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We made it through this on the first try, but barely. Also, we didn't replace the summoned henchman with ships, so maybe we need to asterisk the victory.

Four players, Seoni, Bekah, Tarlin and Darago. It came down to the last turn. Two open locations, and we know where the villain is. The other location is covered. Five cards in the deck. A periscope has allowed us see that the villain is second from the bottom. Darago has 2 blessings, Tarlin has one. Bekah, who has the last turn, has two allies to explore again -- not enough to meet the villain. First explore turns up a monster, so we summon a ship, and Bekah purposefully fails. Ship is wrecked, deck is shuffled. Tarlin casts augury, names monster, one monster but no villain in top three cards. Monster goes to bottom, other cards get shuffled. Bekah uses ally to explore again, encounters villain! Darago uses leaf blessing (can't remember the name) to ensure temp close. Villain summons ship, which Bekah has to beat, or we have to discard from empty blessings deck and we lose. We use a blessing on the ship check, which ends up being ~60% to succeed. Check is successful. Seoni casts black spot on villain and Tarlin plays blessing. Again, check is about 60% to win, and Bekah succeeds. Phew, by the skin of our teeth! So much fun...

We found this one really easy, although we did get a bit lucky with henchman near the top of some piles. Also, unless we read it wrong, the initial setup is with N+1 locations instead of the normal N+2, isn't it? Compared to the S&S box scenario with the similar rule, this was a breeze.

Oh no, how embarrassing! I thought we were on 1-D. Guess it was actually 1-C. Sorry all.

We (at Strategies in Vancouver, BC) had a fairly disastrous failure at this last week. Four characters: Darago, Agna, Tarlin and Valeros. Things started out fairly well, finding and defeating the villain early on. Soon after, we found the villain again with an explore effect that allowed us to leave the villain on top. Then a series of not much happening, with plenty of bad rolls.

We don't find a henchman until we have 8 turns left. It's the last card in the deck, and Tarlin takes two rolls at closing the location, failing both. As a group, we only have 1 blessing in hand, so we hold onto it.

Agna takes a roll at closing and fails. Darago takes a roll and fails. 5 turns left.

(I think all of the failures were d8+1 against 6 -- 6% chance of failing 4 in a row.)

Valeros can't close the location, so does something else. 4 turns left. Only one location closed, one open location is empty.

We worry that we can't win, but then realize we have one shot: Tarlin closes empty location with our only blessing, draws one blessing. Agna moves to location (don't remember the name) where acquiring a boon allows another character to move. She encounters BotG, moves Tarlin to cover open location. 2 turns left, 2 blessings in hand. Darago encounters villain. Valeros and Agna auto-temp-close locations, Tarlin has 2d10 against 6. 90% chance of success. Rolls a 3. Villain is defeated and escapes to open location and we have no hope on Valeros's last turn.

We try again tonight!

Somewhat related to this... I filled in a couple of session reports for our games at my local store. If I go to the "Sessions" tab on the "My Pathfinder Society" page, I can see both player sessions for my character and GM sessions for both scenarios we've played, but I don't see anything when I click on either my character or "Sessions" on the "Player" tab. Does anyone else have any info on their player tab? Have I done something wrong?