GM Doug's Sky Key Solution (Inactive)

Game Master Doug Hahn

GMing tonight; will move us on in 4 hours. They will be standing down. But they may need help calming the triceratops!

I'm fine if you want to retcon using the Daylight and Extend rod's charge because you had an Ioun stone, Faustus.

I'm fine if you want to retcon using the Daylight and Extend rod's charge because you had an Ioun stone, Faustus.

Naw... its my fault, I should have checked better. Plus, it is probably better to have 2 sources of light going.

All good.

I guess, in a pinch, I could use a boon from a chronicle to cast stone shape, and make a bridge...
But its hard to tell if it would be enough to reach anywhere... and even then, one plinth at most.
Don't suppose there's a map of this room?

Is it possible to switch out a memorized spell to memorize something else? Or it has to be left empty for that?
A hide from animals would be awesome right about now 8P

I guess, in a pinch, I could use a boon from a chronicle to cast stone shape, and make a bridge...

But its hard to tell if it would be enough to reach anywhere... and even then, one plinth at most.

Don't suppose there's a map of this room?

No map provided in the scenario. The islands are 28 feet apart exactly.

Is it possible to switch out a memorized spell to memorize something else? Or it has to be left empty for that?

A hide from animals would be awesome right about now 8P.

You could buy this if you can buy a swan boat token. You just would need several of these scrolls since they would need to be purchased at minimum caster level (1) in accordance with pfs rules.

Lya's Exchange boon covers the cost of the swan boat so i am good with doing that.

We have completed this entire area, and will not be moving on to a new area until the house says so.

We can attempt an optional encounter in the meantime, earning the House another success point, or wait. This is an all-in-one-day special so you probably want to consider that before opting in on optional encounters. Not that you've had to expend many resources so far.

We will be moving on to the next Area on the evening of the 6th or the morning of the 7th.

In the meantime, you can also decide where to go after the next areas open up. Above you are the Slave Pits, and the Temple Plaza is up top. It seems like the party might be split on where to go.

I am ok with (at least one) other encounter in this area.

I am ok with (at least one) other encounter in this area.

I think that's reasonable. None of you have even taken any damage yet. Will move you on in a bit!

I am fine with all the encounters.

Playing at a virtual con today so I may not be able to update during the afternoon. The house is probably moving on tonight or tomorrow, so I will be calling this encounter if that happens beforehand.

Group is still split so I am going to make a compromise here that I believe will be most fun for the group, contextualized by my knowledge of the schedule and encounters.

Schedule-wise (which you do not know necessarily in character, but won't hurt to know out-of-character), the Plaza will be controlled (unplayable) by the 9th, whereas the pens will be controlled on the 15th. There is no tactical value to going to either in any particular order.

So, let’s do one encounter up at the temple plaza and then go down to the pens. That way everyone has a chance to do what their character wants. I also think an extra research encounter is more interesting than another easy combat encounter, and I suspect this group agrees.

We will then move down to the Slave Pens by the 9th, which has two encounters (combat and social).

Sounds reasonable to me! :)

Faustus finds the serpentfolk tax bureau and performs an audit of the wealthiest serpent folks’ income taxes. He finds very interesting things about how serpentfolkget ahead.

OMG - one of the funniest things I have read recently. I LOVE THIS!

Yeah, GM oversight on Wall of fire. We can just roll with the 20%, it's fine. I'm not too concerned about it being such a game-changer we need to retcon anything.

Apologies for the poor tracking on this one, all. It’s been a distracting couple days with IRL stuff and I’ve been rushing things here a bit.

We’re doing fantastic on time so I may slow our roll a bit here as well.

Hey no worries on the tracking. These are trying times and nothing is as easy as it used to be. And even worse if you are in an area dealing with hurricane damage or wild fires. Just stay safe :)

We just had plans change on a trip and I will likely be unable to post tomorrow due to no internet access.

I’ve requested a backup GM step in for you to run the combat while I’m gone tomorrow.

I will be available until this afternoon and back on Wednesday afternoon (Were Coast time), but probaly posting towards the evening.

We're going to be fine on time, and have 3-4 days to finish this combat and an optional research encounter before moving on.

Thanks!,

Doug

thanks for letting us know!

GM Doug H wrote:

I will bot if needed in a couple hours when time permits. I’m also happy if any player wants to step up and volunteer to fo so as well, and it's needed at this point.

I'll step up then as Fung has been up for more than 24 hours (and the character hasn't posted in more than 48 hours, so player might be busy with real life)

Fung will move into the room, climb to 15' and airblast snake 1.

[dice=air blast]1d20+10+1+2+1+1 [dice=dmg]4d6+11+1+4+1+1

I’d give ya a hero point if this was a 2e game — ty!!

Ah, but Fung can usually empower his blasts for free... so we missed that bit of damage. =)

Ah, but Fung can usually empower his blasts for free... so we missed that bit of damage. =)

If I understand correctly, that would either cost a move action or burn and this being a very long special burn can better be saved for an actual challenge. (I think Fung's primarily used burn in earlier encounters to get Elemental Overflow online)

So sorry for being MIA. For some strange reason, the campaign page was not reflecting that there were new posts (even though all the other campaigns were fine). But I should have checked anyway. Thanks for the bot.

re: missing out damage: just want to put it out there that this group has had a very easy time so far and if we don’t do the most optimal thing from time to time — especially for the sake of helping one another out in a bottling situation — that’s ok.

Generally, if an important moment arrives and you can squeeze a bit more out based on another player’s expertise, I am cool retconning that in. But that important moment isn’t today.

re: missing out damage: just want to put it out there that this group has had a very easy time so far and if we don’t do the most optimal thing from time to time — especially for the sake of helping one another out in a bottling situation — that’s ok.

Generally, if an important moment arrives and you can squeeze a bit more out based on another player’s expertise, I am cool retconning that in. But that important moment isn’t today.

Also the damage done was precisely enough to beat the creature, although it didn't realize that immediately! :-P

I’m back at full connectivity. Thanks for the help, Fuzzfoot.

Thanks for the bot - kids had more homework than usual tonight, so just getting online for the day.

Happy to help!

We're on track to finish this research scene up today or tomorrow. The overseer is scheduled to move us on the next area tomorrow, so we are still doing awesome on time.

We will now hold until the overseer moves us on. I don't think a single day is enough time to get through another encounter in PbP.

We've all gotten a bit sloppy (myself included) about mixing OOC rules discussion with in-game action.

I generally prefer to try and keep the gameplay thread lean and narrative, with rules corrections / discussion kept in the discussion tab.

The spell deals only half damage to creatures who are neither evil nor good, and they are not sickened.

Fairbeaks is just a tiny bit hurt!

Oh... didn't realize that bit!

Good thing I rolled a 1 then, with or without the penalty didn't matter =)

I posted Lilybeth's action in advance, so she's done for the round.

If Fung missed only slightly, that would pop another image right?

Yes that is included in an edit after I posted. Everything should now be correct.

There are no optional encounters in this Area (and all the rest are clear), so we have a day or two to kick back with the general and eat some Ittho bread before the next section.

The Overseer will be moving us on Sunday evening (around midnight UTC is my guess).

If you aren't interested in chatting with the general, make sure you're at least checking in once a day to ensure we're keeping pace with the House.

Would regaining daily use of power apply to burn? And if so, since he can activate burn 10 times a day, could he regain 4 in total if he selects that option twice?

As far as I understand it, Burn is not a daily-use class feature, rather it is capped by other factors like hp and con (nor does it reset daily, it’s healed). So it would not seem to fit the recharge criteria of “daily use ability.“

However this scenario was written before occult adventures, and I think the intention is that PCs get to recharge some key abilities. I think it would be fair to take that into consideration and say Fung gets 2 back total.

Great, thanks I’m fine with that!

Just want to point out though that burn can’t be healed and only resets upon resting. “ For each point of burn she accepts, a kineticist takes 1 point of nonlethal damage per character level. This damage can’t be healed by any means other than getting a full night’s rest, which removes all burn and associated nonlethal damage.” Also, burn is only capped by Con (3 + Con specifically).

Aid Token #1
Passing To: GM Doug H

Token has been passed per Faustus's suggestion, used on his roll that completed the severing.

Are we no longer underground? Seems that way. Just want to be sure... I lose some terrain bonuses if so.

Correct, you're in a city. The terrain here would be Urban.

I am in a game tonight but will bot Roderick if the player doesn't post by 11 PM PST.

Sorry- lots of kids homework tonight. Posting now.

Ahh, bummer! I had a break so I went for it.

You're up again so you can still post, anyway :)

Did and done! 2 bombs marked off :)

I think this special is very suited for PBP. It was an absolute nightmare to fit it in a F2F 5 hour slot as there’s just too much content.

Agreed.

I will move us on to the final anchor a bit later tonight. I want to make sure everyone has a chance to stay caught up on the action.

We'll move on to the vault tonight. Busy day.

Some of the other tables haven't been quite as diplomatic as you were and had more combats, so we're once again a bit ahead.

@GM - if allowed, during the rebuff stage, Roderick would have re-mixed his mutagen and drank it for the extra con...

Doesn't brewing a mutagen take an hour? That would take too long.

Your mutagen should last 70 minutes and you drank one about 30 minutes into the adventure, so you should have plenty of time left anyway.

If you have some sort of ability or item that lets you refresh, that's totally fine. But by my count Roderick has more than enough time left on the first dose.