All's Well that Ends in a Well

Game Master Choon

Zadira, who has never been strong, feels her strength being sapped away and gets upset. She was just barely able to work up to the point where she could buy an item to cure her weakness, and now they are trying to drag her back into that? Her hatred for the undead flares anew, and she steps back and fires another blunt arrow point blank at the thing that attacked her.

Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25 (v. Undead)
Damage (Bludgeoning): 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 (v. Undead and focused shot)

50% miss chance (1-50=hit, 51-100=miss): 1d100 ⇒ 40

(Also, I have a magic bow now, so all of these should also count if they have DR/magic.)

Vuzi casts Weapons Against Evil on Simon's weapons, and Guthre's weapon.

2 rounds each bypass DR of 5 or less if they have it. It also gives off a dim light for five feet. Not sure if that will bypass the darkness, but it can't hurt to try."

The light from the weapons makes them barely visible. They don't cast enough light through the Darkness to illuminate anything save themselves.

Grelthe continues her prayers and divine energy radiates out from her again, stronger this time.
channel damage undead: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 1) = 11

With a hiss Simon cries out: "Oucheww, what is this?! Why can't I smell it? Is it attacking from afar?""
So my attacker didn't get within 5ft of me or I would have smelled him (or it hasn't any smell to boot), yes?
Feeling Grelthes warm energy flowing over him again, Simon listens closely if there are any nearby hissing sound.
In the meantime, he loosens the shield he is carrying and makes himself as small as possible behind it.
Waiting to see how that second channel is working out.
Shield + Full defence for +5 AC.
I am a bit out of my area of expertise here ^^.
Are these shadows? Then why do we hear&smell bones moving?
Are they shooting us with foul arrows?

Simon, it is at 5' now. Go ahead with your attack. Miss chance still applies
6d20 ⇒ (9, 1, 17, 4, 9, 19) = 59
There are a couple more pained sounds, but nothing falls over.

Retcon incoming. We don't want to waste Vuzis magick, yesyes?
Just for my interest... is pinpointing a target location different different to be able to see it, for the sake of attacking - or is that miss chance coming from somewhere else entirely?
With a sharp whistle, Simon directs Emily to his side and unleash a series of swings at his assailant he cannot see but smell.
It is quite frankly, a creepy experience.
Even in the darkest nights, he was not as dependant in his other senses than now.
TWF +1 Keen Kukri, Pack-Flanking: 1d20 + 9 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 9 + 4 = 28
Damage+Sneak Attack: 1d4 + 8 + 3d6 ⇒ (1) + 8 + (4, 6, 1) = 20
Miss on >50: 1d100 ⇒ 1

TWF +1 Keen Dagger, Pack-Flanking: 1d20 + 9 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 9 + 4 = 28
Damage+Sneak Attack: 1d4 + 2 + 3d6 ⇒ (4) + 2 + (1, 1, 6) = 14
Miss on >100: 1d100 ⇒ 3

Can you crit what you cannot see?: 1d20 + 9 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 4 + 3 = 28
(Probably!) PO-AOO +1 Keen Kukri, Pack-Flanking: 1d20 + 11 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 11 + 4 + 4 = 35
Damage+Sneak Attack: 1d4 + 8 + 3d6 ⇒ (1) + 8 + (6, 6, 4) = 25
Miss on >50: 1d100 ⇒ 68
Ahh sad, that could have been another one^^

Finally, brother found one!
Time to bite and claw those ... What are they?
Bite, Pack-Flanking: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 10 + 4 = 34
Bite Damage: 1d6 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 3 + (3) = 7
Miss >50: 1d100 ⇒ 46

Claw, Pack Flanking: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 10 + 4 = 30
Claw Damage: 1d4 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 3 + (5) = 11
Miss >50: 1d100 ⇒ 65

Claw, Pack Flanking: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 4 = 18
Claw Damage: 1d4 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 3 + (5) = 10
Miss >50: 1d100 ⇒ 12

PO-AoO Bite: 1d20 + 10 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 4 + 4 = 30
Bite Damage: 1d6 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 3 + (3) = 11
Miss >50: 1d100 ⇒ 47

Emily does not like shadowy-things and crits too?: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 4 = 19
... She does not like them, but probably does not crit.
+1 AoMF means, all her attacks are magic.

Simon, it feels like chipping away at stone, but your pretty sure you hurt it.

Forgot to mention - eye for an eye: They take 1 Str damage per hit from me as well - hah!
"Cain, get over here-meourch!
This -huff- things can -huff- need a good pounding from your -hufff- hammer!"

Zadira backs up again. Even though nothing swiped her this time, she doesn't want to risk it. She shoots again, hoping that she is hurting something and that it won't try to maul her again.

Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18 (v. Undead)
Damage (Bludgeoning): 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 (v. Undead and focused shot)

50% miss chance (1-50=hit, 51-100=miss): 1d100 ⇒ 68

Kayla holds her ground, back up, we need some light to counteract the enemy's darkness. they are using it to hide in. Kayla is unsure what to make of these creatures.

they may be more shadows.

Oh shit, didn’t realize but str damage and as a result shadows are totally my weakness. Shifting the enchantment bonus on my weapon/shield last round as a full round action where I was skipped because apparently the post I thought I made didn’t go through. My shield bonus (+5) now applies to AC vs these things, removing keen and light fortification for ghost touch. Was there a save vs the str damage? Also is this supernatural darkness or can dark vision see through it?

Cain groans as the undead creature saps his strength, faltering slightly before striking back with his bone hammer 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18 1d100 ⇒ 7 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17 1d100 ⇒ 53

1d10 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
if they both hit: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

No save as it's a rider on an attack roll. The darkness is supernatural. Darkvision will not help you here.

so they also have miss chance then? Unless they are devils

*Innocent Whistle*
I will say that I'm running this exactly as written. No mean GM shenanigans here.

Cain: In a rare occurance that could not have come at a worse time, your strikes hit only air. The counter is lethal and only your enhanced defenses save you from a truly dangerous hit to your gut.
Take 4 slashing and 3 Str damage from one barely unconfirmed crit.

Simon: You can smell them and feel their Wrongness, but that isn't enough to save your from their strikes that come from nowhere. They catch you twice, the blades ripping apart both your flesh and your soul! Thankfully, your pack is there and Emily tears into the monster just as Vuzi's energy pulses! You hear a crack, then a clatter of bones and mail falling at your feet! You got one!
Take 7 slashing and 4 Str damage from 2 hits

Zadira: They come for you, you can feel it! The hiss of strikes in the dark, the chittering clack of bones! From no where a blade pierces your side, stabbing up toward your heart and you feel it beat less vigorously in spite of the adrenaline pulsing through you! If that weren't enough, a follow up blow to the shoulder leaves you feeling like the world itself is leaning on you!
Take 8 slashing and 7 Str damage

Vuzi: The dead are coming for you. You can feel it. The one you control fights to save you, but it finds no success at the moment. You wish your assailant was less lucky. Two blades slice your arms and your hands suddenly feel like stones!
Take 7 slashing and 4 Str damage

Grelthe: In the darkest night is when a Paladin shines the brightest, or so your mentors said. Well, if there was a time to shine, it was now. But your find yourself effectively alone in the dark, fending off a foe you cannot see. But, perhaps, the Gods are with you, for while your allies and friends cry out in shock and pain, you manage to keep the blades in the dark at arm's length.
Take No damage. :)

Zadira is too weak to move in any way and is now unconscious.

Kayla yells into the darkness get out of there follow my voice . she cannot see her companions but can hear their cries.

I am unsure where exactly Kayla is, but I think she is not in the darkness. so she is trying to guide anyone alive out toward her.

Nobody's really sure where anyone is at the moment. :)
But you can be just outside the darkness as you had life interfere.

I don't think Zadira should be unconscious? You took 10 STR damage, which only gives you -5 to your STR score, so you should still be at STR 5, right?

For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability. If the amount of ability damage you have taken equals or exceeds your ability score, you immediately fall unconscious until the damage is less than your ability score.

Vuzi starts to move back toward Kayla's voice. She cats Protection from Evil on herself.

AC is now 21 from the spell.

Grelthe:. If the amount of ability damage you have taken equals or exceeds your ability score, you immediately fall unconscious until the damage is less than your ability score.

My base ability score is 8, and is adjusted to 10 with my belt of giant strength, and I have 10 damage. I was going off the explanation HERE that explains what happens for each score. I thought I might have actually been dead, but that is only for CON.

Ah, I see how I misunderstood. Its based on the ability DAMAGE, not the PENALTY. Thanks GM Choon. Sorry for gumming up the game.

Since Grelthe heard one fall, she figures they might be close to death and tries one more channel before she backs out of the darkness towards Kayla's voice.
3d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 1) = 11

Str: 5/11.
Switching to Animal Focus: Boar for +2 Str, making this a 7/13.
"Emily, search the caster-woman, she's in trouble-meow.
Get her out."
While his companion is getting a smell on Zadira, Simon calls Gozreth for protection in this darkest hour.
Barkskin. I should be free after we killed my enemy, right?
As he feels Emily leaving his side, he follows her to Zadiras side.

With smell, it should be a move action for her to pinpoint Zadira.
Using another move to get to her side together with Simon.
With the temporary str buff from AF, I hope to survive another round and extract her next round...
AC should be +2 (+3 Barkskin, -1Dex)

The party falls back toward Kayla. You stumble into the light and even the dim dungeon feels like a summers day. Simon, Emily, and Cain form the rear guard as Kayla is dragged out and Grelthe releases more divine enegy.
[Spoiler= oh my dice!]
6d20 ⇒ (14, 2, 5, 11, 10, 20) = 62
vs simion: 2d20 ⇒ (16, 8) = 24
damage: 2d6 + 2d3 ⇒ (3, 3) + (1, 2) = 9
vs emily: 2d20 ⇒ (8, 10) = 18
damage: 2d6 + 2d3 ⇒ (2, 4) + (2, 2) = 10
vs cain: 2d20 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8

You turn to confront your attackers on more even terms. Then the darkness MOVES! It Chases You down and envelopes all of you! Simon and Emily can each be hears taking more hits as Cain holds his own!
Simon takes 6 slashing and 3 Str
Emily takes 6 slashing and 4 Str
Cain avoids getting hit.
Party up!

"Dad did not vurk. Vat now?" she heads to where she saw Zadria.

If she can find her, she'll grab her arm, and cast cure moderate wounds on her. Then she'll hold tight ready to move if needed. I haf her Simon. Emily needs to fight."

CMW: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (2, 6) + 6 = 14

Emily drops Zadira as Simon is hit again and she feels her brother getting weaker by the second.
With an angry hiss she throws herself blindly at the attacker, trusting her superior sense of smell to guide her revenge strike.
Revenge Strike Trick.
Consider Simon to be under the influence of Guard Companion (+4AC, if hit anyway he takes half damage) until further notice.
Just tell me when it comes into play so I can mark the uses off.

Reflex Bite, Pack-Flanking: 1d20 + 9 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 9 + 4 = 16
Bite Damage: 1d6 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 4 + (3) = 8
Miss: 1d100 ⇒ 4

As the weakness grows in his limbs, a hot resolve grows in the Catfolks heart. They won't get away from this invisible evil.
So there is but one choice - kill or be killed.
As is the way of the wild.
They want an all out fight?
So be it.

Ok, Immediate action means that she would, reasonably, use it on the first attack. It still hits, so Simon takes 1 slashing and 1 Str for a total of 4 slashing and 3 str for the round. She can use it only once/rd as it's an immediate action.

Simon and Emily's attacks hit on stone hard foe, but it isn't destroyed. Their attacks are having a hard time doing enough damage to make a huge difference!

Forgot last round attack from Cain
1d20 + 1d100 ⇒ (4) + (8) = 12
Cain attacks with his hammer as he retreats, but misses!

Thanks for the heal. Also, this battle is super confusing without a map, but I suppose that is fitting since we are in the dark.

Ya. I thought about doing a map, but you're literally in the dark, so ya. :)

Grelthe curses in Skald and says "I am running low on divine energies for today. I can try to fight with my Morningstar in the dark, but I can't tell where anything is? How are you all doing? I am unhurt, but am going to try moving." You hear a quaver in her voice you've never noticed before.

She carefully listens to try to find an enemy...
perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

If she can figure out what square an enemy is in she moves towards and attacks that square, otherwise she moves toward where she last saw Zadira and holds her action to attack anything that attacks herself (or Zadira, if she reaches her).

2H Morningstar +1 power attack: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 12 - 2 = 21
miss: 1d100 ⇒ 40 hit
damage: 1d8 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 6 = 17

Kayla keeps her blades drawn and tries to find a wall to use as a guide to backtrack.

she will swing "blindly" at whatever comes near her that seems dangerous.

ready attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20
ready damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
miss 01-50: 1d100 ⇒ 49 miss

Vuzi begins to drag Zadira in the direction she thinks out is.

"Ve should leaf. Dis is not going vell."

Sorry about the dragging Zadira.

No worries. Rather be dragged and live to fight another day. Thanks for getting me out. :)

Simon, Emily, and Grethle hapoen to hit the same foe and it clatters to the ground!
1d20 + 1d100 ⇒ (11) + (20) = 31
Cain also hits and sends another to the stone floor! They seem to be weakening!

Recognizing Simon's weakness, the foes go after him! Emily instinctively protects her Brother, but unwittingly opens herself up to a brutal, savage counter attack! Two blades pierce her just behind the shoulder and try to drink her soul away!
Simon takes 3 slashing and 1 Str tanks to Emily, but Emily takes 15 slashing and 8 Str in turn!

Cain holds the line very well, using his innate powers to keep himself from being drained.
cain negates 3 slashing and 1 Str.
PARTY TIME!

"If vu are hurt come to me. I can heal." Vuzi yells as she years grunts of pain from Simon and Emily.

"If you are hurt badly, retreat! We can't see you to get you out. I can stay and try to hold them back."

She listens intently and tries to find another bad guy to swing at...
sound perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
2H attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 41 hit
damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

2H attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 43 hit
damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Simon does not feel the new, small cut.
Its pain pales against the overwhelming weakness that fills every muscle and sinew of his body.
He feels tired, sleepy, exhausted like never before in his entire life.
The feeling intensives even further as Emily gets cut repeatedly and she feels the same loss of strength as he does.
All determination vanishes and he simply follows the voice of his friends.
Vuzi could help him.
She always could.
Summoning all his strength to duck low, Simon trys his best to make himself a hard target on his way out.
Withdraw both cats to where Vuzi is calling.
I'll add an acrobatics check as well, since I cannot know from where attacks might come, so hopefully I can make myself a pretty hard target that way.
Simon Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26
Emily Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Tough decision, went with IC and situation flow.
Simon cannot know that stat damage is way harder to heal than other hp damage (and I think only Grelthe can do so anyway?).
Metagamer in me guesses that I might have as well stand my ground and tried to dish some more pain out but we'll see what it is good for...

Vuzi reaches out and finds an ally. She finds fur, and casts Cure Serious Wounds on the cat. Her hand reflexively clutches at the fur. "I do not like dis.

1 Simon, 2 Emily: 1d2 ⇒ 2
CSW: 3d8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 8, 4) + 6 = 23

Cain: 1d20 + 1d100 ⇒ (14) + (100) = 114
Following the sound of Grethle's strikes, Cain attempts to join her in attack, but strikes only air.

The party falls back out of the darkness, but it soon follows and engages your rear guard, cain and Grelthe!

Both of your protectors stand their ground! Cain is hit (for 5) but negates it, and Grelthe holds the blades off entirely!

Party up!

to hit: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28
damage: 1d10 + 9 + 1d6 ⇒ (10) + 9 + (6) = 25
1d100 ⇒ 99
Cain slams his hanner bone into the undead, growling in defiance as he tries to run into the light

Grelthe is actually excited one of them finally took a swing at her, much easier to locate them that way. She redoubles her efforts (power attack).

attack 2H +1 Morningstar: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 12 - 2 = 23
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 98miss
damage: 1d8 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 6 = 20

attack 2H +1 Morningstar: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 7 - 2 = 17
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 40hit
damage: 1d8 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 8 + 6 = 15

perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27

Kayla tries to lead the rest to safety, but the darkness seems to follow. suddenly something catches her eye, something not quite right.

no time to debate if its friend or foe, she strikes at the shimmer in the air.

attack the shimmer: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
miss?: 1d100 ⇒ 14
damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

crit if it can be: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
crit damage maybe: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Vuzi continues to haul Zadira out of the darkness. She curses as it follows them."[/b]

Didn't see the perception roll the first time...
perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
...Grelthe is oblivious.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
Simon can feel Emily getting healed by the touch of the half-ork and exhales thankfully - just as he sees something out of the corner of his eyes.
Like haze on a hot summer day. How could this be?
With a weak voice, barely conceivable as his own, he point it out to Vuzi, while uttering the arcane words of perception.
All while doing his best to keep as close to Vuzi and Emily as possible. use detect magic on the shimmer. Sadly Simon has no whatsoever how magic actually works...