BAAL INFERNUS, MASTER OF FIRE
CN male human wizard (fire) 1

Key: Improvement (increase mastery over FIRE, THE GREATEST OF ELEMENTS), Fame (Honor and glory to the Infernus line)
Important: Wealth (restore the family fortune)
Maybe: Curiosity (especially about magic and extraplanar stuff)

Strength 11 (-)

Dexterity 13 (+1)

Constitution 14 (+2)

Intelligence 18 (+4)

Wisdom 11 (-)

Charisma 12 (+1)

AC: 11 (+1 Dex)

HP: 8

Speed: 30’

Initiative: +6 (+1 Dex, +1 trait, +4 feat)

Melee Attack: Quarterstaff +0, damage 1d6

Ranged Attack: Dagger +1, damage 1d4/19-20

Saving Throws
Category Total Class Ability Misc
Fortitude +2 +0 +2 -
Reflex +1 +0 +1 -
Will +2 +2 +0 -

Languages

Common
High Talk
Ancient
Dead Talk
Scribe Code

Proficiencies

Club, dagger and quarterstaff

Skill Total Ranks Class Ability Misc
Intimidate +7 1 +3 +1 +2
Knowledg(arc) +8 1 +3 +4
Knowledge(dung) +8 1 +3 +4
Knowledge(his) +8 1 +3 +4
Knowledge(loc) +8 1 +3 +4
Knowledge(planes)+8 1 +3 +4 Always take 10
Spellcraft +8 1 +3 +4
Use Magic Dev +6 1 +3 +1 +1

Traits

Arcane Temper (+1 Initiative, +1 Concentration)
Avid Reader (can always take 10 with Knowledge [the planes])
Dangerously Curious (+1 to UMD, it’s always a class skill)
Influence (+1 to Intimidate, it’s always a class skill)

Feats

Elemental Focus (fire) [+1 save DCs of fire spells]
Improved Initiative [+4 initiative]
Scribe Scroll

Features

Fire Supremacy (Su): Fire resistance 5
Fire Jet (Su): Shoot a 20’ line of fire that does 1d6 damage (Ref half DC 14) and sets fools on fire. Those set on fire take an additional 1d6 damage the following round. Usable 7/day.

Magic
Concentration: +6

Typical Spells Prepared

0-level (DC 14/15): Daze, detect magic, spark

1st (DC 15/16): Color spray, mage armor, burning hands

Spells in Spellbook

0-level: All 0th except ray of frost

1st Level: Burning hands*, color spray, ear-piercing scream, mage armor, magic missile, shield, vanish

*Fire spell

Familiar: Small gray bat, "Ashes."
Stats TBD

Gear:

Quarterstaff
Dagger (2 tr)
Fancy hat (10 tr)
208 tin rods
TBD

Human Ghoul-hunter (Cleric) 1st level

ALN: Lawful Neutral

STR: 16 (+3), DEX: 9 (-1), CON: 13 (+1), INT: 10, WIS: 16 (+3), CHA: 13 (+1)

Hit Dice: D8, Hit Points: 9

Armor Class: 16 (scale +shield -dex)

Base Attack Bonus: +0

Weapons: Scimitar (bronze) +4 to hit, 1d6+3 damage slashing, crit 18-20/x2

Mace +3 to hit, 1d8+3 bludgeoning, crit 20/x2

Javelin +3 to hit, 1d6+3 piercing, crit 20/x2

Saves: Fort +3, Ref -1, Will +5

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: all simple weapons, light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields). Law Giving favored weapon - Scimitar.

Skills (2+1 human +1 favored): Appraise (int) 1 (+4), Diplomacy (cha) 1 (+5), Knowledge (Religion) (int) 1 (+4), Sense Motive (wis) 1 (+7)

Feats (1 +1 human): Channeling Smite (deal channel energy damage to undead, cost of a channel energy use), Extra Channel (channel energy two additional times per day),

Spells: A cleric casts divine spells which are drawn from the cleric spell list (0-level: 3, 1st-level: 2+1)

*Aura (Ex): A cleric of a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful deity has a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity’s alignment (see the detect evil spell for details).

*Channel Energy (1d6): Regardless of alignment, any cleric can release a wave of energy by channeling the power of her faith through her holy (or unholy) symbol. This energy can be used to cause or heal damage, depending on the type of energy channeled and the creatures targeted. 6/day.

*Domains: Glory (Touch of Glory (Sp) - touch grants cleric level bonus to one target for one hour or until used by target. 4/day. Domain Spell - Shield of Faith), Luck (Bit of Luck (Sp) - touch with standard action grants target to make all d20 rolls twice and chose the better for the next round. 4/day. Domain spell - True Strike)

*Orisons: Create Water, Light, Stabilize

Human Traits: +2 to one attribute (DEX), one bonus feat, one extra skill level per level

Traits: Canon of Coin (Appraise is a class skill for you. So long as you are carrying coins worth an amount equal to at least 100 gp per character level you have, you gain a +1 trait bonus on Will saves. This bonus increases to +2 against effects that would force you to discard, drop, or give away coins, gems, or trade goods in your For everything there is a price, and you are a negotiator at heart.

Mercenary (You gain a +2 trait bonus on Diplomacy, Intimidate, and Sense Motive checks made while negotiating payment for a quest or a service that you provide), Unead Slayer (You gain a +1 trait bonus on weapon damage rolls against undead).

Gear (base Starting Gold: 3d6x10 100tp): Scimitar (bronze, masterword, Wt. 2), Heavy Mace (7tp, Wt. 8), 2 Javelins (cost 2tp, Wt. 4), Scale Main (cost 50tp, Wt. 30), Heavy Wooden Shield (cost 7tp, Wt. 10), Backpack (cost 2tp, wt. 2), Bedroll (1sp, wt. 5), Crowbar (cost 2tp, 5lb), Flink and Steel (cost 1tp), Ration (7 days; cost 3.5tp, wt. 7), Help Rope (cost 1tp, wt. 10), Torches (x10) (cost 1sp, Wt. 10), Waterskin (cost 1tp, wt. 4)

Remaining Tin pieces: 25.5 tp

Motivation

Key: Wealth (born poor and wants to be rich), Hatred (Undead)

Important: Wanderlust (curious about other places, seeing 'wonders')

Maybe: Ease (not totally lazy but does not want to have to go back to manual labor again)

Background

Seth Rashida is a 20 year old Human from the Island of Hedio (or something similar) to the north. Born to a fisherman family he really hated fish and never really like to swim. He liked money instead. When he was a young teenager his family was killed by undead while Seth was able to destroy one of the unholy creatures in his rage. While he hated fishing he loved his father! He set out for the great cities of the south to learn the trade of Ghoul-Hunter. He is now looking to gain employment and gold for his new trade.

Variola the Swamp Hag

Female Human

Blight Druid 1

Caste: Wanderer

CN

6#4d6k3

all players can boost their second highest stat to 16. if it is below 16

Stats: 6#4d6k3 18 10 15 12 13 14

Str 12

Dex 14

Con 16

Int 13

Wis 18

Cha 12

HD: d8

HP: 14

AC: 15 (17)

ShortSpear: +2, 1d6+1

Dagger: +1, 1d4+1

Dart: +1, 1d4+1, 20’

Fort 8

Ref 2

Will 6

+1 vs disease, curse

Druids are proficient with the following weapons: club, dagger, dart, quarterstaff, scimitar, scythe, sickle, shortspear, sling, and spear.

Druids may wear only padded, leather, or hide armor. Druids are proficient with shields (except tower shields) but must use only wooden ones.

Skills: 7/level

Craft (alchemy) 1:5

Diplomacy 0:2

Heal 1:10

Intimidate 0:2

Knowledge: Nature 1:7

Perception 1:8 (10)

Sense Motive 0:4 (6)

Survival 1:12

Swim 1:5 (2)

Climb 1:5 (2)

Languages: Common, Druidic, Tree Speech, Sylvan, Wanderer Cant

Feats:

Great Fortitude: +2 Fort

Self-Sufficient: +2 Heal, Survival

Traits:

Resilient: You gain a +1 trait bonus on Fortitude saves.

Disease Resistant: You gain a +1 trait bonus on saving throws against curses and diseases, including magical diseases.

Caste Trait: Mercenary - You gain a +2 trait bonus on Diplomacy, Intimidate, and Sense Motive checks made while negotiating payment for a quest or a service that you provide.

Nature Sense (Ex)

A druid gains a +2 bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks.

Vermin Empathy (Su)

A blight druid can improve the attitude of vermin as a normal druid can with animals. Vermin have a starting attitude of unfriendly. The blight druid can also improve the attitude of animals and mindless undead creatures that were formerly animals, but she takes a –4 penalty on the check unless the animal or undead has a disease special attack.

Familiar: Cockroach (“Mucky”)

HP: 7 (1/2 mine, round down)

AC: 17

BAB: 0 (mine)

Saves: whichever is better (Fortitude +2, Reflex +2, Will +0)

Fort 4

Ref 4

Will 2

darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision

Speed 20 ft., climb 20 ft., fly 30 ft. (poor)

Climb +3, Fly +4

Hold breath 30 rds

Skills: whichever ranks are better. Familiars treat Acrobatics, Climb, Fly, Perception, Stealth, and Swim as class skills.

+1 natural armor

Alertness: You get a +2 bonus on Perception and Sense Motive skill checks, when Mucky is within arm’s reach

improved evasion: When subjected to an attack that normally allows a Reflex saving throw for half damage, a familiar takes no damage if it makes a successful saving throw and half damage even if the saving throw fails.

share spells: may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself.

empathic link: 1 mile distance. The master can communicate empathically with the familiar, but cannot see through its eyes. Because of the link’s limited nature, only general emotions can be shared.

Spells/Day:

1: 1+1

Spells:

0: 3

Detect Poison: close, 1 target/5’ cube, DC 20 Wis for type

Light: touch, 10 min, 20’r + 20’r

Stabilize: close, stop dying

1: 1 (DC 15)

Ray of Sickening: close, 1min/lvl, ranged Touch, Fort save negates

The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.

A druid can channel stored spell energy into summoning spells that she hasn’t prepared ahead of time. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to cast any summon nature’s ally spell of the same level or lower.

Equipment: Cash: 3d6 9 = 90gp

basic tools of trade, light armour and a simple masterwork weapon for free

Hide armor. 15

Heavy wooden shield. 7

ShortSpear, masterwork

Dagger. 2

Darts (4). 2

Healer’s kit.

Alchemist’s kit. 40

This kit includes an alchemy crafting kit, a backpack, a bedroll, a belt pouch, a flint and steel, tablet, stylus, an iron pot, a mess kit, soap, torches (10), trail rations (5 days), and a waterskin.

Rope, hemp, 50’. 1

A smart 10 tp outfit =+1 to intimidate and diplomacy checks

Snakeskin cap with upper part of large snake skull

Whetstone. 0.01

Mirror. 10

2 tp, 9 sp, 9 cp

Background:

Variola grew up on a farm near a swamp. The plague came when she was twelve, and she and her family took ill. Out of desperation, she prayed to the Pox Queen, offering her service in exchange for sparing their lives.

The next morning, she was the picture of health, but her family was still ravaged by disease. At first, they thought it was a miracle, but after they recovered, she confessed what she had done. “You should have let us die!”, her father said bitterly. “Better than being tainted by *her*!” They disowned her, and she went off into the swamp alone.

She wasn’t alone for long, however. The Sickener sent her a companion, a cockroach who taught her the ways of vermin, which she named Mucky. Her foul patron showed her the paths of life and death, and the beauty of what lied between them. Years later, she emerged from the swamp, filthy without and twisted within, ready to spread the good word (among other things).

Personality: Variola is fascinated by disease and decay. She doesn’t try to make people sick (that would be evil), but she does sing the praises of the Pox Queen as a healer and protector.

Appearance: Variola is a human woman in her early 20’s, with medium brown hair in a rough shag, and piercing green eyes. Despite her obvious lack of hygiene and teeth, there’s something compelling about her. She wears layers of patchwork leather armor, holds a light spear as a staff, and has a wooden shield slung over her back. A cockroach crawls freely over her, which she occasionally acknowledges.

Motivation

Key: Duty (spread the word about the Pox Queen)

Important: Fame (spite her family), Wanderlust (see the world beyond the swamp)

Maybe: Gear (big mojo), Improvement (learn more about life, death, and how to make them happen), Curiosity (unlocking secrets)

Lakmu the Lyrist, Human, Wanderer, Rogue 1st lvl

A young man with sun-darkened skin and a rough thatch of black hair. Slender and short, his patched and dust stained garb and gear mark him as a Wanderer. He doesn't let his pack stray too far from him. He carries a number of short blades, but these are dangerous times. He carries a lyre, and frequently tunes it.

Attributes: STR 9 (-1) DEX 17 (+3) CON 14 (+2) INT 16 (+3) WIS 13 (+1) CHA 16 (+3)
HD: d8 HP: 10
Armor Class: 17 Touch 14, Flatfooted 13
Saves: F: +2 R: +5 W: +1

Base Attack: +0
Short Sword: +3 to hit, 1d6-1 dmg
Dagger: +3 to hit, 1d4-1 dmg
Sneak Attack: +1d6

Languages: (1+3 for INT) Common, Wanderer, High Talk (important for performance). Seawords

Skills: (8+3 (Int)+1 (Human)+1 (Favoured Class)=13) Class Skills are Underlined
Appraise +7, Bluff +7, Climb +3, Diplomacy +7, Disable Device +8 (Trapfinding), Escape Artist +7, Knowledge (Local) +7, Perception +5 (+6 with trapfinding), Perform (Lyre) +8 (Mentor), Perform (Singing) +7, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth +7, Survival +6 (Poverty Stricken)

Feats: Dodge (+1 AC), Weapon Finesse

Traits: Poverty Stricken, Mentor
Mercenary: +2 trait bonus on Diplomacy, Intimidate, and Sense Motive checks made while negotiating payment for a quest or a service that you provide.

Wealth and Equipment: Waiwode: 3D6 → 3(1 +1 +1)#Wealth Roll Oh boy. A 3. I have 30 tin rods, the minimum amount.
Free: Short Sword,Studded leather armour, and jaunty red Phrygian Cap.Lyre.
Backpack -2/2
Belt Pouch -1/3
Waist Pouch -0.5/3.5
Kit, Survival -5/8.5
2 x Daggers -4/12.5
Sling -/8.5
20 Sling Stones -0.2/12.7
Rope, Hemp, 50ft -1/13.7
String, 50ft -0.01/13.71
Bedroll -0.5/14.21
3 torches -0.03/14.24
3 candles -0.03/14.27
3 Trail rations -1.5/15.77
Thieves' Tools
Remaining Coin: 84.23

Ziggurats

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Desert Fox:

Ziggurats

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Desert Fox:

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Desert Fox:

Priests-law makers and ceremony performers
*Judges-clerics on chariots , elect a Judge King
*scribes
*guilders- artisans, wizards, warriors and merchants
*farmers
*drudges, have guaranteed rights, some might be entertainers, thugs or landlords
*Wards-pows, convicts

*Outlaws

*Ziggurats, obelises inscribed with the laws and castes
*turkey-sun baked coasts, chilly mountains, forested uplands, steppe
*three day nights,
*ghouls, live in dungeons

*Taverns are Grapes of Bacchus, Golden Lute, The Monkape
*the o has three kieran bodyguards -gladiators. Same stats but all three wild cards with one trick
*has palace, temple of the elements, country house,
* goes to the arena, has his own box.
*goes to symposia, visits other nobles to dine

* could be killed on the street
*could invite him to see the goods- ignt send an agent first to check
*could catch him in public place eg the temple or stadium
*could raid one of these places
*wears a ward-sign of Chrmos, reduces wounds but two

Tressa will advise pretending to be colonists who were given the AES gear by Ugaks. Want some poe for the stuff.

Offers all her magic items:

Must reserve some items in case the assassination fails. But will give TWO of the following:

*Cap of the Five Oceans. Gives a ship's captain a +1 on boating rolls.
*Symposium Cup. Once only (per owner?) wine drunk from it increases Smarts /CK/Science, etc by 2 die for an hour
*Blade of the Champion Gladiator. Increases fighting by one die when used.
*Lens of Daedaelus: a telescope that allows amazing magnification and has other unknown minor affects
*Flask of Roc Blood: allows flying for 1 hour. Has three drafts.
*Indulgency of Athena: reading the prayer gives the owner a free permanent Edge. Scroll crumbles of course.

Everything stands in the RAW account regardng the causes of Caribdus' drowning, BUT only as the version believed by the majority of Caribdeans. The truth:
*Years earlier, bored members of Caribdus' Council of Arch-Elementalists began magical experiments to view other worlds, especially Earth as the closest to Caribdus in the Tree of Worlds. The Oracle of Xanthos was the leader of the experimenters.
*seeing the beginnings of science beyond their own, the jealous Council planned to 'gate' in lost (therefore magically 'spare') Earth mariners USING A TUNNEL THAT LINKED THE WORLDS' OCEANS VIA THE PLANE OF WATER
*They opened the gate in Ograpog Bay, in view of the capital's folk so as to surprise and impress them
*The gate opened, the tunnel collapsed, water exploded in from the Plane of Water, drowning Ograpog. Terrified earth mariners arrived one by one through the drowned gate, dubbing it "the Devils Cross". Many died in the whirling Flotsam Sea
*the Council covered up, scapegoating three sisters who had been drowned in Ograpog Bay at nearly the same time.The Oracle, twisted survivors' confused memories: the three daughters of the victorious War Archon had learned Ugak Black Magic, killed their father, cursed Ograpog and later risen as giants. In reality their only crime had been to perform a forbidden ugak dance to protest Ograpog's cruel slaughter on Torath Ka
*Someone--perhaps the ancient octopons-- called on the inter-dimensional Furies/ Erinyes to wreak vengeance on the destroyers. The trio appeared to sea-going Ograpogans as the Sea Hags, the Ugaks as the Flyers, the Octopons as the Sea Queens, etc.
*To try to eliminate their pursuers, the cunning Oracle persuaded the Ograpogan fleet to attack the Sea Hags. The hags, freshly summoned and powerful, scattered the fleet and pursued Council survivors across Caribdus in their various guises. As their power waned, the Furies summoned the ghost of BB to help in the hunt
*Now only two Council members survive: Tressa and the Oracle. Tressa is innocent , having opposed the gate experiment. But if the guilty Oracle dies, the gate --which is keyed to the summoners' life force--will slowly close.
*Even though her death is unnecessary, Tressa blames herself for permitting the experiment and plans to drink poison once the Quest is completed.

strange tree marks
a standing stone radiating dread

a boneyard, site of a cannibal atrocity
valuble item disappears (lose item)
a ghost village-shadowy forms visible in huts (unlucky)

shadow(s) glimpsed following the party (unwelocme presence)
item reappears (cursed iteM0
disorientation-whihc way forward (party loses time)
bickering with the party (bad blood between ywo party emmebrs)
shadow enters a party memeber (gains Possessed Hindrance)
Richard sees something terrible in his magic botle
return impossibly to village (-disappear)

unnerving sounds emanating from the forest
website d20pirates.blogspot.com/2011/02/sloop-deck-plan.html

Your searcher finds 100 Poe or roll on the following. A. Otice with a raise allows you to roll a second d6 as a hero die:

1-cursed item: appealing find (sailor’s locket, named tankard or hat) reduces the ship’s FP by 1.

2-grim find. Skull, nasty corpse or zonbi rat ; roll Spirit or be unnerved for the rest of the day

3- bauble: scrimshaw animal, ship in a bottle, or lude drawing

4- handy item: good hammock, coat, pistol or other humble mundane item worth double normal price

5- expensive item: fine compass, cutlass, medicine chest or telescope (max 500 poe)

6- treasure: locked (TN6) small chest containing 1d6* 1d6 hundred poe of jewels, jewellery, coins

I am aware this is a bonanza in terms of bennies, but let’s keep them coming where they are due(you’ll lose extra bennies when you refresh anyway).
A benny to one-eye for the partisan account of his life as a Blackbeard crewman, wisely avoiding mention of his old captain’s name
Two bennies to chabas for the gruesome seafood find (how did a scurrilous get onto an Earth ship-perhaps he boarded it to investigate) and the comedy lecture
Two bennies to Jose for the compass detail and the good use of his gambling skill
Benny to Mitch for including actual media

There is a skiff running out of a flooded ravine , once a twisting highland valley now partly covered sea. Farmers along there call it wTerfall Creek. A skiff, working as spies for the Kierans, operates from there. They nip into the creek whenever approached, following its twists inland until only their skiff can manage the shallow water.
The Teroso is faster than any local ships so can pursue her, putting off a dinghy if possible to capture them in their hidden base.
They use a wave-rider, though there are no Doreens sighted.

..........

How about a PbP-friendly system for ship combat that lets us get in lots of ship fights rather than turning them into grueling rules fests.I suggest we stick to early versions of the rules where vehicles are treated like combatants.

So we know a combat round between two human combatants goes like this. Each rolls fighting on their card. If an attacker's fighting roll exceeds the opponent's Parry they roll damage. If the damage exceeds the opponent#s Toughness they are shaken or taken a wound.

By direct analogy, for ship combat each captain rolls boating (for fighting) on their card. If an attacker's boating roll exceeds the enemy ship's MANeuverability (for Parry; sloops get MAN 6) they roll damage (for a standard rig like the Tesoro, 2d6). If the damage exceeds the opponent's RESilience (for Toughness; sloops get RES 5) they are Disadvantaged (=Shaken) or take a wound.

Each round characters other than the captain can Support with boating, climbing or shoting, etc. roll to try to add +1 to his boating roll. Up to the usual +4 cap for Support. To balance things out for ships with no WCs on board, we'll always given them a +1 'fair's fair' +1 edge.

We can try it out wth a srap against a sloop and see if it's too edge (but wouldn't edgy be good) or easy with the Support rolls.

Each ship in a fight will have RESilience(=toughness) and MANeuverability (=Parry). The Tesoro has RES 5 and MAN 6 like most sloops.

Ship's attack with the captain's boating skill. Damage done is based on the weaponry aboard. A standard set-up like the Tesoro's does 1d6 ship damage.

Each round characters other than the captain can decide either to make a boating roll to try to add +1 to his boating roll, or make a shooting roll to add an additional 1d6 to damage should it hit.

Ships can be shaken ("disadvantaged")by attacks where the enemy crew is literally shaken by a cannonade or the captain has to manuevre to resist further damage.

Ships have 3 wounds then go to the bottom.

...
So. You have told me much that I needed to hear. The Octopons are active in many places. I was lead to believe that they are the transformed remains of drowned Masaquani. The evil drowned. But more and more I find myself wondering who they really are.”

Mention
Water barrel
Fruit

“This is what the Questors have learned. This world was drowned when three sisters, daughters of an Ograpogan general, were sentenced to death for murdering their father. They were tied to stakes so as to be drowned in the incoming tide. Their curse was that Caribdus would be drowned as they were drowned. Those three daughters became the Hags, the Devils of this world. ”

“The power they used was wicked Ugak black magic. The strongest kind, Joko Mek, the religion of the Ugak tribes who dwell on the northern shores of Torath Ka. The very people their father’s phalanxes had recently subdued in the Third Jungle War. It was the vengeance of the Ugak witchdoctors that the general’s own daughters would turn on him, wielding the everlasting magic he had sought to crush.”

I needed to learn the daughter’s names. After many adventures, the Questors brought me this. It s the account of the execution I have just described to you. It includes the daughters names as well as that if a fourth innocent daughter the wicked ones murdered. Read it please but do not say their names out loud.”

[ooc] a densely written summary of the trail written in difficult to parse formal legalese. make a CK to makes sense of it - the details are too fulsome, compared to the accounts above and below on the page which seem to miss some data. Binding has been restitched.[/ooc]