DM B's PFS PbP GameDay 3: The Dragon's Demand part 1 (1st-3rd)
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Founded by a famous dragonslayer, the small town of Belhaim has become a sleepy rural community just off the beaten path, a settlement where everyone knows everyone and strangers are the talk of the town. But when Belhaim’s peace and quiet is shattered by . . . well, you will just need to wait and see. . .
THE DRAGON'S DEMAND MAP
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Please only "dot" this thread for now, posting as the alias of the character you will play.
male 44/44 [52/52 ]HP, [Rage:10/13 ] AC: 18[15], T: 11[8], FF: 17[14], CMD: 19[22], F: +6 , R: +3, W: -1, Init +2, Pereption +4, CN Male Nagaji Abyssal Bloodrager, +1 Large Falcata: +9, (2d6+9, 19-20x3) Rage [+1 Large Falcata +11 (3d6+14, 19-20x3)]
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
HP:21/21 | AC:18 | T:13 | FF:15 | CMD:17 | CMB:+4 | Fort:+2 | Ref:+6 / +7 vs. traps | Will:+4 | Initiative:+3 | Perception:+9+1d6 | Darkvision (120') | Stealth: +11 | Group Loot
Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
Male Halfling Rogue / 2 | HP: 13/13 | AC: 17 (15T, 13FF) | Init: +4 | Perc: +8* | CMB: +1 | CMD: 15 | F/R/W: +1/+8/+2
Male Gnome (lava)
male 44/44 [52/52 ]HP, [Rage:10/13 ] AC: 18[15], T: 11[8], FF: 17[14], CMD: 19[22], F: +6 , R: +3, W: -1, Init +2, Pereption +4, CN Male Nagaji Abyssal Bloodrager, +1 Large Falcata: +9, (2d6+9, 19-20x3) Rage [+1 Large Falcata +11 (3d6+14, 19-20x3)]
I am amazed. This is the most diverse full party i have ever played with. I am excited to see what happens
Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
Not really it's a bit of a sausage fest
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THE DRAGON'S DEMAND part 1
A week ago. . .
You where gather together and told to report to the Venture-captains office. As was typically, it had to be way to dang early in the morning after a long night of entertainment, but that's the job. Looks like you had been picked for, em, em, a special mission. One filled with great potential and an ally to the Society needed help. There was something about picking names from a hat, (they always say that when the job is garbage even he apprentices don't volunteer for.
The job was simple. You where to be body guards for one Silas Gribb on his way through Taldor. Hired muscle, but it was a paying job. The trip took you 4 days, finally arriving at Belhaim, a small farming community.
3 Days Ago. . .
Unfortunatly, not long after your arrival in this small farming town, Mr. Gribb was arrested, taken into custody for a very legitimate warrant for smuggling. All his goods are confiscated, and it's all you can manage to keep yourselves from being arrested as accomplices as well. The local sheriff and his most skilled deputies head out within the hour to escort him and his confiscated caravan south to Cassomir, and leaving you high and dry. With no pay and no way to get back, you dispatch a letter back to the Pathfinder Society and are left waiting for an answer that may never come.
Since then you have tried to find something, anything to do while stranded in this little, backwater town, but room for exploration and adventure just seems to not exist here. Luckily, you managed to find a kind hearted woman willing to put you up for a few days. Talia Orem, the young proprietor of the Wise Piper Inn, and an ex-Pathfinder herself once, offers you room and board while you try to figure out your next step.
For the last two days, you have been looking and asking around town, both getting a lay of the land and seeing what you can find out, but so far, it's been precious little.
Belhaim is a farming community with approx. 400 people. It has little in the way of shops, and magic shops are non-existent. The vast majority of the population is human, though there are a handful of Elves, Half-Elves, Dwarves, etc. . . It's not particularly xenophobic, and many of the longer-lived races have earned a place of respect amongst the locals, assuming they haven't done anything to upset that. It has strongly LN tendencies, governed by a hereditary barony.
Currently ruled by Baroness Lady Origena Devy, and her son Arnholde Devy, the future Baron. Major cites include Castle Tula, the areas seat of government and the Devy's ancestral home, the Monastery of Saint Kyerixus, an ancient Irorian temple and library, the House of Abadar, a moderate temple of Abadar, Shrine of the Seven Roses, a smaller church and art school of Shelyn, Sensina Hides, a local leather and hide shop, Delbin’s Devices, what's closest to a magic shot, it has a small assortment of random gar, some of which is claimed to be magical in nature, and
Chance Smithy. Politically, there is a bit of a competition amongst faiths, with Irori, Shelyn, Abadar, and the Green Faith all vying for power. As a broad generalization amongst the followers of the other local faiths and to a point the common folk, Irori is viewed as ascetics but not interested in the outside world, Shelyn are more on the lazy side and can't take things seriously, Abadar maybe too political and too serious, and the Green Faith too apolitical, but easily frustrated by the changing world.
Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
okay, so what is our task exactly? To break out Mr. Gribb? Bargain for his release, find out if the guards are corrupt, or find the people who may have framed hi, or kill the guards?
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Actually, its a bit to explore a little until A.) an event happens, and B.) I can kind of finish up some later prep as we go. :)
Male Halfling Rogue / 2 | HP: 13/13 | AC: 17 (15T, 13FF) | Init: +4 | Perc: +8* | CMB: +1 | CMD: 15 | F/R/W: +1/+8/+2
Retty, easily bored with laying around at the inn, has been wandering around town to meet his new neighbors and see if there is any trouble... fun... errr help he can offer the population.
Know. Local: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Diplomacy (Gather Information): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
I wish to visit Mr. Gribbs in his prison cell
diplomacy: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (17) = 20
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He was actually deported to the south in Cassomir.
HP:21/21 | AC:18 | T:13 | FF:15 | CMD:17 | CMB:+4 | Fort:+2 | Ref:+6 / +7 vs. traps | Will:+4 | Initiative:+3 | Perception:+9+1d6 | Darkvision (120') | Stealth: +11 | Group Loot
Thaddeus searches for the local rumor mill, suspicious of the circumstances surrounding Gribbs' arrest.
"Odd that Mr. Gribbs should make it this far, only to be pinched in such a tiny hamlet. Is there normally such a robust presence of authorities, here?"
Kn(Local): 1d20 + 7 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 7 + (5) = 20
male 44/44 [52/52 ]HP, [Rage:10/13 ] AC: 18[15], T: 11[8], FF: 17[14], CMD: 19[22], F: +6 , R: +3, W: -1, Init +2, Pereption +4, CN Male Nagaji Abyssal Bloodrager, +1 Large Falcata: +9, (2d6+9, 19-20x3) Rage [+1 Large Falcata +11 (3d6+14, 19-20x3)]
Thoril is spending every hour in the bar drinking and listing to story's of those around as well as telling his own.
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Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
I go down stairs hit on Talia and if things don't go well I go to the Bar and get something to drink and strike up a conversation, and after a few drinks I start to inquire about Gribb.
Diplomacy Talia: 1d20 ⇒ 16
Diplomacy Information from the bar: 1d20 ⇒ 2
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
What has Mors been able to turn up in the two days of asking around town?
Diplomacy, to gather info: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
After the frustrating end to a mostly boring trip—not to mention the wasted two days of asking around this dead-end town while waiting for a response from the Society—Mors is more than happy to join the halfling in his cups at the Wise Piper Inn.
He sits, sharing Thoril’s table, slowly working his way through his second mug of the inn’s decent ale, black eyes staring unfocused out the front door .. at nothing specific.
Finally, Mors shakes himself out of his stupor, eyes coming to a focus on the halfling and his blade. ”So … Thoril … we been travelin’ together for over a week and we ain’t had a chance to get to know each other. I ain’t never met a halfling who could use a blade like yours … it bein’ bigger than you are and all.” He gives what Mors thinks is an encouraging smile, but is more of a toothful grimace. ”What’s your story? Not like we got anythin’ better to do.”
Also, DM Beckett, you mind if I pick up a few more items? (and assume Mors had it before the trip?) Just a set of lighter armor for non-adventuring days and a tattoo. :)
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
Nvm ... just some studded leather for "non-adventuring" days (can't afford the specific tattoo I wanted).
Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
mundane items and basic masterwork items are always available, unless this town was so poor it didn't even have that.
Mordack will just follow his allies when ready.
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
When Thoril doesn't respond, Mors makes his way over to Talia. "So, you're ex-Pathfinder, right? How'd you end up here? Seems like you'd get bored."
Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
Do I start each Scenario/AP with starting gold and the gold from my last mission or only of the two?
HP:21/21 | AC:18 | T:13 | FF:15 | CMD:17 | CMB:+4 | Fort:+2 | Ref:+6 / +7 vs. traps | Will:+4 | Initiative:+3 | Perception:+9+1d6 | Darkvision (120') | Stealth: +11 | Group Loot
It should be listed on your last chronicle. Starting gold from character creation - purchases + gold from mission & day job = current gold. Use that for any upgrades/resupply between missions, or at the start of the next.
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Please move these sorts of questions to the Discussion thread. :)
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Building upon the above,. . .
After a few days of seeking adventure, it finally came to you. Yesterday, out of nowhere, a massive earthquake disturbed your boredom. Quick to act, you managed to save many of the people around town, some as many of the smaller houses collapsed, but overall, there was not much damage or injury. However, staying at the inn, which also soon started taking in some of those that had lost their homes, rumors began to circulate. Most importantly, the one you later confirmed, that an ancient building on the outskirts of town called the Witch Tower had collapsed.
Your investigation hinted that the earthquake seemed to have been both deliberate as well as manufactured, as there where hints of more than one tunnel beneath the foundation of the area. While you where not able to actually investigate these tunnels do to them being collapsed, it did appear that they had been made rather recently, and there was a distinct smell of dirty Kobald in the air.
The innkeeper suggested you report this to the Baroness, Lady Origena Devy, which is exactly what you have done. After making you normal daily preparations, you set out for Castle Tula early the next morning, requesting an audience, and then making your initial report.
"I've long been suspicious of a local kobold tribe living near the flooded quarry to the east, but the kobolds have never caused any problems, so the townsfolk left them alone. It seems that those times have changed. I ask that you drive the kobolds out of the region. Killing their chieftain is certainly one option, and I'll leave it to you to determine the exact method, so long as the tribe is uprooted, and no longer a threat."
One of her councilors steps forward, whispering something to the Baroness. "I understand that you are Pathfinders, and worse yet, stranded here as you await payment for that nasty business with the smuggler a few days back. it is our understanding that you had nothing to do with his, other activities, and the local's believed your professions of innocence. If you would be willing to help, than I shall personally pay you the reward he promised, and also for your return back home. All in exchange for your services to the Belhaim. Do you find this agreeable?"
HP:21/21 | AC:18 | T:13 | FF:15 | CMD:17 | CMB:+4 | Fort:+2 | Ref:+6 / +7 vs. traps | Will:+4 | Initiative:+3 | Perception:+9+1d6 | Darkvision (120') | Stealth: +11 | Group Loot
Thaddeus looks to Mors and the others, attempting to gauge their response. "As better offers seem to be lacking... Very well. Mors and I are in."
I spoke with Mors - he's good to go.
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I want so bad to add in a line about not acting like typical Pathfinders while in town. There's already enough destruction this week. :P
Male Gnome (lava)
male 44/44 [52/52 ]HP, [Rage:10/13 ] AC: 18[15], T: 11[8], FF: 17[14], CMD: 19[22], F: +6 , R: +3, W: -1, Init +2, Pereption +4, CN Male Nagaji Abyssal Bloodrager, +1 Large Falcata: +9, (2d6+9, 19-20x3) Rage [+1 Large Falcata +11 (3d6+14, 19-20x3)]
Mors Buolgun wrote: ”So … Thoril … we been travelin’ together for over a week and we ain’t had a chance to get to know each other. I ain’t never met a halfling who could use a blade like yours … it bein’ bigger than you are and all.” He gives what Mors thinks is an encouraging smile, but is more of a toothful grimace. ”What’s your story? "Mors i am a freedom fighter out of Andoran. I was born into slavery in cheliax. I watch as my slave master killed my mother. I flew into such a rage that i killed him and freed the others with me. Since then i have traveled around the world trying to abolish slavery. When i found a group in Andoran dedicated to this cause i traveled there and signed right up. Next was to find away to fund my cause and that is when i found the pathfinders. So here i am doing what they ask freeing slaves along the way." Taking a second to pause. "The reason for my large blade is to show you giant folks that i am not to be trifled with. "
present day
"Sounds good. Let us save you cobald problem"
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Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
I'm in, chase out kobolds sounds fun.
Male Halfling Rogue / 2 | HP: 13/13 | AC: 17 (15T, 13FF) | Init: +4 | Perc: +8* | CMB: +1 | CMD: 15 | F/R/W: +1/+8/+2
Retty turns to the Baroness, "I'd be happy to help. I've worked with a lot of this group before, and believe us to be capable of handling a few kobolds."
Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
"Sounds a little goody goody for me, but what the hell. She is blackmailing us."
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
Mors sits impassively through the Lady’s proposition, rubbing at a massively bruised shoulder every now and again … a reminder of the excitement of the cave-ins. When Thadd speaks for him, Mors shrugs and nods.
”Throw in a good word with the boss and you got a deal.” He looks around, ”So … where should we start?”
At Mahd's words, Mors looks sideways at the elf, "The woman offered to pay us the gold the merchant stiffed us. I'd say it's a kindness."
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
reclaiming my dot?
EDIT: got it!
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Can I get some Survival checks. Anyone have Tracking, or a bonus to tracking?
Male Gnome (lava)
Survival (untrained): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Male Elf Magus(Mymadarch) - lv 1 - HP:6/10 | Arc Pool:4 | AC:16 T:13 FF:13 | Init:+3 | Perc:+4 | Low Light-Vision | CMB: +2 | CMD:15 | Fort:+4 Ref:+3 W:+5
Survival(Untrained): 1d20 ⇒ 5
HP:21/21 | AC:18 | T:13 | FF:15 | CMD:17 | CMB:+4 | Fort:+2 | Ref:+6 / +7 vs. traps | Will:+4 | Initiative:+3 | Perception:+9+1d6 | Darkvision (120') | Stealth: +11 | Group Loot
Survival(Untrained): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 Wayfinder grants +2 vs. becoming lost
Thaddeus speaks Draconic. As for sight, he has Darkvision 120', and the wayfinder for light.
Male Halfling Rogue / 2 | HP: 13/13 | AC: 17 (15T, 13FF) | Init: +4 | Perc: +8* | CMB: +1 | CMD: 15 | F/R/W: +1/+8/+2
Survival: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Edit - that should be a +2 for 15 total, was looking at the wrong character sheet.
I will also purchase a lantern with 2 pouches of oil.
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
Mors ain't a tracker, neither. :)
Survival, untrained: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Mors has Darkvision, his Wayfinder, and he can prep Light if we need still more light sources.
male 44/44 [52/52 ]HP, [Rage:10/13 ] AC: 18[15], T: 11[8], FF: 17[14], CMD: 19[22], F: +6 , R: +3, W: -1, Init +2, Pereption +4, CN Male Nagaji Abyssal Bloodrager, +1 Large Falcata: +9, (2d6+9, 19-20x3) Rage [+1 Large Falcata +11 (3d6+14, 19-20x3)]
survival : 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
no light source but i assume there is alot of light
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Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
survival: 1d20 ⇒ 5 untrained
and thanks for the lighting heads up, buys 2 sunrods before he departs for 4 gp
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Ok, I've gotten the map up.
The Baroness informs you that she doesn't know where the creatures layer, though they do know it is somewhere down south, outside of the towns normal patrols.
It takes only a few hours to get there, and from there, no long at all to find tracks and other signs leading you to a cave.
A fifty-foot-wide strip of shore stretches between the lake’s edge and the forty-foot-high quarry wall. It’s strewn with stony debris—the result of centuries of rockslides. Several larger boulders stand against the middle of the quarry wall.
The cave itself is completely dark, and also sized for small creatures. The ceiling it a mere 5ft tall at best, which requires Medium creatures to hunch down just to make their way through. Because of this, all Medium creatures take a -2 to al Attack rolls, <This is the entire cave> and there may be area later where they are forced to squeeze.
Male Human #135676-1 Sorcerer fire elemental Bloodline-4 HP:30/30, Speed:30, Init:8, AC:18, T:13, FF:16, Fort:3, Ref:3, Will:4, Perc:2, 5 fire resistance
Mordack goes in first ducking down and activates a sunrod. if I run into something, stop me early. I moved way up.
HP 22/24 :: AC 20 CMD 17 :: Fort +8 Reflex +5 Will +8 :: Perception +2 (Darkvision 60) Initiative +1
Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Mors stops Mordack, "Don't be an idiot." He nods over at Thaddeus. "He's got better Darkvision than anyone i ever seen. Let him scout, then you can carry light for everyone else."
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Sorry, was still doing a bit of prep and editing on that post, <just got eaten>. There is something else of note, so I'm going to retcon you back for a moment.
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As you approach closer to investigate, suddenly from the mouth of the cave you hear some sort of whiney, raspy, you don't know, perhaps a battlecry, when suddenly you are assaulted by stones.
Four Kobolds burst from the cave's darkness, ready to defend their home. Each has a sling and a spear, and little else. As soon as they step outside the cave, they begin trying to shield their eyes from the not-overly bright light, some even trying to bat it away as if it a bug.
ROUND 1
Thoril (), Modack (), & Mahd ()
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Kobold 1 (), Kobold 2 (), Kobold 3 (), & Kobold 4 ()
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Thaddeus (), Retty (), Mors (), & Leb ()
Mordack and Leb, could I get you to post your quick combat stats under your avater <in the Race & Class/Level sections>.
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