Tyrant's Grasp for PFS Credit (Inactive)

Game Master DoubleGold

Casts Guidance on Siiska

Siiska 5-ft steps and lets loose with the hook-shaped umbrella handle against the bugs!

Umbrella slam 1, Hatred Focus, Flank, Guidance: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 30 for 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 1 = 3 bludgeoning dmg.
Umbrella slam 2, Hatred Focus, Flank: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 2 + 2 = 28 for 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 = 6 bludgeoning dmg.

AC 19

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CONFIRM CRIT Umbrella slam 1: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 25 for 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 = 6 bludgeoning dmg.

If crit destroys a bug she moves on to the next with attack 2.

Aranor reloads her crossbow and fires it at the nearest bug. Unfortunately she's so worried about possibly hitting the allies in melee range of the bugs that her shot veers harmlessly into the wall.

Light Crossbow, Melee Penalty: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1
P. Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6

...Aranor really isn't skilled with a crossbow.

Siiska kills a bug and nearly kills the second.
Aranor can't hit a thing.
Just and Rali are up 2 Bugs, one is almost dead

Attack of Opportunity, kama, double-chained: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
cold iron, slashing: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Attack of Opportunity, kama, double-chained: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
cold iron, slashing: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Rali strikes at the bugs as the approach. Once they are next to him he strikes at them with an elbow and a kick, both directed at their faces.

unarmed strike, power attack: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 5 - 1 = 7
bludgeoning: 1d6 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 2 = 8

unarmed strike, power attack: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 - 1 = 23
bludgeoning: 1d6 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9

Rali kills the last of the bugs. Alright puzzle time, if none has dungeoneering, intelligence check will do, to see if your character can figure out something your player can't. Cause it ain't figure to let the player figure out puzzles.

no knowledge dungeoneering here

intelligence: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

Akku stares at the puzzle. Motionless. He reaches to the far depths of his psyche, tapping some unknown font of psychic energy...

Formerly Mind-Swapped, untrained Knowledge checks with DCs up to 20, Guidance: 1d20 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 1 = 4

Nothing. He shrugs and looks away.

Aranor frowns as she wanders around the room, staring at the mural, the altar, the tiles on the floor...

Intelligence, Guidance: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

No reason not to cast Guidance on myself here.

Intelligence: 1d20 ⇒ 5

Puzzles and such had never been a strong suit of Grod’s. He shrugs and turns away, checking the rest of the room for anything interesting.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Aid Intelligence Aranor: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Our party shall be known as The Bag of Hammers

Untrained dungeoneering, extra dumbness: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (16) - 2 = 14

Rali with a little bit of help figures it out. He opens a secret passage under the altar to reveal a small room with treasure and no monsters.
Treasure Mithral Breastplate and masterwork steel shield which both belonged to Roslar. A mundane rapier with the symbol of Arazni on it. normally a check to id the symbol, but the DC is so low, you get it.

Where to now? One more fight will probably level you, though you have to take an in-game short rest of 1 hour to level up, otherwise you level later.

Edit the puzzle was step on the heart, then the rapier, then the feather wings. I forgot to state all the pieces on the puzzle in the hazard part. it represents his devotion to Arazni, the Red Crusader and the Herald of Aroden.
Row 1: mailed fist, a tree and a tower
Row 2: a heart, a rapier and a skull
Row 3: A horse's head, a round helm and a pair of feather wings.

One more fight I say! :) Point us to the closest and safest room, GM! :)

For what it's still worth:

Knowledge (Dungeoneering): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Ivan helps himself to the rapier, offering up the short sword they'd found earlier with a shrug.

Rali can't use any of the treasure, so y'all are free to fight over it :p

GM, can we tell what caused these bugs to die from your earlier description of the room?
Several corpses of small, bug-eyed blue creatures slump in three piles throughout this room.

Rali puts his ear to the door of each of the rooms to the North.

perception: 10 + 7 = 17

If no one wants the Breastplate I would take it.

Ivan also considers taking the shield.

Looking at the Breastplate Justus marvels at the fine craftmanship.
"I would feel honored to wear it. Does anyone mind?"

"Not at all. I have no real use for the armor."

While the others continue to haggle over the treasure, Aranor peeks into the room directly south to see if there's anything interesting in there.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

"I would feel honored to wear it. Does anyone mind?"

Ivan shakes his head, then looks around again to see if there are any other contenders for the shield, as well as offering up the short sword from earlier.

You want to know how the bugs died, make a medicine check

Aranor looks in the room in the south and finds a dead mite with his hand near a crystal. It looks as if he tried to grab it and something from the crystal killed him or he was killed over the crystal. detect magic, knowledge religion, arcana and spellcraft all work here
Treasure dagger, six darts and 19 GP on him

Rali looks into the north room, starting with the northeast one. He sees four mites, with one of them being the Druid mite. They all have weapons pointed at you, then the boss tells them to put weapons down Want you doing here? I thought my guards were on the lookout back there. Anyway, we want crystal that our friend died over, but it has a spell on it. There are two ways to dispel it. Destroy it into pieces and the crystal then disintegrates. That will take care of the Lesser Spectre. Or with knowledge
Requires that Religion or Arcana check dc 15 and then you know how to perform the ritual. Then you fight the Lesser Spectre. I am adding a monster to a fight here and there to keep up with XP since there are more than 4 of you, so you are on schedule, but here is your chance to be ahead by like 1/4 of a level. Destroying the crystal will get the mites to hate you and you fight them. Dispelling it and the mites help you fight the Lesser Spectre with ranged. You get XP as if you defeated the mites and the Lesser Spectre, otherwise destroying it nets 400 plus whatever you'd get from destroying the mites when combat breaks out. Just so you know what you are getting into, look up Wraith, subtract 2 from all ACs, 1 from all saves (except dex which is 2 so it will make sense), 1 from attack roll, changed 1d6 dmg and 1d6 con damage to 1d4 each, change fly to 45, and subtract 9 on the HP. Change Incorporeal to it takes 2 less damage from all nonmagical attacks. I'm letting you see this one, even though most monsters means a check. as it will be a tough fight. The CR is changed to a 4. The crystal is worth no gold

Lesser Spectre

if I'm reading you right we have an option to do an extra, tough fight to get extra xp. That sounds fun to me but I need to think about what Rali would do.

were the doors already open? Because Rali did not open them

Siiska can go incorporeal and fight that thing toe to toe: wraith doesn't use touch attack against Siiska i.e. they are both solid to each other thus they hit each other against regular AC. This will be cool. :)

medicine, untrained: 10 + 3 = 13

can Rali tell what will happen to the Spectre if we smash the crystal vs. if we fight it? He can pass the dc15 check to release the spectre with a take 10. As a Soul Shepherd he is interested in putting souls to rest and returning them to their proper judgment and place in the Cycle of Souls. Undead, in general, should be destroyed in his perspective, as a violation of the proper order of the Cycle of Souls.

"Why do you want the crystal?" Grod asks the mite, his curiosity piqued.

Booth Grod and me can holy smite it to be able to hurt it!

Akku opens his mind to the magical spectrum.

Detect magic

knowledge arcana: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
knowledge religion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Akku tells sees the magical ley lines twisting around the Crystal and tells performs the ritual to untangle them one by one. He smiles and nod at the mites in a friendly manner.

"W-we help each other, y- yes?"

Aranor examines the crystal carefully, being sure not to touch it herself.

Casting Detect Magic while examining the crystal. For good measure...

K. Religion: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

As Akku begins casting a spell, Rali looks at him, concerned. "Wht're ye doin'?"

Based on GM DoubleGold post: "Destroying the crystal will get the mites to hate you and you fight them. Dispelling it and the mites help you fight the Lesser Spectre with ranged." --> so I'm trying to dispel it so the mites help us fight the lesser spectre... let me know if that's ok but that's my understanding of the situation

"L-let me t-t-try to remove the spell from the crystal... then you can keep the crystal. Friends yes?" says Akku, timidly, to the mites.

For clarification, Aranor is not attempting to remove the spell. She's just trying to figure out what the crystal actually is. Since she's been in the southwestern room and the mites are in the northeastern, she doesn't know what the mites requested. (Or that the mites are there, for that matter.) I misunderstood what the K. Religion check was for, (I thought it was to recognize the crystal), but then didn't beat the DC anyway so it didn't matter.

Grod wants to be sure the mites aren't going to use our help for evil ends before he consents to helping. Who knows what they might be planning on doing with this crystal?

Those Doors in the northwest corner weren't all the way open but ajar.

Pathfinders figure out that it is worth gold to the right buyer, but nobody in the region would buy the crystal. It is only wanted in foreign countries, as it is a special kind of crystal, that can be used once for certain spells that require the use of a crystal, nothing above level 3 though and it vanishes upon use, though you'll have to enchant it first with a wish spell, which few know that, but you figure the mites don't know this. You get the feeling they just want the crystal. There is magic from the crystal and thus you can make the checks to dispell it.

The respond back to you Yes, a crystal worth more than gold, nobody around here wants that type of crystal, I don't know why, even though it not a perfect shine. We will stand here and ready attacks, I suggest you all do the same, except for the one dispelling it, this will be a hard fight, so we gotta hit it first.

once everyone else is ready, let's do the fight. Rali can't use his weapons against the thing unless someone can cast magic weapon or ghostbane dirge. Just remembered the GM modified the monster for us. GM, that will make the fight significantly easier.
Rali also has +1 AC and attack against undead

Presumably by this point Aranor knows what's going on.

Aranor frowns slightly and whispers to the others. "Are we sure we can trust what the mites said about what would happen? Remember the other group of mites tried to talk us into wearing a 'wig' which was actually a monster."

Assuming the group is still set on working with the mites, she sighs but agrees. "Akku, are you sure you want to do this? I can try dismissing the spell myself."

OOC I'm all for fighting the specter and getting that sweet XP, but IC Aranor doesn't trust the mites. Hopefully she's not being too difficult.

"O-ok... you dismiss the spell and I will prepare Siiska and I in case there are angry spirits..."

Ghost Hunting Team ACTIVATE! :)

Speaking of wigs, I would just like to don my English barrister's wig long enough to respectfully make the case, DM, that however much bonus experience we get out of this, it should be MORE than just what is normal for defeating whatever this monster will be, because what you have presented us with here is not merely a fight with a monster - this is a QUEST!

Once everyone's ready, Aranor dispels the magic on the crystal.

Taking 10, K. Religion: 10 + 6 = 16

Going ahead and posting to keep things moving, but Aranor will wait for everyone to ready actions before doing anything.

Okay, everyone make your attacks. At Ivan, call it a quest if you will, but as this is Adventure mode and not PFS mode the fun is changing small things here and there while still keeping the main storyline, as adventure/story mode you can change small things. Everything up to this point was pretty much exactly as written, except for this part which is fairly similar. This fight though can be deadly, he gets one hit on you and you have a Con drain until you get it restored. Can you imagine -4 to your con for the rest of this dungeon, maybe even till the rest of this book as you don't know when you'll get it restored. At low level -4 to your con, even -1 can be a lot.
Mites use slings hit: 3d20 ⇒ (1, 19, 14) = 34 +2 to each dmg: 1d4 - 3 ⇒ (4) - 3 = 1 will be the damage for each one that hits. they get a -1 and the thing resists 2 dmg. The thing is summoned and two mites land a hit on it, as it takes 2 hits for 2 whole dmg.
The druid will cast acid dart hit: 3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (17) = 20 dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 3 Then the Druid mite's acid dart goes through burning it hard. that is magical, so it takes the whole thing.

Grod makes a mighty swing with his mighty axe!
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Damage: 3d6 + 10 ⇒ (5, 6, 4) + 10 = 25

Justus takes the other side and attacks smiting the enemy.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 3 = 173d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (3, 6, 2) + 10 + 2 = 23

Ghost Hunting Team has been activated guys: everyone's weapons within 30 feet of Akku are considered Ghost Touch weapons

Akku cast Guidance on Siiska.

Siiska lets loose with the hook-shaped umbrella handle against the bugs!

Ghost Touch Umbrella slam 1, Hatred Focus, Flank, Guidance: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 17 for 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 1 = 6 bludgeoning dmg.
Ghost Touch Umbrella slam 2, Hatred Focus, Flank: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 2 + 2 = 23 for 1d4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 1 = 3 bludgeoning dmg.

AC 19

@DM: I don't think you quite got my point, but whatever; I was saying we should get extra experience for not just defeating a wraith, but also since we did it to help these mites.

Ivan plays a single, resonant, haunting note upon his violin that causes the wraith to warp and waver at its sound!

Soundstrike, Undead Slayer: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

@Others: Am I to assume now that nobody else wants the masterwork shield?

Rali stands back and strikes it with his chained Kama.

kama, double-chained, power attack: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (13) + 5 - 1 = 17
cold iron, slashing: 1d6 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 3 = 10

kama, double-chained, power attack: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 5 - 1 = 5
cold iron, slashing: 1d6 + 6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 3 = 10

can someone place me within reach weapon distance?

Note: Everyone's weapons have the 'ghost touch' property right now

Wow, I could have sworn I nerfed him to a CR 4, maybe I nerfed him to a Cr 1 or 2.
With everyone's powerful strikes Grod and Justus bring him down before the rest of you even get those hits in. The rest of you demolish the body as your momentum carries your hits through.
The Mites thank you Can we please have the crystal now? We reward you with treasure. Yes masterwork And they pull out their treasure chest of Gold and Masterwork items, other goodies as well.
Level up to level 2, and I'm assuming you say yes

Treasure: 30 Gold, Masterwork Heavy Wooden Shield (or a light one if you prefer), 5 Lodestone arrows.

Grod extends a hand to Justus, a satisfied look on his face. "Well met, brother."

Shields are useless to me, I've got both hands full of axe.

Awesome! Are we resting overnight or do we have to keep going on the same day? thanks!