[Farol / PF2] Prey for death

Game Master Farol

I don't even think Ketsu-kiba would ask for shares, happy to cover this hilarious rental plan.

PCs, are we proceeding as a group or individually? They're looking for 4, but I see no reason to go 1 by 1. Maybe 2 and 2?

I have the same question.

But since we snuck in seperately, maybe we should just lean into it...

We can mix it up, and change our decision with each activity. 1 by 1 for the afternoon; 2 by 2 for the evening; 1, 1, & 2 the next morning, etc. Always switching up who goes with who when we're not solo. The less we're seen together the harder it'll be to pin us down.

GM giving hint to remain together:

I would need a decision if you prefer to go separately or together, hitting a trap being solo may have consequences

Let's go together?

Oh riiiiiight. ... Right. Hard to Treat Wounds on yourself if you're dead. So, shall we go in pairs or as a group of four?

Ann's lead seems the least promising, so I'm fine with going somewhere else first. I'm leery of all four of us going to the docks together, so if we decide to, should we split up enough that no one would think we're together?

Her disguise will be tweaked to blend in with the intended location.

The promise of Sien's lead (Nasha) is that we could get more leads. Also, to be blunt, since they presumably know that we work as a team, us showing up in force isn't any worse than any one of us showing up individually.

I will vote either 2x2 (Sien would like to visit Nasha, and another pair can visit the docks), or all 4 of us pay Nasha a visit.

GM giving hint to remain together:

GM Farol wrote:

I would need a decision if you prefer to go separately or together, hitting a trap being solo may have consequences

Let's go together?

You know what, maybe I am trying to shoe-horn you into the scenario. Some of the leads by the book end up in combat. as they assume that you don't split the party ;) ( ahh naive fools! ) But we can make it work, with some off-the script run we can exchange the fight with some chase or something similar.

Let's give it a try and we will see how it goes ;)

Sounds great.

Also my apologies for being slow again. I've mentioned a couple other places but we have some significant water damage to our house and it's going to take a couple months to sort things out and in the meantime our living situation is significantly less comfortable than normal.

I've also got a lingering shoulder injury that seems to be getting worse and I'm waiting for an MRI.

I've also got some tax work before the Oct 15th deadline which I keep putting off and really need to get done.

I'm still here but appreciate any patience and understanding.

Oof. I hope life stops dumping on you soon. Take care!

Yeah PirateRob! All the best, stay strong. Next week I am traveling for work to Madrid, and I may have chosen a hotel that rents fender guitars to their guests, which may impact my posting times and frequency, on friday I will go to music concert, so my whole week may be impacted. Just a heads-up

Oh...my. Bring earplugs and have fun!

I'd rather stick together. My lonesome foray last time wasn't particularly fruitful.

Hi everyone. How is RL treating you? It's been mostly good for me, though one of my kids had a rough week.

RL has been okay. The weekends in October are really wild, though. All the kids' activities have stuff going on.

It's still tough here unfortunately.

Fortunately no tear in my shoulder but I Shoulder Bursitis in addition to frozen shoulder. Going to see the Orthopedist again in about a week and a half and should be able to get a steroid shot to get things under control. In the mean time I'm on the max dose of a prescription only NSAID and frequently maxing out my daily tylenol dose to try and deal with the pain.

My bedroom is still inaccessible due to water damage. Construction has been happening which is disruptive in its own way but hopefully wraps up next week. It'll be real nice to have the bedroom back.

I've been pretty sick this last week although finally feeling better. I think bronchitis. I'm worried I'm going to have this cough for like a month even if I otherwise feel much better.

My now 10yr old (4th grader) is still pretty iffy on this whole going to school things, but has mostly been going. Is very excited about music but otherwise doesn't like school.

Good news is I finished off my Oct15th tax work, but am still trying to finish up my continuing education requirements by the end of the month.

Ooof! That's a lot. I hope life starts taking it easier on you and your family soon.

RL good, extra busy at work lately, but I'm managing.

My 2nd kid is due to be born within the next few weeks, but I have taken time off from work (down to working 2 days a weeks for several weeks) so I'll be able to prioritize early bonding and still keep up with games. Might disappear for between two to six days depending on how the birth goes (we are driving to a hospital further away this time), however, I haven't "officially" told my other games yet.

Should probably do that sooner than later...

=)

Congrats! I hope everything goes well. And that the drive to the hospital is uneventful.

Yeah, for me RL is kicking a bit. Last weekend we did our periodical 12 h long drive which have impact on the whole week after. In my work things are also a bit chaotic, and work begins to require me to travel for couple of days every few weeks which I don't consider fun.

In any case, I should be able to run ahead, but maybe I will move us with a bit more shoves, seeing what people write, if I wait for more than 2 votes we will go into glacier speed.

@rainzax - congrats! I hope things go as you expect or better

@PirateRob - all the best mate, take your time and take it slow.

@Warah & @WaterySoup - all the best as well, I am glad that life is not hitting everyone!

Life's poo hits the oscillating fan in bursts, it seems. :/

Weighing keeping an "ace on the hole" against sheer VP accumulation.

Hammid is very strong in Religion, so that probably decides it...

Other thoughts?

=)

Yeah, let's see how Ketsu-kiba rolls. Fingers crossed for a crit success!

Hey All, I hope you all have found your way to the site! I will resume the game tomorrow morning. And will wait for sign of life from all of you ;)

I'm alive!

Alive and kicking!

+1

+1

:D

Still having a lot of trouble with my shoulder but other issues are doing better at least.

Coming up on Friday I get Shoulder Hydrodilatation, where they inject 20ccs of Saline into my shoulder joint and then get the Physical Therapist to "Crank it".

Should lead to some misery for a few days but is supposed to help with my long/short term mobility.

Risky Surgery

Amusingly enough this is the less invasive non-surgical treatment.

SHOULDER HYDRODILATION ◆ Feat 8
Prerequisites Risky Surgery
Trigger You are about to attempt Risky Surgery.

You inject 20 cc of saline into an ally's shoulder. Make an Athletics check to Crank It. If successful, you gain all the benefits of Risky Surgery without taking damage.

Watery Soup trying to Aid a Medicine check with RPG Lore

If only it worked that way!

Once in high school I had a huge knot in my IT band, and the burly physical therapist thought he could knead it out. Hah! His futile attempt hurt like heck, but I bet it didn't hurt anywhere near as much as your shoulder, Ketsu-kiba. I hope the procedure works as intended and gives you much needed relief!

If only, sorry, Paizo gave me BadGateway from their website, before I navigate here directly

Glad to see everyone back

Oh, wow. Everyone's hiding. Sien, how do you feel about going in alone? Ann can slip in to provide backup when you give a prearranged hand signal if needed.

Deception +21; Diplomacy and Intimidation +17

Sien prefers to work alone.

Not me, I'm glad you guys are there.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

How many die rolls do you need from me, GM?

Moonlight doesn't have scrolls...

Go Sien!

I thought I had given a heads up about this earlier, but I went to quote my post and I can't find anything. I apologize for not making this clearer earlier:

I'm going to be traveling from December 20 to January 4, and I'm not sure what my posting situation is going to be. I'll be in a country with Internet, but I'm not sure whether I'll have time to post, or it might be irregular.

I thought I had given a heads up about this earlier, but I went to quote my post and I can't find anything. I apologize for not making this clearer earlier:

I'm going to be traveling from December 20 to January 4, and I'm not sure what my posting situation is going to be. I'll be in a country with Internet, but I'm not sure whether I'll have time to post, or it might be irregular.

I saw that message at other thread ;) So no worries, I am expecting to slow down during christmas into new years, I will be posting but we will wait a bit longer

I will be unable to post on the 23rd and the 29th. I will likely be able to post from the 24th through the 28th, but it's not guaranteed. Please bot me as needed. Thank you!

What do we want from these twins?

Looks like the first mention of the Riot Twins was here. Mantis Keeper, the druid outside the city that we talked to and didn't have to fight, mentioned that she was ordered to report to them if she had info about us. The only other info about them I found is here, in which we learn their names, but not how to tell the twins apart.

I'd love to know who these two report to, and it would be great to feed them false information about us. What other suggestions do you have?

@GM: For those of us in the Jade Monkey who are in a position to see them, do they look like identical twins? Can we tell them apart somehow, with or without a Perception check?

Ok.

So looks like we have two options.

We could try to talk.

Or ambush.

Down for either!

So to put some info about why are you there, you know that red mantis assassins are after you, you suspect that someone have set you up. After following on some rumors you have found few indyviduals up the ladder of command that could know something. You learned that Mantis Keeper was set to look for you as he was fed information that you betrayed, he told you that others informed are the twins in the merchant quarters.

You try to solicit who send the whole organization after you, as it could mean that someone looks into doing a transition of power outside of legal ways. So gather evidence learn what they know.

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About the twins, they are different, images on slide 2 and 3 they wear different clothing and all, which one is which you would have to over hear it or simply ask

Alright, I ran out of time today, but I'll get to this tonight or early tomorrow.

A week before

Shirota speaks to set up people in Tea House "They will be here any moment now, when I start clapping you should stand up and leave!"

One of the people ask "Can we order something to eat? I am getting hungry..."

Shirota responds looking at the door "No! THey will enter any moment now, don't look at the door!"

............

And they've been sitting there all week, waiting while we did other things. Love it!

Google Slides is not working for me right now. I don't know if Ann took the flanking spot and whether the tables are difficult terrain, but Sien will ◆ Recharge Spellstrike, ◆ Stride, and either ◆ Stride again or make a non-Spellstrike strike.

[dice=Sawtooth Saber]1d20+28
[dice=Slashing]3d6+10 plus [dice=Cold]1d6 plus 2 force

@Sien: Ann to the spot north of our target, leaving you the square to his east. Looks like six squares of movement for you.