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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.
Lydia runs out from the dinosaur and tries to swing twice but coughs up some of the black sludge. "I guess you were right, it wasn't for drinking!" she says to make light of the embarrassing moment.
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.
Hey all, I've had a bit of a short notice vacation planned for last 2 weeks of September (13-27). I may be able to post here or there, but would anyone be willing to bot Lydia for me so i'm not slowing things down? I normally wouldn't have started a game if i was going to be gone for 2 weeks but it wasn't planned and it's why i'm sitting out of Gameday this year If it helps, here's some notes about my character sheet:
Those things usually make posting not too bad since its just copy+paste and for combat delete anything that isnt relevant Otherwise Lydia is a scoundrel rogue. In combat she likes Feinting to get flat foot if needed, she has skirmish strike (step+strike or strike+step), and she has limited spell casting in a separate tab on her sheet (3x sure strike, 1x fly).
Lydia takes a skirmish strike by stepping towards yellow and then slicing with her jagged sword. She then follows up with two more rapid 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.
Lydia slices her jagged sword at red and then having temporarily recovored from her sobbing, she makes some quick mental calculations before swinging her sword every which way.
2nd action, if red is up:
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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.
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 contain her emotions but feels a wave of despair rush over her. She then takes her two swords and tries to slice the foe in front of 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.
ran a session this morning and have plans this evening. started reading through those mythic rules and have mostly picked what im doing. Leaning towards Echoes of Swords + Godspeed to synergize with it. mythic strikes seems interesting but we already have 2x of it so im not sure if lydia needs it? hard to say. will think on this and post tomorrow morning
"Don't think we've met, I'm Lydia" she responds, and then nods approvingly at Astrid's involvement in stealing the airship. The crimson-clad rogue doesn't doesn't react to Urwal's hiding spot being pointed out, not wanting anyone to know that she failed to observe him in the first place.
Also thanks all for being part of this milestone game. This is the last of the 10 glyph scenarios needed. I just need 1-2 formal evals then it's a numbers game (i.e. about 12-ish table credits remaining for #5). Congrats! You're kicking butt! Are you all up for 06-09 (Power of Legends, 9-12)? Most likely after Paizocon (at least, when I get my games off the ground for Paizocon)... And yeah Lydia would still be up for 6-09. Trying to focus on 9-12's before any 11-14 since I am one of those people trying to maximize XP.
"Well, don't look at me" Lydia says when the group is tasked to decide the fate of the tapestry. "I just came here for the contract, not to make decisions. Isn't that what the Venture Captains and Decemvirate are supposed to do? Decide important stuff?" she asks, not taking much pride in the accomplishments she's had as a pathfinder. "We were tasked with a job, we did the job. Once all of you decide, I'll be getting a pint of ale if you want to join" the rogue says glancing at Crystal and then the rest of the party before heading towards the nearest tavern.
Lydia, growing with frustration, lashes out in a myriad of attacks!
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.
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