GM CariMac's Tyranny of the Winds (Inactive)

Game Master CariMac

Great blocks of ice are stacked in the various side rooms of the building, with several larger blocks hanging from the expanded ceiling of the main room. The ice blocks vary from Medium to Huge in size, and are mostly strapped in place with metal chains. The Mephit shrugs and closes the door. "This is the only place to meet."

Bitterbite approaches, and speaks in Auran, "What are you here for? What's this about the Coldfire King? Did you pay the money yet?"

Map updated

Looking more frozen than when he walked in, Lekki has an icicle forming on the tip of his nose. He sniffles, and speaks in Auran "Ohhhh yeah there, tall...Bitterbite, sir?" He turns around to the group and talks in common. "Hey guys, I think that's a ice troll!"

He becomes a little more serious and continues in Auran. "As I was telling your small mefit friend - we are mercenaries looking for someone. A woman, who we believe is not in custody of your boss. Some veeeeeery important people are looking for her, so you better tell us where she is or...or someone much more scaryer than us will come knocking on your door next."

Bluff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

Bitterbite looks down at the tengu and laughs. "Oh we have her. We're just waiting for the Duchess to pay the bounty. I'm thinking you no nothing about that do you? You should go."

Just so I have some idea how suicidal this could be, how many bad guys are in the room?

Osten catches the eye of Leyton & Dahni and wordlessly redirects them to the large chunk of ice above the whole in the ground.

Laafdahni takes a look all around the place, eyes finally coming to rest where Osten indicated. Hmm... This is a pickle. How are we to rescue her now? I dearly wish I could understand what they are saying!

Leyten glances up at the imprisoned Jamila. He whispers to Osten, Laafdahni, and Rumble while Lekki talks. "I can get her out of there. That's the easy part. The hard part is how we get out. I need someone to draw attention for about 15 seconds."

Like Osten, Leyten looks around to see how many potential enemies are in the room.

One Ice Troll and to Ice Mephits

Lekki smiles, "Right, young man, now you listen here. Razmir has very deep pockets, and you can be sure that the great Dutchess sends us with both her highest regards and the 50,000 gp bounty. Of course, we will not be leaving this sum of gold with you, unless we have proof that you do indeed have her in your possession. You, have claimed a bounty before, haven't you, so you know- show me yours, and I'll show you mine.

Is Jamila here?

Osten nods back to the kineticist. Fifteen seconds? Sounds like a lifetime.

The barbarian interrupts the conversation, "Hey, big ...guy. Do you speak human?"

OH NO! This is going to go very, very badly! Laafdahni only sees one ice troll and two mephits present, but who knows how many more could enter if drawn by the sounds of a fight. It would be so much better to talk their way out of it! Oh, if only we could understand what Lekki and these people are saying! Understanding that she can't avoid being a part of whatever ends up happening, she puts on her best smile, steps up between Lekki and Osten, and does her best to help draw the attention of the troll and mephits with her body language, without being obvious about it.

Diplomacy (Aid?): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Unfortunately, the language barrier really throws her off.

”Boy, it sure am cold in here,” Rumble says as he gets his feet and starts doing an elaborate stretching routine. ”Need get blood to flow!”

Acrobatics 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Rumble make good distraction!

She is Leyton saw her in the ice.

You won't pay us the bounty you'll pay the Coldfire King. Be gone or we'll have to make you leave." Bitterbite moves closer to Lekki

The Ice Mephit moves closer to Rumblerock. He realizes that something is off. The second Ice Mephit starts to move toward the front door to see what's going on.

I've updated the map. Link is on the top of the page. We haven't needed a map yet for this scenario. Good job gang.

Hearing the exchange, but not understanding, Osten starts to feel his blood rise.

Free action to begin rage.

As the mephits and troll move in closer, Laafdahni's worry about this situation increases. She steps back beside Osten and casts Mage Armor on herself. This is going very badly.

Seeing that this conversation isn't going anywhere, the casts shield on himself both silently and psychically, Lekki takes a step forward to meet his aggressor. "I wouldn't want to do that if I were you, Mr Bitterbite, sir. Last chance, tell us where she is, or we will walk away from the bounty and from you."

I think you're right, Laafdahni…

As RumbleRock steps to the side to "stretch," Leyten quickly moves to the other side, concentrating as he does so. I haven't tried this before... he thinks before saying out loud, "I'll stretch my muscles, too!" He unleashes a blast of heat at Jamila's icy prison!

Leyten accepts 1 point of burn, and moves to his new spot on the map. This may provoke an attack from the ice mephit. He then fires a kinetic blast (fire) at the block of ice holding Jamila. He's trying to melt it, at least partially, and it's a pretty big target.
Kinetic Blast (fire): 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 8 + 1 = 25
Heat damage: 2d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 + 2 = 8
Leyten takes 1 point of nonlethal damage. Any creature that strikes him with a natural or unarmed attack takes 2 points of fire damage.

Bitterbite is done with the odd behavior and yells for his mephits to get over here and attack.

The ice surrounding Jamila starts to melt, but it's going to take a lot more than that to do it.

Round 1
Bold Can Go
Leyten Krovt: 22
Laafdahni Riverrun: 20
Osten Grimhelm: 16
Mephit 1: 17
Mephit 2: 17
RumbleRock: 13
Lekki Pioro: 11
Bitterbite: 10

Oh, yikes. Here we go... Laafdahni acts quickly, taking a five foot step to the side so she can cast Burning Hands at the mephit near RumbleRock without hitting either him or Leyton. Maybe we can quickly whittle it down to only one foe. Forcing her voice to sound calm, she purrs: "RumbleRock dear, help me with this one."

Burning Hands: 4d4 ⇒ (1, 1, 1, 1) = 4
The mephit by RumbleRock needs a DC16 Reflex save to halve this truly impressive damage.

She pouts slightly at the weakness of her spell. Well, that was disappointing.

4?!?! Wow...just wow.

Osten can no longer contain himself. He lunges forward.

Acro to avoid AoO (if needed): 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (6) - 2 = 4
Ax of I'M OUTTA PATIENCE!: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 261d12 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20

Leyten moves toward the block of ice, his skin radiating intense heat. He says, "Nice place you have here, Bitterbite. Shame if something happened to it."

He unleashes a wave of flames from his outstretched hand. The flames hit the ice block and any furniture around it.

He moves "south" and accepts 1 more point of burn to use fan of flames, which turns his kinetic blast into a 15-foot cone. He focuses it on the block. I'd love to get Bitterbite, too, but he's too far from the block. No attack roll; the block gets a DC 15 Reflex save for half. ;-)
Fan of Flames damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (5, 3) + 6 = 14

Just realized that Bitterbite is flat-footed, so I probably did not need the acrobatics.

Leyton continues to work on melting the block. Laafdahni casts Burning Hands. The Ice Mephit is surprised and cannot shift out of the way. 6 DMg

Osten is tired of all the diplomacy and does what he does hitting the Ice Troll hard. 20 DMG

Mephit one steps back, and lets loose with his own breath weapon.

Rumble and Laafdahni give me a Reflex Save DC 13 for 2 damage otherwise it's 4 and you are sickened.

Mephit two moves up to Leyton and swings with his icy claw, but misses.

Rumble

Leyten Krovt: 22
Laafdahni Riverrun: 20
Osten Grimhelm: 16
Mephit 1: 17 [ooc]6 DMG
Mephit 2: 17
RumbleRock: 13
Lekki Pioro: 11
Bitterbite: 10 20 DMG

Lekki looks at Bitterbite funny, giving him a stinkeye and afflicting the creature with hypnotic stare (-2 Will). He then cast murderous command on the ice troll.

Reflex vs. DC 13: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Phooey.

Reflex 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Rumble avoids the worst of the blast and begins using his advice ability, discussing what he knows about cold creatures.

Treated as Inspire Courage. +1 to attack and damage for everyone!

The Bitterbite moves over to the nearest Ice Mephit and attacks it. His attack misses.

Osten you can get an AOO on him as he moves past.

Round 2
Leyten Krovt: 22
Laafdahni Riverrun: 20 4 DMG Sickened
Osten Grimhelm: 16 2 DMG
Mephit 1: 17 6 DMG
Mephit 2: 17
RumbleRock: 13
Lekki Pioro: 11
Bitterbite: 10 20 DMG

Leyten's scarred face breaks into a smile when the ice mephit approaches. "That's a bad move." Intense heat flows from his body and another wave of fire surges forth from his hands.

Leyten accepts 1 more point of burn (his 3rd) to use fan of flames again: 15-foot cone that hits both the mephit and the ice block. DC 15 Reflex save for half damage.
Fan of Flames fire damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (4, 6) + 8 = 18

The barbarian makes a back-handed attack on the troll as it steps away from him. Knuckles turning white from the tightened grip, Osten follows up with a swipe at the creature's midsection.

Ax of WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 251d12 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23
Ax of NOW, WHERE WERE WE?: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 201d12 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

Osten swings at the troll, and it connects. It's not quite enough to take him down, but he limps over to attack his ally. Leyton melts his adversary, and some of the ice block.

Laafdahni is sick all over the floor.

Osten you have your regular attack as well.

Round 2
Leyten Krovt: 22
Laafdahni Riverrun: 20 4 DMG Sickened
Osten Grimhelm: 16 2 DMG
Mephit 1: 17 - Dead
Mephit 2: 17
RumbleRock: 13
Lekki Pioro: 11
Bitterbite: 10 38 DMG

Percentage wise, about how much of the block has been melted?

I posted both attacks, sorry for the confusion. Attack #1 hit AC 25 with 23 damage. Attack #2 hit AC 20 with 18 damage.

@GM Cari_Mac: To clarify, Laafdahni is only sickened, right? Per the Rules section on aonprd:

Sickened: The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.

So she still gets to take her turn, right?

Yes she does. I get sickened and nauseated confused.

Osten reaches out and swings at the troll dropping him to the ground. Laafdahni makes sure he troll cannot regenerate with her fire. The mephit also falls to her flames.

You are out of combat. There are three creatures bleeding out on the floor their blood freezing in the cold temperatures. Jamila is still trapped in the ice, but it looks half melted from Leyton's attacks.

Reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

"Dani, can you look for magic?" Osten moves over to take a huge swing at the ice. We are NOT here to kill her! We are NOT here to kill her! We are NOT here to kill her!

So I must have missed something, I didn't realise that Jamila was right here with us...I mean, that conversation went sideways regardless, but still...

lekki returns to speaking in common with the group, "She was here the entire time? Ahhhheheh, i must be getting really old." He pokes the ice troll on the ground. *poke*poke*

He will stabilise all of them, giving them another chace at life.

He compliments the team, "That was impressive, guys. Well done, but can someone get her out of there? Leyten?"

"I've been trying! It's BIG!" snaps Leyten. "Someone check the doors - see if anyone is coming."

Leyten takes a deep breath and unleashes yet another wave of flame at the ice block, taking care to avoid searing Jamila's flesh.

Leyten accepts 1 more point of burn and again uses fan of flames on the ice block.
Fan of Flames fire damage: 2d8 + 10 ⇒ (6, 8) + 10 = 24

With a shrug, Laafdahni casts Detect Magic and turns slowly in a circle. I suppose it couldn't hurt, though this group does seem more brute thuggish than magic reliant. I could be wrong, though.

If she detects any magic, she will relate what she notes and continue focusing on it. Let me know if/how many knowledge (arcana) checks to make.

Leyton's fire melts another chunk off the ice block. Laafdahni finds one aura. It's on the troll's Pick.

Osten roll me damage for the ice.

Ax of ICE BANE!: 1d12 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

Next Round
Ax of LET'S MAKE AN IGLOO!: 1d12 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19

Rumble stands by patiently, waiting on that darned ice to finally melt through.

Leyten stands back and catches his breath while Osten chops at the remainder of the ice.

I'll hold my action until I see how successful Osten is.

This pregen doesn't have Knowledge (arcana), so she can only tell how strong that aura on the pick is.

After mentioning the magical aura on the troll's pick, Laafdahni steps off to the side where she can get a good view and keeps an eye out for reinforcements.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

While Leyton abnd Osten work on the ice block. Laafdahni looks for magical auras. She finds four auras on a bar at the edge of the room.

The others look around the area. Anyone not chopping at the ice, give me a perception roll.

Jamila is freed from the ice. She's almost unconscious from the cold.

Lekki uses his healing, and helps her get warm. "You know, we've been on your trail for far to long to have you die on us now. Here you go, lass, up you get".

CLW, spell x2: 2d8 + 2 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 = 6

Leyten continues to radiate warmth from his hands, in an effort to aid Jamila. "Ashasar sent us to find you," he tells her. "To the utter shock of me and everyone else, we're on the same side now. Much has happened while you've been on ice. We'll explain later. For now, we need to leave."

Leyten is likely too occupied to look around at the moment.

Perception 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Laafdahni glances around for any incoming threats, but the lingering effects of the Detect Magic spell catch on several more auras, distracting her from her original intent. She glides toward them, trailing the tips of her fingers along the smooth, cold edge of the well-worn bar. "There are four more magical auras on the bar over here."

Laafdahni should be able to sense the power, strength, and location of each aura (up to 3 rounds per Detect Magic. Pity this pregen doesn't have any rank in Know (arcana).

Laafdahni sees four bottles. There are two of each one.

You can give me a perception check if you want Laafdahni to identify them.

Lekki heals Jamila, but she's still too cold to speak to you. She's shivering and unable to stand on her own.

Osten tosses her over his shoulder. "We can't stick around here. Someone make certain that troll ain't gonna heal up and follow us." With that, he carries Jamila out the door.