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That was our experience too, Dorian. PF2e is a wonderful game, but it is a different game from PF1 and the assumptions of 1e don't hold in 2e. E.g. standing still and attacking as much as possible is a bad idea. No full-attack meta here!

Fist of the Ruby Phoenix was my first and only AP that I ever played to completion, and I did it as a sprite monk (with non-ironic stats). Mobility made her a joy to play in melee! Aaaaand not having every enemy in the game get AoO because of size difference made a tiny character playable. (I did get swallowed whole by two monsters though.)

@Dr. Evil, looks like you have a ton of interest. I’ll check out what AP you’re looking at, and will consider if it’s a players-are-the-good-guys AP. But even if I don’t, I appreciate this recruitment and the invite targeting PF2e newbies!

That was awesome! Even the epilogues flowed nicely!

Ha… none of us entered the vault though!

Hotcha never does go into the vault.

She and Esh had spoken of relative life spans, of him watching a loved one grow old (though the mutual love died before she did)… and Hao Jin’s reply regarding her rise from ashes implies there is a cost to cheating the reaper. The sprites said a thousand years—humans get less than a hundred.

If a treasure is taken from the vault, it will eventually become Hotcha’s… unless she is blissfully ignorant.

To the men: ”I don’t want to know what you get from the vault. I came to this tournament hoping I could be me in a world where my own kind doesn’t seem to exist. I got more than I could’ve imagined. With Yan Fei, I have everything…

“Except power.”

Hotcha drinks from a tiny vial. She starts to grow… she keeps growing to the massive height of four-foot-eleven. Oh, even at ‘human size’ I’m short. She gives each of the men warm hugs, and a kiss on the cheek for Xin.

”Maybe a little power when I officially become a princess bride!” Now that she’s roughly human-sized, she shows off an engagement bracelet* adorned with seven gems of the seven colors.**

*The jeweler could not accommodate a fairy’s finger.

**That’s Hotcha’s seven, with pink instead of indigo.

Earlier in the game, Xin voiced a desire for a final prize.

This could give us a good place to start, if no one objects.

Hotcha bows to the people. She performs an air-dance, fires Sprite-Sparks as a simple pyrotechnic display. Her ki gradually builds as she pleases Shelyn!

She makes sure to scan the crowds for the yellow, blue and green auras of Raq and the boy-sprites, and of course she curtsies to Lady Qiu and her contact with Yan Fei shifts quickly from formal to familiar to friendly!

Her gravely wounded state is worn like a badge of honor. ”Our foes were strong, Yan Fei. I feared at least one of us would not return, and if it were me, I hoped you would find love…

“And now I’m to go to the vault, but before I do, I want you to know… there isn’t a treasure in there that could possibly mean more to me than what’s been developing between us.”

Hotcha flutters over to the sorceress, he golden glow faded, looking unspectacular as ever, and to joyous to be bothered by this.

She makes a midair bow.

”Welcome back, Hao Jin! Is this how you become reborn? Fire to your ashes? I could have saved some trouble with a well-aimed Sprite’s Spark!”

Hotcha wonders if it’s too soon for a nearly-dead fairy to joke with a freshly-resurrected sorceress. But she is only good at social stuff when there isn’t a need to be uptight, and she spent the whole tournament fearing Hao Jin.

She is showing her respect by liking her.

”In that case…”

She slams her body against Esh’s cheek, and then Xin’s! It’s the only way a fairy can hug!

Hotcha covers her mouth as she watches her friends fall through the crumbling floor. ”Oops! Should I not have..?”

She soars down to fly along with her falling friends!

”Whatever happens to us, the people of Goka…”

She can’t bring herself to say it. This could be the end. Xin doesn’t need to hear me thinking of Yan Fei.

Tear-stricken, she turns to Yog. ”Did you ever learn that spell that can make me big, like a human?”

Hotcha appears, her fine scarves in tatters, soaked in her own blood. The rainbowish wings and the golden glow do little to add finesse.

She glares at him. There is so much she has to say to him. She says it all with her fist.

One Millimeter Punch!

3/306 HP
0 ki
1 hero pt Make that zero!

”You hit me. I hit back a whole lot harder!”

Corona: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3
1” Punch: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (8) + 37 = 45
Spending my last hero point.

”Ahem. I said…!”

☀️Heroic One Inch Punch!: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (20) + 37 = 57
Damage: 10d8 + 7 + 4d6 ⇒ (8, 4, 5, 8, 6, 8, 2, 3, 5, 1) + 7 + (5, 4, 5, 6) = 77 x 2 = 154
P.Fire: 2d10 ⇒ (10, 1) = 11

Barely holding together, Hotcha flits well out of reach.

Total Damage = 168

Miss: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (11) + 37 = 48

Reflex: 1d20 + 40 ⇒ (2) + 40 = 42
226/306 HP
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Enduring quickness for a ‘leap’/stride.
Hit a lot.
Corona also hurts if the foe remains within 5’ of Hotcha.
(Also, what round is this? Invisibility is good for 10 rounds.)

Hotcha soars at the enemy and—
Ki Flurry, atk, atk: 1d20 + 38 ⇒ (11) + 38 = 491d20 + 33 ⇒ (19) + 33 = 521d20 + 29 ⇒ (10) + 29 = 391d20 + 29 ⇒ (5) + 29 = 34
Ki Flurry, Corona Damage: 8d8 + 14 + 16d6 ⇒ (8, 7, 6, 8, 3, 2, 4, 2) + 14 + (3, 2, 4, 5, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1, 1, 4, 1, 4) = 103
DC43 Fort or Stun
5 of that is the Corona.

61 damage from the ki flurry… missed by one point again.

Smash!: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (6) + 37 = 43
Harrumph.

Hotcha is too invisible to show off, but she does change form!

Stride, Ki Form, Ki Flurry, (delay for Xin), Enduring Quickness
1/3 Ki remaining

Atk: 1d20 + 38 ⇒ (10) + 38 = 481d20 + 33 ⇒ (17) + 33 = 50
Dmg: 8d8 + 14 + 14d6 ⇒ (7, 4, 3, 6, 8, 6, 4, 4) + 14 + (3, 6, 1, 6, 6, 2, 1, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 2) = 113
DC43 fort or stun!

After striking, Hotcha flits to safety, 50 feet high and 25 feet away. (85’ max stride)

From where the enemy was, Hotcha’s voice booms (as much as a fairy voice can):

”Your revenge comes at the cost of innocent lives. You don’t deserve that throne!”

Hotcha zips onto the back of the throne and makes an attempt to shove him off, suspecting the throne gives him unspeakable power.

1mm Punch: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (6) + 37 = 43 >> 47, invisible
Damage: 10d8 + 7 + 3d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 4, 4, 7, 2, 5, 5, 6, 1) + 7 + (5, 2, 5) = 61
DC43 Fort or Shoved
S 5’ / F 10’ / CF 30’

@Xin, I have two pieces of good news.
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1. Make your first action a strike! You don’t need to stride. Hotcha shoved Syndara into your reach!

into the position of being flanked by Esh and Xin!

2. Hotcha only shoved him 5 feet, and was 0 feet away (1mm?) when she did, so she can still reach him with your To-Battle!

@Xin, since the shove was 5’, Hotcha can still reach Syndara (in case you decide to to-battle me).

She was on the throne, attacking at zero feet, as sprites can (and usually must).
Had I shoved him further, he’d be out of Hotcha’s reach!

Hotcha zips down from high above!

She feels confident—we got this!—but not cocky!

She lands on the throne and tries to punch Syndara toward the Three Men!
1mm Punch: Atk / Dmg: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (15) + 37 = 5210d8 + 7 + 3d6 ⇒ (7, 1, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 8, 7, 4) + 7 + (3, 5, 2) = 60
DC43 Fort or Shoved!
Success 5’
Fail 10’
Crit Fail 30’

Xin believes in Hotcha, but the odds of missing are so high!

Fortunately, a Lv.19-20 monk’s first attack is minimum nat.10, and a 10 is (without Xinspiration) just enough to hit.

That’s why I keep 1” Punching. I definitely will hit every round.

MAPless Miss: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (8) + 37 = 45
Did I just miss that by ONE POINT?

Hotcha sticks to her plan of landing blows that can’t miss, and staying out of the fray as best she can.

Delay for Xin
⏭1” Punch
▶️Enduring Quickness

PAWNCH!!: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (14) + 37 = 51
Damage: 10d8 + 7 + 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6, 1, 6, 3, 5, 2, 1, 4) + 7 + (1, 4, 4) = 53

She makes no attempt to shove the foe, but simply flits safely ~70+ feet above the fray, and not directly above, in case either foe thinks to attack straight up.

Hotcha tries to get that extra hit in…
Smash: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (6) + 37 = 43

…but even her invisible fist fails to connect!

Hotcha dives in from very far above!

She waits until all her friends attack before she strikes—hoping to slow the enemy by knocking him back!

1mm Punch: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (11) + 37 = 48
Damage: 10d8 + 7 + 3d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 6, 8, 8, 2, 6, 4, 3, 6) + 7 + (3, 5, 2) = 62
DC43 Fort or Shove
5s / 10f / 30cf

Punch: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (8) + 27 = 35
Hotcha tries to strike the reflection per Xin’s command, but she just misses.

Hotcha attacks the reflection, then strides straight up after the party is finished attacking. Her strides are made with the following abilities where applicable:
• Legendary Sneak
• Foil Senses
• Invisible Trickster
• Aerobatic Mastery, Legendary

Will: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (13) + 29 = 42
85’ movement for this battle.

Hotcha wastes no time! She becomes invisible and zips to her target.
Atk!: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (16) + 36 = 521d20 + 31 ⇒ (11) + 31 = 42
He is not easy to hit!
Damage: 4d8 + 7 + 3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 6, 1) + 7 + (1, 2, 4) = 27
DC43 fort or stun

Hotcha wonders if the heroes of this day will go down in history as Two Men and a Fairy, or Three Men.

Hotcha looks sadly at the fallen. A part of her screams save them… but she instead bows respectfully to the fallen rivals. They allowed an evil man with delusions of godhood to alter their forms. They would have killed three men, a fairy, and many more innocents.

She honors them despite this. ”Worthy opponents,” she says before turning away. She can’t bear to look at the dead (or dying?).

Hotcha requests healing, and after downing fire nectar, she does a slow and solemn meditative dance to please Shelyn. 30-minute meditation; getting my ki back.

Will: 1d20 + 29 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 29 + 2 = 39
If it’s just damage, okay. Not gonna hero-point it.

Hotcha takes the hit and, as her corona burns the enemy, she hits back HARD!!

”One Millimeter Uppercut!”
1mm Punch!!!: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (20) + 37 = 57
Corona, Crit, P.Fire: 2d6 + 10d8 + 7 + 4d6 + 77 + 2d10 ⇒ (3, 5) + (4, 6, 7, 4, 7, 8, 6, 4, 7, 4) + 7 + (2, 2, 5, 4) + 77 + (1, 2) = 165
DC34 fort or slow;
If vertical shove is allowed, DC43 fort or shove
(CF 30’, F 10’, S 5’)
And DC37 fort or shove (F 5’)

KO: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (16) + 37 = 534d8 + 7 + 4d6 + 48 + 2d10 ⇒ (7, 6, 7, 3) + 7 + (6, 5, 6, 1) + 48 + (6, 3) = 105

Atk Viper: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (10) + 37 = 471d20 + 32 ⇒ (16) + 32 = 481d20 + 29 ⇒ (2) + 29 = 311d20 + 29 ⇒ (17) + 29 = 46
Total Damage: 8d8 + 21 + 16d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 3, 8, 5, 3, 4, 5) + 21 + (3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 5, 1, 6, 4, 3, 6, 6, 4) = 114
DC43 fort or stun

Invisible Hotcha soars to Blue Viper, connecting with three strikes!

☀️/♥️183

Hotcha soars at Shino!

Atk: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (8) + 37 = 451d20 + 32 ⇒ (16) + 32 = 481d20 + 29 ⇒ (11) + 29 = 401d20 + 29 ⇒ (20) + 29 = 49
Total Damage: Flurry + Crit: 8d8 + 21 + 16d6 + 41 + 2d10 ⇒ (4, 7, 4, 3, 6, 7, 4, 1) + 21 + (1, 3, 5, 4, 4, 1, 6, 6, 5, 5, 3, 3, 6, 5, 3, 4) + 41 + (7, 3) = 172
First strike is atk:47
DC43 fort or stun
DC34 fort or slow

”Eat my fist!”

Mapless Strike: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (13) + 37 = 50
Damage: 4d8 + 7 + 4d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 5, 5) + 7 + (5, 3, 1, 4) = 36

Invisible, Crit if 42 AC
Total Damage if Crit: 72 + 2d10 ⇒ 72 + (7, 9) = 88

Atk!: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (9) + 37 = 461d20 + 32 ⇒ (13) + 32 = 451d20 + 26 ⇒ (18) + 26 = 441d20 + 26 ⇒ (7) + 26 = 33
Hotcha drops and attacks Ran-To brutality!
Total Damage: 12d8 + 21 + 18d6 ⇒ (8, 1, 2, 1, 6, 8, 8, 4, 7, 2, 4, 1) + 21 + (3, 1, 1, 3, 5, 6, 6, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 5, 1) = 127
=DC43 Fort or Stun

She awaits orders from Xin, then flies up either 65 feet over Ran-To or about 50 feet over the next target.

Corona last round: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5

Hero Fort: 1d20 + 35 ⇒ (12) + 35 = 47

Using to-battle strike prior to tactical cadence stride.
To Battle!: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (13) + 37 = 50
Damage: 4d8 + 7 + 4d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 1, 8) + 7 + (4, 5, 1, 6) = 39

Fort: 1d20 + 35 ⇒ (6) + 35 = 41

Hotcha once again heroically resists magic.

Will, ☀️Will: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (6) + 29 = 351d20 + 29 ⇒ (20) + 29 = 49
”Oh, right. We usually win by knocking her out first. Kicked their butts so many times, I forgot.”

She then ki-flurries her foe, turns invisible and flies 50 feet overhead!
Ki Flurry: 1d20 + 38 ⇒ (7) + 38 = 451d20 + 33 ⇒ (16) + 33 = 49 First strike is 48.
Damage: 8d8 + 14 + 14d6 ⇒ (7, 3, 7, 7, 7, 1, 5, 4) + 14 + (2, 1, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 3) = 90
DC43 fort or stun

☀️☀️/♥️215

AC48, DC43, HP244/306

Fort: 1d20 + 33 ⇒ (12) + 33 = 45
Success crits.
Kip-up as free action.

”You’re in my face. Exactly where I want you to be!”

The fairy enters her ki form.
Atk: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (15) + 36 = 511d20 + 31 ⇒ (14) + 31 = 451d20 + 26 ⇒ (20) + 26 = 46
Flurry: 8d8 + 14 + 8d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 3, 3, 8, 4, 5, 6) + 14 + (5, 6, 2, 6, 3, 2, 4, 1) = 83
DC43 or Stun

Crit: 4d8 + 7 + 4d6 ⇒ (7, 4, 1, 4) + 7 + (1, 3, 4, 5) = 36 x2 = 72
DC34 or Slow
Pfire: 2d10 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9

”Oh, I hope Tino and the gang will be their old selves again. I’m gonna need a drink myself.”

Hotcha takes a chalice from Yog’s belt. The fire wine chalice weighs more than the fairy, and it is bulky in her twiggy arms, but in these weeks Hotcha has actually become quite toned (if you look closely).

She can even air-lift the chalice! She finds a safe and somewhat private place for a very hot bath!
STR 12 now, and Glühwein really is served hot. Probably resisting 2d6 damage with her Resist Fire 15 earring.

Thanks to Yog, Hotcha is fully healed. She needs a half hour to get her ki back. Talking to her will disrupt her meditation if she answers, which she will as an excuse to prolong her hot bath!

Hotcha flies into a flank sweet spot and gives a licking with her kicking!

”You’re going down! And then you’re gonna get back up and we’ll all apologize!”

Atk: 1d20 + 35 ⇒ (14) + 35 = 491d20 + 30 ⇒ (5) + 30 = 351d20 + 25 ⇒ (10) + 25 = 35
Hit: 4d8 + 6 + 4d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 7, 2) + 6 + (6, 6, 5, 2) = 45
DC41 fort or stun

…well, more of a tongue lashing since her words may have hurt more than her ineffective combo.

Fort vs Poison: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (16) + 34 = 50
Hotcha moves and strikes!

Attack: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (1) + 36 = 371d20 + 31 ⇒ (16) + 31 = 471d20 + 25 ⇒ (3) + 25 = 28
First strike is nat 10 minimum, so 46!
Ki Flurry: 8d8 + 12 + 14d6 ⇒ (8, 8, 7, 8, 4, 1, 2, 3) + 12 + (3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6, 6, 3, 2, 1, 6, 6) = 101
DC41 fort or stun
♥️291/291
Ki 0/3

Fort: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (3) + 34 = 37

Hotcha resists the poison and lays into Takatorra!
”Target number two?” she suggests as the tengu feels a burn from Hotcha’s corona.
Corona: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8

Attackatorra!!: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (15) + 36 = 511d20 + 31 ⇒ (15) + 31 = 461d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 311d20 + 25 ⇒ (17) + 25 = 42
First is a Crit if someone flanks!
Ki Flurry: 8d8 + 12 + 14d8 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 8, 5, 4, 3, 6) + 12 + (3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 1, 6, 4, 7, 4, 5, 3, 8, 4) = 111
DC41 fort or stun
___
If crit, +56 damage
+ DC41 fort or slow
+ P.fire: 2d10 ⇒ (8, 2) = 10

4th strike: 4d8 + 6 + 4d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 6, 1) + 6 + (4, 5, 3, 3) = 36

♥️172/291

Corona damage to Tino and Tak: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6

Not wanting to be targeted by whatever that spell was, Hotcha becomes ⏩invisible!

▶️Flurry!: 1d20 + 35 ⇒ (17) + 35 = 521d20 + 30 ⇒ (4) + 30 = 34
Crit Damage: 4d8 + 6 + 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 8) + 6 + (3, 6, 5, 6) = 39
78 damage
DC41 fort or stun
DC34 fort or slow
P.Fire: 2d10 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7

Fort DC41: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (13) + 34 = 47
Success crits

Hotcha easily resists the poison. She follows Xin’s lead and ▶️flanks Extra-Tough Tino.

”Lemme knock some sense into ya, Tino!”

▶️Ki Form
▶️Flurry: 1d20 + 35 ⇒ (10) + 35 = 451d20 + 30 ⇒ (12) + 30 = 42
Damage: 8d8 + 12 + 8d6 ⇒ (2, 8, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3, 3) + 12 + (5, 3, 6, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4) = 81
DC41 Fort or Stun

Hotcha bows. ”My pleasure… and ohhhhh!!” She flutters to the big, big baby monster. ”Mokku is CUTE!”

She then introduces herself and the party, Three Men and a Fairy, to the tortoise spirit. ”I believe with that conch fragment, we can stop the evil that has overtaken this land.”

Hotcha notices all of the fruits are UGLY! So she considers a new idea, such as plucking fruits from the tree—using her jellyfish stance kick that slashes from afar!!

(To a fairy, five feet is afar.)

And hurling fireballs at the fruits!!

When the fire seems to work, Hotcha keeps doing the thing that works!
Slash and burn, or just burn.

Hotcha says, ”If a dryad is both nymph and tree, does one of these fruits have the face of a beautiful woman?”

Hotcha examines the faces. But even if there is one that is particularly youthful and beautifully feminine, she’s not sure what to do with that!

Hotcha takes advantage of her temporary invisibility and apparent immunity to the weird fruits. She flies around the tree, above, below, and she examines the trunk. If there’s a hole she can slip into, she might want to tell Xin before peering inside…

Hotcha becomes invisible and flutters over to the tree.

Will, heroic will: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (3) + 27 = 301d20 + 27 ⇒ (20) + 27 = 47
Nat.20’d; 2/3 hero pts left

She asks, ”Are you a dryad? Why is your fruit shaped like people’s heads? Should I be worried?” then continues another fifteen feet before stopping, in the hope the dryad will guess her location from where she was when she first spoke.