[GM SCHOOL] Honor's Echo : Homestead (Inactive)

Game Master brunoreturns

Ijo points at Ferdrin and makes a pantomime of talking, then pointing at the door.

Bobbi leans over to Ferdrin. "Could you ask if we get a vote, please?" is quietly mentioned as the oozy person hooks a very familiar pot on their belt, turning it so the emblem is visible.

They then step to the door warily, holding off on knocking for the moment.

Ferdrin holds up his hand, palm facing outward to signal to Bobbi to halt their action for one moment. He then concentrations and conjures a magical protection around himself.

Stealth, verbal component, keep it down!: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Cast Mage Armor, increasing CL to 3 using Potent magic, 3 hours

He then lowers his hand, looks around at the other party members, and once they have confirmed ready he nods silently at Bobbi to proceed...

So there's a little hook for anybody else to "suit up", as it were :)

Bobbi stands near the door, waiting for the signal or for the question about voting to be asked, ready to move if the door opens.

Alright. Let's get this over with. Ijo goes up to the door and attempts to open it.

I will lay out the scene this afternoon.

Ijo opens the unlocked door to find a bedroom. The bedroom appears to have once been quite tidy. However, now all of the furnishings have been pushed against the north wall and you can see a pile of assorted objects pouring out from under the bed. A framed painting of a verdant pasture hangs askew on the wall.

Standing along the walls of the room are four small scaled humanoids dressed in ill-fitting cloaks and helms bearing a golden eagle insignia.

Ijo and Bobbi notice a pitchfork hanging from a contraption above the door.

The creatures stand and wait.

kn local, untrained: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Ijo stretches his arms out making sure no one advances forward with the threatening trap in front of them. Kobolds. Of course. Ferdrin, a little help here?

The kobold nearest the door looks out at Ijo and speaks.

I'm going to need an interpreter here. Before things get ugly. Ijo tries to keep his cool.

One of Ferdrin's eyebrows raises higher than the other as he gets a supremely confused expression, seeing the kobolds in their current display. He absent-mindedly nods at Ijo while keeping his eyes on them.

The kobolds look at each other nervously. The speaking kobold attempts to look more confident, but you can tell he is having difficulty meeting Ferdrin's eyes.

The rest of you hear a lot of babbling and a few badly pronounced words in Common. "voted", "democracy", and "freedom".

K: Local(Untrained): 1d20 ⇒ 20

Bobbi's eyes light up eagerly as they point to the symbol in the room, then to the pot hanging from their belt excitedly!

"I'm from Andoran! We're all about freedom and voting and democracy! Hi! I'm Bobbi! Who are you?" they offer with a hopeful tone, unaware of what Ferdrin is saying to them but hoping it's something good!

"Are you here to protect this place?"

They then give Ferdrin a look. "So what are they saying and what are you saying to them?"

Moved my token where I would be looking through the door to be talking to them.

Ferdrin takes a quick moment to fill in his teammates.

These kobolds claim they did not harm the old woman. They are free now, from what I do not know, and want to use this home as a base to start being Eagle Knights. They found these old uniforms, I suspect they don't further know what such knighthood means. I suppose I can convince them to hand over the letters and diary if they found them, or let us search for them before we leave if not.

We need the evidence for Alcasti's. They can have the place for all I care.

"I abhor unnecessary violence, especially given my rather limited experience as a field agent. If we can avoid bloodshed, and I'm referring mostly to my own, then we should try to do so."

The always-paranoid Melicertes does his best to offer the kobolds a friendly smile and a wave.

"Tell them we need to search the place thoroughly, top to bottom, for anything that belonged to the Alcosti woman."

"I might even be able to help with them finding Eagle Knights if they want to talk to some! Andoran is for Freedom and Liberty, and we rightly don't care WHO takes up the banner of Freedom so long as their hearts yearn to be free!" Bobbi says with an eager tone.

They pause for a moment.

"But yes, we need to be able to search the house first, all the places, and then we can give the Alcasti woman a better burial, and then maybe find the chickens and water the plants and point out what a farm can be to the kobolds and then...."

As morose and somber Bobbi was at the start of this journey, they seem very eager and fired up now.

The kobolds seem quite happy that Ferdrin understands the situation and is hopefully no longer mad at them.

They seem dismayed when you speak of searching the place, looking furtively at their treasure hoard under the bed.

The kobolds seem to get quite agitated, and the two in the back of the room draw slings.

The arcanist had been relaxing his demeanor as he spoke with the kobolds in the ancient arcane language, a sign that relations were improving.

Suddenly, Ferdrin again sharpens his expression in a clear sign that he didn't like the last thing they said to him. His draconic speech again takes on a booming, foreboding quality...

He imposes his gaze intensely to force a quick response.

The kobolds slam the door closed.

"They're kobolds," Melicertes reminds everyone. "Still, it was worth a try."

The oracle casts guidance on Ijo, then he readies a bolt in his crossbow.. "Ready when you are."

Bobbi blinks a few times as the discussion goes from optimistic and cheerful to Pathfinders GOTTA MURDERHOBO, and the tone of Ferdrin's voice sounds like he's the instigator as much as the kobolds are. Maybe Draconic is that angry of a language?

They momentarily lose cohesion and start 'melting' before pulling themselves back together. Moving forward carefully they knock on the door gently.

"Vote? Freedom?" they offer in a vague and forlorn hope -- the kobolds were using those terms earlier. I need to learn Draconic so this never, ever happens again.

Ijo feels Melicertes's spell influence and tightens his grip on his ectoplasmic lash. Someone tell me what's going on!

Slammed closed, but not locked? Usually I would think successful intimidation would get *some* level of compliance, not obstinance. *shrug*

They are nervous and simply want to be rid of us. They were overly concerned with the letters and diary being available as firestarter.

He rolls his eyes as he approaches the door and pops it back open.

He presumptively begins looking through the strewn piles for the desired items, as he calls back out to his companions.

I'll take a bit of help in here.

Perception, search: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Then let's get what we want and get out of here. Ijo turns to search and promptly leave.

perc: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13

I don't know if it helps, but...

Ferdrin focuses his search first on the piles emanating from under the bed...

Slammed closed, but not locked? Usually I would think successful intimidation would get *some* level of compliance, not obstinance. *shrug*

You did get compliance. They gave you lots of information and even allowed you to search the rest of the house (at least until the effects of the intimidation wore off

Irrelevant now, since you have decided to search their treasure hoard. No level of intimidation is going to allow THAT

Ferdrin, forgetting about the trap he was warned about opens the door and walks into the room.

As soon as he steps through the door, he hears a *click* and the pitchfork suspended above him starts descending. Looking in horror at his mistake, he starts to recoil when the mechanism screeches. The pitchfork pitches to the side, bounces off the wall, and falls harmlessly to the ground.

Swearing at one of the other kobolds for their horrible trap making, the Yellow kobold fires his sling bullet at Ferdrin, then drops his sling and retrieves his spear.

Sling,Melee: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 3 - 4 = 9

The bullet deflects off of a part of the mechanism hanging from the ceiling.

The blue kobold lunges forward with his spear, but is distracted by the ricocheting bullet.

Spear: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Round 1
Bold may act

Yellow
Blue
Melicertes
Green
Ferdrin
Ijo
Bobbi
Red

Ijo is about to open is mouth when things swing into motion. Ok, then!

(Melicertes used his wand to cast bless just before the negotiations began. Not sure how many rounds, if any, remain. If it's expired, he'll activate the wand again. Otherwise...)

Melicertes creeps over to the corner of the room, casts guidance, and reaching one skinny arm through the open door, touches Ferdrin.

Since each intimidation attempt was 1 minute by rule, Bless will need to be recast. By your wording, I'll take that as your action.

Green steps up on Ferdrin's other side and stabs with his spear, but the spear is deflected at the last minute by Ferdrin's magical barrier.

Spear,Flank: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 1 + 2 = 12

Round 1
Bold may act

Yellow
Blue
Melicertes
Green
Ferdrin
Ijo
Bobbi
Red

Ijo projects a protective aura on himself and wades into the melee.

Cast Shield (AC 20) and move, provoking AoOs

Ijo, give me a DC 5 Climb or Acrobatics check (your choice) to get over the bed to your current location

The kobolds lash out at Ijo as he moves past them, one scoring a telling blow.

Blue AoO: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 1 + 2 = 23
Green AoO: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 1 + 2 = 12

Blue Confirm?: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 1 + 2 = 15
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5

Round 1
Bold may act

Yellow
Blue
Melicertes
Green
Ferdrin
Ijo (-5)
Bobbi
Red

climb: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

Ferdrin Ternyth wrote:

Slammed closed, but not locked? Usually I would think successful intimidation would get *some* level of compliance, not obstinance. *shrug*

You did get compliance. They gave you lots of information and even allowed you to search the rest of the house (at least until the effects of the intimidation wore off

Irrelevant now, since you have decided to search their treasure hoard. No level of intimidation is going to allow THAT

Doh, I thought they were trying to keep us from finding it in the room. And yes, it's been some posts since the trap was mentioned.

Ferdrin prepares to cast a spell amidst the freshly born chaos...

Concentration, DC17: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Cast Magic Missile, spending one arcane reservoir point to enhance it to CL 3 with Potent Magic.

Magic missile vs. green: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Magic missile vs. blue: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Bobbi moves forwards, pointing to the symbol on their pot as they keep their shield raised against possible attacks. I know this is 1st ed, and not 2nd ed playtest, it is just descriptive text for movement. "Freedom!" they insist emphatically.

Move, possibly provoking AoO from Blue and Green if they have Combat Reflexes, Total Defense, current AC 24

@Ferdrin, why did you make a Concentration check? Were you casting defensively, or is this something about Arcanists that I am not familiar with?

The magical darts speed from Ferdrin's hand, burning holes through the kobold's doublets.

Blue snarls, but Green seems to be having difficulty staying on his feet.

Neither acts as Bobbi barrels through into the room.

I won't be able to take the Kobold's turn until Monday evening.

Yes, casting defensively because he was directly adjacent to green and blue. Otherwise he takes *two* AoOs (!!). Also, apologies for not including a guarded 5' step in the turn post, amending...

After unleashing his arcane bolts, Ferdrin takes a guarded step further into the room to make space for other teammates to enter the fray.

Yes, casting defensively because he was directly adjacent to green and blue. Otherwise he takes *two* AoOs (!!). Also, apologies for not including a guarded 5' step in the turn post, amending...

After unleashing his arcane bolts, Ferdrin takes a guarded step further into the room to make space for other teammates to enter the fray.

I moved in to soak the AoOs. You should be fine :)

The red kobold cocks its head in wonderment at Bobbi's pot with the Eagle Knight symbol, then chatters at him in Draconic.

He sends a sling bullet flying past Bobbi's head before throwing it to the ground, drawing his spear and advancing with a five-foot step into range.

Sling,Melee: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 3 - 4 = 10

The yellow kobold moves to flank Ferdrin, thrusting with his spear, which is again deflected by the magical force surrounding the arcanist.

Spear,Flank: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 1 + 2 = 13

Blue tries to stab at Ferdrin again, this time making it through the barrier, scoring a light gash. He then moves into a flanking position on Bobbi.

Spear,Flank: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 1 + 2 = 19
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2

Round 2
Bold may act

Yellow
Blue (-3)
Melicertes
Green (-5)
Ferdrin (-2)
Ijo (-5)
Bobbi
Red

Don't forget that Bless is in effect if you start attacking

"Oh, dear." Melicertes fires his light crossbow at the green kobold. The oracle's eyes widen in surprise, when his bolt actually hits his target. Master Farabellus would be so proud!
Attack; Damage: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 221d8 ⇒ 4
Crit!?: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Additional Crit Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Even firing through cover, into melee, Melicertes' is able to harness his blessing, and the bolt strikes true. It does not confirm The green kobold slumps to the ground, out of the fight.

Round 2
Bold may act

Yellow
Blue (-3)
Melicertes
Green (-9)
Ferdrin (-2)
Ijo (-5)
Bobbi
Red

Don't forget that Bless is in effect if you start attacking

Ijo is about to pounce on the kobold when the bolt lays it low. He swings around the room to give the (yellow) kobold the business.

2-hand lash, bless: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 1 = 6

Providing a lacking performance.

Bobbi moves up to prevent a kobold from directly flanking Ferdrin, and turns his attention to the downed green one, starting to work on patching their injuries.

I'm not gonna have another ratfolk. It's not going to be another ratfolk.

Heal(First Aid:Stabilize): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

I will bot Ferdrin if he is not able to post before tonight

Ferdrin steps out of combat and unleashes a ray of frost at the Blue Kobold, but the ray swings harmlessly wide.

Ray,Bless: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Red and yellow turn and swarm the injured Ijo, but fail to bypass his defenses.

Red: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Yellow: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13

Blue chases Ferdrin and continue stabbing at him, but continues to get his spear deflected.

Blue: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13

Round 3
Bold may act

Yellow
Blue (-3)
Melicertes
Green (-9)
Ferdrin (-2)
Ijo (-5)
Bobbi
Red

Ijo attempts to bring the lash across the shoulders of (yellow).

lash, bless: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 3 + 1 = 19
damage: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (5, 3) + 4 = 12