GM BPC's Deepmarket Deception PbP (Inactive)

Game Master Black Powder Chocobo

Marduk goes for a powerful punch, trying to knock some sense into the kobold. He yips back in Draconic, then looks at a corner of the room Marked by a blue star on the map

Single Sense Motive check, open as many as you qualify for!

The kobold then disappears out of sight as he withdraws away from Marduk, slipping through a large crack in the wall.

Init Order (bold = up)
Aspex
Wyeth
Shasta
Marduk
Kobold Blue (7 damage, disarmed)
Gob
Hakime

"Sounds like he wants us to go that way, probably not a good idea with how much these little guys like traps." Gob says as the kobold slips through the crack.

SM: 1d20 ⇒ 20

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 7

"Though they may have left us in a room with one." Gob adds while pointing toward the suspicious corner.

Link is broken but it is SM 15 for the second spoiler.

Fixed the spoiler, thanks Gob! And now each PC that makes the DC 10 Sense Motive gets a free Perception check; otherwise it will be a move action as normal.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

Neither Marduk or Gob find anything odd in the corner.

sm: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 ha! lol, no spoiler or perception for me

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Shasta decides to play it safe and retreat rather than follow into a trap. She retreats back to the entrance to the room she just had exited. She readies an action to attack any kobold who comes into range with her whip.

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 8 Zzz...

Wyeth peers through the crack in the wall. "Any point to following him?"

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Aspex frowns. "No, it's trying to lead us into a trap. What's in that corner there?"

"No sense blindly following if it's leading us into a trap... can anyone disable such before we move on?"

No one's quite found the trap yet.

Although Shasta falls back, ready to disarm the next kobold that comes up, the other party members seem to be perplexed by the first kobold's action; they assume he was trying to bait them, but they can only see an otherwise empty corner where it was looking at.

Init Order (bold = up)
Aspex
Wyeth
Shasta (readied action)
Marduk
Kobold Blue (7 damage, disarmed)
Gob
Hakime

"I propose we leave it be for now and punish the kobold if it happens upon us again."

Marduk heads back into the room with the others, not taking unneeded risks.....like getting hit with a bolt unaware.

"Agreed, lets go check the other side and see if there is a better way back there." Gob says as he walks back to the main hall.

"Sounds like a plan," Wyeth agrees as he joins Gob.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Shasta will look back to the corner again to see if she sees a trap. Not spotting anything, she suggests the group considers pushing in the weak section of the wall to see if they can surprise the kobolds by taking an unexpected path. But she'll go along with the consensus plan.

@Shasta: Your previous Perception to find the weakened wall is only the inside section; it won't collapse an outer wall that would lead to the hallway. Although you can go through one of the iron doors, too.

it's a DC 18 Strength check except for the other door near the entrance, against the upper set of unexplored rooms.

As the party holds back, deciding on a new plan, a different kobold appears and takes a shot at Marduk....

Marduk Init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Kobold Init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Marduk is faster though and catches the bolt before closing the door, blocking line of sight.

It appears that the kobolds will be taking potshots at you while you're visible.

Taking the party out of initiative order; please tell me where you plan to go.

Gob moves to the other door and tries to open it.

Str if needed: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

As Gob moves across, another kobold with a crossbow fires a bolt at him!

Kobold Red bolt @ Gob: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Damage on hit: 1d6 ⇒ 6

This one hits the half-orc square in the chest as he moves across. Quickly putting some muscle to the door, his muscle-wizardly might opens the next chamber!

Yes, kobolds are everywhere!

The air in the now opened room smells stale. A pile of ricks sits on the dust-covered floor in one corner of the room.

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Know Dungeoneering: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

"I don't like the look of those rocks" Gob says as he retrieves a wand and starts casting.

I presume the Perception checks are for people in the room with Gob. Wyeth was going to accompany him but with this new activity I think he's going to reverse that decision.

"Dragonkin my butt," Wyeth growls as he rapidly readies his crossbow while returning to where he'd been standing. "These things are more like rats."

Crossbow=>Black: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 Or Red, if Black isn't shootable. Also: Woohoo!
Critical Confirm: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Nice!
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2 And as usual, DiceBot raises my hopes only to dash them. :o/
Critical: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Black would have cover, but Red would not through the relatively thin portcullis (at least against piercing attacks from my perspective). If you were following Gob, it would make sense to me that you'd provide some covering fire and shoot back at him.

I think for this I'm going to mostly do a Party action/enemy action set up for each round. There's a lot of weird shenanigans going on from both sides and waiting on separate initiatives would be bothersome. If things get heated or significant melee combat occurs, then we'll go back to the same initiatives used earlier.

Wyeth returns fire, leaving Gob to his work. The bolt hits the kobold square in the stomach, causing it to hurch back in pain.

Init Order (bold = up)
Party (Aspex, Shasta, Marduk, Hakime, Gob (6 damage), Wyeth)
Bad Guys! (Kobold Blue (disarmed), Kobold Red (6 damage), Kobold Black)

Works for me. Thanks!

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Hakime aims a single arrow at the kobold beyond the hole in the wall. (black)?

to hit: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
dmg if hits: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Perc 1: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
Perc 2: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Kn:Eng: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

Aspex had followed Gob into the next room. She frowns down at the tracks across the room. "Those tracks are a human's, not a kobold's." She nods at the door to the south. "There's something heavy leaning against that door, too."

She looks back quickly as Gob starts lobbing missiles at the pile of rocks and waits to see what happens.

Hakime's arrow bounces off of the wall, too much cover being provided by the narrow firing zone.

Aspex identifies more about the room Gob is in... and watches him blast the rocks. She spies that there is a satchel now exposed.

Giving Marduk until lunch time, then botting and continuing.

Init Order (bold = up)
Party (Aspex, Shasta, Marduk, Hakime, Gob (6 damage), Wyeth)
Bad Guys! (Kobold Blue (disarmed), Kobold Red (6 damage), Kobold Black)

Marduk follows the others into the rocky chamber.

"Hakime, perhaps we can lure them into better fighting space by going over there."

I was actually casting infernal healing, but I can blast the rocks after that if you like.

Ahh my bad. We'll just say that Aspex's eyes are THAT good.

Shasta begins to joke about how kobolds are so dumb how dumb are they? that they think fireballs are healing spells since it cauterizes wounds.

Gob starts using a wand on himself and will finish with a standard action next turn!

The kobolds continue their annoying harassment, firing bolts at Hakime and Wyeth while the disarmed kobold moves to retrieve his weapon.

Kobold Black @ Hakime: 1d20 + 11 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 11 - 2 + 1 = 19
Damage on hit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Kobold Red @ Wyeth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Damage on hit: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Both shooting kobolds then take cover as they reload, both satisfied as the Pathfinders take a bolt to the leg and shoulder, respectively. They begin to yip at the party in Draconic.

Init Order (bold = up)
Party buffs (Inspire Courage +2)
Aspex
Shasta
Marduk
Hakime (5 damage)
Gob (6 damage)
Wyeth (6 damage)
Bad Guys!
Kobold Blue,
Kobold Red (6 damage)
Kobold Black

Hakime readies to shoot when the kobold steps out of cover to fire again.

Sounds like a plan.

Wyeth grimaces as he's hit, then quickly reloads his crossbow and takes a step into the hallway. 5' step, Readied action to fire at Red if it shows its ugly mug again.

Aspex gestures at the unnatural rock formation. "There's some kind of satchel in there." She gestures and starts magically moving rocks out of their way.

Hearing the kobold's question, she shouts at the group in the other room. "It's asking what we're doing here in it's temple."

She'll use Mage Hand to move rocks from a distance until the satchel is fully exposed.

"Kobolds is so stupid, they keep casting Invisible Servant and then curse the fact that all their servants always walk off the job!"

Maintain Inspire Courage, free action.

Shasta dashes back to the room through the door Hakime is firing through and uses her whip on blue while Hakime covers her against shots from black.

"Have a nice trip!" she says in common.

Trip, Inspire Courage: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 2 = 15

Sorry for the lack of updates; Paizo's site crashing this morning and work business/packing have kept me busy! On that note, I'll be on a trip from Wednesday to Tuesday, so posting will be sporadic, more so for GM'ing stuff. I'll do what I can and at least get one more good post later today.

Gob finishes the spell from his wand, touching it to his wound. "That'll take care of that, now lets see if we can't take care of these kobolds." The half-orc moves back into the hallway behind Wyeth and fires a pair of magic missiles down the hallway.

MM vs red: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 3) + 2 = 8

@Aspex: Because of the number of rocks, it'll take another round to successfully unveil the satchel.

@Shasta: Your joke works for you, sending the small sniper to the ground, panic in his scaled eyes.

@Gob: The kobold is completely out of sight for you. You may choose to have that action readied, if you wish.

@Hakime/Wyeth: Noted!

Skipping Marduk, if you have something to prep, I'll allow it, but otherwise no action.

The kobolds step out to continue their attacks.

Before Wyeth can act, Gob's magic blasts the kobold unconscious!

Meanwhile, the other sniper targets Shasta while the kobold she tripped tries to scamper away. Hakime's readied arrow goes first, though!

Hakime Arrow @ Black: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 2 = 7
Damage on hit: 1d8 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 = 6

Her arrow bounces off of the stone wall next to the kobold who fires at the joking bard!

Kobold Black bolt @ Shasta: 1d20 + 11 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 11 + 1 = 26
Damage on hit: 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 1 = 4

The wound is a through and through the flesh of her thigh.

Their inquiry unanswered, the kobolds continue their defense!

Init Order (bold = up)
Party buffs (Inspire Courage +2)
Aspex
Shasta (4 damage)
Marduk
Hakime (5 damage)
Gob (6 damage)
Wyeth (6 damage)
Bad Guys!
Kobold Blue,
Kobold Red (14 damage, unconscious, bleeding out)
Kobold Black

Hakime readies another action to fire at the first kobold that makes itself a target...

(I should have included a roll last time, here's one for this time)

to hit, readied shot: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
dmg if hits: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

15 isn't so great, but oh well... maybe I should have let you roll for me, lol

@Hakime: You can still fire that at Black since he's in view :)

However, it easily dodges the arrow!

"What do you call 200 kobolds at the bottom of the ocean? A good start."

Shasta maintains her inspirational patter and lashes out with her whip to disarm the kobold in the opening (Black).

Disarm, Whip, Inspire courage: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 7 + 2 + 2 = 27

Edit: Assuming she disarms the kobold, she will move closer.

Wyeth lowers his crossbow and gives Gob a smirk. "Nice job. Annoying little buggers, aren't they."

Sorry, data connection went out at the house again. I'm on my phone at work, I'll see if I can bring up the map for something to target.

EDIT: Alright, looks like he can Ready for Red. Nope... just caught that Red's down and bleeding out. Okay, I'll queue a roll now in case I can't get online when it's needed.

Crossbow => who knows?: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 4 + 2 = 19
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1 Insert eye roll here.

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No, nothing to prep.

Seeing action come from both Wyeth and in the distance from Shasta, Marduk sighs inside, then moves back, holding the temple sword in one hand and drawing a shuriken with the other now free.

"I agree with the annoying part, look they got blood on my suit." Gob replies back to Wyeth. "Lets see how dedicated they are to their cause." Gob then lets out a series of growls, yips and snarls.

He then calls out in common, "If any of them throw down their weapons let them pass, I've asked them to surrender."

This is now two scenarios I'm running involving people insulting a scaled races choice of 'deity'.

About to board a plane, but I'll say that their morale is mixed.

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Aspex keeps uncovering the satchel, since it takes 2 rounds.

The kobolds, injured, outnumbered, and now unarmed, huff and relent, raising their scaly arms. The leader black, shouts back in Draconic, "You speak of the Golden God, yet know nothing of it! You may have have defeated us, but your doom awaits if you try to challenge it!"

Looking over at the kobold downed by crossbow bolts, he then shouts again in Draconic. "We are your prisoners. Staunch his sounds."

Combat over!

Aspex uncovers the satchel. Inside are a couple of notes in Sharrowsmith's handwriting, as well as a number of supplies. Inside are a:

• wand of cure light wounds (12 charges)
• wand of lesser restoration (5 charges)
• two potions of cure moderate wounds
• wand of bear's endurance (14 charges)
• two potions of spider climb

handouts on the Scions handouts link

"Someone pick up their weapons while I fix this one." Gob says as he charges up his wand again. He then speaks the the black kobold.

Marduk picks up the items, eyeing the kobolds for any funny movement.

The kobold raises an eyes to Gob's response. "You honestly believe you can defeat our god? I will happily be your captive only to see you be destroyed by its wrath!"

Marduk collects the three small crossbows, all of exceptional quality.

Shasta goes to the wounded one and tries to stop the bleeding with first aid.

Heal: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

The the one who is talking to Gob she says, We're doing you guys a favor. Before the archaeologist showed up, you guys were staying where you're happiest, underground. Now you're going out and attacking people, kidnapping them, some of your number are dying in these raids. The rest of the people in the area are mustering forces to come and put you all down. All because of this golden god. So let us defeat him and you can get back to hiding in the shadows and people won't bother you. By the way, what happened to that archaeologist? We'd like to talk to him.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15

Aspex looks through the satchel. "These healing potions could be useful to you, Marduk and Wyeth." She slings the satchel over her chest and walks over to where Gob and Shasta are with the hurt kobold.

Gob finishes casting the infernal healing from his wand and touches it to the wounded kobold.