Rannik's Carrion Crown

Game Master Patrick Levasseur

Knowledge: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

That axe he's got! It's not the real thing, but he'll be able to hurt you with it! And it'll probably pass through your armor! This guy's not a ghost like Vessie, but more like a wraith! Magic him!

Did those of us in the surprise round get an action - Like my casting of Gravity bow?

knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

You were all aware of each other, so no true Surprise Round. I suppose he was making a move action to get out of the Oubliette, and so you could also have a surprise round action, such as casting Gravity Bow, and stowing the crossbow in Anna's case. EDIT: Oh yes, my "Ring 2" comment was for the movie The Ring 2, when the evil dead girl is climbing out of the well like a freakish spider.

Kn Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

The axe is statted as a masterwork handaxe.

knowledge religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Round 1
Tolvan pulls a magic arrow from his quiver (Undead Bane) and fires it at the creature to incredible effect, striking the Lopper in the chest and tearing a grisly chunk of psuedo-flesh and unholy material from his body. It shrieks and fixes it's gaze on the nearby wizard. "The creature is incorporeal and will require magic to hit it. Andjela, use the axe." he recommends.

Anna stows her crossbow, heading Tolvans warning that it will do no good. She pulls out a flask of holy water and unstops it, readying it in case the Lopper gets close.

"Protection would be good!" Andjela drops her curved-blade and reveals Lopper's Axe. You lookin' for this, b**ch-boy? Come and get it." The paladin readies herself for any aggressive move from the Lopper.

Kimberly, "Pharasma bless these heroes to send these lost souls to the afterlife" Kimberly continues her prayer in celestial and a wave of Pharasma's warmth engulfs the party.

Andjela, I wasn't sure if your readied action included moving to attack or not, but it makes more sense to me that you would move to attack if the Lopper was aggressive, so here we go.
Seeing the wraith move to attack Danica, Andjela steps forward to attack with the cursed, blood-covered axe. The blade strikes through the wraith, eliciting a ghastly shriek.

The Lopper lifts into the air, eying the axe in Andjela's hand with open malevolence. It glides towards the nearby monk, carefully avoiding the axe. The phantom axe it wields cuts through the air towards Danica, hitting and passing through her body like so much smoke. However several deep and heavily bleeding cuts appear on her shoulder and continue to bleed out Danica's life-blood. Instead of spilling to the ground, Danica's blood instead turns to smoke before your eyes and drifts toward the maniacal wraith floating in the air. The smokey blood seems to rejuvenate it somehow, and it cackles with evil glee. Danica: -3hp and -5hp in bleed damage. This -5hp will continue each round as per **normal bleed damage** rules.

Danica's rage burns at the sight of the Lopper. She begins to cut with her sword but feint instead, revealing the flaming fist that she showed once before ready to make contact. Her flaming fist deals the specter a devastating blow, and the Lopper is visibly rocked by the damage deal, it's eyes tracking the flame with something akin to fear. It visibly shudders and writhes, as if reliving a distant, horrible memory. Staggared

Active Effects: Bless - Duration 2 min. all allies gain a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

**Map - Dungeon**

Please post for Round 2!

Initiative Round 2
Tolvan
Anna
Andjela
Kimberly

Lopper

Danica

I think Danica was flat footed when the Lopper attacked her last round, but I believe her Mage Armor should count as full 4 points of armor against its incorporeal attacks, so this round she should be at her full AC.

@Tolvan: Noted. Interestingly last round it wouldn't have mattered, his attack roll was so high. But perhaps this round it shall!

Ouch, that is a lot of 1's for damage!

Good catch on the init change Andjela, forgot to mark that one. Also Danica, why don't you list an alternative action in case Kimberly decides to heal you. Or you can just leave it as written regardless, up to you. I intend to post Round 2 as quickly as I can once Kimberly posts, so you have that long to decide, fyi.

Both retrieving a potion and drinking it will provoke an attack Danica. And a good attack might drop you. I'd say it will drop you if you are hit again first, as the lopper goes before you. Best to wait til Kimberly and the Lopper goes before deciding what to do.

in the sm postion as Dancia regarding the map at work

Kimberly sings a short tune in celestial and then advances to try and safely touch Dancia hopeing to quell the bleeding.

its getting her nice clothes all dirty.

cast cure light on Dancia for 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Round 2
Tolvan, seeing the blood turn to smoke and seemingly heal the Lopper tells "Kimberly Kimberly, you must heal Danica's wound. I would save your channeling and use a cure light." He moves around to the west to both get a clearer shot and to put some distance between himself and the creature and fires a Ghost Touch Arrow. -11hp

Anna steps up to the apparition, her face a mask of fear, but she had to get close to douse the holy water on it. She wished she could come up with a quip. The holy water isn't thrown well enough to hit the wraith full on, but it is splashed by a portion of the holy liquid, it's body puffing into smoke where the water hits it. It gnashes it's teeth and howls an animalistic sound at the rogue.

Kimberly sings a short tune in celestial and then advances to try and safely touch Dancia hopeing to quell the bleeding. She keeps to the walls and ends up behind Danica, touching and healing the woman with her god-bestowed power. The moving around getting her nice clothes all dirty. The deep cuts on Danica's shoulder close nearly all the way, and the bleeding stops completely. +7hp Danica, bleed damage stopped.

Andjela continues to call on the evil wraith, "Come, face retribution... Scum!" The Lopper hisses at her in fury as the axe slices again through it's ghostly form, and Andjela can somehow tell it's doing more damage than is apparent. Indeed, as the axe finishes its swing, the Lopper stops moving completely, a look of surprise taking over the grotesque anger. It looks at Andjela and then the rest of you for the space of a heartbeat, and then it's body slowly dissolves into a gray smoke which drifts apart and into nothingness.

Combat is over! 320xp each.

The grate to the Oubliette, suspended on the ceiling the entire fight, slams back down to the floor, but at an angle, and can be easily shoved aside. As you look over the edge,the walls of the oubliette are polished smooth with very few handholds— it'd take an extremely skilled climber to make it down without hurting themselves. If Tolvan directs his light down there, you can see some skeletal remain in a heap at the bottom of the oubliette, along with about 30 feet of old rope. In addition, you can see a fair amount of gear and other treasures -- probably looted from murdered guards or stolen from guard rooms-- lies among the Lopper’s broken and mishapen bones. Oddly there is also a skull in there, contained inside a guards helmet, the rest of the body is not in the oubliette.

DC30 Climb check to climb on the smooth walls of the Oubliette.

Anna looks bewildered for a moment. We got him! Ha, we got him! She glances around, but can't help but breathe a tentative sigh of relief.

Glancing down, Anna mutters, Not getting down there except the easy way. Looks like there might be some neat stuff, though. How about we get some rope?

Tolvan breaths a sigh of relieve. Good teamwork everyone. That could have been much more deadly if more of us were hit and bleeding. My rope is hanging at the entrance to this level. Thinking about options, he asks Before we climb down, lets go back and open that door we passed while our buffs are running. Bless and Gravity Bow

That did go better than I expected. I used one of the two Undead bane arrows but I think that was a good use of it. And I uses one of the 4 remaining ghost touch arrows too. So down to 1 Undead Bane, and 3 ghost touch, and 9 +1 arrows. GM Mug, how close are we to leveling?

Yeah you guys rocked him, especially that first arrow of yours Tolvan. And Danica picking up on his dislike for fire helped. And his axe Andjela used caused him an additional 1d6 which I rolled and it rolled a 6 and a 5 for his two hits. If he could have gotten a few of you to bleed, he'd have been quite the handful. You're at 4520 / 5000 as far as leveling is concerned.... but who's counting? :)

When you move back to the room just outside the portcullis.

U3 - Guard Room
The door to this guard room is closed tightly, a metal object broken off in the lock. This door looks like it'd need to be forced open.

Wish I had a full quiver of those arrows for this place...

Danica offers a sigh of relief as the wounds close on her shoulder. She looks behind and sees the form of a small child from the corner of her eye. The monk kneels and grabs Kimberly's hand. "I thought I was doomed for a second. Thank you and thank Pharmsa for your abilities."

Danica offers a sigh of relief as the wounds close on her shoulder. She looks behind and sees the form of a small child from the corner of her eye. The monk kneels and grabs Kimberly's hand. "I thought I was doomed for a second. Thank you and thank Pharmsa for your abilities."

Kimberly just smiles knowing that she helped seemed to make her content.

every so often she passes a concerned look toward Andjela.

Danica opens up her back and pulls forth a silk rope.
"We can use this instead of climbing down, but I Tolvan. Let's get the most out of our spells."

Let's go get the goodies. There's no more evil down there, right? The three of you can lower me down and pull me back up. Anna takes one end of the rope Danica offered and ties a loop. Then she threads it through her belt and puts her foot through the loop. This shouldn't take more than a couple minutes. She makes sure there's room in her backpack.

Our buffs are a couple of minutes too....

Tolvan explains We go now to check that door or we loose the buffs.

So far about 10-20 seconds have gone by since the end of combat. Leaving over 10 rounds left of bless and gravity bow. Definitely not enough time to retrieve the items and then check the door. Not trying to tell you what to do, just letting you know your options.

Sorry, I was thinking of just the Mage Armor, and I didn't see why there'd be such a rush. Forgot about grav bow and bless. We've only been down here 10 minutes, tops. That makes sense.

When the group gestures to the nearby door, Anna nods and readies herself with her crossbow in one hand and another flask of holy water in the other.

I agree with Tolvan
Kimberly goes with him to check out the next room

Need you to check it Anna.

Andjela had been standing there, where she'd finished the wraith. Gracefully, she bent to gather and sheathe her Elven blade. Don't waste the dweomer, go!

As long as this doesn't take too much time, Perception plus trapfindin and canny observer: 1d20 + 6 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 4 + 1 = 30

Detect Evil... Detect Undead.

Anna skillfully determines there are no traps here just a jammed lock on a stout, closed door.

Andjela detects an evil and undead presence through the wooden door.

Lets say 9 rounds left of Bless and Gravity Bow

Evil... Undead.

Andjela tries to kick the door in... Honey, I'm home! Open up, Lover!

Strength, someone can help!: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Kimberly runs up and hits the door with her little foot mimicing Andjela

strength check: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (10) + 0 = 10

Ok that was just too wierd

lol! I think I'll wait for some additional help before I... make a decision on those checks. Nice mimicry Kimberly.

We can role-play or roll-play, you da boss.

'If at first you don't succeed' I suppose.

The door shivers slightly in the frame as Kimberly and Andela give a token effort to bursting open the portal. Andjela's 'lover' on the other side will just have to wait.

Are we sure?!? Seems like it's pretty safe in there-- Did you say lover?

Anna puts a kick to the door too. 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Strength: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 If at you don't succeed... roll worse? Another round gone?

Bwahahaha

Ok Kimberly spits in her hands then rubs them together saying something in Celestial then takes another kick at the door

cast guidance then kick: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

EDIT if that works she will say Mommy, I'm Home

Any chance we're supposed to pull instead of push?

Anna tries again. 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12

Anna and Kimberly's combined attempt nearly breaches it, if only one more person could add their strength to knocking in this sturdy guard room door.

Yeah we're at 7 rounds left of buffs.

Mug, you could of botted Danica to help the door. I don't mind. Would make sense after seeing Andjela's first attempt.

Danica giggles at the sight of everyone trying to open the door.
strength on door: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

The monk adds her strength to help Andjela. "Everyone else stand behind Andjela and myself."

Danica prepares herself in shielding the others from any aggressive force.

Thursday is my normal home game. Sorry to be gone. And Tolvan could, and would try to assist.

Assist to open door: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11