GM Blake's PF2 Extinction Curse Campaign

Game Master Blake's Tiger

Yeah, if a 29 was a crit earlier, Rulean's 27 with flanking is totally a crit. Yay for demons going down! Hope you get power again soon!

Hmm

Will limp along here until my power returns.

We can wait. If you are still without power, you’ve other things to worry about!

Since, I had to search for it, the ornamental key which might open this door.

Took a while searching and I may have the wrong ornamental door.

Internet seems stable now/for now.

You have the correct ornamental door. The door didn't have a key hole and the key is more artistry than functional. To dispel confusion: you would just touch the key to the door.

Welcome back!

So it sounds like we could hole up in one of the guest rooms and heal one more time before going through the ornate doors. There are three of us who are injured.

Shall we do that, or just go through the doors. The doors sound like a big deal and hopefully would have kept any demons out.

Heal as much as possible imo.

^Agree, hopefully we've got enough time to hole up just a little longer and finish healing.

Sorry, was a rough night last night after work.

Thanks for Bot-ing Leaf-On-Wind and joining the chorus of "Let's try to get some sleep/rest/recharge" because right now we're kind of worn down.

Unless we've got a better idea?

We aren’t going for a full night’s rest. Probably just a 30 minute so we can treat wounds again and then try to move on.

Sounds like there is general agreement to take over a guest room for the half hour.

Does the description of the man being yelled at match that of the abbot? I’m going to assume for the moment it does.

Yes!

I used Magic weapon on Nabi back in September 2021 but we're on the same day :p

Ephie has already used drain bonded item (1) as well.

Apologies for my very silly joke.

But it was now or never.

Won't be home this week end (and next week end)

Bot me as needed

Advance outage Notice:

Not this impending weekend, but the weekend around 'President's Day' starting from Thursday and running through Monday 2/17-2/21 I will be sporadic at updating for Leaf-On-Wind at best.

Heading to convention for the weekend and will be GMing two involved games (A table of each Special -- Starfinder and Pathfinder Society) that are probably going to consume much of my bandwidth.

Where is the mephit that threw Rulean into the water? I don’t see it on the map.

Up by Clover, now. It had an action left but couldn't get very far.

Just so no one is surprised, if he doesn’t go down this round Rulean will the round after that. If he goes down, he dies the next round to the persistent damage.

He does not have any more healing spells.

For people who are not Rulean: don't forget about Assisted Recovery.

I'd also give you a guaranteed success to end the persistent damage if you jumped back in the water. :)

...I wouldn't recommend pushing his unconscious body in the water, though. That would probably end just as poorly.

Does our bard have any soothes?

I might have a 1st level one left. We've been going non-stop otherwise -- I know I am out of second level spells.

Leaf has the Healers gloves, right?

https://paizo.com/campaigns/v5748p75ivlag/discussion&page=17#831

Leaf used the 1/day healing on Nabi.

I'll say that you have pretty much incapacitated the spellcaster. Her future survival is going to depend heavily on dice rolls. So as long as Clover and Snowy can tank the animal handler, you've probably got action economy to spare to get the acid off of Rulean.

Then I will work on that.

Yeah, I figured there was a good chance she wouldn’t be trained in Athletics. I know NPCs don’t follow the same rules, but still it is unusual for a cleric to have that trained.

We might find out what happens when the water and the wind mix….

Yeah, Clover & Snowy will try and keep the animal handler busy!

I'm trained in medicine, would that help? At least for the autopsy? ;-)

Might have been eaten by the cache-clearing so I'll give it another day.

Sumberged helped the priest avoid getting arced.

Strategy!? :p

I'm trained in medicine, would that help? At least for the autopsy? ;-)

If you are talking about the persistent acid damage Rulean is going to take, anyone adjacent to him that spends two actions can help him. No requirement for training or skill check, although the GM decides if your proposed Assisted Recovery action seems reasonable.

You can take steps to help yourself recover from persistent damage, or an ally can help you, allowing you to attempt an additional flat check before the end of your turn. This is usually an activity requiring 2 actions, and it must be something that would reasonably improve your chances (as determined by the GM). This allows you to attempt an extra flat check immediately, but only once per round.

So each round, someONE (including Rulean, himself) could spend 2-actions to do something that would help end the persistent acid damage and give Rulean an immediate flat check to end the condition (in addition to the regular one at the end of his turn if that one didn't work).

Oh. I also just noticed that the priestess got pushed into the air moat. She's still lost beneath the clouds, but different end for her.

Oops! I thought she would go into the water.

Guess she can be aired out? Yeah, pretend that Rulean said let Gozreh air you out.

Apparently it got lost in the website issues, but I could have sworn I posted a note last week that my posting would be sporadic at best from Thursday 2/17 - Monday 2/21.

It may have been posted to another thread, as well.

At any rate, full botting permissions given to whomever wants to briefly take Leaf-On-Wind under control. Pretty straightforwards .

Will try to post when possible and have bandwidth, was going to post just now in thread but brain went foggy and need to get sleep before lot of travel tomorrow.

Hilary and I will be at a local convention this weekend and our posting will be slower.

I'd give a Hero Point to Nabi for her amazing luck, but she has maximum Hero Points.

Hero Point to Clover for running in there and tanking.

You can break out of rounds, now. It'll be a minute before I can get a good IC post up.

The man has obviously been beaten with bruises and abrasions of varying ages, but he's conscious and not in danger of dying.

Three (or more?) players will be out this weekend, so I'm going to hold here and give myself some time to write a nicer post and won't worry about pushing things on until Monday.

So you can work on it at your leisure, you have also reached 4th level. Level 4 stats will take effect once you begin your next day of Downtime.

So can we lock the doors, get some sleep and treat Song and the Abbot?

I hope you meant 4th level would start with our next daily preparations. We haven’t had any downtime that I can recall.

Is Leaf planning on being our doctor, then?

I can see two paths for Ephie, assuming there is downtime here:

1. Retrain out of familiar master to Medic dedication and take Enhanced familiar feat at Wizard feat 4 to make up for the loss. Pivot to a focus on being the party medic.
2. Level as current build, considering nonlethal spell (nothing at 4 really moves me, but I am still learning how to wizard). Would Familiar mascot be useful to anyone, for stuff like an extra cantrip or familiar focus?

Since it is now kind of important, how do we want to approach healing and Medicine in particular?

I've been finding Leaf-On-Wind's 'place' for the past few levels, and I think he'd be better as a Medic than an Acrobat. In part because of story, in part because of the massive overlap with monk.

What sorts of thoughts on direction did other people have?

While it might be neat to have half a party of doctors, it might cause issues in the long run...

"Doctor." "Doctor." "Doctor."

:>

I hope you meant 4th level would start with our next daily preparations. We haven’t had any downtime that I can recall.

You're about to (this weekend) have a cinematic cut scene followed by Downtime.

So can we lock the doors, get some sleep and treat Song and the Abbot?

Heh. You literally killed every enemy in this place. Well, except one... who is currently trapped at the bottom of a deep moat with a STR of 12 and Untrained in Athletics. If you don't go looking for her because you're curious, she's going to break her neck trying to get out.

Since it is now kind of important, how do we want to approach healing and Medicine in particular?

I've been finding Leaf-On-Wind's 'place' for the past few levels, and I think he'd be better as a Medic than an Acrobat. In part because of story, in part because of the massive overlap with monk.

What sorts of thoughts on direction did other people have?

While it might be neat to have half a party of doctors, it might cause issues in the long run...

"Doctor." "Doctor." "Doctor."

:>

My preference is for Ephie is to focus on crafting skills and familiar abilities. So I will continue with that track. Good to know that party has a doctor in the house!

Sounds good.

Also, almost did spit-take at the mental image in-play.

Also had brief mental flash of Dr. Farnsworth lowering a mini-Bender into the air moat... because sharing is caring.

Just realized I had gotten campaigns confused. We have had downtime in this one.

2. Level as current build, considering nonlethal spell (nothing at 4 really moves me, but I am still learning how to wizard). Would Familiar mascot be useful to anyone, for stuff like an extra cantrip or familiar focus?

Personally, I think non-lethal spell is nice. We have already had fights where we didn’t want to kill the opponent, I expect that will happen again.

I am at Con, will look on Sunday as to what Familiar Mascot does. Some of the old OF1 mascot things were a lot of fun.

Do you need that I take Expert in Medecine? I can easily postpone my original plans (Expert in Stealth), as I gain some skills every two levels