DM AM's The Confirmation (Inactive)

Game Master overfiend_87

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Bull (+2 STR)
- Free Action: "You can dish it out, but can you take it?"
- Standard Action: Attack! Morningstar+Feral Focus+Flank: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 3 + 1 + 2 = 16, Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Heal check: 1d20 ⇒ 9 and finds nothing.
Turning away from the bards lifeless body, Amelia uses Hand of the Apprentice against the ungainly beast.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Damage?: 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Divdesmit smashes the creature hard in the back, shattering some bones and bringing it down to a terrible condition, however it is fighting on.

Nigari lashes out with her attack, smashing the creature with her fist and knocking out so hard in the gut, the wounds caused earlier burst open as it falls into a pile of gore and guts.

attack: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 2 = 22

damage: 1d6 + 5 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 5 + (2) = 8

End of combat.

"Janira!" The hunter yells as he runs to her and drops to his knees by her side. His form keeps changing as he searches, in vain, for an ability to help her. But, alas, he cannot reverse death.

Then, remembering that Essua's not doing very well, he rushes over to the fighter: Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9 (Yahtzee! There ya go, Essua!)

Once he is certain that his companions are no longer in danger, he notes everything that happened in his Pathfinder Journal.

Addressing the others, he asks: "There were other tunnels in there that we did not search. Should we go back and explore further? Or shall we return to Absalom with the body of our friend now?"

Amelia rises from her failed attempt to help Janira, shaking her head with sadness. Then, seeing Essua starting to come around, she offers him one of her potions of clw. "I think we should go back and finish helping the Gillman. He could still be in danger."

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There was darkness, and then there was whistling. A sustained, piercing whistle, like a tea kettle. That's what first got Essua Day's attention. But there wasn't a tea kettle. There was only the ground, and the taste of iron in his mouth. He worked his mouth, trying to get a feel for why it was so dry and sticky.

The whistle built up into pressure on his temples as he realized the sound of the kettle was coming from his own head. And then the word "Janira."

Essua Day's eyes pop open, and he sees the blue sky above him take shape. The sun is warm, it feels good on his arms and on his belly. He notices that his tunic is wet, and sticky. He sits up carefully and delicately. He sees Dividsmit watching and nods appreciatively.

At his feet is a dead minotaur. He sees his friends arrayed around the battle field. He sees a couple of them surrounding the body of Janira the pathfinder. He sees the sad look in Amelia Rose's face when he looks up from Janira's body to her face.

"Just like daddy's shop," he croaks.

He stands carefully, unsure of his feet at first, but he quickly gets his legs back. He picks up his weapon, and walks over to Amelia and Janira. Amelia hands him a vial and he takes it, and downs it gratefully.

cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

"She's gone, huh?" he says. He unbundles a little packet of herbs from his belt, and places some at key points on Janira's body. "It may be too late, but we honor her spirit by offering her corpse these herbs anyway," he says.

heal check: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

"All is as it must be, I guess," he says. "I vote we finish helping the Gillman."

After we check the Minotaur for loot, obviously.

"Fine. I'm going to take out my frustration on whatever remains in the cavern."

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Stag
- Double move back towards the cavern and into the other caves we did not yet explore.

Amelia follows Div, keeping up as best as she can.

Nigari walked over to Janira's body, the tall Nagaji kneeling down next to her. "We need to bring her body back with us. It would not be right for us to leave her here!" She looks up, "I can carry her back... It will not prevent my ability to defend myself if we run into anything else!"

She very carefully picks up Janira's body, carrying her in her arms as she starts to follow after Div and Amelia, looking back at the others. "One of you should check him out..." she nods her head to the minotaur, "He might be carrying something that will assist us."

All you find on the Minotaur is the broken large sized battleaxe and 3 javelins, also large sized.

Janira was carrying a masterwork whip, masterwork chain shirt and a light crossbow. It's all small sized as she's a halfling.

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Bat (for Darkvision)
- Trying to find any remaining "enemies" in the caves.
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Abaal retrieves his sword and follows along.

Anyone want to heal up Abaal before continuing on?

You arrive back down the cave. The gillman remains in his deep meditation in the room, taking his time. He doesn't respond to your return.

Wand of CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Wand of CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Amelia turns towards the last room, and waits for everyone to gather. Peering down the tunnel, she says "Div, you probably have the best eyesight here with your.. umm.. shape changing.. What do you see?"
Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Look as bat: take 20 for 26
Look as falcon: take 20 for 30

You can hear some subtle movements, however from your current positon you can't see anything besides a body laying on the floor.

1d6 ⇒ 4

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Wolf
- Standard Action: Sniff the air
- Free Action: Whispering: "Shh. I hear something."
- Move Action: Draw morningstar (two-handing the weapon)

Essua Day had followed the party along since the Minotaur fight but had been most inside his own head for the bulk of the march. With Dividesmit's whisper, his attention snaps back to the here and now.

"Wassat?" he whispers. "This is the abominations right?"

He tucks himself into a nook in the cavern right behind Dividesmit and draws his Rapier.

stealth: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Then he drops his keys, which clatter across the cave floor.

Amelia looks at Div and Essua "Well, no time like the present. Would you gentleman mind leading the way?" she asks, gathering her magic about her like an almost visible cloak.

"Would you gentleman mind leading the way?"

"Indeed," the hunter whispers in reply. (Moved on map.)

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Bull (+2 STR)
- Move Action: Move forward
- Standard Action: Ready to whack any enemy that come within reach with morningstar (2-handed)

I presume that we have some light, for the non-darkvision party members among us.

Whoops, I was in a rush lastnight. Should've kept you guys back...hell, Essua is standing where one is. I'll just rewind you a bit.

Initiative:

Divdesmit: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Amelia: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Essua: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Nigari: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
Abaal: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Reis: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Undead: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Order:
Divdesmit
Abaal
Nigari
Amelia
Reis
Essua
Undead

You get the oppitunity to jump on these creatures. They all appear to have once been gillmen, but are now creatures of the unliving.

The body to the far north doesn't appear to be moving.

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Bull (+2 STR)
- Move Action: Move forward
- Standard Action: Whack-a-zombie: Morningstar with 2 hands: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24,Crit?: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 (Yahtzee!), Damage: 2d8 + 12 ⇒ (7, 3) + 12 = 22
- Free Action: "There are three (*squish sound*) two undead thingies in here."

Abaal sweeps forward to attack the first closest target. (Moved.)
Slash: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
Falchion damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 1) + 4 = 9

Amelia follows the boys up the tunnel, and seeing that any of her good spells would also catch her friends, she switches over to her Hand of the Apprentice, sending her sword flying through the air at the enemy that Abaal has already bloodied.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
but misses her target as the undead thing reels from Abaal's blow.

1 down and 1 heavily wounded. This'll be interesting.

Divdesmit can see on closer inspection that the body appears to be a Dhampire and he has a longsword on him.

Nigari quickly moves towards the moving bodies, seeing the one still standing next to Abaal, so moves in, and sends a spinning kick at it, trying to kick it firmly in the chest with her full strength.

Unarmed Strike: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Reis will move forward (down 3, right 3). She sees one of the undead abominations. She grabs her holy symbol, and says a quick prayer. At the end a wave of positive energy rushes forth an envelope the undead, their unnatural bodies crack and break under the energy.

In the name of Pharasma, all impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation.Amen.

dc 14 will save for half: 1d6 ⇒ 6

1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Just Essua to go, but both to the south are dead and this one just took a full blow from the positive energy.

Trusting the others to finish the enemy, I will examine the dhampir on my turn.

- swift action: feral focus: falcon
- perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Essua dashes up to the last remaining undead creature, his sword flashing:

Attack!: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Also: Moved Reis

Essua misses his pray, however the other undead are all destroyed.

The lone creature reaches out to attack Essua, but it's lazy swipe completely misses.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

the body is laying down so you can easily walk over it. It doesn't count as difficult terrain, unless you really don't want to step on the dead body.

Order:
Divdesmit
Abaal
Nigari
Amelia
Reis
Essua
Undead

Divdesmit Deviņi continues to examine the dhampir's body.

Abaal moves to dissect the other, still moving corpse.

Swish of the Falchion: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
Damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 1) + 4 = 9

Jazmine launches an orb of acid at the creature
Attack vs Touch: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Essua Day offers a weak high five to Abaal.

"Thanks. Must be some blue fungus in my eye or something. I'm definitely not crying."

delaying my turn, on the assumption that the creature has been dispatched

Nigari slides in between Essua and Abaal, her elbow slamming into the corpse that is still up and moving.

Unarmed Strike: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Not sure what their AC is, but in case a 13 does hit:

Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

If the thing STILL stands I will channel energy again lol

channel, 14 will half: 1d6 ⇒ 5

With Abaal's strike, he destroys the final undead creature.

The Dhampire also had a journal attached to him about how he was going to raise a army of the undead from the "fish people" and march on Absolam, however clearly something had gone wrong with the ceremony and all the undead turned on him, from the many different bite and claw marks from these creatures.

"Should we let the Gillman back at the sacred pool know about this?" (I vote "Yes, we should.")

Nigari gently arranges Janira body again after rearranging the backpacks she carried again, making sure that she was still in a place to defend herself, even with the halfling's body in her arms. She stepped back, looking at the now un-undead bodies laying around, "Would you all be kind enough to check to make sure to abominations weren't carrying anything we should return to the gillman up front? If they were carry anything important to their race, I'm sure he would appreciate it's return..."

- Swift Action: Feral Focus: Falcon
- Standard Action: Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24
- Move Action: Pick up anything interesting

If you want we can end the adveture here and I'll wrap it up for you?

That is ok with me :)

Whichever you all prefer. :-) Thanks for running this DM AM. Good game! :-D

With a final sweep of the place for any dust mites or wandering zombies, I suggest we collect our fallen guide and report to the gillman.

Definitely one of the more interesting runs that I have played! Thank you for your time and effort!

Essua Day was not in his right head for several days following his adventure in the cave. He found himself tucked into a room at a pathfinder lodge writing out a long letter to his sister. The more he wrote the more he realized it was time he returned home and told the story's of his first adventure to his family in person.

The deserved to know the ways that they had helped prepare him for his life as a Pathfinder. They deserved that much.

And next time, when he sets out for his next adventure, he sets out in honor of his family, not in spite of them.

This was my first ever play by post and only my second Pathfinder campaign. I hope you enjoyed learning about Essua. I know I sure did. I had thought out a lot of the backstory, but most of the execution of it came out of the story as it unfolded-- I was pleasantly surprised with the way the Minotaur tucked neatly into Essuas backstory. Thank you all for the incredible experience.

I am glad that you enjoyed it, Essua, and welcome aboard! I have only been playing for 2 years, but I have really enjoyed it. There are some odd ducks here on the boards, but most of the time that just adds to the experience. You seem to have a good handle on Essua.. Keep developing that, and dont forget to have fun! Hope to see you around the boards!

DM AM, looks to me like Nigari is 170843-1. I was able to confirm this using my own scenario reporting.

Thanks, I should be finished by tonight. I'll scan and send off the emails to everyone.

Just sent out the emails so I hope you have all received them :)

Thanks for the game and for the quick turnaround! :-)

:)

Thank you! I very much enjoyed playing with yall! DM: I am taking a bit of a siesta for a while since I just started nursing school, so once all my characters are out of games I will not be actively looking for games. However, should you ever need a player to round out a table, give me a yell. I enjoyed playing for you.