Despite all of the wild flailing Valyssa and Ronin are only hit once a piece, and Ronin is able to slip out of the grabbing range of the tentacle that smacks him.
Order 1st round
Phantom, Valyssa -5, Ronin -6
Monster
Professor F
Wow, that's just bad luck. Professor, Phantom DC 15 Reflex saves to avoid falling timbers or take 6 points of damage.
The building continues to rumble and crumble around you, feeling more and more as though it will collapse any second now. Valyssa continues her song and steps forward swinging at the monster.
Valyssa's blade wouldn't normally cut through the beast's thick hide, but the bit of magic she infuses into the blade give it the edge to cut through the supernatural defenses.
Ronin prepares himself for a special technique taught to sword-saints, the Iaijutsu Strike. He draws his blade, quick as a flash of lightning, aiming for the 'head' of the beast.
Akuma-Tsume!:1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 11 + 2 = 14
The shaking of the building throws off his aim, missing the beast completely.
Order 2nd round
Phantom, Valyssa -5, Ronin -6
Monster -11
Professor F
Seeing everyone making a hasty exit, phantom will go ahead and begin to leave. if he can fly straight up through the roof, he will. If he cannot then he will still fly out of the bldg as fast he can
Phantom flies through the door nearby, escaping the building as it continues to crumble around everyone. The beast continues its rampage, not knowing or not caring that the building is shaking apart.
The Professor is looking to get pinned/grappled/entangled with the beast, so he can use his boots of escape to dimension door 400ft away, so he'll intend to auto-fail any effort to resist a grapple.
So long as he doesn't roll a 1... Phantom, you've got a round of not being attacked or in danger of falling debris, so I'll take the monster's actions right now too.
More of the roof over top of the Professor continues to collapse, dropping more timbers in his direction. Another DC 15 Reflex, or take 5 damage.
The icy shards from the Professor's spell crash into the creature, but it shrugs off the ice as well as the fire from before. With the door open from Phantom getting out of the building Valyssa and Ronin both attempt to escape as well.
Opportunity!:1d20 + 17 - 6 ⇒ (11) + 17 - 6 = 22
The monster's bite crunches down mere inches from Ronin's face as he flees, he and Valyssa making it out the door.
The monster whirls on the Professor, swiping down with its tentacle to pull the little gnome into its grasp.
The Professor's eyes bulge, as much from being squeezed by a lumbering tentacle as surprise that his "plan" seemed to work.
"You'll need to squeeze tighter than that! This isn't even half as bad as my second wife's grip on my retirement stash!"
Squirming in the creature's grasp, the Professor implores his magical boots to help him escape this squeeze.
Assuming folks are safely away, he'll use the boots of escape to dimension door to safety, hoping the falling debris is enough to finish off the beast.
The professor activates his magical boots, popping out of existence and back in on the other side of the wall just as the building gives up the ghost and collapses entirely. The monster roars as the rubble collapses around it, pounding its flesh and crushing its malformed body.
The beast avoids most of the rubble and stops itself from being buried completely, though it is stuck a bit in the debris. Phantom, you still have your fancy new aberration-bane blade too...
Valyssa casts a spell on Phantomblade while Ronin rushes back to the rubble to continue fighting the beast. Heroism for a +2 morale bonus on attacks, saves, and skill checks.
Akuma-Tsume!:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
The rubble shifts under Ronin's feet, causing his blade to miss its target and clang off the rocks.
Order 4th round
Phantom, Valyssa -5, Ronin -6
Monster -24
Professor F
as fancy as that sword is I do way more dmg with mine and have a way higher to hit. So my only thing is unless it has DR so high that I don't break it at all without it I think I will stick to mine
Phantom will focus his rage and charge at it and swinging very deliberately.
It resisted fire and cold? That's about it for the Professor's damaging tricks alongside Phantom's swordsmanship...
The Professor watches from a distance, wishing he had purchased one of those wands that lobbed arcane missiles about, but them also remembering Brigh had chosen for whatever reason, to deny him the ability to wield such magic freely.
He leaps onto a nearby rock the size of a large grapefruit and pumps his fist in the air as he cheers Phantomblade on.
"Slice him again! Aim for that spot there!"
Delay. Will come out and Channel if things get hairy.
The beast's flailing tentacles manage to smack Phantomblade and wrap around Valyssa, holding her close.
The woman, knowing it is unlikely that she will be able to free herself from this monster's grasp, swings wildly with her sword, trying to cut it down before it can crush her.
Slash!:1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 1 = 14
The monster's grip on her stops her sword from finding the purchase it needs against the thick hide. Ronin, seeing Phantom move about also adjusts himself to surround the beast, before swinging with his blade.
Ronin finally finds his footing and brings his blade down powerfully, slicing through the thick meat of the monster and taking its head off. It drops Phantomblade and roars those strange syllables one final time, "YOG-SOTHOTH!" before expiring.
As the spawn dies, it roars in outrage and then quickly slops away into a foul-smelling mess, leaving behind only a noxious, crusty stain of white powder on the ground. Eerily, its death is marked by a sickening sigh that seems to shudder up from the very earth itself, as if something even deeper under Carrion Hill were mourning the spawn’s death. As the sigh reverberates, it is taken up by an even greater noise from the skies above Carrion Hill as wheeling storms of crows descend back to the city’s rooftops, cawing and shrieking and cackling in a cacophony that lasts for hours.
DC 15 Kn. (religion:
Old legends say of how some birds act as psychopomps—entities who conduct spirits or souls to the Great Beyond. The fact that the birds carry on for so long indicates that a powerful soul indeed has moved on—a soul that the birds were not able to carry away.
In any event, with the spawn slain, the Carrion Hill Horror comes to an end and life begins to return to normal. Mayor Heggry honors his promise to award you, and in the light of their vanquishing of the hidden danger presented by the Keepers of the Oldest, he increases the award by an additional 3,000 gp, as well as words of praise to Venture-Captain Beaurigmand Trice.
Without a way to contact Doctor Trice you are forced to walk through the Ustalav country side, a perilous journey itself, but you make it back to the Vodavani Lodge in Caliphas. Module complete! Day Jobs please, then I'll get the chronicles out as soon as possible. I am so sorry it took this long, and I didn't expect everyone else to leave when the gameday ended. I hope you two still had a good time with it.
I can't seem to find your guys' information on the discussion page, would you two mind terribly posting it here so I can get these chronicles done? Thanks.
No problem. Things happen I guess... unsure why the folks dropped but appreciate you taking us through to the end, GM Fez. I know it's rough when PbP participation takes a hit like this. The Professor's PFS # and faction are in his profile.
