[PFS2] 1-05 Trailblazer's Bounty (GM Watery Soup) (Inactive)

Game Master Watery Soup

reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

Arlo moves away from the swarm of birds and protects himself with magic.

[ooc]step-step-cast shield[/dice]

Reflex above
Realising the birds will need to be dealt with as part of making the route safe, Teja briefly considers whether the route could not go further around the birds tree. However, such is not likely to be the case.

Stepping back, she draws her dagger and slashes at an incoming bird.
attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
damage(p: 1d6 ⇒ 3
flat check DC15: 1d20 ⇒ 5

Arlo, can you make a flat check for your persistent bleed?

Teja downs a bird, but it doesn't affect the swarm as a whole.

Round 1!

Ravens (-12 hp)
Teja (-1 hp, 1 persistent bleed)
Zonk (-1 hp, 1 persistent bleed)
Mylow (-3 hp)
Arlo (-1 hp, 1 persistent bleed)
Bariel
Zoosh

flat check, DC 15: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Do we go in order here? Haven't done much PbP combat.

In that case, yes, I'll change actions. Hold action to not burn the party, stride, cast Burning hands, 2d6 fire. Aiming throw the swarm, should miss everyone else. Hmm, looks like I bleed more too?

Zonk covers his head for a moment, then scurries out of the birds in the direction most of the party had fled, and then turned and calls on Sarenrae to "Oh Holy Fire Lady, Crisp up some dinner, Please!

Flat Check: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Burning Hands: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

Zoosh seems to be in his element, bounding from one person to another, and chomping lunch on the wing.

Stride, Strike, Strike

AC 17, +3 temp HP

Bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15B

Bite: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15B

Do we go in order here? Haven't done much PbP combat.

I usually resolve in the order posted, unless resolving in initiative order is significantly in the players' favor, e.g., if the first person in initiative posts last and casts Bless, I'll give everyone the +1 as I'm resolving.

Bariel Salvus wrote:

Do we go in order here? Haven't done much PbP combat.

I usually resolve in the order posted, unless resolving in initiative order is significantly in the players' favor, e.g., if the first person in initiative posts last and casts Bless, I'll give everyone the +1 as I'm resolving.

Okay. I'm guessing you're still waiting on Bariel because his name is in bold? Anyway, here are his actions.

Bariel grips his trident more tightly and swings at the swarm, "I know you're just defending your nest, but I won't let you harm my friends!"

Trident: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 piercing

He swings again, more trying to disperse the ravens than do actual damage:

Trident, second attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 piercing

Then he raises his shield.

Bariel stabs a few ravens through, and a giant cone of fire comes rushing through, barbequing the birds.

It smells like the chicken that the nobles were cooking.

The remaining birds scatter.

The foe is gone, but we will remain in initiative order until everyone stops bleeding.

Round 3!

Ravens (-12 hp)
Teja (-1 hp, 1 persistent bleed)
Zonk (-1 hp, 1 persistent bleed)
Mylow (-3 hp)
Arlo (-1 hp)
Bariel
Zoosh

Teja sticks a bandage around herself.
medicine: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 hopefully enough
flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 14 Just in case

Teja, unfortunately this is a formalized process, not just a Medicine check. If you had a healer's kit or a healing spell, you could heal yourself to maximum HP, which would end bleed. Otherwise, you just have to grit your teeth and make the flat check. Link to AoN page

So, I can;t use that 19 I rolled first for that ?

Zonk looks at the fried birds in some satisfaction.

"I think, lunch is served. But First, let's take care of things a bit shall we? Gather round, and feel the Blessed Warmth of the Holy Fire Lady Sarenrae."

a single 3 action Heal is probably the most effective way to take care of this.

1d8 ⇒ 7

After clearing the lingering stings from the flock, Zonk sits down next to the pile of roasted foul, and tucks in with glee.

So, I can;t use that 19 I rolled first for that ?

You need healer's tools to Treat Wounds with Medicine.

For reference, I have a set of said tools, in case they end up needed for whatever reason, but felt that the odds of damage were too great to do things that way, which is why I did things the sure fashion.

Zoosh calms down from his carnivorous rampage. He was uninjured, but the warm healing light makes him smile, feathers and claws sticking out from between his teeth.

Bariel rests a hand on Zonk's shoulder, "Yes, enjoy Father Zonk. You've earned it. Thanks be to the Dawnflower for her healing." He double checks on the rest of the party, seeing that they are all fully healed. "And now, to discover why these poor creatures attacked us." He looks on the ground and near the nest, careful not to touch anything with his hands.

Zonk 3-action Heals and everyone is up to full with persistent bleed healed as well.

Full post in a few hours.

"Thanks Zonk. Those nasty bird pecks were worse than a dagger slash in some ways. Hopefully we wont meet too many more so aggressive. "

Then looking around she tries to spy their tree.
"Think we could see what upset them? Or was it just us so close?"

Bariel rests a hand on Zonk's shoulder, "Yes, enjoy Father Zonk. You've earned it. Thanks be to the Dawnflower for her healing." He double checks on the rest of the party, seeing that they are all fully healed. "And now, to discover why these poor creatures attacked us." He looks on the ground and near the nest, careful not to touch anything with his hands.

”Watch out!”, cries Zoosh, pointing at Bariel’s feet. ”Orc tracks. Guess they like eggs too”

The river warrants investigation, as it would pose an obstacle to any trade caravan passing through. It flows swiftly but is not too broad.

Swimming across is a DC 15 Swim check.

Things to do here:

• Identify local wildlife. A stream attracts many animals, including predators, but could provide a good resting place for a caravan. This is a Survival or Nature check.

• Identify local plant life to see if the stream would be a good resting spot for a caravan. Pack animals are often not picky eaters and might accidentally ingest poisonous plants. This is a Nature check or a Herbalism Lore check.

• Chart the terrain with Cartography Lore, Scribing Lore, or Crafting check.

• Find the best place to ford the stream. This is a Nature, Hills, Mountain or Scouting Lore check. Someone brave could also try to find a fordable spot by trial and error with an Acrobatics check.
•• After finding the best place to ford the stream, they can improve it with an Athletics check, to move boulders into better positions.

• Select a bridge location with a Craft check.
•• After selecting a good spot for a bridge, they can try to improvise a bridge themselves rather than leaving it all to the NPC engineering team. A sturdy improvised bridge would need at least two lengths of rope. Making the bridge is a Craft check.

These are not secret checks, but you can each only do one at a time, so each of you can choose an activity and make a roll.

Zoosh happily hops into the river, to look for a ford. He splashes around, dropping below the surface, and popping back up. He seems comfortable, perhaps even distracted from his intended mission.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Athletics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

While the team checks out the area, Teja finds a flat dry place and starts to work on the map the team has to prepare.

crafting: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Bariel examines the tracks and other signs of local wildlife, looking particularly for any dangerous predators.

Nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Zonk wanders around the area, stopping to look at various plants, occasionally sticking a bit in his mouth and chewing for a moment, rarely spitting it back out.

Nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

"Hey, dis one's actually really tasty, and perfectly safe."

Arlo gets down to business charting this area, including counting paces between trees and other nearby features, making notes on any observations, and writing love-lorn poetry about the roast chicken back on the boat, which he shares later with Zoosh and Zonk, his goblin friends.

scribing: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Mylow puts his Scouting Lore to the test and looks for the best possible location to ford the stream without actually swimming in it. If there is a location wide enough for wagons, he will tell Teja to make sure to mark it on the map.

Scouting Lore: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Zoosh jumps into the river and starts splashing around. He swims quite well, but seems like he's more interested in having fun than finding a place to cross. When Mylow asks him if he's done with his task, he stops swimming and answers, "Done with what task?" Mylow notices that Zoosh is standing on some stream bed rocks that would make an excellent ford.

Teja starts charting out the terrain, but doesn't get very far before she realizes that she doesn't know all the cartography drawing conventions and it will take more time than she anticipated. Fortunately, Arlo is around and his knowledge of scribing covers some of her initial errors. Together, the two finish the map.

Bariel looks around and picks a nice spot that looks like a great resting spot without any predators. He lies down for a breather, and gets bitten by fire ants. He realizes he has to find another place.

Zonk chews on random plants. After licking, tasting, and masticating every single plant in the area, he declares the vegetation safe for consumption!

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Things to do here:

• Identify local wildlife. A stream attracts many animals, including predators, but could provide a good resting place for a caravan. This is a Survival or Nature check.

• Identify local plant life to see if the stream would be a good resting spot for a caravan. Pack animals are often not picky eaters and might accidentally ingest poisonous plants. This is a Nature check or a Herbalism Lore check.

• Chart the terrain with Cartography Lore, Scribing Lore, or Crafting check.

• Find the best place to ford the stream. This is a Nature, Hills, Mountain or Scouting Lore check. Someone brave could also try to find a fordable spot by trial and error with an Acrobatics check.
•• After finding the best place to ford the stream, they can improve it with an Athletics check, to move boulders into better positions.

• Select a bridge location with a Craft check.
•• After selecting a good spot for a bridge, they can try to improvise a bridge themselves rather than leaving it all to the NPC engineering team. A sturdy improvised bridge would need at least two lengths of rope. Making the bridge is a Craft check.

"Zoosh and Bariel, could you please help me move some of these boulders around into better positions. This way a wagon can have an easier time to ford the stream."

Athletics: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

"Zoosh and Bariel, could you please help me move some of these boulders around into better positions. This way a wagon can have an easier time to ford the stream."

Zoosh goes diving for rocks, sometimes stacking them along the ford, sometimes chasing fish.

Athletics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Remaining things to do here (Arlo, Bariel, Teja, Zonk):

• Identify local wildlife. A stream attracts many animals, including predators, but could provide a good resting place for a caravan. This is a Survival or Nature check.

• Select a bridge location with a Craft check.
•• After selecting a good spot for a bridge, they can try to improvise a bridge themselves rather than leaving it all to the NPC engineering team. A sturdy improvised bridge would need at least two lengths of rope. Making the bridge is a Craft check.

While pondering his poetry, Arlo considers the beauty of this flowing body of water. What could be more beautiful than a wooden bridge spanning this run crystal clear water.

Perhaps some inspiration will come to him.

crafting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

"HERE! Here is where the bridge shall be set. Soon I hope it will be a great stone edifice, a tribute to the brave travelers who choose this route! For now we may need to choose a different material. Perhaps rope? I have some to contribute."

Flowing stream bed
Stained with the blood of ravens
Perfect for crossing

Rolling a Craft Roll
Whilst eating the boat's chicken
For Watery Soup

Bariel, having dismally failed at identifying wildlife, tries to help Arlo with making the rope bridge.

Crafting: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

Doesn't look like there is much for me to do here.

Teja helps out with the bridge building/planning.

craft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

"I thought being an academic would mean I only had to worry about ink stains on my fingers." she mutters after hitting her thumb again.

Zonk continues to wander around the area looking closely at this and that, and gets distracted by pondering the combinations of roast bird seasoned with this or that plant, and immediately puts the plan into action. After eating, again, he returns to his survey of the wildlife signs.

Nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Assuming that no one beats me to this, and it's ok to do it this way of course.

Arlo and Bariel quickly build a makeshift bridge, while Zonk catalogs all the wildlife in descending order of how much he'd like to eat them.

After the group tries a few of the local delicacies (a spicy purple berry was unanimously voted the favorite), they head out.

After several more days of travel, the group moves out of the mountain forest, cross the tree line, and approach the snow line.

Everyone please make an Atheletics check AND a Survival (untrained or trained) check, please.

The wind has built up layers of snow on the slope; however, the bottom layers are unstable, as they lie on top of loose scree. When disturbed it
might trigger an avalanche.

Anyone trained in Survival or Mountain Lore can try to recall some knowledge about the avalanche - just say you'd like to attempt, and post your modifier. This is a secret check.

Zonk has a +6 Survival, and would like to try.

Athletics - U: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Survival - T: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Whelp, what's the Crit fail result on that Athletic's check? DOOM? Coming up served hot!

Zonk gamely trudges in the wake of his larger companions, and shivers miserably more than once in the trek above the snowline, remembering how useful he was a few days before ... as opposed to how miserably useless he feels now.

Zoosh is fascinated by the landscape. ”Never seen so much snow!”, he says. He helps break the trail, almost crawling through the frosty terrain.

Athletics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Assurance: Survival = 12
Secret Survival: +2

Bariel gamely makes a snowball and throws it at Zoosh, "This is but another aspect of The Wind and the Waves! They have many forms."

He looks with concern at Zonk,"Are you all right, Father? Serenrae might seem far away now, but I assure you she is near. And maybe not our friend in this instance, if I remember my reading on avalanches." His brow furrows as he tries to remember.

Bariel tries to Recall Knowledge about avalanches with Survival +5.

"How are our resident wizard, corsair and scholar, then? Everyone warm enough?" he calls to Arlo, Mylow and Teja.

Athletics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

athletics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
survival: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Teja would also try the survival check - +4

"Gosh this is cold. I was hoping we might pass some previously forgotten ancient ruins that we might catalogue. But who would want to live up here?" she pants.

Mylow snuggles deeper into his Cold Weather Clothing, "From what I encountered, the Land of the Linnorm Kings were not as treacherous as this. How is a caravan supposed to make a trek through this?" Mylow tries to recall anything he can on the matter. As the path gets deeper, "If we walk single file through the snow, that should help with lessening the effort and strain of walking. I also have a climbing kit we can use pitons and rope if the path gets much more narrower."

Athletics (T): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Survival (T): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

You say slope. Is this just an animal path or are we on a cliff path against a wall of rock? Can pack animals be brought this way? Survival Recall Knowledge +5

When the snowball hits him in the back of the head, Zoosh turns with a start. He sees Bariel, and his eyes narrow. With a grunt, he makes a smaller snowball, and hucks it at the half-elf.

Arlo will do his best to stay warm and be cautious. He has put his poetry and roast chicken away for now.

survival: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
athletics: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Is this just an animal path or are we on a cliff path against a wall of rock? Can pack animals be brought this way?

As unrealistic as it is, if you can scale the slope, everyone else will be able to as well.

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Tell me how you're going to prepare, who's going first, and when you're ready, make an open Athletics check.

"Lets rope up" suggests Teja.

"The famous mountaineer Val Dregla talked extensively in his diary about how such techniques saved him and members of his expedition in situations such as this."

Not being the biggest, or the strongest, Teja ops for a position in the middle of the group.

"Good idea, Teja." Mylow ties off at the front. "I can take the lead if there are no objections. Maybe the two strongest should take the 2nd and 5th spots in line."

Not sure how this is supposed to work so don't know if that is a good suggestion or not.

Presuming that our Survival checks give enough information to correct things if we the players aren't grounded in reality...

Zonk speaks up, sounding nearly exhausted. "Well, I agree that we should rope up, I think we should have the weakest of us in the middle, with two strong people in front, and one in back. I'm clearly not suited for this, and would prefer a middle spot."