Update later today. Yesterday was a rush in the office.
I shoul dbe able to give you a response in an hour or two.
Hello everyone,
I am posting this into all of my games. First of all, happy holiday season! Wish you are all healthy and well. You may have noticed I did not post in a while. I am currently spending my days traveling to visit family, so I will not be able to maintain my pace. I will try to drop in a post when I can, however. But it will be a tad slower than usual.
Thank you for understanding.
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Orug stated (and his wife confirmed) that the second victim was killed outside of their shop at night.
Orug said the killer was quite tall, and they briefly fought before the killer escaped. Supposedly.
Some kids supposedly saw the prisoners mutilating the body of the second victim. They supposedly barely escaped when the pathfinders chased them.
When the sheriff arrived to the site of the second murder, the investigation supposedly revealed a a bloodied dagger fitting the sheath of one of the imprisoned pathfinder agents.
This is the related talk around town. Just to help you a bit. You will have to sort out the actual physical evidence between yourselves. If you have any, that is.
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I think the second murder is our weakest link. It also happened outside a busy shop so evidence is going to be hard to find but it's probably worth checking out.
Orug is probably a liar but I think he would have lied more about the killer than just saying it was tall and clearly none of the Pathfinders can be called tall.
Jesus. Between the 6 of you, nobody has a dagger.
How the hell do you cut your food? With a battleaxe?
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I'm just getting a vibe like we should have declared defeat and left town instead of hanging around; that's likely to be similarities with a long-ago (like mid-80s) game that left enough of a bad taste in my mouth that I still remember it, though.
Idk. It feels like we messed up somewhere, and I don't know where it happened.
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Mysteries are hard to write. What seems like an obvious clue to one person, another completely overlooks. What seems like a clever hint makes the mystery easy.
It wouldn't be any fun if we figured it out after the first encounter.
Also, I'm assuming we've already met the true killer and we're just trying to figure out who it is and get enough evidence to confront them.
Hey everyone, I am posting this an all of my games. I will be traveling for the next week. I am not taking my laptop, but will be able to post via phone. Please excuse the slower posting rate until Saturday 19th. Thanks!
In case of attemting to escape or switch positions of grappler/grappled, it is either/or. So Escape artist is sufficient.
Source PRPG Core Rulebook pg. 199
As a standard action, you can attempt to grapple a foe, hindering his combat options. If you do not have Improved Grapple, grab, or a similar ability, attempting to grapple a foe provokes an attack of opportunity from the target of your maneuver. Humanoid creatures without two free hands attempting to grapple a foe take a –4 penalty on the combat maneuver roll. If successful, both you and the target gain the grappled condition (see the Appendices). If you successfully grapple a creature that is not adjacent to you, move that creature to an adjacent open space (if no space is available, your grapple fails). Although both creatures have the grappled condition, you can, as the creature that initiated the grapple, release the grapple as a free action, removing the condition from both you and the target. If you do not release the grapple, you must continue to make a check each round, as a standard action, to maintain the hold. If your target does not break the grapple, you get a +5 circumstance bonus on grapple checks made against the same target in subsequent rounds. Once you are grappling an opponent, a successful check allows you to continue grappling the foe, and also allows you to perform one of the following actions (as part of the standard action spent to maintain the grapple).Move: You can move both yourself and your target up to half your speed. At the end of your movement, you can place your target in any square adjacent to you. If you attempt to place your foe in a hazardous location, such as in a wall of fire or over a pit, the target receives a free attempt to break your grapple with a +4 bonus.
Damage: You can inflict damage to your target equal to your unarmed strike, a natural attack, or an attack made with armor spikes or a light or one-handed weapon. This damage can be either lethal or nonlethal.
Pin: You can give your opponent the pinned condition (see Appendix 2). Despite pinning your opponent, you still only have the grappled condition, but you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC.
Tie Up: If you have your target pinned, otherwise restrained, or unconscious, you can use rope to tie him up. This works like a pin effect, but the DC to escape the bonds is equal to 20 + your Combat Maneuver Bonus (instead of your CMD). The ropes do not need to make a check every round to maintain the pin. If you are grappling the target, you can attempt to tie him up in ropes, but doing so requires a combat maneuver check at a –10 penalty. If the DC to escape from these bindings is higher than 20 + the target’s CMB, the target cannot escape from the bonds, even with a natural 20 on the check.
If You Are Grappled: If you are grappled, you can attempt to break the grapple as a standard action by making a combat maneuver check (DC equal to your opponent’s CMD; this does not provoke an attack of opportunity) or Escape Artist check (with a DC equal to your opponent’s CMD). If you succeed, you break the grapple and can act normally. Alternatively, if you succeed, you can become the grappler, grappling the other creature (meaning that the other creature cannot freely release the grapple without making a combat maneuver check, while you can). Instead of attempting to break or reverse the grapple, you can take any action that doesn’t require two hands to perform, such as cast a spell or make an attack or full attack with a light or one-handed weapon against any creature within your reach, including the creature that is grappling you. See the grappled condition for additional details. If you are pinned, your actions are very limited. See the pinned condition in Appendix 2 for additional details.
Multiple Creatures: Multiple creatures can attempt to grapple one target. The creature that first initiates the grapple is the only one that makes a check, with a +2 bonus for each creature that assists in the grapple (using the Aid Another action). Multiple creatures can also assist another creature in breaking free from a grapple, with each creature that assists (using the Aid Another action) granting a +2 bonus on the grappled creature’s combat maneuver check.
Emphasis mine.
With that being said, you might want to redo your round.
I suppose there's just the four of you now. I will give it some 12 hrs and then move forward, just in case. Zandu posts now and then, so there might be a chance.
I will have a post in after work tonight. I will also make the chronicles today and link them here. Since we are finished with the scenario, it will be pretty much only a semi-collaborative debriefing.
Who wants to/can, please roll for a day job. Thanks.
This was one of the greatest runs ever! You put so much detail into your posts!
I really enjoyed reading your story!! :-D
Thanks GM NotEspi!!!
Congratulations on reaching 10,000! (I have a few more than that, but with very few exceptions I've done all of my gaming here for the past ten+ years.)
I made a Day Job roll at the start of the game.
Ilarien gets to 4th level with this xp.
Not much and you’ll have 40k!!!
Wow!! :-D
This is my 10,000th post on the Paizo boards.
That's a lot of posts. Congrats.
Sheet updated.
Then you need this...assuming you want to stick with the group - https://paizo.com/campaigns/v5748p75ivmff/gameplay&page=last
Any chance I could get a discord invite? My name is Gerald there and my number is #2091.
https://discord.gg/BCe4spwQ
works once