That seems to be the consensus, assuming Spartan's lack of explicit comment should be read as assent.



I'd prefer to track individually, as I don't want to have to deal with community pool bookkeeping every time I need to bribe someone for information.  ;)



That's the way I was going, as he is the highest consistent-damage melee specialist.  I'll address it in my pending IC post.

(Also, I just realized that Nic isn't actually proficient with scimitars.)

Here's what I'm thinkin': Corros, Ulfgar, and Jenna head to the inn and procure rooms, food, and baths for us.  Gronk and Nic attempt to find a legitimate jeweler who'll buy the peridot; if one isn't available, Nic will use Thieves' Cant to find a fence for the same purpose, with Gronk playing the role of his hired thug.  That will put enough coin in our pocket to satisfy our immediate basic (meta)human needs.  We take the rest of the day to clean up, heal up, and do a little bit of basic shopping, then present ourselves at the keep in the morning.  Cool?

Sounds good to me!
Corros is good with city stuff, it's the woods that are scary!

Yes, I'm in favor of that as well!

In reply to Nicolai Romanelli (msg # 63):

That works for me!

OK, then. Please faithfully update your PC's purses on your respective char-sheets. Hopefully, group accounting- like pooling funds to buy a particularly pricey item- will not be a hassle.

Today was a long day and the turn post didn't come quickly or easily. I hope the quality is acceptable. Let me know if you have any questions.

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A couple of options on the lead bandit:

1) Follow him as a giant rat or something... to see where he goes.
2) Turn into something with 40 foot movement, darkvision, and pounce/poison him ASAP.

Any suggestions?

Following him might lead to other possibilities...

If we all go down the sewer I'm not sure how effective Jenna will be given that she's a normal human so is (I presume) lacking any night vision capability. That said I'm happy for her to do so if that's the plan.

You guys want the cash or the +1 shield more?

I'd be inclined to say the shield

On that subject - clearly my goody two shoes Priestess is big on donating to worthy causes - it's a character development thing. If you guys antticipate that causing challenges going forward (e.g. if we need to pool money to buy something and we're short because of Jenna's generosity) we can work out some sort of workaround.

That's my inclination too.  It's worth considerably more than the 100gp we'd get otherwise (assuming Nic can't bargain up the offer any more).  Between that and the scimitar (and some lower-cost armor), it would make Gronk a rather potent 3rd-level tank.  Of course, we'd then be putting two of our three +1 items on the party NPC.

I'm personally okay with that.  With Nic's 8 STR and 16 DEX, he's never going to be using anything but finesse weapons and light armor.  But y'all may have other priorities for kitting out your characters.  Just let me know OOC before I make my next IC post.  :)
This message was last edited by the player at 12:04, Fri 23 Oct 2015.

My 2 cp is shield also.

Get the shield.  There's always more gold, right?

Shield it is. I'll get an IC post to that effect up after I get home this evening.

I understand how it might look but I don't want anyone to think that I'm showing favoritism to my own character by my choice of the magical items so far in play. Before I placed it in Forkbeard's cold, dead hand, I thought that Nic would be the eventual party wielder of the scimitar +1 (since its a finesse weapon). I'm not hurt that he doesn't want it. Really.

Sniffle

Gronk probably won't use the scimitar +1 (1d6 +1) much since his non-magical morning star still does 1 more point of damage (1d8) except on rolls of 1. At Pudo's, I chose to make a shield +1 available because it's a little more generic than armor (less need to worry about proficiency, style, fit, etc.). Yes, the Gronkster needs a shield, but he'd be happy to swap with Jenna or buy a regular shield somewhere else on his own dime. That said, if no one else wants it, Gronk could certainly make good use of it.

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This message was last edited by the GM at 23:29, Fri 23 Oct 2015.

In reply to Raellus (msg # 76):

I'm good with Gronk having the magic shield. I think Jenna would feel that it was somehow disrespecting Arma to swap her Arma issue shield for another one st this stage. If that makes sense.

Per one of our PM threads, I have absolutely no idea where Nic is going to wind up with multiclassing.  The scimitar might be appropriate or it might not.  Monk is still very much on the table.

Also, I didn't want to claim both +1 weapons, and the dagger is much more directly suited to Nic's fighting style - not as a primary, but as a more concealable backup.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:24, Sat 24 Oct 2015.

@All: Add 60GP to your purses. It also occurred to me that Jenna couldn't have lost much to the pickpocket. IIRC, she'd given most of her share of Forkbeard's gold to the galley slaves. The joke's on the pickpocket!

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In reply to Raellus (msg # 79):

Whoops! Metagame moment from me. Grind wouldn't have known about the pick pocketing. We're going to have to scratch those bits. Sorry about that.

In reply to Raellus (msg # 80):

Have edited my post...I assume he would still have handed her the 60gp as her share of the jewel, it's just the purse that's no longer applicable.

Of course. BTW, who paid for the room? Since it's 5gp per night, if each one of us pitched in 1gp...

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This message was last edited by the GM at 02:06, Sun 25 Oct 2015.

Sounds like a plan!

-1 GP done!  Hope this pirates head is worth something!

Tegyrius is going to be out of coms until the first of November so things will probably slow down quite a bit this week. Obviously, I don't want to do anything that advances the plots while 1/4 of us aren't involved. We could use this time to do some more mundane IC stuff like shopping and whatnot, or we can just take a few day's off. I'm cool with either. What's your preference?

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I'm good with doing shopping and such.  I need to get a herbalist kit at a minimum.  Brewer's kit would be nice, but I need either a long term place to store it, or a mule and cart to haul it around.  Much depends on if Balefyre is going to be home, or a place we are passing through.