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I wanted to make this thread, to the same format as the "Level 12 Seeker" thread, to list all of the players that have completed "The Waking Rune" on Hard Mode on tier 7-8 or 10-11. (Just like the "Level 12 Seeker" thread, please no spoilers)
This scenario brings not only a sense of closure to heroes and adventurers that have fought the Lissalan cultists for so long, but bears a new beginning. These elite few answered the call to arms and through their physical prowess, magical expertise, and mental stamina were able to defeat a terrible power that threatened not only Varisia but Golarion as a whole.
Please list your character (full name if you like), character and class, and tier you played at. Though Hard Mode does not give any rewards, it does give bragging rights, so lets see it Pathfinders!
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I, just wow.Spoiler:I mean Wish is just such a game changing thing, I can't see how anyone managed to do anything to delay him enough to stop him from casting it.
A lot of GMs can't even run the low level stuff properly, let alone epic level. I'm not sure I could run that scenario tbh, not the way it should be run.
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Less than 15 posts for spoilers of some sort to show up. Fantastic.
Actually I may be guilty of this in part. I did not read the "no spoilers" part closely enough before suggesting others mention their greatest contribution. If the no spoiler version is preferred, please disregard my earlier suggestion.
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Less than 15 posts for spoilers of some sort to show up. Fantastic.Actually I may be guilty of this in part. I did not read the "no spoilers" part closely enough before suggesting others mention their greatest contribution. If the no spoiler version is preferred, please disregard my earlier suggestion.
Meh. I dont think anyone would care if the spoilers were posted just so long as they are spoilered. It's nothing surprising to me, since Ive already looked over the scenario, but it seems like spoilers have been running rampant lately. :/
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I will say this, I do apologize to Nathan for my small spoiler, but it remains a sincere statement. I [edit] was unaware of how the board's add spoiler tags, so again I apologize for that part, but not the passive aggressive part. ^^
[Editor's note; I showed him how to add spoiler's, since he is a stupid Cheliaxian.]
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RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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I finally played Waking Rune. Wasn't on "hard mode", but I felt like posting anyway. :)
Played at subtier 10-11 with my 11th-level Eldritch Knight.
Since I was flying, I helped ferry people over the trap on the stairs.
I contributed to disabling one or two of the runes (we ended up getting all of them).
The ranger used his gloves of reconnaisance to peek at the central chamber, which of course revealed the caster and two mooks who were working on waking up Krune. So I used dimension door to bring the whole party right next to the caster. She never got a turn. :)
Then Krune came out, and I pretty much stopped contributing. I don't remember what I did on round 1 of that part, but I spent the next 3 rounds trying to use pilfering hand to steal his uber-rod of doom. But even with both Prescience (as a diviner) and Fortune (from the party witch), for a total of three d20's per attempt, I never managed higher than an 11 on the die. But even more sad than that, I remember announcing a result in the low 20s, which means I must have been forgetting to add my INT mod to the check, which would have been a +5 increase. I have a feeling I'd have succeeded on the first pilfering hand. D'oh!
But in the end, we succeeded, mostly because of our heavy-damage ranger and some well-chosen buffs (someone put up a life bubble, saving us all from an early cloudkill).
But I get points for being in the room, right?
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RPG Superstar 2012 Top 4
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Subtier 10–11
Other than fight off the runelord's minions while Lialda kept the master busy, Ajit Karan's greatest accomplishment during this scenario was to orchestrate the combination of an emerald elixir, bull's strength, greater false life, infernal healing, and summoning of a lantern archon to cast aid - all to get enough hit points, temporary hit points, and Constitution score so than when the ring of delayed doom stopping ticking from the horrid wilting he could stabilize at one hit point above his negative (newly-enhanced) Constitution score.
Many thanks to Lady Lumikello, Samhain, Shelly, and Malonyx who each have their own contributions to document. Thanks to our great GM as well.
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Subtier 10-11 with 4 players, and Hard Mode devours the 4 player adjustment too, so it was even harder. One of our 4 was a Rogue 8 or so playing up.
Lazeril's #1 contribution was upping his caster level temporarily to the point where he could usually
Even so, we still only won because Krune eventually ran out of powerful stuff. If he had possessed more high level spells, he would have eventually killed us because we took forever to finish him off.
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August Bane Lvl 10 Paladin of Erastil playing tier 7/8 hard mode.
Other 5 pcs were lvl 7-9.
Really need a longer than 4 hr time limit on this mod. GM soft balled it but still managed to kill 2 pcs. Krunes staff was never used.
Just curious on this one--Why would the GM softball when the players specifically asked to play hard mode? That seems like a mean thing to do.
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Just curious on this one--Why would the GM softball when the players specifically asked to play hard mode? That seems like a mean thing to do.August Bane Lvl 10 Paladin of Erastil playing tier 7/8 hard mode.
Other 5 pcs were lvl 7-9.
Really need a longer than 4 hr time limit on this mod. GM soft balled it but still managed to kill 2 pcs. Krunes staff was never used.
Was disappointing. Perhaps not prepped enuff.
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Silver Crusader Shikibu (Freebooter Ranger 6/Living Monolith 4) played the high tier on hard mode.
what does Hard Mode mean? New to GM'ing PFS, Ran first game friday, running again this Friday. Thanks.
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Subtier 10–11
Other than fight off the runelord's minions while Lialda kept the master busy, Ajit Karan's greatest accomplishment during this scenario was to orchestrate the combination of an emerald elixir, bull's strength, greater false life, infernal healing, and summoning of a lantern archon to cast aid - all to get enough hit points, temporary hit points, and Constitution score so than when the ring of delayed doom stopping ticking from the horrid wilting he could stabilize at one hit point above his negative (newly-enhanced) Constitution score.
Many thanks to Lady Lumikello, Samhain, Shelly, and Malonyx who each have their own contributions to document. Thanks to our great GM as well.
I believe my contribution was arrows. Lots and lots of arrows. Meanwhile, my owl companion hung limp from my belt like a chicken on display at an Asian market.
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what does Hard Mode mean?
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** spoiler omitted **
I was a part of that table you momentarily sat in on as an alternate a month ago. We didn't die.
The table didn't run in hard mode, but I did vote for it, so that counts for something, I think.
After you fight a Rune Lord? I don't know... You go and win the Hao Jin Tapestry for the Society and then jet off to Alkenstar with your Quadirian friend to go smuggle firearms for the Sczarni and Quadirians... Er, extend the reach of the Society into Geb, The Mana Wastes, and Nex.
No Spoilers:
Krune failed a fort save versus sound burst, so the rogue moved up and full-rounded him. My barbarian moved up to full round him; hit three times. Scored his third crit of his career. Krune dies. Had that full round been on character delivering it, my "-1" would have survived (beat that, Krune!) Also, totally saved (without rolling a 20) on the two spells he's known for; that felt really good. (And, the rest of the party was pretty epic; everyone played a pivotal roll which doesn't seem to happen too often with all the cheesed characters. The sound burst was just hilarious, though, since there didn't appear to be anything he could do about the effects of the spell.)
But you're right, everything else just rings hollow now.
Edit: Thanks Kyle Baird for that high CL wand on that one cert; a wand that countered Krune's magic was amazing and saved our skins.
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Necroing this thread, because the more Krune stories, the better.
Ferious Thune "the Risen" 11th Level Sorcerer in Subtier 10-11 (not hard mode, though)
This was a while ago...
This fight had one of my favorite sequences, wherein Krune hit us with a Maximized, Empowered Horrid Wilting for, I think, 156 points of damage. I failed my save, but thanks to a decently high Con, Toughness, and False Life, I was only a little dead. The Magus also dropped dead, as did the 9th level Cleric that decided to tag along with the otherwise 11th level party. But that's where the fun began...
The 11th level Cleric that was with us made his save and lived through the Horrid Wilting of Doom. He was then left with a dilemma... who to use his Breath of Life on. With none of us dead characters allowed to advise him, he had to pick one of us to bring back. I make it a point before a high level session like that to run through all of the things my Sorcerer can do, and even though he didn't remember exactly what those all were, he remembered that I might have something up my sleeve, and he chose to bring me back, rolling enough on the Breath of Life to get me conscious.
Another stroke of luck is that we were all next to each other (having recently completed one of the many Dimension Doors). So I become conscious, then stand up and activate my spring-loaded wrist sheath to take out a scroll of Breath of Life (I had previously checked with the GM that he was ok with that combination). Only problem, I'm a Sorcerer, Jim, not a Cleric! I then proceed to calculate what I needed for my UMD roll, then comb through every boon I have to see if there's anything that will help. With other players and the GM starting to get impatient, I figured out I needed something like a 6 or 7 on the roll (DC 29, I believe). I finally roll, and I get a nat 20, for a total of 40-something.
But I still have to decide who I'm going to bring back. On the one hand, the 9th level Cleric might have a Breath of Life of his own. On the other hand, he's a 9th level Cleric who got hit with a Maximized, Empowered Horrid Wilting. So I bring back the Magus. Turns out it was the right choice, as I think even a max roll with the scroll's caster level would not have been enough to bring the dead Cleric above negative Con.
So in the span of a few seconds, three characters died, and two came back to life. Following the scenario, I went ahead and spent the 1 Prestige to become Ferious Thune "the Constant," as, for the second time, he got a glimpse of Pharasma's Boneyard (1st time, Harpies!).
The honor of actually taking down Krune went to the Druid, who hit him with a combination of a Sirocco, his animal companion's full attacks, and then after a round, his own full-attack as a Dire Tiger.
Needless to say, when presented with the opportunity to gain one of the runes, I chose Life.
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My party got decimated in the first fight. Bad party composition and varying player skill level vs draconian veteran gm = tpk. As A result, I have shyed away from society and am totally seeing it as little more than a power gamers bravado festival any more, with less RP than playing Skyrim.
I switched to APs and I am happier