The imp throws the box towards Gealdn and vanishes. The pathfinders leave the townhouse and with all four task completed, you make you way back to the grand lodge.
A throng of people blocks the street ahead. A performance art group commandeers the street, drawing graffiti to create a jolly hellscape complete with illusory devils comically dancing around in circles. A few citizens avoiding the crowd slip off-street through a nearby alley, the only egress past the gathering.
Once everyone is placed we will continue
intiative order
GM 2
Mun
Gringo
GM 3
Gealdn
Uthreaad
Mr. Peppers
GM 4
Grummosh
GM 1
Mun, Gringo, Uthread and Mr. Peppers all recognize that these are the men who have been following them around and wiil be able to act in surprise round.
Surprise round: GM 2, Mun, Gringo, GM 3, Uthread, Mr. Peppers, GM 4, GM 1
The Female in the back of a group pulls out a scroll and activates the spell on it.
Mun and Gringo you are up.
Mun readies an arrow. Gringo fires a shot, and connects on the sorcerer.
One with a rapier comes strait to the group, "We come for your coin"
As he approaches, Mun lets loose an arrow and it connects against the rogue.
are up
Mr. Peppers will cast Mage Armor. The halfling moves up to the group. The other female cast a spell and then lets loose a sharp whistle.
Surprise round is over.
GM2 Shoots an acidic ray at Mr Peppers.
Miss
Mun and Gringo are up
Gringo just misses the Halfling due to cover. Mun unleashes arrows at the Halfling as well. The first one sails wildly over head and the second passes a few feet over the Halfling.
#3 Attempts to poke Gealdn with his rapier.
But misses.
Gealdn crushes the halflings head, splitting it open.
Uthread please post your actions.
Uthread will take a shot vs the rogue. He will take his AOO.
It does not hit
But your arrow strikes true.
Mr. Peppers then cast his spell, takes a five foot steps and delivers the shocking grasp.
With a jolt number 3 falls to the ground.
Grummosh you are up
Grummosh blesses the party.
#1 moves into melee with MR. Peppers, and strikes with a shortsword.
does not confirm, mr peppers only takes 3 damage.
#2 will shoot another acidic ray, this time at Mr. Peppers.
which misses.
Now everyone is up
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Mr Peppers grunts as yet again today he's donated his fine Elven blood to the Pathfinder cause.
"You'll wish that sword stroke was a bit better placed soon enough woman!"
With that he again takes on a guarded stance and casts
Gringo shoot at the sorcerer and she drops. Mun adjust his fire to the other target and both arrows miss. Gealdn brings down his earthbreaker and finishes her off in on blow.
At the end of the day, Venture-Captain Ambrus Valsin thanks the PCs for carrying out his tasks, and assures them that not every mission for the Pathfinder Society involves running errands about Absalom. If the PCs successfully completed three of the four tasks, he congratulates them
on proving their skill and responsibility, and promises them a new assignment in the near future to take them beyond Absalom’s unassailable walls.
Advise when ready to start the confirmation. I am planning to run The confirmation and then close out the campaign so you can take these characters for gameday. Then if you wish to come back for the Consortium Compact you may. Just PM me after gameday.
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"Thank you Captain Valsin. I am ready to move on to more serious work for the Society once it becomes available. As for my companions, I can definitely vouch for their skill at arms. Gealdn could bring down an ogre with one mighty swing of that hammer. Mun, Gringo, and Uthraed are all skilled from a distance with Bow and Musket. While Grummosh blesses us with good luck in a fight. You know where to reach me."
With that Mr Peppers grabs up his share of the treasure and heads out.
Mr Peppers doesn't feel well at all.. its going to take him a few days before he's ready for part two.
Mr. Peppers, you have went to the temple and the disease has been diagnosed as filth fever. You can either keep rolling or pay 150 for a cleric to heal you. Then you will be good to go.
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Mr Peppers drags his shivering, fever-racked body into a familiar temple of Nethys and explains his situation while his teeth chatter uncontrollably:
"I waassss bit by a couple of rattttss a couple dayssss ago, and then got stabbed with a sworrrrrd. I think I've got the plague or been poisoneddd or something. Save me Nethys!"
And just like that you are cured.
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Uthraed tests the tension in his new bow and admires craftsmanship put into it. The heartwood is a deep dark brown, almost black, while the sapwood is only a slightly lighter Chestnut color, and the pull on it is much stronger than his last bow.
It has been some time since his first pathfinder mission, and while he has enjoyed his time cataloging books in the great library he has a yearning for more adventures.
The invitation delivered last night was remarkably simple, especially given the importance of the occasion: “Start where it all began. Meet us at the Pig’s Paunch one hour before dawn.”
The Pig’s Paunch is a run-down building with a faded sign of a large pig standing on its hind legs, arms folded above a corpulent belly. Inside, the air is thick with the scents of human sweat, stale tobacco, and leftover food. In the center of the room, surrounded by inebriates sleeping off their revelries, a familiar elven man stands high upon top of a large round table.
“Welcome! Welcome, my students! Please, have a seat!” With that, Kreighton Shaine, the Pathfinder Society’s Master of Scrolls, nimbly drops down to sit cross-legged on the table before looking about the tavern with a sense of reverent wonder. “Can you believe it? It all started here years ago—well, over four hundred of them at least. Under this very roof the Pathfinder Society was born.
“But today! Today you will begin your Confirmation! Master Farabellus, Master Zey, and I all agree you each have shown your worth and dedication to the Society, so there’s no better time to see if you can handle becoming full field operatives. Allow me to introduce you to Janira Gavix,” he says as he motions for an excitable halfling woman to approach. She wears a large backpack and carries all manner of tools, pouches, and scroll cases around her waist. Shaine continues, saying, “Janira here will be going with you on your Confirmation. She was one of my brightest pupils and will no doubt be an invaluable resource on your journey, for she discovered the caves you are about to explore during her own Confirmation.”
Janira speaks up in an enthusiastic and cheerful voice,“Greetings, aspiring Pathfinders! Six months ago, while I was mapping cave entrances in the foothills of the Kortos Mounts, I witnessed a lone gillman entering a concealed cave. I thought little of it at the time, but I saw another one enter the cave again a month later as my Confirmation stretched on. A few days later, after I completed my assigned task, I entered the cave system, but was unable to find the gillmen.”
Master Shaine hops to his feet. “Initiates, for your Confirmation, you will travel to these caves to explore and document its many passages. Additionally, and most importantly, you are to learn what the gillmen are up to in there. Oh, and you need to come back alive as well.” With these parting words, the Master of Scrolls jumps off the table and strolls out of the building while
humming to himself.
Knowlege(Geography)
Knowledge(Histoty}
“The gillmen are a humanoid race much like humans save for the three piscine gills on both sides of their necks. They’re a little secretive but not outright hostile. Most live in or near the water.”