[PFS/DMK/YotSS]8-07 Tome of Righteous Repose (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

Mogall uses 2 charges from his wand of infernal healing to give Scarlet fast healing all her burns over 2 minutes.

"I would appreciate that, friend. I'm one of the few carefree souls thinking that a spell can't really alter who we truly are, so I have no morality problem with it. "

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"I sent Dancing Lights into the room where the monster was lurking. Let's go search it out."

Krux moves toward the unexplored room.

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Mogall uses another two charges from his wand of Infernal Healing on Jhalan to heal his wounds. 20 points total of fast healing over 2 min

Krux moves into the darkened room to inspect it.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Jhalan moves into the room, but can't see anything of note. "Nothing here. Is there another hallway we have yet to explore?"

Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35

Boram points to a small cubbyhole near the ceiling. "Looks like there's something there. Bronze, perhaps."

I'll need a climb check or something else to reach the cubbyhole

Jhalan raises his eyes and nods. "You're right, I had overlooked that. Allow me to fix my mistake and get it."

Climb: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22

Scarlet watches Jhalan climb "If anything appears out of place I'll come up and take a look"

DC20 Heal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
DC25 Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Rhanloi casts detect magic and concentrates on the bronze object in the cubbyhole, and then gazes about the room searching for any magical auras.

Mogall stands by and watches.

Jhalan climbs up to retrieve the bronze statue, and Rhanloi identifies it as an embossed prayer to Shizuru. The prayer is a warrior’s plea, asking for strength and courage when facing the final moments of life.

Putting together the pieces found here, the adventurers conclude that in some age past, a powerful ritual ws performed here to seal away some pocket of necromantic magic. It turns out the magic has deteriorated over time, and needs renewal.

"That's a pretty trinket. Let's move on to another room after it's catalogued. My Mirror Images won't last long."

Krux moves to the nearest unexplored area.

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Scarlet follows on, but Poppy rests at the back, not keen to be drained any further...

Mogall falls in line behind the others.

"Poppy, do you need some help? Does anyone else require healing? I have a scroll and a couple of potions that will help..." he says, even though the elf is looking a bit more pale than usual.

The next room is a rectangular hall. Coiled in the eastern alcove is the statue of a cobra-like snake with a contemplative humanoid face. Parts of the statue have crumbled and fallen to the ground, though enough detail remains to see sadness in the creature’s stony eyes.

k(history): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Mogall shrugs, "Looks like our stone friend here is sad, wonder why he was carved that way?"

Kn(Hist): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Rhanloi examines the statue also, wondering if it was created or perhaps an unfortunate soul turned to stone...but the damage is to extensive for him to make any determinations and he just continues his search.

"Beyond my knowledge" The Rogue comments as she shrugs her shoulders...

"What a pitiful creature. Anyone know about it's significance? I feel asleep all too often in my studies."

Krux will examine the room for traps.

Trapfinding, t10: 10 + 15 = 25

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Further down the hall, a number of shrines to the same goddess dot the alcove. It seems this was once a place of worship, though. The small figurines in the alcoves show some signs of erosion.

Roll me a Spelcraft or K(arcana, religion) check

Knowledge (Arcana): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30

Boram investigates the area.

Scarlet joins him, not being scholarly enough to divine any knowledge from the shrine...

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26 (+2 determine magic item properties)
Kn(arcana): 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27

The wizard checks the statuettes and shrines closely, recording the details in his journal for later review.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
k(arcane): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25

Mogall listens to the wisdoms of those who know more than him.

Jhalan forms the rear guard, leaving the arcane matters to those more knowledgeable than him. He scrutinizes the shadow, as if anticipating an attack.

It seems the statues have been eroded by a burst of energy. Rhanloi now has a good idea on how to perform the ritual to renew the seal of the necromantic pocket. With some help from the party, he should be able to perform it.

Jhalan stands guard, expecting something from the darkness... nothing arrives, however.

"Rhanloi, can I help you in any way? My knowledge of the arcane is limited to my own experiences unfortunately."

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Mogall grins hidden in the shadows of his cloak, "Though it may kill us, I'll help as well."

"I am willing to help as well, but do not know if my particular brand of ability will be helpful..."

"Let's conduct the ritual then, and see the back of this place"

Rhanloi settles into the business of renewing the seal on the prison to keep the evil at bay!

Need any rolls/checks? Or just make upa good narrative ;-)

Rhanloi coordinates the ritual, with Krux adding a pinch of sorcery, and Mogall some dark arcana. With the aid of the rest of the team, they manage to seal away the necromantic darkness that was leaking out of the tomb, shutting it inside for centuries to come.

Returning to Uscalin Lodge, VC Shevar Besnik greets the group, and inquires about their endeavour. When the group tells of their success, he says: "I knew you would triumph! Just goes to show I picked the right Pathfinders to seek out adventure while unknown dangers lurked. There could have been almost anything there! Go and rest while I put our report together for the Ten. Surely, this addition to the Chronicles will put Uscalin Lodge on the map.”

That's the end of this story. Please roll your days jobs if you haven't done so already, and I'l prepare chronicles.

Day Job (Craft (Alchemy), Alchemy Class Skill, Crafter's Fortune): 1d20 + 14 + 7 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 14 + 7 + 5 = 36

"Well done, what a vexing place that was - nasty creatures, don't fancy going back dow there again!"

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Thanks Kludde!

ALL players in the party get a +3 circumstance bonus to their day job rolls.

Day Job: Day job 1d20 + 11 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 11 + 10 = 36
Sleight of hand + Entrepreneur faction boon.

No day job for Mogall.

Thanks for DMing Kuddle!!

I don't have a day job. Thanks a lot Kludde!

Craft(jewelry): 1d20 + 14 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 14 + 3 = 21

Cool game, Kludde - thanks again for running it!!

No day job here either.

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Is everyone waiting for their chronicles? No rush on my end, but I wanted to confirm they are still pending.

Yes, I am waiting for chronicles too.

Ditto

Same here.

Sorry about the delay in chronicles. i tried to finish them béfore going on holiday, but events got in the way. I will have them ready early next week.

All good mate!

Just wanted to say thanks for everyone's bold characters. My group just had a teleport mishap trying to get to the Magnimar Lodge in an AP, and ended up in Vellumis Lodge instead. So I had your group there and defending against the teleport assault!.. ended peacefully though, but the group was made quite nervous by your 'Arcane Heroes'.

Here's a discussion thread for the Season 6 project. Currently, we're operating on invitation only...

Hi DM Kludde, looking forward to this project!

Ditto :-)

Probably worthwhile to have the mission statement here while we find a couple more players for the project:

The season 6 project aims to play all scenarios in season 6, as soon as they come out.

Since scenarios are typically released at a rate of two per month, that means playing (at least) two simultaneous tables, with the aim of finishing scenarios in roughly a month's time. Since high-level scenarios sometimes run longer, it would sometimes mean having more than those overlapping for some time.

I'm looking for players
- Willing to juggle more than one table
- Able to finish scenarios in roughly a month's time (i.e. frequent posters)
- Preferably with characters in a wide level range, and a wide range of factions (*)

(*)Note that not having characters in all level ranges is not a deal-breaker, since pregens are available for all tiers.

It should be quite a nice experience to run season 6 this way: the players can follow the meta-plot as it unfolds, and it will give the feeling of being part of a larger multi-player experience, as faction goals get updated throughout the season on the paizo boards.

So I'm looking for the rare breed of players who can keep up regular posting for a year on at least two simultaneous tables. Moreover, the player should be available for all season 6 scenarios - which means you can't play them anywhere else, unless they're replayable.

The first three (!) scenarios for season 6 have been announced: they are a 1-5, a 3-7 and a 5-9 scenario, so it looks like we'll be starting out with three parallel tables.

Cyril, Pedwiddle: thanks a lot for joining in. I'll be looking for - preferably - four more players. If you have suggestions on whom to contact, please let me know.

I currently have three level 2 characters available for the 1-5: Darvan, a saurian shaman, Kaddok, a dumb-as-a-brick fighter, and Castien, a ranged fighter/wizard. If anyone has any preferences, let me know - otherwise, I'll go ahead and choose Castien, 'cause I'm most excited for him to level.

I might have a level 3 alchemist available before too long, too. He's in a PbP for Thornkeep level 1 right now, but it's kinda stalled. New GM is incoming, and we've already cleared half of it, so here's hopin'...

Looking forward to playing alongside Castien!

Just a quick list of my PFS characters with their levels at season 6 kickoff and future faction:

• Kynrac (oracle of time 9), Dark Archive**
  
• Rysalius (melee bard 6), Sovereign Court**
  
• Shandor (blaster sorcerer 7 or 9), Sczarni
  
• Ouroboreia (summoner void wizard 5), Scarab Sages**
  
• Ennoia (archer paladin 5 or 6), Silver Crusade**
  
• Aetherys (magus 4), Qadira
  
• Auric (archaeologist bard 3), Dark Archive**
  
• Basalte (fighter 3 or 4), Scarab Sages

** = While some of them will be available from the start, there are still some season 5 scenarios I want to play with them (or at least GM for credit) before I have them enter season 6:

• Kynrac: needs to play 5-25 Vengeance at Sundered Crag.
  
• Rysalius: needs to play 5-19 Horn of Aroden before he moves out of tier, then play 5-24 Assault on the Wound (in that order).
  
• Ouroboreia: will probably still be playing Destiny of the Sands III, will be available after that.
  
• Ennoia: needs to play (or GM credit) 5-22 Scars of the Third Crusade before she moves out of tier.
  
• Auric: will probably still be playing Shades of Ice II or III, will be available after that.

That means that when season 6 kicks off, I will have the sorcerer 7, the magus 4 and the fighter 3/4 available. That's exactly what's needed for the first three scenarios, including level range:

#6-01 Trial by Machine (1-5) with Aetherys
#6-02 The Silver Mount Collection (3-7) with Basalte
#6-03 The Technic Siege (5-9) with Shandor

About finding more players, I'm at a loss since you've already asked in the Orphans group. That being said, we could have a fixed core group of 3-4 players, and have the rest be "guests", recruited for one scenario, more if they prove reliable and friendly. What do you think?

Well, Castien is now level 3 after I applied 'We Be Goblins!' to him, so he could play low in the 3-7, or low/high in the 1-5. I'm close to 3 on a couple of others, so that's something.

As far as additional players goes, there's a higher-level (5+?) PFS recruitment thread on the forums that I haven't been following, but might be helpful.

Yes, it's EF's. Here is the link.

DMK sent me an invite - I'm definitely interested with Rhanloi (lvl 2 wizard) and will have to check with current games to free up Grimaldus, a level 3 fighter. I would have to play a pre-gen for higher level game and so would take whatever class is needed!

When is this likely to start? Grim is all but done in the current game...

Looking forward to gaming with ya!!

Good to see you Rhanloi! You may remember me as GM Lithrac, who GMed The Confirmation for Rhanloi.

...and I'm the player behind Cressyk, for what it's worth.

...humming "It's A Small World After All"

Oh - and after DMK is done with us Rhanloi will go to level 3! I'd like to keep Rhanloi in the 1-5 tier and move Grim up to the 3-7 tier.

This is the smallest of small worlds! I am Malena in DMK's games, but I am also Tanselle (of T&T fame) in the bluedove games.

I currently have:

Malena Antonesscu - human sorcerer (tattoed sorcerer, infernal) 2
Tanselle Bashir - half-elf gunslinger (pistolero) 1/cleric (Abadar) 1
Sefu Sekala - human magus (bladebound/kensai) 1

So, basically, I will be playing a fair amount of pregens for the first half of the year.

Looking forward to participating in this with some familiar faces.

I am interested, but like several others, I would have to use pregens for the upper level games.

Currently I have:
2nd level cleric. 5xp available.
2nd level bard 3xp currently playing
3rd level ranger 6xp currently playing.
And a 1st level with 1xp to be rebuilt.

Isn't there something about not being able to apply a pregen credit to a character that was active in a game that had an over lapping play time range?

Seems like the first wave of scenarios will hit us Aug 14:

#6-01 Trial by Machine (1-5)
#6-02 The Silver Mount Collection (3-7)
#6-03 The Technic Siege (5-9)

Also being released around the same time is

#5-99 The paths we choose (3-7)

That scenario was first scheduled as a 'Convention-only' module - for event of 15+ tables only, but now it's been decided it will be available starting Aug 16. Since it's the kick-off to season 6, and since it offers an explanation of all the faction changes, I think we should consider it part of the run as well.

That would mean having four parallel tables (!!), but we can have bit of a staggered start (e.g. start 5-99 and 6-01 on Aug 14/16, then start 6-02 and 6-03 somewhere around Sep 1, or even Sep 8, to give the first two scenarios some time to clear out - we've done three-week scenarios before, after all)

The alternative - and what I'm secretly hoping for, as it would be good for the PbP community, is to have 5-99 as a board event: several GMs coming together to start 15-ish parallel tables of 5-99, a bit like PbP Game Day. I've pitched it with Jesse (who is busy with Paizocon right now), though I'm not having too strong hopes...

Oh, by the way: I'm recruiting for 'Horn of Aroden', to be played in high tier (4-5), on the DMK recruitment thread. I still have a spot free - aren't some of you still on that list?

If I can join with a 3rd-level, I'd love to play Castien through...

Hey, Malena/Tanselle...are you playing the next bluedove adventure or jumping over to this one with Tanselle?

I was planning on finishing out the series for Tanselle with bluedove. Then I'll bring her here. You?

I'd like to do that with Grim but wasn't sure of the timing. I guess if the 3-7 tier starts later and we push through the final scenario with bluedove we will be ok...

Thanks!

I got 'Scars of the Third Crusade' (Tier 1-5), and we have about a month left before the start of season 6. Do you guys want to run the scenario (as a kind of pilot)? It looks like a good one

I've only got two characters available right at the moment - Kaddok (level 2.1 fighter) and Grimbli (level 1.1 gnome sorcerer w/animal companion). If we play low, or I use a pregen, I'd be fine with that.

I only have Malena available (2.2 human sorcerer), but I'd love to jump right back into something before Season 6 starts up.

I'd love to, but I have no character available at the moment.

I've put up a thread here

Let's see how many will join, and I'll recruit extras to fill up the table.

I'm having fun playing Marra so I'll join.Scars of the third.

Any opinions on which character I join with? Kaddok is a level 2 Shoanti Thunder and Fang fighter (viking archetype, gives rage and rage powers later on), and Grimbli is a level 1 gnome sorcerer (sylvan bloodline) with Fluffy, a tiger companion.

Actually, Aetherys (my magus) is in the final chase of the Midnight Mauler, so she should be available soon. Would you mind waiting for a bit so that I could join with her, please?

Malena is in for Scars of the Third Crusade.

Tanselle, my 2.0 half-elf gunslinger/cleric (nun with a gun), has just started The Devil We Know Part IV.

Sefu, my 1.1 magus, is a little ways into The Godsmouth Heresy.

Frabb, my 3.2 halfling bard, is now available for use. He used to be my main (and named Julyan Dimbleningel), but I've rebooted him so that I can play with my RL friends that I've finally managed to recruit to PFS.

Kynrac: in principle I'm fine with holding a bit. How much time do you need?

Not sure, we're in the last fight of the Midnight Mauler, so it should be short, I expect. A few days maybe?

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The other game has just ended now. I'll head over to the gameplay thread if that's alright.

Aetherys needs to level to 4, which I'll do right away.

Ok, I played the cleric in a online game and leveled him.

Now have:
Halfling bard 2. Just started in Scars.
Dwarf cleric 3
Human Ranger 3 Current in game, but near end.
A first level TBD.

#5-99 The paths we choose (3-7)

That scenario was first scheduled as a 'Convention-only' module - for event of 15+ tables only, but now it's been decided it will be available starting Aug 16. Since it's the kick-off to season 6, and since it offers an explanation of all the faction changes, I think we should consider it part of the run as well.

That would mean having four parallel tables (!!), but we can have bit of a staggered start (e.g. start 5-99 and 6-01 on Aug 14/16, then start 6-02 and 6-03 somewhere around Sep 1, or even Sep 8, to give the first two scenarios some time to clear out - we've done three-week scenarios before, after all)

The alternative - and what I'm secretly hoping for, as it would be good for the PbP community, is to have 5-99 as a board event: several GMs coming together to start 15-ish parallel tables of 5-99, a bit like PbP Game Day. I've pitched it with Jesse (who is busy with Paizocon right now), though I'm not having too strong hopes...

If Jesse greenlights the special to be played on the boards, I'd be very interested in GMing it.

I haven't heard from him yet, I'll chase :)

Amazing news! "The Paths We Choose" is no longer a special and will be available on August 16th!

Ah. I noticed I didn't tell you :). I've seen that for a while, so I've been planning to run it as soon as it comes out.

That does bring up the question: how many tables do you guys want to have in parallel? In my view, playing at four tables concurrently is a bit extreme (Aug 14/16 sees the release of 5-99, 6-01, 6-02 and 6-03, so if I start 'em as soon as they appear, that's four tables).

My suggestion would be to have two (for instance, 5-99 and 6-01), an then start the other two at your convenience (say, around two weeks later?)

That seems appropriate, yes. I guess we'll have ample time to catch up later. By the way, feel free to sign up on my table if you want to play that scenario

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I agree four tables is extreme, let's start with two and see where we are after two weeks. How long until they release the next scenarios?

Back to school math:
If there are 26 scenarios released in a year, and each scenario takes 5 weeks to play, how many concurrent games would you have to play to complete them within one year?

That's pretty much how I estimated it as well. Lower level modules tend to go a bit quicker, and higher level ones tend to run longer (is my experience).

I have a certain number of concurrent tables that I run at any given time (around five or six), so those are my 'GM slots'. I've reserved three slots permanently for this project.

I did a quick run-through of what to expect when all scenarios run five weeks (they typically don't, but it gives a worst-case-let's-take-it-easy kin dog planning).

I've put the results in a spreadsheet for your enjoyment. Linkie

The spreadsheet assumes a lot and is very crude (particularly the part where a year has 48 weeks :-D ). It does show that if the tier distribution is anything like last years, it's possible to have three separate streams of low, mid and high tier. That means you'll get by with only three characters. If you run everything with a single level character (and everything else with pregens), by the last scenario your characters will hit level three, and then flash-forward to level 8.2 (!)

Great plans, DMK! We should have ample time to do everything.

I also wanted to give you a heads-up: I might do an exception for some of the later scenarios (March-May), because we have a local convention in July in which I'd like to have some play time and not only GM time, because GMing 9 slots over 4 days is a bit much for me. I hope it's alright, and I'll try to pick scenarios where you'll easily find a replacement for the skipped ones. It shouldn't be more than 4 scenarios over the whole season, though, so I hope it will be okay for you.

Starting 5-99 and 6-01 in mid-August and 6-02/6-03 early September is great! I appreciate the slight delay, because I'm getting married on August 30th, so September 1st would be a great time to start 6-02/6-03.

Finally, I'll also try to plan ahead to have the right faction for the right scenario as much as possible. I've started a spreadsheet here with the faction information, feel free to have a look.

Did I miss an announcement from the player of Malena? Haven't heard in a while. In any case, I'll try and find a sixth player for table stability.

If you want to skip over scenarios, just let me know in advance a bit, so I can invite guest PCs .

Link for 5-99
Link for 6-01

I'll start up 5-99 on sunday (when I get my hands on it). Shall we finish 'Scars of the third crusade' before we start with 6-01?

Since we're close to the end of Scars and that I'd like to play 6-01 with Aetherys (she'll switch to Silver Crusade), I'd appreciate if we could finish Scars first, please.

If we are close to finishing Scars of the third crusade, and Marra survives the sneak attack from the tall man, then yes I would prefer to keep her in play, but I do have a alternate 1st level I could play.

I assume we have to have our PCs updated for the updated PFS 6.0, but then there are new Ionics to choose from for the higher play levels.

Hi all!

Extra player on the case...

I've just managed to get the pdf for 6-01, and the first post is up here. Season 6 is on!

Here's my status:

My 3rd Fighter (Grimaldus) is still in an adventure that's plodding along slowly. That's ok since I wanted him to run #6-02.

My 3rd Wizard (Rhanloi) just finished with DMK in Scars and was going to do #6-01. However, since we're now doing 5-99 and that's 3+, I may run him there.

I have a 1st Monk (Adrianna) I can run for #6-01, and will need a pre-gen for #6-03.

My two primary PFS characters are Grim and Rhanloi.

Whaddya think?

I've linked the play schedule above, and added 'recruitment lists' for the next couple of scenarios, for your convenience. If, at some point, you don't want to play a scenario, let me know, and I can recruit a guest player.

I'm mildly worried about Malena's player - he seems to have gone silent across the board, which may just be due to absence (it's holiday season after all), but which is also oddly reminiscent of a certain british soccer fan...

Yes, he seems to have disappeared. Is the British soccer fan Broken Prince? If so, yes it's exactly the same pattern.