WooHoo! Got him! Well that was almost as annoying as the last fight. Dragorin groans as he pulls himself up.
Time for healing!
Infernal healing for all!
Atum @ 73 + 30 = 103/104 HP
Dragorin @ 33 + 40 = 73/80 HP
Flinders @ 52 + 20 = 72/73 HP
Halbarad @ 25 + 40 = 65/72 HP
Basalte @ 42 + 30 = 72/78 HP
For Dragorin:
CLW:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Basalte, Male Oread Fighter (Unbreakable) 4, Bloodrager 2, Living Monolith 10, Unchained Monk 1 | HP 219/219 | AC: 34 T:19 FF:34 CMD: 39 (+1 AC/saves when FF/surprised, +4 CMD vs BRush/Trip, +2 vs Sunder) | DR 3/- | 30% fortification | F+25 R+15 W+15 (+3 vs Mind-Aff; +2 vs Death, Fear) | Init +2 | Perc +27 (Darkvision, Tombsight, Tremorsense)
My header bar is always up to date, I change it when raging, etc. It's tricky to do it because there are four possible "states": not raging/no Ka stone, raging/no Ka stone, not raging/Ka stone, raging and Ka stone. Both of these states modify AC, CMD, saves, so it's too complex to have all the values in one header bar. That's why I have all four header bars ready in my character sheet (in the first spoiler, called "Macros"), and when I'm switching to another state I just copy/paste and update Hp. That being said, I find far easier not to keep track of HP myself when I'm GMing, it's way too much of a hassle and never do it while GMing a tabletop game anway.
If you want, I can make an OOC comment in the post where I'm using Rage/Ka stone to tell you what's my new HP. How does it sound?
"Thanks, Dragorin. Just a tap or two from this wand, please." groans the oread.
CLW:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
@Basalte: Awesome. If you keep the header bar updated, then I will make sure to look at it. I'm just used to everyone not updating it from most of my early GMed scenarios, which prompted me to post the Status blocks at the bottom of each post. Had too many people who would never change their headers, so I would never know if they were super low or if they were full health. Makes it a hassle when you don't want to decimate someone and spread attacks around after someone falls unconscious.
Male Human Ranger 11 HP: 101/101 [0] | AC 26 | T 17 | FF 21 | Fort +12 | Ref +14 | Will +9 | CMD 31 | Init +6 (+4* or +2*) | Perc +17 (+4* or +2*) | Sense Mot +3
Desmond pumps his fist as the gargoyles and the elemental all fall.
"That was right fun, wasn't it?" he looks around at the others. "I'm just happy I had a chance to use one of my special arrows. Spent enough gold on 'em - and I'm happy to see they do the job nicely."
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Using his magically granted climbing skills, Terrill clambers to where the gargoyle dropped his axe and collects it. He then turns to the rest of the party and says, ”Shall we keep moving, so we’re past these ledges before Hal’s spell wears off? Makes it a lot easier to get up and down these damn ledges.”
He climbs up the next ledge and lowers the rope for the others to climb up, his senses alert for further surprises.
HP 76/76 | AC 26 FF 21 Tch 14 | CMD 28 |F+9 R+11 W+3 | Perc+4 | Init+4
"That's very kind of you," Hal says quietly to Dragorin. Thanks for the heals! Using his own wand, he heals the last of his wounds. CLW:2d8 + 2 ⇒ (1, 5) + 2 = 8
Obligatory Perception Check on the Area:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (14) + 19 = 33
Following Terrill's advice, Hal's next question is made on the move."Say, was that... was that Terran? Basalte, you speak Terran, right? What were they saying?"
@ Bold: you're doing pretty well, given that everyone's a caster of some kind or a Living Monolith. :)
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
"Hmm, when I put an end to my foes," muses Terrill as he hauls his normal-sized companions up a ledge, "they never seem to thank me. But that was nicely done, Dragorin."
AC26/Touch18/Flat22/CMD28||HP80[80]|Fort:+6;Ref:+13(+16 vs traps);Will:+10|Percept+20(trapspotter)|Init+4 Human Bard(Archaeologist) 11
Flinders nods.
Elven:
"I would welcome to opportunity to practice my Elven. Being from Varisia, I picked up the Mierani dialect. I'm afraid I can't place your. From where do you hail?"
HP 76/76 | AC 26 FF 21 Tch 14 | CMD 28 |F+9 R+11 W+3 | Perc+4 | Init+4
Elven:
"A fair question. From Osirion, in my youngest of days, long before your grandfather took his first breath. I call a small oasis--known as the Arbor--my true home. But there are also the long years I spent among the hunters south of Katheer, and their's is a strange dialect, with a few loan-words here and there from Kelish. So it is no surprise my own is hard to place. I did not know the Mierani had much of a presence in this modern age. Is the dialect widely spoken in Varisia?"
You are all welcome for healing and for disposing of the monster, but please thank Asmodeous as he is the one that gives me my divine power. I will say that it is very impolite to carry on in a language we do not all share. It feels like you are keeping secrets, or talking about us.
AC 31 T 17 FF 28 | CMD 36 (38 against bull rush/trip/sunder) | DR 3/adamantine | 30% fortification | F+17 R+13 W+12 (+4 vs mind-aff/death eff, imm to dis) | Init +3 | Perc +7
Living Monolith 14 |
Ka Stone 3/3:
HP 156/156 | AC 31 T 15 FF 29 | DR 3/adamantine, DR 5/evil | 30% fortification | stone blood
"I hail from the land of Rahadoum," Atum explains to Dragorin. "There we respect the Law of Man, which prohibits the worship of gods. It's more trouble than it's worth, with all the strife that comes along with letting religions bicker with each other."
Male Human Ranger 11 HP: 101/101 [0] | AC 26 | T 17 | FF 21 | Fort +12 | Ref +14 | Will +9 | CMD 31 | Init +6 (+4* or +2*) | Perc +17 (+4* or +2*) | Sense Mot +3
Desmond interjects himself in, whether welcome or not, calling over to Atum and Dragorin. "Well, I was raised to worship Gozreh - but never did much other than make offerings every once in a while! I say to each his own." He shrugs his shoulders.
Desmond then wanders over to Flinders and Halbarad, "All right you two - let's cut the jibbidy-jabbidy and get a move on."
He then hustles himself down the various ledges. "I wonder how things are topside for Sahrek."
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Sorry to miss all the Elven fun, busy day and evening yesterday.
As Terrill hauls Flinders up the last ledge, he chuckles and says, ” Yn sicr mae gan y basher ddrws ei farn, nid yw e?”
Elven:
” The door basher certainly has his opinions, doesn't he?”
The tunnel ends at a sudden drop off. A wide shaft opens up in the earth and descends into darkness below. Opposite the entry tunnel are other irregular ledges. The walls of the shaft and ledges are of the same white crystalline substance as elsewhere.
The shaft descends 20 feet and then pierces the cavern that opens as a vast cyst below. The shaft rises 60 feet to its own roof above. It is a 150-foot drop from the tunnel ledge to the floor the new area.
A dead creature lays slain on the ledge nearest to you. It's body is marred with giant gashes and burn marks, likely caused by the axe you found on the half-fiend gargoyle. Bypassing the optional encounter of 8 creatures with health under 25.
Knowledge(Dungeoneering) DC 12:
This man-sized, crab-like monstrosity clings tenaciously to the rough stone, its enormous pincers held out menacingly before it.
The cave fisher is a highly specialized predator that dwells in caves. The creature's mode of hunting is unique—it clambers up a cave wall to settle on a ledge or in a crack, typically at a height of at least 30 feet. Ledges overlooking bridges and lower ledges overlooking chasms are favored hunting grounds for the cave fisher. The creature lies in wait until prey approaches within 60 feet, at which point it extrudes a thin cord of silk at blinding speed, lashing at the target as with a whip. The filament is incredibly sticky, and once the fisher strikes food with it, it reels in its meal to feed, trusting its position on a higher ledge to prevent any allies the meal may have from molesting it as it eats. Collections of bones and lengths of discarded filaments are sure signs of cave fisher habitation.
A cave fisher produces its filament from glands in its body; when it reels in a victim, it generally eats the filament along with its meal. It's impossible to harvest new filaments from a dead cave fisher, but filaments harvested from living ones are incredibly light and strong, functioning as silk rope once the sticky adhesive on a length decomposes (which generally takes 3d6 minutes). A cave fisher's filament glands are useful in constructing sovereign glue and similar sticky magical items. A single cave fisher's glands count as 100 gp worth of raw materials, offsetting the total cost of the item's final creation.
How are you getting to the bottom of the shaft? It seems to be the only way to go and climbing won't work. Jump off? ;-)
Male Human Ranger 11 HP: 101/101 [0] | AC 26 | T 17 | FF 21 | Fort +12 | Ref +14 | Will +9 | CMD 31 | Init +6 (+4* or +2*) | Perc +17 (+4* or +2*) | Sense Mot +3
Knowledge (Dung):1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
Desmond shares his surprisingly detailed knowledge about the cave fisher.
"We could use this thing's filament to traverse down."
Dang, I thought I picked up a potion of fly for Desmond, but it seems I have him confused with someone else. Poor planning on my part.
Climb DC 15 to climb down this rope. Failure by more than 5 means you plummet the 150'. It is a 10' drop from the bottom of the rope to the ground at the bottom, so Acrobatics DC 10 to not take 1d6 non-lethal.
Male Human Ranger 11 HP: 101/101 [0] | AC 26 | T 17 | FF 21 | Fort +12 | Ref +14 | Will +9 | CMD 31 | Init +6 (+4* or +2*) | Perc +17 (+4* or +2*) | Sense Mot +3
Desmond takes hold of the filament. "Thanks Halbarad for harvesting the stuff. This shouldn't be too difficult." He traverses carefully down the side of the cliff.
Take 10 Climb:10 + 9 = 19
Once at the bottom, he hops down onto his feet easily.
+13 to Acrobatics, so auto-success.
Desmond helps Halbarad take a careful look around.
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
Terrill lowers himself down their long, knotted rope, dropping deftly to the ground at the bottom and taking a look around.
Climb, Take 10:10 + 9 = 19 Acrobatics, Take 10:10 + 2 = 12
The group swiftly climbs/falls down the chasm into a lower expanse of salt rock. This massive chamber is of the same smooth white rock as seen previously, its walls, floor, and roof molded into flowing curves and fantastical shapes. The crystalline structure within the rock catches light sources and reflects them back a hundredfold. Revealed in this illumination at the far end of the massive cavern is a jagged scar of darkness—a rift in the cavern wall and ceiling sealed by a tumble of dark rock. At the base of this collapsed area can be seen toppled walls and broken columns.
The cavern here is split by many small fissures that lead deeper into the Darklands. The cavern itself is littered with the debris of decades of habitation by the bats that hang above and the occasional wanderer from the Darklands but is currently uninhabited beyond the ruins of the fortress itself. Eventually the Pathfinders’ explorations should lead them to the ruined structure at the cavern’s far end.
At first these broken ruins appear to be little more than a pile of rubble tumbled down from above. However, on closer examination an opening is visible on one side of it, and many of the walls within the ruin still appear to be intact.
I could play this out on the map, however it would be unwieldy.
A group of 32 morlocks stands around the entrance to the ruins, generally hanging out, bopping each other on the head with their clubs. The bumbling Pathfinders stumble around the corner and they become enraged and rush to attack.
HP 76/76 | AC 26 FF 21 Tch 14 | CMD 28 |F+9 R+11 W+3 | Perc+4 | Init+4
"Seriously?" Hal asks of the morlock, only moments before shooting it dead. Shoot at one until it goes down, then aim at the next, so on and so forth. I'll include PBS (I think?) plus the usual shenanigans.
AC26/Touch18/Flat22/CMD28||HP80[80]|Fort:+6;Ref:+13(+16 vs traps);Will:+10|Percept+20(trapspotter)|Init+4 Human Bard(Archaeologist) 11
Flinders steps forward and shouts at the morlocks! "Ey yah!"
Shout 30' cone:5d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 5, 6, 2) = 22DC 18
Shout:
You emit an ear-splitting yell that deafens and damages creatures in its path. Any creature within the area is deafened for 2d6 rounds and takes 5d6 points of sonic damage. A successful save negates the deafness and reduces the damage by half. Any exposed brittle or crystalline object or crystalline creature takes 1d6 points of sonic damage per caster level (maximum 15d6). An affected creature is allowed a Fortitude save to reduce the damage by half, and a creature holding fragile objects can negate damage to them with a successful Reflex save. A shout spell cannot penetrate a silence spell.
M Half-Elf Inquisitor of Desna 10 | HP 77/77 | AC 34 (37 vs crits) | T 22 | FF 31] | AC 28 | T 16 | FF 25 | CMD 29 | Fort +11 | Ref +7 | Will +12 | Init +7 | Perc +18
"It's a damn shame I don't speak Undercommon, I could roast all of these pale-skinned horrors with a harsh word," Terrill comments. "Looks like we'll do this the old-fashioned way." He begins to lay about himself with his curve blade.
Knowledge (nature):1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22To know what language they speak.
Male Human Ranger 11 HP: 101/101 [0] | AC 26 | T 17 | FF 21 | Fort +12 | Ref +14 | Will +9 | CMD 31 | Init +6 (+4* or +2*) | Perc +17 (+4* or +2*) | Sense Mot +3
"Bunch of ugly suckers, eh?" Desmond notes as he quick draws his bow and fires off three cold iron arrows.
Burn Vermin!
Dragorin wades forward in the the creatures midst and releases a burst of negative.
Move to get as many in burst as possible and so one of the party members is out of the burst, exclude the others.
Damage:7d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3) = 22 DC23 will save for half
Atum cleaves two of the morlocks in half as Flinders Shouts down a large pack of them.
Flinders:1d28 ⇒ 12
Embarassingly, Basalte's first swing misses, however his next attack cuts through an aggressor.
Terrill takes two swings to kill on of the morlocks as Desmond puts arrows into two of them, felling one.
Dragorin unleashes a blast of negative energy to fell/kill even more of them, however he can only position to hit two upright morlocks. However, he does kill off sixteen of the felled Darklands dwellers.
Dragorin:1d13 ⇒ 2 Dragorin:1d17 ⇒ 16
The remaining eleven morlocks launch their assault on the party, ganging up for extra hit goodness.
AC 31 T 17 FF 28 | CMD 36 (38 against bull rush/trip/sunder) | DR 3/adamantine | 30% fortification | F+17 R+13 W+12 (+4 vs mind-aff/death eff, imm to dis) | Init +3 | Perc +7
Living Monolith 14 |
Ka Stone 3/3:
HP 156/156 | AC 31 T 15 FF 29 | DR 3/adamantine, DR 5/evil | 30% fortification | stone blood
"Huh," Atum says more out of general interest for their weakness than in anger. He still kicks their ass anyways. Or at least tries to and then fails miserably.
