Welcome back! I figure you'll need a day or so to update your characters so we'll get started on Wednesday morning.
It would certainly be...out of the ordinary. And of course if might be difficult to be discreet if need be, what with an otherworldly creature roaming about behind you!
I've received a few PMs and I think there is some confusion about how items on the chronicle sheet work...
Pathfinder Society Organized Play is unlike a standard roleplaying experience. Instead of dividing up treasure among your fellow party members, every Pathfinder has access to any piece of loot available in a scenario. Every Chronicle sheet lists all of the loot that can be found during the scenario, with the exception of minor items available to every Pathfinder Society character. After the scenario, the GM checks which items you and your fellow Pathfinders discovered, and each of these items immediately becomes available for purchase by all party members. Items not discovered in play are blacked out or lined out by the GM. In addition, every player who completes a scenario receives a set amount of gold for the scenario that she may spend to acquire items (either from her collected Chronicle sheets, from the Core Rulebook, or from approved Additional Resources). This gold piece total can fluctuate depending on what you accomplished and how you accomplished it.
For example, if the evil Hellknight you defeated at the end of a scenario is wielding a +1 frost longsword, the sword will appear on that scenario’s Chronicle sheet. Every PC who wishes to do so has the opportunity to acquire that +1 frost longsword. If two players in the scenario want it, they both can purchase their own. This system, while not necessarily realistic, ensures that all players have a fair and equitable chance to acquire the items that best suit their characters’ specific needs.
Note: You may use any item that you find during the scenario for free until the end of the scenario, but you must purchase the item when the scenario is over in order for your character to be able to continue to use the item. This rule is most applicable to consumables such as potions, scrolls, and so on, but also applies to weapons, magic items, and so on.
Some items may be so valuable that the gold you receive in one scenario is insufficient to purchase it. If you are unable to purchase a valuable item immediately, you can save up your gold and purchase it during or after another scenario. Every item listed on your Chronicle sheets is considered always available for purchase for you, regardless of whether it’s on your first Chronicle sheet or your 21st Chronicle sheet. The only exceptions are items that have a purchase limit. You may never purchase more of that item throughout the life of your character than the number amount listed as the purchase limit.
There are "always available items" (page 26 of the Guide to Organized Play):
You may always purchase the following items or equipment so long as you’re in an appropriately sized settlement (see above).
• All basic armor, gear, items, and weapons from Chapter
6 of the Core Rulebook, including Small and Large-sized items. This does not include equipment made from dragonhide, but it does include equipment made from the other special materials, such as alchemical silver and cold iron (see the Special Materials section on page 154 of the Core Rulebook). All mundane (completely nonmagical) weapons, armor, equipment, and alchemical gear found in any other source that is legal for play are considered always available.
• +1 weapons (2,000 gp + 300 for the masterwork weapon cost + item cost)
• +1 armor (1,000 gp + 150 for the masterwork armor cost + item cost)
• +1 shields (1,000 gp + 150 for the masterwork armor cost + item cost)
• Potions and oils of 0- or 1st-level spells at caster level 1st (50 gp or less)
• Scrolls of 0- or 1st-level spells at caster level 1 (50 gp or less)
• Wayfinder (50% discount—250 gp; see page 299 of The Inner Sea World Guide)
Beyond the gear noted above, your character is restricted to purchasing additional items from his accumulated Chronicle sheets, or by capitalizing on his fame. Weapons, armor, equipment, magic items and so on that are outside of these lists are not available for purchase at any time.
You could use your 2 Prestige Points to purchase an item up to 750 gp...coincidentally the cost of a 1st level wand.
Just posted the introductory wall of text in gameplay. Feel free to hop in when you're ready. This is an...interesting scenario.
No worries...we're all in different time zones and I don't expect more than one post a day. Yesterday was a bit different since we were on the railroaded introduction and there was nothing anybody could have done or said that would have changed the outcome. (Unless someone tried to attack Torch...then we'd have one less PC among us!) Although I did get to ad-lib a little bit which was quite fun for me!
Now that we're into the chewy center of the scenario things will move along at a much more typical pace.
Here is a little history behind Grandmaster Torch. A much better summary than I could come up with off the cuff.
Keep your eyes and ears open once the next PbP Game Day starts up. I'll run one or two games for that and I'd love to pull this group back together!