[PFS/DMK/YSK] 6-15 The overflow archives (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

Quick question: the scale indicator on the lower left corner of the map seems to indicate 1 square = 5 feet, but we're all sized such that it's 1 square = 10 feet...which is right?

Iskim rushes forward, drawing his greatsword and readying an attack against the bird.

Move action: As indicated on map

Although the adventurers weren't able to affect it, as the bird lands on top on the bookcase, it falls apart into rotting pieces, as if eaten from within. Bit and chunks of putrid flesh drop into the water. The little worm, however, remains in motion, and curiously bites at Skarn

Bite, Skarn: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 231d3 ⇒ 3

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Rasamoro
Skarn
Scarlet
Adrianna
Iskim
Bones
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Worm
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Scarlet drops down into the water behind the worm - she claws at it with her well manicured nails...

Flanking/Sneak attack
Attack 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 2 = 17
Damage 1d4 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + (6) = 10

Rarr kitty

Adrianna jumps to the next bookshelf and stabs down at the worm with a javelin.
Stab!: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 Would she get a Flanking bonus?
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Bones climbs up on to the book cases and starts to moves across for a view of the worm, unfortunately he loses his balance and falls back into the water.

acrobatic: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1

Surprised to see the worm change his attitude, Skarn orders Fianna to switch targets. Once the wolf is onto the worm, the oracle steps back and stabs the worm with his spear.
Longspear: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 111d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Fianna's movement will draw an AoO if it has 5 ft. reach (which seems doubtful, but you never know).

The she-wolf lunges, biting the worm into submission.
Bite, PA: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 171d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Scarlet, Skarn, Adrianna and Fianna retaliate at the suddenly-turned-hostile worm, but the tiny creature is hard to hit. So, apparently, is the bookshelf, which is missed by Bones, causing a big splash of water.

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Rasamoro
Skarn
Scarlet
Adrianna
Iskim
Bones
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Worm
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Iskim turns and swings his greatsword at the worm.

Standard action: Attack worm
Attack (Greatsword (2H), Power Attack): 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 4 - 1 = 19
Damage (Greatsword (2H), Power Attack): 2d6 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1) + 4 + 3 = 12

Iskim manages to slice the elusive worm, his sword splashing down in the water as it cuts the tiny wriggling creature.

Can somebody post an action for Rasamoro?

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Rasamoro
Skarn
Scarlet
Adrianna
Iskim
Bones
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Worm (12)
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Sorry for delay
Rasamoro keep on striking an undead bird as hard as he could:

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19 DMG: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

The undead bird is actually dead. I'll just assume that you moved over to the tiny worm that's attacking you now

Rasamoro strikes the worm with a remorseless blow. The worm seems distraught, and slaps its tail towards Rasamoro

Tail slap, Rasamoro: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 221d3 ⇒ 2 DC 14 will save or be confused for 1 round

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Rasamoro
Skarn
Scarlet
Adrianna
Iskim
Bones
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Worm (18)
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Will DC14: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
confused

Rasamoro started to look around, trying to understand what's happening... The world became black and white and figures without faces were surrounding him.
Effect: 1d100 ⇒ 7 Ufff...
But he still could understand that threat is coming from a small worm, so he hit his target, but could not make it.

Attack worm: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 DMG: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Adrianna continues trying to stab the elusive worm with the javelin...
Stab!: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
...but the water diffraction and the size of the worm make her miss!

Bones climbs up on the bookcase again and sends an Icicle at the little worm.

Icicle range touch -4 into melee: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 3 - 4 = 16
cold damage if hits: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Iskim swings at the worm, his blade slicing through the water and worm alike.

Standard action: Attack worm
Attack (Greatsword (2H), Power Attack): 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 4 - 1 = 22
Damage (Greatsword (2H), Power Attack): 2d6 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (1, 3) + 4 + 3 = 11

Critical Confirm (Greatsword (2H), Power Attack): 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 4 - 1 = 14
Critical Damage (Greatsword (2H), Power Attack): 2d6 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 2) + 4 + 3 = 13

If the crit confirms (not likely), the worm must succeed at a DC 13 Fort save or be staggered for one round

Rasamoro absent-mindedly attacks the worm, but misses the tiny creature. Adrianna also misses, as does Bones, but only by the thinnest sheet of margin. Iskim has none of it, and hacks the creature - in two, as it turn out.

Combat over!

The setup of the understacks is elaborate, and there's two separate wings, separated by doors. I've updated the map

Perception 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

"This is the strangest place I think I have ever been"

Scarlet follows the others, somewhat in bewilderment and amazement.

Appraise: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

"I'm not sure I quite understand what's going on here. Was I just bitten by a worm and attacked by a seagull that disintegrated itself when it came in contact with a... shelf?"

Skarn inspects his bite wound to see if it's infected.
Heal: 1d20 ⇒ 15

perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
apprais: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

Bones agrees, "Very odd indeed. Let me have a look at the worm bite to make sure it's not diseased."

heal check: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
Adrianna's keen eyes spot something shiny in the water - a brass case, with a couple of expensive looking scrolls in it! She hands them over to Bones in the hopes that maybe he can determine what they are...

The bird disintegrated after the first attack. In the high tier it would have been more of a threat.

Skarn and Bones inspect the wounds for diseases, but luckily, this worm did not seem to be the disease-carrying kind.

There's four exits on this level of the understacks: two door at the east, and two doors at the west.

Skarn nods, content with the knowledge that he's safe - for now.

"Let's go to the east first." he suggests, wading through the water to access the northeastern door.

I suggest to explore those exits in a clockwise manner: NE, SE, SW, NW. Sounds good?

The door on the northeastern side is open, and water has flooded this room as well. The water’s surface is carpeted with maps made of silk, vellum, birch bark, and sundry other materials.

Perception 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

"Hmmm" purrs the cat like cat burglar - "A nice silk map of Tian Xia...and Avistan"

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 20
"I heard lady Amara was leading a small group of Tian Xia adventurers and they sorta was negotiating with Society couple years ago", Rasamoro looked at the map, "probably, that's an old artifact, but I cannot decipher the magic it contains"

"Decipher? Allow me to have a look, then."

Casting read magic before inspecting the map.

Bones follows along shaking his head at the all the water damage, "I hope they have a lot of scribes to make new copies of very thing."

After looking into the northeastern room, Adrianna opens the southeastern door, peering in and standing ready for any...surprises...
Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30

The catwoman follows along, ready for whatever the door reveals...

The room to the southeast contains mostly volumes of obscure and tedious genealogy.

Perception 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Perception 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

"I think I found more of the fairy tale!" Scarlet remarks as she fishes out the fragment.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Iskim notices the fragment as well, but continues making his way into the northernmost portion of the room, which is heavily shrouded in darkness. After a bit of fumbling around, he calls out that he has found something of interest. He wraps the object - a book - in his cloak and brings it back to the rest of the party.

He presents it to the others, and Scarlet is able to make out the title - "The Darklands Precepts". However, rather than continue to stumble around in the dark, Iskim places the book in his pack.

"The map is also a scroll of a potent spell, a short-distance teleport one." declares Skarn.

Skarn whispers to Iskim.

Iskim stores the book in his pack. Moving on to the next door - the southwestern one - the pathfinder find it is still closed. Locked even. There is some hope that the room beyond is not flooded yet, though the water level on this side of the door will surely change that if the door is opened.

Scarlet fishes out some fine tools...

Perception (find traps) 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Disable Device (Open Lock) 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

"I'll do what I can for the lock, but perhaps someone can make a dam or something to stop an instant flood?"

"That is a sound idea. We have to make sure we don't make things worse. Maybe there's a drain somewhere?"

Skarn looks around, trying to find a way to either evacuate the water on this side, or create a barrier of sorts.
Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Scarlet disables the lock without any problem. Skarn looks around for a drain, but only sees row upon row of bookshelves with soggy,destroyed books in them.

Iskim looks around. "We might be able to use the books; they're heavy, and if we stack them well, we may be able to create a serviceable dam." With the group's approval, he begins taking books from the lower shelves nearby and stacking them in a semicircle in front of the door. Once they are above the waterline, he begins scooping water out of the semicircle and confirms that the water does not flow back in.

"Maybe if we stack up the books like bricks in a wall, it will at least slow the flood into the space? Then we can get in and close the door while we check it out..." Adrianna says, picking up several waterlogged tomes and beginning to stack them.

Bones looks at the problem of building a dam out of soggy books and bookcases, but comments "If the map is a short range teleport why not use it to zap us to the other side of the door and not risk flooding the room?"

K(engineering): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

The party builds a dam, and it seems to hold - momentarily, at least.

The teleportation scroll contains a 'dimension door' spell, which allows the caster and one other creature to do a short range teleport.

Looks like you have plenty of options to enter that room

"Using the scroll is a good idea, but it's one-way only and not everyone will be able to come." notices Skarn as he helps with the lugging of shelves and books to establish a dam. Then he uses whatever container he can find to move the water from the door-side of the day to the other side.

Does it make any sense?

After building a dam of soggy books, fortified with bookshelves, and clearing out the water behind it, the door is sad to open without flooding the room behind it.

The room turns out to be the dictionarium, which contains many books, with more language primers, linguistic treatises, and records of inscriptions than anything else.

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The last of the doors in the understacks is closed, but it's clear that - unlike the other one - this door was not effective at all in keeping the water out. A scroll fragment is pinned to the door with a dagger (see handout).

Perception 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Scarlet is overwhelmed by even MORE books.

A lot of Perception required in this one :p

Bones looks around in the new room.

perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Spotting the traveler dictionary for translating Sylvan into Common, the Cleric brings that along due to all the first world creatures about.

Are you entering through the door? It is closed, but unlocked.

"Another closed door, let's make a dam again like we did the last one - we dont want to wreck a dry room"

Perception (check the door fro traps) 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

The Scarlet repeats the water break technique and opens the door.

The party builds another makeshift dam, and removes the water between door and dam. As soon as they open the door, however, water sloshes in from the room behind the door.

A thin waterfall drops from a grate in the ceiling fifteen feet above, creating a curtain in the doorway to this flooded room. Beyond, mounted animal heads glower from virtually every inch of every wall. Stuffed specimens also lurk beneath the dark water, their antlers, horns, and claws breaking the surface here and there. In the eastern corner, a large gilded cage sits mostly submerged, its waters thick with embalmed birds bobbing at the surface.

There are no shelves here, but it's possible to climb the stuffed animals (DC 10 climb check)

Standing on top of a stuffed gorgon's head is a pixie-like creature, with a mouth full of mismatched teeth. Two more fairy-like creatures are perched over the birdcage, doing something with huge pairs of pliers each are holding.

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Rasamoro
Iskim
Adrianna
Skarn
Bones
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Gormandelle
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Scarlet
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Tooth fairy
Tooth fairy
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Perception 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

The bizarreness of the situation throws the cat-burglar - that and the water flooding back at her, she completely misses her opportunity to engage.