A snake-woman! This is what was meant by "sliding death".
Romon waits for the others to rush in, then takes a long righthand curving route toward the hooded man. Shortsword and dagger appear as if conjured in his hands. He flicks the shortsword at the hooded man's head and thrusts for his belly with the knife.
Acrobatics
Sleight of hand
Best dagger attack .... damage
Haste:
When making a full attack action, a hasted creature may make one extra attack with one natural or manufactured weapon. The attack is made using the creature's full base attack bonus, plus any modifiers appropriate to the situation. (This effect is not cumulative with similar effects, such as that provided by a speed weapon, nor does it actually grant an extra action, so you can't use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round.)
A hasted creature gains a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves. Any condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses.
All of the hasted creature's modes of movement (including land movement, burrow, climb, fly, and swim) increase by 30 feet, to a maximum of twice the subject's normal speed using that form of movement. This increase counts as an enhancement bonus, and it affects the creature's jumping distance as normal for increased speed. Multiple haste effects don't stack. Haste dispels and counters slow.
As the others move, the wild druidess and her companion also burst into action. Alihawk takes to the air and flies high over the snakewoman, swiftly flowing to wolf form as she lands, flanking with Big and Little bear, and powerfully bites their foe in the same movement, taking a big bloody chuck out of her enemy's flesh
Flanking, hasted, magic, natural, power attack:
Damage:
Confirm Crit!:
Meanwhile Lunas also takes the long way around and flanks with Romon, once in position the big wolf tries to rip out the man's hamstrings and bring him to the ground.
Flanking, hasted, magic fang, Big Game Hunter, bite attack:
Damage:
Plus Trip:
Monstrous woman 24
Muchorak 21
Naria 20
Marak 19
Romon 18
Esteriande 17
Ali 16
Inakai 16-
Hooded man 12
Muchorak rushes in and swipes at the Snake woman but misses.Ursus however sinks his teeth firmly into her flesh tearing a chunk off.
Naria recites the words of a Haste Spell and you all feel the enchantment invigorate your movements
Marak's spell reveals nothing
Romon misses his target as do Esteriande and Lunas but Ali bites the Snake woman and draws blood.
The Hooded Man slashes at Romon with his Razor though his blow does little damage.
damage
First off, in wolf from she gets +4 to STR so its 18 which is +4
Then with a primary natural attack it adds another +2 (+50%) from Str (like a two-handed weapon)
Then her bite counts as magic for +1 hit/dam
Then she has the feat Big Game Hunter which gives +1 hit/+2 dam vs large or larger creatures
Then +3 Power attack which gives her +6 dam
Which all adds up to 4+2+1+2+6= 15
She's a tough little wolf! ^.^
ROUND 2
Monstrous woman 24
Muchorak 21
Naria 20
Marak 19
Romon 18
Esteriande 17
Ali 16
Inakai 16-
Hooded man 12
The Snakewoman thing strikes out twice at both Esteriande and Muchorak..once at Ursas and then spins and delivers a sixth blow at Ali.
Esteriande Damage
WillSave for Esteriande vs Wisdom Drain lose 1 point Wisdom
Muchorak
Damage
Ursas
AliDamage
Esteriande feels the insidious assault on her psyche, and throws caution to the winds.
Attack #1: Damage:
Attack (haste): Damage:
Attack #2: Damage:
Confirm Threat: Damage:
Naria unleashes a barrage of magic missiles on the cloaked figure
Magic missile
Muchorak Ursus
The shoanti takes the damage knowing that half of it was redirected to his companion, he focus's his rage and unleashes it on the snake demon before him...
Longsword and damage
Shortsword and damage
Longsword and damage
Shortsword and damage
Longsword and damage
Ursus roars with his companion, striking out at the monster...
Bite and damage
Claw and damage
Claw and damage
Bite and damage
Feeling the rush of energy from Naria's spell, Inikai rushes to 12.09 and strikes out at the hooded man.
Smite Evil
Attack +4 BAB +4 Smite +1 magic weapon, +1 STR, +1 to attack from pact augmentation
Damage if it hits
Attack
Damage
Easily avoiding the snakewoman's attack, Aliwolf continues to visciously bite at her foe.
Ali attack: Damage:
Ali Haste attack: Damage:
While Lunas continues to rip into and try and take down his two-legged foe.
Lunas attack: Damage
Lunas Haste attack: Damage
Plus Trip:
Feeling the rush of energy from Naria's spell, Inikai rushes to 12.09 and strikes out at the hooded man.
Smite Evil
Attack1d20+12 +4 BAB +4 Smite +1 magic weapon, +1 STR, +1 to attack from pact augmentationDamage if it hits
1d8+10
Attack
1d20+7Damage
1d8+10
Why do I bother?
Round 2.
"Is that your best? No wonder you ran at the mill. I'll tell you what. Why don't you run out on Miss Crawly here? And maybe you'll stay alive."
Best dagger attack .... damage SA damage
Hasted Best dagger attack .... damage SA damage
Crit confirm .... damage
Round 2.
"Is that your best? No wonder you ran at the mill. I'll tell you what. Why don't you run out on Miss Crawly here? And maybe you'll stay alive."
Best dagger attack 1d20 + 7 + 1 +2 .... damage 1d4 + 3 SA damage 4d6
Hasted Best dagger attack 1d20 + 7 + 1 +2 .... damage 1d4 + 3 SA damage 4d6
Crit confirm 1d20 + 7 + 1 +2 .... damage 1d4 + 3
Esteriand scores a telling hit.(60 Damage...owwwwwch)
Muchorak and ursus follow up with a barrage of teeth claws and sword blows (a further 42 damage between them)
The Monster collapses limply
Caster check for Naria
Naria changes targets and slams a salvo of Missiles into Mr Hood but Lunas and Inikasi cannot seem to hit him and Romons well placed dagger thrust fails to connect with a vital organ
Ali having nothing to bite at changes her target to the only one available and delivers a viscious bite to Mr Hood's leg that brings him down also
Damage on opponents
Snake woman 113 (Bleeding out..oh and now Esteriande detects her as evil..isn't Mask Alignment a wonderful thing)
Mr Hood 44 (Bleeding out..He's evil too)
Cl check
Naria moves closer and begins to inspect the Snake lady
Romon kicks Hood's war razor out of the way and kneels beside him. "Should have just kept running, pervert." He eases his knife point inside the mask below Hood's ear and runs it up behind Hood's temple. Then he levers the knife out to slice through the mask and rips it off. (And if this process cuts Hood a little, that's OK with Romon.) "Let's see who you are."
Inikai stands silently for a moment and castigates himself for being ineffective in this fight. Then he looks around to at the tops of the other buildings in case they are being observed. Even in Magnimar a pitched battle atop a monument tends to draw attention.
"What is it?" Naria asks whilst examining the snake lady from every possible angle
"I know not, save zat zey must me ze killers be'ind ze killers," Esteriande hazards a guess, and sighs heavily.
"Alors, I 'ave acted too 'astily, per'aps. I should 'ave given zem ze chance to surrender, yet I zink zey would not 'ave accepted it. When she began to cast 'er spells, I zought only of your defence."
Esteriande begins to work her way through the next, searching carefully.
"Perhaps they were just lesser agents of our ultimate foe. I would think that anyone who truly wants to ensure our deaths would entrust the task to more than two attackers. What kind of being traffics with snake-women, shapechangers, undead, goblins and who-knows-what else?"
Knowledge (Arcane) about the snake-woman.
As Inikai looks at the acccomodations on the roof he asks "Do you think they lived here or was it just a temporary accomodation? In any event there is probably at least one trap here among the spoils."
"What is it?" Naria asks whilst examining the snake lady from every possible angle
"It's dead." Romon quips as he saws open the hooded one's mask.
"There wasn't time. We are sudden death in the dark. Nothing can touch us." Romon continues to saw away at the unexpectedly tough mask.
"There wasn't time. We are sudden death in the dark. Nothing can touch us." Romon continues to saw away at the unexpectedly tough mask.
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Marak flinches a bit at Roman's boastful words, and makes a superstitious Varisian gesture to ward off evil, tucking his thumb into his fist and biting his forefinger.
"Do not challenge the Lady of Graves with such speech, Roman. She cannot lose this game, for all the pieces will be hers in the end."
Romon shakes his head. "We're Pharasma's seven fingered hand. She wants to call someone to task, she puts them in our path. She obviously didn't like this masked murder ring or their scaly mascot. Can someone give me a hand with this mask? I want to see this creep's face while we're asking him if he's got any more friends."
"We are not death, mon amis, or at least we should not be. We should be life, and if we fight, it is to survive and preserve beauty and love in zis world. Ze Lady of Graves, she has 'er part, for all zings must end, but she does not like zem to end untimely. If zere is error 'ere, it is in our being to eager to fight. Zat error is...largely mine. I forgot myself, and must beg forgiveness."
"No, you got nothing to beg about. Tonight we're the grey Lady's cops sending criminals to the final bench. You heard Princess Sabiyyara. These creeps have been at this for a long time maybe years. Their time was today and they deserved it. And you can't tell me any different. "
Romon slices away the mask to reveal...
The face of Justice Ironbriar..Chief Magistrate of Magnimar(who is still alive and bleeding out)
Marak and Inikai have no clues as to the Snakewoman's origin.
Esteriande finds Gems, Coin and Jewelry with a total value of 9000Gp
She also finds a long scroll bearing an extensive list of names and professions, many of which have been crossed out. The list bears the heading “Sihedron Sacrifices.” Some of these names are of folks from Sandpoint, but the majority are people who live in Magnimar—all of them merchants, moneylenders, gamblers,adventurers, and thieves and each known for their greed
"Uh someone may want to stop them bleeding to death you know."
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"The insights provided to me by the Lord of Magic speak nothing of this serpent-woman, which, in itself, speaks volumes. Either she is protected by some magic from divination of this sort, or she is like nothing to be found in book or tome, a unique creature, or a mortal woman transformed by magic..."
With a word and a gesture, he staunches the flow of blood from the man's wounds, then the snake-woman's.
"If this man I do not recognize is truly a grand magistrate, and serves the God of Murder's agenda, it would be a word from his lips to sentence us all to hang for attacking him. If his life is to be spared, I would rather us be many miles from this town before he awakes, lest we leave on a corpse-cart."
"I will not run the clock out on his life in passive manner, by simply standing by and allowing him to die, but I will indeed without guilt or hesitation kick his body from yonder balcony if we agree that his own crimes far outweigh any need to subject ourself to a lawless and corrupt court which serves his murderous whim..."
"No, you got nothing to beg about. Tonight we're the grey Lady's cops sending criminals to the final bench. You heard Princess Sabiyyara. These creeps have been at this for a long time maybe years. Their time was today and they deserved it. And you can't tell me any different. You didn't wear the mask!"
"You are correct, mon cher, I did not wear ze mask, nor would I ever want to. I do not doubt our cause, but many blows struck in anger strike down ze wrong target. I do not doubt now zat we struck true, but I regret zat zis time I was not as certain as I should 'ave been. If we do not question - always - if we are on ze right path, we will never know when we stray from it."
"I will not run the clock out on his life in passive manner, by simply standing by and allowing him to die, but I will indeed without guilt or hesitation kick his body from yonder balcony if we agree that his own crimes far outweigh any need to subject ourself to a lawless and corrupt court which serves his murderous whim..."
"Not with zis in our 'ands," Esteriande brandishes the list. "'Ere is ze proof positive zat zese are our murderers. A list of all 'oo zey killed, and all zey were planning to kill. With zis, 'is trip to ze gallows, not ours, is assured."
She turns to Romon.
"It is all I found in ze nest, but zere may be ozzer evidence 'ere also - somezing in 'is own 'and. You may find it more easily zan I."
The battle ended and emotions calming the shoanti looks down at this demon before him. It is a creature of nightmares; a woman mixed with a snake. This is not something from his world. He watches the others take in the roof top, Marak checking the demon and then to the hooded man.
This must be cleansed. The Shoanti's blades twirl with practiced hands as his grip shifts making his hold an easy downward motion; the plunges both of his blades into the demon near the abdomen. He spits on the creature then crosses his arms with the blades severing the monster in two; seperating the human from monster.
His task done he removes the gore from his blades and resheath's them and looks at his companions, then the hooded man, "Do we wish to speak to him or is he to learn he is not a bird?"
When he sees Ironbriar's face, Romon lurches back onto his haunches.
"I don't believe it. This is the toughest SOB on the Magnimar Bench. Marak's right. That paper won't protect us or convict him. Cream or scum, once it rises to the top it stays there. They won't take the word of six drifters and a whoreson over his."
"We've still got to make sure he's the last one." Romon starts to search Ironbriar's body.
Perception: +3 more v traps
"Romon is right. the fact that a justice has a list of victims on him proves nothing. He would claim that it is evidence collected in an investigation into the murders perpetrated by this cult. It certainly would be believable. Of course, he could also claim to have been enspelled by the snake-woman as well."
"Even if the protoccol is for spellcasters to practice divinations to plumb for the truth there is no guarantee that they would tell the truth about what they learned. Bringing this to a court would be a trip to the gallows for us."
"I only disagree with Muchorak about throwing Ironbriar over the side because it would draw attention when he hits the ground. It would be better to leave him here to die quietly."
Apart from his War Razor and the mask which Romon has effectively destroyed Ironbriar has a Mithril Shirt. He has nothing else of interest on him.
Ali
Muchorak turns to Inikai, "It has become an understanding to my people that these men of the civilized lands," he gestures at Ironbriar, "Do tend to kill themselves at odd times. Perhaps his flight is just another man attempting to escape this man made prison?"
"Even if there is a full confession, a gloating full confession, in this stuff here I don't think we have a chance of convincing anyone that the chief judge was a murderer. There will be too many people who have vested interests in not letting the truth come out."
"And, anyway, people who jump to their deaths don't bother to stab themselves first, they just jump."
Inikai interrupts himself when he sees Marak stabilize the snake-woman.
Marak didn't stabilise her Muchorak CDG'd her before he could..Oh and the first person on the list of Victims who has not been crossed out..happens to be the Mayor of Magnimar.
Aliwolf turns her head back and forth in curious incomprehension at the back and forth between Esteriande and Romon, and then the rest of her friends before finally shaking her head and giving up.
She then moves over to sniff all around the corpse of the strange woman/snake and then the unconscious bad bad two legs. Once she is finished she flows to Gnome form and says "This be bad bad man, same bad bad man Ali follow from other bad bad two leg den of wood. One who then be no more and one who before have that...book?...that friend Es-ter-an-de have." She then turns towards the snakewoman [b]"But Ali no know what kind thing half woman half snake be, she just know she no like it. Yuck! So what we do now?"
Knowledge(nature):
This must be cleansed. The Shoanti's blades twirl with practiced hands as his grip shifts making his hold an easy downward motion; the plunges both of his blades into the demon near the abdomen. He spits on the creature then crosses his arms with the blades severing the monster in two; seperating the human from monster.
"What on Golarion did you do that for????" Naria yells
Inikai steps toward Marak as he speaks but comes up short when he sees that the cleric of Nethys has not saved the life of the snake-woman. He feels foolish when he sees that Muchorak has decapitated the monster.
"Oh, I'm sorry. From over there I could not see what you were doing. Please forgive me."
"in regard to Ironbriar, I can likely do something to force answers from him. It might be a bit distasteful, though. And I would need some time to prepare myself for it."