.Arrian's page

"I... think I may be with Arrian, here? At least unless we find some method of turning one of us invisible."

"Many undead, like skeletons, can sense life energy so invisibility doesn't work on them."

"Ethan I agree with the sentiment but not communicating with it. My knowledge of a revenant suggests she will view us as an enemy blocking her goal - revenge on her murderer. I was hoping we could convince her to assist us but it won't work. We can bring her peace by bringing his head to her - that should set her free. If nothing else please let's wait until after the battle. We need to focus on him, and any minions he has defending him, rather than use precious resources on a situation that can wait."

When Arrian was asking if she could be communicated with, reasoned with, and enlisted to help our cause I rolled a Knowledge (Religion) check and asked the GM. He wrote this in the Spoiler tag on the previous page: "Arrian knows she would not. She is not the person she was anymore. She only has hatred. It's either for herself or for her murderer. It's not a logic leap that once her self-loathing is removed, all that remains is the hatred for her murderer. With that roll, Arrian also knows that she instinctively knows the direction of her murderer, although she doesn't know the distance." I don't know for certain but a revenant is no joke and I'd rather not fight her and then deal with Aldern Foxglove. It's a huge risk and what the GM wrote suggests it wouldn't be in our favor.

"Does anyone have it PREPARED?"

"Yes, why?"

Woot Donimah hit the Perception from the other room! :)

"Does anyone have a way to turn invisible?"

Arrian nods.

He has Invisibility as one of his 2nd level spells.

Arrian will share the Spoiler tag information with the group.

"As great of an idea that is I don't think it would work that way. The best we could hope for is she would begin searching for him but she may be mad at us, consider us 'in the way' or her revenge, and attack us. I'd rather not risk it. Once we kill him maybe if we bring him back it will free her?"

OMG, Alicia's paladinness keeps getting weirder. I love how flexible lawful stuff is depending on how you define the law

I've had some real issues with that in PFS1 play with my Paladin from Cheliax. Players expecting my Paladin to attack slavers, etc. but they take into consideration local laws and not just their own.

"Can we communicate with her? Would she respond to reason and logic? If we can get her on our side against him that would be awesome"

@GM: Arrian is rolling a Knowledge (Religion) to see if he knows the answers to his questions above. Also does she resemble anyone in the portraits we've seen so far?

Knowledge (Religion): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

Yeah I'm not doing that until we're SURE because uh.

3 Strength.

I'm guessing I missed it but was she Strength-drained that badly?

The moment we hear a hint of Foxglove all the extracts and mutagens go down the hatch.

I'd love to fire off some prep spells when we're getting ready to move.

So...crying thing now?

And/or Aldern Foxglove if they're in the same room.

"Hooooly crap. This painting is, in fact, an original work by renowned Magnimarian artist Andosalu, worth 60 platinum. Mind if I yoink?"

At the mention of sixty platinum Arrian almost falls over.

"No I'll yoink too at that amount of coin!"

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

Hopefully someone else can make the Perception check.

She baps it again, panicking. "Maybe? But we still haven't even fought foxglove yet! We need to save SOME of our resources!"

[dice=MORE!] d8 + 1

Unfortunately Juriya wouldn't get an action until after the haunt. And us telling the other PCs doesn't allow them to make their Perception or act before it. :(

[dice=Perception]1d20+3

Ethan still doesn't notice a haunt in the haunted house.

I think Ethan is too busy staring down his longbow waiting to shoot something to notice the haunts. ;)

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30

Initiative: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Arrian notices something amiss but is too slow to do anything about it.

What's the group think, the other door or the crying woman next?

Arrian's eyes go wide but relax when he sees the haunt doesn't affect Ano more than a scare.

"This place..."

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

"Haunt!"

Initiative: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Assuming he can track its source:

Arrian hurriedly applies positive energy to the target:

CLW - Casting: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Check the white dots first. Maybe we'll find loot!

We can hope. All we've found so far is haunts.

I don't like leaving this many unchecked rooms 'behind' us in case we need to get out. What do you all think? Check the white dots first or just head to the end?

Arrian nods his head towards the east and searches the way when everyone is ready.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

Arrian once again searches in front of Alicia before she wanders into the room to poke around solo.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

"Not sure we should keep walking into rickety rooms with questionable flooring. Definitely not more than one at a time. This place may just fall down without any assistance from us."

Some tough stuff IRL going on. Probably not posting today.

Sorry to hear that and take your time, we'll be here.

Ethan looks down the hallway and says, "we should check each door as we come to it, so as not to leave an opportunity for someone or something to ambush us after we pass."

I'm thinking the same and maybe that door to the left of us?

"The woman's crying is getting louder..."

Which door do we want to try first?

I get the feeling you guys are scared to go up the stairs. Now why would that be?

Arrian is just waiting to make sure Alicia is done in the room. Once we get going:

Arrian continues to scout the area ahead of the group:

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

"No wonder it was reversed," Donimah muses. "If this was the Foxgloves' bedchamber, that was probably his murdered wife...he probably wouldn't want her accusing gaze on him as he slept..."

"If he were normal. I think he'd revel in the carnage. He's a sick freak!"

That's up to Alicia since she's the only one in the room.

Sighing Arrian whispers, "Which is what I warned about. We need to get Aldern and, as was previously suggested, put this place to the torch - if it's safe to do so."

Arrian tries to search in front of Alicia when she enters the room to keep her from 'finding' a trap the hard way:

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

But does not enter the room, "We should save our resources for the fight yet to come without looking for more beforehand."

Nodding at Juriya, "Either just one of the lighter of us goes in to search or we come back later; I say later."

@GM: I moved Arrian's token to the next door to search along with the others:

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

so.... where are we going?

I moved Arrian's token to the next door to search once the rest of the party is ready to proceed and make their Perception checks.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

Arrian can't fail a 10.

"And the woman is still crying from the stairway to the west."

@GM: Because bad rolls happen - it's a curse!

Bad rolls happen and it's our turn to feel the BURN! 8)

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

Arrian hisses, "Haunt!"

Inti: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Ouch Arrian isn't beating the haunt in inits this time. Hopefully Ethan makes the Perception check and beats the haunt on inits so he can Channel the haunt away.

Arrian can't hit this DC 30. :(

"Makes sense given what we've seen."

Arrian searches the room for anything hidden - hopefully with assistance.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

Once we're done in this room go to the 'next' one marked with the lightning bolt. It looks like a smaller room.

Arrian continues to search for traps or hidden doors.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22

Arrian checks the doors for locks and traps:

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

How about the red double doors across the hall?

"I don't know about that but this dark stain on the desk is blood."

Looks like that's all for this room, where do we want to check next?

Roll the bones!: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Any check to determine what the stain is?

@Arrian: You're upstairs. The first slide in the map shows the upper floor. The red arrow shows the staircase down from where you came. The stairs ended in a room with a door which you opened and have explored a child's room, now a portrait room. There is a double door west to where you are, a double door east across the corridor, which also goes north that has two visible doors but also extends west.

I guess my short-term memory is getting worse. Check the double doors to the west?

"Everyone seems okay. Ethan and I can check if you're not sure. I don't think we need a channel right now Alicia; the haunt seems to have displayed its wrath and subsided - for now."

Looking at Ano, "I feel the same way."

@GM: The map has me a bit lost. I think we went upstairs into this room and it's a dead end room? I placed a lightning bolt on the room downstairs I think we entered to access the stairs up. If I'm right then we'll search the room with the white dot right across looking for traps, locks, or anything unusual. Assuming everyone is okay from the haunt and doesn't need healing, etc.

Arrian continues searching with the assistance of whomever wants to walk in front.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

@Players: Remember the GM wrote the Fort save is a fear effect so Alicia's +4 bonus applies. So Donimah did make her Fort save. :)

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15

Fort, with Alicia's bonus: 1d20 + 9 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 9 + 4 = 28

@GM: I'm unsure if Arrian has the option of using Cure Light Wounds on the portrait or not. Otherwise I don't think he has any options. Throw Holy Water at it? I don't know.

Initiative: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Sorry again for the silence-not quite sure how to get Ano back into the story beyond more “flattened ears and raised hair”

We could use her scent for tracking/detecting. :) And her Perception is one better than Arrians!

"I'm biased but my money is on Aldern."

Whichever order Donimah is fine with is good with Arrian.

"I guess the parents next. And then from whomever we don't know the women first? If our murder victim is there the haunt probably is too."

Great tense scene with the PCs tensing up each time Donimah cleans a portrait. :)

Donimah nods to Arrian and begins gesticulating with her whaling spear, calling the magic to the tip.

"Which one do you want me to "reveal" first?" she asks. While she waits for an answer, she looks upon the plaques and thinks if maybe the Foxgloves had a more prominent place in Varisian history than she'd initially assumed.

[dice=Knowledge (history)]1d20+14

"Perhaps Aldern's sisters first? Maybe he murdered them too."

Alicia doesn't really know Vorel, Kassandra and Lorey, although she does know that Traver and Cyraline were Foxglove's parents, and Sendeli and Zeeva his sisters.

Waiting on Donimah to comply to Arrian or not. Also, if you guys clean the pictures, I want to know the order, please. Not that it matters, of course..

Of course! We need to know which portrait triggers which haunt. ;)

Paging Donimah: Could we get eight Prestidigitation please? ;)

Whispering again, "Donimah can you use your magic to clean them? I'd like to know which relative was murdered here. Everyone cluster around Alicia and get ready for more haunts."

Arrian goes with Alicia and checks the area and the next door for any traps, locks, or anything else unusual - a commonplace in this spooky locale.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

Arrian holds up his hand and whispers, "Haunt!"

@Players: Arrian will reveal the info in the spoiler tag.