GM NovelEnigma's #8-24 Raid on the Cloudborne Keep (5-9) (Inactive)

Game Master asdffghjkl01

No problem! We are almost done with this scenario as this is the last fight.

Having had a 7 month old just over 5 years ago, I am impressed by anyone who can do anything else at the same time as caring for one.

And know why sleep deprivation is a form of torture.

What's worse is the fact that we have a one bedroom... so the baby sleep in the dining room/kitchen/sitting room and we can't do anything once we put him into bed at 8pm. (my main computer is there as my wife and I are working from home since COVID).

The smoke form ability has been clarified a bit after rereading it; The belker only partially enters the target's lungs, so you can still target it with attacks and such. Sorry about the misinterpretation of that ability.

I assume that that means it can hurt itself via confusion, then?

Yes and no; It can have that effect, and it did, but it can't actually bypass its own current DR.

My wife was paranoid about SIDs so ours slept in our room for the first year.

And for the last year she slept in our bed.

We had him monitored with a smart socks during his sleep. Because without that, we wouldn't be able to sleep!

We had him in our bedroom up to 3 months but we've decided to move him in the other room so he could sleep better and us too (during the night he was crawling towards my wife and her milk!)

We set up my daughter's new bed over the weekend and she's slept in there every night since, but wakes me up about 5:30 to sit with her until she goes back to sleep.

But I remember that first year...desperately wanting to sleep then not being able to deeply sleep because you're trying to hear a baby breath.

Yes and no; It can have that effect, and it did, but it can't actually bypass its own current DR.

Good grief, what does it have? DR 10/-?

It is in gaseous form mode, so it has DR 10/magic. Its own attacks are not magical, but the druids would normally have cast greater magic fang on Grasping Storm as a buff if they knew you were coming.

She avoids the sylph druids no matter how much the GM points them out and winks and nudges--not that she could do anything for them. ;)

To her way of thinking even the janitors on the Death Star knew who they were working for, and Shonne had no more connection to these two nameless druids than she had to those nameless goblin raiders in that one dungeon she once visited. Besides she (and her player) have never really trusted the Concordance since their introduction. They seem little better than the Aspis Consortium, or (after this adventure) the Pathfinder (Assassin's) Society itself. Why not try to turn or recruit Grasping Storm, or Efwurwa’s Fury, at least they had names right? ;)

That's fine; you only needed two out of three things to earn the second prestige point.

Befriending the Captain was one, keeping the druids alive was another, and the last one was keeping the Captain alive.

Unfortunately, the Silver Crusade mission is to redeem the druids, so you'll lose out on the boon. Don't worry though, all it lets you do is caster feather fall twice ever.

Does anyone have Remove Blindness/Deafness as an option?

If not, I'll need to purchase a casting of it.

Does anyone have Remove Blindness/Deafness as an option?

If not, I'll need to purchase a casting of it.

Sorry Kahwen, I do not.

Unfortunately, the Silver Crusade mission is to redeem the druids, so you'll lose out on the boon. Don't worry though, all it lets you do is caster feather fall twice ever.

I figured something along those lines given the set up at the meeting, but really it still doesn't make much sense--unless we missed the opportunity to mingle, and Shonne couldn't fix them anyhow. S'all good. ;)

There was a sense motive check for silver crusade members that simply hints that you could redeem them or at least converse with them.

The other group managed it by focusing down Grasping Storm first, and then the druids surrender because they were being forced to fight, starved, and sleep-deprived.

I would go on record and say that it was designed very effectively, but at least the boon is pretty boring to make up for it.

Sadly, Ansha isn't Silver Crusade or else she may have made more of an effort to keep the druids alive/persuade them away from Grasping Storm. Then again, the rest of the Murderhobo Pathfinder Society like to blast first, ask questions later, so there's only so much she can do when it comes to making Diplomacy checks. ;P

But confusion is always fun too, so at least she gets to cause mayhem when she doesn't get to play diplomat.

Chronicle sheets.

Confusion is great. I have a cleric/sorcerer of the lantern king that metamagics lesser confusion to crazy levels. Extended Persistent Lesser Confusion.

Happy Memorial Day to folks in the States.

I would go on record and say that it was designed very effectively, but at least the boon is pretty boring to make up for it.

I will go down the other way, unless the hint says something like "We have a double agent in the Storm's midst." I don't think it is realistic to assume that members of the Murder Hobo Society are going to try and recruit every nameless opponent they encounter. We could have talked or avoided conflict with the real mercenaries, but just ambushed them while they where relaxing on deck. To be clear Shonne isn't necessarily against that she just doesn't particularly want to do it for the Concordance of Elements who seem more than a bit untrustworthy (at least from my player/PC experience with them in their intro adventures).

EDIT: Looked at the hint (which is itself only pointing to a hint that I had already picked up on without the roll... so weird). To paraphrase: Slyph druids are spineless and their loyalties are like the breeze blowing one way one day and the other the next. If that's true, I don't know that I would want them as allies, and feel a bit dirty after having impersonated one. No offense Wind's--but then again you're not a druid either. ;)

Aside from that, good game, and really I'm only here for that, and 1 XP--10th level! WOOT!

Ansha, did you need any more spells out of Shonne's book?

Ansha, did you need any more spells out of Shonne's book?

Yeah, may as well add to her spellbook:

• *buoyancy (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *shrink item (wiz 3) 90gp
  
• *water breathing (wiz 3) 90gp
  
• *monkey fish (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *blink (wiz 3) 90gp
  
• *blend (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *mount (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *true strike (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *cat's grace (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *enlarge person (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *share language (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *spontaneous immolation (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *gust of wind (wiz 3) 90gp
  

Ansha can't fail a DC18 Spellcraft check, so they're all added automatically. She has the wizard tower boon too, so her total cost is 513gp.

Also, GM NovelEnigma, Ansha is slow-track, so her Chronicle needs to be corrected on that score.

None taken! :D

Thank you very much for GMing!

I'm going to add:

5th level
Dismissal (250gp)

4th level
Emergency Force Sphere (160gp)
Remove Curse (160gp)

3rd level
Spiked Pit (90gp)

2nd level
Levitate (40gp)
Detect Thoughts (40gp)

1st level
Heightened Awareness (10gp)

For an even 750gp (plus the dough from earlier).

Shonne can take 10 for a total of 20 to pass any of the Spellcraft checks required.

Shonne's chronicle looks good. Thanks to the GM for GMing, and the players for playing.

My chronicle looks good.

And I'm not Silver Crusade so I couldn't have gotten the boon, anyway, but with my Glide ability I can Feather Fall all the time, anyway.

Shonne wrote:

Ansha, did you need any more spells out of Shonne's book?

Yeah, may as well add to her spellbook:

• *buoyancy (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *shrink item (wiz 3) 90gp
  
• *water breathing (wiz 3) 90gp
  
• *monkey fish (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *blink (wiz 3) 90gp
  
• *blend (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *mount (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *true strike (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *cat's grace (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *enlarge person (wiz 1) 10gp
  
• *share language (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *spontaneous immolation (wiz 2) 40gp
  
• *gust of wind (wiz 3) 90gp
  

Ansha can't fail a DC18 Spellcraft check, so they're all added automatically. She has the wizard tower boon too, so her total cost is 513gp.

Also, GM NovelEnigma, Ansha is slow-track, so her Chronicle needs to be corrected on that score.

Updated your chronicle for slow track; sorry for the delay.