[OOC] Death & Taxes

What book? I don't remember Hildar picking up a strange a creepy tome.....honest :-P

Yeah he was trying to flee and died in his attempted escape. We certainly are being honest in the fact that we were trying to bring him back to face judgement but these things happen.

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Just to give everyone a heads up I'll be on holiday next week so posting from my side will be a tad reduced (has been a bit slow this week as well I'm afraid as works been a tad taxing). Still hoping to get time to post every so often but will be spending most of the week doing family stuff :)

Good to hear from you, mcneils5. Enjoy your holiday!

did we find Anzilas ritual book with the money as part of some advantages? I thought Hildar had it :(

Yeah Hildar went off to try and find the money and the book was part of a Triumph IIRC but he was on his own when he found it and the taxes so I'm playing it at the moment that he would have shoved it in with his other books and just not mentioned it to anyone else. After all there was so much going on, the sinking village, the refugees, Bruv dying...never seemed like a good time to bring it up.....honest.....

That's the way I'm thinking to play it at the moment, if it really bothers anyone though Hildar keeping it back just shout out and I'm sure we can work something out. Just given how things went with the ritual Hildar would assume if he revealed the book there might be calls from the other party members to hand it over to church/Barron's people or just to destroy it and he would definitely want chance to study the tome before doing anything with it. He would be telling himself it's for the best and the more he knows about this kind of stuff the better he can help the rest of the party fight against it later.....at least that what he tries to keep telling himself :)

He also still has the book he recovered from the mayors house I believe but everyone should know about that one.

sounds good. just in case you wanted to used that to point out how evil they were :D

All right! You're heroes, even if your client doesn't see it that way. Thanks for an amazing romp through the swamp!

The adventure we played was modified from Feast of Ravenmore, a Pathfinder one-shot. It took us much longer to get through it than I anticipated! I hope it didn't lag too much for you all. You threw me quite a few curveballs, and I hope the moral dilemma at the end was exciting rather than frustrating. It's a difficult balance, high fantasy-meets-cosmic-horror.

My original intention was to do one more case, one that would wrap things up and perhaps have the potential for a happy ending. That was before this adventure ended up taking 4 months-long sessions, though! We're down to three players, but are you all interested in the final chapter? I'm happy to run it, but I also have some other ideas in the hopper that I might go to if the Buzzard's Ford episode ends up being our final adventure. If we run the third adventure, I'll endeavor to keep it shorter (hopefully only a couple of "sessions." And I think we can stick with just the three of you at a potentially slower posting rate.

At any rate, let me know what you think. I'm flexible. You're a great and reliable group, and that's not something that comes easily in PbP. Thanks for brining it this adventure!

Didn't lag for me. It's what I love about the NDS; you don't have to have combat for things to be high stakes/threaten the characters. Plus, for me ever since we did our research back in the main city it was like, "Ok there's hallucinogens and curses going on here. How are we gonna find it." , and it was fun just digging until we got there.

As I think you know, I really enjoyed the moral dilemma :P One of the more satisfying character arcs I've ever had.

Thanks for running, Bob.

Good gaming with all the rest of you! I'm sure we'll see you all around the forums!

Hi mate, I've thoroughly enjoyed the game so far and this last adventure never really felt like it was dragging to me. I'd like to carry on with the game but if you feel it's a good place to leave it and spin up something new I'm also happy for things to go that way as well :)

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Nekkur got money to gamble away for prayers. Can't see an happier end :D
I mean, there was that strange tree, but he is not entirely sure where it came from

Same here. I think this went well and the dilemma managed to split the party killing the game, which is not an easy feat in PbP from my experience. I should reduce the number of games I'm in but I can do another 4 months :D

Well hopefully we didn't stress you out too much when they're no railroad tracks adventurers will wander. XD I'm up for another one or ending it here. Pacing on PbP being slow is okay. RL comes first.

Thanks for the feedback, all, and for the vote of confidence to continue on to the final chapter! Curious, CESN, are you familiar with Feast of Ravenmore? I know next to nothing about Pathfinder other than mining its adventures from time to time.

Give me a few days to work up the opening of the next adventure, which will take place a few months after the conclusion of Death & Taxes.

Not at all, but I tried to figure out what it was and I couldn't. Clearly not looking for pathfinder adventures :D

It's a Thanksgivings themed One Shot with an awkward and violent vampire lord showing up who starts killing family and friends and hogging the sweet potatoes casserole right? Then Ravens start to steal all the food.

LOL. I see Remnant's played it before. :)

No, it's similar to what you played more or less. You're a band of adventurers who get hired to track down a missing tax man in a creepy, isolated, Lovecraftian village. The main difference is that the mayor's the only big bad, and there's no internal schism in the cult. I added that bit in when you all were so fixated on Anzila as the villain; I thought it would be interesting to make the mayor at least more sympathetic and to offer the option of "executing" Anzila, thereby satisfying your client and the mayor, albeit at the price of allowing their cult to go on for the time being. The original adventure is much more: investigate the town, figure out there's something going on at the abandoned house, disrupt the ritual. No moral dilemma to speak of. ;)

Also using Xp for Scathing Tirade Imp... Tronus going to "let me speak to the manager" out of people now...

Sounds good. If you all want to do any shopping, now's a good time to do so, as well. Make a list of what you might want, and I'll figure out the Negotiation difficulties for you to roll against.

I can get Chapter 3 off the ground as soon as Mcneils5 is back. I believe they're on holiday at the moment.

I'm looking at Brigandine R5, Large shield R2, Military pick R2, and a throwing axe R1, and selling off my current shield, and leather armor. Plus taking drain since XP awarded hit the 4th bubble.

Yeah I’m away this week so limited time for being on here, should be able to get character updated and stuff by the beginning of next week though. As I track things it looks like Hildar at least will get another upgrade point for their heroic ability so I need to have a think about that as well.

Mcneils5, no rush, but let me know when you're back. I've got Scenario 3 ready to roll and can start it off when you're back in action.