lythiin as quickly as possible and not dally with his old friend here

There's quite a few places. I was just pausing here because this is a man you know to be a part of Lowls's party into this library and would likely have questions for him.

In other, non-game-related news, I just finished and submitted the final assignment I had this semester. That means that I have officially, after 20 years, finished school.

Man, this feels surreal.

Congrats! Onto the school of life :)

Is there a way to run down the "something off"? I presume not sense motive since Mun believes what he's saying.

No.

I apologize that things have been slow recently; gonna hopefully get things back on track on Monday.

I sort of assumed finishing school/graduation time would add some extra chaos to life :)