He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Pending Tawner's AoO.
Round 3! (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Dominic
__ Black Maiden
__ Lydia / Fomalhaut
__ Tawner
__ Teag -17 hp, shaken, -3 Dex
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Human Kensai Magus 3 [HP 27/27 | AC 17/16/11 CMD 16 | F+5 R+4 W+3 | Init +3 | Perception +2, Sense Motive +1]
Dominic looks back at Tawner and then down at Teag's body. "Oh yeah, you cut him wide open. His guts are all over the place over here. But these things happen. Better him than us." He shrugs at the cleric.
HP 24 AC 18, FF 16, T 12, Init +2, Fort +4 Ref +7 Will +4
Black maiden shouts over her shoulder as she rummages.
Did you confuse that blade you carry for a paintbrush? It has a edge, you kill people with it. If it doesn't have a edge, you can still kill people with it, it just takes a little more effort. You are in the WRONG line of work if you don't want people ending up dead.
Man, are we ever the WRONG group for emotional support. >.<
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Black Maiden wrote:
Dibbler... did he pack everything of value in there?
Black Maiden finds the carriage filled with sets of fine silverware, well-crafted furniture, artwork of various types and other personal items of value.
Meanwhile, Dominic after searching the moaning Teag, remembers he tossed the wand aside when the party came upon him. Dominican goes to the spot and finds it, but instead of a gold and jewel-encrusted symbol of excess, the rod has become a dull base metal. Its jewels revealed as glass.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Black Maiden wrote:
Man, are we ever the WRONG group for emotional support. >.<
But you have an emotional support wraith and a bunny.
Aside from the obvious Hallimir, also finds the vial that Teag was about to down.
perception (taste) DC 18 or detect magic and Spellcraft DC 18:
HP 24 AC 18, FF 16, T 12, Init +2, Fort +4 Ref +7 Will +4
Black maiden picks up the rod and attempts to identify it.
spellcraft:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Well boys, the rod might be worth a pretty penny if it's magic... but we seem to have a full carriage of valuables as well. I say we take the lot, sell it, and go get our silverhex.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Black Maiden wrote:
Black maiden picks up the rod and attempts to identify it.
Well boys, the rod might be worth a pretty penny if it's magic... but we seem to have a full carriage of valuables as well. I say we take the lot, sell it, and go get our silverhex.
Quick note about vigilante's and alignment. Your character's real alignment is the one you have in your "heroic" guise. Your social guise is your cover alignment (i.e. Often serious, caped avengers of the people pretend to be rich, feckless playboys and such). In PFS play this means your caped personal has to be non-evil. Since neither of the Maiden's personas has an alignment listed this becomes a potential problem for me to judge. Hint, hint.
Under the effects of a detect magic spell (a necessary step in doing most things with spellcraft) the Maiden watches as the rod's magic ebbs away to nothing like a wand after its last charge is spent.
HP 24 AC 18, FF 16, T 12, Init +2, Fort +4 Ref +7 Will +4
The World's Most Interesting GM wrote:
Quick note about vigilante's and alignment. Your character's real alignment is the one you have in your "heroic" guise. Your social guise is your cover alignment (i.e. Often serious, caped avengers of the people pretend to be rich, feckless playboys and such). In PFS play this means your caped personal has to be non-evil. Since neither of the Maiden's personas has an alignment listed this becomes a potential problem for me to judge. Hint, hint.
Sorry about listing it, Lucy is undergoing a complete revamp after this mission is finished so I haven't prettied it up. Lucy is LN, Black Maiden is CN... and is very close to CE on a good day. I'm well aware from the slightly spoilery info from the discussion that this is the townsfolk stuff and we should return it, but Black Maiden is super selfish... and Lucy would probably say that they are a bunch of rubes who let themselves get conned into following a false god and deserve what they get.
In otherwords, I'm counting on the rest of the party to act decently and tell Black Maiden to return the stuff! Or not, but she won't fight or argue if anyone tells her to give it back. ;)
Human Kensai Magus 3 [HP 27/27 | AC 17/16/11 CMD 16 | F+5 R+4 W+3 | Init +3 | Perception +2, Sense Motive +1]
"Tawner's right. We're going to return these. If not out of decency then in hopes these people will spread the knowledge that Razmirans are phony. If enough do it, the this whole sham of a country may fall. Besides, we'll take this potion. Its worth more than any single piece in that cart, I bet"
|AC 15, T 11, FF 14|HP: 21/21|F +2, R +2, W +7 (+2 vs disease/MA, -1 vs attribute loss, +4 vs reading/writing)|Init +1, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 16|3/3 dooms 1/1 Guiding Spirit, 3/3 Sense Bond, 6/6 Manifestation, 1/1 ES
Is taking the treasure for ourselves even a real option (like, that gets us more treasure on the Chronicle)? Lydia and Fomalhaut don't care much at all for pious peasant mobs; they might actually stand closer to Black Maiden than they do to Tawner on this issue....
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
This is a role-playing game, so long as folks are having fun you can do whatever you like. However, there are consequences for actions. That and there is only one open seat left on the whole of the carriage (a single driver's seat).... If it turns out that through play you discover that your character is more "good" or "evil" than you initially thought that character's outlook to be that alignment can change to reflect reality.
Technically speaking, stealing goods from people just recovering from mind control is a an E act by pretty much every measure and therefore a definite alignment violation (even if you are just stealing what you think are stolen goods) for those with a G (who exemplify benevolence, mercy, honor, etc....) in their stat block. It would deserve a mention on a chronicle sheet even for those PFS characters without a G, especially considering the party has already attacked their contact and then left them to face possible assassination. At some point when these actions constitute a trend, decisions need to be made. I'm just pointing it out now so that folks can course correct if they feel they don't want to go down the E road (which ultimately would by the current rules force a PC to retire from organized play).
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Black Maiden wrote:
Sorry about listing it, Lucy is undergoing a complete revamp after this mission is finished so I haven't prettied it up. Lucy is LN, Black Maiden is CN... and is very close to CE on a good day. I'm well aware from the slightly spoilery info from the discussion that this is the townsfolk stuff and we should return it, but Black Maiden is super selfish... and Lucy would probably say that they are a bunch of rubes who let themselves get conned into following a false god and deserve what they get.
Man, are you ever the WRONG group for moral direction. ;)
|AC 15, T 11, FF 14|HP: 21/21|F +2, R +2, W +7 (+2 vs disease/MA, -1 vs attribute loss, +4 vs reading/writing)|Init +1, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 16|3/3 dooms 1/1 Guiding Spirit, 3/3 Sense Bond, 6/6 Manifestation, 1/1 ES
Forget I said anything, I've been having trouble keeping track. :P
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
The crowd still, a bit dazed and slightly amnesiac about recent events seem amenable, and soon enough a group of children have defaced the big statue of Teag with paint and the sweaty owner of the VI Inn is inviting everyone back to the ale house for a round on the ex-mayor and to introduce the party to real mayor--Mayor Wilson.
"Hidey-Ho neighbors." he says from beneath a swath of bandages wrapped around his face. "We can't thank you enough for helping free our little town from Teag."
"I believe it was High Senator Marcy who said 'to the victor belong the spoils'." He says handing a bag full of coin to Black Maiden. Then he adds in a whisper: "Don't worry your, secret is safe with me. I know all about obscuring one's identity."
the bag:
The bag contains 300 gp.
"Oh and here's some homemade sun block that I use when I'm out in my garden." Mayor Wilson says handing a jar of the stuff to Lydia.
"Now I'm going to go rest after taking just enough time to ingest some delicious willow bark tincture I have stored along with my strawberry preserves."
Human Kensai Magus 3 [HP 27/27 | AC 17/16/11 CMD 16 | F+5 R+4 W+3 | Init +3 | Perception +2, Sense Motive +1]
Dominic bows his head at the mayor and hands him the now-spent rod. "Take this mayor and try not to let your flock go astray again." He turns to the others. "Where to now?
HP 24 AC 18, FF 16, T 12, Init +2, Fort +4 Ref +7 Will +4
The black maiden scowls as she pockets the gold and starts stalking towards the carriage.
Cannibal grove. We're fetching the lantern. And if we're lucky, I'll be able to kill some folks. One man was not NEARLY enough to work out the tension from this fiasco.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Fomalhaut wrote:
Fomalhaut swipes Teag's mask as his corpse hits the ground.
Technically, he's not a corpse (at least not for a few rounds after Tawner hits him). Though it is funny to see Tawner (read: the group's healer) fretting about how he's just killed the man as that man dies before him and no one checks. I'm sure he will feel terrible when he hears Teag's death rattle, realizes what just happened and begin angsting again. ;)
Black Maiden wrote:
The black maiden scowls as she pockets the gold and starts stalking towards the carriage.
Cannibal grove. We're fetching the lantern. And if we're lucky, I'll be able to kill some folks. One man was not NEARLY enough to work out the tension from this fiasco.
"It was fiasco. One that I'll never forget. I stained my last good shirt in that mob...." Dibbler stops. It as if a magical lantern is lit above Dibbler's head.
He rushes over to were Teag tossed his sign-painting supplies and grabs a brush and some paint. Very carefully and up-side-down he paints the message: 'I survived Teag's take-over!' on the front of his shirt.
A villager walks by and says: "That's pretty nice."
To which Dibbler offers to paint him one for a small fee. The man accepts and Dibbler paints the same message on the man's shirt. "It's sort of commemorative. To remember your amnesia with."
After several other people ask for the same, and Dibbler has painted their shirts, the initial man's wife arrives and ask for one of her own. "I want mine to say: 'I'm with stupid'."
"Custom job. That'll be extra." says Dibbler.
Cannibal grove is the closest of your next possible destinations, but is so remote that riding in a carriage is no faster than walking. It is about a week's travel. Feel free to stock up on gear before leaving.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
After six days of hiking toward the River Kingdoms' neglected border with dreary Ustalav the party arrives at the Restless Bear Inn on a gray and overcast afternoon.
Knock off the cost of rations, assuming you don't want to go through the bother of foraging (which adds to your travel time), or reading over the starvation rules.
This crumbling, moss-choked inn stands alone at the end of a wheel-rutted cart lane. Looming over its squat frame, a dense curtain of foliage marks the border of the Forest of Veils. The sign above the door reads “Der Restless Bear,” and it seems to refer to a mangy stuffed bear’s head that lolls upon the wall just beneath the eaves.
From the outside it is remarkably similar to the peasant farm shacks that are dotted throughout the area. These places always seemed to have their shutters closed, their walls flaking paint and looked sad and uninhabited as well as nearly uninhabitable.
On the inside, the inn is a one-and half story hostel with a claustrophobic ambience. It features plain walls, simple wooden doors, shuttered windows, and smoky tallow-fat candles that keep the interior in dim illumination. The upper area is a storage loft filled with dusty boxes and cobwebs. The only soul in the place seems to a wild-eyed, wild-haired, old human woman with a crooked back and gaunt face.
Dibbler is staying in Allenstead this time, as he doesn't want to have to replace the entire suspension on his carriage that such a trip would require (possibly twice). That and he is allergic to werewolf bites. He'll be in Allenstead waiting for you (with the meter running of course).
|AC 15, T 11, FF 14|HP: 21/21|F +2, R +2, W +7 (+2 vs disease/MA, -1 vs attribute loss, +4 vs reading/writing)|Init +1, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 16|3/3 dooms 1/1 Guiding Spirit, 3/3 Sense Bond, 6/6 Manifestation, 1/1 ES
Lydia buys 8 days' worth of rations and a waterskin before setting out (5 gp duly spent).
This common room feels like a cave, its sagging rafters clogged with yarn, shabby ribbons, and odd miniature knick-knacks including a host of mummified tubers that reinforce its claustrophobic atmosphere.
"Have grrruel. One silverrr piss. Make you strong like Blanch." says the woman in her thick eastern Ustalavian (think of Boris and Natasha from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show) accent. She's holding a huge butcher's knife and wears a bloody smock. By the stains, whatever it was she had been doing before you arrived it did not go easy. She shows off one tattooed and muscled arm as proof of the power of gruel and then spits on the dirt floor.
"You stay night. Is 5 copperrr. Comes with brrraykfast"
"For why would handsome boy like you go to Cannibal Grrrove? Is crrrazy, no? Look at name. 'Cannibal Grrrove'. Perrrhaps you and yourrr blushin--err, yourrr wive here-" She nods to Lydia "Go to 'Beautiful-flowerrr-and-rrrainbow-grrrove-full-of-singing-birrrds-and-small -grrround-mammals?' Is betterrr, no?"
Lucy is staring daggers at the old woman, but leaves Dominic to the talking. She does give a nasty smirk at the idea of Lydia being Dominic's wife though.
|AC 15, T 11, FF 14|HP: 21/21|F +2, R +2, W +7 (+2 vs disease/MA, -1 vs attribute loss, +4 vs reading/writing)|Init +1, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 16|3/3 dooms 1/1 Guiding Spirit, 3/3 Sense Bond, 6/6 Manifestation, 1/1 ES
"I think I've been to 'Beautiful-flower-and-rainbow-grove-full-of-singing-birds-and-small-ground- mammals'. It was a long time ago, though. I think they call it 'Forsaken-heath-of-sorrow-and-potter's-clay-rich-with-small-animal-fossils' or something like that, now."
Lucy is staring daggers at the old woman, but leaves Dominic to the talking. She does give a nasty smirk at the idea of Lydia being Dominic's wife though.
sense motive:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Blanch looks confused by the strange love pentagon presented her. She looks at Tawner hoping for clarity.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
