[LPF] Ryall's Estate

[jkason]

Relic and Quioan both take turns examining the weasel and its collar as Daylily sets to once again preparing the party's enemies for eating later.

[sblock=Relic]Relic's arcane sight reveals no auras. It appears that the only thing the weasel took from his own bag was the hawk corpse with its jesses still attached.

The collar seems to be of rather fine quality. Beyond the gold it's fashioned with, there are a few very small gemstones inlaid along the edges. A hook on the front holds the two keys and the back has the stylized "G" engraving that seems to have become omnipresent in the party's life.

If his guess is right, the collar's likely to sell for around 190 gold, give or take.[/sblock]

[sblock=Quioan]The collar has yet another of the stylized "G" symbols engraved on it. Well crafted and light, there are a few very small gemstones inlaid along the edges. Two familiar-looking keys hang from a hook on the front; a quick check of his own bag tells Quioan the two keys he received from Ryall and Roug are missing.

The body itself seems rather unremarkable. Quioan knows that weasels are a raiding animal, though they tend to go for chickens in coops rather than hawks in bags.[/sblock]

 

[jbear]

Relic whistles softly as he hands the golden collar to Quioan.

The Gabbiano family are making us rich send us such richly adorned pets, and dropping their gems for us to find. That's almost another 200 gp right there. And there is no doubt that it bears their mark, as the hawks did. I'm not detecting anything magical about either the weasle or the wolves, so the combined attack may well be a well timed coincidence. Then again, it may not. If it is indeed our thief's familiar, we have just poked him in the eye and broken one of his fingers. I wonder what locks the keys attached will open.

Relic yawns and rubs his blurry eyes.

He kneels downand freezes the weasle with a Ray of Frost before dumping it in a second sack and stowing it in his backpack.

I'd like to .... yawn ... to ... yawn ... carry on as soon as possible. But i think we should go to the Gabbiano's as well prepared as possible. So ... yawn ... Master Scorchsong and I need to study our spells ... yawn ...but I'm not sure I can do that without a little more sleep

OOC: How much longer does Relic need to sleep before he can begin studying his spells?

 

[Systole]

[sblock=ooc]Again, Pathfinder is kind of iffy when it comes to rest. Paizo only says that arcane casters get spells after eight hours of uninterrupted rest. However, on the Paizo boards, the accepted house ruling was that arcane casters needed +1 hours of rest for every interruption. Otherwise it gets kind of stupid.

It's up to jk, but if the attack happened between hour 7-8 of rest, the discussion I found indicated that instead of needing 0-1, you should need 1-2.[/sblock]

 

[jkason]

GM: I believe these are the relevant passages, from the Magic section of online SRD: Rest To prepare his daily spells, a wizard must first sleep for 8 hours. The wizard does not have to slumber for every minute of the time, but he must refrain from movement, combat, spellcasting, skill use, conversation, or any other fairly demanding physical or mental task during the rest period. If his rest is interrupted, each interruption adds 1 hour to the total amount of time he has to rest in order to clear his mind, and he must have at least 1 hour of uninterrupted rest immediately prior to preparing his spells. If the character does not need to sleep for some reason, he still must have 8 hours of restful calm before preparing any spells. Recent Casting Limit/Rest Interruptions If a wizard has cast spells recently, the drain on his resources reduces his capacity to prepare new spells. When he prepares spells for the coming day, all the spells he has cast within the last 8 hours count against his daily limit. Bolding mine. Note that the divine caster section has a similar mention of recent casting limits. The attack happened in hour 9. So, Relic was actually fully rested but not had time to prepare. Quioan would have been short 1 hour, I believe. So Relic can start his hour prep now, while Quioan will need another 2 hours before prep. Based on the most recent combat, Quioan will have to prepare one fewer 1st level spell than normal, though he's welcome to use one of his slots to re-prepare gravity bow, of course. Other expenditures made during this combat would also count against character daily uses. So Relic has used his bonded object spell for the day as well as one of his Lightning Flash attacks, Kazanto is down one 1st level spell, and Daylily has used two rounds of rage. It looks like mutagens have no daily limit, but Hlaalin would have to spend an hour brewing a new one.

 

[Systole]

OOC: Sorry, I thought it was hour 7, not hour 9. Bleh. However, from your quote: "He must have at least 1 hour of uninterrupted rest immediately prior to preparing his spells." So Daylily will have 4 rounds of rage to use today, then?

 

[jkason]

OOC: Sorry, I thought it was hour 7, not hour 9. Bleh. However, from your quote: "He must have at least 1 hour of uninterrupted rest immediately prior to preparing his spells." So Daylily will have 4 rounds of rage to use today, then?

GM: This is why I try to provide references: I'm always managing to miss something. Thanks for catching that one, Systole. So, it's 1 hour rest + 1 hour prep for Relic, 2 hours rest +1 hour prep for Quioan. For rage, I have Daylily's per day at 5 (4 +1 Con). With two rounds used, he'd be down to 3, unless I'm missing a modifier? (which is entirely possible, as we've just seen. )

 

[Systole]

OOC: My bad on the rage points. For some reason, I thought he had a 14 Con.

 

[Qik]

OOC: Right, so is everyone cool with Q getting the sleep necessary to reprepare his spells? Otherwise, I'm down to one use of my bonded object, which is doable, but far from ideal.

 

[jbear]

An hour later Relic sits bolt upright from his deep sleep. He gives himself a sharp slap in the face and splashes some water in his eyes.

Come on you lazy old fool, wake up!

Relic takes his spellbook from his pack and settles down to focus on preparing and then learning his spells.

[sblock= Spells Memorised]
Cantrips: Ice Ray, Resistance, Daze
Lvl 1: Charm Person, Sleep, Shocking Grasp
Bonded Ring Used
Lightning Flash: 6/7 Uses left
[/sblock]

 

[Systole]

OOC: Right, so is everyone cool with Q getting the sleep necessary to reprepare his spells? Otherwise, I'm down to one use of my bonded object, which is doable, but far from ideal.

OOC: We were already cutting our rest period pretty tight, so we're still doing pretty well even with an extra hour. Besides, a lack of battlefield control is a lot more likely to hurt us than losing an extra hour on a cold trail.

Hearing Relic's exhortations, Daylily opens one eye, then adjusts the wolf corpse he was using for a pillow and goes back to sleep.