The Journey of a Thousand Miles (Jade Regent AP)

Game Master Sensen

Torra does not have a beard.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it!

As for the dress, we did just find a very fancy, expensive one in Brinewall...

Yes, indeed. A bit gaudy, but there you go.

Gaudy dresses aside for a moment, merry christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Merry X-mas!
Happy Hanukkah!
And various other holiday greetings to you all <3

And yeah about the dress... Riftun is definitely gonna want to wear that at some point... >.>'

Also who ended up taking Kikonu's wasp weapon? XP

Or is that just in the 'sell' pile?

I'm fine with moving forward. Teruko's going to brood study in a corner somewhere :)

I'm fine with moving forward too, though I liked the chat with Yuto :)

Same as Andochtuir! :)

@Riftun, if you are interested you can write Riftun's name in column K of the treasure sheet, the item will automatically appear in Riftun's tab.

Keep in mind that the forest isn't that close to the castle, Yuto - there's the village and the bay between them.

I meant something like in the blue arrow here.

Okay, that's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure you weren't expecting tree cover or something.

I'll either move us onwards tonight or early tomorrow, because there's much to do.

I'll give it another few hours before posting.

I can post in an hour or so, but I wouldn't really change the plan. Mostly to respond to Teruko's bluff which I forgot earlier and some recent discussion. Wouldnt mind pushing the story along instead, though.

Also, happy new year celebration everyone!

Happy New Years, indeed. An advancement post will be up tomorrow. Right now I'm just feeling a tad off.

Oh, right. For the humans, the priestess is in dim light - it's not bright light outside, and the light level inside is one lower, due to few windows.

It's also true for Andochtuir and Torra beyond 60 ft, but not in this room.

I... wish I was awake earlier

:(

I would have used Saving Finale to help out Yuto that's why I started a bardic performance in the first place

Ack, sorry. I didn't realize that.

Well, it seems to have worked? Go Riftun/Yuto!

Should Yuto still be allowed to take his turn as last posted and if he kills the priestess, I will move south during my turn to attack the phantom instead.

I need to math that out. Give me a bit - I think it might kill her, but Andochtuir would need to finish her off.

In which case, after she dies Yuto can run up and help Riftun out <3

I can't wait for level 4 when Riftun will actually have a defensive spell xD

I forgot she has a higher AC than the average dire corby, so... no confirm on Yuto's crit, which means she got to hang on! And, uh, disappear. She may die anyways, though, because ferocity doesn't stabilize.

Brief advertisement: One of my players has, alas, dropped out of another game. If you want to join my Wrath of the Righteous game, rerecruitment is open. Andochtuir's already in, so he can't join. :P

Man, I'm never gonna get a rend off from these dopes.

I'll be away until Monday, so I won't be able to post. Please bot Torra as needed.

Sure thing. Thanks for letting me know.

So, uh, good news-bad news situation here. Good news: I won't have to bot Torra for a bit! Bad news: Because she's unconscious from the obscene damage that the ghost corby just did to her.

Well, I'm content. The Phantom did what I wanted her to do at least once before dying... though she might do it again if you let her get away.

I have to say, well-rolled there, good sir/madam! Three natural twenties out of the last five attacks? Nice! :') Oh god I hope we survive at least one floor or it'd be so embarassing...

Yeah, the dire corbies in Brinewall have been bizarrely lucky with their natural twenties. I think I rolled like, 5 in the last encounter with them. I don't think any of them confirmed last time, though.

Just want to point out that attack would have taken either Riftun or Teruko from full to straight up dead... and it wasn't even a critical hit.

I.... am.... horrified. >.>'

That did occur to me, yes. Fortunately, Torra had done the most damage to her. I generally do try to avoid the "this will kill you dead immediately" attacks, because, uh, they're no fun. But it is worth noting that she is very dangerous when surprising folks. Without the sneak attack, though, she's much less damaging.

The problem is figuring out how to stop her from sneaking off again and again >.>'

I, uh, may have made her Acrobatics a bit too high. Not to worry, though, she is rather upset with you all, and will probably stick around next time because I realize having her plaguing you for the rest of the dungeon would be more annoying than fun.

Teruko would at least try to shoot the ghost corby as she flees, but wouldn't pursue further than that. She's got people to heal.

Personally I think we should stay in initiative. Even if we don't pursue the ghost corby, there's the priestess. Thanks to Yuto we have a general idea of her location and could maybe pin her down if we act fast.

Indeed. Assuming she doesn't come back to attack you all again - which she may well do of her own volition.

Does the ghost corby fly? And does it have that much speed? Making an acrobatics check to avoid AoO's reduces your speed by half for at least one move I believe.

Also: yikes! Well, I'm glad I took along another wand of cure light wounds!

Oh, does it? Missed that. She's probably only halfway to the door, then. She doesn't have flying capabilities, though, no. Just a whole lot of jumps.

Wait... Why did Riftun provoke AoO?

He didn't move out of the Phantom's range.

No, he passed through her threatened squares, though. When you leave a square that a foe is threatening, it provokes. At least, in Pathfinder 1e.

I think some of the more d20 games have dropped it so that it's only when leaving their threatened area - D&D 5e, specifically. Pathfinder 2e does away with universal AoOs, so I don't remember what the rules there are.

Huh, I have been getting that rule wrong all my decade and a half long adventuring career. But I looked into it and you're absolutely right. o.o' Thanks for informing me.

In other news does anyone have any ideas for dealing with the ghost corby? Cause I feel like sticking around in this keep one of us WILL die if the corby does its thing again.

Well, you do know that she doesn't have the ability to turn invisible again today - Riftun knows that IC because he identified her the day prior. She can only do it 1/day. So there's that, at least!

That makes this slightly more doable... we may want to go get those promised heals already from Spivey before continuing on though >.>'

Was that wise, Yuto? No. Was it awesome? Absolutely.

Was that wise, Yuto? No. Was it awesome? Absolutely.

This! So much this.

That... was super cool xD

Also, I could be misreading Yuto's character sheet here but... you do have a composite longbow right?

Not that it matters cause you did that amazing sword move istead xD

Unstrapping the shield is a move action. Yuto could drop the katana, but not remove the shield, draw the bow and shot in the same round.

Given Riftun's plea, I wanted to drop the blade and throw a dagger or other thrown weapon, but after checking abashed I forgot to buy a dagger for Yuto and the wakizashi is not throwable, there was no other chance for him to obey but to throw the katana.

I knew it was not going to stop the Phantom even if it hit, given it was just mildly wounded, but heck, it is all about playing the character and the scene :P

Now he has a reason to use other weapons, which is cool too.

Ah, those pesky little rules I keep hearing so much about.

I really will have to read them one of these days~

Regardless that action was epic, gonna make for a great part of Riftun's story. Ya know, if he lives to tell it which is heavily debatable at this point~

Question for the GM!

Are there any windows or the such into the throne room and how large are they if they do exist?

That was very cool. Even if it didn't work, I fully approve of the katana-throwing action.

Oh Teruko! I think that should be a +3 to you CLW since you are casting the spell yourself

So two more hitpoints back to Torra~

Teruko is casting CLW via the wand, not as a spell slot. So unfortunately for Torra +5hp is correct for this round :(

(Next level Teruko will double her spells per day and get lots more options, which cannot come fast enough.)