Adventurers don’t spend every waking moment in moldering crypts or dangerous fens. When heroes need a break, they can take some downtime in a friendly town like Otari! The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path provides new downtime options for characters who have befriended some of the town’s notable characters. Here are some downtime activities the heroes can take at Otari’s largest temple, the Dawnflower Library.
The Dawnflower Library is constructed on a shelf of land west of town so that its dome and minarets gleam in the rays of the rising sun. Although principally a temple to the sun goddess Sarenrae, the building also holds shrines to Cayden Cailean (drunken god of heroes), Erastil (god of hunting and community), and Gozreh (deity of the wind and sea). Yet most of the building’s interior is dedicated to the stacks; the Dawnflower Library holds an incredible number of books, and its knowledge is open to all.
Vandy Banderdash by Nikolai Ostertag
A chatty halfling woman named Vandy Banderdash is the temple’s current high priestess. She is welcoming and kindly, with an uncanny ability to recommend the best possible book to someone she’s only just met. Anyone who befriends Vandy can engage in the following downtime activities in the Dawnflower Library.
Exemplary Resources: The reference materials in the Dawnflower Library are superb. Heroes can use a scholarly-focused lore skill such as Academia Lore, Legal Lore, or Library Lore to Earn Income (Pathfinder Core Rulebook 236) with a +1 circumstance bonus to the skill check. The first time a hero critically fails at such a check, Vandy gives them a stern lecture about taking better care of the library’s resources. The hero isn’t prohibited from Earning Income here again, but doesn’t gain the circumstance bonus any longer, as the acolytes are more judicious about which texts the hero is permitted to access.
Reshelving: Vandy wants the Dawnflower Library’s collection to be as useful to the community as possible, so she’s always looking at ways to rearrange or cross-reference the library books. A hero who takes a day of downtime to help rearrange the collection gains a 10% reduction in the price of the next spellcasting service purchased from Vandy or her acolytes (Core Rulebook 294; 3rd level or lower divine spells).
Tend to the Injured: The Dawnflower Library is the first place many in Otari think of when they need medical care, due to the number of clerics working there. Yet not all injuries require divine magic to repair. The hero can use the Medicine skill to Earn Income at the Dawnflower Library. On a critical failure, the hero injures someone placed in their care, which might have roleplaying repercussions at the GM’s option.
For more adventures in Otari, be sure to pick up your copy of the Pathfinder Beginner Box, the follow-up adventure, Troubles in Otari, and the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path. You can also get a new chapter of The Shroud of Four Silences novella by Liane Merciel, set in Otari, emailed to you each week by signing up for our mailing list in your paizo.com account preferences!
Ron Lundeen
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Downtime Activities at the Dawnflower Library
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
