PFS PbP GameDay IV: PFS 06-06 - The Hall of the Flesh Eaters (Inactive)

Game Master FiddlersGreen

Zykon shakes his head and holds his crossbow up over his head, so his finger can just barely trace over the trigger as he attempts to hit the last ghoul in the line.

Free Action: Reload crossbow

Spend grit to resolve vs. touch AC

Ranged Touch vs. Last Ghoul in Line(Is it into melee given the position of the last one in line? If so, take four off roll): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 211d8 ⇒ 3

"Don't let them get through the doorway! We can fight them one after the other!" Raman shouts while Swinging his fists at the creature in front of him.
Flurry left: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 2 = 18 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Flurry right: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9

BoomAhg 5 ft steps to center the hallway and tosses another bomb to the last one in the straight line.

Bomb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Scatter for miss: 1d8 ⇒ 8

As the first one gets in range of my blade, i thrust out at the beast.

LS attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

LS Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

i do mot think cleave applies as there is not an adjacent target.

Aldur?

Aldur drops his bow onto the ground behind him, kicking it backwards so it doesn't interfere with his movement, and draws his rapier. He thrusts it into the creature flanked by him and Raman, breathing a silent prayer that he can get through this adventure without attempting to devour him teammates.

Well, maybe the alchemist.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Sigh.

Raman's first punch caves the first creature's chest in. It collapses to the ground and does not get up. Aldur thrusts his rapier at the next creature and hits...but to no effect as he realises that he forgot to draw the blade from the scabbard. Zykon fires down the line and hits the creature all the way at the back. Titus steps up and bisects the next creature in the line. Boom throws his bomb down the passage way, but hits the wall.

reflex save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
reflex save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Both seem to be quite singed from the blast.

The creature closer to Titus steps up and sweeps at him with claws and a bite.

claw attack roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
claw damage roll: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

claw attack roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18
claw damage roll: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

bite attack roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
bite damage roll: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Its claws fail to penetrate Titus' thick armor, but its bite manages to get Titus near the neck. As it bites down, Aldur feels his strength slipping.

The next creature in the line follows close behind, but the last two seem a little more canny. They pull back a little and seem to be waiting...

Initiative order:
Raman
Aldur
Zykon
Titus
Boom
Creatures

Titus, you need to make 2 fort saves. It's a new round and you can all act again.

Aldur looks at his empty fingers and swears in elven. Drawing his rapier, for real this time, he thrusts it at the creature savaging Titus.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

In case he can fight around the corner, please reduce the attacks for cover
Raman continues to swing his fists against the monster.
Flurry left: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Flurry right: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

"Titus, step back so Aldur and me can flank!"

BoomAhg steps as far as he can up (depending on if the first 2 are dead...)And chucks a bomb at the closer smart one who moved back.

Bomb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Damage Fire: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Scatter?: 1d84 ⇒ 57

Opps Scatter?
scatter?: 1d8 ⇒ 4

After that last throw Zykon is revoking any permission he may have implied or given for Ahg to risk hitting him with splash weapons, no matter the circumstances. He's been trying to be polite, but this is past out of hand.

Zykon raises his crossbow up again and takes another shot at the 'tail-end charlie' in the nearest duo.

Spending Grit
Ranged Touch vs. Last Ghoul in Line(Is it into melee given the position of the last one in line? If so, take four off roll): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 271d8 ⇒ 4
Chance for Critical(Touch) Last Ghoul in Line(Is it into melee given the position of the last one in line, if so, take four off roll): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 211d8 ⇒ 1

If that confirmed, regaining grit. If that kills, possibly also regaining grit

Raman and Aldur try to strike the creature around the corner, but find themselves unable to attack effectively due to the cover that the wall provides. Zykon fares significantly better as he lines up a shot and brings down the creature behind.

Initiative order:
Raman
Aldur
Zykon
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Titus
Boom
Creatures

Waiting for Titus now. Zykon, you confirmed and killed, so you get some grit back.

MMRHHH, that don't feel none too good

Fortitude Save 1: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Fortitude Save 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

LS attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
LS damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Noted and Adjusted, thank you.

Titus hefts his longsword and brings it down on the creature who bit him with a power blow... but just before the blow lands, he finds to his horror his arm seizing up and refusing to move! For that matter, so does the rest of his body! A slight nudge from the creature sends Titus falling to the floor.

paralysed for this number of rounds: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 Yowza

Boom chucks another bomb, going for a long shot. It fly far indeed (2 range increments), but is sufficiently off-target that no one is affected by the splash.

With Titus incapacitated, the creature that paralyzed him steps forward and 1d2 ⇒ 2 goes for a helping of tasty Ramen.

claw attack roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
claw confirmation roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
claw damage roll: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

claw attack roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
claw damage roll: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

bite attack roll: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
bite damage roll: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

One of its claws swipes and tears a painful gash on Raman's arm. Fort save vs paralysis please

One of the creatures waiting behind now sees an opportunity and suddenly charges forward on all fours. 1d2 ⇒ 1 This one decides that dwarves are too tough and stringy, and goes for the more tender elf tartare instead.

charging bite with cover: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Fortunately for Aldur, the creature stumbles a little as it runs forward and narrowly avoids smashing its face into the walls... and does not even come close to hitting.

Initiative order:
Raman
Aldur
Zykon
Titus (paralyzed 5 rounds)(-7)
Boom
Creatures

Sorry Titus, you're out for awhile. Everyone else can act for the next round.

The tengu takes a bit of a shuffling step to the side to get a cleaner shot and takes it.

5' step Free action reload

MW Crossbow vs. first ghoul in line(into melee, but no cover): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 7 - 4 = 101d8 ⇒ 6

Unfortunately, the shot goes wide, apparently due to trying to not shoot quite as precisely as before.

Frozen....and unable to move...realizing what a horrid predicament this is, I wonder if its time to get more plate like armor.

Raman slams his fists at the next creature coming through the doorway.
left: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 2 = 17 damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
right: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 2 = 8

Aldur waits, watching Titus for signs of life, his rapier ready to defend his ally.

Aldur readys an action, interrupting any creature that attacks Titus.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Le sigh.

BoomAhg attempts a perception check trying to figure out anything odd.
Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Then tosses a bomb at the back of the line of baddies

Bomb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Raman tries to punch the new combatant, but the wall prevents him from lining up a straight punch, and his first punch narrowly misses. His second does not even come close.

Aldur nimbly switches his rapier between his right and left hands to disorient his opponent, then suddenly stabs with his right hand. Unfortunately, his attempt at misdirection had been so successful he forgets that his rapier was in his left hand when he stabbed with his right. You're not sure...is that ghoul laughing?

Zykon lines up a shot, but is so busy trying not to laught from Aldur's antics that his shot goes wide.

Titus continues his observation of the floor.

Finally, Boom chucks a bomb over the heads of the combatants, aiming for the creature way at the back. He hits, and the bomb explodes in a roar of fire, engulfing it in flames.

The remaining 2 creatures at the front shuffle forward as they attack. The first one steps forward and goes for 1d2 ⇒ 2 Raman.

Raman takes a claw and a bite, and whilst neither strike wounds him too severely, they threaten to incapacitate him... (Need 3 fort saves from Raman, which I will roll since it will affect what the next guy does.)

Raman heroically staves off the paralysis, though he thinks he might have caught something from the bite... maybe he'll find out the next morning...

The creature behind steps forward and goes for 1d2 ⇒ 2 Raman again!

Raman takes another claw to the shoulder, but manages to evade the other attacks, and stands to fight another round.

Seeing that his friend has created an opening for him, the last of the creatures at the back charges forward, aiming to take a bite out of 1d2 ⇒ 2 Raman, whom the dice just love today.

charging bite attack roll: 1d20 + 4 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 2 - 4 = 9
bite damage roll: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Fortunately for Raman, the creature is rather slowed by the three bodies of his friends in the way, and Raman is able to see the attack coming and easily dodge the nasty bite.

Initiative order:
Raman (-10)
Aldur
Zykon
Titus (paralyzed 4 rounds)(-7)
Boom
Creatures

If you haven't realised, these last 2 guys are a little different from the first 4. You guys are up again.

"Remind me to stop the fancy bladework when we're in the field." Holding his blade in the right hand, he thrusts at the ghoul that dared laugh at him.

Using combat expertise, -1 to hit, but I gain+1AC
Thrust!: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

After the miss, Aldur steps back to allow Gibbs a better shot.

Five foot to the left.

Gibbs backs up and raises the crossbow high once more, firing at the rear of the formation.

Spending Grit

Touch Attack vs. 'rear' ghoul(-4 if considered shooting into melee): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 261d8 ⇒ 2

Critical? Touch attack vs. 'rear' ghoul (-4 if considered shooting into melee): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 191d8 ⇒ 7

BoomAhg feeling pretty good throws another bomb at the square that the last on is in hoping to only splash the bad guys and not almost kill Titus once again....

No need to roll on a tile hit as I am +4 and a 5 hits tile spots

damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

I continue to watch on.

Waiting for Raman now.

Knowing that this might be his last action, he once more swings his fists against the already injured creature. the one in front of Boom
Left: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 2 = 22 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Right: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 2 = 10

Raman is obviously left-handed

Raman demonstrates the good old one-two that his master taught him. Unfortunately, however, Raman was never able to count up to two, and so never learned how to throw the second punch properly. Fortunately, the 'one' is enough to drop his opponent.

Aldur tries a stab at the next creature in line, but despite having his weapon in the right hand this time (see what I did there?) he is still unable to hit. Grateful that his fencing teacher is not here to see this, he shamefully backs away.

Zykon lines up a shot and fires, aiming for the jugular. His shot not only severs the jugular, but also penetrates through the neck, striking the creature's spinal cord right at the weakspot betwene the vertebrae. The creature's head whips around from the impact, and without the support of an intact spinal column to hold it in place, flops around for awhile before tearing itself right off. Crit confirmed and dead.

Titus just wonders why it's raining red on his head.

Initiative order:
Raman (-10)
Aldur
Zykon
Titus (paralyzed 4 rounds)(-7)
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Boom
Creatures

Boom, do you want to reconsider your action? The last enemy standing is standing directly over Titus.

Yeah I'll change it

BoomAhg grabs his morning star and takes a 5foot step forward and holding onto it with both arms swings it upward into the creature.

morningstar: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Hmmm, funny, the world is going. Normally I am in a pretty angry mood when this happens. This is interesting.

Boom smashes his morning star into the creature's face. It growls angrily and returns the favor!

claw attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
claw damage roll: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

claw attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
claw damage roll: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

bite attack roll: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
bite damage roll: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

One of its claws tears an angry red gash across Boom's arm.

Initiative order:
Raman (-10)
Aldur
Zykon
Titus (paralyzed 3 rounds)(-7)
Boom (-4)
Creatures

You guys again, one opponent left. Go get 'im.

The tengu bolt ace moves laterally and loads his crossbow once more, looking for a 'cleaner' shot than the one with Boom and Raman and downed Titus in the way...

MWK UW L. Crossbow (into melee): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 4 = 161d8 ⇒ 1

*plink*?

Not thinking any more Raman just slams his fists into the remaining creature.
Attack left: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Attack right: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Raman finally works out the secret of the right-hand-punch! With his new ultimate move unlocked, he finally takes down his foe!

The ginormous stinking lump of flesh in the middle of the room remains where it is, a passage choked with rubble and small boulders and a door a little further to the North-West.

What do you want to do?

First things first, Zykon goes up behind Boom and gives him a non-damaging and non-lethal slap to the back of his head.

"Brought the meat for that."

After that, though, he heads over to Titus to see what he can do about getting the fellow off the ground.

Heal check(Untrained): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

If no one thinks of it, he motions to curing wands and to the heavily injured members of the party.

"Those last two didn't act quite the same."

Before the party advances any further, he'll take out a cloth and wet it down before dropping it over the front of his beak. The look is decidedly odd.

Attempting to use the wet cloth as a filter in case there's something in that pile of lump of flesh that causes folks to go cannibal.

Once those things are done, he takes out his notebook and makes sure his notes are up to date.

BoomAhg looks around the room, Inspecting the rubble passage and looking for any oddities to the walls and architecture.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Engineering: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Arcana: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Hey, I only listened to Titus, he said bomb.....

Nothing appears out of the ordinary here to Boom. Well, nothing apart form the bleedingly obvious huge polyp of rotting flesh.

"That's disguisting, let's move on." Raman says while copying Zykon's idea with the wet cloth. "I could use some healing." he mentions.

Aldur kicks the body of the final ghoul, then closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. "I'm fine now."

He pulls out his wand and begins to heal the party.

I'll begin rolling the dice for UMD, since a 1 will prevent me from using it for the day.

Raman
UMD: Wand: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30 Healing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
If you don't mind, I'm going to leave you with 1 hp of damage. It seems a waste of a charge for 1 hp.

Titus
UMD: Wand: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18
UMD: Wand: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24 Healing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Boom
UMD: Wand: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22 Healing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

4 more charges used

"Raman, prepare to restrain me if I act strange." Aldur then walks over to the polyp and begins to examine it.

Knowledge: Arcana: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Yes, that would be a waste.

Blinking and wiping the redsplatter off my face. Thanks I nod to Zykon.

Well, that went off pretty well don't ya'll think?

Feeling a bit revitalized with the wand's healing. Aldur, my thanks once again in stitching me back up. I really will buy one of things when I get back into town and I am happy to help compensate you for a new wand in the future. \

I look at the large bleednig polyp as Aldu walks over to it. Blade in hand, I watch, prepared to make it bleed a lot more if it harms Aldur, or any of the party for that matter.

I think we should all look around this room a little closer, there may be clues or something else we are missing. This room seems important, much more then the ones we have been to so far.

The polyp does not move. It is roughly 20ft in diameter and 10 ft tall, and bears hundreds of poorly-healed scars from what appear to be innumerable bites. Aldur's observations lead him to believe that it is some sort of self-regenerating food source cultivated for the undead on this level. Whether or not it strengthens them or promotes their spawning is a little harder to tell.

Aldur, how are you examining it? Visual? Touch? Magic?
Is anyone else going to try to interact with it, or are you going to leave it alone?

I ain't touchin that pile of rotten flesh

Visual. Definitely no touchy. I also want to examine the symbols scratched onto the walls. Linguistics?

Well, unless Titus wants to make chops out of the polyp, it doesn't look like there's much else you will be doing with it.

The scratch marks appear to be just random scratchings. They do not appear to be runes or any language of any sort.

There's also the collapsed passage and the door.

Gibbs moves up to the collapsed passage slowly, keeping his senses sharp...

Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

The scratch marks appear to be just random scratchings. They do not appear to be runes or any language of any sort.

Hmmm. Even though they were described as symbols? I want to examine the wall itself, as well as the choked passage, also take charcoal rubbing of the scratches.

BoomAhg lends support to all Aldur's searching and rubbings.