Miteke's Legacy of Fire

Game Master miteke

""New friends? Those?" Urah grumbles about the so called new friends Gnasher is offering Urah to be friendly with.

"I'll follow along but they growl at me the wrong way, I'm running away." he shrugs as he follows the big gnoll.

You head down the hallway, in search of the commotion and come to a room to you left. this chamber reeks of wild beasts. Around the room, wooden stakes pounded into the mud-brick walls secure several dangling ropes with leather collars. A mosaic of a huge, snarling, insect-like beast with bulging eyes and yellow mandibles covers the floor. Its many arms clutch falchions, gemstones, and screaming women.

A pair of gnoll guards stand watch here with six haggard humans armed with clubs. Immediately upon seeing you one of the gnolls yells something and the humans attack.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects not mentioned below:
Bold may go.

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-2 HP)
Urah Pyr (-0 HP)

Green Slave (-0 HP)

Tarak (-0 HP)

black slave (-0 HP)
blue slave (-0 HP)
red slave (-0 HP)
green slave (-0 HP)
yellow slave (-0 HP)
orange slave (-0 HP)
black gnoll (-0 HP)
red gnoll (-0 HP)

Malgrim steps behind Gnasher to have a better view and then gathers water to him to lob at the gnoll.

5 ft step. Gather Power, Empower, Lob Shot for no cover penalties at red gnoll.

Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS : 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 1 + 2 = 31

Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS: 3d6 + 9 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (5, 1, 2) + 9 + 4 + 1 = 22

Critical Confirmation Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS : 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 8 + 1 + 2 = 23

Critical Confirmation Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS: 3d6 + 9 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3, 2, 4) + 9 + 4 + 1 = 23

If AC 23 hits Red then I crit for 67 Budgeoning damage. If AC 23 does not confirm the Critical, then I hit for 33 Bludgeoning damage.

See Malgrim deal with the red gnoll to the right, Gnasher told the others what the gnolls said. "Gnolls tell humans to attack, that they eat tribe instead of slave." he looks back at Urah, "They are human, convince them we are on their side." Roaring back in gnoll as he drops his bardiche in the hallway. Pushing through the humans he begins to rage, drawing the magical axe as he goes. His paws grow into overly large claws, his eyes glow red, his fangs enlarge and he begins to froth at the mouth. While his brown hide takes on a red-orange cast to it, giving a peculiar laugh. Stopping in the middle of the pack of club waving humans, he lifts the great axe and swings it at the black gnoll.

AC 19/23 against gnolls, Rage 1/12 HP 79 15 ft move, giving up a ton of aoo's if they take them. attack: + 1 great axe: PA
attack: 1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 13 - 2 = 21 for damage: 1d12 + 6 + 2 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 2 + 1 + 6 = 25

Soooo close. Malgrim wastes the first gnoll and Gnasher brings the second one to an inch of it's life. Can Urah eliminate the final slaver before the grunts are forced to react?

Combat Card
Ongoing effects not mentioned below:
Bold may go.

Urah Pyr (-0 HP)

Green Slave (-0 HP)

Tarak (-0 HP)

black slave (-0 HP)
blue slave (-0 HP)
red slave (-0 HP)
green slave (-0 HP)
yellow slave (-0 HP)
orange slave (-0 HP)
black gnoll (-25 HP)

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-2 HP)

Urah darts forward, a spell finishing on his lips as he throws another of his old spells at the last gnoll while showing that his time with Gnasher had at least let him picked up a few words.

Snowball. Ranged Touch. Point Blank +1 to hit, damage
1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 1 = 263d6 + 1 ⇒ (5, 2, 3) + 1 = 11

The last gnoll collapses and the slaves lower their clubs.

One of them, the largest of the bunch, steps forward and addresses the group in common. "That was impressive, or lucky." He looks at you with no little cynicism and distrust, but also a bit of hope.

Looking over his shoulder in the direction of the howling, he muses aloud, "Now if you could just clear the way and get rid of that unchosen brute, we can join the other escapees. Though I suppose they are doomed. How did you get in here?" Unspoken is the 'alive' at the end of that sentence.

Watching as Urah dropped the gnoll he bloodied, Gnasher realizing the humans were standing down released his rage. Hearing the term unchosen brute, Gnasher turns and in a very human manner spits. "Bhaaaa Tribe kill unchosen, same way tribe Kill all carrion king followers."

"Well, I find that oddly reassuring. Just follow the howling and you will get your chance to prove it."

"Lets get these to the other freed slaves." Malgrim says as he looks back the way they came.

Urah gives these slaves directions on how to get to the other slaves they left behind while also making sure they grab the equipment from the dead gnolls. He also lets them know of the potential dangers they have to avoid.

"Well. We come this far. Time to make sure it ends."

having talked to the human slaves long enough to recover from his fatigue, Gnasher nods in agreement with Malgrim and Urah. Hefting his bardiche, he continues down the cave tunnel.

Did the slaves indicate which direction was the quickest to their next victim?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Malgrim and Urah disagreed. Malgrim wants to go back the way you came in and reunite these slaves with the previous ones you found. Urah, ironically, want to continue on deeper. the slaved sis indicate that one of the unchosen brutes is the source of the sounds.

"Hey, uh, would you mind?"

The leader points a the two bodies indicating, perhaps, that he would like to loot the bodies.

If we're heading back to rest, then Urah wouldn't object. But if we're still coming back to end this Carrion King then we should just let these slaves go.
Unchosen Brutes?

Urah rushes to tap Gnasher on the shoulder, stopping the big gnoll.

"Wait. Gnasher. We may have misunderstood each other. Do we rest or do we go on and let these slaves meet with the other freed slaves?"

Malgrim motions the slave towards the bodies and says, "They are not going to get out of here without help. Heck, I am not sure the other slaves would trust them enough to let them in. I think we should escort them out and then rest."

Tarak listens to the discussion quietly, somewhat annoyed he couldn't see the sky for guidance, but eventually pipes up.

"I can go on for another fight or two, but it might be responsible to see this lot back to the others. Might be a fight yet on the walk, we seen enough patrols so far."

I'm good to go back and finish leveling, I'm also good for pushing on for another encounter or two. I have a few offensive spells left and 4 hours of wildshape.

"I'm not the leader. Let our leader decide." Urah holds a hand to indicate he was fine with any decision made.

Stopping at Urah's request Gnasher turned and looked from Urah to Malgrim then towards the slaves. Nodding his head yes, he pointed to the gnoll weapons. "Humans take weapons." Gnasher looked back at Malgrim, pointing at the slave who spoke. "Him say tribe kill gnoll and join others, Him know where slaves at."

Smiling and nodding as Tarak said he's good for a fight, Gnasher looks towards Urah who oddly was holding his hand up. But since Urah said the leader should decide, Gnasher looks to Tarak, whom he'd assumed was leader to his wisdom, fancy words and aged appearance, Giving the best pout he was able to with his puppy like eyes.

Yeah, gnasher thinks Tarak is old and educated because of his pirate accent. Magrim, you make the call, if you really feel we need to rest I'm good with it. Interestingly, it may make gnasher think you're the leader :)

I think we have a lot of drain which is not great and we could hit the Carrion King for all we know in the next room. It seems like a bad option.

"We are not in a rush. Let the Carrion King grow nervous and maybe even send more of his forces out to find us and we can come back after he stews a bit." Malgrim says.

I think we have a lot of drain which is not great and we could hit the Carrion King for all we know in the next room. It seems like a bad option.

The slave told us we'd have to face an 'unchosen brute' but it's cool.

Letting out a very human like sigh, Gnasher looks from Tarak to Malgrim nodding. Bahram had told Gnasher that when humans decide to change leadership that more times than not it was not a violent affair. Realizing that this must be one of those times, Gnasher shouldered his weapon. Looking a little crestfallen he follows along. "New Chief say time to rest."

Tarak just shrugs and follows, contented that the “tribe” apparently has a new leader.

"Humans take weapons." Gnasher looked back at Malgrim, pointing at the slave who spoke. "Him say tribe kill gnoll and join others, Him know where slaves at."

With a self satisfied grunt the man starts peeling the gnoll and taking his gear. He motions to a woman in the group and waves her on over to the other gnoll which quickly gains a lethal dent in its skull before she starts stripping it.

"All I know is that these guys loosed one of the unchosen on the escaped slaves and, I assume, that sound is the result. Probably tearing them to shreds as we speak."

He does not seem all that concerned. Obviously the look out for #1 type of guy.

Heartened by the new information, Gnasher looks from Malgrim to Tarak, "If Chiefs worried about saving slaves maybe tribe go rescue from 'Unchosen'?"

"What be this "unchosen" ye have any idea? It wasn't that big damn bug we squashed back there was it?" Tarak asks.

He shudders at the mention of that scorpion.

"Well....If we really want to. We can save a few more before that chosen comes after us....." Urah doesn't seem keen on that idea though he was mentally tallying up his spells which were not much now.........

Looking expectantly at the tribe, Gnasher tries to remember if the unchosen was something his father had told him about all those years ago.

Gnasher has one rank in knowledge local
knowledge local: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

@Gnasher
Apparently either it was something he did not know of or it is a new thing.

@Tarak
"Some kind of experiment they've been doing on gnolls to make them bigger and nastier - and stupider. Even the regular gnolls are afraid of them. They do have ways of controlling them, but generally they just send them off and get out of the way. Like that one. These two..."

At this he points at the fallen gnolls.

"... did just that. Until the thing calms down, they were going to wait here. If it returned and started causing problems, well, that is what we were here for. A nice big meat shield."

"ROOOAAAARRR" Loud cracking sound.

"Apparently it is still having 'fun'."

[b]Doesn't sound fun...."{/b] Urah mutters...

Tarak strokes his beard and stares at the door. ”Too bad we don’t have a safe way to set that thing loose when we leave, give the king something to play with while we are gone. Not worth the risk of it getting to our friends.” he muses.

”Forward or back, we need to get moving.”

"Whatever it is, is close. We should probably go check and see if we can save some more slaves and maybe give the Carrion King more to chew on. Whatever it is is distracted for now and that may give us an edge."[b] Malgrim says and then looks back at the slaves. [b]"I suggest you wait here and if you see something other then us come back, run for it." Malgrim will wait for Gnasher to lead the way to the sounds.

Tarak nods, ”Aye, it be best if we can save some more. I want to try something. Don’t attack the cat.” and he steps back and focuses, blurring at his lines and shifting, but instead of the familiar lizard shape, he finishes as a massive tiger.

Looking over himself, Tarak settles back onto his haunches and regards the group with a look of satisfaction and superiority as only at cat can, absently licking a paw and running over his ear.

Nodding in agreement with Magrim, Gnasher cocks his head, not sure what Tarak is talking about. As the druid morphs into a tiger, Gnasher gives a toothy grin. "Nice." Lifting the bardiche off of his shoulder, Gnasher proceeds down the tunnel towards the noise, keeping a keen eye out as he goes.

It doesn't take long before you find out what an Unchosen is. Turns out you have met them before, although the ones you fought were pretty beat up. The walls of this room are splattered with fresh blood and the bodies of three men, you think, lie scattered in pieces on the floor. Upon seeing you the brute roars in delight and looks quite ready to attack, though you get the drop on him.

Unchosen (-0 HP)

Urah Pyr (-0 HP)

Is the map updated? I'm confused where the baddie is.

Map updated

Seeing the large gnoll like brute, Gnasher begins to rage. His paws grow into overly large claws, his eyes glow red, his fangs enlarge and he begins to froth at the mouth. While his brown hide takes on a red-orange cast to it, giving a peculiar laugh. Stepping forward he lifts the bardiche high, chopping down at the beast, then slashing back accross in a second attack.

AC 19/23 vs gnolls, Rage 1/11, 5 ft step Full Attack (large) + 1 Bardiche, gnoll killer, PA
attack: 1d20 + 13 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 13 + 1 - 2 = 14 for damage: 2d8 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (6, 6) + 7 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 6 = 29
attack: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 8 + 1 - 2 = 17 for damage: 2d8 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (6, 6) + 7 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 6 = 29
A 2? Seems like Gnasher needs to practice with the bardiche more

Tarak stalks into the room and turns to the creature fighting Gnasher (I believe I can make it there, even if the stuff is rough terrain) and starts growling out a spell, finally roaring as it unleashes from his fanged maw.

Convert Mad Monkeys to Lightning bolt and cast it, I should have an angle

Lightning bolt, Reflex DC 18 for half: 7d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 2, 1, 6, 4, 4) = 22
eh, not great rolls there

Malgrim steps up behind Gnasher to see the creature and tries to lob a blast of water at it.

5 ft step. Gather Power, Empower and Fire away. If the ceiling is 15+ ft I should be able to lob and ignore cover. If it is less then 15 ft then I do have cover so subtract 4 from the following.

Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS : 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 1 + 2 = 14

Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS: 3d6 + 9 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3, 4, 1) + 9 + 4 + 1 = 22

Well..he hasn't gone yet, but a 14, or 10 with cover, probably still misses. If it miraculously hits I do 33 Bludgeoning damage.

Gnasher manages to hit with his second strike. Seems like these things are pretty easy to hit.

reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Not very agile either as the lightning bolt his his square in the side and he rips a hole like through a wet tissue paper.

@Malgrim
I'm going to say that the rooms have about 10' high ceilings, and the rough hewn locations would be about 8' high, though the dome room is higher.

But in spite of the fact that it looks like it took an incapacitating wound, it just seems to make it angry.

target, 1 Tarak, 2 Gnasher: 1d2 ⇒ 2

It steps forward, and unleashes a flurry of teeth and claws, roaring fearsomely, though only one connects.

to hit claw: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
damage: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

to hit claw: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20
damage: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

to hit claw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Combat Card
Ongoing effects not mentioned below:
Bold may go.

Urah Pyr (-0 HP)

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-10 HP)
Tarak (-0 HP)

Unchosen (-51 HP)

Urah takes one look at the creature and moves only to angle his spell into its snarling blood dripping intimidating horrific face!

Speed 40 should be able to get me there.
Glitterdust Will Save DC 16

will save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20

Though glittery, the creature does not seem to be blinded at all.

Combat Card
Ongoing effects not mentioned below:
Bold may go.

Malgrim Gryh (-0 HP)
Gnasher (-10 HP)
Tarak (-0 HP)

Unchosen (-51 HP)

Urah Pyr (-0 HP)

Tarak crouches low, wiggles his haunches for a moment, then leaps on the monster, teeth and claws flashing.

Claw, power attack, charge: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 2 - 2 = 11
Damage, S, Claw: 2d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 2) + 4 + 4 = 14
Grab: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 4 + 4 + 1 = 28

Claw, PA, charge: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 2 - 2 = 17
Damage, S, Claw: 2d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2) + 4 + 4 = 12
Grab: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 4 + 1 = 21

Bite: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 8 + 2 - 2 = 20
Damage P+B, Bite: 2d6 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (5, 1) + 4 + 4 = 14
Grab: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 4 + 1 = 13

The second attack maybe has a chance to grapple?
AC 16 after the charge

Malgrim moves to try and get out from behind cover.

I still have cover here, but next round I should be able to step out of cover I think.

Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS, Cover : 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 8 + 1 + 2 - 4 = 8

Damage, B, Water Blast w/Elemental Overflow , PBS: 3d6 + 9 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1, 5, 6) + 9 + 4 + 1 = 26

Nope.

Chopping into the 'Unchosen' Gnasher's smile widens as the tiger Tarak strikes the beast with lighting. As the angry creature moves closer Gnasher ducks and dodges the claws, dropping the bardiche to fight in kind. Seeing the tiger come in from the other side, Gnasher's hyena like laughter gets louder as he steps against the wall and attacks with tooth and claw as well.

HP 81 ? F.H. 2 rds. AC 19/23 vs gnolls, Rage 2/11, 5 ft step Full Attack(large) bite/claw, gnoll killer, PA
attack: 1d20 + 13 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 13 + 1 - 2 = 25 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 5 + 2 + 1 + 4 = 18
attack: 1d20 + 13 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 13 + 1 - 2 = 16 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 2 + 1 + 4 = 17
attack: 1d20 + 13 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 13 + 1 - 2 = 14 for damage: 1d8 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 2 + 1 + 4 = 15
I don't think we have a flank yet, but if we do please add the +2, hmmm, is the unchosen grappled?

Everyone beats on the raging gnoll (no, not that one, the unchosen one) and dills it so full of holes and tears that it drops like a wet tissue paper. Well, except for Malgrim, who ALMOST did hit that other raging gnoll when it ricochets off the ceiling at a bad angle. Guess he needs just a little more work on that lob. Or, perhaps, not try to lob when the ceilings are low?

Combat over. There lies before you a bunch of glittery body parts. And don't even ask about loot. Slaves and unchosen are not prime pickings to say the least.

Malgrim looks around to see if whatever the Chosen was chasing might still be alive. "That is a pretty big gnoll, I wonder how many of these are around." Malgrim asks rhetorically as he looks to find survivors.

Perception: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31

Malgrim finds nothing but pieces and parts and blood. So much so that the floor is slippery.

Do not bother making any Perception rolls.

"I guess there's nothing much now. We should head back and recover for now?"

Seeing the unchosen fall, Gnasher releases the rage and picks up his bardiche. Scoffing at Malgim's observation, "Yes big, but stupid. However many we will kill them all."

Turning towards Urah he nods an acknowledgement.

Looking back to the newly armed slaves, Gnasher asked, pointing towards the north. "Slaves said some slaves escaped. Tribe met escaped slaves near steps in fortress, is there way to get there from here?"

I just want to know if they know another way out.