Masters of the Fallen Fortress (Inactive)

Game Master Awenydd83

Okay then just wait a minute while I inspect them

Take ten on perception for 22

Neither door appears trapped or locked to anyone taking a look.

"Well, one's as good as the other," Nikolai says. "I'll open, get ready to fire on anything hostile on the other side, Turan." Once the archer is in position, the Varisian tough throws the northern door open, ready to rush into the room.

Judging from the shelves lining the walls, this darkened room might once have been a storeroom, though its contents have long since succumbed to the passage of time. A crack in the northern wall has apparently let in some rainwater, which has collected in a large puddle on the floor. A small lizard starts as the door is thrown open and seems to study the party as you stand in the doorway.

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Are we talking about a Small sized lizard? Or a small lizard, like a gecko or something?

Isobel smiles when she sees the lizard.

"Oh, cute! Can we keep it!" she exclaims.

The sorceress removes some snacks from her belt pouch and throws them to the lizard.

Lizards tend to prefer bugs... Turan states blankly as he casts a cantrip to produce light and steps through the door.

Sorry everyone, Every time I have tried to log in today it would either throw me back out with an error message as soon as I posted, or it would just plain not load. I hate the spinney wheel of eternal purgatory!!!

Nikolai: you are looking at a Small sized Lizard

The dog sized lizard has two horns and green scales that seem to crackle with electricity as you study it. As Isobel tosses snacks to it, it jumps forward and sniffs appreciatively at the offerings before gobbling them up. It shrinks back, startled, as Turan calls forth light into the room. After adjusting its eyes, it scampers forward eagerly, licking its reptilian lips and looking up at the party. As it advances towards the doorway, the crackling electricity leaps from the scales to Turan!

Electricity: 1d8 ⇒ 2
DC 12 reflex for half

Does taking ten on Knowledge Natur for 17 tell me anything about the fellow. Ref1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Ouch...Now aren't you a peculiar fellow... Turan remarks as he takes a step back and draws an arrow.

[ooc]With all of the troubles I have had posting, I completely forgot about that, and I apologize. Since I don't have the source material at hand at this moment, I will say that a 17 give it to you. You see before you a shocker lizard. This is a creature that is immune to electricity and has a tendency to give an electric shock to anything within 5 ft when it gets excited or feels threatened. It doesn't appear to be upset though.[ooc]

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"Good dog."

Hmm... can you lure it away..I would prefer not to kill it as it does not mean to harm us although it did just harm me...

Turan summrizes as he hopes the lizard will be drawn out of the doorway by what is being offered.

"Bugs?" Fauxish holds out a cupped hand.

I will give everyone a chance to react to this before I progress, Fauxish. Otherwise, everyone will get shocked!

And here we have the shocker lizard in its natural habitat. They're awfully damn cute.

"Oh! I do hope we can get it out without hurting it!" Isobel exclaims.

She pulls a day's rations from her bag and throws it to the far side of the room.

"Maybe we can slip past it!"

"No bugs?" Fauxish asks up at Nikolai her eyes wide, her voice drowning in disappointment.

Nikolai looks at Fauxish with an arched eyebrow. "Why the hell would I carry around bugs?"

Fauxish shrugs in the direction of the lizard.

"Yeah, I get that it would like to eat bugs, but I don't carry around a pouch of beetles just in case I run into a lizard. Maybe it'd like some aurochs jerky?" He fishes out a piece of cured meat from his belt pouch and tears a piece off, placing it in Fauxish's cupped hands.

Fauxish takes the jerky and steps to the fore. Turen you might wanna move. She then stops and appraises the potential animal handling skills of her fellow adventurers, which is unusually easy because they have none. Visions of one or two of the party mounting a horse in the wrong direction come to mind. (Her included, though she played it off as an excuse for further acrobatics). So...

When ever it's Fauxish's turn (assuming she lives that long and the lizard is so dumbfounded by us it lets me do this).
Boot to the head (non-lethal, flurry): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Other boot to the head (non-lethal, flurry): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Updated the map to reflect your actions, Fauxish.

As Isobel throws the food to the other end of the room, the lizard stays in the doorway curious and excited about the new comers.. until Fauxish steps forward and gives it a couple of swift kicks. It lets out a squeal as they both land.

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Fauxish
Isobel
Lizard- 8
Turan
Xasay
Nikolai

more fancy (nonlethal) footwork: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

more fancy (nonlethal) footwork: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

The lizard squeals louder as the monk continues to rain blows down upon it.

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Fauxish
Isobel
Lizard- 15nl
Turan
Xasay
Nikolai

"Oh, little guy! You're going to hurt us with your sparks...back up!" Isobel says kindly as she lobs some acid in front of the creature to get it to retreat.

"Try not to kill it!"

acid splash, ranged touch: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 151d3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

With the acid splashing across the lizard, it falls unconcious.. just as the door behind everyone is thrown open, and two troglodyte guards rush forth and attack the first character they see: Isobel

Red Club: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Blue club: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

The first one manages to smack Isobel with its club, but the second just hits air.

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Party
Red Trog
Blue Trog

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Isobel- 4

Xasay holds one of his stencils up against the light from the window, and suddenly another otherworldly-looking raptor bird swoops down on the troglodytes.

Once again, I conjure a shadowy Celestial Eagle, in a flank with Isobel, that Smites Evil and launches a full attack against red troglodyte. A DC 16 Will save will diminish the puppet to 20% reality against it (though I'm pretty sure that the result of that will not apply to the other one).

bite: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

talon: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

talon: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

PATHETIC!

"Aaaah!" Isobel reels as the club smashes her delicate, beautiful head. Barely able to stand, she runs through the others to a safer location.

withdraw into the room to the north

Xasay pulls another card and produces an eagle.
Will Save Red: 1d20 ⇒ 7
The red trog believes the illusion, and one talon manages to get through!

Isobel withdraws, seeking the safety of some distance.

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Turan
Nikolai
Fauxish
Red Trog- 2
Blue Trog

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Isobel- 4

Xasay pulls another card and produces an eagle.

Not cards, shadow stencils; they're kinda like metal 2-D upside-down marionettes on sticks.

GM DevilDoc wrote:

Xasay pulls another card and produces an eagle.

Not cards, shadow stencils; they're kinda like metal 2-D upside-down marionettes on sticks.

Ok.. thank you for the clarification.

"Finally," Nikolai says, cracking his callused knuckles. "I get to go to work." He pushes past Isobel as she retreats into the room to the north and punches the ugly looking one on the right.

Power Attacking the red one.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Turan draws an arrow and lets fly at one of the monstrocities.

Attack1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 Damage 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Activate Falcon's Aim as swift action (3/5 uses used).Attack red one. Precise shot+Deadey bowman means no penalties to hit.

The ppt version of the map suckered rocks on my phone so I will need to rely on others for eyes.
Fauxish tumbles past opening a second front to flurry from.
acrobatics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11 or not...

flurry (if flanking add +2): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

flurry (if flanking add +2): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Nikolai takes a big swing, but forgets to set his feet, missing the reptilian brute entirely.

Turan sinks an arrow deep into the red armored troglodyte.

Fauxish, I have you moved
Fauxish tumbles around the outside of the red trog, just barely scooting by an outstretched claw before hitting it hard and knocking it out of the fight.

Blue Trog turns his club onto Nikolai..
Club: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Claw: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (19) - 3 = 16
Bite: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (2) - 3 = -1

Club: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Claw: 1d4 ⇒ 4

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Party
Blue Trog

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Isobel- 4
Nikolai- 8

The phantom eagle advances on its next foe while Xasay himself moves in with his sword.

DM, please judge the summoned monster Smiting rules to tell whether it's legit for it to keep its Smite damage bonus. Also, this troglodyte gets its own DC 16 Will save to diminish it to 20% reality.

bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

talon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

talon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Sounds good to me. I haven't used it, personally, but these are ce creatures vs a celestial being. Without some form of detect evil going on, you won't know if your target is evil or not.. just add in a note at the end of your post with the modifiers to be added as you have been, and I will apply it accordingly.

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Move and CLW for Nicolai1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Turan seeing that Nicolai is bady injured steps forward and refrains from further violence to instead bid the Elkfather to aid his alliy and heal his wounds.

Nikolai falls to a knee after the troglodyte batters him, but raises again - partially due to Turan's healing, and partially because he's too damn stubborn to die. He hacks and spits out a bloody globule, looking the trog square in the eyes.

"Alright, now I'm mad."

He swings, but the blows took something out of him, and they're wild and unfocused.

Attack, PA: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Now in a safer position, Isobel turns back, anger on her face.

She performs a quick gesture to attract the attention of the enemy that had struck her, then tries to stun it with her beauty.

Casting daze, DC 18 Will save

Xasay's Phantom eagle swings in at the last trog
Will save: 1d20 ⇒ 7
and it fully believes that it is under attack. Only one talon manages to get through, though.

Turan turns and gives Nikolai some juice, but he beefs up too much and isn't able to hit his target.

Isobel, well and truly pissed from the smack she took earlier turns up the charm
Will Save: 1d20 ⇒ 12
and stuns the creature.

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Blue Trog- 4- dazed

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Isobel- 4
Nikolai- 1

"Dammit, stop ducking out of the way, it's not fair!", Nikolai shouts, refocusing his fury on the troglodyte. He plants his feet and aims a powerful jab square at the slimy creature's bulbous throat.

Same tactics.
Attack, PA: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

unarmed flurry v blue: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

unarmed flurry v blue: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16 damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

The dark bird blinks out of existence, but Xasay keeps up his swordplay.

longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Delay. If the team can't drop him I'll try shooting through the ranks

Isobel, still dizzy from the blow to her head, launches some acid far away from the action.

acid splash, ranged touch: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 2 - 4 = 11d3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Sorry for my late post today.. was at the hospital last night with my son and slept in this morning.

Isobel, keep the spell, he was very much down!

The combined efforts of the party bring the last trog down in pieces without even a chance of defending himself.

OUT OF COMBAT

The party is now once again faced with two doors.. Which do you choose?

We've already started opening up room #3, why don't we head in that way?

The party is now once again faced with two doors.. Which do you choose?

The one with the lady, not the tiger.

Turan inspects the indicated door and then attempts to open it.

Perception1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21