DM Papa.DRB - Legendary Planet

Game Master Almonihah

You get to act in the surprise round if you made the second perception check, but this is a swarm, so you can't target it with single-target attacks.

PS--is someone stat damaged Charisma? if so, when we have a chance Bishop will cast Lesser Restoration on said individual

Lesser Res Charisma: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Dakkar snarls at the swarm, not particularly good at fighting such things.

"I think someone else will have to handle this one."

Kit is welcome to change his surprise round action

Kit init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Iskender init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
Dakkar init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Fenwick init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

The swarm of loathsome white grubs erupts from the ceiling and showers down over Kit and Dakkar, their little mouths ferociously chewing on anything they touch.

Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3 to both of them, and make a DC 19 Reflex save or take 1d4 ⇒ 4 Con damage

You are all now free to act

What are the light sources for this area? Are there torches along the wall or does someone have a torch going?

If it's dark, I would have cast light on something.

What size of creatures are in this swarm? Are the attackable? Or are we screwed?

The creatures are Fine, unfortunately, which is pretty bad for your party, yes. There are not torches here, so Iskender would have needed to cast light on something.

I don't think a light spell has the same ability to do energy damage like a torch. So we be screwed!

Almost forgot my reflex save..

Reflex Save DC19: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

It is your turn(s) now, to be clear.

Unless anyone has some area of effect spells, I don't know if there is much we can do. What if we ran back and jumped in the mud where we say the penitents were?

Dakkar is considering just attacking the far wall (he didn't make the perception check, but figures we've had to break walls to get here before and the tomb is probably symmetrical) and seeing if we can get this over with quickly and scram with the loot.

I'll remind you that this is a combat round and you don't have a lot of time to discuss this. :D

Iskender use his wand to drop a sound burst on the swarm, cleverly missing his companions.

Sonic damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2

I believe and a DC 13 fort save, or be stunned for a round.

Bishop doesn't have anything that will help in a swarm. so he will back up and give some room to vacate the area if need be. And stand by to heal.

Fort: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25

The burst of sound does a tiny amount of harm, but doesn't seem to rattle the swarm of ravenous grubs more than that.

Oh, and reflex save!

Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

The constitution damage is extremely irritating. I hope the Bishop can cure it!

Dakkar becomes enraged at the grubs he can't hurt and decides to vent his frustrations upon the far wall.

Fleet charge into wall violence:
RAGING POWER FULL ATTACK WALL DAMAGES: 6d6 + 72 ⇒ (5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2) + 72 = 93
from 6 attacks

Swarms are the worst idea in the game ever!

Swarms are pretty bad, yeah. They're one of the things in Pathfinder that annoyingly require every party to have special techniques just for handling them, which I've always felt was a bit of an antipattern.

Dakkar smashes through the center of the opposite wall, revealing a chamber beyond that seems much like the one on the north had. A bier with an unmoving figure laying on it are the only contents of the room. As soon as Dakkar barges in, light starts streaming from a square of crystal lying on top of the body.

Fortunately, the body doesn't move. Dakkar does notice, however, that some of the grubs have burrowed into his flesh.

What's Kit doing?

Kit will stop, drop and roll hoping to crush the grubs while he thinks of way to defeat them.

Knowledge (Nature): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

About the only thing Kit can think of is that they probably don't like fire. They keep swarming over Kit, since he's nicely staying in place.

Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6
Constitution damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3 Same DC 19 Reflex save to avoid the Con damage

Dakkar can feel the grubs under his scales continuing to chew away at him.Con damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

?: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Engorged, the grubs pop out of the wounds they've made in him and lay on the ground unmoving.

Reflex Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Anyone got any flint? Kit asks.

Iskender will drop another sound burst on the swarm, cleverly missing his companions.

Sonic damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

I believe and a DC 13 fort save, or be stunned for a round.

Oh, and I'll toss flint@steel to Kit.

Fort: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

While this burst is more effective at dealing damage, the grubs remain un-stunned.

Kit will try to use the flint and steel and something combustible to make an improvised torch to burn the critters away.

Dakkar snarls in impotent fury and resolves to find some way to kill grubs. Those were some ridiculous Con damage rolls But for now figures he will have to follow through on the plan to seize what they are after and then flee. So he charges into the room to investigate the obvious glowing thing as probably what they want, while keeping an eye out for anything else to loot in a draconic frenzy before fleeing this blasted grub-infested place.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Yes, Dakkar is reckless while enraged. Is that surprising?

Dakkar doesn't see anything else of interest in the room, just the glowing crystal pane held by the corpse. Whoever has the other crystal pane you found earlier would notice that it's glowing wherever they have it stashed.

Kit is able to burn some of the grubs. Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2 But they keep chewing on him. Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5
Con damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1 You know the save by now.

Kit, treat the torch as a weapon that deals 1d6 fire damage on a hit on future rounds.

Reflex SaveDC19: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Fire Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Dakkar snorts, grabs the crystal pane, and runs back out.

"Alright, got the shiny thing, we can leave the annoying grubs behind now."

Doing only 1d6 damage a turn to them will probably get us all killed. Though Dakkar would appreciate you still distracting them until he's clear, given the severe CON damage he has.

Still here! Who are we waiting on?

Round-wise Iskender and Fenwick could still do something. In general you need to decide how you're handling this because the fire damage from one torch is not killing them fast enough.

Is there enough material to make multiple torches if everyone pitches in?

Even if we all had torches, the grubs would kill us all with Con damage long before we killed the swarm. Torches just don't do enough damage. Hence Dakkar's vote of just leaving with the goods.

Even if we all had torches, the grubs would kill us all with Con damage long before we killed the swarm.

This is likely true.

Right. I've got nothing to contribute to the fight except healing and I don't have lots of CON healing prepped. the one lesser restoration. concur with the grab and go.

Sounds good! Grab go and maybe jump into the mud and drown the buggers?

I can keep trying to stun them, but that's a losing proposition. Grab and go it is!

Do we escape the grubs and get the treasure?

Dakkar barges past Kit, and soon the whole group is running down the stone passageway, grubs falling behind them as they jump through the hole in the wall.

This does, however, leave a bunch of hungry grubs that have proven capable of burrowing through mud heading towards a room where several people are encased in dried mud.

"You all might want to take a break from your mud rituals. there are a horde of grubs coming this way and they can easily get through mud."

diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

Yes! Flee! They will eat you alive! Believe me! I know! Kit shouts as he continues to flee from the flesh-eating grubs!

You don't think the people encased in pillars of dried mud can break out very quickly.

Check the wands you got recently

Is there a check that can be made untrained or is this something that Fenwick and Iskender need to do?

I'm not tracking where the loot list is located. can we re-post it here or link me to it?

Dakkar doesn't know how to do anything with wands except maybe eat them. Though they don't look at all tasty.

The only recent wand is stone shape right? The list is usually on Kit's profile, although he didn't write that one down because we thought it should go to Bishop.

I think these are the last thinks we got:

3 turquoises worth 300 gp each
A +2 heavy mace
A caster's shield (with meld into stone)
2 potions of water walk
A scroll of stone to flesh
A wand of stone shape with 10 charges

Can someone use stone shape to block the grubs?

That's a cleric spell, so not me!

The entrance you opened up is surrounded by stone, so it would be a valid target for stone shape

"Quick, give me the wand of stone shape that we have in the loot bag and I will wall off the entrance in an effort to stop the grubs from attacking the group."

Bishop will create a thin stone wall that should stop grubs but still be able to penetrate if we wanted to bash our way back in once we have area of effect spells prepared.

"I think it's there in your belt."

In this post you said you were keeping it.