Extinction Curse - Circus Adventure

An evil hungers beneath the earth. This ancient enemy seeks to bring desolation to the Isle of Kortos. The heroes destined to confront this enemy have humble beginnings, working as members of a novice circus troupe!

The Extinction Curse Adventure Path has its fair share of traditional adventuring elements: the heroes will navigate deadly dungeons, interact with colorful NPCs in engaging social encounters, acquire legendary treasures, and solve millennia-old mysteries. Yet all of this is framed by the heroes’ role within the traveling circus, including special systems for performing circus tricks and managing the circus.

The game is Pathfinder 2e, starting at level 1, and potentially going all the way to level 20 (if people enjoy it). Pathfinder is fantasy roleplay system similar to D&D but with more character customization. No previous with Pathfinder is required, and in fact new players are highly encouraged. I myself may be experienced, and can guide people through the system, but I don't expect everyone else to be. All Pathfinder rules are available for free legally online, but I will explain them for anyone new to the system as we play.

Sessions will be run every week from 7pm-11pm UK time (currently GMT/UTC+0). We will use discord for voice comms – so you will need a microphone.

Please post an application in the designated thread below (by posting it in that one thread it makes it easier for me to keep track of). There are no right or wrong answers, I just want to make sure the group will work well together.

About me and my GMing style:

Feel free to skip this section if you like, but since I'm asking you to put in an application I thought it's only fair if I write a bit about myself :)

Name: Hammer/Stephen
Age: 23
Country: UK
GM Experience: I've been GMing for at least 7 years (probably longer, I've lost track). In that time I've played a variety of games from D&D to Dungeon World to Call of Cthulu to Pendragon to Maid RPG! I've run one other Pathfinder 2e game, which has been ongoing for the last 4-5 months. I've been really enjoying it, hence why I want to run a second
Roll20 Experience: As you may be able to tell from my roll20 hours, I'm definitely not a novice. I've been using it ever since I started Roleplaying and take a lot of joy in using all the functionality it has. So you can expect lots of battlemaps with tokens and dynamic lighting, fully implemented card decks, custom status icons, and appropriate music.
GMing Style: My favorite thing is roleplay encounters with colorful NPCs, however I recognise combat is an important part of an adventure like this. I must admit I've been enjoying Pathfinder 2e combat a surprising amount due to the fun and mechanically varied creates the heroes can fight against. Also I like to add some small extra mystery elements and extra opportunities to develop character personalities where I can. Still, I will play the adventure path close to how it's written (with only minor alterations based on the party/players), and will never fudge dice, which means death is possible. My main weakness as a GM is that I'm not great at giving really super visual and sensory descriptions, although both the adventure path and roll20 battle maps help mitigate that somewhat.

If I sound like the sort of GM you'd like to play with, please post in the applications thread below :)