[PFS - Outpost] GM Rinaldo's Murder on the Silken Caravan (Inactive)

Game Master The Great Rinaldo!

Phosdlon: Not all mind-affecting effects are enchantments, including this one. No bonus.

Egg: No, the scarf does not muffle the sound enough to give a bonus.

Phosdlon moves 30' towards the statue

"Nnnyaahhh, not more of zat cheek-kin clucking in my 'ed!"

Will save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Egg moves 60' towards the monument...

Opps....corrected for place on map for 60' movement. Sorry.

All NPCs fail their saves (because plot).

Seeing two foes go wandering off, the remaining harpy grabs a willing victim and flies off.

Acrobatics to avoid AoO from Graves: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Unless Graves' CMD is higher than usual for some reason, that succeeds. If it is, explain why and take an AoO.
Acrobatics to avoid AoO from Ginadori: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
Ginadori may take an AoO.

Unless AoOs take it down, the harpy gets to the monument and is about halfway up it, carrying Hokama's slave boy Atmar.

Solitaire, Ginadori, and Mr. Graves are up! Post your AoO if you get one, then your action. The third harpy is not currently visible, but it is clearly in the monument.

CMD is exactly 18, and no bonuses I'm aware of... so she avoids me!

Mr. Graves curses, as the harpy snags the slave boy, and nimbly avoids him as she flies away.

He curses again, when he realizes his bow is laying in the sand over twenty feet away.

Note: Move first, then drop bow, next time! Oops.

I'm assuming the remaining NPC's are now marching to the monolith and the 3rd harpy's song?

Shovel still gripped tightly in hand, he starts running through the sand, trying to reach the Monolith as quickly as possible.

Run action, moving up to 120'. Am assuming the NPC's are now moving towards the monolith, giving me a straight line path. If not, let me know.

Once at the base, he tries to assess if there is a way to ascend, though pretty sure it will be too late for the boy, regardless.

Gina didn't have her rapier out from her first failed will save, but she can bite, so AoO first, using daily tactician bonus.

bite: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 1 = 16
bite damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Don't forget a fly check if that hits

"Pah! I hate having to resort to that." Gina moves towards the others. Everyone, listen to the sound of my drum!

Move action to get near the others, draw rapier, possibly threaten the harpy if it's down. Standard to begin countersong using my other hand. Anyone may use the performance if they fail the will save for the round, including those captivated.

perform percussion: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 7 + 1 = 28

Crit equals awesome Taiko drumming improv solo.

The blue harpy should roll twice for its acrobatics checks with misfortune on it. Once it's past 30 ft from Solitaire, it will no longer have the hex.

Per conversation in the discussion thread, the harpy failed to avoid Grave's AoO, so he can take a swing. Solitaire still has his round.

Solitaire rushes forward, looking around for the other harpy.

"Now for me to really ruin your day, yes?"

Move ahead 30 feet, ready an action if any harpy comes back towards any of the group and is within 150 feet to cast blindness on the harpy, Fort save DC 16.

AoO: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10, for 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 damage.

No opportune hit to worry about. =) Status quo
Actual turn as mentioned already.

Ginadori, you said you moved up but your token was still back; since Countersong is a 30' radius, I assumed you intended to be between your charmed party members and the NPCs that hand't acted yet.

Ginadori starts playing her drum, and her performance gets not just her companions and the charmed water-sellers but also their camels to dance a bit, freeing them from the harpy's song.

Red stabilize?: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Green Fly check: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
Green Fort save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Another harpy flies out and goes into a steep dive, aiming right for Phosdlon. Halfway down, she screams as Solitaire clouds her vision.

Green Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
She manages to pull out of her dive and skims about 15 feet above the ground.

Thanks to Ginadori, Egg Fu and Phosdlon are up!

Phosdlon takes a 5' step and fires at the "blue" Harpy...

NOTE: not sure if I can 5' and still use rapid fire. If I can't, ignore second set of rolls and add +2H to the first. Again, using durable arrows, precise and rapid shot feats (too far for point-blank shot)

"Put him down foul creature!"

[dice=ranged attack vs. "blue" harpy]1d20+5[/dice]
possible damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

[dice=possible second ranged attack vs. "blue" harpy]1d20+5[/dice]
possible damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Yeah, haven’t been on my computer where I can manipulate the pawn easier.

You absolutely can 5' step and rapid shot. Sadly, neither hit.

Phosdlon fires off two arrows, but the upward angle and the carried victim makes it harder to connect with the creature.

Coming out of his stupor, Egg whips off two arrows at the blue harpy...

(Flurry of Blows, PBS, Precise Shot, Magic, Weapon Focus, Deadeye Bowman, Deadly Aim, Perfect Strike)

Longbow: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 1 = 20

Magic/Cold Iron Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 9

Longbow: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 - 1 = 17

Magic/Cold Iron Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 10

Free action to give "the bird" to the bird. Because he can. Second free action to point approving "finger guns" at Ginadora for the supremely rocking drum beat.

Egg Fu shakes his head as he is freed from the harpy's charm, and fires off two arrows of his own. Both hit, and harpy is clearly heavily injured. However, it is still able to fly, and it makes it up the rest of the way to the monument's "mouth" and flies inside.

Solitaire, Ginadori, and Mr. Graves are up! The poor youth is now inside the harpy's cave with his abductor, and things don't look good for him.

Ascending the monument requires one of the following:
* DC 10 Climb to go straight up (both hands free, move either 1/4 your speed as a move action or 1/2 your speed as a full round action)
* DC 5 Acrobatics to jump between ledges (same vertical rate as climbing, but hands can be occupied)
* DC 10 Acrobatics to jump between ledges (move 1/2 your speed vertically as a move action or your full speed as a full round action)
* Some other creative solution ... ?
Failing a climb check by 5 or less means no progress; failing by more than 5 means fall and take 1d6 damage per 10'.
Failing an acrobatics check means no progress and flat-footed until next round due to being off-balance.

"Damn, not ze keed!"

Solitaire rushes to the monument and attempts to scale the wall.

Move 50 ft across the desert, attempt the DC 10 acrobatics version with the last 10ft left of the double move (for half speed/5 ft and occupied hands)

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

"Up it is then." Graves growls, as he looks up the side of the monument where the harpy disappeared.

He quickly stores his shovel and starts to move up the side, leaping between ledges, using his shovel to maintain his balance, and hook rocky outcroppings.

Full round action, moving 30' upwards!

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (17) + 8 - 1 = 24

Let me know if I need to continue drumming, it's a free action, but I haven't seen any indication that part of the attack is continuing.

Ginadori runs 30' toward the monument, getting a good look at it on the way. Any knowledges? is there a good spot to anchor a rope up in the mouth? As she runs she begins to search her bags for her climbing equipment, and starts chanting some weird ancient language she picked up from a tablet not long ago.

Casting Spider Climb on self as a spell-like ability from a Boon

You know that once a person has resisted a harpy's charm, that person cannot be charmed by the same harpy for 24 hours.

You can't see into the mouth to tell, but there could be a place to anchor a rope, which would help anyone trying to climb.

Solitaire and Mr. Graves start up the monument while Ginadori casts a spell that causes her hands and feet to become sticky.

The blinded harpy flies off into the distance. Since Blindness is permanent, she won't be bothering you any further.

Hokama leads his remaining camels toward the monument while you work on trying to rescue Atmar.

Collapsing initiatives. Phosdlon and Egg Fu are up!

Phosdlon takes a 5' step over to Egg Fu and uses 1 point of Fervor and touches him lightly on the shoulder.

"Yuelral, please heal my companion."

Fervor healing: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7

Not as much as I had hoped, but it's a good start.

Egg bows to Phosdlon. "Many thanks!"

He then moves the 20' to the monument and then follows Solitaire and Graves scaling up it..

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

Phosdlon partially heals Egg's wounds as the monk begins climbing.

From above, you hear Atmar scream as he awakens from the charm and realizes his position.

Stuff you can't see happens in the cave. Everyone is up!

Graves continues his way up the monolith, leaping and clawing his way along, trying to reach the opening before the harpy can finish what she started.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 8 - 1 = 19

full round action. 30 more feet up.

Forget this rope idea, I need to get up there now

Ginadori books it, essentially running in a straight line up the front of the monument.

Moving up to 120 ft, which should get me in the mouth and close to the harpy, or at least to the lip, depending on GM's interpretation of running in a straight line. I lose my Dex to AC (-5), but I will use Dodging Panache if the harpy attacks me (+3 AC, move 5 ft), which I hope it will as opposed to the child.

If you lose your dex bonus to AC, you also lose all dodge bonuses... so dodging panache won't give you any AC while climbing.

Egg continues up the monument...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

Double move, up 30' more...

Phosdlon tries to jump up between ledges.

acrobatics(untrained): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Full-round movement; 30' move rate.

Solitaire attempts to jump from ledge to ledge, clutching his Harrow cards.

Full round action to attempt full move speed (30 ft) up the monument.

Acrobatics vs DC 10: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

"'Ang on, keed! Ve are coming!"shouts Solitaire.

Spider climb gives you a climb speed of 20 and allows you to retain your DEX bonus to AC while climbing; the Run action lets you move 4x your speed in a straight line and does cause you to lose your DEX bonus. Ginadori makes it 80' up, which puts her exactly on the lip of the cave, but cannot take advantage of any DEX bonus or Dodge bonus.

Ginadori reaches the mouth of the harpy cave and gags at the smell. Inside she sees the harpy getting ready to slice Atmar's throat open with her claw. Seeing Ginadori, she drops the youth and moves over to attack the bard instead.

Attack vs Ginadori: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Even off-balance from her rapid climb, Ginadori is able to dodge the attack.

Everyone is up! Ginadori is still somewhat precariously perched on the edge of the cavern, but does have room to move in with a 5' step. There is no map for the cavern, but we'll say it's about 10' wide and 15' deep. Atmar is cowering in the back.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 - 1 = 18

Graves leaps and jumps the last few ledges, reaching the cave mouth breathing hard from the exertion.

Not wanting to be hanging from the edge, eighty feet above the ground, he girds himself, and leaps right into the mouth of the cave, momentarily exposing himself to the harpy's claws as he does so!

I can reach the cave after 20' of jumping... then another 10' to climb in, and 10' of normal movement at the end? If so, he'll go right on in, moving past the harpy if he can. All of which will likely draw an attack of opportunity (probably flat footed)

Phosdlon continues to jump from ledge to ledge.

acrobatics(untrained): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Graves, the full round action acrobatics check lets you move 30'; since you only have 20' to go, the last 10' can be used to get into the cave, provoking from the harpy while not getting DEX/Dodge bonuses.

AoO vs Mr. Graves: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14damage: 1d3 ⇒ 2
As Mr. Graves gets into the cave, the harpy snags him with talon.

Unless I misunderstood the wall scaling mechanics, shouldn't Solitaire only be at 35 ft up?

I probably accidentally added your move in twice when I was reviewing. Thanks for pointing it out!

Egg keeps going up...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

Double move, up 30' more...

Ginadori practically rolls in the last 5 feet to be away from the ledge.

Full attack, including bite and possibly menacing swordplay

rapier: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 = 18
damage: 1d6 + 4 + 1 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 1 + 3 = 13
intimidate: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
bite: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (7) - 1 = 6
No on bite

Solitaire continues scaling the ledges.

Full round action to attempt again full move speed (30 ft) up the monument

Acrobatics vs DC 10: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

"Damn, I never zhought I'd be getting zhis close to ze Irori church, zhis probably makes me ze bishop or something..."

With a roll and a flourish, Ginadori stabs and bites and takes the last harpy down.

End of Combat, NPC Saved!

Looking around, you see that the cave is littered with filth and feathers as well as the bony remains of past victims of the harpies. Hidden among the detritus of the harpies’ cave are a scattering of 245 sp, an amulet, and a small teakwood chest. Within the chest are 40 gp, a map of the nearby Silken Way where it passes through the Zho Mountains (with Gaspar’s personal seal on it), and a bejeweled masterwork kukri, recognizable as part of Gaspar and Mahmoud’s weapons shipment.

Atmar thanks you profusely for saving him, then nearly faints as he realizes how high up he is. "I don't know if I can make it down ..."

Graves looks at the weapons, recognizable from Gaspar's shipment, with a frown.

"Payment, or stolen property?" He says, though its obvious from his tone he's assuming it is more the former, than the latter.

He pulls out his wayfinder, flips it open, and concentrates for a moment, before looking around the area once again.

Casting Detect Magic from wayfinder.

If needed:
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 + 1d6 ⇒ (19) + 9 + (1) = 29

The amulet is an Amulet of Natural Armor +1. That is the only magic in the area.

Posdlon is going to continue moving upward carefully. When he gets up top, he will ask Mr. Graves for use of his shovel for a while so he can shovel out as much as what remains inside, and then cast several Create Waters to clean the mouth out. After everyone else descends and gets clear, of course.

Do we need to take actions to descend and avoid damage? If so, can we take 10 on the climb/acrobatics checks?

If anyone is more melee and could use that amulet, that's my vote for a recipient.

Hmm... was going to go about securing a rope... then realized its 80' down... and I only have 50'.
Looking around, it does not appear Solitaire, Egg, or Phosdlon have any... and Ginadori has no equipment listed at all.

Taking 10 is possible out of combat, and even Atmar can make a DC 5 to slowly descend, he just needs encouragement.

After rooting through the harpy nest, Phosdlon does a bit to clean it and try to store it a bit.

Going slowly, you are able to get Atmar down, where he is reunited with Hokama. You can tell that despite being a slave, he is well cared-for, and Hokama is relieved to see him unhurt.

Using the map you found in the cave, you are able to plot out the best course to reach the main route of the Silken Way; even if you don't catch up to the caravan, you should be able to complete your journey.

A couple of you are carrying damage; I'll give you time to decide if and how to deal with that before moving on.