GM SpiderBeard's Carrion Crown (Inactive)

Game Master motteditor

Knowledge (Local): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

"This dark pit is an oubliette," Eldon says as the party approaches it. "It's a sort of isolation pit that can only be accessed through the top, and is used as a particularly severe punishment for only the most dangerous prisoners."

Eldon jumps back when the Lopper appears. "Holy moley!"

Knowledge (Religion): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

"He is incorporeal! Non-magical weapons cannot hit him, and even magical weapons and spells are less effective. We need 'ghost touch' items or positive energy to deal damage normally."

When the axe Rustom wields changes, Eldon grins. "Undead whose deaths are died to specific events may also have vulnerabilities associated with that event. This axe can easily bring him down!"

Eldon moves forward, and prepares the spell cure light wounds.

This spell's positive energy will harm him!

The group draw their weapons and cast spells as they prepare for battle!

Whiskeyjack is up!

"Anyone be havin' another o' them siphons? Elsewise, we be in fer a fight!" In anyone else, that might have sounded like concern, but the warpriest just sounded excited. Nothing made him happier than to bring the hammer of Angradd to the undead.

Double move into combat. Saving shield on Rustom. ( I know it won't affect incorporeal, but it's in character.

From Eldon's knowledge religion roll it's pretty clear this is not a haunt and the siphon will not work.

The Lopper bobs along with a calm, methodical grace. It swings its axe out as Rustom; the ghostly axe passes right through his armour.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24 Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Bleed: 1d6 ⇒ 4

A vicious, bloody wound opens up on Rustom and begins bleeding severely!

Everyone is up! Rustom takes 5 damage, 4 bleed damage and is bleeding severely.

You say Rustom in the text, but have it marked as Whiskeyjack taking the damage. Which is correct?

Kawrock moves forward with his flame blade to join his allies in combat.

Double move to get into melee range.

Rustom, sorry!

Whiskeyjack reached out to Rustom and touched the man. Instantly his wounds began to close as the righteous zeal of Angradd filled Whiskeyjack's blood-red eyes.

Fervor: 1d6 ⇒ 2 healing

Edit: Meh! Enough to stop the bleed damage, anyways

Reeling from the wound Rustom quickly touches the wound to heal it

Lay on Hands: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Smite Evil: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Damage: 1d6 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

Rustom calls upon the powers of his God and a white flame bursts alongside the axe in his hand after he heals himself. However, the axe fails to connect with the Lopper who parries the blow.

Eldon, Lena and Arval are up!

Arval tries to intimidate the creature.
"You will not make the end of this day!"

Dazzling display: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Lena cranks off another magic missile spell

magic missiles: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 = 10

er...are undead affected by intimidate?

Nope. But Arval doesn't know that yet :P

Fair enough.

The magic missile spell hammers full force into the Lopper, who lets out another shriek. He slowly floats to face Arval and swings out, completely ignoring the spectacular display by the fighter. The axe passes right through Arval's armour, wounding him.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26 Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Arval takes 5 damage, and will take 6 more damage on his turn from bleeding. Everyone can go!

Bleed: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Kawrock takes a swing with is flaming sword.

Melee touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Would have been a crit threat if it wasn't immune to crits.

hit him with the axe, the axe, arval stop dancing with it.

Round 2:

Eldon moves up to Kawrock, who was already wounded before the fight started, and uses the prepared cure light wounds on him instead. "This should patch you up!"

CLW: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

Round 3:

After healing Kawrock, Eldon casts another cure light wounds spell. He holds it ready, draws his rapier as he moves up to the Lopper in a way that puts him in a flanking position with Arval, and uses the spell on the Lopper.

CLW, flanking: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 2 = 21 Positive energy damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Rustom takes and huge swing with the hand axe.

"Begone minion of evil"

Smite Evil: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

Damage: 1d6 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

Rustom swings out brutally with the ghost touch axe which connects, rocking the Lopper back. Snarling, it lunges out at the group, only to be impaled on Kawrock's flaming blade. Finally, Eldon reaches out with a hand glowing with white energy. Although the Lopper is badly injured, it continues its murderous assault unhindered!

Arval and Lena are up!

As his armor is being penetrated he curses loudly.
".................." Will leave that up to your imagination ^^
He will go full defense to try and prevent more damage.

second last spell

Since it seems to be working, lena casts another magic missile

magic missiles: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 3) + 2 = 6

Bleed: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Another magic missile snakes towards The Lopper, slamming into him with full force. Blood courses from Arval's wound. As the blood droplets hit the gruond, they race towards the Lopper, healing its own wounds!

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19 Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

A wound opens up on Kawrock this time, just a thin slices, but once again enough to start blood pouring out at a worrying rate.

Arval takes 2 damage. Kawrock takes 1 damage and is bleeding. Everyone can go!

Kawrock takes a step back and casts a healing spell on himself to stop the bleeding.

CLW: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

"I do not care for this Lopper one bit. Finish him off Rustom."

This time it was Arval's turn to receive the healing of Angradd from Whiskeyjack's hands.

fervor: 1d6 ⇒ 2 healing

Again, not much but enough to stop the bleed.

"Thanks! Nasty wound didn't close!"
He holds his shield up and stays in full defense

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Rustom keeps swinging the axe at Lopper.

Ghost Touch Axe: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Damage: 1d6 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

With the righteous fury of his God behind him, Rustom swings down once more with the Lopper's own axe. The Lopper pauses, and his head tumbles from his body. With a scream, he fades from existence.

End of Combat

"Damn that hurt a lot!"
He sits down on the ground with a puff and seems to take a moment.
"I think falling from a three story building would hurt less."

[ooc]I believe Arval has taken 11 damage in total, including Whiskey's healing right. Is this correct?"[/b]

clw wand: 1d8 ⇒ 6
clw wand: 1d8 ⇒ 3
clw wand: 1d8 ⇒ 2

Whiskeyjack pulled out his healing wand and jabbed at Arval a few times, looking into the man's wounds and face to see when the lad was back to full strength.

"Thanks! Feels a lot better."
He rises, leaning on his shield, and pulls his armor straight again.
"If this was only the lopper, how strong are the others then?"
His face fills with dread at the thought.

"How many is that now? Three out of Seven? Maybe we should head back and take a rest."

Three out of five to be exact.

"I believe we should," Eldon replies to Kawrock. "I have no spells left for today, and feel rather drained."

I'll take that as consensus.

The group make their way back to the gigantic pit. Using the dangling rope, they manage to get themselves back up into the main floor of Harrowstone. With the top levels of the prison cleared out, they are unmolested as they make their way out, and then back into the town.

As the group descend into the town, the distant sound of screams are heard. Although weary, and bedraggled, and in pain, something is wrong. The town hall is burning.

Whiskeyjack was in the middle of chatting with Arval about the benefits of a good deflection ring when fighting ghosts when he noticed the smoke plume over the town hall. "Oi! Lads and lassies, it be looking like we spent too much time in th' prison. Someone be tryin' t' burn down th' town withou' us."

Rustom looking worried says

"We must make sure Kendra is ok."

Lena starts running

what now? Only one spell left, and then I'm down to cantrips.

"That does not look like the proper place to have a fire, perhaps we should make haste as Lena has and..." Kawrock notices everyone else has started running and runs to keep up.

Arval starts running with the group towards the town.
"Now what?! What the hell is going on?!"

It's a fire you big dope. Hurry, they will need help

Eldon nearly trips as he struggles to keep up with the others. "I'm glad I filled my waterskin this morning!"

The group arrived exhausted, sore, and out of breath at the town hall and throw the doors open. Within is a scene of complete chaos. What appears to have been a town meeting with dozens of people inside of it has been invaded by undead. Flaming skulls, burning skeletons, and even ectoplasmic being are around wreaking havoc. Worse yet, the hall itself is on fire. Through the smoke you can see Kendra, the Sheriff, and the entire town council crowded against the north wall while the Sheriff tries to fight back some of the undead.

Everyone but Rustom is up! In addition to typical combat actions, you can also try to fight fires (DC 12 combat maneuver), direct the crowd (diplomay or intimidate), or save people from the fires (drgaging unconscious townsfolk out of fires). The fires are growing rapidly.

Kawrock will step forward and attempt to put out the flames.

CMB: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

Lena moves to the doorway, and seeing a spook, casts a disrupt undead at it.

disrupt undead: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20 touch

damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Saphren successfully beats out the flames nearest the door, providing a good way out for the people trapped within. Lena pokes her head in the doors, and zaps a skeleton.

Arval charges in and attack the first undead he encounters.
"Try to save them!"

Atk roll: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Dmg roll: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Eldon moves into the building, and directly goes west along the southern wall. "Everyone, don't panic! I, Eldon Appleton, have come here to save your day!"

"Meanwhile, let me entertain you with an anecdote from the time I met seven dwarves! They were guarding the tomb of a dead princess, when suddenly an evil demon prince tried to resurrect and enslave the princess with his kiss!"

Inspire Courage: +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls.

GMPcing Rustom and Whiskeyjack.

Arval charges in, and smacks the head off of a skeleton, which sails across the room. As the party charges in, people start cheering from inside. Kendra's voice carries over the crowd.

"Lena! Eld--coughon! Arval! Thank the Gods you're here! We need to get people out of here!"

Whiskeyjack stomps in and tries to put out one of the fires, and almost ends up burning himself!

CMB: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

The skeletons within the building charge for the group, swinging but missing badly.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 Damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 Damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Rustom then charges in and tries to direct the townsfolk outside, but his stern voice is lost over the din of the screaming crowd.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

SCreaming, the burning skulls fly around, hammering into people!

Attack vs Eldon: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9 Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Attack vs Whiskeyjack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Attack vs Whiskeyjack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21 Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Finally, the ectoplasmic humanoids slime their way across the room.

Attack vs Eldon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Attack vs Arval: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

The townsfolk scream as the flames spread towards them. A skeleton gets caughtint he fires, but manages to avoid the damage.

SKeleton Reflex: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

Everyone but Rustom is up! Whiskeyjack takes 6 damage.

Arval tries an attack on the creature north of him.
Atk roll: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
Dmg roll: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

"I will try and distract them! Get the people out of here!"
He yells whilst swinging his sword.