[PFS] GM Lithrac's Murder on the Silken Caravan (#0-03) (Inactive)

Game Master Cyril Corbaz

Although this is unknown to Odd herself, she is an outsider native to the material plane (an aasimar); she is just as confused as Papy when the spell fails...

You should still have the charge, I think? So you could cast it on Argus next round.

Ow I didn't see that. Well I think my character didn't know it either, so that's life. I think the spell's used, though. What do you say GM?

Enlarge person takes a full round to cast so Pappy can't pick a target until the he spends a move action next round to complete the spell. (I think he moved this round right?) Also only touch spells hold a charge after a miss.

Zymir calmly moves out of the mist and surveys the battle field. Seeing Du Mer facing off against the dwarf the Oracle smiles and focuses his mind on eliminating the threat.
Hold Person DC 21 (used eastern mysteries to up the DC by 2)

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Vasily and Idgethun take care of another bold hobgoblin, while two other fall asleep.

Papy/Zymir: Actually, if you start casting a 1 round casting time spell with only a standard action, it takes your standard action (not the move action) from next round to finish the spell.

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
"Honorless scum..." du Mer can barely articulate as Zymir paralyses him. Once the Taldan knight is defenseless, you have no trouble taking care of the remaining raiders and claim victory!

End combat.

Following the battle with Gaspar and his brigands, Jamila approaches to thank you, letting you in on the greater plot that had occurred. She admits to being a janni and explains that she has known Targos Min-Katheer for over 40 years, serving as both ally and sometimes lover to the heroic Pathfinder. She states that the two of them had stumbled upon a plot by parties unknown to cripple Qadira’s economy by disrupting
trade along the Silken Way. They had narrowed it down to just a few local merchants, but Targos began feeling the effects of his advanced age after suffering from heart pains and decided he would be ineffective in completing the mission. By agreement, rather than allowing Targos to slowly dwindle away from his ailments, Jamila gave him a dose of venom from a desert scorpion, and the famed venture-captain peacefully passed on to the afterlife. She and Targos felt the chances were great that the plotter would use the event of the trade route protector’s death to launch his plot. As such, she carefully ensured that all of the suspected merchants would be on the same caravan on which Targos’s body would travel with his Pathfinder escort-you. Though she thought Hokama might be the plotter, it turns out it was Gaspar who murdered his partner so he could secretly pay off a trio of harpies to waylay travelers along the Silken Way in conjunction with strikes by his hired band of desert brigands. Gaspar had hoped to attract the greater harpy colonies of southern Qadira to the easy pickings of the trade route and thus seal off the route for years to come. Once Jamila realized that you were still alive and could help her, she broke her cover and moved to end the threat to the all-important Silken Way.

The rest of the trip to Katheer is uneventful. Upon arriving in Katheer, Targos Min-Katheer is given a hero’s funeral attended by many Pathfinders (including some of the Ten), as well as notables from the satrap’s court and a few geniekin from the deep desert. Jamila claims Gaspar’s wares as compensation for the danger he placed her caravan under, but she gracefully gives her ring of djinni summoning over to
the Pathfinder Society, saying that she owes you a diyya, a blood debt, for the death of Targos Min-Katheer.

Adril Hestram, who is present in Katheer for the funeral, claims the ring in the name of the Decemvirate, and thanks you for your service. "You did well in your mission, Pathfinders. Not only did you successfully deliver Targos's body for the funeral, but you played a critical role in the arrest of Gaspar du Mer. Ol' Targos would have been proud of you! Now let's head back to Absalom, for we have other matters to attend to."

This is the end of your mission! I hope you enjoyed it (despite the absolutely nonsensical second fight in high subtier, doubling the number of hobgoblins and goblins just made that fight tiresome for everyone I guess). Chronicle sheets will be issued shortly in the Discussion thread. Thanks for playing!

Lady Jamila, it was an honor to be chosen to oversee the trasport of such a venerated man. He is as inspiration for all Pathfinders. As for our assistance in uncovering the plot and defeating Gaspar it is you who have earned this victory. You have the respect of me, my fellow Pathfinders, and the whole of Qadira for your brave actions.

At the funeral Zymir, quit taken by Jamila, praises the woman for he cunning and for the mercy she showed Targos Min-Katheer (not in an over the top way but very sincere & respectful). He offers his aid in any of her future endeavors and his sympathy for loosing such a close friend and companion.

Thanks again for running. I had a blast.

Honorless huh, we we're the ones stabbing someone in the back.

Argus growls at Du'Mer before making sure the man is unconscious.

Discussion is open. When you report, please give me the following information:

PFS #
Faction
Day Job (you can already roll it if you have one)
Init
Perception
Sense Motive

PFS # 5331-10
Faction; Scarab Sages
Day Job
Init: +0
Perception: +3
Sense Motive: +1

PFS # 93583-3
Faction: Grand Lodge
No Day Job
Init: +13
Perception: +6
Sense Motive: +1

Welcome Papy! Ready to go to Qadira?

Yes, I am! :)

DM DoctorEvil will be joining us, since he had asked for this scenario on my signup sheet's wishlist.

If you have any ideas of players for the fourth slot, I'm open to any suggestions. Since it's a season 0 scenario (3.5E ruleset and intended for four characters) I'd prefer to run with 4, 5 tops.

I actually have two who said they were interested. I sent them the link but they haven't posted yet.

Great news! Then I'll stop contacting people and we'll wait until your two acquaintances show up until we begin, that should make five players.

Dr Evil here.

I think the only PFS character's I have free to run this are either a level 3 bard/rogue, or a level 6 sorceress. So depending on subtier, I'll be going with one of those.

Thanks for the invite!

It's a tier 1-5 scenario, so the level 6 won't be able to join.

Just double checked and I also have a level 2 warpriest that can run. So either 2 or 3. Have an oracle and a witch so far? What other classes, and I'll choose based on the party need.

Hello, I'm interested but the character I want to play (priest lvl 4) is not yet ready on the website and I can't have my sheets before saturday. So if you start after saturday, it would be a pleasure to play with you. If not I wish you a god game. :-)

You're welcome to join, Orgor. I doubt we'll start until next weekend.

By the way, Papy Shayn is my brother's character and Orgor is a RL friend.

That makes six, I think?

Zymir (oracle L4)
Zymir's friend (? L?)
Zymir's friend (? L?)
Doctor Evil (bard/rogue L3 or warpriest L2)
Papy Shayn (witch L1)
Orgor (cleric L4)

With a cleric and oracle already in the group, I'll likely run Bard/Rogue, this is his alias. Be nice if we had a front line fighter type too.

Sorry for the late reply. Missed the part in the message from Evan that said this one had started.

PFS #: 108064-4
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job (you can already roll it if you have one): Nope
Init: 2
Perception: +9
Sense Motive: +3

Hi all! Just got the link from G.M.E.W. if there's still room. I've got two available, Warpriest lvl 4 (my preference) or a Cleric of Desna lvl 1 that I haven't played with yet.

Based on Lithrac's last post I guess we're aiming high tier? In that case:

PFS #21019-4
Silver Crusade
No Day Job
Init +2
Perception +6
Sense Motive +4

You're number 6

High tier it is, then! Here's an update of the roster:

Zymir (oracle L4)
Argus (brawler/monk L4)
Idgethun (warpriest L4)
Vasily (bard/rogue L3)
Papy Shayn (witch L1)
Orgor (cleric L4)

We'll start as soon as Orgor is ready, but feel free to roleplay in the meantime.

Lithrac, just to clarify. Argus is only lvl 3, 2 brawler 1 monk

Thanks for the clarification Argus.

Vasily, could you fill in the following information, please?

PFS #
Faction
Day Job (you can already roll it if you have one)
Init
Perception
Sense Motive

Thanks for the clarification Argus.

Vasily, could you fill in the following information, please?

PFS #
Faction
Day Job (you can already roll it if you have one)
Init
Perception
Sense Motive

PFS #: 75247-7

Just a word to say that I'll be travelling in Austria from tomorrow to monday evening GMT+1. I don't know if I'll have wifi over there.

Just a heads up that since we haven't really begun yet, Vasily may play in a live tabletop game today (depends if I run or play). If so he will advance to level 4.

If you have problems, as we have quasi-begun, please LMK and I will hold him out of play.

No problem at all, have fun in your game! We'll probably start this one on Monday anyway.

Thanks! I ended up GMing out of tier, so the credit went to someone else. Vasily is good as is right now.

Note that the subtier you're GMing at has no bearing on gold earned whatsoever. Whatever the subtier, if you choose to give the credit to Vasily, he gets gold for his level (out of subtier if that was a tier 1-5 scenario, 3-4 if it was a tier 3-7 one).

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Orgor, any news? If not by the end of the day we'll start without you.

A smell of perfume in the corridor and a priest come in . " I'm here pretty people, sorry to be late !"

Dayjob : Massagist: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

"I just finished a last customer's massage"

Sry I did the character upload Saturday and had a busy Sunday. And I just see that my chronicles boons and fame aren't saved.
(I did it but somehow don't save or that bugged) If it's ok I will correct it next weekend, the rest is up to date

Great! We'll start, then.

Just a question: Your faction icon displays the Scarab Sages sign, whereas your character sheet mentions The Exchange. Which one is the correct one?

Woops
Scarab sages sry... hope it's the last error...

A quick message to let you know that I'll be away for the whole weekend, visiting Edinburgh.

Have fun!

I will be tied up most of Friday-Sunday at a PFS convention. Will try to post a bit, but may not have much time.

sounds like fun. Have a good time.

Even without stats, you could just roll a d20. A natural 20 would mean escape from the grapple; you can assume everything else is failure.

It might not be worth the bother though, so up to you!

Hello, and sry but I'm in the army for 3 weeks. I don't know with wich frequency I could post.

Here are the chronicle sheets. Please check them, then download and print them. Please let me know if anything's out of place or missing.

Argus

Idgethun

Nahramon

Papy Shayn

Vasily

Zymir

Finally, thanks to Zymir for asking for this scenario, it was fun to GM. In fact, this was the very first PFS scenario I've played. Good times!

Thanks for playing!

Thanks for running the game GM! Papy wasn't that useful but I had fun :)

Sry I was not either so usefull... Thanks a lot and sorry for the bad posting rate...

Don't worry too much about how "useful" you think you are. This was one of the easier season 0 scenarios, although the harpy fight could have been very ugly if it hadn't been for Vasily's Countersong.

Thanks for running Lithrac! And thanks everyone for playing too! I enjoyed this one a great deal, actually, even the legions of foes we needed to wade through. :)

And yeah, I was worried about the harpies until Vasily's countersong; that was very nice to have on hand. As was the Touch of Luck and the +2 Deflection bonus!

Chronicle downloaded and printed!

Chron printed. Thanks for running Lithrac. Though I had GM'ed this before, it was fun to be on the other side of the screen for it.

Well done all. Glad we had some muscle power to back up my singing with all those goblins/hobgoblins about.

I had a blast. I've been wanting to platy this scenario for years and I'm glad I was finally able to do so. I think everyone did awesome and I really appreciate the countersong, that was a lifesaver!

Thanks for running this, I had a blast and it was fun to see what my guy could do.

Though since this is my first time at a higher tier, I do have a question with the chronicle. I see I was in between the tiers so I understand the gold, but do I get access to both sets of bonuses (the map and the amulet/full plate) or just one of the tiers?

Item access is based on the subtier you played in, and isn't linked to the gold you earn. In short, yes you have access to subtier 4-5 items. If it hadn't been the case I would have crossed it out.

Okay, that's what I thought, but thank you for clarifying.