GM Qstor's PFS 10-17 On Sevenfingers's Sails (Full) (Inactive)

Game Master Qstor

IT disaster yesterday. Replaced my laptop, but couldn't retrieve anything off the old hard drive. I'll do my best to keep up, while I sort things out.

@Oberon - You cannot really trust computers to last anymore. I feel your IT pain. :)

In terms of this game you should be fine as you have an online copy of your sheet here with most of the relevant information.

if you're in area B4:

Where is area B4?

GM Qstor wrote:

if you're in area B4:

Where is area B4?

oh, its the hold the "top" map on the "whole" map of the ship.

Hey all, I forgot to mention I'm on a quick vacation for President's Day weekend. Posting will be spotty, so feel free to bot me.

Have a great vacation!

Not sure how much time has passed since our last encounter. Have we rested since then?

At least two hours as we spent one hour on research and one hour on preparing the ship. Unless the GM indicates otherwise it is the same day.

Sorry, the question was directed at the GM. Wasn't clear how long the 'journey' in the Voracious took.

Not sure how much time has passed since our last encounter. Have we rested since then?

No rest for the weary.

I will be away from Thursday (Feb 20) through Sunday (Feb 23) with limited opportunities to post. Please bot me if needed, GM. :)

I moved Oberon's icon closer to the bridge, but I'll wait till at least Uncle Hubbub and Harrow cross before I move him across to the far side.

Sure. I'm happy to go after Harrow. :)

Guys you might want to start actually moving your icons over the bridge. :)

I moved Harrow across?

Uncle Hubbub are you going?

Uncle Hubbub are you going?

Whoops! Yes. Am now moved :)

There is nothing like a bridge to grind down play to a halt as a million questions pop up in the adventures' brains. Is the bridge safe? Will the bridge be cut when the party is on the bridge? Will we be attacked on the bridge or when half the party has crossed over? The most iconic question is of course: Is there a Troll living underneath the bridge?

Nah, the most decision paralysis encounter is a bridge with a door in the middle :)

A bridge and a door. Why did I not think about that? You are right that would be the ultimate time killer. :)

bridge ==> door ==> 5' spiral staircase heading up :D

There's some confusion
The mustered PCs are:

Hubub
Oberson
Harrow
Helgar
Mareq
Pandora

Is Persephone the source of the confusion? She's Oberon's Improved Familiar, a lyrakien azata (sage archetype).

Is Persephone the source of the confusion? She's Oberon's Improved Familiar, a lyrakien azata (sage archetype).

Doh ok...lol I thought she was another player.

With the racial bonus from Elven Magic, Oberon is +10 on CL checks vs SR.

One or more of his feats might bump up that CL check (for fireball and evocation spells), as well:
Spell Specialization (Fireball) - Benefit: Select one spell of a school for which you have taken the Spell Focus feat. Treat your caster level as being two higher for all level-variable effects of the spell.
Varisian Tattoo (Evocation) Select a school of magic (other than divination) in which you have Spell Focus—you cast spells from this school at +1 caster level.

@Mareq: Not sure who provided the friendly fire. I didn't see anyone in the area of effect of Oberon's fireball.

@Mareq: Not sure who provided the friendly fire. I didn't see anyone in the area of effect of Oberon's fireball.

Helgar is variant channeling and cannot exempt the elemental, which keeps failing the Daze will save.

@Team GM Qstor has clarified that there are voices both in front of us AND behind us. So... do we alter our actions, keep fighting the spiders, and move ahead to discover the voices ahead? Or do we head back to discover who dimension door’d out of here? An important question is, can we defeat the spiders? Lots of them. Can we dish the amount of dmg necessary to kill them all?

If it's any consolation my witch PC died cause she kept failing the Poison save, when I played his on PbP.

Helgar's channels stopped a LOT of the attacks.

If it's any consolation my witch PC died cause she kept failing the Poison save, when I played his on PbP.

Helgar's channels stopped a LOT of the attacks.

True. But that's partly driving my doubts. How many more times can he daze them? He dazed them twice and how many did we kill? Just don't think we're snuffing them fast enough.

What do you all think?

@Team GM Qstor has clarified that there are voices both in front of us AND behind us. So... do we alter our actions, keep fighting the spiders, and move ahead to discover the voices ahead? Or do we head back to discover who dimension door’d out of here? An important question is, can we defeat the spiders? Lots of them. Can we dish the amount of dmg necessary to kill them all?

I think that someone needs to make sure our boat isn't hijacked. I've got expeditious retreat up--I just want to make sure we have a way back.

@Harrow - Plane Shift is on the Cleric spell list so we are at worst stuck here until tomorrow. Do not worry about the need for a Body Recovery. :) That being said it might be worth sending one of my summons or the familiar to investigate.

@Mareq - I will be bringing in the legions of hell now that my channels are used up. Standard action summons are a good thing. :)
My character has a Breath of Life prepped and a couple of Heals. Granted I like to keep these in reserve but if someone is down that is a good time to use them.

Edit - @Harrow - Your character may have the entangled condition from the spider's web attack (I think 27 hits your character's touch AC). This is from a few posts back.

Looks like my spell was dashed by the webbing + planar penalty.
Not good. :)

We have removed around half of the spidies and most of the remaining ones are quite damaged even before computing this last round. I think we are good. Next round we can easily clean up the few that will remain.

Regarding where to go next, I would vote to stop whatever is being done ahead in the red cavern before we go back to see who teleported away.

Please all remember haste gives you an extra attack, +1 to hit/AC and +30 movement speed!
+2 hit/damage from inspire courage

GM, has there been any indication whether or not the magic missiles from Persephone's quarterstaff of entwined serpents are having an effect against the spider?

She wouldn't keep firing away, if it doesn't seem to be working.

I finally zoomed in close enough to actually see the numbers on the icons of the spiders.

It's not clear to me from the post's text. Are all the spiders still depicted on the map active, or are some of them dead?

Team: I'm AFK until Sunday night. Wine tasting in Baja.

Nice! Have a great time!

GM, has there been any indication whether or not the magic missiles from Persephone's quarterstaff of entwined serpents are having an effect against the spider?

She wouldn't keep firing away, if it doesn't seem to be working.

Yeah some have affected the spiders. There's SR on the magic missiles

I finally zoomed in close enough to actually see the numbers on the icons of the spiders.

It's not clear to me from the post's text. Are all the spiders still depicted on the map active, or are some of them dead?

If they've taken damage to kill them (not just drop them to negatives) then I've removed them from the "board."

Anyone here? :)

If Harrow can see the bandage-wrapped creatures, can you place them on the map, please?

Thanks.

Health check: hope all are well. Los Angeles, California here. All schools closed. University closed. Kids at home for 30 days. We are all advised to “socially distance” ourselves (in other words, no friends within 6 feet). Luckily, my wife and I had 3 boys. So a Society legal table! Woot! Stay well, Pathfinders.

-Derek / Mareq

I'm in Washington, south of Seattle. Similar measures in effect here.

Hoping this turns out to be excessive hype and hysteria, but taking common sense precautions anyway.

Barcelona, Spain.

We have been through this for one week already. This is not a normal flu, this is something more. Today the government has raised the Alarm State in the whole country so they can give direct orders to everyone, including private health system, factories and limit everyone movement, because people was taking lightly the measures profiting the extra time to go to bars, parks, beach, etc... which was increasing the spread of the virus.

It is true that for most people this is not going to be harder than a bad flu, but the thing is so incredibly contagious that the hospitals are running quickly out of beds for the serious cases. If you are unlucky enough to develop a pneumonia and the hospitals do not have oxygen available for you because they have 7 cases for each bed available, you are basically f$@+ed off. The only way to avoid thousands of deaths is to make the spread slower.

We did not take seriously enough this threat for a couple of weeks now and we are hardly regretting about it.

If you know old people or people with breathing problems, please ask them to remain home and make sure they are provided with all the stuff they might need without having to get out.

Even if you are young and this is going to be nothing for you, the virus is using your body to spread itself, so please attend the measures strictly too!

Strength and patience while we research the "remove virus" spell!

Remove Virus spell urgently needed!

You’re SO right about the virus using our healthy bodies to spread to unhealthy older bodies. Today’s my birthday and my wife and I decided to cancel some festivities. We’ll be fine. But what about the waiter? The hostess? The person at the table next to us? I could unknowingly spread it. Time for science and logic and civic responsibility to drive our decisions.

They are calling it “social distancing” here. Not sure if they have a word for it Barcelona.

I think I may start the “WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS!” political party. Run for office next election!

Stay healthy!

I'm in Washington, south of Seattle. Similar measures in effect here.

Hoping this turns out to be excessive hype and hysteria, but taking common sense precautions anyway.

Hype and hysteria! I see that, for sure. No water bottles at stores. Why? Do we think the taps will stop working cuz of COVID? Is there a reason I’m not seeing?

The hoarding of toilet paper is the strangest thing here. Store shelves are full of food, but all the TP is gone. If people self-quarantine and run out of food, TP won't be a real problem, will it?

Humans are a goofy lot. Glad I'm an elf.

I think that you are seeing many types of behavior here. These include but are not limited to.

1) People will buy enough supplies to last a couple of weeks to months to have a certain independence from the outside world in case the situation gets much worse. This helps with social distancing and might actually be helpful.

2) Some people are taking advantage of the crisis and stockpiling supplies to resell at an inflated price. Thankfully a lot of the major sites are cracking down on this bad behavior.

3)People see other people buying and stocking up and decide to do the same. Monkey See Monkey Do.

It is a crazy world out there with even crazier people.

I'd like to finish this by the Game Day on the 31st so could we pick up our posts. (me included)

The Denizens of Leng are being truthful as far as Pandora knows.

Placed Oberon and Persephone at the edge of the Ships map. Just waiting for the placement of the bad guys, before selecting their final position.

I put everyone on the main deck on the "bottom" level is that ok with placement? Moving forward later today.

Mareq was thinking of arriving less in a bunch. But, honestly, he and harrow and hubbub are automatically a “bunch.” :). Can I ask that Pandora and Oberon arrive more forward? near the foredeck. The way we’re currently situated, we seem to be arriving in 20-ft Radius Spell Area Formation (tm). I was going to say “Fireball Formation” but that’s seems unlikely on a boat.

Also, can we spread the map out? It is currently misshapen and the squares are, well, NOT squares. :)

And finally, can we see anybody? The elemental has been here two-three rounds longer than we have. Where are the bad guys? And, therefore, where would the air elemental be?