Yeah, a ranger or druid would help lots here... assuming there's any non-meat provisions, which I need to double-check. There might be some mushrooms.
I'll try offering it some meat anyway. I too feel a bit bad for the heavily injured 'guard dog' of sorts. Don't have handle animal, but we'll see if it takes the meat regardless.
@Verene Daze wouldn't work as it's humanoid-only.
Also, I wanted to share this: the COVID-19 infection rate here in the Netherlands is going crazy, with every part of the healthcare sector being affected by both it and the regulations put in place to prevent it. As a physician myself, I've been extremely busy handling things and as such I haven't had much spare time or energy to write these last couple of weeks. I'm doing what I can, but I expect my posting rate will be a bit lower across all my campaigns for the near future. My apologies for that in advance.
Yikes. Well, good luck and hope things go well for you, Elliot.
Oof, I'm sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself as best you can!
Sorry to hear that, Elliot, and good luck. Real life comes first!
I hope things turn around soon Elliot and stay safe!
Elliot, I wish you luck in your fight against the virus. I hope the numbers of infected there can start to reduce and put less strain on the health system. Stay safe and well.
Okay, who wants the cloak of resistance +1?
Thanks for remembering the masterwork dagger, Merixia! Verene is fine with the cloak going to Elliot, especially if he might be on the front lines more often starting soon? Or we can toss a coin (roll 1d2) for it, as the two party members with the worst saves. Up to you, Elliot!
Also, GM - I just realized I could scribe a scroll of mage armor and have more slots for tomorrow. I think it takes two hours and costs 12.5 gp (in reagents? Could just subtract this from the value of the writing-new-spells-in-spellbooks ingredients we already bought?) So I'd like to do that, if it's okay, and however that affects the number of total spells she can copy is fine.
Uh, did you keep track of the amount you spent on the new spells? Because I didn't, and I'm not up to that at the moment, but other than that, I don't mind.
While I may not be able to get to it this week with moving, I was thinking I could use to peruse and update the loot sheet. If things get sold/traded, feel free to mark them or send them my way and I can get things updated.
I did make a quick post, but life is busy currently. Thankfully I should be fairly settled after the beginning of next week. Or at least I better be since I have to be fully out of here by the end of the month.
Yep, we spent 250 gp on spell-copying reagents etc. That was here.
Good luck and hope your move goes smoothly, Thesius!
Long and exhausting days and my brain's fried. I'll make an IC post with Meron in my morning after I get some sleep. Apologies for the delay.
Hope your move goes smoothly, Thesius.
Sounds good to me, Verene. I'm pretty sure CL for scrolls is fixed, but I could be wrong - let me know if that's the case.
Elyda - get some rest. Sleep is important!
Take care of yourself, everyone!
FYI, I don't know if I'll be able to post tomorrow or Thursday. Tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment, two pies to bake, and cleaning to do. Thursday I'm helping host Thanksgiving.
Happy Turkey Day to everyone who celebrates!
You know, I almost forgot that Thanksgiving would impact my American players. I can't promise more than one post on Thursday, myself, depending on how things fall out.
Oh, so it will be 12.5 gp x caster level 2 x spell level 1, for 25 gp? Got it, makes sense. Up to you how much copying + scribing can be reasonably accomplished before the group leaves the next day, GM. Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating!
Depends on how many you have. The copying takes 1 hour per spell, so I think you still have enough hours in the day to copy them all. I'm not sure about writing the scroll, but I think you probably can do that, too.
Two hours is the standard, I think, to scribe a scroll whose base price is less than 250 gp. So, if the copying takes 1 hour per spell, then let's say the spells I named in my post are now in her spellbook, and a scroll of mage armor at caster level 2 is created. The process consumes the scrolls of bear's endurance and resist energy, I believe, and will also consume 10 + 10 + 40 + 40 + 40 + 40 + 40 + 25 (245/250) gp worth of the spell copying stuff we bought from Seer Opoli. I thought that copying spells into a spellbook just cost 10 gp/spell level, but it turns out it's a little more complicated than that according to this table from the Core rulebook. A 1st-level spell costs 10 gp, but a 2nd-level spell costs 40.
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Looks good to me, then!
I did discover that if wizards fail to transcribe a spell from a scroll, the scroll doesn't get used up. I forgot that, because witches do use the scroll up whether or not they succeed. The more you learn!
I'll try to move us on either today or Sunday, but I suspect it's going to be a slow weekend.
Anyone else want to try and trade the heavier loot so we aren't overly encumbered? There might be Climb checks involved in our trip back to the surface.
I feel like weapons are probably the most useful thing to give to the forgotten children, both because they'll use them and because weapons are a bit bulky and unpleasant. Things like jewelry or the holy symbols, by contrast, won't be worth much of anything to them... well, maybe one or two, to help rally the other tribes.
Okay, now that Thanksgiving is over for our US people, I want to check in with everyone. Merixia and Elyda have posted recently, and I know that Elliot and Thesius mentioned they were feeling the time pressure, but Verene, you still ready to go?
If everyone's ready, I'll move us on later today, and we can keep the conversations in spoilers as you ascend to the surface again, and see what the hordes of the Worldwound have wrought upon the fair city of Kenabres. (I almost wrote Kintargo. I've too many K city names in my games.)
Just checking in to say I'm around and good to go whenever the group is ready to move on. Selling off the heavy weapons sounds great to me!
Edit: hah, ninja'd by 30 seconds! Yes, I'm here, GM. Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. :)
I'm fine with moving on. I'm not sure what else to do here now. I'd have tried to purchase things for the PM-discussed stuff in the town but I don't have any concrete leads or reason to do so in-character atm.
To be fair, they probably don't have it down here anyways, so it's all good.
Also, now that the site's not being quite so finicky, I apologize for not getting a post up - aforementioned finickiness and all.
Did the party get a chance to dispose of the heavier loot the night before?
Yes, I'm not sure what you wanted to sell, specifically, and wanted to move us on. You can say you sold a certain amount of stuff - not sure how much at the moment - in retrospect, as we discuss it here.
I'll try and get a post up tonight when i get home. That'll be in roughly 4 hours from now.
Because I feel rather bad about pushing you guys to post when everyone's so busy, I'm going to wait on moving you forwards until I hear from more folks.
My next post is going to be a big one, so I'm holding off for this evening - apologies, but I want it to be pretty, uh... strong. So I'd like to do it when I'm more awake.
No worries, GM. Looking forward to it!
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My apologies for the disappearance. Been moving. I should be staring to post on the regular again tomorrow.
Welcome back, Thesius!
Picked up another level of inquisitor.
+1 BAB, +1 Reflex
HP: +7
+1 Orison (Stabilize) & +1 1st level spell (CLW)
• Abyssal Scourge: gains Alignment Channel as a bonus feat. Can use Channel Positive Energy to harm evil outsiders only: 1d6 dmg, 4 times/day
• Favored Judgment : gains Favored Judgment as a bonus feat. Chosen favoured enemy: evil outsiders. Any sacred or profane bonus gained from a judgment is 1 higher for attacks against/to evil outsiders.
• Power Attack (new feat at 3rd)
Skills:
+1 Linguistics (picked up Infernal - I'm hoping Merixia has kindly been teaching Elyda along the way in downtime.)
+1 Know. History
+1 Diplomacy
+1 Heal
+1 Intimidate
+1 Know. Local
+1 Know. Planes
+1 Perception
+2 Stealth
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It's a busy work day for me. I'll make an IC post in my evening. Thanks. :)
Since I don't want to rush out a post to an event that epic/dramatic as being reborn in a way, I'll leave that for tomorrow.
Also, welcome back, Thesius!
Elliot may find that more than he realizes has been lost...
*ominous music*
Level 3, yay! Dinner will probably be soon, so I'll save my reply for tomorrow.
Can we prepare our new spells, or does that have to wait for the next time we sleep?
@Verene and @Elliot, one of you pick who gets the cloak of resistance.
@Elyda, sure, we can say Merixia was teaching her. She may not have been the best teacher since Infernal came naturally to her as a devil-blooded tiefling, but she would have done her best.
Hm... That's a good question. I think in this case, I'll allow you to have prepared the new spells, but only because you haven't had any encounters today. If you'd left before dealing with the dretches and exited after defeating them, I'd say you wouldn't get them or the additional daily spells (for Elyda & Thesius).
Now I'm not sure whether that was a coherent sentence, but in short, yes, but that won't be a hard and fast rule.
Hurray new level!
Verene changes
HP +5 (now 17: 4 from half 1d6+1, 1 Con)
BAB +0
Will Save +0
Fort Save +1 (now +2)
Ref Save +1 (now +3)
CMB +0
CMD +0
Caster Level +1 (now 3)
Concentration +1 (now +9 - 3 caster level, 4 ability score, 2 trait; +13 when casting defensively or grappled, from Combat Casting)
Cantrips no change
1st-level spells no change
2nd-level spells known +2 (choosing See Invisibility, Web)
2nd-level spells prepared per day +3 (now 3: base 1, ability score bonus spell, and school bonus spell)
Spells currently prepared (base 4 0th / 2 1st / 1 2nd; she gets an extra 2 spells each of 1st and 2nd level from ability score bonus spell and specialized school bonus spell):
0 - daze, detect fiendish presence, message, ghost sound (DC 14)*
1 - color spray, color spray, color spray, identify (DC 15)
2 - invisibility, web, see invisibility (DC 16)
+1 Feat (3rd level) - Point-Blank Shot
Skill Upgrades: 10 (2 class, 4 Int, 2 background, 1 human, 1 favored class)
+1 Diplomacy (now +12: 3 rank, 3 class skill, 2 ability score, 3 familiar, 1 trait)
+1 Knowledge (Arcana) (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS)
+1 Knowledge (Geography) (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS)
+1 Knowledge (History) (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS)
+1 Knowledge (Planes) (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS)
+1 Knowledge (Religion) (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS)
+1 Linguistics (now +10: 2 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS) (Language: Dwarven)
+1 Perception (now +6: 3 rank, 1 AS, 2 Alertness [familiar])
+1 Spellcraft (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 4 AS)
+1 Use Magic Device (now +3: 1 rank, 2 AS)
Thamyris changes
HP +2 (now 8; always have half the master's HP total rounded down)
Natural armor bonus +1 (now +2 for AC 18/FF 16)
Intelligence score +1 (now 7)
Thamyris Skill Upgrades
+1 Perception (now +11: 3 [Verene] rank, 3 CS, 2 AS, 3 Skill Focus [Perception])
Thamyris can now deliver spells with a range of "touch." He has Improved Evasion (as all familiars do, but it wasn't noted in the stat block before.)
Gear changes: masterwork dagger swapped for dagger. Masterwork glaive x2, dagger and masterwork longbow sold in Neathholm. @Elliot you can take the cloak of resistance +1, sound good?
* I'm going to continue to lean on our many other magic users with cantrips for various light spells / prestidigitation / detect magic and good Spellcraft rolls for most magic item identification and utility, and continue preparing other cantrips that we don't have multiply covered. However, I really wished yesterday that I'd prepped daze, as Elliot did, instead of detect poison, which is kind of useless when you still have to make a pretty high-DC Wisdom check to ID the poison. Even though daze doesn't work on non-humanoids, we fought plenty of humans and I expect we'll continue to do so. I also wished every single first-level spell I had had was color spray, so Verene is going to be living that early save-or-die, hope-the-enemies-roll-badly-so-they-don't-just-kill-you-next-turn life for a while. She also has that 1st-level school slot that can only usefully be filled with identify, so she can take on any hard items if our other casters happen to not be able to ID them.
I'm figuring here we should let Elliot take the lead in responding, so I'll hang tight for a bit.
Sure thing.
I'll be home and able to post in around 3 hours, probably.
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I was rather pleased with Elliot's dream-ish thing, because structurally it went backwards from one perspective and forwards from the other, until they met in the middle. More or less.
It was definitely a cool sequence, thanks for a great post! :) I also liked that there was a light and dark perspective for a sword partly named 'Eclipse'.
I was toying around a bit with Elliot muttering some things before passing out, but since it said he lost consciousness instantly I went with this setup instead.
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Yes, well, it is a black blade aligned with Sarenrae, so I felt eclipse was the appropriate term. I also got to foreshadow some things, so that was nice!
I think it worked well, all things told. Say, you haven't decided where Elliot lived in Kenabres, have you? If not, don't. I have a bit of a plan, you see.
Oh! That reminds me. I've updated the geographic maps to show Ruined Kenabres next to its whole counterpart, so you can see where you are in the city with the blue dot.
Leveling up time! Since Merixia is on the front lines more often than not, she gets Heavy Armor Proficiency for her new feat.
HP +7 (now 24: 5 from half 1d8+1, 2 Con)
BAB +1 (now +2)
Will Save +0
Fort Save +0
Ref Save +1 (now +2)
CMB +1 (now +5)
CMD +1 (now +16)
Caster Level +1 (now 3)
Concentration +1 (now +6 - 3 caster level, 3 ability score)
Orisons no change
1st-level spells no change
2nd-level spells prepared per day +3 (now 3: base 1, ability score bonus spell, and domain spell)
Spells currently prepared (base 4 0th / 4 1st / 3 2nd; she gets an extra 2 spells each of 1st and 2nd level from ability score bonus spell and domain spell):
0 - create water, stabilize, guidance, resistance
1 - protection from evil (Good domain), magic weapon, divine favor, protection from evil (DC 14)
2 - shatter (Destruction domain), aid, bull's strength (DC 15)
Channel Energy 2d6
+1 Feat (3rd level) - Heavy Armor Proficiency
Skill Upgrades: 6 (2 class, 1 Int, 2 background, 1 favored class)
+1 Craft: Weapons (now +7: 3 rank, 3 class skill, 1 ability score)
+1 Heal (now +9: 3 rank, 3 CS, 3 AS)
+1 Knowledge (History) (now +7: 3 rank, 3 CS, 1 AS)
+1 Knowledge (Religion) (now +7: 3 rank, 3 CS, 1 AS)
+1 Perception (now +10: 3 rank, 3 CS, 3 AS, 1 trait)
+1 Sense Motive (now +11: 3 rank, 3 CS, 3 AS, 2 race)
Also, if anyone has a better idea for a different title or surname for new Elliot, I'm open to suggestions! The current one is a reference to the Heron swordmasters from the Wheel of Time books and his foster family being Ulfren - Erik the Red was one of the Viking's most famous explorers. Also fits the flame theme for the Peri-Aasimar.
I like the new name: Elliot, the Red Heron. It lends a little mystique to him. :)
I was not able to get caught up on all the happenings today, so I will be getting a post up tomorrow. I have the basic idea of what I will be doing level wise. All skills will be open to Thesius with the Improvisation feat and will get boosted to a minimum of +6 on the roll (+2 Reflexive Improvisation, +2 Improvisation, and +2 stat).