Oxnard's Reign of Winter

Game Master Nathanael Love

Kolaach downs extracts.
cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

voolk stabilize: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

Sorry- Attack was my intention.

will save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

runeson activates the wand again on troy, seeing he is still badly wounded

cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

The skeletons continue swinging at Kolaach:
Claw: 1d20 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 - 2 = 9
Claw: 1d20 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 - 2 = 15 Both miss!

And at Runeson:

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 both miss!

Runeson cures Troy again.

Lief continues fleeing.

Kolaach drinks his extract. Sorry for the confusion there- I put -3 for a placeholder for the wolf taking 3 damage since I wasn't finding its HP, it's at 17/20

Turn Order:
1. Troy
2. Skeletons
3. Runeson
4. Lief
5. Kolaach
6. Gareau
7. Rhokar

Status:
Kolaach: 6/20
Runeson: 8/15
Volk: 17/20
Troy: 9/19
Lief: Frightened 2 more rounds

Red skeleton: -3
Blue Skeleton: -3

Pending Gareau before Rhokar, then Troy before the skeletons again

“Die again!!“ he cries out in pain.

Troy starts to battle dance and attacks the blue skeleton!

Scimitar cold iron, battle dance : 1d20 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 2 + 5 = 221d6 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 4 = 8

Gareau tries casting Daze on the blue skeleton.

That spell works only on humanoids.

Correct, Rhokar can be targetted with it, but not the skeletons.

Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 Geareau dazes Rhokar, and Troy's strike is enough to destroy another skeleton!

Cold Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2 DC 11 Reflex for Troy and Runeson for half

The Skeleton strikes out again at Kolaach:
Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Damage: 1d4 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + (1) + 1 = 6

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Damage: 1d4 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + (5) + 1 = 9 both miss!

Turn Order:
1. Troy
2. Skeletons
3. Runeson
4. Lief
5. Kolaach
6. Gareau
7. Rhokar

Status:
Kolaach: 6/20
Runeson: 8/15 pending 1 or 2 cold damage
Volk: 17/20
Troy: 9/19 pending 1 or 2 cold damage
Lief: Frightened 1 more rounds

Red skeleton: -3

That brings up the party again!

From somewhere downstairs, Lief’s voice echoes up to mingle with the din of combat... ”AHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...”

reflex : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Troy concentrates on the man in the back and casts a ‘hideous laughter’ spell!

DC 15 will save.

He then moves over to him.

Kolaach downs a mutagen.+2 natural armor, +4dex,-2wis for 10 minutes

Voolk bites skeleton
Voolk bites and trips: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 71d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 71d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

"Trying to gnaw on dem bones?"

Gareau shoots a crossbow bolt at the man by Troy.

Ranged, into melee: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 2 - 4 = 8

The shot barely even hits the wall.

Runeson has cold dr/2 from his northern ancestry trait

Runeson takes a 5 foot step away from the skeleton and up against the wall, trying to put some distance between his foe, and brings his crossbow up to fire at the man next to troy

crossbow: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (12) - 1 = 11

Runeson misses.

Lief runs for the final round, but is now considerably

Kolaach downs his mutagen while his wolf continues missing.

Gareau misses.

Rhokar tries again to channel negative energy, though only one skeleton remains to be heartened by it.

Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 and Rhokar falls to the ground prone with laughter!

The skeleton lashes out at Kolaach:

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Damage: 1d4 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + (6) + 1 = 9

Claw: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Damage: 1d4 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + (2) + 1 = 6

but misses terribly!

Turn Order:
1. Troy
2. Skeletons
3. Runeson
4. Lief
5. Kolaach
6. Gareau
7. Rhokar

Status:
Kolaach: 6/20
Runeson: 8/15 pending
Volk: 17/20
Troy: 9/19 pending 1 or 2 cold damage
Lief: Frightened 1 more rounds

Red skeleton:
Rhokar: laughing, prone

That brings up the party again!

"This ends now!!" Troy says.

He attacks the man on the ground with a nonlethal strike.

Scimitar cold iron, blade of mercy nonlethal , Battle Dance +2 : 1d20 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 5 = 141d6 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 2 + 1 = 8
intimidate demoralize free action Enforcer feat : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

Round 8 of battle dance.

Voolk bites and trips: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 141d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 51d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Voolk bites the skeleton and retreats 5 foot at Kolaach"s guidance.

Kolaachm lobs his last bomb at the skeleton.
bomb: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 3 + 2 = 151d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 fire(splash damage 3,dc13)

"aaahhhhhhh...."

Lief rushes back towards the cabin.

Kolaach's bomb hits the skeleton, and it explodes in a shower of cold!

Rhokar focuses his will to compose himself:
Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
and manages to stop laughing!

Troy bashes the man, and stripped of his defenses he throwqs up his hands and shouts, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

[ooc]Combat over[/ooc[

Status:
Kolaach: 6/20
Runeson: 8/15
Volk: 17/20
Troy: 8/19
Lief: running back 2 more rounds

Rhokar: prone, 8 nonlethal, demoralized

Troy looms over the man.

“If you do not immediately start telling us what is going on here, it will get ugly for you!!“

intimidate : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

”......aaaahhhHH”

"Yeah!" Spoken like a true sidekick.

Kolaach drinks another extract.

cure light wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

"It was all the cold fey! They forced us to help them, I swear it. I have information on them that could be valuable."

"Then talk! What information do you have?!

"We are listening... spill your guts before we spill em for you!"
Aid intimidation: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

"It was Izoze and Teb Knotten- they wanted the woman. She's in the cellar, I can unlock it for you!"

Yes we already fund the lady. What we are wanting to know is where to find the fey and what they are planing.

Lief comes charging up the stairs, his sword ready in his hands. When he finds the villain subdued he mutters, "sh!t... sorry about that... that's never happened to me before..."

He explains that the winter fey are coming through a portal (at area "P" on the map on slide 5).

He also takes you to another room and shows you one of the fey creatures which he has held in a cage if you want to interrogate the fey directly.

"Animate dead... this explains the zombies, I think. Bad juju."

Making sure all of the stuff is accounted for, the Doctor considers the fey. "We should try to get it to talk."

Troy nods.

“It is unbelievable that such outside forces are threatening our communities! We have to find out what these fey want here! So let us interrogate them! And let us see how this portal looks like!“

to the Fey. Why are your people causing so much disruption to the lives and livelihoods of the Area? What do you want to accomplish? Where is this Portal of yours Located? And what is on the other side of it?

The Fey confirms the basic details of the story, including the location being where Rhokar said it was, but is either unaware or unwilling to tell more about why exactly the portal was opened.

I am assuming the party rests for the night here and recovers to full HP before setting out again the next day. Sorry, I'll post the kickoff to the next segment tomorrow during the day-- will probably want to split out useful gear before departing as well

Lief looks at all the stuff they found, unsure of how these adventurers handled claiming such things. "So... uh... we split the coins and gems up evenly?" he asks awkwardly. "I don't have any use for scrolls or spellbooks, but I wouldn't complain about a magic weapon oil, or another flask or two of alchemist's fire."

"Agreed. What do we have of use?"

”I have little appreciation for Gold alone! If this means that we can buy equipment which helps us to get rid of these enemies of our lands then I of course would take what we can get!“ Troy says.

”So what do we do now?! I am not that bright and now that we are traveling together I just want you to know that I usually don’t have the best ideas!“ he says with a little emotional sadness.

Lief listens to Troy’s confession then offers, ”well, I don’t know what agreement you made about rescuing the fancy lady, but it seems like there’s two choices for us to pick between... either we bring her back right away, and we could sell whatever we don’t want and buy more things that we do want while we’re in town, then we go check out this portal; or, we leave the fancy lady here alone while we check out the portal, and hope she’s okay until we get back and take her to town?”

"As anxious as I am to get to the bottom of this, let's get the fair Lady back to safety and regroup. Never go ill-prepared, that's my motto."

my reckoning of the loot so far
Armor & Sheilds
MWK Studded Leather
3 Studded Leather
5 Leather
MWK Chain Shirt
Breastplate
3 Padded
2 Light Wooden Shields
3 Bucklers

Weapons
2 Tiny Short Swords
MWK Short Sword
3 Short Swords
MWK Long Sword
7 Long Swords
2 Spears
MWK Dagger
Dagger
4 Light Crossbows (Runeson, Faisal, Kolaach)
2 tiny Short Bows
3 Short Bow(Kolaach)
MWK Hand Crossbow
Animation
35 Blots(17 used if I counted correctly)
20 Tiny Arrows
60 Arrows(5 used)
12 Hand Crossbow Bolts

Magical Gear
Wand of Curer Light Wound(Runeson)
3 Scrolls of Lesser Animate Dead(UM 2HD)
Scroll of Animate Dead(10HD)
Cloak of the Yeti(page 60)
Potions/Oils
Elixir of Hiding
Potion of Invisibility
Potion of Pass without Trace
Potion of Spider Climb
3 Oil of Magic Weapon
Potion of Lesser Restoration
3 Green Blood Oil
3 Oil of Taggit
Alchemical Items
Tangle Foot Bag
10 flask of Alchemist Fire
Equipment
Healer's Kit
Climbers Kit
Crowbar(Lief)
Grappling hook
2 MWK Thieve's Tools
50 ft Silk Rope
Pouch, Belt
Winter Blanket
Other Goods(not all worth taking)
Bear Skin Rug
Some Linens
Random Bedding and Bandit Clothing
Various Furniture
Mounted Dear Heads
Several Looted Chests
Cage with Caped Fey
Key
Ring of Key

SpellBook
Alarm
Chill Touch
Expeditious Retreat
Feather Fall
Identify
Locate Object
Ray of Enfeeblement

25PP 246GP 205SP
240GP of Assorted Goods
A Blue Quarts Ice Diamond(100GP)(came with a long back story might be Important latter)

In General, Kolach would take one of any Range weapons along with ammunition for it. most of the gear is too large for him to use. He would also be amused by keeping a tiny short sword. He is also built as a splash weapon user. And has to check the spellbook still to see if he can Translate the spells into formulas.

gusses it was too long or some other formatting error for it all to be ooc

You can add spells on the alchemist list to your formula book from the spell book

The next day you depart, beginning to cross the bridge that will lead you on towards the portal. . .

A bridge made of rope and wooden planks spans a narrow ravine. It’s
already covered in ice and snow, and it sways alarmingly in the icy winds blowing through the gorge. The turbulent waters of a fast-moving creek surge through a couple of waterfalls far below.

Surprise Round

You do not even see, at first, the creature which surprises you all by breathing a cone of icy breath!

This will catch Lief and Troy
Ice Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1
DC 13 Reflex for half; sickened if failed

Round 1

Turn order:
1. Gareau
2. Kolaach
3. Runeson
4. Troy
5. Izoze
6. Lief

That brings up everyone but Lief who go before the enemy on round 1

bomb: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 151d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 fire(splash damage 3,dc13)
Voolk bites and trips: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 101d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 41d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
+4 to the attack roll if not engage in melee combat yet.

Lief's furry hide is unscathed by the ice.

I have cold resist 7. Usually you don't have to save for secondary effects if you don't take any damage from an attack like this, but if this one is an exception let me know and I'll roll it.

reflex : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

“Who are you? The enemies of this land I guess!!!“

acrobatics to move half speed to the other side : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

And as he is not successful and even provoked, he tries again.

acrobatics to move half speed to the other side : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Knowledge, planes: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

"Beware! An an ice mephit!"

Gareau immediate tries to put the evil eye on the little creature, targeting the creature's AC.

"Boo-ha-ha, gingus khanicus goo!"

"Use fire on the thing, if you have it - something magical if you don't! They are not going to be damaged by cold or ice, nor as much by normal weapons. And besides that frost breath we see, they can also make your metal armor and weapons very, very cold. "

Round 1
Will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 If you can try to say which stat you are targetting when using this please fail!

Kolaach hits with his bomb, but the wolf misses.

Troy gets across to the other side with a nimble move.

Izoze lashes out at Kolaach:
Claw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Claw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
one hit!

Turn order:
1. Gareau
2. Kolaach
3. Runeson
4. Troy
5. Izoze
6. Lief

Troy: -1
Kolaach: -2

mephit: -4

That brings up the party again; Runeson can act for rounds 1 and 2

"This ends now!!" Troy says.

He whirls around and attacks the creature with a nonlethal strike.

Scimitar cold iron, blade of mercy nonlethal , Battle Dance +2 : 1d20 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 2 + 5 = 211d6 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 2 + 1 = 9
intimidate demoralize free action Enforcer feat : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Move action to start Round 1 of battle dance.

Lief contemplates stepping back to draw and throw a flask of alchemist's fire, but decides the risk of hitting one of his new friends is greater than the expected benefit. Instead, he raises his large sword up over his head and brings it whistling down at the icy menace.

greatsword (flank): 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 2 = 21
for: 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (3, 4) + 9 = 16

bomb: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 111d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 fire(splash damage 3,dc13)
Voolk bites and trips: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 141d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 61d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

I did this time - AC was the target, so he is at -2.

Gareau watches the action, and even attempts to fire a bolt at the little critter.

Attack, ranged, into combat: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 3 - 4 = 12