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Have we completed 3 combats/acts yet?

I'd just as soon finish it and have lots of patience obviously.

Setting aside classic Existentialism plays, are we back to the replacement option by now? Do we have a roster for it still?

Chris posted on the 25th of November, but not here.

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ESTRAGON:
- Charming spot. (He turns, advances to front, halts facing auditorium.) Inspiring prospects. (He turns to Vladimir.) Let's go.
VLADIMIR:
- We can't.
ESTRAGON:
- Why not?
VLADIMIR:
- We're waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON:
- (despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?
VLADIMIR:
- What?
ESTRAGON:
- That we were to wait.
VLADIMIR:
- He said by the tree. (They look at the tree.) Do you see any others?
ESTRAGON:
- What is it?
VLADIMIR:
- I don't know. A willow.
ESTRAGON:
- Where are the leaves?
VLADIMIR:
- It must be dead.
ESTRAGON:
- No more weeping.
VLADIMIR:
- Or perhaps it's not the season.
ESTRAGON:
- Looks to me more like a bush.
VLADIMIR:
- A shrub.
ESTRAGON:
- A bush.
VLADIMIR:
- A—. What are you insinuating? That we've come to the wrong place?
ESTRAGON:
- He should be here.
VLADIMIR:
- He didn't say for sure he'd come.
ESTRAGON:
- And if he doesn't come?
VLADIMIR:
- We'll come back tomorrow.
ESTRAGON:
- And then the day after tomorrow.
VLADIMIR:
- Possibly.
ESTRAGON:
- And so on.

S. Beckett - 1953

Still here.

Totally unaware, Frissarose continues on.

Can't make that Sense Motive.

"Well, let's get to it then..." ...and get this affair behind us. Frissa leads the way toward the Academy, leaving the "prisoner" to those who took her.

Herself again and back to speaking in the common tongue, Frissarose pipes up, "Agreed...Let's head up the stairs and see where we are at least..."

I'm fine with either GM, honestly. I'm just glad we're getting some traction again.

Sure, I'm in.

Assuming we get the same 3 interested players, would you run a pregen (maybe "Alden" using the 4th level Valeros stat block), or would you seek some fill-in characters?

I trolled through his many many aliases. He hast posted in about a month so probably isn't in an active game.

Still, might be worth a PM.

I'm still here.

I hope everyone's OK.

The scorpion is stunned until just before Frissa's next initiative count so everyone but her benefits from it. Rayne - is that -2 to hit because of a forgotten rapid shot penalty?

"Iee!" Frissa speaks a word of command in a strange tongue and an amazing cracking sound like a wet log popping erupts upon the scorpion.

Sound Burst sonic damage, DC17 Fort or be stunned 1 round: 1d8 ⇒ 4

In case anyone cares, I'm still patiently waiting.

Frissa lowers her voice and replies quietly to Pavanna, "It's not...I don't mind being dirty...I feel dirtier in forcing Phelerosa to come with us...We had succeeded in our mission in regard to her secrets, I thought, and now we've turned a potential ally and an informant in this city into someone who clearly fears and hates us and will probably try to escape the moment we turn our backs on her...I don't see how that is a help to anyone, not even the Archive, and now that decision is getting in the way of our mission for the Ten."

She sighs and looks away, "But, it's done. The sooner we get her to the academy, the better and what may happen will."

Frissa plots on, somewhat downtrodden by the day's events and the very act of being first buried in fish and now being stuck in this lightless sewer. To combat the latter, she maintains a magical light, but that does little to brighten her spirits as she follows along to the door.

"Yeah, why not?" Frissa waits for those in the lead to make their way up the stairs while she looks back, ready to commune with the Flame to handle anything this awful place has for them.

"Looks neat."

Frissa edges closer to look at the relief. She had always had an interest in such things.

Knowledge: Planes: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Continuing her strange otherworldly chant, Frissa steps back, speaks several sharp words of command and sends a fan of flame at the vermin.

Step back 10', burning hands DC16 ref: 5d4 ⇒ (4, 3, 4, 4, 1) = 16

Bit of a mess, sorry about the mis-name in my post. Frissa has acrobatics out the wazoo and goes next to last so she'll try moving past the two boys and the grub thing assuming Morrolan is stuck (which seems likely). If that's cool, she'll move to flank and will get an extra +2 to her produce flame touch attack assuming she can beat the thing's grappled CMD.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

When Rayne moves past the thing, Frissa finishes her chant and a ball of flame appears in her hand. She steps up into his spot and pushes the ball of fire into the grub... thing.

Produce Flame SLA, 5' step, touch
Produce flame (melee touch attack): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 91d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Frissa keeps things illuminated by maintaining a light spell on a pebble in the palm of her buckler hand...

When the creature bursts out, she shrieks and begins mumbling in a strange mix of tongues, one airy and musical (celestial) and one that sounds like a lot of hisses, pops and squees (ignan).

Question before she acts: Is there room in the corridor above the grub to summon something flying?

"Let's try...Was there an entrance here?" Frissa is a bit deflated still and would just as soon get rid of their captive as discretely as possible.

Frissarose agrees, "Yeah, this is just a meeting place with nobody meeting in it...Let's get going and try somewhere else...Back to the academy?"

In that light (and agreeing with the ruling), she may have to be our adventure buddy for a good while.

"What was it we were looking for here?" Frissa asks as she peers around, the particular details having slipped from her long mental list.

Having come to peace with the business with the girl, Frissa looks to the task at hand, "Seems abandoned like we heard...does anyone have any skill with opening locks?"

She gazes around to see what there is as far as people on the street who might care about them breaking into an abandoned warehouse. "Best I can offer is a little mist to hide us from view, but that'll stand out just as bad as doing nothing."

Just to be explicit because I haven't been so yet, it's Frissa who is choked about this, not me. It's all good as far as I'm concerned.

Frissa raises her eyebrows, waiting to see what Alden intends with his de facto prisoner until she begins with her anxious questioning.

Minding the fact that there may be prying eyes about, she doesn't answer directly, "You don't need to worry about that, we can get you out if that is your choice...Please tell us what you know about Manukirt."

What this business has to do with cataloguing or understanding dangerous artifacts and phenomena, or what it has to do with getting the girl's secrets, which were already laid bare, Frissa couldn't guess. Bullying her into leaving the home she wanted and turning a prospective ally into a resentful near-prisoner smacked of the old diabolic patriotic fervour that plagued and checkered her new faction's history. It was naivety perhaps, but she hoped this sort of provincialism had all been left behind with her new associates' divorce from the apparatus of the Chelish government, but it seems that old habits die hard.

Despite all that, it was clear that her position was in the minority here and she wasn't about to undermine her allies, despite them having done the same to her. Her objections would have to wait for her report. She simply asks, defeated, "We have other stops. Are we done here?"

Frissa accepts the tube and after a brief glance, passes it to the resident diabolist, who must be able to understand such documents, "Indeed, Alden is right, you will be safer leaving with us given the climate here, but I'm fine with it either way...We'll stop by later if we can in case you change your mind..."

The pdfs (of the adventure at least) should be free to GMs as part of the convention support. You would be sent the Exclusive if you were part of this.

Anyway, I thought I'd ask since you're one of the few who could run it.

Let me point you here then:

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2smo9?PFS-PbP-Gameday-IV-Rise-of-the-Siege-of-S erpents

It's a PbP "convention" being run between September and December, with two "slots" - one for the Serpent’s Rise Exclusive (4 star GM or higher) in the first half of the time and one for the Siege of Serpents Special (any GM worth their salt) in the second half.

In addition to those two slots, people can run their own PbP games as part of the "con" and for those and the Exclusive/Special games, GMs get GM boons (They have been race boons previously) and players+GMs get to roll for convention boons.

GM Chris, have you considered running the exclusive for the coming PbP Gameday?

"In that case, maybe I'll pass on the stew and the fish." Frissa lowers her voice, speaking in a stream of words, "Actually, we might be able to help get you out, but only if you wanted to go...Your family didn't send us as such, so it's really up to you...You know, if you were to show us that contract, we could pass your message along with that much more force...Say...while you think about that offer, have you heard of another fellow named Jax Telandil?"

She smiles, the very picture of innocence and sincerity and raises her voice again, "Are there many brownies around here?"

Frissa takes the chance posed by the ruckus in the room to make a quick introduction, speaking in a friendly tone, "Ooh, nice tattoo...I've been thinking of getting one but can never think what to get...My name is Frissarose and I think I know your name...We are mutual acquaintances of a lady named Zarta and we were sent to see if we can do something to help your situation here...Is there fish in the stew as well?"

diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Frissa shrugs, "We could always hire a local guide or something...If they are with us as we go around town, they couldn't well be tipping folk off about our travel intentions and it's better to ask one person our questions than a bunch."

Maybe I'll try that on the way out if Phelerosa doesn't know (assuming she is a Friendly or can be made into one). That way we reduce our exposure to prying ears.

With all this Jaks/Jax/Jacks and faction mixing stuff, I figure Ollandil's probably been "disappeared" and will turn up in one of the fortresses we aren't supposed to go to.

Also, Pavanna has the best bluff (and Frissa is tied for the best diplomacy).

If we're looking to pass a secret message (i.e. asking Auntie about Phelerosa), it had best be Pavanna. If we're information gathering and want to spread the notice around, Frissa could be the main asker.

Another thought I had is that if we believe we're being followed, Frissa has Obscuring Mist, which we could use in an alley with multiple exits to maybe give us a chance of slipping a tail.

Frissa waves a friendly "Thanks!" and proceeds to look for a table that would accommodate the group. Once there, she asks the others and a voice that she intends to not carry far, "I'm thinking we should ask Auntie to see if that man's Daughter really is here."

So, to keep track of things for myself, I made some notes about the people, places and things at the bottom of Frissa's page which I'll update as we learn more:

paizo.com/people/FrissaroseHoblebom

What do you folk think - should we be asking about stuff as we go or tackling these searches one at a time? For instance, here at Aunties, we have two leads - one for Ollandil alias Jax Telandril in addition to us knowing that Phelerosa Ciucci is supposed to be working here.

I'm of a mind to try to discretely see if Phelerosa is here and then assuming she is, press her to see if she knows anything about the Telandril alias...

Most pleasant bunch of thieves I've ever crossed paths with. Much better than those pirates in the River Kingdoms...

Frissa is pleased.

No blood was spilled and they had some good leads to start working on. She wonders though how long it would take this bunch to sell information about Pavanna and the rest of the Pathfinders including herself to the highest bidder.

She was pretty sure it wouldn't cost much, but was glad they hadn't given them much to work with.

Frissa listens to the negotiation with interest. It is clear that Pavanna is one of the most interesting pathfinders that she has ever adventured with and despite the edge, there would be a lot to learn from this woman...

Have fun guys. Unfortunately, I can't make it to Gen Con, and I'm going to be scarce for much of next week so Frissa will just wait around while you all decide what to do...

Didn't know we were playing L&L here (Ledgers and Lawyers)

:-)

Frissa keeps a level eye open, watching the room for any trouble, despite things seeming to go well with the negotiations. All this talk of Contracts, Laws and Dark Princes was very interesting, if very much outside her experience.

"I'm not gonna wait outside like some kind of guard or servant, that'll make us stand out if anyone's watching or separate us if something bad does happen and we don't want either of those things...I don't mind watching our backs from inside though, so I'll do that instead." Frissa bats her red eyelashes, the very picture of casual noncompliance.

Hitting the Guts makes our map worthless, probably. My vote would be to stay top-side for a while (head to the Thief's Guild on Gold Street first), and then hit the Guts if we draw too much heat and after we figure out the lay of the land.