[PFS] 1-35: Voices in the Void (RD) Table 2 (Inactive)

Game Master Andrew Harasty

I can't access the Google doc for some reason, but consider that I've moved behind Kendra for the purpose of drawing out a vial of acid next round.

Ne'erduwyl loses her temper at the sight of the others running..."Idiots! Running from spiders! Think of something you fools."

I moved you. It only took 30 ft. of movement, so you have time to draw a vial of acid from my belt pouch if you want.

Seeing no way to get to another acid vial from Kenza and nothing coming through the curtain; decides to go and peek in the box the spiders came out of just in case there is anything else in the box.

Appears you ladies have the swarm in hand.

Though really more nothing I can do and very frustrating sadly.

I've already taken a standard and a move action this round, so I'm afraid I can't draw a vial too.

Graktul, you fool! In hand? We have spiders all over us! If you haven't lost your bowels like everybody else get over here and grab a vial of acid. Or wave a torch at them. Or something!

I didn't realize you'd taken a standard action earlier this round.

I'm attempting to cast sleep to stop them, which is all I am able to do.... Where's an Alchy when you need one?

Like most things, in this place...immune to mind affecting.

It moves back over Yu and Lucy:

Creeper Tendril Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Fort Save vs poison
Fort Save vs disctration

I will assume that who ever is in the swarm will at least step out so go ahead and throw viles out of order

Just curious since I have to move and then take a standard action to draw the last acid vial from Kenza would I be able to pass it to someone else as a free/swift action though. Also, guessing there wasn't anything in the box other than the spider swarm.

"Always goes bloody sideways..." mutters Grey

"Where you need?" calls out the Hunter, doing his best to fight the effects of the poison coursing thru his veins.

Lucy follow Grey's example and puts even more distance between the swarm and herself.

fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Just curious since I have to move and then take a standard action to draw the last acid vial from Kenza would I be able to pass it to someone else as a free/swift action though. Also, guessing there wasn't anything in the box other than the spider swarm.

Just clarifying that there are three vials left in her belt pouch if you try to reach in. Kenza used an alchemist's fire, and had three vials of acid in her pouch. Neerduwyl's going to take one, you can take one, and Kenza will use the third on her next turn.

Was asking since I would not be able to use this turn and was already assuming you and Neer would throw your two vials. However, I could reach in and withdraw the vial and maybe had to a third person to throw it if the handoff is a free/swift action.

Still learning a lot of the dynamics of combat/pathfinder.

Just curious since I have to move and then take a standard action to draw the last acid vial from Kenza would I be able to pass it to someone else as a free/swift action though. Also, guessing there wasn't anything in the box other than the spider swarm.

The actions are right.

And nothing else in the box.

Facing Neer as Grak moves behind Kenza to withdraw another vial of acid from her pouch.

What were you expecting me to do; try to smash the buggers with my morning star since there isn't any torches down here. Hand off anyone?

Oh and Yu for reference I think opening moving boxes is probably a bad idea when everything else so far has been angry upon sighting our group.

Fort: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Fort: 1d20 ⇒ 10

So, honestly, what can we do about this? Does ANYONE have anything that can damage them? If not, discretion is the better part of valor....

Got 3 acid vials to throw otherwise maybe oil from the lanterns upstairs could be used to make a fire.

then start tossing them! They are our only ways to beat them back!

Since the group decided to fight without withdrawing first, Dark rejoins the group though there is nothing he can do against the swarm.

Climb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Have one in hand but do not have a standard action left to toss it though if someone wants to join me can hand it to you to toss.

Give it to me, I'll try, if need be...

Get over here Yu and clean up your mess.

Graktul is waving the vial of acid that he removed from Kenza's pouch.

Think Kenza and Neer are the other two with vials guess they haven't had a chance to check today.

Easy guys, it's only been three hours since it became our turn. lol

Kenza draws and throws her vial at the swarm as soon as Yu is out of the way.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Acid Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

No worries just responding in kind to Neer. While trying to figure out exactly how Grak's personality will end up.

Ne'erduwyl pulls out a vial of acid from Kenza's belt pouch and tosses it into the swarm.

Touch Range Attack, Vial of Acid ?: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Acid Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

How is it possible to miss a 10X10 swarm of spiders that are 5 feet away LOL

Then commands Pinch to do the same.

I'm guessing this is entirely impossible, but kind of hilarious

Pinch takes a vial of acid out of Kenza's belt pouch with his pincher and flings it in the general direction of the swarm.

Touch Range Attack, Vial of Acid ?: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Acid Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Ugh...

Sorry, everyone, Ne'er has some serious anger management issues. Don't take her personally

Those are splash weapons, you need to do the splash bit....

There is at least 1 point of splash damage. So it is breaking up

The swarm moves towards the most people

Grakul, Kenza, and Yu

swarm damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

And the two fort saves.

Damn it Pinch be careful. Umm...think that was all Kenza's vials and the swarm is still alive. Think it might be time to retreat at this rate.

Shesh so over 10 damage probably closer to 15 damage and the swarm is still going. Starting to wonder if we are going to die to the swarm.

Fortitude: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Fortitude: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Graktul retreats back to the stairs and starts working his way through the fungus to reach the first level.

Acrobatics: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Also, think the only way for Pinch to have thrown a vial was to take the one from Graktul cause pretty sure Kenza said she had 3 vials.
Guess I am not making it up the stairs course my actions would change is Kenza isn't out of acid vials/alchemist's flasks.

Seeing the situation, Dark grumbles "Bloody abyss!"

He looks back up the stairs, "I'll see if I can get something explosive or flammable." As he again climbs up the stairs but only to slide down the stairs, making no headway.

Climb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5; Wow, we are rolling really bad. If not careful, we might get a party wipe by this swarm.

Need to know what Kenza and Graktul are still carrying so I can decide what to do this round...

Also. doesn't Graktul get an attack of opportunity if a swarm moves over him and he's carrying a vial of acid? Swarm rules are thoroughly confusing.

For pinch to throw a vial he would have had to take the one Graktul was holding, and sadly I really do not have anything to fight a swarm. Only my 2nd time seeing a swarm and last time was a wizard with burning hands along with some vials of acid. Still thoroughly confused how it is still alive after 3 acid vials and an alchemist's fire flask.

This is worse than the damn vegetable at least there was something to hit when we were fighting it.

Also, dunno if Gustavef would allow but one of my previous GMs allowed Ray of Frost to damage swarms. I think because it would go through in a line thus while the spell is single target against a bunch of little creatures in a tight bunch it would be AoE.

Fort: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Fort: 1d20 ⇒ 14

We seriously can't beat these things, Yu withdraws. He's done.

Pinch can't draw the third vial of acid because Graktul's holding it. He was passing it to Yu who was supposed to throw it, but Yu didn't and now he's run away? Can you throw it Yu? Or at least leave it in Graktul's hands?

@ GM: You wrote the swarm is breaking up, but it kept attacking? Does it look nearly ready to disperse?

Kenza moves out of the range of the swarm and draws a torch from her backpack.

Fortitude 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Fortitude 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Yu kept getting beat up, he flees. That is what he would do, honestly.

The situation getting dire, and not sure what her companions have left to fight off the swarm, Ne'erduwyl shrieks, "I HATE spiders!" and flees towards the stairwell, drawing and lighting a torch as she does so (dropping a few on the floor for her companions to grab in the process), hoping the torches will keep the spiders away and that she can swipe at them if they come close to her.

"Does anyone have a rope to help the rest of us up the stairs? They're %&#& slippery."

From the other room an otherworldly scream? is heard/felt. The ululating shriek viscerally affects each of you. It also causes the spiders to scatter.

Will save DC 13 or be shaken for the next encounter

Silence fall over the whole room. The background whispering that has been heard is even gone. Nothing is heard at all.

Will DC13: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

Will Save DC13: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

As the unworldly scream shakes his bones, he looks back toward the door. "We are too late."

Shaking off the weird feeling and with a sense of urgency, "We must hurry." Noticing the spiders are dispersed, Dark rushes toward the other end of the chamber and throws open the way to the other room.

At the end of this adventure, I'm going to buy a Wand of Burning Hands. :(

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Graktul stops in his tracks upon hearing the scream trying regain his composure after almost dying to a spider swarm and now having an open portal in the other room. Though his eyes are wide and visibly shaken he turns back towards the curtain tightly gripping his shield and Morningstar before making his way slowly towards the curtain allowing his companions to get into some semblance of formation.

Yu kept getting beat up, he flees. That is what he would do, honestly.

That's fine. But don't take my acid, and run away with it. We needed it. If you're going to flee, don't take my stuff with you.

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As the terrifying scream tears through the room Kenza feels a shiver slide down her spine.

Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

What is this... feeling? This fear?

It doesn't matter. Keep moving!

Suppressing the shaking of her hands, Kenza looks around to see the swarm has dispersed. She quickly lights her torch, then stalks over to Yu, taking back her acid before he runs off with it.

Chasing him up the stairs with acrobatics if she has to.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 6 - 2 = 18

Once she's got her acid back she hurries off after Dark, charging into the room behind the curtain.

will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

Grey finding himself inept, injured, and slightly embarrassed after fighting the spider swarm digs his grip into his great-sword as a look of angry determination crosses his face.

"Come Lucy, lets show them what we can do."

Grey cast lead blades and moves into the next room with Graktul.

"Come Lucy, lets show them what we can do"

Lucy gives a snort of agreement, though she still looks ill from the spiders.

Still nauseated?
fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

Nauseated from the spiders is one round. The poison only lasts for one round as well those that got bit.

Yu, Kenza, and Graktul take 1d2 ⇒ 2 strength damage from the last round.

You can do any healing you want before this but I will open up the last room

After realizing that all thoughts of a quiet entry are done, you take your time to prepare and then pull back the curtain.

The walls and ceiling of this chamber bulge outward, continuing the grotesque architectural style of the antechamber, as if you were standing in the leviathan’s stomach. Queer, glowing nodules protrude from the walls at seemingly random intervals, bathing the room in their sickly green glow. A tall, free-standing, almost organic-looking archway carved from a strange, glowing blue-green stone stands atop a low dais in a wide alcove at the far end of the chamber. The center of the arch is empty, revealing the wall behind it, but the space occasionally flickers with curtains of starry darkness, as if somewhere else lies just beyond the portal. A susurrus of ghostly whispers seem to issue from the gate, their language and meaning unclear, but fraught with a sense of wrongness.

The queer architectural style continues into this oddly shaped chamber, with bulbous walls and a vaulted ceiling that soars to 30 feet in height. Weird glowing nodules along the walls illuminate the room with a sickly green radiance. A wide alcove in the northern wall holds a dais on which stands the Gate of Beyond, a 15-foot-tall archway carved from a strange, glowing blue-green stone called Abysium. This room is the sanctum of the aberrant sorcerer Imrizade Blakros. A strange metal cylinder is attached to the Gate at the apex of the arch.

Imrizade Blakros stands on the dais before the arch, connected to the Gate of Beyond by five disgusting, fleshy, fungoid umbilicals attached to her hips, shoulders, and the base of her skull. She is half-Osirian, with long, dark hair and light brown skin, wearing a weathered explorer’s outfit.

Init Imrizade Blakros: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Init Zombie: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Init, Dark Schnyder: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (2) + 0 = 2
Init, Neerduwyl: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Init, Graktul: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
Init, Kenza: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Init, Yu Khan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
Init, Grey Stoneside: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Imrizade steps forward begins to cast a spell

Everyone may now react.

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

"Stop his casting! He is casting Enlarge Person!"

He moves forward and for once, hopefully, says enough disprectful things that his SATIRE -1 against Blackros actually works!

Ooh! Since we have time to heal, Kenza pulls out a potion of cure light wounds and drinks it.

Healing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

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Upon entering the strange room, Kenza feels another shiver run down her spine. This place is wrong...

Quickly, she smothers the ominous feelings. Locking them away to focus on the job before her.

Hearing everyone yell about the spell caster, Kenza circles around the person in her way Zombie? Man?, being sure to stay out of its reach, and rushes at the woman at the far end of the room.

Double move to get beside Imrizade. She has enough movement to go around the zombie and Imrizade, and provokes no attacks of opportunity from her movement. I put thin lines on the map to show her movement for clarity.

"Don't kill Imrizade. She is being controlled by those tentacles. Just prevent her from casting and if at all possible hack away at those tentacles."

That being said, Dark steps into the room and then unleashes a Disrupt Undead ray at the zombie.

Disrupt Undead (Range Touch) vs Zombie: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (15) + 0 = 15
Damage +1 Force: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Move Action: 15'
Standard Action: Spell

Drinks a Potion of CLWs before moving into the room and attacking the zombie in a rage to attempt to overcome the unsettling scream earlier.

Potion CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Attack: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 - 2 = 8
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Think I have done that math correctly since shaken doesnt impact damage rolls and getting a net 0 from shaken and rage. With a +3 strength since I lost 2 and a +1 BAB.

Also HP is 16 right now and AC of 17 due to rage.