The Quest for Perfection Trilogy [PFS CORE] [Tier 1-2] (Inactive)

Game Master Amsheagar

Performs 'Flurry of Missses'...*Rolls Natural 20s*...
Attempts the same in actual Combat...............'Flurry of Misses' lives up to its name.

Upon entering the courtyard, you see a big harry beast. Who is ready to attack the first person who enters.

Butharn, you're up first.

Round 1
Butharn
GM's Pet
Grams
Cit'Vaya
Jack
Hadanka

Butharn moves to the bottom (or top I can't tell if they go down or up from where we are) of the stairs and readies himself for an attack from the beast.

The Yeti looks at Burharn and waits.

Round 1
Butharn
GM's Pet -delay-
--Up Next--
Grams
Cit'Vaya
Jack
Hadanka

Jack fires a sling bullet at the yeti.

Sling: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20, for 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 damage.

Do you move closer? and are you currently fatigued?

The yeti is exactly 50' away, which happens to be one range increment; thus, I won't move closer. Jack is, however, fatigued.

Grams waits for the monster to draw nearer.

He'll move 20 feet onto the stairs then loose an arrow at the beast, using a swift action to declare it his smite evil target.

"May you be measured and weighed, foul beast!"

Bow Attack w Smite: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 91d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

I've factored in his adjustments for fatigued.

Jack's Bullet rips into the Yeti, doing minor damage. The Yeti moves up to just out of Butharn's range and gazes upon his foes.

I need a 13 will save from everyone within 30 feet of the Yeti. If you fail, you are paralyzed for the next round.

Round 1
Butharn
Grams
Cit'Vaya
Jack
GM's Pet
--Up Next--
Hadanka

will save: 1d20 ⇒ 14

Butharn is not scared of walking white rug!

Butharn steps forward and tries to separate its ugly head from its shoulders.

waraxe: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14. If that hits damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4.

Jack stops moving.

Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Still fighting.

Grams stills his mind. Akin to calm pool, he brushes off the Yeti's effect.
Will save 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22

Okay, Hadanka is absent from another game as well. i am gonna move on without him. Guys... make you move for round 2 please.

Jack remains momentarily paralysed with fear.

Butharn is able to hit the beast with his axe, driving home some point. Jack is unable to move from the fright of the beastie. Hadanka is lost in the twilight zone, due to be back same time next week and same channel.

Round 1
Butharn
--Up Next--
Grams
Cit'Vaya
Jack
GM's Pet
Hadanka

...Depending on Grams choices, I may provoke an AoO...

Drops bow and moves to engage the beast in melee, drawing his Elven Curve Blade as he moves.

Melee Attack+Smite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 251d10 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Crit Confirmation: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 231d10 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Such an amzing roll. Couldn't find myself on my phone screen lol. Grams will stand in front of Jack.

Seeing his companion frozen with not even a twitch of movment, Grams moves forward to stand in front of them, ready to defend.

After being hit by an axe and arrows, the Yeti goes into a rage and clawing the person who dares stand in front of him with his two claws. Missing with the first swing, but landing on the second. As the claw slashes into the skin of Butharn, a cold chill spreads through his body. 11 damage total

Round 3
--Up Next--
Butharn
Grams
Cit'Vaya
Jack
GM's Pet

---Currently AFK---
Hadanka

Not sure that he will survive another set of attacks, Butharn does his best to put the beast down.

waraxe, power attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

I can give as good as ye beastie!

With the last blow from Butharn, the yeti falls to the power of the axe. ill wrap the game up later today when I get to a PC built this decade. Pfs numbers, day jobs, purchases and anything else I need to fill out the sheet in the discussion thread please.

Traveling back down the mountain is a simple matter, as the slope works in the PCs’ favor and all threats along the way were cleared on the ascent. Venture-Captain Amara Li personally thanks the PCs for the recovery of the Braid of a Thousand Masters. If the PCs also discovered the means of activating the braid from Jiang Dan, the Lantern Lodge venture-captain immediately begins organizing a search for the last master and the young student that followed him. If the PCs failed to discover the means for activating the Braid, Amara Li later learns of an old report describing the last master and his exploits since leaving the monastery. The report contains enough information to warrant further investigation.

Dot.

Hey guys, i missed a room in the last game. The Storeroom held a statue of a man. Here is the full description and you can all interact with it if you choose.

This fifteen-foot-by-thirty-foot room seems to have escaped the destruction found throughout the rest of the monastery. A statue, leaning against the northern wall, appears out of place among the rest of the room’s contents—clay pots, ruined sacks, and aged tools. The statue, made of finely carved stone with jade inlays, depicts a man with a serene face, standing in a meditative stance.

Grams approaches it with some caution.....

After retrieving his weaponry, he proceeds with caution into the final room of the complex, bow at the ready.

"Interesting statue. Perhaps something the Society could keep in one of it's lodges? Though it looks to have some heft to it."

Grams glances at his companion.
"It's going to be near impossible to carry it down, given the route we have to take."

Assuming I can lift it, I can try to sling it over my back. Shouldn't slow me down any more than my armor does.

"Wouldn't slow either of us to carry it but the way back is treacherous." Grams points out.

As Butharn goes to lift the statue, it grumbles at him. "Put me down you dwarf. I am Jiang Dan, a servant of the Master of Masters."

"Well, if so, you are the last one here - there are no other monks; this place has been abandoned..."

Not to speak badly of your masters, but it looks like they left you behind a while ago...

"Greeting, Jiang Dan. I am Cit'vaya, servant of Abadar and member of the Pathfinder Society of Absalom. Are you distressed in this form? Is there something we can do to offer you aid?"

Grams although slightly startled, gives a slight bow.
"I am Grams Boulderstep along with my fellow companions are pathfinders, Jiang Dan. Who or what are you if you may enlighten us?"

Jiang looks at Cit'vaya, "Thank you for your offer but my freedom is my own to achieve." to also answer Grams question, "I foolishly asked for wisdom. In response, I was given time to find that wisdom for myself. The other monks didn't abandon me. A petulant student believed he knew better than his master. The student proclaimed that the master unfairly gained power from the Braid of a Hundred Masters, cheapening the path to self-perfection. He challenged the master to remove the braid and compete against him without its power. The master did so and, in the process, defeated the student. Once the master had proven himself to the student, the master left the braid at the student’s feet, then turned away, leaving the monastery, never to return. The master took one student with him that day, the young disciple, Ying Pei, while the remaining students squabbled and fought over the braid. None could call upon the power of the braid and so they left the monastery, one by one, once again seeking their true paths to perfection. Eventually, only the petulant student and the braid remained. Here he stayed, until the day he died, contemplating the significance behind his master’s actions. Perhaps, through searching for the master and his last disciple, you may uncover the answer to the Braid of a Hundred Masters.”

Jack nods.

"An interesting story... You would not, perchance, happen to know where Ying Pei may have gone?"

Grams has a slight thought taht perhaps Jiang Dan's story might refer to himself......

"I do not know where he may have gone."

that's all the info that the statue man can provide. I'll post an update when I land in America, sometime tomorrow.

last master, Li Yao, left the monastery and the braid here many, many years ago.

found it at last.

"Is there any indication of where he went to?"

And so it begins.

It’s been three days since parting ways with Venture-Captain Amara Li, and the journey along the Tuunma River has been unusually quiet so far, with the two-masted junk called the Laughing Crow holding up surprisingly well, especially considering its simple design and relatively minute size. The journey has been peaceful so far, the endless processions of sand dunes and clear skies proving remarkably contrary to many of the warnings Amara Li provided during the meeting with her nearly half a week ago.
“No time to rest, Pathfinders!” she exclaimed late one night, barging into the bedroom of the ramshackle tavern in Goka. “I’ve looked into the situation surrounding the relic you found, the Braid of a Hundred Masters. As you may have noticed, the artifact appears to have been dormant for many years now, and in this state it’s essentially worthless to us. Fortunately, it can be reactivated, but only by the descendant of the braid’s last master, who, as you may know, was the master of the Clouded Path Monastery many years ago, a man by the name of Li Yao. I’ve discovered the whereabouts of his final living descendant—a woman by the name of Je Tsuin—but she now resides in the nation of Shokuro to the east, far from where her ancestor taught in his monastery in the Wall of Heaven. In order to reactivate the sacred relic,you’ll need to travel to the village of Nesting Swallow in Shokuro and find Je Tsuin to perform the necessary ritual. “Unfortunately,” she continued, “we’re not the only group interested in Iroran artifacts. Our operatives claim that Lingshen, the Successor State to the southeast, is after the relic as well. Since Lingshen’s armies have a stranglehold on the overland routes from here to Shokuro, you’ll have to travel by river. Riding the Tuunma is faster anyway, though you might run into some hostile Mutabi-qi or goblinoids along the way. The river empties into the Sea of Eels—cross it and you’re in Shokuro, and from there you can follow the map I’ve provided to reach Nesting Swallow."
“Ah, before I forget, you’ll also need you to make a quick stop along the way. The ritual requires a large amount of rare incense—more than I could easily procure from any of my local suppliers—so I’ve contacted a nomadic tribe in Shaguang, the Jhemulit, and they have agreed to provide you with the prepared herbs. I’ve already paid their shaman, a man named Ogokai, and I’ve marked their approximate location on your map, so it’s simply a matter of picking up the incense on your way to Shokuro.”

Raven walks in behind the venture-captain. She is dressed in garments made of blue silk and white cotton, the hood of her blue cloak down and draped around her shoulders. Her dark hair flows in a similar fashion, meticulously groomed and cared for. At her belt is a wand. "Hi," she says to the others. "I'm Raven, I'll be coming with you. I've been told all about your adventure, and I hope I'll be able to help from here."

The clean shaven Dwarven Monk gives the new comer a short bow.
"Greetings Raven, Welcome. I am Grams Boulderstep."

venture Captain Amara Li got up and gathered her hat and cloak. "If you don't have any questions. I suggest you get to your ship and set sail."

Jack nods.

"Very well, then, let's set sail!"

He pauses thoughtfully for a moment.

"Is anyone here actually a sailor, or should we hire a pilot?"

"Well no, I've never... never really done it myself. But I've read about it. A little." She stops talking and blushes slightly, realizing only too late that her input wasn't really helping.

It's not anywhere in the scenario that says you can't hire someone to sail it for you... couldn't find the price list for sailor, so I am using the one for Lawyers.

You can hire the following NPC's (They won't fight in combat and all have a minimum of 1 week contracts.)
Shipmate 5sp/day
First Mate 3gp/day
Captain 10g/day

"I wonder if I could give it a try?"
Grams mutters
Profession (Sailor) 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Profession can be made untrained. lol

Ummm... Profession is normally a 'Trained Only' skill...?

With that in mind, 10gp/day for a Captain (with a Profession(Sailor) of +21) should guarantee that we don't have to worry about failing sailing checks. Even if the journey took a month, that would still only be 75gp each, which I think is a bargain.