Male Tengu Shaman L3/Fey Sorcerer 1/Duettist Bard 1 |HP 29/29| Init +2; Per +15| AC 16, T 12, FF 14 | Fort 2, Ref +6, Will +12
the taking average on out of combat clw wands is also very common in online play. Basically, it just speeds up things a little. Totally up to the GM, obviously
This is very, very, very creepy. Don't like these bugs. Buying swarmsuit next time I get to town.
The group continues to walk deeper into the maze, their unwanted layer of mosquitos draped about them like a living, crawling cloak. The insects are warm against your skin on this chilly fall night.
GM Screen:
Leonard Stealth:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14 Stali Perception:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
Crunch.
As you turn around a corner in the maze, Stali's sharp ears hear something seconds before it leaps out of the cover of the corn stalks to attack him. Leonard Kriegler swings a sickle, viciously!
In his eagerness to leap out and attack, Leonard's swing goes wide.
Then you realize that Leonard is not wearing a mosquito mask, or robes or ANYTHING. He's naked, and in these clouds of insects, nothing’s touching him. Leonard grins. "Knew it was you lot under those robes. You was the only ones not singing!"
Before your eyes, his human gaze drops, his features melting...
[Picture of the real Leonard on Slide Nine]
... into a hairless, leathery biped whose is face dominated by grotesque and unsettling whorls and slits.
Stali, because you heard him you get one action in a surprise round.
Characters can navigate this maze by following the trails—the maze itself is relatively simple—or they can push through the dense undergrowth of corn, flayleaf, fungus, and weeds. All of this plant life is treated as heavy undergrowth—the corn and other plants grow to an impressive height of 12 feet on average. Heavy undergrowth costs 4 squares of movement to move into and provides concealment with a 30% miss chance. It also increases the DC of Acrobatics checks by 5 and grants a +5 circumstance bonus on Stealth checks. As the walls are just over 10 feet thick, moving through a wall of the corn maze costs a total of 8 squares of movement, meaning that for most people, moving through a wall takes nearly a full round action. Ravenmoor's constant humidity means that the vegetation that makes up the walls of the maze is always quite damp. Not only does this make it even more uncomfortable to move through, but it makes burning the vegetation a lengthy, effectively impossible task.
M Tengu LG Rogue 9 | HP 66/66 +14 temp | AC 25 tch 18 fl 19 Mobility | CMB +5 CMD 22 (23 vs grapple) | F +8 R +15 W +11 | Init +5 | Perc +22 Low Light, Trap Spotter | Speed 60 | GM reroll used | clover 1/3 | Active Conditions: Haste
AoO
Dagger:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 Damage:1d4 ⇒ 2
Stali forgets for a moment that he doesn't have his sword in hand. If he had, the blade might have been long enough to reach Leonard.
Frustrated, he quickly runs to get slightly ahead of Leonard and creates a flanking opportunity for someone else. He has stopped just inside the corn wall on the other side.
HP: 8/8 |AC:12 T:12 FF:10,| CMD: 13 | Fort: +1, Refl: +3, Will: +9 | Init: +2, Speed 30ftSpells per day:First:4/8 Second 4/5| Heavenly Fire 7/7 day | Magic Missile 34/50 | Female Tengu Sorcerer 5
Sarano, panic stricken eyes searching for the monster formerly known as Leonard, finding him fighting in the corn she'll narrow her eyes as she sets about to use her magics.
"Don't let him go, he's a monster gone mad!"
Desna, if you're really there, please bless us,
Lifting her hand into the hair a golden halo bursts out, envoloping her allies, blessing their attacks.
I cast Bless, +1 to Attack and +1 to saving throws versus fear
He cuts with his sickle at Hikaru, and Hikaru successfully parries and ripostes!
Hikaru's Corn Miss Chance:1d100 ⇒ 60
Hikaru hits again, but once again... not all of the damage seems to go through on Leonard, whose internal anatomy is clearly different from your own. "So bird... you think you're hot stuff, right? Too bad you're barely nicking me with that toy sword of yours."
ORDER: Gallako, Leonard (-8), Hikaru, Chak, Vralk, Stali, Sarano, Andrietta
The whole party's up! Remember your Bless bonus, and please... roll your Corn Miss Chance if you are in the Cornfield. Thirty percent or less is a miss!
Well crud. Unless someone else has any ideas, I'd have to take a diagonal move to get into melee with Leonard which would require a double move since I only have a speed of 20'. I don't suppose Hikaru would be willing to risk an AoO so that Chak could move and attack this round? (If not, I understand.) Just trying to think of a way not to have to spend another round without attacking.
I should have double moved last round and then studied + attacked this round, but you know what they say about hindsight.
Ack. So much corn! So crowded, congested, and packed!
Double Movement Cost: When your movement is hampered in some way, your movement usually costs double. For example, each square of movement through difficult terrain counts as 2 squares, and each diagonal move through such terrain counts as 3 squares (just as two diagonal moves normally do).
If movement cost is doubled twice, then each square counts as 4 squares (or as 6 squares if moving diagonally). If movement cost is doubled three times, then each square counts as 8 squares (12 if diagonal) and so on. This is an exception to the general rule that two doublings are equivalent to a tripling.
Knowledge Dungeoneering. I am pretty sure that no one in the group has that skill, or I would have given you a spoiler. You guys can keep trying different weapons until something goes through, of course...
Hikaru takes the sickle from Leonard's side and decides that carrying it will help with his 'costume'... "Unless someone else wants to carry this, I think we should take it with us."
He steps out of the corn and rearranges his robes so they hang properly after the fight.
M Tengu LG Rogue 9 | HP 66/66 +14 temp | AC 25 tch 18 fl 19 Mobility | CMB +5 CMD 22 (23 vs grapple) | F +8 R +15 W +11 | Init +5 | Perc +22 Low Light, Trap Spotter | Speed 60 | GM reroll used | clover 1/3 | Active Conditions: Haste
Stali says "Go ahead, Hikaru. I want to get Eits in place, be right back!"
With that, he moves back to where he left Eits at the entrance to the maze. He orders it to stealthily fly to where it can record what is happening at the center of the maze. Stali then returns to the group.
"Ready! Let's interrupt a ceremony!"
Two double moves should do it if I cut through the maze just above the entrance and then double back.
While Stali is setting up the camera clockwork spy and Chak gets poked for healing, Andrietta is examining 'Leonard' and the area for any loose items that may have come adrift during the fight, waiting for the party to regroup before beginning the assault.
Unless there is an objection, Andrietta coming around on the path might be the best idea?
Male Tengu Shaman L3/Fey Sorcerer 1/Duettist Bard 1 |HP 29/29| Init +2; Per +15| AC 16, T 12, FF 14 | Fort 2, Ref +6, Will +12
"Did we remember to loot Leonard of any equipment that he might have?"
"I think that most, if not all, of us should go by the path. We're going to make a LOT of noise coming in from the corn. That way THEY will have to go through the corn to flank us"
"Did we remember to loot Leonard of any equipment that he might have?"
"I think that most, if not all, of us should go by the path. We're going to make a LOT of noise coming in from the corn. That way THEY will have to go through the corn to flank us"
Andrietta Ebonfeather wrote:
While Stali is setting up the camera clockwork spy and Chak gets poked for healing, Andrietta is examining 'Leonard' and the area for any loose items that may have come adrift during the fight, waiting for the party to regroup before beginning the assault.
Leonard was naked when he leapt at you, but near his hiding place in the corn you see a stash of two potions of Cure Moderate Wounds -- clearly labeled in Alizna's spidery writing. The Sickle that Hikaru is carrying is also really well made, and glows magically.
"I think that most, if not all, of us should go by the path. We're going to make a LOT of noise coming in from the corn. That way THEY will have to go through the corn to flank us"
Sneaking through the corn gives a bonus to Stealth according to the terrain write-up.
Male Tengu Shaman L3/Fey Sorcerer 1/Duettist Bard 1 |HP 29/29| Init +2; Per +15| AC 16, T 12, FF 14 | Fort 2, Ref +6, Will +12
Chak Yuen Chen wrote:
Sneaking through the corn gives a bonus to Stealth according to the terrain write-up.
You're quite right. That has always seemed so totally and utterly wrong to me (in a home game I assumed it was a misprint and reversed it to a -5 penalty) that I have a mental block on the subject :-(
M Tengu LG Rogue 9 | HP 66/66 +14 temp | AC 25 tch 18 fl 19 Mobility | CMB +5 CMD 22 (23 vs grapple) | F +8 R +15 W +11 | Init +5 | Perc +22 Low Light, Trap Spotter | Speed 60 | GM reroll used | clover 1/3 | Active Conditions: Haste
Makes sense to me that the corn field would give a bonus, especially if there is enough wind to cause the corn to sway.
Stali will keep with his normal weapons. I thought Hikaru was going to carry the sickle.
Returning, Stali checks if the group is going along the path or Chak and he are to sneak through the crops while the others take the path.
He whispers to the group "If there is a chance, try to get them talking. Getting them to admit to what is happening should ease the transition."
I'm willing to enter either way. If coming through the corn, I will enter at about the 10 o'clock position taking 10 on stealth, for a 26 including corn bonus. Otherwise I'm at the end of the line.
M Tengu LG Rogue 9 | HP 66/66 +14 temp | AC 25 tch 18 fl 19 Mobility | CMB +5 CMD 22 (23 vs grapple) | F +8 R +15 W +11 | Init +5 | Perc +22 Low Light, Trap Spotter | Speed 60 | GM reroll used | clover 1/3 | Active Conditions: Haste
It doesn't appear the group has a strong opinion here. I'll have Stali sneak in at 10 o'clock. Its (the clockwork) is coming in at 6 o'clock. The main group sounds like they are coming in through the path which would be 3 o'clock.
It sounds like you’re traveling through the corn... I'm assuming everyone took ten on stealth. Stali and Chak, you think that you're well hidden.
The party silently rustles through the overgrown corn fields, emerging into the center. All around them are swaying, drunken cultists, covered in thick layers of crawling mosquitoes. They continue to tonelessly chant, while some of them paw at your robes. They’re not grabbing you... just petting you. You noticed that they are stroking each other as well as they sway drunkenly back and forth.
"Gossamer King, Gossamer King,
Weaving lies in the ring,
Spiders with bite and sting,
Moths and stirges on the wing,
Power come to us through this offr'ing,
Gossamer King, Gossamer King."
In the center, stands Mayor Andretti Kriegler, his mask off, his cultist robes flapping freely around him. He’s standing over a crumpled and sleeping form that appears naked and bound. It appears to be the small and talkative Krissy, the little girl who had adopted Andrietta as an adoptive grandmother.
He has a spear casually pointed to the child. “There is violence in your hearts, friends. Sometimes it is needed to spill some blood of course, to renew the crops and to fulfill the cycles of our blessed contract with with the Gossamer King.” He looks down, sadly at the little girl. “I would have chosen another, but... sometimes these things don’t work out. I’m so glad Leonard brought me a substitute, or all would be lost. Are you folks certain you don’t want to join us? We don’t have to be adversaries. We could use resourceful new recruits like you.”
