[Retrocon] Legacy of the Stonelords (Inactive)

Game Master hiyami

Escape Artist: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Arthur slips out of the tangled net.

"An amateurish snare, at best."

Escape Artist (DC 20): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

"Oh bother," Soddy sighs as she suddenly finds herself tangled in a net. "I might need a little help wriggling free!"

Nirion takes his scimitar and tries to cut Soddy's net.
Maybe I can help you Soddy!

+1 cold iron scimitar: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

With Nirion's help, Soddy Daisy finds her way free of the net as Arthur nimble finds an opening to duck out of. Valistar, however, is trapped in the net and unhappy to see that the other of the two fiendish dogs is very excited to eat him.

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Round 1
The bolded may act.

Clockwork Servant
Nirion
Blue Doggo
Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington
Orange Doggo
Styrian Meathier 7 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action)
Kvina Oathsworn DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action)
Valistar 8 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action)

Not sure how Valistar ended up in the front row...

Escape Artist: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22 The elf frees himself, but curses profusely at the situation!

Her longsword and longbow both still in hand, Kvina panics for a second as the net falls over her. She gets herself wrangled up in the material for a second before she stops and takes a breath. Think Kvina. Think. Struggling is getting you nowhere, the net is too strong to break and I doubt I could snake my way out easily... Pa always did say cutting things was one of the better ways to get out of something! She takes a second to look at the net and find what looks like a good place to cut herself free before bringing the longword up to saw at it.
Mwk Longsword, Entangled: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 4 - 2 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Styrian enlarges himself before the party begins its advance.

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"Not more nets...." (I don't suppose these nets are too small for a large creature?) Supersized Styrian attacks the orange dog across the way with his extra-extra long hammer.

Lucerne Hammer +1, entangled: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 6 - 2 = 10
B/P Damage (magic): 3d6 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (4, 5, 5) + 7 + 1 = 22

He misses, and then steps back. (threatening orange dog and the construct now with his large reach weapon)

I think nets themselves are all pretty big already. @_@ I do believe you get your AoO on the clockwork servant, though! c: And... Sorry, Valistar. That's probably a result of the way I shifted the slides.

Kvina and Valistar free themselves from their nets as Styrian's body ripples and grows into a decidedly larger version of himself. Reassessing the threat level of its opponents, the clockwork servant moves to slam Styrian with one of its mishappen, metal limbs. Amazingly, it misses. The dog assailing Valistar, however, has another, more successful go at the poor elf's fleshy bits.

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Round 2
The bolded may act.

Clockwork Servant
Nirion
Blue Doggo
Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington
Orange Doggo
Styrian Meathier 7 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action)
Kvina Oathsworn
Valistar 16 pts of damage, unconscious, dying

"A man knows what he knows."

Disable Device: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

Cool, here's the AoO

Styrian takes a stab at the construct as it approaches him.

Lucerne Hammer +1, entangled, enlarged: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 6 - 2 = 18
B/P Damage (magic), enlarged: 3d6 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (2, 3, 3) + 7 + 1 = 16

Nirion starts to channel positive energy.

channel positive energy: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Selective Channeling - Nirion selects Red and Orange

"Oh! No, bad fleshy thing! He's not for eating!" Soddy cries as she attempts to skewer the Orange Doggo.

Attack vs. Orange (Longspear): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Soddy Daisy tries to defend her friend, but the tip of her spear passes just over the hound's head. The fiendish dog beside Styrian only turns and tries to take a tasty looking bite out of the enlarged half-elf even as Nirion attempts to minimize damage and resuscitate Valistar with his healing channel.

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Round 2
The bolded may act.

Styrian Meathier 12 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action) , enlarged
Kvina Oathsworn
Valistar 12 pts of damage, unconscious

Round 2
The bolded may act.

Nirion
Clockwork Servant
Blue Doggo
Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington
Orange Doggo

Nirion again channel positive energy.

channel positive energy: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Just reposting Styrian's AoO on my turn, not sure if you already took it. 18 to hit for 16 damage on the construct.

Styrian swings at the orange doggo again, then steps back hoping to open his assailants to flanking from allies, he releases his spiked gauntlet hand from his weapon to keep the nearby foes at bay.

Lucerne Hammer +1, entangled: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 2 = 22
B/P Damage (magic), enlarged: 3d6 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (5, 3, 5) + 7 + 1 = 21

Threatening with the large gauntlet, not the large lucerne hammer, mostly to help flanking.

Can I ask if Disable Device is doing anything? I'm not great in combat, but I'll come in and provide a flank if this doesn't seem to be doing anything.

@Styrian: Thank you for the reminder! I'm learning I shouldn't post so late at night, orz.

Nirion blasts out some more positive energy, bring Valistar back to consciousness, albeit still on the more damaged side. Taking advantage of his greater size, Styrian slams the hammer down on the hound endangering Valistar and it drops with an awkward splatting sound accompanied by a whine.

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Round 2/3
The bolded may act.

Styrian Meathier 7 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action) , enlarged
Kvina Oathsworn
Valistar 7 pts of damage, prone
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Nirion
Clockwork Servant 16 pts of damage
Blue Doggo
Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington

Kvina drops her longsword to the ground with a clatter and instead retrives a cold iron arrow from her quiver, trying to ignore the prescence of the orange doggo and the blood pooling around it's body. "Styrian, don't move that leg unless you want an arrow to accompany those teeth marks!" She then takes a second to aim at the dog and fires away, first judging the distance and how hard the dog would be to hit before she starts putting on the power.

Free to drop sword and re grasp bow, Standard to fire a regular shot, next round will probably be a deadly aim unless these things are hard to shoot.

Longbow, PBS: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 6 + 1 = 27
Damage, PBS: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Longbow, PBS CRIT?: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 1 = 13
Damage, PBS CRIT?: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Now I wish she'd used the feat dangit!

Angered, Valistar stands up and unleashes a particularly powerful magic missile on the clockwork servant. Point from reservoir to cast at CL 4.

MM: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 = 10

Kvina sends an arrow into the fiendish dog's torso, causing it to growl low in its throat as it stared at her. Cunning eyes turn between Kvina and Styrian, the decidedly larger and closer threat before it snaps its jaws at the enlarged half-elf once more just as Valistar's magic missiles pass behind it to slam into the clockwork servant, which whirs, wheels grinding. Movements jerky, it remains in place, presumably repairing itself.

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Round 3/4
The bolded may act.

Clockwork Servant 24 pts of damage
Blue Doggo 7 pts of damage
Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington
Styrian Meathier 12 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action) , enlarged
Kvina Oathsworn
Valistar 7 pts of damage
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Nirion

CODE WHITE!
GMs, please check your scenario for the impact this has on the current fight.

Arthur will move to flank with Styrian and attack the clockwork creature.

rapier (flanking): 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 6 + 2 = 28 for piercing: 1d4 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1
crit?: 1d4 - 2 ⇒ (3) - 2 = 1
Ha. So, no damage on that crit, but hopefully the flank helps.

Styrian steps back to range with his lucerne hammer, and takes a heavy swing at the construct.
Lucerne Hammer +1, flanking, entangled: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 2 - 2 = 15
B/P Damage (magic), enlarged: 3d6 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (3, 2, 3) + 7 + 1 = 16

Arthur's flank could well make the difference there haha

In a quick fluid motion, Kvina pulls out another cold iron arrow and nocks it, pulling back on her bow and taking aim at the dog one more time. "Thanks for staying back Styrian! I reeeaaaallllly don't want to hit you with an arrow on accident!" She then lets fly an arrow with full force.

Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 6 + 1 - 1 = 26
Damage, PBS, DA: 1d8 + 1 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 + 2 = 10
Longbow, PBS, Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 1 - 1 = 9
That's two crit threats in a roll... What did I do to please the RNG gods today?

Nirion channel positive energy one more time.

channel positive energy: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Nice work! You've got a round to recover/prepare before we move on! In the interests of haste, I'm going to keep your initiatives and group the enemies' as well.

Distractedly caught between Arthur and Styrian, the clockwork servant fails to put up a proper defense and falls to pieces, dismantled! As it drops to the ground, Kvina finishes the hound!

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Round 3/4
The bolded may act.

Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington
Styrian Meathier 9 pts of damage DC 20 Escape Artist check (full-round action) or DC 25 Strength check (full-round action) , enlarged
Kvina Oathsworn
Valistar 4 pts of damage
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Nirion

"Well done, could someone give me a hand with these nets once again?"

Styrian hands a wand to someone to heal him as well.

CLW wand to 45: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW wand to 44: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

He's such a needy giant right now

Not sure if we have the time for two uses of the wand but if we do:
Kvina steps up and takes the wand from Styrian using it on the large crybaby man."Here you go, a few taps of this and... those wounds are looking a lot better." ...and I can finally look directly at your legs without getting sick and feeling like I'm about to faint.

Valistar moves to the center, keeping an eye out for where the next round of foes will emerge. Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Gonna give everyone just a litttttle bit more time, but I'll be advancing us either tomorrow before work or as soon as I get home at the latest.

Valistar spies another clockwork servant and two more fiendish hounds coming straight towards them from the throne as Kvina helps Styrian free himself.

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Round 3/4
The bolded may act.

Soddy Daisy
Arthur Worthington 9 pts of damage enlarged
Styrian Meathier
Kvina Oathsworn
Valistar 4 pts of damage
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Nirion

Who is bolded?

Nirion will take his wand and he will star to heal Arthur and Valistar.

CLW - Arthur: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

CLW - Valistar: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
CLW - Valistar: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

If he has time to do that.

"Is that all?" Soddy asks, hefting her spear and looking around curiously. "It seems like there should be more trouble for us than this!"
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Uh...I guess Soddy will just delay for the time being since she doesn't see any other immediate threats :)

The strange device around the demon overlord’s neck pulses with angry green light, its vein-like circuitry illuminating the entire chamber. With a thunderous crack and a blinding flash, a wave of crackling energy bursts from the relic, freezing anything it touches in mid-stride. In the span of several heartbeats, the entire room is locked in stasis. As the combatants stand helpless, the room’s features slowly rebuild themselves as though decaying in reverse. Ghostly figures— dwarves, demons, duergar, and more—flit about the room at incredible speeds, sometimes slowing to speak to one another as if playing out brief scenes from an eclectic play. All the while, frozen Pathfinders and demons who were fighting only moments ago begin to wink out of existence. As the chamber reaches its pristine state, duergar apparitions appear fighting dwarven images, and a slain king rises from death to stand before a stone throne. The room brightens as illuminated torches fill once empty sconces, and the immobile Pathfinders begin to move once more.

The king glowers and shouts from his throne as his honor guard level halberds toward you. ”What is this? What devilish trick sullies the throne room of King Gutheran of Jormurdun? Where are the rest of my soldiers? Where are the duergar who invade my citadel?”

Briefly taken aback, Master of Scrolls Kreighton Shaine quickly recovers and asks, ”You are Gutheran the Bold?” The dwarf receives the question and sputters at the elf’s audaciousness. Shaine quickly bows and continues. “Your majesty, forgive our intrusion. Some sorcery has transposed our forms into an alternate configuration in temporal space, which is to say we are seeing your time, or you are seeing ours. I am Kreighton Shaine of the Pathfin—”

Angrily perplexed, the dwarven monarch cuts off the Master of Scrolls’s explanation. ”Speak sense, elf! By Torag’s knucklebones, can no one here tell me what in the seventh hell has happened?”

GMs, please move immediately on to Act 5. You do not need to wait for overseer announcements to move between parts of Act 5.

RIP, I thought we might be getting close. Our time for the last bits has been somewhat reduced because it took us a little longer than anticipated to get through the former stages, so I'll be trying extra hard to post twice a day and aggressively botting at appropriate points.

The stout, middle-aged dwarf wears a simple crown of iron on his balding pate and stands before a throne made of the same blackened metal. An honor guard of six armor-clad warriors wielding blood-spattered halberds crowd him protectively. He looks at you and barks, “Has the Dweller Below chewed off your tongue? Begin making sense!”

Kreighton Shaine opens his mouth again, but pauses and sighs, closing it. He, too, turns to you, but this time with a shrug. It seems it's up to the group to appropriately explain the situation.

"Tongue? I don't think I had one to start with. Oh, but then how do I make the mouth sounds? I'd never thought about that before," Soddy remarks cheerfully. "Maybe it's magic! But anyway, um, King Gutheran Fleshy, we're here with the Pathfinder Society to learn more about your home..."

Here, the leshy trails off and looks around, curiously. "Oh but everything was all crumbled and destroyed when we came in. Master Shane was talking about uh...wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff, so I think we're actually from the future? But don't worry, we're here to help!"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

"....Aw, that didn't make much sense, did it? Um, maybe Kvina or Nirion can make it make better sense..."

Kvina watches the scenery change around her with amazement in her eyes. Finally a story of my own I can tell Mother and Father!

When it becomes clear that they are dealing with a king, Kvina gives a very deep bow and lets the others do the talking for a little, but as it seems they can't simplify things down enough for the king to make sense, she raises her head. "Apologies my lord if we are being to forward or too unclear. I believe my collogues are saying that something has messed with time here. We should not be meeting like this. You were fighting duergar and we had been fighting demons, and likely one of the two sent one of our groups backwards or forwards in time.... I hope that makes more sense."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

Arthur stays out of sight, unsure that ancient dwarfs have as cosmopolitan an attitude as Pathfinders when it comes to kobolds.

Take 10 for a 23 Stealth.

"We have nothing against you!"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Nice job, Nirion!

“Very well. It seems circumstances have brought me the enemy of my enemy. You have come at a difficult time. The duergar have breached our defenses, and despite our bravest efforts, they are winning Jormurdun. I have sent my heirs from this dying place to forge a new future for our people, that they might one day return and claim these halls as their own. Some have stayed behind out of duty or out of love for their homes. I do not know if the duergar or some worse threat still plagues the citadel. Slay my enemies, but spare my people; they are the only legacy left to Jormurdun. If a dwarf should trouble you, inform them that you travel with King Gutheran’s blessing.”

Kreighton Shaine looks up from his writing and says, “Thank you, your majesty. Pathfinders, I’ve studied our surroundings and can conclude that whatever has shifted our place in time is unstable and cannot last. We have perhaps an hour—maybe two—before it collapses, and when that happens, I think it wise that we not be inside. Make your way back to the Grand Cathedral in a timely fashion. But…” he trails off while gazing at the beautiful throne room. “We can’t ignore this splendid opportunity to explore Jormurdun as it was thousands of years ago! Retrace the steps you took to get here, see what has changed, and document what you see. I’ve been able to record brief instructions based on what I have already learned of your earlier discoveries. Be wise, be brave, and make haste!”

Kreighton passes over several pieces of paper on which his instructions are noted.

Okay, so the time shift has messed with your expended class abilities a bit, so each of you can choose two of the following benefits, and the same benefit can be selected twice to double its effects!
A. Recover one or more spells whose total levels are equal to your character level.
B. Regain one daily use of a class feature. If you would normally be able to use the feature five or more times in one day, instead regain two uses.
C. Heal 1d2 points of damage to all ability scores.
D. Heal 1d8 hit points. Add your character level to the number of hit points recovered.

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As Soddy peers at the notes that Shane has passed to them, she nods with resolution.

"So we should retrace our steps! Then we should go back to look at the earth monuments again, since it's closest," she suggests.
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Soddy will recover two uses of her Seedpod ability~

You get to pick two, Soddy! Since you can already use Seedpods 6/day, you regain two for only one of those benefits, so you get to pick an additional benefit! Or did you mean that you wanted to use both on the seedpods and regain four uses?

Whoops, forgot that it was two! I'll still recover two uses of Seedpods with one pick and then use the second pick to recover my Heightened Awareness extract :)

Noted! c: I'll try and get us moving again in a few hours to give everyone else a chance to reply.

Styrian gets a 1st level spell back, already healed up so that's all.

"Agreed, let us try to collect these gems. If nothing else it is an interesting paradox."

I will take for my channeling B. Regain one daily use of a class feature. If you would normally be able to use the feature five or more times in one day, instead regain two uses.

I'll recover my spent traps.

The ravages of time erased, this grand hall sweeps open before you. A gigantic archway is formed by the arms of enormous twin statues, each proudly holding a hammer aloft. Other smaller statues stand at attention, firm and resolute, painted in lifelike detail. A pool of cool water fills the center of the chamber, lit by mirror-reflected sunlight cast through skylights cleverly carved into the ceiling.

Feel free to start anywhere in that red box.

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Regain 2 points to the pool.

Valistar grits his teeth, and prepares for whatever chronochaos will ensure.

Kvina didn't use anything she could recover. (Dangnabit Lay-on-Hands would have been good to use here or there, I forget she has that.) One question though, did Kvina ever have enough time to go and pick up all those arrows she used? They are all durable, so unless the dogs or constructs had some kind of damaging auras they should be safe.

Kvina, stares at the finished grand hall in complete amazement, and pulls out a notebook to take a few notes and try getting a sketch of the place. Her family were not going to beieve her about this place.

"Just give me a second to get that expression right... Okay let's get moving!"

"Oh! Look, it's water!"

Soddy happily trundles forward, moving towards the reflective pools. "It looks so clear! I wonder how they keep it looking so fresh?"

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27