The Road to Minkai: Dragoncat's Jade Regent (Party 2) (Inactive)

Game Master Dragoncat

Cool, did I learn anything?

Survival aid another : 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

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Marten

You take a closer look at the tracks Haru found yesterday. Though the rain has muddled the trail somewhat, you're certain you can follow them to where they came from.

Marten returns to the group, his interest now piqued by the footsteps.

There's tracks. Down there by the lake. he points. If you're willing to wait a little longer to hand in our bounty we could see where they lead. I know I for one am curious as to what exactly happened here. he adds with an almost hopeful look at Gryf.

Oh, and I forgot this from earlier...

"These prints look like bare bones, like skeletal undead. That's worrisome. I'd be willing to go along to find them, and if we do, we better go now, but we'd have to be very careful."

Undead? Lovely..." Friday murmurs as he moves over to Haru to look at the tracks.

Gryf shakes his head at the conversation between Friday and Xel. "It's like being back at the circle" He mutters as he stands, stepping out into the rain. He feels it hit his body an almost cleansing feeling.

"Undead... bane of the living. We can't let them walk around the swamp, if they somehow made their way to Sandpoint a lot would die. We can turn in the bounty later, let's track them." He start to pack his gear and sling his axe over his shoulder. Then moves to help with the tracking.

Survival: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Once the party has made their preparations, Marten, Haru & Gryf take point, leading the party along the trail of the skeletons that attacked the Licktoad village.

The rain doesn't let up as the party moves along, slogging through the brambles and mud. The trail passes through several streams in the marsh, but thanks to a concerted effort the party manages to stay on course.

After a while, the trail passes through a clearing. A sagging one-story shack sits in this clearing, its walls dingy with age and encrusted with lichen and fungus. A partially collapsed shed sits just to the northeast, while small pouches, twisted knots of feathers, and dangling wind chimes made of bones hang from branches and roof edge alike.

New map!

Gryf eyes up the shack, slowly stepping forward. "A place to get out of the rain and rest?" He then slowly walks toward the shack. "Hello? Is anyone in there?" He shouts out.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21

Falling along beside Gryf as he calls out to the building and its potential occupants Friday keeps his eyes and ears about.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

This place doesn't look inhabited, it looks like it's barely standing. Let's be careful in case something else has moved in. Marten says, edging toward the door and, if there is no response to Friday or Gryf, pulls it open.

There is no response to Gryf's call.

Marten steps up to the front door and tugs on it, only to find that the door is stuck shut, swollen with moisture.

"Let's check the shed," Haru says, walking cautiously towards it with an arrow on the string.

What kind of bones are there?

Mostly animal bones, likely from swamp creatures and the like...

Haru approaches the shed.

She hears *chittering* coming from inside the shed.

"There's recent tracks..." Friday says softly to the other before following after Haru as she suggests the shed, spear in hand.

"There's something in the shed," she whispers.

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Friday nods and moves to open the door, his spear at the ready to stab at anything that lunges out at them. Sparing a glance with the others to see if they're aware and ready he then opens the door.

I've placed Friday at the entrance to the shed on the map. Anyone else want to move their tokens into a position they want?

Haru lines herself up with the door. "Stand aside as you open the door, Friday, so I have a clear shot," she whispers to him.

Friday nods one last time.

Marten also stands back away from the shed as Friday prepares to open it, hoping that if they have found where the skeletons made their way to, that no one else was hurt by them first.

Spells prepped today; CLW, Snowball, Mudball

Marten nervously awaits Friday opening the door to the shed

My apologies for not putting it in the last post but Friday does open the door after that last nod, sorry if this held things up!

No I assumed you opened it Friday, I was just bumping this up :)

Ah! Okies, thanks :3

Sorry to keep ya waiting. Was rereading some of my old campaign posts in a different thread.

Friday opens the door to the shed. Upon closer inspection it becomes clear that it was once used to store supplies. Now, this building has mostly collapsed.

The chittering abruptly stops as Friday comes face-to-snout with several dire rats.

Initiative (Haru): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Initiative (Gryf): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
Initiative (Marten): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Initiative (Friday): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Initiative (Valeria): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Initiative (Dire Rats): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Round 1: Everyone is up!

I'm assuming the initiative roll is because they're aggressive now and not just frolicking about in the shed?

Actual Post.

If aggressive:

Friday lunges at one of the ROUS before stepping back to allow Haru a clear shot.

So an attack then 5ft step back next to Marten.

Longspear: 1d20 + 2 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (10) + 2 + 4 - 1 = 15
Damage (Piercing): 1d8 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 3 = 12

If nonaggressive:

Friday closes the door back.

shortbow: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 1 = 13

damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

If Friday's rat is dead, will ready an action to attack the first rat that comes into view.

Moving behind Friday, Marten lays a hand on his shoulder and asks the spirits to give the warrior guidance.

Cast Guidance, extra +1 to hit next round

The dire rats are definitely hostile.

Friday's spear sticks a rat clean through the mouth, turning it into a rat skewer.

Gryf & Valeria are up.

Gryf seeing the fight kick off, moves close to the shed with the front blocked up he moves around to the side. Spotting the group of rats he swing out at one he can reach.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Damage: 1d12 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Can i attack through the broken wall on the right?

Gryf

Yes, you can. The rat would still gain cover from your attack, though. Not that it really matters now, because...

Gryf races to the shed, and spotting another rat through the broken wall, cleaves through the decaying timbers to strike it down!

Valeria is up.

Valeria quickly moved around to the opposite side from Gryf and start firing into the rats.
Ray of Frost on nearest rat: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 2

Valeria's ray strikes the dire rat dead on the nose, but it doesn't bring it down.

The rats retaliate, pouring out of the shed's ruined walls! Two of them race for Valeria and Haru fires an arrow at one... unfortunately, her arrow clips the shed wall and flies off-target. One runs at Friday, and the last one throws itself at Gryf.

"What are ya doing?! Whack it, dammit!" Xel crows as the frosty rat moves around the side of the shed.

AoO (Valeria): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

One quick strike from her staff later, and the rat's skull is cracked.

Gryf swings at the rat attacking him as it moves through the debris...

AoO (Gryf): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
His axe splits a pair of two-by-fours into pieces, but fails to hurt the rat.

The rat nearest Friday lunges at him, heedless of the spear...

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
...and learns the hard way that it should have paid more attention to the spear. Friday easily blocks the clumsy bite with the weapon's shaft.

The two rats on Valeria start biting at her!

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

The first rat's bite misses, but the second rat bites down hard on her ankle, drawing blood!

Gryf's opponent strikes back!

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Its attack doesn't meet with nearly as much success.

Round 2: Everyone is up!

Taking a step back Friday lunges at the rat he had batted away.

Longspear: 1d20 + 2 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 2 + 4 - 1 = 8
Damage (Piercing): 1d8 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 3 = 17

Friday's spear misses as the rat leaps aside.

Gryf, Marten, Haru & Valeria are up!

Haru begins to sing, seeing these rats as more trouble than she had anticipated.

Inspire Courage. +1 to attack and damage.

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Gryf, Marten & Valeria are up!

Ignoring Xel's cries, she brought her staff down on one of the other rats.
Attack on direct north rat: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

Frustrated as his missed attack, Gryf brings his axe up high and swings down attempting to cleave the rat in two.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 1 = 26
Damage: 1d12 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 1 = 20
Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 = 10
Damage: 2d12 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (12, 6) + 16 + 2 = 36

With dead on aim he slices the rat to pieces.

Crit Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 6) + 2 = 10

Gryf slices his rat to pieces, and Valeria's staff splatters rat brains all over the dirt.

Marten is up!

Marten continues to bolster Friday as best he can.

Casting Guidance again, providing a +1 bonus on his next Attack

Initiative Order
Haru
Gryf
Valeria
Friday
New Monster
Marten
Rats

The remaining rats continue to bite at the heroes, giving no thought to their own lives. One keeps biting at Valeria...

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
...but this time, the tiefling is too quick for the rat's bite, nimbly leaping away.

The other rat lunges at Friday...

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
...and promptly trips over itself, burying its snout in the mud.

From within the house, a loud *SCREECH* can be heard, followed by a *chittering* in an alien tongue!

"విలే రెండు కాళ్ళు! ఈ ఇంటి నుండి చిట్కా!"

Round 3: Haru, Gryf, Valeria & Friday are up!

Maintaining her song, Haru lines up a shot on one of the fleeing rats and sends an arrow its way.

shortbow with pbs and performance: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 4 + 1 + 1 = 25
damage: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 1 = 7

Haru's arrow skewers the rat trying to bite Valeria through its open mouth. It falls into the mud, dead.

Gryf, Valeria & Friday are up!

Gryf shudders from the screech, but continues to hack away at the rats.

Attack: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 = 16
Damage: 1d12 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 1 = 20

AS he slices anther rat in half he looks around briefly. "What was that screech?!" He shouts.

Again moving back towards Haru Friday lunges at the last rat, trying not to let the unnerving voice distract him.

Longspear: 1d20 + 2 + 4 + 1 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (18) + 2 + 4 + 1 + 1 - 1 = 25
Damage (Piercing): 1d8 + 6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 3 + 1 = 14