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I am not familiar with Blades in the Dark. However I built an occultist based on a Shadowrun Adept (if that is what they were called). Shadowrun setting seems to have a lot of similarities to the Blades.
She is fun to play, and with some modifications (& level up) might make a good fit.
I have lots of short story experience. I hope I can find a good sample of a 'descriptive' PbP-post from her, but there are plenty in the GM & other characters if you look at my profile.
That is, if you have room for another.

Thanks GM Nowruz!
Thanks everyone. I enjoy the game more when the risks get high, they did for Vornsk :)

. Heading to polls will post more after training.

V awakens after the amazing Guy's second curing. "Tank you, friend," she bows.
She retrieves the wand she dropped, and finishes healing herself.
She will use the cure light wounds wand on anyone else who needs it.
14+CLW x5: 5d8 + 5 ⇒ (6, 1, 6, 5, 4) + 5 = 27, plus CLW x3: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (1, 3, 2) + 3 = 9 plus CLWx3: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (1, 4, 8) + 3 = 16 = full hp (11 charges)

"I have tis one too," Vornsk produces another wand. "Tis let you speak like everyone." comprehend languages (I forgot I had it until I looked at my talisman. :p ).

DC 15: stabilize?: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Not that the others would know, but V has a talisman against death

I did screw up a couple of things. Sudden speed is a focus power adding 30 feet to my land speed. Spider climb gives me a climb speed of 20 feet. I was figuring a movement of 60 feet when it should have been 20. Secondly, I was counting climb as half speed, when it should be quarter speed. In short I could get to them with a spring attack, but not away, and that means I could not spring attack the second time (you can't spring attack a target adjacent to you at the start of your turn).

My R3 actions would instead translate into a standard attack plus a move to the bottom of the pillar, which does provoke from one (or both). If that is the case, I could be dropped & will have to rely on mobility to survive! :) AC 23 (token updated to new/corrected location)

What have fireball and lightning done to the books and scrolls if anything?

... and runs back down the pillar. ...

I should be back at ground level. (phhffttt... who needs foresight? :) And distortion lasts until I make an attack. This means the third attack from Red was also a hit, putting V at 23/66 hp (down 43).

I really hope they do not have rend!

Vornsk rushes up the pillar to strike the lower of the two beasts then down the pillar, and under the stairs. Her stripped tail produces a wand as she gets there.

spring attack. hellcat gauntlet: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (3) + 13 = 16, piercing: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 plus bleed. Free action to retrieve a wand.

If the higher of the two (orange) has a reach of 10 feet this will provoke an AoO, but I think it is blind. If it does AoO, mobility makes V's AC 23.

Deaf, distortion, sudden speed, spider climb, invisibility.
Best I strike now. she whispers.

Vornks runs up the pillar like a cat. Reaching the top, she strikes at the orange-feathered lion, losing invisibility as she does and runs back down the pillar. Emerald eyes ablaze at the danger facing her.

"I hope I am not alone."

spring attack against the orange sphinx, hopefully flat footed.
Hellcat Gauntlet: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26, piercing: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 plus bleed.

Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
I didn't realize I was the party's front liner. :)

** spoiler omitted **

All except of Smarmy are up. You will need to move at least 20 ft to get to the map. Roll kn arcana when you can see the enemy. Please indicate your light source. They are 40 ft in the air.

(my emphasis)

Then I'm going to say that Guy did not cast a light spell. He would not have ruined the sneaking that way and he didn't need it until now.

Vornsk would suggest casting light on an item that can be covered, then uncover it when needed. ;)

Vornsk calls upon the power of the hellcat gauntlet granting her extra speed. Then dashes further into the room.

Stealth: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (1) + 18 = 19 +invisible

Darkvision. Sudden speed (standard & 1 mental focus point) adds thirty feet to my move speed, stealth to the corner (move).

Vornsk covers herself in tendrils of shadows & when they blow away she is also gone. Cast invisibility as a standard action.

"Te jungle breats!" she shouts in warning. "Hiercosp'inx" The Tien woman may never have uttered that word before and she only hopes she is pronouncing it correctly.

Kn (arcana): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
Vornsk will want to know about defenses (weaknesses, resistances, immuniTies,DR). But mostly wants to know if they are hostile.

If I can't tell I will default to the 'not hostile' option.

Vornsk sneaks down the steps. Count to twenty, ten follow me.
stealth: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 22

Vornsk retreats down the wall and back to the hall with the (hopefully) final key.

Vornsk rolls her eyes before spending her trap-springer host into the room. Her spider climb is still active so she prepares to climb up to the onyx to avoid the sand. Once it is safe to do so.

I may have another option, how high is the onyx from the floor?

Escape artist: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 5 + 2 = 8 err....

Appropriate for Vornsk as my darkest PFS character. Not so appropriate for the character that likes to remain hidden ;)

BOOON!: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Guys, I won a pitch and the next two weeks will be crazy because of work.

I am very sorry but I will need to pause the game for 11 days. :-(

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Or.... there IS time for tea!

"Tese gems are pretty. Vornsk agrees with Alisa. But do not be short-sighted. If te key is tis valuable, imagine te wealt behind te lock!" Playing on a hunch she fishes some rope from her pack and moves to the door with Smarmy. "And tis is no time for tea."

Tough I am sure it is delicious tea!

Check for traps: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29

Tea would be nice.

''Tis one be eart yes?" and then "Smarmy Xilt? You want to take a tis one?"

If not Vornsk will start with a decoy, minor figment, DC 17.

Vonrsk casts a spell and watches as a copy of Opahara moves down the hall.

Vornsk nods approvingly, "Tat would have taken me much longer."

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The tiefling moves up to the edge and studies the columns.
KN (engineering): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
spider climb will last for 90 minutes total.

"Does te jungle breat?" Vornsk looks at the walls, wondering if these will provide as much as pain as the first room.

I hope I am not stealing anyone's thunder. It is hard to tell with PbP if I am overstepping my bounds. If I am not giving someone a chance to jump in please let me know! Or the GM if you want anonymity.

The tiefling stares at the mephit in confusion. She is used to working alone & has to work to remember what the rules of 'cooperate' mean. Finally, she straitens as if solving a puzzle!

"Please?"

as a player I would have asked. Please realize I as a player agree with the familiar's refusal on courtesy alone & hope I didn't offend by making an order in character :(.

Vornsk shrugs, the interchange enforcing her mistrust of the mephit. Then retrieves a wand and works its magic a couple of times. The cat like tail takes the wand and stows it away.
UMD: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17, cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
UMD: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28, cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Then she casts a spell and tiger stripes begin glowing on the gauntlet. THe same amber stripes form on her other arm and also her feet, the magic allowing her to climb the wall hands free.

spider climb. (57/66 hp) What else do you need? Here is an extra d20 for whichever skill mighty Be useful :)
??: 1d20 ⇒ 13

"Tis safe now." she points to the winged party member. "Be useful please."

Reflex: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
24-5 47/66

Anything I can learn?
Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
Disable Device: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (15) + 18 = 33

Vornsk will continue sneaking around the outside of the room,

Stealth: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 22
Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

If nothing happens before she is next to the door again, she will attempt to climb the wall to reach the ruby.

Climb: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15

If that also fails to illicit a response she takes a calming breath,
...and steps into the inner circle....

I am on my tablet & can't affect the map, but since I tried three things, GM please place my token where ever appropriate. :)

KN (arcana): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

Nothing for it, but to try I suppose. y'all are with me I presume.

Vornsk steps into the room as soon as her allies are near enough to the door for back up. She activates the shadowy magic once again to hide her physical presence and attempts to sneak a little to the right.
Stealth: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (10) + 18 = 28

Vornsk nods and takes the wand. Dark tendrils of shadow flow from the now-donned mask, and the wand spills it magic onto Guy. "Wands. Better tan party's for me." She hands the wand back to Guy.

Kn (religion): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
Kn (planes): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
UMD: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

"Te mosaic’s horned man represents Asmodeus and te flaming woman represents Sarenrae."

Kn (arcana): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16
Linguistics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

"Tese scripts correspond each to one of te elemental languages. None tat I speak tough.

EDIT:
Vornsk moves to the east hall with the ingan writing and looks for clues.
Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

You keep a vault so secret even oter cities do not know it's location, in a foreign nation in te very embassy tose oter cities all have access too? Vornsk lets out a sigh that hopefully sounds more impressed than it does dubious.

I would also like to know more about the magic as I imagine it is going to take us off the island.

Before you drink tat Baron, you may want to put on your oter gear.

Anyone else want to change out of their fineries, don armor, locate their lockpicks & wands, or cast spells before entering?

I took that first line to be in answer to our questions, and the second line an inclusion of the rest of the group. If I read that wrong and wasn't invited, I will respect her wishes and not enter. :)

Ahh... Now I know why I am sent on tis mission. Like in te old days. Some one needs work done tat should not be seen. So I work in te shadows. I run in te shadows.*

"Does te jungle breat? Vornsk asks this meaning is there danger in the jungle, is it safe? "Is it illegal also for us to be tere as well?

If she can Vornsk will leave the potions for others and approach the circles to study them for a minute. object reading suceeding at a spellcraft check.

*Vornsk is based on a Shadowrun character :)

Vornsk, the red assassin is invisble and gone.

Yeah, but Ceralan didn't know that. >:) So that was a major image to force a surrender.

Turning to their host, Vornsk asks, "Who is real Ceralan? Do you know tis imposter? You had look of brief recognition."

Vornsk shrugs, "Maybe you kill us, maybe we kill you. Maybe we keep you for talking. You never say why you attack us or our host." She walks to the pit and tosses the red server into the acid. The unconscious man splashes down but makes only spasmaodic jerks as his body begins to dissolve into a thick liquid and smokey vapors.

"No," she says, "No talk. We just kill you."

casting major image. DC 18 Will + interaction to realize illusion. V avoids the slopes edge of the pit.

Vornsk asks "You come hide wit me Lady Ofarah?" She reaches into her vest where her hand disappears but it comes back with the heavy-looking gauntlet. She takes a moment to pull the gauntlet over her silver gloves taking a step closer to the west. "Peace knot-time is over yes?"
standard retrieve gauntlet, move action to wield & step 5 ft. Vornsk will continue talking to their host even though she no-longer knows where their host actually is.

Bluff: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Vornsk rushes to their host and casts as spell. Shadaowy tendrils climb from her hand to Ofarah, quickly covering her whole body. When the shadows disappear, so has Ofarah!

"I hide you, come wit me!" she whispers.

Moving past Blue provoking an AoO (mobility); casting invisibility, which will also provoke from Blue.

hmmm... I am at the end of the round, so the positioning might not quite work? Ofarah might get a will save, against invisibility if she doesn't realize that is what I am doing?.

In case I can't post later...
Vornsk clicks the crystal at her neck setting it to spin. As it turns the refracted light dances across and then through her form making her exact placement difficult to determine.
standard to activate her 15% distortion

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 10 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 10 + 3 = 20
"You two are friends childhood? Maybe the elixer is good to you to be childs with elves?
Hearing the comment about the elven features, and at Cerelan's deflection, Vornsk tries to coax some better details from either. As a deceptive illusionist she takes a discerning look at the elf through the hooka haze.Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19

Vornsk catches the eye of Guy & nods to say she also saw... something.

*
The Irrisen left also?

Ack!

Well wishes!
(or... good luck on that interview?)

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 10 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 10 + 3 = 27

Vornsk is taken aback by Gaspar's braggish claims. If one could swing a sword once every tree seconds--more likely once in six seconds--and every swing was instantly letal as he claims, te war would not have lasted four years. Vornsk blows air quietly through pursed lips. ppht

Was tat out loud?

Mistress, I am a guest here, I do not come to brag of my accomplishments. Can I just say that my discretion is one of my proudest attributes?

Not expecting that to work to get everyone's eyes off her, the quiet occultist has a story ready. "Tough, I expect a good meal such as tis is worty of a good story, no?" She smiles bashfully, but addresses their hostess.

"It was not I, but we, tough I am proud of my part in it, so I shall tell you about te ghosts haunting te Varisian city Magnimar, te 'City of Monuments'. Restless spirits, dark rituals and bloodtirsty cultists terrorized te night.

"The mayor turned to us, Patfinders, to find and deal wit te issue. We visited almost a dozen monuments to sanctify tem. One time in battle, but anoter time trough dance, and ten by prayer, and by vigilance we restored sanity to the city's guardian spirit of Ordellia. She led us to an azata tat cultists planned to sacrifice. Vornsk draws on the power of the Khyber crystal and shadowy tendrils form into a blue skin man with black markings and butterfly wings. It looks strikingly similar to a scar she now bears.

"But we saved him, quelled te treat, and he warned us, tat te true culprit was still out tere. A malevolent will-o’-wisp called Tulvhata was corrupting te Glade of te Silver Spark. It was proud for me, because te Azata trusted me wit his power and I was able use it and to transform when we later dealt with te creature." She pauses before continuing, and looks up at Ofarah as if coming back to herself. "Tat was mostly battle so will not bore you wit te detail."

A mental focus point spent to create a minor figment. *phew* after a spiel like that I expect this professional sneak needs to roll something... :) Fortitude to not cast vanish perhaps?!? :)

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 10 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 10 + 3 = 26
Business boters Ofara? Or is it business talk during dinner? Give me a good safe, it would be easier to crack!

Vornsk watches quietly sensing her time will soon come and hopes to have an appropriately diplomatic response prepared.
Sense Motive (Chelish): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Sense Motive (Witches): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

Infernally Temed? She doesn't like tat... Perhaps she may tink I am infernal-temed. Vornsk's tail twitches nervously behind her chair.

Can you put names with the photos on the slides? I see a Aaqir al'Hakam described above but not a yala?

Vornsk Tsks at the countess flirtations. As dinner begins she turns to Gabapentin "Tat is too free wit her affections. Broken many hearts she has, by treating people like tings not peoples. Protect your heart and your dignity. Avoid tat lady. She warns the merchant.

Bluff: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Vornsk struggles with the soup course falling through her fork and the salad course from falling off her spoon.

knowledge local
Yala: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Gaspard: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Cerelun: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29

Vornsk moves to the the table, bowing to Zarta Dralneen along the way. "Mistress, I look forward to working wit you again." The tien tiefling then sits next to Gaspard. "Pleasure to meet you,"
do you want avatar's at the table on the slides?
I checked my boons for nobles and had nothing, but I do have several that allow for reroll on Diplomacy checks.

Kn history: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
better here than a Save :)