DM Carbide's Through a Cracked Mirror: A Short Watch (Inactive)

Game Master John Woodford

Drovic, after studying the troll for a round it's clear to you that your death attack won't work on it.

Really? That's interesting, I just thought it was undead. In Pathfinder undead are susceptible to sneak attacks, and therefore being assassinated. Is there something about the creature that's I'm missing? I have a couple knowledges I could roll.

AIUI, undead are susceptible to sneak attack damage, but not to (among other things) an assassin's death attack. See the list of undead creature traits for this one:

Immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless).

Since the death effect doesn't do anything special to objects, I interpret that trait as indicating that undead aren't susceptible to it. OTOH, my cursory search through Rules Questions came up empty wrt previous discussion.

Ahh, that makes sense. Can't believe I didn't make that connection. Thanks for clarifying.

I also figured that your character would recognize that; letting you (the player) spend three rounds for nothing seemed like something of a Richard move, IYKWIM.

Round 7, Prayer

Conner full withdrawals back to a oint just inside the mist, marking the location of his target.

Round 7 (ongoing):

Initiative order
Drovic-acted
Conner-acted
Grungar-acted
Ogres-
Besmarial-
Troll-
Dashel-

DMPCing Grungar for the moment. The dwarf closes with the second ogre zombie in the mist. He lands a solid chop with his falchion, cleaving into the creature. Its return blow almost lays him out again, though.

The other ogre and the troll advance on Dashel, but are unable to attack him this round. Remember that the green is Difficult terrain.

Dashel is up!

Ogre #1: -25 HP
Ogre #2: -23 HP
Troll: -5 HP

RD 7: Dashel

The cleric understanding the situation releases a second wave of positive energy to harm the undead.

"Oh blessed sun Goddess shed your everliving light upon these soiled creatures!

damage: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 2) = 12
DC 16 for half damage

2 channels remaining for the day.

He will then proceed to move to M 12, staying out of the reach of the larger opponents forcing them to use their action to move and not strike.

Prayer is over now. Bless is ongoing.

In response to Dashel's prayer, holy power again sears into the zombies. Both ogres fall, put to rest by the cleric. The troll manages to resist the worst of it, though.

Round 8:

Initiative order
Drovic-
Conner-
Grungar-
Besmarial-
Troll-
Dashel-

Drovic, Conner, and Grungar are up!

Drovic mutters a curse to himself. Can't slit the throat of something that doesn't breath or pump blood. Still uses it's eyes to see though... Drovic takes out a sparkling pouch of sand, whipping it at the troll and making it explode outwards in a brilliant display with a shouted word.

Glitterdust. DC 15 will save.

The troll zombie somehow gets its eyes closed in time. It is very obvious now, though.

DC 15 Will save vs. glitterdust: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Round 8, Bless

Conner chugs a potion of Cure Serious Wounds and then studies the Troll as a favored enemy.

CSW: 3d8 + 7 ⇒ (1, 3, 1) + 7 = 12

The dice bot hates you Conner.

It could be worse--in my KM PbP game, I had an oracle roll three consecutive ones on CLW spells during the fight with the Stag Lord. That was followed by the paladin rolling a 1 on her last LoH of the day. I think they're sweating a bit, though it helps that they've got the Stag Lord backed into a corner where he can't use archery without eating a pair of AoOs.

Round 8:

Initiative order
Drovic-acted
Conner-acted
Grungar-acted
Besmarial-acted
Troll-acted
Dashel-

Badly wounded, Grungar retreats into the mist. The troll shambles towards Dashel, but is slowed enough by the undergrowth that it's unable to reach him and attack.

Dashel is up!

RD 8: Dashel

Radiating the power of his goddess the holy man releases another powerful channeling wave.

damage, DC 16 Will: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 4) = 13

Then he moves back out of the troll immediate reach. Hit and move, hit and move.

1 channel remaining for the day.

It'll get an AoO as you retreat, Dashel.

I didn't know it was that close. I won't move then.

The undead troll barely manages to resist the full force of Iomedae's glory.

Round 9:

Initiative order
Drovic-
Conner-
Grungar-
Besmarial-
Troll-
Dashel-

Drovic, Conner, and Grungar are up!

Troll: -16 HP

"It's time t'end this battle!

Sorry can you remind me what the "Threat" on the map is?

Round 8, Bless, Favored Target

Conner fires two arrows at the Troll, from a position of hiding.

LB Att 1: 1d20 + 12 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 12 + 2 + 1 = 23
LB Dam 1: 1d8 + 4 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 + (6, 6) = 20

LB Att 2: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 7 + 2 + 1 = 21
LB Dam 2: 1d8 + 4 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 + (4, 3) = 15

That's the dead pukwudgie, Drovic. I'm keeping it there for reference, not because it's regenerating.

In spite of its resistance to piercing weapons, Conner's arrows are enough to disrupt the enchantment that motivates the undead creature, and it falls.

Out of combat!

Ah, gotcha.

Drovic breathes out, moving over to the pukwudgie and slitting it's throat. "How is everybody?"

Grungar gives an uncharacteristic low moan. He does not look well at all; pale and sweating, with a slight tremor that eases as soon as the moment of weakness spell wears off.

I have many wounds and could use some healing.

Drovic quickly makes his way over to Grungar. "Heal his wounds. I will deal with the poison the best I can." He pours his last antitoxin down Grungar's throat, then tries to identify what the poison is that's effecting him and sees if he can do anything else.

Grungar had already saved against the poison; he's just down 4 CON and a lot of HP. And Dashel gave him an antitoxin as well.

Ah my bad. In that case ingore giving him the antitoxin, but Drovic will try to identify the poison and see if he can do anything about it.

Craft (Alchemy): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

Drovic, what are your opposition schools?

Necromancy and abjuration. Hmm I don't believe I put that on the character anywhere. I'll update that soon.

Dashel instructs, "We need to burn these creatures NOW. I've one channel healing remaining...but we must get the fire going."

healing: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 4) = 10

Besmarial will have an alternative suggestion when the GM can post from something better than a phone.

Besmarial turns back and forth. "If the bodies are not regenerating, perhaps you should leave them as they are. When the delegation from the village arrives, they may serve as proof of your ability to deal with the unexpected dangers of the forest."

ETA: Drovic, the poison on the quills is odd. From firsthand experience you know it's a potent hemolytic agent, and incidentally induces some minor amount of tissue necrosis in the vicinity of the point of contact. However, there is a magical component to it as well, of a school you know you didn't study.

Dashel examines the bodies and noting they are not regenerating, "That is fantastic idea." He looks to Conner, "Perhaps I should bring that farmer here to view this sacrilege himself."

You may also want to think back to the other zombies you fought in the past few days.

"We need to locate the source of this necromancy"

What's everyone doing?

I believe Drovik is busy with exams.

"Let's stay vigilant this evening and rest up after the we have the enemy placed together."

dashel touch folks with the cure wand.

Grungar
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

conner
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

I'm not sure how much people need. Rest will give everyone some HP back, but if more is need Dashel would converted a 2nd level spell or two.

cmw: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (8, 4) + 3 = 15
cmw: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (1, 4) + 3 = 8

he would use the lesser restoration wand and take time to cure the con and str damage, including his own.

dashel: 1d4 ⇒ 4
grungar: 1d4 ⇒ 1
grungar, id needed: 1d4 ⇒ 4

I marked off 6 CLW from the wand resources and 3 LR from that wand. Tell me if more is needed.

The STR penalty to Grungar is from ray of enfeeblement, and only lasts for ten minutes. He's down 4 CON, I think, and Drovic is down a couple of CON points as well.

Drovic: 1d4 ⇒ 1

I was down 3 points, so now I am down 2. Yes Dashel is correct, I have finals coming up next week and a lot of work to get done in the meantime.

Good luck!

LR again on Drovic: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Conner nods to Dashel as his wounds close over.

Thank you, friend.

I was down 32. The healing you provided brought me to full. Thanks.

The rest of the night passes uneventfully. Grungar grumbles a bit about missing the hag, still convinced that she's somehow involved in all this.

If you search the pukwudgie's body, you'll find that it was carrying a couple of flasks of liquid in belt pouches; both of the flasks detect as magic.

Dashel will spend sometime trying to identify the liquids.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

Dashel, they're both potions of cure moderate wounds.