[PbP Gameday IV] GM Alera's Masters of the Fallen Fortress (Inactive)

Game Master Aerdriana

Prizm waves his wand of magic missiles at the blue dog.

Wand of Magic Missiles: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Fhlangorn 5' steps toward red dog and hacks at it with his spiritual great axe!

ectoplasmicist lash: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
damage: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2) + 4 = 8

For a moment it would appear that the Galti man is stunned, when suddenly a bright blue longsword of energy appears. +1 Psyblade Weapon and he attacks the blue four legged creature.

Psyblade +1, Melee +2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Eyes blinded by the pink most he swings high above the canine head.

Sigríðr smiles at the pending attack with a slight glint of pleasure in her eye. She cackles, "Now metal will meet flesh. To battle!" She whistles at Hrafnr and points at the red dog.

Handle Animal: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Seeing that her Raven is content on watching Bert for the time being, she swings her heavy pick at the red canine before her.

Heavy Pick: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Heavy Pick Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

A one and an eight. Great way to start this campaign.

Prizm magics the blue dog. It whimpers and is barely standing.

Fhlangorn thwaks the red dog. Crushed.

Sgt.Blue and Sigríðr . Swing and a miss.

"finish them, guys. " Glastor just dots back and watches the Martials.

Perform Dance: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (11) - 2 = 9

Glastor moves over to the dodo, putting him back on his feet. "Bert."

Puppy bolts - If you let it. Runs away with its tail between it's legs.

Out of initiative.

"Did anyone get hurt? Other than the dogs, that is. Um, Krush, I think you have a little... bit of... dog guts all over you... excuse me!" Glastor, overwhelmed by the carnage, runs around the corner and paints some mushrooms.

Bert pecks Glastor on the boot and then runs over to Sgt. Blue - looking expectantly at the gnome cleric he chirps.

"bert!"

Krush smiles, pulling out his Klar and starting to scrape the ruins of the dog from between the spikes of his earth breaker.

"If one of you could help with a bit of water, perhaps..." he says, shaking his klar clean again before going back to picking. "I know that some of your gods like that trick."

He turns to Prizm, nodding his head. "All good?

"I said hurt, Bert. Not just a little scratch.

Sigrid looks a little frustrated, "Aren't you a cleric? He's clearly wounded. Fine, do you have a wand Venture Captain Papaya Man? If so, since our cleric won't, I'll take care of you."

If yes, I will burn a charge for him.

She then spots her raven circling above and makes a set of whistles, "Hrafn, on me."

[dice=Handle Animal to "defend" me]1d20+3[/dice]

Sigrid looks back to the group with a look of firm determination in her eye, "No time like the present, time to get moving."

I've moved myself into the tower.

He's down -4 per Alera's notes, not -1 per Sgt Blue's stat block.

"Ah, Sigríðr, is it not good to help eachother out once in a while?"

Seeing that the dog did more damage than expected, Glastor moves up, and calls upon the power of Korada to heal the magus.
CLW spell: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 of course.

"Um, fellas, I could channel, or convert one of my bless spells, but then we wouldn't have it for later. Maybe use one of those wands. I guess Korada didn't think he was worthy."

HEAL FIGHT!

Bert sneaks into the room peeking around with Siggy.

Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

The tiny bird squints his beady little eyes at the raven and thinks - soon......

”You’re a giant Klar! Let’s get in there and see what this mysterious place holds! Onward to adventure! Wait… has anyone seen my Dodo?”

Prizm looks around to no avail unable to tell where that rascal Bert has gone. Shrugging is tiny shoulders he squints and adjusts his eyes to the dark beyond.

”Come on Klar! FOR KNOWLEDGE!”

Once everyone is ready, Glastor moves in.
GM - did I need to use my spell, or is the wand charge from Krush enough?

Wand from Krush is enough. He was down 4.

The collapse of the eastern wing has caved in much of
tower’s first level as well. The southern wing is entirely
filled with rubble, leaving only the northern wing (and
part of the western wing) accessible.

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.

While most of this room escaped the collapse, enough
rubble still covers the floor to make the entire room
difficult terrain.

Sigríðr and Hrafn to act. Surprise round.

Quick question - the break might help a bit, but what kind of light are we looking at inside?

Sigríðr looks up with a startled look on her face and shouts back to those waiting outside, "SPIDER!" She drops into a combat stance and appears to be ready to attack anything that comes her way.

Standard Action: Ready to hit the spider if it comes in range.

If it comes in range...
Heavy Pick Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Heavy Pick Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Hrafn continues his actions of circling Sigríðr while waiting for something to happen.

Hrafn is in a defensive stance and therefore is in delay until something attacks us first. In which case he will attack and move to the appropriate point in the initiative order.

Beak Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Beak Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Good question Krush. There are no windows in any of the rooms. This room is moderately well lit as it is neighboring the Eastern, crushed open area. All other interior rooms of the tower are dark, unless exposed to the outside.

Spider does not move into range. Shoots a web at Sigríðr.

web, ranged touch atk: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

end surprise round

Round 1 - bold can act:

Hrafn
Sigrid entangled
Prizm
Sgt.Blue
Spider
Krush
Glastor
Fhlangorn
Bert

Sigrid points to Hrafn and whistles a clear, "attack" command.

Handle Animal: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

She then takes a stance to attack anything that comes in range.

Readied action to attack the spider if it comes down.

Is there any way to scrape the webbing off?

Hrafin swoops down and attacks the spider.

Move action into range
Standard action to bite (assuming that it's not a 5-foot step

Bite attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Bite damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Escape artist or strength check to get out of/break the webbing

I don't see the spider on the map?

Prizm nearly trips as he scampers over the rubble - which is much larger to a little guy like him.. than a big guy like Krush.

Squinting he makes out the spider and waggles a finger at him.

Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Blinding Ray

Sgt Blue is at beer camp, are you going to bot him?

Yeah, I was planning on botting Marc. Spider is 15 ft directly above Sigrid's head. I'll put it on map when it moves on plane with you guys... which is now.

Hrafin's bite misses. Prizm's ranged touch, misses.

Sgt.Blue: Moves as far as he can into the rubble filled room. Readies an attack for if spider comes into range.

Spider: Moves down from its web and attacks its ensnared prey, Sigrid.

Sigrid, your ready goes off before this attack but I'll roll it now in case it lives. Sgt.Blue's ready does not go off, spider comes down on other side of its desired meal.

Spider atk: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Spider dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Spider takes a great big chomp out of nothing, missing horribly.

Round 1 - bold can act:

Hrafn
Sigrid entangled
Prizm
Sgt.Blue
Spider
Krush
Glastor
Fhlangorn
Bert

FYI - best way to handle a readied action is in a spoiler == the text of the spoiler states the trigger, and the spoiler content has the results... die rolls, etc.

Glastor just moves up, ready to heal if needed.

Taking the good spot!

"Ah! More to smash!" Krush drops his Klar, rushing into the room, nearly tripping as he hits the rubble. "Dang ancient ruins and their questionable engineering!"

Picking his way through the rocks carefully and slowly, Krush gets in to face the spider as his effort is expended.

Double move, earth breaker in hand.

Oh, sad puppy...

Fhlangorn looks up at Sigrid's shout.

Hey Spider, don't you dare hurt my friends!

Double moves 40' as far as he can into the room.

bummer t hat rockstepper only works for 5' steps.

Yup, sorry - good to know. I also should have put in my readied attack rolls but I was in a hurry.

Readied Attack: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 3 - 2 = 18
Readied Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Huh - I should have had Lasting Grudge but it apparently isn't on whatever I printed out. Oh well, will fix for level 1.1 Removed the extra +1 I thought I had

I think you did your readied up above Sig.

If it comes in range...
Heavy Pick Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Heavy Pick Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

or was that a different round?

That was the Surprise Round Ready

Sigrid's fine. She got to act in surprise round, then top of the order in round 1. And up now, actually, for round 2

Spider took Sigrid's hit. Looks displeased.

Round 2 - bold can act:

Hrafn
Sigrid entangled
Prizm
Sgt.Blue
Spider
Krush
Glastor
Fhlangorn
Bert

Covered in webbing and spider viscera, a glint appears in Sigríðr's eye. She launches herself at the spider.

Heavy Pick Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Heavy Pick Damage: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

After watching Hrafn attack the spider she attempts to have Hrafn start harassing the spider.

[dice=Handle Animal to "Aid"]1d20+3[/dice]

If successful (10), for next round Hrafn will be using the aid other ability.

Hrafn continues to peck at the spider and attempts to lay his claws into its furry back.

Bite Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Bite Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Talon Attack 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Talon Damage 1: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Talon Attack 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Talon Damage 2: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Is it sad, that the bird is the only one so far to hurt the Spider?

Um...unless it's AC is >18, Sigríðr has hit for 11 so far

Seeing that the poor spider is at the end of its life and Prizm is likely not needed in its demise. The gnome decides to do something silly.

Waving his small hands he grows horns like a satyr, fangs like a badger, and his eyes become that of owls. All of his tiny fey features twist and become more pronounced.

cast haunted fey aspect

"Don't kill it, the spider is just hungry - cant you calm it down? I can if you like... just relate to it and let's move on."

Seeing that it's likely over already, Prizm frowns inwardly -muttering to himself.

"It's just an animal.... I am wandering this place with a bunch of meanies"

Looking at the spider as its dying the gnome sadly whispers.

"Tx fornky djur"

Yep, spidie's toast.

Out of initiative.

Sigríðr looks at the goo that currently covers her head to toe and begins the process of scraping it off her body and moving free of the webbing, "Everybody okay? Nobody got hit I take it?"

She shakes her head, "Prizm, I did not attack it until it came lunging after me, so do not assume that I'm a big meanie as you say. It could have stayed up in the webbing but it came to me. So, before you judge, you'd better get used to needing to kill things that come after you. I didn't see you express the same concern over the dogs. What makes them not worth the same respect? So before you make assumptions about my intentions, I'd get over your double standard first."

Prizm frowns slightly,

”I suppose I can’t be upset that you didn’t see what I saw. In terms of the dogs well they are not native to my home – but this spider if you look at the markings.. it appears to be one that I knew of. It’s clutch, or perhaps a distant clutch used to provide silk for the garmets of my kin.”

The gnome points over the odd yellow and red markings upon the shattered chitin. ”Generally if the animal was a sylvan dwelling thing – it can be hard for me to.. as you say “get used to killing things”. I never learned magic that really… hurt people.. or animals. But your point is taken Sigrid”

With a slight sigh his demeanor suddenly shifts and he looks up with his typical gnomish smile. ”What’s next? These ruins appear to be very old! Let’s go look around! “

Glancing at Krush – ”What is a Klar? And an Earthbreaker?”

Happily Prizm starts to scamper over the rocks.

Gasping, ”BERT!?! What are you doing”

The Dodo has his face buried in the remains of the spider eating noisily. He looks up wonder what's wrong - globs of spider goo dripping from his beak.

Looking around confused he finally gives up, shrugs and goes back to eating.

*muffled* "bert... be... bert"

Krush looks over his companions, sighs, then goes back outside to fetch his klar. On the way back in, he stops at the entrance, turning the light on on his Wayfinder, then entering, looking at the ceiling.

"I'm glad we are all ok..." he says slowly, squinting up into the darkness. "Sigríðr, friend, I trust you to keep an eye on the darkest corners. My eyes are not as fine as yours."

Krush keeps looking for a moment or two longer before turning to Prizm. He holds out his hands, one at a time, shaking his weapons.

"Earth breaker!" he says proudly, holding out his gigantic spiked hammer. "It can crush, well, anything that I've encountered thus far." He holds out the top half of an abnormally large wolf skull. Sticking out of where its mouth would be is a crude looking straight blade. "Klar! Offensive and defensive! Maybe offensive as well, to some." He gives out a hearty laugh. "One day, I will return to my people to learn to use them both in unison."

Glastor just watches the carnage, glad that he doesn't have to heal anyone. "I am glad we got through this unharmed. Prizm, I have to agree with you on the bloodshed, and all. But, the vermin probably got what it was asking for. I felt worse for the poor, starving puppies that Krush so brutally destroyed." The gnome looks a little green again when he says that.

Fhlangorn pouts.

Hey, I killed a sad puppy too...

Thank you Andrew Christian, please send back your dwarf at your earliest convience heheh