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Wei Ji, I think you have another +2 on damage. Good Hope increases weapon damage in addition to attack rolls

Wei Ji, I think you have another +2 on damage. Good Hope increases weapon damage in addition to attack rolls

Whups! Not used to being able to toss the entire round (plus Haste) at a thing. GM please make any appropriate adjustments for the attacks that hit? Thank you!

I'm on phone at the moment but would someone mind controlling Roary and making his appropriate rolls?

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Roary keeps steady with the red oni, attempting to remove the spellcaster before it could even think of casting another spell.

Fly Check: 1d20 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 2 + 2 + 1 = 24

Assuming all bonuses in play from his attacks on the naga are same as they are now.

Attack 1: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (14) + 25 = 39
Attack 2: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (16) + 20 = 36
Haste: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (7) + 25 = 32

Confirm 2: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (4) + 20 = 24

Dam 1: 2d4 + 32 ⇒ (3, 3) + 32 = 38
Dam 2: 2d4 + 32 ⇒ (1, 1) + 32 = 34
Dam Haste: 2d4 + 32 ⇒ (2, 3) + 32 = 37

Crit 2: 2d4 + 32 ⇒ (4, 1) + 32 = 37

Edit: Misunderstood which one required the fly check

After the second swing of Roary's falchion, the Oni goes plummeting to the ground.

Round 5:
Little Shins
Round 6:
Quiven
Jin Goro
Green Oni (-42, Flying 10 ft up, Disarmed)
Wei Ji
Hiram
Roary (-14)

Floating back from the Oni Jin casually waves one hand and an explosion of burning light erupts over it's head.

Quiven may want to wait for the outcome of the spell as if he does get blinded sneak attack is a gogo

Reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

The final Oni growls in anger and claws at his eyes as the lights go out...

Quiven.... FINISH HIM!

Round 6:
Little Shins
Round 7:
Quiven
Jin Goro
Green Oni (-54, Flying 10 ft up, Disarmed, Blind)
Wei Ji
Hiram
Roary (-14)

Shins for the moment drops rapier and harp in favor of his bow taking a single shot at the oni.

Shortbow: 1d20 + 12 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 12 + 2 + 2 = 18
Damage: 1d4 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 = 6

Quiven sees his chance! If he is still 10' up I'll have to stick with the bow.

Bow: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27 for Arrow: 1d4 + 4 + 5d6 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (3, 4, 2, 1, 1) = 18
Bow: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (6) + 18 = 24 for Arrow: 1d4 + 4 + 5d6 ⇒ (2) + 4 + (3, 1, 5, 1, 6) = 22
Bow: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31 for Arrow: 1d4 + 4 + 5d6 ⇒ (4) + 4 + (2, 5, 4, 2, 6) = 27

The final Oni comes crashing down as soon as Quiven's arrows strike. Several of the tengu around the perimeter clap and then rise. It appears as though they will be your next foes, however they appear to be giving this much more respect than the Oni. One by one they calmly rise and climb over the railing to walk out onto the field.

Another 2 rounds pass before this battle will commence.

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Shins halts his song as he works to collect and reorder his hear to be ready again with harp and rapier.

Jin will reactivate his wand of heightened awareness and move to a position 10' in the air.

The seem like a more honourable bunch, lets not get too bloody people..

Wei will slowly fly around in a casual circle around the party to drop elevation ten feet for the moment.

"My people are skilled with all blades, exceptionally good with stealth and perception, and capable of nearly anything. Typically, though, they cannot fly without some form of assistance, so at least initially expect a mobility fight with finesse and flanking on the ground. Watch for the beak. A few of us can really do a number on a person with it.

In addition, if they are from Kwanlai, they have something to prove, so they may be highly motivated."

Roary seethes in anger for another 12 seconds before an enemey presents itsself.. He breathes heavily, spittle dropping from his mouth to the floor as he waits.

Four of the tengu take their positions, doing their best to place themselves opposite the arena from the party. All of them take a bow, and then draw their blades in unison. One of them looks up to Wei-Ji in the air and yells out in Tengu.

"Ready?"

He gives a moment for Wei-Ji to relay the message, then raises his sword and swings it down as he yells again. "GO!"

Round 9:
Jin-Goro
Little Shins
Hiram
Yellow Monk
Quiven
Red Monk
Roary
Green Monk
Blue Monk
Wei-Ji

Active Buffs (Not including personal buffs):
Haste: Everyone, Ends round 10
Good Hope: Everyone except Jin-Goro and Roary, Ends at 9 minutes
Protection from Cold: Everyone except Roary, Ends at 10 minutes for some, 20 for others

Hiram smiles and salutes with his rapier as he walks forward, beginning to speak loudly and proudly on the necessity of a strong Royal power for the security of the known world. INSPIRE COURAGE +2

Jin swoops forward skudding over the blood spattered floorboards of the arena, floating to a standstill he quickly begins to intone a spell. Smoke pours from his nose, ears and mouth and the scent of jasmine fills the chamber. He takes a deep breath and exhales a huge mass of sweetly smelling incense to engulf three of the tengu warriors.

I would remind you all that surrender is an option, just look at how these others have fared...

Just one quick note on Heightened Awareness, it is a +4 to initiative when used not +2. It hasn't made a difference yet but I thought it was worth pointing out.

Fort Saves: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 261d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 191d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Two of the monks double over as they inhale the smoke. Their lead speaks in common with a thick accent. "We will yield when we acknowledge your victory. And we will accept your surrender if offered."

Round 9:
Jin-Goro
Little Shins
Hiram
Yellow Monk (Sickened)
Quiven
Red Monk (Nauseated)
Roary
Green Monk
Blue Monk (Nauseated)
Wei-Ji

Shins is a bit more disheartened by what seems to be leading to unnecessary bloodshed, but he moves forward into combat and plays a song to discourage and hamper the combatants.

Move forward and start a dirge of doom. All enemies within 30 feet that can see and hear me gain the shaken condition.

The yellow robed monk moves forward and takes a position in the center of the field, adopting a defensive stance as he awaits a physical challenger.

Round 9:
Jin-Goro
Little Shins
Hiram
Yellow Monk (Sickened, Shakened, Readied)
Quiven
Red Monk (Nauseated, Shakened)
Roary
Green Monk (Shakened)
Blue Monk (Nauseated, Shakened)
Wei-Ji

Roary can take his action since Red Monk won't be doing much on his turn.

Roary will flying charge pounce yellow.. Landing before attacks..

Attack 1: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (11) + 25 = 36
Attack 2: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (3) + 20 = 23
Attack Haste: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (17) + 25 = 42

Confirm Haste: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (10) + 25 = 35

Dam 1: 2d4 + 29 ⇒ (2, 3) + 29 = 34
Dam 2: 2d4 + 29 ⇒ (2, 1) + 29 = 32
Dam Haste: 2d4 + 29 ⇒ (2, 4) + 29 = 35

Dam Crit: 2d4 + 29 ⇒ (1, 3) + 29 = 33

+3 dam on each hit if it casts spells/slas etc.. Double on crits.

Roary charges forward and meets the monks raised fist with his blade.

Readied Stunning Fist: 1d20 + 9 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 9 - 2 - 2 = 8

The strike is slow and the monk takes a severe wound from the first cut. The second blow knocks him unconscious to the ground.

The other monks make a motion to halt the action.

Roary, do you continue your full attack after he's KO'd or halt as directed?

He's not super bloodthirsty unless he's fighting Aspis.. He will not kill the Tengu.

Con check: 1d20 + 1 - 3 ⇒ (6) + 1 - 3 = 4

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25

The blue robed tengu in the rear speaks quickly while clutching at his stomach. "He struggles, but he will survive. I am unable to fight, so I shall take him away and concede defete. The rest of you continue!"

He drops his blade and begins to walk towards the fallen monk to remove him from the field.

Round 9:
Jin-Goro
Little Shins
Hiram
Yellow Monk (-66, Dying, Sickened, Shakened)
Quiven
Red Monk (Nauseated, Shakened)
Roary
Green Monk (Shakened)
Blue Monk (Nauseated, Shakened, Conceding, will move to extract yellow)
Wei-Ji

The flying tengu passed along the message about the start of the fight with a slight nod to the team.

"They are ready to begin. Go."

Quiven moves up with the added speed of Longstrider and Haste, then fires an arrow toward the green monk!

Bow: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (20) + 20 = 40 for Damage: 1d4 + 6 + 5d6 ⇒ (3) + 6 + (2, 1, 4, 5, 1) = 22
Confirm?: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (8) + 20 = 28 for Damage: 2d4 + 12 ⇒ (2, 3) + 12 = 17

The last monk with any fight in him to speak of begins to move forward and halts abruptly as Quiven's arrow strikes him. He coughs up a bit of blood, then adopts a pose of calm as he sheaths his blade and bows awkwardly.

The monks look on with fear, then relief, then great respect towards Wei Ji as he swoops down to heal their ally. They move forward, pick him up, and take him out of the arena.

Half a minute later, the organizer barks more orders for the next group of foes to join the brawl who immediately leap over the railing and land in the arena, feet back ready to charge! Looks like another round of Oni... although this time several of them are smaller and appear to be ... wearing the skin of a human?

Round 14:
Jin-Goro
Wei Ji
Red Oni Mage
Purple Kuwa Oni
Blue Kuwa Oni
Quiven
Hiram
Green Kuwa
Little Shins
Roary
Yellow Kuwa Oni

I think this was designed to get me to use every round of rage right at the start of the day lol..

On his next turn Roary drops rage and pull a potion of lesser resto, drinking it afterwards.. Just to allow him to rage again..

***OVERSEER ANNOUCEMENT***

Overseer thread

As the once raging battle begins to slow, a strange cloud of translucent smoke appears in the center of the arena, coalescing into the demonic form of Kiang Zhen. The oni raises her hand, and the remaining creatures suddenly fall back and drop to their knees as if to acknowledge defeat.

”Well done, well done!”

”My minions accept your victory, and you have adequately the Emissary. Please, lower your weapons. I congratulate those of you still alive, for you have grown that much closer to qualifying for the Ruby Phoenix Tournament!”

The oni pauses for a minute to study the crowd before continuing, ”Beneath the trapdoors lies a series of subterranean passages. Scattered within the passages I have secured a collection of small, but nearly priceless porcelain vases. Your challenge is to locate one of these vases and return it to me. However, there is a catch – there are fewer vases than competitors. Only those who present me with a vase shall pass on to the next part of the competition.”

Hiram nods and bows to the Oni. "So gents, shall we seek our fortunes in the darkness below?" He casts light on his buckler and moves toward the nearest trapdoor, dropping down inside! Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27

"Maybe if we move fast enough we can avoid fighting anyone else."

The oni leer at you and seem to look disappointed that they aren't getting a shot... Despite the last several bouts.

The shaft is about a 20 ft drop to the bottom and has a rope down the center. The rope attaches to a cargo platform below, but this one does not seem to budge at all. Still, it seems as though it can support the weight of at least one of you at a time, possibly two.

DC 5 climb check to descend. Or if you want to be a complete badass, DC 15 acrobatics to jump and only take 1d6 nonlethal, 2d6 lethal if you fail.

Badass! NL: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Roary will just fly down, assuming 5 mins have not passed since he drank his fly potion.. Anyway I can retcon that lesser resto pot considering what happened?

"Can someone try to cast this one me?"

He hands a scroll of darkvision to someone with the best umd or that can cast it..

Roary, the race into the tunnels is immediately following the combat, so if you don't use the potion you'll be fatigued for at least 2 minutes of the race.

No retcon then..

A race? Lets go! Quiven jumps down and Feather Falls harmlessly into the tunnel. I have a ring.

Jin will try to activate Roary's Darkvisin scroll.

UMD DC23: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (4) + 19 = 23

He will then fly down into the passageway below.

Let's get this done quickly!

Unwilling to slow down the group, Shins leaps down. Taka having more self preservation, climbs down the rope.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15

Nonlethal: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Taka jumping off his back does throw him off balance, but he still makes it down as safely as could be expected.

Taka Climb: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24

The shaft descends to a tunnel below, 10 ft wide, which reeks of sewage. It appears as though the tunnel has been used in the past to transport goods as well.

The tunnel splits off ahead to the west, and further down towards the east. The passage to the east narrows quickly to 5 ft in width, and the foul stench seems to emanate from that direction.

Hiram sniffs. "Follow the stench, lads. It's the pathfinder way." He heads off toward the stench to the east.

Passing by the western corridor, you can see a bulky piece of machinery permanently affixed to the ground and wall. The corridor to the east is short and leads into a small room containing three large tubs, along with nets and rakes hanging from the wall.

"It is not so bad, I've seen far less agreeable views on the Pathfinder way."

Perception: 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 16 + 2 = 19

"Found some instructions here for a pump. I don't see a lot of water though."

The tengu will glide down slowly to join the rest of the party, and as Shins mentions the instructions for a pump he clears his throat.

"I... may have done some plumbing in the past, mind if I take a look at those?"

K: Engineering: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

"Of course! The only things of the sort I've seen are the bilge pumps on ships."

It seems as though the large piece of machinery in the room to the west is the pump described in the instructions shown. Peering around the corner into the room below reveals the source of the foul odor... It appears as though this is an active sewer system...

Yuck. Maybe we should keep looking. Meaning, somewhere else?

If we are going to be wandering around the sewers maybe we could get the pump working to clear out some of the gunk. One of these things might be hidden under all of this crap and I for one don't fancy swimming through it.

Jin flips out a small journal from his pack and takes a quick look at the pump to see how long it might take to get working.

Knowledge Engineering: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (20) + 20 = 40

"At the same time, we have to be mindful and cautious that we don't disturb something dwelling down here by being too vigorous with our efforts.

This really appeals to me, for some reason. No, I'm not volunteering to go swimming in excrement."

Yeah, I can't beat that... :P

Jin-Goro: You're not sure how long it will take the pump to finish it's job but its a simple task of turning it on. In fact you don't even need the instructions to figure that out...