[PFS PbP Gameday 6/1] DM Elanmorin's Shades of Ice I - Written In Blood (Inactive)

Game Master Rogar Valertis

Inside the armory here are stairs leading to the floor above you. At first glance you can find nothing of immediate value near you

"I don't know, these foul beasts' funk is pretty distracting."

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13

perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Hskrota is about to ask if anyone would mind using his healing wand on him, when he hears a noise from upstairs and outside.

"Someone is upstairs and they just threw something out the window into the courtyard!" He rushes to the stairs and hurries up.

Before Hskrotka gets up the stairs, Skuttlebutt activates the nagaji's wand on him. He takes the opportunity to flick away some of the goblin dog viscera on Hskrota's scales.

"There you, uh, go, got a bit of eyeball and some liver there, just let me, yeah, get that, uh, all good now."

CLW wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Assuming you have the means to see through darkness

As Hskrota climbs the stairs he doesn't notice any form of activity around him, at least not in his immediate vicinities.

Do the goblins have anything of value or usefulness on their bodies? We'll presume that the goblin dog has neither on it.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9.

Although Minuro/Thundercloud doesn't hear anything of note after the fight with the goblins, the fact that Hskrota mentioned something being thrown outside the window prompts the masked Wayang to say to the remaining party (besides the Nagajii, who went upstairs), "Should we let the guards outside the door know about something being tossed out a window from upstairs? I'd better go and see if there's anything else waiting up there..."

At any rate, instead of sticking around to hear an answer from his fellow compatriots, Thundercloud will go up the stairs after Hskrota- with lucerne hammer still in hand.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19. Anything to see upstairs?

"They'll have time to see it later," Etude points out. "Let's go see what it is - if it's loud enough that you heard it, it should be slow to move around."

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Calphe shrugs and follows the others up the stairs. "See anything?"

Hskrota and Minuro can't seem to locate Hjort and his cronies upstairs. A gust of wind coming from one of the chambers on the west side of the facility. As they cautiously enter the room they see the windows are open and loking outside to the courtyard below they see 4 well armed people who seem to have just climbed down there. Two of them look familiar: they resemble the descriptions of Hjort Fastaxe and Runa White!

The enemy is inside the courtyard on the western side of the armory. You are split. How do you want to approach this?

Calephe heads back down the stairs and out the door at a run. "They are outside in the courtyard. Let's go!"

Or as fast as she can go.

The location of the enemy confirmed, Etude follows Calephe for the next fight, rapier still in hand.

We can keep 'em distracted/apply debuffs if anyone has any? Then we can be reinforced? The sooner we stop them from running off the better.

@DM Elan Morin: I moved Thundercloud's piece upstairs with Hskrota on the Armory Map since that would be where he is ingame-wise.

From the broken window upstairs, would Minuro/Thundercloud have enough of a range with his 30' mystic bolt ability to attack Hjort, Runa, and company from way down below at the courtyard? If so, he'll go and make a ranged attack on them; if not, he'll likely head back downstairs unless prompted to do so otherwise by Hskrota or the others.

We can keep 'em distracted/apply debuffs if anyone has any? Then we can be reinforced? The sooner we stop them from running off the better.

Spellwise, I got nothing. Apart from Mystic bolt attacking from the broken window/s upstairs, I could attempt to drop some marbles down on our villainous foursome.

@ Minuro: considering the height with 30' range Minuro could target the two opponents standing near the walls, not the other two

@ Etude: One of you could go move to the other side of the Armory and call the guards you met previously. They could be persuaded to help... but it will take time. Their favored strategy would be to keep Hjort & Co. pinned until other reinforcements could be summoned

I need to know how you want to approach this

Okay, that sounds like it could be helpful - Etude will go attempt to go and inform the guards and explain they have the aggressors pinned in case the guards would like to help (and maybe get a chunk of the glory).
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

Hskrota knew he was gambling when he went upstairs instead of outside. He curses when he realizes his folly. "Quickly, don't let them get away!"

He whips out his composite longbow and fires!

Preferably at either Hjort or Runa if I can see them.

bow+destined: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 = 6
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Etude runs towards the other side of the armory while Hskrota shoots at Hjort from the broken window...

As Hskrota starts raining arrows on them the fastest enemy to react is the one wearing a monk's grab who answers by throwing something at the Nagaji...

Attack roll (Gyuri vs Hskrota): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15 -> Damage roll: 1d2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

...a small piece of sharpened steel that ends struck into the rafters above Hskrota's head

Round 01 - Bold may act

Hskrota
Etude

Gyuri

Calephe

Hjort
Runa

Azadeh
The Thundercloud

Lazar

Scuttlebutt

Are any of them holding anything? If so, what?

@Scuttlebutt: the red haired man wields an axe and a knife, the woman behind him has a javelin, the robed man holds a crossbow while teh one resembling a monk has more of those sharpened metal pieces he threw at Hskrota

Minuro/Thundercloud will spend a move action to get to a broken window, then- instead of making an attack- he will spend his next action (I think it'll be either another move or a standard action) getting out his bag of marbles so that he could throw it down upon Hjort and company in next round, all the while muttering aloud, "This Hjort is supposed to be all damn blood-thirsty fearsome and the first thing he does when he looses a bunch of goblins is to climb out of a blasted window! He's got to be a Fake! No wonder Runa's got to pay people to get herself a real Pathfinder...".

I hope they come and help me soon or this could be bad.

Calephe continues around the corner, and moves into the open area. She attacks the monk with a kukri. She misses and waits to see what happens next.

Kukri: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Although I moved Thundercloud to the closest window that he could reach, I'd be fine with placing him at the window under the bed directly north of where he is currently so that Hskrota has direct shot to the group below. If an acrobatics roll will be needed to climb on the bed, I'll be happy to either have the GM roll for it or just do a generic d20 roll here.

generic D20 roll: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9.

Calephe enters the fray alone against the 4 opponents. Unfortunately her thrust can't pierce the monk's defenses.
"You pathfinder bastards! It's time you pay for the slaughter of my village! I'm going to kill each one of you, skin you and leave what's left to rot!" the red maned warrior roars as he engages Calephe...

Attack roll (Hjort vs Calephe) 01: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 -> Damage roll: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Attack roll (Hjort vs Calephe) 02: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5 -> Damage roll: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Fortunately it seems his rage clouds his ability to fight well...

Meanwhile the woman in white moves behind him and touches his shoulders...

Round 01 - Bold may act

Hskrota
Etude

Gyuri

Calephe

Hjort
Runa

Azadeh
The Thundercloud

Lazar

Scuttlebutt

@DM Elan Morin: I'm guessing that my moving up towards the nearest window and taking out my bag of marbles would be my sole actions for that round or am I permitted some more subsequent actions past that? ;)

Someone moved the map. If any of you did, please avoid doing that in the future as it forces me to realign everything.

Azadeh moves towards the fray, eager to support Calephe. The Thundercloud runs towards the nearest window and prepares to shoot at the enemies below.
As Hjort starts insulting the pathfinders and engages Calephe the robed man behind the monk starts reading a scroll of some kind. Probably mystical in nature...

Round 01/02 - Bold may act

Hskrota
Etude

Gyuri

Calephe

Hjort
Runa

Azadeh
The Thundercloud

Lazar

Scuttlebutt

Assuming Etude is done with the guards, she starts back towards the fight, not wanting to miss out on any of the action.

Double move.

"The cold air is impossible to shoot through," complains Hskrota as he takes off running downstairs.

Double move. Drawing my greatsword on the way.

@Etude: between reaching them, explaining herself and convincing them to follow Etude needs 4 rounds to get back to the action

Yessir, just lemme know when I'm in. c:

Seeing the commotion happening in the courtyard, Scuttlebutt rushes forward with his rapier and wand still at hand. He draws forth at his inner magic that spills forth in the form of a sea chanty his grandfather taught him as a child to bolster his allies with courage.

Move 30 ft, standard action start bardic performance to inspire courage

Etude runs towards the armory guards, as Hskrota and Scuttlebutt try to reach the courtyard before Calephe gets overwhelmed...

The monk tries to smash Calephe's face with his bare hands!

Attack roll (Gyuri vs Calephe) 01: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 -> Damage roll: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Attack roll (Gyuri vs Calephe) 02: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 -> Damage roll: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Yet again he can't hit the nimble varisian.

Round 02 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota
Etude

Gyuri

Calephe

Hjort
Runa

Azadeh
The Thundercloud

Lazar

Scuttlebutt

Someone moved the map. If any of you did, please avoid doing that in the future as it forces me to realign everything.

After I got some time to mull it over, I believe that I had somehow accidentally moved the map earlier since I had been playing with the zooming/resizing functions on that very google map page. My apologies for any inconvenience that it had caused, DM Elan Morin.

Peering through the window, Minuro/Thundercloud cursed under his breath as Hjort made his move (and his attack) towards Calephe. I should be able the drop my marbles down on the other three... wait-a-memmit- one of them seems to be casting something from a scroll; that doesn't bode well for any of us...!

Calephe?

While surrounded Calephe doesn't give up and tries to slash at the monk with both of her knives, sure her friends are not far behind her...

Attack roll (Calephe vs Gyuri) 01: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 5 + 1 = 23 -> Damage roll: 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 = 6

Attack roll (Calephe vs Gyuri) 02: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 5 + 1 = 18 -> Damage roll: 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 1 = 3

... she hits twice, and the monk grimaces trying to stop the blood coming from the wounds Calephe opened on his chest.

This causes Hjort to scream in pure animalistic rage as the tall Ulfen tries to vanquish Calephe on the spot...

Attack roll (Hjort vs Calephe) 01: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 1 = 11 -> Damage roll: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Attack roll (Hjort vs Calephe) 02: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13 -> Damage roll: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

... and again Calephe manages to evade him.

Meanwhile Runa raises her hands into the air and summons dark energies to suck the life out of the brave Varisian fighting her and her companions alone.

Channel energy: 1d6 ⇒ 5 Calephe, roll a DC15 will save, if you suceed you only suffer half the damage

Round 02 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota
Etude

Gyuri -9hp, disabled

Calephe ?

Hjort
Runa

Azadeh
The Thundercloud

Lazar

Scuttlebutt

Not really sure what the range increments from Thundercloud's window position on the upper floor to the scroll-reading robed man (Lazar?) position in the courtyard will be...

Figuring that his marbles will do little to prevent the scroll, that the robed man down below is reading aloud, from going off, Minuro/Thundercloud will drop his Lucerne Hammer (as a free action), take out his Alkali Flask from his MW Backpack (as a move action), call upon his innate Shadow Speaker ability (as a swift action) to gain a +2 Insight bonus to the attack, and throw the Alkali Flask down at the robed man from above floor (as a standard action, ranged splash attack).

Splash Attack: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 8. +2 from Shadow Speaker, +1 Scuttlebutt's Inspire Courage.

Acid damage: 1d6 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 3.

Best use of a "water balloon" shenanigan in a combat situation! This one's going in my 'vault' of greatest RPG maneuvers witnessed.

Let's just say the THunderbolt aimed for the square near the robed man which has AC 5 and then dealt damage to every square near the target...

Minuro throws the acid flask and its contents burn the robed man, the wounded monk and the woman in white below. The wizard curses and casts a spell back up at the Thundercloud!
Azadeh delays her action waiting for... something to happen.

Gyuri stabilization check: 1d20 + 0 - 3 ⇒ (13) + 0 - 3 = 10

Magic Missile vs the Thundercloud: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Round 02/03 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota
Etude

Gyuri -12hp, disabled

Calephe ?

Hjort
Runa -3hp

Azadeh
The Thundercloud -5hp

Lazar -3hp

Scuttlebutt

Keeping up with the next verse of his inspiring sailing song, a bawdy tune about sailing the Obari Ocean bound for distant Tien to sample their strongest rice wines, Scuttlebutt starts to go around the fence and engage Calephe's nearest opponents when a new idea immediately hits him. Dropping his rapier to the ground (while still wielding the healing wand in is other hand), he intones the words to a spell while tracing arcane sigils with his right hand. He ends his incantation by pointing at the ground beneath Hjort, Runa, and the hand to hand combatant to make a slimy, greased film appear.

Free action to maintain bardic performance, free action to drop rapier, standard action cast Grease on the four squares occupied by Runa, Gyuri, Hjort, and the square to the left of Hjort. Reflex DC 13

Four rounds, right? Etude continues to move towards the fight after persuading the guards.

Hskrota finishes running around the corner and slams his greatsword into the woman in white!

attack+rage+inspire courage-PA: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 7 + 2 + 1 - 1 = 10
damage+rage+inspire courage+PA: 2d6 + 6 + 2 + 1 + 3 ⇒ (4, 6) + 6 + 2 + 1 + 3 = 22

@Hskrota, there is Grease in that square

Reflex Save (Hskrota): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Reflex Save (Hjort): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Reflex Save (Runa): 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19
Will Save (Calephe): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Hskrota tries to attack the woman in white but falls down on the ground thanks to Scuttlebutt's spell. The woman and the red haired man don't have such problems and keep their footing steady.
Having convinced the guards to follow her Etude guides them towards the fray...

Round 03 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota prone
Etude

Gyuri -12hp, disabled

Calephe -5hp

Hjort
Runa -3hp

Azadeh
The Thundercloud -5hp

Lazar -3hp

Scuttlebutt

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Calephe grins at Hjort, and swings both of her kukris at him. "Bad mouth the Pathfinders? We don't even know what we are supposed to have done."

Kukri: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
Damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Kukri: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Kukri Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Azadeh shots a jet of rocks at the red maned brute, hitting him fair anmd square while Calephe wounds hims twice as well!

Attack roll (Azadeh vs Hjort): 1d20 ⇒ 15 -> Damage roll: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Derspite his wounds the man named Hjort grunts and fights on!

Azadeh again and the Thundercloud

Round 03 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota prone
Etude

Gyuri -12hp, disabled

Calephe -5hp

Hjort -12hp
Runa -3hp

Azadeh
The Thundercloud -5hp

Lazar -3hp

Scuttlebutt

Best use of a "water balloon" shenanigan in a combat situation! This one's going in my 'vault' of greatest RPG maneuvers witnessed.

Thanks, Scuttlebutt- I'm glad that it worked out as it did. ;)

Let's just say the THunderbolt aimed for the square near the robed man which has AC 5 and then dealt damage to every square near the target...

And Thank you, DM Elan Morin, going to have to remember about that "aiming for the square" bit; didn't know that was even possible. :)

Minuro throws the acid flask and its contents burn the robed man, the wounded monk and the woman in white below. The wizard curses and casts a spell back up at the Thundercloud!

Smarting from the sting of that full blown Magic Missile, Minuro /Thundercloud decides against dropping the bag of marbles once he sees that Scuttlebutt has made the ground around Hjort, Runa, Hskrota, and the now completely prone, possibly expired, shuriken-throwing lackey of Hjort all greasy-like. Added some green drops to the affected areas via the shapes drop-down menu, btw.

Instead, the masked Wayang opts to go into a shooting match with the robed man, using his mystic bolts of lightning...

Will wear his buckler as his move action, use up his last usage of Shadow Speaker for a +2 on attacking as a swift action, and fire away with his mystic bolt as his standard action.

Attack by Mystic Bolt on Lazar: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10.

electrical damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5.

"Tough bastard, aren't we?" Azadeh mutters when the red-haired warrior still stands after her and Calephe's combined attacks. Undeterred she calls again on the powers of earth, and let's another hail of stones fly against Hjort.

earth blast: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16 damage: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

@all: Sorry to have been silent for so long. Seems like I bit more than I can chew with participipating in three games simultaneously and underestimated how that would clash with my time at the moment.

Minuro misses Lazar. Not so Azadeh, whose earth blast hits Hjort again sending him flying into the air only to land loudly into the ground...

Stabilization check (Hjort): 1d20 + 4 - 5 ⇒ (13) + 4 - 5 = 12

Where he lays, twitching.

The wizard takes a step back and sends anotyher magical projectile at the Thundercloud...

Magic Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Round 03/04 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota prone
Etude

Gyuri -12hp, disabled

Calephe -5hp

Hjort -22hp, disabled
Runa -3hp

Azadeh
The Thundercloud -9hp

Lazar -3hp

Scuttlebutt

Slippery sea lions! That's not what was supposed to happen!

Scuttlebutt nearly stumbles over the next verses of his song when he sees the adversaries maintain their footing but witnesses Hskrota crash horribly from his spell. But after Azadeh fells the mountainous Hjort, the odds look improved and emboldens the young scholar. His attention turns to the magic wielding foe in the back and he adds an improvised line in his musical chorus of a dark and threatening nature that he emphasizes towards that caster.

Free action to maintain the bardic performance, intimidate on Lazar

Intimidate: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Calphe moves up to the wizard, and attacks him. "Why did you follow a crazy man?"

Kukri: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Hskrota skids around the corner right into the grease. Sheepishly, he stands and attempts to step out of the greasy area.

acrobatics: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (11) - 2 = 9
reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

He can't move, but at least he kept his feet this time.

I believe that counts as two move actions. If I can still attack, I will of course. Also I triggered an AoO when standing if applicable from the lady in white.

Scuttlebutt's attempt to intimidate Lazar fails badly as does Calephe's attack thanks to the wizard's magical defenses.
"Because he's paying me, you fool!" he answers Scuttlebutt but then he pales visibly as he notices Etude returning with 2 guards and suddenly the odds for his victory plummet completely.
"Ok, you won. I'm not getting paid enough to die here. I surrender!" he says.
Meanwhile Hskrota gets back to his feet while the woman in white bashes him with her mace...

Attack roll (Runa vs Hskrota): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9 -> Damage roll: 1d6 ⇒ 1

...But misses

Hearing what Lazar's saying she takes a step back howling:"NO! No surrender! If we can't win, we die here and bring as many of them as possible with us!"

Channel Negative Energy: 1d6 ⇒ 6 DC15 will save for half

Will save (Lazar): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

"Ouch! Stop her! She's going to kill us all!", exclaims Lazar, suddenly souding scared. On the ground Hjort and the monk have stopped moving...

Round 04 - Bold may act

Active mod: Inspire Courage

Hskrota ?
Etude
Calephe -5hp, ?

Runa -3hp

Azadeh ?
The Thundercloud -9hp

Lazar -9hp

Scuttlebutt ?

Everyone with a ? near his/her name please roll a will save