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tinkers with his arquebus...

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Idly cleans his dueling pistols...

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"Heya all! I'm back from my travels!" Seeing an unfamiliar goblin, Roark walks up to him. "Heya! I'm Roark. Roark Thunderbird! Have ya seen my old buddy Stitch? I've got some stories to tell him!"

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"I know you bird brain, I AM Stitch! There was.. a bit of an accident.." His Dwarven voice now replaced by a higher pitched goblin one. His stocky frame now shrunk down considerably.
"You don't need to know the details, top secret!"

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Roark's eyes bulge and his jaw drops. "Wha- Sti- Sti- Stitch?!"

Khiari Sidare, eidolon |
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"Hi Stitch." Khiari walks by him without a second glance. "Nice hat."
Bella hesitates for a bit longer before remembering her manners. "Tea?"

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"Hey!" Stitch grins creepily.
"Oh ya, going through the new 'rules and systems' for explosives... those gunslingers got some new stuff to figure out. Scratch is gonna be pumped!"
So far I didn't notice many changes to Stitch's inventor build, but certainly some buffs are appearing reading through Scratch's sniper stuff. They redid the bomb making completely.

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What are the odds we'll have this current game wrapped up in time for outpost? Inquiring mushrooms want to know.

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"So, err, Stitch, what happened to you?"

GM Hmm |

What are the odds we'll have this current game wrapped up in time for outpost? Inquiring mushrooms want to know.
Since we are only 1/3rd of the way through, the odds are not good. Is the mushroom slated for a game? And if Bret and I work something out so that we can post multiple times a day, would the group be up for that in order to catch up if someone needs to report into a n Outpost game?
Hmm

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I can definitely maintain a multiple posts per day pace.

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I was planning for Eddie to be in the rotten apple game but if its not going to work out I'll pull them out of it.
However, I can, for the most part, keep up with multiple posts a day to get it done if that works for others.

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Eddie 'Bo' Leetus wrote:What are the odds we'll have this current game wrapped up in time for outpost? Inquiring mushrooms want to know.Since we are only 1/3rd of the way through, the odds are not good. Is the mushroom slated for a game? And if Bret and I work something out so that we can post multiple times a day, would the group be up for that in order to catch up if someone needs to report into a n Outpost game?
Hmm
I can do that. Though I think the plan was for me to run Rotten Apples for this group... so you'll get to play it no matter what happens.

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Let's do it.

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I can do that. Though I think the plan was for me to run Rotten Apples for this group... so you'll get to play it no matter what happens.
I assumed we'd be going back to our regular programming after this game, and rotten apples I'm reserving for Eddie.

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Search: perception. Eddie has a good perception and darkvision so my default.
Also: I'm going on a fishing trip from Thursday through Sunday so after tomorrow I won't be able to post til Sunday evening at best, Monday morning at worst.

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What are everyone’s exploration activities?
- Jiggo's exploration activity: Investigate (Religion +7). He will cast Light and stay 40 feet away.
- Sal'era's exploration activity: Avoid Notice (Stealth +10). She has Darkvision.Summoner and Eidolon can take different exploration activities.

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Search: perception. Eddie has a good perception and darkvision so my default.
Also: I'm going on a fishing trip from Thursday through Sunday so after tomorrow I won't be able to post til Sunday evening at best, Monday morning at worst.
Catch something for me :)
And don't fall through the ice... or catch any gnomish shrink rays! :)

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Yes we're camping on the ice Thursday night, always an adventure.
This is the coldest winter we've had in some time here, ice conditions are very solid. Probably up to around 20" of black solid ice (frozen lake water: strongest ice), and then a bit of refrozen slush (white ice) on top of that. Lots of snow too, hopefully we don't have lots of slush to deal with.

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Well at least someone's enjoying this New England ice. I'm still trying to find a path around my neighborhood that doesn't have a patch of thick ice on the sidewalk because one neighbor failed to pay attention to the weather!

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The first 30 miles of my commute this morning was on ice rutted roads to work. Anything along the coast that isn't a state maintained road is just sand on top of an inch or two of rutted ice. Hopefully by the weekend we're looking at clear roads with the temps going up.

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GM, sorry my turn wasn't clear.
Sal'era failed to escape so Jiggo does not Stride and Unmanifests her. The movement indicated would only happen if Sal'era escaped.
Is this possible?

GM Bret |

Act Together requires one of the two to take that action that is from one to three actions and the other in the pair gets a single action.
That means you must choose the action to do as part of the Act Together. You can’t change it based on the result of the other action.
To be valid you would need to Unmanifest Selera as the Act Together. Selera would still get one action, but then be gone.
Does that make sense?
In general, I would be very dubious of any Act Together where the player based the decision of what actions to take on the results of the other action.

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Okay, well, to keep this game going I'll just unmanifest Sal'era.

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I will be unavailable as I will be out of town for a vacation from February 21 (Friday) to February 25 (Tuesday). Kindly bot me if necessary. Botting instructions can be found spoilered in my character's profile.

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You lead! We'll be right behind you! :)

GM Bret |
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Let’s see how it goes for a week. That is enough time to judge if there is any chance of finishing, but still gives others a chance to fill in if you drop from Rotten Apples.
It has been about a week.
Unfortunately I do not think we will finish in time for Outpost VIII, which starts March 2nd. Sorry.

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Would someone like to bot Soddy?
I got her.

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I'm back a day early. Fishing was not that great but lots of adventurousness and some broken gear (of course).

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GM Bret wrote:Let’s see how it goes for a week. That is enough time to judge if there is any chance of finishing, but still gives others a chance to fill in if you drop from Rotten Apples.It has been about a week.
Unfortunately I do not think we will finish in time for Outpost VIII, which starts March 2nd. Sorry.
No problem, I'll withdraw Eddie from Rotten Apples!

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GM Bret wrote:No problem, I'll withdraw Eddie from Rotten Apples!GM Bret wrote:Let’s see how it goes for a week. That is enough time to judge if there is any chance of finishing, but still gives others a chance to fill in if you drop from Rotten Apples.It has been about a week.
Unfortunately I do not think we will finish in time for Outpost VIII, which starts March 2nd. Sorry.
Well you can either play it with Stitch or with Eddie with this group :)

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just curious -- what do you fish for? other than tengus :)

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Through the ice we mostly target white perch (in the bass family), land locked salmon, lake whitefish, togue (lake trout), cusk/burbot (a fresh water cod) are the most common. The perch are maybe averaging near a pound each in general, salmon 2lbs, whitefish similar. Togue around here CAN get up to like 20lbs but usually we get them 2-5lbs. Same on cusk. The togue are mostly for fun, the others to eat.

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Let me know if I'm making any mistakes with the summoned creatures. I haven't really went down that rabbit hole in 2e yet. I'm correct in saying I need to spend an action to sustain the spell at the start of my next turn? And the summoned minion will have 2 actions?

GM Bret |

I would phrase is slightly differently.
You must sustain the spell in order to continue it the next round.
If the spell's duration is “sustained,” it lasts until the end of your next turn unless you use the Sustain action (page 419) on that turn to extend the duration of that spell.
Sustaining it is what gives the creature actions. Summoning them also immediately gives them two actions.
What this means is if you are willing to allow the summon to end, you could use three actions without sustaining but the summons goes away at the end of that turn.

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So if I want them to have their 2 actions I need to sustain it anyhow? Or will they gain the actions regardless if I sustain and just fade out at end of turn, for a total of 3 actions for me, and 2 for them?
Often times Eddie will try to end their summon with final sacrifice anyhow so if I don't need to waste the sustain action when the minion will be gone before the end of the turn then that would be good to know.

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Summoned creatures are >Minions<, so they get 2 actions when you spend the action to Sustain the Spell. If you don't sustain, the creature will follow its "natural instincts" but mechanically it can only escape obviously dangerous situations.
This is another comment about Paizo treating this as a technical document rather than a tutorial: I had to follow Summon > Summoned > Minion traits to get that answer. Then again, at least it's consistent and I can apply these rules to my summon heavy Primal Sorcerer.
I also learned you can control up to 4 minions at once, although I'm curious how you could pull that off.

GM Bret |

I also learned you can control up to 4 minions at once, although I'm curious how you could pull that off.
It would have to be a mixture of minions.
Several different high level casters could use Effortless Concentration at 16th level to sustain a spell as a free action once a round. That would allow them to be able to cast a second Summoning spell (since most of them are three actions) and still sustain one they previously cast.
Be easy for them to also have an animal companion that they command. That would give three minions at once.
Take the Beastmaster dedication and you could have two animal companions thus getting to four minions. Note you could not do this in Soceity play because of the limit of tokens on the board.
There probably are other ways to do it as well.

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I will be unavailable as I will be out of town for a vacation from February 21 (Friday) to February 25 (Tuesday). Kindly bot me if necessary. Botting instructions can be found spoilered in my character's profile.
Veiled Lady is still out of town today.
We can either have someone bot her or wait for the player to post tomorrow.

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Krinolyn ”Veiled Lady” Styncorn wrote:I will be unavailable as I will be out of town for a vacation from February 21 (Friday) to February 25 (Tuesday). Kindly bot me if necessary. Botting instructions can be found spoilered in my character's profile.Veiled Lady is still out of town today.
We can either have someone bot her or wait for the player to post tomorrow.
Don't forget, GM -- we're 12-13 hours ahead of you... it's not the 25th anymore where we're at! :)