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Argos:
Spells remaining, 1=remains, 2=expended
Argos: The young man flexes his new hand in awe, feeling more complete than he ever had before. "Thank you. May this hand ever carry out your will."
After Torag's warning, "I shall keep council with Ulmo and watch over him as a brother."
Definitely very cool! I'm go for reincarnation, I only mention selling the ring because he's short on liquid cash - he has a grand total of 840 gp before any share of loot, which won't even get him the reincarnation. He does have 1000 gp of diamond dust which will take care of one of the negative levels and I guess we have a week to scrounge up the next 1000 gp of diamond dust.
I like the look of Mesmeric Mirror. Ok, I'm up for getting some reincarnation going. I can sell off my ring of protection to pay for it.
Argos: Argos flinches at first contact with Torag's hand, hesitant to touch the Father of Creation's glove with his broken and mangled hand. He steels himself and musters his strength to grasp firmly and pull himself up, meeting the dwarf god's gaze. When offered the worked metal, he eyes it appraisingly and picks over the details, running his fingers along the edges and letting the warmth of the metal suffuse him and strengthen him. When Torag seems finished speaking, he clasps the metal to his heart and kneels down on one knee. "Father, return me to the fight and I shall see your will done. Your enemies shall fall to your vengeance for their misdeeds. With your power I will provide succor to your children and their allies in their time of need, and when the day is won we shall reclaim and rebuild, forging a greater society than what came before."
Perhaps a perceptive dragon has seen the sword?
Argos: Argos scowls in shame at the revelation that he's dead. When Torag reveals himself, the man nearly tumbles off of his cot as he weakly scrambles to bow deeply. He would have prostrated himself if he was able. He waits in silence for a few heartbeats before he looks up again. "Forgefather, I am honored. Your children do face trying times, but they're not yet broken. You've made them of stronger stuff than that. Our enemies are strong, str.. his voice hitches for a moment before he collects himself. "Stronger than I. But I have faith that the war is not yet lost."
Argos: The young man takes in his surroundings for a moment, confused. "Ulm..you're not Ulmo. You've done a sight better at healing me up than I did, before I passed out. But you speak truth, they got me." He starts out a little confused, but ever his brash self. He tries to stand though, and sobers up at his inability to do so. "I was too preoccupied with saving my companions, I paid no heed for myself. In doing so, I failed them. Doubly, in that I didn't have faith that they could handle themselves."
He tries to shift to get a look at what the dwarf is working on. "You know much, Master Smith. How do they fare now? May I see them?"
Obvs fire giant, and i need to invest in acrobatics, stealth, and paladinhood.
Well, he was lying around unconscious last turn... Certainly could have healed him up more, but I, and it looks like most of the party, thought we had them on the run. Coulda healed up more, shoulda woulda. Or been a little more proactive on fire resistance. He wanted to be the big hero and make sure everyone else was topped up and fighting. I'll mull on how to come back. Reincarnate is definitely an interesting one...do you have a preference for rolling on the basic or the Golarion table?
Sorry folks, I should have rolled that reflex save first thing, since he'd fall as soon as the dragon went.
Argos is taken surprise yet again by a blast of fire and darkness overtakes him as the dragon chomps down on him. He falls!
Thanks!
Anyone within 30ft of Argos would get healing from him too. *and within 30 ft of each other.
37 damage total
Argos moves into the main battlefield, smoldering but still moving. He greets his comrades in Terran, "Good, you've taken care of the main threat. Well done. Come close if you're injured, here's a bit of healing. There's a portal over the Hopespring that appears to be where they're coming from, and they may be trying to spoil the well. Let's not dally too much."
A backflipping fire giant paladin/ninjas would be kind of cool. :) Backup character!
Overconfident, clumsier at his larger size, and not expecting another fire breath this soon, Argos takes the brunt of the inferno as it pours around him.
Argos double moves towards the main fight.
And I'll assume for now that he doesn't have Agrimmosh on him at the moment.
Argos can certainly be caretaker of Agrimmosh. Always good to have an artifact as a backup weapon...I might take a look at what I currently have, it make make sense to use Agrimmosh when he's enlarged and Stellar Reckoning when he isnt.
Missed earlier that righteous might gives a size bonus to con, so Argos should have 26 more hit points to play around with.
Thanks for updating the dragon! The movement and lines are easy on my pc, but almost impossible due to the scale when I'm posting on my phone - can't promise I'll always be able to move, so I'm trying to be descriptive in my post too. On smaller maps it tends to be fine.
If he can avoid an AoO by activating his battle strider boots as a swift action to ignore one square of provoking, he'll do so. If he needs to pass through multiple threatened squares though, he'll go ahead and provoke. He'll try to get at least 10 feet out of the dragon's reach, up to 30 ft away, then cast Righteous Might. He'll do so defensively in case of shenanigans.
In terran, he rumbles "This seems a little more fair."
I'm very eager to see Ingrahild's bardic performance. I'm rooting for bagpipes.
Note to self: Get a second sword! Dont you have Force Sword prepared for that?
I think Fulk is in the most immediate danger, there are a lot of strong enemies in the area. I think Argos may have just evened the numbers on his side of the fight...I'm not sure he can take the dragon one on one if it stays after him, but I think he can delay it long enough for you to turn the tide in the main fight. Or maybe that's more of this overconfidence.
I'm all for having after-action debriefs, especially since this is specifically a playtest. Also definitely appreciate flexibility in dealing with the fallout, however the chips may fall. Agreed that more coordination would have changed things drastically in beginning this encounter. To some extent I think that's "realistic" in the way the encounter was presented from a metagame perspective, but by 13th level our characters would also presumably know a lot more about each others' modus operandi and what to expect from each other.
I'm glad to read that analysis of the situation. Argos is trying to make his way over to help - I've considered trying to ignore the speedbumps but I think not dealing with them would end up being dangerous.
Argos keeps swinging his hammer, again going after the Hellhounds harassing him.
He'll take a step over closer to the action once his attacks are over. If all the hellhounds are dropped afterwards, he takes a second to point at the dragon and then hike up on the hammer again.
once he's all buffed up. Assuming he takes a bunch of rounds to buff, hah. I don't think "Fully buffed" is likely to ever happen, so much as one or two buffs appropriate to the situation.
Oricalcum gives a +1 circumstance bonus to attack because of wibbly wobbly timey wimey skymetal shenanigans and the Torag daily obedience gives a +1 sacred bonus to hit with warhammers. The "extra" +2 is from the +4 strength from Eaglesoul. Argos will drop two hounds rather than finish off one.
Argos starts laying into the hellhound closest to the giants with Stellar Reckoning.
I second this Serren's Swift Girding idea. And never sleep more than 30 ft away from each other. Even if Argos snores.
Argos casts Eaglesoul and spends a swift action to activate the combat abilities/timer, then moves 10 ft closer to the action and prepares to meet the hounds with two hands on his shining hammer.
Str: 14 base (5 pt buy) +2 racial +2 level up +4 belt of mighty hurling = 22 total
Cool, thanks! I do have diamond dust for Restorations, but I'll double check through the rest of my spells too to make sure I'm not missing anything else.
Wait, I thought this was to give the viewers the obligatory shirtless heroes scene? And hey, maybe Ruby just wants to be president of the Halfhand fan club?
Interesting question, Argos gets stoneskin from the Ironskin revelation and I had assumed it was spell-like, which don't require material components. It is in fact a su: supernatural ability, which doesn't mention anything about verbal/somatic/material components at all but generally seem less magicky [technical term]. Does that still require components? Rules link
@Ulmo: Donning armor hastily is still...prohibitively time-consuming. Scale mail still takes 5 rounds to don hastily with help.
Argos concentrates for a moment and his skin hardens to an iron sheen with a look of grim determination. He then barrels through the nearest window, bellowing a challenge to the giants in Terran "COWARDS! LET THEM GO!"
No worries on the teleport, I'm sure he's worked himself to sleep at the shop before.
Argos will get up and pick up his hammer.
Argos stays in the barracks at the Longhouse, where he's been staying for the past 15 years or so. He'll stay out for a while though after leaving the blacksmith, trading stories and catching up, generally spending time with the people of Trunau. He isn't driving tomorrow morning, and he's got plenty of lesser restoration to sure lack of sleep.Keep in mind that (despite the very muddled rest rules) that lesser restoration does not count as a night of sleep, only removes the effects. Should it become relevant (hopefully it won't) I'll have to use houserules to deal with longterm sleep deprivation. It's still a very effective quick fix, but you can't stay awake forever with it. With keep watch you can stay awake, but you can't take any serious actions other than, well, keeping watch. Got it, he was planning on sleeping on the bus tomorrow but that does factor in for a long march. Well, guess that’s what Ulmo gets for having +21 Diplomacy. But with +21 Sense Motive he’d also see it for what it is. So it’s all good. Poor Argos has the diplomacy and charisma without any of the sense motive or wherewithal. Learning the hard way is the only way!
Argos stays in the barracks at the Longhouse, where he's been staying for the past 15 years or so. He'll stay out for a while though after leaving the blacksmith, trading stories and catching up, generally spending time with the people of Trunau. He isn't driving tomorrow morning, and he's got plenty of lesser restoration to sure lack of sleep.
That's basically what I was expecting, but it helps calibrate my RP.
With regard to Dizzy's investigations and the hot goss therein, for my part I'd say carry on. I'm fine with romance and drama as a tangential aspect of the game, fading to black as appropriate if things head in that direction. I'm also a big believer in employing the "X" card and striking anything from the record if anyone at the table gets uncomfortable. Also, I only have about 800 gp left but I'd pitch in with it towards the scroll of raise dead.
It looks like a both Dizzy and Ulmo have dispel, so we're covered there. Communal resist energy is one of those spells that can save the party in a pinch against surprises, so I think I'll still trade it out. Regular resist energy is still useful as a longer-lasting buff.
Argos can hold on to the wand. He'll make his way through the departing crowd to give greetings and goodbyes to old friends and new. Eventually he'll head back to Clamor for the rest of the afternoon to help equip the town as best he can.
Argos has regular resist energy. I could trade out dispel magic for communal resist if that would be useful (assuming gm permission).
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