[PFS] 0-05: Mists of Mwangi (Roving Dachshund) (Inactive)

Game Master Andrew Harasty

Course I'll let you guys look at the scrolls. I'm going to cast one though. since remove disease is on the inquisitor spell list.

Naseem is startled by the blubbering man who thrusts the scroll case into his hands. He briefly considering pursuing the fleeing man, before realizing he is far too slow-footed.

Bah, I don't have time for this. You mentioned one of the scrolls was remove disease right? Maybe I can try to use that to help out Zane over there.

He walks over to Zane and attempts to cast the scroll of remove disease.

Caster level check to use the scroll: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Caster level check vs. the disease: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

After Nadric points out the scroll of false life, can I retry my spell craft check to read it? If I can, Danicka would want to use the scroll of false life on either Yaiho or Naseem. Yaiho, probably since he's got less health.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 Succeeding if it's allowed.
Caster Level Check: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Spell Effects: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 temp hp to Yaiho (or Naseem) for three hours.

If its not allowed she would leave it in the scroll case with the other scrolls Nadric has.

Casting from remove disease scroll appears to End the current transformation of Zane. You use the caster level of the scroll which is 5

Danicka is able to activatethe scroll.

Nadric's lens also seems to reveal part of the Mwangi cloth. Part of it could be used as a break enchantment but looks to be much more.

The blubbering scribe responds, "I don't know why I wasn't affected, but I seem to be free of its affect for now. But I don't want to stick around to press my luck. "

It looks as if you have found all that you would find useful here.

Once you are ready off to the Great Exhibit Hall

"Hold still, Yaiho. This should help..." Danicka squeaks as she casts the scroll of false life on him.

"Oh... Okay, be careful." Danicka calls out to the scribe as he runs away.

Danicka takes a deep breath and clutches her staff tightly in her hands.

Be brave. Be brave!

"I'm ready," she says bravely, but it only comes out a nervous squeak. She blushes as she follows the others further into the museum.

Zane recovers from the website problems and terribly busy day at work

"Thank you Naseem for curing the flying bat disease. I feel much better." He helps look around the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

If he finds nothing more of relevance he shrugs, and nods at door. He is ready to go to the Main Exhibit.

I'm glad that's how remove disease works I thought I biffed it. Also, I think False Life is a personal spell. so I think you can only give yourself the health.

OK, if there's nothing else to do here. Let's go find that Monkey statue or whatever in the main exhibit.

When they reach the main exhibit, he'll survey the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Subtract 2 if heightened awareness has worn off, It lasts 10 minutes.

Nadric watches in approval while the others take several of the scrolls and make them immediately useful, particularly when Naseem manages to remove Zane's disgusting bat disease. He double checks to make sure the two unconscious men are propped up comfortably against the wall, and then claps once. "All right, time to see the main hall of this place!" He follows the others into the exhibit hall.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

After collecting yourselves from the office, you make your way down to the Great Exhibit Hall.

A long hallway leads to this grand hall, wherein the Blakros Museum shows off its finest collections. Mock vines cling to the walls and hang from the fifty-foot-high domed ceiling, and huts of grass are strewn about the open area. At the center of this sprawling chamber, a miniature replica of a traditional Mwangi ziggurat rises out of the mist to a height of nearly twenty feet. At the top of the ziggurat, a rail-thin elven gentleman is strapped to an altar, his bare chest painted with strange sigils and monkey paw-shaped blots of paint.

The room is filled with nearly two dozen primates of various types, snarling, spitting, and cavorting madly about the Ziggurat. As you enter, a terriying howl erupts as one large Ape steps forward to challenge you. The other lesser primates increase their screeching with the impending conflict.

The other monkeys in the room stay out of your way and will flee if you get close

Great Exhibit Hall Map

Initiative
Init, Naseem: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
Init, Nadric: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Init, Vogue: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Init, Yaiho: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
Init, Zane: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Init, Danicka: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Init, Ape: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
[dice=Init "Other"]1d20 + 0[/dice]

ROUND 1
Naseem
Nadric
Yaiho
Ape
Danick
Other
Vogue
Zane

Naseem, Nadric and Yaiho can start us off.

"By Shelyn's graceful curves! We have a hostage to free, his safety is paramount! And he's covered in paint, where did these simians get paint? Is that paint... brown?"

Lol Vogue

Now this looks like a challenge Naseem says with a grin.

With that, he does some quick incantations to cast a spell before advancing forward.

Standard Action: Cast True Strike on himself

Move Action: Advance 15 feet into the room

Yaiho will have 9 Temp HP. 7 from False Life by Danicka and 2 from Rage.

Yaiho sees the big ape and smiles as he walks toward it, building up his rage. "YOU FIGHT ME!" Yaiho yells as he brings his earth breaker up to slam into the ape.

Earth Breaker (Rage) vs Ape: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 2 = 11
Damage (Rage): 2d6 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (3, 3) + 7 + 2 = 15

Move Action: 15'
Free Action: Rage
Standard Action: Attack

Nadric almost reels from the sounds in the hall as he steps through the doorway. I guess we know where the monkeys went. The appearance of the elf is quite alarming, but he turns first toward the immediate threat and quickly shoots an arrow at the ape's enormous body.

Attack ape: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Yaiho steps up to the Ape however, it is able to keep away from the raging half-orc.

Nadric's bow shot harmlessly bounces off the Ape's thick hide.

The Ape focuses on Yaiho as personal challenge to its dominance.

Full Attack Slam 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Full Attack Slam 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Both slams hit solidly

Slam 1 Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Slam 2 Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

The hits eat through Yaiho's temp HP and leave him with 4 points of real damage.

Danicka is up

Danicka moves as indicated on the map, worried for her terrifying new friend Yaiho. She takes a deep breath, mutters something under her breath and pushes out her arms, blasting a riotous spray of colours out of her hands at the massive ape.

Moving into the room and carefully aiming a colour spray. She will strike the ape and no one else in her area of affect. Will DC 15 to resist.

The color spray hits the Ape (as well as a few of the other monkeys)

Ape Will Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Ape is 3HD so
Blinded and Stunned: 1d4 ⇒ 2
Extra Stunned round: 1 = 1

After the Ape is stunned everyone notices one of the decorative idols move.

The haft on Yaiho's Earth Breaker begins to warp.

Yaiho Will Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

However he is unable to keep his weapon from becoming unbalanced (-4 to attack rolls with the Earth Breaker.)

The Ape is stunned, and everyone can currently make out the idol moving among the other monkeys.

Everyone can act while the Ape is stunned, before the idol goes again.

Danicka lets out a little whoop of delight when she sees her spell took effect, throwing one of her hands into the and jumping up in joy.

As she sees the idol move, she remembers we're not out of danger yet...

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Danicka suddenly looks worried, as she clutches her own wooden weapon close to her chest.

Knowledge Arcana on the idol: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Knowledge History on the idol: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Knowledge Geography on the idol: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Knowledge Planes on the idol: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Hoping one of those gives her something useful... lol

Danicka swings her staff at the idol right in front of her...
Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 20
Confirming Critical if its allowed...: 1d20 ⇒ 3 Definitely not a critical hit...[/dice]
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

[ooc]Does she think she damaged it?

Seeing his precious earth breaker warp a little bit, he locates the source of it and with a mighty roar charges the idol. "YOU DARE HURT BREAKER! YAIHO CRUSH YOU!"

Yaiho slams his earth breaker down onto the idol.

Earth Breaker (Rage)-(Warped)+(Vandal): 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 2 - 4 + 1 = 22
Damage (Rage)+(Vandal): 2d6 + 7 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6, 5) + 7 + 2 + 1 = 21; Vandal Ignores 2 Hardness

Move Action: 15'
Standard Action: Attack

Danicka staff knocks the idol off balance as it takes some damage.

However Yaiho follows up and even with his twisted Earth Breaker, connects and in one final blow, shatters the wooden idol in to thousand splinters.

As that happens, the Great Hall goes silent. All the monkeys suddenly go quiet. After a few moments of stillness, the mist begins to clear and the monkeys loose their focus. Many start wandering out of the Hall, a few linger for a bit but otherwise pay no attention to the party.

From atop the Ziggurat you hear a trepidation call out. "Um Hello? Is there anyone there. I seem to have gotten in to a bit of a bind."

The large Ape also looses interest Yaiho after it comes to.

Are we going to let the ape come to? Just curious. Danicka the bleeding-heart obviously isn't going to finish it off, but someone else might.

Danicka lets out a shriek as the earth breaker swings right past her head and shatters the idol into pieces. Wide eyed, she picks a few wood shards out of her wild brown hair.

"G-- Good job, Ya-- Yaiho..." she stutters quietly.

Seeing the monkeys flee she whispers "Is that it?

At the sound of the man calling out for help Danicka looks at the ziggurat. "Oh, my! We're coming, sir!"

If no one's gone up there yet, Danicka will slowly make her way up the ziggurat, but considering her other actions someone else probably gets there first.

Dayum Yaiho, nice rolls! Gotta love them barbarians.

Naseem lets out of a sigh of disappointment now that Ape has ceased to be a threat.

I was just gearing up for a good fight too, Should've known Yaiho would smash things quickly I guess. He says Not much point in mindless slaughtering a beast. One of you more normal looking folk can grow free that guy. I'll probably scare him back into mindlessness.

Naseem will search the room for anything else of importance while others free the man.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Do I know what it was doing in retrospect?
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Nadric slowly lowers his bow in the sudden silence that fills the room. "Oh good, they're back to normal. Nice hit, Yaiho! We should contact the menageries to let them know they can come pick up their monkeys and apes."

Suddenly a voice calls out from his right side and Nadric exclaims, "Oh right, the elf!" He rushes up to the top of the ziggurat replica and addresses him while examining the bindings, "Are you all right? What happened?"

Zane moves in slow motion and finally gets to react...

And realizes all the threats have been neutralized.

He looks around the room and marches up to the elf. He looks at him carefully before he starts cutting the straps to free him.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

"I say, chap, please identify yourself. You are in the company of agents of the Pathfinder Society, sent to resolve this cursed situation. Do give us assurance that you are not afflicted with these Mwangi mists as we've quite enough of encountering those museum representatives infected with vapors of madness."

Yaiho lets his rage subside and then starts petting his earth breaker. "Yaiho avenge you. Yaiho gets you fix."

Yaiho ignores the apes as they seem to not to want to fight anymore, "No need to kill if they don't want fight. Yaiho let them live."

Still waiting for Yaiho's first critical hit. 6d6+21 (+27 if Raging)... shudder at the damage. But I'm building him to be a pure Damage character.

"Oh, okay... I'll look over here then..." Danicka mutters quietly, realizing three people helping the poor man tied up on the ziggurat is more than enough. Instead she checks out the room carefully.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

The man in the bindings is Nigel Aldain, the curator of the Blakros Museum. He looks up. "What happened? Well we recieved the artifacts, and we cataloging them when the mist appeared. Not sure how I got here." Nigel still is still a bit confused as to the actual timeline. "Are you Adril's folks? I see I will owe the Pathfinders."

Looking around the rest of the room nothing else is of interest. The few remaining monkeys are shooed out and there are no more Tik Tan Idols

Nigel is incredibly grateful for his rescue and gives you a rare weapon from his own personal collection to express his gratitude. The weapon is an incredibly ancient Mwangi spear that Chelish explorers found near the colony of Sargava during the reign of the expansionist Chelish prince, Haliad I. It would be worth a great deal to the Pathfinder Society and they’d hungrily pay to include it in their collection. The spear is a bejeweled masterwork spear with brittle, white bird feathers tied with crumbling leather straps beneath the still-sharp spearhead

Nigel also gifts the party with a magical item he believes to be of special significance to Pathfinders: an ioun stone. Nigel explains that many ioun stones can be placed within a wayfinder to create fantastic magical effects, but remarks that his inferior stones are sadly not capable of such resonance. it is a cracked mulberry pentacle ioun stone.

thus endth the adventure. The museum has been saved and you also saved all the employees. I will write up chronicles this weekend and have them ready for you shortly

Danicka leaves the conversation with Nigel to her more verbose allies, instead exploring the room quietly.

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As she and her new allies leave the museum victorious she suddenly stops.

"We... did it?" she asks quietly. Her eyes brighten and she smiles widely. "We did it!" she exclaims. "I'm a real pathfinder!"

Suddenly she stops again and goes wide eyed. "We saved people... We SAVED people! I'm a HERO!" She dances in place with excitement in her tattered plain robes, then hurls herself at each of you, giving you each a giant hug.

"Oh! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she exclaims happily to each of you as she gives out hugs. "We're heroes!"

Suddenly realizing she's hugging a bunch of strange men she stops and blushes furiously, cheeks red as a tomato. Despite her embarrassment, she trails after the others on their way back to the Pathfinder Lodge, smiling shyly.

"I did it!"

Yaiho beams proudly as the group makes their exit and to report their success. "Good adventure. Killed monster. Crush evil statue. Save the weak."

Yaiho gives a toothy grin down at Danicka when she hugs him and then pats her head.

"Yes, yes, that's good and all but just look at my nails, tsk," Vogue mutters to himself. "And this primate smell had better come out or by the gods, the Blakroses will rue this day..."

Zane grins widely at Danicka's display of excitement and affection, and hugs her back warmly. He nods at the massive Yaiho, and chuckles at Vogue's concern about the smell of his clothes.

"It feels good to be a hero... we did well in this first mission for the Pathfinders. It was a great pleasure working with you. I hope we can do this again soon."

Danicka blushes and smiles happily. "Of course.

Nadric blushes a little when Danicka hugs him, and then gives a jaunty salute to the entire group. “That certainly was a thrilling adventure, and in the end nobody was seriously harmed, except for that idol I suppose, and it had no business being here in the first place. Yes, a job well done. I’d gladly work again with any of you, anytime. Do say hello if we ever cross paths in Absalom.” He starts whistling a cheerful tune as they head back to the Lodge.

Nigel smiles at Vogue. "I believe they will take it under advisement. However, all should be good now, and we should able to handle anything else that comes up."

As of right now there are at least 6 more adventurers at the Museum. Nigel is a bit incompetent

You can get your CRs here

Thanks again everyone. I will be running another mod in a few days or so.

Awesome, thanks!

Now, if I want to buy something, do I have to tell you and fill anything out, or can I just pay the money and add it to my online character sheet?

At this point, you can fill out the rest of the sheet yourself. The important parts about how much you gain is done my the GM (me). You should also fill out a inventory tracking sheet as well for a consolidated list of all your purchases from all CRs.