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In keeping with my project of new art for retired characters...

(With a sever stutter knocking down her charisma.) "Um, it's n-nice to have some a-art finally. Before it was just s-some clipart of a c-creepy girl who h-happened to have white h-hair."

(Actually, one of the first 3-d images I made was of her, but it's pretty terrible and never got used for anything, so she's ignoring that)

My favorite way is the Seraphic Pistol. If any one of your attacks gets through its DR, then the DR is shut down for everyone for 1 minute. And as a gun, getting different ammo to pierce DR with is easy.

While I mostly want a scenario that lays out Torch's plans, justifies them, and completely vindicates him from the things he's done.

wait! I got an example for this Sense Motive check too!

I encountered a "little kid" in a dungeon crawl a while back. yeah, sure, little kid in a bad place - like how'd you get here kid? Glance around at the rest of the party and they are all buying into this creatures story. Clearly they missed the Sense Motive here! But I know, this kids a shape-changing demon - got to be. I read about these things before you know.

So, first excuse I get I splash her with holy water! Yeah! Holy Water burns more than undead you know! I carry it for extra-planer creatures too. You know, just an "opps! sorry 'bout that!" and... what do you know. No hsss and burn. Darn it. It wasn't a demon after all. Guess I missed my Sense Motive check....

So I just glanced around at the rest of the guys looking at me for splashing the kid and said... "what? I got a low CHA, so sue me..." and stocked off back to the head of the party.

sometimes you guess wrong, just because you THINK you know what's going on, doesn't mean you do. And it can be fun to miss a guess sometimes too...

I found a little girl hiding outside a house that had been overrun by demons. I made her a cake and lent her my backup gun...

This turned out to be a very poor idea.

I had already played Mage as a Euthanatos character, so I stole some ideas from that when I made my Groetus follower. But she was only a laywoman, not clergy.

Long may he reign!

Um, I'd rather give you a haircut than fight you, if that's ok? (This was my first character render, almost 2 years ago. It needs a re-do)

Natalya wrote:

I kept the command chair from a crashed spaceship.

Linkified for you :)

Wha? I just took it because the place reminded me of where I first met Groetus...

I kept the command chair from a crashed spaceship.

Nice find!

Still, I would suspect Groetus worshipers are not exactly out to stop that which will end everything...

The janitor of the gods does not seek to get to work early. Only the most deranged of his followers would empty the building to get the cleanup happening sooner.

"I may have just recently joined the interests of Osirion, but I will do what I can to help." The white-haired pistolero stutters out.

(Re-posting from the other thread. Because I feel like it.)

"I-I didn't k-know! I w-wasn't expec-pecting Him!" Stutters the white haired girl. "I w- was t-told to wait in this w-warehouse and t-take down anyone who c-came in." Her hair floats about in the air, seeming to have a mind of its own, occasionally flicking past the pair of guns at the girls hips. "T-there was a b-big flash of smoke, and i-I fired into it!" The hair stops floating, and wraps around her like a blanket, and her voice grows clearer but sadder.

"And it was Torch..." She pauses a moment. "They told me later that he came back. That it didn't take. And they told me what he d-did. Ruin for Everything; after all the times he sent me to bring back someone who'd fallen. That every person needs a chance to decide for themselves if it's time for the soul to the boneyard and the body to the Moon. So what could I do? I brought his body back to the lodge."

Her hair goes limp. "Torch, on my first m-mission, you s-showed me that pathf-finders look out for each other, no-matter w-what. I will keep d-doing t-that. D-do as you w-will. I'm sorry you a-aren't here to teach me mo-ore."

{OOC: Natalya was my GM credit. She made a cameo in the casino, then was instructed to stay in a warehouse aiming at a certain point, then blast whoever appeared there (think of the movie Looper). Torch used his cape to Dimension Door away, where she lit him up with both guns. Thus, she gets the Unexpected Prestige boon when the party didn't. Whether it was her god that instructed her, or an agent of Torch, or someone else, I haven't decided yet.

The stutter is part of her low charisma.}

These Rivalry's End spoilers are getting rather annoying. Couldn't we have just started a new thread?

(Assemble? Odd choice of words for Groetus followers...)

A rather scrawny Kellid woman shyly walks in and takes a seat; her long white hair seeming to have a mind of its own as it floats about her. The pistols at her hips clunk loudly against the pew. "ah... sorry. Um, I'm Natalya?" -pause- "Um, so I was t-talking with this cavalier while we were c-clearing out this everflaming crypt. And w-we d-decided that Groetus is a lot like a j-janitor. He cleans up the mess after e-everybody leaves. He do-doesn't get thanked a lot, b-but it's needed."

(Natalya looks pretty enough, but her stutter leads to a lack of self-confidence, and thus, her low charisma score)

The Decimverate may try to silence us, but there will always be those who put the welfare of their fellow Pathfinders over the contents of a tomb.

My slinger may have to carry a pepperbox full of the ghost salt bullets after reading this.

At a comparatively cheap price of ~3500, that's not a bad idea. Sounds better than the ghost touch enchantment at least.

My white-haired witch has Profession: Barber. She uses her hair to demonstrate styles for her customers, and then has it go into head-to-head combat with the customer's hair while she wields the scissors.

She also uses it to reload her pistols.

I tried that. But then I end up shooting my over-lecherous teammates. Then having to carry their body back to the nearest pathfinder lodge. And then the PAPERWORK! When I should be out killing things!

(For my Pistolero / White-Haired Witch of Groetus)

(Speaking very shyly with a sever stutter) I, I suppose I could talk for a bit...

1. Why are you a Pathfinder?
After finding Groetus, he sent me to Absalom to learn how to best use my powers. The pathfinders don't like him much, so I do what I can to show that he's not [i[really[/i] evil. Things die and fall to pieces all the time, and it's our job to clean up the mess they leave. Someone told me once we're like cosmic janitors.
Sorry, I suppose that's not so much about the society. I haven't been with them long, but they seem like they make a lot of messes, and someone needs to clean them up.

2. Do you have a name and surname that is not ripped straight out of existing Earth mythology or popular culture?
I'm just Natalya. I never earned a surname.

3. Which nation did you grow up in? How did this nation influence you?
I grew up in Numeria. It's a hard place, but you grow up either strong, or very good at getting out of the way. I was never very strong, but Groetus showed me how the pistol could make up for that.

4. What do you look like? What are your wearing? How does this vary when you’re stalking through forests, sewers, deserts or in glittering cities?
My white hair tends to have a life of its own. One of my eyes is bigger than the other, but most of the time there's hair blocking it. I tend to wear leather and mithral, unless I need to wear something for the cold weather.

5. What do you love? (Treasure and experience doesn’t count)
Groetus! People think he wants to end the world - that's wrong. He doesn't want to end it; he's just around to clean up when it's done. Oh, and helping people with their hair. I use mine to show them examples, and then make them pretty. (Profession: Barber)

6. What do you hate? (Unclear and irritating darkness level rules don’t count)
The technic league worries me. I don't think I hate them, but I sure don't like them.

7. Which other Pathfinders (PCs) do you rely on for teamwork, survival and butt-kicking? Do you have a bro? a mentor? a father figure? maybe a rival?
There was that strange goblin cavalier I worked with. I think his name was Small-Ears or something. At least, I think he was a goblin. Something was strange about him though.

8. How does your race influence your views? Are you a stereotype of a certain race? How are you different from most humans/elves/gnomes/orcs/tengu?
I may be smaller than most, but I'm still a Kellid. We know how to handle ourselves in harsh climates.

9. What are you afraid of? Do you have any phobias or worries?
Mechanical monsters from the Scar.

10. What is your most treasured possession?
My scorpion, Yala. Groetus speaks to me through her.

Double Barrel Pistol. Each time you shoot with it, you can shoot twice at -4 to each.

The reloading issue is bypassed in interesting ways by dipping into alchemist or witch, or in lame ways with weapon cords.

I'm not sure yet how far down this road I'll go. I'll probably just stick to a double-barrel in one hand and the starter pistol in the other. I will not be using a double shot every time I could though, as the -4 is a pain. I might also switch the starter for a dragonpistol.

For those planning to shoot a lot per turn, such as the two-gun pistoleros, misfires are a problem. If we got to level 13, we'd be fine, but that's just out of reach for PFS. Best solution I've found looks like the slate spider, but it only lasts for 1 minute per day. At 10k for the bug, that's a hefty chunk of change. (And weight. How does a statue small enough to crawl inside a gun barrel weigh a full pound?)

Would people recomend just buying multiple spiders, and swapping them out for each fight?

Reliable drops the odds of misfire a bit, and lucky lets you re-roll a misfire. Wand of stabilize powder will fix what's currently in the gun, but that's only good for your first shot or two. Any other ways to deal with misfires?

Heck, what I need is something like Sash of the War Champion or Bane Baldric, that worked on Pistol Training instead.

A friend of mine is doing a portrait for me. But we're waiting until People of the North comes out so we have more than 3 reference pics for Kellid people.