An insane oracle for PFS, progression advice needed!

[Stonecunning]

So I decided to make a Dark Tapestry oracle who due to a series of unfortunate(?) circumstances basically ended up being raised in the dark by a bunch of Shoggoths who decided to conduct a social experiment. Long story short, he has glimpsed madness beyond the stars and time and feels that everyone must be brought to this glorious non-light.

He's a Quippoth Tiefling oracle with both the blindness and tongues curses, byproducts of his visions of the beyond as well as, well, being raised by shoggoths. Gift of madness, etc. Also, for traits he's got Darklands Delver and Missionary (I tried to work "Adopted" in in a fun way but couldn't really fit it). Other than a rusty chain shirt, a terrible stone dagger (minus to damage, plus to flavour!) he's pretty gear-less. So, beyond taking a bunch of fear and madness inducing spells, I have zero idea where to take him!

Also, "Profession: Cultist"

Yeah.

[lantzkev]

lol Take Blindness and Deafness together, never deal with any of the pita conditions in some of the modules and avoid gaze attacks!

[Stonecunning]

But deafness makes little in-character sense. If you're raised in a pitch-black cave by Shoggoths you're probably going to be A: blind and B: gibbering like a maniac.

[lantzkev]

playing a character like you're playing doesn't make much sense anyhow... why would such a mad creature be wanted by the pathfinder society?

[Stonecunning]

Why indeed?

[Finlanderboy]

ohh dual cursed good choice. misfortune is awesome

Murderous command is awesome to take as a level 1 spell.

I would take the cehliaz treat Soul drinker. I am not famaliar witht he ones you took, but that is awesoem flavor. Give you temp hits when you drink their soul. come one that is hellishly good flavor.

I would also consider the curse wasting. To make your self look even worse. Awesome sauce.

[Sitri]

If you were willing to dip two levels of alchemist, you could go mindchemist which would give you some decent benefits, but also open up a string of extra discovery feats for things like tentacles, extra arms, and tumor familiar. It isn't really optimized, but it would have flavor in spades.

[Stonecunning]

That... sounds fantastic. That never occurred to me, and yeah being able to just go full shoggoth on people would be fun. :) Part of this character is going to be playing as a team member by being utterly (but not pointlessly) suicidal for the sake of the party (in hopes of winning converts). Optimization isn't my serious intention for this character, as living to level will be somewhat accidental :D

[lantzkev]

I'm telling ya, deaf and blind, you can only see within 30, people just point you at stuff and you'll go gibbering away at it.

[Stonecunning]

If there was a way to be thrice cursed so I could have tongues on top of them, it'd be pretty great. :)

[tomorrow]

Well, even without the Tongues curse, you could always just choose to speak in some weird alien language, even though you know common. Heck, if you appear to know Common and don't seem to physically incapable of speaking it... the fact that you never do so, even when everyone around you does would probably make you seem even more crazy.

Heck, you could even drive others mad, by simply choosing to SOMETIMES speak Common, but only in really weird situations (like only to animals or your food or babies). So people know you can speak Common but don't, for no apparent reason. If you have many languages, you could even go further... always addressing cats in Elvish but dogs in Dwarvish. Maybe for some reason, when you sing (which you might do in weird and inappropriate settings) its always in Undercommon.

I mean, the curses force you to do/not do certain things, nothing prevents you from simply choosing not do so anyway, for roleplay flavor.

[lantzkev]

Tongues doesn't really do anything that you can't duplicate with role playing.

You only talk in a specific language while under stress? kkk... just do that.

[Malag]

It might be great and great for you but I can already imagine party getting annoyed pretty fast by blind,deaf and character that can't speak normally.

[lantzkev]

Deaf is covered by read lips, blind isn't true blind they can see 30ft out. Tongues is easily handled in combat, as they can still talk to you, but honestly in combat you don't need to talk a ton

[Stonecunning]

Malag wrote:

It might be great and great for you but I can already imagine party getting annoyed pretty fast by blind,deaf and character that can't speak normally.

I'm planning on being pretty careful with how I roleplay him so he stays funny and not really annoying. Deafness would be funny, and people are right about the fact that tongues could just be made up for with roleplaying, but blindness seems like it's a bit hard to justify other than "lol" from a roleplaying perspective (Unless people think hanging around shoggoths would drive someone deaf?) compared to just taking the tongues curse and being done with it.