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

Game Master Jhaeman

I vote we press on for a bit, until sundown.

Fort vs Fatigue: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18

I think camping is better.

camp

My suggestion is to role-play why your characters have their respective views. Someone may have a good reason that persuades the others.

"I see no sense in going in there half exhausted. What ever is waiting there for us can wait until tomorrow morning."

My character is a proponent of the speed of plot.

"I agree with Xilt! We should rest."

Continuing to take shallow breaths, "Given the corruption I feel coursing through me, I want to get back to a priest as soon as possible. The sooner we finish this little outing, the faster I can receive religious intervention."

Okay, to keep us progressing I'm going to assume you camp for the night. It passes uneventfully, and everyone can recharge their daily spells, etc. Please also mark off rations.

The strange woman with bat and elven features sleeps soundly all night long, but as soon as the sun gets up, she hops to her feet and seems anxious to keep moving. Another two hours' walk brings you to the base of a large hill, and you notice pale smoke wafting into the air behind it! Going around the hill, you see a devastated landscape.

A great furrow has been carved through the hills here, creating a brand-new valley amid the peaks. The ground is blasted and scorched, and the trees surrounding the area are charred and burnt leafless. But the furrow only somewhat resembles a crater—-for the huge object embedded at its center obviously struck the ground at an angle.

The object resembles nothing so much as a streamlined arrowhead of stone and strange crystal. A huge crack along the object’s southern side allows brief glimpses into the dark interior, revealing the thing to be hollow. Now and then, crystals along the object’s length sparkle and sizzle, sending up a faint plume of strange green smoke.

Dozens of large vultures perch atop the object or lurk in the burnt branches of the surrounding trees—-the birds are strangely silent and watchful, as if they know death is imminent in the area.

Assume you're about 200 feet away from the strange crashed object.

Quick question. Did I make/pass the saves against the negative levels, or am I still under their effect?

Sorry for the posting delay - a little busy at the moment. Dawa casts his usual long buffs at the start of the day: Ant Haul & Defending Bone.

Been busy with PaizoCon stuff. Catching up.

Once we are near the strange object, Tachonius will cast is usual spells.

Heightened Awareness, Discovery Torch, Heroism.

Almaas asks Xilt to use his mage armor wand on him.

He casts ‘see invisibility’ on himself and starts waking forward to the crash site.

perception : 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (1) + 18 = 19

Before retiring for the night Xilt fortifies himself with unholy energy (False Life, Extended).

False Life,Arcane Point spent, Extended: 1d10 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

As requested he helps Almaas with his wand of Mage Armor.

He then fortifies himself with Mage Armor and targets Tzleztor with another incantation of that spell after recharging his arcane energy with a pearl of power. He puts up Message on the party and casts Heroism (Extended) and Ablative Barrier on himself.

He carries his rod of Intensify in his left hand and shrugs speaking mostly to himself.

"You never know."

"Now I am ready or as ready as I will ever be."

"Hardly, but still you remembered the Mage Armor so you are slightly less distracted this time around."

Tzleztor flits about only mildly critical of his master. He draws forth his captured wand of magic missile with a look of appreciation.

As the Pathfinders approach the crash site, the dozens of normal-size vultures begin shrieking and rising up to circle in the sky above, while four giant vultures among them launch forward to attack!

This encounter is on Slide # 2. A picture of the crash site is Slide # 3.

Initiative (Round 1)

Xilt
Dawa
Izlin
Bat-Elf
Tachonious
Taman
Almaas
Giant Vultures

Bold may go!

Just need to know what my Caster Level is before I decide on a course of action. How many (if any) negative levels?

Dawa once again begins to sing Celestial battle songs to inspire his comrades and then brings further blessings upon his tiger companion.

Swift action to Inspire Courage; together with the Banner everyone has +4 atks/+4 to dmg; Standard action to cast Divine Favor on K'nai.

K'nai will ready to attack if any of the vultures come within range.

Izlin, you still have the four temporary negative levels. Once the 24 hours have passed (around noon in-game), then you'll learn how many (if any) have become permanent.

Xilt moves behind Dawa before targeting one of the Vultures(Red) with Magic Missiles.

MM,force: 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 2, 3, 2) + 4 = 15

Tzleztor flies past Dawa and uses his new black wand.

UMD: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16

"Drat. What is that command word again?"

Izlin pulls one of the wands recovered yesterday. He also targets the same vulture as Xilt.

MM: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 3, 4) + 3 = 12

Magical spheres of force from Xilt and Izlin slam into one of the giant vultures, and the creature accidentally slams into the top of the strange metallic object!

The vulture failed a fly check and lost enough attitude to hit the top of the ship.

The Pathfinders' prisoner gestures frantically for her hands to be freed.

Initiative (Round 1)

Xilt
Dawa
Izlin
Bat-Elf
Tachonious
Taman
Almaas
Giant Vultures

Bold may go!

kn check - See modifiers below : 1d20 ⇒ 11

Almaas full attacks with rapid shot and his boots of speed and bane.

He focuses on the yellow feathered beast and seeks Erastil's aid and shoots an arrow!

Swift action: Bane on these things. 11/12 rounds remaining

To hit +21: +5 BAB, +7 Wis (Zen Archer), +1 Enhancement Bonus, +1 Weapon Focus, -2 Deadly Aim, +2 Wood Mystery Wood Bond, +4 Dawa Inspire/Flag, +2 Bane, +1 Haste
Damage +11 + 2d6: +4 Deadly aim, +1 Enhancement bonus, +4 Dawa,+2 +2d6 bane

Primary rapid shot longbow to hit : 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (16) + 21 = 37
Primary rapid shot Longbow damage : 1d8 + 11 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 11 + (5, 2) = 20
potentially sneak attack if flatfooted : 1d6 ⇒ 4

Assuming this was a hit he can study target as an immediate action for additional +2/+2 to hit/damage.

Haste longbow to hit : 1d20 + 21 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 21 + 2 = 24
Haste Longbow damage : 1d8 + 11 + 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 11 + (5, 6) + 2 = 27
potentially sneak attack if flatfooted: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Secondary longbow to hit : -5 + 1d20 + 21 + 2 ⇒ -5 + (9) + 21 + 2 = 27
Secondary Longbow damage : 1d8 + 11 + 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 11 + (2, 2) + 2 = 21
potentially sneak attack if flatfooted: 1d6 ⇒ 5

In case the yellow bird drops Almaas directs the attacks on the other red being.

GM can you please put altitude next to each Vultures on the map? Tnx

Almaas lets fly a trio of arrows, and two of them strike one of the giant vultures to deadly effect! It plummets to the ground in a sickening thump.

Although the nat 1 missed, of course, the other two arrows were enough to drop Yellow.

Regarding heights, please assume Red is on top of the ship (which is 20' high). We'll say the other giant vultures are circling 10' further up, so they're 30' off the ground.

We've got Taman and Tachonious up.

Taman takes out his shortbow and tries to shoot the red one.

shortbow: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Tachonius tries to determine the intent of the bat-elf.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (12) + 23 = 35

If he doesn't sense that she is likely to betray them or to run, he takes his falcata and cuts her bonds.

Taman sends an arrow flying into the breast of a wounded vulture, while Tachonious cuts the bonds on the bat-elf.

The vultures swoop down out of the sky to attack! Dawa's animal companion leaps with a perfectly timed jump and crashes into one of the vultures, but the other two attack Tachonious and Taman.

The three vultures are doing flying charge attacks. Dawa's animal companion's readied action hits Blue and succeeds on the free grapple attempt. Blue is grappled. Tachonious, K'nai, and Taman each get hit.

Tachonious takes 19 points of damage, K'nai takes 18 points, and Taman takes 15 points.

Initiative (Round 2)

Xilt
Dawa
Izlin
Bat-Elf
Tachonious
Taman
Almaas
Giant Vultures

Bold may go!

The magus levels his wand and launches another slew of magic darts.

Wand of MM vs BKACK: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 2, 2) + 3 = 9

Xilt unloads with another volley of magic missiles against the closest Vulture (Red).

MM: 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4, 1, 4) + 4 = 16

The Mephit points with his wand again trying hard to make it work.

UMD,Wand of MM: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30

Three missiles fly out towards the nearest Vulture(Red).

MM,CL 5: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1, 2) + 3 = 10

Magical missiles fill the air, dropping one of the giant vultures and wounding others!

Black is hurt, Red is dropped by Xilt, so I had Tzleztor's missiles hit Blue. Dawa, you're up.

K'nai has DR 5/evil, so unless the Vulture's attacks are evil-aligned he only takes 13 dmg.

K'nail attempts to maintain his grapple on the Blue vulture.

Grapple CMB, maintain, inspire, banner, divine favor: 1d20 + 24 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 24 + 5 = 49
bite dmg: 1d8 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15

Rake 1: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (16) + 19 = 35
rake dmg: 1d6 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14

Rake 2: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (3) + 19 = 22
rake dmg: 1d6 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18

Meanwhile, Dawa tries to give Blue some bad luck.

If Blue is down after K'nai's attacks then Dawa moves closer to Black and does the following to Black instead...

Ill Omen (mind-affecting, no save) - it has to roll twice and take the worse result on its next two d20 rolls.

K'nai rips one of the giant vultures to shreds!

The strangely mutated elf moves over to the injured K'nai and magically heals some of its wounds!

Cure Moderate Wounds: 2d8 + 5 ⇒ (3, 7) + 5 = 15

Initiative (Round 2)

Xilt
Dawa
Izlin
Bat-Elf
Tachonious
Taman
Almaas
Giant Vultures

Bold may go!

Taman moves closer and shoot one more arrow in Black.

shortbow: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Tachonius slashes twice at the vulture:

+1 Keen Falcata: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (1) + 17 = 18 Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
+1 Keen Falcata: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25 Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Almaas full attacks with rapid shot and inactivates his boots of speed and bane.

Move action: studying target for +2 to hit / damage.

He focuses on the last feathered beast!

Primary rapid shot longbow to hit : 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (14) + 20 = 34
Primary rapid shot Longbow damage : 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

K'nai has SR 13, so unfortunately I think that elf-bat has to make a caster level check to see if her healing went through.

The remaining giant vulture is quickly destroyed by the Pathfinders.

We are off Initiative.

Good reminder, Dawa. The cure spell does go through.

Xilt recovers his spells with two pearls of power.

"So, now that we have cleared out the local wildlife should we explore this strange ruin?"

Almaas nods.

"Yes, let's go!"

Perception: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (11) + 18 = 29

"I am ready!"

Yes, I also forgot about his SR when I cast Divine Favor on him. I've had different GM rulings on the question of whether or not his SR applies when Dawa is doing the casting. What's your view?

Dawa and K'nai look around to see whether the Vultures were guarding anything or were simply hungry predators.

Dawa Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
K'nai Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18