☠ Season of Ghosts w/ DM rainzax ☠

Game Master rainzax

Going with quorum of three to move us along after Short Rest.

Just gotta get a moment to sit down.

Sounded more like long rest to me. I think we all wanted to take a long rest so Sigurd is not fatigued.

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ID: Religion (DC 13) and (DC 20) for the "boss"

@GM: Are the Religion checks a separate roll for each DC?

Yes

DM rainzax wrote:

Going with quorum of three to move us along after Short Rest.

Just gotta get a moment to sit down.

Sounded more like long rest to me. I think we all wanted to take a long rest so Sigurd is not fatigued.

The ship sailed, as when I read the last three posts prior to moving us forward, they seemed cool with moving along, and so, I applied quorum of three.

You will always have the option between Rests, the only thing that really matters is Circumstance vs Time.

=)

Myself, Auntie Wu and Vekka all opted for a long rest, though.
I thought that was quorum of three.

Looks as though I misread your posts, and so, apologize.

If you want, I will cancel the combat and re-run the game beginning with taking a long rest.

We'll say quorum of three, here in Discussion.

[Pausing Combat]

I'm good either way. We can push through this combat and then take a rest, or quietly retreat.

I'm fine going on with this combat. It doesn't look like it's going to be as annoying as the last one. Lol.

Yeah, let's rest for the night after this fight.

Just catching up after vacation, but I agree we should rest for the night after this fight. Lan would not have voted for a long rest before, just because we seemed pretty exposed and vulnerable camping there, but if we're going to be fighting our way down this path, we should risk the long rest.

@ Auntie Wu:

The 2-action heal spell is only 1d8 vitality damage; only when used as vitality healing does the extra +8 apply.

Shucks. You're right. First time I've used it this way, and I didn't read it carefully enough. So it only does 6 damage. Boo.

While we are here, I was able to assemble our SOP for watches:

1: Sigurd
2: Vekka
3: ???
4: ???
5: ???

Moving forward, who will be 3rd, 4th, 5th?

Kazuki will be 5th.

Maybe we set up camp a half hour off road? Kutagpee's minions seem to be patrolling the road, but this dreamscape to the temple is odd, I don't want to get too far away from a familiar landmark to anchor us and get lost.

Let's say quorum of two for "where to camp" and:

1: Sigurd
2: Vekka
3: ???
4: ???
5: Kazuki

I guess Auntie Wu can be third. She thinks Lan would feel put out about not getting a longer chunk of time to sleep.

BTW: I am traveling through August 9th. While I should be able to post most days, feel free to bot me as needed.

Internet is killing me today, dunno if I can get the map together in time...

Edit: Got it!

@Vekka

Wake Up Ally (◆) You can kick your adjacent ally who gets a Pereption vs DC 20 to wake up - and may immediately act if their initiaitve has already passed (to speed it up, you may roll for them)

=)

oh, I didn't do the speed up part. One moment.

My initiative already passed (27), right?

Yes.

I'm going to treat "asleep" as Delay until awoken.

Vekka,
All RK DCs / Qs / links automated in recent combat post!

=)

I see. Proceeding with another post momentarily.

I will set up the next encounter this evening.

We can assume Short Rest / Full HPs / FPs, but still progressing the long day with regards to daily resources.

Will assume same map unless there is strong objection.

Seems like we found a popular tourist spot for undead creeps.

Seems like we found a popular tourist spot for undead creeps.

I just saw that too. ugh. We're never going to get any rest. Lol.

I'm reading:

Sigurd and Vekka for a "side way" (aka not the stairs)
vs
Kazuki and Lan for using the stairs.

2 vs 2.

Auntie Wu, need you to break the tie!

Gunna "quorum 2" all my questions in last Gameplay post, then move us along...

Feel free to start positioning yourselves on the Raft!

GM, did we ever discover why we couldn't use Long Rests to make Daily Preparations?

Oh yes!

I think I was waiting on one more post, but will put that together tonight with or without.

Gunna "quorum 2" all my questions in last Gameplay post, then move us along...

Feel free to start positioning yourselves on the Raft!

Quorum reached - Posting now!

@Party: When we Recall Knowledge on Iogaka, which questions should we prioritize?

A reminder you asked Enko about her two days ago!

Here's an odd interaction with >Concealment<, the order of rolls matter. I check for Concealment, then I roll to grapple.

I succeeded on the first Concealment check. Then I failed to Grapple her.

I failed the second Concealment check when I tried to grapple the second time. Because I failed, I could not have made the actual grapple check and couldn't have Critically Failed - I never got the attempt.

Concealment rolls get annoying either way, I just want to make sure we're consistent on whether I can critically fail after missing due to concealment.

Good point.

Sigurd is not grappled - Will fix my next pass.

Technically the next roll never happens, just actions wasted. But this is PbP, and we make some provisions to reconcile the awkwardness of “programming” die rolls and playing asynchronously.

=)

Yeah, no problem. It's better I roll both checks anyway so we don't have to wait 12 hours to resolve my turn.

DM rainzax wrote:

Auntie Wu's floating flame hovers nearby, sustained by pure magic. (Iogaka moved 25 feet)

Did she move 25 feet up? Her token is still in the same place on the raft, and your posts don't mention her moving.

Which post?

May be looking for a Lan bot!

Final Chapter of Book Two, folks!

Let's take a couple days to get our characters leveled, answer questions about treasure (Kazuki...), and allow the online convention to pop off. Maybe shoot for a Sunday start?

Questions below.

Whoa! Level 6!

Auntie Wu wrote:

DM rainzax wrote:

Auntie Wu's floating flame hovers nearby, sustained by pure magic. (Iogaka moved 25 feet)

Did she move 25 feet up? Her token is still in the same place on the raft, and your posts don't mention her moving.

Which post?

I started here, where Auntie Wu initially cast Floating Flame, and checked all your posts between that and her next turn. Iogaka's token was in the same place on the raft when it came to Auntie Wu's next turn, so she didn't move the Floating Flame. It's a moot point now, but that confused me.

Thank you for showing your process Sigurd. The goal of my house rule is to keep PCs neither too far above nor too far below the game’s wealth baseline.

This means at level up, transferring runes and selling back consumables is entirely abstracted away. You are welcome to tell whatever story you like with them (Shinzo’s trades, etc), but the end result should be that every single item (even consumables) is accounted for in accordance with your Level Six Wealth.

Let me know if this makes sense?

=)

Makes sense to me, thanks.

DM rainzax wrote:

Auntie Wu wrote:

DM rainzax wrote:

Auntie Wu's floating flame hovers nearby, sustained by pure magic. (Iogaka moved 25 feet)

Did she move 25 feet up? Her token is still in the same place on the raft, and your posts don't mention her moving.

Which post?

I started here, where Auntie Wu initially cast Floating Flame, and checked all your posts between that and her next turn. Iogaka's token was in the same place on the raft when it came to Auntie Wu's next turn, so she didn't move the Floating Flame. It's a moot point now, but that confused me.

Given it's moot, not going to look further at this time.

In the future, it helps if you provide an immediate link to help solve discrepencies - helps GM save time scrolling endlessly.

=)

Got it. :)

Sorry, Paizo has been acting up recently, and I keep getting errors when I try posting. I was able to take care of some of my games today, and this one is next.

Also, apologies if this is double posted, I just got an error when trying to post this.

Discreet Inquiry
Attack of Opportunity
Spells: Slow, Time Jump

Thank you for the bot!

I have Ho Lan Level 6 on my phone, I'll update as soon as I can.

I think I only had one hero Point left. No idea, really. Whatever it was, I'm fine with starting the next chapter with 3 hero points.

Lan is picking up a Psychic Dedication, with the Tangible Dream conscious mind. He's going to pick up Performance as a skill, and Amped Shield as his psi cantrip. Note that he still can't cast regular Shield. I will put in my character as soon as I can.

Allowing a free retrain of a single cantrip as part of picking up the dedication that grants it's amp is an easy GM decision.

To Do:

1) Advance to Level Six
2) Each PC may attempt a single check to Identify soap and a single check to identify the thurible (see below)
2.5) If you are Trained in multiple skills to Identify each item, give yourself a +1 circumstance bonus per additional skill
3) +☘️☘️ for everyone, then Declare your Hero Point Count (GM lost track)
4) Declare new Daily Preparations

1) The decisions are made, but I still need to update my character sheet.

Spell Preparations:

Cantrips (level 3): Detect Magic, Guidance, Light, Needle Darts, Slashing Gust, Vitality Lash
1st: Alarm, Chilling Spray, Horizon Thunder Sphere
2nd: Floating Flame, Heal, Splinter Volley
3rd: Aqueous Orb, Holy Light, Slow