Zahra Senay's page

My husband and I retired to our Tiger Farm in Katapesh!

"Go Shelyn! She's the goddess with the best dance numbers!"

Angrboda Fossey wrote:

Do Tricks even matter for Animal/Plant/Vermin Companions who break the 3+ INT threshold?

Does their alignment change to match their (for want of a better word) master's if that is not Neutral Neutral?

My giant slug has achieved sapience....

I point you to the very long FAQ about intelligent animal companions. I don't believe the type of "animal" matters so this FAQ applies to all of them.

Tricks matter, and tricks are awesome. Even the IQ Six Paladin Mounts have to use the trick system. My Pumpkin has so many wonderful tricks that he can perform!

Hmm

A keleshite woman with a tiger by her side walks in to hug Gwendolyn. "My name is Zahra! I am from Kat-a-pesh, and I am very friendly! I am a sorcerer, too."

She prestidigitates confetti into the air. "Never mind my baby, Pumpkin! He is very friendly, too! I vas Hmm's first character in Pathfinder Society. Let's see if ve can help you get oriented!"

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If you click my avatar, you can see what a fully formatted Play-by-Post character looks like. My entire character sheet is there, including spells, skills, and gear. You can get your character formatted in BB code easily if you use HeroLab. Just export the character as BB code and cut and paste it into the 'about' space on the character form.

Don't have HeroLab? That's okay. Copy this PFS character template into your own google document, and edit it up for your own character. Then, cut and paste it into the 'about' space on the character form. This template can also be found in the PBP GM Kit (for Players too!)

I've been wondering that myself. Keith, is there anything we can do to help?

Hmm

As Amethyst strides by the sorceress, she turns towards her and snaps her huge, thick teeth at her. Her rider gives a gentle tug at her bridle and whispers into Ametheyst's ear and she lifts up her head and continues walking by her.

Zahra laughs. "Amethyst, you have better manners than that. How long have you been travelling with me?"

Then she turns to the others. "How about ve buff and prepare for battle, but give them a chance to surrender. If they do not take it, then ve respond as they do. Does this sound like a fair compromise?"

Pumpkin and I are updated!

Keith has a whole bunch of information in the Campaign tab, including a link to a character formatting template for those without Hero Lab.

If you do have Hero Lab, you can export BB code and copy paste it into your character profile.

By the way, Keith, I love how you named this campaign to hide it. Nice job!

Hmm

"My name is Zahra, and this is my baby, Pumpkin!" A dashing keleshite woman strides into the room, accompanied by a tiger. "My husband Omar should be here in a moment!"

I will try get my profile updated, with headers, soon.

If your character already has snowball as a spell known or recorded in a spellbook, make a one-time choice for that character whether to treat snowball as a conjuration spell or an evocation spell. For all other purposes, including spell resistance, use the updated spell description found in Ultimate Wilderness (also appearing in the Campaign Clarifications document for People of the North).

Thank you for letting Zahra (my conjuration specialist) keep Snowball as conjuration. She does appreciate it, even in the face of the other changes to the spell.

Hmm

It vas!

Oh, Rosc, you entertain me so. I’m so glad that Omar and I vill be playing Eyes of the Ten vith you!

Ward of the Season is nifty, no question! I really like that one. If only bards could cast it. Heck, if only Zahra could cast it without UMD. Not that she ever fails UMD checks. Being from Katapesh comes in handy.

:)

Hmm

So I am looking at applying a PFS GM Star Reward Sheet on Zahra, and the five star reward for Aram Zey, “the Spells Know All Secrets” is especially appealing to me. Open up a racial spell for all my PFS characters? Yes, please! Besides, Zahra has saved Aram Zey in a scenario so this boon resonates and makes character sense.

The only issue that I have is that my fantasies of opening up Windy Escape or Mudball are shot to heck. The boon only opens up racial spells from Chapter 1 of the Advanced Race Guide, which means that it is only open to core race racial spells.

So my darling fellow forumites, what do I pick? Right now, the gnomish spell “Recharge Innate Magic” is in the lead because it is a level one spell that just about every caster can trigger. I love bards, oracles and alchemists and all of them can cast it. It can be taken as a wand, and I could use it to get another use our some very interesting racial innate magics. It being suitable for a wand might be fitting too because Zahra knows that all wands love her. “I am from Kat-a-pesh! I am very friendly!”

But... I am open to your suggestions! If you coutld pick ONE racial spell from Chapter One of the Advanced Race Guide, for all your characters to possibly know... What would it be?

Hmm

Oh geez. Well, thanks, I guess?

You can join me in getting an excellent tattoo, Auris! Think of it as a fashion statement!

Does a character who plays "Eyes of the Ten" have to retire at the end of it? That's the "retirement arc," so I understand.

Nope. It is a retirement arc because it is played at the point that most PFS agents retire to run their lovely Tiger Farms. I vas planning to return to my Tiger Farm vhen I got called up for vun last mission...

Character deaths are reported online. You could mess with your chronicles, but a casual audit (which doesn't happen all that often, but still happens) would catch it. I do know of a couple GMs that do pre-game character audits for PBPs and I just had a mini-audit now that Zahra hit level 11, in her prelude to going into Eyes of the Ten.

I've also had to do audits when it's become really clear that a character is messed up -- usually in order to help them become legal to play again. This evening I watched someone be told that they had to buy the resources that they were using, or play a pregen. It was discovered in the course of the audit that they did not own the resources they were using.

They spent the first five minutes of the game buying PDFs. Don't be this person!

Hmm

My poor tiger. All I have on him is Mitrhal chain shirt. Oh well. At least my mage armor spell lasts most of the day now.

Sigh. I really wish this FAQ had not been so extreme.

Hmm

"Yes, I have a strength of seven, but I also have tiger! Pumpkin carries everything for me! He is such a good boy!"

Thanks, Ryan!

Hmm

Yay! Looking forward to seeing them!

Hmm

All of Paizo's connections are wonky. At the moment, the only way most people can get in is with a mobile signal.

Hmm

Zahra knows that box seats are as much as about being seen as doing the seeing. She garbs herself in an eye-catching gown with a very low draping back and a long flowing skirt, and enters the theatre with Omar on one side and her tiger, Pumpkin, on the other.

The performance is lovely. She can see Vrald relaxed and smiling, and watches as the others unwind. Even Faerunduil is surprisingly light hearted tonight.

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A few weeks later, she travels out to the swamp, for she has a promise to keep. She's not afraid. Not only are Omar and Pumpkin with her, but one of Pumpkin's cubs, a delightful scamp named Tora, is as well. Tora is in that slightly awkward adolescent age, almost adult, but with big eyes and feet a little large for her frame. Tora climbs a tree, but returns back with Zahra whistles. All the Senay tigers are impeccably trained.

She brushes Tora's fur, leans up against Omar, and then plays fetch with both tigers while she patiently waits for the Swampers who will surely come.

Zahra smiles up at Faeranduil. "Yes, that is true."

As the guards come to escort Olivina away, Zahra curtseys to her. "I vould very much like to see your performance but once news of your rescue gets out, every seat vill be sold out for veeks. Is there any vay your theatre can make room some day for six Pathfinders and vun very vell behaved tiger? It vould be a delight to see a true artist at vork, and I vould be villing to pay for a box seat.."

And... It would allow all of Karcau to see us, and witness the six Pathfinders who rescued their darling. The sight of us, displayed so publicly, would do much to quell the rumors circulating about our Lodge, and maybe uplift the reputation of the Society in this town.

"And if ve cannot see your show... Vell, ve vill read the glowing reviews in the papers, and think of you. Take care, Olivina."

Perhaps I have given us a good start here.

Zahra kneels down, offering her hand to Olivina. "You have had a horrid time, more than an artist like you should bear. My name is Zahra, and I and my husband preach the beauty of Shelyn." Zahra pulls out the wooden holy symbol she always bears, painted with a wooden thrush with a rainbow tail. "Ve believe in love, redemption and the need to uplift the vorld through art. Art shows truths that lie hidden; it makes sorrow easier to bear, and it helps all of us share our joy and sense of vonder."

"Miss Olivina, ve are not those who abducted and hurt you. Ve vere sent to find you, and ve have searched through svamps and other dark places. It vas to our great dismay to find that you vere imprisoned here by those who vished to lay the blame on the society. I do not understand yet vhy these darkfolk have done this, or vhat they hoped to gain... Maybe Zodarna can tell us."

She sighs. "Ve believe that ve, like you, have been led astray by the false clues of a master deceiver. Come judge us by our current actions. You vere under a glamour that made you look like a darkfolk casting a spell, but ve did not harm you. In fact, ve have not killed Zodarna nor any creature but the horrid demon that that she summoned. Ve vant you healthy, free and restored to once again be the greatest ornament of this village of voices."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (17) + 17 = 34

We had a discussion about this in the previous multi table special. I think the general consensus was doing NL would be pushing the companion to do a trick they were not trained in.

Hence the 41 Handle Animal Check to push.

Okay, I still had a move action. Plenty of time to pull out a stone..

Mine has been spinning around my head. I only needed the darkvision spell because of the scry.

Hmm

Faerunduil should be able to see because of Zahra's heightened continual flame which has not been cancelled. Yet.
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Zahra casts vine strike on her tiger.

Handle Animal to push Pumpkin to attack non-lethally: 1d20 + 21 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 21 + 4 = 41

"Pumpkin, attack but no kill!"

Will Save: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Oh no. As the veil lifts, Zahra suddenly sees that the person that she ordered Pumpkin to grapple was not an enemy caster but a bound and gagged prisoner, and the very woman they were sent to rescue: Olivina Sharnau.

She does not recognize the Norborger mask, but when Omar names them, she remembers the foul reputation of that cult. Deceivers all. The whole mean plot comes to her in a flash: bring them to their very own lodge, and have them kill and slay the beloved songbird of Karcau.

Her face heats up and she feels a dual sort of rage. As a member of the Grand Lodge, as a Shelynite, she is FURIOUS. "You've set us up! You've used illusions and trickery to glamour Olivina so that ve vould kill the very person ve meant to rescue. Vell, no more!"

Zahra is steps into the room to get a better view of the vicious beast now dripping in chains. She casts glitterdust on both the Kyton and the darkfolk cleric. A cloud of golden particles bursts over Kyton and the cleric, covering them in a shimmering and hopefully blinding mass of pretty, pretty glitter.

DC 21, Will Save, No Spell Resistance

"Pumpkin, let her go. Attack that thing!'" Zahra points at the now hopefully blinded Kyton, and orders Pumpkin to attack him.

Knowledge Local: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

"I don't like this," Zahra says. "Vhatever ve do, let's not kill. Ve are missing something."

Zahra casts hideous laughter on the spell caster, hoping to stop the spell without hurting them.
[DC 19]

Then she gives an order to Pumpkin, pointing. "Pumpkin, grapple."

Zahra moves again, calling Pumpkin to her, and still readying a magic missle for when the shadow reemerges.

Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18 Success! Only 7 damage

Zahra calls Pumpkin to her and readies a Magic Missile for when the Shadow emerges again.

Magic Missile: 5d4 + 5 ⇒ (2, 1, 1, 2, 2) + 5 = 13

GM of Anyhing, is that Blue creature evil? If he's evil, he takes 5d4 ⇒ (3, 1, 3, 4, 3) = 14 damage whether he makes his save or not.

As her free action, Zahra commands Pumpkin, "Flank vith Vrald and Attack Non-Lethal!"

She auto-makes her Handle Animal to Push Pumpkin to attack non-lethally.

For next round:

The field is too crowded for Burst of Radiance. She readies her Magic Missile Spell against the Shadow when it emerges next.

Zahra approaches where she can see, and readies a burst of radiance for when that Shadow comes out again. She wants to catch both the Shadow and the Darkfolk in the same burst.

Zahra stares at the muddy footprints. "Who vould do this to a Keleshite rug?"

Pulling out her wand of Residual Tracking, she casts the spell on the footprint and grins. "Let's find out, shall ve?"

I thought I indicated that Zahra and Pumpkin were following the rest?

Zahra frowns unhappily to see the Closoi costumes there. "It is starting to look like Lesiege vas right about this. No vonder she didn't want us staying in the lodge."

Zahra and Pumpkin follow. "Then let us go. Vill ve be sneaking into our own lodge?"

Dealing with Real Life stuff today. I'll try to be back Wednesday. Bot me.

Hmm

Zahra nods. "There could be a number of reasons for the Darkfolk sneaking about. I vould like our lodge to be innocent in this manner, but Omar and I have seen a couple of instances vhere good Pathfinders have lost their vay. If somevun in our lodge is causing problems, ve should find it now so that ve can get them back to the right path. And if another group is trying to implicate us, then ve must clear our name."

"You are our native guide. Ve vill follow you and trust your experience here, Garinol." Zahra sighs. "This is not the first time ve have sought creatures hiding in a Pathfinder Lodge. Did anyvun else think it was strange that our Venture Captain did not vant us to stay there?"

Trusting her husband's judgment, Zahra comes to a decision, trusting her gut. She curtseys deeply to Zeffiro Lesiege. "I think then that ve may be in error coming here. The stonevork does not match; this lord has been nothing but honest and forthcoming vith us. The clues must lie elsevhere. Lord Lesiege, thank you so much for your understanding and for your time. You have been most helpful."

Zahra gives Lesiege a dazzling smile, and then whistles to her tiger. "Pumpkin, let us go. Ve shall bother this man no further." Then she holds out a hand to Omar and nods to the others. "Come. Maybe ve vill find the clues ve seek at the lodge itself."

With a sweep of her skirts, she starts walking out of the manor like the Keleshite princess she is.

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This may be the wrong path, but this man has done nothing other than have racy art and wild companions. I will not murderhobo nor impose myself on what appears to be an innocent man.

Zahra holds the substance out to Faerunduil. "Can you tell us vhat this is, friend?"

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16 Nope.

"Mr. Lesiege, please... give us vun moment more, and then ve vill leave."

Zahra looks up at him, beseechingly. "I believe there may be a misunderstanding. Vhen I talked of secrets and layers, I vas talking of the city and its architecture. Karcau is honeycombed vith underground passagevays. Perhaps there are some under this very building. I meant no insult to you. Let me show you vhat I saw vhen I scried, because perhaps you might recognize the stonevork or see something here that I missed?"

Zahra casts a silent image of the vision she saw of Olivinia tied up, and the Dark Caller. "See this voman? She is a Dark Caller, one of the priestesses of the Dark Folk. She has Olivinia prisoner. The most famous songbird of Karcau, city of music, tied up and gagged. Gagged!" Zahra shakes slightly as she says this. As a Keleshite, as an avid follower of Shelyn, the idea of a silencing an artist, especially a female one, is horrifying to her. She continues, a great sadness in her voice. "I assure you sir... Our intentions are only honorable. Please help us. Do you see anything here in this image that might tell us vhere this is?"

She pauses, thoughtfully. "Also, you spoke of a lair? Could you tell us vhere this is?"

Zahra curtsies. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lesiege. Everyone says you are one of the leading lights of this city vhere so many shine so brightly. Ve are on a mission of mercy, trying to find Lady Olivinia... another leading light. Ve know she is nearby, but this is a city of many layers and secrets. If you vould be so gracious as to let us continue our search, ve vill try to not be any trouble to you and your guests."

Zahra auto-aids Diplomacy attempts.

"These statues are so beautiful." Zahra looks around, curiously. "Are there any footprints around here? Perhaps that might tell us more about who vas here. Does it look like the party vas recent?"

Zahra pulls out her own wand while her husband is busy with his own. After all, all wands love her. She's from Katapesh, where everyone's very friendly.

CLW Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
CLW Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
CLW Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

4 charges of CLW

"Does anyvun else need healing?"

Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Zahra jumps out of the path of the fireball, and then looks at the two clockwork mages. "Ve really need to kill vun of these things and they have spell resistance, so..." She gathers magical energy, packing it into an ice snowball and throws it straight at Red.

Snowball, RTA: 1d20 + 7 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 7 + 2 - 4 = 22
Cold Damage: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 6, 2, 4) = 21

"أشرب الأصفر واحد، اليقطين!" Zahra says, ordering Pumpkin the grapple the yellow construct.

As soon as Pumpkin moves in, she casts haste.

"Ow!" Zahra feels the explosion hit her, but fortunately she was able to jump partly out of the way of the blast.

Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

"They are clockvork mages! They have spell resistance, but are vulnerable to electricity!"