PbP Gameday VII - Heroes for Highdelve - GM NOWRUZ #2 (Inactive)

Game Master noral

"Well, would you look at this! A secret compartment! That's so exciting. You know, I think it's my first one!" She smiles, then sings a quick refrain and examines the potions for magical auras. Casting detect magic.

Spellcraft (potions): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Spellcraft (scroll): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

"Hmmm... These potions have got me stumped, but this scroll is interesting! It can shoot a ray of fire at your enemies. It's not something I could make work, though." (Scroll of scorching ray, which is not on my spell list.)

She places the scroll in her pack (unless someone wants it) and then reads the journal. "Well, I'll be! The woman who wrote this worships demons and wants to protect a 'beast in the cave.' So she tricked those poor kids into getting her the amulet!" Molly passes the journal onto the others and puts her hands on her hips. "We need to stop this woman and her beast! I wonder if Richelle and Tolwin know where she went, or where the caves are..." She snaps her fingers. "There's a cave just outside! Maybe that's the one. Shall we check it out?"

Curious if she knows of any potential caves that could fit the bill:
Knowledge Geography: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Knowledge Local: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

"Sounds good to me. Would've been the likely choice next to investigate anyway."

bot me, please

@Molly: Only several hundred feet from this location there is a cave.

Chcking it out.

You get out of the hut.

CRACK!!

You are already standing outside when you all hear a strange sound coming from the back of the hut.

Suddenly,you see that a hidden small door in the back of the hut open that leads to a small chamber that looks no bigger than two square meters ... somebody is in there.

A hooded figure emerges from the small chamber and based on its movement looks either drunk, sleepy or very exhausted.

Tera whips around, drawing his bow with a blunt arrow ready to fire at the figure.

"Surrender now or suffer a headache later for being knocked out."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

"You-you think you can take me on? This dragon will- gah!" A female gnome dressed in black tumbles from the back of the hut. Her wayfinder spills forth as she falls face first.

"Gah..." She lifts her head up to see a half-elf pointing an arrow at her. "Momma said there would be days like this. If you're gonna kill me, hurry up and get this over with."

"Oh, dearie me!" Molly exclaims. She puts her hands on her hips, looking rather like a mother, and grins. "Why, you're a Pathfinder, aren't you? I've seen you around the Grand Lodge!" she nods. "I never forget a face! Come on in, sugar, let's get you up!" She helps Acel up to her feet and dusts her off. "There. Good as new! Now, tell me, how in the heavens did you get in there?"

"Wha? More Pathfinders? I guess I should have waited." Acel goes to retrieve her wayfinder. "I came here because Venture-Captain Dreng sent me to look after his friend's kids. HIs friend is dead, yeah? Wanted to see how they were holding up. I heard they were meeting with a middle aged woman and her tiefling son."

"I got near this cabin, and then BAM! Knocked out cold. Dreng did tell me to wait for reinforcements, but..." she takes off her hat to let her tangled black hair air out a bit. "Well, that's my story. What did you find out?"

"Oh you can call me Acel, by the way."

"Well, hi there, Acel! I'm Molly. This fellow over here is Tera -- he's a sweetheart, I promise. And that handsome dwarf back there is Nei." She offers Acel a handshake. "I'm a waitress down at the Wounded Wisp, and a singer." she nods proudly. "This will be my second mission! We're here to watch little Tolwin and Richelle, too, and let me tell you! It seems like those little scamps are up to no good! They tried to rig the Bloomblossom festival, and then attacked the Bloomgivers, stole their protective amulet, and handed it off to some demon worshipper. Apparently there's something she's raising in a cave. We're just on our way to check out the cave outside. Hopefully that's the right one. You ready to come along, hon?"

Great to be complete! ;-) Please see the spoilers above that you can roll for now.

Tera puts his arrow away. "Hmmm... well more help is always appreciated."

He then heads out of the building and looks toward the cave and flowers.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Momentarily distracted by the newcomer, he doesn't notice anything strange.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

"Eh? Why's he staring at me like that?" She looks at her hat. "No, my hat's clean."

Molly makes her way through the flowers towards the cave.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

Not sure if those perception spoilers above are still in effect or they're different. I might have found something cool...? Haha.

;-) Molly, you clearly see a boy and a girl hiding behind a rock. See the map.

Acel Odair please place yourself on the map. Thanks

"Hey, what are you lookin' at?" Acel peers from the hut at Molly.

Molly waves hello to the boy and girl hiding behind the rock. "Hi there! Tolwin? Richelle? Is that you? Come out and chat, would you, dears?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

With Molly pointing them out, Tera fingers a blunt arrow in case he needs to draw quickly to deal with the town bullies.

You see that the bodies vanish behind the rock. A moment of silence.

”Go away! We do not know who you are but you have no business here! This is our final warning and after that you will only feel steel and taste a lot of blood!“ the young man shouts.

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 19 Bah!

"Bah, there are ghosts every where. You never know when they may show up..."

Acel calls upon her Gnomish spell-like ability to cast Ghost Sound near the rocks the children darted behind. Will Save DC 14 to disbelieve.

You are not in range. Do you move forward??

Acel realizes she needs to be within 35 feet, so she struts ahead.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
lol...

Teraren whispers to his companions, "I positive they were setting up an ambush for us."

"We're from the Pathfinder Society. We were going to offer you a chance to head back to Absalom with us and sign up, if you wanted, but now you're all messed up in this: giving holy relics to evil cultists thing, so we're going to have to have a little chat first. Yeah?" After a moment she pulls out her lute and starts to strum a little tune. "Chatting is so much nicer than forcing us to fight you, sugarplum. Trust me."

"Trust the lass. We really don't feel like beating up on a couple of scrawny kids. Take you over a knee is more like it." Nei makes he way up behind Molly to look at the ambushers.

"The cultist that tricked the two idiots back there is probably in the cave with the victims."

Acel realizes she needs to be within 35 feet, so she struts ahead.

Round 1

1. Enemies

When Acel starts walking, you see two figures make a small step and arrows fly in your direction from behind the two rock formations but only one arrow pierces Nei's shoulder and you can see blood.

Longbow@Nei: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18
Longbow damage: 1d8 ⇒ 5

Longbow@Acel: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Longbow damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

* * *

Round 1

1. Enemies
2. Nei, Molly, Tera, Acel -> GO!

#Tolwin: 0 Damage

#Richelle: 0 Damage
#Unknown: 0 Damage

Nei: 14/19 HP
Molly: 12/12 HP
Acel: 17/17 HP
Tera: 13/13 HP

"Hey, watch the hat!" Acel holds the brim tightly as arrows wiz past her. "If that's the way you want to-" Acel bites her tongue. She knows how Pathfinders get testy about dealing with kids.

So she casts Grease underneath them. Reflex Save DC 14 to avoid falling.

Seeing the two kids have attacked, Tera quickly loads a blunt arrow into his bow and aims at the young girl. After he lets the arrow fly, he moves closer to cut off the two.

Long Bow vs Richelle: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Blunt Arrow Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 5

Standard: Attack
Move: 30'

Reflex R: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Reflex T: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

You see that Acel’s spell was partially successful as Tolwin is now lying on the greasy ground.

Seconds later Tera’s blunt arrow hits Richelle right in the face and you see her nose bleeding.

Molly sighs. "Well, that's not very nice at all!" She pulls out her lute and begins to strum a happy tune. "You know when I'm angry, I find it's best to sing a little song. All together! Won't that be nice?"

"Gather round, and calm on down, put down that sword and smiiiiiile!"

Inspire courage. Everyone gets +1 attack and damage and saves against fear.

As Molly sings she dances closer to the kids.

I can't tell if she's drunk or not, but she knows style. Acel chuckles as one of the kids slips on the grease.

"Ah! You dirty little........ Now now, children. That is no way to behave!" The dwarven cleric casts Entropic Shield and advances toward the ambushers.

Round 2

1. Enemies

Tolwin stands up and pulls the string ... ”You will pay for hurting my sister!“

Longbow@Tera, pbs: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 3 + 1 = 16
Longbow damage, pbs: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

And also Richelle, who looks a little insecure now, shoots another arrow.

Longbow@Tera, pbs: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 3 + 1 = 19
Longbow damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Tow arrows hit Tera right in the chest and he is severely bleeding.

Richelle tries to get back to the rocks

Acrobatics DC 10 : 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

... but she cannot move due to the spell.

* * *

Round 2

1. Enemies
2. Nei, Molly, Tera, Acel -> GO!

#Tolwin: 0 Damage

#Richelle: -5 Damage
#Unknown: 0 Damage

Nei: 14/19 HP
Molly: 12/12 HP
Acel: 17/17 HP
Tera: 2/13 HP

"Pfft. That's not how this works. You can't shoot at someone and then claim it's their fault when they fire back." Acel double moves, pulling out her sap. "Luckily for you, I'm just gonna spank ya a few times and be done with it."

Wincing from the pain as the arrow sticks out of his chest. "You've done it now kids."

He loads another blunt arrow and fires it at the girl again before retreating to take some cover.

Long Bow +PBS vs Richelle: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 1 = 22
Damange +PBS: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Standard: Attack
Move: 30'

Molly continues to pluck away at her lute, then she begins to sing a song -- a sad little song, about a pair of angry children who only wanted to belong but went too far. As she sings she strides forward, walking right up to the kids.

"Sat down and cried today... Just put the weapon awaaaaaaay... Causing pain won't make your huuuuurt go awaaaaaaaay..."

Maintaining inspire courage as a move action, then moving over to the kids.

Trusting that the others are all doing non-lethal damage, Nei decides that these kids may need a little reminder of their lessons today. After moving closer, the dwarven healer flings a deadly bolt of fire at the male.

ranged touch: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (10) - 2 = 8
fire bolt (lethal): 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Tera's arrow hits Richelle in her abdomen and you really see her sink to her knees and dropping her bow.

"I ... I gi ... give up." she says softly.

Richelle tries to move out of the grease but again she cannot get away.

Acrobatics DC 10: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

* * *

1. Enemies

Tolwin still stands and again pulls the string to shoot at Molly as Tera is behind cover ... ”You are all so dead!!!“

Longbow@Molly, pbs: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 3 + 1 = 17
Longbow damage, pbs: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

... and he does hit Molly in the shoulder.

* * *

Perception Acel : 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Stealth Tiefling : 1d20 + 8 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 8 + 5 = 18

Suddenly, from behind a boulder a pale young Tiefling with skin as white as a sheet and freaky little horns appears and aims his crossbow at a vital spot of Acel ... Acel does not see the man in time!

Crossbow: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Crossbow, sneak attack: 1d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + (4) = 10

The bolt hits his abdomen and Acel is not able to avoid the sneak attack.

The Tiefling then drops his crossbow and draws his short sword with an evil grin.

* * *

Round 3

1. Enemies
2. Nei, Molly, Tera, Acel -> GO!

#Tolwin: 0 Damage

#Richelle: -13 Damage, staggered
#Unknown: 0 Damage

Nei: 14/19 HP
Molly: 7/12 HP
Acel: 7/17 HP
Tera: 2/13 HP

"Ow! And an adult enters the fray!" She grins. "Using kids as bait? Yeah, you I can mess with."

With a trace of magic, she infuses her sap with some magical essence.

Spending a Swift Action to give my sap a +1 enhancement bonus.

Sap: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 25
Non lethal Damage: 1d4 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 6

Confirm?: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 14
Crit Damage: 1d4 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4

"Haha! Sweet revenge!" Acel is certain she found a weak spot on the tiefling, and hit it hard. She wonders if she hit it hard enough, though...

Acel's sap hits the Tiefling directly in the groin and you can see that this critical hit really hurt!

* * *

Round 3

1. Enemies
2. Nei, Molly, Tera -> GO!, Acel

#Tolwin: 0 Damage

#Richelle: -13 Damage, staggered
#Unknown: -10 Damage

Nei: 14/19 HP
Molly: 7/12 HP
Acel: 7/17 HP
Tera: 2/13 HP

Molly slides her lute behind her (it's on a guitar strap) and draws her axe. As she does she pulls the arrow out of her shoulder and drops it to the ground. She sings: "You'll be sorrrrrryyyyyy!" Maintaining inspire courage as a free action and takes a careful step forward.

Then Molly swings her axe at Tolwin.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 2 + 1 = 11
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 1 = 10

Hearing the young girl give up, Tera rushes out to get in a better position to shoot the young boy. But spotting the Tiefling, he decides to change his target. Loading a normal arrow this time, he fires at the new enemy.

Long Bow +IC +PBS vs Tiefling (Red): 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 20
Damage +PBS: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Move: 30'
Standard: Attack

"Careful there, son. You're looking a little worse for the wear. Lemme take care of that." He steps over and lays a healing hand on the archer.

Move: 5' step
Standard: Spontaneously cast Cure Light Wounds (sacrificing bless).

CLW on Tera: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Round 1

1. Enemies

Tera arrow hits the Tiefling right in chest and you only hear ... "Arrghhh ..." and he sinks to the ground.

**

Tolwin shouts "Nooooo ..."

Tolwin tries to step away from the greasy ground but he is not successful and falls to the ground and thus is prone.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

He stands up ... and provokes an attack of opportunity from Molly!

* * *

Round 2

1. Enemies
2. Nei, Molly, Tera, Acel -> GO!

#Tolwin: 0 Damage

#Richelle: -13 Damage, staggered
#Unknown: -12 Damage, unconscious
Nei: 14/19 HP
Molly: 7/12 HP
Acel: 7/17 HP
Tera: 9/13 HP

Feeling much better after the healing, "Thanks Nei."

Spotting the tiefling collapsing with his last shot, he draws a blunt arrow and shoots at Tolwin. "I would surrender if I was you."

Long Bow +IC +PBS -Into Melee vs Tolwin: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 1 + 1 - 4 = 12
Blunt Damage +PBS: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Acel grins as the tiefling falls. "That's what you get for shooting me." She skips over his body I assume he's unconscious. If not, she will attack him. and heads toward the kid. "Eh, you tried. Just keep this as a future lesson not to bite off more than you can chew."

Sap: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 11
Non lethal Damage: 1d4 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5

Discussion here.

Please note that you have to adapt the background story of any pregen you play so that you are Pathfinders.

Your mission (to achieve a goal as indicated by the background of the pregen) is rather a 'faction mission' of some sort that you received.

Your main mission will be provided in the mission briefing.

Meloriel here, checking in with Molly Fairsmile.

Banesama here.

Tera tells of his story traveling to a cave to investigate some gillmen sightings and ending with him taking down a minotaur with three well-placed arrows 80' away. The Confirmation. Hit hard (one being a critical) against the minotaur at the end to save Janira.

I was there when that happened!! ;-) Great rolls!

hehe... :P

Hello everybody, I just wanted to point out for those that are playing the iconic characters that your background story is still as presented but that your mission to retrieve an item or find a person is not valid anymore as presented in your iconic character sheet!

Your mission is as presented in the briefing! So none of you are searching for their mother or searching for a ring or searching for axes! ;-)

I might be out of pocket til beginning/mid next week. Bot me as necessary.

We only start Aug 25. ;-)

Would you guys want to start earlier?

I could also start now.

I'm ready to start.

The next interactions are only RP. So we can start slowly.

Whoever wants to start can already post in the gameplay based on my last post.

Sorry, I didn't have much time to post and so just spammed everything on my campaign page. I was pretty sure I could skip one, but I didn't take the time to figure out which one. Thanks again, for having me :)

Hi guys, now I am on vacation. ;-) Will post again Tuesday.

This area is really sandbox.

So if you are tired of exploring please tell me. ;-)

The real part of the action is starting and we cannot continue without Rick.

I sent him a PM.

Sorry but work is crazy at the moment. Traveling also with the family over the weekend. Will only be able to update on Monday.

Rick has not reacted so I am asking for a replacement.

Hello everybody,

one of the players in my games made a boon roll without being asked to do so.

To prevent that from happening again I am now telling all Gameday tables whose game has started how I make fair boon rolls.

* * *

Please note that I give you as players the power to tell me when to roll.

* * *

At any time any one of you can ask for a boon roll in the gameplay thread.

I will immediately roll the following as my first post in the gameplay!

[dice=GM Nowruz boon roll]d20[/dice
[dice=Molly boon roll]d20[/dice
[dice=Nei boon roll]d20[/dice
[dice=Tera boon roll]d20[/dice
[dice=New player who will come to the game boon roll]d20[/dice

Sorry for the delay. We will continue on Monday.

I am still looking for a player. Do you know anyone who would jump in with one of the pregens?

I assume you don't know anyone so I will ask in Flexseed.

Hi Klah, unfortunately we are not looking anymore!

:-(

Can you please write your deatils on the first slide perception, initiative

Hi guys, I have to leave on an emergency vacation for two weeks so I will not be able to post starting Sep 29.

Sorry but that just came up a couple of hours ago.

I will probably be able to continue the games where I am only a player as I can use my mobile for short posts but GMing means I need my computer and thus I will continue this game only on Oct 15.

As announced. We will pause the game until Oct 15. Thanks for your understanding. ;-)

Have fun, stay safe, and watch out for Bright Blossoms. :P

Hello everyone. This weekend is Thanksgiving so I will very likely be unable to fit in a post. I’ll be back to regular posting on Tuesday. Thanks for understanding, and I hope you have a great weekend!

Wait until you see what these are on your chronicle sheets. Very nice! They are magical!

Hi guys,
That was it!

Thanks for everything!

As you did not request the boon roll, here it comes in the format stated above.

GM Nowruz boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Molly boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Nei boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Tera boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 19
New player (Acel): 1d20 ⇒ 12

Wow!! ;-)

Three boons!! Tera, Nei and I ... I will report this over the weekend!

Please those that won a boon, send me your email address.

Thanks for a great game, everyone!

Wow... three boons for this game. My second boon for this Gameday so far.

Also, great game everyone and thanks for GMing GM Nowruz.

Chronicle sheets will only be ready next week Tuesday. Forgot to roll which boon was won.

GM: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Nei: 1d4 ⇒ 3
Tera: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Thanks for the game, everyone. I hope I was able to help.

Hey GM, I want to do some retraining on Acel. Would you be available to sign off on the changes I make to her? I'll have it ready over this weekend.

Thanks for joining Acel! Of course.

Chronicle sheets will be prepared on Tuesday so you have time.

Just sending a reminder about Chronicle sheets.

CHRONICLE SHEETS ;-)

My sheets look good. Thanks!

Oh, and I typed up the boons I won. Feel free to copy/paste.

Boons
(1 Box) Blessing of Aurelliax: By helping the people of Highdelve, you have also earned the favor of its protector, Aurelliax. As a sign of her appreciation, she has provided you a small golden dragon statuette. You can check the box that precedes this boon to tap into the statuette’s faint magic and gain one of the benefits below; afterward cross out all of the benefits below, (except Dragon’s Friend, if you selected that benefit).
Dragon’s Prosperity: Before attempting a Day Job check to earn additional gold at the end of one adventure, you can use this benefit to triple the amount of gold the check grants you (maximum 300 gp). Dragon’s Luck: Before you roll any one d20 roll, you can use this benefit to roll twice and take the higher result. For 1 minute afterward, you gain a +1 luck bonus on all attack rolls, skill checks, ability checks, and saving throws.
Dragon’s Scales: You gain fire resistance 5 for 24 hours.
Dragon’s Friend: The statuette permanently transforms into a fairly harmless animal with supernaturally golden features, such as gold-hued fur, feathers, or scales. Once per day, the animal can either deal an additional 1d6 fire damage with one natural attack or can gain fire resistance 10 against one attack. You can select any Diminutive, Tiny, or Small animal suitable for a familiar. You can choose to adopt this creature as your familiar, spirit animal, or similar companion, replacing your current companion at no cost. Otherwise, you can keep the creature as a loyal pet.

Highdelve’s Hero: You were instrumental in saving Highdelve from imminent attack and preserving its Brightbloom tradition. If you played one of the provided pregenerated characters, you earn the benefit below associated with that character. Otherwise, choose one of the benefits below. Cross out the other benefits.
(1 Box) Torgen: You have tracked down an errant shipment of expensive goods, which has earned you the favor of Brevoy’s finest merchants. When purchasing a weapon or armor of masterwork quality (or made of a material that is automatically masterwork, such as mithral), you can check the box that precedes this boon to reduce that item’s cost by 150 gp.

Got sheet. Looks. Thanks for the game.

Thanks for the game. Looks good.

got it, thanks !

Could you close this campaign when you get a chance? Thanks!

There is a bug that doesn't let me change anything in the campaign tab! :-(