Sior's PFS Destiny of the Sands Part II : Race to Seeker's Folly (Low-tier) (Inactive)

Game Master Sior

Day Job rolls, Boon rolls, and any purchases. Also, condition clearing.
Darvik needs to make 2 consecutive Fort saves or lose Con.
Same goes for Borax if he fails either save in the gameplay thread.
Boon Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 8

No Day Job for Teric.

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Also, there is the removal of the curses.

Teric, I have you recorded. Thank you =)

I need to have remove curse cast for the loadstone, right? Can you account for that on my sheet?

No day job for Prothero.

PFS#: 80015-2
Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 14

That is correct. I believe we have:
Zombie Rot - Darvik (from encounter in courtyard)
Loadstone - Prothero
Ring - Borax
Obelisk - Darvik

Just let me know if you're paying by gold or Prestige. (Also, there will be a chance in the conclusion for one person to have one thing cleared.)

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 5
Day Job Craft (Alchemy): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (2) + 17 = 19

Regarding the Zombie rot, someone can use the Heal skill to help Darvik save.

There's also the vial which went unused earlier because the next check wouldn't be made for days.

OK, seems I have a lot to do. Hopefully I get a Heal check to assist and the vial. Assuming so, here goes.

Fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

If I need conditions cleared I think I'll use gold to do it, though hopefully I might get one thing cleared up in the conclusion.

That's one save (using the antiplague, roll twice and take the better). Need two consecutive saves. Come on, one more!

I just rolled for the zombie thing in Gameplay, is that what this is for?

If I still need another: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

The cure is two consecutive saves. And as you had it already, you couldn't get it again. That was my mistake. But with those saves, you're a-okay.

So that leaves:
Loadstone - Prothero
Ring - Borax
Obelisk - Darvik (gold or Conclusion)

Is the ring cursed?

I suppose we could go try to kill the water elemental.

Indeed it is.

Also, I will say that the "all that remains is to contact Amenophaeus" and pointing to the sending stone are large clues as to what to do next. Though dealing with the elemental may be fun, too.

So there is no benefit in waiting a day and invoking the gold sarcophagus?

Not really. The book beside it contains all the information you would get otherwise.

Unless there's a downside to waiting, Defah can heal us up and I can replace all my extracts. In RL-IC, I don't think we'd head back the same day without replenishing spells, etc. I assume Borax knows enough about allips to know whether they can be destroyed or will reset?

You usually start each scenario with full HPs and spells/extracts anyway. I can't really see us sitting around without at least informing the Sapphire Sage of what we found. Being able to repair the gem immediately was one thing. Now if he tells us to brave the desert again, then sure I can see us resting a night here. Which is likely how we'd be starting the new scenario.

Defah would definitely want to rest up in character; I used up all my spells preparing to fight those wussy northerners.

No reason not to contact the sage right away though.

I'll use gold to pay for my remove curse. And if there's nothing to be gained from going to talk to the scholar or the elemental, let's not do those things.

PFS # 79644-15
Faction : Cheliax
Day Job : None

Boon!: 1d20 ⇒ 20

Wow! Moment of Glory is my choice, assuming I can have more than one (someone gifted one to me in another game).

Congrats, Darvik. Yes, you get one chance per game and can win as many times as the dice say you can in those rolls. I will just need your email for the VO's to send it to you.

As we wait for Defah's boon roll, here is the link to everyone's chronicle sheets. Be sure to get all three for each of your characters. The two Mythic Powers sheets will only be applicable for Part III.

Thanks, Sior! Looking forward to reconnecting for Part III!

I will say that if we do end up doing a module to boost everyone (post-PaicoCon, I'm thinkin'), it will help get my GM credit character to level 3 for the third scenario, hahaha.

Borax is going to buy the wand of PfE for 150gpl

Quick question on the chronicle sheet - we need to subtract 60 from the gold for our tier, right? You didn't already subtract it, correct?

Here are a bunch of first-level modules that we could do, which second-level characters can do also:

Crypt of the Everflame
The Godsmouth Heresy
The Dragon's Demand
Murder's Mark

As I write this, though, I recall that Darvik will be hitting third level with the chronicle from Seeker's Folly. But this would get most of us close to the right level, and then we could hold off a bit while Teric and anyone else who needs to catches up by playing another scenario. Boy, the tier skip between these scenarios is a pain!

You do need to put the 60 in the Gold spent slot. I left it unfilled in the event of other purchases.

Perhaps they should have re-introduced a 1-7 tier for part three if they didn't want people tiering out.

I've played and run (twice) Murder's Mark before. It's a fun one, I think.
Currently going through the whole of The Dragon's Demand. That's a very long one which lasts over several levels. Do not recommend it for this purpose, but do recommend it to be played elsewise.
The Godsmouth Heresy has some pretty terrible reviews on the site and I've heard nothing but bad from others regarding it.
I have Crypt of the Everflame, though not looked through it as of yet.

Just looked at the Chronicle sheet for Crypt of the Everflame... Really want to put it to this GM blob, hahaha.

But it's up to you, the players.

Right you are, I didn't read all the descriptions carefully, mostly just looked to see what level they were considered. I thought that all the modules were the equivalent of 3 scenarios in terms of XP, but it appears that is not so.

Dragon's Demand is more like a short adventure path. There are three chronicles, each with 3xp. But then there's a fourth to apply to any character than has all three parts. Hence why I do not recommend it for this, because it's sort of a waste NOT playing all three parts with the same characters. Or playing house-ruled and apply it to PFS characters after (which is what we're doing now). Also, I believe you have to do all three parts before the chronicles are awarded. I don't know, just quothe the GM.

I'd vote for Murder's Mark. I've played the Crypt and it's more fun to RP if you're not outsiders to Kassan.

It's funny, Godsmouth Heresy has some very positive reviews and very negative ones, and its average rating is better than Murder's Mark. But Murder's Mark only has a few reviews, so one bad review has brought its average down a bunch. Anyway, I'd be up for any of them, so if others have a preference, I'll go with it.

Even if I can't play with Darvik I have other characters that I could play with in those. I can't play a level 2 in Murder's Mark and I am in a Dragon's Demand game on the boards also.

Would sort of defeat the purpose if Darvik cannot level to 3 with the others in this. =\

He'll already be 3 after Part 2.

Ah, gotcha.

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boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 12

If there's going to be a module, it may be best to play it without me; I've not been very focused on my games this month, and probably would be similarly distracted if we do a module.

So still working on getting a consensus here.

Borax - No word as yet.
Darvik - Not Dragon's Demand, Murder's Mark with lvl 1 or other.
Defah - Prefer not module.
Prothero - Anything.
Teric - A vote for Murder's Mark

As stated before, I'm going to sit out the module. I'll look to pick up some games with other GMs in the meantime.

Well, then, with four remaining and one requesting not a module, what'll it be, folks?

Well I'm personally still ok with a module, but if we're staying away from that, then what about another multipart scenario? Shades of Ice perhaps?

Please don't change your plans on account of Borax.

I think another multipart scenario is a good idea. Why don't we do this: see if there's a multipart scenario that we can all play, and if there's not we'll do Murder's Mark.

One question I'm not sure of at this point is whether we'd need a three-part scenario (I think so, given that we have some characters who were brand new at the start of these two games) or whether a two-part would do.

For three-part scenarios of appropriate level, here are some options I found on a quick skim:

The Devil We Know (actually 4 parts)
Shades of Ice
Quest for Perfection

I can play any of these.

I have done all of QFP,

I have completed two parts of SoI (coincidentally with my other Investigator at the same time we did these two scenarios).

I am doing the 2nd part of DWK and honestly, I am not a fan of that series. I've heard #1 is a bad scenario from the guy who is GMing #2.

I've played or am in the process of playing all of those. I'm currently playing Murder's Mark with a 2nd level guy but I have a couple 1st level dudes that I could bring to play it. Or I can just sit out the multi-part scenario thing and wait with Darvik.

I'm currently playing QfP. Other than that, I'm open.

I'm GMing my first PFS scenario and I plan to apply it to Teric, so we would just need to play 3 credits worth to get him to 3rd level.

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I wasn't so much saying that I didn't want to do a module as that I just haven't been feeling up to regular participation on the boards in general the last few weeks. I don't know if it's fair of me to slow down the games for everyone else with my laggy posting

As for the series instead of modules, I've either already played, or am playing in each of those series already. For those who started at 0 XP (like Defah), we'd need a regular scenario (Confirmation? It's still fun even after doing it a half-dozen times) and then a module (The only ones that I've already done are the first level of Thornkeep and WBG) to get to level three.