Menagerie PFS: Murder's Mark (Inactive)

Game Master Blake's Tiger

The usual.

Player Name
Character Name
PFS Number
Faction

Track: Slow or Normal

Day Job or Other After Action Activity

Other Things

I think I'd actually like to take Zu out for a spin this time around, sooo...

Player Name: Lady Ladile
Character Name: Calamitous Zu
PFS Number: 192133-21
Faction: Dark Archive

Track: Normal

Day Job or Other After Action Activity: None

Other Things: Nothing too terribly unusual though Zu does have the Plant Master archetype which gives him a Plant Companion, Green Empathy for dealing with plant creatures, and his aspects come from plants instead of animals. Otherwise he's more of a ranged character but isn't terrible in melee if push comes to shove.

Though I do know that this adventure takes place in an urban setting Zu's got what I hope will be a decent smattering of knowledge skills and a fairly decent Perception to help him pull his weight during investigation sections :)

Player Name Gummy Bear
Character Name Helvetica Boots
PFS Number 74244-23
Faction Dark Archives

Track: Slow or Normal Normal

Day Job or Other After Action Activity None

I’m excited to learn what makes Zu calamitous!

Did my opening post!

Just FYI, all the information I can find on Ganzis (which is quite light, for the record) seems to stress that their physical bodies are quite different from standard humanoids (even among other Ganzis!). The body of my characters isn't normally such a focus for my posts, but I think for this character, part of the "otherness" she presents is her body. To that end, I'm going to be trying to describe this otherness when relevant. If I write anything that makes someone uncomfortable, please let me or the GM know. I'm happy to list the odd traits I have in mind, but I'd also like to take a crack at demonstrating them throughout the game.

Player Name: supervillan
Character Name: Aurora Arulius
PFS Number: 75577-17
Faction: Dark Archive

Track: Normal

Day Job or Other After Action Activity: might try a faction card thing. No day job.

Other Things: I've tweaked very slightly - shifted a skill point from perform (sing) into Spellcraft. (Sing) is still reasonably good, but can't make a day job with it because it is now untrained. I've also bought some new gear - just finalising a few scrolls, maybe a potion, to round out the equipment list.

EDIT: Hey, we're all Darkive!

Yay Darkive! :D

Also, snapples! Forgot to do purchases. Nothing crazy, but, GM are you alright with me spending some gold real quick? Off the top of my head, alchemists' fire, probably a sorcerer's kit, and a handful of scrolls? If not, such is life and I'll deal with it.

^Hopefully so but maybe we can also buy stuff (within reason) here in town if needed :)

Yes, you are in a town full of shops with no specific timer at the moment.

Player Name- Socalwarhammer
Character Name- Tibitz of the Graymane Clan
PFS # 94956-28
Faction- Dark Archives

Purchases:
-40gp alchemists' fire x2
-8gp sorcerer's kit
-2gp rope + grappling hook
-100gp scroll of mage armor x4

Zu is like a little Alphonse Elric from FMA!

Hah! I'd not considered that but I can see it.

(I've only watched the original FMA; need to watch Brotherhood sometime when I get the chance.)

My three vine leshy characters sort of exist on a spectrum re: how acclimated they are to general 'human/flesh people' norms. Soddy Daisy probably stands out the most in terms of speech, mannerisms, and curiosity about the world around her. Since vine leshys are just nature spirits given a body, I imagine Soddy's spirit is probably 'young' and this is likely her first incarnation into leshy form.

On the other hand, Willow Grove is much more accustomed to moving around in the world of humans and has done a fairly good job of blending in and assimilating. I imagine her spirit is probably much older than Soddy's and has either been through a couple of leshy incarnations already or has existed as Willow Grove for quite some time before ever joining the Pathfinder Society.

And Zu...Zu's somewhere in the middle of the two :)

I feel like we're the Group With No Attention Span, given the way things are going... :)

What I’m hearing is: herding cats.

^That too!

I mean, is it the players' fault that super interesting things keep falling in our lap?! :P

Also, how interesting that we are distinctly cat-free this time around!

Maybe being around 'fish people' and 'rat people' is too much temptation for the catfolk? Especially when the 'fish person' keeps going on about food ;)

The cat-people had to go into therapy to reinforce the "do not eat your fellow Pathfinders" rule.

EDIT: So I hapen to have access to Taverns of the Inner Sea and Inner Sea Towns, which happens to describe Ilsurian, so I may have overdone it trying to make the city come alive for you, but since it's the backdrop for 50% of the content, I thought it would help to have a feel for it.

Overdone it? Poppycock! This is great! Honestly, I think little moments like this make the game come alive. Everywhere we go, the world has been more like a real world, instead of just some wallpaper we walk past. I understand not everything will be like this (wallpaper has its place!), but please don't feel like it isn't being appreciated :)

^^ Hard agree :-)

Oh for sure, I have absolutely no issues with what you're doing! Not to mention I'm very much a 'the journey is the destination' person, whether I'm GMing or playing :)

I ended up having to put both the children down tonight and then clean, so no update tonight. :(

No worries, GM! Get some rest :)

^^^

No worries.

Thanks. Less fatigue and more the lack of enough minutes after work. :)

Apologies for the delay. Thursday was hectic. And then Hamilton.

You know, I've never seen anything related to Hamilton. Is it any good?

I wasn’t especially eager to see it when it was coming to our local Orpheum, but my wife was. So when it came to TV we made a date night. The first 30 minutes never really engaged me, and I thought to myself, “Where’s my iPad?” But King George’s first number was great (and his second) and by the time the wedding scene arrived it was much more interesting. In the end, I liked it.

Gotcha! I enjoy the theater and musicals so it's proooobably something I'd enjoy watching. But I'll have to watch the TV version since theater and musicals aren't something my husband is interested in and all my friends that I used to go with have scattered to the four winds.

In case anyone has questions about the ultimate result:

Just checking in... hope everyone had a good holiday.

Apologies. Internet went down.

I am on holiday now for the next 9 days. I expect we'll have wi-fi but it could be patchy and I'll be doing a bit of traveling too, so my posting rate may drop a little.

Please bot me if I'm holding things up

Helvetica is going to delay until after the lizard. If it wants more than to just wrestle with Zu (starts doing lethal damage), she'll Shocking Grasp it. We've tried not to hurt it, but the dice don't want any of it!

Helvetica is cool staying or going back. She is assuming that since Zu is feeling unwell, we'd call it a night and then convinced herself that was a better course of action than staying at the carnival. She can just as easily convince herself that staying here is better too :)

Based on the opinions that have been shared, we follow Aurora's idea of hanging out here a little more, then going back for rest?

I meant to go on the rule of 2 and send you back to the town to rest, but I got some frustrating news yesterday and just didn't get to it. So I'll throw you a bone, there's not much that's going to happen in the carnival tonight. Now, you did just receive 50 gp and there's a market nearby so... just saying... if you wanted to...

If Zu keeps tanking these Fort saves forget the market, he might need to go see a priest or something!

Sorry to hear that GM! After we all get a chance to respond, we can go rest then?

More seriously, heading to the market/to bed next is absolutely fine with me.

Sorry to hear that GM! After we all get a chance to respond, we can go rest then?

Yes :)

Tibitz is willing to go along with whatever the group decides to do.

I think Aurora "going Disney" is the most appropriate response to skeletons in a cage! XD

Ok Zu, stop dying now, ok? :P Helvetica will roll healing to help someone with ranks in heal (or at least a better wisdom modifier!), but just know that this is eating into valuable fun-having time with the Caydenites. A Queen must help her King, but she is not happy about it! ;)

Some aids vs Healing!
Heal (Aid) vs Lead: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
Heal (Aid) vs Lead: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Heal (Aid) vs Lead: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

I want you all to know that I never have this sort of luck when it matters. I have a Dwarven fighter tangling with the 4th floor of the Emerald Spire right now that would kill a PC just for the second roll!

Hey, Zu could NOT turn down an opportunity to wrestle a 'dragon'. Zu is also not always the brightest bulb in the box.

GM, do you want Zu to make his next Fort save here or over in my next Gameplay post?

Sorry. Insanity... I thought I'd have a post before now.

That was some awful luck! But it's over now. :)

I know, right? My dice have been swingy across all my games lately! >:|

Helvetica's antics are making me reconsider making use of my own Ganzi boon, especially since I still have 2 characters that are 1st level and could be rebuilt to be boon-race characters instead... *ponders*

:)

Cultural differences ;)

As an American (mostly Texan) living in London, this one kills me.