GM Erich's PFS2E Quest 13 - Falcons' Descent for Gameday X (Inactive)

Game Master Thereus, Silver Crusader

Morrin's protective shield lessens the blow from the bolt. With angered resolve Cassimon wields his glaive in a wide sweep that strikes down the hampered leader where he stood. With his follow through, he nearly fells the bomber as well. Asketell defiantly rises again to face the remaining threats with shield at bear.

The tide has turned.

Cassimon flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Round 7/8 - Bold can act - Inspire Courage is up!
Orange Duergar (w/warhammer and enlarged) -15 damage
Pink Duergar (w/crossbow and mace) -7 damage <prone>
Cassimon -17 damage <wounded 1, 1 persistent fire>
Asketell -18 damage <wounded 2, juggernaut mutagen, raised shield>
Red Duergar (dead) -50 damage
Landitho
Eddie -21 damage <d6 persistent acid>
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Morrin <blur> -26 damage

Yellow Musk Thrall

Eddie is feeling pretty cooked, the smell of braised mushrooms are starting to fill the cavern as the acid keeps eating away, like those pesky fly larvae. "Anyone else hot in here?" They carefully step back away from the oversized orange Dwarf before commanding the thrall and raising their shield in defense.

Slam vs Orange: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 251d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Slam vs Orange: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 91d4 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Honestly I don't know if inspire would affect the minion or not. If so please add in.

Entangling Tendrils (aura) 5 feet. Grasping tendrils extend out from the thrall. When the thrall ends its movement next to a creature, or a creature ends its turn next to the thrall, that creature must succeed at a DC 14 Reflex save or be grabbed by the tendrils.

Flat check, Acid Damage: 1d20 ⇒ 6

AC21 for the round. Will use shield block reaction if triggered.

Landitho continues with her violin playing. Cue violin music here.

Combining her intense music and vile insults, Landitho will attempt to curse out the orange duergar.

◆ Demoralize

Intimidate: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

◆◆ Cast Forbidding Ward on Asketell and orange duergar

Half-orc's hammer continues beating pink duergar. Morrin stares at orange for a second and mumbles spell on him.

Spiritual hammer: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Landitho gets dark with her words but the effect is short-lived as the musk thrall quickly silences the other brute with a deafening thud. Morrin's hammer nearly completes the task with a whack to the sharpshooter's head. She fires off another stinging bolt before disappearing from view.

Eddie persistent acid damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6
pink will vs ill omen: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
pink crossbow vs Morrin: 1d20 ⇒ 71d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 241d8 ⇒ 6

Round 8/9 - Bold can act - Inspire Courage is up!
Orange Duergar (dead) -21 damage
Pink Duergar (w/crossbow and mace) -12 damage <prone, invisible>
Cassimon -17 damage <wounded 1, 1 persistent fire>
Asketell -18 damage <wounded 2, juggernaut mutagen, raised shield>
Landitho
Eddie -27 damage <d6 persistent acid, raised shield>
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Morrin <blur> -32 damage

What would Eddie need to do to help reduce the DC for the persistent damage to 10? I know its two actions but does it have a check associated with it first or is it automatic for the two actions spent?

Eddie leans up against the rock outcrop wavering and looking nervous. 1hp left and persistent damage is a PC killer!

Assisted Recovery is here, but yeah two actions spent by you or another PC would give you another flat check (at DC 10 even if it is particularly useful like washing off the acid with a lot of water somehow) before the end of your turn (when you might go under). You also get your regular flat check at the end of the round and persistent damage ends automatically after 10 rounds.

Groggy from the repeated concussions, Asketell stumbles away from the fight. "Oh Eddie, you're burning there. You need something alkaline...Let me look. I might have something." Asketell moves over to the leshy and pulls some tinctures out of his bandolier. "Aha! Baking soda! That might do the trick! Stand still for a second, let me get that," he mutters as he tosses a white powder all over Eddie.

Assisted Recovery (Craft?): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Ugh, I did my best. Sorry, Eddie.

Eddie takes out a berry from his herb filled bandoleer "Bless this slightly over ripe berry fine fungal spirits so it keeps me in this body a bit longer."

Well, if I go down at least you can try feeding me the good berry for 1d6+4 hp. I've used up all three actions and can't eat it this round.

Flat Check End of Round, DC15: 1d20 ⇒ 5

Attack, LB, IC, Prone: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 + 4 = 15
dmg, IC: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 1 = 4

Cassimon moves toward the last duergar, but he can't see him.

The champion strikes blindly where he supposes the foe might be

Morrin sprints over to Eddie and rubs off acid with clean cloth. "I've still have one healing potion left, so you or Asketell may take it. I'm in a bad shape too but at least my condition ain't getting any worse."
Medicine: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Landitho steps forward, the violin music echoing throughout the chamber.

"Come out, come out, whereever you are! You wont get away with this!"

◆ Stride

◆◆ Cast Forbidding Ward on Cassimon and last duergar.

Cassimon tries to hit the vanished duergar as Asketell and Morrin try to save the leshy. Landitho wards the paladin. Morrin's cloth is just enough to wipe the remaining bubbles of acid off the poor leshy. The duergar shifts around but where she goes is anyone's guess.

Seek action to find her.

Cassimon's flat check for fire: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Landitho flat check to target invisible duergar: 1d20 ⇒ 14

Round 9/10 - Bold can act - Inspire Courage is up!
Orange Duergar (dead) -21 damage
Pink Duergar (w/crossbow and mace) -12 damage <invisible>
Cassimon -18 damage <wounded 1, forbidding ward up with pink, 1 persistent fire>
Asketell -18 damage <wounded 2, juggernaut mutagen>
Landitho
Eddie -27 damage
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Morrin <blur> -32 damage

Asketell takes the berry out of Landitho's hand and shoves it into his mouth.

"Hope that makes you feel better, big guy."

Then, not seeing the invisible duegar around, Asketell cautiously raises his shield to protect himself against attack.

Flat check, Fire: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Attack, IC, LB: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 16
Dmg: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 1 = 7

Attack, IC, LB: 1d20 + 0 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 0 + 1 + 1 = 13
Dmg: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 1 = 10

Still burning, Cassimon tries to hit the last slaver, before it goes away or manages to harm someone

Eddie lets Asketell take his goodberry, then remembers something, concentrating on a weird mushroom shaped growth on his chest. He takes out another raw berry and keeps an eye out for the last duergar. "Ahh, Toady makes a good point."

Perception: Seek: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Familiar Focus, Get berry, Seek. Next round I'll cast good berry on this one and eat it.

Familiar Focus (Core Rulebook pg. 218 2.0): Once per day, your familiar can use 2 actions with the concentrate trait to restore 1 Focus Point to your focus pool, up to your usual maximum. You must have a focus pool to select this.

I meant that Asketell was going to feed the berry to Eddie, not take it for himself!

Landitho continues playing her violin. "Where did that darned duergar go?"

◆ Seek (+9 Perception)

◆ Sustain Forbidding Ward

If Seek is successful:

◆ Point out the duergar

If Seek not successful:

◆ Step back

Seek the remaining duergar (Perception +6), give a waterskin to Cassimon to help put out fire

Cassimon swings wildly hoping to surprise the hidden foe. Asketell and Eddie work to heal up the natural way, while Landitho and Morrin try to find the missing duergar. They do, but she reappears anyway and fires off another bolt, only to have it lodge solidly in the Ulfen's shield.

Landitho Seek: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21
Morrin Seek: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Goodberry #1: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
pink crossbow vs Asketell: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 211d8 ⇒ 5

Round 10/11 - Bold can act - Inspire Courage is up!
Pink Duergar (w/crossbow and mace) -12 damage
Cassimon -19 damage <wounded 1, forbidding ward up with pink, 1 persistent fire>
Asketell -18 damage <wounded 2, juggernaut mutagen>
Landitho
Eddie -22 damage
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Morrin <blur> -32 damage

Electric Arc, 30/60' Range: Basic Reflex Save DC18, Electricity: 1d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 = 6

Eddie swallows the berry (not their favorite) then sends some electricity at the newly appeared archer. "Stop already. Why did you not flee?" The fungal spirits comply and the air is filled with the smell of ozone.

Electric arc then take cover, 23AC

Good berry from previous round: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Asketell pulls out his second bottled lightning and tosses it at the gray dwarf.

"Here! Catch this!"

Bomb: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Electricity, flatfooted: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Misses still cause 1 splash

Asketell then raises his shield and moves forward.

Stride, attack, attack

Cassimon moves toward the duergar, blocking his way out, and tries to put an end to the fight

Attack, flanking, IC, LB: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 22
Dmg; IC: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 1 = 5

Attack, flanking, IC, LB: 1d20 + 0 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 0 + 2 + 1 = 17
Dmg; IC: 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 1 = 10

Maybe bonus to hit for higher ground?

"There you are! Now I avenge my friends!" Morrin yells seeing the duergar

Magic missile: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 1, 4) + 3 = 10

One clean whack of Cassimon's glaive is all it takes to down the last pesky duergar. He too falls from the burns that plague him, but lands on the flames to quench them.

Cassimon flat check for dim light: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Cassimon flat check for dim light: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Cassimon persistent fire flat check: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Combat Over!
Pink Duergar (dead) -23 damage
Cassimon -20 damage <unconscious, dying 2, wounded 1>
Asketell -18 damage <wounded 2, juggernaut mutagen>
Landitho
Eddie -22 damage
Morrin -32 damage

Just need to make sure you got one more healing trick to help Cassimon... we are out of combat now.

Eddie whispers to the excited fungal spores littering the cavern floor "Spare that one with the sharp pointy stick, lay feast to the ugly Dwarves of the deep instead." With a few pointings of fingers Cassimon's bleeding stops.

Cast Stabilize.

Landitho drops her violin to her side. "That was an intense battle. How is everyone?" She looks at the down Cassimon. "Oh buddy. Wish I could help you there....". Landitho instead goes over to kick one of the duergar corpses to make sure they are dead.

Asketell quickly throws a few ingredients together to make a healing elixir and trickles it down Cassimon's throat.

Elixir of healing: 1d6 ⇒ 3

"You don't need to die today, friend."

Final Status
Cassimon -17 damage <wounded 2>
Asketell -18 damage <wounded 2>
Landitho
Eddie -22 damage
Morrin -32 damage

As the group rallies to revive the paladin, the battle dies down further into the cave. A squad of Eagle Knights rushes over to check up on you. "Now that's how we do it. Let's head back to the surface and celebrate a hard fought win, new friends!"

With the duergar threat neutralized, the two groups head back to higher ground. Once there, Lieutenant Evanno seems particularly impressed with your feats, and offers his personal set of Golden Legion epaulets (in addition to Ghelib’s journal) to commemorate this day of alliance. When you do eventually part ways, he adds "If any of you feel so inclined, I'd sponsor a membership into the Eagle Knights..."

End of Scenario

"The Eagle Knights are a fine group of fellows, from what I hear. I'll keep it consideration, Louie. And I suppose if you had any fellows here looking to work for the Pathfinder Society, one of us could put in a good word them too."

Asketell rubs his injured head. "I had my brain addled a few times today and I even thought for a minute I was going to see Valhalla. I need to get some healing first; but after that I could use a good ale or ten!"

Eddie limps back to the surface, partly wishing he stayed behind for a while to help compost those nasty giant dwarves. That feeling quickly lessens though when they shrink back to normal nasty dwarf size. Compost them nicely my feral fungi, they will provide nourishment for generations of hyphae!

"I feel like an aged Bolete.. so soft and squishy. I think that bottle of acid was trying to marinate me.. I will call it The Evil Vinaigrette!

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Once back in the safety of camp Eddie spends many hours tending to the wounds of the injured, be it through herbal remedies or the blessed fungal berries. "Let us move into this shady area. The bright sun is bad for my burnt skin."

On the topic of 'Eagle Knights' Eddie mostly has just a quizzical look on their face "Do you ride the eagles? Are the eagles your prey? Why is the K silent?" Eddie isn't very exposed to the politics of the world.. yet.

It would be a honor, later on, to join the Eagle Knights, an honor I haven't yet earned. But I will keep your proposition in mind, and strive to be worthy of it

Morrin is barely able to stand while waiting for healing. "Ouch, I feel so bad after this battle I'll have to take more than few days off before next assignment. We were lucky not to die."