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Of a more immediate concern to my character, Boddy's character's presence was a big part of my character's motivation,

If it helps at all, feel free to write in whatever interactions with Boddy (or Vralk :-)) that would serve as a transition. He can help introduce you to the order before wandering off, show you his spellbook, etc.

That offer applies to everybody (with GM permission, of course). Treat him as a VERY cooperative NPC if it helps.

Lastly, remember, we're all here to have fun. If, for whatever reason, you are no longer having any fun, you are perfectly within your rights to bow out of the campaign.

I think that I'll do exactly that at this point. I've long felt that there are just too many characters in this game to keep track of stuff.

And this incident has crystalized what had been becoming clear. My gaming style is somewhat at odds with the rest of the groups. I think that this is a good time for me to bow out.

Thank you for the game so far. It was fun. And I (quite sincerely) hope that all of you continue to enjoy yourselves.

Boddy, completely disgusted at his companions just firing on guards because it seems convenient, realizes that he just doesn't understand these long shanks and it is time to return back to what he DOES understand.

While the combat rages he sneaks off and heads back to his village.

Thanks for the game everybody. I sincerely hope that you all have fun. But its pretty obvious to me that my gaming style isn't really a good fit for this group

Boddynuck wrote:

Uh, I agree with Luna. She did NOT fire her bow, you (GM) did. I think that we really need a take back at this point

Eh, I think we were spinning our wheels with no real plan, and that if I was GM, I might have decided by GM fiat that someone's finger slipped, releasing an arrow that would force something to happen about now.

I rather strongly disagree. Having us initiate combat goes beyond what I believe to be acceptable

Uh, I agree with Luna. She did NOT fire her bow, you (GM) did. I think that we really need a take back at this point

Boddy is far to confused to act at the moment. He has no idea what the heck is going on :-).

"I'm so confused. What the heck are we doing? Do we have a plan? If we do, why didn't anybody tell it to ME? These big people are very, very strange."

The problem with Vralk is that there is no way that a normal bird would be flying in this wind and rain.

"Have the soldiers noticed the orcs? Maybe the orcs are planning on ambushing the soldiers? We should help the soldiers against the nasty, disgusting orcs."

"Oh, is it time to hide? Ok, I can do that"

Wint sneaks into the nearby terrain and looks around

stealth: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

"Sure, we can check it out. Lets stay together though"

"Thank all the Gods, I'll at least get out of the rain for a few minutes"

Note - I'm assuming that Vralk is huddled under my cloak through all this, staying at least slightly dry

Boddy will definitely dry off whoever wants it (more precisely, everybody who doesn't explicitly tell him not to)

"I love this spell. It is SO useful. Makes life SO much better"

In vague fairness to Paizo, it is pretty obvious that
1) there system is very antiquated and held together with spit, bailing wire and electronic duct tape
2) They have less people working on it than it really needs
3) Those who are working on it are absolutely swamped by work.

I think they're running as hard as they can just to keep the various hamster wheels spinning. They have almost no time for new features

Ready to advance

"Why not compromise a little? You guys (and Vralk) go ahead but we'll be fairly close behind. Close enough that if you run into trouble we can hopefully bail you out"

Boddy would definitely have looked at any items he was asked to look at. Sorry for missing that when it was posted earlier

Boddy happily goes into the backroom and has a good meal. He'll let the others talk to people. If the inn has any cats, mind, he'll talk to them :-)

At one point he will go up to Lindaer and quietly say
"I'm sorry if I upset or insulted you. I'm really not very good with people and sometimes say things that I shouldn't. You big people are still very strange to me"

Saturday and Sunday nights we (Toronto) had an ice storm that cut power to about 40,000 households. And the snow it left is still on the ground.

So, I partly share your vent. But I also am partly thinking "Suck it up" :-) :-).

Boddy proceeds to walk right up to Lindaer and starts talking to her sternly, his voice that of an adult addressing a not particularly bright child

"I have no problem that he wanted to confirm our story. But he was pretty darn RUDE about how he did it. Where I come from, when people come in with stories it is polite to PRETEND to believe them but to still verify things. To almost openly accuse of us lying was just RUDE. And, given that we did decide to actually tell the truth, uncalled for :-).

And YOU may be a liar that has decided to start telling the truth some of the time but I'm not. I've always told the truth."

"Bloody holier than thou paladins. ESPECIALLY when they're actually LESS holier than some"

AFTER leaving the mayors office

"I've never met human officials before now. The senator and her people were fairly polite. Are all other human officials total arsehats like this one? To openly not believe people? Or is he right, or there that many liars amongst humans?"

"I really don't understand my companions. First they decide to lie, then they decide to tell the truth. They don't recognize the value of knowledge. They are all very, very strange people :-)"

We should keep the research together and we should state publicly that we have defeated the Queen and therefore think that we have destroyed the current threat.

I've no problem with pursuing the goblin next. No better idea anyway

Boddy looks visibly unhappy with the way the conversation is going but doesn't say anything

"I refuse to lie and prevaricate like these others are doing. I'll just keep quiet but I'm NOT going to participate in a lie. I'd have thought Paladins would be more forthright and honest. I guess the tales about them being honest and honourable people are exaggerated"

I think we had NOT come to any consensus on destroying the research. I'm certainly voting to not do so.

Please lets NOT split up. Its hard enough to follow what is happening as it is :-)

"He has been here over a month. I don't think waiting for somebody to show up is a good idea.

So, I think that we all agree that we need a good nights rest. I agree that I'd prefer to do that aboveground. So, what about our going outside, getting a good nights rest, and sleep on what to do tomorrow? Sometimes less tired minds may make better decisions"

"No, we can't just suppress the knowledge. Others who are smarter and more experienced than us need to know what happened here. Right now it was one relatively small incident in a fairly remote location. What if the next attempt is in the city? Using lions OR GOBLINS instead of worms? What if we keep the knowledge to ourselves and all die in some great adventure? We can NOT be the only people to know this, we MUST get the books elsewhere.

The Order is the obvious place to take these books. They'll know what to do with the knowledge. And they're basically good people, they can be trusted!"

"There is no such thing as too much knowledge. The more we know the more that we can handle. We should NOT destroy the books"

Why do I have the feeling that I just wrote my "famous last words on tombstone" :-)

I did say semi-serious :-).

I haven't given the tiniest thought to feats yet, I admit :-)

Sorry for the delay

I'm going to assume that Boddy has read both the spellbook and journal. Or is unconscious from the attempts to stop him :-) :-) :-)

"That journal is absolutely fascinating. So, the Worms grew from a tiny size and didn't start all glowly and psychic. That anomoly could be just about anything but it sounds like it might be a gate to somewhere. Some other dimension? Other world? Other plane.

Arthugh wasn't a particular powerful mage. More powerful than I am but less powerful than my teachers were"

Can Boddy figure out more?
arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

And does Boddy know Arthugh at all from his studies with the order? Not a clue what I'd roll so I'll just roll a d20 and let you decide what, if anything, I know
know about Arthugh: 1d20 ⇒ 15

To Gombedo and Lindaer

"No, we have to tell people that we've defeated the threat. Or, at least, think that we have. We can hide the details about what we found AFTER we killed the Queen but we need to tell everybody about our killing the Queen"

Boddy, don't forget you would get an Attack of Opportunity in that situation unless the monster had some kind of special ability.

I would have thought not in darkness. But, in my case, it isn't like attacks of opportunity are going to matter anyway :-)

@Mended - Thanks. Appreciated.

As to blindness/darkness I'll go along with the majority but I AM concerned about making what is already a very bad situation still worse. The move - attack - move sequence is very troubling.

It may be realistic for the following to happen but I'm not sure that it is FUN

GM: Suddenly out of the darkness somebody comes in, swings at you, hits for 12 points and then you think they ran away.
Player: Perception roll. Fails
GM : Suddenly out of the darkness somebody comes in, swings at you, hits for 12 points and then you think they ran away. Well, you WOULD think that except, of course, for the fact that 12 points knocked you unconscious.

I don't know how common monsters with darkvision are in D&D5th but, in Pathfinder, the almost true running joke is "Oh, they're not human? Then OF COURSE they have darkvision". Darkvision combined with some means of creating darkness is incredibly common in Pathfinder.

"I can just keep hitting them with fire bolts. Should destroy them fairly quickly and cleanly.

I hate doing this but I see no alternative."

Sorry for me going silent for a few days. At least I have a good excuse (I was in hospital :-(. Hopefully will catch up tonight

Jun draws his short blade and attacks the queen with both.

[dice=Rapier Attack]1d02+3
[dice=Rapier Damage]1d8+1

[dice=Short Sword Attack]1d20+3
[dice=Short Sword Damage]1d6

EDIT: Wow, that hurts.

You might want to roll a d20 for the first attack instead of a d02

Well, when in doubt use cantrips :-)

fire bolt: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
damage: 1d10 ⇒ 3

Unless you made a save that I didn't notice I think my spell seems to have gotten lost. Or, of course, they may be immune :-(

However, you are guaranteed to remove the possibility for one turn

Then I must be misunderstanding something.

I swapped out grease after the battle on the ship. I swapped it out when I thought it was TOTALLY useless for that fight. If I put grease on the squares they were on the bad guys (even if they failed their save) just stand up, move and attack.

If I put it in front of them they just walked around it and attacked.

Did I miss something?

Yes, I'd like to target Red instead

My computer broke Saturday and so was posting from tablet. Got new one now so hopefully my mistakes will be reduced:-)

5e Grease seems underpowered to me, for some reason. It seems like standing on it should incur some penalty to attacks and/or AC. Now if standing on the grease gave attackers advantage against you, THAT would make it worth taking, especially for an arcane trickster.

I'm probably judging it on too little information but I hate grease. Standing up is too trivial to matter much any more so, even if they go down, it doesn't matter much

wisdom: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
'woo hoo

Am on tablet, can't move Boddy.

He'll mive to the right kicking Nikeisha as he goes ending on her right

Boddy will try Tasha's laughter on the right most guard

Wisdom save DC 15

IF it starts to giggle, he'll call out

"Do NOT attack the Guard on the right. It won't do anything for a bit. If you attack it you will negate my spell. Concentrate on the Queen and other guard first"

Can I get somebody to just lower me down? Given the way I've been rolling I REALLY don't want to do an athletics check unless I have to

"I can sort of understand Psalm. A little.

Do you think it a good idea to occassionally alarm our rear as we proceed? Is the extra warning worth the time it will cost?"

It feels like we're in Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie) :-). I want my Power Armor

"Quint is absolutely right. Continuing on the way they want to is just suicide. I'm all for being brave and stuff but suicide is silly. We HAVE to come up with a better plan than "Continue until one of their traps succeeds".

But I think we need to retreat. Fighting them on their own terms just isn't working. "

"No way I'm going down there. No way at all"

"Uh, right then. Can't get past that can we? Shall we go back and get reinforcements? Reinforcements with LOTS and LOTS of rope?"

Boddy shoots his fire bolt at whatever worm may still be up

to hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Sigh

"Told you I am bloody useless :-("

Boddy will nudge Vralk awake and throw a sleep spell catching Yellow, Orange and, of course, Lindear. If only Lindear was an Elf and thus immune to sleep.

Oh, wait :-)

sleep: 5d8 ⇒ (2, 3, 3, 1, 8) = 17

Boddys spells aren't quite right.

He does NOT have grease but DOES have sleep (both memorized and in his spell book)

Arcane Recovery - Not actually used a 1st level spell yet :-)
Spells added to spellbook : Fog Cloud, Charm Person
Spells memorized : Fog Cloud, Charm Person. Not memorized - Find Familiar

"Thanks for healing me. Not sure that you should have bothered to waste the spell. I don't seem to be anything but a burden to all of you."

athletics: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4
reflex save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
damage: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 5) = 13

Right. Well, you wanted dangerous, you got it :-(

"Aaarrrggghhhh <Splat>"

Programmer here . Laws are bad, real bad :-) :-)