[PbP Gameday][RD] PFS2 1-12: Burden of Envy (Inactive)

Game Master Andrew Harasty

Magnus shook out the banner on the pole at his back and called out, "I am Magnus Stormshield, standard bearer of the fallen Therdan Guard and sworn warden of Angradd and all the dwarven gods. Striking from the shadows is not only a cowardly act, but one of violence. Cease your predation now, or be destroyed!"

intimidate: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

A - move
A - intimidate
A - raise shield

Teja moves back to a less exposed position, and takes the time to draw her weapons. "Another around that corner..."

A: Move
A: Draw rapier
A: Draw dagger

Katerina shakes her head as she spits out a couple words to call a faint sheen into the air around her, before she steps after Magnus and pulls out a scroll from her bag.

◆Cast Shield
◆Stride
◆Retrieve scroll

Magnus moves in and cuases the one nearby bandit to slink back a bit behind the boxes.

Teja and Katerina positions themselves better in the warehouse.

The red scarf bandit moves up and shoots at Galadir with his shortbow. Galadir has cover from this shot, but is flat-footed from the "surprise attack"

Short bow attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Missing the swashbuckler

He then tries to hide behind the cover of the crates
Stealth ?: 1d20 ⇒ 20

Something else moves
Stealth ?: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Then a green capped bandit pops out from behind some crates and takes a shot at Magnus
Short bow attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
However the Dwarf notices the bandit just in time as the arrow nearly hits him.

Galadir is up[ooc]

[ooc] Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Galadir

Bandit, Blue - frighten 1
Bandit, White - undetected

Mookard
Magnus
Teja
Katerina

Bandit, Red - hidden
Bandit, Green -

As Galadir dodges the arrow, he turns his movement into a turn, and then a spin, one movement flowing into another as he seems to dance towards the foes, taking a swipe at the one that shot him with his elven curved blade.(Red, unless he can't see him when he gets there, then green.)

◆ Stride
◆ Fascinating Performance (affects up to 4 observers)
Perform: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
◆ Strike: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

If the performance check succeeds, then Galadir has Panache. Add +2 to damage, if this is the case. If the check Critically Succeeds, the the targets are fascinated.

Red is still hidden to you, so you head towards green

The three bandits you have spotted at some point are fascinated briefly, as Galadir strides up on to the one bandit he can see and hits him soundly. Then they regain their senses as they notice their companion get hit.

The Blue bandit tries to quickly hide behind some crates before taking a shot at Magnus

Stealth: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 7 - 1 = 14
Short bow attack: 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 - 1 = 27
Bow damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Although not fooling the dwarf, still lands a noticeable hit on him.
He then holds his bow in one hand and draws his rapier, shaking off his fear as he does so

From on top of one of the piles of crates, the bureaucrat Barralbus appears and casts a spell Grease under Galadir. Reflex to remain standing

He then shoots the elf with is crossbow from cover
crossbow: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 will hit regardless of prone
damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

Bold can act

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja
Katerina

Bandit, Red - hidden,
Bandit, Green - 11 dmg,

Galadir - 8 dmg

Bandit, Blue -
Barrabalus, White - cover from crates

Mr. Saltspray steps into position with most of his allies as cover. With a simple wave of his hand, he gives his allies a protective abjuration. He tries to see if he can pick out any special offensive tactics of his enemies.

Action 1: Step
Action 2: cast protective ward, a 1 action spell "You emanate a shimmering aura of protective magic. You and any allies in the area gain a +1 status bonus to AC. Each time you Sustain the Spell, the emanation's radius increases by 5 feet, to a maximum of 30 feet." Its a 5 foot emanation at the moment.
Action 3: Recall knowledge. My Society skill is +9

Magnus strode forward and smashed his hammer at the man in front of him. "When a warrior of Therdan tells you to stop what you're doing and get on the ground, he means it!"

attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
B damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

intimidate: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

A - move
A - attack
A - intimidate

Teja hurries forward to support the exposed swashbuckler.
"Well, if you are going to be nasty about it.."

She feints with her dagger and then stabs with her rapier.
feint: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16 Successful if perception is +5 or lower
attack, maybe vs FF: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5
sneak damage?: 1d6 ⇒ 2

A: Move
A: Feint
A: Strike

"Best to push back one threat swiftly...," Katerina mutters as she follows Magnus. As soon as she can get a bead on Magnus's target, she reaches forward, and with a couple harsh, gutteral words, goes to metaphysically tug at her target's resolve.

◆Stride
◆◆Cast Fear on Blue

Galadir Reflex: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Galadir does not notice the grease at all and remains standing.

Mookard moves forward and starts to emanate a protective ward around his allies.

Magnus moves forward an hits once. You can not use demoralize on the same target for 10 minutes, you have one action left

Teje Flat check to attack a hidden creature
Flat check DC 11: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Knowing that the bandit is there somewhere, she tries to fake him out, but he is too aware, however her blade still finds its target in the shadows.

Katarina then move to instill real fear in the bandit
Bandit will: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
But he is unshaken.

The red bandit steps out from the shadows with a rapier in hand and stabs at Galadir
Rapier Attack, v FF: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Missing

The Green bandit draws his rapier and stabs twice.

Rapier Attack, v FF: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Rapier Attack, v FF: 1d20 + 8 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 8 - 5 = 10
Also unable to hit the swashbuckler.

Galadir can act

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Galadir - 8 dmg

Bandit, Blue - 5 dmg
Barrabalus, White - cover from crates

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja
Katerina

Bandit, Red - 5 dmg ,
Bandit, Green - 11 dmg,

Since Green technically Critically Missed Galadir on that second attack, he'll take advantage and use his Reaction to use Opportune Riposte

↺ Opportune Riposte v. Green: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Noting the sloppy blade work that the ambusher uses, Galadir ripostes, using his own momentum against him to strike back, landing in a poise like a dancer. The elf gives red a cheeky grin over his shoulder before somersaulting by him to appear on the other side, from where he continues his own attack.

◆Tumble Through Red (Acrobatics): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

Success for the save on Fear is still frightened 1, so he'll still have a penalty this round at least.

The clumsy bandit effectively impales himself on Galadir's blade.
However the remaining bandit is not so easily hit.

The Blue bandit furiously fights Magnus
Rapier Atk: 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (2) + 8 - 1 = 9
Rapier Atk: 1d20 + 8 - 5 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 8 - 5 - 1 = 10
Rapier Atk: 1d20 + 8 - 10 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 8 - 10 - 1 = 11
Failing with style

Barrabalus, annoyed at the quality of his help takes a more direct approach at Galadir and launches three magic missiles at him
Magic Missile: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (1, 4, 1) + 3 = 9

Bold can act

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja
Katerina

Bandit, Red - DEAD
Bandit, Green - 11 dmg,

Galadir - 17 dmg

Bandit, Blue - 5 dmg
Barrabalus, White - cover from crates

Mookard takes a strategic assessment and decides to back up the other group. He then extends his shielding spell.

Action: Stride, Step, Sustain. Both Galadir and Teja will have a +1 status bonus to their AC if they stay within 10 feet of me

Oops, forgot about the intimidation cooldown. Remaining action is to raise shield.

Magnus took the man's return strikes on his shield, then lased out again with his warhammer before raising his shield once more.

1stattack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
B damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
2nd attack: 1d20 + 8 - 5 ⇒ (14) + 8 - 5 = 17
B damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

A - strike
A - strike
A - raise shield

Magnus strikes down the bandit.

Sorry, didn't realise that bandit was hidden

Teja steps up to the remaining bandit and once again fakes with the dagger, before striking out with her rapier. "Words cut. Never mess with a librarian."

feint: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 Doesn't look likely
attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 Well, at least I've used up the bad rolls

And I just noticed the blue, is that greased? If so, lets do the ref save
reflex just in case: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12 Or maybe I didn't use them all up

After getting way to sure of her self, Teja slips in the grease, making both her inept faint and inept attack look positively competent in comparison to her inability to stay on her feet.

Seeing Magnus end this threat, Katerina nods faintly and moves to follow the others. As she does so, she notes the functionary/sniper and swaps from the scroll she has to her crossbow.

◆Stride
◆Stow Scroll
◆Retreive Crossbow

With a very stellar failure Teja falls down in the grease

The bandit then takes advantage of fallen pathfindre
Rapier attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Rapier attack: 1d20 + 8 - 5 ⇒ (12) + 8 - 5 = 15
Rapier attack: 1d20 + 8 - 10 ⇒ (11) + 8 - 10 = 9

But even on the ground he cant hit.

Galadir can act

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Galadir - 17 dmg

Bandit, Blue - 5 DEAD
Barrabalus, White - cover from crates

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja - prone
Katerina

Bandit, Red - DEAD
Bandit, Green - 11 dmg,

With the reroll, you make the save. You're poison status moves down one step, to zero, so you are free of the poison. Go ahead and take your actions.

Initiative:
Futin - 19; 0/17 HP; Wounded 1/Unconscious
Swarm 2 - 18
Villar - 12; 1/13 HP Poison Stage 1; Enfeebled 1.
Swarm 1 - 6
Talina - 6 - 12/20 HP
Cicero - 6 – 2/12 HP

With the reroll, you make the save. You're poison status moves down one step, to zero, so you are free of the poison. Go ahead and take your actions.

Initiative:
Futin - 19; 0/17 HP; Wounded 1/Unconscious
Swarm 2 - 18
Villar - 12; 1/13 HP Poison Stage 1; Enfeebled 1.
Swarm 1 - 6
Talina - 6 - 12/20 HP
Cicero - 6 – 2/12 HP

Wrong Game :)

Whoops! Sorry about that! Not sure what the heck happened there.

just to move thing forward

Galadir turns his focus on to the green bandit.

Strike: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Taking down the bandit in one more swipe, then starts making his way to the mage.

Balance: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

But is unable to move though the grease gracefully and falls down, then stands back up.

Trying to keep the dangerous elf at bay, Barrabalus summons a flaming sphere on him.

Galadir Reflex: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
However Galadir has regained his grace and is not harmed by the ball.

He then reloads his crossbow.
Everyone can act

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja - prone
Katerina
Galadir - 17 dmg

Bandit, Blue - DEAD
Barrabalus, White - cover from crates

Bandit, Red - DEAD
Bandit, Green - DEAD

Teja, throughly embarrassed, gets to get feet carefully, and then skulks around the back of the crates, hoping everyone will forget about her inepititude.

A: stand up
A: move
A: move

Magnus followed Teja around the grease and into the warren of stacked boxes.

3 move actions

As the others loop around the boxes, Katerina loads her crossbow. With a brief incantation that overlays the imagery of red scaling along her cheeks and neck, she raises her weapon and fires at the trouble-making functionary.

◆Load Crossbow
◆Cast True Strike(This activates my Blood Magic, giving me a +1 status bonus to my AC)
◆Strike with Crossbow vs. White

Attack1: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Attack2: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
So, 18 to Hit, I ignore cover
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Mookard sustains his spell, and then attempts to knock the wizard off his pedestal.

Action 1: Sustain a spell, everyone within 15 feet of Mookard gets a +1 bonus to AC.
Actions 2 and 3: Cast Gust of wind. See here. Fortitude Save 19

Teja and Magnus move around the warehouse

Katerina's bolt strikes true though the crates.

Fort Save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
However the mage holds his own against the buffeting winds.

Botting Galadir
Galadir moves and bounds up the crates with style
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Then stabs at Barrabalus with a precision
elven curve blade: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 2 = 9

Barrabalus then sets the sphere over on to Teja
Teja Reflex: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
But she is unable to move out the way fast enough
Flaming Sphere: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 1) = 4

Then calls down an arc of lightening on her and Galadir
Eletric Arc: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 2) + 4 = 9
Teja Reflex: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
Galadir Reflex: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
Both both are able to stay out of the way of most of the blast.

Everyone can act again

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja - 8 dmg
Katerina
Galadir - 21 dmg

Barrabalus, White - 21 dmg, cover from crates

Bandit, Blue - DEAD
Bandit, Red - DEAD
Bandit, Green - DEAD

Gah! I must be falling asleep at the wheel. So sorry. Didn't realize that I had another go.

Balancing on the crates, sword in hand, Galadir gives the mage a near manic grin. "Ready to give up?!"

Acrobatics (Balance): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27 (Just in case.)

◆Strike 1: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

◆Strike 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

◆Strike 3: 1d20 ⇒ 9
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Magnus stomped up to the remaining foe and shouted, "Enough of this nonsense! Get down off of there and submit and we won't have to explain to the warehouse owner why he has to pay someone to scrub your brains off the crates!"

Magnus gave the caster one more chance to submit before he crushed him.

intimidate: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

If the mage attacks me or any ally, I'd like to use my Devil's Keep reaction to do 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 fire damage from my wrathful glare. Basic Reflex DC 18

A - move
A - demoralize
A - raise shield

Mookard again sustains his spell, now covering a radius of 20 feet.

He summons up a spell and tries to hit Barrabulus with a ray of frost.

Spell Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Damage, Cold: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 4) + 4 = 9

Teja avoids the ball of flame and hurries forward toward the mage.

Feinting left, she then drives her blade into the man.

feint: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16 Unless perception is +6 or higher
attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20 Maybe extra+2 if FF
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2
sneak damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

A: move
A: feint
A: strike

@Teja. He is on top of the crates 15 feet up. You will need to climb up there some what before striking.

Right, so guess there is no feint, as I suspect I didn't have enough movement free.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25 Or if it is athletics, then only +5
Teja does her best to gracefully leap from box to box to get in range of the mage.

Katerina reloads her crossbow, then aims it and waits. Someone demanded a surrender, and she'll let him refuse before firing again.

◆Load Crossbow
◆◆Ready(If Barrabalus continues fighting, then Strike with Crossbow vs. White)

Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 181d8 ⇒ 7

Teja bounds up the crates to surround the mage. However he is still too wiely to get hit by any of the attacks thrown at him.

The mage calls down some more lightening

Then calls down an arc of lightening on her and Galadir
Eletric Arc: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 3) + 4 = 8
Teja Reflex: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Galadir Reflex: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21
Both both are able to stay out of the way of most of the blast.

Then clambers across the top of the crates out from between the two combatants.

Everyone can act again

Warehouse Ambush

Group conditions:

Mookard
Magnus - 4 dmg
Teja - 12 dmg
Katerina
Galadir - 25 dmg

Barrabalus, White - 21 dmg, cover from crates

Bandit, Blue - DEAD
Bandit, Red - DEAD
Bandit, Green - DEAD

Galadir shakes off the electricity coursing through him and gives the devious mage chase. Once he reaches his foe, he continues his attacks. "You will not escape that easily!" he calls out, finishing his attacks with a spin and a flourish.

◆ Stride Acrobatics (Balance): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

◆ Strike Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

◆ Confident Finisher Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Slashing Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2d6 ⇒ (8) + 1 + (4, 6) = 19 (If this attack if a Failure, then only apply half the 2d6 damage to the target.)

Panache is now gone.

Unsure of his footing with the grease, Mookard moves around and sustains his spell again.

I don't think anyone is within range

Magnus moved around the stack of crates to get a better shot at the fleeign mage, then let loose with a blast of divine energy.

spell attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14
Good damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

A - move
AA - cast Divine Lance (good)

Teja clambers around on the crates, getting behind the mage.
She then feints again, trying to driver her rapier into the mages ribs.

acrobatics if required: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
deception for feint: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
strike,flanking: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 8 + 2 = 20 Extra to hit if their perception is less than +13
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4
sneak damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Galadir and Teja nimbly catch up with the mage and with much more ease this time strike him down.

After taking a moment to survey the scene, Themolin finally arrives. He takes a look and shrugs. "[b]Well looks like I have more reason to leave now. Just put the bodies under some crates for now. Also feel free to take what every you think will travel well. I won't need it now. No one should be coming here for a while. I don't have any shipments scheduled so it will be a while for anyone notices the lack of actvity. I hope to be long gone from then.[b]"

The bandits did not have much, and on Barrabalus is his spellbook and an empty potion bottle. You are able to find some more portable treasure as your payment for your services.

At this point you have made contact with everyone and you have time to prepare. So who do you want to ship out though the cove on the Rolanna’s Prayer and how do you want to deal with everyone else though main gate

The ship can only take 4, correct?

The ship can only take 4, correct?

Yes

Once they are 'sitting around the table' planning, Galadir states, "The obvious answer would be to put Daffrid and her family on the Rolanna's Prayer. Just a family outing to see the world."

"That would mean the others are going through the cove... and our makeshift raft." notes Teja.

"Think we could smuggle a giant out somehow?"

Teja The other way around. You need to figure out which four you will take though the cove, then the rest though the main gate. Given that there is plenty of time, I am going to assume you get enough rafts prepared. Depending on who you have for the main gate, you will have different issues/challenges

"I suspect that the giant is just a matter of paperwork. If we can show 'ownership', seeing the way that the creatures are treated here, they probably won't look twice."

"Right... so how do we go about acquring papers of ownership. I could try and fake some, but it would surely be easier if I could see what normal ones looked like. "

She ponders the matter."Maybe a trip to the slave market might be in order."

Galadir Koratril wrote:

The ship can only take 4, correct?

Yes

the opening spiel said 5.

"That's not a bad idea, but if we did that, I would want Daffrid with us. Seddothrum trusts her and her family, and faking servant papers would be easier if the 'servant' knows the 'employer'." Katerina thinks about that for a moment, before adding, "I say we send Flitch, Themolin, 'Garrla', Yurag, and Vurna to the Prayer, then when we leave on the Mayfly, we set up travel papers for a sabbatical for Daffrid, who needs her family and trusted servant along for the studies that she needs to do in Magnimar."