[PFS] Outpost II - 6-21 Tapestry's Toil (Inactive)

Game Master Neal B

Plz Npc a couple of dyas im illness with fever and i cant follow the game

Plz Npc a couple of dyas im illness with fever and i cant follow the game

Will do! Thanks for letting us know! Hope you feel better soon!

I'll bot you until you post again.

Botting Elenial: Elenial climbs atop the plateau and draws her bow as she moves alongside Roni, glancing at the melting heap of iron before him.
"Huh." she says before taking aim at the Red grey dwarf on the balcony. Dealing a glancing blow.
Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (16) + 13 = 29
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Petrok also arrives on the surface of the plateau, hunkers down behind a pillar as a ball of fire appears in his hand.

Botting Eorsten (wasn't using shield in last fight, so I'll assume that preference): Eorsten flies up to the green dwarf closest to him, while drawing his greatsword and takes a furious swing at him!
Attack, PA, Furious Focus, Negative Level: 1d20 + 12 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 12 - 1 = 31
Damage, PA: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (4, 3) + 8 + 6 = 21
Roll to Confirm!: 1d20 + 12 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 12 - 1 = 27
Crit Damage?!: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 5) + 8 + 6 = 24
The powerful strike slashes through the duergar's breastplate and deep into his chest. The green duergar drops to the ground, as if dead.

Touchy continues his hasty climb to the top. Encouraged by Barry's continued growls below.

As green has already dropped, I'd assume Roni would pick a different center for his blast, and include red and blue
Roni calls forth an erupting inferno on the two remaining grey dwarves.
Reflex-dmg, red: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 2 = 20
Reflex-dmg, blue: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 4 + 2 = 26
Reflex-brn, red: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 2 = 18
Reflex-brn, blue: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 2 = 22
They both avoid the worst of the blast, but the flames linger on one of the blue grey dwarves.

Dark Claw continues his climb.

One of the red dwarves drops his bow and draws an axe while moving towards Eorsten. The other blue takes a 5-foot step over, winces through the flames still licking at his body. And attempts to shoot Elenial, twice.
Blue burn: 1d6 ⇒ 4
Attack, RS: 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 11 - 2 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Attack, RS: 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 11 - 2 = 12
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
The red dwarf near him attempts to strike Eorsten with a powerful swing.
Attack, PA: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 9 - 2 = 13
Damage: 1d10 + 3 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 6 = 15

Initiative - Bold may act:
Roni -35HP
GM-T -53hp removed from initiative
Dark Claw 45' up | -20hp & 1 Negative Level
GM-DS Green -56hp, Red -37hp, Blue -15 burning
Elenial 60' up
Petrok 60' up | -2hp & 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21)
Eorsten Fly-26HP/5NL & 1 Negative Level
Touchy 50' up
Barry (Wolf) -14hp & 1 Negative Level

climb(1/4 speed): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
climb(1/4 speed): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Touchy, you can act as well, the formatting got lost in the copy.

Fast Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 16 Victory!

Touchy finally manages to clamber up the final step, raising his arms in victory!

He then moves over behind the remains of the statue, beside Roni, his whip coming to hand.

"Lord Touchy has arrived!" He exclaims, then grins before adding, "What'd I miss?"

basically a double move

How high up is that upper platform?

the balcony is about 25' above the level with the statues.

Petrok climbs up the first few steps of the balcony and stops to lob his first globe of flaming fire at the blue dwarf...ranged touch att: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 fire dmg: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Botting until Elenial posts again:Elenial squares up and lets loose a volley of arrows.at blue. Hitting with only one of her shots.
Attack, Rapid Shot: 1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 13 - 2 = 12
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Attack, Rapid Shot: 1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 13 - 2 = 22
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Attack, Iterative, Rapid Shot: 1d20 + 8 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 8 - 2 = 17
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Petrok advances up the stairs and throws a ball of fire at the nearest duergar, and scorches the large iron door behind him instead.

Bot: Eorsten has a new target that kindly presented itself to him. He gears up for several gruesome swings!
Attack, PA, FF, NegLvl: 1d20 + 13 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 13 - 1 = 28
Damage, PA: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (2, 2) + 8 + 6 = 18
Attack, PA, iterative, NegLvl: 1d20 + 8 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 8 - 2 - 1 = 8
Damage, PA: 2d6 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (1, 2) + 8 + 6 = 17
Eorsten swings twice wildly at the dwarf, his second attack missing by a wide margin as the dwarf was already slumping onto the floor to his (likely) death. The bodies are starting to pile before Eorsten.

Touchy arrives on scene, and moves up towards Roni while drawing his whip. Roni can likely see some toys that Touchy keeps stored near his whip as it's drawn.

Initiative - Bold may act:
Roni -35HP
GM-T -53hp removed from initiative
Dark Claw 45' up | -20hp & 1 Negative Level
GM-DS Green -56hp, Red -55hp, Blue -23 burning
Elenial
Petrok -2hp & 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21)
Eorsten Fly-26HP/5NL & 1 Negative Level
Touchy 50' up
Barry (Wolf) -14hp & 1 Negative Level

Botting Roni:Roni lets out a rebel yell as flames swirl around his body as he focuses his power. He looks intently at the remaining dwarf and snaps his finger. Gather power. Empowered. Infusion Specialization for Extended Range and Burning.
Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (9) + 13 = 22
Damage: 4d6 + 9 ⇒ (3, 1, 5, 1) + 9 = 19x1.5=28

And the deurgar goes down in a burst of flames.

Shortly after Dark Claw surfaces on the plateu.

Out of initiative. Act as you see fit.

"Party's already over." Touchy mutters, with a disapointed frown.

"Not even the good type of cardio!" He adds, looking back at the stairs, before grinning.

He wanders up the stairs, to check on the downed duergar... making sure any that are still breathing, stop doing so.

Will cast detect magic, and check them all out.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

Touchy finds that only the most recent duergar to drop was still clinging to life, and puts the creature out of his misery.

As Touchy relieves the duergar of his last breath, a demonic-looking mask appears as if out of nowhere, flying above the group. It addresses you all in a chipper tone.
"Hello! Thank you for killing those Duergar, I despised those horrible people! They destroyed a location that belonged to me and forced me into servitude. I'm sure you can understand how I'm not a fan of them."
He flies down a little closer to the group before continuing.
"Anyway, my name's Tanbaru! I'm assuming you didn't climb those stupid stairs for nothing, you must plan on going inside! Are you going to fight the duergar? I can help you navigate their fortress! If you can defeat their evil leader, Cergin Ironwhip, I would be eternally grateful! What do you say?"
Tanbaru added to map, as well as the Notable NPCs slide.

Sorry for having to bot me, been a bit hectic!

Roni asks someone to poke him a couple of times with a CLW wand and a lucky number wand, before using a heightened awareness wand on himself.

Thanks! And not a moment too soon. Sure, I had pretty good cover but they could have dropped me with two or three hits. Roni dusts off some dust, adjusts his gloves and coat. We're lucky it was someone expendable like me. Otherwise we might have been in trouble!"

He... Looks a bit sinister :D
Forced you into servitude? What does a mask like you do for Duergar's like these?

Sense motive, maybe? Does he seem genuinely well-intended?

Touchy examines the potions, briefly.

Spellcraft (potion1): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

"A curative." He exclaims, before handing one to Roni. "In case you get thirsty!"

"Or want to wave your wand at other things." He adds, with a waggle of his bushy eyebrows.

He then gives another to Dark Claw and the last to Eorsten.

Save some wand charges anyway.

"Though bows seem special too." He adds, "Like they belong on presents!"

He takes a moment to study one of those as well

Spellcraft (bow): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Bruca throws up over the edge then holds up his wand of infernal healing.
"Two taps please."

No worries, life happens sometime. And yeah, he does look sinister, but he's not even pictured in this scenario...

"Yes. Forced into servitude. I used to guard this place when it was the entrance to a temple of Yamatsumi. When the duergar desecrated the temple, I had failed my mission, and my spirit was corrupted. Purpose is what gives me existence. So I had to serve them, and help them keep this defiled temple, or I would cease to be..." Tanbaru looks very sad at this admission.
"But you're here to fight the Duergar! My purpose could be to aid you! To help you find your way to defeating the duergar. Ridding them from this temple. If you can defeat Chergin Ironwhip, I would be in your debts! I would do what I can to help each of you in the future!"

Bruca Throws up over the edge then holds up his wand of infernal healing.

"Two taps please."

Botting Elenial:"I can use that on you. Here..." Elenial approaches Dark Claw and activates his wand while the rest of the group talks with Tanbaru.

Roni -full health
Dark Claw -20hp & 1 Negative Level -Fast Healing 1
Elenial
Petrok -2hp & 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21)
Eorsten Fly-26HP/5NL & 1 Negative Level
Touchy
Barry (Wolf) still at bottom of stairs-14hp & 1 Negative Level

im recovered thx for botting me

Glad you're feeling better, Eorsten! Happy to have you back!

"So... do you want to help each other out?" Tanbaru asks.

Bump. Trying to keep things moving.

"Anyone can use a wand to heal me"
drink cmw potion: 2d8 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3) + 1 = 7

"So... do you want to help each other out?" Tanbaru asks.

Bump. Trying to keep things moving.

Petrok reluctantly lets the flame spell die in his hand and carefully consider's the Dwarf's words before answering...sense motive: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Tanbaru is a floating mask. Not a dwarf/duergar.

"My Enemy's Enemy is my friend." Roni extends his hand to shake Tanbaru's, before realizing it doesn't have one. "So, what can you tell us about this place? And what else can you tell us about yourself? I've never seen a flying mask before." Roni makes an attempt to strike up a conversation as he starts walking towards the doorway, taking a moment to examine it in case it's trapped.

Perception, HA: 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 13 + 2 = 23

"This place was once the entrance to a temple of the Mountain God, Yamatsumi. I was one of the spirit guardians for the temple. A 'Kami,' if you will. Then Chergin Ironwhip came with his clan. They corrupted the temple, altered its features, and brought in many slaves. When they did this I failed my charge to protect the temple. Now I only survive as an Oni." The mask looks sad and ashamed.

"But I think I should be able to guide you through the fortress, if you want! What do you say?"

Petrok looks to the others and says, Before we enter the mountain, everyone who is injured gather round and receive the blessing of the gods. Petrok then proceeds to channel channel: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 3) = 15

When the party begins moving...Petrok takes up a position in the middle of the marching order.(Petrok is now at full -his neg level penalty everyone near him is healed 15hp)

Done examining the items from the duergar, Touch turns to look at the floating mask curiously.

"I've seen masks with feathers, and masks with with fancy beading and lace... hell even seen one with a useful appendage attached..." He grins slightly, as if remembering some fond moment. "But a flying talking mask... that's a first."

Didn't half of his original temple get sucked in to the tapestry by Hao Jin? Would think that was the beginning of all the bad times =)

"Where they getting the people from?" the dwarf asks. "Not like this pocket dimension has a lot of people... does it?"

Yup. This was the half of the temple that got sucked into the tapestry... before the Duergar defiled it.

"Things in here are all connected in some way. The duergar weren't a part of my temple when it was transferred here. They walked from a village nearby. They have found a lot of slaves, so there must be other areas that have people living in them too."

We'll need an answer if you accept Tanbaru's help before you all continue on into the mountain (since Petrok mentioned healing before moving).

Assuming you get Barry up the stairs before Petrok Channels:
Roni -full health
Dark Claw 1 Negative Level -Fast Healing 1
Elenial
Petrok 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21)
Eorsten -11hp 1 Negative Level
Touchy
Barry (Wolf) 1 Negative Level

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Unless that gives me a bad feeling:

"Sure, come lend a hand, can't be any worse than having me on the team."

Can't Barry come up on his own? He's got a +15 jump... not sure how high each step is.

While these were once stairs to the temple of Yamatsumi (a symbolic challenge in their own right for a pilgrim to climb) the duergar made them into more of a wall with ridges, or a steeply angled washboard. Hence the difficult climb checks.

It's easy enough to assume someone climbs down the rope and ties Barry in, before pulling up the rope.

"Great! Would one of you like to wear me? I can be on your face like a normal mask, but I can help you notice things you might not see otherwise!"

Roni volunteers if nobody else is particularly interested in the mask, but passes up if someone else wants to try wearing it.

"As much as I like things on my face..." Touchy exclaims, looking at Tanbaru with a dubious grin. "Not sure this is what I have in mind."

Will pass. =)

"Go for it Roni."

Touchy, missed a bit earlier. The bows are +1 Composite Longbows (+2 Strength rating)

"Oh! Great!" Tanbaru exclaims as he flies down towards Roni. As it comes to rest on Roni's face it does not seem to merely sit on the surface of his face like a mask. It seems as though the mask melds into Roni's face. You clearly see the face of Tanbaru, but can no longer see Roni's face behind/through it.

It seems obvious that your next step is to enter the mountain. A wide pair of iron doors, bearing a ruby-studded engraving of an inferno and a hefty iron lock, stand before you.

Door is locked. None of the Duergar had a key. What do you do?

"They locked them outside? That's paranoid." Touchy exclaims.

He goes over to examine the door for a moment.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

"Looks safe enough." He declares.

"Now, most of my skills were honed on boudoirs and padded manacles..." He explains, as he pulls out some tools to try to open it. "This big heavy iron doors, who knows what's behind those."

He glances back and grins. "Its all about the motivation, right?"

He'll take a couple of minutes working on it. ie: Taking a 20

Disable Device, take 20, mwk tools: 20 + 7 + 2 = 29 Hmm... I feel I'm one short...

Touchy spends a couple minutes fumbling around with the lock... to no avail.

Aid on the disable device:

Disable Device: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Sure?

With Dark Claw's assistance, and back-seat lock-picking, Touchy is able to undo the "hefty" lock.

"Alright, Ironwhip will be in his sanctum. We'll have to pass through the forge to get there. Should be... this way?" Tanbaru says.

Now you begin to navigate the fortress. Tanbaru doesn't have a detailed map of the area or anything, but he can guide you in the generally correct direction. There may be more than one way to get where you're going, and that will be helpful if you need to redirect to avoid duergar patrols. I have figured out the best relevant skill for each of you, and will roll that as a group. This bit is kind of an 'abstract' representation of your journey. I will try to make it as smooth as possible.

As you travel through the fortress you take a very direct route, and make great time. However your haste leads you right into a patrol of deurgar guards... three separate times! The guards are no match for you, and you dispatch them readily. But everyone takes some damage from each scuffle. You can heal yourself between/after each scuffle.

Patrol Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Patrol Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Patrol Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Roni -26hp (25hp from unconscious, due to NL dmg from Burn)
Dark Claw -26hp | 1 Negative Level (7hp remaining)
Elenial -26hp (37hp remaining)
Petrok -26hp | 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21) (19hp remaining)
Eorsten -37hp | 1 Negative Level (25hp remaining)
Touchy -26hp (24hp remaining)
Barry (Wolf) -26hp | 1 Negative Level (unconscious. -1hp. I'll say stable)

After about 15 minutes of travel you reach the forge...

I will post what you see in the forge tomorrow morning, or after everyone lets me know what they're doing before they reach the forge (e.g. healing themselves).

Before we reach the forge Petrok channels once more and uses his wand of cure lt. once on himself and Eorsten (2 charges.. sorry everyone don’t have many charges left!) if anyone wants Petrok’s healing touch ; Petrok will explain he can only use that ability once a day per person but is happy to offer it now if they still require healing after Petrok channels. channel: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 2) = 8 cure lt wand Eorsten: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6cure lt wand Petrok: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Petrok uses his healing touch ability on himself and recast heightened awareness on himself. healing touch: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (6, 4) + 6 = 16
Petrok will offer everyone his healing touch if you accept you can roll for yourself two D8+6 worth of healing .

Jeeze, we didn't do well at all there, did we?

GM, you have eorten's hp's wrong. You included the 15 from the channel, but not the 9 from the cure moderate wounds potion he drank.
We should also have 2 more CMW potions... I handed one to Dark Claw, and one to Roni, as well.

"Geeze, the pale bastards were everywhere." He mutters, his usual fake smile slightly strained.

He draws a wand of his own, after Petrok's channel, and fixes up a few of more of his wounds.

Touchy is happy to use others' wands for them, but will be reluctant to use his own, on everyone else.

CLW Touchy: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (6, 2, 3) + 3 = 14

22 healing total... leaving me at -4 hp

"Consider saving the channelings for situations where you need to heal multiple people at the same time, or can't reach one in time otherwise. I'll get by with the wand, and save the potion for when I need a bigger boost in combat or something." Roni pulls out a CLW wand and asks someone to poke him with it again.
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Fully healed
Roni then proceeds to poke himself with the wand of heightened awareness (after 10 minutes has passed so 5 minutes left)
UMD for HA: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21
[b]"What else can you tell us about yourself, Tanbaru? And what is this mountain god that you mentioned earlier, Yamatsumi?

"Screw that..." Touchy interjects, chuckling at his clever wordplay, before asking. "Who's behind the door?"

Touchy, looks like I did miss that. Thank you for catching it and keeping things fair.

Roni -fully healed
Dark Claw -18hp | 1 Negative Level (15hp remaining)
Elenial -18hp (45hp remaining)
Petrok | 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21)
Eorsten -14hp | 1 Negative Level (48hp remaining)
Touchy -4hp
Barry (Wolf) -18hp | 1 Negative Level (7hp remaining.)

"Yamatsumi was the, uh, Mountain God... I watched over the.. Pilgrim's Path? Up to the temple...? That's about all I can remember. Sorry. My memory of everything before my corruption is well... I don't know."

Touchy, there is no door to the forge, I'm just pausing here to give a chance to recover from the plateau fight and the "patrols" you encountered.

"Well, I sense that Mueritt is up ahead."

Eorsten uses his ability to heal himself
layHands: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 6) = 14

"Can someone give me a couple more taps"

"I probably would have asked right after the battles, so I'm assuming I'll be up to full

Botting Elenial:"I can use that on you again, Dark Claw."Dark Claw back to full. 2 charges used."While we're at it..." Elenial Pulls out her own wand and uses it on Barry and herself.
CLW-Elenial: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
CLW-Elenial: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
CLW-Barry: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
CLW-Barry: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Roni -fully healed
Dark Claw -fully healed | 1 Negative Level (33hp remaining)
Elenial -7hp (58hp remaining)
Petrok | 1 Negative Level, Barkskin (AC21)
Eorsten -fully healed | 1 Negative Level (62hp remaining)
Touchy -4hp
Barry (Wolf) -8hp | 1 Negative Level (17hp remaining.)

As you draw near to the forge the hallway widens into a room lit by flames. The map is just a fairly small room. I added some hallway and moving space for you guys on the open end of the room.

The smell of musk and hot iron saturates the thick air. Heat is everywhere, with regular blasts of hot wind blowing past in time with the bellows. A single iron sculpture leans on the east wall. Though it bears a strong central frame and several barbed twists, it remains far from complete. The air tastes bitter and metallic.

In the room before you is a grey dwarf working between a small pool of water and an anvil. Near the dwarf is a squat beast that is strangely symmetrical, with three arms, three legs, three eyes, and one huge mouth.

The dwarf addresses you as you enter, “’Tis Droskar the Dark Smith who sustains us and all who live within the tapestry. He forged us after his own image; hard and strong like iron. He gave us a home and iron from the earth, and laborers to toil in his name and for our sake. Welcome to your final endeavor, slaves. Trust that your new god will remake you in his mines.”

Three things GM before I entered the forge Petrok would have cast resistance and guidance on himself. Also what kind of check would I need to make for Droskar the Dark Smith? I'll roll a d20 and u can apply whatever bonus applies (+2 for history and Dungeoneering and +6 for religion) already applied neg lv penalties.(does not use 'guidance)
knowledge check: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Petrok puffs out his chest a bit, We are not here to become slaves, or worship new gods, we are on a mission to recover a relic. If you aid us you may make powerful allies...hinder us at your own peril.
diplomacym+guidance: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 6 + 1 = 22