Sounds good to me... I was thinking about this and the overarching Goal I've basically set for you guys is to have a year to figure out how to deal with the Boogie Critter that's coming for you.
For a sandish experience I do want you guys to ask questions and figure out how to answer them, either by asking Contacts or Pursuing Leads, and these will lead to Quests that you vote on.
So I'm thinking of setting up the following three lists
Contacts
Leads
Quests.
With Quests being what you guys vote on to pursue. There may be many different ways of achieving something.
Leads might also flare up again, depending.
I can make up a base of these and you guys can add on ideas of your own (that I might shoot down lol).
I already have Contacts up above.
Leads
* Nature of Magic Curse (pretty much complete)
* Aram's past (In Progress)
* Nature of Boogie Critter
Quests
* Description: Find a way to hide magic aura from Brand The Impertinent
** Deadline: No real rush while being nobodies
** Option: Pay Geezlebottle 1000 gold each for custom item.
If we happen upon a giant sack of money (1k is quite a lot in 2e? But not super-duper so iirc) the custom item might be worth it. But otherwise we should keep our eyes open for options! Tinfoil hats, lead-lined clothing?
Poking about Aram's past might tell us a bit more about both the critter and the cult, so that seems reasonable. Seems like the reasonable start :)
Update Leads
* Nature of Boogie Critter
* University of Korvosa
* Pantheon of Many
It's also a good time for anyone to change up their character. Asta I know Exacting Strike isn't working out the best. There's better Fighter Feats out there!
I've got one vote for going to Aram's Crown and talking to the bartender again.
Schedule for the day,
Find translators
Get skald translation
Geezlebottle magic info dump
Go back to the bartender
???
Let me know and we'll do the rest of the schedule sometime next week.
Oh I should check here before posting. But let's fit the university after the bartender, unless that derails us :)
Loot sheet! We needed one, there now is one. Not yet populated though. If someone is feeling inspired feel free to do so otherwise I'll try and fit it in tomorrow :)
Oh hmmhmhmhmhmhmhmmh now that I went to Kanka I noticed that we do have a loot/money tracker. Did I get my wires crossed? Or did we forget? Or was the prompt to add more stuff to it :p?
Ahaha, It's been a year, don't quite remember who set the kanka one up, but that doesn't have to be the one we use.
I think 1k gold is pretty much the equivalent of 10k in PF1. So quite a hefty sum for 1st level characters :)
And sure, bartender first, uni next.
I'll assume you'll go back to Aram's Crown in the evening but let me know if not.
^ I think that is a fair assumption!
I'll look over fighter feats and maybe make switch up - thanks, GM!
No time unti Tuesday for another post but I think that works to move things forward.
I think the double posts are the same? But it sounds like a good deal :)
Huh, didn't realize tht happened, was trying to edit the first post from what I remember.
Added Lead
New Quest
Quests
The Smell of Knowledge
* Description: What's causing the stink at the Bookmaker?
** Deadline: Sooner you do it, the quicker the University Of Korvosa starts their research and also you get paid.
Schedule for the day,
Find translators Done
Get skald translation Done
Geezlebottle magic info dump Done
Go back to the bartender Done
???
Go back to the evening bartender
I'd say it's about lunch time now.
Oh yeah and getting the Skald transation is 10 xp and getting the magic info dump is 50 xp.
I've updated the loot tracker with +3 gp. Both of them! When I remember I shall also make sure to deduct the translation fees.
Check out the shop while we wait for the seedy barmaid to start their shift?
One vote to visit the Bookmaker!
Any other thoughts?
Bookmaker!
Last chance to rebuild before combat!
I haven't looked into things yet, let's go ahead with the combat!
I've prerolled initiative just to speed things along but you are in Exploration Mode. let me know what you guys are doing (Defending, Scouting, Investigating, Detecting Magic or whatnot? just whatever makes sense for a character to be doing as they go into this underground area) and if a skill other than perception applies to your initiative.
Defend for example makes a lot of sense for Asta as that'll mean she starts with shield raised at the start of any combat w/o a need to spend an action.
Might remain possible for there to be no combat.
Investigating seems reasonable. Erytheis will pick that one.
Scouting might make sense for Pytho here.
Detecting magic maybe in some other environment.
So picking scouting.
Asta will be on the lookout for threats and keeping an eye on her friends. So defending for her sounds good.
Well, work and family got busy as they do, but I think I should be able to start the combat today. I will send you another invite link over paizo DM Asta. You don't use Discord much, right?
I've adopted Discord since the last time we had this conversation, GM!
Discord is fancy and handy! But only if there's people to talk to :p
I find it helpful to join groups for things like hobbies so its another source of stuff to browse.
BTW, shouldn't Asta's attack bonus be higher?
level+expert+stat=1+4+4=9
Or am I missing something?
Nope Pytho's right, Asta has a +9 to first hit.
I'll try and bot Asta sometime tomorrow if no post.
Apologies! Life got busy. I'll adjust Asta's sheet now.
I'm thinking that while we're not in a shape to explore further right now, it might be handy to have a convenient and close first level dungeon on hand for the future. We have to think of our fate as heroes after all :p
Schedule for the day,
Find translators Done
Get skald translation Done
Geezlebottle magic info dump Done
Go back to the bartender Done
Visit University Done
Visit Bookmaker Done
???
Go back to the evening bartender
What's next? I'd say it's a little after lunch time now. You guys are hungry and wounded.
Figure the guards have some folks they can go to if they need some stitching outside of the chain of command, being cops and all. Gnurly and Mic.
I'm up for lunch and healing, in no particular order.
Healing and lunch done. Late afternoon, early evening. You could squeeze one more thing in, or we can just go to the evening and back to Aram's Crown.
You also got 1 reputation point with Korvosa University.
Neat! How many reputation points for their vanity pony :D?
And I don't think we need to stress anything, so we could just chill until our next appointment.
Agreed, chill and eat a long lunch, sounds good to Asta!
will try and post today. We'll see how it goes.
Bananas day here, hope to be around tomorrow.
New Contact
Jalnio, human night manager of Aram's Crown
Quest: Secrets for Jalnio
* Description: Jalnio wants dirt on Aram so he can give you dirt in return.
** Deadline: No deadline really, but refusing might close off avenues of investigation.
Hey all, hope everyone's doing all right. Any questions on the bar scene?
Holiday weekend here got me way busier than I'd anticipated. Working through some work today but I'll be back tomorrow.
Hmm, I thought I commented on it, but maybe paizo ate my post...
But I suppose we can give him the ledger at least - it's not interesting for us? Also the skald journal perhaps, do we have any future use for it?
Pardon. Had a cold and now the whole city is blanketed in snow, so just kept putting it off. But I'll take a look now :)
The ledger hmhmm. I'm not sure we figured out what it was actually for? Maybe some forensic accounting could show things - or it could be handy to double check things with.
I tried to double check on kanka but the links I had gave 404s. Anyone else have that issue or am I just looking at old links?
(The diary though I think we can leave since we have a translation/transcription. But maybe that's not very useful, even if it is interesting)
Can you not get on anything in kanka right now Erytheis? I put in some things in your Google loot sheet. It's not complete but the interesting documents you got from Aram's home is all in there.
Essentially these are items that are valuable to Jalnio and you guys can decide how valuable they are to you and if what he's offering in trade is worth it and how you guys feel about having him as a friend and an ally.
I was just being dumb. Was apparently logged out - and Kanka helpfully gave me a 404 instead of a login prompt when trying to access things :p
(Fixed it now)