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"..." Wei was going to say something when things really began to hit the oscillating air circulating device. He's an engineer by profession, take it up with him later!
When things go dark, he falls back to the tried and true methods of his people.
While it is great that Mira remembers him and is really sticking it to the enemy, it would have been nice for her to *wait* a bit before she did that.
Still, what's that human saying... egg dishes, broken shells... something...
He'll keep his eyes open as best he can as he moves, and if he gets close and things are looking bleak he'll throw himself over the stone...
Initiative Order - Round 1
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Mira - removes bayonet, readies attack, misses
Enemies :
Cast Entangle
Cyflymder -
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Vinny
Frost
Maedhros
Marco
Wei Ji
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Mira
Mira readies to fire at the first thing that appears while the sound of a diminutive voice begins chanting an incantation. Suddenly the grass, weeds and brambles writhe with life, coiling around your limbs and trying to root you all in place.
A grey blur appears at the edge of the animated greenery and resolves itself into a Quickling with such a maddened look about him, you feel sure it is none other than Cyflymder. He flings a dagger at Frost, striking the paladin. Mira fires her readied shot, but the Quickling dodges it easily. "Look-it! The human fails again!" He cackles maniacally.
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"I was waiting for some real, ah, action, but this is a bit, you know, clingy for my taste." Vinny quibbed, swatting as a flailing vine trying to grab him.
Yanking his feet free of the undergrowth, he moved toward the nearby rock, climbing atop it to escape the unwanted attentions of the greenery. As he moved, his arms deftly whipped from one pocket to the next. First, he pulled his tobacco to his lips, then proceeded to pull a black metal sphere from another pouch. It had a wick, topped with a small metal cap, which he pulled of, producing a hiss followed by sparks and smoke. Holding the sputtering wick to his mouth, he lit his tobacco and inhaled deeply with closed eyes. As he exhaled a thick cloud of smoke, he looked at the wick, as if weighing its length, then nodded, lined up his target and sent the metal sphere sailing through the air. "Heads up lady!" He called to Frost as it arched towards her and the Quickling.
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Wei doesn't move fast enough before the entangle goes off. Well, time for a change of tactics.
"Coward can't even fight straight up. You move so fast and could dice us up so well, but no, you have to do this pansy garbage. I thought we were facing the Big Boss, but noooo. You're a child. Go home and let the grownups handle the important stuff."
Special: You also gain a +4 bonus on Intimidate checks if you are larger than your target and a –4 penalty on Intimidate checks if you are smaller than your target.
Who knew a tengu could spit? Wei apparently does so on the vines around him in utter contempt of Cyflymder as he trudges 'North'.
Initiative Order - Round 1
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Mira - removes bayonet, readies attack, misses
Enemies :
Cast Entangle
Cyflymder - Throw Dagger at Frost for 1 damage
Vinny - saves, throws bomb, misses but deals 2 splash damage to Cyflymder
Frost - saves, moves up and smites for 10 damage
Maedhros - entangled, summons eagle to attack, misses
Marco - saves, double moves
Wei Ji - attempts to demoralize
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Mira - entangled, loads and fires musket, misses
Enemies :
Atomie -
Cyflymder -
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Vinny
Frost - is prone and asleep!
Maedhros
Marco
Wei Ji
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Mira
Vinny's bomb overshoots his target, detonating fortunately on the far side of the foe, splashing Cyflymder. Frost moves through the entangling greenery to strike at the maniacal fey swinging her falchion. He is unable to avoid the blow and takes a substantial wound. Unfortunately the creature is too quick and dodges the eagle's strikes as well as Mira's musket shot.
Another Atomie flashes into view as she fires a crossbow bolt at the Aasimar who harmed her master, but it misses badly.
The wily fey leaps high into the air, bounding away from the dangerous paladin like a flea. He lands atop one of the henge stones and lets fly another dagger. Again, little more than a scratch is inflicted, but this time the impassive warrior is overcome by whatever coats the blade and drops down into the writhing undergrowth which coils around her like a blanket of foliage. "The angelic beauty sleeps, well tucked in for her nap! Snipe at me with words and projectiles as you like... you cannot hit the broad side of a barn!"
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Chewing on his smoke with an annoyed grunt, Vinny switched it from one side of his mouth to the other, before pulling out another explosive. This one looked more like a vial of liquid, covered in what appeared to be rusty nails.
"Good thing im not aiming at a barn then." He muttered, before chucking the vial at the pompous Quickling.
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Your speed tells you how far you can move in a round and still do something, such as attack or cast a spell. Your speed depends mostly on your size and your armor.
Dwarves, gnomes, and halflings have a speed of 20 feet (4 squares), or 15 feet (3 squares) when wearing medium or heavy armor (except for dwarves, who move 20 feet in any armor).
Humans, elves, half-elves, half-orcs, and most humanoid monsters have a speed of 30 feet (6 squares), or 20 feet (4 squares) in medium or heavy armor.
If you use two move actions in a round (sometimes called a “double move” action), you can move up to double your speed. If you spend the entire round running, you can move up to quadruple your speed (or triple if you are in heavy armor).
Initiative Order - Round 1
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Mira - removes bayonet, readies attack, misses
Enemies :
Cast Entangle
Cyflymder - Throw Dagger at Frost for 1 damage
Vinny - saves, throws bomb, misses but deals 2 splash damage to Cyflymder
Frost - saves, moves up and smites for 10 damage
Maedhros - entangled, summons eagle to attack, misses
Marco - saves, double moves
Wei Ji - attempts to demoralize
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Mira - entangled, loads and fires musket, misses
Enemies :
Atomie - fires crossbow, misses
Cyflymder - jumps onto henge, strikes Frost with poisoned dagger
Vinny - throws bomb, misses but deals 2 splash damage to Cyflymder Eagle
Frost - is prone and asleep!
Maedhros - Eagle attacks Cyflymder for 6 damage, knocking out the quickling / Redirecting M's snowball to the Atomie, knocking her out as well.
Vinny's bomb overshoots his mark, dealing only minimal damage to the fey. But Maedhros' eagle charges in and rakes the quickling with smiting claws, and the little creature slumps to the stone, bleeding out. His target down, Maedhros unleashes a snowball of icy doom at the the little winged fairy, bringing her down as well.
Wei Ji secures the lorestone away from the destructive rays of the sun and your mission is achieved!
You remove Cyflymder's gear and secure the quickling before you bring him back to consciousness. He begins struggling against his bonds immediately as he utters what you can only assume are "not nice" words in a strange language.
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Frost parks herself down beside the Quickling.
"I am pledged to Ragathiel, for the blood of his celestial host runs through my veins, so when I speak with you you will know what i say hides no treachery or dishonesty. We seek to understand what took place here, not to judge, for the affairs of the Fey are moved by different winds than are the realm of man - but to know the why, as you see it"
She pulls out some of the nicer parts of her rations, offering a bite to the Fey.
"I am in no hurry, and am prepared to wait for an answer - which would be good to give, as there are other fey who wont be talking the time to listen. You will need a voice, I offer to lend you mine so that sense and justice may prevail, not just blind retribution"
She patiently waits, not being flustered by any of its reactions, giving the trapped creature time to come to its senses and run out of rage.
Diplomacy
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I... see, Master of the Ways. All paths are valid, even if some are distasteful.
As Frost starts to approach the matter diplomatically, Wei supports her argument by being the 'bad guard' to Frost's 'good guard'.
He shuts up and attempts to give the indication that the paladin's approach is far better than the alternative.
It takes some time and some vigilance, but eventually you encourage the fey to tell you the story of how this bloody day came to pass. The local logging industry is managed within the borders of the Verduran Forest by the Druids of the Wildwood Lodge according to the Treaty of Wildwood. But recently the loggers have pressed deeper and deeper into the wood, going beyond the outlines of the treaty. The backlash of the fey has thus been increasingly aggressive. Cyflymder is clearly filled with hate and rage directed not only at the Wildwood Druids, who are too few now to properly keep the loggers in check, but all of humanity and their accursed greed which leads them to decimate the natural lands. The quickling practiced a ritual to bind any loggers he captured and infuse them with a dark taint of the first world that made them loyal to him.
You are seated in the main hall of the Grand Lodge of Absalom, waiting for the arrival of Absalom’s newest venture-captain, a tall, dark-haired and olive-skinned Varisian woman named Eliza Petulengro. Renowned for her composure under pressure and the author of more than two dozen Pathfinder Chronicles entries, she appears in the hall suddenly, a stack of chronicles in her arms, and looks you over before speaking.
The Venture-Captain takes a deep breath before launching into her briefing, “My greatest pupil, Pathfinder Bodriggan Wuthers, has gone missing. He followed a cleric contact back to Wuthers’s home city of Oppara to work on a massive dig beneath the House of the Immortal Son, Oppara’s famed opera house and once temple to the dead god, Aroden. That was a year ago. He sent monthly reports, hoping to see their publication in a chronicle, before all contact dried up a few months back. I’m worried something has gone wrong, and the Society has a vested interest in the artifact he was researching and seeking. We want you to travel to Oppara and find Wuthers. We’d like to know exactly what he was seeking, too, since he neglected to inform us through his monthly correspondence. He hinted only that the cleric of Irori he was working with told him the object was the world’s greatest ‘living’ artifact — whatever that means."
“I have only a few tidbits of information to pass to you before you go: the House of the Immortal Son is nearly impossible to access. It took Wuthers months and countless bribes to get where he did. For you, I have a much simpler idea. Go to an opera, wait for an opportunity, and then exploit it to find Wuthers and his dig site."
She takes a moment to appraise your trappings. “Be sure to wear something festive — the Taldan nobility are arrogant on their best days and if you arrive at the opera dressed like that,” she waves her hands at you, “they’ll surely lose your tickets or regret to inform you that the opera house is oversold. Your travel is arranged, you will have time to gather your gear and resupply before you depart. Are there any questions before you make your preparations?"
Team Alpha: Among the Living - 1-2 Roster
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Deliverance is playing Vinny (Alchemist 1)
Paladin of Baha-who? is playing Maedhros (Arcanist 2)
Ayjee is playing Mira (Gunslinger 2)
Shifty is playing Frost (Pal 2)
Steven_Evil is playing Hanzo Hashashi (Monk 1)
Mike Garlington is playing Quinn (Hunter 1)
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Wear something 'festive?' As long as I have been dressing myself, never have I dressed in something... 'festive.' How does the society expect us to pull off such a ruse if they do not resource us properly? I use my money to purchase required items to further my craft... not waste it on frivolous, superficial things...
Quinn's inner frustrated monologue is betrayed by her sour expression... She looks up to Eliza Petulengro and tries to match this experienced woman's confidence and calmness and asks in her most self-assured voice, "Mistress Petulengro, excusing my boldness, but might you have something I could borrow to wear to the Opera? You obviously have fine taste in clothes and that is a skill that I admittedly lack. As they say, admitting your shortcomings is the first step to overcoming them!"
Quinn tries to end her awkward 'ask' on an upbeat note, but she immediately feels that she sounded like a desperate youth.