Reign of Winter with GM Deadly Secret - Table 2 - The Snows of Summer (Inactive)

Game Master Deadly secret

As it looks like the decisions about both Argentea and Penny have been made, Kishai moves into action. "While you get Penny tied up, I'm going to scout a bit." She starts creeping up the stairs carefully, watching for creaking boards. At the top of the stairs she will scan the room carefully. If there is a door, she will instead listen carefully before attempting to open it.
Stealth: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

Kishai makes her way up the stairs quietly and finds a door. You don't hear anything beyond the door and it appears to be locked.

Slide 2

Kishai heads back downstairs to brief the group. "Locked door upstairs. Can't hear anything behind it. I'll try and unlock it if we're ready to go up." I assume by now you've tied Penny up?

Unless the group tells her to pause, she tries to unlock the door.
If successful she will not open it until the group is upstairs and ready.
Disable Device (unlock door): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Once Mordred is done tying her up (the half-orc) he will open the room doors that are shut downstairs starting with the closest.

Oops. I thought we'd decided to do upstairs first then search the place. I'm happy to sit by this now (probably, with a 25) unlocked door and wait until you guys are ready. I'd retcon it and come back down but I don't want to waste a nat 20 :D

Kishai waits by the door, continuing to keep watch (and listen) for any activity upstairs while the group checks out the rest of the first floor.
Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

I assume we're just double checking there's no one else on the ground floor.

With the basement and ground floor secure, Gavinia climbs the stairs as stealthily as she can.

Stealth : 1d20 - 5 ⇒ (13) - 5 = 8

assuming the door remains closed:
As the group prepares to storm in, a shimmer briefly surrounds her as she activates her Protection blessing.
(+1 sacred to my saves and ac, will update header when I get up tomorrow)

Once the rest of the group is ready, Kishai grabs a small vial from her pouch and drinks it immediately before opening the door.

Mutagen, duration 10 min
Will update header, not all changes show there so all applicable stat changes are listed below

Garrasay moves to the stairs to beck up Kishai if anything happens. He is content that if there was anyone else downstairs, Penny would have let them know.

He tightens his grip on his flail and gets ready to cast a spell at a moments notice.

Petal rustles around quietly in anticipation and creeps over to sit on top of his backpack.

Cnut hangs back, letting others take the front.

AFTER GM AND I SOMEHOW MANAGED TO START A FIGHT IN THE DISCUSSION THREAD, I'M COPYING THE POSTS TO GAMEPLAY. THE ACTUAL DICE ROLLS ARE IN THE OTHER THREAD IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VERIFY THEM

GM POST:
Mordred opens the door he's next to. It appears that none of the bandits have claimed this room for their own. It remains dark and silent. The wardrobe contains linens, a washboard, and nothing else of interest.

Kishai disables the lock and when read she opens it.

An L-shaped table with many chairs takes up most of the floor space in this loft. A second smaller table sits near the entrance, and several windows look over the snowy grounds of the lodge. In the southwest corner, a large map hangs on the wall, opposite another door in the northeast wall.

The pile of bones suddenly stirs, rising up to take on a human shape and bursts into white-blue flame. Its long, bony fingers reach out to claw at the living, burning with an unending ice.

Initiative
Garrasay 1d20 ⇒ 19
Gavinia Hornsten 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Mordred 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16
Kishai 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
Cnut 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Skeletons 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Ten-Penny Tacey 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

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Up first, Kishai!

Combat Tracker:

Slides
Round 1
Bold may act
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21.02 - Kishai
19.06 - Skeleton (blue & white)
19.00 - Garrasay
18.07 - Female Half-Orc
16.01 - Mordred
10.07 - Cnut
08.02 - Gavinia
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KISHAI POST

Enhanced by her mutagen, Kishai takes a step through the doorway, lunging past the skeleton to her right to clear the doorway and slices at it with her claws.
Yay for good initiative roll. No chance of AoO AND sneak attack damage cuz flatfooted!

Claw vs flatfooted @ Blue: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Damage 1: 1d4 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Sneak Attack Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

"I don't see Rokhar in here! Watch out in case he's trying to sneak past us somehow!"

I am aware some of you have resistances. But I am still going to do all my rolls as the situations still occur.

Kishai moves in then attacks with a natural attack. She hits but when she does, ice leaps out and stings her with bitter cold and she takes 1d6 ⇒ 3 cold damage no save. The damage was enough to kill it but when it falls to the ground it explodes in a burst of cold dealing an additional 1d6 ⇒ 4 cold damage; Reflex DC 11 to half.

Skeleton (white) will 5 ft step and full round Kishai AC 18
Melee claw 1: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19 20/x2
Hits
1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 bludgeoning, slashing damage plus 1d6 ⇒ 4 cold damage
Melee claw 2: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 20/x2
Miss

Garrasay takes 1d6 ⇒ 2 cold damage from the frost as you start your turn adjacent to the skeleton.

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Up next, Garrasay!

Feeling the cold effects as a passing chill, Kishai shakes them off.
"Watch out, they have some kind of cold magic. I'm good with cold if you want to leave this other one to me"

Somehow in years of gaming I've never had a PC with natural energy resistances so I'm just putting this here in case it needs to be corrected.
Kishai has cold resistance 5, so:
1st ice aura for 3 dam is resisted
burst on death for 4 dam is resisted (not gonna bother rolling for half)
additional cold w/ claw for 4 damage is resisted
claw - 5 damage DOES affect me

So I should be just taking the 5 damage from the claw attack. If I'm wrong on that one please let me know.

Did I have to make a reflex vs explody skeleton?

Petal, being stung by the cold, retreats into the safety of Garrasay's backpack.

"Grrr, what vileness is this! rRrrR" Garrasay growled out as he swung his mighty flail at the white skeleton.

flail: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

Yes Kishai you resisted all the cold damage and only took 5 dmg from the melee claw. Oh um no Garrasay that was from a different skeleton and there's a wall. This aura is from the one in the door.

Garrasay hits the last skeleton and it falls dead but also explodes in a burst of ice hitting Kishai & Garrasay 1d6 ⇒ 5 cold damage; Reflex DC 11 to half.

Out of Combat!

What do you do?

@GM: cool. just wanted to make sure I'd done that right and not missed some obscure part of the rules
Kishai reaches into her pocket to grab her last extract of the day.
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
After drinking it, she calls down the stairs "Rokhar isn't up here! There's no obvious threat left. I'll search up here, some of you check downstairs. He either snuck past us or is hiding somehow. Maybe Penny knows something." She then begins scanning the upstairs room carefully.
Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Now that we're out of combat I can't accurately track the duration of my mutagen. Please tell me when 10 min are up, or how much time is left if we start combat again

OK I'll get to you on that once I find out what each player is doing.

Gavinia enters the upstairs room.

"Do either of you require healing?" she asks Kishai and Garrasay.

Quickly scanning the room, she walks to the unopened door, mimes opening it and then stabbing with her dagger.

"If he is not here, he may have escaped out the window. Do any appear to have been opened recently?"

Bluff: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (14) - 1 = 13

Once the others seem ready, she will open the door.

Kishai, relatively sure that he is not hiding in the back room but instead is skulking about somewhere either setting up a trap or an escape, nods for Gavinia to open the door. Might as well. We can take that room off the list and then start checking downstairs and outside.

Cnut continues up the stairs to double check the upper room.
Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Mordred waits patiently next to the half orc after she is tied up while the rest of the group searches.

reflex: 1d20 ⇒ 18

As the flail smashes into the skeleton, sending shards of bone everywhere Garrasay turns to shield his head as the wave of supernatural cold burst out from the skeleton's shattered remains.

With the last foe down, Petal cautiously crept out of the backpack and started to brush the frost from Garrasay's fur.

"gRrRrrrr. I am a little hurt, but not seriously so."
He peers about the empty room "Could there be a secret passage that would have let him slip out another way? RrrRrr"

Gavinia tries to open the door but it seems to be locked.

Ten-Penny Tacey asks, "What's going on?" She has her eyes looking up to the area of the second floor.

With a sudden movement, Gavinia tugs on the handle and completely fails to open the door.

"Ah. It also appears to be locked." she remarks with a tinge of embarrassment. "Could you also attempt to open this one?" she asks Kishai.

Moving back out to the top of the steps, she calls down "What is behind the second door up here? Is it Rhokar's quarters?"

"Certainly" Kishai heads over to the door.
Disable Device: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

Another figure clad in furs stalks over snowy hills, trying to hide in the treeline, looking out for what's going on...

Stealth: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

"Shut it, Orc!" Morde tells the tied up half-orc on the ground, "Its best it you keep your mouth shut while we try to find your boss. As long as you do that I wont have to gag ya, also."

Morde keeps watch over the downstairs. Looking for anything out of the ordinary but staying put while they are searching upstairs.

perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

Penny responds to Mordred. ”Well fine, I won’t answer her.”

Meanwhile upstairs, Kishai moves up to the door and begins disabling the lock. I might take you a round to do so. The door is unlocked.

Suddenly Mordred hears moans downstairs in the southern room and may act in the surprise round.

Initiative
Garrasay 1d20 ⇒ 6
Gavinia Hornsten 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Mordred 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Kishai 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Cnut 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Ten-Penny Tacey 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

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Up first, Mordred!

Just a reminder this is a surprise round, one move or one standard action only.

Mordred yells out to Gavania, "There is someone down here, or something we need to check out." getting ready his axe he waits for the others. Making sure the H-orc is not trying anything.

doing nothing

Looking back, it seems like we had a 1 round combat, a 1 round lockpicking, and a room search since I drank the 10 minute mutagen. I'll guess the room search took between a minute or two so I'm gonna head into this combat assuming 8 minutes remaining on the mutagen.

OK sorry about the long delay.

Mordred waits.

Round 1

Penny looks up at Mordred and says, "Did you hear that over there?"

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Up next, Kishai, Cnut & Mordred! All others must wait.

Hearing some kind of activity downstairs, Kishai heads down to support Mordred.
Double Move

Mordred waits for the others, "I said quiet, Orc." , only his grip on his axe showing his nervousness. "Kishai, have a care; we don't know how many there are.

morde readies a action to attack any enemy that moves into his threatened square.

Cnut follows Kishai downstairs. "What was that?"

Can someone move me between slides?

Satu carefully sneaks towards the house.

"GgggrrrRrg. What is going on? Rrrgg" Garrasay asks as he moves down the stairs towards the sound. He had heard everyone calling out with concern and moving around, but he still wasn't certain what the commotion was about.

Double move

Kishai double moves.

Mordred readies an action to attack.

Cnut double moves.

Satu moves up to the door, she did not see the trap as it triggers a bolt comes flying at you and a lot of pots and pans fall and crash making a lot of noise. Everyone inside can hear the commotion outside. FF AC 15
Ranged bolt: 1d20 + 15 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 15 - 4 = 20 19-20/x2
Hits
1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 piercing damage

Before Garrasay can move two zombies come out of the southern room. You may change what you do, I put you back up stairs not sure where you were.

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Up next, Garrasay & Gavinia!

"Well, we know where Rhomar has been." Gavinia notes impassively as she descends the stairs to confront the new foes. "And it sounds like more trouble coming that way." she adds, glancing over to the clattering noise.

I was at top of stairs to talk to Penny, so should be able to reach zombies with a double move. Do the zombies look like the dead bandits?

A cry of pain and some swearing can be heard as Satu clatters into the trap and is hit by the bolt.

Ouch! Who is here and why is your door trapped like that? I just wanted to knock!

Am i on the map somewhere? I guess not yet.

Yes the zombies look like the bandits. Yes Satu you're not on the map just yet, pretty much a few squares from the door.

Already angered, Satu would proceed towards the door, with more caution.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Lol, those perception rolls^^ Could as well leave it!

Seeing the zombies, Garrasay growls out "RrrRRrr! We need to put an end to this vile necromancer! GrrrRrRrgg"

He takes a step forward and casts a warding spell around himself. A blue disc of arcane energy shimmers momentarily before fading away. Although it could not be seen, a shield of force now protected him.

Suddenly, the loud noise at the door caught his attention "ArrRrR. If you are a bandit, this is your chance to flee! If you are not a bandit, this place is overrun with undead, this would still be a good time to flee! RrRrggrgR!"

Move and cast shield

Gavinia double moves.

Garrasay casts shield and moves.

Round 2

Another zombie (green) comes out of the room and up to Gavinia.

You can see a fourth (yellow) in the doorway pushing its way forward.

Penny says, ”Let me free, I can help!”

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Up next, Kishai, Cnut, Mordred & Satu!

Appalled that they seem to have let Rokhar past them, Kishai runs over to the zombie in front of Gavinia and swipes at it with her claws.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage: 1d4 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

I'm assuming there's at least a couple minutes left on the mutagen. If not, then both of those rolls are +3 not +5

"sorry Orc." Morde says as he takes his greataxe and slams the haft down on the half-orc.

standard action

nonlethal attack: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (18) - 2 = 161d12 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13 I did not account for the orc being tied up or prone by sitting on the ground. I might have hit her to hard, lol

"I can't take the risk of you turning on us." he whispers to the unconscious form.

"That probably wasn't necessary." Gavinia says, glancing over her shoulder at Mordred. "She was the most cooperative of the bandits we've seen here so far."

"Maybe not," he shakes his head while looking at the Orc, " I'll make amends if necessary. Until then we got bigger fish to fry!" Looking at the Zombies.

Cnut lets off another ray of flame at the nearest zombie. "Burn, abomination!"Green
Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Garrasay wrinkles his nose in disgust and lets out a low growl at the smell of burning rotten meat.

He waits for an opportunity to help with the zombies.

Kishai hits and does damage.

Mordred knocks the half=orc out.

Cnut hits and does damage.

Satu moves up to the door and knocks.

You can see the power of a channel negative energy come from the room. Kishai might notice a man stepping up then channeling.
2d6 ⇒ (3, 6) = 9 The zombies regain their health.

Red Zombie attacks Kishai AC 18
Melee slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17 20/x2
Miss

Blue Zombie moves around the table.

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Up next, Garrasay & Gavinia!