GM Harrow’s Curse of the Crimson Throne - AE

Game Master GM Harrow

Sure, let's do that. Abella and Dal get one move or standard action before the first initiative turn.

I'm assuming those are a pair of vats or drums of some kind. Are they tall enough to block line of sight?

They are two large vats filled with water. They are quite big, so yes they can block line of sight.

Audria, I think you should have been able to take one of those move actions in the surprise round and still have your standard action for Round 1, but I guess we don't want to retcon anything.

If the GM says I can, I'll roll an attack. It wouldn't be that much of a retcon anyway.

I'm on the end of year pushes at work right now so sorry for being slow. I'll get my turn up later tonight or early tomorrow.

Yes, Audria can take a standard action as part of the first round.

I will bot Pip for now.

Well, Abella did say she preferred Audria angry. :P

And now Audra has a bunch of questions for Abella.

Instead of “yes, and” Abella is “wait, what? explain?!”

Pretty much. :D

Playing catch up. I had to pick my son up from school Friday morning. He tested positive for Strep Throat Saturday afternoon.

As I said in the other game, poor guy. Hope he gets to feeling better and that you don't catch it yourself.

Wishing your son a swift recovery! Take care of yourself.

He was good by Sunday evening.

But I came back to a s$+~storm at the office yesterday.

Fuuuuun.

I had to clock out of work today cause I wasn’t feeling well, but I think I’m doing better now. I’ll get caught up on posting tomorrow

Take care!

Hope you get to feeling better.

I feel like everyone is getting sick more and more nowadays.

Take care!

Will do! Got a potluck thing to go to tomorrow. 3 hour round trip.

We haven't heard from Pip in over two weeks. I'm starting to get worried.

He posted in the game I'm running four days ago, so he's still around.

Everyone doing okay? I know this is a busy period for some, let me know if you'll be absent for a while.

I'm fine. Still around.

I think it might be worthwhile to bot Abella and Pip, at least to get this fight wrapped up. Abella sounds like she's going to be busy for a bit and Pip's been slow posting here for a bit, probably due to his job. Dragging out fights tends to kill the momentum in my experience.

Just my two cents. I know that's not what you asked, but I think if you're asking questions like that, it's probably because there's concerns about the pacing.

Noted, and botted.

Thank you.

I meant to post once I reached the weekend but I’ve been sleeping the whole weekend. Just gotta get through this week and I’m on vacation through the 1st of the year. I’ll try to fit in more time for posting until then

I know that feeling. I can't speak for everyone, but I'd rather you take care of yourself even if it means we miss Abella's spells and snark.

I was going to bring up botting if no one had by Monday, so thanks. I may have lesser availability later in the month, but am fine for now. Good luck to you this week, Abella.

It's purposeful on my part that Shrike isn't chatty, but I hope that leaves room for other people to talk to Vancaskerkin if they want. Talking as a free action and all. Once Malder goes down she'll have the actions for an Intimidate attempt on Vancaskerkin, but I thought that for now I should focus fire the one we know is a threat.

Slang note:
Bosky Drunk.

Sleep is something I long for.

Sorry, Abella. I think I ninja'd ya.

Pip's player is going through some rough IRL stuff, as his wife was just diagnosed with leukemia and will start treatment soon. As such, he is withdrawing from the game, and sends everyone his regards. I am sharing this with permission, thoughts and prayers are appreciated at this difficult time.

That is really s%@~ty. I can't imagine what they're going through.

Oh, no. That's awful. I wish him and his wife all the best.

Audria can pull the wagon, but it will b very slow going, slower than walking.

Okay, I guess Dal and I are going on a little adventure. I'll get a post up in a bit.

GM, how cartoony am I allowed to get with the description of Audria loading Parns, Baldrago, and Malder into the wagon?

I think the scene could use a bit of levity. :D

Alrighty. One silly slapstick scene coming up! I've got a meeting (Maybe?) that I need to take care of first.

Hey everyone, with Pip withdrawing from the game there is potentially an open spot for a new player. Two people have expressed interest, [url=https://paizo.com/people/JacobTrier]Jacob Trier] and [url=https://paizo.com/people/Cwethan]Cwethan[/url. Audria knows one and I know the other. :)

Please let me know your thoughts on this - if you would like to continue as we are, or recruit one (or both!) of the interested players.

My vote is both. Jacob's a great player and I think he'd be a good fit. I'm reading through one of Cwethan's games and while I don't think I've ever played with him, he seems like a great player himself.

I would be happy to recruit one or both. Your guys' vouching for them is good enough for me. :)

I'm in agreeance with Shrike.

Also, I'll have a post up shortly. This weekend took a toll on my family.
My son's strep didn't go away completely with his antibiotic. It just kind of shifted to a scrape he got on his leg. Yay.

Two of my nieces and a nephew were in a pretty bad car wreck Saturday night too.

And to top it all off, a hawk pooped on me yesterday.

Yikes, hope everyone in your family recovers swiftly and has no more misadventures!

Take care of yourself.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for considering letting me join the game. I have been lurking a bit since Adam posted the call for a replacement GM and enjoy gaming with Adam and Chapel in the Crypt of the Everflame game.

For this game, I’m leaning towards a hard-hitting Sable Company Marine ranger with a secret reason for wanting to protect the city. But I’m ready to play whatever the group needs.

*waves*

I'm cool with the Sable Company Marine. I think between Dal, Abella, and Audria we have healing covered.

GM, is Cwethan still interested? I'd love to see what he's come up with. :)

Cwethan? Interested? I sure am! You just gotta give a gal a little bit of time in the middle of a work day ;-D

But yeah, hey y'all, excited to be brought on board; Korvosa is one of my favorite corners of Avistan, but I've never actually finished this AP. I don't think I've played with most of you before (except Harrow and a few PFS scenarios with Abella), but I've been browsing Gameplay and I am excited to start!

Here's my initial character concept, but if you feel there's a different gap that would be better to fill I'm a happy camper - Never sad to whip up another character after all!

After getting a gander at the setting connections and general party roles, I'm eyeing a diaspora-Shoanti, raised in the City, and playing around with questions of assimilation and adaptation, which of course can get thornier when interacting with more fully traditional Quah-Shoanti. I'm envisioning that they're part of a kind of a neighborhood watch/troubleshooter/proactive redistributor down in Old Korvosa, and are more than a little distrustful of the guards and royals even before things have started going Quite Bad.

Build-wise I wanted to go in the direction of more urban themed classes, and I love the idea of wielding basically a sawed-off klar as a way of taking an ancestral weapon and turning it into a more discreet weapon of the streets. I'd be looking at a multiclass of rogue and brawler for a bunch of skills (and making a small weapon like a cestus functional.)

I think at this point, it's easy enough for [Name of Character] to get swept up in the various troubles going on and have a heroic meet-cute with the rest of the group, so I probably wouldn't try for the same Why Our Party Came Together idea and be one of Lamm's Lambs. Probably [Name of Character] will have known of him and approve of his downfall since I won't be skimping on the Knowledge (local), but I wasn't planning on more specific ties there...

[Name of Character] will probably be relatively laconic and sardonic in speech (though I always have to see how a character shakes out in writing them to know for sure), but is a lot more caring than they project, so helping out other do-gooders is a short putt.

Also @Audria, just cause I'm curious, which character did you like? (Some of them have Very Different energies)

Apologies, Ms. Cwethan. I can be a little impatient when I get excited. :)

As for what character of yours I've been enjoying, it's Mal from the game that was taking place in the Five Kings Mountains. I've been reading through the game thread.

A brawler/rogue sounds like it'd be fun to have in the party. I think it'd work well with both Audria and Shrike since we're the two main melee combatants, though I think Jacob's plans are for Elric to be a switch hitter. The Shoanti elements are definitely going to catch Audria's eye, and she's going to have a lot of questions.

Oh, and I can't wait until the Snark off with Abella happens. That'll be entertaining, for sure.

I have a soft spot for Mal too :-D

If folk are concerned about an overabundance of melee, I could definitely shift things over in a more ranged direction - though that might not fit my vision of the Shoanti wrestling with their heritage. (Longbows aren't a city weapon after all...) I could maybe do something in a Shield Champion or fling around some starknives... There'd definitely be some reworking there (especially 'cause ranged sneak attacks are difficult enough that I'd probably want to find a non-roguely path to getting some non-combat usefulness into my stabby meathead)

Alternately I could head into a Academae student who is very recently uncloistered and is either an Arrowsong Minstrel or an [archer archetype I forget the name of] Magus to add some range, but also some fun spellsy or skillsy versatility. (Rotating turret of death archers are impressive, but I have learned that they aren't my personal cup of tea to play). This character would have been a lot less disillusioned to begin with and would be more constructed around the idea of gradually recognizing that maybe this is different, things in Korvosa are getting a lot worse, and not only will things not just automatically go back to normal, but that maybe back to normal isn't even the right direction to go...

Just a quick sketch, but happy to ink and color (so to speak) if that's the better direction to go with the rest of the group!