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May 4, 2022 1:11 pm

May 4, 2022 1:11 pm

Ha'aroo shares his reservation to letting another outside their group have a watch at night. And refuses an outsider (outside the 6 vouched by Syndra) has a shift by themselves. Ha'aroo puts his name back in the hat for navigator, "Im still ok with being the navagator and leading the group. As I mentioned before we left Im decent at surviving in the wild im just not trained in it or anything."

Ha'aroo reassured Bruno that "it was very noble of you to try and save Nebula but since there is a language barrier Nebula thought you were trying to run off into the jungle and if you are by yourself in the jungle she could not keep you safe. So she was trying to save you by pulling you back when you started running. So please if you feel in danger please slowly group around the person farthest away from the threat unless you see everyone running. If everyone is running then run with us ok?"

Ha'aroo agrees with Sharagwyn, Travers and Jim that a normal pace would be good and is good to head out in the rain if everyone is ready.

Ha'aroo also shares with Nebula that Bruno said that "he was trying to run off to protect you. He was scared not just for himself but for you."

"I think if the river is as calm as it was before that it would be good to cross now. It looks like we are approaching the undead territory on this side of the river according to the map." he shares with the group.

OOC:

I think we should go southwest but if not then south
and in response to Travers dont we need 4 watches to make it 2 hours well we could just make it 3 watches at 3 hours each. That way there is always at least two people on each watch in case something happens to the only person on watch.

Last edited May 4, 2022 2:13 pm

DragonDweller62

May 4, 2022 10:24 pm

May 4, 2022 10:24 pm

After having to leave Jim's tent, Shara feels terrible; the weight of their dire combat finally dawns on her. She had tried to be a hero to the others, but all she could do was panic and worsen the situation—she was almost responsible for at least one death. Certainly, they were all lucky to be alive, but she did mourn a budding friendship that had instantly gone sour. She would apologize to Jim soon, but right now it was best to fade into the background.

OOC:

Great character development. Love to see it.

1. Shara is fine with any navigator, but adds that she isn't the best at it so it should be someone else over her
2. She also suggests that the party should wait out the storm
3. Normal or slow, not fast

GeneCortess Inactive for 1 months

May 4, 2022 11:24 pm

May 4, 2022 11:24 pm

Jim greatly favors walking along the river as opposed to trying to cross it. Lead on Ha'aroo. Pausing for the storm is good too. We aren't in a race.

May 5, 2022 5:58 am

May 5, 2022 5:58 am

Day 7 overview
While only Sharagwyn is worried about navigation in the storm party continue their route. Storm continue all day long, but you manage to keep going. You do not meet anyone or see anything special. By the evening storm breaks and your visibility improves.
Ha'aroo who is leading you suddenly realize that you are following tributary instead of the main branch and have little idea which way you have been moving all day long. Since you had to swim over several tributary and change direction to follow ever changing river path you do not know where are you on the map right now

OOC:

You are effectively lost! If the survival check I do on behalf of navigator will be a success tomorrow, it will mean you have found your location on the map.

https://i.imgur.com/GtZ7thk.jpg

[ +- ] Quote from module

Day 8 begins
Night is quite. You wake up. You need to decide either you stay where you are and spend day trying to understand your location or move.

[ooc]Regardless of weather you move or not your chances to figure out your actual location are the same.
Decisions:
Ha'aroo - do you share the fact that you are lost with the party? Do you decide to stay or move (i.e.south-west regardless of your actual location)
Everyone - any actions you take if learn about the fact that you are lost?
[/ooc]

Rolls

Secret Roll

Weather tomorrow

Secret Roll

May 5, 2022 12:51 pm

May 5, 2022 12:51 pm

OOC:

Yeah if we are lost i make sure everyone knows

Looks like my +4 survival was not good enough. Sorry guys

Last edited May 5, 2022 1:03 pm

GeneCortess Inactive for 1 months

May 5, 2022 7:10 pm

May 5, 2022 7:10 pm

OOC:

Jim suggest we move to the west and find the river. With the sun coming up, finding west isn't a problem. And we surely didn't cross the river so we should hit it.

May 5, 2022 7:37 pm

May 5, 2022 7:37 pm

Since we had to swim over a few tributary's throughout the trip it is possible that we swam over the river thinking it was just a triburary and may already be west of the river. Ha'aroo votes for either staying put and finding where we are or heading southwest since no matter what position we are we will need to travel southwest to get to the camp.

May 5, 2022 7:51 pm

May 5, 2022 7:51 pm

OOC:

@GeneCortess if we talk OOC you can't go west on hexagon. You have to choose one of 6 directions: N, NE, SE, S, SW, SE
I would also like to stress out that you don't know which side of river you are. I was trying to narrate it

GreyWord says:

you had to swim over several tributary and change direction to follow ever changing river path you do not know where are you on the map right now

if I failed to narrate it please just accept the mechanical implication is - moved into a random direction ( I rolled 1d6) and you have no idea where you are.
Also don't forget this is raining even in normal day and you don't normally see the sun in Chult. Ever.

Again, if players feel this aspect of ToA is not fun and vote to remove it - I'm totally fine to disregard the "Navigation" chapter from module
description - there are enough of the other types of challenges in the game.

Until I have majority of players vote to remove it from this game I'm running it as written.

May 5, 2022 9:06 pm

May 5, 2022 9:06 pm

Pacan looks around at the trees. They all look - the same. she thinks to herself, exasperatedly. She never had this issue back home. Everything here was just so foreign. The water wound around and bent in the weirdest ways. The trees were gnarled and warped. Nothing was right. Even her morning meditations didn't work as well as she would have liked.

Let's stay put for a bit, and do some thinking. We can track the sun, or what hazy ball amounts as the sun, and get an idea of where we are. Better than walking in a bloody circle, yeah? she says, a faint touch of exasperation tinging her voice. Even if we have to climb a tree to do it. It would be worth it.

OOC:

Mechanically speaking, I think it's fine to leave the navigation part in. It's not perfectly "fun" in play by post, but I think the exposure to the jungle, consuming days against the death curse, yada yada all adds something to the mounting pressures to solve it and such. I vote to keep it. The "frustration" it causes the characters is worth it in terms of suspense and development.

GeneCortess Inactive for 1 months

May 5, 2022 9:18 pm

May 5, 2022 9:18 pm

Well we are lost. But the morning sun will tell us which way is west. I think that is best thing to do. It is what I would do. And obviously it will take us away from the undead. Jim puts in his thoughts.

OOC:

Hex wise that would be SW.

Last edited May 5, 2022 9:21 pm

balgan144 Inactive forever!

May 5, 2022 9:57 pm

May 5, 2022 9:57 pm

Travers quiet after the rain of the day before speaks up "if we could figure out which way the main river is that would help but I have no idea which way it is" he shrugs and sits on a log glancing around the jungle

Boop Inactive for 4 months

May 5, 2022 10:16 pm

May 5, 2022 10:16 pm

Nebula gives Bruno the donkey an extra bit of feed, feeling guilty for calling him stubborn

"The stars too can be useful, but.. I think it best to travel during the day. We'd be at a disadvantage in the dark

GeneCortess Inactive for 1 months

May 5, 2022 10:40 pm

May 5, 2022 10:40 pm

Jim smiles at Nebula. Well a midnight stroll would probably not a fine thought for traveling.

DragonDweller62

May 6, 2022 12:20 am

May 6, 2022 12:20 am

"I agree. I have a light spell if we are forced to use it, but traveling at night is more likely to make things worse." Shara decides not to make her voice overly heard. The others have already suggested following the sun, which would have been her suggestion as well.

Dramasailor says:

OOC:

Mechanically speaking, I think it's fine to leave the navigation part in. It's not perfectly "fun" in play by post, but I think the exposure to the jungle, consuming days against the death curse, yada yada all adds something to the mounting pressures to solve it and such. I vote to keep it. The "frustration" it causes the characters is worth it in terms of suspense and development.

OOC:

I fully agree with this. My vote is to keep it in.

May 6, 2022 5:28 am

May 6, 2022 5:28 am

Day 8 overview
Party to struggle agree on course of actions. Pacan gets up on the tree and tells that she see a hill to the North. It would be easier to figure out your location from a hill, but it is North and Jim don't like that idea. After longer argues party finally decides abandon the river and move North and get up the hill. This time they are extra careful not not get lost or run into any wild animals and manage to get up the hill by mid-day. A beautiful view available from the tallest trees of the hill allow you do discover that you are only few miles away from the main river as tributary were flowing almost along the main one. Party spend the rest of the day traveling back to main river.

OOC:

When I rolled 1d6 for random direction it was exactly SW so you are just were you wanted to be. But spent this day discovering that and I am moving to the next day with next post

Day 9 morning
You wake up (take LR if needed) without any events during the night, ready to move on. Weather is as usual and Ha'aroo navigates you perfectly fine.

Rolls

Secret Roll

Weather - (1d20)

(8) = 8

Ha'aroo Jassan: Survival

Secret Roll

Secret Roll

Secret Roll

Secret Roll

May 6, 2022 6:08 am

May 6, 2022 6:08 am

Day 9 evening
Second part of the day, while walking through the jungles the moment when several flying creatures attack you Haaroo is too busy seeking best way to bypass a huge fallen tree, while others are busy arguing and discussing different matters that you only notice that the creatures are not just another scared birds, but something that is attacking you.

OOC:

Everyone roll initiative.
Note: yes you move at normal peace, but I rolled high stealth for enemy so they still managed to ambush you.

I will meanwhile do the first round of combat of the enemy because you are in a surprise round
There will be no battle map you are all close to each other and the creatures when they attack you you realize are Stirges - you have either faced on heared about them at your home. They live everywhere. They will not do attack of opportunity.
Note: all attacks (where to hit is rolled) will be with disadvantage when you try to target a Stirge attached to a creature. As you don't want to hit the creature.

Round 1 overview (I will update table as initiative is rolled)

Character	init	action	notes
Sharagwyn Sagelight	??	-	Surprised, 6 hp drined by strige attached
Pacan Lathlas	??	-	Surprised, strige next to her failed to attack
Nebula	??	-	Surprised, 9 HP drained by strige
Striges	11	Attempt to Blood drain each of 7 characters
Jim Corman	10	-	Surprised, 6 hp drined by strige attached
Undril	7	-	Surprised, 7 hp drined by strige attached
Travers	5	-	Surprised, 5 hp drined by strige attached
Ha'aroo Jassan	3	-	Surprised, 11 hp drined by strige attached

On the first round 7 striges appear from all sides and each attack one of the characters.

Rolls

Stirge initiative - (1d20+3)

(8) + 3 = 11

Attack Undril - (1d20+5)

(16) + 5 = 21

Attack Pacan - (1d20+5)

(4) + 5 = 9

Attack Ha'aroo - (1d20+5)

(20) + 5 = 25

Attack Jim - (1d20+5)

(10) + 5 = 15

Attack Nebula - (1d20+5)

(20) + 5 = 25

Attack Travers - (1d20+5)

(17) + 5 = 22

Attack Sharagwyn - (1d20+5)

(8) + 5 = 13

Undril damage - (1d4+3)

(4) + 3 = 7

Ha'aroo crit damage - (1d4+3)

(4) + 3 = 7

Nebula crit damage - (1d4+3)

(2) + 3 = 5

Travers damage - (1d4+3)

(2) + 3 = 5

Jim possible damage (if ac 15 or less) - (1d4+3)

(3) + 3 = 6

Sharagwyn damage - (1d4+3)

(3) + 3 = 6

Ha'aroo crit fix (forgot roll extra die) - (1d4)

(4) = 4

Neula crit fix (forgot roll extra die) - (1d4)

(4) = 4

May 6, 2022 7:08 am

May 6, 2022 7:08 am

OOC:

Rolling initiative

Rolls

Initiative - (1d20+0)

(7) = 7

May 6, 2022 7:50 am

May 6, 2022 7:50 am

OOC:

Everyone who roll initiative 11 or more, go ahead and describe your round 2 turn, you will go before striges. Less than 11 - you will have to wait

balgan144 Inactive forever!

May 6, 2022 8:43 am

May 6, 2022 8:43 am

OOC:

Initative

Would it be at disadvantage to remove one from yourself?

Last edited May 6, 2022 8:44 am

Rolls

Initative - (1d20+1)

(4) + 1 = 5

May 6, 2022 10:00 am

May 6, 2022 10:00 am

OOC:

A creature, including the target, can use its action to detach the stirge -> this requires no dice roll, you succeed at it automatically, but spend an action on it.
Once detached it could be attacked without disadvantage. Striges that missed their first attack and are not attached could also be attacked now without disadvantage. i.e. there is a strige next to Pacan and that strige is not attached and could be attacked without disadvantage. Not sure about JIm's AC be he probably also has his strige not attached

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- Boop
  
  Nebula
- Dramasailor
  
  Pacan Lathalas