GM Aarvid - PFS Society Scenario #6–19: Test of Tar Kuata (PFRPG) PDF (Inactive)

Game Master GM Aarvid

Will: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 1 = 13

Khamul's stomach lurches at the sight of the monster in the pool but he stays focused and tries to blind the Rovagug leader.

blindness/deafness
DC 16 Fort save or permanently blinded.

Will: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 9 + 1 = 23

Jonterra moves south and pulls a flask of fire from his pack.

"GRRAGH! NEITHER ROCKS NOR WORDS SHALL DEFEAT ME!" Corb gets MAD and tries again to climb the rock to get to the action!

Climb (accellerated, rage): 1d20 + 10 + 2 - 5 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 2 - 5 = 19 Swim is one less, just in case that need rolled. Will add a bonus climb just in case.
Climb: 1d20 + 10 - 5 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 10 - 5 + 2 = 22

Eadie and Lore have seen Grimdoc eat and the wiggling legs of a spider creature are no comparison of disgusting behavior, easily resisting the urge to vomit. Jonterra has stone guts as well.

Unfortunately, Khamul, not so much and hurls his lunch.

Corbalias is burned a bit more by the acid acid: 1d6 ⇒ 3 but escapes the water and finally clambers atop a rock.

Khamul points at the crazed man and hurls a spell of blindness. The man is struck blind in the process and flails momentarily.

fort: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 2 = 13

"Ah the darkness. Zivilpep! Be mine eyes.

He casts a spell upon himself

dispel: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 vs 11+4

"If you will not come to me, I will come to YOU!"

He also does some swift action to bolster himself as he strangely steps off the rock into the pool and the green webbing.
The webs seem to part magically around him, and the water supports his boots.

7-Lore
4-Arovandeon

Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Arovandeon turns a little green.

With enemies dwindling, he plucks an extract from his belt and consumes it. His vision narrows and the alchemical substances in his body catalyze in a way to affect the nature of any bombs he will employ within the next few moments.

Using targeted bomb admixture.

Lore... worried that the foe might try to escape now that he is blinded... begins by casting Dimensional Anchor on him.

ranged touch to hit: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24 no save

The armored man watches as Lore targets him with a ray. He is unable to avoid it and is locked in this dimension.
Lore, you are still burning from acid for another round. I am not sure if that requires a concentration check.
Also, you think he dispelled the blindness-barely. Unless I missed something.

Arovandeon turns green as he prepares a cocktail.

The sickening creature in the water spews forth vile green webs at Eadie as she stands on the rock before it.

range touch, cover: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 8 - 4 = 17 hitting the warrior with a glob of green, acid covered webbing.

Eadie takes 1pt of acid damage and is entangled

=== Round 3===
17+Eadie (webbed)
17-Jonterra
13-Corbalias
12-Khamul

GM Aarvid, how thick are the webs? I assume they are about 5-6’ high – from the water level to the height of the rock. The webs don’t seem to go onto the rock, whose ‘floor’ is 5’ above the water surface.

Does this mean both the monster and the armored man are walking through (not on top of) the webs and BOTH have (-4 to attack) cover?

I've just about had enough of this ...

Eadie flies 15’ at half-speed towards the spider-homunculus and lunges at it with her falchion.

falchion + PA + FF – entangled + bless: 1d20 + 14 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 14 - 2 + 1 = 31
damage: 2d4 + 16 ⇒ (2, 2) + 16 = 20

crit confirm – entangled + bless: 1d20 + 14 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 14 - 2 + 1 = 20
damage: 2d4 + 16 ⇒ (1, 2) + 16 = 19

If it’s a PRD homunculus and Eadie’s killed it, I believe that does 2d10 damage to its Master.

damage: 2d10 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7

"Hey, Day Night! Did I just kill your best friend? I'm standing right here."

AC = 22 ; Touch = 11 (Dex=10 (-2), Lunge (-2))

I would say 5' high from the surface of the water. The beast is submerged in the water while the man is walking through the webbing. The web attack is like a net, which can have a trailing cord. Since it was shooting through other webs, we will say there is no trailing cord, and Eadie is a self-contained blob of green goo as you surmised.

Eadie flies over the web and man to reach the spidery-bat creature, hacking
it into parts with her falchion. The man grimaces at the pain and loss.

Jonterra continues to plod toward the man.

Double move

72 - 4 = 68+21T/72 hp

I'm sensing the fact that he's probably already cast two spells that any Skull and Shackles cleric-player or DM should be VERY familiar with... It's amazing how much FoM can do simply as legacy text. Plus that 10 min/level, whoof.

I'd think "Continuous Damage" from this page would cover it. 10+damage*0.5+spell level, for shorthand. Don't forget the Order of Operations!

Corb is burned for loses a bit more of his skin. He moves forward some and drinks his Enlarge Person extract (which takes effect at the start of the next round. Alchemy sure is weird.)

Will now that I can see creature (rage): 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 + 2 = 16 (+2 vs Fear if applicable)

Khamul sends a red ray shooting at the priest!

scorching ray
ranged touch: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
fire: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 2) = 7

Jonterra makes his way around the sickening lakeside.

Corbalias has stopped smoldering from the acidic water, and drinks a potion to get BIG.

Khamul fires a ray of fire at the priest but only manages to scorch a bit of webbing.

"Nice try! But you will have to do better than that. Now who have we here? Another volunteer ready for sacrifice. You will do nicely I think."

He walks out of the web and takes a mighty swing at Jonterra with his axe. He also seems to heal a bit of damage. heal: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 5) = 11

gaxe, favor,str, bless : 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 10 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 19
for dmg, vital, favor,str: 2d12 + 4 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (7, 12) + 4 + 3 + 3 = 29

"Oh mighty Rovagug! I offer you the blood this hapless victim!"

Jonterra, is your AC19 in your status correct? If so I think that just hits. He is out of the webs at the moment (no cover to Jonterra, but still for others unless they move).

7-Lore
4-Arovandeon

Arovandeon moves along the rocks to get a clear throw at the strange spider-creature.

Bomb Touch Attack + PBS - Range: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Fire Damage (targeted bomb admixture): 2d6 + 15 ⇒ (6, 6) + 15 = 27

On mobile and unable to edit map. Moving a few squares south to get line of sight.

Lore takes another acid: 2d4 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7 damage but the burning seems to have finally stopped.

Aovandeon hurls a bomb directly at the madman and hits him square in the chest.
The man appears startled at the blast, but the fire seems to do no damage to him whatsoever. Some of the web seems to burn, however.

"What? Another victim trying to get my attention?
Very well, but I can only make proper sacrifices
one at a time, so you will just have to wait!"

Lore, then round 4

Arovandeon was aiming at the green outlined tentacle-spider-thing, not the priest.

Oops - sorry Arovandeon. I must have been hallucinating. Ignore the maniacal laugh from the priest.
The bomb hits the spidery looking thing, burning some of the legs, but does not seem to have full affect.

AC 19 is correct, as I neglected to use mage armor.

Jonterra reels from the massive injury.

Lore sends a burning hands at the spidery thing...

20 pts of damage (maximized), dc 15 reflex for 1/2 dmg...

Lore, the spidery thing has SR17. But assuming you make it.

Lore fires a sheet of burning flames into the web and water, trying to hit the spidery creature.

reflex,water cover: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 1 = 25

It dodges the flames and appears to be unharmed by the fire.

Hissing, it clambers up the rock and webs, and bites with one of its three toothy maws at Lore (no longer submerged)

bite, bless: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 12 + 1 = 32
for dmg, destructive: 1d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 4 = 14 and poison DC17

=== Round 4===
17+Eadie (webbed)
17-Jonterra
13-Corbalias
12-Khamul

@Corb, you said you moved last round, but I don’t think you’ve moved yourself on the map. The reason I ask is I believe a single move action (from last round) + enlarged would allow us to flank the spider-thing.

I am going to assume that’s the case. If I’m wrong, please adjust, GM Aarvid.

@GM Aarvid, I’ve just drawn a little 3D sketch of Eadie’s position in relation to the spider-thing and I believe she can attack it from this position with Lunge.

Eadie delays until after Corb ensuring he gets a flank with her before making a single lunging attack at the spider-thing. She then flies S + SE at half-speed.

falchion + PA + FF – entangled + bless + flank: 1d20 + 14 - 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 14 - 2 + 1 + 2 = 32
damage: 2d4 + 16 ⇒ (3, 3) + 16 = 22

AC = 22 ; Touch = 11

Mid-Other Game: I put an arrow on the map; moving me up is acceptable.

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Ah … that makes it interesting! In that case Corb might have taken the attack instead of Lore?

I think I’ll sit tight and wait for you to rule on the situation, GM Aarvid. In case I need to/you allow me to take a retcon. Oh! But I’d like to keep the 17 ‘to hit’ roll ;)

fort save dc 17: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

"BLast! it's immune to fire.. or at least quite evasive... help?"

Knowledge check for spidery creature (any vulnerabilities or special defenses?): 1d20 ⇒ 15 Boosted by cogatogen +19 arcana, +13 dungeoneering, planes, or religion.

Eadie and Corbalias jockey for position around the spidery creature.

When Corb said he moved forward 'some' I was not sure how far that meant.
So if the arrow would have been his destination, Lore would have been blocked from her burning hands I believe.
In interest of keeping things moving, I will move Corb forward onto the rocks, Eadie can attack from her position as indicated.

Eadie flies over the hole in the webbing, above the water and lunges down at the spidery creature, slashing it with her falchion.

Some of the blade is turned by its tough skin, but it hisses in pain nonetheless.

Once he sees the spider-creature resist the full effect of his bomb, Arovandeon searches his mind for a reference to such a monster. Luckily he read something once that seems to match.

"It's a thognorok! It is immune to mental magic and cold. It is resistant to spells and other energies, but a powerful concentration will still hurt it! Cold iron weapons are the best option if you have them!"

Arovandeon, the bomb had partial effect on the critter. It burned, but not as much as expected.

17-Jonterra
13-Corbalias
12-Khamul

“Thanks, Aro! Cold Iron I can do!”

Eadie calls back calmly to Lore. “Corb and I should be able to manage the thogno-whatsit, Sweet Heart if you want to fall back.”

She's a teensy bit less calm as she screams at Jonterra. "KEEP AWAY FROM HIM, J! WE'LL BE THERE SOON!"

I think that's right.

Khamul tries again to blind the priest!

DC 16 Fort save or permanently blinded.

Corb hits the creature with his normal-metal Greatsword once! He also draws Eadie's polearm with the other two of his arms to threaten the 15'-20' range!

rage, big, flank
big Greatsword: 1d20 + 15 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 15 + 2 = 223d6 + 19 + 2 ⇒ (5, 2, 2) + 19 + 2 = 30

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@Khamul, good catch, I will swap out a CMW instead,
since he should be able to cast that swiftly with fervor(x2)
if I am reading that correctly.

Corbalias takes a big swing at the spidery creature and hacks into it, nearly dropping it.
Again, sensing some resistance as the blade is less than fully effective.

Khamul tries again to blind the priest.

fort, GSB: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 8 + 2 = 17

With effort, the madman is able to resist the spell this time.

Jonterra

Noting the intensity of Eadie's voice, Arovandeon adds his own. "Withdraw to me Jonterra! I have a wand!"

Jonterra takes a five foot step to the southeast, draws a wand, and uses it on himself.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Can't edit map atm

Jonterra steps back and uses a wand to cure himself.
Map updated

The mad priest gets more mad.

"Now you are just making things difficult.
Do not undo my handiwork and delay the inevitable.
You should be honored to be sacrificed to Rovagug!"

The priest looks up and sees Eadie and Corbalias surrounding his pet.

"No,no NO! You idiot! You need to climb down from there.
Come aid me and together we will vanquish them.
On your own, you will only be slain and I will need to find more minions.
Bah! I am surrounded by idiots!"

He casts a swift spell on himself, making himself graceful then casts another spell as he strides over the water and touches the pet.

3d8 + 9 ⇒ (8, 5, 6) + 9 = 28

The creatures wounds heal up somewhat.

7-Lore
4-Arovandeon

Arovandeon releases a wand of healing from his spring-loaded wrist sheath and picks his way across the shore towards Jonterra.

Swift & double move

Lore does some healing of her own, channeling to heal as many of her companions are within 30' of her, and selectively excluding the priest and his pet.

channel heal: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 3) = 7 well that was pathetic... sorry guys... too bad it's not a spell so it would be maximized...

Lore calls upon divine healing, reaching all but Khamul.

Arovandeon draws a wand and strides closer to the injured Jonterra.

The squirming pet, is giddy now that its master is nearby.

As it tries to thrice chomp on the overly large and four-armed Corbalias.
Apparently having 4 arms and only 1 head is sacrilege on its plane, otherwise you could be drinking buddies. :-)

bite1, bless: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 1 = 26
for dmg, destructive: 1d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 4 = 13 and poison DC17

bite2, bless: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 12 + 1 = 33
for dmg, destructive: 1d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 4 = 14 and poison DC17
confirm: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 12 + 1 = 21
for dmg, destructive: 1d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 4 = 9

bite3, bless: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 12 + 1 = 21
for dmg, destructive: 1d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 4 = 9 and poison DC17

Not sure what happens with poison on crit...but saves get progressively tougher if missed.

Wow, lasted to round 5. Now I gotta start keeping track of things running out on this guy. Remember bless is still up.

=== Round 5 ===
17+Eadie (acid webbed)
17-Jonterra
13-Corbalias (3 saves vs poison needed)
12-Khamul

Deep underground, Eadie feels the warmth of Golarion’s sun heal her wounds, before the Rough Beast’s bitter bile stings her once more. down 1 hp acid-web

I believe Eadie can lunge over the priest/blackguard, without him providing soft cover to the thognorok from this position.

Eadie lunges once more at the Blackguard’s three-headed pet.

falchion + PA + FF – entangled + bless + flank: 1d20 + 14 - 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 14 - 2 + 1 + 2 = 18 still using normal +1 steel
damage: 2d4 + 16 ⇒ (1, 2) + 16 = 19

She then flies at half-speed to the east calling, "Light 'em up, Lore!"

68 - 45 = 23 + 21t/72 HP

Corb is thoroughly mauled and tries to mightily fight off the poison (possibly his best Save.)

+2 Poison Resist from Alch, Rage +3; DC goes up by 2 on a failure
Fort DC 17: 1d20 + 12 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 12 + 2 + 3 = 31
Fort DC 17: 1d20 + 12 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 12 + 2 + 3 = 26
Fort DC 17: 1d20 + 12 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 12 + 2 + 3 = 29

He then tries to swing into the creature twice!

Rage, Furious Focus on #1, PA, Big
Sword 1: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 343d6 + 17 ⇒ (6, 2, 2) + 17 = 27
sword 2: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 9 - 2 = 213d6 + 17 ⇒ (4, 3, 2) + 17 = 26

Sword 1 crit?: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 173d6 + 17 ⇒ (1, 6, 1) + 17 = 25

Corb, love your work! I think you have an extra 7 hp healed from Lore’s channel.

Lore, does a Theologian’s channels do 4d6 healing at Level 7 like a vanilla cleric?

Ha, oops. Yeah, slightly higher health. Theologian only changes Domain(s), so channeling should be unaffected unless there's Alternate Variant Channeling or other archetypes in play.

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Khamul stays back and holds his scythe aloft, calling out Draconic chants to cast another spell!

Using my bonded item (scythe) to cast a spell from my spellbook.

spontaneous immolation
fire: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 6) = 14 and catches on fire
DC 15 Fort save for half and to avoid catching on fire; each round on my turn he gets a DC 15 Ref save to extinguish the flames.

Note that if he catches on fire he'll have to make concentration checks against continuous damage.

Eadie's swing is hampered by the extra webbing clinging to her and she misses the bug-blob.

Corbalias avoids being poisoned by the creature and enacts his vengeance upon it. With two swings, he lops off a couple heads of the creature and then stabs deep into its body.

No confirm, but both swings are enough, even after DR

15/31 hp

Jonterra looks in frustration, wondering how to get across the webs. Nodding to Arovandeon and pointing at the evil man, he makes a throwing gesture, then step toward the shore and casts a healing spell on himself.

Maximized CLW: 12 = 12

27/31 hp

Hoping the priest is less immune to fire than his pet, with everyone out of the way, Lore puts a maximized disrupting fireball behind the priest on the rock in the middle just to avoid hitting any friends with it.

48 pts of dmg (save dc is reflex 17 for half), disrupting, dc 19 to cast for 1 round.

you are right, i forgot she went up a level and got another die of channeling - here ya go
1 more die of channeling: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Jonterra uses a wand to heal himself of the large axe cut.

Khamul calls forth flames upon the priest.

fort: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 7 + 2 = 23 vs fire

The priest seems to dodge the initial flames and what part does hit him does not seem to burn him whatsoever.

He calls out.

First you kill my pets, now you are healing my sacrifices. You are not helping. Rovagug will be most displeased!"

He moves up to Lore and swings at her and Corbalias.

Ok, trying this from a desktop with no "desktop". Now that I can see the map again, I notice he cannot reach both Lore and Corb. :)

He steps up to Corbalias with venom in his eyes.

"YOU! You killed my gift from Rovagug!
Stop interrupting the ritual!"

On Corb 1 gaxe, favor,str, bless : 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 28
for dmg: 1d12 + 4 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 3 + 3 = 22

On Corb 2 gaxe, favor,str, bless : 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 31
for dmg: 1d12 + 4 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 3 + 3 = 18
confirm crit: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 20
for dmg: 2d12 + 20 ⇒ (4, 5) + 20 = 29