DM Delmoth's Strange Aeons (Inactive)

Game Master Delmoth

Should I roll init?

Forgot about the personal targeting for False Life; Mara cast it on herself then. Her final preparation will be to use a scroll of Protection from Evil on Rowan (only one minute duration).

Mara's ready, just wanted to give others a chance to have a say on whether we attack the wamps, and tactics.

Theo and the White Rabbit do some stretches.

In addition to the extracts mentioned before, Kat drinks barkskin and shield extracts and an antiplague.

Good for init whenever!

Oh yes, antiplague for Mara as well!

The White Rabbit kicks Theo.
Good idea, Kat!

He also downs an Antiplague.

Initiative
Dervak, cat's grace: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 5 + 2 = 19
Kat: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Mara: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Mara, Temporal Celerity: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Rowan: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Theo: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
Wamps: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Surprise round
Rowan <-----
Dervak <-----
Mara <-----
Theo <-----
Wamps
Kat <-----

Round 1
Rowan <-----
Dervak <-----
Mara <-----
Theo <-----
Wamps
Kat

The wamps continue to root around voraciously in the upturned graves, gobbling down rotted bones and mummified flesh.

Mara concentrated, speeding the flow of time for her friends.

Casting Haste on the party in the Surprise Round.

Then she flew forward and cast a spell, covering four of the horrible creatures in thick, sticky mud. "Alright wamps, the buffet is closed!

Casting Slowing Mud (DC 21 Fortitude)
"You coat the targets in thick, sticky mud. The mud acts as a slow spell and also blinds the targets. A creature can use a standard action to remove the mud from its eyes or the eyes of an adjacent creature, ending the blinded condition for that individual. Removing enough mud to end the slow effect is a full-round action. Jumping into a lake or being subject to an effect that creates a lot of water (such as create water or hydraulic push) removes all the mud in 1 round."

The blinding effect won't do anything, but hopefully the Slow Effect will.

Dervak uses his surprise round action to close with a wamp (thanks to Haste), and then his first round action to Rage (+4 Str) and full-attack it.

The Vorpal Scimitar crackles with Dervak's arcane power as it slashes at the creature, but it fails to find a neck.

Primary: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31
+8 BAB, +8 Str, +1 MW, +1 Heroism, +1 Haste, -3 PA
Damage: 1d6 + 23 ⇒ (5) + 23 = 28
+12 Str, +2 Arcane Strike, +9 PA

Iterative: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23
Damage: 1d6 + 23 ⇒ (3) + 23 = 26

Hasted: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (1) + 16 = 17
Using my new bloodline power Certain Strike to reroll that. Once per rage.
Hasted: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (16) + 16 = 32
Damage: 1d6 + 23 ⇒ (4) + 23 = 27

AC 33.

Theophilus flies to within 30' of the grouping; following behind Dervak.

He then begins a full round cast.

Kat gets into her defensive battle stance and advances while the enemies are still unawares. Surprise round move action move forward and swift to enter snake style

She then continues forward, pausing to drink her potion of enlarge person. Her reach is now 20 ft with the spear

Slowing Mud
Wamp 2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
Wamp 3: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Wamp 4: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
Wamp 5: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26

One of the wamps manages to shake off the mud that Mara flings but the rest are coated. Dervak’s assault ends the wamp before it’s even aware of him.

With exceptional speed Rowan charges two of the wamps. With haste he gets within 5ft and then on round one 5ft steps. Then he unleashes a torrent of fist and foot. One of them is punched right in its pig-like nose sending it realing, the other is beaten within an inch of its life but is still standing somehow.

Kat and the wamps meet each other and Kat manages to slash one before they are able to close too closely. Kat, your first round doesn’t happen until after the wamps so you’re not enlarged yet, rolling what I think your damage should be.

Kat damage: 1d8 + 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (8) + (5) + 6 + 6 = 25

Wamp 4 vs Kat, charge, slow: 1d20 + 10 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (13) + 10 + 2 - 1 = 24
Bite: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Kat Snake Style, other bonuses?: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (8) + 20 = 28

Wamp 5 vs Kat, charge: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 + 2 = 32
Bite: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Wamp 5 confirm? vs Kat, charge: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 + 2 = 32
Bite: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Kat vs Zombie Rot, DC 19, anti-plague: 1d20 + 6 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 5 = 19

While Kat is able to easily predict the movements of one of the wamps and avoid it's bite, but the second blind-sides her. The wamps teeth sink into Kat and it's only thanks to her alchemical preparations that Kat is able to avoid the wound becoming infected.

Round 1
Rowan
Dervak
Mara
Theo
Wamps
Kat <-----

Round 2
Rowan <-----
Dervak <-----
Mara <-----
Theo <-----
Wamps
Kat

Mara flew forward slowly, concentrating to lend some good fortune to Kat, while starting to chant.

Fly(Hover DC 15), Fly spell from scroll, crone aspect, Heroism: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 2 - 1 + 1 = 19

5 ft fly, Fortune Hex (Kat), Chant.

Dervak steps onto a long-forgotten grave, and reaching over the headstone he strikes at a wamp (#5).
Using Pugnacious for the +5' reach so I can still get in a full attack. That means no Arcane Strike this round. Using Destined Strike on the iterative.

Primary: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 21 ⇒ (6) + 21 = 27

Iterative, Destined Strike 1 of 3: 1d20 + 11 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 11 + 4 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 21 ⇒ (2) + 21 = 23

Hasted Attack: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 21 ⇒ (2) + 21 = 23

Ugh... what a bad set of rolls... but it charged Kat so that is -2 AC to it.

Dervak slices into the wamp's bulbous abdomen emptying it's belly full of partially digested corpse flesh back onto the graveyard. It goes limp no longer menacing Kat.

Don't worry they have a really bad AC.

Ladies and Gentlemen! From retirement; comes the courageous, the colorful, the coolest Croc ever!
Killa Croc!
Melee bite, flank: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 181d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
plus grab: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18

and tail slap: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 141d12 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Special Attack death roll, if grappled: 1d8 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
plus trip

The White Rabbit applauds.

Theophilus Evil Eyes Hex Killa Croc's pig-spider (-4 AC).
He Cackles.

Ahhhh misread the initiative. My bad! With Perceive Cues, her Sense Motive is at +25+1d6 (free inspiration)

Kat grunts from the hits, and she is all the happier to return the favor. She takes a step back and begins an all-out-assault, quickened by Mara's spell and taking advantage of the crocodile.

Primary Attack with Merciful Adamantine Longspear (haste, flank, power attack): 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 10 + 2 + 1 - 2 = 14
Primary Damage (merciful, power attack): 1d8 + 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + (4) + 6 + 6 = 18

Haste Attack with Merciful Adamantine Longspear (haste, flank, power attack): 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 + 2 + 1 - 2 = 31
Haste Damage (merciful, power attack): 1d8 + 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (7) + (3) + 6 + 6 = 22
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 2 + 1 - 2 = 16
Crit Damage: 2d8 + 12 + 12 ⇒ (7, 6) + 12 + 12 = 37

Secondary Attack with Merciful Adamantine Longspear (haste, flank, power attack): 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 2 + 1 - 2 = 15
Secondary Damage (merciful, power attack): 1d8 + 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + (1) + 6 + 6 = 14

Kat is currently under Mara's Fortune Hex, so once per round she can re-roll any ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, taking the better result. It has to be declared ahead of time, however.

Oh I remember, I just want to save it fort saves

If I'm rolling a save for you and you have fortune up, its fine for you to declare the re-roll after.

Killa croc mauls the wamp holding onto it with his crooked teeth. Death roll doesn’t trigger unless its already grappling when it goes to make a grapple check, but that doesn’t matter because. Kat stabs the wamp repeatedly, her spear guiding her strikes so that it doesn’t hit anything vital, but she quickly runs out of non-vital areas. The wamp slumps down in Killa Croc’s mouth, barely alive. Enough non-lethal that you spilled over into lethal damage.

Rowan with another round of limbs lays down to rest another wamp.

PCs up, only one left

Fly(Hover DC 15), Fly spell from scroll, crone aspect, Heroism: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 2 - 1 + 1 = 11

Mara had trouble hovering, so she flew forward, concentrating on maintaining her chant.

Didn't make the check to Hover, so Move: Fly, Move: Chant.

Dervak moves into a flank with Rowan and slashes at the Wamp.
Attack, Flanking: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27
Damage: 1d6 + 23 ⇒ (5) + 23 = 28

Frowning a bit, Killa Croc cracks his knuckles; before, attempting again.

Melee bite, flank: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 111d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
plus grab: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (6) + 13 = 19

and tail slap: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 141d12 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Special Attack death roll, if grappled: 1d8 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
plus trip

Theo gives the pig-face Misfortune (DC 18).

He Cackles.

Kat circles around the croc--sometime she would need to ask Theo about the crocs--and stabs at the remaining wamp.

Attack with Merciful Adamantine Longspear (haste, power attack): 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 10 + 1 - 2 = 24
Damage (merciful, power attack): 1d8 + 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (8) + (6) + 6 + 6 = 26

With a slash from Kat the final wamp is dispatched leaving the cemetery quiet again. Looking about the party sees glints of treasure poking out from the ground. Dug up by the wamp’s ravenous search for dead flesh. You find a Lion’s Shield, Sun Blade, Mantle of Spell Resistance, a jade Necklace of Fireballs (VI), and a Bracelet of friends.

Theo gives a thumbs up to Killa Croc. It dissipates.

The Witch looks around.
Is that it?

Mara took out her knife; with an expression of distaste, she cut off one of the dead wamps' feet, wrapped it with cloth, and put it into a sack. Her grim task accomplished, she stood up, and looked around for the ghasts that had been accompanying them.

Dervak wipes off the Vorpal Scimitar and grins. "That went well. Nice going, all."
I think Gorum is pleased with this dream.

Dervak wakes himself up.
Concentration: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
Concentration: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Concentration: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

The ghasts thank the party as they begin to wake up. Noticing them looting the graves one meeps, "Take it with our blessing. As reward for helping us."

You have all the gifts you know of. Going back to the Caravanserai? Or waiting for something to happen on the boat?

"Let's go back to the Caravanserai tomorrow night. Kind of want to wait for this headache to wear off. No sense doing two of these trips back to back."
That is, the backlash damage.

Mara used her magic wand to heal Kat's wounds.

Using the wand of CLW in the Dreamlands to heal her damage.

Mara waited until she had talked to the ghasts, before taking any of the magic items. She said to the ghasts, "Do your scholars know what happened to your city? Is there any way of recovering from the catastrophe that has befallen you?

"I wish I could do more to help. Perhaps I'll come across something in my travels."

After bidding them goodbye, she willed herself to wake up from the dream. She told her friends, "I know it might sound strange, but I feel bad for those ghouls and ghasts. Something terrible happened to their city, and they're left with memories of their former lives, and everything that they've lost. They seemed like decent people who suffered a great calamity."

She healed her fellow dreamers of their fatigue, replying to Dervak, "I agree. I could use a rest as well."

Healing Hex (Dervak): 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (5, 1) + 8 = 14
Healing Hex (Kat): 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (6, 1) + 8 = 15
Healing Hex (Mara): 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (5, 6) + 8 = 19
Healing Hex (Rowand): 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (8, 6) + 8 = 22
Healing Hex (Theo): 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (7, 4) + 8 = 19

How close are we to where we plan to drop of Glower? It might make sense to do that first, before returning to the Caravanserai.

The ghasts answer, "Anyone who knew magic before lost the ability after transforming. There is little we know about it and less we can do." Mara realizes that a resurrection or similarly powerful spell could return then to normal. Theo would realize that the townsfolk turned to ceramic might be saved by a turn stone to flesh spell. Both are out of the party's reach for now.

It's a week off, if you waited until then you'd have two weeks left to before arriving in Cassomir.

Theophilus gifts the ghouls and ghast(s?) going away scarves of glorious colors!

Mara talked to her allies, "Do you think we should drop off Glower before we visit the Mad Phophet? We do have some time before the boat reaches Cassomir."

"If we have the time, might as well do that."

Day 60

While searching for a good place to drop Glower off the party spies a trio of people on the shore waving frantically for attention. All three wear fine clothing ruined by weather and exposure. One has a poorly bandaged wound on her arm. Skywin comments, "Could be a trap. But I'd rather risk it if they are people in need."

"I agree. Let's go help them."

Mara agreed, "We can't risk it not being a trap, and passing by people who need our help."

Kat tilts her cap back and spies the trio in question. ”Agreed. If it is a trap, I’ll pick up on it soon enough.”

Theophilus casts See Invisibility, as he flies over toward the distressed group. The Witch flies about 30' off the ground, as he scouts the area.

Skywin orders the Sellen Starling to drop anchor and sends out a rowboat. With the rest of the PCs if you want. The three people's eyes go wide as Theo flies over to them but still manage to plead, "Please! We need help. Can you give us and our employer passage to Taldor?"

Dervak will be in the rowboat.
"I think we can. Mind telling us who your employer is?"

Mara climbed into the rowboat. When they got closer, she called out, "How did you come to be stranded here?"

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28 -4 vs Bluff

"His name is Emilo. He's hiding in a barn nearby. We..." she looks to the others who shake their heads. She continues, "We were on a hunting trip. A wild boar came out of nowhere and gored our horses. " Mara gets the sense that they're lying to you but not out of malice but because they don't entirely trust the party.

Mara told the others quietly, "I might be mistaken, but isn't Glower looking for someone named Emilo?"

Kat makes sure she's at her best to read the situation.

Sense Motive on the NPCs (perceive cues, heroism, vs humanoids): 1d20 + 20 + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (13) + 20 + 5 + 2 + 2 + (6) = 48

Kat nods and winks at Mara. "Bloody right you are. Can finally meet the big man himself."

"Looking forward to hearing his side of the story. I'm inclined to take his word over the Norgorber cultist."

When Mara mentions Glower one of the people nearly falls over. She says with a fearful waver, "How do you know that name?"