The Overwatched?


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The PFS scenarios #35 Voice in the Void and #3-07 Echoes of the Overwatched concern a certain gate within the Blakros museum. Is there a sequel to this plotline that explores this gate further?

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Not yet AFAIK.

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Kurald Galain wrote:
The PFS scenarios #35 Voice in the Void and #3-07 Echoes of the Overwatched concern a certain gate within the Blakros museum. Is there a sequel to this plotline that explores this gate further?

Fun fact those scenarios involved two different gates.

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MadScientistWorking wrote:
Kurald Galain wrote:
The PFS scenarios #35 Voice in the Void and #3-07 Echoes of the Overwatched concern a certain gate within the Blakros museum. Is there a sequel to this plotline that explores this gate further?
Fun fact those scenarios involved two different gates.

Are you sure? They're both in the basement.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if the gate gets used in this season..

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Lau Bannenberg wrote:
MadScientistWorking wrote:
Kurald Galain wrote:
The PFS scenarios #35 Voice in the Void and #3-07 Echoes of the Overwatched concern a certain gate within the Blakros museum. Is there a sequel to this plotline that explores this gate further?
Fun fact those scenarios involved two different gates.

Are you sure? They're both in the basement.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if the gate gets used in this season..

I had my GM exclaim out at one point in Echoes,"Huh... Its a different gate." Apparently, the timelines don't match up in the scenario. Makes sense too since the gates do different things in each scenario. Voice's goes to not-Pluto and Echoes I believe is directly linked to the Dark Tapestry.

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MadScientistWorking wrote:
I had my GM exclaim out at one point in Echoes,"Huh... Its a different gate." Apparently, the timelines don't match up in the scenario. Makes sense too since the gates do different things in each scenario. Voice's goes to not-Pluto and Echoes I believe is directly linked to the Dark Tapestry.

Both scenarios are sparse on details about the gate. I find the most likely explanation to be that they are the same gate and either observers have been failing their knowledge checks, or entities like the Devourer of Reason are interfering with the research.

Note that the gate from Voice doesn't go to Aucturn. It goes to the Dark Tapestry (just like the one in Echoes) but has attracted attention from Aucturn. The exact destination of both gates is, of course, unspecified.

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Kurald Galain wrote:
MadScientistWorking wrote:
I had my GM exclaim out at one point in Echoes,"Huh... Its a different gate." Apparently, the timelines don't match up in the scenario. Makes sense too since the gates do different things in each scenario. Voice's goes to not-Pluto and Echoes I believe is directly linked to the Dark Tapestry.

Both scenarios are sparse on details about the gate. I find the most likely explanation to be that they are the same gate and either observers have been failing their knowledge checks, or entities like the Devourer of Reason are interfering with the research.

Note that the gate from Voice doesn't go to Aucturn. It goes to the Dark Tapestry (just like the one in Echoes) but has attracted attention from Aucturn. The exact destination of both gates is, of course, unspecified.

I just double checked this and baring weird continuity changes that ignore what is written or something that they would have to explain in a new scenario it can't be the same gate. I completely forgot this but the gate is destroyed in Voice in the Void. It makes sense too considering that the whole entire museum is some sort of freakishly weird extraplanar space that is only barely explored.

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Echoes mentions that "many pieces" of the Blackros collection are related to the Dark Tapestry. There are probably a few more gates to be discovered yet.

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Yes, we need more Blakros museum scenarios. I want to see what even more freakishly weird stuff is hidden away in there. Open a closet and find a thousand year old half-mad ghoul? Of course.

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MadScientistWorking wrote:
I completely forgot this but the gate is destroyed in Voice in the Void.

That's what they want you to think...

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Echoes, page 5 wrote:
If the PCs ask to see the newly discovered portal, Nigel leads them down into the catacombs, revealing a passageway hidden behind apparently solid stone. At the passage’s end stands a gleaming doorway, copper in color, inlaid with malachite, and covered with intricate arabesques. No obvious handle or lock is visible. Those who study the portal for more than a few minutes have the uncomfortable sensation that its decorations are slowly moving.
Voice, page 13 wrote:
tall, free-standing, almost organic-looking archway carved from a strange, glowing blue-green stone stands atop a low dais in a wide alcove at the far end of the chamber. The center of the arch is empty, revealing the wall behind it, but the space occasionally flickers with curtains of starry darkness, as if somewhere else lies just beyond the portal.

It's a big museum to house not one but two gates to Lovecraftland!

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Well, it IS bigger on the inside...

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Literally, these days.

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we need a 'season of the museum'

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Kurald Galain wrote:
I completely forgot this but the gate is destroyed in Voice in the Void.

... assuming we succeeded. I think I have two TPKs there, and because of the circumstances they're generally not recoverable.

But yeah, I expect the entire museum is a gate, linking to a special demiplane of arrogant elf curator clones. There has to be a source to repopulate the Nigel Aldains, since I can't see him surviving contact with Pathfinders by this point...

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Should probably be in GM thread or behind spoiler tags, actually...

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Voice in the Void:
The gate is called out as destroyed, either by the PCs or by the Absalom guard and magic academy. (Name escapes me at the moment.) But that place is chock full of secrets and hidden portals anyway. And Nigel just keeps making it worse...

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