I was just saying there were more sailors on the way and they may not need Fergus.
I agree that they don't probably need him, even if they think they do. He seems like a rather unreliable type, what with the setting the other guy up to get drunk so that he could slip off the ship and all. That seems to be a pretty dumb thing to do, and Cap'n hopefully has a big issue with that. And the three sailors coming back very well may want to get the heck back to civilization, which would make him more expendable.
Well, your new sailors may or may not keep him from being expendable but it's not exactly information Vallen and I have at the moment.
Ceuta, I encourage you to talk to the sailors. Getting even one of them to stay would be a boon.
Cueta... I just made shell head up. I'm not sure if it's generally racist or special for you.
I had a post here, but it erased it? I don't know what's happening anymore.
It's certainly still possible, though in that case I still really want to know what the hell Fergus was up to?
No idea. If it comes down to it, we can stay the night on the ship, Vallen prepares touch of truthtelling in the morning, and then he has two options when I asked him if he murdered anyone. Tell us what he was doing, or not say anything, which means he'll get hanged.
I doubt staying on the ship is needed, the crew should be more than capable of keeping an eye on him though I'm willing to bet we can get some sort of proof before then.
Unless he's a skin-stealer and starts killing people on the Lillend. There may not be a skin-stealer, but we still can't rule it out.
I doubt he's be able to kill people if he's tied up and under guard all night...
I certainly hope not!
Well, your new sailors may or may not keep him from being expendable but it's not exactly information Vallen and I have at the moment.
Yeah, sorry - totally ooc. Hearts, Pathfinder, dinner... I am a bad tabletalker. I'll try and keep out of everything. Good luck guys! This is a tough one!
Cueta... I just made shell head up. I'm not sure if it's generally racist or special for you.
Right on. I was just wondering how much I should dislike this captain :)
I'm -still- suspicious of Sofiya. But it looks like Fergus might be getting the verdict. If he still pleads innocent (and why wouldn't he...) he's getting truthtelling in the morning.
Back!
Newspringers: You're going to the ship.
Welcome back Nerk!
Thanks Vallen!
Back!
Newspringers: You're going to the ship.
YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!
Good luck guys! Go get this murderous creature!
I don't know who to trust at this point... Vallen believes Fergus is responsible for all this, hope it's not Sorala and she vanishes tomorrow. Or Tatya. Or Sofiya.
Nerk: I was looking at Touch of Truthtelling on D20PFSRD, and saw the copyright notice was for Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods. I had never heard of it before, so I clicked it, and it brought me to the amazon page. I'm not sure how this is on here when the book the spell is in is not even released?
I looked into it some more, and it's a modification of Abadar's Truthtelling, which is in Pathfinder Chronicles: Gods and Magic. I looked in that book, and according to it Abadar's Truthtelling is (surprise) specific to clerics of Abadar.
I'll leave it up to you if Vallen can or cannot prepare the spell, I don't know what's going on with it- it's just on a wiki after all. Without the book it's supposedly in not being released yet there's no way to tell. Sorry about that. (I'm a bad cleric!)
So I can prepare it in future situations where the entire party needs it.
Hopefully! Apparently the hardcover of the book the general version is in is on sale on the Pathfinder website, there are people saying they have it? I don't know, it's Nerk's decision. I do know I'll be picking up a copy of the Inner Sea Gods on APril 30th though, and exploiting its spell list mercilessly! I love their pdf versions.
I've got no problem with it.
I've updated the map in the campaign info tab with clumsily drawn grid coordinates, so at least when we talk about the map, we can know what we're talking about. Please check that it opens and so on.
So there's no doubt, Newspring and the Lillend are in 15D, the beach where you met sharky, the Harpy wreck and the cave are all in 17D, and I can't think of anything else significant that you know where it is yet.
I've updated the map in the campaign info tab with clumsily drawn grid coordinates, so at least when we talk about the map, we can know what we're talking about. Please check that it opens and so on.
So there's no doubt, Newspring and the Lillend are in 15D, the beach where you met sharky, the Harpy wreck and the cave are all in 17D, and I can't think of anything else significant that you know where it is yet.
Thanks, DM Nerk! The map opens up and looks great. I've updated our hexploration tab with the info.
Map works great!
Thanks for the clarification, I'd actually thought our camp was in 15C. Good to have that cleared up!
Holy cow! That thing can hit! Good luck!
Crits are scary! Though it won't be likely to have sneak attack in the following rounds which should help.
If only I'd hit the bloody thing...
I don't think it critted Vallen - his flat-footed AC is 14? SA makes sense. I'm not familiar with the monster, but I read Nerks dice roller as two claws (though now that I think about it, that would be 2 attacks) plus a rend or something similar. 1d4 +2 makes it much more managable, so I hope you're correct!
PA for 18 damage is pretty impressive - I hope you hit next round too!
oooooops!
So yeah, I checked Vallen's AC, remembered 14 and a +1 dex bonus, so I thought the 13 confirmed against flat-footed. Obviously I remembered the flat-footed AC and not the regular.
Nice catch Cueta.
I noticed that too but assumed you had simply ruled he didn't have his shield on at the time of casting. I'm rather glad it was a mistake though!
I'm just guessing about the sneak attack but it fits the sneaky motif and Nerk didn't describe any acid effects of anything like that with the attack.
Oh, it's a sneak attack. A very sneaky attack.
They're good little monsters, but I don't recommend putting them on a random encounter table, since they sort of require a bit more development than, say, a giant ant or a shark-face cannibal.
After a fashion, though I have to say, it looks like the shark-teeth are going to end up eating up even more of our time in the end :P
True... but nobody's talking about mounting an expedition to find the planet of the skin-stealers.
Well to the best of my knowledge, fey, especially one based on infiltration tend to be loners, no?
We happen to know for a fact there are lots more of the shark-faced bastards out there. Sharpening stone axes and dreaming of halfling stew...
If human meat is long pork, does that make halfling short pork?
The 13 does confirm against the flat-footed, Vallen did not have his shield out, as Gair said, so flat-footed without shield is 12. I'm going to put that on my sheet to be more clear.
Just curious, how do we read the hexes that are between two letters? For instance, the hex between C and D in row 16.
Because the columns defined by the letters don't go straight up, they go NW. If you look at the letters on the top row, you'll see J is due north of B on the bottom, but NW of J.
So 15D is the hex with the L on it? I see it now! Cool thanks Nerk.
I'd call it pygmy pork personally. Though I'd happily defer to the Zambezi tribesmen if they cared to weight in.
Does that make dwarf beer-basted pork?
Also, Nerk, I was curious how you handle critical fumbles. For instance, if I had a critical fumble firing into melee with a crossbow, could I hit a comrade by accident? Break my crossbow? My character spontaneously combusts?
Spontaneous combustion has my vote!
Beer-blasted is good but how about bearded pork?
Critical fumbles are handled like critical hits:
If you roll a (natural) 1 on an attack, you roll again. If your second roll is also a miss, it's a fumble. The result is my discretion depending on the situation. It will be painful, but not lethal. Typically damage to a fellow party member, or effectively disarming or tripping yourself, or something equally upsetting.
Good that's how I like it! Critical fumbles are usually hilarious in some capacity.
Should be entertaining :)
Looks like we can finally move on! Plenty of time to get some work done today before the funeral.
It is finally dead. Now the story can move forward. And there was great rejoicing.
"Yay..."
It's the day after tomorrow actually, provided I'm reading the other thread correctly.
we still waiting on Newspring to catch up?
I'm caught up to the morning of day 7 at least, Vallen shouldn't be far behind.
I'm heading out for a while but it should be easy enough for you guys to start on your section of Day 7 now. I'll catch up on my other actions for the first part of the day this evening.
Finished up to Day 7.
Nerk: Not to be that guy, but did we get any experience points for exposing/defeating the skin-stealer?