stonegod's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Ch. II [OOC]

[pathfinderq1]

I'm just glad to have been a part of this for, well, as much as I've been part of. I'm looking forward to seeing what lies ahead- it seems as if we're getting close to finding out just what is going on.

 

[Stormwind]

Just a quick heads up - I will be traveling from today until the 8th (monday) and thus won't be able to respond until then.

 

[stonegod]

Finishing up grading after finals week, so expect some posts next early next week.

If folks are going to be absent/slow during the end of the month, let me know. Thanks!

 

[Stormwind]

OOC: Heal check (+14) to assess Khensu's injury- if it is indeed CON drain and not CON damage, we need to wait until we can get components for Restoration. In that case, she'll burn a Nimbus of Light for a CLW (1d8+5 HP), and she'll be able to give either Marot or Ashlyn another Lesser Resoration.

Since the Dire weasel in the core rules has seemingly identical abilities to these snake-like creatures (from what we have seen), I still hold hope that it is actually CON damage rather than CON drain.

The relevant, and somewhat misleading, section of the Dire weasel's abilities is included below:

Blood Drain (Ex): A dire weasel drains blood for 1d4 points of Constitution damage each round it remains attached.

However, until stonegod confirms things one way or the other, my guesses are just that .... guesses.

 

[stonegod]

However, until stonegod confirms things one way or the other, my guesses are just that .... guesses.

Luckily for you, you were right! All is damage, not drain.

 

[Stormwind]

My recommendation as a player (and IC as Ashlyn), is that we heal up as best we can and then proceed to the fane and do what we have to.

Firstly we require the following healing:

• Ashlyn: 6 hp damage
• Tessa: 1 hp damage

This is fairly minor, and should be taken care of with 1x Cure minor wounds and 1x Cure light wounds.


Secondly we require the following ability healing:

• Marot: 10 STR damage
• Ashlyn: 6 STR damage; 9 CON damage
• Khensu: 3 CON damage

This is really the crux of things as it totals to 28 points of ability damage
Below is a list of ability healing within the group:

• Ashlyn: 1x Lesser restoration
• Jarrith: 1x Lesser restoration, 1x Lesser restoration
• Tessa: 2x Scroll of Lesser restoration, 1x Lesser restoration
• Avron: 2x Potion of Lesser restoration, 1x Lesser restoration
• Marot: 1x Scroll of Restoration

The ability healing available from the remaining lesser restorations totals to a maximum of 20 points (average 12) which is not even close to our current needs. Thus if we are to continue then it is necessary to use the scroll of Restoration.

I recommend that our best course of action in order to proceed is:

• Jarrith casts his remaining Lesser restoration on Khensu
• Tessa uses one of the Scrolls of Lesser restoration on Marot to enable him to move under his own power again
• Marot uses the Scroll of Restoration on Ashlyn to heal all of her ability damage
• If necessary/desired we use more scrolls and potions of Lesser restoration on Marot, however this is perhaps not absolutely critical since Marot's strength will return over time and Marot is still a capable ranged combatant even at a reduced strength.
  The question here is simply whether we wish to save some of the scrolls and potions of lesser restoration for possible threats later on or whether we should use them now?

This should get everyone sufficiently healed up, and although our spells and items will be somewhat depleted, we should still be in good shape to continue.

 

[EvolutionKB]

I've got a wand I believe that can handle the healing. If we wish, I can prepare more lesser restorations after we rest. Also, if we would rather, I could copy restoration from the scroll into my prayerbook. We would just have to acquire some diamond dust for it to be of any use...

 

[Stormwind]

Hmmmm ... that's a good point about the restoration scroll .... although we might be able to obtain another one from the artificers in the caravan - if we want to trust to luck

Basically, I'm considering our situation from the perspective of continuing directly to acquire the last of the three relics since it would be unwise (in my opinion) to leave it where it is.
Thus if we want to proceed without using the restoration scroll right now, then we need to get Marot able to move and act on his own, Ashlyn up to fighting condition, and both Khensu and Ashlyn at close to full constitution.
That means that as an absolute minimum we need the following:

• Jarrith casts his remaining Lesser restoration on Khensu
• Tessa uses one Scroll of Lesser restoration on Marot to restore some of his STR to enable him to move under his own power again
  Tessa uses the other Scroll of Lesser restoration on Ashlyn to restore some of her STR
• Avron uses both Potions of Lesser restoration on Ashlyn to restore some of her CON

That should hopefully get Khensu fully healed, Ashlyn to combat functionality (about 10 STR and 10 CON), and get Marot mobile (4-5 STR).

Then we could try placing the other two relics in Tessa and Ashlyn's haversacks before we proceed to recover the third relic. Since the haversacks are basically extradimensional spaces, it might just work, but we need to be prepared just in case it doesn't.
Then once we have the third relic, we should definitely head back to the village to rest.

 

[Stormwind]

Just as a general note, the reason I think we need to take the 3rd relic from the 3rd fane before we do anything else is that I'm concerned with what will happen if we do not.

If I was the 'evil' of Barovia, and I knew that someone or someones had been disturbing protections that I had set up, I would either move them to a more secure place (imagine the 3rd relic in the castle), or set the most powerful guardians I could on those protections to replace the guardians that had already been overcome.

Basically, if we don't take the chance to grab the relic now (and hope that our idea of keeping the other two separate works), then I fear that when we would return, we would face something worse ...

... is it really paranoia if they are all out to get you

Besides, even if we don't use the restoration scroll, we can get everyone back up and in good health except for Marot and Ashlyn, and the two of us can still be healed up to a combat functional state ...
... and if we really want, we can use the restoration scroll and get everybody up to full health ...
... so basically I don't see any real value in delaying getting the 3rd relic ... we won't have that much additional resources if we were fully rested (basically we would only have a few more spells), and right now we have an opportunity - the guardian of the last fane is defeated and we don't know for how long it will remain unguarded ...

 

[stonegod]

... is it really paranoia if they are all out to get you

Its not Paranoia until you've used up all your clones...

As for the decision of should you stay or should you go now, particularly on the healing front, I will remind you that the Jorasco healers have some healing at their disposal as well back in town.