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My sincere condolences, Tesi.

No answer so far, but that was to be expected with new year's celebrations. Would you contact Hmm?

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It's been exactly one month that we finished the scenario and still no news of the chronicle sheets despite the message from December 15. I'll PM Jesse so he can do something about it.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Rhuul, I haven't received my chronicle sheet either, unfortunately.

I sincerely hope that everything will turn alright for your mother, Tesi. Take your time.

Any news on the Chronicle Sheets front?

Yay, we made it! I'm really glad we didn't give up after the mimic encounter.

What about the third one (threat, perhaps confirmed at 25 AC)?

Don't forget haste, guys!

Aetherys conjures electricity in her blade and goes all out on the demon.
Casting shocking grasp as part of Spell Combat. +3 to hit until one attack lands if the demon is wearing metallic armor or a metal weapon.

+5 Dawnblade (bypasses adamantine, cold iron, silver, alignement), Heroism, Inspire, Haste, AS: 1d20 + 24 - 2 - 6 ⇒ (13) + 24 - 2 - 6 = 291d6 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

Haste attack +5 Dawnblade: 1d20 + 24 - 2 - 6 ⇒ (7) + 24 - 2 - 6 = 231d6 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

Iterative +5 Dawnblade: 1d20 + 19 - 2 - 6 ⇒ (20) + 19 - 2 - 6 = 311d6 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15
Confirm: 1d20 + 19 - 2 - 6 ⇒ (14) + 19 - 2 - 6 = 251d6 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

On the first attack that lands:
SR: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
Intensified Shocking grasp: 9d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 1, 6, 4, 3, 6, 3, 5) = 39

All scimitar attacks are considered good-aligned.

Fair enough, I'll just cast haste then.

Lousy rolling on your part too... Can't we roll for our saves?

Our turn, I guess?

Aetherys steps aside and strikes the kalavakus with great fervor.

Free action: 5-ft step out of melee range for the kalavakus, but I can still hit him thanks to Long Arm.
Swift action: Arcane strike
Full-round action: Spell Combat, casting haste on the party as part of the action.

+5 Dawnblade (bypasses adamantine, cold iron, silver, alignement), Heroism, Inspire, Haste, AS: 1d20 + 22 - 6 ⇒ (12) + 22 - 6 = 281d6 + 16 ⇒ (4) + 16 = 20

Haste additional attack: 1d20 + 22 - 6 ⇒ (2) + 22 - 6 = 181d6 + 16 ⇒ (6) + 16 = 22

Iterative attack: 1d20 + 17 - 6 ⇒ (15) + 17 - 6 = 261d6 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19

If Rhuul shares that bit of information I'll make Dawnblade +5 instead of +4 keen (since +5 bypasses DR/good).

Aetherys suddenly realizes where she is but doesn't quite understand what happened to her. She hastily puts the staff in her Handy Haversack, infuses her blade with arcane energy and transforms into a flying monstrosity.

Move action: put the staff in the Haversack.
Swift action: use a point of Arcane Pool to make Dawnblade +4 Keen.
Standard action: cast monstrous physique I to turn into a gargoyle. I'll update my character sheet as soon as I get home tonight.
Free action: 5-ft step in front of Rhuul.

No, I think the misunderstanding comes from the fact that in the earlier GM's post only Kurai and Oloch's names were bolded, whereas Mavaro and me were in the same Init block (but our names weren't bolded and I didn't pay attention until now). I'll post in a couple hours, returning to work now.

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No worries! With the number of saves we had to do, something like that was bound to happen! Do I still have the staff in hand?

"Valais, please do what you have to do, then let's get out of this hell-hole and save this poor Azata." requests the elf.

"You took one for the team. Thank you Jeeves for your sacrifice. Rest in peace. " she prays aloud to commend the soul of her slain unseen servant to Sarenrae.

Aetherys will then cast mirror image. Images: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

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Aetherys uses another scroll to conjure an unseen servant to open the door after the party has retreated a bit.

Aetherys follows Oloch's cue and casts shield and long arm from her wands.

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"Shall we try to insert the shard you retrieved and let the other one go? If it doesn't work we can put it back and attempt to take both at the same time." proposes the elf.

Hey Baerlie,

I'm really sorry to hear about that. I hope things will improve in the days/week to come. As far as I'm concerned, take the time you need.

Would the ioun stone fit one of these halls? If so, I'd guess there's another one we need to find to unlock that door harmlessly.

Aetherys still has a haste in store, if it helps.

"Anyone mind if I use it for now?" asks the elf. If no one minds, she sets it in her wayfinder to benefit from the resonant power.

The resonant power of this ioun stone immunizes against possession and mind control. Nifty!

"Let's examine this one further."

Aetherys gets closer to the shard, and attempts to understand its abilties. Casting detect magic too, then Take 10 on Spellcraft to identify this item's properties. With Oloch's guidance, I get a final result of 32.

"Perhaps, or we could wait for the barrier of blades to fade out and take the other way. I don't mind either, but I can't do anything about that door. Oloch, do you want to try again?"

Switched Oloch and me on the map so that he may try again.

Once preparations have been made and that she's made sure that the door isn't trapped, Aetherys will open it.

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Aetherys inspects the door to check for traps.
Casting detect magic.
Perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25

Once preparations have been made and that she's made sure that the door isn't trapped, Aetherys will open it.

I'll cast a few spells before we open the door - activating both my wand of shield and long arm.

Mighty thanks, Rhuul!
Will saving finale reroll: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19

Provided it's an enchantment, yes it is. If it isn't, you're two points over what it should be. Will Rhuul grant me his saving finale?

"You said that magic traps never reset, right? Allow me to sacrifice an unseen servant for our cause." Aetherys uses another of her scrolls and asks the mindless servant to tread on the right corridor to set off the trap.

Aetherys looks impressed by the tiefling's courage. Or is it recklessness?

She follows the rest of the group, her senses fully awake.

The trap reseted? That's bad...

Guidance lasts for 1 minute or until expended, iirc. By the time you finish buffing the whole group, you almost need to recast it on your first target.

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"I'm guessing my servant is gone. Perhaps we should move forward and try to imitate those cultists on the walls and kneel? Perhaps even crawl in this hallway?" suggests Aetherys. "Who wants to go first?"

Happy to oblige and make people laugh! :)
Does anything happen to my servant? If there's a trap I'd be more than happy if he triggered it and took one for the team.

"Perhaps we should act like obedient servants? It must have been a temple, so maybe we should grovel?"

Is anyone else thinking about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade here? "Only the penitent man will pass" kind of trap?

Are you hitting that crawl should be taken literally, or that it's a funny reference to the term "dungeon crawling" by the author of the scenario? Or both? ;-)

Aetherys sends her unseen servant down the hall, to the south,and orders it to stop twenty feet after the turn of the hall, then make his way back.

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Knowledge (planes), heroism: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 2 = 20

"That creature is a kalavakus. Do you recognize it, Valais? From what I've heard, they're formidable foes."

Aetherys then conjures an unseen servant with one of her scrolls and orders it to remove the patches of flesh while the whole party remains further behind, just for safety measures.

So, any updates to the Gameplay thread?

Now that the raises are done (waiting upon GM's post I guess?), can we head back? Aetherys changed a few spells in her preparation. She'll cast defending bone as well as heroism (extended with her rod) and use one of her scrolls of unseen servant as soon as we get back to the first room (where we fought the mimic).

Aetherys will also buy four scrolls of unseen servant, growing paranoid at the thought of facing the mimic situation again. Total cost: 100 gp.

She'll also get a new wand of CLW for 2pp.

Baerlie and Razfalo, it is my understanding of the PFS guide (p.6 of the new version) that the pregen's gear may only be sold to clear his own conditions, not other people's. Hence Kuraishimo's calculation is correct and I'll chip in the said amount (1850 gp) to help Rhull get back on his feet.

By the way Oloch, I think that scroll could be useful anyway - invisibility is very common at our level.

Mavaro, the guide also states that you can contribute to clear conditions (such as death and negative levels) with the resources (gp/pp) of the character you're applying the chronicle sheet to.

Let's do this.

Mavaro pays for his raise dead with his gear (5550gp, plus 1280gp for each restoration - one can be done at once, the other will have to be done at the end of the scenario).

Rhuul, we can chip in for your raise dead, or your restoration, but it would help if we don't pay it all in gold.

A raise dead is 16pp or 5550gp.

A restoration is 4pp or 1280gp to remove a permanent negative level.

My insight is that it would be cheaper to pay for the restoration with prestige (4pp now, 4pp at the end of the scenario), while we could chip in for the raise dead to be paid in cash, if you can afford it. The only questions are what your current funds and pp are.

I'll check my last chronicle sheet at home this afternoon to know how much I can contribute.

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Quick recount of votes:

Aetherys - Continue, unless party strongly feels otherwise.
Oloch - Either is fine.
Rhuul - Continue, unless party strongly feels otherwise.
Baerlie - Continue.
Kuraishimo - Call it.
Mavaro - (Unsure what your actual stance is. Do you mean, I'll pay for my raise dead with my gear and call it, or do you mean you're okay to continue?)

The extra gp cost won't matter if you pay for the raise dead with prestige, by the way.

Oloch : I believe pregens are allowed to sell their gear to clear any conditions they might have (only them though, as was pointed out earlier).

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Now that we have all the elements in hand to make an educated decision, yes, it is.

I'll go with the majority of course, yet here are my thoughts:

- We don't need gentle repose if the cleric raising the dead is 10th level. It's only one more level than the minimum level to cast that spell, so I'm pretty confident that won't be a problem. (By the way, what do you mean by "We all know what that means"? Could you be explicit, please?)

- The group hasn't had a chance to prove what it can do because of that blasphemy, which was completely unavoidable. I say we take another shot at proving what we can do.

- I'm not concerned about the lack of such and such role, since PFS scenarios can be completed by very odd party compositions.

- That mimic was way above what is to be expected for an APL 8-9 party, both in terms of CR, hp, DCs, etc. Quite frankly how it bypassed editing is beyond me. It's definitely not an average monster for that tier. I'm confident we can deal with more normal foes.

I'd like to hear the others' opinion about that.

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Quite frankly, it's your call. The way I see it, either the scenario sets a time limit (such as "After 2 days a great evil is released upon the world and the PCs lose"), or it doesn't and we can do it. I haven't read the scenario so I don't have the answer to that question, but I believe it's your call to make as a GM, while keeping the guidelines of PFS in mind. That's what I would do as a GM, for what it's worth.

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Seeing the mimic fall at last, Aetherys rushes to Rhuul 's side. Tears of rage mingled with grief run on the elf's pale cheeks. "Rise, Rhuul. Tell me you aren't dead! We need your jokes now more than ever. "

When it becomes clear that both Rhuul and Mavaro are lifeless, she tends to the wounded, starting with Oloch. She offers her wand for Aowyn to use freely.

CLW, Oloch: 10d8 + 10 ⇒ (2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 8) + 10 = 36 CLW, Aetherys: 4d8 + 4 ⇒ (6, 5, 3, 7) + 4 = 25

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What a deadly monster... Anyway, best not dwell on it but move on. Provided that we aren't on a clock, we should return to the lodge, have Rhuul and Mavaro raised from the dead, then come back. Will the scenario allow that, GM? Because I don't think we'll have a chance at the rest of this dungeon with two valued party members dead.

I hope everyone will agree to chip in for the spells to raise our dead, I know I do.

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