Did anyone else bring back Porcia and Aneran Victocora? (Rexus' parents)


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Early on, my group decided they'd try to bring back Rexus' parents. However, they knew it was a long shot due to needing resurrection magic. So it was going to take a while.

One thing found in the treasury for the old thieves' guild was an Elixir of Life brewed from a Philosopher Stone. It acts as a True Resurrection spell. In tonight's game, my group asked Rexus which parent they should bring back. Rexus chose Porcia, and her gasp of breath and asking where she was was the note on which I ended tonight's game.

I'm curious as to if anyone else has had them brought back and what they had the characters do.

According to online info, Porcia is a level 4 Investigator/level 4 Aristocrat. I've already crafted stats for her:

Porcia's stats:

Porcia Victocora CR 7
XP 3,200
Human (Chelaxian) aristocrat 4/investigator 4 (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 30)
LN Medium humanoid (human)
Init +0; Senses Perception +10
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Defense
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AC 12, touch 11, flat-footed 12 (+1 deflection, +1 natural)
hp 53 (8d8+9)
Fort +5, Ref +7, Will +12 (+2 against attempts to scry on you or read your mind); +2 bonus vs. poison
Defensive Abilities trap sense +1
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Special Attacks studied combat (+2, 4 rounds), studied strike +1d6
Investigator Extracts Prepared (CL 4th; concentration +8)
2nd—fox's cunning, investigative mind[ACG]
1st—cure light wounds, disguise self, identify, urban grace[ARG]
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Statistics
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Str 8, Dex 10, Con 12, Int 18, Wis 14, Cha 14
Base Atk +6; CMB +5; CMD 16
Feats Careful Speaker[ISWG], Magical Aptitude, Noble Scion of Lore[ISWG], Persuasive, Sense Assumptions[UI]
Skills Bluff +8 (+10 to fool someone, +10 to pass secret messages), Diplomacy +10, Disable Device +4, Disguise +8, Intimidate +4, Knowledge (arcana) +11, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +11, Knowledge (engineering) +11, Knowledge (geography) +16, Knowledge (history) +16, Knowledge (local) +16, Knowledge (nature) +11, Knowledge (nobility) +18, Knowledge (planes) +11, Knowledge (religion) +11, Perception +10, Perform (dance) +8, Ride +5, Sense Motive +10, Spellcraft +14, Stealth +5, Use Magic Device +8
Languages Ancient Osiriani, Celestial, Common, Elven, Tien
SQ alchemy (alchemy crafting +4), inspiration (6/day), investigator talent (intelligence inspiration[ACG]), keen recollection, poison lore, swift alchemy, trapfinding +2
Other Gear investigator starting formula book
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Special Abilities
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Alchemy +4 (Su) +4 to Craft (Alchemy) to create alchemical items, can Id potions by touch.
Careful Speaker +2 bonus on some Bluff checks and some Will saves
Inspiration (+1d6, 6/day) (Ex) Use 1 point, +1d6 to trained skill or ability check. Use 2 points, to add to attack or save.
Intelligence Inspiration (Ex) Free Inspiration with Knowledge, Linguistics, Spellcraft even when untrained.
Keen Recollection At 3rd level, an investigator can attempt all Knowledge skill checks untrained.
Noble Scion of Lore You are a member of a proud noble family.
Poison Lore (Ex) After 1 min can use Know to ID poisons, 1 min more to neutralize with Craft (alchemy).
Sense Assumptions Discern which lies would be unbelievable
Studied Combat (+2, 4 rounds) (Ex) As a move action, study foe to gain bonus to att & dam for duration or until use studied strike.
Studied Strike +1d6 (Ex) As a free action on a melee hit, end studied combat vs. foe to add precision dam.
Swift Alchemy (Ex) Construct alchemical items in half the normal time.
Trap Sense +1 (Ex) +1 bonus on reflex saves and AC against traps.
Trapfinding +2 Gain a bonus to find or disable traps, including magical ones.

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Given it's a couple months in and the hidden library was taken out first thing, she's not going to have *too* much she can add to things. I'm thinking initially she will remain "dead" to the world, excepting to the Silver Ravens and their allies (and that will be a most interesting surprise to spring on the others who are allying themselves to the Ravens). When open rebellion breaks out, she will likely come out into the open and align House Victocora with the Ravens. It should be most interesting to see where things go. And no doubt I'll figure out something to do with Porcia in the meanwhile! ;)


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Dang, I wish my group would even think about doing something this awesome for an NPC.

Although I am starting a second run of Hell's Rebels with another group which is more roleplaying inclined than the first one, so who knows how that will go. I hope to give them a better experience than the first group got, too (not that I think it was a bad campaign, but there are weaknesses to how the the AP is set up in some areas).

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Tangent101 wrote:
When open rebellion breaks out, she will likely come out into the open and align House Victocora with the Ravens.

What does this actually mean? Her retainers in the city are probably dead or fled, and her properties would have passed to her heirs or, if there were none (Rexus, laying low, may have waived his claim, but I doubt he is the only one out there) been held in escrow or seized by the state. She may have enough living retainers from out in the countryside loyal enough to fight, and that might be good for a bonus team.


zimmerwald1915 wrote:
Tangent101 wrote:
When open rebellion breaks out, she will likely come out into the open and align House Victocora with the Ravens.
What does this actually mean? Her retainers in the city are probably dead or fled, and her properties would have passed to her heirs or, if there were none (Rexus, laying low, may have waived his claim, but I doubt he is the only one out there) been held in escrow or seized by the state. She may have enough living retainers from out in the countryside loyal enough to fight, and that might be good for a bonus team.

Thematically it means that one of the Noble Houses that everyone KNOWS Thrune destroyed... is in fact still around, even if they don't have their properties at the moment. No doubt they did have retainers who were not at home when things went down and went into hiding, but mostly it's a PR aspect. It shows that Thrune is not all powerful... and that you can oppose them.

Also, it shows that Thrune is lying time and time again - they were claiming that House Victocora was destroyed by their daughter who had been locked away and then sided with cultists and rewards were offered for information on the "lost Victocora" and that this "insane Victocora" had animated "her" parents as zombies (so to basically undermine efforts by the PCs to reveal what Thrune had done and hopefully turn the nobles against him)... so having Porcia show up and say "my son Rexus is here, and has been working with me to stop the man who murdered my husband" will basically f#@* up a lot of lies.

It will also help with political shenanigans - I'm going to have Porcia help the PCs with a lot of knowledge about the other noble families, seeing she was frequently in contact with them and thus would know their interests and desires. I mean, they essentially used a magic item that acts as a True Resurrection for an NPC. Naturally I'll reward them. ^^


At my table, Rexus' parents attacked him when they were zombies, then several levels later Rexus died in an encounter with a Nessian Hell Hound. So my table did not resurrect them, not least because they didn't have access to a 13th level cleric capable of casting that. Also, at least one player, the noble scion, was working to reduce the power of the aristocracy. They liked Rexus, but even the "good" aristocracy was more like a frenemy.

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