Mummy's Mask Version 1.5 (Inactive)

Game Master DoubleGold

Elmar isn't really sure what's going on with SB, who is, of course, invisible.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
I'll assume that's enough to notice Nahoce's weapon seems to have dented it.

Elmar will switch to blunt arrows before he attacks the golem again.

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Arrow 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Whelp, this will be interesting. Hope SB has fun trying to convince Kaylor that he's not evil.

Kaylor frowns. As expected! He betrays us. Smug bliksem. His eyes narrow as he focuses, trying to hit the invisible creature.

Concentration: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 Arcane mark, as usual
To Hit: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 7 + 1 - 2 = 16
To Hit2: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 7 + 1 - 2 = 16

He then steps backwards, letting his tail fish out his wand for him.

As the golem has Silver under his control, he has to save every round.
will: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (3) = 6
He put a mask on Elmar to try to control him. as he put a mask on himwill: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (1) = 4
yes the masks can be removed or destroyed the mask has a range of 30 feet, it does not need to be next to a creatures

Elmar is forced to shoot Nahoce and Silver
elmars attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 against Nahoce with normal arrow. and it flies right by her head
elmars attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 against Silver with normal arrow. not even close
silvers attack: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (4) = 11 against nahoce with blunt weapon.

Kaylor and Nahoce are up.

The mask speaks, Now I control two of you, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Oh, and just so you know Elmar, you can't speak while the mask is on you.

All the more reason to destroy you.

Morningstar: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7 Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Blech. Or not.

In the middle of the round, it begins to rain. And those engineers, that don't know how to build has part of the ceiling collapse. But the building... it was unattended to, but even so, it shouldn't be in need of repairs yet. These are medium sized objects falling 20 feet, so if it hits, will do 3d6/2 damage. Blunt damage and yes it will hurt the masks on the players. to be fair, natural disasters/engineering disasters hurt all, good and bad creatures, so as not to cheat.
attack: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (14) = 24 vs touch mask
attack: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (7) = 17 vs touch silver
attack: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (7) = 17 vs touch elmar
attack: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (6) = 16 vs touch Kaylor
attack: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (15) = 25 vs touch Nahoce
attack: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (5) = 15 vs touch avelloran

Everyone is aware of the objects about to fall...so to half it again...

reflex: 6 + 1d20 ⇒ 6 + (6) = 12 mask nope
reflex: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (8) = 15 Silver yes
reflex: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (16) = 23 Elmar yes
reflex: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (9) = 14 Kaylor nope
reflex: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (4) = 8 Nahoce nope
reflex: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (3) = 6 avelloran nope

damage: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 5) = 11 Kaylor, half of that. 5 damage
damage: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 1) = 9 Silver, 1/4 of that. and half of that damage goes to the mask he is wearing. 1 damage to silver, 1 to the mask.
damage: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 3) = 10 elmar, 1/4 of that. and half of that damage goes to the mask he is wearing rounded up. 1 damage to elmar, 2 to the mask
damage: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 6) = 14 Mask, 1/2 of that. 7 damage
damage: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6) = 15 Nahoce, 1/2 of that. 7 damage
damage: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 4) = 8 avelloran, 1/2 of that. 4 damage

Kaylor is up

Wait, wasn't the first roll a touch attack? Because a 16 doesn't hit my touch AC, so I'm not sure why I'm also making a reflex save given that.

Kaylor again uses his tail to retrieve something from his belt, and drinks a potion of CLW.

Heal: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Will update HP after the touch attack rock thing is resolved.

did not realize your touch AC was so high Kaylor, I'm not use to characters having a touch AC above 15 at low levels, especially since a number above 20 is rare. You must get bonus from Dex plus something else. Yes it missed you.

Anyway Round 4 everyone is up again and then the monster. Then Nahoce
Elmar and Silver have to roll will saves and 13 means you can do something this round.

will: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (13) = 16
Silver not under the control this round, says..You control me no longer and you are going down Golem
He is a bit afraid, so he looks up a second to see if anything else will fall on him. perct: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (4) = 11
and then attacks
attack: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (13) = 20
damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (5, 5) + 3 = 13

this Golem is down to 3 HP, just hit him with anything.

Well this just got crazy. Also: as a Dwarf, Elmar gets an additional +2 to all saves against spell-like abilities.

Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

And, with the mask presumably falling off of Elmar's face, he stomps on it angrily as he fires off some more arrows.

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Arrow 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

The creature goes down, as the hereos investigate the right side which is a library and those red things aren't doors, but openings, the Dm got lazy. You find a lot of treasure in the library. And the golem had lots of masks on him that were valueable and some gems on him, which I'm just going to give you all in cash as a traveling merchant appears. The library has documents that are valueable, but the building will be repossed when the dangers are cleared out and you will get paid for it.

Updating loot list and pming you with the gold
Kaylor did that Clw potion come from the leftover loot section, as in I remove it, or was it something bought?

Ok, I would like to point out that the correct RPing thing to do here is to have Kaylor continue to attack SB until he manages to convince him that he's not an evil backstabbing dirtbag.

And the potion was from loot, but we originally got 2, so there should still be one left. You also probably don't need to keep track of old loot, as I have it all marked down.

After looking through some books a hero finds out the following.

A stone tablet written is deciferred. It is a royal decree of Pharaoh Djederet II. The table refers to the hiding of the mask of the Forgotten Pharaoh within the Sanctum of the Erudite Eye. Djederet II was pharaoh of Osirion sometime around -1600 AR, over 6,000 years ago. The hero determines that the city mentioned in the tablet as Wati and knows that Djederet II founded the city. A symbol then become visible from reading it. In the upper right hand corner and eye bisected by a vertical line. The mark has long been used by Osirian priests of Nethys to invoke the god's blessing and denote important documents. No references to the table or the symbol can be found among the surviving documents in the library. And the traveling merchant buys the tablet it is is worth nothing to the heroes and can't do anything.

Heroes explore the north door they just pick. Roll perception with +5 bonus since you know someone was here

Also the loot

Silver bullet can says Sorry about that, I was under a spell. Elmar can vouch for me. Yes Elmar you know that you were under a spell trying to attack Nahoce and Silver

At Kaylor, although you can purposely attack Silver Bullet, that is kind of a death wish. As you are up against and invisible character that will attack back if purposely attacked knowing that Kaylor is not under a spell. I have no problem replacing him, but that is asking for the fight of your life, not to mention I have no idea how the other PCs would react to that.

Edit: Also perception perception: 7 + 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + 5 + (19) = 31
Silver notices the scythe trap and warns the others about it. read the spoiler
Disable it, which is risky. Or destroy it with spells.

"6,000 years? Some mighty fine stonework to stand that long."

Elmar can attempt to disable, but because ranged weapons only deal half damage before hardness is applied we can't take this thing out with arrows. Alas, I don't have adamantine arrows yet

For those of you asking about what happened to the gold from the old loot, I'm assuming you added the sell value of your share to the character sheet already and subtracted the sell value of anything you kepts as Kaylor had is posted in Discussion a few posts back.

Nahoce uses her wand of curing on herself.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7 Perfect!

Was anyone else hurt?

And, as an afterthought, Elmar adds, "Wasn't much of a spell."

Kaylor's eyes narrow suspiciously at the spot where he imagines SB to be standing, his eyes flicking from that spot to Elmar and back again. Either he's an incredibly weak-willed buffoon, of he's merely using this as an excuse. Mayhaps I'll let it slide this time. But if it should happen again... The corners of his mouth turn up just slightly as he imagines getting rid of the annoying creature who clearly views himself as above the rest of the group. Or at least, seems to be under the impression that he's the only one with a brain.

Upon hearing Nahoçe's question, Kaylor awkwardly waves his wand about. "Oh, I could have... It's not that great in combat, but otherwise..." His voice trails off a couple of times as he continues to look awkward. He seems to gather himself in an attempt to be a bit more coherent. "Out of combat, I can heal well."

After briefly considering trying to convince SB that he should totally try to disarm the trap, Kaylor decides that his social skills are too lacking to be able to pull it off. He then starts casting Ray of Frost at it repeatedly.

I'm not going to bother to roll. Both because Kaylor only misses on a natural 1 and because it's a cantrip, so unless we need to know exactly how much time passes, there doesn't seem to be much of a point.

After destroying the trap, Kaylor pauses to contemplate their next course of action. We could ignore the Hand and hope they leave us alone. But given their actions thus far, that seems unlikely. We could hope that they continue to send members at us one at a time, but that would require them to be stupid, which is probably not an assumption we can afford to make. It also means that they get to choose the location of our confrontation, potentially getting the drop on us.

His mind made up, Kaylor speak. "It...might be best not to leave enemies at our back." He pauses, trying to remember what he had heard about the group. "The followers of Nethys will probably fight to the death, but perhaps we could convince their mercenary Idorii to swap sides? We could try luring them in to a trap."

We could get SB to scout ahead since he's invisible. Try to see where they are, so we know a good place to set up a trap. But I'm not sure I trust him enough to give him such an important job. The wand of vanishing won't work as it won't last long enough. We could try imitating the voice of their companion, but I doubt any of us are skillful enough for that.

He continues to try to think of the best way to get the drop on their foes.

Elmar, if you want to continue exploring the first floor, I suggest you say something IC. The possibility of an ambush before we can set one up ourselves is not one that has occurred to Kaylor yet. I'm personally fine either way.

As heroes move to the middle... I drew the middle part, because it is important to the story

Room 5
Space and elevation lend a sense of past gradeur and majesty to this large space. A large, Star-shaped fountain Dm manmade shaped fountain with a cicular pool dm shape in the center sits in the middle of the chamber. The bottom of the pool is decorated with great mosaic eye made from tiny colored tiles, and hieroglyphs are carved into the paving stones ringing the fountain. Two rows of colums support the ceiling overhead, which continue to rise to a domed ceiling in the northern portion of the chamber. At the far end of the hall, a massive statue with arms raised overlooks the entire length of the temple from atop a raised dais. East and west of the fountain, two sets of stone double doors exit the chamber.

Heroes run into 2 badass creatures and they are controlled by the Hand.

init: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (19) = 26Silver
init: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (20) = 25Kaylor
init: 6 + 1d20 ⇒ 6 + (11) = 17Elmar
init: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (5) = 8Nahoce
init: 11 + 1d20 ⇒ 11 + (1) = 12Avelloran
init: 0 + 1d20 ⇒ 0 + (9) = 9 enemy, nature to id
init: 0 + 1d20 ⇒ 0 + (12) = 12 enemy, same kind.

Everyone but Nahoce. Then the 2 enemies, then Nahoce
yes you can get within 5 feet of them without an Aoo, since you go first.

Silver moves up to one to try to pound one attack: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (17) = 24
damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (3, 4) + 3 = 10 and leaves a good dent in the head.

Knowledge Nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Well... Elmar's usually going to assume that, since Kaylor is so book-smart, he's got some clever reasoning behind all of his suggestions.

Meanwhile, super glad that I traded away all my race features related to dealing with giants. But I guess that means Elmar doesn't have any special animosity against giants, so...

Knowledge (nature): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

"You don't want to fight us." Elmar growls. "Stand down, and leave this place!"

And then he'll fire a couple of warning shots... into their bellies. Blunt arrows, nonlethal damage.

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 (nonlethal)

Arrow 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 (nonlethal)

Sadly, Kaylor's intelligence is somewhat limited by my own.

Nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

I had hoped to save this for the Hand, but these guys look potentially more deadly. At least the Hand group is all our sized.

Kaylor makes a few gestures. As he does so, a wave of golden light washes over his body briefly before fading from view. He then steps back next to Elmar hoping but not expecting for the giants to back down.

Casts shield. 5ft step backwards.

minotaur as Nahoce and Kaylor ids it.

Elmar fires shots at the minotaur and an arrow hits.
They respond indirectly to Elmar

Wait a second, Silver knows Giant

Silver...

The minotaurs signal that they are surrendering. bluff: -1 + 1d20 ⇒ -1 + (19) = 18 Sense motive matching or beating their bluff shows that this is a lie and you will get a surprise attack if you figure out they are lying, otherwise if they bluff everyone they will hide and try to surprise attack us

Say where did Avelloran go, he is still up before this conversation went down?

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Yeah, they're *totally* telling the truth, guys.

sensemotive: 2 + 1d20 ⇒ 2 + (6) = 8

SM: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16 SO close "Uncharacteristically smart for these brutish creatures to surrender." Avelloran remarks off hand,

Can you actually bluff someone if you don't even speak the same language as them?

SM: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11 And sadly, even if they got a -5 since it's an unlikely lie, I'd still fail.

"Leave immediately." Do these guys have weapons? If they do, Kaylor also tells them to drop their weapons.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Now there's a skill I never thought I'd need in a PBP.

Elmar, knowing now that they don't speak common, is able to simply pass a message on to the rest of the group without speaking it.

"Not so fast..." he whispers softly, "See how they're still holding their axes? I don't think these fellows are about to surrender."

And, if we all get a surprise action, his will be firing a single regular arrow.

To hit: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

only the ones who passed will get surprise, if all would have failed they would have left the room and got a surprise as we walked into another room. A room with more monsters, sort of like an ambush.

The minotaur hurt says...

@Avelloran, though you failed sense motive...you still have a round 1 action to perform as you still went before these things. Or you can choose to make SB big which would increase the damage he dealt round 1 by 1d6+1.

The surprise has been broken and this resets everyone's readiness...init rerolled for round 2

init: 0 + 1d20 ⇒ 0 + (17) = 17 minotaur
init: 0 + 1d20 ⇒ 0 + (17) = 17 minotaur
init: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (13) = 20 Silver
init: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (19) = 23 Kaylor
init: 11 + 1d20 ⇒ 11 + (19) = 30 avelloran
init: 6 + 1d20 ⇒ 6 + (5) = 11 elmar
init: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (10) = 13 nahoce

Avelloran has 2 actions, round 1 and round 2
Silver, Kaylor I'm going to wait till avelloran does his 2 attacks before posting with Silver
Minotaur, Minotaur
Nahoce, Elmar

Casting Enlarge person on Silver bullet, Avelloran taps his shoulder and then scrubbed his hand clean immediately.

I will ready an action to cast Create Pit if the Minotaur/s charge.

I assume Elmar goes before everybody again since he passed his sense motive check?

I got a free surprise round action, which is what I took. Then we go in the new initiative order, which puts my first full-round action after the minotaurs, but I believe you (Kaylor) still get to move before them.

Ahh, right. I missed that you did that already. My bad.

Kaylor casts shocking grasp, and then waits for the minotaur to step towards him to attack. When that happens, he'll 5ft step and attack the creature.

To Hit(spell): 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 1 - 2 = 14
Damage: 1d6 + 4 + 3d6 ⇒ (5) + 4 + (1, 5, 5) = 20 If this misses, let me know since I'll still have the charge

To Hit(normal): 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 1 - 2 = 21
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

damage from round 1: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Silver swings again. attack: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (6) = 13 but just barely misses.
damage: 3d6 + 4 ⇒ (1, 5, 1) + 4 = 11

The minotaurs attack. First one tries to hit Silver with its full round action Great axe plus gore. attack: 9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (12) = 21 attack 2: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (3) = 7 attack 3: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (2) = 6 and only hits silver once
damage: 3d6 + 6 ⇒ (4, 1, 4) + 6 = 15
avelloran expecting it to charge, but it does not.

The other minotaur charges at Kaylor attack: 11 + 1d20 ⇒ 11 + (13) = 24
And he also gets hurt badly upon entering Kaylor's reach, more than bloodied in a single blow. But bounces of Kaylors tough armor.

Nahoce and Elmar are up for end of round 2
Then top of Round 3, Silver, Kaylor, Avelloran

House of flying arrows!

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Arrow 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

(against whichever looks more injured)

Nahoce casts a spell and causes a mystical dagger of huge proportions to appear and attack the charging Minotaur.

Spiritual Weapon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23 damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17 damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

upon both of Elmars attack the first minotaur is dead and Nahoce hits the other one hard. It is gasping for breath but still standing. 1 HP

Silver switches to his loaded gun. quickdraw

and fires. attack: 9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (16) = 25 vs touch.
damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6 yep, dead.

Will post what is next in the morning. For now you have 2 Greataxes added to inventory

Heroes examine the water. It is drinking water.

Room 6Heroes move up and find an undead creature. Knowledge religion to identify.

If heroes would have healed before this combat or drank the water, go ahead and say that. As you IC would have had time to do so.

init: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (3) = 10 silver
init: 11 + 1d20 ⇒ 11 + (17) = 28 avelloran
init: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (1) = 5 kaylor
init: 6 + 1d20 ⇒ 6 + (8) = 14 elmar
init: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (13) = 16 nahoce
init: 2 + 1d20 ⇒ 2 + (6) = 8 undead creature.

Alignment checks for everyone please. certain alignments affect this creature

Everyone buy Kaylor
Creature
Kaylor

odd CG, I don't remember that, but okay
Silver moves around it and wham attack: 7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (6) = 13 Nope
damage: 3d6 + 4 ⇒ (5, 3, 4) + 4 = 16 still large sized

Neutral

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Recognizing the creature as undead, but not the specific type, Nahoce summons her power.

BEGONE, foul abomination of the True Death, BEGONE!

Channel Pos Energy, DC 14: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6

LN

What manner of beast is this? Kn(religion): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20

CG. How much time has passed since the last combat?

Religion: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Elmar is also CG.

Knowledge (religion): 1d20 ⇒ 20

Just to be safe, in case it's a skeleton, Elmar will be pelting this thing with blunt arrows. Woo favored enemy bonus.

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Arrow 2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Confirm crit: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Extra Damage: 2d8 + 12 ⇒ (8, 6) + 12 = 26

Well, assuming its flat-footed AC is low enough, that should hit reasonably hard.

Ghul If you are good or have a good alinged weapon it helps.

@Kaylor 45 seconds. Nahoce channels powerful energy against it. and no, its Dr does not work for this.

Elmar pumps an arrow into it. you did not crit, and reading up on it, you only did 7 damage, but Nahoce still hurt it

Avelloran still has something he can do before this thing acts.

The creature is trying to locate Silver Bullet, but he has concealment and he attacks him 3 times. each 50 or less misses because of concealment. If success, you rolls attacks. concealment: 3d100 ⇒ (23, 11, 67) = 101
3rd claw: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (18) = 28
damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7 which brings SB to 0 exactly, he is down, but not out. -1 to be dying
Kaylors turn for round 1
then
Avelloran, Elmar, Nahoce
then
That thing.

Being large probably isn't that useful, maybe if I ever get one with an adaptable strength bonus and gravity bow.

Meanwhile, favored enemy, strength bonus damage, and weapon enhancement bonus are all multiplied on a critical hit without controversy. The last point of damage, from point-blank shot, is "probably" multiplied, according to my forum searches. Since a longbow is x3, that's where the +12 came from.

Another round of arrows I guess...

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Arrow 2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11