GM Kate's Extinction Curse [closed]

Game Master Kate Baker

Normally I'm happy to update, but life's a bit crazy right now. I'm fine with a lump sum (or if someone else wants to do it!).

These next couple days are pretty busy for me with work and other commitments :(

I'm closing on the house today, and then out of town Friday-Monday, so not sure how often I'll be posting. I should be back to normal on Tuesday.

Let's go with a 400 gp lump sum for each PC. That should bring everyone up to appropriate wealth. You can also retcon any purchases you would have made before going to the circus.

Prism Purchases:

Resilient Armor Rune (340 gp)
Ticket to the Bad Place (50 gp)

Got a busy day today, so I’ll get purchases sorted either late tonight or sometime tomorrow

Niksi purchases

Ventrilloquist’s Ring 60 gp
Striking Rune 65 gp
Choker of Elocution 200 gp
Circus Entrance 50 gp

Unset purchase:

Thundering rune (500 gp, which includes prior funds)

Kennari is going to save his funds until he has time to do some crafting.

Is this the same day as our last fight in the old temple?

No, this is a day later.

I am headed out on vacation for the weekend and will return Tuesday. I should have WI-FI in the cabin but will be pretty sparse. I should still be able to post each day but if need to speed up then by all means BOT me.

Thanks for the heads-up! We will also be camping this weekend and won't have internet.

I'll be out of the country (and with limited access to the forums/ability to post) tomorrow through Aug. 28, after which I'll be moving Aug. 29 to a new place.

I may get another post or two in before I leave and maybe a post Aug. 28 when I return, but I probably won't have regular posting again until Aug. 30 or 31.

Obviously feel free to bot me in the meantime.

Hey, friends! I apologize for the radio silence. I was quite ill over the three day weekend. I'll move you on to the next room soon.

Hope you feel better now!

I'll be out of town again this weekend, back late Monday. I think this is my last trip for a while, however.

Thank you all for your patience! It was most of the week before I really felt better, and then we got a new dog this weekend!

Hey folks, Kate isn't feeling well so we're going to be on pause for a few days.

OK, thanks. Hope she feels better soon!

Hoping you feel better, Kate.

I will be traveling over the next four days and may only have limited or no access to post. Please feel free to bot me as necessary.

Thanks for your patience everyone! I am home from the hospital and slowly getting caught up on PBP.

Thank you so much for your patience, everyone! I feel like I am finally on the mend.

Apologies for the additional radio silence. I thing everything has finally calmed down for me, and I should be posting a lot more regularly.

Whoops, I wasn't familiar with AGAB (assigned gender at birth) as an acronym!

Hah! No whoops needed. My other trans friends always joke about the similarity (assigned cop at birth, all genders are bastards, etc….) so I thought it was funny :D

Soory, our internet was out for a chunk of the morning and I didn't quite have time to update here. I will do so this afternoon!

Can we still attempt to talk down the knight guy or has that opportunity passed?

YEs, you can still try to talk down the knight! Sorry, that is an action available for the whole encounter.

Well done, everyone! Hero point to everyone for defeating Dusklight!

I wanted to leave time for anyone who wanted to to get to address the Celestial Menagerie, but that's basically the end of the volume!

If you would like credit for this adventure for a PFS character, you can apply it to a character of any level. Please just give me the character name, number, and faction, and I'll leave you to work out treasure bundles and downtime.

Org Play: 829-2013
Name: Ithuriel Falsus Sacerdos
XP: 48 (Level 5)
Faction: Horizon Hunters

I’m still catching up with all my games so sorry for the wait! I just want to get a proper big post up

Org Play: 90900-2021
Name: Sir Rubbel
XP: 0 (Level 1)
Faction: Envoy's Alliance

Hmm. Think I'll apply this one to Revecka.

Org play: 83959-2004
Name: Revecka Kinczllers
XP: 25
Faction: Vigilant Seal

Also, does anyone else want to try to address Dusklight's circus? I figure Niksi's our best talker/leader, which is why I didn't give my full sermon. :) But we should definitely try to recruit some folks here.

That’s my plan, but I’ve just been exhausted and got behind on everything, so have been catching up. This last month of work has been horrible plus I still have long covid. I’m on break now thankfully at least.

Should we plan to level up, Kate?

Yes, please do!

Let's call it an official pause through the holidays too; I'm currently traveling.

After a pretty good run, covid has finally hit my household. I'm going to extend that pause another week.

Understood. Hope you both feel better quickly.

Agreed, feel better soon.

Rova, Level Nine
+13 HP
+1 to everything

Ancestry feat: Guiding Luck: Your luck guides you to look the right way and aim your blows unerringly. You can use Halfling Luck twice per day: once in response to its normal trigger, and once when you fail a Perception check or attack roll instead of the normal trigger.

Nature’s Edge: You always find the weak points in your foes' defenses when they're on unfavorable terrain. Enemies are flat-footed to you if they're in natural difficult terrain or in difficult terrain resulting from a snare.

Ranger Expertise: You’ve practiced your techniques to make them harder to resist. Your proficiency rank for your ranger class DC increases to expert.

Skill increase: Stealth, to Expert

Chronicle Sheets are here!

The game is also reported. Niksi, if you want a chronicle, just let me know and I can add it.

We ready to start book three soon?

I'll add in a couple of bits with the members of the Celestial Menagerie, but I am ready to start Book 3 next week!

I did want to check in that everyone wants to continue. I know that the pace has slowed, and given my personal circumstances, I imagine it will remain a slower-paced game. If people are cool with that, great! I would love to continue GMing for you. If anyone is finding it frustrating, I totally understand if you would like to bow out.

I'll also add that defeating Mistress Dusklight is definitely the culmination of the main circus storyline, and the further books have more focus on the Aroden plot, along with some other really fun side stories. If that doesn't sound good to you, again, no hard feelings if you don't want to continue.

Otherwise, please feel free to level up, and we will proceed to Book 3!

As always, I am fine with any retraining that anyone wants to do. I know that cool content keeps coming out, and you can absolutely change anything that you want on your build.

I love Rova and want to continue. I’m torn with my animal companion. I feel like Thkrull is a ton of fun — but I hate that his support mechanic is so mediocre (even though I wrote it; I still feel like it’s better than the canon version though.)

I am of course up for continuing!

I am as well. I am quite attached to Niksi and I would like to have more time with her. I did make her centered around the circus, so I am going to need to do some consideration on how best to have her character grow more into the Aroden plot as we continue. I’m still limping through long covid but my cold is gone and my big work deadline will be done by the 20th thankfully.

I'm good to continue if you'll let Kennari keep tagging along with you.