And Then a Skeleton Popped Out: subSPUF Carrion Crown

Game Master Rynjin

Oh goody. Now I'm a grappled feebleminded arcane archer. Let's snap my bow and burn my spellbook while we're at it, lol

Well, the monster did kind of basically kill a character, it's not like it put Amanorm to sleep, or stunned him, etc and then waited to see if we would join him in attack, or try to reason with us.

Even if my buddy walked up to a guy and punched him for zero reason, if said guy then pulls out a gun and guns him down, I'm still going to have a problem with it.

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Aww, Zin cares! Who wants a hug from a drooling waste of flesh?

Its literally no different than if Amanorn Attacked Darius and he tore him a new one with one/two whip strikes. It responded to attack much like a powerful person would. It'd be more like if Your friend went up and shot someone in the face and instead the person were only grazed and your friend got their spine snapped.

Well, the monster did kind of basically kill a character, it's not like it put Amanorm to sleep, or stunned him, etc and then waited to see if we would join him in attack, or try to reason with us.

Even if my buddy walked up to a guy and punched him for zero reason, if said guy then pulls out a gun and guns him down, I'm still going to have a problem with it.

But Amanorn didn't punch him, Amanorn SHOT him. With a bullet that EXPLODES. And with intent to kill. Because he was bored of the conversation you were having. Just because he happened to be wearing a bulletproof vest (took relatively little damage...though more than enough to kill a normal person 5 times over...) and had better aim when he retaliated in self-defense doesn't make him in the wrong, here.

Mind you in no way is this a campaign de-railer (actually "off the rails" would be the peaceful resolution), nor does it shift your alignment yet (not that it would matter, since I have no issue with running games with Evil PCs), I just wanted to make things clear.

Everyone is up BTW.

Oh I'm not arguing the moral compass of it, I'm just saying that if it just made Amanorm an idiot for an hour or two, she wouldn't care.

Its that what he did was permanent, whether Amanorm was right or not isn't a matter of concern to her, it's only that he was maimed, and therefore the fungus is going to die.

Im fine with accruing some evil points for this, if you think it's warranted.

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Actually, it's because I thought combat was inevitable and I thought I'd get the drop on it. You said it would eventually get pissed and as I said I missed the walk away part. Player intent was not murderhobo but prevent-murder hobo.

The magical archer, grappled and unable to magic or archer, squirms.
CMB to escape: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Apparently it didn't save my edits. Anyway the gist was yeah you get some "evil points", though it doesn't really matter (I don't mind running games with Evil PCs), but I just wanted to make my stance clear her for any future scenarios like this. If an NPC reacts to hostility, they're not automatically the bad guy in that scenario just 'cause you're the PCs. =)

Its that Darius wont help because what you did was stupid and not only isnt morally correct but Logically incorrect. Killing someone is maiming someone permanently as much as the Feeblemind.. save the Feeblmind is fixable with less money

It's been a while since I've been grappled as a caster, I need to concentrate to cast right?

Concentrate: 1d20 ⇒ 20

Z doesn't currently care at all.

Fireball DC23: 10d6 + 10 ⇒ (1, 6, 6, 3, 5, 1, 2, 2, 6, 5) + 10 = 47 Empower = 70

Burning?: 1d4 ⇒ 2

"Don't you run from me!!!" she screams, unloading another blast of Fire.

Edit: Z's incredibly mad so she'd empower again even though I'm pretty sure it's overkill.

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Eh. I did something similarly stupid in Skulls and Shackles and got killed, so I'm not judging.

Eggscape Artist: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22

Jones delays while waiting to see the results of Zin's torching and Oggg'gggggggg'ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg'ggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggg'gol's noisemaking.

Um...wouldn't Z fireballing hit everyone, as we're all grappled?

Darius places his arms around the Tentacles, trying wriggle out.

CMB: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31

It flew off Amanorm

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He's 40 feet back, and she could throw the ball back farther anyway. It's a pretty large chamber.

Oggg'gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg'ggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg'gggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggggggggg'ol shrieks one last time...in what you think is PLEASURE.

Then his body turns to charred mush, and slams into the ground.

High is good for you: 4d100 ⇒ (67, 20, 25, 15) = 127

6d3 ⇒ (1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1) = 10

Three of the four chambers that line the walls crack open with a hiss, and ten creatures step forth.

Hideous, strange lumps of fungoid flesh and insectoid bodies step from them, moving with an unnatural grace as they work their clawed legs out of the cramped spaces.

"New test subject have arrived."

"Yes. Take them alive, if possible."

"Whole?"

"No."

"Good."

For some reason, their voices grate on your psyche. There seems to be no physical way their forms should be able to make such sounds, and the incongruity becomes mentally painful very quickly.

Everyone: Make me DC 16 Will saves or take 2d3 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5 SAN damage.

10d20 ⇒ (1, 1, 4, 4, 19, 6, 12, 9, 6, 20) = 82

1d2 ⇒ 2

Sledge has two actions up (one before they appear, and he's up first after).

Have you ever noticed you literally roll 8 for me on initiative like every time?

Will: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

Concentration still?: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (12) + 16 = 28

Hit it dead on if so.

The appearance of more creatures seems to only serve to send Z into new heights of anger.

Fireball: 10d6 + 10 ⇒ (4, 4, 2, 5, 3, 5, 3, 3, 6, 6) + 10 = 51 Largest cluster on my turn.

Burning?: 1d4 ⇒ 1

If my posting is intermittent, it's because Paizo has been going down constantly for me.

Will: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

Sledge continues shrugging off the madness.

Stunned in his shock that Amanorn would attack a relatively polite creature, Sledge does not manage to interject before violence occurs.

Realizing violence was now inevitable, Sledge rampages on one of the newcomers.

1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19
1d8 + 24 ⇒ (1) + 24 = 25

1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21
1d8 + 21 ⇒ (3) + 21 = 24

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
1d8 + 21 ⇒ (2) + 21 = 23

Why do my attack/damage rolls always suck?!

Your stench offends Lord Tzeentch, your association with puny casters offends the Blood God, and your lack of mammaries offends Prince Slaanesh, consider realignment to Grandpa Nurgle.

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Will+insp: 1d20 + 12 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 12 + (6) + 2 = 22

GOOD YEAH THANKS DICE I DIDN'T WANT TO USE THAT INSPIRATION FOR ANYTHING ELSE OR HAVE STUDIED COMBAT UP IN THE FIRST ROUND AJFLSKDJFKSDGLFSGLWEGRDLSJGHSKJLADGJLFSDFLSFJKFSKDLZ.

So I think that's...eighty bajillion consecutive will saves that I've failed by 1 or 2. Give or take about half a bajillion.

Jones wastes no time with diplomacy as he shanks the closest creature.

1d20 + 16 ⇒ (20) + 16 = 36
1d6 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Confirm: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (17) + 16 = 33
1d6 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

That's more like it.

And your static to hit modifiers are about ~4-5 lower than an equal leveled Barbarian/Fighter doesn't help either .

Sledge drops it to the floor, unconscious.

One bug delays, and Jones shanks another, injuring it. Sledge and Jones both note their weapons seem to be doing less damage than they should, absorbed by the spongy form of the creature.

Two of the bugs gang up on him. Kn. Nature to identify BTW, though I'll also allow Dungeoneering in this case[ooc]

They each unleash a flurry of claw slashes with their four arms.

The first slashes Jones, grabbing onto him, and then begins to shred him further, ripping into his abdomen, claws questing for his internal organs. The other gleefully rips into him as well, though his zeal makes most of his attacks go wide.

Damage+Sneak Attack+Evisceration: 3d4 + 9 + 6d6 + 2d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 4) + 9 + (2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5) + (5, 1) = 44

Jones take 44 damage and make me a DC 18 Fort save. Failure means you take 1d4 ⇒ 4 Con damage as well.

Darius and Drooling Idiot are up!

Kn. Nature: 1d20 + 20 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 20 + (4) + 2 = 42

Fort: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

"Try slashing weapons, if you have them!" Jones calls out to his friends.

"Also, HALP!"

These are Mi-Go, plant creatures FROM OUTER SPACE space...space....

As Jones has learned firsthand, they can Eviscerate their foes, causing Ability Damage to any Helpless or Grappled creature they get into their clawed hands.

They are deceptive creatures, and adept at disguise as a race.

Mi-Go have no need to breathe, and can survive with no air or atmosphere indefinitely. Combined with their ability to self-propel through the vacuum of space, they have become a prolific race of invaders space invaders, if you will, and see other life, intelligent or no, as nothing more than subjects for their experimentation.

They are resistant to Bludgeoning and Piercing attacks, as well as Fire and Electricty, and completely immune to Cold and diseases (handy features for a race of biologically inclined mad scientists who travel through space without a vessel)

They possess great technology, bio-organic in nature, and can replicate the effects of most magical items with this tech, alongside other wonders that magic has not, and may very well never, achieve.

Unlike Ogg'gggg'ol and his people, the Mi-Go are utterly, undeniably evil. They care for nothing and no one but themselves and the results of their experiments.

A CR14 encounter at lvl 9, that's rough.

Godspeed Jones, you will be missed.

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It's happening again ;____;

Amanorn moves primally. There's no thoughts to his movement, no planning - there's the thing and the thing hurt the friend.

He unloads two arrows into the one grappling Jones (or if it kills him with the first, the second into the other)

I can still deadly aim at least. +2 damage per hit if I can still activate arcane strike. It's not a spell. I doubt it though.
Attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27
Damage: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
Damage: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

"HHHRRRHHJJAAAABBBBB flllaafnaprrsszzdo!"

A CR14 encounter at lvl 9, that's rough.

Godspeed Jones, you will be missed.

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I'm not sure the writers thought the whole "50% chance of 2d3 per room" thing through, honestly. But it made sense because of where you are, so I didn't think to change it. And yes, 10 of them IS the expected number here, though could have been as many as 24.

@Amanorn: Did you break free of the Black Tentacles first?

I guess not. How do I keep missing these details? Even if I break free, which I suspect I won't, it would take my standard action.

Escape: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

So close. You're looking for a 25.

1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19
1d8 + 24 ⇒ (4) + 24 = 28

1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18
1d8 + 21 ⇒ (6) + 21 = 27

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20
1d8 + 21 ⇒ (4) + 21 = 25

THESE ROLLS

Sledge keeps the heat on, lunging to attack one of the ones on Jones. Flanking with the Jones guy.

I'm not sure the writers thought the whole "50% chance of 2d3 per room" thing through, honestly. But it made sense because of where you are, so I didn't think to change it. And yes, 10 of them IS the expected number here, though could have been as many as 24. @Amanorn: Did you break free of the Black Tentacles first?

Wouldn't 6 be the expected? 1.5 per 1d3 is average of 3 per room, four rooms at 50/50 would be 6, no?

But yes the potential for a CR16 at lvl 9 is pretty outrageous. Better planning on their part would have done 1d3+1 per room.

Averaging 2.5 per room and a worst case scenario of 16.

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Not only that, I just looked at the Mi-go sheet. Solid Hp, average armor, plant traits and great resists, solid saves, four attacks with sneak attack and grab riders, stat damage, and an obscene intelligence score. These things put shambling mounds to shame for CR6 baddies.

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Sundakan wrote:

I'm not sure the writers thought the whole "50% chance of 2d3 per room" thing through, honestly. But it made sense because of where you are, so I didn't think to change it. And yes, 10 of them IS the expected number here, though could have been as many as 24. @Amanorn: Did you break free of the Black Tentacles first?

Wouldn't 6 be the expected? 1.5 per 1d3 is average of 3 per room, four rooms at 50/50 would be 6, no?

That would be the average, but the statblock for the encounter says "Mi-Go (10)" so they were expecting 10, it seems. If it makes you feel better, you're definitely leveling after this encounter.

Darius?

Oh, cool, Amanorn can put a bunch of skill ranks into Profession: Vegetable.

Isn't the number inside the () the CR of the encounter? It would make sense to me, since the average expected Mi-go (6) is a CR 10 encounter.

Not that it matters.

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Oh, cool, Amanorn can put a bunch of skill ranks into Profession: Vegetable.

Rude.

But funny.

On the same topic I think Jones is going to be able to put 10 levels into a new class, so that's pretty exciting.

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Yeah, he'll also get a new name, appearance, personality, and possibly even race. It'll be great!

Isn't the number inside the () the CR of the encounter? It would make sense to me, since the average expected Mi-go (6) is a CR 10 encounter.

Not that it matters.

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Nope. Number in parentheses is number in the area. Then it gives the CR per enemy. So Mi-Go (10), CR 6. The encounter/room itself is, of course, "CR Varies".

Really this wouldn't have been SUPER hard had Jones and Sledge not run right into the pack of ten creepy aliens. A single Empowered Fireball would kill quite a few of them. Sledge can potentially Evasion his way out, but even if Jones saves he's dead if you toss that ball of fire.

Just woke up Easter Sunday and all, dealing with fam.

How far are they from him?

Eh? We're still a month off from Easter.

The nearest is 20 feet.

I mean the one Grappling Jones/or Flanking him. As far as that my family does things way in advance we have to get suits and dresses and plan stuff because the family visits everyone in Lima, Ohio. So we make sure its more organized... people of color enjoy too much free food and drink basically.

That would be the one(s) I meant. You're within 20 feet of the offending Mi-Go that are currently Evsicerating Jones.

Darius is keeping with the theme of the book and living one month in the future, he's already playing with Jones new character, the pesh addict Wizard, Theodore Logan.

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Darius steels his mind for some unknown mental assault it was becoming frequent.

Will Save: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26

" Hold on Jones! I'll get you out of there. "

Though his upset nature with Zin would have to wait as He stepped forward and Grimoire lanced out at the creatures assaulting Jones.
The one holding him first

Plant Bane Grimoire: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (6) + 16 = 22
Plant Bane Grimoire Damage: 1d3 + 13 + 4d6 ⇒ (2) + 13 + (1, 5, 2, 3) = 26

Secondary Plant Bane Grimoire: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
Secondary Plant Bane Grimoire Damage: 1d3 + 13 + 4d6 ⇒ (1) + 13 + (5, 5, 4, 3) = 31

5ft Step, Bane, Full Attack

Zin's average fireball is 45 damage. I save 50% of the time. She can just let me have it. Can't speak for jones tho

Darius whips it once, harming it.

Four more Mi-Go move in (the other two being dropped by Sledge and Jones).

They tag-team Sledge and Darius, but can't move around to flank.

Darius take 37 damage, you are Grappled, and make a DC 18 Fort save or take 1d4 ⇒ 1 Con damage. Sledge, take 12 damage. Zin is up! Jones' life is in your hands.

One, How the hell did they full attack Darius, Two They would provoke anyway

I'm a derple derp is why. You get AoO. 10 damage to you, no Grapple.

Sledge eats the damage he took anyway though, they didn't need to move more than 5 feet for him.

If Z wasn't grappled I would at least give you sanctuary Jones since that's far more likely to keep you alive, but this is the best I got. Hope for no 20s.

Archons Aura is up, since they're 20 feet away, they're in range.

"You're all a bunch of idiots you know that!? You know what I do to masses of monsters and you all rush in!"

"And you Jones! Get your ass back here, I can't burn you back to life!"

Turn on wings.

Z's fiery wings burst into life, and with some apparent effort she gathers some of her flames from her arms that form a Halo of Fire above her head, that moments later is mirrored in a small ring twenty feet in all directions from her.

"Despair in my presence!" she shouts to the Mi-Go.

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