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Still in the throes of rage, Sko immediately dives underwater and looks for the nearest enemy (he's already used totemic transformation to give himself natural swim and underwater breathing; it lasts 2 minutes which I'm assuming will be long enough).
Whatever the closest thing to him that is clearly a not-friend, he'll double-move to and get ready to attack (I'm assuming Fleet and Fast Movement don't kick in here even though, right now, Swim is a natural movement mode for me).
I have a question about how the Critical Hit deck works. The scimitar/rapier does low damage and has a low critical multiplier, but crits frequently. The battle axe does decent damage and has a good crit modifier, but crits infrequently. The heavy pick does low damage and has a great crit modifier, but crits infrequently. How does the deck distinguish between weapons of differing critical hit capabilities?
Potential Fumble
Hit Wow, that's some hideous rolling. Despite the paltry damage I'm going to spend a Hero Point to reroll the d20 attack.
AC: 11
I'll move to and take the AoO. I'm going to have to do it at some point. Won't be able to attack until next round though. Sko's eyes go blank and his vision narrows. With no thought for safety he splashes next to the whale. Current AC: 11 (lowered from Rage)
If I can't do that, I'll use Totemic Transformation as a standard action to give myself Swim movement and underwater breathing. Then, as a free action, I'll Rage and move (action) to .
I'm fine with healing Variel as Sko's action.
FYI: no power at home or work; phone almost dead.
I have no problems with staying with just six. That's still a good sized party and we avoid having to suspend our disbelief about why we're including a seventh person we barely know in all our plans. But if the DM has a player he really likes I'm willing to go along with it.
Sko emerges from the water a bit bloodied and resumes human form. "In the water, there's no way we can be stealthy enough to avoid detction from aquatic creatures. If there are other such chambers, we may have to enter them assuming the worst." After he's healed, "Thanks, that was a vicious beast."
AC: 15
Due to the wonkiness of the boards this week I only just saw this. Sorry to see you go, your character was a lot of fun and I hope you get the chance to game again.
Sko continues to tear into the beast (I beleive I get flanking from the dolphin in H6).
Infuriated at the smell of his own blood Sko tries to rend and tear some more.
Current HP: 9/30
Low roll misses (I always do low roll misses since in PF high is good and low is bad):
Biting into the foul creature, Sko realizes that this aberration is no ordinary creature of the sea. This only increases his desire to rend it into tiny peices.
Sko swims to the source of the creature smell and attacks.
Sko curses as Variel disappears. "I'll see what I can do; if we're lucky there's only the one" Sko says right before leaping into the water and taking Shark Form. If there is more than one, I'm probably dead.
Sko's nose has been pressed up against the corpses neck and his head still felt a bit woozy. Turning to Variel, "That was foul but nothing that a few minutes a fresh air won't cure." Sko's a bit startled to see Seijiro's transformation but he tries not to show it. "I've never heard of kitsune before but I have heard tales of people who could shapeshift that weren't were creatures. Fascinating." "Flynn's plan seems sound to me. I agree that there isn't much need to keep up the pretense of following Plugg. It will just be harder the longer we wait and we may never have an opportunity like this again."
Sko gags at the sudden wave of necrotic smell. Nevertheless, he muscles out of the corpses hold and brings his scythe swinging up.
While the smell is bad, it's no worse than the carrion of any other dead animal where the flies have blown maggots. Sko will follow Dhavaan's request by swinging his scythe and decapitating the corpse. This eliminates the need to cut down the body and should prove inconvinient should the body, however unlikely, happen to be undead. Sko will leave the searching of the body to Dhavaan but he will do a quick search of the rest of the lodge and stockade.
A month or older? Hmm... Not sure if the trap signifies anything of import Sko resumes his place at the rear. Today's spells: Orisons: Create Water, Purify Food & Drink, Guidance, Know Direction 1st lvl: Cure Light Wounds x3 Domain Spell: Obscuring Mist
During my watch shift:
As they continue to walk the trail, Sko stops and put a hand on a tree and gazes behind him just to double-check that nothing is following. Suddenly, his head starts to swim and his vision goes black. The water is cool against its skin. Though there is no light, the scent of thousands upon thousands of sharks swimming through unfathomable depths blots out almost everything else. The sharks all swim around another shark so immense that its scent vanishes both far ahead and far behind. This is as it should be though. All swim in one direction. The destination is unknowable but it is the right direction nevertheless. The swim continues for time unknowable for time means nothing here. Though there is no fear, there is discontent. Unintelligable whispers fill the minds of all; whispers filled with malicious and threatening intent. The source of the whispers hates the unearthly sized shark and the thousands upon thousands who swim around it. The whispers slowly become understandable but then the threat is among them. The Shark has been attacked and blood is in the water. All thoughts vanish as the sharks rush to tear and rend at this threat, a threat the whispers call Dagon... Sko snaps back to himself. He experiences a moment of vertigo before shaking his head and righting himself. He turns back up the trail following the rest of the group.
I rolled last level so that's what I'll keep doing. I'm taking a dip into Barbarian this level. Techinically, he's taking the Beast Totem archetype but that's just a fluff archetype, no abilities are replaced.
+1 to BAB
Paizo's forums are surprisingly bare bones. Back in 2000, I went to Eric Noah's 3.0 D&D Webpage, which would later become EnWorld, a lot and even back then you could post in multiple colors and never had to type in the BBCode by yourself. They're fairly standard web features and have been for over a decade; why Paizo doesn't support them is strange and I was suprised by it when I first came here. I had asked on the forums a couple years back why these features weren't provided but never got anyone official to respond.
Curious how two ghouls ended up on this out of the way island. Well, no matter; they're dead now.
It would be nice if the board would let us post in multiple colors. That way, anything that provides buff or debuff (especially if it affects multiple people) could be posted in, say, red. That way no one would miss it. Unfortunately, the boards don't let us do that. In fact, Paizo is the only site I know that makes you type in the BBCode manually. I've been playing since OD&D and, like it or hate it, hit points have always been a heavy abstraction. Especially as you go up in level, losing hit points doesn't necessarily reflect physical damage. It just doesn't make sense that you can hit an unarmored guy 10 times with a mace and he's still up and fighting with no difficulty. An enemy with 1 hp can attack you just as effectively as one with 90 hp. That's why I typically ignore descriptive conditions like, "He's on his last legs," unless there's a specific mechanic attached to it. If I forget a bonus and the game moves on I would prefer to just say, "Oops," and keep going rather than try to retroactively apply it and deal with the cascading changes that need to be applied to every post thereafter.
I have no problems with making a post when I check the boards even if I'm not doing anything specific.
Looking over the assorted items. "Plugg would probably give us the cat if we brought back perfume. As for this," Sko picks up the wedding dress and hands it to Rain, "I think you'd look far better in this than I would."
Sko rushes up to the ghoul (Move action straight ahead) and takes a swing with his scythe.
The new maps certainly have a nice visual appeal. As long as it's clear whether something is difficult terrain and whatnot I don't see any problem.
Sko hurries out as the ghouls burst forth. He'll double move (his speed is 35' due to his Fleet trait) and he should be able to make it to the square that's in the column of the "O" in Whore and the row above where the ghouls currently are.
"Hm. Looks like something chewed on the bones to get at the meat; that's why they seem so clean. Some bizarre form of totem worship perhaps? That village was deserted longer than I've been alive. It's possible that whatever happened here happened a long time ago...though that doesn't mean other things haven't happened more recently." This island seems fairly out of the way. A good place to stash stuff or for unpleasant creatures to live. Or it's just a island full of nothing.
Sko shrugs. "We have two days and this island does not seem very large. I doubt a few minutes here or there will make much difference. With luck, we'll be able to see anything of importance from higher ground."
Dhavaan was evil. You had your chance and you blew it. Way to make us all look bad. ;)
Sko nods at Rain's request that he take the rear. He's actually a fairly decent tracker on sea or land but he's fine deferring to the others here. He's wearing his armor and has his scythe resting on his shoulder. As they move, he focuses mostly on whats to the sides and behind them but isn't above double-checking the trackers up front to make sure they don't miss anything.
Looking at the tracks, Sko mutters, "Grindylows..." to no one in particular.
We don't really need a master & commander of the group but we do need one for whatever crew we end up with. The crew needs someone to look at as a clear authority figure even if that isn't the person doing the actual piloting (having multiple people able to pilot I think would be a good thing, however). Having some skill overlap is a good thing; especially in this AP which has a more vicious theme to it. PC's being PC's, we can never be certain what might happen to one of us. Personally, I thought of Sko as sort of filling the position that Plugg kind of/sort of filled. The crew should feel intimidated by someone, just to keep them honest if nothing else, and being able to turn into a sailor's nightmare is fairly intimdating. I'm fairly open to anything however.
"I agree that we will need to act sooner rather than later. I'd rather we be the ones to initiate the fight rather than Plugg and I have no desire to fight someone willing to defy Harrigan while in or near a port he considers friendly." "I have no problems with Rain being Captain but i'd like to point out that when we mutiny, we'll be pirates ourselves. Assuming success on our part, if we try to fill out our crew, something this ship needs, that crew is likely to be pirates or at least people with that mindset. However we decide to carry ourselves after this, being a pirate requires a certain degree of ruthlessness; if it didn't we wouldn't be discussing mutiny right now. If we're going to control a ship and keep that control, someone is going to have to be willing to make hard decisions." "I do still have the Reefclaw sacs, if they haven't deteriorated, but that isn't normally an ingested poison. I think a very strong dose would be needed to kill; though killing isn't necessary for poison to be effective."
Assuming something doesn't happen beforehand, Sko will chat briefly with the Rahadoumi using the Osiriani tongue. He's not trying to influence them, just trying to make them feel less like strangers by speaking in their native language. Hopefully, that will make them feel more at ease if we do need to influence them. He'll then start to head for the galley and see what this tub has in the way of food.
Sko shakes his head. "It is not a matter of being slighted. I feel that I am not expressing myself properly; something I admit that I am prone to." "It seems to me that two issues have been brought up but are being considered as one. In doing so, I feel both have been oversimplified. I have already spoken as to why I want none of the Captain's treasure. However, if we are going judge each other and use that as a basis for merit, I simply ask that it always be done the same and I will act accordingly. I don't want to guess at how I'm being evaluated based on an ever-changing set of conditions."
Sko shrugs. "You misunderstand. I do not care for the Captain's baubles because I am not free to use them in any meaningful manner. Does anyone here really think the Captain gave out anything that he considers valuable? The man ate a person's heart to heal himself. He gives out treasure for the same reason he gives out rum, to keep the crew docile. When I have the freedom to act the perhaps I will care more about what I carry. I have trouble believing that freedom will come about from anything the Captain gives us." "I have no problem with judging each others merits. But if we are going to do so, I simply wish the same standards to be applied each time. If we are to judge each other based on the amount of blood we spilled, and I have no problem with that at all, then let it be decided now."
"An interesting discussion," Sko interjects. "How do you measure a person's worth in battle? By how much blood they drew? By the number of killing blows? By the battle healing given out? As I said, an interesting discussion." "Personally, I care nothing for the Captain's "gifts". He gives them out as one would a bone to a dog who has bitten where he was told. Are we less prisoners than we were before because he has patted our heads and scratched behind our ears?" Divide such "treasures" however you would. But rest assured that if my efforts are to be so casually dismissed then I will make certain to judge everyone by the same accord in the future."
Sko frowns as Plugg calls their names and wonders at his selecting of them. With only a skeleton crew on the other ship Plugg and Scourge can't afford to mistreat anyone. He can't imagine what game Plugg might be playing here but his distrust of the man makes him assume he's up to something.
Sko ignores the arguement and wonders if it wouldn't have been more of a kindness to let the woman die. Seeing the Captain heal himself by eating the heart was surprising to say the least. He had never seen that kind of blood magic before. The fate in store for this woman is likely a gruesome one.
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