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Yeah, I also understand. Thanks for the GMing!

Sorry to see you go, OSW, but glad you're prioritizing keeping the important things under control.

Lanliss sees Temerith nock an arrow, and he thinks that's a pretty good idea.

Ready an attack for something obviously hostile coming toward the party.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7

"Anyone else?"

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I can't see that anyone other than Jacq has been hurt, so we can let Temerith's clw spell stand.

Lanliss looks wide-eyed at Niamhaiofe's outburst, and holds his bow in front of him with two hands as if it will hide him. Afterward, he does look awkwardly at Silvash.

"Are you going to carry all of the things the elven heroes were holding?"

Lanliss rolls his eyes dramatically as nearly everyone moves back in to the room he and Silvash just vacated. He stands in the doorway (did he have the concept of a chokepoint wrong?) and calls on Fharlanghn's divine energy once again.

Channeling to harm undead: 1d6 ⇒ 5

"Silvash!" Lanliss admonishes. The travelling cleric is not very tactically minded, but even he can see the risk of being surrounded by undead while most of the rest of the party is in the next room.

While the skeletons are still rising to their feet, Lanliss grips Silvash's shoulder and casts protection from evil on him before he calls out, "Let's go!" and gives the other elf a nudge towards the door before the cleric takes his own advice and darts out of the room.

If this is a surprise round with only one available action instead of a full round, there's not PoE spell. Just running.

Lanliss reaches for the flask, but stops himself before touching it. He turns to the others.

"I don't know, but these must be great treasures if they are guarded by the remains of elven heroes. But I worry about anything dwarven with elven guards (no offense, Dorian), especially if it has to do with something called the "Night Caller," so I don't really want to take the whistle.

"Should I take the flask?"

"Guarded by elven heroes, but the whistle has a dwarven description?"

Lanliss runs his free hand over his pale, tied-back hair in consternation.

"If we were weren't underground, it would be safer to try the whistle out. I guess we should take it and try the whistle when we're in a large cave, maybe? Certainly not in a cramped tunnel.

"Can anyone tell anything about flask? Is it magic? I can't tell, because I didn't ask Fharlanghn for that spell, because instead I asked for... Oh!"

Lanliss casts detect poison on the flask to see if it... well, to see if it detects as poison.

Lanliss notices the shrine is carved with dragons. Its shelf holds a candle which still burns, but gives off no heat. Next to the candle are two items - a small whistle and a potion flask

Original image for reference :)

"I don't know what any of this is..." Lanliss laments as he racks his brain for anything he's come across in his travels that might explain this room or the items in it.

"Oh, goodness!" Lanliss marvels.

"You should all come see this!"

"This looks like the kind of place my Pop'd try to loot the heck out of. It also looks like the kind of place that's probably trapped or cursed to the nth degree... "

"Didn't you hear what I said earlier? I channeled positive energy. There aren't any traps."

Lanliss moves forward, reverently dragging his fingers across any sarcophagi he passes, and stops in front of the shrine to inspect it.

Lanliss channels positive energy. If he has to choose for which purpose, he chooses to damage undead creatures.

"I think we should try it!" Lanliss says, ready to channel energy right in front of the door with the skeletal dragons.

Silvash reads the inscription and says "It says 'Channel good, open the way' in Draconic. Can anyone channel positive energy?"

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"...

"Oh! Me! I can do that!"

Temerith frowns. "Odd that it would want positive energy channeled with skeletal dragons on the door...."

"Could be a magical trap?"

Lanliss stares at Temerith, wide-eyed. "A trap? By channeling positive energy? Are you sure? I mean, if it was negative energy, I could see that being a trap. But this is holy energy from Fharlanghn!"

"Wow! She seems pretty reasonable!' Lanliss exclaims to the others as they follow Meepo out of the room."

Gang, I'll be travelling all day on the 27th, and will be unable to post, most likely. Once I get to my destination, I expect to be able to post as normal or close to it.

At “happy Lanliss” his eyes linger on the healer just a heartbeat longer.

Lanliss smiles and waves.

After introductions are made and further questions have been asked, Lanliss asks one of his own.

"Meepo, who gifted your tribe with the dragon Calcryx? That seems like a pretty big gift!"

If it's relevant to Meepo's answer, Lanliss will also ask if whomever gifted the dragon is still around.

Lanliss puts his arrow back in its quiver.

"Hi Meepo, my name is Lanliss. If you don't attack us, or call anyone else to attack us, we're not going to attack you, okay? We didn't come here to attack or steal, all right?

"I asked earlier if you were hurt because maybe I can help you. Are you hurt?"

As soon as Lanliss is aware of someone whimpering in the bedroll, he moves past the others and starts to approach.

"Hello? Do you need help? Are you injured?"

His bow and an arrow are still in hand, but they are not aimed at anything.

Indicating the stone door, Lanliss asks Temerith if he can detect any magic from it.

Lanliss' smile beams in the lamplight as he thinks about how much he's improving the group's morale.

Lanliss busies himself rolling up and securing the rope he had tossed to Dorian. If he has the means to pry out the second piton he used for that, he'll do so. But he'll leave the first piton used to secure Jacq's rope for when they come this way again to leave.

"I've traveled to a lot of places -- it's my job -- but I haven't gone underground very often. Already this is an exciting trip! And I bet we'll find the Hucrele kids. We just have to keep going forward!"

Three wooden doors lead off from this the area (including the one you just came in through).

Are either of the doors open?

Lanliss stands ready to assist anyone who may need a helping hand for the last few feet of crossing the rubble.

Readied action to aid another if anyone looks like they're not going to make the last few feet.

Invoking a blessing (or two) from Fharlanghn, Lanliss nimbly darts across the rubble.

Spending 2 of 5 uses of Agile Feet.

"Be patient, Dorian!" he calls out as he passes. "We'll toss a rope down to you!"

When he reaches the other side, he grins brightly at Silvash before taking off his pack, rummaging around in it, and pulling out a piton and hammer.

"Ta da!"

The elves identify a likely place to secure the piton, and tie Jacquelin's rope to it.

If the party needs another rope to use to help Dorian out of the hole he's found himself in, Lanliss has his own rope and another piton to contribute.

Glad you're back, RE!

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GM, would the cleric domain ability agile feet be of use to Lanliss when crossing the rubble?

Agile Feet (Su): As a free action, you can gain increased mobility for 1 round. For the next round, you ignore all difficult terrain and do not take any penalties for moving through it. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.

"Well... unless we know of a different way Talgen and Sharwyn Hucrele went, this is the only way to finding them."

Lanliss looks around, trying to spot some other path someone could take once they got off the stairs leading down.

"Oh! It was just being friendly! It's nice to see that down here."

Lanliss starts using his feet to brush any gravel and small rocks to the side, trying to form a safe path to walk along. For the pieces of rubble too large to easily brush aside, he picks them up and places them along the edge of the path. He carefully puts his bow down, but not too far out of reach when he needs to use his hands to lift rocks.

Sounds good to me.

Yes, Jacq said in pretty clearly she wants someone to carry her hooded lantern (perhaps Lanliss or Temerith)

Lanliss can carry a lamp if there's not a better option, but if he's carrying a lamp, he can't use his bow.

The next time we memorize spells, I'll have Lanliss memorize the light cantrip. We can cast it on Dorian's shield, maybe.

Cleric and bard are the only spellcasters, huh? :)

When he reaches the ledge, even before he thinks about his armor and pack, Lanliss moves over to Dorian.

"Dorian! You're injured! Can I use Fharlanghn's blessing to heal you?

"I'll have to touch you near the wound, but I know that some people are uncomfortable with being touched. However, I'm uncomfortable with being punched because you weren't expecting me to touch you, so I thought I'd warn you, first."

Lanliss smiles innocently. He's not trying to use levity. It's obvious that he's just speaking his thoughts without much of a filter.

Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

The above spell is if Dorian agrees. Burning true strike to cast it.

Lanliss also removes his armor and pack. When his turn to climb down comes, he sends them down before he goes down so that he can be putting them back on while Temerith and Jacquelin follow.

Climb: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19

Lanliss is just able to make out that there is one rat still on its feet. He draws back his arrow and fires.

Ranged attack from higher ground: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 1 = 13
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

It probably makes zero difference with those roles, but if the remaining rat is in melee with Dorian, then that attack roll suffers a -4 penalty. I'm not sure if that's the case since Dorian just moved.

Lanliss had been watching Dorian traverse down the rope, hoping to see how hard the climb down was. And so, he was able to see when the vermin started to swarm. Bracing one foot as close as he dared to the edge, he leans over and draws an arrow to fire down along the ravine wall.

Two move actions. Moving to the edge and then drawing an arrow.

"Oh! It's 'sunless' because it's down there!"

Lanliss gives Dorian, Nee, and Silvash a bright smile.

"I have five days of rations, too! Wow, what are the odds?!"

"Lanliss? You're a healer right? Can you create water if we need it? Water is heavy and I'd prefer not to have to carry a lot."

"Sure, Temerith, I can do that! Also, I can tell if any food or water we find is poisonous! But not venomous, unfortunately...."

That sounds right, thanks. I just checked, and Hero Lab won't let me drop any of my ability scores below 7, with the exception of Con (5) and Int and Dex (9), which are elves' racial penalty and bonuses.

It doesn't matter, mechanically. The extra 1 point from the point buy system that I would get by bringing Lanliss' Int from 9 to 8 could only apply to his Con, but going from his unmodified 10 to 11 isn't going to get him anything, and I'm unlikely to put points into Con as he levels up.

Mostly, I was just curious. Thanks.

Anybody have any thoughts about why Hero Lab wouldn't let me lower Lanliss' Intelligence to 8? 9 was as low as it would allow me to go.

@Dorian and Lanliss: You both arrive at the inn shortly. Feel free to join the scene at your will :)

From the doorway, Lanliss spots his companions across the room. He waves and calls out to them.

"Hello, friends! Were you able to ask about the Hucrele twins? Ooh, what's that aroma? It smells delicious!"

Lanliss walks over to join the others where the food is.

Dorian had a sad look on his face at being rebuffed by the Smith.

right then. Let's be off Lanliss. The others are awaitin. Just thought one of da folk would be carin more for the fate of others like the Soul Forger teaches. But it looks like he's forgotten our ways.. be well Smith. I'll set a stone on.da altar for ya.

"It was a good thought, Dorian. Worth asking," Lanliss says amiably. He follows the dwarven warrior to the inn.

Lanliss suppresses his usual easy smile. He doesn't like to stereotype, but in his experience, dwarves that he's just met respond better to a serious expression rather than an overly friendly expression. He offers a nod in greeting, but he's otherwise happy to let Dorian talk to his fellow dwarf for now.

"I'm Lanliss!"

Lanliss waves at everyone!

"We could split up, Dorian. You and I visit the smith, since that's a good idea."

I'm assuming that we all know each other already, in the spirit of the DM's 'background-lite' intent.

"I hope they're still alive!" Lanliss admits, "But I'm glad that Madam Hucrele seems prepared for the worst.

"Let's go to the inn and see what information we can glean before we head to the gorge, but I agree that we shouldn't take long before leaving."

Lanliss is done and ready for action!

As for Desna 'equivalents', you could probably go with something like:

Fharlanghn N (g) - God of Horizons, Distance, and Travel

The priesthood of Fharlanghn is of two sorts, the urban and the pastoral. The former wear brown robes and generally are found in small chapels in communities. Those of the pastoral order wear green robes and minister by traveling the highways and byways, occasionally stopping at wayside shrines to Fharlanghn.

Yeah, I was looking at that guy, also. I'll go with him.

I'm also using a recycled character that I really enjoyed playing. This is his alias. The stats are from a different Core-only game, but the Background will give you an idea what he's about.

I am slightly postponing the start of the game, but just to get my bearings, but not indefinitely. I'll take a day or so, and then give you guys a timeframe. At the moment, I'd say two weeks. I'll update if needed.

Thanks for being understanding.

Hey GM, hope things are going well. Any update?

Hey GM, not sure what's going on with you behind the scenes, but I hope your family and dog are doing all right.

I'll be traveling for work Saturday and Sunday, so I don't know how much time I'll have to post if we get started on one of those days. FYI.

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There's two issues with an 8 person party for PbP. One, obviously, is that it's a lot for one GM to handle. I like that you're acknowledging that, and you have a plan for adjusting after a trial period.

The second issue is that with 8 characters, some are bound to be eclipsed by others. Sometimes it's personalities, sometimes it's due to posting frequency, and sometimes it's due to the time of day some players have available to post. (I can think of one anecdote in years past where the GM would make a post, nearly all of the party responded to and often resolved whatever the GM posted, and then the final player -- who lived in a much different time zone -- would log on to play to find there wasn't much for them to do.)

I'm willing to give an 8 player party a shot, but I do anticipate having to navigate some of what I described above.