[PF2/Farol] #2-23 An Agent's Obligation (Inactive)

Game Master Farol

A thread for any ooc discussions

Hey folks, I would like to welcome you at my table. Most of you know me but I will write down a couple of things:

- We are here to have fun, both you and me, this is an RP game and RP is expected from you ;) and from me ;)
- This is relatively dark scenario (considering society game), so if you don't feel comfortable with the presented content please send me a private message.
- I will be posting daily from Mon-Friday, and sometimes during the weekends, I will bot you after 24h of silence. If you have longer breaks please inform the table in the discussion thread
- I would like to finish this game knowing something about your PC, what is your thing, what excites them, what scares them, how do they act in certain situation.
- I value it when players play with each other, I dislike the games when GM contacts six players but they never chat among each other.

Ok, lets stop it here ;) The rest we will cover as we go.

Couple of things for you to do:
1. In the links above please fill in: Maps (slide 3 with your Avatar and a name) + any service coins and such.
2. If you have GM glyphs please say so, and who are you giving the extra HP
3. Please fill in RPG Chronicles

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@Pirate Rob - I am super happy to be running this scenario with you at a table! It will be good to at least in some part repay for the great job that you do in the Vaults!

@TechnoDM it is nice to meet you! I don't think we ever played with each other, I hope you will enjoy the lack of hack'n'slash in this game ;)

@Tyranius -
TYRANIUS!
C'mon. we are, we are
TY, TY, TY, TYRANIUS!
He is. he is.
Hey man! It is great to see another of your PC's ;) I read it as a good sign that you came back after playing at one of my games ;)

Hej @Anjo - Good to see you again, I haven't seen him for some time.

@DebuAMP - it is good to see you in PF2! 'Into the breach!' ;)

And @Zabu - I was wondering if you found a scenario for him after the gameplay!

Thanks for getting the opportunity to play. Anjo just got to 6th, so interested to see how he plays. I will update my stat line.

Anjo's RP is admittedly understated. If some players are good and motivated to do a lot of the social, I will tend to stay in the background.

If you're okay with more dialogue during combat, I can do that in the context of being tactical.

Marcus is definitely a talky type. Also, he has a nasty habit of malicious compliance, and loves recruiting new Pathfinders, especially when he's pretty sure it will piss off whoever is in charge on their on-boarding.

He is morally gray by the sheer nature of the depth of his habit of dabbling in the occult arts, but will often try to make up for it with general selflessness.

Rhizzuk is a tall frilled iruxi wearing massive all black Hellknight plate. With that intense stare that nearly defines Hellknights Rhizzuk is protective of their allies, especially treks into Cheliax where Pathfinders are frequently in extra danger.

Rhizzuk is a Paladin of Erecura , Queen of Dis

Edicts: Manipulate dangerous beings and opportunities to your benefit, thrive in hostile conditions, divine the future

Follower Alignments LG, LN, N

If for some reason you wanted to learn more about Rhizzuk and their tribe you can find more here

Haha Thanks!.

Fearful Berry is a corrupted Leshy from the Finadar Forest. The corruption has left his body in a state of constant decomposition and twisted into a horrific visage, Dhampir even though his voice and demeanor is the complete opposite. A small red abyssal shard lies embedded in his mushroom cap and he just wants to find a way to cure himself. He is a bit talkative, though others generally dismiss him due to his appearance and smell of death and decay. Nothing clears a room quicker than a foul smell.

Purchases:

Anjo's purchases:

Weapon Property Rune: Bane (Beasts) on Composite Longbow - 100 gp

As an FYI, Anjo added Kreighton's Cognitive Crossover(Nature +13, Society +3). Anjo also has Monster Hunter, so auto-RK the first time he hunts prey on a creature and everyone gets +1 vs that creature for 1 attack.

Doesn't Monster Hunter only give the attack bonus on a crit success?

Also, added my 3 glyphs down the line to Zabu, Berry and mysterious PC #5.

Yes, I thought I added the part about a crit success, but apparently skipped over it.

Got it, if you have some odd feats that you never got a chance to use, let me know. For example, I remember that Anjo was asking if he can hunt prey from the tracks (as it is described in the hunt prey description). I think there could be combat where this could be possible.

@Anjo with regards to your hunt prey and monster hunter, please whenever you hunt prey spoiler a recall knowledge roll => if you are uncertain of the skill just do a plain 1d20 and I will take the right skill from your profile.

Got it, if you have some odd feats that you never got a chance to use, let me know. For example, I remember that Anjo was asking if he can hunt prey from the tracks (as it is described in the hunt prey description). I think there could be combat where this could be possible.

Actually, hunt prey is allowed from track or sound.

You designate a single creature as your prey and focus your attacks against that creature. You must be able to see or hear the prey, or you must be tracking the prey during exploration.

As an SOP, Anjo will always hunt prey if he finds tracks, or, the moment the party encounters creatres, friendly or hostile or neutral.

FYI, I am thinking about changing the Bane weapon propery on my bow to Elemental or Aberration since we haven't officially started. However, I wm curious if anyone knows the most popular/common creature type in PFS2??

If someone wants swtich out a weapon property in several levels, would I have to sell it back at half price?

As far as I know yeah switching runes involves selling them. However, you can also buy Runestone and transfer the rune on it. So you could have 5 runestones with runes and select the one for the adventure that looks more likely to be useful.

With regards to popular/common creature types I have no idea, I heard that fire is the most common resistance/immunity.

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And with that, we officially started.

Just an FYI still, not everyone filled in their details to RPGChronicles and on maps.

FYI, I am thinking about changing the Bane weapon propery on my bow to Elemental or Aberration since we haven't officially started. However, I wm curious if anyone knows the most popular/common creature type in PFS2??

If someone wants swtich out a weapon property in several levels, would I have to sell it back at half price?

I would say, probably undead.

After humanoids, of course but you have to select a specific humanoid type.

Thank you for the linkk. Then Anjo will put it on a runestone if that is an easier way to transfer between weapons. Oh, I see. You only do that when you're moving a rune. You know....Anjo will stick with Beasts for now. Seems more thematic.

I have the Dubious Knowledge feat along with Bardic Knowledge. That means I probably know a little something about everything... it just might be clouded with some red herrings.

I will post an update in a couple of hours. This day is a mess for me.

Ok, the sky have cleared and I got a 30 mins to do the post. Carry on, nothing to see here

[q]@Anjo - will you tell about them to any of your allies, or you follow after solo? ;) In the vast history of RP splitting the team never ended badly[/q]

Not sure I understand "them"?

If everyone is still in the bar, I would follow her solo....at a distance. Obviously if I suspect an encounter is up ahead, I would avoid it.

Your response has me concerned that the scenario didn't expect anyone to follow her or doesn't have any nuance when it comes to following her e.g. follow=encounter.

The person was watching you, since gangs in this scenario recruit based on gender I try to use gender-neutral pronouns.

That one who was observing you heads towards the side exit of the bar. Do you say to anyone about that person or are you following them while others are playing cards, intimidating bartenders, etc?

I will not tell you, that if you leave after you will trigger an encounter. Even if you use stealth, it will depend on the dice if anyone will see you.

So please be more descriptive on what you do ;)

The person was watching you, since gangs in this scenario recruit based on gender I try to use gender-neutral pronouns.

I am still confused. Was this person empirically male or female? I thought you already described her as "she?"

Do you say to anyone about that person or are you following them while others are playing cards, intimidating bartenders, etc?

Yes, Anjo will mention it to who ever is closest.

So please be more descriptive on what you do ;)

Then I will need to have what I see described in the smaller time increments. Scenarios are notorious for major transitions without giving players a chance to react to what they see.

Anjo follows her to the exit. What does he see when he opens he door....before he takes any additional steps?

@Anjo I updated the gameplay.

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@All - The player behind Marcus is dealing with a family situation, it may happen that he will have to drop the game. So far I did not put him on the map, if he will join in the middle of the encounter I will adjust the scaling.

Hey, a bit of a follow-up to that. Dealing with a family medical situation. It seems to be resolving now, but I'll need another couple days to take care of things. If it's easier you can put me on the map and bard-bot me. I'll just make flank, ID stuff, and inspire courage until I get back.

Hope it resolves quickly and well, Marcus.

On a similar but much less serious note, my daughter is out of school this week so my posting may be slow.

The person was watching you, since gangs in this scenario recruit based on gender I try to use gender-neutral pronouns.

I am still confused by this statement. If the gangs are "gender specific", then it would stand to reason we need to know if the NPCs we encounter are male of female.

Has there been some Paizo edict that identifying an NPC as male or female is against the rules or something? I am thoroughly confused.

Look, me saying gender of the spy was a misstep. It is part my native language that I speak where identifying gender is crucial as you can't speak about someone without that (grammatical constructions forces you to assume gender).

To know the gender of an NPC you would need to have the opportunity to identify it. That NPC looked like that (picture in the slide)

You tell me if seeing them in a gambling den from distance would let you to know that in fact this is a female.

Since the gangs are as you said "gender-specific", the gender of an NPC can tell you way more in this scenario than in others.

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So why am I sticking to not acknowledge the gender of the NPC even that I told it before? To get proficient in that, and share the information that you saw, heard and felt.

Does that answer your questions?

It sounds like not knowing the gender is important to the story structure and it is entirely plausible that someone trying to disguise their gender would be able to with the right clothing, especially from a distance in a dark, crowded room.

@GM - if you're saying that Anjo couldn't ID the gender from where he was at, then that does answer my question. Thanks.

I will be away until Monday night

I think Red..is dead.

Ok folks, the fight is over and interrogation as well. Time came to give out hero point. You all did well so I will give this one out using different criteria:

Marcus - some time ago you celebrated your birthday! All the best mate! Take this hero point as a gift from this table ;)

Next hero point give-away in 1.5 week (If I don't forget ;))

Sorry folks my day turned into 12 h travel which was a bit unexpected. I will not be able to update today.

no worries.

I'm going on vacation this weekend so I probably won't be checking in and almost definitely will not be posting. Bot me as necessary.

Healing..

@GM...We've go three people with Focus Spell healing. One is Expert at +11 in Medicine and I have Natural Medicine with +13, and another with +11.

Do we want to hand wave the healing and Focus point recovery, or do you want us to go through the math, and the rolls, and the time in getting back our Focus points?

Ugh, I posted yesterday, and the post apparently was eaten :( I will recreate it today.

Othello and Rhizzuk chase after green, Othello misses his strike but Rhizzuk is able to send them to the ground. But before anyone can yell for them to surrender Anjo's arrow kills them.

So if the escaping thug has no impact on the story, we can skip this.

However, I was clear that if green got tripped before Anjo fired, then Anjo was switching targets to Yellow, and yellow would have been pinned and taken some 40+ points. I assume it doesn't matter, but just want to make sure.

@Anjo regarding that thug, it does not really matter to the story.

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So there is this post that introduced some damage to you (pathfinders) without any description. You could be wondering what was that about...

Basically while updating the post (the combat tracker) I had to replace the description killing all the scene.

So what happened in Area 51:

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Zabu charged onto dragons, he tried to trip one, but the massive paws made him fail. He stroked but his claws only scratched the dragon's scales.

Barry cast his spell animating skeletons that slashed at the dragons.

The first dragon dodges the worst of the damage. Success on reflex save -5

The other dragon dodges the damage entirely. Crit success no damage.

At this point dragons went into the initiative, I rolled it and they responded faster than the rest of you.

The attacked dragon responded, his jaws clenched on Zabu's arm. Hit for -17 dmg => Zabu need to roll Fort save DC24 for Brine Wounds

The other dragon attacked Berry, he open its jaws and send a ball of lightning. Electricity stroke Berry and arched to up to three targets in near proximity. attack has range 100 ft, then from Berry 3 creatures in range of 30 ft => Othello and Rhizuk.

Then the other dragon also grabbed Zabu with jaws. Hit -10, no more Fort saves as rolling one makes you immune for 24 h.

Then Rhizzuk and Marcus interfered and the dragons stopped fighting.

So this is what happened in that post. I am sorry for that situation, I should have saw that earlier.

Hey folks,

Tomorrow I will be traveling and I will not be able to post. See you all on Friday!

Ok folks, I survived the jorney! Yay! We are back in business, and heading towards the last fight.

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I will grant a Hero POint to Berry, I like using personal resources on NPC's! Well done

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Since we are heading towards the end, it would be a good idea to:
- Make sure that you filled in RPG Chronicles link so far there are 4 people, and six are playing ;)
- Do earn income roll if you wish me to put it on chronicles.

Earn Income (Legal Lore): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Earn Income Abyssal Lore: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Earn Income Perform (Act): 1d20 + 12 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 12 + 1 + 1 = 32

EI Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Hey folks,

I know that at least some of you are NA, so Happy Canada Day and Happy 4th of July! I do expect that you could be off, and slow on posting.

Zabu it was not your turn, I will keep this action in back pocket for when your time comes ;)

@Zabu again ;) so your roll would make it a crit success, I prefer when player decides if they want to reroll the check before knowing what given level means.

Critic success forces you to flee, and spend all your actions on getting away from there, which means that action after that you will be running back. Fleeing would prevent from using shake it off etc.

I am also not sure if Zabu drank bravo's brew (as Marcus hinted that) but Zabu never confirmed.

Since you have hp I will let you reroll, this is a standard Fear lvl 3 spell

I do recall Zabu indicating that he drank the brew in his first combat post.

Anjo is waiting to see if Red is down for good.

I meant to indicate that I drank it, at least.

I think with my reroll thanks to Berry I'm fine with just frightened 1.

I liked my first set of attack rolls better, though.

My OOC is that if Red dies, Anjo will designate Zabu's target as Anjo's prey.

FYI --I will not be able to post of over the weekend. Apologies.