Ironfang Invasion (Inactive)

Game Master Just a Mort

Stepping out is fine. Fenton stepping in is not

Nigel finishes the last weasel with a single claw. The tall creature seems to be healing from the wounds the party gave it earlier.

Any actions from the party?

Well, since it seemed to be resistant to fire earlier, and I have no acid...

Nigel rips into the tall creature (multiple CdG's on consecutive rounds), and then attempts to drown it in the water.

The party eventually manages to drown the large creature. Cirieo takes the time to get on Cavall and retrieve his crossbow he dropped outside the tower.

2 min later, now what?

Robert will burn the large green creature, since it seems to be some kind of Troll.

Grenwold accepts the potion, and gives it to Fenton. "If anyone else has any healing, I could use it." He looks badly hurt. He searches the room briefly while Nigel drowns the large creature, and then when it expires, the body of the large creature.

cure moderate for Fenton: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (3, 8) + 3 = 14

Perception take 10, 31.

He pulls Cirieo aside, "look, if we die, the world moves on. But if you die, that's the end of the Chernasardo. Please be careful - take my bow or glaive. I don't want anything happening to you. Nigel and I can stay in the front and take the hits." Grenwold says this and coughs up a bit of blood.

”It’s not the end of the Chernasardo, Grenwold. Cobb can continue our legacy. If I do fall…I know that the Chernasardo will continue and I can rest content.” Cirieo says serenely. ”That being said, I don’t think I’ll be very much use in front in this state.” Cirieo agrees, as he fingers his crossbow.

”Sorry Grenwold, I’m running out of divine energies.” Father Noelan answers, but casts a cure moderate wounds on Grenwold.

Last Burst of radiance to CMW: 2d8 + 5 ⇒ (3, 7) + 5 = 15

He’s down to one inflict light wounds, one resist energy, one communal resist energy

I’m not giving auto loot, if you wanna loot you can take the time to do it yourself. Or storm the tower and loot later, up to you.

Robert fishes out another CMW potion and gives it to Grenwold.
Nigel, please remove two potions of Cure Moderate from the bag of Holding.

Nigel helps Gren finish searching the room, nodding to Cavall.

Noticing that Gren is still quite weak, Nigel pulls out a scroll...

UMD: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24.

...and, although he stumbles over the unfamiliar words slightly, manages to follow through with it.

Lesser Restoration: 1d4 ⇒ 2 Con restored.

"I am sorry - I only had ze one..."

Also as a side note - Father Noelan does not have access to your consumables, so if anything, it's for the party to start pulling stuff out. Reasoning being he's not rude enough to go rummage through your stuff.

The party finds on the large creature a wand of charm animal (27 charges);padded armor, a magical headband, animal calls (cougar, roc, weasel, and wolf), animal harnesses (4), canvas ball, veterinarian’s kit.

There are four whips on the wall and one of the whips is magical.

L15

This square room contains only an enormous pallet and a chipped wash basin. A a partially chewed half-elf arm is tucked under the pallet and the wash basin bears old bloodstains and a troll tooth.

2 min to loot and search

After Nigel uses the scroll, Grenwold looks a bit better. "Thanks Nigel, and Robert, I'm probably okay now. I'll save the potion in case I get into trouble." He smiles meekly.

To Cirieo

"Well, I have my bow with some arrows and my glaive, if you'd ever like to use those instead. I'm happy to loan you my things."

To Noelan

"Father, once we get toward the top of the tower, there's a decent chance we'll find that dragon. We should be prepared to use your resist energy to protect ourselves from it's breath weapon. What do you think?"

@Mort, that's why I explicitly mentioned searching, so I wasn't complaining or anything. You're being perfectly reasonable about the autolooting - and you've already mentioned that you'd like us to check at the time of the fight, if we can.

After Grenwold searches around a bit and finds the things, he stuffs them into the bag. "We'll have to identify them later, hopefully Hedran isn't in too much trouble... Anyway, I'm ready to move on upstairs if you all are. Is everyone else doing okay?"

Sorry, missed the search bit.

"Sure I wouldn't mind your bow and arrows. At least they're faster to load then a crossbow."Cirieo agrees and then takes Grenwold's bows and arrows.

Father Noelan draws in a breath and announces the not so good news.
"We could get to it now - but we'll only have 10 minutes, and I can cover only 6,and there are 8 of us. How do we want to do it?"

"Not really feeling that good, but I'll be at the back, anyway."Cirieo replies.

We should get stuff from the bag for use in the fight against the dragon. There are four cloaks of resistance, a lesser ring of acid resistance, four remove fear potions, three potions of bear's endurance, two potions of bull's strength, three scrolls of CMW, eleven potions of CMW, and twelve potions of CLW.

Lesser ring of acid resistance was taken by Ratel. The rest you can go nuts about. Cloaks, everyone except animal companions are wearing one already.

I'll take a bear's endurance, bull's strength and down them before we get to the top. Nigel is using the ring. I have great will saves so I don't need remove fear - I can also do bless for everyone in a sec which should help. Already using a cloak of resistance.

Grenwold nods, "Just want everyone to be safe."

Decide who gets or who doesn't get the resist energy, remove fear etc. But also I'm going to be handling more telco stuff so it might be later in the day before I move plot.

Clocking out. Good night, everyone.

"Vell, for ze moment, let's heal everyone as best ve can..."

Cirieo:
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2.
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4.
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7.

Gren:
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7.

"In terms of ze dragon... I don't believe it is on ze level above, unless it is human-sized; zere vasn't any dragon-related damage, just Hobgoblins. Ze level above zat, however, looks like ze top floor... so ze dragon is probably zere. Before ve go up zose stairs, ve should probably buff up."

He then looks thoughtful.

"I agree, ve should make liberal use of ze Potions, but let's not forget ze Whip Feazer Tokens - ve should activate both, and use zem to hamper ze dragon as much as possible."

I am hoping that we can lock it down with grapple attempts ;-)

Also, all of us swigging Remove Fear sounds like a good idea, as does Bless. Cirieo should take a Bear's Endurance, and I wouldn't mind the other 'set' of Bull's Strength and Bear's Endurance.

I never mentioned it was a (whip) feather token, just a magical feather token shaped like a whip

We already had one that we had identified, though?

That one yes, but not 2

Fair enough.

Robert, Nigel, and Fenton should get remove fears, as they have the lowest will saves. Maybe Cirieo too. Noelan can use my extend rod and get an extended communal resist energy. It would provide acid resistance 10 still (he’s still CL 6, right) so that’s 120 minutes divided by people who need it, or 20 minutes each for Robert, Noelan, Cirieo, Fenton, Cavall, and Grenwold, with Nigel using his ring. I don’t remember how the item slot rules work - can Fenton take a cloak of resistance?

”Thank you Nigel for the additional healing, it is appreciated. And I agree with your idea, too.”

As a side note, good job to Robert for noticing this!

Thanks. I've fought many Dragons before with different characters, and each time was a Royal Pain. Let there be no misunderstanding, people. This is going to hurt.

Quadruped (claws/paws)
Armor, belt (saddle), chest, eyes, headband, neck, shoulders, wrist

Quadruped (hooves)
Armor, belt (saddle), chest, eyes, feet (horseshoes), head, headband, neck, shoulders, wrist

Father Noelan is at CL5. 2 Neg levels and all, that's why the 50 min duration. But he prepped a spare resist energy. Extended would let him cover everyone in 10 mn durations.

Anyone else see anything in the Bag that might be useful?

Not that I notice

Father Noelan casts communal resist energy on the party using Grenwold’s lesser rod of extend.

Robert, Nigel, Fenton and Cirieo each drink a potion of remove fear.

Robert, Father Noelan, Cirieo, get 20 min, the rest of the party get 10 min. Nigel’s tumor familiar is not included

There is no ring – the ring of lesser acid resistance was taken by Ratel.

L16

A tall table in the center of the room holds a large map of the Southern Fangwood covered with marks and figurines while a large cloth map – more recent and covered in heavy notations – hangs on the northwest wall. A large window to the south looks out over the surrounding forest.

Grenwold init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Nigel init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Cirieo init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Father Noelan init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Robert init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
hobgoblins: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

The two hobgoblins stand on guard, as if expecting trouble.

Father Noelan delays as there are too many people on the stairs.

Nigel and Grenwold up

Agreed. Ratel took the ring.

Nigel moves forward, and tries to take a bite out of Red, before it has a chance to act.

Bite: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17, for 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 damage.

Nigel manages to bite the red hobgoblin on his shoulder. 8 dmg done

Gren and Fenton move in and strike the hobgoblin next to Nigel.

Fenton is wearing one of the cloaks of resistance.

Gore, power attack, outflank: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 9 - 2 + 4 = 22
Gore, power attack, flaming: 1d8 + 5 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 4 + (1) = 14
mw rock crystal morningstar, buffed, hatred, bull, power attack, outflank: 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 10 + 1 - 2 + 4 = 24
mw morningstar, rock crystal, buffed, bull, power attack: 1d6 + 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 + 4 = 12

Fenton manages to stab the hobgoblin while Grenwold clobbers him on his shoulder. 34 dmg done

Father Noelan moves up, slowly picking his way across the slippery floor.

Stairs and watery stuff is DT

The red hobgoblin begins to assault Fenton with a flurry of blows, while drawing upon inner reserves to be more agile.

FOB: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
FOB: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

The cyan hobgoblin, Fenton dodge the blows lithely, attempts to grapple him instead, while drawing upon inner reserves to be more agile.

grapple: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Suffice to say he has necessary feats not to provoke AOO

Fenton is grappled by the hobgoblin.

Cirieo uses Grenwold's bow and shoots at the red hobgoblin. As he pulls it he exclaims, "Hey, this longbow feels as if it was made for me. The pull is just right!"

longbow RS: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14
Longbow RS: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
longbow: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

He might have been a little too excited at using the longbow since his shots go wide.

Father Noelan fires at the red hobgoblin, hoping to finish him off, but the hobgoblin dodges out of the way.

Longbow: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Longbow: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

Party up

Nigel shifts across, and tries to keep ripping into Red.

Claw: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20, for 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 damage.
Claw: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15, for 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 damage.
Bite: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15, for 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 damage.

The red hobgoblin ducks and dodges out of all the attacks.

Robert and Pila move. I don't know if Robert has a line of sight to the light green Hobgoblin.

Now you do, but since stairs and slippery floors are DT, please mind on how much movement you have left or if you needed a double move.

I'll leave it as a double move, and make two shots on the next round.

Grenwold frowns at the grappling hobgoblin, and uttering a quick word of prayer, casing a litany of weakness on the hobgoblin, and attempts to pummel him, directing Fenton to strike out as well.

As Cyan has both the grappled and fatigued condition, he should be at -2 str, -6 dex, if I'm not mistaken? Fenton is at -4 dex, as well. Also, when I looked up the grapple rules, it says no AOOs, but doesn't say you can't flank (up to you, adjust as you see fit, Mort.:)

gore, tangling attack, outflank, grappling: 1d20 + 9 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 9 + 4 - 2 = 29
gore damage, flaming: 1d8 + 5 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + 5 + (5) = 17

If the tangling attack hits, cyan is also entangled for another -2 to attack, -4 to dexterity

hoof 1, outflank, grappling: 1d20 + 4 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 4 - 2 = 9
hoof 1 damage, flaming: 1d3 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 2 + (2) = 6
hoof 2, outflank, grappling: 1d20 + 4 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 4 + 4 - 2 = 16
hoof 2 damage, flaming: 1d3 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 2 + (2) = 5

mwk morningstar, buffed, hatred, outflank, power attack: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 1 + 4 - 2 = 18
rock crystal morningstar, power attack: 1d6 + 1 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 + 6 = 11

WHEW LONG POST, please check my maths

Clocking out. Good night, everyone.

Yeah no AOOs, but you can still flank

Fenton manages to stab the cyan hobgoblin once with his horns, but despite grappling Fenton the cyan hobgoblin manages to deflect the hooves and dodge out of the way of Grenwold’s Morningstar strike.

Cyan tries to maintains grapple onto Fenton, but Fenton slips out of his grasp. He uses some inner reserve to anticipate the party’s attacks while the Red hobgoblin attempts to smack Fenton, while doing the same as the Cyan hobgoblin.

Grapple maintain: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15
red FOB: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Fenton Fort: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Fenton is stunned by the violet haymaker that the red hobgoblin threw at him.

red FOB: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

14 dmg to Fenton

Grenwold - I did not include bless in the buff list as it lasts min per level. Did you check it off?

Father Noelan tries to shoot at the red hobgoblin, but his arrows go wide.

RS: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

RS: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Cirieo seeing the cyan hobgoblin ready to pummel him, drops his longbow and draws his korrigan club and tries to club the cyan hobgoblin while getting Cavall to bite him, but the cyan hobgoblin easily dodges out of the way of both attacks.

Club: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Cavall bite: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Party up

Hissing in annoyance, Nigel shifts into a flank, and attempts to rend Red limb from limb.

Claw: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 11 + 2 = 16, for 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11 damage.
Claw: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 11 + 2 = 26, for 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 damage.
Bite: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 11 + 2 = 16, for 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7 damage.

Nigel manages to catch the red hobgoblin with one of his claws and he goes down.

No, because it’s minutes per level, I was waiting until we approached the roof, so after this fight.

Watching as Fenton gets stunned, and amazed at the resilience of the hobgoblin, Grenwold switches Fenton’s focus to earth before trying again to pummel the villain.

Opponent is still fatigued and entangled for this attack I think.

mw rock crystal morningstar, buffed, hatred, power attack: 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 10 + 1 - 2 = 23
mw morningstar, rock crystal, buffed, power attack: 1d6 + 1 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 + 6 = 14

No, Fenton started before you so his turn would have come before yours, and the effects worn off before you started attacking.

The Cyan hobgoblin dodges to the side.

+1 Adaptive Comp. Longbow on Cyan, Point-blank Shot, Precise Shot
Attack 1: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (20) + 19 = 39 with Point-blank Shot
Damage 1: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12 with Point-blank Shot
Attack 2: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30 with Point-blank Shot
Damage 2: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 with Point-blank Shot

Attack 1 Crit. Confirm: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (7) + 19 = 26
Attack 1 Crit. Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (5, 5) + 8 = 18

Robert sends two arrows into the chest of the Cyan hobgoblin but as he is trying not to hit Fenton, it does not hit a vital spot.

The Cyan hobgoblin tries to punch Fenton but he does not manage to punch through Fenton's tough hide. He continues to draw upon his inner reserves to move faster.

fob: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
fob: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Father Noelan fires two shots at the Cyan hobgoblin which go wide.

RS: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
RS: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Cirieo tries to club him while urging Cavall to attack but they do not manage to land a single blow.

Club: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
club: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Cavall bite: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Party up

+1 Adaptive Comp. Longbow on Cyan, Point-blank Shot, Precise Shot.
Attack 1: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (16) + 19 = 35 with Point-blank Shot
Damage 1: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 with Point-blank Shot
Attack 2: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15 with Point-blank Shot
Damage 2: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 with Point-blank Shot

Nigel steps across, and tries to end Cyan.

Claw: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26, for 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12.
Claw: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21, for 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12.
Bite: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13, for 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14.

Robert puts an arrow through the throat of Cyan and he goes down.

Remember that you're on 10 min of remove fear so it's up to you if you wanna loot/look around or not. I'm also at Park Run.

Nodding in satisfaction, Nigel moves over to the doors on the other side of the corridor, and begins to systematically open them.

"We should head to the roof."