GM Ladile's TL;DR: A Pathfinder Society Campaign

Game Master Lady Ladile

It is hard to attack those adorable golden-eyed sweat peas!

Just think of it as gentle, all-in-good-fun payback for every time a cat has stolen a mini, knocked dice off the table, or planted themselves in the middle of a map or game board ;)

Bonnie, in particular, can be a little thief if one isn't watching closely. She's tried to make off with pens, game tokens, napkins, nail clippers, and even Christmas ornaments, to name a few things...

One of my cats—always indoors—stole half a chicken off of the table, and we never found any sign of it. Ever.

Now *that's* impressive!

Oddly enough, the two big ones have little to no interest in human food. They do like to check out what you've got - especially Dyer, who will flat-out change course to intercept us if he thinks we have food - but I can't think of a time that either of them have ever tried to steal anything, including meat.

The kitten is a bit of a different story but kittens are gonna kitten, so I'm not particularly surprised.

@GM: Can you put the token for Orange back on the map at the spot he dropped? I've got a spell that I might try to use on his remains. And if/when the other two drop, can we leave them on the map also, but with some way to designate that they're dead-dead?

Please and Thank You.

Done! All the re-deaded baddies are flipped upside down as an indicator of their dead-ness.

All the kitties are laying on their backs with their fuzzy tummies exposed for pettings!

Thank you.

Is there a way to get rid of the off-balance condition?

Make a successful Swim check or have a Swim speed (and presumably use a Move action). It's buried in the Underwater Environment rules and the Ruins of Azlant AP.

^Whoops, yes, what Zith said.

So if you have a swim speed, you just... can't be off-balance?

So many bonuses.. Hope I didn't forgot, or add one, by error.

+4 STR to Bloodrage
+4 from Mutagen
+1 Hit from Bless
+2 dmg from Marchall
Sneak attack onf Flat footed AC, with +2 bonus for flanking with Zith
+1d6 Dmg Sneak attack
+1d6 dmg Lightning from Elemental strike (2 out 3 use)

Am I right?

So if you have a swim speed, you just... can't be off-balance?

Under natural conditions, no. Off-balance normally applies when you fail a Swim check without a Swim speed (or Freedom of Movement spell). However that looks like a spell or other special effect, and off-balance is the underwater equivalent of trip. So I spent a move action with my swim speed to "stand up"/become not off-balance, but I don't actually know you need to spend the move action.

Tako-tengu > Pounce Kitty?

Well, I don't know about that but Malachi is certainly built to hit hard and fast, like Holan-ji. Also like Holan-ji his AC is a bit of a weak spot. (Not so much with Shield and Barkskin up, but that doesn't happen all the time).

Mal will never get pounce, but as he levels he'll become more specialised in Dirty Trick combat manoeuvres.

Even if he hadn't already been injured, Malachi did enough damage to one-round him :)
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Aside from some wrap-up, we're basically done with the scenario! If you haven't already, go ahead and give me Day Job rolls and Faction Journal inquiries.

I will have to look up my FJC and see what could be completed. But for now, here goes my fishing for gold attempt.

Day Job Craft: Alchemy + Lab + Crafter's Fortune: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 13 + 2 + 5 = 27

What the heck, Reroll + 2 star: 1d20 + 20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 20 + 2 = 27

LOL

No day jobs or faction goals here.

profession (merchant): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27 Mal earns a minimum 75gp on his Day Job thanks to the Exchange's Slush Fund boon.

Would anyone mind if we jump into the Bloodcove Blockade scenario next, before we do Tome of Righteous Repose? It would let me stick with Malachi instead of swapping characters then coming back to him.

For faction card goals, if we gain access to a unique or variant item on the chronicle sheet that is a goal checked off. If not, Mal will check a box for speaking at least 7 languages (including polyglot).

On the tune of this

Great film, Totally Awesome soundtrack!

From the GM side of things, I have no problem doing Bloodcove Blockade next if everyone's good with that. Both it and Tome are 3-7s so it shouldn't make any difference for anyone in terms of being in tier or not.

I'm fine with that too. But...

Doc O'Mayga levels to 6 with this chronicle. There's not much to it except 3rd level spells, but I would need a couple days to get that done and updated (I can RP in the meantime easily enough.)

And does leveling him affect APL and any prep GM has already done?

I don't think we need both Malachi AND Holan-Ji. Although the two of them together would certainly be a hoot, combats would be .... brief. And I certainly don't mind playing Doc again.

I have other characters in tier, but only one that's lower than 6 - my level 4 surfer-dude merman bard-oracle.

Thoughts?

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Doc takes some time on the ship voyage doing custom calligraphy for the crew and other passengers. He finds it calming, quiet, and slooooowwwww.

Craft calligraphy : 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

 
Woohoo, Nat 20! I get double damage gold, right? (jk).

I think several of the group will actually level to 6th (or be one scenario shy) after applying this chronicle so Doc leveling up should be fine.

I've actually not done any prep for Bloodcove Blockade yet. Sometimes, when I'm feeling froggy, I'll try to prep a couple of scenarios in advance but other times I just do them one at a time as we go. But allowing folks a few days to level up and stuff would be fine, since it'd give me some time to prep.

Craft Alchemy, Alchemical adept, Alchimist, Omnitool, Crafter's fortune: 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 10 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 5 = 30

Level up next adventure for me

I've corrected an error on Malachi's character sheet. Fortunately it did not affect the game (I think).

Mal's level 7 feat choice was Shaping Focus. This requires 5 ranks in Knowledge (nature). Mal could meet that requirement when leveling but I had forgotten to do so on my forum character sheet. I have corrected his skills now. (Removed 2 ranks in acrobatics, 1 in perception, and one in linguistics; I had noted where I put the new ranks on the online sheet).

Sorry for the screw-up.

And that's a wrap! Doc and Maria were successful on recruiting Zulfibha (a cleric) to the Dark Archive and both will receive Faction Journal credit for doing so.

Convincing the undine to continue their revival of the Monastery of Unbreaking Waves has relevancy in terms of reporting conditions as well as for a boon for Concordance PCs. You'll see that your chronicles don't actually list it as Concordance-specific, but per the scenario GM thread it seems to be an error that slipped through the cracks and was never corrected.

The game has already been reported and I'll get chronicles out tomorrow morning after I get home from work. We'll take a few days for folks to level up, make purchases, etc. and then get started with Bloodcove Blockade next week.

Sorry. I'm still paying attention. Work eating up all my time so I had to triage my posting this past week.

No worries, Zith. This is my work week, which has also been a bit busy, plus I'm trying to finish getting everything ready to go for the 1e Special when Gameday starts. That's another reason we're not getting started on our next scenario until next week.

Also, here are your chronicles because I absolutely forgot to do them this morning like I'd planned --> Chronicle Sheets, Yo

Another bit of chronicle weirdness is that the subtiers are listed as 5-7 and 8-9 when should've been 5-6 & 8-9, since the scenario itself references the 5-6 subtier.

As always, let me know if there are any questions or corrections I need to make!

Thanks, GM.

Malachi's chronicle should be slow track please.

^Updated chronicle has been added to the link in my previous post~

Chronicle received, all good.

Doc and Hogo have been updated to level 6. He bought a runestone of power Level 1 for an extra level 1 spell slot per day. He got his 3rd level spells and bought a few scrolls which Hogo promptly devoured.

I also found a limited purchase item on one of his older chronicles for +1 flaming arrows (limit 5) for 167 gp. He's never going to use them, and the cost is quite small. So he's buying them and gifting them to Maria. If she shoots things more effectively, that keeps him alive!

Updated and ready to go!

She crafted 3x Holy Weapon Balms in her downtime for 30g.

Level up in-progress. There's not an option for Wandering Spirit that's really jumping out at me based on the description of our next adventure, so does anyone have any requests? I'm trying to prioritize new spirits before repeating ones if possible, which are:
- Battle
- Dark Tapestry
- Flames
- Life
- Lore
- Nature
- Stone
- Wind
- Wood

(Don't have the books for the other spirits. XD)

Bloodcove is an urban setting (and a port), so Stone, Wood or Wind might be thematic.

I haven't really looked at what the choices offer you. I know that Stone gives your familiar DR5/adamantine :)

I've done a little theorycrafting with the shaman, and my favoured Spirits are Ancestors, Battle, and Stone. But these are with particular builds in mind, none of which bear much similarity to the Grandfrogger :D

No big rush on my end, guys. What with Gameday kicking off (and me House GMing the 1e special) and this also having been my weekend & Monday to work, I've not had much time to work on scenario prep yet. But tomorrow is only (less than) a day away and I'll be able to really get started then :D

Haven't forgotten you guys, have just been busy with work and fighting the desire to hibernate for the winter. I'll try to get us up and running soon!

Zero worries here! It has been nice getting a small break. RL I’m busy and with the convention I have tons of posting to do.

No worries! TBH, I kinda did the same thing to one of my tables. Posted a skill check challenge on Saturday, and I'm just now getting around to evaluating their posts. Been a busy couple days, even though I'm off work.

*dusts off the thread*

At long last, things are ready to go. I'm posting here first, since sometimes Gameplay threads can be bad to quit showing new posts for people if there are lengthy gaps in activity. Everyone good to start our next scenario?

Also, if any character here happens to have credit for any of the following scenarios:

#6–09: By Way of Bloodcove
#6–16: Scions of the Sky Key, Part 3: The Golden Guardian
#7–10: The Consortium Compact
#9–10: Signs in Senghor

...please let me know :)

7-10 is a 1-2 repeatable, is that the one you meant to ask about?

Other than that I have no Standard Credit for any of the others.

The Grandfrogger has played #7-10 Consortium Compact - or GM credit, I think, but close enough right? XD

Ah, I think I see the purpose of the question. In that case, nope to any of those for Maria.

Yes, it affects some things in the scenario if anyone has any credit for those scenarios - and GM credit is fine :)

Malachi has the chronicles for 6:16 and 9:10

Good to go - will just double check whether there's any shopping to do :)

ETA: bought a cracked green prism ioun stone (the one that grants a +1 competence bonus to saves).

Welcome back, friends!

None of those scenarios on Doc.

Will check ASAP, but still one or two days off (busy looking for a new job)

Consortium Compact is already done once, don't think the other were played but checking on PFS tracker (Updating it too)

I don't have credit for any of those on Zithembe.

And we're off! Please make sure that your information on Slide #2 is up-to-date and feel free to adjust your marching order on Slide #3 if you wish.

Collecting 3 potions of disguise self (3rd) from Master Librarian.

Disguise Self is a Personal spell Zith, so no potions (unless you find one on a chronicle sheet as an oddity). Did you mean Disguise Other? (It's a level 2 Range Touch spell).

No, I meant potion... because I was preparing them to be scrolls and then thought, "Oh, maybe they'll need them without me," and switched them to potions.

So let them be 6th level scrolls then. :)

EDIT: Oh, that doesn't work either.
1 Disguise Self (8th)
2 Disguise Other (3rd)

By the way, I did see that folks were pretty cool with the extended pause/slowdown we had due to being busy with Gameday or other things. With that in mind, I'm happy to move us along at a leisurely pace for the time being.