[Gameday XIII] #5-09 - The Traitor's Lodge

Game Master Mustaparta

Day job result is in the Recruitment threat.

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 12 nope

Thanks for running!

Is it just me, or was that an incredibly blitz adventure?

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Instead of a Day Job check, I would like to attempt to finalize a report to the Society per Season 8 Grand Lodge Objectives:

DC 15 Intelligence check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16 Splendid!

For faction journal card purposes, did we Resolve a combat encounter nonviolently through bribery, diplomacy, trickery, or a similar tactic?

Boon Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 4

Wither, can you fill the Chronicles so I can report the game and send chronicles? Thanks!

Done, thanks for running.

boon!: 1d20 ⇒ 16

@Rogarch, for reason I can't understand RPGChronicles erases the replay-tag when I try to check it.

For faction journal card purposes, did we Resolve a combat encounter nonviolently through bribery, diplomacy, trickery, or a similar tactic?

No. Valais wasn't hostile at any point.

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boon: 1d20 ⇒ 14

boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 16

@Mustaparta - The reporting looks good on my end. Now I am just waiting on the chronicle sheet to be posted. Thanks for running. :)

Here are Chronicles. Let me know if anything is missing.

Right, so we're rushed out the the maze and lose out on 20% of the payout? When Arxoias said that we can come back later, she means coming back after Koth'Vaul is gone and search the entire basement.

I really don't like the "if you don't explore the map in the correct order Koth'Vaul shows up and screw with you" design. Without metagaming (i.e. characters token/minis are put on the upper left corner of the flip-map/vinyl map which means there're more to the right than left), we wouldn't know which door lead to more content and has a 50% chance of missing out.

Thanks for running. :)

Right, so we're rushed out the the maze and lose out on 20% of the payout? When Arxoias said that we can come back later, she means coming back after Koth'Vaul is gone and search the entire basement.

Agreed - and getting gypped out of the Boon(s) is even worse! I thought this had been weirdly quick; if we can call backsies and continue, I'd like to.

ARXOIAS Rosenthal wrote:

Right, so we're rushed out the the maze and lose out on 20% of the payout? When Arxoias said that we can come back later, she means coming back after Koth'Vaul is gone and search the entire basement.

Agreed - and getting gypped out of the Boon(s) is even worse! I thought this had been weirdly quick; if we can call backsies and continue, I'd like to.

The ghostly minotaur on the cover has been skipped, if you're wondering.

My main concern was avoid getting you TPK'd by Koth'Vaul who, as I understood from scenario, is still going to be around even when you would be back.

We absolutely can try to earn that boon and missing gp, but everyone needs magic weapons in the final maze encounter (which has the minotaur). It will be more than just combat as navigating it is going to be difficult. If you don't directly challenge the demon, you could explore to the left of staircase. Everybody wanting to continue?

Devaan would be just as happy to get out rather than face a demon, but he wouldn't go against the will of the group.

At this point, I realize that full rewards require going everywhere, killing everything, and stealing returning to a safe place for study everything...

Well, we had 8 hours of Greater Magic Weapon going on two of our our martials, and Arxoias can make people's weapon Ghost Touch via Legacy Weapon.

I picked her so that she can be a support in fighting the ghostly minotaur and not just shoot everything to death like normal Gunslinger.

As Redelia explained earlier, we can continue to play after the convention is over as long as the report are in before the deadline. I would like to vote for keep going, so that we can experience all the content.

OK, I'm going to need to put on my official hat here, rather than a player at the table. Once chronicles are issued or the game is reported, players can't make other choices. The only way things can be changed is if an error was made. In this case, I've looked over the relevant part of the scenario, and an error was made. There was another part, and we did the thing that triggered that other part, so that other part has to happen (GMs aren't allowed to decide that a part of the adventure is too hard and skip it. They can only choose to skip 'optional encounters'.) Thus, we do need to do the part that we have not yet.

I think that we should call it a day and not continue as the game has been reported, the chronicles have been issued and the convention is officially over. The GM made a call (good or bad) and we should just live with it and move on. :)