PFS1e GM Rotation (Inactive)

Game Master Kirill.Storm

Carrick feels as the vision he so so heavy, that his body lost huge amount of vitality and caused a lot of despair. Carrick is ehahausted, he wanted to use the short way but facy huge collumn which supports the structure and also blocks the path. The paladin have to go trough the bulding or climb around. But he is so Exhaused.

Darren is Staggered due to heavy toxins and fluids as he is standing inside the fog. ANyway the fighter with support from Suussmaar and Dhastrach assault the ooze with magical arrows and hammers from different directions. Hungry fog is dispersed.

End of combat
Darren -15 hp
Suusmaar -7 hp
Carrick Exhausted
Garduk is fine
Dhastrach -13 hp
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Soon you realise no threat remains, but usual fog here still highly sustainable. There are some dead animals now you can find in the fog. And the mansion is close to continue.

What are you going to do?
PLease, move your tokens acording with actions. THis is pagoda standing partially at rocky with collumn support for some references

Suussmaar heals himself.

clw: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

"That was ugly ... thanks for taking care of it. Let us get in now, ok?"

He says and moves to climb up.

climb: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Dhastrach catches his warhammer in a glorious fashion, and puts it away. He pulls out his wand of cure light wounds and begins to heal himself first before getting Darren back to normal.

CLW from wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 To Dhastrach
CLW from wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9 To Dhastrach, 14 hp healed
CLW from wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 To Darren
CLW from wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 To Darren
CLW from wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 To Darren, 13 hp healed

Darren can offer his own CLW wand so you can keep those charges, Dhastrach.

"Thank you, it's appreciated." Darren says to his friend while watching his wounds heal up. Turning to face Suussmaar, he shook his head. "Do you need any help climbing?" He asked the dwarf, not sure if it was going to be something the man would take offense to.

Whether he needs help or not, Darren will climb up after Suussmaar.

Climb: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 8 + 2 = 12

Garduk puts his scroll away, only a little disappointed not to have gotten to use it. He looks around and does a quick head count.

"What happened to Carrick? I thought he was right behind me."

He sees Derrick and Suussmaar clamber up to the pagoda's walkway and rolls his eyes.

"They've got to be kidding me," Garduk growls.

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 7

He tries unsuccessfully to pull himself up onto the walk, then drops back onto the grass.

"Somebody want to lower a rope?"

EDIT to add:

While he waits for one of the more athletic Pathfinders to help him up, Garduk pulls out his lesser versatile metamagic rod and uses it to cast extended see invisibility on himself (duration 140 minutes).

Garduk walks up the yard to join the main group, grumbling to himself as he goes.

Pathfinders heals up using their wands mostly. But Carrick is still missing. He breaths heavily not far from you being not able to climb around large supporting collumn. And probably not willing to go through the mansion.

I is not hard to step from the ground level to wood flooring at the mansions base.

Garduk produces See invisibility and when his eyes observe surroundings with just when he think he see a small shadow it quickly disappears somewhere above Suussmaar.

Solo bird trilling far away, and gentle wind breaths from west.

What are you willing to do?

"Suussmaar! Look out, there’s something right above you!" Garduk barks a warning, then shakes his head. "No, forget it, it's gone."

He waits for the tougher Pathfinders to step onto the wooden walkway before joining them, making sure to stand at the back of the line.

Suussmaar detects magic and looks around.

"Come up here guys now. Let us go in."

Suussmaar checks the door for traps and opens it in case he thinks that it is fine.

perception : 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

Dhastrach rushes behind Darren to not him wander too far from himself to keep the shielding spell ongoing. He waits for others to climb over the rocks before trying himself, as his armor hinders him quite a lot.

Climb: 1d20 + 2 - 5 ⇒ (19) + 2 - 5 = 16

Surprising even himself, Dhastrach manages to pull his own weight through the obstacle.

Somehow you manage to climb around the corner support culumn to find exhasted Carrick. He is overwheelmed by the vision, babbles something and says that he will wait you here and guard.

Suussmaar meanwhile enters the mansion.
The walls of this large, L-shaped room are painted with depictions of soldiers and samurai in battle against the armies of nobles and daimyos, while receiving the adoration of peasants and common people. Little
furniture is to be found, but a once ornate wood-andpaper folding room
divider lies in a broken ruin in the southeast corner. Metal hanging lanterns have been torn from the ceiling and now lie in ruins on the wood floor. Several ceremonial weapons have been pulled from the walls and discarded.

Darren will follow after Suussmaar, not letting him get too far ahead of the group. Keeping Dhastrach inside the area he spoke up took precedence, however.

As he walks, he pulls out his Klar to hold beside his Earthbreaker, ready for any threats that might pop up like the last one.

will : 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28

Sussmaar shakes off the strange feeling.

“Be careful here! Something dreadful is affecting your mind!“

Garduk pulls out his wand of magic missile and follows at the rear of the group.

I moved my token behind Darren. Garduk will keep up, but doesn't want to interfere with any of the melee fighters' movement.

You moveing slowly inside rhe L-shaped entry hall. A2. please, move your tokens insede towards next door you wanna open or somewhere...

No one feels any dread which felt Suusmaar and you may proceed you some more resolve.

"Something dreadful is an awfully vague expression," Dhastrach remarks and marches inside the room, confident, "I am already observed by unknown forces from the Dark Tapestry, whatever is in this room doesn't top that."

The dwarf walks confidently into the room with his warhammer drawn. Token moved.

"It is odd this room is so barren. Either it has been already visited by looters years ago, or people left this place in haste. Regardless, we won't find anything of intrigue here. Let's move on." Dhastrach moves to the north-eastern door.

Darren looks around after Suussmaar shouts. "Iunno, s'just a bit creepy."

As Dhastrach moves, Darren moves with him. "As good a place to start as any. Want me to open that, Dhastrach, just in case?" He asks.

If Dhastrach doesn't mind, and if the rest agree, Darren will open the door.

With precatious mesures Pathfinders open the next door to appear in the dinning room.
Two long, low dining tables run parallel in the center of this room, surrounded by the tattered remains of seating mats. Iron lanterns hang from the ceiling but are dark now. The stench of death is particularly cloying under the lanterns.

Corpse of a man hangs suspended from a lantern in the center of the room. Some flies buzzing among.

Suussmaar shakes his head.

He detects magic in both rooms.

”What do you think? Should we get him down?“

Suussmaar can feel barely visible fading aura of necromancy in the room he is standing in. But no magic detected in the dining room with hanged corpse.

Garduk continues scanning for invisible creatures and objects. "Probably. We should try to figure out who he was and what he was doing here. Better check him for booby-traps first."

The half-orc scratches his neck. "Hrmmm. Of course, that assumes he's really there. It may not be magic, but he could be a haunt or some kind of spiritual residue. Maybe poke him with something first."

Dhastrach nods and chucks a rock at the hanged corpse. He doesn't expect a response.

"What I'd wish to know is if the dead person hanged themself or was hanged by someone else. This place looks peculiar for such an occurrence, unless one wishes others to see them dead at the center of the house."

"Still remarkably barren. Looters would have avoided this room, yet there's nothing worth of taking."

Detect Magic + Spellcraft check to determine if some spell took place here?
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

No permanent or fading auras currently and no spells were recently cast here [/ooc]in A16 [/ooc], but something is deffinitely wrong here.

The mansion remains silent.
You even se no signes of looters. Can the hanged man be one of them?
Acording with his suite and boots - likely a traveler.

Where are you going next? Many doors around.

Confident to get to the bottom of this mansion's mysteries, Dhastrach decides to take the corpse down for an autopsy. (This is just to exhaust the possible answers the body might bring.)

Once content with the investigation, he proceeds to the northern door of the dining room.

Token moved.

Sussmaar aids to find out what happened.

heal aid : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Dhastrach decides to make an autopsy.
You find a lot of dead flies around, soon realising they were dead thanks to hungry fog, which seldom reached even this room.

BUt now you take are of hanged man. Minute after minute time flows to hours as dead body becomes fractured and opened thanks to dwarf and aasimar.

Seems like the men had intimate connection aroun an hour before he was killed.
Adrenal gland tells you that he was full of fear while almost all his blood were sucked away with a help of 2 sharp nails ot teeth. You find double marks at his wrists, neck, penis and thigh. He was hanged up in the process of loosing blood, but he was still barely alive...

What Garduk and Darren do while the autopsy take place (for an hour at least)?

When Dhfstrach opens northen door, he finds A 15

The eastern portion of this L-shaped room has a raised floor where a finely crafted wooden chair — almost a throne — sits. A half-dozen faded woven mats litter the floor. A small low table—another fine piece of furniture—rests tipped on its side. Scattered on the floor are the broken remains of a porcelain tea set. On the walls hang empty racks where commemorative weapons used to hang in places of honor. The word LIARS is scratched in the western wall.

Interesting as the autopsy may be, Garduk isn't going to wait hours.

For the first half hour, Garduk will read a book he pulls from his haversack. After that, he will suggest to Darren that they check out A15 themselves.

"We can just prop the door open with a chair or something so these two will be able see and hear us and vice versa, but this spell that allows me to see invisible creatures won't last all day. We'll stay close enough that you won't lose that spell Dhastrach cast on you."

If Darren agrees to go into A15 with him, Garduk will first cast shield on himself from his wand, then slide it back into his spring-loaded wrist sheath.

Edited to add:

Walking into A15 (if Darren will go with him), Garduk casts detect magic and scans the room for invisible creatures and objects as well as magical auras. He keeps his wand of magic missile ready.

Darren looked at Garduk to the autopsy, then shrugged. "Yeah, I don't quite care for waiting, either. I'll try to stay in step, Dhastrach."

The man will go with Garduk, keeping an eye out.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Garduk spent some time with the book and then with Darren proceed to a vandalized receiving room. Even after closer inspection you found no sighns of magic invisible creatures there.

Never did Dhastrach intend to spend that much time, since they can do a much thorough investigation of the cause of death later once the mansion has been fully searched. A full disection of the body is a bit too much, but the most important bit was the blood sucking. Ultimately, the dwarf wanted to know whether the man killed himself and hanged himself, or he was killed by other means and left to hang.

Furthermore, Dhastrach possesses an ability called lorekeeper under the [u]knowledge domain[/u]. Using it he could learn something about the man, but most likely just basic information about his race.

With a stoic expression Dhastrach finishes what he started. He joins the others in the next room (A15). The dwarf isn't apologetic about using so much time in with the dead body.

"One thing's for certain. Nothing here is specifically hunting for us. If we find a hostile force, it is most likely dormant and/or unaware of our presence."

What language is the word LIARS written in?

"This place holds clear signs of ransacking. I'm more and more to believe this place has been looted by scoundrels in the past. It is doubtful anyone would have taken ceremonial weapons during an evacuation."

Dhastrach makes a casual search of the room (mere minutes, this time), and advices others to do the same. He will not lead the investigation, however, knowing his old eyes are no match for the keen senses of a young adventurer.
Perception AID: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

“I agree with you Dhastrach!!“ let’s see what hostile forces reside here.

Sussmaar also casts detect magic and scans the new room.

perception : 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22

He also checks for traps at the new door.

perception : 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

In case he doesn’t see any traps he’ll open the door.

The man with obviously a Tian human. Most likely travaler from Minata.
Dhastrach feels a bit fatigue after operation. Still, what are you going to do with the remains of the travaler?

You find out LIARS written in Tian - 騙子 originally.

Suusmaar searching the next door, but finds only draft underneath. As you open the door you are getting to a cliffside patio. This area is open to the outside but sheltered by the roof two stories above. A simple waist-high metal railing separates this patio from the cliffside to the north. A few serviceable chairs rest near a large free-standing brass telescope aimed at the heavens. Broken statues of foo dogs and other mythological animals litter the floor along the southern walls.
Suusmaar barely feels some magic aura in the patio...

Outside - the northeast hillside affords a pleasant view of the countryside and the closest passing road. The hill drops off sharply here with a 30 foot drop.

Linguistics: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21

Garduk peers closely at the writing and grunts. "Hrm. Whoever wrote this, they spent plenty of time practicing their calligraphy. Probably either a noble who had the free time to spend on it, or someone whose livelihood depended on it." He looks at the detritus scattered around the room and shakes his head. "That doesn't tell us who the liars are, what they lied about, or why the person who wrote this was so angry about it. Or why there was a dead man drained of his blood hanging in the other room."

Garduk will not be the first Pathfinder to step out onto the porch, but he will go out when the others do. With see invisibility and detect magic still active, the scarred half-orc scans the porch for anything of interest before approaching and looking through the telescope.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

The telescope stands about 4 feet tall and weighs around 200 pounds, and is in good repair, unlike a lot of other stuff here.

Garduk approaching the telescope, Sussmaar slowly enter the patio, both scanning for magic and finds several low and medium auras here. But before anything becomes clear, garduk start to see a large shadow, flying in front towards patio window.

The creature is forming from barely shadow into a fire quickly and start screaming in pain, as if trying to share it's pain with Garduk. The creature smells with bog and burned fur.
slide 2, picture on the right.

The ground is 30 feet below due to cliffside, but the creature has no troubles flying.

What will you do, Pathfinders?

With your next post please roll initiative and act without long-term plans.

initiative : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

With a swift thought he enhances his abilities and then 5 ft steps!

Fervor to cast divine favor as a swift action.

He then starts shooting at the dark flying creature.

CLUSTERED SHOTS: When you use a full-attack action to make multiple ranged weapon attacks against the same opponent, total the damage from all hits before applying that opponent’s damage reduction.

"What is this?!" he shouts.

Primary rapid shot 1, Manyshot attack, +1 Longbow, rapid shot -2: 1d20 + 17 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 17 - 2 = 30

1st arrow manyshot damage : 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

2nd arrow manyshot damage : 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

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Primary rapid shot 2, +2 Longbow, rapid shot -2: 1d20 + 17 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 17 - 2 = 35
Damage : 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

crit? : 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20
crit damage : 2d8 + 22 ⇒ (2, 5) + 22 = 29

Longbow to hit: +1 Longbow +15 [BAB +5, Dex +5, +2 Enhancement Bonus, +1 Weapon Focus, +1 Weapon Training, +3 divine favor , deadly aim -2]
Longbow damage: 1d8+11, 20/x3 [Str +1, +2 Enhancement bonus, +1 Weapon Training, +3 divine favor, deadly aim +4]

Suussmaar empowering his bow and start launching a barrage of arrows, first brokes window glass and does not find the target. While two others flies through the screaming creature, leaving large wholes in ectoplasm.

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Round 1? Bold May act

Darren Mutagen
Garduk False Life, Detect magic, See Invisibility, Mage Armor
Dhastrach
(10)Creature -17
(7) Suussmaar Divine Favor

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“By his blasted hand!”

Garduk darts back from the edge of the balcony and shouts out words of arcane power. Four large, ice-blue darts appear in the air in front of him and immediately blast forward, striking the creature.

Garduk casts magic missile from his own prepared spells, rather than from the wand.

Magic missile, CL7: 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 1, 1, 1) + 4 = 10

Once the spell is cast, Garduk tries to identify the creature. Whatever he knows, he will shout out to the other Pathfinders.

Recall knowledge: 1d20 ⇒ 20
(Arcana +15, Planes +15, Religion +9)

Garduk almost sures it is a Witchfire - the creature used to be a hag or a witch in her previous life. Now it is incorporeal undead - spectre. She is beautiful and naked, covered just with greenish flames.

She can shoot Witchfalme, which not only hurts touch AC, but also sickens and Fierie Fire target.
Not only she can curse target, but also anyone who touch her.
Reflex is her best save, but she barely even in everything.

No actual damage reduction, but she is Incorporeal Undead - thats true already halves even magic damage...
but not Magic Missles - and Garduk knows this, bombing and burning creature with pure force.

But there is something wrong with her. How ghost can scream so loud?

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Round 1? Bold May act

Darren Mutagen
Dhastrach
(15)Garduk False Life, Detect magic, See Invisibility, Mage Armor
(10)Creature -27
(7) Suussmaar Divine Favor

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Linguistics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23

Dhastrach follows Garduk, nodding to his assessment on the message on the wall. He moves close to the wizard.

Once the creature appears, Dhastrach draws his magic warhammer and slings it at the creature with his powers.

Hand of the Acolyte (+1 warhammer): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 241d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Darren moves into the room, looking for an enemy until he realizes that the enemy is flying.

Assuming the info from the knowledge check is passed on.

Darren pulls out a potion of Fly, as he has no means of magical ranged attacks. He adds it to the list.

Darren walks inside, preparing elixir. GLass in fron of him is broken and wind howls with a dread creature.

Dahstrach meanwhile throws his warhammer to strike creature and catch the weapon again. HE understands words barely - So grown and so dumb. Go away from my home!

Ghost continues to cry in pain and point at all 3 of agressors, and just moment later lightning strikes from Garduk's side, piercing also Dahstrach and Sussmaar
Lightning! Reflex DC 19 to halve: 10d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 1, 5, 3, 2, 5, 4, 6, 2, 2) + 5 = 39

Round 1? Bold May act

(15)Garduk Pending Reflex DC 19 | False Life, Detect magic, See Invisibility, Mage Armor
(14)Darren Mutagen
(11)Dhastrach Pending Reflex DC 19
(10)Creature -30
(7) Suussmaar Pending Reflex DC 19 | Divine Favor

reflex : 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15

Reflex, Enduring Scholar: 1d20 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 4 = 20

Garduk feels his hair stand on end and flinches just as the lightning bolt flashes past him, taking only a fraction of the damage he would have gotten from the full force of the blast (successful Reflex save for half, reduced by 9 temporary HP from false life). He turns to the source of the spell and points.

“There he is, three steps to my right! It's that little invisible bastard I saw by Suussmar when we first walked in!”

What is he?
Knowledge: 1d20 ⇒ 14
(Arcana or Planes +15, Dungeoneering, Local, Nature, Religion +9)

The half-orc snarls and twitches again from the shock. “Enough of this” He casts magic missile again, then steps back to be out of the line with the others.

Magic missile, CL7: 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 1) + 4 = 12

Reflex: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Dhastrach manages to avoid most of the pain.

"You're right, this incorporeal emanation is merely an illusion!" With that, he casts invisibility purge. (35 ft radius emanating from Dhastrach)

Darren will move to wherever the creature popped out of invisibility. "I'm glad I didn't waste that potion," he said before swinging his hammer down on whatever it was.

Earthbreaker w/Mutagen: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29
Damage: 2d6 + 20 ⇒ (1, 5) + 20 = 26

Party sinergy works great as you quickly find and make visible small creature. It is likel wayang, covered with glyphs and simple clothes. He armed with a dagger. Picture at slide 2

But Dhastrach only starts chanting his Purge spell when Darren approach possible foe and usus Garduk's guide
Concealment, need 50+ to hit: 1d100 ⇒ 6
Unfortunatelly the hammer crashes only the floor.

And before Suusmaar realises whats happenin the wayag concentrates quickly mixing water and dust defensively. The weather quickly changes. Ice storm covers all around.

Great magical hailstones pound down upon casting this spell, dealing 3d6 points of bludgeoning damage and 2d6 points of cold damage to every creature in the area. This damage only occurs once, when the spell is cast. For the remaining duration of the spell, heavy snow and sleet rains down in the area. Creatures inside this area take a –4 penalty on Perception skill checks and the entire area is treated as difficult terrain. At the end of the duration, the snow and hail disappear, leaving no aftereffects (other than the damage dealt).

Ice Storm Damage: 3d6 + 2d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 3) + (1, 4) = 18

The sneaky wayang flies away, becoming invisible again and losing somewhere. Darren may get AoO.

The witchfire continue screaming, but less painful...

Round 2-3 Bold May act Ice Sttorm damage not yet calculated below

(15)Garduk -9 | Detect magic, See Invisibility, Mage Armor
(14)Darren Mutagen
(11)Dhastrach -19 | Invis Purge
(10) Dagagal ...
(7) Suussmaar -39 | Divine Favor

AoO.

Earthbreaker: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (18) + 15 = 33
Damage: 2d6 + 20 ⇒ (2, 6) + 20 = 28

Darren grits his teeth at the damage taken, but watches the Wayang fly off. "I recommend that we head back inside before the fire thing can see us again. More advantageous for us."

Following his own advice, Darren will double move towards the inside of the house, going slow due to the difficult terrain.

"You are correct, Darren. We need not fight that creature on its hometurf."

Dhastrach follows Darren indoors and advises others to follow. He also wishes to maintain the Shield Other spell.

Dhastrahc moves 4 squares to the right, and that's his entire round. 20 feet movement speed in difficult terrain means he is slow. He does move his invisibility purge area accordingly, since it moves with him.

Sussmaar takes out his wand and taps himself.

clw wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

"But he's right... oh, Hells!" Garduk watches the others retreat from the balcony and glares at the wayang. He activates his wand to cast magic missile at it one more time before moving back to take cover behind a statue farther from the enemy spellcaster.

Magic missile (CL3): 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 4) + 2 = 7

Ice Storm brings some chaos to the battle filed.
Suussmaar self healing while others try to retreat or fall back somewhere.

Dhastrach sees as the wayang flies up and to his own level being about 10 feet away , levitating.

Witchfire whispers something and the wayang use his dagger to point the blizzard, and the edge of it becomes even more cold.
-Get out! Or freeze here forever!

Cold damage to everyone: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 1) = 2

Now snow area becomes even more chilling coldy.

Round 3-4 Bold May act
Elemental wall is a second ring on the battlemap, damage not yet calculated below

(15)Garduk -27 | Detect magic, See Invisibility, Mage Armor
(14)Darren -18 | Mutagen
(11)Dhastrach -37 | Invis Purge
(10) Dagagal ...
(9) Suussmaar -53 | Divine favor