PFS by PbP scenario TBD (Inactive)

Game Master Brayden Green

The group standing at the table (hears/feels) a silent presence that leaves from them to go somewhere else.

I put it this way, because you don't actually hear anything, but feel like something has passed by you in a "I feel like someone is watching me" sort of way.

This also means to *not* follow up with a barrage of "Which way was the sound that I didn't hear heading? Can I tell where the exact 5 foot square location *is* of the sound that I didn't hear?" LoL.

Round 1 results: Amazonian woman has been slain, though the body actually disappeared when it fell. You magic welding weirdo's would know that the body has been "dispelled" or "sent back" or whatever words you would use to know that it has gone to another plane. Also, to give you an idea of what is happening, *most* of the fighting has broken off, about 1/2 the crowd has left, especially after those paying real close attention saw TWO Lura's disappear in the space of 15-20 seconds or so. Those that are there are busy in a number of different activities (vomiting after drunken exertion, looting an unconscious body, looking around to find the next fight, watching curiously your fight with the tall woman - some even taking quick bets it seemed, and so on.)

No one seems hostile towards you, and after taking down that huge woman with such effectiveness, including standing on tables and ... disappearing/reappearing? ... all of that type of thing, no one wants to mess with you, even up to and including the "guards."

Round 2 actions to follow. Posted in non-spoiler format.

Looks like the server ate my post again. Oh well, at least the big one went down.

Lauranna cast her eyes back and forth about the place, looking for any signs of the invisible Lura.

Holding action until the woman is spotted. perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (4) + 0 = 4

Brayden, is there 1 or two exits to this place?

there are 4: the 1 that Lori is standing by, 2 other main entrances that have docks on either side of the building, and a smaller one door exit behind the counters on the right side of the building as you look at it.

I imagine that you scouted the place before you went in, and have a working knowledge of all of these exits as none are hidden. (otherwise I might not tell you ;) )

Still not spotting his target, Oriandor moves to the large entrance to the left flank, hoping to prevent the abomniable wench from escaping.

What sort of actions will it take to throw water (and how much area would the water cover. OR can I tell how hard it'd be to crack/shatter the water tank so it spills over the floor? "Red Light! Green Light!" :) I'm hoping it'll be easier to spot footsteps in a puddle and/or an entire person getting splashed by water.

K: Engineering? (untrained): 1d20 ⇒ 9

ROUND 2 Actions

Amnur hops on the table to his NW, slamming his flail against his shield to get the attention of the crowd. He roars out, his voice full of urgency and promise, "Men, 25 gold pieces to the man who finds the invisible woman in this room! Shout out if you bump into something that shouldn't be there!" He scans the drunk, bruised and bleary-eyed faces, hoping money talks louder than words, "MOVE!!" To better get his point across, he reaches into his coin purse, and pulls out five gold pieces, waving them in the air so they glitter in the lamp and candlelight.

Diplomacy: 1d20 ⇒ 4 Plus any greed bonuses? :) Little help please.
Perception (may as well): 1d20 ⇒ 18
I don't know how much I tried to do there is possible.

This is why I love tabletop gaming... there is never a "jump up on the table and bribe everyone to help you find the invisible lady" option in the games I play.

As to the questions, throw water would be a standard, depending on how you wanted to deliver it. You can see the tank is magically reinforced (with your spellcraftitude) but that doesn't mean that it is indestructible. Glass isn't normally hard to shatter for someone with your strength.

1d20 ⇒ 19 people start waving their hand in the air and start looking.

"Wait, what do we get if we don't find the invisible person one of the person yells out?"

EDIT: You're welcome for the near crit.

You're thank-you'd. :)

Amnur considers the question from his elevated position, pleased at the enthusiastic response from the crowd, "If no one finds her but you're truly searching, then you get a gold piece for trying. Now get searching! Who's the lucky man who'll get 25 gold pieces!?"

EDIT: I realize I'm being extremely foolish with my money... but 1) I'd really like to find that woman, 2) Amnur (and myself) aren't all that concerned with money... 3) He's feeling generous.

With a wink to Amnur, Shilyn follows Amnur's lead by yelling, "And he'll give THIRTY gold to the woman who finds her!"

Sheathing her rapier, she grabs a nearby mug and lifts a toast to the dwarf. "Sorry my friend.. but you left any ladies out, so I had to make up for your oversight."

Flori moves to the doorway, blocking it and waving her arms around in search of an invisible foe, and searching for emanations with detect magic..

Thirty gold? New shoes, here I come!

What self respecting lady would have been involved in the brawl and ruckus we created? ... Amazonian apparitions do not count! ;)

Amnur raises the hand holding his flail up to his helmeted forehead, the flail bonking him soundly on the head. But he maintains the salute to the dangerous rogue woman, acknowledging his error. It is strange how he forgot, usually he's so diplomatic!

serving wenches want coin too! not just self respecting ladies ;) Amnur's trying to keep the serving wench down trodden!

Shi grins mischievously as she watches the crowd react for a chance at Amnur's gold. "Well, makes our job easier eh?"

Aware that I can't scan everywhere, I grab the chalk dust and scatter it on the floor around the passages to the rooms, then keep an eye on them.
Don't want her sneaking off to hide.

Down with the serving wenches! LOL

Amnur just nods, feeling a little like one of the Dwarf kings of old as his little minions scurry around to do his bidding... *sigh* It's fun to dream.

We are still in INIT order Mylvie, I am going to need you to pick which doorway and mark it on the map. You can't do them all in 6 seconds ;)

Move yourselves where you want to be, and do whatever else you want to within combat order action format. I will be starting round 3 in two hours.

Oh cool, I was about to come ask Who was waiting on who, but now I don't have to. :) Only 40 minutes to go, woo!

You see a giant spider appear into the middle of the room. It moves toward amnur and attacks.

Spider attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

clearly a miss.

You are all up. You hear and see nothing save the spider.

"By the dark dungeon of Torag!" he curses to himself even as he dodges the monsters attack, "You lot want to get paid, even you downtrodden wenches, find me that durned invisible woman!" He manages, mostly, to keep the worry out of his voice as he maintains his 'elevated' position on the table and brings his flail down at the creepy/crawly thing.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 181d10 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 Possible another +1 attk for height bonus. Your call GM.

I've done my chalk

Surprised by the arrival of the spider, I send an arrow arcing toward the beast.
attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2

"Well Amnur, looks like you've attracted bugs.. again," Shilyn says with a laugh as she draws her rapier once more. Quickly she debates leaving the vantage point of the table next to the dwarf to get behind the huge spider, but decides discretion is the better part of valor and thrusts the tip of her blade at the creature.

attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Is anyone trying to leave through the doors Oriandor is at? If not (because Amnur and Shilyn have convinced everyone to look for Lura or are too drunk to care), he'll be spending his time locking it shut.

Disable Device to lock the door? 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Flori will missile it.

1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Does the missile seem to affect it, or is it summoned, or an illusion? We can't see anything else?

Perc: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Lauranna continues to scan the room, looking for signs of the missing Lura. She has to be here somewhere. She sighs in disgust at the spider's appearance, knowing it was a distraction they could ill afford.

Round 3 results:

Your INIT is correct, Amnur. Thakns.

Round actions:

Mylvie shoots at the spider but misses.

Giant Spider attacks amnur and misses.

Lauranna walks up and successfully kills the spider, slicing it in half.

Amnur barters with the crowd

you can retcon a rd 3 standard as part of your round 4

Oriandor

To answer your question about locking the door, you can lock it, but you think since she is the proprioter that she might have a key. The better thing to do (as I have eyes to the situation, and you do not) is to close the door (standard) and you notice that they have a "bar the gate" type system where you can put a wood panel to successfully keep the door from swinging in. That is open for you to do in your round, if you choose. Let me know. You also can just jam it, and that would only take a round as well.

Upon seeing that no one else intends to leave, Flori says "Last chance out of here" and shuts the door.

"Well Amnur, looks like you've attracted bugs.. again," Shilyn says with a laugh as she draws her rapier and stands ready for more. include an action with round 4 if you wish.

Round 4 actions, ready GO!

Round 3 Retcon
Amnur, seeing the spider go down and as he urges the crowd on, hops down from the table and approaches the west side of the big water tank. Just cached in the standard for the move action.

Round 4
Amnur, unless someone before him in init stops him, spits into his hands and take a firm grip on his flail. "Keep searching people, and keep an eye out for splashes and footsteps in the water that shouldn't be there!" He then winds up like he's going to chop a tree down and whacks at the glass tank for all he's worth. Attack&Damage: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 161d10 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Hopefully I can't miss a wall. It's just a standard damage roll to attack inanimate things, right? Also is there like a % of the room that has been searched or some way to help guide our own searches? Like looking specifically where tavern-folks aren't and that type thing?

Round 3 ret..
Waving her rapier over the now dead spider, she looks over the crowd and yells, "Surely one of you can find the invisible woman! Just stand shoulder-to-shoulder and sweep across the room.. it's really not THAT hard to earn twenty-five gold! Unless of course, you don't want it.."

Round 4..AAaaand in this corner..

Shilyn gives Amnur a quizzical look as he takes a swing at the giant water tank. "Um.. I'm not sure that's a good idea," she says as she steps as far back as the table allows. "You do know that you're going to get wet don't you?" With a giggle, she peers into the mug still held in her left hand and gives a pout. "Buy a lady a drink?"

Round 4 actions? Ready, Go?

Map updated to show current "goings on"

Amnur, I just need damage against the glass tank.

You hit it solidly, but don't appear to have done any damage.

Confident that the others are ensuring their target cannot escape, Oriandor relaxes his eyes as he moves slowly sensing any magical auras nearby.

Oriandor moves 20 feet after casting detect magic.

Flori keeps a watch by the door with detect magic up.

Amnur Round 4

Damage vs big mean water tank: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

4 in, 2 to go. Botting in 2 and a half hours, got to get the show moving.

I stand warily, arrow laid across my bowstring, waiting for the shot.

Readying action to shoot the woman if she appears, or footprints appear in the chalk.

Lauranna is doing what she has been doing. Not much else she can do at this point.

Round 5, you see a giant ant appear and moves towards Oriandor. Lura also appears, clutching a mace and yelling "I will give somoene 125 gold pieces for bringing me the head of one of these attackers!"

(Mylvie can take a shot, but she has cover from you so it is at a -4, including other range penalties)

Round 5 actions. Ready Set GO.

Poor thing. She has NO fashion sense!

Not Flori's turn, but she has to think it.

Looking over the crowd, Shilyn holds up her now empty cup. With a grin she casts a quick glance at Amnur and yells, "125? Is that all? How about 130 if you beat the two critters in the tank? If you lose.. I keep the bar!"

Without pause, she glances back at the crowd. "What do y'all say? Throw her in. I have five gold on the fish man! Drinks all around!"

With a wink cast at the others, she begins to chant.. "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Ok Shi.. time to win hearts and minds..

Amnur smiles as the foe finally appears, "Get back here wench! Down with serving wenches!"

Amnur double-times it to the south, towards Lura, leaving Oriandor to deal with the ant for the moment as Lura seems to be the bigger threat. He hops from the stool to the bar top and shouts"Oriandor, shout if you need me!"

I don't think he can charge over the counter so I won't roll attack, yet.

"And let you have all the fun Amnur? Never!", replies Oriandor as he feints a half-step, then darts to the side of the ant to slip past it and rush towards the now exposed Lura.

Acrobatics: :1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
I moved myself around the ant, then used a second move action to reach Lura; this was assuming I passed the roll. If I did not, then please place Oriandor in the bottom left square to the ant.

attack: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 2 - 4 = 13
damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7

I stamp my foot in annoyance and send an acid dart after our foe.

ranged touch attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

You passed, Ori. The ant can't beat that on an AoOp.

Lauranna rushes forward to the woman, using up her turn.

Mylvie hits her for an acid attack, that doesn't seem to harm her much.

Shi, are you trying to rabble rouse? I am going to need a DIPLO for that, and go ahead and give yourself a +8 bonus on that, because it happens to be a subject dear to their hearts.

Time for round 6.

Giant ANT
Lura
Mylvie (readied so moved here)
Lauranna
Amnur
Oriandor
Flori
Shilyn

The ant will attack Oriandor from the back.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25 (flanking)

EDIT: to confirm 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Confirmed... Damage 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 41d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

12 damage, and you are "grabbed". (Its CMD is 13, fyi)

Lura, noticing everyone charging her, realizes she must not be invisible anymore and tries to cast a spell:

Combat Cast: 1d20 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 + 3 = 17

Seeing ORi tied up, she attempts to cast grease on Amnur's weapon.

while an object wielded or employed by a creature requires its bearer to make a Reflex saving throw to avoid the effect. If the initial saving throw fails, the creature immediately drops the item. A saving throw must be made in each round that the creature attempts to pick up or use the greased item - saving throw is DC 14

Rabble rouse?? Who me?? Oh yah, sure.. blame the half-elf for inciting a riot.. I prefer to think of it as.. um.. crowd manipulation of opportunity. :)

Trying her best to get the crowd to do their dirty work, Shilyn appeals to their love of ale and what she hopes are fights in the tank behind her..

Diplomacy (Class Untrained - +2 INT + 8 circumstance): 1d20 + 2 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 8 = 14

I send another acid dart toward the woman.

ranged touch attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

I also call out, "Amnur! Lauranna! Knock out the woman and the ant will disappear."

Now, Flori will cast magic missile at Lura.

m.m.: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 Woot!

"Get offa me you damn dirty ant!", wincing in pain as he tries to wiggle out of its mandibles.

Escape Artist: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

Slinking out from the insect's grasp, he ducks behind Lura, threatening both her and the bug with his blade.

"Cut her down, Lauranna!"

Round 6.. Shilyn's going to continue to try and get the crowd worked up to toss Laura in the tank in effort to keep the patrons / guards from turning on the group.. after all 125 gp for a head is a bit of coin.. and Shi prefers to keep hers attached..

Round 6 results: (Botting the other two. Amnur, Lauranna)

Giant ANT does his damage against Ori, and has him grabbed in his mandibles.

Lura (had previously moved invisible) and seeing that she had turned visible pleaded to the crowd to help with her attackers.

Mylvie (readied so moved here) Casts another acid dart, which misses.

Lauranna slashes with her reach (bardiche) at Lura. 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 Which connects, but not solidly for 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 damage.

Amnur slashes down with his waraxe towards the evil woman 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12 which misses.

Oriandor yells "Get offa me you damn dirty ant!", wincing in pain as he tries to wiggle out of its mandibles.

Slinking out from the insect's grasp, he ducks behind Lura, threatening both her and the bug with his blade. [b]"That's right! Cut her down, Lauranna!"

Flori casts magic missle at the darkness. Wait, at Lura. Hits for 3 damage.

Shilyn, go ahead and try another diplomacy (but I need an argument or something first). They are chanting FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! but are looking around as if they aren't sure *who* is fighting or *where* the fight will take place. (they are a crowd, so therefore, dumb) They don't seem to be aggressive towards you however.