AC26/Touch18/Flat22/CMD28||HP80[80]|Fort:+6;Ref:+13(+16 vs traps);Will:+10|Percept+20(trapspotter)|Init+4 Human Bard(Archaeologist) 11
We are still in initiative.
GM wrote:
The ship sustains minor damage, but manages to pull through the stormy weather! The Waverider's Revenge now advances towards the the Infernal Reward, and already the wailing of ghosts can be heard coming from it. You have moments to prepare to confront them...
Rounds 6-8 are spent as you wish before you board the Infernal Reward. You can cast spells or use items to prepare for this confrontation.
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Flinders Offendurr wrote:
We are still in initiative.
Except rounds 1-5 were just reacting to the ship events, and we never rolled initiative for those actions.
Initiative - round 9
Ghosts
>>> Faldoc
>>> Terrill
>>> Flinders
Alazario (delays, will act after you but before the ghosts)
>>> Osric
>>> Atum
>>> Darius
Everyone can act!
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Terrill hustles across the deck, calling on Desna to guide his blade as he moves. He reaches the closest ghost and strikes at it!
Move to attack southern ghost in middle of ship (#6), activating bane on undead as a swift action (round 1/13 of bane today), then attack.
AC 31 T 17 FF 28 | CMD 36 (38 against bull rush/trip/sunder) | DR 3/adamantine | 30% fortification | F+17 R+13 W+12 (+4 vs mind-aff/death eff, imm to dis) | Init +3 | Perc +7
Living Monolith 14 |
Ka Stone 3/3:
HP 156/156 | AC 31 T 15 FF 29 | DR 3/adamantine, DR 5/evil | 30% fortification | stone blood
Atum calls out to the power of the sphinxes and grows in size, his flesh become hard and stony. He swings his gigantic bec de corbin at one of the ghosts (#2)
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Thanks for the clarification, GM. I couldn't remember if they were immune or not and looked it up before I posted - but incompletely, it turns out. I looked at the incorporeal condition, which does not mention immunity to criticals. The incorporeal subtype, however, does mention it. Terrill's effectiveness may be less against these guys than I'd like...though I can do 8d6 with a ranged touch attack with searing light.
AC 31 T 17 FF 28 | CMD 36 (38 against bull rush/trip/sunder) | DR 3/adamantine | 30% fortification | F+17 R+13 W+12 (+4 vs mind-aff/death eff, imm to dis) | Init +3 | Perc +7
Living Monolith 14 |
Ka Stone 3/3:
HP 156/156 | AC 31 T 15 FF 29 | DR 3/adamantine, DR 5/evil | 30% fortification | stone blood
Terrill Mayern wrote:
Thanks for the clarification, GM. I couldn't remember if they were immune or not and looked it up before I posted - but incompletely, it turns out. I looked at the incorporeal condition, which does not mention immunity to criticals. The incorporeal subtype, however, does mention it. Terrill's effectiveness may be less against these guys than I'd like...though I can do 8d6 with a ranged touch attack with searing light.
You have stumbled upon one of the lesser-known oddities of the PF game system. I discovered the difference between incorporeal condition and subtype a while ago and often have to explain it to others because although most monsters who have one also have the other, there are a few monsters out there who only have one or the other, which may leave them crit-able if they just have the incorporeal condition. Strange distinction, but it's there.
Yes, I agree it's confusing. The PRD entry for the ghost actually has both links (thus accessing both is easy) but for the same linkified word...
Faldoc shoots a peerless arrow, which sends one of the ghost back to the abyss where it drowned. (#4)
Faldoc, how is a 19 a threat with a bow? Your character sheet doesn't mention you having Improved Critical (longbow), as far as I can tell. Could you explain it to me, please?
His two other arrows find their way into the ghost attacked by Atum, which almost suffers the same fate at Faldoc's first quarry.
Flinders: When did he do so? I can't seem to find it. During the three preparatory rounds he cast longstrider, hunter's eye and gravity bow.
Osric: Yes, they can! :)
Osric shoots two well-aimed arrows and dispatches two ghosts.
Alazario steps aside, and adopts a highly defensive stance, aware that the simple weapon he's recently recovered cannot harm the ghosts. Total Defense
At the same instant, Flinders showers the two remaining ghosts at the bow of the ship with gold dust, attempting to blind them.
Ref:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20 Ref:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 High affects the creature:1d100 ⇒ 82
One of them is blinded, and lashes at the empty space occupied by Alazario in vain.
Ref:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Moments later, he regains his senses.
Half Elf Ranger (Urban) [15.0] HP 124/124 | AC 36 T 23 FF 28 | CMB +18 CMD 40 (FF 32) | F +15 R +22 W +13 (+2 vs enchant) | Init +10 | Perc +28 (low-light vision) | SM +1 | Stealth +24 | DD +25 | Acro/EA +21 | Climb/Swim +7 | Surv +20
As I said it was just a mistake, no spell was cast. Sorry about that.
Faldoc will now try to eliminate the ghost to the north as Atum has blocked his view to the west! If I can kill that ghost before I finish my attack I'll try to hit the one most to the north of the group to the west, though I'm sure there's cover.
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
His feet made more nimble by his goddess, Terrill darts up the stairs past Darius and stops behind Alazario, laying a hand on the pirate's shoulder. Suddenly, both men vanish and reappear under the protective reach of Atum.
Use Agile Feet to get up the stairs quickly, then Dimensional Hop to get Alazario out of danger (assuming we still need him, he's been hit pretty hard. Have used 5/16 of my 5' increments of Dimensional Hop.
Terrill springs the pirate captain to safetly while Flinders shoots and hits the last ghost.
The last ghost, only half-dead (the other part being... half-deader?), attacks Darius with his incorporeal touch, but the kensai proves elusive.
Corrupting Touch (MTA):1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 237d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 3, 2, 6, 1, 4) = 24
Moments later, the ghost is taken care of and sent back to the deep seas it should never have left.
End combat, well done!
Instantly, the ghost Infernal Reward ignites in supernatural flames and sinks swiftly into the sea.
Alazario coughs and catches his breath. "It looks like the list of my debts to you only increases as we go further! Thank you for saving my skin, now that we have reached our destination, nothing forced you to do so. I guess old Azario's charms have worked their way into you after all! Anyway, I want you to have these."
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
"If I drink these potions I brought along, I'll be better at it than I am now," responds Terrill. "I'd take this nice cloak, though, make me even better at it," he adds, accepting Alazario's proffered cloak.
"And you're welcome," he says in response to the pirate's eloquent gratitude, "you're more gracious than I'd have expected in such circumstances."
I'll take the cloak if no one else wants it, but I can get by with the potions as well. Shall we take a swim?
Since the waters are calm, you're able to swim without making checks as long as you manage to reach DC 10 with a Take 10 Swim check. You move at half land speed. If you have a swim speed (due to touch of the sea or other similar effects, no swim checks are reuired and you swim at the indicated speed.
Through the water’s murk, the charred hulk of the Infernal Reward enters view. Two outer masts stand defiantly against the depth’s pressure while the central mast lies snapped and toppled, resting on the ship’s deck. The sails and rigging sway back and forth in the icy water’s current. A mighty rock formation pierces the proud pirate vessel, splitting the forecastle askew. The Infernal Reward lies broken at the bottom of the sea, skewered by jagged rocks. A macabre scene waits on the ship, for coldly-preserved corpses fill the ship’s interior. Cloudy water fills the area in and around the ship, so vision is reduced to 40 feet.
AC 31 T 17 FF 28 | CMD 36 (38 against bull rush/trip/sunder) | DR 3/adamantine | 30% fortification | F+17 R+13 W+12 (+4 vs mind-aff/death eff, imm to dis) | Init +3 | Perc +7
Living Monolith 14 |
Ka Stone 3/3:
HP 156/156 | AC 31 T 15 FF 29 | DR 3/adamantine, DR 5/evil | 30% fortification | stone blood
Atum leads the way, swimming around the outside looking for danger, checking first the front of the ship and then the back. He is particularly looking for the best means of entry.
No apparent danger presents itself when swimming around the ship, and the best means to enter the shipwreck appears to be the place where it broke apart, though the waters appear to be even murkier there.
AC26/Touch18/Flat22/CMD28||HP80[80]|Fort:+6;Ref:+13(+16 vs traps);Will:+10|Percept+20(trapspotter)|Init+4 Human Bard(Archaeologist) 11
After packing his gear in a wwaterproof sack, Flinder has Darius use his scroll of water breathing on him, then uses his scroll of moving freely. Sitting on the rail of the ship, back to the water, Flinders lets himself fall backward into the water, like he'd read how the Oagon bell divers do it.
Splashing into the water, Flinders orients himself, then looks toward the sea bottom, following Atum.
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
After swooping through the water joyously, the manta wings of his new cloak propelling him with no effort, Terrill calms down and joins the party at the wrecked ship. He gestures to the opening created where the spire of rock has broken it open and shrugs, as if to say, Guess that's where we're going in.
He then waits for the stalwart Atum to lead the way.
HP 143/143 | AC 32 | T 21 | FF 23 | CMD 39 | Fort +19 | Ref +12 | Will +15 | Init +9 | Perc +16(18) | Images
Sorry ive been busy today..
Dariud downs his water breathing potion and uses his wand of freedom of movement before diving down..
UMD:1d20 + 20 ⇒ (4) + 20 = 24 gtg..
He follows Atum down as well..
Once near the the ship he'll cast Monstrous Phy II morphing into a Tikbalang and gaining: Gain Darkvision, Low-Light Vision, Scent, Pounce, Bite and 2 Hoove Attacks, +4str/+4na/-2dex.
This spell gives you a +10 foot enhancement bonus to your base speed. It has no effect on other modes of movement, such as burrow, climb, fly, or swim.
It affects land speed, not swim speed (which you actually don't have). You swim at one-quarter your actual speed, so longstrider indeed allows you to move more quickly (you'll move 10 ft. with a move action instead of 5ft without the spell, 20 ft. with a full-round action instead of 15 ft.
Dark water churns around the jagged rocks that ripped the proud vessel in two. The powerful current pulls debris down into the chasm’s depth, and a black, gloomy tear in the ship’s hull dares any to wade into its sightless depths. Nothing of interest can be found here.
The area between the fore end of the ship and its main section as difficult terrain. In addition, vision is further obscured, as if this area was under the effects of a darkness spell. The rest of the ship is unaffected, since the waters are clearer.
Going deeper, you reach the second underdeck. Descending into the hold brings a morbid sight, for many bloated, festered corpses float on one another. Diseased fragments of flesh drift throughout this chamber bringing the putrid taste of death. Floating, bloated corpses fill this level and drift around a shrine dedicated to Urgathoa. This shrine erupts from cracks in the floor piercing myriads of defiled bodies.
Treat movement through this area as difficult terrain.
In the murky waters, Atum manages to see something coming your way - a patch of darkened water.
Knowledge (religion) to identify.
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Religion, Monster Lore:1d20 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 4 + 3 = 25No time for a proper post now, but maybe we can learn a bit about the shadowy thing in the water?
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Defenses/immunities and special attacks, please. Going to post an action, since this spell is meant to hurt undead.
Recognizing the creature, Terrill calls on Desna to protect him, then uses the goddess' divine power to blast the shadowy horror with a beam of searing light.
Activate Judgment of Protection for +2 AC, cast searing light.
AC26/Touch18/Flat22/CMD28||HP80[80]|Fort:+6;Ref:+13(+16 vs traps);Will:+10|Percept+20(trapspotter)|Init+4 Human Bard(Archaeologist) 11
Flinders begins lecturing on the nature of reality and whether things can truly be incorporeal, if they, indeed, are a part of reality and composed of the aether of the multiverse.
Keep in mind that Terrill will be unable to communicate what he knows to his companions unless he has some kind of telepathic mean; however I didn't see anyone cast message, so please keep things private.
Terrill:
Undead Traits (Ex) Undead are immune to death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, phantasms, and patterns), paralysis, poison, sleep, stun, and any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless). Undead are not subject to ability drain, energy drain, or nonlethal damage. Undead are immune to damage or penalties to their physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution), as well as to fatigue and exhaustion effects. Undead are not at risk of death from massive damage.
Incorporeal Subtype: An incorporeal creature has no physical body. An incorporeal creature is immune to critical hits and precision-based damage (such as sneak attack damage) unless the attacks are made using a weapon with the ghost touch special weapon quality. In addition, creatures with the incorporeal subtype gain the incorporeal special quality.
As for special attacks, its touch drains strength from its victims, and those who die to them turn into shadows.
Terrill shoots a beam of searing light at the creature, which appears to smolder, surrounded in bubbly foam.
Will:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Flinders tries to bring the creature on the material plane, but it resists!
Initiative - round 1
>>> Darius
Terrill
>>> Faldoc (delay)
>>> Osric
Flinders
Greater Shadow
Atum
Darius and Osric can act!
