WaterSprite's RotRL - Burnt Offerings (Inactive)

Game Master Joy

Round 14 Initiative: 17, AC: 12, HP: 16/16, Conditions: Roak, -1 attack, -1 save vs. fear.
Active Hexes: Quasit, 2 rounds, -2 AC.

Pik looks around and notes that no one is at the door and moves in front of it.

Round 14

Radoslav doesn't find anything of interest in the room, it appears empty except for the pool.

The door to the room begins to open, but the quasit remains unseen. Those of you who go after the quasit may change your stated actions for this round if you wish.

If possible, Erodel will bullrush the door shut!

STR / Bullrush if needed 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 +2 if bullrush!

Round 14, altered Initiative: 17, AC: 12, HP: 16/16, Conditions: Roak, -1 attack, -1 save vs. fear.
Active Hexes: Quasit, 2 rounds, -2 AC.

Pik rushes to the door and attempts to grab at the air in front of the door.

Targeting the square in front of the door with a grapple, she gets an attack of opportunity.

Combat Maneuver (Grapple): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
Miss Chance (50%, high is good): 1d2 ⇒ 2 Good

Round 14, altered HP 17/21, Init 13, AC 18, Touch 14, FF 14 Saves Fort +4, Reflex + 7 Will +2
Conditions -1 to hit, saves vs. fear

The ranger's eyes narrow as the quasit disappears again. He waits, holding his action until he knows where the demon is. Then, the door starts to swing open and Elransil rushes over with Erodel to slam it shut again!

Strength check to slam door shut 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13 -1 to hit if that applies

Round 14 Initiative 18, AC 12/T12/FF10 HP 6/12
Fort +1, Ref +2, Will +2
Spells Available:
1st-Silent Image DC 16, Corrosive Touch no save
0-Prestidigitation, Detect Magic, Ghost Sound DC14, Acid Splash no save
Arcane Bond Ring: USED
-1 Attack, save/fear since round 8

Grumbling with disgust at his forgetfulness, Manx casts detect magic and looks towards the door. If he does not detect the quasit there, he will scan around the room looking for magical auras, especially those floating in the air.

round 14

@Manx -

As Erodel and Elransil rush to shut the door, Pik appears to grapple with something. The quasit appears to view as it tries to claw at Pik.

Round 15

Fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22 (r5/6)

Init: 10 HP 22/24 AC: 17

Does.. my lower dex retroactively tweak my initiative?

As the little demon reappears, Erodel growls "Hand out those arrows of yours, and let's stab it! Radoslav, you too!" Shouting the second part to his companion across the room.

If Elransil hands Erodel an arrow, he will step into position to flank and stab the quasit!

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15 +2 Flank
Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Else will dog pile on top to grapple.

Grapple: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16+2 if Flank

Just keep your same initiative.
-4 to attack with the arrows by stabbing

Then Erodel will prioritize the 'double grapple'

Also, any attacks (only one thanks to dex drain) against any adjacent targets (in this case Pik) will use 'In Harms Way' to redirect to himself!

Round 15

Init: 24, AC: 16, HP: 16/16

Radoslav moves over and attempts to swing with his morningstar.

I cannot fight well with the tip of arrow, even if it is iron.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 (+2 if flanking)
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 (+ 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 if flanking)

Round 15 Initiative: 17, AC: 12, HP: 16/16, Conditions: Roak, -1 attack, -1 save vs. fear.
Active Hexes: Quasit, 1 round, -2 AC.

Assuming that the Quasit is unable to break the grapple, Pik will continue to hold it and attempt to pin it.

Maintain Grapple: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
If successful, the Quasit is now pinned.

Is the plan to hold it down and beat on it until dead?

It's very high on Erodel's 'Plan to deal with the little demon'.. although interrogating it might be useful... but it may be more dangerous to give it the chance to escape again.

At the very least, Erodel would like to pummel it into submission. With or without getting information from it.

Then again, this is just the mechanical suit of armour that is leaking red fluid's thoughts

Round 15 HP 17/21, Init 13, AC 18, Touch 14, FF 14 Saves Fort +4, Reflex + 7 Will +2
Conditions -1 to hit, saves vs. fear

Elransil hands out arrows to those who want them and draw his bow to shoot it down if it tries to escape again..

Move action to hand out arrows, standard to draw bow. I'm all in favor of just finishing it off now. It's a fanatic, so I doubt it will tell us much.

Since people seem to be in favor of finishing off the quasit, we will just jump ahead a few rounds to its death since you have it pinned. Seems unnecessary to go through all the rounds it will take to get past its damage reduction and fast healing over post.

Now dead, you search the tiny creature and find on it a tiny dagger and tiny crown worth 50g. A thorough search of the room does not reveal anything else.

Pik examines both the dagger and crown with Detect Magic.

Spellcraft (dagger): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
Spellcraft (crown): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

And will examine the pool of orange liquid.

Fort save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Erodel will try looking at the pool in the middle... possibly try to determine the time of death on the skulls?

Untrained (heal) 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19

way to have both ends of the spectrum Pik!

"Any of you know what a demon would be doing underneath the town?... Besides making more of these spawn." As Erodel gives the sinspawn corpse a boot to the mid section to emphasize his point.

Elransil comes over to Erodel to examine the pool.

"No idea. In fact, I don't know why it didn't make a thousand of these sinspawn and send them up to destroy the entire town. Maybe it can only do so a limited number of times."

The crown is non-magical, the dagger is magical and you would have seen it in action during the fight. It magically returned to her hand after being thrown.
The skulls appear really really old.

"The demon did claim to be a minion of Lamashtu, directly... i hope that was more boast than substance. The sinspawn here and out there, the goblins, it may be that Lamashtu does have an agent up to no good."

"I have nearly exhausted my spells for the day, should we continue to seek what answers there are in the rest of this complex, or report our findings and return on the 'morrow?"

Manx tucks the crown into his back pack and holds the dagger out to the others "this looks to be a useful weapon..."

I think we covered everywhere...

"We should return to town, and here what Tsuto has to say. There is also the matter of getting the priest to help with the altar outside."

This place appears to have been closed off for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. I assume she didn't make more sinspawn out of fear they might just eat her for lack of other food. Pik frowns as he looks around, But who can say? She was obviously quite mad.

Elransil frowns as he looks around.

"Let's take a look at the journal we found on Tsuto to see if there is any information in there that can help us."

I know little about religion. I do know that we should secure this location. If more townsfolk come here, results could be disastrous.

"You're right, Radoslav. What should we do first - search for secret paths or cover up that well so nothing else comes bubbling out?"

The ranger has a 32 Perception if he takes 20. If two others help, that's a 36 and should uncover most things. Also, who has the journal at the moment? It might include information on a passage we missed.

I believe Manx has the journal (as he was the one that looted Tsuto's prone form), although it could also be floating in the ether that is 'party loot')

You do not find any more passages down here. I believe Manx did pick up the journal with the rest of Tsuto's stuff.

"Yes, let us read that book of his. Then if we are worried about anything getting out of here, we can try and bar the door." As Erodel nods to himself in agreement.

Things on the buy list, hammer and LOTS of spikes...

To the journal, Inspector Elransil!

Searching for paths is good plan. It would not do to seal this place without finding all entrances and exits.

Radoslav will take 20 to assist Elransil on his perception check.

Once they are done searching, Pik nods towards the exit. Let us leave this hole and tell the town. Perhaps the deputy can get some men working on closing off these tunnels.

All of you make it back through the tunnels and up to the town with out a problem. Once you leave the Glassworks, you notice that there are guardsmen at the doors. They relax when they see you and tell you that they were ordered to keep watch in case any goblins tried to run out, but they hadn't seen anything leave before you all exited. They also tell you that the deputy is still trying to interrogate Tsuto at the jail and that Ameiko is likely still there with him.

When you inform the deputy of the tunnels, he begins cursing the smugglers who made a network of them under Sandpoint and gives a guardsman instructions to get the local mason and his apprentices to block the tunnels under the Glassworks. He will then turn back to you all and inform you that Tsuto is refusing to speak to anyone, even Ameiko and they haven't gotten any information at all from him.

When you decide to look through the journal, you see that it is a small, leather-bound booklet that contains two dozen parchment pages, most of which Tsuto has apparently filled with maps of Sandpoint or erotic drawings of a young woman. DC 15 Knowledge [local] to know who she is The maps each depict different attack plans. The first set shows the attack plans for a group of thirty goblins—one of these battle maps is circled, and you all may recognize it as the attack the goblins made on Sandpoint during the Festival. Of more pressing concern are the next several pages, which illustrate an assault on Sandpoint by a force of what appears to be two hundred goblins. None of these are circled, and while many are scratched out as if they’ve been rejected, the implications are ominous nonetheless. One on the last pages of the book depicts the same young woman seen earlier, but this time it is with demonic hands, bat wings, horns, a forked tail, and fangs.

Elransil flips through the journal, trying to see if the battle plans give any hint about the location of the goblins' base of operations. He pauses when he comes to the rather ... tasteless drawings.

"Please don't tell me I was right about this," he says about the woman's identity.

Knowledge(local) 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Is that the aasimar Nualia who allegedly "burned" in the church five years ago?

Correct, it is indeed Nualia in the pictures.

Grumbling at the stalling of the investigation, Erodel turns towards Manx/Pik/Radoslav: "Can any of you do something to make Tsuto more..... 'talkative?" Waving his hands about in the air in front of him.

Another mystery solved!

"Well, we have to go see him at the jail first. And the book will probably help the sheriff's men quite a bit. Maybe even with their questioning."

Elransil sighs. "I wonder how Ameiko is taking all this?"

More talkative? No. Pik follows the others to the jail.

"I can look about tomorrow and see if I can locate a charm spell that may help. The school of mental charms was not one that I focused studies on."

"So long as the guards are OK with us using magic on the prisoner. I know some jurisdictions don't care for that. Just what we found so far might loosen his tongue a bit."

If asked, the guards will explain that while magic on prisoners is usually forbidden, they will relax that rule in this case due to the seriousness of the circumstance and the danger that threatens that city.

What time of day is it? When we emerge and are back in town?

"We may want to do our preparations now, as we do not know if they will do something erratic now that their lieutenant is captured." Erodel petitions the party. "We could also check on Ameiko and ask her if she has any information that could help."

Late afternoon.

Manx nods to Erodel, "Sound advice, I will go and see if there is a scroll for sale from one of the merchants. I can also see what they will give us for the items we collected. Would anyone like to come along? If not, I suggest we meet back at Ameiko's, say two hours?"

From the ooc thread, I thought that Elransil was going to be selling the loot due to his trait ensuring 10% more gp? Also remember that the returning dagger is size tiny if anyone wanted to try to use it.

Good Point.. just to cover the bases however in character

"We may want to have our resident merchant handle the business aspects, it's in his blood after all." With a nod towards Elransil.

"To the merchants!"

Are... the merchants even open? may make some of this moot.

Such strange laws. I am used to much less...restriction on the treatment of criminals. Regardless, let us sell our unneeded items and divide the funding before any purchases are made. Then all of us can buy what we need prior to meeting again.

still open.

I agree, let's leave this matter to Elransil. And hope his family can give us a deal. But certainly, let's not have someone who has already upset merchants in this city to get a good price.

"Of course I can handle selling of these exotic items. I'm sure between my parents, sister and Ameiko, we can get a good deal for all of these items. Once I have secured the money, I'll divide the proceeds between us."

How long do you want the selling to take, WaterSprite? We obviously need to finish this before the jail visit if Charm Person will be used.