Of Kings and Commoners - Kingmaker AP

Game Master RPGGGM

Durgan moves up and casts Shield.
He shouts down at Hotspur, "Your Lordship, abandon this Stag Lord idea! The man is a monster!"

The nobleman ignores Durgan. He shouts again down at the guardsman.

"I need those doors opened now soldier! We cannot afford to penned in this castle by the city guard!"

Zokons eyes go wiee open for a second and he savours the feeling of the lady's grip and the softness beneath his hand.

But he has to get on and help

He looks in the direction of the close by elemental and Scarlet "That elemental at the top of the steps just hurt my friend, I must goto her, please."

"Pish posh, your friend is well supported. Besides she is a servant of Sarenrae. Trying to burn her is like trying to burn the sun. Unless!" And at this Lady Luljeta's eyes go wide. "Ser and the young paladin!?"

** spoiler omitted **

Miles almost stops his performance, but keeps it up and forces a smile on his scarred lip, making it more like a crooked grin.

"Pish posh, your friend is well supported. Besides she is a servant of Sarenrae. Trying to burn her is like trying to burn the sun. Unless!" And at this Lady Luljeta's eyes go wide. "Ser and the young paladin!?"

"What no.. she's a nice lass and all, but we hardly know each other. and why are we talking about this, they need my help please, unless you wish the young dangerous lord to escape?" he tries again the pull away

"Bah," says Numalar. "Let the lordling go. If the city guard appears his plans regarding this mercenary company are foiled anyhow. The mercenaries can hardly keep their contract if it is overruled by the Lord-Mayor, now can they? That will happen whether or not Hotspur is here."

"Better to let him save some face by not having to deal with the guards personally. He can disavow the mercenaries, and they will be free of his contract."

"Hmm..." Illthir surveyed the scene from her vantage point, looking to see if there were any more flames or suspicious figures about. But mostly she concentrated on keeping her spell up for now.

Concentrate is a standard action, so no more fun this turn : )

"What no.. she's a nice lass and all, but we hardly know each other. and why are we talking about this, they need my help please, unless you wish the young dangerous lord to escape?" he tries again the pull away

"Well of course I do, silly! I let him keep his mercenaries here didn't I? In time, when he has won his kingdom, perhaps he will think kindly of his one-time hostess." she giggles and blushes. She releases Zokon, and turns away to hide the sudden change to her pallor.

There's spout of water from inside the tower. It hits the underside of the trapdoor, forcing it open and causing the beacon to roll off and onto its side where the flames gutter. A moment later, Blue Beetle is standing on the battlements having been lifted there by a pyramid of his men.

He does not look amused.

Scarlet prepares to... oh, Alia destroyed it.

She shrugs, sighs, and double moves AGAIN down the stairs towards her charge.

** spoiler omitted **

"IT'S OKAY! I'M WITH P-MILES!" Erevenywg shouts back with a big, exaggerated wink. She notices Miles moving off, looks puzzled, sniffs her own armpits, and then prances after the gnome. "See?"

Serenabot, doubts that even with Numalar's spear helping her that her return strike would have landed. Patience, she thinks. This too shall pass.

+1 scimitar v red (bless, inspired): 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 12 damage: 1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5 sigh. ;)

The short scorecard.

Bless Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

Inspire courage An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Began round 2.

BOSS BATTLE Round 6! (Boss Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Medium fire elemental (red -21)
__ Hotspur
__ Scarlet -5 hp
__ Durgan -7 hp
__ Zokon
__ Serena -3 hp
__ Alia supersized, climbing
__ Miles
__ Numalar -12 hp
__ Illthir
__ Dwarven mercenary/gate operator

Map updated. Note: the elevations of peaked roofs applies to the peak itself. Other spaces will be lower.

Alia considers climbing up all the way, then jumping down...but that seems like a very dangerous course of action with no haystack waiting to soften her landing.
Climb DC 5: 1d20 + 7 - 1 - 5 ⇒ (9) + 7 - 1 - 5 = 10
Instead, she speedily climbed down the rope, just enough to get some slack and be able to jump back towards the battlement she started from.
Accelerated climb for half speed is 15 feet, so at +52 feet
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 13 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 13 - 1 = 20
Adjusting her position during the way down, jumped the remaining few feets over to solid ground, avoiding the shrine and coming to a stop next to Numalar momentarily, clearly ready to use her momentum to continue moving downward.
(Plan for next round) Jump to guardhouse and hope the roof is stable, jump to ground and hope I land on him.

Alia swings back to the tighter-than-she-remembered battlements.

She's a bit squeezed for space between the crenelations and the cathedral roof.

Numalarbot delays.

The dwarf stoms out of the gate house to have a look at the door. He walks under the battlements and out of sight.

More flailing!

red slam v Serena: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15 damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 Consistency, I like it! ;)

The short scorecard.

Bless Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

Inspire courage An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Began round 2.

BOSS BATTLE Round 7! (Boss Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Medium fire elemental (red -21)
__ Hotspur delaying
__ Scarlet -5 hp
__ Durgan -7 hp
__ Zokon
__ Serena -3 hp
__ Alia supersized
__ Miles
__ Numalar -12 hp
__ Illthir
__ Dwarven mercenary/gate operator

Map updated. Note: the elevations of peaked roofs applies to the peak itself. Other spaces will be lower.

"Pish posh, your friend is well supported. Besides she is a servant of Sarenrae. Trying to burn her is like trying to burn the sun."

More flailing!

"See?"

Durgan moves through Numalar's and Alia's spaces and casts Bull's Strength on Alia.

"IT'S OKAY! I'M WITH P-MILES!" Erevenywg shouts back with a big, exaggerated wink. She notices Miles moving off, looks puzzled, sniffs her own armpits, and then prances after the gnome. "See?"

"Okay, but stay out of trouble. I'm gonna help Alia."

Scarlet looks at the inspirational gnome. "Take care of Erevenywg please."

Scarlet hustles over to her charge, and in view of Hotspur. She realizes how bad her position is.

"Alia. What do want to do?"

Double moved.

"My lady as charming and beautiful as you are, I'm still going to go help my friends." and he tries to get away and ascend the stairs

escape: 1d20 ⇒ 11 Not sure of what to use

"My lady as charming and beautiful as you are, I'm still going to go help my friends." and he tries to get away and ascend the stairs

Not sure of what to use

You don't have to use anything. She slowed Zokon down by exactly one move action last round.

Zokon moves up the steps and then fires an arrow at the elemental facing Serena

Arrow+pbs-da+bless+insp: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 151d8 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

"I'm behind you Serena, get it."

Zokon moves up [down] the steps and then fires an arrow at the elemental facing Serena

"I'm behind you Serena, get it."

The arrow skips off top of the corner merlon and out over the moat as the elemental weaves and bobs.

Hotspur notes Scarlet's arrival and the looming giant elf above him, as the red dwarf rounds the corner and calls to her charge. As if by magic, a stiletto appears in the man's hand.

The short scorecard.

Bless Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

Inspire courage An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Began round 2.

BOSS BATTLE Round 7! (Boss Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Medium fire elemental (red -21)
__ Scarlet -5 hp
__ Hotspur readied
__ Durgan -7 hp
__ Zokon
__ Serena -3 hp
__ Alia as big and as strong as an ox
__ Miles
__ Numalar -12 hp
__ Illthir
__ Dwarven mercenary/gate operator

Map updated. Note: the elevations of peaked roofs applies to the peak itself. Other spaces will be lower.

Erevenywg races after Scarlet calling back to Miles: "Túl! Ni indóme vamme vamme cen- sina!"

Meanwhile, high above more dwarves attain the battlements of the beacon tower. Arbalasti, and Bloody Angus can be seen on the battlement standing beside their scowling captain.

There seems to be a great commotion coming from inside the bell-beacon tower.

Down below in the courtyard, Miles can hear the sound of a veritable tidal wave of cursing dwarves, and clanging armor steaming toward the cathedral doors to his right.

"Grrrrr."

"YE DOON THAUR! OCH AYE YE, YE CAPERIN' DIVIT!" Bloody Angus calls down to Miles, "DRAW YER BLADE AN' DEFEND YER LAIRD, UR BY GORUM I'LL HAE YER WOBBLY BITS FUR GARTERS!"

Thanks Durgan. Scarlet: I think you can deduce the details from the post :).
Running onwards, Alia jumps from the battlements over to the guardhouse, pulling her Estoc in the process.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 13 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 13 - 1 = 20
Once there, minimizing time spend at the edge of the roof, in case only the section above the wall was even able to carry her, Alia turns around and jumps down, aiming to land on hotspur selline...even with her current weight, size and strenght, she was unsure if she could ace the landing, so she mostly made sure to keep her magically charged Estoc tightly gripped.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 13 - 1 ⇒ (17) + 13 - 1 = 29
Certain that she got the young nobles attention, one way or the other, she hisses: "Transfer ownership of the contract and command over the company to me if you want to survive."
For the record, she'd instantly transfer command to Scarlet and her brother, and extend ownership to the party. We DID want to hire them, right? To be honest, I have no idea if that could even work that way. Neither has Alia, but it seemed a tad bit more productive than screaming 'Death from Above!' at the top of her lungs while stabbing downwards with her noble-sized magical toothpick.

Hotsupr looks up. "Oh no."

A look of panic flashes across Hotspur's face as Alia drops upon him. The dagger drops from his hands as Alia's shadow engulfs him.

thrown dagger v Alia: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11 damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

His horse seeing the danger jerks them both to the side.

Hotspur reflex: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20
horse reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

Alia nonlethal fall damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Alia lands on her feet with a THUD.

The short scorecard.

Bless Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

Inspire courage An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Began round 2.

BOSS BATTLE Round 7! (NEW Boss Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Medium fire elemental (red -21)
__ Scarlet -5 hp
__ Hotspur readied
__ Durgan -7 hp
__ Zokon
__ Serena -3 hp
__ Alia as big and as strong as an ox, 1 nonlethal
__ Miles
__ Numalar -12 hp
__ Illthir
__ Dwarven mercenary/gate operator

Map updated. Note: the elevations of peaked roofs applies to the peak itself. Other spaces will be lower.

Miles will move up to the north where the Fey was going as he hoped to try and track down that noble, whilst he continues the performance.

Double, possibly triple movement. Full-round action eitherway.

Serenabot takes a deep breath rembering her training at the foot of the wandering wiseman Ches-Vac Hye. She stops thinking. She let's things happen. She becomes the scimitar.

She recites his meditative verbal undulation, she closes her eyes willing it to be true with every fibre of her being! "Nahnahnahnahnahnahnah-nahnahnahnahnahnahnah. Be the scimitar."

The scimitar sings!!!

+1 scimitar v red (bless, inspired): 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 14 damage: 1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 1 = 8 Unfortunately the scimitar uses a lot of autotune.

The elemental watches dully as the blade misses by a mile.

Numalarbot again entreats the party to just have done with Hotspur and let him be, but Illtirbot continues to concentrate upon her illusion around the gates.

The dwarf mercenary returns from the door scratching his helmet. He readies his halberd at the sight that greets him as he turns around.

Drawing out a bit of coal from his longcoat, Arbalasti barks out a spell.

He let's the coal drop into the courtyard. Suddenly, the dimly gate area to about 20 feet up the side of cathedral wall is smothered in complete darkness!

Angus continues to yell at Miles. "Gods blest ye fur ah fool! Ah said draw yer weapon! Reit! Ah comin' doon, an' if 'at sword is still oan yer belt aam gonnae shove it up yer crease baskit first!"

He weaves a spell upon his captain.

Then he and Blue step from the battlements!

Arbalasti immediately barks out a spell, and the two dwarves plunge becomes a slow, controlled float downward into darkness, like a pair of stout, heavily armed, magical British nannies.

Before stepping off the battlement Beetle summons a torrent of rushing water to course between his hands!

Hey, I do have Spellcraft!

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Scarlet recognizes Angus and Singe's barking from anywhere. "Alia, my bro- I mean the Captain and Singe are coming down. This is gonna get worse before it gets better."

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Oi, what is my bro doing? Dammit. She watches her brother captain prepare to engage her charge, and confusion comes across her face.

Actually is Angus and Blue who are coming down, Singe is a siege wizard who is there to control the battlefield and blow things up from afar. Scarlet has the opportunity for an AoO against the descending dwarves.

Even more flailing!

red slam v Serena: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 Oooh, so close! ;p

The short scorecard.

Bless Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

Inspire courage An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Began round 2.

BOSS BATTLE Round 8! (NEW Boss Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Medium fire elemental (red -21)
__ Scarlet -5 hp
__ Hotspur readied
__ Durgan -7 hp
__ Zokon
__ Serena -3 hp
__ Alia as big and as strong as an ox, 1 nonlethal
__ Miles
__ Numalar -12 hp
__ Illthir
__ Dwarven mercenaries (all)

Map updated. Note: the elevations of peaked roofs applies to the peak itself. Other spaces will be lower.

Scarlet promised she would never, ever, raise her weapons to strike her bro. And that holds true today. She really wants to defend Alia, to protect her contract. If only she could get around this stupid horse and this idiot lord who makes deals with madmen.

"Dammit, we're out of time." She decides to delay, unwilling to attack her fellow dwarves and unable to squeeze that horse to reach Alia.

The short scorecard.

Bless Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

Inspire courage An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. Began round 2.

The area of darkness is dark.

BOSS BATTLE Round 8! (NEW Boss Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Medium fire elemental (red -21)
__ Scarlet -5 hp
__ Hotspur
__ Durgan -7 hp
__ Zokon
__ Serena -3 hp
__ Alia as big and as strong as an ox, 1 nonlethal
__ Miles
__ Numalar -12 hp
__ Illthir
__ Dwarven mercenaries (all)

Map updated. Note: the elevations of peaked roofs applies to the peak itself. Other spaces will be lower.

Zokon uses studied target on the elemental facing Serena and then fires an arrow at it

Arrow+pbs-da+bless+insp+st: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 201d8 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

Serena attempts to follow the path of Zokon's arrow with her scimitar.

Attack vs. red elemental: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 16 Damage: 1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 1 = 6

Durgan has a scroll of Invisibility Purge, but that is only 25' radius and Durgan is too high for it to catch Hotspur right now.

Durgan moves and casts Barkskin on himself.

Zokon uses studied target on the elemental facing Serena and then fires an arrow at it

Opening her eyes Serena sees that she was indeed the similar as the elemental has been dispatched. Praise be to Sarenrae.

Serena can restate her round as the elemental is no more. Thanks be to Zokon.

Serena gives a nod of thanks to Zokon, then turns and runs towards the stairs to the gate. Triple move towards the gate stair.

Illthir shudders as the scene unfolds beneath her. Then the skald moves towards the gate, keeping her spell up. If they were going to bloodshed over this she might as well make sure it's worth it. Hopefully Hotspur cools off a bit first though ...

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Standard to maintain concentration, move to move

Angus continues to yell at Miles. "Gods blest ye fur ah fool! Ah said draw yer weapon! Reit! Ah comin' doon, an' if 'at sword is still oan yer belt aam gonnae shove it up yer crease baskit first!"

He weaves a spell upon his captain.

** spoiler omitted **

Then he and Blue step from the battlements!

Miles blinks, struggling to understand what on earth the Dwarf appears to be screaming as it sounds like some-kind of foreign tongue.

If I believe I'm right, the darkness was there before Miles arrived so I can't cast a spell on anyone/thing in the area since I can't see whose there.

If I believe I'm right, the darkness was there before Miles arrived so I can't cast a spell on anyone/thing in the area since I can't see whose there.

Miles cannot accurately target individuals in or behind the field of darkness. He had arrived pre-dark, so he saw where Alia, Scarlet, Hotspur, his horse and the dwarf gatekeeper where before the darkness fell. He is still able to target an area effect spell, as he is fairly certain that the castle bindings and ground haven't moved, but it would be educated guesswork to know who he was hitting with it.

Miles De Nerthopln wrote:

If I believe I'm right, the darkness was there before Miles arrived so I can't cast a spell on anyone/thing in the area since I can't see whose there.

Miles cannot accurately target individuals in or behind the field of darkness. He had arrived pre-dark, so he saw where Alia, Scarlet, Hotspur, his horse and the dwarf gatekeeper where before the darkness fell. He is still able to target an area effect spell, as he is fairly certain that the castle bindings and ground haven't moved, but it would be educated guesswork to know who he was hitting with it.

Ahh, then I'll edit my post...but I can't because it's too late. If possible I'd like to cast grease under where I believe the lord and his horse was. I have harmonic spell feat so I don't spend a action and can cast a spell without stopping my inspiring courage.

Works for me.

Moving along in a few.