Emoubu races into the skirmish.
Nedri struggles to see in the light... ...but his shot lands, exploding the skeleton.
Three more heads go flying - all aimed at our plucky kobold swahbuckler!
◆) Stride
◆◆) Screaming Skull
◆) Stride
◆◆) Screaming Skull
◆) Stride
◆◆) Screaming Skull
, while the third lands in his space, chattering madly at him!
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Khaul (AC 18 or 20, HP 23/23) w/ shield & warhammer (Darkvision) @ Reaction Ready
Duncan (AC 19, HP 30/30) w/ cane (Lowlight Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Yellow Flame Bones w/ shortbow @ Blinded
Pink Flame Bones w/ shortbow @ Blinded
Nedri (AC 15, HP 15/15) w/ nothing (Normal Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Emoubu (AC 20 or 22, HP 32/42) w/ striking rapier (Darkvision) @ Reaction Ready
Aurelien (AC 17, HP 14/14) w/ dagger (Lowlight Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Orange Flame Bones w/ shortbow
White Flame Bones w/ shortbow
Green Flame Bones w/ shortbow
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Khaul swings at the two skulls by his feet...
Duncan shoots another blast of ice...
Duncan's beam is ineffective! The fire surrounding the skeleton melts the ray before it even reaches it!
Khaul crunches the yellow skull - it's body across the way falls in disanimation to the ground a smoldering pile of ashen bones - the second skull dodges his foot, snapping it's jaw as if in laughter or taunt, , where, now whole, the pink skeleton unleashes a barrage of arrows at Khaul!
◆◆◆) Strike x3
But all veer wide...
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Khaul (AC 18 or 20, HP 23/23) w/ shield & warhammer (Darkvision) @ Shield Raised, Reaction Ready
Duncan (AC 19, HP 30/30) w/ cane (Lowlight Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Pink Flame Bones w/ shortbow (-3 arrows)
Nedri (AC 15, HP 15/15) w/ nothing (Normal Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Emoubu (AC 20 or 22, HP 32/42) w/ striking rapier (Darkvision) @ Reaction Ready
Aurelien (AC 17, HP 14/14) w/ dagger (Lowlight Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Orange Flame Bones w/ shortbow
White Flame Bones w/ shortbow
Green Flame Bones w/ shortbow
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Emoubu slashes at one of the two skulls clinging to him.
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Emoubu strikes the skull again, shouting. "No one bites Emoubu! Emoubu bites back! With metal!"
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He then uses his last movement to put up some sort of guard, hoping it would prevent him from further injury.
◆Parry
Emoubu attempts to escape from the skulls biting him.
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Aurelian's lance disentangles the negative energy that girds the skeleton together and gently snuffs it's flame - it neatly piles onto the ground.
Nedri hurls another rock into the white skeleton through the dim light - - which explodes in a gout of flame!
Emoubu starts stamping at the final gnashing skull below his feet, and manages to crunch it on his second awkward thrust.
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Khaul (AC 18 or 20, HP 23/23) w/ shield & warhammer (Darkvision) @ Reaction Ready
Duncan (AC 19, HP 30/30) w/ cane (Lowlight Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Pink Flame Bones w/ shortbow (-3 arrows)
Nedri (AC 15, HP 15/15) w/ nothing (Normal Vision) @ Reaction Ready
Emoubu (AC 20 or 22, HP 32/42) w/ striking rapier (Darkvision) @ Reaction Ready
Aurelien (AC 17, HP 14/14) w/ dagger (Lowlight Vision) @ Reaction Ready
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Duncan takes a run at the skeleton and tries to dive past it, but the thin, shifting bones throw off his judgement. He bounces off an extended leg and hurriedly spins around behind the undead. His sword stabs out, trying to do enough damage to disperse the energy in the final skeleton.
(◆), stride
(◆), stride
(◆), strike
What action did you use to "Acrobatics"?
Do you have a link to this action? Or the full text?
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Move
Source Core Rulebook pg. 240 2.0
You Stride up to your Speed. During this movement, you can try to move through the space of one enemy. Attempt an Acrobatics check against the enemy’s Reflex DC as soon as you try to enter its space. You can Tumble Through using Climb, Fly, Swim, or another action instead of Stride in the appropriate environment.
Success You move through the enemy’s space, treating the squares in its space as difficult terrain (every 5 feet costs 10 feet of movement). If you don’t have enough Speed to move all the way through its space, you get the same effect as a failure.
Failure Your movement ends, and you trigger reactions as if you had moved out of the square you started in.
Smashing it's head in, the last skeleton clumps onto the ground.
Amid the meager possessions - 5x shortbows, 47x arrows - this particular skeleton has an archaic wayfinder and a leather satchel.
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Brass-bound book, with a title not written in Common...
This haunted wood would need to be consecrated to prevent more rising of the dead.
It would be unwise to spend the night here.
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Aurelien will go over to Ned. He reads Common, Elven and Sylvan. 'That looks interesting.' he says whilst leaning over for a look.
'It's not safe to stay here. This wood needs consecrating to stop the dead rising again and I do not possess that ritual. We should take their weapons if we can. That will make them less dangerous if they come back. One of us should also carry that Wayfinder.
This appears to be a Journal written in Osiriani.
...But despite my frequent letters to the imperial governor, I fear my request will go unheard. Diggen Thrune and his ilk are considered heroes in the capital thanks to their efforts in “protecting the empire’s borders and quelling rebellion,” while I’m seen as little more than a foreign agitator, despite my accomplishments and discoveries, several of which have benefitted the empire. These tactics the imperial forces are using will have detrimental effects. Many of these so-called rebels were simply farmers and landowners asking for fair representation, or at least some pretense of imperial protection in return for the tithes and taxes they pay. This heavy-handed tyranny goes too far by several measures, and if the empire does not lighten its touch and work to fulllits responsibilities to its people, it may not last long enough to suffer the long-term effects of foolish choices like leaving the rebels unburied and unshriven or provoking the elven communities who call the nearby forests home...
...Perhaps I can convince Durvin to get involved; he’ll see the sense in my warnings, and they’ve been publishing his last adventure in a string of serials across the empire. I’d ask Selmius, but I’m afraid the old fool has more dignity than sense when it comes to dealing with politicians. Gregaro would surely understand my worries, but with his heritage and the prejudices running rampant across the empire these days, I fear his word would carry even less weight than my own. There must be something...
Link? Full text?
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Range 30 feet; Targets 1 object
You focus on the target object, opening your mind to perceive magical auras. When the casting is complete, you know whether that item is magical, and if it is, you learn the school of magic.
If the object is illusory, you detect this only if the effect's level is lower than the level of your read aura spell.
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Ned's eyebrows slowly rise further and further up his forehead as he reads the passage from the book. "Well ain't that sumthin'," he mutters. He tries to parse when this passage might have been written, and by whom. It seems to take place after the bedviling of Cheliax, from the context, but...
"But why's it written in Osiriani?" he mutters, brow furrowed.
Besides the properties linked above, there remains remnants of a faint aura of abjuration magic...
...you feel as though this Wayfinder is connected to your dreams somehow...
...even as the prospect of it making contact with you over a hundred miles away seems inexplicable!
Why Osiriani?
Most likely you reckon because the expanding empire of Cheliax at the time both fought and assimilated people of Osirian decent, whether in appropriating land and language, or in exporting it's own culture over a people slowly colonized.
There may be hundreds of other journals such as this - water-logged, torn, lost to time - in as many languages as there are adjacent people to the former Chelaxian empire!
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Ned holds out the book for the others to look at. "Gonna look like gobbledy-gook if'n ya don' unnerstand Osiriani, but I'll give ya the rundown." He gives a brief summary of the passage he read in the copper-bound book.
"The author has a bee in their bonnet over some Thrune agents gettin' involved with the folks on the borders of some country or other, schmoozin' the imperial governor and killin' folks in the outskirts jes' fer wantin' proper representation. The author talks about needin' help ta make the gov'ner see the light, but they ain't too optimistic they're gonna get it. Even mentions Durvin Gest! Must be a right old journal if'n he was still alive when it was wrote. How long ago was he again? I forget."
"Cheliax was gettin' inta all kindsa business it had no right bein' in. Even crept in on Osirian territories clear on another continent! Buggers jes' don' know when summat ain't theirs fer takin'." He turns and spits irritably.
Khaul (AC 18 or 20, HP 23/23) w/ shield & warhammer (Darkvision) @ Defend
Duncan (AC 19, HP 30/30) w/ cane (Lowlight Vision) @ Search
Nedri (AC 15, HP 15/15) w/ nothing (Normal Vision) @ Search
Emoubu (AC 20 or 22, HP 32/42) w/ striking rapier (Darkvision) @ Avoid Notice
Aurelien (AC 17, HP 14/14) w/ dagger (Lowlight Vision) @ Investigate
Having destroyed the skeletons, the party decides what to do next...
Khaul (AC 18 or 20, HP 23/23) w/ shield & warhammer @ Defend (Darkvision)
Duncan (AC 19, HP 30/30) w/ cane @ Search (Lowlight Vision)
Nedri (AC 15, HP 15/15) w/ staff w/ Light spell @ Search (Normal Vision)
Emoubu (AC 20 or 22, HP 32/42) w/ striking rapier @ Avoid Notice (Darkvision)
Aurelien (AC 17, HP 14/14) w/ pistol crossbow @ Investigate (Lowlight Vision)
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"We've got a job to do." mutters the champion.
"If these dead rose from being unburied, maybe we should be a burying them?" he suggests.
Looking around for a convenient hole, he enlarges it and starts to drag the skeletons bones towards them.
"Any of you go one of them extra dimensional sacks to put all these bows in?" he asks once the bodies are taken care of.
"I cannie consecrate the graves, but I'll say a prayer for them to Torag. May he forge them anew and put back into the great Spiral."
Finally, he examines his companions.
"Yer still be hurting Emoubu. Shouldn't stayed behind me shield. Lets see what I can do. Bandages go left, then right..."
The party continues to discuss their plan...
Khaul heals Emoubu for...
With Emoubu patched up after a short rest, but unable to consecrate the forest graveyard, the party continue heading east...
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Khaul (AC 18 or 20, HP 23/23) w/ shield & warhammer @ Defend (Darkvision)
Duncan (AC 19, HP 30/30) w/ cane @ Search (Lowlight Vision)
Nedri (AC 15, HP 15/15) w/ staff w/ Light spell @ Search (Normal Vision)
Emoubu (AC 20 or 22, HP 42/42) w/ striking rapier @ Avoid Notice (Darkvision)
Aurelien (AC 17, HP 14/14) w/ pistol crossbow @ Investigate (Lowlight Vision)
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Emoubu starts taking several of the bows, but after a second or two of trying to walk around carrying them, Emoubu is forced to drop most of them.
With a grimace "Marshall Emoubu is a mighty, but Marshal Emoubu is also carrying many, many things. It is good for a Pathfinder to ask for help, so Emoubu must ask fellow Pathfinders for help carrying things."