Yanndu explodes Blue’s head! The brains, blood and skull fragments splatter all over Lady Kaddren’s pretty dress. “Ewwwwww!” she shouts, prestidigitating it clean as she tries to direct the crowd out of the Cathedral. “This is WHY I HATE Pathfinders!”
Myrdon topples the other cultists! “Noooooo! We are mighty masters of the Arcane! How can we get toppled by a lousy first level spell?” Orange wails as he falls down. Then he gets poked with a talon as Aegis attacks and grapples him. “GetItOffMe! GET IT OFF ME! Aaaaagh!”
Then Gunner continues to strike at the toppled Green! He hits twice and crits once!
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Round 2 / 3
Active conditions:
Haste, Stinking Cloud, and Black Tentacles in the center of the room!
Bruxo (nauseated)
Vashara
Myrdon
Gunner Ock
Eadie
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Cultist Masters
Pink (Evil Eye, Blind, prone, -12)
Orange (-52, no more dimension hop left, grappled, prone)
Blue (DEAD with exploded head)
Green (-66, prone)
Vashara has a cultist right in front of her and no nasty spells to dodge. She fires another hasted volley of arrows to try to take him down while not trying to think about exploding heads. Shooting at pink.
Female CG Human (Chelaxian) Fighter 13 | HP 161/161 | AC 28, T 17, F 25 | CMB +18 (+26 with heavy blades), CMD 35 (38 vs disarm, sunder) | F +21, R +13, W +19 (+2 vs death effects, +3 vs fear) | Init +10 | Perc +20, SM +3 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
Round #3: AC 27; haste, life bubble ☤ Full Health ☤
“Yanndu! COOOL spell!”
Eadie slips 40’ around the corner setting her sights on Orange, held firmly in Aegis’ talons.
“I can do the reversed spell -- implode head using my hammer as the material component.”
Aegis looks somewhat confused at the man in it claw who is suddenly missing his head. Hearing his master call, it drops him, flies towards the remaining cultist, and grabs this final one with his claws.
Myrdon, confident that his allies would take out the final cultist with little difficulty, flies out the broken windows and look for where the assassin might have fled to.
Female CG Human (Chelaxian) Fighter 13 | HP 161/161 | AC 28, T 17, F 25 | CMB +18 (+26 with heavy blades), CMD 35 (38 vs disarm, sunder) | F +21, R +13, W +19 (+2 vs death effects, +3 vs fear) | Init +10 | Perc +20, SM +3 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
Confident that Gunner and Aegis have finished off green robes, Eadie searches the body of headless Orange looking primarily for potions and scrolls.
Perception:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (2) + 18 = 20
@GM Hmm, did the wererats have any useful magic items on them or in their warehouse?
Seeing only one more cultist in the room, Vashara decides to use the flight powers of her boots again and head out of the main entrance to see what happened to the thief who took the Runecarved Key.
She shouts to the rest of the group as she flies towards the door.
"I'm going to look for where our Key thief has got to. These cultists certainly did a good job of slowing us down."
Command word to activate the boots then flying to just outside the door to look around.
You all spill out of the Cathedral — and into a CHASE SCENE!
CHASE SCENE BASICS:
1. It takes a move action to move from card to card.
2. To move forward, you need to either pass the skill check or use something else (flight, teleport, d-door or some other fun ability to bypass it. When a character exits from a card, he must choose one of that square's two obstacles to face as a standard action before moving to the next card.
3. Instead of exiting a square, a character can choose to take another action not directly related to navigating the chase's course, such as casting a spell or drinking a potion.
4. A character may attempt to move three cards during his turn by taking a full-round action. That character must overcome both obstacles on the card he is leaving.
5. A character can also choose to make a ranged attack or cast a spell during his turn in a chase. In this case assume a distance of 30 feet from card to card.
6. Characters who have flight or teleport may entirely bypass land-based obstacles. Those who have higher than 30 foot movement speeds also have +2 on skill checks.
With this many casters, I am fairly sure that we are going to bypass the Chase Scene, but y’all might surprise me here.
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The tiefling assassin is three cards away from you so has concealment (20% miss chance and cover.)
Between you and her are the following obstacles!
CARD ONE:Crowded Street:
Follow the Crowd (Sense Motive DC 15) or Out of My Way! (Overrun CMD 20)
CARD TWO:Cluttered Alleyway:
Up and Over (Acrobatics DC 10) or Squeeze Through (Escape Artist DC 20)
CARD THREE:Fruit Cart:
Oh Yeah! (Strength Check DC 20) or Move That Cart! (Intimidate DC 15)
Female CG Human (Chelaxian) Fighter 13 | HP 161/161 | AC 28, T 17, F 25 | CMB +18 (+26 with heavy blades), CMD 35 (38 vs disarm, sunder) | F +21, R +13, W +19 (+2 vs death effects, +3 vs fear) | Init +10 | Perc +20, SM +3 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
Assuming haste is still in effect after only 3 rounds of use, even with her backpack equipped Eadie has a 40’ move speed ☞ +2 to skill checks
Believing that the casters will make short work of the chase, Eadie sees nothing to lose my adopting a high risk strategy in her pursuit of the assassin.
Eadie will try to move 3 cards forward, by attempting both checks on CARD ONE
Baffled as to which way to go as she exits the cathedral, Eadie moves with the panicked crowd, following Myrdon’s flight path through Magnimar’s narrow cobbled streets.
Sense Motive + haste DC 15:1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 + 2 = 19
Eventually spotting her quarry, the warrior accelerates through her fellow runners, as if a herd of bulls is closing in on them from behind.
Male N Elf Psychic 13 - Init. +4, Senses Low-Light Vision Perception +22 detect scrying, HA, AC 26/ touch 16/ ff 23 Deskari's Wing; hp 80/80 temp 14/14; F+11, R+11, W+14, Speed 35 ft., Climb 20 ft., Fly 60 ft. Carried: LogicRod, StaffMinArc, LckyHrshoe, Fr-LfClvr; Buffs: shield, fly, resist fire 30, det scry, mg armr, flse life, see invis, hghtnd awrnss, telbnd x2; Alc: antitx/plg/verm/syrup
In Round 1, Yanndu will cast fly on himself. Together with the haste, his speed is now 90 ft. I believe. He is also invisible for another 6 or 7 rounds.
Round 2 he will take a full round action to bypass the 3 land-based obstacle cards, if I understood the rules correctly...
Hmm is feeling under the weather, so she has requested that I stop back by and pinch-GM!
With flying PCs, the chase is soon conquered! You fly after the assassin into the city streets of Magnimar!
The streets of Magnimar narrow here, and the crowds one expects of a city of this size are nowhere to be found. The ambient sound of the hustle and bustle seems to die away, leaving an eerie stillness in the air as though something terrible is about to happen.
The assassin, a female of devilish origin, spins around and sees your pursuit! She curses, a truly imaginative string of things your various mothers must have done to conceive you, and pulls a scroll from her belt!
"Curse all your eyes! Why can't a simple small business owner like myself be free of all this regulation and interference?!?"
The assassin shakes off the spell as Bruxo attempts to further cripple her intelligence and charisma. "Cursed spell-fiend! I have a gift juuuust for you!" The assassin murmurs and reads the scroll!
UMD, DC 27:1d20 + 23 ⇒ (9) + 23 = 32
And disappears!
Vashara, Myrdon, Aegis II, Eadie, Gunner Ock, Yanndu are up!
Gunner casts invisibility purge and flies forward 90ft or until the assassin becomes visible (at which point he would stop 15ft above the assassin). Invisibility is suppressed within 45ft of Gunner for the next 9 minutes.
Male N Elf Psychic 13 - Init. +4, Senses Low-Light Vision Perception +22 detect scrying, HA, AC 26/ touch 16/ ff 23 Deskari's Wing; hp 80/80 temp 14/14; F+11, R+11, W+14, Speed 35 ft., Climb 20 ft., Fly 60 ft. Carried: LogicRod, StaffMinArc, LckyHrshoe, Fr-LfClvr; Buffs: shield, fly, resist fire 30, det scry, mg armr, flse life, see invis, hghtnd awrnss, telbnd x2; Alc: antitx/plg/verm/syrup
***...are you...already practicing your award acceptance speech Vashara?...a bit... premature...considering the types of spells she's throwing around...but I somehow...feel...more...self-confident?...hmm...careful...confidence in me will result in people accusing me of arrogance, you know...it's happened...before...*** says Yanndu telepathically, after which you all receive a brief image of a human spellcaster who once offended him. Some of you gain a distant glint of recognition in your mind's eye... someone you may have seen around the Dark Archives section of the Grand Lodge...
Female CG Human (Chelaxian) Fighter 13 | HP 161/161 | AC 28, T 17, F 25 | CMB +18 (+26 with heavy blades), CMD 35 (38 vs disarm, sunder) | F +21, R +13, W +19 (+2 vs death effects, +3 vs fear) | Init +10 | Perc +20, SM +3 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
The assassin is currently visible, yes? If not, Eadie has blind fight, Our Other GM
"I'm less well-versed in the futures market. I usually stick to less technical specula...ARGH! Your rational discourse concealed a stabbing! Curse your duplicitous attempt at economic exchange!" The assassin bleeds loudly!
Aegis cocks its head in confusion as the target appears, disappears, and reappears (but somewhere else!). But he is not there to think so it hops forward and tears into the assassin with its talons.
Will vs FABULOUS:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26 and Will vs Persistent FABULOUS:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24"That is just the sort of short-sided lack of value-added spell that gets my goat! Oh sure, it LOOKS like gold, but it's not and I simply won't have it! Add real value, you charlatan!" The assassin grouses, stopping only when the giant bird claws at her! Some of the damage is stopped by a thin, stony covering on her body that flakes away, but enough hits to deal a bloody rake! But the poor bird can't get a good grip on the slippery capitalist!
Male Human (Shoanti) Witch 11 | hp 66/66 | Init +9 | AC 17 (13), T 12, FF 16 (12) | CMB +4, CMD 16 | F +7, R +6, W +10 | Prcptn +10, SM +20 |
Bruxo shows no fear when the assassin appears nearby. How nice of you to come closer...within range, even!
With a wicked grin, he mutters HELLSCEATH!, dredging up fears and doubt within her mind!
Evil eye hex targeting saving throws, 9 rounds (DC 23 Will reduces to one round).
Will Save vs EVIL EYES!:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16"Yes, but as I said, I have a gift for you! The first one is free, the rest will cost you!"
She stabs at Bruxo!
Short sword vs Bruxo!:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (10) + 19 = 29 for 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 damage plus I need a Fort Save vs POISON! Fort DC 20; failure means you take 1d3 ⇒ 1 CON damage and must save again next round!
Was going to use Stealth, then I remembered GLITTERDUST. DOH. Edited to account.
The assassin reaches a hand toward her back and grabs a small vial.
Vashara, Myrdon, Aegis II, Eadie, Gunner Ock, and Yanndu are up!
Male N Elf Psychic 13 - Init. +4, Senses Low-Light Vision Perception +22 detect scrying, HA, AC 26/ touch 16/ ff 23 Deskari's Wing; hp 80/80 temp 14/14; F+11, R+11, W+14, Speed 35 ft., Climb 20 ft., Fly 60 ft. Carried: LogicRod, StaffMinArc, LckyHrshoe, Fr-LfClvr; Buffs: shield, fly, resist fire 30, det scry, mg armr, flse life, see invis, hghtnd awrnss, telbnd x2; Alc: antitx/plg/verm/syrup
Yanndu sends 4 dancing lights in a 10-foot square formation where she disappeared to shed some light on the situation.
Treat as 50-foot diameter of normal light, and an extra 20-foot beyond that increased from dim light to normal; in other words, a total sphere of 90-foot diameter of normal light
Glitterdust? ok then! :)
Yanndu lowers himself 20 ft. and attempts to overload the thief with information!
[dice=Standard Action; Mind Thrust IV with Mindtouch Phrenic Amplification]10d8[/dice] damage and fatigued for 1 round and read surface thoughts as per 3 rounds of detect thoughts spell. (Will Save DC 20 for half damage and no fatigue and no mind reading)
Female CG Human (Chelaxian) Fighter 13 | HP 161/161 | AC 28, T 17, F 25 | CMB +18 (+26 with heavy blades), CMD 35 (38 vs disarm, sunder) | F +21, R +13, W +19 (+2 vs death effects, +3 vs fear) | Init +10 | Perc +20, SM +3 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
Vashara flies back towards her allies and lets her boots raise her higher so she can see the evildoer again. She calls down the wrath of Torag to help her smite the annoying cultist. Her tale of heroism becomes less specific as she talks of powerful allies aided by a champion of Torag who fought a dreaded enemy and defeated them.
I'm calling it a safe bet that this person is pretty damn evil.
Myrdon opens his mouth wide, as if screaming at the assassin. No one hears anything though, but she experiences an overpowering screech tearing through her head.
ear-piercing scream:5d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 5, 2) = 12 And daze for 1 round. Fort save DC20 for half and negate daze.
Will Save vs Frantic Thrusting:1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 8 - 4 = 14
Surface thoughts for Yanndu:
"Did I leave the kettle on? No, can't have. Definitely took it off the stove. Need to get some more wood for the fire. Going to be a cold night. ARGHHHHH!'
Gunner prays for his friends, feeling that warm, pleasantly buzzed feeling that is Cayden Cailean's love. Eadie tears into the assassin like a snow plow through a Volkswagen, while Vashara and Aegis II pepper and talon the body, for it's ceased to be anything you can properly call 'alive'. Myrdon's sonic scream falls on deaf ears, mainly because the ears in question are about twelve feet apart, lying on the cobbles and not doing anyone much good.
But alas, the Market bell has tolled and it has tolled for thee, assassin.
The foe is dead. To the north, a couple of cultists stop about thirty feet away and suddenly take a very deep interest in their own shoes and watches, as they see their charge is undone. One of them waves and shouts, "Sorry, wrong tier!" as they run away into the fray.
Despite being little more than fleshy bits at this moment, the assassin summons the power of plot and utters one last dying curse from the ground. "“For ten thousand years we have slept, awaiting this day. Think not that you shall take it from us. You and I are merely pawns in a far greater game with a far greater purpose. In the name of the mouthless mistress to whom all fates are known, I damn you and all your descendents! Lissala, take my spirit to pay for my vengeance!”
You have 1 minute before the next thing happens. Go!
Male N Elf Psychic 13 - Init. +4, Senses Low-Light Vision Perception +22 detect scrying, HA, AC 26/ touch 16/ ff 23 Deskari's Wing; hp 80/80 temp 14/14; F+11, R+11, W+14, Speed 35 ft., Climb 20 ft., Fly 60 ft. Carried: LogicRod, StaffMinArc, LckyHrshoe, Fr-LfClvr; Buffs: shield, fly, resist fire 30, det scry, mg armr, flse life, see invis, hghtnd awrnss, telbnd x2; Alc: antitx/plg/verm/syrup
***...let's grab the Runecarved Key and return immediately...*** prompts Yanndu telepathically, before saying out loud, "How tragic. The woman still thinks that this ancient deity is still alive."
The Runecarved Key can be found in the dead assassin's backpack. Along with the Key, you also find the following: scroll of dispel magic, scroll of mirror image (CL 9th), 1 dose of Deathblade, +3 mithril shirt (slightly soiled), +3 short sword, cloak of resistance +2, Belt of Incredible Dexterity +2, handy haversack, 35 gp!
Male Human (Shoanti) Witch 11 | hp 66/66 | Init +9 | AC 17 (13), T 12, FF 16 (12) | CMB +4, CMD 16 | F +7, R +6, W +10 | Prcptn +10, SM +20 |
Our Mysterious Benefactor wrote:
Bruxo, we still need a Fort Save vs poison!
Quite right!
Fort save:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18nope, 1 CON dmg Fort save:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13nope, 1d3 ⇒ 3 CON dmg Fort save:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25probably
In the remaining time, Bruxo will pearl of power back web and black tentacles, and self-administer at least one potion of lesser restoration to replace the CON dmg.
lesser restoration:1d4 ⇒ 3close enough for government Society work.
That leaves three rounds for getting the eff out of Dodge.
