Absalom Noir: Agents of Edgewatch PF2E (Inactive)

Game Master BlackoCatto

Scarlett moves closer, and attempts a non-violent solution.

◆ Stride
◆◆ Cast Color Spray on Blue (Will save DC 17)

Will Against Color: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

The cutpurse curses wildly as they are temporarily blinded.

::Battle Order::
Round 3
Lavanna
Abi
Drogyn (-8 Damage)
Bandita (-13 Damage; Dazzled 1)
Scarlet
Greyjay

Stride into flanking. Strike. Raise shield.
attack: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 1 = 151d6 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 1 = 9

"We're bringing you in like the morning catch - dead or alive!"

◆) Raise shield
◆) Step
◆) Strike
↺) Shield Block

Rapier w/ Deadly (d8) vs Clumsy Bandita: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 111d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 21d8 ⇒ 1

Devise a Stratagem: 1d20 ⇒ 20

Spotting the perfect opening Abi lets loose another arrow before moving closer to Scarlett.

Attack (Shortbow): 20 + 7 = 27

Damage: 1d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + (1) = 5 Extra d6 from strategic strike. I think this was a critical success so doubled from that as well for 10 damage?

◆) Devise Stratagem
◆) Strike
◆) Stride

Lavanna watches as Abi's perfectly Deadly shot hits it's mark!

"Ooh - that's gunna hurt" wondering if the bandit will survive the blow...

Yep, double damage and roll 1d10 for Deadly

Ah yes, forgot about that

Deadly damage: 1d10 ⇒ 7

With a well placed shot Abi's arrow lands right in the pickpocket's leg, toppling them over as they tried to to move away. She falls down, smashing her head against the stone ground, "I yield...." they say weakly before passing out.

::Combat Over::

Greyjay grunts, his shield spell flickering and fading before he sheathes his sword and kneels beside the thief. "Abi, can you get over here to make sure she doesn't die before justice is done?" He calls out to his gnomish comrade.

Rising, he looks at the crowds, looking for the man who'd called her out. "Excuse me, citizen, were you the one she stole from?" He asks once he finds the man in question.

A bespectacled man in a derby hat comes fourth of a Varasian complexion, he, "Yes," he says in an accented drawl of one from the region. Likely he was one of many foreign visitors, "She stole my pocket watch."

" On it!" Abi rushes over to the unconscious thief and checks her over. "Please don't die, please don't die, please don't die"

Medicine: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

"Too good of a shot for your own good" Sergeant Salt unhelpfully mutters.

Drogyn casts Lay on Hands on himself. 6 hit points back
He then ensures there’s handcuffs on the perp while Abi looks her over, and takes some time to look for a pocket watch and any other items of interest.

Hand back the pocket watch if that’s allowed.

Detective Lore to know: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Craft to repair shield: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Refocus while repairing my shield.

Drogyn hands back the pocket watch to the Varasian man, thank you all kindly, "I'm sure there is paperwork to be had for this incident. I shall go to your precinct late to give my testimony. I thank you so kindly," he says before giving both a written name and a hotel that he was staying at before making his way back into the sordid crowd.

As the dwarf repaired his shield Abi would deal with the wounds of the pickpocket, patching her up before cuffing her as precaution. You'd obviously begin to take her back to the precinct before you see a rush of several officers heading in the direction towards the Stockyard as you round the corner to the precinct.

You see officer Shibi again, looking at you out of breath, "We got a situation at the zoo. All Hell has breaking loose down there and the lieutenant wants you five up there as soon as you can," she says as a few other guards make their way out and towards the general direction. The stockyard as known from Orientation was a zoo set up for the fair.

If there’s time on the way back, Drogyn will use Lay on Hands to heal up any people not healed up yet.

With everyone healed up, and everything repaired, Drogyn is ready for anything the zoo has to send his way.

"The zoo? I haven't been there since I was a little girl."

Alright we are going to the zoo

The zoo was located in the stockyards, one of many smaller scale attraction vendors that had set up there. It was choas as folks fleed in all directions and guards attempting to wrangle creatures of a less hostile bent that were running amok. You briefly see Lt. Lavarus, highly animated as he barks out marching orders, trying to command his officers in an efficient manner.

"Squad 21, I need you to get in there and see what is going on, clear back and secure and folk trapped inside. Put these creatures out to pasture if you have to!" he says before ordering you away with little time to ask questions. Soon you near the entrance and the sounds of chaos dims, save for the small shouting of protestation around the corner of the road that you now found yourselves in.

See slide 12

As the squad hurry to the zoo Abi will try to remember what animals might be there that they would particularly need to watch out for.

Lore Absalom: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

Nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Salt runs ahead, tries to see what is causing the commotion.

"You - where is it coming from?" asking the closest passerby without even knowing what "it" is referring to...

Shouting and the sounds of clanging and breaking emerge from the open-air entrance of a blacksmith shop bearing a sign reading “Parva’s Ironworks.” Inside, a large man wearing a turban and leather blacksmith’s apron flails with a broom at a five-foot-long lobsterlike monster, shouting, “Out! Out, you feather-faced bastard!”

Initiative=Lavanna: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
Initiative=Drogyn: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
Initiative=Greyjay: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Initiative=Scarlet: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Initiative=Abi: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Initiative=Lobster Boi: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

The lobster like creature seems to ignore your own arrival and the blacksmiths shouts of protestation, devouring the metals of the blacksmith shop.

::Battle Order::
Lobster Thing
Lavanna
Drogyn
Abi
Greyjay
Scarlet

With nary a thought, Sergeant Salt rushes the beast, raising her shield, and punches it in the carapace!

◆) Raise Buckler
◆) Stride
◆) Strike
↺) Shield Block

"Unhand those you meddling mollusk!" trying to detain it's attention.

Salt Punch (Non-Lethal): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 81d4 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3

"Fear not Parva - Unit 21 is on the scene!"

Devise a Stratagem: 1d20 ⇒ 5
Knowledge(Nature): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Upon seeing the lobster like creature, Abi tries to recall what it might be (and whether the heroes of her books ever fought something similar).
Seeing no good openings to attack at this point in time Abi moves next to the blacksmith and draws her whip.

◆ Devise a Stratagem
◇ Recall Knowledge
◆ Stride
◆ Interact (draw whip)

I'm not quite sure where the walls are on the map so not sure if that movement can be done in one action or two. If it requires two I won't draw the whip yet

You have to make two strides, wall separating you from the building. Next turn you can pull out a whip.

Lavanna's puch doesn't even dent through the shell of the creature as it appears to eat the metal much to the horror of the blacksmith.

Occult is actually better for Abi - +7 instead of +5 ! And I'll ask if it has any special attacks to watch out for

Abi calls out to the others "Watch your metal valuables - I think this is a Rust Monster"

Beyond being able to of course rust metal, it viciously lakes out anything that attempts to escape it with its tail, it gets a free reaction if you have a visible metal item on your person and move out of a threatened square with it.

Scarlett moves around to the end of the wall to get a better look, from a safer distance! Then she pulls out her lute and starts strumming a tune.

◆ Stride
◆◆ Cast inspire courage

Greyjay moves swiftly into the zoo, his fingers weaving in swift patterns of divine significance. With a word, he unleashes his spell at the creature, attempting to blast its mind. Finally, he steps forwards, somewhat reluctantly.

1st Action - stride. 2nd Action - cast daze. 3rd Action - stride again.

Drogyn hears "rust monster" from. outside and fear takes over him. He moves into the room and takes out his whip, leaving his shield on his back. He lashes out twice with his scorpion whip.

Athletics to Trip: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Damage from crit success: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Attack vs prone: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Adrenaline clearly took over on Drogyn's first hit, but the fear had started to sink in for the second lash.

Will Save vs Daze: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

The Rust Monster shakes most of the magic attack from Greyjay, but is tripped up by the Drogyn, having it land on its back by his whip skill in a painful manner.

Bludgeon Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

These attacks seemed to have gotten its attention now as it begins to wildly attack the closest thing after getting back up. That being...

Mandibles vs Greyjay: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
Damage: 1d10 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 4 = 8
Hit higher than 10, Crit success. Ouch, 16 Damage after double from Crit

The attack bites down hard, one attack nearly taking out the former Greycloak.

::Battle Order::
Lobster Thing (-13 Damage)
Lavanna
Drogyn
Abi
Greyjay(-16 Damage)
Scarlet

::Round 2::

Lavanna races around the flank of the creature, draws her trusty nightstick, and raises her buckler high!

◆) Stride (into flank with Drogyn)
◆) Interact
◆) Raise Shield (to AC 19)
↺) Shield Block (Hardness 3, Hit Points 6/6, BT 3)

"Let's surround it and take it down! Use your sticks!" leading by example.

Drogyn uses his reaction to make the rust monster hesitate under the weight of what it's about to do to Greyjay.

Glimpse of Redemption:
Your foe hesitates under the weight of sin as visions of redemption play in their mind’s eye. The foe must choose one of the following options:
• The ally is unharmed by the triggering damage.
• The ally gains resistance to all damage against the triggering damage equal to 2 + your level. After the damaging effect is applied, the enemy becomes enfeebled 2 until the end of its next turn.

The rust monster must choose between no damage or resistance and immediately enfeebled. All of this goes through before the attack.

On his turn, Drogyn will drop his whip for free, Lay on Hands to heal Greyjay if the rust monster decided to do damage, move into flanking and his the monster with his spiked gauntlet.

Attack vs flanking: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 151d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

If the monster chose no damage and Greyjay is full, he'll take another attack.

Attack 2 vs flanking: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 141d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

The Rust Monster seems to hesitate before attack. Though being a wild animal of an aberrant nature, made to consume metals, it strikes anyway, holy energy having protected Greyjay a little bit better. Meanwhile Drogyn's attack does little against the now enfeebled monster.

::Battle Order::
Lobster Thing (-13 Damage, Enfeebled 2)
Lavanna
Drogyn
Abi
Greyjay(-13 Damage) How much health do you have left?
Scarlet

::Round 2::

Lay on Hands would bring that to -7 Damage for Greyjay.

If I'm understanding the math right, I should be at 1 hp, unless I am missing somewhere that the damage is being reduced. I was only at 1 HP less than full, and full is only 1 hp more than the damage I took.

Abi takes a look at Greyjay's injuries and attempts to quickly patch him up before returning her attention to the fight.

Battle Medicine: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Devise a Stratagem: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Seeing that Greyjay's wounds are beyond her skill to treat mid battle, she nonetheless spots an opening to attack the Rust Monster with her whip.

attack: 15 + 7 = 22

damage: 1d4 - 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) - 1 + (4) = 4

Figured out my HP status - it's at 4, because 17-13. Sorry for the confusion.

The sounds of screams and the clash of steel grow louder, pounding in Greyjay's skull, and he lets his guard down long enough for the rust creature to rip through his armor, flesh, and bone. He staggers back, a low moan of pain escaping his lips, before marshaling himself. He chants a spell once more, the fingers of his free hand shaping the divine power before he lays it on the creature.

He swiftly takes a few steps back, his sword lowering as he grabs one of the potions from his belt. "Damned thing!"

Action 1 - Casting chill touch. DC 17 Fortitude or Negative Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 negative damage. Enfeebled 1 on critical failure. Action 2 - Stride back. Action 3 - Interact to take out a healing potion.

Figured out my HP status - it's at 4, because 17-13. Sorry for the confusion.

+6 from my Lay on Hands. So 10 total right now.

I missed you healing me last action. Oops.

I'll try to make it more obvious in the future.

Luckily, Scarlett has very little metal on her person, so she strides forward, pulls out her baton, and takes a whack at the thing. Unfortunately, she trips along the way...

◆ Stride
◆ Retrieve weapon
◆ Strike

Strike: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Fortitude Save vs Chil Touch: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21
Antenna Disarm: 1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 13 - 2 = 31
Mandibles vs Drogyn: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 5 - 2 = 11
Mandibles vs Drogyn: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (7) - 2 = 5

Damage: 1d10 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 2 + 4 = 14
Rust Damage to Shield; Ignores Hardness: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 1) = 5

The Rust Monster pulls away the Dwarfs shield, the antenna rusting sections on contact as it falls down to the ground. Meanwhile its mandibles take a painful bite.

::Battle Order::
Lobster Thing (-21 Damage)
Lavanna
Drogyn (-14 Damage; Dropped Shield on Ground)
Abi
Greyjay(-7 Damage)
Scarlet

::Round 3::

Skirmishing with quick feet, Lavanna maneuvers into a flanking position with Abi, and keeps her sword hand and buckler arm busy!

◆) Raise Shield (to AC 19)
◆) Stride
◆) Strike
↺) Shield Block (Hardness 3, Hit Points 6/6, BT 3)

Rapier w/ Deadly (1d8) vs Rusty (Flanked): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 111d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 21d8 ⇒ 1

"Easy does her - not much longer now..."

Just a question, even without my shield the 11 and 5 to hit miss me. Just curious how I took a hit.

Just a question, even without my shield the 11 and 5 to hit miss me. Just curious how I took a hit.

Whoops, I'm sorry. Mistook that myself. You are undamaged.

Taking advantage of Sergeant Salt's flanking maneuver, Abi takes a second to calculate before attacking twice with her whip.

Devise a Stratagem: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Attack versus Rusty (flanked): 11 + 7 = 18
Damage: 1d4 - 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) - 1 + (4) = 4

2nd Attack versus Rusty (flanked): 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14
Damage: 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3

◆) Devise a Stratagem
◆) Strike
◆) Strike