GM Ietsuna's 4-07 Severing Ties (Core) (Inactive)

Game Master Ietsuna

Khellek puts on the robes and symbols and gestures for the others to do so. "Let us hope this is sufficient to stop it from animating..."

Meirdrarel follows the group and nods in agreement to Khellek. He puts on his disguise and awaits for the party's consensus.

Khargrom eyes his allies, "I'm all fer subtlety, sure. But ain't we suppos'd to be doing some destruction here? Wouldn't taking out one of thems fancy golems do that? Plus I don't want that thing at our back if it's under command o' someone in that next room. I say we jes have Kent there unload arrows until it's rubble."

If the group agrees to try to bypass it with the robes, Khargrom will do so, otherwise his vote is destroy it now.

"We can always inflict some more destruction on the way back out.." notes Khellek. "But why alert the place sooner than needed?"

Still, if the rest of the group want to fight the golem he has Bessie at the ready to assist.

Wylka looks at the robes and unholy symbol. He sighs and then mutters, "Forgive me Shelyn for this transgression, but I do this to end the evil they do here."

He then puts on the robe and unholy symbol, but makes sure the symbol doesn't touch his skin.

The group have donned the robes and trappings of the Lissalan cult. The golem just stands, unmoving, on its plinth.

Khargrom, with his new itchy disguise, sneaks up and peeks around the corner into the next room.

Stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

This cavernous stone chamber may have once been an underground amphitheater. Heavy black curtains painted with a seven-pointed rune obscure a complete view, but steep stairs and rows of stone benches descend into a central pit. Pounding drums and the rhythmic chanting of dozens of voices reverberate throughout this chamber.

Within the chamber twenty-two priests watch on in awe as the Lashmistress performs miraculous feats of magic. Rainbow colours lights move through the chamber and the Lashmistress turns into a being of fire.

Spellcraft Rainbow: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Spellcraft Fire: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Meirdrarel studies the performance and notes some things. "The mistress is performing a spell from the Illusion school. It makes those drawn to the pattern. Try to keep your distance from it as it might lure you into awe as well. I can't quite understand what the mistress herself is doing though. I think someone should throw a bucket of water at her. The flames will consume her."

He turns to the group. "Should we join them to keep our disguise?"

spellcraft DC 19: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21
"She has adopted the body of an elemental. Can you see any way out of there? If not, let us pull back. We cannot fight that many even if we wanted to. Having explored, let us think of the best ways to do our sabotage and set them at the Aspis throat.."

He things a bit longer. "The obvious vulnerabilities are the sewer gas and the pipe to the harbour. In addition they have the two guardian creatures - the golem and the basilisk. We have already got a leak in the gas pipe, putting a leak in the harbour pipe as well would help make this an unattractive location in the long term. Can anyone think of a way to pit the guardian creatures against each other? "

"Right. Our mission was not to wipe out the cult but turn them on Aspis. With the flooding of the place and maybe the poisonous gas, we can accomplish that. We then escape through the secret pathway that was blocked off, so we don't have to pass the basilisk again."

"Oh, we can go that way? Nice!" He pauses to think... "So it opens onto the street... what if we put a sign or something by the entrance that indicates it is a Lissalan temple?... or maybe a house of ill-repute?"

"I don't think the Calisian's would find that funny..." smirks the scholar.

"Let us head to that pipe and I'll see if I can spot an obvious weakness in it."

Kent nods, and heads back to the room with the water-pipe, to try and render the place uninhabitable.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26.

While Kent and some of the others go and try to fill the place with poison gas, Wylka will head to the secret passage and see if he can force an opening into the streets.

Before attempting this however, once out of the golem room he rips off the rope and the unholy symbol. Throwing them to the floor.

Strength Check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Khargrom stays near the entrance to the cultist area, ready to raise the alarm if his allies' actions cause anyone to come looking.

Kent takes his lockpicks out and starts to work on removing the spiggot from the end of the pipe. The spiggot falls to the floor and harbour water begins to flow onto the floor.

Meanwhile Wylka climbs the secret stairs and tries to push his way in to the street. He doesn't have the strength to break through to the surface.

Wylka mumbles and calls for help. "I can't do this alone. We'll need to work together."

The happy little halfling hops on over to lend a hand.
First he casts guidance on both himself and then Wylka.
aid str: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

"Hey, ya know what? My badge is bigger than y'all's. I mean, higher ranking. If I leave it here, that'll make it look even more like it was an action directed by the consortium (as opposed to a couple of miscreants)" He'll leave it somewhere.

Celewen add his his strength to try to bust through the street, but between he and Wylka they still cannot make much headway.

Meirdrarel joins Wylka and Celewen in making an opening. "Maybe a little acid might help?"

"Or skill, which will suffice where brute force will fail."

He approaches the pipe and assesses it for areas of weakness.

"Try here.." he suggests, standing well back.

engineering, take ten: 10 + 13 = 23

Khargrom continues taking peeks around the corner at the priests and lashmistress. He wonders if those watching the show are actually pure worshipers or just under her thrall.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

It looks like @Khargrom is near more bars. Can he break the lock and trap everyone in there? I'm sure they'll get out eventually, but it will piss them off.

The lock could conceivable be broken. Having said that you have released water and poisonous gas into the complex.

OH, never mind. We don't want to kill them. We'll just wait for the rest of the party to get here and force the opening to the street.

"I think it is time we were departing, before we leave wet footsteps behind." says the scholar as he heads for the exit. He does make sure to keep his face concealed from the basilisk as he moves down the final corridor.

Wylka takes another crack at opening a path through the secret passageway to the streets above. Not wanting to risk the basilisk again.

Strength: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

But does even worse this time.

Looking at the others, he joins them in trying to get out of the sewers.

Kent pulls out a crowbar, and tries to elf-handle the entrance open.

Strength: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 + 2 = 21.

Assists would be great ;-)

With the words of Khellek, Khargrom leaves his post and starts heading to the hidden exit. Looking at it still securely closed he just gives a grunt and pulls out a crowbar to help Kent get it open.

Strength + Crowbar: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 + 2 = 14

Kent and Khargrom succeed in opening the passageway into the street.

"Right then! Time to go..."

Ok, so the following characters have left the building; Khellek, Kent. Everyone else is still inside?

Khargrom will exit after Kent leaves.

Me leaves as well.

Ok, we have 4 out, so I am saying all are out.

Your group moves up and out of the safehouse. You move through the streets without incident and no-one takes any undue notice of you. Your mission deemed complete you board your ship and sail back to Magnamar and the Venture-Captain who sent you on this mission.

She greets you at the lodge in Magnamar. Your mission was a success. The tenuous alliance between the Cult of Lissala and the Aspis has been ruined and it will never, ever be the same again.

With that rather anti-climatic end we are done. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves. I hope I didn't make too many terrible mistakes. I would appreciate any feedback you have. Chronicles will be done in the next handful of days.

Great run, great group and I'm happy I'm not dead! Thank you all!

Suggestion wise there isn't much. You did a good job. We stalled a bit in the final base search part. My only thought would be to have done a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in that kind of situation. Something like *X Player(s) check the door for traps* *X Player opens the door* *Group enters and roll a block of perception checks* *X Player(s) see X, Y, Z*. Something like that has helped move groups along in searchy-kind of parts, but obviously only if the group agrees on the method.

Thank you for running this. This is my first time playing a spell caster so there's still room for improvement on my part. Thanks for guiding us along the way. I also liked the story of this scenario. Who would've thought that we would disguise ourselves as our rivals.

Any word on chronicles?

They are done. See below.

Khellek

Merirdrarel

Wylka

Khargrom

Celewen

Kent

Any issues please let me know.

Did we get sub max gold? I'd have assumed that Khellek would be getting out of tier (607 for slow), but we may have missed some stuff somewhere.

I just checked the maths and I got it wrong, sorry Khellek. Please don't hold it against my monk Kitajo. Revision up at same download link, or should be.

No worries. I get out of tier gold wrong all the time.

Many thanks for running it!

Sorry to be a bother, but as a level 3, I was out of subtier, and should get out of subtier gold...

Didn't realize you were out of tier. Fixed now, redownload it.

Thanks :-)

Looks good. Thanks for the game.

Thank ye fer the run!

Chronicle looks good.

Looks good now, many thanks.

got it, thanks man!