No problem -- real life always takes precedence -- but thanks for the note.  I didn't really think you had ghosted us with only your last post remaining in chapter 1, but you never know.  I hope your traveling is something fun and not work, or worse.

Since Scarlet didn't express an opinion on solo v. interactive, we'll go with interactive.  Of course, I won't tell you if it is cooperative or competitive.  It might even change half way through.  :-)

You should fully level up to level 2 now.  Your stats should reflect an 18-point buy, though if you don't use all 3 additional points the unused will be available next level.  (I'd be surprised if you are saving points now, but I could see it at our penultimate level up, assuming we get there.)  I wouldn't mind a write-up of what you are doing in the intervening two years.  Obviously, training and working with your now-mature animal, but also other skills and abilities.

Choose the tricks your animal has learned:  You should choose 6 plus 1/4 of your Handle Animal Skill, rounded normally, plus 2 more if you took the Animal Companion ability.

You also should have three traits and three feats.  Remember that I'm pretty easy on traits:  They don't have to come from the official list but can just be made up as long as they are similar power level to existing traits.  (Roughly, +1 to one skill all the time, or +2 in specialized cases, and that skill is always a class skill.  Also, there are some odd twists on skills, such as this skill becomes INT-based instead of CHA-based, though that has to make sense.)

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I've given each of you a very specialized ability, that we should codify as a trait, I guess, so this is a fourth trait.

Urvan:  +4 to Survival for the purpose of waking yourself up at a particular time in the night, and you can take a 10 on this skill (assuming you are planning this as you go to sleep and you have potable water available).  Waking yourself up in a one-hour window is DC 16; waking yourself up in a half-hour window is DC 20.  (This was from memory, so feel free to correct me if I said something else in the thread.)

Scarlet: +4 to Sense Motive in figuring out who in a group is the culprit/inside agent/spy where you set up a 'big reveal' show that is credible (and fun, of course).

I don't know if you are a fan of the show The Mentalist -- not only am I a big fan, but I even went to a show in Vegas starring the man who invented the concept for the series (and played the Patrick Jane character in the pilot which never aired).  Here is a picture of myself and my wife with him after the show.  The purple-haired woman in a wheelchair is the prototype for Lady Maranno in Scarlet's Chapter 1 thread.  Anyway, that show is where I was first introduced to the concept, but I have since done a little research and found that it is a real thing.

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Urvan, I realized that you still have your character as 10 years old.  At Scarlet's suggestion, we changed the starting point to 12 years old because she expects her character to get into some adult situations as part of her training, and we don't want to run afoul of the RPoL character age restrictions.  You can assume you were 12 all through chapter one or leave it at 10, though beating up a soldier at age 10 did seem like quite a stretch.  (I don't really care either way, given your background; your people probably mature very early.  However, it does push back by one level when you might get into adult situations, if you ever care to do so.)
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Sounds good to me.

I will try to get his sheet updated some time today to fully reflect Level 2.

Note that I changed the previous note above since you posted.  I had hit 'Post' prematurely.
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Ah, an oversight on my part. He should have been 12. Good catch.

Nice. I will hopefully be able to update and post this evening.

@Urvan, Sorry, but Scarlet's been very busy at work, and is a relative newcomer to PathFinder and all its bazillions of choices one has to make in character creation and leveling up.  We've been narrowing down the choices in PMs, so there is progress, but still not quite there.

Also, you only have 5 tricks chosen for your dog.  It's fine if you want to save them for later, but you do have 8 available.  (6 for int 2 animal, 1 for Handle Animal of 5, 2 for animal companion, per my rules adjustment)  Note that I will not retcon these on the fly.  That is, you can't come upon a situation where you'd like to have the dog track by scent and, at that point, decide that you already taught him that.  I will frequently retcon some choices, but the rules are very specific about the time to train a dog, and I'm going to use those.

I recommend you consider Track, Menace, and Intimidate and (OMG, you're missing this!) don't forget Come.  He will naturally follow you in all non-stress situation, but if you decide it is time to run from a fight, you will need that to get him to stop fighting and follow.  You will be getting 2 (maybe 3)  more tricks on your next level up and you won't have time to train the dog before then, so there's not a lot of incentive to save them.

@Scarlet, You can go ahead and post an intro, which will probably help solidify in your mind the role-playing direction you want to go in.  I'm a big believer in bending the rules to fit the role-playing when the latter is interesting, so we'll work it out.  (I already have an idea for a new feat you can take next level up to use the Profession that you are specializing in, but there's no point to taking it this level.)

Of course, Urvan, this goes for you, too.  If you made role-playing choices because the rules didn't support something you wanted to do, then definitely ask and I'll work out a mechanic for it.  You are possibly more constrained because you already know the rules, so you unconsciously limit yourself without even realizing it.
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I always wonder if you* spot the origins of the names I create.  (This is made harder because many don't have origins.)  For instance, all of these do.
a large older (15 years) tom named Gatópardos
a 5-year-old queen named Kompsótita
Archon, a big, healthy tom
Sir Heger Ledath, a devilishly handsome, powerfully built man who is rumored to be a favorite for overall winner in the Games


* I suppose now that I live in Texas I should use the pronoun "y'all" here, but I just can't.

Waiting on you Urvan.

@Scarlet, You're doing a great job resisting having any sympathy for Erikus.  :-)

Urvan decided not to risk a written message in that previous post, with his current plan being to hide and seek out Iwo when the man is free from his responsibilities

Yeeeeah, for some reason Scarlet is shaping up to be a very mean bitch, she has this deep, deep well of bitterness. My PC's tends to be nicer, sarcastic but not unkind. She's a piece of work.

Bump.  Waiting on both of you.

Well, it seems Urvan is gone again.  I had wanted to have the two of you bump into each other as he is leaving the palace and you are heading towards it.  I'm going to move him forward, but if he returns I'll let him retcon the meeting with the stablehand, since it is going to be fairly important to his future but it doesn't really affect much now.

You sure you didn't mix up the names? McAnally sounds a lot like a brothel...

LOL.   You're putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable, clearly.  Get your head out of the gutter.

Those names are all from books I have loved (except for one from a TV show I have loved).  I wouldn't want to besmirch Harry Dresden by saying that his favorite bar is now a brothel.

Waiting on you folks.

Perhaps a good moment to ask about money? How much do I have, how much does one earn, what are the prices like...?

A good question!  You can assume that you have 30-35gp on hand.  You've been warned not to carry too much, and not to have a heavy bag that jingles temptingly.  So you probably have two platinum pieces, hidden individually, maybe 8 gold in a moneybelt or perhaps your shoes, and the rest in gold and silver in a pouch for easy access.

Think of a gold as about $15 in today's currency and buying power, so a platinum coin is $150.  I'm not sure what your financial situation is, but I don't usually walk around with $500 on me, but I would expect that someone at Scarlet's level of nobility would.

Most of the wagers you've seen being made are for a gold or two, where the largest you've seen was for 5 gold and the smallest was for a single silver.
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That's extremely cheap gold (a pet peeve of mine with fantasy currency), but ok. Idk, $150 hardly feels like it merits special securing? Like it's not that unusual for me to have a few £50 notes in my wallet, and if credit cards weren't a thing I'd have to carry many more. On the other hand, I assume Scarlet's cash comes from a Ducal allowance, meaning that while her lifestyle might be luxurious by anyone's standards (Duke pays for that), she probably doesn't have that much readily available cash. At least that's my idea of Renaissance courts and pensions/handouts.

Also those gamblers are very small-time for nobles? 75 maximum bet is hardly high rolling.

Right.  This is not a high rollers sort of place, more working class.  The rougher bars also have a crowd with more ready cash.

I am actually a pretty serious poker player, and I frequently have $4-5k in my pockets going to or from the card house.  But otherwise, I rarely have more than a few hundred.  I suppose my equivalences are a little low, too, because I expect you could get a reasonably nice meal for a couple of silver pieces.  Perhaps raise those estimates a bit.

Anyway, you're right about Scarlet having a fixed allowance that is in the gold pieces per week.  I don't really want to make an issue of money in the game, though.  This bit was really for role-playing and forming a connection between you and Heger.  ~~~~~  I just went and read your post.  OMG, he's handsome, but there's no need to drool.  :-)

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Edit:  Wait.  Did you mean to have Scarlet misspeak and bet against Heger?  You said all the money on Sir Angus, who is his opponent.
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Oh no, that's what happens when I post late at night, I met sir Heger, of course. Thanks for the warning, I fixed the post.

It's not that Heger is necessarily super hot (I assume *Scarlet* is comparatively much sexier), it's just that she's having her first teenage infatuation. In layer years she'll probably develop into a cynical heartbreaker, so it's fun to have her fall head over heels about some boy now.

Anyway sorry for nitpicking on the money issue, I had incorrectly assumed this place was a posher Inn where the nobles of the retinue amused themselves with extravagant wagers. The fact it's more blue-collar makes it only more exotic to Scarlet.

This is the Terre Haute of the country:  an intersection of shipping lanes but no other reason for existence.  There are no theaters, no museums, no culture to speak of, and definitely no posh inns.  I think I said that this was the nicest, but it is more true to say that this one is the safest.  The others are much more mobbed up and therefore attract a much rougher crowd.

BTW, did you figure out the origin of his name?  Heger Ledath is a transposition of Heath Ledger, from his role in A Knight's Tale.  This picture is exactly how I see him.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:19, Fri 16 Sept 2022.

Yeah, I know, it's true that you will never fall afoul of the law in this sort of encounter.  BTW, you're a granddaughter, and they think so highly of you that no one thought to arrange a room for you (or maybe something else ????).  So don't assume that trick will work against other nobility, even those you technically outrank.


It's just a d20 plus your initiative bonus, which I've corrected to +3 on your sheet.  Also, you forgot to add your additional d6 for your sneak attack damage.  I've added a separate roll script on your sheet.

Edit:  Oh, yeah, I forgot that you have an additional +2 initiative and +1 damage because of Adrenaline Rush.

Edit 2:  BTW, I had intended for Urvan to observe this ambush attempt, and was going to make the encounter a lot harder, expecting him to come to your defense.  As it is, this is not a trivial encounter like the one with the bullies.  Note that he was attacking at -4 because he was trying to make a lethal attack with a nonlethal weapon.  I'm not trying to push you to run.  You did get a pretty great start on the encounter so you'd have to be pretty unlucky at this point to end up dead.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:17, Fri 23 Sept 2022.

Yeah, no, I know the actual royals don't GAF about me, but the commoners don't know that ;P

Hummm looks like time to run...

Lemme try this...

Say, a nice dinner is £40. So a silver is £20. So a gold piece is 200 (I suppose we're doing the decimal thing). This isn't too crazy since Google says the price of gold is around 50 per gram, and a gold coin would weight more than 4g.

So Scarlet bets 200 X 33 = 6,600 (now that's more like nobles) and walks out with 33,000. Fair to say the bookie doesn't like her much (maybe he was the one who sent those two after her?).

Does this make more monetary sense?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:37, Fri 30 Sept 2022.

Hmmm.  Somewhere in between, I think.  I don't see you getting a fairly nice dinner for 2 SP, it would be more like 8-10 SP.  Remember that you are generally tipping pages a silver or two.  But I was way too low, I think.

I hadn't really thought about the bookie being the one to send the crooks after you; I just thought that they were people who observed you accepting the big windfall.  But that doesn't mean I would shift to that being "the truth" if it became a good part of the narrative.
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