GM Snorter's Rise of the Runelords Campaign


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"You'd better get running; I can hold you chumps off foreve..."

<kerrump>

There is a loud clang of stone on metal, then metal on wood, as he bounces off the door and slides to the floor.


Male Human (Varisian) Rogue 2

Sephird takes a look around, anything to bar the door with?

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Not much; this room is relatively empty.

The tracks in the dirt from the southeastern doors suggest they lead outdoors. These doors have a strong bar, which is currently slid aside.

The walls of this room are wooden palisade, packed with mud. Closer inspection reveals that most of the wood seems to have been scavenged from ships—a few nameplates remain affixed to some of the timbers, while others look like they might have once been masts.

Light is filtering in from holes in the ceiling, where the flotsam has warped or never bridged the gap. Puddles form below these holes, in the earth floor.

A number of poorly preserved horse and dog heads are mounted along the eastern wall, while along the southern wall hangs a pair of large batlike wings tacked to the wall with daggers.

Keep in initiative for now, just in case...


Valoria stand more into the room (NE of O), looking around for any activity by the doors, particular the double door where the swordsman was standing next.

"I stand watch here. Guard that double door, while someone searches the swordsman. We still need to search that nasty goblin too for valuable information. Also need to check their rooms for information."

She will use daze on anyone that enters the room.

Shadow Lodge

Okay, assuming Galstok has just knocked the guy to the floor, Sephird has moved to bar the south-eastern door, Valoria is readied against any incoming enemies, that leaves Ensu and Tregar to act this round.

Ensu crosses the room from the top of the stairs*, and presses his ear to the door.

"I can leave them a surprise, if they come this way."

*He was nearer the stairs than I thought, so he got to the top last round.

Liberty's Edge

"Let's get back down and hide our tracks."

He leans down and picks up the sword, sheathing it in the scabbard, then positions himself holding the swordsman under the armpits.

"Someone get his legs. Hostage."

Shadow Lodge

In case anything comes, the order for round ten is;

Valoria, (readied),
Galstok,
Sephird,
Ensu,
Tregar


Male Shoanti Human Barbarian 2

"Aye, there's too many doors here." Shouldering his hammer he wraps his other arm around the legs of body. "Let's get down there, we can hold on the steps easier then here.

Galstok will be ready to drop the legs and start swinging should some thing come through.

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You hoist the body off the floor, ready to start moving as one.

Sephird lowers the beam into place on the double doors. The breeze from outside carries the salt spray, and you can see through a crack that the ground outside slopes away toward the rope bridge. You see no goblins outside, though the field of vision is narrow.

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Ensu holds up a hand.

"Footsteps on creaking wood. One, maybe two."

He holds a stick of chalk against the doorframe, readied.

Liberty's Edge

"Go go go."

Tregar and Galstok make it halfway down the stairs with the body.

"We've got five bodies to hide, if we're to lie low."

Round eleven;

Valoria, (readied),
Ensu,
Sephird,
Galstok/Tregar

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Ensu quickly draws a symbol on the doorframe, and moves away to the northwestern door.

"Here they come!" he whispers, pointing behind him.

The door handle turns, the door is pulled back to reveal a goblin, who snarls at Sephird, just as lightning arcs from the frame.

Rune damage 1d6 ⇒ 1


Where is everyone now?

Shadow Lodge

There's an angry goblin who's rushing across the room at Sephird, across the path of your daze.

Goblin Will save 1d20 ⇒ 19

Attack 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Damage 1d4 ⇒ 1

Damn, I think the boss should sack the officers and keep the goons...

Behind him is another goblin, who steps in cautiously, after testing the door (by throwing a pickle at it).

New map to follow soon.
Sephird next.

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NEW MAP


Male Human (Varisian) Rogue 2

Sephird turns and smiles at the goblin, "come to meet your fate, dog-lover?"

rapier 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
shortsword 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
damage-rapier 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
damage-shortsword 1d6 ⇒ 1

Sephird will then slid 5' along the wall/doors NE of his current location.

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Do you know your rapier attack should be +5(+3 when TWF), damage 1d6? Masterwork gives +1 to hit, not damage.

"Glurk!" goes the goblin, as it ducks under the rapier, and onto the second blade. It falls to the floor, clutching its side.

The second goblin appears peturbed.

Next up is Galstok/Tregar.
Is he going to continue lugging the body downstairs?


Male Shoanti Human Barbarian 2

Sorry about delay.

Hearing Ensu's warning then the sounds of combat breaking out again, Galstok drops legs of the body before running back of the stairs past Tregar. Drawing a javelin from over his shoulder he clears the stairs and enters back into the room, hurling his missile at the goblin standing there in the open.

Attack:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Damage"1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Shadow Lodge

The goblin staggers against the door frame, with a gash in its shoulder.

"Yeeeeh!" says the goblin.

Liberty's Edge

"Oh, what the hell?"

Stepping back to let Galstok run past him, Tregar grabs the swordsman's legs, and drags him the rest of the way down the stairs, checking for signs of life once he reaches the bottom.

"Better check on Kavrik, as well, before I clean up the other mess."

Shadow Lodge

Round twelve:

Ensu,
Valoria,
Goblin,
Sephird,
Galstok,
Tregar

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Ensu steps round the back of Galstok, to stand in front of Valoria.

"He won't get away!"

Spear attack 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (20) + 0 = 20
Confirm 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (19) + 0 = 19

Damage 2d6 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7

The spear goes through leather, and into the goblin's gut, nailing it to the door frame. It clutches at the shaft, coughs blood, then slumps to the side, still held partially upright.

That deals with the last one. There's a short pause, while everyone catches their breath and looks round. You can finish off the wounded if you want, listen for further interruptions, and then cover your tracks.

Liberty's Edge

"Kavrik, how are you doing...oh."


Valoria closes the opened door to create a sound barrier using her cantrip. Speaking softly, "Seems like we have more bodies to hide. Let us get all the bodies to the stairs first, then move them to the goblin room, where we can cover the bodies with the rubbish that is in the room."

Liberty's Edge

"Bloody Hell, what a mess."

<starts wrapping goblins in sheets>


Male Human (Varisian) Rogue 2

"Mess indeed," Sephird gives Tregar a hand with the bodies.

Liberty's Edge

"Let's put them all in the cave with the squid thing. No-one's going to look there."


Male Shoanti Human Barbarian 2

Looking around at the bodies, It ain't that bad a mess. Shaking his head, he shrugs before grabbing body to carry out.

You all wanna hole up or head back up after this?


"Good idea.", she looks about, "Do you need me to drag bodies, or be ready to daze any unwanted visitors?".


Male Human (Varisian) Rogue 2

Sephird is busy taking inventory of the bodies and searching the rooms for anything else of use, including information as to why these goblins had another human with them.

Liberty's Edge

Tregar takes care to move the swordsman first, into the tentacle-beast's cave, where he binds and gags him, and sits him up in a recovery position.

"You've got some explaining to do, mate."

Shadow Lodge

Valoria Grundmire wrote:
"Good idea.", she looks about, "Do you need me to drag bodies, or be ready to daze any unwanted visitors?".

"If you don't mind, I think I'd better keep watch, too.", says Ensu.

"I still have a few of those blast runes, just in case. But they don't last long."

Liberty's Edge

To Valoria and Ensu;
"I'll be able to work faster if I know someone's watching my back."

"Bodies out of here first, I think. Into the junk room. Then we clean up any trace of a fight; bloodied sheets, anything used as a weapon.
Once we're done, we can drag them to the squid's cave at our leisure, and wait for the morning."

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Sephird Brookside wrote:
Sephird is busy taking inventory of the bodies and searching the rooms for anything else of use, including information as to why these goblins had another human with them.

Are you limiting yourself to the rooms already opened?

Shadow Lodge

It's time for everyone to consider how they'll be levelling up, though the changes won't happen till the morning.

How does everyone want to do hp? Average, rounded up?
I'll assume everyone has been practicing any new abilities before now, and Valoria has the means to update her spellbook.

How does anyone feel about changing the name of the thread? I obviously have to find out if it's even possible.


Valoria will stand guard while others clean up the messy scene above and below.

Seeing that the forums don't have private messages I have no idea how you contact the moderators.

I have ink, for updating, though short of having a library or scrolls to get new spells.

HP, I fine with what ever method is use.

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Valoria Grundmire wrote:
Valoria will stand guard while others clean up the messy scene above and below.

A few times, you and Ensu believe you can hear movement to the north, and once a dog or wolf makes a short howl.

Valoria Grundmire wrote:
Seeing that the forums don't have private messages I have no idea how you contact the moderators.

I have... channels. Top men.

Valoria Grundmire wrote:
I have ink, for updating, though short of having a library or scrolls to get new spells.

If I were being a hard-ass 1st Edition Gygax-DM, I'd make you travel back to Cheliax to level up, but I'm not. The RAW these days assume you've been working on several projects during the previous level, and only now have the 'Eureka' moment to add the final touches to two of them.


Male Shoanti Human Barbarian 2

Average rounded up sounds good with me. Did you want to stick to just the core rulebook like AJ had it or broaden what's available? If the name can be changed by all means. You're running the show now. I know they had mentioned doing some stuff for people who have inherited campaigns, just can't remember the details.

Once we get everything cleaned up and moved, Galstok will move some of the crates and barrels to build a barricade in front of the doors.


Male Human (Varisian) Rogue 2

I don't care how we do HP, though we do have a die roller here...

Sephird will restrict his activities to already opened rooms for now, though he is checking for where the best place would be for the party to hole up for a few hours and rest.


I will choose the new spells to add. Just tell us method of adding HP, then I update the character sheet.

Shadow Lodge

If we go with average, rounded up, it translates to;

d6=4
d8=5
d10=6
d12=7

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Galstok wrote:
Average rounded up sounds good with me. Did you want to stick to just the core rulebook like AJ had it or broaden what's available?

Well, I certainly wasn't using Core only, so I can hardly complain.

I tend to rely on the PFSRD during the day, which is usually quite up to date. I've not really sat down and read the material in UM and UC, so I don't know if there are any issues.
If it's available to read online, then go for it. If there are any FAQ or errata, I'll let you know.


Character updated.

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Valoria Grundmire wrote:
Character updated.

What's new?

I assume you've taken favored class twice to skill points, and I can tell where three of your skill points went, on the skills with +8 mods. Some new knowledges and a new language?

You should have access to a fourth cantrip.
What new spells did you learn?
This is all stuff you'll be quizzed on in-character, too, since they'll have a boring afternoon, sat in a cave watching you write.

Liberty's Edge

Well, that's me updated. Nobody's getting one over on this guy!


Male Shoanti Human Barbarian 2

Character sheet is updated.

Who said anything about watching her write? The Wise Ones taught me the basics of reading and writing. That's good enough for me. Valoria and Ensu are kinda like the Wise Ones back home. I'll leave them to their business.

Shadow Lodge

I imagined four people looking over her shoulder going "Whatcha dooooooin'?", over and over.


New spells: sleep and summon monster 1
Favoured class skill is again spellcraft[/occ]
[ooc]knowledge (arcane, dungeon, engineer, history), perception, climb

Prepared spells: detect magic, summon monster 1

Shadow Lodge

I'll have to level up Ensu, which should all be relatively straightforward automatic upgrades, except for a few skill points.
Unless anyone has suggestions for what he would take, I'll upgrade his stats, and create a dummy avatar, so I'm not talking to myself during my GM posts.


Male Human (Varisian) Rogue 2

okay, so i leveled up, wasn't too sure about which talent to take, any suggestions? ATM I have minor magic:detect magic listed.

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