Fat Rat Games

The last session left the characters a little unsettled after witnessing the victims and killer resulting from the most recent Shiver Killing. The jellyfish thing had already led at least one of the discovering Korvosan Guard to kill himself, another drinking heavily, and Aimar swearing an oath to end whoever or whatever is behind all of this. When we last left the party, a few of them were having some drinks with Divo at the Laughing Wave Inn.

Unfortunately, neither Adam nor Jen were able to joins us this session and so Aimar and Isabella were missing. As always, my GM comments are in italics in the below. This one is going to be a bit rushed as we had a TPK during our Friday night Shadowdark game and I need to focus on getting ready for something new for that.

We pick up with Divo departing and Darcy, Mac, and Pop finishing off their drinks after the break.

At the conclusion of our prior session, the characters had found and killed the “queen” of the spider eels that had been killing folks in a relatively small area of the Shingles of Bridgefront. This queen had taken over a large “square” in the Shingles as her lair and filled it with webs and with eggs. This, hopefully, puts an end to the terrors in this area but left the overall tangled mystery of the Shiver Killings unraveled. The party has needed to take care of the eggs before continuing and that is where we pick up after the break. Oh, and Darcy still seemed to be mesmerized by the queen so maybe they should start with her first.

Jen (and thus Isabella) was missing. My GM comments, as usual, are in italics.

As we ended our last session, the party were meeting with Sergio, a local gang lord, and establishing a temporary “partnership.” The group had learned some different bits of information about the happenings going on in Bridgefront and the killings, including that Sergio was now looking for a “female, half-elf wearing black leathers” (aka Darcy)…not to kill her but to seek aid. The gang lord shared quite a bit of information about the killings in his territory…a lot more killings than the party had known about.

Sergio offered one of his men, Elvo, to lead the party deeper into the Shingles where Sergio’s men had gone missing. That’s where we’ll pick up after the break.

(For NPC names, at least for those of Chelish background, we have been using this name generator, Pathfinder/Golarion Name Generator (Cheliaxian).

All players were in attendance but Adam (Aimar) and Jen (Isabella) both had to drop off at different times so their PCs had other business to attend to.

I do not believe that there are spoilers for any published adventures below the break. My GM comments, as usual, are in italics.

At the end of our last session, Mac got a rude awakening on 4 Pharasma with a magical message from Detective Figus (aka Divo). A new “cookie-cutter” victim had been found and brought to the attention of the Korvosan Guard. Divo was now getting pressure from his Captain who was getting pressure from above to get this handled…still unofficially. The Detective had no additional information to share other than he would be very grateful to Mac and his crew if they can handle this.

At the start of this session, Mac messaged “his” crew that there was another victim and all agreed to meet that evening at the Happy Halfling and touch base.

Everyone was in attendance this session and we pick up with the group gathering after the break. As always, my GM comments are in italics.

In out last session, the party had spent some more time looking around Bridgefront for more information about the cookie-cutter creature. They found some. The party came across another victim and some spider-like webbing that led deeper into the Shingles. Exploring more, they actually encountered the creature…briefly…and retreated out to an alley with the latest victim. Meanwhile, Darcy, who had been slinking in the shadows and watching over the party, dealt with two individuals who appeared to be associated with Sergio…the gang leader in this area. Dealt with them fatally. After all of this activity, the party headed back to Korvosan mainland to get a drink. While relaxing, Darcy was slipped a note from her mentor to go home as he had some information for her.

That’s where we will pick up after the break. Adam had to work and missed this session. There should be no spoilers below; we pretty much made this up as we played. Hooray! My comments in italics as usual.

We were missing two players during our prior session. Those who were in attendance had shifted their focus from searching for Lamm (who is known for his ability to simply “disappear” when needed) to investigating the gruesome deaths of “empties” in Old Korvosa, following up on the information that Detective Divo Figus had provided. After spotting a creature that clearly has been responsible for the “cookie cutter” killings which evaded their pursuit AND encountering a known thug who may make the investigation more difficult, the trio headed back to Mac’s place to rest and recover.

As a few days had passed in game time in the prior session, I started with asking the players who had missed the prior session just what their characters had been up to in the meantime. We will pick up this session with that after the break.

All of the players were able to join us for this session.

My GM comments are in italics.

Our first few sessions were largely taken up with character creation and then pursuing Gaedren Lamm. While the party had put a stop to his current operations, Lamm himself escaped and went to ground. Many folks that party spoke with mentioned that when Lamm wanted to not be found, he typically could not be found. We had also ended the prior session with Mac finding a dead body, looking as though something had burst out of its chest and stomach. We will pick up with this after the break.

Adam and Jen had to miss this session so Aimar and Isabella were off doing something else.

Most of this session was pretty much spontaneous so I don’t think there are any spoilers for any published adventures.

My GM comments are in italics.

I’m just going to jump right in below the break and continue exactly where the prior post left off rather than provide a mini-summary here. Mostly because we still have definite spoilers for Haunted Fortunes and I want to make sure all the spoilers are below the break.

There are definitely spoilers below for the Haunted Fortunes adventure from Book 1: Edge of Anarchy from the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path below the break.

For our Korvosa campaign, we spent a good bit of time with character creation. Specifically, I brought in the notion of background phases from Fate to start to tie the characters together before we began the campaign and to learn just a little bit about who they are. Instead of focusing on that, this session recap is going to jump right into the first “adventure” proper. All of the player characters did have at least one background phase that included how a decrepit miscreant by the name of Gaedran Lamm who either wronged the PC themselves or those around them. Jen had to miss the part of these sessions.

There are definitely spoilers below for the Haunted Fortunes adventure from Book 1: Edge of Anarchy from the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path below the break.