
Signor Pusinboots |

Seeming to emerge suddenly from the shadows, Pus-in-Boots thrusts at the ninja with Cat's Paw... 1d20 + 30 ⇒ (1) + 30 = 31 misses! Oops!... 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (16) + 25 = 41 deals 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16 piercing damage plus 1 bleed! 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (6) + 20 = 26 deals 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17 piercing damage plus 1 bleed! 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23 deals 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17 piercing damage plus 1 bleed!
Goodnight, sweetheart! Haha!

Iga Clan Shinobi Assassin |

Seeming to emerge suddenly from the shadows, Pus-in-Boots thrusts at the ninja with Cat's Paw... 1d20+30 misses! Oops!... 1d20+25 deals 1d6+11 piercing damage plus 1 bleed! 1d20+20 deals 1d6+11 piercing damage plus 1 bleed! 1d20+15 deals 1d6+11 piercing damage plus 1 bleed!
Goodnight, sweetheart! Haha!
The three rapid thrusts of the legendary Cat swordsman lay the ninja low!
UUUHHHGGHH!!

Jorogumo of the Palace Gardens |

High at the top of the Ghost Tower:
It's the sad part of mating, my honey... The part where I must kill you, so that our children may have life, dear kitsune... Yes... I'm so sorry, my sweetheart, but... I must now kill you, see... and implant our fertilized eggsac... into your beautiful body, my darling! Isn't it so beautiful and meet!? Hahaha! Yesss!!
The jorogumo leers lasciviously... no, ravenously (she drools, and licks her lips)... Then she transforms horribly, sprouting eight long, hairy, black, spindly spider legs from her back!
Thank you for siring my spawn, handsome kitsune! I eagerly anticipate what our offspring shall be! Part kitsune, part jorogumo... wonderful!!

The Ogon Fox |

The Fox's eyes widen in fear as he sees the eight terrible arachnid legs unfold.
Thank you for siring my spawn, handsome kitsune!
In spite of his fear (and perhaps even because of its effectiveness in reducing the haze which has clouded his mind), the Fox manages a joke, "It was my pleasure, though I must admit I'm not fond of the ending."
I want to attempt to make a break for the door. If that only means moving through threatened squares, I will just provoke whatever attacks of opportunity I have to and hope my +4 AC from the Mobility feat helps me dodge them. If I would have to move through the jorogumo's own space to do it, I would have to succeed on an Acrobatics check against a DC of her CMD+5, and if I fail I lose the move action and am stuck right next to her. I don't think I want to chance that--I would go for the window instead and make the easier Acrobatics check to reduce the effect of the fall by 10 feet, and take whatever damage I have to from that. Note that I do not have Slow Fall, because I have not spent a ki power to get that (I got Ki Metabolism instead).

Ihrin Ardlean Dracul |

"Johann find Fox! Abe goes with him, Lord P you too' She says more comfortable against these foes than the others.
'mwikali, you go to, Habiba try and see if you can lay these ninja low with some spells, Agoral keep drumming' Ihrin says ushering some commands as she sees' Mwikali scoff but turns to the oni.

Storm Dragon |

Looks at his grey skin.
"Horried, but well some healing and should be all better"
Hint hint
Use your HP stat in classes/levels to indicate how hurt you are, since I'm not keeping track of the exact damage everyone else has taken. If it's just the 1-2 HP from the oni, you can suck it up. =p

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Johann barrels down the hallway using his nose to quickly find the Fox. If he does, he takes down the entire door.

Algoral |

Algoral shakes his head, clearing the momentary fog he has been in.
fort DC12: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 The poison from the mask affects him, it appears that the fey must be particularly susceptible to the spirit masks' poisons.
Algoral begins an elaborate hymnal chant soothing all around him. Hymn of Restorative Harmonics That should give us all the affects of a delay poison among other things for the next while, until we can get the damage repaired.

Storm Dragon |

The answer is, unfortunately, zero rounds; Fascinate isn't a combat-capable Condition.
Fascinate effects are meant to be used to stave off combat entirely, and have no effect in an already combat situation.
Essentially all Euphoric Cloud does in this scenario is give the ninja Concealment.

Habiba Al-Sahim |

Habiba tries to recall a spell to deal with multiple weak enemies; it seems they may have to fight many such battles today, and her skills are ill-suited to it.
Amnesia Slot?: 1d100 + 10 ⇒ (35) + 10 = 45
The answer comes to her in a flash, back to a life as the spiritual leader of a small tribe in the deepest jungles of Africa; calling downa curse upon those who would harm her village, a rain of poisonous frogs descending from the heavens to slay the aggressors.
An unnatural cloud begins forming over the ninja...

Mwikali |

Mwikali turns and follows Johann, her strides determined as much as there are strides of prideful arrogance. The Bear moves fast, and so she takes to the air using her flight hex to hold her self aloft and follow after.

Michael Johnson 66 |

Johann barrels down the hallway using his nose to quickly find the Fox. If he does, he takes down the entire door.
The Bear's keen nose picks up the Fox's scent! It leads him to a central stairwell (D on the map), and up the flight of wooden stairs to the upper levels of the palace...
Mwikali and Kiku follow, flying up the stairs after the Bear...
Behind them, the others are still dealing with the ninja...

Michael Johnson 66 |

The Fox's eyes widen in fear as he sees the eight terrible arachnid legs unfold.
Jorogumo of the Palace Gardens wrote:Thank you for siring my spawn, handsome kitsune!In spite of his fear (and perhaps even because of its effectiveness in reducing the haze which has clouded his mind), the Fox manages a joke, "It was my pleasure, though I must admit I'm not fond of the ending."
I want to attempt to make a break for the door. If that only means moving through threatened squares, I will just provoke whatever attacks of opportunity I have to and hope my +4 AC from the Mobility feat helps me dodge them. If I would have to move through the jorogumo's own space to do it, I would have to succeed on an Acrobatics check against a DC of her CMD+5, and if I fail I lose the move action and am stuck right next to her. I don't think I want to chance that--I would go for the window instead and make the easier Acrobatics check to reduce the effect of the fall by 10 feet, and take whatever damage I have to from that. Note that I do not have Slow Fall, because I have not spent a ki power to get that (I got Ki Metabolism instead).
The fall from the window would be 40 feet to a lower roof (over level 3), then he could try climbing down to the ground or jump the 60 feet from the roof of level 3...
Alternatively, he can try tumbling past jorogumo and through the door to area W... but he seems to recall there being quite a few guards and a couple traps between here and the way out below...

Michael Johnson 66 |

Algoral shakes his head, clearing the momentary fog he has been in.
[dice=fort DC12]1d20+4 The poison from the mask affects him, it appears that the fey must be particularly susceptible to the spirit masks' poisons.
Algoral begins an elaborate hymnal chant soothing all around him. Hymn of Restorative Harmonics That should give us all the affects of a delay poison among other things for the next while, until we can get the damage repaired.
Algoral's chant seems to ease the sting of the poison for now...

Signor Pusinboots |

As if to demonstrate, PusInBoots drives the point home with his magic rapier Cat's Paw... 1d20 + 30 ⇒ (14) + 30 = 44 deals 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15 piercing damage plus 1 bleed... 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (8) + 25 = 33 deals 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14 piercing damage plus 1 bleed... 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (19) + 20 = 39 confirm 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (14) + 20 = 34 crits dealing 2d6 + 22 ⇒ (3, 2) + 22 = 27 piercing damage plus 1 bleed... 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19 deals 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14 piercing damage plus 1 bleed...

Iga Clan Shinobi Assassin |

As if to demonstrate, PusInBoots drives the point home with his magic rapier Cat's Paw... 1d20+30 deals 1d6+11 piercing damage plus 1 bleed... 1d20+25 deals 1d6+11 piercing damage plus 1 bleed... 1d20+20 confirm 1d20+20 crits dealing 2d6+22 piercing damage plus 1 bleed... 1d20+15 deals 1d6+11 piercing damage plus 1 bleed...
The Cat stabs one of the ninja thrice in rapid succession... the punctured ninja screams out his last breath and collapses!
The Cat's fourth thrust wounds another ninja...
AAAAAARRRGGHH!!!
UGHN!!

Ihrin Ardlean Dracul |

Ihrin strikes again
dagger 1: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
dagger 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

The Ogon Fox |

Okay, I'm going out the window.
The Fox glances at the door behind the jorogumo, but decides against trying to move last her. Instead, he dashes to the window and opens it.
I'm pretty sure I have to use one move action to get to the window and another move action to open it--and therefore don't have any actions left to jump out. Her turn.

Jorogumo of the Palace Gardens |

Okay, I'm going out the window.
The Fox glances at the door behind the jorogumo, but decides against trying to move last her. Instead, he dashes to the window and opens it.
I'm pretty sure I have to use one move action to get to the window and another move action to open it--and therefore don't have any actions left to jump out. Her turn.
In Japanese: NOOO!! I mean... Jorogumo gestures elaborately at the Fox... Why don't you stay here and relax, my sweet kitsune? Suggestion, Will DC 19 to resist...
She scuttles horribly on her eight long spider legs, drawing close to Fox by the window...

Baykok of Honshu Island |

Johann continues to barrel down the hallway, double moving.
As Dire Bear Johann charges up the stairs (D), familiar bone arrows begin to rain down on him from behind!
The wounded baykok encountered earlier, and a second baykok at full health, hover above and somewhat behind the top of the stairs at I, waiting in ambush to launch a surprise shot with their bows...
Surprise round bone arrow 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (4) + 19 = 23 bounces harmlessly off the Bear's tough, furry hide!
Surprise round bone arrow 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (10) + 19 = 29 pierces Bear's hide for 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 plus 1d6 ⇒ 4 negative energy damage plus paralysis (Fort DC 19 or paralyzed for 1d3 ⇒ 2 rounds!

Iga Clan Shinobi Assassin |

As the witch's euphoric cloud spreads through their ranks, the Iga Clan ninja mercenaries reevaluate their loyalty (bought with a rather modest sum of paper ch'ao and silver tael, in hindsight) to the now-deceased Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun... A monster in disguise, as they well knew...
In Japanese: Okay! You win, mighty and honorable gai--er, visitors! We weren't that invested in service to this monster Yoshinori, anway... *SNIIIFFFF!*... HEEHEEHEEE!! What is this delightful smoke, Witch San!? We would love to bottle some of it, if you don't mind?
Another, in Japanese: *HUFF!* *COUGH!! COUGH!!* Yeah, like... we don't really, like, care that you guys, like... *puff-puff!*... what was I talking about? Heehee...
Another, sword drooping: Um... Let's go to the noodle stand and get some noodles... I'm starving!
Another, sword hanging loosely in hand: Naw, boy! Some sushi! I could go all Gojira on some sushi right now!

The Ogon Fox |

In Japanese: NOOO!! I mean... Jorogumo gestures elaborately at the Fox... Why don't you stay here and relax, my sweet kitsune? Suggestion, Will DC 19 to resist...
She scuttles horribly on her eight long spider legs, drawing close to Fox by the window...
Will save: 1d20 + 6 - 2 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 6 - 2 - 2 - 1 = 2
As the Fox grabs the window frame to pull himself out in a great leap, the words of the jorogumo behind him fall soothingly upon his ears."Yes, it would be nice to just relax..." he says dreamily, stepping backwards away from the window.
No further actions.

Ihrin Ardlean Dracul |

Ihtin heads over to the giesha. And frees her, taking her tjne.
In Japanese "I will free you and stay close,Others in the castle may try to harm you.We will protect you"