Arxus continues flailing his sword around although no visible threat remains. Everyone looks at him funnily.
The enemy is stabilized by the team, and they do find on the body signs that they belong to the Aspis consortium. On the body, you find several gear, weapons, armor, but what catches your eye is a potion of cure light wounds, and another potion of cure moderate wounds.
Assume they have masterwork quality of common weapons. NO magic detected. How do you get the vase?
Male LG Human (Garundi) Warpriest of Erastil 8 | HP 51/51| AC: 26 (18 tch, 21 Fl) | CMB: +8, CMD: 26 | F: +8, R: +8, W: +10 | Init: +5 | Perc: +2, SM: +8 | Speed 30, Fly 50 (avg) | Pearls of Power I 0/2 | Sacred Weapon 8/8, Fervor 3/7, Blessings 5/7, Shirt Reroll 1/1, Coin 1/1| Active conditions: Ant Haul, sacred armor, blessing of good, shield of wings, DF, SoF
"Grippli... you going to try from above, or did you want me to boost you?"
"If you want to try from above, why don't you just lower it down to me, if you can." he comments, hoping the team is going to be careful. He then casts guidance on himself.
The cage is fixed by chains attached to the ceiling, if you want to lower it, you'll have to break the chains, or you can attempt to open the cage by disable device, cage can also be broken open.
Male LG Human (Garundi) Warpriest of Erastil 8 | HP 51/51| AC: 26 (18 tch, 21 Fl) | CMB: +8, CMD: 26 | F: +8, R: +8, W: +10 | Init: +5 | Perc: +2, SM: +8 | Speed 30, Fly 50 (avg) | Pearls of Power I 0/2 | Sacred Weapon 8/8, Fervor 3/7, Blessings 5/7, Shirt Reroll 1/1, Coin 1/1| Active conditions: Ant Haul, sacred armor, blessing of good, shield of wings, DF, SoF
"Arxus, your sword,please?" asks Archer, a plan forming in his head.
He hands to sword up to Grippli, "If you can, Grippli, pease use this blade to cut he chain as high as you can, while holding on to below the cut. Then you can hand it down to me. I shall be ready to catch it." he pauses a moment.
"Chamius, you know Mage hand? Perhaps you could hold up the cage when Grippli cuts the chain? That would be far safer. "
Without Exotic Weapon Prof.: Bastard Sword, Grippli would be unable to use Arxus' Adamantine blade one-handed... Would Arxus be able to reach/attack the chain?
"Be ready to catch the chain, wise Grippli. Archer, prepare to catch the cage should he lose his grasp."
Arxus tilts his head back, and aiming his voice directly at the links of the chain (and not the cage or the vase). Casts (as a Spell-Like Ability) ' Shatter.'
As long as the chain (or a specific load-bearing link) weighs less than 40 lbs: it is sundered.
Cage is 8 feet up in the air per original post, but going to help move things along.
Arxus shatters the chain holding the chain up, as the rest of the pathfinders catch and secure the loot as it falls from the air. They break open the cage to retrieve the vase from within.
Sealed with a wax-coated cork, the vase contains a number of red paper envelopes, each embossed with an elaborate hand-painted print of a jade phoenix. The envelope holds a folded invitation to attend a performance of a traditional opera from Lung Wa entitled Dawn of the Jade Phoenix, to be held at a small theater in the Foreign Quarter.
You can now head back to the inn, let me know what you're doing in the inn before you sleep.
Male LG Human (Garundi) Warpriest of Erastil 8 | HP 51/51| AC: 26 (18 tch, 21 Fl) | CMB: +8, CMD: 26 | F: +8, R: +8, W: +10 | Init: +5 | Perc: +2, SM: +8 | Speed 30, Fly 50 (avg) | Pearls of Power I 0/2 | Sacred Weapon 8/8, Fervor 3/7, Blessings 5/7, Shirt Reroll 1/1, Coin 1/1| Active conditions: Ant Haul, sacred armor, blessing of good, shield of wings, DF, SoF
"Good job, Arxus! Wouldn't have thought that you could do that."
On the way back to the inn, he agrees with Chamius, "Yes, we should. We did discuss this before, but apparently Dain stepped out last night. But, really, one person on watch should be sufficient. Arxus, with your eyes that can see int he dark, if you can take the middle watch, I can watch in the evening, and I think Melea can take the morning? Give each of us enough sleep, if we turn in early."
Female Aasimar (plumekith) Inquisitor 5/Evangelist 1 | AC 19/14/15 | HP 44/44 | CMD 19 | F +7, R +8, W +9 | Init +7 | Perception +12 | Resist Acid, Cold, Electricity 7
Galilah:
AC 22/15/17 (24/17/19) | HP 37/37 | CMD 23 | F +6, R +9, W +2 | Perc +5
Conditions:
Bull Aspect
"Sounds fair to me, although I will still want to check the room..." Melea's eyes glow a brilliant white again as she searches the room for invisible threats.
I'm fine with the sleep schedule plan, assuming that we're heading back to the inn. And I could use a few of my Lay on Hands to help anyone before bed, if necessary.
Healing (if bed time and necessary):
Lay on Hands:2d6 ⇒ (6, 2) = 8 Lay on Hands:2d6 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8 Lay on Hands:2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6
Small groups of challengers slowly begin emerging from the tunnels, some elated at having a vase, some looking crushed with defeat as they stare at their empty hands. Victorious or vanquished, they drift off into the night to get clean and well rested after a crawl through a sewer.
Map of inn is up! You may choose your sleeping arrangements as well, there is only one double bed, the rest of them are single beds. How do you retire yourselves?
Male Human Bard/5 HP 38/38 AC17/T 12/FF 15 Fort +4/Ref +7/ Will +5 Init +2 Perc +8|Sense Motive +13*
I recommend that we take the six rooms (or five of the six) that I outlined on the map, and the person on watch does so from the hall (with occasional room checks).
Male LG Human (Garundi) Warpriest of Erastil 8 | HP 51/51| AC: 26 (18 tch, 21 Fl) | CMB: +8, CMD: 26 | F: +8, R: +8, W: +10 | Init: +5 | Perc: +2, SM: +8 | Speed 30, Fly 50 (avg) | Pearls of Power I 0/2 | Sacred Weapon 8/8, Fervor 3/7, Blessings 5/7, Shirt Reroll 1/1, Coin 1/1| Active conditions: Ant Haul, sacred armor, blessing of good, shield of wings, DF, SoF
"Chamius, I think we are agreed about the rooms. To be fair, we only need four rooms, right? Whomever is on guard can sit in the hallway, and with no windows, we are likely safer."
After dinner with his companions, and some speculation of what these invitations will lead to, Arxus retires to his room. He begins to treat his blades with oils and a whetstone. Whetstone on his Adamantine bastard sword, cold iron longsword, and silver longsword. He treats and sharpens his blades while reciting Iomedaen devotionals.
"This is my sword. Without my heart to guide it, it is worthless - my strength is not in my sword, but in my heart. If I lose my sword, I have lost a tool. If I betray my heart, I have died."
Then Arxus will lay his Adamantine sword, his shield, and his armored coat near his bed.
For his watch he will get fully geared up, but while sleeping this is his setup for quickly jumping into anything unexpected
Female Aasimar (plumekith) Inquisitor 5/Evangelist 1 | AC 19/14/15 | HP 44/44 | CMD 19 | F +7, R +8, W +9 | Init +7 | Perception +12 | Resist Acid, Cold, Electricity 7
Galilah:
AC 22/15/17 (24/17/19) | HP 37/37 | CMD 23 | F +6, R +9, W +2 | Perc +5
Conditions:
Bull Aspect
Melea lays her bow, quiver, and backpack at the foot of her bed, retiring in a simple, if rather utilitarian, shift, as well as her light armor. While not the most comfortable, she decides it is the most balanced option, should a fight break out, and it is her suspicion one likely will. Galilah dozes lightly at the foot of her bed, or on top of the sheets, depending on an almost random-seeming set of preferences. Upon her turn at the watch, she dresses quickly and patiently stands guard, bow drawn, until relieved by the next teammate.
After a long day, the pathfinder's retires to the room to sleep as Arxus takes the first watch.
Everyone is asleep and you should be undressed in a way that you get a full's rest, meaning no heavy/medium armors for most folk. To keep things spicy, was thinking of keeping the game in spoilers for those awake, those sleeping maintain obliviousness to the happenings outside. But it's up for debate. This part will be tricky so bear with me.
GM:
disguise:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
Arxus, or Perception DC 15:
As Arxus takes the watch and pathfinders fall asleep, the first two hours are uneventful. However, at the second hour, the hallway door opens and two men holding cleaning gear, with mops, buckets, and brooms walk in. Nonchalantly they greet Arxus, "Oh excuse us, we're just doing the night cleaning."
Those who heard the noise may react however they want.
Arxus:
If you pass a DC 17 sense motive check Arxus 1 if fail Arxus 2,you receive a +5 circumstance bonus for being suspicious of everyone.
Arxus 1:
The disguises don't fool your eyes, you notice that the some of the equipment are weapons in disguise. You have one action as if surprise round. You may shout to wake them up, it's a DC 5 for them to hear you.
Arxus 2:
With immediate affect, a dart fly from the thistles of the brooms they hold. But it barely misses you.
Male Human Bard/5 HP 38/38 AC17/T 12/FF 15 Fort +4/Ref +7/ Will +5 Init +2 Perc +8|Sense Motive +13*
Chamius beds down fully clothed, wearing his chain shirt and keeping his gear near to hand.
Perception check:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Action:
The bard rouses from fitful slumber at the conversation outside. Odd. Most inns don't clean at night. He rolls to his feet and moves to the door, listening for a clearer indication of what's happening.
Male LG Human (Garundi) Warpriest of Erastil 8 | HP 51/51| AC: 26 (18 tch, 21 Fl) | CMB: +8, CMD: 26 | F: +8, R: +8, W: +10 | Init: +5 | Perc: +2, SM: +8 | Speed 30, Fly 50 (avg) | Pearls of Power I 0/2 | Sacred Weapon 8/8, Fervor 3/7, Blessings 5/7, Shirt Reroll 1/1, Coin 1/1| Active conditions: Ant Haul, sacred armor, blessing of good, shield of wings, DF, SoF
Perception DC15:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Archer's action:
Note: Archer would have restored both of his Divine Favor with his two pearls
Cleaning crews don't typically work at night at any inn he has been in, so Archer looks to his armor, and realizes that he will not be able to get it on in any sort of haste. So, instead, he grabs his MW nodachi, and uses his third fervor to cast shield of faith to increase his armor class.
Made a mistake, there is suppose to be one more dart with the second guy. dart,sneak:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8 Still miss
dmg,sneak:1d4 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + (1) + 2 = 4
Will wait a couple more hours for Grippli and Melea to make their perceptions checks, else I will roll for them.
Female Aasimar (plumekith) Inquisitor 5/Evangelist 1 | AC 19/14/15 | HP 44/44 | CMD 19 | F +7, R +8, W +9 | Init +7 | Perception +12 | Resist Acid, Cold, Electricity 7
Galilah:
AC 22/15/17 (24/17/19) | HP 37/37 | CMD 23 | F +6, R +9, W +2 | Perc +5
Conditions:
Bull Aspect
Ah, didn't notice we were all supposed to do that.
Perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Melea's action:
Melea, hearing a noise out of the ordinary, gets up, dresses quickly, and beckons Galilah to follow her, bow drawn. 'What is going on this time? Was that Arxus yelling?'
Grippli's perception is +14 and can't fail! did not note that earlier. Since everyone is awake, we'll treat this like combat now![ooc]
[ooc]From the moment you wake up, whatever actions you take should be round 1 action. As the assassin is likely to attack and make attack noises on their round, you can change your action.
Melea , since your init rolled high- no noise out of the ordinary yet, you only hear people walking and talking per the perception DC15 spoiler only, the real noise out of the ordinary starts at Assassins Round 1 or Arxus turn.
So (just to clarify).
Surprise Round: Assassins attack Arxus.
Round 1: Everyone wakes up/gets ready, assassins attack again, Arxus' actions from above.
And we'd be in round two?
Just trying to make sense of the timeline. (You're doing a great job of GMing (and putting up with us) this is my first PbP, so I'm still trying to wrap my head around a few things, such as timing with delayed responses)
Correct! It's different but You'll get used to PbP, I enjoy it more than real life! It's more relaxed in my opinion, just that his one is a special so everyones gotta stick to the timing! But I still hope to give everyone the full PbP experience without compromising the scenario!
To make it easier I'll delay you, since you can't actually see them from inside the room, you can't make that sense motive. Be clear to make know if you have to put on armor, and what your current AC is.
The Assasins make haste to try to kill Arxus whom they missed with their darts. One of them fires another dart first before the other goes in with the sword. But Arxus armory proves far to affective for the attack.
Female Aasimar (plumekith) Inquisitor 5/Evangelist 1 | AC 19/14/15 | HP 44/44 | CMD 19 | F +7, R +8, W +9 | Init +7 | Perception +12 | Resist Acid, Cold, Electricity 7
Galilah:
AC 22/15/17 (24/17/19) | HP 37/37 | CMD 23 | F +6, R +9, W +2 | Perc +5
Conditions:
Bull Aspect
I was already wearing my armor, as it is light. AC is unchanged, will now come out of delay.
Melea, now actually hearing the sounds of a fight, runs up the door and yanks it open. Galilah, noticing a hostile and unfamiliar face, flies forth to maul it and bring it down.
Male Human Bard/5 HP 38/38 AC17/T 12/FF 15 Fort +4/Ref +7/ Will +5 Init +2 Perc +8|Sense Motive +13*
Chamius throws open the door. "Disturb us in our peaceful slumber?/That's not right! We've got your number!/Mistake to rouse us from our bed/Last mistake, for you'll be dead."
Grippli hasn't posted in a while but we'll have to keep moving since we're on a tight schedule, and we don't wanna fall behind. I just messaged him to check on him.
Melea comes out prepared for battle, and as soon as sights are set on the assassins, the cat tries to bite at it, but it missed it by only a centimetre.
Chamius upon hearing the commotion, throws out and says a few words of encouragement to motivate the party in the time of need.
Grippli hears the commotion but continues sleeping.
Arxus being an overly formidable foe for the assassin, causes them to switch target seeing a now talkative human in their midst. But both their swords fumble in the way of each other as they both try to strike simultaneously.
Chaimus do you have any armor on? Both rolls missed regardless but need to know still. These guys seem like no challenge whatsoever. short sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11 short sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
The second door leading to outside the room, unbeknownst to Arxus, another assassin lurks in the shadows and sneaks in, and as he opens the door, he too fires a dart at Arxus. This time the dart finally lands a blow right in the crevice of his armor.
dart:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24Arxus denied Dex mod to AC from stealth attack
dmg,sneak:1d4 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 2 + (5) = 9Fortidue 12 save or take 1 Con and 1 wis damage.
Combat Round 2 Active conditions: Inspire courage
Asassins blue -12
Melea, Archer AC15, Arxus -9, Chamius, Grippli
Male LG Human (Garundi) Warpriest of Erastil 8 | HP 51/51| AC: 26 (18 tch, 21 Fl) | CMB: +8, CMD: 26 | F: +8, R: +8, W: +10 | Init: +5 | Perc: +2, SM: +8 | Speed 30, Fly 50 (avg) | Pearls of Power I 0/2 | Sacred Weapon 8/8, Fervor 3/7, Blessings 5/7, Shirt Reroll 1/1, Coin 1/1| Active conditions: Ant Haul, sacred armor, blessing of good, shield of wings, DF, SoF
Cautious as always, Archer moves up to the door, but does not open it yet. Instead, he call upon the power of Erastil, charging his weapon with divine power. casts divine favor.
Melea shoots down one of the assassins and Galilah turns her attention and fury on the second one. Taking it out immediately as it bites, trips, and claws it to a certain doom.
Archer is takes caution before coming out of the room while Grippli pays attention to Arxus injuries before Arxus hands down a clean strike on the remaining assassin.
The assassin retaliates, but like his counterpart, he barks more than he can bite.
sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Combat Round 3 Active conditions: Inspire courage
Asassins Y -9
Melea, Archer AC15, Arxus , Chamius, Grippli
The last Assassin falls on the ground with Arxus, Archer, and Melea all attacking the assassin. All three assassin lie helplessly unconscious on the ground before the party.
