[Retrocon][ACG] Cosmic Captive by Nathan (Inactive)

Game Master Nathan Davis

Autofail DEX. Random location: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Explore: Heavy Crossbow - Autofail

Discard Blessing of Kols to explore:

INT 10+2=12, bury Blessing of Pharasma, use Ekkie's Blessing of the Gobs: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 3) = 7
Recharge buried Blessing of Pharasma to reroll: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 5) = 13. Success.

That is, if I understood Ekkie's notes to us that upon using the BotGobs, Ekkie will get a blessing from the blessings deck (B of Pharasma).

Attempt to close: DEX 6, use Ekkie's stolen blessing: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 4) = 9. Closed! Whew!

Reset hand
Done

Hand: Magus Arcana, Staff of Minor Healing, Gallivance, Blessing of Nethys, Lightning Touch, Grounding Staff,

Talitha's Deck
Displayed:
Deck: 13 Discard: 1 Buried: 0 , , , , ,
Notes:
Sideboard cards:

Skills:

SKILLS
Strength d8 [ ]+1 [ ]+2 [ ]+3
-- Melee: Strength +2
Dexterity d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2
Constitution d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2
Intelligence d6 [ ] +1
Wisdom d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2 [ ] +3
Charisma d10 [XXXXX] +1 [XXXXXX] +2 [XXXXX] +3 [ ] +4
-- Arcane: Charisma +2
-- Diplomacy: Charisma +2

Favored Card: Blessing
Hand Size 5 [X] 6
Proficient with: Weapons
Cohort: Magus Arcana

Powers:

<Power 1> When you would discard a spell for a power on a boon that has the Staff trait, you may discard or bury a Blessing ([ ] or any boon) instead
<Power 2> On any check, when you would discard a blessing, you may bury it instead.
<Power 3> You may recharge a buried blessing to ([XXXXX] succeed at your check to recharge a spell or to) reroll the dice ([XXXXX] or 1 die) on any of your checks; take the new result.
<Power 4>
<Power 5>
Die Bump 2, Used 1

Card Feat 1: Blessing
Card Feat 2: Blessing
Adventure scenario reward, Card feat: Spell
Skill Feats: 3* CHA
Power Feat 1: Hand size 6
Power Feat 2: Reroll 1 die
Power Feat 3: success on check to recharge a spell
Tier 3: One scenario completed.
Two scenarios completed
Scenario reward: Use Qasin (ally 2) as a bonus deck upgrade
Third scenario completed
Scenario reward: “You may recharge a card to reduce Fire damage dealt to you to 0.”
Fourth Scenario completed
Scenario reward:
Card Feat: Ally (Embalmer)
Con boon: [ ][ ][ ][ ]Amateur Swashbuckler: You may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to add or remove the Swashbuckling trait from your check. If your character has the Swashbuckler trait, you may add an additional 1d4.

Talitha should have used a different blessing because the stolen blessing would have been recharged. I would assume the Mavaro's Blessing of Angradd was used instead as it was the only valid other blessing

During This Adventure:

During This Scenario: At the start of your move step, succeed at a Dexterity or Acrobatics check with a difficulty of 9 plus the scenario’s adventure deck number (11) or move to a random open location and end your move step.

Turn: 4, Ekkie/Yewstance

Top of Blessing Discard Pile:

Blessings Deck

Location #1: Canyon
At This Location: When you encounter a non-henchman, non-villain monster from a location deck, each other character at this location summons and encounters that monster.
When Closing: Encounter and acquire the bottom card of the blessings deck.
When Permanently Closed: On closing and at the end of your turn, shuffle each location.
M: 2 Ba: 3 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 1 I: 0 Al: 1 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: Mavaro/Akaitora, Characters at this location encounter Collapsed Ceiling as their first exploration each turn, and may not move or be moved while this barrier is faceup on the location deck.

Location #2: Dam
At This Location: You may not move or be moved from this location unless another character is present.
When Closing: Bury 1d4 cards of your choice from your hand. If you don't have enough cards in your hand to do so, bury any remaining cards from the top of your deck instead.
When Permanently Closed: No effect.
M: 3 Ba: 2 W: 1 Sp: 0 Ar: 1 I: 1 Al: 1 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: None

Location #3: Deeper Dungeons
At This Location: The difficulty of combat checks is increased by 1.
When Closing: Succeed at a Constitution or Fortitude 8 check.
When Permanently Closed: No effect.
M: 4 Ba: 2 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 1 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: Merisiel/WilderRedbeard, Ogre

Location #4: Warrens
Closed
At This Location:
M: 0 Ba: 0 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 0
Located/Displayed Here: Talitha/IraKroll, Ekkie/Yewstance, None

Location #5: Abattoir
At This Location: The difficulty of any check to defeat a bane is increased by the number of characters at all locations.
When Closing: Summon and defeat the henchman Brimorak.
When Permanently Closed: On closing, recharge a random weapon from your discard pile.
M: 4 Ba: 2 W: 3 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: None

Off turn: Ekkie (ultimately) buries Blessing of the Gobs to support Talitha's check, as well as discard from the blessings deck, then acquire and recharge Blessing of Pharasma.

I hope it's okay to use Blessing of Lady Lastbreath to steal from Talitha's discard pile like I did last game; this is the optimal way of using it for a couple of reasons right now.

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Ekkie starts her turn.
Blessing of Torag discarded from the Blessings Deck.
Instead of her movement step, Ekkie recharges Blessing of Lady Lastbreath to draw Blessing of Kols from Talitha's's discard pile, then moves to the Canyon.

Whoops, wow! Cold-tough not-rock ground is slick! Maybe Ekkie shoulda stolen some shoes before this? It's fun, though!

HAH! Ekkie points and laughs as the shimmery wizard-longshanks-girl slips and falls right next to her. Too tempted to resist, Ekkie rummages through their dropped satchel for some shiny holy trinket, then scampers off without slipping too much; fueled by sheer goblin impudence as she's overtaken by malicious giggling.

Ekkie takes her free exploration.
Canyon Card 1: Collapsed Ceiling

Ekkie comes across some big rock rubble stuff with fancy-man standing nearby. Remembering how much better she felt when napping under rocks last time, she tries to dig out a hole in the collapsed rubble to make a little hideaway sleepy-nest in. But as she scrambles and digs, the rocks shift and slide apart, opening a path further forwards. She grumbles; the perfect little nook she was digging having caved in too. Bleah.

She sticks her tongue out, unimpressed, then kicks a nearby rock and clambers over the pile of rocks. Too unsteady; not good rocks to sleep in. But she can see a bunch from up here! Like what's that thing over there...?

Ekkie discards Shy Ratani to explore again, drawing a card (Rochin) from her power. Shy Ratani adds 1d8 to checks to acquire during this exploration, and allows any bane to be evaded.
Canyon Card 2: Explosive Runes

Ekkie clambers down from the mound of stone, lifting up some strange metal sheet-thing. A scrap of spaceship stuff? There's something on the other side...?

"AHH! EVIL BRAINSUCKING WORDS!" Ekkie shrieks in fear as she recognizes - or at least thinks she recognizes - something that looks a lot like letters on it. She tosses the sheet of metal far away to protect her precious thoughts, mere seconds before it explodes in a violent burst of shrapnel!

Wow... Ekkie knew words were bad, but didn't know they exploded too! All the more reason to avoid them. Humph.

Ekkie recharges Staff of Minor Healing to randomly recharge Thieves' Tools from her discard pile.

Ekkie discards Compass to explore again, drawing a card (Blessing of Kofusachi) from her power.
Canyon Card 3: Sneak

The explosion draws the attention of some maddened hermit scrambling over the ice; slashing out with a knife blindly as he howls in some unintelligible tongue. Weird crazy longshanks must've been here a while, based on all the hair, Ekkie thinks. Ekkie throws a candle in his face to blind him, knocks the knife from his hand with a yelling jump-kick, then stabs him a dozen times with her mini-spear-stab tool for good measure.

Ekkie recharges Blessing of Kols (the top card of the blessings discard pile has the Torag trait) to explore again.
Canyon Card 4: Half-Plate

The old guy had some tough metal on him, but Ekkie had stabbed around it cleverly. She cuts the straps off and pulls the armor off of him, trying to work out a way to pack it to carry back home - it's shiny!

Eh. This turn did not go as planned; that Sneak slowed me down. I was hoping to just keep exploring and Ekkie-evade to move any banes I couldn't deal with into other locations (Henchman included) and just close this location by emptying the whole deck; but I drew cards I'm unwilling to discard (Blessing of Kofusachi and Reformarium Servant) this early on when they're much more valuable when timed right, and recharging (rather than discarding) that Blessing of Kols slowed me down because it didn't let me replace it... admittedly, still a good deal.

It's worth stressing that Ekkie stands no real chance against the henchmen, so she's looking to just close locations by emptying them of cards after shunting henchmen away; I'd need 3 extra dice to get above-averages odds, otherwise.

Hand: Blessing of Kofusachi, Half-Plate, Deconstructor, Rochin, Reformarium Servant, Blowgun,

Displayed:
Deck: 9 Discard: 3 Buried: 1
Notes: Ugh. From no weapon to all of my weapons; how annoying. Or at least, it would be if I couldn't just discard them and draw new cards easily enough with Reformarium Servant.

As soon as a Blessing that lists Constitution is discarded from the blessings deck, Ekkie will recharge Blessing of Kofusachi to draw and use Staff of Minor Healing.

If Ekkie gets into combat (from the Canyon's power, presumably), she will evade using her power.

Mavaro discarded Blessing of Angradd on Talitha's turn.
Mavaro must encounter a Sneak on Ekkie's turn, sorry.

Blessing of Kols was stolen from Talitha's discard pile, and placed into Ekkie's deck.

Between turns, Mavaro discards Blessing of Angradd to help with Talitha's check. During Ekkie's turn, he also has to fight a Sneak. For the BYA check, I will recharge my Bound Lantern Archon to put Psychic Reading on top of my deck and gain Perception = Knowledge.

BYA Perception 8: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

That small goblin is at it again. At first, Mavaro is relieved to see the Goblin going through the rocks and clearing a path for him, but the amount of noise it made attracted some attention. Luckily, Mavaro is able to foresee their assailant's intention and avoid their preemptive strike, but must now fight.

I will reveal and recharge my Venomous Fighting Fan +1 to add 1d4+1d12+1 and the Poison trait to my check.

CtD Combat Strength 9: 1d12 + 1d6 + 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (11) + (4) + (3) + 1 = 19

A flick of his venomous fan, and the assassin was paralyzed and no longer a nuisance, but Mavaro was left panting, trying to find support in these slippery halls long enough to catch his breath.

Beginning Mavaro's turn under Blessing of Abadar.

At the start of Mavaro's turn, he fails the Acrobatics check and is moved to a random location.

Random open location to move to: 1d5 ⇒ 1

I am still at the Canyon. My move step ends. During my turn, I will cast Fly to examine the top card of Canyon and Abbatoir.

Top card of abattoir (which got shuffled): 1d10 ⇒ 4

I examine Canyon Card 5: Icy Terrain and Abattoir Card 4: Zombie. I will choose to stay at the Canyon to attempt to close it.

Recharge Fly, Divine 10: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Mavaro flies high above the icy canyon to scout ahead. He's glad he does, as he spots a number of ice stalagmites downhill from where he is, as well as a Zombie in a building up ahead.

He could just fly over the spikes, but he doesn't think his new Goblin acquaintance will be so lucky. He decides to fly down and clear the spikes as best as he can before the creature impales itself on them.

I will recharge The Missing Eye to put Cleric of Nethys on top of my deck. Then, I will use Spirit Surge to draw 3 cards. They are Cleric of Nethys, Cure and Psychic Reading. The new card on top of my deck is Bound Lantern Archon. I'm going to go ahead and cast Cure on myself before anything else happens.

Cure on Mavaro: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Recharge Cure, Divine 8: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Great success! I will now explore to encounter Icy Terrain. I'm going to use my power to gain Intelligence= Knowledge. I need help with this, so I'm going to bury Talitha's Blessing of Nethys to add a die to my check.

CtD Intelligence 12: 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (7, 6) + 4 = 17

Mavaro flew down and spotted something curious. Not only were there multiple ice stalagmites, but there were also numerous ice stalactites on the canyon's ceiling. Maybe he could use them to create some sort of platform. Procuring one of his many trinkets from his bags, he set out to cut the stalactites so that they would fall between the stalagmites below, crushing many of the dangerous spikes and creating bridges at some other points. "This should make it...well, safe might not be the word....less deadly?"

I will attempt to close the location by acquiring the bottom card of the Blessings deck: Blessing of Irori, which I auto-acquire with my 1d8+4 Intelligence. Canyon is closed and I will end my turn. Speaking of which, at the end of my turn I take 1 point of Mental damage. I will discard Psychic Reading for it. Then,I will try to recharge Spirit Surge, but before I do, I will recharge my Armor of Pockets to put Shrunken Head on top of my deck to gain Perception = Knowledge.

Recharge Spirit Surge, Perception 7: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Since I'm ending my turn at the Canyon, all locations need to be shuffled.

Hand: Cleric of Nethys, Shrunken Head, (Acquired)Blessing of Irori, Riffle Scrolls, Fly, Blessing of the Spellbound 2, Harrow Deck,

Displayed:
Deck: 11 Discard: 1 Buried: 0
"Notes:
-Top card: Crystal Mail Skills granted: Constitution, Perception Traits: Light Armor
-Available for use without asking: Blessing of the Spellbound if your check invokes Arcane or Divine, Blessing to close, Blessing against villain
-Available for use if you ask: Blessing of the Spellbound, Cure
"
Sideboard cards:

During This Adventure:

During This Scenario: At the start of your move step, succeed at a Dexterity or Acrobatics check with a difficulty of 9 plus the scenario’s adventure deck number (11) or move to a random open location and end your move step.

Turn: 6, Merisiel/WilderRedbeard

Top of Blessing Discard Pile:

Blessings Deck

Location #1: Canyon
Closed
At This Location: At the end of your turn, shuffle each location deck.
M: 0 Ba: 0 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 0
Located/Displayed Here: Ekkie/Yewstance, Mavaro/Akaitora,

Location #2: Dam
At This Location: You may not move or be moved from this location unless another character is present.
When Closing: Bury 1d4 cards of your choice from your hand. If you don't have enough cards in your hand to do so, bury any remaining cards from the top of your deck instead.
When Permanently Closed: No effect.
M: 3 Ba: 2 W: 1 Sp: 0 Ar: 1 I: 1 Al: 1 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: None

Location #4: Warrens
Closed
At This Location:
M: 0 Ba: 0 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 0
Located/Displayed Here: Talitha/IraKroll, None

Location #5: Abattoir
At This Location: The difficulty of any check to defeat a bane is increased by the number of characters at all locations.
When Closing: Summon and defeat the henchman Brimorak.
When Permanently Closed: On closing, recharge a random weapon from your discard pile.
M: 4 Ba: 3 W: 3 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: Explosive Runes, Zombie

Start of turn: BotGods
Move Step Check: Acrobatics 9+2=11: 1d12 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14 succeeded
At move step, move to Abattoir

Amaryllis gains a proper footing and heads back up the passage to Abattoir.

Free explore of card 1:

As Merisiel climbs the passage back to the previous chamber it begins to collapse. She pulls out her tools and manages to dig her way through to the upper chamber. Once there she discovers a panel of runes pulsating with arcane energy. She decides to leave them be until she can sort out her gear from the climb.

Reset hand and end turn

Hand: Captain's Cutlass, Blessing of the Ancients, Blessing of the Gods, Amulet of Life, Emerald of Dexterity,

Displayed: Gambeson,
Deck: 8 Discard: 3 Buried: 0
Notes: Blessings available as required. Dice re-roll used for 8-00B2: N.
Sideboard cards:

During This Adventure: You may recharge a card to reduce Fire damage dealt to you to 0

During This Scenario: At the start of your move step, succeed at a Dexterity or Acrobatics check with a difficulty of 9 plus the scenario’s adventure deck number (11) or move to a random open location and end your move step.

Turn: 7, Talitha/IraKroll

Top of Blessing Discard Pile:

Blessings Deck

Location #1: Canyon
Closed
At This Location: At the end of your turn, shuffle each location deck.
M: 0 Ba: 0 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 0
Located/Displayed Here: Ekkie/Yewstance, Mavaro/Akaitora,

Location #2: Dam
At This Location: You may not move or be moved from this location unless another character is present.
When Closing: Bury 1d4 cards of your choice from your hand. If you don't have enough cards in your hand to do so, bury any remaining cards from the top of your deck instead.
When Permanently Closed: No effect.
M: 3 Ba: 2 W: 1 Sp: 0 Ar: 1 I: 1 Al: 1 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: None

Location #4: Warrens
Closed
At This Location:
M: 0 Ba: 0 W: 0 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 0
Located/Displayed Here: Talitha/IraKroll, None

Location #5: Abattoir
At This Location: The difficulty of any check to defeat a bane is increased by the number of characters at all locations.
When Closing: Summon and defeat the henchman Brimorak.
When Permanently Closed: On closing, recharge a random weapon from your discard pile.
M: 4 Ba: 2 W: 3 Sp: 0 Ar: 0 I: 0 Al: 0 Bl: 0 ?: 1
Located/Displayed Here: Merisiel/WilderRedbeard, Explosive Runes, Zombie

Autofail start of turn check. Get moved to 1d4 ⇒ 4. Thassilonian Dungeon

Explore: Goblin Warchanter
Before encounter: WIS 8: 1d6 ⇒ 1. Fail. Cannot use "attack" spells or weapons.
Combat 8, Recharge Grounding Staff and discard Lightning Touch: 1d10 + 5 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 5 + (3) = 11. Defeated.

Recharge Staff of Minor Healing to recharge discarded Lightning Touch.

Reset Hand
Done

Hand: Magus Arcana, Anubis Staff, Gallivance, Blessing of the Gods D, Blessing of the Gods B, Defensive Shock,

Talitha's Deck
Displayed:
Deck: 12 Discard: 0 Buried: 1 Blessing of Nethys, , , , ,
Notes:
Sideboard cards:

Skills:

SKILLS
Strength d8 [ ]+1 [ ]+2 [ ]+3
-- Melee: Strength +2
Dexterity d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2
Constitution d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2
Intelligence d6 [ ] +1
Wisdom d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2 [ ] +3
Charisma d10 [XXXXX] +1 [XXXXXX] +2 [XXXXX] +3 [ ] +4
-- Arcane: Charisma +2
-- Diplomacy: Charisma +2

Favored Card: Blessing
Hand Size 5 [X] 6
Proficient with: Weapons
Cohort: Magus Arcana

Powers:

<Power 1> When you would discard a spell for a power on a boon that has the Staff trait, you may discard or bury a Blessing ([ ] or any boon) instead
<Power 2> On any check, when you would discard a blessing, you may bury it instead.
<Power 3> You may recharge a buried blessing to ([XXXXX] succeed at your check to recharge a spell or to) reroll the dice ([XXXXX] or 1 die) on any of your checks; take the new result.
<Power 4>
<Power 5>
Die Bump 2, Used 1

Card Feat 1: Blessing
Card Feat 2: Blessing
Adventure scenario reward, Card feat: Spell
Skill Feats: 3* CHA
Power Feat 1: Hand size 6
Power Feat 2: Reroll 1 die
Power Feat 3: success on check to recharge a spell
Tier 3: One scenario completed.
Two scenarios completed
Scenario reward: Use Qasin (ally 2) as a bonus deck upgrade
Third scenario completed
Scenario reward: “You may recharge a card to reduce Fire damage dealt to you to 0.”
Fourth Scenario completed
Scenario reward:
Card Feat: Ally (Embalmer)
Con boon: [ ][ ][ ][ ]Amateur Swashbuckler: You may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to add or remove the Swashbuckling trait from your check. If your character has the Swashbuckler trait, you may add an additional 1d4.

Hm. In retrospect, it may have been worth Ekkie+Mavaro (or Merisiel) simply letting the Explosive Runes go off, ignoring the damage from the fire-resistance scenario rule, and effectively just banishing the barrier merely by recharging a card and discarding a single card from our decks. That would've even given Ekkie another card draw, so I'm further kicking myself for that; now it's just floating around eating up explorations.

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Ekkie starts her turn.
Blessing of Iomedae discarded from the Blessings Deck.

Scenario: During her move step, Ekkie makes an Acrobatics 11 check.
Acrobatics 11: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13 -> Pass!
Ekkie moves to the Abattoir. I can't defeat any henchmen, but I can kill monsters or move them away from this place, equipped as I currently am.

Whilst silly longshanks slip and slide and... fly? Anyway, Ekkie is sure-footed, quick-quick and speedy! Strange big-man seemed very interested in those ice-spikes. Stalacatighties? Stale-ag-mighties? Whatever. Ekkie leaves him to it and skates barefoot over to a new rich and raw-smelling spot. Mmh. Smells of meat?

Ekkie takes her free exploration.
Abattoir Card 1: Zombie

Ew, and rot! More clumsy sliding rotting longshanks-things crawls out awkwardly, but Ekkie kicks its decaying heat into the ice and gives the back of its skull a few shanks until it stops moaning and crawling.

Ekkie discards Explorer's Pith Helmet to explore again, drawing a card (Wandermeal) from her power. (Ugh, one card too low in my deck to use! I was hoping for it's assurance against a henchman encounter.)
Abattoir Card 2: Icy Terrain

Ekkie puts on her explorer's hat that she totally didn't steal from one of the Pathfinders back outside the space-place, and lets her wanderlust and fickle thoughts guide her through this weird meat-palace place. Suddenly she loses her balance on the icy, bloody floors and begins to slip down the slightly inclined glass-like ice, yelping and scrambling for support as she sees herself accelerating toward some inconveniently-placed stalag... stalac... towards ice-spikes!

Thankfully, she digs her Rochin into the ice for a handhold, and avoids a grisly fate as she digs in and holds on tight to freeze her descent, then very carefully and slowly clawing her way to safety.

Only to be met face to face with some kinda fire-demon? Uh-oh. Ekkie jumps to her feet, braving its heat to stab and stab and stab - she stabbed geenie-weenies, this guy's not too tough! She stabs and stabs; it spews flame and coal from its body as she stabs, but she's endured hotter. She latches on and stabs at its side and back, stabbing at its hands when it tries to grab her and struggling out of its grip when it succeeds, only to lunge and stab at him yet more times! Eventually, the demon falls, though it takes a lot out of Ekkie to achieve the kill. And his body burned up afterwards, so nothing to loot, not even a trophy!

Boo.

Abattoir closed. Ekkie recharges Blowgun from her discard pile, as it's her only weapon there.

Ekkie discards Master Cartman to move to the Dam and explore again, drawing a card (Blessing of Pharasma) from her power.
Dam Card 1: Zhaleh Setat

Ekkie catches a glimpse of spooky elemental-lady, who looks very angry that her guardian demon(?) was killed. She looks mad, and Ekkie decides that discretion is the better part of valor; bravely running awayyy!

Ekkie uses her power to evade Zhaleh Setat, shuffling it into a random open location.
Random Location: 1d3 ⇒ 2 -> Zhaleh Setat is shuffled into the Deeper Dungeons.

Ekkie discards Blessing of Pharasma to explore again, drawing a card (Blessing of Lady Lastbreath) from her power.
Dam Card 2: Pit Trap

The only way forward Ekkie can see are over the ice-spikes from before; after the ice slants down into them, they fill some kind of gap that continues on in a path on the other side. Fearlessly, Ekkie willingly charges towards the spikes, and jumps over them with a powerful, prepared bound; clearing them! She makes a little celebratory dance, then explores this new weird construction of stone, steel and ice. It appears to be some huge underground cavern with some weird facility holding back some frozen underground lake... weird.

From defeating the Pit Trap, Ekkie explores again.
Dam Card 3: Mercenary

Bad-man rushes her with a sword. Ekkie looks at the dagger in her hand, and observes that swords are longer than daggers.

Discretion being the better part of valor and all, Ekkie... well, yeah.

RUN!

Ekkie recharges Staff of Minor Healing to randomly recharge Master Cartman from her discard pile.

Ekkie ends her turn and resets her hand.

Hand: Blessing of Lady Lastbreath, Deconstructor, Reformarium Servant, Thieves' Tools, Blessing of Kols, Rochin,

Displayed:
Deck: 4 Discard: 8 Buried: 1
Notes: So, Blessing of Lady Lastbreath apparently can't really add dice to other player's checks, and Blessing of Kols only adds to combat or strength checks, so I only have conditional support to offer. But you are welcome to them if needed - particularly Talitha, since one was stolen from her and one was used TO steal from her, and I used two of her blessings this turn. ^^'

But one location down, we know where the villain here, and any player may bot Ekkie's temp-closing if necessary. We're close to a win!

Mavaro used Blessing of Irori.
Talitha used both blessings.
Sorry for the heavy blessing use; but I closed a near-full, nasty location with their shared help, and Talitha basically recharges blessings she plays on checks.

Both a Mercenary and the Villain were shuffled into the Deeper Dungeons, meaning Ekkie (at the Dam) is well-placed to temp-close it.

The image of Sorrina Westyr appears as she helps an enormous water elemental dispatch a band of gargoyles. “We do not stand alone in our efforts, my friends. Our teams discovered a band of rebels fighting back against our adversaries and we have begun to coordinate with them. Some much needed assistance should be arriving shortly.”

Table GMs, the Allies benefit is now in play

Starting Mavaro's turn under Blessing of the Gods.

At the start of my turn, I fail the Acrobatics check and move to a random open location.

Random open location to move to: 1d3 ⇒ 3

Thasilonian Dungeon! Joke's on you scenario. I wanted to move there anyways. While I still have Perception = Knowledge, I'm going to use my Harrow Deck to examine and re-order the top 3 cards of my location. Mavaro examines Card 2 Force Missile, Card 3 Carrion Storm and Card 3 Fiery Weapon. I'll choose to leave them in that order actually.

Recharge Harrow Deck, Perception 12: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Mavaro's fly spell expires, and he finds himself once again slipping and sliding down the icy hallways. Eventually, he is able to regain his composure, which allows him to realize that he's no longer where he was before. Moreover, he can tell there's powerful latent arcane energies that surround him, and the murals are carved in runes. "Are these...thasilonian runes!?" - Mavaro exclaims a little too loudly, his voice echoing through the mostly empty chamber he's found himself in.

I will explore to encounter Thasilonian Dungeon Card 2: Force Missile. I will recharge my Riffle Scrolls to put Spirit Surge on top of my deck, gaining Arcane = Knowledge, which allows me to automatically acquire the spell (with 1d8+4). Then, I will discard my Blessing of the Spellbound to explore again and encounter Card 3: Carrion Storm. For the combat check, I will use the newly acquired Force Missiles. This allows me to draw a card, which is Spirit Surge. New top card is Blessing of Angradd. I think this means I lose my Arcane skill, so I will recharge Shrunken Head to regain it by putting Riffle Scrolls on top of my deck.

CtD Combat Arcane 12: 1d8 + 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + (3, 1) + 4 = 11
Recharge Arcane Missile, Arcane 6: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

I will recharge Cleric of Nethys to add 2 to my check and defeat the monster.

Mavaro stumbled upon an ancient scroll with a basic arcane missile spell written on it. He was admiring it when he was attacked by a swarm of undead crows. Thinking fast, he instinctively recited the words and consumed the spell. Had it not been for another friendly Pathfinder that stumbled upon him and warned him, he would have been ambushed by a second swarm of crows. Thankful for his help, he shared his findings with the priest and allowed him to be the first one to examine the chamber in more detail while he focused on a ritual to divine the path forward.

I will now recharge Spirit Surge to put Cure on top of my deck, then Cast Fly to examine the top card of Dam and Deeper Dungeons.

Deeper Dungeons top card: 1d10 ⇒ 8

I examine Dam Card 4: Greataxe and Deeper Dungeons Card 8: Giant Hermit Crab. Then I move to the Dam, end my turn and reset my hand.

Recharge Fly, Divine 10: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Hand: (Acquired)Force Missile, Binder's Tome, Armor of Pockets, Spirit Surge, Helpful Haversack,

Displayed: Riffle Scrolls,
Deck: 8 Discard: 4 Buried: 1
"Notes:
-Top card: Blessing of Angradd Skills granted: Constitution, Fortitude, Divine Traits: Divine, Angradd, Reveal Binder's Tome for +1d4 Charisma or Combat check, adds Mental trait.
-Available for use without asking: Blessing of the Spellbound if your check invokes Arcane or Divine, Blessing to close, Blessing against villain
-Available for use if you ask: Blessing of the Spellbound, Cure
"
Sideboard cards:

At the beginning of Merisiel's turn, I will display Riffle Scrolls, and then Mavaro will cast Cure on Ekkie

Cure on Ekkie: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Recharge Cure, Divine 8: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Cure would be discarded, but it is instead placed on top of Riffle Scrolls.

Mavaro sees in his cards that one of his friends is in trouble near water. "I imagine this refers to the dam. I should go check."
He takes flight and sees his new goblin friend take out a demon on its own, but not without getting very burnt in the process. He lands on the dam and tries to help by curing some of the goblin's wounds.

Top card of Dam is Card4: Greataxe
Top card of Deeper Dungeon is Card 8: Giant Hermit Crab
Top card of Tasilonnian Dungeon is Card 5: Fiery Weapon
Ekkie is cured for 2

Start of turn: the hour of the Gods
Move step: Acrobatics 9+2=11: 1d12 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 failed
Random Open Location: 1d3 ⇒ 3 Move to Thassilonian Dungeons

Merisiel watches the little goblin skitter deftly across the ice at Abattoir and attempts to follow. She slips on the ice and slides down to a dungeon chamber, nearly crashing into her angelic companion. She dusts herself off again and explores the new chamber.

Free explore of card #1:

Merisiel finds a particular part of the dungeon with a room full of scrolls. She can make neither heads nor tails of the inscriptions on them and decides to leave the room for one of her more spell-adept companions to explore.

Reset hand and end turn

Hand: Captain's Cutlass, Punching Dagger, Blessing of the Gods, Amulet of Life, Emerald of Dexterity,

Displayed: Gambeson,
Deck: 8 Discard: 3 Buried: 0
Notes: Blessings available as required. Dice re-roll used for 8-00B2: N.
Sideboard cards:

Randomly moved to: 1d3 ⇒ 1. The Dam.

Explore: Greataxe
Melee 10: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
Recharge buried Blessing of Nethys to reroll: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Put Magus Arcana on top of deck to reroll the 5: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Failure.
I only had a 57.8% chance of success

Reset hand
Done

Hand: Magus Arcana, Anubis Staff, Gallivance, Magic Weapon, Blessing of the Gods C, Defensive Shock,

Talitha's Deck
Displayed:
Deck: 11 Discard: 0 Buried: 2 , Blessing of the Gods D, Blessing of the Gods B, , ,
Notes:
Sideboard cards:

Skills:

SKILLS
Strength d8 [ ]+1 [ ]+2 [ ]+3
-- Melee: Strength +2
Dexterity d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2
Constitution d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2
Intelligence d6 [ ] +1
Wisdom d6 [ ] +1 [ ] +2 [ ] +3
Charisma d10 [XXXXX] +1 [XXXXXX] +2 [XXXXX] +3 [ ] +4
-- Arcane: Charisma +2
-- Diplomacy: Charisma +2

Favored Card: Blessing
Hand Size 5 [X] 6
Proficient with: Weapons
Cohort: Magus Arcana

Powers:

<Power 1> When you would discard a spell for a power on a boon that has the Staff trait, you may discard or bury a Blessing ([ ] or any boon) instead
<Power 2> On any check, when you would discard a blessing, you may bury it instead.
<Power 3> You may recharge a buried blessing to ([XXXXX] succeed at your check to recharge a spell or to) reroll the dice ([XXXXX] or 1 die) on any of your checks; take the new result.
<Power 4>
<Power 5>
Die Bump 2, Used 1

Card Feat 1: Blessing
Card Feat 2: Blessing
Adventure scenario reward, Card feat: Spell
Skill Feats: 3* CHA
Power Feat 1: Hand size 6
Power Feat 2: Reroll 1 die
Power Feat 3: success on check to recharge a spell
Tier 3: One scenario completed.
Two scenarios completed
Scenario reward: Use Qasin (ally 2) as a bonus deck upgrade
Third scenario completed
Scenario reward: “You may recharge a card to reduce Fire damage dealt to you to 0.”
Fourth Scenario completed
Scenario reward:
Card Feat: Ally (Embalmer)
Con boon: [ ][ ][ ][ ]Amateur Swashbuckler: You may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to add or remove the Swashbuckling trait from your check. If your character has the Swashbuckler trait, you may add an additional 1d4.

During This Adventure: You may recharge a card to reduce Fire damage dealt to you to 0

During This Scenario: At the start of your move step, succeed at a Dexterity or Acrobatics check with a difficulty of 9 plus the scenario’s adventure deck number (11) or move to a random open location and end your move step.

Turn: 12, Ekkie/Yewstance