RotRL: The Alkenstar Expedition (Inactive)

Game Master drbuzzard

The leather trunk holds only mundane articles of rough clothing, a few grooming items, and various small trinkets of Shoanti manufacture. One of the unoccupied pegs on the weapons rack is actually a lever that resets and deactivates the trap in area B6.

nothing else

Jan will collect the trinkets in case they're important (probably not but who knows?) and head to B9.

B9: This simple chamber has a worn hide rug covered with muddy stains before the door, next to a rickety chair. A thick blanket covers the opening to the south.

Perception: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (15) + 18 = 33

nuttin

B8

YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!

B8: A rough porch with crudely crafted handrails extends from the front of this cabin. A short stair descends to the ground at its north end. The eaves of the overhanging roof are festooned with dozens of animal skulls, including bears, deer, aurochs, and various other animals. The posts supporting the overhang and the outside edge of the handrail itself are hung with racks of antlers. A stone chimney rises next to a door on the porch, and a couple of split logs have been set on the raised porch as furniture.

Search

perception: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (9) + 21 = 30

Boom moves in after Obi, having learned his lesson

Would like perceptions from everyone.

Perception: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30

My gods Obi - I see what you see!

1d20 + 18 ⇒ (17) + 18 = 35 percep

Perc: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (13) + 27 = 40

Yap: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (9) + 23 = 32

Bo sees all the things.

Bo feels like he's being watched, and notices a figure out to the east staggering along in the snowfall. It approaches.

A dwarven man (recognizable as the same one from the haunt in area B5) staggers out of the snow. His eyes are wild with fear, his clothes in tatters, and blood drips from several cuts on his exposed flesh. When he sees the PCs, he cries out, “Run! Run for your lives! They’re going to eat you!”

Need will saves.

Fear based?

no

Man, it seems like it's never fear based.

Will Save: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34

1d20 + 20 ⇒ (7) + 20 = 27 will

will: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 (+5 vs spells/slas)

Will: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (11) + 25 = 36

Yap: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (15) + 23 = 38

You all feel a vague tinge of panic that your fellows are going to eat you, but you overcome it fairly easily.

I assume he dwarf vanished?

Yes, it goes away.

Have we searched everywhere?

Most of this section consists of setting a tone using haunts. There's not a lot of stuff to be found.

I was just wondering if we'd missed a room.

Because I don't see an effective way to make this creepy, every just make a acrobatics check, a fort save and a will save then I'll just narrate it.

1d20 + 26 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 26 - 2 = 36 acro
1d20 + 19 ⇒ (19) + 19 = 38 fort
1d20 + 20 ⇒ (9) + 20 = 29 will +4 fear

acro: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (11) + 0 = 11
fort: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (16) + 16 = 32 (+5vs spells/sla)
will: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15 (+5 vs spells/sla, +3vs fear)

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Fort: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (18) + 18 = 36
Will: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30 +4 vs Fear

Acro: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22
Fort: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (11) + 28 = 39
Will: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (19) + 25 = 44

Yap Acro: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (20) + 17 = 37
Fort: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (15) + 19 = 34
Will: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (5) + 23 = 28

You start to hear a faint knocking coming from the bottom floor of the cabin. It gradually increases in volume.

AS you head downstairs to check on it, it abates.
Then there is loud crack followed by a mighty hammering sound suddenly fills the cabin as its walls begin to shake and groan, almost as if the structure were giving up its purchase on the cliff edge and sliding off.Obi staggers a bit at the lurching of the structure, but keeps his feet.

The hammering continues, but now the faint images of starving dwarven ghosts can be glimpsed out of the corner of the eye.You all have slight hunger pangs, but they can be ignored easily.

Voices can now be heard, in most cases wordless cries of pain, but now and then snatches of sentences like “eating us...” or “don’t let him...” or “so hungry....” The hammering continues, but now the starving ghosts seem to notice the
PCs for the first time.

Obi takes 1d8 ⇒ 7 wisdom damage, and no longer controls his actions. He shoots Bo. The rest of you all felt something trying to possess you, but you resisted it.

(do an attack roll).

riffle: 1d20 + 18 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 18 + 1 = 32 (seeking, deadly aim, pbs)

damage: 1d10 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 1 = 17

I beleive that hits if he is using steel..

Yap casts communal protection from evil, hoping to bring Obi back to his senses.. Everyone gains pro evil for 3 minutes.. Should give a reroll for Obi I think.

Any knowledge check to figure out what happened?

Bo channels to hopefully abate the ghosts..

Channel: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 3) = 10

He's loaded with steel.

Knowledge religion as usual. The haunting continues in spite of the channel. (10 points PSHAW).

does shatterspell work on this kind of thing? I assume not but who knows how these things get classified

Haunts are not spells, nor is this form of possession. So, no.

Yap and Bo will channel again when they can. Not sure if you are in rounds or whatever.

More or less. Obi will attack each round. Everyone can react to that.

Also, Obi does get a new will save at +2 from the protection from evil

will: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 8 + 2 = 23 (+5 vs spells/sla, +3vs fear)

Actually Yap has to make an SR check to get past Obi's SR.

muahahahaha!!!!

That's comedy

ill wait for the result of that before I act

SR: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24 I believe that hits it right on the mark.

SR25

It's level plus 10 right? Your 14th level Cav right?

10 + character level, not 10 + class level

OK, then you get to shoot Bo again unless Boom or Jan have tricks up their sleeves.

Not unless we're using Pathfinder unchained? I can demoralize him via Intimidate.