PFS 03-13 - The Quest for Perfection III (Defenders of Nesting Swallow, Tier 1-5) (Inactive)

Game Master Baerlie

Tûrak wakes up, stands up and catches his bandoliers.

I tried to be as clear about this as I could without making a purely crunch post, but my phantom was manifested to help with the watch.

Perception Phantom: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
also the Phantom does not see the Leopard

and does the Phantom act on your initiative or does it have its own?

"Leopard's here! Try not to kill the poor thing!" says Ishingka.

It has its own Initative at +2

ego: 1d6 ⇒ 2"erraaah...hmm?, Turak old chap, what in blazes are you doing?"Groggy from having just fell asleep, and not being able to see in the dark very well Serpentfang is a bit confused. Serpentfang stands up and stretches

Ini Cormac: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

The area around the fire is lit

Serpentfang, Kraww and Tûrak get up, stretch and get their weapons. The snow leopard attacks Bernard with its claws. While one claw hits only the grass next to Bernard the second one hits.
Claw left: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Claw right: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19 Damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Round 1
Tûrak
Kraww
Serpentfang
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Young Snow Leopard
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Bernard
Ishingka
Cormac
Hai Xuang
Faren (in bed)
Xue Ho (in bed)

Bernard produces his sap from his otherwise sinister looking belt pouch with recently scratched over Zon-Kuthon holy symbols on it. I don't really want to hurt you, so just lay down kitty

Meanwhile Cormac began flying off the handle and moved to flank the cat

flanking slam Cormac: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 101d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
flanking Sap Bernard: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 231d6 ⇒ 2

[dice=ego]1d6"erraaah...hmm?, Turak old chap, what in blazes are you doing?"Groggy from having just fell asleep, and not being able to see in the dark very well Serpentfang is a bit confused. Serpentfang stands up and stretches

"We have company. Prepare yourself!"

"Oh dear, dear I hope everyone is alright!" Serpentfang will pick up his spear and investigate outside on his turn.

Ishingka draws her whip and cracks it at the leopard.

Whip: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
for nonlethal: 1d3 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

She stumbles when getting up, though.

"Damned mountain air! Kitty! Go home! We don't want to hurt you!"

Bernard and Cormac attack the leopard instantly. You can see that they are used to fight together, the immediately get into flanking. While Cormac's slam misses, Bernard's sap hits the cat's head. Ishingka tries to scare away the cat with a whip lash, but the leopard is not impressed. Faren gets up, takes his weapon and rushes to the fight while the guards pick up sticks from the fire and get ready to defend themselves.

Round 2
Tûrak
Kraww
Serpentfang
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Young Snow Leopard -2NL
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Bernard
Ishingka
Cormac
Hai Xuang
Faren
Xue Ho

Tûrak makes a strategic movement forward, takes one of his bombs in the bandolier and throws it at the leopard.

Free action: 5-foot step
Movement action: take the bomb in the bandolier
Standard action: BOOM!

Bomb Atk (Rgd touch): 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 1 - 4 = 132d6 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (6, 5) + 5 + 1 = 17

Tûrak will use Precise bombs to save Bernard and Cormac from splash the damage of the bomb.

"Ooh, poor kitty it's a shame it had to be this way...anyone for roast leopard?

Tûrak hurls a bomb at the leopard and hits. The young snow leopard drops to the ground and his fur burns.

combat over

The rest of the night continues without any further attacks of wild creatures, but Xue Ho and Hai Xuang seem to be frightened.

the next morning
Xue and Hai prepare breakfast, it's not much, just bread with cheese and some dried meat. Xue Ho and both refuse to travel farther, rightfully believing that the higher one climbs, the more there is to fear beyond mere snow leopards. "Too dangerous for us to climb up there. But we will wait here for your return." Xue Ho says.

Though the guides have not been to the monastery themselves, they have made the pilgrimage to the Two Brothers, once, many years ago. The two guides can provide you with simple maps and directions so that you should not get lost en route, as well as a description of the major obstacles and landmarks they are likely to encounter along the path (a cliff cave, the Path of Many Shrines, the chain bridge across the crevasse, and the Two Brothers).

Bernard grumbles something about how worthless the guides turned out to be while Cormac begins blubbering about his fear of wild beasts to the point where Bernard has to absorb him back into himself.

Phantoms, eh. Can't live with em and I kind of need him to do my job

He will pack up his things and turn up his nose at the cowards and carry on.

Tûrak will do the same thing he did last night: give to Ishingka an infusion of enlarge person; and when he sights the monastery at the range of his eyes, he will drink his extract of heightened awareness.

"They aren't guilty for their fear. At the end, they are just guides.", says Tûrak in response to Bernard's comments.

"Hopefully we can progress without harming any more of natures wonders. That cat was a marvellous beast and it was a shame how it was burned to a cinder." Faren seems deep in thought

After traveling for 1 hour from the base camp, the mountain route takes you through a narrow valley which ends in a high rock wall. A large crack, forty feet up the wall, looks large enough to allow an adult human through. Several small cracks and holes dot the entire surface of the rock wall. A rock overhang, ten feet above the gash, acts as a natural roof, sheltering the immediate area from the elements. The route to the monastery continues through the crack in the wall 40 feet above.

Ego: 1d6 ⇒ 5. Serpentfang is scouting ahead of the party trying to stay quiet but still admire natures beauty, he see's an opening to a cave when he drops to a knee...he grabs his head"No, no...umph!"he mutters to himself. Fire faintly outlines his body and his hair darkens to a deep red. "Well, that's better. He motions the party to the cave and sneaks his way in and takes a peek. Stealth: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8. Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22 haha kinda fitting on the stealth roll considering I kinda had a breakdown.

Tûrak assents with Serpentfang's suggestion. "Let's check it, buddies", he says to the others while makes his way through the cave.

"Stay alert. Who killed these animals may kill us too", the alchemists shows to the others the remains of multiple small mountain animals around the natural spring and the base of the wall.

Now he drinks his extract of heightened awareness.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Kraww picks through the remains with his beak, looking for anything out of place or edible.

Thank goodness we got all these good rolls out of the way, it'll make the rest of the adventure more adventury.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Bernard looks at the remains of the road for any decent way up

Goodness.

"Perhaps there's a ladder or steps in this cave...scaling that wall doesn't look fun," says Ishingka. She has been somewhat quiet and thoughtful since the snow leopard's untimely demise, and the lack of guides.

climbing up requires a DC15 climb check, using a knotted rope DC5

Bernie will take out a rope and knot it and then he will pull Cormac out and have him fly said rope to the top (provided it's a shorter distance than 50 feet) which should allow the whole party to take 10 up the rope.

Cormac flies up with the rope and finds a spot where the rock looks like an hourgrlass and he ties the rope around it. The knotted rope now hangs down from the cave in.

"I will head up first. Hopefully there will not be any surprises. Faren lets out a breath of unease."However assume the worst and ready yourselves."

Kraww goes next.

Faren climbs up to the cave, followed by Kraaw. Suddenly you see some kind of filament coming out of a hollow in the overhang.
RTA: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

The sticky filament hits Berard and starts to drag him up.

Round 1
Bernard
Serpentfang
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Cave Fisher
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Faren
Ishingka
Kraww
Cormac
Tûrak

Knowledge (nature): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

"Cave fisher!" Kraww hisses.

Am i grappled? Entangled? Unrestricted yet being dragged?

"Great, now we know what ate those other creatures! Lovely to know," hisses Ishingka.

Entangled I think. The beast stats don't tell, but the filament is something sticky and silky so I think it's similar to a spider's web. You are not dragged yet but attached to the filament, the filament attack is a standard action and during a surprise round the cave fisher can't do more.

"What in blazes is that thing!" Serpentfang concentrates and fire faintly outlines his body. Suddenly he points his finger at the beast and two magic missiles launch out of his hand and smacks the thing, but the missiles are made of fire. Casts Magic Missile and uses elemental bloodline to make it fire. Magic Missle: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 2) + 2 = 6

Kn. Nature (Cave fisher traits): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Entangled I think. The beast stats don't tell, but the filament is something sticky and silky so I think it's similar to a spider's web. You are not dragged yet but attached to the filament, the filament attack is a standard action and during a surprise round the cave fisher can't do more.

** spoiler omitted **

I think that the filament is used just to drag the PC, as see in the 'OFFENSE' stats of the cave fisher sheet: Ranged: filament +3 (drag). And as long as he has the "pull" special attack, this makes sense.

EDIT: and it drags the PC as part of the filament attack (standard action), don't need one action to attach it, and another to drag.

Ok then (presuming I have the freedom to act normally)

Bernard casts Chill touch on Cormac.

I see, thanks for the clarification. It's the first time I came over this filament attack stuff.

Bernhard casts a spell on Cormac while Serpentfang shoots a magic missile at the fisher.

And because I ruined the attack in the surprise round, I try it again to do it correctly.
The cave fisher releases Bernard and tries to attack the filament to Ishingka and trie to pull her up.
1d4 ⇒ 1
RTA: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Free CMB: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 4 = 18
If I'm correct, that pulls Ishingka 10 ft. up.

Round 1
Bernard
Serpentfang
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Cave Fisher
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Faren
Ishingka
Kraww
Cormac
Tûrak

Tûrak knows that cave fishers are immune against mind-affecting effects. The are good at climbing and catch their food with their filament. Once the food is close enough it attacks with its claws.
no other special defenses

Tûrak still see the cave fisher, or it retreated back?

He does still see it.

Tûrak uses his Alchemical Weapon ability to apply the alchemist's fire in an arrow and shoots it against the creature.

Rgd Atk - Longbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 191d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Alchemist's fire: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Ishingka roars and bloodrages. She flexes against the filament...

Str check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

..and fails!

Cormac roars fearfully up to the Cave fisher, his flight allowing him to reach the creature with relative ease and touches it with a Chill Touch'd hand

melee touch attack chill touch (DC13 Fort save or take 1 Str Damage): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 121d6 ⇒ 4

Kraww takes 10 (11 total) and quietly shimmies up the chimney.

stealth: 1d20 + 10 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 10 - 5 = 12

Oh my math is wrong on Cormac so that should be a 13 - I forgot the bonus to hit you get for being small - which is dumb because that's the whole reason he was small to begin with

Tûrak applies alchemical fire to his arrow and shoots it at the crab. The arrow hits the crab somewhere in a gap in the shell. While Ishingka tries to break freem from the sticky filament Cormac touches the beast with an icy hand. Ishingka is not able to break free and Kraww climbs up the chimney to catch the crab on surprise, but the crab hears Kraww.
Fort DC13: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (20) + 0 = 20

does somebody want to bot Faren?

Round 2
Bernard
Serpentfang
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Cave Fisher -14HP
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Faren
Ishingka
Kraww
Cormac
Tûrak

Faren:

The cavalier grabs the rope that he and Kraww have used to climb there, and throws it at the area where the crab is, "here we go", he says while try to climb with the rope's aid.

Climb DC 5: 1d20 ⇒ 7

is there a link to the map that I over looked? I was trying to figure out if I could shoot an elemental Ray at the enemy or what not.