[PFS/DMK/EMS] The Emerald Spire Superdungeon

Game Master Kludde

Batty's spectral blade follows the demon, continuing to attack.

Melee: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Force damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

The half elf moves into the room after it, casting a daylight spell as he goes.

Take 5 damage off the demon. The spiritual weapon does not get a second attack on the first round it is summoned.

Shardra shrugs her shoulders as the creature ducks back into the room. Worried about her friends following in, she focuses her energy enough to call off the sickening entanglement spell. Std Action

She then moves into the room to give another target to the evil creature, hoping to overwhelm him with numbers.

"Stop running you piece of weak prey!"

hammertime: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
dmg: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (3, 5) + 8 = 16

Round 5 Haste; Bless; Power Attack; HP 51/60
Swift Action - Heal (Fervor 2/6): 2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4 HP 55/60
Oloch dances around his party members to avoid the AoO and steps in to swing his great sword ...
Greatsword +2: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 12 + 1 = 16 for Slashing: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (14) + 17 = 31

Garox smacks the fiend over the head, while Oloch heads in to finish off the demon.

Combat over!

The prisoner is still shackled to the back of the room. DDV 25 to open manacles

"Rather underwhelming...."
take 10?

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Enora walks into the room her companions have cleared.

"Well, that was...something. And who do we have here?" she asks as she looks at the prisoner.

Is he/she/it conscious?

Help me, the shackled person, an elf, mutters. Weakened and pale, he is fully conscious.

Shardra approaches the elf.

"Look past my race, for I know we don't always agree with each other. I am Shardra, a pathfinder. Please tell me who you are, and know that we are here to help."

The dwarf reaches down, ready to offer healing to the battered elf.

The name is Caldron. I am an outrider for the Shin’Rakorath. It means ‘Lantern Bearer’ in the tongue of my people. We make it our mission to keep the night safe from things like these creatures.

These creatures managed to take me by surprise while I was on patrol. I would call on my comrades to end this infestation, but I suspect they would not arrive soon enough to eradicate the creatures as they slither back into the darkness below.

"Then to succeed in our cause, it seems we can help you with yours. What other creatures hide in these walls? We are here to learn and explore. If helping you allows us to do the things we came to do, then you can count on us. Do you require healing? I can offer some."

"What can we do about getting him out of these chains?" Enora asks her companions.

Garox can handle it with a take 10

"As easy as this little one." Garox says and uses his tools to release the chains in a short period.

The creatures within these walls are foul—worse than the demons that they worship. Their leader has stolen important documents from this ruin. No matter your own motives—I will not assume that you are the sort to return the texts to Kyonin— anything is better than allowing those creatures to keep the documents

I would dearly love to take my revenge in person, but those creatures took care to remove a few choice fingers; I cannot fight effectively without them, but you are free to use any of my equipment that they might have been stolen. Take it as reward for my rescue. The creatures have put it there, in that recess behind the altar.

While the recess is very much where the elf points it out to be, it contains only money: a pouch containing ten Druman trade bars, 12 turquoise gems, and several thousand silver coins, but no sign of the elf's equipment.

"What equipment did you carry? There is nothing here elf."

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Enora examines the captive elf to see how many of his fingers were cut off.

Shardra casts detect magic to scan the room just to see if the gear is hidden.

"It is possible if your equipment was powerful enough, they have taken it to use themselves. Where are the rest of these evil creatures? We must not waste any time if we are to be sure we can catch them and cleanse this place."

"And I thank you, Caldron, for your generosity. We seek to learn and explore, as well as cooperate. Do not think that the treasures you seek to protect will be raped of their value. In fact, there may be much that our organizations could gain from an alliance. But that is talk for another time."

Shardra begins to move to the other door to see what evil hides within.

Unless anyone has anything specific left, or there is other gear to find, we should be good to move to the next room.

The foul monsters must have taken it. My bow, my mail, my adventuring equipment. I will have to make my way to the surface without them.

Shardra's detection brings up little more - the gear is not here.

The final room on this level is also circular. Wooden bookshelves line nearly every inch of the walls in this room, creating an octagonal library stocked with bound volumes of all sizes. Despite the slightly damp conditions elsewhere in the basement, the air in this room is dry, and the shelves and books are all in unbelievably good condition. A small passage in the north end of the room opens into a larger room beyond, and an excavated tunnel descends sharply to the south.

The tunnels open into a small natural cave that hosts a colorful riot of fungi. A narrow path winds from north to south between mushrooms four feet tall with violet caps as large as shields. A jagged opening in the rocky southern wall reveals a tunnel that leads down into pitch blackness.

Some of the violet capped mushrooms down seem as immobile as they should be...

It's always 4d20 somewhere

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Batty
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Shroom
Shroom
Shroom
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Gorax
Shardra
Jelani
Oloch
Enora
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It's always 4d20 somewhere

Ha! well played.

"Cut them down boys! We don't have time for these games."

Shardra turns and winks at the arcanist. "Or burn them, if thats the way a lady prefers to play."

"Well lets go see what kind of horrible thing these mushrooms do." Batty says before stepping up to one of the fungi and swinging his blade.

Melee/PA: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24
Damage: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (1, 1) + 8 + 6 = 16

Batty moves up and swings his blade at the violet capped mushroom. The mushroom immediately releases a cloud of noxious spores at batty (DC 15 Fort save)

The next mushroom walk up to Oloch, and attacks right a away with a fungal claw, scraping at his armor

[dice=Claw, Oloch]1d20+6;/dice]

The last one moves up to Shardra and cover the group - all except for Batty and Garox - in a cloud of spores as well. (DC 15 Fort save)

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Gorax
Shardra
Jelani
Oloch
Enora
Batty
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Shroom - Purple (24)
Shroom - Blue
Shroom - Green
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Garox charges forwards and rolls around one of the mushrooms to strike it from behind.
acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18
attack: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 10 + 2 = 20
non-lethal dmg: 2d6 + 8 + 1d6 + 4d6 + 8 ⇒ (4, 4) + 8 + (1) + (4, 2, 3, 4) + 8 = 38
free intimidate: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
swift attack if initimidated: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 10 + 2 = 23
non-lethal dmg: 2d6 + 8 + 1d6 + 4d6 + 8 ⇒ (3, 4) + 8 + (5) + (5, 6, 4, 4) + 8 = 47

If second hit hits the creature is also sickened, after both strikes Garox gains +8 dodge. Apparently plants are still vulnerable to nonlethal dmg... Also from now on, Garox is sneaking before we enter combat, taking 10 to make it easy for 26. If it works out he gets some more dmg then ^^.

Round 1 Power Attack Fortitude DC15: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Oloch swings at blue ...
Greatsword: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19 for Slashing: 2d6 + 17 ⇒ (6, 6) + 17 = 29

Fort: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25

Batty sneezes, "yeah was kind of expecting that." He says as he continues his attack on the same fungus.

Melee+PA: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18
Damage: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 2) + 8 + 6 = 21

Melee+PA: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
damage: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (2, 1) + 8 + 6 = 17

Fort Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 +3 vs poison, +5 vs spells or spell like abilities

The shaman waves her hands to clear the cloud from her vision, no phased by the spores in the least.

Know (Nature) with monstrous insight: 1d20 + 10 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 7 = 29 If this ends up being know: dungeoneering then just ignore that...

Shardra shuffles through the flip cards in her mind, trying to recall details about these plants, and does her best to stay out of the warrior's way.

Enora again casts a spell to quicken the speed of her companions. Haste!!!

"Ah...choo!"

fort save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

knowledge (nature or dungeoneering): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

If Garox moves through the spores, he needs to save as well

Gary simply knocks down the middle mushroom. Oloch chops at the other one, giving it a deep cut, while Batty takes care of the last one.

Enora casts a haste spell, while Shardra waits for Jelani to finish the plant off.

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Gorax
Shardra
Jelani
Oloch
Enora
Batty
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Shroom - Green (29)
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"Did anyone bring butter?" Enora asks.

"But be careful! These can cause disease that makes you susceptible to domination!"

fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Garox, noticing the cloud of spores before he enters the room, wisely holds his breath.

Jelani steps up to the closest fungus and attacks it with his hammer.

Chain Breaker Power Attack: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 271d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21Damage: 2d6 + 19 ⇒ (5, 2) + 19 = 262d6 + 19 ⇒ (6, 3) + 19 = 28

As expected, Jelani's powerful attacks leave little to be desired. He smashed the last mushroom to a pulp.

Combat over

There are some obvious tracks here that lead deeper into the cave

Survival: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24 So close
"Tracks head that way ..."

Shardra takes Oloch's cue, and begins to look at the tracks, studying them closely.

Survival, take 10: 10 + 15 = 25

"Good eye Oloch. Look here, there is a second set. We should follow these instead of the main ones. I suspect the main ones are a ruse to lead us into an ambush. Quietly, we must press our advantage of stealth and surprise. If we are able to get the drop on our enemies, I can cast haste on all of us like Enora did, and press our advantage even more."

Jelani nods and moves after the others as quietly as he can.

Take 10 on stealth for a 14.

Enora looks at the floor of the cave, still not seeing any tracks at all.

"Yeah...good eyes, people. I see them, for sure..."

"Good find, I'll scout a wee bit ahead, don't make too much noise." Garox says and melds into the shadows.
take 10 for 26

Oloch follows well behind Garox ... as quietly as he can manage ...
Stealth: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (16) - 4 = 12

The air grows subtly cooler and dryer as the tunnel opens into a wide cavern split through the center by a deep chasm. Air wafts up from the chasm, circulating throughout the chamber and to the chamber roof twenty feet above.

Travelling through the least used part of the tunnels, the party ends up near a drow woman, that cringes at the sight of Shardra's light.

Ou te antre nan kay la nan Shax, mèt nan doulè. Isit la, ou pral jwenn sèlman lanmò ou, apre yo fin gwo soufrans.

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Oloch
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Inexora
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Batty
Enora
Shardra
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What's hiding in the darkness?
What's lurking out there?
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Jelani
Gorax
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Blech init

"Why do they always talk so much!?"
Round 1 Pearl of Power; Casting Bless
Oloch uses his 'Pearl of Power' to 'Bless' the party prior to combat ...

Seems my post never came through :(

Oloch casts a blessing, but the drow woman casts something different altogether: a shroud of darkness that fills the room. Even Shardra light does nothing in the deep darkness.

Deeper darknes. Your light source needs to be spell lvl 4 or higher to work

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Batty
Enora
Shardra
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What's hiding in the darkness?
What's lurking out there?
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Jelani
Gorax
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Oloch
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Inexora
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This darkness is going to be a problem...

Shardra chants and mumbles before yelling, "Haste!" infusing all of her companions with a sense of urgency, even if they don't quite know where to go yet.

Shardra, fortunately, can see her companions, and infuses them with haste.

Darkvision can see up to your sight range. Those who can't see need to roll perception to find the woman

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Batty
Enora
Shardra
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What's hiding in the darkness?
What's lurking out there?
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Jelani
Gorax
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Oloch
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Inexora
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Batty takes a moment to cast blessing of fervor on the group.

Pick one of these options each round. It does not stack with haste however so no 3 attacks per round.
•Increase its speed by 30 feet.
•Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
•Make one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
•Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
•Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.

Batty will take the +2 to attack, dodge and reflex this round.

Deeper darkness. Your light source needs to be spell lvl 4 or higher to work

Just so I am clear on what to do next ... Deeper Darkness is a level 3 spell so Daylight, also a level 3 spell, can be used to counter/dispel it correct?

As someone with a PhD in physics and over a dozen publications on electrodynamics (i.e. light), I can safely say that the light/darkness rules are overly complicated. Referencing these rules (link), I'd say a daylight spell simply brings the cave back to ambient light conditions. Pitch black, that is, unless someone lights a torch or some other nonmagical light source.

As someone with a PhD in physics and over a dozen publications on electrodynamics (i.e. light), I can safely say that the light/darkness rules are overly complicated. Referencing these rules (link), I'd say a daylight spell simply brings the cave back to ambient light conditions. Pitch black, that is, unless someone lights a torch or some other nonmagical light source.

This is my favorite ruling ever.

Exactly what I was hoping for :-)

Let's give you the benefit of doubt and assume you still know where everybody was

In the pitch black darkness, Batty manages to bless his party members.

Enora is up!

So just to be clear about that ruling: Is anyone has daylight active (I believe Shardra has), then the cave is at 'prevailing light conditions', which means pitch black (not even low light), unless somebody light a torch or uses some other non-magical means of creating ambient light.

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Batty
Enora
Shardra
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What's hiding in the darkness?
What's lurking out there?
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Jelani
Gorax
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Oloch
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Inexora
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Yeah...can't see. So don't have much to contribute here.