GM SpiderBeard's The Divine Delusion (Inactive)

Game Master Barvo Delancy

GMPCing Fingers.

Fingers rushes out of range of the archers, being the only target left, and then fires an arrow at the caster, which misses badly.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7 Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

The caster yowls in pain as Kuroyoho bites him, and he quickly withdraws, barking orders to the other two. The one engaged in melee completely withdraws, but opens himself up to attack from Kuroyoho!

Once the hobgoblins are through the double doors, the caster chants a spell, and a loud rumbling sounds out before a wall of stone rises up to block the doorway!

Everyone is up! There is now a big wall of stone blocking the double doors.

Nilan blesses Zoresk with a Mark of Pharasma! +2 to hit this round

Did my attack do anything last round after I made my reflex save?

Sure did, sorry for missing that.

Zoresk scores a significant hit on the hobgoblin before he retreats, leaving a trail of blood through the newly-created stone wall.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Ducking under the balcony and out of LOS from the rooftop hobgoblins, Fingers rushes to the wall of stone blocking the entrance, searching desperately for a secret entrance of some kind.

"Anyone see another way in t'ere?This stone wall's not gonna budge for us, I reckon."

Will save: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (16) - 1 = 15

Bite AoO: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 101d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

Kumyo pouts at the rising wall, and her feline companion seems to echo her mien, its head tilting to the left as it growls lazily and starts to clean its muzzle.

"There must be a way back, or else we'll need to climb or come back later. But I'm not sure whether the wall will still be there."

I'll take that will save to mean you're not convinced by the wall.

Fingers' gut instinct serves him once again. He taps on the wall, is pretty sure it's solid, but then as he stares at it a little longer he realizes he's looking at an illusion and can see the room beyond.

Wil Save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Irina moves to strike at the wall but thinks better of it, I can't break through something like this. I'm not going out into that shooting gallery either...

Irina offers a grunt of exasperation.

"T'wall's not but a trick!" cries Fingers to his allies. "T'me, an' then after them." he says willfully crossing through what appears to be a solid wall to the rest, bow at the ready.

Kumyo's Will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Kumyo's eyes widen as Fingers slips through the wall: "An illusion! Clever goblin, I should have guessed!" she says somewhat chastising herself.

She grabs her companion by the skin of the neck and moves slowly through the wall.

Kurohyo's Will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

The feline growls and pushes back, as she steps through...

Not sure how you want to play this. Kumyo doesn't have Handle Animal.

Koriko follows the other's through the illusory wall.

ASsuming I have the actions this round I will follow, otherwise I will follow next round...

As Fingers realizes the wall is an illusion it becomes transparent to the rest of the group who see through the figment! The three hobgoblins remain ready for you on the other side, and as Fingers' hand passes through they can be seen getting ready for a counter-attack.

Everyone except for Fingers still has their full action!

I get a visual of Fingers stumbling through the wall, and right onto a bunch of spear-points, I hope that doesn't have to happen.

That would have been a great idea in retrospect. They're too far back.

Goggling in disbelief as Fingers seems to pass through the stone wall, Zoresk forces himself to reconcile with what he knows what must be. Aided by Finger's shouted advice, Zoresk finally shakes off the illusion and sees into the room beyond. Dashing up, he pivots and sweeps a leg to knock the caster to the ground. "No more of your foul trickery, boyo." Facing two armed hobgoblins at close range, he looses his grip on his fauchard and dances lightly on the balls of his feat as he prepares to defend himself with his plated glove.

Trip attempt with combat expertise: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 1 = 19

Move up and trip the caster with combat expertise up. Have one hand on my fauchard (non-cestus hand). AC 17 now.

Koriko moves past Fingers her sword at the ready and swings down at the tripped* hobgoblin.

*Unless blue is the tripped one in which case I'll attack green instead.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 6 + 1 = 23
Damage (two-handed): 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 2 = 13

Nilan blesses Koriko with enhanced AC +2 AC

Kurohyo slips behind Zoresk with a low growls and attacks the hobgoblin to Zoresk's right, clawing and snapping at its legs and stomach.

Claw: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 111d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Claw: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 151d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 181d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Kumyo stays where she is for now, smiling as her companion gets the upper hand against the hobgoblin, and the fight seems to go their way.

You all step into the local Cathedral. Somber greys dominate the area here, although the floor is done in fine marble with an enormous blue spiral of Pharasma slightly raised from it, ending at a dais where the priest would normally speak. Stained glass windows line the walls, showing the various stages of life from birth to death. A raised balcony is along the south wall, allowing for a better view of the sermon. A single door leads southwards to the graveyard.

Zoresk steps in and the illusion vanishes as the caster goes down hard on the floor with a yelp. Koriko lunges out at the hobgoblin near her, connecting viciously. The hobgoblin goes down screaming.

With just the caster left, he throws his hands up.

"SURRENDER! SURRENDER!" he cries from the ground. However, you hear many footsteps from up above you.

End of Combat

The caster is prone beneath you and not doing anything but you hear more hobgoblins coming to join the fight.

Someone stuff something in his mouth...he is dangerous when he speaks. Nilan says

Kumyo relaxes somewhat, taking a heartbeat to look at the strange room she's in.

A place of worship? she wonders, noticing the obvious trappings of faith.

Kneeling beside the prone caster, Fingers stuff his blade-polishing rag in the hobgoblin's mouth, all the while listening to the sound of boots on the floor above.

"More work t'do yet, troops. Watch them stairs. They gotta funnel through there."

Fingers also takes a length of rope from his pack and, as quick as he can, he binds the casters hands behind his back, and secures him to the outer doors of the cathedral.

I realize that's like 3-4 rounds of actions, so put them in the order you need depending on how much time they have. Hopefully the rest get into formation.

Koriko inspects the temple's layout for a moment.
"There are several flights. We don't know where they will come from."

She then points at the entrance door: "We will bottleneck them here. Grab the spellcaster and let's take position outside the door."

Nilan moves into the cathedral to assist his allies.

Before any combat, he will Bless Zoresk with +2 to attack.

"Kurohyo and I will keep an eye on this one if you don't have time, Fingers-san!" says Kumyo with a hushed but decisive voice, and her companion growls at the hobgoblin.

"Avoid to take that rag off, or just move your hands, for Kurohyo will snap your future away. Please avoid doing so. Arigato!" she says with a short bow at the hobgoblin.

Intimidate: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

Although Koriko suggested being outside to bottleneck, group movement indicated you were all inside.

The caster gulps and nods hurriedly as he's scared witless by Kumyo's polite hint of unspeakable violence. Fingers begins tying the hobgoblin up, but is interrupted by four more of them charging down from the upstairs. They round the corner, two of them bearing longbows, one with a longsword, and one particularly large hobgoblin with a glaive!

Fingers is up!

Yeah that was the opposite of what I had in mind.

Kneeling beside the downed captive, Fingers curses as the rest of the hobgoblins descend more quickly than he'd like. Standing, Fingers draws his shortsword, expecting an rush attack by the hobgoblins, he takes a defensive position.

Not sure if standing from crouching is a move action, or free. Draw shortsword as move action. If still have a standard action left, take total defense this round, moving AC to 20.

Fingers can have the stand & total defense. I'll rule that the hobgoblins came on too fast before anyone could discuss/react to Koriko's suggestion.

The hobgoblins race down the stairs. The two with bows make a beeline for the railing on the south while the other two make for Kumyo!

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Power Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15 Damage: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Kumyo is slashed by a longsword, but manages to duck a brutal cut from the glaive-wielding hobgoblin!

Everyone is up!

Koriko rushes around the others and delivers a downward slash at the glaive wielding hobgoblin.

I'm aware that'll earn me an AoO to the face.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Damage (two-handed): 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Zoresk curses as the two hobgoblin groups split and flank the group. Being on of the closest, he dashes towards the stairs and follows the hobgoblins. As he catches up, he widens his stance and hopes he can dodge aside from an arrow in time. Heroics like this aren't going to do much good if you get spit by an arrow.

Double move.

Nilan blesses Koriko with +2 AC.

The Lady protect you!

"Aye! Ishigami!" shouts Kumyo as she jerks back from the hobgoblins' weapons and cast forth a cascade of iridescent colours at the two attackers.

Cast Color Spray, Will DC 14.

Kurohyo then jumps forward to defend its mistress, all claws and teeth at the hobgoblin's legs.
Claw: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 61d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Claw: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 231d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 51d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Confirm Claw: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 141d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Despite Nilan's blessing, the hobgoblin's glaive flashes as Koriko moves in, catching the magus in the side.

Attack of Opportunity: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 Damage: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

If Koriko's hp total is correct she's at -4 and dying.

Will Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Will Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

However, Kumyo's colour spray spell hits both hobgoblins full in the eyes! One collapses on the ground, while the other drops his weapons and simply stands there blankly. You hear groans of dismay from the two archers on the south balcony. Kuroyoho then savages the hobgoblin on the ground.

White hobgoblin is stunned, purple hobgoblin is unconscious. Koriko takes 14 damage. Irina and Fingers are up!

Fingers steps in behind the hobgoblin, flanking with the grey-robed Nilan.
He uses his masterwork shortsword to stab the gobin in the back, meaning to end this thing quickly.

Fingers shortsword, flanking: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27 Crit Threat
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 Likely a confirm!
Crit dmg, sneak attack: 2d6 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (2, 5) + 4 + (1) = 12

GMPCing Irina. Some of the hobgoblins got messed with, I've deleted the offending tokens. So Fingers instead is attacking the one who is stunned, flanking with Irina.

Irina rushes in, snapping out a kick at the stunned hobgoblin as Fingers skewers it brutally. Her high kick snaps the hobgoblin's head to the side, and it collapses to the gruond.

Irina Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25 Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Time: 1d4 ⇒ 31d4 ⇒ 3

One of the hobgoblin archers races along the balcony, putting distance between himself and Zoresk. He then fires off an arrow at Nilan, which slams into the cleric's shoulder!

Archer Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 5

The other archer steps back, firing an arrow at Zoresk's throat! The warrior smacks aside the arrow at the last minute.

Archer Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6

Nilan takes 5 damage. Everyone is up!

Zoresk winces as he just barely manages to dodge aside from the arrow rushing past him. Hearing the whine spurs him into greater action and he dodges left and right a few steps forward before spinning his blade into a slashing strike. "Get yourself into cover, Father. You'll do no one any good skewered by arrows."

Fauchard attack with combat expertise: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 - 1 = 18
Fauchard damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

5-foot step and attack the hobgoblin archer. AC is 17 from combat expertise.

Nilan, seeing Koriko go down ignores Zoresk's good advice and rushes to her side. Heal: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Kumyo, seeing the situation improved, retruns her attention to their captive. She and her companion give the hobgoblin a wicked smile that says: "Yes, do try..."

Ignoring the arrow in his shoulder, Nilan rushes to Koriko's side and manages to staunch the flow of blood.

Fingers and Irina are up! Kumyo and Kuroyoho can still take an action since there's still two archers firing on the group.

Hoping to us the situation to her advantage Irina lashes out in a power filled furry sacrificing accuracy for power...

Attack 1, PA: 1d20 + 5 - 3 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 5 - 3 + 2 = 10
Hit? on the stunned one?
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Attack 1, PA: 1d20 + 5 - 3 ⇒ (18) + 5 - 3 = 20 +2 more if I still get the flank...
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Irina lets out with an ugly haymaker that almost throws her off balance but she uses the momentum for a fierce side kick that seems to land quite effectively...

I'll start with the one Fingers and I are ganged up on and then move on to my south if I take down the first...

If the hobgoblin flanked by us is still standing, I will attack him instead, but i think he is down by now.

Fingers sees the hobgoblins on the balcony as his primary concern. He leaves the group in the middle and rushes up to the stairs. Once on the stairs he crouches down taking a defensive stance.

Move action to the stairs,then standard action to take total defense. Makes AC 20 for this round.

There's a loud, satisfying crack as Irina levels the hobgoblin with a haymaker. That's enough to send him down for the count.

Fingers then rushes over for the stairs, trying to watch for arrow fire.

The hobgoblins on the balcony, seeing themselves flanked, both fire at Zoresk, howling angrily at him in their gutteral language. However the nimble warrior flattens himself against the wall and the two arrows zip by harmlessly. Looking at each other, they nod and leap off of the balcony 10 feet to the ground! One goes into a nice roll and takes no damage while the other lands on his face.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2
Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Falling Damage, Bad Fall: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

Everyone is up again! The hobgoblins have jumped off the balcony which is ten feet high; one is prone and injured.

Nilan stands and says Enough of this! The Lady curse your eyes you foul goblinoids! Throw your weapons down! Or see your fate!

Intimidate!: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

Did my swing do anything to the hobgoblin?

Zoresk watches as he rights himself as the hobgoblin's leap from the balcony from desperation. Crazy hobbers... Turning and dashing down the stairs, he pivots as he reaches the bottom and brings his fauchard down in a chopping blow at the prone hobgoblin.

Fauchard attack with prone/CE: 1d20 + 5 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 4 - 1 = 16
Fauchard damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Continuing. If the one prone hobber is dead/out for the count, I'll double move instead of move/attack. AC 17.

Whoops! Yes it did since the hobgoblin was not using its shield.

The hobgoblin takes a vicious slash from Zoresk before it leaps off the balcony and lands badly. Zoresk then simply follows it down and stabs it once more. It lets out a gurgle and lies still.

The remaining hobgoblin looks around and shrieks in terror at Nilan's commanding presence in the temple of his Goddess. For a moment, the humble priest seems far taller and mightier than any in the room, and the hobgoblin falls to its knees, throwing down its weapon in surrender.

End of Combat

DING! Welcome to level three!

Advancing to the side of the injured hobgoblin, Fingers tries to run him through with his shortsword.

Fingers Shortsword: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Dmg, if hit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5