GM Dak - Shattered Star 1

Game Master Dakcenturi

Later:

Veltariel, in an elegant, Elven style, two-piece dress that has seen better days, comes limping back to the Lodge, her jaw set with pain and determination.

Sapher is happily looking at the second plate of steaming potatoes being set down in front of her when she sees Veltariel limping into the lodge. "Vels!" she yells in suprise and concern, nearly falling out of her chair to attempts to get to her. Stopping just before the elf, her hand out to heal, "May I heal you?" she asks for permission first, as is her way.

Veltariel’s head snaps Sapher’s direction, and for a moment the dwarf is certain she’s going to verbally snap as well. But instead Veltariel just nods sternly.

Sapher reaches up and presses her hand against the elven woman's arm, the welcome (or unwelcome depending on your mood) sense of a warm hug accompanies her healing as always.

clw: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

She wants to ask what happened, the concern is evident on the dwarf's face, but Vels isn't one that seems to enjoy talking to her much anymore, so she limits her question to "Are you okay, Veltariel?" the question holding many meanings, but is as non-probing as she can make it.

Veltariel takes a deep breath to test her ribs, works her shoulder, and tests her weight on her leg. Nodding satisfactorily she snarls ”I will be soon enough,” before she storms on up to her room.

She doesn’t bother closing the door as she changes into her gear. She picks up her sword and loosens it in its sheath before strapping the belt around her hips along with her quiver. She hooks her bow across her chest and shoulder as well as her dagger.

She makes her way back downstairs and kicks an old coal from the fireplace, rubbing the soot on her hands and then smearing it across her arms, legs, and face in random patterns.

Sapher's concern is growing, not just for Vel's but for whoever she has decided to go hunting. "Veltariel. What is going on?"

Veltariel doesn’t reply, just continues smearing the coal spot across her skin in silence with monk-like focus.

Sapher moves closer and louder "Vels!"

"Where are the others? Are they hurt? Drask, just stepped out. I can get him and we can follow you. Let me grab my shield!" she starts to hurry to where she left it against the table.

”No,” she growls.

She stands and turns, her face a frightening visage of rage and determination. ”This I do alone,” she says through clenched teeth, her body trembling in her fury.

Sapher stops, turning, snapping "WHY! WHY do you have to do this alone?!? Everyone has their heads shoved up their-!" she stops worry making her lose her temper. Trying to soften her voice "We can help." she tries, knowing she has no way to keep up with Vels if she doesn't want it. Words are her only possible way to help, and she's shit at words.

Veltariel doesn’t seem to register anything Sapher says, and begins moving through across the room and for the front door.

"Shit shit shit shit..." Sapher forgets to curse in undercommon, rushing over to her shield, and hoofing it to follow as fast as she correctly sized legs will allow. Wondering if trying to clip the elf in the leg would be considered bad form if it is just to make her stride at a respectable speed.

Veltariel hits the street, and immediately breaks into a jog and into the shadows.

Sapher gets to the door, seeing the fleet of foot elf taking off, and knows she cannot keep up with that. So she turns and runs to the library, where she last saw Mok. "MOK! Vels came back hurt in a dress got in her armor and weapons wiped coal everywhere and then took off again" she says quickly, "We... can you find her like you did with Drask? Please say you can!"

Mokhasi barely has time to put his book down before Veltariel charges into her room, quickly changes, and barrels past Sapher, ignoring Sapher’s perfectly reasonable protestations. Mokhasi grabs his spear and moves to Sapher, ”for god’s sake, what happened now...” It is not asked as a question, but more of a miserable statement of resigned frustration.

He follows Sapher, and quickly adds ”rules: if she tries to kill anyone, disable her. Otherwise, they probably had some of it coming, so let us stay out of this increasingly absurd nonsense if we can, yes?”

He grumbles, ”I can ask the city where she has been...”

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

”She and the others went to a series of ‘clubs’. I may be able to lead us to the last one. This magic is very imprecise. Look for elven footprints as well, Sapher. I understand you have some ability with tracking. I will assist you when we get closer.” Mokhasi nods at Sapher and helps her to track.

aid another survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

"Stay out of it!?!" Sapher snaps "We can't 'stay out of it'. They are our friends... no matter their current thoughts on the matter" the irritable dwarf mutters the last part, doing her best to keep up.

"elven footprints on cobblestones" she continues to mutter.

survival: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 8 + 1 = 13
assuming hard ground so dc 20

Mokhasi takes them to the last ‘club’ eventually, where they see no sign of Esrisi or Veltariel, but a number of people who have fled and are looking at the building, which seems to have a number of cracks in the facade. Many clubgoers are holding each other, and there are a not insignificant number of bodies lying outside the door, some of which are moving and being tended to.

Mokhasi moves to the entrance and looks inside. It seems that a support column had given way.

knowledge (engineering): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

He shouts Sapher over, ”it looks as if one of the support columns near the center broke - which caused a series of other cascading failures of structural elements. It was not just the balcony, the column was load bearing for at least part of the ceiling. It was lucky that it seems to have happened slowly, allowing most but not all to escape with their lives.” He shakes his head. ”Did you find Veltariel, Esrisi or Caroliss, were Esrisi or Caroliss among those who were injured?”

Once she is comfortable that she has put enough distance in, she finds her a low hanging ceiling and leaps up to it, grasping it with her hands. She then pulls herself to the top and continues her movement through the city via rooftop. Few humans bothered looking up, due to their own sense of self importance.

She then continues her steady progress towards her quarry at the last tavern. She hooks from one building to the next with ease, and as she nears, she lowers to a crouch behind a rooftop with crenellations as she nearly vanished from sight against the night sky...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
Climb: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22
Stealth: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33

Sapher is moving around the injured, exhausting the rest of her healing spells on those most injured and helping the others with her mundane healing skills. "No, not yet, but there are a lot of them..." she looks a little stricken. "I... I can't leave these people, Mok. They need help." her face shows a flash of pain at having to turn her back on her friends "mays the gods watch out of them" she then gets to wrapping cuts and settings bones.

Mokhasi does the same, lending his aid where he can, though he has no healing ability, he can attempt to stabilize people, aiding Sapher as effectively as he can.

aid another, heal: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20

He does a middling job, but does not get in the way much.

Esrisi and Caroliss are no longer present at the devastation of the former night-event-location. It doesn't take much asking around to find out that they were both there. Several people report two women that meet Caroliss and Esrisi's description dragging people from the building and helping heal their wounds. They reportedly left not too long ago to seek out more help for the wounded.

Caroliss and Esrisi find the closest temple, banging on the doors until and acolyte answers. Quickly detailing what happened, several men and women accompany the duo back to the scene of the crime unfortunate freak incident.

Esrisi starts pointing out places where help is needed and tries her best until she spots Sapher and Mokhasi. She groans and squeezes her eyes shut "Oh. You've got to be kidding me!" she says, running up to Sapher and taking a knee. "Sapher! How did you know to come! I brought help!" she says, taking a look at the woman she is working on.

Veltariel returns to the tavern not too long after a calamity seems to have already befallen it. The building was in ruin. Revenge robbed from her.

She simply stood there, a shadow against a blanket of darkness. Staring numbly at the carnage that should have been hers to sow by right.

She sees Sapher and Mokhasi arrive, Esrisi and Caroliss dragging wounded away. Sees them begin healing the wounded.

Helping then. THEM!?!? Of all the scum in this city, they heal the patrons of the ones who harmed me.

Her hands tighten into fists. She takes her bow in her hand, knocking an arrow and drawing the string back. She draws aim on Sapher as she speaks with Mokhasi. She lets out a long breath and tries to steady her trembling hand.

They don’t know. They have no idea.

A tear trickles down her cheek as she relaxes the bowstring and drops to her knees on the rooftop, sobbing.

"Good Ez, there are so many..." Sapher says in a troubled tone. "We didn't, we followed Vels. She came in hurt and then left armed. We were worried you two were in danger." she looks up at the blonde "are you okay?"

Esrisi sheds lots of tears for all of the injured people around her that she's desperately trying to help save.

She asks "Followed Veltariel? What do you mean she left armed?"

Panicked, she looks around for Veltariel and tries to figure out why she would go back and come back out. Her body sags as she shakes her head "Oh no. Oh Sapher. I'm sorry. Things went badly. It always goes badly. We, Veltariel and I, we were trying to dance and this human man showed up and Vel hurt him, just for being human. Turns out he was the son of the owner. Then... things went downhill from there. They took me and cut up Vel and she was really mad."

"I just wanted a night of fun away from the crazy. It seems to follow me wherever I go."

Mokhasi’s nostrils flare when he sees Esrisi. He stands up, stepping around her and enters the ruins of the building. Everyone hear the sound of someone casting a spell.

perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

He steps out of the building after a few minutes, shaking, his fists clenched. He is staring at Esrisi. Kiir is noticeably not emitting light, just floating quietly above Mokhasi’s head.

Esrisi watches Mokhasi storm out of the building and shoots her a look, a knowing.

He knows.

She swallows, hard, and looks away. She gets up and moves to assist other injured people.

It wasn't your fault. You just lost control again. You are helping people now. It wasn't intentional. I'm sure they will understand.

He won't understand. He'll blame me for it all. This wasn't my fault!
If that man hadn't groped Veltariel, we'd still be dancing!

Sapher takes a moment from wrapping up a bleeding arm, to catch Esrisi's eye. "Hey!" Her brown eyes are softer toward the other woman than they were earlier today "None of that sounds like your fault. We should... try and find Veltariel, but... there are too many here and now to deal with. I'm worried about her. Even with her skills, she shouldn't be alone."

"Mok, could you find Vels?" she looks around for the mage, and then see him angry... "What's wrong Mok?"

Mokhasi closes his eyes and breathes deeply, and then opens them. Without taking his eyes off of Esrisi, he says simply, ”there was no sign of her. But we need to have a meeting as soon as possible, away from here.”

He kneels down, and whispers something to Sapher.

Sapher looks confused "Touching? How could that do anything?" forgetting to whisper.

Mokhasi also says, ”Sapher, the multiple crossbows? The wand?” he raises his eyebrows, after sighing in frustration.

"I... I'm sorry Mok, I don't follow. I'm... " Sapher sighs looking over all the people hurt "... overwhelmed" Her shoulders setting firmly in her duty "I need to focus on them. We can talk to Esrisi when we're done." she gets her mouth to take on a smile to the woman "Keep off your leg for the next few days and it will heal nicely." then pulls herself to her feet and shuffles on to the next one.

After some time spent tending to the injured eventually a contingent of city watch show up. While some do what they can to help, a woman, obviously some sort of investigator starts asking surveying the scene and asking questions. It’s not long before she comes over to Es, putting a hand on her shoulder and nothing, ”Miss, I need you to come with me.”

When Es spins around she recognizes the woman, it was the one she had spoke to a couple days back, when searching for Natalya. The woman quickly recognizes Es now and eases her grip a little but continues ”You need to accompany me to the Arvensoar, so I can get to the bottom of this... hopefully this doesn’t have anything to do with Natalya... I told you she was trouble.”

Esrisi's face blanches as the woman asks her to come with me. She nods silently but looks around for help, searching for someone, anyone to come save her from this. All of her friends are busy helping others, everyone except Mokhasi. Turning to the woman she says "Of course. Let me just tell my companions I'm leaving."

She spies the arcanist talking to Sapher as she tends to a woman on the ground. She locks eyes with the man for a brief moment, a guilty, telling look on Esrisi's face. She shakes her head and says loudly "Mokhasi, Sapher. I'm going with the watch to help them with something. I'll be back to the lodge later."

I hope.

She departs with the woman, eyeing escape routes along their journey in case she needs to flee.

Veltariel rises just in time to see them leading Esrisi away! She follows in silence along the rooftops, waiting to see where they take her.

Stealth: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (9) + 13 = 22

When Es goes to talk to Sapher and Mok, the lead woman heads over to some of the other watch and speaks to them quietly and points toward Mok and Sapher.

As Es comes back she nods her head toward the street and says "This way, let's go." She waves for a few of the guards, ones she hadn't spoken to before to follow along as she leads them toward the Arvensoar. The woman stays in the lead with Es in the middle and the other three city watch following behind.

It doesn't take too long as they walk the city streets before they reach the extremely large tower.

Her breathing becomes rapid as these animals led Esrisi away! She moved ahead of them as she thought, but could only come to one conclusion. She moved to catch Esrisi’s eye, and once she had made eye contact, she lays her bow and arrows down so she can see.

Veltariel then steps out in front of the guard, hands up. ”You ignorant humans have the wrong person. I did it. The bastards tried to rape me and I had my revenge.”

Esrisi cannot believe Veltariel materializes out of nowhere and confessed to a crime she did not commit. She is so floored, she is speechless. She looks back and forth between the investigator and Veltariel, awestruck. She starts to shake her head back and forth, looking into her eyes and laying a gentle hand on her shoulder ”Veltariel, stop. You weren’t even there, you left. I appreciate you coming to my rescue, but I can’t have you take blame for something you did not do. Let me handle this. ”

Turning to the investigator, she steels herself and speaks firmly and says ”She was assaulted and injured badly. They cut off her ear and left her to die in the alley. Had I not arrived when I did, she would not be standing here right now. Please forgive her rage, but it is just as it applies to the men who harmed her.”

Fearing the power of the magics over Veltariel, Caroliss does her best to get the elf settled.

"Esrisi ઉમદા બાળક છે. તે સારી રહેશે. પરંતુ જો તમને કંઈપણ થાય તો તેણી બરબાદ થઈ જશે. આવો, અમે હેડમિસ્ટ્રેસ હિડમાર્ચ સાથે વાત Heidmarch, અને તે મદદ કરી શકશે."

"Esrisi is the child of nobility. She will be fine. But she will be devastated if anything happens to you. Come, we'll talk with Headmistress Heidmarch, and she will be able to help."

As the guards march Esrisi past, Veltariel listens to Caroliss’ words with deaf ears. As the grow further away, Veltariel steps over where she stashed her bow and arrow and picks them up, knocking one...

Seeing the madness the elf is about to entertain, Caroliss takes out her whip, utters a prayer, and then strikes out, wrapping it around Veltariel's bow.

Disarm, True Strike: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (15) + 20 = 35

She then picks up the bow herself. "તમે મૂર્ખ તેને રોકો!"
"Stop it you idiot!"

Seeing that Vel is anything but persuaded, she tries again. તે ફાંસી પર જશે કારણ કે તમે સિટી રક્ષકને મારવાનું નક્કી કર્યું છે!"
"She'll go to the gallows because you decided to kill a city guard!"

For discussing!

Thron checking in!

I'm ready to discuss!

Reporting in, ready to roll some heads.

Good morning all!

Hiya, checking in. Working on my alias now and the preliminary build.

I am considering also adding pact wizard, with party consensus. Any thoughts?

Which Pact Wizard? There are two archetypes with the same name.

Pact Wizard, Familiar Folio

Pact Wizard, Haunted Heroes

I'm guessing since you're asking for consensus you're considering the first one (from Familiar Folio) since it can potentially tie our fates to powerful outsiders. If you're choosing anything non-evil I have no objections. If you're considering something evil I would be a little hesitant, just make sure you fall within the GM's original guidelines of "Working with the rest of the PCs and have no plans or intentions of betraying them". As long as I don't get stabbed in the back I have no objections.

Hello!

You can take one or both Pact Wizards as far as I am concerned.

Full disclosure on my character:
-I fudged the item I get from the Alabaster Outcast trait to be Mwk. Lamellar Leather. Technically, I get an item that's 200gp or less. Instead, I got something that's 210gp and paid the 10gp difference.
-I am taking the Elf favored class bonus for Cleric, not the Half-Elf. I think that's legal, but there it is.

Let me know if any of that is problematic.

I was considering the haunted heroes one, with an undecided pact. But you all might think scrolls are better.

The familiar folio one is interesting, but one additional banned school is a bit difficult to manage, I think.

I plan on taking the magaabyan arcanist after level 6. I want to provide the most utility as I can.

I was considering the haunted heroes one, with an undecided pact. But you all might think scrolls are better.

The familiar folio one is interesting, but one additional banned school is a bit difficult to manage, I think.

I plan on taking the magaabyan arcanist after level 6. I want to provide the most utility as I can.

That seems fine to me. The one thing I would note is that Magaambyan Acanist requires Scholar and Spell Mastery as prerequisite feats. If you take straight wizard, you can use your Level 5 bonus feat on Spell Mastery, freeing up a feat. But if you're keen on the Fast Study power in Pact Wizard (HH), then it's probably still worth it to take the archetype.

Mechanically I’m fine with whatever you guys want to do with your characters.

As for backstories - do we have any further weaving we wanna discuss?

Did you read my long post from the other thread? I’m not entirely sure I was right within the actual lore of Golarion, as I did a bit more reading afterwards and discovered a handful of innacuracies. Otherwise, I think there are points of commonality AND a bit of conflict in our outflook, which will be interesting to deal with.

Ohhhh, pffftt, you build how you want. Scrolls, no scrolls, firing fireballs from your earlobes, makes no difference to me.

Yeah I did read it. And I like it. I’m just seeing if we wanted to hammer out further details between the two of us as well as anyone else if they were interested.

As for backstories - do we have any further weaving we wanna discuss?

Me! I definitely want to tie my backstory in with someone. I've had a busy day at work today and haven't had anytime to spend on this, but I'll definitely get my concept flushed out tonight and posted here.

The TLDR is that Esrisi is an aasimar (scion of humanity) dual cursed (haunted/tongues) oracle of Sarenrae from House Derexhi. House Derexhi is a family-run business that has offered guards and protection duties to those in Magnimar, whether for short or extended periods, since Magnimar was formed. Being a house of humans, Esri's heritage is kept secret and though externally she is treated normally, internal to the family she is considered illegitimate and a burden due to her curses, and that leaves her an outcast among her siblings and parents.

Ez speaks Elven and is being forced into the pathfinder route to take up family values and get her away from the day to day happenings of the family in Magnimar. She'll have high diplomacy, but I'm not sure on her path on mysteries or revelations quite yet. I'll flush that out tonight.

I'm also up for working backgrounds together.

@Phoenix - If your family's business is guards and protection there's a good chance they would have hired Drask at some point. Although likely he wouldn't have stuck out much unless something dramatic happened. Just some hired muscle who likes to drink, probably a dime a dozen for the Derexhi family.

Okay...workin the rules a bit here, but before I put anything in my alias I wanted GM approval first.

Trying to craft my bow. Goal is Masterwork Compound Longbow.

Base Take 10 value is 16.

Compound Longbow is DC 15. Can do that easy enough.

Masterwork DC is 20. Here’s where it gets tricky.
I can buy some Masterwork Tools for 55 gp. There is +2 for result of 18.
I could hire a Trained Hireling at 3 sp per day to assist me for +2 from Aid Another. There’s the 20 I need on a Take 10.
Per the base crafting rules, it would take me 5 weeks to make the Masterwork Component. That’s 10 gold and 5 silver in paying the Hireling.

So, crafting the base bow costs 33 gold, 3 silver, 3 copper
Crafting the Masterwork Component costs 100 gp
Masterwork Tools - 55 gp
Hireling - 10 gold 5 silver
Total - 198 gold, 8 silver, 3 copper
Result - Masterwork Compound Longbow (Elven Made ;-P) and a set of Masterwork Bowyer Tools

Is this kosher with you, Dak? Or too much of a stretch?

If everyone's pairing up for background tie-ins, seems to me that the clerics of love and lust could pair together. Caroliss would say that being desirable is about how you act as much as how you look. Though it seems like Sapher would put that theory to the ultimate test!

I'm ok with it, my only stipulation was you have to take 10, if you want to pay the costs for the tools and hiring someone then you are good.

Because Veltariel is my friend, could I cast caster’s fortune for her?

Perhaps that was the start of our friendship? Trade of spell casting services in return for bodyguard work? Then when by the time my contract was up, we had actually become something akin to friendly, and Veltariel continued to travel with you and keep you safe from this “non-Elven scum” you insist on associating with. Haha

That would ultimately save me 65 gold and 5 silver too.

That’s a good starting point - I wouldn’t have it memorized every day, but it seems like a good one to know.

I gotta come up with a good name in Xhosa, research required!

Really liking what I'm seeing!

:)

I'd be honored to pair up with you Tazo! Both of us are pathfinders, so easy to do so. I was having Sapher be an exchange agent but she could have come earlier and spent the last several years in the city. Or you could have been assigned to her to make her transition easier. Either, or, or anything else really.

Helpful is one of the best traits!

Oh! Thassilon. Is anyone picking it up? The players guide mentioned it being a major element. Sapher did get linguistics so could get it, just didn't think it fit.

But if she needs to, I can figure out a way to justify. Like... the cranky old cleric of Bolka made her do write offs in a useless language every time she swore, or hit something or behaved un-Bolka like, so she spent a lot of time writing in it.

Caroliss can take Thasillonian. She grew up in Magnimar and was in training to learn magic. So it fits just fine. In fact, I was just struggling with the limited number of Cleric skill points, and I was going to have her take it at Level 2, but now that we are talking about it, I better get that first.

Also, next level, Caroliss is taking a whole mess of knowledge skills, because she is better educated than her Level 1 character sheet leads one to believe. For now, all she can manage is K. Nobility so she knows who all the important people are. :P

You can say she does know all of it, just doesn't know us well enough to show her better educated side. :)

I agree, I do like clerics but hate their lack of skill points.

Taking Thassilonian doesn’t fit my build or background. So Caroliss can be that specialist.

Also, a coworker called in sick for the next 4 days so I’ll be picking some overtime shifts up. Will still be posting at the same rate I have been hopefully, but it will possibly slow me down on my alias finishing. Will plug away at it as I can though.

I get twice as many skills as Caroliss and I'm taking linguistics so I have a couple of languages to flex around, I can easily take Thassilonian and free you up there.

@Drask - Excellent, we can make that work or sure. A couple of ideas to expand upon this.

@Caroliss - Since you are taking the same trait I am, it's likely we would know each other since we are both from a house of importance. It's up to you whether we like each other or not. It seems from your personality that we have a lot in common and we have the divine magic similarity as well, so we could have been friends or friendly.

I'm still flushing Ez out. I have some of her crunch done, but still need to do her background/personality and gear. Hopefully will be all set tomorrow.

Ahh, I'm created! And I gave up trying to balance all my nonsense with wizard, and just made a simple magaambyan initiate arcanist.

If someone can find an Ekujae avatar, I'll use it. Didn't seem to be anything available.

Fluff coming soon. Note Veltariel, that if you'd like and with Dak's permission, I can provide you with the secret of creating thistle arrows.

I like 1 and 3. Drask would have tried various "hired muscle" type jobs, and I like how he was hired as some sort of cruel joke by her siblings. Also a perfect excuse for them to be together and coming to the Pathfinder Lodge.

Drask is definitely crude and blunt, to be sure, but he's not mean and he's got a soft side. He's got good instincts and he's somewhat spiritual. It would be an interesting cultural exploration for the two to talk to each other.

I get twice as many skills as Caroliss and I'm taking linguistics so I have a couple of languages to flex around, I can easily take Thassilonian and free you up there.

@Drask - Excellent, we can make that work or sure. A couple of ideas to expand upon this.

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@Caroliss - Since you are taking the same trait I am, it's likely we would know each other since we are both from a house of importance. It's up to you whether we like each other or not. It seems from your personality that we have a lot in common and we have the divine magic similarity as well, so we could have been friends or friendly.

I'm still flushing Ez out. I have some of her crunch done, but still need to do her background/personality and gear. Hopefully will be all set tomorrow.

So actually, I'm glad I made the switch to add Thassilonian. I had given Caroliss Profession (Courtesan) because that seemed like the thing to give to a Calistrian, but on second thought, I think it's more interesting if she's never really gone down that road in spite of her faith. So you are welcome to take the language too, but I'll stick with it on my end.

The more I think about it, the more it seems like I should know some of you but not really intimately. It'll be more interesting for her to warm up to the Pathfinder Society over time, which should otherwise be new to her. The only exception would be Esriri, who Caroliss might have had reason to know in her prior life.

Also, at least for now, it does seem like Esriri would share a lot in common with Caroliss. So they might be friends who understand each other due to similar experiences. What is your reason for joining the Pathfinder Society? It might be interesting if somehow we decided to join together. And perhaps, given our station, we were elevated very quickly even though we don't know the first thing about being a Pathfinder.

@GM DAK - I assume you know this or have them already, but Humble Bundle has all of the SS books up for sale at a much cheaper price along with tons of others if you don't have them yet.

I like 1 and 3. Drask would have tried various "hired muscle" type jobs, and I like how he was hired as some sort of cruel joke by her siblings. Also a perfect excuse for them to be together and coming to the Pathfinder Lodge.

Also, at least for now, it does seem like Esriri would share a lot in common with Caroliss. So they might be friends who understand each other due to similar experiences. What is your reason for joining the Pathfinder Society? It might be interesting if somehow we decided to join together. And perhaps, given our station, we were elevated very quickly even though we don't know the first thing about being a Pathfinder.

Great! I think I can tie all of these together. When the day to day in House Derexhi became unbearable and she had enough of the meaningless tasks and family cruelty, Ez and her friend Caroliss decided to join the Pathfinder Society together. She would view it as an escape to get away from the oppression of her family and a chance to make a name for herself, but her family doesn't truly trust her older sisters hired Drask to protect her but also keep tabs on her and make sure he is always around her.

@Drask - It's up to you how far you want to push their "relationship". If you want to have just been assigned or if you want to have been hired awhile ago and so they have a bit of history, that works too. Ez is the type of person who would try to duck him and get away so you weren't following her which could have been problematic or created some tense situations.

@Esrisi Yup, I got the bundle actually. Not for SS, as I already had it, but for some of the bestiary PDFs and other ancillary books I didn't have yet :D Thanks for the heads up though!

Veltariel, I have my character’s background in my alias now. Would you like to know Mokhasi’s elven name and would you like to do any RP vignettes?

As for everyone else, Mokhasi has been a Pathfinder for a few years, through he has not been able to go on many adventures. Should we know each other?

Hmm, this is a long-term game and we will have a lot of time to develop a relationship. I say let's have it be the first time they're really together. Drask has done some work for your parents before and proved reliable, and when Esrisi wanted to run off to the Pathfinders they were concerned and wanted some hired muscle to watch her back. Luckily the Pathfinders were happy to hire him on as well, and Drask was eager at the idea of a job that promised to not be boring like most of his other jobs.

Sounds good to me!

@Drask - That works for me!

@Mokhasi - I think Caroliss, Drask and I are not new to it and have been in it for a little while now, 6 months? A year? It's possible that we've had a mission or two together previously.

Pop in from work with no back up. Had a call in.

Mokhasi- Yes, is love your Elven name. And am even open for RP Vignettes. Would just like to actually hammer my background together first. Of course, though, work is slammed today.

I also like the idea of some of us meeting for the first time as Drask said. Let’s us get those initial reactions played out. Heh

Hmm, this is a long-term game and we will have a lot of time to develop a relationship. I say let's have it be the first time they're really together. Drask has done some work for your parents before and proved reliable, and when Esrisi wanted to run off to the Pathfinders they were concerned and wanted some hired muscle to watch her back. Luckily the Pathfinders were happy to hire him on as well, and Drask was eager at the idea of a job that promised to not be boring like most of his other jobs.

@Drask - That works for me!

@Mokhasi - I think Caroliss, Drask and I are not new to it and have been in it for a little while now, 6 months? A year? It's possible that we've had a mission or two together previously.

I think there's a bit of inconsistency here between these ideas--whether we've come together with Drask recently or a few months ago. I think to resolve it, it would be amusing if Drask shows up to the party very recently and not six months or a year ago. Maybe Caroliss and Esrisi join the Pathfinders together, Esrisi's family gets wind of the affair and thinks it's nonsense, and said family has their hired muscle join the Pathfinder society and pulls a few strings so Drask ends up in the same mission. Then Caroliss and Esrisi can be really annoyed (until inevitably they warm up to Drask at some point). Thoughts?

Yep, that works better for me.

Oh that's brilliant. I love it Caroliss, let's roll with it!

Updated my backstory slightly to account for this. Can still be tweaked as needed.

FYI, I will not have internet for much of this weekend.

Advice wanted--Caroliss intends to take Channel Smite and Guided Hand as her first and third level feats, so she can use a whip passably well. She'll use it to Aid Another at range, and occasionally to trip or disarm along with True Strike (a domain spell).

After that, I am not sure what to do with her feats. Do folks have ideas or suggestions? I may just let it develop naturally based on the campaign, but wanted to open it up for recommendations.

Selective channeling is always useful on clerics. There's various other channeling feats if you want to be stronger with that, including picking up the ability to offensively target creatures other than undead.

Heavy armor proficiency to beef up more, since you'll likely be in medium armor anyways and already slowed down. I'm actually gonna pick that up myself with a dip into armored hulk barbarian.

Some metamagic feats are quite good for clerics, I highly recommend extend spell for buffs.

I’ve reconfigured my traits a bit and plan on doing additional traits later for what I got rid of - this seems to be a bit better for lower level. That said, I get to choose a single druid spell to add to my list as a wizard spell. No restrictions on level and no requirements that I use reservoir points. Any thoughts? I am considering explosion of rot or ward of the season, obviously for different reasons. With explosion of rot, I’d have that be my magical lineage spell down the line, too.

From a fluff perspective, Mokhasi has been at the society in Varisia/Magnimar/Heidmarch Manor for a few months, getting the lay of the land. He would enjoy going to the Bazaar of sails in his free time and offering his services to the people there in appraising goods and resolving trade disputes. He obviously has a keen eye for gems and the like. Otherwise he hangs out at the manor and does tasks for the Exchange, though he’d try to meet anyone new.

Okay, crunch and background should be up. At least to the point where she might meet up with Mokhasi. Apologies for any errrors, it was done entirely via iPhone at work when able! Lol

Mokhasi - if you wanna do maybe some spoilered vignettes of RP as you mentioned, in game. I think you seem to be the only PC she will know prior to campaign start, unless I’ve overlooked something in my quick scans of the others’ posts.

Mokhasi - Call Lightning is cool too. Hehehe

Ah, poor Sapher is the odd man out. Odd dwarf woman out? Nope that is crap, I apologize for the attempt. :)

It fits. Originally she was going to be a transfer agent that has only been in the city as long as the story line required it. And now she is again. Good to have at least one person ignorant and questioning of a city.

Mokhasi would happily know a dwarf. Sapher is also a member of the exchange - surely she would have met him. :)

Mokhasi provides free casts of crafter’s fortune to people who ask - has she interest in crafting things? You do have it as a skill ... He preps it in one of his slots when he is not planning on adventuring.