The magical teams are a Headband of inspired wisdom +2 and a +1 adamantine battleaxe
After exploring all the alcoves on this end of the exhaust, Caranthir suggests going back upstream. With the strongest current having subsided, it should be possible to reach there.
If you're not sick of this water that is. It takes a DC 15 swim check to move upstream
The party swims back upstream, with Bruce scouting ahead for the door. He opens it with ease, and behind it is another flooded corridor, that leads to four more doors.
The door leads to another basin, just like the one with the summoner-sister. This one contains a nasty looking creature, though, combining the pointiest bits of shark and seal, and the result is hardly cute.
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Thistle
Caranthir
Asuna
Bruce
Fellgrim
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Shar-eal
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Crowelani
As Bruce tries to identify the creature he moves along the edge of the room to get into a better position to strike. He also keeps an eye for any sweet spots to drive his spear into.
Move action to enter the room and another move action to study the target.
The water in the side hallway needs a DC 10 check, the room with the bunyip is not flooded, and has a ledge on which you can walk normally. The water that the bunyip is in is 10ft deep, so requires a swim check again.
Caranthir and Fellgrim waste no time in trying to eliminate the aggressive creature: Caranthir shoots an arrow into its gray skin, after which Fellgrim causes another big wave with a direct hit from his bomb.
Bruce identifies the creature, while Thistle casts a spell while moving out of the water.
Bruce:
It's a Bunyip. a cross between a shark and a seal. It has a bite that causes bleeding, and it goes into a frenzy if it smells blood. [ooc]No special defences
swim:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5 swim:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4
Enora tries to swim forward on her turn, but she seems to be having trouble with the water again.
Asuna has trouble moving in the water, and fails to reach the group in time.
The shark-like creature rushes forward, and lets out a yelping sound before it sinks its teeth into Bruce's leg, causing a deep, bleeding cut. (As in, bleed, the mechanic).
HP 75/75 | AC25 T15 FF20 | Init +3 Perc +22 SPD 30 CMB +9 CMD 25 | F+13 R+15 W+8 | NG Traveller Gnome | Alchemist (Grenadier) 8 Master Chymist 3 | Bomb +12/+7; 4d6+5 (Fire) | sheet
Round 2 Precise Bomb; Precise Shot; Point Blank; Mutagenic: +4 STR +2 AC -2 INT;
Fellgrim tosses his last bomb (8/8) at the creature ...
Bomb:1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 1 = 12 for Fire:2d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1, 4) + 1 + 1 = 7
... using Precise Shot to throw into melee and Precise Bomb to shield his friends from any splash damage. Unfortunately his aim was not as good as his last throw ...
Scatter:1d8 ⇒ 6 (landing 1 square far right) for Splash:4 = 4 damage (Reflex DC 13 for half).
swim:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (18) - 1 = 17
Enora is able to come around this time, but has to spend all of her time getting in position so she can cast spells next round. Finally having some ground beneath her feet she heaves heavily.
While Thistle tries with all his might to get somewhere, he hears a deep boom, the sound of another charge by Fellgrim. Covering the creature in fire, just before Caranthir peppers is with arrows. Enora then emerges from the water column, seeing a heavily wounded shark-like creature perish from a shot in the soft underbelly.
RFX:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Combat over!
A portcullis separates this tank from the next one, the one with the summoner in it.
"I agree whole heartedly. I thought this would be exciting and fun but so far I have had to swim through massive amounts of water and resist the smell of Troglodytes. I am out! Asuna can fill in again and do the rest. I'll go back to throwing goblins in pits thank you."
The party decides to leave that last creature for what it is, A partially flooded hallway leads east from the Reservoir to a set of stairs going up. After 15 feet, they turn into a zigzagging descending staircase for 100 feet or so
The long stairway ends in a small chamber. On the north wall, a panel with two bronze levers—one red and one black—is set chest-high in the wall. To the east, an archway leads to an alcove. Distant ticking echoes through the walls, as if several large clocks were operating simultaneously.
The walls of the alcove are mismatched. Most of the room is finished in masonry blocks, but to the north is a curved wall of bronze. There’s a narrow seam between the bronze wall and the masonry, and the bronze wall seems to be vibrating very faintly
Welcome to level 6! Let me know when you are ready.
Now I just need to get back into the mode of playing a deaf character, after being a little lax with that last level...
Thistle takes a moment to walk around the little room, and inspect the alcove. Once he has had a good look in this new place, he goes back to look at the levers more closely.
In his search, he places his hand on the stone and the bronze walls to feel the vibrations within them, unaware of the sound of ticking that echoes through the halls.
Perception, take 20, will wait for others before we start opening doors and pulling levers:20 + 9 = 29+3 more if check is not hearing related
At 5th level my oracle's curse starts to change, all my perception checks get a +3 bonus as long as it isn't hearing related. Not sure why I wouldn't just add it in, since I auto-fail all hearing related checks anyways. I'll keep posting it like I did above for now. My initiative also gets a bit better since I don't take as much of a penalty as I did in earlier levels.
Caranthir, Fellgrim and Bruce look ready, Thistle and Asuna have signed in. Jelani: are you ready to go? as long as your character is within tier 4-6, you're fine
The levers are not magical, though the investigation of Thistle and Bruce does reveal there is some kind of mechanism behind it, and it may be linked to that strange alcove.
Bruce pulls the lever. He notices it can move into two directions: pushing puts it in an 'up position (it is currently in neutral), while pulling it brings it down. As soon as he puts the red lever in the down position, the alcove seems to shift, rotating, and a opening appears: a corridor opens, which moves around a corner.
A large double door, reinforced with iron bands, seals off the next room. It looks much newer than the dungeon walls. An emblem in the shape of an automation’s head inside interlocking gears is painted on the door.
Thistle nods at Bruce's warning, and hefts his shield and magical, silvered morningstar. A smile creeps onto his face as he runs through the blessings the gods have bestowed upon him. Evil would do well to run...
He nods to Bruce to indicate he is ready to see what is on the other side.
The symbol looks like somebody's personal mark, but not one that Bruce has seen before.
Thistle nods to open the door, A small pool of water in a basin of gold tile lies in the centre of this chamber, and the walls are decorated with tiled patterns, 7 once colorful but now cracked and faded. Four staggered columns support the vaulted ceiling.
A brass statue of a minotaur stands in the middle of the room
Perception, DC 17:
That's actually a real minotaur, just clad in a lot of brass plating.
Thistle sees the monstrosity, and peeks over his shoulder at his monstrous companion.
At least we have one of our own... and our's doesn't smell...
Thistle gauges the distance, and sees that the big man can reach the half cow creature, so he steps in and casts bless to aid his companions, ready to heal if necessary.
Fellgrim adds a bomb to the onslaught, and a heavy blast sends the water in the pond splashing, and the minotaur keeling over. When the smoke clears, the minotaur lies dead on the floor.
Combat over
The minotaur was carrying a greataxe and a magical amulet.
"Well the amulet is magic, but I can't figure out what it does. Wonder what the creature was doing here though, and why it thought wearing brass plates would be beneficial..."
Will start to work out the character page asap so you have a stat line.
Also will fill up known spells and little things like that. Still need to buy some normal adventuring gear.
I didn't pay attention to the fact that we had sorcerer in this group already... Sorry about that! I can re-do this character since he is fresh, maybe a healer in a dungeon crawl is in order... Or a trap finder... I get things updated this weekend
Re-rolled an Healer Oracle. Never played one before, making this one was fun, I am excited about what it will be like. Will be interesting to play a completely deaf character also... I am really looking forward to this dungeon!
I just got my copy of ACG and I am having issues with obtaining the license for it in herolab. Any way I modified a cleric stat block to reflect all the abilities of my warpriest. I thought about making an investigator but I already have one at level 2.
I am going to bring a wizard. There is a chance he wont be avaible in time but then I was planning on playing the wizard pregen but I could as easily do the rogue one if you guys prefer.
I don't know how to make a tile for myself, only because I have never done it before... I would be happy to do it if someone can let me know how its done...
It's actually quite simple (and I've already done if for you).
- Go to insert->image, then select the image you want to upload. The easiest is 'by Url', but you also select an image on your HD
-- First right click on your avatar and click on 'copy image address' (or something similar, depending on your browser),
-- Paste the copied url into the URL box (your image should already start to load)
- Press 'select' (like a boss)
- Resize your image to the right size
The coming three weeks I will be traveling as part of a vacation (will tell where afterwards). Suffice to say my posting rate might slow down a little as I will only have my mobile with me and I thus can't do level up stuff very well. I will stay in motels which often have free wifi so to the best of my ability I will try not to hold people back, but please do not be afraid to gmpc me. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Cheers.
Even if you can post, but can't manipulate the maps, I think if you leave notes the rest of us can help you out, especially if its just moving your piece around. I get the impression from this group that we won't have much of a problem moving things along.
sorry for the sporadic posting. I went camping this weekend and expected to have signal... which I didn't. On my next turn I will move further back into the room so someone else can take a swing at the little beasties :)
This level gives 3xp, which advances you a level. If you're planning to do all levels, you might want to use the slow track at some point, or your character may be too high of a character level to be in the right tier for the dungeon level.
Dungeon level -> PFS Tier
I -> (1-2)
II -> (1-3)
III -> (2-4)
IV -> (3-5) <--You might want to run this one at slow track
V -> (3-5) <--You might want to run this one at slow track
VI -> (4-6)
etc..
Hehe. There's sixteen. I've run this one as a kind of pilot, to see if I liked them (I did). I'll be running more levels, though I'm not guaranteeing that I'll run all of them.
I'm extending an invitation to all players to stay on as long as they like. I'll recruit new players from the boards for to replace anyone who doesn't want to continue, so don't worry if you can't or don't want to go on.
I'll stick around as well. You might want to send a link for the land rush chronicle Kludde since I believe it starts at level 1. Also here is the list of levels and the ones marked with an * are recommended for slow credit.
Level 1: The Tower Ruins 1–2
Level 2: The Cellars 1–3
Level 3: Splinterden 2–4
Level 4: Godhome 3–5*
Level 5: The Drowned Level 3–5*
Level 6: The Clockwork Maze 4–6
Level 7: Shrine of the Awakener 5–7
Level 8: The Circle of Vissk-Thar 6–8
Level 9: The Spire Axis 7–9
Level 10: The Magma Vault 8–10*
Level 11: The Tomb of Yarrix 8–10*
Level 12: The Automaton Forge 9–11*
Level 13: The Pleasure Gardens 9–11*
Level 14: The Throne of Azlant 10–12*
Level 15: Order and Chaos 10–12*
Level 16: The Emerald Root 11–13
I am going to take slow credit for this and the next one Kludde since I started off as level 2.
AC 21, T 11, FF 20; Fort +5, Ref +1, Will +2; CMD 14, Perception +2
Can someone explain how taking slow credit works? Is it each time you level you can choose it and then just use slow advancement for that level or something? How many EXP do you need on slow?
When I used to play PFS before there was no slow credit.
Taking the slow track means you just get half exp for that scenario, and you need a total of 3 to ding. So theoretically you would do 6 scenarios to get to the next level if you did all slow. You can switch back and forth between slow and fast whenever you want
You can choose slow advancement, which gives you half XP, gold and PP/Fame, so you don't level up as as fast. In this case, the chronicle would give you 1.5 XP (in other words, 3 XP after two chronicles), 2 PP and half gold.
XP, PP and fame requirements remain unchanged, just gain less from a chronicle.
I've put the land grab chronicles here. Your actual chronicles will give you instructions on what to do with it.
I've also put up the actual chronicle, but I'd like to emphasise once again: we're not done yet. Once you leave the dungeon or move to the next level, we're finished, but right now you're stuck in a tower with thousands of angry goblins below. One hundred million billion goblins. That many. Really. A go billion.
Let me know if you want to spend PP on land, and I'll add it to the chronicle(s). I get to hack my chronicle generator to make it possible - it's fun.
So hopefully I'm not missing anything, but it seems like we have everything handled up here, and the only place left to go is down? If that is the case, lets go! :)
Looking at the chronicle sheet, it looks like we ding to level 2 as soon as we are done here? Goes to show my inexperience with this stuff so far... I will get the hang of it eventually!
AC 21, T 11, FF 20; Fort +5, Ref +1, Will +2; CMD 14, Perception +2
Thistle Voltare wrote:
So hopefully I'm not missing anything, but it seems like we have everything handled up here, and the only place left to go is down? If that is the case, lets go! :)
Looking at the chronicle sheet, it looks like we ding to level 2 as soon as we are done here? Goes to show my inexperience with this stuff so far... I will get the hang of it eventually!
I believe we treat this as an ended session, and then just level up before continuing to the next "level". Because technically that will be a new session/chronicle. Right DM Kludde?
HP 75/75 | AC25 T15 FF20 | Init +3 Perc +22 SPD 30 CMB +9 CMD 25 | F+13 R+15 W+8 | NG Traveller Gnome | Alchemist (Grenadier) 8 Master Chymist 3 | Bomb +12/+7; 4d6+5 (Fire) | sheet
Fellgrim Cogmaester ... checking in for Shadowkhan and the second level of Emerald Spire as a Gnome Alchemist fresh from basic training (aka 0 XP). Looking forward to the adventure.
I hope you all enjoyed this level. I GM'ed this for a real-life group last tuesday, and got some interesting feedback. I'm curious to hear what you thought about the level.
To clear up all confusion: the first level is finished, and it counts as a complete PFS module session, with 3 xp, and 4 pp. We'll start the next level as soon as player number six checks in.
Next level is The Cellars (Tier 1-3), we continue with
Bruce
Skaarr
Asuna
Thistle
Fellgrim
>PatheticsWretch's PC<
We also wave off Jalik and Amiri: thanks for playing!
