PFS - GM CariMac's 2-19 Shades of Ice Part III: Keep of the Huscarl King (Inactive)

Game Master CariMac

Carina sighs, wishing she was more versed in the art of diplomacy.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

"Koska puhun totuudesta?" She sighs again, this time with equal parts frustration and sympathy.

"Ymmärrän missä olet. Sinut on hyökätty ulkopuolisten kimppuun ja jätetty kuolleeksi, ja nyt sinulla on toinen joukko ulkopuolisia, joilla ei ole mitään tekemistä, eikä sinä tiedä mitään kyseisestä ryhmästä. Mitä se kestää luottamuksen saamiseksi?"

This is assuming no one knows Kellid, which I doubt since we were prepared for Hallit

** spoiler omitted **

So I'll offer to use my "if we don't have kellid as a language" block since I have a higher diplomacy with the addition of the following instead of attempting to pantomime trying to converse:

"Tell hole man take spell, it lets us all tik-talk with his word speak that is ours"

which then would be followed by the channel energy to show we are healing him as in my previous past.

While Carina and Ailean attempt to make friends with the warrior. A growl can be heard across the tundra. Looking up you see a large creature heading toward the battlefield.

Round 1 Bold May Go
Map
Grainne: 22
Zero: 22
Carina: 18
Prothero: 12
Wolverine: 11
Abaal: 4
Ailean: -1

That sweet -1 initiative step. Lol.

I've never seen one rolled that low.

"Hmm, he doesn't look like he's here to chat," Prothero observes mildly, raising his bow as he speaks. He lets loose a flurry of arrows at the wolverine! Sadly, he still is not accustomed to fighting in the snow, and his shots are poor indeed.

Flurry with Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 11 - 1 = 13
Longbow damage, Deadly Aim: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 2 = 12

Flurry with Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 11 - 1 = 13
Longbow damage, Deadly Aim: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 2 = 11

Yeah this character is highly specialized and not towards initiative lol. Also, ouch Prothero bad luck on those rolls, sorry.

Knowledge nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Any pertinent info?
Grace takes a five foot step towards the beast, her the air around her coalescing in crystals of ice and snow before she reaches out to the flurry of cold, pulling out a whip of ice particles.

The ability is called kinetic whip. I'm making two attacks, one for if it's in range, (15ft) on for AOO when it moves.

attack VS Touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 233d6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 5, 1) + 2 = 10

AOO vs touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 243d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 3, 3) + 2 = 12

Zero is almost relieved to see something he can help with, but curbs his zeal. Instead of leaping right into the fray, he steps in front of the wounded warrior and waits for the beast to come closer.

Readied action to attack. If it comes into reach, I'll punch it. Otherwise, a javelin.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19 (23 if melee, 21 ranged)
Damage (if melee): 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 plus Bleed: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Damage (if ranged): 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Knowledge(Nature): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17 If it's enough.... Special attacks?

Carina looks at the beast with some irritation. "Not now...," she mutters before grabbing her scarf and intoning a spell, calling forth a wall of shimmering, spinning light that makes the beast look distorted, along with the rest of the landscape. "Don't enter that if you value your lunch. Let the beast come to us,"she says as she stands, scarf in hand.

Move action - 'draw' bladed scarf
Standard action - cast Wall of Nausea. Anyone that enters the blue area marked has to make a DC 19 Fort save or be nauseated for a round. In addition, Those that fail the save must make a DC 12 Acrobatics check or fall prone. In addition, the wall provides partial concealment (20%) to those on the other side.

Wow that is a nasty spell. will it work if the creature is INSIDE the wall as it comes up like wall of fire? Between my crazy looking snowstorm whip, the living mountain that is prepared to teach it a new trick, and your wall of "oh hell no" this thing might call it quits before we can even hit it.

Zero is almost relieved to see something he can help with, but curbs his zeal. Instead of leaping right into the fray, he steps in front of the wounded warrior and waits for the beast to come closer.

Readied action to attack. If it comes into reach, I'll punch it. Otherwise, a javelin.

Usually, you only get to ready one action.

Thank you to whomever added the grid to the map. Much appreciated. We'll go with the ranged attack as Zero's readied.

Carina: It's a Large Dire Wolverine. It is a neutral animal.

Grace's whip attack hits the wolverine, and sends it into a rage. Carina casts a spell. Prothero's arrows fly right past the creature's shoulders. Zero holds on until the enemy approaches.

The wolverine moves through the cloud as if it isn't there. He takes the damage from Grace's attack of opportunity, and keeps coming. He moves up to Zero and swipes at him. 14 DMG

Round 1/2 All May Go.

Grainne: 22
Zero: 22 14 DMG
Carina: 18
Prothero: 12
Wolverine: 11 27 DMG
Abaal: 4
Ailean: -1

Prothero steps out from behind the snow-covered bush between him and the raging wolverine and lets fly with even more arrows than usual!

Flurry with longbow, spend a ki point (1/7 today) for an extra arrow. Thanks for the blessing, Ailean!

Flurry with Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim, Ailean bonus: 1d20 + 11 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 11 - 1 + 2 = 26
Longbow damage, Deadly Aim: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9

Flurry with Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (18) + 11 - 1 = 28
Longbow damage, Deadly Aim: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 2 = 13

Flurry with Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 11 - 1 = 29
Longbow damage, Deadly Aim: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 2 = 7

While not taking his eyes off the action, Abaal comments to Ailean: "It's strange standing here at the back, twenty feet away from a ferocious half-ton wolverine attempting to savage us all. The sense of calm you squishy wizardy types must feel. No offense. It is all rather meditative. The things you see. For instance, I did not know that Prothero had a rat's tail. I thought those had gone out of style in the 4690's."

Thank you to whomever added the grid to the map. Much appreciated.

You're welcome. It is its own layer (grouped currently with the map below) feel free to copy and paste it over all your grid-free maps. I should mention I cropped it a bit for this one, it is really more square-shaped.

Usually, you only get to ready one action.

Oh yeah, that's true, I forgot. What I'd be doing would be more akin to delaying, but it's all good.

Now exactly where he wants to be (if a bit less mauled), Zero starts throwing punches left and right.

Flurry 1: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Flurry 2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Flurry 3, Extra: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Not to say that he makes contact with any of them, but he's trying.

Normally I'd help in combat with spells but I don't have much useful in this combat

Grace steps up around the boulder, energy gathering around her as the snow and ice form a blade in her hand which she brings down upon the IRATE creature "Just go DOWN already! We don't need another problem right now!" she yells as the blade connects with the creature.

5 foot step, gather energy move action. 1 energy gathered. kinetic blade(cold), entangling fusion(2 burn, 1 mitigated via infusion specialization 1, one via gather energy.)

Should the attack connect, the Wolverine must make reflex save DC 17 or be entangled for one minute. The Wolverine can remove this condition as a standard action with a successful Escape Artist or Strength check (dc also 17) or by dealing an amount of damage to the entangling matter equal to double your kineticist level (12 hp, the matter has hardness 0).

Ailean gives a blessing to Prothero. Abaal confident in his new colleagues skills stands watches the horizon on the opposite side of the battle for a giant snow bunny attack. Which does not appear.

Grace attacks with her Kinetic Blade. It hits injuring the Wolverine. Zero hits at the creature, but the foul breath distracts him enough that he doesn't connect.

Prothero fires into the fray, and takes down the creature. All three arrows dig into it and the creature falls.

Combat Over. Saving Carina a spell.

The Kellid looks impressed with you, and rises to his feet.

"Olet rohkea soturi. Seuraa kappaleita löytääksesi mitä etsit. Menen itään."

If allowed, he leaves you to head in the opposite direction you are heading.

"Strange tongue. So many umlauts." He turns to Carina. "What did he say?"

Zero fishes a curative wand from his backpack and hands it to Ailean to use on him. "That was not my best work," he writes, as if in apology but more matter-of-fact. "I'm sure there will be more opportunities on this mission to display my true prowess."

Alien helps Zero tend to his woinds by using those CLW rolls.

"Teeth holes get fixed by stick, teeth no heal teeth holes, only stick."

double max on the CLW. nice.

Grace stares at Ailean, unsure if he's all there in the head... The decides it's best not to ask.

double max on the CLW. nice.

Grace stares at Ailean, unsure if he's all there in the head... The decides it's best not to ask.

I can assure you he is not, but if it bothers you or you don't understand him, let me know. It is his first PbP game as well as mine so I'm still getting my bearings. However, it is quite a deal more fun to RP him here than in irl where you don't get the time, at least in my region.

So, my post seems to have gotten destroyed by the site maintenance. I was just saying that Ailean is indeed a little insane, but if it bothers you or you don't understand what he was saying, let me know. This is Ailean's first PbP as well as mine so we are still getting our bearings. In any event, it has been a lot more fun to RP him here where there is more time to RP than in my IRL PFS group, so thanks for that guys.

Carina tilts her head in confusion. "He called us brave, basically said we were on the right trail for the Shadow Ledge members, and he was heading in a different direction than us," She translates, weighing what exactly to say.

So, my post seems to have gotten destroyed by the site maintenance. I was just saying that Ailean is indeed a little insane, but if it bothers you or you don't understand what he was saying, let me know. This is Ailean's first PbP as well as mine so we are still getting our bearings. In any event, it has been a lot more fun to RP him here where there is more time to RP than in my IRL PFS group, so thanks for that guys.

It doesn't bother me at all! Gráinne, however has never dealt with someone who wasn't entirely there. In her childhood she was raised as an heir to a rich family and had her whole life planned and dictated. She decided to take what she learned and instead became and "Independant Entrepreneur of the open seas."

The whole reason she joined the pathfinders was to explore the world (And as a jab at her father who disliked the group of "Hooligans and mongrel-thieves" as he put it) and find/establish new trade routes for her future business endeavors.

I actually am having fun reading your character's posts and have been giving him a sort of "Smeagle-ly" voice in my head~

Grace reaches into her bag and pulls out a days worth of jerky and hands it to the Kellid, as a gesture of good faith and good travels. "Well, I suggest we hurry then. If they have a head start, I mean to get rid of it."

As I've said, I'm loving Ailean as a character, and I agree he fits very well with the PbP format. I've got at least one character who I thought would be tons of fun to play at a table and works much better in PbP. I also think it's appropriate that one of Ailean's posts was just a bunch of random characters.

"Hmm, wonder why they took the weapons but not the gold?" Prothero muses. "Anyway, if we're on the right trail, let's get on the trail again, shall we?"

Carina thinks about Prothero's statement for a moment. "Maybe because there's no real way to spend it out here?" she posits as she prepares to begin traveling again. With a quick tie of her scarf, followed by pulling her cloak around her, she looks to the others. "Yes, let's be off," she adds, while nodding in agreement to Grace's charity.

I will admit to having a bit of trouble understanding what Ailean says(Which I'm sure is the point), but he is very entertaining.

Ailean trudges along with the rest of the group, occasionally stooping down to lick the tracks in the snow.

"No sun snow, good, yes? Never liked the sun snow...Will remember the single test when lantern praying. Give people my mind is normal spell, not good when only single test, hit stone creature friends even with my mind."

Translation: Yellow snow is bad. Ailean will prepare 1 or 2 spells the next time he has a chance to pray that will help in single enemy encounters. His normal go-to spell is confusion type magic, which would have just locked the wolverine on the next person that hit it.

Roughly an hour after you set out on their route again,

A few moments later if you make the perception check.

[spoiler DC=10 Perception] You hear a second horn in answer to the first, coming from the northeast, in the direction they are headed.[/spoiler]

Near dusk, your route takes you through a rocky field, adorned with an ancient ring of druidic stones, around which lie heaps of driven snow.

The gradual shift into rockier terrain is now more apparent than ever. Large, round stones evoke cobblestones as they form a layer of ground, although the hard-packed snow is still visible between. Ahead, an ancient ring of boulders juts from the ground to form a ring. The wind’s erratic path around the massive rocks has blown the snow into large, haphazard drifts.

Ailean, Grainne, and Prothero all notice that the mounds of snow in the ring of stones are hiding people.

Suprise Round, Bold May Go, Map is Updated
Prothero Surprise Round
Grainne Surprise Round
Ailean Surprise Round
Int Warrior Barbarian: 21
Int Abaal: 14
Int Prothero: 8
Int Grainne: 8
Int Zero: 5
Int Warrior Warriors: 5
Int Carina: 3
Int Ailean: -8

@GM_CariMac sorry for the confusion, this character is not my life Oracle with -16, he is only -2 so his initiative step should be 6 here, just above zero and those set of warriors. Either way I'll take my first actions:

Ailean notices the enemies in the mounds of snow and says "Look see funny snowmen hidden in the powder piles!"

He then moves 25ft towards the bottom one and begins casting a spell targeting the red one (I'm colorblind btw in case I say the wrong color); if the red one gets damaged before my turn Ailean will go for the yellow one further into the mounds and move further up (where the further picture of my character is). "Shimmy shimmy shake, picture of me!"

The spell is Extended Persistent Confusion (lesser). The target has to pass a DC 21 will save twice or be confused for 2 rounds (that means don't hit this red guy or he'll get locked attacking you). Also if an enemy attacks me I'll use my immediate action sanctuary ability (DC 17 will).

Prothero raises his bow and calls out, "We see you! Step into the open and lay down any weapons!"

He then lets fly a blunt-tipped arrow, aiming to only injure the closest target, before calling out, "The next shot will be to kill, do as I say!"

Shoot at pink with a blunt arrow for non-lethal damage.

Longbow attack, PBS, DA, non-lethal: 1d20 + 11 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 11 - 1 - 4 = 24
Longbow damage, PBS: 1d8 + 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 1 + 2 = 10

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

making a perception, to see if their clothes look similar to the man We rescued. Grace takes a five foot step forward and begins a move action to gather energy. 1Point gathered.

Grace takes a step forward, her Shield raised as ice begins to form around her body,the snow picking up off of the ground as if she were at the center of a miniature snow storm.

"Carina, can you translate, in case these people are the same as the last man we met?" She says raising her voice. WE DO NOT SEEK A FIGHT THIS DAY. WE ONLY WISH TO PASS PEACEFULLY. WE WILL FIGHT IF WE MUST BUT ONLY IF THAT IS OUR LAST CHOICE. WHAT SAY YOU MIGHTY WARRIORS OF THE NORTH? WOULD YOU RATHER WE FIGHT AS FOE, OR DINE AS FRIEND?"

Diplomacy?: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

[or would diplomacy be rolled by the translator? [/ooc]

@Ailean: One one action is allowed on a surprise round. Ailean do you want to move as your action or do something else? I'll try to take into account the colors for you, and will fix your initiative.

@Grace: Yes they are wearing the same clothing as the man you rescued.

oh right, surprise round. erase my gather energy. just the diplomacy.

[ooc]oh right, surprise round. erase my gather energy. just the diplomacy.

I also forgot the surprise round rules, my bad. I'll just cast the spell at the red guy without moving, probably safer for me anyway.

Sigh the boards ate my post. I rolled a miss on the barbarian so I'm going with that.

Ailean's spell causes the southern enemy to become confused, and Grace's diplomacy attempt fails. Prothero does non lethal damage to the closest enemy the barbarian.

The Barbarian begins to rage, and moves up to Grace. He swings at her with his battleaxe and misses.

Round 1 Bold May Go
Int Warrior Barbarian: 21 10 NL
Int Abaal: 14
Int Prothero: 8
Int Grainne: 8
Int Ailean: 6
Int Zero: 5
Int Warrior Warriors: 5 Red: Confused Green: Blue:
Int Carina: 3

perception (take 10): 10 = 10

And as a side note, he still has his snowshoes on.

Zero steps closer to the raging man, next to a fellow boulder, and socks him a few times.

Unarmed: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
Damage, Nonlethal: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Unarmed: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
Damage, Nonlethal: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

If Abaal was aware of the danger and ends that enemy, I'll move up and to the left of Red and (try to) hit him once instead using the first roll.

Ailean moves north to see the northern-most enemy and hits him with the same spell.

"Everyone see the lantern king, he sleeps in the powder and dines with ghosts!"

Reminder: The spell is Extended Persistent Confusion (lesser). The target has to pass a DC 21 will save twice or be confused for 2 rounds (that means don't hit this red guy or he'll get locked attacking you). Also if an enemy attacks me I'll use my immediate action sanctuary ability (DC 17 will).

Not wanting to complicate the results of Ailean's spell, Prothero moves into better position and fires at the barbarian.

Move into position, attack barbarian.

Longbow attack, PBS, DA, non-lethal: 1d20 + 11 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 11 - 1 - 4 = 8
Longbow damage, PBS: 1d8 + 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 1 + 2 = 13

Grace swings her blade of ice at the barbarian, stepping back as she gathers energy around herself to make a stronger attack.

Kinetic blade, 5 ft step back, move action gather energy. If the Barbarian is able to hit me while I have this energy gathered, I have to make a concentration check to keep the energy.

attack vs touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
damage: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 4, 4) + 2 = 13

Round 1 Bold May Go
Int Warrior Barbarian: 21 22 NL 19 Lethal Unconscious
Int Abaal: 14
Int Prothero: 8 - Can change your Action
Int Grainne: 8 - Can change your action
Int Ailean: 6
Int Zero: 5 [/b]
Int Warrior Warriors: 5 Red: Confused 10 DMG Green: Blue: Confused
Int Carina: 3

Abaal is prepared for the attack, and swings his falchion at the enemy. He connects but the man does not drop. Zero’s first attack misses, but his second connects. That is enough to drop the man into the snow.

Ailean confuses the northernmost fighter (blue).

The southern (red)warrior hits himself in the face with his battleaxe hard. 10 DMG
The northern warrior (blue) runs up and hits at Ailean, but misses.

The Barbarian is down. Grace and Prothero, I’ll let you do something else with you actions. I'll retcon anything thing from the warriors actions as necessary.

Well, I guess I'll just aim my shot at the northern warrior, hoping to draw his attacks on me rather than Ailean. But I still missed.

Apparently, the long day walking finally caught up with Carina, because she didn't register the threat until Grace started yelling diplomacy for her to translate. After a startled couple seconds, the Harrower shook her head awake, and faithfully repeats the gesture of goodwill in Hallit. While she was calling out the overture, she quickly drew her scarf up and prepares to defend herself.

Grace
Begins together the snow and ice around her as she concentrates on the spot beneath the warrior next to Prothero. In a Flash, the spot beneath the warrior becomes slick ice.

Gather energy 1. Using "Slick" ability on warrior. he must make a dc 15 reflex or fall as per the grease spell.

Reflex Blue: 1d20 ⇒ 11

The enemy to the north is unable to attack the nearest enemy since he falls to the ground on the ice that Grace created.

Round 2 Party Up
Int Warrior Barbarian: 21 22 NL 19 Lethal Unconscious
Int Abaal: 14
Int Prothero: 8
Int Grainne: 8
Int Ailean: 6
Int Zero: 5
Int Warrior Warriors: 5 Red: Confused Green: Blue: Confused
Int Carina: 3