☠ Season of Ghosts w/ DM rainzax ☠

Game Master rainzax

Kazuki will take whatever watch is available.

Going to play the current scene before dealing with Auntie Wu's scouting mission or Lan and Kazuki's spying mission (banking the rolls for now)...

=)

Safe travels (if that applies) and happy holidays! I'll be cooking a lot tomorrow, so no guarantees on posting until the 26th.

Hmm. So she wouldn't necessarily know this is a haunt, not a ghost. And the spell she'd use against a ghost has the Manipulate trait, so I don't think she could cast it.

Everyone make a DC 22 Reflex save to avoid being immobilized (or restrained on a critical failure) - the DC to Escape is also 22

Ah. I mixed up which definition I was reading. Thanks!

Do we have access to Aeon stones?
Some of them requiire to be a member of the Pathfinder Society.

As a Rarity Boon if it is Uncommon or Rare.

I added the Hope we gained from Mama Bao's, so here are our new totals:

Hope: 5 (keep this above 0)
Food: 18/29
Security: 9/10-18 (Total needed depends on the weather.)

Willowshore Curse: 6/?
➤Pick's Memory Ritual @ ☑☑□

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Before I choose, please remind me: Do we have 12 weeks of rolls to prepare for winter? Or is this it?

12 weeks total = Fall

We have completed 3 weeks, looking towards week 4

Granny Hu waiting in the wings

Skills not attack rolls for the routing spider skill challenge.

You can “attack” them, but rolling with skills please.

@GM rainzax: In your last post, you rolled for Auntie Wu's week 4 activity, but not everyone else's. I hadn't chosen yet, and was leaning toward helping with the spiders. Is that set in stone already? I suppose in fairness, the same roll can be used no matter what I do, though the DC might change if there's synergy to add.

She was going to prepare Helpful Woodland Spirits to Obstruct the spiders' path, Animal Form to turn into a deer and lure them away with a tasty treat (50 ft speed), and Ignite Fireworks to scare them into fleeing off to the side.

Oops, I did not mean to "roll" in that post, but to post the ready-to-go macro for it - it looks like I lost the "_" between the dice expression brackets. Ignore the result please!

Sorry, everyone. Having some mental health issues.
I started on medication two weeks ago and it's making me feel kind of... weird.
I'll get back into the game tomorrow after work.

That's another thing; The meds are causing some issues with being able to concentrate at work and on other things.

I hope you all are having a good holiday season.

Sorry to hear Kazuki. Hope you find the right balance soon.

Alright, with at least three of you jumping in, I'm changing the parameters of Routing Giant Tarantulas from a single aided "pass/fail" check to a group "pass/fail" Skill Challenge!

Edit: Yes, you may choose to strategically not go. The number of points needed for each threshold depends on the number of rolling PCs. In the event not everyone goes, I have also given the % of successes needed so you can actively track progress.

Go ahead and roll one round at a time!

@Kazuki: I hope life starts easing up on you soon.

How's the new house? Confession: I have two final boxes that I never unpacked after moving in 2017 (Auntie Wu has to look at them every day :P)

So don't stress once you're down to 1-3 boxes :D

Ha ha.

We are awaiting our toilet, to put on the new floor (just the bathroom for now), in backwards order. And boxes still hold most of our kitchen supplies while we await the time to clean and paint the kitchen cabinets. Turns out one of the "rooms" (as listed) has insufficient boards to support the weight of an actual room, so, it re-becomes an attic with boxes lined at it's edges. The master bedroom is painted now, and has minimal furniture, like we like it. The baby room is currently being rented out to a friend who doesn't mind being unable to use one of the closets until we fix a small leak. The dining room still needs wallpaper and paint removed before being redone. But the living room is livable now, nearly unpacked. And the garage will hold for now.

In a word, despite the "love" we gotta give the place, I am very happy to be increasingly settled as little projects get slowly squirreled away.

And. To help your cause, I'll award one Hero Point to Vekka for each of those 2017 boxes you finally unpack!

=)

...Now, where were we...

And. To help your cause, I'll award one Hero Point to Vekka for each of those 2017 boxes you finally unpack!

Hooo boy, the contents of which do not have a better place to be. We shall see.. :D

Kneedeep in making a 14th level character with my limited time.

Going to give this game a lookover soon.

=)

I bet it’s a mantis :P

Each star is a one week favor owed. If you only owe one star, then you have satisfied your debt.

I will roll for her summons after you make your declarations, as something comes up “last minute”!

Auntie Wu volunteered to help with the Phantoms. The rest of that post was RP. Apologies if there was any confusion.

Let's do everyone R1 first.

Then let's do everyone R2 and R3 together.

If you are hanging back, you may instead pursue your Downtime activity.

It is a Skill Challenge followed by a Combat.

I will not force a party split for the Combat, except under the direst of circumstances.

Successes lower the Challenge rating - but double CS would eliminate the Combat altogether!

Heal is an appropriate Synergy for either Phantoms or Walking Dead in the “Lure” part of the Skill Challenge, yes.

Hit my bedtime - will pop us off tomorrow - last chance to position your Tokens!

If someone bots Lan, I can move us on…

And if someone can bot Kazuki, I can move us along again…

Hang on. Sorry. Long day at work.

Ah. Just noticed auntie botted me. Thank you! That's exactly what I planned on doing!

This is an FYI that I'll be away in nature this coming weekend Sat. 2/1-Sun 2/2. I'll be unable to post during this time. I will return late Sunday and resume posting. Bot as needed, but I'm hoping that since it's the weekend disruption will be minimal.

Phantom is not technically undead, thus not susceptible to vitality damage - but Auntie Wu would know that.

Go ahead and retake your turn!

D'oh! So would casting Heal on them hurt them? It was a synergy during the skill challenge, so I assumed it would. I'll post my revised actions once I know. Thanks!

Phantoms are neither Alive nor Undead.

Folks are welcome to look this up (whether vitality or void damages them).

I'm strongly inclined to rule that neither damage type affects them - sort of like Constructs.

They certainly take spirit damage, however!

Thoughts?

So, I think the flavor of them being "souls" makes this less intuitive than it could be but...

They don't have void healing and they're not immune to vitality or void effects, so they'd be treated as living by default. Additionally, the creature family doesn't explicitly say they aren't living. It discusses how you can "turn an existing living creature into a phantom," but that also doesn't explicitly state that they become not living.

That's certainly very "legal" and probably feels "off" against their flavor, but it seems like the creature family wasn't given the "matching" specificity beyond default creature rules.

I should clarify: that's not necessarily my strong inclination for how to handle it. I just wanted to determine what a baseline ruling would look like (and it turns out to be an odd mismatch of mechanics and lore).

I'm totally fine with your intuition to treat them as construct-like.

To those who aren't super technically-minded (ahem: me), the description is abundantly unclear. GM ruling stands either way.

We encountered phantom ravens at Auntie Wu's house shortly after rescuing Darius, and Vitality Lash worked against them. Are there multiple different creatures called phantoms?

I do think either both vitality and void should damage, or neither should damage. Like others, I am okay treating them however constructs are treated.

However, I, uh, don't know how constructs are treated. I probably should, but I don't.