GM Aarvid - PFS RotRL - Thistletop (Inactive)

Game Master GM Aarvid

ranged touch attack, tanglefoot bag: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

diplomacy-charmer 1st roll: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19 diplomacy-charmer 2nd roll: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

Al tosses his tanglefoot bag at the mage. Then says to her. "So my comrade shot you with an arrow, you've shot me with a bolt of magic - we've had a fight you can surrender now. But more importantly are you in a committed relationship? Because just a few days ride from here in
Magnimar I know this wonderful restaurant, not far from a day spa and the theater district. I propose we spent a day getting to each other better. A day of rest and relaxation - full body massages, pedicures, manicures, relaxing in the hot tubs, followed by a night on the town starting with a five course meal and then taking in whatever the most popular play at the moment happens to be. What do you think?"

Charmer-roll 2 d20 take the best one on a diplomacy check

Aelfward, I have you standing in the doorway right in front of her. Throwing the bag at her will provoke (and also runs the risk of tangling yourself on a miss...which you may not). Just checking.

I guess I could take a five foot step back and then toss the bag, I'd still be at short range.

"Now is not the time to be tryin' to get into her pants. She's tryin' to kill us." Andrazi will take the newly vacated space and tries to knock her off her feet as opposed to Aelfward trying to sweep her off her feet. :)

Trip: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

If the door doesn't keep her from doing so, Kyra will ready an attack against the caster if she tries to cast a spell.

+1 Scimitar: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 121d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Kyra readies an attack around the corner of the door. Note: the door itself is not a factor (consider it pushed to the wall), but the hard corner provides cover and prevents AoO. The ready would go at -4, but still valid.

Andraste delays.

Aelfward steps back and hurls a tanglefoot bag at the lady, hitting her squarely and tangling her in a glob of tar and resins.

Andrazi steps into the doorway where Aelfward just stood and attempts to trip her. She almost keeps her footing, but the tar on her feet causes her to lose her balance and she falls to the ground (prone and entangled).

Diplomacy per CRB is generally ineffective once in combat unless you have some special feat. However, she appeared to be considering the offer...just before she fell.

Raoul, Jory (and Andraste) can go before her.

Crossbow: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 - 4 - 4 = 8

Andraste shoots her crossbow at the prone woman, but is not very likely to hit anything.
Due to medium armor I can't even attempt to acrobatics past her, so this was about my only option since she's in a confined space.

Jory fires twice again stepping 5 foot forward first. He sinks the second arrow deep.
arrow1: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 121d8 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 271d8 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Andraste shoots her crossbow at the prone woman, but the bolt sails over her head and down the hallway.

Jory steps up and guides one of his two arrows around the pair of warriors, hitting the woman a she struggles against the sticky mess holding her to the floor.

With the arrow, her body goes limp on the ground, bleeding out of a pair of wounds.

*** end combat ***

Andrazi will take her gear and tie her up while others presumably try to stabilize her.

Jory speaks with compassion and concern.

"The goblin chief was guilty. This girl, I am not too sure!

Al takes a cure light wounds potion from his pack and pours it down the mages't thoart. "Now would be good time to surrender, it's a really good decision on your part. Plus let me point out that the offer of a spa day and a night on the town is still on the table."

You have no problem taking the wand from her and binding her. Getting to her other gear will take some time due to all the tar and resin covering her.

Once healed enough to regain consciousness, she refuses to speak and surrenders without resistance.

Aelfward's reluctant girlfriend :-)

Looking down the hallway where she fell you see...

This short hallway rises in a slope to the east. Five
feet from the western door, the floor is polished and
shiny, unlike the dusty floor elsewhere. A pair of
stone statues depicting stern men wielding glaives
stand in alcoves north and south of this section of
the hallway. At the eastern end stand two stone
doors, their faces carved with strange runes. Just
past the doors is a third alcove in which a partially
collapsed statue sits. The top half of the statue is
missing, leaving behind a ragged stump of a torso.

Andrazi will check out the eastern doors.

Take 20 on perception for 20. And girlfriend implies consent. :)

Aelfward and others manage to get the girl unstuck from the floor and pull her into the room.

Andrazi starts down the hallway to the pair of doors on the north and south wall. As he steps between the statues he hears a click.
Reflex check...

Reflex!: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Andrazi tries to jump clear as a pair of portcullis drop down on either side of him (as shown on map).

I will take actions from anyone...

Jory moves to back up Andrazi, his bow out.

Kyra looks around, with her scimitar out, for a counterweight for the portcullises with the hope of finding a chain or rope to cut.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Andraste doesn't even realize that there's a portcullis...

As the party looks for a way to reset the iron gates, the statues to either side of Andrazi swing their glaives down at him.

glaive trap atk: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19 for dmg: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
glaive trap atk: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9 for dmg: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Fortunately, neither blade connects with Andrazi as he dodges around them within his "cage".

Al tries to turn the trap off and get Andrazi out disable device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31.

"Just keep dodging while I try something"

"Like I got a choice?!"

Aelfward sets to work trying to disable the trap while the blades reset for another swing.

glaive: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23 for dmg: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
glaive: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16 for dmg: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

The first blade manages to just catch Andrazi, but he easily dodges the second.

As Aelfward works very quickly, Andrazi hears a different click from the floor as it drops open to a 10' pit beneath him. (DC reflex to keep from falling into it).

"Oh c'mon."

Reflex: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Andrazi tries to grab the bars as he falls, but they raise back into the ceiling as he lands on the rocky floor 10' down.

On a happy note, Aelfward seems to have figured out how to disarm the trap so the pit lid does not close on top of Andrazi.

Just as Andrazi falls (taking an additional 1d6 ⇒ 1 damage from the fall) , the northern door of the hallway opens and a loud, terrifyingly familiar baying can be heard from the doorway.

Raoul and Andraste have heard enough and start shaking at the sound of the howling.

21-Andraste (panicked)
20-Nualia

Andraste decides she is too close and turns to leave back up the stairs.

You hear casting from a female voice originate from the doorway.
"Lamashtu, shine your favor upon me to destroy these fools."

16-Kyra
10-Aelfward
9-Raoul (panicked)
5-Andrazi (10'down in a pit)
10-Hound

Andrazi will pick himself back up and try to climb out of the pit.

Climb: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Kyra quaffs her potion of protection from evil and tries to move forward.

If we can move around the trap and through the squares with the statues she'll try to move up her full 20' (I believe that puts her just to the side of the door). Otherwise she'll just step 1 square south.

I will allow stepping in statue squares as difficult terrain, so you lose 1 sq of movement, but can tiptoe around without falling on Andrazi .

19-Jory (sorry I missed you here, you have an action before Kyra.)

Actually Kyra, you would have to get out the potion and then drink it, so the 5' south is all I think you could do this round

Kyra quaffs a potion she pulled from her pack.

Jory retreats ten feet to get enough space to jump across the pit (now automatic) and end up near the corner with the evil lady. He takes a shot even though she has cover from the corner with a thistle arrow.

deadly aim/damage/bleed: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 251d8 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 101d6 ⇒ 1

Jory steps back and jumps over Andrazi. He manages to sink a thistle arrow into the woman.

She screams "WHO in the abyss are YOU???"

The woman before Jory in the doorway wears evil-black armor,
wields a wicked bastard sword. Her left hand has been transformed
into a red demonic talon. With the exception of her demonic
hand and her scarred belly, the rest of her body
is incongruously beautiful. With the silver hair, violet eyes,
and shapely figure of a angel or aasimar. (see photo on map)

10+The hound flies out of the room and tries to bite Jory in the hallway.

bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21 for dmg: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (5, 3) + 4 = 12 plus WILL save, plus TRIP

trip: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26 vs CMD

"Rrrraffff!

The hound rips flesh from Jory's thigh, knocking him to the ground in its ferocity.

9-Raoul the wizard, seeing the hound, trembles from the howling, and follows Andraste out the room, up the stairs.

5-Andrazi stands up and tries to climb out of the pit. He cannot quite get a good grip on the rock wall.

4+Aelfward delays while he decides how to help...

Al sees Kyra drink a potion and thinks it a fine idea and does the same, except pulling his potion of protection from evil goes a little faster because of his handy haversack.

He then gets his flail ready.

19hp and prone
Will: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 10 + 1 = 30
"A little help here."

Aelfward chugs a potion as he sees the dwarf facing the nether hound.

Jory fights off the vicious dog slobber, but is still in bad shape.

===Round 2====
21-Andraste (unsick, panicked-1)
20-Nualia (bleeding)

19-Jory (Prone)
16-Kyra
10-Hound
9-Raoul (panicked-1)
5-Andrazi (10'down in a pit)
4+Aelfward

Andraste continues to climb the stairs to escape the hound.

Seeing the dwarf laying prone on the ground she swings with her sword and her red-talon hand.

"You vermin cannot stop me. Events are already in motion. You will feed my FURY!

Nualia Bastard Sword, Cover, Prone, Divine, PA: 1d20 + 10 - 4 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 - 4 + 1 - 2 = 25 vs proneAC for dmg,pa,div,fury: 1d10 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 = 16
Nualia Talon, Cover, Prone, Divine: 1d20 + 3 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 3 - 4 + 1 = 11 vs proneAC for dmg,div: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 = 5

Confirm: 1d20 + 10 - 4 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 10 - 4 + 1 - 2 = 8 vs proneAC for dmg,pa,div,fury: 1d10 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 = 21

The woman nearly skewers Jory to the ground, but he just barely dodges her blade piercing his neck. (16 more damage).

Jory and Kyra are up...

Almost slaughtered on the spot, Jory feigns death.
He prepares to go full defense if attacked.

Jory had mage armor and was ac22--if he is still up from dodging the dog, he would be retreating. If too late to change--keep my actions as is.

Jory, I was working from the status on your profile. If you update it to include your current AC that helps me (and you). I will keep the dog attack since I forgot to include the +1 for higher ground (since it is flying above you. So it would have still hit AC22. I have it noted for next time though. :-)

Jory lies perfectly still below the gaze of the ferocious flying hound.

Kyra still has an action before the hound goes. If I do not see a post in the next few hours, I will assume she channels to heal the party.

Kyra channels, selecting out the woman and nearest hound, and then steps forward into the hall 5ft.

channel: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7

Thanks for the catch on the potion, I honestly dot use them too often and forgot about drawing it.

The hound, seeing its dwarven target stop moving, selects a new target...the woman that just called divine power.
The canine charges towards Kyra from its position along the hall ceiling.

"Rrrrrrufff"

bite, charge: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 7 + 2 = 22 for dmg: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (4, 5) + 4 = 13 plus WILL save, plus TRIP

trip: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 7 + 2 = 19 vs CMD

The hound knocks Kyra prone as it tears flesh from her upheld arm.

Raoul continues chasing Andraste up the stairs.

5-Andrazi (10'down in a pit)
4+Aelfward

BTW - the tied up young woman appears to be crawling for the stairs as best she can in her condition, having succumbed to the howls as well.

Al moves to the doorway and hurls a smoke pellet between Jory and the sword wielder.

hurl: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Climb: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

Andrazi will total defense and climb out of the pit. Provoking. AC is 28

Too bad the hound isn't an evil summoned creature, that hurt.

Kyra calls out in pain as she hits the floor.

Will: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

Kyra is able to fight off the dog slobber and retains her composure while lying prone.

These dogs were 'gifts' and are not summoned creatures, otherwise prot v evil would have prevented the bite.

Andrazi climbs up out of the pit, provoking from the flying hound.

bite aoo: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

But the dog snaps at air as Andrazi ducks below it's brown fangs.

Andrazi, not sure where you intend to end up with your movement...Both statue squares are open but you would be squeezed. Otherwise, you can move forward to stand next to prone Jory, in the doorway facing the swordswoman, or move back into the room. I will delay Aelfward's action until your position is established.

I'll end up in the doorway. I just can't move my token.

Andrazi moves to face the demonic/angelic woman in the northern doorway. The hound remains flying over the 10' deep pit.

Aelfward, I had the smoke cloud ready, but not sure if you want to change your action based on Andrazi being in the square you were about to target

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25 for damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 Al shoots a cold iron and silver arrow into the flying dog.

Thanks for letting me change, throwing the smoke pellet was supposed to give Jory a chance to get away and stand up. It would just hinder Andrazi I think.

Aelfward draws his bow and scores a direct hit on the flying dog, which lets out a yelp in pain and anger.

===Round 3====
21-Andraste (unsick, panicked-3)
20-Nualia (bleeding)

19-Jory (Prone)
16-Kyra (Prone)
10-Hound (flying)
9-Raoul (panicked-3)
5-Andrazi
4+Aelfward

Andraste continues into the upper level with Raoul closely behind.

The swordswoman grins as she sees Andrazi move into position.

"What? A another to face my fury? Excellent!"

bastsword, divine, Fury, pa: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 10 + 1 + 2 - 2 = 28 for dmg,div,fury,pa: 1d10 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 1 + 3 + 2 + 4 = 17
talon, divine, fury: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 1 + 2 = 15 for dmg,div,fury: 1d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 2 = 6

She slashes her bastard sword deep into Andrazi, just barely getting past his guarded defense.

However, her red talon slams against his heavy shield without hitting the warrior.

Our two prone people are up next (Jory/Kyra)