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Discord Summary 2025-W14

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Discord Summary: 2025-W14

Date Range: 2025-04-07 to 2025-04-13 Messages: 83

Distilled In-World Knowledge

Factions & Organizations

  • The Set priests are slavers; anyone encountered on the Long Stairs leading to their Forum is liable to be enslaved, but those who reach the Forum are safe. [#rumors | 2025-04-10]
  • Three merchant factors operate in Gosterwick: the Rarities Factor, the Prosperity Factor, and the Silent Factor. [#worldbuilding | 2025-04-12]

Locations & Geography

  • The Hall of Forty Pillars lies right next to the Obsidian Gates, filled with creepy albino toads that transform into demons and attack if the wrong person touches the Gates. [#rumors | 2025-04-10]
  • The cliff face ascent takes approximately 90 minutes on foot, varying with speed, encumbrance, and caution; a cave with a fire pit exists about halfway up, and another cave with spider webs lies over the next switchback. [#worldbuilding | 2025-04-09]
  • Magical travel times for the cliff ascent: Levitation takes ~10 minutes, Walk on Air ~1 hour, and Flight ~3 minutes (encumbrance affects all). [#worldbuilding | 2025-04-09]
  • The Arcane Practitioners Club possesses a standard alchemy lab available for use. [#worldbuilding | 2025-04-12; arcane-practitioners-club | 2025-04-12]

Items & Equipment

  • Minor and major healing potions are now available for purchase in town without requiring availability rolls. [#questions-for-gm | 2025-04-12; archive | 2025-04-12]
  • The group recovered enchanted shields from recent delves: one Large Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%) and one Medium Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%), neither yet claimed by party members. [#archive | 2025-04-12]

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  • [SOURCE NEEDED] The Pyramid of Thoth in the ruined city leads directly to the topmost of the many underground levels; beneath it are at least a dozen other levels, culminating in a huge cavern and lake at the bottom. [#rumors | 2025-04-10]

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ArcanePractitionersClub

  • GM (2025-04-12): They have an alchemy lab.
  • GM (2025-04-12): Standard

Rumors

  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-10): 🩸 (1) The Set priests are slavers. Anyone they encounter on the Long Stairs leading to their Forum is liable to be enslaved. If you make it to the Forum, though, you’re safe. 🩸 (2) The Pyramid of Thoth in the ruined city leads directly to the topmost of the many underground levels; beneath it are…
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-10): Rumor 4: The Hall of Forty Pillars is right next to the Obsidian Gates. The hall is filled with these creepy albino toads. If the wrong person touches the Gates, the toads turn into demons and attack. .

archive

  • Vael, Zuljita (2025-04-07): The tailor I was talking with can’t do enchanted stuff right? Can I roll to search for enchanted cloth armor and pay for tailoring to make it fine?
  • GM (2025-04-07): You do not know of a source for enchanted armor. If you find enchanted armor, you can make it ornate after the fact by adding stuff, but making it fine might ruin the enchantment.
  • Vael, Zuljita (2025-04-07): Can I get Ornate +3 (+9 CF) Fine (+9 CF) Light cloth from that NPC I’ve already talked to? and adding gilded arcane patches or whatever to make it both look punk rock and to drive the sticker price up for no apparent reason is fair game?
  • GM (2025-04-07): Yes
  • Vael, Zuljita (2025-04-07): Paut potions available off the shelf at retail?
  • GM (2025-04-07): No, nothing magical is available without finding it.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-09): How long has the climb up been, on average?
  • GM (2025-04-09): 1.5 hours. This varies with speed, encumbrance, and caution.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-09): How long does it look to be with Levitation, Walk on Air or Flight?
  • GM (2025-04-09): Levitation: about 10 minutes. Walk on Air: about an hour. Flight: about 3 minutes. Encumbrance matters.
  • started a thread: Going up the cliff face. See all threads. (2025-04-09): Going up the cliff face 3 Messages › There are no recent messages in this thread. Demented Avenger (Ioannes)
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-10): Fast-Draw “Potion: Grenades carried in delver’s webbing or a potion belt.” DFA114 implies it includes drinkable, utility and bundle as well. I assume it also works on Nageteppos and Caltrops. Correct? Are you treating the specialties list on DFA76 as exhaustive? I’m especially thinking of rang…
  • GM (2025-04-10): Fast-draw (two-handed sword) is unrealistic but RAW. So I allow most things that are kinda stupid but less stupid than fast-drawing a greatsword. Examples: 1H axe, 1H mace, small buckler, javelin. However, I’m strict on specialties. Every separate weapon skill needs its own fast-draw skill, e…
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-10): So… generally most items up to 5 lbs., plus Small Buckler (8 lbs.) and stuff allowed by RAW?
  • GM (2025-04-10): Small Buckler not all shields. Most one-handed weapons, no more two-handed weapons.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-11): Do the spells Alertness and Keen (Sense) add to Per-based skills? (like Per and Acute (sense) would)
  • GM (2025-04-11): Yes, assuming the skill is being used in a Per-based way. (Example: If you’re looking for a secret door with Traps, Alertness and Keen Vision help. If you’re trying to figure out how to open a secret door, they do not.)
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-11): Hand on shield arm can “hold” but not “wield” a weapon. Can it be used to for weapons that require only one hand to attack but two to load/ready/etc.? (Readying a Large Net, or loading a Blowpipe, Pistol Crossbow, Sling, or Spear Thrower)
  • GM (2025-04-11): No
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Am I able to add the new armor to Ioannes’s sheet now?
  • GM (2025-04-12): Yes, if you paid for it, it will be ready for next week.
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Cool. I’ll do that tonight, and, unless someone wants them, sell his old armor, shield, and axe.
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-12): What are you using for your new shield?
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): I bought a fine medium shield in-game last night. The old one is an ordinary medium shield
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-12): Over the past two session we retrieved: 1 Large Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%) & 1 Medium Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%)
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): So?
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-12): I don’t think anybody has claimed the 1 Medium Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%).
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): I assume one of the better fighters should grab it. Ioannes is the fourth-best fighter in the group
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-12): He can wait to sell his old armor when they have a wealthy merc, right?
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): I’m not going to get much for it anyways
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Are we able to buy healing potions without availability rolls now?
  • GM (2025-04-12): Yes, minor and major healing potions are now available.
  • GM (2025-04-12): Bot isn’t up yet. I’ll do it in Foundry. Success!
  • GM (2025-04-12): Yes, one.
  • started a thread: Merchant Factors. See all threads. (2025-04-12): Merchant Factors 8 Messages › There are no recent messages in this thread. Demented Avenger (Ioannes)
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-13): Would you mind moving the total cp earned and current point totals to lines ~3-4 instead of the bottom, so we don’t have to scroll down to find them?

questions-for-gm

  • Vael, Zuljita (2025-04-07): The tailor I was talking with can’t do enchanted stuff right? Can I roll to search for enchanted cloth armor and pay for tailoring to make it fine?
  • GM (2025-04-07): You do not know of a source for enchanted armor. If you find enchanted armor, you can make it ornate after the fact by adding stuff, but making it fine might ruin the enchantment.
  • Vael, Zuljita (2025-04-07): Can I get Ornate +3 (+9 CF) Fine (+9 CF) Light cloth from that NPC I’ve already talked to? and adding gilded arcane patches or whatever to make it both look punk rock and to drive the sticker price up for no apparent reason is fair game?
  • GM (2025-04-07): Yes
  • Vael, Zuljita (2025-04-07): Paut potions available off the shelf at retail?
  • GM (2025-04-07): No, nothing magical is available without finding it.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-09): How long has the climb up been, on average?
  • GM (2025-04-09): 1.5 hours. This varies with speed, encumbrance, and caution.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-09): How long does it look to be with Levitation, Walk on Air or Flight?
  • GM (2025-04-09): Levitation: about 10 minutes. Walk on Air: about an hour. Flight: about 3 minutes. Encumbrance matters.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-10): Fast-Draw “Potion: Grenades carried in delver’s webbing or a potion belt.” DFA114 implies it includes drinkable, utility and bundle as well. I assume it also works on Nageteppos and Caltrops. Correct? Are you treating the specialties list on DFA76 as exhaustive? I’m especially thinking of rang…
  • GM (2025-04-10): Fast-draw (two-handed sword) is unrealistic but RAW. So I allow most things that are kinda stupid but less stupid than fast-drawing a greatsword. Examples: 1H axe, 1H mace, small buckler, javelin. However, I’m strict on specialties. Every separate weapon skill needs its own fast-draw skill, e…
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-10): So… generally most items up to 5 lbs., plus Small Buckler (8 lbs.) and stuff allowed by RAW?
  • GM (2025-04-10): Small Buckler not all shields. Most one-handed weapons, no more two-handed weapons.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-11): Do the spells Alertness and Keen (Sense) add to Per-based skills? (like Per and Acute (sense) would)
  • GM (2025-04-11): Yes, assuming the skill is being used in a Per-based way. (Example: If you’re looking for a secret door with Traps, Alertness and Keen Vision help. If you’re trying to figure out how to open a secret door, they do not.)
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-11): Hand on shield arm can “hold” but not “wield” a weapon. Can it be used to for weapons that require only one hand to attack but two to load/ready/etc.? (Readying a Large Net, or loading a Blowpipe, Pistol Crossbow, Sling, or Spear Thrower)
  • GM (2025-04-11): No
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Am I able to add the new armor to Ioannes’s sheet now?
  • GM (2025-04-12): Yes, if you paid for it, it will be ready for next week.
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Cool. I’ll do that tonight, and, unless someone wants them, sell his old armor, shield, and axe.
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-12): What are you using for your new shield?
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): I bought a fine medium shield in-game last night. The old one is an ordinary medium shield
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-12): Over the past two session we retrieved: 1 Large Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%) & 1 Medium Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%)
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): So?
  • Vallium Halcyon (2025-04-12): I don’t think anybody has claimed the 1 Medium Shield (Fine, Balanced, Deflect 1, Lighten -25%).
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): I assume one of the better fighters should grab it. Ioannes is the fourth-best fighter in the group
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-12): He can wait to sell his old armor when they have a wealthy merc, right?
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): I’m not going to get much for it anyways
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Are we able to buy healing potions without availability rolls now?
  • GM (2025-04-12): Yes, minor and major healing potions are now available.
  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-13): Would you mind moving the total cp earned and current point totals to lines ~3-4 instead of the bottom, so we don’t have to scroll down to find them?

town-rolls

  • GM (2025-04-12): Bot isn’t up yet. I’ll do it in Foundry. Success!
  • GM (2025-04-12): Yes, one.

worldbuilding

  • Grudge Brigade (2025-04-09): Walking up the cliff face takes about 90 minutes, depending on caution and encumbrance; Levitating takes about 10 minutes, and flight should get there in 3 minutes. There is a cave with a fire pit about halfway up, and another over the next switchback with spider webs.
  • started a thread: Going up the cliff face. See all threads. (2025-04-09): Going up the cliff face 3 Messages › There are no recent messages in this thread. Demented Avenger (Ioannes)
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): What facilities exist at the APC for brewing potions?
  • GM (2025-04-12): They have an alchemy lab.
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Standard equipment? Or another level? (edited)Saturday, April 12, 2025 6:21 PM
  • GM (2025-04-12): Standard
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): This is a repository for what we know about the three merchant factors in Gosterwick For reference, these are: Rarities Factor Prosperity Factor Silent Factor
  • started a thread: Merchant Factors. See all threads. (2025-04-12): Merchant Factors 8 Messages › There are no recent messages in this thread. Demented Avenger (Ioannes)
  • Ioannes (2025-04-12): Can someone post the summaries of each one?

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