GM Silbeg's PFS: Eyes of the Ten (Inactive)

Game Master GM..Silbeg

Koraq's eyes glare is struck; however, he keeps a cool demeanor as he swiftly analyzes his opponent, watching the giant's movements before his eyes turn red, his nails forming into claws. The raging half-orc then proceeds to pound at the giant, first aiming for the solar plexus, then hammering with swift kicks to the kidneys and groin.

Swift action Exploit Weakness at giant DC = Giant CR + 101d20+10+5[/dice: 1d6 + 2d6d6 - 1d6d6d1d20 + 21 + 2 ⇒ (1) + (6, 2, 2, 6, 6, 1) - (3, 18, 6, 11, 4, 6, 17, 18, 12) + 21 + 2 = -48
Damage on hit: 3d8 + 24 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (1, 5, 1) + 24 + 9 + 2 = 42
If hit, then must make a DC 22 Fort save or be stunned 1 round.

Flurry PA Raging Enlarged: 1d20 + 21 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 21 + 2 = 42
Damage on hit: 3d8 + 20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 3, 5) + 20 + 6 + 2 = 38

Flurry PA Raging Enlarged: 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 16 + 2 = 31
Damage on hit: 3d8 + 20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 1, 6) + 20 + 6 + 2 = 41

MW PA Raging Enlarged: 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 16 + 2 = 19
Damage on hit: 3d8 + 20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 5, 5) + 20 + 6 + 2 = 40

MW PA Raging Enlarged: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 11 + 2 = 29
Damage on hit: 3d8 + 20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 6, 5) + 20 + 6 + 2 = 40

If stunning occurs, Medusa's Wrath triggers.

Koraq is blinded, so here are the miss chance rolls

Miss Chance 1 >50% good: 1d100 ⇒ 77
Miss Chance 2 >50% good: 1d100 ⇒ 72
Miss Chance 3 >50% good: 1d100 ⇒ 89
Miss Chance 4 >50% good: 1d100 ⇒ 15 Moot, as he is dead by this time

With Géatan and Koraq tag-teaming on the giant, he goes down before he has the chance to swing his Mighty Sword of Doom™, though the sand-fist is still swinging away.

Ralph and his air elementals are still up, followed by the fist.

"The sand fist continues to attack even after its conjurer has fallen. This means that it has been imbued with some independent sentience, and if that it so..."

Seeing that the battle is almost over, Ralph lets his elementals tackle the sand fist. He begins casting summon monster 5 to bring more allies into the fray.

Ralph directs the elementals to attempt to grapple the thing. Unfortunately, it is far to strong for them, and throws off their attempts with ease. At this point, however, it collapses into a pile of dust and sand.

Ralph, please always be explicit about which spell you are starting to cast. Which level summons is this? Thank you!

Kol Voss looks around, but it is clear that he cannot see yet. Muddy tears stream out of his eyes, through the grit and sand that coat his face. "Where are they! He yells."

Auris can take an action to finish up the round, but cannot see yet.

Adril’s thrilled laughter echoes throughout the arena. “Well done, my little apprentices. You’ve bested my pets. Now face my CHAMPION!”

At that moment, doors open on the north side of the arena, just below the luxury box. A human male, dressed in the regalia of an Ulfen jarl, and two multi-legged beasts step from the darkness.

The Ulfen jarl bellows out towards Koraq, “If you could have foreseen this, I bet I would have frozen to death! I can’t wait to share the story of your demise with Natalya.” Koraq instantly recognizes the voice of Skelg the Ripper, Adril’s sparing partner and, apparently, now his champion in Arl.

Auris has an action, prior to the announcement by Adril
Géatan is up!

I'll go with SM5, since I did not know that the battle was going to keep going after the sand hand collapsed. If I had known, I would probably have chosen SM7.

Geatan and Koraq, try to survive for now. I'm going to use my big spells.

GM Silbeg, I will use my folio reroll to reroll my initiative and use heightened awareness and mantle of the black rider to increase it. Please reroll my initiative with a total of a +12 bonus.

Pawning through his belt pouches, Auris quietly pulls a wand and coaxes a little healing magic from it. CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 Hearing Skelg's voice and feeling the presence of something else, he remains very still for the moment.

I'll go with SM5, since I did not know that the battle was going to keep going after the sand hand collapsed. If I had known, I would probably have chosen SM7.

Geatan and Koraq, try to survive for now. I'm going to use my big spells.

GM Silbeg, I will use my folio reroll to reroll my initiative and use heightened awareness and mantle of the black rider to increase it. Please reroll my initiative with a total of a +12 bonus.

You honestly had no way of knowing, so that is a fair compromise, I think. I will reroll when I am on my laptop in a bit.

Just in case I go before the monsters.

knowledge (any): 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (17) + 21 = 38 +7 more if arcana

Questions:
1. Elemental resistances and immunities, especially fire
2. Special defences
3. Special attacks
4. The order of their saves in order from highest to lowest. (e.g. Fort - Will - Ref)

"Koraq who that guy?"

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You can also make a knowledge arcana against the effect that you saw with Auris.

Géatan and Ralph are up!

Ralph notes the new arrivals and the wounds of his comrades with consternation. He quickly draws on the portion of Baba Yaga's power vested in him to hasten the completion of his spell. Noting that the behirs are able to fly, he decides the he will need to end the battle quickly and decisively, or else prevent the new arrivals from closing on on his allies in their vulnerable state.

"Fire elementals then," Ralph mutters to himself as 1d3 ⇒ 3 medium fire elemtals appear in the way of the so-called champion.

"Foolish little man! If you could have foreseen this, you would have begged to have been frozen to death. You were pulled from the ice for one reason and one reason alone - your destiny was to BURN by my hand!"

"Geatan, this man here is kindling nothing more."

Ralph draws his metamagic rod as he speaks, and begins a harsh incantation.

"Darkness beyond twilight
Crimson beyond blood that flows
Buried in the flow of time
By my name I pledge thee to fire
Let ye fools who stand in my way be destroyed
by the power that I possess...
PYRE OF THE ENSLAVED DRAGON!"

The air in the arena becomes almost unbreathable as a glowing orange magical rune appears below the new arrivals... and erupts into a white hot pyre of fiery death.

Incantation partly borrowed from another source.
Ignoring the fancy description, this is just an empowered intensified heightened(1) CL15 fireball, followed by a quickened empowered intensified CL15 fireball.
The center of the fireballs are the corner just to the Nort-West of the Ripper.

empowered intensified heightened(1) CL15 fireball: 15d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 2, 1, 5, 6, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 6) = 56 Multiply by 1.5 = 84, then DC 24 reflex for half
quickened empowered intensified CL15 fireball: 15d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 6, 6, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 6, 3, 3, 4, 6, 3) = 56 Multiply by 1.5 = 84, then DC 23 reflex for half
sacrificing stinking cloud and contingency to cast those spells

My instructions for my army of elementals will depend on how my victims fare against the fireballs.

Incantation partly borrowed from another source.

Congrats, you made me bust out laughing on reading that chant.

Skelg Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Skelg Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Skelg takes 126

red Reflex: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
red Reflex: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24

blue Reflex: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
blue Reflex: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23
Each behir takes 84

A pair of fireballs are thrown by Ralph, dealing a huge amount of damage. The nimble but huge creatures seem to get missed by the bulk of the fire, and the Ulfen also misses the worst of one of them.

The crowd gasps as the fireball hits an invisible wall, not going any further than inches from the stone wall of the arena, and going up at least 20 feet. Adril, however, doesn't flinch as the fire hits the wall.

Géatan and elementals are up still!

Ralph raises a bemused eyebrow when he sees that all three of them still stand, though he is also satisfied to see that they still took substantial damage.

He quickly shouts commands to his elementals, coordinating their movements to form a wall while trying their best to bring down the behirs.
Since they have not acted, I believe they are still flat-footed

Air elemental 3 will 5ft up and full attack the red behir.
slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18 damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30 damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Air elemental 1 will stand where he is and full attack starting with red and go on to blue if he manages to finish off red.
slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29 damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20 damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Finally, air elemental 2 will move up beside air elemental 1 and attack red, or blue if red is down.
slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34 damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
confirm: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17 damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Finally, seizing the opportunity while the behirs are still flat-footed, Ralph will direct the fire elementals to move and interpose themselves between his allies and their enemies.

If either behir is still conscious, Ralph will call out to Geatan.

"Geatan! Aim for the behirs first! Bring them down!"

If or when both behirs are down, Ralph will smile contentedly and fold his hands, smirking contemptuously at Skelg as Geatan uses him for target practice.

GM, what weapons can I see Skelg carrying?

I'm lost now... are we done with the first round of enemies, or are we on to the next with Skelg? And is the blinding permanent? Also, sorry for missing that GM, although I think I would have used my folio reroll on that, too, but I'll live with it for now.

You don't think it is permanent, rather that it last for a period of time after you are out of the dust clouds. That period has not concluded yet. And, yes, immediately after defeating the first round Adril sent out the next. Without giving you a chance to recover, because he is an a!*%$~&.

Skelg is carrying a nasty looking greataxe, wearing remarkably beautiful elven chain, and wears a broad belt.

I will let you know the results of the elementals once I get to work. But, Géatan can go, with descriptions of "I attack x until it falls, then move to y, finally finishing with z"

The blue air elemental flies up, and attacks the red behir. It misses with its first attack but successfully slams it on the second. The red elemental also attacks the red behir, hitting it hard, dropping it, though it is clearly not dead yet. It then swings at the other behir, missing it.

Finally, the green air elemental slams into the blue behir, almost catching it in the throat, but the beast manages to move out of the way at the last moment, only taking it in the shoulder. However, this appears to be enough, as it slumps to the ground. It also is obviously not dead, yet.

FYI - any of the blood spatters are actually huge corpses, so are difficult terrain, at best.

Géatan is up.

So both bahirs are done?

They will be when Auris gets a chance at them. :)

Edit: Ah, well then we'll see how Skelg likes a dagger in the spleen.

Yes, both are unconscious, but are still breathing.

Without answer and fearing that Koraq and his life are in danger, Gaétan attacks the ulfen until he drops. The rest are for the uncounscious monsters.

I don't like to kill humanoïds, but I need to protect my family.

first attack: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 31
dommage: 1d8 + 25 + 1d6 + 1d8 + 25 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 25 + (6) + (5) + 25 + (4) = 71
second attack: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (15) + 25 = 40
dommage: 1d8 + 25 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 25 + (6) = 39

Third attack: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (18) + 21 = 39
dommage: 1d8 + 25 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 25 + (2) = 30

Fourth attack: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (17) + 16 = 33
dommage: 1d8 + 25 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 25 + (1) = 30

Géatan, please be explicit which abilities you are using... just to be clear. So, for example, I assume you were using a fire arrow on the first hit? How many do you get per day (it looks like 2 from your character sheet). When you are getting additional bonuses, such as point blank, or are using things like rapid shot or deadly aim, it would be nice to have them called out. I try and do the same on my attacks (as an example, see my attacks as the Red Giant). Thank you for understanding.

Total damage to Skelg if all shots hit (which they do against his AC16) is 71+39+30+30=170 (less DR, and yes, I know you have clustered shots.

Géatan launches a flurry of arrows at Skelg, killing him outright.

Kol Voss, who's eyes clear, yells out, "Adril Hestram! I challenge you to single combat in the Right of Ascension for control of the Starsword! Face me now!"

The crowd goes deathly quiet at this challenge. Adril ignores the challenge, and the crowd starts to get antsy, calling for Hestram to take up the challenge, as is his duty. Even the princess, Kol Voss's sister, who is chained to the ground, shouts here contempt, calling Hestram a coward.

until Kol Voss once again yells. "Adril Hestram! I challenge you to single combat in the Right of Ascension for control of the Starsword! Face me now or be seen a coward!"

"No, I think not!" shouts Adril Hestram back at Kol Voss. The crowd take a definite turn for the worse, starting to mob towards the royal booth, and Hestram unchains the princess, throws her over his shoulder, and flees through the back of the booth.

"Did he seriously just run off? What is he, Andoran?" Auris wonders, fiddling with his wand as he waits for his sight to clear.

CLW: 2d8 + 2 ⇒ (7, 8) + 2 = 17

After about 10 seconds, everyone's eyes have cleared.

"Oh, there you guys are." Auris mutters, coming out of invisibility. Then he kicks the mound of flesh next to him.

Ralph starts surveying the situation whilst his companions wait for their vision to clear.

"That wall of force should have already taken substantial damage from my fireball, but those things are notoriously resilient. Koraq and Geatan, you should see to your wounds first," Ralph declares as he motions to air elemental 1 to check how high the wall of force extends.

He directs the remaining elementals to free the captured men (either slamming or slowly melting the links of their chains) while he speaks with Kol Voss.

"Alright, Kol, this was your great plan. What now?"

I could dimension door us past the wall of force. We can leave Kol Voss behind to tend to his companions, but we might be heading right into another fight, so Geatan and Koraq might want to heal themselves up as quickly as possible. I can use my infernal healing wand, but I have not bothered investing in UMD.

10 seconds is about 2 rounds, so Ralph will spend that time putting a charge of infernal healing on Koraq and Geatan each.

The wall completely covers the arena to a height of 30'.

Though you have this in OOC tags, Ralph, this sort of planning should be done verbally between characters, please. Do you want me to assume you spoke that out loud? I didn't think you had telepathic bond or the like up at this time. Sorry if it seems nit-picky, but there are reasons.

I didn't think it would matter, but if it does then yes, I am saying these out loud, though I will say it a little differently so Voss does not feel snubbed.

"I could use a dimension door spell to get us past the wall of force, or since it is only 30ft high, I could just have my air elementals carry us across. Kol Voss, if it's all the same to you, we will leave you to tend to your companions, while we pursue Adril."

"Koraq, Geatan, we might be heading right into another fight, so you should use whatever healing you have at your disposal. I do hope you are able to use your healing wands on your own. If not, perhaps Auris might be able to help?"

GM, can my 3 elementals just pick up Koraq, Geatan and Auris and carry us over the wall to Adril's booth?

"Yeah, I'm an old hand at this by now. You got a wand, I can activate it." Looking around the arena, he nods his head to the gate below the grandstand. "Maybe we save you the spell and see where the pincushion came through? Might get us to Adril."

The elementals confirm that there is no way into the seating area... that it is sealed off with the invisible wall. Auris checks where the behir and Skelg came through to find it also covered by an invisible wall.

"That is my sister he has!" yells Kol Voss. "I will not let the BEAST have his way with her! I am coming with!"

As this is going on, the crowds in the stands are getting even more rambunctious, practically at a riot's fury by this time. In areas, they are starting to tear the arena apart, but they haven't gotten through the guards to the royal's luxury box.

Ralph sighs, then nods.

"Very well, the dimension-door spell it is. Gather round when you are ready. Kol Voss, you too."

While waiting for Koraq and Geatan to heal up, Ralph will scan the area with detect magic to ascertain if there is any way to disable to wall of force from within, or if there is any trap awaiting anyone that attempts dimensional travel from within the arena, or any effect that might block or redirect such travel (especially the latter). His elementals also search the arena for buttons, controls or hidden exits.

Once everyone is healed up and ready, and if Ralph and his elementals find nothing of interest in the mean time, Ralph will cast his spell to transport Pathfinders and Kol Voss to the royal luxury box.

"Gimme a minute here; taking a giant's sword to the face ain't the healthiest of things."

He looks around, with a confused appearance on his face. "Huh, I musta got knocked around there. Auric, I coulda sword you were in full-plate and on a high horse! Although can you still use this?", he asks, handing him a wand.

Need a couple of Cure Critical Wound taps from my wand while I use a couple charges of Infernal Healing

The halfling blinks, making his solid black eyes even more disturbing by the contrast of innocent confusion. "I leave the high horses to the judges, you must be feeling some temporal fatigue from the maze." Auris puts away his own wand and begins fiddling with the new toy. "Y'know, I usually need my friend in the service of Abadar on missions for this, but it works a lot better when the other guys don't even get a chance to swing." CCW: 4d8 + 7 ⇒ (7, 1, 3, 3) + 7 = 21 "Ooof, is this what I think it is? Cost you a pretty penny, I bet."

If you want to roll out the rest you need, feel free.

Ok... do what healing you want, and please add up the total time that it takes. Meanwhile I will move on a little

After group heals up, Ralph gather the group up, and tries to use a dimension door to move them to the luxury box. After a moment of disorientation, the Pathfinders realize that they haven't moved! Ralph postulates that this is not your ordinary force wall, even wondering if he damaged it at all at this point.

A few moments later, the mob breaks through into the royal box, and start smashing things. You all see a shimmering as a hole opens in the invisible wall, and then spreads out across the arena perimeter.

This was actually an impenetrable "Pactmaster force field" -- it could not be teleported through, nor could it be damaged in any way.

Please give me the the total time spent healing, and then you can move on.

Before we move on Géatan apporch Auris

Don't want to wait too long. Using 2 CCW and 2 IH, but I'll be moving after the 2nd charge starts, so 1 minute, 1 round.

CCW: 4d8 + 7 ⇒ (8, 7, 1, 3) + 7 = 26

Koraq has healed 57, plus will heal another 10 more over the course of a mnute

Auris looks to Koraq and Ralph. "Be just a second, need to deal with a matter of honor..." With a quick word, the halfling disappears from sight.

The halfling reappears, dusting off his trousers. "Taken care of. Let's go get the big lug now."

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Ralph sighs, then nods.

"Very well, the dimension-door spell it is. Gather round when you are ready. Kol Voss, you too."

While waiting for Koraq and Geatan to heal up, Ralph will scan the area with detect magic to ascertain if there is any way to disable to wall of force from within, or if there is any trap awaiting anyone that attempts dimensional travel from within the arena, or any effect that might block or redirect such travel (especially the latter). His elementals also search the arena for buttons, controls or hidden exits.

Once everyone is healed up and ready, and if Ralph and his elementals find nothing of interest in the mean time, Ralph will cast his spell to transport Pathfinders and Kol Voss to the royal luxury box.

Basically it was a bull-s~~$ plot device of railroad, you mean. I suppose there was no way to detect it either.

Ralph spits a curse when he realises what the force field had done to his spell, then shrugs when he sees the force field dissipating.

"Well, it appears the force field is fading anyway. But Adril already has a head start. Kol Voss, you know this place. Where would Adril go?"

Does you know how to use a wand of cure light wound Auris? My wound has a few charge but it is all i have.

Géatan's head turns to where the voice of Ralph is coming from. We could cast those spells we didn't have time to do.

Not waiting for an answer, Géatan searchs the arena for his missing durable adamentine arrows.

"It's less knowing and more doing, really." Auris responds, taking the offered wand.

CLW: 6d8 + 6 ⇒ (7, 6, 2, 7, 6, 2) + 6 = 36 Ha! Six charges exactly.

Yes, it was a plot device to keep you from Adril, and in the arena.

"Aye, I can at least make an educated guess as to where he is going." Lead by Kol Voss, you make your way up into the stands, and into the luxury box. Behind the box, you can see a long hallway leading out of the stadium, leading to other hallways. Kol Voss is able to lead you through the maze, but as you are making your way through, you hear a a huge, booming roar.

Once you reach the outside, you see an airship — essentially a large sailing vessel similar to those on Golarion, but with leathery wings and stabilizers — sailing quickly up away from a nearby skydock trailing a cloud of thick black smoke. Dozens of citizens of Arl lay dead across the skydock and several other airships are burning. One ship, however, seems intact.

Kol Voss suggests, "We should take that ship and pursue! We have to save my sister!"

"Family first!"

Geatan talks also to auris. "Thanks, but it wasn't enough."

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GM, how far away is that air ship?

"Yes, well, in the alternative I could just use a greater teleport spell to get us on to that ship," Ralph thinks to himself, then reconsiders.

"There might be some other bull-s@** teleportation-blocking forcefield around that ship as well."

Damn railroad plot-devices.

"To the ship then."

As the team boards the remaining ship, they realize that they at least a mile behind, and at least a thousand feet below. Kol Voss lets you all know that his crew knows how to pilot the ship. All but two of his men go down to the engine room to power the artifact that powers the ship.

The ship takes off with a slight lurch, and after a few minutes, it becomes clear that your ship is easily gaining on Hestram's, which is trailing smoke behind it. It is apparent that his ship had taken damage in the process of seizing it, as you can barely make out several cracks near the airship's rear stabilizing wing.

Apparently, Adril's solution is Adril’s solution to escape Kol Voss is to pilot his ship higher and higher. As you ascend, the air grows thinner and much colder, as you push towards the ships' maximum altitudes. Ralph believes that it will get as cold as 10°, so suggests that the team should take precautions against this. He also conjectures that you should be able to overtake Hestram's ship within the next 10-15 minutes.

A this time, 30 minutes have passed since the arena fights. You could have used some of this time to heal up.