ooc comments are not gonna save you from Haleen making fun of you as a slave owner. ;)
They were aimed at whoever wanted to challenge Tariq's current alignment, or any possible shift to a shadier part of the spectrum.
Nah. Challenging a cleric's good alignment is Lawful Evil behavior. We only do Chaotic Evil here.
I'd like to think of Aith as Chaotic Awesome, but like I posted in-character, even she knows better than to pick a fight with all Katapesh on abolitionist principle, for now.
Though if she ever does get cornered with no way to escape, I am kind of curious to see what the dice would be inclined to cough up if she went out by turning as many reservoir points into wild magic as she can before she gets cut down, which is probably another good reason not to pick a fight while there are innocent bystanders around / folks who aren't crazy enough to let Aith travel with them. :)
Mental note: To not die in a magic eruption keep an innocent bystander strapped to back while being near crazy elf at all times.
I thought a little drama would be fun. If you disagree and it is "frightfully awkward" not only in character, but also ooc, let me know, then I'll drop it.
That's very thoughtful of you to check in, thanks!
So far it's fun, but if it gets too heavy for anyone, likewise, let me know.
For some reason, I keep getting a bit from O Brother, Where Art Thou? in my head, where the heroes meet a dusty ragamuffin who confronts them with, "Are you from the bank? My pa said to shoot men from the bank." :)
"And which sentence is that?"
I walked straight into this one. (facepalm)
We have some down time until Rayhan deciphers the scroll. Please state how you are using this time. Of course there is time for additional shopping trips.
If you have nothing to play there, that's fine too. Please give an RP description of your typical day during this time, so I got an idea about that.
@Antarah
I haven't heard of you for a while. If you have login problems, as a player in another game of mine had for a full month until today: Changing the browser/clearing cookies/changing device would be options to try to solve that.
Yasmeena's making a couple of wands, assuming everyone else involved in on board. A wand of gravity bow for herself, and a wand of cure light wounds for everyone.
She spends the time working on the items chanting and walking in small circles, which is probably kind of annoying for Aithaloessa so she tries to get it done by herself before she goes to work with her on it. Even though her bard magic is arcane, she tends to treat it like it is divine, with prayers and meditation. Also I think she spends most of the process under her Pageant of the Peacock performance so that her Spellcraft is on par with Aithaloessa's. So she might come across to everyone else like a bit of an enigmatic know-it-all while she's working.
I do love the “fake it ‘til you make it” side of the Pageant. It lends itself to all sorts of shenanigans! I can just imagine:
“Pretty sure it’s not supposed to work that way, but alright.”
Tariq shakes Haleen's hand. "Deal."
There we go.
@Aithaloessa
As the resident expert on accidental fires - considering the safety protocols you used to cross check the risks of fire hazards with fireworks, what percentile chance would you expect for causing a fire in the neighborhood?
Uh-oh. Back of the envelope calculation, using old data.
Based solely on a really old public domain article in a back issue of the Classical Journal about fires in ancient Rome, based on reasonably well-documented fires that even we know about, I would peg it at anywhere between 2%-4%?
That's also leaning on the possibly unwarranted assumption that we're far enough away from the more crowded bits of the city that the odds of starting any fire and one big enough to make it into the history books balance out.
Rayhan's villa is by the seaside/cliffs, though, isn't it? So maybe towards the low end of the probability? (Aith would aim the things over water, if she could.)
Still not brilliant odds, I would think, but then Aith's crazy. :)
anywhere between 2%-4%
Then we have to add the "Aith Factor". So yeah I'm probably gonna lose a gold :p
I really don't take Aith to be one to consider the aiming at large bodies of water BEFORE firing the first explosion into the sky. But the dice have spoken. Even Aith's luck with those things isn't that bad.
Fair.
The rest of the party, gesturing desperately at the ocean: "It's right there!"
Aith *scoffs* *adjusts lab coat*: "Why lean on common sense when you can rely on SCIENCE?!?"
XD
@Tariq
Sleeping is no option here. The question is only if you wake early.
Everyone placed on the map.
Hence the sleeping. If you fix the actual time in "early", then at that time Tariq is asleep. When you move it to "too late", then he wakes up :p
That said, I want to state that it was sooooo clear that someone was gonna make an attempt at the scroll that we deserve to perish in painful agony for not being prepared.
I don't think Aith's the sort when she's not in hostile territory / expecting to need to take a watch shift, but if we survive tonight, she might start doing so!
Yes! Please give Haleen more damage :-)
As we haven't heard from Antarah in a while, I'll assume based on this, that he was willing to enchant the rapier for Haleen to human bane.
As you hurry up the stairs you get lost in time and space as this Escher style architecture leaves you confused.
If you check on the map you see that the stories of the building are not properly connected via the stairs. :D
Posting to my pbp games: sorry for the radio silence on my end! Trying to diagnose a dreadfully inconvenient network issue in my apartment – I suspect it’s a router or provider issue, but that’s just a best guess and it’s a terrible thing that I’m the techiest person around (my first instincts would probably do my character proud: “Have you tried hexing it really hard?” :/ ) – so I currently have very spotty access at best, and may not be able to post regularly until I get that sorted, unless I can snatch a moment at the library or the like.
I will try to get something up tonight, if I can.
Aithaloessa shoots the chicken dead.
"Dead" as a final adjective is great, as is that calcified phrase. It reminds me of my favourite grammar book, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, which uses really neat morbid examples and absurd engraving-style illustrations, including, "The rat shot the pizza chef dead." :)
I love that book! I don't own it, but I saw it in a Barnes & Noble back in the day.
I need it.
It once was a paladin in shiny armor. He had big dreams. He would be the protector of the innocent and the hero of his village. But he had a serious handicap: he was an NPC. And as the big adventures are only for PCs where they save the world he could only do the small things.
But he found his niche. He protected the people from rats that came in masses out of the sewers, and they had no chance as he was immune to their filth fever and could heal himself. And so he became the plumbing hero. Whenever there was something so disgusting, no one dared to touch it, our paladin was called.
That career wasn't as fancy as our paladin imagined, but he protected the innocent. He was a hero!
To be fair some rules: We're playing 3.5 Mummy Rot here. On the plus side it doesn't do Cha damage. But Yasmeena got now SR20 against healing magic until at least the curse part is fixed.
Oh, interesting!
Reminder: use downtime to make feckin'Scrolls.
When you prepare remove curse, consider that you have a DC od 20 there too.
Okay... I can prepare 3 3rd level spells. If Remove Disease will go auto, then I'll prepare 2 Remove Curses in case I fail at the check. Of course I can fail at it twice, but huh...
Moar skrauls!
Remove disease can cure all diseases from which the subject is suffering. You must make a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against the DC of each disease affecting the target.
The rules beg to differ. But once the Curse is gone it would at least be possible to patch Yasmeena up for the day. If she fails her save.
Another Plus of the 3.5 rot is, that you don't need to roll successful remove curse AND remove disease within a minute.
You could prepare only remove curse, try if it works, if not prepare another one, and either you get that through, then you prepare remove disease, or another remove curse. Would take 15 min for each try, but keeps the most options open.
Do I need to roll Constitution damage for today?
I already rolled your constitution damage, which was also 2.
Oh, good! Sorry I missed that!
Tariq finds that half rotten ghouls are not very sturdy and fall apart on the first cut.
Looks like it was just when we got to the mummy room, as far as I can tell.
Yeah.
That is unfortunate. For Tamir. And the storytelling, because his spell would have failed immediately. Added him to the map.
@Tariq
That ruins my joke.
Also he is now dying anyway.
Tariq is a well-known party poopper.
Did the tentacle monster apply an AoO all the way to Aith's initial position? From the description, I got that Aith casted the spell and then moved.
The initial position of Aith was directly behind Haleen, which is in the 10 ft reach of the monster. At least this way the fight isn't immediately over again. I don't know what it is - maybe those 3.5 monsters are just not made to face Pathfinder characters. Or I'm just bad at playing them to their full potential.
I don't think an ability doing 1d6 damage at this level is something you can blame to unskilful management, honestly.
So we were hasted as that time and I didn't notice. And now I've found where was it.
I'm not saying it's not my fault, it totally is. However, it would help these old eyes of mine if the casting of buffs such as that would appear in a different, dedicated paragraph for easier noticing. You know, I'm getting old :p
Got it; I'll try to bear that in mind going forward. Yell at me at if I forget. :)
So nice to see your spells really making a difference, Aithaloessa! That pugwampi's curse is nasty when it sticks (as we all remember)!
Aw, shucks. Thanks! I'm always worried about burning through my characters' spells too quickly, and this dungeon's kind of exacerbated things with just how many Will saves I've failed to take me out of fights before a good opportunity presents itself.
I imagine Aith will still be wide-eyed and on the edge of hyperventilating until we find the scroll again and a place she can take a bath that's not the result of being paralyzed by some freaky monster and keeling over into the briny deep. :)
A party where no one prepared prestidigitation or create water to be prepared for such occasions is either barbaric or pathetic. ;)
After this experience Haleen will buy some cloth, that can do prestidigitation three times a day or something.
I have to say, watching the Jackal suffer as we once did with the pugwampi's curse was a dark pleasure.