Out of Character discussion:

Down to one HP even after rolling a 16 to save against poison? :o

Lucky Gilly I guess!

Yup. Passing a save vs poison did 1d3 damage next round. Failing the save did 2d4

By the skin of your teeth!

I didn't make that up. That's literally the snake's stats in the module. I'm not here to screw my players over. The module does a pretty good job of it by itself.

I will say, the module gives some pretty sick XP to PCs that survive and make it back to turkeytown in one piece...

Oh, nobody is doubting you. This style of D&D is lethal! Especially when your resident Kender can't keep her hands to herself, and drags you into all sorts of snakey trouble.

Frankly I'm MORE used to poison being save or die in Basic games. Damage is much preferred.

So how shall we arrange XP when we introduce the new characters? The players did the heavy lifting, the characters on the other hand... :D

Though I hope we can all be on an even footing!

The Halfling objects to being referred to as a Kender. ;)

Yah, me too. Going through this module, it looks like a lot of encounters use enemies from the B/X books with identical stats, and pretty close XP values. Basically any wandering monsters are like that. But is seems to have a few "special" monsters that weren't in the B/X books, and their states, special abilities, and XP values are quite a bit different. Their XP values are like 4x what something comparable would be. I was on the fence about whether to play them as is, or change them to a comparable monster in the BX books, but people in forums familiar with running this as a BX campaign advised me to run the monster as it was published, including the XP they give out for beating them.
Had I just subbed in a comparable BX monster for the snake, it would have been a Giant Rattler, and a failed save vs poison for that is death in 1d6 rounds, period. And you'd get about 1/4 the XP for beating the encounter.

Speaking of XP, to answer @KCC69's question:
What I was planning to do is basically anyone with the party when they return to their "base of operations" gets an even cut of loot XP, regardless of how Loot is actually divided out afterwards. But you only get a share of the enemies killed XP if you were alive and fought. So the monster XP you've earned on this quest will be split between Gilly, Eltrezar, Angel, and Elmo, at this point. But if any newcomers head back to town with you while you bring back the loot, they get an even share of the XP for that, even if you don't want to give them any of the physical loot.

Also, you guys are freaking terrible about finding valuable treasure; I just want to point that out. Although I've been making the assumption that a lot of your attention is being taken by dying and mourning lost PCs, and not actively looking for treasure up to this point. But you guys have been overlooking some serious loot stashes so far. Not sure if you're about to head back to Hommlet with your bearly dead halfling right away or not, but just thought you guys might benefit from a hint on that subject, should you decide to come back later.

Well, I’m as fully functional on 1hp as I am on 7hp, so I’m happy to sit in the back and get exploring, especially with two new recruits and Elmo to line up in front.

Can turn this place over!

Yeah, as long as you're being so open about it, I know this module pretty well (played it a few times with a few groups over the decades) and I'm aware of some of that specific loot you're referring to but I'm trying really hard not to metagame so I've been leaving the searches to just what I think is obvious per your descriptions of the rooms. But by all means, everyone search the hell out of this place!

I sent you a quick note in your character creation page nezzaraj.

My trip to the eye doctor's office this morning was a big waste of time. Not only was it extremely windy on the freeway, when I reached the doctor's office the whole building was closed due to another power outage. This is the second one in as many months. I just put my signature for the governor's recall in the mail yesterday. None too soon. This state is quickly unraveling. The LA county board of supervisors just announced this morning that it was overriding the state health department's directive and is setting up mass Covid-19 vaccine sites this week for people 65 and over. The health department director's response? "Oh no. I haven't even got all the health care givers vaccinated yet." So what have our politicians been doing for the last month? Other than making lame excuses.

I played a magic-hating dorf barbarian in my last Pathfinder game, and he was absolutely glorious!... until he was crushed by a greatclub. I'm digging the building-rivalry between Loken and Eltrezar.

Me too. I’m enjoying playing up to it a bit haha. Your ooc "it’s the barbarian" had me snorting in laughter btw

Wow that's the first meme reply I've ever seen on a pbp site!

What's goin on? We slowing?

Probably just for a bit. Should pick up again by the first of next week if not this weekend. I'll have another physical therapy session next Wednesday but that will just make my posting a little later in the day.

I think everyone is standing in front the the door waiting for Eltrezar to open it, as I'm interpreting things...

Thanks for your patience, I didn't realize everyone wanted the squishy wizard to open the door. But if you give me an opportunity to dig at the barbarian, I'll take it gladly.