[PFS] GM Iff's Murder's Mark (Inactive)

Game Master Iff

Laurallei casts her spell on Azygg, who moves in position. The rogue easily dodges Yagi's clumsy attack and is about to make a triumphant remark, when he finds out that the attack was only meant as a distration. He cries out from the pain as Yiel-Dan bites him, and he staggers from the pain.

Shera's arrow also hits, but doesn't outright disable the rogue. This one, with the blue shirt, tries to get away. He flees along the balcony and darts into the first door he finds. His buddy, the one in green, doesn't look so tough anymore. The man staggers, holding himself up across the railing. He curses his fleeing partner, then speaks to the Pathfinders. "Please, we were just..."

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COMBAT TRACKER - Round 2/3. Bold may act.

1st - Yagi (-5), Shera (-5), Dindal (-6),
2nd - Rogues: blue (-8), green (-10, disabled)
3rd - Laurallei, Azygg (-2)

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Yagi moves 5 ft step to cut off Green's potential escape route, giving Yiel-Dan the signal "Down" to cease his attack.

Your friend downstairs has already surrendered, erred. Lay on the floor and you will not be harmed further, er.

Dindal feels a bit weak but is able to focus. He moves to the corner of the balcony and keeps on the lookout for thugs on the loose.

Readying an action to shoot the X-bow when seeing a thug out of combat.

"You were just what? Where are the children?" Shera demands.

Azygg moves down the hall to the door the man fled through...stopping just short of it...

The guy in green can't do anything, surrounded and disabled as he is. The other one is fleeing, but Azygg has him pinned in the bedroom, shortly. I'll call the 'combat over' here, and assume both of them surrender.

The rogues are not hostile anymore, but neither are they willing to talk. They occasionally give each other meaningful glances, and you catch both of them looking at the door on the northern end of the western balcony.

Shera heads for that door the rogues keep glancing at. She tries to walk quietly, and listen at the door.

Stealth: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (16) + 0 = 16
Percpetion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Yagi binds and gags the recently surrendered rogues near the first one, and stands ready to back up Shera.

Shera, I think you were at the wrong door on the map. I moved you. @GM, please adjust if I'm wrong.

I've indicated the door with a red arrow.

Shera can hear two hushed children's voice, a boy and a girl, both pretty scared by the sound of it. There's a rough man's voice trying to soothe them.

Dindal joins Shera and Yagi, a Color spray at the ready for any malicious rough men.

"I can't abide the kidnapping of innocent children!" Laurallei says as she moves in behind Yagi Mi.

Azygg hefts his axe and moves to the door with the others waiting for them to open it...

I'm holding until someone opens the door.

Shera nods at her companions, and opens the door.

Shera opens the door to a children's bedroom. There are two beds, but both children, a girl and her younger brother, are huddled together in one bed, keeping a blanket close for protection. Standing between the beds, next to an open window, stands a handsome older man with a ponytail, the same you had seen on the balcony earlier. He wears very fine studded leather armor and has a longsword in hand. There is a grappling hook stuck in the window sill, with the rope pulled up inside the room.

As soon as the door is opened, the two children starts shrieking, and the girl points at Azygg. "Yes, I know," smirks the man. "They're the bad people from the circus, aren't they? Don't worry, I'll protect you." He holds up his sword to show that he's ready for you.

There's a portrait of the man in the maps presentation.

COMBAT TRACKER - Round 1 - Bold can act.

1st - Dindal (-6)
2nd - Man
3rd - Laurallei, Azygg (-2, staggered), Shera (-5), Yagi (-5)

Dindal, having a moment of quick wit, jumps forward.

"Close your eyes, kids! Well, actually, probably it couldn't hurt to watch."

And casts a Color spray upon the ponytailed thug, positioning himself so the kids aren't in the cone. DC 16 Will save. I assume the kids are in the upper bed in the topleft corner

Dindal's warning to the children is enough to tip off the man as well. He closes his eyes in time and avoids the effect of Dindal's spell. "Hah, so you like pretty colors, don't you? Here, take a piece of your own then, villains!" The man seems to really ham up his 'performance' for the sake of the kids. With his words, he draws a satchel of powder from his belt and tries to throw it at the floor behind Shera. However, his aim is exceptionally poor and the satchel collides with the half-open door. You recognize the satchel and know what's coming: upon impact the powder in the satchel ignites to a brilliant flash of light.

Shera, Azygg, please make a Fort save DC 13 (with a +2 circumstance bonus), or you are blinded for one round.

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COMBAT TRACKER - Round 1/2 - Bold can act.

1st - Dindal (-6)
2nd - Man
3rd - Laurallei, Azygg (-2, staggered), Shera (-5), Yagi (-5)

Fort Save: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 + 2 = 14
Shera closes her eyes just in time. Shera wants to stand between the man and the children, but realizes finally that many of her party are hurt. She channels energy and steps into the room to the left of the door. "Children I am a cleric. I won't let anyone hurt you.

Channel Positive: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Better than nothing I guess.

Yagi squawks a battle cry and rushes into the room, bounding onto the bed.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

Give up, villain, we shall not allow you to harm these children, en!

He smites down from his vantage point.

Sansetsukon: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11 Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

He whistles to Yiel-Dan, who swoops in to the other bed.

Assuming with a Fly speed that's not a difficult Acrobatics feat.

Bite: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6

Wouldn't have made a difference for either attack, I deem, but for future reference do we have High Ground advantage here?

Aztgg staggers into the room...

HP=10

Some point for clarification: I've added tokens for the boy and the girl. High ground for standing on the bed sounds fine, and let's make it a DC 5 Acrobatics to jump on. Azygg, please don't forget to make your save vs the flash powder.

FORT vs DC 13: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 2 = 11

Azygg is blinded for one round..

Yagi jumps on the bed with the children, which heightens their fear despite his words. His attack miss, but once again it allows Yiel-Dan to take advantage of the opportunity. "See what they're doing?" the man acts for the young audience. "They come are and attack me!"

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COMBAT TRACKER - Round 1/2 - Bold can act.

1st - Dindal (-5)
2nd - Man (-6)
3rd - Laurallei, Azygg (-1, staggered), Shera (-4), Yagi (-4)

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I'll give Laurallei and Dindal until tonight, when I get home from work. Then I'll bot them.

Laurallei casts an evil eye on the thug. "Do not taint the minds of these children, you fiend!"

Will DC15, -2 AC

Dindal draws his crossbow and loads, while Laurallei evokes her evil eye which seems to affect the man. He grunts and shakes his head in a vain attempt to rid himself of the hex, then turns to attack instead. He spins to face Yagi. "I can see what you're trying to do! Don't worry, kid, I won't let him get any nearer. There!" The man's strike with a longsword fails by a margin, but the following strike with a short short finds exactly the right mark, hitting Yagi in the neck. Critical hit, 8 damage.

The Tengu goes down on the bed next to the children, causing them to shriek even harder and bury themselves beneath the blankets.

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COMBAT TRACKER - Round 2/3 - Bold can act.

1st - Dindal (-5)
2nd - Man (-6, Evil Eye for -2 AC)
3rd - Laurallei, Azygg (-1), Shera (-4), Yagi (-12, unconscious, dying), Yiel-Dan

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Gurk!

Stabilize: 1d20 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 1 - 2 = 9

Yagi continues to bleed, which causes Yiel-Dan to strike out angrily.

Bite, higher ground: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 1 = 26 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 1 = 21 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

You are a horrible man. Why are you lying to the children?" She casts Stabilize on Yagi.

Sorry for not posting, I assumed my Color spray was the action for that round. I'll pay attention.

Dindal casts an acid splash in combat on the thug

Acid splash: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2
Dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 2

Laurallei fires a beam of pure ice at the thug.

Ray of Frost (Range Touch): 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 3 - 4 = 12 for cold damage of : 1d3 ⇒ 3

Azygg casts Divine Favor on himself and then attacks the man he thinks is bad...
Great Axe+DF: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 3 + 1 + 2 = 24..DMG: 1d12 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 2 = 13

Both Yiel-Dan and Azygg hit, and hit hard. The man cluthes at his chest, breathing hard and barely hanging on to life. He drops his short sword and tosses the rope out of the window, fixed as it is to the grappling hook hanging on the window. He takes a step back onto the window sill, ready to descend.

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COMBAT TRACKER - Round 3/4 - Bold can act.

1st - Dindal (-5)
2nd - Man (-26, Evil Eye for -2 AC)
3rd - Laurallei, Azygg (-1), Shera (-4), Yagi (-12, unconscious, dying), Yiel-Dan

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"Fast should outside go...." Azygg tells the others as he acknowledges Shera stabilized Yagi and the war-acle moves out the room...

double move

May I move through the children unimpeded to go out the window closest to them or must make an acrobatics check?

Yagi stops bleeding out thanks to Shera's kindly spell.

Yiel-Dan, still angry, strikes out again.

Bite: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6

Shera fires her bow at the thug. "I'll stabilize him later if he survives the fall. Shame on him telling lies to children about a Cleric. He's probably responsible for the other deaths too."

Longbow, PBS: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Yiel-Dan's bite proves accurate once again, causing the man to grab his leg in pain. He loses his balance, faints from the wounds he's sustained and falls down.

Fall damage: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7

Laurallei looks out the window, seeing the man bleeding profusely. He will probably die any second now. (He's at -12 hit points)

We're not in initiative any more, but if you want to save the man, I will count the amount of rounds you need to heal/stabilize him.

If permitted...

Immediately upon seeing the man begin to pass out, Laurallei uses her innate spell-like ability to make the man light as a feather. As he slowly floats towards the ground, she races after Azygg down the stairs and outside the building to find the man's unconscious body upon the ground. Once she reaches him, Laurallei binds the man's hands and feet with a bit of rope, then heals him back to consciousness with her wand of cure light wounds.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Immediate action: Feather Fall SLA on the unconcious, falling man.

Sure, that works. Nice use of a racial SLA. :) Will update again when I'm not on my phone...

Thanks. I had considered trying to tackle him then cast it on myself to get us both down safely. However, even though her max carrying capacity is 300#, I'm pretty sure she'd fail a strength check.

Waking up bound by hand and foot, the man sets a grim face, knowing he's been defeated. He seems determined to hold his silence, in the knowledge that he can only make things worse for himself.

Sheriff Feldane soon arrives. She initally takes a peek into the main hall through the open door, but soon hear noise from outside, where you're holding the man. "You here? What happened? The neighbours heard some commotion and warned the city guard. Is that Borvius Monchello you're holding there?" Baffled by this turn of events, she repeats her earlier question. "What happened?"

"Man dangerous.... liar too...careful"

Assuming Laurallei or Shera thinks to use my CLW wand on myself.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 Aww, come on!
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Current HP 3/10. Wand charges 48/50.

This man and his thugs tried to kill us, us. And he was holding these younglings hostage, age. He attempted to throw us off with a forgery of a note on the dead man, but we tracked him here, ere.

Of course I would have used the wand. I'll channel too.

Channel: 1d6 ⇒ 2

"He lied to the children about what happened at the circus. Where are their parents?"

Channel is for everybody within range, right?

Dindal peeks out of the window, and after that turns to the children to see how they are doing.

"There now. Erm... relax!"

Not that he's particularly good at dealing with children.

Yes, channel has a 50 foot range. You can assume everyone benefits.

"I see," Sheriff Feldane says gravely. "Let's go around the house, see what we can find." Together, you investigate to see what else you can find out. "These are all Borvius's men," she comments at seeing the bound thugs in the main hall. "They're his employees, working for Ilsurian Storage & Hauling."

Upstairs you find the master bedroom, where unfortunately you find Master Braeton and his wife dead. They were probably killed in their sleep, but then posed as if they had put up a fight, rapiers wet with sticky blood hanging from their limp grasp.

A further room of note is the study, which appears to have been ransacked. A scroll tube lies on the desk, apparently forgotten. It contains Arhaneem Braeton's last will and testament: In the event of Braeton’s death, his business is held in trust by the town council for Braeton’s two children. If there is cause to suggest the business may deteriorate before they come of age, the council has the option of selling the business on their behalf.

Finally, the Sheriff comes back to the children, who seem to have warmed up - slightly - to Dindal's presence. "Poor children. I'll break the news to them later, when we get them in a safer environment. I'll arrange for some caregivers to come and take care of them, for now."

She eventually looks at you. "It seems like Borvious and his people may be more than just a hauling company. I'll be honest, I don't have any constables to spare, seeing how they're trying to keep the town from exploding over the circus unrest. Could you go there and check it out?"

Also of note: Borvius had a masterwork longsword, masterwork shortsword, and two [/i]potions of cure light wounds[/i].

"Back town we go then." Azygg says to the others and cradles his axe over a shoulder to begin walking back. "What plan at store of bad guys? Kill all?"

I would suggest the front line fighters myself and Azygg might make best use of those potions, unns.

I already have a masterwork weapon, so the swords are up for grabs.

I'm not proficient in either weapon. I'll use my wand. Save your potion just in case. Now I roll well.

"Yagi let me see if I can help you with some more healing."

Wand CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

"Azygg maybe we should try to arrest them instead of just killing them. If they resist..." she shrugs. "How do we get to the hauling company?"

"That's easy," Sheriff Feldane replies to Shera. "It's right by the docks, right next to his wife's store, Mistress Robella's Curiosity Shop. Also, if you're in need of healing, I could help with that. We have a healing wand at my office, for emergencies. I'm sure this qualifies as one. It's not full any more, but should still have some magic left. And indeed, arresting a few of them would be best, if they are indeed accomplices. But I'm sure you'll handle as you see best."

The Sheriff can provide you with a Wand of Cure Light Wounds with 10 charges left.

Thank you, Sheriff, iff. And GM Iff, iff.

Assuming we use up those 10 charges getting everyone to full health. I will keep the extra potion for an emergency.

Let us make haste to the docks, then, en.

Investigate the hauling company first, and the curio shop if needed.