Half Orc Male Half-Orc Monk 3 HP 23/23; AC 15; TCH 15; FF 12; F +4; R +5; W +5; CMB+7; CMD 21 (22 vs. grapple); Speed 40FT; Init +2; Perception +6;
Renedar steps up to the red-eyed creature and tries to hit it with his fist.
Climb:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Attack:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15Damage:1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Taerel applies his blade, a task much easier with the tripurasuras not attempting to evade. His blade cuts the creature, but despite it's altered state, the wound is still not as serious as you think it ought to be.
That was the AoO, you still get a regular attack. I have a wizard with a bonded blade, and I've always just assumed she holds the hilt with it sheathed unless I specify otherwise, so just checking!
Renedar nearly stumbles on his way up the symbolic "mountain". He recovers—although not as gracefully as he perhaps might have liked—and redeems himself with a solid strike at the fallen creature. Its magical and evil nature somehow weakens the force of his blow. It's definitely unconscious, but after seeing it heal itself, you're not convinced it will stay that way.
Doodle steps back and fires her wand at the asura with the big red eyes. It appears unconscious, but one never can tell with extra-planar creatures.
I picked a square for you. If you don't like it, let me know. As these are Tiny, they can occupy the same square as you (and must do so to attack with melee).
Secret GM notes:
red (-22)/2
yellow(-10)/2
—COMBAT—
Varian Jeggare Renedar the Young Taerel Morgenfrei
Tomren
Mercutio Doodlevain Montafescue
** Tripurasura (red) (stunned, 2/4)
** Tripurasura (yellow) (stunned, 2/2)
Those in bold may act.
Varian moves forward to join combat. Taerel skewers an asura with his blade, opening its side, a little (I picked yellow, as it's not unconscious).
Mercutio climbs forwards and stumbles. His movement is stopped, but he's close enough to attack. Mercutio thrusts with his blade, but misses in his haste. Given previous experience, he's not sure the attack would have done much damage anyway.
—COMBAT—
Varian Jeggare
Renedar the Young
Taerel Morgenfrei Tomren Mercutio
Doodlevain Montafescue
** Tripurasura (red) (stunned, 2/4, unconscious)
** Tripurasura (yellow) (stunned, 2/2)
Just waiting on Tomren.
CDG is a full-round action. It will be a move to pick up a dropped bow, and a move to pull an arrow from their quiver. So if Varian wishes to CDG that way, it will need to be next round.
Could have, but didn't. Also, there are two things to pick up (bow and arrow), each requiring a move action, so even if he did, it wouldn't matter. (Drawing your own ammunition is a free action, but picking up someone else's should cost an action.)
Just so people are aware: You can only coup-de-grace helpless creatures; once they regain consciousness, they will no longer be helpless. Also, Coup-de-grace is a full round action, and cannot be done as a readied action. Just hit them now!
We identified these things as evil outsiders, so I don't think surrender should be an option, in any case ;-)
Renedar delays slightly to see if red is knocked unconscious again. His patience is rewarded when Tomren fires a magic missile at it, and the beast again falls unconscious. Renedar immediately steps in for the killing blow, ripping the creature's head from its body. *That* wound won't heal anytime soon.
Renedar, I'm going to go with your first action, b/c it's better. It just had to wait a bit for your party.
Taerel runs the remaining beast through when it refuses to surrender, but it only does a wee bit of damage. Doodle focuses her magic on the remaining one, knocking it unconscious.
At this point, I'm going to bot Mercutio, because I can.
Mercutio steps in with a coup de grace of his own, piercing it soundly through its center of mass. It wriggles on his blade, but does not die.
dmg:2d6 + 4 ⇒ (5, 4) + 4 = 13 Fort cs DC 18:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
GM notes (peek, if you like):
yellow(-33)/6
The party has done 33 hp damage (after DR 5) to the creature, but it's now healed 6 of that for a net of 27 damage. With 19 hp, it's at -8, but still fast healing 2 until it hits -Con (-12). Varian's CDG hits it for 5 (after DR 5), which is enough to kill it.
Varian uses the Tiny bow and arrow he acquired, and fires directly into the creature's brain. It shudders one last time, and is dead, its healing stopped.
Out of combat! That would have been much tougher without color spray.
Searching the bodies reveals no treasure other than their weapons (the bows they dropped). Tripurasura exist to defile, and these ones didn't seem to keep anything of value.
As you peek around the wall, you see a large statue of a monkey-faced man sits on a pedestal at the north end of this small shrine. The statue’s arms and legs are missing, and deep scratches have been gouged into its face. Pieces of broken stone, rotting plant matter, and other assorted rubbish lie in heaps on the floor of this room. The smell of rot is particularly strong here.
Assuming someone is able to roll 15 on a Perception check...
You've had enough hints by this time to know the statue represents the god Ragdya. The statue is wearing a monkey belt.
Additionally, you find a small cabinet in the pedestal below the statue, which holds a richly illuminated copy of the Vigrahin Patitraka (a Vudran holy text) worth 50 gp and a handwritten journal belonging to a priest who accompanied Khiben-Sald on his travels around the Inner Sea. In Subtier 4–5, the cabinet also holds copies of the Azvadeva Pujila and Mizravrtta Brahmodya worth 50 gp each, which may be of interest to a scholar.
When you are done searching and cataloging the temple, you manage to find your way back to the base camp (again, I'm assuming you can work together to make Survival rolls), where you are greeted warmly by Count Matsanda and Baron Rudyahm.
The baron, satisfied by his vengeance and his long life of miltary service, retires to write his memoirs.
The Count is grateful for your help in the hunt, and more importantly in helping him bond with his father-in-law. As a show of gratitude, he offers to have any of your trophies stuffed and mounted, and delivered to your home as his gift.
The trip back to Absalom is thankfully uneventful. Ambrus Valsin is excited by the lost texts, especially the journal. He immediately sends for Society historians, and they spend months analyzing it in excruciating detail. (Thankfully your characters don't have to participate in that part, and we don't have to role play it.)
—— END ——
Your peaceful encounter with the monkeys (and defeating the Asura in the temple) earns you a boon on your chronicle sheets (forthcoming).
The secondary success condition (2nd prestige point) was to achieve enough "prestige" with either the Baron or the Count. You did that through your role-play, Diplomacy checks, and encounters with the "poison" spider and elephant, and by helping the Baron defeat the leucrotta.
Your non-violent encounter with Asvika is one of the reported events, so she may appear in a future scenario if enough tables don't kill her.
Well done! Chronicles will be delivered in the next day or so. I started them this morning, but won't get back home until late tonight, so tomorrow seems more likely.
