Protectors of Golarion (Wrath of the Righteous AP)

Game Master Sensen

Fortunately I think we have a couple of nice options coming up that we might be able to take. Beyond See Invisibility, Glitterdust and later Invisibility Purge seem like good choices. They of course have limited time spans, but are good in case a situation requires it suddenly. Glitterdust also has the chance to blind which is nice.

Glitterdust is a priority for sure. I almost took it this level-up as one of her two 'free' spells, but wanted to take at least one 2nd-level divination spell so she would have something to do with her school slot. It was either see invisibility or detect thoughts, and detect thoughts is a big hassle for the GM and would, I thought, probably slow down a PbP game in an unacceptable way. So, see invisibility it was, and because it's semi-redundant with glitterdust I decided to wait on that one and take web for the other.

Small note: i was tested poative for covid three days ago and i'm not feeling that great despite the vaccinations. Mostly mild symptoms but very tired. I'll probably be a bit slow on posting the coming days/week.

Oh no! I hope it stays mild. Rest up and don't worry about us, we'll still be here when you recover.

We actually already have glitterdust- it’s my racial SLA.

@Elliot- hope you feel better soon!

I hope you have a full and speedy recovery. It can be hard to avoid even when being cautious about it. My mom was vaccinated and has gotten it twice already despite trying to be cautious about it.

Frankly, I'm surprised I haven't caught the pestilence yet, vaccine and booster notwithstanding. Usually I catch whatever respiratory crud is going around in short order and take weeks to recover from a common cold. I guess it helps that I'm disabled and don't leave the house that often. :P

Sorry to hear that, Elliot, fingers crossed for you to get good rest and feel better soon. My brother also brought it back from a trip around Christmastime, despite being vaccinated, but had a mild case and avoided giving it to anyone else that we know of. Hope your bout with it is like that too.

I'll give it another few hours before I send you onwards.

All right, I'm feeling back to okay now. Should be good to go :) Thanks for your encouragement, everyone.

IC I'm totally ready to move forward, although I was thinking I might post a quick response to Anevia (nothing important though if I don't finish it before you're ready). OOC, though, I know Verene mentioned in one of her posts that she was going to say something about Azira potentially using radiance before we left the library.

Verene mentioned that she's been having issues with logging in recently, so I don't think she'll do so, unfortunately. If anyone else wants to mention it, you can, or we can say it was done "off-screen."

Elliot would definitely mention giving the blade to Azira, though he's a bit busy mentally communicating with his own sword atm...

...It sounds weird when I read that back.

Welcome back, Elliot. Apparently, they're still having issues with some logins related to last week's outage. I haven't been able to sign in since Monday, but after customer service told me it might be a cookies issue, I just switched browsers and that worked. So yes, I'm working on a quick post that will mention Radiance, Azira.

I just cleared my cache/cookies to get rid of the issue after the maintenance thing (and again after the more recent outage). That seemed to work for me.

Just clearing cookies didn't work at first, but then I found the cache and cleared it and that did seem to work. Odd, because I wasn't having any troubles with the outage last week - until Monday I thought I had been unaffected. Anyway, I'm back now!

Glad to hear it!

Anyways, last night I didn't get much sleep and was very, very sick (I may have gotten food poisoning), so I may not get many posts up today. Apologies for that.

Sorry to hear that. I hope you get to feeling better soon.

Glad to hear Elliot is feeling better.

Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. Rest up and feel better.

Yes, best wishes for a quick recovery!

Yikes, food poisoning is extremely unfun. Hope it passes quickly, GM.

Me too.

I'll move us on later today.

Lol- well, that was anti-climactic. Is there any indication at all that the sword is ‘working’ for me?

If not, that’s fine, I’m just thinking about how to RP it.

Oh, shoot. Missed that. I'll get you a replay on Saturday evening or Sunday. Just know that it will have a reaction.

Phew, I passed out hard after work yesterday.

Looks like it’s my turn for the “I’m sick” post. Not COVID, just a nasty stomach virus that’s been making the rounds of my family. I’ll probably be feeling better in a couple days. Go ahead and bot Merixia as necessary.

Feel better Merixia!

I think we're heading for Anevia's based on what Verene said.

Best wishes, Merixia/Linnea!

Wow, we’re the walking wounded here. Get better everyone!

I'm mostly feeling alright again, for my part. Hope you feel better too, Merixia.

Glad to hear it, GM. Feel better soon, Merixia! Sorry for not checking in yesterday - wasn't sure if we were supposed to react yet or not.

You could've, but I've got a post forthcoming that should help enlighten things.

By the by, does anyone have any NPCs in their backstories they're not too attached to? Asking for a friend.

GM: Not that I've given a name to so far, but I could easily whip up a couple.

- Sergeant Diermut Volus, a rigidly religious and suspicious human guardsman to whom Verene has nevertheless been cordial and explained the details of her research on request - she thinks he is starting to come around to liking her despite himself

- "Sister" Iris, a tiefling street merchant/tinker who sells fake religious relics to the gullible along with her legitimate business

- Shingye, a samsaran oracle with two 'human' followers, Yuei and Tanaki (secretly a kitsune): the set of crusaders for whom she has most recently been a translator and tutor in Taldane

- Her neighbors in the boarding house: Old Arthek, a venerable male Kellid ranger who still remembers fleeing the fall of the last great city of Sarkoris as a boy, and his little granddaughter Eithne. His many children are mostly soldiers now, but Eithne's parents were both killed when she was very young, so he took her in. Arthek distrusts the arcane magic Verene has been learning recently, but Verene has been bringing him around with cantrips of mending and cleaning for Eithne's clothes, which make his life easier.

- Some of her parents'/family friends: Yuka White Bear and Kari Halvasdottir, a married Erutaki-Ulfen couple who still go on trading trips to the Crown of the World twice a year.

Sorry for the lull, been dealing with a situation at work. I should have a post up tomorrow (but bot me if you need to).

There's a dickish inquisitor named Jaxx Helran in Elliot's list of npc's, originally meant as someone from Hulrun's clique who had it out for him. He really doesn't mind his death.

That said, if it's meant to be a more sympathetic person or painful loss, then from the currently written ones it is probably Miss Alliz the Amazing, the gnome ringleader of his stage magician group. All the other ones are currently part of his family I believe. I could write others somewhere today.

Hope things improve for you, Azira.

Lots of good suggestions. I'll get a post up later today. I'm sure they'll be fine!

Should I assume from now on that if something Thamyris says is not behind a spoiler, the others can hear it too, so I don't have to have Verene summarize? I just realized it's weird to restate what he said if everyone else can hear it too.

Thanks for the well wishes, everyone! I'm still not at a hundred percent, but at least I can sit at my computer for a bit.

In other news, I am extremely tempted to take Craft Wand at 5th level. Battle clerics really need to be able to buff themselves for maximum effectiveness.

Yes, that's the intent I had, Verene.

You're welcome, Merixia. I'm in much the same boat, but hopefully we'll get better soon.

Oh okay, I'll refrain from the summarizing in the future, then. Hope you guys continue to improve. :)

I'm sorry that I'm still behind on posting. The situation at work remains a huge drain on my time and energy. I'm dropping a couple games today so that I can give more attention to the ones I'm really into, so I should, hopefully, be back to regular posting here by this afternoon.

As for expendable NPCs, I fall into the same situation as Verene- I've got a bunch of named NPCs in my background you can kill who will really hurt for Azira but I'm also from Kenabres, with lots of crusader connections, and could make up all kinds of acquaintances for you to kill off (or you can just name any random crusader or former crusader and tell me how I know them).

Sure, sure. I'll get a post up later today. Or, rather, I'll try. I'm not sure whether I'll be able to make it happen.

So I've been considering enforcing the "needs a hand free for somatic spells" rule more rigorously, given that I haven't been doing that at all. What are your thoughts, everyone?

It'll probably hinder Merixia the most, because she's a full caster who uses a shield and sword, but it might impact Azira as well. Thesius uses a buckler, so it'd just impact his AC (with a -1 penalty) until the following turn.

Hopefully having gone first in the initiative will be enough to get that to hit.

I think Thesius would perchance be able to get past the spell issue by free action passing his weapon to his buckler arm to cast with his main hand and then the following round pass it back to attack with.

I'd still rule that that'd take away the shield bonus, though, because it wouldn't be actively being used, unfortunately.

I’m not a spellcaster (my archetype trades it away) and the only kind of shield I could conceivably use is a buckler (because any other shield would interfere with slashing grace and my swashbuckler deeds when I get them).

Oh, oops. Never mind then! Only Merixia really gets hit by it.

Does casting with the buckler hand take away the buckler's shield bonus? I never knew that, actually.

So it says (I just checked earlier).