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Thanks for the run! Good luck!

Hmmm...been almost a month. Are we going forward here?

Back.

FYI, I am going on a road trip with my family for Fall Break (Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Devil's Tower, Badlands, etc. in South Dakota).

Though I may end up posting, I am likely to be extremely limited through next Tuesday. Please feel free to bot me!

Yeah, without a sleight of hand check, I'm not sure how we get the key from the first mate. We either need to break down the door or abandon task.

Oh, I do hope they get in there soon...

Auryn continues her antics outside, hopeful the others get the documents soon.

"Oh, no!" Auryn screams as she looks into the water. "I think it's coming back!" she adds, trying to buy them more time.

bluff: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

Auryn continues her theatrics outside, hopeful the others have had time to get what they came for.

Auryn, at the agreed-upon time, falls over in a heap as her eidolon disappears with a gust of wind.

"Oh...Oh...is it gone?" she asks.

trying to buy a bit more time...

"I have an idea..." Auryn says.

She performs a ritual to summon her Eidolon, then says "Chase me around, blow and bluster like you are so good at. It will be like a game," she says to Cyclone.

With instructions in place, she waits for her companions to swim to the ship, then stands on the deck and starts screaming at the top of her lungs.

"Help! Something is attacking me!"

bluff: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

"I don't mind doing the talking," Auryn says. "I usually do pretty well with people."

Yeah, it took a while to start waiting for everyone...maybe it's my head in the clouds. No worries.

Tsukai, I'm thinking you're wondering whether Auryn is a blonde for thinking something dumb, but we have 2 of 3 tasks to complete, right? When I ask which one we should do, the letter says we can either 1) go to Overflowing Oyster to disrupt meeting, 2) steal shipping documents from smuggling ship, or 3) find the alchemist. We just need to complete 2 of 3, but not in any order.

Auryn shrugs. "I kind of thought it sounded fun to disrupt this meeting at the Overflowing Oyster. I bet we could easily do that!"

Auryn looks optimistically at her companions. "Time to mess with the Aspis Contortium! Which of the tasks should we complete first, do you think?"

I have and can use a wand, too. We should be good without a healer.

Auryn looks around excitedly as her fellow Pathfinders assemble.

"Oh, it's been so long! I can't wait to complete another mission with all of you! Yes, even you!" she says to Bregolas.

"So we really think we can trust this Aspis turncoat?"

Also ready to roll.

Great...thanks! We'll just wait, then. :)

Sounds good...was a great group. Can we just hide the thread then?

Is anything happening with this group? If not, do we want to go ahead and shut the thread down?

Looks great! Many thanks for running that. :)

What is the last scenario of the arc, again?

Thanks so much for running that! It was a great group and a fast, fun time! Many thanks!

I'd definitely be up for some more.

Auryn nods grimly as the foes surrender.

"Smart choice," she says. "Now who are you and what do you want from us?" she asks.

Ha. Someone has to do the heavy lifting around here! ;P

Auryn glares at the enemy in the grease. "Your allies are fallen! Surrender or face the same fate!" she exclaims with steel in her voice.

intimidate: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Attempt to demoralize

Heh...yeah, I can never get rolls like that with my other characters. Reserved for my Eidolon, apparently.

Meanwhile, Auryn conjures a layer of grease underneath the enemy to the north of the exit.

DC 17 Refl, template on map.

You can use something like this:

[url=http://paizo.com]Paizo Inc.[/url. Close the /url at the end.

to add a link to your character sheet, but as far as displaying it as your regular portrait, you can't.

"Cyclone, attack!" Auryn exclaims.

She moves to the north to support Tsukai with spellcasting, while the creature of air and mist advances to slam into one of the enemy flanking Bregolas.

"Surely we should take all this back and report!" Auryn says. "I bet they will have teams of researches well-versed in these languages to decipher what all this means!"

Auryn looks on with wonder. Her Eidolon, even standing behind her, ruffles the papers on the desk.

"What could this possibly be?" she asks. "Let's check it out!"

She moves closer to the desk, and casts detect magic to see if anything seems interesting.

Auryn summons a ball of light on the end of her quarterstaff. Her Eidolon circles around her slowly, blowing her hair away from it as it moves.

"Well...this is amazing and kind of creepy at the same time. Who's going first?" she asks as she prepares to enter the secret corridor.

"Oh, my!" Auryn exclaims as they find the secret wall and the chalkboard.

"This is so exciting!" she adds.

The woman closes her eyes and whispers "I need you, Cyclone!"

She begins summoning her eidolon, and a breeze fills the room, circling around her until the air elemental appears.

Auryn continues to look for the names they had found at the Wall of Names.

"Wow," Auryn says as they enter the shrine. "Who would have thought there would be such a place? In some ways, it is a shrine to the utterly mistaken--those who thought they were gods but were not--a pity. Still, may their souls rest in peace," she says as she looks around.

"We have some names--let's look for them," she suggests.

perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Auryn hugs Janira one last time and turns to leave.

"Make sure you take notes on how the knight does! I wouldn't want to miss it if he succeeds...though I do worry he won't, and then I wouldn't want to see it!"

Auryn brightens up at the sight of Janira.

She approaches the halfling and takes a seat next to her.

"Hi Janira! We're back! Ummm...we've run into sort of a dead-end, but we're following some important leads!"

She goes on to explain what they have found, including the names Doulgonir Caskmail,Karina Clamp, and Hollis 'Evil Grin' Thorne.

"And there were underlined words on the Wall of Names," she says, and taking out her notes explains what the words were.

"Does this mean anything to you?"

Auryn leads the way back toward the Wounded Wisp, hoping they can still find Janira to help them with the knowledge they need.

Auryn tries to determine whether she has heard the names anywhere.

know local untrained: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Auryn nods, not quite keeping up with all the possible leads.

"Sure--let's go check out the Wall of Names, then."

Auryn enters the room with the gnome after exploring the meeting room.

"Wait...what?! Hello! You're here! You're alive!" she says by way of greeting. "We were worried something had happened to you! We need to talk to you!"

diplomacy: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Auryn follows Bregolas into the north-eastern room.

"Did you find anything?" she asks the elf as she also begins looking around.

perc: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

"Well, I'm a summoner, and though there are a lot of good things one can summon, I think whatever is left here might have been to keep people out. Maybe we shouldn't go inside it."

spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

"I wonder where the gnome went off to...or if something bad happened to him," Aury says as she follows the others through the room. "Let's try the rest of the house."

Auryn carefully follows the others into the house, looking around curiously.

"Hello? Gnome? Are you here?"

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

"I...don't think anyone is home," Auryn says to state the obvious.

"Now what? Does anyone have a way in? He could be hurt or dead..."

Auryn frowns as her companions consider breaking in.

"Maybe he just doesn't like the paper. I don't like it, either," she says as she raps loudly on the front door.

"Off to see the gnome!" Auryn agrees cheerfully.

Auryn considers the question.

"But now that we're real Pathfinders, isn't our job to do some investigation, too? Don't we need to do a little more exploring before we report? I don't know...I think we should go find this Fimbrik fellow. Maybe Dreng will be even more impressed if we have some more information we have found!"

Is there a written requirement to spread out the damage? Obviously not.

Yes, some of us are angry and upset by the outcome of our adventure.

Arguing amongst ourselves and insulting each other isn't going to fix this adventure.

This adventure still needs a "Bone Keep" style disclaimer about how dangerous and deadly it is. Players 9th level and below will die.

The paragraph of box text just before the first encounter is misleading and should be rewritten.

Start with those minor issues first.

You did not leave an option to report total failure. Total failure being TPK, gems all taken by the ghost, and helpless Sages killed by ghost, divs, anti Paladin minion, and etc.
A fine end to the Scarab Sages indeed.

In The paragraph of box text just before the first encounter, the players are told to "disable the device" and that one of the Sages would help them. This seems deliberately misleading, as "disable the device " means send in the rogue, not make a dc 30ish knowledge arcana or religion.
So of course, the trap goes off.
Is this bait and switch tactic going to become the new norm? I 1 starred this adventure just on that deceptive tactic alone.

Some adventures deserve a zero star rating. You can give an Uber or Lyft driver zero stars for a bad experience, But no matter how awful a PFS mod is, we the player are still forced to give a module at least one star.

I played PORT GODLESS at MegaCon, and I had a great time. Our group was well balanced, and our judge allowed for some planning and improvisation. It was the fun I had at this table that encouraged me to continue playing Pathfinder, especially after the utter crapfest that was the first part of EYES OF THE TEN.

Between the Demons of the Worldwound and Baba Yaga in Irrissen, we Eagle Knights a going to have more work than we can handle. Perhps we shouid form an alliance with one of the Hellknight orders. Better the Devil we know than the Demon we don't.