GM El Bruno's Broken Chains (Inactive)

Game Master Bruno Romero

perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26

"I looking through papers, find the slave ring's debt lowered to almost nothing, thanks to no needing to pay anything in the "Healing & Restoring" account since moved to here hideout!" the shifter says.

“So they got a deal with that Lamashtu priest? Wonder what the catch was.”

"Taking 10 percent of the slaves off the top for human sacrifices? good gods these profit margins i thought we were making good on silk...."

..." but that would be wrong..."

“Very wrong.”

Knowledge (arcana) DC 20: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16 +4 if related to duergar (not likely, haha, but it is a bonus I have!)

Tenibri looks at the scene a little bit befuddled. He knew he was missing something, but that's the problem with the things you miss; you don't know what they are!

Arcana: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (5) + 16 = 21

"It seems to be a stone of alarm."

The pathfinders seem to have cleared out this place - only two ways are available: continuing through the door (salmon) or doubling back and going the other way (green).

"We'd have to donate to the church of saranrae level wrong or.. oh.. finnnne... "

1 salmon 2 hideous green : 1d2 ⇒ 1

"Let me go first and we'll hope we either ARE upper management or we can talk to them at this point... "

Ejtehah nods at the new Gnawpearl with an uneasy expression.

I still can’t get used to this face stealing!! he thinks.

"Gnarlpaw" advances deeper into the compound, finding more slaves cages filled to the brim with the dillated gazes of slaves looking off into the sky.

"He" immediately finds four more slavers: one gnoll and three human. The gnoll speaks in Common and Gnoll, saying-"Rascarrera! How fares the front?"-clearly having heard the fuzz in the entrance and assuming melee broke out. One of the slavers, the first female you've seen after Fayaz, says-"We're getting the latest batch of Lamashtu's chosen ready for evacuation, or regrouping deeper into the temple. If the Twilight Talons find us, we can only fend them off in the temple."-tossing her jet black hair back and reaccomodating it.

The slaver senses something is off, and her slanted brown eyes narrow down on this "Gnarlpaw" for just a moment, but she dismisses it and wipes some dust off her eyelids to play it off.

"It goes badly for Rascarrera. It's not the talons. It's another pack of slavers. The briar whips were eaten by our group. Now they are the eaten. These have shown they are stronger. They will take the same deal. Or do we kill them and do our own hunting? This could not happen at a worse time... "

bluff: 1d220 + 21 ⇒ (9) + 21 = 30

I mean, do your slavers as a front for an evil god ever get murdered at a good time?

smrt: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

At "Gnarlpaw"'s question, once again the same female slaver responds-"Not possible - buying the silence of Fayaz and Tinderwick was much too difficult to do, and we can't take a gamble on a newcomer pack of slavers. We're not really good diplomats, you and I, so let's retreat and wait for further instructions."-motioning Gnarlpaw to follow the group as she directs a group of slaves to exit their cages and form a line.

"I will tell them to come back tomorrow. That should get them out from under tail for now "

If possible lotus will head back into the next room " COME BACK TOMORROW we have much to think about . I THINK we found her? or her twin or her doppleganger or her clone or..someone doing the same thing we are to ruin her reputation. Honestly even money either way for pathfinders... "

Lotus is fine if that starts the fight

Tenibri remains out of sight, listening intently to the conversation to see if he needs to jump into action yet or not.

The slavers give an odd look towards Gnarlpaw, but assume his usual crazyness is behind his behaviour. The slaver then adds-"Very well, Gnarlpaw, let's leave them to their deliberation of mercy while we escape!"

"go go go, she's moving slaves into the temple, we need her ALIVE if we want to figure out whats going on and we probably don't want to drag the slaves out of the temple " she gives an I'm watching hand signal to Tenibri and Ejtehah

Realizing that ‘Gnarlpaw’ wants support, ‘Akila’ casts her fiery shuriken spell.

If there isn’t a surprise round, she would also move up to where she can barely see one of the enemies.

With Betty's casting of a spell, the slavers perk up and get ready for battle, hearing the invaders have reached them! One of the slavers yells-"They're here! Gnarlpaw, you take the slaves! We'll hold them off!"-getting their weapons ready.

Combat! Round 1
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Awkin, Lotus
Othine, Slaver Blue, Slaver Red, Slaver Green
Tenibri, Betty, Ejtehah

Awkin and Lotus are up!

"MOVE IT SHEEP! Slowest BLEATER GOES TO THE WOLVES TONIGHT... "

Lotus will move into the room and try to start leading the slaves to the north, really reallly hoping you can take a left there and that we're not supposed to squeeze through that tiny crack down south...

Awkin will inspire the group and cast divine favor on Cat.

Inspire courage: Allies receives a +2 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +2 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls.

Flagbearer: +2 morale bonus on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, and saving throws against fear and charm effects.

Tries to keep her tail from twitching in time to the music

As the group makes their advance forward, Ejtehah is the first to lay eyes on the four individuals, not being able to see "Gnarlpaw" directly. Suddenly, the woman standing amidst the slavers bolts forward, pulling out her sword and pointing it towards the three male slavers. She declares-"End of the line, three-eyed jackals! Only ones willing to jump this deep into the compound are my fellow 'finders, and you're outnumbered!"-nodding towards Ejtehah and noting the shadows casting over him.

She dodges one of the whip attacks headed her way, as one of the slavers yells-"Traitor! Thought Tinderwick had wiped you clean!"-frustrated by Othine's play. The Pathfinder comments to Ejtehah-"Name's Othine, but I guess you already knew that. These thugs are not the priority - you just missed the crazy gnoll priest! If anyone's fast enough or has range, get him!"-pointing towards the corridor on her left.

Combat! Round 1
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Awkin, Lotus
Othine Dalanse
Slaver Blue, Slaver Red, Slaver Green
Tenibri, Betty, Ejtehah

Combat! Round 2
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Awkin, Lotus

Everyone is up!

Lotus has NO idea whats going on back there, but it looks like somewhere You could get hurt. Lotus heads north and hangs a left , taking a look around at the new area but leading the slaves back to the pens instead of over to the temple.

She IS however away from the pathfinders and can't help but count this many slaves at 25 gold a pop and the market right up there....

Betty moves up and points at the gnoll in the room. “Git that one thar, Ejtehah!” pointing directly towards Blue.

Sense Motive, Othine: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

She gives Othine a look over, then aims her gun at green.

Assuming that she trusts Othine…will risk the AoO if she isn’t on our side.
She fires her gun at Green, then fires off one of the fiery shuriken at them as well.
Billy +1 pistol, PBS, Awkin: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 1 + 4 = 33 Potential crit!
Damage, PBS, Awkin: 1d8 + 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 1 + 4 = 8

Fiery Shuriken, Awkin: 1d20 + 8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 4 = 15
Fire damage, Awkin: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Confirm Crit with Billy: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 8 + 1 + 4 = 29
Added damage: 3d8 + 18 ⇒ (4, 5, 1) + 18 = 28

Move, standard to shoot, swift for fiery shuriken

Ejtehah in his Deinonychus Hybrid form shouts, "You woman we find not escape… friends find you good we go home!! You tell secrets what happened!" she says to Othine.

He moves into the room and tries to slash the man in green clothing!

AC 32 and CMD 30 with fighting defensively and crane style.

He swiftly casts divine favor!

Swift action: 1 fervor to cast divine favor.
Attack with Crane Style -2 to hit plus luck bonus +2, +2 competence bonus and +2 morale bonus thanks to Awkin!!

Shifter Claw left, cold iron/silver : 1d20 + 6 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 9 = 281d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 6 = 18

“…or ya can jes ignore me.”

Tenibri bursts into the air, his shadowy form taking on an almost feathery fringe as he darts through the passage over everyone's head, coming to a landing on the other side to trap the three gnolls.

"That wasn't Gnarlpaw!" Tenibri shouts. "Gnarlpaw's dead; that's one of ours, leading the slaves to freedom!"

Facepaws. Andorans......

Did I misread the scene? Blargh I'm too trusting, aren't I?

I don’t think you misread the situation. I believe the reaction is to you giving the enemy information they didn’t need.

Love it!! ;-) That is exactly what happens in the movies! Fight for liberty!! :-D

"And the sheep are walking, we're walking awaaay from that, we're walking.... "

Betty's aim lines a perfect shot against the green-clothed thug, first throwing a shuriken at his leg to de-stabilize him, and finishing him off with a shot to the neck. His body lies limp on the ground, but his head lands near Tenibri's new position.

With the green thug taken care of, Ejtehah moves forward and slashes towards the blue-clothed gnoll, leaving a deep gash on his forearm. The gnoll snarls, getting ready to fight back. Suddenly, however, the red-clothed thug tries to hit his ally over the head with his club! The gnoll dodges, and retaliates in full to his previous ally, yelling-"Traitors! The lot of you! Should've seen it coming!". Othine takes the advantage to finish off the slaver clad in red, but swings too wide and the slaver dodges.

Just to be clear, as double-crossing has been the theme of this dungeon, red attacked blue because of Awkin's murderous command lol

Combat! Round 2
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Awkin, Lotus
Othine Dalanse
Slaver Blue (-18), Slaver Red (-6)
Tenibri, Betty, Ejtehah

Everyone is up!

Betty reloads her gun and fires at Ref through Othine and Ejtehah. She also releases another of the fiery shuriken at the same target.
Billy +1 pistol, PBS, Awkin: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 8 + 1 + 4 = 23
damage, PBS, Awkin: 1d8 + 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 1 + 4 = 11

Shuriken, Awkin: 1d20 + 8 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 8 + 4 = 27
Fire damage, Awkin: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

He tears, bites and claws first into the slaver in red!

Full Attacks with Crane Style -2 to hit plus luck bonus +2, +2 competence bonus and +2 morale bonus thanks to Awkin!
AC 32 and CMD 30!

Bite: 1d20 + 6 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 8 = 251d8 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 6 = 15

Shifter Claw left, cold iron/silver : 1d20 + 6 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 9 = 161d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 6 = 16

Claw right, cold iron/silver: 1d20 + 6 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 9 = 281d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 6 = 15

Talon left : 1d20 + 6 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 8 = 231d8 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 6 = 20

Talon right : 1d20 + 6 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 6 + 8 = 291d8 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 6 = 20

I am totally confused but isn’t blue a Pathfinder?!?

Gnarlpaw Lotus and "Orchid" all appear opposite the gnoll Ejtehah is clawing, But ONLY to Ejtehah. Orchid and lotus have knives, Gnarlpaw gnashes with his sharp pointy teeth. Ejtehah get a +2 flanking bonus from the false flanker trick.

Gnarlpaw is going to otherwise keep herding the slaves away from whatever the heck is going on over there.

No, black is Othine (the Twilight Talon) we were to find and the false Gnarlclaw (Lotus) is herding the slaves away.

Tenibri moves forward--retrieving a wand as he goes--and stops just a few feet away from their foes. He unleashes a fan of flames from the wand, carefully planned to stop just before any fire hits Othine or Ejtehah.

The group absolutely decimates all remaining opponents - Betty takes down Blue in a combination of bullets and fiery shurikens, while Ejtehah mauls on the remaining slaver. Any hope of survival against both of these attacks are snuffed out when Tenibri finishes both of them in a fiery blaze, burning them to smitheerens.

Only ash remains inbetween the party, as Othine sheathes her sword and says-"Whispershade brought in the big guns, that's for sure. Thanks for coming, agents. We do not have much time. Are any of you hurt?"-pulling out a healing wand from her rags. Betty's analysis detects no lies or ill intentions

"ALRIGHT CATTLE. get a snack and some water and then mill about. I don't want you passing out on me. Just a little family scuffle seeing who's in charge. Happens all the time... "

"Gnarlpaw" will head back through the press and ick at whats left of the gnolls.

"Got the slaves, got the Pathfinder. Anyone so interested in attending a lamasthu..ish.. lamashtite Horror show of a service that we can't take our cattle and run?"

Ejtehah looks at the human woman.

“You not hurting good but what happens after now you telling also history book of here!!“ he says to her.

“Gotta admit, little confused m’self. Ain’t it more important ta git the people ta safety? What they doin’ that we gotta break it up now?”

"When we get to the bar I'll need a full description of what the conditioning was and how you resisted it. Not the time to relieve the trauma, but at some point I'm going to have a large number of minds to painstakingly re assemble. It should be.. interesting "

"Well, I think there are a few places down here that we haven't yet explored. It seems like we've got control of the place now; shall we see what's behind some of these doors? And there's a lot of places we moved through quickly because we were fighting; let's see what we missed." Blue stars on the map by everything I'm talking about.

Othine nods to the Pathfinders, but also replies-"Looking around is fine and all, but remember the cultists are currently finding a way to get away. Deeper in the temple you will find more slaves and the actual heads running the operation."-she says cleaning blood off her sword.

With a determined look she adds-"As a Twilight Falcon, I can't leave with just half of the slaves. I implore you to aid me in clearing out the temple after looking around."

Ejtehah nods.

"Good. You moving and follow you we." he says and steps right behind her.

"Great. Lets get me some MORE work to do. That amateur was smashing vases you want me to put them back together like its the same thing and its not you...argh.... [b]"ALRIGHT we're getting you sheep religion. The one of you that praises the mother least is on the altar slash menu. Same foot at the same time... "

Betty nods her understanding. “More slaves in temple. Got it!”

She is ready to raid the temple. She will keep half an eye on Othine. The Twilight Talon has gone through a lot, need to be wary.
Asking to be given a Sense Motive when appropriate, detect if Othine suddenly switches sides.