[PFS_CORE_Aerondor] 00-14 The Many Fortunes of Grandmaster Torch (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

This is a CORE game, please check, and then double check you are putting in a CORE character.

The intention is that this game will be followed by 09-7 Salvation of the Sages.

If you are currently in a game or expect to apply a GM chronicle before play, hold off putting in the information.

To make my life easier when it comes to filling in chronicles, if you could each put in a single post with:

Special Do you have the Debt to the Scarred Sage boon (or have done The Many Fortunes of Grandmaster torch, 00-14)

Chronicle: What chronicle number this is for the character
History: What scenarios has the character completed? (or been credited with); any other chronicles (special boons etc)
Name:(the player) real name (as you have it appear on your chronicle sheets)
AKA: Character name
Faction: Your faction
PFS: # for the character
XP: starting XP, Note if Slow track!
Prestige: Starting prestige
Fame: Starting Fame
Gold: Starting wealth you bring into the adventure. This should be the total on your previous chronicle. If you want to buy any new stuff... see further on.
Day job: include the roll or that you don't have one. If you want to use a reroll at the end just note here you may want to use a reroll. If you don't include a roll I'll be assuming you take ten. Add the actual gold amount if you want to save me looking it up...
Spend: If you want to buy anything before the scenario starts (apart from your initial 150gp if you are a new character) include it here. This will appear in the "items bought" and/or "items sold" part of the chronicle.

Try to hold off actual discussion here until we have one post per character with those details (makes life easy for me to make the chronicles for you all at the end).

Please add an Icon for your character to the map. If you don't know how, let me know and I'll help. Also dot into the gameplay thread, or just hang around and RP there if you like.

I did not know this was a core game, apologies.
As such, I will not be entering Fifi Vanaash, but instead, create a new character for this game.

Chronicle: 1
History: None
Name: Bruno Romero
AKA: Ivan Timber
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS: # 190406-8
XP: 0
Prestige: 0
Fame: 0
Gold: 16 gp
Day job: Profession (lumberjack): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 = 20 gp
Spend: None

I will be creating Ivan's stats throughout today. Expect a melee frontline fighter that goes in with a handaxe in each hand.

Chronicle: 3
History: Race for the Runecarved Key, Master of the Fallen Fortress
Name: Elinnea
AKA: Zekuli
Faction: Dark Archive
PFS: 270121-3
XP: 2 (normal track)
Prestige: 1
Fame: 3
Gold: 1069
Day job: Profession (librarian): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19 > 10 gold
Spend:
Buying: masterwork light steel shield, masterwork morningstar, masterwork scale mail (total 667 gold)
Selling: buckler, morningstar, scale mail (total 63 gold; I believe I get to sell at 100% since I'm still first level?)

I am currently engaged in GM Valen's: PFS 1-33: Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible.

I thought this game was for August. If you need for me to bow-out, let me know.

As for what I have played so far:
SESSIONS: INTRO 1:First Steps: In service to lore
3-23:The goblin dead
4-15:the Cyphermage dilemma
7-01: between the lines

I'll update tomorrow probably.

This game is for August. I'm just getting you in now so we can have a quick start then with everyone already checked in. If you are in live games at the moment, just let me know and hold off putting in your stats until you know your gold/xp/chroncile/fame etc

Wylka is in the same game as Hannar but that game should be well finished before the August start of this game.

Will enter the stats when we get the Chronicle for that game.

Chronicle: 3
History:
2-18 Forbidden Furance of Forgotten Koor (pre-gen)
The Confirmation
Name: Mike McKeown
AKA: Seebonickk
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS: # 2072-46
XP: 2
Prestige: 2
Fame: 4
Gold: 655 gp
Day job: Profession (fisherman) 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Spend: None

chronicle:this will be 6
History: wounded wisp, delirium's tangle, the segang expedition, horn of aroden, night march of kalkemedes.
Name: Wydroe
AKA: Farlen Mizzul
Faction: grand lodge
pfs#: 165069-12
xp:5
prestige:4
Fame:8
Gold:1329
day job:craft jewelry: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
spend:none

Chronicle: 7
History: The Devil We Know pt1, The Glass River Rescue, To Seal the Shadow, Prince of Augustana, Severing Ties, Assault of the Kingdom of the Impossible
Name: Banesama
AKA: Wylka Forth
Faction: Sovereign Court
PFS: 138079-3
XP: 6
Prestige: 10
Fame: 12
Gold: 2483
Day job: None
Spend: None

Ivar and Hannar, could you post in gameplay just so I know you are active in there and will get updates. Thanks

Right, with the site outgaes and this modified battle, I think it unlikely we will finish before I head off until late October. We have a couple of options
1: really accelerate things, and maybe handwave an encounter or two.
2: go on hold for six weeks at the end of next week (fine for me, but if you have plans for these characters, probably not you)
3: I find a replacement GM for you.

Thoughts?

Okay. Looked what I have for Wylka. This is his only Chronicle signed up for the GameDay. So I am fine with Option 2. However if others do have schedule issues, I think Option 1 is good.

Hopefully it's not option 4: the scorpion kills everyone and it's all over XD

I'm actually also going to be traveling from the end of September to mid-October, and I don't have anything else lined up for this character. So option 2 would be my preferred choice.

If that doesn't work for everybody, I'd rather go with option 1 than 3 (because of my own upcoming outage).

Don't know that I am good at accelerated rates. I like option 2. Farlen is fine, but I have nothing on the horizon for him. I had the strange notion there was a second scenario planned in conjunction with this one. I guess I am getting my threads crossed.

However, I don't know if we are going to last very long with the scorpion. Things aren't looking good.

If there were six of them or the scorpion wasn't targetting the (helpful) thugs, things would be going quite differently. Certainly would have solved my problem with timing :-)

Yes, thank you very much for the thugs. Without them we would be cut in half and dead on the floor. Whatever happened to our other players? They never materialized. We have no frontliners. I guess they got frustrated with the website and quit. Could have used the extra magic and attacks. Oh well.

Season 0 was built for four players, so I'm pretty comfortable with you going ahead with four. And many of you are over first level as well. Even running core PFS characters are quite a bit stronger than their 3.5 counterparts.

Do you have a target date to for the pause you mentioned. I will probably check the site every day anyway, but it will help me know what to expect.

I'll be flying out on the 15th NZ time, but realistically won't be likely to post from next Thursday. Back about 25th of October. But again, might be a day or so before I get back to posting.

my wife and I are going out of town for our 1st anniversary this weekend. Please bot me as needed

I will be camping later today and thru Sunday afternoon. I won't have ability to post. Please bot me and use my skills as necessary to progress the game. My thanks.

Congratulations. With two of you out, no need for botting as such. I'lkl just move you up to the start of the next section.

Right, "I'm leaving, on a jet plane". Luckily I do know when I'll be back again.

TIME STOP

I've always wanted to use that spell.

Have a safe trip. Hopefully you won't need healing from my cleric. :P

I'm back, but jet lagged. If you can all post here I'll pick things up again as soon as I hear from you all.

Here.

I'm here, coincidentally also jet lagged.

I'm here

Three is enough. Of course back in the 80s it took eight, but never mind about that.

Hopefully Farlen sees the activity and jumps back in too.

I thought you said the 25 October. I am here, but I can't remember the names of those people we were looking for. Thanks for the PM.

I was giving myself some recovery time. I'll be slow for a couple of days yet.

I'd forgotten how much aspects of this scenario irritated me. It kind of assumes you are all murder-hobos and/or theives. Pathfinder Society has moved on a lot since season 0.

I'm going to wing these encounters a little more than is probably officially recommended.

I'm going to appologise for this choice of scenario. It really isn't turning out that interesting for honest PCs.

For example the current scene pretty much presumes that you lie (initiates combat); steal (ditto) or attack him (the same). It's like the author never assumes the characters would be upstanding members of society and just pay for things. Which doesn't make it very interesting. More like a shopping expedition.

It even has crappy comments in it such as "The [lower] total in parenthesis below is the total awarded PCs who don’t rob Nasir. That’s the price of honesty."

But as the all-powerful guide to season 10 (and to be fair most recent seasons) has a nice section about creative solutions I'm going to ignore some of the more punative aspects of the scenario.

I am glad i didn't try to bring a paladin thru this scenario. At tha start of pathfinder was everyone playing rogues? I guess the skills fit this type of job. The factions for the scenarios sometimes give you clues as to what tasks you will do. Well, i like playing honest characters for the most part. This is the first time I have felt forced to kill rob and extort, but i only starting play pathfinder in 2012.

and boons.. .19 or 20 I think

Wylka: 1d20 ⇒ 2
Farlen: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Seebonickk: 1d20 ⇒ 10
Zekuli: 1d20 ⇒ 17
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 4

I'll have a hack at your chronicles either tonight or tomorrow.

I'm hoping your enjoyed this rather stop-start venture more than me. It never seemed to quite fire. To be fair the last time I ran it, it was with my murder-hobo children...

Yeah. With this group, I don't think the murder-hobo route would've flied at least roleplaying wise.

I don't mind when a scenario ends up being mostly talk-y, but this one turned out to not have a lot of variety when approached that way. Still, thanks for being flexible and letting us take the alternative route.

Thanks for running this!

No worries.

I think they fairest way to do the gold is to give you full value for the chroncile and then deduct the spent gold from that. Shall I just spread that evenly over the four of you?

That makes sense to me.

Right, chroncicles are available

Normallyt I'd stick this in the header, but with the boards being what they are at the moment, I don't think I can do that.

Please check your chronicles, let me know any mistakes (or even if they are okay). I'll not be able to shut down this campaign until they fix the edit issue, but there is a note in the Flaxseed lodge I saw with a way to declutter your active campaigns tab a bit.

Chronicles look good to me. Thanks for the game GM Aerondor.

I appreciate the game. I really like core, but have a feeling with PF2 out, soon it will disappear. Thanks for GMing Aerondor.

Chronicle is good. Thanks, again.

I think my day job went to the wrong line: it should be where the positive sign is. Also I bought and sold some equipment at the beginning so it would be

Items sold 63 + 10 day job
Items bought 667 gold

The old chronicle format looks very different these days but I believe those are the right numbers.

Even with PF2 coming out, I won't forget my PF1 characters. I'm sure there will be some traditionalist out there that will run both Core and Classic PF1 games.

I think my day job went to the wrong line: it should be where the positive sign is. Also I bought and sold some equipment at the beginning so it would be

Items sold 63 + 10 day job
Items bought 667 gold

The old chronicle format looks very different these days but I believe those are the right numbers.

There is a Tracking Sheet you can use to keep track of that stuff too.

@Zekuli I've uploaded a new chronicle, can you see if that looks right.

@All I think Core is likely to stick around for a while. I've been playing in the PFS2 playtest, and it is quite a different beast to regular Pathfinder. I'm finding the learning curve higher than expected.

Thanks! It looks good.

@Wylka I do track purchases on a separate tracking sheet, but it's simpler if the math also adds up on the chronicle.