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I received my corrected sheet, thank you again for running!

GM, I rolled a Day Job three posts before yours.

Day Job (Crafts: Mechanical) + Crafter's Fortune: 1d20 + 12 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 12 + 5 = 27

Thanks for running!

"Yeah, drop your weapon and surrender unconditionally and we'll hear you out." Van says a little too quickly.

Van avoids commanding the armor again to prevent it from getting in the way of the others, but he does cast a Grease spell under the remaining enemies, using his arcane reservoir to strengthen the spell.

Spent 1 arcane reservoir to increase the spell DC with the Potent Magic exploit.

It's a DC 17 Reflex save for the Grease spell. I placed a yellow box to indicate its position.

Also, don't forget about Haste everyone! That is, +1 to attacks, +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves, +30 speed (+20 if small). One additional attack if taking a full round attack action.

"Hey armor, go beat down the other construct over there." Van suggests to the suit, indicating his intention by pointing to the robot. He then moves east to see through the doorway and casts Ear-Piercing Scream on the female spellcaster.

Sonic Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 5) = 11

She gets a DC 15 Will save. If she succeeds, she takes half damage. If she fails, she takes full damage and is dazed for 1 round.

Since Van cast Haste on everyone, those affected by Slow would just have Haste cancelled on them

"Hey armor, go attack one of the people in the other room." Van suggests casually to the suit of armor before casting Haste on the group.

Haste in effect on everyone. +1 to attacks, +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves, +30 speed (+20 if small). One additional attack if taking a full round attack action.

"Help us fight the Technic League, magic armor." Van says to the ambulatory suit. "It's not quite a robot, but it'll work in a pinch. Just open the south door guys."

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

If Van doesn't spot anything weird on the way inside the room, he checks the area with Detect Magic.

I'm assuming we have knowledge of the full map, so Van will lead to that location. If not, he'll pick a random door.

"Let's head to Sharrowsmith's office so we can start reactivating the defenses." Van suggests as he makes towards the hall that leads to that location.

"Yeah, can't say I'm surprised." Van chuckles nervously as he pulls out his spellbook and switches his Dispel Magic spell out for Haste.

Spent 1 arcane reservoir point to switch a spell as per the Quick Study exploit.

"I knew you were a reasonable man. Pleasure doing business with you, pal!" Van replies with a pleased grin as he pulls out his coin purse from his haversack.

"Any way you could give us a bigger discount since we've been so helpful so far? It would help us out a lot if you could do a 25% discount. You might have lost a lot of money if we let those thugs have their way with the place." Van counteroffers smoothly with a pleasant smile.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Re: Exchange Faction Card. I'm going to assume I'm safe in saying Van can tick off 'Resolve a combat encounter nonviolently through diplomacy, trickery, bribery, or a similar tactic' due to this encounter. If the GM doesn't see it that way, please let me know.

"Yeah, I think its better if we just pay these guys and work out the rest with the shopkeeper, but if you start throwing punches I ain't going to stop you." Van adds with a shrug.

"If we each give these guys 25 gold pieces, they'll leave us alone and we won't have to fight them. We'll be helping the shopkeeper out too, and that's cool, right?" Van explains slowly to the group.

"That sounds cool to me, but let me talk to my associates for a minute." Van replies with a snap of his fingers, then looks to other Pathfinders for any objections.

Van nearly collapses when given a strong pat on the back from Skug. He looks up with venom, but quickly regains his cool after a moment. "Yo, valuable merchandise here. Let's try not to break anything I need for spellcasting." He says to the half-orc.

The gnome then turns his attention to the loan sharks, "Hey cats, maybe we can negotiate our way through this. Can we give you a deposit on the money he owes you for now to give him another week to get the rest? You seem like reasonable business people, I'm sure we can make some kind of deal."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

While the barbarians engage in diplomacy, Van casts Detect Magic on the room.

Van can use wands of Infernal Healing on whoever needs it.

"Yeah, let's go find the stuff we need to fortify the lodge. These Technic League cats really mean business."

"Hey Sal, the name's Van. Short names are the best, aren't they? Anyway, so like Iso asked, what gives about the whole kidnapping thing?" Van asks as he goes through the magical items found on the enemies.

If there is any consumable loot that nobody wants that's level 2 or higher, Van would like to take it to consume it for arcane reservoir points. If you guys want to keep everything for now, that's cool too.

Looking dissatisfied that none of the enemies were now on the floor, Van instead fires his Magic Missile wand at the closest guard still standing. If no guards remain, he instead moves behind Mavarion.

MM wand CL 3rd, 39 charges left: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 2) + 2 = 5

Otherwise, double move to one square west of Mav.

Doing some research, I might not be able to trip more than one target with Toppling Spell. If the GM agrees with that assessment, I'll just try to trip the one south of Skug, but still damage all three of them to make things easier to keep track of.

I'll redirect the magic missiles last round to the guy who's most hurt since there is no line of sight on the oread.

Van concentrates for a few moments, then casts Magic Missles, sending 1 bolt at each of the three guards. Enhanced with meta-magic, the strong force magic threatens to knock them on their backs.

Using the Toppling Spell Metamagic to bring Magic Missile up to a level 2 spell. I receive a chance to trip each guard that takes damage, which is all three of them. If one of them is dead already, sending two to the guard closest to Van.

Damage to North Guard: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Trip attempt vs North Guard CMD: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

Damage to Middle Guard: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Trip attempt vs Middle Guard CMD: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

Damage to South Guard: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Trip attempt vs South Guard CMD: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

I must have made the RNG mad.

Van moves into the building and use his enhanced Magic Missile wand against the Oread.

MM damage if not Shielded: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 4) + 2 = 8

40 charges left on wand

Sorry about the confusion, and thank you for the clarification.

"Yeah, that sounds good. You okay Rand or do you want to come with us?"

"Hey Rand, the name's Van. Glad we could rescue you from those weirdos. Anyway, assuming you're doing okay, do you still have the book or what? Do you know where it is now?" Van inquires as he puts his wand back on his belt.

Deciding not to risk firing a ray through the dogpile of his companions, Van fires two more Magic Missiles from his wand at the enemy.

MM wand CL 3rd: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 1) + 2 = 4

41 charges left on Magic Missile wand.

If the ambusher is not already down, Van advances 5 feet at casts Ear-piercing Scream at him. The gnome then observes, "This is getting annoying."

Sonic Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 5) = 9

He's also Dazed for 1 round unless he makes a DC 15 Fort Save. If he make the save, he also only takes half damage.

Van moves to get a better view of the battlefield and fires two Magic Missiles at the gelatinous cube from his wand.

MM damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 = 10

42 charges left on CL 3 MM wand.

"It's a gelatinous cube, it absorbs its prey and paralyzes them inside of it to eat them. Any sort of weapon or attack should work on it."

Will post Van's actions after some of the others have gone.

Van tries to identify the ooze before he begins lobbing magic at it. If successful, he shares what he knows with the group.

Knowledge (dungeoneering): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Special abilities, resistances/immunities, DR in that order.

Van advances north 20 feet until he can see the metal man, and nods his head in recognition. "Yo guys, check this out. That metal guy is a gearsman robot. Use adamantine weapons on it if you got 'em, and electricity fries them better than other elements, although the guy can put a nasty charge on any weapon he's carrying. If you don't kill them, they can heal themselves eventually."

With the melee combat apparently well in hand, Van uses his higher caster level wand of Magic Missile against the gearsman.

CL 3 MM Wand: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 2) + 2 = 7

43 charges left on wand.

Van has the Technologist Feat, so he can identify robots.

Knowledge (engineering) to ID robot once Van sees it: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25

Van moves into the warehouse while equipping himself with his more powerful wand of Magic Missile.

If the Alarm is magical:

Van pulls out his spellbook and concentrates for a few moments. Nodding to himself, he casts Dispel Magic on the alarm area.

Spending 1 arcane reservoir point to change out lightning bolt for dispel magic.

Dispel Magic caster level check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

"Eh, we're going to probably have to do this the hard way."

Van casts Detect Magic if Mylvwara does not already. If the trap is magical, he offers, "I can try to dispel it, but I'll need about 10 seconds."

Sense Motive: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (13) - 1 = 12

"Yeah, maybe we can pretend to have a delivery and Mavarion slips inside. I have a technological gadget that might fool them long enough to open the door."

Using his Prestidigitation to juggle colored lights for the entertainment of the bar while his allies throw coin around, Van attempts to survey the crowd to find more information about the missing Rand and/or the location of the Technic League in the city.

Diplomacy + aid: 1d20 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 8 + 6 = 24

A little morose from being out in the jungle again, Van mostly keeps to himself on the journey out of the city. Although when Mavarion quickly makes a bridge simply by concentrating, the gnome is suitably impressed, "Cool trick, my man, cool trick."

Van joins the gregarious barbarian in the tavern in the hopes of getting the scoop on Rand. Although it offends his cool sensibilities, he includes some parlor tricks with Prestidigitation to make friends and influence people. At the very least, now everyone has clean clothes.

Diplomacy (gather information): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

That's a 30 with Iso's aid. I guess everyone likes fresh laundry.

Sorry, I missed that. That's a 20 then, at least!

"Hey, nice place you got here. We're hoping you could help us out as we try to find a co-worker of ours, but we'd be happy to purchase one of your fine floral arrangements."

Diplomacy + aid from Belvica: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 8 + 2 = 18

As per the PFS FAQ, using Infernal Healing wands doesn't turn you evil: Here is a link to it.

Although many individual PC's do have issues with it from an in character perspective or are paladins, etc.

No worries, Van figures the timeline issues stem from his participation in events in The Sky Key Solution.

"Takna first sounds swell to me. Let's go." Van says in agreement.

"It seems pretty clear, we should start with talking to your contacts to find this Rand guy. Thanks for all the good information." Van says with a snap of his fingers.

"So, do you have any leads on where Rand might have disappeared to? Any known associates or favorite hangouts we can check out to try to find this guy? Where was he seen last?" Van asks, surmising the current objective was to find the missing Pathfinder.

Yikes, it appears I'm having another case of Temporal Recursion. It seems to be focused on Sharrowsmith, I need to stop taking missions to Garund.

Van seems to be lost in his thoughts as the group arrives and makes its way through the city and to the bazaar. "I mean seriously, you cats talk more than a faerie dragon on pesh."