GM Computerpro82 PF2 Quest 9 -Wayfinder Origins (Inactive)

Game Master Eric Parker 82

"Beep Beep. Tweet..."

Rolling along with decreased speed, a magnetic scope sensor travels along the surface area of the small contraption's spherical body, scanning for life forms through the mist in a clockwise rotation, while the cylindrical tread of it's locomotive ramp rotates overhead, the two axes intersecting at a line that "points" fore or aft in the direction of the single door.

It watches as the Professor keeps steady progress ahead of itself, waiting for the party to file in before making any sudden movements.

Kavin cautiously approaches the door, alert for any signs of danger.

Perception +10

Teki also approaches the door, checking it for traps. "If everyone's ready, I'll open it on the count of 3. One, two..."

Perception +9

Samantha nods to Teki, "Ready."

Nosaj follows his companions down the stairs and next to the door.

He takes a few moments to listen to what might be on the other side of the door (or any other noise).

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

He lights his Wayfinder and also nods to Teki while whispering: "Ready!".

Tiger heads down the stairs, his crossbow drawn and ready.

He had previously drawn it and lit up his wayfinder

Teki pushes the door open and sees six creatures in the room. One tall one with an odd, glowing whip and five boxy little ones, with sharp teeth that look metallic. Every inch of this granite cave has been polished until it sparkles.

They are not happy to see you.

The boxy purple creature moves forward and attacks Teki

jaws: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 piercing plus Grab

It bites Teki with its metal jaws, and Teki feels something else injected into her veins, as the creature grabs her with its last action.

Round 1, Bold May Act
Purple
Loong Laohu
Professor Serj
Blue
Red
Prefect
Green
Teki (-3 HP, Grabbed, Pending DC 17 Fort save)
Samantha
Kavin Berger
Yellow

Tiger takes a step forward, raises his hand crossbow and fires at the ... thing... attacking through the doorway.

Hand Crossbow: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

He then reloads his crossbow.

◆ Step
◆ Shoot
◆ Reload

Fortitude: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

Teki grins at the bitey thing. "Ha! You tried to poison an Irongut goblin! I've ingested things more disgusting than you when cleaning the Shrine of the Failed!"

"Blast!"

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs DC 18: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

Professor Serj slams a few buttons on his gauntlet control panel and a series of synchronized controlled explosions sputter from the large metal backpack welded to his armor. They grow louder and more frequent with each passing second, spewing a few errant flames out of a lower exhaust manifold, as well as a steady dripping of water beneath a thin plume of smoke. He explains that he "Recently added a catalytic converter to minimize trace elements intermixing with the atmospheric ozone" or somesuch while pressing another button which activates the hydraulic pistons in his suit's arms, whereupon the right an actuator snaps his shield into a defensive position, and whereupon the left an actuator snaps his flickmace into his empty hand, both with spring-loaded action.

◆) Raise a Shield
◆) Draw Flickmace
◆) Overdrive

The Tall creature moves forward and tries to strike Nosaj with the strange looking whip

electrowhip: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30
(disarm, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet, trip)

Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 electricity plus Knockdown if the target is wearing metal armor

Nosaj is Knocked prone

◆) Move up
◆) Attack with Whip
◆) Knockdown

The other boxy creatures mill about the door, waiting for an opening

Still Round 1, Bold may act

Purple (-6 HP)
Loong Laohu
Professor Serj
Blue
Red
Prefect
Green
Teki (-3 HP, Grabbed)
Samantha
Kavin Berger
Yellow
Nosaj (-9 HP)

Oops, somehow left Nosaj out of the initiative

And I left out the description of Tiger's strike
The bolt from Tiger's hand crossbow strikes the boxy creature squarely, but it continues to hold Teki in its jaws.

◈ Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Teki attempts to wriggle out of the boxy thing's grasp, then inspires courage.

◈ Inspire Courage

♫ I'm Teki Stronggut and I'm here to say
No boxy thing's gonna poison goblins today
Not that I am modest
But you're messin' with a goddess
And her fancy Society friends
Boxy thing, here your story ENDS! ♫

+1 to attack, damage and saves against fear effects

...the Professor presses another button and two thin steel rubber-studded earplugs deploy from his mechanical helmet and snug their way into his sensitive ears...

Teki manages to deftly dance out of the creatures jaws, shoot it with her shortbow. The creature's glowing eyes dim slightly, but still show lots of "life"

Still Round 1, Bold may act

Purple (-15 HP)
Loong Laohu
Professor Serj
Blue
Red
Prefect
Green
Teki (-3 HP)
Samantha
Kavin Berger
Yellow
Nosaj (-9 HP, prone)

Samantha moves into position, drawing a set of bolas and tosses them past purple at red.

ranged trip vs red reflex: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 9 - 2 = 20

Kavin dances a little jig to Teki’s rhyme. Moving to where he can better see the creatures, he then asks “Professor, what are these things?”

Finally he calls up an arcane shield to protect himself.

Triple time: You and all allies in the area gain a +10-foot status bonus to all Speeds for 1 round. Has Emotion and Mental traits, so I doubt his construct gets this bonus.
Stride
Free action: Loremaster’e Etude: Will provide this to Professor Serj if he does a Recall Knowledge. Allows him to roll twice and take better result.
Cast Shield

"Ah Yes!"

Pressing another button, a plasma mini-screen flips down from his helmet, overlaying his field of view, as our zany hero "swipes" though slides presenting on his personal device with his nose(!), sifting through 3d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 3) = 9 different displays, finally stopping on...

Still Round 1, Bold may act

Samantha's Bola strikes the Red creature?, getting tangled in its treads and tripping it up.

Yellow moves up, trying in vain to find an opening

Purple (-15 HP)
Loong Laohu (Inspire Courage, Triple Time)
Professor Serj (Inspire Courage, Triple Time, Loremaster's Etude)
Blue
Red (prone)
Prefect
Green
Teki (-3 HP, Inspire Courage, Triple Time))
Samantha
Kavin Berger (Inspire Courage}
Yellow
Nosaj (-9 HP, prone, Inspire Courage, Triple Time)

Nosaj, taken by surprise by the direct hit from the tall creature, suffers in silence when he feels the pain from the electrical damage of the electrowhip. But he cannot avoid falling to the ground as the electricity discharges all around his metal armor.

If you allow for a reaction (it was before his round), Nosaj will react by blocking the blow with his shield (hardness 7).

Not wanting to stay laying on the ground any longer, Nosaj decides to swiftly stand up and bashes the purple thingy with his shield.

Shield bash: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 1 = 15
Shield boss+1: 1d6 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 1 = 11

He then raises his shield to protect himself.

◆ Stand up
◆ Strike
◆ Raise a Shield

Tiger will delay on his turn. I'm going fishing tomorrow morning so I'm not going to be able to post in time.

Nosaj, since you were using the "Defend" exploration action, and were knowingly stacking up on a door, I'll give you the Shield Block reaction. I believe that means you and the shield take 2 damage.

Nosaj manages to get to his feet, but he is still slightly stunned by the electricity, and misses the small purple creature with his shield.

◆ The Purple creature? spins around to try and bite Professor Serj!
jaws: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8 piercing plus Grab

◆ Second Action to Grab the Professor

But since it only has one natural weapon to attack with, it can't use its third action

Professor, you may Shield Block as a reaction, but I think you will still take some damage and be grabbed

I will go ahead and resolve Professor Serj's declared action to Recall Knowledge about these creatures with his next action.

Round 2

Bold may act

Purple (-15 HP)
Loong Laohu (Inspire Courage, Triple Time, Delaying)
Professor Serj (-8 HP, Inspire Courage, Triple Time, 2 Actions remaining, Grabbed)
Blue
Red (prone)
Prefect
Green
Teki (-3 HP, Triple Time))
Samantha
Kavin Berger
Yellow
Nosaj (-2 HP)

Professor Serj pushes another button and a telescoping monocular barrels in upon the tiny contraption as he stares with intense focus into it's open mouth as it bites him "Aha!" he bellows with visible excitement as he bashes the creature away with his shield "I'd call this a Toxic Snapjaw probably employed to deter a rodent infestation" then aside to himself "Might have to get one for my second office..." before continuing "Good forecast for you Teki, it's poison tube seems depleted. Unintelligent little thing, this, of simplistic design. You'd think an ancient civilization with advanced science could do better!"

Translation: Only one poisonous bite each, no weakness or resistances, has mindless construct immunities: bleed, death effects, diseased, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, mental, necromancy, nonlethal, attacks, paralyzed, poison, sickened, unconscious.

↺) Shield Block (8 damage minus 5 hardness = 3 damage to Serj and Shield)
+
◆) Recall Knowledge
◆) Raise a Shield
◆) Strike
+
↺) Shield Block (5 hardness, 17/20 HP)

Another two buttons and with mechanical force amplifying the exoskeleton of our shrewd hero's suit, his right actuator recoils his lightly-damaged shield back into a defensive position as the left actuator winds his flickmace back 180 degrees before a hydraulic-lubricated spring unwinds it 270 degrees to crash into the console of his captor!

Inspired (+1/+1) Flickmace (Blunt) w/ Overclock (+2) vs Grasping Snapjaw: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 7 + 1 = 221d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 1 = 8

Professor Serj hit the Snapjaw with a resounding blow. The eyes dim for a moment before coming back to life, The Snapjaw still lives!

Tiger delays.

The Red Snapjaw shakes off the Bola and stands up. The rest of the Snapjaws fidget impatiently at the logjam in the door.

Apologies Nosaj, but you really are the priority target for a number of reasons

Prefect, the larger creature, snaps the whip at Nosag again
◆) Strike
electrowhip: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25
(disarm, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet, trip),
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 electricity plus Knockdown if the target is wearing metal armor

◆) Knockdown

◆) Second Strike against Professor Serj (+2 AC for cover)
electrowhip: 1d20 + 12 - 5 ⇒ (2) + 12 - 5 = 9
(disarm, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet, trip),
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 electricity plus Knockdown if the target is wearing metal armor

Round 2

Bold may act

Purple (-23 HP)
Professor Serj (-8 HP, Grabbed)
Blue
Red
Prefect
Green
Loong Laohu (Delaying)
Teki (-3 HP, Triple Time)
Samantha
Kavin Berger
Yellow
Nosaj (-14 or -7 HP, Prone)

Milling around not unlike the swarm of Snapjaws, ineffectual and impatient and irrevocably irritated at repeatedly being referred to (or even inferred to) as a "thing" - our mechanical mobile hero shakes with barely restrained frustration, wheeling to and fro towards the choke point, running into legs and backs, rebuffed, gyrating with the outward expression of a complex emotion refracted through the reductive reference of a trinary "language" consisting of about three different base sounds stressed to great nuance but ultimately lost in translation brooking over the insipidly primitive intellect of tone-deaf carbon-based humanoids!

"Tweet! Tweeet!! BeEEP!!!"

Samantha does her best to patch up the Professor's wounds just in case, before drawing another Bola and tossing it as well, this time, targetting purple, hoping that knocking it prone will hasten its demise.

battle medicine DC 15: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
crit healing: 4d8 ⇒ (7, 5, 2, 4) = 18

ranged trip vs purple reflex: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 9 - 2 = 13

The Purple Snapjaw seems to have nine lives, as it nimbly dodges the Bola while maintaining its grip on the Professor.

Kavin starts up a drinking song with lots of gusto. The general theme is of busting heads and shouting a refrain of “Another one down!”

He then decides that the whip wielding contraption is a nuisance. He casts his spell. “Yo! Yer moving too fast! Slow down!”

Inspire Courage
Cast Slow on Prefect, DC 21 Fort

"You know, maybe that thing sickened me after all," says Teki, making faux retching noises that sound a bit like a cat hacking up a hair ball.

"Ack, ack....BLEEEEUUCCCCCHHH!"

Out from her mouth spews tiny vermin with tiny screwdrivers and drills to attack the nasty boxy things and their even nastier guy with a whip.

◈◈ Vomit Swarm
Piercing Damage: 2d8 ⇒ (6, 1) = 7

DC 19 basic Reflex saves, please!

◈ Then she dances out of the way to make room for a fighty type of person to move in. Or one of the bitey boxy things if they are really that stupid to come in where enemies might surround them.

Prefect attempts the Fortitude save. If I read Kavin's sheet right, the DC is 21

Fortitude save: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

And fails badly, but not critically

Very nice on the slow!

Tiger points his crossbow at Purple and fires.

Hand Crossbow vs Purple: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Potential Piercing: 1d6 ⇒ 1

He puts his crossbow away and assumes a combat stance.

◆ Crossbow attack
◆ Interact (put crossbow away)
◆ Stoked Flame Stance

The tiny vermin use their tools to dismantle Purple, and the Purple Snapjaw is left in pieces on the floor. The rest of the enemies take minor damage.

Tiger fires his crossbow at Green, since Purple went down, and just barely hits with the Inspiration from Kavin.

The Yellow Snapjaw moves into the gap and snaps at prone Nosaj
Jaws attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
Piercing damage plus Grab: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
The Snapjaw injects poison into Nosaj
DC 17 Fortitude save or take Poison damage and move into Stage 1
Poison damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

◆ Stride
◆ Strike
◆ Grab
I assume Nosaj would have used his shield block against the first attack from Prefect, so it would not be available to use against the Snapjaw

Round 2 -3

Bold may act

Purple (-23 HP)
Professor Serj (Inspire Courage)
Blue
Red (-3 HP)
Prefect (-3 HP, Slowed 1)
Green (-4 HP)
Loong Laohu
Teki (-3 HP, Inspire Courage)
Samantha(Inspire Courage)
Kavin Berger
Yellow (-3 HP)
Nosaj (-21 or -14 HP, Prone, DC 17 Fort Save or 2 Poison damage, Grabbed, Inspire Courage)

If Nosaj's header is correct and he's used both of his Hero Points so far, Teki offers her campaign coin Hero Point towards Nosaj's Fortitude Save, should Nosaj need to reroll.

I've updated Nosaj's header. Forgot that we started with 2 Hero Points. I've also added the HPs for the tower shield. Might be useful at some point. Thanks to Teki for the offer.

Not again! thinks Nosaj as soon as he receives another whiplash. He blocks again the hit with his shield but it doesn't prevent him from being knocked down.

I find this game less and less amusing! he ponders to himself.

While he was eating the dust, he just had time to see one of the tiny walking tin can getting closer and gnawing his arm.

"Ouch!"

He quickly expresses a short prayer to his goddess (and it's not Teki ;))

"Milani! Please help me resist the poison of this infernal steel vermin!"

Fortitude: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

Nosaj barely notices anything.
"Thank you, Milani!"

When it's master presses another button, several metal stints protrude forth from our mechanical mobile hero's single cylindrical tread, fanning out radially, and it thrusts itself forward, trying to barrel through the crowded choke point like a cartwheeling steel starfish!

Tumble Through (Acrobatics, Trained) vs Reflex DC (??) of Snapjaws: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Tumble Through (Acrobatics, Trained) vs Reflex DC (??) of Snapjaws: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Hero Point!
Tumble Through (Acrobatics, Trained) vs Reflex DC (??) of Snapjaws: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

◆◆) Tumble Through x2

"Beep! Beep!! CHIRP!!!"

◆) Command Bull Market
◆) Raise a Shield (to AC 22)
◆) Strike
+
↺) Shield Block (5 hardness, 17/20 HP)

Inspired (+1/+1) Flickmace (Blunt, Reach) w/ Overclock (+3) vs Prefect: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 7 + 1 = 111d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 1 = 11

"Two can play at that game!" crossing Overclocked Flickmace vs Electro Whip "You seem to be of a different make and model entirely, surely, your function is not to exterminate rodents!" quipping a little, his mace crashing into the ground sending chunks of the cave floor flying "How long has it been? Tell me!"

Teki is rather serene about people praying to other gods... after all, she's not in official standing yet to offer divine perks to her worshippers.

Did you take all three of your actions, Nosaj?

I haven't taken any action yet. I was just thinking about the strategy and rolled the Fort save.

Okay, I guess there is no point in me standing up again if it's for falling again in a few seconds! thinks Nosaj.

While still being prone, Nosaj embraces his tower shield with both hands, raises it above his head and then takes cover behind it to reduce his chance to get hit by the electrowhip.

I expect that more is coming!!

◆ Everstand stance (shield hardness +2)
◆ Raise a Shield (+2 AC)
◆ Take cover (+2 AC)

Nosaj's AC is now 25 and his tower shield's hardness 9.

I have a quandary to adjudicate. The Snapjaw's Reflex DC is 20, so even with the Hero Point, only one of Bull Market's Tumble Through attempts is a success. Based on one success and one failure, I have put Bull Market in an unoccupied square past the first Snapjaw (Yellow)

↺) As Bull Market comes in through the door, Prefect takes an Attack of Opportunity.

electrowhip: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
(disarm, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet, trip),
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 electricity plus Knockdown if the target is wearing metal armor
Since there is no Opportunity for another action, no Knockdown on Bull Market

Professor Serj's Flickmace goes wide of its target

Prefect responds to Professor Serj, in common
Accurate methods to measure time are not available. I cannot tell how long it has been, but regardless of time, you are intruders in the place I am designated to guard.

Blue moves through Yellow's space and Attacks Nosaj

◆ Stride

◆ Strike
jaws: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 piercing plus Grab

Misses, and tries to strike again

◆ Strike
jaws: 1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (5) + 9 - 5 = 9
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 piercing plus Grab

Green Attacks Bull Market
◆ Strike
jaws: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 piercing plus Grab

◆ Grab
No third action, since it has Bull Market Grabbed

Red moves to attacks Bull Market
◆ Stride

◆ Strike
jaws: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 piercing plus Grab

◆ Grab
No third action, since it has Bull Market Grabbed

Prefect attacks Nosaj again
◆ Strike
electrowhip: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
(disarm, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet, trip),
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 electricity plus Knockdown if the target is wearing metal armor
I assume Nosaj uses Shield Block to reduce 9 of this damage, so taking 5 damage

◆ Strike
electrowhip: 1d20 + 12 - 5 ⇒ (20) + 12 - 5 = 27
(disarm, finesse, magical, reach 10 feet, trip),
Damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 electricity plus Knockdown if the target is wearing metal armor
Natural 20 for a Crit, since the 27 would hit normally. 24 damage

Round 3

Bold may act

Purple (-23 HP)
Professor Serj Bull Market (-21 HP, Grabbed by Green and Red)
Blue
Red (-3 HP)
Prefect (-3 HP, Slowed 1)
Green (-4 HP)
Loong Laohu
Teki (-3 HP, Inspire Courage)
Samantha(Inspire Courage)
Kavin Berger
Yellow (-3 HP)
Nosaj (-43 HP, Prone, Grabbed)

"You can talk? Do you realize that you have missed the opportunity to have an epic rap battle with a future deity?" Teki shakes her head at the Prefect's missed opportunities. "Your masters, whomever they are, are long gone. Sure you don't want to join the Pathfinder Society instead? We love relics, and are tons less uptight than the Azlanti."

Meanwhile, she looks to Nosaj. "I may not be the Goddess you worship, but I'm the one you got!" She calls on her divine power to heal her friend. "If I ever get to have Champions, I hope I get one like you. Only maybe more gobliny."

◈ Lay on Hands
◈◈ Soothe

Soothe: 2d10 + 8 ⇒ (2, 5) + 8 = 15

She heals Nosaj for 27 points.

Kavin continues his drinking song.

Between verses, he uses some more of his magic to help Nosaj. “Here, this should provide you some protection.” Kavin taps the knight on the shoulder and suddenly their true position is concealed by an aura surrounding them,

Inspire Courage
Blur on Nosaj, they become concealed.

Round 3

Bold may act

Purple (-23 HP)
Professor Serj Bull Market (-21 HP, Grabbed by Green and Red) (Inspire Courage)
Blue
Red (-3 HP)
Prefect (-3 HP, Slowed 1)
Green (-4 HP)
Loong Laohu (Inspire Courage)
Teki (-3 HP, Inspire Courage)
Samantha(Inspire Courage)
Kavin Berger
Yellow (-3 HP)
Nosaj (-16 HP, Prone, Grabbed, Concealed/Blurred, Turtle)

Battered and sparking, Bull Market curses at the Prefect, turning around in confused circles, it's interior gyro thrown askew!

"Chirp! Chirrup!!"

Even though Nosaj's AC is now 25, he is still flat-footed from being prone, so the attack from Blue would not miss, not by much though. And he won't block it as he expects the attack from Prefect.
So I guess he will take -7HP in addition to being grabbed by Blue. Is he still being grabbed by Yellow?

Lying on the ground, being grabbed by two small metal dogs, battered, shocked by the electric whiplash, Nosaj finds that it's taking too long for the best fighters of the group to go on the offensive.
"Samantha, Tiger, I think the moment has come for you to shine. Milani desires it!"
He adds: " I don't know how long I or my shield will last. So be bold and Milani will protect you!"
" And remember: the best defense is a good offense!"

Yellow has you grabbed until the end of its turn, which is after this block of PCs. Blue would have Grabbed if it hit on the first strike, so yes, you are as double Grabbed as Bull Market. Oddly enough, this is all straight out of the tactics for these things, so I guess they can work?

If that hit, it was the first strike from that Snapjaw, so how about that DC 17 Fortitude save for the Poison?

Teki loans the campaign coin on a missed save.

Tiger strikes thrice at Purple then takes a step back

Flashing Spark 1, IC: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 1 = 17
Flashing Spark 2, MAP, IC: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 = 6
Flashing Spark Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Flashing Spark 3, MAP 2, IC: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Flashing Spark Damage, Forceful: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

◆ Flurry of Blows
◆ Flashing Spark Attack
◆ Step