GM Tyranius (PF2) Bounty #6 The Road from Otari (Inactive)

Game Master Tyranius

Mik-Mek keeps watch, since he's too small to be much help.

He pulls a dart from his bandolier and moves off.

Too small to be acknowledged, Maruta turns to inspect the "chunk" missing from the donkey.

Getting just close enough before he would have to otherwise navigate it's temperament, he spits onto the ground, displacing soil with the impact, where within seconds a saproling sprouts forth and rapidly grows in the pack animal's direction, tiny vines wrapping it's limbs with a climbing propagation, sprawling towards the wounded area like fast motion flora reaching for the sun, which, upon arriving, pierce the area and begin to glow with a primal energy, rapidly regenerating the "chunk" - flesh, bone, and sinew - into it's pre-damaged state, depositing the energy as the vines slowly wither away into ash, dispersed by a tiny gust of wind.

Heal (1st, Two-Action): 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

That done, our tiny sprite hero returns to the company of Rawiri's shared space.

Rawiri listens to the halflings and goes to the cart next to Nangu. "Ok, folks come on! There is no reason for all of you to experience the weather developments with all your attention" [/ooc]

He try to find good handhold

"Yo-ho, all together
Hoist the colors high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die" he looks sideways at Nangu

"Yeah, you don't have to sing that last part..."

Performance to aid with a song ;): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

[ooc]I know that aid another at low levels has little sense, but putting your hand on the cart to show moral support to Nangu could be ;)

Freeing the wagon from the muck is no easy task. The halfling brothers are just happy that someone is finally willing to help. "If you can help us get it unstuck, we can get the wagon down to a friends farm and make arrangements."

Rawiri digs out some of the muck as Nangu braces the side of the wagon. Between the pair they are able to get the wagon loosened up enough to reach a dry patch of land.

Nangu looks back as the tiny sprite tries to heal his meal back into the realm of the living. He sighs in relief as it is unsuccessful. Though the halfling brothers are a bit disturbed at Nangu calling dibs on their ride they seemingly have no further need for the dead weight.

"It is all yours," Miro states as he digs around in the back of teh wagon. "Wish there was more I can give you but this is full of spices so not much use to you." He holds out a small smokestick. "Thanks for helping us out."

Lesser smokestick.

Squish nods and blubs. "Lets go see what ate the donkey?"

Unable to effect the cart, he walks over to Nangu, and touches his blade point-first, pricking his own finger, and puzzling the dhampir with a queried look.

The dhampir initially ignores the sprite, too focused on the donkey.

Nangu looks back as the tiny sprite tries to heal his meal back into the realm of the living. He sighs in relief as it is unsuccessful. Though the halfling brothers are a bit disturbed at Nangu calling dibs on their ride they seemingly have no further need for the dead weight.

Having gotten Nangu's attention by "messing" with his meal, the dhampir tries to shoo the flitting sprite away so that he can dine. He takes a deep bite into donkey flesh, only to suddenly spit it out.

"Blah! Ever since I was cursed with this accursed--well, curse--none of my favorite foods taste as good as I remember!" Nangu laments loudly. "Not donkey blood, horse blood, village--..."

The dhampir stops mid-rant, spotting a bit of crimson fluid on his blade. He sops up the fluid with his tongue. "Ack! Not at all as I remember!" he spits again, before muttering, "I ate much better back in Castle Kronquist. If only the undead there hadn't tried to eat me when last I tried to go back there."

Squish nods and blubs. "Lets go see what ate the donkey?"

"It was me--Nangu," the dhampir explains slowly, giving Squish a quizzical look as he wipes his blood covered face with a sleeve. "And I only took one bite. Unfortunately, due to my curse, it appears that I must now seek out new dining experiences more suitable to my new tastes." The dhampir hungrily eyes the fleshforged creature, considering the possibility for a moment, but when once the sound of the creature's *blub* reaches Nangu's pointed ears, he thinks the better of it.

"You're welcome. Stay safe! Keep your bellies full!" Peri says once the halflings' wagon is on its wheels and out of the mud. He turns back to his companions and drops his jaw as he witnesses the exchange between Nangu and Squish.

He slowly closes his mouth and turns to someone else. "I can't even right now. So? Are we tracking down the beast that attacked them? Let's go hunting!"

Give me a survival check to track the creature if you are looking to track it down.

Peri begins looking around with all his outdoors training that he has accrued while sitting outside eating berries out of a bowl and watching the sunset.

Mik-Mek sticks his nose to the ground and begins trying to track the beast.

Survival: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

"I think I found its tracks! They're right here! Now this mysterious beastie will feel the wrath of dragons!"

Peri doesn't have much luck in finding any sort of tracks in the muck. Mik-mek on the other hand picks up a scent! The kobold finds large footprints in the area. He is able to follow the tracks for a few hundred yards, but soon it passes over enough rocks and tree branches that they soon disappear.

About a half an hour down the road from where the brothers got stuck the mud seems to get deeper and deeper. It squelches loudly with each and every footstep as Mik-Mek picks up the scent once more. Just then a strange occurrence happens as a bright light from within the woods begins to strobe on and off very slowly.

Maruta makes an attempt to communicate!

Leaning his neck back, exposing his throat, he tenses his little body, and a subtle wave of deep sound begins throbbing from his cloven feet, winding up through his legs and torso, up through his neck and throat, where, three faint visible auras begin to shine forth, the sound energy converting into light energy, which he leans back forward to expel from his mouth, producing three shimmering wispy lights - a sage green, a chestnut brown, an azure blue - which dance in circles around and forth.

He does his best to "send" some sort of salutation by altering the flickering, intensity, and position of his conjured lights!

Peri slips into the underbrush to sneak closer for a better view of their quarry.

Terrain Stalker: Underbrush

Mik-Mek crouches in the bushes, waving his friends forward and alerting them to the strange lights that flash on and off. He tightens his buckler on his arm.

At this point he will try to steal up to the flashing lights unnoticed, if possible. Stealth +7

Squish stands by while his various talented allies do their things.

The light scampers down a narrow path before going dark once more. Lured deeper into the woods the donkey-slayer reveals itself. This creature is a 4-foot tall frog-like humanoid with large, bulbous eyes that constantly emits bright yellow beams of light. Its skin is mottled yellow, growing darker across its back. Its feet are webbed as are its claws. The creature sniffs in the air as it's bulbous eyes lock onto Rawiri with hunger. It seems very attracted to the pack the dwarf carries.

While Mik-mek is so focused on the scent of the creature, Squish notices something odd against the terrain to the southeast. A very crude trapping as grass and sticks cover an area of extremely sticky mud. Can be overcome with a crafting or thievery check. It is marked on the map.

Taking to the air Maruta notices a stony crevasse in the wet earth to the southeast, hidden behind a large berry bush. This looks like some sort of crevice where the creature likely came from. Getting the creature close to the crevasse might encourage it to leave the surface for good.

The creature leaps through the muck, bright light shining from its eyes as it flashes over the entire group.

@All- Need to make a DC 20 Fort Save vs the light.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature is dazzled for 1 round.
Failure The creature is blinded for 1d4 rounds.
Critical Failure The creature is blinded for 1 hour.

Round 1
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Monster
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Rawiri
Squish
Mik-Mek
Nangu
Maruta
Peri

fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Squish recoils as the light overwhelms his eyes.

Reaching around for his allies Squish tries to stoke Mik-mek's heart with his blobby goodness.

flat 11: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Success!

Intense fervor fills Mik-mek, gain a +2 status bonus to damage rolls.

Having been successful Squish follows up with a horribly blobby noise.

DC 11 flat: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Daze fails.

Fortitude vs Blinding Light (DC 20): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 171d4 ⇒ 3

Closing his eyes now overwhelmed with stimuli, Maruta stamps the ground with his tiny cloven feet three times with firm intention - almost as if knocking on a door - and beneath his hooves, an energy glows from beneath the soil, sprouting a trail of simple grass and flowers that draw forward southeasterly - a digging sound becomes audible on the opposite side of the bulbous-eyes web-clawed monster, and a giant insect crawls out of the ground!

"Bug!"

◆◆◆) Summon Animal

Maruta clutches the fingers of both hands together with a wringing motion, and the beetle's eyes glow with radiant red energy - it reaches it's mandibles around the creature, attempting to clench it still before swallowing it whole!

Flash Beetle
◆) Grapple
◆) Strike

Beetle Grapple (Athletics) vs Fortitude DC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Beetle Mandibles (Agile, Piercing) vs AC: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 8 - 4 = 201d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Fortitude (E): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Fortitude (E), Hero Point: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13 Well, at least not a critical failure.
Duration: 1d4 ⇒ 3

"Nine rotten apples! I can't see a thing!" Peri moves into the underbrush, getting slapped in the face by twigs and branches that he would normally avoid with ease. He loads his sling staff with a stone and tries to hide in the shadows and brush once again.

◆ Stride
◆ Interact
◆ Hide

"Blah! The light!" Nangu cries, instinctively.raising his hand and expecting to turn to ash.

Fort save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Hero Point
Fort save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

He is pleasantly surprised. And angry.
"You fooled me, foul creature!" he says, drawing his sword.

"You will pay for that. In blood. For, I intend to kill you now." he explains.
Rage, Manipulate, Stride

Fort save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Blinded: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Mik-Mek cries out in pain and recoils from the bright light. He stumbles about, temporarily blinded.

"Mek mek mek mek mek!" he yells, unconsciously reverting to his native Draconic.

What penalty do I take if I want to throw my dart in the direction of where I last saw the lights?

Fort save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Rawiri sees a blinding light, but fortunately, Squish has got the worst of it. The dwarf blinks a couple of times

"What on fire forges, is that!?" he takes out a dart and looks towards the foe. He whistles loudly to attract the enemy attention

"Hey, you frog face! Come here and dance with me." he fakes a step to the side followed by a turn and a quick step to the other side followed by an immediate move of the dwarf hand, and the darts fly towards the enemy

Fascinating Performance, performance vs Will DC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 Fascinating performance if success then Rawiri gets panache

Throw dart, 20ft range: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Dazzled, DC5: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Damage, piercing: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Confident finisher: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6 If missed and Rawiri got panache from his dance then 3 dmg

Take out dart, dance, throw (Flying blade feat)

Squish Blinded rounds: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Just a little dazzled Rawiri begins to dance with the strange creature. Fascinating performance is a success. Rawiri throws it off a bit as he tosses a dart past a tree and into the frog-like creature's throat. It gurgles and panics as its bulbous eyes shine in fear.

Squish snorts and recoils as he is blinded. This causes a bit of a fervor to stir in Mik-Mek. Nangu draws his sword, quite angered at the thought of sunlight hitting his flesh.

A luminescent beetle crawls out of the nearby tree and snaps its mandibles onto the creature's arm. Completely blinded Peri tries to dive for the shadows, or at least what look like shadows to him. Though to those that can still see like Nangu, it appears as if the halfling dives right out into the open next to a bush.

Round 1
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Monster (-20)
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Rawiri
Squish
Mik-Mek (Blinded 2 rounds)
Nangu (2 Temp HP)
Maruta (Blinded 2 rounds)
Peri (Blinded 2 rounds)

Mik-Mek throws his dart in the general direction where he last saw the bright light.

Dart Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

That's probably just going to catch air

He then moves towards the bushes to try to clear his eyesight before doing anything else.

◆ Dart attack
◆ Stride (hide in the bushes)

Mik-Mek tosses a dart into the muck as he grabs ahold of a tree and gets behind it. The wounded creature reflexively bites out at Nangu before fleeing around to the north.

Bite vs Nangu AC 18: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

As the creature passes near Peri it recoils as if smelling something awful. It looks like it wants to be as far away from Peri as possible as it skirts around the halfling.

Round 2
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Monster (-20)
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Rawiri
Squish
Mik-Mek (Blinded 1 rounds)
Nangu (2 Temp HP)
Maruta (Blinded 2 rounds)
Peri (Blinded 2 rounds)

"Oh bother! This isn't going to work at all!" Peri shouts. "Where is everyone?"

Delay? Not that I think anything would change while blinded.

With his eyes closed, Maruta tries to listen to the sound it makes through the trees.

◆) Seek
◆) Point Out
◆) Sustain

Either way, the sprite raises his hand into the air, and brings it down with a violent motion, his eyes once again glowing red, causing the beetle's eyes to glow the same shade. It gives pursuit!

"Bug!"

Flash Beetle
◆) Stride
◆) Grapple

Beetle Grapple (Athletics) vs Fortitude DC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Hero Point!
Beetle Grapple (Athletics) vs Fortitude DC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Eschewing tactics, an angry Nangu charges through the underbrush towards the bleeding foe.
Stride (Stride x2 if trees are difficult terrain)

"Now comes the killing you part that I had mentioned!"

Melee, greatsword (versatile P): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Damage S, rage: 1d12 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 2 = 12
If he only needed one Stride action to get to creature
Melee, greatsword (versatile P): 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (17) + 7 - 5 = 19
Damage S, rage: 1d12 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 2 = 10

Squish continues to gurgle, answering Peri's question as to where he is at least.
Sustain +2 damage for Mik-mek

Before following up with more unintelligible gurgling at the monster.

Daze, 4 damage basic will 17, stunning 1 on CF.

Blinking away the blindness, Mik-Mek pulls out his shortsword, raises his buckler and takes a few steps forward. His vision hasn't been totally restored, but he can see some things past the spots in front of his eyes.

◆ Stride (difficult terrain due to blindness)
◆◆ Interact (draw shortsword and raise buckler)

"Oh! Where is everyone going?" Peri cries at the sound of crashing feet on the forest floor, squinting at the shadows of light and dark swirling in his vision.

@ Squish- You don't have LoS on the creature through the trees.

The trees themselves would indeed be difficult terrain.

Nangu bursts through the forest to cut off the fleeing creature, his blade missing in the close quarters of the treeline. Maruto begins to point out the location of where he thinks it went. Unfortunately he is pointing in the complete wrong direction. The beetle flits up and over the trees, missing the pale frog-like creature.

Hunting Grounds: Round2

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Monster -20 HP
Rawiri 22/22 HP
Squish 19/19 HP 2 actions
Nangu 21/21 HP, 2 Temp HP
Mik-Mek 17/17 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd
Maruta 13/13 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd
Peri 17/17 HP, Blinded 2 Rnd

Opps, thanks.

Squish double moves to catch up to melee range with the strange creature.

"Where is everyone?"

"He is here" Maruta indicates himself by finger as a reflex, the blind leading the blind.

Oh! Where is everyone going?"

"It is there" pointing in the wrong direction, not that it matters, for neither can see...

"Where?" Peri fumbles forward, passing right over Maruta as he moves in the direction of the fey's voice. He then thinks he might have gone too far and listens for the sound of battle.

Stride, Stride, Seek (burst) +4

Rawiri moves after the others and again tries to distract the enemy with his movements. Finally he could see normally and giggled for a moment seeing his allies stumbling blinded. He grabs another dart as he moves and whirls

Fascinating performances VS will DC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

But he falls to the ground due to his distraction with others. He rolls on the ground and keeps on trying

Fascinating performances VS will DC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

Interact (draw dart), perform (fascinating performance), perform (fascinating performance)

Rawiri rolls around in the mud as he becomes quite the performance artist. Squish squishes through the squishy mud after the pale being (Not Nangu). Peri hears the group and points out where the noise is coming from. Successfully pointed out the current location of the creature.

Hunting Grounds: Round2

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Monster -20 HP
Rawiri 22/22 HP
Squish 19/19 HP
Nangu 21/21 HP, 2 Temp HP
Mik-Mek 17/17 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd
Maruta 13/13 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd
Peri 17/17 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd

Mik-Mek draws his blade as he follows the sounds of the group. The creature continues to bite at those near it as the creature flees to the southeast.

Bite vs Nangu AC 18: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
Damage: 1d12 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15 Crit for 30

The creature bites into Nangu's neck and chest, removing a massive chunk of flesh and bone. The dhampir falls face first into the muck where he begins to bleed out quickly.

Hunting Grounds: Round3

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Monster -20 HP
Rawiri 22/22 HP
Squish 19/19 HP
Nangu 0/21 HP, Prone, Unconscious, Dying 2
Mik-Mek 17/17 HP
Maruta 13/13 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd
Peri 17/17 HP, Blinded 1 Rnd

Seeing Nangu take a bite to the chest and dropping fills Mik-Mek with rage. He charges after the creature, bellowing a challenge as he goes.

"Get back here! Face the dragon if you dare!"

He gets close, but not too close, and raises his buckler in case the creature turns and comes after him.

◆◆ Stride 2x
◆ Raise Buckler

Squish continues to Stoke Mik-mek's heart and casts stabilize on Nangu.

Squish continues to Stoke Mik-mek's heart and casts stabilize on Nangu.

Poor Nangu, he shouldn't have "pretended" to be regular living being. Nangu is damaged by positive energy.

Recovery check: 1d20 ⇒ 2
Recovery check, Hero Point: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Peri fumbles onward in the woods, confused by the stomping of big folk feet here and there.

Stride, Stride, Stride

Racing forward, Maruta and his conjured beetle continue to give chase - as he passes by Nangu the Thrice Cursed, he pauses a moment to lament "It and it alone - he cannot help it" before moving past.

◆◆) Stride x2 (10-ft + 10-ft)
◆) Sustain to ◆◆ Fly (15-ft + 15-ft) x2

Stabilize does not heal any damage, just removes the dying condition, no reason it shouldn't work on a dhampir.

Yup, Dhamphirs are extraordinary confusing in 2E. Here are a couple of videos I found helpful to understand them and what damages and heals them a bit better. Dhamphirs harmed by heal spell and How to heal a Dhamphir.

Squish stabilizes Nangu as Mik-mek chases after the little bugger. Maruta and the beetle soar through the trees, keeping up with the pale frog as Peri stumbles through the trees, his vision just beginning to come back to him.

Hunting Grounds: Round3

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Monster -20 HP
Rawiri 22/22 HP
Squish 19/19 HP
Mik-Mek 17/17 HP, Shield Raised
Maruta 13/13 HP
Peri 17/17 HP
Nangu 0/21 HP, Prone, Unconscious, Wounded 1

Rawiri runs past Nangu cursing that he did not bring healing potions. He stops behind Mik-Mek and throws dart above his head.

Throw: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Damage, piercing: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Confident Finisher: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 4) = 8 If miss then does 4 dmg

2x move + throw

Nangu's body fails to move, until he begins to snore loudly

Rawiri tosses a dart into the treeline, missing the creature. It snaps defensively at the only creature within its reach before retreating further to safety.

Bite vs Flash Beetle AC 16: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22
Damage: 1d12 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

The Flash beetle is torn in half as the powerful jaws clamp around it.

Hunting Grounds: Round4

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Monster -20 HP
Rawiri 22/22 HP
Squish 19/19 HP
Mik-Mek 17/17 HP, Shield Raised
Maruta 13/13 HP
Peri 17/17 HP
Nangu 0/21 HP, Prone, Unconscious, Wounded 1

"What? No, no, no! This is a rotten pickle!" Peri curses as his vision finally clears. "Someone take care of Nangu! I'm going to after the beast."

He dashes through the woods, leaping over bushes and ducking under branches with surprising ease. Once he can make out the predatory beast, he whips his sling staff forward and releases the stone toward it. "Go away!"

◆ Stride (wildwood)
◆ Stride (wildwood)
◆ Strike

Halfling Sling Staff (T): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Bludgeoning: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Primal energy engulfs the slain beetle - Maruta opens his mouth as if sucking air, and his companion's essence is drawn into his tiny body - he glows brightly with the stored power! - having regained his vision, he races forward and spews out a vine-shaped tendril which races through the air for the beast!.

◆) Stride
◆◆) Cast Tanglefoot

Spell Attack vs AC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Wait - that's Squish!

◆◆) Stride x2

"From that crevice It lived, and maybe lives" he points Southeast towards the crack in the ground that he presumes to be the creature's home!