"Argh, why do you insist to complicate things?" Ledt casts protection from evil and moves over to the aberrant sorceress trying to deliver the spell on her and shield her from compulsion.
Touch:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 Will DC 16 if she wants to resist
Ledt moves a bit forward to put his target at range, then starts saying words of magic. Black energy surrounds his hand and he projects it against the creature in a ray of enfeeblement, to prevent her to cause more harm.
ray (touch, precise shot):1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 Ray of Enfeeblement Str damage (For DC 16 for half):1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
My thought was to just go and pick the cannister directly. I noticed Omrijka has a decent strength, and Red would be more difficult to stealth through and more interested into smashing things.
"Ok pretty, why don't you fetch that pretty canister then?" Ledt moves to Omrijka (on his turn, before she strides forward), casting invisibility on her.
K. arcana:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
"What's that screech?" Ledt brings his hands, still crackling with electricity to his ears "Can anyone put it off?"
Not wanting to be near the sound, the halfling moves forward and looks through the curtain as stealthy as his small head allows him.
Stealth:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18 Perception:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (4) + 0 = 4
Ready for it, he advances resolved, his hair waving in the air as electricity crackles through, going down his both arms, he joins his hands releasing a glowing shower of lightning over the swarm of spiders.
Electrical damage (x1.5 vs swarms; Ref DC 16 for half):5d4 ⇒ (1, 4, 2, 3, 3) = 13
"Seems like we are venturing into the lion's mouth" Ledt comments while observing the strange cave.
The halfling produces some dancing lights to improve the light level, and then studies the strange green light and the box with detect magic.
K. arcana:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 Spellcraft:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
Ledt looks through the shaft and casts dancing lights sending the illumination down to see what is there down.
If no danger is found, he ventures the steps without delay and with halfling sure-foot "What are we waiting? Do I always have to lead the long-legs? Let's go!"
Acrobatics:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
"Ah! The glitterdust, a classic! It should be easy for you now to bring it down, keep there!" Ledt encourages the tall people to finish the pretty statue "There, more to the right, yes, you have it!"
"Unjustified destruction of sculpturing art" Ledt points out as the statue crumbles with the scythe swing "Our pretty Shelynite will be happy about this"
"Luckily we left her checking fungus on the other room" the halfling steps away of the remaining statue "Thanks for the advise Sylvester. That scythe looks like it could do more damage though. Let's make it bigger."
Starting to cast enlarge person.
I suggest Red delays after Ledt next round, if he wants the spell.
Just to be clear, are the spores in the body part of the brown mold or some other fungus?
Perception:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 3
Ledt does not notices anything special about the room, but pushes the dancing lights forward to light the darkest areas.
When Sylvester points to the group the statues, the halfling gives them some thought.
K. planes:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
"These winged demons are commonly used to guard temples in distant Vudra" he blinks, then approaches the statues and starts looking for something.
Any compartment with documents here?
"From all those tavern stories I would have expected you were more skilled at telling maiden from man" Ledt teases the infamous fighter.
As the note is found, the halfling hurries to examine it aiding Corey with some of the symbols that confuse him.
Linguistics aid another:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
"The Gate of Beyond? A metal cylinder canister? Maybe this is all related with the artifact rumors tell is hidden at the museum catacombs." Ledt points to the rooms back "Certainly those creatures we just killed are not from this world, and I would not be surprised one of those could have taken the sanity of the Blackros"
"Let's check that door to the south left, although we probably end having to venture down that trapdoor"
Ledt indeed registers the backpack with detect magic "What is all this? A collection of the bizarre?" the halfling starts to put things out of the backpack so others can see too "Maybe the scrolls and feather are worth something... And what is this? The Eye is always vigilant what is that crap supposed to be?" Ledt throws away the scrap of paper without much thought.
Without losing much more time, he stands up "Ah, yeah, let's not lose more time, to the eastern door"
Just on behalf of tracking correctly Ledt used resources, do I get right Sylvester's fireball was enough to kill the thing and Ledt's ray never happened? :D
"Were I you, I would not put my feety in that brown mold, Corey" Ledt warns the redhead elf just before listening strange words in his head "What's that? Who is talking in my head? I do not want to know how elves sporulate. I cannot care less and I am sure it is something I will never want to witness."
Without seeing angle to the fungus, what takes the halfling's attention is the backpack, he steps forward to have a better look "Do you think this is from the Blackro's daughter?"
Led opens the backpack to see it's contents. move action
And readies an attack in case a monster comes into his see angle. standard action
Will DC 14 (because that will happen first):1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Scorching ray (touch, precise shot):1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 8 + 1 = 25 Electrical damage:4d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6, 6) = 21 +1 to hit/damage if within Point Blank distance
HP 37/37 AC 20 TAC 15 (+2 vs evil)
protection from evil 4 min
"I see now why all the stories that go around there about Valeros" Ledt grumbles back, quickly rushing past the fungus to the other wall and pushing the dancing lights to illuminate the area further to the south.
"The woman must have been studying here around. She should have left some trace of her research" the small halfling looks around the bookshelves specially looking for books that seem to have been recently retrieved from the shelves.
Perception:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17 K. arcana, history or planes (for research topics):1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Ledt's hair crackles with electricity, sparkling away unwelcome hands "No problem, ready when you are Sylvester!"
The sparks go down from the halfling's head all along his right arm, frizzling with energy as Ledt extends his hand and a ray goes over the group's heads to strike on the shrieker.
Scorching ray+PB (touch, precise shot):1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 8 + 1 = 26 Electrical damage+PB:4d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 1, 2, 2) + 1 = 12
Ledt steps aside a moment when the half-orc comes to inspect the wall "Sure, you did a lot not letting yourself be eaten while Sylvester was frying up the thing" the halfling rubs his nose while answering the big hero "Besides, if you do not want me to cover your back, let me go first and I will show you how to deal with those museum pieces"
Once Omrijka calms out the worries, the halfling resumes his efforts to push open the wall.
Strength aid DC 10:1d20 - 3 ⇒ (12) - 3 = 9
"Why would someone trap a door in their storeroom? Sounds like you just do not want to work." Ledt complains as Valeros just watches while he pushes the wall "Why we little ones have to do all the work all the time!?"
And he renews his efforts trying to move the wall with his little body "Ooomph!"
Strength DC 20:1d20 - 3 ⇒ (13) - 3 = 10
"Yup, I am here, covering your backs" Ledt exclaims back to Sylvester, while observing the flames taking out the aberrant creature "Well done everyone. Nice team selection this time."
Ledt moves into the next room, using the dancing lights to illuminate the area as the group searches.
Perception:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17
Leaving the scroll for the reverend, the halfling focuses on what seems a secret door "Need some muscles here. Seems something is blocking the door. Secret doors first policy, eh?"
Strength:1d20 - 2 ⇒ (14) - 2 = 12
"Sounds trouble down there" Ledt looks in the distance through the door, and looks back observing the doggy running away, then looks forward to the battle once more "Sure you do not need help?"
The halfling stays back, observing the battle develop, specially the flashy fireball burning the next room in flames and how the Reverend escapes the hug just in time, and listens attentively for any call for help.
"That thing sounded worse than a Venture Captain in front of a blank report..." Ledt thinks he is pretty well where he stands, and so, he just pushes the dancing lights forward with a movement of his hand "If you are dying, please shout for help."
Then casts protection from evil on himself.
HP 37/37 AC 20 TAC 15
protection from evil 5 min
mage armor 1 h
Ledt looks only with mild-interest how the party brings out the body of the dead humanoid "Seems not the daughter. That means we need to keep looking."
"So, just as we are here, why not that door to the east" the halfling points to the single door too, but he will keep the distance as it is opened and the others go through and into more danger.
"Yeah, good hit there! A bit more to the left Reverend. That head is almost detached Valeros" Ledt cheers up the group from the northern wall and just moves the dancing lights further to the east.
Confident on the victory of the pathfinders, the halfling just leave them space for they to show up, while he is busy looking for the statue his master told him about.
Perception:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (16) + 0 = 16
K. arcana:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
Ledt sees finally the no-chimera as it steps forward to fall in a poodle of grease "Did not see that coming... do you think it is magically animated or some kind of undead?"
The halfling moves into the room "You sure have the hand on this, isn't it? Don't need my help" and hides between some of the stuffed figures in the north.
Without an angle of sight to notice something has started to move in the room, Ledt just contemplates the exposed monstrosities while pushing the dancing lights forward into the interior "Cannot tell otherwise, these are ugly certainly. What kind of taste to make an exhibit like this?"
Ledt looks around for any statues, but refrains from stepping into the room.
Perception:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
"Well pretty let's hope you can keep using that adjective when we get out of this damped place. Last time I was here it was infested with evil spirits and mad monkeys" Ledt passes his hand over the pink hair and it quickly returns to its raised stance like if it was a bush more than actual hair.
In the My Organized Play section you should see very clearly who your Core characters are @Dragon.
Core characters have a "PFC" label next to their Id, while non Core have the "PFS(1ed)" label. For example for Ledt:
# 134452-6 PFC
If you have to register a new character because none is Core, use the "Register a New Pathfinder Society—Core (first edition) Character" button. You will see it will use the next -# available (it does not begin again with 1).
"Hum. Hum. See. Well, we can talk about the museum after we have saved the girl Nigel. Just prepare some good snacks" the halfling turns to the doors when he notices there is a new half-orc he has not seen before "Hum. You are good at hiding, my uncle Dodo would say for a tall one"
"Good to meet you Omrijka. Who are the pretties?" the pink headed halfling raises an eyebrow.
With a quick movement of his hands Ledt produces a set of dancing lights he sends forward for the half-orc and the others to properly examine the doors.
Delaying door decisions until things are sorted out as for GM post in Discussion, but leaning towards W door.
Ledt's expression softens when the gnome and the dog enter the room, he soothes the fur of the four legged one, and greets the redheaded bard as he makes his appearance "Ok. Corey. Good the Venture Captain found some decent hands to round up the team."
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"Is it true that Ralzeros the Overwatched himself built the museum himself thousands of years ago?" Ledt asks Nigel "I heard he built it in one single piece out of a volcano as an observatory to study distant worlds, or perhaps to be studied by them, it sounds silly, but you never know how those silly wizards would expend their time just for capturing the attention of others."
Ledt follows the man into the ziggurat and steps on the ramp only after the others, turning back to the man to keep his talk while the others check the doors "I bet he carved this catacomb with the power of his otherwordly patrons and now these patrons are claiming the life of the Blackross daughter, or some similar inter-gallactic plot, or perhaps she is being affected by the powerful artifact secreted in the catacombs that rumors tells Ralzeros's hide here but no one has ever managed to find"
The halfling taps himself with his mage armor wand even while he is talking back with Nigel.
A little halfling of serious expression and pink hair comes into the room and quietly sits on one of the chairs "Hi Adril. Hi scruffy human."
His feet doesn't arrive to the floor and he has a weird mark in the front, but he seems resolved. But resolved to what? He might have his own plans to that " Another mision at the museum you say? Good, I hope it is not full of mists or shadows this time. I have not had the chance to enjoy the exposition there yet."
Hi! I just wanted to say I filled in the information in the rpg thing website.
This is Ledt, he is a Core Sorcerer with 5 levels and a very grumpy personality for a halfling. Looking forward to play this old adventure with you all :)
I posted here the day the paizo authentication broke. I found this through the Paizo forums recruitment threads only and I do not know if it is part of other kind of recruitment process I am alien to.
Well, yes, I definitely agree, also on being a caveman that still prefers pencil and paper.
But once you start playing more than let's say, once each three months, the folders quickly get out of its binders with tones of papers, and you start investing more time handling chronicles and updating characters than preparing new adventures. Specially if you have a mix of table and virtual games and you have to scan table chronicles and print virtual chronicles.
And not everyone is equally good at keeping paperwork up to date and organizing everything by character. I know it is not uncommon to have piles of unclassified chronicles and not updated characters, specially for GMs that host games every week.
Yeah, record keeping is the worst of PFS. I do not know why they do not provide an app for that. Developing a simple one to ease record keeping would not be that expensive nowadays (if they avoid their web software and use actual modern one).
Chronicle looks ok, thanks a lot for the game Aerondor, it was fun to play at your table once more :)
It was probably as creative and difficult for you to GM this for a group without trapfinding as it was for us.
In the end it made for a couple or more memorable stories about ponies, Gumbo's and scythes :D
Looking after to see that Sebastus character, it looks it can be something fun! I have attempted a couple of times to make a coward PC, but it does not mingle too well in the end with the general expectations of the game.
"If that is your will, I am more than happy to take you with us to Absalom" Ledt nods firmly to Sebastus "Your information probably saved our lives. At the least we knew what to expect"
The halfling casts a final respectful smile to the man.
"I want to think he will find a fire giants graveyard at the center of Golarion and be free forevermore" expresses Ledt as he sees the undead disappearing in the darkness.
"Well, all this Zyphus business was a real mess" the halfling grumbles as the pathfinders make it out of the cult's structure "I wonder why did they send the team magic instead of the team rogues. But I guess they are busy on a mission involving intricate magic. Such is the way of the Venture Captains leadership"
Then, turning to Sebastus "What are your plans now? I guess we should take you to Taldor's authorities and make you pay for the participation in all this, but I actually hate that kind of stuff, I prefer you just disappear from our sight"
Ledt touches the ice with the tip of his right foot "These cultists are crazy"
"I guess if you want to melt a section I can try to help, but in no way I am going there, melted or not. I had enough water swimming in my last two adventures" the halfling will use burning hands to melt as much ice as he can.
Burning hands damage:5d4 ⇒ (2, 1, 3, 1, 1) = 8
If there is no more cultist and nothing else of interest, he nods in agreement with Sylvester and makes his way out, up the rope.
