PFS PbP - Emerald Spire - The Tower Ruins (lvl 1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

...does that mean it will take several hours to dig Tenerak out?

...does that mean it will take several hours to dig Tenerak out?

If he makes his reflex save -> no

Good. The rules for being buried alive in the core rulebook are fairly unforgiving, especially at first level :-/

Reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9 take 1 dmg

(Just let me know what your plans are from this point and we'll pick it up from there)

Richard looks at the collapsed section of building dubiously.

"I hope that that goblin wasn't silly enough to trap itself in there... although to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised..."

Shaking his head, he helps Tenerek dig himself out, then cautiously heads south, looking for more goblins.

"Thanks for the help digging me out..... Well I Survived that... luckily.. i'm hoping we can find something to kill smash to stop this damned darkness though"

Richard walks into a small square unremarkable room which ends at a set of double doors.

After examining them and not finding them locked or trapped the doors are opened and you see the next room:

From this curving room, doors lead out of this room, and a passage
leads further down the room. A small table with four rickety chairs sits in the middle of the room. A pair of dice lies on the table amid cups and plates.

From where you are standing you can see one of the two goblins stationed here has fallen asleep on his half-eaten plate of food. The other goblin passes the time by putting small pieces of food in her slumbering mate’s ears, creating a culinary work of art (by goblin standards). The goblin is totally engrossed in the process.

Init Richard: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Init Torrag: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16
Init Eladrien: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Init Tenerek: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Init Sjonegaard: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Init Goblins: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

As the goblin notice you opening the door the one creating art draws her shortbow and fires it at Richard. She lets her comrade continue to sleep—there’s no sense in disturbing her masterpiece by waking him up!
To hit flatfooted AC Richard: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 but to quick to act she doesn't concentrate on aiming and her arrow shatters against the ceiling.

Perception check sleeping goblin: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3

The sleeping goblin continues to snore with food filled ears.

init
Party
Goblin(s)

What luck...

"The only good goblin is a dead goblin..."

Richard strides forward, and attempts to permanently silence the sleeping goblin.

Greatsword: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 1 + 2 = 22, for 2d6 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (5, 4) + 9 + 2 = 20 damage.

Assuming I would have had time to reliad the crossbow before initiative, Torrag moves forward 10 feet to the doorway and fires at the awake goblin.

Heavy Crossbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Can someone move Torrag to the doorway? Thanks.

Unable to properly close in on the remaining goblin Sjonegaard draws a javelin as he moves to the edge of the hindering terrain and launches it at the foul creature.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19, Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Eladrian moves forward 20' to stand next to Sjonegaard on my phone and can't update the map.. if someone wouldn't mind helping me out..

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Richard moves into the room and cuts of the sleeping goblins head sending it spinning through room spraying bits of food everywhere. The other goblin tracks it movement through the air going: "Noooooooooooo!!!!!"

@richard; Moved you back a square since you entered difficult terrain and as far as I know you only have a 20ft move speed, doesn't effect anything else, but just in case you wondered why you are some place else

@Torrag; Yeah, plenty of time to reload (and heal if needed) before moving on
Torrag moves forward and fires his crossbow...up into the ceiling, it must be that he's distracted by the flying pinata head.

Sjonegaard moves forward and hurls a javelin at the distracted goblin, piercing her shoulder with his weapon.

Eladrian moves forward to stand next to Sjonegaard

init
Tenerek
Goblin

Damage goblin: 5

If I can see I'll move to next to the goblin 30ft move should be enough to get there

Tenerek 2handed wields his longsword and attacks the goblin

Longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 181d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Tenerek moves into the room and with his longsword in two hands delivers a powerful stroke that first cuts through the goblins shortbow, then the string holding the 2 halves together and then continues to make the 2 goblins a matching - headless - pair

At that point a door in the wall opens up and a goblin emerges

He then has a very surprised reaction on his face to seeing you here standing next to 2 decapitated goblin corpses. For those that are able to tell individual goblins apart..this seems to be the one that you fought a short while ago right before the ceiling collapsed on Tenerek.

init
Party
Goblin (if he manages to make it that far)

Richard gleefully turns his attention upon the new goblin 'threat'...

"Surprise!"

Greatsword: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 + 2 = 10, for 2d6 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (1, 4) + 9 + 2 = 16 damage.

As Richard turns his attention on the new goblin he get's a little bit to excited and his greatsword slices through the air above the goblins head.

init
Torrag, Sjonegaard, Tenerek, Eladrian
goblin

Torrag takes a 5' step into the room and reloads his crossbow.

Sjonegaard moves in on the goblin. Double move, difficult terrain.

Seeing that his companions have the squirrelly little runt well in hand, posts himself to watch the two entrances, and looks about the room Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

Torrag moves into the room with a step and reloads his heavy crossbow while Sjonegaard moves forward to engage the goblin.
Eladrian keeps watch (but unless I'm mistaken doesn't have darkvision and can't see that far) but doesn't hear anything approaching.

The goblin draws a short sword and takes a swing at 1e2s3r: 1d3 ⇒ 2 Sjonegaard
To hit AC Sjonegaard: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
but all though he get's close he isn't able to get through Sjonegaard's defenses.

init
Party
Goblin

Tenerek uses studied target on the Goblin +1 tohit and dmg

Tenerek swings at the goblin

"Yes my little friend I know you tried to drop a ton of rocks on me, allow me to introduce myself I am" Stabs the Goblin

Longsword: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 231d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 151d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Tenerek studies his target and swings at the goblin introducing himself by way of weapon.

The goblin slinks to the floor...dead

(Out of combat)

The goblins had a small short sword, short bow (with 20 arrow) and a leather armor each.

(what/where are you plans now?)

"I see three entrances out of here. Let's cut back to the west and move back and forth until this floor is cleared. "

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I follow Richard again.

"I agree with Eladrian, let's clear this section strategically. But I'll follow the melee guys that can see in the darkness."

"If we're doing this systematically then let us check out that door over there before heading deeper into the ruins." Sjonegaard heads to the door he intends to open and waits for the go ahead from the others.

Assuming the door to the top and not bottom

Starting to clear the area systematically Sjonegaar leads the party to the first door and after going over it a bit you find out that you can't find a trap on it..it is locked.

(and just so speed up some things)

The door on the other side of the corridor also doesn't seem trapped and doesn't seem to be locked.

(And since you are a bit further down the corridor now, description of the rest of the room you are in)
Rubble and sharpened sticks barricade on of the entrances to this curved room, and a thin wall runs down the room’s middle. To one side, a short passageway leads to a similar room (which is where you came from). Doors are set in the outer wall of the room and both walls of the passageway.

(Do you guys want to go for the unlocked door or try to get through the locked door first or do something else?)

I am happy to go through the middle door to the south, but after that, I wouldn't mind checking-out the passage that the goblin came out of...

how about the middle door to the north. We are standing right here and it obviously can't go anywhere...

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how about the middle door to the north. We are standing right here and it obviously can't go anywhere...

That's the locked door

I keep following I try to be as much assistance as possible, putting myself between charging attackers unless i'm almost dead etc, as those who can see have a better chance of keeping me alive if they are still capable

"There are some more than capable fighters to knock down a locked door. It's not like we're being stealthy and more valuable treasure usually lies behind locked doors."

"Well, we can always try and make our own keys!" Eladrian says as he steps forward and starts trying to force the door.
Strength: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
After a couple of pitiful attempts at shouldering the door open (really.. a child could do better that he just did), Eladrian steps back for someone else to try. Hanging his head in shame, he goes back to his lookout duties.

Torrag will step up to try and break down the door. Presumably switching places with Eladrian.
He has his axe drawn.

Strength: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

"RRRAAWWRRR!"

After Eladrian ineffectively bashes against the door Torrag switches places with him and tries to bash down the door himself..succeeding quite nicely. There are a few splinters flying everywhere..but the door is cracked down the middle and allows for access into the room now.

Rows of wooden racks on the walls of this room hold a ramshackle collection of rusty blades, scraps of armor, and warped arrows.

Unfortunately, goblins aren’t very good weaponsmiths. Six Small dogslicers and six Small horsechoppers are piled haphazardly around the room. The other items are unusable and worthless.

Tenerek looks around the armoury seeing if he can find anything.. he can't see far so he has to get close.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Richard sniffs derisively.

"Clearly not Dwarven make..."

He then moves to open the doors to the south.

Tenerek takes a closer look and confirms that everything in here is of poor goblin manufacturing.

Richard then leads the party out of the room and across the corridor to the next door:

Stairs wind upward to the right, circling around a glowing wall of semi-translucent green stone. It seems the tower was built around a core of some other material—a spire within a spire.

(Do you want to go up the stairs or continue to explore on your current level? - as an OOC note, it's still part of this level and it's not the entry to the next part of the Emerald Spire)

Continue exploring this level.

Richard nods in the direction of the staircase.

"Let's leave that for later."

He then moves over to check out the passage to the north that the goblin came out of.

"I agree. Let's finish this floor before we go upstairs." Eladrian says as he move across the hall

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Richard enters a cramped tunnel with Eladrian at his back ( and followed by the rest of the party);

The tunnel is 4 feet tall.

Medium creatures walking upright can navigate the tunnel by squeezing to move and thus taking a –4 penalty on attack rolls and a –4 penalty to AC. Small and smaller creatures can move about normally, as can most quadrupedal Medium creatures (including goblin dogs).

After a bit of effort of squeezing through the tunnel you reach a canvas piece of cover and after pushing it aside you enter the tower behind the collapsed ceiling;

This round tower is badly damaged, its floor strewn with rubble. On side is a huge pile of rubble which is going to take about 20 hours of hard labor to clear away.

After an extensive search you can't find anything that is of any interest to you in this area.

"Tch. Goblins. Why can't they ever tunnel something a normal person could walk through?"

Shaking his head, Richard heads for the next closest door, and opens it.

The SE one.

Eladrian moves to the south door with Richard.

Torrag follows Richard and Eladrian.

After a quick search you don't think the door is trapped and it's unlocked. As you examine it you can hear various goblins scream on the other side

When you open it you see:

Two tables with benches lie scattered around this mess hall.
Decaying food of an indescribable nature sits on the tables. At the one end of the chamber there are 2 doors exiting the room (one of which you just entered through).

Currently, two goblins are fighting over the hindquarters of a mangy coyote. Their argument can be heard for quite a distance outside the room.

Init Richard: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Init Torrag: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16
Init Eladrien: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
Init Tenerek: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Init Sjonegaard: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Init Goblins: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

init
Tenerek, Sjongaard
goblins
Party

Ill wait and follow the first person in. I can't see the goblins so i can't really act against them.

Can someone move me adjacent to the red goblin please...

With his Wayfinder lighting thr way for the others Sjonegaard moves onto the room and bashes the nearest goblin.

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15, 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (6, 5) + 6 = 17

Sjonegaard moves into the room and the goblin nearest to the door has an surprises expression on his face as he turns around to see Sjongaard's weapon bash into him...right before he looses consciousness and topples over on the floor..letting go of the piece of hyena meat..the other goblin starts to smile happily as he is now the sole possessor of the meat and then noticed why he is the only one holding the meat and a you can see the fear ripple through his boy.

Tenerek follows the first person into the room

The remaining goblin drops the hyena meat and moves towards the other exit, drawing a short bow as he goes sending an arrow Richard's way
To hit Richard AC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
but it's hands still greasy with hyena fat and blood made the arrow fall of the bow string and land right in front of the goblin's feet.

init
Party
Goblin (..maybe)

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

With that roll Tenerek has figured where the Goblin is

He steps up to the Goblin and swings his longsword two handed

Longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 91d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11