The Silvercrown's (If you'd be playing the whole Thornkeep setting instead of just the PFS legal parts you could return the ring to some noble in a tavern in town for quest xp)
Male Human Swashbuckler 8 | HP 68/68 Panache 3/3 | Init +10 Perc +11 | AC 25 T 18 FF 17 | Fort +4, Ref +12, Will +2|
"This ring," Marcel starts, fiddling with the ring a little bit. "It denotes that the bearer belongs to the noble house of Silvercrown. This foul creature may have once been someone of importance in life."
Draconic Sorcerer 4 [ HP 30/30 | AC 14 T 12 FF 12 | CMD 15 | F +4 R +3 W +3 | Init +1 Per +7]
Appraise:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18 Not anymore... But his trinket can fetch us some good money, around 150gp would be my guess. The sorcerer says looking at the ring.
As you walk in the room avoiding it's center as it brings back memories of pit traps you feel of cold dread that is palpable in this oval-shaped hall, which is finished in gleaming dark stone. The shadows in the upper portions of the chamber seem to seethe slowly with foul energy. Doorways exit the chamber to the north and the west.
You spend some time searching around in here but you don't find anything....other then a cold sensations creeping up your spine.
(Let me know if you want to do anything else in here, otherwise I'll move you to the next tomorrow)
Male Human Swashbuckler 8 | HP 68/68 Panache 3/3 | Init +10 Perc +11 | AC 25 T 18 FF 17 | Fort +4, Ref +12, Will +2|
"There's something...off about this place, I suggest we do not stay here long, it creeps me out."Perception:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24Sense Motive:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9
As the party leaves the room in single marching order:Single file -
Samuel, Aviendha, Marcel, Merrick+Eidelon, Calistan, Sam
You find a closed door at the end of a short tunnel, after investigating it and finding it's not trapped you open it and step out onto a balcony.
Which is somewhat familiar to you..
The upper level of the large hall is a five-foot-wide balcony ringing the room. An open archway leads to the southwest, and a sealed stone doors lead to the northwest. You've entered through a now open door on the north east. It indeed the balcony from which goblins were shooting arrows at you from earlier.
Most of you make it down the corridor and into the next room, but as soon as Sam (being the last in line) steps a foot outside of the creepy room a bit of the shadows start to coalesce into something a bit more..solid. The shadow moves on it's own and takes a roughly humanoid shape.
DC 15 Knowledge (Religion) check:
This is an incorporeal undead;
An incorporeal creature has no physical body. It can be harmed only by other incorporeal creatures, magic weapons or creatures that strike as magic weapons, and spells, spell-like abilities, or supernatural abilities. It is immune to all nonmagical attack forms. Even when hit by spells or magic weapons, it takes only half damage from a corporeal source (except for channel energy). Although it is not a magical attack, holy water can affect incorporeal undead. Corporeal spells and effects that do not cause damage only have a 50% chance of affecting an incorporeal creature. Force spells and effects, such as from a magic missile, affect an incorporeal creature normally.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects,
An incorporeal creature’s attacks pass through (ignore) natural armor, armor, and shields, although deflection bonuses and force effects (such as mage armor) work normally against it. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in water as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. Incorporeal creatures cannot make trip or grapple attacks, nor can they be tripped or grappled. In fact, they cannot take any physical action that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, nor are they subject to such actions. Incorporeal creatures have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered by weight.
An incorporeal creature moves silently and cannot be heard. 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.
Since the site was down for like 10 hours, going to give Merrick to respond till tomorrow morning (my time) after that....going to put her on delay so we can move continue
The shadow moves one of his limbs made out of almost translucent material To hit Sam flatfooted touch AC:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 through Sam gripping it's heart in what are most likely his fingers and squeezes...draining the strength from his body Strength damage for Sam:1d6 ⇒ 2
Draconic Sorcerer 4 [ HP 30/30 | AC 14 T 12 FF 12 | CMD 15 | F +4 R +3 W +3 | Init +1 Per +7]
Sam calls forth the fire storm one more time and steps aside.
Casting Defensively DC 17:1d20 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 1 + 4 = 21 Burning Hands:3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 3, 2) + 3 = 10 Reflex DC 16
Currently STR 12 A shadow! I need help here.
You can't step to where you want to go unless you go through the shadow with successful acrobatics check Sam..which also means the Caliastan can't reach the shadow right now, moved you back for now
Reflex save:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
The sheet of flames that Sam summons mostly washes through the shadow, only a very tiny portion of it's essence seems to be burned away.
init
Samuel, Aviendha, Merrick+Lasher, Marcel (Calistan with an readied attack once he can reach the shadow - or change your action to something else if you'd want)
Shadow
No, sorry..hard corners and the shadow is standing in the only square you can reach from the corridor..it's blocked. Unless you teleport, tumble or do something else I can't think off right now..you can only use a withdraw action out of this corridor into the other room, not go back into the one you came out of
I'm not sure how I would tell you in combat. Also, you probably saw it's hand pass through Sam's chest/back. Also, this might give it away...
Calistan realizing the incorporeality of the creature. Moves headlong through the creature onto the other side, hopefully diverting its attention at the cost of his own suffering. Then he shoves his hand into the shadow when it reaches out to inflict its horrible will on him.
Provoking an attack of opportunity.
So, 19 to hit touch and 9 positive energy damage, Will Save DC 16 for Half.
Draconic Sorcerer 4 [ HP 30/30 | AC 14 T 12 FF 12 | CMD 15 | F +4 R +3 W +3 | Init +1 Per +7]
You could pass a note to your buttler.
Withdraw is a full round action so I cant use it now. I am not sure if I try and fail an acrobatics check to move into the other room would prevent me from doing so. I will just risk an AoO and spend my regular move action doing so.
After finishing his spell Sam moves away from the undead.
k..the order of things is getting a bit confusing now
So to summarize, with what I think happened and what makes the most sense up until now;
Sam used his burning hands and then walks away from the shadow, provoking an AOO
Shadow vs Sam's touch AC:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19 sapping a bit more of his strength away Strength damage for Sam:1d6 ⇒ 1
Calistan then cast a spell, holding the charge before he tries to move to the other side of the shadow acrobatics for Calistan:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1 but fails..the shadow having overextended himself already against Sam can't do anything about it and touches it..letting the positive energy chew through the dark essence that makes up the shadow Will save vs half damage:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21 and it takes out a large chunk of the shadow.
Which means Aviendha can't reach the shadow
init
Aviendha, Merrick+Lasher, Marcel, Samuel
Shadow
Why can't I move through the shadow? It's incorporeal. It can't have it both ways. Incorporeal benefits of insubstantiality and none of the drawbacks, right?
Unless you can find me a rule that says otherwise all I can find is; You can't move through a square that contains an opponent (and nothing in the incorporeal description overrides that..and it's not that there are no exceptions, because you can move through a swarm or something that's much larger/smaller then you are.) I might have missed something somewhere, but then I'd like someone to point me to it. Also..incorporeals can pass through objects...players and other creatures are not objects..so it can't walk through you either.
Nothing firm, but it seems to suggest that I can. Probably GM call, but here is what I found.
Bestiary, p. 301:
"An incorporeal creature can pass through solid objects..."
"An incorporeal creaure's attacks pass through (IGNORE) natural armor, armor, and shields..."
"Incorporeal creatures cannot make trip or grapple attacks, nor can they be tripped or grappled. In fact, they cannot take any physical action that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, nor are they subject to such actions."
p. 193 Obstacles
"Flying and incorporeal creatures are able to avoid most obstacles."
p. 250 Blink
"An ethereal creature is invisible, incorporeal, and capable of moving in any direction, even up or down. As an incorporeal creature, you can move through solid objects, including living creatures."
p. 306 Mage Armor
"Since mage armor is made of force, incorporeal creatures can’t bypass it the way they do normal armor." [as mentioned in the above reply] Don't have any force AC effects up
p. 463-464 Ghost Touch
"Incorporeal creatures gain the armor’s or shield’s enhancement bonus against both corporeal and incorporeal attacks, and they can still pass freely through solid objects."
p. 567 Incorporeal Creatures
"Creatures with the incorporeal condition do not have a physical body."
Samuel: Well, I was going to take an AoO for moving through the square, but Sam already took one. It's not like the shadow takes up the whole square. If you want to roleplay it, I moved the part of it that wasn't focusing on Strength draining when it attacked Sam with the AoO. Or something like that.
Male Human Swashbuckler 8 | HP 68/68 Panache 3/3 | Init +10 Perc +11 | AC 25 T 18 FF 17 | Fort +4, Ref +12, Will +2|
Acrobatics:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21 +1 Aldori:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 101d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8 Can't see the map just right now, but if there is an open space where he can attack the creature, that is where Marcel moves.
Marcèl attempts to move to th other side of the creature so that he may strike it with what is like a fancy looking miss.
As far as I can tell the only one of those lets you move through creatures is blink, which is as far as I can tell a result from being ethereal which is a different condition then incorporeal, (also the version I've got mentions insubstantial as opposed to incorporeal). And all though it's kind of weird for something without a solid body - which can't take physical action to be able to block your movement to be able to block you from moving through it, as far as I understand the rules...it still doesn't allow you to go through him. So going to chalk this one up to "ït's magic" and stick to my first ruling that you can't pass through him
Marcel is too far away to be able to move to the other side of the creature and attack..but with 2 moves you can do so, and since your attack missed anyways....I guess you won't complain if I move you to it's other side.
Marcel moves back into the corridor and seeing the shadow blocking the exit/entrance decides to go for it and tumbles - just barely - past the shadow taking up a flanking position.
init
[b]Samuel, Merrick+Lasher ,Aviendha (unless she wants to use her attack as a readied action?)
Shadow
Merrick and Lasher retreat to safety out of the immediate area. Aviendha stays out to "protect" Merrick.
Samuel has had a day to take an action, but I suppose he's in the same boat as Aviendha..so delaying him for now
The shadow slowly turns clockwise to determine who will be the bigger threat..the one that actually harmed him already....or the one who's now at his back with a magical sword. 1c2m:1d2 ⇒ 1 he decides to go for Calistan To hit touch AC Calistan:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10. Calistan feels the cold hand of the shadow pass through his body and drain away some of the strength he has Strength damage Calistan:1d6 ⇒ 3
Calistan manages to cast a spell without the shadow disrupting his attempt..he reaches out and touches the shadow with his glowing hand...radiant energy biting away at the dark matter..but it seems to resist some of it
Marcel twirls his sword around ..but it fails to connect to the shadowy substance that's taken humanoid form.
Aviendha makes use of the space vacated by Calistan when he stepped away and moves forward to lay down some divine wrath against the thing that came from the shadowsWill save Shadow:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Her touch burns trough it and the shadows move and contract...condensing into a single small dark purple gem.
Appraise DC 15:
A lapis lazuli worth somewhere 40 and 60 gp
Out of combat
You are on the balcony which is above where you fought the goblins before, there's 1 closed door and one open stairway leading down.
Male Human Swashbuckler 8 | HP 68/68 Panache 3/3 | Init +10 Perc +11 | AC 25 T 18 FF 17 | Fort +4, Ref +12, Will +2|
"It might be a good idea to take the stairs first, since we started exploring on the lower floor, but theres no harm in checking the door." Marcèl says, moving forward and checking the door carefully. Perception T20:20 + 5 = 25
