GM Lari's From the Tome (Low) (Inactive)

Game Master Dhenn

Wow... the dice really hate us, don't they. Well, I was going to fireball again, but that isn't going to work very well with how everyone is. Which is fine.

Ethan yells out in draconic, "Come and get me, you useless little whelp!" as he cast a magic missile at the umbral dragon.
Magic Missile, Intense Spells: 3d4 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (1, 1, 3) + 3 + 2 = 10

Nope, the dice hate us

"You can surrender now, whelp, while I have been easy on you!" he yells out in Common. Did you like that fire? There is plenty more where that came from!"[/b]

I think we are at the top of the order again. Posting now my action for when I am up.

Hakon will step back from his enemy 5 feet and take up his horn blowing a long low note inspiring his allies. +2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution, a +1 morale bonus to Will saves, and a –1 penalty to AC for those who choose to accept it

Wow. The dice really did hate you there.
The party generally proves ineffective at harming the larger dragon, who chuckles ominously. Only Ethan's missles harm the creature.

The little drake slaps Crowe with its tail, before moving in closer for a bite. The Shoanti reacts quickly, turning the little tihng into grey paste.
Tail: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Damage: 1d3 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1
Crowe AOO: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23
Damage: 2d6 + 10 ⇒ (3, 1) + 10 = 14

Stepping to the side slightly, it belches forth a cone of frigid darkness that washes over Nesterok, Yarricki, Thunder, and Crowe.
Negative Energy: 2d8 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4 Reflex 14 half

Dragon 32

The party may act

Faeran fires at the dragon again.

to hit: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 + 1 = 18
dmg if hits: 1d8 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 1 + (4) = 6 only add the extra 4 points if it's an evil dragon

Ethan moves into the room, an back into the corner. As he moves up, he pulls out his wand of burning hands that the team has found.,

"Decide to surrender, yet, drakeling." he asks in common so that all can hear him. "I might even accept your surrender. We shall see, you are that far beneath me, after all, being that you are only a whelp, only a decendent of greatness, rather than someone like myself. "

"Now, I could use this wand to end this, now, but such an insignificant thing as yourself isn't worth wasting a charge upon. " He then casts a magic missile against the umbra dragon.
magic missile, intense spells: 3d4 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2, 3, 2) + 3 + 2 = 12

Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Nesterok dodges part of the cone but too grievously wounded he still falls unconscious.

Not my day...

Reflex Yarricki: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Reflex Thunder: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Lance, Song, Aspect, Power Attack: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 + 1 - 1 = 6
Thunder, Song: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 1 = 21
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Yarricki feels the negative energy wash over her. The foul energy distracts her enough that she completely fumbles her attack. Thunder evades the energy, steps in and bites the dragon wyrmling.

reflex: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Crowe wipes out the little drake but cannot avoid the wave of negative energy from the dragon. He moves over and swings at the dragon in retaliation.

I will accept Hakon's song so I don't have to use my own bloodrage rounds but I still use my own bonuses.

attack+rage: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 9 + 2 = 13
damage+rage+power attack: 2d6 + 10 + 6 ⇒ (6, 1) + 10 + 6 = 23

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Seriously wounded by Ethan and Thunder, the dragon scurries away from Crowe, targeting Thunder. It tears a chunk of flesh from the axebeak, but fails to knock her down completely.

Bite: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 9 - 2 = 26
Damage: 1d6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 4 = 11
Claw: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 9 - 2 = 8
Claw: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 9 - 2 = 9

The party may act

Thunder Attack: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 4 + 1 = 23
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Yarricki Power attack, studied + song+bull's focus: 1d20 + 4 - 1 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 4 - 1 + 3 = 7
Damage: 1d6 + 4 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 3 + 4 = 15

Thunder is not to be outdone by the lizard and tears a similar chunk out of the dragon while Yarricki studies her opponent. She moves Thunder away and again fails miserably to hit the dragon...

stabilize DD10: 1d20 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 - 1 = 3

Nesterok continues to bleed on the ground.

The dragon keels over with Thunder's vicious bite.

The katana above the wall is a +1 holy katana, though it is currently broken. The dragon's hoard of gemstones, jewelry, and gold has a total value of about 1,900 gp.

It looks like the cairn here was hastily and inexpertly constructed, and has been disturbed in the intervening decades. Amongst the possessions in the hoard is a badly damaged prayer book. [ooc]Consulting the book grants a +4 circumstance bonus on the checks below.

Crowe attempts to stabilize Nesterok.

heal: 1d20 ⇒ 18

know religion dc 18: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Faeran lets the party know about the details of the Shizuran funerary rites regarding cremation and the distribution of ashes to kin. (see spoiler #1)

know religion dc 18: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

While imparting this information, she taps Nesterok with her cure light wounds wand.

cure light: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Nesterok stops bleeding but he's still uncounscious.

Ethan walks up to the corpse of the still unnamed umbral dragon, and spits on it. "I told you that this was going to be the result, you stupid impulsive wyrmling." Just to be sure it is dead, he will fire force missiles into the body until he can no longer target it.

He then checks the body carefully for anything of value.

kn:arcana: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34

kn:religion #1: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24
kn:religion #2: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20

Without consulting the book, Ethan looks things over. "Ok, that makes sense. I think that our mission will require us to retrieve the remains here, since the Shizuran funeral tradition is to cremate the body on a pyre under the midday sun, then distribute the ashes to the deceased’s descendants. This has obviously not been done.

"Neither of these have been done for this person, so I am expecting that this would be our mission."

Ethan then searches the cairn carefully for any remains, packing them away as carefully as he can. "Crowe, can you carry all of this?"

Takes 20 to search for 30

Hakon walks to where Nesterok is laying on the floor and attempts to rouse him.

he should be at 5 hp now, so conscious (status says -1, and I healed him for 6 pts)

was at -2 :) haven't seen your healing !

After Faeran's healing and Hakon's vigorous shake, Nesterok wakes up. It was not my day, thanks.

He uses his own wand to heal himself.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Once full he tries to read the book his comrades found and help them understand the rituel need to put to rest the samurai's spirit.

Know. (religion) #1: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 5 + 4 = 15
Know. (religion) #2: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 4 = 17

But nothing come to his mind, it was clearly not his day...

"Ethan, help me there. Is the Shizuran to burn the body including the skull or excluding the skull? If it is the former we have a decision to make. I am in favor of following the Shizuran ritual, after all that is where the person seems to have come from."

"It would be the Shizuran tradition to burn everything. But, if she were a crusader, she might have preferred to have her skull in the Ossuaries, and the rest of her ashes distributed.

"Also, since she died a long time ago, I don't know if we'd be able to find her relatives. Now, granted, she was an elf, so they may still be alive, but she was also from Tian Xa, so that makes it more difficult."

Ethan thinks a moment, and then continues. "Really, I think we should just bring it all back to Venture-Captain Compton... I mean, Besnik, and let him deal with it."

She was a crusader and die like one. I think that we must follows the crusader ritual to give her proper repose.

Says Nesterok.

Ethan just shrugs.

"That's a fair point Nesterok. I also think that the Venture Captain expects us to deal with whatever we find here. We are full agents after all, not some bunch on their confirmation. Let's build a good pire and return the skull to the Ossuaries of the Fallen in Vigil."

Sounds like we have at least two strong votes for a crusader funeral (Yarricki and Nesterok), with Ethan as an amibivalent yes. We'll go ahead with that, then.

Performing the funerary rites is relatively easy and you all feel a sense of profound ease when that is complete. With that resolved, there is little left to do here in Belkzen. Unless there's anything you wanted to explore more closely, in which case we can retcon that part.

Once you return to Vellumis, the Venture-Captain is thrilled to hear of your discoveries.

"“I knew you would triumph! Just goes to show I picked the right Pathfinders to seek out adventure while unknown dangers lurked. There could have been almost anything there! Go and rest while I put our report together for the Ten. Surely, this addition to the Chronicles will put Uscalin Lodge on the map.”

He mentions that after you left, he dispatched teams to several other locations detailed in the Tome, and that he intents to compile a full report for the Knights of Ozem. He is particularly impressed with the way you handled the crusader's body. He will take the skull, carefully placing it in a silk-lined box, promising to make sure the Knights receive it and perform the appropriate procedures from there.

"Though I may joke about the crusaders, they play a vital part in the service of good. You, too, have done important work today. You have removed a pressing danger and helped the spirit of an ancient hero find rest. Well done, Pathfinders. I hope you are as proud of yourselves as I am of you.”

Any final things you'd want to do?

Nesters show the weapon of the crusader and says to the Venture-Captain.

You also found her ancestral weapon. May be she still have family who will be happy to have back this heirloom. I've heard that in Tian-Xa a weapon is the honor of the warrior, may be it will help the Society to get in touch with the warrior descendant and make with this gift new ally ?

On the way back, Ethan would have attempted to make whole on the weapon.

sorry for my absence for the end of this.. I was a little overwhelmed with stuff. Faeran would have been in favor of a crusader's rites for the deceased, and very much in encouraging of Ethan casting make whole on the weapon before delivering it to the VC.

"I am agreed with Nester here... returning this to her family if they can be found, would be a fine gesture."

Yep Crowe is another retro vote for the crusader funeral. And also for returning the crusader's weapon to her family

I believe the make whole will turn out to be unsuccessful, though it is a nice gesture. As I understand it, you'd need to be CL 7 to fix a holy weapon, though to be honest I haven't really dealt with those rules before.

Besnik is impressed with your efforts and concern.

" I can write to Amara Li and our other leaders in the region, and see if they have contacts in Minkai or Jinin who might be able to track down a next of kin. I'm sure the Knights will be glad to help search for an heir as well. Might even give me a chance to reconnect with my librarian friend..." his voice drifts off as he breaks out in a smile.

If it is destroyed, you would be correct that you have to be CL * 2 on the items caster level. However, you said it was broken, so that, or mending, could work to fix it. Make whole would fix 5d6 hp on the item. A +1 one handed blade has 10 + 10hp. (10 base, 10 for the enhancement bonus). The holy enchantment doesn't add to the durability. An item is considered broken at half or more hp taken, destroyed at total hp taken. So, it would have taken, at most, 19hp. So, two castings of Make Whole, which Ethan could easily do in two days. See below for the make whole rolls.

FYI - this is just for information's sake. See the spell, and CRB Additional Rules for all the rules.

Make Whole #1: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 5, 1, 2) = 15
Make Whole #2: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 4, 2, 6) = 22

While it's not important mechanically, but just so I know for the future:

I was looking at the Conditions appendix of the CRB (p. 566):

Items with the broken condition, regardless of type, are worth 75% of their normal value. If the item is magical, it can only be repaired with a mending or make whole spell cast by a character with a caster level equal to or higher than the item’s. Items lose the broken condition if the spell restores the object to half its original hit points or higher.

The make whole spell adds that destroyed items need twice the CL of the item, but it looks like broken still requires being equal to the CL of the item. Holy requires CL 7.

That said, I might be overlooking other information somewhere else.

That's interesting. Makes sense... I always love how you have to find 12 references for everything. There is a greater make whole, but that's a higher level spell (and probably has a different name, actually)