GM Losonti's Wrath of the Righteous (Inactive)

Game Master Losonti

No worries Lozonti. We can wait. Let us know if there's any update.

Take your time. Real life comes first.

Sending good vibes your way Losonti....

Hey folks, apologies again. I've been having a rough couple weeks IRL, but I'm good to go now. Thanks for your patience.

Would you like to play through this fight or fast forward to the foregone conclusion and move on?

Welcome back, Losonti! If it's a foregone conclusion, I don't mind skipping ahead to things that you and others might find more interesting. Clearing the rest of the garrison might be tedious now that we've had the big fight already. I would be interested to see how all of us who follow Iomedae deal with the things that have been defiled, but that's a more of a character note rather than something that needs a lot of back and forth. :)

Fine with fast forwarding.

Roger, roger; victor, victor

Glad you solved your issue GM. Sending good vibes from Portugal.

Also, I'm ok with skipping ahead. As Benedic said, the big fight is behind us, so the clean up has lesser stakes.

Yeah totally works out for me skipping ahead.

Great to have you back!

Was hoping to 'kick the tires' but I'm also fine with bypassing this battle. Figured it would take a bunch of bad rolls to last more than 2-3 rounds!

Yeah, my plan was to give you another fight where you could cut loose with your new powers on some poor schmucks but the momentum fell apart. I'll fast forward us tonight.

So, things have been even more hectic than I anticipated; I'm sorry for the extended silence. I'm over the hump now and hope to have posts up in all my games tomorrow. I might still be slow to post until the 27th or so, but I should be able to post some at least.

No worries, Greta. You're good!

Caliban or Selann should grab the ring of protection. They need the most help with AC and are solidly 2nd line of defense.

Caliban then? He's more into the direct melee than I am. Unless he already has a deflection bonus?

Caliban doesn’t have any magic defense items yet, but we’ll be fixing that hopefully. I’ll take the ring for now

Greta will certainly be interested in getting a ring of protection at some point, but for now has no objection to one of the squishier PCs taking it. Currently, her two biggest priorities are trading her chainshirt in for a mithril breastplate and upgrading her hammer (which she can do herself in one day, once she can afford it).

Also, I know (now) that the wardstone shards are actual magic items, but I'd still really like mine to be embedded in my hammer, if that's okay? I think it provides a really cool explanation for it becoming mythic with me, and would look really cool. Also, bane [evil outsider] will be the next enchant I add to it, so there's a tie-in there too.

Yeah, that's fine. Just make sure to note in advance when you'd like to activate it.

Ideally, I’m hoping not to activate it. If we get in a pinch I’ll let you know that I want/need to use it, but I’m hoping to add bane pretty soon- all I need is 8 hours and 3,000g (less if you’ll let me count the value of the shard as part of the material cost).

Caliban doesn’t have any magic defense items yet, but we’ll be fixing that hopefully. I’ll take the ring for now

All yours buddy. Loot is added. I'm going through to see if there are any obvious upgrades people need.

Any chance I can start earmarking to sell? I think we all might have some purchases in mind.

Unfortunately, no. As a minor artifact, the shard doesn't actually have a price.

Direct upgrades
+1 breastplate - Massielo; Greta, Junior, or Tristan could benefit from this but Greta already has great AC and Tristan doesn't want to lose movement from medium armor.
Mwk heavy steel shield and +1 blinding heavy steel shield - Benedic and Tristan; Junior and Massielo could also benefit
Mwk cold iron longsword - Tristan
Mwk composite longbow - Junior
+1 longsword - Tristan should switch out his +1 mace for this and then we sell the mace?
Cold iron crossbow bolts - Massielo and Selann
Cold iron arrows - Junior
+1 bolts and +1 flaming bolts - Selann and Massielo should split these

Caliban could grab a mwk cold iron longsword but I assume he'll be using his black blade exclusively. Lots of us don't have ranged weapons so consider claiming one and possibly all these weird arrows we have.

I’d suggest keeping the wand of daylight around, who knows what we’ll be up against next and whatever monster dropping darkness globes on us would be awful. Caliban will pass on the gear since nothing is of real benefit as outlined above.

For selling, i think that’s all good to go.

Tristan will happily switch out +1 mace for +1 longsword!

Tristan does currently have a heavy shield, but he wouldn't be upset if he could trade it for either of Mwk heavy steel shield and +1 blinding heavy steel shield?

None of the weapons were listed as small size. Nothing for me at this time. I'm saving gold for later when I can enchant my ring.

Bahahaha!

Irabeth: here, have this awesome sword that I feel bad keeping
Tristan: *drooling at sweet, sweet magic sword*
Junior: naw, if you don't want it give it to that rich guy who doesn't want to fight at all

She shouldn't feel bad about keeping it! Which is what Junior was getting at.

Anyway the lawful thing to do is give restitution to the guy who got hurt here, which was Horgus. He was the one out the money, not Irabeth. She got what she wanted, which is why she's feeling guilty for keeping it.

Lol, Tristan won't mind.

Did you just give away Tristan's new +1 longsword? Hmm....Tristan is NG, but willing to go a bit down the Alignment ladder....

Nope I'm giving away Irabeth's +1 outsider bane longsword.

Well, the breastplate is no doubt an upgrade, as is the shield. But I also think I'll be taking one of the longspears. Reach is a great benefit for me (and better defense than AC).

The ranged stuff I can use, but my Dex is +0, so it's good if it's the only option.

I'm all for selling as much as possible. I can enchant my own weapon now as long as I have the money to do it, and my next armor upgrade (mithril breastplate) is gonna be pricey.

Tristan, as an Inquisitor, has access to Bane already. Benedic or Caliban?

I'm a black blade magus, so I don't need it, since I've got my intelligent sword.

Benedic will probably exclusively use Radiance from now on.

Yeah, Radiance might be slightly more advantageous. But consider that Tristan has limited rounds of bane each day, and using this sword would mean he wouldn't need to use them vs evil outsiders.

To sum up:

Tristan takes the +1 longsword and the group sells his +1 mace for 1156gp
Tristan since you piped up you get the +1 blinding heavy steel shield Benedic can take the mwk one.
Massielo takes the +1 breastplate and a mwk cold iron longspear.

I got all these changes up on the loot sheet.

We sell everything I listed above sans the wand of daylight and added all the other weapons to the sell list. Total gold acquired from selling 9116.175 gp

Party split after loot selling and distributing money
10 PP
2907 GP
60 SP
1 CP a lucky penny for everyone.

I have these numbers added into your sheet already.

Selling the +1 longsword, but rather than distributing the funds, are there any purchases people want to make but are shy of affording?

It looks like Junior has Craft Magic Arms and Armor. Does that mean that he can/will enchant armor for us? If so, Benedic will enchant his plate armor to +2 (2,150 gp) and his light shield to +1 (650 gp). Also, if he can afford it and it's possible, he'd like to add an Iomedan reliquary to his shield (+250 gp, needs an NPC with the Craft Reliquary Arms and Shields feat).

Caliban needs protection in the worst way, I'm wondering if he can purchase a mithril chain shirt either at a +1 or also have Junior enchant it?

Lol, I see fixing ma's greatsword will have to wait. Yeah I'll get a list going for requests and hopefully we get some downtime or long travel times soon.

Wow why is craft reliquary separate feat?

I have no idea, but it seems to me like something for which a crusading army might have a specialist. It's pretty nice, basically turning a shield into both a holy symbol and an altar, and it's not very expensive.

*casually sneaks back in after 27 minutes to fix a typo*

I'm short on buying a mithril breastplate, but (with my scale) I'm not really hurting for a better AC right now, I just have to decide if I want to save up for the breastplate or enchant my hammer right away (the latter is probably going to win out).

@Junior- look how popular you are now! I just hope you weren't planning on having any fun any time soon because it looks like you're out of free time for the foreseeable future, lol.

Lol...

Irabeth considers Junior's question for a moment before answering. "My father would want his blade to be used to protect the innocent and to destroy evil. After what happened upstairs, I have no illusions about which of us is more likely to strike the decisive blow in this war."

"Oh, I'm flattered," Greta answers the commander, "but this hammer was my father's and now I seem to have some special bond with it... I think I'll have to keep using it... but I'm sure Tristan would do fine with your sword..."

I was doing some digging this morning through Magus - and I am going to wait until next level when I can wear medium armor for any upgrades, since it is available at level 7, and mithril breastplates seem like the rage then.

Wand of shield in the mean time?

Wand of shield in the mean time?

Yeah might have to do for now, doesn't make sense to invest heavily in light armor only to unlock medium next level to me.

Mithril breastplate is light armor, if spell failure is what you're worried about... it still requires medium armor proficiecy, which you don't have yet, but it's armor check penalty is only -1 so it wouldn't be that big of an attack roll penalty for the next level if you decided to buy it early. Also, I call dibs on Caliban's mithril breastplate when he finds something better.