[PFS2][RD] 1-02 The Mosquito Witch (Inactive)

Game Master Andrew Harasty

Cyne is scrambling through his ideas because he will need more than magic to keep a Goblin from killing a dog, he will need a good excuse, and a creative one.

Yergi responds to Bowen as he raises the pointer finger of his left hand, "Sorry Bowen, I don't really have fire. Undeath doesn't really care for fire."

As he speaks a ray of ice blasts out of his finger towards one of the bloodseekers.

Ray of Frost vs. Blue

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Damage (cold): 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Ghost bitter runs up playing whack a mole on one of the blood seekers. Hitting solidly, but its bloat body still sticks. Arak is able to finish of the bug in a bloody burst.

Yergi's ray goes wide of blue bug.

Bowen and Cyne can still take actions.

ENCOUNTER Shimmerford Woods

Group conditions:
Round 1.5

Cyne - dmg;
Bowen - dmg
Ghostbiter - dmg;
Arak - dmg;
Yergi - dmg;

Peaches - 8 HP dmg

Bloodseekers -- B:+3 G:+3 (Dead - R: Y: )

"Ghostbiter, defend the dog! It's of that Haru lady I told you about, he-he might lead us to EDIBLE GHOST WITCHES!

Seeing how the Bloodseekers wouldn't need much work to dispatch, he decided to use his weaker spells to aid in the battle.

"I can still amaze you with my spells!"

Cyne strides and prepares himself to cast. He vocalizes an incantation while moving his hands in front of him, drawing runes with his fingers. The spell manifests as the ghostly head of a dragon that spits fireballs and then dissapears.

I'm targeting the Blue Bloodseeker.

Produce Flame: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 271d4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Bowen positioned quickly at the side of Cyne, pulled out another arrow and aimed this time at the other Bloodseeker that was attacking peaches.

"Suck this!"

Then Bowen released another shaft that flew straight and swift against the stirge.

Im targeting at the green Bloodseeker

Longbow: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26.
Damage: 1d8 + 0 ⇒ (4) + 0 = 4.

EDIT: NATURAL 20!!!!!! /o/

Deadly: 1d10 ⇒ 8.

I'm new to the rules of critical hits in Pathfinder 2e, so in a critical hit i double the damage of my strike and i add 1d10 for the deadly tag of my longbow. Does that mean I do 8 + 1d10 damage?

@Bowen : yes you would double the damage on the initial attack then add the extra "deadly" die. so total damage done is 16

Bowen's well placed shot explodes the one blood seeker.

Cyne's flame also explodes the the other bloodseeker. You rolled a 20 as well

There is no more threats from the bloodseekers but Peaches is still panicking and wounded.

Ok i will make Bowen slowly approach to Peaches, with beef jerky from his rations in hand and try to calm him down with a nature roll.

"Hey there Peaches, its me Bowen, look what i have for you."

The ranger walked slowly at the dog, keeping certain distance to later kneel at him, he was waiting, waiting for peaches to recognize him by his smell and also the smell of the jerky that he gave him previously during their first meeting with haru.

Nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

Arak warily studies the dog named peaches, but he knows dealing with it peacefully is not his strong suit...

ANyone with good animal skills?

@Arak I already made a nature check to calm down Peaches.

After clearing the bug, you are able to calm down Peaches. After she realizes you are friends she begins to tug at Bowen tunic to follow her in to the woods. The dog leads you to a nearby clearing where you find Haru standing and staring blankly, not responding, as a bloodseeker sucks blood from her neck. Simply attacking the bloodseeker is enough to pop the bloated insect and snap Haru out of her trance.

She stares at you in confusion: “What? Where? Goblins!? The last word is at Ghostbiter and Yergi.

"Miss Haru!"

Cyne is relieved to see the woman safe and sound... at first glance at least.

He turns to Yergi and Ghostbiter, and then at Haru again, nervous.

"No! Don't be afraid! These guys here are my friends! The goblin is Ghostbiter, and Yergi is a..."

Cyne inspects the undead sorcerer and turns to Haru again.

"Look I don't know what Yergi is but he's good!"

Yergi looks at Cyne indignantly, ”I’m a gnome! Honestly, you claim to be so well-read and can’t recognize a gnome?!”

I'm laughing so hard right now xD.

"I can confirm he is. And I am a dwarf. You, on the other hand, are an half-elf and you seem in dire need of healing. Would you allow us to help you? And after that perhaps you could tell us what transpired here. You mesmerized and your dog attacked by several bloodseekers... how did that happen?" Arak asks

Snapping to respond to Arak. "Both my parents are Tain. There is no elf blood in my system. Lasarte is the elven." Then at mentioning her name, Haru, breaks down again. "She is missing? Is she alive? Where?" Peaches goes over to comfort Haru. The Tain woman continues to no one in particular. "Lasarte and her golden armor. Always making a show. And enemies as well" She trails off while petting Peaches.

Bowen just hold haru from her shoulder in order to cease her advance, his face showed a grim expression as he spoke with a tone of dissaproval on the Tian woman for just trailing off.

"Haru could you please stop? You almost got killed by a Stirge, you can't just go into the woods again like that. About Lasarte, We found her belongings not far from here including that golden armor that you mentioned, but we didn't found her. Probably she has been abducted to somewhere else but i think she must be injuried, i found trails of blood in the trees."

Bowen was not very optimistic, he didn't discarded the idea that Probably Lasarte is already death, but he was not that blunt to just speak that thought openly.

"Now, you can do one of two things; Go alone tired, weakened by bloodloss and die at the hands of whatever is in the forest apart fo the bloodseekers. Or... you can work together with us and have more chances to save Lasarte."

Bowen probably would not get a good response of haru for saying this, but he was firm and frank about what he had to say, he din't wanted her or Peaches to get themselves killed because of Haru's desperation.

Haru calms again. "Yes, we should do what we can. For me that is not much. I found some hidden path to something deeper underground, but I am not in any condition to go down there. I can show you" She rummages in her bag and hold out a cold iron dagger and two vials of holy water. "Not sure what you may find down there, but best to be prepared for anything"

Sorry, Thanksgiving weekend ate me. Looks like I wasn't really needed in that time given that I'd already seeded enough trouble.

Ghostbiter grumbles, "I say deep places. Someone steal diggy things and I say deep places. They no listen." She sticks her tongue out at the group.

The passage leads down to a Set of Caves. This seems to be an old iron mine that has long been forgotten.

You may place yourselves in the green box area. And what are you doing for Exploration

EXPLORING The Iron Caves

Group conditions:
Round 1

Ghostbiter Stealth- dmg;
Cyne Arcana- dmg;
Arak Athletic - dmg;
Yergi Stealth - dmg;
Bowen Perception - dmg

Survival: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Ghostbiter sniffs around and then looks closely at one of the walls of the cavern. After licking a ruddy bit of rock she says, "Rock smell and taste like rusty blades. Whole cave full of blade rock." She thinks for a moment. "Compass point at blade if get too close. If whole cave made of blade rock then maybe all compasses point at blade rocks instead of guide star."

From the survival check above: "You realize even though played out, this much iron could affect magnetic compasses"

Arak moves to the right corner of the cave and studies his surroundings, ready to leap into action at the first sign of attack...

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

scouting

I've placed myself and I'll Avoid Notice as my Exploration activity.

Stealth to Avoid Notice: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Yergi keeps several feet back, crouching his small pale body into the shadows while he watches Arak leap ahead.

Turning the corner, Arak seems something skitter in the darkness. The small blue humanoid creature lets out a shriek. Another sucrries around the corner, and you can hear at least one more in the darkness

A much larger and nastier bloodseeker buzzes in from the other side of the chamber heading towards Arak.

Ghostbitter and Bowen can act

ENCOUNTER The Iron Mines

Group conditions:
Round 1

Ghostbiter - dmg;
Bowen - dmg

Mitflits - R: G: B:
Big Mitflit

Cyne dmg;
Arak - dmg;
Yergi - dmg;

Big Bloodseeker

I'm going to presume that since we're going into a mysterious cave and we've been repeatedly fighting blood seekers that I already have my greatclub out.

Ghostbiter hears the buzzing of the giant insect coming from her right. She turns the corner and screams, "You no bitey! I bitey! I best bitey!" while running headlong at the bloodseeker swinging her club the whole way.

Stride [1]

Strike [1]
Attack Greatclub: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Damage Greatclub: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Strike [1]
Attack Greatclub: 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (1) + 7 - 5 = 3
Damage Greatclub: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Natural 1.

Seems like we could have found the witch's impersonators. Let's whack them! :P

I'm very sorry for the delay, i had been busy with other things that i forgot to keep track on this, by the way, can i keep the Cold Iron Dagger? I'm fine giving the flasks of Holy water to anyone who wants it.

"Thank you Haru and take care, if we find Lasarte i'm going to make sure she comes back with you safely."

Bowen took the holy water and the cold iron dagger and stored it inside of his backpack(If anyone including the dm agree with that),and said farewell to the Tianese Scholar.

Once inside of the Cave, the ranger began to look at Ghostbiter inspecting the rocks, he got closer and also began to examine the rocky walls.

Survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

"You are right little fella, with all this iron ore here, any compass would not work as usual."

Suddenly the buzzing sound got his attention, and saw a Bloodseeker heading towards them but was intercepted quickly by Ghostbiter, Bowen was ready too shoot but suddenly a shriek got his attention, considering how strong and fierce was the goblin barbarian, he let her deal with the stirge. The ranger strode next to Arak and took cover behind a rocky corner and watched a blue skinned creature that looked like a Goblin.

"What are those things? They look like Ghostbiter but with blue skin!"

Considering the situation, probably that creature is giving the alarm to the rest of his people, that was not good for the team because more will be coming, and Bowen was going to silence him for good.

Ok i will make 2 strides to get next to Arak, i declare hunt prey on the red squared Mitflit and i will shoot an arrow.

Longbow: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
damage: 1d8 + 0 ⇒ (7) + 0 = 7

By the way the cave is in full darkness or there is dim light somewhere?

Edit: And i failed. XD

@Arak I support this with all violence!!! :P

It is dim illumination, as there seem to be some lights deeper in the caves

Ghost bitter steps forward and with her first swing smashes the bloodseeker, normally this would have been enough, but this one is bigger and tougher. This surprises the goblin to miss with her next swing.

Also a bit in shock Bowen does not get clean shot on the little blue creature

You hear some yelling behind two of them and the red tinted one frowns and swears for a moment Casts a spell and then move forward. The green one move forward whit its companion then throws a dart at Bowen.

Dart Atk: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
dart damage: 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0

With the dart stuck in the ranger, the milfit chitters with glee. Even though it does no damage.

From around behind the bloodseeker, a third one appears
Stealth: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Dart Atk: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
dart damage: 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3
Ghostbitter notices the attack in time but still takes the hit.

Stealth: 1d20 ⇒ 13+ ??

Cyne, Arak, and Yergi are up

ENCOUNTER The Iron Mines

Group conditions:
Round 1

Cyne dmg;
Arak - dmg;
Yergi - dmg;

Big Bloodseeker -- 6 dmg

Ghostbiter - 3 HP dmg;
Bowen - dmg

Mitflits - R: G: B:
Big Mitflit

Arak stiffens and advances towards the blue skinned enemies, his steps slow but filled with purpose... the he strikes with two powerful jabs against the one with the green cloak!

Flurry of Blows 01: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 → Damage roll: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Flurry of Blows 01: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11 → Damage roll: 1d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 1 = 10

Muntain stance (AC19) → Move → Flurry of Blows vs Green. Falling Stone fists are forceful and nonlethal (because Arak tries to defeat his enemies and give them a chance to redeem themselves)

As you get close, you feel a wave of unluck hit you. Arak needs to make a Will save

Yergi raises his hand towards one of the blue creatures and his hand briefly turns black before shooting a ball of negative energy at the creature. After, he raises his other hand and a translucent ice blue shield appears.

Two actions to cast Harm and the third to cast Shield. My Bloodline Magic allows me to add the spell's level as negative damage or get it as temp hp, I'll opt for the damage in this instance.

Harm attack against Green: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Negative Energy Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

edited, because I realized I couldn't do what I was wanting to do because of rage restrictions.

She makes another swing at the pesky bloodseeker.

Strike 1
Attack (greatclub): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Damage (greatclub): 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Presuming that's dead.

Goblin song 1

Wet with blood she begins to sing at the mite, "Blue creatures hide from the light. Blue creatures in for a fright! Blue creatures the color of sky. Blue creatures all going to die!"

Perform vs Mite's Will DC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

She smiles a with a maw full of daggers at the mite and screams.

intimidation - demoralize, intimidating glare: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Too late for me to edit, but I don't roll attack on Harm, the target gets a basic Fort save. My DC is 17.

Finally some action for my powerful Hermean conjuring! Watch this friends, the epithome of human spellcasting art!

I'll use two of my actions to cast Summon Animal, the other one to make it act

Cyne chants and uses his fingers to draw intricate patterns in the air.

A blue magical wireframe manifests before him, and it slowly takes shape of a giant centipede. Parts of the wireframe form glowing runic patterns on the animal's exoskeleton.

Cyne was sweating profusely. The epithome of Hermean spellcasting was something any of his allies could kill while sleeping. He was relieved probably only Bowen and Yergi could hear and see such failed performance.

I move the Giant Centipede towards the Blue Mite, I use both its actions to Stride.

Will Save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

"Aurrgh! You won't stop me!"

And Back from PAX

As Arak moves forward, the unease aura around one of the Milfit. But one of his stikes hits knocking it out in one shot. But his second fist misses.

Yergi's Harm hits the other milfit
Fort: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
As it shakes of the worse of it.

Cyne's Centipede slithers on up to the milfit.

The big blood seeker then flies at Ghostbitter.
Bloodseeker Barb: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
It latches on and begins to drain blood for with its remaining actions.
Blood Drain: 1d6 ⇒ 2
Blood Drain: 1d6 ⇒ 5
She is also drained by the loss.

Ghostbitte then beats off the bug. Hitting it firmly once, she only manages to smash the engorged bug back to normal size.

Bowen is up. Ghostbitter has two actions left with the bug attached.

ENCOUNTER The Iron Mines

Group conditions:
Round 1

Ghostbiter - 10 HP dmg; Drained 1 (-1 Max HP)
Bowen - dmg

Mitflits -
R: 2 hp damage bane 5 ft
G: DEAD
B:
Big Mitflit

Cyne dmg;
Arak - dmg;
Yergi - dmg;

Big Bloodseeker -- 12 dmg;

Ghostbiter angrily swings her club at the bug. However, instead of turning red with anger she starts to go pale. Perhaps it is the blood loss, but maybe it's something else.

Attack #2 greatclub: 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 5 = 20
Damage #2 greatclub: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Attack #3 greatclub: 1d20 + 7 - 10 ⇒ (9) + 7 - 10 = 6
Damage #3 greatclub: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

With one more swing the bloodseeker explodes in gout of blood. However Ghostbitter find that she is still bleed from the torn barb. Blead 1

[ooc]You still have one action left[/ooc[

I will act once Ghostbitter makes her third action and is nice to know that you were in PAX Andrew :).

Spirit Rage. +3 Temporary hit points. Club gains the negative energy trait. Deals +3 negative damage.

Ghostbiter's skin goes ashen under the splotches of blood from the bug and her maw of teeth begins to take on an ethereal glow. She bites into her wooden greatclub and it now glows instead of her teeth. Her wild eyes focus on the mite in front of her. In an eerie voice unlike herself, "Dinner time is now!"

My turn! Ok, Bowen is too close of the mitfit to get a clean shot, so i'm going to unsheath my sword(it costs an action if i'm not wrong), move Bowen towards the red squared Mitflit that is engaging Arak as my second action and make a melee strike at him.

Bowen had problems with his marksmanship with those narrow spaces in the cave, he looked how Ghostbiter squashed the big Bloodseeker and could hear his friend Cyne talking about his "great hermean conjuring", then he could see a giant Centipede with glowing runes on his exoesqueleton appear from the opposite side. Bowen, could guess that it was work of his friend and in a playful tone of voice spoke to wizard.

"Hey Cyne, you could only summon a Giant Centipede? No offense, but for all that previous boistering I was expecting something else, like a Firebreathing Cockatrice. Anyway, i'll leave that flank to you and your Big Bug."

The ranger looked at his friend Arak fighting the Mitflit and decided to assist him in close combat, he shouldered his Longbow and unsheathed his sword and charged at the mitflit as he swung his deadly blade.

Bastard Sword(two-hands): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Damage Bastard Sword: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

EDIT: NATURAL 1! xD

Arak Steps near the blue creature and keeps punching...

Falling Stone 01: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25 → Damage roll: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 2 = 10 NL Damage

Falling Stone 01: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 → Damage roll: 1d8 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 3 = 14 NL Damage

Falling Stone 01: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14 → Damage roll: 1d8 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 4 = 10 NL Damage

Seeing that Arak and Bowen (well, mainly Arak) have the one corridor well in hand, Yergi moves to get line of sight on the creatures his little bitey friend is fighting. He raises his finger towards the milfit and an icy ray shoots towards it.

Attack roll on Ray of Frost: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Cold damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

1 Action to Stride and then 2 to cast Ray of Frost

Finishing off the bloodseeker, Ghostbitter turns ashen

Bowen moves up and feels the bane around the Milfit
Bowen will need to make a will save

The blue milfit mutters something to the centipede
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

However seeming to ignore the request. The milfit turns to more forceful persuasion.
Milfit shortsword: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
shortsword damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0
Milfit shortsword: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 8 - 4 = 22
shortsword damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

The red robe Milfit increases the range of the bane Then strikes at Arak
Milfit shortsword: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
shortsword damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5
Milfit shortsword: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 8 - 4 = 9
shortsword damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2

From around the corner another Milfit, larger and tougher, appears and it throws a dart at Arak in surprise.
Dart: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23 v Flat-footed
Dart damage: 1d4 - 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) - 1 + (3) = 3
Fort, Arak: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
The black adder venom on the dart start to course though Arak's blood.
poison: 1d8 ⇒ 2

Dart: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 9 - 4 = 11 v Flat-footed
Dart damage: 1d4 - 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) - 1 + (2) = 3
But this dart bounces off the wall

Arak then steps around and stikes down the red Milfilt.

Yergi the focuses his ray on the one fighting the centipede, and hits him solidly.

Cyne, Ghostbitter, and Bowen are now up

ENCOUNTER The Iron Mines

Group conditions:
Round 1

Cyne - dmg;
centipede - 1 hp dmg
Ghostbiter - 10 HP dmg; Drained 1 (-1 Max HP), bleed 1
Bowen - dmg

Arak - 10 dmg; poison stage 1
Yergi - dmg;

Mitflits -
R: Down
G: DEAD
B: 8 hp dmg
Big Mitflit

Big Bloodseeker -- DEAD

Ghostbiter rushes forward and swings her greatclub at one of the mitflits. "Bad biters your fault!"
Stride 1

Strike 1
Attack Greatclub (negative energy): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
Damage Greatclub (negative energy): 1d10 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 3 = 11

Strike 1
Attack Greatclub (negative energy): 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (17) + 7 - 5 = 19
Damage Greatclub (negative energy): 1d10 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 4 + 3 = 17

All right here comes my Will Saving throw.

Will Save Throw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

Ok considering, that i didn't expect that Yellow Mitflit appear so close, i think i'm going to stick with my tactic of use my sword, I'll Stride at the yellow Mitflit and make two strikes.

After miss his strike, Bowen felt a strange sensation around his body come from that Mitflit, probably it was a strange magical effect, however, things got worse when his friend Arak got struck by a dart that came from behind, However the half-elf looked at his dwarf companion endure the pain, take the chance and knock down the Mitflit with his powerful fists.

The ranger was impressed by the combat skills of the Dwarf Monk, however his expression showed concern because of the surprise attack of the new enemy behind them, he turned around and looked at the larger and tougher Mitflit with anger and charged at him with the intention to cut him down.

1st strike
Bastard Sword(two hands): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Damage Bastard Sword: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

2nd strike
Bastard Sword(two hands): 1d20 + 5 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 - 5 = 7
Damage Bastard Sword: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Ghostbitter bites in to the bad biter and the milfit is returned to the earth.

Cyne strides up and hits the leader once, but it ducks the second shot.

It draws then stabs out its shortsword at Cyne

Short Sword attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Short Sword attack: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 9 - 4 = 21
Sword damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4

Everyone is up again. Arak will need to save for poison. Ghostbitter needs a DC 15 flat check to end the bleeding

ENCOUNTER The Iron Mines

Group conditions:
Round 1

Cyne - 4 hp dmg;
centipede - 1 hp dmg
Ghostbiter - 11 HP dmg; Drained 1 (-1 Max HP), bleed 1
Bowen - dmg
Arak - 10 dmg; poison stage 1
Yergi - dmg;

Mitflits -
R: Down
G: DEAD
B: DEAD
Big Mitflit

Big Bloodseeker -- DEAD