GM Tektite's PFS Black Waters (Inactive)

Game Master Hawkwen Agricola

Having to put his full strength to push it, the sarcophagus lid slides aside with the sound of a grinding millstone. The well-preserved body of a young girl lies inside, stringy black hair obscuring the face. Her atrophied limbs are drawn up like folded sticks against her torn school uniform.

"Well this I didn't expect." Maximo seems more disturbed by the body of a child then by the animated undead. "Poor thing."

Maximo examines the sarcophagi and the girl to see if he can determine anything about either.

Knowledge local: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Knowledge history: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Knowledge nobility: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Wondering if the girl belongs here or should be buried somewhere else.

Also, Maximo will use a charge from his healing wand on himself.

Cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Examining the girl, you realize that this is Junia and on her hand is a ruby salamander ring.

"By Shelyn's perfect posterior, look at that!" Maximo points to the girl. "This appears to be Junia, the daughter of Lady Miranda Dacilane! We must carry her from this place and let her family provide a proper burial."

"That makes two. Pray we do not find a third."

"I hope so, but I fear the worst," Smoggin adds, ready to move on.

We're shakes his head "What do you propose we do, stick her in a backpack while we finish these ruins or take her back now and return later?"

So what are we doing?

Maximo is of the opinion that the body of the girl should be returned to her family as soon as possible, but he will delay if the others wish to finish exploring first.

"Leave with the body if you wish, but I will remain until I have purged the necropolis of undead," Tod says, his voice grim and determined.

Werz heads over to the corpse of the royal looking corpse and kneels down to take a sample of the creature for further study without saying a word to the others. He shurgs and says "Either method is fine with me but I saw we should move on quickly as not to be surprised but some other undead horror."

I think everyone, but Silver Crusade has taken of their faction missions. Anyone checking any more sarcophagi? To move things along...

Exiting the chamber, the party finds that the other rooms are either collapsed dead ends or nondescript rooms with nothing of note in them.

"I'm with Max on this one. Let's get out of here and take the girl to her family. We've got a party to attend and that's a situation I'm much more comfortable with than dead things walking about."

Maximo carefully takes the girl's body from the sarcophagus and carries it from the necropolis.

Just waiting for Llathander to post any actions regarding Faction Mission. Otherwise, I'll get a summary post up tonight and have Chronicles out no later than tomorrow.

So there was nothing we could do for all the ghosts?

Tod knows some clerics of Pharasma. Ghostbusters will be sent in shortly.

Tod will carry the boy's body out.

Gonna put up a final post here, pending Llathander's actions. Yeah and there's nothing to be done about the ghosts

The party gathers up Junia's body and thread their way back through the necropolis and out the drain hole. Back topside, you see the suns is just starting to set. Making haste, the party manages to arrive at Lady Dacilane's party. The crowd is at first shocked to see dirty, sweaty Pathfinders crash the party. Lady Dacilane herself comes forward to throw you out, but upon seeing Junia's lifeless form, she falls to her knees, sobbing. Priests of Pharasma are called to deliver her to the Boneyard, but it is quickly discovered that Junia is not dead! The ruby salamander ring is removed from her hand and Lady Dacilane presents it to you in gratitude for bringing her daughter home. Later, after you turn the ring over to the Society, you learn that the ring had magically sustained Junia all these years in the Necropolis.

Good job, everyone. I appreciate any critiques or thoughts about how the PbP went and let me know if you'd like to play in another one. I'll post what I would be able to run in the Discussion thread. Most of the Chronicles are filled out and I'll send links to them by PM. Thanks again

Great fun. Thanks Tektite! And thanks to everyone for putting up with Maximo's shenanigans.

I assume that the body of Grishan Maldris, the other dead student we found in the necropolis, doesn't suddenly return to life?

Llathander will search for the shield with the Kelish writing.

Llathander retrieves the shield from the room where the zombies were and returns it to his faction.

That concludes PFS Black Waters. Thanks and Come Again!

Awesome, I had fun. Running this one at GenCon this August.

Thanks to everyone and thanks to GM Tektite for running!

Maximo is not seeing anything other than my signature and PFS number on the chronicle that I sent. What you others, who I have sent them to?

Tektite, how are you filling out the Chronicles? If acrobat is giving you trouble, you can make it a jpeg, I'm fine with that.