GM Debug's PbP PFS 4-11: The Disappeared (Inactive)

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Player/Forum name: Chadius
Character: Sheela Kolphan
PFS: 133608-14
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day Job: Perform(sing): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Thanks for the invite!

I can bring either a druid 2 (bow user, dino companion) or an investigator 2. I really enjoy either, so I can be flexible for party balance.

Sheela has bunch of money so it's time to spend, spend, spend!

Bracers of Armor +1 (1000)
2 Vials of Holy Water (50 total)
2 Scroll Cases (2 total)

I will buy the wand of Burning Hands from This Chronicle for 180.

Aaaand scrolls!

Feather Step 25

Comprehend Languages 25
Touch of the Sea 25

Alter Self 150
Glitterdust 150
Invisibility 150
Spider Climb 150

For a grand total of 1907. I'll take it out of my funds now.

What level are we going for?

I've got a 2nd-level Fighter or Thief (not "Rogue" - THIEF!) for lower-Tier, or a 4th-level Occultist for higher-Tier.

I suppose I've got some other characters in range, too, but I'm not satisfied enough with them to commit any further.

Looks like low tier since everyone so far is showing level 2 characters. Still need 2 more check-ins, but I think we'll be pretty clearly in low tier, split tier in the worst case.

I'm level 3, not 2. But it does look like I'll be the big girl in the group.

On balance, I'm presently leaning toward the Fighter for various reasons, but my Thief could be really good for this too (and I assume he and Redelia's Investigator would be veering on the redundant side together, but who knows?), so I'll wait to see what the others offer.

Hello! I missed my name in the gameplay thread! Sorry!

I have a few first level characters I can bring. There's an effeciency-loving secretary (investigator), a paladin with imposter syndrome, or a cleric with some very screwy heritages (a mostly human, dwarf-blooded oread). The secretary might be the best fit for the scenario, but the cleric or paladin can also work if party balance calls for it.

Redelia here.

It sounds like there are lots of us with several characters to bring, and one person has to pick so everyone else can, like a string of dominoes. I've heard this one is very heavy on the roleplay, so I will bring my druid, since she has a much more developed personality. She uses a bow, and her little dino, Blarg, is a solid front liner at this level.

GM, the character profile needs to be updated to 2, but I will do that later today. The level up is already done on paper.

Here is the above mentioned little dinosaur.

That's settled, then.

Player/Forum name: I'm Hiding In Your Closet
Character: Sirius Sa'luk
PFS: 40025-27
Faction: Exchange
Day Job: Thievery!: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

So...

IHIYK as Sirius - Thief 2
Redelia as Koani - Druid 2
Chadius as Sheela - Sorc 3
PDK as ? - ? ?
Sedoriku as ? - ? ?
Excoman as Rogar - Barbarian 1

Assuming PDK and Sedoriku are both in the 1-3 range, we are low tier.

Also, anyone who wishes to make purchases before beginning, do so now as the scenario thrusts you straight in! This is an infiltration mission, so gear up accordingly. Once everyone has checked into gameplay I'll begin!

Aright I think I'll bring my secretary as Redelia isn't bringing her investigator. She might overlap skillwise with Sirius the theif, but she is much more interested in helping if she can.

Player/Forum name: Sedoriku
Character: Angela Isafira
PFS: 108507-4
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job: Secretary: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

A few things about her, though. I like to stylize her as being on the mission to verify the information being sent back in reports, and therefore she doesn't like to be too directly engaged with things, such as enemies and what not, instead prefering to help from the sidelines. If this doesn't work, she can readily change.

Second, efficeincy is her biggest driving principle after the big three. As such she's liable to start bossing people around if the group is really not handling things well. Again if this is a problem, let me know and I can easily tone it down/get rid of it.

I'm really excited about this and am looking forward to playing with everyone.

I think that investigator/rogue is not a bad thing to have double of in a high roleplay kind of mission.

I was updating Angela's character sheet (I've made some stylistic changes recently) and discovered I don't have a copy of her most recent chronicle sheet. I've messeaged the GM and am waiting to hear back from him, but she should be ready to go otherwise.

Also she is going to sell and buy somethings with the money from her first chronicle.

Sales:
Leather Lamellar Armor 60 gp
Subtotal: 60 gp

Purchases:
Flask of Acid 10 gp
Durable bolts (10) 10 gp
Masterwork Chain Shirt 250 gp
Subtotal: 280

Total: 220 GP

I've already subtracted them from her gold totals.

Finally I think I'm going to change her faction to the Dark Archives. I realized her charater concept works just as well for that as well as the Grand Lodge, and I have more than a few Grand Lodge characters.

Angela: There's a link at the top of the page for your solstice scar game with your chronicle.

We'll start tomorrow.

It has every chronicle but hers, unless it's not showing up for me, which is a possibility.
Edit: I decided to check it on a different computer (my work computer doesn't play nice with drive and my phone wasn't showing it) and it showed up... Apparently my phone doesn't like that file in particular. Sorry for the bother!

Who wants the 2 elixirs of hiding (+10 Competence bonus to Stealth for 1 hour)?

Who wants the 2 scrolls of disguise self? I think I'm the only person who can use them without making UMD rolls.

Who wants the Shiver sample? Sheela does NOT want to use it unless absolutely necessary. She'd prefer Charm Person first.

As stated, I just took an elixir. I initially took both, but surprisingly, Angela's appears to be little, if any, better than mine.

I have purchased (assuming I'd have had the time) tear-away courtier's clothing and jewelry (of course, given that the price of the jewelry is the same as what I made on my Day Job roll, I can only conclude that I stole it), and a Traveler's Any-Tool - a total 335 gold already deducted from my sheet.

PDK, please make a post in the gameplay thread. I'm starting the scenario in earnest now.

Aaargh, I just discovered problems with Blarg. I used software to build him, and it looks like his HP are wrong, as is his number of tricks. His natural armor may also be wrong, so who knows what else is. Do you want me to fix him now, or are we too far into the scenario?

Go ahead and fix Blarg.

Blarg is fixed. The only actual problem was hit points; the character sheet wasn't showing the first attack trick.

Sorry about the delay in posting. The holiday got busy. Catching up now...

Also, happy holidays all!

All right... now that the barrage of holidays is behind us lets see if I can get this thing rolling at a better pace now...

Happy new year to all!

Happy new year!!

Sheela does have a pair of vials of holy water, that's her best bet here. That, or summon a celesital creature who can smite evil.

Okay, I just noticed this, the last line here is a bit important!

Argh of course it's the first few bits of the note in the cipher!
It looks like one of the letters (the cipher for the 'P' in 'production' is a cursive 'z'. It could be a '3' as well, but then that would suddenly complicate this cypher!)

Koani It looks like there might be a few mistakes with the cypher you posted earlier, shouldn't it look like this?

Extra space to get around the portrait

|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I |J |K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T |U|V|W|X|Y|Z| (Letter after being decoded)
|I |_|F|H|O|_|_|Q|A|M|_|_|G|S|E |Z|_|X|D|W|Y|K|V |_|U|_| (letter when coded)

There's still 8 letters we don't know.

Oooo man, I'm bad with ciphers. It looks like we need more clues?

Maybe the Capitalized letters are referring to the initials of our suspects? But we also don't know the importance of the names yet.

If someone left this for us, it may be that we just don't need the other letters, or else that they will be provided later.

Hey everyone, my home is expecting a nasty winter storm and I may lose power and be unable to post. We already had the power blink off this morning before the nasty stuff arrived. If I don't post, please bot me as needed to keep the game moving.

Sounds scary. Good luck out there and hopefully the storm passes without further issue!

That sounds worrisome... I hope it proves to be nothing or only a small issue, but the best of luck if it isn't.

Well, what are you waiting for, DRUID? The Seasons are obviously displeased with you. Make with the human sacrifice already!

Does it have to be a human sacrifice? Could it be an animal or special non-leathal ceremony instead?

A "Rocky Horror Sundae", maybe?!?

So far, so good. We just enjoyed staying cozy at home today. Homemade chicken noodle soup and fresh baked bread smells filling the house was just right.

I was going to be a sly doofus and say 'you should make bread soup and chicken-bread'...but then I found out 'holy smokes, Bullwinkle, chicken bread's a real thing - and so is bread soup!'

Thanks for the bot, and sorry. I'm back.

Hello! Sorry for the lack of posts! I laid up with a cold for the past two days and have wanted to do almost nothing but sleep. I'll try getting something up in the morning.

I just had the longest day in about the last year, so please bot me (and Blarg) if I'm holding things up. All the attack stats can be copied from the previous round if needed.

@Angela: What's Japan like? That's definitely a place I want to go someday.

Let Sirius serve as a sharp reminder to those voices that would have us all believe otherwise:

"Fun" =/= "optimized DPR"

I have a wand of Cure Light Wounds, Rogar. Koani can use it without a problem or I can try to make a UMD check. Let's see if the chair survives first!

I have a wand and am happy to use it on Rogar. If he's that badly off, I don't know that we want to wait until after dealing with the chair.

@Angela: What's Japan like? That's definitely a place I want to go someday.

Ahhhh, sorry for getting a response back to this so late! I saw it earlier, but didn't get something in then and blitzed it.

But in response: Japan is hard for me to desribe in a few words but i'll try. It's an amazing country, and it'll probably challege the ways you see things. How large should a room be? How polite can complete strangers be? How can people be in such close proximity and be so disconnected? How can a country pour so much into English education and get such mediocre results? (Ok, some of those you won't encounter as a tourist as much...)

But when people have said it's a country that can combine the very old with the extremely modern, they were not lying. Take for example Ginza, the luxury class shopping district of Tokyo, in it's center is a famous old building with a clock tower that wouldn't be out of place int eh late 1800's early 1900's, two blocks away there's a brand new modern design 8-10 floor shopping mall.

If you do come to Japan, I would recommend getting out of Tokyo (if that is where you go). Tokyo is the largest, the most famous and has the most to do, but it is not all that Japan has to offer and can be very different from the other parts of Japan.

It's an amazing country, and it'll probably challege the ways you see things.

^_- Try me.

How large should a room be?

I grew up in Silicon Valley. I'm no stranger to the Winchester Mystery House.

How polite can complete strangers be?

A couple visits back to San Francisco ago, I forgot how to get back to my hotel (on foot), so I asked a random guy on the street for directions. He whipped out his iPhone-or-whatever (and mind you, this would have been several years ago, when they were less ubiquitous) and looked up the directions for me right in the middle of the street. Maybe that's not so atypical, I'm not sure. Groups are mean and stupid, but most individuals are kind.

How can people be in such close proximity and be so disconnected?

Well, autism's one way (did I mention I'm from Silicon Valley?); in all seriousness though, urban life in general is actually much more conducive to individualism than rural (where people are sooper-dooper friendly, but only so long as you conform).

How can a country pour so much into English education and get such mediocre results?

I'm sorely impressed that the rest of the world is as good at learning English as it is - and whatever their results, I don't see how they could possibly be as cost-inefficient as what America gets for most of its spending priorities....