”Kel” | Male NG half-elf investigator 1/Wizard 4/Pathfinder Savant 10 | HP 104/104 | AC 23, T 14, FF 19 | CMD 21| F +10 R +14 W +16; +2 vs. ench/cold +10 vs written traps | Init +4/8/13 | Perc +25/27 (+1 traps) | Speed 30ft | Spells 1st 6/7 2nd 7/7 3rd 4/7 4th 6/7 5th 4/5 6th 3/4 7th 3/3 | Active Conditions: heroe's feast, mage armor
Ah yes, I recall something vaguely now that you mention it... the seven pointed star and the Thassilonians... Thank you for the timely reminder... wasn't so knowledgeable about the lissalan connection, so good to learn about it.. I'll try to file that away for later and research it in greater detail back in the libraries of Absalom when we are done here."
Doubling back, you guys head south down the hallway, before a short while it turns West, seems all is pretty quiet. No real doors or anything
Perception DC 15:
You find what looks like a secret door leading to a new area to the East. There some signs of recent blood around the mechanism used open it which is a false stone in the wall you press in causing the wall to spin sideways opening a gap.
Not two separate checks
Perception DC 20:
Right to your South you notice another less obvious bricked up wall that no doubt leads somewhere to the South. This wall too could be broken down with enough force.
Heading down further the corridor turns to the West before wrapping around and ending in what looks like another bricked up room that could be destroyed, revealing whatever mystery inside.
another Perception check
Perception DC 20:
You guys find yet another secret door! This time heading somewhere directly West. It looks as though it too slides the wall open revealing something beyond.
Cirri's Familiar | Spells -/6/5/4/2 | Arcane Pool 11/11 | Flight Hex minutes 10/10 | GM Folio Reroll +2 | HP 86/86 | AC 21, T 12, FF 20 | Saves 11/6/8 | CMD 23 (25 vs trip) | Perception +7 | Init +1 | Female Human Magus 10 | Alignment NG |Ward not set
GM, has it been 6 minutes since I cast Alter Self?
Cirri's glad to not be buried in ghosts. Or zombies. Or Zombie Ghosts.
Cirri's Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7 Riddywipple's Perception:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
Riddywipple flies up to the crack. "I see the door as well- it's not in the floor, Cirri." Cirri stops sniffing low and looks up. "Blood marks, that can't be good. Leave it be for now."
If she's still a bugbear, Cirri sniffs the blood to see how fresh it is.
Survival:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Further down the corridor, Cirri and Riddywipple take a look at the wall.
Cirri's Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 Riddywipple's Perception:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29 "Another secret wall here. I don't see any blood, either." Riddywipple flies up to the wall right before Cirri sees the crack. "Maybe we should open this pathway, first?"
”Kel” | Male NG half-elf investigator 1/Wizard 4/Pathfinder Savant 10 | HP 104/104 | AC 23, T 14, FF 19 | CMD 21| F +10 R +14 W +16; +2 vs. ench/cold +10 vs written traps | Init +4/8/13 | Perc +25/27 (+1 traps) | Speed 30ft | Spells 1st 6/7 2nd 7/7 3rd 4/7 4th 6/7 5th 4/5 6th 3/4 7th 3/3 | Active Conditions: heroe's feast, mage armor
"Good eyes, there... I missed that one... I'd be tempted to follow the blood trail first to be honest... if it's a foe, catch him while he's still injured... if it's not, early intervention might result in saving a life.. Just my thoughts... if the rest of you don't agree, I'll be glad to go wherever we choose."
Swashbuckler 5/Pure Legion Enforcer 4| AC 23 T 16 FF 16 | CMD 21| hp 51| F +5 (D+10) R +12 (D+20) W +6 (D+14) | Spd 30' | Init +6 | SR 18 Vs. Divine
Mutahir follows quietly, though anyone with sense can see the minor twitches in his body language that show he's on edge.
Your logic is sound my friend, I cannot argue with it.
Meta wise, I'd rather open the passages, but Mutahir is out for blood and would be much more interested in chasing down the cultists than treasure hunting. :)
"Agreed. It'd be best to tackle this nearest door, so there's less chance we're trapped between forces...though these false walls do make me nervous. "
Riptide will use wands of Shield and then Long Arm when the party is ready to open the door. Longspear in hand, for now.
This long and narrow chamber contains niches in the walls that hold a number of statues, some of which are humanoid and some of which are clearly demonic. Murals cover the walls depicting human cultists being abused and reshaped by demonic figures. The ceiling of this black stone chamber is barrel-vaulted fifteen feet above.
A trail of blood leads to the far side of the room, it looks there are a few slumped figures at the end.
Riptide takes a single move up to get a better look.
Perception:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Sonic will poke his head for a quick look as well, before resuming tumor form.
Perception:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
“I’m going to advance to within 60' of the bodies and detect both evil and chaos, checking them and determining if anything is hiding behind the statues.”
The priestess looks back at the secret portal and points. “The opening to this hallway provides another choke point we can use if this is a trap.”
Which way will the ambush be sprung I wonder?
Antonella's eyes narrow as she thinks. “If the others hang back, they’ll be able to warn us if the second secret door Cirri found opens, and enemies try to take us in the rear.”
"On the other hand, if the bodies animate, we could let them come to us, retreating to the chokepoint to deal with them one at a time."
As you guys move, forward 4 Humanoid but deformed creatures step forward out of the darkness, these creatures are emaciated horrors with unnaturally long arms and legs. Their hands each have two talon-tipped fingers and a thumb, and their legs bend like those of a dog. Veins bulge all over their bodies, forming dark blue or red patterns that look like twisted runes. Their flesh is pale and hairless. A sinspawn's head is curiously elongated. They have only a pair of slits for a nose, and their eyes are bulging and red, with no visible eyebrows. Yet for all this horror, their mouths are the most disturbing, for their lower jaw splits in half at the chin into pedipalps that end in tiny three-fingered hands that writhe about, eager to feed delicious morsels into an open gullet with a lolling tongue.
They scream as they step out of the darkness, their inhuman howl echoing through the whole complex.
Kn: dungeoneering DC12:
These are sinspawn, ancient creatures created by the Runelords, these specifically are Wrathspawn, horrible mockeries of life that hate all humanoids. You know they are immune to mind effecting spells and otherwise generally resistant to all forms of magic.
Cirri's Familiar | Spells -/6/5/4/2 | Arcane Pool 11/11 | Flight Hex minutes 10/10 | GM Folio Reroll +2 | HP 86/86 | AC 21, T 12, FF 20 | Saves 11/6/8 | CMD 23 (25 vs trip) | Perception +7 | Init +1 | Female Human Magus 10 | Alignment NG |Ward not set
"Oh!" Cirri is thrown off guard as they scream.
Any Knowledge checks we can make to identify them? Weaknesses and Damage Resistance in particular. Knowledge:1d20 ⇒ 1Arcana +8, Dungeoneering +7, Local +4, Nature +8, Geography +5, Planes +7
Pfffft
"Uh...do I need cold iron or silver, or something?"
All four charge forward screaming their long, horrifying scream, one that no human mouth could form.
I did some reading to find out if you're ready attack can go off since they have reach weapons, it looks like you have option to 5-ft step as part of your readied action and attack, I'll assume that is what you do so you can use your ready attack and be able to riposte
Mutahir steps forward as they do and cut into one the Green one viciously!
Green and Blue return their attacks, biting at him!
These are sinspawn, ancient creatures created by the Runelords, these specifically are Wrathspawn, horrible mockeries of life that hate all humanoids. You know they are immune to mind effecting spells and otherwise generally resistant to all forms of magic. Their bite has a hideous poison-like effect that causes the target to be overcome with intense rage
Round 1 - Bold is up
Mutahir 15 damage
Sinspawn Barbarians Green 36 damage
Rashaam
Antonella
Riptide 43 damage
Kel(WoTC)
Cirri/Riddywhipple
Cirri's Familiar | Spells -/6/5/4/2 | Arcane Pool 11/11 | Flight Hex minutes 10/10 | GM Folio Reroll +2 | HP 86/86 | AC 21, T 12, FF 20 | Saves 11/6/8 | CMD 23 (25 vs trip) | Perception +7 | Init +1 | Female Human Magus 10 | Alignment NG |Ward not set
"I guess they don't want to talk?" Cirri plants her staff and reaches into her spell pouch. She pulls some ground dust from her pocket and tosses it as she casts. Glitterdust pours over two of the creatures that tore into Riptide.
Spell Resistance:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Casting Glitterdust on Orange and Red, DC 15 Will Save to resist going blind.
"Riddy, help Riptide!" Cirri runs off to back up Mutahir. Her staff glows with energy as she hurries forth.
Swift action to spend an arcane pool point for a +2 enhancement bonus on my staff. This also boosts my AC 'cause I'm a Staff Magus!
Use Magic Device:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14 Cure Light Wounds:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Riddywhipple flies behind Riptide, wand in hand...and fails to do much with it. "Confounded divine magic!"
”Kel” | Male NG half-elf investigator 1/Wizard 4/Pathfinder Savant 10 | HP 104/104 | AC 23, T 14, FF 19 | CMD 21| F +10 R +14 W +16; +2 vs. ench/cold +10 vs written traps | Init +4/8/13 | Perc +25/27 (+1 traps) | Speed 30ft | Spells 1st 6/7 2nd 7/7 3rd 4/7 4th 6/7 5th 4/5 6th 3/4 7th 3/3 | Active Conditions: heroe's feast, mage armor
cirri - if you center your glitterdust on the junction of the squares right behind orange and red, you'll get blue too, without hitting any allies... just sayin'...
Kel slips into the room and aims his wand of magic missiles at green...
Will Save for Red:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 Will Save for Orange:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 Will Save for Blue:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
The Glitterdust goes off like a glitter bomb, Orange and Blue are able to turn away in time to not be blinded but Red took a full blast of glitter straight to the eyes and swirls from blindness.
The way I see it, it looks like you could also just get all 4 of them without getting any of your allies. I moved the circle to show all 4 of them in it, unless there is something I'm missing?
Damage splits between Riptide and his protector familiar, so Riptide takes 22, Sonic takes 21. Riptide receives CLW for 5 (Thanks, Rashaam!), and Sonic has fast heal 5. He only has a CON of 6, so he cannot absorb much more.
Riptide slams his spear to the ground in anger, and begins to rage, growing into a large, savage, clawed half-orc. Free actions
He lashes out with full attacks, starting with the yellow one, and if it drops, he then attacks the blue. (then red, I guess, if we're being optimistic...lol)
And here's an AoO just in case. (He currently has 15' reach with his claws, via Long Arm) raging power claw AoO:1d20 + 15 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 15 - 2 = 26 magic S&B dmg:2d6 + 11 + 4 ⇒ (3, 2) + 11 + 4 = 20
Love that picture Antonella! Very adequate for what is currently happening lol
Rashaam and Antonella rush to give aid to a wounded Riptide just as he tears into the Orange Sinspawn returning the pain two-fold!
It takes both claws and his bite to finish off the raging Orange Sinspawn! The rest scream and howl in anger and rage as their hatred magnifies itself!
Kel fires off a magic missile easily overpowering the Sinspawn's Spell Resistance!
Round 2 - Bold is up
Mutahir 15 damage
Sinspawn Barbarians Green 39 damage
Rashaam
Antonella
Riptide 15 damage / Sonic 21 damage
Kel(WoTC)
Cirri/Riddywhipple
After doing so, he skips back a step, waving his hand towards the monstrosity in front of him, beckoning him forward in a attempt to draw the thing's attention and hopefully a mistake.
Come on you ugly son of a scorpion, Want some tasty pathfinder?
Mutahir stabs viciously at the Blinded foe, its so offbalance he is able to land a solid blow to the gut.
The bulging-Blue-veined Sinspawn will attack Mutahir seeing him as the greatest threat that can be reached right now, he bites at him before stepping back to stab at him with his Ransuer!
And he bites viciously, overpowering Mutahir's attempt to parry it and while still recovering stabs him hideously in the gut lifting him briefly off the ground before he drops in slump, unconscious and bleeding out.
The blinded green sniffs at the air and then wildly swings at Cirri with his ransuer!
But he wildly swings and misses, striking the wall!
The Red-veined sinspawn sniffs at the air too before honing in on Riptide's hulking raging form!
miss chance high hits(51-100):1d100 ⇒ 87 Ransuer + power attack:1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 13 - 2 = 21 Damage:2d4 + 10 + 6 ⇒ (3, 1) + 10 + 6 = 20So is that 10 to you and 10 to Sonic?
Green and Red try and rub there eyes to get the glitter out of them!
Red Will Save vs Glitterdust:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 Green will save vs Glitterdust:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
And they both are able to unblind themselves, snarling and roaring!
Round 2 - Bold is up
Mutahir 49 damage (-4 and unconscious)
Sinspawn Barbarians Green 53 damage
Rashaam
Antonella
Riptide 25 damage / Sonic 26 damage
Kel(WoTC)
Cirri/Riddywhipple
Cirri's Familiar | Spells -/6/5/4/2 | Arcane Pool 11/11 | Flight Hex minutes 10/10 | GM Folio Reroll +2 | HP 86/86 | AC 21, T 12, FF 20 | Saves 11/6/8 | CMD 23 (25 vs trip) | Perception +7 | Init +1 | Female Human Magus 10 | Alignment NG |Ward not set
"Eee! Mutahir!" Cirri raises her staff high, steps up and starts casting.
Swift Action for Arcane Strike. Full Round with Spell Combat, casting Burning Hands.
Concentration Check, Combat Casting vs DC 17:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27
Flames burst from her hands, burning the green and blue beasts!
Spell Resistance:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 Casting Burning Hands, Reflex Save DC 14 to halve 5d4 ⇒ (3, 2, 1, 3, 3) = 12 fire damage
Cirri then strikes the Green barbarian, maintaining her defense.
Riddywhipple meanwhile tries to save Mutahir from bleeding out.
UMD:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28 CLW:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 "No dying on my watch. Unless you're evil, in which case go to hell!"
Swashbuckler 5/Pure Legion Enforcer 4| AC 23 T 16 FF 16 | CMD 21| hp 51| F +5 (D+10) R +12 (D+20) W +6 (D+14) | Spd 30' | Init +6 | SR 18 Vs. Divine
Thankfully, Riddywhipple wands are neutral in the "Divine vs Aracane" department, so that'll give me some much needed HP back![/b]
Mutahir coughs a few times as he's shocked awake and looks around real fast to ascertain his surroundings.
Thank you my tiny friend! It seems I am not bound for Pharasma's boneyard yet!
With a stunning flip of agility, he jumps up onto his feet, only wobbling slightly. [ooc]Kip-up, no provoke
Excuse me, but I think I need a moment, parched throat and all that.
He bounds backwards and around Riptide...
acrobatics:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30
dancing around any slashes made at him from the enemy as he pulls back.
I need to heal myself up a moment, I'll be right back...
I'll have to down a potion or two and since I was recently informed you can't store health potions in a bandolier and I haven't bought a harversack yet, it's gonna take a second.
Riptide was only down 5HP due to CLW (from Rasham) & CSW (from Antonella). Now, splitting dmg with Sonic, Riptide's down 15 HP.
Sonic was down 16HP due to Fast Healing 5 (Tumor Familiar) last round. Loses 10 this round, but this round Fast Healing 5 again. So current dmg
-15HP Riptide
-21HP Sonic
Riptide lashes out at the nearest vile beast Red one, starting with his bite. If it drops, he'll attack the blue one. 15' reach with claws. If Antonella is still there, the attacks against blue have -4 cover penalty which is not applied
Yeah lot happening, can be a bit tough to track everything fluidly at times
Rashaam heals Riptide who then tears into the now-not-blind Red Sinspawn first biting down and then sinking his claws into the abdomen of the sinspawn before literally ripping the creature in half killing it.
Riddywhipple manages to heal Mutahir, reviving him long enough to jump up and back out of danger while Cirri runs into the fray to unleash a torrent of fire engulfing the green and blue sinnspawn before bonking the green one on the head with her staff.
She is able to hold its flang and disgusting mouth at bay but only barely!
Mutahir, I skipped ya this round, because you did your kip up bit earlier
Round 3 - Bold is up
Mutahir 42 damage and 9 rounds of IH
Sinspawn Barbarians Blue 6 damage
Rashaam
Antonella 23 damage
Riptide 0 damage / Sonic 21 damage
Kel(WoTC)
Cirri/Riddywhipple
Antonella drops her wand of CMW in Kel’s square (free) and takes a 5’ step to the north-east, looking to set up a flank with Cirri, and stay out of Riptide’s way.
With one hand now free, she rises up on one leg to deliver a defensive flurry at the remaining Sinspawn.
Cirri's Familiar | Spells -/6/5/4/2 | Arcane Pool 11/11 | Flight Hex minutes 10/10 | GM Folio Reroll +2 | HP 86/86 | AC 21, T 12, FF 20 | Saves 11/6/8 | CMD 23 (25 vs trip) | Perception +7 | Init +1 | Female Human Magus 10 | Alignment NG |Ward not set
Inspired by Riptide, Cirri tries to think up something cool to say. "Um...taste cold steel! No wait, warm wood. I mean, magical quarterstaves! Yaa!" Cirri sets up flanking with Antonella and enchants her staff once more.
Swashbuckler 5/Pure Legion Enforcer 4| AC 23 T 16 FF 16 | CMD 21| hp 51| F +5 (D+10) R +12 (D+20) W +6 (D+14) | Spd 30' | Init +6 | SR 18 Vs. Divine
Rashaam Shakar wrote:
Rashaam turns to Mutahir and offers to wand 'em if he consents. [dice=CLW Wand]1d8+1
Mutahir looks mildly annoyed, but let's the wand tap him, muttering.
It's the wands magic, not yours. But I thank you for the use of your tool...
I imagine it's like a extreme vegan given a tofu burger by a butcher while starving. Not happy about the circumstance but will take it anyways. So glad wands are considered theologically neutral. :P
Together you guys are able to overwhelm the lone Blue sinspawn, his throat screams an inhumane moan that echoes through the facility as you guys beat it to death.
Down at the end of the hallway you guys hear soft pitiful moaning. Investigating you find three human bodies, two of which look to still be alive, albeit on the brink of death.
The third body looks brutalized and tortured beyond saving, his limbs are broken at odd angles and much of his skin has been flayed off. His face is frozen in agony. The corpse is that of Riemme Batelle, the Pathfinder. A rose tattoo covers his flayed pate. The Pathfinder
Society will want the body retrieved and brought back to Heidmarch Manor in Magnimar.
The Northern most statue is of a beautiful though rather wrathful women wielding a Ransuer in one hand another part of the acrimony veil, the left cheekguard.
Kn: History DC25:
This is a statue of Alasnist the ancient Runelord of Wrath
Looking around you guys find that the 4 ransuers were all magical +1 ransuers and the statues near the end have finely cut black pearls embedded in the eyes that are surely worth a pretty penny.
”Kel” | Male NG half-elf investigator 1/Wizard 4/Pathfinder Savant 10 | HP 104/104 | AC 23, T 14, FF 19 | CMD 21| F +10 R +14 W +16; +2 vs. ench/cold +10 vs written traps | Init +4/8/13 | Perc +25/27 (+1 traps) | Speed 30ft | Spells 1st 6/7 2nd 7/7 3rd 4/7 4th 6/7 5th 4/5 6th 3/4 7th 3/3 | Active Conditions: heroe's feast, mage armor
know history:1d20 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 8 + (1) = 11
Kel looks at the statue, shrugs... nothing familiar there... But he does cast Detect magic and suggests, "Perhaps we should take those ranseurs - they all have magical auras.. and those pearl eyes look like they are quite valuable as well.."
He uses his wand of healing on each of the survivors. 10 points back to each of them over the next 10 rounds
Cirri's Familiar | Spells -/6/5/4/2 | Arcane Pool 11/11 | Flight Hex minutes 10/10 | GM Folio Reroll +2 | HP 86/86 | AC 21, T 12, FF 20 | Saves 11/6/8 | CMD 23 (25 vs trip) | Perception +7 | Init +1 | Female Human Magus 10 | Alignment NG |Ward not set
"And back to the hells you came from!" Cirri smashes the sin spawn's skull with her staff.
The bugbear shudders before returning to her human self. She casts light upon her quarterstaff to view the bodies. "Oh man...Can we save them? At least we should get their bodies out of here. I can fly them back up if we need to."
"Let's heal these people, then we can worry about the weapons and jewels. Feel free to use my wand- Riddy, get over here!"
Riptide helps himself to one of the Ranseurs.
"So this is what a magic weapon looks like? Might be good to have one of these." He keeps in hand as his default weapon.
Riptide offers his wand of Infernal Healing to WotC. "You can use this to revive those two. They're probably workers from the site. We definitely should get both of them--and the corpse of Batelle--out of here before we continue further investigations. Maybe find out if they saw any other beasts or monsters down here...or maybe those vile spawns' master?"
Riptide will take 2 charges off his wand, if you'd like WotC.
