As the red troglodyte rushes forward into battle, the eagle swoops in for blood, catching it with a grevious wound. Following the failed attack upon Nikolai, Xasay and his imainary puppet are in no mood for half measures, and the eagle strikes the troglodyte in the throat, ending its life on the dirty flagstones in front of the companions.
Combat Over
We still have two sleeping troglodytes before you.. and so this may possibly produce a moral quandary for the party.
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
Nikolai assumes a fighting stance, ready to strike at the troglodyte that charges towards the group...
...only to be outshone by an eagle. He looks at the bird oddly for a moment, only to shrug his shoulders. "Eh, who am I to complain, I'm actually conscious at the end of a fight in this damnable siege tower." He retrieves some rope from his pack and begins binding the troglodytes. "Gods, they stink, and they're worse this close up." His eyes water as he binds their hands and feet.
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
"That's what I'm doing," Nikolai says, trying his best to not roll his eyes at Isobel's statement. "You guys go on ahead and check out that room, I'll work on securing these two."
Bluff:1d20 ⇒ 6
Sense Motive DC 6:
It's not hard to read Nikolai's intentions - he'd much prefer as many of you leave him alone with the troglodytes as possible.
The battle is over, and two survivors remain. As Turan moves about the room looking for anything of interest, Fauxish keeps an eye on Nikolai as he ties the troglodytes up.. making sure that the helpless creatures do not suffer an "accident" along the way. As Nikolai is moving them, they begin to wake up and are.. obviously.. not pleased by the turn of events and begin yelling and calling out in their guttural and harsh language.
If anyone speaks Draconic, let me know. I don't think I saw that on anyones sheets, but I am as subject to oversight as anyone else is.. Let me know and we will embellish this. If not, we will continue on.
Turan finds nothing with his careful and detailed search. He is able to note that there is a door each in the north west wall and in the south west wall, and that they appear to be untrapped and unlocked, but nothing more.
Kitsune Sorcerer 3 | HP 20/20 | AC 16; Tch 12; FF 14 | F +4; R +4; W +3 | CMB-2; CMD 10 | Speed 30 ft | Init +2 | Sling: +3 (1d4-3) | Perc +4
"Sometimes if a bug gets inside I catch it and let it go outside...maybe these stinky guys are like that?" Isobel wonders as they go to the next doors.
She prepares herself as one of the beefier party members opens it.
LMAO!!!!! its been years since I've seen that movie, and the idea of a your character dressed as a nun and speaking jive just about had me falling out of my chair. Thank you for that!!!
Draconic:
The cacophony that they are raising makes it hard to distinguish one from the other, but it seems that one of them is crying for help and trying to call someone named "Tulok", and the other is alternating between spitting curses and frothing about "tricksy magic users" and begging not to be killed.
|AC 20, T 13, FF 18|HP: 40/40|F +2, R +7, W +3 (+2 vs shadow, +4 vs fear/energy drain/death/Necromancy)|Init +2, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 17|20/21 Performance, 3/3 Shadow Speaker, 1/1 comic relief, #19
If you'll recall, it was actually just a sweet old lady in nondescript secular garb, the nun was the one with the +2 Sick Girl-Bane Guitar. Be that as it may....
Xasay gives them a polite closed-mouth smile.
Draconic:
"Ah, hello. Who is Tulok? I hope he is not the third one of you, we had to kill him. If you'd only been willing to talk first, we could have avoided that."
Female Human (Tian-Shu) Monk 1/Unchained Rogue 1 | hp 16 | AC 16, T 16, FF 12 | CMD 17 (19 v trip) | F +3, R +8, W +4 | Spd 30' | Init +6 | Perc +7:
actually she's Kitsune (gains low-light vision and +2 acrobatics in hybrid form) )
Xasay Xyu wrote:
If you'll recall, it was actually just a sweet old lady in nondescript secular garb, the nun was the one with the +2 Sick Girl-Bane Guitar. Be that as it may....
Xasay gives them a polite closed-mouth smile.
** spoiler omitted **
[dice=Diplomacy]1d20+3
"Calm down already!" Fauxish violently shakes and then smacks Xasay across the face twice.
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (+4 vs disease, +2 vs MA/poison/curse, -1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
Fauxish wrote:
"Calm down already!" Fauxish violently shakes and then smacks Xasay across the face twice.
"Sister, you are needed elsewhere. This is a friend, allow me...silence, you fool!" *thrashthrash...*
|AC 19, T 19, FF 16|HP: 57/57|F +7, R +10, W +12 (+1 vs disease, +2 vs Ench/poison/fear)|Init +3, Perc +14|CMB +12 (+2 to trip) CMD 30 (33 vs Trip)|9/9 Punishing Kicks, 16/16 Ki, 1/1 Soul-Drinker, 2/2 GL
Sasithorn Loom wrote:
"PLEASE! I am a trained diplomat, I know how to resolve this...calm yourself, blazing fool!!!" *threatens Xasay with baleful magic...*
*looks eagerly toward the front of the line as she squeezes her chains around her arms...*
|AC 23, T 14, FF 21|HP: 75/75|F +8, R +7, W +6 (+6 vs fear, +2 vs gaze/dream/phantasm, +1 vs confusion/insanity/WIS loss)|Init +2, Perc +7?|CMB +7 CMD 19|12/12 Starspawn
Kali Altzairu wrote:
*looks eagerly toward the front of the line as she digs her chains deep into her abdomen...*
"I believe I have a sedative in my bag..."*grins maniacally as he sorts through nearly a dozen different bizarre and terrifying weapons...*
wow.. had no idea that this group was so culturally literate! surely I picked the wrong time to give up alcohol, because i get the feeling it would be one hell of a party.
Draconic:
"You fools! Of course he's not here, or you would be dead! He will bite you and thrash you! Roast you over a fire and EAT you!"
|AC 20, T 13, FF 18|HP: 40/40|F +2, R +7, W +3 (+2 vs shadow, +4 vs fear/energy drain/death/Necromancy)|Init +2, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 17|20/21 Performance, 3/3 Shadow Speaker, 1/1 comic relief, #19
Draconic:
""Why is that? Who is he? Is it possible we could come to an agreement: As we have spared your lives, he will spare ours, and we can all go our separate ways? Our means are limited, but I am certain we could provide some degree of compensation for the loss of your third...."
Truly Iconic Female Human (Ulfen) Wizard (evoker, admixture school) 6 | hp 37 | AC {17} T 13 FF {15} | CMD 16 | F +5 R +6 W +7 | Spd 30' | Init +2 | Kn(Arc, Dun, His, Loc, Pla, Rel) +11 Kn(Eng, Geo, Nat, Nob) +10, Lngst +9, Perc +6 (+2 w Kalas), Scrft +14, SensM +0 (+2 w Kalas) | versatile evocation 8/8 | wands false life CL 3 6/7, m missile 42/50, summon monster I CL 3 9/9, unseen servant 8/10 | mage armor, vanish 4rds
GM DevilDoc wrote:
wow.. had no idea that this group was so culturally literate! surely I picked the wrong time to give up alcohol, because i get the feeling it would be one hell of a party.
"Sorry for the mix-cultural reference but it's just a model--I mean, 'I'm Hiding In You Closet'." *Smirk* "He's like a party of one."
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
With no idea what's being said, Nikolai just looks between the two trogs and Xasay. "They're making a lot of noise," he warns. "If they're not giving us anything useful, I say we just knock 'em out. Since we're apparently not OK with killing things that want to kill us for some damn dumb reason."
Considering that they are tied up, I will go ahead and hand wave a coupe de grace to knock them unconscious.. if that is what the party agrees on. Just a note of order, we have three rooms on this level and the top level to clear, and only ten days before they shut down reporting for Game Day..Think we can do it?
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
"Let's get moving," Nikolai says gruffly after he strikes each of the trogs sharply in the temple. "Sounds like we need to have a talk with this Tulok." Something's bugging me, Nikolai thinks. Why the Hell are we investigating this thing? There's not been anything in here that I can see the Society would want. What's the angle?
Nikolai kicks in the door. As the player look into the room, they see that cracks in the walls and ceiling of this chamber have allowed rainwater to collect here, flooding the room and giving rise to a profusion of mold and fungus along the walls and ceiling. Sitting in the middle of the room is a giant frog
"Umm...hello. Would you like some cooked bat?" Xasay proffers some of the leftovers he collected from the previous animal encounter.
untrained Handle Animal/raw Charisma check:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
I was pretty rushed trying to finalize that post, and didn't describe it clearly enough. It is just a frog, but it is also a giant frog, about 6 ft long, and about 200 lbs. As you entered the room, it turned towards the door, but as yall beat it in initiative, it hasn't reacted yet. Your Knowledge Nature roll tells you it is most likely hungry, it does not have any obvious resistances or weak spots, but it can flick out its tongue about 15 ft to do.. well, what frogs do with captured food. If grabbed, this would be incredibly painful between the razor sharp teeth and being swallowed whole. On the frogs turn, it will react to your overture.
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
Sorry, my weekend was rather full.
Nikolai slams the door in the frog's face. "I agree with the bleeding heart here, but not for the same reasons," he says. "I'm tired of being the chewtoy for all of the inhabitants of this tower. If we don't need to fight this frog, I'm all for leaving it alone."
Close the door. Since frogs don't have opposable thumbs, I suspect it will have some difficulty getting to us. Unless Xasay is in the room and can't move out this turn, in which case that will probably change my action.
Damn board goblins ate my post, but its just as well, since I was delaying Nikolai. Xasay IS in the room.. so you may want to adjust those actions. I will give it a bit for you to amend your post
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
Gotcha. Changing things now.
Nikolai is about to close the door when Xasay rushes past him. He sighs and shakes his head as Isobel pleads for mercy on the frog. "Sorry, 'Bel, Xasay's put us all in. Blame him for what's about to happen." Nikolai advances into the room, and snaps a kick to the frog's midriff. "C'mon, slimy, chew on this!"
Nikolai moves into the room and gives the frog a swift kick, which takes its attention away from the tasty looking bat/shadow treat combo being offered at the other end of the room. With a lurch, the thing grabs hold of Nikolai, its razor sharp teeth biting into the big man.
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
Nikolai's not exactly a creative guy.
Nikolai winces as the frog's tongue catches him, and pulls one of his arms in for a painful bite. "Alright, viodaeshk, you want a taste? Have a whole feast of pain!" With a grimace he headbutts the frog, but the awkward angle means all that happens is his forehead is covered in froggy slime.
|AC 20, T 13, FF 18|HP: 40/40|F +2, R +7, W +3 (+2 vs shadow, +4 vs fear/energy drain/death/Necromancy)|Init +2, Perc +4|CMB +5 CMD 17|20/21 Performance, 3/3 Shadow Speaker, 1/1 comic relief, #19
"Nikolai, curse you, we'd almost reached an accord!" Xasay runs behind the frog (moving to a flank since grappling creatures can't make attack of opportunity) and tries striking it with the flat of his sword.
Female Human (Tian-Shu) Monk 1/Unchained Rogue 1 | hp 16 | AC 16, T 16, FF 12 | CMD 17 (19 v trip) | F +3, R +8, W +4 | Spd 30' | Init +6 | Perc +7:
actually she's Kitsune (gains low-light vision and +2 acrobatics in hybrid form) )
Fauxish double moves. Her movement assumes that the blue areas are 'difficult' otherwise she moves right up behind the frog (right one square and down one square on top of the '8').
Xasay: the beastiary really is not clear to me on that account. In one place it states that using the tongue to grapple does not make the creature grappled, but in another spot, it says that the frog takes a penalty to avoid being grappled.. so I am going to go the easy way out and say its grappled and not worry about it! It has a rather large man fighting to get out of its mouth.. I think that its attention is a little occupied.
The majority of the party wishes no ill will to the creature, and Xasay decides to try and smack it with the flat of his sword to get it to spit out Nikolai, but to no avail.
The frog, on the other hand, has a mouthful to contend with.
Bite:1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 CMB:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
The frog tries to swallow Nikolai, but doesnt manage to quite get the squirly man into its gullet.
Bold May Post Xasay Nikolai- 12 dmg/ grappled
Frog- 10 nl
Fauxish Turan Isobel
HP 19/31 | AC 16 | T 13 | FF 13 | CMD 17 | Fort +5 | Ref +6 | Will +2 | Init +3 | Perception +5 | Sense Motive -1 Human (Varisian) Brawler 3
Nikolai howls as the frog clamps down on his arm, and his vision begins to go blurry. "I. WILL. NOT. BE. KILLED. BY. A. DAMNED. FROG!!!", he cries, punctuating each blow with a kick to the amphibian's prodigious throat.
