GM Foxy's 2nd Legacy of Fire

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

Yes. Just that you have to do your magic dance every time, now with a +2 bonus.

A minor note for future reference, you cannot take 10 or 20 with UMD. Take 10 because it says so in the skill, and take 20 because there are potential negative consequences for every try (you cannot try again for 24 hrs if you roll a natural 1).

Also, note to Heshan, Roryx (and swiper) - y'all got channeled at,
https://paizo.com/campaigns/v5748p75ivl42/gameplay&page=79#3921

Thx Omari ;)

I am fine with it. Foxy just found a way to move us forward. Personally, I would have just given the information on how this works with a K. arcana or engineering check to help us interpret the cryptic Terran message. The alternative was a days diversion to find some legend lore or similar magic to find out how to continue the adventure rails but our GM fortunately spared us the pain.

Also notice that you only have negative consequences on UMD if you get a natural 1 AND you fail the check. So, once you do not fail with a 1 you can retry without risks until success.

Are there other positions we can look from Foxy?

Otherwise I think we are in a dead end, I propose we retreat to the garden to rest, then go back up and do the other stuff Omari pointed out here while we wait for more signs of Rokova.

You can walk into the treassure. I'm sure walking around will give you different perspectives.

My first reaction would be to hash and/or burn the green stuff, but I want to see if Roryx knowledge roll gives us some clue on what are we dealing with exactly and how to deal with it better.

The DC of that will save is no joke :P

Joking around:
G:Master, how would you like to hide the path from intruders?
M:I want it hidden with an illusion of great riches!
G:As you WISH*, master!

*Wish, School universal; Level sorcerer/wizard 9; Bloodline arcane 9, div 9, djinni 9, draconic 9, efreeti 9

Ok, so now that we discovered the BBEG is a level 54 how else wants to follow Ohrmizd forward? XD

Lesser Restoration is also an option to speed up the process of restoring the ability damage.

What is this about the Templars of the Five Winds? Was this janni Kardswann? I though he was just an inconsequential servant of a random princess. And what is this thing about a host? Is that the reason Manuun looks always that blue? xD

I'm not sure how far Hashan is restored. Omari's care doubles the healing. Which is then 2 points in 8h. But Resting a whole day only doubles that which would be 4 points out of 6, if I'm not mistaken.

Roryx, incorporeals use touch attacks, so the shield spell will not help you here I think. Just in case you want to reconsider your action at the light of the knowledge insight! ;)

Thanks Ohrmizd, but Roryx probably does not know that :P

So I will stick with his modus operandi - not like I have many alternatives anyway. Would rather not spend Mirror Image just yet...

EDIT: I just remembered that Roryx can now fly, up to 5 minutes per day. He could carry some of us without touching the stepping stones, but not Khedron I believe.

Heshan's one level away from that precious fly spell.

Also, is everyone clear from fireball range if I hit the creature?

FYI
Icorporeal: Full damage from force. Half damage from magic fire after possibly halving it again with a reflex save.

The fireball would also kill the green slime too though, isn't it?

Yes. In the area of the fireball. Which isn't much in comparison to the size of the cave. But if your plan was to kill the slime in sight now, then go for it.

Perhaps blast Ohrmizd with a Fireball? He has a Ring of Fire Resistance after all :D

I actually love the picture of the Sarenrae's faithful emerging alive of a burst of flames :)

@Roryx
Friendly reminder: There was a call for a Fort save for most of the party (including familiars). Of course you don't need to save and can accept the 2 Con damage instead.

Apologies Foxy, I completely forgot the Fort Saves...

Are you by chance from Canada?

I am not - I am in Europe. Why do you ask? :D

You apologize a lot and Canadians are known for that.

Canada

Nope, not Canadian. Just my Mom and Dad did a great job bringing me up is all ;)

I thought I was shooting at red, not yellow...

My bad.

Ohmmmmmm... ok xD

Can we have an updated map with positioning and so to try build up some kind of tactical good calls Foxy?

Map added. The Kraken is not to scale, but its reach is enough for the whole room.

I don't like our odds against this. Even worse that he goes before most of us.

Holy s#%@! It made 8 attacks with grab! :O

Now, I guess it is too late to follow Ohrmizd advise and seal the beast back.

I will wait to see if that beast is grabbing with just one tentacle (with the -20) or fully grappling with all its body and thus grappled himself and unable to take AoOs.

Thanks to Omari's explanation of the difference between grapple and grab, the beast can now grab with all tentacles. Also, I just noticed, that I only used 8 of ten tentacles. Happy Day of the Tentacle!

@ foxy : Ok, I have put a red box on the map where I think the beasts main body is considered to be, please confirm this. It has demonstrated 15' of reach, as it has not attacked Ohrmizd in his initial position... This is important as I need to figure out my position so as not to eat an AoO for every shot I take... Finally, after your comments above, I assume you plan on rolling the 2 more tentacle attacks, and all the grab attempts?

Only next round will the remaining tentacles come into action. I'll search for an appropriate monster representation.

Until then we can go with the square. It is indeed 10ft in size, but as I told it can reach everywhere in the room with the tentacles. It's ultimate reach you can try out by retreating. I also centered it, position is set.

Ok, decoration kraken removed and with actual kraken in correct size replaced.

Just want to point out Heshan had not acted yet, thus he has 2 rounds of actions (as if that could save us :P).

We are still in the first round, I only pulled Roryx up from the next round.

Also I'm too lazy to check ten attacks and then see if it hits and add a grab then, so the grabs only apply if the preceding attack was a hit.

If you just pulled up Roryx in the initiative, then it has not been yet the second round of the Kraken and he should have not taken any attack, isn't it? :)

As the Kraken took a round, I understood we were back to us. But I might be confused and missing something else.

About pasting the grabs and damage with all the attacks, totally understandable, and I think it is a common practice in the boards for GMs. It would be useful to have some adjudication on what are the results of the attacks though (not everyone is as skillful in understanding what is happening to his PC from just a dice roll, and most players are bad at keeping track of their character status), despite I know that is a tone of effort (gathering and checking ACs and other defensive effects from PCs, etc.). Most GMs wrap up with some descriptive text, others write a line telling how much damage takes whom in a given round, others keep a status track with the current HP of the PCs, and some others even Bold the dice results that are successful for a visual cue.

So all of those were Attacks of Opportunity? :O

But isn't your maximum number of attacks of opportunity limited by your Dex bonus?

@ Foxy - you need to do a crit confirm against Orhmizd, the 2nd tentacle...

When I posted the 20 was on the Grab and the Bite was the 2. I think she edited to add the Reflex save on top or something.

And something went wrong with the Initiative order too. Either Heshan and Roryx previous turn was skipped or the Kraken had a free extra turn of attacks.

I think those were all AoOs Ohrmizd.

Not to blame you Omari, but Foxy rarely gives us any more information than "is magic", "is evil" etc. and I start to think she enjoys the most the more blindly we take decisions even if they endanger derailing the AP main plot.

Well lets go for it I would say.

I get the impression that Foxy thinks this bit is done, so I guess we mosey along.

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You do skyrim? This grave is like the treasure chest at the left exit after the boss fight.

I do not know about Skyrim but I am definitely taking the chainmail if no one else wants it.

Which leaves Kardswan mwk breastplate available for selling.

I am also putting my name on the hat for that chainmail.

I am still 2 levels away from being able to use Medium armor, which makes mithril chainmail a sweet fit :P

I'll let you gents fight over the chainmail, despite the fact I could use the AC as well. The periapt of wisdom however, I am claiming!

Ok, take the chainmail then, the ability to cast without failure is important for Roryx and ranger gives him the required medium armor proficiency, I do not think we will find similar armors.

So, shall we assume we reach the garden and manage to get a full rest Foxy?

If so, I propose we go up and try to deal with the priests we saw before.

Do we have to heal anyone still?

You moved to the garden, but no one joined on that, so I waited. I'm fine with reaching the garden.