[Outpost VII, PF2/Farol] #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom (Inactive)

Game Master Farol

This is a discussion thread for Outpost VII game #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom. All of the recruitment need to happen through the official sheet

Hey Folks,

I have filled in the links, that I would hope that you could fill in:
- Macro sheet - it is for secret checks and initiatiative
- Presentation - with your avatars + ordering if by any chance there would be combats
- RPG Chronicles - for reporting purpose

Please let me know when you fill them in, so that I don't have to chase you down ;)

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It is a pleasure to have you all at my table, I know each and every one of you (altho I did not GM for everyone yet ;)).

Ok All, the rules of the house:
- I expect you to post daily from monday to friday, ideally also once through the weekend (but this is nice to have).*

I will do my best to follow that rule, but some time ago I switched jobs and moved to a different country, and I get those periods of time when everything is chaotic. On purpose I signed up to small amount of tables for Outpost and I am only GM'ing one table to once again see how it goes.
- Be nice and respectful towards the other players/gm. We are all here to have fun, so lets have it
- Feel free to ask questions and challenge me on my decisions. I am not an orcle when it comes to rules so feel free to raise your concerns
- I am running fights in block initiatives, I treat init rolls as a guidance and then cluster players together, sometimes I will move a bad guy up or down, just to not have a lot of back and forth between PCs and enemies => so that we can wrap up rounds during one day.
- For secret checks you can either roll them yourselves (put them in the spoiler and don't peek) or ask me to do them.

Above all, welcome all! The game starts on 4th of March, if I feel like it I may set up a scene for you to introduce yourselves

All done. I have two GM Glyphs to share.

I put Liam in the second rank because he has a reach weapon, but he can be in the front if we don't have other melee fighters who want it.

My champion is built to stand up front, so I don't mind doing that at all.

Farol, thanks for running. Like most champions, I have some annoying reactions. I'll try to always post them in a spoiler or something when we're in combat.

Dr. Lazarus finishes annotating his lecture notes and is ready to report.
Slides/Macros filled out.

I have one GM Glyph to offer.

All done here too!

I have one GM glyph to offer.

Fangor will give the blessing of Razmir the Living God and make sure that everyone get back alive from this mission!

I have three glyphs, so that gives us 7 total and everyone can have one.

If we're high tier, does anyone have Mentor Boons available?

If we're high tier, does anyone have Mentor Boons available?

Dr. Lazarus can offer the Magical Mentor boon, from Grand Archive. This probably doesn't help an Inventor much, but it provides a bonus spell slot for the highest rank spell and bumps Spell DCs by 2.

Anyone else have boons more fitting for our Inventor?

Quinoline has the Radiant Oath one, that gives extra hit points (you'd get 12 extra HP on top of whatever HP you otherwise get).

Fangor has the Skillfull Mentor from the Envoy's Alliance.

If we're high tier, does anyone have Mentor Boons available?

We are definitely in high tier, sorry for not mentioning that earlier.

Hobbs has

Magical Mentor (Grand Archive)
While working with less experienced Pathfinder allies, you provide key spellcasting insights that augment your colleagues’
magic. Any PCs benefiting from a Level Bump and whose levels are lower than yours can prepare one additional spell of their
highest-level spell slot or cast one additional spell of their highest-level spell slot. When casting spells of a magical tradition that
is the same as the tradition you use for spellcasting, the affected PC also increases the Level Bump’s modifier to spell DCs to 2.

Normal: A Level Bump increases a PC’s spell DCs by 1, and it does not grant any additional spells prepared or spell slots.

Special: A PC can only benefit from two mentor boons.

Liam has decent Arcana and Occultism skills... but no spells. I'll go with Skillful and Radiant Oath, then.

Thank you!

@Liam don't forget that Skillfull Mentor gives you +2 (instead of +1) to all your skill check

Trained at level 7 (+9) + Int (+4) + level bump with Skillful Mentor (+2) = +15.

It's just not one of his top skills, but neither Athletics nor Crafting seemed appropriate,

If it is not obvious by now ;) This scenario is heavy tilted into RP ;) And as most of the scenarios have: a bit of RP, fight, a bit of RP...

In here we have: RP, RP, RP and then fight, fight, fight ;)

So if you are hesitant on wearing your RP pants, put them on right away ;)

p.s. Sorry for the walls of text

Sorry about the lackluster RP. I've been having a bit of trouble getting into Hobbs' head and pulling out appropriate dialogue for some reason. Maybe I need to rewatch gremlins 2 for inspiration from the brain gremlin.

I made a post talking to the hag but it looks like I must have previewed and not posted. I don't even remember what I asked her but it somehow involved trading a cookie for a pickle and trading recipes with a crafting check in the low 20s. I think Hobbs was also disappointed that the black bits were chocolate chips and not beetles although I may have ditched that part.

Although you didn't mention it, there was a Season 2 scenario that I played - with Quinoline - #2-07 The Blakros Deception, in which it was implied that someone from the Shadow Plane was doing something nefarious. However, my party must have failed something pretty major, because we discovered none of the titular deception. So Quinoline (and me, by extension) can honestly say there's no ill will to bear, but I'm not sure how it would play out if other players or characters found differently.

I was in exactly the same situation. I played all 3 parts of the arc not knowing who is the main bad guy. And this scenario starts with briefing sayign: Bad person is Aslynn!

I think the overall concept was:
3-01 and 3=06 is abotu Onyx Alliance attacking PF using shadow plane to come in.
In 3-17 you head into shadow plane and you discover that there is someone else sending Onyx Alliance on PF2.

And this is the outcome, when PF 2 discovers that Aslynn wants to steel items. But overall I am missing a bit more breadcrums that would lead to Aslynn earlier

If we get reactions before our turn in initiative (there seems to be some debate on this), Lazarus uses Clue-In with Detective's Readiness to provide Fangor a +2 circumstance bonus to a save vs the subject of his lead.

The Player Core has this to say about the subject:

...The GM determines whether you can use reactions before your first turn begins, depending on the situation in which the encounter happens...

Full text here:
Reactions in encounters

Hobbs/Liam I will let you do redo your actions if you like, as two new enemies could have changed things for you to make decisions. Hobbs I put you were you were, since you were also bonkered in the head by your collegue

Rapier@Lazarus ff: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30

Damage: 1d6 + 11 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 11 + (4, 6) = 23
Deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 4 The rapier pierces Lazarus Crit for 50 dmg

GM Farol -- Can you explain why it was a crit against Dr. Lazarus? Looks like they had an attack roll of 30 vs an AC of 26. Even off-guard, it wouldn't be a crit, right?

GM Farol wrote:

Rapier@Lazarus ff: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30

Damage: 1d6 + 11 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 11 + (4, 6) = 23
Deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 4 The rapier pierces Lazarus Crit for 50 dmg

GM Farol -- Can you explain why it was a crit against Dr. Lazarus? Looks like they had an attack roll of 30 vs an AC of 26. Even off-guard, it wouldn't be a crit, right?

Since I was tough math on the best Goblin University in the whole Absalom, When you subtract 30 - (26 ff) so effectively 24 it gives you 16!

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Jokes aside, I was writing the post in the morning, and did not manage to finish it, time went out, so I previewed it, was certain that the roll was a crit and wrote it as such, then saved my post in a document and finished it off the following day without checking my math :( My bad, Will retract it, and patch the wounds.

I see a borderless square icon in the doorway, and three other square icons, pink, white and black. The tracker has "Marcien", "Red", and "Yellow". GM, can you clarify if the tracker needs to be updated, or if the icons need to be updated?

Inventors don't get Crit Spec unless they have a Weapon Innovation.

And while Liam did design his weapon, it's not his Innovation (for one thing, it's not a legal choice since it's an advanced weapon).

I see a borderless square icon in the doorway, and three other square icons, pink, white and black. The tracker has "Marcien", "Red", and "Yellow". GM, can you clarify if the tracker needs to be updated, or if the icons need to be updated?

Presumably those are the "more shadowy Marciens, but they have special rules around them, so I am not adding the to init tracking, you can normally attack them."

I see a borderless square icon...pink, white and black...

The squares are actually showing up fine for me (on phone and computer)... I'm seeing extra Marciens in those squares, as Liam indicated.

Exactly what Liam said. Marcien has ability that allows him to spawn up to two shadow forms that can strike, those shadows have attack stats, and defensive stats.

Okay, I think I see the confusion. The red and yellow circles were not showing up, making me think the pink/white/black things were supposed to be on the tracker.

Aight.

Lazarus still up

You mean Fangor still up, right? If I missed something in my turn, let me know.

GM Farol wrote:

Lazarus still up

You mean Fangor still up, right? If I missed something in my turn, let me know.

Oh gosh, you all non-goblins look the same to me! :P Yeah I meant Fangor. Sorry about that

Sorry kid sick, nights are sh*t

If Quinoline or Lazarus decline to be affected per PFS PvP rules I'll instead toss a moderate acid flask at Marcien.

Unless my PC is near death, I'm always willing to take a little damage so another player can have fun with their character. Lazarus is fine with it.

I feel the same way as Dr. Lazarus. Obviously, ask before including me in a 10d6 fireball or something. Not sure where the line is, but let's just leave it as 2 splash is fine.

Quinoline's going to be huffy about it in game, though. :)

Same. Liam is resistant to fire and cold, though, and is thus especially fine with being splashed with those.

Hey folks, just to let you know, this weekend is easter ;) which I am sure you know as most countries get stat holidays around it. I will be driving this weekend to visit my parents and some extended family => 13 h journey. As such starting from tomorrow I may not be able to post until monday/tuesday. I will see how it go, but just so that you know.

In terms of timing we are in a reasonable spot so should end up without any problem before the end of April

2 Acid plus 7 Splash Acid plus 2d6 persistent acid

I think it's hilarious that Quinoline's splash damage is three times the initial damage on the acid flask.

Hey folks, just to let you know, this weekend is easter ;) which I am sure you know as most countries get stat holidays around it. I will be driving this weekend to visit my parents and some extended family => 13 h journey. As such starting from tomorrow I may not be able to post until monday/tuesday. I will see how it go, but just so that you know.

In terms of timing we are in a reasonable spot so should end up without any problem before the end of April

No worries. You just have to remember to hide a couple of easter eggs in your next post whenever that might be.

Ok, I hope that I updated the tracker well, since the distance is not short, I will let Doc and QUinoline decide if they want to attack or not with their readied strikes.

Hobbs is correct that there are three of you: Liam, Hobbs and QUinoline that are still under effect of Wave of despair for 3 more rounds

Liam succeeded on his initial save, so I thought that only lasted one round?

He was slowed for that round, as he failed the save at the beginning of his turn. But I thought it was done after that, so I haven't been doing it.

Liam succeeded on his initial save, so I thought that only lasted one round?

He was slowed for that round, as he failed the save at the beginning of his turn. But I thought it was done after that, so I haven't been doing it.

Pfff, I blame goblin notetaker ;) Somehow I marked you as the one who failed . Sorry about that. Today I will go through your all prep posts and make sure that they are all resolved (mistform elixirs and all that)

@Hobbs - Crushing despair, yes you are correct. When you fail initial save you will be impacted for the whole minute. Also shouldn't bear attack twice? I think when you summon a creature it gets 2 actions on their first round,

@Fangor - what is Heroic Inspiration? I tried googling and can't find it ;)

@Hobbs - Crushing despair, yes you are correct. When you fail initial save you will be impacted for the whole minute. Also shouldn't bear attack twice? I think when you summon a creature it gets 2 actions on their first round,

Huh. I think you're right. For some reason I thought that summoned allies only got a single action on the round that they were summoned but I can't find anything to support that. Would it be possible then for his first attack to have been with a claw so that he could grab at no penalty for his second action? The damage would be less.

claw, slashing: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

grab: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

Meh that probably won't grab and certainly wouldn't have hit as a second attack. It would be 4 less damage total though.

@GM it's a faction reward here :)

GM Farol wrote:

@Hobbs - Crushing despair, yes you are correct. When you fail initial save you will be impacted for the whole minute. Also shouldn't bear attack twice? I think when you summon a creature it gets 2 actions on their first round,

Huh. I think you're right. For some reason I thought that summoned allies only got a single action on the round that they were summoned but I can't find anything to support that. Would it be possible then for his first attack to have been with a claw so that he could grab at no penalty for his second action? The damage would be less.

[dice=claw, slashing]1d10+4

[dice=grab]1d20+11

Meh that probably won't grab and certainly wouldn't have hit as a second attack. It would be 4 less damage total though.

Well, the creature is incorporeal so grab would not work on it ;) Due to rules: strength based checks of corporeal creature does not work on incorporeal and vice versa.

And a note, this weekend I will be attending wedding => I seriously doubt that I will be able to post. So Expect update from me on monday

We went into round 10 of this combo fight, so I will drop the sobbing spell now ;) We are close to destroying the bad guys, roll high!

Perform Oratory (task level 7) Master: 1d20 + 19 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 19 + 2 + 1 = 27

Thanks GM for a great game!
It had a blast thanks to you all :)

Back at the University of Osirion, Dr. Lazarus tinkers around the lab, updating equipment, making general improvements.

Crafting (earn income), DC 23: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (12) + 20 = 32

Agree with Fangor! Thanks for a really entertaining game, GM Farol.

And thanks to the players for the fun roleplay -- we had some great personalities. Enjoyed playing with you all.

Thanks for running, GM, and thanks for making the game fun, everyone!

Quinoline will be crafting for Downtime - I'll track on my own.

She's also leveling up to 11, so if anyone else is in the same boat and wants to make a high-tier run of either level 9-12 scenario, I'd love to jump in (and perhaps even help organize).

She's also leveling up to 11, so if anyone else is in the same boat and wants to make a high-tier run of either level 9-12 scenario, I'd love to jump in (and perhaps even help organize).

Dr. Lazarus is leveling to 10, and I'd love to have him join Quinoline in a high-level scenario.

Except ... my plan was to wait till PC2 for the remastered Investigator. Wanna use my Society rebuild to change some level 10 stats around, so I kinda need to wait till August for that. If you organize a second scenario after PC2, I'd love to join.

Quinoline is itching for a rebuild, too, and also waiting for PC2.

I don't expect that there would be a 9-12 game that ran again until the next convention, which is after PC2 is scheduled to come out.