1. GM Edwin's Zeitgeist Campaign

Game Master Insnare

"We're on orders to ensure she makes the ceremony. Surely, you understand that we sooner adhere to the wishes of his grace than the wishes of the lady Duchess."

Seeing as this tact seems to be getting them nowhere, and seeing as a finer touch may be in order. Joseph slides up to try and get himself into a better position. Setting up for a flanking position if the situation called for it.

"Ahh, Mister Cretian. I believe you are approaching this the wrong way." Joseph turns to the young lady and smiles gently."My dear we have orders direct from the King himself, and it would be our heads if we didn't do as he says don't you know. I am truly worried about such things you see, being rather fond of my head. Now dear lady, would a beautiful young woman such as yourself be willing to help a gentleman such as myself keep from losing a few inches?"

Bluff 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (13) + 17 = 30 feigning worry and sorrow
Diplomacy 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24 To gain a bit of trust and helpfulness. My trait allows a move of three steps on the chart if it matters.
Sense motive 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 To gauge her reaction.

Darn that rye.

Sokana Rell smiles at Coopsworth and says, "By all means, you should knock first because I am pretty sure the Duchess has locked the door, alas I do not have a key"

She then slips away from the door allowing the group to have at it.

"Hmm, well I might just have a key, if you all aren't too keen on coaxing her out."

Well then if you have the key then lets knock first then shall we then we Cretien can "open" up the door.

After awhile of being completely unnoticed, Jonathan sneaks a touch of Cretien's feathered stunted wings, then nervously hides behind Mithas.

"Shouldn't we try to save her?" He says quietly, as if that hadn't just happened.

"Or instead of talking about knocking, we could knock."

Mithas steps up to door and pounds his fist on it.

"My Lady. In the name of the King, your brother, open this door!"

Mithas bangs on the door and hears a faint reply through the door, "I shan't be coming out for this mockery of Risur. So I suggest you back from whence you came and leave an old woman be"

Mithas grits his teeth and shouts through the door.

"My Lady, my orders are to bring to his Majesty's side, and I quote, 'kicking and screaming' if needs be. You will be coming with us, one way or the other, so why don't you come to the door. I have no desire to make a scene, but I wont be asking again."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

The Duchess responds in anger, " Come in and get me, as if I care what my Danor loving brother thinks of me now, Ha!!! long live Risur!!!!!!!"

You can kick the door in or pick the lock DC 20

Please My lady, we beg of you to come out and play your part in the diner. It won't take long and after all you can probably excuse yourself after a bit from the diner saying that you have an upset stomach due to the ship. No one will think any less of you. Please my lady would you reconsider ?

Cretien pulls out his tools and gets to work on the door.

disable device: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

"My dear boy, you are simply doing it wrong."Joseph gingerly moves Certain to one side.

Disable device.1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

That is how it's done.

"Boy? I was likely doing this when your great-grandfather was still crapping his pants the first time around. I just haven't had much need to practice since then."

"And so I say you were doing it wrong. Well pip pip gentleman. Someone needs to be first into the breach" The smile on Joseph's face goes from playful at the begining to dead serious at the end.

Now, now you two play nice putting his hand on the door and pushing it in order to get inside.

Please accept our sincerest apologies my lady but we are coming in. I bet of you to please reconsider and attend to the king even if it is for a short bit.

and Arvangail walks inside the room

As Wintry enters the napping room of the Duchess in the aft section of the gun deck, he first sees the window wide open and the Duchess next to the ledge wearing nothing but her swimsuit, which covers her entire body except her head which is covered with a swimmer's cap.

She says, "Constable Adaire, I thank you for your service to our country and you were a pleasant man but may the gods have mercy on your soul!"
The Duchess wastes no time and dives out the window into the night.

GM Rolls:

As the Duchess makes her move Arvangail screams Noooooooo with an outstretched hand.

But to no avail the dutchess jump trough the window.

Springing into action Arvangail head to the window to see in he can see the woman.

Someone grab a rope and hand me one end, i am going to jump and try to bring her back.

do i see where she jumped ? i still have a standard action to use.

Merle rushes to the window, and looks about for a life preserver, or lifeboat. "Man...er...Woman overboard", He screams, as he begins to loosen the straps of his armor.

Cretien sighs and puts his tools back in their leather case.

Your group makes your way over to the edge as the Duchess swan dives into the ocean being picked up by sea nymph riding atop some massive submerged sea creature.

While your backs are turned the Sokana Rell starts casting

Flare Burst DC 14 Fortitude Save on the party [ooc] Wintry 1d20 ⇒ 8fail, Joseph 1d20 ⇒ 8 fail, Cretien1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19 pass, Mithas1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20 pass, John 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 fail, Merle 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 pass, Wintry, Joseph, John are dazzled.

A large burst of light engulfs the group burning the cornias of three members.

Rogue from stealth, bleeding attack. attacks Johnathan 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12 hit, 1d4 ⇒ 1 with bleeding sneak attack damage 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Initiative: Wintry 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20, Joseph 1d20 ⇒ 16, Cretien1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18, Mithas1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24, John 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14, Merle 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17, Rogue 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16, Rell 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Roll off between Wintry(1) and Rell (2) 1d2 ⇒ 1
Round 1

Mithas, Wintry, Rell, Chretien, Merle, Rogue, Joseph, John

Here are the maps... map

As Johnaten is struck by the rogue's short sword, the military band on the main deck starts to play the national anthem.

Round 1

Mithas draws his blade and then moves adjacent to Sokana Rell.

"You are under arrest!'

Cretien presses a button on his bracer and blades of metal spin around to form a disk, which detaches with a small hum and floats in front of him shield prototype

"Mechanus, defense protocol, engage."

Mithas draws his blade and moves toward Rell, provoking an A.o.O from the rogue 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14, miss, he is somehow able to avoid the blade while moving cautiously towards the high elf.

Wintry

Joseph pulls his crossbow, move action. and loads it Yet another move action. Stupid royals. Why am I not surprised.

Cast daze centered just so that the rogue is caught in it DC 15 will

Rogue Will Save DC 15 1d20 ⇒ 14, fail

Rell takes off committing a double move climbing down the stairs.

Chretien initiates his mechanus.

Merle

Sorry I'm a little confused about who is who on the map.

Merle moves forward to engage whatever enemy is within his 10' reach.

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 Pickaxe Attack

1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 Damage

I don't see how, I used everyone's in game avatars and the enemies are other avatars. But right now there is only the green haired guy.

Merle swings his pickaxe and misses.

The rogue is unable to take any actions.

Joseph pulls his crossbow and loads it.

Johnathan

I don't see how, I used everyone's in game avatars and the enemies are other avatars. But right now there is only the green haired guy.

Merle swings his pickaxe and misses.

The rogue is unable to take any actions.

Joseph pulls his crossbow and loads it.

Johnathan

I guess I'm just to lazy to go back and look at everybody's avatar and see who's not there. It's difficult on the small screen I'm looking at now. :-)

turn 2?

Do you mean that you wanted to do something in addition to turning on your mechanus... If you can, cool... I had no idea how long the shield prototype takes to get into effect.

it's a standard action, just like casting a spell. i did all i wanted, and now the assistant is running away and the rogue is here.

You can post your round 2 action, I am just waiting on Johnny boy to finish up the round... Mithas, I noticed you have TBA for gear... could you please fill that info in on your sheet. For Everyone, could you please add the information with your name like Mithas and Wintry did, it makes my GMing a smidge easier to do, so I don't need to search for the main combat stuff.. thanks.

Round 2

Try to take that person pointing to the rogue alive, we need information

Evil Eye Hex on the Rogue Will DC 16 -2 Attack (if save apply penalty for 1 round if not saved for 8Rd

5ft step away from rogue

Johnathan shouts in surprise and pain, clutching his side, and casts color spray at the rogue (DC 15), then draws his dagger as a move-action.

I made a mistake on the first saving throw, he should have passed it, I could either retcon an attack by him or add an extra bonus to his saving throw against color spray, I think I will do the later because if I do the former it causes more nuissance for everyone and could kill Johnathan

DC 15 Will Save 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15, pass

GM Rolls elsewhere

Round 2 Mithas

Round 2

Double move after Rell.

"Of course you want him alive". "Battle is much easier than policing".

Grapple attempt

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22 CMB

1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
1d10 ⇒ 7
Cretien takes a shot at the nearest enemy

Round 2 action:

Johnathan will 5' step away diagonally, so he's next to Wintry.

Johnathan take 1 hp damage for bleeding.

Mithas chases after Rell.

Wintry's Evil Eye hex.
Will Save 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19, pass

Rell runs out of sight of Mithas at 4x speed.

Chretien shoots an arrow into melee and barely misses hitting Johnathan.

Merle grabs the halfling rogue.

Escape Artist to become free 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26 success, acrobatics check to avoid A.o.O 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24 success.

Joseph

Joseph begins to take aim and thinks better of it.This is all kinds of bad right now. He decides to charge past for the stairs up to warn the party.

Acrobatics: 1d20 ⇒ 2 so gonna have to eat that aao.

4xMove is 120 for the party. I have people to warn. You can move my token or I will get it when I get home to my comp where I can interact with it.

I will make you double move to climb the ladder which puts you on the main deck, where the party is.

A.o.O on Joseph 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 3 - 2 = 15 hit with his shortsword 1d4 ⇒ 3

Johnathan moves five feet back next to Wintry.

GM Rolls elsewhere

Round 3

Mithas, Wintry, Rell, Chretien, Merle, Rogue, Joseph, John

Round 3

5ft step if possible to avoid melee combat

Ray of frost : 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 151d3 ⇒ 1 vs Touch AC please add -4 to attack roll of target is in combat

A double move puts me adjacent to Rell. If she starts to run and doesn't use a withdrawal action I should get an AoO. Also, running must be in a straight line.

Even if she only double moved she would still be 15 feet from you. Still no A.o.O, I changed it to a double move, Mithas is not faster than Rell

Joseph slows to a brisk stroll, trying to smooth his bloody dress p-coat in an attempt to avoid notice.What a sight I must be, must not alarm anyone.

Disguise: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

Joseph tries to quietly make his way to either Delft or barring that make his way to quietly inform the king of what had transpired.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Let me know who I get to first please and thank you.

I updated the map, Mithas double moves to within 15 feet of Rell

Wintry strikes the rogue with 1 point of cold damage.

Rell realizing there is only one person chasing her, turns around takes a 5 ft step towards Mithas and uses burning hands DC 14 reflex 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21, pass damage 3d4 ⇒ (3, 4, 1) = 8, taking 4 points of damage. Mithas ducks just at the right moment to avoid being completely burnt.

Chretien, Merle, Rogue, Joseph, John

Sorry, I thought on your initial map she was less than 30ft from the Mithas. My mistake.