[PFS] Ilmakis' All For Immortality Series (Private) (Inactive)

Game Master Ilmakis

There is three teams of agents.

• The Axe-Feater
  
• The Kernaug Group
  
• The Scroll Seekers
  

You are now in charge of three teams of Pathfinder agents.
As ordained field commanders you can direct these teams as you see fit. Uncovering additional background information, make later encounters easier, or perform other helpful deeds that can contribute to the scenarios’ success conditions.

Preparing the team.
There are three major ways the PCs can give their teams the best chance of success.
Equipment: Although the NPC Pathfinders have the essentials to go adventuring, they expect that under these dangerous circumstances, their leaders will provide them with additional resources.
Your team (or one of you) can provide at least 1,500 gp worth of items to help them in their mission.
Mission Briefing: You should provide a concise mission briefing for each team, establishing what the NPCs should accomplish. Each of the missions has two Knowledge skills associated with the task, representing key information that the NPCs don’t know but that could help them in the field.
Before giving the briefing, a PC who succeeds at a DC 25 Knowledge check in one of these skills recalls helpful information. A PC can also attempt the second skill check, but the DC is 30 and grants an additionnal bonus to the team.
Play to their Strengths: Each of the teams is particularly adept at certain tasks, and assigning a team to a mission that suits its strengths results in a better outcome.

So for the teams, you have several missions to send them to (you can send 0, 1, 2 or 3 teams to the same mission, but each team could do only one) :
*Send them investigate the Sundersun Site
*Send them investigate the Uskwood Site
*Keep them with you, in hopes they could help you during your own mission

Thanks for recalling all that information, Ilmakis!

Basalte scratches his bald earthen head for a minute or two, then proposes. "Rmmmbll. Perhaps the Axe-fixers to Uskwood? If there are defenses around, they could... *ahem* "fix" them. Or would the Scroll Seekers be best suited to infiltrate the site? They are quite apt at it." Then after another minute. "The Kernaugs are occult specialists? They may uncover clues at the damaged facility."

Suggestions/corrections are of course welcome.

"With their knowledge in the field I think the Kernaugs are the best choice for the Sundersun Site. I agree the Axe-Fixers should go to the more guarded site at Uskwood. Now to decide which group to send the Scroll Seekers with.. I'm leaning towards with the Kernaugs as the alien creatures found there worry me." He pauses and thinks..

"It might best to just simply divide the Scroll-Seekers and send Janira and Ko to help infiltrate Uskwood with the Axe-Fixers and have Athrax and Tarys go with the Kernaug group for a little more muscle. That is if they are willing to spilt up for the greater good. Two teams of 6 sounds better than one team of 4 and one team of 8.. Thoughts?"

I like what you've come up with Darius. Also, if they need extra supplies I would be willing to furnish them with the coins required.

If we need to equip them as before Faldoc is willing to pony up the funds again.

Agreed.. I have some coins and old scrolls that I will prob never use..

Knowledge: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

"Good thought about the Axe-Fixers. Subtlety is not their strong suit." The dwarf strokes his beard for a moment, before staring at his hand and returning it to his belt. "Kernaug's crew should be able to find out whatever happened at that facility, no problem. I might like to have Janira's crew with us, but if this rock is a dangerous place, we're the best equipped to handle it."

Need to sit down and work out chronicle purchases tonight, Kurik can certainly lend some gold for items to the teams.

So to resume your proposal for the teams:
Basalte : Axe-Fixers or Scroll Seekers -> Uskwood & Kernaug Group -> damaged facility
Darius : Axe-Fixers -> Uskwood & Kernaug Group -> damaged facility
Split Scroll Seeker between the two groups or send them with the Axe Fixer
Faldoc : agree with Darius' proposal
Kurik : Axe-Fixers -> Uskwood & Kernaug Group -> damaged facility &
Scroll Seeker with you

Seems clear to me that you will send the Axe Fixers to the Uskwood site and the Kernaug Group to the Sundersen site.
For the Scroll seeker the choice seems between sending them with the Axe-Fixer or taking them with you.
What's your final choice ?

Also, I let you decide how much (or what object) you give to the each teams that could help them in their mission.

Faldoc will give the maximum to each team, though he would welcome others to help share in the costs to equip the teams with him.

Darius will pay for one tema, 1500.. Also I prefer what I suggested, Axefixers plus Janira and Ko to Uskwood. Then Kernaug plus Athrax and Tarys to Sundersun. Seems like the best odds for both teams to succeed. Bringing a low level team with us would likely result in deaths..

Edit: Will provide one heroism scroll(375), a potion of cure mod(300), a potion of cat's grace(300), plus 525 gold.

"This facility has supernatural activity, if I understand the records right. I've heard of a trinket that blocks harmful transmutations and would be willing to provide one for each member of the team. Just need to know how many are going."

Kurik will pick up a Bead of Newt Prevention for each Pathfinder (and one for himself while he is at it). Cost is 1k each, so either 4 or 6 depending on how the teams are split.

"We won't put Janira and the Scroll Seekers in harm's way, as Darius says. It's much too dangerous to have them with us. They'd be more useful supporting one of the other teams." grumbles the oread.

"Alright, that's settled." Kurik nods. "Now, who wants to brief which teams?"

After discussing which team to send, you call them at your side, under the Master of Sword watch.

Once you explained your decision the Scroll Seekers don't seems to enjoy being separated but as good Pathfinders they agreed to do it. At least it wasn't too early in the morning or too late into the night that the mission is given to them.

Janira says I'm not sure we will work well separated, but we will do our best to help each team to the best of our abilities !

The three teams, no merged in two, wait for your explanations about their next mission.

To help each big team, you will must provide for at least 2250gp worth of equipement.

Investigate the Sundersun Site (Knowledge [dungeoneering or engineering])
Investigate the Uskwood Site (Knowledge [geography or nature])

I beleive we lost our guy that had geography/nature covered. I don't think any of us have it as a class skill so DC 10 is as high as we could get. Any chance we could hire an expert on the subject to brief?

Darius will take 10 on Dungeoneering for a 31 and help with breifing the Sundersun group..

Nope -that's part of being the "boss" ;-) - It must be a PC who make the DC.

Basalte remains silent, not being a strong leader. He grumbles as another speaks up, but appears to be relieved, actually.

Can we take the time to grab a headband or ioun stone with the skill ranks for the check in it?

You can, but it will delay your departure by one day (as to get the skill rank you must worn the headband 24h)

Nothing to add?
Anyway, to help you make the recombined teams work better, for each team you can make a perform (oratory), or a profession (soldier) or a diplomacy check for the mission briefing.

Kurik can't enhance his headband to add the necessary skill, so it's up to the party if we want to grab an ioun stone to grant +2 Int and have Faldoc or Basalte use the knowledge to roll the skill.

If we are talking about Knowledge-Nature I do not have it, I am an urban ranger.

Faldoc will try to help someone give one of the teams some pointers, though he really isn't the leadership type.

Aid Diplo: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5

Faldoc really doesn't have these types of skills.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

With an Aid she can get to the 25..

Shirley does her best to inspire the combined teams to work together..

Question GM, can Shirley's 1/week Commune spell help the group heading the Uskwood. She gets to ask 6 questions. If it would benefit them at all she would use it. Seems like if she let them ask the questions it could help.

Aid: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (20) - 2 = 18 aided..

Im pretty sure we gave more than neccessary equipment and funds to the teams as well..

Also if it's just a survival thing to help them find the sight, could we purchase a map of Uskwood that could aid them? Or perhaps a spellcasting service to aid them? Perhaps a Find the Path spell or even Greater Teleport?

Ok to recap, Darius provided Primary brief for Sundersun via Know Dung 31 roll. Shirely provide the Nature portion to the Uskwood team via Commune spell.

Equipment wise Darius provided one heroism scroll(375), a potion of cure mod(300), a potion of cat's grace(300), plus 525 gold. Kurik was going to provide Beads of Newt Provention at 1l a piece. Not sure how many though. Faldoc offered to put up funds, but not sure how much. Basalte has yet to offer up unless I missed it. So it appears the groups have the required monetary aid. I will suggest we spend Darius's 525 gold, plus some from Faldoc to buy a casting of Find the Path for the Uskwood team. That should help cover the Geography potion as it will get them their directly. It costs 660 gold total. Any other thoughts or addition team? Im not sure we can help the secondary Engin roll for the Sundersun group. Perhaps purchase another commune spell for that? If that would work that is.

I offered to cover any funds not covered by everyone else in order to outfit all of the teams.

Be careful that asking for spellcasting could add up to 24hours (2d12) to your schedule as finding someone able to cast the wanted spell, and having prepared it is not that easy.

If its going to crunch our time to much they might just have to go with what they have. Their are 6 of them, so that should help their odds quite a bit.. Both teams have a primary briefing, just not secondary, and the required funds. Hopefully they will be ok. If noone else has any input I'm ready to get underway.

As the Pathfinders seems to have decided who send to and how to organize the two groups, Marcos asks

Do you have any question left for me ? Or are you ready to move ?
I will let you talk to the team before you left, I have secured transportation to different parts of Nidal for you and your teams.

Looking at the group for any responses..

"Unless anyone has anything else I think we are ready.."

Nobody seeming to want adding something, Marcos Farrabellus close the meeting and wish you luck and success to your missions.

After briefing the two recombined teams and giving them enough material to help them for their mission you go your way, to the coast of Nidal, to Wingless Rock.

After a short trip by teleportation and then by boat, you come near the island of Wingless Rock, a resigned pile of blunt black rocks that endures the thrashing sea.

Not even worthy of being called an island, Wingless Rock rises hardly more than 20 feet out of the water—far less at high tide—and measures all of 100 feet across at its widest point. Aside from algae and the inhabitants of sickly tide pools, nothing naturally lives upon the eroded, volcanic heap. The remnants of a gray, salt-blasted fishing shack lean amid the boulders on the southern coast, but no other features mar the ugly pile.

Its shore is irregular and inhospitable, which might matter if anything of interest stood upon the barren heap.

Auto-make the Perception check.

Survival: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (13) + 20 = 33

Faldoc points out a sagging gray shack—little larger than a shed or outhouse—squeezed between two slimy rocks on the skerry’s west side. He also notes numerous scuffs and scrapes upon the rocks on the western shore, suggesting the recent passage of booted feet.

Hmm, it seems to me that the marks are indicative of dozens of boots over a span of months, all taking disparate paths toward the shack. Warrants investigation, wouldn't you say?

"My guess is the shack is an entrance to something below. I would suggest any long term magical buffs be done now."

Darius will cast Extended Heroism and Stoneskin on himself..

Good idea.

Faldoc will cast Feather Step, Longstrider, Life Bubble and Freedom of Movement on himself. I don't think any of those are redundant...

Basalte hobbles forward, drawing his blade and nudging Darius. "Say, could you fill that stone with your shielding magic once more?"

Darius, could you fill my ioun stone with another shield spell, please?

He then nods at Faldoc. "Right. Best not leave a stone unturned."

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

"Not like there's much else to look at on this rock." Kurik observes

Faldoc, if you're sharing Life Bubble around, Kurik already has a necklace of adaptation, so no need to calculate a portion for him.

I can do that, sure. Assume I'll even it out over those that require it.

Darius casts a shield spell into Basalte's ioun stone.. "Well let's get to it then.. My spells are more oriented for support this time around, so Kurik or Basalte may take point.. That is unless yall want a more stealthy approach.. If thats the case I can send Shirley ahead of us.."

As the Pathfinders discuss and cast spells, they hear a door opening and the figure of a woman emerging from the shack.

She brandishes a crossbow and calls from her place the Pathfinders bellow with a broken harsh voice.

Trespassers ! Leave this place or be ready to catch the cracks ! Let me alone ! Get out !

Darius puts his hands up.. "Calm down Miss.. We are not here to hurt you. Would you mind if we approach to ask you some questions? We can pay if that helps."

The woman says You can come closer trespassers, but don't come too close or you will catch "the cracks"!

The woman's voice shows a mix of fear and determination.

Once the Pathfinders come closer they see a women wearing damp clothes and yellowed linens that wrap her arms and neck with salt-blasted skin and woolly gray dreadlocks, features those who meet her notice if they manage to look past her linen rags and loaded crossbow.
She seems every bit the part a territorial, contentedly-stranded sea hermit.

I'm Quaylan Rag, and this is my home, my land. What do you want. she asks with quite suspicion and her loaded heavy crossbow pointed toward one of you.

Natives of the Inner Sea probably recognize "The cracks" as slang for leprosy

Shirley gets the nod from her master and she flutters off his shoulder to speak.. Note that she has constant detect evil and magic up so if she notices something before this exchange I might need to retcon..

"We are here on behalf of The Society in search of a of some not so good people. Have you seen anyone moving about lately?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

How long have you called this land your home? Faldoc can't help but ask out of curiosity.

no magic nor evil
She seems to think at Faldoc's question before answering bitterly I was Riddleport’s most eligible leper and I “took care of” my drunkard fifth husband. Swore off the world, and came here to get away from nosey, noisy, nobodies like you! It's been a year now.
So all people who comes here, I welcome them with threats and "cracks kisses"! Now leave, I don't care who you are. It's my home, not yours!

"You've seen no others? Lot's of tracks heading towards your shack here.."

Not say that, dear. Just welcome them like you.
Get out now before I loose my patience and kisses one of you, with my crossbow of my mouth.

I'll give the others a chance to respond before Darius's CN self takes form..

Where did you welcome them too? Just tell us which way they went and we will leave you to your solitude, please.

Here she says showing her shack most of them have get their sense back and are gone, the other... well they never leave this island. She answers Faldoc with a croocked smile

"Right well let's be on with it then.."

Darius moves to enter the shack..