GM Netherpongo's Champion's Chalice I (Inactive)

Game Master Nathan Goodrich

She is going to try and climb down
1d20 ⇒ 3

LOL, she makes the Goofy yell

Climb down? To the outside of the trail? The bad guys are above you. I...don't actually even know how far the down direction is.

I moved Nalina up one more square (double move) because I think she doesn't have reach, right? The normal dire tiger doesn't. That target was Cornelia and she went down, in any case.

"Hey, there's someone behind us! Go get them!" shouts Neville as he throws his atlatl dart at the huge tiger in front of him.

Drummond hurls an atlatl dart at Ingrge that strikes the half-elf with ferocious force. Neville's dart at Nalina misses her and he retreats back onto the plateau. 10 damage to Ingrge.

For our large-size peoples: as long as any of your squares is entering a climbing square, you'll still be Climbing. Drummond & Neville aren't visible from the path you started on anymore.

Party turn!

Seeing that his magical attack has bested the woman, Jiro is feeling quite pleased. "We can't see 'em from down here, Lemongrass! Can you handle it?" he yells back up the bluff.

Readied Action: If Ingrge says that he needs help, then Jiro will move 30' back towards the path up the hill. Jiro doesn't climb.

I guess I misread the map

What were you intending to do, Rivani?

Pethwen continues to encourage her companions, her clear, musical voice ringing out over the battle like a soundtrack. She then rises into the air, flying up towards and above the crest of the hill. Her long, silvery-white hair breathtakingly catches the rays of the sun as she does so and the shadow she casts on the ground has a pair of large angelic wings on its side, that are not there on her physical person.

Continue Inspired Courage. Don't forget to add the +1 to attack & damage everyone. Cast Fly. Fly up 30 towards the top of the cliff.

Nalina finishes climbing up the hill.
climb: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8BAAAAH! That's really not worth my shirt reroll. Ugh.
climb: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Unfortunately it takes her more time than she expected, but she finally crests the top of the hill. Double move. Ugh.

Ingrge grins at Drummond, after absorbing his blow. "Nice shot...my turn..."

The ranger fires a couple arrows at Drummond...

Typical Attack (Full Ranged Attack Action, 30' or less):
To Hit: Dex+Base, MW, Weapon Focus, PBS, Precise Shot, Flurry of Blows, Deadly Aim, Deadeye Bowman, Point Blank Master

Damage: PBS, Deadly Aim, Flurry of Blows

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 17

Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 4 = 9

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 27

Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 1 + 4 = 12

I was wanting to get close enough so that I can psi blast :)

Crowe walks towards the opponent (red) and attacks with his bardiche in his enlarged form and starts raging.

Mwk Bardiche two-handed enlarged attack roll, fighting defensively (+1 Mwk, +4 Bab, +6 Str., -0 Powerattack for first attack due to Furious Focus, -1 size): 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 11 - 1 = 17

Bardiche enlarged damage (+6/+3 str 2H, +6 Power Attack): 2d8 + 15 ⇒ (7, 1) + 15 = 23

Even enlarged, you'll need to climb up that slope, Crowe. I moved you back, but you can take your last turn over again as well as this turn.

"You'll pay for that, landlubber," Drummond growls as he throws another atlatl dart at Ingrge. He hits Ingrge for 12 damage.

"That tiger is coming!," Neville shouts as he continues to attempt to fend off Nalina. He hits Nalina for 14 damage.

Drummond is bloodied.

climb check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Nalina roars in pain, then charges and pounces on (red guy).
claw1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 damage: 2d4 + 5 ⇒ (3, 4) + 5 = 12 grab: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 5 + 4 = 26
claw2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 damage: 2d4 + 5 ⇒ (2, 2) + 5 = 9 grab, if needed: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 4 = 28
bite: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (3, 1) + 5 = 9 grab, if needed: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 4 = 12

She very likely eviscerates him, and that's just fine with her. Self-preservation instinct, and all that.

Jiro stands around as he hears the sounds of battle, but no one responds to his question. Frowning, he shrugs and moves back towards the path. "Oh well, guess it should be fine. Wish there was a bit more communication, however."

Double Move.

That's a failure on the first climb check, Crowe, but you can try moving again with a second Climb. All of that would be for the previous turn, so you can continue taking actions for this turn as well.

Nalina: your first two attack rolls were bad. The bite hits and does damage, but he isn't grabbed.

Crowe walks towards the opponent (climb: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15) and attacks with his bardiche in his enlarged form and starts raging.

Mwk Bardiche two-handed enlarged attack roll, fighting defensively (+1 Mwk, +4 Bab, +6 Str., -0 Powerattack for first attack due to Furious Focus, -1 size): 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (2) + 11 - 1 = 12

Bardiche enlarged damage (+6/+3 str 2H, +6 Power Attack): 2d8 + 15 ⇒ (7, 7) + 15 = 29

"Who are you talking to, Jiro" Pethwen calls back in as close to a non-musical voice that the group's heard. "Who is supposed to be Lemongrass, again? I can't keep up with your silly names!"

She then moves to get a clear sight of their attackers, letting fly an arrow towards the one engaged in combat with Nalina, encouraging her and the others to keep up the attack.

Precise, Point Blank Shot, Deadly Aim
Mwk Longbow: 1d10 + 7 + 1 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 1 - 1 + 1 = 13 Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 + 2 + 1 = 11

Maintain Inspire Courage for +1 to attack and damage Don't forget to add these on if you haven't been doing so, already. Poor old IC is the first thing to be forgotten in PbP.

Botting Ingrge for this round:

Ingrge shoots more arrows at Drummond in response to the atlatl attacks.

Point-Blank Shot, Deadly Shot, Inspire Courage, Rapid Shot
Attack 1: 1d20 + 11 + 1 - 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 11 + 1 - 2 + 1 - 2 = 22
Damage 1: 1d8 + 1 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 4 + 1 = 11
Attack 2: 1d20 + 11 + 1 - 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 11 + 1 - 2 + 1 - 2 = 12
Damage 2: 1d8 + 1 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 4 + 1 = 11

His first arrow strikes into Drummond, knocking the pirate to the ground. Ingrge launches the second arrow at Neville, but misses.

Rivani: I thought I said so in my last email but I'm assuming that you tried to climb up toward the fight in the last round and failed rather than tried to climb down on the opposite side of the map and fell to an uncertain fate.

Crowe: One Climb check moves you 1/4 speed and wouldn't have put you in range to swing. Crowe is using a breastplate, so that's 7.5 feet. I moved you onto the cliff. You can fast climb at -5 if you'd like to go faster (1/2 speed).

Yes, she will be trying to climb up :)

Sorry GM! Thanks for the info.

climb check first move action: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
climb check second move action: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

I'm not sure how to tell who is up. Do I have an action pending?

"The half-elf with the bow is Lemongrass!" Jiro yells loudly as he gets farther from the battle in direct distance, but is moving down the only path that will allow him to reach the fight. "I shall be there to aid you in no less than thirty seconds! Hold on to your tuchuses!"

Jiro, we're doing a mushy sort of initiative where the monsters all go at the same time and the Pathfinders all go at the same time. Within a Pathfinder initiative (broadly speaking, broken up by my posts where I have the enemies act) the players can act in whatever order they want: usually the order they post in for convenience unless specified otherwise. It's an inaccurate way to do initiative, but if we did initiative correctly this would all take forever.

In the most recent instance, it was probably more confusing because I took a turn in the middle of all that for Ingrge.

OK, Crowe has climbed to the area I place him in and we'll say that's good enough for him to be done climbing. His two turns were: put away weapon (you need two hands to climb) and successful climb checks thereafter. I might have missed something, but this is close enough. Crowe doesn't have a weapon out at the start of his next turn.

"Trail Hounds forever!" shouts Neville as he sees his ally go down. He steps away from Nalina and throws an atlatl dart at Ingrge. While his throw is accurate, Ingrge nimbly dodges the shot.

Party turn!

"Forever might be shorter than you think!" Pethwen calls out. "Victory to the Bold Lunar Striders!"

The cleric sends off another arrow as she spurs on the team.

Precise, Point Blank Shot, Deadly Aim
Mwk Longbow: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 7 + 1 - 1 + 1 = 17 Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 2 + 1 = 5

Maintain Inspire Courage for +1 to attack and damage

Are we on Map 2?

Roger that. I'm just having trouble understanding who we are waiting on actions from.

@GNPW: There is only one combat map on the Slides link. It is in slot 2.

Jiro continues his swift movement through the rocky forest as he follows the trail. "Victory!" he yells as his voice gets farther away from Pethwen.

Double Move as stated.

Crowe draws his weapon and attacks with his bardiche in his enlarged form and starts raging.

Mwk Bardiche two-handed enlarged attack roll, fighting defensively (+1 Mwk, +4 Bab, +6 Str., -0 Powerattack for first attack due to Furious Focus, -1 size): 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 11 - 1 = 29

Bardiche enlarged damage (+6/+3 str 2H, +6 Power Attack): 2d8 + 15 ⇒ (5, 4) + 15 = 24

Nalina savages the remaining enemy.
claw1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22 damage: 2d4 + 5 ⇒ (4, 4) + 5 = 13
claw2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26 damage: 2d4 + 5 ⇒ (2, 1) + 5 = 8
bite: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 5) + 5 = 14

I don't see any bad guys on the map though even scrolling around

Red guy isn't a bad guy? Or is he already down?

Ingrge will fire at the remaining Trail Hound, if that foe is still standing after Nalina's attack...

To Hit: Dex+Base, Magic, Weapon Focus, PBS, Precise Shot, Deadly Aim, Deadeye Bowman, Point Blank Master

Damage: Strength, Magic, PBS, Deadly Aim

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 = 21

Damage: 1d8 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 1 + 1 + 4 = 15

Red was the remaining bad guy. With all of those attacks, it won't matter either way. All bad guys are down.

A search of the bodies reveals only crafted gear from the field.

Do the recovery thing and then we'll continue with your travel phase.

Ingrge nods to Pethwen. "I could use a couple of hits from that wand we found...if you don't mind...I'll give the Trail Hounds credit, they were accurate from range..."

Nalina reverts to human form. "They accosted us first. Cheaters." She spits on the ground in their direction. "Pethwen, do you have some healing magic available?" Currently at 25/39

As the group is cleaning up the area, Jiro jogs into view on the plateau with his rapier drawn. "Avast ye scoundrels! The mighty Jiro has arrived. Prepared to be skew..." he yells proudly.

"Oh, it's all sorted then?" he asks, the answer obvious. "Let's move on!"

Jiro isn't too injured. Just a bit a bleed on the shoulder, but nothing a good rest can't solve.

"Stand near, friends!" Pethwen steps forward to channel some healing energy onto the injured among the group, before claiming one of the armors.

How badly is Ingrge injured? Worse than Nalina?

Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3
Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5
Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8

Pethwen will take the Studded Leather Armor, or one of the Hides if someone else wants the leather.

Jiro bows towards Pethwen as the soothing feeling of warmth rushes over him like the herd of stags fleeing from the hunter's bow. "Your god's holy light is quite invigorating!" he says happily as he declines any of the gear. "Let's move to the next section of forest! We can't wait for others to get ahead and ambush us!"

"Again!" he adds with a chuckle.

Ingrge did take more damage than Nalina. He needs 6 more healing to be topped off after the channels you already did. One more thing to keep in mind is that you didn't see all of the members of the Trail Hounds in that ambush.

Leaving the site of the Trail Hound ambush behind, you leave the hill country behind you as you descend into the jungle below. Thick vegetation and the dense forest begin to slow your progress. Your travels take you to a clearing in the forest where the trees are draped by wispy white threads that flutter and drift in the breeze. Mountains rise far to the north, while in the distance to the south the plains give way to thick, verdant forest.

There are some kind of very large vermin ahead that are happily (and messily) munching on the remains of some of your fellow racers.

Party turn!

Note: The map for this is REALLY small in comparison to the size of the combatants, so I added the map that you are starting on to the combat area. We're also going to declare that the squares are 10' in size. Except for Nalina, try to use up a quarter of whatever square you are in and so forth. Spells that do not last at least an hour per caster level are down, and it is the same day as the Trail Hound ambush. The caterpillars are large size.

Perception 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Behold she says pointing at the cocoons. Something stirs within [/b]

"Thank you, Pethwen. Your divine patron obviously favors you."

As the group gets close to the large vermin....
Kn.Nature: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
"The creatures are named Blood Caterpillars. Their spines are poisonous, so be cautious around them. They can also shoot webs to entangle us. Best to either stay out of range or charge and destroy them quickly. I know which of those I'll be doing..."
As Nalina grins viciously, her grin gets even more vicious, her teeth sharpening and her body changing once more. Dire tiger form again. I'll also add the Shifter Aspect this time to get an additional +2 Dexterity.

Nalina then stalks forward, hoping to catch the creatures by surprise once the group gets closer.
Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9 Not very sneaky. Moving half speed forward, 20 ft.

Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15

Ingrge will move 5' NW and fire two arrows at the northernmost caterpillar...

To Hit: Dex+Base, Magic, Weapon Focus, Precise Shot, Flurry of Blows, Deadly Aim, Deadeye Bowman, Point Blank Master

Damage: Magic, Deadly Aim, Flurry of Blows

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 10 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 13

Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 1 + 4 = 12

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 10 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 25

Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 4 = 6

Crowe charges forward and draws his weapon during the move and attacks with his bardiche and starts raging.

Mwk Bardiche two-handed attack roll, +1 Mwk, +4 Bab, +6 Str., -0 Powerattack for first attack due to Furious Focus, +2 charge: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

Bardiche damage (+6/+3 str 2H, +6 Power Attack): 1d10 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16

AC 14 due to charge

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

"Onwards to the hunt, once again!" Pethwen calls out, her joyful voice ringing out like the clear note of a bagpipe.

Inspire Courage +1 Attack/Damage for all!

Seeing that Crowe charges into the fray, Jiro follows after him with his fleet feet, brandishing his rapier as he leaps into action. "Do not fret, my tall, bulky friend. I am right behind you!"

Double Move.

The psychic will cast detect thoughts to see if she can see what is going on in the moving coccoons.

DC 15

Rivani, you aren't in range to detect thoughts in the cocoons. Remember that these are 10' squares. That spell creates a 60' cone. You do get presence of thoughts, but you'd expect that to be your allies.

One of Ingrge's arrows pierces the thick hide of the northmost caterpillar and Crowe's attack slashes downward in a spurt of gore, but fails to kill the creature. Neither caterpillar is bloodied yet.

Sensing the presence of new scrumptous food, the northmost caterpillar plows its way through the jungle undergrowth, trampling bushes and small trees in its wake.

The other two caterpillars bite down with their massive maws at Crowe. Both sets of teeth gash down on his armor and pierce through. 16 damage & 14 damage to Crowe. The caterpillar that he attacked earlier also attempts to stab Crowe with its bristles, but they fail to reach him.

Critters do appear to have reach. Party turn!

One other thing I should mention before you guys take your turns. For each natural attack or non-reach melee attack you guys make on these critters, I need you to make a Reflex save and a Fortitude save. The Fortitude save won't actually happen unless you fail at the Reflex, so make sure that they are paired together in some obvious way.

Ingrge moves 5' west and fires again at the northernmost caterpillar...

To Hit: Dex+Base, MW, Weapon Focus, Precise Shot, Flurry of Blows, Deadly Aim, Deadeye Bowman, Point Blank Master

Damage: Deadly Aim

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 26

Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Longbow: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 10 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 2 = 25

Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Don't forget the +1 Attack & Damage from Pethwen's Inspire Courage! Looks like Ingrge missed those.