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Lydia reaches for the spacious pouch, "I'll safeguard this...", and then sorts through the contents. "Two greater frost vials for Quinoline, and we probably should split up these three greater healing potions". She hands the two greater frost vials to Quinoline
Lydia approves of Quinoline's plan of starting with the Grand Lodge
Welcome Belphix and Makai! Lydia is a lvl 11 scoundrel rogue with red mantis assassin dedication. Like most rogues she's a skill monkey but has high charisma and is a master of deception. In social settings she can be a face (though, her diplomacy is merely trained). In combat she is a melee fighter, has gang-up (which in remaster now allows allies to benefit from the off-guard as well), and she can also feint for off-guard if needed. She has tactical debilitation and by default usually applies the debilitation that limits reactions. Out of combat she is expert medicine with continual recovery and ward medic. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
A relatively young adult half-elf with red hair quietly slips into the back of the Ambrus's office and leans against the wall. Her black and crimson armor, meticulously maintained, almost seems to merge with the shadows. A variety of weapons, more than can be counted at a glance, are discreetly arranged across her frame suggesting calculated readiness. At either side of her hips hang two swords, their blades cruelly serrated like the teeth of a predator ready to rip into flesh. Not making her presence immediately known to everyone, she quietly accepts Quinoline's fist bump and nods appreciatively to the rest of the team when they notice her. When the meeting opens to questions, the rogue readily asks, "So we're going to kill a demon? Say no more, when do we start?"
1 hit+3 crits for 22 damage! last crit did 2 damage! LOL Lydia used to have ghostly weapon access through the red mantis dedication, but lost access when remaster nuked schools of magic and which made red mantis lose access to transmutation spells that aren't divine (like haste, longstrider, ghostly weapon to name a few goodies). And apparently I had a Pearlescent Pyramid aeon stone listed for purchase and deducted from my gold after lydia's last scenario but I never added it to my sheet for this scenario. Oops. Will fix that for next scenario so she has ghost touch
Having cleared her lungs of smoke from the multiple fireballs, Lydia sees the caster prepare a bolt of lightning and she manages to dodge out of the way with ease. She then gangs up on yellow to catch it off-guard as she strikes, steps, and strikes three more times.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Also IIRC, redeux was an evaluator for VTT at some point? Yup, the online RVC (ironhelix) designated me as an evaluator for games in my lodges when I was a VTT VL. I don't know how common that is in other regions but online occasionally does it since we have a lot of GM's and fewer VO's compared to physical locations. My VC reviews were:
First 2 reviews were just games I had planned and if I saw a VC join I asked them in advance. Last review I asked the VC when I picked up the table whose GM dropped before the con. Helps if you know people who are VC's though. and VO's can always help coordinate doing a review if you need help tracking down a VC for a session.
Here's the guide link But the 3 VC reviews are only needed for 5th glyph, none for 4th. The guide recommends before finishing 4th glyph to do a mock review with a VO (doesnt need to be VC) but it isn't required. And technically you can do a real VC review as early as you'd like. I think it was Tiger who asked for a review very early? Might be misremembering that. And yes you're counting the GM table credits so as long as they add up to 100 you're fine. For the 5th glyph you then have to worry about 50 unique adventures, 10 specials/glyph-tagged adventures, and 3 VC reviews.
"Did you see that--" Lydia starts to say pointing at where Penumbra once stood before suddenly being caught unaware by yet another fireball and mouthful of smoke. Thovar's shield protects her from most of the damage but her lungs still burn. Between several coughs of smoke she manages to say, "Thanks..."
Lydia steps 5 feet towards Penumbra () before trying to gang up on her.
Lydia attempts to distract Blue with a feint attack before skirmish striking with her jagged sword and stepping away.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met. Feint, Scoundrel Racket:
Requirements You are within melee reach of the target you attempt to Feint. With a misleading flourish, you leave an opponent unprepared for your real attack. Attempt a Deception check against your target's Perception DC.
Critical Success The target is off-guard against all melee attacks until the end of your next turn. If wielding agile or finesse weapon, you can step immediately after the Feint as a free action.
Lydia casts Sure Strike, strides alongside Astrid to gang up on Penumbra and she channels her gifted mythic power into a strike. Shortly after she follows it up with a second strike that she fails to compensate for her normal-again strength[/ooc]
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up:
You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia's elven blood begins surging through her veins and she feels time begin to bend. Staring at the creature closest to her, she attempts to sever the shadowpact.
Seeing her attempt have no effect, she calls back to Quinoline, "You can collect the glass after !"
Lydia studies the maze and compares it to other fortresses she's broken into in the past, wondering if she might find subtle clues on the mechanical nature of the maze in order to solve it.
She then tries to convince the maze itself that she has no soul by perfecting her resolve and ridding herself of any worry or care.
...But a shard of her soul remains evident.
For what its worth, the Red Mantis Renegade charity boon from Gencon ~2020 did explicitly grant access to sawtooth sabres 'and any uncommon options requiring membership in the red mantis assassins'. Red Mantis Renegade text: Rare (Verification upon request)
The followers of Achaekek are zealous killers best known as the Red Mantis assassins. You trained for years to join their ranks, yet ultimately chose to abandon the order, taking their secret techniques with you. So long as you don’t teach these maneuvers to others—and perhaps you’ve tried, only to find your pupils killed—the Red Mantis assassins seem content to let you wander the world and use their deadly arts. Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Constitution, and one is a free ability boost. You’re trained in the Performance skill and the Assassin Lore skill. You gain the Fascinating Performance skill feat. In addition, you gain access to sawtooth sabres and any uncommon character options requiring membership in the Red Mantis assassins; you add lawful neutral to the list of alignments that qualify as prerequisites for the Red Mantis assassin archetype (Lost Omens World Guide page 71).
Lydia continues slicing every which way except taking care not to strike Astrid!
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
"Thanks!" Lydia says as Quinoline applies the bandage. Not wanting to miss out on the fun, Lydia skirmish strikes her way towards the remaining statue.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
I could potentially help bot for some of that, though Dec 24-29 I will have family in town, and then from Jan 1-Jan15 I will be working double shifts. I have enough bandwidth to continue playing during these times, but I'm also OK with a pause if that's what GM/group want.
Lydia reels from being punched and decides to try to stop blue before it can act. She steps towards blue and strikes repeatedly trying to finish it off
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
d10 persist fire on crit is from Arrus's flaming rune Reminds me - I think I have been forgetting my rune on-crit effects lol
Lydia takes the silence from her teammates as the answer. Stand ground, got it, she thinks to herself as she begins a tirade of attacks against the statue with broken armor.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia tries to steal the closest statue's shadow, and then cut the link between Red and its shadow. Once freeing them of their shadows, Lydia attempts to slice pink "This might make them angry! Should we reposition?" Lydia asks while holding her ground for now.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia rushes as quickly as she can across the difficult terrain to gang up on red, then strikes!
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
With Astrid by her side, Lydia gangs up on the (blue) spider and beings slicing and dicing.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia rushes towards blue and tries to steal the creature's shadow
"Leave, or die!" she commands as she begins her assault
Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia takes a step and then strikes three times in rapid succession.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia continues slices every which way as she tries to take Red out before pivoting to yellow.
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Lydia shrugs off Gruasha's attempt and rushes over towards Red, taking advantage of their off-guard and adding to the distraction
Debilitating Strike / Tactical Debilitations: Trigger: Your Strike hits an off-guard creature and deals damage.
Effect: You apply one of the following debilitations, which lasts until the end of your next turn. When the creature is affected by a new debilitation, any previous one it was affected by ends. - Debilitation The target takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. - Debilitation The target becomes enfeebled 1. - Debilitation The target can’t use reactions. - Debilitation The target can’t flank or contribute to allies’ flanking. Gang Up: You and your allies harry an opponent in concert. You can flank an enemy if it’s within reach of both of you and an ally—you and your ally don’t have to be on opposite sides. This benefits your allies as well as you, but only if they’re flanking with you, not each other. The other requirements for flanking must still be met.
Thank you! I'll owe you one. And sure thing, hero points -
Though I also trust your intuition too, and whatever makes things easier for you. |
