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For S02-23.
Downtime: DC 18 Crafting (E) to Earn Income: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27 (Success, 20 sp for 8 days)

For S06-06.
Downtime: DC 18 Crafting (E) to Earn Income: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30 (Crit Success, 32 sp for 8 days)

Chronicle looks good. Thank you for running the game.

To everyone, thank you so much for the games and for letting me join in. I think I’ll step back from joining the next ones. I really appreciate the time, effort, and fun moments shared, and I wish you all the best with the coming adventures!

I’ll be unavailable on August 16–18. Kindly bot my PC when needed. Botting instructions are spoilered in my PC's profile.

Nicole also uses the crowbar and does the dirty work.
Athletics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Surprisingly, she easily breaks down the wall. Perhaps somebody walled up the hole just recently and hasn’t had time to cement it properly?

"Well, that is easy." she is surprised herself.

Reposting because my post was eaten.

Nicole lightly kicks the woman's head to check that it is no longer moving. She then proceeds to look around for materials she might find useful after being healed to replenish her stock.

I used an action to point out so everyone knows what square she is in.

I don’t understand what the Seek is getting people over the Point Out

Apologies. I roleplayed Nicole’s actions by still Seeking the enemy even after Vardarel pointed her out. She’s frightened of Purple, so I was portraying her as wanting to be sure for herself. I’ll change her actions to the ones below instead, so as not to waste what Vardarel has pointed out:

Nicole searches for where the enemy is.
◆ Seek, Perception +7

Nicole, with weakened knees, returns to the area. She cant find the woman and the skull, worsening her fear that she might be followed. The words whispered on her lingers in her mind that she casts Guidance on Bun Helsing for now.

◆ Stride
◆ Stride
◆ Guidance to Bun Helsing

Nicole's Skunk Bomb is a miss then.

DC 24 Will save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 vs Fear (Crit Fail, Frightened 3 and Fleeing 1 for 1 rd)

Pure terror slams into Nicole like a cold wave.

"Ahhh!" she shrieks, her face draining of color as panic takes over. Her hands tremble, eyes darting wildly, and (on her turn) fleeing without a second thought.

Isn't it a DC 5 flat check for Concealed?

"Hey, come back here while I can see you!" Nicole complaints while getting closer. She then mixes vials to create a funky smelling bomb and throws the same to Purple!
DC 6 Flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 5 vs Concealment
Moderate Skunk Bomb Attack, w Alchemist Goggles: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29 vs Purple
Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (2, 1) = 3 poison damage +4 poison splash damage (to target only),
and DC 21 Fortitude save
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is sickened 1.
Failure The target is sickened 1 and slowed 1 while sickened.
Critical Failure The target is blinded for 1 round, sickened 2, and slowed 1 while sickened.

She prepares another bomb, but this time, concocts something that is cold to touch. "Let's take things slow, shall we?"
DC 6 Flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 10 vs Concealment
Moderate Frost Vial Attack, w Alchemist Goggles, MAP: 1d20 + 12 - 5 ⇒ (19) + 12 - 5 = 26 vs Purple
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7 cold damage, the target takes a -10 foot penalty to its Speed, 4 cold splash damage (to target only), and ignore Lesser Cover fr Alchemist Goggles (+1 splash damage to target on Fail, but not Crit Fail)

◆ Stride
◆ Quick Bomber w Far Lobber feat
◆ Quick Bomber w Far Lobber feat

"There you are!" Nicole chucks another vial at Purple after being revealed by Vardarel. "Catch this!"
DC 5 Flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 4 vs Concealment
Hero Point! DC 5 Flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 15 vs Concealment
Moderate Versatile Vial, w Alchemist Goggles: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30 vs Purple Woman
Damage + Burn It!: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 5) + 1 = 8 fire damage and 4 fire splash damage (to target only), and ignore Lesser Cover fr Alchemist Goggles (+1 splash damage to target on Fail, but not Crit Fail)

"Here's another one!" she shoots with her hand cannon
DC 5 Flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 4 vs Concealment
Hand Cannon Attack, MAP: 1d20 + 11 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 11 - 5 = 13
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6 B damage

She then reloads after missing to hit her target.

◆ Strike
◆ Strike
◆ Reload

Nicole loads her hand cannon and readies herself to strike with a bomb at either Purple or Skull that appears within her range.
◆ Reload weapon
◆◆ Ready

I am not sure why the Will save is gone for Nicole in latest initiative tracker, but here it is if needed:
DC 25 Will save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 (Failure, Frightened 2)

Nicole fears whatever is happening around her. Haunting images seem to gather around her vision, despite only hearing the strange voices.

Vardarel, blocked by the wall, isn't a target. He Steps into the doorway and points. "Nicole, 10 feet ahead of you! The woman, she's right there!" Then he reaches for a scroll.

Nevertheless, she tries to remain on her spot and uses the information Vardarel has shared to them on Purple's location, seeing that chasing the invisible skull is pointless at this moment. She draws a versatile vial to burn Purple.

She then readies another for anyone that will attack her.

◆ Strike
◆◆ Ready

I am not sure if the skull is "Invisible" (which makes it Undetected, right?) to Nicole or she is one among the "Hidden to Others", but here goes my actions.

Nicole looks for the skull who has gone flying.
◆Seek, Perception +7 around herself

There’s one slot left in the game, and we’ve just started. Meadow can join if she’s interested. Here’s the link to the game.

Thank you, GM. I think I'll redo my two actions. Didn't realize the lighting conditions.

Realizing that the big area is too dim for her, she quickly concocts an elixir to grant herself darkvision, and chugs its dark-colored contents. "If anyone needs to see in the dark, I will make you one." she tells the others.
◆ Quick Alchemy to Create Consumable
◆ Activate Darkvision Elixir

DC 25 basic Reflex save: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21 (Failure, 29 fire damage - 1 fire damage from ↺ Resist Harm)

Nicole takes the full force of whatever is thrown at them, that her wayfinder glows to resist a very small damage from that effect
↺ Resist Harm from her Adamant Wayfinder

Nicole tries to remember who they might be dealing with.
◆ Recall Knowledge about Purple (Arcana +11, Crafting +13 (+1 vs constructs fr Adversart Lore - Vigilant Seal boon), Cooking Lore +11, Occultism +14 (+1 vs abberations fr Adversart Lore - Vigilant Seal boon), Society +11)

She also enters the room and shoots Purple.
Hand Cannon Attack, CA, Range Penalty: 1d20 + 11 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 11 + 1 - 2 = 18
Damage, CA: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 B damage

◆ Stride
◆ Strike

Stitch and Vardarel.

While on their way, Nicole collects whatever she finds useful for her vials formulation.

Before their arrival to their destination, she draws out her hand cannon, and loads it. She then keeps her eyes peeled for any unusual activity.

Nicole points to move forward to the other rooms.

"I agree to take a good rest as well and continue searching tomorrow?" she wait to see fit the others agree. She is just kinda worried about the last agent that they need to find, though, the longer it takes for them to find the last agent, the lesser the chance they might find and rescue the agent alive, just like what happened with the first two agents they found.

Copy-pasted from previous...

Nicole only quietly gasps at the poor situation of their fellow agent. "Apart from rest, let us know if you need anything else, she offers.

Nicole gives thanks and waves them goodbye before they enter the bathhouse. "They don't smell it anymore, maybe it’s gone. We should stay alert." Nicole informs them.

DC 15 Crafting: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31

"Ah, an antidote for ice tears. This will come in handy." She picks up the bottle and adds it to her collection. She also takes the key and the wooden sculpture, leaving the rest for Vardarel and Professor Bun.

"I hope you like that boar we bought for you two. Let me see what I can do with your chains," Nicole says, spending some time examining them.

"Have you heard the name Mother Forsythe?" she whispers to one of them. "What could they have done to the fox?" she asks in her normal voice.

Nicole has untrained Thievery +4

She then turns to her allies. "They loved the boar, satiated them, to say the least. Can somebody unchain these shackles for them?"

While someone works on that, she shares what the drakes have told her about the place they're in.

Crafting +13 to identify the chemical weird stuff they are talking about

While on their way to the shop, Nicole shares in hush tones to allies that the drakes are sensing somebody that they cannot see.

"They say that there's someone they 'can smell but can't see... always watching'. We should be careful." she then provides some coins to Vardarel as her contribution to pay for the roast boar, five silver pieces to be exact.

I can share half gold for one pig.

"Who's watching?" Nicole asks, and it dawns on her that it might be Mother Forsythe or her minion.

Setting that aside for now, "How about you wait for just a teeny tiny bit more while we look for your food, like bigger ones? Like pigs, you want pigs? How about that?" she tries to convince the two drakes to give them more time. Perhaps, if they can satisfy their hunger, they might help them in the case they are solving. Perhaps.
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Hero Point, if I still have one! Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Thankfully, Vardarel is more willing to offer his rations. She, on the other hand, is deliberately taking her time retrieving hers from her backpack, just in case no one else steps up to help the drakes.

"Thanks." she mouths at Vardarel.

While they speak, Nicole simultaneously translates their conversation with her to others while fear looms within her that she might be eaten if they remove their chains.

"Should we remove their chains?" she mouths the Pathfinders in Common.

She then turns to the drakes. "What do you usually eat? I have some small rations here, let me check." she tells them in Draconic while she checks her backpack to pull out two rations. "Have you known who made you trapped here? Any idea?" she continues while she awaits for answers from her allies.

"If we do, maybe we should release the starved one first." she says to allies in Common when she turns again to them.

"Just in case the stronger one suddenly eats us."

Nicole nods at Vardarel and begins walking toward the bathing draconic creatures, though not close enough for their chains to reach her.

"Hi! How's the bath? Nice place, huh?" Nicole says to them in Draconic, trying to sound friendly.

"Oh, nice chains! Are those the latest fash—" She stops herself mid-sentence, shifting her tone to one of empathy. "Oh, sorry. Looks like those chains are keeping you stuck here? Do you work here? Would you mind if we had them removed?" She gives them the most sympathetic expression she's ever worn in her life.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Hero Point! Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

"So, we'll talk to them?" whispers her inquiry to her allies about the draconic creatures bathing leisurely. "Like interrogation, or just looking for something? What would be the approach?"Diplomacy +9 here.

Nicole sneaks to follow Vardarel before he vanishes while Stitch distracts the ladies.
Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

I have Stealth +11 to Sneak.

It looks like we need to confront them, unless we can go left (on the map) and find a nice way to cross the wide waterway without being noticed by them.

"Poor agents." Nicole mutters under her breath.

"Bludgeoned to death. Now we followed a trail of footprints to another burned and bitten by a sea drake. Could the suspect be the same for both?" she asks queitly and nods at Vardarel's direction to go next.

"Oh my..." Nicole is too stunned to speak further on what happened to one of the missing Pathfinders. Thankfully, Vardarel is quick to do what must be done to the body.

Following the tracks, Nicole chooses to squeeze herself inside smelly pipes of the sewers.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

"We better check that place and meet this Mother Forsythe. I am just worried that the spy is among us without us knowing it, and our plans be foiled." Nicole suggests.

"Will you be alright if you go on your way?" she turns to the captive.

Nicole's eyes widen as she sees Stitch pull out his scalpel, as if preparing for surgery. "Never mind him, he's just fond of twirling blades. And no one is going to kill anyone. We want information." she says with a trying-her-best-to-be-cool smile, her effort to convince the Red Hooded woman to talk.
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Hero Point! Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

"How about we start with that Red Hooded one." Nicole suggests as she continues to collect while they move them to the building.

"She's chatty, she might know many things." she adds.

Nicole will spend time collecting materials to replenish her stock. She needs 20 minutes to have a full set of six versatile vials.

Nicole sighs on the last target's stubborness that she throws another vial of fuel at it.
Moderate Versatile Vial, w Alchemist Goggles, CA, NL: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 16 vs Red Hood
Damage, Burn It!, CA: 2d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1, 1) + 1 + 1 = 4 fire damage, and 4 fire splash damage (to target only), and ignore Lesser Cover fr Alchemist Goggles

She loads his hand canon and shoots the target's other feet.
Hand Cannon Attack, MAP, NL: 1d20 + 11 - 5 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 11 - 5 - 2 = 16 vs Red Hood
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4 B damage

◆ Quick Bomber w Far Lobber feat
◆ Interact to reload hand cannon
◆ Strike

"Give up already." she tells the last enemy standing and shoots again, this time at the foot.
Hand Cannon Attack, NL: 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 11 - 2 = 22 vs Red Hood
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4 B damage

She reloads and shoots again.
Hand Cannon Attack, MAP, NL: 1d20 + 11 - 5 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 11 - 5 - 2 = 14 vs Red Hood
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1 B damage

◆ Strike
◆ Interact to load hand cannon
◆ Strike

"Just gonna burn the edges." Nicole throws another vial on the target's apparel.
Moderate Versatile Vial, w Alchemist Goggles, CA, NL: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 19 vs Red Hood
Damage, Burn It!, CA: 2d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1, 5) + 1 + 1 = 8 fire damage, and 4 fire splash damage (to target only), and ignore Lesser Cover fr Alchemist Goggles

She then loads her hand cannon and then shoots the hooded figure's knee.
Hand Cannon Attack, MAP, NL: 1d20 + 11 - 5 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 11 - 5 - 2 = 12 vs Red Hood
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3 B damage

◆ Quick Bomber w Far Lobber feat
◆ Interact to load hand cannon
◆ Strike

"So they are not friends?" Nicole is momentarily confused with their conversations. She quickly launches bombs at Blue after creating them from her set of vials.
Moderate Versatile Vial, w Alchemist Goggles, CA: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 1 = 20 vs Blue
Damage, Burn It!, CA: 2d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1, 3) + 1 + 1 = 6 fire damage, and 4 fire splash damage (to target only), and ignore Lesser Cover fr Alchemist Goggles

Moderate Versatile Vial, w Alchemist Goggles, CA, MAP: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 5 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 1 - 5 = 21 vs Blue
Damage, Burn It!, CA: 2d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (2, 5) + 1 + 1 = 9 fire damage, and 4 fire splash damage (to target only), and ignore Lesser Cover fr Alchemist Goggles

She then draws her hand cannon.

◆ Quick Bomber w Far Lobber feat
◆ Quick Bomber w Far Lobber feat
◆ Interact to draw hand cannon

Nicole spends some time on the game table before she joins the others with the bartender, just in time to hear the warning about a certain Mother Forsythe.

"We'll keep that in mind," Nicole gives the bartender her assurance to heed the warning. She then waits for the others on where to go next.

Nicole makes herself pretty inside the gambling den, projecting as someone discreet but friendly at first, and then showing her interest about different games while chatting with them.
Diplomacy to Gather Information: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

Nicole asks people around, inside and outside the inn, gathering intel about the area. Diplomacy +9

"I miss Miss Bella and Khiari already..." Nicole murmurs, staring into the horizon after yet another stuffed rabbit introduces himself, though, once again, she can't quite make out his words. "Indeed. Underworld. In fact." are the only fragments she manages to catch from the poppet's first sentence, and does not mind listening the rest.

She hopes she'll eventually get the hang of the way these two poppet Pathfinders speak, but she's hesitant to ask them to repeat themselves, let alone admit to Vardarel that she has no idea what the poppets are talking about.