GMG's PbP: Year of the Shadow Lodge (1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master Magabeus

My bad, GM, I didn't see it missed. Stand up and move 10 feet in the grease.

fort vs poison: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
fort vs distraction: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Dreggar staggers to his feet and tries to move through the goo once again.

acro through grease: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

"Don't worry, I've got these critters entertained." He says, rather lamely.

Lara snorts in amusement at Anna's comment. Seeing that she's dropped the last goblin, she hustles north after Lynn.

"I think the goal with entertaining is to not be their lunch, Dreggar," she calls as she goes.

Move toward Lynn, then standard action to use Perception to look for any vials, beakers or flasks in the room that contain acid.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Rose sighs and walks out into the grease next to Dreggar. Taking out her wand she says says,"You aren't dying on my watch Dregar."
Saving Throw??: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
CLW Charge: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Yeah I completely forgot that as it never came up. I can turn into an illusory crate. Does that help?

Round 4

Nella smiles with satisfaction as she watches some of the beetles burn to ash, but her expression quickly changes back to one of mild worry. "Um, that was all I had," she admits, looking at the others. As Rose moves to aid Dreggar, the priestess quickly darts down the hallway and looks around. "Spread out so it can't roll over all of us at once!" she calls.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Looking for anything useful and/or a way to escape what's left of the swarm!

While the desperate pathfinders are looking for anything that might help them survive the swarm the alchemist's fire that Nella threw last round is burning brightly, consuming beatles at a steady rate. the flames are dying down and some more beatles are burned to a crisp.

With the last flames the last beatles succumb to the heat and you can breathe steadily again!

Out of combat!

Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Lara breathes a sigh of relief as the beetles catch fire and expire. "I'm glad you had what you did, Nella," she says, holding her shortbow loosely at her side.

The archaeologist moves to the northern double-doors. Nocking an arrow to her bow, she cautiously opens the doors and peers inside.

You move forward to a huge chamber that is entirely tiled with plain gray flagstones.It’s uncannily cold, and only a trickle of light slips through
a trio of tiny windows, one set into each adjoining wall, just below the eaves. The room is lined and partitioned with rows of massive stone cubicles. The cubicles stand twice the height of a grown human. Each cubical has an iron door with a brass plate on it. The plates are labeled and numbered with a black wax pencil.

Moving back to the room where you fought you take the right door and come into a room with a large furnace. Behind that door you enter a library, rows and rows of dark-lacquered mahogany shelves hold thousands of texts.

You take a moment to catch your breath here, waiting for other pathfinders before you move on.

Lynn dismissed her dancing lights turning to the others for a moment
"It might be a bad idea, but I think we should split up and search the area. Once everyone is ready that is."
stealth: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
perc: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

Lynn moved north towards the library with her weapon still drawn, she moved as quietly as she could taking a better look around the area for anything that might lead to their target.

"Yes, I charged in hoping they would follow me, I didn't realize they would find me so delicious. Thank the gods you had the firebomb, Nella. And thanks Rose, for the healing, make sure you take a charge of my wand should you need it."

Dreggar will move into the cold room and look around as well.

perception with darkvision: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

"Im ready bit I feel like I should go with someone. Im kind of oblivious and wouldn't notice the baddies even if I walk into them.," Rose says while blushing.
Perception: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (18) - 2 = 16
Stealth: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

"So am I!" Nella laughs weakly in response to Lara. "Though I think I'll have to buy even more for the next mission..."

As the group begins to fan out and look around, she beckons to Rose. "We can go together; we really should stick together anyway. That dragon out there was guarding something or someone(s) so we'd better stay on our guard," she nods. Once the last of the flames sputter out and the grease disappears from the floor, she moves to have a look at the dead goblins and the area they were nosing around in.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Stealth: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16

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OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT
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Lara comes up short at the sight of the strange cage-like artifact. "What is that thing?" she asks, squinting at the otherworldly pillar rising from the center of the device. "And how do we disarm it?" she adds, more to herself than anyone else.

Lynn watched the tendrils arc around the artifact in awe and a bit of despair. "How could someone make something so disruptive, how can they not think of the spirits."
She almost fell to her knees at the sight of the convulsing bodies, she thought she even heard the voices of those departed escaping from the device. She watched trying to determine the function of the metallic horror and how one might disrupt and otherwise stop it from functioning.

gonna make a general set of knowledge rolls that i think logically would go along with this device

Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Engine: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
History: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
planes: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
religion: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

"Holy smokes..." Nella breathes as they come upon the cage, which has evidently hatched whatever it was containing. "We'd better figure out how to fix this and fast!"

Kn. Religion (Aid Another; Lynn): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

As some of the others beginning working to figure out the nature of the cage, she cautiously approaches one of the bodies and attempts to determine if any of them are still able to be saved.

Heal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Fortitude Nella: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
1d6 ⇒ 6

Nella enters the room and approaches one of the bodies. When she is almost there a tendril of smokey mist touches here! She jumps back in pain. 3 damage

Lynn recognizes the device as being the same that she earlier saw on the podium. She knows that it is a minor artifact and that it might be possible to turn it off. That might take the same skill as disabling traps or opening locks.

Just in case a higher roll would tell us more...
Knowledge (anything other than dungeoneering- bardic knowledge): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Knowledge (dungeoneering): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

Distracted momentarily by Nella, Lara hisses in sympathy as the cleric leaps back as if shocked by an ethereal tendril. The archaeologist then returns her attention to the device and racks her brain for anything she has read or heard that may prove useful.

Well i'm sad to say given the situation i don't have any skills to aid in this part so I think we may be reliant on the other parties to solve this one :/

Lynn stood away from the device, holding her dress out from her she crouched down and prayed to whatever gods may be listening for the safety of those who were more experienced in dealing with these matters.

"Watch out for those tendrils, I don't think that box wants us too close. Unless we want to smash it, there's not much I can do to it anyway."

active perception to scan the room for anything of use to us.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

"Eeyouch!" Nella exclaims as she jumps and immediately backs away from the strange cage. "Whatever sort of energy that is, it packs a punch," she continues, rubbing her arm where the tendril touched her. Her expression is sadly resigned. "I don't think there's anything we can do for them now."

"Anyone have any ideas on how to shut this thing down? I'm drawing a blank."

Looking up to Nella, "I'm not sure, unless one of us could suppress the magic to aid the others. Or if any of you have any experience in disabling traps. The only other option I think would to be to try and get around it. Unless..."

Lynn looked into the previous room where the library lay open and awaiting someone's eager eyes to peek at it's texts. "Let's check the books for anything, it is a stretch but maybe."

Lynn would rush back into the library and start searching over the books while trying to recall a name for the artifact or anything.

Perception(searching): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Looking for any sort of text that has any information on a device like this.

Lynn is actively searching for a text while the others are thinking of ways to contribute to the effort of other pathfinders...

Dreggar notices the doors on the other end of the chamber (behind the cage), maybe he can make a run for it?

I updated the map

Lara frowns, unable to think of anything else. With a quick look around for other ideas, she steels her nerves and attempts to turn the device off.

She doesn't have trapfinding (yet) but she does have Disable Device. With lingering performance, she can cover 9 rounds of action with Archaeologist's Luck. Let me know how many rounds it takes to attempt to disable the artifact.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Lucky Disable Device: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

maybe I can help with the perception to "find" the device. Assuming it's like a trap.

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Rose looks around and says,"I've got nothing unless you want to grease the thing and push it out of here. There might be something around here to help?"
Perception: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (13) - 2 = 11

Lynn frantically dug through the books searching for something, the odds that anything on such a device were next to impossible considering it came from a different continent. But even if there was something on the nature of such magic it might help.

perc: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Gonna try one more search to rule out any possibility.

Sorry the 4th was a late night, back at the forums now. Can I try using my curse? It lets me disable device and I have craft (clockwork) if relevant.

Anna eyes the device then slowly pulls of her gloves.

"I think I can disrupt it at least, but pull me out of there if I start convulsing please! Just, uh, don't touch my bare skin. I don't see any control panels, but maybe..."

She trails off, approaching the cage.

perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
disable device: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

GM - CODE GREY

Lara and Anna work together on the device. Lara is so captivated in her work that she misses the ethereal tendril that is about to touch her! With a curse she still manages to keep her concentration. Although the tendrils are still moving about, they seem to slow down... Perhaps some more work at disabling the device might be possible?

Lara: 1d100 ⇒ 7
Anna: 1d100 ⇒ 77
Lara Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4
Lara Fort: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Lara: 4 damage, Nella: 3 (done earlier, repeated here for ease of reference)

Sorry people, if you don't have disable device there is nothing you can do here

Despite her vicious scouring of the shelves for anything of use Lynn found not a single word or diagram of this device or it's functionality. She returned to the room where it lay and her allies were attempting to bypass it and once again knelt to the ground to pray for them and the souls that were from the looks being tortured by this device.

"Cayden, I may not be one of your clergy but please hear me and grant safe passage to those who act here today. There is no doubt that we all wish to leave from here safe today so that we may celebrate in the festivities instead of reel from this tragic event. A new tale will be sung when next the city comes together, one of harrows and great deeds as many pathfinders an guards alike fought to keep their city safe. To this we will not remember the bad, but we will rejoice in the good that came after, celebrating those who are brave and risk themselves against impossible odds to perform good deeds."

Not that I think a 9 will succeed where a 7 failed, but Archaeologist's Luck does apply to saving throws while it's active.

Lara yelps as one of the tendrils comes too close to comfort. The archaeologist ducks and weaves, trying to concentrate on disabling the strange device even while she evades the ghostly tentacles.

Lucky Disable Device: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

HP 6/10

You mentioned a door

Dreggar will run across the room, trying to dodge the tentacles of ether.

When he reaches the door he will try to open it.

ST check if needed: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Oof.

Rose walks up to Lara and says,"Listen I think you need to be at your best for this."
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

"Good idea Rose," Nella agrees as she draws her own wand and moves closer to Anna. "You two keep working and we'll keep you ali-careful Dreggar!" she calls as the dwarf attempts to dash past the tentacles and open the door.

Lara murmurs her thanks, still concentrating on figuring out how to disable the eldritch device.

HP 10/10

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OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT
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Nella barely has time to really register and process the appearance of the large room they've all found themselves in before the multiple Charivons issue their challenge.

"Holy cats!" she yelps, instinctively falling back a pace before a sudden burst of anger surges through her. "HEY! What gives you the right? Who or what do you think you are!?" she calls back angrily as she readies herself to aid her companions...

"I am Charvion, Eater of Bones...." the man replies while he casts a spell at the heavy armored dwarf that is leading the way. A blob of acid hits Dreggar, burning away his skin! It continues to burn...

Ranged Touch Dreggar: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Acid damage: 2d4 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6

Initiative
Anna
Dreggar 16/22 hp
Lara
Nella 9/12 hp
Rose
Lynn
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Charvion

Are we just fighting a single version of charvion? Full-round to draw weapon and item

Lynn would draw her rapier in one hand and her wand in the other, "Stick close, we will be able to keep healed up as we push on our foe."

Dreggar winces at the acid burning through his skin. Steeling his nerves he takes bold and unflinching steps towards the traitor.

"And I am Dreggar of the Five Kings, and you shall pay dearly for your treachery on this day."

Move 20' and then do Studied Target on Charvion. Also, I know it won't matter for the attack he just made, but in case he targets me with something else, I do have SR 7. I'll note it in my Active conditions.

Lynn: each team of pathfinders has singled out one copy of Charvion to defeat

Nella's Round 1

"No, I think 'finished' is a better word for you," Nella responds, a steely tone in her voice. "If you won't stop this madness, then fight you we will! Lady Shelyn, please aid us in putting an end to this!" she cries as she moves to give the others some fighting room.

Casting Bless on the party, then moving to her current position on the map.

Rose is going to move next to Dreggar and start her bardic performance. "Well if the creature that came out of the ghost machine is anything like other ghosts it probably will be hurt by this, Rose says while hodling out her cure light wounds wand.
Bardic Performance 3/9

Anna Round 1. Move next to Nella, pulling her gloves back on. Standard - Obscuring Mist.

Perhaps I might offer a more practical cover priestess, for your blessing?

Since I go after Anna in the initiative, I adjusted my move to stay out of the mist she created.

Lara quickly nocks an arrow to her bow and hustles forward. As soon as she's closed a bit of distance, she lets fly.

Inspired Blessed Lucky Point Blank Shot: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

HP 10/10; Archaeologist's Luck 5/7, lingering 2/2

GM - CODE WHITE

Lara scores a solid hit while the other prepare for combat

Acid: 2d4 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7
Ranged touch Lara: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Acid: 2d4 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4

Dreggar feels that the acid burns more skin from his body. The renegade pathfinder points at Lara and another glob of acid flies her way, landing right in the face! Acid starts to burn its way...

Initiative
Bless + Inspire courage active for +2 to hit +1 weapon damage
Anna
Dreggar 9/22 hp
Lara 6/10
Nella 9/12 hp
Rose
Lynn
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Charvion 8 damage

" That looks like that hurt. Here have some healing Dreggar", Rose says.
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Maintain Performance 4/9

Stealth: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Move up, load sling.

Anna moves quietly forward, putting a slingstone in her sling.