GM Paladin's The Solstice Scar (C) - PbP Gameday VII (Tier 5-6 Standard) (Inactive)

Game Master Paladin of Baha-who?

Botting Juxian and Peribas to keep things moving -- we've got one day left. Kronug, I need a reflex save for your animal.

I'm going to assume Juxian kept the lifelinks up, but he didn't say anything about casting Shield Other on anyone. 575 and Peribas heal by 5, and Juxian takes 10 damage.

Darkpaw takes the brunt of the lightning bolt, but Peribas avoids most of it. Darkpaw takes 23, Peribas takes 11.

Using the cover from 575 and the earth elemental, Peribas rides towards Juxian. "My wolf needs healing," he requests, while lining up for two shots at the goblin. Unfortunately, both miss.

Juxian touches Darkpaw and warm, healing light passes into his body. Casting cure moderate wounds, Darkpaw heals 13 HP.

The shambling mound attacks 575 with both tendrils, but the savvy nagaji pugilist bobs and weaves to avoid them.

The goblin witch moves closer and focuses her gaze on 575. 575, please make a Will save, DC 16. On failure, your AC (and CMD) is penalized by 2 for 6 rounds. On success, this penalty only lasts for 1 round.

All PCs are up!

Vanya, I forgot something. Just noticed you moved into a water square.

Vanya steps into the water to get a optimal attack angle for the boar. A few moments after she does so, she begins feeling an intense, painful cold as negative energy infused in the water flows up her legs.

Vanya, please make a DC 15 Fortitude save. On failure, you take 2d8 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6 negative energy damage. On success, you take just 2.

reflex save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

The raven evades the lightning bolt.

Kronug circles around before spitting his tanglefoot bag onto the goblin.

50% miss change from blink, if hits entanged for rounds: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4 and reflex DC 13 to avoid being glued to the floor.

Kronug's raven drops an alchemist's fire on the spiky ball of doom.

bombs away Touch attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

It's a witch!

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

50% miss chance due to blink: 1d100 ⇒ 28

Kronug spits his adhesive directly at the witch... only to watch her phase out of existence just before it hits and have it splatter over the trunk of a tree behind her. She phases back in and sticks her tongue out at him.

Kronug's raven's fire singes the spikes on the outside of the pod, but it seems to be made of very sturdy stuff and is not otherwise damaged.

Kronug, I don't see any way you could have moved to the spot you are at without walking through the water or moving over the dead boar. Both the water and the boar corpse are difficult terrain. If you step into the water you would be exposed to negative energy damage like Vanya just was. The closest you could get, due to the difficult terrain, would the the square I've moved your character to. Because of the boar, you could have avoided AoOs from the shambling mound if you moved through the boar's squares. If you think Kronug realistically would have walked through the water instead, make a fortitude save, DC 15. Failure results in 2d8 ⇒ (4, 1) = 5 negative energy damage, while success reduces the damage to 2.

I'll walk through the water.

fort save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Sorry, I didn't realize it was my turn. I'm used to the Bold may go! style instead of "All PCs are up" lol

If any of our PCs are injured for more than 5, I'll take 5 of their damage, but I've lost track this fight on who has been hurt.

Juxian casts cure light on himself for the coming scars 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

575 dodges and ducks the giant plant creature's attacks, not sure he can keep it up for much longer. The goblin's evil glare only makes him more unsure of himself, so he stays in his defensive stance as he continues to throw punches at the shambling mound.

Flurry1, PA, defensive: 1d20 + 8 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 8 - 2 - 4 = 11, for 1d8 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 4 = 16 damage.
Flurry2, PA, defensive: 1d20 + 8 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 8 - 2 - 4 = 19, for 1d8 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 4 = 19 damage.

Current AC: 25
Current: CMD 26

***OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT***

Several blasts of purple energy momentarily light up the battlefield. The initial shouts of celebration are quickly drowned out by the agonized screech emitted by the heart of the blight.

Table GMs, the Weakening Blight effect on page 39 is in play.

As several other teams find blight seedpods and destroy them, the witch and her plant companion shudder in sudden pain from the feedback. Both seem dazed.

Will witch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
will mound: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Both NPCs are dazed next round. Anyone who hasn't already gone can post two rounds of actions. Anyone who has gone can post another round of actions.

We just got an Aid token! Let's use it quick. You can add 2d8 damage to a successful attack, after which everyone is considered flanking (If you want, you can add that to 575's most recent attack against the Mound), you can get inspiration +1 for 3 rounds, or you can get 2d6 healing.

I'll take it on my attack, if that's ok! (If our goal is to get these guys out of the way fast. Then we can maybe use the helpful spirit thing to pop over to the seed quick?

Can't believe how much you leaving the corpses as difficult terrain has affected this fight for me. Is that in the scenario that that happens, or a personal thing?

I get to go again?

The Core Rulebook says it's a GM call. I just think that a wild boar the size of a horse would be difficult to walk around or over.

13 additional damage on 575's attack and the shambling mound is now considered flanked for anyone who attacks it.

As 575 hits the mound, another pathfinder from another group charges in from elsewhere and attacks as well! He disorients the shambling mound, leaving it vulnerable to attacks!

As stated previously, everyone gets a bonus round of actions while the NPCs are dazed!

Did the spiky ball of doom appear to take the splash damage from the alchemist's fire?

OK, it seems to me that we should get a portal from a nearby tree, to the seed pod, and go all out on that. Especially now that we've seen how it affects the critters negatively.
The shambling mound moves slowly, and the goblin will have to wade through alot of muck as well, so they can't interrupt us too quickly.

Can we do that?

Open a portal from the tree beside Vanya, to the closest tree to the pod.

At which point, all of us but Juxian (who can still double move into it to get away from the bad guys) are a single move from entering the portal, with movement to spare for most for a single attack on the seed..

Admitedly, it'd drop us in the negative energy goop for a square, but its a 5' out of it.

Put a little green cube on the two trees I'm thinking.

You hit it, but it didn't take damage. It's an object and has hardness, and the alchemist fire wasn't enough to get through the hardness.

You can totally do that, 575. The distance of the portal is limited to 60 feet unless someone makes a DC 24 Spellcraft or Knowledge(nature) check, however, and Peribas is the only one with the capacity to do that.

Peribas spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Peribas Knowledge (nature): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Hey, alright, it works! Portal opens, go go go!

The tree spirits open a gateway between two trees, one nearby and one close to the blight seed.

Seeing the portal open on the nearby tree, and the shambling creature and the goblin momentarily stunned, 575 calls for a change of tactics!

Damaging the seed
Seems to do more harm than fists
Quick, take the portal!

He then moves quickly towards the gateway in the tree, appearing knee deep in the mire on the far side.

Fort save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

With a wince, as the negative energy hits him, he wades out and stomps up to the seed pod, punching it as hard as he can!

Unsure on how movement through there works... but I think I moved it right...

If so: Unarmed strike, PA: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 10 - 2 = 26, for 1d8 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 4 = 19 damage.

If not, double move in behind it.

Oh, and Juxian will take 5 more damage from 575 via the life link, before it drops below the damage threshold

Sure, that'll be fine. You take 2 points of negative energy damage as you splash through the swamp.

575 finds the seed coat harder than normal wood, but is able to put a thin crack in it with a rock-hard fist.

So Vanya and Perribas have two actions, Juxian and Kronug (+ bird) one?

C'mon guys! Pop in and post before we run outta time. =)

Correct. The Mound is considered flanked for the first of those two rounds of actions.

Kronug withdraws away from the mound, to join the combat with the spiky ball of doom.

Meanwhile his elemental continues its assault on the plant.

flanking power slam: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 6 + 2 = 13
damage: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

At Kronug's urging, his raven snaps at the spiky ball.

power bite: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (5, 1) + 6 = 12

DC 15 hover: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

After it's attack the raven comes to the ground on the far side of the ball.

Kronug had to step through the water again so: Fortitude: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 282d8 ⇒ (7, 5) = 12 Kronug takes 2 damage.

Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Vanya shivers as she crosses the water, then runs away from the fight following 575 and Kronug. Once she reaches her friends she joins them in their attack against the strange sspiked entity...

Attack roll: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28 → Damage roll: 1d4 + 6 + 2d8 ⇒ (3) + 6 + (6, 7) = 22

Kukris are adamantine and magical. Moves. Run and then move-attack, if this causes any AoOs Vanya has mobility

Using Aid token as suggested to increase damage of 2d8

Edit

Critical Confirmation check: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26 → Damage roll: 1d4 + 6 + 2d8 ⇒ (4) + 6 + (1, 6) = 17

We got an aid token back, feel free to use it, Vanya.

Turn on the Allied Offensive on Vanya's hardness bypassing attack... and let it crit with that
Oh wait, she already included it! Buenno.

Unfortunately, Juxian doesn't have much smashing power, and Perri's basicaly been awol. 8( So hope that's enough!

Unfortunately, objects cannot be crit. The adamantine kukri bypasses hardness, of course. You have another turn of actions available, however, Vanya, so you are going to do a minimum of 14 damage to it with two adamantine kukri attacks, as long as you don't miss with a natural 1 on either of them.

1d20 ⇒ 21d20 ⇒ 11 And that's enough damage to finish it!

Vanya stabs her two black-bladed kukris into the seedpod, the starmetal sliding through the rock-hard husk as easily as into an unarmored foe. Through the cracks in the shell, a purplish, corrupted glow begins to gleam, bursting out in a cold, overwhelming blast of negative energy. 575, Vanya, the raven, and Kronug all need to make a DC 15 will save or suffer 12 negative energy damage, 6 if they succeed.

The glow fades and everyone can now see the split seed pod with the embryonic plant inside sliced cleanly into three pieces.

3d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 3) = 12

Peribas sees this, and his spirits buoyed, sends a flurry of arrows at the Shambling mound. Three arrows sink home and it sinks down into a puddle of moss and vines, defeated.

longbow with deadly aim: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 12 - 2 = 191d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 2 = 241d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 12 - 2 = 141d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 7 - 2 = 25
crit: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 7 - 2 = 15

damage to mound: 1d6 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 4 = 81d6 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 4 = 121d6 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 4 = 8

The goblin witch shakes off her daze, whimpers in fear at seeing the plant creature shot down and the blight seed destroyed. She gulps down a potion, and, while still blinking in and out of visibility, flies away into the gloom.

Combat over!

Am here, looks like a lot of posts happening, let me know how much damage you guys have and I'll heal it.

Downside of being a PbP healer is that it becomes very difficult to keep track of everyone's damage in order to take your turns lol.

Will save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Juxian, as of the seed destruction, 575 will have exactly 15 damage.
Before that, your life link had already healed 10
Though I think that's all mostly moot at the moment.

***OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT***

Strands of purple energy whip across the battleground and begin to swirl above the remains of the giant flower. The continuous chant of the Twinhorn shamans reaches a fever pitch and then suddenly stops. After a breathless moment of silence, a loud reverberating boom echoes across the swamp as a column of purple energy pierces through the clouds, dissipating into the starry sky. Shouts of celebration begin to sound across the field as Medda makes her way to the heart of the blight. A shaft of moonlight shines on the site through the parted clouds as she rips through the withered roots of the blighted flower. Medda reaches in and draws out the shriveled remains of a female crusader. In stark contrast to the rest of the remains, her silvery breastplate glimmers in the moonlight. A grievous blow has scarred its surface where a golden engraved figure spreads out her wings. Trails of blood seep out from scars running across the figure. Medda lowers the remains gently upon a white cloak that a Twinhorn warrior has placed on the ground.

With a heavenly glow, the ghostly form of Ivvora appears in the clouds above. “She was my sister-in-arms against the vile Tar-Baphon. I now know that her sacrifice spared me all those years ago, as it will all of you in the days to come. Go with Vildeis’ grace and use this blessed plate to vanquish my hated adversary. Hurry back north, for the moment of Eshimka’s reckoning draws near!”

Medda looks up to the sky as the visage of Ivvora dissipates, the red phantom hand of Anok floating above her shoulder. After a moment, she kneels next to the crusader’s remains and carefully wraps them up in the white cloak, which is slowly soaked with red. She looks at the crowd gathered around her and speaks up. “We stand here triumphant, having rid this land of corruption. But this is a mere shade of the darkness that awaits us at the Solstice Scar! Fear not, for Vildeis’ blessing will guide our weapons to strike true and eradicate Eshimka for good!”

Medda motions for the Twinhorn warriors to raise the bundled remains on their shields as one of the honored dead. “Pathfinders, you have done much for my tribe and our lands, but I ask you once more to lend us your weapons so that we might end the evil that haunts Solstice Scar. What say you?”

This concludes Solstice Scar, Version C. Table GMs, thank you for all your hard work! When filling out chronicle sheets, please note that the house has earned the Fangwood Purifier boon.

575 watches the ritual with wide eyes, not entirely sure what the shaman are doing, but knowing its probably far beyond his understanding.

When the purple energy finally dissipates, he lets out a breath he did not realize he was holding, and smiles back at the Pathfinders nearby.

Blight struck at its heart
Age old evil driven away
We have done good here

Anything more is cut off, as the image of the dwarven paladin, Ivvora, appears before Medda off in the distance, talking of battles long past, and dangers coming close.

He seems particularly excited by events, and despite the dangers, seems eager to take the fight, at long last, to the evil behind it all, at the heart of the rift back in the Twinhorn's homeland.

As we came before
We will be there at the end
Eshimka will fall!