Granta's Wounded Wisp (Core) (Inactive)

Game Master Granta

Gardol will take the chalk and write the word 'Wiffle' on the chalkboard...

Jak seems to have been preoccupied with the gravity of seeing this monument to people who died pursuing their own legend. He seems oddly contemplative about the whole thing, but he keeps an eye on the team's attempts at the one shrine. Not sure how else to help, he simply stands back and watches, his massive blade rested across his shoulder.

"Well look'a that. Don't care what anybody says about you, Gardol, you're smart for a human!"

Kranzer draws his swords, preparing for any trouble.

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"Neat trick." remarks Tishka as she draws her double-sided stick. "Shall we?"

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Huratas draws his whip and prepares for trouble.

Once Gardol writes "wiffle" on the chalkboard, the western wall suddenly disappears. In its place, you see a secret door that begins sliding open. Beyond lies only a dark tunnel.

Please place yourselves in the outlined area, and account for the darkness.

"Looks like a job for dwarf eyes, eh? My best feature!"

Kranzer steps near the front and takes a look with his darkvision.

Gardol activates the light from his Wayfinder, draws his bow, and follows Kranzer...

Squinting her eyes, the little gnome concentrates for a moment. Whipping her hands about, a glowing globe of light pops into existence. "Yippee!" she squeals as another couple globes spawn next to the first.

The globes of light float about just a few feet in front of her.

"I think I've got the lighting handled."

Pulling her weapon free, she steels herself for battle.

Jak grins as he walks towards the front of the group, though still letting Kranzer take point. "And here I thought it was your sparkling personality."

Maps

Round Surprise
Effects none
Terrain none

• Gardol - surprised
  
• Tishka -
  
• Huratas - surprised, 2 damage
  
• Red -
  
• Kranzer -
  
• Jakwin - surprised

Kranzer begins sneaking into the dark tunnel, then stops to turn an eye on Gardol and Tishka when they light up the area. But it turns out for the best, because soon after entering the Pathfinders are ambushed by some sort of bulbous quadruped that reeks like a cesspool--a creature that Kranzer would not have wanted to meet by himself.

Tishka is up, surprise action only.

Her expression visibly softening, Tishka steps forward. "Oooo look at that little puppy!"

But a few feet away from the beast, she smiles. "Who's a good boy now? Eh? Is it you?"

Maps

Round Surprise - 1
Effects none
Terrain none

• Kranzer -
  
• Jakwin - surprised
  
• -----Round 1-----
  
• Gardol -
  
• Tishka -
  
• Huratas - 2 damage
  
• Red -

Tishka moves forward, clearly misunderstanding the beast's animosity as it tries to bite her.

Kranzer is up (surprise round). Gardol, Tishka and Huratas are up in round 1.

Kranzer stabs out at the creature almost on instinct.

"Er, don't think that's a puppy there."

Gardol will move to the west and fire over Tishka at the creature...

"Not nice doggy! WE DON'T BITE PEOPLE!" screams the little woman. Twirling her stick about, she tries to whack the creature on the nose with the rounded end, whilst poking it in the side.

"Ugly dog."

Huratas will try to Touch od Chaos the beast,

Maps

Round 1-2
Effects none
Terrain none

• Kranzer -
  
• Jakwin -
  
• -----Round 2-----
  
• Gardol -
  
• Tishka -
  
• Huratas - 2 damage
  
• Red - 10 damage, touch of chaos

Kranzer scratches the "puppy" with his shortsword, but Gardol can't quite find a clear shot with Tishka in the way. The little gnome manages to bash and poke her attacker though, obviously enraged and being attacked. Huratas tries a different approach, calling on the power of his god to curse the beast.

Unfortunately, the hole that Tishka just punched into the creature's hide closes up, all healed. Thankfully, its fangs miss Tishka again.

Everybody is up.

Gardol will move around towards the south in search of a better shot...

Jak—uncharacteristicly late to the fight but as enthusiastic as every—rushes into the fray, screaming exultantly as he smashes down on the creature with his blade.

Round 2

"Missed me! Missed me!" Cackles the gnome maniacally,as frothy white fluid flies from her mouth. "Now you quit and we'll play nice!"

Another slap with the blunted side of her stick is followed by a second quick jab at the creature.

"Why did it heal? Fire? Silver?"

Huratas will take a 5ft step and use Bit O' Luck on Kranzer.
Roll twice on all d20s and keep the best until the beginning of Huratas's next turn.

"Ha HA! Now it's a real scrap!"

Kranzer lashes out with both blades.

@Jakwin: Please draw arrows to show your movement, particularly since you are moving through a threatened area.

@Gardol: You would be able to tell that there's no better angles on the other side, especially after Jakwin moves. Feel free to retcon your action if desired.

@Huratas & Kranzer: Please remember than I resolve posts in initiative order. When you're going to delay like that, I prefer to see some in character mention, i.e. Huratas saying "Hold up a moment, I have some magic that'll help."

Maps

Round 2-3
Effects none
Terrain none

• Jakwin -
  
• -----Round 3-----
  
• Gardol -
  
• Tishka -
  
• Huratas - 2 damage
  
• Kranzer -
  
• Red - 19 damage

Jakwin manages to avoid a legful of fangs thanks to Huratas' curse, but the bardarian's own swing also misses. Tishka aims a little better though, and smashes several bones beneath the thick hide. Huratas then blesses Kranzer, but it doesn't help the rogue manage more than a single scratch.

The trollhound's wounds continue to heal, though not as quickly as the Pathfinders deliver the injuries. And once again, it tries and fails to bite the shifty little gnome.

Everybody is up.

Not sure what you mean. Huratas goes before Kranzer right? I think you forgot to unbold Kranzer's name after round 1. Because you mention he scratched the puppy with his greatsword but left his name bolded from the previous round.

Gardol, seeing his bow has been taken out of play, drops it, drawing his longsword as he moves up to take a two-handed swing at the beast...

Round 3

Giggling to herself as she sidesteps another attempt of the puppy, she smacks him with her stick again.

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gotcha. I didn’t do it as there was only one path to that destination, but I’ll endeavor to be more thorough moving forward. :)

Round 2

Jak finds a firmer footing and delivers an absolutely thunderous strike down on what he thinks is the thing's face.

"Kranzer, Let Calistria guide your blades."

Huratas will use Bit O' Luck on Kranzer.

Botting Kranzer by request.

Kranzer full attacks the enemy.

@Huratas: Kranzer acted in the surprise round, then you in round 1, and then the trollhound. At that point Kranzer was taking his round 1 action and you a round 2 action, so he would have to delay to act after you. Or else wait to use the buff until his normal round 2 initiative, but that's not what he did.

Jakwin's gigantic swing cuts the thing completely in half, but something is clearly wrong. You can see one half slowly healing, and even regrowing new body parts. The rest of the party hacks at the corpse a bit more, but the creature's return still seems inevitable, if delayed a bit longer.

Ah I see what happened. I checked your first post for this combat where Tishka's name is bolded and you said she was up. I missed that Kranzer went in the surprise round but after the beast.

"Try fire or acid, Those are the usual answers."

Gardol takes one of his acid flasks and pours it on the currently dead but regenerating beast...he'll use his second one as well if it seems to work...

Huratas' advice seems to have been correct. The flesh sizzles under Gardol's acid for a few seconds, then doesn't start healing again. A quick search of the tunnels doesn't turn up anything, except for a small office carved into the rear of the cavern.

Several desks are arranged along the northern and eastern edges of this small stone alcove. Whereas the stonework leading to this chamber is rough, the walls in the alcove are polished. A single gem rests among the neatly filed papers on the desk, emitting a soft luminescence that brightens the small room.

The paperwork on the desk is a priceless collection of Pathfinder Society lore and information describing dozens of unexplored sites. Unfortunately, most are completely undecipherable and will take the Society weeks to decode.

"Best we take all this paperwork back to the the Venture-Captain at the Grand Lodge...might want to take that gem, as well..."

Gardol starts gathering the paperwork for transport to the Lodge.

"Aye, see what'd I Tell ya? Smart!"
Kranzer helps carry anything back to the Lodge and slaps each companion hard on the back.

"We did it!"

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Calming down as the creature aozzles, she pets it's flesh. "Poor puppy"

Then finders herself eagerly shoving documents into her pack. "I'm guessing this is what we needed."

Stopping a moment, she thoroughly searches the room for anything the may have missed.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

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Huratas looks as well. perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

Tishka and Huratas are unable to find anything else, but when dealing with someone crafty enough to hide things for over a century--who ever really knows for sure?

On your way out of the Shrine, the crowd is dispersing, and you can hear many mutters about "poor Sir Reinhart". Apparently, he tried to vault the chasm on horseback, and fell into oblivion. But the knight was brave until the end; nobody heard him scream on the way down.

Back at the Grand Lodge, you find Drandle Dreng in his office. "So . . . what do you have for me?"

Gardol bows and gives him the paperwork they recovered.

"Sir, I think you'll find these interesting."

"Oh, I had a couple pieces of it too." remarks Tishka, dumping a few pages on the man's desk.

"Is it what you were looking for? It was in the back of the fallen aspirants shrine. Really strange place for it, but they didn't ask me."

"Most interesting. But I can't possibly read all of this without a glass of wine." Drandle says with a completely straight face.

"Between this discovery and Janira's report on your Confirmation, you're not doing too badly. I suspect we'll have another mission for you lot soon."

Drandle's aide ushers you out of the room without another word from the Venture Captain, but several days later you each receive a letter from the Society.

Handout

Mission complete. Part three will start October 6.

I didn't cheat!...I mean...what spoiler...

It's always bothered me that not even the GM knows what's going on. All the scenario says is, "If the PCs confront Dreng about the convenience of finding a long-lost trove of documents by following his directions, the venture-captain does little to confirm or deny his knowledge and simply emphasizes the importance of the find and how the PCs will be the ones to investigate this potentially far-reaching discovery."

Agreed. I finally just decided, he knows its there...just not which bottle it is. So he periodically sends recruits to pick up specific ones. Either he gets a decent drink, or he finds what he's looking for. (Had to give him some motivation after running it so many times...)