GM Jhaeman's "Master of the Fallen Fortress" (Inactive)

Game Master Jhaeman

Forgot to add sickened to my rolls. Attack: 16 to hit, damage: 2 damage

Tuck rushes into the room before the troglodytes can react and wraps one of them up in a bear hug! Gareleth unfurls his scorpion whip and leaves bloody marks on the chest of another. Although the sickening stench overcomes Andrelis, Uoralveren still has the wherewithal to stab the third troglodyte. Mystical bolts of energy strike the walls of the room, but The Magi isn’t able to hone in on his intended targets.

Two of the troglodytes warily get to their feet and advance, while the third one tries to break free of Tuck's hold--and somehow succeeds!

Tuck successfully grapples Blue. Gareleth hits Black. Andrelis misses. Uoralveren hits Yellow. The Magi misses due to soft cover and prone.

Black and Yellow are doing Total Defense, a move action to stand up, and a 5' step. Standing up will provoke from Gareleth's whip and Uoralveren's elven branch spear. Blue tries a CMB to break free and surprisingly succeeds. It then does a move action to stand up, which will provoke from Tuck (and maybe Gareleth, depending on reach).

Initiative (Round 1)

Gareleth
Andrelis
The Magi
Tuck
Uoralveren
Troglodytes
Jomal*

Bold may go!

* Don't forget about the Fort saves. There's a lot of AoOs to resolve, so Jomal, you may want to write your actions in the alternative if a foe is dropped before you get to it.

AoO on Black: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 211d4 ⇒ 4

Gareleth doesn't have combat reflexes, so he only gets to take the one AoO

Unarmed Strike AoO: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 3 - 2 = 11
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

As the creature slips from his grasp Tuck lashes out with an elbow at its head.

AoO on Yellow: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 3 - 2 = 9
Damage: 1d8 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 3 - 2 = 4

As the troglodyte stands up, Uoralveren takes an opportunity to poke at him. However, he misses as the stench is overpowering.

One of the troglodytes suffers another painful lash from Gareleth's whip, while Tuck elbows one in the head! However, a third troglodyte manages to get to his feet.

I think if you provoke an AoO for standing up, you're considered prone while doing so, so the prone penalty and the total defence bonus essentially cancel each other out--which means Gareleth hits (though Uoralveren still misses). Tuck hits as well. Black and Blue are literally black and blue, but Yellow's in pretty good shape! Jomal, you're up.

Fortitude: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18
Fortitude: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Fortitude: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

Jomal enters the very smelly room and immediately feels the odor. He shakes it off, however, and being careful to protect himself, he moves to attack one of the enemies.

Acrobatics (Tumble): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 5 - 1 = 16 PA on yellow
Damage: 1d10 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 7 + 3 = 19

Jomal barrels into the room and attacks the nearest troglodyte, but the pungent reptilian creature wards off the blow.

The trog's total defense keeps him from getting hit.

Initiative (Round 2)

Gareleth
Andrelis
The Magi
Tuck
Uoralveren
Troglodytes
Jomal

Bold may go!

Gareleth uses his scorpion whip as a scorpion whip rather than a regular whip to avoid provoking an AoO. Again, scorpion whips are weird.

"Just stay down, smelly," Gareleth says to the stinky beast.

Scorpion Whip: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 261d4 ⇒ 1

Andrelis, seeing his opportunity, enters the room, Gareleth, coming by you close,

Still nauseated by the awful stench of the creatures, Andrelis lays flat out, diving onto a shoulder, and moving around the creature attempting to come into better position.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 2 = 18

Rising to his feet opposite Gareleth, Andrelis stabs in primo, attempting to skewer the kidney of the smelly creature.

Attack (Flanking): 1d20 + 3 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 2 - 2 = 4

Again overwhelmed by the odor, Andrelis misses horribly, and is now deep into the room.

The yellow troglodyte starts to taunt Uoralveren. The elf steps and swings over Jomal, focusing his attack. The smell is still overwhelming

Attack: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 3 - 2 = 8
Damage: 1d8 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 3 - 2 = 9

Once again, Magi peppers the door frame with cold-fire.

Mystic Bolt {Sickened/PBS/2WF}: 1d20 + 3 + 1 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 3 + 1 - 2 - 1 = 12
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Mystic Bolt {Sickened/PBS/2WF}: 1d20 + 3 + 1 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 - 2 - 1 = 9
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Gareleth's whip grazes the cheek of one of the troglodytes, but the Pathfinder's companions fare poorly in their attacks--the stench of the place is truly revolting!

Tuck is up.

Grapple: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 9 - 2 = 16

His big face still tinged green Tuck makes another grab at the disgusting reptile.

Tuck manages to re-establish a hold on the troglodyte near him. But this time, instead of trying to escape, the reptilian foe tries to claw Tuck's eyes out! Meanwhile, the creature's companions attack Andrelis and Jomal. Fortunately, all the Pathfinders' defences remain stalwart, and the young troglodytes end up only flailing ineffectively.

Blue is grappled and tries to attack Tuck. Black does a full attack on Andrelis, while Yellow does a full attack on Jomal. A couple come close, but in the end all the attacks miss.

Initiative (Round 2)

Gareleth
Andrelis
The Magi
Tuck
Uoralveren
Troglodytes
Jomal

Bold may go!

Jomal, you're up--I'll give you another 12 hours or so and then bot you.

My apologies! Here it goes.

Jomal flurries his sansetsukon against the closest opponent, then 5-foot-steps towards another of them.

Attack 1: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 5 - 1 = 19 PA
Damage: 1d10 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 7 + 3 = 20

Attack 2: 1d20 + 5 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 5 - 1 = 16 PA
Damage: 1d10 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 7 + 3 = 11

If he dies to my first attack, I will actually move towards the one with Buck.

In a tornado of attacks, Jomal knocks out two of the troglodytes!

Only one (badly-hurt) trog is still standing.

Initiative (Round 3)

Gareleth
Andrelis
The Magi
Tuck
Uoralveren
Troglodytes
Jomal

Bold may go!

The skald will step up and attack the troglodyte. The smell is still affecting him.

Elven Branched Spear Attack: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (10) + 3 - 2 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 3 - 2 = 9

"Well, let's finish the job, Andy," Gareleth says with a smile as he and Andrelis flank the remaining Troglodyte.

Scorpion Whip with Flank: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 191d4 ⇒ 3

Gareleth's whip hits the remaining troglodyte right in the jaw, and the reptilian creature falls to the ground!

We are off Initiative.

Nice shot Gareleth, these things somehow smell slightly better when they are dead! This whole place reeks. Andrelis concludes.

He then begins to examine the room, looking to see if there is anything of value left behind.

I'll start over here, if you all want to divide up the room, more eyes is better than not enough.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Jomal pretends to help searching around, but in truth he keeps thinking about the roast beef his grandmother cooks on Sundays.

Straightening up from the corpses, Andrelis holds up a handful of silver coins, [b]Some small change from these creatures, Gareleth, do you want to hang onto that for now?[b]

Handing over 33sp to the group 'treasury' to split up later

"Of course I'll hang onto Andy," Gareleth says, putting the coin in his backpack. "So, let's decide which door we want to try next so I can check it for traps," Gareleth says, confidence and a sense of purpose brimming from the Half-Orc.

I'll happily go with whichever direction the group wants, and I'm just going to roll Gareleth's perception check now to save time.

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (7) + 0 = 7

"Yes, looks safe to me," Gareleth says regardless of which door because I doubt a 7 will ever finds traps, "They must have trusted the Trogs out here to be enough protection for these rooms," he says with some reasonably decent logic.

Magi waits for his stomach to settle before searching the area.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Gareleth is confident neither door has traps, while The Magi is confident there isn't anything else of interest in the room.

There are doors to the northeast and southeast--which would you like to try?

Uora is interested in the northeast door. He'll tip toe over and listen at the door.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

He probably doesn't hear anything so will slowly open up the door.

Again, Jomal agrees with the others and follows towards the pointed door.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Uoralveren opens the door to the northeast to reveal an octagonal chamber. Cracks in the walls and ceiling of this chamber have allowed rainwater to collect here, flooding the room to ankle-depth and giving rise to a profusion of mold and fungus along the walls and ceiling.

A giant frog lurks in this room!

Initiative (Round 1)

The Magi
Jomal
Gareleth
Andrelis
Uoralveren
Tuck
Giant Frog

Bold may go!

On your turn, you can try to identify the giant frog.

A frog?! Ribbit the elf tries to imitate it. Assuming it looks unfriendly Uoralveren will step up and poke at it.

Elven Branched Spear: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Well, so much for just closing the door.

Magi moves behind Uoralveren and let's fly a blast.

Mystic Blast (cover/melee): 1d20 + 3 - 4 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 3 - 4 - 2 = 4

Why do I bother? Maybe I should just wait for you guys to finish up.

on my phone atm. Can someone please move me?

Andrelis seeing the large hostile frog, enters the room and advances on it, his rapier held low before him. As he approaches the frog he smoothly glides his rapier forward stabbing at the monstrous beast. Gareleth, Jomal, a little help please! he grins over his shoulder.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Missing horribly, Andrelis attempts to defend himself amid the ankle deep water.

Jomal hears the sound and moves as quickly as he can. Without being able to immediately reach the creature, the monk circles around it to flank.

I didn't have enough movement to move and attack, so I double moved to circle around the creature. @GM, I marked my move with blue arrows.

Gareleth moves in and lashes out at the frog with his whip saying, "Let's hop to it, lads!"

Scorpion Whip: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 231d4 ⇒ 4

With a hearty chuckle at Gareleth's wit Tuck moves up to join the fray.

Uoralveren's spear slams into the side of the giant frog, wounding it severely, while Gareleth follows up with his scorpion whip. Although the other Pathfinders aren't able to land their attacks, the giant frog tries to hop away.

The giant frog is at exactly 0 hit points and thus Disabled. It is doing a move action to hop into a corner, which will provoke from everyone except The Magi.

We are off Initiative.

Aha! Take that giant frog-thing. Andrelis calls out the giant frog as it retreats, stabbing his rapier forward while attempting to keep his guard up in the muck of the room.

Attack of Opportunity: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage: 1d6 + 0 ⇒ (1) + 0 = 1

Hmmm, the frog never attacked us. Maybe we shouldn't kill it.

Uora looks at the frog. It looks sad and hurt. Uora feels a bit of empathy.

E.B.S non-lethal: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 3 - 4 = 14
E.B.S damage non-lethal: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Catching on to notion that the skald is trying to just render it unconscious, Gareleth lashes out with the scorpion whip to do nonlethal damage if only he owned a normal whip since those can do nonlethal without a penalty.

Scorpion Whip non-lethal: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 61d4 ⇒ 2

Crit fail!

With a careful swing using the side of his spear, Uoralveren renders the giant frog unconscious.

Remind me not to murder anything in sight. Not sure what came over me. Up north, it's a kill or be killed mentality sometimes I guess. But I need to learn that not everything should be killed. That frog was probably harmless.

Uoralveren will lean down and check on the frog. It must've been scared or hungry.. He'll leave some of his rations out for the frog when it wakes up.

The elf will then walk out and scope out the other door. He'll put his ear up to the door and listen in.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Nodding at the other elf, You are probably right, just all the immediately hostile creatures in this place has me jumpy too. Any troglodytes are definitely to be quickly attacked, but the other things maybe we can figure out.

Looking around the frog's room, Andrelis sees if there is anything useful in the muck.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Leaning against the wall outside, Magi patiently waits for the team to clear the room.