The Ironfang Invasion: Fangs of War

Game Master vayelan

Thanks for pointing out the change in Perception modifiers. I've made changes for the future.

Paizo was down for over 13 hours today, and has been flakey all weekend. I'll understand if you all have trouble logging in.

Since Lily has suggested actually intervening...

Bree has heard of these nasty fey creatures. Mites are small fey that have damage reduction except for cold iron. They also hate dwarves and gnomes. The DC for the knowledge check is only 6, so I gave you two bits of knowledge about them. -- TDM

Bree
Cyrioul
Mites
Lily
Boudra
Wolf and wolf pups
Thorek
Cedric
Caladra

Lily walks up and says,"Hey stop that. You want to fight something fight us!"

Move: Move up
Swift: Stare at Mite attacking baby wolf
Standard: Shoot Shot: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12DMG: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Day 4 Action: Survival to Gather Food, take 10 for 13

Day 5:

Cedric is still a little gunshy about intervening on behalf of animals after what happened with the last few. He stands by for the moment, waiting just a little extra long to see what happens when the others start to choose a side. One of the perks of being slow to react is the ability to have the most information possible before deciding what to do.

Huzzah for going after the enemy! :P

Can't say I blame a mom for wanting to protect her pups. I'm hoping she'll just let us walk away after this.
"Hey, back off you little bugs!" Bree moves swiftly forward, bow in hand and shoots at the mites with the pup.
move, swift activate luck, attack. it looks like the bottom one has the puppy?
Shortbow: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16 Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
The arrow streaks from her bow and embeds itself in the fey. I think, not sure what their AC is

almost forgot
"They're tougher than they look! If you have any cold iron, now's the time to break it out!"

Knowledge(Nature) vs. Mites: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Wanting to stay as far from the miserable creatures as possible, Cyrioul simply reaches over to tap Thorek on the shoulder, saying, "Rhagwelediad!"

+1 to attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for one round.

Day 4 Actions:
- Survival (Take 10): 12 = +2 Provisions
- Cast endure elements x3 = 3 shelter

Cyrioul Day 5 Actions:
- Survival (Take 10): 12 = +2 Provisions
- Cast endure elements x3 = 3 shelter

Day 4 actions:

(We've beaten the disease, right?)

Survival (Forage) take 10: 10 + 10 = 20
Survival (Shelter) take 10: 10 + 10 = 20

Day 5:

Survival (Forage) take 10: 10 + 10 = 20
Survival (Shelter) take 10: 10 + 10 = 20

Boudra yelps as the mites appear, but she's slow to respond...

Bree kills the Mite pulling the puppy.

Cyrioul recalls that mites can cast doom, and can influence swarms. He also enhances Thorek.

One mite steps back from the wolf and casts doom on Bree. DC 10 will save or become shaken

The mite near the pup attempts to grapple: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (2) - 2 = 0 the now-released pup, unsuccessfully.

The remaining mites continue to harass the wounded wolf: 1d20 ⇒ 131d20 ⇒ 201d20 ⇒ 4. One of them viciously: 1d20 ⇒ 14 wounds: 2d3 - 2 ⇒ (3, 3) - 2 = 4 the wolf

Lily kills the remaining mite near the pup.

The pup runs back into the den.

The wolf snaps: 1d20 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 - 2 = 15 at a mite: 1d6 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 2 = 4, killing it.

Thorek
Cedric
Caladra
Bree
Cyrioul
Mites
Lily
Boudra
Wolf (3) and wolf pups

"I don't know about any cold iron, but dwarven steel should do just fine!" Thorek rumbles as he rushes forward, the long chain of his dorn-dergar jangling as he hurls the heavy ball at the nearest of the little blue wretches.

Charge, using my Reach with the dorn-dergar
Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15 Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Will Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Bree shrugs off the spell's effect.

{{Sorry I was kinda AWOL for a few days, wife was sick and then I caught it. Feeling better now}}

Caladra carefully moves forward towards the nearest mite. Keeping her eyes on the cretin and the wolf, she knows how dangerous a wounded animal can be, especially when there are pups involved. When she's close enough, she grips the hilt of her great sword tightly and swings down on the little blue devil with all her strength.

power attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (2, 3) + 8 = 13

Cedric is pretty sure that his allies have the mites well in hand, and so he keeps an eye on the wolf in case it decides that they're a further threat. He lowers his spear and waits, tactically.

Double-Move

Lily just moves up shoots at the mites harassing the mother.

How did mom wolf kill at mite with it's DR?
Move: Move within point blank range of mite
Quick: Stare at mite
Standard: Shoot shoot: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
For dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Lily: One of the mites already had one damage on it

Thorek dispatches another of the mites.

Cedric positions himself.

I'm not sure about Caladra. If I move Caladra up to the wolf to attack the last mite, then the wolf will get an attack on its turn against Caladra. But, not having Caladra do something effective would also be not right. Unless you have no objections, Caladra is going to knock out the wolf.

Caladra does non-lethal damage to the wolf, and knocks it out.

Bree shoots: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 231d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 at the final mite, and kills it.

You now have six mite bodies, an unconscious wolf, and four wolf pups in the den.

What are you going to do?

Lily sighs," Well this was my idea so I might as well take the brunt of the angry mom."

heal: 1d20 ⇒ 20
I'm on a roll.

Bree makes sure that none of the mites will cause any more trouble (and will also check to make sure they don't have anything interesting on them).

"Umm, as much as I'm a little concerned about the idea, we may want to add a little bit of magic healing to the wolf mom so she can protect her pups. I don't think they'll make it if she's not in good health."

nice rolls!

I can do that from a distance," Stanley points out. "Although I have to admit part of me wonders whether leaving them alone to recover is actually a good idea in the long term if we're going to be living in the same woods for an extended period of time." He sighs. "I think leaving the mother stable to regain consciousness in a few hours might be the best choice."

"I agree with Cedric, we've been torn up by wolves twice, do we really want more running around?" the dwarf says, eyeing the surrounding woods carefully for more danger. Those pups sure are cute though.

"OOoo come on. I can name a hundred other things that would probably kill us faster than that mom and her kids. Like a bee swarm or any animal followed by the word swarm. Im working on fixing that but still far more dangerous than the wolf.," Lily says while crossing her arms.

I just want to know who Stanley is and how he got control of Cedric :) Damn magic jar spells

"We're not the only ones we have to think about, how many of the townsfolk with us could fight off a wolf? Or a pack of them, if you give those pups a year." still, there's no heat in his voice. If Thorek had his way the group would be far from here in a few days, and his ire was reserved for the Ironfangs.

"Hey Bree, those little blue bastards have anything good?"

"Listen. Those baby wolfs will die if we leave. And they are cute and I don't want them to die. And besides once Aubrin recovers from her broken ribs she can take the wolves on.," Lily says while deeply sighing.

Whoops! :P

"I'm not suggesting we kill them," Cedric reiterates. "I'm just pointing out that the mother is stable for the moment, thanks to you. She'll wake up on her own in a few hours, and by then we should hopefully have put plenty of space between ourselves and here. Otherwise, if she wakes up now, she's likely to lash out at the nearest threat to her pups which, because we lack the ability to explain the situation, she's going to think is us. The mother and her pups will probably be fine, and if something else comes along..." he shrugs. "Well, these things happen all the time when you aren't looking. That's the way of things in the woods, we can't be there to protect them forever."

I may be completely mistaking this but if this is a low hit dice monster won't she recover in a week given her hitpoint damage?

This is the passage I've been basing my assumption on, for reference:

Recovering with Help: One hour after a tended, dying character becomes stable, the character must make a DC 10 Constitution check to become conscious. The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total. Conscious characters with negative hit point totals are treated as disabled characters. If the character remains unconscious, he receives another check every hour to regain consciousness. A natural 20 on this check is an automatic success. Even if unconscious, the character recovers hit points naturally. He automatically regains consciousness when his hit points rise to 1 or higher.

That, plus the non-lethal damage Caladra did heals at a rate of 1/hour

I'm confused because wolf mom started bleeding out which means she is in negative HP territory. And it's entirely possible Caldera accidentally did lethal damage but that is dictating my response. If she is just non lethal damage then yeah I'm fine. Lily will still be a bit obstinate but they won't die.

Boudra frowns and signs, There's no need to be unnecessarily cruel. It'll be hard for an animal to protect her pups if she's unconscious. If Cedric can heal her from a distance, let's do that and be off.

You get six small daggers and 31 small darts from the mites, additionally, you find 60 gp, an unworked moonstone worth 25 gp, an unworked quartz worth 27 gp, and an unworked garnet worth 45 gp.

After leaving the wolf and her pups, you continue for the rest of the day, finally setting up camp for the night.

After your checks, we will continue with the next day.

I'll assume I'm still scouting unless Cedric or Cyr suggest otherwise. I can help with animal care as well.

Bree heads out for another day of scouting ahead. She feels like she's getting pretty good at this... Of course, you tend to think things like that until something goes wrong.

Stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Lily starts on her newest project. She starts making a water filter.

craft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Dang, Paizo, servers down much? Yowza. First time I've been able to check in for a few days, but clearly I'm just looking at the wrong times.
I'll post later tonight, but yes, Bree, I think that scouting continues to make sense from an RP standpoint.

Hey GM - If there's something one of us wants to do that's a one hour or less project (like Lily's Craft check), can we still help with the needs of the NPCs / camp, even though that's more of an "all day" commitment"? I don't want to over-dwell on this, just don't want us missing out on potential checks for the well-being of our NPCs. Thanks!

It definitely seems like the site is going down more frequently and for longer lately.

Partly out of frustration for the awkward way the encounter with the wolves and mites ended, and partly because they haven't quite been cutting it so far when they go along with the minimum effort, Cedric tries throwing himself whole-heartedly into the search for food for the group.

Survival to gather food: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21

Paizo is definitely having some trouble. But, I don't think it is their servers, but their upstream provider, or some DNS poisoning

Don't micromanage the survival-type checks. It is important to understand that being in the woods, on the move, has negative consequences, but it is only part of the problem.

Without any ill townsfolk to take up his time, Thorek sets to foraging with a will, following Edran around and subjecting the man to another seemingly endless stream of jokes--though he spends as much time explaining the context of Dwarven puns ("This won't really make sense in Common, but... that's a Kraggodan idiom for... which is funny because in Dwarven...") as he does actually telling the jokes. He seems to be amusing himself far more than any listeners.

Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Boudra, also acutely aware of the need to maintain their food stocks, ventures out to gather food as well.

Survival: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30 Ha. Nice!

I don't mind this, but we can't keep it up forever...we're only able to focus on immediate survival. We've got to find somewhere to hole up and...oooooh! Blueberries!

survival: 1d20 ⇒ 13

Caladra wanting to practice with her new bow decides to hunt instead of fish. She moves through the forest careful where she steps. At one point she found the trail of a deer but it was too elusive for her, or she was too loud for it. When she finally had enough she returned back to camp, no deer but a couple rabbits for stew.

Edran tries to follow the stories that Thorek tells, meanwhile whittling a small flute that he will play occasionally.

Between whittling, whistling, and his general distraction,
Edran is 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 of no help foraging for food.

Day 6

You come across a creek. In the creek bed is a body of a human. It has been brutalized. Her face is barely recognizable beneath the bruises and wounds.

Several of you recognize that the wounds on the body came from the same sort of weapons the hobgoblins use and also reveals a broken black fingernail, like a hobgoblin's, in one of the injuries.

Some of the town residents recognize her as Gilida Dravonich, a part-time resident of Phaendar, who worked as a trapper.

Heal: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

After examining the corpse Thorek's jaw is set and his eyes are hard. "The bastards made sure she suffered," the dwarf growls, anger clear in his voice. "And the fact that they dumped her here, ahead of us...I think we can expect an ambush ahead. There's no way a group as large as ours escaped their notice."

Closing the woman's eyes, he murmurs a prayer in Dwarven. "Kan steinen lede deg til dine forfedres haller."

"We'll definitely need to be more careful then. Foraging parties are going to have to stick closer to camp and I'd feel better if everyone left in pairs if they need to leave." Caladra said.

She looked at the brutalized body a moment longer before looking away. "We can't leave her here either. She deserves more respect than this. Even a shallow grave is better than being fodder for whatever walks by."

Thorek's examination of the body leads him to an even further conclusion. The mutilation of the body continued even after death.

The rest of the day is uneventful.

Please make survival checks for day and evening 6

Lily tries to stifle back tears as she throws herself into trying to help the survivors.

Craft Alchemy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Im doing this the incredibly painful way. 8gp out of the 25gp needed to craft. I might want to ask a villager to aid given that if I roll less than a 4 the whole thing is destroyed.

Damn, I was hoping Gilda had got away. Bree volunteers to help dig. "We shouldn't tarry too long here."
This incident has reminded her to always keep her weapon in close proximity.

Heal: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Cedric is disturbed by the state of the corpse and the revelations about it that Thorek brings with his more comprehensive search. "Agreed. Best to keep going until we can find someplace where they won't already be there."

As they go and prepare for the next evening, he continues to try providing food for as many as possible.

Survival to gather food: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

Cyrioul joins the others in lending what help he can, and makes sure to caution the night watch teams to take extra care in their duties.

Cyrioul breathes a bit easier when he reviews his ledgers at the end of the day. "Well, most of us aren't sleeping too comfortably, but at least there's plenty to eat today."

Did my check reveal about how long Glinda has been dead?

Survival (Gather Food): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Boudra watches, grim-faced, as the others bring Gilda's body out of the river. Gilda...may the Lady of Graves grant you peace. She stifles tears as she signs to the others, We should be on guard during the nights as well. Hobgoblins can see in the dark, can't they? So they might well try to attack us at night, if they actually know where we are.

Day 7

1d3 ⇒ 2
1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

In the afternoon, Baldric and Farrow, bring an unconscious Clidon the Trader back to camp. They have been able to stop the bleeding, but, Clidon has taken 12 points of damage.

In breathless detail, Baldric and Farrow tell a story of an unusually large and clever boar that attacked them in the woods and made off with their packs.

While the two tell their story, Cedric channels to encompass them all then sacrifices a spell for a little extra attention on the badly wounded Clidon.

Channel Positive: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Cure Light Clidon: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 1 = 7

"Are you up to showing us where the confrontation happened?" he asks once they've finished. "We can ill afford to lose the packs. I'm sure between the bunch of us we can track it, and hopefully we can get the packs back and have some fresh bacon to boot."

"Aye, and a boar would make a pretty good meal too!"