GD 7 Solstice scar C CORE (Tier 3-4) (Inactive)

Game Master nightdeath

The Start of yet another great adventure!

A Mwangi man, and his dinosaur, walk into the room...

A large half-orc with a bunch of hilts and hafts sticking out of odd places walks into the room carrying a cold iron greatsword in his hands, seemingly in the middle of an argument. "Yes, Bert, I know you wanted me to enchant you, but it'd cost a lot more. 'sides, this little black beauty is made of special stuff." The half-orc lovingly pats the hilt of a sheathed falchion on his hip. "L'il Blackie will hold up a lot better in battle. Let's face it, Bert, ya are a little dinged and nicked up. Thought ya might like to see a little less action...What's that, Bert? Oh yeah, there is someone else here."

He turns to the dinosaur and its pet Mwangi and says, "I'm Urktar. This is Bert." He holds up the masterwork greatsword. "I'm da brawn, he's da brains. Nice to meet ya."

A burly half-orc walks in wearing a faded yellow shirt and strikes a heroic pose.

"I am Thran. I assume you have heard of me?"

He then lets his words trail off hoping for a positive response and his shoulders slump a bit as he stands there.

He then starts to mutter a bit ..almost as if speaking to himself, but just loud enough to be heard

" ....it does not matter, if you've not heard of me or my exploits by now you surely will sooner or later....even though I was almost sure _someone_ would have heard about me by now...ah well...I'll show them, I'll show them all..."

Thran then proceeds to absentmindedly kick one of his feet against the floor, kicking pretend pebbles before looking up at the others presents.

"Oh, nice to meet you all. And I do mean all of you..dinosaur, sword, fellow half-orc; named Urktar and Mwangi man" Thran continues with a smile and a twinkle in his eye

The little dino runs up to the two half-orcs, sniffing, his talon claw tap tap, tapping.

Alaric sighs, before introducing himself. "No, Thran, I have not heard of you. As I am sure you can see, there are a lot of Pathfinders around here.

"I am Alaric Ysande, and my feathered friend there is Shredder. I am sure you can guess why I have named him such. We work with nature, and the Concordance. It will be nice to have a little extra brawn on the team... usually we end up doing most of the dirty work. Shredder quite likes that."

A tall, bronze skinned woman in flowing multi coloured sil robes sweeps into the room and regards the gathered pathfinders. Her stern features crumple into a smile as she realises she has not met any of you bfore. Oh, marvellous, it is always such a pleasure to meet new friends in these little expeditions. And what burly friends we have too.

My name is Argenta she says, moving through the group, smiling, touching an elbow here, ruffling the dinosaurs feathers there and generally getting to know people.

I am sure we are going to work well together, after all the venture captain would not have put us together if we would not do so she says with a somewhat mischeivious twinkle in her eye.

A tall, slender elf slouches silently into the room in the sorcerer's wake, fading into her shadow. The hilt of an elven curve blade protrudes over one shoulder. He glances around the room, his face brightening as he spots a few familiar faces. "Thran! Alaric! And how's Shredder? Who's a good little bloodthirsty saurian?"

I sense Great Bloodshed in the near Pbf Future.

Seeing Tere causes the deinonychus to leap up, and practically fly over to the elf. Before anyone has a chance to react, they can see the little dino nuzzling up to Tere, sniffing. It is clear that he has worked with the elf before, and the elf has survived him.

"He is well, Tere." says Alaric. "As am I. I hope that our time away from the north lands has done you well? I fear we are to head up there once more, far from our nice warm jungles."

Having seen Shredder in action, Tere can't help but start when the deinonychus closes with him. He quickly recovers, though, and ruffles the creature's feathered crest affectionately before looking around and noticing the unfamiliar faces in the room. "Oh! Sorry, I'm Tere di Montefeltro. Ah, Liberty's Edge."

***OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT***

Months ago, agents of the Blakros Museum in Absalom stole a holy dagger—a relic of the Kellid Twinhorn following and the Shining Crusade from centuries ago. What seemed a simple dagger was key to keeping a powerful villain at bay, and the Pathfinder Society has allied with the Twinhorn following and its bold spiritual leader Medda in order to return the relic, use it to perform a ritual before midnight on the winter solstice, and stem an undead invasion. “We are only hours away from the stone circle and our encampment,” Medda announces. “If we are going to make it there by midnight, we need to press on. Once there, we will use Ivvora’s hilt to perform our time-honored ritual and keep evil from our lands.” Medda produces the small hilt of a broken weapon with only a fragment of its black metal blade remaining. “Let us move. There are dangers in these ancient woods: orc raiders, bears that topple trees, and worse. Stay in groups and don’t get lost.”

As the Kellids and Pathfinders reach the top of the hill next to the Twinhorn encampment, they notice splashes of blood and the occasional corpse dotting the landscape. Medda raises her voice, calling, “My brethren, our families are under attack! Secure the camp and drive back any who oppose you. Pathfinder allies, join us in defense of our home!” The landscape opens into a burned hillside where blackened trees stand like lifeless sentinels. A crude blockade shields the entrance to a natural cavern.

Table GMs, area H is now open. Once you have completed area H, you may proceed to areas I or J. The Deepening Shadows condition on page 14 is in effect.

Argenta maintains mage armour on herself while she travels. At the sign of violence in the camp she activates a wand of shield of there is time.

Quickly, we must help the twinhorn!

Tere draws his blade and holds it one-handed, a javelin in the other. "On it!" He trots toward the blockade, alert for a counterattack.

During their preparations to travel, Urktar offered his happy stick to his fellow half-orc, Thran. "For when I start bleedin...don't worry, our foes will bleed more!" CLW wand

Upon seeing the barricade, Urktar pulls out his longbow, preparing to return fire and provide cover fire for Tere.

Varanog seems unconcerned with the undead threat, and floats along seated comfortably on his Floating disk and using a mage armor wand charge.

Slide 1 map is up.
Generic Party formation used.
Game initializing.......
Game Loading parameters...........

Round 1
Argenta
Urktar
Varanog
Thran
Alaric (and Shredder)
Tere
Human Zombies x4
Scrambler

Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Human Zombies.
Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Scrambler.
Bold may Move.
Will add additional init for any other players dropping in.
We Have an Aid Token (Unboosted)

Untrained religion, DC might be 10 or less: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Argenta screws up her face at the enemies ahead of them. Eww, they look disgusting, lets do something about that.

She quickly incants a spell, her hands glowing with a brilliant mass of multicoloured light which she hurls at the enemy. Take that you rotten shamblers! she shouts.

Argenta casts glitterdust, hitting everything but orange and forcing a DC18 will save or be blinded. If they fail they get another save at the end of their turn to get rid of it.

She then draws a wand ready to make use of it.

Draw wand of magic missile

Round 1
Argenta
Urktar
Varanog
Thran
Alaric (and Shredder)
Tere
Human Zombies x4
Scrambler

Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Human Zombies.
Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Scrambler.
Bold may Move.
Will add additional init for any other players dropping in.
We Have an Aid Token (Unboosted).

Argenta moves swiftly and throws out a spell that paints the landscape in oh so pretty colors!
Scrambler 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Human Zombie 4d20 ⇒ (1, 6, 13, 2) = 22 +3
As they get dusted in colorful dust, their movements already slow and clumsy somehow becomes more pronounced!

Argenta manages to identify the first identical four as Human Zombies and she knows that they are supposed to be dead!

Varanog will look out at the undead arrayed in front of them...

scoffs at the simple zombies before streching a hand, loosing a magic missile into the Shambler.

magic missile damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 4) + 2 = 8

Knowing that he won't be able to slow his feathered friend down, Alaric casts barkskik on Shredder before commaning him to attack. He then moves forward, drawing his scimitar.

The little dinosaur gives out a yip of excitement as he starts running forward to attack. He charges yellow, slashing out with his vicious talon.

talon, charge: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 9 + 2 = 24 slashing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

AC currently 18 due to the charge

Rushing forward Thran draws his scimitrar as he tries to remember what he's rushing towards

double move

Bardic Knowledge Human zombies: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Bardic Knowledge Shambler: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

As he moves for a bit he starts to slow down as he starts to get out of breath and stares back over his shoulder wondering where the rest of the party went.....luckily he sees the small dinosaur pass him on the way to the cluttering of undead in front of him.

Urktar moves forward 40' then unleashes an arrow.
if there is no clear line of sight to target, he'll move forward another 40'.

Bow attack v scrambler: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 4 = 21 included cover penalty, potentiall v FF
c.i. piercing dmg: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Round 2
Argenta
Urktar
Varanog
Thran
Alaric (and Shredder 7dmg)
Tere
Human Zombies x4 -blinded yellow 6dmg
Scrambler -blinded 16 dmg

Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Human Zombies.
Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Scrambler.
Bold may Move.
We Have an Aid Token (Unboosted). Do decide what you want to do with it and quickly. :)

Urtar fires off an arrow which strikes the largest creature and shortly after it hits he sees a magical bolt fly into it!

Varanog unleashes his magic on the biggest one he sees while muttering about wastage.

Thran advances forward as he figures out that the Identical ones are Zombies and their flesh resist most damage unless dealt with slashing weapons.

Alaric gives Shredder a good boost as the excitable creature rushes forward to strike at the blinded face of one its target, shredding a good part of it showing why he earned that name.

All the blinded creatures go after the closest thing. Shredder!
Blue 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 131d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 51d100 ⇒ 95
Purple 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 191d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 61d100 ⇒ 3
Yellow 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 101d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d100 ⇒ 74
Orange 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 221d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d100 ⇒ 72
Red Bite 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 111d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 71d100 ⇒ 96

With all the flailing of limbs and bite, only one blow manages to strike through and bruise the plucky saurian.

Alaric double moves up towards Shredder. "Damn, I wish i would have gotten him his mage armor in time."

If Thran starts to inspire courage, add 1 to attack and damage

SHredder starts shredding. He finishes yellow before moving on to orange.

Talon shred!: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12 slashing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Talon shred!: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13 slashing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Shredder bite!: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20 S/B/P: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Round 1:

Tere double-times towards the fight. These look like things I fought before, that took slashing weapons to damage well. So much for the javelin.

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Round 2
Argenta
Urktar
Varanog
Thran
Alaric (and Shredder 7dmg)
Tere
Human Zombies x4 -blinded yellow 6dmg
Scrambler -blinded 16 dmg

Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Human Zombies.
Knowledge (Religion) to gain more information about Scrambler.
Bold may Move.
We Have an Aid Token (Unboosted). Do decide what you want to do with it and quickly. :)
Retconned due to GM being too tired and on auto mode.

Urtar fires off an arrow which strikes the largest creature and shortly after it hits he sees a magical bolt fly into it!

Varanog unleashes his magic on the biggest one he sees while muttering about wastage.

Thran advances forward as he figures out that the Identical ones are Zombies and their flesh resist most damage unless dealt with slashing weapons.

Alaric gives Shredder a good boost as the excitable creature rushes forward to strike at the blinded face of one its target, shredding a good part of it showing why he earned that name.

All the blinded creatures go after the closest thing. Shredder!
Orange 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 131d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 81d100 ⇒ 15
Red Bite 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 221d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d100 ⇒ 46

With all the flailing of limbs and bite, Nothing manages to bruise the plucky saurian.

Alaric, Tere adn Shredder. Feel free to redo actions.
My Apologies.

Orange was not blinded as it was outside the area I could affect. All blinded ones get new saves at the endif their turn.

Thran once more moves closer to the action

If we're going to use the token just to use it I say we activate the bardic inspiration from it, if not I'll start to tell an inspiring story about smiting undead for the same bonus - so either way inspire courage is up for this round. If it doesn't take an action to activate the token and we go that route I still have an action left and I'll ready an attack

Argenta jogs forward a little way and levels her wand at the enemy that can see (orange).

Shazam she mutters and a small blue dragon leaps from the end and unerringly strikes the creature in the chest.

Magic missile at orange dealing 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 force damage

A Gnome pathfinder can be heard from an adjacent battle, his steady drum beat matching the march to war!

"In a wilderness of foggy thoughts
Battling with your minds retorts
And walking on empty plains
Where deserts so calm
Even drowning rains

Drum beat died
Cymbal crash down
The mud it is thick
With desires to drown
Your feet in earth"

Aid token Inspire Courage!

Varanog will float forward on his disk, hiss his spell at the undead again.

magic missile @shambler: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 2) + 2 = 6

Alaric will still hurry forward. (Going to change to a run, I think.) "I am coming, you stupid dinosaur! Don't get yourself killed!"

Without even recognizing his "master's" call, the vicious raptor lays into the undead with a glee.

Talon vs yellow, IC: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 1 = 19 slashing, IC: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 = 5
If yellow goes down, switch to orange
Talon vs yellow/orange, IC: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 1 = 22 slashing, IC: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 = 5
Bite vs yellow/orange, IC: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 8 + 1 = 25 slashing, IC: 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 = 6

The little dino gets a mouth full of necrotic tissue, and it appears that he does not like it. This only infuriates the little dino more!

Urktar fires another arrow at the Scrambler, before dropping his bow and pulling out his falchion as he moves forward. He mutters at his greatsword, "Yes, Bert, I'll try and remember where I dropped it..." Then he raises his voice and bellows "Try and keep a charge lane open!"

Bow attack v scrambler: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 7 + 1 - 4 = 17
c.i. piercing dmg: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 = 12

I can't read the map from my phone. Is Tere within a single move of the fight?

I can't read the map from my phone. Is Tere within a single move of the fight?

Tere is 55' from blue. So, not a single move, and Thran is in the way for you to charge.

Round 2
Argenta
Urktar
Varanog
Thran
Alaric (and Shredder 7dmg)
Tere
Human Zombies x4 -blinded purple 6/12

Bold may Move.
Lets see the Carnage...
Nvm about the zombie saves lol They likely won't be able to make it..
No inspire courage in effect, Just to let you all know. I took it as boosting the token and sent it off.

Argenta fires off another magical bolt which hits her target hard.
Urtar proves himself deadly with his bow as his second shot picks off the creature and it falls..

Varanog seeing no other target since his original target is down takes his frustration on a wounded zombie. It goes down as well.

Thran advances forward as his allies pick off the enemy one by one.
Alaric breaks into a run worried that his little Saurian friend may have bitten off more then it could chew but Shredder Shreds one and bites into another!

Retro-fix alert: Urktar's to hit and damage rolls should have been being one lower (misunderstood the boon being boosted and included Inspire Courage; just caught up on Discussion thread--sorry about that.) i.e. he got a 16 to hit, for 11 damage v the scrambler

Still a hit.

Tere di Montefeltro wrote:

I can't read the map from my phone. Is Tere within a single move of the fight?

Tere is 55' from blue. So, not a single move, and Thran is in the way for you to charge.

I assumed that the black dead trees(?) would block charging and I was actually using them to get some cover from. If they don't I could have charged myself or at least I wouldn't have blocked someone else charge line

I'll strike through 3 rounds of bardic inspiration for the boosting and it's all sorted out again?

Round 2:

The elf continues to slog ahead.

Please move me to within 10' of the nearest enemy.

Oh, so we didn't use the boon. Ok, no big.

Tere, you are 10' from blue.

It was more than a single move to get there, so that completes his turn.

Round 3
Argenta
Urktar
Varanog
Thran
Alaric (and Shredder 7dmg)
Tere
Human Zombies x2 -blinded purple 6/12

Bold may Move.
Aid Token for Inspire Courage in effect.

With Tere moving as quickly as he can to get in range, the remaining zombies make their move.

The Zombies swing at the closest foe they can!
Purple 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 141d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 81d100 ⇒ 72
Blue 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 81d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 81d100 ⇒ 18
Purple Will vs DC 18 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Blue Will vs DC 18 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
I can't hit a dinosaur....

They seemed to have being successful....but Shredder shrugs them off with little effort...

Argenta scrambles forward and blasts an injured zombie with her wand again.

Magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4