GM Harker's PFS Season 4 Campaign

Game Master Justin L. Warren

@Heccan

PRD Combat section wrote:

You can't execute an attack of opportunity against an opponent with total concealment, even if you know what square or squares the opponent occupies.

Ah, thanks. I was not sure if the fiend had a way to detect invisible which would negate the total concealment I think.

Go-go Gadget Wind!
Go-go Gadget Map kit!
Go-go Gadget Mount!

No, that was not the inspiration for this character :P

LOL, I just realized that the Pony would have the Scent ability. Too bad we cannot talk to it; it could be our tracker!

OH wait! My familiar has Speak with Master and Survival +2. Can she make a track or aid-other roll? Would she get the benefit from the Heroism potion, making that Survival +4????

I need to go to sleep now.. I'm off in the weeds.

My apologies, but I've been extraordinarily busy the last two days. I'll get an update up late tonight or tomorrow.

No worries.

Agreed, thanks for keeping us updated.

Depending on how much gold we get at the end of this (and it would have to be a large quantity, I forget what's to be expected at this Tier), I might want to retrain some skill ranks.

Sorry for disappearing the last few days. I should have given warning. The next few days won't be much better. This week is a particular busy one at work.

Valik, this is the last encounter so let's talk about how the defensive fighting will work later in the next scenario. If you want to fight defensive from this point forward in this encounter, that's fine, just let me know what your AC numbers are.

??? If I'd known that, I wouldn't have wasted those expensive components on trying to reanimate those two Drow back there. Seems a bit unfair...unless you could conceivably permit me to take them with me to the next adventure (assuming it's one I can adventure in)?

You can take back your components, sure.

My apologies to those who are subscribed to the Recruitment thread, but my Core Emerald Spire campaign is looking for a replacement and I didn't want to start a new thread.

I am fine with recycling :)

Meanwhile, it sounds interesting, but I think I cannot cope with more games currently.

Yes, no worries Hark. Always wanted to try Em Spire but I am in same boat as Vailis. Still finishing up the game I ran for OutPost and hoping to open a game up for community when I am done. Have to get our PF1 fun in while we are able.

You scared the poop out of me, LOL! I was behind in posting. When I hit my campaign page and saw lots of Discussion and Recruitment thread hits, I was afraid we had all died or something! LOL, glad we are not there yet :)

Having pinpointed his spell location earlier, Heccan has no trouble casting a Glitterdust spell into the plague fog. With the low light conditions and mists, however, he doesn't know if the spell blinded either target.

Maybe you're referring to something else, but even though they're a conceptual evolution of Smoke Bombs, I don't think the miasma generated by Plague Bombs actually hinders vision. Note the wording.

OMG, I thought it was just my newbness that was making the light rules seem confusing. I'm very glad to hear other find them so. But I'm even gladder (more glad?) that the everburning torch worked! Things were looking pretty dark for a while.

When it comes to darkness, carefully reading the "illuminating darkness" blog post is a must. It is a good reference to come back when in doubt, and covers the most common situations.

I'm at a conference all week. My posts may be few and far between. Bot me as necessary.

Would I be able to 5-foot step into that little enclave to the lower-right (mapwise) of me, or would that be a 'hard corner' problem?

With that rock there, that would be a hard corner so I would say no.

Mel, if we make it out of this scenario I am willing to pitch in some gold to get you back among the living so wish us luck ;)

I second Heccan.

Y'all are awesome, thanks! Hang in there :P

Vailis casts Infernal Healing on Valik, while his bats move up to the drow leader and make two bite attempts that miss.

Zephyrus then fires three arrows at the red babau, but they all also miss.

Although still blinded, the white/blue babau makes a longspear attack against Quiella that does not hit. Afterwards, its vision appears to return.

The red/black enemy steps back and attempts to hurt Valik with its weapon, but both of its attacks miss.

In sum: Both sides just spent an entire round performing a very impromptu 21-weapon salute to mark Melufiuos's passing.

Real life is busy, will update by tomorrow.

@DM: Potentially important: How high is this cavern's ceiling?

@GM, I seem to be still listed on this game. Any chance you could remove me?

Okay, the leader is about dead, so go ahead and make Day Job rolls if you have them.

Mel should probably figure out how he wants to get rezzed and pay for the necessary Restoration spell.

Hurray!!! That was the hardest module we had so far I think!

Dayjob Handle animal Farmstead: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

Mel has 1172 gold and 21 prestige points, prior to this chronicle.
Inventory Sheet

Raise Dead: 16pp => 5 pp left
2 restorations ( 1,280 gold OR 4 Prestige Point)

I can handle one via prestige points.
The other I probably have the gold for after this chron sheet. (assuming corpses get a share of the treasure).

I think I'm covered. !!! :)

And I can level up too.... unless I get no xp cause i'm dead.

Oh man, I thought we were heading toward a TPK there. Very fun challenging scenario, great job running some pretty cray combat Hark. Well Done!

Dayjob Caravan Vanity (Diplomacy): 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (19) + 24 = 43

Also, still winning to pitch in some gold to help Mel out with rez an restore.

I think I'll be OK. But if anyone does still want to donate, that would be fine. I think it might be better to do it semi-anonymously through GM Harker. That way there are no formal posts making other people feel obligated. No one will know if anyone donated at all (except maybe if I show up for the next adventure in a brand new Lamborghini or Tesla!)

Is there already a precedent or process for something like that?

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Why does this post make me feel big-headed and pretentious? :(

Why does this post make me feel big-headed and pretentious? :(

I don't see why it should. A little excessively, gracious, maybe....

Craft (Alchemy): 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (6) + 26 = 32

day job, farmer, boon: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 2 = 12

I am at a conference this week and expect to be very busy. It is, for me, a work all day long conference and I don't expect to have much downtime where I have energy to post. Bot me as necessary.

I'll try to have the chronicle sheets out by Sunday.

The next scenario will be #04-04 King of Storval Stairs (Tier 7-11)

By campaign seniority, Mel, Quiella, Vailis, and Valik should be able to play that one, while Ophelia should theoretically be coming back for the 5th spot. Valandil expressed preference for the 6th spot. If any of those players aren't interested then Heccan or Zephyrus' player are welcome to continue forward with us. I say Zephyrus' player because a zombie-making alchemist isn't going to work well with a paladin.

I'll contact Ophelia and Valandil once I get the Chronicle sheets out.

profession: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

Great scenario Hark. Very challenging and well run in my opinion. I have had a blast playing with you folks. If you have a slot for me for the next run, I am in if you will have me. If I don't make the cut, I would just like to say thank you for letting me play in your game. GMing was top notch and I really dug the characters. Everyone played their characters very well and I really enjoyed having Heccan interact with all of them.

Thanks again for having me Hark and let me know if there is a slot available.

So glad that wasn't a TPK! Good job y'all! I think we need to buy some more ioun torches (or better if any exists). (Oh yea, is mine dead or does it start working again later? Remember, the leader zapped it somehow.)

Can I get the award for most 'in-character' posts from a corpse? :P

Ugh, sorry about the confusion in my last post GM. I read my previous post in haste and thought my will check was my lay on hands roll.

Yeah, Quiella is going to get some Oil of Daylight.

GM, is there a more permanent magic item that would counteract the kinds of darkness we've been encountering?

A Daylight spell would have been your best bet against the Deeper Darkness spell she cast at the end.

Thanks a lot for the game Harker! Your perseverance to keep this campaign moving its a blessing for us all! Thanks a lot for your work and efforts. We are not always an easy group but you keep coming at us and addressing all our chaos :)

Mel, I will place 1000 gp to see you raised. I have seen this done before, in fact the only two times I have seen a character died in the boards.

Heccan, I enjoyed a lot playing with you. You really take a great effort to RP your character and I welcome that a lot!

I agree with Quiella about the oil. Vailis will also take another one so we at least have a couple in the group. This is something I often do, specially with my support characters, but it somehow slipped unnoticed with Vailis :(

I am looking after King of Storval Stairs, having played Rise of the Runelords it sounds epic!!!

I will match that 1000 for Mel. Like Vailis, only second death I've seen in OP and I know it really takes a bit out of one's resources. I know this because I was doing the calculations contemplating Heccan's death early in the scenario.

Quiella can also pitch in a k. One of my characters died once and I had to play a whole level of Emerald Spire with a negative level. It sucked.

I think it's high time Quiella picked up the Caravan boon from the field guide. I'll be rolling Diplomacy for my next day job.

I think it's high time Quiella picked up the Caravan boon from the field guide. I'll be rolling Diplomacy for my next day job.

I held off on it for a while as well but been worth the PP cost. Almost a no-brainer when you have high diplo skill.

The Chronicle sheets have been sent out to the email addresses I have on file for you all, please let me know if there are any issues.

I did not include any of the costs of Mel's Raise Dead or Restoration, I'll just let him add those costs into his tracked resources. Along the same line, I also did not take the 1000 gp promised from Heccan, Vailis, and Quiella, so they will need to subtract that from their resources while Mel should subtract 3000 gp from the cost of either his Raise Dead or Restoration spells.

I plan on starting 4-04 King of Storval Stairs on Monday June 25th. In the meantime, I'll send PM's to Ophelia and Valandil. If they decline or I don't hear from them in a week, Heccan will be back in, followed by Zephyrus if both refuse and Z's player is still interested.

And indeed, I think I will be.

Concerning Dark Archives Season 6 Faction Objectives:

Did any of the books we recovered have names?

Alternatively, was the prisoner we rescued a scholar or mage of any sort?
DC 23 Knowledge (Arcana) check to recruit him if so: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (5) + 19 = 24

Everyone,

Valandil has withdrawn himself from consideration, so Heccan is in for the next scenario. I'm still waiting to hear from Ophelia.

Zephyrus,

I'm afraid none of the books had names and the prisoner was a martial type, not really a scholar or mage.

Woo hoo! Glad to be coming along on next adventure, thanks Hark! Also, last chronicle got Hec to level 9 so he has more stuff to help out the party I think. Looking forward to next run!