"If I'm to serve as a distraction, I can prepare an extract of disguise. A scantily clad serving wench showing too much skin shouldn't be too difficult."
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"Rowena and I can distract them...'Oh, look what I dropped how clumsy' long enough for you to cast your spell. Then we can move in and finish knocking them out, tie them up and hide them."
"Agreed. We should pick up any final supplies we're waiting on, and then investigate Dourstone."
I'm all about a combat game, but I'm getting married this weekend and then honeymoon for a couple of weeks. I'll be online when possible, and hopefully with the wedding all done with I'll have more time for playing again. So if you're okay with ~3 more weeks of a tough schedule from me, I'm still interested. If I don't post within 12 hours or so, GMPC would be much appreciated.
Lessien considers. "I guess he's the man we must see first thing tomorrow then."
Sorry guys, bad storm here left me without power for a few days. Getting caught up.
"I wonder if those two with the rings are actually pathfinders, or if they obtained the rings second-hand?"
Lessien nods, "Thank you for inviting us over for this discussion...so far it has been most illuminating."
"We're still trying to figure that out. How did you come to hear of our involvement with Kullen? We thought we had kept that fairly quiet."
"I'm not a skilled chef either, but between us I'm sure we can cook acceptable food." Lessien does her usual morning preparations (dex mutagen, extracts of shield / CLW). After breakfast, "Shall we head for Lazare's?"
"Indeed, it's about time we finish that off."
What I normally do is total up the sell prices for everything, and then divide by the number of players. That is the 'virtual' share. With that virtual share money or with real money they had already, players can buy items from the loot for the sell price (generally 50%, the values that are divided into the share, in any case), before the items actually get sold off. When the items are sold, any money spent from the player's share to buy equipment at half price is subtracted from their share of the cash (and any extra they had to put in is divided among the other players shares). Usually until level 3-4, players don't have enough money to quite pull that off, but after that generally people have plenty of gold to make it work. For now, we may just want to divide the cash evenly and use as much as we can of what we find, and when we get another couple of levels, we can calculate everyone's wealth values and divide a higher level loot stash unevenly if it needs evening out. I would say approach the pathfinders and see if they are interested in the rings. Once we have given Allustan a chance to do what he wants to do at the Cairn, we can even tell them where we found them.
Can I make a craft(alchemy) roll to try to ID the material of the pedestal? If so, . "Shall we cremate or bury the rug out of respect? We should hide the talisman somewhere safe. We should probably carry the spectacles in someone's pack, but it looks like we can sell the rest of this."
As another possibility, would those injectables be treatable as poisons I could apply to weapons using alchemist poison? (To clarify, I didn't mean 'sell everything I don't want', I just meant at this point sell everything nobody wants, even if it puts us on people's radar. :)
"Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this is a serious investment you've made in us, and you barely know us. Should we view it is a retainer for continued employment by you, or simply your way of rewarding us for dealing with problems potentially impacting your town? In any case, it's tremendously helpful for our endeavors, as is your constant advice, so thank you." To Trevor: "Well, I believe Rowena and I will be taking one room, and I'm sure you'll want to room with your mentor, which I believe leaves the third one for Quintus and Rauno. Though I'm sure Kelkzar will be happy to teach you about hanging a sock on the door handle..."
I can definitely use the goggles. The amulet interests me but I think I have the highest AC already (at least for a half hour at a time), so Ro or Kelkzar would probably get much better use out of it, at least until Ro gets barkskin (assuming she's taking the Qing'gong path, I don't know the details of her build). Can alchemists use wands if the spell is on the alchemist list? I'm working on UMD in any case, but it would be nice to know some wands will just work :) I'll be sticking with light armor. I'd say lets go ahead and sell everything else at this point, get some spending money. I want to do some craft(alchemy) in the upcoming downtime and need to buy components. :) While I get sneak attack dice instead of bombs, I still get throw anything, and I still get to add my int mod to splash damage, so I really want some alchemists fire for dealing with swarms.
Thanks...it's been fun and challenging.
Curse alchemists lack of level 0 spells. :) I've got spellcraft and a racial bonus to ID items, but no detect magic. Guess I need to learn identify.
Laying the found items out on the floor, Lessien asks, "Do any of these have auras of magic?" She examines the sack and its contents.
HP: Favored class bonus to HP, true strike as my free formula. Feat: Piranha Strike.
"Is everybody ready to try this switch? I'd prefer if you stand on the other side, where we can all run, if it's a trap."
Lessien turns, drawing her bow, and looses a shot at the creature attacking Rauno.
"Watch it!"
Lessien scratches her head, "Huh..." Much to her companions horror, she fills a flask with the sludge, and drinks it, after tentatively taking a sip. "As I surmised...this is a potent nutrient mass. The amount still in the basin would easily last one person 2 weeks, completely sustaining their needs. Amazing. And it certainly tastes better than it looks..."
Lessien continues to examine the substance.
Lessien tentatively touches the orange sludge with the tip of an arrow, then the fletching and shaft, to see if she can determine anything about its nature. "This switch might stop the flow of the sludge, but it might also set off a trap. Before I try to deactivate it, can everyone move to the hall where we can escape?"
Lessien searches this area and then the previous area for anything else hidden.
Lessien nods, and continues scouting.
"Don't get too close to that mold, if you step next to it it will drain your heat completely. Rauno, do you have ray of frost prepared? Fire will only make things worse."
Lessien returns to the group. "I can't see anyone in the next area but there's a collapsed pillar I couldn't see past. There's some kind of orange sludge on the ground near where the cold seems to be coming from." Knowledge(nature) if that stuff is in any way natural:
"I am ready. I'll scout ahead."
Will DC 11 vs sleep: Also immune to magical sleep affects. Lessien searches the area for other traps or interesting things.
Lessien draws her hanbo, and swings at the creature carefully, trying to avoid its tentacles.
Before we come down in the morning, Lessien takes a CLW extract:
She prepares a dex mutagen and her usual shield and CLW extracts. Before the stone is moved, she takes her mutagen and stands with her bow ready. Fort: She will move in to C4 or B4. Will if necessary: If able to, Lessien fires on the enemy:
Lessien considers. "If there's a new area to explore, can we call it a day for now? I would feel a lot better about this if we weren't completely tapped on magic."
Lessien starts counting the seconds.
"I'm willing to scout, but if I find something in my current state, my only reaction is going to be to run."
Well, if you install the google docs app on your phone, you should be able to edit stuff. :) I generally let my players move themselves, and just check the map history if I need to verify move distances, etc. All the other work you've put into that looks like an awful lot of work, but pretty awesome.
"It seems the indigo alcove is just a trap for the unwary."
"I am still in pretty bad shape, and our magic and my alchemy are largely depleted. I think it would be prudent to camp and recover before we explore anything new."
"I better prepare another mutagen if we're going to continue today, but I'm in no shape to be taking point anyway, if you want to proceed while I work." The elf starts combining esoteric ingredients.
Lessien takes a minute to prepare her last healing infusion for the day and offers it to Kalkzar. "I can always use my bow if we get into another fight. But after that fight, this room might be the safest place to try to rest and recover."
Lessien steps in again and attempts to distract the creature.
Ah...all I remembered was that they were immune to sneak attack damage.
Kelkzar: That was also a nat 20 crit, so you should roll that :)
Lessien blinks as she awakens under Rowena's care.
Lessien makes some mild squelching sounds and convulses a little.
Her bleeding slows.
BTW, if I'm down, you're allowed to stand in the same space I'm lying in, should make flanking easier.
Lessien falls to the dual longsword attacks of the wind warrior. HP: -1/21
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