Yes, I understood that but you are well aware that those actions would take more than one round to do.
Like I said, no issues this time but we'll keep a close watch in the future.
Game on!
"Is that sufficient Nsizi? You do not look well, poison perhaps? I think so. If that is the case, I cannot help you quickly, rest is needed to recover, and I may be able to speed recovery then, but this does not seem the time or place..."
Feeling much improved, though still weak, Nsizi nodded his head. "Many thanks, Kuhani Akosua. Your spirits are strong, and I feel much better." He wobbled when he stood, but leaned on his iwisa and was able to keep his feet. "Yes, rest is needed, when we are safe. But now we must discover what happened here."
Skirting the remains of the compys, Nsizi limped towards the corral, leaning heavily on his iwisa. His folded and wrapped clothes dripped blood on the mud as he moved towards the grisly scene.
"You do not look well, poison perhaps?"
"Yes, compys have a poisonous bite," Min informed Akosua, moving over to where she was taking charge of the situation. "It weakens their prey so that they can consume it alive. Sorry," she mumbled to Nsizi, apologizing for the graphic description. "It's unusual for them to scavenge, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers. One things for sure: it wasn't a pack of compys that battered down that door."
"The first thing we should do is find a safe place for Nsizi to rest. This is a fort; there should be a barracks for at least four men, assuming they slept in shifts. There may even be an infirmary that may have medicine or some sort of antidote, if it hasn't been looted. But we can't stay out here. More of the neighborhood fauna may wander in at any moment."
"Also," she took a moment to overcome her queasiness, "we need to find someplace to put the dead soldiers until we can bury them. They're only going to attract more scavengers."
"The gate was rigged to collapse. We need to examine these doors carefully before we enter."
Turn 013 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
Uh.. I dunno. :)
Let me look into this and get back to you.
Fellow GMs/players, wanna point me in the right direction of where to look...
Did we know about a missing acolyte? I must have missed that last week....
Did we know about a missing acolyte? I must have missed that last week....
The old female cleric from Abadar normally uses younger acolytes to run errands for the church.
She hadn't mentioned her missing because maybe she thought she was still coming back and was within her normal schedule. or maybe the GM forgot to mention that little side quest. :)
Min looked the bodies over with eyes squeezed half-shut and a hand covering her nose and mouth, looking for jewelry or distinguishing features that might be useful in identifying the dead. These people undoubtedly had family or friends back in Pridon's Hearth who would want to know their fate and where they were buried.
"I don't suppose there's any way to tell how long they've been dead?" she asked skeptically.
"We ought to drag what's left of these poor animals out of the fort. They'll only attract more scavengers."
Min cast a dancing lights spell and directed the glowing spheres slowly down the shaft to see if anything may have fouled the water source.
Action 1:
The smell was horrible but nothing that Zeljka hadn't experienced before. She'd seen numerous dead animals before, some just slain and left by humans in the forest. "Will people at Pridon's Hearth want us to bring the bodies back with us? Maybe we will find a wagon somewhere in the Fort."
Action 2:
"We ought to drag what's left of these poor animals out of the fort. They'll only attract more scavengers."
"Burying them would be better. But I would suggest clearing the rest of the Fort first and doing it all at once."
Akosua advanced upon the corpses and bent over to examine them in detail, but in truth she had little experience in dealing with the dead - those corpses she had encountered generally having all too explicable causes of death and being swiftly delivered to the sea - and could make out nothing of use.
"I doubt we would find beasts of burden for a cart here - alive at leat. I suggest we take a few mementos for their loved ones and let the animals pick their bones clean, it is not a desecration only nature. A corpse is only an empty vessel, they have gone to their gods. Though if we find a place to rest and you are determined perhaps you can bury them while I try to tend to Nsizi."
POISON USE
Let's have Zelkja get the slayer talent 'poison use' and then I'll see about facilitating that. However, PF is not a good system for poison use.
HEAL CHECKS
They may attempted untrained if it makes sense for your PC to have at least passing knowledge about healing.
ZELKJA FIRST HEAL CHECK: nothing
ZELKJA SECOND HEAL CHECK: The fatal injuries were caused by claw wounds, roughly the size of a humanoid hand, and the most useful chunks of meat were cut free with a knife. Bites from the dinosaurs roaming the courtyard are more recent.
MIN'S DANCING LIGHTS: The well is 30' deep and seems to contain some glittering coins, a bandolier with what seems like potion vials, and some sort of weapon.
Questions?
Game on!
MIN'S DANCING LIGHTS: The well is 30' deep and seems to contain some glittering coins, a bandolier with what seems like potion vials, and some sort of weapon.
"It looks like there are some potions down the well!" Min called, with a glance at the weakened Nsizi. "But it's a long way down there. Does anyone have any ideas how we could get them out? Maybe we could find some rope."
"I have my fishing tackle if we can find a light weight pouch or some such and pierce it to let the water seive through we might be able to scoop up the contents - though it would be a long frustrating task. I might be able to snare a hook on the bandolier..."
She pulled her tackle box from her pack, selecting a couple of lengths of line and twining them together for strength before attaching a hook and attempting to snag the bandolier with patient movements.
POISON USE
Let's have Zelkja get the slayer talent 'poison use' and then I'll see about facilitating that. However, PF is not a good system for poison use.
"I have my fishing tackle if we can find a light weight pouch or some such and pierce it to let the water seive through we might be able to scoop up the contents - though it would be a long frustrating task. I might be able to snare a hook on the bandolier..."
She pulled her tackle box from her pack, selecting a couple of lengths of line and twining them together for strength before attaching a hook and attempting to snag the bandolier with patient movements.
OOC: you snag a torn bandolier containing two cracked potion vials and a single intact potion of cure light wounds.
The weapon and coins are not retrievable with the 'hook'.
Action 2 continued:
Zeljka took a look at the slaughtered animals in the corral. She recognized claw marks when she saw them but these didn't seem to be made by an animal - they were more humanoid. "Whatever killed these animals isn't halfling or one of these dinosaurs. The best meat has also been cut away which suggests it's smart. We'll have to keep looking to find out who is really responsible."
Nsizi knelt carefully by the human corpses to examine them. Running a hand over the spear, he realized it was halfling size. Closing his eyes a moment, he thought back to the Stone Hall, where several weapons had been displayed on the walls. Yes, this is just like the one I saw there.
"I am fairly certain that this spear came from the local vidogo tribe - they are called the Song'a...no...the Song'o. I wonder - have they been hostile here before?" He realized that one of the bodies was a woman. "This one here, she bears the same symbol that the Kuhani at the banking temple wore." Other than that, there was little that Nsizi could tell from the bodies.
As Akosua patiently jigged for treasure, Nsizi examined the knife that had been left in the well's bucket. That too he recognized - also a Song'o weapon. Wrapping it in a fold of his neswambi, he said, "It would certainly seem that the vidogo were involved here. But not only them," he added, eyeing the damage to the animals.
vidogo=halfling
[ooc]Can you take ten/twenty on a heal check? Could I retake it after casting guidance to see if that helps? I want to figure out if they were both speared, if they were killed the same time as the animals, and whatever else I can determine.
The militia type was the one speared.
The dagger in the bucket is a small masterwork item used by the Song'o tribe.
You can take 10 on a heal check but not 20. Something you can't figure out no matter how long you take.
I intend to move this along later today.
Questions?
Game on!
Alleria: hopefully you're just busy with life and will get back to the game momentarily but I thought I just check...
After looking at the well-made dagger, Nsizi limped back to the bodies. There was something bothering him...
"Spirits, guide me," he invoked, feeling immediately a little more clear-headed.
After looking at the well-made dagger, Nsizi limped back to the bodies. There was something bothering him...
"Spirits, guide me," he invoked, feeling immediately a little more clear-headed.
[dice=heal]1d20+6
Guidance is fine.
This would be your heal check 2 and it confirms what Zelkja found out (The fatal injuries were caused by claw wounds, roughly the size of a humanoid hand, and the most useful chunks of meat were cut free with a knife. Bites from the dinosaurs roaming the courtyard are more recent.).
No one has yet made the 'heal check 1'.
Questions?
Game on!
PS: don't forget to tag each other, especially in non-combat turns like this one.
Alleria had grown up on board a pirate ship - violence and grisly injuries had been a part of her life from the first. The ship's doctor was usually the one responsible for actually taking care of the cuts, infections, and amputations, but Alleria'd been foisted off on them enough times, when she'd been particularly troublesome. Maybe I should have paid a little more attention...wait!
"This one's wearing an Abadaran symbol! Not many wearing that around her - she's got to be working with that Banker we saw. But...I think you're right, Akosua. Burying them's going to take too long, and it looks like we've got bigger things to deal with here. You said these were Song'o weapons, Nsizi? If that's the case, that means they've been here...even if they weren't responsible for the initial attack, they definitely came poking around. I'd say seeing about them's our next step, once we're finished here."
"Wait...so they were killed by claws...but the good parts of the meat were cut away? So, that means these Song'o have to be using beasts to help them - their pets did the killing, then the masters did the butchering. It's the only thing that makes any sense...right?"
Watching the bandolier come up, Alleria peers down into the well, seeing the weapon and coins still at the bottom. There was only one thing to do... "Lower me in. We need all the information we can get, and that stuff down in the water is information. If something goes wrong, I...I climbed a lot of trees as a kid. I'm still a fair hand at climbing - I can get myself out."
Look at the turn recap.
The bodies of the people was heal action 1 (for which you got a 6 in your initial post to this turn).
Heal action 2 was for the animals and both you and Zelkja made that check.
Am I making this clear or just confusing everyone?
Oh, I see now.
You can't reroll a heal check, even with guidance and you can't take 10 on a skill for which you rolled for so, unfortunately, no one has yet made heal check 1 (including Alleria).
Don't sweat it. It won't break or make the investigation.
There are more clues out there.
I'll try to provide at least two investigation locations so we move this along instead of stopping after every one.
We'll of course stop if someone tries to kill/eat/harm you. :)
Game on!
"I do not like to seem callous, but does anyone have any ideas for retrieving these items from the well? They may provide a clue, and I have few objections to wealth - in moderation."
Having listened to the others observations on the claws she asked, "If these claw marks are small I would guess they belong to the halflings. There are many paths to corruption which twist the body, and I recall hearing these Song'o are cannibals..."
Turn 014 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
No time to bury the people: we should just leave them to rot ... but we should bury the animals! Min shook her head at the conflicting advice of the rest of the party. Well, if anything else wants to eat what's left of the goatmeat and pork, they can do it outside the gates. While the others were busying themselves with getting Alleria up and down the well, Min gingerly grasped a cloven hoof, breathing a thankful prayer to Nethys for her thick gloves, and began to drag the animal carcasses outside the fort, trying desperately not to think of fatty, undercooked ham.
A basic map of the region covered most of one wall, hanging next to a picture of an austere-looking man.
"I wonder who this is. Count Narsus? Or maybe his father?"
No, it's a mistake; I forgot to delete the ones from the old turn recap.
Sorry. :(
The valid ones for this turn are the ones after the weapon found and the one after that.
Sure, you find a shovel near the entrance of the fort.
Action 1
Nsizi looked at the strange weapon, swinging it in his hand to test the balance. Again, he thought back to the weapons wall at the Stone Hall, and recognized it. "This is called terbutje. The mjusi use it." Seeing the look of confusion on the other's faces, he struggled to find the right word. "The men, with green skin," he looked at Zeljka and shook his head, "no, not skin, small hard skins? Like snake, but with legs?"
"Lizardfolk?" supplied the half-orc.
The thin man nodded, repeating, "Yes, lizardfolk. They use this. They have claw hands, yes?"
tag any
"The Bas'o do not meet mjusi tribes. Has any here had dealings with them? They are hostile?"
tag any
Action 2
Looking at the scene of destruction, Nsizi tried to piece together what they'd learned so far. Examining the spears, he said, "I believe these are more vidogo spears. The Song'o fought here too. But where are the dead?" Shaking his head, he said, "This mystery gets more misty."
He glanced at the portrait, then the map. The man didn't look familiar. The map was interesting, but Nsizi had a hard time making sense of it. The Bas'o didn't use maps - their knowledge of the savannah was passed down through imagery and story, not through flat representations on paper.
Moving to the door, he said, "Perhaps we will find answers up here." But the movement pained the bites he'd received, and he realized he was still badly hurt. "Spirits, close my wounds," he prayed, and felt himself become more whole.
Akosua's brow wrinkled in thought as she considered the implications, "Could one tribe be trying to set Pridon's Hearth against the other? No, this does not make sense... But maybe? The Song'o's presence was much more obvious, perhaps these lizardfolk seek to frame them? But there were halfling foot prints to... Yes we must have more information."
The half-orc had little interest in the portrait adorning the wall and she definitely didn't know who it was. Why humans insisted on putting huge paintings of themselves up where all could see them was baffling to her.
Moving to the door, he said, "Perhaps we will find answers up here." But the movement pained the bites he'd received, and he realized he was still badly hurt. "Spirits, close my wounds," he prayed, and felt himself become more whole.
Zeljka made her way past Nsizi. "We will go into the watchtower as you say. I will lead, you are still hurt."
Yes, you can take the map with you. I have an image which I will post later and let you all know.
They are territorial but not necessarily evil. They have been known to hunt in the surrounding jungles east and north of Pridon's Hearth.
Sure, you find a shovel near the entrance of the fort.
Min carefully leaned the shovel against the palisade and gave it a nod of promise after removing the dead animals from the courtyard.
I've added the map of the 'Korir River Delta' and placed Pridon's Hearth and Fort Breakthrough in the campaign tab.
I like maps and this one will be useful once you guys get to go out and build the colony/explore the area for resources/enemies/etc.
Game on!
Turn 015 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
Akosua removed the map with care before carefully folding it and wrapping it inside her bedroll to protect it from the damp. This has the feel of what I am seeking, something is stirring up the local tribes; Perhaps it is that something I am looking for?
"I have promised to gather herbs for Hero to, so once we are done here I must do so, I do not think it will take overly long."
Zeljka was disgusted by the centipedes and the tone of her voice reflected it. "Vermin!" Watch out they are poisonous. Nsizi, you are already weakened. Maybe you should stay back."
Turn 016 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
, Min, Zelkja, Min, Nsizi
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NO DAMAGE BUT FORTITUDE SAVES...
