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hey sorry I haven't posted in a little bit I just noticed that I am posted the other day just I've been really swamped at work so I haven't been able to post in any of my games that much. I'll try to get a good roleplay posted when I get off work today, 01 funny thing I'm working with a lot of British guys and I'm in a keep bringing up How we're celebrating breaking up with Their country on the 4th lol all in good fun

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it seems like we chased it off all of us are still living good. it should be best of we move away from here be fore we set up for the night it might come at us again....oh and don't think i have forgotten about those drinks you owe me Morg

Dammit it was as if the thing was warded against my arrows, most of my shots couldn't find their mark

will do ^_^

Riuk pets his bagger and feeds her a bit of food "Awe rite it seems we waur able tae chase it aff, a' fowk still livin' guid. it woods be best if we move awa' frae haur afair we sit up fur th' nicht as 'at hin' micht try tae lat at us again...oh an' dornt forgit abit those drinks ye owe me Morg."

"Dammit it was as if 'at hin' was warded against mah arrows as most ay th' coods nae burst their mark."

Sorry I have not posted so we are passed the fight and healing up?

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@ gm you said we are going back a few rounds... so what round are we in, what attacks counted and all that kind of confused over here

why can anyone tumble why!!!

it dose not help that we are rolling low on damage and it has some -5 to some kind of metal...well its too late for us to run...for the nalbrin don't run.

Go lay down in a corner, wait for the fight to be over cuz I'm just throwing sticks in the wind lol :-(

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so it's our go?

Riuk continues his attacks

flurry bow 1 : 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
fb1 damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
flurry bow 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
fb2: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

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...I might have made a mistake going archer...

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Riuk fires two more arrows at the demon

hmm i might have to rethink my character...

Aw man I'm sorry I missed
Have been missing ALL the post for some reason my campaign stuff is not showing new post thanks for the boting

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can you add my pet to the map i have him right in front of me since he is small

Riuk takes a step back his hand a blur of motion as two arrows fly at the demon before him "Ye mingin' hin' yoo'll learn in death whit happens when ye attacks th' dwarfs ay nalbrin." He said after the arrows fly

attackflurry 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

attack2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

attack2 crit?: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12no

Xo takes a defensive stance in front of Riuk

"Weel 'main 'en then wi' me, Keep ye wits abit ye men. ." Riuk said as he follows Falgard into the clearing

well I'll stand and look around againperception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

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what, how ,why did i get hit :P

"Och whit th' heel." Riuk exclaims as he is dragged into the air

Whit th' heel Ah kent we shoods nae hae come haur Ah swear ance Ah gie it ay thes aam gonnae make heem buy me drinks until mah urine can burn. he thought to himself

"Ah kent we shoods nae hae come thes way . MORG..what am Ah braw aam in th' air danglin' by mah feit hoo dae ye hink Ah am... an' nae we shoods hae did whit Ah tauld ye an' nae com thes way in th' first place"

Riuk looks around to see what might be controlling thisperception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

Seeing his comrades apparently at a loss, Mattock looks back across the plain. He hopes to identify some mountain peaks to the north and west, and thereby estimate their position.

Know(geography)1d20+7

Hay your part of the lost dwarf group too, don't go trying to say its just us lol

we are so lost lol

Riuk sees the end of the forest coming up an smiles Jist a bit mair an' will be it. he thinks to him self

"'main 'en lads we will suin be it an' back oan uir way."

Survival: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Survival aid from pet: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Riuk stops and looks around "wer-Waur th' heel ur we, Ah teel ye we shoods nae hae come thes way...."

wow that's some bad rolling, and hope you are all ok with me trying out my Scottish accent for this character ^_^ if it's to much i reel it back

Riuk holds for his brother to walk up next to him and cuffs him on the head "well, what have ye learned lad. ..ah can we continue on our journey. "as Riuk walks forward he can be heard mumbling "he's lucky that's all he gets now I won't gets those cast of whiskey, I swear father I don't know what to do with him sometimes...ah well let's hope he grows from this..."

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"oh I that could be true, but what if it dint want to be found..eh"

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Riuk shakes his head and sighs "well I knew this was just a trick by the fay, looks like ye got out of that agreement tho eh "

He shifts his pack and gives a pice of meat to his bagger "well let's go were burrito daylight" as riuk walks ahead he mumbles "I swear I know why he wanted to come with his odd infatuation with beardless lasse, ah when will he learn the only beauty is when ye have a something to grab onto...ah"

Riuk turns to the rest "well? We leaving or what"

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No let's just hurt everyone and use intelligence lol

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in the last part i decided to go with checking it out better we all go to keep us safe ...but we do need a clear leader so this won't happen again ^_^

" brother have you not heard, sometimes the fay folk like to play tricks on mortals. they leave a changeling in place of the real baby and the only way they can get their real child back is to leave the changeling fay a tree all night, then in the morning they can come and get the real child back if the changeling didn't die. Oh I it's a sad tale but best we leave it as is

When ranok chimes in riuk shakes his head "ah, fine ye wish to follow this folly might as well we keep you safe then let's see what it is...but if I was right and it's bad then the three of ye ow us a keg each of the best brandy the human town has..or you can settle up once we get back to the mountain"

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yah let's go toward the impending danger!! Oh look it's a witch from left for dead..lol

"ignore it it's a fey baby if we go to it the family that left it there won't get their child back, no let's move on" Riuk packs up his camp

little bit of rl superstition from Scotland ^_^

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"ye want to stay out here in the open were we can be easily surrounded in the night...well fine"

if I make my pet dig a pit for us to sleep in, will that make it harder for us to be spotted?

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"well lads I feel we should make it to the forest so we can make use of these tents, should make it harder for anything to get at us. Dont seem to far come on let's go"

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Hello everyone and I am so happy that things have been able to change, right now I'm only able to hold on to five games I'm dropping all the other games I'm in but I like this one too much and I do plan to stay in it

I thought I was going to lose my contract but now it's staying strong for the next few years and I don't need to go job hunting

And may the 4th be with you all lol

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If the jibes are to much i stop *_*

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Riuk looks up in to the sky taking a deep breath as if just enjoying the Breeze as it blows

"ah ye' know me brother I follow the trail see before me and move with the guidance of Easivra. But yes we're a bit off shouldn'na take to long to find the right way now"

Riuk laughs a bit "ahaha oh I the lads got a quick mouth alright, the lady's say that's not all that'dquick ahaha "
Riuk said winking at tinker

"better with the toys than the flesh eh, might be that's why you want to be called tinker eh' ahaha"

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Riuk stops "Hold on lads I...yes we seem to be off or course a bit..."

Riuk turns to Mattock "oy Mattock, was it directly east we wanted to go or north east then?"

Oh yeah happy day were lost lol

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Riuk looks out and ponders their journey "Well lets move out band of Mules it still quite a long trip ahead of us"

WOOT happy to continue the game ^_^

Hay I'm still here ^_^

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going to Paris for the weekend wont be posting much till I get back

"well met quin, well at least we have another mule...let's move"

To mat "The Issue With The who is In .the role of leader has never been addressed, true This Is A Military expedition but that role was not given out by our Command we will Have To Have One Soon But I Think We Can Decide That Later."

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Riuk gives a sigh

"good to have you, well get your pack on mule we got a long way to go"

he said with a smile and sets off Xo the bagger at his heels

and the classic dwarf song

you know whats funny this is the firs dwarf i have ever made ^_^

i just had to try to get into this game when i read the premise and he is really fun hope this game last a long time ^_^

I agree I think I get access to any haul so that could make up the difference

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Anyword on when we might be continuing?

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Riuk sighs looking at his pet

"Xo bury them and bee quick, Brother I know im not to be trifled with and I do not need to leave behind evidence of our passing for all to see and know we came this way...theirs a good girl Xo, now come on lad still a long journey and it only getting longer with you jabbering away like a scullery maid talking to a lord..."

After the quick burial Xo moves back to Riuk's side and they stand ready to depart

I figured it was something like that ^_^

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for any of you who are interested there is this experiment myself and a few other people are trying out to make it easier for potential gms find players if you are curious about it here are the links

OPEN AP APPLICATIONS FOR PCS TO JOIN AND GMS TO RECRUIT! -this is the Google doc

Recruiting experiment ^_^-the is the page for it

we could throw them in the river since its flowing down

"I and thank Easivra for that would have been bad if they got away...well then lets be off shall we, still have some way to go before we get out of the Montanan

Riuk grabs hos pack and stets off after a few feet he turns back to the rest of the party

"well come on then.."

Riuk claps his brother on the back

" you see that haha, that's how it's done boy. I mean we all have some trouble when they are close to us but my shots pull through as they ran away... How it goes sometimes I guess"

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Happy birthday, TOZ! Good job getting older!

Busy weekend for me. So busy that I didn't get a chance to respond to this thread until Saturday evening.

@Gm Thanks, that makes sense.

Elathras Narcinal wrote:

Vhane also has a very high stealth

Ah, you're right. In my defense, I don't think Elena has ever seen Vhane stealth around like Bharak has.

He can't stealth if he's going to keep griping about giants so much.

I was trying to figure the alias thing out, yeah. Sorry, for being slow with this.

You're not being slow. Paizo.com is an old, weird website. They've interlinked the functionality of their blog, webstore, and forums too much, in my opinion.

To make an alias, click "My Account" in the top right corner of the site. Hovering over it will bring up a menu of options, but you can ignore the menu this time. Just click "My Account," and you'll be taken to a page where you need to confirm your username and password before being taken to your My Account page.

Your account page has two columns of boxes. The third box down in the left column is called "Messageboard Aliases." Click the "Create New Aliases" button. You'll be taken to a page with a text field for an Alias name (with Paizo's suggestion that you'll probably want to replace). Put in your own alias' name, but it has to be unique. For example, when I created my alias for this thread, I originally wanted 'Nepka,' but someone out there is already using it, so I added an extra 'P'. If you want, you can then click the "Submit Changes" button, and technically be done. The new alias will appear in your "Messageboard Aliases" box and also in the drop down menu beneath the text field when writing a new post.

If you want to add an Avatar image for an alias, you can do so before you click Submit, or you can can do it later by clicking the Edit button next to your alias name in the "Messageboard Aliases" box. By default, the site will show you every single Avatar image available. You can narrow the available images down using the filters to the left, if you want. When you've found the image you want to use, hover over the image and click the "Select this Avatar" button that pops up. Then you'll need to click the "Submit Changes" button on the screen you're taken to.

If there's a limit to the number of aliases that a user wants to create it must be very high. There's a thread somewhere on the forums, for example, of users joking about having a race to create 400 aliases, and the guy who started it is at 529. Way more than anyone is likely to ever need.

Neppka: Sorry for overwhelming you, but you're doing stage 2 perfectly. You used an action and were not able to stand up. Do you want to try again with your second action?

Thanks. It's not you or the process that's overwhelming, it's being a few days behind and then having to parse through all the posts to know what I should do next. Mostly my issue.

Standing up, Take 2: 1d20 ⇒ 14

Hi, this is Andostre. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the idea of trying to catch up, so I'm just going to focus on one step at a time.

Stage 2 of character creation (Stage 1 was concept). Newborn.

Character Sheet step.

Put 0 in all attribute modifiers on a character sheet. These are your starting stats.

Roleplay Step:

You are a baby, the equivalent of an 8-month-old human child and you have just woken up from a nap. You are lying down.

• Describe what you see. For example, what does your sleeping area look like, who is around you?

I open my eyes and see the familiar sites of what I've come recognize as home. I have vague impressions that I used to have another home, but there was a long (and quite frankly, scary) journey with my parents to arrive in our new home. Mother is usually here, but father is usually not. I roll on my thin mattress that lies on the floor to get a better look around. Mother, father, and I all live in the same room, which also contains a few meager pieces of furniture. There are no other rooms in our home other than this one. When we leave the room, it is bright and noisy and crowded. The outside noise is constantly present even inside the home, but I feel safer inside the room despite the noise.

Mechanics Step:

Having woken you want to practice all the wonderful things you have been teaching yourself to do. Exciting things like standing, and walking, and running. This is what you’re going to attempt to do.

Standing Up:
Standing up is becoming very easy for you as you have been doing it for a while. It is still not automatic though.

Roll a d20 and note the number that comes up on the top face.

Standing up: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Mouse trades a look toward the mounted knight, then slips into the confusion behind hooves and is lost from sight.

Vibenia seems to fade into her surroundings, disappearing in the chaos.

Marten, I'm glad you're staying visible. NK and Zelera are going to start getting real nervous if you disappear, too.

Hi everyone! Happy to be here!

First off, thanks to GM Stargin for running this exercise! I'm looking forward to it!

Thinking of DrunkenTurltle... it looks like the post they made in the other thread is the only post they've made on these boards. I hope they're still around. Also, since they're new to these boards, they might not realize if they've been sent a Private Message. The little red dot is not exactly noticeable. I've made a post on their thread telling them about Private Messages.

About me: it seems like most of us, I'm well-experienced in D&D/Pathfinder. I've technically played 1st edition, but I don't always count that since we barely knew what we were doing. I was really into 2nd edition, and then 3.x, and then I took a long time off from RPGs before wanting to get back into it and discovering Pathfinder. In recent years I've had a hard time transitioning to a new system, because it's difficult for me to forget rules that are no longer being used. This is the main roadblock I've had to transitioning to PF2. It's been difficult for me to learn new rules when the old rules are still taking their place in my brain. I guess if I had more free time to devote to it like I did when I was younger things might be different, but with a career, family, an active social life, and other responsibilities, it's hard to prioritize learning a new system when I've got a perfectly fine system already in my head that I've been using for years. :)

That said, I have ventured into PF2 (not Remastered) a couple times. Both times were PbPs on this board. I played a grumpy dwarf rogue in a The Fall of Plaguestone game, and we converted a PF1 hoembrew game to PF2 at around level 8 or 9. I was playing a witch in that game, although there were some homebrew modifications to make the PF1 concept for my character work for PF2, including the mythic mechanics. Both games fizzled out.

I have a healthy amount of PbPs from this board under my belt, and as such I'm both surprised that I haven't played with any of you before, and pleased that I get to play with new people!

X card stuff: I like to think that there's not a whole of things that bother me, but ultra-violence without purpose doesn't interest me. It has to serve the story. Romance and sex in a PbP is also not something I'm interested in for my PCs. If it's in the campaign, I'd prefer it to be implied or for it to happen between scenes.

I am new to the play by post format, and was wondering if anyone would be interested in forming a casual, short-form game to help me learn the basics. Would prefer PF1, PF2, or D&D5.

Hey DrunkenTurtle! GM Stargin sent us all a Private Message with a link to the thread where he's doing the character creation exercise. I was thinking that since you're new to these forums, you may not know about this feature.

At the top right corner of your screen, where it says "My Account," you may see a red dot next to that. The dot means that you have an unread Private Message. Hover over "My Account" to open the menu, and click "Private Messages."

That's for if you're viewing on a desktop browser. It's similar if you're on mobile, but I can't remember if a mobile browser has the red dot or not.

(Also, the Directors apparently didn't dig very far.)

Are you referring to the fact that they said the OotS planet is only the second planet the gods created? I wonder where they learned even that.

If I could find a way to take a nap WHILE taking a nap, I would. Like, napception or something. Man, that would be amazing...

If you ever have a lucid dream, have your dreaming self take a nap!

I used to have the same recurring lucid dream when I was a kid. I would be floating amongst the skyscrapers of a city at night. Pretty high up. I would look down and see the car lights moving around as they drove the street grid below. Most of the windows were dark, but occasionally I would see someone inside their apartment or working late at their office. The first couple times I was freaked out and tried my hardest to wake up. The only way I could do that was to have my dream-self reach up and push my eye lids closed. When they'd open again, I'd be lying awake in my bed.

Eventually, I thought to make myself fly around above the city looking into the different windows, but nothing interesting happened that I recall. I stopped having those dreams after a while, but I don't really remember how old I was.

I feel like the thought of clerics not acknowledging other gods is a bleed over of our real-world religions. We have numerous religions claiming to have only one deity, and the recognition of other deities is heretical. However, Golarion has multiple deities totally cool with each other, and there's usually observable proof of some sort that deities other than the one you worship influence the world. Unless they are a known enemy to your clergy, I think that saying some sort of respectful prayer is appropriate.

Also, I don't recall if this is accurate for Golarion or not, but plenty of D&D campaign worlds have allowed clerics that worship a pantheon instead of one particular god, and that's what they pray to for their divine spells. Those gods either didn't care if some of the worship is spread around or they didn't pay attention.

Use the abbey area map up top for your approach.

What is the black curved line that runs from the top left corner of the map to the bottom of the map? Is it a wall?

"Such a tragic fate for such a noble idea..." Elena says, surveying the extensive damage. "Who or what would have done this? And why? The shard being here? The Doomsday Door? A vendetta against the clergy of the remaining five gods?"

"By now, we've seen plenty of evidence that there are many beings who do not need much of a reason to create calamity to get what they want. Just as we do not value their causes, they do not value our deterrents. It is the way of things."

Axton listens to Elena's strategy for clearing the area and agrees.

"Unless we feel like getting creative, we'll probably need to pass through the gate in that wall. Let's not be taken by surprise."

Never saw that movie, but that disco beat is a catchy opening.

Not much planned this weekend, just a couple of hangouts with friends.

I took a two hour mid-day nap after lunch today. Don't be jealous.

Having cast many spells recently, Niadroub Kliip decides to dig out the old crossbow. He loads it with a +1 flaming bolt. Instead of firing at one of the first targets he sees, he's going to trust the three melee murder machines for now.

Waffles uses his greater invisibility ability to turn invisible, greatly.

"we go, slow and quiet, that way. If one of them sees us, you RUN that way, and we fight" she points to the children for RUN and her and Vibenia for fight.

Waffles pipes up:

"I'll stay with you to show you where to go if these two need to fight! What an adventure! (For us; I bet you're terrified!)"

Hi Haladir! Hi folks!

I'm board-gaming with friends tonight. The host sent out a video explaining how to play the game... and spending 16 minutes watching a pasty nerd's* YouTube video to learn a resource-management game inspired by a fishing village in Norway is not really how I want to spend my time. I mean, I get that getting people prepped so that the gaming can start sooner is a laudable goal, but these resource-management games are so technical and the theme isn't very engaging. Further, I'm probably only ever going to play this game once in my life (because I don't get to see this friend very often and he trades and acquires board games like they're baseball cards), and as I get older, it gets harder and harder to focus on things I don't care about.

* (I'm a hypocrite; I know.)

Sorry for the griping. At least I get to hang out with friends tonight.

Other than that, both kids have stuff going on this weekend, so we'll work the rest of the weekend around that. No other hard plans, though.

I can not find any contact info for Rob McCaleb

That's pretty interesting considering one of the links on the site you linked to is called "resume." But there's no apparent way to contact him.

A few options, but I don't know which ones will be helpful.

PathfinderWiki.com has a Google Maps version of Golarion.

Here's an earilier version that used to be used by PathfinderWiki.com.

And the guy who created that earlier version has a few other Golarion globe models that might be useful.

Mmm... nap...

There's nothing better

My son has a squash tournament on Sunday, but my wife and I have been so busy at our respective jobs this past week, that nothing else is planned. We're doing the chores we have to do, but lazing about the rest of the weekend.

Sorry to hear about your bowels, Cal!

@Everyone On the current story/scene, I understand that we're going to go to the temple and stop the presumed apocalypse from happening. As, if we don't, the adventure ends and here we have a clear reason to intervene with someone opening the door. The next shard is just coincedentally (?) there too. However... I do wonder, what real reason do we have to continue searching for the shards when we know from the prophecy that doing so greatly endangers the entire region if not the world?

Like, what is our in-character excuse as good/good-ish characters to ignore this and put essentially Sheila's curiosity and the prestige of the local lodge over the lives of an unknown number of innocents who will die because of it? That we want to make sure it doesn't fall into worse hands? That we are somehow convinced that we can stop this up to now eerily accurate prophecy from happening?

I know with the dungeon-crawler heavy aspect of this AP, character development isn't that much at the forefront and there isn't much screentime for it too. But I find I am struggling a bit to write Elena in such a way that she just takes it all in stride.

I think DBH has mentioned a couple times about how this AP assumes the PCs are a bunch of treasure-hunting murder hobos (aka "Pathfinders"), and as such, the story just assumes we'll keep riding this train. A lot of these earlier APs have this same issue (and then another issue, where they just assume that the murder hobos will suddenly rise up against a discovered threat to the greater good). I can see many traditional heroic PCs having trouble finding a roleplaying motivation..

I wrote Axton's motivations as pretty shallow, and that's helped me justify his willingness to go with the flow as we move from Shard to Shard. His fascination with Thassilonian magic is sufficient motivation for him to hunt the Shattered Star. What was Elena's motivation for joining the Pathfinders? I can't tell from her background.

After stowing his gifted gloves away while he eats, Rowan's snout scrunches in confusion at Squakowk's revelation.

"Delrany Manor? Where is that? I thought when we left here tomorrow is when the expedition starts. Honestly, I'm dying to know what secret knowledge the High Seer will reveal."

@Axton Thanks for the added tab. If Axton already used the tome, was that included in his stat retrain to arcanist? 19 int feels a bit low if it includes the +2 inherent bonus from the tome.

It does not. When I converted from sorcerer to arcanist, I felt like it was to blatant to go from an ultra-high charisma to an ultra-high intelligence when in my mind I was supposed to be merging the two. But keep in mind that four points of that Charisma is from Axton's headband, which will get converted to Intelligence when I buy a new headband.

I'll add the Intelligence from the Tome when I add the Intelligence from the new headband at the same time since it will affect Axton's skills so much, and I'd rather do them together.

Speaking of which... DBH, we weren't supposed to level up at the end of this adventure were we?

And Sure, Elena would happily take the int tome third, helps out her knowledge skills and spellcraft nicely.

It seemed to me from earlier conversation that we had already decided you would be next.

Ugh. It never ends, just figuring out dinner every night forever.

I feel that deep in my bones. One of my kids is a picky eater, and few things are enjoyable unless the meals are ultra-carby.

"Some magical assistance, and I'll be--"

Axton runs out of breath and has to pause for a moment before continuing.

"...right as rain."

Intrepid makes a series of squeaks directed at the mustachioed arcanist, causing Axton to respond, "I'm not really sure why 'rain' fits into a right/wrong dichotomy. And yes, I'm aware of my curse's odor, and I'm sorry that you don't like it. It's not like I've ever received compliments on the 'like rat, but somehow burning' smell that hangs around some times."

Went to see my regular doc today. He said if I hadn't gone into the hospital the day I did I would have probably died. My kidneys were evidently a lot closer to shutting down than I was told. The sepsis, while just beginning, was worse than I was told. I live on out of spite.

Cripes!

I echo what Orthos said!

My eyes were glued to the timer on the wall before we would scramble out as fast as we could after 30 seconds, but a couple of the guys there stayed in the full three minutes.

There were two of them. One was 45° F, and the "warm" one was 50° F.

Axton Vendian wrote:

Thanks, but I'm not sure this is crucial. Axton doesn't take a lot of damage (I say, now jinxing myself), so I think that this can hold until we get backt o Kaer Maga and we can do a remove curse spell somehow.

It would have been funnier if you were still a Sorcerer and relied on your charisma. :)

It would have made his mustache fall out.

Eye cucumbers? Nope
Face salad? Ew.
Cold plunge? Yes, unfortunately.
Hot tub? Yes.
Sauna? Yes.
Steam? Nope. It's an infrared light sauna, apparently.

So the cycle was: a quick rinse-off shower, 30 seconds to 3 minutes in the cold plunge, 5 minutes in the hot tub, and then 12 to 15 minutes in the sauna. Go through that cycle three times, and then finish off with one last dip in the cold plunge.

It was interesting, and I would try it again. Leaving, I felt weirdly relaxed and energized at the same time.

My wife was gifted a visit to a sauna for Christmas. She finally decided to call up and book an appointment, only to discover that she was gifted a sauna visit for two.

So, I'm going to a sauna with my wife this weekend. I'm not entirely sure what to expect.

"It's been thousands of years, Elathras. Of this treatment. Surely, they're dead."

"And yes, a scroll of plane shift will take us back to Golarion, but it is unlikely to take us back to Kaer Maga. If we can leave this castle without further encounter, I expect the only obstacle we have to face is the rot grubs surrounding the menhir.

"So... fireball," Axton smirks.

When everyone is comfortable with him doing so, Axton uses mage hand to try to bring the Shard down.

Looking towards Axton, he points towards the west asking, "Is the shard that direction? We've dealt with the rider, are there any other antiquities we should collect for the Pathfinders before we get the shard and get out of here?"

Axton thinks for a moment before answering. "I don't know of any, but Maligast doesn't know much about the rooms beyond those doors."

Axton is pointing to the double doors that lead to C16.

"The Dark Rider's Naming Pool is there, which he used to identify his next victims in some manner. There are machines that Maligast doesn't know the purpose of, and there's a further room that Maligast has never entered that presumably contains the Shard.

"With so many unknowns about what we face, it feels prudent to me to nullify the Nuckelavee," here Axton points back to a room that they've already passed (C9), "so they don't come up behind us in case we're dealing with some further threat. The Nuckelavee and the Dark Rider had some sort of romantic relationship. They will be very cross when they see the Dark Rider's remains."

Since Cal is out of commission, I'll go ahead and ask:

Anything -- gaming-related or not -- going on with you folks this weekend?

Quib's working on his tan, it seems. The main thing for me this weekend is to maybe finally get the last of the Christmas decorations put away. They're not still up, but they're not put away, either.

I try not to use Facebook anymore, but I became Friends™ with DungeonmasterCal two weeks ago. (And thank you so much Facebook for sending me an email every frickin' day urging me to go see what memes Cal is sharing.) I noticed Cal hadn't posted his usual "It's Friday, what's going on?!" post in the So What's the Plan, Stan thread, so I held my nose and checked out his Facebook page. (I'm holding my nose because it's Facebook, not because it's Cal's page.)

It turns out that Cal went to the ER yesterday. I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but I think his head is being looked at because he fell. He has a couple other things going on that the doctors are treating. It seems like he'll be released soon, but he's offline for now until he gets out.

Just wanted to let people know. Swift recovery, Cal!

Waffles would certainly appreciate your worry, but let's see what DBH says to what I brought up in the Discussion thread, first.

Earlier

As the group left the room with the rider, Elena knelt by the corpse of the shadow mastiff, once a summon from nirvana. Presumably, somehow, its soul had been corrupted and destroyed rather than returning to its home plane. "I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry..."

Axton stands a respectful distance from Elena.

"If it's any consolation, when an outsider dies, its believed that its soul becomes quintessence and returns to the fabric of the Outer Planes. Eventually it will take part in reincarnation. This soul was not returned to some shadowy evil realm like you may be fearing."

That's up to you. Whatever makes sense for the story. If you're not sure if it makes sense, do it anyway. Maybe Squakowk was running late, and makes a big scene just as the Abbot is about to speak. Maybe they've been there all along, and you just post as such.

It's basically however you want it, so long as it's not a gross impediment to someone else's enjoyment of their role-playing.

This is what I envision

*swoon*

First the Dire Collar on Dusk, and now the negate aroma spell. Vibenia's so cool.

I didn't like not having a picture for this alias, so I found this one that's appropriate for an Invisible Man, even if Benjamin doesn't wear a domino mask.

Vibenia finds Niadroub's horse friendly and affectionate, giving her no problems as she returns it to the stables. :)

That flea-bitten sonofa...

Also there are some encounter areas around Armag's tomb. Do you wish to deal with them? Monster encounters and a little loot

If the loot is interesting, I'm for doing those encounters.

Session Zero: I'm not vehemently opposed to anything, but if the campaign devolves too much into gore, violence porn, or too many overtly sexual situations, my interest will most likely wane. If it works to enhance the story, fine; if it becomes the story, not so much.

As far as the Invisible Man's ability to be in certain compromising situations, that's why I deliberately made him as someone trying to karmaically correct the ignoble actions of past Invisible Men.

I'm not really against romance involving my PC, but I won't seek it out, and I prefer it remain mostly between panels.

Finally, a couple notes for the GM:

1) Can we get a Gameplay thread up so that we do the ol' dot-and-delete so that this thread appears on my campaign tab?

2) Also, since this is a Universal Monsters campaign, I've recently learned that Cocaine Bear is a Universal Studios movie. I'm just going to drop that tidbit out here and see what happens.

Andostre wrote:

I found you and sent you a message! I didn't see an Add Friend button or anything. I don't use Facebook at all, but if that ever changes, we're Friends™ now.

Please resend it, or pm me your FB link. It didn't show up on my end.

Or, Here's mine. I ain't skeert to post it.

Calvin N. Roach

The Add Friend button showed up this time. Sent a request. I'm Jeff H.

Feel better soon, quib! Avenging seems hard.

Niadroub Kliip’s unkempt beard is blown up into his face as he turns around to look for the sound of the voice that addressed him. As he releases the reins of his horse to clear his sight, said horse — who seems to have been waiting for this moment — bucks and sidesteps, causing the arcanist to exclaim unintelligible curses and tumble to the ground. A small faerie dragon takes flight from Niadroub Kliip’s descending shoulder, trailing glitter and tittering laughter.

As the Grand Magister of the Republic of the Kamelands regains his feet and considers numerous violent retributions towards his horse, he notices the halfling.

”Sootskels? Thet was oos.”

Waffles, the aforementioned faerie dragon, alights on the saddle of the nearby treacherous horse.

”Sootscales? Who are they? It doesn’t sound like a halfling name!”

Welcome, everyone!

If you're okay with it, I'll hold off on selecting a race so that I can choose one that hasn't already selected. It seems like having the broadest variety of races fits with your premise.

I'll get to work finishing up my hedgehog staff magus!

Congratulations on your promotion! Condolences to your free time and peace of mind!

Thanks, guys!

I turn 49 on Sunday, so we're getting together for that, and any presents leftover from Christmas and my son's birthday (Dec 28) that didn't get given out because we were travelling.

THAT'S why we haven't taken our Christmas tree down; because we were waiting for this weekend. Promise! It's not because we've been procrastinating.

But since it's my birthday, I get to choose the dinner. I'm thinking fajitas.

and Androste's Magus (maybe be the party's Badger rep?)

If you're okay with it, I'll hold off on selecting a race so that I can choose one that hasn't already selected. It seems like having the broadest variety of races fits with your premise.