The Thing From Beyond Time

If I didn't already love the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, tonight's scenario would've been the clincher. I played through the penultimate mission of the Rise of the Runelords campaign with my top pair of heroes, Valeros and Seoni, and the experience was...intense, to say the least. In fact, it was a game experience I'll probably never forget.

My heroes had chased the villain across three locations, defeating her twice -- at great cost to their own health and resources -- before cornering her in the fourth and final location. As (bad) luck would have it, that location was a monster-infested chamber with a portal that would soon disgorge a hideous, Lovecraftian creature from another universe. See below!

Yeah, crap. Each passing turn brought this beastie closer and closer to entering Golarion (the world of the Pathfinder campaign setting). There was no way my wounded, exhausted heroes could take down the Thing and then defeat the scenario's powerful main villain for a third time. We were down to our last turn before the Thing's inevitable arrival and, with Desna the goddess of luck smiling upon us at last, Seoni uncovered the villain. She and Val unleashed everything they had, burying their foe and thereby winning the scenario a split second before the Thing could arrive.

One more mission to go...we take on Karzoug the Runelord himself.