Age of Ashes - PF2 AP by DM Doctor Evil

Game Master DM DoctorEvil

Glad you are back, happy to revisit the link to Armand if you have downtime or elsewhere. Depending on you guys, might not be the only one.

Sorry, busy week this week.

No worries Olaf! We shall see how our turn in is handled before heading back.

I also have an unusually heavy week, so sorry if there are brief delays in posting.

Take your time, both of you! I had that last week. Parent teacher conferences meant I was in my classroom from 7:30am to 8pm for two days in a row.

Yeah my nights, when I typically post, are full of activities between scouts, curling, and my wife voluntelling me to help sort and deliver all the popcorn my kid sold this year (he killed it).

Next week I'll be back to just one night of stuff to do.

Just to be clear: any feistiness from Elise is NOT reflective of my attitude as a player. I think this is all great fun. I don't want anyone to think this is passive-aggressive commentary on my part.

No worries Elise! Valdrin is fairly good natured himself, for the most part. Certain buttons have to be pressed for him to go full Dawnflower mode.

We decided on waking the town guard captain or finding them or whatever instead of locking him in the cellar. Is this not an option?

Edit: Elise has also stated a few times that she doesn't have space for everyone unless they want to sleep on the floor. It's fine if people want to go that route, Elise won't be upset.

Oh, I will wake him and make a fuss if need be. It isn't wise to have a criminal hanging out in anyone's basement, in case something awful happens. As for sleeping arrangements, Valdrin will probably shack up at the Desnan temple as per usual after doing a few chores to help them out.

Oh, I agree with you. I assumed that was the route we were going. DM posted otherwise, so I am making sure there isn't something I am missing. Also--I am being sincere and not passive aggressive, just to be clear. I am autistic and my tone doesn't always translate well via the internet.

My fault for misunderstanding. We will move to waking the town constable before bed.

Feeling very under the weather the last few days, won’t post tonight but hope to feel better and post tomorrow night.

Hope you feel better soon. Lots of flu going around everywhere

Yeah, all last week, my classes were decimated by kids with the flu. I have classes of 20 most of the time and about half my kids were missing on any given day. Get lots of rest and take care of yourself!

Yeah I've had some respritory issue going on for a month now (not covid) and for whatever reason it decided to kick my butt for about 48 hours over the weekend (Guessing helping my dad pull his pier out of the lake when it was 32 degrees probably didn't help) but I'm back to my "baseline" of annoying cough and stuffy nose at night.

My wife works in the local hospital and she's said the respitory viruses, especially RSV, have been real bad this year and the flu hasn't even hit us yet.

But I'm back and catching up right now, appreciate the well wishes.

Sorry, internet was down yesterday and my phone data is always very shaky where I live.

I'll be in the woods this weekend and likely won't be able to post much, maybe once at night when I get back. In fact the whole next week with the holiday my posting is going to be pretty spotty.

Apologies, my boring life got busy all the sudden :)

It's going to be hard to be stealthy while opening a door in a pitch black dungeon with 4 light sources backlighting you. Probably not really feasible unless you take a total different tactic or in a situation where you can lie in wait for someone rather than being the explorer.

Makes total sense to me! Thanks for the explanation <3

Olaf, enjoy the woods!

Wouldn't Olaf be at 20 HP from that hit, as we had rested for the night? Just double checking!

Rest restores HP equal to Con Mod x level. So people didn't heal to full during the rest. He started the day at 22/28. Serpens has like 9hp to start the day....

Unless I missed something, which is entirely possible

Ah, fair enough! Guess I've got some healing to do after this fight!

I still had two spell slots remaining, could I have used them both on Heal to heal the party? I should have specified that or thought of that before we rested.

It's a thing we forgot about, that won't do too much harm as long as we aren't too hasty. I can heal up without magic after the fight, or with magic if in a pinch.

I'm back! But do I want to be?

Only comment could be if we are allowed exploration activities before we entered the room, I'd have been defending and havning my shield raised, which would have allowed the Shield Block reaction on that first attack (unless grabbed would negate it) and possibly have 5 more hitpoints.

Will allow it, since you weren't here. Will just assume the shield is up as we move from exploration to rounds.

I will also let you take some healing retroactively while in the town etc or before you burn thought today's resources. If you have healing available, and wanted to have used it, then roll here.

I would've wanted to use my two uses of Heal providing everyone;

healing: 2d8 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3 sigh

at the end of the day, so everyone should have started the day with 3 more hp than otherwise.

I'll be better about being cognizant of my resources left unspent before we rest in the future.

Staggering slightly from the attacks on him, and his missed swing, Olaf nevertheless manages to keep his shield up and blade swinging even as he mentally focuses his powers.

Arcane Cascade, Strike, Focus Spell: Shielded Strike (raises shield and recharges my spellstrike)
Since I had cast an evocation spell last, my cascade adds +1 force damage to my strikes

Strike 1, Bastard Sword: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Damage, S: 1d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 = 8Crit, so 16 damage I think

Strike 2, Bastard Sword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Damage, S: 1d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 = 8

Spell Strike is recharged, Shield is raised and AC 20. Will use Shield Block reaction if struck

Lol, happens to the best of us, I think ❤️

Between the holidays and getting sick over the holiday, I may be offering up some quite sparse posts in the next few days. I get really bad brain fog when I'm sick. I'm banished to the basement, so I'll have plenty of time for it, at least...

Get better! Flu has hit my home too but I’m doing ok for now.

My wife was wiped out all day today, so I did all the cooking in her place. Hopefully it stays away from me.

I am taking today/tomorrow off real posting, but will resume on Saturday.

Game back on after a short holiday respite. Thankful for all you great players!

I wonder if we have lost Valdrin? His last post was on the 18th...Hopefully he is just away for the holiday etc. I will post for him tomorrow if nothing checks in.

Looks like he hasn't posted in any of his games! Hope everything is alright.

Agreed! Hopefully just busy with the holidays and whatnot.

North Chamber Post-Combat Summary

Serpens 12/26hp
Elise 18/26hp
Olaf 14/28 hp
Fentus 15/24hp
Trista 17/26hp; immune to Battle Medicine
Valdrin 19/28

No real spell resource or consumable used in this fight that i have note of. Valdrin did use Battle Medicine on Trista and people are in various stages of being dinged up.

Valdrin is still MIA on the forums. :( Positive vibes his way.

Will get something up shortly. My dad's wake was today, and I am working my way through slowly catching up on all my games.

Think we're going to need to replace folks soon? I think we'll have a hard time without a reliable tank-type and a healer-type - our party make-up at the moment is pretty squishy.

Yeah, I hope our MIA folks are alright, always a bummer when folks disappear.

I hate to toss people if they are planning on coming back, but we can't wait for them forever. I will declare this the opening of a 7 day notice period for Valdrin and Serpens. If they post in that time, fine and dandy, but if they are still absent, we will recruit to replace them.

If you know people who might want to step up, please let them know we may have openings soon.

I am still around but now that Ive returned to work finding time to post betweeen the newborn and my shift isnt gonna be an every day occurance. If thats gonna be an issue I will drop.

i think we can tolerate your schedule if you can commit when its your turn in combat, of if you don't mind setting up a botting plan so we don't have to wait for you.

I mean I take the same turn every turn and have a hitting things macro.

Move, snag, grab. A thurd attaxk if I didbt have to move.

We can live with botting you through combats for a while. Let us know if you decide that's untenable also, given the family situation.

Sorry about the long delay to get the combat set up. Had a work thing come up unexpectedly this morning.

Also, you guys realize the boggards and the baboon-things (charau-ka) ARE the cultists, right? They have the burning claw holy symbol (the Cinderclaws) even if if forget to mention it every time. Dahak, Mwangi Expanse, Cinderclaws, invasion force ready etc etc. LMK if we need to cover that again.

Yeah, I get that as a player...it'll click for the character in a hot second, lol.

what did i do to deserve these rolls? I'm ready for elise to just die at this point.

I think you need a curse removed or something Elise. Get that die-roller fired up above a 7...

I'm rolling great in other games! It's just Elise and my half-orc in a 5th ed game. They both are cursed.

I'm ready to sacrifice something.

Oof, Elise stop giving me your ones. Did we get a refresh on hero points when we rested?

if I'm going down you're all going with me

Olaf, Son of no-one wrote:

Oof, Elise stop giving me your ones. Did we get a refresh on hero points when we rested?

if I'm going down you're all going with me

Guess I need to start brainstorming my next character ;)

Gunslinger seems interesting, if almost wholly dependent on crits.