Raijinn nods to Fredo and moves towards the door, motioning for Burahl to get behind him. "There's definitely something back there." he replies, investigating the abundance of boards going across the door before turning back to the wizard. "Do you have some kind of magic to open it, or shall I smash through it?"
Raijinn takes a few steps back and takes a running start before throwing himself into the door. Rubbing his shoulder for a moment, he frowns, before lighting up with an idea.
The tables could be disassembled, and the large square metal tops used as rams, but they would be awkward to hold as compared to a cylindrical log. Otherwise there are no potential ram things.
Raijinn delivers a powerful kick to the shuttered door and smashes it open, sending the door flying aside on its hinges. Coming forward to rest his feet on the ground, however, Raijinn finds himself face-to-face with a horrific creature. The head of a reefclaw, the stitched-together bodies of two separate monstrous humanoids (one scaled, one furred), a pair of reverse-kneed animal legs, one clawed and furred arm, and one dark-skinned, tattooed human arm make up this monstrosity. It opens its reefclaw mouth as if to roar, but no sound escapes from what pass for lips on its body. It curls its fingers around the doorframe and cocks it head at Raijinn, its face inches from Raijinn's.
You know, every time I roll initiative, I think about how uncommonly dexterous our party is.
Burahl wastes no time in throwing a bomb to the creature avoiding Raijinn and moving backwards. He shouts while flinging the bomb "Move backwards if not for that hideous thing than for the bomb."
Bomb vs Touch:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 Kaboom:2d6 + 4 ⇒ (4, 5) + 4 = 13 -4 to hit if the thing is in melee range of Raijinn, Ref 15 for half
You know, every time I roll initiative, I think about how uncommonly dexterous our party is.
Our *sunglasses* dance party?
What is this thing? Knowledge (arcana):1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29
Fredo brings his sleeve up to his nose to curb the creature's assault on his senses. "It's a golem," he says, his voice muffled. He notices Burahl preparing a bomb and steps to the side to give him a clearer shot, twisting the void as he does so to lower the construct's rudimentary defenses. "Don't bother using magic on it, it won't notice. Strike fast, strike hard, and don't let it touch you."
Golem takes a -1 penalty to its AC and saves, yadda yadda.
Raijinn wrinkles his nose at the creature, taking a few steps back as Burahl throws a bomb at it. Once the device has exploded, Raijinn will take a swing at the creature.
Goffred, fighting off the rancid smell of the horrid creature, taps into the power of the Void and reveals to his allies a hole in its defenses.
Burahl curls up his nose at the thing and throws an explosive vial. He doesn't give Raijinn enough time to get out of its face, but the harm he inflicts on the creature is greater than the burns Raijinn suffers, which his demonic heritage protects him from anyway. So I'm pretty sure Raijinn has fire resist 5 and didn't take an alternate racial trait, so that means Raijinn only takes 1 damage from the bomb splash damage.
Raijinn Reflex DC 15:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Initiative:
Thaven - 12
Raijinn - 10
Trinia - 10
Golem - 3
Goffred - 20
Burahl - 13
Waiting on Thaven now. The golem's at 29/42 health.
Due to the failed Fortitude save, Thaven is sickened.
Thaven draws back on his bowstring, letting loose two arrows at the necromantic golem. One connects, but the thin wound doesn't seem to do much harm to the nonliving creature.
Raijinn, recoiling from the minor burns he's suffered, slashes a thick line across the creature's chest.
In the back, Trinia hops up and down a bit, giggling. "Where do you think they got his privates? A horse or a Tian man?"She's activating her satire bardic performance.
Roaring silently, the creature raises one claw for a slash and the tattooed arm for a heavy punch at Raijinn. Both connect, drawing several jagged slashes and raising a deep bruise. So that's 13 damage.
Initiative:
Goffred - 20
Burahl - 13
Thaven - 12
Raijinn - 10
Trinia - 10
Golem - 3
Begin round 2. We already have Raijinn's round 2 action.
GM Rolls:
Slam vs. Raijinn:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 Slam vs. Raijinn:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18 Damage to Raijinn:2d8 + 4 ⇒ (8, 1) + 4 = 13 Raijinn Fort save DC 12:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Goffred continues tapping into the Void, revealing weak spots in the creature's carapace, holes in its defenses, and vulnerable places to strike it.
Burahl draws his little fuzzy arm back and lets it snap forward again, throwing another explosive vial forward at the golem. The vial explodes, sending a wave of heat (but not searing heat) over Raijinn and taking off pieces of its flesh structure.
Initiative:
Thaven - 12
Raijinn - 10
Trinia - 10
Golem - 3
Goffred - 20
Burahl - 13
Once again it is Thaven's turn. The golem has fallen to 6/42 health.
In quick succession, another pair of arrows slam into the creature's torso and then Raijinn lops another slice off of it. The golem falls to the ground, too heavily damaged to continue functioning.
You've defeated it!
Behind the golem is a travesty of a workshop. Filled with destroyed glassworks, a smashed-up table, and destroyed tools, anything that was once intact in the room has been smashed to pieces.
Burahl looks to the creature's various parts, hoping his first hunch isn't right. He investigates the body more closely especially the dark-skinned arm with the tattoos.
Raijinn breathes a sigh of relief and wipes the sweat from his brow as the flesh-creature drops to the ground. His ribs ache from the brutal hits and he takes a second to rub them before looking around the room. Seeing nothing particularly captivating, he turns to the others. "Please tell me we're close."
"I'm afraid not," says Fredo. He points at one of the tattoos on the arm Burahl had picked out. "That is an Eiril rune, favored by the Skoan-Quah. It signifies duty, loyalty and devotion. Fitting for a brave like Gaekhen." Cat jumps into Fredo's arms and pushes her face into his elbow. "It appears that, after having met butchers and evil wizards in their turn, we have now come across an evil wizard who butchers his experiments. It also appears that our task is to find his cuts. There's a symmetry to it, at least." He wrinkles his nose and snaps his fingers. A glowing, greenish disc appears under it. "Put that down before you catch something, Burahl."
The floating disc will last for three hours, more than enough time to collect Gaekhen and get his remains back to the Citadel. Also, eww.
"Alright I'll put it down. You are right though Fredo, and I don't think Thousand Bones would expect his son to return in this way."
Burahl says while still kneeling down on the ground.
He see Raijinn rubbing his chest with a painful grimace.
"Everything alright Raijinn? you seemed like you took quite a punch from that thing."
He stands and walks back to his tiefling friend. He rummages in his packs and retrieves a small vial from it. "You'd best drink this, it tastes horrible but it does the trick."
Handing you a CLW Extract CLW:1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
So you're picking up the whole golem with the floating disc?
So you've found three rooms so far. In the entry room, the ossuary, there was a tunnel that you didn't go down and a secret tunnel that you did go down. The secret tunnel had three forks. One fork led to the exsanguination chamber, and attached to the exsanguination chamber is the ruined lab with the carrion golem on the inside. The other two forks of the secret tunnel lead to a dormitory-like area with the disgusting rat-game-board, and one side of a secret door. There are two exits from the exsanguination chamber, one to the southeast and one to the southwest. (and a third, directly to the south, that is where the ruined lab is). Does that make sense? Any questions? If you want a visual map, I can probably do that tomorrow.
I mean, since you've got slashing damage it's easy enough. If you didn't, special effort would be called for, but it can be assumed that you removed it.
A visual map would definitely help. It doesn't need to be elaborate, just throw some lines down in MS Paint or whatever.
HP 21/24
Raijinn thanks Burahl and looks with displeasure as the arm floats up into the air, and tries not to think how Thousand Bones will react to getting back a pile of body parts - particularly if they can't find all of them, or some are mismatched. With a grimace sweeping across his face, he opens his mouth to say something, but stops, closes it, and shakes his head. Keeping his sword at the ready, he prepares to venture down another hallway.
Venturing down the stone tunnel, Raijinn in the lead, the tunnel opens up into a large chamber. The majority of this room contains a nasty-looking stretch of mud—a partially collapsed sinkhole—kept damp by rivulets of water seeping from the walls. A patch of solid ground extends into the mud to form an island, on which is heaped a reeking pile of body parts. To the north, a rickety wheelbarrow sits on its side against the wall. Rolling happily in the body parts is an otyugh, a huge filthy creature that feeds on essentially anything.
Perception DC 15:
Still uneaten and in the pile of body parts, you can see a pair of hips with legs still attached, decorated with bold Shoanti tattoos in the same style as the other tattoos.
Barely noticing the pile of body parts, Raijinn instead focuses on the thing rolling around in them like a dog in refuse. Except that even the ugliest of dogs look better than this thing. Raijinn blinks rapidly at it, unsure whether it poses a threat or is contented to nuzzle dead flesh. He tentatively takes a few steps forward, sticking to the small bit of solid ground, and trying to get a better look at this strange beast.
Burahl follows Raijinn into the room and grimaces as he sees the sight of the room.
"This looks nasty. Can't necromancers and such keep their workplace clean of vermin?"
He then spots the pair of hips among the pile of dead flesh.
He tags Raijinn and points his quarterstaff in the direction of the pile.
Then whispers back and to Raijinn.
"There's half of Thousand Bones's son. We might have to fight that creature though, be careful not to hit his corpse, it's already defiled as much as it is."
"I would imagine, Burahl," observes Fredo, "that our friend here is meant to consume what the necromancer cannot use." Certainly that's why the magistrates give otyughs the run of the sewers. This one had probably been lured from that very labyrinth with...fresh meat.
Hearing Burahl point out Gaekhen's hindquarters, Fredo takes a deep breath through his mouth and smiles a goofy smile. "And he does a good job, doesn't he?" he says, in a syrupy voice he hadn't even used around the kids. "I bet he's so full he wouldn't mind a couple legs just walking away..." Fredo walks his fingers through the air, nudging the disc carrying Gaekhen's arm forward a few inches.
The huge creature rolls over to stand on three trunklike legs on the pile of bodies. From this pose, its possible to get a better view of the creature. It stands on three huge legs with a large round torso that seems to be mostly mouth. Coming out of the torso's upper half are three long, sinuous tentacles that extend to writhe in the air.
The creature cocks its body to the side at Goffred's suggestion, and extends the point of a tentacle towards the floating arm. "More food...for me?"
Otyughs have Int 5 and speak Common. The mind boggles.
"Er, yes, but not the arm," says Fredo. Cat jumps on top of the arm, arcing her back protectively. "What I have for you is much bigger, and fresher!" He ducks out of the room, but quickly returns, dragging one of the derro by the ankle. "Want this?"
Between Nostrum's Brother and the Temple, we might be able to sort them out. What are the age ranges of them? Are any of them old enough that we could ask them? Obviously it's a bit chaotic for us to be running over the city looking for their parents now.
In other news, my internet is out at home for the moment. I'm going to be able to post today while I'm at work, but over the weekend my attendance will be a bit more spotty. I'll try to use my phone, but either way I'll be back full time on Monday.
The ones that remained are mostly the younger kids, the ones too afraid to brave the streets on their own. They're between 5 and 9, basically. Kester is around 12.
Their situation is pretty close to that of any child that winds up in Gaedren's "care", and for the most part they are orphans.
To be real, the vast majority of his "Lamms" are homeless children that voluntarily showed up on his doorstep because he promised a roof, a bed, and food daily.
Any objections or alternates to Nostrum's plan? Last-minute questions to pose to Zellara? Choices on which items you want your PCs to identify today? Interparty roleplay? I'll be moving us along when I get home later today (in like eight hours), and if you miss out just stick an Earlier... tag on it.
Which Temple would this be? Sorry I'm blanking on that; I've been run ragged all week.
leinathan wrote:
Any objections or alternates to Nostrum's plan?
Just a couple concerns that I'll write about IC.
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Choices on which items you want your PCs to identify today?
The obsidian wand and the two liquids in vials seem like good choices. The other wand came from Yargin, who's name we don't even know IC and who was thus too much of an obvious pissant to carry anything worth having :P
Which Temple would this be? Sorry I'm blanking on that; I've been run ragged all week.
leinathan wrote:
Any objections or alternates to Nostrum's plan?
Just a couple concerns that I'll write about IC.
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Choices on which items you want your PCs to identify today?
The obsidian wand and the two liquids in vials seem like good choices. The other wand came from Yargin, who's name we don't even know IC and who was thus too much of an obvious pissant to carry anything worth having :P
The Temple could be referring to that of The Brethren or perhaps just a more mainstream good-aligned temple, such as Zellara suggested.
You already know, but the wand is of magic missile and the liquids are each one dose of silversheen and keen edge, respectively. I'll explain IC when I make my next post (Which I'm foreseeing as being very very long).
Hey, just sayin'. I said I'd post then and I did not cause I was still out XD
Dice~ for random things.
Actually, for that last drawing I just used the cards from the right suit that matched your alignments most closely. The only one I had to skimp on was Raijinn's cause LN had already been taken.
Hey LeinGM, since we slept, can I swap out one of my prepared spells? I want to drop level 1 of shocking grasp for either shield or vanish, so that I can bring Raijinn even further into the magic side without it necessarily having to rely on straight combat.
Ok, so my dream was damn awesome and I'm struggling super hard not to spoil everyone else's for myself. Hats off to you Bossman, this game is indeed writhing with cinematic moments!!!
For some reason, Goff, I didn't imagine you as being from the US East Coast. I'm in Boston myself.
I'd blame the medium, but even people I've known for some time IRL have a hard time placing where I'm from. I know not why.
For what it's worth, I'm a New Yorker. My profile says Baltimore because I created it when I was at university and never bothered to change it. I should do that...
EDIT: oh, and this is apparently my three hundredth post with this alias. Yay!
Thank you for the support - I will be getting back into things as soon as I sleep. I apologize for the dramatics, its been a dramatic kind of week. I appreciate your concern and help.
Thank you for the support - I will be getting back into things as soon as I sleep. I apologize for the dramatics, its been a dramatic kind of week. I appreciate your concern and help.
I think I can speak for all of us when I say to take whatever time you need - it sounds like something pretty serious took place.
Goffred Giulianoff wrote:
Raijinn wrote:
For some reason, Goff, I didn't imagine you as being from the US East Coast. I'm in Boston myself.
I'd blame the medium, but even people I've known for some time IRL have a hard time placing where I'm from. I know not why.
For what it's worth, I'm a New Yorker. My profile says Baltimore because I created it when I was at university and never bothered to change it. I should do that...
Oh right. You know, I've lived up in this area for most of my life and I only went to New York for the first time, a little over a month ago. Stayed in Astoria with a friend, walked Manhattan, went to the Met, hit up a lot of bars and bookstores, typical touristy things. It's a solid place, just not really for me.
I only went to New York for the first time...It's a solid place, just not really for me.
I'm an Islanders fan, and the only time I've been in New York they had only away games. I had to go see the Rangers in Madison Square wearing my Islanders jersey.
I'm an Islanders fan, and the only time I've been in New York they had only away games. I had to go see the Rangers in Madison Square wearing my Islanders jersey.
Madison Square Garden is a tragedy. The place, that shall not be named, that the Islanders play is just a scam.
lexibean wrote:
I appreciate your concern and help.
Considering what we, isolated individuals nowhere near where you are, can actually do, concern and help are pretty much the same thing. Therefore, for what it's worth, I hope you find yourself safe and can look forward to happiness.
Hey sorry guys - with the chaos and tragedy going on here in Boston (I'm okay) I may not be around much for the next day or two.
I'm super glad to hear you're ok. How far away from it all were/are you? My prayers go out for everyone over there, it's tragic that people do this to each other.
Not to my knowledge. Information has been hard to come by, even so many hours later. Near as I can tell: Two bombs went off at the finish line, and a third some blocks away at JFK Library. Two additional bombs were discovered and disarmed. Cell service was completely shut down in case phones were being used to trigger them, and all subways have been closed as well. So far, no one is in custody.
There are a lot of posts on social networking sites asking for people to submit footage of what they saw, in the hopes that there's some kind of evidence in there that will point in one direction or another.
The first bomb went off about a block away from my office, but the marathon is such a big deal here that I was given the day off and was in my apartment. It's still terrifying, though. This place is my home, it has been for years.
lexibean wrote:
Oh geez! I'm glad you're okay, and hope you can help!
I'm not sure there's all that much that I can do - I lack any relevant skills, but I'm going to down to the hospital tomorrow to at least donate as much blood as they'll allow me to.
Nostrum wrote:
I'm super glad to hear you're ok. How far away from it all were/are you? My prayers go out for everyone over there, it's tragic that people do this to each other.
I'm about a 20 minute subway ride from it when I'm at home. But, you know, I'm in that area all the time. I walk by where the first bomb went off twice a day, every day. I was actually planning to run the marathon next year or the year after, but now, who knows.
I don't think anyone I know was harmed, so there's that, but goddamn, it's really messed up.
Now I feel kinda bad for not having gone to donate when I was re-able to. I probably should soon, though.
Anyway, Raijinn, good job with being a good person :D Your blood will help many.
I'm not a good person. But I try to be.
The Red Cross said that they had enough on hand to handle the victims for today, but they will be looking to restock over the next couple weeks, so if any of you guys are eligible, you should see about making a donation. It's never too late!
The Red Cross said that they had enough on hand to handle the victims for today, but they will be looking to restock over the next couple weeks, so if any of you guys are eligible, you should see about making a donation. It's never too late!
They won't let me donate blood - I weigh too little. :(
The Red Cross said that they had enough on hand to handle the victims for today, but they will be looking to restock over the next couple weeks, so if any of you guys are eligible, you should see about making a donation. It's never too late!
They won't let me donate blood - I weigh too little. :(
I'm a fairly regular donar, and I'm b- which is fairly rare in Australia. That being said, I don't know that my blood will help you guys overseas at all :(
They won't let me donate blood - I weigh too little. :(
You become more and more intriguing by the day, sir.
Nostrum wrote:
I'm a fairly regular donar, and I'm b- which is fairly rare in Australia. That being said, I don't know that my blood will help you guys overseas at all :(
Ah, well, it'll help people there at least, which is still excellent. :) I'm O+, so I try to make a point of donating when I can.
Y'all should also decide now which of the things you want to keep (and who gets them) and which you'd like to sell. And unless you'd like to haggle a bit, it can be assumed that the sell price is as listed: 1/2 base price.
Also, Goffred, there are 15 gold bars (instead of 12 cause we have 5 people instead of 4) so that's 3 gold bars apiece, 'erryone. Each is worth 100gp and can be sold for exactly that much at the Bank of Abadar or used as tender elsewhere (although poor or run-down shops likely won't take it. A random drugstore won't be able to break up the $5,000 bill that it basically is.)
Y'all should also decide now which of the things you want to keep (and who gets them) and which you'd like to sell. And unless you'd like to haggle a bit, it can be assumed that the sell price is as listed: 1/2 base price.
There are, I think, only three unclaimed items on the list that it would be foolish to sell: the Chelaxian gold ingot (worth 100 gp, same as the Korvosan ingots we've just gotten, and probably subject to the same guidelines), the oil of keen edge and the silversheen. Raijin could probably get the most use out of the oil, given his scimitar's already high critical range. Akiki could probably get the most use out of the silversheen, in the event that we encounter something that has DR/silver and cannot be easily subjected to sneak attack...like the imps that are endemic to Korvosa. That's just my opinion, though.
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Also, Goffred, there are 15 gold bars (instead of 12 cause we have 5 people instead of 4) so that's 3 gold bars apiece, 'erryone.
