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*Out of Character*
The Pathfinder Society requires that its agents submit field reports, or Chronicles, to the Decemvirate at the end of any given mission. Obviously, requiring players to actually write these would be absurdly onerous. I would actually like to though, as many missions are pretty fun stories, and writing from the perspective of my character will, I hope, help me immerse myself in their mentality for future sessions. I will submit them on the GM Discussion board (unless told not to) due to the expectation of spoilers for any thread therein.
The following will be a synopsis of my character Bobo!'s experiences in scenario 5-20, the Sealed Gate. Anything written in italics is a note made by the scribes in Absalom that are meant to contextualize what Bobo! is saying. I will be doing these with other characters, Bobo! will probably require the most of these 'scribe notes' as he is...shall we say an unreliable narrator.
*Report begins below.*
The following is a report from one of the field agents, Bobo!, we recently dispatched to aide in the recovery of Amara Li and Aram Zey from the Hao Jin tapestry. He was sent along with six other agents to one of our forward outposts in the Realm of the Mammoth Lords, near to the Worldwound. The writing may at times appear nonsensical, as Bobo! is quite mad. I have some experience reading his ravings, and will attempt to contextualize where I can. - Kreighton Shane, Master of Scrolls
Bobo! had a lot of fun today! We killed some demonses, and also a plant lady, and there was a giant smokey thing too! It looked like a tree, but I don't think it was a tree. Are there tree demonses? If so, it was definitely one of those. But let's begin at the beginning, though frankly that has always seemed an arbitrary place to begin.
We got teleported really far away to a pretty pasture with no one around. Except not really, it was a tricksy illusion that we all saw through. We were really at a campsite full of demonses, some of them were like bugs. Well, all of them really, but two were really big bugs and the rest were like, normal sized bugs but evil. Bobo! remembered that the really big bugs can shoot nasty beams at you that make you weaker and also give people diseases, so Bobo! asked Mask Lady to make everyone immune to that stuff and she did because Mask Lady is very nice. {Bobo! is a cleric of a deity he refers to as Mask Lady. We have met on a few occasions, and he has tattooed on his hand a holy symbol of Sivanah. Given his temperament and predilections, I believe he focuses on her Mad and Deceptive aspects.}
Mask Lady did some other nice stuff for us, and everyone else made the demonses dead. I've never met most of my teammates, except for Bart. Bart makes things dead really well! He uses a bow. {Bobo! is frequently deployed with the long-suffering Barton Oliver, an archer of some skill.}
After that, everyone looked around for stuff that I guess we were supposed to find. Bobo! found a room full of food and pans, and performed the necessary rituals that such findings necessitate. {Bobo! refers to this ritual every time he finds a pan. He seems to look for them whenever possible, and it is as of yet unclear to me why.}
Then Bart found some tracks and we found some dead guys. Then we found some other tracks and we found a cave with a dead bear. Then Bobo! saw a trap, and everyone shot it and it died. I didn't know traps could die, but this was a special jelly trap that can I guess. That's what Bart says, anyway. So we found a tricksy wall that wasn't a wall {Reports from our other agents indicate that there was an illusory wall in the cave} and behind it was that wall hanging everyone is always making such a fuss about. {He is referring to the Hao Jin tapestry.}
We walked around for a while and found some more Pathfinders. They were led by a guy who was weirdly insistent that we go home {Venture Captain Nikolai Adonai}. Everyone else got in a big argument with him about the dead guys we found earlier, honestly I wasn't paying much attention to that. He kept going on about how he was making a new lodge in the woods, and that seemed stupid so I looked for magic and sure enough someone had put the whammy on him. So, I told him we were sent to help build the lodge with him and he totally bought it. He took us to where he was 'building the lodge' and there was a pretty lady there. She was mean and put us in a bunch of bushes. {From other field reports, I gather that Nikolai was subject to the mental control of a Sarkorian alraune, the 'pretty lady' Bobo! is referring to. She began their battle by entrapping them in a wall of thorns.} Suli (Hey, I remembered her name! She's really nice, even if she doesn't understand the greater glory of Mask Lady) {Suli is another agent we had deployed for this mission, a more traditional and sensible cleric than our narrator} made me lucky and stopped the funny gasses from putting the whammy on us, and then I asked Mask Lady to make the bushes go away and they did. Then I asked Mask Lady to make everyone really fast and Suli asked Bird Lady {He refers to the goddess Shelyn, to whom Suli is devoted} everyone good at stuff and everyone else killed all the bad stuff . There was that smoky tree demon thingy and Bart shot it a bunch, and then everybody walloped the pretty lady until she died. Suli and some other guy I was with yelled at each other about the whammied guy (he got unwhammied when we killed the pretty plant lady) getting his comeuppance for those dead guys we found. I guess he screwed up pretty bad, and that's why they died. You should probably fire that guy. Anyway, while they were arguing Bobo! spent some more quality time with the cookware I found and we then went home. I hope I get to kill more stuff and steal everything that isn't nailed down...I mean serve the Decemvirate (yeah, that's it) more in the future.
Final Note: This pan thing keeps coming up. I have sent letters to Mr. Oliver inquiring as to the meaning of these references. I hope for an informative response. - Kreighton Shane, Master of Scrolls
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(Upon reading the report)
"Yeah, that's pretty much how the mission went, but...THAT'S what his 'purification ritual' with the cookware was?!"
(Suli's face is a bright red not normally found on living things.)
"Oh, dear. I... I'm not sure exactly where Shelyn stands on love between a man and a kitchen utensil, but... I think I'll err on the side of smiling benignly and not asking any more questions."