GM SpiderBeard's Wrath of the Righteous (Inactive)

Game Master Barvo Delancy

Rowena aims for the jiggly blob of goo.
Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Ayesha steps in to swing upwards at the amoeba, her scimitar adding to her reach and allowing her to get to the creature's level with only a small hop. Unfortunately, the hop threw her completely off balance, and her elbow struck the wall, nearly causing her to lose hold of the black scimitar.

1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Thora plants her feet, readying an action in case the blob happens to come down from there.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage: 1d12 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

Anevia limps into view. The amoeba detaches itself, plummeting down onto Ayesha! However she nimbly side-steps and it splats on the floor. Thora's axe easily slashes into it, nearly cleaving it in two.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Damage: 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Grab: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Meriui stares down the hole and loud hooting and hollering floats up into the room you're in. There appears to be a large pack of angry mongrels down there.

Sarkast, Ronan, and Jinxx are up!

Sarkast pulls out his remaining spear and holds it ready. He calls out into the last room, "Someone back there pick up my dropped spear, I may need it soon!"

Move action to draw a spear, then ready an attack if the ooze or any other hostile creatures moves into a clear shot. By my count there is one on the ground in the first room, one under the ooze, and one in his hand.

Not sure if Ronan has enough actions but he will go back and grab the spear

Ronan tells Sarkast "I can go get it for you."

With that Ronan runs back to grab the spear and returns, and hands the spear to Sarkast

I'll cheat and pretend you can run in, grab the spear, and run back.

Down below in the hole, Meriui sees the blue-skinned mongrel stare up. With a good look at her face, he sees six-sets of eyes stare at him before she runs off into the darkness.

Meriui, Rowena, Ayesha, and Thora are up! Unless somebody gives chase into the hole, Wenduag is out of combat.

Rowena gives one last arrow to the amoeba.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

She turns to meriui staring into the hole. "Should we descend?"

Rolling critical hit

Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
Crit Damage: 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (3, 5) + 4 = 12

That blob had a family!

Rowena takes careful aim and her shot hits dead centre. The amoeba explodes, miraculously sparing everyone in the room the brunt of its acidic attack. Rowena's arrow clatters to the ground and the group can finally rest. For a moment.

End of combat

Jinxx lets out a loud whimper and Sarkast's partially healed wound from the lizard begins to burn fiercely.

Jinxx and Sarkast make Fortitude saves - DC 14.

With the hectic, long combat finally over you can finally take a look around the room. This appears to be a common room with a table strewn with dice and clay jugs. Stained canvas pillows rest on chairs, and a copper bowl filled with coals hangs from the ceiling, filling the room with warmth and an orange glow. A pit in the southwest corner leads into a dank cavern, from within you can hear the howls of angry mongrels.

After a moment, the howls cease. Everything is now quiet.

Fort Save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7 Oh, that's probably not good...

Sarkast collects his spear from Ronan. "Thank you ... I was concerned that the mongrels might be coming back up, and wanted to make sure to remain armed." He picks up his other one from where the ooze exploded, and sheathes two, slotting the third into his thrower.

He then joins the group examining the rooms.

Sarkast can take 10 for a 19; if someone aids him, that gets over 20 without having to roll.

Poison: 1d2 ⇒ 2

Sarkast feels his limbs stiffen and become clumsy as the poison burns through his system.

Take two dexterity damage.

Fighting through the pain, Sarkast examines the room in good detail. No sounds come from the pit below as he searches. After a little while, nothing of value is found. A quick look in the garbage room reveals just that - garbage.

Sarkast notices that the scar from where the lizard bit him has stiffened up and his joints are becoming sore. He goes over to Rowena and asks, "Could you look at this? I may have been poisoned. Can you tell if it is going to get worse?"

"I don't like that she got away. We could be facing a general army of those mongrels." Still, Ayesha took the time to scan the room with Detect Magic, and see if the mongrels left anything behind.

perc: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

"What's done is done. We can't change the fact that she got away. I don't see a way back up through this hole, though, so if they are going to come for us, they're going to have to go around, somehow. I would stay ready for them to appear at one or more doors as we keep exploring."

Jinxx shakes his head with the pain.

Fort Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Poison: 1d2 ⇒ 1

Jinxx takes 1 dex damage.

As you search the area you check the bodies of the mongrelmen. They wear ragged clothes and carry crude clubs with no money. A couple of them have crudely carved neckwear, which look like symbols to Baphomet.

From where you are your options for exploration are back in the room where you fought the lizard. As you start looking over the area, you hear the unmistakable sound of a small girl's voice float up from the pit below.

"Help me! The bad people have me! They took me from the surface but the ladder is too high! AHHHHH--"

She lets out a blood-curdling scream which is abruptly muffled. There are now no sounds from the pit.

Aravashnial and Horgus make their way into the room. Horgus' eyes widen at the sound of the crying girl.

"I hate this place!" he snaps, visibly upset.

Sarkast moves up to the edge of the pit, and carefully leans down so that he can listen for any sounds of movement or other clues as to what is happening.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

We have activity! I'll get the ball rolling come Monday.

Sarkast leans over the edge of the pit, listening intently. The scream of the little girl is gone now, and he hears is the shuffling and breathing of a group. A light 'click' is heard, which sounds like someone setting a crossbow, and then some whispers in the mongrel language. Someone quietly laughs before being shushed. Finally a quiet 'pop' is heard followed by a loud swallow.

Sarkast moves back to the group and whispers. "They have set a trap for us. There is at least one crossbow cocked and aimed, and someone drank a potion of some sort. Any ideas?"

Whispering also, Ayesha replied "I have a color spray spell prepared that could likely incapacitate most of them, if I am lucky. I say we move quickly, as a group, and let me drop the spell first."

All right, let's get this rolling again! Quick recap since we had the break and these things help.

When Last we Left Our Heroes

All of you had been in Kenabres for the celebration of Armasse. it was the last days of the fourth crusade, which had been falling apart due to internal corruption. While at the festival, the demons struck. Khorramzadeh the Storm King fought Terendeleve the Silver Dragon in a titanic battle, winning easily. A rift was created, which sent all of you plummeting into the darkness.

Awakening, you found yourselves with a Riftwarden by the name of Aravashnial, a proud-arrogant elf who had lost his eyes. Anevia was a former rogue and now wife of a famous crusader. Horgus was an acerbic, unpleasant nobleman. You came together and fought through the caverns, defeating a variety of vermin and then consecrating an old temple. During these travels, you began to unearth evidence that a cult of Baphomet was alive and well on the surface.

You then came upon the village of Neathholm, a settlement of mongrelmen, a strange people warped by magic. Aravashnial is convinced they are the descendants of crusaders. There, you were given food and rest and directions to the surface, on the condition you destroyed mongrel 'traitors' who had banded together with demon cultists on the surface.

You are now in the den of the mongrel traitors, having defeated many of them. An open pit with a rope ladder now lies before you. A panicked girl's voice has been calling for help, and you are convinced that the ladder down leads to a trap.

Anevia stares at the pit in horror.

"We have to go down! If they have a prisoner there we need to rescue her. Didn't one of those scales you got grant the ability to levitate? That may be a good way to descend without getting caught on a rope ladder."

Still whispering, Sarkast nods. "Your spell sounds like a good opening move, Ayesha. Then we drop light into the pit so we can see what we are up against. "

"Good thinking Anevia, I totally forgot I had this thing. Who do we send down first? Ayesha?"

Ronan pulls out the scale that he has.

Aravashnial feels his way over to the group and finds Ayesha's shoulder. He leans heavily on her.

"You forget you have a world-class conjurer with you! If Ayesha needs something to distract the mongrels, I can summon a creature to draw their fire."

"I also have some dragon scales. I can use them to cast levitate 3 times." She pulls out the scales and hesitates. "...I don't want to go down first. I can't cast light..."

You have two available light spells, one from Ayesha which is currently on Meriui, and one from Aravashnial which isn't in play at the moment.

Rowena thinks. "Aravashnial, can you summon a beast down there from up here? It could serve as a distraction...once the beast is summoned, I'll levitate down there and cast mist. We won't be able to see whatever is down there...but they won't be able to see us either."

Casting levitate

"Very good idea Rowena. I think Horgus and Aravashnial should stay up here till we have made the way clear."

"And me! I'm not going down any ladder like this!"

Arvashnial nods at Rowena's words, and feels his way over to the lip of the pit. He chants a spell, points a finger down, and a bat the size of a cow appears below. It goes into a dive.

"Go kill whatever attacks you!"

Okay, since the mongrels have readied actions, the way this works is that they all get top of the round initiative, followed by the rest of the group. So everyone gets a standard action now. I'm going to GMPC Rowena since she dictated her action ahead of time, and that will let combat get moving.

Crossbow 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2
Crossbow 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3
Crossbow 3: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7
Confirm: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7
Wenduag: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 5

The bat dives in to attack, but has trouble staying aloft after getting riddled with arrows.

Fly: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

The bat manages to attack, you hear a scream as it bites down on a mongrel.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21 Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Finally, Rowena gently floats down into the cavern, revealing six mongrelmen and Wenduag tangling with the bat. She chants a spell, and a dense fog appears around her, blocking all missile attacks.

Everyone is up! I have Meriui and Thora on autopilot right now. They will act according to group orders - otherwise I'll just play them as I think is best. Descending the rope ladder is a move action. Map is updating.

Sarkast takes his spear in hand, moves up to the pit, and drops in.

15' of movement to the pit, Acrobatics to avoid falling damage, then finish move just north of Rowena.

Acrobatics, DC 15: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

*facepalm* Standard action to stand up and hope nobody noticed in the fog...End up in the square just north of Rowena.

Falling damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Sarkast triumphantly splats down onto the ground, but thankfully the mist hides his shame.

Ayesha, Ronan, and Jinxx are up!

Ronan uses the dragon scale to levitate Jinxx down to help with the fight.

does darkvision help see though the fog?

Nope, Jinxx has 5' vision like everyone else in the cloud. Here are the spell details.

A billowing cloud appears under Jinxx, who calmly floats down to the ground below before scampering to the side.

Thora bellows something and slides down the rope after Jinxx. She hits the bottom with a clank and moves to the side.

Meriui and Ayesha are up!

GMPCing those who did not post.

Ayesha and Meriui both slide down the rope. The light from Meriui's sword provides some dim point to focus on in the fog. The gigantic flapping shadow of the bat can be dimly seen, and the howls of the mongrels are everywhere. The sound of the mongrels battling the bat is heard.

Circle: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Arrow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

There is a loud screech, and the shadow of the bat vanishes. Cheers sound up and the form of a reptilian mongrelman shows up in the mist, swinging at Thora.

Plain Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
Under 20 Misses: 1d100 ⇒ 30

Finally, a volley of missiles flies into the fog for the party! Most of the bolts miss entirely, but one manages to find Thora, slamming into her as she recovers from the club wound.

Triangle: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 5 Even Misses: 1d2 ⇒ 2
Star: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7 Even Misses: 1d2 ⇒ 1
Square: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1 Even Misses: 1d2 ⇒ 2
Wenduag: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2 Even Misses: 1d2 ⇒ 2

Everyone is up!

Rowena yells "MIST STAAHHPPP!" and raises her holy symbol. The mist spirals into the symbol, disappearing instantly.

Dismissing mist.

She raises her bow and looses an arrow, aiming for Wenduag. Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21 Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

The mist vanishes as Rowena dismisses it, the light from Meriui's sword flooding the cavern. Rowena's beautiful shot rips through Wenduag's shoulder, drawing a shriek of pain from the mongrel.

As soon as the mist dropped, Ayesha cast her spell. Ribbons of colored light snaked out across the mongrelmen in front of her, entrancing, blinding, and stunning those that were too slow to close their eyes.

Ayesha splays her fingers and chants an incantation. A dazzling display of colours overwhelms the majority of the mongrelmen.

Star Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Circle Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Triangle ave: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Arrow Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Wenduag: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Most of the mongrels throw their arm over their eyes and resist the spell! However, one catches it full in the eyes and collapses to the ground, twitching. And most importantly Wenduag shrieks as she is dazzled by the spell. Rather than collapsing, she is blinded and stunned.

Sarkast, Jinxx, Ronan, and Meriui are up!

Amazing save rolls! But at least we got the big one!

Jinxx snakes his way around the rest of the group to attack the mongrel nearest to Meriui.

Attack Bite: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Ronan makes his way down the rope to see if he can be any help. Seeing all the mongrels and he looks at the one holding the club in front of Thora, with a gesture he casts grease on the club in the mongrels hand.

This area is too cramped for my usual tactics ... if I move around behind this one, I'll have all the rest attacking me, and that won't do anyone any good.

Sarkast bides his time, preparing to leap into action when he is needed.

Ready an action to 5' step and attack a mongrelman if either Thora or Ayesha moves out of their square or gets knocked unconscious.

Thora lets out a mighty roar, despite her wounds, and slashes at the mongrels, trying to cleave some heads off. Her first swing misses and the second embeds itself in a mongrel, barely missing its unprotected neck.

Cleave: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Damage: 1d12 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Cleave: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 Damage: 1d12 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Confirm: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 Damage: 3d12 + 12 ⇒ (9, 1, 9) + 12 = 31

Meriui slashes out with his scimitar but misses badly.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

The mongrels look around and start hooting to rally themselves. THe counterattack begins.

Triangle: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (10) - 1 = 9 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6
Star: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7
Square: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Thora leaves herself open from the cleave and a bolt slams into her, staggering her to one knee. The mongrels in melee try to finish the job, but the doughty dwarf slams back their attacks. Thora uses her 5' step to withdraw as she is absolutely covered in blood from being shot repeatedly.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Everyone is up! Sarkast, there's an opening at the front now if you want to move in.

Did anything happen when Ronan used grease on the mongrels club?

Jinxx pounces on the mongrel biting and clawing

Attack Claw 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Attack Claw 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Attack Bite: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Damage Claw 1: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Damage Claw 2: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Damage Bite: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5