Tenfold Shields (OOC)

He's in his second range increment.

The pigs are not aware of Grimvaalk's presence. So yes, if you opt to engage them, he'll get a surprise round. They have concealment (20%) relative to him, though, because their position is screened from him by undergrowth.

If you want to proceed, then please go ahead and roll an initiative check for me.

Init

Technically, he's got slightly more movement than he has distance to cover before he hits undergrowth. You want him just to go as far as he can?

He won't have enough movement to enter a square with undergrowth.

I see what happened. I didn't spot the original rolls. Just the second one. And then my brain farted noisily. I plead infirmity due to the cold meds I'm still taking.

Will fix.

Is he shooting at one of these pigs in particular, or just the nearest, or the largest, or what?

Roll

Okay, we're all fixed up. My apologies. I didn't think my cold meds had me quite THAT baked.

I'm not totally sure I understand what you're asking for with that movement. Also, I think maybe I should remind you that ranged attacks occur in the middle of your mount's double move or run actions, and happen at a -4 or -8 penalty, respectively.

Are you saying he's going to move east through the undergrowth with a 1-square deviation to the southeast in his last square of movement, take his Rapid Shot attacks, then continue straight east until he runs out his movement in the stream?

I take it that this is meant to try to avoid concealment penalties.

Okay, we understand one another, and thank you for the reminder about the presence of the Mounted Archery feat.

Counting the arrows expended during the slaying of the last pig, Grimvaalk is down 10 arrows, which hit their targets and were thereby spoiled (4 from last time, and six from this). There are four arrows whose status is currently unknown. On a d100: 01-50 = intact; 51-100 = ruined.

Also, Grimvaalk probably doesn't need to roll Survival to track this critter. It's bleeding like its proverbially stuck self.

That's fine. Track it on your character sheet.

As a matter of courtesy, I'll do the heavy lifting on this. Crafting ordinary arrows is a task for Craft (bowmaking), DC 12. Repairing an item uses the same DC as making it from scratch; the only difference is that instead of needing raw materials of value equal to 1/3 the market price, you need only 1/5 market price.

Either way, the progress per time unit of crafting/repairing the item is tabulated as (check result x DC), incrementing as needed. If you're tracking weekly progress, then you state the price of the item in silver pieces; if you need to track on a daily scale, it's in copper pieces. A quiver of arrows costs 1 gp, or 10 sp, or 100 cp. Twenty arrows to the quiver means that a single arrow costs 5 cp to purchase, 1.67 cp to make, or 1 cp to repair.

I'm prepared to allow you to deduct from any cash you have on hand, as an abstraction.

Grimvaalk's skill check is +5. Assuming he takes 10, he makes 180 cp of progress per day. We can divide that by eight to get 22 cp/hour. So we'll say that he can fix or make an arrow in about 5 minutes, providing he has no distractions to contend with.

Edited to correct my math. He can make 1 arrow per 5 minutes.

There's enough pork to feed Oni and Yonah, plus two of the goblins. If people let their wolves loose on the pig's carcass, there's enough to go around for them as well. Because of the distance involved, it'll be necessary to either take turns feeding the wolves, or to drag the carcass back. It's really your option how you guys deal with that, and you certainly also have the option of just feeding them from supplies.

Otherwise, it looks like you've collectively opted to continue with the waiting game. Am I correct?

Maybe a couple of hours, at this point. It'll start to get dark soon.

Darker wrote:

Grimvaalk also suppliments the pig with his earlier findings and his everlasting rations. How many days worth of meals does that provide?

The everlasting rations produce one Medium ration per day (equivalent to 4 Small rations).

The pig feeds two Mediums and two Smalls, plus (probably) three Medium wolves if they're allowed to gnaw on the bones and so forth. It's highly perishable in this warm weather, so extra portions will not persist.

Survival doesn't appear to differentiate by size, which probably is some kind of oversight. We'll assume it's meant to indicate Medium creatures by default.

Survival checks to get along in the wild without food are predicated on an 8-hour activity cycle. On that time scale, Grimvaalk's result of 30 would feed 11 Medium creatures. Prorated for a 1-hour activity cycle, he gathered enough for 1.38 Medium creatures, which I think we can eyeball as 5 Small creatures.

Again, the food that he gathered is largely of a perishable nature, although he could leave the wild rhubarb to be picked at a later time and could opt to hang the pheasant overnight.

Are you guys building any camp/cook fires, or are you going to try to prepare your food on the one that (I presume, anyway) you plan to keep burning overnight in the cavern entryway?

I'm asking because I'm trying to ascertain what light sources will exist during the upcoming nighttime phase of play.

It sounds like you guys are leaning toward a scenario where you build a small fire to cook over, then put it out when you're done. And that you're going to set up a watch rotation that will include a duty to see to it that the fire in front of the cavern entryway is kept stoked up to prevent the dragon from attacking or escaping.

Is that correct?

I'll treat Yonah as an NPC, if a combative encounter develops before you return. Enjoy the trip.

Edit: No, Oni is MinusInnocence's character.