And Then a Skeleton Popped Out: subSPUF Carrion Crown

Game Master Rynjin

The goblin shrugs.

"We no decide where to go. Trolls use us for work. Shovel garbage, clean up bones. We move in because unguarded. Think treasure inside castle, but nasty hound guards door. Hide like iron, cruel jaws. Killed Drugnash. Grork order other trolls to barricade door while make plan. Then you show up." he grins widely.

"Kill trolls good. Fun to watch."

" So you are slaves.. alright then, How did this hound kill your 'Drugnash' ? And you do not need compliment us on troll killing it was necessary. If YOU had attacked it would have been the same.. but you seem smarter than that. "

"Ate him whole, one bite. Very mad he dead. Drugnash owe me five silver."

" Well then, you are free I suppose.. but you only get this one chance.. if I hear you mess up.. or tales of Goblins causing issues and find out it is you.. there will be no mercy. I will send one of the Goblinoid Hunter sect after you. "

"You will find out nothing of sort." the goblin promises solemnly, then waves for his buddies to follow as he runs off.

Darius turned to the rest of the group as the sickly green essence of the acid upon his arrow disappeared and was placed back into the Quiver. " Alright then, It seems we have some Intel on the enemy on the other side. So we should prepare ourselves. From the description is seems to be a construct of some kind. *growl* My enhancer will last about 19 mins or so.. lets try to get to the Owner of Schloss Caromarc soon. "

Darius walked to the entrance that had been boarded up and points for someone like Zeke or Dozer to handle it and readied himself with a Divine Favor one the door was opened.

As he spoke and walked, his gait changed, his hands cracked a variable amount and Black hair grew from his body. His teeth sharpened somewhat as well, making his speech awkward near the end.

Is that just the fluff for your Mutagen, or is that something else?

Its Feral Mutagen so its technically not Fluff..It also to do with his family..

Ah, gotcha. Didn't know you had the Feral one.

Got it during level up.. made the most sense characterwise.. Hunts Monsters.. sometimes you need to use your nenemy to kill them.. plus it ties to some gene secrets. And is Ironic.

Ezekiel gives the goblin who spoke five silver. "That is for the debt Drugnash owed you."

He then gives each goblin a gold piece. "And that is for your help."

The goblins each bite the money, and then happily tuck it into their loincloths.

"You're alright, for a longshanks."

"Next time we see longshanks with red skin and horns, we only burn him a little bit."

"Let's burn them."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30

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" What for..? They aren't worth the time or effort or resources and they haven't done anything wrong... Yet. Curb your issues some other way.. sniping flies with a fireball is meaningless"

"They have done nothing. If you tried, I would be force to stop you."

"Don't worry, Z. I'm sure there will be other, more deserving things for you to burn."

Time for ze healz!

Jones gives a CMW and CLW extract to Zeke.

2d8 + 6 ⇒ (7, 1) + 6 = 14
1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

CLW only goes up to +5

Eyeap, Darius is correct.

Upon opening the door It is barred on this side, so no need to bust it down you see a bridge (it is 10 feet wide, and has no guardrail), as well as the dog the golins mentioned. It is a Flesh Golem Hound, much like the ne you found at Vorkstag and Grine's.

It growls and barks at you when it sees you, but does not attack.

Darius looks at the sides and at the Hound, he notes the distance from them to the hound and any doors on the other side. " They weren't kidding about the lack of handrails, best to have it come to us then go to it. We could shoot it from where we are. " Switching out to his bow and lining up a shot.

Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21

He readied for it to attack or for someone else to initiate it and would fire an arrow.

Readied Arrow Shot: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 221d8 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

A simple enough Sense Motive check will tell you easily that the creature has no intention of attacking unless you try to cross the bridge. Aso, I'll reveal it on the map. Back to 5 ft. squares now.

Also, set up a marching order for basic exploration.

Either Zeke, Jones, Z, Darius, Dozer or Switch Jones with Darius .. Though Doer Might want To be in the front too So we COULD have Zeke, Dozer, Darius, Jones Z.. Either way we have to sort of cross this bridge.

Dozer flies. We can both take point.

Seeing the bridge with no handrails, Z casts Air Step.

Oh I should still have some rounds too on my flaming sphere so whenever were ready to attack the dog I'll send that onto it.

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Zin, Air Step won't save you from a fall (you can only float a foot off the ground, or liquid) so you're essentially giving yourself 20 ft. speed for no benefit in this case. Do you still cast it?

The dog continues barking at you.

would it not provide me the acrobatics check at the end of a fall?

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No, that is only if you fall voluntarily. And Air Step in fact gives you a -4 to said check.

Yurp

I'll be filing my ID-10T complaint form with SKR.

I cast it anyways! Because floating is in fact, cool.

Why couldn't we do this at lvl 7 so I could fly around as the fire goddess that I am.

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Okay so Zin is floating, the rest of you are standing, and the dog continues barking.

How long does this Chelaxian Standoff continue?

Jones drinks a Spider Climb extract and draws his bow.

If no one else wants to.. for some reason he will just shoot it

5d20 ⇒ (1, 15, 17, 4, 15) = 52

1d20 ⇒ 7

The dog seems pissed, but not very hurt.

So we'll say this is round 1, since nobody's surprised. Darius shot it, Zin cast Air Step, Jones drank Spider Climb. Zeke!

don't forget Burning sphere on the dog for my move action.

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Zin's sphere moves 30 feet closer to the dog.

Let's assume from here on that unless I need to double move that when I have a burning sphere active and am out of combat I keep it with me? :)

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The thing is, I generally assume that out of combat everyone IS double moving (for some reaosn I assume you guys don't want to effectively halve your buff durations =)). However, I've been handwaving that and assuming it is adjacent to you as we move along since a good 75% of teh time it'll be gone by the time the next combat arrives anyway. But the dog is 45 feet or so away from you.

That's fine, I just want to declare that's what Z does when she has a Sphere available.

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Ezekiel steps up to the creature and hits it.

1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
3d6 + 17 ⇒ (3, 2, 5) + 17 = 27

Ezekiel slams into the creature with crushing force.

It snarls and steps to his side.

Zeke AoO: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

But he misses.

Bull Rush: 1d20 ⇒ 1

It tries to shove Ezekiel, but fails.

'Dozer!

I guess in this case it would be.. Everyone else.. then the thing.. unless something might join init.

Yes. Everyone else may post advance actions as well.

Darius dropped the bow now tat the creature was engaged and moved up delivering a strike with his whip.

Mutagen Grimoire Whipping: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 221d3 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

Darius whips the dog real good.

Hey, Its Tuesday Rynjin.. get on skype

Darius pulls his whip back triumphantly He could go for the more brutal tactic, but thought it better not to wast resources.

Z spends the majority of her time putting her flaming sphere on the dog, and then swearing viciously at it for not taking any damage.

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Bulldozer slam jams down on the beast with a Reckless Power Attack.

"Whoa hoa hoa! I don't play defense."

Attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25
Damage: 1d10 + 17 ⇒ (8) + 17 = 25

Bulldoer knocks a dent into its side. It seems significantly damaged now.

Zeke?

So what you're saying is...

G L O R I O U S F U L L A T T A C K

Zeke delivers two crushing earthbreaker blows to the creature - only snapping his jaws at it in a likely unnecessary afterthought.

1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
3d6 + 17 ⇒ (3, 4, 5) + 17 = 29

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
3d6 + 17 ⇒ (6, 3, 5) + 17 = 31

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
1d4 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

you can't slam with the space jam man

Ezekiel finishes off the dog with the second whack, felling it with a loud cccccrack.

Now the only thing standing between you and the actual mansion is a great iron door, depicting a curious picture of the su being devoured by clouds.

A glance over the edge of the bridge reveals you've slowly been heading upwards since you hit the path....the water is now 200 feet below.