GM Foxy's 2nd Legacy of Fire

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

Hmm I think a Battle Axe would have looked hilarious while dragging Manuun around the battlefield.

Does anyone have the swift looting feat?

Quick Looting
You can loot creatures faster than most.

Normal: Without this feat, you need a move action to pick up an item and the times given for removing armor in the armor chapter.

You can have all their gear and get away in time.

Nope. I guess we will have to accept just whatever equipment we manage to scavenge.

Do you want us to post assuming we spot Roryx and Omari lurking at the monastery entrance and introduce ourselves to our new 'potential' friends?

I want the two to arrive while you're away and introduce themself to the guards first.

I'll give you a strong hint about when you come back to the monastery.

I have taken the time to update the Loot Sheet and the Quest Log

I have also taken the time to update Manuun stats to the new distribution.

Thanks for all the help there.

" Carries a scimitar everywhere - I figure he sleeps with it."

You sleep with your scimitar? What does Rombard make of this? Anyway we are learning lots of new things about you.

Omari the Landless wrote:

" Carries a scimitar everywhere - I figure he sleeps with it."

You sleep with your scimitar? What does Rombard make of this? Anyway we are learning lots of new things about you.

Yes, I was making stuff up as part of the description. Could have been worse...

PS Manuun something is wrong with the URL closures in the links in your character profile fields.

Thanks for the warning. fixed that.

Worse risk can be minimized. Always use protection at bed.

Of course, Ohrmizd sleeps with his scimitar.

When you sleep with your scimitar in bed, who wears the protection - you or the scimitar?

So you consider it safe to sleep next to a 36" blade? :D

Ohrmizd and his scimitar wear each other for protection.

He misses his magical scimitar though, he did not have the opportunity to ever sleep with her. She sure regrets the missed opportunity to lay in bed with such a steezy pal too.

The known creatures and their locations and status is in the quest log

Oh, yes, Ohrmizd explanations were based mainly in your quest log, the help is invaluable to track where are we and what's left through the days and weeks!

I knew, I was just pointing it out to the newcomers.

Yep, thank you for that Manuum - I gotta say that bookkeeping is VERY useful ;)

@Foxy Quickpaws : What's the check to know that Harpy song is a sonic effect, or is that considered general knowledge (as the party has been exposed to it)?

The old party for sure would know that the song had that effect. That Muffling her would help is a good guess, but to know for sure, Know(Arcana), and a pretty good roll for that.

For the others the Harpy is DC14 Knowledge(Nature)

Which Knowledge should I roll if I want to read the book to find out anything about the genie? Apart from the few tidibits you told us already.

You've taken your time reading the book, so here is the content summary:

Do we have enough time to get Heshan a full 8 hours of sleep to refresh his spells and still arrive in Kelmarane during the night?

Omari, won't you get in trouble with Erastil for sacrificing a live animal? Or force feeding it ground glass? Eeeesh man... Isn't that a bit too much?

The idea bothers me a bit :P

That is why I was proposing to just take the stuff and put it inside the food the gnolls bring.

I was going to ask about it in-character but I forgot in my last post.

Well I if it makes things any easier, are we sure there is still goatfeeding going on?

The Peryton has left, and I am not sure if the goatman ever has been fed by the gnolls. Also we might still find poison in the harpy laboratory.

I don't think my plan would bother Erastil. He is not against killing animals for a purpose. He's a god of small communities, farmers, and hunters/trappers. If it tortured the goat, he probably would be, but ground glass in your food won't cause you pain - your intestines don't have the same nerves as your skin - but you die from internal bleeding from a bunch of miniature cuts to the many blood vessels there.

Come on Omari... Be honest man... You think poisoning or force feeding ground glass to an animal is something Erastil would be ok with, depending on the purpose?

What's the rulebook entry for ground glass?

With nothing found, some probably far to strong suggestions:
Groundglass (ingested)
DC15 Fort Save.
Onset 1min
Frequency 1/10min for 1hour
1Con Dmg
Cure 2 consecutive saves.

And that is not taking into account, that the beast might notice, that the food is spiked. All in all, that will be an underwhelming result.

Come on Omari... Be honest man... You think poisoning or force feeding ground glass to an animal is something Erastil would be ok with, depending on the purpose?

Real world, yeah. He's a god of farmers and hunters in a "Medieval" setting. There are implications to that.

What I've described is pretty much how hunting crocodiles is done before guns. People have been baiting predators with staked goats for a long time. Look at the slaughters of buffalo jumps or beater and drum hunts... It's gotten better with modern technology and the science of ecology, but humans put a lot of pressure on the local wildlife.

Farmers take care of their animals, but they still do harsh harsh things man. Every year they slaughter herd down in the fall. They castrate steers by knotting a rubber band around their balls (this used to be wire before rubber bands...). They don't feed cats, ever, because it keeps them on their toes WRT mouse catching. They do everything they can to kill pests - poisons, traps, whatever.

What's the rulebook entry for ground glass?

With nothing found, some probably far to strong suggestions:
Groundglass (ingested)
DC15 Fort Save.
Onset 1min
Frequency 1/10min for 1hour
1Con Dmg
Cure 2 consecutive saves.

And that is not taking into account, that the beast might notice, that the food is spiked. All in all, that will be an underwhelming result.

I am not aware of any rulebook entry for ground glass. Real world it will kill you stone dead - over several days - but real world poisons tend to be a lot more effective than in PF...

Real world people are a lot more squishy than PF monsters.

Another thing, as it comes up every second day in gameplay: In a real world it would totally make sense, that Garavel and the crew support you.

BUT: “Howl of the Carrion King” is a Pathfinder Adventure Path scenario designed for four 1st-level characters.

As always, for a first level adventure, the NPCs could do the job without you and they could do it better. So please do me a favor and treat Father Zastoran as a merchant for low level magical stuff, that you have to pay for and Garavel simply as your quest giver.

Yup, is good to set the expectations, thanks!

So, summing up a bit:

Thanks for the summary Ohrmizd!

I think we should rest for Heshan to recover - what is the downside?

In the discussion about the goat manuun is for option 2.

The other options are stated correctly.

Financially we would be able to afford the scroll and a light silver weapon.

If there is no silver weapon available or we decide against the scroll, Manuun would like to buy Sorayas Shortbow and arrows from the remaining money. (34 gp)

@ Foxy, is this okay?

If there is no silver weapon available or we decide against the scroll, Manuun would like to buy Sorayas Shortbow and arrows from the remaining money. (34 gp)

@ Foxy, is this okay?

Soraya would for sure lend you the bow for free, until you find one of your own.

I'm fine with option 2 (the food the gnolls are bringing) for the ground glass maneuver. It's not like Omari has ever done it himself before - he was kidnapped as a 13 year old acolyte, not a experienced crocodile hunter.

Also, if we rest, I can do some healing on top of what Father Z's stuff so we will be at full (up to 4 CLW, and 3d6 channelling). I can also throw around mending (cantrip) to fix broken equipment if there is any. Also, I can use Heal to provide long term care, for example, to speed healing of ability damage (Orhmzid are you still down con?).

Father Zastoran topped our hp. Ohrmizd Con was recovered during his prison rest.

The mending is welcomed to repair Ohrmizd's shattered heavy shield.

I will post a push soon, assuming all those decisions and putting us towards the harpy's lair.

Still unsure if we should spend our little gold on buying the scroll of silence.

Outline of house added to the desert map. Battle participants placed.

So lets try out our new toys .. aeh compatriots.

Note that I have the deadeye bowman trait, so I ignore 1 person's worth of soft cover penalties.

This is something else than the penalty for firing into melee, correct?

How does this work? Ic ould not find a rule concerning this. For instance in the current situation Undrella is not part of any melee, but would I still incur any penalties for the fact that Ohrmizd and now a gnoll are in the way.

Soft Cover

Creatures, even your enemies, can provide you with cover against ranged attacks, giving you a +4 bonus to AC. However, such soft cover provides no bonus on Reflex saves, nor does soft cover allow you to make a Stealth check.

Yes, it even applies to reach weapons.

It requires Improved Precise Shot to ignore this penalty, but followers of Erastil has access to the Deadeye trait to ignore 1 creature soft cover, like Omari already explained.

The dice be crazy at times. We're all set this time around.

Don't talk too soon :P

Its much more fun to fail if you talked yourself up beforehand.

Do you guys think I should go ahead with blasting her?

She does not seem a heavy hitter, you could probably risk it. But she is a caster = good Will save, so maybe better to use a ray.

Guys I am unable to log into Paizo on my PC... it seems only the phone session which is already running works. But phone posting is horrible, so... I will wait until the Paizo site is working properly.