GM Jhaeman's The Dark Menagerie (Inactive)

Game Master Jhaeman

Xilt inches further away from the battlefield (5'step). He draws forth a pearl of power and recovers his last spell cast.

"You got it, right? The Ooze can see through smoke so don't bother with that tactic."

Talkin' like I ain't been doin' this all b'fore. "Aye laddie. 'E wasn't the one I was worried 'bout. Dontcha be worried though, Ah won't be lettin' nuthin' go ta waste." The bard drops his wand as he moves up and snaps off a shot.

Assuming the snake is dead.

Blunt arrow vs ooze{IC/Bless/PBS}: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 18
Damage: 1d10 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 9

Due to lingering performance, Song of the Fiery Gaze is still active for one more round. Round 1 of 25 bardsong. 24 rounds remain.

Bom’s first longsword slash cuts deep into the snake and it suddenly collapses to the ground, bleeding and twitching! Dat rushes up and lands a powerful strike on the ooze with his three-section staff, spraying viscous slime everywhere. As his familiar tries to finagle a wand into working again, Xilt recovers the strength to cast another spell. The strange, phantom helmet continues to lurk silently near the half-orc’s shoulder. Spackle’s arrow goes wide as he just can’t get a clear shot.

Dat, with the snake dead from Bom’s attack, I assumed you wanted to move up and do one attack against the ooze? I applied the attack roll and damage from your first roll. If you don’t want to do that, we can ret-con.

Spackle, even with the ooze getting soft cover from Dat, that shot would have hit except for the firing into melee penalty.

Initiative! (Round 3)

Hal
Deldri
Ooze
Xilt
Dat
Spackle
Bom

Bold may go!

Works great.

If an attack seems like it is going to hit him Dat will snake style.

Sense motive : 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (7) + 24 = 31 the attack will need to beat a 31.

Hal reloads and attempts a shot at the ooze. "Steady now. Aim for its ... its ... blobby parts..."

Range Attack: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 9 + 1 = 27

Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Deldri banes his hammer and moves to hit the ooze.

"I'll try Hal!"

attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

damage: 1d3 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (1) + 2 + (4, 2) = 9

If Bom killed the creature, then can he take a 5' step forward at the end of his attack?

Hal’s crossbow bolt plunges deep into the ooze and out the other side, leaving a small hole. An instant later, Deldri jumps into the fray, swinging a hammer like crazy! The ooze is splattered across the undergrowth, and dissolves into an inert, harmless puddle.

Good work everyone, we are off initiative. I will keep a rough track of time you spend for the purposes of buff-tracking.

Tzleztor sheathes his wand and returns to the group.

"Good work everyone."

When the Mephit sees his master looking around he decides to take a peek himself.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Xilt places his pearl of power away for safekeeping. He walks with purpose attempting to match the pace of his familiar.

"I must say. That snake creature was quite unusual. I have read about them of course but to see them live that is quite a different thing entirely. Say, their eggs are quite valuable on the open market. Perhaps we should check out the room? You never know."

Xilt peeks around the room from the doorway looking for anything hidden.

Take 10 on Perception for hidden objects/doors is 25.

Spackle recovers his wand and slides it back into his wrist sheath. He taps Hal on the back, "Nice bit 'o shootin' laddie. Mighten we gots nuthin' ta worry 'bout ifin you keep aimin' true liken that there."

Bom retrieves his wand from the doorway and puts it back in his wrist sheath. Then he pats Ulfur on the head. "We'll get you a bite next time, Uflur."

Bom sheaths his sword and waits for Hal to sweep the room for traps.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

Dat will quietly search the room.

Perception: 10 + 21 = 31

Once that is done Dat will put most of his stuff on the ground and turn into a small earth elemental.

A search of the room doesn't turn up anything interesting.

Deldri seems intent on investigating the ooze and stares at the floor and then looks around for the dwarf.

"Where did Dat go?"

"A jungle inside. Odd." Hal looks about the room with his new comrades. "Nothing here. Weird."

He looks over to the changed dwarf. Hal shrugs. "I've seen weirder. You okay, buddy?"

Hal walks over to the tree. He looks way up to the canopy. "I bet I could climb this thing. We had a few trees in the courtyard of the castle I grew up in. Much taller than this one."

"Okay. We ready to venture forth?"

Hal puts away his crossbow, draws his rapier, and gives a tiger grin. "Let's get into some more trouble."

"Dat here." says the elemental.

Dat is also waiting the type of sight he is using. Back and forth from detect magic to detect a much of stuff.

"detect the presence of undead; fey; outsiders; and astral, ethereal, or incorporeal creatures. This ability functions like detect undead"

Xilt turns to the party.

"There is a passageway attached to this room. Perhaps we should explore it?"

The excitable elemental creature agrees.

"Yes. How about it?"

If the floor is stone Dat will earth guild up to the passage way and gaze down with his special detection abilities.

"There is a passageway attached to this room. Perhaps we should explore it?"

The gnome rubs his chin in thought. What wuz that trainin' again? Don't split the party 'n sumthin' 'bout pickin' yer path. Always stay left? Nah, that's fer mazes. Truly stumped, "Ah reckon' any way's as good as another at the moment. Don't want ta be leavin' too many unopened door behind us, but it's nuthin' more'n a coin flip fer now."

Dat did not leave the room. He can just detect a bunch of non-sense 60ft out through many types of barriers.

Bom shakes his head and seems skeptical, "I think we go back and work our way around the outside. That passage way looks narrow and I'd rather us all not try and squeeze through and get trapped."

Bom cuts open the snake's gut to see what it might have been feeding on down here.

When Bom's done, he continues, "We don't have to do this fast. Which means we want to have an easy escape route at all times. We get in over our heads, we turn tail and run, regroup, and come back better prepared. That tunnel seems like it could be a problem."

As Bom cuts open the amphisbaena to reveal an indecipherable mixture of past meals, Dat glides to the passageway to the north and looks into the next chamber.

It’s literally a transition from day to night. Instead of sunlight filtering through the jungle canopy, here there’s a dark night sky full of twinkling stars above. Cliffs tower almost 40’ above the landscape, which is hard dirt intermittently dotted with dead trees. From your vantage point below, you can’t tell what lays beyond the cliffs. But what you can see, soaring across the sky, is a vaguely humanoid creature that looks like a dark storm cloud sparking with jagged bolts of electricity! It seems to notice Dat just as Dat notices it!

The storm creature charges towards Dat and hits him like a bolt of lightning!

Dat, you take 9 points of damage (3 of it is electricity damage). It's your turn to act. Afterwards, I'll roll initiative for everyone else.

Dat 5ft steps up from the ground frustrated that his scouting did not go as well as it usually does.

Sorry all, for the illness induced sloppy posting getting you all into a fight.

Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 301d4 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
UnMonk Flurry: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 251d4 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Dat whistle for his animal companion to join him.

Initiative (Round 1)

Xilt
Hal
Storm Cloud
Dat
Spackle
Bom
Deldri

Bold may go!

For the purposes of buff tracking, assume it has been three rounds since the end of the last encounter.

Hal draws his short sword in his off hand (now two weapon-fighting). He then moves to the side of the room, hugging the wall with his back.

"Lead it back so we can all tag team it, Dat."

Xilt examines the creature before deciding how to proceed. On a hunch He calls out to it in Auran as it appears to be a creature of the Air.

KS-Planes: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (15) + 19 = 34

Dat's attacks connect with the strange humanoid mass of storm and lightning, and seem to substantially weaken it. As Hal moves into position, Xilt whispers something in a strange language. The creature replies with a roar like the howling of a tornado!

Xilt unloads another set of magic missile into the elemental before backing out of sight.

Magic Missile: 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 2, 1, 3) + 4 = 11

Questions from 34 Knowledge Planes. 1)Immunities, 2)Resistances, 3)Special Attacks and 4)Spell Like Abilities. If the creature is immune to force damage (unlikely) I will revise my action.

The Mephit sighs.

"The boss is getting repetitive today."

He draws forth his wand and gives it a try.

UMD Wand of Magic Missile: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32

Magic Missile: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 3, 2) + 3 = 12

The barrage of magical missiles strike the storm-like creature with unerring accuracy, dispersing it into nothingness with a final spasm of electricity.

Off initiative again.

Bom can only laugh at the creature that perished as soon as it arrived. "Really? How did that thing survive all this time down here? There has got to be more of them, yes?"

Before Bom leaves the room he will replenish Heightened Awareness

Xilt refreshes his memory of his spell with another pearl of power. He places it away for safekeeping. He enters the room with Tzleztor.

The inquisitive Mephit places his wand back into his bandolier.

"Is there any loot in this place? Familiar needs a new pair of shoes."

The gnome sidles up next to the imp, "Ya know, fer an infernal little trouble maker, yer handy ta have around. Spackle takes a swig from a flask before offering it to Tzleztor, "Care fer a wee nip?"

The Salt Mephit takes the alcohol and rubs a bit on the ends of his wings.

"That tingles a bit. It is refreshing. Thanks."

Dat heads over with the rest of the group ready to stick to ther outside.

He will continue to stand in from on the group to protect them.

Are folks moving ahead into the "nightime" chamber with the 40' high cliffs, or backtracking to explore a different direction?

The elemental creature eggs on the party to advance to the "night time" chamber.

"We should explore the next chamber. I find when you say that you will go back you never do."

[b]"I can cast light if we want to go to the night area"{/b]

Bom reiterates what he said before, "We have a large group. Let's avoid passageways that keep us from bringing that to bear. Let's go around. If we can't get there from another way, then we'll come back. Our job is to clear this level, so in this case, we will return if necessary."

We have to clear the whole floor, so let's go through it using larger openings i.e. double doors so that we can all attack and aren't bottlenecked...like what just happened.

If we are going south through the double door Dat will listen at the door and look for traps and use spirit sight if he can see through the door.

Perception: 10 + 22 = 32

Xilt shrugs. He moves with Tzleztor away from the tight passage.

"We can come back if you like. To the double doors then."

"Sounds like it's bein' back ta the doors."

As you all approach the double doors on the western end of the stone corridor, you notice the doorway is decorated with black chains and metal rings, from which hang the hands of many species—-animal paws, humanoid hands, and skeletal fists!

Dat carefully searches for traps and extends his spiritual senses through the ley lines that run through the earth.

Hal joins Dat, looking over the door for traps.

"Looks good. Let's roll."

Rapier and short sword ready, Hal grins at the chance to rip through some baddies. "Perhaps there will be somewhere or someone to 'stick' these pointy things inside the next room."

Hal opens the double doors (assuming they are unlocked).

Dat shows four fingers. Then point through the door. Then indicates it is safe to move forward.

Xilt and Tzleztor hang back letting the others enter the room first.

"Go ahead. We will be right behind you."