[GPT] ULTRA PLUS City of Golden Death (Inactive)

Game Master Will Huston

Hayden's scimitar slashes and cuts through the purple-coats armor. Dawn would bring shame unto her and her ancestors, but the ancestors had given up a long time ago. Golthwur's magic missile, melts the face of his opponent who dies a horrible death, their screams will haunt you for the rest of your life before you get to sleep. Both Bluecloak and Orangecloak can no longer see thanks Eltran's spell. Nisha's bite comes up with only obscuring mist in her jaws.

Nisha's miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 3

"Well, we're not attacking you because you used alliteration, we told you to surrender and acknowledge Razmir's superiority. Your alliteration just proves that you're committed infidels." Greencloak says in a quite reasonable tone considering Angela's jabbing spear at him. Yellow's short sword misses Hayden by a large margin. Both Blue and orange stumble blindly forward, drawing attacks of opportunity from both Eltran and Angela if they have weapons out. Green is so shamed by Dawn that his short sword misses her as well.

Round 2/3 Shame to you and your ancestors! Inspire Courage and Bless are up.
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-10)
Yellow
Black
Blue
Orange
Green
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

"Good work, Golthwur! Find the others and see if they need help." He swings his scimitar at the cultist in front of him, trying to bring him down.

Attack vs Yellow (bless, IC): 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 2 = 16
Miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 35
Damage (IC): 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 1 = 7

Luckily for her, Dawn doesn't know the meaning of the word shame!

Falchion vs Red: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 9 + 1 + 1 = 28
Damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2, 3) + 4 + 1 = 10
Miss chance, 21+ is a hit: 1d100 ⇒ 84

The cultist in Green learns this lesson the hard way.

Eltran continues to inspire courage and shouts at one of the blinded thugs.

“You are all blind!!“

delays but still +1 to hit and damage

GM not sure if Angela's last stab hit or not, but if it did, she wsa doing a normal attack.

Angela keeps jabbing at Green this time throwing a feint in as well to throw the man off balance and help Dawn with targeting him.

“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 2 = 18

Poke ( +1 Longspear), studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 2 = 19
Piercing Damage, studied: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 = 6

"But still, you're attacking us over religious differences and calling us heretics when we aren't committing heresies under our own religions."

Perception, she can't really fail this can she?: 1d20 + 15 + 1d6 ⇒ (13) + 15 + (2) = 30

Seh then points over at the pillar beyond blue and gold. There's someone sneaking around back there too! Be careful."

attack miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 88
feint yellow: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26
attack roll(bite): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
damage (no painful stare): 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Hayden's scimitar connects with cultist and slices across her shoulder. Dawn's falchion cuts Green, right? Because Red has a big on X on 'em.. Eltran does nothing. Angela helps Dawn and then finishes off Green, her spear piercing his bowel and the air becomes fetid and foul around them. Nisha tears out the throat of Yellowcloak with her jaws.

Round 3/4 Shame to you and your ancestors! Inspire Courage and Bless are up.
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-10)
Black
Blue
Orange
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

Golthwur carefully moves through the cloud and releases another bolt.
MM v. Orange: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Golthwur might need to check his wand, because Orange lets loose a hideous scream when Mr. Strath's magic missile hits. Black, being spotted, darts over the fallen column and moves towards Eltran with her rapier drawn, but Eltran has a second to react before she strikes. Orange swings confidently but he misses Dawn by a wide margin. That's what going blind will do to you. Blue's shortsword clangs against Eltran's armor harmlessly.

Round 4/5 Shame to you and your ancestors! Inspire Courage and Bless are up.
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-10)
Black
Blue
Orange (-4)
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

Eltran continues to inspire courage and shouts.

“Help! I’m being attacked!!“

Total defense. Team: but still +1 to hit and damage

Unable to see much in the mists, Hayden heads towards Eltran's shout, though he tries to get out of the misty area. He wanders right past one of the cultists, but finally breaks free from the mist. He turns and fires his bow at the Razmiran.

Attack vs Black (PBS, bless, IC): 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 2 = 16
Damage (PBS, IC): 1d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 1 = 11

Provoke AOO from Black as Hayden moves by.

Dawn sneaks around the cloud and finds herself shoulder to shoulder with multiple Ramzirans.

"You know, a wave of gold is going to bury this island in a few days. Have you thought... maybe this isn't worth it?"

Falchion vs Orange: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 9 + 1 + 1 = 27
Damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1, 3) + 4 + 1 = 9
Miss chance, 21+ is a hit: 1d100 ⇒ 62

She swings at the cultist wearing the Orange hood. "This isn't the best place to discuss literary merit, you know."

Golthwur might need to check his wand, because Orange lets loose a hideous scream when Mr. Strath's magic missile hits.

"A most curious response," notes Golthwur. "I wonder if the effect can be replicated." He uses the wand again.

MM: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

As Nisha stubmels out of the fog she see a Razmiri In black boarder attacking her friends. Her spear at the ready, she instead stares at the woman and casts a spell

Cast Anticipate Thoughts, Will save DC 16 with a -2 penalty

Eltran bravely covers his head and yells at them to not hit him. The Razmiri priest tries to poke at Hayden, but her rapier can't get through his mail. His arrow can't get through her studded leather armor. Dawn's armor leaves Orangecloak dazed and staggering about and Golthwur's magic missle knocks him unconscious. Nisha now has insight into the mind of Aglanda, Herald of Razmir!

Black AoO: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Black Will Save Vs Anticipate Thoughts: 1d20 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 - 2 = 12

Round 4/5
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-10)
Black
Blue
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

Botting Angela
Angela slides her feet to the right, criss-cross, breaks it down, studies her opponent and then tries to give Dawn an opening to strike

“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 6 + 2 = 10

Blue withdraws as a full round, and with Angela's reach weapon and Eltran's total defense, That doesn't draw attacks of opportunity. and gets in a better position to take down Hayden. The priest five foot steps towards the archer knight. Her rapier pierces Hayden in his soft underbelly for 9 points of piercing damage.

Round 5/6 Inspire Courage is up.
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-19)
Black
Blue
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

Eltran continues his song, confidently casts Detect poison, and confirms the priest's rapier is not poisoned. "I'm helping!"

Actually, I forgot Nisha might have her reach weapon out, and the path would draw an Attack of Oppurtunity from her.

"I guess you're not much of a talker..." Dawn watches the cultist fall. "I hear Sir Hayden, he doesn't sound too good. I'm gonna check on him."

Dawn prances out of the obscuring mist just in time to see Sir Hayden fending off an ambush. "Whoa there! Are you the head librarian of Razmiri?"

Falchion vs Black: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 9 + 1 + 1 = 16 Add +4 if Angela helped aid me against Black
Damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4, 3) + 4 + 1 = 12

She swings at the cultist wearing the Orange hood. "This isn't the best place to discuss literary merit, you know."

Does Black seem way more dangerous/competent than the others?

Nisha will feint black and then bite her. Note that anticipate thoughts gives her a +2 insight bonus to AC vs black, along with a +2 insight bonus to attack and damage (because she failed the save)

feint: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26
Attack: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 1 + 2 = 25
damage if hit: 1d6 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 1 + 2 + (1, 6) + 3 = 22

Golthwur waves his wand about in a threatening manner, but makes no effort to leave the safety of his magical cloud.

Delay

Considering she's actually hit someone, yes, Hayden. But she's also wearing better armor and her weapon seems fancier.

Angela skips up behind Dawn and tries to guide her with her spear.

“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
She instead interferes with Dawn's swing causing her to miss.

The rules for Aid Another is that it has to be a specific target in your reach, and so her previous Aid Another was not against black, and this one, she didn't make AC 10. A 16 does not hit Aglanda.

Both Aglanda and her flunky unleash a barrage of attacks, Aglanda with both her rapier and trying to smack hayden with her shield, but she comes empty. The flunky gets a glancing blow on Hayden for 3 points of slashing damage

Eltran claps his hands and continues his inspiration. "Oh, boy I wish I could use a weapon!"

Round 5/6 Inspire Courage is up.
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-22)
Black (-22)
Blue
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

Nisha continues feinting and then taking a bite outta crime black.
feint black: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32
attack: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 7 + 1 + 2 = 14
damage if hit: 1d6 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 1 + 2 + (5, 3) + 3 = 24

Hayden shouts at the Razmiran. "Your belief in your false god (and not in literary devices) have forsaken your redemption!" Some of his wounds heal as he steps away from the cult leader and shadows of flames seem to move around him. He raises his bow and fires at the leader, opening himself up to an attack from the cultist beside him.

Lay on Hands (swift action): 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Attack vs Black (bless, PBS, IC, Smite): 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 8 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 20
Damage (PBS, IC, smite): 1d8 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 1 + 2 = 15
Assuming they are evil

Angela refocuses on the new leader, taking in her movements and aggression with knowing eyes. "You really should start taking up literary devices in your 'religion.' I can understand if you have a problem with aliteration, though it does sound rather irrational, but a good metaphor or allegory is almost essential for a proper religious text. I mean the Church of Abadar even has a minimal average allegory density per paragraph for any new religious documents."

Chattering away about allegories and their necessity, Angela moves a step to the side and lashes out at the woman in black twice, once to make Dawn's next hit more accurate and a second time to foul the woman's attack vs. Dawn.

“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied, IC: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 19
“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied, IC: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 28

"Halt! Alliteration is affable, not alienating!" Dawn swings at the woman in Black. "Also, alleviates all anger."

Falchion vs Black with Angela's Aid: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 1 + 1 + 4 = 16
Damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 + 1 = 12

Injured and annoyed, Golthwur remains with his head and the remainder of his body within the cloud.

"We're not opposed to all literary devices, just alliteration. Metaphor, imagery, synecdoche and -- GACKS" Black crumbles underneath Nisha's bite. Blue withdraws and starts running away.

Round 6/7 Inspire Courage is up.
Golthwur, the Heretic (-7)
Hayden, the Heretic (-17)
Blue (fleeing
Eltran
Angela
Dawn (-3)
Nisha

Gonna hunt him down? Gonna rest? Let me know.

"Nisha has quite a way with words." Dawn calms down and sheathes her blade.

"Uh... I think we caught the leader? Let the small fry go."

So, we did say we would consider resting after this fight...I'd love to take a breather.

Angela nods at Dawn's observation. "Nisha's words can be rather... bitting, if I may say so. But we should let the small one run. Given the various traps and time limit we are under, not to mention the wonderful weather on the surface, he will probably die before he reaches the ocean... Unless there are yet still more cultists here."

Giving stretch, Angela hands over a few healing infusions to Heydan. "If we're going to rest after this, could you polish these off? I7d like to have the glassware free and I hate pouring out good formulas."

CLW Infusion Last, Hayden: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

She then pulls out her own personal Cure Light Wounds formula and pops it into Golthwur's mouth. "Drink up, it'll help I swear."

CLW Formula, Golthwur: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Healing mostly done, the small investigator points up at the tops of the columns. "Those look like ideal places to sleep as any, and it's been a long day, why don't we call it a night for the time being and find our way out of this molten gold ticking time trap tomorrow?"

All for taking a rest, we could use it and that was going to be our last fight for the day I believe.

Nisha spits out some blood . . . a lot of blood, from her mouth.

"Sorry, I know that's . . . unpleasant to look at, but I couldn't get enough space to spin my spear around. Still, shut him down."

Hayden proceeds to search the cultists, especially the leader for any clues as to where the rest of their group has gone. "Fine, a rest here seems reasonable. We need to post a guard in case the last one decides to bring others back here though."

Hayden can use his remaining spells to heal himself and Dawn to full if we are ready to rest.

All our prepared casters or alchemical friends good on what they've prepared?

I'm good.

Anyone want an infusion of the following: Cure Light Wounds, Endure Elements, Crafter’s Fortune, Monkey fish, Long Arm, Shield, Waterproof, Ant Haul. Otherwise I should be good, but possibly leaving a few level 1 extracts open just in case there's need of versatility.

Sleeping is great. Eltran was never so empty. ;-)

“Ahh, that was a great sleep!! Did we find anything interesting on these cultists?!?“ the corpulent man asks while putting on his full plate clumsily but with patience.

"Nighty night." Dawn plops down and snores the night away.

"Good morning, everyone! I managed not to crow like a rooster." Dawn pats herself on the back, proud of her self-restraint. "Where to, next?"

Golthwur looks wounded in body, if not also in pride. His soul, however, appears to be long dead.

Could use some healing. As for spells, he is fine to go, I think.

Angela force fed you 13 points of healing and we rested for the night.

Angela mixes up two infusions of Cure Light wounds, two infusions of Alchemical Allocation, her usual extract of Shield and ablative barrier, and her emergency extract of Cure Light Wounds she carries in a prominent position, where she can easily be fed the extract in an emergency.

Two Extracts of level 1 left open just in case.

Did we find anything of note on the cultists?

Hayden seems grumpy after waking up, but settles into his morning prayers. Afterward, the knight is in a slightly better mood, as he stretches out his injured leg and foot. "Ok, so we keep heading into the center, right?" He strings his bow and readies more arrows.

Angela nods at the suggestion to keep moving for the center. "Right, we need to get there before this place floods with gold again. We should have enough time but we can't really stop and rest until we're above the flood lines. Now, anyone have any comments or concerns before we move? Golthwur, you can tell me in private while we are moving. Dawn, you have time for one more joke before we go. Anyone else?"

Not a whole lot. To save some tedious spellcraft checks, a potion of cure moderate, potion of invisibility, +1 light steel shield and a +1 chain shirt, along with some gold and mundane weapons.

The party continues on. Luckily the way math and geometry work, the inner rings have less area to cover than the outer ring.

Two gold-plated columns carved to resemble female warriors flank the entrance to another bridge over one of the city’s canals.

"Only one?" Dawn pouts. "Is that because we can't pay enough for one? Gold is pretty worthless around here, I guess..." Dawn chuckles. "Oh, that's a good one! Okay, okay I'm ready."

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

"Oo, pretty statues. Hopefully not the kind to burst into flames."

Angela would get those spellcraft checks with her wayfinder and free inspiration after a few tries anyways.

"You can tell more when we are moving, but while you have a full attention, that was your last one."

Angela starts to pull out a piece of paper and tries to calculate exactly how much this whole city would be worth if it all made it to market at the same time... and then calculate the best way to eek it out to make the most profit.

Perception: 1d20 + 15 + 1d6 ⇒ (20) + 15 + (4) = 39

She takes a glance at the statues trying to estimate their total weight, and then while writing down the details casually mentions, "Oh those won't burst into flames but they are constructs and given their positioning, weapons and the tension in their arms, they will try to, I believe the correct term here is, 'murderize' you if you get too close."

"Oh, they're the murderous type." Dawn pulls out her warhammer.

"I have heard of such things," Golthwur replies, stroking his beard. He attempts to ascertain any particular traits on the constructs and whether any magic could effect them.

Knowledge (arcana) to ID: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18

Hayden takes the potions from the bodies, but leaves the magical equipment unless someone else wants it.

"Unless there's a way to sneak past them, I suppose we will need to destroy them. Can we hit one very hard and destroy it first before both can react?"

kn engineering : 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23 Weaknesses, special defenses, DR

“Ohh another construct encounter!! How wonderful!! You still know the song that holds the notes of creation and unmaking that allows me to affect constructs???!!“ he says and suddenly starts to make a clicking sound with his voice and claps his hands.

Eltran has the ‘Voice of Brigh’ archetype with this ability:
Brigh’s Soothing (Su): A Voice of Brigh can use Brigh’s calming voice to pacify constructs. This functions as the fascinate bardic performance, except it can target only constructs. This replaces fascinate.
DC 18 will save or the construct is fascinated.

“Team, if this works then let us run across!“ Eltran shouts.

My memory of 1e rules is that its Arcana to identify constructs unless they have the Robot subtype, but since that's an even better modifier for you Eltran, I'm not gonna make you reroll[/dice]
Statue A Will Save: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17
Statue B Will Save: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9

The team has the opportunity to skirt past these gold-plated carytid columns, which are immune to fire and magic, though vulnerable to electricity. The columns also are extremely difficult to cut through [ooc]DR 5/- and would vibrate when hit in such a way that it could damage your weapons.

I think it'd take at least three rounds for you all to run past and then hide from once you're on other side of the bridge

Hayden breathes heavily as they rush past the stone creature. His limp hurt, but he was moving as fast as he can. "Good work, Eltran! That could have been very dangerous."