T2 PFS2E Q1-13 Falcon's Descent with DM Deevor (Inactive)

Game Master Deevor

Elanna follows Frayley who looks like they can find their way in that labyrinth of sights, sonnds and smells.

Once or twice, Elanna seems find a short-cut but one after another they end up blocked and she happily let's Frayley's honed senses lead the way.

Ad another Survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

The party follow Frayley through the passageways that start twisting and turning in any direction, but with skills learned through her previous sojourns into caverns they swiftly take you to the sounds of battle.

The sounds of fighting get louder, the echoes seem to die down and the cries of men and duergar in the heat of battle are heard. Screams of agony when steel cuts through and breaks the bones and flesh of it's victim, or the cries for help as what seems like hundreds of explosions pierce the sounds of hand to hand combat.

The flames of Frayley's torch play with the shadows as you think any minute now you will come into conflict with the duergar, where are they hiding?

ENCOUNTER MODE - just in case you didn't realise it ...
Frayley are up ..

Frayley gets their longbow ready and sneaks around the corner (Sneak action twice). As they do, their gate changes, and they sit a little lower to the ground, more stable moving to look around, trying to find the enemy Enter Monastic Archer Stance.

Frayley leaves their torch on the floor, before they sneaks along another tunnel, towards the sounds of battle.

The pitch black of the cavern envelopes Frayley who gingerly feels along the cavern walls to get into a position to fire into the darkness in support of their companions.

Anjo Elanna and Makai are up.

Makai removes his dueling cape and wraps it around his arm, then he unsheaths his sword from the cane. Then he begins to sneak in the elf footsteps

Elanna moves quickly alongside the tunnel towards another opening into the large cavern then creeps forwards into the opening.

Stride twice, then sneak

Anjo uses the sound of of the enemy to designate it as his prey. Anjo then moves forward to th dropped torch and picks it up.

The sounds of battle rage on as the pathfinders seek to get an advantage in the cavern, by sneaking into position. Darkness envelopes everything in the cavern, the only source of light is the torch in Anjo's hands, back in the tunnels. An eerie silence comes from this end of the cavern, is it safe to rush in or is their a trap? Will you meet up with the Eagle Knights and defeat this Duegar raiding and slaving party?

Frayley, Anjo, Elanna and Makai are up....
Things marked with a 'C' provide cover.

Makai continues to sneak into the place of the fight. But his short legs make him stay behind...

Elanna draws her short sword and moves briskly into the cavern, taking cover behind one of the stalagmites.
Once there, she looks closely for signs of the Duergars as the battle between the Andoran forces and the Duergar rages.

◆Interact to draw her short sword, ◆Stride, ◆Seek

Anjo advances.

I need to know where you advance to Anjo, you will likely not see the duergar with a seek action.

I moved me on the map

Frayley continues to move forward Sneak, then searches the darkness using the faint light coming off of Anjo's torch Seek, using Low-light vision. Frayley then takes cover against the side of the cavern they are in Take Cover

The light of Anjo's torch illuminates the tunnel from which he emerges, drawing the attention of one of the duergar, who throws a bomb in his direction. Strike lesser acid bomb 1d20 + 8 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 8 - 2 = 25 damage 1 + 1d6 ⇒ 1 + (4) = 5 damage, Persistent damage 1d6. Elanna gets 1HP splash damage. Before the duegar takes cover.

The other durgar follows suite and and fires a his crossbow at Anjo1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 damage 1d8 ⇒ 4 before moving back behind cover.

Elanna stifles a cry as acid droplets strike the back of her neck and sizzle, sending needles of pain to her brain.

As see the duergars for the first time, she sprints across the uneven surface, her eyes focused on the closest one and she leaps up onto the first level of the defensive mound.

In mid air, she reverses her grip on her short sword and stabs down at the juncture between the helmet and the neck, trying to take the Duergar by surprise.

"They've only seen Anjo", she calls in Common.

◆Stride,
◆Jump, using athletics to extend the length of my Jump to 10 feet as well as up athletics: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
◆Strike, strike: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27, critical damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (1, 4) + 8 = 13

@GM Deevor : I'm not sure about it but my guess is there's no sneak attack because she's not comming under stealth. If there is, there's an extra 2d6 damage.

Anjo cringes as the acid splatters and the crossbow finds soft tissue.

I suppose I walked into that.

Anjo immediately tosses the torch towards the circle and tries to Seek his prey.

Seek: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 2 = 21

Anjo then moves back to the tunnel waiting for the acid to run its course.

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

End Persistent Damage: 1d20 ⇒ 16

Makai tried to sneak closer when he heard and saw Elanna running in full speed towards the enemies. The dwarf curses and begins to run, saying to himself

"Go, go, go..."

His cape in his hand flutters as he makes his way towards the mound at the center and he begins to run around it. His feet jump on the stones surely and without slipping. Rock runner allows to ignore difficult terrain caused by rocks or rubble.

As he runs the final distance he makes a stab with his sword

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Damage, piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

2 moves + attack

The enemy's now illuminated, Frayley drops their shortbow, and quickly pulls out their longbow, firing three quick shots at the creature on the lower hill Blue

♢ Release short bow

◆ Interact draw long bow

◆ Flurry of Blows
Attack 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Attack 2: 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 7 - 5 = 9
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

◆ Strike
Attack 3: 1d20 + 7 - 10 ⇒ (20) + 7 - 10 = 17
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1
Possible Extra Damage if Crit: 1d8 + 1d10 ⇒ (4) + (10) = 14

Uff. That could be a really terrible turn, or really good. It all really depends on that crit

Fraryley, you don't roll two dice on crits. The first one is doubled. This is change in PF2.

Fraryley, you don't roll two dice on crits. The first one is doubled. This is change in PF2.

Ah. Okay, well next time.

Anjo is correct about the way damage is rolled on crits.

And a natural 20 is not a guaranteed critical, it increases the level of the hit one step, so a miss bcomes a hit, and a hit becomes a critical. So in this instance the miss, becomes a hit. In the same way a natural 1 reduces the result one step, so a hit becomes a miss, and a miss becomes a critical miss.

Frayley unleashes arrows a barrage of arrows at the duergar, but they are elusive targets as they take cover on the elevated mound. All but one shot misses the target.

Anjo throws a torch forward, as he moves back into the safety of the tunnels. You hear the duergar on top of the mound cries out as the torch burns on the mound (5ft step).

Elanna rushes forward and strikes hard with her shortsword, almost bringing the duergar down in one well aimed punchy strike.

Makai too moves up to take on the duergar, but he has difficulty reaching up 5ft and his weapon fails to hit the target, just scuffing the earthen mound.

The duegar throwing bombs, badly injured crawls round way from the side Elanna approached, he takes an acid flask and throws it towards the pointed blade that stabbed him. The bomb hits Elanna's shoulder, but the flask bounces off her and explodes next to her, doing only a little damage. 1HP splash damage

The duegar with the crossbow, stands as he reloads and fires at the dwarf below him. The bolt hits the dwarf, bursting into a tangle of sticky cords that tangle around him. Reflex save please Makai.

Reflex save, dc16: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 Ouch!

Makai hits the ground with a big thud!

"On Torags hammer! What was that" as Makai tries to stand up and feels something holding him back.

Escape, DC15: 1d20 ⇒ 5

He begins to throw himself on the ground trying to free himself.
Escape, DC15: 1d20 ⇒ 20

Finally, he is able to do so and stand up.

"Now I am severely annoyed, you slaver!"

I guess @GM you did not say it, but I assumed that Makai moves after the reflex save. On Torag beard, that reflex save cost Makai the whole round, and he had +9 mod

Elanna pivots on her heals and dodges most of the blast, but a few drops land on her cheek, burning the skin.
Leaving that one to her comapanions, she spots Makai perillous position and the Duergar crossbowman's distraction.

Moving around the defensive mound, she tries to catch him between her and her dwarven companion. Aiming for the back of the knee, then the back of the neck, she strikes twice at her foe.

"The Bomb-thrower is blinded. Take him down.", she calls to her companions.

◆Stride to flank the crossbowman
◆Strike the flanked target attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 damage with sneak attack: 1d6 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 4 + (6) = 14
◆Second strike on the flanked target attack: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 7 - 4 = 10 damage with sneak attack: 1d6 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (6) = 13

Makai falls to the floor, tangled in the bola bolt's ropes. He eventually gets himself out of the ropes, but it takes all his guile and strength.

As the sharpshooter laughs at the dwarfs efforts, Elanna comes round behind and with one strike almost takes down the duergar. However as the duegar falls forward as his muscle stiffens to resist the effort to fall. Elanna's second strike misses the duergar's vital spot.

Flayley is in dim light but can see the duegar is taking cover making him difficult to hit from range.

Anjo, I may have misinterpreted your action of throw the torch, which I took as throw towards your prey... followed by retreating into darkness. Because in darkness, movement is through difficult terrain, so I have put Anjo closer to the cavern, less in the tunnels. If I misinterpreted your actions, you have still had a significant effect on the encounter.

Flayley and Anjo to act...

I was throwing towards the Prey, but wasn't sure who was my Prey. Moving on, I'll consider the visible foe the Prey

Anjo steps forward, fires on his prey, then retreats back into the shadows.

Hunted Shot: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27 Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Hunted Shot 2: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19 Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Frayley watches all their arrows barely scratch the creature. They grit their teeth, "Let's try you." Frayley lets a series of arrows fly at the blind Dreugar before moving down to get behind cover themself.

◆ Flurry of Blows
Attack 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2
Extra Crit Damage: 1d10 ⇒ 4

Attack 2: 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 5 = 20
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 6

◆ Strike
Attack 3: 1d20 + 7 - 10 ⇒ (10) + 7 - 10 = 7
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

◆ Stride

All in a sudden the combat is over, Anjo's deadly first shot finds the blind duergar's blinking eye, as it pops the eyeball before penetrating the brain. The bomber's life is immediately extinguished without even a word to Droskar to welcome him to his servitude.

As though inspired by the accurate Anjo, Frayley's first arrow pierces the neck of the other duergar, severing the artery forcing the sharpshooter into a few gurgling words, as his mouth fills with blood. "For Droskar!" is heard between the bubbles of blood, before he too falls to the floor, dead!

A torch lying on the mound, is all that illuminates this ugly scene of death.

Encounter Over

Elanna kicks the weapons out of the dead Duergars hands, double checking their demise.

"Is everybody all right?", she calls.

"Anjo ? You took the blunt of their attacks. I can see to your wounds now if it's critical or later when we have a little more time ?, she adds with concern in her voice.

Elanna can use treat wounds if needed, but it will take 10 minutes.

Elanna can use treat wounds if needed, but it will take 10 minutes.

Same here, but I don't have the gear

Frayley pauses in the act of pulling back an arrow, watching the Duergar fall. Finally the put the arrow back, and bend down to pick up their shortbow, replacing their longbow on their back.

"I am fine. They did not even try to get at me." Frayley walks over to pick up the torch and look around to make sure there's no other dangers nearby.

"If you are badly hurt Anjo, I have enough skill to help with treating your wounds, but I do not have the equipment. If it's not bad though, it might be good if we keep moving."

Anjo waves off , "Elanna, let me try my herbs first."

Natural Medince w herbs: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 2 = 11

Anjo seems to have trouble applying his poultice. In the meantime, he spends 10 minutes to regain his focus.

Makai looks around and is surprised to see that both enemies were taken down so quickly.

"Good job." as he begins to check belongings of the two fallen

Elanna shurgs at Anjo reply: "No problem, tell me if you need help at some point"

She nods at Makai. "You did well on your side, they wasted their attack on you and opened themselves to the rest of us."

While Anjo and Makai busy themselves, she checks the room for traps and stands guard in case any other Duergar arrives.

If I'm correct, Natural medecine counts as treat wounds so Anjo cannot be treated again fro another 50 minutes

The pathfinders are able to take a short break from the fighting to regroup after the brief encounter to block the duergar's retreat. Without a route back to the darklands, the duergar's force is wiped out by the Eagle Knights, as the duergar fight to the death.

With the duergar threat neutralized, the Eagle Knights and the Pathfinders celebrate with ale and roast suckling once they return to the surface. Lieutenant Evanno is particularly impressed with the strange inventions that helped defeat the duergar and offers his personal set of Golden Legion epaulets in addition to Ghelib’s journal, to commemorate this day of alliance. As they part ways, he offers to sponsor any of them for membership into the Eagle Knights, if they feel so inclined.

Elanna thanks the Lieutenant: "We got lucky and managed to get the jump on them. I'll be happy to come back and help you clear up some more part of the Underdark if you need, just send word."

She hesitate an instant and pleads: "And I have a more personal favor to ask of you. If you ever here about the whereabouts of an elven tribe called the Seven Eyes in the Darklands, could you send a note to the Society to tell me. And don't worry, they're not Drows, just elves looking more or less like me."

Taking her leave from the lieutenant, she takes the time to help Anjo heal himself should he requires help.

On the way back, she also approaches Makai. "So, did you have a chance to look at the journal of Ghelib? I'd like to take a copy of the maps he made, do you think the Society will object?"

She thinks some more and adds: "And sorry for jumping into the fight so quickly. I was worried they were going to turn Anjo into a pincushion or burn him to death with their acid bombs. So thanks for going in as well and taking next hit. I'll repay you in kind next time we are on the field together."

Makai turns his sight to Elanna

"I did! Most interesting I must say, even though a lot of information in that diary is of no interest to me. I am glad that we took it back. " Asked about society

"I am new Pathfinder but they keep saying Explore, Report, Cooperate. I honestly need to say that I want to throw up whenever I hear someone saying that. Sharing the maps falls under cooperation. So go for it." He pats her on her back and smiles broadly

"I hope you will find that elven tribe of yours. I could hear the longing in your voice when you asked of them..."

Elanna smiles "Thank you for your wishes, I just need to gather resources, knowledge and enough friends to launch an expedition deep in the Darklands... That will take years, but with the resources of the Society, I will get there one day. Patience is not my forte, but that's something else I need to learn."

She shrugs "In the mean time, I hope your next ventures will be as successful as this one. Maybe our Captains will send us on a mission together in the future. I'll be happy to do that anytime."