General Notes:
I try to post every day to keep things moving, and if you can keep a similar pace, that would be great. We all have real life interruptions of course, so if you can't post and we're in the middle of something like a combat, please give me bot instructions or I'll assume your PC does Total Defense.
Please place a good array of information in your character header. Knowing your PC's armor class, Perception mod, Initiative mod, etc., saves me a lot of time when doing posts. If you need help figuring out how to format that, we can help you.
If you're new to Pathfinder, Pathfinder Society, or play-by-post, just let me know--I'm always happy to help.
If you want to earn extra GM love, posting a full character sheet in your profile is great. That way I can look stuff up and answer my own "how did they do that?" questions. Related, if you have some crazy weird or complicated build and want to explain anything, here's a good place.
Please note that I don't keep a running tally of the damage your character has taken (or other expenditures of resources like spell slots, etc.) You'll need to do this yourself and regularly update your tagline.
You'll need a picture of your character for the grid scenes.
Finally, role-playing is good! Please give your PC some personality and engage with the other PCs and NPCs. I'll gently move us along if we're dwelling too much in one part of the scenario.
Any questions, ask away!
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Khellek is hardly an optimized character... for anything other than knowledge skills. Knowledge checks... I can pretty much top roll within breaking a sweat for virtually anything.
Just when it comes to combat... not so much. A big group I can certainly boost nicely with haste and inspire courage type effects. But direct damage... I'll be lucky to do a single point.
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Generally for scrolls you need the wizard/cleric/druid version. Only spells not on wizard/cleric/druid lists are purchasable otherwise. After them there is a heirarcy
1: cleric/druid/wizard
2: bard
3: paladin/ranger
4: alchemist/inquisitor/magus/mesmerist/occultist/spiritualist/summoner
5: bloodrager/medium
If there are multiple options for a spell level at the same heirarchy, you can use the lowest level.
(e.g. flame strike scrolls are 5th level spells from clerics, not 7th from wizards)
I'm just leaving this note here to remind myself at the end of the scenario for Chronicles.
We are are officially in subtier 8-9 (9+8+8+9+7+8 averages to 8.1).
Kaya will receive out-of-subtier gold.
Khellek will receive Slow Track rewards (half XP, Gold, & Fame/PP).
I'll post in Gameplay in 12-24 hours. Big final session of a three-year RL Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign today is taking a lot of prep time. Fingers-crossed they do well!
Sorry, we're past the point of purchases as you travel across the Nidalese countryside.
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Not Kaya or Droogami, that’s for sure.
Also prior to the Cairn, Kaya will hit herself with Longstrider (7hrs) and Droogami with greater magic fang (5hrs, +1 to all natural attacks) from her wand. And how damn expensive was that against the pregen budget?!?
Do we want to start the Cairn with Daylight (70m) up or wait to see if it is needed?
Everyone, just for the sake of covering my bases, I should note that the rest of the scenario can get somewhat graphic in the way you might expect a torture chamber devoted to Zon-Kuthon could. If you're concerned and need more detail ahead of time, please feel free to PM me.
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The fly may be essential if you want khellek to join in. That said, he is not that much help in direct combat. But he does have various buff's he could use.
If there was a spider climb going, that may be harder on his dignity, but cheaper on the pocket.
Think I may have to change one of my standard dark archive potions to fly or levitate.
Will update Gameplay tomorrow--apologies for the delay.
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Grog, were you moving yourself up the chains on the map? Looking back at your posts and by my math you should have been 70 feet up when you decided to come back down. You had haste after the first move and spending your whole action to climb gives you half your movement speed climbing. So 10 ft before haste, 30 ft twice after haste. Then you failed a fast climb so no movement. The next post is you climbing down.
I just don't want you to waste five rounds and be back on the ground. I'm also not sure there is even another fly spell available.
@GM: No worries and thanks for an update.
Also, this is a very difficult to manage fight and you are doing quite well with it. Almost anything with the vertical dimension is a pain.
@Khellek: I'd vote Cure Mod from a statistical standpoint, I think we will need a lot of healing this fight if they keep picking us off as we climb up. Hopefully our dwarf up there can make that harder on them.
@Two Blades: The chains aren't difficult terrain. The reason flying upwards is at half speed and requires a DC 20 Fly check is because of the Core Rulebook flying rules themselves. (on the plus side, don't forget the spell gives you an automatic bonus to the Fly skill)
In Gameplay, there's some questions about how long some buffs like Haste have left. Could someone do a quick peek back to see when they were activated? We're starting Round 7 now. I would but my kid is bugging me to take him to the pool :)
Thanks for your patience, everyone. I know this has been a long (and complex) battle, but now that a couple of you are on the scene, I think it'll conclude relatively quickly.
Does Grog know the kyton's are evil outsiders?
It would probably depend on how smart Grog is to make inferences. He's been told by Khellek that: "These are kytons, creatures of hell and shadow. Above all they enjoy pain, that of others and of themselves."
General periodic reminder to everyone to update your taglines with buffs and to reflect damage taken (since I don't track either). There's a lot of posts in Gameplay between turns, so please read them carefully and adjust taglines as needed.
@Kaya: I forgot to have you roll a caster level check for the call lightning vs the kyton's spell resistance, but it's only a handful of hit points and not worth ret-conning--we'll try to remember if you call down another one.
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So, I know the attack missed (nat 1 and so I didn't roll it's pathetic damage), but the hope was to take advantage of the Confusion clause and force it to attack me.
You only need to attack the foe, not hit it, right?
But then Kaya also attacked it, we'll see. I just didn't want it to "act normally" and flay Grog again.
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So, I know the attack missed (nat 1 and so I didn't roll it's pathetic damage), but the hope was to take advantage of the Confusion clause and force it to attack me.
You only need to attack the foe, not hit it, right?
But then Kaya also attacked it, we'll see. I just didn't want it to "act normally" and flay Grog again.
lol Grog just crit'd it, power attacking and with favored enemy evil outsiders.
At this point, you should feel free to roll Day Job checks and let me know if there is anything in particular I should note on Chronicles (replays, etc.).
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I know we are not quite done yet, but I wanted to say thanks for running. That setup with the chains made for a very interesting and challenging encounter that did not allow the usual "win initiative, kill everything in the first round" rocket tag approach. I'm pretty pleased with how an Eldritch Knight managed to be useful in that instance (though I think I forgot about his Step Up feat as I hadn't used it in a long while).
As you know (in-character and -out), you've accomplished your mission by stopping Lord Maravan and securing the shadow obelisk. You're welcome to keep exploring, but I'd suggest we try to wrap things up in the next week or so (real-time), because the following week I'll be away without an Internet connection and I'd like to get you Chronicles before then. Does that sound okay?