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I played this on my wizard @ Megacon..
She's an Osirion, so she participated in the ritual to find out if it was something to help her prince.
So the episode ended with her coughing up the coin for an Atonement. I have to admit that I'm a bit curious as to what form Atonement takes for a follower of Cayden Cailen.
"You have sinned my child.. for that you must fast.. DAS BOOT!" Thumps down a huge glass boot to drink dry.
The lead up to the final fight was worse than the actual fight.
That forbiddance almost killed my familiar EVEN with a save. 12d6 is nasty.. I find myself wondering how to avoid that nasty in the future.
Of course having taken two very nasty ranged attacks then a 10d6+5 fireball which did damn near max damage took a lot of the fight out of the BBEG.
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probably missed it in earlier posts but I have a question on the entrance to the basement.
The stairs in b6 look like the ones that come out in the se corner of the basement where the rubble is.
Is that correct?
Also the symbol traps are triggerd if you read the runes. Would just looking at them really trigger them?
RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16, Contributor
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Forgive me, going from memory here, by from what I recall:
– The symbols are not tied to alignment, but are attuned to ignore and not affect specific people.
– The forbiddance effect doesn't *detect* anything, it damages creatures of non-evil/ non-lawful alignments. As far as I'm aware it should work regardless of how your alignment detects.
In neither case would the ring offer protection.
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I know I am late to the game here, but I am running this in 2 weeks for the first time and I wanted to check up on two points (by the way, thanks to everyone for the clarifications in this thread - it is going to help running this A LOT!). Let me know if these are correct - if not, please correct me:
1) There is no net gain in ability scores if a PC participates in the ceremony and then eats a wafer. For example, a PC participates and is hit for 2 points of ability score - let's say 1 INT and 1 STR (player's choice). They then have 2 choices if they decide to eat a wafer:
a) Eat their or and return their ability scores to their previous levels and incur no profane penalty and not have to atone; or
b) Eat another's wafer and receive 2 ability points to any one score - for instance, in my example, they may choose to take 2 in STR, and end up down one in INT and up one in STR - they then have to atone if they are moved to evil.
2) Atonement - since they know it is an evil deed, the spell requires a 2500 additional component - that is over and beyond the cost of the spell as a service in PFS.
Hopefully these are both correct - if not, please let me know! Thanks
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I'm supposed to run this soon and I had a similar read.
If you eat your own you don't get the profane boon (and don't need an atonement). It's only if you eat someone elses that requires atonement (but you get the boon)...
I think a lot of tables (including mine when I played) got the boon for eating their own wafer.
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Quick query:
PCs do the ritual and reduces stats by 2 points.
Drollin takes the wafer, puts it in the box.
PCs fight Drollin and lose.
Drollin and Kellousa take all the wafers and escape.
Do the PCs permanently lose their stats?
I am looking at the 3d6 strength damage and just wondering how bad this can get for the PCs if they fall to Drollin's tricks.
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Quick question on this scenario. The scenario mentions that participants in the ritual have the option of either paying and getting their own wafer back, or not paying and having it taken by Drollis.
What I'm wondering is, what is the cost for participating in the full ritual and getting your own wafer back? I can't see a price listed anywhere.
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The payment is for the drugs, and the scenario doesn't specify how much they are charging for the drugs. The likelyhood of getting your own cracker back is slim (I suppose the GM could roll for it). It seems to me you get no benefit from eating your own cracker, other than repairing the ability drain.
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Quick question on this scenario. The scenario mentions that participants in the ritual have the option of either paying and getting their own wafer back, or not paying and having it taken by Drollis.
What I'm wondering is, what is the cost for participating in the full ritual and getting your own wafer back? I can't see a price listed anywhere.
Paying here is referring to bleeding into the chalice, the cost of which is 2 points of ability drain distributed across one or two ability scores of the player's choice. If the player eats their own wafer then they recover from this ability drain but do not receive the +2 profane bonus to an ability score. So in a way, there's not much difference there than if they had not participated at all, though they would probably still receive the alignment shift for being willing to go through with it.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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I'm imagining my PC who's getting GM credit, reading a report from some Pathfinders on an away mission, along with a bag of cookies they sent along, then suddenly realizing what he's been munching on...
If time permits, during the Conclusion I think I'll run short sketches about people's Atonements - how each religion of the PCs does it.
How do followers of evil deities atone back to neutral anyway?
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Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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What I mean is, Atonement is when you do things considered "bad" by your religion. But one of the people I'm going to be GMing for plays a war priest of Fumeiyoshi (NE).
By his own religion he's come closer to orthodoxy, so how do you make Atonement make sense?
