GM Jhaeman's "Doom Comes to Dustpawn" (Inactive)

Game Master Jhaeman

Almaas takes: scroll (invisibility), 1 potion of cure moderate wounds, efficient quiver.

Realizing that the orbs are part of some magic even larger sets Dawa to trembling with excitement and anticipation. "What if these are actually parts of the moon itself!?! It seems certain that they must be... And it all starts to make sense now - whatever this 'heavenly visitor' seemed to be, it was actually the divine moon making an appearance herself! We must all tremble with awe..."

Almaas raises an eyebrow.

“ Well, I have to admit that I have very little understanding of the influence of the stars or the moon on us so I have to trust in the judgment of those more experienced than I! I just would advise to not jump to conclusions which might be too far reaching! We have to protect our community and sending the right message is important!“ he advises like preacher.

Xilt smirks at Dawa attempt at reasoning but does not comment as he realizes that it is pointless.

He collects the books, the orbs and the remainder of the magical items. He watches with fascination as his Handy Haversack sucks down the items.

"That never gets old."

"If anyone needs something please let me know. Someone else be a dear and gather up the rest of the gear."

Izlin slides one of the black wands into his belt, followed by the glass wand. "The 'heavens' are fairly large. Almaas is correct, let's not go making assumptions just yet."

Tzleztor grabs a black wand and wears the Gold Amulet.

"Master what is the command word for the wand? Fluffy Bunny? Ok."

Xilt looks around ensuring that no treasure is left behind. He is a proud member of the Exchange after all. He grudgingly suggests that they move on when people are ready.

"I guess I can wait to examine the books and orbs latter."

Taman looks at the things they have found "I don't wanna any of those stuff."

The Pathfinders continue their exploration of the mine, this time choosing the northeast fork of the branching tunnels. As they advance, the temperature drops suddenly as a clammy breeze wafts up from a chamber ahead.

A pair of translucent, ghostly figures, their faces twisted with wrath, are here and instantly move to attack!

On your turn, (assuming you have line of sight) you can attempt to identify the creatures.

Initiative (Round 1)

Izlin
Apparitions
Tachonious
Almaas
Xilt
Dawa
Taman

Bold may go!

Religion: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

With a modicum of pity in his voice, "Specters huh? You boys deserve some rest, and maybe a bit of mercy. How 'bout we release you from this realm so you can finally move on?" With out waiting for an answer, the magus pulls a dagger from the back of his belt. As he draws it, the cavern near him becomes brighter as the illuminated blade softly glows.
"I picked this up for an occasion such as the one we all find ourselves in. I'll try to make this as painless as possible." Activating the magic held within the fire-blackened hopeknife causes the blade's glow to grow in intensity. Soon, the tiefling is holding a small piece of the sun. He proceeds to enchant the blade with arcing energy and then throws for all he is worth.

Brinya's Love vs BLACK: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23
Damage {Magic/ GHOST TOUCH/ PBS/ Shocking Grasp/ Startoss/ Deadly Aim}: 1d4 + 8 + 7d6 ⇒ (4) + 8 + (3, 5, 2, 3, 2, 1, 5) = 33

Using Brinya's Love which 'on command' provides the blade the Ghost touch property AND it glows as if Daylight had been cast.

Izlin's hurled dagger connects with the nearest spectre and tears away several tendrils of ectoplasm! The spectre howls in rage and then both ghostly creatures rush to attack the tiefling. The merest touch from each seems to draw the very life-force from the Pathfinder, and in turn augment their own forms!

Izlin's ghost touch weapon does full damage to the Black spectre. Alas, only true natural sunlight is able to disperse a spectre (not the daylight spell).

Black advances and tries to touch Izlin, and Yellow flies until it's in the 5' square (cube) directly above Black and tries to touch him as well. Both attacks hit.

Izlin, you take 14 points of damage. More importantly, you now have 4 temporary negative levels. In sum, these negative levels reduce your current and maximum hit points by 20, and gives you a -4 penalty on all ability checks, attack rolls, combat maneuver checks, CMD, saving throws, and skills checks. In regards to spellcasting, you are treated as four levels lower for all level-dependent variables of the spell. If you don't get rid of these temporary negative levels within 24 hours, there's a chance they'll become permanent.

Initiative (Round 1)

Izlin
Apparitions
Tachonious
Almaas
Xilt
Dawa
Taman

Bold may go!

”What is going on?! Let us retreat to the big cavern to fight!!“ he says and runs back.

Taman steps next to Izlin 5ft and attacks the black one.

+3 large bastard sword - power attack - Furious Focus : 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17
damage: 2d8 + 10 + 9 ⇒ (7, 2) + 10 + 9 = 28

+3 large bastard sword - power attack - Furious Focus : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
damage: 2d8 + 10 + 9 ⇒ (4, 2) + 10 + 9 = 25

confirm crit : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
damage: 2d8 + 10 + 9 ⇒ (8, 6) + 10 + 9 = 33

Taman's sword tears away more ectoplasm from a spectre, and it looks nearly destroyed!

Both attacks hit, and do half damage (and no crits, because it's incorporeal-sorry!)

Tzleztor flies (5' fly) over the head of the Inquisitor draws a wand of Magic Missile and tries to let one go. He attacks the most damaged Spectre.

UMD: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27
Force,Magic Missile CL5: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (3, 1, 2) + 3 = 9

Xilt tries to remember what he knows about this variety of Undead.

K-Religion,Heroism: 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 16 + 2 = 34

"Watch out for their touch if you can."

He then lets shifts a bit for a better view and lets a magic missile go at a surviving Spectre.

Magic Missile,Force,Arcane point: 5d4 + 5 ⇒ (4, 1, 4, 3, 2) + 5 = 19

I positioned Xilt in the middle of three partial squares so he has a bit more room and should not be squeezing.

Dawa quickly begins to chant an inspiring song in Celestial before moving forward to send a burst of radiant energy in the midst of the creatures.

Knowledge (Religion): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20 Request any useful information we don't already have.

Swift action to Inspire Courage. With Banner, everyone now has +4/+4 attacks/dmg
Move action to move forward to be able to see.
Standard action to cast Burst of Radiance, centered behind the undead, so that it only affects them. DC 19 Reflex: blinded for 1d4 rounds if they fail; dazzled for 1d4 rounds if they succeed.
Assuming they are evil, they automatically take (regardless of save or not): 5d4 ⇒ (3, 3, 4, 2, 2) = 14

A barrage of magic missiles fired by Xilt and his familiar completely destroy one of the spectres. An instant later, Dawa’s magical burst of radiance blinds the remaining undead!

Tachonious, you're up, and then I'll start the next round.

With the one near the ground gone, Tachonius moves underneath the one in the air. His blade sizzles with energy that is particularly harmful to undead and then attack.

Bane vs Undead
+1 Keen Falcata: 1d20 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 17 + 2 = 35 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 2 + (2, 1) = 14

Izlin falls back into the hallway before sending the hopeknife back at the life-stealing monster.

Brinya's Love {Bonuses & Level loss}: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20
Damage {Ghost Touch}: 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

The blade returns to its place on his belt. The tiefling fails to suppress a cough. Pulling his hand away from his mouth, he sees it is covered in blood. "Great! Perfect day. This is why you were trained not to run into rooms like some kind of eager moron. Dad would kill me, or just let me die. Crios would have said 'I told you so' and laughed a little."

Tachonious stabs the spectre from underneath, while Izlin's hurled knife tears through the undead again. Blinded from Dawa's spell, the wrathful mockery of life tries to strike back, but it's spectral claws slash only empty air!

The spectre is going to target randomly either the square where it knew Izlin *was* or the square where Tachonious is now.

Bad luck for the spectre.

Initiative (Round 2)

Izlin
Apparitions
Tachonious
Almaas
Xilt
Dawa
Taman

Bold may go!

Technically, I should roll to see if the spectre can hover. If it fails the Fly check, it'll have to move.

Okay, all good.

Taman attacks next enemy.

+3 large bastard sword - power attack - Furious Focus - flank: 1d20 + 15 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 15 + 2 = 27
damage: 2d8 + 10 + 9 ⇒ (6, 7) + 10 + 9 = 32

+3 large bastard sword - power attack - Furious Focus - flank: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 2 = 17
damage: 2d8 + 10 + 9 ⇒ (7, 8) + 10 + 9 = 34

Tachonius continues calling the power of Kurgess into his blade to be a bane against undead.

+1 Keen Falcata: 1d20 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 17 + 2 = 28 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 6 + 2 + (2, 2) = 14
+1 Keen Falcata: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 2 = 21 Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 + (2, 3) = 20

Together, Taman and Tachonious destroy the last spectre! With a final frightful moan, it dissipates into nothingness.

We are off Initiative.

A quick search of the area leads to a gruesome discovery. At one end of the tunnel, a pair of bodies are slumped; they each feature hideous mutations and wounds consistent with horrific torture.

Xilt recovers his spell with a pearl of power before putting it away.
He takes one of the wand of Magic Missiles from Tzleztor and puts in a pocket in easy reach.

"Interesting creatures and now this."

Xilt checks the bodies for magic (Detect Magic).

“That was much faster than I thought!“ he says and walks into the cavern he could not see earlier.

He casts detect magic and scan the area.

He also searches the place.

perc : 0 + 1d20 + 18 ⇒ 0 + (17) + 18 = 35

GM, Almaas shares everything with the group so you can openly describe what he finds.

Although the bodies have been stripped of gear, Almaas finds a hollowed-out heel in the boot of one of the brothers containing a large sapphire inside!

Folks, this is my fortnightly "away for 24 hours" thing. Back tomorrow!

Have fun GM!

Almaas searches the rest of the cave to be sure that they did not miss anything.

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (5) + 18 = 23

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (7) + 18 = 25

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (3) + 18 = 21

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (6) + 18 = 24

perc : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (13) + 18 = 31

“What do you think? Is it time to wake up the Elven bat lady?“ he asks the team.

Xilt rubs his head and shrugs while replying sheepishly.

"I forgot about her completely but if you intend to bring her back to town perhaps it is easier if she is not conscious. Good job finding the gem. It was well hidden."

The Mephit grins at the opportunity for more kidnapping shenanigans.

"Another cursed creature that the party is going to rescue? I am curious to see if the town guard will be more alert this time. Nah, probably not. It is hard getting good help these days."

Almaas nods at the mephit.

”We will do it here. Please do not be intimidating!“

He uses his smelling salt to wake the Elven Bat.

”Please stay calm! I don’t know if you understand us. But if you do please be aware that we are here to help the communities that are affected by this phenomenon that fell from the sky! We know that many are looking for it. Evil people too! Do you have any suggestions on how we could proceed to find out what is going on?!“ he asks.

diplomacy : 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (16) + 20 = 36

The bat-like elf bares her teeth and struggles against the bonds, obviously unwilling to listen to reason.

Almaas is not surprised.

”Maybe we can create some form of understanding. Look, do any of these things belong to you?!“ ha asks.

He shows her the large sapphire he found in the boot. Then he asks Taman to escort her to the room where he accidentally started a battle. He shows her unconscious bodies of the humans and the things they carried.

”We really would return your gear to you!“

Dawa looks on at the efforts to help the crazed bat-lady with sympathy. "The moon can only give its blessings when it so chooses. Perhaps we should leave her in an open field for a month so that she may perceive the waxing and waning mysteries? I always find it most illuminating."

When shown the strange orbs that were on the table, the bound woman suddenly calms down. She begins speaking in an unusual language and tries gesturing.

"What!?"

Almaas shrugs.

”I have really no idea what she is saying!“

"Right. She is speaking about the orbs. She claims that she can lead us somewhere. I can try to talk to her."

He turns to the Bat-Woman and begins speaking in an ancient tongue.

Xilt shrugs knowing that a possible trap or ambush is likely to result in more treasure found.

"She wants us to follow her. We are done here anyways so I suggest that we let her lead us to her destination."

He looks to the others. He waits for the others to be ready to leave.

Taman follows.

Tachonius nods and follows, but keeps his falcata in hand.

She's still has her hands tied, correct? If not, Izlin will insist on that.

The strange woman leads the party out of the mine, gesticulating often with her bound hands and repeating a sing-song in Aklo. She sets off south through the hills, following no noticeable trail. It's rough and rugged walking. After about four hours, there's still plenty of daylight but you're starting to get tired. She seems eager to continue, however.

Because it took you four hours to get to the mine, another four hours of walking with the bat-elf puts you at 8 hours. You left Dustpawn at dawn, so there's still a few hours of daylight left, but if you continue walking I would need saves to avoid nonlethal damage and fatigue from forced marching. The alternative would be to camp and continue in the morning. How would you like to proceed?