[PFS] Retrocon 2019 Special, 5-00: The Siege of the Diamond City - Classic Tier 5-6 (Inactive)

Game Master Sedoriku

Kahru looks at his allies and nods, then follows Kaya through the house toward the back of the bank, Nokka padding softly behind.

Oiur whistles a low note and taps their chest once as they leave the storehouse for the bank of Abadar. (Casting heightened awareness.)
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"Spires, but they're big. That's about it for my assessment. Hopefully they can't fit inside and we won't find any waiting for us." Oiur grimaces towards the hulking demons, then ducks into the house behind Kahru and Nokka.

They cock a crimson eyebrow when the paper creature assumes its perch on Kaya's shoulder. Intriguing. Clever work! They nod at Takumi, appreciating his craftsmanship.

Knowledge (planes): 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 12 + 2 = 17

Eugressia follows along, trying to follow the rogue's path.

Zyneste follows along, keeping her eyes peeled and bow raised in case of trouble.

Perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21

Kaya slips out towards the rear of the building and notes the building is solid walls all around. What she does notice, is a few loose cracked stones in the side passageway that look like they are made of the same material the bank is built of, yet can't work out where they came from.

Zyneste noticed the same thing too.

OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT

Pathfinders have struck a blow against the invaders in the Battle District
Condition green

Sensing the excitement from Kizuo, Takumi moves over to join them at the side passage. When Kaya points out the cracked stones, he moves closer to examine with his sharp elven eyes, jiggling it to see if it would come loose.

perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34

The wall looks fine, but clearly the stones come from the wall. Takumi realises the wall is illusory, that there is a broken wall being covered with a glammer to appear as though it were intact.

"Ah! Most clever," Takumi exclaims under his breath. Placing Kizuo on the floor, he instructs, "Go take a quick look inside and report what you see. Don't let yourself be seen."

The little paper scorpion skitters on its little legs through...
stealth, take 10: 10 + 19 = 29

The little scorpion scrambles through the downed wall and into the shadows finding a small group of halflings currently ransacking the bank.

"That hole in the wall was lucky wasn't it?"

"Big guys out front don't even realize we are here! Not get that gold into the bags! Never know when more demons might show up."

"Right-o Boss. Who'd have thought that an invasion would be this good for us!"

Current Map

Takumi quickly relays what he's seen to the rest of the party. "It appears that we are not to first to discover this illusion. Looters are going through the area as we speak. This humble one suggest we confront them quickly before what we came to collect are taken."

"Yes, let's!" Kahru raises his earth breaker and strides in.

The four halfling stop mid-gold bagging and stare in horror at the giant bear like human as it clambers through the illusion. "S~+& Alamao! You said that none of the demons would be able to see through your illusion!"

"I said they wouldn't likely, boss! Not that they couldn't!"

"Doesn't matter, we need to get out of here!"

The four reach for their weapons eyeing their escape routes.

=-=-=-=-= Combat Start =-=-=-=-=

The halflings prove a little more limber than the lumbering Kahru and spring into action quickly. Three of them draw short swords as they dive for the wall keeping out of the reach of the big bear demon thing but get blocked by Kaya and Takumi. "The bear demon brought human and elven friends!"

Caught up short, one of the thieves decides to strike up a slightly anxious comedy routine. "Hey boys, would you imagine that, a demon with friends! Haha!" Despite the apparent lack of humor in the words the other halflings all give a chuckle and then settle down a little definitely a bit more ready to fight.

The second and thid tries to lay into Kaya, hoping taking her down would allow them to move on and get free of the bank with their loot. The first one in the green clothes misses the woman entirely, but the one in yellow is able to come up underneath his friends sword scoring a small scratch along Kaya's leg. A hit 5 damage to Kaya. He seems a little startled that the woman was able to dodge the worst of the blow. "Hey, boss, we've got a dexterous one here!"

The boss in all black gives the giant bear man thing and bear owl thing anxious look and steps closer to the opening drawing his sword and taking a swipe at the bear demon thing,but due to his distraction from his companion's commentary, olny catches air with his shortsword. "Eh, really? But that don't matter right now. We needs to get outta here. So just clear her from the opening!"

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Round: 1
Active conditions: None

Halfling Looters
Zyneste
Takumi
Kahru
Nokka
Eguressia
Quir
Kaya

Everyone is up!
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Current Map, Slide 2

Hmm, think people haven't been updating their token position. A few did say they were following along.

"In a time where the populace is in need, yet you are making personal profits out of the chaos. You truly are scum where the light do not shine," Takumi declares disdainly. He takes a step back, grabs a bunch of sparking dust and flings at the couple directly ahead.

5 foot step, cast glitterdust on yellow and green; will DC19 or blind.

Green catches sight of the dust in time to realize that the motes of light were just a spell, closing his eyes and willfully disbelieving in the glitter. However, Yellow completely misses it and catches the effect full on. "Ahhh what is this light? It burns my eyes!"

"It's a spell, dummy."

"Still hurts!"

Teeth gritted from the jab, Kaya mutters, "I don't appreciate that," before trying to respond with an attack of her own, hastily trying a quick stab with her rapier before taking a step to the side.

There was no sense in blocking her own allies off from this particular group and, besides, she'd be able to stab them a little as they moved by with the guard down.

MW cold iron rapier: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Kaya has Combat Reflexes and can make up to 5 AoOs per round. I'm... not 100% sure whether or not they get their dex bonus to move by her since they're not actively paying attention to her, so the Sneak Attack bits are separate. To my understanding, she can hit the same target more than once, so she'll smack whoever is first until they're out of range. @_@

Kaya, if you're stabbing yellow, it is blind, so FF and you get sneak attack. Not sure if it would hit though.

Thanks, Takumi -- I was trying to figure out the AoO stuff, so I completely forgot!
Sneak Attack Damage?: 1d6 ⇒ 5

”Nokia, flank!”. Kahru commands Nokia while he steps around the halfing, attacking before she does so.

+1 Adamantine Earth Breaker, Power Attack: 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 11 - 2 = 19
Damage, Power Attack: 2d6 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (1, 4) + 7 + 6 = 18
+1 Adamantine Earth Breaker (iterative), Power Attack: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 6 - 2 = 5
Damage, Power Attack: 2d6 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (6, 1) + 7 + 6 = 20
Bite, Power Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 5 - 2 = 17
Damage, Power Attack: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 2 = 10

Nokia steps into a flank as commanded and attacks.

bite, power attack, flank (pack): 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 8 - 2 + 4 = 24
damage, power attack: 1d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 4 = 13
claw 1, power attack, flank (pack): 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 8 - 2 + 4 = 30
damage, power attack: 1d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 4 = 9
claw 2, power attack, flank (pack): 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 8 - 2 + 4 = 30
damage, power attack: 1d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 4 = 11

claw 1 confirm: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 8 - 2 + 4 = 17
damage, power attack: 1d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 4 = 11
claw 2 confirm: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 8 - 2 + 4 = 16
damage, power attack: 1d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 4 = 12

Ugh. Nokka not Nokia. Stupid mobile posting.

Zyneste remains at the back of the group, impressed with the prowess of the group as they engage in melee. She lets loose a volley of arrows towards any halflings still in sight after her companions' attacks.

Flurry. Deadly Aim. Point Blank Shot. Improved Precise shot (no AC penalty for anything less than total cover), Attacking Yellow first and then Green, then Black if they fall, or nothing if all of them are already dead.

Arrow 1: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 24 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 + 4 = 12
Arrow 2: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 22 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 1 + 4 = 17
Arrow 3: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 15 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 1 + 4 = 15

OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT

Pathfinders have started pushing back against the horde in the Egelsee and Outer districts
Condition Yellow in both locations

Oiur shakes their head at the overheard looters. "Despicable," they mutter over their shoulder at Eugressia.

When fighting breaks out, they step into the street, driving their heels into the pavement. The blows send tremors through the stones and into their allies' bodies, a steady offer of strength.

(Not sure if it's a thing, but trying to flavor the song as quieter this time in hopes of not rousing the demons out front!)
(Inspired rage to everyone that can hear! If accepted at the start of your turn, +2 morale bonus to Str/Con, +2 morale bonus to Will saves, +2 resistance bonus to saves vs. spells/effects with alignment descriptors and spells/effects from outsiders or aberrations, +2 insight bonus to AC vs. outsiders/aberrations, –1 to all AC, and standard rage drawbacks to Dex/Int-based skills, concentration, etc.)

Kaya takes a stab forward with her rapier, but either through pure luck or instinctual training the halfling steps back just in time to avoid the tip of her rapier. Zyneste, however has no such problems landing three arrows into the halfling and making a near pincushion of him. The small halfling falls over near dead. Green turns back to their boss and calls out, “Oi they killed Kenin! The fruitcakes!”

His words fall on deaf ears as the halfling notices that Kahru and Nokka (Who gets great reception but doesn’t have a lot of useful apps) have tag teamed the halfling. After Kahru’s earthbreaker broke the bosses not earth shoulder the man had dodged back… into Nokka’s waiting antenna beak and claws, the ravenous owlbear making short work of the meat, slashing and grinding the form into little more than paste on the ground.

Quir starts a low rumbling song along the stones of the streets and buildings. Their attempts to keep the music quiet doesn’t quite work, but the rumbling fits into the general chaos and helps to muffle the sounds of the battle raging around them. If they’d stopped and listened they could hear the sounds of one of the demons out front snapping it’s fingers.

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Round: 1
Active conditions: Raging Song

Halfling Looter: Red
Halfling Looter: Green
Halfling Looter: Yellow -44 Pincushioned
Halfling Looter: Black - 51 Paste
Zyneste
Takumi
Kahru
Nokka
Eguressia
Quir
Kaya:-5

Eguressia is up!
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Current Map

Eugressia casts her eyes toward Green. "How dare you take advantage of a situation like this?"

Mind Thrust 1 Mind Thrust 1: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 5, 1, 5) = 17 DC 16 Will save for half

Kahru turns and "bears" his teeth at the halfling in response.

OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT

Pathfinders have continued driving back the hordes in Egelsee!
Condition green in that location

A massive dwarven barbarian comes barreling through. "AND MY AXE!"

He looks around. "... or ale... or somefin..."

With that he rushes off. Was that... the legendary Quaff Ironfist? Couldn't be...

Seeker Aid Token
You may use this token to:
Benefit from aid another
or
Increase an attack’s damage
or
Heal all PCs
or
Increase a spell’s save DC

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Green gives a small whimper of pain as his head nearly starts to explode with pain. “God’s damned! Why am I getting a migraine NOW!” Red looks over at him and comments, “You sure you took your medication today.” Green glares back, adding “Yes Roja, I did! Thank-you very much! … Wait did that bear just say ‘Waka waka’ at me? Alright! I’m done, get me outta here!”

Either not caring or not aware of the danger, Green strides out of the opening in the wall and weaves his way in between the people in front of him and heading to the back alleyway. Kaya’s rapier catches his shirt, but he just gives her an angry fed up look and continues pushing past, clearly headed for a sewer pipe. As he turns the corner, a small sniffle sounds out. “This was supposed to be an easy job. Fortune’s blessing! but now Boss and Kiiro are dead my migraines are back and… and…”

Roja gives him a look and sighs, before shouting ”Oi, I don’t care if your head hurts, DON’t YOU DARE LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!” He then angrily rushes after the man, cleanly dodging Kaya’s rapier, though he does catch the back end of her rapier once as he stops for a second to breathe before pressing on after his friend.

They provoke all the AoO’s. If Quir, Eugressia, and Zyneste have a melee weapon in hand you get an AoO. If you have combat reflexes or something like it, roll for both, and they both stopped just inside Zyneste’s range so she can roll up to 4 times. Kahru you don’t have a reach weapon in hand, right?

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Round: 2
Active conditions: Raging Song

Halfling Looter: Red -4
Halfling Looter: Green -18
Halfling Looter: Yellow -44 Pincushioned
Halfling Looter: Black - 51 Paste
Zyneste
Takumi
Kahru
Nokka
Eguressia
Quir
Kaya: -5

Everyone is up!
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Current Map

Scowling, Kaya gives chase, rapier in hand as she stabs at the closest fleeing... thief?

masterwork cold iron rapier: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3
sneak attack damage: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 3) = 12

Think you damage dealers can take care of this? Trying to conserve spells for now.

Takumi moves until he can see the fleeing looters while drawing out his wand. He quickly fires a magical bolt after the more injured on.

vs purple: wand of MM: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Eugressia adds her wand of magic missile to the fight!

pew pew: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 vs purple if still up or green otherwise

Kahru and Nokka charge out of the building after the thieves, but find their way blocked by Kaya and the foes. Assuming the alley is only 5ft wide as shown, Kahru will command Nokka to follow, then follow the enemies out of the building, ready to attack any that come within 5ft. If the alley is actually wider, then they will double-move to get adjacent.

That is actually the edge of the map, so... I'll go with the alley being wider. Most of the other maps I can expand the image if needed, but this happened to be the literal edge of the map. I moved you up Kahru.

Kaya rushes after the fleeing thieves and pokes her rapier out in perfect form, but happens to be a little slow and only tickles the back of the fleeing thief's armor.

Eugressia and Takumi try to preserve their own spells instead opting for te infalliable wand of magic missile. The two missles fly from the wands and pierce into the fleeing halfling, but it doesn't slow down either Roja's speed at all. "These people keep tickling me! Though those last two were a little on the painful side!"

Kahru and Nokka charge out of the building and then up the side of the intially very narrow looking alley adjacent to the two thieves. The two halflings give them looks of terror and seem to speed up their fleeing.

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Round: 2
Active conditions: Raging Song

Halfling Looter: Red/Purple -12
Halfling Looter: Green -18
Halfling Looter: Yellow -44 Pincushioned
Halfling Looter: Black - 51 Paste
Zyneste
Takumi
Kahru
Nokka
Eugressia
Quir
Kaya: -5

Quir and Zyneste are up! Quir can take up to 2 AoOs, and Zyneste up to 4 AoOs
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Yes, Zyneste has Improved Unarmed strike and will take an AoO.

As the thieves rush past her, Zyneste strikes at one with her bare fist, before stepping to get a clearer shot at the departing rogues and releasing another volley of arrows.

AoO: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Flurry. Deadly Aim. Point Blank Shot. Improved Precise shot.
Green first, and then Red if Green falls
Arrow 1: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 18 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 + 4 = 12
Arrow 2: 1d20 + 12 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 12 + 1 - 2 = 27 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 + 4 = 12
Arrow 3: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 7 + 1 - 2 = 26 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 1 + 4 = 18
Crit Confirm on Arrow 3: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 1 - 2 = 21 Damage: 2d8 + 12 + 2 + 8 ⇒ (8, 1) + 12 + 2 + 8 = 31

Zyneste lands a solid kick on the fleeing halfling, knocking the air from him as he passes. She then steps over and rains hell down upon the two halflings, bringing them down in a flurry of arrows. Those all hit, and that last crit was more than either of them had at full health.

=-=-=-=-= End of Combat =-=-=-=-=-=
Final results
Kaya -5

With the looters taken care of, a quicksearch of their bags shows that the looters had found the stash of weapons were likely to make off with them, but having routed them the party secured the supplies that Lady Talira requested.

Hurrying back to the supply depot, the party hands off the supplies, earning a big smile from the lady. "Why, thank-you! Those are exactly what we needed! And some gold too? You didn't raid the bank accounts as well, did you? Also any word of my men?" As she waits for your answers, she gestures for subordiantes to start disseminating the weapons to the waiting couriers.

That's a success! There is 1 district that hasn't had any successes yet (the Confluence District) and one that has only had one (the Woundward District) if you want to move districts. We can stay here and rack up more successes and keep this district from back sliding or move to other districts and work on those. I will try to move us along in 6 hours

OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT

Further victories have been achieved in Egelsee and the Outer districts!
In Woundward, the initial push back against the horde has started working!

Condition green in those locations

"It is the humble opinion of this one that we push back where the demons are strongest now, to deny them even a toehold in this city."

With the latest update, I'll say Confluence.

Confluence sounds good!

Sounds good to me.

"Let's go aid our fellows then, shall we?" Kaya carefully sheathes her weapon and definitely didn't kick anyone while they were already down or anything.

Oiur nods their assent and adjusts the lay of their gear in preparation for the march. Conflience sounds good!

Zyneste quietly nods her agreement.

10 minutes later you pop out of the tunnels just outside the tower. The alleyway proves to be empty and clear of demonic presence, but stepping into the streets shows just how overrun this district is, with small fires and lower level demons ravaging the place. Fighting your way to the Starrise Spire’s courtyard takes only a few minutes. You arrive just as a contingent of large threatening demons teleport away, a commiserate cry of warning issuing from an upper story of the building clearly under constant attack.

From one side of the courtyard, a long limbed elf with flowing blond hair finishes drawing a circle on the ground and then strides up to the party, a broken rose in hand. As he gets closer, his features coalesce into the familiar face of Krieghton Shaine, the Pathfinder’s current Master of Scrolls. He gives the group a small bow and comments, “Ah, just in time. Friends, the demons have found their way into the Starrise Spire and show no signs of relenting. We cannot keep this up. Luckily, I have been researching some ancient rituals that should allow us to keep the demons outside of the Spire, and give us time to regroup. I know the rites, but I need protection while I enact them. I trust you will protect me while I do this dangerous deed, yes?”

Then with almost no care for your response he drags you to the three intricate circles he’d drawn on the ground, each one filled with various unsavory components, such as fresh blood from an animal or bone fragments of many different beasts. He hands over a stack of papers and babbles on for a minute or so about how the ritual is based on his ingenious combining of various texts pathfinders have brought back from the Darklands.

As Krieghton finishes his lecture, he gives everyone a solid look in the eye and comments, “ I will need about a minute to finish the ritual but I am almost positive that the demons won’t leave me alone once I start so you’ll need to hold them off for that time. Let me know when you are ready to start.”

Knowledge (arcana): 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23

"Fascinating! This is clearly derived from Elven warding magics. Do you find any difference casting in an urban area like this? Oh, no, I guess we don't have time now to discuss it..."

The last thing she'd expected to see as they came up from the tunnel was the Master of Scrolls. Honestly, considering the frankly questionable items that he'd had around, she was thinking he was the last person they really wanted to see...

But it didn't seem to matter much. He all but yanked them into position around them - Kaya did her best to not think about that thing by her foot, but oh god, was it squirming? She wasn't sure it wasn't moving.

Don't look, don't look, don't look, she told herself, forcing her eyes up and away from the creepy crawlies that were all around.

Armed with her rapier, she tried to find a good spot to lie in wait for the first of their enemies. Glancing around, she immediately regretted it - Oh, god, is that something's tongue?

Casting false life!

1d10 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 temp hp

Kahru grips his earth breaker, a vicious grin on his bestial snout as he prepares for battle. The effect is ruined, however, when he glances at Nokka. "Don't eat that! Put it down right now!" He takes something from the owlbear's beak and places it back into the ritual circle. "I'm sure that's some important ritual component. It's definitely not a snack."

No preparations for Kahru, other than finding a good position near the middle of the area to attack from, wherever the enemies appear.