[ACO] PF2e 05-08 - Protecting the Firelight (P1) (Inactive)

Game Master UncleFroggy

Hello! Welcome to my table. Before we start, please do the following:

Please complete the macros linked at the top of the page. This will be used for initiative and secret rolls.

Please also post your token to the slides and post your position in the marching order. The slides are also linked at the top of the page.

As per the Organized Play Foundation Community Standards, each player must decide if they will allow their characters to be damaged by friendly fire (usually via splash damage). In keeping with the “Explore, Report, Cooperate” motto of the Pathfinder Society, engaging in non-consensual character-versus-character conflict is prohibited. While accidental friendly fire happens due to missed attack rolls or other factors, players must obtain the consent of other players before deliberately including fellow PCs in damaging effects. This rule does not apply in situations where a character is not acting of their own free will, such as if they’re being mind-controlled by an NPC and forced to attack a fellow Pathfinder.

You may select a consumable item from the Pathfinder Provisions list. These used to be the school items you get prior to starting an adventure. This applies to Scenarios only. Quests and bounties do not receive provisions.

Credits:

Macros Layout - Frozen Frost
Slides - Frozen Frost

Happy to take friendly fire, so long as it is not likely to knock me out.

I'll take a moderate healing potion

And I am Mysra. Khaul is my carrier-arm.
With a bit more work he might almost be worthy of the honor. One day.

While I normally leave the grunt work to him, sometimes I feel the need to step in and prevent others from being harmed.

I have a reaction I can use each round of combat to do a shield block, the first time someone gets hurt.

Please no splash damage/friendly fire for Salaish, unless it's a do-or-TPK situation.

She'll take a 3rd rank scroll of Heroism for her Pathfinder Provision.

I haven't remastered Salaish yet. That will come when I level her up after this scenario.

No friendly fire for Chupko.

He takes a moderate healing potion.

1 glyph here!

4 Gylphs here. Hurt me plenty!

Taking the lovely scroll of Fly since it's on the divine list these days.

As a note Tarkii has resistance 6 to all physical damage. I have it noted in his header as DR 6/- for brevity sake.

Looks like you all start with 2 HP. I know Frost has 2 glyphs...

How did you get resistance 6 to physical?
Battered dwarves want to know!

I think Tarkii is a Cosmos Oracle, afaik they have that resistance as mystery benefit.

If Frost will play a lvl 5 character, then he gets a level bump:

HIGH TIER LEVEL BUMPS

To provide low level players a more fun and fair experience, PCs whose level equals the adventure’s base level (such as a 3rd-level PC playing in a Level 3–6 scenario) gain a temporary boost when playing in the higher level range called a level bump to represent the higher-level PCs’ mentorship and support.

Increase every DC the PC has by 1.
Increase the attack modifiers, attack damage, spell damage, saving throw modifiers, skill modifiers, Perception modifiers, and AC of the PC by 1.
Increase the Hit Point totals of the PC by 10 or by 10%, whichever is higher.

These adjustments are less beneficial than gaining a level, yet they provide the PC more survivability and opportunity to contribute to the adventure experience, reducing the degree to which higher-level PCs might overshadow these less experienced Pathfinders.

You should also remind higher level PCs to apply any mentor boons they might have purchased.

Apply the relevant adjustments to the PC's animal companions, eidolons, and familiars as well. If a value is already increased by applying the adjustment to a PC (such as a familiar's save modifiers and AC), do not increase the value a second time.

Yup, Cosmos Oracle.

I will play with this character, a remastered ranger. And I have two glyphs to share.

lol we are all lvl 6 except the oracle 8.

Oh hey, there's a discussion thread.

Homework complete.
I have two Glyphs, although doesn't look like that matters.

Zibini is a Psychic. He doesn't have focus spells, but instead has cantrips that are slightly better than usual when he uses them. He can spend a focus point to "amp" them, which improves them to focus-spell-level. Two I should point out are guidance and shield.

Zibini can cast guidance as a reaction when the bonus would improve a check from a critical failure to a regular failure, or from a failure to a success. The range is 120 ft and it doesn't matter if the target is otherwise immune to guidance, but casting it this way costs him a focus point.
He will generally do so when this trigger is met.

For him, shield is a ranged spell. If he casts it on an ally, they get the bonus to AC and the effects of Shield Blocking, but it's still his choice and his reaction to block.

He has a +1 circumstance bonus to Initiative checks from his Twitchy feat, which increases to +4 if an enemy uses Deception or Diplomacy. I've included that on the macros page, I'm just pointing it out because it's the same bonus type as Scouting so doesn't stack with that. It also gives him +1 to all defenses against hazards.

Zibini has a wand of mage armor he uses every day. I've just included it in his stats so it's effectively constant.

(This might be my most complicated character, or at least the one with the most stuff I should point out to the GM.)

Provisions... Looks like we probably don't particularly need healing, so I suppose I should take a scroll. Salaish took heroism? Then I'll take haste.

Friendly fire okay if you think it's worth it. But he's little, so be gentle.

Salaish has Inspire Courage, Inspire Defense, and Dirge of Doom. She'll usually use IC in combat, but she's open to requests. If a foe is hard to hit, she might switch to Dirge of Doom to make them Frightened 1 (no save, no reduction unless they move >30 ft away).

She'll typically use Inspire Competence to almost-auto-succeed to Aid an ally doing a skill check.

Hmm, I think that means 21 CP, 3,3,3,3,3,6.

I have a 7 I could swap to, but that still leaves us high tier. (And I have some desire to play my Oracle once more as is, but could swap if needed.)

If somebody wants to swap down to a level 5, I can swap down to the 7 and keep us at low tier. (I guess theoretically 3 people could swap down from 6s to 5s instead but clearly that's not a great solution)

Or we just just play it as is and trust the system.

I'll stick with playing Salaish.

I will trust the system. And the GM. And the players. *immediately browses the Boons Store for the Second Chance boon*

I do have other characters of levels 5, 7, and 8 (one of each), but I'm fine as-is.

Great, if nobody objects I'll stick with Tarkii, it'll be nice to Legacy Oracle one last ime.

I can swap to a lvl 5 to play low tier as I know what it means playing this one high tier and knowing Chupko can’t be sure to deal at least 50 damage per round. But the lvl 8 should be able to do more

So who's playing what?

I will stick playing with this character.

If no one change, I also stick with this one.

Salaish here.

Alright, I think we're staying put.

Happy to stick.

Tarkii, please complete the Macros/Slides/RPG Chronicles please.

Opps. All filled in now, thanks!

I really need to start tracking which other PCs each of mine have met.

Me too! I tend to only remember the recent or frequent ones.

Likewise. Especially those goblins... :-)

I've added a "known associates" section to Zibini's profile and added this party to it. That's easy enough.

The problem is that I needed to start doing it back when I started playing PFS...

And who has the time and motivation to go back through every campaign to do that at this point? I am neither that conscientious nor that bored.

No 4-13 for Salaish.

Me either

I thought Inspire Competence used the normal Aid DC (not level based)

D'oh! You're right. That's what I get for posting when kids are asking me stuff. It's Inspire Courage that uses Level based DCs.

Lingering composition, I think (which is often coupled with inspire).

I nearly always use them together. Can you tell it's been a while since I've played this character? ;P

I'm starting to like this scenario... once I got all the bugs worked out. I actually messed up the 2nd task but it appears to have worked out... :)

There's a chance we might make Gameday -- depending on how quickly we resolve the second part of the scenario... :)

I love the fact that Avery's hireling is very useful in this kind of situation.

HP: 2d5 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7

Zibini and Khaul, have a hero point!

I might need to get one myself. Something else to put into Myrsa.

There are still four enemies on the map, could you confirm which two are really still there, as I suspect I may need to move.

I've removed both zombies, I think.

oops. sorry.

head's up -- I don't think we're going to be done by gameday. So if you've allocated your current character for a GD game, you're probably going to need to change (or play a pregen).

now would be a good time to say "oh <bleep>"

Or "Ouch" at the very least!