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Yeah, when I played through this I crit a roll on the weapon area and found a +1 Striking Shortsword. Really nice. Helped in the battles quite a bit.

Sadly, it still sits on the chronicle waiting for me to level up to level 4 where I can maybe afford it.

I'm leaning towards calling it a good run. You are all great and I would play with any and all of you again. When we all have time and energy to put our full attention into it.

I'm OK with either way. I have other characters and games that I am playing - possibly even too many as well. I can handle shelving Bee for a while. But if there are still several people here wanting to play, I am good to keep going too.

Are you not suppose to taste the food as you prepare it to ensure it tastes right?

"Right or not, I always do. You can come cook with me, Galvaka. We'll make sure that everything tastes just perfect and fill our bellies at the same time."

Lore (cooking): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

Bee tries out one of the new recipes that he learned from his competition earlier. He wasn't sure how well it would do being cooked over a campfire, but at least a few of the other competitors and many of the spectators like it well enough.

"You think you're tough, Bear? You've never met gnomes with dinosaur power!"

"Well, after fighting the bear I'm certain that I wouldn't want to fight a dinosaur." Bee puts his sword away and rubs his arm that is still feeling a bit strained after parrying a couple of attacks from the bear. "Everyone doing OK?"

"Hey," Bee shouts, trying to get the attention of the bear while running towards it. "You want to grab a Gnome - try grabbing me. If you can."

Bee knows that the bear probably can't understand him, but that isn't much of a concern. More of a concern to Bee is the long claw tipped arms that the bear has. He brings his sword up to defend as he approaches, then tries to drive the sword into the weakened bear.

+1 Short Sword Attack: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 1 = 19
Short Sword Damage (p): 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

LOL. I make a better tank and distraction than I do a damage dealer.

◆Dueling Parry, ◆Stride (30 ft) (provokes), ◆Strike

If she's immobilised, I suspect she can't do much

Immobilized just means that you can't leave your current space. It doesn't mean that you are completely unable to move.

Grabbed applies Off-Guard (aka Flat-Footed) and Immobilized. It also gives you a flat check to possibly lose manipulate actions like drawing a weapon or casting a spell with Somatic components (CRB) or a spell with the Manipulate trait (PC1). As far as I can tell, Strike and casting an Impulse doesn't have the Manipulate trait, though I may be wrong on that.

Escape is also available and you can choose between your unarmed attack bonus, your athletics bonus, or your acrobatics bonus. It does have the Attack trait, so Multiple Attack Penalty applies just like it does with Strike actions.

Remaster added an action that allows you to sheath a weapon and draw a different one as one action.

Ah, yes. I had forgotten that. I'll let the dropping of bow stand. I'm not planning on switching back to it.

Bee worries a bit about Ami and her future prospects, but the best he can do for her is to take the bear down as quickly as possible. Seeing that he still has a clear shot, he fires twice.

Shortbow Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Shortbow Damage (p): 1d6 ⇒ 1

Shortbow Attack, MAP1: 1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 5 = 14
Shortbow Damage (p): 1d6 ⇒ 2

Then he chucks the bow to the side. "That thing is pretty useless, isn't it?" He draws his short sword again and gets ready to charge in to close range once again.

◆Strike, ◆Strike, ◇Drop, ◆Draw

Bee moves to a better place where he has a clear shot right down the entrance of the cave and fires a couple of arrows.

Shortbow Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Shortbow Attack, MAP1: 1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (5) + 9 - 5 = 9

"Bah," he growls as both shots miss. "Everyone be on guard. I don't expect him to just stay there getting shot for very long."

Bee hurries along the frozen lake, not wanting to be the last one to get to the bear. However, he also doesn't want to approach too closely. He saw how fast it can hit and how long of a reach it has.

Instead he fires an arrow from a safer distance.

Shortbow Attack (guidance): 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 9 + 1 = 23
Shortbow Damage (p): 1d6 ⇒ 4

"If anyone wants to keep this bear alive, let Ashun know. All I am able to do is drop him to keep him from hurting anyone else."

◆ Stride, ◆ Stride, ◆ Strike

Bee puts his sword away after the bear runs off. "No good leaving it here for other racers to get ambushed by." He draws his bow.

Not really liking the angle he has - not to mention the distance - he starts slowly across the frozen lake. If it can hold a bear, it can hold a Gnome.

I moved my computer upstairs today too. I can't really go that many more days without work. Especially if I am expecting to be able to pay for fixing the electricity.

So things are somewhat back to normal for now.

It has been a bit of a disaster of a couple of days for me.

I got horribly sick with some sort of flu - I'm getting over it now, but it still isn't great.

A tire blew out on the truck that my oldest was taking to work. He had to drive on the rim for a bit to get it somewhere safe, and then I had to drive it on the rim for another shorter bit to get it to the tire dealership because I couldn't get the wheel off. Fortunately the rim survived the ordeal and didn't need replaced.

The electricity on the entire lower floor of my house shorted out and we are without power for most things for a while. Including all of our computers. I had to run ethernet cable up to the upper floor and plug the router in up there so that we would have wifi and can do things on my phone. Such as call electricians. This morning I finally broke down and stole the two extension cords that we are using for keeping our two deep freezers running and used them to run my computer long enough to pull up my password manager and get access to my paizo account and some other such things. Because it may still be a few days before I can get anyone over here to look at what went wrong.

"Well," Bee calls out, "all I can do to help is try to take this thing down as quickly as possible. Or at least distract it for a while."

Feint, Confident Finisher/Strike, Dueling Parry

And can someone roll those for me. I'm not on my computer, so looking up my numbers is a bit challenging.

I don't think so. Otherwise they wouldn't make good enemies in encounters and Wilding Word Witches would be very sad that they never get to use their special spell.

Then he tries to calm down the creature

Like, Wild Empathy?

Before the ... bear? ... can recover from its attacks, Bee draws his sword, darts forward, and threatens it with his sword, trying to goad it into attacking him - ineffectively - instead of the rest of the team.

Feint vs Perception DC: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22 Success?: -2 circumstance penalty to its next attack roll against me.

◆Draw weapon, ◆Stride, ◆Goading Feint

Is there a map for this combat that I am missing?

I see these slides but I don't see us on any of the maps.

Edit: Ah, I see us there. It is just scrolled so that we aren't visible by default.

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 I think I still have a hero point... Or rather, did previously.

Bee doesn't spend much time complaining today. He is too busy trying to fight through the storm and the cold and making sure that everyone can stay together and stay safe.

Bee goes and chats with the officials. "Are we really the first ones to this checkpoint? I haven't run this race before. What do people normally need for this section?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

Apparently Bee's attempt to get an edge on the competition is a bit too transparent.

I'm pretty sure that Ami used the wrong ability name. Check out Base Kinesis.

Suppress: You destroy an existing piece of element, such as snuffing out a flame or evaporating water from a cup.

Ashun carefully walks through the frozen lake

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 = 8
Acrobatics Hero Point: 1d20 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 + 1 = 17

Role-playing Aid

"Whoa, Ashun. Don't stomp across like you are walking on a trail. Slide your feet rather than stepping, and lean slowly from one foot to the other."

Bee listens to the description of the event. "Well, I could probably get out there on the ice without too much trouble. But once I got there, I'm not sure what I would do other than chop the ribbon out with my sword - and I don't think that would work very well if we want it in one piece."

"Maybe I can just help guide someone else who does know how to get the ribbon out."
Acrobatics (Aid - trained): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Bee tries to keep up with Bitty as she navigates the way to their next checkpoint.

Botting Bitty.
Nature E: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

It'd be like making earth kineticists wait until combat to use Armor in Earth, because "there's no exploration activity for casting impulses, screw you". It's rare to see a GM be that punitive.

Despite the existence of Defend, I have to ask permission to use the Dueling Parry action as a custom exploration activity. And the poor Mountain Stance Monks are completely out of luck since it is very explicit that Stances are not allowed outside of combat.

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7 Hero point'ing that.

Bee trudges through the snow in the cold, grumbling about it quite a bit the whole time.

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 smh O.o

He makes pretty good progress at it though.

"Come on Sam," Bee calls out encouragement. "Give it another go."

See Ami has things in hand here with Sam, Bee goes and talks to the officials. "So, we have been noticing oddities in the events along the way. Anyone report anything strange with this one? Or along the trail to the next checkpoint?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

"Your kind is very spry, are you not? Impressive indeed."

Bee chuckles at that. "Helps quite a bit when having to run away from someone who didn't like a prank."

He grabs one of the poles and lines up his approach. "This may be the first time I have tossed myself using a stick. Should be interesting."

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

"OK everyone. Let's go. See if we can catch up a bit."

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Bee continues trying to break trail, but it is apparent that he is quite a bit more tired than he is letting on.

Bee thanks the official and returns to the team. "We are in the middle of the race. What do you think? Should we try more to win this? We could set out now. If nothing goes wrong we can try to catch up with the leaders. Maybe get ahead of whoever is tinkering with the checkpoint tasks."

Looking around, Bee only sees one other team. "Well either we are way ahead, or way behind. Or some of the other teams haven't made it here at all."

He goes up to one of the race officials. "Are you able to tell us if any of the other teams have made it to this checkpoint? If they have come and gone already and we are just behind, that is one thing. But if they are still out in the snow, that is more concerning."

Bee looks out over the herd.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

"Should be easy," he states boldly. "I just need to disguise myself as Ami and then just walk out there and ask them nicely for a bell."

"Or I could try it Sam's way."

Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

Bee trudges into camp somewhat exhausted. And then is met with the race official who explains their next challenge. "Oh. Right. The campsite challenges."

He allows himself a minute or two to rest, then consults with the rest of the team. "I can be pretty quiet. Most of the time. I'm not any good with animals though." He looks over at Ashun. "You got any magic that would help. Maybe just summon some bells? Or make the bells silent?"

Bee gets a good night's sleep and prepares for more trekking the next day.

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 = 8 Yeah, I'll hero point a nat-1
Athletics: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 = 16

He works on breaking the trail through the snow for the rest of the group. It is hard going today with the steeper terrain and deeper snow drifts as they get farther from the city that they started in.

Diplomacy chatting for information: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Bee wanders around camp asking about people's equipment and how their travels went. He doesn't spend much time or effort trying to learn about the next days challenges, but maybe it comes up in conversation anyway.

Bee gathers with the team after checking in with the race officials. "I don't see any reason to be trying to push through the night. I do, however, see reason to ask around and find out if anyone else has been having problems with their gear."

I also still have the +1 from the information at the start of the race, yes?

Bee looks up at the tree. "Well, I can give this a try. Unless one of you wants to try throwing me up there."

Acrobatics (+1 circumstance bonus): 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 9 + 1 = 15

"I bet Cath could get me up there. Maybe someone else can climb better?"

Ashun looks closely at the damaged packs and finds some thin flint shards placed between the frame and the cords. This caused the cords to fray and break as the packs were used. Sort of like a crude knife.

Bee notices Ashun pulling out pieces of flint from the pack frames and frowns. "Gnomes know pranks. This isn't a good prank. No one smiles after a prank like this other than the one doing the pranking. Let's keep an eye out for anyone else on the trail having trouble with their equipment."

I don't have great familiarity with all the Swashbuckler feats, but I know they get at least something extra with feinting.

Goading Feint. Instead of getting a -2 on the enemies AC, the enemy gets a -2 to their first attack against you. It becomes a defensive feint instead of an offensive feint.

Rogue actually has more ways of doing feint, but it is still the normal feint effect.

I'll admit I haven't payed attention to hear if there has been any clarification on how the arcane cascade stance works.

It was finally clarified today as part of the compatibility with Remaster.

The requirements for Arcane Cascade stance are only to enter the stance, not to remain in it.

I think it may also be simpler to determine which damage type it deals now that spell schools are gone too.

Athletics traveling, knowledge bonus: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 1 = 14

Bee does his best to help people along the trail.

"Even with as cold as it is here, I'm working up a sweat. These clothes are pretty good."

"Ummm.. hi... am I in the right place?" she asks.

"Yeah, this is the right place. Looks like we are about ready to get started too."

Looks like the Dex-based Swashbuckler is making strength checks for the group. Athletics +6

Bee spends a bit of time chatting with the spectators, officials, and some of the friendlier of their competitors. "So what types of dangers are there along the trail? Besides the weather, of course. Wild animals? Territorial beasts? ravines or other terrain?"

Diplomacy gather information: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

With the PFS guidelines website down, I can't remember what the school items available are. I think my choices are a healing potion of some small size or a talisman of some variety. Something like that.

I'll probably just take the healing potion.

Corabee looks at the others in the team. "'Tiny Dinos'?" he suggests.

Considering how valuable Slowed 1 is seen, having an enemy decide not to attack me and have to move around me to go attack someone else, that still feels like a benefit.

Bee hears the name and grins impishly. Then chants,
"We are the Wolf Toys
And we're really neat.
We chew up the bones
And spit out the meat."

"It's probably a good thing that Bun Helsing isn't with us right now. I would probably get shot for that."

Bee walks along with Ashun listening mildly interested in the various contraptions and gizmos that Ashun has planned. He really doesn't understand the technical details, but the descriptions of the end result sound fascinating.

As Bitty starts spinning tales, Bee has to use every trick he knows in order to keep a straight face. "Yeah. These hats are nice. My white hair is almost all the way back to red even. Check it out." He pulls his hat up to show off his hair again.