GM supervillan's 4-26 The Waking Rune [Gameday XII] (Inactive)

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Posted the requisite info in Recruitment.

Thanks for the selection, GM.

Character name: Teric Cain
Player name: Enchanter Tim
PFS number: 1142-5
Faction: The Exchange
Day job roll: Bluff (Greenhart's Blessing): 1d20 + 23 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 23 + 2 = 39
Replay?: Nope

It's been a while since I've played Teric last. Glad to see everyone again!

Hi all! Pai is my most advanced character, so I'm still getting the hang of playing at higher levels. If I start doing something unhelpful or suicidal, feel free to ask if it's a "Pai is chaotic" thing or a "player is clueless" thing.

Quiella will do her best to keep the party alive with life link.

I’m here, GM, just waiting on the official go ahead to start in gameplay.

I’m here, GM, just waiting on the official go ahead to start in gameplay.

Gameplay officially begins on the 4th September, but you're good for rp and introductions now :)

As I'm sure you all know, Waking Rune is the culmination of the Season 4 Lissala metaplot.

Do any of these characters have any of the Lissalan or Sihedron boons or artefacts? Some examples are:

Replica dragon tooth longspear (stage I), rod of runes, acrimony veil, Lissala’s caress, Sihedron brand (endurance), Sihedron brand (service), sigil wager (if active), ochre rhomboid ioun stone.

I do not, GM.

I also do not.

I also also do not.

Pai K, you didn't get the Sihedeon Brand tattoo?

Teric has the Sihedeon Brand tattoo, and then one called Lissalan Library, which gives a bonus to know about the cult.

Pai K, you didn't get the Sihedeon Brand tattoo?

Teric has the Sihedeon Brand tattoo, and then one called Lissalan Library, which gives a bonus to know about the cult.

Pai didn’t get that. I have another character who did, but not Pai.

As I'm sure you all know, Waking Rune is the culmination of the Season 4 Lissala metaplot.

Do any of these characters have any of the Lissalan or Sihedron boons or artefacts? Some examples are:

Replica dragon tooth longspear (stage I), rod of runes, acrimony veil, Lissala’s caress, Sihedron brand (endurance), Sihedron brand (service), sigil wager (if active), ochre rhomboid ioun stone.

Quiella was unwilling to endure any of the consequences of those boons/items.

Pai S. has none of those boons or artifacts.

Gameday is officially underway - your briefing has begun!

Per earlier discussion, this will not be run in Hard Mode.

Waking Rune is nevertheless a challenging scenario. Prepare yourselves!

Before we activate the refuge tokens and send you to Krune's sanctum - what light sources are you all using?

Currently has an ioun torch and several spells as options.

Pai is flighty and assumes others will provide her with light. She has low light vision.

Teric has the Light spell.

Regarding backing up: I have a memory of reading somewhere that you can't 5 foot step when flying, but I can't find it now. If I remember correctly, she moves 2 squares north. If my brain is bonkers, she takes a 5' step to avoid the AOO. I have not moved her token.

You can only take a 5-foot-step if your movement isn't hampered by difficult terrain or darkness. Any creature with a speed of 5 feet or less can't take a 5-foot step, since moving even 5 feet requires a move action for such a slow creature.

You may not take a 5-foot step using a form of movement for which you do not have a listed speed.

The one other thing to note about flying manoeuvres is of course Fly checks.

Flying at less than half speed (which will normally cover making a flying 5' step too) is DC10

Hovering in place is DC15 (there's also a Feat for that, but it's for monsters only - "Hover", in the Bestiary).

Flying straight up (at anything greater than a 45 degree angle) is DC20.

Pai S. Should have at least a +21 fly mod with that kineticist talent.

+11 skill mod, +4 for fly spell, +4 for good maneuverability, +2 for small size

Windy conditions, other unknown modifiers or maybe on a mid air collision are about the only ways she couldn’t flit around like a goddess of air. At least that’s what I am calculating.

On the other hand Hamish, even with his potion of fly, would zip around like an uncoordinated elephant.

Thanks! In that case, she would auto-succeed at moving half speed out of range. (Acrobatics to avoid AOO) I'll move her token accrodingly.

Should I or someone else fall, use this...and these two can ward off the effects of life drain and the life..breath of life scroll and death ward x2

Hopefully you won't need them - but just in case, let's confirm who's holding Mykel's scrolls.

Breath of Life is on the Oracle spell list of course. Teric has 1 Oracle level, Quiella has 4. It's a DC10 CL check. Or, it's a DC29 UMD check and a bunch of you have UMD trained, but I think Teric's is the highest.

Death Ward is on the Oracle and Paladin lists. It's a DC8 CL check or a DC27 UMD check.

If someone wants to have scrolls loaded into a spring-loaded wrist sheath - highly recommended for Breath of Life - I'll allow it because Mykel handed out these scrolls before you entered the sanctum. But do let me know who's got the scrolls now.

Pai S.'s UMD is only +8, so she's not a good candidate for in-combat stuff.

hey...one can always hope what she did provokes...thought the movement and then the casting would provoke...

Flying 5' step out of melee reach. Kurshu couldn't get far enough away last round, but now she's hovering over the southern (left) portion of the ziggurat. Quiella's polearm reaches her from the ziggurat summit. The room's not really big enough for a Large flyer to stay out of polearm reach.

Pai S.'s UMD is only +8, so she's not a good candidate for in-combat stuff.

Hamish is also a bad candidate. I would suggest if no one says anything that Quiella have both by default.

Works for me.

Teric is willing to carry the breath of life scroll if you want to not have Quiella hold all the healing. I need to roll a 9 in both cases to use the scroll. He already has a wand in his wrist sheathe though.

I'm fine with Quiella holding it but I also understand not wanting all the healing eggs with one PC

Hamish has a decent bit of regular healing (as a backup healer) as well so we aren’t completely limited to one source of healing.

A few CLW, CSW and a wand of CLW.

It also boils down to this though, who has a spring loaded wrist sheath for it? Otherwise it gets to be a lot less useful as a ‘save a player from real death’ spell (due to action economy of needing to move, to draw and to use a scroll in one round).

Not me.

Pai grabs an Elixir of Renewal and chugs it.

Pai, I see that the Elixir heals Ability Damage. Unfortunately you've been hit with Ability Drain, which is permanent and needs more powerful magic to remove, typically Restoration.

You can still use up your Elixir if you want, but if you prefer to retcon and keep it that's fine.

D'oh! That's what I get for posting in a rush. I'll retcon.

Hi folks,

My posting rate will reduce for a little while. My daughter is in hospital, poorly but improving. I'm posting on my phone in games where I'm a player but can't GM that way.

I was planning on holding off updating gameplay till Quiella can post in any event.

Cheers

Thoughts to you and yours, GM. Please take all the time you need.

So sorry to hear that! Do what you need to take care of her, your family, and yourself.

Sorry for the hold-up, been going through a lot lately and did not mean to go so long without posting.

”Ah, I can tell a bit more about this one! A magical or alchemical effect that will entangle for ten rounds will shut it off. Or something that could paralyze or stagger something for five rounds should do it. Or just doing 35 points of cold damage in a round should disable this one!”

I couldn't find any sensible way of avoiding meta concepts in the info-dump that comes with the higher DC skill success ;)

Pai K wrote:

”Ah, I can tell a bit more about this one! A magical or alchemical effect that will entangle for ten rounds will shut it off. Or something that could paralyze or stagger something for five rounds should do it. Or just doing 35 points of cold damage in a round should disable this one!”

I couldn't find any sensible way of avoiding meta concepts in the info-dump that comes with the higher DC skill success ;)

Lol, yeah, I thought about that too, and couldn’t figure a way to paraphrase it but didn’t want to just say for everyone to read the spoiler!

I'll allow the combination of energy attacks against the runes - but there may be consequences for you.

The effect that forces a Will save from you triggers when you make an attack that doesn't disable the rune (as you may already have concluded given that Teric didn't need to attempt one). So if it takes two or three of you to get over the energy damage threshhold but none of you does it alone, each attacker would need a Will save.

I think they meant if a spell does bludgeoning AND electricity, for instance. If the total reaches the threshold, but individually each type does not, would it destroy the rune?

If the total reaches the threshold within the allowed time then the rune is destroyed. It appears that energy attacks can be combined - but you have to get over the threshold in a single round. If you determine that another rune is not susceptible to combined attacks, I'll let you know.

For singular attacks that have multiple characteristics, such as Pai S' composite blasts, all the characteristics apply.

The temptation to mix up intelligence and wisdom damage is strong here. There's brainy-stupid and there's suicidal-stupid, you know?

Although some (later) PFS scenarios specifically allow the combining of Skills when Aiding Another, it's typically only for particular skill challenges. Waking Rune does not make this allowance here.

It looks like Pai K, Teric, and Hamish are trained in Knowledge (Arcana); and all three plus Quiella are trained in Spellcraft. But Pai K's Arcana is 2 points higher than her Spellcraft, so you are probably best off combining your Arcana rolls given that Teric and Hamish are more likely to hit the Aid DC with that skill.

For the current rune (Armour), it looks like Pai K forgot her +2 from Good Hope. I'll allow Teric's roll to apply to his Arcana skill, and that will get you the additional information.

I feel like the stuck wheel on a wagon here...

I suspect you'll get plenty to do soon enough ;)

Good call on the summoned monster, Pai. I hope that breaks it.

But Summon Monster 5 doesn't include a brown bear, unless you're doing 1d3 grizzlies from the level 4 list. Or a single Ankylosaurus!

That’s weird. I must have looked at a wrong chart this morning. DM, can you sub in a dire Lion and see if it can put out enough damage to bust the rune? Thanks!

And good catch, Teric!

Hamish is correct that Death Ward lacks the Death descriptor, so it won't defeat a Life Rune.