Redelia's MotFF [PFS] (Inactive)

Game Master Redelia

Merisiel best bet is to stab the red one Ezren just blasted (if its still standing) and then back up between Raz and Ezren so Merisiel is not stood next to one. Other option is to try use acrobatics to get behind one but strong chance that will open you up to two attacks and if one hits then good chance Merisiel drops where she is taking fire damage from both

Ezren Sadly Ghiks ice armour tends to melt when fire damageis being dished out

GM as both are equally close to Ezren I have chosen red as the one he hit with magic missile

The red skeleton crumbles under Ezren's magic blast. As it does so, a wave of heat comes out, harming Raz, Merisiel, and the poor little pup.

Raz damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Merisiel damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4
pup damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1
All three get a reflex saving throw, DC 11, for half damage.

round 1:
Merisiel (2/10 or 0/10 HP, depending on save)
Valeros (9/16 HP)
round 2:
skeleton
Ezren
Ghik
Raz (3/12 or 0/12 HP, depending on save; 0 or 1 damage to pup)

I think we just need to keep our distance, redeux.

I LIKE this plan

when on 0 hp you are disabled

I started with a free action (speak) and was debating my next move, likely to hide behind raz and throw a dagger to at least distance myself. I was wanting party input since this is new to me. Do I not get my actions this round since i had higher initiative?

In a face to face game we would have stopped and given you your options. However in PBP the more usual convention is that turns go off in post order as 99 times out of 100 it makes no difference. Trust us to find the one time in a hundred it does in your first game. Given those rolls you are staggered I suggest your move action is to step away

"Keep that one busy Val! Look after yourself Meri!"

In my previous post is a link on what happens when you are on 0 hp

Raz looks very much weakened, though her doggie is doing pretty well, all things considered. Raz decides to go for broke and try her best to take the skeleton out quickly. She swings her sword once more...
sword: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

But she misses, then slumps over in her doggie-saddle. Was at 0 HP, then performed an action that made her pass out.
With her rider passed out, Zora whines loudly and backs away from the source of the heat. Full retreat from Zora.

Thanks for the explanation!

Merisiel takes a move action NE step away from skeleton.

"Help!! Valeros do someth.. her voices trails off.

OK, waiting for Valeros. I know he's not going to be available this weekend. Considering what's going on, we'll wait a bit rather than bot.

Valeros shouts in rage at the skeletons that have hurt him and his friends. Then he slashes at the remaining skeleton with his swords.

long sword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
short sword: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Valeros's blade slams into the remaining skeleton, but it seems that swords don't do as much to bones.

The skeleton claws twice at Valeros in anger.

attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Probably because of his ragged condition, he is unable to connect with either one.

He then falls over from the effort, and a wave of heat washes over Valeros.
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3 reflex save for half damage

Combat over. I'll let Valeros post his save any you do any healing and exploring you want before I move you on.

Reflex: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Ghik raises his hand upwards and calls out ”By Pharasma’s grace” A barely perceptible spiral of cloud forms above the party and an equally faint rain shower falls healing everyone for channel positive energy to heal: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Was sure after all that description I was going to roll a 1 on the channel. Happy to do that again but may go with using up my 2 cure light wounds spells first. I’d like to keep one of my two remaking channels available for emergencies if possible

Edit having seen the damage left nothing for it but another channel probably two

Ghik channels another rain cloud

1d6 ⇒ 4

Then casts a cure on Raz cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

party status after Ghik's channel:
Merisiel 6/10 HP
Valeros 12/16 HP
Ezren no damage
Ghik no damage
Raz 5/12 HP, no damage to pup

Ghik altered his post after I posted, and I did not find out until after the 1 hour edit window for my post passed. At this point, due to Ghik's healing work, everyone is at full health.

Merisiel is crawling along the floor when Ghik's healing takes place. She kind of just lays there for a moment, letting it soak in. Suddenly she's more aware of her surroundings again. Great, now everyone probably thinks i'm some weakling. How was I supposed to know those things would explode when Ezren shot magic at them? she thinks. She immediately gets back up her feat and pretends that nothing happened.

"Alright then, let's all forget about that shall we? Definitely didn't ask for help or anything." says Merisiel.

"Thanks for the healing though Ghik. I didn't need it but it sure didn't hurt."

Merisiel looks around the room to see if she notices anything
perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

"Thanks man, I feel SO much better! I was worried I was bleaching there, I felt so bad!"

Raz also looks around. Percep: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (7) + 0 = 7 But she's useless.

Valeros sighs with relief as his burns and cuts suddenly heal. "Thanks, Ghik.

With the monsters defeated, and no obvious threat left here, Valeros takes a look around the room. Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (20) + 0 = 20

As you look around carefully, you find a scroll of Shatter on one altar, and a scroll of Shield Another on the other. Valeros also notices a secret door (indicated by a red arrow on the map) which is locked.

"Wait, what's this over here?" Valeros runs his fingers down a pair of vertical cracks in the wall. "Is this a door?"

Raz guides Zora over to Valeros and looks over the spot he is pointing out. "Looks relatively door-ish to me. Meri? What do you think? Can I call you Meri? Or is long-ears still on the table?" she winks at the knife-covered elf.

"Depends, shall I continue to call you Raz-ma-tazz? Friends call me Meri. I suppose we've bonded over exploding fire skeletons so I might afford you that opportunity" she says reluctantly.

Merisiel walks over to the door and attempts to unlock it
Disable Device: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

"What if there are more fire skeletons? I'm not sure my blades will do much good."

Raz is very brave to poke like that at the knife-wielding worshipper of Calistria...

Merisiel feels the lock open.

"Got it!" Merisiel says. She steps away from the door.

this tower better have some good treasure in it. So far just a dagger... she thinks to herself.

You (as a team) carefully examine the secret door for traps and then open it. A living, moving fabric seems to cover the ceiling of this half-collapsed chamber. The pungent smell of ammonia rises from the droppings that litter the floor. As you open the door, the bats all over the ceiling come together into a bat swarm.

The swarm moves over Raz, biting at her.
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Players are up.

"You smell that?! This is what Valeros calls Fresh air!" Merisiel jests while her inner dialague thinks Oh no...

Okay, so how do i/we deal with a swarm?

swarms are either immune to weapon damage or take reduced weapon damage. The two most common ways to deal with them are spells which attack areas rather than targets and thrown weapons such as alchemists' fire.

Valeros barks a loud laugh. "Ha! I've smelled far worse than this too!"

Swarms are the bane of level 1 parties. We may honestly not be able to do ANYTHING to it without some alchemical attacks. We'll see if our cleric friend happens to have any area of effect spells on hand.

"Bats! I hate bats! Val, get outta there!"

Ghik has nothing for dealing with swarms probably should have packed a couple of flasks acid. Beat a retreat through the door and close it behind us. Leave tower and sell the magical scrolls then pay for some healing and buy acid flasks with what’s left?

Raz moves back through the secret door. Apparently our Rogue and Fighter both have alchy fires?

Ezren has a memorized burning hands, too, I think.

TBH I forgot Ezren existed.... hasn't posted since Saturday, do we know if everything's okay?

I think so; his player posted a few hours ago in a ACG hangout.

Sorry! Was just waiting for my turn. Yes, I was planning to use Burning Hands via Arcane Bond since I have no more memorized spells.

Ezren holds his staff in front of him and gestures. His mind recalls the Burning Hands in his spellbook to do some damage to the bats.

Burning Hands DC 16 Ref for half: 1d4 ⇒ 4

"Ghik! Get back to the other room! We'll deal with these bats," Valeros shouts, as he runs around the swarm of bats. Moving now, plan to attack once everyone else is safely out of the way.

Ghik does indeed move out of the way of the swarm and the scary wizard

Some of the bats splat on the floor, dead, as Ezren's flames hit the swarm.

Valeros and Merisiel?

Merisiel steps to the right to distance herself from the bats. She then readies her alchemical fire and tosses it at the swarm of bats.

I'm not 100% positive on the roll here. Since there is no + for the attack I assume it's just a 1d20?
Alchemical Fire hit: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

You'd add your Dexterity bonus to the attack roll (since this is a ranged attack), so you actually rolled a total of 12, and it's against the bats' Touch AC, so it might hit. Let's hope so. :)

Unfortunately, that still doesn't hit.

miss direction: 1d8 ⇒ 4

The flask flies too far and smashes on the ground. It only damages the swarm slightly.

Acid attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

The swarm scatters into individual bats who fly off.

Raz notices that she is bleeding from the bat bites. Any magical healing or a heal check can stop the bleeding.

"Hey, Ghik, buddy, I got some liquid leaking from me. Think you could help me out?"

Ghik holds his hand to air above and a final cloud forms channel positive: 1d6 ⇒ 2

As a positive energy channelling cleric he gets to turn any spell prepared into a cure of the appropriate level (with the exception of domain spells which stay the same. Ghiks domain spell was cure light wounds as he has healing domain) however used channel as Raz's pup would also have taken damage

"Ok, the bat smell wasn't so bad before, but this burning bat smell is pretty awful," Valeros says, as he pulls his shirt up over his mouth to breathe through it. "Anything in here besides the stench?"

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (11) + 0 = 11

You carefully look around the broken chamber you are in, and find nothing.

"I was starting to think your nose didn't work Valeros!" jests Merisiel as she also looks around.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Ghik sweeps the room with detect magic

Almost out of spells. I think the wizard is too. I can keep the group alive in the next fight but if they get hurt again may have to suggest coming back tomorrow. No point having to launch a rescue party for the rescue party. Especially as we have seen no sign of this missing pathfinder coming this way

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

Ezren sees the look on Ghik's face. I sense worry in you, friend Ghik. I may have spent my last spells for today, but I still have a few tricks up my sleeve. He packs his staff on his bag and draws his light crossbow, cocking it ready.

"It might be a good idea to bed down for the night and allow our spellcasters to get their magical mojo back. I can take the first watch. Zova and I don't require a lot of sleep, really."