GM Woran's Rise of the Runelords

Game Master Woran

Vitro: The quasit struggles less and less, and this time Vitro stabs true.

Quasit: Unconcious. But still her wounds continue to slowly heal...

Round 12

Ugliest goblin in all of creation 26 damage
Vitro
Quasit 38 damage
Snowflake
Justin
Rataji 10 damage
Oskar

Snowflake/Justin/Oskar, what do you do?

"It's full of stars..."

Knowledge arcana check: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

Snowflake may feel a tiny measure of sorrow for the experimented on goblin
Not so for the evil outsider quasit.
He performs a coup de grace
coup de grace: 2d8 + 10 ⇒ (8, 7) + 10 = 25

Justin: Leeps focussing on the aura. Its only 1 and its strong.

Snowflake Crashes his mace down on the unconcious figure of the quasit. Her tiny head is smashed into a pulp.

Oskar: Has quasit brains running over his hand.

Rataji: Seeing the goblin's eyelids flutter, she doesnt take a chance and stabs it.

coup de grace: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (2, 4) + 6 = 12

fort save goblin: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

The goblin and Quasit are dead. We're out of initiative

And also, Oskar shoots a look right back at Vitro that makes it clear he knew what he really meant.

Vitro busies himself with prestidigitation, making sure no quazzitbits or blood get into the pool, crouched over, looking a bit flushed.

After that's taken care of, and looking stable and composed again he gets up.

"Well, that was quite a thing... I think we stumbled onto one of the heads of the hydra here. Funny, I would have thought the brains of the operation would be waiting behind layers and layers of guards."

Kicking the quazzicorpse a bit farther away from the pool he looks over the rest of the gang.

"Wow, you guys took quite a licking.. I'm starting to see why people keep complaining about elves always keeping in the back and keeping their skin intact."

When he sees Vitro cleaning himself off, Oskar wiggles his fingers. "Help a teammate out, eh? Vy really got chunky with it."

For justin: keeping up your concentration, you identify the aura as being Necromantic

Blinking for a moment in surprise, Vitro then waves his hand and makes the splatter go away.

"These are not the gore-covered fingers you're wiggling at me."

"Ugh.. I think this thing is a pile of dead liquid sinspawn and the magic reanimates them. Efficient way to store them I suppose. Anyone want to see if we can get one for ourselves? "

"Ugh.. I think this thing is a pile of dead liquid sinspawn and the magic reanimates them. Efficient way to store them I suppose. Anyone want to see if we can get one for ourselves? "

"Nooooope. No screwing with that, Justin. Terrible idea."

Justin's red eyes shine brightly, reflecting the pool...

"But.. its so.. pretty...."

... someone may have to haul him away from it bodily

Trust me, I had every intention of it if he started acting funny. Y'know, like ^^ that up above me.

"Yeah yeah yeah. No pools, Justin. We're not doing that."

Oskar picks Justin up by the back of the neck and drags him back from the pool.

Justin squeeeks a bit as he goes limp and awwwwws...

"Come on... what if it's under our control? I..we.. could spawn an army of those things to defend the town "

Snowflake says two words using only one
"No"

Fine.....You should move some rocks, or maybe a door over it so nothing else wanders onto it and gets to play with it

Just to be clear: The pool the sinspawn came out of is the orange triangle up on the dias. The blue fountain is just that: A fountain. Even if it is a bit tacky

Eyup. Justin WAS up there till he was snatched down by Oskar. And thus the apocalypse was averted

Oh, I hadn't realized that. I should have gone to smash the orange pool then, that would've probably worked better to grab the monster's attention.

The orange pool is featureless. The fountain has real nice tacky skull decorations, so it was a good guess. She just hated the paladin more ;)

"I absolutely want to study this place further..." Looking at Snowflake "I don't mean to exploit it, it's definitely foul magic. But we need to know what we're up against, what they're capable of."

"I think barricading the door would be a good thing for now, and maybe we can improvise some hidden snare to let us known if anyone else gets in here."

"A barricade, sure. If you know something about setting traps, fantastic, but that isn't something I ever learned."

Oskar searches the quasit's body. "Are these things always so annoying? I don't know from demons."

If nothing on the body, he'll start checking the doors, SW one first.

The quasit wears a silk dress. Her little tiara has fallen on the floor during the grapple. The dagger she was harrasing you with is still clutched in a broken claw.
She also has a necklace made of a gleaming black stone hanging around her neck. The cemterpiece is some kind of demonic dog head.

know: religion to identify the necklace

"I've never met one before, only read about them. To be honest while studying I was a bit distracted by some of the lurid stuff about grown-up demons, if you know what I mean..."

"Didn't appreciate the small ones could be such difficult opponents, what with the invisible flying, healing and resistance to elemental attacks. I'm going to have to come up with better spells against opponents that won't land."

Vitro moves along with the search, dagger at the ready just in case.

Oskar nods at Vitro's comments. "Everything works until it don't, y'know? I'm kind of in the same boat, got to get a better way to deal with guys who're out of reach." He looks at the throwing darts on his belt. "Those woulda gone nowhere, fast. But hey, any fight y'can walk away from is a win, right? We'll get better at this. Now, pick up he dizzying array of stuff ya threw on the floor, and let's get back to it," Oskar grins, then gets to examining the quasit's belongings.

Looking at the tiara and dress, Oskar asks, "Anyone got a tiny, creepy demonic porcelain doll they want to dress up? This don't look like it's yer size, 'Taj, even after one of you prestidateroos the heck out of this." He gives a really awkward swipe with the off-sized dagger. "Someone left this out in the sun too long, shrank it all up. Any way to embiggen somethin' like this?"

Holding up the necklace, he asks, "This mean anything to anyone, or just part o'this thing's creepy-ass ensemble it had going?"

Kn (religion, untrained): 1d20 ⇒ 4

Shifts himself from getting scruffed to being held by the back of his shirt long enough to cast detect magic on the imploot.

The dagger is magical. Now that you examin it, you notice its also cold iron.

"The Tiara isn't magical... but i wonder if given the goblin calling the imp "my queen" its a symbol of authority over the goblins, or perhaps the creatures? Either way" .. he tries to put it on his head " Completes the outfit, no?"

"The Tiara isn't magical... but i wonder if given the goblin calling the imp "my queen" its a symbol of authority over the goblins, or perhaps the creatures? Either way" .. he tries to put it on his head " Completes the outfit, no?"

"A bit small, even for you, Justin," Oskar says as he plucks the tiara back off the skaven's head. "How about we get it appraised, and take it from there?"

"I wonder where that goblin came from. There must be still parts we haven't secured yet"
He starts checking the gear of the goblin, casting detect magic as he does so

The Goblin doesnt carry much. It wears no armor, but its skin appears extra tough.

As for the weapons it carries, the dagger appears to be made of silver. The handaxe is masterwork.
The longsword is magical.

Lets see what else we can find...

Looking to satisfy his curiosity, Justin checks the two small rooms to the northeast and southwest of the cathedral entrance. It looks like were once used as storage and robing chambers judging by the debree in them both. One has broken down shelves that still hold candlestick stains and some boxes hold old crumbs of incence.
The other has broken railings and cloth hangers.

Searching trough both rooms for a while turns up nothing usefull.

Stealth: 1d20 + 100 ⇒ (10) + 100 = 110

"Pass me that, let's have a look at it..."

Spellcraft on quasi-dagger: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25

Spellcraft on goblin sword: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Appraise on tiara: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

"What about that fountain we passed earlier. Didn't someone say they detected a magical aura on it? Let's inspect it more carefully. Either way it's on the way to the exit."

Eyeing the state of the rest of the party.

"I've used the majority of my juice but I'm unhurt, how about the rest of you? I think we chopped the head off the operation, but we don't know if there are other exits and threats. Should we try to explore it now, or go back topside and rest a bit?"

"I can heal us all three more times. The gods grand me one more time to aid us"

The dagger is a tiny +1 cold iron returning dagger.
The longsword is a +1 longsword.

You estimate the tiara is worth about 50GP

How big is the longsword? Sized for medium or small creature?

Medium. This goblin was so mutated it became 1 size larger. So the silver dagger and the mw handaxe are also medium.

Vitro nonchalantly tosses carefully passes back the handaxe to Oskar, inspecting the dagger with a grin and offering it to anyone who wants.

"Not sure how much I like the axe, but this sword is pretty sweet. Anyone want it? Otherwise, I'll keep it around, it's better than my own rapier."

I'm proficient with longswords because I got long pointy ears. But I'm still only going to have a +4 to hit/1d8+3 damage with it so feel free to claim it if it's more use to you.

"Feel free t'use the sword if that's your thing. Me and my hittin' stick will get by just fine," Oskar says as he hefts his dan bong.

I'm hoping to eventually get Daniel enchanted with the brawling quality, to up my grapple checks, but that's long-range planning. I'm proficient with the handaxe, but I don't think I can flurry with it, so forget that plan. See you all Sunday night.

Handaxe is a light Martial Weapon, and Brawler's Flurry is essentially Two-weapon Fighting, so yes, I think you're good ^_^

No, brawler's flurry works only with weapons from the right weapon groups or with the monk property, and handaxe does't have it. We'll see if we can pawn it off on the paladin.

Close. One of the weapons has to be unarmed, a close weapon, or a monk weapon. While I can use the handaxe, I kind of want to have Daniel in one hand, and the other free to grapple, so it falls under "usable, just not optimal/preferred".

When you peek back trough the cathedral doors to the shrine, you see it is empty. It seems that your battle only attracted the ugliest goblin in the world.

Does anyone still want to take a second look at the shrine? Let me know yes/no and I'll post according to that.

Sure

Vitro shepherds everyone out of the cathedral room, then plucks out one of his long hairs and carefully pastes it across the closed doors high-up, so that if someone else opens the door we'll be able to see it.

After that he nudges Oskar forward to guard the hallway while he thoroughly studies the shrine, looking for hidden panels, magical auras, drawing pictures of any iconography and text.

Take 20 Percetion -> 22

Justin and Vitro study the shrine. It is little more than a jagged
block of black marble with a shallow concavity on top of it.
The water in the basin is filthy, but looking at it you think this is because the basin hasnt been cleaned in many years. Dumping out the water and giving a scrub would probably fix it.

The altar itself gives off a conjuration and universal aura.

You find no hidden compartments or inscriptions. You think the basin holds about enough to fill four vials worth of liquid.

I want to study the altar more, see if I can figure out what it might do. What do I roll?

Grabbing a small cup from his pack Vitro scoops out the filthy water, then waves his hands over the basin to exorcise the dirt and get a better look at what's beneath the grime, before turning back to gazing at its magic understructure.

While they're fiddling with that stuff, Oskar will take a few steps down the corridor, just keeping an eye out for trouble back the way we came.