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Lets back track to the last room and go look at the eastern doors.
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Garrak stares at the mass warily Then let's get on with it. And stay very, very far away from it, whatever it is.
Well that was...interesting. Are we good now, or is that going to happen again? When told if it's safe or not, he'll start dealing with the door as in last post.
"Then let's go through the locked door. Still have my key?
Stretching out his newly healed muscles Yeah let's go on. But let's try to avoid traps this time.
Doing ok. I just started classes again (my university is on a quarter system) and started rotating with a new lab, so life is pretty busy.
Let's keep going. So far, it hasn't been over our heads. We just need to be careful*grunts* though I need some healing before we move on.
[b]*groan* Yep. Still alive.[b] He look over at the 2 spikes he did manage to miss. [b]Could have been worse. Gimme a sec and I'll climb back out.[b]
"That was close. I'll take point" Garrak carefully enters the hallway, looking for traps.
Taking the opportunity from the dog's failure, Garrak manages to land a blow with his shield, felling the creature. If there is another dog within 5 feet, Garrak shifts over and tries to punch it. Otherwise, he simply moves to one.
Following the squelch of Garrak's shield slamming into the last dog, Garrak swings around to deliver the same to the one attacking him.
Garrak rushes in to stand between his allies and the dogs. If one is near enough to hit
Might as well. The key won't work on this good of a lock. Another door mysteriously felled?
With a solid blow from his gauntlet cover fist, Garrak knocks the door off it's hinges.
Thanks, Straehan. That last bite hurt like a b*~&$.
Told you. Works like a charm. Now, what is on the other side of this door? Garrak opens the door from the side, carefully peering around the frame.
I don't know. I can think of a few uses for an oil of animate rope. Granted, it will be unlikely that a situation will present it self. The question is that one emergency use worth the gold we get from selling it. The scroll of bless water can probably gotten rid of.
A little disillusioned with the guard, Garrak has little problem taking the supplies. Remei said that they were going to get rid of stuff anyways. We might as well make it useful. Still, they left quite a bit of coin here. It doesn't seem likely that they'd leave that unless they left in a hurry... He tosses the key at Baxter Just don't lose it or break it.
Finally free, Garrak slides forward and gives the spider a quick one two punch with shield and gauntlet.
Using the pain form the bite as fuel, Garrak yells as he bursts though the webbing, takes a step back, and brings his shield to bear.
Garrak continues to strain against the webbing "When I get out of here, you're going to be in a world of hurt. Gahh!"
Garrak struggles against the webbing, but does nothing more than move it around a little
Damn, these creatures really don't like doors, do they.
Failing the first time, Garrak continues to angrily bash it down until it breaks.
Garrak seemed preoccupied with cleaning off his shield of goblin dog to notice Straehan attempting to get the door open. By the time Garrak finishes the door is already open. He looks at the door, then back at Straehan, surprised that the sorcerer managed to get it open with one blow. Nice kick. But next time, let's try this first He pulls out his trusty skeleton key This will open most standard locks, with a little finagling. It really helps in a jam.
Garrak goes back to work, straining to lift the gate. Eventually, it does give way. Huffing and puffing, he says "See. Told you I could do it.
"Well it was worth a try. Still, if we try for a few minutes, I bet we can get it open." -Posted with Wayfinder
Garrak rubs his hands together and starts rooting through his bag, retrieving a crowbar. Placing it under the porticulus, he uses it to try to open the door, keeping an eye on the far side of the room
Garrak lifts the heavy form of Carapace and straps it to his back over his bag of supplies. Impressively, the orc made shield manages to dwarf even Garrak, the expanse of twisted black metal covering his entire back. He takes his metal gauntlet and puts it on his left hand, stating "You always go on the pastry run armed. One time she sent me to a 'new little place' she found. Ended up having to fight my way out of there against some undead, scones in one hand and Carapace in the other." By his deadpan delivery, you are not quite sure that he is joking or not. -Posted with Wayfinder
I fixed a few errors I found with Garrak. Turns out some of my class features are with light armor only and I misremembered the price for mithral for medium armor. I also added a description for his shield and put more in for his appearance.
Garrak leans back in his chair, putting it up on two legs as he takes a sip of his drink. The Guard, eh? Somehow even after being forced to leave, I'm still to do their scuttwork. What's infested the place? Fiendish Rats?
Well then it's a good thing fighter states proficiency in all shields. :P Thanks for the help.
GM - Super Genius Games has an exotic Shield - the serrated shield - that I think would be interesting for Garrak to use. Basically it makes shield bashes slashing with 19-20 crit range. Considering that brawlers has proficiency in all close weapons (which includes normal and spiked shields), can we consider him proficient in the serrated shield? Also, for gauntlets, it says that they come with my armor. Since my armor is masterwork, can I consider the gauntlets masterwork for the purposes of attacks? or should I consider it independent and pay for it as a masterwork weapon? If that is the case, can I still consider it mithral? Similarly for the shield, should I pay twice for masterwork, one for the armor aspect and one for the weapon aspect? Furthermore, for emei piercers, the description states that it allows unarmed strikes to do piercing damage. Does this mean that the damage would be the same as my improved unarmed strike? Sorry for the questions. I normally play casters and I have never played a monk or a shield user before.
Well when lying or scaring doesn't work, there is always fighting. Let's just hope that Remei doesn't send us on missions that require political finesse.
Go with the healing wand and the point in UMD. That should be good enough to at least heal us up inbetween battles. We can set aside some party gold along the way for a wand fund so it isn't just you buying them.
Well there is Mila. We could take her along, GM willing.
Oops. I didn't save it. Fixed now. No mention of slaves at all.
Ok I finished up the profile. I edited the backstory a little bit too. I kept the smuggling angle, but changed it up a bit.
Nah, it's alright. I still don't have time for new games, unfortunately. I just couldn't pass up the chance to say hi.
So, out of curiosity, how dead is Garrak? Damn I miss this game. Wasn't with it for long, but I loved it while it lasted. Damn classes...
He's a half orc. Presumably he took the alt racial trait to do so. Chain fighter or something like that. Gives proficiency in flails and makes spiked chains martial weapons. My crunch should be done. Also has a small amount of fluff. Will work on more later.
I have just the character in mind. Garrak Tharn, shapeshifter wizard. A naturalist without equal, with all the brains of sentient creatures, but the brawn and ferocity of a wild animal, when the situation calls on it. He'd be going down the archmage path, taking advantage of the shapeshifting specific powers. I'll update crunch when Nidoran's questions are answered, and the fluff when this one is: What setting will this take place in?
PhD program in Bioinformatics and Genetics.
Well in a few weeks, I am done with the semester, but a few months after that, I'll be in grad school. So while there would be a few months I could keep up, I'd be able to post even less after.
Well guys, its been fun, but I don't think I can keep up with you, and I feel like I am just holding you back. I'm simply just too busy to keep up with a game like this. Be proud of yourselves for that, because this is the most active PbP I have seen in a while. Feel free to keep Garrak on as a resource and NPC. Have fun
@Gair and scouting party.
"Let's be off then. No time to waste. Wait, is the boy coming with us?" He gestures at Bern.
"Yes. We should scout the site the captain suggests, see if its worth moving camp." Garrak gets up and follows Gair to the shore.
Garrak wakes up early in the morning, just before dawn. He leaves his tent and sits on a stump until the others wake, ready to start exploring or salvaging. He prepares his spells, leafing through his spellbook, watching the others start their day.
No one does.Garrak says grimly.The falchion certainly doesn't help. If it wasn't the dry and dark manner of the delivery, you would almost think he was making a joke. He looks up at the canopy and gestures. There may yet be claimants other than us here. Indigenous peoples and such. So far, however, it seems promising.
At the feast: Garrak helps his wife cook, following her directions and going about gathering herbs. He listens in on the conversation with Edmund, speaking after Sandra asks whether they are welcome. You are welcome here. Everyone is. As for where we set up camp, we should discuss and deliberate on it. There is no reason at this point to settle down in the first suitable place. Tomorrow, we will scout this other location. Having a good place for harbor will be useful later, but depending on how the area is, we may be better off close to fresh water or in a defensible position.
To Gair: I was sent here to explore the new continent. I am a scholar of the Arcanamirium, as is my wife. What about you?
Well in this kingmaker group, somehow not a single one of our characters were really suited for rulership. The closest we had was a crazy gnome bard that we all agreed should not be in a place of power. So I came up with the idea simple having the ruler role, and its bonuses, be from a council. At first, it would basically just be the 12 leadership roles, but later it would start taking representatives from the people and grow as we made more cities and towns across the Stolen lands. The GM ruled that, much like our own congress, it would be more effective some months than others and the respect people would have for the council would vary, rather than the rulers relatively constant bonus from being charismatic. And soem months, it would be so embroiled in internal debate, it wouldn't be effective what so ever. So I came up with the random roll system. The idea was that we would roll for everything the council did, as we did not really have direct control. At the beginning, we rolled 1d3 to determine which of the possible scores the ruler could apply itself to, then rolled a +d6 and a -d6. But this ended up screwing us over, so we settled on smaller dice, d4s. As time went on, the GM ruled the council was getting better at its job, so at each size increment, he would increase the positive die, and the d6-d4 combination worked well. Just enough variation to make it interesting, but less likely to really screw us up. So this is how it would work. Every month long kingdom round, we would roll a d3 to decide which score it would apply to (When we were able to do 2 scores, we rolled a d3 and a d2). Then, we rolled a d6-d4 like this
and used that in place of the ruler's charisma for that month. In this case the bonus was to stability and the bonus was 0. Other methods can be used though to get the same thing. If we wanted less variation, a d4-d3 would give us a range from +3 to -2. We could just roll a d4 and have that be the number. At one point we discussed a d20 roll that corresponded to a chart, making a nat 20 be a +5 and a nat 1 being a -3, with wider ranges in the middle for +1 and +2.
Somehow, I missed the memo on this thread. Oops. I'll make up for it now:
-Leadership Role - Magister. Garrak has the highest intelligence and is, of course, a wizard. -His wife would make a decent councilor (at least with how I would have built her). - As for who gets to be ruler, we could decide to be a democracy. In real life, my kingmaker group made up a system for it by rolling a d6 and subtracting a d4, having it range from +5 to -3, averaging at a +1 representing the councils cohesion. There'd be other ways to do it (we also discussed averaging charisma, just assuming a static +1, or just removing the leadership role), but it worked decently. -As for what happened on the ship, Garrak would have been quiet and reserved, but his wife would have told you about our purpose (research) and our basic history. Most probably mistook him for some common warrior or bodyguard, and Garrak would have let them believe that.
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