PFS PbP GameDay IV: PFS 06-06 - The Hall of the Flesh Eaters (Inactive)

Game Master FiddlersGreen

"Na, not again!"

Awww...come on, what could possibly go wrong?

Let me know when you guys decide to report back to Captain Benarry.

"Let's take a look at that unopenable room. I'll bet it simply hasn't been properly motivated to give up its secrets.

Aldur's in full- On trapspotting mode, checking the stairs, the doors, everything he can see for traps.

Perception + Trapfinding bonus for stairs: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

Perception + Trapfinding bonus + Inspiration for door: 1d20 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (10) + 11 + (5) = 26

"Orb's what we're looking for -- see the line-up of these particular gems along this axis? Looks kind of like a bunch of folks going somewhere? Orders were to go no lower than necessary to get it, Document the place and any insights, right? Might not hurt to drop by the Lord-in-Residence and ask him questions about who he is, how he came to be here, what un-life is like here when they don't have folks dropping in unannounced, and what he does to keep from going completely nuts. But that's just an idea. Don't forget to note what happened in the hungry room, but let's head back topside? Oh, hey. Is this thing, y'know, magical?"

He'll hold up the metal maraca for someone who has the eyes for it to look at.

Aldur blinks in shock. This is more words than Gibbs has ever spoken at once, by orders of magnitude. "Loquaciousness must be a side effect of the orb."

Aldur, you note that the door appears to be magically sealed. There are no traps, but neither is there an apparent way to remove the spell locking the door. You add this detail to your notes.

So...anything else you want to do here? Or back to Captain Benarry?

I guess that's it, unless anyone has another plan? I don't really feel like pressing my luck with King Chompy.

Gibbs hands the orb over to Aldur and takes a lot of notes, draws some pictures, etc.

"We need a name." The tengu points in the direction of the 'boss' chamber.

Instructions were Explore the place, document, and get Orb which they suspect can fiddle with the Spires. I think we're good here, unless someone else has anything? Important note: We weren't told to *clear out the place*. While the chest that was in Lord Deathly's room was all shiny, it's probably unlikely that he'd just let that kind of thing go... or would he with a guaranteed flow of fresh meat? Arranging THAT might be above our paygrade, but starting the process?

Frustrating thing with Season Six: The 'secondary' success conditions are 'ninja conditions' that are often counter-intuitive...

Aldur sighs and his shoulders slump. "I guess we'll go seek another audience."

Head back to the room, in force, in case they're in some sort of feeding frenzy.

I shake my head at the notion of another audience with the creature.

You know, if we got what we came for, then I say lets get out of this place. We are on a schedule, and the last thing we need to do is risk getting delayed and being stuck with a bunch of undead, or whatever they are cannibals and ending up on their menu.

Looking at everyone with arms crossed, I I nod my head over to the exit/exfilatration route back to the ship.

I could use a bomb this time....

"Be right back."

The tengu will go to the 'throne room' and just poke his head in.

"So we got it right, you got a name?"

Provided the response isn't *MASS O GHOUL ATTACK*, once the information is provided Gibbs will be ready to head on out...

"Name's Rajhan-Vol. Now don't forget that the next time your gang sends people here to bring similar tributes," the creature says between mouthfuls. He seems to be in a good mood for now. The corpse he's been eating is half-gone now though, and you can see that the corpses that he 'nominated' earlier are now beginning to twitch ever so slightly...

I really hope they don't look at Zykon as a form of "yard bird" and have him over for dinner. Waiting for the Tengu's return, I keep my hand on the grip of my blade, waiting for his retunr.

I really hope they don't look at Zykon as a form of "yard bird" and have him over for dinner. Waiting for the Tengu's return, I keep my hand on the grip of my blade, waiting for his retunr.

Zykon makes it back to your group without incident.

I think by now, everyone's had a chance to post if they wanted to do anything else. I was mainly thinking faction journal card things, and whether any of you had a change of heart about Rajhan-Vol. If no one's inclined to fight him and there's nothing left to do for faction journal cards, there's nothing else really left to do here.

If nothing new happens, I will wrap up within the next 24 hours.

I think we have all we need. Let's get back to the ship.

No faction card sign-off here

Dayjob(Barrister): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Gibbs will make a fully detailed report for the Venture Captain, including the prospects of future exploration.

And then he'll spend a good chunk of the trip back avoiding meat as much as possible...

Dayjob(craft Alchemy): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

BoomAhg looks over the notes and room sizes, ensuring notes about the traps (idols and first room) along with any other details don't get missed.

Alright, Zykon is back...lets catch that ship.

Satisfied that you have completed your objective here, you leave the Spire and row back to where the Grinning Pixie had weighed anchor.

However, the Grinning Pixie is nowhere to be seen.

You spend the rest of your days adrift at sea before hunger consumes you... Raman eats Zykon, Boom bombs and eats Titus, Aldur reveals the sharp teeth he has under his mask and bites Raman to death (and eats him), and finally Titus and Aldur have a final showdown that breaks the boat apart and dumps them into shark-infested waters where they are eaten.

After a few hours of panicked rowing, you do eventually find the Grinning Pixie, and signal to it with great relief. Once on board, you give your report to Calisro Benarry. She scans your report with great interest before addressing you.

“Pathfinders, you have done a great service for me and the Society. The recovery of the Orb of Stars paves the way for future expeditions. Soon, perhaps, we’ll learn more about the Gloomspires’ mysterious creators, unravel their arcane secrets, and perhaps even delve deeper into old Sevenfingers’s tomb to liberate his ill-gotten wealth. Considering what you’ve seen, you’re all now among the foremost authorities on the Gloomspires. I hope that I may call upon all of you again should the Society decide to fund another expedition.”

She expresses some concern about Rajhan-Vol, but sighs as she concedes that the Dark Archive faction would be absolutely thrilled to have the chance to converse with him and learn more about the necromantic polyp that you left intact. (You could have destroyed both. No impact on your treasure, but changes the reporting a little. ;))

The ship returns to Drenchport without incident apart from running afoul of a kraken and getting dragged under with no survivors.

Congratulations on completing the scenario! Questionable decisions were made. You could have calmed the savages and parlayed with them to leave them alive, and you could have killed Rajhan-Vol, and destroying the necromantic polyp was entirely optional. No impact on your chronicle, but these decisions may influence how the next scenario set at the tomb of Seven Fingers is written. It will be interesting to see how other tables tackled this scenario. XD

A link to the chronicles will be posted in the discussion thread before the end of the week, so watch that space. Aldur and Raman, roll your day jobs or post that you have none. If I don't see a roll by Sunday, I will assume no day job.

Finally, boon rolls!

To win a boon, at the end of each scenario, the GM should, publicly, roll a d20 for each player, and themselves, at the table - all at once.

For example, using the Paizo forums format, you can use the following template:

Boon Rolls:

GM: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Zykon: 1d20 ⇒ 14

Aldur: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Boom: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Titus: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Raman: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Boon of players choice on a natural roll of 1 or 20

**Re-Rolls not allowed on boons**

Rolls in order of appearance on the gameplay thread. Congrats Raman (and me). I'll PM you the boon options.

Raman looks around and hopes nobody tells a word about his sickness. No meat for him from now on, vegetarian.

yay :) and no day job

Awesomeness! Thank you so much for running this!

Does my attempt to recruit Rajhan-Vol count as a check for the Dark Archive faction journal card? I did exceed the listed DC.

For my day job, Craft (Alchemy) plus Crafters Fortune: 1d20 + 8 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 8 + 5 = 27

Also, BoomAgh, want to exchange formula books? We can copy whatever the other doesn't have?

Unfortunately, despite being surprisingly calm, collected and courteous for a -redacted-, he is actually not all that knowledgeable. And you did not exactly recruit him into the Dark Archive - all he was really interested in was food and getting you to leave him alone.

But I have asked on the GM thread whether the MacGuffin you retrieved counts as an artifact.

Unfortunately, despite being surprisingly calm, collected and courteous for a -redacted-, he is actually not all that knowledgeable. And you did not exactly recruit him into the Dark Archive - all he was really interested in was food and getting you to leave him alone.

I suspected not, but thought I'd check!

Yes Aldur I was going to suggest that.
Mine has:
Bomber's Eye
Comprehend Languages
Cure light wounds
Detect Secret Doors
Identify
Shield

Yes Aldur I was going to suggest that.

Mine has:
Bomber's Eye
Comprehend Languages
Cure light wounds
Detect Secret Doors
Identify
Shield

Cool cool. I have a bunch you don't have...

Ant Haul
Crafter's Fortune
Disguise Self
Enlarge Person
Expeditious Retreat
Reduce Person

Great adventure and was a lot of fun playing and interacting with everyone here.

Yes, thanks you very much for this experience. Never had PvP before.

Thank you very much for running, and for bearing with. Despite being L2ish, I'm still getting a 'feel' for Gibbs, so if there was clunkiness there, please accept my apologies.

Do you think you're going to send out the chronicle sheets before Sunday? I'm playing Siege of Serpents with Aldur then, and the sheet from this will let me advance a level.

I'll aim to do them tonight after work. If not tomorrow night.

Thanks for playing guys.

Chronicles at this link.

Haha, awesome notes on my Chronicle :D

Fantastic, thank you again for running this!

What boons did you guys pick?

Option 1 :)

Option 1 :)

Is there a list of potential boons? I haven't seen one...

It's not supposed to be shown publicly, unfortunately. GM e-mail specifically said not to. =(

Speaking of which, Raman, could you PM me your e-mail address so they can send you the boon?

Aww, it's like watching someone open birthday presents. Well, hope you both got something cool!

It's done that way to leave the decision process in the hand of the person winning the boon, versus everyone dog-piling on the person to take 'x' boon and suddenly there's forty gazillion of the one boon and none of the others.

At least via this system players get a choice. At GenCon, unless you really hit the 20s (like, multiple times at the rolling table) you don't get to pick, you get something at random.