GM Silbeg's Gallows of Madness (Inactive)

Game Master Silbeg

"Mongrels!" spits Valerka. "These books are going to be of great value!"

FYI - Valarka drains life from the mite, gaining back a pool point.

Search, or move on for now?

"They will be here when we get back.. move on for now

Moving on. then
Once-fine furniture, now ripped and faded from neglect, adorns this chamber. Two large mirrors have been set on the north wall here, but cracks and dark stains mar their silvery surface, and many pieces are missing. A lute rests against the back of a stained red velvet sofa.

"ooo a lute! too bad.... wait... Trespasser? Me? Fijeet Nackl? nooooo noone has lived here in years - so it can't be trepassing. Who's asking?" Fijeet looks all around in an excitable gnome way.

"Oh that is so cool! So you are a spiritual manifestation of a family member who lived here? Which one? Marcius Sarini? Luca?"

Fijeet will continue to ramble the various names he has recently read or heard about...

"Erm... Are you quite all right, FiJeet?" Filk asks, eyebrow raised.

Fijeet looks at Filk for a moment. "You can't hear the voice? The Sarini that cannot remember who they are... i mean were... but maybe i
can help you find out who you are! Do you remember anything? Are you a boy or girl? Were you a kid when you died or an adult? Did you ever get to play hop scotch? Such a fun game... "

Atrix looks at Fijeet, a confused look on her face.

"See! Progress already. a boy - good. any idea how old? but of course we will help you - i haven't had a nice conversation with a ghost before... but it does remind me of a time when ol' uncle Nackl - his name isn't really uncle it was Abroshar Zook Furrygem Nackl, but the family all call him uncle.. anyways... uncle Abroshar Aackl met this spirit of a really old wizard and the ghost needed Uncle Nackl and his minions to carry his bones to a final resting place... which turned out to be this amazing magical chamber of Necromancy... the whole place was this awesome "Refuge of Nethys"... where wizards could study their individual schools of magic. but anyways i kinda digress..." Nackl takes a large intake of air...

"I am Fijeet Nackl. We are members of the Pathfinder Society and we have been helping a bunch of locals with some curse problems. and unfortunately it seems the source may be here in this Manor... in the other room we ran into more of the moldy bugs and moldy fey... they were really bad things that seemed to curse us with bad luck because our weapons just seemed useless... which reminds me of another Uncle Nackl story with Pugwampies... and a Seranrae Monastery... but uh yeah... anyways i think i can help you as we keep chatting and i am really good with books... like this one.." Fijeet pulls out the book from outside.

"There's lots of details about what i am guessing is your family and if we just keep chatting we can probably figure out who you are. Sound good?"

Fijheet wanders around the room looking around... almost trying to find the ghost...

"Of course i will.. i mean WE will help you remember who you are! We will keep searching, and you just tell me if anything looks familiar or you have any memory flashbacks! Like for example - did you ever sit by this fireplace and watch the flames crackle? smell the wood's smoke as if warmed your winter chill?"

"Wait.. you can't see me? How did you know i was here then?" Fijeet looks around suspiciously for a moment. "My friends are with me, Atrix Filk and Valerka. The fireplace is in what seems to be a living room.. windows facing the stables. Anything?"

Sorry, thought I had posted... must have gotten lost to work.

"hmmm.. you almost remember.. that's pretty good! We should probably test your abilities... perhaps by continuing to explore!"

Fijeet continues rambling as he leads to the door and into the main entry room... heading to door marked A

"So you remember fireplaces are warm so that's good... but you didnt know which one.. does that mean there are more? I'm not sure how i feel about that and I haven't seen another one yet... Wait - you need to be freed? Freed from where? are you chained up? I heard a story once of a ghost being chained up... but that was a long time ago and not a very pleasant story for the ghost so i don't think it applies here..."

Open the door Atrix!

Atrix and Filk cannot see who FiJeet is talking to, but they can tell that the speed of the gnome's speech is increasing, as if he is obsessing on something. Valarka starts looking at the books as if she is ready to start seaching...

"I'm not sure what kind of fumes you've been breathing, FiJeet... But better to move somewhere than just listening to you ramblings."

Filk gently catches the door handle with the power of his mind, and pushes it open.

The team moves around to investigate the only door they haven't entered on this floor. This appears to be nothing more than a cloakroom, without much of anything interesting in it.

Would you like to go downstairs via "A", or upstairs via "B"?

The team heads downstairs. Steep stone stairs descend into a vaulted cellar flooded with turbid water, in which dozens of wooden barrels idly float. The water appears to be almost 4' deep (treat as a deep bog)

You may swim, and can try to get under the barrels with a swim check, or climb onto them with an acrobatics check as a move action. Once in the water, climbing on to the far side's platform is a climb check

Fijeet keeps chattering to the ghost as long as the ghost keeps responding.

re: Filk "Fumes? I don't remember seeing any fumes.. did you smell something weird? i'm just talking to a ghostspiritthingymibbob - he keeps talking to me. and we can totally move and listen! Ooo water and barrels - weird! I bet there is a seamonster down here! I can't wait!"

Can I pull some barrels closer with telekinesis, and hop from barrel to barrel without dipping into the water?

Filk attempts to use his telekinesis to move the barrels, but they are apparently heavier, individually, than 10 pounds. Even floating, the magic doesn't work.

"Jump on in Atrix - how bad could it be? three barrels to climb over and poof - no problem! unless a zombie is in one of the barrels and it's rotten and lets him out as soon as you touch it... but ya know - no risk no reward no fun!"

"Oh, well... Time to get wet.

Filk wades into the water, and once he reaches the closest barrel, he climbs on top of it.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Filk fails to climb on to the barrel... and almost as quickly as that happens, he realizes that there is something in the murky water!!
A giant leech bites on to him (finding a very sensitive area that happened to be under the water), causing him great pain! He can feel the creature sucking the life out of him!
1 STR and CON damage!

Filk, Atrix is/are up.
Universal Adjustments:
Universal Conditions:
Knowledge: nature

Filk frowns as his wet hands fail to get a good grasp on the barrel. But immediately after he plunges back into the water, he feels something brush to his legs.

"Uh, guys... There's something here in the water."

But then the 'something' is already attacking him.

"AAAGH, get it off me! Get it off me!" he screams panic. Filk concentrates his telekinetic powers into his hands, creating a blade of shimmering force, with which he hacks down to kill the leech.

Move action to gather power
Kinetic blade: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (6, 3) + 8 = 17

Remember that:

A grappled creature takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks, except those made to grapple or escape a grapple.

Filk's blade cuts deeply in to the rubbery skin of the leech, but it does not let go.

Atrix in delay
The leech continues to hold on, sucking on Filk's precious life fluids. Filk starts looking a little pale, while the leech's belly starts swelling.
maintain grapple vs CMD15: 1d20 + 5 + 5 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 5 + 8 = 20 bite: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
+1 CON and STR damage

Atrix(D), FiJeet, Valerka is/are up.
Universal Adjustments:
Universal Conditions:
Knowledge: nature

Fijeet steps into the room and calls out "Oh s&*! that's nasty!" Before firing an arrow into the grapple.

arrow, melee, cover, pb: 1d20 + 6 - 4 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 6 - 4 - 4 + 1 = 12
damage, bp: 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 = 6

"Hang on Filk! and Fijeet casts Liberating Command as a swift action.

immediate escape artist with a +6 bonus

Escape artist: 1d20 + 3 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 6 = 12

FiJeet manages to land a shot on the nasty leech, but Filk is unable to escape its grasp.

Valerka swears, "I am not going in there until its clear!" and touches Atrix with the guidance spell

Acrobatics to "jump" at the leech Acrobatics!: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 9 - 2 = 10

Atrix leaps to the stable pillar before dropping down next to the leech. Atrix readies her sabers to attack at the next best opportunity.

Atrix gets herself wet.

Filk is/are up.
Universal Adjustments:
Universal Conditions: Deep Bog water
Knowledge: nature

"GET. OFF. ME!" Filk screams, sinking into the water in his struggle. He manages to get his head above the surface once again, and furiously stabs the kinetic blade into the leech again and again.

Move action to gather power
Kinetic blade: 1d20 + 3 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 3 - 1 = 21
Damage: 2d6 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (5, 5) + 8 - 1 = 17

At this point... the leech lets go, and is no longer moving. And Filk stops losing vital life fluids.

Combat over

"Phew... that was really gross! are you okay Filk? maybe we should hurry really fast across the water..."

"Ugh... I do feel a bit weak. But I'll survive."

Filk wades back to the stairs, and gets up from the water. He takes his wand of cure light wounds, and gives it to FiJeet.

"Would you use this on me a couple of times?"

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Then, most of his wounds healed, Filk turns back towards the water and sighs. And starts slowly making his way towards the barrels, muttering something about leeches as he goes.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Perhaps invigorated by the wrestling match with the leech, Filk climbs onto the barrel with newfound spirit.

Everyone safely makes it to the other side. Even Valerka, who b##@@es about it the whole time. However, you don't see any doors there, at least until Atrix makes it across.

Atrix Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
FiJeet Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Filk Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Valerka Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (11) + 0 = 11

Atrix opens the door to find a web of thick, pulsating goo covers the walls and part of the floor of this room. Dozens of misshapen, puffy heads and arms stick out from throbbing sacs attached to the vile substance, their mouths wailing and moaning, and their twitching claws reaching out blindly. Spiraling stairs lead down to a central two-foot-deep recess decorated with diabolical symbols.

It is dark in there, so you'll need a light source

Filk takes an ioun torch from his belt pouch, and releases it t orbit around him.

"Eww, what the heck is going on here? Can we do something to those things? Is that the same goo we've seen before?"

It does look like the purplish goo that you are used to seeing.
Moving you all in some, now that there is light.

As you make it in, suddently eight of the sacks burst, disgorging more horribly mutated mites, who all attack!

Yellow casts doom on Valerka.
will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Purple casts doom on Atrix. Atrix is shaken by the feeling of foreboding.
will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Blue casts doom on FiJeet. Fijeet is shaken by the feeling of foreboding.
will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Pink casts doom on Filk. Filk is shaken by the feeling of foreboding.
will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Orange casts doom on Valerka.
will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Red stabs at Valerka, but misses!
dagger vs AC14: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Green casts doom on Valerka.
will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Teal casts doom on Valerka. Finally, Valerka succumbs to the feelings of foreboding.
will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Valarka casts a spell on the defensive, and then reaches to touch red.
concentration DC16: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
touch: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17
SR: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5 Success!
fort DC15: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22Success!

Party is/are up.
Universal Adjustments:
Universal Conditions: webs/ooc]
[ooc]Knowledge: nature

"Eww... I knew it, I just knew something's going to jump out from those sacks."

Disgust turns into fright as the mites work their spells, but Filk isn't going keep dwelling on it. He sees the blue mite pointing its finger at him, so Filk launches a coin back at the disgusting thing.

TK blast: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 2 = 22
damage: 2d6 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (6, 6) + 8 - 1 = 19

Fijeet bravely steps forward "So it begins!
Roll out the drums of war
Roll up the cover of the killing floor
Roll out the drums of war
And let's speak of things worth fighting for
Roll out the drums of war"

Inspire Courage +1!

Filk turns a mite into so much paste, while FiJeet performs a valiant speech!

Waiting on Atrix, will probably bot later, as he is at Paizo Con

Botting

Atrix steps up and attacks orange. She is able to take down orange, but misses green.
TWF, Shaken: 1d20 + 8 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 8 - 2 - 2 = 16 slash!: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
TWF, Shaken: 1d20 + 8 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 8 - 2 - 2 = 11 slash!: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Green and purple throw darts at Atrix. Purple hits!
dart vs AC 16: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11piercing: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
dart vs AC 16: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23piercing: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Teal, blue, and yellow throw darts at Filk. Teal is the only who manages to hit.
dart vs AC 18: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20piercing: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
dart vs AC 18: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16piercing: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
dart vs AC 18: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5piercing: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Red attacks Valerka with its dagger.
dagger vs A16: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 pierce: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Party is/are up.
Universal Adjustments:
Universal Conditions: webs/ooc]
[ooc]Knowledge: nature

Fijeet continues singing as he fires his bow at the yellow mite...

bow, ic, pb, dex damage: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (5) + 6 + 1 + 1 - 1 = 12
damage, cold iron, ic, pb: 1d4 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 7

"Roll out the drums of war
Roll back the freedoms that we struggled for
What were those freedoms for?
Let's not talk about it any more
Roll out the drums of war"

"All right, we're doing good! Let's clear the room!"

Filk takes a step forward, and keeps firing coins at the mites down below - this time targeting green.

TK blast, shaken, IC: 1d20 + 6 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 2 + 1 = 24
damage, CON damage, IC: 2d6 + 8 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (5, 4) + 8 - 1 + 1 = 17

While FiJeet misses, Filk blows up another mite.

Left by herself, Valerka explains, "Bloody hell!"
She uses her ice missile to attempt to freeze the mite on her.
touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22 cold damage: 2d8 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 = 8
mite dagger AOO vs AC17: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

The mite collapses to the ground, frozen.
Atrix?

Atrix advances towards the purple mite careful to avoid any webbings.

Attack!: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 22 Damage!: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5