GM PDK'S PFS RPG 'TOMB OF THE IRON MEDUSA' (Inactive)

Game Master Purple Dragon Knight

Glaube is indeed Brother's ticket right now

My token was moved?

If possible, Glaube will use channeled revival to cast breath of life on Brother from a distance.

I'm not sure where I was. Perhaps an elemental could bring Brother to me, or someone can haul me to within 30' of Brother. Will happily delay to make either happen.

BoL: 5d8 + 13 ⇒ (4, 4, 1, 5, 8) + 13 = 35

I moved you and Dora because Kel 5-ft stepped and dimension doored you both right next to Brother. Yes, it's time for a swim. The water is nice. :) PS: if you have Breath of Life memorized you don't need to waste 3 uses of channel in this case, since you're within touch reach of Brother.

No worries Mal, Dora, and Kel. We had the right tools in the right places. I appreciate the team effort!

Brother Rabbit coughs and sputters as he stands up in the pool. "Oh MAN, what a rush!" He exclaimed, grabbing his hat from the water and putting it back in his head. "Of course whatever gods are watching us right now knew I had to die in the water. Ha!" The Captain seems far too jovial for someone just brought back to life. He looks around at everyone around him and throws up has hands.

"Thank you, friends. Thank you. I apologize for finding this so funny. I come from a monastery which believes life is one long running joke. For me to come all this way inland just to die in some salt water," He chuckled and shook his head. "It's in my nature to laugh!"

He makes a point of shaking Glaubes' hand out of appreciation and grabs the bow the Medusa was using. "Going to take this, if no one minds."

Mal climbs out, listening to Kel continue his conversation with Dora, I’ll take a prestidigation to get dry, if you don’t mind. I could happily use the ring, but perhaps Thrag or Dora would get better utility out of it?

Kel smiles and shrugs... "I think we'd all be able to use the ring, but I'd rather see it go to a front liner who needs it than myself... I try to stay out of danger... try being the operative word, of course, though Dora's well-being is important too... I'll let you all worry about who will claim it.. I will lay claim to the document on behalf of all of us... if something dire happens to me, it's in this," he points to a spot on his haversack "pocket."

"Now that we are all back together, we should discuss whether or not to rest here... I am not depleted of spells, but perhaps of some rather important ones... I wouldn't mind some rest, and I don't know if Glaube has another Breath of Life spell, so he might need the rest as well... and we know he needs another heal for Dora."

He turns to Dora and smiles, shrugs, knowing full well the gestures will go unseen and unacknowledged though he hopes some of his warm feelings toward her will carry in his voice. "Now, where were we? Ah, yes.. discussing whether you'd like the luxury of the bed to rest in if resting is our decision... and if you'd like a little company. While Arshea would prefer otherwise, a platonic evening is fine too... I'd be happy to read to you, or tell you stories, or even try to sing for you, but singing's not my forte... I can barely carry a tune." He chuckles softly in embarrassment, offering to sing for a bard. "Or I'd be happy just to set up my sleeping mat on the floor by the bed and doze nearby, with my familiar keeping watch over us both. Perhaps I'm being a bit pushy, but I don't think anyone should be alone in this place. If you're uncomfortable with my offers, please don't be reticent, say so and I'll shut up." He shrugs and smiles.. and awaits Dora's response.

Dora smiles as the divine power saves Brother Rabbit.

Well, that is a relief.

Turning back to the sound of Kel's voice.

I appreciate the offer. But in my condition, I am only able to worry of my eyesight returning before any songs can be sung beyond those to inspire our mission. In another place and time...well, I cannot say.

She sighs, wishing she could gauge the effect of her words by sight.

But to be honest, this place and quest has drained some of the joy from me. I count us fortunate to have survived. Once we are home safely, a song or two will be well in order.

Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (15) + 17 = 32

Sounds like we could use a chance to refresh ourselves, in mind if not body. But let's make sure we're secure before picking this as the place to bunk for the night.

The ring is better than the one I have, but not so much if it's more help to someone else.

Kel is a bit disappointed, but not surprised, by Dora's response and simply smiles... kisses the back of her hand, and says "I understand and happily will give you leave to recover and replenish your joie de vivre. This place is a bit draining, I must agree. It will be as you wish."

He turns to the others and says "Shall we rest here, do you think it might be safe enough? I am hesitant to simply wander more and look for more danger, just to assure this place is secure... Perhaps we can make it safe without more exploration?"

I think resting is a good idea. I don't think Dora was suggesting leaving before us, and it probably wouldn't be all that safe for us to leave one by one anyways. Things will seem better in the morning, after we've rested our weary heads, and Glaube and the Dawnflower have restored her sight. Thank goodness Glaube made it to brother in time! I can take first watch, as long as I get my eight hours and the Forgefather replenishes me.

Regarding that ring, it seems wrong that anyone but Dora should wear it. A phalanx is only as good as each shield, and for some reason those who walk the necropolis are damned intent on killing our shortest member. If you already have a ring that wards you, perhaps another could benefit from it?

Mal practices his katas while keeping a vigilant eye for danger.

Mal has a RoP +1, I think Dora and Thrag both have a +2, so Mal benefit from using Dora's ring, if no one else would. Thrag would be the other obvious choice, but he hasn't been lit up like Dora has (although largely due to the blindness).

Happy to top off any HP damage now. Presume we'll need a lesser restoration and a remove blindness in the AM. Any other requests?

Dora will accept the ring should no other benefit more.

”I apologize for having to impose on you all while blind. I will be most grateful in the morning if this can be resolved. “

The night goes on uneventfully.

What's next folks?

Come morning, after a quiet night, either despite or as a result of any precautions taken to assure party safety during the rest, Kel will begin studying spells, taking a few different ones this time... His faerie dragon familiar will sit sleepily on his shoulder, happy to be out of the familiar pouch for the night and morning at least.

After all the study and some time to eat, Kel will happily have breakfast and prepare to head out again after Dora's sight is restored and everyone else is ready as well...

The night goes on uneventfully.

What's next folks?

Will update my list of spells and daily abilities before my next post, GM. At minimum, I'll use a lesser resto to suppress the curse and a remove blindness on the bard. I'd like to cast status on Brother, Mal, and Thrag. I'd like to cast heroes feast as it will help our melee types because it stacks with the bard's competence bonus.

Temp HP for the whole party from heroes feast: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Now thats what I call breakfast! Kel, did you have a chance to look over that document last night? What evidence does it provide?

Kel would have explained the contents of the document in brief before he even stashed it in his haversack, but he elaborates this morning when Mal asks.

"It's a document recording the birth of Stavian the First... not sure exactly what it implies legally, but could be something that reflects on the birthright and royal lineage of the current King... I'd be interested to do more research into its actual implications. If it really does have a political impact on his right to rule, for example, this document could be quite valuable, either to the individuals, such as ourselves, or organization, perhaps the Society?, that can bring such information to bear. I myself care little who rules presently, but if such power could be useful to affect the decisions and actions of a current head of state, this birth certificate could be considered a game changer, yes?"

After the fine magical breakfast, Kel thanks Glaube, as does RW, his little dragon companion... who flies over to Glaube, hovers in front of the cleric and thanks him in both common and draconic...

Maybe we should ask the ghostly noble what it means? Then we can maybe go where he suggested the sword would be, unless he has a better idea?

”Oh wow thank you thank you! I can see! “

Dora blinks and smiles profusely

"Asking our ghostly friend should work, unless it's something that happened after he was entombed. I say it's worth a shot, however."

Brother Rabbit will offer Kel his Pearl of Power 1 for a Mage Armor, and once the group is moving, spend a Ki Point to activate Barkskin.

After the feast and restoration Thrag thanks Glaube.

Feels much better. Hopefully we can get the rest of the tomb cleared out today.

He agrees with the group.

Best to check with the ghost. He's our only source of information down here.

The ghost does not seem to be there at the moment. Where do you go now?

I guess all we can do is head deeper. There are some halls we haven't explored.

"The ghost not being there disturbs me... He did say he'd remain for at least a few days while he prepared to move on to his afterlife and would answer any questions we had... Ah well, I guess we should have asked more earlier... he did say, didn't he, that the sword is likely in one of the three mausoleums to the north... Perhaps we should concentrate our efforts there?"

The ghost's previous comments

I'll need some direction folks if you wish me to prep the next slides.

Aye Kel, that was my second suggestion, lets go to those mausoleums

"Ok, unless anyone has a better idea, let's go for the mausoleums... shall we start at one side and work our way through them? West, Middle, East? or East, Middle, West? or even start in the middle?"

@Kel, Thrag indicated we haven't finished the area yet, so I think we were going to finish here, and then do Mausoleums, probably West, Middle, East, per our 'always left' mandate

Sounds good to me, but first lets make sure we haven't forgotten anything here.

"Fair enough... I thought we were done here... but let's finish up the area and then the mausoleums. This kinda reminds me though of a friend who told me the tale of a haunted castle he went to north of Kaer Maga. Some kind of mission for the Society. The place was packed with loads of undead and demons and other threats.... They went to recover a lost relic sword. They only cleaned out about half the place when they found the sword... Once found, all the evil in the place turned to dust and ash... After that, they just walked through and picked up all the dropped treasure. I hope this place isn't like that... Just would hate to take all the risks and then find out if we'd done the sword first, we would have saved ourselves a lot of effort."

When the others are all ready to move on, he takes his place near the back of the party, makes sure he remembered to cast his morning spells (mage armor on himself and Brother Rabbit, returning the pearl of power to the good Brother), and perhaps life bubble on himself and one or two others...but before casting that, he'll discuss it with Glaube...

"Glaube, can you cast life bubble today? I'm concerned about gasses and miasmas... thought maybe you and I could split the party and each cast on a few people... If I cast on 3 folks, each would get 10 hours of protection, but if I split between the whole party, we only get 5 hours each... and I only memorized it once.. I don't suppose you can do half the party?"

Finding nothing else of value or interest in these catacombs, the heroes head north to the first of three similar mausoleums.

The first building is crafted of green marble, the entrance carved to mimic the maw of a ravenous lion. Once inside, the heroes realize that it is essentially empty. At the center is a 10-foot-diameter medusa’s face, depicting the howling medusa crest of the Sardisi clan. Kel and Glaube quickly realize that the crest acts as a teleportation circle of some kind.

What do you do?

Wrong family? On the one hand, there could be great treasure. On the other, it could have horrible monsters like those shining guys. Of course, it could be both. Want to check?

"I think we may have to. Perhaps it would be good to prepare just in case. I'll just cast a quick spell or two before we try teleporting."

I know Glaube's player is busy right now, so Kel will cast life bubble on everyone, 5 hours each - but when that runs out, were sol unless Glaube can cast it too

He casts Life Bubble on everyone and heightened awareness on himself. He pulls out a scroll and holds it in his hand, just in case and says: "Okay, I'm ready... "

He takes one more last look around this chamber, memorizing it so he can teleport back here if necessary, then steps onto the teleportation circle, hopefully with everyone else.

Mal says Well, I best be looking like a big damned hero, rather than keeping up flurries of misses.

He pulls a small red Toragian banner, plants in on his quarterstaff, displays it prominently and prepares to proceed.

Heroism from knight's battle pennon

Dora nods

”Sounds good.“

She will cast extended heroism and protection v evil prior to entry

Kel disappears.

After Kel poofs away Thrag steps onto the circle, hoping he ends up in the same spot.

Kel, after arriving at his new location, immediately looks around for danger and then quickly sidesteps to get out of the way of anyone incoming.

Kel and Thrag: This great, domed chamber is home to hundreds of funerary urns of every description, housed in niches along the walls. The domed ceiling thirty feet above is decorated with images of Taldan aristocrats engaged in passionate debate, locked in duels, or poring over great tomes together. A carving of a medusa’s face decorates the floor in the room’s center, flanked to the sides by two trios of stone sarcophagi. An archway to the north opens into a large pillared hall.

Dora will follow after the two, with bow in hand.

Kel examines the carving in the center of the floor and tries to determine if it is another teleport circle, and if so, he hopes it goes back to their last point of departure. He detects magic if necessary to figure this out. Once a determination is made regarding the carving in the center of the floor, he starts moving around, focusing his detect magic on the urns, the sarcophagi, the paintings on the ceiling (and walls, if any)...

While waiting to see who else shows up, once he's done looking around, He'll start examining things in greater detail, flying up to the ceiling if necessary to get a closer look at the images, learning what he can about the artists or the subjects based on what they are reading, if there are any clues as to what they are debating, or what they might be dueling over, or how (different locations, different dueling rules, and so forth).

Mmm... also, what is special about the medusa's face here? We've already seen different medusa faces here...

Based on detect magic, the medusa appears to be another teleportation circle. In addition, an examination of the medusa carving reveals the following unusual aspects of the medusa seal: a keyhole in its right eye; a starburst indentation in the left eye; a thin slot in the mouth; and an oval indentation in the chin.

Once all the others have arrived, he mentions what he's noticed..."Well this is odd... it looks almost like... some kind of places to insert items of some kind... looks like a key goes here.. and maybe some odd shaped items here and here like maybe a star shaped ioun stone here .. and a cabochon gem here." He points to the keyhole in the right eye, then the starburst indentation in the left eye, and the oval indentation when he talks about a cabochon gem. "And this, he points to the thin slot "looks like a slot for a memory chip from Numeria. Hmmm.. Have we found any items so far that might fit these openings?"

Mal follows Kel into the fold.

Brother Rabbit follows after.

"We did find those ioun stones earlier. Could one of those fit?"

”Or we need to find stuff around here...like a scavenger hunt! “

Mal, Brother and Dora follow. Brother tries to insert a ioun stone; it does not fit.

Looks like Dora's right.

Mal searchs the room for the missing items, assuming he finds nothihe offers, Perhaps we can return? My understanding was teleportation circles are two way? Maybe they’re in the rest of the necropolis?

An archway to the north opens into a large pillared hall.

"Well before we go on a wild goose chase through the necropolis without any idea of exactly what we're looking for or where to find it, why not explore this location more while we're already here?" He nods toward the large hall to the north.