[PFS_CORE_Aerondor] 05-16 Sanctum of the Sages (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

Not properly sized for me. ;)

Monterey helps Zax open up the discovered cracks.

The team breaks through to the tunnel below. It is dark and ten foot wide, and of round features, almost as if something had eaten its way through the mountains...

Some spots along the walls show signs of chemical reactions between the rock and an unknown substance.

Can you all give me a survival or know(dungeoneering) (your choice) check.

Craft Alchemy untrained: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Kn Arc: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Kn Dung: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25

Looks like something used acid to burn these holes through the rock! That some mighty potent and abundant acid.

Knowledge (Nature) 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Survival 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

"I have no idea what this could be."

Zax seems concerned, as usual. Acid? As in thrown in flasks or used for some other purpose?

Survival: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Survival: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2

Talan has been quiet while investigation and tearing up the floor occurred, and one hopes he remains quiet now, since he seems largely uncertain what to make of the tunnels around them or tracking the path of their prey.

Knowledge(Arcana): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

"I think he means something that produces acid naturally used it to melt through the rocks. I'm not certain what it'd be, but it's large and we shouldn't be in here when it shows back up."

Talan will do his best to urge the party on more quickly, he doesn't want to be a lunch.

Silgil, as one would expect from a dwarf, finds little difficulty keeping you on track as you wind through the interconnecting tunnels. After a (relatively) short time, you emerge once more to the blasted heat of the mountains.

Two tall sandstone outcroppings rise to the north and south, channeling whistling wind and stinging sand through this pass. The carcass of a giant serpentine beast covered in dried blisters lies in a heap at the gorge’s narrowest point, the body savaged by some powerful predator.

"I don't know what could kill a beast like that and I don't want to find out. Everyone be careful."

So, are we headed towards the cliffs? Also, is the Cave exit where we would have exited had we stuck to the caves instead of using the worm tunnel?

You have no idea about the other cave exit and where it may lead. You can all make perception checks though

A strong wind blows dust and dirt around the valley, making visibility difficulty.

"Yes, we definitely should watch ourselves."

Wand of Mage Armor

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Perception 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Carefully following and using a wand of Mage Armor, too.

While tracks are not obvious, the flow of the valley would seem to indicate that down the valley is the logical course to follow.

Can you all do a move

Silgil moved.

Moved

Zax begins to lead the way.

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (11) + 0 = 11

Talan will follow the group, utilizing his own wand of mage armor to maintain his buff as he follows the party.

"I'm almost more concerned that it killed this thing, and then didn't bother to eat it." He gives the carcass a large berth, both for smell and fear of infection.

Monterey moves up closer to inspect it.

Urias seeing Monterey moving towards the corpse, follows suit at least in order to protect him.

As you advance down the valley there is a massive rockside. While you manage to avoid it, the massive corpse is in the middle of its path.

Many of the blisters on the body burst open and a dry powder flies into the air, choking the team.

Meanwhile a massive, draconic looking creature looms up at the top of the cliff.

"You dare trespass on My domain a second time!

It takes a huge breath in.

Fort save, DC 17, poison effect everyone

Status: bold may post
Talan : Fort DC17 vs poison
Zax : Fort DC17 vs poison
Dragon thing
Silgil : Fort DC17 vs poison (fatigued)
Urias : Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued)
Electra : Fort DC17 vs poison
Urias

Fort: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Zax is able to avoid breathing in any of the harmful powder.

How tall is the cliff? Is there a way Zax could get up there?

Fort: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

I'm not in init, fyi.

Fort Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Most of the cliffs are high and crumbly (expect a climb DC between 20 and 25). There is a collapsed bit of cliff that looks quite a bit easier (climb DC in the 15-20 region) - that is to the north east. (top left corner)

I had Urias in twice for some reason

Status: bold may post
Talan : Fort DC17 vs poison
Zax :
Dragon thing
Silgil : Fort DC17 vs poison (fatigued)
Urias : Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued)
Electra :
Monterey : 1 point CON damage (Fort DC17 vs poison NEXT round);

fort ST, +2 from hardy: 1d20 + 2 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 2 + 6 = 23

Zax will move toward the easier climb and fire his crossbow at the creature!

Crossbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 for Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3
Confirm?: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 for Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

Fort vs Poison: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Talan gags on the spores pluming out of the corpse, but a several good mouthfuls of spit and he doesn't seem worse for the wear beyond watery eyes.

He move away from the sporish area, drawing on his own talent and a mix of the sage jewel's power to generate an obscuring mist at his new location.

Move to new location, Mythic point to Legendary Spell up Obscuring Mist and a standard to cast it.

Green cross is the edge of the poisonous cloud that is quickly dissipating, however there are still loads of unpopped blisters on that body...

Zax drives a crosshow into a wing joint. It goes straight through, narrowly missing something vital.

Talan summons a strange mist to provide cover. The yellow cross on the map

The "dragon" breathes out a short jet of...lightning.
reflex DC 20 for half: 7d4 ⇒ (4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 4) = 24

Status: bold may post
Silgil : (fatigued)
Urias : Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued)
Electra :
Monterey : 1 point CON damage (Fort DC17 vs poison NEXT round);
Talan :
Zax : 24 damage (12 if reflex DC20 save made)
Dragon thing : 3 damage

Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Zax takes the hit full-on. He continues to move toward the "dragon".

Climb: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (7) - 4 = 3 Oh boy.

Those rocks are much harder to climb than Zax was expecting. Taking that blast full on probably didn't help either.

But on the plus side, with a roll that bad, you didn't get high enough up to fall down.

Remember there is a mythic ability that can lessen the amount of damage you take, and also gain some damage reduction in upcoming rounds.

Status: bold may post
Silgil : (fatigued)
Urias : Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued)
Electra :
Monterey : 1 point CON damage (Fort DC17 vs poison NEXT round);
Talan :
Dragon thing : 3 damage
Zax : 24 damage

How high is the cliff?

Move Action
Monterey, with his super quick speed, takes to the easier part to climb.

Standard Action
He casts Shield on himself.

Silgil lets go with a nice long range glitterdust on the dragon. DC 17 will or blinded. Then scurries into the mist.

Well, probably won't work, but its worth a try.

The cliff is 50' tall, but the dragon like creature is clinging to the cliff half way down. So it is only about 20' up.

will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

The dragon blinks rapidly as the coloured dust fills the air.

Status: bold may post
Urias : Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued)
Electra :
Talan :
Dragon thing : 3 damage ; blind 3 (halfway down cliff)
Zax : 24 damage
Silgil : (fatigued)
Monterey : 1 point CON damage

Grabbing her wand, Electra shoots Magic Missle: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
on the dragon.

Fort Save, fatigued 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (2) + 8 - 1 = 9 Sigh
Intimidate 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 Excellent rolling so far.

Enraged, Urias roars back though his words are interspersed with a generous amount of coughing and hacking.
"What do you mean again lizard breath? And Don't you go spitting your foul breath any way you please!

Talan will use the mist for cover and approach the edge of it, allow it to make him harder to hit in case Silgil's spell has failed.

He'll take a moment of consideration before firing a magic missile at the thing still clinging to the wall.

"Any of you even know what this thing is?

Move action to reposition to edge of mist, standard to cast magic missile.

Magic Missile: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 3) + 2 = 8

Three magical missiles slam into the strange dragon.

The creature screams its rage, directing it primarily at Urias.

"Oh foul creature with no memory! I will eat you up."

GM: 1d4 ⇒ 3

From the way it moves its head around you think it is trying to listen for you, but seems to be blinded by the glitterdust for the moment.

Status: bold may post
Urias : 1 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued)
Electra :
Talan :
Zax : 24 damage
Silgil : (fatigued)
Monterey : 1 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison
Dragon thing : 16 damage ; blind 2 (halfway down cliff)

Fort Save 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13 <--This is broken. I ahven't had a good roll since like forever....
Readied Charge 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 171d10 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

"Figures that an overgrown lizard like you can't even get me when I'm in front of you." Urias Taunts it even as he feels his body ravaged by yet another disease or poison. It was indeed comfortable to know that the gods still seek to test him this way. He'll just count this up to the number of times, he's being poisoned, diseased or infected......

Well, I'm sure not fighting it on the side of a cliff.
"Come down ya coward!"

Move Action
Monterey takes out his sling...

Standard Action
...and launches a bullet at the beast.
Sling Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Sling Damage: 1d3 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
The bullet hits the side of the cliff.

Fort Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Even blind, the dragon like thing is able to avoid significant damage from the sling stone.

And it would be know(arcana) to identify the creature

Status: bold may post
Electra :
Talan :
Zax : 24 damage
Silgil : (fatigued)
Dragon thing : 16 damage ; blind 2 (halfway down cliff)
Urias : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued) ; Readied charge (to hit 17; damage 6)
Monterey : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison

Kn Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Silgil moves up to the edge of the mist, and calls out a rally cry from a hidden vantage point. He then starts an enlarge person spell.

Using the rally ability. You all get a free reroll.

"You had your chance beastie - them as came before were different small folk. We could have passed peacefully. Can't you even tell a dwarf from a human or do we all really look alike to you? My hair is red dammit! Certainly none of them had my color hair? I thought dragons were perceptive!"

Zax will try to climb up the hill again!

Climb: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (4) - 4 = 0
Rally: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (1) - 4 = -3

Using my standard to try now.

Climb: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (9) - 4 = 5 I give up.

Zax thinks with his heavy armour, it is going to be almost impossible to climb that rockslide.
Silgil doesn't have a clue what the creature is. It certainly looks like a dragon, but he can't recall hearing about them holding onto cliff faces.

Status: bold may post (rally, reroll available this turn)
Electra :
Talan :
Dragon thing : 16 damage ; blind 2 (halfway down cliff)
Urias : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued) ; Readied charge (to hit 17; damage 6)
Monterey : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison
Zax : 24 damage (used rally)
Silgil : (fatigued)

Can I reach the dragon where he is on the cliff with a melee weapon or am I stuck with a crossbow?

Knowledge(Arcana): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Knowledge(Arcana) RALLY: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Talan was staring at the monster through the mist, trying to identify it. It's tough to say if he knows anything about it, the fog kept getting in his eyes.

And then he got distracted, and wound up spending several moments just staring at Zax, utterly deadpan expression and a slight twitch dominating his face.

"Oh for crying out loud..."

The sorcerer taps into the sage magic fueling him and brings forth a new spell, causing magical grease to smear on the cliff face beneath the dragon thing.

Standard to cast grease, moving back into the fog to hide afterwards.

Grease DC 18, Cost 1 Mythic Point, counts as CL 5

If you have a way to reach 20' up the cliff, you can attack it with a melee weapon. Most folk can easily strike 10' up. With an enlarge you could get to 20 probably. Add in a reach weapon and you'd be able to make it easily.

Talan has no idea what the creature is.
Dice bot hates you all today.

The creature tries to retain its grip on the cliff.
reflex: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18
It scrabbles around, but manages to maintain its grip on the cliff.

(and as it is still blind, it isn't going to do much on its turn, so you can all act again)

Status: bold may post (rally, reroll available this turn)
Electra : (may act twice)
Urias : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued) ; Readied charge (to hit 17; damage 6)
Monterey : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison
Zax : 24 damage (used rally)
Silgil : (fatigued)
Talan : (used rally)
Dragon thing : 16 damage ; blind 1 (halfway down cliff)

Move Action
Monterey takes reloads his sling...

Standard Action
...and launches another bullet at the beast.
Sling Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Sling Damage: 1d3 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
The bullet even misses the cliff this time.

Fort Save (Con Damage): 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (2) + 6 - 1 = 7
Fort Save (Con Damage) RALLY: 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 6 - 1 = 20 - Finally

Know arcana: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
Elektra will shoot twice magic missles
MM: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
MM: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Electra shoots more magical missiles at the creature, obviously hurting it. Monterey seems to have held off the worst of the poison..for the moment.

No further damage this round, but you need two saves to shake it off

Status: bold may post (rally, reroll available this turn)
Urias : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison(fatigued) ; Readied charge (to hit 17; damage 6)
Zax : 24 damage (used rally)
Silgil : (fatigued)
Talan : (used rally)
Dragon thing : 23 damage ; blind 1 (halfway down cliff)
Monterey : 2 point CON damage; Fort DC17 vs poison (1 made) (used rally)
Electra :