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[Ragadolf]

HM. Is the DM being nice? IS he giving us an 'easy' way to get what we need? I usually ALWAYS look a gift horse in the mouth, especially if it's from a GM. (Because those usually have strings attached,... sometimes to alarm bells.)

And unless I'm playing a rogue, I rarely consider taking things, but Akallabeth is thinking this is WAY too easy! No conflict, no confrontation, just take it and pay the Beefy Barkeep, get the info, and blow this joint!

I have to admit he's thinking about it!

[Logos]

you looking for anything? Hes a slightly balding just middle age none to clean middle age dublet and hose wearer.

he also smells, his hair is dark and you can't see his eyes as they are shut

[Lucienne]

Is he armed? Are there any scars or calluses on his hands that would indicate his profession? Is there some animal crawling around inside the pouch?

[Logos]

He is unarmed, his hands are dank and dirty and callosed and you can't tell much more than that, they look like hands that do medium work. the coin purse is not moving.

was their any other questions?

[Logos]

just another note, if your character goes insane, it is NPCdom for that character. mmmm kay.

[Ragadolf]

I have no plans for Akallabeth to go insane,... (of course, do we ever PLAN for that?)
He's just having,... issues. He's seriously questioning whether or not his (moderately decent) morals are worth it when every time he obeys them they end up in another version of crazy-ville.
He's also wondering how much he's really willing to sacrifice to do in the Nemesis, who apparently has NO morals whatsoever.

Just trying to RP it out. I'll try not to drag it out so much,... (sorry) ;P

[Logos]

well just try not to make it seem like the rest of teh party has no choice but to tie you up and leave you behind. Its why im leary of crazy or half crazy Pc's because I don't think anyone in their right mind would adventure with them, and this game isn't called "dungeons and my secret dementia"

run pig piggy piggy pig pig

[Ragadolf]

Lol!

"Heeeeere Sooooey! Sooooey! Soooey!"

[Logos]

lol squared

LoL
oLo
LoL

[Logos]

I asked before, and now I guess we really need to know: many of our characters were still injured from the fight earlier in Sharn. Did getting eaten alive and regurgitated by the Cheshire Beasts heal anybody?

The Answer is no.

Some other back answers I think i forgot (Thanks for reminder)

Kegi's Search result 13 + 5 = 18 - The Shelfs are bare except for a handful of dried flowers and a small stone statue of what apears to be a castle, perhaps even castle stratos, No exit is visable of the castle {No Drawbridge, sally gates, or anything like that }

Maddocks Knowledge the planes 13, Failure due to lack of info

(same result as luciennes much higher 28)

I don't see any other checks that I have missed in the last few pages I or OO chaaracter. if i missed something please respond and ask again. (I loose thigns sometimes)

[Chris Mortika]

Things are pretty quiet over there. Are we waiting for Maddock? Or are the NPCs going next?

[Chris Mortika]

Well, so much for quiet.

[Logos]

I'm mulling over what to do about maddock, second big absence in a not so long time, thinking that unless he can recommit to the once per workday cycle I'm going to stasis his character until he can (I save the embaressing IC deaths for people who annoy me and belittle me in the ooc, so nothing extreme, but it is annoying, and makes things harder to calculate on my end.

Also you can use action points on saves, so all of those self justifying "I can't possibly make that save" people feel free to add an action point if it would have made a difference before.

Also Lol @ Romulus, nice knowing that behind that infernal characterization their is a tiny chicken hearted child. 50xp

Next Combat Round is coming soon, get in your posts.

Logos

[Romulus]

Logos wrote:

Also Lol @ Romulus, nice knowing that behind that infernal characterization their is a tiny chicken hearted child. 50xp

Next Combat Round is coming soon, get in your posts.

Logos

No excuses for wetting my pants. You guys won't allow me to forget this, aren't you? LOL :D

[Logos]

And Just for the record, I didn't count the shaken against anyone's AC last round, but will next round so sort out if your going to use an action point or not before then.

but yes, your welcome for the reminder

and no romulous were not going to let you forget it.

Logos

[Logos]

next round of combat up,

also Maddack has been suspended, its been like two more weeks, the character will stay suspended until i hear back from evil with a confirmation about being able to do that daily or something close to it, thing. I'm not harping (or at least im trying not to) but it really can drag down momentum and story when one character is looking off into space for weeks (and pages) at a time. If you (evil in this case) cannot do that whole frequentish posting thing, im gonna have to give you a warm handshake and best wishes until you can.

anyway back to my regularly schedualed TPK.

Hahahah, I was told in my game i play in, that GM's don't kill characters, players do. I'm not quite sure i believe it.

[Romulus]

Alright! Finally reached 3rd level. Can I update my character sheet?

For Logos:

Spoiler:

With the recent behavior of Romulus, I think there is a possibility that he is repressing certain embarassing details of how he survived the morning, i.e. he left his loves ones behind. Much to his regret. What you think?

[Chris Mortika]

Hey Logos,

When Lucienne approached the Fat Man, he attacked her, presumably with a delayed action. He attacked again before she could act.

Are the bad guys hasted? Or is he high enough level to get multiple iterative attacks?

This isn't a complaint. I'm just trying to figure out what Lucienne can tell about the situation.

Oh, and Rom?

Logos gave us all a free level back on December 22nd, as a holiday present. You'll need to rest in order to gain spells, but you've been 3rd Level since mid-morning.

[Radavel]

Chris Mortika wrote:

Oh, and Rom?

Logos gave us all a free level back on December 22nd, as a holiday present. You'll need to rest in order to gain spells, but you've been 3rd Level since mid-morning.

My God... with all the things happening during the holidays I totally missed that post. Anyways, that moment of weakness makes Rom a bit more human, in my book and actually suggest a tragic piece of his past.

Let's roast the Fat Man.... :D

[Logos]

Your taking things a bit too much from your perspective.

If i had delayed an action, that only just went off before my turn in a round of combat, I still get my turn as usual (Ie the delayed action was from last round, and the next attack was from this round)

hope that clarifies, I don't beleive a iterative attack would have made a difference either way.

But yeah, Happy Holidays Rom, This is why you need to read the ooc thread. Happy Third Level Mate.

L:

[Radavel]

Thanks, Logos. BTW, I took Arcane Toughness as my 3rd level feat. :D

[Chris Mortika]

Logos, that's fine.

For what it's worth, I think you mean readied.

The SRD wrote:

You can ready a standard action, a move action, or a free action. To do so, specify the action you will take and the conditions under which you will take it. ... Your initiative result changes. For the rest of the encounter, your initiative result is the count on which you took the readied action, and you act immediately ahead of the character whose action triggered your readied action.

(If he'd delayed, rather than held a readied action, he'd have gone after Lucienne.)

[JSL]

Finally updated my stats to reflect level based adjustments in lieu of magical items, etc. I had been trying to ad hoc something b/c I've been really busy. So there will be some adjustments to my rolls starting now.

[Logos]

Chris you got me,

please take 100 xp for a genuine rules failing on my part, and the promise that the badguy your facing wont grow an extra arm to explain that odd attack he got. (and yes i did mean ready, didn't read the blurb closely enough, thought the readier returned to their original inititive, as apposed to the new one)

also for someone who asked in character im invisioning the combat as about a 40 foot diameter roughly centered on the mages, kegi, and the dandy, with lucienne 20ish feet to one side and aerianne 20ish feet to the other, with various dead bodies about and the thugs perhaps another 30 feet outside of that diamater.

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[Ragadolf]

I think I'm lost in the battle, WHat are we waiting for to finish this round? Who's left to post their action, Lucienne?

[Lucienne]

Ragadolf wrote:

I think I'm lost in the battle, WHat are we waiting for to finish this round? Who's left to post their action, Lucienne?

Nope. I hit the Fat Man with my mace. Once Aerienna takes her action, it's their turn.

[Logos]

i am posting now, time to pull out all the stops i guess.

Aerianna your post didn't seem to make sense with what else i had posted previously, I made due. Just wanted to make sure that it wasn't confusion on your part because their certainly was on mine and im not sure why. (it feels like you missed the part in your reading about 4 men going after you and attempting to trip you and roughing you up or whatnot. )

Congrats Foes Vanquished, XP gained.

duh duh duh duh dududuh

900 xp , and all the improvised shanks , Dull Halfling Daggers, and begworthy begging clothes you can strip of your defeated foes. The Fat man has a dirty dirty ripped and torn doublet a empty coin pouch and a forged letter of magic item inspection, the dandy has a rapier, a set of fine looking, if threadbare, clothing, and a belt with many pouched (you have to wait for him to die or give it to you for the dandy's belt and clothes of course) the rapier is on the ground.

Logos

[Ragadolf]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who lost my avatar photo! :D

[Arctaris]

Oh, yeah I did miss that post somehow. Sorry about the miscommunication there.

[Chris Mortika]

Back on Jan 7th, Logos wrote:

Well played everyone,

the knaves have impovised shanks and sackcloth clothing

the dandy is madly running away you can try to catch up if you please.

Did we get any experience for the initial knaves encounter?

[Logos]

I believe so , but i can double check.

Tripple checked: Yes you did

repost :The Dandy looks perplexed as the knaves descend upon each other, quickly with a little help from friend arrow and chum truncheon killing and maiming each other right out of the competition.

You all look around to see the Dandy running for high water away from you all (cackling madly about NEXT TIME!)

+100xp everyone, +100 Lucienne GG

ALSO , Kegi can i confirm you just pulled an arrow out of the Dandy. quick responce appreciated thanks.

[Chris Mortika]

Logos wrote:

I believe so , but i can double check.

Tripple checked: Yes you did

Excellent. Thank you.

[Chris Mortika]

So, I walked through both the discussion thread and the in-game thread, and wrote down experience points since we all became 3rd-Level.

Someone feel free to double-check my figures, but it looks like we've earned 100 + 1000 + 1000 + 900 = 3000 xp since then. Akallabeth, Romulus and Lucienne earned a little bit more, here and there.

So I think everyone (excepting Lucienne, because of her level adjustments) should be at 4th Level now.

[JSL]

Logos wrote:

ALSO , Kegi can i confirm you just pulled an arrow out of the Dandy. quick responce appreciated thanks.

I threatened to, but didn't actually.

[Logos]

That's why i asked, thank you.

Aerianna, the Rapier is wellmade (Masterwork), the daggers laying about are crap (-1 halfling daggers also known as -3 to attack, -1 to damage d3 19-20 x2).

kewl lets see you deal with this situation.

as for the level, congrats but please let this scene finish out before madly updating your character sheets.

[Radavel]

Chris Mortika wrote:

So, I walked through both the discussion thread and the in-game thread, and wrote down experience points since we all became 3rd-Level.

Someone feel free to double-check my figures, but it looks like we've earned 100 + 1000 + 1000 + 900 = 3000 xp since then. Akallabeth, Romulus and Lucienne earned a little bit more, here and there.

So I think everyone (excepting Lucienne, because of her level adjustments) should be at 4th Level now.

At level 4, I think my hp total less damage is negative one.

[Logos]

I'm asking that level up HP not be included ,as per my request not to level up until this scene is finished.

[Radavel]

Logos wrote:

I'm asking that level up HP not be included ,as per my request not to level up until this scene is finished.

Negative six without the level up. The level up mentioned in the spoiler in the IC thread refers to hitpoints gained for level three last December.

[Logos]

Ahh, I was confused, please keep the level 3 level up and not the level 4 level up hp.

Logos

To Dead PC's: please indicate whether you would like to continue with a new character, or if your finished with the game.

[JSL]

Players:

Spoiler:

Chris, I do hope you decide to continue in some fashion. I think you have really added alot to this campaign. It has certainly been your energy that has kept it going on the play side.

Others, could that have been avoided? Are we being too nice here? Should we just start kicking @ss and taking names and leave it up to Logos to kill us off if we are in over our heads? I for one have found my inability to estimate the challenge presented by our opponents challenging to say the least. And I think we are responding by running (or talking) when we should just be fighting and vice versa.

[Chris Mortika]

Logos wrote:

To Dead PC's: please indicate whether you would like to continue with a new character, or if your finished with the game.

Honestly, Logos, I feel frustrated, and not in any good way.

So, although I enjoyed playing Lucienne, and I'm sorry I don't get to continue with her, my heart really isn't into creating a new character. You guys have fun.

(Or maybe the Dandy is right; and when you get back to Sharn, Lucienne is waiting there for you. I can hope!)

If not, and when you loot her body, note that the wand of cure light wounds has 41 charges remaining. (Also, if not, and if Logos wants to know my ideas for Lucienne's backstory, drop me a note at c.mortika (at) gmail.com )

Oh, and this is my 500th post on the Paizo boards. Woo hoo.

P.S. And JSL, thanks for the kind words. You're a terrifically fun player. Hope to see you again, somewhere.

[Logos]

well thank you for your contributions up to now, and enjoy your 500th post.

[Radavel]

Chris, you're a great player and I'd rather not be preparing a eulogy for Lucienne. Lucienne's actions in the last battle really turned the tide, not to mention saving this sorry sorcerer's hide. I'd really miss Lucienne.

[Chris Mortika]

Radavel wrote:

Chris, you're a great player and I'd rather not be preparing a eulogy for Lucienne. Lucienne's actions in the last battle really turned the tide, not to mention saving this sorry sorcerer's hide. I'd really miss Lucienne.

Me too. (If you can figure some way to raise/animate her, I'd be happy to continue playing her.)

[Radavel]

Chris Mortika wrote:

Me too. (If you can figure some way to raise/animate her, I'd be happy to continue playing her.)

I'm thinking of raising funds for a raise dead, perhaps through some high-interest loans from disreputable lending institutions, i.e. loansharks. There is also the option of using the devices that Pennywise left us.

[Ragadolf]

Radavel wrote:

Chris Mortika wrote:

Me too. (If you can figure some way to raise/animate her, I'd be happy to continue playing her.)

I'm thinking of raising funds for a raise dead, perhaps through some high-interest loans from disreputable lending institutions, i.e. loansharks. There is also the option of using the devices that Pennywise left us.

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too, but I think that Lucienne made it pretty clear while speaking to our little undead housekeeper that she would prefer to not come back,... like that. ;)

But Sharn is still a big place, even under the current circumstances. I'm willing to bet that we could find SOMEone willing & able to 'Raise Dead' in exchange for a 'favor'.

[Chris Mortika]

Ragadolf wrote:

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too, but I think that Lucienne made it pretty clear while speaking to our little undead housekeeper that she would prefer to not come back,... like that. ;)

(Which would make for fun role-playing....)

[Arctaris]

JSL wrote:

Players:

** spoiler omitted **

Players

Spoiler:

I'm of the opinion that we should go with the ends justify the means theory. No more playing Mr (or Mrs) Nice Guy/Gal. Honestly I'm having a hard time holding back Aerianna's darker side sometimes.

Sorry to see Lucienne die Chris. She was a fun character and I wanted to see where you were taking her. Hopefully we can find some nice druid or a cleric.