[PFS/DMK] 5-08 The confirmation Table 1 (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

Baru throws another arcane bolt.

ranged touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22

damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

The arcane bolt smashes home, and leave the stench of burned, rotten flesh as the final zombie collapses.

Combat over

The fallen dhampir has a note on his body, which seems to be an excerpt from his personal journal: I have started the creation of my own army. These fish men make excellent soldiers, once they've been subverted.

The body also contains two pieces of equipment of note: a very nice-looking longsword and a set of bracers.

DC 18 spell craft each (+detect magic) to identify

"Nice ... back to the basics there ... "

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 17

"And THAT is how we should handle our opposition. Feel free to include that in each of your reports. hmmmm... what's this? These items seem interesting..."

Baru cast detect magic ending with his index finger pointing at the longsword.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Baru cast detect magic ending with his index finger pointing at the bracers.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

Well that was...unpleasant to say the least. At least we are all still alive.

perception, spellcraft longsword: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 41d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19 Argh.

Rod - don't forget bit of luck on your perception check!

Actually, I'm gonna take the opportunity to aid Aeris in HIS perception check, since a +2 should boost it over. It's gotta be better than 10, right?

Perception Aid - Aeris: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Bit of Luck Reroll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Rod pants as he puts away his scythe, before glancing over the area. "So... that's what's been going on here. Well... looks like he's been done in by his own ambition. Fitting, I guess..." Rod's eyes are drawn by Aeris's gaze as he checks the poor half-angel for more grievous injuries. Initially, he notices nothing off or strange, but... something compels him to take another glance.

Rod double-takes at the wall, and something seems... different. It's dark for Rod, but maybe Aeris saw something he didn't. "Say, Aeris... can you see in the dark? Something seems... odd over there. Or is that just my eyes playing tricks on me?"

Aeris finds the concealed passage...

Depravity will recover her scimitar.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

In her raspy voice: "You okay Aeris? Sorry for the rough drag"

Aeris makes his way down the passage toward the room where the dhampir lies, moving carefully across the patch of greased floor to collect his bow. As he picks it up, he says, "I'm fine, Depravity, and I owe you one. I guess I was thinking we'd all move up and fight them, and suddenly I was standing there facing three zombies with a line of real fighters well behind me. Anyway, I appreciate you dragging me out of there and healing me."

He turns to look around the chamber a bit and says, "Hey, Rod, what's that behind you? Do you see it too, Depravity? It looks like it's just a little cleft in the rock, but there's a passageway..."

He looks more closely at it and says, "Yep, there's a passage here. Someone else want to go first this time? Rod, Ba'al?"

As the adventurers move to the passageway, the begin to hear faint, muffled sound of combat. Somewhat later, they hear a familiar voice half-shouting, half-reciting: As the legendary Gregaro Voth successfully battled the wild beasts in the deepest reaches of the Mwangi Expanse, so shall I defeat you, foul servant of Lamashtu!

The passage turns into a maze of tunnel, tight spaces, winding passages up and down, left and right. Janira's words are now sufficiently audible, and she's clearly fighting for her life. She keeps shouting encouragement for herself, which is clearly improving the mood of the adventurers as well.

Can I have some sort of marching order through these tunnels?

Rod will go ahead and take point. Having my flail and a torch at the ready as we go.

Rod leads the way cautiously through the darkened cave tunnel, before perking up at the sound of Janira shouting bravely, in spite of her dangerous situation. "Janira! C'mon, she sounds like she's in trouble!"

As he pressed ahead swiftly, the notion that it might be that minotaur from early creeped into the back of his mind. And as the only human of the group, he likely at the most right to be worried about facing it. But that didn't trouble him; he couldn't let it. He was a Pathfinder now, and bravery was part and parcel with the membership! "Be ready! If it's that minotaur from earlier, we're going to have one heckuva battle on our hands!"

"Let's not get lost, or trapped in this maze! Proceed with caution!"
perception: 1d20 ⇒ 17

place me where've you want! I am on an ipad, so no map control.

Buoyed by Janira's enthusiasm, even in the face of such a fearsome foe as a minotaur, Aeris joins the group in exploring the labyrinth of narrow tunnels. He keeps an eye out for any surprises, and stays well to the rear of the group, in case any more zombies decide to smash him.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Baru is curious if the longsword or bracers he studied produced any results, as to their magical properties. Baru follows the team down the tunnel.

@Baru: The bracers are Bracers of protection +1. The longsword is at least masterwork, and is enchanted, but other than that there is little that Baru gleams.

Suddenly, upon reaching a larger open spot, the walls seem to come alive. Upon closer inspection, two giant amoebas are stirring - having found the adventurers as prey.

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Rod
Aeris
Depravity
Jessique
Baru
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Amoebas
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Ba'al
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Rod skidded to a halt as the walls drip with amoebas, one of which slimes right up in front of him. Snarled, he reared back his flail and attempted to splatter it right down the middle, hoping to smash it back all over the walls it came from.

Flail Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Aeris looks down the line of his companions, at the amoeba just past Rod. He gauges the distance, draws back, and hopes to avoid hitting any Pathfinders as he looses an arrow.

Shortbow, PBS, in melee, soft cover: 1d20 + 5 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 5 - 4 - 4 = 8
Shortbow damage,PBS: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Depravity moves around the corner, putting herself in harm's way between the Amoebas before charging her weapon with power as she strikes down at the wounded Amoeba with a two handed blow from her scimitar.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 I think it has cover from here as well.
Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

With all of her allies in the way, she waits for an opening to appear.

delay

Just to save some time and a couple back and forth postings. Ba'al is going to try to remember what he knows about these things on his turn, so, after they go maybe you can tell us some things (for use on Ba'al's turn.

knowledge Dungeon: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Special Defenses
Special Attacks
Immunities I guess (if not in defenses)

While Ba'al stands in awe of the amoeba - and tries to remember what he knows - Rod, Aeris and Depravity make short work of the first of them: three mighty attacks later, the cytoplasm of the enormous eukaryote is splattered all over the cave wall.

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Rod
Aeris
Depravity
Baru
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Amoebas
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Jessique
Ba'al
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Baru will toss an acid splash toward the gel at the end of the adventurer conga line

acid splash: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 ranged touch

damage: 1d3 ⇒ 1

spectacular!

With one of the amoebas already gone, Baru engulfs the other one with acid. Even though his shot is somewhat poor, the amoeba is large enough to be hit by the splash.

The remaining amoeba moves towards Depravity, trying to engulf her and dissolve her. Luckily for Depravity, the thing is slow.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
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Jessique
Ba'al
Rod
Aeris
Depravity
Baru
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Amoeba - Dead
Amoeba (1)
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Rod growled as he leaped forward to attack the other slimeball, snarling. "As a gentleman, I do not like it when something threatens a lady. And I already have another in urgent need of aid!" he snarls, bringing back his flail and swinging it down at the amoeba. "So I won't be tolerating you attacking another!"

I also totally forgot to add Janira's Inspire Courage bonus from earlier... not that it seems to matter.

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

And another mediocre combat roll... maybe I should try the mutton again?

Baru's results from his last acid splash inspired his faith is the use of this cantrip, he tries the same with the other amoeba.

acid splash: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 ranged touch

damage: 1d3 ⇒ 2

If there's room Ba'al steps in and clobbers it with his Flail ...

Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 1 = 8
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Rod flails the gooey creature, while another acid splash slams in on the single-celled organism. Ba'al finally turns up the heat and splatters the cell across the cave wall.

Combat over

Janira sounds really close, and increasingly desperate.

Depravity will cause her scimitar to erupt into flames as she charges after Janira.

Ba'al proceeds after Depravity, but with a bit more caution given the oozes popping off the walls, perception: 1d20 ⇒ 8 twirling his flail to get the goo off.

Aeris joins his companions in rushing toward the scene of Janira's fight, taking a moment to call upon Calistria to guide them in taking on the minotaur.

Cast bless while we're all still close together.

"Running is so primitive. I need to look into less strenuous methods of travel.

Baru picks up the pace in order to keep up with his allies.

Towards the end of the tunnel, a light can be seen, as the sounds of battle become clearer and clearer.

The light of the surface world above provides a welcome reprieve from the blue and green fungus of the caverns below, and light illuminates a stream whose water is hastened by runoff from a recent storm further up the mountains. A ledge to the west rises up to the nearby forest canopy.

The full moon casts a dim light over the grove. There, in the distance, Janira is battling that same minotaur of earlier. The axe the beast is holding is clearly damaged - it must've been the loud crackling you heard earlier. Janira still sounds brave, but is clearly in trouble.

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Baru
Ba'al
Aeris
Depravity
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Janira
Minotaur
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Rod
Jessique
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Depravity will use alter self to take on half-orcish features and move 25ft towards the bridge with her flaming scimitar drawn.

Ba'al alters self into a gillman (+2 Str, Swim) like they saw earlier and runs straight towards the battle.

30' as straight a line as possible to the battle ...

Alter self 9/10 left.

Aeris hustles out of the cavern mouth and towards the battle across the stream, calling on Calistria's judgment to aid him in saving Janira from the minotaur. As he moves, he pauses and looses an arrow at the minotaur.

Move action toward stream, swift action to activate judgment of Justice for +1 to attacks, shoot.

Shortbow, judgment, bless, in melee: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 1 + 1 - 4 = 9
Shortbow damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Ba'al: I just noticed you've got HP in your header twice, once at 13 and once at 12.

Thanks ... the 12 is for after a bad night at the brew pub. Should be 13, removed the 12!

Baru moves toward the bridge and casts sleep on the minotaur, DC 15 Will

"That big guy looks awefully tired, let's see how he handles THIS!"

Ba'al and Depravity, each in a slightly altered form, hurry towards the stream while Aeris does the same and wildly fires an arrow.

Baru's spell hits the minotaur, but the spell seems to have little effect. Baru intuitively knows the creature is too bulky, too strong of build to be affected. As in, too many HD.

Janira takes a step back and tries to disarm the minotaur with her whip, but the whip doesn't even connect.

Attack, disarm: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

The large bull-headed creature make a mooing sound, and it steps up, swipes his blade...

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

...and comes awfully close to bringing Janira to the ground. Frustrated, it lower its horn and tries to gore the halfling, and again misses, only to follow up with a solid hit from a second axe swipe.

Gore: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 212d6 + 4 ⇒ (3, 1) + 4 = 8

Janira goes down, and the minotaur's attention shifts to the advancing adventurers.

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Rod
Jessique
Baru
Ba'al
Aeris
Depravity
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Janira - Down
Minotaur (7)
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Aeris moves to stand on the stream bank, a bit closer to the minotaur so his aim is better, and looses another arrow at it.

Move action to get within 30' of minotaur on north side of stream, shoot at him!

Shortbow, PBS, judgment, bless: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 17
Shortbow damage, PBS: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Remember +1 from bless, everyone!

Depravity draws one of her sharpened chakrams and charges it with magical power before before throwing it at the minotaur.

Attack - range+bless: 1d20 + 2 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 2 - 2 + 1 = 20
Damage: 1d8 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 9

If possible Depravity will also 5ft step closer.

Aeris' arrow hits the minotaur in the shank, while Depravity's chakram opens up a gash in the minotaur's torso

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Rod
Jessique
Baru
Ba'al
Aeris
Depravity
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Janira - Down
Minotaur (23)
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Jessique will move next to Ba'al (diagonal from him to be in line with him and Depravity), and fire a crossbow bolt at the beast.

crossbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 81d8 ⇒ 2

We better get some fighters up front charging the minotaur, or Aeris is going to lead the way once again - into unconsciousness.

Baru moves to the bridge, then half speed for a 2nd move across.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Ba'al will move as far as he can in one 30' move, hopefully his Gillman swim skills allow him across. Regardless of which side he ends up on he will ready an action to hit the minotaur if it gets within reach.

heavy flail + bless + altered self: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 23
damage/B: 1d10 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 1 = 10

Rod saw red as the minotaur knocked Janira to the ground. Even if you were a big hulking monster, you never, EVER, hit a defenseless lady! Flail... well, flailing wildly at his side, Rod shouted at the beast as he took off. "Hey, you big ugly cow! How about fighting a REAL warrior!? When I'm done with you, I'm gonna spit roast you on an open fire and make a feast out of your ugly carcass!" he taunted, hoping to draw the beast's attention to him. He hoped the ploy would work, because he had the partial concepts of a semi-coherent plan forming in his head... and he needed the minotaur's attention to make it possibly work.

Without the benefit of magical powers or bloodlines or any of that fancy stuff, Rod would have to resort to fighting the minotaur the way he tried to face every encounter; smartly. He checked his belt for the tanglefoot bag... good, still there. Now, to make the minotaur madder than hell.

Taking two move actions to move 60' and get as close to the log over the river as possible.

The minotaur snorts, and looks at the taunting human fighter. In a flash, rods sees only the horns and the bloodshot eyes of the creatures, racing towards him. He doesn't stand a chance for dodging and is lifted on the horn, thrown violently on the ground.

Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 242d6 + 6 ⇒ (3, 1) + 6 = 10

On the ground-throwing for description only, Rod is standing on his feet. 10 damage, though...

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Rod
Jessique
Baru
Ba'al
Aeris
Depravity
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Janira - Down
Minotaur (23)
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Aeris launches another arrow at the minotaur!

Shortbow, PBS, judgment, bless: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 15 -4 more if in melee, not sure based on the map
Shortbow damage, PBS: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Great post, Rod!