[ADVICE] One Shot: Barcrawl of the Drunken God

I'm offering this up for advice and improvement. Trying to think of booze buffs is hard..

Party: 4-5 players level 7
System: Pathfinder
Hook: There has been trickery in the Pantheon. Norburger (God of Trickery/Poison, NE) has managed to corrupt the drink of Cayden Cailean (God of freedom, ale, wine, and bravery, CG). Someone managed to poison a God, and its us mortals that are going to suffer unless something can be done.

So, general idea is that this is a one-shot for my co-workers as part of a team building exercise (not kidding, I get to use company funds for this!) Noone is a total noob but some have more experience than others.

General Plot: The party is met by Luthier, Knight of the Vinyard who explains the problem, poisoning the drink of Cayden Cailean has caused alcoholic drinks throughout the city to become corrupted. Twisting the effects of alcohol to their darker sides. Luckily only INSERTCITYHERE is effected due to proximity to the temple of Norburger that is powering the deity level poison. Items of power have been spread around bars in town to channel energy to the central runes. The party needs to collect these items from the bars and bring them to Luthier. Luthier will be working to locate the shrine and preparing the ritual needed to break the protections using the cursed items. (Yeah, a fetch quest, and an excuse to get rid of the paladin/chosen of a god).

Flexible Parts: Depending on time I wanted to have a few options for the kinds of "bars" they would be hitting up.

  • Game Night: The party needs to retrieve a corrupted trophy from a sports bar hosting two rival teams on the day of the game. The party needs to try to retrieve the item. The twisted alcohol has made the patrons more angry than normal.. there is pretty much going to be a barfight..
  • Casino: Think adult Chucky Cheeses - Players need to win tickets to buy a corrupted item they see on display in the "prizes" area. The area is well enough guarded that doing it the legit way would make sense. Need to come up with more games to play: Dice Poker, Pirate Dice, One card Fuck the Dealer, up and down... Need some more.
  • Empty Behind the Bar: A bar that lost its barkeep, players need to take drink orders and provide good service while they try to find the cursed item through social interaction.
  • Suggestions for More

Now another part of this is actually getting people to have some drinks. I thought of one way, is that Luthier gives them a divine boon that boosts the effects of some drinks:

  • Honeyed Mead Words - While under the effect of this drink all social interactions (diplomacy, intimidate, bluff) are boosted when used on a inebriated target. Roll twice and take the better of the two rolls.
  • Jack of all Trades.. And Coke - While under the effect of this drink you are able to swap one spell you know or have memorized to anything of the same level.
  • Shot Through the Heart - Once per day you can take a shot before you make an attack. The next attack (or first attack of a full attack) you make is an automatic critical threat that you can confirm.
  • Nurse that Beer - Finish off a beer to trigger the effects of a CL 5 Cure Moderate Wounds potion. Can trigger once per RL hour.

Party runs around getting drunk (both in and out of game), finds the McGuffins and confronts the final boss. Any other ideas? Details are still mostly in my head for now.

Posted Feb 17, 2017, 2:27 AM UTC

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