GM Dak - Shattered Star 1

Game Master Dakcenturi

I'm afraid to 5 foot step forward because I have a feeling they're going to do something to the plank, like throw an alchemist's fire at it. GM Dak how far is the drop from here to where the goblins are?

They are 5 ft below, you are welcome to jump down there with them if you want

If you do, Esrisi will insist you take a bath.

Bad guys turn, right?

Excellent. 300 pounds of angry half-orc being delivered via gravity, coming right up!...

Next turn, since I already acted :P

My bad, yes it is...

Mokashi moves up with the others while Drask spawns some sort of shadow form of himself that mimics his actions. Caroliss blesses Vel with a bit of luck which helps her hit one of the goblins, but only with minor cut.

The goblins pull out little pouches and begin to throw them at Vel on the beam.

Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4
Damage: 1 = 1
Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (12) - 1 = 11
Damage: 1 = 1
Ranged Touch Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16
Damage: 1 = 1

As the one bag hits her it explodes as tiny shards of glass and sickening muck drip down from Vel where the bag collided with her.

Round 1
Mokashi/Drask/Caroliss/Veltariel, Enemy, >Esrisi/Sapher
Round 2
Mokashi/Drask/Caroliss/Veltariel, Enemy, Esrisi/Sapher

Question: What kind of action would it be to drop down onto the goblins? A free action for 5 foot stepping off the ledge, or a move action to actually jump off? Also are there any bonuses/penalties/checks/consequences that I should know about dropping on them like a ton of angry orc bricks?

For 5 feet I would say it is just a move action to get down and land on your feet. As for jumping on them, I suppose you could do that, but then you would still have to move since you can't end your turn in an enemies square and there wouldn't be any benefit to doing it since you don't have armor spikes or anything. If we are just going for the 'cinematic approach' we could assume you attack during the jump and then move afterward, but in mechanics terms you would actually jump in front of them and then attack :P

"Goblins?" Sapher asks whoever is listening "Why does the city have goblins in it, are they like your version of rats?"

Sapher then yells in chittering babble at the goblins in the pit. (while peaking around the corner so she can see).

intimidation to demoralize: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Esrisi takes her right hand and touches the center of her chest and then her forehead before lifting her hand up to the sky as she inclines while following it with her eyes. "Bless my allies and give them the foresight and strength to defeat our enemies." Cast bless.

Bless: Bless fills your allies with courage. Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.

When Sapher speaks in goblin, Esrisi's head snaps to her dwarf companion. She seem surprised to see that she speaks their language. She makes a note to ask about that later.

Counterpoint: If I murder a goblin then landing in his square will no longer be a problem.

Drask leaps downward, bringing his axe down with his full body weight behind it, crashing down into the muck!

Attack (bless): 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 1 = 15
Damage: 1d12 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Fort: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Veltariel winces at the slight cut on her arm, and the idea of whatever that muck was was flowing in her veins made her nauseous. She retaliates by shooting at the goblin that dared to harm her, aiming straight for its bulbous forehead...
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Attack, PBS, Sickened: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 1 = 18
Damage, PBS: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Vel gets one more save roll vs sickened due to Bit of Luck.

Confident that the goblins are overmatched, Caroliss intones a small blessing to favor Sapher. Guidance on Sapher.

"Go show those goblins who's boss!" she encourages.

Fort Roll 2: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

So +2 to my Attack roll for 20!!!

The space is a bit crowded, so Mokhasi waits a moment, it looks as if he is readying for something.

Ready action to cast Daze (DC 14 Will Negates) on the first Goblin/Enemy he sees.

Sorry for the dealy, it has been one of 'those' days...

Esrisi calls on her powers to bless the group in the battle while Sapher easily intimidates one of the goblins with her harsh words.

Mokashi waits for an opportune time to cast a spell, which comes shortly after Drask jumps into the pit however the goblin he is target is quick enough to avoid the blow as Drask lands in the nasty sludge. Mokashi unleashes his spell on the one closest to him.

Will: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (18) - 1 = 17

However, it resists the effect.

Caroliss touches the dwarf giving her a minor boon to assist her. Vel looses another arror, this time going straight through the goblins head, dropping it to the ground.

The other two goblins, try their luck again tossing bags of muck at Vel, seeing that she killed their companion.

Attack - R: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0
Damage: 1 = 1
Attack - G: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19
Damage: 1 = 1
Confirm: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (16) - 1 = 15
Damage: 1 = 1

While the first goblin misses horribly, the second goblin hits Vel right in the face. The glass and muck gets in her eyes temporarily blinding her. (Blind for 1 round)

Round 2
Mokashi/Drask/Caroliss/Veltariel, Enemy, >Esrisi/Sapher
Round 3
Mokashi/Drask/Caroliss/Veltariel, Enemy, Esrisi/Sapher

”UUUGGGHHH!!!” Veltariel grunts as the second filth filed sack strikes her in the eyes! ”તમે થોડો શિટ્સ!” Veltariel curses as she tries to wipe the muck and shards away from her face!

Elven: ”You little s%*!s!”

Double Move action to carefully clean the gunk from her eyes?

Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 Ooph

Drask shoves aside the dead goblin, snapping off the arrow in the muck. His greataxe comes around in a vicious swing at the next little gobbo, and then he follows up by trying to bite the creature!

Greataxe (bless): 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 = 10 Ooph
Damage: 1d12 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Bite (secondary, bless): 1d20 + 0 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 0 + 1 = 8OOPH
Damage (secondary): 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Clearly I have angered the dice gods. I must repent for whatever sins I have committed.

Does the goblin's ranged attack trigger an AOO from Drask?

Good call, yes it would provoke.

Aoo: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Damage: 1d12 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

I am so sorry for my transgressions.

Mokhasi wiggles his fingers in a magical manner and targets the far goblin with daze, and then steps back.

DC 14 will negates, simple turn.

Caroliss feels a little embarrassed as the mighty half-orc warrior seems unable to do anything right against the goblins. "Something's definitely off about your luck, Drask. Let me help."

Move and use Bit of Luck, roll twice on d20s and take the better result for 1 round. Wish I had done that sooner!

Seeing the situation down in the pit not go as smoothly as it could have, Esrisi decides that her companions desperately need her help. She pulls out her light crossbow, takes aim and fires at the goblin. Unfortunately Sapher is in the way and Drask is currently engaged in combat with the goblins.

Getting directly involved in combat was likely a very, very bad idea. As she holds the crossbow, black tendrils of wispy smoke seep through her gloves out around the crossbow which begins to groan and protest as it cracks and breaks in her grip.

It doesn't matter, surely you can help out. They need you.

With renewed determination that her team needed her help, she ignores all the warning bells in her head and fires the crossbow.

Attack Crossbow, Blessed, Melee penalty, broken penalty: 1d20 + 1 - 1 - 4 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 1 - 1 - 4 - 2 = -5 Oh dear.

Just as she pulls the trigger, Caroliss waves her arm in front of Esrisi to bestow the luck on Drask. Panicking that she is about to shoot her best friend in the back, she yanks the crossbow upwards. The bolt is way off its mark and instead of flying down into the pit, it sails straight across into wood plank an inch in front of Veltariel's foot.

At least it looks like an inch, hopefully it did not actually hit the elf so help me!

Esrisi swallows a large lump in her throat, hoping the elf couldn't see what just happened.

attack with Warhammer to green gobo with guidance/blessed: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 3 + 2 = 25
damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

attack confirm blessed: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 1 = 6
damage: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (3, 2) + 6 = 11

Sapher grimaces at the muck below, hoping the large half orc beheads them all in a single swing so she doesn't have to wade in other creatures feces. She hesitates, grimaces further as axes cleave air, elves go blind, and an arrow richcets off the CEILING and nearly kills said elf.

Sapher wonders briefly on the plausibility of Esrisi's eventual excuss

Then the dwarf jumps in to a truly wretched mess. She barks angerly at the goblin in front of her in its own tongue, as she brings her hammer down on its shoulder.

As Esrisi looses the crossbow bolt that nearly sticks Vel in the foot, Sapher jumps down into the muck.

When she brings hammer down on the goblin it clocks him in his oversized head and drops him to the ground, where he floats face down in the muck.

Will: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19

Mokashi tries to use his magic on a different goblin, and it meets similar results as the little monster seems to resist the spells effects. Drask swings his axe and attempts to bite the remaining goblin, but the little bugger is agile and gets out of the way of both his attacks. Caroliss grants Drask a little bit of luck after seeing his poor performance so far. All the while Vel balances on the board above rubbing muck and glass from her eyes so she can finally see.

The last goblin, seeing he has no more support tries to make a break for it and climb back into the sewer pipe.

AoOs from Drask and Sapher. If either of you hit an AC 16 for at least 5 points of damage on your AoO, combat will be over. Otherwise, Sapher you can try crawling into the sewer pipe after it if you want...

AoO: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Bit of Luck Reroll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
Damage: 1d12 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

My god. It took support from two casters to barely land a glancing blow. I have sinned greatly and the dice gods are angry.

The muck makes Drask sluggish and the nimble creatures dance around his heavy blows. But finally as the creature turns to flee and Caroliss infuses him with power, he manages to catch the gobbo with the edge of his axe and toss him into the muck. "Rahh!" He brings the axe down again, smashing the gobbo's chest in. Slippely little bastard, dodge that.

Veltariel manages to get the last of the funk out of her eyes, looking down at the pit for more goblins. Then something catches the corner of her eye...a crossbow bolt by her foot, eerily close to her foot! She looks up and appraises the situation, and soon discovers only one person holding a crossbow...the human.

Her eyes narrow as she shoots a cold glare across the chamber.

Once she sees the fight conclude with Drask and Sapher taking care of the goblin threat, Esrisi fumbles with her crossbow for a moment before hastily stowing it in her pack as fast as she can. Once she's done she avoids any gaze from the elf and calls out to the filthy companions "Uhm, are you two ok down there?"

fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

Sapher looks to her fellow melee combatant and gives a nod meaning we've all had those days, don't sweat it.
Then to Esrisi's question she answers, "I am... gross" Sapher states simply, with a long and heavy sigh... a thing she regrets almost instantly because it brings more of the smell up to her nose.
She looks up to the others, and throws up her rope. "Please get me out of here."

Drask growls. "Little bastard. Need a knife to come after 'em. Fast." He spits out some muck and moves to the ladder to climb back up. "Come on. Stealth is over. Now we move quick."

Esrisi nods looking at the inquisitor she scrunches up her forehead and shakes her head "No offense, but you are way beyond gross Sapher."

The oracle grabs the rope, and helps hold it still so that the others can climb up. Well Sapher can, Esrisi will need assistance to hold it for the half-orc.

"I will clean you all off, magic is efficient at that. But for now, let us move. There's likely to be more foes ahead and we now know, we will have to put up with the smell for a bit I suspect." Mokhasi wiggles his fingers playfully, "unless you want me to clean you now?"

Mokhasi will do prestidigitation on anyone, if they want him to stop and do it.

Sapher grumbles through her attempts not to breathe, but thanks the others for getting her out of there, and then checks on Vel, since she notices the bleeding scratches all over her face. "I'm a healer, not a great one, but I can help if you wish." always ask before healing someone, one of the rules of being a cleric, said her teachers, well unless their tongue had been torn out or something similar. So she pauses looking up at the elf for either a yay, or nay, or an opening of her mouth to show she has no tongue.

"Ugh, that was disgusting--those goblins, what a menace! You two might come down with illness wading in all that muck. After we're done here, I can make some poultices that will help ward off disease."

Caroliss does what little she can to pull the strong warriors back up, though she wrinkles her nose at the stench.

"We have quite a few healers among us," she adds, after watching Sapher channel divine power. "One of the blessings of faith!" Still, she's a little surprised that Bolka had given Sapher access to minor miracles. She makes a mental note to ask about it when they were in a calmer situation.

After dispatching the last of the goblins, Drask tries to climb up the ladder, having forgotten its frailness and falls on his but as the rung breaks out from under his foot when he steps on it. However, Sapher tosses up a rope and with the help of the others Drask and Sapher get back up out of the pit of muck. Now the decision still remains on how to proceed, after your little interruption.

Drask frowns as the ladder shatters. Oh right. "I've waded through worse, sure I'll be fine." He wipes the muck from his face, even now the shadowy double still present and mirroring his every move. He acts as if nothing is out of the ordinary. "The door then." Getting onto the north side of the plank, Drask tries to open the door.

The oracle is glad that Sapher offered healing to Veltariel because she certainly wasn't going to.

Esrisi takes an additional step back from Sapher and Drask when Caroliss mentions diseases. She holds her nose with her gloved fingers and talks with a nasally voice "I think they are going to smell us coming now." Shrugging at the pair she apologizes "No offense, of course."

If proceeding with the original plan to cross the beam, Esrisi will provide guidance to each member of the party, though grudgingly on the dwarf and half-orc after wiping her hand off repeatedly afterwards.

With whoever is on the other side of the plank, Sapher throws the rope over to provide a handrail of sorts for the others, and then will eventually (probably last) try and make it over the plank herself. Though falling doesn't hold much of a fear anymore.

for when it is her turn
acrobatics: 1d20 + 1 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 - 4 + 1 = 17

Only one of you can be in front of the door and Vel is currently there, will wait to see if she gives up the position for Drask to move forward.

Veltariel nods in thanks to Sapher, and gladly steps aside to let the clumsy Orc lead the way now that their cover was blown. She knocks an arrow and readies to shoot around the corner of the doorframe should the need arise.

"Careful, Natalya may have all sorts of booby traps ready to go here." Caroliss checks the door ahead for traps while folks are reorganizing.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

After carefully swapping positions on the plank, Drask opens the door. Similar to the previous room, the floor of this room has fallen away, leaving a narrow, charred ledge along the south and east walls. To the northwest, a ledge heaped with crates and barrels sits, while above, the rafters of the attic lay bare to view.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Damage: 1d10 ⇒ 8

As Drask looks in the room he is surprised when a bolt flies at him, but misses from the direction of the crates. He spots a goblin standing behind the crate with a heavy crossbow in his hands.

The one goblin who recently just shot at Drask crouches down and reloads his crossbow. He shouts out something in goblin "Ciki mai tsanani! Sarauniya Sarauniya!" while a second goblin sticks his head up and shots his own crossbow at Drask.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
Damage: 1d10 ⇒ 9

He misses as well as the bolt solidly sticks into the nearby door frame.

Round 1
Enemy, > Caroliss/Mokashi/Veltariel/Drask/Esrisi/Sapher

For reference, whenever a goblin is standing it has partial cover, when it is reloading it has total cover. Walking on the ledge is safe, but it does slope downward requiring a DC 10 acrobatics check to avoid falling into the muck below on any tile that has part of tile with a slope in it.

Attack, Bless, PBS: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 17
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Veltariel steps to the side of the doorway, using it as cover as well as she looses another arrow at the goblins.

Esrisi takes sight of something moving ahead behind the crates. She cranes her head left and right and sees two small creatures in the distance shouting in that ugly language again. More goblins!

Not ready to waste another spell yet, she hesitantly reaches for her crossbow again.

Do you remember how badly this worked a moment ago?

Shaking her head to push away all of the thoughts that are telling her what she shouldn't do, she mutters aloud to herself "I'm a Pathfinder! They need me in there! I need to help!"

She takes aim at the general area behind the crates with the goblins as she steps forward onto the plank. Her curse grabs a hold of her as the black tendrils wisp around the crossbow once more, creaking and groan in protest to her holding it. Worse yet, she misjudges the bounciness of the plank and her hand lowers too much as she releases the bolt. Her eyes go wide as she watches the projectile embeds itself into Veltariel's back, just below her left shoulder blade.

Crossbow, blessed, broken, cover: 1d20 + 1 - 1 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 1 - 1 - 2 - 4 = -2
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

"Oh Gods!" she exclaims, as she realizes she's made a terrible mistake.

I rolled a 16 for Acrobatics last page for whenever I crossed the plank. Let me know if you want a new roll.

Seeing the half-orc hesitate, Caroliss tries to encourage him. "You're luck is turning for the better Drask, really!"

Bit of Luck, roll twice on d20s for 1 round.

"Not sure I could say the same about yours, Ez . . ."

With another gesture, a mirror image of Veltariel appears next to her. It seems to behave much like Drask's own shadowy image. Move action Copycat (Trickery domain power) to create 1 mirror image. Lasts 1 round.

She also favors Vel with Luck. Bit of Luck on Vel. Edited per discussion with Drask.

Caroliss, Drask will be blocking the main doorway this turn and acting as a wall. Feel free to give the buff to somebody who can damage them, like Vel.

Drask steps in through the doorway and raises his axe defensively. "Take 'em down Vel, I can't make that jump." He says calmly.

5 foot step, standard action for full defense. AC 21 plus a mirror image.

Drask will wait until the goblins take their shots, then step out of the way so Vel can have a clear shot, then step back in to provide cover before they release another shot.

Esrisi hears Caroliss but she is too preoccupied her current predicament to respond to the cleric. She lowers the crossbow, her hands trembling. In a cautious tone she mutters Elven: "Look, Veltariel. That was an accident. Ok?"

Just in case the Luck thing goes to Veltariel instead per Drask:

Attack, Bless, PBS: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 20

Vel, Feel free to bot me if Sapher posts, I’ll let you decide! I won’t be able to respond substantially until 5:30 EST, but I don’t want to hold everything up!.