Cartmanbeck's Age of Ashes - PF2 Play-by-post

Game Master cartmanbeck

"I have no interest in being closer to you heathens. Finish your business here and leave us in peace, before more of my brothers are senselessly slaughtered."

"Despite whatever ill intentions you have towards us, we harbor no such feelings towards you. We'll help you with your sick if we can."

The group approaches the area for the sick people, being cautious of the pit as we approach.

The boggards standing watch over the sick do not move away, but they continue pointing their weapons at you. "You cannot help them. They are poisoned by the gold. It's to be expected. Leave us be."

Abalyn attempts to determine what “poisoned by the gold” means.

Medicine: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34

Abalyn remembers that during the conversations you had with the elves in their city, it was mentioned that gold is dangerous, and only given to honored members of their society because it has to be "purified" first. In retrospect, at the time you thought maybe this was a religious thing, but now it seems that there may be some sort of actual poison in the gold that is mined in this region.

”The elves said something about the gold in this region being poisonous. This must be a poison gold mine. Are we sure we want to go down there?”

"Poisonous gold? Hmmm... Perhaps if I had a small sample of the gold, I could examine it and try to determine what is causing the illnesses."

Procuring a sample of the gold is very easy, as there are bags and bags of it lying around, after workers abandoned them after your attack.

Zim, somewhat oblivious to the world around him, finally notices a sack of gold a few feet away. He carefully opens one and gingerly removes a sample of the ore and examines it.

Craft: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23

Zim holds the small chunk of gold a bit away from his face, and notices a sheen on the surface of the gold. Though he is unable to tell the exact nature of the poison, he's fairly certain that the sheen on the outside holds the poison, and after inspecting his hands, he sees a bit of that same sheen on his fingertips.

So basically, Zim has potentially exposed himself to some sort of poison. What do you all do now?

”Crap! Zim, if it’s a poison, antiplague won’t help! Let me try getting it off!”

Medicine to treat poison: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20

Abalyn works quickly to help Zim remove the potential poison from his fingertips. She's not super sure how well they did, but the sheen is gone from his fingertips, at least.

Abalyn attempts to identify the poison!

Crafting: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16

Abalyn isn't sure what kind of poison it is. Perhaps you can either try to ask the boggards, or check out the sick cultists for potential symptoms?

Hawk will ask the Boggards?
"The gold seems to be poisoned. Are you aware of what kind of poison it is?"
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16
I have Group Impression feat if that matters.

"Why should we help you, fools? You've killed our brothers, desecrated our shrines. We have no debt to you."

"We've only retaliated when attacked by you. Help us now and we can help your sick brothers here."
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22

You get the feeling that this boggard is done with talking about it. If you want to get somewhere, you may need to try a different tactic.

"My medical knowledge is rather rudimentary, but...."

Hawk examines one of the sick cultists.
Medicine: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Hawk is able to determine fairly easily that these cultists are suffering the effects of arsenic poisoning. He knows that arsenic is an ingested poison, so simple contact shouldn't cause the poisoning. He also knows that Zim should probably thoroughly wash his hands, after the contact that he had with the gold.

"Good news Zim, just standard run of the mill arsenic poisoning it seems. Wash your hands off so it doesn't get on anything you eat and you should be fine." Hawk looks at Abalyn. "Think you can do anything for them knowing it is arsenic poisoning?"

Abalyn sees what she knows about arsenic poison.

Medicine: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29

Zim pours a little bit of water out of his canteen and scrubs his hands vigorously. It might be some time before he is able to stop worrying about being possibly poisoned, however.

For once it isn't me who has been poisoned Isiros silently thinks to himself. He stands guard as Zim tries to clean himself of whatever poison he may have been exposed to.

Abalyn knows ways that she could help those poisoned with Arsenic to recover, but it would take days to do so for this many affected individuals. Alternatively, a neutralize poison spell or some sort of paladin magic would need to be used.

”Guys, it would take me days to help all these people, and the best I could do wouldn’t be all that helpful. Maybe we should leave them in peace and go check out the tower.”

"So we give up on them?" asks Isiros quickly, but then adds, "It must be a strong poison if it is beyond your skills."

”It’s more the nature of poison. I can only do so much. Most of the work has to be done by the body fighting it off.”

Abalyn is also aware that this poison is unlikely to kill any of these affected cultists, and as long as they are not continually exposed to it, should all eventually recover.

”And I don’t think they’re in any danger of death. So, who wants to get cursed by another pillar? Just me?”

"Sounds like a plan." Looking at Zim. "I think you missed a spot."

Zim recognizes the joke, but wipes his hands against his pants anyway, just in case.

"These boggards do not seem impressed that we have destroyed other towers.. we will have to keep an eye on them if we intend to interfere with this one."

Abalyn carefully heads down into the mine toward the pillar, hoping others come with her.

Hawk follows along, watching the pillar carefully and staying back a bit. He wants to be close enough to help, but not give the pillar 2 easy targets.

As the group begins descending into the pit, the tower starts to glow more brightly, and a ray of violet-colored light shoots out at Abalyn, as she decided to go first.
ray attack roll: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (20) + 20 = 40 Abalyn Will save: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31 Because of the crit hit on the attack roll, your success switches to a failure. You're stunned 3.

The voidworms swimming through the air around the pillar seem to take no notice of the attack on Abalyn.

Round 1 -bold can act
Ash
Isiros
Tower
Abalyn Tisane Stunned 3
Crys
Hawk Grenek
Zimbartel

Isiros quickly surveys the field. To the right, drop down the ledge and potentially isolate myself, or to the left and stick with the group? Without hesitation he follows after Abalyn and Hawk, halberd previously drawn. "Looks like we're going in!" Isiros shouts to Ash and Zim

◆ Stride, ◆ Stride ◆ Stride
Reaction ↺ AoO if enemy would provoke (see below, just copy and close brackets)
[dice=AoO Halberd]1d20+17[/dice [dice=P damage]2d10+7[/dice

"Isiros, maybe you should carry Abalyn to the tower so she can do her thing?" Ash wanders down, and makes a face at the tower. "Bring it, mister tower of compensation. I'm a much better target than the lady who will turn you off!"

Triple stride.

As Isiros and Ash step forward to shield Abalyn, the tower fires a ray at Isiros.
ray attack roll (attacking ray lol): 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (4) + 20 = 24 Isiros Will save: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15 Isiros also is now Stunned 3.

Round 1 -bold can act
Ash
Isiros Stunned 3
Tower
Abalyn Tisane Stunned 3
Crys
Hawk Grenek
Zimbartel

ray attack roll (attacking ray lol):

actualol!

Isiros, so focused on running towards Abalyn, fails to see the tower flashing another ray of purple light in his direction. The ray stops him in place.

"Aw crap. For some reason I thought this one might not be activated."

Hawk casts ◆◆Haste and ◆Guidance on Abalyn.

Zim hurries to catch up to the others.

Stride, Stride, Stride

Round 2 -bold can act
Ash
Isiros Stunned 3
Tower
Abalyn Tisane
Crys
Hawk Grenek
Zimbartel

Ash murmurs, "You know, I bet I could jump into that water. That'd be safe, right? Yeah..."

He looks at Isiros to see if he thinks it's not safe, and Isiros doesn't say anything, so Ash takes a running leap out towards the water.

Athletics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Only once he's way out over the water, looking down in his dive, does he look to see what horrible death he's jumping into.

Technically, 1 action left, depending on how well I splat... I mean, I could've Perception-ed first, but this way is more fun.

As Ash hits the water, just before his head goes under, he sees some splashing over in another area of the pool... as if he may have just woken something up. He doesn't take any damage from the fall, though, as the water is about 8 feet deep where he lands.

In more positive news, the tower targets him since he is closest to it, but misses him as he sinks beneath the water.

Ash has an action remaining, and may want to use it...

Ash reflects on his life choices that lead to moments like this, but not for terribly long.

A burst of bubbles rise up to the top as he conjures a shield between himself and the things that are probably going to eat him.

Next round, assuming he isn't grappled or eaten, he can figure out which way to swim. Good plan!

+2 AC, reaction to absorb 10 damage

The nearer of the two creatures lumbers toward Ash in the water, then tries to wrap him in its weird tentacle and bite him.

tentacle: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27 damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (1, 6) + 8 = 15 plus chaotic: 1d6 ⇒ 5 the chaotic damage doesn't affect Ash). I also assume he negates 5 points with his shield.
Ash Will save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14 Ash is stupefied 2 for rounds?: 1d4 ⇒ 1

bite: 1d20 + 18 - 5 ⇒ (17) + 18 - 5 = 30 damage: 2d10 + 8 ⇒ (6, 3) + 8 = 17 plus chaotic: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Round 2 -bold can act
Ash -24 hp Stupefied 2
Isiros
Tower
Naunet (blue)
Abalyn Tisane
Crys
Naunet (red)
Hawk Grenek
Zimbartel

Abalyn strides through Isiros, straight off the 40ft cliff, taking 15 points of falling damage. She then stands up and pulls out her thieves tools, then shouts for Crys to come closer.

Crys strides twice.

The other creature lumbers over and goes after Ash as well.

tentacle: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27 damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (2, 5) + 8 = 15 plus chaotic: 1d6 ⇒ 2
bite: 1d20 + 18 - 5 ⇒ (9) + 18 - 5 = 22 damage: 2d10 + 8 ⇒ (6, 7) + 8 = 21 plus chaotic: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Round 2 -bold can act
Ash -39 hp Stupefied 2
Isiros
Tower
Naunet (blue)
Abalyn Tisane
Crys
Naunet (red)
Hawk Grenek
Zimbartel

Seeing Ash in danger, Hawk will drop his patent pending Earthball on the creatures in the water.

Bludgeoning damage: 6d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 6, 6, 6, 2) = 27
Basic reflex save

◆◆◆Cast a spell

blue naunet Reflex: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21 Fail, full damage.
red naunet Reflex: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33 Success, half damage.

Round 2 -bold can act
Ash -34 hp Stupefied 2
Isiros
Tower
Naunet (blue) -27 hp
Abalyn Tisane
Crys
Naunet (red) -13 hp
Hawk Grenek
Zimbartel