[PFS] GM Skipper's Mummy's Mask Part 1: The Half-Dead City (Inactive)

Game Master SkipperD

Straight or to the right? I think straight...no reason not to go there, right?

"I am uncertain, I find the path that strays is usually the more rewarding...."

"Well we're already here, we might as well try this door?"

Muna agrees and inspects the closed door.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Muna finds nothing amiss with the western door.

Patros opens the door and heads in, blade at the ready should he meet any trouble.

"I wonder if all adventurers are really just glorified exterminators..."

Yeshre stands behind Patros and nocks an arrow.

Rathh, breathing heavily despite minimal exertions, joins the others and prepares to go through the door.

Kaleless readies his rapier and prepares to follow the others.

Laureglyn draws his weapon and goes through the door when the others do... keeping an eye out for trouble....

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

A flight of steps gradually descends to the west down this passage. Halfway down the stairs, small holes and burrowed tunnels riddle what remains of the passage's southern wall. Earth and sand have spilled over the collapsed masonry, covering the stairs with dirt and rubble. Stone doors engraved with a golden scarab, its wings open beneath a golden sun, stand at either end of the stairs.

Laureglyn spots that the sand and rubble is in fact a creature lying in waiting.

"Careful, my friends... that is not just sand and detritus.. it looks like it's alive...prepared to get the jump on the unwary." Weapon already out, he takes a couple of steps toward the creature, to see if it reacts to movement on the stairs.

If there's no reaction, he posits "Perhaps we should just take it on at range?"

The creature does not react to Laureglyn's approach. Yet...

What kind of knowledge check is "spooky sand monster"? Actually, all my knowledge skills except local and history (add +4 if it's one of those I guess) are the same so...

Knowledge(Sand monster): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Can we get a sense of the monster's shape? I'm thinking of sending an animated rope after it, but I might not want to if it's shaped like an ooze or flatray....

Kaleless readies his crossbow.

It's basically a pile of animate sand, and Yeshre can't identify it.

Knowledge (Dungeoneering): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Xanac tarries no further and blasts the thing with a ripple of reality-disrupting power.

magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

What is that? Patros says, wondering if he can kill it.

It's a Knowledge (planes) check to identify it.

Xanac blasts the sand pile, which moves to attack.

Combat Round 1
Bold may act
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Yeshre, Patros, Rathh, Xanac
Sand thing (4 damage)
Kaleless, Laureglyn, Muna

Patros darts forward and slashes at tge creature, not confident he can harm it.

attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 141d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

on phone again

Patros strikes the creature, but his blade has no effect on it.
Damage reduction.

Combat Round 1
Bold may act
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Yeshre, Patros, Rathh, Xanac
Sand thing (4 damage)
Kaleless, Laureglyn, Muna

Consider the above roll to be my Knowledge (Planes) check, then - I have it, and it's the same modifier.

"Ra! Ra! You can do it! It's just sand after all!"

Audible inspire courage. "An affected ally [(anyone in earshot)] receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls."

@Xanac: In that case, you know that it's a sandling (N Large outsider [earth, elemental, extraplanar]). You have 2 questions.

Combat Round 1
Bold may act
Party-wide buffs: Inspire Courage +1
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Yeshre, Patros, Rathh, Xanac
Sand thing (4 damage)
Kaleless, Laureglyn, Muna

Rathh, breathing heavily, makes his way toward the front line.

double move

Defenses, attacks.

Xanac disrupts the thing's reality again.

magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

You need bludgeoning damage to bypass its DR, and it has no special attacks.

The sandling rears up and attacks Patros.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Combat Round 1/2
Bold may act
Party-wide buffs: Inspire Courage +1
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Yeshre, Patros, Rathh, Xanac
Sand thing (9 damage)
Kaleless, Laureglyn, Muna

Patros slices at the creature again, his arm strengthened by his colleague's words.

attack: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 1 = 181d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 1 = 10

He then readies a retaliatory strike.parry riposte if attacked

Assuming Xanac relays that information before Yeshre is up...
Yeshre stops cheering but somehow the confidence seems to stick with you. She drops the pointed arrow she had readied and reaches for a blunt arrow to replace it. Yeshre draws and fires at the sand creature. It goes wide. "Sorry! I'm not used to these new arrows!"

Attack(Longbow/blunt arrow): 1d20 + 4 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 - 4 = 2
+1 for courage, -4 for into melee
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
+1 for courage

Didn't maintain bardic performance, but Lingering Performance makes the buff stick around for an extra 2 rounds.

You need bludgeoning damage to bypass its DR, and it has no special attacks.

In that case, may I retcon my last magic missile?

"Ah, all this thing needs to be subdued is a bit of bludgeoning...like so!"

Xanac propels another fragment of rubble at it.

last round's telekinetic projectile, if retcon permitted, courage: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
bludgeoning damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

And another.

this round's telekinetic projectile, courage: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
bludgeoning damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Laureglyn pulls out his mace and steps forward to attack the creature.

to hit: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
dmg if hits: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Kaleless moves to attack

can someone move me up please on my phone

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

@Xanac: Retcon applied.

Xanac's first telekinetic projectile misses its mark, but the second one leaves quite a dent.

Patros takes another swing at the sandling, this time dealing some actual damage.

Yeshre and Laureglyn can't manage to hit the shifting pile.

@Kaleless: You'll need an Acrobatics check to tumble into striking distance.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25

Kaleless ducks past the sandling, but his stab is ineffective.

Combat Round 1/2
Bold may act
Party-wide buffs: Inspire Courage +1 (lingering 1/2)
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Yeshre, Patros, Rathh, Xanac
Sand thing (14 damage)
Kaleless, Laureglyn, Muna

Rathh rumbles forward, but can't find a place to attack it. He prepares to move in once any of his companions clears the way.

Ready action to step forward if a spot is vacant next to the enemy.

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Muna glares at the sandling.

Hexing with evil eye. -2 ac for 7 rounds or dc 14 will save for only one round.

Will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Muna's stink-eye rattles the sandling, but it tries to bite Patros regardless.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

The rondelero master is to wily for the elemental, and his riposte scatters the sand over the stairs.

-----Combat Over-----

Yeshre investigates the sand pile. "Ooo what could be hiding in here?"

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Afterwards she investigates the holes in the south wall. "Hello? Anyone home? We're super friendly I promise! Unless you're a gross bug."

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

That was quick...thanks the Gods....anythind you can see, Yeshre?

Patros looks about as well.

perc: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Laureglyn moves forward, wary of the holes, but since Patros seems to be very observant, just tries to assist him by pointing out things he might miss...

perc assist: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

.... unfortunately, he doesn't seem much himself of significance and only points out the obvious.

Muna heads down the stairs to take a look at the big double doors.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

You find nothing else of interest in here, and Muna concludes that the door is interesting, but neither locked nor trapped.

"Very well, let's open the door then," Rathh says as it appears safe to open.

I'm usually toward the back, but if no one else gets the door I'll open it.

A tapestry hangs from a frame against the south wall of this large chamber; it depicts an otherworldly vista where the souls of the dead, shepherded by strange beings, enter an ethereal river ambling through space toward a landscape dominated by an impossibly tall spire. Columns sculpted in the shape of Osirian warriors wielding khopeshes stand in all four corners of the room. The floor is tiled in a white spiral pattern on a black background, and this spiral pattern is repeated on the stone double doors to the north, east, and west.

Kaleless looks around the room and at the tapestry.

perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Muna moves into the room to check out the tapestry.

Detect Magic.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Might the tapestry be worth something?

Yeshre takes a moment to update her record of events and findings so far as she walks down the stairs to rejoin the group. She takes extra care to note the meeting with "Mirror Akhentepi" and the sand monster.

She glances around the room some as well.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Laureglyn enters the room of spirals and looks about.

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

He seems distracted and fascinated with the spiral patterns on doors and floor.

The room holds nothing of value or interest, but both the northern and western doors are locked.