Though he can not get a very good look at the creature Petrus is able to identify it as a type of gremlin called a jinkins. Pointing out the creature the rest of you see the monster grimacing like a maniac. The lean little bat-eared horror displays a mouth full of needle-like teeth and glowing, orange eyes. Petrus knows that these creatures are a type of fey that are resistant to weapons not made out of cold iron, as well as most spells, and can make devastating attacks from hiding.
Round 1
Bold May Act
Petrus: 16
Smugglers: 16
Evil rat Statue: 15
Kiddrik: 10
Conlaoch: 9
Cirri: 6
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What are you doing! You're causing this! the man screams obviously loosing his cool again, as he re-draws his dagger and comes at the party.
"Actually, that'd be the little feyling hiding behind the statue there. Stand aside and we'll deal with it. Try to stay out of the way, we wouldn't want you to get hurt now would we?"
Petrus begins to walk forward with Tipple following, drawing his greatsword again as he goes.
He walks 30 ft straight ahead, placing him directly north of the statue, and then casts Divine Favor on himself as he prepares to fight the gremlin. Tipple follows, and if he can see the gremlin, attempts to take a bite out of it.
He'll swing at the man with the dagger, and order Tipple to attack as well.
"Mercy is a rare gift. You should have accepted it."
As Petrus and Tipple move forward the smugglers attempt to block his movements but pay dearly. The Inquisitor takes down the man with a single swing of his massive sword and the wolf rips the woman's legs out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor.
Shrieking in fear the woman whacks at Tipple with her staff. From her positions on the ground though she is unable to swing very well and fails to connect.
From behind the rat statue the small gremlin giggles in delight as sends a bolt flying over Tipple at the unprepared Cirri.
Round 1
Bold May Act
Petrus: 16
Smugglers: 16 (14 hp; 4 hp)
Evil rat Statue: 15
Kiddrik: 10
Conlaoch: 9
Cirri: 6
Round 2
Petrus: 16
Smugglers: 16 (14 hp; 4 hp)
Evil rat Statue: 15
Kiddrik: 10
Conlaoch: 9
Cirri: 6
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"Stay out of the way- oh man..." Cirri groans as the duo attack Petrus. And by "attack", I mean "get wrecked."
Cirri is not paying much attention to anything else when an arrow jabs her in the abdomen. "Oh! There you are." Cirri runs in with her staff (provoking an AoO from the prone woman) and defensively casts Ray of Frost.
A small icicle shoots from Cirri's fingertips and splashes against the fey. "Leave them alone, you!"
As Kiddrick distracts the gremlin Conloach moves it and lands a massive blow against the evil fey. Even though the blow didn't do as much damage as it should have it is enough stop its giggling. As the tiny beast stands the unsteadily It looks up at the fighter in surprise just before Cirri moves in and drops the jinkins with a powerful blast of ice.
The prone woman does not attack anyone move past, preferring to hold the staff defensively, trying to ward off the wolf.
Round 1
Bold May Act
Petrus: 16
Smugglers: 16 (14 hp; 4 hp)
Evil rat Statue: 15
Kiddrik: 10
Conlaoch: 9
Cirri: 6
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"Well struck!" Shouts Petrus to his companions as they fell the gremlin.
Turning his attention back to the woman, he orders Tipple to attack again, then swings at her with the flat of his blade, attempting to avoid dealing a killing blow.
"Stay down. To attack a foe clearly superior is brave. This I respect. To refuse to accept defeat at their hands is foolishness. This will get you killed."
As Tipple continues to attack the prone woman Petrus steps up and knocks her out with the flat of his blade.
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Petrus will cast stabalize on the man after the combat (and woman too if she's bleeding out.)
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Kiddrik's eyes widen in surprise at Petrus's onslaught, and when the tiny creature falls to Conlaoch's blade, he reverses direction and slides to his knees between the two fallen sewer-people.
"Wake'em up! Get'em up!" he mutters, fumbling to check the pulse on the man, "What do I know? I didn't cut him down. Yes. No. Here?" He presses his fingers to the man's bleeding wound, "And then? Just that? Okay." He mutters a few strange phrases, then holds his hands on the man ... as if waiting for a response.
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"Can you stop their bleeding?" Cirri wonders. "Wow, that's pretty amazing. Wish I could do that."
After dragging the unconscious bodies out of the sewer water, Cirri checks the room to see if there is anything of value (besides the rat statue.)
"Through the pipe, then?" Cirri points at the pipes the duo came from.
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Kiddrik sits over the unconscious pair looking up at the bigger man, mouth working in his own inability to voice his own shock.
"What?!" He looks around at the other pathfinders for support, "What war?! That's stealing! You can't just go around killing everything that looks at you funny and then taking what you want! Thats just ... that's just not right."
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"This your first mission kid? I'll let you in a secret. There's a bit more to Pathfinder Standard Operating Procedure than just Explore Report Cooperate. Looting the conquered is practically mandatory. Besides, I did warn them. And I'm leaving them alive, which is a damn sight better than they'd get from a goodly number of our peers. Plus, he tried to knife me." says the inquisitor giving the unconcious man a tap with the toe of his boot.
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Kiddrik, obviously intimidated, refuses to back down. "They were scared. This isn't my first assignment. And it's still not right."
After a moment's hesitation, he kicks the two fallen sewer people's weapons away. Then he fumbles around in his pack, cursing a few times as the objects seem to slip from his grasp. Finally, he produces a wand and begins healing both of them.
"We're here for the vault and the woman's personal item. I'm no thief."
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When each of the two unconscious sewer-people come around, Kidd puts a hand on them reassuringly.
”Please don’t struggle." His voice is quiet but firm. "I want to get you out of here, but you have to come with me now.”
Kiddrik helps them to their feet—not giving them their weapons back—and escorts them to the ladder … doing his best to avoid the Togg if possible. If not, he’ll reassure Togg that these are friends and they just want to leave his sewers.
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Once this whole ordeal is over, Cirri pulls out her wand of Cure Light Wounds. "Hey Kiddrik? I was going to start a song and dance to heal myself, but it looks like you can do this better than I can. Do you mind?"
"By the way, it was really nice what you did. I guess situations show us who we are in the dark...although they did try to kill us." Cirri shakes her head, as if she let something slip that she didn't mean to. "There I go again. See, this is why I don't talk much."
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Kiddrik tries to regather his nerve … and is in the middle of muttering to himself when Cirri speaks up. She could swear he sounded like he was arguing with someone about the merits of Petrus’s arguments, and he doesn’t look happy about it.
He stops abruptly, though, and looks at Cirri, giving her a reserved smile. ”I’d be happy to,” he says as he works her wand over her wounds. He listens to her as he works, and —when done—looks at her as he hands her back the wand.
”Thanks for saying so.” He shrugs as he looks uncertainly over at Petrus, ”I mean … I didn’t want to die back there, and I’m glad we can rely on Petrus to do what needs doing … but … I don’t know … it just didn’t seem right.”
Petrus is able to come away with a single filth encrusted gold piece from the man's pocket before Kiddrik confronts him. Using his healing magic the Oracle is then able to revive the two.
The two wake with a start and fumble for something defend themselves. With their weapons gone the cling to each other on the ground. Go on! What are you waiting for? Kill us all ready for your rat god! The man spits, again trying to hide the fear in his voice.
It takes a little bit of time to convince them but Kiddrik is able to calm them down enough so they follow him out of the sewers. Once they reach the ladder they finally accept that the party isn't there to hurt them. The woman cries with relief while the man finally lets go of his mask of bravery and nearly collapses as his legs turn to rubber. They thank Kiddrik profusely giving him four vials, 2 of acid and 2 of healing (CLW).
The small pipe is slick with refuse and slopes gently down.
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Once back with the group, Kiddrik takes a moment to hold up the four vials, ”I can … I mean, I don’t really need any of these. The sewer-folk gave'em to me when they were leaving.” He looks around, ”So take’em if you want’em.”
Then he follows the group down the slippery chute.
He hits the ground, surprised at his own climbing aptitude, then looks around.
"Everyone alright?" he whispers.
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"Huh. They think we worship a rat god. Guess they aren't the lycanthropes I thought they would be." Cirri notes as the duo reach the surface.
Cirri squeezes through the pipe, trying not to gag. "I am going for a long bath after this adventure, what say you?"
Cirri reaches the end of the pipe and almost falls out of the pipe. She barely manages to maintain her grip and has a controlled descent out of the pipe into the slime pit.
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Petrus lifts Tipple and sends him scrambling down the pipe. An echoing whimper coming back up seems to indicate the wolf did a less than graceful job of halting his descent.
The inquisitor climbs in after, and fairs better than his companion, easily lowering himself to the ground.
On reaching the bottom, Petrus draws his greatsword again, and cautiously looks around.
But is distracted by Tipple's whining. After giving the wolf a reassuring pat, he inspects his surroundings again.
As you follow the dirrections you turn a corner and are greeted by an unusual site. Fallen rubble from an earlier excavation clogs the channel, slowing the water flow and accumulating a mass of sewage on one side. A thick carpet of moss and fungus—clearly representing a wide variety of green, blue, and ochre-colored specimens—sprawls across the top of the debris and hangs from the ceiling, with several larger mounds of fungus clinging to the walls or stemming from the hole to the east. Wispy blue tendrils descend from the ceiling and almost touch the water, creating a thin, eerie curtain of plant matter.
Approaching Cirri is quick to point out that the growth here is not natural. It seems to well maintained and is most likely a form of garden. The question of who tends this garden is quickly answered as one of the large mounds of mushroom shambles to life. Mismatched eyes dot this plant creature's thick mushroom cap, while below works an overlarge maw set with pale fungal teeth. The screeches at you in an inhuman language and the vegetation all around it starts to tremble as if alive. A mass of vines clinging to the ceiling moves forward first. The creature is ornamented with beautiful crimson and violet flowers, the petals of which seem to bear tiny faces.
Kiddrik identifies the mushroom creature as a Fungal Leshy, known for being farmer of rare and dangerous molds and fungi. He remembers they are immune to electricity and sonic damage as well as the standard protections plant creatures have.
Perception:
Knowledge:
Knowledge:
Knowledge:
Initiative:
Round 1
Bold may act:
Petrus: 22
Conlaoch: 19
Vines: 13
Mushroom: 10
Cirri: 6
Kiddrik: 4
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Petrus tries communicating, probing to see if the creature speaks any comprehensible languages.
"Sorry friend, I don't speak your tongue. Don't suppose you speak common?"
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The Creature pauses when Petrus calls out in Sylvan. Its many eyes narrow at the man but it hold up a "hand" which seems to hold the vines back. What you do here? My Garden you no hurt! it calls back in sylvan. before calling up in its strange language to the vines which seem to start to sliver their way down to the farmer.
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Petrus motions to his companions to wait a moment while he talks to the creature.
We're simply passing through. Perhaps you could be so kind as to show us the quickest way forward so that we can avoid accidentally treading on any of your wonderful plantings. "
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The Leshy seems swayed by Petrus's words and Kiddrik's warm smile. It shows you a path through the garden and to the sewer beyond. The red flowers of the vines snap playfully at your heals as you pass.
The sewer continues on for a while and then comes to an intersection. Although your directions tell you to go right there is a natural cleft in the rocky soil breaches the sewer wall and rises gently to the north. Heaps of stranded organic material and garbage litter the opening, from which emanates a pungent stink even stronger than the complex’s already
unpleasant odor.
this cave was not mentioned in you directions which leads you to believe it is recent. Also the wall it is in should be one of the walls shared by the vault. It is possible this cave will provide a more direct route to the vault.
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Cirri giggles like a schoolgirl as she (carefully) walks through the garden. "Wow, this fungus is taking great care of the garden. Happy we didn't mangle it."
Cirri is tempted to wave goodbye, but she doesn't want to agitate it. "What's with the hole in the wall? Do you think someone's been here already?"
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"What's with the hole in the wall? Do you think someone's been here already?"
"Only one way to find out. In we go."
Petrus reaches out and places a hand on Cirri's staff as he moves past her, quietly reciting an incantation in celestial. The staff begins to glow brightly, pushing back the darkness inside the cavern.
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As the party moves into the cave Petrus & Tipple are quick to identify a strange growth, covering a pile of refuse, as some sort of plant creature. Just as he alerts the party the creature starts to slither forward and a bold flies from the back of the cave striking the inquisitor.
Round 1
Bold May Act:
Kiddrik: 20
Ooze: 15
Petrus: 11
Jinkin: 11
Conlaoch: 6
Cirri: 3
The plant creature seems to be a mass of diseased fibers growing on a plant burt slithers forward independently from its sickly host.
It deals Acid damage when attacking and is immune to acid.
Garden Oozes can emit a strong pungent smell once a day that can sicken creatures.
The Creature that shot at Petrus looks just like the creature you destroyed at the rat statue.
Like a lot of fey they are ressitaint to damage from weapons not made of cold iron.
They have spell like abilities that let them create small magical effects; they also have limited teleport abilities.
The ooze surges forward creating a putrid smelling wave that tries to slam into Tipple but just falls short.
Round 1
Bold May Act:
Kiddrik: 20
Ooze: 15 (6+ hp)
Petrus: 11
Jinkin: 11
Conlaoch: 6
Cirri: 3