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

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My daughter is home from hospital :D

WONDERFUL!!!

My daughter is home from hospital :D

Awesome news!

Yay! May her recovery be without complication.

My daughter is home from hospital :D

That's great!

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I was on vacation last week and mostly forgot that play-by-post existed.

Sounds like a great vacation!

I'm catching up on Gameplay this morning. I just got to the post where the GM said we're coming to the door. The buffs Quiella would like to cast in this situation:

- Life Pact (on Quiella and up to 3 other party members who opt in)
then
- Shield of Faith
then
- Divine Favor
then
- wand of Shield

Is that okay GM? As of this post I don't know what's on the other side of the door.

Didn't matter, but Yellow should have still been Slowed and unable to take multiple attacks.

Your Slow dispelled a Haste, Teric :o

Quiella, I'll allow your buffs because they won't need any combat retcons. Please try to let me know if you're going to be afk for a while. I know it's not always possible, but it helps if you can.

Yes, my apologies. I'm rusty with Play by Post. I hadn't been playing much lately before this game started.

Sadly Protection from Evil does not give a new save vs Confusion.

I'll update gameplay again tomorrow (Tuesday).

Sadly Protection from Evil does not give a new save vs Confusion.

Man, I had forgotten about that ruling. I think my home group just ignored it. At least he should get the PvE benefits for the future.

Gameday's official end date is November 20th. If we're not done by then, I will report the game but we'll still play to an end point.

Back here Quiella offered the party a Life Pact spell.

Please let me know here if you accept the spell. Quiella can Pact up to three of you. There's about 3 minutes duration left.

Pai S will accept, though if any of our frontliners want it she'll let them have dibs.

Yeah, Pai K will hold off and let the melee crew reap those benefits.

Pai's not going to think of it in her stupid state, but there's that door-shaped part of the wall in the previous room that might be useful (or a red herring).

I always get mixed up on this…..if I want to cast Dimension Door to pop out of the tentacles, do I cast defensively or do I have to cast versus the DC as if I am injured for a concentration check?

Grappled: A grappled creature is restrained by a creature, trap, or effect. Grappled creatures cannot move and take a –4 penalty to Dexterity. A grappled creature takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks, except those made to grapple or escape a grapple. In addition, grappled creatures can take no action that requires two hands to perform. A grappled character who attempts to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability must make a concentration check (DC 10 + grappler’s CMB + spell level, see Concentration), or lose the spell. Grappled creatures cannot make attacks of opportunity.

A grappled creature cannot use Stealth to hide from the creature grappling it, even if a special ability, such as hide in plain sight, would normally allow it to do so. If a grappled creature becomes invisible, through a spell or other ability, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus on its CMD to avoid being grappled, but receives no other benefit.

Your DC is 30 + spell level Pai. It's the Grappled Condition that you have to contend with.

Whilst we might not be finished with your good buddy Krune by the official end of Gameday, I will get the game reported. Please go ahead and roll for boons. 1d20, a 1 or a 20 is a win. If you roll lucky, please pm me your email address which will need to be reported so that you get your boon.

GM boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 12

boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Boon fishing: 1d20 ⇒ 10

"I got a 1! And a 0 from the 20! Two boons for me!" (Nope.)

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Boon 1d20 ⇒ 15

I'm going on a camping trip this weekend, so I won't be able to post from Saturday until later on Sunday.

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 19

The people I mentioned all had enough damage for life link as of this post, when you said Quiella was up for round 1: https://paizo.com/campaigns/v5748p75ivmzj/gameplay&page=7#311

I think the way I lay out the combat tracker may have caused some confusion, I will try to clarify.

The post that you linked was at Round 1 after Krune acted. At that point, Quiella had already taken her Round 1 action because her initiative was higher (I have since delayed you to after Krune, to keep the game moving). Before Krune's Round 1 Black Tentacles, there wasn't any Life Link healing to be triggered.

I labelled the combat tracker "Round 1 / 2" ; everyone below Krune's initiative would be taking their Round 1 actions, everyone above Krune's initiative were up for Round 2 actions.

Hopefully that's more clear. I may experiment with a different layout for the combat tracker.

Pai has an ability that can grant the effects of Air Bubble to everyone in the party for 9 minutes. Would that work to prevent being affected by Cloud Kill? Or is it more of a contact poison?

Of course, Pai won't know the answer to this question, but if I do it'll help me craft my post.

Air Bubble helps you breathe but doesn't block gaseous attacks or poisons. You want Life Bubble which is a few spell levels higher.

Fair enough. Had to ask.

If you’d please love me, GM.

You know I love all my players equally Pai ;)

I've moved you to the edge of the cloudkill, you do have 15' of move left if you want to go into it. You have a Gozmask iirc so you can see through the fog.

Shadow demons are invisible.

lol!

I’ll stop right there, please and thank you!

I'm chaperoning a field trip today, so I'll post later this afternoon or evening.

Can Pai S act? She's not bolded, but in the same block as those who are.

Drinking a potion was your Round 7 action Pai S. The characters bolded in my last post are those who'd not yet acted, or whose actions were incomplete.

Sorry for the slow posting, everyone. This week and next week are pretty terrible for me. I’ll get a post up this weekend. Thanks for bearing with me.

Aw crap, Lesser Restoration is a 3-round casting action.

I think Quiella is going to have to drop Life Link... sorry folks

I will be traveling Dec. 21-28. I may be able to post in the middle of that, but certainly not on the 21st or 28th. Feel free to bot me if needed.

I'm guessing this could be the end of Quiella, especially if she's the only one to go to Pai's aid (though Life Pact might save her) but she is not the type to leave a screaming teammate to die.

If someone does decide to follow Quiella out of the room and has the presence of mind to grab her lucerne hammer on their way out of the room and bring it to her, that could be handy later.

I am not against the idea of coming to help. But this is also literally the first our characters have heard of anyone being in trouble out there. Everyone else already risked the cloud once to get inside to help other allies or go after Krune, but we will probably risk it again next round.

Don’t feel super stressed about Pai. It’s my own fault for dawdling around out here without a light. I have plenty of prestige to get a raise.

Merry Christmas pathfinders!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Terrific Tuesday to all!

I'm travelling tomorrow (27th) and unlikely to post till Thursday.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone!

Constitution: Damage to your Constitution score causes you to take penalties on your Fortitude saving throws. In addition, multiply your total Hit Dice by this penalty and subtract that amount from your current and total hit points. Lost hit points are restored when the damage to your Constitution is healed.

Hamish, this is why you're taking damage as well as reducing max hp from the Cloudkill.

(I need to double-check Teric's damage total as he has healed some CON damage).

My question is what is my current HP (as in how much do I have left). Am I at 64 or 46?

I see what you mean Hamish. Usually I track hp damage rather than current hp totals, but where CON damage occurs it can become confusing. This is exactly why I had to double check at what point Teric could die.

You are at 64hp with a current maximum of 66hp - which could be seen as 2hp damage, or as 20hp damage given that your normal max is 84hp.

I will convert the combat tracker to show current hp instead of hp damage, which will hopefully be clearer. (I also need to update Teric's damage as I hadn't included the effects of Pai S's elixir, and need to move him in the initiative order to reflect that he waited for Pai to give it).

Gameplay post incoming...

One more housekeeping note - I had recorded (under the normal Spellcraft spoiler) that Krune used Empowered Summon Monster VI to summon his shadow demon friends. It was in fact an Empowered Summon Monster VII.