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Did you add the bonuses from the Touch of Good Isabella's put on you? Since you normally do 1d8+8 I'm thinking not. Touch of good affects attack rolls but not damage.
Also the touch of good only has a duration of 1 round, so make it count right now. :)
Expecting that Forest is probably going to charge into combat, Isabella silently gifts him with a touch of good. Touch of good domain power: You can touch a creature as a standard action, granting a sacred bonus on attack rolls, skill checks, ability checks, and saving throws equal to half your cleric level (minimum 1) for 1 round. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
Where do I go?
If you want attractive; you want Isabella or Runt! Kizzy gives Forest a wink and her crooked grin. And dog-like could be sooo many things… Kizzy rattles off a list of dog-like creatures. "Hah! Don't pretend you're not enchanting! Besides, I was already bait once in the last two weeks, and it didn't work out well."
"Dog-like," says Isabella. "Could be something else. Hellhound? Who knows?"
"I mean once we go in. Presumably after the raven comes back we're going to follow up on what it spotted."
"Light source?"
"It can't rain all the time," says Isabella hopefully. "I have prayed for a little divine magic to lower the water in an area, but it won't last too long. It may be useful if we need to evacuate more people or try to perform repairs on something that's underwater."
Woohoo let's go control water!
Yeah, all of the item creation rules say you spend an amount equal to half the sale price to make it, but the rules explicitly state that for most items, "base price = market price." That's the price it sells for. I've never seen anything to indicate that crafting time is anything other than 1 day (8 hours) per 1,000 gp of the market value (= base value) of the item. Your game your call! Just wanted to make sure I'm not cheating. :)
I thought you had a line on an errata or update! I figured since you are on point with the rules that you must know something that I didn't!
GM Ironperetti is correct about the times. It is based on the crafting cost, not the sale price. Runt will hold off on the cloak and just buy the crafting materials for now and have Isabella do it when we are reunited and have the time. That's interesting because For many items, the market price equals the base price. and Creating an item requires 8 hours of work per 1,000 gp in the item’s base price (or fraction thereof), with a minimum of at least 8 hours. Together these would indicate that the time to craft an item is 8 hours per 1,000 gp of its market price, since the market price and the base price are the same and the crafting time is based on the base price. So I would love a link to an errata or update where this was changed.
Just a typo, probably due to frequent case of "cat on keyboard." Note that for time:
Crafting a wondrous item takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp in its price. This means the satchel takes 24 hours (3 days), the cloak takes 24 hours (3 days) (assuming it's an upgrade from +1), and the sash takes 32 hours (4 days). The satchel is low priority, Isabella will do it later if there are other requests. If we spend a week in Turtleback Ferry recuperating and helping the town to rebuild, she can do the cloak and sash.
Ok, Isabella is gonna take three days to make a specialized healer's satchel. Someone asked for... a cloak of protection I think? Happy to do that but I can't find the request. We need to track how much time various enchantments will take. Updated the treasure tracker with my expenditures for the satchel and my new armor.
Added some diamond dust to my sheet. Hopefully nobody goes through my pockets!
Isabella—still weak from the confrontation—uses Kizzy's help to track down a variety of special components, including a well-made leather satchel, holy water, sacred incense, and silver dust, all of which she plans to use in some enchanting. (1,500 gp of materials to construct a specialized healer's satchel). Since Magnimar is a metropolis, she is also able to finally scare up some better armor! A mithral breastplate (4,200 gp).
Once she gets herself out of bed with a groan, Isabella says, "If you all are going to Magnimar, I need to pick up a few things. A satchel, some supplies, holy implements... have some work to do."
Gloves I can do (Wondrous Item). Rings I cannot (don't have Forge Ring).
Also remember that if we are gonna take a few days to do shopping and recuperate, Isabella can craft magic items. May be worth improving someone's weapons, armor, or miscellaneous gear on the cheap.
Isabella says, "I want to help but I am obviously not equal to the task. Once I have recuperated perhaps we can see what kind of rebuilding we can help to do in the town here after the flooding subsides."
Trying to reconcile my gear with the loot list. The treasure sheet says I should have ~9.6k of gear and money, but I have about ~4.2k on my character sheet. Not sure what's missing, but I could sure use the difference in enchanting stuff.
Isabella wakes up some time later feeling awful. "Uhhh... hello, Forest. I feel really bad." She twists her neck uncomfortably and squirms slightly under the covers. "Also a bit powerless. I brought everything to bear to defend the town and was swatted out of the air uselessly like a gnat. I think I'm not cut out for this adventuring life. I might go back to Magnimar and join a cloister, spend my time in prayer and contemplation. More likely to have a positive impact on the community that way."
Yes, not having diamond dust has been the major barrier to getting rid of negative levels. I really don't want to spend the rest of the adventure with half of the party down two levels from the expected level, that's a recipe for yet another death spiral.
a scroll of raise dead is only 6125 GP we can afford it. Z can probably teleport to Magnimar to get one then teleport back once we're done with the snek, and Konrad can hit the DC 29 UMD check. No, Isa has a total wealth of 4,392, and she should be at 46,000. Her equipment is way, way, way below what it should be at this level, which is a direct contributor to her inability to hang in there. Spending good money after bad to raise her and then pay to remove her negative levels is a bad decision because she will just wind up in a death spiral: unable to face challenges because her gear is so bad, then dying again, having to spend all the money on raising dead, thus unable to afford any upgrades, endlessly. The correct strategy is to strip her for all of her valuables, then bring in a new healer with appropriate WBL/gear. I haven't looked at the gear on the rest of the party, but if this is indicative of a more widespread problem of not getting the correct amounts of loot, then that should be addressed before moving on to the next book in the AP.
Isa is killed outright because: 1. The negative levels (2) reduce her max & current hit points by 10, putting her at -17.
We did learn something interesting though: This is apparently a native local outsider, as if it were summoned, the magic circle against evil would prevent it from making physical contact until Isabella attacked it, which she hadn't yet. (It could penetrate the magic circle with SR, but it didn't make a roll. I suppose it could be immune to protection from evil.) So, nobody summoned it, which at least is a good thing. Anyway, looking up some hyper-optimization guides for healbots now. I thought I could play a concept character, my bad.
Isabella casts one final spell and golden wings of light sprout from below her shoulders. She lifts into the air and then soars directly toward the rampaging extraplanar beast!
Isabella casts divine favor as she continues her rush. Is she... going toe-to-toe with that thing?!?
Isabella continues advancing over water and casts magic circle against evil to prepare some defense against this horrid monster. "Nobody steps on a church in my town!"
Isabella suspects that fighting this thing is going to be a "sooner rather than later" proposition. "I need to start calling down blessings for us! Do your best to form up if you're going to fight that behemoth!" she shouts out.
Isabella notes Runt's confusion and says, "I'm not entirely sure, but he just cast some kind of spell and aimed it at something below him in the water."
"I have a spell that can drop the water level in one area, where is the best place to deploy it?"
While Runt casts a bunch of combat prep, Isabella casts communal water walk on the whole party.
Good things can't last, but Isabella certainly makes sure to get the most out of a luxurious bath, a warm meal, and a good night's sleep indoors. ~~~~~~~~~~ "That's our cue," she says when the stranger bursts in. "Konrad? Time to put your boating skills to the test!" "How bad is the flooding? Have any buildings collapsed?"
Kizzy will, as always offer Prestidigitation to clean anyone's gear that doesn't have the spell themselves. "Oh gosh Kizzy, I don't want to reduce you to a laundry-lady, but if you could use magic to clean my garments while I am in the bath, I would owe you in a significant way."
"The Pixie's Kitten?" says Isabella with a look of skepticism. "Trading one breast for another?" "Anyway, if you can handle a boat, I have a feeling that skill might be useful," she says. "I'm still going to prepare some magic to deal with water hazards, just in case." She plucks at her muddy clothing and says, "Speaking of water hazards, time to go immerse myself. Of course everything's going to get rained out tomorrow, but at least I can get rid of some of the ogre gore and road-mud. Kizzy already got cleaned up, you gonna do the same, Konrad?"
"Well, tomorrow morning, I will for sure pray for miracles from Remember to handle the weather," opines the cleric. "Time to immerse myself in warm water now, though."
Level 9: Cleric 9 +1 Ref saves
Skills: +1 each of: Diplomacy, Heal, Knowledge (religion), Spellcraft; Knowledge (history), Linguistics Language learned: Halfling New feat: Heavenly Radiance (sunbeam)
Since the group gets a good night's sleep before leaving Fort Rannick and they know that they'll be hustling to Turtleback Ferry the next day, Isabella strikes up a jaunty but staccato tune on the way. Something about the tune keeps feet up and spirits high during the lengthy slog through the mud.
By the time the group reaches the Turtle's Parlor, Isabella is well and truly done with keeping on the magical tune. Though the spell bolsters her to keep singing as long as she focuses on it, eight hours of walking concentration still isn't easy. She gratefully accepts a mug of a local warm beverage to soothe her throat and nurses that for a while before she, too, decides that she'd best have a bath and a chance to clean her garments. She heads for the baths just as Kizzy is getting out. Stifling a yawn, she says, "Kizzy, I'm a little worried about all this rain. It's going to come down the mountain and straight through the valley here. You or anyone know how to pilot a boat, just in case?"
Isabella looks out at the drizzling rain and rolls the ring on a leather thong around her neck in between her fingers. "I lost my family years ago. Now I just... find ways to cope."
I suspect you did and it was just buried in the flurry of posts about "what do we do about the fort?"
I'm very confused because there are other folks at level 8 as well. Cannot keep track.
I thought we were level 8.
"I will do the right thing before the convenient thing." Isabella glances around the ruins of the fort. "But whatever repairs we make here, the fort will not stand unless new rangers are posted, a new garrison recruited. That is likely the captain's task."
I'll go wherever I need to go, just let's make up our minds and move forward. :D I dunno how we "recruit" new rangers, that may be Vale's job now. It's not like we can just roll into a town and say "Hey! You! You wanna go live in a fort in the remote wilds, that was until recently occupied by an ogre family? There's no pay and you have to rebuild it yourself, plus you're the first line of defense for the communities in the valley."
"This rain is unseasonal, too. It should be snowing. I'm worried about this flooding the lowlands."
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