[PFS_Aerondor] 04-06 The Green Market (5-9) high tier (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

Pai tells the others where might be a good spot to dig. "Between the pumpkins and the oranges. Well, if nothing else, it sounds delicious," she smiles, as she waits for the stronger ones to take up a spade.

Dioneo wanders in the market oblivious to the agitation. He clearly doesn't want to hold the spade.

Wyrgan will lend a hand in digging.

The team starts to dig. While Zeeta provides some equipment the process is slow and arduous. After a number hours: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 of hours, you uncover an old altar.

Digging further, below it you find a bare human skeleton. The remains of a rusted spear head penetrate the skeleton's chest and ribs, with a rotted wooden spear haft still attached.

"Now what do we do? Maybe taking the murder weapon away would help. Then we could place the totem properly."

You manage to remove the spear without any difficulty.
And quick check back, looks like I didn't mention what you should do .

You cast your mind back and recall as Fire-eyes handed over the old weapons that she said to arrange them in a sunburst pattern in the middle of the altar.

"I believe it is time now for the sunburst pattern in the middle of the altar."

"I'd feel more comfortable if one of you strongly religious type placed the sunburst pattern. "

"Yeah I can do that." says Dioneo, shrugging. He places the weapons in the explained pattern.

"I will help." Nox says, helping Dioneo set up.

As the first weapon is placed there is small shudder that goes through the ground, and then a host of gem-like creatures burst forth. Each appears to have the vague shape of a scorpion, but made out of gemstones.

During this battle, if you are next to the altar area (the Cross on the map) you may choose to place another weapon down as a move action. I guess that means if you spend your move and standard actions you could put two down.

Bane: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Wyrgan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Hellion(combat reflexes): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Nox: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Dioneo: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Pai: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
baddies: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

And once again the monsters get poor dice
I think I have your hp right, if you wanted to fully heal up before the encounter then you had plenty of time to do so, just mark off the spells or charges.

Status, bold may post:
Dioneo
Nox - 2 damage
Hellion
Pai
Bane - 4 damage
Crystal creatures
Wrygan - 5 damage

What kind of knowledge are these things?

Know(planes)

Know. Planes 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (6) + 19 = 25

Know planes: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Wyrgan's HP is correct... and your baddies have a higher init than Wyrgan so it cant be that bad of a roll...

Knoledge (planes): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Dioneo uses both his actions to put two more weapons again on the ground.

Bane will full attack the pink one and then move on to the next one as soon as soon as the pink one is down

atk: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19

dmg: 1d8 + 14 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 14 + (5) = 25

atk: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

dmg: 1d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 11 + (2) = 18

atk: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

dmg: 1d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 11 + (1) = 14

With a few powerful punches Bane starts hitting one of the creatures

"Bah! I picked the wrong spot!?"

Svetlana charges down and takes a shot!

vs Cyan
Charge/PA/Overhand
Adamantine

Attack 1d20 + 17 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (8) + 17 + 2 - 3 = 24
Damage 1d10 + 11 + 9 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 11 + 9 + 3 = 33

Pai and Dioneo know they are Crysmals. Immune to fire and cold, and resistant to electricity.

Bane misses with his first two attacks against the pink crysmal, however he does manage to land the last blow.

Svetlana lands a solid blow, but the crystal creature seems resistant to her edged weapon. Its badly cracked but still up.

Status, bold may post:
Dioneo
Nox - 2 damage
Pai
Crystal creatures
- Pink 14 damage
- Cyan 28 damage
Wrygan - 5 damage[/b]
Bane - 4 damage
Hellion (charged, -2 to AC)

I stated above that I took both my "move" actions to place weapons on the ground.

Pai takes a 5' step diagonally away from the creatures and uses her Invisibility Field power to become invisible. She will try to place the weapons next round.

Nox steps back and begins to cast a spell! Summon monster

Suddenly surrounded by the creatures, the pathfinders find themselves once again on the back foot!

The orange creature seems unimpressed with Pai's invisibility and follows her - darting forward to brush against her but not use its stinger. She feels momentarily confused.

Two try to swarm Wygran but his armour is too good. Likewise Svelta manages to avoid her attacks. Two also team up on Bane, and the lightly armored monk gets badly stung.

A last one goes for Nox, and again the creature just brushes against him, causing waves of doubt and uncertainly to overcome him for a moment.

Status, bold may post: 3 weapons placed
Wrygan - 5 damage
Bane - 20 damage
Hellion
Dioneo
Nox - 2 damage ; summoning. Touch of idocy (6 point penalty to each mental stat)
Pai - invisibility; Touch of idiocy (2 penalty to each mental stat)
Crystal creatures
- Pink 14 damage
- Cyan 28 damage

Anyone planning on group buffs? If so I wont start hitting things just yet!?

Is there no save against that!?!?!?!? That's crazy if I don't get a saving throw. Also would I lose my summon? Since now my charisma is so low?

@NOX: No, it is a touch attack, so no save. You wouldn't lose your summon spell as it didn't do damage to you as such. Even with the six point cha penalty you still have an 18 charisma, so unless you have 9th level spells stashed away somewhere, it shouldn't stop you casting. It will reduce the number of bonus spells you have and spell DCs though.

ToI is serious business, insta-trash casters if you land it - no save! :( Awesome spell for those days you know you will be fighting casters, but can't go below 1 so doesn't shut down half the fighty types.

Nox was unlucky with a "6" roll for the damage, and Pai slightly lucky. They also tried it against Svetlana, but got a one on the to-hit, which was probably the only way to miss her.

Suddenly a hound archon stands next to Nox and it swings at the thing.

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (6, 1) + 3 = 10

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (2, 1) + 3 = 6

Bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

And Nox swings his mace at it!

Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Bane will start swinging at the pink one and move to the baby blue one of pink one does

atk: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29

dmg: 1d8 + 14 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 14 + (2) = 20

atk: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30

dmg: 1d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 11 + (3) = 19

atk: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

dmg: 1d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + 11 + (2) = 20

-Posted with Wayfinder

An archon appears and attacks, however the creature appears resistant to its blows.
Failed to hit AC

Nox's own attack is a little more successful.

Bane finishes off the pink crysmal with a pair of punches, and then adds another crack to the cyan coloured one - which then shatters into thousands of shards

Status, bold may post: 3 weapons placed
Wrygan - 5 damage
Hellion
Dioneo
Pai - invisibility; Touch of idiocy (2 penalty to each mental stat)
Crystal creatures
- Blue 6 damage
Nox - 2 damage ; summoning. Touch of idocy (6 point penalty to each mental stat)
Bane - 20 damage

Pai takes a 5' step to the south, then casts Dimension Door, and reappears 100' north of the enemies.

I moved Pai on the map to the edge of the garden with the now-dead tree. If she goes 100' she'll be out of line of sight and out of the market.

Thats fine, DM. Pai panicked and had to get away ASAP!

I guess now is a bad time to tell you they also have dimension door. Pity their tremorsence isn't big enough to still locate you. That would have been funny. In a sad, sick-GM, kind of way

Svetlana simply steps back and starts swinging away again, quite mad about their chutzpah in attacking her.

Attacking Cyan again
PA(Furious Focus)
Attack 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (14) + 17 = 31
Damage 1d10 + 11 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 11 + 9 = 21

Attack 1d20 + 12 - 3 ⇒ (7) + 12 - 3 = 16
Damage 1d10 + 11 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 11 + 9 = 25

There is a pop as the invisible Pai vanishes from the area. Then another as Sveetlana's axe smashes into one of the creatures.

As before the sharp blade skitters off the smooth surface, reducing its impact somewhat. Her second blow fails to connect at all, but that first one must have hurt a bit.

Status, bold may post: 3 weapons placed
Wrygan - 5 damage
Dioneo
Crystal creatures
- Blue 6 damage
- Red 16 damage
Nox - 2 damage ; summoning. Touch of idiocy (6 point penalty to each mental stat)
Bane - 20 damage
Hellion
Pai - invisibility; Touch of idiocy (2 penalty to each mental stat)

this is one of the problems with being in a vastly different timezone. I go to bed during the hours you all posted 16 messages and now I am trying to catch up. Good stuff though. Apologies for the late posting

Wyrgan moves to strike the closest foe with his sword...

Bastard Sword+PA 1 handed: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 10 - 2 = 12
DMG: 1d10 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Normally that is my problem being an Aussie with US based players :p

I was at work, and posting updates as time allowed as that allowed better player choices for targets when you already know which ones are down.

Wyrgan launches a hard but off target blow that does little to the Crysmal he is facing.

To keep things ticking over, I'm going to have Dioneo repeat his action of last turn, placing two more weapons.

Status, bold may post: 5 weapons placed
Nox - 15 damage ; summoning. Touch of idiocy (6 point penalty to each mental stat)
- archon 10 damage;
Bane - 20 damage
Hellion
Pai - invisibility; Touch of idiocy (2 penalty to each mental stat)
Wrygan - 5 damage
Dioneo
Crystal creatures
- Blue 6 damage
- Red 16 damage

Svetlana steps back (no really, she uses a reach weapon) and strikes again...
She groans audibly at the Archon being in the way.

Attacks Red
PA(Furious Focus/Cover)
Attack 1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 17 - 4 = 31
Damage 1d10 + 11 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 11 + 9 = 22

Attack 1d20 + 12 - 3 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 12 - 3 - 4 = 9
Damage 1d10 + 11 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 11 + 9 = 21

Svetlana lands one solid blow, although as before the slanted surfaces of the creature mean it is not quite as telling as it should be

Status, bold may post: 5 weapons placed
Nox - 15 damage ; summoning. Touch of idiocy (6 point penalty to each mental stat)
- archon 10 damage;
Bane - 20 damage
Pai - invisibility; Touch of idiocy (2 penalty to each mental stat)
Wrygan - 5 damage
Dioneo
Crystal creatures
- Blue 6 damage
- Red 33 damage
Hellion

Indeed, that was my intention :)

Dioneo smirks at the crysmal that missed him and continues his work, placing two more weapons.

Bane will full attack the black one and then take a 5ft back

atk: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

dmg: 1d8 + 14 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 14 + (6) = 24

atk: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16

dmg: 1d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 11 + (2) = 21

atk: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

dmg: 1d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 11 + (6) = 18

crit confirm: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

crit dmg: 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

Wyrgan will burn a fervor to cast Divine Favor on himself as a swift action and then attack the same target again...

Bastard Sword+PA 1 handed+DF: 1d20 + 10 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 10 - 2 + 1 = 25
DMG: 1d10 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 1 = 12

Nox tells the Archon to attack again.

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1) + 3 = 8

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 3) + 3 = 10

Bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 wow. Just wow...

And Nox swings his mace at it!

Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Pai pulls her wand of magic missiles and sets off a charge at the closest opponent. She will start approaching the battle again next round.

Damage 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (1, 2, 3) + 3 = 9

Bane strikes out, having a hard time connecting, but eventually landing one solid blow.
But they are immune to critical hits

Wrygan manages to land a solid blow, although once again the impact is reduced by the creatures smooth gem-structure. Nox and his Archon show have no luck at all, while Pai directs her magical energy at the red one, causing it to shatter.

Dioneo continues to place the last blades around the altar..
The team all experience a sensation of dizziness and that the world is melting away...

You find yourself n a small clearing of sparse trees stands a solitary table of stone before a pool of clear water. A simple camp with a smoldering campfire and a large tent made from animal skins and wooden poles has been set up to the east.

Superimposed over the idyllic landscape is a gray, ghostly image of the
Green Market—its wagons, carts, and stalls seemingly untouched from a moment before. This image fades to mist approximately sixty feet away, revealing a great battle being fought farther in the distance on all sides.

“I was never a pacifist,” intones a figure. “My belief was merely that the way forward for my people was unity. The Azghat divided us in the time before memory, but the world had moved on. Every quah could maintain its honor, but without the need to divide the people against itself. So I renounced the powers of the sun and the flame, to walk the green path—to become the Green Heart.”

“I was such a fool,” Galdron snarls as he appears above the stone table. The ghost is of a bald male, garbed in hide armor and holding a
short spear in hand. A corona of fire sheathes his head and rises from his eyes. Molten gold drips from where a spearhead and shaft protrude from his chest, revealing the wound that took his life.

Several fire elementals burst into life around him.

Neither the Archon nor the crysmals seem to have been transported along with you.

Status, bold may post:
Hellion
Galdron
Dioneo
Wyrgan - 5 damage ; divine favor
Elementals
Pai - invisibility; Touch of idiocy (2 penalty to each mental stat)
Bane - 20 damage
Nox - 15 damage ; summoning. Touch of idiocy (6 point penalty to each mental stat)

Crystal creatures :
- Blue 6 damage
- Black 18 danage
- Pink 7 damage
- Green
- Orange

Svetlana begins summoning, calling upon her Hellish minions to attend her!!

5' step away again
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