Classic PFS Risen from the Sands (2-4) (Inactive)

Game Master Oykiv

As Bjorn open the dor you can see achamber with carved nature scenes covering its walls, depicting humanoid figures hunting a wide variety of prey—crocodiles, elephants, hippos, leopards, lions, and even stranger beasts. An open sarcophagus lies at the far end of the room.

Behind the sarcophagus appear a a strange feline and, as it moves, an skeleton rises from the sarcophagus. It´s empty eye sockets fixed in Bjorn as the first intruder to enter in his burial room.

Map changed

Combat round one
Abaal can fight

Abaal
Skeleton
Feline
Kyshkumen
Zanu
Seoni
Malaika
Bjor

Combat round one

Abaal can fight

Uhhhhh, no he can't. There's no way to charge, he can't take a five-foot step and ready an action, he could leave, or he can step into the room and get charged, pounced or both--which I suppose is his plan.

Abaal moves into the room subconsciously kicking himself for not be one of the first people through any given door in this place, noting this will make three times he will have nearly gotten killed by letting others go before him. Were that his friends were as quick as he, the Daring Blade of Katapesh. Naturally, when we get to the boss, Abaal will be polite and let Bjor go first. ;)

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty...." He says in a calm low voice, moving along the wall, sword before him, trying to draw his enemies' attention from the doorway. "Nice kitty...."

Total defense (+4 AC) waiting for the inevitable pounce. I can't watch. X{

"Here kitty...."

The feline and the skeleton react to Abbal provocations charging him. Being prepared for the feline charge Abaal is able to dodge his claws and bites, but having to deal with two combatants is too much for him and the skeleton slash him with his sword. -9 HP

Frustrated for attacking such hard prey, the feline howls in anger, making every body feel and ancient and unnatural fear.

Combat round one
Bold can act

Abaal -9 HP
Skeleton charges Abaal making him bleed for enter in the chamber.
Feline pounces over Abaal but fails all it´s attacks
Kyshkumen
Zanu
Seoni
Malaika
Bjor
Abaal also can act. It will be round 2, but he goes before your enemies

Will save (with bravery): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18

Cursing, Abaal steps away from the undead swordsman. He twirls his blade creating a virtual shield of swings between himself and his foes. +4 AC (20) again.

falchion vs kittie (with power attack): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 damage (with shield of swings): 2d4 + 7 ⇒ (4, 4) + 7 = 15/2 = 7

Will Save DC 13, vs fear: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 2 = 22

"Hmpf. I hate cats. Especially the noisy ones."
Dashing into the room, she has a clear shot at the Skeleton. She conjures a ray of energy and hurls it.

Scorching Ray vs Ranged Touch: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 1, 6) = 16

"Oops." Seoni frowns as her arm goes astray. "Did I hit it?"

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

"Bloody hells! That cat crawled out of the underworld!" Bjor shouts, face as pale as a walrus' tusks.
He pushes his companions hard against the wall, rushing out of the narrow entrance. He makes for the chariot room, running at top speed.

How long does the fear effect last? And will Bjor be able to reah his mama by then? ;)

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15

Drawing his second dagger Kyshkumen moves in to flank the not so scary cat, slashing at the beast once he is in range.

Should have enough movement to get into position without provoking.

Melee: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Only to miss horribly.

will: 2 + 1d20 ⇒ 2 + (18) = 20
okay so acid splash it hit: 4 + 1d20 - 4 ⇒ 4 + (18) - 4 = 18 firing into melee penalty
dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 1 acid.

will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
will save, folio re-roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Malaika is horrified by the howl and flees for his life!

Bjor running for: 1d4 ⇒ 2rounds Not enough to reach mama, sorry ;D
Malaika running for: 1d4 ⇒ 1rounds

Seeing how Malaika and Bjor run away, and Seoni and Kysh can´t score a hit, Zanu feels it´s his obligation to start wounding those creatures, so he fires and acid globe to burn it. By the way, who?

Adopting a defensive stance Abaal tries to hit the feline, but he´s too concerned in self defense and can´t hit it.

The skeleton goes against Seoni, but his blade is stopped by the sorcerer force armor.
The feline tries attacks Kish, biting and clawing him. Kysh is badly wounded -13 HP and starts feeling not so good. Make a DC 13 Fort check

Combat round two
Bold can act

Skeleton tries to hit Seoni hard, but force armor protects the sorcerer from being hurt
Feline bites and claws Kysh, wounding him badly.
Kyshkumen -13 HP
Zanu
Seoni
Malaika You can spent the turn comming back
Bjor You can spent the turn comming back
Abaal -9 HP

Abaal is last in turn two to have all of you act before them, it will be his third turn, but don´t changes anything

Bjor stops his running suddenly. He felt strange, but the panic that had enveloped his mind until just moments ago vanished like a bad memory.

"Hmpf. I hate magics in my brain." he grumbles into his beard, turning on the spot and darting back towards the scene of grisly battle at top speed.

will propably miss another combat round huh?

What the heck?!?
...
I hate it when that happens!
He turns around to run back to the scene.

So we all whiffed...Let's see if that happens again!

Seoni breathes a sigh of relief as the skeleton's sword glances off her armaments.

Feeling gutsy, Seoni takes a step back and hurls another scorching ray at the skeleton.

Ranged Touch vs Skeleton: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 2, 1) = 10

"Ha! Much better."

I misread, Bjor got 2 rounds of fear and is still running away ;)

Fort save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Kyshkumen counter attacks the vicious cat with his daggers.

dagger1: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 2 = 23
damage: 1d4 + 3 + 2d8 ⇒ (2) + 3 + (4, 5) = 14

Dagger2: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 2 = 10

As he feels one of the blades connect he twists the dagger to open the wound.

If the cat is capable of bleed damage it is now taking 2 bleed per round.

On his turn, after everyone else has gone.

Abaal stops his spinning blade by abruptly arcing it had and fast down upon the cat-thing's skull. (Ends shield of swings.)

The Sword of Katapesh!! (flanking, power attack): 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 6 + 2 = 28 damage: 2d4 + 7 ⇒ (1, 3) + 7 = 11

THREAT!

The Sword of Katapesh!! (confirmation): 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 = 15 additional damage: 2d4 + 7 ⇒ (2, 3) + 7 = 12

I can't tell who the skeleton is, but the skeleton is who I'm aiming at, sorry thought there was one enemy.

anyway again hit: 4 + 1d20 - 4 ⇒ 4 + (16) - 4 = 16
dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 1

The cat is uncappable to bleed, especcialy after Abaal attack[/dice]

Malaika comes back in time to see how Seoni sends a scorching ray to burn the skeleton. Zanu, moves past him to send another acid globe to hurt slightly the skeleton again.

Near them, Kysh and Abaal take vantage of their flanking to hit one blow after another against the undead feline, destroying it completly.

The skeleton pursues Seony relentlessly, finally slashing the sorcerer. [ooc]-7 HP

skeleton attack, power attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 241d8 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Combat round three
Bold can act

Skeleton -12 HP goes against Seony, finally wounding the sorcerer
Kyshkumen -13 HP
Zanu
Seoni -7 HP
Malaika
Bjor
Abaal -9 HP

Bjor stops his running suddenly. He felt strange, but the panic that had enveloped his mind until just moments ago vanished like a bad memory.

"Hmpf. I hate magics in my brain." he grumbles into his beard, turning on the spot and darting back towards the scene of grisly battle at top speed.

Just pasting my lines from before, now that my fear actually ended :)

"Hmpf. Bad kitty."

Seoni chuckles as Abaal crushes the feline. Unfortunately this distraction gives the skeleton time to hack into her.

She steps back and loosens another volley of magic missiles.

Magic Missile: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 2) + 2 = 7

Kyshkumen drops one of his blades and draws his club as he circles the skeleton, careful to avoid an attack from a reckless move. Once he is in position he swings the club.

Melee club: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Confirm: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Extra damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Seoni missiles wound the skeleton, leaving hit almost destroyed moments before Kyshkume hits it in the head, crushing it and making it´s remaining bones disperse through the room.

After a carefull examination of the room you find nothing valuable in the room, just the breastplate, heavy steel shield, and longsword of the skeleton. This chamber looks like an honorific tomb, but not one worth of a pharaon.

You can heal as you wish before continue.

Once the group has rested a little, and told Bjorn what had happened in his absence, its time to decide where to go next; along the corridor through the door to the west about twenty feet away of the intersenction, or head back to take another route.

"Malaika, could you help me with these wounds? All of my magical gifts, and I can't stop this bleeding."

I'll assume you have a wand of CLW.
Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

"Much better! I'd kiss you if I weren't covered in skeleton dust." She winks at the aasimar before leaving the chamber.

"Did we want to try the other door, here?" She points to the door to the west, about 20 feet away from the intersection. "Maybe we'll find an undead dog and another dozen skeletons."

"All of my magical gifts, and I can't stop this bleeding."

"True, but it is by such sacrifice that even greater magics are possible--the bearing of children." Abaal says sagely.

Bjor rushes back into the room with fury in his eyes, only to realize he missed all the action. Having fled like a little boy before a mere cat, he is mostly content with waiting silently outside - trying to ignore what just happened.

Once the room is searched, he walks to the nearest door, gesturing the others to follow.
"No point in waiting. I shall crush what ever stalks this chamber with the fury of the northwind!"
He is not overly stealthy, trying to obviously show off his inhuman bravery after what happened.

After his companions have gathered need him, he opens the door, weapon and shield ready for what awaits.

Before we open the door.

"Anyone mind using this on me again." Kyshkumen asks as he holds out a wand.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Malaika is visibly embarrassed, Appologies my friends, I should have been able to help. Of course Seoni and Kyshkumen, but a moment.
Will also use a couple of charges on Abaal.
wand CLW 1st: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
wand CLW 2nd: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

With everybody recovered of his wounds, Bjor open the door boldly ready to crush whatever awaits him in the next room.
Just to see the room is empty, no enemies await them not even a pit to fall into, just an empty room with four stone obelisk carved with hieroglyphs, one in each corner. The obelisks surround a golden circle engraved in the center of the floor.

Cool breeze emanates from the southeast obelisk. The southwest obelisk seems to be normal stone. Heat radiates from the northwest obelisk, and the northeast obelisk is covered in a layer of moisture.

Map changed. Move yourselves if you wish

Knowledge (arcana): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Thanks for the healing.

knowledge arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Yes of course! This is clearly a summoning circle and the obelisks helped with that effort.
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detect magic and detect poison

The four obelisks glows with a conjuration aura, nothing unusual taking in account they were used to summon elementals.

There´s no poison in the surroundings.

There´s no poison in the surroundings.

Well, that's quite soothing. Does that mean every room from now on is full of it?

"Bugger me, nothing but fancy stone." Bjor looks slightly disappointed and turns around to leave the room and venture forth to the next nearest destination unless somebody stops him

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Kyshkumen looks along the walls for any signs of secret passages. "So these things are for summoning something? Lets not tinker with them and find out what that 'something' might be."

"I've had enough lifeless creatures for one day." Seoni laughs. "I agree with Kyshkumen. Unless there are any artifacts in here we need to collect for the society, I'll make a note of this room for later. Let some foolish bandit trigger his own death here."

It looks like we're done with the Northern path. Shall we head back to take another route?

With the puppie mimic dead now it´s time for healing and deciding if you´ll go north, south or west.

So, south then so we avoid the dangerous (and probably more trap laden) West path?

I lost any orientation a while ago, and I suppose Bjor would have as well - he is pretty much in "search nearest closed door, proceed to open" mode ;) He will go wherever you send him.

General map drawed for your information. Also, the obelisks chamber have benn rotated to reflect where´s the north.

As Kysh looks around he sees albeit behing no hidden passages, there is a secret panel in the northwest obelisk.

As there is no information of how thick is the obleisk, let´s consider detect magic goes through

Once found a new place to search, Malaika focus his detect magic in the panel, seeing a small conjuration aura differentiated of the obelisks aura.

Hey there is something special there! Let's check it out. ... But carefully.

Hey there is something special there! Let's check it out. ... But carefully.

"Of course." The daring swordsman says from the hall.

With a sigh Kyshkumen carefully opens up the section on the pillar. "Why do I always get the dangerous jobs." he grumbles under his breath.

Because this way you can summon the puppies

Kysh removes the panel and picks what looks like a reddish orange gem, but he must touch the obelisk in the process.

The golden circle glows brightly just an instant and suddenly a fire elemental appears in the room.

Combat round one
Bold can act

Seoni
Zanu
Fire elemental
Abaal
Malaika
Bjor
Kyshkumen

I seem to have displeased the init bot. Second combat I go last with a +8 lol.

Edit:Also what size is said puppy? Small or Medium?

Seoni frowns as the fire fiend comes to life.

Knowledge(Arcana): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

"I'm going to guess...no fire." she mumbles as she releases two more globes of energy into the beast.

Magic Missile: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 2) + 2 = 7

fire elemental, common sense, I'll ray of frost it
hit: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (6) = 11 vs touch I have to doublecheck that modifier, and fixed
dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 1

It´s a medium elemental, Kysh. With a +9 to init ;D

Knowing the obelisks were used to summon elementals, it´s easy for Seony to identify the creature. Being a elemental creature it has the habitual elemental immunities and, obviously fire. It´s vulnerable to cold, can make burn the creatures it hits and has a low will.

Seoni´s missiles impacts the elemental wounding it. But Zanu´s ray misses it.

slam: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 111d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

The elemental, angered by being wound goes against the sorcerer, but Seoni evade´s its attacks easily

Combat round one
Bold can act

Seoni
Zanu
Fire elemental -7 HP
Abaal
Malaika
Bjor
Kyshkumen
Seoni and Zanu can act after the rest or the group

"Danger, it seems, is ever drawn to me...." Abaal mutters, but does not back down. He steps forward to smite the flame with a backhanded slash.

falchion (power attack): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 damage: 2d4 + 7 ⇒ (3, 4) + 7 = 14
Threat
falchion (confirmation): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21 additional damage: 2d4 + 7 ⇒ (4, 4) + 7 = 15
In my head he whips his mystic blade so fast in the direction of the elemental that he literally snuffs the thing out by the gust of wind alone (assuming he kills it). But maybe I'm biased. ;)

You´re biased by your high damage ^^

Abaal talks of danger as he makes the elemental looks an easy fight. Whith a fast whip of his blade he disperses the flames making the elemental go as quick as it comes.

If anyone can pass an DC 26 spellcraft check, I´ll told you what the gem is.

Seeing what happened when Kysh touched one obelisk, the group leaves the room pondering where to go now.

He sheaths his blade with a spinning flourish. "Beware, there are, I believe, four classic elements in the Osirion tradition."

Before Bjor even realized what was happening, Abaal has already dealt with the threat in a quite impressive way. He look a bit stupified at his companion.
"Mighty blade, friend. Does it have a name worthy of its' deeds yet?" he asks him with respect in his voice.

Kyshkumen nods. "Well done, that could have gone badly."

Fine with how that played out, just some info for the GM in future games.