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♾️🏳️🌈 [Level 8] Abomination Vaults || Eyes of Empty Death 🏯
An ancient evil stirs, her return heralded by her nauseating light. 500 years ago, Otari called for heroes — it seems the time has come again.
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Weekly / Friday - 3:00 PM UTC
Oct 16 / Session 63
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
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About the adventure
“Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.” — Jeff VanDerMeer, ANNIHILATION (2014) For the quiet town of Otari, the most excitement any of its residents experience is on Founders’ Day — a five-hundred year celebration of when the adventuring party known as the Roseguard defeated the wicked cannibal Belcorra Haruvex. The witch’s death brought peace to a flourishing lumber town, and her memory is now relegated to nursery rhymes and old wives’ tales. Belcorra is dead, and all her wicked machinations forgotten. The oldest Founders’ Day tradition is its most important. What set the Roseguard apart from other adventuring parties was that they did not know each other; rather, they were thrown together at random out of necessity. Every year, a handful of residents receive the highest honor of all: a private harrow reading by a local diviner. There is some gravity that comes with this selection — an understanding that, should the worst come to fruition, you must stand ready to serve. But what are the odds of such horrors? The final card is turned. The reading is complete, and all the air has been sucked from the festival. Outside, a nauseating blue light bathes Otari in its sickening terror. Belcorra’s supposedly abandoned tower has come to life. Perhaps this was all an accident. Some ignorant fey or mindless vermin holed up in a decrepit, abandoned tower flicked on a light by accident. But if that were true, when why does the hair stand up on the back of your neck every time you cast your gaze towards the tower? Why do you have the awful sense that Gauntlight’s evil is not dead, but merely dormant? The red ribbon around your arm weighs like an albatross. You are fated heroes — best start acting like it. 🏯 Ten unique levels of beasts, traps, and tribulations! 🔧 Premium Foundry module published by Paizo 🗺️ High-resolution art, battlemaps, tokens, and animations 🎭 Professional theatrical storytelling and a dedication to detail 🎶 Immersive audio, from damned howls to hymns of the dead 🖥️ All official game resources and technology to delve into the depths ⚔️ Beginner-friendly while still engaging more experienced pathfinders 🏳️🌈 Inclusive environment for all identities, in and out of game 🛎️ Weekly office hours for questions, concerns, and casual banter Abomination Vaults is a dark fantasy dungeon-crawling Adventure Path for the second edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Player characters will advance from Level 1 to Level 11 as they descend the ruins of a wicked lighthouse, dodging the hideous monsters, deadly traps, and mysterious spirits who advance the tower’s wicked machinations. Praised as the ultimate megadungeon and inspired by works like the SOUTHERN REACH trilogy, THE DESCENT, and AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, ask not for whom the Gauntlight glows — it glows for thee!
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Rules as Written (RaW)
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Meet the Game Master
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Highly rated for: Creativity, Inclusive, Beginner Friendly
About me
My name's MJ (she/her), and I'm everything your parents warned you about: a horror writer, a punk rock guitarist, a Philadelphia sports fan, and a Dungeon Master! My friends have described me as "a German Shepherd cursed to be human," "the universe's favorite chew toy," and "too interesting for my own good."
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Creating your character
🤝 Collaborative character creation during Session 0 ⚖️ All common and uncommon character choices allowed 🔍 Ask about rare ancestries, backgrounds, equipment, and spells 🧮 Ability scores determined by boosts and flaws 🛍️ 1st-level characters have 15gp for starting equipment 🎭 Free archetype variant rule expands character options 🧱 Level advancement occurs at critical story milestones ✍️ Not feeling your character build? Ask about tweaking it!
Level 8 characters begin with 1,100gp with which to purchase equipment. The current party composition is as follows: • Seer elf bard (enigma muse) with the folklorist dedication • Versatile human champion of Erastil (redemption cause) with the guardian and bastion archetypes • Gutsy halfling cleric of Chaldira (cloistered cleric doctrine) with the medic and swashbuckler archetypes • Aiuvarin human fighter with the rogue archetype • Dromaar human monk with the champion and exemplar dedications
What to expect
Preparing for the session
🎙️ Working microphone and optional camera 🎧 Comfortable headphones and a quiet workspace 🤖 Free Discord and StartPlaying accounts 🤟 Good attitude towards all players, including the GM ✅ No Pathfinder, Foundry, or tabletop experience needed! 🔞 Must be 18 years or older to play — no exceptions!
What MJ brings to the table
📓 A complete three-part Adventure Path for Pathfinder 2e 📚 All official Pathfinder 2e rules and resources 🔊 Nitro-boosted community Discord server ⚙️ High-speed Foundry server with premium Paizo content 🗺️ High-quality art, maps, tokens, animations, and music 👩🏫 Weekly office hours and Discord support for questions 💖 A friendly, professional environment in and out of game
Homebrew rules
🪙 Hero Points awarded at the start and midway point of sessions 💰 Hero Points can be traded and carry over between sessions ⌛ Take 10 (or even 20!) on skill checks when time allows 🥰 Bump your degree of success with awesome roleplaying 🪝 Anyone can use snares acquired in mint condition 🛠️ Legacy items that have not been remastered are still permitted
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
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Safety
How MJ creates a safe table
The content warnings detailed below list items that are likely to appear during this campaign. This is not a complete list of sensitive content that might arise in-game. Part of our Session 0 will involve discussing players’ comfort levels with potentially triggering topics, and the game can be altered to minimize certain subject matter or avoid it entirely. Players who join after Session 0 should discuss these topics with the GM during weekly office hours. Certain themes are so central to the text that to remove them from the game would be to destroy the campaign’s fundamental premise. While Abomination Vaults contains typical Pathfinder action and adventure, it also presents themes of suicide, ableism, body horror, and human experimentation, as the cannibal witch Belcorra torments her victims and warps their bodies. One subplot contains parallels to real-world child abuse. Tabletop role-playing games are meant to be an escape from the horrors of the real world, and as a queer woman, I pride myself on making my tables a safe and inclusive environment for all. Above-table prejudices such as racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia are forbidden at my table and will lead to your immediate removal from a session without refund, complete ban from all present and future tables, and a formal report to StartPlaying.
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