☠ Season of Ghosts w/ DM rainzax ☠

Game Master rainzax

Back and catching up

Sorry for my delay and very short post. I work weekends and it's been quite busy.

I don't open others' spoilers by default, so if Auntie Wu would share anything with the rest of us, please let us know.

It looks like I do need to update my stuff on the macros page. I'll try to get to that tonight.

If someone can bot Kazuki’s Survival roll, I can move us along

I don't open others' spoilers by default, so if Auntie Wu would share anything with the rest of us, please let us know.

If you're referring to her Sense Motive check on Sigurd's conversation with Candora, she wouldn't blab his secret. But she might try to help him out a bit, if it seems appropriate.

Ho Lan wrote:

I don't open others' spoilers by default, so if Auntie Wu would share anything with the rest of us, please let us know.

If you're referring to her Sense Motive check on Sigurd's conversation with Candora, she wouldn't blab his secret. But she might try to help him out a bit, if it seems appropriate.

That's absolutely fine. In the past, people have assumed I've opened spoilers I haven't, and it's led to confusion later in the game. I'm 100% okay with the way things are going!

Let me know if my record keeping isn't up to date:

Hope: 1 (keep this above 0)
Food: 18/29
Security: 9/10-18 (Total needed depends on the weather.)

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

Yeah, I thought hope was close to fatal. Vekka wants to spend at least a little time on it.

Sigurd, how many successes have you accumulated for the Teahouse already?

Week 1 was general repair, N/A

>Week 2< Success

>Week 3< Success

Week 4: Routing the Spiders

Week 5: Routing the Phantoms

So 2 successes total.

Ok.

I'll go ahead and share that 5 successes (total) are needed to complete the renovation.

So Sigurd is nearly half way.

Has anyone else helped him so far?

Assuming not, we are 2/5 with the Cerulean Teahouse

Hope: 1 (keep this above 0)
Food: 18/29
Security: 9/10-18 (Total needed depends on the weather.)

Willowshore Curse: 6/?
➤Pick's Memory Ritual @ ☑☑□
Cerulean Teahouse: 2/5

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Is Sigurd the only one Trained in Crafting? That might be why no one's been helping him.

Kazuki tried to help me during a week but failed, IIRC.

Vekka could maybe help with that next depending on how the shoring up of hope goes. If it's crafting, it's not his strongest suit (which is while he'll soon retrain it to deception).

A note for spell preparers: You woke up this morning expecting to prioritize whatever Downtime you are engaged in.

None of Vekka's spells seem relevant to tea parties :)

I count 3 dice for vitality lash - lemme know if i'm missing something?

You're right. I goofed. I guess just ignore the last die rolled?

It’s bot time?

Thanks for botting me. Weekends and Mondays are my busiest days at work.

I have no useful spells prepared, and either a -2 or a +1 to enter the building.

@GM: Since the front door is unblocked, can we get in there without the Athletics or Acrobatics checks? Or is it simply "unblocked line of sight", despite debris having fallen across it?

To make an Adjacent Extinguish check, you gotta clear the obstacle, and may pay the action cost to retry if you Fail.

Is there a spell you would like to use? What is it’s range?

I don't have any useful spells prepared, unfortunately, except Guidance. Here goes!

Quorum of two!

I've added a tab to the NPC Relationships spreadsheet to track Hope, Food, Security, etc. It's the last one on the right. Granted, it ought to have its own file, but this way I only have to keep one tab open for easy updating. Let me know if the totals are incorrect.

Vekka's possible activities aside from hope/food/etc.:
- Study Zoudou's notes (now that he has the languages)
- Research Granny Hu's True Name
- Research Kugaptee's True Name
- Retrain Acrobatics -> Deception
- Retrain Spell parry -> Expansive Spellstrike (and then take Distracting Spellstrike for level 4)

I'm leaning towards either helping shore up food or taking a crack at Zoudou's notes. Is that something that can be done in one week?

You can make one check per week for either, but not both.

Sorry, the question was for the latter (for making the choice between the two).

I'll go ahead and spend one week working on the notes.

Researching the Willowshore Curse

Proto Anchor Post...

w/ Jubai @ Mother's Coil
DC 17 Library Lore
DC 19 Arcana
Maximum RP: 2

Solo Investigations (this includes Lady of Souls)
Any Tradition check DC 20
Maximum RP: 3

Studying Zoudou's Notes
Must speak both Abyssal and Aklo!
Numbers withheld until both languages accesses by one reader!

Vekka, do you speak both Abyssal and Aklo?

Or, do you have a way to do so reliably for 8+ consecutive hours a day for an entire week?

Yes, it's been a while, but back in October, here

Downtime week 2: retrain feat Unmistakeable Lore for Multilingual.

Multilingual languages: Aklo, Diabolic (NOTE this seems to replace "Abyssal" in the remaster. If I have that wrong I'll put it back to Abyssal as a custom language in the tool.)

Abyssal was renamed >Chthonian<.

Infernal was renamed Diabolic.

Doh, I got it mixed up. I'll correct that (the intention was obvious to pick whatever counts for abyssal).

Will give Kazuki a couple hours to sign off on his Downtime.

Then roll them and move us forward later this evening.

@DM rainzax: For the skill challenges, how do you want to handle spell preparations? I think after the recent fire, Auntie Wu would prepare a water-based spell for a while as a precaution, but beyond that I like to know what you'd consider reasonable.

@Everyone: I've added 1 to Food and Cerulean Teahouse in the tracker.

Just realized it's 3 weeks to winter and we are 10 food away from feeding willowshore. We could use a slight bump on security too, but I'd say it's time to focus on food food food.

FYI I'll be away in nature this weekend, 3/1-3/2 without access to post. I'll return Sunday evening (US/Pacific time) to continue posting.

Auntie Wu, trust you to make a “fair” decision

Apologies in advance if this "three in one" is disorienting...

=)

No worries, GM. I thought I had to spend 1 round entering the house and the second to put out the fire.

I messed up my stable post by leaving out the entry roll, but I suppose it's moot because my extinguish check failed.

Ran out of time today to aggregate and update.

Shooting for tomorrow, work has a lot on my plate, but I think I can do it.

Go ahead and roll openly, Kazuki / everyone!

Clarification: Go ahead and roll openly for the investigation of the skull / skeleton body.

Auntie Wu has the right of it - retain your Downtime as macros (I will collect them and roll them later / after this scene!)

Big post today!
Did I miss any loose ends?
Clarifying questions?
Also: Level 5 is very, very near...

=)

Level 5! Big level!

Sounds like we need some good research, but we also have to worry about our food stores.

We are so short on time to gather food, strongly considering hero-pointing the roll if it's bad enough (but with a natural 13 it failed... arg those aren't good odds).

According to Auntie Wu's sheet (adding the +⭐⭐⭐ above), we currently have 9 Research Points?

Looks right to me.

Lan can attempt food with Nature, he's not very helpful in the researching and hope can wait for a bit.

I anticipate questions about the Wealth house rule.

Shoot!

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- Retrain Acrobatics -> Deception
- Retrain Spell parry -> Expansive Spellstrike (and then take Distracting ...

Since we're leveling up soon, an ability boost in INT will get him an extra trained skill and leave him with only the feat retrain to do.

Time to start thinking of additional useful languages.

No questions on the wealth house rule just yet. It's always seemed pretty straightforward to me.