We be 5uper Goblins! (PFS PbP Gameday VII) 6 Oct 18 (Inactive)

Game Master Tyranius

”Mogmurch am goblin king. Where am Moggy’s tribe member goblins go? What tribe am you with, new goblin?”

The unusually tall goblin bows down as commanded. "Your friends broke my way out of the Baglands -- that's where we are now -- and ran away with them, my magic golden shears. One went down to the lake, and one went east out to the hill cave. I think the last one is still in the castle."

"I am not funny looking! I am a goblin, that's for sure -- I have the biggest ears of anyone here!"

Poog listens and scratches his head ... this really bothers his frog familiar sitting up there.

”Okay, we can use and will use advice of you! But you come with us! We go find other goblins interviewed they stole! Hi say castle first go now?!“ he says.

"Castle good. Maybe we scale walls!"

Chuffy really enjoyed seeing how bouncy the ground is and is looking forward to jumping from the walls and bouncing. It would be REALLY funny if some of the others kept their weapons out and landed on them.

Greta can´t hide but smile at the big goblin, wondering if he is ready for rutting?

”Castle am good. King Mogmurch....maybe find crown there,” Moggy thinks out loud, considering how nice it would look on his noggin.

"Uh, no thanks, I think need a nap now. Have fun storming the castle! Watch out for the dragon!"

The unusually tall goblin begins to wander away.

”Dragon?!? No, wait?! Where he go??? Ok! Castle not have dragon ... he surely dumb. We go castle now!“ and Poog takes his belongings and starts walking.

Chuffy thinks for a while. If there was a castle with a dragon in it, the first thing HE would do is tell a few goblins there were fireworks in the castle, stand back, and watch the fun.

"Not so fast. Big goblin come with us!"

Greta shakes her head in sorrow and shrugs.
"No dragon close, we would know. And be gone fast fast!"

Chuffy glares at Greta.

"NO! Biggun come with, not go! Me king too!"

At this point Chuffy's attention is fully on Greta. The 'big goblin' is just a thing to be argued about.

"Nope!"

The big goblin runs away and hides very quickly, and seems to know the area very well as you can find no sign of him afterwards.

So, there is the castle, the lake, and the hill cave available to explore.

The castle is decided based on discussion!

Onwards to the castle!

Updated the slides with a map. The goblins are in the upper right corner of it, near A1.

The soothing smell of smoke still hangs in the air around the charred stones of this small castle. All that remains of the roof are charcoal timbers and scattered shingles, and several of the walls have collapsed. The stonework is decorated with brightly colored, childlike drawings of fantastic scenes.

You approach a rounded structure to the northeast of the castle remains. All that remains of the castle’s stubby “tower” is a wall and a pile of charred wooden planks that used to be a staircase. Simple drawings of leaves, flowers, and trees cover the walls.

From around the wall stalks a massive, dark-orange feline, looking like a tiger but without any stripes on its shaggy hide.

"You! Return my stripes!" it bellows in a growly voice the moment it sees you, digging its claws into the dirt floor and lashing its tail as it prepares to attack.

Perception : 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

Poog steps back but nonetheless is ready to talk.

"I not know who you is! Not stripes have we! We look where is our gold! Gold and magic items stolen! You know where goblin's go in castle?"

Perception 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

”Look! Monkeys am have stripes over there,” Moggy says as he points toward the devious little creatures carrying the stripes.

Upon seeing the big kitty, Chuffy immediately zips over to the other side and goes into a sneak.

perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24
stealth: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (7) + 22 = 29

perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

When Mogmurch points at the monkeys, the tiger looks around curiously, then growls, "I must have my stripes! Get me my stripes or I will be furious!"

The sooty, charcoal-covered ground has darkened the monkeys' feet, making it easy enough to chase them. Survival or handle animal to chase them down. Alternatively, you could draw stripes on with a Craft check.

Poog steps forward.

”You now come down with stripes! We demand!“

handle animal : 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

Survival 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

Moggy tries to head the monkeys off at the pass.

Chuffy just laughs at the tiger and the monkeys and does nothing.

Greta prepares to join the taunting of the tiger.
It sounds sooo much like fun!

These monkeys don't appear to speak common, as the tiger does, so Poog uses a blessing from Zarongel to speak with them and repeats his demand. After some chittering, the monkeys shamefacedly drop the tiger's stripes and scurry off. The tiger allows you to reapply the stripes to his fur, which sink in like ink and become true striped fur in moments. Without more than a grumbled "Thanks," the huge cat bounds off into the grass.

[ooc]Where to now in the castle?

Chuffy is quite disappointed in the castle. There are no places to jump from and bounce and no dragons. He grumbles loudly, and enters A2 and then A3 in search of trouble, not even bothering to sneak.

Poog is happy that he did not have to fight!

"Yes, go castle with Chuffy! I coming! Behind you!"

Moggy follows close behind.

Bump. Let’s get this thing going again...

Sorry about that!

Several collapsed walls and a burned-out door grant easy access to this large room, which now lies open to the sky. Two wooden posts still stand upright, with a makeshift banner draped between them. A distressed Hoblob sits in a small, crooked cage near the northwestern corner.

As the goblins move forward into the ruins of the castle, an enormous figure steps out of a doorway from the one mostly-intact room of the building. It appears to be a longshanks, but much taller than typical -- at least as tall as four goblins standing on top of each other's shoulders.

"Bow before the King of Hammers, knaves! And bring me my porridge!" the extra-longshanks bellows, swinging a pair of humongous hammers in his hands.

What do you do?

Greta looks at the longlongshanks up and down.
She quickly takes a step back and points at Mogmurch.
"She wants to kill you - you!"

Poog begins casting a spell!

He COMMANDS ”Throw your weapons over to us!“

DC 14 Will save

Chuffy does the only intelligent thing and slips behind the pillar, keeping it between him and the giant.

stealth: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (16) + 22 = 38

And just like that, no more Chuffy. And there he waits for an opportunity to bury his knife in the back of the leg of the foolish longshanks.

Moggy pulls and drinks an extract of Shield.

AC is 27 now.

The command spell specifies that your command must be selected from the group consisting of Approach, Drop, Fall, Flee, or Halt. I'll assume you order 'Drop' since that's the closest to what you said. More complicated commands are the province of suggestion.

Poog orders the large man to drop his weapons. The crown-bedecked head shakes and grimaces. "Insolent goblin fools! Soon you will become bricks in my walls as I rebuild my castle!" With that he begins to walk forward.

Poog senses that his spell was resisted.

Initative!
Chuffy
Mogmurch
Poog
King of Hammers
Reta

Tried to make this post in gameplay, but it would not stick, so I will repost it here.

Moggy pulls and drinks an extract of Shield.

AC is 27 now.

Poog shoots fire in the direction of the longshanks!

"Longshanks! Burn!!"

Firebolt, touch fire, 5/6 remaining: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 191d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Chuffy appears from behind the pillar right behind the clumsy longshanks and digs in.

To Hit, flat footed: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
damage,sneak: 1d4 + 3d6 ⇒ (4) + (1, 1, 4) = 10, plus 3 bleed

Cutting trough a nice fat blood vessel between the joints of his armor near the knee, he shouts, "Surprise! Chuffy make you bleed and die now."

The king stumbles from the sudden strike, and roars in pain -- a fantastically powerful bellow that shudders the ground, knocks down several loose bricks, and assaults all of your eardrums. A DC 18 Fortitude save is needed from Reta, Mogmurch and Poog. Chuffy is not in the area of effect. Failure means 11 sonic damage and deafened for 4 minutes. Success means 5 damage and deafened for 1 round.

Reta
Chuffy
Mogmurch
Poog
King of Hammers

Fort 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Moggy plucks a b9mb and throws it at the king.

RTA 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

Fire damage 3d6 + 3 ⇒ (6, 6, 2) + 3 = 17

Poog shouts "Longshanks! Hold!!"

hold person (DC 15)

Mogmurch can barely even hear the sound of his bomb's explosion, but it still hits and hurts the king significantly.

Poog needs to make a fortitude save, and since you're deafened for 1 round even on success, you'd have a 20% failure chance on Hold Person since it has verbal components. However, Poog discovers that the spell doesn't work, as it doesn't seem like the creature is actually a human of any kind. I think that spells with invalid targets don't even happen, so you don't lose the spell slot and can do something else instead.

The king shakes his head at Poog, "Stupid goblin! You cannot command me!"

Sorry, I somehow skipped over Poog in your post with the fort save.

Fortitude: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Again, Poog shoots fire in the direction of the longshanks!

Firebolt, touch fire, 4/6 remaining: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 201d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Reta quickly unslings her battleaxe and attacks her enemy.
Attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 141d6 + 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + (4) + 5 = 12

Poog lands another firebolt on the huge man.

Reta charges at the king, but as she moves in he swings a hammer with surprising swiftness. 8 damage to Reta from an attack of opportunity. The unexpected impact throws her off and she misses.

Botting Chuffy:

"Reta! Surround the longshanks!" Chuffy calls out to her, and tries to move to flank the foe -- not quite, but almost. He isn't able to get a deep wound this time.

Swinging his hammers with fury, the king steps back and swings his hammers at Chuffy. The nimble rogue dodges easily, however. The king lunges forward and opens his mouth impossibly wide to try to bite Chuffy, but his massive teeth close on thin air.

Reta
Chuffy
Mogmurch
Poog
King of Hammers

Moggy plucks another bomb and throws it at the king, cackling madly. ”Mogmurch da great am be new king now!”

RTA 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Fire damage 3d6 + 3 ⇒ (3, 1, 2) + 3 = 9

Poog moves a bit to avoid cover and again shoots fire in the direction of the longshanks!

Firebolt, touch fire, 3/6 remaining, melee: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 4 = 211d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Sorry about that. Not sure how I missed that I was up.

"Ha ha ha! Longshanks tripping over own feet."

Chuffy waits until after Reta goes, hoping to get a flank in.

to hit: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15, +2 if flanking
damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1, add 3 bleed and 3d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 4) = 13 if flanking

to hit: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14, +2 if flanking
damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4, add 3 bleed and 3d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 4) = 13 if flanking

Bleed damage doesn't stack, so he keeps bleeding at 3.

Reta steps into flanking and attacks again.
Attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 241d6 + 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + (2) + 5 = 8