Feral's PFS Eyes of the Ten (Inactive)

Game Master Feral

Gregor flies up to the woman and swings, asking Abadar to make his weapon a bane against her. (I'll move normally assuming I'm still under the effects of a haste, if not I'll use up the last of my Dimension Door.)

Fort: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (15) + 13 = 28
Power Attack: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (20) + 21 = 41, Damage: 1d8 + 25 + 4d6 ⇒ (3) + 25 + (4, 6, 6, 6) = 50
Confirm: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (6) + 21 = 27, Damage: 1d8 + 25 + 4d6 ⇒ (5) + 25 + (6, 4, 2, 6) = 48

As he flies toward her, the blind medusa turns to fix Gregor with her petrifying gaze but the inquisitor shakes off her magic and smashes open her skull with a single blow of his Abadar-blessed mace.

The snake-haired woman's body floats the ground. No more statues animate and no more hostile creatures appear to attack the pathfinders.

Encounter's over.

A search of the area uncovers a few things. The medusa's bow is obviously enchanted but the cultists have little of value (their weapons aren't even enchanted) except that one carries a folded scrap of paper with several names on it.

+1 shocking burst longbow if anyone's interested. I added the list of names to the handout sheet.

Mother will dismiss the remaining shadow demon.

I don't recall if anyone is unconscious, if necessary she will tag them with greater infernal healing.

The shadow demon grins and cavorts around its petrified companion before both vanish as quickly as they arrived.

"Nice work, Gregor. Now, how do we de-petrify our wizards? I can ask Torag for an appropriate spell, but it's a gamble. I don't think either of them had such a spell in their spellbooks, so we may have to either wait a day, or backtrack to the lodge and see if they have scrolls."

If Gregor and Magda don't have other suggestions, I'll take 15 minutes to prep my empty 5th-level slot as a Break Enchantment, and try to free Markavious.

Magda has no method to solve it.

If Mother Magda had Summon Good Monster she could summon kirins. They have break enchantment 1/day.

If nothing attacks in the next 15 minutes, Butyl finishes his prayer, rolls up his sleeves, and takes a shot at the petrified Markavious.

Caster Level vs. petrification: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20

Torag's divine hand reaches out and raps against Mark's petrified form shattering the stony shell and freeing him from the slain medusa's deadly spell.

Whoa...that was heavy man Markavious says stretching himself

"Are you done standing around? We need to get Z back in fighting shape somehow. How hard would it be to find our way back to the lodge from here, and get a scroll for him or something?"

"Are you done standing around? We need to get Z back in fighting shape somehow. How hard would it be to find our way back to the lodge from here, and get a scroll for him or something?"

I don't imagine it's terribly difficult to get back and besides he and I are getting a bit low on spells.

"Leave it to The Society to send agents ill-prepared into the breach. I'd like a chance to tell them how I feel about that.* Plus I could use some private time with Abadar to recharge my faith."

*Gregor is a former Shadow Lodge member.

It takes a while to drag Zarzuket's statue outside but the party makes it back to the lodge. Osprey is absent but Eliza can be seen directing her surviving servants in cleaning the grounds.

"Oh no. What is it now?" the venture captain asks.

"Oh no. What is it now?" the venture captain asks.

We need a place to rest, it's been a looooong day and would you have a Stone to Flesh scroll lying around?

Markavious points to Shades statue

Butyl looks sheepish. "Isn't it... uh, obvious? Don't worry though; we did kill the medusa and her minions. That's progress."

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"What it is now is that you sent us into a hell on earth knowing full well what we were destined to meet there. It makes no sense for you to train and hone your agents only to send your most experienced blindfolded into the cauldron." Failing to regain his composure Gregor continues. "Now it's fairly obvious what's happened here and but for the watchful eyes of our respective gods there were some of us who survived to drag the others back from the abyss. So some help would be much appreciated...if you could be so kind."

"For your information, Gregor, I didn't know what dangers were in there. Not specifically. I knew it was dangerous but the group of you are Seekers - the best of the best the Society has to offer. I trusted you to handle whatever you found in there", Eliza says in a scolding tone. "Bring him inside. I've got some scrolls that should help."

She can get you scrolls of break enchantment or stone to flesh. You can figure out how you're paying for them later.

When Shade wakes up he shakes his head and immediately goes to action purchasing four scrolls of communal mount and six scrolls of invisibility, two of those scrolls of invisibility go in his wrist shealths. He then will wait for the group to pass into the other realm and then use one of the scrolls of communal mount to summon trusty light riding horses and then will ride when the group is ready allowing us to ride fast for one hour and fifteen minutes. If that doesnt get us back to where we were he will do a second scroll of communal mount for another hour and and 15 min.

"Well if those giving the orders have no awareness of what's in their own backyard then I guess we're all equally fekked." Gregor mutters loud enough for anyone to hear him if they so choose. "Well...lets get this one mobile again and head back out. I'd hate to put a wrench in anyone's tea party."

Feel free to do whatever other shopping you need to do.

With Zarzuket and Markavious healed, the party returns to the Maze of the Open Road and the ruins within. The site of the battle is much as it was when the party departed several minutes before save that the medusa's corpse has vanished.

Pushing forward, the party makes their way through several more winding hedge maze passages. At some point, though it's impossible to say exactly when it happened, the Maze of the Open Road gives way to a dark cavern tunnel.

The winding tunnel opens onto a high platform overlooking an enormous chamber lit by distant torches and small clumps of phosphorescent fungi. A relatively flat floor about 20 feet below falls away into a black abyss at the center of the huge chamber, bridged by a thin natural span at the center of the room about 40 feet away. Several torches light the bridge, illuminating a tall human warrior in red plate armor pacing nervously, sword in hand. You can just make out the forms of archers along the far ledge, and lurking shadows near the close edge suggest skulking humanoids somewhat larger than an average man. Immediately east of your high platform, about 20 feet below, is a pool of dark liquid, perhaps fed from some natural spring.

What are you guys doing for light sources?

Well I have Darkvision memorized

Thwhip Markavious goes invisible

Shade will pull out a scroll of invisibility and use it and then activate the maskfor a second time for darkvision.

I have a 3rd-level Continual Flame on my buckler that I've been using.

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Some CLW for myself before we go. I can use anyone's wand on them too.

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

Butyl does his best to hide the light from his buckler. Activating Tunnel Runner.

Stealth: 1d20 + 1 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 1 + 12 = 32 plus distance penalties.

In that case I'm back to my original question. Are you using a light source and if not who doesn't have darkvision?

Gregor watches his friends disappear from sight as Butyl does his best to cover the magical light on his buckler..all the while Gregor's Wayfinder beams proudly. "Should we go invisible as well?" he whispers to Butyl.

Magda uses a light spell, but once she gets to seeing a lit room at the end, she will turn it off and cast invisibility on herself.

Butyl whispers back to Gregor. "Invisible isn't really my thing, but if you have a spare spell, I'll take it."

Gregor reads from his newly purchased scroll, granting Invisibility to Butyl, before using a spell on himself. "Guess it wouldn't do us good to be the only two visible targets."

It sounds like everyone's invisible.

The steep, jagged ledge to the north drops into a yawning chasm that disappears into utter darkness far below. A thin bridge extends to another cliff about 30 feet to the north, where human archers in the livery of the Red Raven stand ready with shortbows. About 20 feet beyond the opposite side of the bridge, deeper in the huge cavern, is a natural balcony that seems to offer a commanding view of the entire chamber.

A pair of hairy bugbears stand guard here.

Stealths: 5d20 ⇒ (8, 9, 1, 11, 10) = 39
Perceptions: 2d20 ⇒ (6, 1) = 7

They don't seem to have detected the party.

How many archers?

What's the plan guys?

Three archers up on the bridge. Two bugbears on the ground.

summon something big on the bridge between them both that can kill them that would fit in around here and have it go in on a rampage while we follow and summon it two or three times until its done Zarzuket says

Summoning eh...Well not my brand but sounds like a plan.

Markavious will fly over the gap away from the bridge and ready a Darkness scroll for our friends the archers

"I can do that. Not sure what to summon, but I can do something big. "

What's Mother Magda going to summon?

Think she'll go with a huge earth elemental.

The archers, and a moment later the bugbears, cry in alarm when a huge creature of dirt and stone appears among them. "We're under attack!" one of the archers, clearly better equipped than his peers, cries out. "Defend the roost!"

Butyl, Gregor, Markavious, and Zarzuket get a surprise action (standard or move only). I put you guys at the edge of the bugbear's scent but if you want to be further let me know.

Butyl: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Gregor: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Markavious: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Mother Magda: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Zarzuket: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26
B: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
T: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
A: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22

Shade delays watching as a hge elemental tears these guys a new one

Butyl steps into cover (L26) and draws his rod of Bouncing Spell.

Markavious will delay as well flying at K-21

Gregor will delay and watch what happens with Mother Magda's pet...

Two of the archers withdraw off the bridge. The well-equipped one drops his bow and draws a shining longsword. He swings at the elemental with expert skill.

Vital Strike: 1d20 + 26 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 26 - 4 = 40
Damage: 2d8 + 11 + 8 ⇒ (6, 4) + 11 + 8 = 29

Confirming: 1d20 + 26 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 26 + 2 - 4 = 41

He shows no fear and strikes with such precision and power that he knocks the fight from the earthen outsider.

The elemental is exhausted. It needs to make a DC 25 fort save or be staggered for 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 rounds. If it makes the save its only staggered for 1 round.

Butyl is up.

Can't crit elementals.

I know, that's why I didn't roll crit damage, but they're still subject to things that trigger off critical hits.

That is a radically different read of the rules than I've ever heard. If you cannot crit something, you cannot apply crit feat dependent effects. The only things which work that way are bonus damage from burst weapons.

I don't read it that way. The couple threads on the subject that I found have people that agree with me (though there's people that disagree with me too). In any case it's nebulous enough that I believe my ruling is reasonable.

Butyl edges closer to the fight (M26), then shimmers into visibility as he casts a spell.

Bouncing Murderous Command. DC 19 Will on the leader; if he succeeds, swift action to redirect it to B2. If one of them fails, it has to spend its next round attacking an ally.

Will: 1d20 ⇒ 2
Will: 1d20 ⇒ 17

The eyes of the swordsman guarding the bridge briefly cloud as Butyl's spell takes hold. Suddenly the elemental loses his attention as his vision narrows on the archers behind him.

The bugbears, having caught sight and scent of the aasimar, bellow a roar as they close and attack with their morningstars

B1 vs Butyl: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

B2 vs Butyl: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Everyone but Butyl is up.