GM Burglar's 4-18: The Veteran’s Vault (Inactive)

Game Master mechaedd

Fixing her fiery red eyes on the two miscreants, Chelsea shouts a command over the conversation.
"Drop your weapons if you both do not wish to be steaming piles of ash!"
Intimidate 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Ander hangs his bow on his shoulder and draws his kukri. Looking over his shoulder he says You guys cover me while I inspect this shrine? He then walks slowly over to the shrine, muttering arcane words.

Cast Detect Magic

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12 Add plus two if determining properties of magic item

Kn: ?: 1d20 ⇒ 20

I noticed before, but I swear I've seen these two before.

Ander yells out. There is a little creature behind the statue, he must be the cause. Harboth, try to push the crazy one back ten feet.

Ander will delay to see if Harboth succeeds, if so he will drop down into the muck and cast Color Spray on the two, if not he will cast it to catch the one in the hat.

Edit: While delaying, Ander will try to identity the creature.

KN: planes?: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Nature, actually. It's CR is above 0, though I think Harboth has nature, too.

Hiram sighs and uncoils his whip. "Sewer monsters, crazy men and now little men hiding in sewers? Join the Pathfinders, see the sewers and shady back alleys of the world!" He whips his whip at the man to the south, in front of Harboth, attempting to trip him!

Trip!: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Update for relevance: Hiram successfully trips that guy

Well I was hoping to knock them both out with Color Spray, because I assume they don't really need to be killed, but based in Hiram's trip and to keep things moving, Ander will cast Daze at the guy in front of him. That way he doesn't have to drop in the muck and make some kind of save.

Ander casts a spell at the man in front of him.

Daze DC13. Question, if he is dazed can Ander move past him?

With Ander calling out the thing behind the statue, can I now see/target it?

@Ander: Dazed creatures can still defend themselves, so he'd get his CMD but would not be able to take any action (such as AoOs.) I'll hold off on rolling the save until the mass-post, in case that changed your action.

@Chelsea: You would get a +2 Circumstance on an active perception, should you choose to attempt.

So...that means an Acro. Check to move past?

Edit: Looks like it would need to ne an Overrun, which is a standard action.

That (being acrobatics), or move around him in the muck. Which surmounts to one square of difficult terrain and 2 diagonals.

Edited for clarity

That, or move around him in the muck. Which surmounts to one square of difficult terrain and 2 diagonals.

Screw it, just hope the big Baddie isn't a humanoid. Ander casts Color Spray DC 14

Will roll the save now in case it affect others' actions, and I'll let your "ready" carry for if Harboth does try and succeed a bull-rush, since I have to wait for everyone anyways.
Will vs Colour spray: 1d20 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 1 - 2 = 12

EDITED FOR SHAKEN PENALTY

Chelsea produces a wand and activates it, hurling a magic bolt at the man in front of Ander.
Magic Missile 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Just grasping here, but were they shaken? Did the save take a -2

I think I intimidated the other guy.

Grasping is good; it reminds me of the little things (like the guy closer to you was shaken; not the other one. He failed his save.)

Pellius' face turns a ghostly white, seeing his friend go down. His attention seems to have turned away from the party and towards the statue though any actions already taken may be amended or kept, but we're still in init. Ander was top of init, so this all happened first.

In case it becomes relevant...: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 1) = 21d4 ⇒ 41 = 1

Swap my damage to the conscious one.

Harboth eyes the crossbow bolt. Sonofa...

So to recap, there's a tiny little man-thing behind the statue that shot me with his tiny crossbow, Pellius the crazy guy in front of me was tripped, and Marx the guy on the north side just got color sprayed into dreamland...right? On that basis...

knowledge(nature) on the wee one: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

Harboth attempts to switch places with Grits as he yells, Git 'im, boy! handle animal (attack, known trick): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

He looses his arrow at the tiny thing:
attack (looks farther than 30' so no PBS): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Grits grumbles and refuses to budge, instead nudging Harboth back into place.

Get him yourself, jackass.

Your assessment of the situation is correct except for the "him being tripped" part; Hiram goes after you. The man does NOT take his AoO on you when you shoot, though he's still existent enough to be cover. You hit regardless, though.

Gang looks about for this small man everyone is talking about. Little men behind statues! Making sewer hermits crazy...

Perception: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 2 = 11

Even if he doesn't see it he hops down into the filth and wades closer, a look of disgust on his face.

I think I can get next to Harboth with 30ft?

I think I can get next to Harboth with 30ft?

Yup, first square you leave isn't difficult, then each of the two you move up count as 10' each. So, 25 feet in one move. And you'll be in gross water, which has diseases and stuff in it.

It's a jinkin, a type of gremlin! I think I just shot it back there!

"A gremlin? I thought those were myths, made up by fools to explain bad luck? Huh, learn something new everyday, don't we?"

Yay Diseases!! Fort Save? 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

@Zhao: Only a Swim DC 10, weirdly enough. There's nothing in the Scenario that bestows diseases from swimming.

Ander, wary of the invisible little creature lurking nearby, keeps bow at the ready while he searches around the statue and sewer pipe.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

"This mission keeps getting odder and odder, doesn't it? Come on, crazy guys. Let's get you out of the sewers before you hurt yourselves." Hiram will haul the insane guy and his mad friend to the nearest manhole and out of the sewers after the party is done interrogating them.

Harboth can't take the AoO melee attack with his ranged weapon, and it doesn't look like kicking is allowed either, so he will let it go.

Grits barks at the spot where the jinkin used to be.

Was that a SQUIRREL? It kinda looked like a squirrel. Was it a squirrel? Come back! Little f$&%er must have been a squirrel.

After Hiram escorts the two men out of the sewers and returns.

"So, what kind of crazy does her directions have us dealing with next?"

That was... very strange, Kyoshiro says slowly. I have seen many strange things but this mission is near top of list and we have just begun.

The men are led out of the sewers; ecstatic to be done with Togg. Following the directions leads the party through the pipe, with a left at each next terminus (first a wall, then a corner.)

Fallen rubble from an earlier excavation clogs the channel, slowing the water flow and accumulating a mass of sewage on one side. A thick carpet of moss and fungus—clearly representing a wide variety of green, blue, and ochre-colored specimens—sprawls across the top of the debris and hangs from the ceiling, with several larger mounds of fungus clinging to the walls or stemming from the hole to the east. Wispy blue tendrils descend from the ceiling and almost touch the water, creating a thin, eerie curtain of plant matter.

As the first person turns the corner, a voice chitters noises that are both different from the gremlin before and incomprehensible.

Lemme know if we're making any kn's, amendments to the marching order, how close folks are getting etc. The closest person right now is the person directly in the inside corner. Map?

KN: Dungeon: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

Ander will stay toward the front. I assume there was nothing to be found at the statue?

No, but there's two potions of CLW and two flasks of acid at the other end of the pipe, stamped with some guild symbol.

Harboth peers around the corner, bow in hand.

knowledge(nature): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Grits grumbles at the smell of the blocked sewage...

Kyoshiro is second rank with Naginata (reach).

Knowledge Dungeoneering 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Kyo wishes to move up in the ordering to a second-place spot (to use naginata reach powers.) Any 2nd-place takers on moving back a spot?

Kn: Local: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 to identify Guild symbol

Ander picks up the potion and flasks

Edit:Ander examines the items and the area around them before picking them up.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Hiram will move back a spot. His whip gives him nice reach in any direction, so no problem there.

@Ander: The symbol matches those of the men Hiram helped out of the sewers.

And for my sanity, here's an update on the ordering (front to back):

Inside Lane: Ander, Kyo, Hiram, Chelsea
Outside Lane: Harboth, Grits, Zhao.

Works for me.

Harboth announces to the group in as quiet a voice that he can muster and still be heard, That patch of mold and fungus is too neat to be anything but a garden. The blue mold is usually a shock hazard but it's too cold out for it to be any trouble at the moment.

At the moment. So.... we shouldn't heat up the immediate area with say a fire or fire based spell? says Ander with a meaningful look at Chelsea.

Focusing on Ander, Chelsea responds.
"Everything burns away eventually if you apply enough flame to it. I will will defer to your judgement on this one though."

Gang pulls himself out of the water and scraps the filth from his cloths. " Maybe I go first, yes? That way I don't have to swim through filth to put fist in enemy face. "

He looks about for the owner of the 'garden'

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Kyoshiro is similarly on the alert.

Perception 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25