[PFS2] GM Rinaldo's The Mosquito Witch (#1-02) (Inactive)

Game Master The Great Rinaldo!

Vengis sniffs. "Well, I don't see any other options except to follow those tracks. This is undoubtedly some creature or group putting all this up to scare everyone, and these tracks may lead right back to them."

The tracks are obscured after a short distance, so there is nothing to follow.

Bhadrim investigates where the tracks disappear, but simply shrugs.

"Well, they seem to disappear. But this makes things interesting..."

"Fascinating, though not definitive. While we're here, we might as well keep a look out for Haru's missing friend. While I know she passed on our assistantance, it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye out for the poor soul. Despite that, we need a decision on how to proceed next. I'm not sure how much more insightful the location will be, but with the additional context of Mitflit's being in the area, people in town might be able to tell us more now."

I don't think I said this earlier, but now that we're in 'adventuring mode' I'm going to cast Mage Armor.

A fey creature could explain all the mischief we are witnessing.
As we are out now, may be we could go to the place where the cultist have been burned down?
I fear that we have seen all we could here.

"Agreed, as long as we're out here we might as well go check on that location before returning to the village."

I'm worried we're spinning our wheels here. We need to hook onto a clue and get something of substance to check on.

"Aye, but weapons out," Bhadrim rumbles, pulling out his axe.

In terms of marching order, Bhadrim is always going to be out front unless there is evidence of a threat from the rear, where he will swap positions.

Using the direction Galia had given you, you are able to find your way to the former home of the Ghlaunder cultist. It is just as she said - there is nothing left but charred wood, salty ash, and chunks of blackened bone.

I'll give the area a Perception check to see if there are any clues or anything left over of interest.

"If we don't uncover anything of value, I suggest we move on quickly."

Kamil tries to find some tracks. Kamil will try survival (+5) to find some

I agree. Where do you want to go after this?

Vengis sniffs at the sight of the charred home. "A painful way to die, to be sure. And seemingly for false allegations," he says.

He casts detect magic on the area while the others study it.

"My recommendation would be to return to the village and resume questioning the residents. I fear we only scratched the surface of what is known there and others might be able to shed more light on our predicament. Also, probing into the presence of the Mitflit might be of benefit. People in town might known more about them and a possible location of the Mitflit or if there are more."

Nature check to know more about Mitflits?

You find nothing in the remains of the house.

Ezekiel, I need you to be a bit more specific about what sort of information you are trying to recall about Mitflits. That affects the DC and possibly which skill is most relevent.

There is a blacksmith in town, may be we can ask him about a mine?

So that doesn't match up with what I understand how Monster Knowledge checks work. So for instance, with a Fey creature, their Identification skill would be Nature and a successful knowledge check reveals a bit of well known information while a critical success also reveals something subtler. Are you saying I can target specific information from a creature to learn about those details? I'm just trying to understand what are the parameters around a knowledge check for Creature Identification.

"Maybe we should ask around at some of the outlying farms as long as we are out of town. Seems with livestock being attacked, they might have a keener interest in seeing this problem solved." Dob suggests, his voice flat and somewhat disinterested-sounding.

Bhadrim appears flustered at the lack of apparent leads, now that Witchtop Hill and the home of the Ghlaunder cultist appear to have become dead ends.

"Aye, it seems these are a wash."

Dob: There are no outlying farms left. The only residents remaining are in the town itself.

Lissi helps sift through the rubble, but she doubts she'll find anything the others haven't. I'll make a Perception check but I don't think we're going to find anything here either. Worth a shot anyway.

I've already said there's nothing here to find - notice I didn't even bother making rolls for anyone. ;-)

Ok, back to town, then, I guess. :)

"Aye, we should call the remaining townsfolk to the tavern, try and get all of the information we can."

We have no authority there, why will they comply?
I suggest to get to them first.

What is your next destination and plan?

Lets keep it simple. The two house's nearest to the Inn are the Tanner and Ms. Ruza. My vote is to start at the Tanner and then move on to Ms. Ruza. Everyone good with that?

yup

agreed

Permission to kill everyone and take their stuff? :D

Bhadrim looks at Kamil and rolls his eyes.

"Perhaps to avoid being eaten alive by bloodsuckers?"

You head back to town, and go to see the Tanner. The door is open, and when you enter you see a human of apparently Taldan descent working. When you enter, they say, "Welcome. How can I help you?"

Bhadrim nods in greetings to the Taldan.

"Greetings. We are Pathfinders, sent to investigate the happenings in this town. We've been to Witchtop Hill, where we found some small tracks and a lot of paper dolls, as well as the former home of the Ghlaunder cultist, which was useless. Do you happen to know anything about what is happening here?"

"No more than anyone else. Have you talked to the other adventurers who have come through? There was that half-elf, called herself "Hunter". Had that gold armor. She asked me about a strange rock she had found. I've also seen a woman with a dog, and a man in white, but they haven't come to talk to me."

"The woman in gold," Lissi pipes up. "The innkeep said she went northeast into the woods a couple days ago. We could try to follow her and find her. And the man in white went east." She turns to the tanner. "Do you know of any points of interest to the east or northeast? Something either one may have been going to?"

"Not really."

Vengis isn't sure where this is going, but asks about something he had seen previously.

"There's an abandoned farm I saw on the east of town. Who used to live there?" he asks.

The tanner thinks for a moment before saying, "I don't actually know. I don't recall ever doing any work for them."

The tanner doesn't know because I don't know ... I wasn't given a name, it's just "abandoned farm". :-)

"About the strange rock the 'Hunter' was asking about, were you able to identify it for her? Was it something that might have been unearthed from around the area?

"Ever heard rumours of, well, little people in the area? And I don't mean Dwarves, but truly little people?"

"Ever heard rumours of, well, little people in the area? And I don't mean Dwarves, but truly little people?"

"I can't say that I have."

"About the strange rock the 'Hunter' was asking about, were you able to identify it for her? Was it something that might have been unearthed from around the area?

The tanner reaches into a cabinet and pulls out a small chunk of metal. "This is a piece of it. I think she found it somewhere near here, she was asking several people about it. "

Interested by the rock, Kamil casts detect magic on it.

"Interesting, thank you for letting us take a look at that. It appears to be Magnetite, a variance of iron ore that is also highly magnetic. I'm not sure how all that figures into this mythical situation you have going on now, but it's an interesting additional piece of information."

Turning to the group, Ezekiel finishes writing up the new information in his notebook.

"I don't see a reason to bother this tradesman any further. Shall we continue to Ms. Riza's home?"

Everyone good to move on, or do we have any other questions for the Tanner?

May be we can use it as a compass ?

Proposes Kamil

"Of course, any magnetic...wait, more importantly, we could use it to find the source of the rest of the metal."

Digging through his supplies Ezekiel looks for a small bowl and his waterskin.

"The magnetite will point to magnetic north, as all compasses do. The only thing that could stop this would be another, larger, magnetic force emanating within range. If the 'hunter' was looking for the source of this magnetite, and if there's some kind of cave or lost wagon full of crates of this stuff, we might be able to use this small portion to find the larger amount...

Not sure how this all works rules wise as I'm going off pure science rather than actual in game rules.

Bhadrim does have Mining Lore +3.

This piece is bigger than Ezekiel seems to think ... think about the size of a child's closed fist - it's a small hunk of ore.

Alright, just need a larger bowl then ;)

Dob suggests slicing off a sliver of the stone and using that, as well as testing the theory with the remainder, moving it further and further away in different directions until we're sure of the distance this size rock affects the sliver.

@GM is it magical?

We could ask the blacksmith about it? proposes Kamil.

Sorry, Kamil - No, it is not magical.

Lissi frowns as she considers Dob's suggestion. "Wouldn't it just point to this hunk of rock right here?" she asks, pointing at the piece in the tanner's possession. "Ezekiel said it points to the closest bigger piece, right? If you made a little piece, that would be the closest bigger piece. At the very least, I don't think it's gonna help us find this Hunter person." She shrugs. "I agree we should go talk to Ms. Riza."

Hey all, I forgot to mention I'm on a quick vacation for President's Day weekend. Posting will be spotty, so feel free to bot me.

Let's see if we can get a decent tally here.

Done:
Galia
Mordha Lyons
The Tanner
The Whitefish and Stag Inn
Ms. Ruza
Luca Braybon (blacksmith)

To do:
Rosa Hart (Brewer)
The Bell Family
Anna Marmazine (baker)
Shrine to Hanspur
Abandoned Farm

Does that sounds about right? Should we proceed to Rosa Hart (A2) and then the Bell Family (A3)?

I'm good with that order.

same here

Same :)

Yup

Everyone good with finishing up the Shrine to Hanspur (A10) and the Abandoned Farm (A11) after this NPC? Once those locations are done, how should we proceed? Back into the forest to look for the missing adventurers?

I'm good with that plan, including going back to the forest if we don't have a better lead yet.

I'm good
As for the rest, let's try to follow the compass once outside.

Good idea, we need to watch to see if the compass goes all screwy. There could be a much larger vein or mine of the ore that could lead us to more details.

Righto.

That's good by me. Also sorry for the spotty posting the last couple days. My classes have been kicking my ass. Last semester before I have my Bachelors! Woo!

Sorry about this, but we have a major upgrade happening this weekend, and I have a lot to do today and tomorrow to get ready. If I happen to get free time, I'll post, but otherwise it could be Sunday before you hear from me.

FYI to all of my games: This will be a hectic week at work all the way through Sunday, with me alternating between sitting around waiting and being buried. I will be posting erratically, so if I am a player, bot me as needed. If I am the GM, be patient and I will update as I can.

Just a fast update - don't expect to hear from me until Sunday. Once work is done I'm going into vegetable mode today, tomorrow, and Saturday. ;-)

Bhadrim hasn't posted in 3 weeks and hasn't replied to my private message. If I don't hear from him in a few hours, I will drop him and move on.

Once again, work is hitting me hard. Please bear with me if I don't post often (or at all) for a few days.

Sorry for the various delays, but that finally concludes the adventure!

Sandbox investigations can be difficult in this medium, so thank you all for bearing with me as I tried to make it work. If you have any suggestions for things that could have been done better, please let me know.

For chronicles, please provide me with:

Player Name
Character Name
PFS Number
Slotted Faction
Character level

For finding Gwibble and his mitflits and ending their menace, you succeed at the primary success condition. For rescuing both Haru and Andor, you succeed at the secondary success condition. Well done!

Treasure bundles:
Reward from the survivors of the carriage crash: 2
Lasarte's adventuring gear, despite not finding Lasarte: 3
Haru's dagger and holy water: 2
Mitflits' treasure: 3

Full treasure for everyone!

Player Name Florent
Character Name Kamil Durus
PFS Number 754-2001
Slotted Faction Grand Archive
Character level 3

As a Field-Commissioned Agents I have 50% downtime more so I need to make two rolls for earn income (one for the first 8 days, another for the next 4)
Downtime 1 - Performance: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Downtime 2 - Performance: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Player Name: Stratton Liberty
Character Name: Dob Frilko
PFS Number: 7129-2001
Slotted Faction: Horizon Hunters
Character level: 2

Downtime Lore (Scouting) 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Player Name: Ben
Character Name: Ezekiel Graystone
PFS Number: 72911-2001
Slotted Faction: Grand Archive
Character level: 1

Downtime: Crafting: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Player: PatheticWretch
Character: Vengis Mountebank
PFS#: 132076-2002
Faction: Vigilant Seal
Level: 1

downtime (perform): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Thanks so much for running this! My first intro to 2e--looks good so far!

Player: Apoc Golem
Character: Lissi "Sparknozzle" du Galt
PFS#: 6269-2001
Faction: Grand Archive
Level: 1

I think the only downtime skills I have are Lore skills so I guess I'll roll that. I'm also a field-commissioned agent, so I assume I also need two rolls? Ignore the second roll if that's not the case.

Downtime (Forest Lore): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Downtime (Forest Lore): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Yes, you get one roll for the first 8 days, then a second roll for the bonus 4 days you get from being field-commissioned.

I will try to get those done up tonight, but if not it will get done over the weekend.

Downtime results:
Kamil: Character level 3, Task Level 1, DC 15
* First roll is success (just shy of a critical); 2sp x 8 days = 16sp
* Second roll is a critical failure; nothing earned

Dob: Character level 2, Task level 0, DC 14
* Critical success! 2sp x 8 days = 16sp

Ezekiel: Character level 1, Task level 0, DC 14
* Failure but not critical; 1cp x 8 days = 8cp

Vengis: Character level 1, Task level 0, DC 14
* Failure but not critical; 1cp x 8 days = 8cp

Lissi: Character level 1, Task level 0, DC 14
* First roll is success; 5cp x 8 days = 4sp
* Second roll is failure but not critical; 1cp x 4 days = 4cp

Chronicles!

Let me know once you download and confirm everything looks correct.

Thanks for bearing with me on this, I hope you enjoyed it!

All's good!

Thanks for the game all!

Chronicle looks good.

Thanks for the game.

Looks good--many thanks!

You have Lissi listed as Vigilant Seal champion instead of Grand Archive. Otherwise I think it's good. Thanks! :)

You have Lissi listed as Vigilant Seal champion instead of Grand Archive. Otherwise I think it's good. Thanks! :)

I printed a corrected copy for you.

Awesomesauce! Thanks so much. Let me know if you run another 2e game in the near future. I had fun!

Once work stuff backs off a bit, I'll post a recruiting thread in the Cottonseed forum.

Just need confirmation from Ezekiel on his chronicle and I'll archive the campaign.

I got it, thanks! Sorry for the late reply, I've been busy with training for the last two weeks and this is the first day I don't have to facilitate all day training. Thank you very much for running Rinaldo!