Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Amiri drops her sword and draws the flask of acid. She tosses the flask down at one of the lizads. (#2)
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
Ernest thinks back to his original viewing of the Pit Safety and You viewing, back in Conjurations 505. "Aah! Jim! Don't stand near the edge! You might fall in!"
Said recording, Circa 4644 AR:
Pre-recorded programmed image #5374: A friendly safety warning from the Grand Lodge Safety Captain, Declan "Drendle" Dreng!
Evening, folks! It's me, Declan Dreng! I'm here to present this informational illusion spell titled "Pit Safety and You". Silent Image scroll, please!
This is Pathfinder Agent Jim! Say "Hi," Jim! Now, Jim is one of the Blades graduates; the muscle-bound workhorses of the Society! Normally, Jim's just walks up to the evil cultist/politician/oytug and trade power attacks until one of them is dead! This time, however, Jim's paired with Conjurer Carl, the Conjurist!
Jim, being the average student he is, thinks all conjurer controls the battlefield by bringing forth fiends, Grease, and other Core options, making the foes all the easier to hit! Great for Jim, right?
Wrong!
What Jim doesn't think about are the more advanced Conjuration options, like "Conjure Hole-in-the-Ground" (name patent pending) and "Summon Chimp Army" (name patent pending.) These spells are capable of both harming the target AND stopping their progress, but are far more unstable when it comes to friendly fire!
Now, that's not to say Jim's at fault here. Jim's learned to use hundred upon hundreds of weapons so you YOU don't have to stab that Ancient Black Dragon or his Stone Golem companion in the face! He didn't have time to learn the intricacies of Carl's magics, so Carl should warn Jim of the impending danger!
For example, "Conjure Hole-in-the-Ground" (name patent pending) may look safe for this bow-wielding Jim to stand over, but he'd be wrong! Conjure Hole-in-the-Ground actually alters the terrain AROUND the pit, making those who spend an extended amount of time next to it often fall in!
So watch out, Jim! And if you're a conjurer like Carl, be sure to warn your more magically-challenged allies if your newly-developed magics might possibly harm them! I'm Declan Dreng, and this was "Pit Safety and You."
tl;dr: Ending your turn next to the 50-ft deep pit requires a DC 20 reflex to not fall in, though you do get a +2 in said case.
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
Shin moves up near Sahar and casts a spell, sending arcane missiles at mound.
No, the pit isn't going to be able to soak up enough water that quickly.
The pit is only 20 feet deep; I'll say Sahar can fire into it without having to get next to it.
Ernest: that was the greatest thing ever.
Amiri pulls the cork off of a vial of acid with her teeth and drops it into the hole. Sahar fires a bolt at one of them and downs it. Shin then sends a few missiles down into the pit after the mound. The mound proceeds to climb out of the pit.
Climb:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22 Climb:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 That should be more than enough to get him out of the pit. Unfortunately he's stuck on the other side away from the party because there wasn't much room with Amiri in the way.
Initiative:
1. Amiri
2. Lizards
3. Sahar and Shin
4. Freakin' Plant Monster
5. Ernest
SM: 54 dmg and staggered, 33 temp HP
Lizard: GONE
Lizard: 15 dmg
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Amiri drops her sword and draws her longbow and fires off an arrow at the remaining lizard. She is in such a rage that she can't meet the strange
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
The mound, being big enough to brace on all sides of the wall, basically has a 3/4ths chance of passing with a +5 climb check. Regular DC is 20, but he can "brace like a chimney" since he's large, so it's -10 DC to make it a flat DC 10 for him. If he wants to go half-speed instead of quarter speed, the DC is 15 (still passing both on those checks.) This'd put him at the top of the pit, either on the edge (which'll require another Reflex, DC 18 to not fall back in since he ended his turn on the edge) or he's just climbing and at the very top (loses dex unless he's got Uncanny Dodge or a Climb Speed, but I don't think I recall any not-space plants ever being too dextrous anyways.)
"It should crush the lizard if we just keep making it fall down the hole!" Ernest says, casting Acid Splash... Acid splash (vs touch):1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 111d3 ⇒ 1 ... which is possibly off target? Hopefully he's climbing, heh.
We'll say he's at the top of the pit but hasn't crawled over the edge yet.
Amiri hits the plant with an arrow and Ernest lobs acid at it. The lizard, who does have a climb speed, climbs out of the pit on the opposite side from the party.
Initiative:
1. Amiri
2. Lizards
3. Sahar and Shin
4. Freakin' Plant Monster
5. Ernest
SM: 54 dmg and staggered, 29 temp HP
Lizard: GONE
Lizard: 15 dmg
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
Shin removes a flask of acid from his bandolier and casts a spell, pointing at the mound.
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Ok, at this point the mound is really not an effective combatant and other than his temp HP he's pretty low as it is. I think I'm going to call this one for the sake of time and sanity.
The lizard, without its mutualist partner, scurries away through the water and out into the swampy wilderness outside. Having dealt with the plant creature, the party notices another chamber to the right of the entrance.
This twenty-foot-square room is home to a foot and a half of stagnant water that covers everything but a wide shelf on the east wall. That shelf contains a score of fifteen-inch-tall statues carved of shiny white stone, each of jackal-headed humanoids in different poses and holding different accoutrements. Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphs and jagged sigils cover the walls, in jarring contrast to each other.
DC 25 Linguistics or speaking Ancient Osiriani:
The pictograms recount the rise to power of the Dog
Pharaoh, referring to him as the Jackal Pharaoh, and a
conflict between himself and a rival pharaoh known as
the Illumined Pharaoh. At the time of the engraving,
their conflict had apparently not been resolved, and
several references to ongoing feuding persist among the
historical accounting.
DC 30 Linguistics or speaking Abyssal:
The jagged symbols are Abyssal characters which speak of the Jackal Pharaoh’s armies of gnolls, jackalweres and yaenit demons.
DC 15 Appraise:
The alabaster statues of the Dog Pharaoh are highly valuable as both historical artifacts and art objects. As a set, the lot of them would sell for 1,500 gp.
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
Ernest, by virtue of having been preparing for the Worldwound, is able (and does) translate both parts verbatim. appraise:1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 6 + 2 = 22Ha, I guess that feat wasn't useless to train out of
But after finding what might have been a fresco of an unrobed woman, Ernest freezes up, leaving Snouts to be a search battery while Ernest panics someone might have seen him looking at it. pig-ception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
The stairway descends into stagnant, murky water. The north wall features two fifteen-foot-tall mosaics of the Dog Pharaoh flanking a series of smaller hieroglyphs arranged in rows and columns. The east and west walls give glimpses of the top half of faded and water-stained frescos depicting pleasure slaves and vast wealth in a desert oasis paradise.
Ten feet from the top of the stiars, a 10-foot-wide hole gapes, water trickling over its edge and falling into darkness. Twenty feet from the top of the stairs is the top of the water.
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Amiri looks at the frescoes with a bit of disgust. "Pleasure slaves?! I forget how backwards Osirian culture is. Any slavery - whether for pleasure or labor - is a prison..." She continues on her tirade about the oppression of the weak in various societies in Golarion.
When she takes a moment to pause, she notices the bored looks on her companions' faces. "Well, maybe it doesn't matter to you."
She moves into the new room, descending the stairs. She takes a few steps to get a running start to jump across the pit.
Acrobatics (Jump):1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
"Well that wasn't so hard now, was it? Come on over guys!" She moves to the edge of the water, but is careful not to touch it.
Amiri and Sahar leap across down the stairs and their feet splash into the water. They failed to notice, however, that there are leeches in the water!
Surprise round: move across the room. Regular round: move into your squares.
swarm damage on Amiri and Sahar:2d6 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7 DC 15 Fort save against poison or take 1d4 ⇒ 2 Dex drain. DC 15 Fort against distraction or become nauseated (can only take a move action) Plus take 1d3 ⇒ 3 Str and Con damage, no save.
Yes, they look too small hit with weapons (diminutive).
Inititiave:
1. Leeches!
2. Shin, Ernest, Sahar, Amiri
You guys are up!
DC 14 KN (nature):
This is a leech swarm, a vermin (aquatic, swarm). They have blindsight and are immune to mind-affecting effects and weapon damage. They have standard swarm traits.
DC 19 KN (nature):
Leeches are susceptible to salt. They are poisonous. They drain the blood of anyone beginning their turn in the leeches' squares (Str and Con damage). Like most swarms, they are distracting.
The water in this room (beyond the stairs) is 10 feet deep and too dark and murky too see through to the floor.
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Fort vs. Poison:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27 Fort vs. Distraction:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20 I'm guessing the CON damage affects my total HP. 2HP per level = 14HP less. 75-14=61. Current HP is 54/61. I will reflect the STR damage in my rolls with a -2.
"LEEECHESSSS!!"
Amiri takes a moment to panic, but then quickly tries to brush off the leeches on her and stomp on ones on the ground.
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
Shin grabs and throws an acid flask at the leeches, not knowing what else to do.
@Amiri: diminutive or smaller sized swarms can't take weapon/physical damage. So your angry stomp does nothing except splash your companions with filthy water.
Amiri stomps in frustration while Shin tosses acid at the leeches. Sahar leaps back over the pit to avoid the leeches.
Inititiave:
1. Leeches!
2. Shin, Ernest, Sahar, Amiri
leeches: 6 dmg
Ernest is up!
@Amiri: do you want to do something else? Or at least use your move action to get out of the way?
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
I'm gonna roll with it. Ernest, if you need to make with a pit or do the color bursty-burst. Go for it. Amiri has been caught off guard by the icky bugs. Kind of like an alchemist I know...
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
Color Spray is mind-affecting, unfortunately. You should probably move.
Ernest shout and readies his tiny shovel. "Aah! Jim! I'm gonna pit'em! Move!" Ernest readies to cast Spiked Pit, hoping it counts as area-of-effect damage.
Ernest readies to create a pit once Amiri moves out of the way. The leeches swarm about her feet first though.
swarm damage:2d6 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5 Amiri DC 15 Fort against poison:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13 poison:1d4 ⇒ 4 dex drain
Amiri DC 15 Fort against distraction:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25 Amiri Str and Con damage from Blood Drain*:1d3 ⇒ 2
*note that although it's called Blood Drain, it's actually damage so it can be healed with lesser restoration. The Dex from the poison is drain though.
Amiri is then able to slosh away from the leeches and Ernest forms a pit beneath them, essentially enlarging the pit in front of him on the stairs. The water level drops a foot and some of the leeches swirl about in the confusion of the water but they are still swimming about in approximately the same area.
Inititiave:
1. Leeches!
2. Shin, Ernest, Sahar, Amiri
leeches: 6 dmg
Shin, Sahar, and Amiri are up!
I assumed Amiri is using her move action to get out of the way, moving somewhere into the room. Roll20 is giving fits this morning (or maybe just my internet) so I can't actually move her token right now.
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
Oh, I guess that's what I get for not looking at the map; I'm guessing there's not a 10 X 10? I was hoping to get it beneath the swarm to hopefully pull them down into some spikes via gravity and displacement, since the hole is a Looney Tunes-type instantaneous pit (given it deals fall damage when cast under someone, but not when it comes back up slowly.) Otherwise (unless a pit actually helps moving around), I'm pretty much just delaying forever.
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Character Folio Re-roll for Fort Save vs. Poison:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
[ooc]Well, phooey.[/dice]
Amiri jumps back across the pit.
Acrobatics:1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 5 - 2 = 21
And is able to make it to safety.
"Make with the casty-casty there, Ernie!"
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Character Folio Re-roll for Fort Save vs. Poison:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Well, phooey.
Amiri jumps back across the pit.
Acrobatics:1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 5 - 2 = 15
And is able to make it to safety.
"Make with the casty-casty there, Ernie!"
Well, the pit is certainly there and sucked up a little bit of water. But they're floating/swimming in the water. So it's not so much falling as swirling down with the water. They can swim back up. There's room to put the pit there (once Amiri jumps out of the way).
So since Amiri is jumping back to the other side of the stairs the leeches can't reach anyone. We can jump out of initiative and you guys can decide how to deal with them and get across the room.
Oh, but I should mention that their stealth in here is 34, not counting for distance and concealment from the murky water. So probably closer to 40 with those modifiers. You likely can not pinpoint them in the water now that they have moved.
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
Shin motions to the other six flasks of acid in his bandolier. Would everyone like a flask? He then takes one and chicks it at the leeches.
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
So the pit is there. Can we wait for the pit to come back up? Or would that matter for what I'm about to post...
Amiri tosses one of her trail rations to the other side of the pit.
Ranged Attack vs. DC 10 (I think):1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 10 - 2 = 24
I just want it to land on the stairs, out of the water.
"Let's see if that draws the little buggers out, then we can hit 'em with more acid, or lightning, or whatever..." Amiri takes one of Shinkeer's acid flasks.
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
Ernest motions to 3 Alchemists Fires. "I, uh, I have more stuff. It's fire, but it should still work, I think..."If not, he'll be wrong in statement, but then corrects himself after consulting a number of books (Pathfinder Chronicles).
With the water clear of leeches-or at least most of them-the party is able to leap back across the pit and wade (or swim) through the water across the room. Ernest notices two pit traps buried beneath the water and directs the party to move around them. On the other side of the chamber, you can see a series of Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphs on the north wall of the chamber, between the two images of the Dog Pharaoh.
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
Shinkeer searches for a way to expose the underwater hieroglyphs.
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
Shin tries to trigger the pit traps without falling in himself.
AC33/Tch29/Flat29/CMD43(45 vs grapple & trip)||HP117[117]|Fort:+10;Ref:+11;Will:+19|Percept.+27(+29 for traps, +31 if in stone, trapspotter)|SenMot.+14|Init.+3 Human (Kellid/Tian) Monk (Terracotta Monk) 10 Sorcerer (Wildblooded) 5
While Shin tries at the traps, he looks over at the hieroglyphics. Anyone decipher the code yet?
Shin drains some of the water from the room by opening the pit trap. More of the hieroglyphs are revealed, along with a short stone door covered in algae.
if you speak Osiriani or Ancient Osiriani:
With more of the cypher revealed, you recognize some of the symbols as mathematical operations. Hand pointing left is addition. Hand pointing up is subtraction. Two u shaped rope thingies are division. Y-shaped thingamajig is multiplication.
Percep +14 (+2 near pig, +1 vs traps);Sense Motive +4
Init+0
Shifts 1/8 used
Temp effect: Percep is +3
Human (Garundi) Wizard 6/Pathfinder Field Agent 1
Ernest, distracted by thoughts of an entirely-false ancient Osirion Assassin League something responds after a few seconds. "Oh, it's math! Just, uh, give me a, uh, a moment." Ernest takes out a set of chalk and begins drawing rambles on the hieroglyphs.
"Ha, I think I got it. I spent literallyfifteen wholeminutes looking at the first one, thinking 2+4 was 8. Whoops! Must be hungry or something..."
Note: I love puzzles, am hyper-bad at math. And only now do I see that googledocs has an "equation" shapes part. Ha!
Level 1 Female Human Barbarian HP 12/15 | AC 15 | T 11 | FF 14 | CMD 16 | Fort +4 | Ref +1 | Will +1 (+2 vs. fear) | Init +1 | Perc +5 | Sense Motive +0
Amiri watches the wizard draw numbers and other marks all over the hieroglyphs. She struggles to make heads or tails about what is being marked.
"Wait, what..?" But she never is able to formulate in her mind the questions that she has. She trusts in the logic of the portly wizard.
"I'm not sure what exactly you're doing there, but I gotta say, you sure seem like you know what you're doing."
Apologies:
I seem to have found myself spread too thin with PbP action. Unfortunately, I neglected this scenario. I'll be a more active participant in the future, I promise.
