CaptainMarvelous's page

Please keep OOC stuff here as much as possible, I want the IC thread to be primarily IC.

"Smiles" Favian Brood is a third-rate professional middle man, with delusions of class, who often works as a liaison between several of the merchant houses and the "adventurer" community. Unusually, Favian sought your group out today rather than you having to come to him looking for work.

Smiles wears an aggressively phony smile like a mask, and is clad in filthy, bug-eaten clothes that would have been quite extravagant a decade ago when they were new. He maintains an office in the lowest level of one of the more disreputable office spires, which is where you all are now.

"Here's the situation: representatives of the Red Fire of Wealth* came through Hyskos two days ago with several large chests of gold with which to purchase land in the city core. They went missing somewhere near Eventide**. I don't need to tell you how important it is that the gold, in it's entirety, is recovered. Someone out there was suicidally stupid enough to steal gold from not one, but THREE dragons at once. If the Red Fire of Wealth get wind of what happened they will burn this city to the ground to recover even a single shaving of that gold. It's as close to a principal as the monsters have."

"Unfortunately, the gold was in the form of pristine 10,000-year-old dragon minted coins, so it would be impossible to replace without being noticed. Fortunately, that should make it easier to track down."

"If you can't get all the gold the next best thing would be to bring in the people who stole it, alive. If we can turn them over to the dragons we may be able to redirect their wrath away from the city."

He sighs.

"You've done good work for me in the past, so this should go without saying, but in case it doesn't: if you try to make off with a single piece of that gold it will be you the dragons come after, and I'll personally make sure they know where to look. Now is not the time for petty adventurer b@++!+*!. If the city is destroyed we all lose. If, however, you recover the gold you'll win all of us some powerful friends. That's worth more than anything else I could offer you, but I'll also pay 10% of the recovered gold, that's 10,000 gp."

10,000 gp. That's ten times more than any job the cheap bastard has ever offered you.

"Time is of the essence. The merchant princes can only stall the cartel for so long. We need this gold recovered yesterday, so ask any questions you have quick and get going."

Please include a physical description of your character in your first post.

*An economic alliance of three powerful red dragons, one of the richest and least pleasant of the dragon cartels.
**An especially poor and chaotic neighborhood, even by Hyskos standards. There are a lot of taverns there that cater to the adventurer set so you're relatively familiar with the area.

The port city of Hyskos, a chaotic barnacle on the western edge of the dwarven empire. For all its filth and lawlessness it is the richest and grandest of the human city-states, one of the few niches humanity has been able to carve out for itself. It is ruled, if indeed it can be called that, by a haphazard jumble of merchant houses who treat the city like their personal plaything. These merchant houses are, however, the lesser of a great many evils. Their domination of sea trade is what gave humanity power for the first time, and they're the only power group among the young race capable of protecting Hyskos from the dwarven banks and the dragon cartels, who would love to come in and take what the humans have built, to say nothing of the elves in the wild places still waging war against all civilization and order.

You are the unseen heroes of Hyskos, the any-dirty-job low lives the merchant houses call upon when they need highly skilled deniable assets. You and the people like you help the merchant houses maintain power, and make sure that the evil that rules Hyskos is, at the very least, largely incompetent.

Players should be able to post at least once a day, preferably more than once if things are going quickly.

If you're interested pitch a concept. You can post stats if you want but that's not what I'm interested in at the moment, I want a character premise first. If I approve the pitch I'll need stats next though. I'm going to do this sort-of first come first served, in that I'll take the first people who come up with an acceptable character pitch. Sorry in advance to the people who will stumble upon this late but I find this is the best way to get people who post a lot.

I wondering what scenarios people would recommend getting to start off your collection. I guess I'm looking for scenarios that are fun to GM, that people want to play, and that I'll be able to get a lot of use out of.

There's 5 seasons of these things, and then a bunch of still-legal ones from 3.5. I'm not sure whether I should start near the beginning, buy the most recent ones, or try to find a gem somewhere in the middle.

The situation right now:

There is a prologue up in the gameplay thread. Feel free to read it but please do not post in gameplay yet. I will make a second post there when the game has officially begun.

Unless someone objects I'm thinking I'll start the game once everyone is settled with their backstories, since the first scene is just going to be an IC-discussion about some logistical things, and let people still working on crunch finish that up while we do that scene. That lets us start sooner and, I don't know about you guys, but I'm excited to get this game off the ground.

I put up a bunch of maps of varying levels of zoomed-in on the campaign tab to give you guys an idea where all this takes place, if anyone is interested. I also have a half-built Kingdom sheet but without the nobles taken into account it basically means nothing.

Please still post character creation stuff in the recruitment thread so we can reserve this for actual OOC discussion. Feel free to post anything else you want here though.

Prologue: New Moon

You're fatigued from the raw heat and still lightly wounded from battles with serpentfolk scouts. They seemed to be everywhere earlier, the threat of ambush constant, but for the past few days things have been eerily quiet.

Once you disembarked the river boats you have primarily traveled at night. The oppressive jungle heat is just too much of an obstacle to travel much during the day. Of course, traveling at night played right into the serpentfolk's hands and you've been harangued by them for most of your journey.

Unfortunately this morning you all found yourselves unable to sleep the midday heat away, haunted by the nightmares of an angry goddess, and so you were forced to finish the last leg of your journey during the day.

So now you arrive at the ziggurat just as the sun has set, exhausted. You have been traveling all day in the sun, after traveling all night without rest in-between. The last light of the sun dies and the sky is full of clouds. Even if it wasn't, it's a new moon tonight. The only light now is that which you brought with you.

The Last Temple of Acavna is a massive ziggurat made of some crystalline stone you've never encountered before and is carved with such perfect geometrical precision that it could only have been made by magic. You have seen imitation Azlanti architecture before, but the real thing leaves you in awe. Some of the stone buildings in the general area have survived well enough to be cleaned up and used, but this structure looks as pristine and magnificent as the day it was created, likely raised fully-formed from the earth.

A great stairway cut of the same stone leads all the way up the ziggurat, climbing each successive layer, until it reaches a massive open-air ritual chamber at the very zenith.

You climb this Stairway to the Moon, the namesake of the ancient temple, until you reach the ritual chamber at the top. A badly weathered statue of an ancient Azlanti, the least well preserved part of the ziggurat, greets you.

And suddenly you know what happens next.

Musical Cue

This is exactly like your dream, it hits you all at once. These people, your new allies, came together because you all foresaw this exact moment in your dreams. You know what to do next, or more accurately your remember. Your body remembers.

The ritual is primal and dance-like. You do not merely imitate what you saw in your dream, the ritual seizes you. You are overtaken by the religious experience. A feeling of awe wells up inside you like nothing you can describe or contextualize. You will die never being able to put even a fraction of it to words.

This is the uncivilized, the almost bestial worship of the first humans. The archaic ancestor of religion, theater and dance. It is to faith what a wordless scream is to communication.

The ritual reaches a fevered pitch, a barbarian crescendo, and the sky cracks open. The clouds part and there is the full moon in all it's majesty. It is fuller and brighter than even seemed possible, and larger too. You have seen harvest moons before, but this is a beauty that borders on the supernatural.

The light of the moon illuminates the ruins and suddenly they appear as they once were, or perhaps as they will someday be. You can see a dazzling Azlanti metropolis made of light laid out before you. The more you see the more you realize this can't be a vision of how things once were. This is nothing less than prophecy. You see the potential of these old ruins, lit up in the night by the moon.

The same light touches the beaten-up statue, and burns away the stone, leaving flesh behind. Like magic the statue becomes a man.

The statue-man loses his footing, and falls to the floor.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with strange aeons, even death may die.

I like the idea of adventure paths, and all the cool ideas therein, but hate canned adventures. The result: this thing.

Dreams of the Promised Age

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with strange eons, even death may die."

The PCs are the champions of a long dead goddess, tasked with single-handedly restoring the greatest human empire Golarion has ever known. All you have are your own skills, those of your comrades, the vague sense of the location of your patron's last temple, and literal dreams of glory.

I'm looking for 4-6 players who can commit to posting once per day, preferably more (yes, that does include weekends as a matter of fact). Please read every section before posting. I hereby reserve the right to be snarky to people who ask questions that I answered in this first post.

Posting a lot in here will endear you to me because it will show that you post a lot. I'm happy to answer questions, brainstorm, give suggestions, anything like that.

Anyone who is interested should post a backstory here, and I'll select characters based on these by Friday. You can build your character now if you like, but the backstory is what I'm primarily interested in at this juncture (although I'll want to know what campaign trait you're taking). Also remember that the most interesting stuff to happen to your character is yet to come; your backstory doesn't need to be an adventure tale.

You can all come up with the specifics of how your character died, or leave it up to me.

When I was alive, I wandered in the streets of the Capital;

Now that I am dead, I am left to lie in the fields.

In the morning I drove out from the High Hall;

In the evening I lodged beneath the yellow springs.

When the white sun had sunk in the Western Chasm

I hung up my chariot and rested my four horses.

Now, even the Maker of All

Could not bring the life back to my limbs.

Shape and substance day by day will vanish.

Hair and teeth will gradually fall away.

Always from the days of old men has it been this way

And none born can escape this thing.

You are dead.

Perhaps I should back up a bit. You were killed, horribly, the precise details aren't pressing at the moment. The important thing you need to process is that you are dead. Your spirit has left your body and now it is bumming around in the longest line you've ever seen.

Millions of people. It could not be less than that, but you would certainly believe it was more. Millions of people queuing up in an incredibly slow moving line (it seems to move up one person every hour or so, the movement working it's way up the line like a wave).

Other than the lineup there seems to be nothing around you but thick mist and demonic ogre guards who patrol up and down the line, making sure nobody tries anything. They're rough looking, but you estimate you could take one or two.

You still have all your equipment, or at least what looks like it. This might be your only chance. The ogres seem badly overworked, and there aren't nearly enough of them to handle the whole line. If you made a break for it, they couldn't send that many after you. If you could get far enough away and kill the pursuing ogres (if that even works here) you might have a chance of escaping. You've heard legends of great heroes escaping from Hell in the past...

Of course, alternatively, you could stand and wait in this line for what you estimate will be a minimum of a million hours.

Here is where I can clarify my confused wordings and you can bicker about treasure ("I don't want this useless thing, you take it!"). Everyone reading these words post now in the discussion thread, just so I know who is reading this.

Drow in the sewers of Beetlesberg have always been a problem, the small town sits directly atop and more than five miles above a major drow metropolis. Usually it's enough to send a bunch of expendable idiots into the sewers to mop up every once in a while.

However, things have recently taken a turn for the worse. A trio of sewer drow have stolen away into Fat Jack's Alehouse, a popular watering hole for the merchant class, and "annexed" it in the name of the drow empire. That was three days ago. They have since seceded and declared the tavern a city state, and have been using it as a base to launch midnight raids on other businesses.

The local merchants, as well as Fat Jack himself, have pooled their money to offer a 1,000 GP reward for the heads of each of the drow conquerors. Additionally, Fat Jack is offering an additional 1,000 GP, less an damage done to the bar in the fight, as an incentive not to just burn his place to the ground. Obviously you'll also be able to keep whatever spoils you can cut off the fingers of the corpses, you delightful people you.

You come to Fat Jack's Alehouse during the day. The drow have boarded up all the windows so they can keep it as dark as they like inside but this is the only time when you'll have even a chance of neutralizing that advantage.

You all stand in front of the door to the Alehouse. You know the drow are all inside (or at least you hope they are) but you don't know their exact position yet.

Alehouse Map

You can do whatever you like prior to opening the door, and decide the manner in which you want to open it, and once you do so (or find some other means of seeing inside) I'll show you where everyone is on the map. It's not combat yet so don't worry about action economy. There's two A's so N is for Nox.

"Welcome to Honest Dan's World O' Legitimacy. We offer only the finest in legally acquired property and war spoils. Our selection is quite eclectic so I'm sure you'll find something you like."

The following items are for sale, first come first served:

Potion of Shield of Faith 50 GP
Bard Scroll: Fox's Cunning CL: 3 150 GP
Potion of Darkvision 300 GP
Ring of Spell Knowledge I 1,500 GP

Awesome this is much nicer.

So is there any information we should have for new players that isn't in the new player instructions tab in Campaign Info?

Welcome to the new Pathfinder Encounters Master Thread, no longer overrun by the forces of chaos.

We are always recruiting. New players please check out the Campaign Info tab. There is a spoiler there both explaining the game for new players and another with character creation information. There's lots of other information there for returning players as well, so it should be your first stop if this is your first visit here.

This thread is only for posting completed aliases to be added to the waiting list for a game and character creation questions. Please do not clutter it up with other things. If you don't know where else to post something, please post it in discussion.

Reading is power! Read the above instructions before posting.

Discuss!

The ambitious Mayor of a local halfling hill has hired you to retrieve some giant celestial maggots so that he can breed celestial battleflies to ride into battle and rain fiery death on his enemies. He wants four maggots (enough to start a breeding program), and will pay 500 GP for each with a bonus of 1000 GP if you get all four. It's all in halfling village scrip but they sell booze so you should have no trouble liquidating it.

Your patron has benevolently supplied your group with two wagons, each of which contain two cages suitable for a Medium sized creature. You need to cage four celestial maggots and bring them back to Bluebelly Hill to receive payment.

As any idiot could tell you, the only place that giant celestial flies lay their eggs is the rotting corpse of the Almighty Fish God, so that's where you'll have to go looking for them.

The corpse of the Almighty Fish God has been rotting in slow motion for the past thousand years or so. It is a gargantuan fish some 120 feet long and rotting from the inside out. It lays on a beach, just beyond the reach of high tide, being a smelly and awkward drain on tourism.

Corpse of the Almighty Fish God

The golden-colored celestial giant maggots are writhing around in the most putrefied sections of the fish. These sections are sunk almost 5 feet down into the fish. The body of the fish itself is a gentle incline, and as easy to walk up as a hill.

There are also three man-sized golden flies, with bejeweled compound eyes and butterfly-patterned wings, buzzing around about 60 feet above the corpse. The buzzing, while still annoying and quite loud, has a somewhat musical quality to it.

You arrive at the side of the fish, and you can already smell it. Now all you need to do is grab a few maggots and before you know it you'll be drinking yourself stupid on honey beer in a hobbit hole somewhere.

M's are maggots, F's are flies (the blue outline means they're in the air). The W's are the wagons. You can do whatever you want to prepare, with no time limit, but at the end of your first post I need an initiative check and a first "combat" action.

Hey everyone, please post here once to confirm your participation.

You can give me coordinates if you want to be precise about your movement. Like "I move to A1".

You have been hired by the local elf government to acquire 12 apples for the coronation pie of their newest king. The apples must be picked on the day of coronation so, after you subtract travel time there and back, you will have four hours to pick the 12 apples. You will be paid 200 gp for every apple you acquire, and a 600 GP bonus if you get all 12 for a total of 3000 GP. The apples are normal apples, exploding if they take even one damage, but the elves can tell the difference if you bring some from a different tree.

The reason they're sending a squad of magic-wielding mercenaries after these apples, and not a pair of grandmothers, is the fact that the only apples majestic enough for the king's pie are the apples of the Red Tree, a giant apple tree located deep in the forest and guarded by a tribe of fiendish "Devil Chimps". Gathering apples from the Red Tree wastes many lives needlessly, and so making a pie from them is a mark of great status.

You all arrive at the clearing containing the Red Tree, right on schedule. The Red Tree is massive, stretching more than 250 feet into the air. There are no signs of any devil chimps, but the ground around the tree is littered with dead bodies. Most of them are decomposed to the point of being unrecognizable, but at least five of them are freshly killed humanoids with bashed-in skulls.

Red Tree Map - 1 Square = 5 Feet

The trunk and lower branches stretch up 30 feet into the air, and the apples are all above this point in the upper branches. It is a DC 15 climb check to climb up from the ground to the upper branches. Once in the upper branches, one must make a DC 10 climb check every time you take a move action (and it's considered difficult terrain) to avoid falling. Additionally, any time you take damage, you must make a DC 5 + the damage Climb check to avoid falling. Finally, the upper branches count as cover for the purposes of ranged attacks from people on the ground.

As a full round action you can pick 1d4 apples from any given square in the upper branches. A square can only be harvested once in this way, so you'll have to move from square to square to get enough apples. You'll need to transport them safely to the ground as well, as dropping them 30 ft. will destroy them.

The smaller trees surrounding the Red Tree use the same rules, although they're not as tall and they have no apples. You can leap from tree to tree if you're really brave.

Don't worry about movement rates or anything, we'll deal with that once we start tracking time in combat rounds. Anyone with prepared spells who wants to swap them out for this specific scenario needs to do so before making their first post.

"Encounters" in this case refers to elaborate, single-encounter micro-adventures. As outlined in the interest thread, I'm going to try running a series of these single encounter adventures (along with whatever other GMs decide they want to participate) for a pool of players and characters rather than for a set group.

Please read every section before posting.

If you would like to join the waiting list please post with a completed alias for a first level character. If you do not, indicating that you did not read enough of the first post to see either of my two notes about this, it will disfavorably incline me towards you. Posts without an alias will not reserve a spot on the list. It's first come, first served except as outlined above.

You can still post questions or comments or what-have-you without an alias, I will only become irked if you attempt to join the list without one, since it will indicate to me you don't read the first post of games you try to join. If any GMs want in let me know.

Since so many intended-to-be-long campaigns die off on these forums I thought it would be neat to get a pool of people together to play single-encounter set-piece adventures that we can actually finish. I figure characters start at level one and gain one level for each encounter they complete, because everyone likes leveling up, but permanent character death is a possibility with a few bad rolls so it would likely stay relatively low level.

What do I mean by "set-piece adventure"? Something like "we have to kill this one spider monster that is at the center of it's own web" or "we have to protect this person from vampires until sunrise", a single elaborate encounter probably centered around an interesting fight.

I'd GM this if people would play, I could start a list, but it would be even cooler if some other people wanted to also GM using the same pool of characters so more people could play (namely me).

How does that sound to people? I'm explicitly not recruiting right now, just soliciting interest. I'll start a new thread when and if I decide to actually set up a game of this. Right now I'm just gauging interest.

I get the impression that there might be enough interest around here for me to run another game of Pathfinder based on Wuxia fiction, that is to say the genre of fiction that informs most kung fu movies. I'm looking for 3-5 players who can post fairly regularly throughout the week. I will accept submissions for one week (it is currently the 19th) after which I will select players based on the most suitable candidates.

Please read every section before indicating interest.

If you're interested please indicate as much and give me a character description for both your actual human PC, and your previous demon incarnation. I'm not looking for novels, but try to give me some plot hooks. Other than that all I want is intended class/race combination right now. You can make actual stats once I've selected the PCs.

Please feel free to ask any questions.

There's obviously a lot of interest in adventure paths, and that's great because they're probably the easiest thing to get going, but I'm kind of interested in what people are interested in along the more unusual lines. In addition to being a neat discussion, I figure if a lot of people show interest in some obscure genres of campaign ideas it might inspire a DM to start a game.

I'll go first: I love Wuxia although I'm already running a wuxia campaign. I get a lot of interest for it so if someone else wanted to start a similar game I imagine you'd get a lot of sign-ups. I get pretty deep into some of the stranger concepts of the genre and so far everyone has been completely on board. I've was very pleasantly surprised.

Another thing I think Pathfinder could handle well would be a Star Warsy space fantasy. You already have guns, androids, basically everything you need to reskin Pathfinder into Starfinder.

I think it would also be cool to see some absurdist fantasy along the vein of Adventure Time (which is already bursting with D&D references). Not something in that setting, which is too character-driven to translate into a game, but doing the same "make it up as we go along" style of world-building. I've considered pitching something like this before but I don't really have the time and I'd be afraid people wouldn't "get" it.

So how about everyone else? What games would demand your immediate attention? Get as absurdly specific as you like.

A player in my wuxia game Romance of the Borderlands seems to have dropped off the site lately. He's a good player and I'm hoping he'll be back soon but I figure I can handle another player so I'm going to start looking to re-recruit now and if he comes back so much the better.

What I had in mind was having someone join the game by taking over his character, then if he comes back that person would make a new character of their own after having gotten a sense of the game and the world.

The setting is sort of like Legend of the Condor Heroes crossed with Journey to the West. Lots of kung fu sects, secret societies and a wilderness full of spirits and demons. It's a relatively low-magic setting but the PCs see a large percentage of what little there is.

The character in question is Flying Sword. He's a 10th level Wudang (it's one of two monk-replacement classes I built for the game; it's basically a more mobile and less-armored fighter with a few magic tricks). He's one of the two strongest martial artists in the party since he doesn't multiclass. He fights with a powerful magic weapon called Black Metal Sword that was once used by a legendary swordsman (and which the PCs are learning just now may be part of a set).

'Flying Sword', his real name unknown, is a calligrapher and a swordsman with a violent and arrogant past. His calligraphy has helped ease his spirit, and his swordplay has benefited from it. In finding peace, he has gained some measure of enlightenment, and changed sword styles from an external style to an internal style.

He has an intense sense of honor, and pride in his homeland, and he will sacrifice his life for what is right. Unlike his past self, he is relatively jovial and easygoing - rarely taking insult and rarely giving it. Though he was not always this way, and his past has earned him many enemies.

If you join I expect you to read the campaign info and the gameplay thread (it's not that long). The discussion I don't care but you should check the last few posts so you recognize when there's a new one. If you like kung fu movies/books (especially books) mention it because it's a huge plus.

If you want to check out the game to see if it interests you, here's what's going on now: http://paizo.com/campaigns/RomanceOfTheBorderlands/gameplay&page=last

Please post here if this sounds like something you're up for. If I get a lot of interest I may ask for a short writing sample (more like a sample post) but I will want something specific so please do not post your novel here.

"Listen cutter, don't you go calling us heroes now. Heroes are the kind of addle-coved berks who go off getting their names writ in the dead book over some other beings problem. We're adventurers, see?"

I want to run a game of Planescape centered on a small group of adventurers operating out of Sigil. The tone would involve a lot of the ironic black humor characteristic of the setting and I'm looking for PCs who are less heroic and more opportunistic. Good alignments are fine, but you need to be able to work well with others who do not share your morals and ethics.

This is going to be a very character-driven game so you'll need a character that is interesting on their own, independent of any plotline. You'll want a character who will be fun to roleplay and especially write dialogue for because that's most of what you'll be doing. You'll want to be capable of fighting when it comes to that, but combat will be rare (for a Pathfinder game, at least).

I'm looking for complex characters. If you can give a pretty decent description of your character by listing your race and class then I'm not interested. That doesn't mean just be different for it's own sake; be interesting. The kinds of people who become freelance adventurers usually do so because they don't fit into normal society (or what passes for normal society for their species) and I want to know why. You can play a member of a species that is "always" a certain alignment with a different (even opposite) alignment if you want (making your character an extreme outcast among their kind). A lot of DMs get upset and start ranting about Drizzt and special snowflakes when players make outside-the-species-box PCs; I am not one of those DMs.

Don't bother generating game statistics at first; I won't read them until I have assembled a group anyway. I'm only interesting in your character, not your sheet. I want everyone to have their characters firmly in mind as characters before pencil touches paper.

Part of the "setting" will be AD&D 2nd edition (since I don't like altering settings to fit rules), so I'm going to be restatting certain Pathfinder things (mostly monsters) so they fit better with their 2nd edition portrayal. So, for example, be prepared for things that legitimately cannot be hurt without magic weapons. None of this will be anything players have to keep track of (except in the sense of cataloging the weaknesses of your enemies).

It is currently Thursday at 1:40 p.m.. I will have open recruitment until 2:00 p.m. on Saturday at which point I will select a party of three PCs. If you're interested in playing post a character idea and at least an overview of a backstory. You don't need to give me a complete narrative; just the sizzle is fine.

Please include a physical description of your character in your first post.

I picture the restaurant as looking like a smaller version of the one in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Like I said, we're going to wait on Gobo so don't mention his character until we at least hear back from him. His character is in a state of quantum flux, and we can have any of you observing him just yet. If we do hear back then he just wasn't interested in cultivating qi (having none) so he spent the intervening time wrestling bears or something, and you're all going to meet up at Duolunduo.

Speaking of which, Duolunduo is the Imperial capital of the region and the largest city in the borderlands. It's still not huge. You're really popular in Duolunduo and so the prefect is kind of scared of you.

The House of Drunken Immortals is not the most prosperous restaurant in Duolunduo, but in your collective biased opinion it is the best. Located just outside of town it is perfectly positioned for travelers. The owners, the Hu family, have always been friendly with you all and very good about letting you run up a tab (since you're all so scrupulous about paying it back... eventually).

Mr. Hu, in particular, has always liked you all. You happen to know he brags around town that the Demon-Slaying Tigers all favor his restaurant. So it was naturally your first stop when you came wandering into town after an extended time cultivating qi together in the steppes. You've been away from the Jianghu for a little more than a year now, and you've returned more skilled than ever.

The sun is just starting to go down, and you can see light through the paper windows of the restaurant.

Mr. Hu is outside fetching water when you approach. He looks at first elated and then worried to see you.

I'd like to run a game of Pathfinder based on Wuxia fiction, that is to say the genre of fiction that informs most kung fu movies. I'm looking for 3-5 players. I will accept submissions for two days (it is currently the 13th at 6:30 p.m.) after which I will select players based on the most suitable candidates.

Please read every section before indicating interest.