The issue with inspiring courage by dancing is that it's a visual effect, and as far as you could tell from above the water in the mud room is close to opaque (visibility limited to 5'). (Note that this also severely limits ranged attacks against the mudlord, and having identified it as an elemental the party knows that it can't be flanked and is immune to precision damage.)
Busy week at work and tonight was my in-person PFS game night, but I should have time to post this weekend.
I'm about to leave for a 2-week vacation, and probably won't have time to post at all. See you all in a couple of weeks!
Back from vacation, unpacking, and slowly catching up.
Enjoy *your* vacation! (I certainly did mine.)
I have a job interview tomorrow (for my boss's position; she's moving to another directorate). So no post tonight or tomorrow, depending on how long it takes to depressurize.
The interview went well, I think, but I won't find out for sure until the end of next week at the earliest. This week we have a labwide assessment going on, as well, which has taken up a lot of attention.
Also, the scenario doesn't give me a lot of flexibility in the undine's response, unfortunately.
Yes. As I said, I question some of the author's decisions.
Thanks for your patience; this past week has been pretty crowded with work and travel. I should have time to post tomorrow.
I'm leaving Sunday for a three-day business trip, and I probably won't have a lot of time to post.
I'll probably be pretty distracted for the next few days; my daughter and her husband had a fire in their apartment this morning. They were both at work so at least they're OK. Their cat didn't survive, though, and there was a lot of damage. No idea how it started. We're going up to help over the weekend.
Poor cat...
Glad every one else was safe
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So for the remaining rooms/combats....numbered on the map 1,2,3 .
1) There was the large room to the 'west' which is the one in the center of the map with the mudman/men?
2) There is one to the south of our position in the hallway
3) Any others we missed to the east?
The mudman combat seemed one our party was ill prepared to win. Not as sure about the one to the south of us.
Does the ladder lead to the next level or out? Viridian would still need to get his wolf somehow. And the little fellow-badger?
Correct. 1) is the mudlord, 2) is the big room (and note that you know of two summoners down here, so that'd be a reasonable minimum for what you'd be facing), and 3) is the big thing in the tank that no one got pulled in to fight.
The ladder leads to the stairs to the next level down, so you'd have to retreat to pick up the various animal companions and pick up any purchases. We'd handwave you getting past this level when you go on to the next one.
What does everyone else think?
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I'd vote to avoid the mudman battle. I am not sure if that includes bypassing the other rooms. Since Viridian is in lizard form, he cannot really converse but can nod if plans are proposed.
Swimming is not as much of a challenge for him, but overall it is making us less effective in combat, so can understand if we cut losses and depart.
Do any of you know where to find guidance on how much to reduce treasure by? The older PFS scenarios had it, and I've seen (though I can't remember where) that it's appropriate to line out items that the party didn't get to find, but I don't remember seeing anything similar for gold.
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This is from v 9.1 of the guide.
If the PCs failed to earn any of the rewards listed for
an encounter, deduct the amount listed for the applicable
subtier from the value circled in area F.p 16
And replace with an Absalom.com gift card not to exceed 10 silver coins as a participant consolation prize.
:)
OK, found it. Skipping the last fight will actually cost you a fair chunk of the gold from the level--the mudlord and whatever was in the tank room don't have any treasure, but each of the summoners has over 300 gold in cash or gems, plus their gear.
That said, you have a second scroll of water breathing, so you could retreat, wait a couple of days, rest up, and go back in--the two summoners might be back where you originally found them, and you could attack them right away. You could also give Blitz a share of the water breathing spell and have more combat power available. Up to you!
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I think I am good either way. Lybram has only used bless. He has all 5 channels. Mage Armor is still up.
Water is always difficult especially for ranged characters/non swimming characters. If we leave and come back, I would probably change out resist energy for either bull strength or cat's grace. But Not much else would I change. If we stay and fight, I plan to use spiritual weapon and sound burst. Then move in and stab away with a magic weapon'ed spear.
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Viridian probably has 15-20mins or more of lizard form left - so he can swim and fight. He had used most of his spells on the prior fights. Unfortunately, as the GM said, not having Blitz in the fight is taking away some combat capability, but not horrible.
Viridian is fine to press the summoners since they used some of their spells. The mudman still seems out of reach for our team.
Remember that it's been over a day since you fought the first summoner, and the second one didn't use that many spells.
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Well, we need to make an official decision:
1) Move on to the next level now
2) Attempt to clear the level now
3) Wait a day and clear the level tomorrow
My vote is for option 1. We will probably lose a prestige point and a bit of money, but I'm OK with that. I'm also OK with the other options if that is the consensus.
Please vote!
This is also a level that you'd normally be taking Slow, to keep pace with the tiers for the upcoming levels.