Hey if I'm going to roll 20's, saves are great place to do them.

Everyone is rolling a lot of 20s. Still need saves for Athraz, though.

Apologies, I've updated my post.

no 20's here..

The apology is mine, since it looks like I accidentally cut a few sentences from my post.

Swarm A Strides into Saoirse's space and uses its Swarming Bites twice. 8 piercing damage and 3 piercing damage, with a DC 20 basic Reflex save against each. If either save fails, also make a Fortitude save against the venom.
Swarm B Strides to Athraz's space and does the same thing. Friendlier damage rolls this time--4 and 2--but the saves are the same for you--DC 20 Reflex for each damage roll, and Fort save against venom if either Reflex is a failure.

Missing sentences in italics. So Saoirse takes a total of one damage after a critical success and a regular success.
Unfortunately Ahtraz that is a critical failure, so that's 8 damage and calls for a Fort save. Plus the second Reflex save.

08:59, Today: Athraz rolled 14,24 using 1d20+9,1d20+7.  Fortitude Save, 2nd Reflex Save.

That's a success on the second Reflex save, so only one damage there.
However, a failure on the Fort save leaves Athraz afflicted with Stage 1 Centipede Swarm Venom poisoning. That deals 4 poison damage and leaves you flat-footed (which is... actually not very hampering when the swarm has no allies that use attack rolls).

Since it's an affliction, you can also repeat the save starting on your next turn to see if the condition worsens or improves. Until you either reduce the stage to 0 or it runs its course.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Grmbl, Nasty buggers..

I was holding off on doing this when it had a very good chance of ending the encounter, but it's been several days, so...

Do you want us to roll checks that we shouldn't know? Like should I roll my perception from earlier?

You can let me know or you can roll it. However you want to do it is fine.

So what's next? Resume checking the pond?

I collect up the dead centipedes to feed the whippoorwills.

Does Malcolm have his eidolon out? I don't think you've actually mentioned her at all.

Looks like one vote for checking out the water next, and two for heading to the front door.

No he has not called her out yet.

There's no duration on manifesting an eidolon. You can keep her out indefinitely if you want to.

And this definitely won't be a long-term problem, particularly because that would be wildly unfair. If you'd had Melanie out earlier, I would have described an unpleasant feeling but disregarded the mechanical penalty. This is in keeping with the advice in the book--the effects on certain creatures can be a useful hint, but we don't want to unfairly target players for choosing an ancestry/animal companion/familiar (eidolons aren't strictly mentioned because "Malevolence" came out before Secrets of Magic, but I'm applying the argument here) that coincidentally might be strongly affected.

I chose to hit you with the penalty in this case because you happened to manifest her for the first time when the party is almost certainly about to resolve that particular problem anyway.


I'm adding a new research topic, incidentally.



Oh, and nobody has checked the pond yet. Some of you were going to, but that was interrupted by the centipede swarm attack. It was one of the suggestions for what to do next, but so was heading to the house. In the interest of keeping things moving, I picked one of the suggestions when it wasn't settled.

I would like to check the pond if it means giving Melanie time to clear her head.

Thank you for not keeping her constantly sick that would be bad I don't see Macolm forcing her to be manifested if it hurt her.

I'm guessing that Ember can't just roll Arcana and Occultism and wrack up some extra party research points at this junction?

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving if you celebrated it. I cooked all day and didn't stop eating till I hated myself as is the custom.

So what are we waiting on?

I think we are waiting for the GM. However, it is the holiday season so nothing much will happen until after new years. Most likely.

Thanks. I hope that's the case.

I am pretty sure it is.

I know that I am usually slower to post during this time. Many games taper off now and pick back up in January.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

Thank you Elmelio and same to you as well.

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to Everyone.

Welp, since the GM hasn't logged in since November, I guess this game is dead. I will be removing it from my stickies, but let me know if it starts up again.

Happy Gaming y'all.