Tyrant's Grasp II: Eulogy for Roslar's Coffer

Game Master CrusaderWolf

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. The test sucks, I do not recommend it, but I am feeling okay at the moment.

Agreed. I have had the brain tickler, zero stars, would not recommend.

Ketra crosses her arms and raises an eyebrow at the mite, a little fed up with his bloodthirsty attitude. "Well, you're part of the way there."

[dice=Sense Motive; is he being honest]d20+1

She looks over at the caledon "So we're going to do our best to get these fellows out of the tomb, one way or another, yeah? Rudgib here is agreeing to leave with the rest of his crew. Satisfied enough to let us go through now?"

So I think this hinges on what the caledons are going to accept. We don't know if the rest of the mites are just going to be up one floor or if they're more spread out, but maybe we can round them all up. Then herd them through the crack in the wall and move a shelf or something over so they can't get back through. :)

Ultimately though, I think Ketra is inclined to avoid angering a bunch of Pharasma's servants even if they're just constructs. If we have to fight the mites to do so, she'll probably be unhappy but go along with it. They've shown themselves to be pretty awful so far.

(Moving to the Discussion thread per GM's suggestion.)

Ketra's plan makes sense to me, too, and in character it will make sense to Sanduro. He's a Pharasman himself, albeit not terribly observant or knowledgeable at this point, and would prefer to avoid fighting with a specifically Pharasman construct.

Also, fighting constructs at low levels is the worst!

Got my negative test result last night, so that's off my shoulders at least. I just felt sick for fun, I guess.

Good news Silvia! Hopefully you're also feeling better soon.

That’s a big relief! Get well soon.

us: haha just roll another crazy high diplomacy check, garret

garret: *rolls*

You're setting the bar very high here, Garret!

Who knew Garret was so personable? He is set up as a sorcerer, not a bard, but when you roll 19's...wow!

In my excitement to get the next post up, I forgot to mention: the party is now Level 2!

Yay! :D Leveling now soon, do you want any sort of change log?

Yay! Do we fill new spell slots now or wait for morning?

Just a quick post about what skill points are being used for, where the FCB is going, and any neat tricks you're picking up with the new level is fine. Doesn't have to be a novel but it's nice to see :)

For the sake of keeping things simple let's say the level up goes into effect right away.

I've done my time as a Gunslinger, and now it's time for my first level as a Paladin of the General of Vengeance.

FCB is going to a skill point, and the 4 ranks I'm getting are going to Intimidate, Perception, Religion, and Sense Motive. Background skills into Alchemy and Handle Animal.

Instead of heavy armor proficiency, I get Precise Shot, so now I don't have to be quite so scared of accidentally shooting any of you.

Just a quick post about what skill points are being used for, where the FCB is going, and any neat tricks you're picking up with the new level is fine. Doesn't have to be a novel but it's nice to see :)

For the sake of keeping things simple let's say the level up goes into effect right away.

Garret picks up Mage Hand, more hit points (including FC hp), background skills in Geography and History, increase Diplomacy by 1, and picking up Perception, Knowledge Planes, and Bluff. BAB goes up 1, Will save goes up 1, 1 more spell/day.

FCB +1 skill point
Skill points: Knowledge (nature, planes, religion), Perception, Spellcraft, Survival
Background skills: Handle Animal, Knowledge (geography)
Additional spells (for today, anyway):
Level 0: Stabilize
Level 1: Cure Light Wounds

I’ll get my statblock and tagline updated tonight.

Edit to add: Zsofia gains 7 HP and 1 skill point, which is going to Perception.

Actually, Verun has been absent since you awoke in the sarcophagi, which brings me to my next post.

I knew that, but Sanduro didn't!

GM (or anyone, really) - I can’t tell if I’m missing something about the phantom’s stats in Occult Adventures or if there is an error in Hero Lab, and would appreciate any thoughts.

According to Occult Adventures, a phantom’s starting statistics include a +2 dodge bonus to AC (in incorporeal form) or +2 natural armor (in ectoplasmic form) at level 1; at level 2, the phantom adds a +2 deflection bonus (when incorporeal) or +2 natural armor (in ectoplasmic form). I didn’t notice it until I was posting the new statblocks for Zsofia at level 2 but Hero Lab hasn’t applied the dodge bonus when Zsofia is incorporeal, so her AC is 2 lower when incorporeal than when in ectoplasmic form.

Any idea if this is something about the jealousy focus or something else that I’ve missed but is correct? Or do I need to try to get someone’s attention at Lone Wolf Development (I can fix it myself by adding an adjustment, but they’re still issuing occasional bug fixes so it’s worth letting them know if they’ve got it wrong).

Ketra level up:

FCB into HP.
Skills: +1 (Acro, Bluff, Intimidate, KN Religion, Perception, Stealth)
Background Skills: +1 (Perform dance, Sleight of Hand)
+1 Routines per day (I kept expecting longer fights, so I pointlessly saved these during level 1. Probably should be spending them much more steadily because even when out of routines, its not like Ketra's out of tricks.)
Diverse Training class feature, picking acrobatics and bluff.

BTW, this scene is practically screaming for some cool art. Unearthly rolling hills, creepy moon overhead, etc. Please tell me there's some! :)

Sanduro: looks like a bug. I didn't find any reason why Zsofia wouldn't have her deflection bonus in incorporeal form either.

Art: I'm not sure if there is, but I found this, and it is pretty damn creepy!

Top notch. Love it.

Thanks, Silvia, I’ll make the adjustment and file an error report.

And that picture is perfect!

Leveled!

FCB +1/4 banner bonus (2/4 now)
Skills into perception, survival, ride, diplomacy, acrobatics, handle animal, shining crusade lore.
When he aids, he gives +3 now!

Of note: I have medium armor proficiency now, so once we find something better for Ketra, I can still find a use for that mithral breastplate!

Didn't it get changed to a chain shirt or something?

Just double-checked the thread and it was still a breastplate, and that's what's on Ketra's sheet. If it was a chain shirt she wouldn't have the non-proficiency penalty.

Definitely breastplate :)

Oh, my bad, I swear I read something to the effect of the GM changing it to avoid the issue... Irrelevant now, I suppose! :)

I have a somewhat odd request: could I get each character's birth date? At least to the best of their knowledge or even as ooc info for our duskwalkers and/or Garret.

13 Arodus, 4695.

1d30 ⇒ 261d12 ⇒ 14707 + 1d2 ⇒ 4707 + (1) = 47084619 + 9d10 ⇒ 4619 + (3, 10, 10, 6, 5, 2, 7, 5, 5) = 4672

Depending on which you're looking for, Sanduro was reborn under the sign of the Lantern Bearer on the 26th day of Abadius, 4708 (duskwalkers are reborn as children with a physical age of around 8), and was born (the first time) on the same date in 4672.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the Cosmic Caravan. I guess that means Silvia's astrological sign is The Pack. That is very funny to me, considering her ancestry.

Wallace is probably 24ish, so whatever year that makes it. 4696?

18 Pharast, 4696?

Garret is 42, and with his fiery disposition, I see him being born at the height of midsummer. I don’t have the Forgotten realms calendar in front of me, but is Midsummer’s Day at noon, 42 years ago okay?

A little bit of digging puts that at Sarenith 21, 4677 if that works for you!

Perfect!

Oh wow, Ketra's older than Sanduro? I would not have guessed that.

Ketra was reborn Desnus 11, 4706.

Oh wow, Ketra's older than Sanduro? I would not have guessed that.

Ketra was reborn Desnus 11, 4706.

Oh, definitely. I mean, Ketra had this whole other life with the Shoanti before coming back to Roslar’s Coffer. Sanduro has spent pretty much the whole time since his rebirth riding in the backseat of the overloaded family station wagon, stuck between Grandma lecturing him nonstop and his obnoxious cousin poking him in the side every five minutes. Roslar’s Coffer is pretty much the first place he’s ever been on his own; he’s trying to adult (and the 17 Wisdom helps), but he’s still very young.

GM - feel free to disregard Sanduro’s soul’s original birth year I tossed out above (4672). I just remembered that I had intentionally left that vague to give you some flexibility, and the year itself doesn’t have any particular meaning for me, just the month and day.

I had a 9-hour medic training today and am wiped, I'll get a post up tomorrow though. Great RP though! This isn't the sort of situation characters find themselves in very often in an AP.

HA! Is it in the AP that the psychopomps are worried about failing since they'll be in the summoning queues, or is that our GM being hilariously awesome?

Well in the books they are concerned about failing and being punished, but the summoning queues specifically was an idea that had me cackling so I borrowed it from another GM :)

Well in the books they are concerned about failing and being punished, but the summoning queues specifically was an idea that had me cackling so I borrowed it from another GM :)

Now you’ve got me thinking about taking Summon Neutral Monster!

just a heads-up for Garret, since you got that post in before my edit: I added a Perception check you can make as well if you'd like.

GM - are you going to be working from dawn until crazy o’clock tomorrow?

Garret looks at Sanduro in confusion, wondering what his approach may be, though he realizes blurting out the truth may be too much for her at this point.

Garret - meant to ask you about this over the weekend. I thought Sanduro was telling her the truth, did I get something wrong?

Ah yes, thanks for the reminder Sanduro--I will probably not be posting at all tomorrow, I'm anticipating something like a 13hr day at least, followed by stress drinking at a friends' place.

Garret Fallows wrote:

Garret looks at Sanduro in confusion, wondering what his approach may be, though he realizes blurting out the truth may be too much for her at this point.

Garret - meant to ask you about this over the weekend. I thought Sanduro was telling her the truth, did I get something wrong?

No, you were perfectly correct in what you said, but you avoided speaking of the earth-shattering explosion where everyone but us appeared to have died, as that would have implied both people would now be dead (not injured and recovering).

@GM - Sounds like a good plan. Of course, I may start stress-drinking at noon tomorrow, and I’m not working for one of the campaigns.

No, you were perfectly correct in what you said, but you avoided speaking of the earth-shattering explosion where everyone but us appeared to have died, as that would have implied both people would now be dead (not injured and recovering).

Got it, thanks. You're right - Sanduro wanted to hear what the Mayor thought had happened before she heard about their experience of it.

I'm working on updating the loot sheet - did we return the jade horse to the celedon along with the decorations the mites pulled from various places in the tomb? GM, I think the party's intent was to return anything stolen from the tomb but if the mites got the jade horse from somewhere else, we would have kept it.

Where we found the loot

When we returned it