CG Male Human Bard 17 | HP 139/139 (FH 2) | AC 25 T 16 FF 21 | CMB +11, CMD 27 | F: +15, R: +21, W: +20 | Init: +7 | Perc: +32, SM: +49 | Speed 30ft
Spellcraft vs DC 22:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
"She's calling on the gods for divine power," Arnaut calls back to Jordan. "If I had to guess, I would say she's getting ready to enter melee - and she'll be swifter and hit harder. She's not the hissing voice like I thought though - and does anyone know a Kyalla?" Putting aside his questions for the moment, he reaches into his haversack and pulls out a long ivory rod. "Careful over there," he calls to the naga as he steps around Sahess, "there's a lot you could trip on!"
”Ssso be it. Never ssay that I wassss never kind.”
Naga Fort:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
The naga trips despite being immune to tripping and falls flat on its face! Jordan, however, has a hard time hitting a prone target behind cover and misses ALL of his shots! Even with the Dex penalty.
Female Human Investigator 13 | HP 87/87 | AC 21 T 14 FF 17 | CMB +9 (+4 if DEX applies through Weapon Finesse), CMD 23 | F: +4, R: +11, W: +7 | Init: +4 | Perc: +22+1d6, SM: +6 vs Traps | Speed 30ft | Inspiration 14/14 | Active conditions: None
Zhu Li looks at the naga as she palms a small packet of an alchemical extract and a trio of gold coins, crushing the former and spreading its contents over the latter. "Spread out," she calls, taking aim and flicking one of the coins through the air at the last remaining Mwangi man with a bang like a firearm discharging. "This one, I can take for a time. Focus on the caster!" Suiting actions to words, Zhu Li steps forward, guard up, smirking tauntingly at the man she just shot in the shoulder.
Move action: Study the Mwangi.
Swift Action: Study the naga via Kirin Style
Standard Action: Coin Shot to enchant 3 gold coins.
Free Action: Make an attack versus the Mwangi with Coin Shot.
It’s a bonus to AC, Jordan, so it’s applied on my end and I’d like to do so.
Reads coin shot I have never seen that spell! And it’s awesome!
The coin becomes lodged in Yellow’s shoulder as he yelps out in pain!
Naga Spellcraft:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (5) + 18 = 23
The naga casts a spell on itself.
Spellcraft 18 +1 per 10’ from the naga:
Dispel Magic (The dispel check is in the GM Screen above)
The snake yells in a strange tongue.
"धिक्कार है! यह मंत्र लचीला है!"
Celestial:
”Damn it! This spell is resilient!”
The naga slithers back 5’.
The still-blind Mwangi tries desperately to trip Sahess.
Yellow Primary Trip w/squeezing:1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 22 - 4 = 20 Miss Chance (Miss on a 1):1d2 ⇒ 2
Yellow Secondary Trip w/squeezing:1d20 + 22 - 4 - 5 ⇒ (15) + 22 - 4 - 5 = 28 Miss Chance (Miss on a 1):1d2 ⇒ 1
Yellow Will:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
Welcome to the Maze
Round 4/5
Field Effects: Good Hope, Inspire Courage +4
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Jordan
Sahess
Guardian Naga
Mwangi Man
Arnaut
Zhu Li
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Female Human Investigator 13 | HP 87/87 | AC 21 T 14 FF 17 | CMB +9 (+4 if DEX applies through Weapon Finesse), CMD 23 | F: +4, R: +11, W: +7 | Init: +4 | Perc: +22+1d6, SM: +6 vs Traps | Speed 30ft | Inspiration 14/14 | Active conditions: None
Forgot to account for Good Hope, bleh. And yeah, I love it! Obviously someone at Paizo reads or watches To Aru. Used with gold pieces it's one of the more efficient lv1 combat spells at high level, and it can bypass two different forms of DR and hardness. If I hadn't been in a broom closet with those golems, it synergizes hella well with Studied Combat and Kirin Strike.
Zhu Li steps forward again, striking at the blind Mwangi with quick knuckle jabs, targeting his throat to try and drop him via asphyxiation.
Sahess tries to down Yellow, her strikes vicious. Her blade slashes and maw gnashes at the foe. Again, presuming that she gets a hold with her teeth, she takes the chunk that is bitten and frozen off and eats it, looking at the Naga as she does so. She doesn't even care if her foe yet lives, he's as good as a dead man. She steps slowly towards the Naga, fury cold as ice in her eyes.
With Sahess’s second slash she manages to chop the Mwangi in half at the waist!
Welcome to the Maze
Round 4/5
Field Effects: Good Hope, Inspire Courage +4
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Jordan
Sahess
Guardian Naga
Arnaut
Zhu Li
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CG Male Human Bard 17 | HP 139/139 (FH 2) | AC 25 T 16 FF 21 | CMB +11, CMD 27 | F: +15, R: +21, W: +20 | Init: +7 | Perc: +32, SM: +49 | Speed 30ft
Spellcraft:1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 2 = 16
”If you say so Jordan,” calls Arnaut as he steps out from behind the statue and pulls out his bow. ”Though if I had to guess, I’d say it was that sudden feeling of gracelessness that’s come over her.”. He grins cheekily as he launches a rather-worm arrow at the naga.
The naga clumsily maneuvers back over the area of the grease and falls onto her belly (more so than she already was she fell prone).
Welcome to the Maze
Round 5/6
Field Effects: Good Hope, Inspire Courage +4
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Jordan
Sahess
Guardian Naga
Arnaut
Zhu Li
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Sahess moves quickly up to the creature, blood still cold as ice within her veins, the rage pouring more energy into her movements.
Attack:1d20 + 24 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 24 + 4 = 40Vital Strike, blah blah blah, the Naga takes 55 damage and I stop raging, fatigued.
She drops the hammer, or in this case the greatsword, in a sweeping motion and puts all her fury behind it. It hacks deeply, though Sahess is uncertain whether or not it is fatal.
Yeah…she ain’t surviving that. Time for railroading!
As you all examine the bodies of your fallen opponents gonna say that good hope runs its course while you do so you find that their eyes are no longer red orbs. Additionally, on the bodies of each of the Mwangi men are folded pieces of paper with identical contents. Handouts Updated
After healing up and whatever else you may do, the party proceeds onwards Map Updated.
The massive walls of this immense ruin must once have formed the facade of an impressive palace. An enormous humanoid statue, stooped on all fours and still two dozen feet tall, looms in the shadows within.
ID: Knowledge (nature) 14 (5 higher for Kirin Style):
This is a Gigantopithecus—a dire ape. This particular ape seems waaay bigger than other dire apes—it has the Giant simple template.
If you exceeded the DC by 5+ then open the spoiler below
Spoiler:
Dire apes are very territorial and particularly savage combatants. If they hit with both of their claw attacks they deal Rend damage.
If you exceeded the DC by 10+ then open the spoiler below
Spoiler:
Dire apes have a bite and two claw attacks. If you get higher then I can tell you what else you know, but those are really about all of the interesting things about dire apes.
Zhu Li stares at this statue in thought—her thoughts are interrupted by another’s.
”Do not sssay that I wassss never kind.”
A huge section of the massive ruin topples onto the causeway as the building’s titanic occupant stirs into action. With a ferocious, simian scream the form pushes its way through the rubble and into the open air, revealing itself as an enormous carnivorous ape with foul breath, a jaw full of teeth as long and as sharp as swords, and brightly glowing, deep red eyes. Around its neck is a thick leather collar from which five broken lengths of chain dangle and clink. The creature looms more than 20 feet above you, screaming with savage fury in your direction.
Zhu Li:
Zhu Li’s memory is jogged about this ape as she stares in disbelief—this is the ape Da’Tunga that she helped to kill during an escapade in the Mwangi Expanse the final boss of 0-05 Mists of Mwangi, and it’s assumed that the party killed him in that scenario, but he’s much, MUCH bigger than when she saw the ape last! As Zhu Li stares at the screaming simian, Da’Tunga glares back at Zhu Li with a similar recognition in his eyes—the ape recognizes you.
CG Male Human Bard 17 | HP 139/139 (FH 2) | AC 25 T 16 FF 21 | CMB +11, CMD 27 | F: +15, R: +21, W: +20 | Init: +7 | Perc: +32, SM: +49 | Speed 30ft
"Fascinating," Arnaut says as he reads one of the scraps of paper. "Here's that Montrose fellow again that the Raven is avenging, and the naga spoke of Kyalla. Does anyone recognize any of these other names? It seems likely they're marked by someone for an early grave."
Arnaut quickly skips back a beat as the ape reveals itself. "That's a large one," he says as he looks up at it, "even for a dire ape. But let's hush all that yelling." His voice lifts in a mockery of the simian's cries, distorting and exaggerating them before building to a cacophonous crescendo.
5 ft step, move action to start Dirge of Doom, standard action to cast cacophonous call (Will 23). Don't worry, he'll get Inspire Courage back up next round.
The puny bard's annoying noises only seem to make the ape angrier!
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the ape's eyes are red orbs.
EDIT 2: Also, small thing that technically needs to be said: Zhu Li couldn't take the free action to speak since she hasn't acted yet. I know it was flavor, but that little thing actually makes a HUGE difference.
@Arnaut: You think you may remember reading a few of those names in some volumes of the Pathfinder Chronicles, maybe, though he can’t remember for what reason or when he read them.
The massive ape pounds its chest with an echoing THUMP THUMP THUMP as it howls into the heavens and lets loose its implacable primal fury down on Zhu Li!
The penalties of the grappled cancel out with the penalties against the grappler and vice versa, so these next attacks resolve against Zhu Li’s regular AC, not her grappled AC.
The massive ape bites into Zhu Li’s torso, grabbing the Tian woman as it proceeds to nearly rip her in half, dealing 92 points of damage! With a triumphant howl the beast drops Zhu Li from its maw and pounds on the ground next to the unconscious woman, as if taunting her.
”Now, now. Aren’t you all glad that I allowed you to choosssse? Sssso, who wantsssss to poke the bear? Or sshould I sssay 'ape'? Ssssssahahahahah!”
EDIT: Missed that; Jordan's attack hit but barely seemed to scratch the hulking ape.
Primal Savagery
Round 1/2
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Arnaut
Jordan
Da’Tunga
Sahess
Zhu Li (unconscious)
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She laughs as she cleaves into the beast. "I am reminded of a joke! Where does a one ton gorilla sleep?" And then as her maw bites the beast and rips flesh and muscle free. "WHERE I TELL HIM TO!" She roars, glee filling her.
CG Male Human Bard 17 | HP 139/139 (FH 2) | AC 25 T 16 FF 21 | CMB +11, CMD 27 | F: +15, R: +21, W: +20 | Init: +7 | Perc: +32, SM: +49 | Speed 30ft
Arnaut's got your back, Zhu! It won't kick in until next round though.
Trying to keep the ape distracted, Arnaut continues his cacophonous song as he pulls out his rod of reach again and gestures with it towards Zhu's still form. "Let's start by getting you out of sight," he says as he steps behind a broken wall, keeping an eye on the gorilla as Zhu fades from the visible spectrum.
Move action to pull out rod, Standard to cast reach invisibility on Zhu, 5 ft step.
Also, GM, was that comment about Jordan's arrow "barely seeming to scratch the ape" a way of saying it has DR, or just a boatload of hitpoints? And are there any additional knowledge checks we might make to identify precisely how this thing might be different from a regular dire ape?
Despite everyone’s efforts, Da’Tunga is still standing and angry!
@Arnaut: Yes to DR, yes to boatload of hit points, no to the knowledge checks. Also, weird thing, I’ve always run that metamagic rods take a full-round action to apply to a spontaneous spell, but it stupidly only calls out doing that only to sorcerers—which I find stupidly biased and the forums agree that the RAI was that it does that with all spontaneous spells, so...not entirely sure where to go with that from here.
Da’Tunga roars in pain as all of Jordan’s arrows hit! The ape beats his chest, increasing in tempo as some of its wounds heal!That ability’s a standard action?! I thought it was a move! That’s much worse! Welp, time to do what the ape does best: Da’Tunga beats his chest before laying waste down on Sahess! EDIT: For clarity, I noticed that one of Da'Tunga's abilities was a standard as I was writing this; I didn't post first and then change the post afterwards.
I also have to apologize; the Power Attack penalty should have applied to Da’Tunga’s CMB check to grab Zhu Li last round, so it actually shouldn’t have grabbed her with its bite (-5 penalty w/Power Attack). That said, it could still grab with both claws (I didn't roll those grab checks because I thought it had already grabbed her) and it dropped the grapple at the end of its turn and the modifiers actually didn’t change any of the end results, so it didn’t make much difference anyhow.
The ape bites and slashes at Sahess, but surprised at its inability to hit Sahess and knowing that it can't take another full-round from her, Da’Tunga instead punches the Nagaji in the gut and flings Sahess as far away from it as possible—the ape’s muscles momentarily rippling and doubling in size as it does so! I know that this combat maneuver is usually a standard action to do, but what Da’Tunga has a thing. Sahess takes 10 damage and is pushed back 15’.
Primal Savagery
Round 2/3
Field Effects: Inspire Courage +3
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Arnaut
Jordan
Da’Tunga
Sahess
Zhu Li (unconscious)
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Sahess approaches, and once again violence ensues. Given that she isn't able to use her attacks to their fullest, she simply strikes once and does so with finality.
Attack:1d20 + 24 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 24 + 3 = 39Vital Strike, blah blah, Furious Finish. 64 damage, because there's one less bonus for courage. In the event I get grappled, I bite him instead, 6 less damage otherwise the same.
"Think you are big? TASTE MY... BLADE!"I was going to say steel, but this isn't steel... I need to work on witty banter for fights.This also changes to "fangs" if I have to bite.
CG Male Human Bard 17 | HP 139/139 (FH 2) | AC 25 T 16 FF 21 | CMB +11, CMD 27 | F: +15, R: +21, W: +20 | Init: +7 | Perc: +32, SM: +49 | Speed 30ft
I leave that call up to you GM, but the CRB clearly has bards who are also clearly spontaneous casters and clearly not mentioned in the cited text - nor are any other spontaneous caster class in the Rod section of Ultimate Equipment. Entertainingly, from what I can tell this is a carryover from 3.5 where the lore is that a wizard created the first metamagic rod specifically to spite sorcerers and their ability to spontaneously add metamagic feats to spells.
Moving forward with intended course of actions - we can retcon if need be.
Arnaut switches songs, and his allies once more feel inspired to perform great acts of heroics! He then whistles, and an image of Zhu waking up and standing to face the ape once more appears a short distance away from the real Zhu.
Move action to start Inspire Heroics for more temp hp (yay for Zhu being conscious!) and standard to cast silent image (Will 20 if interacted with), tying it to his performance's duration with Spellsong.
No need to be passive-aggressive, Arnaut, I’m ruling it in your favor because this is PFS and I have to go by the RAW (and knowing the original spite behind it reaffirms that stance—at least the bias has reason, even if I don’t agree with it; still going to rule that that applies to all spontaneous castings in my home games). I only paused like I did because…actually I’m not sure. I just kinda did. Guess just holding out hope that it applied how I wanted it to apply; sue me. Anyways:
Sahess is bitten by the great ape Get it?! but the nagaji bites back as she rips the gorilla’s ear clean off, making Da’Tunga scream out in pain and consequently dropping Sahess flavor; technically he can’t drop the grapple until his turn! As the ape screams in pain Jordan lets loose four arrows that fly right into the beast’s mouth, piercing the roof of its mouth, and exiting through the top of Da’Tunga’s head! The behemoth is silenced as it falls backwards and slams into the ground, dead!
Da’Tunga:
So….that thing was a Giant dire ape Barbarian 14.
Technically wasn’t an awakened animal, which it should’ve been in order to get class levels, but that’s an author oversight that’s easy to make, plus it’s forgivable considering the flavor of the situation (which I can’t tell you yet). If you guys know stuff about giving monsters class levels (a stupidly complicated process), you’ll know (if you delved deep enough) that an animal has the “Combat Role” (technically they have “No Role,” but if they’re brought above animal intelligence [which is required to gain class levels] then their role changes to “Combat”), this means that for each level in a combat-oriented class (such as barbarian) that the creature gains it increases its CR by 1 (otherwise it would increase its CR by 1 for every two class levels, until its level in the class equals its original CR, in which case the CR increases by 1 for every gained level thereafter; it’s confusing). Additionally, any creature that doesn’t have ANY gear (usually they have the gear of a heroic NPC of a level equal to their CR) has its CR decreased by 1 (assuming a lack of gear is a hindrance to the class; inversely, giving something the gear of a PC level equal to its CR [before adjustments for gear] increases a class-levelled monster’s CR by 1). Side note: when you give a monster class levels then you also adjust its ability scores by +4, +4, +2, +2, +0, -2 (assigned usually as appropriate for the class it is getting levels in).
Why did I go on that tangent about monsters with class levels? It was to say that Da’Tunga is, as written, CR 14, which is technically wrong by the RAW. A dire ape is CR 3, +1 from the Giant template, +14 from the barbarian levels, -1 from a lack of gear.
CR:3 + 1 + 14 - 1 = 17
They likely made an ad hoc CR call with this thing (300+ hit points but a 15 AC), which is something Paizo does with some weird class-levelled monsters (ESPECIALLY incorporeal creatures).
Anyways, weird tangent aside, I know that Arnaut is curious as to how Da’Tunga’s Will save is so high, so:
+1 base from racial HD, +4 base from Barbarian levels, +1 Wis, +2 Iron Will, +3 from Greater Rage (“Da’Tunga enters a bloodthirsty rage immediately upon his [animation from being a statue]…” spoilers so I altered the quote slightly I interpreted that as Da’Tunga was already raging when initiative was rolled.), +5 from the Superstition rage power, +4 against enchantment spells from the Indomitable Will class feature.
Will:1 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 4 = 20
Yeah…this guy is kinda ridiculous.
Retcon; Sorry:
Something I should’ve address earlier: Sahess and Arnaut would’ve noticed something invisible moving within range of their blindsight/sense. But as soon as you make it clear that you noticed something then the invisible whatever-it-is would have moved out of range of blindsight/sense. If you try to confront it then it would seem to vanish completely (rather than vanish visually) after some magical words. This would probably happen 1d4 ⇒ 3 times intermittently since you guys got onto this map. Sorry for only informing you about that now, but you were supposed to not face the invisible thing yet, if you did then things would get super-derailed (I’m technically not following tactics as-written by have the invisible thing run away, but it was either that or have every single combat on this map basically trigger at once and I decided to err on the side of NOT having you guys deal with 5 tripping guys, a naga, a raging ape, and the whatever-it-is all at once; those written tactics suggest that they are under the assumption that the GM allows all of those combats to trigger at once based on the way I read it. I supposed I could have said that they just so happened to have stayed exactly far enough away from the party that you never see them, but that’s just unlikely, all things considered.
Basically, I did something technically not as-written because I knew that you guys couldn’t handle it. You can burn me in effigy for my sins at a later date.
A familiar voice comes—but verbally this time!
”How sssad. I had high hopessss for that one. If you want something done right, I sssssuppossse…”
The voice comes from the westernmost chamber opposite the area you all are currently in. A narrow set of thin stairs leads some 20 feet up to the surface of a large raised platform just off the main causeway. The white marble structure bears significantly less damage than most of the other buildings in the courtyard. Dozens of humanoid statues crowd the open space around the foot of the stairs they’re not actually addressed other than in box text and not on the map, so I’m going to say that the “dozens of humanoid statues” don’t hinder movement at all.
Arnaut and Sahess:
You two notice an invisible something move towards the group from where you all heard the voice.
The sound of magical incantation fills the chamber as everyone except Zhu Li, since she’s invisible and the illusion was targeted instead feels their limbs begin to become sluggish!
Will Saves:
Arnaut:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30 Jordan:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31 Sahess:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14 Is that the bonus while Sahess is out of rage? I’m not sure. Zhu Li:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
”…Little missssss Condria mussst do it hersssself!” Character Profiles Updated
Now visible is a woman wielding a bow that crackles with electricity in one hand and wears a quiver on her back—the woman’s hair a slithering and roiling mass of snakes!
ID: Knowledge (nature) 17 (5 higher for Kirin Style):
This is a medusa! Her gaze turns creatures to stone!
If you exceed the DC by 5+ then open the spoiler below
Spoiler:
A medusa’s snake-hair allows her to see in all directions. Medusas have All-Around Vision.
If you exceed the DC by 10+ then open the spoiler below
Spoiler:
A medusa’s snake-hair can bite out at targets and has a poison that deals Str. damage.
Condria’s Wrath
Round 3/4
Field Effects: Inspire Courage +3, Inspire Heroics
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Arnaut
Jordan
Condria
Sahess (Slowed)
Zhu Li
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Female Human Investigator 13 | HP 87/87 | AC 21 T 14 FF 17 | CMB +9 (+4 if DEX applies through Weapon Finesse), CMD 23 | F: +4, R: +11, W: +7 | Init: +4 | Perc: +22+1d6, SM: +6 vs Traps | Speed 30ft | Inspiration 14/14 | Active conditions: None
Zhu Li studies the new creature carefully, attempting to break down its weaknesses as she climbs to her feet invisibly.
Kn: Nature for Kirin Style:1d20 + 1d6 + 26 ⇒ (14) + (5) + 26 = 45
"Careful! It's a Medusa, it can turn you to stone with a look! The snakes can see, and they're venomous!" She calls, shifting position so her back is to a wall and drinking an extract. Those with highly sensitive ears might detect a faint ringing sound as she begins to navigate via echolocation instead of sight.
Actions:
Move: Stand Up
Free: Five Foot Shift
Swift: Kirin Study
Standard: Echolocation
CG Male Human Bard 17 | HP 139/139 (FH 2) | AC 25 T 16 FF 21 | CMB +11, CMD 27 | F: +15, R: +21, W: +20 | Init: +7 | Perc: +32, SM: +49 | Speed 30ft
My apologies GM - I did not intend to sound passive-aggressive.
Arnaut dances away from this newest threat and tucks himself behind the same wall as the invisible Zhu. Winking at her, he calls out, "No Zhu! Don't go charging after her like that!" The illusionary Zhu gulps down the contents of a bottle before moving towards the central dais - and the medusa standing on it.
Move action to move, standard to concentrate on illusion to move (pretty sure that's still required to change the illusion, even with Spellsong).
Also, if Zhu can heal herself a bit, Arnaut can be ready to drop his performance to give an ally a reroll on a saving throw (such as against petrification) with saving finale.
Welp. Guess I have to state this; should’ve made this clear earlier: You need to make saves against the gaze at the start of your turns, not on Condria’s turn. Thus, at the start of your turn you need to state your “visual status”: staring at her (make the save as normal), averting your gaze (50% chance of needing to make a save at all but she gains 20% concealment against your attacks), or not looking at her (has 50% concealment but guarantees that you do not need to save). I know Arnaut had echolocation so he can close his eyes and not have to worry about the 50% concealment because of blindsight; same goes for Zhu Li. Sahess was outside of the 30’ range of the gaze at the start of her turn, plus she didn’t directly target Condria with anything so it’s safe to say that she wasn’t looking at her either. Jordan, on the other hand, did target her with attacks AND was within 30’ of her, so he would need to make a save, but I’m going to be kind and say that he decided to avert his gaze for this turn.
Have I mentioned that I hate the gaze attack rules? Because I hate the gaze attack rules. Thankfully, IIRC this is the only instance of those rules in all of Eyes of the Ten.
Two of Jordan’s arrows fly about two feet from the medusa, followed by a shot to her gut, but she manages to dodge the third shot! Manyshot missed from concealment, Iterative didn’t hit her AC.
Also, going to guess that Zhu Li has the Ophidian Necklace since she has the lowest Fort saves all around (and she doesn’t have a neck slot item as far as I can see, so she’s likely wearing it) and that Sahess has the greenstone idol because…no duh (and she doesn’t need to wear the idol around her neck because it specifically says “those who possess the idol…”). The two are never explicitly called out as being slotted magic items or magic items at all, but I’m making a GM call that they both are and that the Ophidian Necklace takes up the neck slot because that makes the most logical sense.
Condria smirks. ”Sssmart. Ssupposssse I sshould take a different approach. Let’sss sssstart thiss over!”
Magical incantation fills the chamber! Arnaut can’t make the check below because he can’t see Condria, and Zhu Li’s really clipping the rock with her line of sight/effect (see the red line), so I’m going to leave it up to a die roll:
Zhu Li has line of sight/effect on a 1:1d2 ⇒ 1Fair enough; Zhu Li can attempt the Spellcraft check.
With a grin and a wave, Condria vanishes from sight! Put a translucent token at her last seen location.
Arnaut:
With his keen sense of hearing, Arnaut hears footsteps clamber quietly away from the party, though he is unsure in which direction. And before you get on me about invisibility only applying to visual effects: this is PFS and I’m bound by the RAW, and by the RAW invisibility grants a bonus to ALL stealth checks. You get the rod and I get the invisibility; the RAW giveth and the RAW taketh away.
Condria’s Wrath
Round 4/5
Field Effects: Inspire Courage +3, Inspire Heroics
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Arnaut
Jordan
Condria (-23)
Sahess (Slowed)
Zhu Li
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Oh yeah, Blindsight. Zhu Li would’ve noticed that Condria actually moved toward the south-west (up-left on the map) before leaving Zhu Li’s blindsight range. I’ll let you redo where you moved if you like.
