GM Tektite's PFS Destiny of Sands (Inactive)

Game Master Hawkwen Agricola

Nice work on the heads Tek!!!

Marianne moves forward enlarging herself and sending her enormous spear stabbing out at the serpent creature.

Longspear: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 Damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 4) + 7 = 14

Marianne attacks, but misses!

The creature attacks the illusion once more!

1d20 ⇒ 8

Party up!

Fästenhyme flicks a wand into his hand and sends a Magic Missile at the serpent; the two-headed mongoose continuing to look fearsome.

1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Rapunzel moves up next to Marianne, drawing her longbow as she does and fires at the creature but misses.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Quickly he reloads his musket and fires at the two headed snake.
ranged touch: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 101d12 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Maintaining her size Marianne stabs out again, but her blow is clumsy and fails to hit home.

Longspear: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 Damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (4, 1) + 7 = 12

"Save your magic, Marianne!" Arovandeon produces a wand and uses it to enlarge her for an extended period of time.

Wand of Enlarge Person. 1 minute duration.

Fastenhyme pelts the creature with an arcane bolt of force!

Rapunzel swings and misses!

Izoki fires and misses!

Marianne stabs and misses!

Arovandeon uses a wand on Marianne!

Loenor!

Loenor moves forward and again stands defensively.

Loenor moves closer and stays on the defensive!

1d20 ⇒ 8

The creature continues to attack the image and apparently still believes it is a real foe!

Party up!

Arovandeon analyzes the fight, judging the dimensions of the chamber and the position of his companions, then uses his wand to enlarge Leonor as well.

Full round to enlarge, right? If not, I will need to alter these roll modifiers.

Figuring there would be no point in flanking a two-headed snake, Loenor steps up drawing his cutlass and takes a slash at the snake.

Cutlass: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Crit confirm: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Full round

"Give this mongoose some bite!", Fastenhym casts another volley of Magic Missile.

Yay for Fastenhyme!

1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Boo for the wand!

Rapunzel again fires her bow, thankful to score a hit!

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

Marianne grins at Arovandeon her face quickly falling into a scowl as she misses the mark again.

Longspear: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 Damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (5, 4) + 7 = 16

He holds musket more steady and aims at the torso instead of the head.
ranged touch: 1d20 + 8 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 8 - 4 - 4 = 111d12 ⇒ 11

Arovadeon taps Loenor with his enlarging wand as well!

Loenor attacks the creature, hitting it, but it avoid a more grievous wound!

Fastenhyme then pelts it with another arcane bolt!

Rapunzel swings at the creature and cuts into it once!

Marianne stabs at the beast, but misses!

Izoki fires again, but again the creature dodges a bullet!

1d20 ⇒ 16

The creature attacks the mongoose again, but this time seems to realize it's not real!

Party up!

Creature- 21 damage

Rapunzel takes aim with her bow again, but the shot is wide and bounces against the wall.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Growling in frustration Marianne darts forward ramming the point of her spear through one serpentine eye and pushing the full length down through the creatures long neck into its abdomen!

"Eat it scaly!"

Longspear: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 6) + 7 = 16
Crit Conf Longspear: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Ex Damage: 4d6 + 14 ⇒ (3, 1, 5, 3) + 14 = 26 42 damage woot!

He reloads musket and fires at its torso.
ranged touch: 1d20 + 8 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 8 - 4 - 4 = 181d12 ⇒ 7

With a mighty stab, Marianne puts down the two-headed creature!

Out of Combat!

Marianne surveys the dead beast with obvious satisfaction, "Excellent. Loenor can we leave retrieving the items to you? I assume this beast was set here as a guardian, but that does not mean there cannot be a trap to."

Very proud of himself for preventing the need for six vials of antitoxin, Fastenhyme flips over the dead serpent with his hard boots.

Search: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Trapfinding: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 1 = 19

Using his increased size to make short time of the search, Loenor goes about looking for traps, stowing his weapons as he does so.

Searching, Loenor does not find any traps, but he does find a secret compartment in the intact statues base. The compartment contains several items, including a burial mask carved from lapis lazuli worth 500 gp, three clay tablets describing funerary practices, and a rod of the viper carved from a single piece of petrified wood to look like a fanged serpent.

Marianne nods, and then asks, "Anyone make out what that thing is, I need to learn more about spellcraft, but, well, I need to learn a great deal. Anyway how about we go and slip that book to this scholar of Torches next. Seems like it will be less troublesome than threatening a Madam."

"Perhaps we should worry first on how to get these things back into the city. That guard seemed pretty adamant about not bringing in any artifacts."

Marianne frowns, "How about we split up? One of us takes the stuff acting like they are not with us, while the rest of us distract the guards by trying to carry the corpses of a two headed serpent into the city to sell? I do want to sell it if we can, and we put the best liar with the loot. I bet we can get it out while we are still enlarged if we hurry."

"I have studied spellcraft and arcana extensively and would like the opportunity to examine the rod before returning." Arovandeon holds out a thin hand for the rod. "if I may?"

As he studies the rod, he also participates in the conversation about bearing it back into the city. "Using the snake as a distraction is an clever idea Marrianne, but I wonder if we could perhaps solve two problems with one solution. Should we place the rod within the snake we might possibly walk it in unnoticed."

Arovandeon has the envoy alternate racial trait, allowing him to cast detect magic (and a couple other minor spells) once per day. I'll try that first, but if it fails, he also has a scroll of identify that I have repeatedly forgotten to scribe into his formula book. He can do so easily by taking 10. Can I do that now? I have an open extract slot which I could use to prepare it and identify the rod with a +30 skill bonus.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26 Well, identify probably isn't needed..

Rapunzel says to Marianne, "If you are intent to bring the corpse of this beast into town, perhaps we can hide what we need inside it? I've got some waterproof bags that should do the trick."

Arovandeon examine the rod and finds that it is a rod of vipers, he also notices that the third clay tablet contains a spell (scrolls) of deathwatch and false life.

"Its more that I wanted to use it as a distraction, I do not really expect them to let us in with it. Certainly be glad to hear other ideas, sneaky is not my forte."

"Nor is lying mine. Wish I had one of those pouches some Pathfinders have. The ones with the false bottom? Hrmmm..." Loenor continues to think of a way in.

Izoki gets very excited about Marianne's suggestion. His feathers get a bit ruffled as he paces back and forth.

"I really like the trojan two headed snake idea. A small bribe may help get us past the town guards too. I wonder if there is any holidays coming up that we could convince them it is a centerpiece of a parade. It will scare the dickens out of the kids!"

So what is the final decision?

"I agree that passing through the gates with the entire snake might prove difficult, so perhaps we hide the rod in the mouth of one head. Should they disallow the whole snake I am sure we could negotiate for just the heads."

If it appears the guards only use physical searches, and not magical detections, then maybe Fästenhyme can sneak it through under an illusion?

::ah-ahem!::, Fastenhyme clears his throat, "You do have a practitioner of illusions in this merry band, yes?".

"What do you propose, Fastenhyme?"

"Any of the plans sounds golden, perhaps just add visual trickery in case the curtains goes up and they discover only what appears to be common contraband rather than relics."

Marianne shrugs, "If you can use illusion why not simply make one of use - a male one of us - look like they are wearing only a loin cloth instead of pack, etc. We can just give that person all of this stuff and pass without bothering with the snake, if we don't need a distraction we don't need to draw attention to ourselves right?"

”Even a simpleton might eventually see through an illusion on his lucky day”, Fastenhyme explains, ”In that case, you'd be literally be caught with you pants down,... and our usual bloodbath ensues. A two fold deception is what we need. Now a loincloth slave, carrying common items, I can do with two enchantments.”.

Fast's Silent Image is DC 16

Marianne nods, "So we bring the snake as a distraction, help me with it then." She drags the serpent to the well and secures it to the bottom of the rope before climbing up. Once everyone is out of the well she unties the rope and begins hauling up the serpent.

Then she places the heads over her shoulders clamping an arm over each and starts heading for the gate.

Fastenhyme casts the first Silent Image to make the relics package appear as a small bag of apples, and the second for himself to appear as a near-naked slave who couldn't possible be hiding anything beyond the loincloth. "Well this is humiliating."

DC16

"It was your idea," Loenor states as he heads back to the gate.

"Hmm,...this isn't quite thought out, is it", Fast wonders as he inspects the logic of what he was doing. "This really give the guards more flaws they can detect - shall I dismiss it and someone with believable physique truly go bare?

two separate rolls will likely detect one or the other as illusion, essentially a reroll

The party heads back to Eto and gets into the queue. Coming to the gate, the party sees the same customs agent that checked them earlier. "Back again?" His eyes widen at the sight of the creature's head. "Hmm, it looks like you've been on a hunting trip. Do you have the proper permits for that?"

ok, ninja'd, nevermind, bloodbath it is

"Permits? For game? I thought you were just looking for artifacts!"