DM Bigrin's Shattered Star (Group B) (Inactive)

Game Master bigrin42

Fort save 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Angelica almost retches from the odor. This has not been a good day for her in trying to keep food down. She decides that Zaph has a decent idea. She calls for Buddy to follow her out of the dark, as she nimbly dances away from the new threat. Thassilonian "Buddy, come!".

Acrobatics 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 11 - 2 = 17 to move to AP36
Leaving room for Buddy and others to leave the dark.

Whoops. Forgot the Fort save. But it shouldn't matter since sickened doesn't really matter when you're not rolling a d20 that round.
Fort: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Forgot the fort save as well.

Fort: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

At Jakscar's urging, as soon as she is able to Shabbezz moves back as far as she can go.

Move action to AO-36.

Harbug moved in a circle, getting behind the last derro and driving his spear through her back. The creature gasped in pain, her eyes rolling up into her skull as she collapsed to the ground.

Jakscar went on full defense mode, still flailing about in the dark and trying to avoid the golem's attacks while the others moved back and out of the magical darkness. One of the golem's blows snuck through, delivering a crushing blow to Jakscar's chest. The catfolk had the wind knocked out of him, and tasted something nasty in his mouth as he gasped for air.

DC 15 Fort Save vs. Cold, Misc: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 3 + 1 = 23
"I'm coming, but I've gotta get around this ugly thing and the stitch monster!" Harbug chuckles to himself as he runs around the monster.
Double move AY36*->AX35'->AW34*->AV34->AU34->AT35'->AS35->AR35-> ;AQ35->AP36* *=First diagonal '=10 feet (second diagonal).

Harbug, with that second save, you are no longer poisoned. Congrats

Did we get the channel, or was Zaph waiting for everyone first?

Weighing her options, Angelica realizes she can't both get back into the fight and take part without a little risk on her part or Jakscar getting out of the dark. So she rushes back into the fray, to stand opposite the stubborn construct. Not the enemy one, but her own little worker. "Whiskers, back out where you can see, I'll draw it into the light." She slashes hard with her clawed hand, ripping at some of the nasty stitching holding the thing together.

Move, to AU37 (provoking)
Standard, R claw attack (w/flank) 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 7 + 2 = 20, damage 1d4 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 3 + (4, 5) = 15 blunt/slash

My channel is a 30' burst, so it covers a lot of area. Based on the map, it looks like I missed Jakscar and Harbug with my first one. I'll channel again when I see Jak.

2d6 ⇒ (4, 6) = 10

I think i get in just before you Angelica and am withdrawing, you may end up a little exposed!

Also GM did my Black cat ability (reroll 1st successful hit against me at -4) if not will apply it next time.

Fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Gagging heavily on whatever had just entered his mouth, it was all Jakscar could do to withdraw without throwing his lunch up, staggering back into the light he turned at bay and lifted his blades, ready to face this monstrosity, just!

withdraw to AQ36

Black cat did not save you this time!

No probs, I will mark it as used.

Are we waiting on me? I assumed my declared move to AO-36 was my action for this round.

Just in case I was wrong:

After her retreat, Shabbezz looks back to see that Jakscar was unable to get away from the golem.

She sights her crossbow and tries to provide him with some covering fire.

Standard action to fire the crossbow at the golem at AV-36 (80-foot range). There is a +4 penalty on the attack roll fore firing into melee. The golem gets a +4 bonus to AC because Jakscar's body provides him with soft cover.

Light crossbow with silver ammunition: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Move to action to load another bolt (1 of 6).

Partially waiting on you, and partially waiting on me to get time freed up to make another combat post.

People moved quickly into the light, trying to maximize Jakscar's combat potential and reduce confusion. Except, that is, for Angelica, who raced in to make an opening for the catfolk to withdraw. Her hasty movement cost her, as one beefy arm caught her a hard blow. She retaliated, ripping parallel furrows across the stitching holding most of its chest together. The beast roared in fury, then smashed the rogue into the wall a couple of times, making her see stars in the magical darkness.

"Angelica get out of there!" Harbug roars.
Delaying until Angelica moves--Harbug is going to use Healing Hex on her; moving as necessary, unless it puts him in range of the construct's attacks. If she falls before getting away from it, Harbug will stab it with his longspear from behind Jackscar (hopefully leaving a clear shot for Shabbezz).

Fort save 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8, of course. Why would she ever make any of these?

Angelica takes the incredible hits, bouncing back off of the corner between herself and the thing to suffer more abuse at its hands. She asked for it diving back in there to get its attention, but as long as everybody else got out, she can make it work. Once again she uses Buddy to keep it distracted enough for her to once again tear at the crude and disgusting stitches covering the thing.

With a hard scratch at the thing, she then does a dive roll to the side and back out the hallway with the others. She can only hope that Buddy follows, or even better, the big ugly thing. She says as much, "Don't worry about me Buggy, I'm coming. You know I love living on a knife's edge."

Standard, Fighting defensively (+3 AC/-4 to hit), attack with claw (and flank) 1d20 + 7 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 7 + 2 - 4 = 21, damage 1d4 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 3 + (6, 3) = 15 blunt/slash
Move, Acrobatics to AR35 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

"...Glitterdust? Web? There's no bloody room...!" the grippli mutters to herself as she tries to decide the best course of action to take.

Finally, Shabbezz sees a clear shot at the golem as it's fighting Angelica. Silencing her doubts, she takes aim and fires once again.

Move to AQ-35.

Standard action to fire the crossbow at the golem at AV-36 (80-foot range). There is a +4 penalty on the attack roll fore firing into melee.

Light crossbow with silver ammunition: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Anyone heard from Jakscar or Zaphomil this week?

Sorry; I thought I had posted that I was holding my action until Jak comes out of the shadow. Then I would channel.

Sorry

Stepping forward to cover Angelica's escape, Jakscar is disturbed by the total darkness in front of him. With a quick word to Harbug. "Leave room i will need to step back." before abusing the creature in every language he can think of, " Come here you lily-livered s$#₩, scared to come out of the dark are you? Scared to face me, Jakscar the master bladesman, well prepare to meet your doom." All the while keeping a shield of steel around himself with his two blades.

5foot step towards the beast and total defense, whilst trying to distract the beast.

Inside the cloud of darkness, Angelica manages to score a good blow, tearing a huge chunk out of the animated creature. Diving out of the darkness and into the light of the torches and light spells once more, she peers into the gloom to see the golem beating on her mechanical spider.

"My dear, you are looking rough! You still wear it well, but let's see if I can help some," Zaph chirps while jabbing Angelica with his healing stick.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

"Everyone take a step back so that we can see that ugly thing when it comes out. Angelica can you call your metal spider back? We can't protect it and even metal will only hold up so long."

Encouraging the others to step back, Jakscar will follow when they do.

Shabbezz can see no other effective options right now, so she takes the fighter's suggestion and beats a retreat back down the corridor.

Move to AM-35.

Once at the corner, she takes the opportunity to cast a defensive spell from her wand and turns to see if the others have made it.

Move action to draw the wand of mage armor.
Activating the wand of mage armor (CL1, 6 charges remaining) as a standard action; +4 bonus to AC for 1 hour.

Harbug's heal from Round 9-10 on Angelica; had to 5' step to AQ35 to touch her:
Healing Hex (as CLW): 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Harbug hefts his longspear and steps back, ready to reach it past Jackscar should the stitch-creature come within reach.

Move to AN36 so there is room for others to move back, ready to stab with longspear.

Longspear, Misc, Cover: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 - 4 = 12; Dmg if hit: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Everyone fell back down the hallway, hoping to lure the creature out into the light. Angelica called to the construct, hoping to use it to draw the creature with it. unfortunately, the golem slammed a beefy arm down on the spider. With a crunch, the metal shell covering its back split open, and delicate gears and mechanisms spilled out. The clockwork servant 's legs splayed outwards as it collapsed. The golem seemed to feel pleased with itself, and lumbered into the hallway to continue its attack on the intruders.

Angelica easily dodged its swing and ferociously ripped her claws across the stitching in its belly. Jakscar, waiting for just such an opportunity, drove his sword into the wound, ripping it sideways to spill a pile of offal and stuffing onto the floor, along with a throbbing, greenish-gray sac. The sac lay twitching for a moment, the green light leaving it as it grew still. The abomination fell backwards with a resounding thud, the sound of its skull hitting the stone floor echoing several times in the sudden quiet.

A few minutes after the creature's death, the globe of magical darkness disappears once more. Entering the chamber, you can see a number of doors to the southwest, a stairwell leading downwards to the west, a doorway to the north, what appears to be a balcony of sorts on the eastern wall, and a spiral staircase heading down.

Here's the map

I have no special designs on the loot at this time, other than calling dibs on the scroll of invisibility purge.

With the golem destroyed, Shabbezz creeps back into the room and surveys the damage. She frowns at the remains of clockwork servant.

"Oh dear me... Sorry Angelica, I couldn't even begin to guess how your automaton could be repaired."

"It's probably magic of some kind; I bet we could figure something out if we had enough time... But do we want to haul this thing all the way back to the Heidmarch estate? Though it is the sort of junk the society goes bananas over."

Kn. Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Kn. Arcana regarding how (if at all) to repair the creature.

No special call on loot here, though I think we should spread the potions and wands around so we all have "tricks" ready just in case.

Angelica scowls, bites her lower lip, and takes a deep breath. She then steels her features, "No, it's fine. It was just some stupid machine. It was just slowing me down and making too much noise anyways." She clears her throat, swallows hard and adds, "Once we're ready, I say we go this way." She heads toward the northeast portion of the room.

Stealth 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
Can move at full speed w/o penalty
Perception 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
+2 vs traps, and +4 vs stone like creatures

Yeah, nothing really calls out to me among the loot. Maybe the syringe spear, depending on any proficiencies required to use it.

Syringe spear is a 2H martial weapon in the spears weapon group

So many options, so little reason to delay. What are you doing?

Zaph looks at everyone. "That fight, from what I could tell, was brutal. Who needs healing?" He holds out his wand.

"I'm fine, thank you" she answers the gnome.

"Do we have enough room to carry all of this? If not I can conjure a floating disk to do some of the heavy lifting for the next four hours. Either way, I agree with Angelica that we should get moving and head northeast. I don't want to stick around in case those derro had friends who might come looking for them."

In the northeast, where the monster came from, Angelica found a door leading to a circular domed chamber. The center of the room is taken up by a pair of jury-rigged operating tables, complete with leather straps at both ends to hold patients down. Surgical tools litter the room, some spilled onto the floor but most sitting on low shelves. Doors to either side of the circular chamber lead to what appear to be sleeping rooms, though nothing is in these other than bedrolls.

To the east, Jakscar can definitely see that there is a balcony about 15 feet up the wall, overlooking the main chamber.

The center of this area appears to be a circular staircase heading downward.

Here's the updated map

Shabbezz grimaces at the sight of the surgical tools, but is careful not to touch them.

"I suppose we're heading downstairs, for lack of options," she states with some discomfort. "We could still scout the area to the southwest, but we'd probably need to backtrack here eventually."

Walking up next to Angelica as she surveys the ruin of the spider. " Would you throw me away so easily, after all I used to make a lot of noise and slow you down! I liked its clickety clack, it was a good little fighter."
Moving over at Zaph's offer "I could use a little of that help, i rather struggled to protect myself in the dark. I have no claims on the items we found, although i am happy to carry my share"
As the group move forward to explore further, Jakscar adopts his usual place. "I fear with those tables we may face more of those golem things, let's hope it isn't in the dark this time. Shabbezz I suppose you are right, although i wish we could check out that balcony as we didn't come across it from the floor above"
Nothing i particularly want from the pile. Oh and my comment to Angelica is reflecting my sense motive of -1!

"I can carry a bit, but let me look over those surgical tools first." Harbug casts a spell and concentrates a few moments.

Detect magic on the surgical tools. Also did the Kn. Arcana regarding fixing the clank get anything? link

Zaph shakes his head, declining any of the gear at this point.

He hits Jakscar, Angelica and Harbug with his wand before they move on.

Cure on Jak: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Cure on Harbug: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Cure on Ang: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Harbug - it would take an artificer to fix the clank, or a make whole spell. The tools are not magical, but they are a fine set of surgical tools worth a bit of gold to the right buyer...once they've been cleaned up.

"Thanks for that. These tools are pretty nice, worth bagging if someone is willing to wash 'em before we sell 'em." Harbug puts the tools in his backpack and returns to following Angelica as she scouts ahead.

Shabbezz makes a face at the orc's comment as she tags along with the group.

"Considering what they were probably used for, I'm personally willing to leave them be and take the financial loss, but you do what you feel is prudent."

Thank you for declaring it was a -1 Sense Motive Jak, I was thinking I didn't describe it as I wanted for the effect.

Angelica turns on Jak with a fierce scowl, her teeth clenched, and her mismatched eyes bright with moisture. "You now what 'Cat'?" she says with obvious disdain, "If you do your part, I won't have to worry about throwing you away. Let's hope you still have all nine lives."

With her demeanor changed, instead of her usual honeyed speech, she declares. "Nope. No stairs, no balcony. We don't know if right around the corner here, these bastards have friends. The stairs around here always lead a long way up or down. That's too far from the here and now. That balcony could easily be in the vicinity of those stairs that led up south of the big eel room. We go southwest."

Not waiting for a discussion or an answer, she begins moving toward the far corner of the room. BB31 When she gets ahead of the group again, she tries to subtly wipe her tears away, but they cloud her vision.

Stealth 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24
Can move at full speed w/o penalty
Perception 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
+2 vs traps, and +4 vs stone like creatures

That's ok, wanted to play up to Jakscar's lack of wisdom, which i haven't really done. Glad you got how i meant it.

Turning to Zaph whilst being healed " What, what did i do? I had better go keep an eye on her, before she does something stupid. "

Stealth: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11
Perception : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Moving up to his usual position, Jakscar was so focused on watching out for Angelica,that he trips on the uneven floor.

Zaph puts his face in his palm at the antics of the cat and the cat burglar. "Jak, women are as inscrutable as the winding path beyond the horizon. And many times just as treacherous." He looks at the pile of scrap. "But sometimes they're just regular people."

Angelica headed southwest, growling a little under her breath about the loss of the mechanical companion, and about Jakscar's complete inability to take two steps without falling over himself. She was also more than a little miffed to find yet another staircase heading down, as well as a pair of closed doors.

Taking a careful study of each door, she found no signs that they were trapped, and both doors were unlocked.

Here's the updated map

Move to BC-30.

"Left door or right?" Shabbezz asked, stepping forward. "Shall we flip a coin, or just take the stairs? Maybe we could just take a peek through all three, and then decide what to do."

Returning her silver dagger to her hand, Angelica turns northward toward the door to her right. BD25 "We go this way. Since we came from the North, there's a better chance that the northern route isn't as expansive as the other direction still could be." That said, she opens the door.

"Sounds good to me." Harbug falls in 15 feet behind the changeling with his spear.

Opening the door, Angelica spies a long hallway, ending in a small chamber or large alcove. She can see that there is a worktable against one wall, and what looks like a bedroll of sorts. Something moved in the shadows of the room, but she was unable to make out what it was.

Here's the map

Angelica is about to quietly signal the group, then decides against it. She will have to teach them some basic signals when she gets a chance, so that she can scout more effectively. She shrugs, then creeps down the hallway to better see what lies beyond.

Moving to AX19
Stealth 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28
Can move at full speed w/o penalty
Perception 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
+2 vs traps, and +4 vs stone like creatures

Move to BE-28.

Shabbezz moves up behind Harbug and Jakscar to get a better look at what Angelica's doing, but can't make out much from her vantage point.