[PFS CORE] GM Alias 0-06: Black Waters (Inactive)

Game Master Jon A

Seeing the zombie inflict a massive hit on Ranor, Imrana's eyes widen with surprise.

"Hmm...perhaps this zombie is more powerful than I had first anticipated."

Magic Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Kevan slashes at the zombie again with his dagger. He tries to keep cutting away the dead flesh.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

"You call that being fine?" Raven calls out as she forms another ice dagger.

Elemental ray (frost) vs touch: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 3 - 4 = 8
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

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Ranor takes the strike and cracked rib.

I cannot let it reach the others..

Holding a hand to his wound the ribs quickly resets and begins to mend itself.

Lay on Hands Swift action: 1d6 ⇒ 4

He swings his flail once again at the undead abomination.

Flail: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Dmaage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Caelben looks worried as Ranor gets hit but breaths somewhat more easily once he sees Ranor is able to heal himself.

Caelben then takes another stab at the zombie
To hit AC zombie: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
piercing Damage if hit: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Wow, the dice roller doesn't like you guys.

Imrana's magic bolt takes a small chunk of flesh out of the zombie's arm. The rest of the party sends a flurry of attacks at the shambling hulk of a man, but through some twist of fate, none of them land home.

The zombie again attempts to smash the paladin to little pieces.

Morningstar@Ranor, AC20: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

This time, Ranor is able to jump out of the way.

Round 3

Initiative:
1st: Kevan, Caelben
2nd: Zombie
3rd: Imrana, Aloisius, Ranor, Raven

The party is up!

This is harder than I thought. Raven had spent plenty of time practicing her ice darts, but trying to throw them around her allies is proving extremely tricky. I'm gonna run out of water at this rate. She pulls out a smaller amount this time, doubting it'll do much but hoping that if she can figure out how to hit the creature it'll get easier with time.

Ray of frost vs touch: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 3 - 4 = 2
Damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Spell failure (5 or less fails): 1d100 ⇒ 32

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Kevan slashes at the zombie again with his dagger. You can see the frustration on his face using the small blade.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18
Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Not wanting to be this close to the thing, and seeing how ineffective his morningstar is, Aloisius withdraws via the blue arrow to relative safety.

As the gnome runs past, Imrana lowers her wand and begins to cast a spell with her free hand.

"Thank you for moving out of the way, Aloisius! I have a clear shot now."

Disrupt Undead Ranged Touch Attack (point blank shot): 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 1 = 7
Damage (point blank shot): 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Imrana gives a cocked frown.

"By the Lady of Graves...I will hit him next time."

Ranor slams his flail at the creature one more time hoping to end this as he moves towards setting up a flanking position.

Provoke AoO for movement.

Flail: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 2 = 21
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Caelben sees no other option then to continue stabbing at the zombie and hoping for a big hole to appear somewhere on the dead body.

To hit AC zombie: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Piercing damage if hit: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Sorry for the delay. Yesterday got away from me.

As Aloisius makes a hasty retreat out of reach, Imrana shoots a magical ray at the zombie. The ray goes wide, though. Ranor swings at it, landing a solid blow, but it doesn't seem to faze it much. Raven launches another spell, but being unused to the chaos of combat, she misses badly. Kevan slashes again at the beast, taking another small chunk out of its leg. Caelben attempts to stab it with his spear, but just barely misses.

The zombie then takes a swing with its Morningstar at Kevan, but he manages to duck at just the right moment.

Morningstar@Kevan, AC15: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Round 4

Initiative:
1st: Kevan, Caelben
2nd: Zombie
3rd: Imrana, Aloisius, Ranor, Raven

The party is up!

Frustrated, she tries again.

Ray of frost: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 3 - 4 = 0
Damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Wow. Four rolls so far this combat, and nothing in the double digits.

From his position, Aloisius sends another bolt of magic at the abomination, trying to fell it!

Magic Missile!: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 = 8

Imrana breathes deeply, the scent of undead bringing her back towards her time with the Great Nex in his war against Geb's nigh-endless undead armies.

She remembers the countless times that she has fired this spell before, and aims with special care this time.

Disrupt Undead (PBS): 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 3 + 1 = 20
Damage (PBS): 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Kevan ducks the swing from the morningstar and keeps working with his shortblade, hoping the creature will fall soon. Unfortunately, him ducking results in an equally out of place strike and the dagger woefully misses.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Caelben once more tries to stab the moving dead, hoping to get it to stop moving

To hit AC Zombie: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Piercing damage if hit: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Ranor continues to taunt the undead creature to attack him as he swings his flail all about over his head.

Flail; Trip: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 2 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Imrana and Aloisius team up to pummel the zombie into submission with the might of their arcane powers.

Combat is done! Everyone else gets to preserve their resources.

Anything else to do in this room? Or are we ready to move on?

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Kevan kicks the formerly undead corpse. Afterwards, he returns to search the boy's boy and finds a book underneath. He pulls it out with a questioning look on his face and opens it.

Ranor continues down to the southern door and bashes it open with his shield.

"I don't want to be rude..but does someone have some bandages or something..or some skills at treating wounds?...I seem to be bleeding all over the place"

Caelben says as he tries to wipe the blood from the side of his face with a (mostly) clean cloth as he follows after Ranor, not wanting to leave Ranor by himself to deal with what ever is behind the door he just opened.

"Oh, let me have a look-see! Yes, best not to leave blood behind. I imagine that's what got that thing started. Never to careful with necrotic magicks about!"

UMD: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15
UMD: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7 healing

"There! All better."

"Thank you"

Caelben says with a nod to Aloisius as he packs the now bloody cloth back where he got it from

Raven shudders as the zombie goes down. "I really hope there aren't more of those around." She raises her arms in an upward pulling motion and some of her spent water floats upward. She returns it to her waterskin, salvaging what she can.

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"Actually, now that Raven mentions the possibility of more of those zombies being around here.....does anyone mind if we try to go back up for a few minutes so I can ask the grounds keeper if I can borrow his axe for a while? Someone mentioned we needed slashing weapons just now..and just in case we run into another one of those zombies..I'd rather be a bit better prepared next time"

The book does not register as magical. You quickly scan through it. It's a journal that used to belong to one Grishan Maldris, the youngest brother of Colson Maldris. The journal is filled with gossip about many of his fellow classmates and their families. Apparently, Grishan thought himself something of a spy, and was feeding this information to the former head of the Liberty's Edge faction.

Now that combat is over, Deris comes into the room with you. "I would be happy to lend you my axe. Unfortunately, I left it at home today. All I have with me is a saw."

The group moves carefully through the southern door, down a long corridor, and into another room. Water drips from the double-vaulted ceiling and trickles down the walls to pool on the floor. Bone shards of a hundred skulls litter the room like shattered seashells. Wide stairs climb to the west. Narrow stairs dive to the north. On the south wall, an open doorway gapes, a carved relief depicting a massive battle filling the archway over the door. The rest of the walls are filled floor to ceiling with nooks that house ancient, but drenched, skeletal remains. In the center of the room sit twelve school children in a circle on the floor. One child seems to be silently telling a story, her arms moving rapidly as she makes scary faces.

Suddenly, Deris bursts out: “See! Alive! I knew it! That's her, my daughter! That's Cassiel!” He then rushes over to the ghostly image and sits down on the floor next to her. He starts talking to her, telling her how much he has missed her. But the image pays no attention to him, continuing on with its story as if nothing has happened.

Please move yourselves into the next room.

"A lone mindless undead is a rare thing. They tend to run in packs together."

Imrana stops immediately at Deris's outburst. She shakes her head, her eyes filled with sadness.

She speaks quietly, so that only her nearby companions would hear.

"It is so terrible to see someone so hurt that he cannot see reality anymore."

Imrana will follow at the back of the others. I'll wait to move her until I see how everyone else places themselves.

Yes. I was not even thinking straight. I will tend to your wounds. The undead in this area got me worked up into a frenzy to cleanse this unnatural aura.

Ranor grabs his wand and heals anyone else who requires it.

Go ahead and roll for your wounds. Just let me know how many charges to tick off.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

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Ranor jumps at the sound of Deris' outburst. He moves into the room to investigate the children. Looking about the room he sets his mind to looking for evil among the children in the circle.

Detect Evil

Caelben thanks Deris

"I don't think a saw is what we want when we fight zombies...but we'll keep it in mind"

Caelben then follows the others into the next room pointing out the side corridor we pass while we move towards the bigger room.

"Don't we need to check that room out first? We might end up with some zombie(s) at our back if we just keep going forward...oh, the kids are here?...Well then we might as well take them with us and head back"

Kevan comes into the next room, seeing the ghost. He carefully tries to address the spirit, wondering it will respond better to him. "Cassiel? Is that you? Can you hear us?"

Raven gulps. Not ghosts again... Swallowing her fear, she whispers to the others. "I'm not sure they can hear us. Can ghosts hear and see normal people?"

Aloisius stays back, keeping an eye on the passage to the other room just to be safe. "Ya know, it might be a bit more intriguing if we could hear the story, too."

You do a quick sweep of the side room, but there is nothing of interest in there.

Kevan talks to the ghost, but it does not respond in any way. It just continues on telling its story to the others, but in a completely silent manner.

Kevan, Ranor, and Caelben suddenly hear scrabbling sounds coming from the stairway to the north.

Kevan points to the stairs to the north with his spear. "Something is up there." He moves to the stairway to look up.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

As Kevan peers down the stairway, he can just barely make out three humanoid shapes rushing up the stairs towards the group.

You have one round to make preparations.

"Something is coming! Three figures!" Anticipating more undead, Kevan casts a blessing of Cayden Cailean on everyone. He allows Caelben to bottle up the stairway with his spear if he wants.

Cast Bless. +1 to hit for everyone.

"More of the undead?"

Imrana rushes up to Kevan then points her wand in the direction he indicated as she tries to catch of glimpse of what is coming.

Ranor prepares his shield and flail as the three creatures descend. He places himself in the way to block the creatures from reaching anyone else.

Full defensive stance at the stairs. +4 AC for 24 AC

Caleben takes up the spot behind Ranor, aiming his spear in a such a way to take care of anyone (or anything) that happens to end up in front of Ranor while bracing the end of it firmly down

Readied attack: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 4 + 1 = 25
To confirm: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 4 + 1 = 23
Piercing Damage if hit: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Extra piercing damage if comfirmed: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (8, 7) + 8 = 23

Long spear has the brace property, so in case what ever is comming down the hallway is charging, it deals double damage

"I've got your back"

Making sure she has enough to do the job, Raven floats a single dart's worth of water from her waterskin and holds it in midair, ready to launch it forward. Since she's no longer at all sure about her aim, as before she decides to try and conserve water.

Readying a ray of frost.

As everyone moves into position, Ranor spots what is making the noise. Three humanoid creatures with long, sharp teeth, and pallid flesh stretched tightly over their starved frames come racing up the stairway.

Initiative:
Aloisius: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
Imrana: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Kevan: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Ranor: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Raven: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Caelben: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Bad Guys: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Kevan casts a blessing on the party, while Ranor moves in to position to bottle up the stairway and defend the rest of the group. Caelben backs him up with his spear. As the creatures rush headlong at the party, the lead individual impales itself on Caelben's spear, running several steps, driving the shaft deeper into its body, before it collapses into a heap at Ranor's feet.

Round 1
1st: Kevan, Ranor, Raven, Caelben, Aloisius, Imrana
2nd: Bad Guys

Bold is up!

Aloisius does not want to get into the midst of these ghosts, but he sees no other choice as he moves into the room and magic missiles the lead creeper!

Magic Missile!: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 = 8

Raven lets her ice bolt fly.

Targeting the same one as Aloisius.
Ray of frost vs flat-footed touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

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Knowledge (religion): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

"Those are ghouls! Be careful not to let them touch you, as they paralyze and inflict disease upon you with their claws and bite!"

Without a clear shot devoid of cover, Imrana goes to her wand, targetting the closest ghoul.

Magic Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Aloisius, Raven, and Imrana each launch their own unique bolt of magical energy at the ghoul, and all three hit, felling the creature is a blast of mystic power.

The remaining ghoul launches itself at Ranor. But he is able to fend off the undead being quite handily.

He can't hit on a full defense from Ranor, so I won't even roll.

Round 2
1st: Kevan, Ranor, Raven, Caelben, Aloisius, Imrana
2nd: Bad Guys

Party is up!

Kevan comes up to grant Ranor a boon from the Accidental God. "Cayden Cailean blesses you with mighty strength!"

Strength Surge on Ranor. +1 to rolls modified by Strength (attacks, skills, CMB, etc.)

He can't hit on a full defense from Ranor, so I won't even roll.

You can always roll a nat 20. A 20 will hit no matter what my AC is.

Slightly dropping his defense Ranor swings his flail at the lead ghoul.

Fighting Defensively Flail: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 1 - 4 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

Fight Defensively -4 Att +2 AC; Current AC 22