GM BPC's PFS of Awesomeness! (Inactive)

Game Master Black Powder Chocobo

pfs # 52335-4
Anne Sidell
simi4games@roadrunner.com

pfs # 52335-4

faction: the Exchange
Anne Sidell
simi4games@roadrunner.com

Had yours already :), thanks though!

You should have mine as well

Kintampo
PFS-ID: 24861-6
Faction: Scarab Sages

Faction: Andoran (originally)/Liberty's Edge (new)

Managed to find a discussion of the change.
Liberty's Edge

I think Wyeth will not have a chance to post until this evening (EST).

Before all this started, Benson asked Wyeth to heal him. If possible, can that be retroactively allowed? I don't relish going into a fight like this at only half HP.

@Benson: If Wyeth wants to, he can make a single heal spell on you; there was enough time for one before the crowd came up.

Apologies for the delay, real life intruded. Wow, did I ever come back to some drama here!

I'm working on a game post and will have it up shortly. On the healing thing though, Benson explicitly asked not to be healed so his wound could be used as evidence. So it can't have happened before the crowd arrived. BUT he did ask following his presentation, and Kintampo's height observations came afterwards. That testimony took a few rounds (try reading it alongside a stopwatch), so there was plenty of time to get healing in there.

Wyeth Riceak
Faction: Silver Crusade
PFSID #114511-2
Player registered as: Don Jon Dux

Forgive my paranoia (and Benson will tell you it's nothing personal), but I'm not keen on posting email addresses in public -- I get enough spam as it is. :o) I'll PM it to you.

"Heathens, why does thou have fly swatters and silk rope?"

Group looks at each other, then back at the inquisitor with smirks.
*curtain close, cue sounds of swatting away irritation ^^*

Just out of curiosity, am i right to assume the 2nd prestige point is the capture of the invisible devil/imp/menace?

Can't tell ya til you're done!

Get the thing! :)

I wish I had a can of paint I could lob at it. We'd be so much better off if we could see the darned thing.

1st steps, we had to throw a bag of flour at a square to see the imp.
Pretty much what i wish we had, aside from the paint of course.

Yep, my female oracle Tuich took on First Steps and that imp was a royal pain. We had a good crew though, and they did pretty well with it considering.

Flour works fine, but paint would be so much more fun. And messier, and "permanent," bwahaha. (Tuich's day job is "scribe." She was lobbing bottles of ink. :o) )

Benson has some ink in his backpack! Hadn't thought of that!

So the acro didn't help prevent dmg did it, i'm screwed if it draws a grenade now.

@ Wyeth, my 1st steps scenario was great too.
My ranged knocked the drunk granny KO from behind and the warpriest agreed to visiting the paracountess in exchange for that silver letter opener.

Our GM made short epilogues for each....the warpriest was subjucated to her S&M whims for 3 days.
My ranger though, went off with the head of the psycho redhead. She has skulls of bosses on her wall. So far only that girl and the jinkin from veteran's vault, but it'll be more i hope.

Oh man, that redhead. And Shorty! (To be honest, in my head I kept seeing Belkar...) I was really surprised they'd include a potential TPK setup in a beginner's scenario, especially as a closer (when everyone's likely to be low on resources). Don't we want to encourage newcomers, rather than kill off their PCs? :o/

Back to the present, I suspect Erika's the (unwitting) cause of the murders and all this village's troubles. How much you wanna bet she brought that impoid with her all the way from the World Wound?

I don't think Ekira is responsible for the murders. I think the man was influenced by the demon (or whatever) to do the murders and attempt to frame others for it, while Ekira was manipulated into stirring people up to make a hasty judgment and promote prompt executions.

Demon probably just loves to cause strife and violence.

The curious comment I want to learn more about is the man saying, "NO! We must stop them before their demon corrupts us all!" Presumably, he is referring to the party and by extension the Pathfinders before us. Perhaps the demon wants revenge on Pathfinders. That would imply that the demon knew we are Pathfinders, even though we've kept our connection secret.

The other curious thing is the demon speaking celestial. This implies it may not be a demon (although the DR seems to say otherwise) or at least if it is a demon, it can speak celestial and presumably has been prompting both the man and Ekira in celestial making them think it is sent by Iomedae.

Or perhaps the demon did the murders and manipulated Ekira and the man to pursue the Pathfinders as the culprits.

I don't think Ekira is responsible for the murders.

Not directly. I mean in the sense of the whatsis riding her into town. (That critter was possibly what made her antsy/unstable way back in the day and helped get her "ejected" in the first place.)

Thus if she hadn't come to town the impoid wouldn't be here and the murders would never have happened. Q.E.D.

Or at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. :o)

(Of course, that means Wyeth needs to reassess and owes her a personal apology. Clearly she had little control over her behavior with that thing poking around in her head.)

@Marduk: The Acrobatics did reduce the damage; falling 2 stories (20 feet-ish) is 2d6, but the Acrobatics reduced it by 1d6. So yay Acrobatics!

Of course, that means Wyeth needs to reassess and owes her a personal apology. Clearly she had little control over her behavior with that thing poking around in her head.

Maybe, but she's a pretty potent case in point about why one should be skeptical of hearing voices of the divine. Maybe there should be some sort of "Turing Test" for divine voices, some questions and answers one should ask to try to determine if the being is truly divine or just some demon or devil messing with you.

Benson prefers deities that emphasize the importance of good ale. Perhaps he'll do a little proselytizing for Cayden Calean with Wyeth when this is all over.

I guess if one were Christian it would a "Turin Test," arr arr arr.

This whole debacle is a perfect example of why Rahadoumis are rabidly anti-worship. Not only do you get into mistaken identity situations like this, but even if you're following an actual deity you end up being a pawn in the god's games.

Wyeth respects Cayden's life philosophy (no man should hold power over another) and appreciates that this god ascended from man. If he was going to worship any god, Cayden would be the one. As it is, he pays tribute to him and tries to live with a similar degree of commitment to his own beliefs.

Of course, tribute to the church of Cayden is drinking, and proselytizing is being seen drinking, so... anytime, anyplace, anywhere, Benson! :o)

Ale, ALE? Peninsulae tea gives more piece of mind....more piece of quiet in the tavern too :)

Benson, being a pirate and connisseur of ale, might appreciate the Pirate themed band AleStorm...nudgenudge.

@ Wyeth: Of course, lots of people are religious without being zealots, both in Golarian and Planet Earth. As for being a pawn in the god's game, plenty of people are pawns in some king's game and sometimes that's worse than what the religions inspire. So that all depends on the kinds of things one is asked to do by the god/goddess. I'm not sure what kind of pawns deities like Erastil uses, but seems they mostly farm and hunt.

And being non-religious is no guarentee one will not persecute others based on politics or race or religion. Chinese communists have persecuted millions of people not for practicing the wrong religion but for practicing any religion.

@ Marduk: As for Alestorm, I'll give them a listen. Haven't heard a good pirate rock song since Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's song, Pirates. "Ten on the black, to beat the Frenchman/ back you dogs give him room to turn/ now open wide sweet heaven's doors/ tonight we're going to see if heaven burns." I do like the soundtrack music from Pirates of the Carribbean. Rip-roaring and great for role-playing.

@GM BPC: Is the new adventure PBP thread started yet? Let us know when it's open.

@ everyone: great adventure! I enjoyed it a lot.

@Benson: I'm just going to use this thread unless yhere's a problem with that :)

D'oh! Day job checks, too, if you got 'em!

Thanks

no day job for me... not til i go up a level at least.

Profession(Pir... Sailor): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

Profession [Sparring partner: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

No profession for me.

I will also change to Kerastes who is an:

since Kintampo has the opportunity to play in the 3rd part of Destiny of the Sands early January (just need 1 more GM credit to get him to the required lvl 3)

Fair enough :) new PC works for me!

Aha, more people to get aquainted to.

Let's hope the inquisitor of the merchant god doesn't object to the humble lifestyle of a monk. They usually aren't big spenders. ^^

GM: I have won the following boon in GD 3 and will apply that to Kerastes:

However I have not received the actual chronicle yet. Do you allow me to use the boon or do you want me to wait until I have the actual chronicle? I will apply it using Dwarven weapon familiarity.

Link to discussion thread where I won this boon

Marduk: Kerastes reveres Abadar mostly in his aspect of the god of agreements and contracts and following up on them.

I'm ok with that: a oread with dwarven weapons sounds pretty awesome

Thanks! I just decided that his weapon of choice is the Dorn-Dergar. I don't like to have two characters with dwarven longhammers ;-)

what is the new module again?

Before the Dawn Pt1: The Bloodcove Disguise

ok, thx

Benson, your rebuttal reads like you think that was the player's opinion, not the PC's. :o) You might want to read up on Rahadoum.

Then, if Benson still wants to go all rational and logical on Wyeth, have at it. Just realize you'll be fighting a lifetime of indoctrination in a stubborn, narrow-minded culture. And, as he doesn't consider his powers a fair trade for a bear taking off his leg, he doesn't think too highly of the whole pantheon anyway.

Well, except for The Drunken God. :o) At least he has his priorities straight!

Day Job (Alchemist/Herbalist): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

Oh, and welcome aboard, Kerastes!

I'm having problems with my scanner connecting to my computer, so chronicles may come out tomorrow. Still working on it. Until then, here's what you guys are getting:

1XP
2PP
510 GP

I'm familiar with Rahadoum. Wasn't sure how much of the opinion was players vs. PCs, but the point could be made in both worlds. I've got a PhD in Religion, so I tend to argue when I hear anyone making broad generalizations about religion; kneejerk reaction. Benson's openminded enough that the same argument could come from him.

Heh... dude, my other PFS character is a devout follower of Ashava and performs nightly worship rituals. Plus I'm running a Cleric of Septimus. And I know you've heard me quote "There are no absolutes" and "An absolute statement is a symptom of a closed mind." So how you could have thought those "broad generalizations about religion" could have come from me-the-player is beyond me. :op

GM, why did you use the 1st of July as the date on the chronicle? This chronicle is currently dated before the previous chronicle I have on Kintampo, which is from the 9th of July. It is also a bit awkward to have the new faction on the sheet when that did not exist at that time...

This game really started on July 9th, so can you set the date on the chronicles to that date if you do not want to use the current date? Thanks!

On another note: I just realized that weapon familiarity does not give proficiency with the weapons with "Dwarven" in them if you do not have martial weapon proficiency, which an inquisitor does not have...

Need to think how I will adjust Kerastes for that. Take a barbarian or fighter dip, or stick to warhammers and battleaxes?

@Kerastes: I was going off of memory. I remembered it was the first week of July-ish, but couldn't remember when exactly.

As far as the factions go, that's now required. Just a weirdness from playing a several month long game: the old factions aren't even options any more so the new equivalents must be used.

I also did realize I screwed up and forgot to cross out the Silver Crusade faction boon for everyone except Wyeth. Whoops.

I'll resend yours tonight, though. Does anyone else want an updated Chronicle?

Doesn't matter for non- Silver Crusade faction members i reckon, we are already what we are.

Heck no, Wyeth got his coveted recipes, so he's good. :o)

@Kintampo/Kerastes: I didn't get around to updating your chronicle last night. I did update the event itself to be marked as July 9th, so if you just want to add the lil curve to turn the 1 to a 9, I'm ok with that. If you'd prefer a new one, though, I'll again take care of that as soon as I can.

So, except for replacing Kintampo with Kerastes, this is the same crew as we had at the end of the Dawnton caper?

Indeed it is, pirate-san