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Excellent show benevolent dictator! Thanks for running this encounter. This was fun and simple, makes me think I might want to try me hand at running one.
"Good doing business with all of you. I agree to giving Yvanesh the scrolls, and I shall take the remaining potions, since I can asses them beforehand, in case Fumbles.... fumbled in making them. Also, if any of you have alchemical needs look me up. I always offer a 25% discount for fellow adventurers."
"Bah, silly dwarf. Closing that portal was the best way to save our skins, and our payday. Xarol moves over to Yvanesh. "I poured a potion down his throat, he should be fine."
Please add Xarol to the list.
"Killing the summons makes the portal weaker, keep at it, I'm going to try something!" Xarol pulls one of his few remaining bombs and chucks it towards the still open portal.
Xarol snarles in pain at the bite. "Fumbles, get clear now!" he calls and takes a 5 foot step back to E7 and lobs another bomb near the rat.
Xarol realizes that there might be more enemies forthcoming "We have to guard Fumbles, or we won't get paid!" He moves to F7 and then spends a standard action giving a potion of cure light wounds to fumbles.
"Mangy mutts, burn!" Xarol cries, and flings another cylinder of odd looking liquid.
It's the hyenas turn...
Man the dice really hate us all.
Life happens, no sweat.
Xarol curses "Why does it never go smoothly!" He mixes two vials together and then heaves it next to the hyenas.
"Burn foul beasts!"
Aww darn, one higher on the Init and I'd be able to bomb the hyenas in a group. Question: how strict are we going to be with initiative? Exact order, before and after enemies, or just post in general?
Woohoo encounter start!
"Oh dear, I had SO hoped for a simple job, for a change." Xarol hurriedly pulls out a flask and downs it's contents.
So close, but so far!
Real Life happens all the time. Hope everybody is doing okay.
Really like the builds up so far! I had actually arrived at virtually an identical build for Xarol here as your mad bomber build. Have you made any necromancers yet?
Please be so kind as to add my name to the waiting list.
I'd take a look at the Guide to the buffer bard. That is the most ludicrously effective assisting/buffing character I've yet seen in pathfinder. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b1hq_xhfCFjtAyjJMKrdtxRbtDEC1kNm6ZYfvS6 HqIw/edit?pli=1 If you're more interested in the aid another action specifically there are some prestige classes and class features that boost that, as well as some items. Combine those with bodyguard or some other way of generating actions and you can really help your allies.
Wait, necromancy is legal in society play? I didn't know that, that could make for fun times. How well does that work with alchemical zombies disallowed?
On the bomb damage, I hadn't actually thought about the utility side. Your status effect bombs and bombs that duplicate spells will still have those effects go off just fine!
That's an interesting approach. The bomb hit from reanimator really hurts, but I suppose that is a valid option, and it's definitely better than the discovery. Though the idea of animating bloody skeletons and implanting them with boneshard bombs is pretty awesome!
So I've been wanting to make an alchemist with lots of alchemical zombies. I looked over Brewer's excellent necromancy guide, but without access to desecrate or reasonable access to animate dead (maybe a samsaran could work around that?) it seems really hard. Discoveries can get you a basic zombie, and boneshard bombs can create regular skeletons... but those aren't exactly all that impressive. That and the cost to implant bombs in your creations is absolutely absurd, on top of destroying your expensive pets. Am I missing something?
In my defense we had bad storms and I lost power two days ago and didn't get it back until last night.
Xarol sits quietly having listened to this entire frenetic exchange. He shakes his head and announces "Fine, Fine, we have a new comrade, woo. Good to meet you. Now, I am off to bed." "
Best of luck!
"Sputnikk and I are leaving, you all have obviously gone mad."
"Why are you all being so unreasonable about this? There are still many other areas that we need to explore."
"Firebeard what are you talking about? There's nothing interesting down there, let's go now."
Xarol turns around and joins the others. "I agree, there is nothing interesting down there. Let's go back and explore a different area." Xarol makes a note on the map, writing "nothing interesting" at this corridor next to his note about magic.
Xarol considers their plan and says "I see no downsides there. Let me mark this new passage on the corridor and make a note to myself. "
"So... what's going on with everyone here? What magic is afoot?"
Man! Why did I not see this link sooner, shoot!
"It is indeed a sad day when Maximus is the least of us." Chimes in Xarol, with a nudge to Sputnik.
Xarol nods in agreement with Sputnik. He mutters something about "Stupid monkeys and their barrels."
"Of course we proceed on! Those gnolls must have been here for a reason."
Yeah, it was kind of macabre.
Xarol moves forward 30 feet and chucks a bomb at gnoll 7 (hoping to hit 8 as well with the blast damage of 9, DC 17) before they can finish running away. ,
Xarol sees his comrades laying the gnolls low after the explosion and cackles. "Haha, explosions make everything better!
Round 3 action Xarol moves up behind Stonz and lobs a bomb onto hobgoblin #2. ,
So are the hobgoblins up now?
Xarol moves 20 feet further (in a straight line to the narrow point), and drinks a cognatogen. "Careful, hold the line there, don't let them swarm us all!" He calls to min and Fire beard. "I just need the Gnolls to move up five more feet..."
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