In reply to Koyrai Dellex (msg # 483):

The answer turned out to be a no. Can't nail the die rolls.

Story of my life…

Here’s to hoping that my next set of dice rolls is better! I think Lord Olinescu will get to act again before Veana gets her turn at the end of the round…hopefully he’s ineffective and I can finish him off!

But at least you didn't blow up the chamber? I ... had some Misfireballs like that in the past. :)

Everyone was exasperated with me when a failure of my spellcasting was suddenly super-duper-effective in causing biggest mess possible. Like once I tried to zig-zag my Lighting spell, made wrong angles so it backfired into the party.

My co-Players started groaning when I rolled maximum damage on the dice, then DM explained to me my fuckup that nailed myself and Fighter. Two more entries to Darwin Adventurer Joke Book.

Puck, will that last attack completely kill you? Because if you are merely reduced to Dying, I can at least cast Stabilize once per day.

I can eat 19 damage, because fall will cause me d6 subdual, thus theoretically if healed and/or stabilized in the same turn I will not die. One damage more? I need to do new character. :)

In worst case, I die. But first I'll roll my AoO vs Lord Olinescu.

I had a small rollercoaster of emotions with that last attack, but I believe Mr Grave is finally down.

Definitely cutting it close, but go team!

Not until Sesa transforms his armor-phyalctery into something suitably humilating.


Fuck, nobody among us have Knowledge(Undead) am I right?

Okay, chances are we will have a Recurring Enemy situation. :D

Kn. Religion covers undead. And IIRC 2 of us identified him as a Graveknight so I'm assuming we know about the resurrection. We can probably just dump it with the priest that sent us to here in the first place.

Indeed -- Knowledge (Religion) is one of the couple of skills Veana actually has ranks in xD

Graveknight destruction is challenging yeah, if we were going to do it ourselves, I think the Volcano option is the most... uh... reasonable (casually suggest we replicate the entire Lord of the Rings journey to kill a single foe) option.

On that note, Uluchi probably wouldn't trust the priest to get it done, but its not a hill she'll die on if that is the consensus.

Also please take note we hadn't checked the whole tomb. There might be some extras hiding. Like Shadow.

Nasty bugger.

I actually considered adding a pair of shadows as a "fun surprise" for the backline, but I liked the idea of going for just one really solid goon and a support cleric.  I gotta say, it's pretty hard to balance a fight when the numbers are that uneven.  My opinion kept bouncing between "This guy's invincable, he's going to kill the whole party and it won't be fun" and "It's basically six vs one, the party's going to steamroll him and it won't be fun!"

Granted, I tend to bounce between those two extremes while making every fight for this game, but it felt particularly tough finding the middle ground in this one.  I'm a little sad I didn't get to add Puck's head to my trophy wall, but at least it came close!

Oh, and did the party reach a consensus on whether they were handing off the Grave knight armor, or insisting on dealing with it themselves?
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:53, Fri 17 June 2022.

I would want to keep the helmet. After exorcisms and de-magicing it. So it's a trophy not a tool of return for Lord Not-Dead-Enough.

After all, he can always return when it happens that gauntlets of his armor set were secretly hidden elsewhere. Armor-Phylactery have this advantage over Lich's that it have multiple parts that can be separated without damaging the whole.

I believe Uluchi's soulution is to destroy the armor with anti-metal acid. I agree but wanted a favor from the cleric, so the helmet is devoid of it's magic and un-cursed from it's phylactery status.

Because I know that to destroy the Phylactery tool like that? Need to be thorough, very thorough. That is why Puck was talking about melting the armor down in a forge.

EDIT:
As for the newest adventure? My obvious advice is to check with our friendly cleric who hired us three times so far with that suspicious letter. Destroy evidence, as if ! :)
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The cleric left town shortly before you received your letter of summons.  Apparently he had been summoned on mysterious official business, much the same way the party is being summoned now.

Most of the lads haven't chipped in yet. For what it is worth, the cleric's speech and Uluchi's lack of specific knowledge about graveknights would be enough to convince her that he is competent enough to take on the task, even if she doesn't like it.

Worry not, Sesa. My Puck will follow your Snake-Witch's advice if only because he learned to trust her. :)


Intrigue, huh?

Props to you Gorum, it's awesome premise. We are now level 6!^^

So, we are 6 yes, but what are we going against?  Bandits or quite possibly the inquisitors?  What do you all think?

Possibly both. Bandits paid by the inquisitors to make it look like a highway robbery instead of an execution.

Anyway, I can probably prepare to drop the Ashen Path on everyone, while someone could set the inn on fire so we have smoke cover? :)

Will have the level-up by evening.

And does it matter? It seems like a trap, so expected foes are two waves:
-Bandits, probably mostly fighter types.
-Inquisition, afterwards.

First part Veana could probably rest easy, bandits tend to be evil, but Inquisition will be troublesome. So with that said? If it'll be inquisition, we need to leave one alive ... if only for RP purposes, to bring the prisoner to our cleric contact.

Unless any of you know of a not-torture/not-mindcontrol method to get info to our friendly clerical employer?

I do, actually. Koyrai knows the spell Share Memory. In my next post I plan to have him share the memory of our entire undead encounter with our employer. It can also be used to extract memories from anyone we capture. Perhaps the memory of when they were hired for the job, for instance?

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic...ells/s/share-memory/

Apologies for the lack of posts from me for the past few days and also if I take some time to finalize the level up. I've hit a busy period outside of the game which leaves me with little free time to spend currently. I'm hoping to get the character done before Monday, but if I can't the worst case is Wednesday which is when my life returns to the regular schedule.

I should have my level up done sometime this weekend. I just have to figure out what to do with my gold and such.

No worries, my work has been pretty busy for me, too.  This upcoming fight is pretty much the last one I've prepped for, so I don't mind a bit of time to plan.

Everything but the new gold is sorted for me, which is always the part that takes me the longest anyways. That being said!

Yeah, I think we'll be up against some variety of humanoid opponents this time. I'd put money down on agents of the Olinescu's showing up to muck things up at some point.

Uluchi has self-generated poison and poison-use so she can apply it to anyone's weapons if they arn't a stick in the mud about poison. (Hello, fellow paladins.)

Vishkanya Sleep Venom,
Type injury; save Fort DC 19; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; initial effect staggered for 1d4 rounds; secondary effect unconsciousness for 1 minute; cure 1 save

I've got around 120 spare doses, which should be enough for all our poisoning needs so annotate any weapons you want with a dose on them. Also, non-lethal so it wont kill your pets who lick your weapons accidentally.