GM Zer0darkfire's Penumbral Accords (Inactive)

Game Master asdffghjkl01

"Don't let him get away!" Samaan shifts position to continue his campaign of distraction, then once again tries to aid Rishaal's attack. Not being any sort of trained fighter, however, he's not very effective and narrowly avoids hitting Rishaal instead.

CI longspear to aid Rishaal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

"You cannot escape oblivion. Why keep trying?"

Slam, flank: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 2 = 8
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
DC 13 Will save vs. Miserable Strike on hit.

Slam, flank: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 2 = 8
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
DC 13 Will save vs. Miserable Strike on hit.

Do not let him mock us. Quickly strike him down! Do you expect me to let him carry on? Then do it...

Malvic grits his teeth and gets ready to attempt another strike. The whip lashes out again as it sheds the last of the rime clinging to its barbs.

Black Blade (Whip): 1d20 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 15
BAB+DEX+Enhancement Bonus+Focus
Damage: 1d3 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 2 + 1 = 5
Base+STR+Enhancement Bonus+Black Blade Strike
Frostbite NL Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Target Fatigued till recovering from the NL damage, if any.

"Quickly in case these worlds begin to separate once again."

Hannah conserves her ammo seeing as her bullet is likely to be deflected and isn't cheap to replace.

Xavier manages to land a blow on the extremely nimble fetchling, but it still is not enough to knock the creature out. The rest of the party's attacks are easily dodged or deflected.

The fetchling steps towards Sieglinde, the annoying (to him) paladin of light. "Stop shooting these stupid light arrows on my plane!" he says as he attempts to punch Sieglinde in the face. Even with his flurry of attacks, he continues to keep his speed up.

flurry, stunning fist: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
flurry: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Sieglinde fort save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Everyone!
The Fetchling Boss, -25hp, -3 ki

Sieglinde, -9hp

Because of Siegline's Smite, her AC against the fetchling is currently 19, meaning the stunning fist attempt would miss. I'm sorry - I should update my stat bar with these things.

With her opponent in her face, Sieglinde drops her bow, steps to the side, and pulls out her scimitar. "We shall have vengeance!" she cries as she raises it above her head with both hands.

Scimitar, Smite evil, Flanking: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 2 + 2 = 16
Slashing damage, Smite evil: 1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 1 = 7

I'm guessing that his movement was a five-foot step and I don't get an attack of opportunity.
Xavier turns to face the fetchling. "Scared of a little light, are we?"
Rapier: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 2 = 16 1d6 + 1d4 ⇒ (6) + (4) = 10

Samaan swings around to the far side of the fetchling, poking to distract and providing a flank for Rishaal.

CI Longspear to aid Rishaal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

"The light brings oblivion to shadow, as we shall bring to you."

Slam, flank, Samaan's aid: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 3 + 2 + 2 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
DC 13 Will save vs. Miserable Strike on hit.

Slam, flank: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 2 = 7
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
DC 13 Will save vs. Miserable Strike on hit.

"They have been performing these sick expiraments uncontested. They weren't prepared for this." Malvic adds while lashing out with the whip in an attempt to wrap it around the fetchlings leg.

Stop his prattling and end this. He won't be talking much on the ground. The others can silence him fully. Yes...

Trip Attack: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 22
CMB+Enhancement Bonus+Focus

Sakimoth, rake his flesh. Hava screams as he loads and fires his crossbow again.

Crossbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Confirm?: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 Extra Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Sakimoth glances at Hava, rolls its eyes and moves toward the Fetchling, claws raised.

Claw: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Man this fight is really drawn out with his improved AC. The next ki point will be his last though, so you should be able to take him down after this round.

Hannah fires a round from her gun, hopefully to burn the Fetchlings arrow deflection.

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11 Welp.

The fetchling jumps over the whip aimed at his feat, knocks the crossbow bolt out of the air, and then dodges the groups melee attacks.

Flurry at Sieglinde: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Flurry at Sieglinde: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

He finally manages to land a blow in this intense battle of dodging and blocking. He exhausts his last point of inner ki to continue dodging the pathfinders.

Everyone is up!
Sieglinde, -8hp
The Fetchling, -25hp -4ki

Hannah clears the jam cartridge from her musket, move action, and reloads a fresh cartridge, second move action.

Done..Yeah, she misfires on a 1-3

Annoyed at Sakimoth's missing and he own failure to connect Hava tosses the crossbow down in a fit of temper and throws a ball of acid at the fetchling

RTA, Acid Splash: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4 Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3

Claw 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Claw 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Confirm?: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Sakimoth manages to finally take the Fetchling down!

Upon the fetchling's defeat, you may further investigate the Wightir Conjunction.

The 10-foot tall black stone pyramid exudes an eerie black essence from its apex, which seeps into the air and slowly dims the illumination of the room. Surrounding the relic’s apex are a dozen bloodstones set into the rock face.

Hava examines the stones with his Detect Magic.

There is conjuration and illusion coming from these. Conjuration usually transports or summons something and illusion spells typically deceive the senses or the mind.

Is the threat abated enough for me to take a 10 on the check? If not it is below.

Knowledge (Arcane): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

"Oblivion races toward us all. His has arrived."

Neither Samaan nor Rishaal have any knowledge of the arcane.

"Damn, that was a difficult little bugger" Hannah says while she slings her musket.

In response Hava, "Well, but what exactly do they do> And, if they are the cause of this, how do we go about destroying them"

Sieglinde pants as she pulls out her wand and heals herself. "Did that thing have a key on him?" she asks as she stows the wand. "We need to free the prisoners."

Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

If such a key is not easily found, Sieglinde will march off to the chained prisoners, scimitar in hand. One way or another, they will be free - even if it means having to break every chain by hand!

Malvic takes 10 on his knowledge and tells you all that removing or destroying the bloodstones should end the effect and sufficiently sabotage the device to prevent future use. However, he reminds you about the slaves with the shadow brands; disabling this device before moving them out of the museum might be a bad idea.

Removing the stones requires a DC 15 Disable Device check for each stone or you could try smashing them.

The fetchling has a set of keys on him.

The two Blakros girls are in this room, but fell unconscious when the fetchling was defeated, but are definitely unharmed.

"I am no good at disabling things yet. I am still learning."

Reminder, next level take a rank in disable...

Sieglinde takes the fetchling's keys and goes back to the prisoners to unlock their restraints. Once free, she'll take them, the Blakros sisters, and the fellow from the experimental chamber with her as she tries to get them outside the building.

Xavier walks over to the front door of the museum and peeks it open a crack. Then, after Sieglinde has freed the captives, he turns to them, opens the door, and asks, ”What do you see? I want to make sure you won’t go the shadow plane if you try and leave.”
Hopefully opening the door doesn’t end the effect.

You realize that the ritual dagger held by the fetchling could be used to break the magical seal on the main door. Once you use it, the door swings back open and you can see the material plane version of Absalom awaiting you.

You lead the slaves out, freeing them from their imprisonment and life on the shadow plane. They thank you and agree to spread stories of their rescue among the pathfinder society.

All that remains is to deactivate the Wightir Conjunction.

Sieglinde strides back to the pyramid. "I am no good at delicate work," she says, "but I would gladly destroy this tool of evil."

If nobody stops her or has a better idea, she'll try to break one of the bloodstones with her scimitar.

Scimitar: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Slashing damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Sakimoth, Aren't those stones pretty? Please break them.

Sakimoth will claw at the stones, one at a time.

Claw 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Claw 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20 Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Xavier sees Sieglinde and Sakimoth attacking the stones and, without any better ideas, shrugs and starts attacking them.
Rapier: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19 1d4 ⇒ 3

"I don't believe my weapon is going to be of any use disabling these devices." Malvic sighs as the others do the destroying.

GM, is there any sort of check we can make to figure out how to disable the thing?

We made the Knowledge DC that told us how to disable with Disable Device checks otherwise we have to beat them down, typically people with bigger damage die can do the job...eventually. My whip just isn't likely to pierce any hardness it has.

Alright, well, it looks like no one can do it the easy way with a disable device check, so I'm just going to say that you smash them eventually.

It takes quite a few minutes of hacking to eventually destroy all twelve of the bloodstones (AC 12, Hardness 5, 20hp), but the pathfinders eventually manage to succeed.

Destroying the Wightir Conjunction instantly ends the transposition of the Material and Shadow Planes, and reality snaps back to normal. Any remaining fetchlings still in Wightir House return to the Shadow Plane. This includes even the dead bodies of the fetchlings, the Wightir Conjunction, and the room description elements from Shadow Absalom. For all intents and purposes, you are now only in the Blakros Museum.

When the planar overlay ends, Eleanir and Michellia Blakros awaken from their trance, dazed and disoriented. They thank you for rescuing them and assure you that their family will hear of your bravery.

"What about the people outside?" Sieglinde says worriedly as she rushes to check.

The branded slaves lose their brands and remain on the material plane.

"Well, that was surprisingly simple."

Xavier nods. "Yeah, I was expecting more resistance. It seems we caught the fetchlings by surprise." Xavier sheaths his rapier and steps out of the museum. "Well, if there isn't anything else we need to do, I'm going to go get a drink. Anyone else want to come?"