A Tiny Part Of The Dimension Wars (Interdimensional Spy Follies

Game Master GM Hansj

The dhampir will begin recasting buffs once the team decides on the time table of the ambush.

Minna can you set the room up with traps or such to better catch them? I can cast an illusion of the current room over any of your alterations.

The Sage then looks at ths group.
Are we already in the room once they appear? My illusion could also be laid over whomever is in room. You just need to stay still until the opportune moment.

She says to the hive mind.

::"Yes I remember perfectly what you said, I am unable to forget, I was made that way. I said what I said because there were just some employed inconsistencies with actions vs words. Now that you have highlighted what that is, You becoming a little numb to death. I understand what you mean more. But with death, I have a slightly different perspective on killing and you all. My psionic empathy means I 'FEEL' what those I kill feel as they die, feel my actions on them. Even when I hate them, I feel their pain and sorrow and I can never forget it, even if I wanted too."::

She gets ready and lets her ninit swarm out. In planting her follow AIs into clumps of it as they formed her drones.

You would have to position yourselves in a different room from where the Narsod appears. You could dimension-dooring in and only then triggering the lock - but that would have a good chance of having Narsod jumping away. Minna, could set up locks in rooms that could be trigger but delayed until after the lock activated.

Terexaltherin hesitates a moment, then says, Gift, maybe when we have time to relax we can discuss this more.

He turns his attention back to the group. I think it's more important to lock down the Temple as soon as Narsod appears. Though we'll have to not do it when he's too close to a physical exit. That could be a problem if he shows up on the opposite side of the Temple... maybe we need to not spring until he shows up closer to us. And we'll probably have to worry about the others in the Temple here, too. It's going to be ugly... but less ugly than a civil war.

So, the party lurks and sets some traps. The first time Narsod appears he's far away but second time, he appears to two disciplines across the hall from you, Minna signals, Terex activates shimmer and the party moves forward to the hall as Minna web-trap goes off. As the party then continues (invisibly) to the door of the other chamber, it's thrown open and Narsod, from within shouts, "All disciples stand back, all Erolians stand back, I surrender to whoever now approaches. Slay me if you wish and my highest disciples can watch my martyrdom. Or we can bargain. What you want?"

You can see more disciples will gather as Narsod hobbles forward towards the main central chamber. (I'm assuming everyone is invisible or greater-invisible one way or another. Armaund can cast the spell if needsed). Clearly, Narsod is betting his death as martyr could make things harder for you.

Terex is slightly taken aback by this reaction, but quickly starts thinking things through. He's playing for time, but it's leaving an opening, he informs the rest of the group. He wants to stall us until reinforcements come, but if we can expose his fraud, we may be able to destroy his support base and neutralize him without violence.

The little dragon turns his telepathy to Narsod and his assembled followers. Interesting that you immediately seek to bargain, Narsod, he 'says', Though perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. After all, a man who would sell his opponents to devils would know all about bargains, wouldn't he? I wonder if your 'highest disciples' got a cut of the profits from that? Or did you keep it all to yourself?

He knows there's a good chance some of these people are in on the con, but Terex is as much fishing for reactions here as expecting to change minds. I wonder if you've told them the truth about the Crystalit--how you bargained with it to provide the psychic power you needed to fake redemption? Or the truth of how your 'angels' are mercenaries purchased from an air-aligned plane with bits of soul essence you've stolen from your flock? Or the truth about how you've lost the Crystalit, and so you need to sell some of that essence to buy yourself a new source of power for your con?

He pauses for dramatic effect, then finishes, And I wonder if you've told them about your true master? In the end, you could say that's what we want... the truth, and for everyone to know it.

Diplomacy?: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28

In the time they had had to set up this Gift had been working on a look.
Using everyman and her Ninir swarm to make herself an outer shell, a body extension, this was no illusion this a Gift in a new form, this was a gift just as real as any being.

Then on hearing Terex communicate Gift dropped her invisibility.

To give his words an owner a focus to shock and awe the congregation.

Hovering in the room now was a massive woman, golden wings, and a flaming sword in hand, Heaven's accusation made manifest. Her mind and body are protected by powers from another realm. A being from another plane. Her power is like a forcefield around here. which it literally is being psionic

Gift and Techno Angel form

Her mouth did not move but all there could hear was her in their minds.
As Terex accused him, gift lifted her flaming blade and pointed it at him. And between them came into being images of the ones sold to Devils, the living and the dead, speaking of his crimes.

Kn (Religion) taken 10+20 with Hexqils help to know just how to show his deeds as the house of an apostae. Terex is right this man has to be discredited and shamed in the faith, Shame! Shame! Shame!

Note: Gift dose not speak to the congregation, being in the hive mind she is acting as an avatar of Terex's words
Diplomacy 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (7) + 19 = 26

Arlo looks up at the floating angelic android, pride beaming from his face.

:;"Come on Dad, you're a half-god, where do you think I get it from, now come on, show them, show them what a good god looks like. Mum said when you wanted to you can be truly inspiring"::

Arlo nods and stands firm, drawing his holy longsword loudly.
"Forged by the god of my people, this sword has destroyed a destroyer of worlds. It's very existence is an asthenia to all evil beings. And I make sure it strikes HARD!"
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Rollo frowns. No one most likely can see the dhampir frowning. He kicks Arlo. The Sage becomes visible.
My bad, Arlo. Nervous tick.

Rollo then bows to all those in attendance.
Yes. Well. This is a bit awkward. You see your leader here has broken countless interplanetary laws. We have come to arrest him. Now, we were preparing for a bit of resistance.

The dhampir looks around at those gathering.
We prefer to talk out our differences. Now, can we perhaps have a table, some chairs and a nice red?

Diplomacy (Cha): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (12) + 19 = 31

Blue is slow to react definitely not because he's staring at Gift, no sir. Besides, he's invisible. No one saw that. How many beautiful forms does she have? He thinks as he moves to a flanking position, ready to strike Narsod or his associates from concealment if it becomes necessary. Belatedly, he thinks Glad I didn't broadcast that...

Armaund become visible along with Arlo and Rollo (in human form as usual).

Narsod sits, still partly bound-up by Minna's rope. He nods, with an expression of humility. "These false accusations are as I foresaw, part of my trials. I may die or suffer endless torment but do not interfere. If I die continue, your work. Use this moment to strengthen your faith. I may die but Good God is unstoppable."

At the same time, or moments afterward, he send the telepathic message to the visible party members, ::"I quite willing to bargain. I built this organization to be a powerful weapon or a power tool and if I am dispatched, it will follow it's own logic. I created this with the power of my patron, who I presume you dispatched, so I know power when I see it. I am flexible and I can serve you well. I should warn you, my other collaborate is a trans-dimensional criminal, who I am had begun to fear before your arrival. Whatever you do with me, you will have to deal with him. So I can be at your serve and there are several things you may want my services for. Of course, I'd want promise that I at least live.

pierce-the-veils

Her eyes glow as she looks at him

Narsod is more or less what he appears to be. You heard today that he was tortured by the Dark Traders for advocating his odd religion and once they fell, that gave him some credibility, so you can notice some scares and he has a slight limp. Of course, those they truly hated would have been made undead, so he must have been only a nuisance.

The winded being lands on the ground and walks to Narsod then she speaks.

"Narsod, the test is simple, you will live what each of those you ended, now live every moment of every life that your deeds ended. Then after, we shall all see who you really are."

And she pours into him each living soul's memories from the well. Life after life, each one lived and then the moment of its ending. Every pain every emotion. The next and the next and the next. She was a construct and with every emotion damper on she had only just come out sane. What had saved her was her companion, she had learned to love each and every soul and hold them, help them pass on. If he did not have the same, then what he was living was their hell. Over and over.

She leaked out just a little his followers, But they were seeing from the outside. He was experiencing it as if it was himself living it.
Images played out overhead. Snippets of pain and anguish, A child screaming as it sees its parents slane, Devils laughing as they eat their hearts, each a person from this very city, damming his name.

Then the devils think of him for the fest. Him with his backer, an outside evil, She pulled from his mind the conversation he had had. The deals he had done. Those there knew the times and places.

She is using mind probe with an altered version of Mind Thrust/Project feelings/Empathy She has the skills and the will. Its up to you GM what this does to him. But I think its just punishment

::"Terex, I am sorry but I had to, I want them to know what he has done, claver he may be, but he must suffer for what he has done and living each death... now lets see who he really is. The truth will out even if the heavens fall."::

Rollo just keeps his dhampiric blue eyes on his followers for treachery.
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23

Blue's spirits are quickly dampened by Gift's trial of Narsod. She can be as cold as ice. That's something I'd not seen before. But it's true, Narsod deserves this. he thinks, as he continues to lurk invisibly.

Again, Arlo looks on with pride in his daughter. "Give'em justice, my girl!" The dwarf cheers on.

Terex has not yet revealed himself, but he hears Narsod's offer over the hive mind... so he merrily 'rebroadcasts' it to Narsod's followers.

This distracts him well enough that he doesn't quite realize what Gift is about to do in time. Wait, Gift, he...! he begins too late.

The little dragon winces at the intensity of her judgment, but within he's simply hoping that it works, that this doesn't provide Narsod with exactly the kind of 'martyrdom' that he'd been setting up his followers to expect.

Narsod collapses in agony, clutching his head, then his breast. His follower shift uneasily and the winged humanoids furtively - unlike the followers, they seem mostly oriented to seeing how this plays out and seem like they might attack the party if things turn out against them. But with things uncertain, they wait.

After a minute or so, the "prophet" opens his eyes and shouts "Peace! Let all killing stop! Better to die peacefully than to kill! Let that be the new precept! I shall go and proclaim this!" The disciples murmur in awe, tears going down some of their faces (Gift can sense Narsod's conversion is at least fairly sincere though types such as he can slip from one sort of faith to another easily).

Narsod is still standing in the doorway of the meeting room and at this point, twenty arrows come flying from the winged humanoids directly at him - and bounce away, hitting an unseen force Wall of force Armaund hastily added.

And then chaos breaks loose. Narsod lies praying, the disciples try to grapple the winged-men and shouts go up all around.

Armaund shouts "The prophet has promised peace but we don't. Who wishes to harm Narsod?" and looks ready for action.

Ten of the winged-men seem lower-level and are being grappled by the disciple but ten are clearly powerful and seem ready to attack the party the next turn. This is happening in the large central room of the temple. Remember the area still has a dimensional lock on it.

All the fighting starts she lifts her sword from Narsod holding it up.

"You pass the test"

Then she lows it at one of the winged beings.

"But others did not!"

And a blast of energy shoots out from it.

Disintigration TH RTA 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20 DMG 24d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 3, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 3, 1, 5, 4, 4, 2, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1, 5) = 87 9pp used + the 22 for the Emation Project

GIFTS AC has dropped as she is massive AC28 TAC 19 FF23

Terex appears from invisibility as he blasts one of the attackers with his wand of scorching ray.

Scorching Ray: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (3) + 19 = 22
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 2, 5) = 14 Sneak attack damage: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 6, 5, 6) = 21
Scorching Ray: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (17) + 19 = 36
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 6, 4) = 14 Sneak attack damage: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 1, 6, 2) = 18
Scorching Ray: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (2) + 19 = 21
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 5, 5) = 22 Sneak attack damage: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 6, 2, 6) = 19

As he attacks, he warns the rest of the party, This is probably Elon's work! Keep an eye out, we don't know what he's capable of!

Rollo--swifty--raises his hand; fingers spread and pointing toward 5 separate targets of Angel-like beings.
Quickened Toppling Magic Missile at 5 targets.

Trip vs Cmd: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (19) + 22 = 411d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 Force damage
Trip vs Cmd: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 311d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 Force damage
Trip vs Cmd: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (20) + 22 = 421d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 Force damage
Trip vs Cmd: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 281d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 Force damage
Trip vs Cmd: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (16) + 22 = 381d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 Force damage

The dhampir winks at the fallen angels.
Toppling

The Sage then cast Glitterdust on them also!
Glitterdust Will DC 20

He then strides for some cover furthest from reprisal.

Arlo advanced on one of the fallen angels, using his smite evil against it.
The Arlosword (smite evil): 1d20 + 17 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 17 + 4 = 30
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (2) + 4 + (6, 1, 6, 1) + 28 = 48

Lucien floats to a good firing position and opens fire on the fallen angels.

Invisible during the first attack, so it will hit vs. flat-footed touch AC. Also, swift action for Hasted Assault magus arcana and spell-striking with Electricity Elemental Scorching Ray. Firing on the three closest targets.
Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 16 + 2 = 37
Electricity Damage: 1d8 + 9 + 2d6 + 4d6 ⇒ (6) + 9 + (2, 5) + (5, 2, 6, 6) = 41

Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (5) + 16 = 21
Electricity Damage: 1d8 + 9 + 2d6 + 4d6 ⇒ (4) + 9 + (6, 6) + (1, 6, 4, 6) = 42

Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26
Electricity Damage: 1d8 + 9 + 2d6 ⇒ (7) + 9 + (3, 3) = 22

The disciplines flood into the building, initially hindering the winged-men only slightly.

The winged-humanoid on Arlo, draws a sword and swings wildly, connected once (18 points of damage).

Terex lights the wings of one winged-man on fire entirely and it burns to a cinder.

Blue electrocutes another.

Gift disintegrates another.

Three of the winged-humoids are toppled by Rollo's missiles and then immediately leaped on by the many disciples arriving, keeping them prone.

The three remaining winged-men fire all their arrows at Gift, six of them hitting (for 50 points of damage).

Armaund fires three shots from his massive gun, dispatching one winged-man and injuring another.

Two foes remain.

Shouting can be heard in the outside hallway and the noise in the room is deafening.

She walks toward the outside hallway, as she does the Arrows that had penetrated her seem to be pulled into her as her nineties take them apart and absorb their matter into themselves.

Race Repairing SA nineties Level x2 HP back 24HP back, then fast healing 2HP around from running Metamothests. 26hp back current HP50 points left.

Did the Glitterdust take affect?

With the smite evil still on-going, Arlo continues to battle his winged foe while chaos erupts around them.
The Arlosword: 1d20 + 17 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 17 + 4 = 41
Confirming: 1d20 + 17 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 17 + 4 = 30
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 + 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (3, 4, 2, 1) + 28 + (7) + 4 + (3, 3, 3, 2) + 28 = 95

The Arlosword: 1d20 + 12 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 12 + 4 = 35
Confirming: 1d20 + 12 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 12 + 4 = 30
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 + 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (2, 3, 4, 4) + 28 + (3) + 4 + (6, 4, 3, 2) + 28 = 98

The Arlosword: 1d20 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 7 + 4 = 29
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (1) + 4 + (2, 5, 6, 5) + 28 = 51

Arlo dispatches his target with prejudice, chopping it to pieces. Several of winged-men were glittered, none of the remaining ones are blinded. Well, there are only two winged-men remain and one is glittered. But the party's round hasn't end.

Terex vanishes from view again as he focuses his mind on slipping out of sight. At the same time he darts towards the outside hallway, noting that Gift has the same thought that more danger is likely coming from that direction.

Rollo decides to cast Haste on the group.

The dhampir then retrieves a wand of cure light wounds, as he catches up to Gift.
Your Dad can finish the remaining two Angels. You look like you can use a bit of wand action.

"Thank you Brother Rollo"

She says in a booming voice.

She stands some 12' tall at the moment, she hovers off the ground and moves.

IMAGE HERE

"IN THE FATH OF GOOD, I COME TOO STRIKE DOWN EVIL"

Again her voice booms.

The dwarf paladin pivots and begins to attack the more difficult non-glittered winged 'angel', burning another smite evil affect as a free action, spend on by Rollo's haste spell.

The Arlosword (smite evil): 1d20 + 17 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 17 + 4 = 32
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (2, 5, 3, 6) + 28 = 51

The Arlosword (smite evil): 1d20 + 17 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 4 = 24
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (6) + 4 + (5, 5, 4, 4) + 28 = 56

The Arlosword (smite evil): 1d20 + 12 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 12 + 4 = 31
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (7) + 4 + (3, 5, 2, 1) + 28 = 50

The Arlosword (smite evil): 1d20 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 4 = 16
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 + 28 ⇒ (4) + 4 + (2, 1, 5, 1) + 28 = 45

Edited.

Hasted everyone!

Hasted everyone!

That's right. Thank you! I will alter the above post including the hasted attack.

There are twelve winged-men being grappled by a flood of maybe fifty disciples. Narsod is calling to the disciples to tie them but not otherwise harm them.

Six of the winged-men lie dead, killed by the party. The two winged-men that are free turn and attempt to fly out the front entry-way and seem to get only barely beyond it, engaged by more disciples quite near where Terex has hidden.

Narsod, again telepathetically, sends out the message, to the party ::I must address my people soon, to give them my new understanding but we should first, if that is possible.

::"Do so Narsod, do so"::

To one of the winged men being held, she reaches down her hand and places it on his chest.

"Be still"::

Is all she says.

Will save DC23 Mind control::

Quickly switching wands, Terex casts a web over the two fleeing winged beings.

It's a wand so the save DC is only 13, but they probably can't fly through the area taken by the web.

The winged-beings outside the large room fight their way nearly to the window, dodging through the web.

The winged-being Gift has fails it's save.

Rollo waves a hand in the direction of the fleeing winged angels.
Ice Storm suddenly appears around them!

cold and bludgeoning: 2d6 + 3d6 ⇒ (1, 6) + (5, 6, 6) = 24

"Stand and follow"

She says, turning to the fleeing UN-angles.

::"Armaund do you mind blocking their Exit.< mina can you stun them, I think we need to talk to them"::

I might be able to do something about that... Terex says, swapping his wand for a scroll.

Use Magic Device: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (9) + 25 = 34

Inky-black tentacles burst from the wall around the door they're heading to, reaching out through the web to grab them.

Grapple: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
Grapple: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

I'm assuming he can aim this to not hit any innocents, otherwise he wouldn't use this.

Arlo understands the need to keep some of these beings alive, and grumbles as he pulls his punch, doing non-lethal damage.
The Arlosword (non-lethal, hasted): 1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 17 - 4 = 28
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 ⇒ (6) + 4 + (3, 6, 5, 5) = 29

The Arlosword (non-lethal, hasted): 1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 17 - 4 = 20
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 ⇒ (7) + 4 + (3, 4, 3, 2) = 23

The Arlosword (non-lethal, hasted): 1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 12 - 4 = 21
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 ⇒ (2) + 4 + (4, 1, 3, 5) = 19

The Arlosword (non-lethal, hasted): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 7 - 4 = 23
Confirming: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 7 - 4 = 17
Dmg.: 1d8 + 4 + 4d6 ⇒ (7) + 4 + (1, 6, 3, 3) = 24

Aiming the Ice Storm so that non-angels ate already 10' inside it...lol.

So Rollo cast an Ice storm just at the edge of the window that the winged-men push their way toward. Then Arlo and Armaund come charging through and knocked the two pretend-angels unconscious. Terex thinks better of black tentacles since the whole area is crowded with people.

After a bit further, all of the winged-men are bound and placed in the main chamber.

With Narsod calling on his followers to protect the party, he stands and prepares to deliver a speech.

Telepathically he sent::"I will declare a religion of peace but what else? And what of the rascal Elon? Also, how shall I prepare for his return?"

Minna is in the parallel demi-plane and can't leave until the teleportation lock is down. And lower it might not be good given the possibility of folks like Elon porting in.

::"We will deal with him, all we need know is where he is or where will he arrive"::

As the fighting finishes, Blue steps out of sight of the crowd of disciples and reactivates his ring of invisibility. ::Good work, all.:: he sends to the party.

Moira took her 4th level of paladin.
BAB +1, Fort +1, Will +1
HP: 6 HD, 2 Con, 1 Toughness -> 75
Channel Energy 2d6
LoH +1d6, +1/day
Spells! 0 1st lvl/day +2 bonus
8th Level Ability Bump: Cha+1
Skills: 4 class +1 int +1 racial +2 background
Diplomacy +2
History +1
Planes +1
Oratory +1
Sense Motive +1
Spellcraft +2

8th level of Ranger
+1 CON (which adds a +1 to all CON affected items)
+1 Fort and +1 Ref
+1 BAB now +8/+3
+1 2nd level spells
Favored Terrain upgrade +4 to Urban and +2 to Underground now
Swift Tracker
+1 to P(librarian)
+1 to K(geography)
+1 Disable Device
+1 Perception
+1 to K(planes)
+1 to Ride
+1 to Stealth
+2 to K(dungeoneering)
+2 to K(nature)
+1 2nd level spell

Moonbeam:
gains a HD
+1 to Fly
Power Attack

Level 8 (Arrowsong Minstrel Bard)

HP +5
BAB goes up to +6/+1
+1 to Ref and Will saves

+2 spell slots (1 2L, 1 3L)
+1 spell (1 3L)

+1 Charisma

+2 rounds of bardic performance

Skills (10 ranks): perception, spellcraft, stealth (3), Knowledge Arcana, Knowledge Engineering (3), bluff

... haven't updated my spells yet. will do that after work.

I haven't loaded my stats to Paizo yet, as I interpreted from the GM to "think about level 8" not "ok, you're level 8 now."

Think about was day-before-yesterday. Today, you're now 8th level!

Woot!

And we are back doing capers, feel free to ask how the dynamic works.

For reference, this is a link back to the last cycle of capers, for reference on how people handled them then.

Okay, updated spells... sorry for the delay. (The 2nd level one is my favored class option spell I forgot to add to my earlier post.)

Here are the new spells:

3rd level--Dispel Magic
2nd level--Calm Emotions

Happy to hold palace with others do things before we set off.

We can do other stuff first, I might have jumped ahead a bit. So hold the thought...

Ugh. Just waffled on a long post for a while and lost it.

Paritosh Lady Lyra sent an invite to go see her, it may help

Lyra's machine is an interesting idea, I support it. I will add a few caveats and such with my tonight.

Cool thanks GM, its hard to use as it wight is about 1/8th a ton, and needs to be hand cracked to work scanning is also slow.

And it can only help if it has the info stored.

Just felt it was a cool way to use all the tech salvage

Arlo is not the dwarven Warhammer crit range 19/20

No, both warhammer and waraxe (which Arlo has) is x3 crit.

Just reminded me to crit on her shotgun round is x3 as well

as thats another 2d6 2d6 ⇒ (5, 1) = 6 DMG

It's the weekend.

This should be fairly challenging encounter.

I will try to wait until all the party members have acted to have your opponents act. You definitely have some indications this would be a good time to throw whatever you've got at the enemy.

So, I think the simplest thing would be for me to roll Paritosh's attack and then my monsters go. I'll do that in an hour or two if necessary. I know some might find that invasive and so apologies in advance if I wind-up doing that.

Ok So Lady Lyra is going to try and take this best on, no idea how long she will last, but my hope is you guys can do some real smack DMG on it while she's taking a beating :) The good news is, She is now at max AC, the bad news is, you only have 8 mins of game time before it all wears off haha.

Arlo Brighthammer wrote:

"It's fine", Arlo said. "Now that the battle's over, I can use my own means of healing." In order to make Lady Lyra feel better, the dwarf stick his waraxe in the bloody earth and lain his hands on himself.

Why can't you do that during a fight?

Hey! Arlo did drink a cure potion during the fight, 'member. And the dwarf would rather bring the enemy down first if he can help it before healing. Thank goodness for the Toughness feat.

I'm just saying that I don't understand why you didn't use Lay on Hands during the fight? I know some people believe you can't when wielding a 2H weapon, but many do think it's ok. So maybe this is more a rules interpretation question.

My hands were full with waraxe and shield.

Well, this is the first "big" fight the group has been in - at least in the party's current incarnation. You won, Yay! Still, it's opportunity for everyone to review their tactics and think about how your powers went well or not-so-well. Pathfinder is complicated system - even with the simplifications I often make (using ad-hoc initiative, I didn't worry about difficult terrain in this fight though I may next time).

I'm going to message folks privately if I have ideas about how you might improve your tactics or do any reworking since this part of board should be campaign-specific rather than how-to-optimize specific. IE, let's not get too hung up on these question. Any refinement is optional - everyone was reasonably effective, providing knowledge, damage-dealing, tanking and/or control.

That said, thinking about dealing with conditions (poisoned, diseased, grappling, prone etc), dealing with difficult terrain, dealing with monsters having damage resistances or energy resistance (the beast has DR 5 holy) and so-forth might be something to do.

With Loot who would like what

Slippers of speed and spider climbing(combined effect),

Bracers of archery+2/+2 damage,
Lyra already has ex-retreat Spell

A Blue Jewel on a chain that allows the wearer to reduce up to three size categories one time per day for up to 5 minutes (super reduce person, limit to the "fine" category, throat/amulet slot)
Lyra has gas form spell

small, silver flintlock pistol (+2 frost, 3 bullet capacity, can misfire but will not explode).
Lyra uses guns, she will have if everyone is ok with that.

The shield is a +4 light Mithral shield.
Lyra does not use Shields

slippers of speed and spider climbing as in Boots of Speed + Slippers of Spider Climbing?

Anzarra can't use the pistol or the shield.

Since I favor archery, I could use the bracers, but happy to have any of the rest of the things if anyone else wants the bracers.

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As for dealing with battles, the thing that would help the most in my opinion is having a detailed battle map so that we can place ourselves to avoid difficult terrain, bad conditions, etc.

There are things that help with DR... like clustered shot feat, etc, or having the right type of weapon to get around that particular type of DR, but those things aren't necessarily predictable unless we know what we are going up against ahead of time. ... If the dark traders are all evil though, getting a holy enchantment on our weapons would help... however, that costs a +2 enchantment, which is expensive.

By popular demand, I will try to create a sufficiently detailed map the next time around.

General things to think about with DR; Doing a careful examination of the enemy in front of you (one of the knowledge check). Depending on the fight, you may or may not have time and I may or may not remember to remind you to do this. There are lots of things I'm still learning on this play by post thing too (apologies for any and all vagueness or inconsistency I might have shown in the past).

If there is an unwanted item (or two), you can trade them to The Organization for an item (or items) worth not more than 17K gold. You folks previously hadn't gotten anything for leveling up (and pathfinder kind of assumes items increase with level). No one wants the shrink gem? c'est la vie.

I think I am going to get Lady Lyra to make more Grenades
They seem to work well and seem balanced for the level we
are now at.

I think I will try and use her to work out the DR of things for others
She has the skills.

slippers of speed and spider climbing as in Boots of Speed + Slippers of Spider Climbing?

Yes, combined powers

We'll use the shrinking gem for sure... it just apparently isn't anyone's first choice, but it does seem like a valuable thing to have for the future.

I should say that I apologize if in recent post posts I have come off as critical towards the party. I also have much to learn about Pathfinder and play-by-post, I may not have handled the last encounter well myself and I appreciate everyone's playing style and I realize many folks probably have far more play-by-post experience than me.

Anzarra messaged me that she is withdrawing from the campaign.

I will be putting a recruiting thread looking for another player since it seems like the party needs a magic specialist. If there are things you'd like in a new player, post here, comment on the recruiting thread or message me.

Awe man. Luckily the structure of this campaign allows for characters to come and go.

OK, I just an unexpected power shutoff, here in California, that will last until Tuesday. Since this will be long than last time and I didn't have time for preparation, I may not be able to post here until Tuesday night.

Apologies, hope you're all doing well.

What reasons did Anzarra give?

I will say that when playing a game, I prefer to play it, rather than to be quite so much the "world builder" for that game, if that makes sense.

I will say that when playing a game, I prefer to play it, rather than to be quite so much the "world builder" for that game, if that makes sense.

I definitely intend this game to have a world-builder/co-story writer feel to it. I encourage people to take part in that but I don't really require it, you can mostly ignore it and just play if you want. I'm fine with action happening on multiple levels, It's great really, the simple and the complex together. I might have leaned too hard on the encouragement lately but I'm OK with backing off. That said, "world builder" is kind of what I'm here for.

Power back... it will take a bit to get my barrings...

Sorry Ive been out. But I come bearing works: Moira.

Sorry Ive been out. But I come bearing works: Moira.

Nice. She's a bit tall for Paritosh's tastes though.

Sorry Ive been out. But I come bearing works: Moira.

love it,cool as

So, I've posted an add for a magic user to the recruitment thread - feel free to look/comment on this. I'm going to do auditions this time so it closes in five days. Hopefully we can keep up the posting during that time.

I'm assuming Lady Lira will want to attend the meeting with the mysterious person who may have stolen the blue-prints of the Crystal Movie machine - but let me know what the plan is.

yes please

Sorry guys ill post Monday dealing with covid lockdown here.

Sorry guys ill post Monday dealing with covid lockdown here.

Stay safe.

Indeed, stay safe. I think we all know how scary such things can be these days.

Ok so had a Covid scare, have had to stay home for 2 weeks and had 2 test tomorrow is my last, should be all clear, felt bad last Thursday but think it was stress. Someone I had a meeting with came down with it and we all had to get tested and Isolate.

Ok so had a Covid scare, have had to stay home for 2 weeks and had 2 test tomorrow is my last, should be all clear, felt bad last Thursday but think it was stress. Someone I had a meeting with came down with it and we all had to get tested and Isolate.

Take care. These are hallowing times all around.

Pardon typo above.

With the US election today and Covid lockdowns in England, I assume people are busy.

As far as plot goes, I've outlined stuff to prepare for the Crystal Movies premier. Other things to consider is security.

The counterfeit movies you now hear exist may well be coming from the same area as the Tower Of Egon, where Delores' sister is apparently imprisoned. Preparation for an expedition would be in order.

But also, you might consider ways to stop such things coming into the city.

Let me know if anything is confusing or too obscure.