"That's right, I just worshipped your former god! What are you gonna do about it!?"Oh my god, this is amazing. I love you. This kind of thing is why I play tabletop RPGs!
Aw, thanks! :) /blush
Though, from the looks of things, it might not have worked... It's gonna be a very dark start of the ap if Elliot's gambit fails and these superzombies end up killing everyone except him, leaving him stranded in the caves with nothing but haunting regrets to accompany him :(
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Not to worry! I'm sure Golarion will survive a rapidly expanding Worldwound! I doubt the gods themselves will end up obliterating Avistan in order to prevent the Abyss from breaking the seal on Rovagug's prison!
Dice roller, why can't I roll this well when I'm a player?
*looks at attack roll*
*looks at damage roll*
*cries*
Uh, I wouldn't worry about it. Zombies' AC sucks.
Well I drew it's attention. Just not for long.
Okay, I've posted and I'm logging off for the night. I'll check the boards in my morning. Night, and, good luck to us good folk!
Glad we made it through that. My status is updated. Let me know if you need another check from me for stabilizing.
You can make one now, but you'll hopefully be stabilized before the next one's needed. I did have a plan for if the whole party got knocked out, but I'm glad I didn't need to use it. You'd probably have lost a couple of the NPCs.
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I am glad we did not lose anyone. Making the roll now at least removed the fear of further blood loss for now.
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Though, from the looks of things, it might not have worked... It's gonna be a very dark start of the ap if Elliot's gambit fails and these superzombies end up killing everyone except him, leaving him stranded in the caves with nothing but haunting regrets to accompany him :(
Also, Elliot, for fear you might think your efforts useless - the huecuva did try to go after Elliot, but there were several PCs in the way. Your words did prevent it from trying to take out Elyda, though, as it was trying to make a beeline towards where it'd heard him. I think one of the misunderstandings you may have had was about a wall - there was one between him and the rest of the combat even when he was inside the building - though he was able to shoot at one of the zombies.
That said, it was a help! Even if it did get Thesius knocked out, sort of.
Now, I'm off to bed and will post any rp in my morning.
Though, from the looks of things, it might not have worked... It's gonna be a very dark start of the ap if Elliot's gambit fails and these superzombies end up killing everyone except him, leaving him stranded in the caves with nothing but haunting regrets to accompany him :(Also, Elliot, for fear you might think your efforts useless - the huecuva did try to go after Elliot, but there were several PCs in the way. Your words did prevent it from trying to take out Elyda, though, as it was trying to make a beeline towards where it'd heard him. I think one of the misunderstandings you may have had was about a wall - there was one between him and the rest of the combat even when he was inside the building - though he was able to shoot at one of the zombies.
That said, it was a help! Even if it did get Thesius knocked out, sort of.
Ah, thanks, that's good to know! I think Elliot would have no way of knowing this IC though. He probably assumes the idea was a bust.
Elliot may have noticed Thesius moving into the doorway before he made his move though. That would have prevented the dwarf from simply giving chase.
Indeed.
Whoof, that was intense. Definitely want to rest here. So who wants to carry the potions? And let's not forget about collecting the holy water.
Side note: The real-world song referenced in the spoiler is called "Loch Lomond," and is supposedly about a captured soldier choosing execution so his brother can go free.
I’ll have a post up soon. Elyda would be up to resanctifying the area/altar.
GM, do any of us have a sense of what time of day it is in game at the moment?
Addendum: GM, if Elyda is the only one doing the cleansing, what kinds of rp and rolls do you need from me during this process?
Merixia, I don't mind consecrating it back in the name of Torag with your help... I just wasn't sure if Merixia was busy doing other things. Let me know and we can go from there. :)
Nah, she's fine with Iomedae. I think it makes more sense IC for Elyda to call upon her connection to her goddess.
Alright, then Elyda will call upon Iomedae to sanctify this place. We have holy water in the bowl (which can be sprinkled about the altar etc once we clean it from blood and other dark stuff) and Elyda has her holy text: Acts of Iomedae to read from. That with her many prayers ... may be enough?
GM, do any of us have a sense of what time of day it is in game at the moment?
Addendum: GM, if Elyda is the only one doing the cleansing, what kinds of rp and rolls do you need from me during this process?
Hm, well, you're getting kind of tired. Other than that, uh, not really. You may be missing an hour or two from when you were unconscious, but that's hard to say. So after the 8 hours of sanctification... it's probably time to eat dinner?
For the latter question, your Knowledge (religion) roll was the only one. Other than that, cleaning, praying, making do with what you have to follow Iomedae's faith. Probably she'll use her sword in some way, that's a big thing for Iomedae's church.
Question, would sanctifying in the name of another deity be basically making it a temple of the other deity? If so, Thesius would definitely have an issue with that.
Essentially, yes. Whether Torag would mind this imposition is a different question - he and Iomedae aren't exactly friends, but they do respect one another, and it's not being done ill-intentionally... so he's probably fine with it. Probably.
I'm working on a post. Thesius is definitely not hip on the idea of sanctifying a temple in another god's name though without cause. If he has reason to believe they can return it to Torag, he will definitely prefer that.
I already made my post sanctifying in Iomedae's name, so I'm unsure how Thesius will react to it now. Sorry, I was working on the post and working my day job and didn't see this discussion post until after I finished and posted.
I've modified my post to make it clear he would interrupt such a proceeding without his opinion being stated. Unless this was all done while they were outside or asleep, there is plenty of reason to think that people would have the time to intervene.
That's fine, Thesius. This is where differing time zones and player posting times can play havoc with PbP. I spent a great deal of my work time on putting together that post and I'm a little tired now and need to get back to my RL job. I've edited and put my earlier post under a spoiler in case things need to go another direction. If the whole thing needs to be retconned, then so be it. I'll wait to see how the others react/weigh in (even though Merixia has already given her okay re sanctifying in Iomedae's name).
It seems like we were working on our posts at the same time and I agree that it's something that comes along with a PbP game. I realized it might happen, so that is why I was posting in discussion to try to get some insight on the situation and make it clear Thesius would not be okay with it as there was a bit to catch up on and I knew I might need some time to make my reply.
Worldwound GM, would Thesius have been aware of what was happening?
Edited: Was reviewing the gameplay and realized part of my post did not make sense.
I need to slow down and read a bit more thoroughly. My understanding is that Elyda asked for help from the group and mentioned her intent to sanctify in Iomedae's name to cleanse the darkness. This would give Thesius a time to step in with his opinion. If led to believe there was no other way, he would not be as opposed. Otherwise, he would strongly stand against the sanctifying of another's temple in the name of another's god.
No in-character opinions here! Torag or Iomedae, it doesn't matter to Verene and she would just want to be allowed to sleep.
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Oof, okay, awake now and perhaps able to better mediate things here. So, I would say that Elyda (and anyone helping her) would have spent at least half of the eight hours needed to resanctify the shrine to Iomedae just doing cleaning. The place is filthy, and hasn't been maintained since the priest took his own life long, long ago.
When she asked for help, it'd've been for resanctifying it with prayer and so on. Now, if Thesius wants to intervene, then she'd probably have asked around four or so hours in - assuming, of course, that Elyda wants to have asked for aid at all, because that was predicated on her sanctifying it to Torag. If she wants to do it to Iomedae, than she'd not have needed to ask.
That said, I'm inclined to say that I think we ought to handle it thusly: Elyda tried to sanctify it to Torag, but didn't know enough about his rituals and rites to do such, and asked Merixia for help, but Merixia, as Ragathiel doesn't have very many shrines to his own name, could only offer some expertise in how to make the shrine a shared one. Thus, it ends up as a shrine to both Iomedae and Torag (look, you've almost got half the Godclaw!), and everyone is happy. I'm going to make a post to that effect in the gameplay thread, yes?
Works for me, GM. :)
I can work with that.
Thesius had planned on cleaning the temple after he was done seeing to the dead and was caught off guard by what happened. He's not going to be happy about it, but his feelings will subside for the most part later on when he sees what occurs.
Working on a post about what he does in the meantime.
Working on a catching up post now too! The rate of posting in this campaign has been crazy. I think there were like 12 posts and 16 discussion ones in between me going to sleep last night and coming back from work just now? And many long and good ones too! How do you guys/girls manage that :')
For me, lack of anything else to do. I can slow down my responses if we're going too fast.
Yeah, I'm not currently working so I check in fairly regularly when I'm not sleeping or otherwise engaged.
I’m on disability, that’s how! :P So unless I’m in town doing errands or something (yay rural living), I usually have time on my hands.
Same here, I've been able to do about two posts per day, and check in more often than that, because I also have a lot of free time right now. I think PbP games often have a lot of initial momentum, too? But I don't want to talk over anyone or have anyone burn out. If we need to slow down, that's okay with me.
Elyda tried to sanctify it to Torag, but didn't know enough about his rituals and rites to do such, and asked Merixia for help, but Merixia, as Ragathiel doesn't have very many shrines to his own name, could only offer some expertise in how to make the shrine a shared one. Thus, it ends up as a shrine to both Iomedae and Torag (look, you've almost got half the Godclaw!), and everyone is happy. I'm going to make a post to that effect in the gameplay thread, yes?
Thank you, GM. That certainly works. :)
I'm going to make an IC post shortly (apologies - still early morning, here, and I'm just now getting on my comp).
I'll make a post moving us onwards later tonight - just a bit distracted at the moment.
To clarify a bit more, part of Thesius' hesitance in what was happening is not fully understanding why they were sanctifying the area and what the benefits of sanctifying it were. He did not know that there was actually an evil presence lingering in the area and I did not feel like that had been explained to him. That is why his mood shifted upon the shifting of the light's hue. Nothing big to worry about now, but I wanted to give insight into his actions.
Worldwound GM, did we get the full 8 hours rest necessary to heal the 1 hit point at this level?
Elliot, reminder that Verene did hand you off the ring so you were given the chance to appraise it. If you wish to share the information with the group, I can get the sheet updated. Otherwise, no worries. Just wanted to help keep up with tracking that.
Thanks for the clarification Thesius. If your guy had asked Elyda directly in character why she was cleansing the chapel in Iomedae's name (the purpose for it) it may have come across clearer to me, as unfortunately I didn't gleam that was Thesius intention with the way he worded his disapproval. Sorry about that.
Elliot, reminder that Verene did hand you off the ring so you were given the chance to appraise it. If you wish to share the information with the group, I can get the sheet updated. Otherwise, no worries. Just wanted to help keep up with tracking that.
Ah, must have missed that yesterday when catching up. I did roll appraise here in case someone wanted him to appraise something. I'm fine with just assuming he gives you his guesstimation so it can be added to the sheet. However since Verene gave it to him I'll try and include it in his next post - he didn't interact much with her yet.
The gold ring on the huecuva's finger - this post. Personally I did kind of already assume Elliot would have told the others the info in the spoiler at some point after the fight, since you rolled the appraise check in the case of someone asking him to appraise it, then he was indeed given it to appraise a few posts later. :)
Aravashnial's a level 6 character, but he's also blind and without his spellbook - thus, he's nowhere near as potent an ally as he would be if he were at his peak performance capability. It's a rather elegant solution, in my opinion.
Oops, I made a mistake when thinking about spells. Identify is a bonus school spell and so it's either that or comprehend languages as her third first-level slot. Thesius has comprehend languages as a bard spell so identify it is! Still definitely going to do enlarge person, it's a great buff. Also, if she's going to continue to be in front, she should probably prep color spray while Elliot preps grease (which can be used from 25 feet away) and maybe magic missile, since it's ranged with no attack roll or miss chance. Then again, the damage isn't great. What do you think, Elliot?
Okay, Elliot up front, Verene will do enlarge person / identify for sure. Mage armor only lasts an hour at this level, so it can't be set and forget for the entire day. And if we suddenly get into combat, her first buff priority will be enlarge person, (which is also close-ranged as opposed to mage armor's touch range). I thought about prepping it for her but that was when I thought I had a third slot. It's not super practical when she functionally only has two. I think I'd prefer grease here.
Edit: That would leave Elliot with the grease slot that he could use for mage armor, that wasn't really clear in my post.
Poor Aravashnial. Being suddenly blinded really messes with your whole identity as a wizard. :(
Pretty much. I'm sure there are Braille spellbooks or something similar, but those aren't accessible to him, so he's working on what few spells he's got, and that is it.