Ghast
CE Medium undead
Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +9
DEFENSE
AC 18, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+4 Dex, +4 natural)
hp 17 (2d8+4)
Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +7
Defensive Abilities channel resistance +2
OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee bite +5 (1d6+3 plus disease and paralysis) and 2 claws +5
(1d6+3 plus paralysis)
Special Attacks paralysis (1d4+1 rounds, DC 17, elves are
immune to this effect)
STATISTICS
Str 17, Dex 19, Con —, Int 17, Wis 18, Cha 18
Base Atk +3; CMB +4; CMD 16
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Acrobatics +4, Climb +6, Perception +7, Stealth +7, Swim +3
Languages Common
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Disease (Su) Ghoul Fever: Bite—injury; save Fort DC 17; onset
1 day; frequency 1/day; effect 1d3 Con and 1d3 Dex damage;
cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Charisma-based.
A humanoid who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the
next midnight.
M elf Monk 1, AC: 18, tch: 18, ff: 10 CMD: 16 F +4, R +6, W +4
Bicor draws his rapier and moves carefully around the bug.
R1 draw (move) & move, I'll try and set up a flank next round. I only have two spells? EDIT OK three prepped (int) still only two avialable meaning the arcane pool is 1+0+2 if I consume both my daily spells. This class will be tough at low levels... and fire bloodline or fire school might have been (IS) a better choice than fire arc.
You manage to drop the thing within 6 seconds without anyone taking damage. Moving on into the underground building, you see it is a network of 6-foot-wide, arched tunnels connects double-vaulted ossuary chambers. The once ornate chambers are now a patchwork of brown stone walls, faded paint, and crumbling plaster. Water seeps through the walls and collects in floor cracks and ankle-deep puddles. The entire necropolis is unlit. All of the doors are made of heavy stone and are unlocked and ajar. Throughout the necropolis, the hallways are lined with alcoves filled with multitudes of ancient, skeletal remains. These rooms contain nothing of value. Several passageways end in cave-ins, evidence of the great geological violence visited upon the necropolis 10 years ago.
Carved pillars in the corners of this chamber hold aloft a double-vaulted ceiling of cracked frescos. On either side of the chamber, a single step leads up into a deeply recessed area that forms an arched room of its own. On the floor of the east recess, the perfectly preserved body of a young boy lies in a puddle and stares silently upward.
As you step into the rom to investigate the body, a rotting mound of animated Bugbear flesh steps out of the shadows to attack.
Elsabeth steps forward to deliver a strike but misses while Daveak draws bow and looses an arrow, hitting, but for little damage. The zombie shambles foreward, charging at Bicor.
female; HP 13/13; AC 16/T 12/F 14; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 Angelkin Aasimar Bloodrager 1
"THAT is an abomination! An affront to all that is good and clean and right in the world! Be no more!" Corina explodes into a blaze of outraged violence, slicing furiously at the shambling bugbear.
Why are you a -1? This should be the first damage you have taken, or am I missing something?
And Corina destroys it with on deft slice. The bugbear zombie drops in a heap.
Turning back to the boy's body, you find a personal journal that indicates he was Grishan Maldris, younger brother of Colson Maldris, the head of the Andoran faction and famed Eagle Knight. It seems that he discovered a growing neromantic energy and rising undead threat here, and had come, much like yourselves, to find out what was happening. Between the boy and the zombie, you locate a pretty sizable pure of coin to split.
Perception check DC 15:
You also find a hidden magical ring of Featherfall hidden beneath some of the rubble near the zombie.
The door in front of you takes a little work to burst open, having been sealed in place for so long, but finally gives way. Water drips from the double-vaulted ceiling and trickles down the walls to pool on the floor. Bone shards of a hundred skulls litter the room like shattered seashells. Wide stairs climb to the west. Narrow stairs dive to the north. On the south wall, an open doorway gapes, a carved relief depicting a massive battle filling the archway over the door. The rest of the walls are filled floor to ceiling with nooks that house ancient, but drenched, skeletal remains. In the center of the room sit twelve school children in a circle on the floor. One child seems to be silently telling a story, her arms moving rapidly as she makes scary faces. From a sketch in the journal you saw earlier, she very easily might be the madman's daughter. They seem to notice you, but do not pay any attention to your presence, and you can not hear them.
Please give me 3 Perception checks (which will take place over 3 rounds). Also, don't forget to do any sort of healing (you have plenty of time in between) or any normal buffing like Mage Armor.
Also, just a head's up. This map is kind of big, but a great deal of it is undefined or empty and just to move things along, for the most part I am assuming that you are investigating each portion (like doorway to doorway) without needing to specify "hey I want to search this room", or "this corner". So for example, the section you are in now has three rooms, and before you move on, I'm going to assume that you have looked into all three, but for the moment, seeing the children's ghosts <and potentially something else>, you have not gone to them yet unless you specifically want to. Is that cool? Any questions?
Ok, I think that the best the to do is rewind for a moment to after the zombie attack, and have you return upstairs to find Deris, who can use the wand with a little bit of effort. Eventually he will get it going. 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9 He agrees to hold on to it for a little in case you need him to use it again, and will stick with you guys (as a semi-noncombatant).
After reviving Bicor, you travel down and enter the next section. The door in front of you takes a little work to burst open, having been sealed in place for so long, but finally gives way. Water drips from the double-vaulted ceiling and trickles down the walls to pool on the floor. Bone shards of a hundred skulls litter the room like shattered seashells. Wide stairs climb to the west. Narrow stairs dive to the north. On the south wall, an open doorway gapes, a carved relief depicting a massive battle filling the archway over the door. The rest of the walls are filled floor to ceiling with nooks that house ancient, but drenched, skeletal remains. In the center of the room sit twelve school children in a circle on the floor. One child seems to be silently telling a story, her arms moving rapidly as she makes scary faces. From a sketch in the journal you saw earlier, she very easily might be the madman's daughter. They seem to notice you, but do not pay any attention to your presence, and you can not hear them. Deris points at one of the girls and says "[b]That's my Cassiel! See! Alive and fine, like I said, and even looking out for these other youngsters."
Shortly after that, Daveak and Corina notice a small creecking sound coming from the room to the north, followed by 3 sets of footsteps. They are attempting to be stealthy, and possibly to set up an ambush.
Bicor, can I get 3 Perception checks. DC is 15, so if you beat that for the first you also hear it.
M elf Monk 1, AC: 18, tch: 18, ff: 10 CMD: 16 F +4, R +6, W +4
Bicor shakes his head as he hears the sound. Not going to let that happen again. His fingers glow with a heat that spreads across the rest of his feathers. The fire disappears but an occasional flicker crosses his form.
"I can do one more of these, if someone wants it?" casting mage armor (stats updated to reflect it)
female; HP 13/13; AC 16/T 12/F 14; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 Angelkin Aasimar Bloodrager 1
To Deris, "Oh, what a lovely daughter you have! and you're right. She's a very responsible young lady, helping the other children like that. You must be very proud." It seems that Corina has entirely neglected the haunted aspect of these children, and is well caught up in Deris's delusion.
Corina readies her Great Bloody Monsterwhacker, [b]"I'm ready. Let's see what can be seen." Conspiratorially, "On 3? 1.. 2.. 3.." Having given some warning and preparation, Corina takes up a defensive stance, bursts through the door Daveak has indicated.
@GM, can you please position us on the map? I'm having difficulty orienting... Thanks!
Hearing some noise to the north, you begin to go up to investigate, but also hearing some footsteps puts you on alert. Corina begins to go look into when a moldy door crashes open, ripped from the hinges completely and an undead monster leaps out. Another appears behind it stepping from the darkness, and a third can be heard inside the room that the first one came from. Things are not looking good. . .
These abominations, called Ghouls, are nasty threats (for your level). Their bite both paralyses and holds disease, and they also have claws that can paralyze foes as well.
Know Religion DC 16:
As above, though Elves are immune to their paralysis for some reason, and you know that ghouls are cannibalistic, looking to eat your flesh, and preferably while you are alive and helpless.
ROUND 1 Most eager for blood, Ghoul 2 bounds out of the room, pushing it' way past Ghoul 1, and hunkers low to the ground, making ready to charge.
female; HP 13/13; AC 16/T 12/F 14; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 Angelkin Aasimar Bloodrager 1
I don't think I can hit DC11 untrained, but just in case...
know(religion) - untrained:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (16) - 1 = 15
but definitely, "smells bad - slavering, trying to eat me. kill it!"
"Oh, that is just... disgusting. Back under the earth with you - you're wrong! evil!" and Corina assaults the over-eager ghoul with the fury of angelic righteousness.
Round 1
Status:HP 13/13; AC 15/T 11/F 13; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 (not using buckler)
free: raging (rd 2/6)
standard: attacking ghoul2 - bastard sword attack (2h):1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8, damage:1d10 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
not that it matters, but the attack is 'good-aligned' for purposes of overcoming DR.
Daveak studies his foe and then puts an arrow into the leading ghoul as Corina steps up to unleash a little Two-Handed Bastard sword justice, but misses. Deris still holing the wand of cure light wounds readies to try to use it to heal if needed, but says "We need to draw them out. But hold the line. Don't let them at my daughter!"
Ghouls 1 and 3, as well as Elsabeth advance, but can not get any closer to the melee, and are kind for stuck for the moment.
Bicor is up, hopefully with something nasty up his sleeve, followed by Round 2 and Ghoul 2 (I'm sorry in advance Corina. . .)
The Ghoul lands a single claw, <4 Damage>, and Corina feels a strange, unholy magic course through her body.
Corina, I need a Fort Save from you.
DC 13:
or Paralized for 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 Rounds.
As the Ghould hits, Deris takes his readied action to try to activate the wand to heal the Bloodrager, but can't seem to get the wand to work, and stays back. 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
female; HP 13/13; AC 16/T 12/F 14; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 Angelkin Aasimar Bloodrager 1
Fort:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Status:HP 9/13; AC 15/T 11/F 13; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 (not using buckler)
free: raging (rd 3/6)
standard: attacking ghoul2 - bastard sword attack (2h):1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23, damage:1d10 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
The raging Con is a good thing to go with on the fort save... nice extra.
female; HP 13/13; AC 16/T 12/F 14; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 Angelkin Aasimar Bloodrager 1
@Daveak - Please don't ever apologize for putting down a ghoul :) Corina was already swinging wildly at ghoul2 anyway - and it probably wouldn't have been wise to stand too close, considering how badly her first attack went.
Corina, where you going to step up and attack, or wait for the next ghoul to come to you, or even fall back a bit and Ready an Action to attack?
Deris again tries to activate the Wand 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20, and finally gets it to work, advancing to touch Corina's shoulder for a little healing CLW:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2.
The next action kind of depends on what Corina decides to do, but the Ghoul is looking very torn up, and ready to meat the final death.
female; HP 13/13; AC 16/T 12/F 14; Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +0; Resist acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5; Init +4; Per +4 Angelkin Aasimar Bloodrager 1
Corina - ever the paragon of unsubtlety, was stepping forward into the next available target. Then over that one, and on to the next one. Rinse, repeat.
I had thought that both ghouls 1 and 2 were available for melee - I think Corina just took some damage from ghoul2, which is what forced her Fort save last round. Was I mistaken?
Ghoul 2 was the one in front of you, but Daveak destroyed it.
Nearly destroyed to the final death with Corina's onslaught, the Ghoul, starving decides to try to drop his prey before she can destroy him, jumps up to bite at her neck, then swipes with two filthy claws.
Unfortunately Corina has closed with the Ghouls, so only ranged and reach attack can hit. I would allow you to have Readied and Action to throw a dagger after Ghould 2 was killed and before Ghoul 1 entered melee if you would like. Otherwise back to Bicor and Daveak.
M elf Monk 1, AC: 18, tch: 18, ff: 10 CMD: 16 F +4, R +6, W +4
I can try this," the arcanist says drawing a dagger and flinging it at the ghoul.
1d20 + 2 - 6 ⇒ (9) + 2 - 6 = 5 range increments are going to kill the chances...EDIT: did :)
I just want to point out that we have about a eek left for the deadline for the Game Day Event. After this, there is really only a little bit of exploration and then the BBEG, and I think if we can push it a tiny bit, should make it.
