Harrowed Ruins

Game Master Slothsy

Hello!

Welcome to the campaign. I'm super excited to get going and I have started the thread. Remember, this campaign is intended to be somewhat leisurely and narrative-driven. You are free to pursue any threads your character is interested in, and to drop those you do not interested in.

To begin with, please post a quick, one-sentence description of your character and what would be publicly known about them in the town (the equivalence of a DC 10 Knowledge (Local) check).

For your edification, here is the city block for Caesure

Caesure
NG small town
Lore +1, Crime -1, Society +4
Qualities insular, rumormongering
Danger +0

DEMOGRAPHICS
Government council
Population 405 (229 humanoid kith storykin, 100 concept kith storykin, 50 animal kith storykin, 23 elemental kith storykin, 3 gnomes)

Notable NPCs

Councilor Brambleson (animal kith storykin)
Sheriff Aelos (concept kin storykin)
Warden Farkle (gnome)

MARKETPLACE

Base Value 500 gp; Purchase Limit 2,500 gp; Spellcasting 4th
Minor Items 3d4; Medium Items 1d6 (items to be listed upon request)

Thanks for the selection, it should be a fun game!

Pandora's hair and skin have both gone an ashen-grey color, and her eyes seem dull and hooded all the time. She stands shorter than even the gnomes in the town, and her appearance is almost childlike. She's never seen around town without a long, eel-like creature, and rumor has it that it's the only thing keeping her from starving to death.

Not so good at the one-sentence thing...

EDIT: Are we free to post in the gameplay thread?

You are free to post in the gameplay thread! You may choose, of course, to attend the meeting of the Ethere Court, to talk to people in town, or to surprise me with a different option.

Glad to be here.

Macario the mouse: a wizard of little potential and great ambition whose specialty with divination is unbecoming of his otherwise outgoing and optimistic view of the world.

We are starting legends here. I hope you're all aware.

Vehemence, the Provoker of Hearts, Dethroned:
The draconic fey-king Vehemence lost his crown and was given the most ironic token; a still beating heart wrapped around a chain. The creator of war now garbs himself to take part in the craft of his design and reclaim his kingdom.

2 sentences.... sorry

About the Marketplace, is that reference for potential interaction or is this an extra allowance allotted to us? I am confused. Thanks!

I will soon go about reading all of your profiles.

Edit: The Destruction/story-stealing has happened already, correct? Or is this starting just before?

The hemorrhaging of stories has already begun. The Ethere Court is already established. Several missions have been attempted to find the root cause of this, but they have not yet yielded successful information.

just need to set up my profile. will do soon. my day just started

Known Stuff

Lost his empire. Trying to reclaim it. Very calm and collected individual

Just check if his crunch is okay. It's been a while ;)

Alright, we waiting on Tree of Life? I went into her posting history, and she hasn't posted anything since the fourth. She may have dropped off the boards. A real shame, since I lost out on a slot in a Rise of the Runelords game to one of her characters, and I was looking forward to playing with her.

Maybe replace her?

I'm going to give her a week, and then I'll bring in another player if she doesn't show.

Hey, my intro post doesn't have to be 'real' time if you want to place it when it might be more dramatic/convenient. I don't mind 'coming in late' in the story or the actual Ethere Court scene (which I imagine would take place after this one shortly). Whatever works best for you cinematically. I could be mourning my dissolved kingdom and contemplating the chained heart in the meanwhile of Brambleson's tellings.

so my char sheet looks okay? sorry lost track

Will make an alias tomorrow night

I have invited another player to the campaign, as the Tree of Life has not yet indicated that she will be joining us.

*waves* Hello! I'll be joining with Jairdan Wynne As soon as I toss the crunch in.

I'll also be posting when appropriate. Please continue with the game.

Goodness, but this will be taxing on the skill points I (don't) already have. I believe I'll try working off of the concept of "Illumination", so I'll be spending skill points to get at least a rank in every Knowledge skill, and seeing what happens from there. "Holy Illumination" would be a bit pompous, I think, and not to my liking.

Yeah, I'm having a rough time figuring out Pandora's posts. She doesn't have any curiosity, so she can't move the game forward very effectively. It's an issue.

I'll be sure to pepper in things that 'Tika will want to look at. Does she have anything she likes in particular, like smells, sights, that sort of thing?

Anything you haven't used before (or used in a while) would be fine. It's not an issue yet except I'm used to moving things along with curiosity or determination, but Pandora as a character is never going to be more than a follower. As long as others are more dynamic, it'll be fine.

Squeak?

Working on a post right now, assuming everyone's done with their prep. If you need more prep, you can include it in your next post.

Hey guise I might not post that regularly, I'm traveling in foreign lands until the 12th. But I'll be trying my darndest to.

Oooh! Where you going?

#TinyCreatureProblems

I'm sure you could ask for a ride, Mister Mouse!

Some rambles:

- These interactions between Vehemence and Amaterasu may end up violent, are you prepared? If it ever turned out to be a grinding PvP, you'd probably get the win on me (Though I assume our compatriots would bar our skirmish, at least for your sake). To Amaterasu, obvs. I love the angle and am ready if you are to continue this how it would naturally go, lol.

- Pandora, our shattering is somewhat the same; a curse of passivity. What if our malefactor, then, is also the same? DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN

- This is going to be a really freaking fun PbP.

- Slothsy, you have complete creative control over what this thief and this heart pendant actually is. I have some ideas if you want them, but it's yours to play out (or not) in whatever fashion ye may desire. The 'thief' might not even in truth be a storykin/woman/entity but an avatar of the Destruction... or whatever.... but yeah.

- I love you guise already.

- Also Jairdan, our characters may very well have crossed paths many a time throughout the aeons. Most likely, Vehemence would not have paid you any heed, or even noticed you as a living entity, but you would remember him. And perhaps even hate him! As you would guide the heroes who wielded you with their light, you could see Vehemence as he crept up to them, piercing their heart with his red claw, filling them with their righteous furor, sometimes to their victory, and other times to their doom.

You would have seen Vehemence on many an occasion throughout history imbuing righteous heroes with pure rage in their last battles, knowingly sending them to their doom. Then, once the dust had settled, Vehemence would almost ritually gather their blood into a dark chalice, and drink it as a wine. It would seem odd, but most often when Vehemence imbues heroes and antagonists with his 'blessing', he is invisible to mortal eyes. (you are not a mortal, in the mundane sense. I don't think any of the 'kin are.)

The truth of the wicked occurrence of the wine is that Vehemence must take the blessing he gives back, or he will lose essence, and power. When he does drink the blood, he takes the vehemence from both the blessing imbued, AND the vehemence which already dwelt inside that heroes' heart, gaining MORE essence and power than before, much in the manner of an interest rate.

But I don't think that Jairdan would neccessarily understand that. He might, but if he does, then it would be a very very big red flag to you, and a very very big reason for you to hate him. You might just view him as a force of nature, like gravity or friction, because in truth that is all that he is. But you, specifically, would know of him, and have seen his cruel deeds.

Do with it what you will, Jairdan.

As a note, since you mentioned it, I don't like super-heavy PVP in the campaigns I run and would rather not run it as an actual combat. I had a game recently burst into flames and die over trying to settle interparty conflict via PVP, which I'd rather avoid. I'm sure there's ways around personality conflicts without coming to rolled-out blows. Intimidate checks and such are a thing.

Yeah. Besides, 'tika would kill both of you at the same time!

Yes, i would like to avoid rolling sneak attack damage on anyone at this point in time

- Also Jairdan, our characters may very well have crossed paths many a time throughout the aeons. Most likely, Vehemence would not have paid you any heed, or even noticed you as a living entity, but you would remember him. And perhaps even hate him! As you would guide the heroes who wielded you with their light, you could see Vehemence as he crept up to them, piercing their heart with his red claw, filling them with their righteous furor, sometimes to their victory, and other times to their doom.

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But I don't think that Jairdan would necessarily understand that. He might, but if he does, then it would be a very very big red flag to you, and a very very big reason for you to hate him. You might just view him as a force of nature, like gravity or friction, because in truth that is all that he is. But you, specifically, would know of him, and have seen his cruel deeds.

Do with it what you will, Jairdan.

Hmm.. intriguing. That is something to consider. On that same track, Jairdan is not a Concept Kith, so he might very well brush that line by being "Illumination" as best he would know how.. A flame given choice is given possibilities, so perhaps he would try to be a "light" in a different sense. The visual part might be evident in his class-- not that he gets any of the "Light" abilities yet. Perhaps as they gain more of themselves back-- if they gain more of themselves back-- we can have some interesting interactions.

Although, a flame out of control starts fires. Huh.. something else to consider.

No Perception to speak of. Jairdan can take 10, but that wouldn't net anything.

We certainly have options! It'll be fun to see how it all plays out.

I'll be away from the internet from Friday until Monday. Just a heads-up.

Squeak?: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Hey, I'm rather sick right now (I have a really nasty cold/flu grossness). I'm working on a posting today but I'll be less available than normal to monitor the goings on.

Also, I just bought a copy of the Advanced Bestiary (yay for Scratch-and-Dent sale!) so... I'm excited.

Get better. I don't mind role-playing for awhile if we don't move forward yet.

good luck. get well soon. =^^=

Ok, sorry for the longer-than-expected absence. I'm now properly medicine'd up and my house has water again! Updates will be more regular. Please try to post about once every 24-48 hours during the weekdays! This is particularly important when we're in combat. If combat's been waiting on a particular character to post for more than 48 hours, I reserve the right to post for that character or to delay their turn.

No problem, life happens. I'm monitoring the thread, but it seems this duel doesn't really need a post from me at the moment.

Ditto. =^^=

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My apologies. I've taken on a couple of extra writing duties which include introducing a newcomer to PF, so I inadvertently end up GM'ing for about an hour every night which drains me more than I expect. I'll be more diligent with my responses in the future.

Rules for Reference That I'm working from

Hey people. My pc is finally up and running.... felt like forever. will catch up by Sunday. Weekend a bit tight, plus need to reinstall everything on my PC, thank goodness for Steam and Origin. So most games are okay :P

Sorry for taking so long

I've recently become aware that today is "GM's Day". Thanks for running this! Also, I've assumed Macario has a plan and I'm just letting him execute it.

Thank you GM! Thanks for not only running this, but all the other games that you've undertaken!

So my riddle didn't pan out. If someone with talky skills wants to step in we may still be able to find out about the Nothingman before Orin gets bored and decides to run off.

...and before I SMITE HIM

Are people alive?

Still here

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