[Gameday X] PFS1 #8-20 Torrent's Last Will (Tier 7-11) (Inactive)

Game Master cmlobue

Tess's hexes would be essential to defeating the dragon. Stacking all the Evil Eyes and Cackling is extremely effective. So she would need to be close enough for them to work, but also be protected by a solid front line. Communal Resist Energy should offer decent protection against the breath weapon, which would otherwise be the main risk in bunching up.

I would suggest that we use the remaining Confusion duration to summon allies, buff up, and take out some of the other enemies. By the time Confusion ends we should be in a strong position to gang up on the dragon, beginning with some Dispels and Evil Eyes, and Trokkus and Ranalus going into melee. We've got some time on that.

The dragon and the big shark are locked on each other for now, so as long as we don't attack them we should be okay.

I think I can take out the little sharks one at a time…but I fear I’ll get swarmed under by them and the sahuagin if I go in by myself…

Yes, summoning is good and Trokkus still has a smite evil, right?

Yep! though he has a bad track record fighting dragons, having been creamed by an umbral dragon in Gallowspire :)

We seem to have slowed down a bit. How about we take out everything apart from the two confused foes (let them wear each other down), and then go from there?

@GM - well before everyone had posted their buffs, I had said that Ranalus would prep a second Plane Shift into his open slot (to replace the one expended for Mass CLW) if there were 15 minutes to spare before opening the door. I don't know how much of a rush we were in.

I am fine either way but it would be good to know if I have it. It's a pretty decent save-or-die. If I don't have it, there are other things I can do.

Ranalus, can Dana have one of those neat heightened continual flame ion stones after this adventure is over? :-D

Sure thing, Dana! That's the primary reason I took Heighten Spell.
Everyone else, feel free to mark off 50 gold and ask for one yourself. Ranalus can cast a 5th-level Continual Flame, which counters a lot of Darkness spells.

Razethka was holding captives, so 15 minutes is more than you would have available for prep. Hostages would have died every couple of rounds if they had not been rescued.

Okay, no worries.

GM, you're a trooper for dealing with all those confused enemies :)

Our positioning here is really a disaster.

I was hoping we could take down the dragon, but if everybody else wants to bail, I can go with that.

Doors, the bane of all adventuring groups.

Since everyone is up except Ingrge, you can coordinate your movements.

Victoria is conscious but at 0 HP, so she may want to wait until she is healed or the enemies take AOOs.

Thanks for botting Victoria. Had a family emergency yesterday as my wife’s mom had emergency surgery and our evening was chaotic.

Sorry, I am not trying to tell anybody how to play, but I am trying to stop this debacle from getting worse since nobody wants a TPK.

I think when Victoria was botted she should have cast and then moved, instead of holding her position where she was. But I should have said something at the time.

Do we have no frontliners at all?

This scenario shows Ingrge at his worst…in water with a crossbow, he can only fire once. On the surface firing a longbow, I can fire 4 arrows per round and deal a lot of damage…

Ironically I thought she had cast mirror images during buffs before try he fight but lost that post. She has Cold resist\5 so she may still be up.

Yeah, I think the Aasimar cold resistance will keep her up. Looks like 35 damage, which would put her at 68 damage taken and therefore still up. Invisibility + move away might be a good bet. Better than Withdraw if you can hit the Concentration check.

And, having tanked their attacks, she heroically kept them from getting to Dana.

Trokkus is our one frontliner and he is stuck in the back.
Ranalus is enough of a frontliner to withstand attacks, though he doesn't do much damage. He'll try to do something. Hopefully with a good Confusion roll the dragon will get locked on someone else for a bit.

Withdrawn but cannot update map…

Everybody please remember that Blessing of Fervor and Haste are both active. The bonuses don't stack, but you can take the +2 attack/AC/Reflex from Blessing of Fervor and the extra attack from Haste.

Sorry for the delay. Several tornadoes thru the area tonight. Just getting back to posting. Unfortunately, Victoria is out of Summon Monster V as well as Magic Missiles. So she is going to be less effective.

Feel free to replay your turn if I did something impossible.

Central US? The leading edge of a storm that spawned tornadoes woke me up this morning, though it doesn't look like we are in any danger.

I’m in southern Kentucky and Mayfield, a little community in the west of the state was apparently destroyed by a huge tornado last night. Hope you aren’t in that neck of the woods, Victoria.

Where were you all on Free RPG Day? I'm in central KY, and was told that to run the scenario online, I had to only accept players who could have feasibly reached the store.

If you're ever in Lexington when things reopen, we play at d20 on Sundays.

Well, that was a long one, but you have successfully completed Torrent's Last Will. Thank you all for playing. If you have not already, roll your day job and let me know anything else that you want noted on your Chronicle sheet, which I should have for you on Monday. I'll leave the thread open for any final roleplaying and questions.

Well done everyone!
GM, thanks for running.

Where were you all on Free RPG Day? I'm in central KY, and was told that to run the scenario online, I had to only accept players who could have feasibly reached the store.

If you're ever in Lexington when things reopen, we play at d20 on Sundays.

I lived in Lexington for about 15 years counting school. I moved to London in 2009 and have been down here ever since. I didn’t know you were so close by! Small world….

This was really incredibly good GMing. You really did awesome during the combat encounter and the npc rp was great as well!

Thanks for everything!!

Thanks also to Ranalus.

Included this on my inventory sheet:

Dull grey Ion stone with Heightened Continual Flame as a 5th-level spell cast on it by Ranalus (108731-1 / Aldizog)

Thanks for running, GM, I enjoyed it…also enjoyed playing with everyone. Found this to be a challenging scenario, primarily due to the underwater restrictions. Had this been in a normal environment, it would’ve been too easy…

Small world indeed! I spent the night in Paducah driving home from Florida 3weeks ago.

We are outside St. Louis. Not as bad here as Mayfield in Kentucky but had four tornadoes hit around us. Amazon center had blown in half. 50 people were missing at one point.

Thanks for running this for us. Water made it a good challenge.

Stay safe!

Victoria \Gm Aarvid

Chronicle Sheets are available. Let me know if there are any problems.

Looks good, thanks!

Hi GM, did we do anything wrong or why did we not receive the first boon? :-)

Aquel's Favor is hard to get. There are a number of things you need to do, and you missed two. One is convincing Aquel that you are not thieves (you went straight to interrogating her). I would have nudged you about that, but you also need more successes studying the coral murals before meeting Aquel (yes, beyond the point where you can learn anything more from them). It's one of those "gotcha"s that sometimes show up in scenarios. I've done one where you have to search the bottom of a pit trap to get full gold, and we did the sensible thing of disabling it instead.

Looks good!

Mine looks good, GM! Thanks!

Looks good! Thanks again for all.

Thanks again GM!!

Thanks for running for us, GM!