PFS PbP - Risen from the Sands (lvl 2 - 4) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Vanya seems uncertain but then she agrees:"Fine... just take care, this place has been all but friedly until now and I can only see things getting worse the more we explore it..."

Deciding to press on and explore as much as the temple as you can you move to the next door and Pokey uses his wand to enchant his ammo and then open the door to reveal;

Carved nature scenes cover this chamber’s walls, depicting humanoid figures hunting a wide variety of prey—crocodiles, elephants, hippos, leopards, lions, and even stranger beasts. An open sarcophagus lies at the far end of the room.

In the room is a skeleton wearing a breast plate and a shield and wielding a long sword, near him is what looks like a dried out great cat

Init Pokey: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Init Belka: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Init Vanya: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Init Kaneka: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Init Sarephta: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Init Sarephta - tactics domain: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Init Zarunkumar: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Init Skeleton: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Init Undead Cat: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

init
Pokey
Skeleton
Vanya
Undead Cat
Belka, Sareptha, Zarunkumar,Kaneka + Pokey

Sarephta continues to draw a blank with these obscure creatures.

knowledge religion: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Pokey waits for a better shot before fireing at the skellie.
attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
Damage: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
Damage: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
delay till after the skellie then take action.

more crits!: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
damage: 3d12 + 6 ⇒ (2, 3, 6) + 6 = 17

38 total damage to the skellie

Pokey decides to wait for a better shot

The skeleton charges forward swinging it's sword at Belka
to hit flatfooted AC Belka: 1d20 + 2 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 2 + 7 = 26
Damage Belka: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Pokey then shoots his musket twice at the skeleton blasting it apart as one bullet goes in one of it's eyes sockets and shatters it's skull and the other blasts it's spine into splinters!

init
Vanya
Cat
you guys

Kaneka will start spouting out in Senzar at the skeleton attempting to distract him after moving behind a wall of allies.

using 1 use of performance for fascinate.

Vanya moves inside the room and slashes at the skeletal cat!

Attack roll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Damage roll: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Vanya moves into the room and tries to slash at the undead cat but only manages to it the floor in front of the creature almost breaking her weapon

The cat howls, everyone within a 300-foot spread must succeed at a DC 13 Will save or become frightened for 1d4 ⇒ 3 rounds. This is a sonic, mind-affecting effect.

Kaneka tries to distract the creature but quickly finds out it's not so easy to distract an undead.
(fascinate is an enchantment (compulsion), mind-affecting ability. Undead are immune to death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, phantasms, and patterns), paralysis, poison, sleep, stun, and any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless).

init
Pokey, Sareptha, Belka, Zarunkumar, Vanya
Cat

DC 13 Will save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Indifferent to the cat's howling, Belka enters the room to help Vanya fight the undead.

Att. +1 greataxe/undead cat: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Damage: 1d12 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Will save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

As the cat roars Vanya feels a chill creep up her spine... then she flees the room!

DC 13 Will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Well s$$%
Pokey's eyes glaze over as the cat howls, when its finished only fear seems to return as pokey flees in terror.

Will save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Zarunkumar will cast Remove Fear from Pokey saying "Don't run, you can fight on."

Shrugging off the powerful fear effects--just barely--Sareptha enters the room and tries to kill the creature.

will save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 2 = 18 for damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

"Stand strong!" she encourages her allies.

Belka unafraid of the cat moves closer and almost slices of it's head with a axe swing while Vanya and Pokey start to run away

Zarunkumar casts a spell on Pokey which calms his mind while Sareptha steps closer to the cat and makes sure it goes down ...and doesn't get up again

I'll assume that it makes more sense for Vanya to run away through the areas she already knows, so she will make her way back in a few rounds unharmed

The skeleton had a sword, a shield and a breast plate with him...all old..but might be worth something.

The cat had nothing.

Where do you want to go now?

"Well done. Should we finish our explorations to the south?" Sarephta suggests.

At Sareptha's suggestion you continue your explorations to the south and find there's only a corridor that leads back to a hidden entrance which when opened leads back to one of the first room your entered through.

There are no more entrances you've seen in here for you to go to to explore

Once she's regained the ability to think clearly Vanya composes herself and approaches the others:"Seems like this was it. Nothing else to see... UNLESS there are other secret doors of course! So what do you think? Should we leave now or check the walls for secret levers and such?"

Before going further to the south, Belka casts detect magic on the items left by the skeleton and asks a healer to use her wand of cure light wounds on her.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

"We also still have the doorway leading to the north in the sarcophagus room" she suggests.

None of the items left by the skeleton are magical.

Let me know what you decide to do

Sarephta nods at Belka's suggestion to try the doorway to the north of the sarcophagus room.

While the others talk about what to do Vanya starts searching for secret passages in the passageway she fled to when the undead cat scared her away:"Fine... don't listen to me... There's obviously a secret door here somewhere! We just need to find it!"

Perception check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Pokey will take 20 searching rooms 14, 11, and 12, if he doesn't find anything he will go back to the beginning and look around there.

Perception~20+14=34

Vanya is able to find a secret door where she is looking

I'll just assume you take 20 everywhere

Pokey is able to find a few secret doors that have been previously missed by searching members

One in the corridor (16):

This long, low corridor is decorated with hieroglyphs and carvings depicting kings, gods, and sphinxes in orderly geometric rows.

However, the mechanism for opening the door is a puzzle: five of the carvings surrounding the door are buttons that must be pressed in the correct combination to open the door. The carvings depict five sphinxes, each with a different head: a falcon head, a female human head, a jackal head, a male human head, and a ram head.

Pokey is also able to determine that the door is trapped when he takes a look at it after Vanya points it out

One in the room with the illusionairy oasis (12)

My apologies..when I mentioned you had no more exits you hadn't explored yet I was mistaken..there's actually one exit early in the pyramid where you went through a secret door before exploring the visible north exit..since there are no monsters there I'll list the room descriptions now

(7)
A black granite statue of a pharaoh stands on the polished alabaster floor in the center of this chamber beneath a vaulted limestone ceiling decorated with gilt stars. An engraved panel of granite stands against the western wall, carved to resemble a door. A flat granite slab lies on the floor in front of the false door. (Pokey is able to that the false door hides a secret door).

(8a and 8b)
The two smaller rooms off the sanctuary are shrines to the Ancient Osirian gods of kingship.

The southern chapel (area 8a) contains a statue of a lean man with the head of an animal with a curved snout and erect squared ears.

Pokey is able to notice a secret panel in the base of the statue in area 8b.

Where do you want to go first? What do you want to do?

knowledge arcana: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
knowledge religion: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
knowledge spellcraft: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Sarephta examines the glyphs intently. While drawing blanks on some of it, she is fairly confident about some of the religious significance.

"The false door symbolizes a threshold between the lands of the living and the dead," she surmises. "This shrine represents Set, the Ancient Osirian god of darkness, deserts, and storms, and the patron of pharaohs and undead alike."

The aasimar thinks of the best way forward. "Perhaps we should focus on opening the secret panel at the base of this statue. I guess we need to find additional clues before solving the puzzle further north."

well its going to take me several hours to search the whole complex, so the casters should almost be done resting. i vote we wait for them to finish and recover there spells and the move on to the hidden chambers.

I'm fine resting...I could recover my channels. I still have 3/4 spells. At the same time, we did have a competing group or something coming behind us. If we hurry through, we may be able to avoid them entirely.

Actually, I think Revvy said that we could take one day to rest before any competitors start showing up. So, I also vote for resting and recovering spells (and rage).

Yeah, you can rest if you want. You have a bit of lead on the competition..it's a bit iffy that Pokey would go poke around inside while everyone else rests somewhere outside ..since it doesn't seem too safe to me to wander around inside the pyramid by yourself, but why not.....seems you got lucky and nothing jumped you while you were looking around ;)

Just let me know what you want to do first and we'll pick it up from there

Resting it is...let's get a start on the finale fully charged!

If that's the case does anyone need any healing, I'm pretty sure I have a cure light wounds spell in reserve that I can cast before resting.

"Rest for the wicked it is then!" laughs Vanya, then she adds:"I would not go around alone inside this tomb.... who knows what matter of nasty creature may hide into the darkness? Besides there's safety in numbers..."

Knowledge (arcana): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Looking at the five sphinxes Zarunkumar says "I've seen these creatures before." She points to each of these one by one naming them as she goes. "This is a hieracosphinx, and this is a gynosphinx, ooo and this one is a cynosphinx, and I've only read about it but I'm pretty sure this is a androsphinx, and lastly this one is a criosphinx. I'm not sure if that will help us figure out the puzzle, but it's really cool to see them in person for the first time."

Getting to the room with the false door, Zarunkumar thinks there might be something interesting about the carvings on the granite slab, but she just can't put her finger on what that might be.

As Sareptha opens the secret panel in the statue she finds that inside is a bronze scroll case containing a papyrus scroll of searing light.

Sooo..which door do you want to open first?

I guess I can hang on to the scroll, though it's a level 3 spell and I can only cast level 1.

Let's try the secret door behind the false door in 7

Sarephta, now rested, moves toward the next room to explore.

"I am ready," she says.

"Ready when you are!" nods Vanya to the others

No preferences, 7 is fine

@Sareptha, if you manage a caster lvl check you can cast higher lvl spells from scroll

Moving forward well rested back into the pyramid the party decides to check what's behind the false door they found.

Pokey makes sure he has enough ammo with a wave of his wand before Belka opens the door to reveal;

An elaborately decorated sarcophagus stands among the heaped treasures and offerings in this burial chamber. Ancient Osiriani hieroglyphs on the walls proclaim this to be the tomb of Pharaoh Sekh-pa-Mefer III, the Pharaoh of Sphinxes.

Out of the sarcophagus steps a man wrapped in linen, his arms stretched out in front of him

Init Pokey: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Init Belka: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Init Vanya: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Init Kaneka: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Init Sarephta: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Init Sarephta - tactics domain: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Init Zarunkumar: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Init Mummy: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

init
Pokey, Vanya, Sareptha, Zarunkumar
Mummy

"A mummy!" Sarephta yells. "More of the unliving!"

knowledge religion: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7 for damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

She stabs at it with her longspear, but is too busy telling everyone what it is to have any effect.

Pokey sighs.
oh no, another undead...what ever shall we do?
Pokey says in a flat emotionless voice.
Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
Damage: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
Damage: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

I forgot to post it but, after resting, Belka spent a charge to activate her wand of mage armor before continuing the explorations.

@Belka, no problem

Sareptha attacks the mummy but is unable to make her spear get through the wrappings surrounding what's left of it's body

Pokey fires his musket twice into the mummy, both bullets pass through the body leaving holes in both sides..but doing less damage then a bleeding, living opponent would have suffered (DR)

init
Vanya, Zarunkumar
Mummy

Damage Mummy:10

K..moving on

Vanya and Zarunkumar try to make themselves as hard to hit as possible (full defense)

The mummy get's a sudden burst of speed and quick steps next to Sareptha and starts slamming away at her

Slam vs Sareptha's AC: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 1 = 17
Slam vs Sareptha's AC: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 1 = 26

and both slams hit home

damage Sareptha: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
damage Sareptha: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

(which I think drops Sareptha to the floor)

init
You guys
Mummy

Damage Mummy:10

Might as well use my last channel
1d6 ⇒ 5

Yes, I'm down...I guess I was not anticipating being the only one to go in. Do I get an AoO against it for stepping past my longspear? If so, I'll roll. Keneka, we stopped and rested, so you should be full of channels.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23 for damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Belka casts a spell on herself and moves around the room to position herself behind the mummy.

Arcane Spell Failure Chance (5%): 1d100 ⇒ 39

I cast Shield

Zarunkumar will send Dr. Agon will a healing hex straight at the mummy.
Healing hex: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

@Sareptha, no it took a 5ft step..doesn't trigger an AOO

Kaneka heals everyone (which is limited to Sareptha seeing how she's the only one with damage right now)

I'll assume that Sareptha took out her longsword and hits the mummy standing next to her from the ground using the above attack if she doesn't take another action before I'll update again - note that a lot of actions will trigger an AOO from the mummy

Belka moves into the room and casts Shield on herself

Zarunkumar uses Dr. Agon to deal damage to the mummy
Will save Mummy: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 No DC listed, but I don't think that's enough for half damage

init
Pokey, Vanya
Mummy

Damage Mummy:20

Sorry the DC was 15 so no it didn't pass, but not by very much.

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
Damage: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24
Damage: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

K, moving on

Sareptha takes out a longsword and from lying on the floor is able to hit the mummy in it's ankles ..slicing one foot almost completely off

Vanya goes fully on the defensive (after stepping out of the way of Pokey's line of fire), afraid that what happened to Sareptha will happen to her next.

Pokey fires another round of musket bullets at the mummy and his first bullet just grazes a bit of bandage (not enough to get through DR) but his second bullet leaves a hole in the mummy's chest.

The mummy seems to twitch a bit and topples over.

Out of combat

You take a closer look at the mummy to make sure it's down for good

before looting him of his amulet (which detects as magical).

You then start to search the room to find out that “riches” in the false tomb are actually mundane items gilded with a thin layer of gold. If the entire collection, which weighs almost 1,000 pounds, is gathered and transported back to civilization, it is worth only 500 gp in total.