🌊⛯ Illuminate a seaside town's shadowy past in the Abomination Vaults! | Pathfinder 2e Mystery Megadungeon

About the adventure

🎵"When the fog is creeping, And the moon is low; When the town is sleeping, Gauntlight starts to glow! That’s when she arises For her midnight lunch. Naughty kids are prizes For her teeth to crunch. But if you obey me, And obey the rules; You’re safe from Belcorra; She just eats the fools!" 🎵 So warns a popular nursery rhyme in the town of Otari, where parents sing the melodious but unsettling poem to their children at night to encourage good behavior. As a result, anyone who grows up in Otari has a healthy mix of fear, respect, and curiosity for the old ruins out in Fogfen and the strange lighthouse that stands at the swamp’s heart. As they grow older, townsfolk are told stories more often accepted as truth: that the heroic founders of Otari—the Roseguard—had stormed the lair of the wicked sorcerer Belcorra and slew her generations ago. For a time, thrill-seekers explored the ruins around the lighthouse called Gauntlight, but today, common knowledge holds that the place has become a haven for pests—no longer a source of active danger or significant treasure after being completely picked over. Nearly 500 years has passed since Belcorra’s defeat after all, and in that time, she has only posed a menace to Otari through sinister bedtime stories. Or so the citizens of Otari believe. 💡 Investigate the mysterious glow coming from old Gauntlight. 🏘️ Earn friends and foes in the coastal lumber town, Otari. 📖 Open up lost chapters of the isle's past better left buried.

Additional Details

How to prepare

You'll need a working microphone, a stable internet connection, a free Discord account, and a free Forge VTT account (https://forge-vtt.com/). Webcams are optional. Invitation links will be in your player dashboard once you've signed up. Upon arrival in the Discord, I'll arrange a short meeting to ask about your preferences and establish character concepts before everyone meets during Session 0.

What I provide

⚒️ Foundry VTT server with a suite of modules to add animated special effects for encounters 🗺️ Fully illustrated suite of monster tokens to use with both premium and custom-made Foundry maps 🎭 A colourful cast of non-player characters brought to life through my voice acting and improv 🎼 Fantasy ambience & soundtrack for encounters, exploration, and downtime

Gameplay details

Before Session 0, you'll receive a consent checklist to fill in topics that must be handled cautiously or outright banned. Once everyone fills theirs out, during Session 0 I'll post a compiled anonymous list of everyone's preferences. During sessions, you can press a button to pop up an 🗙-card on-screen. When the card comes up, we break and discuss what needs to be changed for you to feel comfortable continuing with the game. Around mid-session, there'll be a 10-15 minute break for grabbing snacks and bio breaks. At the end of each session, we'll debrief with any questions, comments, concerns, or points of inquiry. I'll ask everyone to share their favourite moment from the session and what they look forward to next time. Content Warnings: The campaign may include implications of suicide performed by non-player characters. Interactions with creatures that've undergone significant bodily modification may trigger ableism and body horror. Expect an exploration of the despair surrounding death and the desire to escape it through monstrous experimentation.

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

Breaks
Debriefing
Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist
Session 0
X, N, and O Cards

How will character creation work

Character creation will start before Session 0. I'll ask questions about what type of character you want to play and work to help you achieve that in a mechanically and narratively satisfying way. Some character classes and class options from the Advanced Player's Guide and Dark Archive sourcebooks are especially recommended for this adventure—such as the Investigator, Oracle, Psychic, Thaumaturge, or Witch class, although none of these are required to be present in the party. Third Party Content will be allowed with prior approval. The following Pathfinder Infinite content is pre-approved: ➕ Clerics+, Oracles+, and Witches+ by Team+ 🌀 Eldritch Expansion: Thaumaturge's Wrath by Eldritch Osiris Games 🐉Class Features: Subconscious Minds by Luis Loza

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