Shadows of Eternal Winter (Inactive)

Game Master Feral

Alexandyr knows he's now in his element, and begins to leap his way back up again.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Nemein Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
kArcana, Morrigan: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Seriously?!? :P

Morrifan's uneasiness grows as the clammoring of the fey increases. She casts a spell designed to detect magic in the area. Her raven caws, flying beneath and through the branches, watching for signs of enemies.

Dorvren moves to Alex and heals the fey brought down.

Heal 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Keep them coming Alex.

DM I ID'd the pulse earlier is this somethign different?

Yes it is something different. And Morrigan good use of your familiar even if he failed lol.

got ya that is my next round then :)

Perception: 1d20 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 3 = 12

Sigh...

As much as Aldiran attempts to offer assistance, she simply seems to be too dettached from the whole situation for some reason, and is unable to contribute in any way.

lol. Right there with you Aldiran.

I feel yay I have days like that too

The hunter will attempt to find anymore of the Fey while they are answering his call. "Another over here!" He points as he calls out.

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Perception+3: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 5 + 3 = 18

Okay waiting on Mier and SF

Alright I'm botting them again and if I haven't heard from them by friday I will contact some people...
Sf heal
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Just noticed no fey for Sf to heal so Mier will go for one...
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

Turn two tally
14/20 fey found
3/14 rescued
3/3 healed
0/1 arcana made
0/1 perception made.

Turn 3
Same options as last time

The fey keep crying out begging to be saved. While the sky continues to darken. The sense of being watched grows worse.

Mier will attempt another rescue and Sf wilk heal the first fey down. Sadly both fail.
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Hoping that there will be time to rescue all the fey that they can spot, the hunter continues trying to find more of them.

Perception+3: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 3 = 13

arcana1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Dorvren stops what he is doing and stares at the sky. But he is distracted by grim's efforts.

Nemein continues to circle, his sharp eyes watchful. Morrigan tries to aid in retrieving the fey.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Whatever is watching us is going to have fun come surprise round. lol :P

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29

Alexandyr continues his up and down, zig zagging of the tree. "Come on, my fellow traveling companions! We've got some fey to save!" he tries to bolster the group with a rousing bit of encouragement.

I see alex is stealling all the good rolls this round.

14/20 found Dc 15 perception +3 on checks till end of this rd
5/14 saved dc 12 acro/climb
3/5 stabilized. Dc 14 heal
0/1 arcana with detect magic dc18
0/1 perecption. Dc18

waiting on Aldiran if you guys want me to bot her so you can get in another rd real quick say so in discussion.

Hey now, I can't help it if I have a great modifier for Acrobatics. :)

What are you doing Aldiran?! Focus!

The woman returns to it, brushing foliage away, searching as best as she can for the fey, as she listesn to their cries for help.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 6 = 16

wow our rolls are terrible!

Turn three tallies.
15/20 found dc 15 perception
5/15 saved dc 12 climb/acro
3/5 stablized dc 14 heal
0/1 feel the pulse detect magic and arcana 15
0/1 spy the watchers dc 12 perception.

Turn 4
All of the previous actions are available execpt as noted the dc on the find the watchers and feel the pulse has dropped and the fey have stopped crying out over come by their wounds....
A new action is available Interceptor Dc 16 acro. You place your self in between incoming arrows and the fey. You need well you don't know how many successes you need cause you still haven't found them...

The woods suddenly grow quiet as the cries of the fey cease. In the east the sky grows still darker. Almost as if night is comming. Suddenly the tang of a tiny bow string out like the note of a harp clear as a bell in the clearing. A fey cries out one last time as it dies. The watchers have struck you must find them soon.

1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 Arcana

What witchcraft is this! Dorvren scream out, frustrated.

"There is something else amiss here..." - shifting her attention from the distressed fey, Aldiran scans the area more widely.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

I give up :/

Alex throws himself in a dramatic spin after bounding up one of the trees, trying to intercept the next arrow. "Pull it together, people!"

Intercept: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

Nemein Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
k Arcana: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

That seals it. Our dice have officially been cursed.

Perc: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
While trying with little success to find the attackers Stolen Face casts detect magic in hopes to pinpoint their location.

While the others seem to focus on the new threat, Grimgisli remains focused on the problem at hand, though as the tiny fey's cries die down he switches to trying to rescue the fey he knows about, finding one and returning it to his fellows at the base of the tree.

Climb w/ kit: 1d20 + 6 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 1 + 2 = 25

Mier will also attempt to rescut a fey by climbing.
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Turn four tallies
15/19 found
7/15 rescued
3/7 stablized
0/1 feel the pluse detect magic and arcana 13
0/1 find the attackers dc 10
Dmg taken by Alex 2

Turn five
One life extinguished more to come. The sky growing ever darker to the east. The attackers laugh and dance still unseen amongst the trees.

Aldiran simply stares at the horizon, then shakes her head - There is nothing there - returning her focus to the task at hand.

Perception to find fey: 1d20 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 3 = 17

I believe it to be a success, but it seems I simply cannot roll above 10 :/

The hunter continues attempting to rescue the fey, and manages to return another to the group on the ground.

Climb w/ Kit: 1d20 + 6 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 6 - 1 + 2 = 16

Alex grimaces as an arrow stabs his flank. "Hurry, please! And someone else get between us and the archers, please!" His eyes scan the horizon, trying to find where their hidden attackers are harrying them from.

Perception to find attackers: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Woohoo! Found the bastards!

Good that means next rd you can try to drive them off and there are two of them.... also is everyone enjoying this type of encounter?

I enjoy different kinds of challenges. While (mechanically) this reeks of the horribly implemented skill checks from D&D4th Ed (let's chuck dice for a while until you either succeed or fail), this has a MARVELOUS story element to it that makes it make sense while obviously setting up more story bits for us to get prepared to work through. Good story can make some of the worst mechanics acceptable, at least for a little while.

Honestly I cribbed this from lucent who runs the ruins of pathfinder games here on the boards he cribbed it from 4e. And honestly you guys can fail this or could have ingored it. If the dice would cooperate you would be a lot better off though lol. Lucent gave me a few tips on how to do this and the dcs the events however are all mine. I ran part of the starter adventure for 4e when I got the box and the books I preordered when it first came out. My groups opinion was that if we wanted to play wow we would go play wow. So I returned the books and haven't looked at it since. Lol.

Nemein also spots the attackers at last and calls out warning. (Yay for auto-success!) Seeing them now that they were pointed out to her, Morrigan raises her crossbow and lets fly at the nearest of the enemy.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 161d8 ⇒ 1

Question regarding the knowledge arcana check... usually you can't retry a knowledge check. I assume this is the case here? (even though I seem to have tried twice already before I remembered that bit :P) i.e. one shot per character that chooses to check to see if you know what the pulsing is?

I really like the strangeness of this event and definitely how it shows we're not in the proverbial Kansas anymore.

This more like watching something and applying principles you know to try and figure the event out and it changes rather a lot from rd to rd so its not technically the same check its why the dc keeps dropping. Also its a special case cause well I said so. More fun this way. I'm glad everyone seems to like it even if they hate the dice bot. Also Morrigan that shot isn't gonna hit and they way this functions you would be better off making a skill check instead would you like to do that? Lots of fey still on the tree....

As you see the tiny attackers dancing about way off in the leaves you wonder hiw it that their bows can reach this far.

Still to act
Mier
SF
Dorvren.
Morrigan if she wishes to change that roll to a skill roll

Unable to locate their enemies Stolen Face casts stabilize on one of the injured fey.

I remember also the skill tests from D&D - while it felt 'chunky' to say the least, I wasn't totally against the method of navigating a long duration challenge, as long as there are some sort of descriptive breakdowns during the process.
Example: Crossing a blizzard may require Survival and Fortitude combined together, etc. But the survival part could correspond to a moment when the visibility is greatly reduced, and the Fort when the adventurers are hammered with hail, etc.
Apart from the crappy dice rolls, I am enjoying myself a lot for a couple of reasons: playing a support character is totally new to me, the encounter shows a dynamic of its own [as I can easily picture some of us struggling to get the feys to safety, while being peppered by arrows and stretching the eyesight to understand what the heck is that thing in the horizon], and there is a definite feeling of something being askew [trapped and murdered fey, strange storms, etc] which for me, even without knowing much about the AP, seems to make total sense.

Yeah should totally let you read the orginal encounter lol.

Once again Dorvren studies the sky trying to figure out the event.
arcana 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

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[ooc]Oh. Yes, if they are obviously out of range, then in that last round she'll see about that knowledge instead of firing at them. 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Mier will try to save a fey. 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Turn 5 tallies
16/17 found
8/16 rescued
4/8 stablized
1/1 Find the attackers Attackers found this opens new option see below
1/1 Feel the Pluse The strom is comming new option below

Turn 6
You may find perception Dc 13
Intercept two needed per round Dc 14 acro or automatic if ac = 17 or higher either way suffer two pts of dmg
Stablize heal check dc 13 / stablize spell
Build shelter 5 successes needed dc 13 Survival if you just wish to hide the fey you will need three at dc 10 (it is recommended you all take shelter though) note this also requires Morriganto inform you of what she has seen.
Attempt to drive off attackers 3+ Successes needed hit ac 15 with a ranged weapon / long range no attack roll spell.

Snkw has begun to fall faster as to the east the sky darkens ominously. The Ice fey still play their tiny harp like bows as an orchestra of deadly precision. The fey on the tree have fallen silent the ones still saveable quintessent as they hoard their strength waiting for rescue. The others dead their blood painting rainbows upon the snow you have turned to slush in your efforts to save those who can be. Many options lay before you which will you choose?

Sorry for the short posts the last few days been low on sleep but I'm better now

turn 6

if morrigan does not share then I will retcon

survival1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

help me build a shelter!

There are too many things happening at the same time, and although it seems the group is not faring bad, Aldiran feels they are too disorganized, ponders for a moment, then puts out - "We need to organize ourselves - Grimgisli on our attackers, me and Dorvren on shelter duty, Alex keep rescuing those fey, Stolen Face and Morrigan keep them alive as best as you can!" - she shouts.

Survival: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Alex nods, leaping up into the trees again, doing what his acrobatic skills have led him to do best. Even as he works hard, he knows that time is short, and he may not be able to save them all (or even the majority).

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Yes... Morrigan would have definitely been sharing the tidbit about impending hypothermia and death by winter. :)

After warning of the ensorcelled storm about to break, Morrigan mutters something under her breath and sets to work applying her meager healing skills to those fey brought down.

Nemein continues to aid in the search efforts.

perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
heal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

should have made the survival dc higher..... lol not really.

Note All Fey Found....

Mid turn tally
17/17 fey found
9/17 rescued
4/9 stablized
2/5 take cover
0/? Run those buggers off

Also everyone may read Morrigans spoiler now.... if you wish.

Works fo me. The ulfen casts again healing another fey.
Casts stabilize on another fey.