GM Henry Fortuna's First Steps (Sessions 1-2) [Completed] (Inactive)

Game Master Signore di Fortuna

A wisp of a women enters into the room. Her hair encase the sides of her face. The hair looks black until sunlight reveals a purple sheen. A bright red and gold kimono covers her body and a single wakazashi adorns her hip. Around her neck is the holy symbol of the dawnflower.

She bows and says in a timid voice "Ah herro, it is a preasure to meet arr of you"

"Hello there. Welcome. I trust your trip in wasn't terribly unpleasant?"

No it wasn't, my father suggested that I forrow the rest of the famiry and join the Pathfinders as soon as I was done training at Magaambya. I have been there for 5 years perfecting my warrior skirrs.

@Tori: Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to dial that accent back. It could be considered racist, whether intentional or not. I don't want to step on your toes, but please understand where I'm coming from.

Okay, lets discuss tactics:

may I suggest we simply take to our heels?

We can't see the enemy, and we can't get to them because the way is blocked by a halfling barbarian that hits quite hard.

However, we are't surrounded. So we might simply retreat the way we came. Then we can either mingle with the crowd - or take a completely different path back to the lodge.

I know that this is supposed to be the big climatic battle at the end of the scenario. But I see little in-character reason why our characters would fight this out. For all we know these are simply thieves who want to kill us to take our stuff. And we are not the town guard, so it isn't our job to put them to justice for it.

In any case it seems prudent to retreat - at the very least until their spell effects run out.

Can I get everyone's opinion on that before I post my turn?

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In a parallel timeline where Kurth is already back at the pathfinder lodge, meeting Tori:
Kurt steps forward to shake Tori's hand.
"It is a pleasure to meet you, too. My name is Kurth. Magaambya? That doesn't sound like a place in Tian Xi. You have travelled a lot?"

Kurth, you have a point. Should we just start to withdrawal from the alley, the way that we came?

Ok, I have no problem with that. It was not my intention to be racist. I studied Japanese for 6 years and they cannot pronounce their "Ls" and they turn them into "Rs", so I was trying to highlight that flavor. However I understand.

She turns to the large man her voice is filled with angst and in a wisper umhn yes. My birth father was a traveling pathfinder, an elf, who came upon my village, seduced my mother and left. She raised me for 8 years until a Tengu Warlord came upon our village. He killed my mother and I was abandoned. Her voice now turns from angst to pride. But then a noble man, who preached the holy words of Sarenrae, came to our village with some other Pathfinders. They vanquished the warlord and he adopted me. When I became 15, he sent me to Magaambya, where one of my elder brothers trained to be a wizard. Their I learned I did not have enough concentration for it, but that I was able to blend sword and mind together.

I'm intrigued to see how the fight pans out but I'm ok with either

Regarding this combat, yes, they are just thieves trying to rob you, but the performers were actually hired by Deandre to funnel you into the alley, so it is most likely that they will keep you boxed in. Just keep that in mind, but I will not force you to fight, if you can find a way out of it. Obscuring mist was kind of a stupid thing to have there, since it limits both you and the other four.

@Tori: Thank you. I have studied a little Korean and Japanese myself so I understand where you are coming from. I do appreciate character quirks, but I don't need someone looking in here and interpreting it as racism. Teh interwebs iz a funny place.

Yep, completely understand, this is your thread and I submit to your rules.

Not sure what the scenario is just yet. So I am just checking in. Hello everyone. Thanks for the invite!

Welcome dunn we'll be done with this part shortly.

@gm are these the same performers we met before?

@Illias: They are not.

Drat. had they been I would have solved our problem.

Sell your bear? ;)

That would have been the ploy but no dice.

Hah! Street performers are much easier to hit than halfling barbarian thieves!
Lets see if they still want to mess with us now.

I will be gone from Friday till Monday. Hope that fight goes well!

I will be out of town this Monday and Tuesday as well as next Monday and Tuesday. My wife wants to see her parents for her birthday so I gotta drive out to the boonies and drop her off.

Some luck I'm having with these rolls...

Paging Luthor Roshan...*sigh*

I agree....

Its as if there's a curse on this group.

... Is that Zeria's twin brother I see coming round the corner?

Just an FYI I am still lurking around ;)

Well, I'm going to hit the sack after my night at work. If Luthor hasn't posted by the time I'm up, I'll probably introduce Dunn and Tori a little early (though I cannot award credit to them for this scenario).

I rurk...I mean Lurk too.

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Well, Luthor's out. Shall we move along?

I just realized that you're going to be fubar without a dedicated healer, so either A) I open recruitment again or B) Zeriah changes classes and continues to keep you company.

Let's just keep Zeriah...

Only if he doesn't get stabbed a few more times.

I'd say open recruitment again. Having a PC healer will not only be good against character death, but also against player dropouts.

Sorry guys I was indisposed for a couple of days but I'm back if you still want me. GM of course its your call but I had fun playing your game as well as playing with Kurth and Illias.

Sure, we'll take you back. Just please give me some notice if it happens again. I know you always can't though.

EDIT: Oh and disregard that Chronicle sheet I sent. I'll send you an updated one after we finish.

As a side note, Can I be V in the future? Since Tori is short for Victoria.

Sure thing.

Are the squares on the map 5ft?

Yup

Titian is a bear right?

"Bear

Starting Statistics

Size Small; Speed 40 ft.; AC +2 natural armor; Attack bite (1d4), 2 claws (1d3); Ability Scores Str 15, Dex 15, Con 13, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 6; Special Qualities low-light vision, scent."

alright then lol. I will start using bite as well.

You also roll each claw separately.

lol Illias do you feel like your character was just violated? Like someone just pantsed him on the playground?

To be fair, Illias is rather new to Pathfinder. I'm quite sure you know what I'm trying to say.

Yes yes, Illias is noobish often to his disadvantage. But i usually do the claws seperately, When i do dice i put it as 1d3+3;1d3+3

I'm not picking on him at all. I was commenting on privacy with some levity.

Meh, I don't mind it really, I need to learn these things one way or another, it's not as if she came at me or anything, she's just letting me know. If my attacks would land it would help to know these things :P

I am sorry if I embarrassed you. That was not my intention at all. I thought you might of forgot or read it wrong. Please forgive me if I came across as condescending, I did not mean that. If I find any errors I will just PM from now on. I play/GM a lot of PFS so I know the rules pretty well...but I always want to bring people along with rule learning versus being a jerk.

No ma'am, it's alright. feel free to post it here. you didn't offend or embarrass.

I just wanted to make sure it wasn't degenerating into one of those occurrences quite common with new players.

Occurences? Such as? 'fraid I'm going to get my feelers hurt? :P Quit full of nerd rage?