PFS - PbP Gameday IV - Serpent's Rise (7th lvl pregens) Starts 19/09/2015 (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

If Rataji could produce a sweat drop he would, trust me. The sight of 322 scaring her wand into submission let alone talking to it truely dazzled his mind.

Nodding his thanks at both her subtle reprimand and her help in curing his wounds. He continued opening the tapestry until the new comers appeared.

Turning to the wyvern, Rataji smiles to put them at ease.
"Im Rataji leader of this group. SliverRank. Apologies for the wait though I assure you your patience is greatly appreciated and the pathfinders at this moment are indisposed to comment." indicating the dead pathfinders.

"I give my thanks on behalf of the Aspis and I know that you're all eager to vent your anger on the pathfinders. As you can all see, the path is open. We stand in the Grand Lodge itself. This area is called Sky Reach. Gather your people and bring them in. We can then start to have our vengeance on them. What say you?"

Diplomacy 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14
Using Reroll! 4* GM Diplomacy 1d20 + 12 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 12 + 4 = 28

Before the ritual starts, Shohiraj claims the Amulet of Natural Armor when no one else seems interested in it.

After the ritual, she remains quiet, assuming that Rataji would be the obvious agent to take the lead in this circumstance.

Zurnzal looks quite circumspect, even jealous as Rataji leads. Someday... Someday.

As Rataji gives his speech to the gathered war leaders the don't seem to want listen to what he has to say at first, but after considering it for a second they agree.

The motley army commanders roar their approval and immediately begin moving their forces through the gateway, spreading throughout Skyreach, and sneaking across the Grand Lodge’s grounds to cause mischief.

A very young green dragon whom introduces himself as Gazwyr
approaches you

"Wolona spoke of a group that would neutralize the Pathfinder powerful mage who commands the tapestry and _owns all of the arcane books_. I shall be a part of this expedition!"

Upon hearing this, Wolona steps in to try to discourage this, citing that she can’t spare specialists like Gazwyr in taking her objectives; if he is going to abandon her crew, she needs someone to pick up the slack.

Gazwyr presents the rare opportunity for someone to play a very young green dragon for the remainder of the adventure, but to do so, his current character must leave the group and help out elsewhere in the Grand Lodge. so if anyone want to play a green dragon...now is the time to speak up ;)

322 looks longingly at the dragon.
That would have been cool

"Unfortunately I must be present when we put down Aram. I'm the one who is going to stop him coming back."

She looks over the group with a bit of pity in her eyes.

"And based on current progress, keeping you alive. Well, Wanda has, but we are a team."

I'm so tempted to do so........I mean a green dragon?

It's tempting but Joliryn is being super effective with her spells and I'd hate to give that up.

"So now we go to murder Zey. How delightful!" says the wicked little lady, with a sadistic grin.

I'm in, Zurnzal has a build Im not actually too fond of so gimme that dragon

The Professional would stick with her assigned job, although playing a green dragon would be super cool.

So it's a toss-up between The Leader and the Ambitious?

1Ambitious2Leader: 1d2 ⇒ 1

So unless someone has a huge problem with this, going to hand the dragon to the Ambitious

Let me see if I can get the stats up in some readable way

As long as no one objects
The Ambitious steps up and offers to take the dragon's place so it's free to pursue it's ......thirst for book knowledge

Your final objective is the recovery of Sky Key, a Numerian relic whose recovery and reassembly has been a high priority for the Pathfinder Society over the past year. It is a considerable climb up winding steps
to reach the upper-middle floors of Skyreach, where the Sky Key is kept.

The directions you have lead you to a set of heavily reinforced wooden double doors that bow outward slightly, one of which has a small mail slot roughly three feet off the ground.

Before the Ambitious leaves, the Professional says, "I believe it would be best if you left those healing potions with us, in case 322 becomes incapacitated."

Once at the door, Shohiraj takes her time thoroughly checking it for traps. "Could one of you examine it for magical auras?"

Taking 20 for a 37 on perception to find a trap. Plus, she has trap spotter.

As Shohiraj comes closer to the door to examine it for traps she can clearly hear a humming sound coming from behind the door.

I'm kind of wondering how this works since it seems that you see this..and it blows up when you see it..so maybe you normally try to find traps with your eyes closed and feeling your way through...but;
She also uses her highly trained senses to pick up that there's a small card that covers the mail slot which turns out to contains some runes

A character that searches the door for traps can detect the explosive runes even if she does not open the slot. Pointing out that it's detected, but not disarmed at this point

Are there two traps or just the explosive runes? Just want to make sure I don't discount the humming.

"There is a magical rune trap on the door. I can attempt to disarm it, but it may be difficult. Do one of you have the ability to dispel magical effects? It might be prudent to try that first before I make an attempt and risk giving our target advanced warning in the case of failure."

The ambitious excited young Dragon hovers around the group as Zurncal hands over the potions he claimed to 322.

He will perch near the door trying to get a sense for what might be on the otherside of the door.

@Shohiraj; you only detected the one trap; explosives runes on the door

The dragon also picks up the humming on the other side of the door, but doesn't pick up anything else

"If not, everyone please back away so that I'm the only one injured if this goes poorly."

I'll post a Disable check later tonight if no one can help with a dispel magic spell.

322 giggles.

"Oh, yes. The presence of the great beyond is sometimes inimical to magic. Better stand back though."

dispel: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14 <- unlikely to be caster level 3 :-(
dispel check vs a second effect if there is one: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Rataji Nods to the newcomers as he trades palces with Azurnal.

Once at the door, with Detect magic to aid The Professional, once she gives warning, he steps back to give her space.

"Thank you 322, your assistance is appreciated."

Once everyone is suitably away from the door, Shohiraj pulls out her tools and begins to remove the offending rune covered card from the door and attempts to dispose of it, all without looking at it.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (13) + 22 = 35

322 casts another detect magic before sighing.

"It resisted my best efforts. I could try again, but that would limit my ability to help anyone badly hurt in combat."

She looks around the team.

"Which is likely everyone."

She stands well back from the door when Shohiraj tries to disarm the rune.

The Experiment tries to dispel some magic on the door, but finds the present magic to be too much for her to effect.

Rataji and the Experiment confirm that there still is a magical aura present on the door.

Once everyone is suitably away from the door, Shohiraj pulls out her tools and begins to remove the offending rune covered card from the door and attempts to dispose of it, all without looking at it. And manages to put the rune covered card face down and put it into a wad of paper which seems harmless enough.

Everyone else moves back to near the door
If you want to prebuff before entering that's fine, just list what buffs you have running

Manarius then opens the door to reveal;

This tall library is ringed by a walkway around its perimeter, which provides access to a second level of towering bookshelves. A broad Qadiran rug leads to a short pedestal within a tall glass case that itself sits within an inscribed circle—all cordoned off by a velvet rope suspended by brass poles. A strange armillary pulses with energy from atop the pedestal. Several plush chairs and a few low tables bearing curiosities and curios line the lower floor, and two decorative suits of armor stand at attention, each with a crossbow resting against its shoulder. Heatless torches blaze with remarkably even light in sconces throughout the room, and a tall pendulum clock on the eastern wall ticks each passing second.

1d20 + 14 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 14 + 3 = 29
The Professional is quickly able to spot that there is a trap located just behind the door; a series of springs and wires run through each of the suits of armor, causing them to snap their crossbows to firing position and shoot toward the door when someone steps onto the pressure plate just inside the door (next 2 by 2 squares in front of you),

Just behind the glass case stands Aram Zey

init Leader: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
init Vengeful: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
init Experiment: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
init Profesional: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
init Artist: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
init Dragon: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
init Aram Zey: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Seeing you enter he immediately starts to cast a spell

and 1d6 ⇒ 1 the Leader suddenly finds his mind assaulted
DC 22 with a -4 penalty so that's 26 will save or

init
Party
Aram Zey

Before the door is open, Shohiraj drinks her potion of Displacement. Once the door is open, she quickly works to disable the floor trap.

Disable device: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (10) + 22 = 32

The Dragon may need to fly out of the way to perform this action. If so, take a 5 ft. step to perform, DD is a full-round action.

Assuming the dragon does fly out of the way, Shoriraj is able to disable the trigger plate, so everyone else can enter without triggering the crossbows

Realizing that only a powerful caster would be able to make a rune that could withstand her magic, The Experiment does some serious preparation.

Entropic Shield (20% miss for ranged attacks and rays)
Shield of Faith (+3 AC, only extra 2 due to ring of protection)
Resistance (hey, every bit helps) and
Cloak of darkness (+6 AC)
Wings of Darkness (fly)
Spectral Hand (100' range, touch spells)

She flies forward 60' and calls forth the interstellar void on top of the evil Aram. While Giggling, naturally.

cold damage, Fort DC17 for half: 7d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 1, 2, 6, 3, 6) = 22

If Rataji could cast Haste on the party before we go in that'd be great. Joliryn will enhance her kukri with +1 and keen as usual. She'll also use the scroll of fly and cast vanish on herself before the door opens. Waiting to find out what party buffs may have been cast before continuing.

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If there is a haste in the wings, I will wait until it is cast

Rataji will have Displacement cast upon himself.
Unfortunately Haste has being used in the previous Combat so Arcane Bond will be used to Cast Haste.
Will walk in with Staff in hand and Scroll of Glitterdust.

Before the door opens, Rataji Waves his hands over himself creating a blurred effect on himself and teh the images of Rataji clutch his amulet and evyerbody feels faster as motes of light appears and settles on everybody.

Upon Entering the room, Rataji's last thought is to simply know that the spell casted by Aram Zey would have rendered him useless unless.......and that's all he knew.
Spellcraft 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29
Will Save 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20
Now that was unfortunate and just sent me out of this combat....and game.
Would have Casted Invisiblity before entering but that wouldn't be fair since the actions have being declared.

Maybe use a GM star reroll? Or did you already use it this game?

Invisible, Joliryn casts Frigid touch with Empower metamagic.

She then flies forward, dodging around the glass case holding the Sky Key and flies toward Aram Zey. While she flies forward, she makes a rude gesture at him, one popular in Cheliax (shooting the tines), to attempt to get a reaction. She watches his eyes as she heads towards him -- does he see her? Sense Motive if needed: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4 Let's hope that's not needed then...

If she notices his eyes tracking her movement, indicating he has the ability to see invisible things, she will attack him right away. Otherwise she'll take a spot right behind him and wait until the next turn, ready to flank with someone who attacks him, or to get an Attack of Opportunity if he starts to cast or moves away.

I believe 322 has a scroll of Heal which might help if he doesn't make his GM star reroll.

I do indeed, and a scroll of slay living. Can't use both though. Let's see how the rest of the round plays out.

Note: Joliryn would come around behind Aram Zey regardless of whether he sees her or not.

The casting of the invisibility wouldn't have mattered, but I'll admit it might have been a bit more handy to have you all state what buffs you had going before the door opened and combat started

322 flies forward 60' and calls forth the interstellar void on top of the evil Aram. While Giggling, naturally. A small bit of frost covers Aram Zey and then he shudders slightly

1d20 ⇒ 12

Invisible, Joliryn casts Frigid touch with Empower metamagic.

She then flies forward, dodging around the glass case holding the Sky Key and flies toward Aram Zey. While she flies forward, she makes a rude gesture at him, one popular in Cheliax (shooting the tines), to attempt to get a reaction. She watches his eyes as she heads towards him.

1d20 ⇒ 5

It doesn't look like Aram Zey is aware of the Artist hovering towards/behind him (at least as far as the Artist is able to determine)

NPC-ing the others in the keep things moving a bit
The Dragon flies into the room towards Aram Zey
1d20 ⇒ 14
and sniff the air
"He has no smell! Something is not right here!"
Edit: Just realized the dragon doesn't have scent but blindsense, but no idea how to describe the use of blindsense to keeping the smelling in for now

While the Artist quickly steps into the space the Dragon just occupied and disarms the trigger plate.

Manarius looks over his shoulder at the Leader
"What do we do now?" and goes fully on the defensive

Aram Zey starts to cast a spell
Concentration check to cast on the defensive: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32

init
Party
Aram Zey

The Green Dragon charges across the room, flying over the glass case and delivering a power attack at Aram Zey with maniacal glee.

Charging Power Attack, with Flank: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 311d8 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

"He is an illusion!"
Calls out 322, as she flies back toward the stricken leader.

As she flies, she takes out a scroll
You can draw a weapon as a move equilivent while moving, so I'd assume you can do the same with a scroll?

She quickly scans the words and then recites them.

Uses scroll on Heal on him.

I'm going to wait for the Leader's turn and see what he's going to do now that he's healed. Once he acts, I'll post Shohiraj's action.

Am I able to act now now? GM

If Zey is invisible, I've got at most three castings of Glitterdust we might be able to use to find him.

I'm guessing it is a projected image, so he needs line of sight to it. Not sure how much 322 knows about such things though. My guess is he is on the balcony somewhere.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Seems something got crossed at mine and the dragon's posting so the charge was part of his previous round action..so he can still do something this round

[ooc]Am I able to act now now? GM

You were always able to act,now you just can make intelligent based decisions ;)

@322; actually no, that's just for weapons...everything else you need to spend an action to retrieve it. No clue why..but that's the rule. Then again..there's no reason for you to have both hands free...so you could have started with the scroll of heal in on of your hands since you could have assumed that you might have needed it at some point..so to not delay everything another round you can cast it this round

322 flies back to the Leader and uses the scroll to heal him, cancelling the feeblemind
Caster lvl check: 1d20 ⇒ 11(should be enough)

322 also remembers that there are multiple spells that can cause illusion, but she has no clue which one this is.

init
Everyone who isn't 322
Aram Zey

Broken out of the feeblemind, Rataji knows they're up against a formidable foe. With a sharp nod to 322, he sweeps his hands over his eyes and casts See Invisibiity, dropping the scroll in his hands in order to do it.
Now empowered by the spell, he looks to spot his arcane wielding foe.

Not sure if you actually moved in the room, but from your current location on the map (e.a. in the corridor leading towards the door you don't see anything that used to be invisbile

Going to wait a wee bit to see if Rataji moves in or Joliryn uses Glitterdust. If neither happens in the next 12 hours or so, I'll post an action regardless since we've only got a week and a half left.

Rataji moves in to get a better look after picking up his dropped scroll.

The green dragon smirks, not sure if he hit something real or not, since he had a bad feeling about this thing not being real but it certainly felt real.

To be on the safe side, he tore into what appeared to be Aram Zey.

Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 131d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 81d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 251d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 61d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 141d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 91d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 111d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 31d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 71d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Rataji moves further into the room and takes a good look and spots - another - Aram Zey, this one on the balcony just above the door, hovering just an inch with his feet above the ground. Moved him a bit to the side so he's more clearly visible, so he's not adjacent to 322 - he's a level up

The Dragon tears into "Aram Zey" but all it's attacks are either sidestepped or deflected by the armor surrounding "Aram Zey"
Will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27 and comes to the conclusion that he realy is fighting an illusion...surrely against a real opponent his mighty dragon fury should have ripped the puny human into small bleeding pieces

init
Artist, Vengefull, Profesional
Aram Zey

If anyone has suggestions on what you want the Vengefull to do feel free to speak up until he returns to take his own actions. Otherwise I'll just do what I think he would do

Waiting to see if Rataji indicates where the invisible Aram Zey is.

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"There" upon spotting their real foe, he gestures to show them his spot!

Pulling out her wand of True Strike on the way, Shohiraj moves into the general area pointed out by Rataji. She then nudges her wand to cast True Strike on herself.

UMD check: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23