[Outpost 2018] CORE #8-07: From the Tome of Righteous Repose (Inactive)

Game Master Paladin of Baha-who?

Seoni steps down behind Daeron and sees the green Drake attacking Amiri down the hall. Be gone foul creatures *zap* *zap* Seoni hits it with two bolts from her wand of Magic missile. wand MM: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 3) + 2 = 9

They have to make appropriate saving throws and fly checks, which they have been making.

against the wind: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Moving across the wind to help Prism, Two Blades stabbed the Drake with the short sword.
Rapier: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 61d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
SSword: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 221d6 ⇒ 6
Can someone 5" me next to the Drake? Thanks, tablet is not playing nice.

These guys still have a 20% miss chance. Please roll it along with your attacks.

1d100 ⇒ 6

Two blades thinks he has a perfect opportunity and, feinting with his rapier, stabs his shortsword through the drake's left wing -- or where it appears to be, anyway, as his blade pierces nothing but the shadows.

Tallwun moves to aid Prisim.

He calls upon the wrath of the stone scorpion to slow his enemy.

Scorpion style attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Mischance: 1d100 ⇒ 38

damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Scorpion Style

DC 14, 3 rounds

It shouldn't matter, since they fly, but you never know

Bastard sword in hand Amiri swings at the Green creature.

Large bastard sword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 Damage: 2d8 + 7 ⇒ (7, 3) + 7 = 17

Again Daeron tries to shoot at the flying creature. Green

Longbow: 1d20 + 8 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 8 - 4 + 1 = 19
Damages: 1d8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 = 8
Miss chance >20%: 1d100 ⇒ 76

Seoni, Tallwun and Daeron all hit their targets. The drake attacking Amiri is significantly injured, while one of the legs of the one attacking Prisim is stiffened, though this may have little effect on its movement should it continue to fly.

The injured drake tries to flee, dripping dark ichor from its wounds. It dodges and weaves away from Amiri, avoiding any possibility of her attacking it as it flees.

The other attacks to try to cover its fellow's escape, diving at Amiri and biting and slapping at her with its tail, the latter failing to get past her armor. Amiri gets an AoO against Yellow as it moves into her square. Bite hits for 1 NL damage.

The other flies at Prisim, biting and slapping to slightly greater effect. 3 damage to Prisim.

Amiri swings at Yellow as it moves.

Large Bastard Sword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 Damage: 2d8 + 7 ⇒ (3, 6) + 7 = 16

Forgot to say it specifically, but all PCs are up.

Daeron shoots at the one attacking Amiri yellow

Longbow: 1d20 + 8 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 8 - 4 + 1 = 12
Damages: 1d8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 + 1 = 9

Stepping closer, Two Blades hollered to Prisim "Grab your dagger!" he said as he stabbed at the foe.

Rapier-20% miss change: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 151d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 31d100 ⇒ 7
short sword-20% miss change: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 101d6 ⇒ 11d100 ⇒ 9

Tallwun steps forward and unleashes a flurry of blows on Red.

Punch 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15 for damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Punch 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 for damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Mischance 1: 1d100 ⇒ 17 high hits
Mischance 2: 1d100 ⇒ 73 high hits

The little drake gives out a trilling, eldritch laugh as it dances past Two-blades' attacks, but loses a bit of its humor when Tallwun punches it again.

Amiri takes a small step, her eyes glaze over as her anger rises 5 foot step, enter rage and she swings her sword at the yellow drake.

+1 Large bastard sword, Power attack, Powerful Blow: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 9 - 2 = 26 Damage: 2d8 + 10 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 2) + 10 + 6 + 2 = 26

Crit Confirm?: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 9 - 2 = 13 Extra Damage: 2d8 + 10 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 7) + 10 + 6 + 2 = 27

Prisim steps back from the drake again, and again tries to splash it with acid.
RTA,wind: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 6 - 4 = 9
concentration to cast defensively: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31
And again finds it blown away.

Seoni lets another two bolts from her wand whisk toward their assailants. This time aiming for the red Drake. Magic missile wand wand dmg: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 4) + 2 = 9

miss chance for Amiri: 1d100 ⇒ 74

Amiri flies into a rage and swings her massive sword with a crushing blow that smashes the drake into the wall, leaving it broken and bleeding out.

Yellow is down!

Red realizes its precarious position and tries to withdraw back towards the hallway from which it came. However, in doing so it leaves Two Blades a chance to strike! It withdrew from the square it was in before to the square west of Prisim, who not having a melee weapon out, couldn't do anything about it leaving that square and trying to tumble through the air to avoid an AoO from Two Blades. This attempt failed, however, and Two Blades gets an AoO.

fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
fly: 1d20 + 23 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 23 - 4 = 38
acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Waiting to find out if Two-blades manages to kill it.

AOO: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 71d100 ⇒ 89
Two Blades tried to attack the fleeing drake but missed.

If I'm not mistaken, neither Seoni nor Daeron have a melee weapon readied. If not, let me know and I'll roll another acrobatics check to avoid them.

The red drake flies over Daeron's head and down the corridor past Amiri. The wind speeds its flight and it is past her before she can react, fleeing into the dark hallways.

Combat over! You can finish the drake off if you wish, or if anyone speaks draconic you might be able to heal and question it.

Prisim steps forward and addresses the small drakes.

Well that was fun! Seoni says sarcastically. Let's check both these rooms carefully. She says seriously. aid another perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 Can one of the higher perception people just 'take 20' Seoni will aid. That should ensure we don't miss anything.

"I'll look around miss. I'm very observant. Trust me, I never miss a thing."

"Say, were some of you poor folks hurt? My healy stick is available to help."

Hitting those things was harder for you than I expected, but I guess a 20% miss chance is roughly the equivalent of a -4 on rolls. Where do you want to search? The damp hallway to the south of where Amiri is standing? The larger room to the west?

Damp hall first, if nothing interesting appears, larger room next.

Lets look at the damp hall.

Daeron tries to find his missing arrows.

Find if >51%: 2d100 ⇒ (78, 57) = 135

Lets go

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

The elf looks around him, bow readies for any threat.

yeah we take all the time we need to thoroughly search both areas

Sounds good to me. Also keep an eye out for traps.

Exploring the damp hallway finds that it leads to what seems like a magical spring. Warm, steamy water splashes down into the center of this small pool, and a set of stairs leads down into the water. Examination with detect magic finds that it is enchanted with spells to bring the water from the surrounding rock, purify it, and either warm or cool it to a desired temperature.

Moving further into the next hallway reveals a larger room with a series of small shrines along the wall. Most have been despoiled, but the one at the end of the hall has been turned into a nest by the drakes, apparently, with a small pile of nearly worthless treasures -- copper pieces, bits of glass and base metal -- along with a few items of actual worth: a shining pearl, an ivory wand with a blue gem at the end, and a cloak embroidered with eyes.

The shrines can be recognized from the remains of their contents as having originally been dedicated to Shizuru, Sarenrae, Aroden, and Torag.

To the south, a hallway leads south, connecting with the large hallway full of traps that you discovered when you entered the dungeon. Was it possible you missed this doorway before? More likely, it was blocked or concealed in some way, and the drakes, fleeing, used this route to escape the dungeon.

I'm sorry that I somehow missed describing the connection from this room to the main hallway where you entered the dungeon.

Speaking of the drake, what do you want to do about the remaining one - let it bleed out or stabilize on its own, finish it off, or heal it and interrogate it?

Seems like Prisim want to talk to them :)

Daeron stops when he sees the gnome trying to talk to the drake.

Better stabilize it and heal it before trying to talk to it!

Once tied up, Daeron uses his wand to heal the draconic creature.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Prisim looks at the bleeding drake. "Can someone help him? They are not evil.. well not normally."

She looks over the items with a magical aura.
spellcraft cloak: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
spellcraft pearl: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
spellcraft wand: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

"ohh, that cloak is nice. It is a a cloak of the hedge wizard with a bias towards divination)"

Looking around she sees blank faces. "It lets you detect magic at will, and once a day strike truly and another time sense secret doors."

The cloak seems cool! If nobody else want it, I'm interested.

With his new cloak Daeron tries to identify the magical nature of the objects.

Pearl: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Wand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

'spellcraft pearl' 'take 10' for total of 17spellcraft wand: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Seoni examines the two remaining items, The Pearl could be useful to a caster divine or Arcane, Seoni stuffs it in her pouch,I'll keep it for now, but should any of the casters truly need it I'll surrender it. As for the wand, I am unable to determine it's function.

Seoni looks over to Two Blades, Do you mind shutting the magic wind off now? These chambers may be useful later if we must retreat to them or camp overnight. Seoni looks to the hall Amiri is in and says, Well we're not here to gawk, lets be moving. Amiri if you would do the honors. Seoni motions for Amiri to go forward in to the chambers at the end of the Dragon's hall. Seoni gets right behind Amiri recasting her light spell on a pebble and throwing it about 20' in front of Amiri. Marked the light pebble on the map GM

"Not a problem." Two Blades said as he made his way to the turn off the wind. Once that was done, he took a moment to renew the light he was using himself.

Seems like no one besides Prisim is interested in reviving and talking to the drake. Which direction do you want to go now?

Sorry GM I thought Prisim had that handled, looks like Daeron is the only one of us that speaks Draconic so I'll aid his diplomacy check. Daeron could you ask the Drake why it's down here? What else is down here (besides his dead friends), and what he/she knows of this place? Does it know where the dead woman lies or her sword? Seoni realizes they have a prisoner of sorts and hurries over to Prisim. Hold up Amiri, one of the little Drakes that attack us is still alive. Perhaps it can tell us something about this place? Seoni moves over to near Prisim and the Drake and motions Daeron to follow. She turns to Daeron, You know Draconic, yes? ...Good..tell it we won't hurt it. We were just defending ourselves. Find out as much as you can about this place. Seoni turns to the Drake, It's all right little one we won't hurt you. diplomacy 'aid another': 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 - 4 = 3 took off -4 on the aid another cause I don't speak Draconic and it's not a humanoid creature.

It's still dying and no one has healed it. Some one needs to spend a cure wand charge on it, or cast a spell, or something.

It's still dying and no one has healed it. Some one needs to spend a cure wand charge on it, or cast a spell, or something.

could someone heal the Drake so we could talk to it please?

Two Blades stepped over to the wounded drake and called the others near him. "Here, let me take care of your wounds"

Seeing a small cut heal up, Two Blades took out a wand and used it on the Drake.
Channel to heal: 1d6 ⇒ 1
CLW wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

I'll say that's to be enough to bring it around.

The drake squeaks in terror at seeing that it is in the power of those it attacked, but when Prisim begins speaking to it in its language, it replies.

All speech is in draconic. I'll assume those who understand it translate for those who do not.

"I am Graul. I am surprised that you have healed me. What are your intentions towards me?"

"Why should I tell you anything? If you are not going to kill me, let me go!"

As Prism speaks with the drake Amiri takes the moment to rest. When her rage overtakes her she gets tired. She sits and sips some water from her waterskin. After a minute or two she feels better and stands. She begins pacing, eager to continue exploring.

Daeron heals one of the drake here seems like nobody's see it...

Daeron tries to help prism with her talk with the drake.

Diplomacy (aid): 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (18) + 0 = 18

Sorry, Daeron, I missed that.

"My Master, Skeshnil, lodges here, for now. He has grown tired of invading the dreams of surface dwellers and seeks a lair in the Darklands, where he can draw inspiration for greater terrors. He has been in negotiations with the dark folk for a foothold below. It matters little whether you know the truth of the matter or not, as he will easily dispatch you and harvest your souls. By now, I am sure he is aware of your intrusion."

When the information is translated Seoni raises an eye...she turns to Prisim, Ask the Drake if it's master, is among the living dead, and if so what kind of powers does he posses? Also has the Drake seen any evidence of Three ancient Tian Sisters...or Samurai?

"Your master... Skeshnil. Does he live, or is he just a spirit?"

The drake's reptilian face isn't as expressive as a humanoid's, but you get the impression that if he could, he'd be smirking. "Yes, Skeshnil lives -- he was alive before any of you, even you elf, were born, and will live on when your corpses are turned to dust and forgotten!"

Assuming the question about the samurai sisters is asked:

"Old corpse in the casket? It had a beautiful sword, too beautiful to leave in an old stone box. Skeshnil added the treasures to his hoard, and had us dump the body in the storage room."

"Tell the creature it will only live if it goes far, far away... NOW!

Adding plus 4 for being larger

Intimidate: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28

I made a mistake in the modifier, total should be 30