GM Raltus' - Slaying Giants

Game Master Raltus

"Thank you, that feels better." Yorikata's words say, but her face tells of pain a she moves on.

Let us head north and check that door. Dain indicates the passage north of him.[/b]

Gran't' moves ahead, he has slowed considerably but in front of him you can see a mass of very small stones rolling along the floor.
Basic Geokinesis "Watch the stones." He says, "Hopefully they will get caught on any more traps and give us warning." Aid another on perception to spot traps?

Not going to lie that is an awesome way to find traps that don't require a pressure plate haha

The door to the north in the chamber everyone is in leads to A room full of Statues with a fire pit in the middle.

H12. Hall of Heroes
This once-grand flagstone hall is filled with statues of different
celestial creatures in every corner. An old fire pit in the center of
the room is bordered on all sides by moth-eaten bedrolls, while
shovels, picks, and other digging equipment lie strewn about
a shallow tunnel bored into the northeastern wall. The ceiling
above the tunnel has collapsed, leaving a hole open to the sky
above a pile of burnt rubble.

Wait! before we go lets look here.
She indicates the bookshelf and chest in the room they are about to leave.

Lanneth looks at the bookshelf and indicates that someone should look at the chest before they leave the room.

Then once that is done, she follows the others as they move to the next room. There she immediatly starts looking at the bedrolls and tunnel trying to see if there is anything hidden here.
Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

After her bad experience Yorikata stays back and leaves it to the others to find out what this site is about. But she looks around from behind. "Why would someone dig a hole here?"
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

The floor might have collapsed due to the damage the big rocks did when they fell on the place.

Or someone wanted to get into the basement or dig a tunnel into the town for some reason. This could make a good base of operations to sneak into the town if you could dig a tunnel from here. A whole troop could sneak in here under the cover of darkness and then use the tunnel to get into town with the guards never the wiser. The basement makes a good staging area. Even the Orcs must have figured that out by now.

As part of her looking at the tunnel, she wants to see if by chance the tunnel isn't as impassable as it seems.

As Lanneth enters the tunnel, a few rocks crumble to the ground. This is enough to disturb the creatures that were sleeping in partially caved in tunnel. Lanneth also notes what looks like a body pinned under some stone.

I will do initiative later

Ahhh... Of course. Boys we have more Vermin here!

Lanneth scrambles back away from the creatures as soon as she sees them.
Posting ahead for my first round. Withdraw action to back away from the danger behind the two guardsmen.

Blue
Yorikata, Dain <---
Grant, Lanneth, Red
Balder

The rat with the Red tinged skin, or it could be blood on it bites at Lanneth. The rats looks plagued or like they are not in a health state.

Bite: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 121d3 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1
Str Dmg: 1d2 ⇒ 1
DC 11 Fort save:Filth fever: Bite—injury; save Fort DC 11, onset 1d3 days, frequency 1/day, effect 1d3 Dex damage and 1d3 Con damage, cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Stab: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 201d6 ⇒ 2
Yorikata leaps to Lannneth's side and stabs at the rat.

Dain whacks with his axe
Axe: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 211d10 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Shuffle shuffle stab
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 61d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Dain and Yorikata wound 2 different Rats, by the time Gran't' gets there too many people are present and his swing is off its mark.

The Red rat's form fades and becomes almost translucent

Fort: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

Don't you bite at me!!!!

I suppose this calls for a bit of protection.

Lanneth suddenly starts chanting.
Lady of darkness, Mother of Night,
Bless this woman with your gift of light.
Let the moonbeam hold me tight
As I walk through the comming fight.

As repeats the invocation twice more and then for a moment she seems to glow faintly with a soft light.

Cast Mage Armor. AC now 16 for the next 2 hours.

Yorikata jumps back. "A ghost?"

Congratulations. An incorporeal creature at level 2. Let's get out of here.

I am just doing what the AP tells me and Lanneth has a trick she can use just has to think really hard

That's no complaint towards you. And I remembered later, that Lanneth's heal hex will work on them. But incorporeal in our party constellation is hard, as we have no channel, no magic missile, no evocation spells at all, no magic weapons...

well if you "SCROLL" through you might find something

Very subtle :D - Yorikata has no idea, that one of the papers is a SCROLL of ghost bane dirge, nor does she know what that is.

Ya, that scroll is not a Witch spell. So I would have to UMD with a 23 to cast it. Not good odds with my +4 bonus. I'll hex them if you all are done for the round, but I've gone twice already to the rest of your once

Religion: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

From farther back Lanneth peeks to see how the boys are doing with the rat.
Ghost Rats? I've never seen those before... She watches curiously to see how the group does with them, she wonders if they may have hidden talents.

We found holy water upstairs, two bottles.

"Can't you beat them with something?" Yorikata asks the guys.
There was also an oil of magic weapon.

I'll beat them with my axe!

Yay for my blade already being magical, boo for my rolls being so poor
Gran't' swings his stone blade at the shadowy rat.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 101d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Dain holds out his axe. Can someone pour that magic oil on my axe?

Yorikata takes the oil of magic weapon out of Lanneth's backpack and pours it over the axe of Dain.

Waiting on Balder, I couldn't log on till right now

Well no one told me if all the rats are ghosts so I'll go for the blue one.

Balder catches a fright from the ghostly rat and his mace comes down towards the one next to it.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (3, 3) + 6 = 12

And the mace comes down with a solid thud... and maybe a squish.

"Holy crap, what the!?"

Balder does kill the first rat before it can become ghostly. The second one remains ready to attack.

Yorikata, Dain <---
Grant, Lanneth, Red (-2, incorporeal)
Balder

Dain whacks with his magic axe
Axe,Magic oil: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 131d10 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Yorikata hides behind Lanneth. Now that she is prepared, she is for sure able to end this threat, Yorikata believes.

Dain swings but missed the smaller creature.

Lanneth reaches out and tries Mother Moon's blessing of life on the rat.
Hex Cure Light wounds on the Rat (touch): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13
Damage if Undead: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Lanneth's touch misses right through the rat, her hand comes away with nothing on it and nothing to show.

Touch AC 14

So does that use my hex for that rat for the day, or can I do this again?

I say since you didn't "use it" you can try again, does it get an AoO since you are not armed?

AoO on Lanneth if it works that way: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 151d2 ⇒ 2
STr dmg now only

The Rat turns to Dain who appears much stronger than Lanneth

Str dmg: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 201d2 ⇒ 2

Yorikata, Dain
Grant, Lanneth, Red (-2, incorporeal)
Balder <---

Bloody vermin
-2 Str

Hexes are supernatural actions - Standard actions that do not provoke AoO. Plus that would miss given my Dex and +4 force AC with mage armor would be an AC 16.

Balder tries to smash the rat anyway even though chances are unlikely.

"Dain get back!"

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (3, 3) + 6 = 12
Percentile: 1d100 ⇒ 51 In case there's a percentile chance

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 241d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Gran't's Kinectic blade finally has some bite to it, doing a small bit of damage to the creature slowly weakening the party.

confirm: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 201d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Killing the rat

"Phew!" Yorikata voices with relief as the rats are finally dead-dead. "So what about this tunnel now. Lanneth, you saw something, right?" she asks from a safe position in the back.

Whew, I'm feeling a little drained. Need some good ale.

There is a body there, but be careful of there being more rats.

Lanneth stands back and lets others look at the partially collaped tunnel/body.

Strength: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Strength: 1d20 ⇒ 3
With everyone standing around, curiosity gets the better of Yorikata and she tries to pull out the corpse. "It... doesn't... move!" she complains panting.