[PFS1] 7-03 The Bronze House Reprisal (GM Watery Soup) (Inactive)

Game Master Watery Soup

"Hello? Melnat, you in here? We're here to inspect the site. Chauncy let us in."

Unfortunately, they're confused, and I don't think you're going to get a particularly coherent answer.

Oh, also: I didn't roll for them noticing because none of them have a Sense Motive modifier high enough to beat your roll.

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Rakesh rushes across. The trap will have an attack roll, no saves.

Shocking Grasp: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Electricity: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 3) = 10

Roderick flies over. Kitoro readies a spell, and I'll rule Ehm is delaying as well since I don't know what they're going to do, either ...

Orange Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 1
Purple Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 88
Green Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 11

Orange hears the shocking rune trap go off, and instinctively rushes towards Rakesh while letting out a rage-filled scream. Kitoro unleashes her spell.

Orange Fortitude: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23 vs DC 17

Unfortunately, he powers through, and stabs at Rakesh.

Trident: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Purple draws a shortsword and rushes ... the gnome!

Shortsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24 vs FF
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7 plus Sneak: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 3) = 8

"What the abyss?!" yells the gnome. She swiftly vanishes from sight.

A shimmering wall of distortion appears between Roderick/Rakesh and the rest of the group.

Universal: Inspire Courage, Good Hope
--Round 1
Ansha
Ehm
Kyra
--Round 2
Kitoro
Rakesh (-21 hp, guidance)
Roderick
Orange (medium, confused)
Purple (medium, confused)
Green (-15 hp, small, confused)

Roderick watches the interaction intently, suspecting Rakesh will have no difficulty with his foe.

”Now where has our little friend scurried off? “

Will wait for others to go but Roderick will likely just fly up and drink see invisibility on his turn

"Oh, sorry. I see you're occupied," Ansha says nonchalantly to the now-invisible gnome.

Delay.

"Yowrrr!"
Rakesh roars as he gets his rear end zapped.

Hopping in pain and rubbing the burn on his rear, he doesn't even notice the thug running at him until he's stabbed with the trident.
"Gah!!! You son of a Jackal!!!"
He shouts, looking down at the three puncture wounds dripping blood.

Scowling, he takes a step back, raises his bow, and fires two shots at the thug's chest.
+1 adaptive comp. longbow, IC & DA: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 10 + 2 = 21
cold-iron piercing & DA: 1d8 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
+1 adaptive comp. longbow, & DA: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
cold-iron piercing & DA: 1d8 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
+4 attack & damage if human.

Buffs:
False Life, dur 8 hours
Heightened Awareness, dur 80 min
hp: 95 of 86

Weel carp tha be annoyance! Ehm rushes forward hoping the trap is a one-off. double move

well, they're going to need our help... Kyra says as she barrels forward, hoping the trap was sprung for good.

triple move...if not allowed, will double move...i moved 60 feet...if she can only go 40, can someone move me back? ty

kn local, heroism: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 2 = 15

Kit pauses to assess the situation. What manner of folk are these? is the trap really sprung?

The trap is still active, but it does seem like it only lasts for a set period of time.

vs Kyra touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 3) = 11

vs Ehm touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 4) = 11

Kyra manages to avoid it, but Ehm gets shocked.

Roderick flies up and sees the gnome hiding behind a pillar.

Rakesh steps back and puts two arrows solidly in the tomb raider's chest. human damage applies, Orange is near death

Kitoro recognizes the two humans. They are generic hired thugs, Orange some sort of gladiator (with barbarian and fighter levels) and Purple some type of tomb raider (with rogue levels). Not sure what info to give you otherwise - Orange can rage, has uncanny dodge; Purple has sneak attack and evasion.

Universal: Inspire Courage, Good Hope
--Round 1
Ansha (delay)
Ehm
Kyra
--Round 2
Kitoro
Rakesh (-21 hp, guidance)
Roderick
Orange (-42 hp, medium, confused)
Purple (medium, confused)
Green (-15 hp, small, confused, invisible to all but Roderick)

Kit hesitates, not wanting to run through the traps. Finally, she ramps up her taunting and starts making fun of orange, incorporating it into her inspiring performance (i.e. maintaining inspire courage).

Using the antagonize feat to get under orange's skin.

diplomacy: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (11) + 21 = 32 to antagonize orange:

Antagonize/Diplomacy: You fluster your enemy. For the next minute, the target takes a –2 penalty on all attacks rolls made against creatures other than you and has a 10% spell failure chance on all spells that do not target you or that have you within their area of effect.

Ansha's pretty much not going to take any further action until the confusion wears off. Too busy laughing silently at the Aspis agents' misfortune. (Never mind that she is the one causing said misfortune.)

Kitoro makes fun of Orange's eyebrows, to which he's very, very sensitive.

Orange Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 14
Purple Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 27
Green Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 55

Orange steps up and attacks Rakesh.

Trident, antagonized: 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 11 - 2 = 18
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Shield Spikes, antagonized: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 10 - 2 = 27
Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Trident, antagonized: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 6 - 2 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Purple mumbles something about Day Man, fighter of the Night Man.

"What is wrong with you people?" declares the gnome. Nobody but Roderick witnesses Green smacking herself on the head, really hard.

Damage: 1d8 - 2 ⇒ (6) - 2 = 4

-Round 2
Ansha (delay)
Ehm
Kyra
--Round 3
Kitoro
Rakesh (-29 hp)
Roderick (+15')
Orange (-42 hp, medium, confused, antagonized)
Purple (medium, confused)
Green (-19 hp, small, confused, invisible to all but Roderick)

Orange isn't confused anymore since I attacked him last round.

Rakesh glares at the thug after getting stabbed with the shield spikes.
He holds his bow out to the side and releases his grasp to let it fall to the floor.
"I'm going to shave those eyebrows right off. Hold still."
Striking a warrior's stance, he swiftly draws his blades and spins them deftly, then lunges at the thug.
(Human favored enemy bonus added to all rolls).
+1 keen longsword, PA, GH & IC: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 13 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 33
slashing, PA, GH & IC: 1d8 + 12 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 12 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 22
"Oops. Looks like I nicked your face.
+1 corrosive shortsword, PA, GH & IC: 1d20 + 10 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 10 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 26
piercing, GH & IC: 1d6 + 12 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 12 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 23
acid dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 5

+1 keen longsword, PA, GH & IC: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 21
slashing, GH & IC: 1d8 + 12 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 12 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 24

No, he's still confused. He'll just attack you this turn, because you attacked him last turn. (And he'll attack you next turn because you attacked him this turn, and if you attack him again, he'll attack back, etc. If you stop attacking him, he goes back to random rolls to see what he does.)

Ansha feigns indignity and calls to the gnome, "What is wrong with you people?! I'm trying to hold a conversation here, and all you're doing is fighting each other!"

Delay/no action.

Ah. Totally read the spell description wrong. Oh, well. I probably killed him anyway.

Roderick watches from above, waiting to see how the confusion unfolds.

To be fair, the blender their mind is facing will render them unconversational for a bit I'd imagine.

Delays

Kyra moves up and prepares to lash out with her scimitar should an enemy get close enough.

readies: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 141d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Kit moves to the doorway, continuing with her performance and trying to get a visual on one of the other opponents. If she is able to she attempts an antagonize against the nearest one. If no she holds her action until she can.

diplomacy: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (16) + 21 = 37 to antagonize

The map shows some obstructions and I'm not sure if they are blocking view enough to prevent them from seeing a performance. Speaking of which, any PC that wants to benefit from the IC needs to be able to see Kit as she is using a visual performance type.

Orange isn't confused anymore since I attacked him last round.

Ansha covered it, but you're correct that, fundamentally, I shouldn't have rolled for Orange. Orange had the confused condition, but his roll didn't matter because per the rules he automatically attacked you, which coincidentally he would have done if he acted normally. This probably would have been clearer had he not rolled 1-25, but I did, in fact, ignore Orange's d% roll.

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Rakesh shaves Orange's eyebrows off, along with the front half of his face. Orange down on the first hit - since it's the first hit, you can have that be a standard and retcon a move action.

Kitoro antagonizes Purple. The columns are lying on the ground, they should probably be difficult terrain, but Purple can definitely see you.

Kyra moves up. As she passes through the shimmering wall, a wave of nausea hits her. DC 20 Fort save - nauseated on a failure (which means you won't be able to ready an action), and, if nauseated, DC 12 Acrobatics vs falling prone.

--Round 2
Ansha (delay)
Ehm
Kyra (Fort save)
--Round 3
Kitoro
Rakesh (-29 hp)
Roderick (+15', delay)
Orange (-64 hp)
Purple (medium, confused)
Green (-19 hp, small, confused, invisible to all but Roderick

fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

What in the name of the Gods is that stench... Kyra says with disgust as she barely manages to hang on to her lunch.

Trying to add to the 'confusion' of the situation. Oy, we's is posed to be add on guards. Is we's ta guard ya from each other? What's tha bout. Not sure we paid nough for that.

He puts his pistol back in it's holster.

Purple Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 69
Green Confusion: 1d100 ⇒ 80

Purple hits herself with her sword.

Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

A giant fireball explodes around Purple!

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10 vs DC 22
Fireball: 10d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 1, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 6, 1) = 33
Reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15 vs DC 22

When the fire clears, Purple is no more.

--Round 2
Ansha (delay)
Ehm
Kyra
--Round 3
Kitoro
Rakesh (-29 hp)
Roderick (+15', delay)
Orange (-64 hp)
Purple (-42 hp
Green (-19 hp, small, confused, invisible to all but Roderick)

In case you're wondering, I'm not calling this fight because Green is quite powerful (and invisible), and a significant danger even when confused.

After striking down the thug, Rakesh moves to the center of the room. He notices Roderick's eyes following the invisible person.
"Roderick! Where are they? Anywhere near me? Point the direction!"
With blades at the ready, Rakesh glances about, looking for any sign of the invisible mage.

Roderick's eyes open wide with the blast.

I will target the bugger with a bomb or two before we experience another blast first hand.

He hurls a pair of fire bombs at the caster.

Bomb, range, pb: 1d20 + 11 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 11 + 1 = 21
for Explosve dmg : 4d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5, 4, 5, 3) + 3 + 1 = 21 10'r splash, 7 fire dmg (DC14 for half).

Bomb, range, pb: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 6 + 1 = 27
for Explosve dmg : 4d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 6) + 3 + 1 = 26 10'r splash, 7 fire dmg (DC14 for
half).

Confirm: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 6 + 1 = 25
for Explosve dmg : 4d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3, 2, 5) + 3 + 1 = 17 10'r splash, 7 fire dmg (DC14 for half).

the splash damage is only for adjacent targets, likely none. The burn persists if there is a direct hit.

Sarenrae, close this warrior's wounds so he can carry on in the fight... Kyra move to tend to Rakesh's wounds, then moves a pace to the side.

cmw, healer's blessing: 3d8 + 7 ⇒ (5, 3, 5) + 7 = 20

[ooc]Rakesh is back at max...30 hp healed...move to get there, standard to cast and 5 ft step away from him...just in case...[/b]

Weel naw, if we'uns is gonna do this, let's do it weel.
Double move toward the corner.

"Well, then," Kit proclaims when her intended target becomes a crispy critter. Looking around, she is unable to locate the caster, which she suspects is the gnome.

"Anyone know where..."

Of course her question is prematurely answered when Rodrick plasters the fellow and the area around him.

Still, her spells are not well suited to targetting an invisible person. Well, there is the blistering invective spell, but that would require actually passing through the trapped area and getting alarmingly close. So she does what any self respecting mortal sensible being would do. She stays out of the fight and lays on the with her performance.

Another round of inspire courage. Roderick, it does not look like you are adding the bonuses from inspire courage or the good hope spell.

"By Calistria's honeyed--! Stop hurting each other!" Ansha cries, putting on quite the performance for the elfwoman directly responsible for the whole affair.

Delay/no action.

Rakesh suddenly feels his wounds heal. He looks over his shoulder to see Kyra finishing a prayer as she removes her hand from his back.
"Thank you, Kyra, my friend."
He winks at her then turns his attention to the battle.
"Now for me to get back into the fight. Did you see where that invisible one went?"
He rolls his shoulders forward and spins his blades as he glances about looking for a sign of the invisible mage.

"Hey, Ansha!"
He calls out.
"Got any protective or battle enhancement spells to throw on me? A chance to see invisible creatures would be quite nice right now!"

Thanks Kit - you are right - I meant to ask, but was not sure if she maintained the performance after the wall was raised and so I did not include. With his rolls, especially the crit, it may not matter, but would add 4 pts of damage.

And +2 to hit in case that 21 was too small. Doubtful as it was touch.

Rakesh moves towards the center.

Ehm moves towards the center. DC 20 Fort save - nauseated on a failure (which means you won't be able to make the second move), and, if nauseated, DC 12 Acrobatics vs falling prone.

Kitoro acts, Ansha delays.

Roderick lets two bombs fly. Both hit, the second critically, but critical damage for alchemist bombs is not double - only the base damage, 1d6, gets doubled, and the additional damage does not.

The damage of an alchemist’s bomb increases by 1d6 points at every odd-numbered alchemist level (this bonus damage is not multiplied on a critical hit or by using feats such as Vital Strike)

I will take the first d6 die roll, and add 4. Also adding another 4 for IC.

Kyra heals Rakesh.

Green, irrationally angry at Roderick, casts a spell at him.

DC 16 Will save vs hideous laughter.

Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

She continues to burn. I'm just going to say this makes her visible to everyone ... she's got 10 hp left. :\

--Round 3
Ansha (delay)
Ehm
Kyra
--Round 4
Kitoro
Rakesh (-0 hp)
Roderick (+15', delay)
Orange (-64 hp)
Purple (-42 hp)
Green (-86 hp, small, confused, burn 7, invisible to all but Roderick)

GM thanks for note on bomb crits! Had never had that come up before so good to know.

Will : 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Roderick finds the entire exchange and confusion incredibly funny …

”HAH HAH! “

just thought of something- since Roderick is flying with wings I’d suspect he plummeted down the 15’
With boots of cat, that may only be a few points of damage, but lands prone etc

Buffs:
False Life, dur 8 hours
Heightened Awareness, dur 80 min
hp: 84 of 86

fort save: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17
acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
sheesh! nauseated and prone

Kyra moves in to try to take advantage of the situation.

Give up...you're about to die... she pleads.

move to base contact..hoping to stop her from casting any spells.

Now that kit can see the creep, she does her antagonize thing, only this time she wants to make him really, really mad.

intimidate: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (9) + 23 = 32 to antagonize

Intimidate: The creature flies into a rage. On its next turn, the target must attempt to make a melee attack against you, make a ranged attack against you, target you with a spell, or include you in the area of a spell. The effect ends if the creature is prevented from attacking you or attempting to do so would harm it (for example, if you are on the other side of a chasm or a wall of fire). If it cannot attack you on its turn, you may make the check again as an immediate action to extend the effect for 1 round (but cannot extend it thereafter). The effect ends as soon as the creature attacks you. Once you have targeted a creature with this ability, you cannot target it again for 1 day.

Ansha looks on, mouth agape in feigned horror at the chaos still playing out. She seems too preoccupied with it to answer Rakesh. Delay/no action.

Rakesh runs up to the screaming ball of fire with his longsword over his head.
He brings it down in one deadly stroke.
+1 keen longsword & PA, GH, IC: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 13 + 2 + 2 = 20
slashing, PA, GH, IC: 1d8 + 12 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 12 + 2 + 2 = 20

Roderick falls to the ground, laughing. I think it's just 2 damage with Boots of the Cat.

Ehm feels sick and keels over as he passes through the wall.

Kyra and Rakesh move up, but Rakesh is unable to connect with his sword.

Kitoro mocks the gnome's stature.

Ansha delays.

I believe the gnome is required to attack Rakesh, even though Rakesh missed.

The gnome begins casting a spell.

Burn Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

--Round 4
Ansha (delay)
Ehm (nauseated, prone)
Kyra
--Round 5
Kitoro
Rakesh (-0 hp)
Roderick (-2 hp, prone)
Orange (-64 hp)
Purple (-42 hp)
Green (-93 hp, confused, invisible to all but Roderick)

Kit is not liking the fact that the gnome is casting a spell, but with all the flames and invisibility she can't make it out. On the other hand, she was quite expecting a fireball or lightning bolt and the fact that she was not fried makes her quite giddy.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Did the antagonize not work? The gnome should have targeted Kit with a spell or something like that if it did.

Ehm stands and staggers over to hide behind the pillar while retching up everything he's eaten for the past 2 days.

"Bah! Enough of this!"
Careful to not get too close to the burning gnome and get burned, yet determined to take her down, Rakesh swings his blades carefully as he slashes away. (No Power Attack).
+1 keen longsword, GH & IC: 1d20 + 14 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 14 + 2 + 2 = 26
slashing: 1d8 + 6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 2 + 2 = 11

+1 corrosive shortsword, GH & IC: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 13 + 2 + 2 = 37
piercing: 1d6 + 6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 2 + 2 = 14
acid dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 3

+1 keen longsword, GH & IC: 1d20 + 9 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 9 + 2 + 2 = 19
slashing: 1d8 + 6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 2 + 2 = 14

Shortsword Crit Confirm, GH & IC: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 13 + 2 + 2 = 24

If it matters, I totally forgot to mention that Rakesh gets +1 (untyped) atk & dmg if they're wearing Aspis badges and +2 (morale) atk & dmg vs. Aspis Agents in Hao Jin Tapestry.

Roderick will keep rolling on the ground laughing.

will if he gets another: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Rakesh...HAH HAH, Ehm!!!! Oh this just priceless. HAHAHAHHAHAHHA!

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (16) + 18 = 34

Ansha winces as Rakesh practically guts the gnome. "We're really not trying to kill anyone! Really!" she calls from her position in the safety of the doorway. "You all started attacking each other and we were simply trying to subdue you!"

Assuming that Rakesh's attacks drop the gnome: "We really probably should prevent them from dying." She pauses and looks at the smudge where the one fireballed-to-oblivion henchman was and adds, "Well, whatever ones we can still save, anyway."

Rakesh's first attack will drop the gnome. I'm trying to set up a VTT game so I won't be able to fully process everything until tomorrow. Rune trap disables at the end of this round, and I think the wall of nausea will drop after 7 more rounds. Green and Purple are recoverable, Orange is CON-dead. You'll get information from them tomorrow.

Kyra sets about stabilizing the ones that can be saved.

using her wand of CLW...

Rakesh brings down the gnome, and Kyra immediately sets about stabilizing them while the rest of the team ties them up. Unfortunately, Kyra's ministrations are of no use against the tough (Orange).

The tomb raider (Purple) readily identifies herself as Alexei, and confesses that they deliver wagons to the Bronze House, but, as hired mercenaries, knows little else.

The gnome (Green) is hostile, and refuses to give any information. "You're in over your head," she spits. "You have no idea what you're up against."

DC 26 Diplomacy or DC 23 Intimidate to influence.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (14) + 26 = 40

"And after the effort we went through to save you two when you were struck by a curse of madness--no doubt a trap laid here for tomb robbers to find. Was it worth it?" Ansha asks the gnome, having entered the room after the actual trap was no longer operational (which she confirmed via detect magic first). "Your task masters didn't care for your lives, so why concern yourselves with them? Best way to get even with them for their disregard for your lives is to tell us what's going on, I say."

Anyone who is going to Aid that roll, please do so.

One would think that some gratitude would be appropriate for saving your life...I'll remember that... Kyra says as she puts her wand back.

diplo aid: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Rakesh is not a Diplomacizer, especially with the Aspis.

Rakesh appears a bit confused when Ansha enters and starts explaining their actions. He catches on and sheathes his swords. He crosses his arms and watches the interaction with a gruff demeanor while also glancing around at the Aspis agents to see if any are wearing badges to add to his collection.