Morrin, shocked by the giant ape, turns invisible and flies towards Fletch while pulling out his dagger! As he gets up to the fleeing man, Morrin taps on his ally's shoulder before whispering to him.
"I have a few troll oils, and some potions of light wounds. Want any before I get back to dealing with out large friend?"
@Kalendir Nothing jumps out, but there is a big monkey taking your attention at the moment. If you want to spend a round looking, then let me know and make a perception check. But it doesn't look like she just went invisible
Male Human Ranger 14 (Freebooter and Skirmisher) - HP 122/130, AC 29/T: 16/FF: 25 - Perception +19 - F: +14/ R: +14/ W: +8* - CMB: +18 - CMD: 34, Speed: 30*, Init. +4
"Time to go to work," says Fletch, trying to ignore his broken ribs scraping together and wishing he had time to cast some spells to let Romulus bite harder.
He yells a challenge at D'Tunga and unleashes a volley of arrows.
"Hey, Banana Boy!" he yells. "This is how we do it in Almas!"
If AC<16, then 174 points of damage. If 15<AC<26, then 148 points of damage. If 25<AC<30, then 100 points of damage. IF AC=30, then 54 points of damage. If 30<AC, then 27 points of damage.
Morrin goes invisible and retreats towards the archer, who himself.
Fletch himself drives a number of arrows into the ape. It roars its anger.
Status, bold may post
*Alie @ 90/107 HP -
*Tortuga 54/124
Ape 262 damage
The new snake lady. 76 damage,
*Kalendir @ 26/88 HP see invisible
Wynn- 57/74 HP - See invisible
Morrin (1 Strength Damage) @ 139/157 HP (60 Non-lethal burn)
Fletch @ 20/100 HP
(Romulus @ 57/108 HP)
Ki Pool 7/13 | Stunning Fist 11/17 | Punishing Kick 15/15 | Touch of Serenity 13/15 | Winged Boots 1/3 | Reroll 0/1
Quite wounded, Tortuga delivers a flying kick, hoping that Da'Tunga's attention was already too occupied to react. He channels his ki into a flurry of strikes, hoping to drop the ape before it can tear him apart.
Da'Tunga has already taken an AoO this round, so taking a chance on him not having Combat Reflexes. Spend a point of ki for an extra attack.
Damage to Tortuga Ki - 6 Primary 2 - 2 Primary 3 - 2 Secondary - 3 Tertiary - 4
Tortuga will do his best to make sure Da'Tunga can't get back up. He will use all his attacks, even if the ape drops before he gets to the end of his flurry.
Alie, with her teammates now falling back to her, takes the chance to move 10' to the right of the map and blasts the ape with a line of lightning, as her features seem to become more bestial and her coloring turns slightly blue.
Da'Tunga dodges the worst of Alie's lightning bolt, but he can't also dodge all of the attacks from Tortuga and like a massive tower he falls....
With a screech of anger the medusa steps out of the hedge maze and directs a ray of magical fire at the monk and archer.
Those close by again start to feel their flesh solidifying...
Status, bold may post
+ Kalendir @ 26/88 HP see invisible
Wynn- 57/74 HP - See invisible
+ Morrin (1 Strength Damage) @ 139/157 HP (60 Non-lethal burn)
+ Fletch @ 10/100 HP
+ (Romulus @ 57/108 HP)
Alie @ 90/107 HP -
Tortuga 24/124
The new snake lady. 76 damage,
+ next to your name means fort DC 20 vs Petrification
Male CG Human (Taldan) Kineticist 11 / Unchained Rogue 3 | HP 235/235 42 Non Lethal : 26 Temp | AC 25 T 19 FF 18 | CMB +10, CMD 32 | F: +20, R: +23, W: +8 | Init: +9 | Perc: +14 | Speed 30ft, Fly 60ft (Good) | Burn 3/11 | Darkvision 60ft | Defensive Abilities danger sense +1, evasion, fortification 15%; Resist negative energy 10, positive energy 10
Fort Save DC 20:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (9) + 17 = 26
"I have to say, considering your friend, you are making this quite hard on yourself miss."
Spreading his arms wide, tears open to the etheral plane once again appear around the man before debris at his feet begin to float before shooting towards the pretty, yet deadly woman.
Wynn moves to get a shot at the woman, however a giant hound blocks most of her from his view.
Wynn knocks an arrow and pulls pure magic into the arrow and fires.
Using Seeker Arrow to ignore all cover and concealment. arrow:1d20 + 23 ⇒ (2) + 23 = 25 damage:1d8 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 8 + (2) = 14
Precise shot to eliminate -4 modifier for shooting into melee;
Shared Precision- All allies in 10 feet get precise shot
Holy- +2d6 damage if creature is evil
The team watches in horror as Fletch rapidly petrifies. Morrin buffets her with powerful waves of force, but that doesn't seem to bother her too much. This is one tough lady. Wynn sends a single arrow her, but it deflects from a magical shield around her.
Tortuga's mighty leap misses her, but that doesn't stop him then knocking her to the ground and stunning her. He then stomps on her and hits her again, and again, and again.
She stops moving.
It is only then that the group notice that Romulus too has turned to stone.
Out of combat...for the moment.
Status,
Kalendir @ 53/88 HP see invisible
Alie @ 90/107 HP -
Tortuga 7/124
Wynn- 57/74 HP - See invisible
Morrin (1 Strength Damage) @ 139/157 HP (60 Non-lethal burn)
Fletch @ 10/100 HP STONED
(Romulus @ 57/108 HP) STONED
+ next to your name means fort DC 20 vs Petrification
rolls:
Morrin enhanced blast:3d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 5) = 11 fort vs strun:1d20 ⇒ 3 rom fort:1d20 ⇒ 3
Kalendir rushes over to Fletch and Romulus. "Damn..." He turns to Alie and the others. "Any of you able to turn stone back into flesh or break any enchantments?" He runs his hand along the stones rough surface.
"I don't have a scroll on me to help either of them. We could head back to the lodge and buy a couple scrolls, but that would certainly cost us time. I think it would be worth it, though."
Male CG Human (Taldan) Kineticist 11 / Unchained Rogue 3 | HP 235/235 42 Non Lethal : 26 Temp | AC 25 T 19 FF 18 | CMB +10, CMD 32 | F: +20, R: +23, W: +8 | Init: +9 | Perc: +14 | Speed 30ft, Fly 60ft (Good) | Burn 3/11 | Darkvision 60ft | Defensive Abilities danger sense +1, evasion, fortification 15%; Resist negative energy 10, positive energy 10
"Well, there was this monkey that attacked us after some warriors animated from being statues. During the commotion, some thing started cast some sort of lightning magic that hit a few of us, but the reason as to why we are back is because a pretty lady turned Fletch to stone, and we need a way to fix that."
"I thought that they sent an experienced team to witness the tale telling" sighs Osprey.
Venture Captain Petulengro then emerges from the lodge. "Turned to stone? That sounds pretty horrible..."
You have some options...
Scroll of stone to flesh for one is normally 1650gp. Scroll of break enchantment (CL9) is 1125 each, or 2PP
If you don't want to risk a scroll, the VC knows a nearby bard who is apparently so funny he turn rock back to flesh (aka knows the Stoneface masterpiece). He'll do the service for you for the same price as the scroll, or a 3PP special (unless you can find me a definitive price for stone to flesh as a service, it is not in the guide).
Ki Pool 7/13 | Stunning Fist 11/17 | Punishing Kick 15/15 | Touch of Serenity 13/15 | Winged Boots 1/3 | Reroll 0/1
It was a glorious battle! Don't worry about me, the wounds are mostly self-inflicted. I'm sure my colleagues that can use my wands can patch me right up. But Fletch and his critter are going to need some help that is beyond my wands.
Assuming we have 10 minutes or so to heal up, can someone use my wands and recharge my ring?
Unfortunately break enchantment doesn't work on petrification any longer or else I'd have a wand for that.
So we need roughly 3300 gold to hire the bard. Sounds like we have no choice. Fletch can square with us after we get him back among the breathing. Alie is kind of cash poor...I've only got 323 gold. Anyone have a pot of gold they haven't spent?
Ki Pool 7/13 | Stunning Fist 11/17 | Punishing Kick 15/15 | Touch of Serenity 13/15 | Winged Boots 1/3 | Reroll 0/1
The wand is only caster level 10, not 12. So if the DC is 27, then none of those would work unless Alie has some way to use her caster level on wands instead of the wand's caster level.
Male Dwarf 5 images; Bard lvl12 (still to level up from 11); AC 20 (22 w/cats grace; 23 haste); HP 80/80; Fort +8; Ref +9; Will +9; SM +21; Perc +15; init +4; Music left 25/31; reroll @+4 1/1; loremaster 1/1; IGF 1/1;
A heavily bearded dwarf with a tattered flag in one hand and a cigar in the other moves nimbly onto the lawn at the back of the lodge.
"Stoned eh? I once had a town guard as me 'How Hi are you?'. Of course I had to correct him with 'No officer, it's 'Hi, how are you?'"
He follows you into the maze. "So a medusa eh? Do you know what type of cheese she likes?"
He waits for a moment or too. "I heard it was Gorgon-zola."
Eventually you get up to the Fletch and Romulus. He starts to tell a an old and humorous tale about a woman who refused to smile at anything, no matter how funny. Through a series of increasingly unlikely events involving a cart of horse manure, a king, and a flying carpet, her legendary frown broke at last.
As he finishes, Romulus and Fletch's faces flicker as their stone lips try to laugh. Their stone shells crack as they return to flesh.
Fort DC 15 saves required by both to survive the process. Feel free to assume resistance has been cast if you don't have resistance bonuses from cloaks etc
Male Human Ranger 14 (Freebooter and Skirmisher) - HP 122/130, AC 29/T: 16/FF: 25 - Perception +19 - F: +14/ R: +14/ W: +8* - CMB: +18 - CMD: 34, Speed: 30*, Init. +4
I never heard of this ability, but it is flavorful!
Thanks guys!
Fletch Fort Save:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26 Romulus Fort Save w/ resistance:1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 1 = 20
The stone around Fletch's mouth cracks and a strangled cough becomes a laugh as his face and chest soften into flesh and bone. Beside him, the enormous wolf's tail begins to move and its stone jaws widen in an open-faced lupine grin. Moments later, Fletch is laughing with no reason why.
"Hoo," he says, rubbing tears and dirt from his eyes, "Something happened. Do I want to know what it was?" He looks down at himself. "Looks pretty much the same as before. Did we win?"
He pats himself all over, ensuring himself he hasn't got a tail or extra head or anything, and hugs Romulus's huge shaggy neck before remembering how hurt the two of them are.
"Did we lose anyone?" he asks, his laughter fading.
They were introduced in Ultimate Magic, that particular one is Stoneface. You either use a feat or a spell slot to get an alternate special ability that runs off your perform score and uses up bardic music. You can read more about them here
Kalendir holds a hand up to steady Fletch. "You're alright. A medusa got the best of you and your beast. You feel alright though?" Kalendir looks the man over to see if he requires any aid before performing some on himself.
Male Human Ranger 14 (Freebooter and Skirmisher) - HP 122/130, AC 29/T: 16/FF: 25 - Perception +19 - F: +14/ R: +14/ W: +8* - CMB: +18 - CMD: 34, Speed: 30*, Init. +4
"I've had worse," says Fletch, remembering once being raised from the dead. "Maybe just a little stoned."
"What were they doing here and what did a medusa and a huge monkey have to do with the murder of a Venture Captain?"
Wand of cure light wounds on Fletch:17d8 + 17 ⇒ (1, 6, 3, 7, 3, 7, 3, 4, 1, 7, 6, 1, 5, 6, 3, 6, 5) + 17 = 91Now full hp again. Wand of cure light wounds on Romulus:8d8 + 8 ⇒ (8, 2, 6, 5, 5, 8, 6, 5) + 8 = 53Now full hp again.
Fletch is happy to use anyone else's wand on them if they need it. His own wand now has 14 charges and you're welcome to use them up if you need them. Just make the rolls.
Tortuga is still on 7hp, the rest of you are looking good. I'll advance the plot a little, and we can retcon the healing of your dwarven damage dealer. Actually you are all pretty hefty damage dealers, just lacking in healing.
The team continues through the maze. You look with wonder at some of the areas to the sides.
Age has conspired against this brittle structure, which must once have been a small chapel. The ceiling collapsed long ago, and huge gashes in the walls suggest that the rest of the place might topple to the ground any minute now. A bulky stone statue was at the center of the building is difficult to make out from the causeway, but appears to be a giant serpent of some sort.
So damaged are the walls of this roofless structure that the building’s original purpose is impossible to determine. Amid the rubble within stood five statues of primitive human men, Mwangi warriors by the looks of them. Each wore a simple grass skirt and bone fetish necklaces, and each also bears a considerable length of chain.
The massive walls of this immense ruin must once have formed the facade of an impressive palace. An enormous humanoid statue, stooped on all fours and still two dozen feet tall, loomed in the shadows within.
A narrow set of thin stairs leads some 20 feet up to the surface of a large raised platform just off the main causeway. The white marble structure bears significantly less damage than most of the other buildings in the courtyard. Dozens of humanoid statues crowd the open space around the foot of the stairs.
Eventually, the Red Raven’s trail leads through the winding, leafy corridors of the Maze of the Open Road until it comes to a solid oaken door mounted on what otherwise appears to be a dead end.
Status,
Kalendir @ 82/88 HP
Alie @ 105/107 HP -
Tortuga 7/124
Wynn- 74/74 HP -
Morrin (1 Strength Damage) @ 139/157 HP (60 Non-lethal burn)
Fletch @ 100/100 HP
(Romulus @ 108/108 HP)
Looking through his list it looks as if he has a wand of CLW (31 charges so I will go ahead and roll. He can correct as necessary. Ugh I should have bought another wand of CLW while we were back there lol.
CLW (Tortuga):22d8 + 22 ⇒ (4, 8, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 8, 4, 1, 2, 1, 4, 7, 8, 2, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5) + 22 = 1159 charges remaining with wand and currently at 122/124 HP
Kalendir looks at the door. "Think it could be a trap of sorts? Everything else so far has."
Ki Pool 7/13 | Stunning Fist 11/17 | Punishing Kick 15/15 | Touch of Serenity 13/15 | Winged Boots 1/3 | Reroll 0/1
Tortuga has a wand of infernal healing if Alie is willing to use it and we can wait 12 minutes. I'd rather use that wand since we should have the time. Can she also recharge my ring of spell storing with more of my scrolls?
Torguga spends quarter of an hour writhing in fiend induced agony. Oddly at the end of it, he feels much better. Or maybe that he is just not in pain any more.
And I'll assume that you have your ring recharged now unless Alie specifically doesn't want to fill it.
Status,
Kalendir @ 82/88 HP
Alie @ 105/107 HP -
Tortuga 124/124
Wynn- 74/74 HP -
Morrin (1 Strength Damage) @ 139/157 HP (60 Non-lethal burn)
Fletch @ 100/100 HP
(Romulus @ 108/108 HP)
