Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Reflex 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
Pau moves and climbs on the row of books directly underneath the owl.
Not willing to go chasing after these things trough the increasingly unfriendly water, he also casts a spell and sics a DC 17 flaming ball of fire on the albatross. Besides, they are flying and that makes it doubly awkward.
Xusius's magical bolt hits the Albatross but the little bird man has bigger concerns.
green reflex:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
"OUCH! YOU SINGED MY TAIL FEATHERS YOU GREAT SLUG!" Yells the Albatross. The flaming sphere bounces off him, drops into water beneath, and then goes out with a hiss.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Pau wrote:
Does that take one or two move actions, GM?
Treat stepping up onto the overturned bookcase as stepping into difficult terrain.
Bernard St. Ivre wrote:
All good GM, here is the roll. And i can only move 2 squares then?
Previous to paper-product entangle folks could move as if in a shallow bog.
Conditions the water here is deep enough to counted as a shallow bog.
Round 1 and then some! (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
_________________
__ Xusius entangled
__ Deluge
__ Pau
__ Hannar (pending a reflex save)
__ Bernard
__ Yangrit (pending reflex and will saves)
__ Albatross -9 hp
__ Owl -10 hp
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Pau climbs up onto the table and pulling a shuriken as he did so, flings it at the owl headed creature.
My apologies for the delay. I did post that I would delay until end of the round, but that's 3 posts in 3 games there have been taken by the goblins.
Reflex save vs. Entangle:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Hannar growls angrily, casts a spell, and points at the Owl. A cloud of bright, golden particles erupt around the bird.
Glitterdust. Will DC=16. Probably won't work but worth a try.
Glitterdust:
Glitterdust School: conjuration (creation); Casting Time: 1 standard action Components: V, S, M (ground mica) Range: medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Area: creatures and objects within 10-ft.-radius spread Duration: 1 round/level Saving Throw: Will negates (blinding only) Spell Resistance: no Description: A cloud of golden particles covers everyone and everything in the area, causing creatures to become blinded and visibly outlining invisible things for the duration of the spell. All within the area are covered by the dust, which cannot be removed and continues to sparkle until it fades. Each round at the end of their turn blinded creatures may attempt new saving throws to end the blindness effect. Any creature covered by the dust takes a –40 penalty on Stealth checks.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Pau's shuriken flies straight up missing Owl.... Wait for it. Golden sparkles begins to rain down from above.
Owl will:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
"AND NOW I CAN'T SEE!" hoots a wounded, and bedazzled Owl.
Conditions the water here is deep enough to counted as a shallow bog.
Round 1 and then some! (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
_________________
__ Xusius entangled
__ Deluge
__ Pau
__ Hannar
__ Bernard
__ Yangrit (pending reflex and will saves)
__ Albatross -9 hp
__ Owl -10 hp
Female LG Dwarf CORE Monk 4 HP 37/37 | AC 20*, T 18*, FF 15* | CMB +6, CMD 21 | Fort +6*, Ref +7*, Will +7*^ | Init +3 | Perception +9*, Sense Motive +9 | Darkvision 60’ | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
Will DC 14:1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 2 = 25 Reflex DC 14:1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 = 15 Includes +2 bonus from dwarves' Hardy racial trait (vs. spells and spell-like abilities)
Well, this is going to the dogs. Yangrit growls and mutters something about stupid idiots as she trudges through the sloppy water, still heading toward the metal staircase up to the mezzanine with a single-minded purpose. (What a team player!)Double move
Reflex DC 14:1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 2 = 18 Looks like Yangrit is not entangled for her next turn.
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Bernard St. Ivre wrote:
Bernard fires another arrow at the owl, and then moves behind Pau.
Don't forget Reflex v entangle.
Deluge-Core wrote:
Why did it drop into the water? It should be hovering there, right? Am i not understanding the spell or is there something else going on here?
Head on over to discussion for an overly-long and mostly thought-out summation of my POV on the matter.
The Owl does better, and while it looks like he was about to soar off into the library, he stops short, and casts a familiar spell (color spray Will DC 14) upon Bernard. and Xusius (and Albatross).
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Bernard St. Ivre wrote:
...i forgot, i should have stood still...!
I should probably also note that Pau hadn't moved his token yet so, it's just Bernard standing there. Good luck! We're all counting on you. ;)
Conditions the water here is deep enough to counted as a shallow bog. The floor is littered with entangling paper (the green area; Reflex DC 14).
Round 2 (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
_________________
__ Xusius entangled (pending will save)
__ Deluge
__ Pau
__ Hannar
__ Bernard (pending will save)
__ Yangrit
__ Albatross -9 hp
__ Owl -10 hp
Female LG Dwarf CORE Monk 4 HP 37/37 | AC 20*, T 18*, FF 15* | CMB +6, CMD 21 | Fort +6*, Ref +7*, Will +7*^ | Init +3 | Perception +9*, Sense Motive +9 | Darkvision 60’ | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
Yangrit finally begins tromping up the spiral staircase. As she does, she draws her sling. After getting up partway, she she pauses to pull a cold iron bullet out of her pouch, loading it in her sling as she eyes the situation down below. Surveying the scene, she gripes to herself: "The boys just had to anger the magical creatures. Sigh.Hmm. I am running low on bullets. I should have replenished my stock. That was foolish of me!"
It looks like the waterfall runs over half of the staircase. Does that affect her movement in any way?
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Bernard St. Ivre wrote:
"Hit me baby one more time."
I did. Now where's my will save? ;)
Yangrit Foehammer wrote:
It looks like the waterfall runs over half of the staircase. Does that affect her movement in any way?
The water on the stairs does not affect movement (nor does it on the mezzanine above as the water just runs off through the rail). It does pour down, and through the metal grill stairs making everything wet going up though. That said, stairs are normally difficult terrain, and these are no different. There are two squares of stairs to travel though. Also, the stairs go down to a subbasement too.
Female LG Dwarf CORE Monk 4 HP 37/37 | AC 20*, T 18*, FF 15* | CMB +6, CMD 21 | Fort +6*, Ref +7*, Will +7*^ | Init +3 | Perception +9*, Sense Motive +9 | Darkvision 60’ | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: none
So it looks like Yangrit is able to ascend to the top of the stairs (15 feet of movement due to difficult terrain from the watery floor and the 10' of stairs.)
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Hannar the Wild wrote:
Umm...how was the Owl able to fly and target a spell while blind? Just curious.
Forgot (conveniently) all about that. It was probably all part of my clever plan to see if Bernard was paying attention. Scratch those requested saves lads.
Owl will save v glitter:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10Still blind.
Conditions the water here is deep enough to counted as a shallow bog. The floor is littered with entangling paper (the green area; Reflex DC 14).
Round 2 (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
_________________
__ Xusius entangled
__ Deluge
__ Pau
__ Hannar
__ Bernard
__ Yangrit
__ Albatross -9 hp
__ Owl -10 hp, bedazzled, blind
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
”the two of you brought that on yourself. We might heal you, if you give us that scroll you fished out of the water and help us by telling what you know. I said might because you weirdos reacted poorly to me trying to be nice,” Pau says, almost screaming the last few words.
LN Human M Ranger 3 | HP: 27/27 | AC 20; TC 15; FF 16 | CMB +5; CMD 20 | Fort +4; Ref +7; Will +2 | Init +6 |Perc: +7, SM: +1 | Speed 30ft
Bernard lowers his bow, "I am sorry for shooting an arrow at you, Mr Owl. But my friend here is right, he was trying to be diplomatic before we really stuffed that one up! Can you tell us what is going on in this library? Why is it so flooded?"
Diplomacy, aid maybe:1d20 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1
"Dang it, remember you drunken fool, don't start negotiations with - ehhh sorry i shot you! Gah!"
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Pau looked at the scroll fragment, and rubbed his temples in frustration. He handed to one of the more clever members of the party. ”Just take it. I’m getting too old for this s$@*,” he grumbled.
Deluge reads it and hands it over to the next person in line.
"You know, this is like trying to figure out a prophesy. It never makes sense until after it's happened. Heck, the riddle says the sleeper made a meal of these two, but here they are, and there it is upstairs, not 'deeper'. Say, where did you first see this here sleeper and why do you call it a sleeper?"
diplomacy:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
Deluge's bookcase is covered in trail mix, the result of his interrupted snack and trying to cast a spell with his mouth full. He makes a rather unappealing sight even if his heart is in the right place.
Glitterdust only lasts 4 rounds, so Owl should be ok soon.
"You asked us not to go up there and disturb "the big sleeper". Perhaps if you were to explain who or what "the big sleeper" is and why you think we should't, we might not."
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
It doesn't seem to be looking at her, rather it is looking about the back aisle of bookshelves. The creature moves about on 8 or 10 tentacles. It knocks a few books off the shelf with a couple of those tentacles both of them as thick as a man's leg. **splash splash**
It stops as if suddenly becoming aware of something. Its whole blubbery frame tenses and then water! Water pours like a great decorative fountain from what you guess must be a number of unseen sphincters(?) all over it's body... but the thing is only the size of a very fat human. Where could all the water be coming from!? As it sprays the library with water it pirouettes about on some of its tentacles while two flick upward to happily conduct the unseen orchestra that must be playing in its head.
As above, once your PC sees the creature they can attempt to identify it with a Knowledge (arcana) check, and then open all of the spoilers whose DCs they beat below.
knowledge (arcana) DC 15+:
The fish thing is a grodair, a magical, aquatic, extraplanar, beast native to the First World, and magical fishing holes in any number of children’s fairy tales.
knowledge (arcana) DC 20+:
Grodairs are intelligent aquatic creatures that carry their own water around within them. Their bodies contain extradimensional spaces that can hold near limitless amounts of water like an everfull mug or bag of holding. Like sponges they can absorb water from one place and expel it in another.
knowledge (arcana) DC 25+:
Grodairs can drown whole valleys, or expel concentrated blasts of pressurized water as a sort of defense mechanism. Often when they absorb water they will accidentally absorb other small objects as well.
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
At being made aware of the monster, Pau moves for the steps and begins to follow Yangrit’s lead.
AC 13 (17 Mage Armor) T 13/FF 10 | CMB +0 CMD 14 | HP 30(30) | Init +9 | Fort +4 Ref +5 Will +5 | Perception +8 | Speed 30 ft. | Light
Memorized Spells:
Cantrips: Detect Magic, Light, Ray of Frost, Read Magic L1: Burning Hands, Color Spray, Enlarge Person, Grease
Xusius shrugs stoically and heads for the stairs which he had been trying to reach prior to the slight battle breaking out. Once there he considers what he might know of the beast before him.
Arcana:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
He reads the scroll fragment on the way.
"Interesting. Zese ees a beast I have never eencountered before. I wonder what eet ees."
He doesn't believe in 'game balance'. Gandalf always lets him pass. As a feat, he has Exotic Weapon Proficiency (beard). The city guard often question him, just because they find him so interesting. His dice bag is woven from tarrasque leather. His TPKs end game lines. His blood cures moderate wounds. He once punched a flumph. Yes, you heard me. He belongs to a prestige class whose sole requirement for entry is just being him. ♬ He is indeed, the most interesting GM in the world. ♬
Folks who head up to the mezzanine can open Yangrit's spoilers and links as if they are Yangrit above.
Deluge lags behind and waits for Xusius to clear the stairs before moving from his dry perch. Once Xusius gets up high enough, Deluge heads over and begins his climb right behind him, making sure all his goodies are protected from the water falling on him from above.
