PFS PbP Master of the Fallen Fortress (The Others) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

"I came here to explore. Otherwise I don't have anything to report on. I'm more then willing to cooperate with you..but I fear my usefulness won't be that big without a weapon..or some armor. But I will join you if you if you continue on...somewhere from the back..but still I will there to lend my help to what ever you will face."

Hans nods.

"We would not expect you to do any more than that."

Once the man is on his feet, Hans will lead the way back out to the staircase, on to the next level...

Assuming everyone is happy with that, of course :-)

"Yes, let's finish out this expedition, and perhaps re-unite this unfortunate fellow with his belongings."

Shoris follows Hans.

Follows the troupe after picking up the splendid rapier

You guy ain't even going to give him one of the clubs or javelins from one the troglodytes? ;)

Hans leads the way up the staircase, the next level seems to be the top of the tower

The four wings of the tower are completely open on this level, forming one great, cross-shaped chamber with arched ceilings. The decayed remnants of a carpet run from the doorways at the end of each wing, meeting in the center, where a spiral staircase drops out of sight below. A large, throne-like chair stands in the middle of the eastern wing next to a big chest.

Behind the throne is a albino crocodile and standing in the archway looking out is a troglodyte, on his side hangs a scimitar and he's wearing a cloak.

Init Shoris: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Init Zhoron: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
Init Nikias: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Init Lukaas: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
Init Olafsson: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Init Crocodile: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15
Init Tasskar: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Init Balenar: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18

Balenar starts to sing an inspiring song about dwarfs returning to a mountain to slay a dragon (Inspire courage (+1 bonus to hit, damage and saves vs charm/fear)
init
Zhoron, Hans, Lukaas
Crocodile
Nikiaas
Troglodyte
Shoris (+everyone else again)

Map's updated, the inner white line is a wall, the outer dotted line is a railing. Balenar is the avatar with the lute standing behind everyone.

Two questions: 1)How long has it been since I cast mage armor? 2) Who has the clubs and/or javelins? I'm all for giving him a weapon.

1)Assuming that you take like 5 minutes to search a room, including combat, healing, cleaning weapons and looting....let's say roughly 45 minutes. it hasn't been an hour I think. I don't think you've done anything that takes a long time. 2) The guy with the most strength so he can carry the most?

With a roar, Hans starts to rage, and charges the crocodile!

Greatsword: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 24, for 2d6 + 10 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (4, 2) + 10 + 3 + 1 = 20 Slashing damage.

Zhoron delays until after Lukaas (in case he will be inspiring courage). Then takes position (and aim) to also attack the barbarian's target.

attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Lukass utters words of powers and a silvery ball darts to the massive Troglodyte

Cast Daze, DC 14

Hans charges forward and chops the head of the crocodile
Zhoron mistaken Balenar's singing for Lukaas's (Going to assume you wouldn't want to delay since your already inspired with courage) moves forward and aims his bow at the troglodyte (since the crocodile is dead already, I'd assume you'd switch) but his arrow bounces of the throne.
Lukaas then moves forward to get the troglodyte within range of his spell and tries to befuddle the troglodytes mind for a bit
will save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 but the silvery ball just bounces of the creatures mind.

init
Nikiaas
Troglodyte
Shoris (+everyone else again)

Nikias moves forward and releases a ray of lightning at the trog.

Electrical ray: 1d20 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 + 1 = 151d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

assuming +1 bard magic applies here

As far as I know ray's count for inspire courage.

Nikias hits the troglodyte in the chest with a ray of lightning.

In return he moves out of the room onto the outer railing and you can hear him start to mutter something arcane

init:
Shoris (+everyone else again)
Troglodyte

Damage Tasskar: 6

Zhoron readies another arrow to fire at 1st enemy t show itself back through the door.

Still raging, Hans rushes forward, tumbles around the spellcaster...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4.

...but flubs it, provoking an AoO...

...and attempts interrupt whatever spell he is trying to cast!

Greatsword: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 20, for 2d6 + 10 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6, 2) + 10 + 3 + 1 = 22 Slashing damage.

Shoris pulls a candle out of his pouch. He waves it around as he starts chanting in a strange tongue. While doing so, he wracks his brain to figure out what spell the troglodyte is casting.
casting summon monster I
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

Zhoron readies to shoot an arrow.
Hans stumbles next to the troglodyte.
To slice at Hans with a claw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10 Damage if hit: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
And delivers a viscous cut to the spellcasting troglodyte
Concentration check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9 who winces in pain and can't complete his spell.
Shoris starts to cast a spell

init
Lukaas, Nikias
Troglodyte

Damage Tasskar: 28

Nikias readies a small orb of lightning should the trog step back into view.

Nikias readies to attack the troglodyte in case it comes back into view
Since Lukaas said he wouldn't be available, going to NPC him in. Daze won't work for the next minute or so

Lukaas pulls out a light crossbow and puts an bolt into it.

Balenar keeps inspiring you all for a bit longer.

The troglodyte takes a careful step away from the fearsome barbarian and casts a spell. Hans sees a blade made entirely from flames appear in the troglodytes hand.

init
You guys
Troglodyte

Damage Tasskar:28

As Shoris ceases waving the candle around, a small evil-looking snake appears underneath Hans' feet and slithers towards the troglodyte. As it reaches its prey, the snake becomes brighter. It bites at the troglodyte.

The monster summoned by my spell last round is a fiendish viper. It's Tiny, so it has to move into the troglodyte's space.
Acrobatics to avoid AoO: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 1 = 21; damage: 1d2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3.

If it hits, the troglodyte needs to make a DC 11 Fort save against
Poison (Ex) Bite—injury; save Fort DC 9 [11]; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d2 Con damage; cure 1 save.

Hans steps forward and takes a swing...

Greatsword: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 9, for 2d6 + 10 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3, 5) + 10 + 3 + 1 = 22 Slashing damage.

...but misses horrifically, nearly overbalancing and falling from the tower!

Zhoron moves next to southern door and tries to open it.

Nikias runs across the room, slides out onto the balcony and releases a orb of energy at the
trog.

Acid Spray(Ranged touch): 1d20 + 1 + 1 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 1 + 1 - 4 - 4 = 111d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

I assume our barbarian acts as soft cover for the enemy?

The viper rolls around a bit trying to get under the troglodyte, but the troglodyte takes a swing at it with it's fiery blade.

To hit viper's touch AC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 Fire damage for Fiendish viper: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

He manages to hit the viper, but finds out that the mean looking glowing red eyed viper doesn't take that much damage from his fiery blade

In return the viper manages to hit the troglodyte in an ankle
I am kind of wondering how your tiny viper manages to have a positive strength score btw the viper you summon has a str of 4, it gains +4 from your augmented summon feat..for a total of 8, so unless I'm mistaken it should do 1d2-1 damage? I think you are using the druid animal companion stats for your viper (which is small)?

Fort save vs poison: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11 But it doesn't seem to manage to get any poison into the troglodyte.

Hans steps forward and misses with a wide swing at the troglodyte, almost over extending himself.

Zhoron moves to the southern door 1d100 ⇒ 77 and opens it without any problems.

Shooting through someone, enemy or ally counts indeed as shooting through cover

Nikias tries to hit the troglodyte with some acid, and even with Hans standing in the way manages to hit, it burns away part of the troglodtes face...dropping him..he half hangs over the railing unmoving.

@Shoris, Summon monster took your entire last turn..but this turn when it finished you still get your normal turn

Out of combat

What do you guys want to do now?

(The troglodyte is carrying his cloak, a masterwork scimitar and 4 darts)

"Ha what do you know, I finally hit something with one of those damn things! So what now, is it just the first floor left?"

And there's a rather big chest next to the throne..which you might want to look at..unless you don't want to, either is fine by me ;)

This is what I was using, but now that I look at it I think it must have been a typo on the web page. I think the damage should be 1d2-1+1 for inspire courage.

"Yet another stink machine defeated!"

Search for anything useful, and open chest.

Hans collects the loot from the corpse, and then kicks it over the edge, before heading back inside.

As Zhoron walks over to the chest, the floor of the tower he is standing on starts to creak...and he can see cracks forming in the tiles.

It's most likely a good idea to not keep standing here for too long.

The chest contains:
masterwork short sword, 15 cold iron shurikens, two flasks of acid, a potion, another potion of lesser restoration, a wand,an amethyst worth and 247 gp in assorted coins.

Hans nods appreciatively.

"A decent haul."

When he sees the tiles cracking under Zhoron's feet, Hans thinks about how he was even *further* out on the edge, and goes a little pale, backing up towards the stair-well.

"Shall we head back downstairs, and check the first level that we bypassed earlier?"

Shoris sighs deeply. "I support the idea of going downstairs, but we might want to take a rest if we can find a defensible position. I've used almost all my magical ability for today."

"Aye, I'm feeling the strain as well, though I should be good for another fight or two if need be. Perhaps that want could be of use if identified." Taking a look at the wand and a detect magic spell aiding him in the process, Nikias attempts to determine its properties if any.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

"I have a few acid darts left, but after they're gone I'll just have my crossbow...and (fair warning) I'm probably almost as dangerous to you all as the enemy with it." Shoris smiles wanly. In any case, if I'm to be useful in any more combat today, I'll need a clear path to our opponent.

"Yes, let's make haste!"

Zhoron grabs the chest and makes for the stairs!

Nikias finds out that it is a wand of summon monster I (caster lvl 3)

Where do you want to now?

As far as I can tell there's 2 options:
Go to the 3th floor (the area next to room 8) and lower yourself down to the floor below which smells like bat guano
Go to the 1st floor and climb down to the ground and explore there

Realizing that a room with a crumbling floor is probably not the best venue for long-winded strategic discussion, Shoris follows Zhoron towards the stairs.

Well, personally, I would prefer to *not* lower myself into an area full of bats, but that is just my personal preference ;-)

However, I am happy to go with whatever the party decides.

Just going to wait till you know where you're going. Returning to Absolom and bring Balenar back to his lodge is also an option

"Anyone fancy the bat area? I think I could pass on it myself. I'd say take a look at the 1st level, and head back to the lodge."

I always like to clear entire area, just in case there is anything valuable that might be missed, but I'm fine with skipping bats, as long as we check out 1st lvl.

I suppose I can forgo my curiosity and skip the bat room. Let's go down to the first level.

You all go down to the first floor and climb down the rope until you reach the ground. Looking into the SW room you see it's completely blocked by rubble. The only option you have is the NE room.

When you look in;
The northern wing of the tower seems to have escaped the worst effects of the collapse, but rubble still litters the floor and everything is covered in a thick layer of stone dust. Thick cobwebs cloak the ceiling and hang down the walls like gossamer tapestries. A single archway stands open in the southwest wall.

Hans eyes the cobwebs suspiciously.

"That's a lot of webbing... Hmmm... maybe the bats would have been a better choice..."

Shrugging his shoulders, he moves into the room to explore it.

'Take 20' Perception = 24.

As Hans moves forward into the room, Shoris taps him on the shoulder. Wait a minute before you rush in there, Hans. Does anyone have a torch?
Assuming somebody pulls out a torch, I cast prestidigitation and and guide the torch so that it will burn the cobwebs.

Maybe we should have explored the tower totally before coming here. Sorry for these late regrets...

While Hans is peering in it takes some time for his eyes to adjust to the darkness within the room.

As soon as some light from a torch appear Hans is able to make out the outline of a giant spider the size of a large dog..It's staring right back at you.

@Shoris..I think you mean mage hand..prestidigitation can't move something that size

Init spider: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Init Shoris: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Init Zhoron: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Init Nikias: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15
Init Lukaas: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Init Olafsson: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Init Balenar: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

init
Shoris
Spider
The entire party again

Guess I'm not through fighting today, after all . Shoris retreats and prepares to let an acid dart fly if the spider enters his range.
The icons on the map seem to be in between squares to me. If there's a space in between Zhoron and Balenar, I want to be there, otherwise I'll stop next to Hans. I'm readying an action to use my sixth acid dart of the day (2 more remaining)
attack roll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16; damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

"An adventurer's job is never done!"

Zhoron readies an arrow to let loose as soon as a target presents itself.