Okay, bear with me on this . . . I'm nearly asleep as it is, and this is the first time I've written a journal so it might not be the best.
Started up Burnt Offerings tonight with a buddy of mine. Yes, that's right a buddy, not a group of buddies. In the past, our gaming group has shifted in numbers as far as hoe many people could or would show up. He and I were the only consistent gamers. So I told him, "How about if I keep pathfinder in my bag, and the next time everyone else pulls a no-show, I run you through a solo adventure?" He agreed . . . I just figured I'd still have a few weeks before everyone bailed on us.
So . . . we started off rolling up a character for him. He asked for point buy on stats and asked for an extra amount of points cause I wasn't going to be scaling anything (my theory is that since he'll be getting four times the xp, the bell curve will let him catch up fast). I let him take 93 point straight buy.
So, he make a Female Human (Minkai) Swashbuckler that plans on taking at least one level of Dervish, named Miwa.
Miwa is at least one generation removed from the lands of her heritage, and so while she was taught to speak Minkain (Minkai-ese?)by her parents, she really has no ties to her ancestral homeland (and has no idea that the Kaijitsu family is in exile and such.)
Burnt Offerings started off with the goblin raid (of course) and Miwa preformed exceptionally, easily carving her way through part one.
For Local Heroes, miwa remained modest, insisting that she didn't do anything heroic at all. After the boar hunt she was convinced that Foxglove is about ready to propose to her when she eventually visits him in Magnimar . . . I guess I didn't stress how annoying he got to be.
For Shayliss . . . Miwa was able to talk her way out of getting pummeled by Shayliss's father. But Shayliss herself broke out in tears declaring how much she hated Miwa at that point, (didn't get high enough diplomacy to make everyone happy).
So then, after defeating the goblin in the closet, Miwa found out that Mr Vinder's punishment for Shayliss was to tend the general store until he died of old age. so Miwa went to keep Shayliss company.
Not quite expecting this, I'm not sure how well I played up Shayliss. One second she's looking Miwa in the eye and cursing her to death, and the next she's trying to convince Miwa to run away with her so they could finally be together. Honestly I think she came off as rather Bi-Polar/MPD . . . . which I guess isn't really that bad.
Andosana's arrival into town interrupted Miwa's playful banter (my buddy's convinced that he wants Shayliss as a semi-permanent love interest for his character), and so after the meeting with the sheriff and the elf Miwa went back to the Rusty Dragon for dinner with Shalelu. I may or may not have dropped hints that Ameiko and Shalelu could've been adventuring companions back when Ameiko left town.
Then, wit the glassworks, I glossed over the fact that the message from Tsuto was translated to common, seeing as how Miwa could read the original Minkai writing. Miwa ran off to the glassworks, and ended up climbing onto the roof to find a way in.
Seeing the goblins in the glassworking room gave her the incentive to repel off the roof with her rope, crash through one of the side windows, and tumble to a landing inside . . . at least that was her plan. Miwa repelled off the roof, and when she smacked the window, the only smashing was to her ego when she bounced right off of it and heard the goblins laughing at her from inside.
She eventually hacked away at the window and took out the goblins. Chased them down stairs to meet Tsuto, and took him out with one shot. (I declared that while he was at negative hit points, he stabilized while she was chasing down the last of the goblins.)
Miwa calledfor the city guard, and they came in and helped her clean up the mess of the glassworks and haul the Kaijitsu family out (one to the morgue, another to jail, and the last back to her home at the rusty dragon).
Miwa has read through tsuto's journal, knows about Thistletop and Nualia, and that's where we left off for the night, with Miwa being 1300 xp away form level 4.