PFS- Way of the Kirin, 4-21 (Inactive)

Game Master DrGabe

Jezebel recalls the danger the officer posed last time, so takes a step back and away then fires her wand at the archers below while she waits for the man to come into her view.

1d6 ⇒ 6
Thistle arrows deal damage as a bleed effect for 1d6 rounds.

With a small curse, Riley suddenly runs away, deeper into the house.

I assume A5 has a window? If yes, Riley's lining up an aerial charge for next round...

Moving on, was waiting for Sutuko.

Riley ducks down from the light house and spends his turn running away from the officer. Sutuko stands in defiance of the assailants- he also sees several shadows coming up from the cliffs on the north side of the island. It seems that the assault is coming from both sides this time! The energy from Jezebel's wand smashes into another archer.

The officer lands on the light house and moves against Sutoku - Grapple Attempt: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35 and succeeds in wrapping up the Tengu.
The soldiers fire one last volley of burning arrows at the house, the wetted down walls retard most of the damage, however, 1d6 ⇒ 5, Room 5, the front bedroom catches on fire!
The men climbing up the cliff fade from Sutoku's view (but will likely emerge from the area of A3).

Initiative Order: Jezebel, Riley, Officer, Soldiers, Sutoku (holding), Fendahl, Jory
See Map for Locations: soldiers x4 100' from the house, 20% miss chance due to fog; Leader: perception (adjacent to A1); Riley (A5), Jezebel ( A5), Sutoku (A7), Fendahl (A4), Jory (A7)
PC's Turn Order of operations - Sutoku gets his turn before being grappled. If he doesn't respond in the 24 hours, please someone post an order for him. If his order was to run after Riley, the Officer will follow.

Jory grabs two more thistle arrows and fires at point blank range into the grappler. He knows how helpless the feeling is.

arrow1 hit/damage/bleed: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 91d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 131d6 ⇒ 5
arrow2 hit/damage/bleed: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 281d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 141d6 ⇒ 1
arrow2 confirm?/damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 172d8 + 12 ⇒ (1, 5) + 12 = 18

Need to wait on Sutoku before I post then.

Fendahl, is still in A5 looking out the window and will watch for any attackers entering the house. The spiritual scimitar will continue
to swing at the archers.

scimitar:2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23 for dmg: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

I am assuming the 3 of us in A5 cannot see Jory nor Sutoku upstairs in A7.

Fendahl watches Riley come in through the window...calls out in a surprised voice:

"Hrrm, what do you see Master Riley?"

Fendahl will move to the top of the stairs so he can see downstairs as well as into A5. (This causes him to lose visibility of the spirit weapon, so it should return to his side).

As his standard, looking downstairs, if Fendahl can see or hear that assailants are about to enter the lower floor (A5 or A3), he will ready to cast heat metal on them.

perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 to notice assailants in the house.

If he does not notice anyone entering the house then he casts FireShield(cold) on himself.

Jezebel heads back inside the house to the bedroom above the murder holes, and tries to get a line of sight on the advancing soldiers while manning the varied pots of boiling liquid. If she can get such a visual, she activates her wand again.
1d4 ⇒ 3

Moving on, was waiting for Sutuko.

** spoiler omitted **

Sutoku stands in front of and to the side of Jory, ready to defend the archer and to attack anyone approaching. Readied Action

When he see the movement to the north he will call our a warning. Ware the cliffs to the north. Our enemy comes from that way as well!

As the captain approaches the Tengu takes his readied action, swinging at the man in a powerful downswipe with his enhanced Nodachi, its blade gleaming.

Keen Nodachi: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 231d10 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 8 + 6 = 24

The officer charges the Tengu warrior, ready to crush him with his might. But the agile Inquisitor plants the sharp blade into the man's thigh. It doesn't stop the officer, the man slinging Sutoku to the ground, with a dizzing array of moves. Moments later the man stops as an arrow comes to rest at the base of skull. With a heave Sutoku throws the man off, blood and gore sloping everywhere.

Jezebel and Fendhal can't see any of the assailants on the first floor, but Sutoku's warning alerts them that trouble is coming from the back of the house. Jezebel sees that this room is starting to catch fire, its damp walls giving way to the intensity of the fire.

Riley
See Map for Locations: soldiers (climbing back side of the house - A3);
Riley (A5), Jezebel ( A5), Sutoku (A7), Fendahl (A5- Stairs), Jory (A7)
See discussion thread, Fendhal did a great job with the map

Jory smiles:
"I got to help out that time. Thanks for distracting him that time. I know it is a helpless feeling being the bait. They need us at the back, something about a fire."

The dwarf calmly helps Sutoku up and quickly searches the officer.

"I hope he has orders on him."

Accepting the hand up the Tengu thanks Jory. My thanks! A well placed shot indeed. While I prefer not to be grappled, I propose we handle it this way as opposed to letting you get grappled. I believe I am a slightly better grappler and have this handy beak to use in close quarters. Perhaps you can better discourage the troops from the north from up here while I deal with the fire. I am resistant to it.

Sutoku was gonna peck the hell out of that guy. :) Did we search/loot the officer from the last battle?

I was wondering about that. There are probably 2 officers corpses up on the roof now

"FIRE!" the wizard yells at the top of her lungs, gesturing at the fire before running down the stairs.
Run as bonus feat from Fleet Footed alt. racial = move at 5x speed for run, so up to 150'
Jezebel rushes to the kitchen to fetch water to begin dousing the flames. "We need a fire line!"

I think we need our preceptors and ranged on the walls to keep an eye on the enemy, to kill the damn archers, and locate the ones sneaking around back. . . . We should get the non-ranged, non perception types on bucket brigade!

Someone give me an order for Riley. Each "Strangler" has- +1 Brawling Leather Lamellar, Dagger, and Rope.

The people on the second floor can hear people walking around the second floor. The fire in the overlook room (A5), tries to spread [dice]d100[/dice - and does. It consumes the room, the oil and water exploding. Its takes just seconds before the floor gives way and crashes down to the first floor.

PC's go. The NPC's are in A3. FIRE in A5 and A1

"Riley, downstairs! Intruders. Where are those buckets? We have fires on both floors now! Hurry!

I would assume Riley would move downstairs and engage the first soldier he encounters.

Not sure if he can move far enough to get a swing, so if he can, roll it

Fendahl will also move downstairs and try to melee any intruders. He still has cold shield up for 6 rounds if any try to take a swing at him. Likewise, let me know if I can find and reach someone to attack.

Wait. Last round the arrows were shot, Sutoku was grappled and the officer was killed. This next round the fire has already spread, consumes the room and burned through to the first floor? That was less than 6 seconds and before anyone has has a chance to fight the flames. The round after Sutoku was grappled he was moving to fight the fire. We have no chance to fight it before it spreads?

BTW On the map below, I have not updated anyone's position since the arrows were shot and the officer grappled and was slain on the roof of A7. I have added fire to A1 based on GM's description. By my counting it is about 130' from A7 to A5.

Map

Each round there is a 25% chance the fire spreads - it doesn't take into account the defensive actions you took (i.e. wetting the walls), that is taken into account elsewhere (as in how many enemies you face). My post earlier got edited the dice roll was erased- I rolled an '18'. You can fight the fire if you like.

Just seems wrong that a fire can spread so fast in one round. I would think it would start in one square and spread to some of the adjacent ones. It seems like it went from a small fire to engulfing the entire room and the room below it in a single round. What am I missing? If its spreading so fast I would guess there is no practical way to fight it, right?

I agree the mechanic is goofy, though most room on fire is. You can make a Survival/Knowledge Engineering check to learn more. More importantly, you are focusing on the wrong thing. Your characters of course have no way of knowing this, but focus on the NPC's and don't fret about the fire.

"Nothing to help us right now." Jory says after searching the invader with disappointment in his voice.

Jory seems to be quite impressed with avian creature. His calm demeanor and using violence only when professionally required agree with his own code. They had also made a great team against the brawlers.

He looks at the tengu with a look of profound admiration: "Where to next? I have quiver of these nasty thistly arrows to put in the invaders. Suppressing their fiery arrows may be our best way to fight the spread of fire."

Jory will move to fire on the invaders unless a better idea is presented.

Sutoku nods agreement to Jory. And I will fight the fire as best I can. He moves to do so, unless he finds the flames too large to fight.

Survival: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

Argh! Life interfereing past few days. Let me see if I've got this basically straight - officer is down, and someone decided to use the fire-spread rules that assume the world is made of a mixture of thermite paint, magnesium, and flash paper again. There are some invaders left outside who might be rushed at? If yes, just send me twoards them - I can't see the maps from here, and won't be at a computer where I can until morning at the earliest.

traveling this week, so cannot update map but will post after dinner tonight.

Jezebel makes a quick assessment of the fire, K. Engineer: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29, and relays her findings to the group as she makes her way back into position to rain magical missiles onto the enemies.

Did Fendahl and Riley find the intruders downstairs? If so, can Fendahl take a swing or are they too far away?.

"There is more fire starting down here as well. We may have to abandon the house if it spreads as quickly. But will not give up without a fight! . "

If he can swing, he will. Also, spirit weapon follows him down.
scimitar: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15 damage : 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 AC is 21 vs evil and has cold shield up.

Both Jezebel and Sutoku realize the same thing about the fire- despite its fast spread, the damage is only cosmetic. The front room is likely gone, but it won't cause significant damage to the house for some time now. Of course, no intruder will come through the front door at this point.

Jory and Sutoku search the officer's body only to find nothing a true value.
Fendahl and Riley rush down the stairs and see four soldiers scampering through the window- they are armed with bottles of explosives and have climbed faster than spiders up the face of the cliff.

Jezebel- the room you are in (A5) is currently on fire, though you can stay in that room, you will catch on fire. You can move if you like
Fire Spread A1: 1d100 ⇒ 68 and A5: 1d100 ⇒ 56; No

Next RoundFendahl moves up to one of the saboteurs and attacks with his Scimitar, but the man is faster than the blade.

Fire in 1 and 5 only.
See Map for Locations: soldiers x4; A3 (one is adjacent to Fendahl, three are in open area)
Riley (A3), Jezebel ( A5), Sutoku (A7), Fendahl (A3), Jory (A7)

Sutoku had posted that he was moving to fight the fire so should not be in A7 anymore. I suspect it would be a double move to get to A5, which is the closet fire to him I believe.

Jezebel moves to the back to the archers in the light house to use her wand. No sense in letting them get more burning arrows into the building!
Magic Missile!: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Once in position, Jory unloads two arrows at the invaders.
attack/damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 181d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
attack/damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 131d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

AC: 22/23 if only adjacent to a single foe, HP: 39/39, Mage Armor

"This is legitimately turning into something ridiculous. There is no call to destroy an abandoned building for this purpose." However, he quickly charges in to slice into one of the invaders...

Move/attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Critical confirm: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18
Crit Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Gotcha Sutoku, thanks.

Jory and Sutoku run down the stairs from the light house and reach the top of the stairs (A5). Jezebel leaves the burning room, the oil starting to smoke and give off noxious fumes and joins Sutoku and Jory at the top of the stairs.

On the main floor Riley charges in towards the assassin, the first nearly takes the head off of the man, but he is able to lean with the blow just well enough to survive the strike and attack back.

The man strikes back against Riley 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

The man fighting Fendahl also attacks with his dagger. 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29 confirm: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17 for damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2 and DC18 Fort Save.

One of the other men moves to A2 and throws his bomb inside, the room explodes with fire.

The last man moves up the stairs and comes face to face with the warriors coming down the stairs.

PC's Turn.
Map is below, sorry its a bit blurry. Treat the stairs as 15' long, 5' wide. The NPC is at the bottom of the stairs, you three are up top.
Rooms 1, 2, 5 are now on fire.

MAP

Sutoku, resistant to fire, moves in and tries to fight the blaze if its at all possible. Call on me if you need help repelling the bandits. he says.

Not sure what mechanic is used to fight the fire.

Fendahl takes the 2 pts of damage fro the dagger. That attacker takes 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 cold damage.

Fendahl will strike back at the assassin by him...

scimitar: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 damage : 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

As a move action, he directs the spirit weapon to also attack.

scimitar: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 damage : 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Oh, and forgot...fort save 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 +2 vs attacks by evil

Jory helped fend off the assassins, as fighting fire was not something he was good at.
Jory will move to fire at assailants. Let me know if I need to reroll my arrow shots.

AC: 24/25 if only adjacent to a single foe, HP: 39/39, Mage Armor

Riley easily parries the blow sent back against him, using the momentum from that to spin around and deliver another strike.

Full Attack. Had been forgetting my Ring of Protection some rounds, I think.

Attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Jezebel, realizing she has little else to contribute at the moment, focuses on extinguishing the fire.

Jezebel moves to help extinguish the fire upstairs and sees the tengu fully engulfed the flames! The proud Inquisitor wades through the room dousing the shooting flames with water and pounding out the flames with his cloak. Wiping away the amazement, Jezebel gets to work doing the same and the fire is contained.

Jory fires a couple of shots down the stairs, but the arrows glance off the walls in the narrow corridor.

Riley continues to fight against his aggressor, cutting him once more.
Fendhal also strikes down at his foe, the poison that he received not spreading through his body. Fendhal notes that if anyone was to become poisoned this could turn out very bad!

Two sabotuers dance around the burning house to attack Riley - Dagger: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 2 = 17 and Dagger: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 10 + 2 = 14, but the swordsman easily deflects both men

The poison wielding man again attack Fendahl - Dagger: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23 Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3 and a DC 18 Fort Save (not evil).

The man at the bottom of the stairs takes out one of the bombs and throws them at Jory! Bomb: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23, Fire Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 4) + 2 = 9 , on Fire DC 14 Reflex save.

Conditions- Room 1 and 2 are on fire - Spread?: 1d100 ⇒ 91 and Spread?: 1d100 ⇒ 41; No.
PC's Turn

Fendahl takes the 3 pts of damage fro the dagger. That attacker takes 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 cold damage. Does it look like any of the cold damage is affecting the assassin?

fort vs poison : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Hoping the cold is being more of a deterrent, Fendahl will step back and cast hold person on the least damaged of Riley's opponents. DC 16will

the spirit weapon to also attack.

scimitar: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 damage : 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Not sure where all the enemies are. With no fire unstairs, (right?) Sutoku will descent and if he sees enemies before he encounters fire he will engage them. Else he will fight fire again.

The fire out behind him Sutoku rapidly descends the stairs and engages the first enemy he encounters, power attacking with the keen blade.

Nodachi: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 161d10 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 8 + 6 = 18

AC: 24/25 if only adjacent to a single foe, HP: 39/39, Mage Armor

With the deflections, Riley takes advantage of an opening created to try to finish one of his assailants off for good.

Attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Likewise satisfied that the fires are out, Jezebel follows the brave fire resistant inquisitor, attempting to use him as soft cover if necessary. "Sorry, your armor will do better than my skin. . . " with her wand at the ready in case someone should come into her line of sight. Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Stay behind me soft one. Sutoku encourages as he ruffles his feathers to look larger - at the same time looking more menacing and proving a little more cover.

Jory smiles at the Tengu and replies "I will."

Jory then fires two arrows at the invaders with thistle tips.

arrow1/damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 101d8 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
arrow2/damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 261d8 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

the first arrow misses, but the hits and continues to bleed.

1d6 ⇒ 1 rounds of bleed if untreated.

Fendahl's spiritual weapon succeeds in finishing off the saboteur fighting him. Turning around, he also tries to stop another saboteur in his tricks. Will Save: 20 + 3 = 23 but he resists.

Riley again slashes one of the enemies, causing another huge gash across his chest.

Sutoku and Jezebel rush down the stairs to find a saboteur at the bottom of the steps (double move for Sutoku and Jezebel . Jory stands firm and fires arrows at the man, one finds the mark in his thigh.

The two warriors fight Riley strike with their daggers. 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27 and 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16, one slips through the fighters defense damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1 and Fort DC 18 save.

The man at the bottom of the steps takes a 5' step back and throws a bomb at Jezebel! Touch Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20 for Fire Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 3) + 2 = 9. DC14 Reflex save or be on fire, same save or Sutoku takes 4 damage. NPC Reflex Save: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21

MAP
Fire Spread? 1d100 ⇒ 63 or 1d100 ⇒ 55 No.
PC's turn.

I am assuming the cold damage finished the one on Fendahl, since the scimitar missed badly. The spirit scimitar will keep swinging at that one if he is not really down.

Fendahl hears his allies on the stairs but not sure where they are.
"Hrrmm, everyone doing ok over there? Sutoku, you got that one?"

He sees Riley flanked and moves west to assist the swordman...attacking the thug to Riley's south.

"Coming to help Master Riley. I worry the next wave may be approaching as we deal with these... "

+1 scimitar: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18 damage : 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4