GM Kulkos Racing to Ruin (Serpents Skull 2) (Inactive)

Game Master Kulko

Perception DC 20: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
Ref DC 12: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Survival DC 30: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 +2 from each successful Perception roll

Perception DC 20: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20
Ref DC 12: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Survival DC 30: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Perception DC 20: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Swim+airbag DC 15: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 + 2 = 21
Rounds: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Shalissa swims through the bottom of the sea looking for pearls as in the Spire. After almost a half minute searching through with mixed results, she feels the lack of air and decides to swim up looking for oxygen.

"Agh!" holding against the boat and looking for a hand to go up the elf breathes very fast "That place is really difficult, the divers have a hard life here"

Breath remaining: 7/22

Does the survival bonus reset every time we return to the surface?

earlier-
Gregor shakes his head firmly when asked to part with one of his axes. Fortunately Father Kerndrew had a sword he could part with.

it took some time to reach the reef. He looked at Davor as they readied to dive. He was wearing his mitheral chain shirt, which was light as a regular shirt, and had a dagger in his belt. Othewise nothing else was on him except a loincloth and a pair of gloves.

He dove and started looking around.

Gregor Swimming down: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

After swimming down Gregor 1 more action remaining, which was a fail
Shalissa found 1 more normal pearl, but at least she doesn't cut herself.

Gregor, Shalissa and Davor dive down and start looking for pearls. But Black Pearls are much harder to find.

Feeling her limited air supply dwindle down, Shalissa starts swiming up again when she notices another coral diver on the end of the coral bank.
The woman is looking for pearls herself, when she gets stuck with her foot between the sharp corals and seem to be crying out in pain.

Please move one action at a time now. Everybody else has not seen the woman yet.

State
Shalissa (13/22 rounds left) - found 1 normal pearl
Davor (19/28 rounds left) - found 1 normal pearl
Gregor (15/24 Rounds left) - Just arrived
Kerndrew sitting in the boat watching for shark fins
@ Shalissa The Woman is roughly 50 ft away.

Gregor moved long the coral looking for the shellfish that would hold a pearl.

perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Survival: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Seeing a diver in danger, Shalissa holds her breath and swims towards her trying to help get her unstuck. The elf tries to show she is here to help to avoid scaring the diver.
Swim+diver equipment: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 + 2 = 15
Strength to pull her out?: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (14) - 2 = 12

If she is able to see Gregor or Davor diving close by, Shalissa urgently makes signals for them to help.

Breath remaining: 12/22
(removing the 6 rounds to dive up from the count as she stayed to help)

Davor continues searching.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26
Reflex Save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

State
Shalissa (12/22 rounds left) - found 1 normal pearl
Davor (18/28 rounds left) - found 2 normal pearls
Gregor (14/24 Rounds left) - found nothing

Davor glances up to the surface to see if there are any other boats, then starts swimming after Shalissa. As he approaches he studies the woman for anything "wrong" with her appearance. Illusion? Does she have gills? Webbed hands?

Shalissa seems to be quite worried swimming towards her, but you see nothing put of the ordinary. Although it looks like the wmona is calling Shalissa to her.

Father Kerndrew stands in the boat, dropping his shield to the bottom of the hull. He peers into the water, not quite trusting what he sees, but not sure either.

He keeps his eyes on the action, and concentrates specifically on the other diver.

Activating detect evil 60' as a move action (paladins get all three rounds of evil immediately)

Shalissa keeps diving towards the woman, she starts to feel the air in her lungs emptying but endures the urge to go up knowing her body is still capable of much more.
Swim+diver equipment: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 + 2 = 20

As she approaches, she looks around trying to determine what is holding the diver and how to help *Burl* *burrl* *burl*
Perception (darkvision): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Breath remaining: 11/22

Sorry. Forgot the Swim check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27 to follow Shalissa.

Gregor looks around puzzled at where this other diver came from. and started heading for Shalissa

swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

When Father Kerndrew stares into the clear water at the woman swiming in the water he feels an shiver running down his spine. Whoever this woman is, he permeates and aura of evil.

Getting used to her short breath shalissa approaches the woman and then stays still about 5 feet away from her. @ Shalissa no +2 if you are not swiming up or down, but it didn't matter with this badly timed successful roll.

Gregor and especially Davor catch up quickly, but are still to far away to do anything but wtach in horror, as the woman attacks Shalissa, Grabbing her with her arms and swiming away.

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie - Grappling
Shalissa(23/27) - Grappled
Kerndrew - 65 ft away on surface
Davor - 20 ft away
Gregor - 30 ft away

@ Shalissa:
You are helping the woman freeing herself from the coral reef and offer to come with her to her lair - No additional Will saves due to damage

@ all
If you make a successful swim check you can move up to a quarter of your speed or up to half with a full action

Father Kerndrew grabs his starknife and dives into the water, hoping he can reach Shalissa in time to help his elven friend.

Gregor pushes to swim to catch up to the creature holding onto Shalissa.

swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

double move

Shalissa does nothing else than being carried out *grlu* *grlu* *grlu*

Breath remaining: 10/22

Swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Davor continues swimming toward the now obvious enemy. Double move.

Is it possible to take a potion while underwater?

Or activate a wand?

Her elven instincts kicking in, Shalissa suddenly comes to the realization that there is something inherently wrong, she attempts to revert the grapple of the diver, who obviously grabbed her because that is a normal reaction when you are scared.
Grapple: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

But her thin arms do not give for much *grlustop* *grludrownin* *grlume* *grlutoo*

Shalissa CMB +1; CMD 13

Kelpie
Grab: 1d20 + 9 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 5 = 22

With Shalissa struggling the flight of the Kelpie slows down a bit whoch is a good things as the others get mostly distracted by the rolling currents in this area.

you will catch up 1 ft for each point above 15, Kerndrew a bit easier as he is cutting in from above. Rolling below 10 means losing speed.

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie - Grappling
Shalissa(23/27) - Grappled
Kerndrew - 65 ft away on surface
Davor - 20 ft away
Gregor - 30 ft away

Father Kerndrew does his best to pursue the kelpie as she drags Shalissa along.

Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Double move (30' base speed)

Seeing she will not break the grab, Shalissa changes strategy and attempts to squeeze through the diver's arms.
Escape Artist: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Her efforts are nigh.

Breath remaining: 9/22

Davor continues struggling with the currents, trying to reach Shalissa.

Swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Gregor gets buffeted by the current as he tries to swim towards her, losing 'ground' on the race.

He redoubles his efforts pushing gaining a handful of feet in the process.

swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Seeing Shalissas Rescuers approaching quickly, the Kelpie grabs her once more and redoubles her effort to escape.

Grapple DC 13: 1d20 + 9 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 5 = 26

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie - Grappling
Shalissa(23/27) - Grappled
Kerndrew - 50 ft away
Davor - 12 ft away
Gregor - 22 ft away

Father Kerndrew pumps his legs harder, trying as best as he can to catch up, but floundering massively.

Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Double move (30' base speed)

I'm not sure how many swimming actions Kerndrew has; I wasn't planning on having him swim so didn't pay much attention. He has a Con of 12 so 24 actions total; is the swim count of 1d4+4 for each move action? For each round? For the entire swim down?

Davor continues trying to catch up....

Swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Shalissa makes one last attempt to escape the diver.
Escape Artist: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
Getting nervous she then picks up her trident *brluenough*!

Breath remaining: 8/22

Unfortunately, Cheetah's Sprint doesn't work for swimming!

Gregor swims as fast he can, cutting through the current trying to same at the same depth as the creature and Shalissa., but he feels a strong wave pushing against him

swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

The Kelpie keeps trying to get away with her prey, but Davors is slowly catching up to her.

Meanwhile Kerndrew is struggling wiht the unusual environment and is turned around by the unexpected violent currents.

Kelpie drags Shalissa: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22
Kelpie drags Shalissa: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18
Kelpie drags Shalissa: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30

Since The Kelpie can only Fail at a one, I just condensed three rolls into one. So to speed things up you can make 3 Swim Checks on your net post.

@ Davor the Swimm checks to catch up are full round actions, so no immediate Attack when you finally get with 5 ft. But as soon as you reach her the Kelpie cannot at the same time Grab Shalissa and Withdraw

@Kerndrew The 1d4+4 was only for the condensed move actions of getting down to the reef. By now we are just rolling checks to see how fast you can sim as everybody is basically moving at the same speed.
The critical Failure cost you an additional round of air supply so you have used 5 by now I believe.

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie - Grappling
Shalissa(23/27) - Grappled (8/22 Air)
Kerndrew - 55 ft away (5/24)
Davor - 9 ft away (14/28)
Gregor - 22 ft away (10/24)

Shalissa keeps fighting for her life, understanding the diver wants to bring her somewhere she cannot probably survive!
Grapple: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Grapple: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Grapple: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Breath remaining: 5/22

Fighting for her live Shalissas manage to finally wrest herself free, and tries to escape to the surface.

Shalissas surprisingly succeeds in her first check to escape so we switch back to normal combat rounds.
Everybody makes one more swim check to see how much he catches up before the kelpie is forced to stop to get Shalissa again.

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie - Grappling
Shalissa(23/27) - Grappled (7/22 Air)
Kerndrew - 55 ft away (5/24)
Davor - 9 ft away (14/28)
Gregor - 22 ft away (10/24)

Father Kerndrew tries to regain his bearings, and if nothing else, put himself between Shalissa and the kelpie.

Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Sorry for being offline. Pulling a trailer from Iowa to NC over the weekend made for some long days driving.

Swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25

Seeing Shalissa breaking away Davor adjusts his direction trying to get between the creature and Shalissa.

Bot Swim Gregor: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Before the Kelpie can get away again, Davor has reached her drawing hiw weapons ready for attack. Gregor is also almost upon her (1 normal move action is enough to reach her) Only Kerndrew is feeling to uncortable in this element without the protection of his armour.

The Kelpie turn towards Davor and attacks with her fists. When her left strike connects, Davor feels like he was hit by a stallion.

Kelpie
Slam: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Dam: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Slam: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Dam: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie - Grappling
Shalissa(23/27) -(7/22 Air)
Kerndrew - 55 ft away (18/24)
Davor(23/30) - engaged (13/28)
Gregor - 11 ft. away (9/24)

Now that the chase is over normal underwater comabt rules apply.
Swim DC 10 to move at quarter Speed
Slashing/Bludgeoningeapons have -2 Att and half damage
People in Melle also need to make the swim check or are off balance loosing their dex bonus to AC and giving +2Att to opponents.
Underwater Combat

@Shalissa: the swim check DC 15 for finding the correct way upwards still apply, if you succeed you will make it back up in time, otherwise we will see.

Father Kerndrew keeps swimming!

Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

Concentration DC 17: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Before swimming up, Shalissa tries to cast a summoning spell to bring something aquatic to help her friends, but the difficulties of talking with water surrounding ruin her efforts *brlup* *brlup*!

Breath remaining: 4/22

Feeling the slam from the enemy creature changes any thought Davor had about trying to scare it away. He stabs at it hoping it doesn't have any strange regeneration type powers too....

Swim check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Gregor keeps swimming and tries to circle around behind the the strange undersea creature to help better their chances creating a flanking situation in this strange 3 dimensional arena.

swim check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

When Davors dagger connects he sees blueish blood drop out of the wound.
Gregor finally also manages to catch up, trying to attack the creature from the side. If you both make your swim Checks next round you will have flanking.

Shalissas spells fizzles while the missing air is burning in her lungs. You managed to free yourself in round one, so you have 2 more rounds of air left than you track, but swimming up is going to take at the very least 4 rounds and you might get lost in the Currents.

Kelpie vs Davor
Slam: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Dam: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Slam: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Dam: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

As the kelpie keeps attacking Davor, you notice her shape slowly changing, with her mouth elogating and her arms turning into hoofed legs.

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie(4)
Shalissa(23/27) - (6/22 Air)
Kerndrew - 40 ft away (17/24)
Davor(17/30) - engaged (12/28)
Gregor - engaged (8/24)

Swim+diving equipment DC 15: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 2 = 10
As water presses her lips making her magic fizzle, Shalissa knows it is urgent for her to recover and go up. She starts to brace upwards but a current buffets her and takes the elven away!

Breath remaining: 5/22

Father Kerndrew keeps trying to get to the action!

Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Enraged and worried Davor tries to finish the battle with whatever the creature shapeshifting is....

swim: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
damage: 1d4 + 1 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 3 = 8 I forgot to add the Finesse to damage last round....
precision damage if we have flanking: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6

out of his element, the bounty hunter just kept trying to keep the strange shapeshifter inbetween him and Davor, as he stabbed out with his dagger.

swim check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 221d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

While Gregor and Davor keep striking the Kelpie with almost unnatural precision, Shalissa is trying to swim back up, but looses her direction and is instead swimming into the open waters.

@Davor added the precision damage from last round

@Kerndrew, you are noticing Shalissa swimming away from you and the boat.

@Shalissa, No additional swim checks needed this round you keep swimming upwards.

Battle Status - Characters in bold may act
Kelpie(23)
Shalissa(23/27) - (5/22 Air)
Kerndrew - 25 ft away (16/24)
Davor(17/30) - engaged (11/28)
Gregor - engaged (7/24)

Father Kerndrew, seeing the kelpie adequately engaged, changes direction to keep Shalissa in view; should the elf falter, he wanted to be nearby to help.

Swim: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Glad to see Gregor join him Davor grimly continues stabbing at the strange creature.

Swim Check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14
Damage: 1d4 + 1 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 3 + (5) = 13