The future is is what you make of it.

Game Master Kroama

Sorry. I was making a joke about Tandar's blank post xD

Should have included something like \joke.

I personally new it was a joke :) but that's probably because I posted the blank post

Would post as Mandrake on Silvermug's behalf, but given the situation with four more guards, actually armed and ready, readily apparent, I am not sure how he would react in terms of fleeing (given nobody really threatens him too much now) or staying to finish the job of removing witnesses.
A question for Fate maybe, but still one i feel he should pose if so.

Now that backup is here, on Mandrake's next turn, I was thinking that Mandrake probably thinks that the only one who can identify him is dead. So what do you guys think the odds are he'll run away. I want to say at least Very Likely, but what do you all think?

He may fight to the death since bolton may also recongize him.

Only Kurth saw him transform.

We're not really using fumbles, and criticals don't apply on skills. Your strength check you decided to roll again for was another 1, so it was just sort of too silly not to let pass, but for the most part 1s just fail and not much else. Skills don't always fail on a 1 though, and neither do Skills have the chance to critical on a 20 in Pathfinder.

There's no real combat tactic to lower AC beyond combat maneuvers, but you could make a pseudo attack roll to add +2 to one of the guard's attack against the werewolf (DC 10)

I'm going to recommend that we raise the Chaos Rank to 5, because that was nuts.

Oh, and we're going to need a name for the Human Female Cleric who stepped in. Anyone want to name the new NPC? I kind of see her as a no-nonsense kind of character.

No joke. Honestly, was going to suggest going up two steps because of how crazy it was xD

I decree her name shall be Olivia Valiz

Due to the change in chaos rank (though the scene isn't quite concluded since we're still playing out) I will be rolling a random event.
Event: 1d100 ⇒ 99 NPC Positive
Could honestly be for Emily, any of these here, or even Mandrake.
Action: 1d100 ⇒ 81 Excitement
Subject: 1d100 ⇒ 100 Information

Some positive---ly exciting information for someone it would seem.
Honestly, the scene's focus was really Mandrake so we'll check that first. I'll give it a 50/50 before passing the baton to another potential NPC.
Is the positive information Mandrake's POV? 50/50: 1d100 ⇒ 32 Yes

Looks like Mr. Mandrake learns something exciting, and good for him... probably bad for all of us, or at the very least Kurth. Hm. Kind of want to tie this toward D.D. somewhat to bind Bolton to the group a bit more strongly.
Maybe a potential ally that he didn't expect, some sort of notification he might be receiving of such.

To be fair, the positive news that excites him could be that I didn't actually see him, but since I was bluffing in the first place would that even count?

A random event is something new. It's a piece of information that hasn't existed until this point.

Don't think i did roll for the curse, but i'm pretty sure i gotta have it at well at this point.
Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Uh... DC 15? If so i think i may have avoided it after all xD

It was in fact DC 15. That's impressive.

is the full moon within the next 3 days? (Unlikely): 1d100 ⇒ 58 No but... it is in A week

Now we need to start tracking weeks :/

Wouldnt the research show that it can be passed and thus needs to be cured like remove disease? or that we have a limited time to cure it? I love the characters, but its almost a death sentence if they dont cure it.

It depends on how much we research it if we do it enough then yes, it will show that it can be cured the question is though
Can we find the information in three days?

Seeing as we are in the capital city... could one reason a fate roll would inform us ifor an expert could be found in a reasonable time?

Given we're in a capital, i don't doubt that there's someone or something to be found that would explain all we needed to know. It would require a decent diplomacy or knowledge Local for gathering information. If you're looking for an expert on the subject without knowing anything to start with, something like DC 25-- probably something everyone could try once each day.

Alternatively, a library would likely grant a +2 circumstance bonus to knowledge checks, and let you retry such a knowledge of Local customs of werewolves. This, in turn, you could take time with and spend half your day at said library for taking 20.

I may be unable to post for the next week depending on how things turn out

That's fine, post when you can.

Shall we go with Mandrake getting an ally when he had no idea what to do next (given his cover is potentially blown to him now, and guarantee-idly so when he does investigation into Kurth's survival.

Potentially, D.D. or one of her servants took notice of his actions and intended to use the information as a sort of blackmail... but saw the opportunity to offer refuge as a potential friend instead. Probably to use for eliminating political opponents in whatever bids she's after. Under the guise of "Wolf of the Night strikes again~" type of thing.

Actually that's an idea.
Over the course of the next few days, do we hear of another wolf attack? Likely: 1d100 ⇒ 44 Yes
Days: 1d3 ⇒ 1

Looks like get to look forward to hearing of another attack the very next night. xD

I love the idea of Mandrake coming under someone's sway since his cover is now blown.

That is evil and wicked and soo soo good for rp. Making her sweat it out alone. With the guards outside. Cuz they could just happen to wander off, or something happen. Evil, evil, i love it!
On one hand i do have information. On the other its for the wrong crime.

Oh hey, would you look at that. My question was a 44, i.e. a double number within chaos limit.
That means another random event xD
Going to clear up some motives for myself first.

Were Mandrakes motives in the murder something primal (i.e. from emotion rather than reason) 50/50: 1d100 ⇒ 38 Yes

Are such actions common by him, and just hadn't been well known as of yet? 50/50: 1d100 ⇒ 47 Yes

Feels like he wasn't really targeting the contact herself intentionally...
Or was he? Very Unlikely: 1d100 ⇒ 30 Yes

Given he was killing the woman, intentionally and from emotions, i suppose he is NOT on D.D.'s side of things, as he was targeting contacts related to her in some way. Thus we have another party unrelated to any, though also enemies to D.D.... though most likely with just as nefarious plans... whatever they might be.

As for the random event....
Event: 1d100 ⇒ 38 Move toward a thread
Could honestly be for Emily, any of these here, or even Mandrake.
Action: 1d100 ⇒ 26 Procrastinate
Subject: 1d100 ⇒ 44 Prison

Hm... not sure how i feel about this. Our focus is going to be shifted towards... procrastination... and prison...
I suppose the higher-ups want to drag this out more, since they feel that a single witness of his chance isn't enough...? Wants to hold Bolton for longer as a legitimate suspect... maybe everyone connected even? Any thoughts?

As I gave a false name, and no one can prove outside of me pointing out the guards to the fight, maybe someone not involved is claiming we are all responsible. But it could also be for the cover, since me claiming to be a witness and everything else now means that the church had an issue. That would not be fun to have spread as a rumor, and so we become "honored guest" we can't leave the city or go unattended, but we are not under arrest. Hence the prison

If no one has any issues, i think we can move it forward to the next day

I hope that works. It moves us ahead somewhat, and explains the event that bolton rolled. So we arent prisoners, but we cant leave now either.

I also just realized i was lacking my 500 gp.....

A 29 Knowledge Local feels like it should be enough to know where to find someone with alchemical silver weapons for sale. Personally, I'm going for a silver light mace--it only costs 25 gp, so I can afford it. And 1d6 isn't too bad. By the way, blunt silver weapons don't have the (-1) penalty to damage. Something to consider.

But now I'm wondering about the kind of person who sells silver weapons. Is this someone who specializes in monster hunting tools? This could potentially be a new NPC--our very own Q. :-)

I'm gonna let one of ya'll push the story forward, since I dont want to be taking all the actions.

The guards questions was a good one for Fate, no way to me, but at this point i think the character directly related to such authority might be best apt to answer.

Me?

No, Kurth. To be honest, we probably don't have any guards with us. Hell, if anything, we might have one tailing us for good measure.

Glad your back Kurth, hope your feeling better!

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Been busy prepping for Hurricane Irma which is hutting Puerto Rico today. Will likely be silent for a few days at least.

Aye, lots of things going on around right now, not expecting too much activities for now. As long as everyone is still alive, that's all that matters for now.

Thanks for the well wishes. Luckily Irma just buzzed us in Puerto Rico. I lost water and electricity for a few days, but it wasn't too bad. Unfortunately it did do its damage elsewhere as anyone who watched the news can see. I have relatives in Florida who are not doing well, although they are alive.

One other note, during the blackout my wife and I rolled up 5e characters and used a rough version of the GM Emulator to pass the time. Thank you so much for introducing me to this system, GM. It kept me from going crazy with boredom.

I haven't tried solo play with it myself, definitely something to keep in mind in case i get stuck in such a situation though!

I've actually been extremely sick this weekend and am just starting to feel better myself. Maybe we'll get things moving again now xD

Just wanted to say that I won't be able to post for at least a few days because as I've mentioned before I live in Puerto Rico and we're about to get slammed by Hurricane Maria. It's currently a category 5, which is nuts. This has been a pretty crappy month. I'm probably going to be without water and electricty for a good long while.

Well, I survived. I'm back at work. And at home I currently have neither water nor power, but considering everything else going on in Puerto Rico, I'm feeling lucky. My two air conditioners are probably damaged--I won't know for sure until electricity comes back, which could be a couple weeks or more. But aside from that we didn't get any flooding to our home or any major property loss. Like I said, we were very lucky.

I'll be getting back into my games slowly for the time being.

Welcome back. I have a coworker whose family he hasnt heard from, and the village next to them is reported to be underwater still. So its good to hear some good news, and take your time getting back resettled, ya'll need normal

Thanks for the well wishes. I live in a mountainous area, and so I wasn't in any real danger from flooding. Although my roof looked like a swimming pool afterwards. But nothing we couldn't handle.

Okay, here are some thoughts about the game. I have proposed a witch character to potentially give us a way to cure our lycanthropy through a quest rather than having to pony up dough. She'll need to be at least a 5th level witch to cast Remove Curse. Given the default racial makeup of the city she would probably be human, but that's not necessarily a given.

Would anyone like to design her? I would do it myself, but my Hero Lab is on my home PC and I can't use that currently given I don't have power.

This doesn't seem to be how the system is intended, but I'm going to try rolling a random event to design a quest. Let's try this experiment.

Event Focus: 1d100 ⇒ 37; Move toward a thread
Event Meaning: Action: 1d100 ⇒ 97; Transform
Event Meaning: Subject: 1d100 ⇒ 80; Art

Okay so the Quest will have something to do with one of the plot hooks we have dangling and it will have something to do with "Transforming Art".

Any thoughts?

Any of the survivors of the new werewolf attacks get turned into macrabre statues?

Any of the survivors of the new werewolf attacks get turned into macrabre statues?

Halia, that's grotesque. Well done.

But I would imagine that there wouldn't have been any survivors until now. So it would make more sense if the victims were turned into "works of art".

Perhaps the witch wants one of the art pieces?

Or wants one destroyed. We are transforming the art... unless it was still alive...

Just posting to say that I havaen't forgotten about this game. I don't really have thoughts on how we can use this.

Welcome back Kurth, as suggested take as long as needed to get into a good situation again!
Also yes, very well put.

Knowing a witch, it could very well be she actually wants an ingredient from a creature like a cockatrice or a basilisk. Not really a thread we'd be moving to with that thought alone though.
If that were the case though, might give credence to the pot-archetype of witch. Herb witch. (had to look up)

I will be mostly without internet for the next 5 days