Redelia's Race for the Runecarved Key (Inactive)

Game Master Redelia

I'm going to bot Feuerseele so we can keep moving. We should get back to her turn by when she usually posts.

Feuerseele lifts a wand, and a hard little pellet of magic streaks out of it, slamming into the prone cultist leader. However, it seems deflected at the last moment.

The cultist leader tries to stand up, triggering AoOs from Hamith and Sangkip.

Sangkip attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Hamith attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
confirm: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
damage: 2d6 + 10 ⇒ (6, 5) + 10 = 21

Sangkip's blade misses the sinister leader, but Hamith's sword slashes across her middle.

She steps back, trying to get away from you, and then casts a spell. A bundle of sticky webbing appears between you, connecting pillars and benches.

Reflex save, DC 17, for everyone within the red circle or you are grappled. Inside the circle is difficult terrain. Also, if you try to move around inside the circle, you need to make a combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check as part of your move action, with the same DC. Webbing provides partial cover, complete cover if 20 ft away.

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round 2:
Robyyn (-4 HP)
Sangkip
Oloch (-4 HP)
Hamith (-2 HP)
round 3:
Feuerseele (-4 HP)
Gbagbe (-2 HP)
leader (-25 HP, evil eye)
Robyyn (-4 HP)
Sangkip
Oloch (-4 HP)
Hamith (-2 HP)

Reflex DC 17: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14 Robyyn is grappled

Robyyn finds himself covered in webs. Despite his best efforts, he appears to be firmly trapped; he can't free himself. This, however, doesn't seem to phase him as he continues to laugh at the cultists' folly.

Evil Eye (-2 saves, leader): 1 round + cackle

Refl: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
Feuerseele starts to curse as she is grappled.

Reflex: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

Gbagbe slips out of the web, just as he used to do as a mere tadpole in the jungles of Mwangi when faced with a massive orb web. Annoyed that it looks like his favorite spell won't work on the leader of the cultists, Gbagbe tries to smash her with more masonry.

Move action to get out of web, cast telekinetic projectile again.

TK projectile, in melee: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 - 4 = 10
Bludgeoning damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Oloch seeing the best way to take care of the situation is to move forward and put a stop to all threats that are taking place.
Moving forward around the pillars he comes up and stands next to the Reminaing Cultist. "You will rue the day you have stood against a follower of His Lord in Iron!" Bringing his Greatsword down again its Sacred light shead a trail as it goes.
+2 Greatsword: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Crit Confrim: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
Slashing: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (6, 5) + 8 = 19
Crit Dmg: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (5, 1) + 8 = 14

Cleaving the Last Cultists in two Oloch prepares to chase after the runaway assassin.

Use Sacred Weapon a second time

That critical hit did not confirm, but that was still enough.

Robyyn continues to laugh at the cultist from within the web.

Oloch slashes the cultist leader in half. Although you can still see and hear others battling cultists, your way is now clear to go after the assassin.

You guys burned through this faster than I expected. It's going to take me a little while to get the next bit set up. Great job, guys, hang in there for a little while and we'll get this chase started.

As you leave the cathedral, you see the assassin racing ahead of you! As you watch, she continues to move further.

initiative when we get into the chase will be:
Feuerseele
Sangkip
Oloch
Gbagbe
assassin
Robyyn
Hamith

How far ahead is she?Feuerseele will run after her

box 1: The crowded streets
located here: The heroes
to move on: Follow the Crowd (Sense Motive DC 15)
or Out of My Way! (Overrun CMD 20)

box 2:Cluttered Alleyway
located here: none
to move on:Up and Over (Acrobatics DC 10) or
Squeeze Through (Escape Artist DC 20)

box 3: Fruit Cart
located here: assassin
to move on:Oh Yeah! (Strength Check DC 20) or Move
That Cart! (Intimidate DC 15)

box 4: Pothole
located here: no one
to move on: Leap Across (Acrobatics DC 10) or Blindly
Forward (Reflex DC 15)

The assassin tries to move forward by intimidating the driver of the fruit cart
intimidate: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

Nope.

round 1:
Feuerseele
Sangkip
Oloch
Gbagbe
assassin
Robyyn
Hamith

On your turn, you may attempt to move forward 1 box by using a move action and trying to pass one of the skills. YOu can still use your standard action for something else, such as casting a spell or using a ranged weapon. Each box represents 30 ft on such an attack.

You may instead choose to try to move forward as a full action. If you pass both skill checks, you move forward 3 squares. If you pass one and fail the other by 5 or less, you move 1 square. If you pass one and fail the other by more than 5, you stay where you are. If you fail both, you lose your next turn.

You may begin.

Gbagbe tries to read the flow of the crowd and move along with it, but it's just too chaotic for him to make sense of, and he slows his pace to avoid getting trampled.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Redelia - I assume there are more than 4 boxes in this chase? I have found that putting the chase cards up as a map makes it very easy to gauge where everyone is and would save you cutting and pasting lots of text. But maybe you don't want it to be clear how close we are to the end, which would also make sense.

Also, I know different chases play out in different ways, would there be any mechanical benefit to knocking the assassin prone? I guess it would eat a move action for her to get up, right? I still have a standard action, trying to decide what to do.

The chase actually doesn't have a defined length. I'm supposed to randomly roll for more cards as they are needed, and it ends when you guys catch the assassin. There might be a benefit to knocking her prone, and doing damage to her will be to your benefit if you have to fight her once you catch up.

Sangkip knows better than to try to push his way through a throng of too-talls, and slips through when the gaps are there instead.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

The chase actually doesn't have a defined length. I'm supposed to randomly roll for more cards as they are needed, and it ends when you guys catch the assassin. There might be a benefit to knocking her prone, and doing damage to her will be to your benefit if you have to fight her once you catch up.

Got it, thanks.

In spite of his trouble getting through the crowd, Gbagbe raises a pair of webbed fingers and shoots twin bolts of force at the escaping assassin!

Cast toppling magic missile again. 3 first-level spells left.

Magic Missile damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Trip: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Magic Missile damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Trip: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Two more notes on the rules: If your speed differs from 30 feet, you take a penalty or bonus on checks. Robyyn and Gbagbe, your speed appears to be 30 feet, so you have no bonus or penalty. Hamith and Oloch, you appear to have speeds of 20 ft, so you take a penalty of 2 on every check to move. Feuerseels and Sangkip, I can't find your speeds in your profiles.

You may try another skill instead of the listed one, and then I have instructions for how to set the DC

Gbagbe is unable to judge the movement of the crowd well enough to move forward, but sends two hard pellets of magic ahead of himself, tripping the assassin. Sangkip smoothly slips through all sorts of little gaps in the crowd.

Feuerseele and Oloch, you're up.

It's under the offense tag, but it's 30' (20' Climb)

It´s 30, too
Feuerseele calls her familiar forward and asks her to aid her
Sense motive: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 1 + 2 = 15

Oloch tries to sense the crowd's motions,
1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
and also push through
1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Oloch catches the cultist!

Everyone else will be able to act on round 2.

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round 1:
Feuerseele
Sangkip
Oloch
Gbagbe
assassin
Robyyn
Hamith

map will be up in a moment, gang.

I'm confused - is Oloch up (because he's in bold) or did he just act as you posted? Not sure if we're all up now or not.

Ah, I can see why you're confused. The chase ended, Oloch got to the assassin. Now we start back at the top of the initiative, rather than reroll it. However, most of you can't act for one turn, because you are a square or two behind the assassin. Oloch is indeed up again, then the assassin, and then most of the party will be able to act. The assassin is also prone and damaged from the magic missile during the chase.

The assassin is also prone and damaged from the magic missile during the chase.

Huzzah! And thanks for the clarification.

Feuerseele moves forward and tries to dances around the crowd of people.
Acro: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15 finally standing next to the assassin with her wand pointed downward.
"Yield or be crisped!"

Get 'em big guy!

Oloch attempts to secure the cultist with some rope now that he has caught up to assassin.

"You move and I will be forced to take drastic actions."

Oloch leans forward to try to grapple the assassin. As he does so, her wicked-looking short-sword flashes out to swipe at him.

attack, prone: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 8 - 4 = 8

grapple check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

But Oloch is unable to get a grip on the slippery tiefling.

She tries to stand up, lowering her guard for a moment.

Oloch, I'm going to just roll your AoO for you this time, since we lost most of the day yesterday to the site outage

Oloch AoO: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (2, 5) + 7 = 14

Oloch's greatsword slashes her as she stands up.

Then her short sword swings at him again.
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

In addition to the normal pain from a sword injury, Oloch feels a burning sensation radiating out from the injury. fort save against poison, please, Oloch.

The rest of the team arrives, ready to help Oloch fight the deranged tiefling.

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round 2:
Feuerseele (-4 HP)
Sangkip
Oloch (-9, fort save needed)
Gbagbe (-2 HP)
assassin (-20 HP)
Robyyn (-4 HP)
Hamith (-2 HP)

Gbagbe scrambles to the side of the alley and up the wall, seeking safety in elevation as his people have done forever. He then sends two more beads of force at the tiefling, but these seem larger and brighter than the ones before!

Climb on top of adjacent building with 20' climb speed. Cast toppling magic missile, using 1 point of phrenic amplification pool on Focused Force, to increase the damage die to a d6.

Magic Missile damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Trip: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Magic Missile damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Trip: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

"Ahhhhgh!" yells the assassin as Gbagbe's missiles slam into her.

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round 2:
Feuerseele (-4 HP)
Sangkip
Oloch (-9, fort save needed)
Gbagbe (-2 HP)
assassin (-28 HP, prone)
Robyyn (-4 HP)
Hamith (-2 HP)

Feuerseele quickly cast daze.
DC 16 Will or be dazed!

will save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

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round 2:
Feuerseele (-4 HP)
Sangkip
Oloch (-9, fort save needed)
Gbagbe (-2 HP)
assassin (-28 HP, prone, dazed)
Robyyn (-4 HP)
Hamith (-2 HP)

The assassin will be unable to act, so Robyyn and Hamith may also act.

Hamith seethes at the loss of life he witnessed by the assassin's hand. He charges the woman, calling on more power from his goddess.

"You will not escape!"

I assume while we were running up behind Oloch, we had a chance to draw weapons? If this is an incorrect assumption, instead of charging, Hamith will double move up and try and get on the far side of the assassin to cut off her escape, and will draw his weapon on one of the moves.

Hamith's blade, lit up with the Inheritor's power, slices the cultist. As she falls over, she speaks. "For ten thousand years we have slept, awaiting this day. Think not that you shall take it from us. You and I are merely pawns in a far greater game with a far greater purpose. In the name of the mouthless mistress to whom all fates are known, I damn you and all your descendents! Lissala, take my spirit to pay for my vengeance!"

Nice work, guys! She didn't even have time for her reinforcements to arrive! You now have a little bit of time to search her body for the key, and also to do any healing or anything else you need before the real fun starts. You may take up to 10 rounds of actions.

Robyyn draws a gnarled wooden wand out of his pack and activates it. A sick, tumescent energy briefly glows from his wounds; glass tinkles to the ground around Robyyn as the infernal energy rapidly pushes the shrapnel out of his body.

He offers to use it to heal anyone else who needs it, but shakes his head before even offering it to Hamith. "I know you can take care of yourself."

Robyyn will cast infernal healing from his wand, or can cast your cure light wounds wand

Fortitude: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Oloch grunts away the pain from the blade the assassin used to cut at him. Calling upon Gorum he casts a healing spell of his own. As his wounds cinch closed Oloch searches the body of the murderous fool.

CLW: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Gbagbe draws out his protective wand and taps himself with it, then pulls a small flask from his pocket and drinks down its purple-hued contents. The drink causes a grin to slowly spread across his face as he lets out something between a moan and a giggle and his eyes actually seem to spin a little bit before he settles down. Still smiling blissfully, he flattens himself against the roof, doing his best to blend in, forgetting all about his brightly-colored skin and large red eyes.

Cast mage armor at last, drink cognatogen for +4 to Int, -2 to Str and +2 natural armor for 1 minute/level, then hide up on the roof.

Stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Current AC is 19

Hey, anyone know who the Mouthless Mistress is? Seems like she might be mad...

”Good question, Sangkip!“ Gbagbe responds, trying to recall what he knows about this strange faith the tiefling seems to follow.

Knowledge (religion) : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Gbagbe, I think this unofficial article is about what you would know with that kind of roll. I think you can get much more of the flavor out of this adventure but no mechanical benefit from the knowledge

"Yes," Hamith says to Robyyn, wrinkling his nose at the witch's wand. Hepops out his own wand from his wrist sheath and touches it to his neck where a few pieces of glass managed to get between the plates of his helmet and shoulderpads. It flashes a pure white light and then his wounds begin to close.

wand of CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

If anyone else needs healing, Hamith will be happy to provide. Roll it in your action and note that you're taking a charge.

Knowledge (religion): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

"Lissala, a treacherous god of ancient sin. If her cult has reemerged, it bodes trouble for all of Varisia and beyond. Be careful, there may be more of them lurking around."

He says this looking about the place fondly. He remembers growing up on the road, moving from town to town through the Varisian wilds. As he does this, he mutters a prayer to the Inheritor and begins sweeping the area for any more hidden threats.

Hamith will spend the rest of his rounds casting detect evil on the immediate surrounding area and houses, or, if we move to a new area, he will cast it there.

Feuerseele and Gbagbe are the only ones not at full health.

I'm close enough to full. (Of course, now those 2 HP will be the difference between life and death...)

Feuerseele shrugs and asks Hamith."Can you heal me too Hamith, please? "

"Sure," Hamith says. He touches the wand to Feuerseele. "May the Inheritor walk with you and guide your arm and mind in righteousness."

Wand of CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

You get your team healed back up, and Oloch finds what appears to be the Runecarved Key. He carefully tucks it into his bag, and then Hamith notices an aura of evil starting nearby. Just after he cries out, a portal opens, and creatures come out and move towards you, ready to attack. Hamith's detect evil pings on the creatures who came out of the portal.

One of the monsters moves up to Sangkip and starts clawing at him.
attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

The other claws at Oloch.
attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

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monsters
Robyyn
Oloch
Feuerseele
Hamith
Gbagbe
Sangkip

Robyyn attempts to identify the creatures that came out of the portal.

Knowledge: 1d20 ⇒ 20 (+10 arcana, +7 local, +9 nature, +11 planes)
(Special defenses, resistances/immunities, saving throws if result is high enough, in that order)

"These are lemures... they're a kind of devil. Try silver or good-aligned weapons; avoid fire, acid, or cold, or anything that targets the mind; they're barely conscious, propelled by the forces of Hell itself!"

Taking his own advice, he ignores the burning hands wand that he prepared, and even his own favorite hex. In fact, he pauses for a moment, seemingly unsure of what he can do against such things.

Suddenly, he tenses, and the constant swirl of breezes that surround the sylph briefly intensifies, then launches forward towards one of the devils, leaving Robyyn's hair and beard hanging still in the full weight of gravity for the first time that any of his companions can recall.

The wind blows past Oloch and Hamith, but simply slips around them; the devil being the true target of the aerial strike.

The green lemure falls over as he is buffeted by the wind Robyyn sends over.

Any of you who end your turn next to green, please include an AoO (in a separate spoiler) in case it is needed.

Hamith says, "Good work Robyyn!" and steps in between the two fiends to set the flank with Sangkip.

"Devil-kind, I will send you all back to your plane!"

Seeing a weakened opponent available, Sangkip bounds off his perch on the wall to strike the fallen devil.

Acrobatics vs Red: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
Acrobatics vs. Green (DC+2): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

Dagger (Flank, Prone): 1d20 + 9 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 2 + 4 = 24
Magic Slashing: 1d3 + 6 + 2d8 ⇒ (2) + 6 + (3, 2) = 13

Splorch! One squished devil. He disappears.

Blop! The other devil crumples further and then disappears from Sangkip's blade.

You guys have two rounds to heal if you want, but considering they didn't hurt you, I'm moving us into the next fight.

After a brief respite, another portal opens, and several dark dog-like creatures emerge.

One of the creatures howls, and you all feel fear almost overwhelm you.
DC 12 Will save or become panicked for 2d4 rounds (fear effect)

The other creature bites at Feuerseele.
1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
damage: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (4, 5) + 4 = 13
I believe you said you are of neutral, not good, alignment, Feuerseele. Please tell me if this is wrong.

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enemies
Sangkip
Gbagbe (-2 HP)
Oloch
Hamith
Feuerseele (-13 HP)
Robyyn