Hey Gang, welcome to everyone!
My name is Hmm, and I’ll be your GM for Tier 10-11. For those of you who have not met me before, I love roleplay and creative solutions. I enjoy doing specials in Play-by-Post, because we can get a lot done with plenty of time for roleplay if we keep a relatively tight pace.
We’re at high tier, where everything takes longer though, so I am hoping that we can keep moving throughout this special with you guys averaging 2-3 posts a day. I will try to communicate to all of you when I am hitting a crazy time. Wednesdays and even Thursdays now are often rough for me.
I am hoping that you communicate with me your crazy times as well. If you have any conventions, sick times, crazy vacations scheduled during this, let me know.
Bot Me Spoilers
I would like for you all to take a moment to create bot me spoilers for yourselves and your combat companions. Include your go-to rolls: favorite attacks, and strategies.
Hmm
Your paperwork for Ebrylis the Gate Guard comes in two main parts:
Also, it's time for fabulous forms!
Player:
Character:
Pathfinder Society Number:
Faction:
Slow Track or Normal:
This Chronicle #:
Starting XP:
Initial Prestige:
Initial Fame:
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle:
Starting Gold:
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle:
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle:
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(and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them?
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey.
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here.
Alignment
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff
Diplomacy
Disable Device
Intimidate
Linguistics
Perception
Sense Motive
Stealth
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them?
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Player: Dennis Muldoon
Character: Gunner Ock
Pathfinder Society Number: 215589 - 4
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 24
Starting XP: 27
Initial Prestige: 27
Initial Fame: 48
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: none
Starting Gold: 159.25
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: None
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: None
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(and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them? Nothing in particular.
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey. Gunner has grown quite a bit into a support role, after initially being inclined to jump into combat with his rapier. Some recent highlights were helping his fellow clergy at the Hall of Drunken Heroes, and testing himself by successfully making it through a grueling test set up by the Decemvirate, along with some friends.
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here. Gunner has a base land speed of 40ft, a door sight ability, and a dimension hop ability from his Exploration domain. He keeps a scroll of breath of life in one spring-loaded wrist sheath and a wand of protection from evil in the other.
Alignment Chaotic Good
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff +13
Diplomacy +13 (+3 vs. House Thrune, Chelish nobles, or Hellknights)
Disable Device +13
Intimidate +5
Linguistics untrained
Perception +8 (+1 to locate traps)
Sense Motive +9
Stealth +9
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them? Gunner has a Dayfinder (Wayfinder +1/day daylight), that he normally keeps in a pocket until needed.
Gunnar, thanks for checking in! You appear to be quite a dashing cleric. Was the U Rogue dip always intended, or did it come up naturally in the course of the character’s career?
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Hello, Everyone!
I am looking forward to my first GM Hmm gaming experience and a great game with you all!
Eadie is vanilla (non-core) fighter. What you see with her is basically what you get. Her player loves cooperative tactical combat and roleplay.
I don’t anticipate falling behind on posting, but will do up some botting macros nonetheless.
To business!
Player: Yours is mined
Character: Eadie Navhelan
Pathfinder Society Number: 69095-3
Faction: The Dooooomed Scarab Sages
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: XXIX
Starting XP: 27.5
Initial Prestige: 5
Initial Fame: 50
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: 2
Starting Gold: I need to get back to you …
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: I also need to get back to you.
Because of her sheer awesomeness, Eadie auto-confirms her next critical hit for maximum damage (ignoring any DR), at which point she regains all lost hit points and loses all unfavorable conditions.
(signed) VC Hmm ✩✩✩✩
“Aunt Alix, I’ve been reading about …”
Spread out on top of her unmade bed, dressed in the pajamas she’s been wearing all day, a teenaged Eadie Adelwűlfa Navhelan peers over a hardback book as her guardian enters her bedroom in the small townhouse they share in Korvosa’s Northpoint district.
“Reading AGAIN! When you could be outside! Days like this come but thrice each Fall …” Alixandrah Navhelan decides to save her breath, before giving her stubborn niece an OK, let’s hear it gesture with both hands.
“It says here the Osirion goddess Bastet protects all cat kind. If She sees anyone kill a cat, there's a 5% chance She will send an avatar to kill the slayer. How cool is tha..?
Eadie's narration ends abruptly, as her adopted mother tears the book angrily from her hands. “Heathen trash! The Book of Numbers is the only spiritual text you need! You shall beg the undertreasurer's forgiveness for your sacrilege at the Golden Vault tomorrow - and every matins this week.”
“Osirion!” The older Navhelan throws up her hands. “Do you realize how far from Varisia that is? You’re a dreamer, my girl. A pious scribe of Abadar shall NEVER see a pyramid or sphinx!”
“Let alone the inside of some ancient Pagan temple.”
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(and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them?
Eadie, have you been to Magnimar often?
“Often, Roland? No, not really.”
Eadie’s looks upwards towards a corner of the mansion’s ceiling with a wan smile. “I’ll never forget the first time though.”
“I stepped off the boat from Korvosa wobbling about on my ‘sea-legs,’ still quite sick to my stomach. I then proceeded to spend my life savings on second-hand chain mail, a rusty greatsword and the cold iron morning star I still carry today.”
“I trudged through the Alabaster District and up to the gates of Heidmarch Manor, with a Pathfinder Society flyer in my hand and butterflies in my tummy.”
Eadie grimaces. “If Lady Heidmarch had turned me away I don’t know what I would have done.”
“But she didn’t. And after a bath and decent meal in the kitchens, me and three others were sent north to spy on the antics of a group of beach goblins as an entrance test, before I was shipped off to Absalom for training as an Initiate.”
Eadie pushes herself up from the ground on all fours, before rising gingerly to her feet.
“Sound off! Agent Garros? Agent Nalhaven?”
At the Hellknight Officer’s cry, Eadie begins searching desperately through the debris. "Signifier Karva, I can’t see him!"
"Did you hear me? OMG Abadar! He’s gone! AGENT NALHAVEN IS GONE!
“And he was so young. So desperately young! Lady Heidmarch told me what a bright future Agent Nalhaven had. He was like a brother to me ... Whatever am I going to do??”
She breaks down sobbing … Then stops.
“Hey, Roland. Who’s Agent Nalhaven?”
Before setting off to the Cairn of Shadows from Korvosa, Eadie reminded Ser Canayven Heidmarch that Sheila had asked him to pick up a pint of milk on his way home to Magnimar.
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey.
Eadie thinks back to that time and *shudders*
"We were all about to go completely underwater - I was wearing armor made of heavy steel links - when we caught a lucky break and the water drained away."
"The humans in the party were relieved and emotional, as you can imagine. Our steadfast paladin of Iomedae danced for joy, like your old folk do when nobody’s watching." Eadie *winks* at the gray-hairs sitting around the fire.
"And in my adrenaline fuelled rush of relief, I kissed the nearest two of my companions - one of whom was the more dapper of the two tengu. He conferred with his fellow birdman who opined that according to human customs, he understood that meant we were now married!"
Eadie chuckles and *shrugs* "So I decided to play along. At the end of the mission, I explained to my beau that he had to cover me head to toe in shinies, give me his share of the spoils (though I promised him a small allowance), organize a séance at the Temple of Pharasma to formally ask Aunt Alix for my talon in marriage and stop hanging out with his mates at the pub."
"I told him he wouldn't miss his friends, because I had prepared a very long honey-do list of things for him to do about the nest and what else did he have to do now anyway? Seeing that I'd given him a very generous 6pm curfew."
**Innocently** "Can you believe I haven't seen my no-good husband for years now!"
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here.
No especially odd abilities, Eadie is a vanilla non-core fighter.
She does like applying an oil of bless weapon to her blade to auto-confirm crits against evil creatures. Her 30’ speed in heavy armor comes through regular armor training.
• Partially charged (24) wand of CLW (Rise of the Goblin Guild)
• Potion of CLW at CL 3 (Rise of the Goblin Guild)
Alignment: Chaotic Good, in equal measures, to the
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff -1
Diplomacy -1
Disable Device (untrained)
Intimidate +8
Linguistics (untrained)
Perception +16
Sense Motive +2
Stealth -1
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them? Yup! A bog standard wayfinder, slotted with a clear spindle ioun stone clipped to her +2 belt of giant strength.
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After conferring with my lovely wife who has a much better memory for these things than I do (and apparently takes much better notes) I have an edit: Gunner has worked with Sheila Heidmarch at least a few times, dealing with Lissalan cultists in The Cultist's Kiss and Feast of Sigils, and with some shifty goblins in Rise of the Goblin Guild.
Eadhie, that is a magnificent intro. I love all the flavor you’ve added here!
Gunner, so you have actually resided on the Heidmarch estate before... Don’t worry about the memory lapse. I blame the drink. It also sounds like your interactions with Sheila have been mostly positive, if a little on the bland side if you are not remembering them. Good to know.
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I wanted to comment to let you all know I saw the post in Flaxseed. My character needs a couple of tweaks as it's the first time she has been played in play by post and i'm still debating with some item purchases. I'll sort everything out once i'm back from the hectic craziness of family Christmas time. I should be sorted out and posted all the details in 2 or 3 days.
Happy holidays all!
Sounds great. We’re all just playing here, getting some pregame posts to establish the group chemistry, and to get us into the mood to take off when January starts.
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Eadie is happy to take the melee lead in any battle, but will not provoke needless AoOs. Nor will she charge away from the party, except against a lone boss or unarmored spellcaster.
Instead, if there is no time to enlarge she will ready an attack and wait for an enemy frontliner to come to her, and/or switch from her favored adamantine falchion to her reaching Lucerne hammer.
She believes strongly in team and focussed fire – always working to put down the most damaged opponent first (all things being equal). Combined with the furious focus feat, she generally uses power attack all the time.
[dice=adamantine falchion + Power Attack (PA) + Furious Focus (FF)] d20+20 [/dice
[dice=magic, adamantine, slashing damage] 2d4+22 [/dice
[dice=adamantine falchion + Power Attack (PA) + Furious Focus (FF)] d20+20 [/dice
[dice=magic, adamantine, slashing damage] 2d4+22 [/dice
[dice=iterative falchion + PA + no FF] d20+15-3 [/dice
[dice=magic, adamantine, slashing damage] 2d4+22 [/dice
[dice=hasted attack + PA + no FF] d20+20-3 [/dice
[dice=magic, adamantine, slashing damage] 2d4+22 [/dice
Eadie likes saving 1 star GM re-rolls for Will (and occasionally Fort) saving throws. She also has the Improved Iron Will feat, which she will use first.
However, in the final fight against the boss, she will use her star reroll to confirm a crit or reroll a missed attack.
Eadie’s starting gold: 142.56 gp
GM Hmm, may I burn Eadie’s Attuned to the Citysong boon from the Pathfinder Tales novel “Blood of the City” for this game?
At the start of an adventure, you may select a settlement that has at least 1,000 inhabitants. For the duration of the adventure, you gain a +1 bonus on initiative checks and Knowledge (local), Perception, Stealth, and Survival skill checks while within the limits of the selected settlement.
If you select Magnimar as your settlement of choice, increase this bonus to +2.
Once you have used this boon, cross it off the Chronicle sheet.
@Vashara, is the PC you signed up with an archer? I looove ranged fire in a tough scenario.
Happy Holidays from me as well!
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Player: Purple Dragon Knight
Character: Yanndu
Pathfinder Society Number: 4456-5
Faction: Dark Archive
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 11
Starting XP: 28
Initial Prestige: 38
Initial Fame: 38
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: Scholar (4 PP; knowledge local); Information Brokerage (6 PP)
Starting Gold: 8,697gp
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: TBD - as per initial scenario talks.
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: None
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(and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them? No
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey. Yanndu's fascination with Pharasma and the River of Soul is what brought him to Avistan and convinced him to leave his contemplations at the Mordant Spire. Upon discovering that a simple mortal had found a loophole in the grand order of things - a nonmagical one no less - which could cause a soul to stall forever upon the mortal plane, he decided to serve as liaison for the Pathfinder Society, and has since participated in many Grand Lodge ventures from the Verdurant Forest to the Shackles. Lately, he has reduced his travels and shifted his efforts on the cataloging and study of artifacts and relics assigned to the Dark Archives, establishing an information web of scholars and procurers of rare goods. He has requested the services of a younger elf scholar named Lanliss to assist him in compiling all this information and keep track of the more dreary and mundane details, but in fact this decision was also made to ensure future knowledge transfer of the Dark Archives information compiling efforts, which he sees doomed to disappear to the lapping waves of history if left in the hands of humans and other short-lived races. If the Grand Lodge or Absalom disappears altogether, then at least the information can be salvaged and held secure in his homeland or... beyond...
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here. Occult Skill Unlocks may be used at times but I will quote/spoiler the abilities in question. Yanndu has the Empath feat which accelerates the use of the Read Aura occult skill.
Alignment Neutral
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff 0
Diplomacy 0
Disable Device N/A
Intimidate 0
Linguistics 19
Perception/Read Aura 17
Sense Motive/Prognostication 15
Stealth 3 (23 while invisible i.e. vanish or greater invisibility)
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them? regular/standard Wayfinder, kept inside his Handy Haversack.
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BASIC INFORMATION FORM
Player: Luthor Volandis
Character: Vashara
Pathfinder Society Number: 9249-2
Faction: Liberty’s Edge
Slow Track or Normal: slow
This Chronicle #: 31
Starting XP: 27.5
Initial Prestige: 40
Initial Fame: 50
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: None so far.
Starting Gold: 10,859g 9s
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: None at this time
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: Nothing at this time.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE GM (and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them? Yes. 7-03 The Bronze House Reprisal. The mission went quite badly after one of the Pathfinder’s got caught in a petrification trap, but the group pulled together and barely scraped through. We also eventually saved the petrified Pathfinder too.
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? She started out as an optimistic but naive new recruit who hadn’t found her place in the world and was travelling to find it. As she learnt more about the world, her homeland, and the Society she finally started to find her feet as a leader and moral compass for the teams she joined. She finally decided that having strong, honourable leaders was what the Pathfinder Society and her homeland of Andoran needs, now more than ever. She spent a lot of time training to become an Eagle Knight, and was eventually accepted into their ranks. That is a day she remembers with great pride. She’s become someone who volunteers for risky missions and puts herself in personal danger to aid her allies when they get in trouble. She has recently been spending a lot of time Fangwood keep, her little slice of home on the southern border of Nirmathas. She seems to have a knack for heading back to the Grand Lodge just in time for large scale missions involving many Pathfinder’s.
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? Vashara has a prestige class that advances her bardic Inspire Courage and adds 6 rounds of Bardic Performance that can only be used for Inspire Courage - This class feature is called Heroic Speech and i tend to use these first during fights. I list and track them separately to avoid confusion.
Alignment Lawful Good (Paladin of Torag who follows Torag’s Paladin code)
★My word is my bond. When I give my word formally, I defend my oath to my death. Traps lie in idle banter or thoughtless talk, and so I watch my tongue.
★I am at all times truthful, honorable, and forthright, but my allegiance is to my people. I will do what is necessary to serve them, including misleading others if need be.
★I respect the forge, and never sully it with half-hearted work. My creations reflect the depth of my faith, and I will not allow flaws save in direst need.
★Against my people’s enemies, I will show no mercy. I will not allow their surrender, except when strategy warrants. I will defeat them, yet even in the direst struggle, I will act in a way that brings honor to Torag.
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff +10
Diplomacy +17
Disable Device (untrained)
Intimidate +8
Linguistics (untrained)
Perception +17
Sense Motive +17
Stealth +10
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them? Yes. Vashara has a standard wayfinder that usually hangs on a strap around her neck. She also proudly displays her holy symbol of Torag and a pin to identify her as a member of the Eagle Knights of Andoran. She isn’t opposed to hiding these items when the circumstances of a mission require it. Her own morals and Torag’s paladin code allow for subterfuge when needed.
Vashara has various ammunition types and tries to keep a selection on hand in her Efficient Quiver so she’s ready for most things. All her other gear is stored in her Handy Haversack, barring a couple of wands in spring loaded wrist sheaths.
Vashara tries to get full attacks in with her bow when possible, and if an enemy has damage reduction she has trained aim her arrows at a very small area to help get past this (Clustered Shots Feat).
[dice=+2 Adaptive Composite Longbow attack]d20+17[ /dice]
[dice=arrow damage]d8+4[ /dice]
[dice=+2 Adaptive Composite Longbow attack 1]d20+15[ /dice]
[dice=arrows damage]d8+4+d8+4[ /dice]
[dice=+2 Adaptive Composite Longbow attack 2]d20+15[ /dice]
[dice=arrow damage]d8+4[ /dice]
[dice=+2 Adaptive Composite Longbow attack 3]d20+10[ /dice]
[dice=arrow damage]d8+4[ /dice]
@ Eadie Yes, Vashara is a bow user. She also likes to tell heroic tales of her past missions to help inspire others around her to greatness.
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I've realized that although i'm a member of the Eagle Knights due to my class, as far as PFS in concerned i'm not a true member.
I'm going to fix that now before the game starts by purchasing two boons from the Pathfinder Society Field Guide for a total of 2PP.
You are invited into the ranks of the illustrious Eagle Knights with the rank of lance corporal. You become specialized in Diplomacy.
Having performed valued and extraordinary service to Andoran as a member of the Eagle Knights, you are elevated to the rank of captain and become specialized in Perform (oratory).
This will change make my Perform (Oratory), Diplomacy and Sense Motive all go up by 1 too. I've adjusted my character sheet to match.
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Sorry I took a while to respond. Other the Christmas gatherings, and work madness, Hmm asked some rather thought provoking questions about Myrdon that I really want to spend some time to think through. Myrdon is actually my very first PFS character, and it is with some regret that he would be hitting retiring level soon. So as good a time as any to reflect back on his past. Unfortunately, being my first, he did not spend much time in PBP (which I started later), so ironically, despite being the highest level, he is less fleshed out than some of my other characters. Sigh. But first...
BASIC INFORMATION FORM
Player: kuey
Character: Myrdon Gharthrin
Pathfinder Society Number: 215076-2
Faction: Dark Archive
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 30
Starting XP: 31
Initial Prestige: 24
Initial Fame: 54
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: Not yet
Starting Gold: 6606
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: Not yet
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: Nothing at this time.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE GM (and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them?
4-01 Rise of the Goblin Guild
Despite leading Myrdon and the rest of the party in a wild chase throughout the city, during the interogation, we took quite a liking to Ekkie the goblin. Feeling sorry for her, and definitely with quite a bit of mischief in mind, we convinced her that we would clear out the goblin guild and instate her as the leader of the guild after that. And that is precisely what we did. :)
Myrdon has also encountered Sheila in these scenarios, but there were nothing noteworthy in them that I can recall.
4-04 King of the Storval Stairs
4-12 The Refuge of Time
7-25 Orders from the Gate
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey. One of Myrdon's most traumatic experience occurred during an mission to Azlant Ridge. What had first seemed a simple investigation led instead to a harrowing battle against a many tentacled demon. He made the rookie mistake of trying to sneak past the monster trusting in his invisibility. The multiple tentacle strikes quickly educated him on the extraordinary senses of demons, knocking him unconscious almost immediately. What was worse was that upon waking, he found the dead body of his faithful roc companion, Aegis, lying beside him. Apparently, the beast had loyally but rather stupidly stood guard over his master's unconscious form, inviting repeated attacks from the demon. Myrdon eventually acquired a replacement, naming him Aegis II in honor of his first companion. But he never got over the loss of the first, and is occasionally impatient with the replacement, thinking rightly or wrongly that he doesn't measure up to the original.
In fact, that seems to be the arc of Myrdon's development over his years in the Pathfinder Society, a gradual disillusionment. He initially joined the Society years ago in high hopes, thinking that either through its vast resources and artifacts, or through the adventures and network, to uncover the mystery of what happened to his travelling caravan troop when he was just an adolescent. But it's been years and he is still no closer to deciphering what happened the fateful day when everything become a blur in his memory, and the image of the woman with three faces.
But ever the showman, he still goes through life with an outward veneer of joviality and vivacity... For the show must go on.
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here. As a sylvan sorcerer, Myrdon has a roc animal companion. (Picked up on the pun in the name yet?) Also,
Alignment Lawful Neutral.
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff +16
Diplomacy +18
Disable Device X
Intimidate +16
Linguistics X
Perception +14
Sense Motive +1
Stealth +1
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them? Yes. However, he usually keeps it secreted away. He travels the world with Aegis as a one-man circus show, so why possibly would a character such as he have a wayfinder? :)
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BASIC INFORMATION FORM
Player: Miteke
Character: Bauble
Pathfinder Society Number: 141936-2
Faction: The Exchange (pity them)
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 27
Starting XP: 27
Initial Prestige: 41.5
Initial Fame: 47.5
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: None (yet)
Starting Gold: about 8K (I'm in the process of getting a GM to email me a chronicle sheet he earned from November. He should be getting somewhere around 6000 gp)
Day Job:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: TBD
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: None
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE GM (and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila? In Wrath's Shadow, I believe. I looked for a comprehensive list of chronicles she appeared in with no success.
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey.
Bauble is a Tarzanesque character that was brought up by goblins instead of wolves. He left the tribe because he was recruited and converted by my first character, Marta, an inquisitor of Ragathiel. Well, kind of converted. Bauble has a very one-dimensional view of Raggythrall (what he calls the deity - and it goes downhill from there). When Marta explained her deity to Bauble, all Bauble heard was god of FIRE! That sold him. That and the fact that he learned how to read from a slave (he was later eaten by the tribe, Bauble pouted during the entire meal and didn't take a single bite in protest). He really likes to read. Goblins frown on that kind of behavior, though Bauble is fairly sure his soul is still intact. He wanted to live in a world where he did not have to hide his prized copy of the Princess and the Goblin. He tried to form a study group in Absalom to no avail. Nobody appreciates fine art.
I would say one of the main ways he has grown is from an outright rejection of the idea that he is a human and not a goblin, to a relucatant acceptance of the fact. Oh, and that he values life more than the common goblin and has learned that that is not a aberration. He's always considered himself 'good' (though he is in fact N/N, but consider what he grew up around. N/N IS good in comparison). In spite of this 'growth', Bauble is still very rough around the edges - particularly when it comes to eating habits.
He is small for a human and has filed his teeth which is about the only part of his face you can see since he wears a magical face mask.
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here. Acrimony Veil (see chronicle 15, In Wrath’s Shadow). Provides a hand's free way of adding empowered to an evocation spell. He also has a black blade that likes to call himself THE BLACK LORD. It's THE BLACK LORD that convinced Bauble to join The Exchange. He's one greedy hunk of metal. Bauble has absolutely no head for finances, but he likes money.
Alignment N/N Male Human Magus (Bladebound)/10
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff -1
Diplomacy -1
Disable Device +6
Intimidate +3
Linguistics +12
Perception +11
Sense Motive +1
Stealth 15 (35 while invisible i.e. vanish or greater invisibility)
Do you have Wayfinders? No. But he does have a really cool mask that is very scary.
Bauble, alas, I got contacted by Thunderspirit earlier this week about that sixth spot, and I offered it to his witch by private message at 6:38 pm on Wednesday. I’m just waiting for him to dot in as he gets back from the holidays.
Sorry for the confusion here, but I do not have an empty slot for your character. I hope you can find another spot in the Special!
Hmm
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Forms, fabulous forms!
Player: thunderspirit
Character: Bruxo Machi
Pathfinder Society Number: 3601-7
Faction: Shadow Lodge Sczarni Dark Archive
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 28
Starting XP: 31
Initial Prestige: 44
Initial Fame: 55
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: TBD
Starting Gold: 13,144
Day Job Roll: N/A
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: TBD
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: Nope
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(and Sheila Heidmarch)
Has your character worked with Sheila before? What adventures? Did anything particularly memorable happen on them? Yes, in 4-19: Night March of Kalkamedes and in 4-17: Tower of the Ironwood Watch.
How has your character grown in Pathfinder Society? Tell me a bit about one or two highlights on your personal journey. Bruxo has learned that every faction dies. (He is still expecting the end of the Dark Archive any day now.) He has explored Thornkeep and Fangwood Keep; found fiends in Rachikan and demons in Nerosyan; and has told a tyrannosaurus rex to take a nap not once, but twice.
Are there any special rules, equipment or other abilities that I need to know about for this character? In addition, if you have something that is made legal only by a boon, please list it here. Nothing too fancy. Bruxo is pretty run-of-the-mill.
Alignment Good (in a neutral sort of way)
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff +4
Diplomacy +5
Disable Device +0
Intimidate +1
Linguistics +11
Perception +10
Sense Motive +20
Stealth +1
Do you have Wayfinders? Where do you wear them? He does not. I suppose he should buy one soon.
EDIT: Oh, yes, he does, my mistake. It hangs from his belt.
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@GM Hmm, I understand you’re unwell and hope you’re feeling better soon :(
I have got a question about tactics for GM Thunderspirit (Hi, TS!) and the other experienced campaigners. I’m not used to having such an array of AWESOME magical firepower in a party at this sub-tier. I also note Vashara looks quite devastating as a paladin archer.
I’m thinking Eadie’s best bet is to maneuver to try and keep our opponents off the arcane/psychic casters and mop up any mooks.
I guess our tactics will evolve once we’ve seen everyone in action, but I like to have some idea of Eadie’s role in what I hear is a tough scenario.
Yeah, I am still sick. I am going into the urgent care today to get this checked out.
Hmm
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Let's hope this scenario has some regular monsters that can be messed up with my mind powers... a lot of scenarios are filled with elementals and undead which are immune to mind-affecting (I can deal with undead in a very limited fashion, but elementals? no can do...)
@Hmm: I'm glad you're going to the emergency! hospitals have the advantage of offering all tests you will need (x-rays, ultrasounds, MRIs, etc.) unlike walk-in clinics which can only give you a piece of paper that sets you on a week-long quest to get all the things you need over time... like a faction card if you will! :P Take care, and get lots of chicken noodle soup in ya ok?
No chicken noodle soup... This VC is vegetarian. But soup... yes. Soup is good!
Hmm
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I have got a question about tactics for GM Thunderspirit (Hi, TS!) and the other experienced campaigners. I’m not used to having such an array of AWESOME magical firepower in a party at this sub-tier. I also note Vashara looks quite devastating as a paladin archer.
I’m thinking Eadie’s best bet is to maneuver to try and keep our opponents off the arcane/psychic casters and mop up any mooks.
I guess our tactics will evolve once we’ve seen everyone in action, but I like to have some idea of Eadie’s role in what I hear is a tough scenario.
Think of Eadie as a bodyguard. (Although I suspect both Bruxo and Myrdon will spend most every combat airborne, and Yanndu has that ability as well.) Our job will be to make yours easier. :-)
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Been MIA cos I've been down with a cold. Finally getting better. Get well soon, Hmm.
By the way, Myrdon doesn't ride Aegis. Tactics-wise, Aegis would close in for melee, and that is the last place Myrdon wants to be. But he would likely be airborne with overland flight. He can cast fly on you as well if you want.
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Cool, Bruxo! That works for me. :)
Myrdon, hope you're feeling better soon as well. I have a potion of fly but knowing there are other options if we get in a bind is always good ;)
Having Aegis as a large flanking buddy will also be handy.
@GM Hmm, I have updated Eadie’s skill list assuming you will accept the boons I outlined above.
If you are not OK with that, you already have the unadjusted skill modifiers, until I can prove to you I have the necessary materials! ;)
What are your abilities with the following skills so that Sheila can send you on the right missions?
Bluff +0
Diplomacy +0
Disable Device (untrained)
Intimidate +9
Linguistics (untrained)
Perception +18
Sense Motive +2
Stealth +1
These abilities also rely on Eadie’s You Rescued the Minotaur Prince combined with her Shortcut to the Centre of the World boon.
These boons are detailed in Eadie’s profile.
Oh that is a nice confluence of boons!
Hmm
So the special starts tomorrow (because Shifty lives in the future) in less than 24 hours. Probably about 7PM Central. If you guys have any fluff posts to get out before the Special, now is the TIME.
Also... does everyone have a BOT ME spoiler? I am totally serious that I want BOT ME spoilers on all your profiles. I will be checking them tomorrow, so please put some common dice rolls or strategies or something in there to make your GM a happy GM.
Hugs,
Hmm
They are actually most useful for the player, because they speed up writing combat posts!
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Player: Purple Dragon Knight
Character: Yanndu
Pathfinder Society Number: 4456-5
Faction: Dark Archive
Slow Track or Normal: NormalThis Chronicle #: 11
Starting XP: 28
Initial Prestige: 38
Initial Fame: 38
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: Scholar (4 PP; knowledge local); Information Brokerage (6 PP)
Starting Gold: 8,697gp
Day Job Roll: [dice=Knowledge Local Day Job]1d20+18
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: TBD - as per initial scenario talks.
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: None★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Yay! my GM pulled through and we just finished the other scenario just in time... (one day more was required, yes)
The following is what's changed; rest is as per the above/original post. Thanks for your patience GM Hmm!
This Chronicle #: 12
Starting XP: 29
Initial Prestige: 40
Initial Fame: 40
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: Scholar (4 PP; knowledge local); Information Brokerage (6 PP)
Starting Gold: 16,481gp
And we are off! And once again... I show phenomenal timing for setting up Shifty's post. Muahahahaha!
Thanks to everyone who helped set up the slides with personal information, and to GM Poblano Pepper, who did one of the most beautiful slidesets I have ever seen in a Play-by-Post!
Glad that you squeezed in under the wire, Yanndu!
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Sorry for being a bit MIA. Work is traditionally overwhelming around this time each year and this year is no different. Been grabbing less than 5 hours of sleep each night. :P At least my cold is better. After this week though, things should improve tremendously. Coordinating with the start of this special. :)
edit: Have added bot me for both Myrdon and the bird. Honestly though, botting Myrdon is rather complex due the the different spells he has. But basically, feel free to use his spells. Almost all adventures, I end with many spell slots unused.
The auction is the day after the Gala, so tomorrow!
Hmm