GM.Boldr's 06-15: The Overflow Archives (Low-Tier) (Inactive)

Game Master MisterSlanky

Added - could you do me a favor and make up an alias for your animal companion?
I also didn't see his known tricks, can you update those so I can see what he can do? For now I'm assuming defend on you. I'm rolling initiative for him now so he's in order. Thanks!

Continuing on, bold may act (that's you Gaz).

Tusmina protects his mistress

Gaz stomps through the water, "Ho ho ho, ok an eye for an eye but we can stop these shenanigans. No one wants to get hurt now. Just let me get out of this water and we can talk, just want to know where this water is coming from... gosh, all the muck in here!"

Double move

Triana Entangled: 1d1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Gaz tromps through the water, providing words that are meant to soothe. Albatross eyes him cautiously as he steps up next to the creature.

James pierces the gush of water with a blast of frost that hits owl squarely in the chest. Owl lets out a screech, "OWWWW!" The mouth of Albatross drops at the sudden display of overt aggression.

Triana, remaining within the area of flying books finds herself again trapped by their pages but otherwise remains unassuming.

Albatross squaks, "See, they are here for our fish! If they wish to cause trouble that's their own wish!" Albatross then tries to flee from Gaz, who he considers to be far too close to his personal space. Flying with only the grace of an albatross, he tries to swoop into a better position.

Gaz, you did not mention drawing a weapon, so without an alternate weapon you will not get an AoO from the movement.

Albatross splays his fingers in a wide arc. A rainbow pattern flows from them over Gaz.

Gaz Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Gaz tries to cover his eyes but it's too late, he's blinded by the color. Also dazed, he falls backwards into the water onto his back. You all hear loud snoring from the barbarian.

Duration: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3

Correct. Um, sleeping in a foot of water... am I drowning?

Nah, you fell on your back.

Wellentänzer tries to move out of the entanglement.
EscapeA: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

"Well, looks like THIS is happening!"

Kelnea draws his Bastard Sword and moves towards the end of the extra mucky water.

For ending in the muck and the mire:
Reflex: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Let us try and break out

Escape Artist!: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Tusnima looks confused at the books but stays her ground, protecting her master.

Kelnea shouts as he moves forward, bastard sword in hand. Unfortunately he finds himself blocked by a massive tome labeled, 'A is for Asmodeus: A Chelaxian Storybbok for Children'.

Wellentänzer struggles against the books but cannot free herself from their grasp. She remains where she stood.

Amarantha also struggles against the book, but pushes forward to the best of her ability, hindered by both water and a gaggle of flapping books labeled, 'The Magic of Flight: How to will yourself to grow wings'.

Owl scowls, "You there, the big mean guy! It's time to have you eat some pie." He pulls his hands together and makes an arcane gesture with his hands. A greenish bolt of energy flies forth towards James, who takes the mere scratch. Angrily, he flies a little further away from the threat.

Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Note: Opponents flying height is not high, they are staying near the water.

Is that a named text (for the purpose of Dark Archive faction cards)?

Triana will take the bonus move speed from her war mind before double moving up to the albatross, drawing her scythe on the move.

I am afraid it's not a named text, except in my own mind.

Triana continues to move forward, first hindered by the entangling books before escaping the area they control.

Albatross' eyes grow wide as the creature with the scythe moves in towards him. "Yikes, it looks like it is time to fly! I surely do not want to die!"

Concentration: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Albatross again flays his fingers in the same formation as before. Color washes over Triana and Gaz.

Triana needs a Will save (DC 14) - if you make it, you may take the AoO.

Albatross tries to fly away the best he can, but not flying much higher. He seems to be avoiding line of sight to the mezzanine.

James is in delay.

Triana Will: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 2 = 9
Using re-roll, no color-spray plz.
Triana Reroll: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 2 + 4 = 20

Triana swings upward with her scythe.
AOO-MWK Cold Iron Scythe: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 4) + 4 = 10

Triana swings her scythe with strength and determination - the flying albatross crashes into the water with a sickening sploosh. He appears to be unconscious and perhaps drowning.

Sighing Wellentänzer tries to break free of the bonds and moving at half speed out of the area of effect.

Kelnea attempts to pull himself free.

Strength check as a move action

Strength: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

A reminder to everybody - entangle is not like black tentacles. You are not denied all your actions and left unable to move if you fail your break free check - you are simply reduced to half speed in an area of difficult terrain. For most of you with a 30' movement speed that's 5' as a move action or 15' as a full round action.

Also a reminder, please make your full set of rolls on your turn. I would rather not be moving your minis and making decisions for your characters in order to keep the PbP moving. Thanks!

Botting James, frustrated by losing his ability to cause pain with his rays of frost bats aside a copy of 'Stenser's Guide to the Flora of Geb' before trudging forward 15'.

Kelnea bursts free from the books surrounding him, and trudges forward the rest of the way, landing toe-to-toe against Owl.

Escape Artist: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Wellentänzer tries to break free from the grasping books, but finds herself stymied by a full set of 'Encyclopedia Mysteria'. She steps forward the best she can.

Triana continues to guard Master Wellentänzer, but does not move in the process.

Botting with instructions from player Amarantha just moves forward, finding she can make her way 15' through the books. Standing atop a bookcase, she finds her foot entangled by a copy of 'Themus' Guide to Wild Beasts'.

Fly: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15
Owl stares at the approaching hordes. With a flying 5' step backwards he attempts to hit Kelnea in a blast of color (color spray, DC 14).

I'm not the frog, GM! This isn't my grippli =P

Triana will take the 10' movement increase from war mind and move 30 feet to the owl.

mwk CI scythe: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2) + 4 = 8

You are correct, I did - oops.

Triana steps up in the water swinging with all her might. The blade does not connect. Owl would giggle if not for the fact that he looks down at Albatross, who...

Con: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 3
...begins to gurgle, choke, and convulse in the water.

I apologize for the extra work caused. I wasn't sure what the DC on the Entangle was. I thought it was a 'failed save movement stops and you get the Entangled condition. I may have been reading the wrong spell, however.

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20+3 vs. charm and compulsion; +2 vs. enchantments

Kelnea, not liking the idea of squeezing past everyone between the bookshelves, decides moving around is the better option.

Double move, half-speed

Wellentänzer moves now out the entangle area at half speed.

Owl looks to the two advancing Pathfinders that have trapped him down a narrow hall of shelves. He quickly throws his hands into the air and drops his spear into the water, "I do declare that I surrender! I don't wish to die in your blender!"

You hear Albatross stop gurgling.

Neither appear to be carrying anything of value, but there is a strip of paper that they were sitting on. Another wave crashes down from the mezzanine above.

Combat is over, ask away

Kelnea eyes the owl suspiciously as he moves over to inspect the strip of paper that they were sitting on.

His sword is still in one hand.

Wellentänzer smiles and speaks up."If you want your live to be saved, it is time that the truth you braved! Tell us more what happened here and now, and dare to try to make a show!"

Kelnea picks up the strip of paper and finds another riddle.
(See Maps & Handouts, Slide 3 for "Handout #2")

When Wellentänzer accosts Owl, he looks fearful. "It was all Albatross' fault; he told me to cast you out. Owl wanted to be your friend; not dead and drowned and meeting an end. Owl doesn't know what happened here; it was like this when I arrived I fear."

Looking frightened his eyes pan upwards to the ceiling, where the mezzanine lies above, "The Big Sleeper though probably knows; it's from her the water flows."

Owl looks too terrified to be much more use.

Kelnea reads the riddle aloud.

"Hmm... This one says the early bird gets the worm, but worms eat dead birds in the ground. The last one said the sleeper made a meal of both birds. Is the sleeper a worm? Is albatross being eaten by worms?"

Kelnea follows owl's gaze.

"So, it looks like we head up to see this sleeper. Unless one'a yous can help us survive underwater, I think the way down may be over our heads."

Kelnea looks around to see if there is anything else of note on their current floor/area.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Gaz gets up slowly and shakes the fog out of his head. As he notices he had fallen asleep in standing water he let's out a curse and is glad he didn't drown.

Not only was the fight over, but his fellow Pathfinders seemed to be gathered around a captive.

Soaking wet Gaz slashes over and reads the note as someone shows it to him. "I don't know, maybe we should bury the bird so he can tell us." the man says with an obvious grudge.

Yet dispite his mood, Gaz still can't hold back a possible nature lesson. "Dirt, the bird would decompose with the aid of the worms and maggots, thus becoming dirt. Well, more precisely the organic material would be classified as a peat at that point. Now what we're really getting at here is the Nitrogen Cycle, Owl you can chime in at any time if something sparks your memory.." Gaz continues on for some time if not interrupted.

Kelnea begins digging around through the water and pulls up two soggy magic-looking scrolls.

Owl seems terrified but offers no further assistance, even with Gaz's ramblings. He is just as clueless on what the scroll means as you.

Looking down the whirlpool you see the water spiral down the staircase to the room below. It has much the same structure as this one, with enormous 15' tall vaulted ceilings and brightly lit walls. The water looks deeper though, reaching up the sides of the bookshelves to a depth probably four feet or so.

Looking up the spiral staircase to the mezzanine, it's clear that is the source of the water.

Give me an idea what you're up to next!

Triana uses read magic and takes the scroll of bull's strength.

"It would seem that the water is coming from up there," she says, pointing upwards at the balcony. "Do what we can to halt the flow of water now, lest we all drown in the floors below."

Read Magic

"Well, guess I'll take this one. It can save me using some of my own magics. James, if we don't use it, I'm fine if you want to copy it into your book, or whatever."

Since the consensus is up, Kelnea makes his way to the stairs to lead the party up. Assuming everyone is conscious at this point and doesn't need healing

The team makes their way up the winding iron staircase. The water flowing from above occasionally crashes down the stair-hole (technical term, I swear); however, the metal grate on each stair prevents any accumulation. As you rise to the floor, you find another smaller library, the shelves piled high with books. Although an occasional rush of water hits your knees, the water is only ankle deep.

See the bottom right corner of the map - I have placed your minis. If you don't like where you are, now is the time to change things.

As you round the first set of book cases, you find an enormous 10' long, 500 pound Koi fish. She opens her mouth and another torrent of water rushes forth for approximately 10 seconds. You hold your ground as the water pours past you into the library below.

The creature stares at you with bulbous eyes.

"Well I'll be. I heard Goldfish would grow to any size depending on the bowl you put them in, but his is just absurd!" Gaz shuffles in the water and looks to see how the others in the group perceive this creature. 'If the boys in the old Department could only see this, we'd have a cookout for the ages!'

Kn: Planes!: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
Amarantha will relate the above spoilers

"Does anyone happen to speak Aquan or Sylvan? Those are the only languages that thing speaks. If not, it looks like we use that scroll we just obtained."

"Also, let's not harm it in any way. It is liable to explode and take us with it when it does."

James speaks Aquan! Problem--Paizo is down for all of Korea right now. I'll email paizo and see what we can do to get this fixed!

Know: Arcana: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

"Great! Now we know why there seems to be no end to the water! It's extraplanar!

Looking at Amrantha, Wellentänzer just shakes her head."Do I look like a piece of stone, or a flaming torch. Of course I speak Aquan. It is my mother tongue!"

"Oh?! What did your father speak?"

Perform: Comedy: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
yuuup, that number matches my humor, maybe a little too gracious

This scene will require you to kick it off, the fish isn't going to do anything until you do.

The fish continues to sit, bubbling happily, occasionally letting lose another gush of cold seawater.

"Of course you can. Maybe you could try talking to it? They are intelligent, thus we can reason with them. Maybe find out why it is here, and if we can send it back home?"

Volunteers that she speaks aquan, and then doesn't say anything to what needs speaking too...riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Triana points at Wellentanzer before speaking, "Speak your water-tongue, damnit. This archive is flooding and you are wasting valuable time."

Wellentänzer Diplomacy: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (20) + 0 = 20

Wellentänzer begins to charm the large fish, who immediately after gushing out another flow of water, licks her lips and responds. "
Hookipa kuu kaikamahine, aole au i makemake e ike i kou ano nei. ʻO Wau nō wahine Koi, a au makau i ka mea i hiki mai ai ia mea i koʻu hewa, aole au e ua oi mālama i kiai ana i kaʻu oihana. Owau wale aka kekahi o na denizens o ka inoa o ka fäks, ka weliweli poem a puni, Whatsisname - e weliweli hoʻokano alopeke. I hiki iaʻu ke manaoio au i kuu aku ia ia e hele!"

She uninterrupted by another enormous gout of water, which appear to be equally tears of sorrow and seawater. She sniffs before she continues, "Eons nei, i ka Makahiki o ka ehaeha, ua kākauʻia mākou ma kaʻaoʻao ma koʻu fey Mea nana i hana, nana trapped i kaʻu oihana. trapped no ka mea, 'Ōlelo' ino i ka mea nāna i hana. Oh i kona outwitted iaʻu! A fiendishly akamai kilokilo huʻalepo o kekahiʻano, a ano oia i holo haunaele mawaena o na vaults ma lalo nei. I makemake wale no e mohala aku kona pulu für."

The large koi looks over everybody, "
Paha oe e hiki ke kōkua? I pono ai noʻu e hoomau i ka ho'āʻo e mokuhia e ia he mea e ho'āʻo ho'ōla mai kēlā iā lākou, a me nā hakina o ka poem i haehae kaʻawale ka wa a makou i hele mai iloko o ia. Hana i keia leo e like me ka hana?"

The koi looks at Wellentänzer, and then the group, clearly suggesting that she pass the message along and make a decision.

Wellentänzer translates the words of Mistress Koi and says she is in favor of the deal.

"Yes, of course!" Gaz bellows. "But you said the Lady Fish has a poor memory, how can we trust that she won't start drowning us minutes later?" All this water is making him need to pee, maybe no one will notice is he steps to the side..

"Good idea, Gaz. Do you think we could teach this fish the word 'stop', and let you yell at the top of your lungs?"

Another gush of fresh seawater erupts from the Cyprinidae.

Although fresh and cool, Amarantha feels some warm water rush past her leg.

Taking out a piece of parchment Wellentänzer writes no more water please, we have a deal in Aquan and puts it where Mistress Koi can see it.

Amarantha scowls at Gaz.