Heh, those bastards ain't mine. They want my blood after I did in their old sage back in Wittlestone. Thanks for taking care of em for me.
The man turns to Tuna. Yeah, not gonna happen. See I don't know you and I don't know what business you think you have here, but let me assure you. You don't.
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)
After the fight, Basalte recovers and asks Antonella to heal him with his wand. He seems somehow exhausted by his fight in the water, but once he's in the rowboat and healed, the oread appears to feel much better.
CLW:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 CLW:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
AC20/Touch15/Flat16/CMD23(25 vs grapple, overun, trip)||HP44[44]|Fort:+5;Ref:+11;Will:+4[+4 vs water, air, and trip]|Percept.+11|Init.+4 Aasimar Ranger (Freebooter) 4 / Bard (Sea Singer) 2
Antonella wrote:
“A ‘goody goody pally.’ Is that what you called me, Joh?.....That’s the nicest compliment anyone’s ever given me.”
Clambering over the side of the skiff, Johender looks over his shoulder at Antonella. "My dear, I had no idea, I wouldn't have taken you for one!" He says with a wink, then turns to pilot the little boat.
Antonella wrote:
“Oh yeah. I could do with something warm inside me right about now.”
Johender's head snaps around, words on his lips, a devious look in his eye, and a grin on his face, then reconsiders, snaps his mouth shut, furrows his brow, and returns to the matter at hand.
Looking up at the man on the ship, his hand to his forehead, blocking the scintillating reflection of sunlight dancing on the water, he says. "Aye, look here guv'! We've spent half o' da day trying to get out here to have an ol' chat with ye boss. We've risked life and limb again' tho' haugins' and now we'd ken for you to heave to so we can offer the capp'n a right sweet deal. Whadya' think he do to ya if didn't show us the proper nautical courtesy's and let us a'ship? You'd be some lil' haugin's plaything under the waves, no?" Johender flashes a smile. "Come now guv, be a chap and let us ol' drowned rats up for a sip o' the ships rations!"
The pirate captain looks at you with befuddlement and a little mirth in his eyes. Heh, you guys are truly clueless, huh? I'm the captain of this ship. Name's Darsielle Du Moire of the Chelaxian Du Moires. I'm heaving anchor as soon as my men return. I don't have time to deal with some waterlogged Sahuagin dinner.
Du Moire looks down and roots through a pouch attached to his waist. He pulls out a handful of gold coins and tosses them at the rowboat. A few land in the boat, but most land in the water. There, your lives have been atoned for. Begone with ya before the next volley at your rowboat isn't just coin.
Du Moire turns, talks out of earshot of the Pathfinders and then two men with crossbow come and stand guard at the bow, sneering at you. Du Moire begins to yell to his crew. Raise anchor, set the sails, shivver me timbers! Katiya and her ilk are dead to me. We move on!
P.S. - You diplomacized him successfully, but that just took him to Indifferent.
Johendar blinds Pirate #2 for four rounds and covers the rest of the party in glitter. ("Now everyone's gay!" [Yes, I just watched Arrested Development Season 4]).
Du Moire - Will Save DC 15:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15 Pirate #1 - Will Save DC 15:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21 Pirate #2 - Will Save DC 15:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Du Moire yells to his men to fall back and defend the boat. Du Moire runs for his cabin, disappearing inside.
Boarding the ship is difficult. The PCs need to locate a suitable boarding spot or have decent Climbing skills. A DC 13 Climb check proves sufficient to scale the anchor line(provided the individual can reach it) while it takes a DC 25 to scale the ship’s curved sides (using a rope and grappling hook reduces the Climb check to DC 5).
Three grappling hooks land on the ship while Raavan attempt to Daze anyone who tries to cut a line or remove a hook.
Two of the thugs on the ship move behind boxes and crates on the ship to hide themselves from spells and ranged attacks. The third, blinded thug tries to find cover but stumbles and falls over a black powder keg near the cannon.
Wembly summons a celestial eagle who caws loudly before landing on Wembly's shoulder, no enemies in sight.
You hear loud rustling, cursing and smashing in the cabin of the ship where Du Moire disappeared to.
Put Johendar on hold since the Thugs and Du Moire aren't doing much.
Half-Orc Oracle of Lore 1 / Skald 6 | HP 58/58 | AC 21 [F 15 T 16] CMD 16 | F +7 R +7 W +8 | Initiative +4 | Perception +8 | Sense Motive +15
"Basalte, Johendar, Antonella, Climb!" Raavan calls, then gives a blood-curdling battlecry that fills everyone with a sudden urge to charge. He then attempts to climb aboard the ship using one of the ropes.
Climb:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Raavan begins his raging song. Read specifics below, but the basics are that it grants a morale bonus of +2 Str and +2 Con and +1 to Will Saves, but penalizes AC by -1. Like barbarian rage it prevents certain actions that require concentration, but you can accept or decline the song round-by-round.
Raging Song (Su):
A skald is trained to use the Perform skill to inspire allies (including himself, if so desired) to feats of strength and ferocity. He can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to 3 + his Charisma modifier. At each level after 1st, a skald can use raging song for 1 additional round per day.
Starting a raging song is a standard action, but it can be maintained each round as a free action. A raging song cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the skald is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action each round to maintain it. A raging song counts as the bard’s bardic performance special ability for any effect that limits bardic performances, such as how many can be maintained at once.
A raging song has audible components, but not visual components. Affected allies must be able to hear the skald for the song to have any effect. A deaf skald has a 20% chance to fail when attempting to use a raging song. If he fails this check, the attempt still counts against his daily limit. Deaf creatures are immune to raging songs. At the start of each ally’s turn in which they can hear the raging song, the skald’s allies must decide whether to accept or refuse its effects (this is not an action); unconscious allies automatically accept the song. Affected allies gain a +2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution and a +1 morale bonus on Will saves, but also take a –1 penalty to AC. While under the effects of raging song, allies cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration.
Sorry Antonella, you have a chance to fall in the water. Call it high or low.
High is Good:1d100 ⇒ 32
Antonella falls into the water with a splash.
Need a DC 15 Swim check in order to stay above water and a DC 10 Climb check to get back into the rowboat. Alternately, you could use your Swim check to move to the anchor point and climb that rope into the ship.
As Basalte and Raavan reach the railing, their hands pull tripwires hidden along the back side. Spring loaded buckets splash the fishguts and the entrails of other marine life directly into their face. The rest falls into the water below, covering Antonella in the process.
I guess your nickname really is Tuna!
DC 15 Reflex Save or Fall Into the Water
Hungry Sea Predators:1d6 ⇒ 1
Wembly and his eagle both see a fin rise up out of the water and start swimming toward the chum in the sea.
Since you are supposed to use grappling hooks to get on the boat, I decided that you wouldn't trip them, otherwise the trap is pointless. The boat is about 10-15' away, so if you move 30'/move action then you would get to the railing. Plus, it affects anyone on the ropes not just those at the railing.
This scenario is hilarious, btw. It's just throws cheap shot after cheap shot. Haha.
Well of course. :) The first encounter was just sheer bad luck with crits and high initiatives. The Sahuagin is rough cause you have to swim. This fight should be pretty easy, provided you get out of the water quickly.
Covered in fish guts, Antonella spots the fin but somehow finds an inner calm while calling "Joh, might need a tap of your touch of the sea wand when you're ready."
Half-Orc Oracle of Lore 1 / Skald 6 | HP 58/58 | AC 21 [F 15 T 16] CMD 16 | F +7 R +7 W +8 | Initiative +4 | Perception +8 | Sense Motive +15
I guess I should roll a swim and climb check? Is it possible to grab one of the grappling hook ropes and climb back to the ship rather than back into the longboat?
he will try to assist any swimmers get out of the water by throwing a line or pulling if he can reach them. Not sure if this is practical, so ignore if not physically possible from where he is
Raavan's opinion on touch of the sea's wording wrote:
I think the key wording is here: a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform a special action or avoid a hazard. I'm guessing this would be like underwater acrobatics. Like swimming out of a rough current or when taking 10 isn't enough.
I’m going to try something inventive again GM Bold Strider. Taking advantage of being a tuna and being inspired by Wembly’s dolphin.
Antonella takes advantage of Joh’s touch of the sea spell to briefly submerge herself and then make a ‘running’ swim/leap up into the air and back into the rowboat.
Flipper/tuna swim tail-leap into the boat:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Ooh, is that roll good enough to say she leapt high enough to get onto the Hydra's Fang? I picture her tail-leaping high enough, so that she can decide to 'fall' in the direction she chooses.
If so, and I still have a move/standard action to take, Antonella will *cast* bless from her bead of blessing.
Half-Orc Oracle of Lore 1 / Skald 6 | HP 58/58 | AC 21 [F 15 T 16] CMD 16 | F +7 R +7 W +8 | Initiative +4 | Perception +8 | Sense Motive +15
Bloody bubbles break the surface where Raavan fights a shark.
Swim:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
So I'm still drowning. Could use some help. Will hold action, maybe go full defense. I take it I need to make a swim check in order to attemp a climb check?
In case it was unclear, they had readied actions to pop out (5' step) and strike the first target that comes across the ropes.
@Raavan/Wembly: Next round, you can throw him a line and make a Strength check (DC 10) to aid him on his swim and climb. Since the rope isn't anchored and a water-logged Raavan weighs significantly more than Wembly climbing the rope will be a... DC 13? (This would include the aid by Wembly). It wouldn't apply this round as Climb is done as part of a move and failing a Swim check means you can't move. If Wembly successfully aided you this round, you still would have failed your Swim check.
@Antonella: It would take two move actions to cross over to the ship from your last position as Climb movement is at 1/4th of your move speed.
Going to have Kobad and Johendar aid Wembly with the rope. Johendar will also Freebooter's Bane on the southern Thug.
Kobad and Johendar grab the rope thrown by Wembly and aid his attempt to pull up Raavan. They feel strengthened by the Raging Song.
They are no help to Wembly on his attempt to save Raavan. Wembly's eagle slashes at the southern Thug, dealing a good amount of damage to him. It can rage with the song too, I think
Antonella rushes across the rowboat and climbs across one of the ropes to flank the southernmost Thug. He lashes out at her with his longsword.
Attack of Opportunity @ Antonella-15 AC (No Dex or Shield):1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16 Damage:1d8 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 3 + (5) = 11
Du Moire hems and haws over whether he should come out and fight as he is shoving valuables into a sack.
Low-He Fights; High-He Continues Packing His Stuff:1d100 ⇒ 86
The two merciless thugs attack the Pathfinders on their deck while the shark attacks its chum-covered prey.
Longsword @ Basalte-20 AC:1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 4 + 2 = 25Ugh, do the dice hate you guys? Longsword @ Antonella-16 AC:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Bite @ Raavan-14 AC:1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 2 = 10Maybe wrong stats on the shark? Amending. Says use "Medium Shark", but that doesn't exist, so I used Common Shark. Going to use Jigsaw Shark as it is actually medium. It's last bite missed. P.S. - Total Defense doesn't do anything because it is a Dodge Bonus and being underwater from a failed Swim check denies any Dex bonuses to AC (which includes Dodge Bonuses). Longsword Confirmation @ Basalte-20 AC:1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 2 = 13
One of the thugs misses and the shark scoops up some chum in its mouth. Thug #1 however lands a critical blow on Basalte.
@Raavan/Johendar: Uhh, sure, why not. Johendar can Touch of the Sea you this round. Didn't have him do it last round because you went underwater from the failed Swim check.
