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Post Post #600 (ISO) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 8:20 am

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I hope we can maybe do another RP session this week before our next session.
Heal up and you know, collect ourselves from all the trauma we witnessed.

I don't have a intended date/time.
I am going to be a bit busy this coming week I think.
Wednesday/Thursday kind of works for me for most times?

Let me know when you guys might be available.
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Post Post #601 (ISO) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 10:33 am

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So I'm definitely going to want my backpack if we do a RP session.
Namely for the bottle of wine I have in there.

We have a plan to recover it (and the other stuff we left behind), so maybe I can convince FG to let us try?
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Post Post #602 (ISO) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 10:37 am

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I mean here's the plan

You wear the ring of featherfall and climb back up the rope which should still be there
You can even take the climbing kit if you want

Maybe your stuff is there maybe it isn't (it's like wine and other food?)
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Post Post #603 (ISO) » Sun Apr 30, 2017 11:21 am

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Right.
Its nothing great but food, wine, and my second bedroll.

I mean there are better climbers but I'm faster/Hide/Silently/etc.
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Post Post #604 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 3:52 am

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Okay, so I'm genuinely worried about a TPK right now. I'm just gonna run my mouth, I guess.

Sigma, the person with the best chance of surviving this wreck so we don't all start at level 2 with no loot, is currently at 8 HP, and the only way to heal her is to spend a ton of wand charges + my one potion of RLD. I...think we kind of need to just eat this cost, and get more wands next time. In retrospect, Erwin and Fiona have enough UMD that we could just get an RLD wand at the next town, and I feel dumb for not having done this already. Oh well.

We are out of spells, Sigma's burned her healing devotion, almost everything daily is out. FakeGod seems very amused at the thought that we'd just rest now, and the other party didn't do it, but the other party nearly TPK'd and they probably had more resources than us, so it's hard to see a way out.

If nothing else, there's a woman with invisibility wandering around and we don't know if she's hostile or not, but if she is she can probably slit at least one throat without any trouble if we sleep. We could try to hole up and look for a door she'd have to open first to tip us off, but we are in a cave system and I am not sure we will find any doors. We could set up some ropes she'd have to pass through? My familiar can be awake for some of the watch to try to smell things coming, but he does need to sleep too.

We don't actually know for a fact that she's a threat, but aside from her and the nyctars we don't even know what's down here. Something nailed that nyctar down, and there was a transmutation aura on it to boot. Bleh.
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Post Post #605 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 5:28 am

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I don't see a scenario where we don't camp out in the cave landing for the night.

Sure FG and the experienced players have been like YOURE GOING TO CAMP AT THE BASE?!? but if we press on without spells/etc and we get into a fight (even if its not the fight that almost TPK'd the "experienced" team) we're going to have a hard time. I'm also wondering how much of the cave landing can be seen from the surface, since someone (a troll?) could technically look down and see someone if we're just standing around. Maybe it would be best to move over into a corner on the raised platform (the one I pointed out earlier) to avoid being seen and having another fight. Pressing on immediately is a bad idea given we're simply unprepared.

We can't climb back up unless we know the trolls are gone, and if we send someone up there (needs darkvision at night) and if there are trolls that person's in for a world of hurt given that they can smell us and are willing to pursue the party into the hole via jumping. Even if we send Merlot FG has said 1-2 trolls would follow after the rat down the hole, so we'd still need to be prepared for a fight, which would be easier since they'd fall down 100ft and be weakened, but they also just got fed above-ground. For the record, we also have the same problem if we go up during the day, with the only difference being we can see the trolls as opposed to fighting in the dark at night.

If we stay down here for the night, we regain spells and HP via sleep and the wand, but what WOULDN"T we recoup overnight? Besides Sigma's health. In my mind this basically determines if we press on in the cave or turn back to return to town to resupply/etc.

I think Rikadin is simply a neutral party who doesn't have any ill will towards us. She could have simply attacked us or had more trolls try and kill us but she seemed very disinterested in our existence and went her own way. Honestly, I think the biggest thing we lost out on was a guide who knows the cave tunnels down here, and if we don't press on immediately we likely won't catch up to her.
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Post Post #606 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 8:59 am

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[15:23] Telephone Cat: Can I ask if the flanking maneuver the trolls did was meaningful or just encounter design?
[15:55] FakeGod: meaningful; wild trolls would not coordinate themselves in a huge encircling wave after waiting for nightfall
[15:56] FakeGod: everything about that encounter just screams intelligent design and very unlike normal behaviors of trolls
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Post Post #607 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 9:51 am

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We will be playing in normal time slot this week!

Looking forward to it!

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Post Post #608 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 9:55 am

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Love the story so far FakeGod, you really made that Captain character feel alive.
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Post Post #609 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 10:45 am

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Yeah uh thanks for not eating Hellion when you had the chance.
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Post Post #610 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 11:33 am

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i really should have gotten a canvas so we could try to camouflage a sleeping area -_-
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Post Post #611 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 3:11 pm

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FakeGod wrote: FakeGod (18:35)
"We can do this" whirred Sigma as she turned and stopped a charging troll fully in its tracks. "Focus down the other one!" She yelled.


FakeGod (18:59)
As the enraged troll jumped down from the ledge, Hellion ducked and got out of the way, as Raia pulled out some flour and threw it at the beast. "Get back, you monster!" Raia yelled, as she motioned to Achan for the torch.


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"RAAAAWWRRRR?" the beast didn't understand why it was suddenly covered in strange white powdery substance. Its primitive brain may have eventually figured out its purpose, had it suddenly wasn't stressed with a new problem: fire.


FakeGod (19:01)
Achan tumbled under the troll's meaty fists and ended up behind it before igniting the flour. The troll yelped loudly as its most hated foe begin to burn away at its flesh. Its maddening scream was almost deafening.


FakeGod (19:02)
"Hurry!" Achan yelled, as he withdrew. Erwin stepped up. He knew that it was his turn to face the beast, but Fiona grabbed his arm. "Don't go, Erwin." she plead, "I can't lose you!"


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Erwin shook his head, and mumbled, "I can't lose you either." Erwin ran straight at the beast, knowing that it would try to swing his arms down to beat him to a pulp. Just when the blows came, he leapt into midair, right over the blows.


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The look of surprise came over the troll's face, as it blinked couple of times at Erwin and his blade as they made contact with its face. "DIE!" yelled Erwin as he stabbed the troll straight between the eyes. The troll's eyes rolled over, and the beast fell, with any attempt at regeneration being stopped by the flames.


FakeGod (19:06)
"Good work, guys! I knew you can do it-" congratulations were cut off as the troll Sigma was wrestling with finally gained an upper hand. It grabbed both of Sigma's arms and violently ripped them with a sickening crunch.


FakeGod (19:08)
Sigma's unmoving body collapsed near the rest of the party. "D- D- Don't wo- worry about m- me." stammered Sigma. "You ca- can do it! I- I believe in y- y-"


FakeGod (19:18)
"DAMAGE CRITICAL. SYSTEM SHUTDOWN." Sigma stood still.
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Post Post #612 (ISO) » Mon May 01, 2017 11:05 pm

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I like it
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Post Post #613 (ISO) » Wed May 03, 2017 6:39 am

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In post 600, Firebringer wrote:Wednesday/Thursday kind of works for me for most times?
I can make this work.
Tomorrow would be better for me, but I can make today work if we're doing the same time as last week.
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Post Post #614 (ISO) » Thu May 04, 2017 1:42 pm

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Post Post #615 (ISO) » Sat May 06, 2017 8:50 am

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Remember that we are playing at our usual time, at 7 AM PST.

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Post Post #616 (ISO) » Sat May 06, 2017 8:50 am

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I'll have my companion sheet here in a bit.
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Post Post #617 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 6:18 am

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you find a mwk shortbow, mithril chain shirt, Magic gloves, 890g, black onyx gem, MWK breastplate, a MWK light mace, and a potion of cure moderate wounds
Shortbow goes to Fiona, she should have had one instead of a crossbow anyway. Chain shirt should be Achan's. Gloves should be Achan's. Breastplate is pointless, light mace is pointless unless we need to get through bludgeoning DR.

The onyx is ominous--those are associated with necromancy. It's also ominous that Rikadin came down here yesterday and is already a ghoul--ghoul fever is fast, but it's not
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I asked Postie if I could take the ring of deflection, and she agreed. (There's another magic ring that we looted off the captain before, by the way, we should identify that if we can.) So...Postie should still have 19 AC, and I should have 17.

We should figure out what second level cleric spells can help here. Remove Dead is third level, unfortunately.

The CLW wand is almost out of charges, but Raia does have a few scrolls of it (and 2 scrolls of Protection From Evil).
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Post Post #618 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 6:22 am

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Post Post #619 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 6:36 am

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Oh, and since Fiona gets the shortbow and I am no longer 3 pounds away from encumbrance, I might as well take her crossbow.

I will still mostly TD unless I'm clear of danger, though.
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Post Post #620 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 6:48 am

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What happened to your weight that it's less now - the chainmail?

Did you note the thunderstone weighs a pound? I can give you my second one if you have room now in case we find more corrupted nyctars

If you guys are swapping out gear note it so we know what gear we're carrying
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Post Post #621 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 7:01 am

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Yeah, I bought a mithril chain shirt before we joined the expedition.

I've added the thunderstone.

There's a 1st level spell that delays the progression of a disease for 24 hours, buuuuuuuuuuuuut it's from Spell Compendium. If FakeGod allows us to make an exception for it, we should probably cover Erwin and Achan. Me and Hellion, we're squishies, we can suck it up and try to stay out of everyone's way, but their attacks are dex-based and ghoul fever damages that.
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Post Post #622 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 7:59 am

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I don't think so


I think I should probably get a reach weapon!
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Post Post #623 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 8:01 am

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With fractional saves in play, Erwin's fort save is actually +5, and he should have just barely made the save. (By the same rules, his reflex is just +7. He has a +1 base right now from three levels in bad will save classes, so that's +3 for mind-affecting spells and -1 for everything else.
Sigma's saves are correct and no one else multiclassed.
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Post Post #624 (ISO) » Sun May 07, 2017 9:14 am

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In post 623, Ether wrote:With fractional saves in play, Erwin's fort save is actually +5, and he should have just barely made the save. (By the same rules, his reflex is just +7. He has a +1 base right now from three levels in bad will save classes, so that's +3 for mind-affecting spells and -1 for everything else.
Sigma's saves are correct and no one else multiclassed.
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