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Gold-clad mummies have mummy rot referenced in their SQ section and the blurb about it only being curable is in the entry for aurum death. So do they have both, or can their aurum death only be treated like mummy rot, or what?

Forgot that we have a shaman who, in his backstory, is explicitly terrified of statues. So when they get to the Azlanti keep and wander into the statue room, the shaman immediately charges straight past into the complex and ends up with all four wraiths on him. Oddly enough, he shell of succors himself and ends up lasting without a hitch. The party's shouting at him. "We have to lure them into the sunlight!" "Shugur, we're coming!" He just hangs out in the corner, shaking his head. "These I can handle, but I'm not going back in there!"

Would you believe it? Once they dispatch the wraiths and the Angazhani starts to charge the camp, the party retrieves the control device and heads back outside. Whose consciousness is instantly shunted into it? Who picked it up while dancing around a bunch of wraiths? Shugur, of course, has now become a statue. I then had to rule on whether an iron golem could, in fact, have a panic attack.

is the only way for them to get into Heaven and gain the golden apple for everybody in the party to have Knowledge (Religion) trained?? This seems like a surefire way for one fighter or something to ruin an entire party's chance at not being treated like a piece of garbage by the archons from the get-go.

is the combat with Laktharis so weak? He can get dropped by a bunch of tier 5s before they even get the message about Intimidation, Perform, etc. I played the halfling well, gave them every hint I could without outright requesting the aforementioned checks--even Akarah chimed in with, "Hey, that wasn't very funny!" and "The kids aren't laughing..." but she never got a third chance to speak thanks to our wizard's burning arc and our ranger's greatsword.

does every character have to roll Diplomacy at the end? I get that it's better than one party face removing any need for flexibility from the other characters, but DC 23 from everybody, and only one free miss before they never get to see Valais be reborn as an aasimar? Then our three charismatic characters whiffed, so all that work was for nothing and they were kicked out like mangy dogs.

is there so little art?? Neither of Valais's new forms, no puppet Laktharis, no Altha the Scrivener... Paizo, I'll commission your artists for you out-of-pocket if it prevents further missed opportunities.

are the locales so underutilized? Granted, the Great Library of Harmonious Scripture can be a neat place if you describe it well enough, but giving the players a rowboat and forcing them to do the same stuff they do in a dungeon, just now it's on another plane and with bookshelves instead of caves, really underwhelmed my group.

are the stakes. So. Low. Nothing short of murdering people in the pearly streets will keep this scenario from healing Valais. If the Pathfinders fail their ultimate checks, Kitarlo is forever BANNED from... vacationing in the market district of another plane? Granted, he needs those rituals for his arm, but there are plenty of divine beings who could help him out, and access to the library wasn't a regular thing for him either. The only real tragedy was the somewhat vague and never followed-up-on threat of the entire Society maybe being banned from teleporting to Heaven, a well-explored outer plane, which I'm sure they do not get the chance to do on a regular basis.