Lil"Eschie The Emerald Spire-Bad to the Bones Team (Inactive)

Game Master Escharid Blackrose

Katara was not someone who woke up in a happy cheerful mood. A growl escaped her lips as she stood and upon seeing the person leaping over the dwarf her blade went to his throat as she glared down at him.

"What have you brought into our camp?"

@Walter: allowed for storytelling purpose. ^^

Perception,Meurasold: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
Perception,Katara: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Perception,Zurka: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (18) - 1 = 17
Perception,Mary: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (16) + 0 = 16
Perception,Aralu: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
Perception,Walter: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

No one of you see nothing. Whatever is in the wood stays well hidden now. Between the trees, the bushes and the darkness, it's tough to see anything.

My thrush can roll for perception too.
Songbird: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
It doesn't spot anything ^^

Still with his hands up in the air, Walter takes care when he swallows so that his 'Adam's apple' isn't cut by Katara's sword. "Humor? As soon as he says the word he instantly regrets his decision and quickly tries to make amends. "I swear I have no idea, besides it looked like a big humanoid... not really fond of horse I think, and, honestly, I expect not to find out... the curiosity killed the cat ya know..."

Walter looks from Katara's blade, to the angry dwarf, the skeletons and the dead body nearby, imagining if he had not jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. "Ya will not really like to kill me lady... I'm a tiefling, cursed by a death curse... if I die I'll explode in flames..."

Bluff: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18

"Exploding tieflings? Never heard of 'em. Aralu, keep the bone brothers close by. I'm not sure I trust this one. The rest of you, prepare for combat. Something is out there." Meurasod slowly walked to the edge of camp. "WELL COME ON! COME TASTE MY AXE! I HAVEN'T GOT ALL NIGHT!"

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19

"I have known tieflings and not a single one has burst into flame." She stepped closer as she presses the blade "gently" against his throat. "Give me a reason not to slit your throat for waking me up."

"an exploding death curse, I have never seen one in action, is it the fiery or the guts and bone fragment kind?"

Aralu orders her minions to come closer, positioning bob between her and the tiefling to have a splash guard, in case his reasons are found wanting by Katara. Placing red skull between herself and where the he came from.
sense motive: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
She is a bit disappointed that there seems to be no death curse to see in action.

Noticing that her poorly executed bluff somehow only managed to increase their curiosity about killing him, he tried to make amends."Ok, ok, not my best tale... but could you blame me? I've lost my horse, spent the last 10 minutes running from something, and then landing amid a bunch of guys who seems pretty willing to kill me! How am I supposed to actually give you a good reason not to kill me? I'm not pretty, not rich or well-born, not a warrior, and not a magician... and I don't even explode!" He sighs, hoping that whatever was chasing him have at least the decency of showing up.

It looks like my fake nickname is finally catching me and biting me in the ass... As a last hope strategy, he decides to take advantage of his big eyes and his somewhat catlike nose and lips and make the best 'pity cat' face, even lowering his long ears.

bluff?: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26

Zurka draws his rapier and slides in between the skeletal minions. A charlatan...who lives, and dies by his wits. How did he survive to make it out this far?

"Talk quickly, fool. My patience wears thin." He hisses as he presses the blade next to the man's side. "What was chasing you?"

"Do we have to pick up a stray cat?"

But your avatar does resemble a sheep. :3

"Do any of you have any light magic? If so, send it out into the woods as far as you can. Spread it out and light up as much as you can."

GM, do we have any idea how far we are from town at this point?

"Light is not a friend to me!" Zurka hisses softly. The fetchling decides to find a spot to ambush whatever is hunting the group.

Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26

Still with his hands in plain sight and above his head, Walter stretched his index finger, almost as if requesting permission to talk even if he doesn't wait for it. "I may help with that if you allow me... I can send four small balls of light up to 120ft into the woods... or a fewer amount if you think that four lights is a signal of something! I could even let you pick the color and shape of those!"

Without turning around, the dwarf gruffly said "do it. As many as you can, as bright as you can. Time to find out what we're facing."

Meurasod maintained his stoic stance. His eyes continued to scan the surrounding woods looking for any signs of this "horse eater." Maybe it was satisfied with it's kill. Maybe the tiefling was telling the truth. Maybe he was just...unlucky.

You've done half the trip, so you must be still a few miles (3-5) from the Fort

Walter smiles and steps back, away from Katara's sword and starts the gestures and words necessary to cast the cantrip. He makes sure to pronounce it slowly so the other spellcasters are able know he is not trying to be funny this time. Soon after four spheres of light-blue lights fly towards the woods where the creature was supposed to be hidden.

As the balls moved forward, Walter was still deciding what would be worst... to find about the creature, perhaps putting them in danger, or don't finding it, putting HIM in danger. Once he is done, he lifts his hands into the air once more.

Aralu creates and shoots one of her lighting bolts patent pending ;)

The deadtouched girl continues by ordering her minions to alarm her of and point at, any bipedal creature( beside the ones present) that enters there vision range.

Zurka hides himself in the shadows,Do you mean you get into the forest or do you mean you stay with the rest of the group, but far from light sources? while Aralu dispatch her minions toward the forest, as Walter conjure magical balls of light.

You see a little better now, but you see nothing yet.

Zurka would stay with the rest of the group, just away from the light sources.

I put a link with a map (I called it "Forest map", in a quite straightforward way). Don't be afraid to position yourself, just in case something happen. Oh, and it's a dark night (normal vision for 20 feet around the fire, dim light between 20-40 feet, darkness after 40 feet)

"Whatever is out there, you can see it clearly if it shows up.
I'll keep my magic ready if it shows up."

Readying evil eye for -2 to attack, on whatever baddie shows up.

"The way I see it, we got two choices. Either bed down and maybe double the watch, or pack up and march on through the night. Zurka and I can see well enough to guide us, and with the magical lights, I think the rest of you'll be fine. We can always sleep better in town, especially after a good meal, but that means a long walk when most of us are already tired. I ain't no elf so I ain't particularly fond of sleeping with the trees. Give me a roof overhead any day. What do you think?"

"If it is an intelligent hunter, which it seems to be travel is risky. Having hunted people before, driving prey into a panic to move when they are tired makes them prone to mistakes. Makes them easily separated." Said in a calm calculating voice.

"It is hidden from us at the moment and hasn't chosen to move within our sights. This shows cunning if not intelligence."

Her eyes scanned the places she could see looking for any signs or shadows that looked out of place. With the moving lights it did change angles a bit.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Walter thinks constantly about giving his opinion but decides not to do so... he was usually smart in matters of survival and right now that the others seemed to have forgotten about his presence, was a pretty good improvement to his surviving chances. I just hope that if the decide to stay they'll not tie me to a rope atop the trees to serve as a lure... I'd do that I believe...

So far, you see nothing, but you can feel yourself watched. Theres something here, not too far, ready to attack...

"Well then. Should we try and flush it out?"

From which direction did Walter enter the camp from?

I'm ok with the flushing out.

Walter entered by the south of your camp, as far as you can remember.

Perception,Meurasold: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
Perception,Katara: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Perception,Zurka: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16
Perception,Mary: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (12) + 0 = 12
Perception,Aralu: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Perception,Walter: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

You look everywhere around, and see nothing but the forest and the darkness

Zurka is attacked by something and hit by a claw, wchich leave a small trace of blood on his white face! Fortunatly, the creature couldn't hit all its attacks, as it tried to bite and rip the magus with both claws

Init,Meurasold: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Init,Katara: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15
Init,Zurka: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Init,Mary: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Init,Aralu: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Init,Walter: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Init,Creature of the night: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Init
Meurasold (21)
Aralu (18)
Mary (16)
Katara (15)
Creature (13)
Zurka (9)
Walter (5)
Know Dungeonnering, DC 15, to identify your foe

GM, can my thrush be in the perception rolls in the future? (+5)
It can whisper anything it notices into my ear.
If not, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Sure, i'll add it for future encounters.

Meurasod walked over to stand beside Zurka and swung his heavy axe at the monstrosity before them, but with his back to the newcomer, his focus wasn't entirely on the new threat and his axe went wide of the mark.

War Axe: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Move Action: Move to current map position (3 squares)
Standard Action: Swing Axe

Knowledge (dungeoneering) DC 15, inspiration: 1d20 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (12) + 8 + (3) = 23 I believe Walter gets two bits of information from the creature...

"Yes!" Walter exclaims as the creature attacks since at least something corroborates his story... then he remembers that the creature wants to kill them and that being happy for a creature hitting these new guys isn't a nice or smart thing to do. "Yikes, I mean yikes! Filthy creature..."

Mary hexes the ugly creature for -2 attack.

Will save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

The creature seems unaffected by Mary's curse

Need Aralu's and Katara's actions.
@Walter:you'll get your info on your initiative turn.

Still affected for a round, though :D

Katara sees where it is, her body moving quickly to engage it. Her greatsword coming down to hack it.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Dmg: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (1, 2) + 4 = 7

After thecreat ure has shown itself, Aralu moves to have a free line of sight for a shoot with her lighting bolt. afterwards she orders bob to charge and red skull to stand before her, in case the creature decided that it would prefer a squishier target.

attack(crossbow): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

attack(bob,claw): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Katara hits the creature, whatever it might be, and Aralu's crossbow bolt isn't too far to hit.Sensing the danger, the creature attacks Katara, biting her ferocely

Bite, EE, unhappy creature: 1d20 + 5 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 5 - 2 + 2 = 23 Dmg: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 = 6
claw, EE, unhappy creature: 1d20 + 5 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 5 - 2 + 2 = 15 dmg: 1d4 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 = 6
claw,EE, unhappy creature: 1d20 + 5 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 5 - 2 + 2 = 12 dmg: 1d4 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 2 = 8

@Katara: need a DC 15 fort save vs poison

Init
Meurasold (21) done
Aralu (18) done
Mary (16) done
Katara (15) done
Creature (13) Done
Zurka (9) Now!
Walter (5)

Walter thinks for a couple seconds before recognizing the creature. "Oh, its an ettercap!" Once he hears no recognition from the others, he continues. "Ya know, some nasty cross between some humanoid and an arachnoid... it has a poisonous bite and can spit webs... try not to get bitten!"

Walter then moved alongside the melee fight while readying an arrow and finally releases it... missing the creature completely and also only missing the skeleton because the arrow passed through the ribcage.

Attack (shortbow), point-blank shot, into melee: 1d20 + 4 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 1 - 4 = 7
Damage (shortbow), point-blank shot: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

"Really now? I'll want its head and glands for my studies then."

Meurasod continued to swing his dwarven-made war axe at the foul creature. "You heard the lass. Time to lose that head of yours."

War Axe: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Slashing Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Zurka grunts in pain as the ettercap slashes his face. Glaring at the offending man he reaches for his new sword and takes a mighty overhand swipe at the arachnid-like humanoid.

5' step to flank with Katara.
Attack: MW Bastard sword, flank: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 3 + 2 = 19; damage: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Did Zurka get his Shadow Blending here? (FYI, attacks against a fetchling in dim light have a 50% miss chance instead of the normal 20% miss chance.

Zurka blending 51+ miss: 1d100 ⇒ 36 Sowwy.

Walter's arrow flies wide, but Zurka's new blade connects, even if it doesn't cut as deep as the magus would have wished. Meurasold's axe comes very close to the ettercap, but not enough

Round 2
Init
Meurasold (21) done
Aralu (18)
Mary (16)
Katara (15)
Creature (13)
Zurka (9)
Walter (5)

Mary refreshes her hex for -2 on attack.

Will save: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 2 = 9

This time , Mary's dark magic seems to work

Sadly, i forgot i had the slumber hex at my disposal.
Ah well...7 rounds of this is still nice.

Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Katara felt the injection of poison and growled shoving the creature off and deftly dodges the two claws. Studying her target to find a weak point as she lashed out with her greatsword to gut him.

Flanked and Studied Target

Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 16
Dmg: 2d6 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1, 3) + 4 + 1 = 9

Just waiting for Aralu to post

Aralu mutters some strage, bonechilling words in a language not ment to be spoken by humans and points at the ethercap cast cause fear(dc15)

After she is finisched she orders red skull to move in a flanking position.

Bob continues his attack
attack(bob,claw): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
attack(bob,claw): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4