[PFS_CORE_Aerondor] 06-10 The Wounded Wisp 2016B PbP Gameday 5: (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

Gratius stay outside, not wanting anything with his "teammate" able to break in as the owner seems inside the house or continue to harass a mad priestess when she's almost convince to help them and this without clear orders from the hierarchy.

How have I fall so low ?

"Let's head to the front and let our unwary host know we have his mail shall we?"

Untir heaves a deep sigh when the window gets broken. However, he does join Pietro in entering the room. Since the deed is done, might as well make use of it. We can apologise later.

He stands beside the broken window and waits until whoever wishes to enter do so. Untir then lays his hands on the window, uttering the words, "මුළු විය..." again and again, willing the glass to mend itself.

cast mending on the glass until all the damage is repaired.

Untir heaves a deep sigh when the window gets broken. However, he does join Pietro in entering the room. Since the deed is done, might as well make use of it. We can apologise later.

He stands beside the broken window and waits until whoever wishes to enter do so. Untir then lays his hands on the window, uttering the words, "මුළු විය..." again and again, willing the glass to mend itself.

cast mending on the glass until all the damage is repaired.

Good, you're waiting. For a moment there I was worried about the glass and- well, ahem W-A-L-T. ;)

Well, if it was ahem W-A-L-T, it would likely not being *clang* but be *crash*! How have I never seen that movie before?

Carini follows the others in through the broken window, before Untir makes his repair. Slowly making her way through the house, guisarme in hand, she moves to the front door, opening it so the others may enter the house.

Walt pulls out a set of cymbals and clangs them together. "Crash!"

Then he starts looking around.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Zootloot follows the others through the window and into the house. He looks around the room just to make sure no one is there. When Walt crashes his cymbals he jumps. "Walt! My friend. That's one way to give ourselves away!" He quickly scampers to hide behind one of the chairs in the corner, waiting to see who comes through the bedroom door.

I'm not sure that mending works on an item that is actually destroyed. but this is a low level scenario, so I'll be generous

The team slips into the house, repairing the damage as they go. As they start to investigate however there is a sudden puff of brimstone and three large horrible looking beetles appear in the main room.

Status
Pietro 4 damage
Walt
Gratius -
Zoot
Untir]
Beetles
Carini -

"My those things are horrible looking! You'd think a person living in a big house like this would be able to afford some nice dogs!"

Pietro moves forward and takes a mighty two-handed at one of the beetles, aiming for the outfield.

morningstar v green: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18 damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

Puff, it vanishes in a whiff of Brimstone.

Untir circles round until he gets a clear shot at the red beetle and fires a gilltering ray of light at it.

blinding ray: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 vs touch red AC, if hit 1HD blinded 1 rd, otherwise dazzled 1 rd

When the beetles appear Zootloot stifles a little scream but fortunately the larger members of the party jump in to attack. "Let me just sit back here and help out." he says. He pulls out his one-stringed guitar and starts a song.

"Swing the sword
Slice with axe
Bash with hammer
Lots of smacks!

Hold your shield
Block the blows
Don't lose ground
Against your foes.

Inspire courage round 2/7

Still outside, Gratius readies his weapon in case one of the creature come to him.

Ready Attack: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 7 + 1 = 12
Damages: 1d10 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 = 8

just waiting for Walt to post. I'll aim to NPC later today if he hasn't posted by then.

Walt rushes up to the red beetle, looking to crack it's carapace with his hooked hammer.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Daughters birthday party trumped posting sorry

Walt takes a swing, but misses. None of the beasts come out to monster Gratius though he does hear the sounds of battle from within. Battle, and gnomish war cries. He's not too sure which is more scary.
Untir fires a ray, but in his haste it goes wide. A small spider in the corner of the room won't be seeing much for a while though.

The beetle with the yellow carapace tries to bite Carini
smite!: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
It's attack is pathetic. The one with red markings goes for Walt..
smite!: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10
But that one doesn't fare any better.

Status
Pietro 4 damage
Walt
Gratius -
Zoot
Untir
Carini -
Beetles
yellow - smite active vs Carini.
Red - smite used

Pietro jauntily walks around the battle, and opens the front door.

"I'm sorry, but we're really not interested in joining. That, and we are sort of in the middle of something just now." He cheerfully says to the man standing outside.

Pietro finds the front door still locked. Gratius can clearly here the comment through the door though.

Untir continues his focus on the red beetle. He takes a few steps to get a better and fires a yet another glittering ray of light at it, hoping he doesn't hit Walt.

blinding ray, melee: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 3 - 4 = 8 vs touch red AC, if hit 1HD blinded 1 rd, otherwise dazzled 1 rd
Gaarggh!! I think that is 3 misses for 3 attacks in this game so far...

As the small skirmish plays out Zootlook continues his inspiring song. He breaks into an a cappella section of the song and pulls out his shortbow. He quickly targets the beetle by Walt and fires.

shortbow,inspire,melee: 1d20 + 3 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 - 4 = 8

The arrow flies wide missing the beetle and, fortunately, also missing Walt.

Inspire courage round 3/7 -- don't forget the +1 to attack and damage

Carini jumps back when the beetles appear, startled, but immediately swings her guisarme into a striking stance as a beetle snaps at the space she just vacated. (5' step back)

She strikes at the yellow beetle with a wide sweep of her polearm, and keeps her eyes on both beetles in front of her, that she might strike again if given the opportunity.

Guisarme: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Damage: 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (3, 3) + 6 = 12

And the yellow beetle vanishes in a puff of foul smelling brimstone.

Status : Inspire courage +1 to hti and damage
Walt
Gratius -
Beetles
Red - smite used
Pietro 4 damage
Carini -
Zoot
Untir

Walt swings again at the beetle.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

"ARGH!"

Walt continues to miss. Must be a cursed axe he has. Gratius continues to wait for an open door.

The last beetle continues to try and eat Walt.
attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Looks like he tastes good!

Status : Inspire courage +1 to hti and damage
Walt 4 damage
Gratius -
Pietro 4 damage
Carini -
Zoot
Untir
Red Betle - smite used

Untir frustrated that he is still missing, fires yet another bolt of blinding ray at the beetle.

blinding ray, melee: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 3 - 4 = 5 vs touch red AC, if hit 1HD blinded 1 rd, otherwise dazzled 1 rd

Haha!

I was playing a game with my rogue earlier this year. Rolled 23 d20s. Want to guess how many came up double figures? Seven. One of those was a GM star reroll on a stabilize check and another was a contingent action that never came to be used.

"OH FOR CAYDEN'S SAKE! I CAN HARDLY HEAR MYSELF YELL!"

Pietro stomps around the couch and raises his morningstar.

morningstar: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19 damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

While continuing his performance Zootloot takes aim and fires again, hoping for a better shot this time.

shortbow,inspire,melee: 1d20 + 3 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 1 - 4 = 2

The arrow flies up at an angle and sticks into the ceiling. "Hah! What a shot," he says wryly. "Well, practice makes perfect so I'll keep practicing. I guess you guys should just stay out of the way."

Insire courage rounds: 4/7

"OH FOR CAYDEN'S SAKE! I CAN HARDLY HEAR MYSELF YELL!"

Pietro stomps around the couch and raises his morningstar.

My bad. Forgot inspire. +1 atk (20)/+1dam (10).

Gratius stays quiet, waiting for his comrades to do what they were doing.

Delay

Poof. The last of the beetles vanishes in a puff of brimstone. All is quiet once again.

"-YELL! Oops. Sorry. Now what were we doing again?"

Eventually he realizes that they are missing someone, figures out how to open the door from the locked side, or failing that breaks another convenient window and invites Gratius in.

"Everyone okay?"

As soon as the last beetle puffs out of existence Zootloot stops playing his song. He stares at the priest. "You really are loud, aren't you?" he says with a grin. "I thought, earlier, that maybe it was just a temporary thing. But it seems that everything you do is big and loud." Zootloot jumps up on one of the chairs in the room, bouncing up and down on it like a trampoline. "Not that I'm complaining."

There is a keyhole but no key it in on the inside, so to open the door you would need a key, or to break another window.
<smash>

What a clumsy cleric Pietro is.

timing, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 94
However he has the luck of Cayden, and the next door neighbours band practice starts up at just the right time.

"LOUD!?" He makes the word last a sentence. "Hmm? Never really thought about it.... HAHA!"

There is a keyhole but no key it in on the inside, so to open the door you would need a key, or to break another window.

<smash>

What a clumsy cleric Pietro is.

"It was intentional! It was intentional!"

"AH! BAND!" Walt starts to head next door to join the band, then suddenly realizes he was supposed to be helping here. He searches the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

Through gritted teeth, Untir exclaims, "Would you stop breaking the windows? You can open windows from inside!" Exasperated, he goes over to the new broken window and starts repairing it, too, with his magic.

I'm assuming that it is possible to open from inside, but I think that's a reasonable assumption. :)

That sounds reasonable.

The room and furniture is gnome sized. Two doors lead to what you presume are the study and workrooms.

Aside from the faint smell of brimstone that is quickly vanishing, you find nothing.

"Well, I think we can assume that no one is home. I would think that this ruckus would have brought them out if they were." Zootloot stops jumping on one chair and moves to another. "I like that these are all correctly sized." As he's bouncing he casts a spell around the room trying to detect any magic.

"Untir, I'm glad you're here, or we might be leaving the owner with a bad opinion of the Society. As it is, there's no harm yet. I wonder why the owner left?"

She picks up the mail and other papers that have accumulated at the front door, and starts sifting through it, looking for anything that stands out as interesting or relevant to the investigation.

GM, when you said that we find nothing, I assume you're referring to the living room, not the entire house?

Untir takes a deep breath at Carini's compliment (?), not expecting to have joined the Pathfinder Society to be a handy repairman. He turns to the door closest to him, listens through before opening it to see what is beyond. southeastern door

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Well, the papers do appear to be jammed through the mail slot in the door. None are unjammed on the floor inside however.

Zoot detects various magical auras throughout the house, but they appear to be general to the house rather than specific spells. That said there is a residual aura on the carpet as if it once held some type of summoning...
Yes, I mean the living room you didn't find anything, there are still two rooms off the side you have not explored.

Untir hears nothing from behind the southeastern door.

Untir opens the door and searches the room.

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Within the southeastern room is a round table surrounded by chairs.

The chairs launch a viscious attack on the table, benefitting from flanking...

Just kidding, between earthquakes and storms, I need some humour in my life

Fimbrik, well, you assume it is him, a gnome stands next to a bookcase looking at the various volumes.

"Fimbrik?" Untir approaches cautiously. He stares at him going perusing his books, somewhat in confusion. "Didn't you hear the commotion outside? The battle? The broken windows?"

Untir waves his fingers across the room, mutters some arcane words, and opens his eyes to magic in the room.

Cast detect magic.

I'm just relieved that this earthquake wasn't as bad as that one. I love your beautiful country. Glad you're safe! :)

Seismically this one was stronger, but happened at a good time, limiting loss of life

There are magical auras in the room, as it much of the house. The gnome has them too. He ignores you. Must be very short sighted.

When I heard of the earthquake I think of you GM. Glad all is ok for you.

After Pietro break another windows Gratius went inside.

After all the noise you made, it's quite strange that Fimbrik didn't come or react.

Gratius draws his wand of detect magic and uses it to help Untir in his investigation.

UMD DC20: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

Detect magic

When I heard of the earthquake I think of you GM. Glad all is ok for you.

After Pietro break another windows Gratius went inside.

Probably through the door. ;)

After all the noise you made, it's quite strange that Fimbrik didn't come or react.

"Or to the hip-deep amounts of mail outside his door. Look according to this missive he 'may already be a winner'."

knowledge (arcana) to identify aura: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 Continuing my string of bad luck rolls... :)

Suspicious that the gnome is glowing with magic, even if Untir is not able to identify the type, and that he not responding to anything, Untir approaches the gnome and lays his hand on him.

will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18