Everyone dies but one...now what?

[harmor]

I'm a little confused on the procedure exactly. Assume everyone who died has enough gold/PP. Can I assume the remaining character can return the other characters' bodies?

[Helaman]

Yes... assuming that there is still one PC left, no recovery team (5 prestige) is needed to get the party to a place where raise dead can be cast.

[Paz]

I assume it would depend on the circumstances of the deadly encounter.

If the last PC managed to fell the foes that killed the rest of the party, I'd assume she could find a way to get the others back to civilisation, or get help for the others.

If the last PC flees using an inter-dimensional gate, leaving the corpses in a pit full of oozes with no way of returning, then it'd be a different story.

(Unless I've missed a rule in the PFS Guide that says 'always assume bodies can be recovered' or similar.)

[Jiggy]

I don't think there's a specific rule on it, so any ruling that makes sense in-world and also doesn't entirely invalidate the value of spending 5PP to have your body recovered should be fine.

[sveden]

As long as the husk doesn't require a true resurrection.

[Todd Morgan]

I just like the image of one small halfling rogue grumbling about dragging 5 medium creatures out of a cave. He probably has a rope tied to their feet and just drags them out all at once.

They wake up after being raised:

"Why is there dirt and fungus in my mouth?"

[Pirate Rob]

Way back in season 0/1 I TPKed a group in The Trouble with Secrets. They all died in the basement of a Pathfinder lodge so I ruled that their bodies were all recoverable.

[nosig]

"Everyone dies but one...now what?"

well... depends.

did you nearly burn to death?
Maybe you should loot the bodies, slip back to Absolam and set up shop in Puddles. Make some contacts and go into the information buisness....