Qwerty's PFS Gallows of Madness- What Lurks in the Woods (closed recruitment) (Inactive)

Game Master nightdeath

Sam entered through the window and then tried to sneak upstairs.

"No use standing around outside," Eris observes. "Climb in and enjoy this scene of carnage with us," she adds to those still outside.

She turns and tries to see where the bloody tracks might lead to.

perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

"How can I refuse such a tempting invitation" Wolfgang answers Eris sounding completely serious although he makes sure to have his crossbow ready to fire on any overgrown critter suddenly materializing out of the furniture.

Deldri followed Eris.

"This place looks gross..it's worse than a kobold's living room."

Deldri looks at the tracks then looks around. "I wonder what made them...they don't look like anything important."

Survival: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

apologies- had to finish up some work issues before I picked up my kids for their spring break.

As everyone makes their way inside the abode and continues searching the rooms Eris notices a flash of steel through the air and moves the distracted Deldri out of the way of a flying fork that ends up being stuck in the wall... everyone looks to the source of the fork and they see an ugly tiny creature who kicks over some debris he was hiding behind yelling "I HATE YOUS!”

ATK: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Arcana to ID creature

Eris's rapier rings from her scabbard and she prepares to attack it if it comes near her.

Readied Rapier Atk: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 71d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

"We love thee!" shouts Wolfgang before unloading his crossbow at the incoming creature!

Attack roll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 -> Damage roll: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Edit

Critical confirmation roll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 -> Damage roll: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Deldri gets out his crossbow and tries to hit.

Eris readies an attack if the creature gets close to her as a bolt flies through the air and hits the foe causing Wolfgang to smile...

Deldri fumbles through his items to get his crossbow out for a coming shot...

Sammakko, Manaria, Speaker up next

Manaria readies to swing away if it comes close to her.

readied: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Sam rushes into the room as quickly as his little legs can move to help the others.

Double move

1d20 ⇒ 10

Deldri fires.

attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

the creature takes a step to its right and throws a dagger at the small green skinned one cursing in a foul language as it does.

Dagger Thrown: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23...DMG: 1d2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Combat 2nd Rnd
Wolfgang, Sammakko (-3), Manaria, Deldri, Eris, Speaker
Foe...

Eris, throwing caution to the wind, charges the creature, rapier thrust toward it.

"What have you done to this place?" she asks it.

Rapier (charge): 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 2 = 161d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Deldri moves closer and fires again.

attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

hold still

Eris charges the creatures just after Deldri connects with a bolt.... the foe is stunned by the gnomes bolt and does not defend itself against the swashbucklers rapier which finds its mark and downs the creature... after the fight ends the group pools their brains together and determine the creature was some sort of homunculus.

Deldri looks around the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

Everyone ok?

"I am. Not sure about Sammakko though" says Wolfgang while scanning the room for further clues.

Perception check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Sam looks down at where the dagger struck him and pokes at it, "Oh it's just a scratch, I've had much worse. But can you use this thingy on me? I never can figure out how they work." he motions towards Deldri.

"So what the heck's a hamcules? Or whatever it is you guys called it."

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

"A bizarre creature," Eris says. "Though I am doubtful it caused all of the havoc here," she says as she listens at the door to the west.

Once the group is ready, she opens it.

perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Whilst searching the house the group discovers that getting too close to some god awful smell in the kitchen will make someone lose their lunch. The smell of rotting food and stagnant water rises from the filth in this small kitchen, mixing sickeningly with the strong, coppery scent of fresh blood. Broken jugs, upturned trays, and scraps of food litter the room. In the sink, a large bowl filled with chewed and spat out food floats in thick, bloody water in the sink. An open door to the south reveals a ransacked pantry.

Wolfgang points out a springing fork trap in the open kitchen door that would have stung someone trying to close it, and he also points out another fork trap in the shelf in the dining room.

"Eh... in good ole Ustalav we use this same kind of design to defend our larders from zombies and vampires! Damn I miss my Country!" sighs Wolfgang reminiscing about the past but still carefully avoiding the traps.

"This place is disgusting!" Eris says. "Let's try upstairs."

Sammakko quickly runs up the stairs behind Eris.

Wrapping a perfumed scarf around their face to lessen the overwhelming stench of the downstairs area. The Speaker shakes their head the Homunculus and it's bizzare actions towards them. "Some creatures are just destructive, though that hardly explains what has gone on here."

Following the others up the stairs, the Speaker looks around. It was doubtful that they would find anything still living here, but they had a duty to at least look.

Deldri follows the others upstairs. "I'm glad to get away from that smell. It smelled worse than a kobold den"

The group moves to the second floor and discover they can search three different doors.

Sam heads for the first door he sees ahead of him and opens it.

Wolfgang stays behind Sammakko with his crossbow ready to fire...

Looking a their three options, the Speaker draws their Scimitar and holds it ready for any more surprises. As the curious Grippli makes their way to the door, the Sarenrite holds their breath subconsciously as if expecting trouble.

The shelves in this storeroom have been ripped off the wall and lie in a heap on the floor, along with their now-wrecked former contents—bloody linens, a broken broom, and other ruined household supplies. Past the storeroom is a tidy washroom that appears oddly untouched by the surrounding messy chaos.

Sammakko continues investigating and enters the washroom. As he moves stuff around he causes the mirror to fall off the wall, revealing a nasty, scrawled message written in blood in a childlike hand: “You know nothing! You ruined everything! Your friends hate you! I HATE YOU!”

Deldri points at the message. "Wow that looks creepy. I wonder who wrote it."

"I feel so warm and tingly inside... let's find the poor wretch who wrote these sad words and give him all of our LOVE people! He... or she... or it... needs a BIG hug and it's our duty to provide it!" Wolfgang comments sarcastically while taking a peek inside the room

Perceptin check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

"We have yet to find anyone dead here," Eris says as she examines the scrawl.

"Does it seem one of the apprentice group might have turned against the others?" she wonders.

perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

After reading the writing on the wall and searching the room the group discovers only two doors left to check: each on opposite sides of the hallway.

which door do you choose to investigate first?

How about door to our right?

"Never seen a message like that before, sounds like someone has some anger issues. Hopefully we can find these kids before more get hurt." He heads back out to the hall and enters the door on the right.

The Speaker looks at the scrawled words of hate and shakes their head sadly, tears forming in their eyes at the obvious display of suffering.

"It seems clear a child here has deep trauma issues and has gone to a very dark place, possibly brought on by whatever has infected him. Poor soul." they lament, choosing to ignore the heartless Ustalavian.

Nodding, the Speaker follows Sam and Eris to the door on the right of the hall, their Scimitar still drawn.

Deldri follows speaker still holding his mace.

"I can't wait to find out that happened to that poor kid."

Eris leads the group through to the next room. This large bedroom is full of upturned furniture and decorations knocked from the shelves and walls. Every painting has been smashed from its frame and torn to pieces. Sitting on the otherwise-undisturbed master bed is a single journal.

Sifting through the journal reveals it belongs to Gellion’s mother. Its contents are quite mundane—simply a record of the family’s life from day to day—but every page has the message “Our son is an awful disappointment” written over it in blood, in the same childlike handwriting as discovered behind the mirror.

Spending more time reading the journal the group discovers in the most recent entries that the mother was concerned about her son’s well-being: he was spending too much time on his experiments, was not eating well, and seemed distant from his friends and parents.

Finding little else of value in the parents room the group moves to the next door and opens it. This small room contains a simple bed, desk, and chair. Thick webs cover the west end of the room, where the bed sits—and two humanoid forms appear trapped within. Sticky, purplishblack strands cling to the desk and chair on the east side of the room, except in one spot where the strange filaments have left a clear space around a small piece of metal.

"Walk into my parlor said the spider to the fly..." humms Wolfgang while scanning the room.

"Keep your eyes open: considering the size of the last critters we had to kill this one should be one big spider... big enough to kill a couple of people..." he says nodding at the lifless humanoid forms trapped in spider silk...

Perception check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Peering over Wolfgang's shoulders with a frown, the Speaker looks around with horror apparent on their face. "This is abhorrent!" they say breathlessly surveying the thick strands of webbing. With a lilting chant, the Speaker waves their hand to detects auras of magic in the room beyond them.

Detect Magic

"Does anyone perchance know if those two figures have passed on? If so I could bring forth Sarenrae's purifying flames to remove the strands." they offer seriously.

Sam moves over to the webbed victims while the others read the journal, and starts tearing at the strands. "I don't know Red, but I'm going to try and find out."

"Sammakko be careful"

Wolfgang searches the room from his vantage point and notices some movement underneath the bed in the room. Before he can alert the others to it Sammakko moves closer to the bed... just then a large spider comes out from under the bed and attacks the grippli...

Bite vs FF AC: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

1st RND
Manaria, Wolfgang, Speaker, Eris
Spider
Sammakko, Deldri

From the hallway Manaria manages to react faster than the others with the crossbowman and the dervish hot on her heels while Eris, already in the room spins to action as well.... Sammakko is momentarily stunned by what occured and is slow to react as Deldri is unsure of what is going on due to not being able to see over the others from the hallway...

Manaria moves into the room and takes a two handed swing at the spider.

attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
confirming crit: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
extra damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Manaria quickly moves past the others and lands a telling blow as the spider begins to wobble from the attack...

Wolfgang, Speaker and Eris are up

"Come into my parlor said the Spider to the frog..." Wolfgang chuckles as he takes aim and shoots the overgrown arachnid!

Attack roll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15 -> Damage roll: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Exclaiming in surprise at the sudden appearance of the mutated spider, the Sarenrite dives through the room, rolling and weaving through the webbing and spider's legs to get to the far corner, scimitar drawn and ready.

acrobatics vs CMD+10: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Once at the far end of the room, the Speaker attacks using Manaria's distraction, before enchanting the blade with a quick prayer..

Scimitar, flank: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 2 = 16 for Magic, Cold Iron damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

well that ended quickly

The group works together to dispatch the spider. They see the two bodies on the bed not move during the fight and initially think the bodies are dead but upon further inspection they see the bodies are unconscious and covered in numerous spider bites.

As seen when they first opened the door, a 5-foot-by-10-foot square of the weird bile is located in the corner of the room. It appears to be the same bile as encountered earlier. An arrowhead sits in the center of the space free of the bile, as if the bile avoids it. A quick search of the room also reveals a small chest next to the desk which contains six flasks of acid, two flasks of alchemist’s fire, two tanglefoot bags, a potion of remove disease, a potion of lesser restoration, and three potions of cure light wounds.