[PFS/DMK/YSK] 6-05 Slave ships of Absalom (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

While Ariward tends to the half-orc, Cacumattus explores the deck of the ship, unsteadily at first while he is unused to the gentle rocking motion of the vessel, but quickly gaining his 'sea-legs'.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

As Marra descends belowdeck, he follows at a cautious distance.

Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Assuming there are no doors on the main deck, Orophin joins the team heading down the stairs.

The stairs are indeed the only way down, leading to the hold. Down there, four slaves are chained to the starboard side’s iron rings. Three are Keleshite and Vudrani humans, the fourth is a gnome.

There's an ill-tempered man in the hold as well, and as soon as he sees the adventurers move down the stairs, he simply says Shoo! Shoo! Get them! to an ugly green, squat, vaguely canine beast, which has foul-smelling fluids ooze from its pores.

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Svetlana
Ariward
Adrianna
Orophin
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Man
Green Thing
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Cacumattus
Marra
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Percep 1d20 ⇒ 4

Svetlana walks to the stairs, going around the edges of the trapdoors.

[perception]1d20[/dice] <= not that he can make it even with a 20.

I'm assuming from the text above that we are downstairs at this stage, so I've moved Orophin well into the hold. Feel free to move me back if that assumption is not accurate.

"Powers of life, infuse those who would do your bidding."

Casts bless, +1 to hit, +1 on fear saves.

Ariward left his glaive on deck, because big weapon was not best choice for tight spaces, and walked in hold, preparing his shield and sap along the way. He could perfectly see in dark, so he stopped near Orophin, protecting him with his shield.

Move + ready shield, Move + ready sap.
First adjacent ally attacked, gets +2 shield bonus to AC, because of Ari's Saving Shield feat.
There is no way, I can beat Perception 25.

Marra double moves into the lower deck (unable to edit map) to just east of Ariward. The little bard tries to identify what manner of beast Shoo is.

know arcane/religion/nature...: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19.

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Ariward takes point moving belowdecks, flanked by Orophin and Marra, and Svetlana lagging slightly behind.

Marra takes a look at the squat creature, and recognises it as a Trollhound, believed to be the outcome of infusing particularly ferocious worgs with alchemically prepared troll blood. Although it doesn't have the intelligence of the worg, it does possess the regenerative abilities of a troll, and will quickly heal from wounds that were not inflicted by fire or acid.

The bald handler casts a spell. DC 15 RFX save for Orphin, Ariward and Marra

The troll hound then pounces on Ariward, looking for a snack, famished as the creature is.
Bite, Ariward: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 231d10 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

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Cacumattus
Marra
Svetlana
Ariward
Adrianna
Orophin
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Man
Green Thing
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Orophin tries to resist the spell cast upon him...
reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Marra resist the spell and tries to determine what magic he cast.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

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The floor beneath Marra, Orophin and Ariward turns instantaneously turns slippery, but not fast enough to catch Marra off-guard. Although she didn't recognise the spell being cast, she is all too familiar with the effects, Orophin is now as well, falling prone to the floor.

Orophin crawls sideways to get out of the slippery area and then stands up again.
Can't update map at work, move Orophin one square left

hp 7/17; AC 19 (21 due to Protection from Evil)
Reflex: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Despite a slippery floor, Ariward managed to stand on his feet. He was really disturbed by creature hit, because it left a crushed feeling in his leg. He looked at creature and his eyes become to glow with a fiery-orange, he dropped sap from his hand.

"By the name of Eternal Rose!", he touched his leg and feint light came under his palm, "I'd like to have couple of barrels of that Chelaxian ale you promised me", he shouted for Svetlana's help.

After that, he took his cold iron battleaxe and placed a blow on unknown creature.

Free action: Drop sap
Swift action: Lay on hands Lay on hands: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Move action: Ready battleaxe
Standart: Attack (+bless): 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 = 16 DMG: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Cacumattus moves to flank the enemy, removing a scroll from a clip on his belt as he moves. Reading from the scroll, he thrusts his hand out, and a burst of flame shoots forth, engulfing man and hound.

Scroll of Burning Hands, Reflex DC 15 for half damage, Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6

Adrianna followed the group down into the hold. (Will you count her perception roll above for your spoiler?) Not wanting to touch the foul, green beast, she attacks the bald man with a flurry of blows, kicking and punching him in the knees and body!
Flurry 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Damage 1: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Flurry 1 critical confirm: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Critical damage 1: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Flurry 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Damage 2: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Svetlana moves down Double

"How you going, ugly" She leers at the slug dog whilst flexing her spiked glove in anticipation.

Orophin move out of the greased area and regain his footing. Ariward swing his sword and lands a hit, spraying pus from the boil-infested creature. Cacumattus catches man and hound in a cone of fire

RFX, Hound: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
RFX, Man: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Adrianna punches the man, and he goes down at the first hit (I think you had to move to get there, so you can't flurry, as it's a full attack action. No matter, the first blow was enough)

Svetlana answers the call for Chelish Ale, and moves to close in with the Trollhound

Adrianna smells the faint smell of smoke, from somewhere on this deck.

The filthy troll hound takes a bite at Svetlana
Attack, Svetlana: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 191d10 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

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Cacumattus
Marra
Svetlana
Ariward
Adrianna
Orophin
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Man - KO
Trollhound (11)
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+2AC Prot Evil

Happy she drew off the attack, Svetlana steps back and grabs her heavy blade, swinging with full force at the hound

OHC+PA
Attack 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Damage 1d10 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 8 + 6 = 21

Another satisfying swing, and the following crunching sounds means the troll hound's skull is well and truly split.

Combat over!

The bound and gagged gnome gestures and beckons Hmmmm! hmmmpffs!.

"That enough Ale?" Svetlana enquires. Then she goes to free the gnome.

Careful! The captain is in that side cabin!

The gnome then quickly tends to Hellion, before calming down and realising what happened.
CLW: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

It's good to see friendly faces, and great to be among the pathfinders again. Were you sent on a mission to rescue us?

After knocking the jailer out, Adrianna follows her nose to the discover the source of the smoke she smelled. An untended fire was about the worst thing on a ship...so she let her comrades check on the slaves while creeping along. She also heard the comment about the Captain being somewhere close, and didn't want to be surprised by him

Still feeling himself dizzy, Ariward drink one of the healing potions, he took from guard upstairs. Than he picked up a sap and spend some time to tighten knocked out beast handler.

"Is everyone OK?", he asked checking guy for manacle keys.

DMK, please roll healing, since I don't know was it CLW or CMW

Adrianna moves along, and quickly concludes that the smell is astrally coming from the captain's cabin.

CMW: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (3, 6) + 3 = 12 Healing for Ariward

Orophin grabs the keys from the jailer and releases the other slaves.

"We'll be back shortly to help you escape. Wait for our return."

He then heads towards the side cabin, so he can see the door.

Ariward looked around with his glowing-orange eyes, trying to feel what the evil hides inside.

Detect evil

Adrianna stops outside of the cabin and motions to the others to come over and prepare to rapidly enter the space...

Marra frowns "Quickly, he's undoubtedly destroying evidence." The halfling looks for a bucket of water or sand as she rushes to the cabin door and flings it open.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Marra flings open the door, and sees a Keleshite woman is dressed in studded leather, and wears two ornately decorated kukris at her waist. Her black hair is held out of her face by a faded yellow bandana. She has a dark mole on her left cheek just below her eye.

She's throwing paper into a small brazier in the middle of the room, burning the paper at a rapid tempo. Only a small pile of paper remains as Marra storms. The woman quickly drops that into the brazier and faces the halfling.

The captain steps at Marra, draws both kukri as she moves, and attacks the halfling. She feints with one blade, then cuts the bard with the other.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 5 - 2 = 9
Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 5 - 2 = 191d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

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Adrianna
Ariward
Svetlana
Orophin
Caumattus
Marra
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Captain

Orophin moves to a slightly more centralised location in the hold, and contemplates the powers of life. As he does so a blissful energy surges forth, unfortunately (for them) avoiding the dog, the jailer and the captain. The slaves probably like it though!

channel healing: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3, 4) + 1 = 8 <= all heal.

Bless will still be in effect, +1 to hit!

Orophin calls out in a strange voice.

curr HP 26-5+8=full 27/27

Marra smiles "Ouch, this one bites. I'll be having those papers captain." The halfling shifts back 5ft and cast magic hand picking the small pile of remaining papers out of the brazier and into her hand.

The halfling comments "You should surrender now! Your out numbered."

intimidation: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (7) + 0 = 7

Cacumattus moves towards the cabin per map, drawing his crossbow and sliding a bolt into place.

"How dare you keep a gnome in chains!"

Svetlana will move up this round if you want to leave her some room up there :)

"Ahoy there my pretty, you'd be well served listening to my friend... come nice or go hard, up to you"

Orophin's healing fills the room, and some of the shackled slaves sigh in relief. The slash wound on Marra disappears, but the exclamation of pain makes her intimidate attempt look somewhat weak. Cacumattus move up along with Svetlaba.

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Adrianna
Ariward
Svetlana
Orophin
Caumattus
Marra
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Captain
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Since Adrianna was at the door before any of the others, once it was opened she tries to move quickly into the cabin and behind the captain and knock her out with a stunning fist.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Stunning Fist: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 2 = 10 (added +2 for flank)
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Ariward moved to door and tried to sap outlaw captain

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10 DMG: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

If I'm to far to reach room in move action, no attack then

Adrianna nimbly moves past the captain, and with Ariward moving in form the other end, the captain is caught between a sack of rocks and hard fist. Neither of them hit the captain, though.

The captain stabs at Adrianna, slashing twice.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 211d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

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Adrianna
Ariward
Svetlana
Orophin
Caumattus
Marra
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Captain
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Orophin steps up and swings his morning star at the captain.
attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
"Surrender!"

Everyone remember +1 to hit from bless

The captain fights on while the flames consume the papers. Orophin adds his swing, but doesn't manage to hurt the woman.

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Adrianna
Ariward
Svetlana
Orophin
Caumattus
Marra
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Captain
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Marra used magic hand to get the papers in her post.

Ah, ok. I took the intimidate as a standard action, and missed the mage hand in your post

Marra remotely removed a pile of smouldering papers from the brazier. Although severely damaged by the fire, some text should still be readable.

Svetlana casually walks behind the melee over to the other door.

Ariward was still planning to catch pirate alive for further investigation. He brought his sap making a swing.

Attack (bless): 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 5 + 1 = 23 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Ariward finally manages to whom the captain on the head. Svetlana is looking like nobody is thirsty.

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Adrianna
Ariward
Svetlana
Orophin
Caumattus
Marra
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Captain (4) - 4NL
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Adrianna uses her flanking position to make a flurry of kicks and blows to the captain, dealing non-lethal, but still painful, damage.

Flurry 1 attack: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 14 Flank and bless bonus!
Flurry 1 damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Flurry 2 attack: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 9
Flurry 2 damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Taking a five-foot step to the left, Cacumattus takes one hand off his crossbow, pulling a small splinter of wood with it and making a complex gesture to accompany the words of a spell.

Daze against Captain, Will DC 15 or take no actions this round.

Marra cheers the group on from the side "Hit her high. Hit her low. Show her why, she's a toad!"

bard inspire courage +1 to hit and damage. To all allies

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what about Ariwards Detect Evil radar. I made an intent sometime ago, but haven't seen result

Ariward detected an evil presence, but it revealed itself before he could pinpoint the location. Sorry about that

Adrianna tries to kick and stomp, but the captain is quick enough to evade even her trickiest punch.

Under the inspiration of Marra, Cacumattus tries to daze the captain, but to no avail.

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

The captain moves to a corner of the cabin, and tries to bring down Adrianna, feinting, then slashing at the monk.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 181d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

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Adrianna
Ariward
Svetlana
Orophin
Caumattus
Marra
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Captain (4) - 4NL
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"Clear the doorway Ariward"
Calls Orophin.

Assuming he does so and nobody else steps into the spot - Orophin does, swinging his morning star.
attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

[ooc]And if he doesn't, Orophin will move into the spot above him, but getting into the room would be good.