GM Worg's From Shore to Sea (Lvl 5-7) (Inactive)

Game Master Kyle "Worg" H

Volsung gives the ooze a good long stare, and then bubbles flying, he darts to a position from where others can easily flank the creature. swift and move action.

If it's got reach, I'm taking an AOO which I'd try to prevent by first popping mesmeric mirror and if that didn't work, I'd try to parry

Parry attempt with -2 penalty for larger attacker: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Rapier to hit: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Damage - piercing and precision: 1d6 + 5 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 5 + (3) + 2 = 13

Darrioos will try and activate his wand of fireballs angling it to miss his friends. if it works

UMW +2: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17

But he doesn't have any luck.

"Dammed thing!"

He grabs an alchemist fire from his backpack.

If it's got reach, I'm taking an AOO which I'd try to prevent by first popping mesmeric mirror and if that didn't work, I'd try to parry

The ooze, with its excellent split decision making skills, chooses not to attack.

Edwin steps closer and attacks.
+2 scimitar Power attack-Furious Focus: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
damage: 1d6 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 6 + 4 = 12

Just FYI GM but Victor is medium sized at this level, so he wouldn't be in the same square as Dolph

Dolph circles around the ooze, giving his usual battle cry to send Victor into combat. He whirls his dorn-dergar around and smacks it into the ooze.

Attack with +1 Adamantine Dorn-dergar: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
Damage: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

K. Dungeoneering: 1d20 + 9 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 9 + (1) = 13

Round 1: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-0,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-7,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-0,Fine)

I apologize for silence, my sleep schedule transition has been a tricky one.

When Volsung lands a blow against the ooze, something bad happens. It splits into two. When Dolph strikes with his bludgeoning weapon, it doesn't split.

Unfortunately, Las is unable to ID the ooze's traits.

Allowing Edwin to reconsider if he wishes to strike at it, upon seeing the ooze split to Volsung's bladed weapon.

Both of the oozes strike out! The blue one going for Volsung and the Green one reaching for Dolph.

Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Volsung Dreamborn: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Grab Roll Ooze VS Volsung: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Volsung Dreamborn: 1d8 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (5) + 3 + (6, 6) = 20
Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
Grab Roll Ooze VS Dolph: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d8 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (6) + 3 + (3, 5) = 17

Fortune favors the two Pathfinders, as the newly split oozes misses both of them.

Round 1 & 2: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-0,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-7,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-0,Fine)
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Blue Ooze(-0,Fine)
Green Ooze(-7,Fine)

And Edwin still has his first round action if he decides to not strike the ooze after seeing it split to Volsung's Rapier.

Knowledge Dungeoneering: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25 special abilities, so that Tesson remembers how to stop the division

Tesson scratches his head.
"Yeah, 'tis a black pudding. An ooze. Wait till I remember why it divides..." and seems to space for a moment.

Delay until I can give the team an answer about that

Mesmeric mirror would trigger as soon as Volsung is attacked, so there should be two images up, unless the miss was by 5 or less, in which case there is only one image up.

Volsung looks a little sheepish.

"My bad!"

He steps back from the mess he has made and keeps his stare firmly upon blue. 5-foot step and swift action

Volsung then casts color spray on the blue ooze, angling it away from the rest of the party.

DC 16, -2 penalty on Will save; if the ooze normally won't be affected by this spell, psychic inception will work against it, albeit with +2 bonus on its saving throw (canceling out the above penalty) and a 50% chance of ignoring the effect; finally, the HD limit for color spray is +1 because of mental potency.

@ Tesson Black Puddings are completely immune to slashing and piercing damage, and will split upon being struck by such weapons. Their health divides between each pudding, and they can have a limit of 10hp per pudding.

The color spray launches forward, but appears to have no affect! This tells Volsung that these creatures are sightless.

"Its health divides as well as its physical form. Attack with blugeonning damage if you can!" shouts Tesson.

He drunkenly strides towards the nearest part of the pudding. The dhampir's tankard begins to freeze as he whispers: "Cold Ale!"

Concentration DC 19: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28 yasss!

Mighty freezing Tankard: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 10 + 2 = 15
Bludgeoning magical: 1d3 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9 +Cold: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 3, 5) = 19
If it's a hit, the ooze is staggered for 1 round.

Swift: Magical tankard, move to move, standard: Spellstrike, casting Frigid touch through the tankard.

Edwin will not attack in 1st round and delay in 2nd

Dolph will have Victor stand down since the poor goat can only gore, which is piercing

Las draws his whip, takes a side step, and tries to aid Tesson's defense.

If I can Aid Another Defense with a slashing weapon and not split it

Aid Defense for Tesson: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Tell me I'm not the only dude that can deal bludgeoning damage!

Dolph does plenty of bludgeoning with his dorn dergar. It’s basically a wrecking ball on a chain

wow just noticed no bludgeoning weapon here!

Round 1 & 2: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-0,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-35,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-0,Fine)

Blue Ooze(-28,Staggered)
Green Ooze(-7,Fine)
Current status.

Did the precision damage from my Hypnotic Stare appear to affect the ooze and did it contribute to the splitting like the piercing damage?

The precision actually did deal some damage.

Ooze(-40,Fine)

Blue Ooze(-28,Staggered)
Green Ooze(-12,Fine)

delay

Dolph takes a step back before enlarging to ridiculous size. He takes a brief moment to call upon the Power of his Ancestors to increase the power of his attacks.

Free to five foot step, swift to enlarge, move action to activate martial versatility to pick up power attack, standard to attack blue

Attack with +1 Adamantine Dorn Dergar vs Blue (power attack): 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 10 - 2 = 25
Damage (enlarge, power attack): 2d8 + 8 + 6 ⇒ (6, 2) + 8 + 6 = 22

Darrioos gets out his shortbow and fires.

attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Since Volsung is not attacking himself, he can add a whole 2 points of additional precision damage to Dolph's attack using painful stare.

Round 2: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-0,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-62,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-0,Fine)

Red Ooze(-6,Fine)
Blue Ooze(-50,Staggered)
Green Ooze(-6,Fine)

Apologies about my absence. Work has been kicking up in full for me and has taken over most of my attention.

Dolphs mighty swing of his weapon smashes into the blue ooze, and it looks ready to collapse! The arrow splits the green ooze into a red one, but also shrinks the size of both of them!

With the oozes now as three separate entities, they attack!

Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Tesson: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 Hit!
Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Crit!
Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Darrioos: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 Miss!
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Tesson: 1d8 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 3 + (5, 5) = 15
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d8 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (6) + 3 + (5, 3) = 17
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Darrioos: 1d6 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (1) + 1 + (6, 2) = 10

Crit Confirm
Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d8 + 3 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 3 + (4, 2) = 12

Round 3: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-17,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-62,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-15,Fine)

Red Ooze(-6,Fine)
Blue Ooze(-50,Staggered)
Green Ooze(-6,Fine)

Apologies about my absence. Work has been kicking up in full for me and has taken over most of my attention.

Dolph shrinks back down from his temporary growth, using the opportunity to circle around the ooze. Since I get to pick which square he shrinks into, he can move around it without provoking

Unable to get to his former target, he instead takes the opportunity to smash the closest blob.

Attack with +1 Adamantine Dorn-Dergar vs Red (power attack): 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 10 - 2 = 21
Damage (power attack): 1d10 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 7 + 6 = 16

If someone can do bludgeoning to finish off blue, that would be lovely

Edwin steps back. 5ft
Then he slices the green one in half.

+2 scimitar Power attack-Furious Focus: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21
damage: 1d6 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 4 = 16

Do we know if we can get flanking on the oozes?

Dolph smashes the ooze and it is no more but a puddle of pus in the dirt!
Errata: turns out oozes don’t need amorphous to be immune to precision damage. They get that naturally as ooze traits. I’ll just say you dealt lucky damage and continue from there.

Edwin’s sword splits the green ooze! There is now two of them.

Volsung looks disgusted.

"I need to find a large piece of wood to use as a club. Otherwise, I have no way of injuring this creature."

With no way to injure the oozes, Las studies the larger ooze and aids Tesson's defense.

Aid Another Defense: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 Add 2 if Studied Combat matters.

Tesson tries to cast and bash the blue ooze! Lightning sparkles from his tankard... but it fizzles away!

Concentration DC 17: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14 Come on!

He attacks nevertheless!

Mighty Magical Tankard vs blue: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 + 2 = 32 Threat with the fizzy ale!
Confirm?: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 2 = 16
for Bludgeoning magical: 1d3 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9
and if it's a crit Bludgeoning magical: 1d3 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9

Round 3: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-17,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-80,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-15,Fine)

Tesson smashes the blue ooze, and it is dealt a deadly blow!

Only one ooze remains. It returns the favor by lashing out with its body(?) at the nearest foe; Target Via Initiative Order: 1d3 ⇒ 3
Tesson!

Attack Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Tesson: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Damage Roll Ooze Acidic Slam VS Tesson: 1d6 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (1) + 1 + (2, 4) = 8

It misses pathetically.

Round 4: FIGHT!
Light Condition: Normal
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Darrioos(-0,Flanker Mesmerist Trick, Fine)
Edwin Towerfall(-0,Fine)
Dolph, Son of a Shepherd(-17,Fine)
Volsung Dreamborn(-0,Fine)
Ooze(-80,Fine)
Victor(-0,Fine)
Las Lejas(-0,Fine)
Tesson(-15,Fine)

Green Ooze(-6,Fine)

Didn't Edwin in previous round split green ooze in two parts?!

Edwin strikes the green one again.

+2 scimitar Power attack-Furious Focus: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
damage: 1d6 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 6 + 4 = 15

Tesson tries to cast a cantrip to burn the flesh of the remaining ooze!

Concentration DC 15: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

Mighty Magical Tankard: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 10 + 2 = 27
for Bludgeoning: 1d3 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 + 1 = 10

Mighty Magical Tankard: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 10 + 2 = 25
for Bludgeoning: 1d3 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 2 = 7

Spellstrike with spellcombat, casting Brand.

Volsung hits himself in the side of the head with the pommel of his rapier.

"Idiot! I have alchemist fire!

He calls out to the others.

"They burn, right?"

Don't want to do something stupid here.

@VolsungThey smell bad when they burn, but otherwise yes, they burn.
@Edwin The GM is running out of excel sheet room to keep track of all the split oozes.

Edwin splits another ooze, and Tesson smashes the new one. Now only one ooze remains. Edwin's newest slash doesn't split this any more oozes, however.

With one left and everyone near it, I'll pass on the alchemist fire so I don't do splash damage to folks.

"Volsung I can try and throw it?"

Dolph charges the last ooze with great gusto.

Attack with +1 Adamantine Dorn Dergar (charge, power attack): 1d20 + 10 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 2 - 2 = 22
Damage (power attack): 1d10 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 6 = 15

Dolph swings down the dergar at the last ooze, and smashes it completely!

Combat Over!

The wisps come out once again to feed on the ooze.
"Excellent. Fine feasting today."
"Should you wish to hear the other scholars, it can be done."
"With the death of Skum it can be done."
"The simulacrum ooze won't return."
"More answers on the island. Though you should seek a mirror."

Fort Save Darrioos: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Fort Save Dolph, Son of a Shepherd: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18
Fort Save Victor: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Fort Save Tesson: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Fort Save Volsung Dreamborn: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Fort Save Edwin Towerfall: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Fort Save Las Lejas: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

Darrioos Succumbs to the Warping Magic of the Island: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Darrioos feels a wet sensation on his face, and reaches up to clean it. Black liquid seems to be seeping from his eyes. Upon further inspection, it appears to be... Blood?

For the rest of the adventure, Darrioos will be weeping black blood. This has no negative effects yet.

Volsung shuffles his feet a bit and looks embarrassed.

"Sorry about that whole splitting the ooze with my rapier."

He then brightens up a bit.

"Two more lectures if we want them!

I think we should get the lectures and any associated combat out of the way before doing the quests that come from them.

"Gods what's wrong with me?"

Las tries to examine Darrioos. Healing: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

But he has no idea what could be causing the symptoms. Las offers his wand of infernal healing to anyone who needs it 10+ damage

"I am definitely interested in the other lectures!"

Las looks over Darrioos, but realizes this is more of an arcane based issue than medical.

Las Lejas Arcane: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

The magical properties of the island have affected Darrioos. While right now the bleeding eyes have no real concern or issue, perhaps given another hour it might get take a different affect. There is also a probable chance that everyone else might get magically affected by something too. To immediately cure it would cost resources the party doesn't have. The spell Heal, for example.

Stage one has no real effects except cosmetic.

To get more lectures, you will need to have a skum die in the vicinity. Right now, there are none, but if you explore some more areas of the island, perhaps...

"Little else more do we know of now."
"We do not stray far from our knowledge."
"The island has more to see. Skum reside somewhere."
"Perhaps the digsite?"
The wisps, now satiated with their appetite, take their leave. They do not answer any calls for them to come back.

Add Inspiration + Guidance (if it matters: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Does Las know what action triggered the affliction?

"I suspect the longer we stay here, the more danger we are in."

"I suspect the longer we stay here, the more danger we are in."

Darrioos scowls. "Then let's find what's wrong with the area and get moving!"