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Lucky glares at Khorshid - not for the first time. Role model, my hairy arse.

"I'm sure Skëlg never bothered to tell you, Venture-Captain, that he and the Yavgena woman have history. He went with her willingly. Very willingly. And had he not, he'd be dead now from the curse of the Beacon. Your friend lives, and if you want him to make good on his promise send word to him in Whitethrone. Better yet, pay him a visit and see for yourself whether he's dissatisfied with our work.

If you'll excuse me sir, I have an appointment with Master Farabellus."

Lucky bows to the irate VC and to his fellows, then departs.

Chronicle is good, thanks for running mate ;)

boony?: 1d20 ⇒ 20

which?: 1d3 ⇒ 3

Lucky old Lucky ;)

Lucky's details are correct. No day job.

Couple of q's about potential faction card goals, GM:

Would Natalya count as a "hostage or captive"?

Did we "defy local law or tradition in a way that assists you or your allies without endangering the mission or threatening innocent lives" when we fought Bengeirr's guards or broke into his warehouse?

Ta :)

These two clearly have history. A 'slight over a farm animal', my arse.

In awe of the witch's display of magical prowess, Lucky decides that any remarks regarding possible infidelity would be unwise.

"Papa makes a fair point. I suspect that between your magic, my Lady, and Skëlg's seamanship, you'll have no trouble reaching Whitethrone intact and soon enough." And I don't think you pair are in any need of charity.

"Skëlg, the Lady will lift the curse of the Beacon of the North. You only need to get through the portal downstairs. Rouse yourself! The end of your nightmare is in sight!"

diplomacy, aid another: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 +4 Helpful bonus for Khorshid.

You ain't my type, your ladyship. Too tall for starters.

"I can't say I'm impressed with a tradition that consigns a living widow to a husband's grave. But I suspect you'll find Skëlg quite amenable after lifting his curse, my Lady."

diplomacy, aid Khorshid: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

"It wasn't us turned the lamp on Skëlg, it was the doing of one Bengeirr Haldyrsson, or one of his men. They are no longer a threat. Haldyrsson had some sort of feud with Skëlg." Lucky answers Natalya.

"If Hestram is really best buds with the Ripper, he'd rather have his friend back than a magic trinket. And if Skëlg decides to go sailing off with this lady, I suspect that his friend Hestram would understand his reasons".

"Do you know how long you've been here? Bengeirr looked a lot like your deceased husband, but I can't tell if they're brothers or ancestor and descendant."

Lucky looks right back at the raven.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

I got your number, bird. Your mistress is some sort of ice-witch, ain't she?

Lucky keeps his suspicions to himself and bows to the woman. "Unexpected is right ma'am. I've certainly never met a lady who made her home on a frozen ship inside a tapestry before. First time for everything, eh?"

The halfling knight tries to keep his tone light. Maybe she's responsible for all this. Or maybe she's a victim.

diplomacy, aid another: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 Helpful Lucky grants a +4 aid bonus to the charming surf-dude Kai.

"I'll go first... just give me a minute to get my breath back, eh mates? A scrap can be taxing. Blame the devil-filth they put in me."

As soon as Lucky recovers from his fatigue (maybe 6 rounds?) he's ready to go.

"KHORSHID! GET BEHIND ME, MAN, YOU'RE NO FIGHTER!"

Lucky rushes forwards, dropping his hammer in favour of his three-section-staff. He slams the staff into the undead...

sansetsukon vs orange, rage, defensive crane, ic: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 9 - 2 + 1 = 21magic silver bludgeoning damage: 1d8 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 7 + 1 = 12

A Star Trek larp? Cool!

Lucky holds his position, guarding his allies against the undead. To keep his lucerne hammer available to fend off the wight, he strikes at the ice zombie in front of him with a series of crane-kicks.

unarmed flurry vs pink, rage, defensive crane, inspire courage: 1d20 + 5 + 2 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 2 - 2 + 1 = 21damage: 1d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 1 = 9
unarmed flurry vs pink, rage, defensive crane, inspire courage: 1d20 + 5 + 2 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 2 - 2 + 1 = 25damage: 1d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 1 = 9

"STAY BEHIND ME MATES! OI, WHAT ABOUT THOSE DRUMS?!"

"HEY UP THERE! KEEP THAT DRUM BEAT GOING, IT PUTS THE DEAD ROWERS BACK TO SLEEP!"

Lucky shouts up to his companions above.

I've always ruled "yes" to wands as weapon-like.

I think there is an official ruling somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.

ETA:

Drawing a weapon so that you can use it in combat, or putting it away so that you have a free hand, requires a move action. This action also applies to weapon-like objects carried in easy reach, such as wands. If your weapon or weapon-like object is stored in a pack or otherwise out of easy reach, treat this action as retrieving a stored item.

If you have a base attack bonus of +1 or higher, you may draw a weapon as a free action combined with a regular move. If you have the Two-Weapon Fighting feat, you can draw two light or one-handed weapons in the time it would normally take you to draw one.

Bolding mine.

Lucky cracks a sunrod for light before descending into the hold.

know.religion DC13: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
know.religion DC10: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

His mind wholly on the imminent battle, Lucky doesn't recognise the foes - other than their essential nature.

"Uh, mates? There's a lot of undead here!"

Lucky enters his fighting stance and levels his hammer. "I'll hold the line, but you'd best get down here fast!" He steps forwards, his arms flickering with sulphurous fire.

hammer vs yellow rower, rage, crane: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 9 - 2 = 18bludgeoning dmg: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

"I'll go first. The rest of you just make sure you follow, right?" Lucky smiles grimly.

"Got any preparations to make? I'm ready now."

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

"I hear something below, mates. A moaning sound. Some unquiet spirit, I should think. There's gonna be a ruckus!"

"Best get below then, mates. Doesn't seem to be much of anything up here."

Assuming Kai playing drums didn't trigger anything of course.

"Everybody ready? It probably isn't a good idea to get too far separated."

Lucky scowls fiercely at Khorshid. Your service will bring you and all around you nought but pain.

Lucerne hammer in hand, Lucky descends to the ship's deck.

"How are we going to get through all this ice?" Flickers of flame run up and down his arms, as he ponders.

Anticipating something significant - whether it's transport into the tapestry or otherwise - Lucky activates his Wand of Shield just before the lantern is replaced.

"Replace the stolen lantern" Lucky answers Tyros. "See where that gets us" he looks to Kai, since the merfolk has a theory. A very unsettling theory, but one that Lucky thinks might just be right.

"Yeah, if you've got a winter jacket you wouldn't mind lending to me, Tyros, I'd be grateful."

"Not sure we want to go following a trail of blood when we haven't checked in with Skëlg yet" Lucky muses.

"Maybe he's dead already. Maybe his staff know something? Can we at least check upstair first?"

Lucky takes the masked helm off Bengeirr. "I reckon old Skëlg would like to see this."

"Let's get that lantern and be off. Not likely there's a second one hidden here is it, mates?"

So this scenario actually uses the old norse gods? I don't think they appear anywhere else, do they? Mummy's Mask uses the ancient Egyptian pantheon but I don't think any other real-world religions are represented in Pathfinder (save for maybe the names of some arch-fiends?).

"Just take the whole thing then. I reckon Skëlg will be happy to see it."

"Anyone know these people's tradition? Stick 'em in their boat and push it out to sea? Or just leave them for the First Guard? They've committed more than enough crimes, and I doubt they 'conquered' this warehouse by paying honest coin for it."

Lucky calms himself and the sulphurous flames subside. He retrieves his hammer and stows the staff.

"Idiots."

With a cold hard glare at the cruel Khorshid, Lucky removes the strange mask from Bengeirr and searches the fallen ulfen for the lantern or anything else of interest.

Getting the memory leak crash on the slides again, GM.

Lucky, Bengeirr is shadow trapped and can't follow you if you step outside his reach.

Nicely done, Kai! I think Lucky has the mad ulfen right where he wants him now though, but it's good to know that escape is available :)

"THAT ALL YA GOT, MATE?!"

Lucky drops his hammer and takes his silvered monk-staff, whirling it about in a fiery screen in front of him. He lashes out...

sansetsukon vs Bengeirr, rage, bless, ic, crane: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 1 + 1 - 2 = 16damage: 1d8 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 1 = 16fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Spend Lucky's last point of Adaptable Luck to make the attack roll an 18

If it's possible to 5' step to Bengeirr's side, so that the ulfen can't 5' step out of Lucky's (5') reach, Lucky does so (if Bengeirr is standing after Lucky's attack).

"YA DUMB LUMP, YA WANT ME?! COME AND GET ME!"

Lucky mounts the rest of the stairs and swings for Bengeirr with his hammer.

hammer vs Bengeirr, rage, ic, defensive: 1d20 + 9 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 9 + 1 - 2 = 21damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Sulphurous flames sweep around Lucky and his weapon...

"B+#+#+@s" Lucky complains as Bengeirr turns the tables. "Where's the rest of 'em?!"

Determined to reach the mad ulfen captain as quickly as possible, Lucky backs up and takes a running jump at the stairs.

acrobatics, luck: 1d20 + 10 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 10 + 3 = 24

If it looks to be too high a leap, Lucky will use Climb instead - check result will be 2 less than acrobatics - Rage will help.

The smell of brimstone grows strong as Lucky's arms catch alight.

Moved on map assuming 24 is good. If Lucky needs to be lower down the stairs, or climbing wouldn't get him where I put him, please adjust accordingly.

Lucky adopts a fighting stance and enters the warehouse to face the mad northman who would claim his whiskers.

"You want my beard mate?! Come get it yerself. I already sent one of your lackeys to Valhalla today. Who's next?!"

Lucky draws his long hammer, ready to face all-comers.

Depending on how high that upper level is, Lucky might be able to reach Bengeirr. If the boss-man is out of (10') reach, Lucky will attack any enemy that approaches, or the one on the stairs if in reach.

Lucky's movement provokes from Black, but he'll try to dodge past with acrobatics.

Acrobatics vs Black, full speed: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

Assuming Lucky gets an attack off, his AC improves to 29 (crane style).

Slides are running just fine at the moment GM :)

^ That's s a single standard action that provokes.

GM, are you happy with Lucky activating his wand of shield as the doggy batters on the door?

"Yeah. She swindled you, alright. Reckon you'll get your gold back off her corpse, mate, coz we're in for a fight now.

Where'd Kai and Papa go?"

Lucky draws a wand, ready to activate it.

When the tengu mercenary decamps to the pub, Lucky grins at Kolris. "Quite a silver tongue you've got, mate. You want a contribution to that 'donation'? I don't mind helping you out."

"You got a plan, Kai?"

"Looks like there's nothing else to see here, mates. Shall we go and 'liberate' a warehouse?"

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

"Well would you look at that. There's a lantern ring on the figurehead. You could hang an actual lamp on it. That's where Skëlg's lantern was taken from. Maybe if we put it back the curse will be broken?"

Lucky shakes his head, but keeps his mouth shut until the Pathfinders are out of Zimmer's earshot.

"You're one crazy 'dude', mate" he tells Kai. "I don't fault you for looking for peaceful solutions, not at all. But you can't trust a man who'll switch allegiance as quickly as Zimmer and his fellows. I'll be surprised if we find him still at his post when we come to visit the Puddles. Most like, he'll be in the nearest pub nursing his wounds and telling tall tales."

"Let's go see that tapestry in the basement." Lucky readies his weapons, keeping his sansetsukon in hand.

"'Conquered a warehouse', gods preserve me" Lucky mutters to himself.

"We can't leave this pirate here now we've woken him. I'll go ask Tyros where we can put him. Or I could just knock him out again."

"IMBECILE!" growls Lucky, sulphurous flames flickering into life on his arms. "Why did you attack Skëlg the Ripper? Why rob him, and what was taken?"

"You need to ask, mate?"

Lucky draws his three-section-staff. "He's not likely to want another beating."

Works fine for me now.

It's a very long time since I worked in IT, but I could see what was happening by using the Mac's Activity Monitor app. It showed a Chrome Helper (renderer) process swallowing all the memory capacity, until the "memory pressure" from the process exceeded 15GB (and I only have 4GB of physical memory) so everything else pretty much stopped. Fortunately I could kill the process via Activity Monitor.

In rough layman's terms, a memory leak is where code does not stop consuming memory resource. Code working normally stops once it's done whatever it should do, but a "leak" just keeps going until there's no resource left, which causes a crash.

(I may not be technically correct, it's been like 18 years I think since I could call myself an expert!).

"Well at least that makes me feel a little better about what I did to the guards" Lucky says without smiling. "You'll find what's left of them in your foyer. The male will probably survive. The female I sent to valhalla."

"Hestram got Skelg's letter. He sent us to help."

"Let's get these two inside" says Lucky as he drags the two ulfen indoors - trying to be moderately respectful, especially of the dead.

Lucky sighs deeply. "Skelg's supposedly on his deathbed. I expect the bedchambers are upstairs. You lot coming?"

Lucky pants heavily as he recovers from his exertion. The smell of brimstone fades and the flames flicker out. He wipes the blood and gore from his three-section-staff, but his face still bears a grimace.

"Stupid... why... why would they not stand down? It's... senseless. All senseless."

He looks up, and gestures towards Khorshid. "Only thing I ever killed before the Sisterhood took me was a chicken for the pot. Now look at me." He shakes his head. "Now look what I have become."

It's stable for me in Safari (albeit an old version of Safari). In Chrome I get the memory leak (my Activity Monitor app reported the process responsible as 'Chrome Helper (Renderer).

Did you do something odd with the slides, GM? Launching them crashes my browser now :( - I am using a rather old macbook with Chrome. Looked like Lucky has a flank though.

"THEN STAND DOWN, IN THE NAME OF PRINCESS EUTROPIA AND TALDOR!"

Lucky whirls his staff...

flurry sansetsukon vs yellow, rage, defensive, kai, flank: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 + 2 = 18damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 5 + 1 = 12
flurry sansetsukon vs yellow, rage, defensive, kai, flank: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 + 2 = 22damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 1 = 13

If the first blow is enough to knock the ulfen out, Lucky does not strike again.

A grimace of rage contorts Lucky's features as the diabolical pollutants in his blood drive his bloodlust.

"You think YOU'RE angry? You don't know ANGRY!"

Lucky whirls his three-section-staff, creating a defensive screen.

"YOU DISRESPECT TALDOR! YOU DISRESPECT THE LONGAXES AND THE ULFEN GUARD! YOU WILL STAND ASIDE OR YOU WILL FALL!"

Flames flicker into life along Lucky's arms and suddenly there is a strong smell of brimstone...

sansetsukon flurry, rage, defensive, kai: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 = 17silver bludgeoning magic damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 1 = 13
sansetsukon flurry, rage, defensive, kai: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 6 + 2 - 2 + 1 = 25silver bludgeoning magic damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 = 11

Going to throw a point of Adaptive Luck on that first attack roll to make it a 19.

Actions: swift to enter Crane Style, free 5' step, full attack vs Blue.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Lucky scowls. When Kolris points out the the reversed surcoats he can't help but notice.

"First, I'm no southerner. Second, genuine Longaxes would return a Knight-Protector's salute. Third: STAND ASIDE!"

Lucky levels his polearm. Or draws his sansetsukon if the ulfen warriors are already too close.

"Gentlemen" Lucky appraises the guards. "My colleagues speak true. I am Sir Lee, Knight-Protector of the royal family of Taldor." Lucky gives a Taldan military salute.

"Be decent chaps would you and admit us? Our gaffer is very keen that we lend assistance to your gaffer."