GM PDK'S PFS RPG 'TOMB OF THE IRON MEDUSA' (Inactive)

Game Master Purple Dragon Knight

Just a heads up: for the next two weeks I'll have a spotty connection and won't be able to do lengthy posts or any amount of map handling.

Therefore, let us put this game on pause until August 13. After that things will go back to normal.

Thank you for your understanding!

Thanks for the heads up.

No problem .. August is a bad month for me anyway- lots going on -so see you all on the 13th!

Sounds good. Be safe!

Have fun con goers. We'll see you in a couple weeks.

Have a good two weeks everyone!

Got hit by the wind storm in Iowa. No power, no internet, almost no cell. Could be 2-5 days. I'll post as I can.

Got hit by the wind storm in Iowa. No power, no internet, almost no cell. Could be 2-5 days. I'll post as I can.

Ouch! Best of luck to you and yours. Stay safe.

Oh my, Thrag! That's some wild weather!... I'm just glad you're okay... come back when you can. Stay safe.

Power is back which means wifi is back. Cell service is better, but not fully reliable

I'm back! I should be able to post at some point this weekend. I'll be fast forwarding through some parts of this as this is a pretty tough dungeon crawl but you've nailed most of the 'boss' encounters. The rest is walls of text and investigative stuff, so stay on your toes and alert from a storytelling / plot perspective!!

PS: the remaining fights would pretty much be a cakewalk for your party so would you mind I walk your group through the ones I deem to be trivial for your characters?

Thats fine with me, as long as we get a sentence or two of the party's dispatching of them with default tactics.

what Mal said... but I'm fine with it...

Yeah... you guys are what I'd call 'uber'. The fiendish medusa being the linear 'end boss', I made sure to play up the terrain and her various tricks, but I'm not about to do this with run of the mill goons and most of what's left in these halls...

Does that mean we didn't do things in order? lol, when do Pathfinders ever follow the script if there's an option?

I'm ok with fast forwarding.

Didn't feel so uber with the whip ghost.

LOL - yeah that whip ghost - I thought that was one of the first mooks we encountered and was worried that was the 'easy' fight.

I'm ok with fast forwarding.

Didn't feel so uber with the whip ghost.

Whip ghost, shining children and fiendish medusa were the 'meat and potatoes' of this scenario. The rest is salad.

I'm not sure but I think the whip ghost seemed like the toughest thing... though the shining children were pretty tough too... in comparison, the medusa was a cakewalk, lol.

so what now, exactly? just searching for the sword, avoiding traps and taking out annoying mobs?

I'm also fine with fast forwarding.

Ok I'll come up with a post soon. Thank you for your patience. Slowly getting out of vacation mode... :P

sorry I posted under the wrong Alias

sorry for being slow... had surgery yesterday and still recovering.

Hope you heal quickly! Feel better soon.

In that case Mal’s save and attack are two higher.

70 damage from 3 attacks (but DR/good won't apply) so 70 damage from Mal.

DC 20 fort save or stunned as well

Hope you heal quickly! Feel better soon.

Yes WotC: please take care and heal fast!

Actually, I'm fine now... all recovered, just a few new scars, lol... I'm just overwhelmed with online conventions... trying my best to keep up with everything... but for now, taking a backseat on running games, as prepping the roll20 tables takes some time (I'm learning, and getting better and faster at it). Having issues with the air quality here though.. our skies are filled with ash - looks like a slightly orange marine layer - but it's all ash and smoke, and the fires are nowhere near us! I really feel bad for the folks closer to the fires. My friends and I have been making quilts for folks who've lost everything in the fires... they are small comfort right now in this heat, but hopefully they will be needed this winter.

Stay safe and healthy! Thanks for making quilts; sounds like a great thing to do.

I grew up in the pacific northwest, and I don't recall forest fires much. These past few years, we've seen extensive fires. I really hope that things get better, but it doesn't seem likely. Doing anything to help seems like a great idea!

so what's going on? it's been a while since there's been a post or update here. Hope everyone is well and safe.

Dora tried to get everyone to hold hands and sing camp songs, but they ignored her. :)

All is well on the home front. Sounds like some of the fires have diminished as well.

Ooh ah banana banana
Ooh ah banana banana
Ooh ah banana banana

just waiting for the next step

Your chant worked! I shall resume my GMing duties tomorrow! lol

LOL... good to hear from you, PDK... glad you're okay.

Yes, it's just hard to resume high level games with all their associated inertia after one comes back from vacation... :)

ah... I didn't realize you were on vacation... hope it was a good one.

Glad it was vacation and not some ailment. :)

Mall’s sense motive got nothing, and the knowledge (and general lack of humans in the necropolis) suggests nothing good. Any thoughts on what we should do? They seem to mostly be ignoring us, beyond asking to go to the surface.

Correct.

I’m deeply suspicious but I don’t have any solutions. Anyone else?

I'm not there yet... lol... but I am suspicious too just because they are here... and here is not a good place. I've got nothing firm beyond that.

Glaube said to incapacitate but I can’t see Mal attacking a confused person without overly hostile intentions, and my sense motor didn’t pick up on that.

My first thought was to try a protection from evil spell incase she is possessed, but Mal doesn’t have that spell and she just took a ThragHammer, so I’m guessing we’re going into initiative.

I need to buy more scrolls.

Mal deals magic, piercing damage with his +3 unarmed strike.

A dominated Thrag is not good. I am definitely getting scrolls of protection from evil after this adventure, maybe even preparing the spell...

If anyone can do something about that, I highly suggest doing so before we find out how PDK's bad guys feel when Thrag is in full attack range.

As long as they stay out of the locked cabinets, drawers and chests, they should be safe until we can get them out of here)

This is what I thought of as you said that.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions about the mysteriously split party?

I'm moving this along tomorrow night for those who have teleported out; they will be contacted privately. So for those who are still in the Tomb, you have Monday to try things out. I recommend you go back and read the room descriptions. There may be hints in there. Ttyl.

Kel will be teleporting back... I will let you know where to (so as not to influence the actions of others) when you let me know when.