With 400hp and able to cast Heal 3 times, we would have needed to dish out 1600hp worth of damage :/

It's two separate mythic abilities, each on their own adding tier to initiative. One is the mythic version of the improved initiative fear, and one is the baseline ability all mythic entities above tier 2 get.

But yeah, mythic is just crazy bonkers/ broken. It was a nice idea, and I like some of the abilities, but too many are just "add a huge bonus to this number"

Agreed. Too much line go up, and nobody would ever use the cool abilities like being able to grant divine spells.

Same here. Which is why, as I said, whenever I resort to creatures with Mythic power, I will likely cut down on the numbers and immunities (like I did this time), while keeping the cool abilities. Not like it should come up too often, I just was stumped for a properly competitive aquatic creature that wasn't already slotted for someplace else, and so resorted to going through the mythic creatures until I found an interesting one.

Well, it's worked in our favor in an unexpected way then.

Also, if the Asmodeans decide to tackle the challenge as well, they now have an angry snake guarding the teleporter. :P

Maybe we should have talked to the snake, looks like they were nice.

Has anyone been tracking XP? Or do we all have different totals?  I recall GM saying it was our responsibility...  I lost count of my own, unfortunately.

     308 XPs: Character creation, level 15
     +5 XPs: Collected Sword and Coin Tokens (Team XP)
     +3 XPs: Defeated Mythral Golem
     +1 XPs: Didn't Murder the Aquarium
     +3 XPs: Escaped the Julunggali

^ This is what i have, with 22 XPs per levelup, so 10 more to go.

I'm pretty sure you earned some XP in the wood segment of the challenge, didn't you? I would need to double check, but you had a couple of fights there and I do generally award points for most fights - the exception generally being when the fight was avoidable and gained you nothing yet you triggered it anyway, but none of those was the case.

If anybody has the information, speak up about it, otherwise tomorrow I'll comb through the threads and double check.

Also... no comments on having found your first Pass Card (other than the one you started with)? That's some genuine progress toward winning the tournament, in a way - I'd have expected more of a reaction.

Well, I just got on. :P

Diata is not that concerned about the cards compared to getting the marks, though - but that's because she's advocating for a 27-point win.

That makes sense, although it's not like you can win without collecting twelve pass cards first, it's sort of a mandatory step.

Don't forget about the revelations on the secret fourth mark that the Asmodeans told you about - you refused their deal, so you don't have any proof they were telling the truth, since that was one of the things the deal was offering, but the idea has at least been presented.

Point being, it feels like we'll incidentally pick up the cards in the process of acquiring all 27 marks. (As for the secret marks, Diata will believe it when she sees it. Obviously, if she learns that it's true, she'll upgrade her target to 36 marks.)

XP wise, I see:
1 - everyone, getting to Khepri's village (link to a message in this game)
3 - everyone, collecting the sword token (link to a message in this game)
2 - Verik got an extra 2 XP for beating the balor 1v1
3 - Halasik beating Madeela in archery (link to a message in this game
2 - everyone, coin token (link to a message in this game)
2 - Diata, defeating asmodeans in knowledge competition (link to a message in this game)
1 - everyone, wood challenge (link to a message in this game)
2 - everyone, defeating mimics (link to a message in this game)
2 - everyone, wood key (link to a message in this game)
3 - everyone, killing mithral golem and getting metal key (link to a message in this game)
3 - everyone, escaping water snake and getting water key (link to a message in this game)

So Banner, Iona (and maybe Nar, not sure since they joined later) has 17
Diata has 19
Halasik and Verik have 20

22 to level up, so everyone will probably get there if/when we get the last two keys.

Ah, you're right, not sure how that didn't make it in.

Anyhow, 17/22 for me so still a bit to go until levelup. Appreciate the overview.

Still, didn't we get +1 XP in msg 202 for befriending the orca pod?

Looks like it.
I think I searched for " XP " with the spaces to avoid finding things like "expect."
But I missed that one, since it was  " XP."
I might have missed others if someone else wants to search.

Also, going back to the ic post, my guess is the other direction we saw would lead to the key. The question is how to get to it given the giant scary snake in the way.

Any thoughts?

Checking some math.
I cast a bunch of buffs right before we entered the first challenge.
I count:
45 minutes in the wood maze
20 minutes walking to the metal maze
1 hour in the metal maze
Not sure how long swimming - maybe 10-20 minutes?
Then 30 minutes to get back.

That's a total of 150 minutes + water time.
Is that correct?

That checks out for me, yes. Let's say the water time was five minutes, you didn't do that much in there, just swam to the bottom of the pool.

Same from me as well, for all those who actually celebrate it. :)

Back when I was a sugarholic, I used to celebrate the day after Easter, and all the discount chocolate.

Where I live the day after Easter is a recognized holiday, with days off work and everything. The correct catholic identification is "angel's day" (as in, the day the angels announced the resurrection to the apostles), but the secular designation is "little Easter", and it's traditional to go on picnics on that day. So... you're not alone celebrating the day after, I guess? Also, for me Easter ended about half-an-hour ago, and I should probably go to sleep because, while most places are closed for the holiday, restaurants aren't, so I'll be working tomorrow just as I was toady. ;P

Good night and happy festivities to everybody! ^_^

I'm Jewish, so don't celebrate Easter, but hope those of you who do celebrate had a good holiday.

Belated Happy Easter from me as well :P

And yeah, two days here as well. Nothing important really happened on Easter Monday / Second Easter Day that i could find, but it's an official holiday where i live.

I got Good Friday and Easter Monday off, but mostly indulged in Wine and Chocolate...
And moving furniture around, always fun.

Shall we go get the other three keys?