GameDay XI: DM S's "Expedition into Pallid Peril" [5-6] (Inactive)

Game Master Chris Marsh

Welcome! More information forthcoming!

Precious is level 6 now and will be updating profile in the coming days.

I am close to finishing up two scenarios. That should put Krek at Level 6 as well.

I am finishing a scenario that will bring Makai to level 6! She is Torag's warpriest, She is tough as an anvil and subtle like a hammer.

with:
- expert Medicine and Religion.
- 3 lvl 3 Heal spells from her heal font.
- Some utility spells from the divine list (+ fearie fire scroll and earthbind scroll (to fight invisible and flying folks so that we don't have to throw our Tiny barbarian :D)
- Channel Smite for more dmg
- At lvl 6 she will have Nimble shield hand which will let her use her shield hand for scrolls/battle medicine and such
- She also has Sheltering Slab => she cannot be flanked as long as she is on the ground and stands next to a wall of her height.

Sounds like we'll have mostly/all(?) level 6's.

Apollo is a (slightly) crazed flames oracle.

o Divine caster, so he has some healing spells (like our cleric).
o Charisma-based, so he's good at Diplo and Intimidation (like our sorceress).

Basically, he'll be overlapping Makai for healing and overlapping Jayma for Cha-based skills. Sadly, he's not bringing much unique to the table. He's primarily good at burning things. He'll try not to get too close to Precious the poppet.

Jayma's playing in a scenario right now, but should be done in plenty of time for GameDay (right Tyranius? :). She'll be at level 6 for the special.

It's good to see that there's plenty of healing, because Jayma has nothing in that department. She's a Dandy ex-princess socialite who will happily try to talk her way out of a situation, but if that fails, is equally happy to blast her opponents into small crispy pieces. She will shamelessly use her colleagues as meat shields and thus tends not to take much damage herself.

As to notable feats, she has the following:
Empathetic Plea (↺) Reaction to try and avoid damage from an unprovoked attack.
Gossip Lore Can only be used to Recall Knowledge, but on any topic. A fail gets her the same effects as Dubious Knowledge.
Intimidating Glare For those times when words fail her on a Demoralize.

And, unless I decide to retrain her Animal Accomplice ancestry feat after her current scenario, she will also have an ermine familiar called Twyl with her. He spends most of the time snoozing in her Sleeves of Storage and may not even make an appearance. He's mainly an RP prop but occasionally proves useful in other ways.

@Jayma- I would hope so. Have to make it through this bit and 1 more combat.

Krek is now Level 6.

Hail Pathfinders!

When you can, fill in the Chronicle Information

and the Tactical Information

Done.

Between Krek and myself I believe we should have more than enough to start with 2 hero points each (4 here).

Indeed (3 here)

I have 1 spare, if the other 7 will go missing ;)

I may also have a few Glyphs.

Jayma wrote:

"Perhaps it might be best if we followed the other route for the time being. We can always come back to this if it doesn't lead anywhere."

To switch locations you have to go back to base camp and you must rest for the night. During this time you can prepare new spells and make purchases.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Jayma wasn't suggesting that we go back to camp. She was suggesting that we explore straight ahead into the darkness rather than deal with the wobbly floor.

I moved folks forward that were still back on the map.

Thank you!

Half the party needs light to see. As of this moment, Samantha is the only one holding light (and the other two have LLV. Just keep this in mind as you explore.

Just in case it was missed, precious has Darkvision

Sorry, Precious was attacking Greatpick wielder #1.

My apologies on the sloppy posting. I THOUGHT I had altered the crits to the fatal damage, but I apparently overwrote the wrong ones. Also, apologies on the Reactive Shield misread. I do truly appreciate the linking to things. In my head I processed Raise a Shield as coming with Shield Block.

No need to apologize! Happens to the best of us ;)

I only see one bad guy #3

Ahhh...oddly, the google docs map wasn't refreshing properly. It's better now, although I see a single #4 skeleton, not #3. Perhaps a reboot of my computer is in order.

BTW, I apologize to the group if Apollo has been slowing things down. Work was limiting me to one post a day (late at night Pacific Time) this past week. Things will ease up significantly starting tomorrow (Fri afternoon). I never want to be the one person holding up the game -- especially when time is critical in this multi-table games -- so thank you all for your patience.

I think we're moving at a good pace, Apollo.

Jayma wrote:

I only see one bad guy #3

Ahhh...oddly, the google docs map wasn't refreshing properly. It's better now, although I see a single #4 skeleton, not #3. Perhaps a reboot of my computer is in order.

My bad. It is #4. I listed #3 in Jayma's turn, so please treat it as #4 instead.

btw. When the fight is over, Makia has Continual Recovery and Ward Medic to bring everyone to full HP in relatively little time.

I had to update as baddies died, sorry for any confusion.

"Apollo: Go"

Just to make sure you saw my post, Apollo is in delay.

I left it in only because you can still jump in any time. (Like if a PC's turn draws you back in.) On next update I'll relabel.

Oh, of course. Yes, makes sense! Thank you. I just didn't want to hold up the game if you were waiting on my post when I was delaying.

And ... as you wisely suspected, I did wind up jumping back in. So ... never mind. :)

Glad to have you back, Dungeon Master S. And thanks to GM Frost for moving us along. We appreciate it.

Note: With Makai conscious, she should be up in initiative now too, yes?

Oh, yes. I forgot to highlight her name for her Round 2. And thank you to everyone! Enjoy the game. And Makai's Mind of Menace spell ended when she used it on the first round.

Considering the pace of the special, I don't mind a playerbot for Makai.

Not sure how a player bot actually works (are you looking for someone to post for Makai or make a suggestion?)

Here's a suggestion:

◆ Recall Knowledge (+13 Religion)
◆◆ Searing Light (if a fiend) at H2, in front of her.

Yeah, as the GM I'm loathe to GMPC a PC. I prefer to have other players do it when waiting for a post.

I did it.

Out till the afternoon or tonight. Bot precious as needed; macros on profile. 15' reach when he's a big boi.

Dungeon Master S -- Can we say our group had 10min to heal up and/or refocus? What if we say "pretty please"? :)

Adjusted to say yes. You can Refocus.

Thanks for the refocus ruling. A couple questions about the map:

1) Just double-checking that our group can see the Aspis agents over the outcropping rock. The description essentially says, "Aspis agents eye us", so if they can see us, we can see them, yes?

2) Just curious where the "doorway" is? It could be the NE passageway, the passageway due East, or maybe it's behind us SW along the bridge.

I hate to get picky, but if the direction of attack changed shouldn't our initial disposition towards that attack have changed as well? For example, it makes little sense of Apollo and Jayma to be in the front line and for Krek, Thimble and Samantha to be at the back.

No apologies for being picky! Your dispositions are actually correct as the Aspis are actually approaching you from behind.

Can Makai also go now? As she seems to be first in initiative, or are there any surprises in between the rounds?

Go ahead and post! I keep the round tracker within table top style parameters, but PbP is weird. It's all you!

Dungeon Master S -- Maybe you didn't finish the turn description? Is our next group of intrepid adventurers up to bat? (Actually maybe all of us, since Aspis Group 1 met an untimely death?)

Good catch. Sorry, I posted JUUUUUST before I had to start running the PSATs, and I can't multitask there. Fixing now.

While I'll update the tracker to fit, let's give the round 2 people a bit more time before posting round 3.

Thank you for running!

Great table! Thank you everyone!

Thanks for running, DM S. Appreciate your efforts keeping things moving at a great pace and being very thoughtful/responsive to our questions.

And thanks also to the fine players and all the creative role-play. Had a lot of fun with your PCs. Hope to see you all again at another table!

Too bad we didn't get to that last fight, but otherwise a fine and responsive game played with great company.

Chronicle looks good. Here is my official Earn Income roll for 8 days of downtime.

Genealogy Lore (Earn Income) vs DC 18: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20

A regular success at Level 6 should be good for 56sp over the 8 days of downtime. I will add a note to that effect on my chronicle.

Great table! Thank you everyone!

Thanks GM for running it! I had a great time! Thank you fellow players for great run, I liked your PC's and interactions.

@Jayma - I know her and I like her, nice PC always reliably played by Palandri!

@Apollo - I like oracles, it was nice to see one at the same table. Nicely played, and thanks for heals ;)

@Thimble - nice concept with poppet barbarian. I do find it sad that you can't throw him at enemies which would be supper cool:D

@Krek and @Samantha - I like to see fighters in teams, they seem so flexible in the way how they fight. It was really cool.

From me, I am glad that I took Makai into this scenario, I actually liked to trigger all those: -1 to worshippers of Torag ;) I also loved the fact that I had a chance to fight Zealots responding to Makai being cleric of Torag. For most tables they were just another undead, for her it was something person, and technically interesting (reaction to move towards her, reaction to counter spells etc.)