Hello everyone. Welcome to 1-12: The Burden of Envy. Here's a couple of ground rules to get us started:
1. Please post at least once a day. If you are absent for 24 hours I'll send you a PM. If you're missing for 36 hours I'll mark you inactive and your Player Character will simply delay - that's not fun!
2. Under your name, please add a stat block, so I can quickly find your stats and keep the game moving. You can edit your character's Race, Class/Levels and Gender fields to include information such as:
- Hit Points
- AC
- Saving Throws
- Perception Bonus
3. What about Secret Rolls? PFS 2nd ed has a lot of secret rolls the GM is supposed to make for the players, so the PCs can't react to a bad roll. If I give you the DC, feel free to make the roll openly. Otherwise, there are 2 ways to do this in my games:
- You can say which skill and which bonus you want to apply. (Example: "I use Occultism +5 to investigate the skull's mystic origin.")
- Or you spoiler your dice roll and everyone sticks to the honor system of not opening it.
If you haven't added Pathfinder specific equipment, I suggest you look at the PFS 2 Society rules, in particular the Pathfinder Training section.
Once you have your character selected, please post this information:
Player name: (OPTIONAL. you, the person on Earth)
Character name: (the PC you are playing in Golarion)
XP:
Class:
Money: (usually written in GP)
Leveling Speed: (Normal or Slow?)
PFS number: (It should look something like 133608-2001.)
Day Job: (feel free to roll it. Also mention any feats that may impact your job roll.)
Faction:
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Player name: Philip J. Cormier
Character name: Ving Tran
XP: 28
Class: Sorcerer (Imperial)
Money: 45 GP
Leveling Speed: Normal
PFS number: 55792-2002
Day Job:
Faction:Envoys’ Alliance
School item: Scroll of Resist Energy.
Boons Purchased:
Scenario #1–11: Flames of Rebellion Boon A:
the following reaction.
Infernal Detonations [reaction] Trigger A creature within 30 feet of you targets you or an ally with an attack; Effect The creature
takes fire damage equal to 1d6 + your level (basic Reflex save). The DC of the Reflex save is equal to your spell DC or your class
DC, whichever is higher.
Scenario #1–22: Doom of Cassomir:
the same prophecies of doom that his priests shout from the rooftops. When your dying value is increased to exactly the amount
that would kill you, this boon automatically activates. Check the box that precedes this boon and decrease your dying value by one.
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Player name: Mark Palandri
Character name: Elfino
XP: 4
Class: Investigator (Forensic Medicine)
Money: 17.58 GP
Leveling Speed: Normal
PFS number: 2380483-2006
Day Job: (Experienced Smuggler)
Faction: Horizon Hunters
Bonus Consumable: Healing Potion (Minor)
Boons:
Devil’s Keep (Advanced) You are the rightful master of the infernal keep known as Diggen’s Rest. Once per adventure, you can use the following reaction.
Name: Infernal Detonations
Type: reaction
Uses: Once per adventure
Trigger: A creature within 30 feet of you targets you or an ally with an attack.
Effect: The creature takes fire damage equal to 1d6 + your level (basic Reflex save). The DC of the Reflex save is equal to your spell DC or your class DC, whichever is higher.
Alright, all of you have checked in. This is enough for a minimum sized table. I put out a summons for more players to show up, but we'll see what happens.
In the meantime, feel free to change your marching order on these slides. There are arrangements for 2 per row and 1 per row.
Once your character is ready, join the gameplay thread and introduce yourself to the rest of the team.
Hello Thurk.
There's plenty of room. Feel free to arrange yourself in marching order and dot into the gameplay thread.
Also, provide your character details (listed above.)
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Awesome, thanks GM Chadius!
Player name: cybermephit
Character name: Thurk von Wolkowitz
XP: 0
Class: Wizard (abjurer) 1
Money: 4gp
Leveling Speed: Normal
PFS number: 194005-2003
Day Job: Writing zombie apocalypse survival self-help books with Undead Lore:
Faction: Vigilant Seal
School Item: Scroll of Mage Armor
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I found an old Socity guide (2019) and by that he is still only first (played a lot of quest and only one scenario). Unless you think the Barbarian would be better that a TWF.
Player name: Buckshot Bob
Character name: Hammick Sunborn
XP: 8
Class:Ranger / 1
Money: 18.13
Leveling Speed: Normal
PFS number: 38898-2001
Day Job:
Faction: Verdant Wheel
Slotted Boons: Faction Champion Envoy's Alliance, Fane's Friend (General), Sand Slide
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http://www.organizedplayfoundation.org/paizo/guides/pfs2guide-en/
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sh3j?Pathfinder-Society-Character -Options
https://paizo.com/pathfinder/faq
Quests grant 1xp. Scenarios grant 4xp. 12xp total needed per level. Please feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken GMs.
Hello Hammick.
With you and Vandor, this will make 7 PCs, which I can't run on a single table.
I can certainly put you on a second table and fill with more PCs or pregenerated NPCs to make the table legal. I'll make a request for more PCs in the recruitment thread.
Table 1: Does anyone want to switch tables? It's fine if you don't.
Oh, in that case we have 6 people on Table 1. I'll close table 2.
Hammick, feel free to join the discussion thread and arrange yourself in marching order on the slides.
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I switched Elfino and Hammick in the marching order. Elfino is rather soft and his weapon of choice is the shortbow, so he tends to do better in the middle order. If this is a problem for anyone, or the consensus is that Elfino (as backup roguey type) is better up front, then switch them back and Elfino will just have to deal with it.
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Standard disclaimer: If you're wondering about my strange posting times, it's because I'm currently living in Spain. If other PbP adventures I've played in are anything to go by, most of you are likely to be posting from North America somewhere. I am some 9 hours ahead of Pacific time and 6 hours ahead of Eastern time, so I go to bed sometime in your mid-afternoon and get up sometime in the very early morning.
I'm also posting from EST. Welcome, everyone.
If you haven't set up your boons or bonus school items, feel free to do so now. You don't have to finalize your choice until we reach the city docks.
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Pursue a Lead states that:
Whenever you attempt a Perception or skill check to investigate a designated subject, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the check. The exact checks this applies to depend on the actions you use to investigate and are determined by the GM, but checks to investigate are typically Perception checks or skill checks that use Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma.
In my posts, I will go ahead and add the +1 to any rolls that I believe fall into this category and that are related to tracking down a target of one of Elfino's (up to 2) active leads.
If GM chadius feels that I am being too liberal in my use of this bonus, then let me know and feel free to ignore it.
This sounds like an appropriate use of the ability to me, Elfino. Go for it.
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There is another investigator feat of Elfino's that I forgot to mention and which might come in handy during this adventure.
He has the That's Odd feat that reads in part:
When you enter a new location, such as a room or corridor, you immediately notice one thing out of the ordinary. The GM determines what it is, or whether there's nothing reasonable to pick up, skipping obvious clues that can be easily noticed without a check or specifically looking for them.
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I was all set to make a Society roll for Elfino to Decipher Writing when I noticed that it has the Secret trait, so I left it in an OOC for the GM to roll.
I'm not sure how you (the GM) want us to handle these kinds of rolls. I'm quite happy to let you make the rolls, but if you would prefer us to handle them differently, please let us know.
When it comes to secret rolls, there are 2 methods:
1) You tell the GM what the relevant bonus is
2) You make the roll but you keep it spoilered so I have to click on it to open it.
Either way is good with me.
By the way, if I ever list the DC, feel free to make the roll public. The Thievery check, for example, didn't need to be secret because it would be obvious if you succeeded or not.
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Ving Tran casts a spell, ...
Having been corrected with my own Imperial Sorcerer, it appears that only focus spells and granted spells cast from a slot trigger the +1 of Blood Magic. Cantrips apparently are not cast with a slot and so do not trigger the blood magic.
Every PC has official documents that will let them leave on the Merry Mayfly on Friday at 20:00 without trouble.
Anyone else who wishes to board the Marry Mayfly will need documents, most likely forged. Flitch's version looks official from a distance, but it would fail close inspection. You could use Flitch's template as a start, and then fix the errors within.
Your options at this point are:
- Come back on Wednesday to meet with Theomolin
- Spend 2 hours asking around to learn more about Theomolin
- Try to pass a secret message to see if you can get his attention now.
Where do you all plan to go afterwards? Do you have a destination planned?
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I just noticed that the slide says that we are to meet Themolin at the warehouse at 17:00, but the post in question states 19:00.
I'm guessing it's the latter, but I just wanted to confirm.
Sorry, the meeting should be an hour before curfew, which is 19:00.
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The Remove Disease spell is of the Divine & Primal traditions.
As best as I can tell, Ving and Thurk are Arcane, and Panarug is Occult.
I may be wrong, but I don't believe that any of us can cast that spell from a scroll.
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Sorry, I apparently misunderstood the initial conversation our PCs had with Guaril. I thought that Daffrid and family were considered a single "client" with respect to the Rolanna’s Prayer's five client limit. Elfino though would probably not have made that mistake, so if possible, I would like to modify my last post to remove the "and yur kin" to avoid confusion. The rest of the post, including Elfino giving directions to Daffrid as to where to meet in the sewers, can still stand as is.
Do I take it that the Merry Mayfly arriving on Friday does not have a headcount limitation for "clients"? If so, then we might want to consider trying to get the rest of Daffrid's family out by that route. Elfino has already put together one set of fake travel documents, so presumably he could write up some more. Elfino (LN) is not the type to suggest this option. Where smuggling is concerned, he sticks religiously to whatever agreement was made.
One more item. Elfino mentioned Ellvard and asked if anyone had heard of the fellow but got no response. An "Elvard" was mentioned in the very first post by the GM, but I assume that this was more in the way of setting the mood and not something our PCs would actually have overheard. From the lack of response, Elfino will take it that the name does not mean anything to the group... not yet, anyway.
The Merry Mayfly basically has unlimited capacity, but it does run the risk of border patrol. The boat on Thursday has a capacity for exactly 5 passengers.
Right now the opening post just set the mood, so "Ellvard" is just a name.
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"Very mean, Runelady is. Emoubu wonder if you have way to get smaller?"
A Shrink Spell or Shrinking Potion would be great for Seddothrum, unfortunately both are well out of our level and price range.
Might I suggest that we discuss possible methods of sneaking him and any other potential passengers onto the Merry Mayfly in this Discussion thread rather than slow down Gameplay too much? We can always pretend that our PCs did all this brainstorming during curfew.
Normal clients we can get try to get through by using forged documents or bribes (or both), but that probably won't work for Seddothrum. He'll have to sneak onboard somehow. The GM says that the "Merry Mayfly basically has unlimited capacity," so it can presumably handle the weight and size of the giant.
Speaking of which, do we know the approximate size and weight of Seddothrum? If we're going to try and sneak him on as cargo, then we'll need to borrow some form of transportation that can handle his bulk.
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Shrink or Invisibility scrolls usually cost 12 gp and are Level 3, so Ving could in theory purchase one if we can find a supplier. Equivalent potions are level 4 items, so we're likely out of luck there.
Good idea to ask Daffrid there Ving. Fingers crossed.
Shrink spell only lasts 5 minutes and Invisibility lasts 10 minutes. I'd hate for either spell to expire before we got Seddothrum onto the boat.
Seddothrum is about 12 feet in height and weighs approximately 1,500 lbs. Something like a horse drawn wagon would be able to carry him.
Seddothrum needs to breathe air. You do know he is able to pretend to be a pile of rocks, as you all walked past him on your way to Daffrid.
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We are merchants in a city with merchants. I'm sure we can obtain a wagon and stock somehow.
Should be doable (and not too expensive) if we only need to hire the cart and team to deliver the "cargo" to the Merry Mayfly. I suspect the owner/teamster will want to come along to drive it though. Doesn't look like any of us know how to drive a team anyway.
Elfino is only considering doing this sort of extra-curricular unremunerated smuggling because he's on a Pathfinder sanctioned mission and that's just what Pathfinders do if they can; help others in need. But he won't do it if it threatens the completion of the mission, namely smuggling the six paying clients out of the city.
The best way to accomplish this is to have five of those six paying clients leave on the Rolanna’s Prayer on Thursday morning. Flitch and Daffrid appear to be a done deal. Assuming we wrap up Theomolin at the warehouse tonight, that makes three. If we can start on (or even take care of) Garrla today, then we basically have tomorrow to nail down Yuleg and his daughter.
Unfortunately, that still leaves one paying client for us to smuggle onto the Merry Mayfly on Friday. The most obvious choice is Daffrid, assuming we're also trying to get her family (and Seddothrum) out at the same time. But there's bound to be more complications with Garrla and/or Yuleg, so time will tell.
That would leave us Friday to figure out how to get the freebie clients smuggled onto the Merry Mayfly