Risen from the Sands PbP (Inactive)

Game Master lucklesshero

A birthday cake...out of which bursts a Risen Guard-themed chippendale! Partay!

A magical artifact for each of us, and a boon that lets us keep them for free :D

Torvald, there's no sex in the champagne room. Only mimics.

*then it happens*...a sudden rush of air brushes past you as the wall before you splits in two and begins to slowly grind open on ancient rollers that haven't been used in centuries. Simultaneously you here the click of the blade trap above you release; However, Myth's forethought in disabling it, has spared both Analia and himself from dodging the blade as it would have most certainly of swung through their area.

As the door grinds to a halt, it reveals a rather bare room. There are carvings similar to the ones you saw out in the Portico on the walls and two statues of Jackle headed humanoids on either side of a large set of stone double doors. Other than that, the room appears empty.

Did the suspense kill ya? LOL Fyi your on slide 13 now

Jamir raises his eyebrows and glances up at the jammed blades.

”Well, that was almost a ... close shave,” he jokes, albeit weakly. ”Craggark, would you care to make a wager as to how far we can get into this room before those statues come to some evil mockery of life and try to crush, decapitate, fold, spindle, or mutilate us?”

Know(Religion): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Anyone have the ability to aid?

[dice=Know(Religion)]1d20+6

Anyone have the ability to aid?

are aid another’s allowed on knowledge checks?

Well, that's an interesting question, isn't it?

(In particular, take a look at our online VC HMM's responses in the thread.)

"Have we seen those jackal headed statues before? They seem quite familiar.

I hope they aren't more constructs. Those staffs look as if they could be formidable weapons."

Jawhar tries to peer around the corner at the carvings. "Well, this certainly seems like the entrance to a king's tomb."

Know Religion Aid Other: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

"I seem to recall something to confirm your thoughts Jawhar." Lia says with excitement. She then begins to tell what she knows, hopping to aid Jawhar in recalling more details about the jackal headed being depicted here.

If you allow the Aid Other on the knowledge check, we get the information in the spoiler, but if not, I won't spoil it here.

"Of course, now I remember!

All I can say is that he apparently doesn't have the same abhorence for undeath that Pharasma does, based on our encounter so far."

Yes, this looks promising. Here, we should find something worthy of Jamir's glory

From the back of the group, Jawhar starts edging forward, anxious to get into this new room.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Myth mutters, "Mummification? Should've known..."

Myth keeps a sharp eye on the Anubis statues as he covers Jawhar with his bow...

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22

"Seems a bit obvious, animate statue-guardians," Torvald grumbles, bomb at the ready and eyes trying to take in everything at once.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Craggark chuckles at Torvald's sarcasm and then frowns.

"I really need an adamantine weapon."

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Ok making a GM call to get things moving..based on Jawhar's post: "From the back of the group, Jawhar starts edging forward, anxious to get into this new room." Going to put Jawhar one step in front of Analia a few feet in to the room. No surprise round..you all expected the statues to animate.

As Jawhar crosses in to the room the statues begin to animate.

Roll for initiative. (I'll roll for anyone who hasn't when I post again tonight)

Initiative: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Initiative: 1d20 ⇒ 7

Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Craggark grunts as the statues start moving.

”Owlbear balls,” he curses.

Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

"I don't feel any better for having predicted this," the dwarf sighs.

Initiative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Jamir tightens his grip on his rapier, then tilts his head to one side until his neck pops. He rolls his shoulders, then nods at the big half-orc standing with him ... at the rear? How did we get to the back of the group?

"So if you are paying attention, my friend, you can see that had you taken my wager, the winning bet would have been 'less than 5 feet.'"

Still fascinated by the realization that these statues represent Anubis, Jawhar doesn't react quickly to the movement of the statue's heads.

When he does, he let's out a squeak, and looks around to see that he mistakenly crossed the threshold in his distraction and is now in front of everyone.

"Help", he squeaks in the most manly way possible

Initiative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Her eyes wide with wonder, as Lia becomes aware of Jawar's movement, it proves too late.

"Oh dear..."

R 1

Myth
Jamir
Craggark
Statue 2(blue)
Analia
Torvald
Statue 1
Jawhar

bold may act.

”Jamir! Let’s team up and flank the one on the left!” Craggark yells, racing forward.

Full post in a bit.

”Jamir! Let’s team up and flank the one on the left!” Craggark yells, racing forward.

Full post in a bit.

"But the one on the right is moving faster!" (Blue has higher initiative)

Working on my post as well, won't be long. Hope Myth gets in a good shot while they're flat-footed as well!

EDIT: it looks like we could get into position to flank with the one of the left, but don’t have quite enough move to do it for the one on the right. Left it is.

Know. Arcana: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

"Be careful! These things are just as tough as that first construct we battled." Hardness 8, and this time there is two of them! They are some kind of animated object with construct traits.

We did heal after the last combat, right? I said something about healing, I distinctly remember. Fixing my HP on my tagline, taking off the wand charges.

Jamir follows Craggark into the room, ducking past Analia and Jawhar.

Or is it merely an antechamber?

"Where do those doors go, do you think?" The little swashbuckler muses as he lunges at the enormous animated artwork. "And why are these statues guarding them after all these years?"

Spending a panache point to double the precision damage while the thing is still easier to hit as flat-footed.

Mwk Rapier, incl. 2x precision damage: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 231d4 + 3 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 6 = 11

Hooray! 11-8=3 points of damage!

Muttering, "No surprise, here," Myth moves 5' north and quickly lets loose two arrows at the black Anubis...

Shortbow: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 2 = 17

Magic Damage + Sneak: 1d6 + 2 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 1 + (4, 2) = 14

Shortbow: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 2 = 17

Magic Damage + Sneak: 1d6 + 2 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 1 + (4, 2) = 14

Craggark rushes to the far side of the construct on the left to flank it with Jamir. When he reaches his position, the frostkin moves to push over the construct, using Jamir as a foil!

Move into flank position, avoiding AoO. Trip attempt using Dirty Fighting to avoid AoO.

Trip Attempt: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

WOWWWWW!!!!

Nice! Also, they should be flat-footed, so no attacks of opportunity for them.

If you have specifically stated that you healed please take off the appropriate amount on your 'happy sticks' and heal yourselves before entering combat. I will assume you all entered combat fully healed.

Myth let's 2 arrows loose that chip the black statue good. Jamir moves to the creature's side and attacks, scoring a minor hit. Craggark sticks his foot out and shoves the creature tripping it!

The blue statue begins to move now and moves right past Myth firing his bow and positions itself at Myth's side. It then takes a mighty swing at the elf with it's Kopesh. Kopesh: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 confirm crit: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21crit dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 The statue gives Myth as good as Myth gave it's counter part and opens an ugly cut on Myth's upper arm with it's ancient blade.

R1

Myth (-12hp)
Jamir
Craggark
Statue 2(blue)
Analia
Torvald
Statue 1 (-15hp)(prone)
Jawhar

(bold may act)

Pushing past Analia and Jawhar, Torvald moves towards the left corner to give himself some space, and downs his mutagen with a grimace as the transformation comes over him.

Move Action, drink Mutagen (+2AC, +4Con, -2Cha)

if Ana doesn’t show up by later today I’ll bot her

Lia moves into the room with her friends, but seeing what they are up against, she knows there isn't much else she can do so she tries to damage the statue with a ray of fire!

Ray of frost, changed to fire via Versatile Evocation.

Ray of fire/rng touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12 Target=Black
Fire Damage: 1d3 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

I was hoping for a crit, because otherwise she won't damage these things with a cantrip. If I had the movement speed, I could have closed to Craggark and enlarged him(maybe next round).

Analia cast a small ray of fire that hits but doesn't seem to affect the statue. Torvald does one of his strange mixtures. The black statue tries to stand provoking attacks of opportunity from Craggark and Jamir.

R2

Myth (-12hp)
Jamir (Take an AoO)
Craggark (Take an AoO)
Statue 2(blue)
Analia
Torvald
Statue 1 (-15hp)(prone)
Jawhar

(bold may act)

AoO:

Mwk Rapier, flanking, incl. precision dmg: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 2 = 231d4 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 3 = 9

Jamir thrusts his blade downward at the great statute at attempts to rise, chipping off just a little bit more of its substance.

Rolling the weapon's grip in his palm to return to his normal stance, Jamir lunges at the statue again.

Mwk Rapier, flanking, incl. precision dmg: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 9 + 2 = 301d4 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 3 = 9

Confirm?!?: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 2 = 191d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

"Keep at it, my friends! These animated coatracks are not indestructible!"

AoO: 1d20 + 5 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (10) + 5 + 2 - 1 = 161d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 2 = 9

Craggark brings his fists down together in a powered attack as the statue rises. Finding some success in his attack, Craggark presses his advantage by making use of a kata manoeuvre to take more chunks out of his foe.

Move Action to use Martial Flexibility to take Dedicated Adversary (construct). Power attack with flank.

1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 2 + 2 - 1 = 111d6 + 3 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 2 + 2 = 12

Both Jamir's and Craggark's attacks of opportunity hit but do little damage to the stone statue. The Statue rises and tries to hit

R 1&2

Myth (-12hp)
Jamir
Craggark (-8hp)
Statue 2(blue)
Analia
Torvald
Statue 1 (-25hp)
Jawhar

bold may act

Myth will make an acrobatic move away from the blue statue...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

...dropping his bow and drawing his knife to flank the black statue...

Cold Iron Dagger: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 3 + 2 = 17

Damage+Sneak: 1d4 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (1) + 1 + (4, 5) = 11

Finally breaking out of his surprise, Jawhar looked around to see how he could best influence the fight. Factoring in his depleted spell selection and the fact that they would likely have another battle once they breached the next room, decided that improving Craggark's chances to do damage would be ideal.

"Don't worry, Myth, I'll be back to help."

Jawhar takes a circuitous route to avoid AoOs and moves behind Craggark, casting Blessed Fist on him.

+1 Enhancement on Unarmed, plus Good aligned for 20 rounds

Sorry Jawhar, the only way I can do damage is by sneak attack so felt I needed to move to get in flanking position...

Craggark's attack on his turn still missed but in round 3 He can apply the Blessed fist.. Jamir does Myth flank from where he's at? Analia what's the PFS rule? Myth does a nifty dance to avoid taking any opportune attacks by the blues statue. He then moves toward the black statue and sticks his cold Iron dagger in the crack Jamir created..twisting with all his might and creating an even deeper fissure on the stone construct.

The blue statue charges Torvald and comes down with it's Kopesh blue: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 6 + 2 = 22dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

R 2

Myth (-12hp)
Jamir
Craggark (-8hp)
Statue 2(blue) (charging)
Analia
Torvald (-5hp)
Statue 1 (-28hp)
Jawhar

bold may act

"Ow!" Torvald shouts indignantly as he staggers back, not quite raising his shield high enough to avoid a gash on the brow. "You damned chuck of rock, leave me alone!" Taking aim at the statue damanged by his comrades, the dwarf lets fly.

Point Blank Shot, but applied a -4 since there's probably cover. Craggark/Jamir/Myth's squares all save via Precise Bombs.
Attack vs Statue 1: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 - 4 = 12 Boom!: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (3, 5) + 5 = 13

Lia moves behind Craggark and quickly calls on the power of her amulet to cast an unprepared spell from her spell book. The spell is long and seems quite complicated, but after much arcane chanting, somewhere in the mix those that speak elven can make out a few slightly familiar words.

"Beleg vanimelda gorgûn!

She is casting enlarge person on Craggark, and it is a full round to cast so it won't come into effect until her next action. BTW, after this encounter, I was going to suggest we head to a previously cleared area and secure it so we can take a rest and to recover spells before we continue.

Torvald steps back and tosses a bomb at statue 1 (black) the impact chips the statue a bit more but, these animated statues are tough! It keeps attacking! black vs Craggark: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8 The black statue swings feebly missing Craggark; in the mean time Analia begins casting a spell.

R 2 & 3

Myth (-12hp)
Jamir
Craggark (-8hp)
Statue 2(blue)
Analia
Torvald (-5hp)
Statue 1 (-28hp)
Jawhar

bold may act

Looks like that crit confirmed, which means Jamir gets a panache point back, which I'm going to use here to double precision damage on a it. If I'm wrong, please subtract 3 points of precision damage from this attack - I do NOT intend to let Jamir's panache drop to 0.

Jamir concentrates on where he struck the statue with his last blow, ramming his blade into the largest crack he can find. "Take it down quickly now, my friends - we must not give them a chance to flank us!"

Mwk Rapier, flanking, incl. 2x precision dmg: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 2 = 181d4 + 3 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 6 = 10

Using the last of his spells, Jawhar casts Shield of Faith on himself, draws his scimitar and takes a defensive position by the southern statue.

There is an open flank now, if you can get to it, Myth

Myth will try to move to flank the blue Anubis statue...he makes an acrobatic move, tumbling past the black statue, to get to blue...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

...and attacks blue with his dagger...

Dagger: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 3 + 2 = 25

Confirm: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 3 + 2 = 23

Damage+Sneak+Crit: 1d4 + 1 + 2d6 + 1d4 ⇒ (4) + 1 + (5, 2) + (1) = 13

Not sure if I need another Acrobatics roll or not...I'm only moving past one enemy but I pass thru two squares which he threatens...

Not sure if I need another Acrobatics roll or not...I'm only moving past one enemy but I pass thru two squares which he threatens...

Answer:You do need another check: however, you nearly automatically beat their CMD (with your Acrobatics modifier) so don't bother.

Myth dances through the battle getting on the opposite of Jawhar and managing to knock a chip out of the blue Anibus Statue. Jamir stabs strait in to a large crack of the black Anibus statue bending his rapier till it almost *snaps*; at last he' rewarded with the satisfying sound of stone splitting and the large crack turns in to multiple fissures as the black statue breaks apart and crumbles to the ground. (Jamir get's another Panche' point for delivering the critical and an additional one for delivering the killing stroke!)

R 3

Myth (-12hp)
Jamir
Craggark (-8hp)
Statue 2(blue) (-5hp)
Analia
Torvald (-5hp)
Statue 1 (-30hp) (dead)
Jawhar

Craggark's turn

Craggark, not understanding Elven, tries to decide if rushing away from Lia to battle the last remaining state would be a good idea.
Sense Motive: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1 Ha.

Satisfied that he isn’t needed at Lia’s side right at this moment, the frostkin rushes to the aid of his colleagues.

Power Attack, Dedicated Adversary: 1d20 + 5 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 2 - 1 = 261d6 + 3 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 2 + 2 = 11 YUSSSSS - CRITICAL THREAT!
1d20 + 5 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 2 - 1 = 101d6 + 3 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 2 + 2 = 10

Likely only two points of damage. Oh well.

”These things hurt my fists,” Craggark grimaces. The frostkin continues to look for an opening to flank, thereby using his tripping manoeuvre once more.