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♾️🏳️🌈 Abomination Vaults || Ruins of Gauntlight 🏯
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.
$25.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Friday – 3:00 PM UTC
Aug 1 / Session 15
3–3.5 Hour Duration
5 / 5 Seats Filled
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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 🗺️ Exclusive high-resolution art, battlemaps, tokens, and animations 🎭 Professional theatrical storytelling and a dedication to detail 🎶 Immersive audio, from rattling pipes 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 survival horror dungeon crawl Adventure Path for Pathfinder Second Edition. 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 ghosts 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)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(58)
2 years on StartPlaying
567 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Inclusive, Teacher
Average response time: 17 hours
Response rate: 100%
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, and equipment 🧮 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 build? Ask about tweaking it!
Party is Level 3 and consists of a human champion, a halfling cleric, a half-elf fighter, and an elf magus.
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 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 twice per game — and for great roleplaying! 🥰 Good roleplaying may also bump your success on social checks 💰 Hero Points carry over and can be given to your teammates ⌛ When time allows, PCs may take 10 (or 20!) on skill checks 🪝 Snares acquired in mint condition can be used by anyone 🛠️ Legacy items that have not been remastered are still allowed
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 in the game. This is not a complete list of sensitive content that might arise mid-session. Part of our Session 0 will involve discussing players’ comfort levels with potentially triggering topics, and the game can be altered to minimize or even avoid certain subject matter. Players who join mid-campaign 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. Belcorra and her apprentice practiced medical experimentation on their victims, and the fruits of their labor persist to this day. The living (and unliving) residents of the vaults include vermin, cannibals, and fiends, and several inhabiting groups display prejudice against other residents. Additionally, all Pathfinder games carry the risk of character death — I don’t pull my punches, but I am amenable to alternative consequences. 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 unacceptable at my table and will lead to your immediate removal from a session without refund, as well as a ban from all present and future tables hosted by this GM.
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