Vardalel does retrograde advancing, then bravely, bravely hides in a bush.
Grenwold drops his glaive, draws his morningstar, and steps forward with Fenton. Grenwold looks to be stronger, and they both take swings at the new spriggan foe.
Free action - drop glaive
Swift action - activate bull
Move action - draw morningstar
5-foot step
Standard actions - attacks aplenty
The red spriggan remains stubbornly standing despite Grenwold clubbing him and Fenton stabbing him.
The red Spriggan tries to clobber Grenwold,but he ducks out of the way.
Dark blue and purple try to shake the glitterdust out of their eyes while purple retreats.
Green moves up and clobbers Hedran, catching him on his head.
Brown tries to club Nigel down,but his morningstar clangs harmlessly on Nigel's breastplate.
As bear, continues attacking with tooth and claw, Ratel, finally finishing drinking his mutagen and changing shape, steps forward throwing a spinning kicking then attacking with his shield.
Bear eviscerates Red with his claws.
Ratel gets clubbed by a morningstar as he moves up and gives yellow a solid kick in his chest.
Robert shoots at yellow after taking a 5 ft step.
Father Noelan, seeing both Ratel and Hedran injured, steps back and channels positive healing energy, while ordering Cavall to attack green.
Cavall gives green a savage bite and drags him to the ground.
Yellow tries to club Ratel, while Cyan moves to the side to get large, and black tries to shake glitterdust out of his eyes.
Ratel dodges out of the way of the morningstar and black still has glitterdust in his eyes.
Nigel manages to poke the brown spriggan in the stomach.
Hedran reaches for a curative potion, to recover some of his mettle back.
Cavall gets slammed by a morningstar as he moves in to bite green.
As Hedran reaches out to get his potion to drink it, the Spriggan tries to hit him from his prone position, but hits a blue shield instead.
Grenwold notices that the fight isn’t going particularly well, so he tries to have the spriggans feel a bit of pain.
He then moves within 10 feet of one of the spriggans, but tries not to trigger any opportunitistic attacks.
Move action - move towards yellow, but do not provoke aoos
Part of move action - ready his shield - now he has AC 22-13-20
In Gnomish: “あなたは変態はどこでもノームに恥です！”
Everyone except for the black bordered and the blue Spriggan is wracked by agony. "しかし殺人と略奪は楽しいそして、他の人にブーツを与える"
But it's fun to murder and loot
And to give other people the boot!
Cyan takes a 5 foot step forward trying to club Ratel, while giving a howl, while yellow takes a 5 foot step back, howls and clubs Ratel as well.
Darkblue tries to shake glitterdust out of his eyes, without any success.
Purple steps near green and tries to clobber Hedran with its superior reach, hitting him in the chest.
Green tries to attack Hedran, while prone, but Hedran sidesteps out of the way.
It then tries to stand up, which Cavall and Hedran attack it. Hedran lays a deep cut into its neck, while Cavall rips out its throat.
The brown bordered Spriggan pokes Nigel in the stomach, but it clangs harmlessly off Nigel's breastplate.
Father Noelan moves up to the badly injured Hedran and channels a burst of healing energy into him.
He commands Cavall to attack purple, while taking evasive maneuvers.
Cavall slips in, then bites purple on his shin but is unable to drag purple down.
Grunting from the blow, Ratel motions to Bear, ”Attack that one!” While Ratel punches then swings his shield at the giant gnome, Bear runs up, trying to duck under any blows and bites at it’s ankles.
Ratel tries to smack yellow but yellow ducks out of the way.
Yellow tries to clobber Bear as he gets close and does manage to whack Bear on his shoulder.
Bear returns the favour by giving him a nip on his.
+1 Longbow, Precise Shot on Red.
, +1 Point-blank Shot
Robert shoots at yellow in the arm, wounding him.
Yellow gives a howl of pain and attempts to clobber Ratel, but his swing goes wide.
Black attempts to shake glitterdust out of his eyes, without success
Nigel clubs the brown Spriggan on the shoulder.
Gren asks the spirit of the bull to empower Fenton and then they 5-foot wiggle over adjacent to the two large spriggan, and directs Fenton to take a swing at one of them.
Swift action - switch Fenton to bull
5-foot step one square east
Fenton standard action - attack yellow with gore
Fenton stabs yellow with his horns, and Grenwold clobbers him over his head and he collapses on the ground.
Hedran takes a 5 ft step up and slashes at the Spriggan with his longsword, but the Spriggan ducks out of the way. He then casts mirror image, and 5 doppelgangers show up.
Cyan attempts to attack Ratel, while giving a howl of pain.
Dark blue tries to shake glitterdust out of his eyes, while giving a howl of pain, but doesn't get any luck.
Purple tries to clobber Hedran, while giving a howl as well.
While Nigel enjoys his fairly private melee with brown, but gets clobbered a bit.
Father Noelan moves up to Ratel and heals him.
Cavall continues to attack purple, nipping him on his ankle.
Nodding silently to Father Noelan, Ratel steps toward the nearest giant and strikes at the large gnome creature with shield and fist, while Bear steps near the little gnome attacking with tooth and claw.
+1 Longbow, Precise Shot on Red (to the Right of Nigel)
, +1 from Point-blank Shot
Ratel kicks, then shield bashes the Cyan spriggan, but it still remains stubbornly standing.
Bear, on the other hand, bites and rips apart the black bordered small gnome in short order.
Robert sticks an arrow into the ribs of the brown Spriggan.
The pink spriggan finally shakes off its blindness, turns big and moves forward.
Nigel manages to clobber the Spriggan on the head and it collapses on the ground.
Grenwold moves to attack the blind big one, along with Fenton, moving through the bush and avoiding the other ones that weren't blinded. Thankfully, Fenton's speed does not keep the presence of the bush from hindering them too much.
Move action - 1 square N, 4 squares east through difficult terrain (total 45 movement/50 available)
Standard Action - lots o' smashin' on blind one - should be flat footed!??
In Gnomish:"グッドジョブ、フェントン！"
Grenwold clobbers the dark blue Spriggan while Fenton stabs him in the chest.
Hedran continues to slash at the Spriggan next to him, while trying to cast frostbite, but the his longsword only cuts leather armor, and he is too busy trying to avoid the Spriggan to get frostbite out.
Blue tries to shake off glitterdust.
Purple tries to club Hedran, but only manages to destroy one of his images.
Father Noelan takes a 5 ft step north east, shoots at the blinded blue Spriggan, killing it with an arrow to its throat, then fires the next shot at purple, killing him with an arrow to his eye.
He orders Cavall to attack pink. Cavall ducks as the pink spriggan tries to swing at him, then bites the Spriggan, but he ducks out of the way.
Ratel orders Bear to attack the Spriggan, while moving up. Bear gets clobbered on the way in, but manages to bite the Spriggan.
Robert moves, then shoots at the remaining Spriggan.
, Point-blank Shot
Well, boogers!
Robert hits the tree by the side.
The remaining Spriggan attacks Bear, but his swing goes wide.
Hedran moves up and lops off his head.
"All right, everyone cluster, one last channel left." Father Noelan then channels divine energies to heal everyone. "I tell you if there are more of these b@stards around...I'm so going to be loaded for bear tomorrow."
"Good job, everyone!"
Looting the Spriggan bodies, on each the party find a small masterwork morningstar, a small heavy crossbow, small leather armor and 20 bolts.
Gren grabs his dropped stuff and returns to his normal ready position.
"Thanks for the healing. Good job everyone! Also, blech spriggans."
Father Noelan goes around healing the party, before telling the party, "Sorry, I'm out of spells for the day."
"What are spriggans?" Father Noelan asks with a slight frown. "They looked a little like gnomes, but not quite."
The night passes uneventfully, with everyone taking their night watches, and the next day, the party sets off tracking the hobgoblins…
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Nigel, wordlessly, makes a point of moving out of the burst of the channel, and starts tapping himself with a wand.
He then takes out his surgical tools, and extracts the pituitary gland from each of the Spriggans.
Nigel then cleans his scalpels, and re-joins the others.
"Vell, zat vasn't pleasant; zis forest is certainly more dangerous!"
Beyond the tangle of roots shading the cave entrance, a narrow tunnel slopes sharply down. The tips of the tree roots protrude form the ceiling like stained teeth. A cloudy teal crystal that is melded into the wall glows with a faint light. Leo has been patrolling the ramparts, and he shouts out an alarm, ”I see two large creatures, half-bear, half-owl headed in this direction!”
You are Handiss – second in command of the children in stone. You are currently having a meeting with Ighiz and Slate about the human, Victor, who has been bugging you to take over one of the caverns, saying that it is rich in clay, and he wants to start up a clay pit. You’d need to get the troglodytes, Sessok and Ressh to move out. Perhaps it could be done, but you’d need to get a new cavern to house Sessok and Ressh.
Male Troglodyte barbarian 2
CN Medium humanoid
Init -1
AC 20, touch 9, flatfooted 20
Hp – 43 (4 HD)
Speed 30 ft
Fort +10, Ref -1, Will +3
Defensive abilities: Uncanny dodge
Melee MW Rock Crystal Greatsword +7 (2d6+4), +1 fire damage, bite+3(1d4+1) or bite +6(1d4+2), 2 claws +6(1d4+2)
Ranged javelin +2 (1d6+3)
Str 16, Dex 9, Con 18, Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 9
Feats: Iron Will, Skill Focus(Rock Crystal Smithing)
Skills Handle Animal +5, Perception +5, Survival +5, Linguistics +0, Craft (Rock Crystals) +8, Ride +3
10 rounds of rage per day, +4 str, +4 con (hp increases to 51)
Rage Power: Knockback
Gear: MW Breastplate, MW Rock Crystal Greatsword, 3 Javelins, the rest of the gear is none of your business.
You are Veld. You’re happily crafting what Nigel told you to craft in your hut when you heard the commotion outside about two large half owl, half bears headed towards the palisade.
Human Diviner 5
LN Medium humanoid
Init +2, Senses Perception -1
AC 15, touch 11, Flatfooted 14
Hp - 17 (5d6-5)
Fort +0, Ref +1, Will +3
Melee quarterstaff-1(1d6-3)
Ranged +2 (1d8/19-20)
Spell–Like Abilities (CL 5th; Concentration +9)
7/day – diviner’s fortune (+2)
Diviner Spells prepared (CL 5th; concentration +9)
3rd - Arcane Sight, Heroism (2)
2nd – See Invisibility, Glitterdust, Summon Monster II (2), Web
1st – Comprehend Languages, Mage Armor, Ear Piercing Scream (2), Magic Missile
0 – Dancing Lights, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Message
Str 4, Dex 10, Con 9, Int 18, Wis 8, Cha 6
Feats: Scribe Scroll, Additional Traits (Poverty Stricken, Caretaker), Craft Wondrous Items, Brew Potion, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Wand
Forbidden schools: Illusion and Necromancy
Skills Heal +5, Profession Herbalist +5, Craft(Alchemy) +12, Spellcraft +12, Craft(Carpentry) +12, Knowledge(Nature) +8, Knowledge(Local) +8, Knowledge(Religion) +8, Knowledge(Engineering) +8, Knowledge(Dungeoneering) +8, Knowledge(Geography) +8, Knowledge(Nobility) +8, Knowledge History +8, Knowledge Planes +8, Knowledge Arcana +8, Survival +5
Languages known Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Goblin
Gear: Spell component pouch, the rest is none of your business.
You are Edran. You’re bringing stew and baked bread from Jet to the meeting between Ighiz, Slate and Handiss.
Male Bard 3
CN Medium humanoid (human)
Init +2; Senses Perception +6
AC 14, touch 12, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +2 armour)
hp 20
Fort +2, Ref +5, Will +4
Speed 30 ft.
Melee dagger +2 (1d4/19–20)
Ranged dagger +4 (1d4/19–20)
Special Attacks bardic performance 11 rounds/day (countersong, distraction, fascinate, inspire courage +1, Inspire Competence +2)
Bard Spells Known (CL 3rd; concentration +6)
1st (4/day) — Charm person (DC 14), Cure Light Wounds, Expeditious Retreat, Sleep (DC 14)
0 (at will) — Daze (DC 13), Detect Magic, Flare (DC 13), Ghost Sound (DC 13), Summon Instrument, Prestidigitation
Str 10, Dex 12, Con 8, Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 17
Base Atk +2; CMB +2; CMD 14
Feats Point blank shot, Precise Shot, Skill Focus(Handle Animal)
Skills Acrobatics +6, Bluff +8, Diplomacy +9, Handle Animal +12, Knowledge(Local) +5, Linguistics +4, Perception +6, Perform(Dance) +7, Perform(Wind) +9, Sense Motive +6, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth +5
Languages Common, Draconic
You are Ighiz, Chieftain and shaman of the children in stone. You are currently having a meeting with Handiss (your second in command) and Slate about the human, Victor, who has been bugging you to take over one of the caverns, saying that it is rich in clay, and he wants to start up a clay pit. You’d need to get the troglodytes, Sessok and Ressh to move out. Perhaps it could be done, but you’d need to get a new cavern to house Sessok and Ressh.
Female Troglodyte oracle 4 (Stone Mystery)
N Medium humanoid
Init +1
AC 23, touch 11, flatfooted 17
Hp – 48
Fort +7, Ref +2, Will +5
Speed – 20 ft
Melee MW rock crystal shortspear +5 (1d6)+1 acid, bite -1(1d4), claw -1(1d4)
Ranged magic stone +6 (1d6+1)
Oralce Spells known (CL 4th; concentration +8)
2nd – Masterwork Transformation, Lesser Restoration, Stone Call, Cure Moderate Wounds , Continual Flame
1st – Bless, Command, Cure light wounds, Magic Stone, Shield of faith
0-At will – Stabilize, detect magic, detect poison, guidance, read magic, resistance
Str 10, Dex 13, Con 16, Int 8, Wis 13, Cha 16
Feats: Brew Potion, Combat Casting, Extra Spells known (Continual Flame)
Oracle’s curse: Tongues, Revelations Crystal Sight, Shard Explosion
Skills Intimidate +7, Knowledge Planes +3, Perception +5, Perform (Oratory) +7, Spellcraft +5, Stealth +5, Linguistics +1
Languages known Common, Draconic, Terran, Undercommon
Gear: MW Breastplate, MW Rock crystal shortspear, the rest is none of your business.
Special: You may summon Terbius, the earth guardian as a full round action. He’s going to make you cough up 400 gold pieces worth of martial art manuals as payment for services rendered. And you don’t have enough dosh to foot the bill, so you’ll need to ask your tenants (those surfacers) for it.
You are Skinder. You’re delivering Handiss’s mess kit and his pots and pans that he ordered from Kinning and paid for with a couple of amethysts. They’re bloody heavy, and of course, Kinning would make you deliver it all by yourself.
Female hobgoblin afflicted wererat rouge
LE(due to lycanthrophy taint) Medium humanoid
(but she acts as LN)
Init +3
AC 15, touch 13, flatfooted 12
Hp 22
Fort +4, Ref +6, Will +2
Defensive abilities evasion; DR 5/ silver
Melee bite +4(1d4+1)
Special attacks – sneak attacks + 1d6
Str 12, Dex 17, Con 18, Int 12, Wis 15, Cha 6
Feats: Combat reflexes, Weapon Finesse
Skills: Acrobatics +8, Climb +6, Craft (alchemy)+6, Diplomacy (-2) (+2 to change attitude vs animals related to lycanthropic form), disable device +9, escape artist +8, knowledge local +6, stealth +12, Swim +6, Use Magic Device +3
Languages Common, Dwarven, Goblin
You are Azriel. You have just dragged a small ringhorn back to your hut and are in the process of butchering it, when you hear Leo shout that there are two large creatures, half bear and half owl, headed towards the palisade.
Aerieborn Ranger 2
Init+2
LN Medium Humanoid
AC 16, Touch 12, Flatfooted 13
Hp 20
Fort +3, Ref +4, Will +2
Melee mw work shortspear +4 (1d6+1), bite -1(1d6)
Ranged Mw work composite shortbow +4(1d6+2)
Favoured Enemy: Animals +2
Fighting style: Archery
Str 14 Dex 17 Con 13 Int 10 Wis 14 Cha 8
Feats:Point Blank Shot, Skill focus (Survival)
Skills: Knowledge Nature+5, Perception +9, Survival+10, Knowledge Local+1, Knowledge Geography+4, Stealth +8, Handle Animal +4
Medium Earth Elemental, Ascetic Oracle 4
Str 22
Dex 13
Con 15
Int 8
Wis 11
Cha 15
Fort +7, Ref +2, Will +8
Hp 66
Ac 24
Melee: Improved Unarmed Strike +14 (1d8+6)/+9 (1d8+6)
PA: +12(1d8+10)/+7(1d8+10)
Earth Mastery: +13(1d8+11)/+8(1d8+11)
Cantrips:
Detect Magic, Resistance, Stabilize, Light, Mending, Read Magic
Level 1 spells(7/day), Concentration +6
CLW, Obscuring Mist, Divine Favour, Shield of Faith, Stone Fist
Level 2 spells(4/day)
Resist Energy, Cure Moderate Wounds, Glide
Feats:Power attack, Weapon focus (Improved unarmed strike), Blindfight, Extra Revelation, Tougness
Gear: None! Who needs gear! Gear is for wimps!
Skill points: GM is lazy to stat it out for this episode…
Languages known: Terran
Base Atk +7, CMB +13, CMD 24
Revelations: Ascetic Armor (Su): You can use meditative techniques that temporarily cause attacks to bounce off your skin, as long as you aren’t wearing armor or carrying a medium or heavy load. These techniques grant you a +4 armor bonus to AC. At 7th level, and every 4 levels thereafter, this bonus increases by 2. At 13th level, the techniques also grant DR 5/unarmed strikes or natural attacks. You can gain the benefits of ascetic armor for 1 hour per day per oracle level. The hours do not need to be consecutive, but you must spend them in 1-hour increments. (It’s on.)
Fleet (Ex): You gain a +10-foot enhancement bonus to your base land speed. You lose this extra speed if you wear any armor or carry a medium or heavy load. At 7th level, and every 6 levels thereafter, this bonus increases by 10 feet. Oracles with the lame oracle curse can’t select this revelation.
Martial Disciple (Su): Through meditation and study of monastic forms of combat, you have learned a lethal form of unarmed combat. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat, even if you do not meet the prerequisites. You gain the unarmed strike damage of a monk of your oracle level. If you also have monk levels, those levels stack for the purpose of determining your unarmed strike damage.
"Spriggans are gnomes that came out of the first world wrong. They fell into despair and cruelty, instead of the typical gnomish behavior of regular gnomes, like me. You know. Jolly trickster extraordinaire." Grenwold looks extremely serious, as is often the case.
"Nigel, just ask and I'll do your wanding for you. I'm actually pretty good at necromancy, which is pretty weird, right?"
Ighiz: In draconic, to Handiss and Slate:
"The humans want to make a clay pit for their human crafts, but Ressh and Sessok are staying there. So far the humans have been most fair, and gentle to us. Not like normal soft-skins. But we would need another home for Ressh and Sessok. We may have to enlist the humans in tunneling a new room. I would say that the should only be some allowances made - we are working together but for such a sacrifice we should ensure that we are given fair compensation, whatever that may be, for the earth's blood that they would use. Slate, Handiss, what do you advise?
Skinder: Skinder sighs as she trudges to Handiss' cave, looking for him. She tries to knock, saying "Handiss? Um, hello? I don't speak your language. Uh, I have pots here." With no response, she mutters to herself "Well, I can just leave them here, and I'll go find Handiss. These people sure are weird, but I guess if they weren't - I don't want to think about that." Skinder wanders off to find Handiss to let him know about the pots, but she tends to stay away from the Troglodyte areas so it takes her a bit to find the Ighiz' cave.
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Can't they handle something like this themselves? I thought the whole point of having them around was so that they could wave pointed sticks at threats, and then shoot them.
Nevertheless, she stands up, bones creaking, and heads into the cavern, hoping to rouse some interest amongst the troglodytes. On the way, however, she grabs a passing human.
"Stop running around like headless chickens! Go tell Jet and Rhyna what is happening, so we can get that dire wolf involved in the defence of the camp - it's about time he did something other than eat and laze about! I'm heading into the cavern to talk to the Troglodytes, and get them involved, as well."
She then goes looking for Handiss and Ighiz.
"There are two large, hostile, half-bear, half-owl creatures beyond the palisade. Everyone who can, should head topside to kill and/or drive them off!"
Veld runs into Norris, who is feeding chickens in the courtyard. The moment she starts grabbing him, he starts crying, "Eeeee let go of me!" And all the chickens begin scattering in all directions.
As she enters the cave and steps on a shierker mushroom, the mushroom starts shrieking as the two troglodytes stare at her, but give a more positive response.
"We'll tell Handiss and Ighiz. They're having a meeting in the next cavern."They inform Veld and they zip off into the next cavern.
You overheard that Handiss is having a meeting in K3 when Kinning asked Ighiz where Handiss was, so you're now in K3 watching Handiss and Ighiz having a meeting in draconic.
Ighiz: In draconic, to Handiss and Slate:
"The humans want to make a clay pit for their human crafts, but Ressh and Sessok are staying there. So far the humans have been most fair, and gentle to us. Not like normal soft-skins. But we would need another home for Ressh and Sessok. We may have to enlist the humans in tunneling a new room. I would say that the should only be some allowances made - we are working together but for such a sacrifice we should ensure that we are given fair compensation, whatever that may be, for the earth's blood that they would use. Slate, Handiss, what do you advise?
Slate answers, ”Hmm, we already rented out Vokzo and Rhosz for the ore mining. “ Slate gives Handiss a pointed look, ”You didn’t have to be that clumsy as to break your last set of wooden pots did you?”
”Yes, if they want to take our cavern, they can go dig us a new one.” Slate agrees. ”I wonder if we could get some of those vegetables the giant sunflowers are bringing in as well… or maybe knowledge on how to grow vegetables.” Slate comments.”
Then the alarms start blaringshrieker mushrooms start shrieking. Two trogdolytes, Kazuk and Hara come rushing into the cavern.
”Ighiz, Slate, Handiss – the soft skin Veld report that there are two large, hostile, half-bear, half-owl beyond the palisade and everyone who can should head to the topside to deal with them!”
Yes, Jet sent you deliberately to deliver the stew and bread, so that you could eavesdrop on their meeting. No one expects a human to learn draconic, afterall…
”I think I prefer regular gnomes. Even if I run the risk of getting my hair dyed pink.” Father Noelan tells Grenwold with a perfectly straight face. ”At least their pranks are amusing rather then being out to murder you.”
"Yeah I think we're heading into the untamed wilds here."Father Noelan agrees. "And who was it, not too long back who wanted use the roads to Tamran?"
"We can finish this discussion later" - Handiss hissed, slightly relieved about something else to do besides debating about a clay pit - "Head up top now!" - he instructs the others, himself moving out as quickly as possible.
"Definitely Father Noelan - I'll take a pink hair everytime, instead of being clobbered" - Hedran grunts - "These bastards sure do swing hard"
Is Handiss speaking in Draconic or common? You know that there's a wererat, Skinder carrying pots that you ordered from Kinning and another human, Edran in the room
I didn't know that... Common it is.