Pirate Vaults (Inactive)

Game Master Pirate Rob

Assuming I managed to ninja Scarred One. Reasonable to add +1 to hit with the morningstar. To learn if it has any more powers the Identify Magic action is how to ID in PF2

Yeah Ninjad

Will save, DC18: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20 Success so frightened 1

"You need way more to scare the old Scarred One away." says the orc, but his voice is not that steady

He looks at the ghost and at the place.

Religion, exorcism, frightened 1: 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (13) + 6 - 1 = 18

Scarred one moves to the broken table. He takes a plank from the table. Then he moves northwards and on the ground makes a symbol of the butterfly. Moving to the south he draws a moon with a skeleton face. On the East, he draws an angelic ankh, and on the west a star symbol. He moves outside and speaks in an orcish voice.

"The lost souls of the fallen, follow the star of Pulura to guide you where you have to go. May you be granted Sarenrae redemption. Come back to the beauty in the warm arms of Desna and find your new purpose through Groetus. "

Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

The big orc grits his teeth. This isn’t something he has dealt with before, or at least much. Weapons were probably useless against these lost souls.

The Scarred One’s benediction touches him, and he waits, thinking. Was redemption something he could find as well?

delay

Will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Actual ghosts! Who knew?

Will: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 I'll take it!

Yan grins at the Kobold specters. "Welcome!" He turns to his companions. "Like the living, we can quell these kobolds with a few stern words." You can use intimidate too.

"Now then…. Ahem." Yan tries a deep, stern voice like that of a headmaster. "You listen to Yan and go to sleep, NOW!"

Intimidation (U): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Sadly, the duskwalker is awful at menacing.

He spends his third action trying to remember what he knows about haunts.

Religion (T): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Frightened falls off normally here.

Yan doesn't remember anything else useful, although he's already learned the special secret here.

The spirits howl about the room and focus on Sendoski's fear and circle around him instilling feelings of betrayal and confusion.

mental damage for Sendoski: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
basic will save DC 18

After that the Kobold spirits dissipate back into the rubble.

Out of combat

Scarred one looks around. "Did the exorcism worked? Huh?" he looks around. Then begins to limp around the room, and checks it for magic.

The haunt is over, or did it trigger and went to sleep?

He looks through the rubble.

"Sendoski are you ok? You seem a bit off."

Will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Naught hisses at the ghosts as Sendoski grabs his head and howls in pain!

Under the confusion of pain and betrayal, he turns on Yan and yells, "You book thief!"

Once the ghosts begin to dissipate, Sendoski regains his composure, although his head still hurts.

"Sorry," he says, massaging his temples. "They got to me. Anyone have anything for a headache?"

I take the full damage on a fail, right?

"Clearly the haunt is still here — it's implanting insane thoughts in Sendoski's mind!"

Yan heals Sendoski for 6 with Lay on Hands. "See? Friends."

He lifts a moldy sheet as he begins searching for clues. "We must find a way to put these unquiet kobolds to rest. Perhaps by meeting the haunt again; perhaps there's another way."

"I wonder what happened here? There's nothing in my — I mean Sendoski's — novel about kobolds.

I would like to refocus, but it's probably better to help search in case the haunt's reset time is minutes.

The big orc loos at Sendoski with amusement. ”Scared?” he asks, as starts carefully looking for clues. ”Book thief?” he asks Yan.

Basic save, so full damage on a fail.

There's a lot of rubble although not nearly as much as the sinkhole. Somewhere in the realm of an hour to dig through it all.

No easy way to tell the reset on the haunt, but it's definitely still here.

The cause of putting a haunt to rest is important to Yan, and he hopes there are clues here. Let's get to it. He lights his lantern and places it on a table to light the dark for any lost spirits; he then refocuses, takes off his fancy scarf, and begins poking through the rubble.

Happy to top of Sendoski with another LoH if we don't want to do medicine; it would just mean 20 min refocusing.

I don't think we're in any rush, right?

No rush other than a potential haunt reset. Got here midday, been here about 40 minutes or so prior to this encounter.

Naught arches and hisses at Yan as he heals Sendoski, but Sendoski grins.

"I admit, I was a little frightened. Did you see the way those things flew at me? It's a wonder I didn't cuss you all out."

He also helps take a look around.

"I wonder if they died here?"

Scarred one keeps on digging through the rubble. When he sees that Yan heals Sendoski he says

"Are you still in pain Ruindelver?" The Scarred One takes out his knife

"I can ease your mental pain, and make a nice scar for you to commemorate this event. This will increase your status in the society of Otari, believe me." says the Scarred One with a vivid interest in his eyes

Sorry forgot that I am the healer in this story.

"Kobolds in the tower? Did one of your books speak about this place, Ruindelver?" then turning to Yan

"Didn't you 'borrow' a book about this place a few years back and never gave it back, Book thief... I meant Worddancer? "

I don't see GM rolling our perception rolls which worries me :(

I got ahead in my GM dice spoilers for the secret checks and have been using existing rolls as needed. I'm even known to roll secret checks a room or two in advance and use the results later. For this particular room there's nothing to find until you spend the time digging through all the rubble, at which point it's automatic.

After about 30 minutes of digging (less than expected!), you've managed to come across a few things of interest:

Many tiny bones (some quick math anatomy gives you 6 kobolds which lines up with the number of ghostly figures)
3gp
20sp
A box with components for a caltrop snare
A fang of some sort
A vial of viscous black liquid with the word YUM clumsily written on it.

The room is also quite a bit tidier, you can even see a bit of floor! There doesn't seem to be anything else of value here although at least one of those items is likely magical.

That explains a bit ;)

Scarred One looks at the items

"Can anyone identify this liquid? Does it looks to you like written by a Mite hand?" asks as he begins to work on the fang

Nature +6, Religion +6 to identify magic. From what I recall identify alchemy requires alchemist tools :(

The orc first puts the fang to the ground and begins testing it to some magical influence.

Let’s give these remains a good burial. Maybe that will remove the haunt.

"Burial. Bless the bones. Put little dragons to rest." says Oorgatch, struggling to not go into full sentences.

He carefully gathers up the skeletons, and keeps searching until he is sure he has found them all. "May you all fly with the great wyrms in your next life." he whispers in respect.

Bowing his head, Sendoksi wishes the kobolds a silent farewell, despite the pain their spirits caused him.

He also marks the room with his chalk, and notes on the wall that the bodies of six kobolds lie here, may they rest in peace.

"I hope this calms their spirits," he says.

"I was thinking that we should move the remains out of doors, and give them a proper burial." Oorgatch says, out of character. "I am not a holy man, but perhaps Yan or the Scarred One would have some insight here."

It is clear that he is deeply disturbed by something here.

For a moment, Sendoski is not quite sure how to react to the suddenly loquacious orc. Even Naught stops glaring at Yan for a moment to turn and look.

"Uh... I think that's a great idea too. Didn't take you for one who cared so much," Sendoski says.

Oorgatch just shrugs. "It is right."

The "yum" liquid does appear to be alchemical and needs tools to ID. Crow's Casks back in town could probably help you sort it out for a few silver at most.

You manage to identify the Wolf Fang talisman without much trouble.

With the kobolds reburied outside the room seems notably more peaceful.

I'm imagining out the broken entrance back to the east. There's a nice nook outside there. Feel free to choose elsewhere as desired.

Between digging, reburying, IDing, refocusing twice and the like it's now about 3:00pm.

We've 'started' today at the keep around noon, and sunset should be around 7pm here in the swamp at this time of year. lets say we're generally good for about a maximum of 8 hours of adventuring a day. (There's nothing behind the scenes that's a time pressure now either. I just like tracking the time and helps spread the action out a bit so we're not level 3 on day 4.)

The mites seem impressed at your ghost hunting skills. Where to next?

Also lets give Oorgatch a hero point for his wisdom in removing the kobold bodies from the haunted location.

Yan performs for the kobolds to help them find their way home; his words are reminiscent of Oorgatch’s words. "Go willingly, little dragons. Fly away."

Afterwards, he smiles. "Well done! Perhaps we should back to town and get some lunch, inquire after these missing adventurers?"

The old orc participates in the burial but says nothing. He has a hard time that fallen cares for how they are buried and even if it happens. But it is as good an idea as any.

He pats Oorgatch on his back, the idea turned out to be good. The boy seems simple but has an idea from time to time.

While we rest, can we also identify the Morningstar?

"Go to town? How about we go to the tower while we are here? Wasn't it why we came here?"

The tower entrance is right next to us, right?

Sendoski looks up at the glowing tower.

"We are right here... I should do something about this headache if we're going to check out the tower." I think I'm still 10/14 hp. Checking out the tower makes sense while we're here and still have some daylight.

I think we had 2 lay on hands (and 2 refocuses) amid all the stuff getting you back to full

Easy enough to squeeze the ID somewhere in that existing time block.

It's a... +1 Morningstar.

Tower entrance is here, would be reasonable to investigate further, or return to Otari.

Yeah that was my take with the healing.

Scarred One bow towards Sendoski and in a hushed tone asks

"Did the healing provided by Worddancer did not work? I might be able to help with that."

The orc grabs the Morningstar and swings it few times, and grunts with approval passing it to Sendoski.

Sendoski rolls his shoulders, thinks for a moment.

"I guess that healing did work. Thanks Yan." He grins sheepishly. "I must have an actual headache."

He pulls out his waterskin and takes a sip. Don't let it be said that no one ever uses their waterskin

He accepts the morningstar graciously and says, "My sister, Merida, gave me that other one. She's the oldest. She was worried about me climbing around in the hinterlands. Those places seem awfully tame now."

He looks up at the tower as he fastens the weapon to his belt.

"Hopefully I won't need to use it."

From Sendoski's shoulders, Naught says, "A privative tool. I shall teach you the means to rain vengeance upon all who oppose you."

"Yeah, okay. Sometimes he talks like that," Sendoski says with an awkward smile.

I'm all for checking out the tower while we're here, at least as much as makes sense before the sun goes down.

"Oh right, the tower. It's like in Chapter Two, when Otari gets sidetracked by strange lights in the forest, only to end up and saving the lost lumberjack crew from the wisp-king."

"To the tower we go!"

Yan eyes naught suspiciously.

The door to the tower room is your newest most actually doorlike object as it's swollen and stuck in the door frame, blocking not only further ingress but your view as well.

Yan is able to force it open on his first try whereafter it falls to sodden pieces, as though the ravages of time suddenly caught up with it.

Looking in you see that the smooth walls of this circular room are painted a light gray with no indication of seams between blocks of stone. This is the first bit of keep totally free from creeping vines, mold, crude graffiti and scuttling vermin that have otherwise been ever present.

A set of dark iron stairs winds upward along the curved walls before terminating at a trap door in the ceiling a dizzyingly hundred feet above while the western door to the outside has a 1-foot-square window set with iron bars.

A fresh red bloodstain seemingly infinitely deep ripples and glistens on the floor at the room’s center, as though a human-sized creature bled to death on the floor very recently, despite there being no body in sight.

There is magic present.

Peering into the room, Sendoski says, "I detect magic in there, and can't say I like the look of that pool of blood. Who wants to go first?"

Sendoksi will follow, but he's not going to be the first to go inside!

The orc moves to check the bloodstain. He touches it, to make sure that it is actually fresh. He looks puzzled as he looks for any trail of who or what could have done this.
survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18 +1 if this could be considered underground

Yan steps into the room. he searches for anything out of the ordinary… beyond the horrible blood pool, that is.

Seems… excessive.

Scarred one enters the area and looks around. He touches the walls and looks up at the trap door.

He looks at the pool of blood. He touches it with his finger and licks it.

Can I take Medicine check +6 to determine anything from the blood? Is it human?

"Something took rid of the body..." The orc in his Warmask looks up

"Ate it, maybe."

The blood seems human, or at least something close. Any sort of ageing features that might help make a more specific determination are missing however. The blood seems incredibly fresh.

Despite its appearance the blood is just spread out on the floor with no notable depth although it does occasionally ripple as though it were a pool.

During your initial investigation nothing horrible happens and there doesn't seem to be anything else here other than the massive dark iron spiral staircase (which is remarkably rust free) leading to a trap door far above.

Your own footprints have left dust and muck and such, but virtually none was present before you entered. No tracks, or dirt, or basic vermin etc.

"Taste a bit like blood of humans..." says like a completely casual thing to say

He turns around and looks

"What could be magical here?" as he begins to search

Can this be a lingering effect of a spell? Scarred One would search the place

Nothing for it.

Yan begins walking up the wrought-iron stairs, making sure to search for traps and weak points as he goes.

Sendoski follows everyone into the room.

" How do you know what human blood tastes like? Do I even want to know?" He kneels and studies the pool. "The magic here must be keeping the room clean and the blood fresh. Do we want to keep this blood here?"

With a gesture and an occult phrase he learned from Naught, Sendoski casts prestidigitation and tries to clean up the blood.

Sendoski follows everyone into the room.

" How do you know what human blood tastes like? Do I even want to know?" ...

Scared One laughs out loud "Do you think that I drank human blood from the skulls of the fallen?" keeps on laughing as he gets up

"The taste of blood can tell you a lot about what ills the sick." He begins to walk up the stairs after Yan. He does not say, that his year of fighting made him not keep bodies and bloody with such high regard.

He climbs the stairs slower than others, leaning on the wall.

There's nothing else down here. Most likely either the blood or the room itself is magical.

10 minutes or so spent identifying magic might tell you more (say 20 total to try both the blood and the room).

The dark iron stairs creak and wobble ominously as they aren't well attached to the wall but seem in no danger of actually breaking or otherwise being hazardous.

After the long arduous climb up nearly 100 feet Yan (and friends?) get to the top where a bronze trap door is built into the stone ceiling.

There are no signs of traps but there is an average looking lock built into the trap door, and detect magic remains consistent the whole way up.

Since Oorgatch cannot do much to help identify magic, he follows Yan up the stairs. "I got this." he says as he sees the locked door, pulling out his picks.

"Huh. Tough one."

Lock is indeed a textbook "average" lock DC 25, 4 successes needed

Oorgatch shrugs. "Still new at this." as he starts to climb back down, packing his broken picks in a different pouch from the good ones.

While the others climb the stairs and attempt to open the lock, Sendoski will try to identify the magic in the room, starting with the blood (since his prestidigitation didn't work).

The blood itself isn't magical but the the room is. The magic seems not fully functional, but also vastly beyond your comprehension at the same time.

Yan looks worried. "I fear some creature is being tormented above. A change of scene may clear our minds, or offer another approach."

Let's ask about the adventurers who disappeared and get that potion ID'd.