Kingmaker

Game Master Rackal28

Let's make camp, I think. Though we're lacking darkvision now, especially.

Definitely camp.

Also, whoops! I realize I wrote northwest when I meant northeast, following the river up a bit. It looks like we passed by the old Sycamore again. That's fine: we'll get the rest of this area as we go, I imagine.

Also, am I the only one that finds it weird that magi, who spend the first third of their levels confined to light armour but need to get up close into melee, don't get Acrobatics as a class skill? I guess it's not a career choice for those who expect to live long. o.O

Spell Dancers do! And they're even elf-exclusive, so Lina could have been/retrain into one.

I apologize if we're waiting on me to post my prepared spell list. My usual list of resist energy, barkskin, entangle, shillelagh, cure light wounds, detect magic, guidance, grasp, and create water will do in a pinch if we need to move on. It turns out that the most fun exploration spells don't show up for druids for a bit, at least not anything that I can use to spread throughout a whole hex or go a few hexes away. Yet.

Also, that Spell Dancer archetype looks super cool! Unfortunately I don't think it stacks with Puppetmaster.

Indeed! Both modify one’s arcane pool, sadly.

And I’ll definitely have to check out Six Seconds to Midnight! The premise sounds really neat.

We were waiting for me~

Just nursing a hangover >.>'

Anyways, I'm eager to see what you will do here!

Enjoy~

@GM: Do you have a stance on Glitterdust countering Blur's effect?

Glitterdust would work yes~

Oh? That's good to know. I thought it was more of a specific counter to invisibility, since faerie fire spells out that it messes with blur effects, and glitterdust doesn't.

Hmm. I'll have to think some more about counter-counter-measures, if Lina decides to try some sneaking and concealment at some point, just in case. She's a bit fragile, y'know. :)

Can I just say that with regards to single, big targets, Meneas is basically highly specialized to charge them down and squish them? It'd be even better if he gets them by surprise, because then he gets the +1d6 sneak attack, for even more exploding giblets. Cavaliers with lances and charges are pretty strong.

Or! I can invis you and you always sneak on your charge.

Oh, you're an illusionist! That didn't even occur to me!

I was also wondering if Meneas was going to challenge this creature for even greater devastation.

Lina, I'm hoping that a 16 would hit. Got any damage there?

I only held off because Meneas isn't sure this will be the only (or biggest) threat that they face today.

Totally fair. We'll see!

Spoiler ahead: Brental is summoning a small air elemental. In between buying new appliances and setting up our new office, I'm looking up how whirlwind interacts with swarms. I'll be with y'all asap.

Gust of winds' description says that it goes about 50 mph, which is "severe" to "windstorm" speeds on the wind speeds table in Ultimate Wilderness. Just for further reference.

There will be more of an update coming bur I only had time for this now!

Lina: Tuskgutter's a boar. A big, mean boar.

This is a type 1 bag of holding~

Bt the way, I motion for us to spend Oleg's credit on a CLW wand.

We do have one already - miserably charged, but I think we've got one.

I highly agree! A life-saving wand that at least two of us can use out of the gate is a tremendous idea. We only have 8 charges left on the current one.

A fully-charged Wand will run each of us 187.5 gp, and will hopefully last us (at least) through our inevitable assault on the Stag Lord's fort.

I haven't updated the loot sheet in quite a while, but I'm going to sit down soon and figure out exactly how much we will each have to spend. (Any items that had been marked for the departed party members, I'm going to remove from consideration. But we each have a lot!)

If we need to, we should also probably spend some money on supplies - like, actual foodstuffs, unless we want to try Survival checks to ensure we're all fed.

Note to self and party: When we can, ask about "poor Davik Nettles," especially since we might be headed in that general direction before coming back to Oleg's again, by which time we'll probably have forgotten about it.

I just realized that Lina posted moments before I did. I'm good with whatever time we pick up, whether it's circa noon the next day with plans to travel to Bokken's (and that basically be the day's work) or spend another evening. I'm still planning on making the batch of goodberries. The only thing that timing will affect is whether Brental uses a lesser restoration spell on himself, and alternatively whether anyone wants a masterwork item.

Huh, Meneas could do with a masterwork lance... or a masterwork cold iron aldori dueling sword, for that matter. Heck, I think he might even be able to afford both. Not sure on that last, though. I have been wondering on what to spend my money.

Might want a couple potions of CLW, though.

Brental, I think we'll be fine with whatever works for you, whether spending another night at the trading post, or heading off again in the afternoon, since I'm not hearing any rumblings that we're desperate to get moving absolutely as soon as possible.

Oh, and Meneas (and everyone), Lina would be happy to swap out share language for a CLW, if we're not worried about running into more somethings with a language you don't speak.

All right, after some accounting, I have what I hope is both logical and fair. I'm using all of the values currently found in the Loot Sheet, and trying to divide things into the three times that we have sold items at the Leveton Trading Post.

So what does all that accounting mean?

In summary:

That'd be fine by me.

Thanks for sorting all that out, Brental!

I only used the tick chitin for Lina's new spear, but I don't mind holding on to the centipede stuff for a bit until folks decide if a bonus to trip attempts or Escape Artist is something that would be useful to them.

And, yes, I had recorded Lina's expenditures for her new spells out of Morof's spellbook, and raw materials beyond bug bits, but didn't include the gp value of the chitin, so I'll adjust for that too in updating her current coin.

I can include the value of items and crafting materials as well, but I'm operating under the assumption of just dividing money rather than tracking the value of each item we're taking.

Misunderstood re the centipede chitin! We can sell that, too. I don't anticipate that Brental will make many trip maneuvers, as his only native weapon with the trip special ability is the sickle. He doesn't qualify for combat expertise either, so that would be rough. If anything, once he can wild shape and gain a form that can trip natively at Level 6, he may try that. But that'll be natural weapons.

Can Brental retroactively put in an order for a +1 Cloak of Resistance to be sent to the trading post for when he next returns?

I might be unable to post today. Some things've come up.

Yeah that should be fine Brental~

And I hope everything is alright Meneas! Don't worry about posting just be sure to take care of yourself. :)

Posting to all the campaigns I’m playing in: I’m travelling for the next couple of days, so my access to the boards will be spotty at best until late Wednesday / early Thursday. I’ll try to post as per usual if I can, but feel free to bot me as necessary.

Also, I hope whatever's come up for you, Meneas, isn't too much of a hassle to resolve. Take care - it's our DM's orders, after all. ;)

Poor Morof - a bunch of rather more hardened adventurers just chatting with the undead monstrosity, while he's (quite rightly) concerned that it might attack.

YALL CRAZY

We are!

Brental surprised me there. I dug into his psychology, and here we are.

Lina’s perfectly sane! *Cackles wildly.*

I mean, she’s had a few moments in her past, and, sure, she’s spent time in Daggermark studying toxicology and has a Gyronnan ex (who may or may not be connected to the ruins of a haunted town), but everything’s fine now. :)

(The girlfriend she found later is both hundreds of miles away, and, much more importantly, a lovely person.)

Meneas is ruthless and (tries to be) practical when it comes to bandits. He's also been trained from a very young age to resolve most of his problems with violence, and he's getting more and more fey-kin as he grows in prowess.

Other than that, he's a perfectly normal person!

Which actually brings to mind what I've been thinking for awhile... we don't actually have that great a candidate for baron/ruler when that time comes at the moment. Meneas would prefer a martial position and is a little bit screwy, Brental's Charisma's not that great, Lina's a tad more whimsical than we'd like, which leaves Morof, who seems pretty unassuming at the moment.

Well, we'll cross that chasm when we come to it. It doesn't have a bridge, see.

Yeah, we're not the most charismatic group. Times I wish I was playing my usual bard!

Ahem, in my game, charisma will not be necessary to be king/queen btw~

Huzzah! Brental the Wise running for office (j/k, maybe, idk).

Just gonna put in for a Fillory-style quadrarchy (a la The Magicians, or heck, Narnia).

Or, Andoran has a parliamentary democracy, so that's a viable system of rule in Golarion!

I really don't think Morof wants or thinks about being a ruler. I vote for Brental.

To review, we currently have a number of possible objectives/leads.
1. Tatzlwyrm bounties to the west of Oleg's, I think.
2. Tuskgutter bounty - location unknown?
3. Kesten's vengeance against Falgrim Sneeg - location unknown?
4. Temple of Erastil - location definitely unknown, Jhod was just as confused as us.
5. General Exploration of the Greenbelt - anywhere but southeast, which leads to the Nomen Heights - outside of our purview for the time being.
6. Bokken's Berries - southwest of the rickety bridge

There's also a few longer term goals we have.
7. Stag Lord hunting - we know he's somewhere to the south of the Thorn River Camp, but not where exactly.
8. Signy and Wisp investigation - we could ask our fey friends whether they know anything about the raven-thing that took them.
9. Morof's creation of a vineyard for Bokken. Needs to happen after we get the fangberries.

I recommend we pursue 5 and 6 by crossing the rickety bridge, then head northwards in the hopes of doing 1 and maybe 8?

I believe we're currently in the hex labeled "none," as we didn't find anything here.

I have no idea yet how Brental would react to being nominated for leadership. We'll cross that chasm sooner or later!

So yes, let's cross the river and look for our marks by exploring the forest hex by hex.

So I'm a tad confused... what hex are yall lovely people headed towards?

Just southwest of the Rickety Bridge, I believe.

I don't have a sense for how long it takes to explore a hex, but we've been through Bokken, the tree, an empty hex, and Davik Nettles all in one day. Would it be reasonable to say that we break for the evening and pick back up the next day? If we anticipate looking for the fangberries, Brental would like to prep new spells.