*spoiler* 4-20 words of the ancient: ritual question

[Drake McCliffer]

Hey everyone,

I recently played 4-20 words of the ancient and at the end the wizard and I did the ceremony and got branded,

my question is about the side effect of getting branded (-1 to all stats) is this a permanent thing? and if so how can we get rid of the penalties? we were thinking of using restoration spells but the GM is more in thinking that we have to get rid of the brand which might need more then that...

reason why im asking is because the gm said that the scenario doesn't specify that the stat change is from a drain or ability damage.

thanks in advance for your help.

PS: I don't mind if I have to remove the brand since my pc is a sorc, to get rid of the neg stats

[David_Bross]

I don't recall anything about this boon that caused negative effects for your characters...

[downerbeautiful]

Here is the relevant text from the scenario, emphasis mine:

...while touching the sphere takes 1 point of ability damage to all six abilities

Here's why you're golden:

You need no spell cast on you to fix the situation, unless you want an immediate fix.

From the PFD, emphasis mine wrote:

Ability Damage and Drain (Ex or Su) Some attacks or special abilities cause ability damage or drain, reducing the designated ability score by the listed amount. Ability damage can be healed naturally. Ability drain is permanent and can only be restored through magic.

You will heal between scenarios.

/done

[Drake McCliffer]

Nice, thank you very much :)