[PFS] Murder on the Silken Caravan (Tier 1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master Chyrone

Right on. I didn't really need to roll then. I was dead either way. Good luck folks :D

It's moments like these that bother me as a GM.
Will there be a Seltehe 2.0 in the future?

Yanda advances 10 feet upwards.
Ajaline
Jula Can post ahead, reflex pending.

Keep those healing items at the ready.

Heh my first death. I'm not really sure if she will reincarnated or not.

I always hate it when a player at my table dies! The first time it happened I had my character make a memorial statue for the other player's character and we had a ceremony (in game) to erect the statue in the city we were fighting for when the PC died. Our game is still continuing and we sometimes go back to that city. When we do the GM mentions the statue, so it is a bit nice.

Ajaline watches with growing dread as Selethe appears to succumb to the attackers. Her body falls limply to the ground and she doesn't move. From his location he can't tell the extent of her injuries but it doesn't look good. His anger rises quickly and his face flushes with the fury of injustice. He pulls back an arrow on his shortbow and aims at the new harpy that is flying up in the distance. The flying monster is slightly out of reach but that doesn't hold his hand.

shortbow@harpy,2nd increment: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 3 - 2 = 5

Not so fast! Yanda is a sylph and has feather fall once per day. It does not say it must be used on herself so...

She will cast on Selethe as she falls by her.

Selethe, you owe Yanda big time. :D

Selethe can make con rolls to stabilize.

Jula

Woot! Thanks Yanda! Order whatever you want- I'm buying. :D

stabilize-2hp: 1d20 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 - 2 = 2

Jula scrambles to get out of the way of the falling harpy...

Reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

...and manages to just barely avoid the brunt of the collision.

Undeterred by the glancing blow, Jula resets her stance, draws her bow once again, and fires another arrow up at the remaining harpy.

Freebooter's bane, all allies within 30' get +1 attack & damage vs. harpy
Free: ammo
Standard: ranged attack -2 range penalty

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

The falling harpy causes 3 damage to Jula, as the impact scaves her.
Her arrow goes up at the mother harpy, who cries bloody murder at Erlathan.

"My daughter! You'll pay dearly for this!"

Selethe doesn't stabilize, and bleeds to -3, while she gently floats towards the ground.
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Harpies!!, round 6

Where she at first was aiming for Yanda, the killing of her daughter has the mother harpy change her target towards Erlathan, as she makes a rapid dive.
Morningstar, charge, high ground: 1d20 + 8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 8 + 2 + 1 = 30
Whack!: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
The impact is moderate, but Erlathan and Ajaline are faced with a harpy hellbent on bloody vengeance.
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Yanda
Ajaline & Erlathan Can post ahead.
Jula

When the harpy descends Ajaline lashes out with a long vine that sprouts from his hand. He tries to grab her with his tanglevine.

Tanglevine: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11 Grapple attempt

Ajaline:
Tanglevine can be used for a Disarm, Steal or Trip maneuver.
Without an Improved feat, any combat maneuvers up close will provoke an aoo. Still going with it?

Right, I forgot that it couldn't do grapple. Ok. I'll do a different action. Also, how close is the harpy? The map is 10 foot squares so I can't tell if she is 5 or 10 feet from me.

The harpy is directly above you.

Now that her fail safe is gone, Yanda is not too keen on resuming the climb. That and the fact that she is a likely target and unable to use her dexterity to best effect prompts her to descend. She will use her inspire trait for the first 5'.

climb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
climb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
She makes it down 5'

climb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
then stalls.

Ajaline takes a quick step away from the harpy, as much as he can, and then casts a shield spell on himself. His body shimmers for a second while the magical energy encases him.

Verdant natural armor bonus: 1d4 ⇒ 1

AC = 17 for 1 round then 16 for 2 minutes.

Yanda descends 5 feet, and Ajaline steps 5 feet away to cast shield.
The harpy seizes her chance, and attacks him with her morningstar.

AoO, higher ground: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 8 + 1 = 26
Whack: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5, Ajaline gets a modest hit over the head.

Erlathan
Jula
Selethe (con roll pending)

Chyrone, can I color spray three dimensionally without hitting Ajaline?

Good question, yet i don't think you could exclude him.
If you're going 3d with a spell, the cone would go 3d too.
I'm no mathematician, but that would seem to get you guys seeing a 15ft x 15 ft cone of sparkly colors, risking Ajaline to be encompassed in the blast.

I'm going to cross my fingers that harpies don't have combat reflexes

Erlathan quickly moves away from the the harpy and draws a second wand, a wand of infernal healing. "Hang on Selethe, I've got just the thing!"

Activating a device like a wand does not provoke.

And the harpy doesn't seem to possess super ninja reflexes, and Erlathan hurries himself over to Selethe.

Jula
Selethe (con roll pending)

Selethe's cold steel blue body continues to bleed.

stabilize-3hp: 1d20 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (14) + 2 - 3 = 13

Activating a device like a wand does not provoke.

I guess it was the movement that potentially provoked? Figures - I'm making points that don't matter again.

:) Right, it was the movement I was concerned about. I wasn't sure if I was moving through a threatened square or not, but I felt as if I was. I have limited options for this fight with all of us so close together - serves me right for only choosing to prepare cone spells today.

I think Jula's options are straight-forward.

If she can reach it and smack it with her greatsword:

Option 1 then.

To Hit: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
Damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (5, 3) + 5 = 13

Jula hurls herself at the Harpy, timing her swing to strike to occur during a downsweep. Her bow left on the ground, dropped in her excitement and the urgency to reach the harpy before it flew out of reach.

The harpy takes some heavy punishment from that attack, and screeches in displeasure.
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Harpies!!, round 4

The harpy retaliates on Jula.
Morningstar, high ground: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 1 = 29Bump: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Crit?: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 8 + 1 = 22Extra bump: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Morningstar, high ground: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 1 = 10
Talon, high ground: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Talon, high ground: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

She knocks out Jula with a firm blow from her morningstar, and swings it and her talons at Ajaline afterwards. The latter ducks and evades all three attacks.
She then moves 5ft over, being atop Ajaline again.
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==> Yanda
Ajaline & Erlathan

"Get away from me!" Ajaline shouts at the harpy. He takes a five foot step towards Erlathan and at the same time raises a finger to point at the flying menace. A blob of green acid shoots from his finger.

Cast Defensivly: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
Acid Splash, ranged touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3

While shooting the acid with one hand, he reaches for a wand with his other.

Grab my mage armor wand to use next time.

A ranged attack this close will provoke, still going with it?

Climb down: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Climb down: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Its slow going but she makes another 5' down.

Yanda climbs a bit further down.

I think you moved yourself, yes?

Ajaline (alternate action, or going with it still?) & Erlathan

Yes, I moved Yanda.

Erlathan taps Selethe with his wand of infernal healing. "This may take a while, but hey, at least you're not dead! Yet...?"

Uhg. I posted an alternate action a few minutes after you posted. Got lost...I'm going to change to a withdraw action.

"Get away!" Ajaline shouts at the harpy. Then cautiously, and with a guarded stance, he withdraws in the direction of Erlathan. He looks at the other elf hoping to get some protection due to numbers.

If the harpy comes after Yanda, she will let go and push off to get her full AC and try to use acrobatics to land OK.

Erlathan, casting it, even from a wand, is a full round action.
But with Selethe having stabilized, she's safe.

Ajaline moves away, but being underneath the harpy, he provokes from a 2nd square.
AoO, morningstar, high ground: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 1 = 18
Bump: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3, receiving a small bump on the shoulder.
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Harpies!!, round 5

The harpy, who is looking pretty hurt btw, flies after Ajaline.
"You're next, and then the elf who killed my daughter!"

Morningstar, high ground: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 8 + 1 = 19
Boing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3, another small bump, but onto the -other- shoulder.
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Yanda
Ajaline & Erlathan (completes casting IH)

Yanda is going to go for it, taking a -5 to attempt Accelerated Climbing, risking falling...
climb: 1d20 + 4 - 5 ⇒ (6) + 4 - 5 = 5
and again...
climb: 1d20 + 4 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 4 - 5 = 6

Crap. She lets go and falls on purpose accepting the 2d6 damage and attempting an acrobatics roll to alleviate the damage...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Yea! a decent roll! But she ends up prone.

It's slightly worse, actually.
Failing a climb check by 5 or more results in immediately falling.
Acrobatics can be used during a deliberate fall, what happens from a failed climbing is involuntarily falling down.

Yanda tries to climb faster than she did earlier, wanting to join some harpy slaying.
As she lowers herself, her one hand holding on slips, and she falls down, taking 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7 damage, lying on the floor somewhat bruised, but otherwise fine.

Ajaline & Erlathan (completes casting IH)

I thought the Withdraw action would avoid the AoO.

Seeing that the harpy is not going to leave him along, Ajaline drops his bow and pulls out his quarterstaff. He takes a swing at the flying enemy, hoping to knock it out of the sky.

Quarterstaff: 1d20 ⇒ 20
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0 Still get the min 1, damage?
Confirm: 1d20 ⇒ 12 Probably not a confirm but I'll roll damage just in case.
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5

Since she fell on her first move action, she has a second action to get up and rises to her feet, a bit bruised.

With Selethe healing, Erlathan again raises his wand at the harpy and lobs a magic missile at her. "Don't worry, you'll soon be joining your daughter, and then we'll all be happy!"

MM: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Ajaline:
It does for the initial square you're leaving, but since the harpy was directly above you, the square next to it threatens too.
And yes, your attack deals 1 nl.

With Yanda standing up near the harpy, she makes a swing at her.
Morningstar, vs prone, high ground: 1d20 + 8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 4 + 1 = 19
But she misses her attack, thankfully, who knows if she is worth a home run.

Ajaline swings his quarterstaff at the harpy, and scaves off her leg, but dealing 1nl in the process. Erlathan follows up with another magic missile hitting her flank.

Selethe heals 1 hp.
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Harpies!!, round 6

"Miserable elves!", she yells at Ajaline & Erlathan.
Morningstar vs Ajaline, high ground: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 8 + 1 = 25Boing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Con roll to stabilize please.

With a firm swing, she knocks Ajaline out, then 5ft moves over to the dual wand wielding Erlathan.
Morningstar, high ground: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5
The sun shines in her eyes, and she outright misses on her aim.
"%@*!!"
She continues attacking him with her talons.
Talon, high ground: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 181d6 ⇒ 5
Talon, high ground: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 191d6 ⇒ 1
She shreds into his arms, but Erlathan is too tough to drop from just that.
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Yanda
Ajaline (-4, unstable)
Erlathan

Selethe will heal 1 (new HP: -1)

Yanda takes careful aim, her first shot of the battle, hoping to become the harpy's new target of choice.

Current +7/1d6+9, no splash [rng: 20 ft; 20/x2*; fire] (+3[dex] +1[tany] +2[mut] +1[pblank]/+4[int] +4[int+admixture] +1[pblank])

To Hit Ranged Touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

And nails her.

"Over here, little lady. I'm the bigger threat."

I haven't been keeping rigorous track but I believe the protection from evil expires now.

The last thing Ajaline sees is a morningstar descending down on his head. With a crunch it connects and he falls to the ground.

Stabilize: 1d20 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 1 - 4 = 3

Your admixture has expire, Yanda. It lasts 1 round a/lvl, and you drank it as a prep for actual combat just before we entered round 1.

Yanda hurls her bomb at the harpy, and it explodes in a bright flame...the smell of burnt feathers hangs in the air briefly.

It is enough to take her down, though.
Ajaline bleeds 1 HP....

Combat over!!
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IH brings Selethe back to 7 HP.

Ajaline still needs medical treatment. If anyone can get him stable in 1 round, he's fine, otherwise he'll have to roll another con roll.

Erlathan taps Ajaline, Jula, Yanda, and himself with his wand of infernal healing, in that order. "Whew. That was close. What wretched, ugly creatures those were."

Your admixture has expire, Yanda. It lasts 1 round a/lvl, and you drank it as a prep for actual combat just before we entered round 1.

You're right. I even removed it from my active conditions previously but managed to forget.

What does infernal healing do for Ajaline? I think it means healing 1 hp/round for 1 minute -- 10 rounds. So that would be 10hp of healing. Is that right?

Yes.

Con roll Ajaline: 1d20 + 1 - 5 ⇒ (11) + 1 - 5 = 7

Ajaline bleeds 1 to -6, and then gets healing from IH.
All nl is removed from the healing.

Current party vitals:
Ajaline: 4/14
Erlathan: 15/16
Jula: 10/12
Selethe: 7/11
Yanda: full
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What's the plan?

"Ok, before we do anything I need to heal up." Ajaline pulls out his cure light wounds wand and tries it on himself. It's almost a miracle when the wand sparks to life and healing power flows out of it into the sorcerer. After the first successful attempt he tries again but it takes him a few tries to get it to work. Finally, he heals himself.

UMD: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

UMD: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
UMD: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

2 charges used

With his healing done, he turns to the group, "Obviously we're going to need to get up there and rescue the boy. Does anyone, besides me, have some rope?"