The Walking Dead of Golarion, by GM Fiendish

Game Master Fiendish Zen

The Walking Dead of Golarion is now one year old, Happy Anniversary my wonderful players :)

Lenneth, Azmerai and Lilith are the only remaining characters from the very beginning. Along the way you've lost Turrey, Shomari, Valex and Polonius, gaining Euron and most recently Flynn and Lives.

You've seen fire ravage an entire town and burn it to the ground, been bitten and somehow survived by the grace of some unknown power, discovered a secret prison for undead entities best left buried, chosen to influence the society of a goblin tribe instead of destroying it, ridden on a beautiful swan boat (and nearly had Euron drowned by water-logged groaners), found a nice community that seems to be doing its best to rebuild (hush you disbelievers in the back!), found clues that Polo's son is still alive, and had several dreams with portents that have come to pass.

Some easter eggs from the last year... we've seen or heard of versions of Tsuto Kaijitsu, Ameiko Kaijitsu, Shayliss Vinder, Aldern Foxglove and Shalelu Andosana from Rise of the Runelords. Tali explained the state of the Darklands when she tried to get back underground, which might explain what happened to any drow from Second Darkness...

Thank you for making it a joy to click the 'My Campaigns' link :)

LOL @ the spoiler, I totally did not pick up on that at all!

On a more serious note, this game and the Carrion Crown game that I'm in are the only two of my original round of campaigns as a PbP newbie to make it a whole year. The past year of gaming with everyone (both new and old) has been a blast and I'm looking forward to seeing what the next year (I hope) and beyond has in store for us :)

The Walking Dead of Golarion is now one year old, Happy Anniversary my wonderful players :)

Lenneth, Azmerai and Lilith are the only remaining characters from the very beginning. Along the way you've lost Turrey, Shomari, Valex and Polonius, gaining Euron and most recently Flynn and Lives.

You've seen fire ravage an entire town and burn it to the ground, been bitten and somehow survived by the grace of some unknown power, discovered a secret prison for undead entities best left buried, chosen to influence the society of a goblin tribe instead of destroying it, ridden on a beautiful swan boat (and nearly had Euron drowned by water-logged groaners), found a nice community that seems to be doing its best to rebuild (hush you disbelievers in the back!), found clues that Polo's son is still alive, and had several dreams with portents that have come to pass.

Some easter eggs from the last year... we've seen or heard of versions of Tsuto Kaijitsu, Ameiko Kaijitsu, Shayliss Vinder, Aldern Foxglove and Shalelu Andosana from Rise of the Runelords. Tali explained the state of the Darklands when she tried to get back underground, which might explain what happened to any drow from Second Darkness...

** spoiler omitted **

Thank you for making it a joy to click the 'My Campaigns' link :)

I so do not remember that spoiler.

Ha! I didn't make that connection either! Nice

Happy anniversary guys!

Woheee.
let us begin year 2.

Its been brilliant, I remember reading the game from the start and then getting the chance to join. I want to thank Fiendish for all this!

IT has been quite the ride, and I've looked forward to checking my Paizo lists every day. Great Gming and a great bunch of players.

After spending the day in the zoo, I did learn a few things.
First of all, if we do not start creating food, we are in deep trouble.
There are 2 great options. One is the goat. A clever beast, she did steal my wives lunch sandwich, and almost mine, wich were inside our babybuggy, they do offer milk, we also means cheese, but also they are clever and fast enough to escape from the groaners and are also incredibly hardy, able to survive from grass. If we manage to capture a decent herd, we do have one major problem solved. The others are geniua pigs. They do not eat much and reproduce like mad. They made it possible for the inkas to survive high in the andes.
Second... we need salt. Mainly to make food eadeble for longer time.
Third we need timber. I do remember there is a woodmill in sandpoint, but that would be too far away.
Well as soon as we have the raw materials, our wizard should be able to start producing saws and axes to start the timber proces. Wich should also help us to fortify solace.

I am in Breckenridge Colorado for a quick ski trip. I hope to have time to post some, but that did not happen this first travel day.

Ok I'm going to talk a little meta here.

I think the best things we can do are speak to Ashleigh and Tabitha to see what really happened in that store room.

Second, I think we would benefit from seeing what the council keep in their chambers/quarters though that is quite obviously going to turn them against us if we are caught.

Third, there are still sections of Solace that are unexplored (I think)

Also, I think someone should tell Shayliss, Ashleigh and Tabitha that Polo and Valex aren't coming back. I think they were all taken with them in one way or another

Meta away!

Given it's an 'investigaty bit' plus we're PbP, having a chat here in the discussion thread might be easiest for you all to bounce ideas off each other without having to transpose them to IC RP :)

Well those are the actions I think we should take. Lillith has gone to speak to the girls already.

Flynn is just going to wander about, not knowing that some of the places he has gone to are off limits (unless he comes across a locked door in which case he can't get in anyway)

Lilith has asked to go talk to the girls, and is going to be pretty insistent about it, but she has not gone yet. She could use some help. It was a big flag to me when we were asked not to talk to them because it might upset them. I think there was an attempt on their life and likely a murder as well.

Might it be better to talk to the girls first without Brae present? Cna we do that without upsetting or alarming either the girls or Brae?

WE should also check around and see how Brae and Finas got along.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter all :)

Guys, I'm letting all my games know that I'm going on a three week holiday from the 12th May. The chances are I will be able to post periodically throughout that time but it's going to be a pretty packed holiday so it will be time-permitting.

Just giving you the heads up know while I'm booking trips online :)

No prob and have all the fun in the world.
Where to ?

First time to the states so headed to New York, San Francisco and Vegas :D

Awesome idea. We went on my honeymoon first to NY than to San Fran. BTW there is a great little shop in san francisco for miniatures. I could cherrypick my pathfinder miniatures there. The one in NY is a little small and tiny but also decent. Well that is if you want to shop some pathfinder stuff. Never been to Vegas though.

Hope you have a blast. I have never been off for three week in a row ever. Hard for me to imagine it. :)

When you are in New York you will only be 980 miles from my house in northern Alablam. :)

Me either. I have never had a two week holiday even!!

980 miles, pfft, that's nothing. Put the kettle on, I'll be over for tea :)

Heck, here in Pittsburgh I'm a measly 350 miles from NYC. Stop on your way to Lilith's!

Enjoy the trip. Where are you staying in Vegas?

(Also, if you care to indulge the inner child and geek, the Lego store in Rockefeller Center is not to be missed.)

Staying just off Times Square in NY and we do have a pass to go to the top of the Rock so I'm sure we'll stop by the lego store :)

Planet Hollywood in Vegas so we are right on the strip. Cannot wait :E

Las Vegas is awesome; I think you'll have a great time! Also, you have to pass in my general direction to visit Lilith so feel free to make a pit stop in Tennessee as well :D

Hell let's just switch this game to tabletop!! Fiendish can run it by Skype lol

People should be cautious when suggesting that I stop by to visit them, because I'll do it. :). I have met 6 of my PBP judges so far and one was in Prague. 2 were at Gen Con so I am not sure that really counts.

I'll also be away from the 7th for three weeks, i will try my best hopefully i'll have some wifi. I'll be meeting up with Flyn in Las Vegas, after a wedding in Memphis.

Very excited, not long now.

I wanted to give a heads up that I will be traveling from Friday after work through late Monday and my posting will be light and in the evenings, if at all. I should be back to normal Tuesday. Please GMbot me if needed.

Looks like Lenneth is the only one of us skilled at Sense Motive. Is it possible/reasonable to question each person here long enough to catch the guilty one(s) in a lie with Lenneth's skill of +9? What can we do to bolster her skill? I guess she can hex them with Evil Eye for -2 to skills to help overcome a bluff?

Alas, Lenneth does not know the Evil Eye hex...but Sense Motive can be used untrained, so people should still be able to help with Aid Another if they like.

Not to mention that official council sanction or not, hexing someone with the evil eye would be the equivalent of assault, a magical drug to increase interrogation results... the kind of things secret police would do, not people of good character.

I'm not saying you can't do that or something like it, it's entirely up to you how to play your characters! I'm just reminding you that the community would likely withdraw its trust in you as impartial investigators should you resort to such immoral tactics.

Not feeling trusted anyway at the moment. But I do see your point. I was unsure if someone would even know they had been under a hex, but am good with your view of it. Also, while she is trying to reform, Lilith is of neutral alignment and from the courts of Cheliax. Such tactics would be the norm for her. :)

Alas, the idea is moot.

You see what happened? Back in Cheliax we would have rounded up everyone immediately and no one would have wandered off. :)

Yeah. The Hellknights would have found the culprit in no time.

Along with a small handful of non-culprits that looked suspicious. :)

Yeah but there were there so..... you know, they probably know something.

I'm hoping Azmerai is still around, just busy...and hopefully not bored, either! I know he tends to be a half-orc of few words and there's been a lot of talking lately...

Its building up to something big, im sure there will be a lot to smash soon.

No worries, he is still here. Just listening. Do not forget, he is bad with words and he feels emberassed, so usually he lets others talk. And just listens. And makes his own opinion.

Lives is doing much the same - plus, he has the "new guy staying quiet" card to play...

Okay, before I make another Gameplay post, we should probably determine what questions we should ask. Any suggestions?

I'm not sure. People aren't just going to confess to wrong doing.

I guess we want to know if anyone has seen anything strange, if they can be accounted for when Finas was attacked etc

A bolder plan might be to play on Radek's poisoning. Someone must be trying to slowly debilitate or kill him. It might be interesting to tell the community he died, see the reaction of individuals and also see if anyone tries to leave in the next few days to report that to their superiors

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As far as the poisoning thing goes, that could be interesting but that would hinge on talking Nikolai (pretty sure he's the only one being poisoned but I could be wrong) into hiding out in the Council's chambers. It certainly might be worth exploring, but I think it would be a difficult sell...not to mention I don't think we're going to have time to talk to him about it for the next little bit ;)

Whoops, do we want to put a hold on the questioning for the moment? Based on the timing, seems that Flynn hasn't been gone for very long so I'm not sure if Lenneth has had time to really talk to anyone yet. I can go either way, but thought I'd check since I'd like to know before I make a post...but if I don't hear anything after a bit I'll go ahead and whip something up since I don't want to stall too long on this :)

Ah I meant Nikolai.

I'm not a 100% sure what we can ask to root these people out so I still think the poisoning ruse is worth exploring.

The other thing is that Flynn knows where (roughly) these bandits/cultists are so in the morning we could go after them.

My thought on the question was to examine and cross examine people about poisoning, the undead in the supply closet, growing of that plant, etc, until you catch someone in a lie. If you sense untruth then we follow that were it leads. Maybe simple cover ups and maybe major reveals.

Sorta at a loss as to how to move forward. Lilith is down her spells and does not trust the leaders here. She is close to the attitude that the group should just leave, wait a few days, and then come back and claim the place when everyone here is dead.

Lenneth would really like to try and salvage the situation, but she's not sure of how...going after Violet seems the obvious option but most of us are still down spells as you point out, plus that leaves Solace at the mercy of whoever our traitor is (or are traitors are). But based on what Flynn has learned, it's pretty likely that these bandits and/or the Way will make some raid or attack against the place eventually.

Though if it all goes to pot and the group survives, she'd also be for trying to track down Polo's son...actually, even if things are salvaged here, she'd still be for doing that.

Euron won't leave, a place like this is something hes been out looking for since it all started.

I think we need to talk this out though. The first thing is making it safe and thats dealing with this traitor/s while seeing to our defence, losing Violet is bad but right now we need to focus we can ask why she was out there after all this.