Stay of Execution

Stay of Execution, a retired Pathfinder Society scenario written by Alison McKenzie for tier 1-7, was released in January 2009 and retired from organized play on November 15, 2010.

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When a petty thief named Hadge gets a lucky break and makes off with a powerful divination focus of the Pathfinder Society's masked leadership, you and your fellow Pathfinders set out to the sparsely populated Taldor frontier to find him and recover the focus. When the local governor tosses Hadge into the brutal Porthmos Prison for a minor crime, your mission suddenly becomes a jail break. Will you free Hadge and uncover the location of the focus before the gangs of Porthmos tear him apart?

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Scenario overview

Level	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Location(s)	Taldor Sardis Township Porthmos Prison

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Background

In 4709 AR, a thief named Hadge broke into the Pathfinder Society's Grand Lodge in Absalom and stole a powerful divination focus used by the members of the Decemvirate to communicate with each other.

Hadge fled with the focus to Sardis Township in Taldor, where he was arrested after an unsuccessful attempt to sell the focus and thrown into Porthmos Prison.

Adventure

The Decemvirate requests Venture-Captain Drandle Dreng to dispatch a team of Pathfinders to retrieve Hadge or locate the divination focus.

Upon their arrival to the prison, the Pathfinders bribe a local gargoyle named Grinnd with a rare tome titled Linnorms of the North given to them by Dreng. Grinnd eats the tome and shows the Pathfinders a route into the prison through a ruined storehouse.

Inside the prison, the Pathfinders find gangs of prisoners fighting, some of them for control over Hadge and his valuable skills as a weaponsmith. Once the Pathfinders locate Hadge, he uses the focus' hidden location outside the prison as a bargaining chip to convince the Pathfinders to secure his freedom.

The book The Inward Facing Circle, first appearing in the scenario Silent Tide, is mentioned as an example of a book the players could feed to Grinnd in order to secure a favour.

Recurring characters, concepts, and locations

The following characters, concepts, or locations can be found in this scenario, but also significantly appear in the publications listed below:

Map support

Stay of Execution uses two custom maps.