Amarandlon hasn't been on since last week Monday. Someone go ahead and BOT him and lets get this encounter out of the way. With luck we can have this scenario finished before Christmas.
Female human (Varisian) cleric of Erastil 4 LG | Init +4 | Perception +9 AC 17, T 13, FF 14 | hp 27/27 | Fort +5, Ref +6 Will +7
Amarandlon raises an eyebrow at Minmaximus. "They want to know what we are doing here and what our purpose is."
Sylvan:
We are here to explore this place. The parts that are not your garden. We are searching for history. It appears there is something below, and we wish permission to explore it."
We will just assume that Amarandlon will be "translating" for the group"
"History? We know something of history. We have been here a long time. We don't go below. Below doesn't come up here. Big, scary! You will not survive. We don't."
One of the gourds goes to a corner and retrieves a couple of items to give you, the group......
1. Dark haired doll wearing a Tiera
2. Silver locket with a portrait of Arenzo Davian
3. Pearl of Power
4. A spellbook
5. Ring of Arcane Signets
6. Ruby Songbird worth 400 gold
6. Knights pennon of battle
HP: 19/19 | AC/T/FF: 14/14/11 | Fort 0, Ref +4, Will +3 (+4 vs. spells and SLAs, +5 vs. illusions) | CMD: 16 | Reveal Weakness used: 0/7
Thank you so much for the bot.
Amarandlon accepts the gifts graciously on behalf of the group, and gives the nearest leshy a little pat on the head. "They wish us to take these items into the dark below along with us," he says cheerfully. "Several of these look useful..." He eyes the pearl of power as he flips through the spellbook to see what spells are inside.
Amarandlon accepts the gifts graciously on behalf of the group, and gives the nearest leshy a little pat on the head. "They wish us to take these items into the dark below along with us," he says cheerfully. "Several of these look useful..." He eyes the pearl of power as he flips through the spellbook to see what spells are inside.
The book contains the following spells:
Ant Haul
Cloak of Winds
Create Pit
Endure Elements
Fog Cloud
Gravity Bow
Arcane Eye
Crafters Fortune
Make Whole
Phantom Seed
Anyone attempting to cross the gourd field (and you will need to do so to get to the grate) still need to roll a survival, acrobatics, athletics, or similar profession/perform skill.
Female Human (Vudrani) Gunslinger 4 | HP 12/28 | AC 17 T 16 FF 12 | Fort+4 Ref +8 Will+3 | Initiative +6 (+8) | Perception +9 | Grit 2/2 |
Sajna bows to the small creatures before making her way carefully through their garden.
Acrobatics:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
At least as carefully as she can while carrying her heavy musket and bags of ammunition...
Everyone go ahead and continue to make your movement checks through the patch of gourds. Once you have done so, feel free to take off early for the extended holiday season. This is as good a place as any to stop.
Female Chelaxian Investigator Empiricist 4 | HP 27/27 | AC 18 (22) | T 13 | FF 15 | CMD 17 | Fort +3 | Ref +8 | Will +4 | Init +3 | Perc +11/+12 | Inspiration 3/6
Hey all, terribly sorry about my slow posting recently. My department has been working lot of overtime with the holidays. I've also been having some issues along the home front.
Acrobatics:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Cornelia easily picks her way through the vegetation, being extremely careful as to where she places her feet.
HP: 19/19 | AC/T/FF: 14/14/11 | Fort 0, Ref +4, Will +3 (+4 vs. spells and SLAs, +5 vs. illusions) | CMD: 16 | Reveal Weakness used: 0/7
Acrobatics Take 10:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Amarandlon carefully picks his way across the gourd field. "Does anyone want any of these items?" he asks. "I will take this pearl if you don't care for it Minmaximus. Or we could flip a coin..."
Cornelia crosses without issue, doing a flip and jump.
Amarandlon tries to copy Cornelia, and does a decent job at it.
Rodala makes her way across without fanfare or difficulty.
Sanja, barely makes her way across.
Minmaximus breaks a gourd with his clumsy feet.
Shera stumbles upon a vine and breaks a gourd.
"You broke our gourds, you broke our gourds! Bad, Bad, people! You pay!"
Social skills here would be most welcome.....
The 4 successful have been moved down to SLIDE 12.
HP: 19/19 | AC/T/FF: 14/14/11 | Fort 0, Ref +4, Will +3 (+4 vs. spells and SLAs, +5 vs. illusions) | CMD: 16 | Reveal Weakness used: 0/7
"What's that? Oh. Very well..." Amarandlon reluctantly returns to the scene.
Sylvan:
"These fools greatly regret their error, and apologize for it. They are willing to offer you restitution if there is something within their power that you desire."
Not sure if I'm aiding Shera (preferable) or making my own roll, as the translator, but either way...
We were nice to you. We give you items, stuff, to help you. Why you do this? Go defeat the big thing downstairs. Begone with you.
Everyone upstairs carefully makes their way down....
Six round pillars and a large iron gate built into a low archway on the west wall are not the most compelling features of this musty cellar. Drawings rendered from soot and dark brown paint cover the walls. They’re broken up by narrow fissures of dark earth and crumbled plaster. The room is filled with bones, most of which are heaped around a large throne against the south wall. To the north, a wide set of stairs ascends.
Heal DC10:
The dark brown paint is actually blood.
Heal DC15:
The most recent bones are troll bones, and many show signs of deep bite marks.
Perception Rolls:
Per - Cornelia:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Per - Cornelia (Traps):1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Per - Amarandlon:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
Per - Sajna:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Per - Roldala:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Per - Minmaximus:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Per - Shera:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
The piles of bones are deepest around the throne, upon which sits a skeleton in black chainmail. It’s held together with dried vines and has slumped forward slightly, a crown of dull iron upon its brow. These bones are not gnawed on
HP 55/55; AC 14, T 14, FF 10; CMD 16; Init +4, Perc +1; F +6, R+9, W+8
Love how we need to specify 'the bones are not gnawed on.' Yep, Pathfinders.
"Curious decorating tastes. I prefer to use gilt on the bones of my enemies." Min remarks. "But the crown seems interesting. Someone be a dear and fetch it."
Female Human (Vudrani) Gunslinger 4 | HP 12/28 | AC 17 T 16 FF 12 | Fort+4 Ref +8 Will+3 | Initiative +6 (+8) | Perception +9 | Grit 2/2 |
"The bones of the skeleton in the throne are fresher than most others, or at least more well-maintained. I'd be cautious approaching them if I were you..."
Female Half-Orc Invulnerable Rager 7 | HP 69/69(83) | AC 17 (15), T 11 (9), FF 16 | CMD 24 | Fort +10(12)(17), Ref +6(11), Will +6(8)(11) | Init +1 | Perc +11 | SM -1 | Rage Rounds 18/18
Hmmp. That's blood on the walls. She eyes one of the more recent bones carefully before giving it a sniff. That's from a troll. Could be its owner's still walking around.
Heal:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
Roldala will walk up to the skeleton king and poke it in the skull to see if it reacts. Then she'll move to the indicated place on the map
Female Chelaxian Investigator Empiricist 4 | HP 27/27 | AC 18 (22) | T 13 | FF 15 | CMD 17 | Fort +3 | Ref +8 | Will +4 | Init +3 | Perc +11/+12 | Inspiration 3/6
Cornelia looks around at the bones skeptically. "What sort of monstrosity would eat a troll?" She glances at the crown. "Would one of you please check this area for magical auras before we move onward. I would like to examine that crown more closely."
Always blows my mind that Investigators do not have Detect Magic as part of their list...
HP: 19/19 | AC/T/FF: 14/14/11 | Fort 0, Ref +4, Will +3 (+4 vs. spells and SLAs, +5 vs. illusions) | CMD: 16 | Reveal Weakness used: 0/7
Amarandlon also glances around after muttering the cantrip that allows him to detect magical auras. "I sense nothing," he says, eyeing the bones uneasily. He stands next to Shera, bow at the ready.
You slowly move forward as a group and come across another gate that is partially ajar. You look in....
Skeletal corpses thinly wrapped in decaying burial linen rest in niches cut into the stone of a wide hallway, which is intersected by numerous narrow fissures. Many of the niches have collapsed, with bony remains jutting out of the rocks and dark earth. The hallway opens into a larger room, where a stone altar is surrounded by cracked walls decorated with intricate reliefs of religious figures and prominent Davians whose tombs lie beyond.
In one corner of the room there is a Know(Religion) to ID (red)!!!! It is Arenzo Davian! In the center of the room, hanging from the ceiling by a thick chain is a badly beaten up TROLL. Its sole remaining arm is tied up, and there are many cuts and wounds on it. With all the blood, guts, and bile on the ground around the troll, anyone who is adjacent (or moves through an adjacent) square (the big blue box on the map) must make a DC10 Acrobatics check in order to run or charge in the area. Fail by 5 or more and you fall down.
Female Human (Vudrani) Gunslinger 4 | HP 12/28 | AC 17 T 16 FF 12 | Fort+4 Ref +8 Will+3 | Initiative +6 (+8) | Perception +9 | Grit 2/2 |
Knowledge (religion):1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Sajna doesn't recognise what has been done to Arenzo, but she recognises a threat when she sees one. She raises her musket and takes aim at the emaciated nobleman.
Mwk Musket Attack:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13vs Touch Mwk Musket Damage:1d12 ⇒ 10
Sanja shoots her musket, making one heck of a loud bang. However, her aim is off and she misses, with shards of rock spraying the Ghoul from the bullet impact behind him.
The Troll, having no target to try to gnaw on, continues to try to bite the nearest target.
Arenzo returns the favor shooting back at Sanja, his only real target, with a barrage of arrows in return. Both find cracks in her armor and land nasty wounds.
HP: 19/19 | AC/T/FF: 14/14/11 | Fort 0, Ref +4, Will +3 (+4 vs. spells and SLAs, +5 vs. illusions) | CMD: 16 | Reveal Weakness used: 0/7
If I have enough, I'll go for special attacks, special defenses, and highest save, in that order.
"A ghoul!" Amarandlon cries. "I've seen his like before. Have you been sustaining yourself with this beast, you cretin? Ingenious..." Wary of getting within the troll's grasp, he raises his longbow and returns fire.
