GM Woran's Rise of the Runelords

Game Master Woran

Yep, you all regain 3HP from sleeping

"can you resist the urge to ride him"

Dayo looks at Justin with a more-confused-than-usual blank stare.

"Ride him? Oh. I. No. I took off his halter and saddle so he wouldn't have to be ridden ever again. Such a demeaning role, don't you think? Nobody on Little Beautiful rides other creatures. It's my hope Tongue Tongue does what he wants! I enjoy being his friend."

"I don't see whats demeaning about fulfilling your role in society as long as you're compensated for it. This poor creature clearly was not "

When we're ready to go down

Mage armor Dayo, Swap it for magic missile.

6 minute reduce person on Dayo with a +4 dex instead of the +2

"If you want to be big before hand Oskar let me know now, otherwise we need to wait till we find a suspiciously large room down there. "

"If you want to be big before hand Oskar let me know now, otherwise we need to wait till we find a suspiciously large room down there. "

"Nah, let's save that for if we need it. Maybe I can get by with my little trick..."

Tongue tongue of course sleeps on top of Dayo.

Dayo thinks its love.
Those with know. Nature suspect its because Dayo is warm, and the Gecko is cold blooded.

Let me know which stair you want to take down. The one all the way in the back, or the one closest to the throne room.

I can envision rationale for both so it doesn't matter to me.

I don't have a strong reason to favor one over the other, so let's say the set of stairs we're positioned right by already on the map.

This one it is. Party go down da hooOOOOOOle

You carefully make your way down the stairs. Peeking round the corner, you see a single lantern hanging from a hook on the wall next to where the stairs enter the room from the north. Several rickety doors open into this room, and a few discarded dog pelt rugs lie forgotten in the northeast corner.

Dayo quietly (Take 10 Stealth for 19) moves next to the Eastern door.

Unless someone perceptive thinks we should do otherwise, I'm ok with going E/S/S/S/W

That works as well as anything, I think!

Upstairs Vitro refreshed his mage armor, walking down he's armed once more with longsword.

Dayo silently makes his way over to the eastern door. Opening the door, he sees a small hallway.

"I don't know why, but that was actually unexpected."

Dayo moves in, waits a moment should anyone wish to reposition, and then opens the next door.

Vitro ushers everyone into the room, then signals to Dayo to continue.

Crates, barrels, and mounds of miscellaneous refuse lie heaped against the walls here. To the north, the sound of crashing surf echoes.
You can see this cave continues on further north, but the curve of the tunnel prevents you from seeing further ahead.

Mini-Dayo scouts out the mini-hallway.

Stealth 19

There is no light in the store room, or the room up ahead. The light from the room you entered gives low light to the store room, but up ahead its dark.

10 feet darkvision is better than nothing! ^_^

Its a squeeze trough the narrow passage. The floor of the cavern seems strangely polished and smooth. To the east, a thick curtain of vines
and nettles hangs down over a wide opening overlooking the Varisian Gulf.

Mini-Dayo squeezes through easily, but pauses to consider the considerably huskier Oskar.

Whispering, he says, "I will scout just to the next passageway to make sure it's safe."

Moved myself on map.

Oskar leans up against a wall, chewing on a small piece of stick.

"Go nuts."

Justin wriggles through

"Can you fit? I can shrink you down again to go through, Or we can try coating the walls and slipping you through "

As Justin also makes his way into the chamber, a tentacle shoots down from the ceiling, striking at the ratfolk.

tentacle: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
grab: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

The tentacle strikes Justin, and grabs Justin tight! Lifting him up to the ceiling.

Round 1

Intitiative

Snowflake
Dayo
Oskar
Tentacle thing
Vitro
Justin 7 damage

Snowflake, Dayo and Oskar are up!
Know. Dungeonering on the tentacle thing.
Tentacle thing is up on the ceiling. Reach or ranged would be needed to hit it.

Or maybe sacrifise justin to it and hope it leaves you alone?

Are the ceilings low enough that Oskar could jump and grab hold of Justin?

Snowflake immediately casts liberating command on Justin.
twice my caster level on your escape check if I'm not mistaken. So a plus 6. Go wriggle and you can do that as a immediate action

justin exhales and tries to slip out of the tentacle

escape artist: 1d20 + 3 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 3 + 6 = 26

Justin wiggles free!

With my running start, it's only a DC 20 to jump up 5 feet, right? Then swing with my 5ft reach?

Dayo leaps in to...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

"Is that a... Ceiling squid?"

...action and slices at the calamari hanging from the ceiling...

Small Broadsword: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
Small Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

...before landing just below it.

"Is that a... Ceiling squid?"

Knowledge (dungeoneering), untrained: 1d20 ⇒ 3

"Could be, but I didn't know those were native t'Varisia..."

I swear, I meant to put a rank in K(d)...!

Knowledge things from my hometowm: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 1 + 3 = 19

Help me out guys. I have a headache tonight and I cant do any serious thinking. Does Justin get bumped up in the intitative order due to liberating command? I know this, but I just cant make my brain work.

I don't think so, but he has to use an immediate for the check, so no swift on his next turn. As ever, the usual "What the hell do I know" caveats are in effect.

^ I agree with everything he said.

nope. it's an immediate action he could perform. Remember Bodi asking if he could cast Liberating command on himself and than use it? He couldn't because you can't take two immediate actions. Justin keeps his initiative, he just can't take another immediate action this round.

Or swift, till the end of his turn

Ah yeah, thank you for reminding me. I've been having a tooth ache and its radiating towards my brain giving me a headache. I've been trying to stay light on the painkillers, but sometimes I just brain fart. I'll get things fixed on monday, so hopefully I can go back to braining right.

Also, we're in a bit of a weird spot with jumping up and down to hit the ceiling squid. I'd say you can do that, but I would also say that that provokes. Is that agreeable?

With any luck we won't have to do that too many times, so sure... #grapple

Sure thing!

Acrobatics to avoid AoO?: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

Yeah I know Pathfinder doesn't like it if your attack isn't coming from a full stop. One player group I encountered at GenCon had apparently been combining a spell that throws another character (who then had a ring of feather fall) to deal massive damage to flying opponents, and I told them it was a grey area since the character would fall before they could attack.

They reasoned the one guy could ready his attack for when he became adjacent to an enemy, and they'd obviously been doing this tactic for a while, so I let them. But if you don't want to here, I totally understand.

Snowflake: Casts liberating command.

Dayo: Leaps up! The ceiling squid strikes at him with a tentacle!
AoE at Dayo: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

But both dayo and the ceiling squid both miss.

Oskar: Has no clue what the ceiling squid actually is.

Does oskar want to do anything else? Also, yeah, Pathfinder and movement is weird. But its weird in a lot of systems. I'm pretty fine with jumping up and slashing, as long as you make the acrobatics. I just dont think you can tumble in the air and attack. Benefit is, if you fail to jump, you also dont provoke.

Oh, absolutely! Gonna jump up, try and grab it, bring it down to us.

Oskar leaps up, doing his best to grab a big handful of... whatever, to haul back to the ground.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
Grapple check: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

Sooooooooo... how heavy is oscar? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Not sure. Figure low/mid 200s range, plus gear?

Oskar: Jumps up. Grabs hold.... he hangs precariously in the air for a tense few moments....... then the ceiling squids suckers loose their hold under the weight of Oskar holding on, and it crashes to the ground! (together with Oskar)

Ceiling Squid: Not entirely sure what happened, the ceiling squid figure two can play this game.

tentacle at Oskar: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

But hopelessly misses.

Round 1

Intitiative

Snowflake
Dayo
Oskar
Tentacle thing
Vitro
Justin 7 damage

Vitro and Justin are up!

"Non sentient, nasty poison, Cut loose "

Justin is going to move and then ready an action to blast it with a boosted magic missile if its not sushi after the party has gone.

Oskar looks very concerned at Justin's comment. "Poison...?"

"I was going to say something but like we were just discussing I learned the hard way not to talk when something has its hand around your throat...handy lessons from family members "

Vitro steps forward quickly, and seeing the squid held in place, takes aim and then throws acid at it.

Acid Splash ranged touch: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Not great. But the grapple penalties might just do it.

damage: 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Justin: Delays

Vitro: Splashes the squid with acid. Normally the squid would have been too fast, but being held by Oskar greatly reduces its mobility.

Round 2

Intitiative

Snowflake
Dayo
Oskar
Tentacle thing 4 damage
Vitro
Justin 7 damage

Dayo, Oskar and Snowflake are up!