GM Bret’s Outpost V Lodge of the Living God (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

Vinny also votes perky. She'll work on some pit traps as her two actions.

I'll opt for perky. So one more crafty trap attempt.
If we have a bonus, then Khaul would definitely be taking the stonemason if he is available to help with his deadfalls.

I forgot to note it, but the two smiths can also help with traps.

Will update the player information now.

Got some things to do this morning. If Vinny hasn’t posted by this afternoon, I will bot them and move us forward.

Villagers will not be appearing on the map. They will be fighting, but it is assumed that your characters are the ones that fight the strongest opponents. Their contributions will be in the background or finishing off that last opponent when we are at the point where the remaining enemies are not a significant threat.

The first section of the battle is handled narratively. Do you wish me to just narrate it, or do some of you want to talk about how your preparations destroy part of the approaching undead army?

I assume you will want a villager in the watchtower since it gives a good view of the whole valley. Who do you want up there? It only matters for the narration.

How about Matthild? She is a trapper so likely knows the area and has good eyesight, and she might like being away from the Horgats.

That sounds like a good choice to me, Khaul.

I approve! Also, she did not get trained since she was busy laying traps.

Speaking traps, did you make any Vinny?

Faerinaa will see if there are any extra crossbow bolts, then take up her position on the wall. She has 8 remaining for the upcoming fight from her personal supply.

I had to think on this a little bit.

I decided that you have as many crossbow bolts at you want during the narrative section, but once tactical combat starts you are limited to the equipment you have. They was no where to purchase such ammunition in the village and no one to make them.

Vinny made one pit trap, in post 386 back on page 8.

Khaul and Bastian, enjoy those disrupting weapons!

Nice bonus damage. Khaul says thankyou.

Game reported. I needed to report it by May 16th.

Your characters are still locked in the current game. You will receive the chronicles after the game completes. I am hopeful we can complete it before May 25th.

Please let me know of any corrections so that I can amend the reporting with them.

You have already met the conditions for the Primary and Secondary Objectives as well as the Faction Bonus with Envoy’s Alliance. I will go over what those were as well as answer questions about what happened behind the screen after the scenario is complete.

PbP Outpost V
Session: PbP
Game System: Pathfinder Society (second edition)
Scenario: PFS2 1-18:Lodge of the Living God

Reporting conditions:
A: No
B: Yes
C: No
D: No
Faction Bonus: Yes

GM #: 141981 - 2006
GM Name BretI
GM Faction: Grand Archive
GM prestige: 4

820 - 2004 Tess of Tosof Vigilant Seal Prestige: 4 Died: No
100387 - 2002 Khaul Irontoes Vigilant Seal Prestige: 4 Died: No
2396874 - 2008 Bastian Sunbright Radiant Oath Prestige: 4 Died: No
236808 - 2002 Vinny Santorini Horizon Hunters Prestige: 4 Died: No
228480 - 2001 Faerinaa Envoy's Alliance Prestige: 4 Died: No

Khaul and Bastian, enjoy those disrupting weapons!

This does stack with his blade ally Disrupting Weapon, right?

It is unclear to me if it should or not, but I am going to allow both to apply.

As with checks, you might add circumstance, status, or item bonuses to your damage rolls, but if you have multiple bonuses of the same type, you add only the highest bonus of that type.[/dice]

Neither the rune nor the spell calls it out as a circumstance, status or item bonus. It just says add a dice of damage that is positive energy.

They are more skilled at fighting than our champions!

Greater Cover is a good AC bonus, but it doesn't do anything offensively. If Vinny hides, she'll get the -2 AC from the flat footed condition on her next attack, and it gives a 50% miss chance as extra defensive layer that's usually going to be stronger than the +2 AC. The downside is it has a chance to fail, where taking cover always succeeds.

I was looking up Greater Cover to see if I forgot something cool about it, and realized we should be getting +2 circumstance bonuses to our hide checks from the cover. which I had forgotten about.

Vinny could do both though if she wants to only throw one bomb, taking cover first for Greater Cover ends up with her at +4 AC, a +4 bonus to the stealth check, and layered defenses from the AC and hidden statuses. Faerinaa can't really do that though since she needs the actions to load her crossbow.

It festers even though Bastian made his save? I also think Khaul reduced it to only 1 damage.

You had one hit point damage at the start of your round. It was reduced by Khaul’s reaction.

Then the aura around the nearby Zombie Brute caused your wounds to fester causing five damage.

It looks like I have everyone’s downtime activities. If you have changed your mind about the activities, please let me know.

You achieved your primary objective by completing enough of the repair activities.

You achieved your secondary objective by having at least 9 of the villagers survive. If you had done less battle preparations, villagers would have died. You did more than required for all of the villagers to survive.

You achieved the Envoy’s Alliance faction objective by giving at least one token to an NPC that would not report it.

All of this matches what I originally reported for the game.

I will try to get chronicles out today. I will post here when they are ready.

I hope you all enjoyed the game. It is a long one, but I do think it is worth it. The number of NPCs and the planning for the repairs both take quite a bit of time and effort.

Thanks to all of you for playing this. I enjoyed running it and am glad that I had a great group of players for it.

Tess's downtime activity is retraining a feat to pick up Witch dedication.

Tess is forgoing earning income to retrain a feat and pick up Witch dedication.

This has been a really enjoyable scenario - made better by excellent GMing and other players.

Thank you to all! Bastian is going to hit 4th and get some Spell Runes!

Tess hits level five.

Thanks for playing everyone, and for all the work from Bret. Not a simple scenario at all, and then with three back to back combat encounters at the end. I really enjoyed this one.

Yes, kudos to Bret and to my fellow players.

Tess is forgoing earning income to retrain a feat and pick up Witch dedication.

Takes a week to retrain, so you will get one day of earn income.

Crafting, Stonemasonary: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Your chronicles can be found here.

I will make the campaign as inactive once a week has passes or everyone confirms their chronicles are good, whichever comes sooner.

Excellent job, I hope to see some of you in games again.

Thank you for the game everyone! This was a lot of fun. :)

I find myself wishing there was a follow up to this.

I expect there will be some sort of follow up on this. There is too much in the scenario and LO PSG to not have more happen with it. You also have the two boons that suggest something more will happen here.

Now 1e did have plot lines that got lost or dropped, but I’m really hoping that won’t happen with this.

It is just too bad the scenario runs so long.

Got them as well. Looks good. Many thanks. If there is a follow-up Khaul would be all in for it.

Thanks everyone! Looks good to me. I think this was one of my favorite PFS experiences. Thank you Bret and all my fellow players for making it a memorable and enjoyable experience!

Thank you Bret! Can we close this thread now?