[PFS_CORE_Aerondor] 05-07 Port Godless (5-9) HIGH TIER (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

As the debate about going downstairs continues Pietro kicks a door on the south side of the room in.

Str check (enlarged): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22

"OOPSEY. I GUESS I DON'T KNOW MY OWN STRENGTH." lies the giant, trying to hide his smile.

Irizati makes a strange sound and then after a moment changes to human.

He points toward the cabinet with food.

"Some food for the prisoners in there. I can of course choose to be smaller. As for Baloo there is in fact a spell to shrink animals."

Irizati casts Reduce Animal on Baloo.

"Anything we need to discuss while I can talk?"

Grog leads the team down stairs.

Downstairs, it is surprisingly roomy, if slightly unpleasantly scented.

The rooms are carved into the sedimentary bedrock. The ceilings the room is reinforced with wooden support beams. Everburning torches line the walls, providing normal light throughout the area.

A single long, lonely stair reaches down into from this room from the upper floor. Near the center of the room stands a broad wooden table surrounded by several chairs. A wooden bucket, a set of brushes, and a canvas kit of some kind rest next to an iron ring affixed to the wall and threaded with a set of manacles. Two passageways lead away from this room, both lined with small
wooden doors on either side.

A guard sits sleeping in the southern corner of the room.

"Not unless you the perspicacity to discern insight into what is transpiring here. Daemon summoning and soul gems signifies something nefarious, but any details would be useful."

Irizati makes a strange sound and then after a moment changes to human.

He points toward the cabinet with food.

"Some food for the prisoners in there. I can of course choose to be smaller. As for Baloo there is in fact a spell to shrink animals."

Irizati casts Reduce Animal on Baloo.

"Anything we need to discuss while I can talk?"

"WAIT. YOU'RE THE DRUID?" asks the surprised cleric.

Grog walks over to the guard and grabs his weapon, then taps him with his axe just enough to wake him up.

"We're here for prisoner transfers bub!"

Grog smiles and holds his axe. "Now where's the keys?"

As the debate about going downstairs continues Pietro kicks a door on the south side of the room in.

[dice=Str check (enlarged)]1d20+12

"OOPSEY. I GUESS I DON'T KNOW MY OWN STRENGTH." lies the giant, trying to hide his smile.

Does Pietro see what's inside?

Pietro kicks open a door while the others prepare to head down stairs.

The nearly square room contains eight busts of men and women of Garundi and Mwangi ethnicities.

Meanwhile downstairs, Grog wakes the snoozing guard. "Huh?" he grunts.

Feel free to try either a bluff if you want to actually fool him, or an intimidate if you just want to scare him into providing keys.

Grumpily, Silgil responds, "Keys. We just need the keys."

"The boss has the keys..." he murmurs.

"HM. HEADS. I SUPPOSE IT WILL BE TAILS THOUGH THAT ONE." Pietro says nodding to the door to the north. He produces his big wand and gives himself a couple of taps.

wand of cure light wounds v self: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (1, 6, 1) + 3 = 11

"No matter. We can just rip the place down."

Probably.

Silgil swings on over to the southern corridor and takes a look in the cells and whatever.

The doors are all solidly locked. If you call out you can hear quiet sobs, or sometimes the rattle of chains from within.

Status,
Silgil -
Grog
Irizati.
Baloo; ;
Demons
Pietro 6 damage;

Pietro I assume you are downstairs with the others nows?

Pietro I assume you are downstairs with the others nows?

I suppose you could assume that, but he hasn't gone down yet that I know of. I thought we were waiting upstairs while Grog scouted downstairs. Pietro was gonna smash in the the north door after the wizard and the kitties had a look about the south.

Um. *CRASH!?*

Str check v north door(?) (enlarged, Str surge): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25

Well, Grog and Silgil are downstairs with the guard. The sounds heard are from the downstairs doors, not the upstairs ones which are silent.

Irizati you up or down?

Time elapsed since first entry... five minutes.

Pietro smashes in another door, which leads to a hallway.

"Where's the boss!?" Grog shouts at the guard and blares his fangs.

intimidate: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Irizati changes into a leopard and follows downstairs.

"HAH! WHAT DO YOU KNOW A HALLWAY LARGE ENOUGH FOR MOST OF US TO STAND IN." says Pietro unknowingly to himself.

"YOU KNOW I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MADE A FIRST-CLASS ROGUE, GUYS-. GUYS?" Pietro flattens himself out of sight from the new hall's doorways waiting to see if anyone emerges.

"WELL WHEREVER THEY ARE I HOPE THEY REMEMBER THEY ARE DRESSED AS OFFICERS OF THE LAW AND COMPORT ACCORDINGLY AND NOT BRING SHAME UPON THE CORPS."

Anything special, he can see about the doors in the hall (bars, nameplates, etc...)? If not, Pietro waits patiently, out of sight for a little while in the grand hall, ready to drive the first person or thing though the broken door through the floor like a railway spike with his morningstar.

The guard, weaponless and somewhat surrounded doesn't appear that phased by Grogs teeth. But...

"She is down that way... " he eventually admits, pointing north.

Meanwhile upstairs Pietro faces off against four doors, three of them locked, and one leading toward the corridor he saw the rest of the team vanishing down earlier.

The guard, weaponless and somewhat surrounded doesn't appear that phased by Grogs teeth. But...

"She is down that way... " he eventually admits, pointing north.

does have guy have weapons?

if so He'll take the sword or what ever. If the guy reaches for it. He'll knock him out. I can try and punch him. I have Improved unarmed strike

Meanwhile upstairs Pietro faces off against four doors, three of them locked, and one leading toward the corridor he saw the rest of the team vanishing down earlier.

When no one comes out Pietro looks the three doors opposite him over and considers his choices.

"EENIE MEENIE MINEY MO. CATCH A DRUID BY THE TOE. IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO. EENIE MEENIE MINEY MO."

Str Check v central door (enlarged, Str surge): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26

Silgil notices that the boisterous Pietro has not joined them. Though, it is quite clear he is OK as his voice carries down the stairwell at a nice moderate decibel level and he decides not to mention anything. Leave well enough alone, as they say.

"I'll check it out."

Silgil returns from the east corridor and trudges in the direction indicated by the guard until he gets to the side passage.

You removed his weapons while he was sleeping.

He had a flail, a sap and a crossbow.

From up the stairs, the rest of the team hears the sound of Pietro picking on more defenseless doors.

The most recently mauled portal shows a small office with a desk and lots of ledgers.

"Hm? No windows...." Pietro looks around to see how an occupant would see.

Casting light on his morningstar if necessary.

Assuming nothing seems out of sorts he takes a moment to look around praying for guidance first since he's not really clear about what he should be looking for.

perception (heroism, guidance): 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 11

There are some wall mounted oil lamps, that Pietro could probably light, but a spell works just as well.

How long are you searching? You suspect it would take an hour to do a moderately thorough search of the office.

Grog turns to Silgil. "Let's find the boss." and heads to the direction the guard pointed.

There are some wall mounted oil lamps, that Pietro could probably light, but a spell works just as well.

How long are you searching? You suspect it would take an hour to do a moderately thorough search of the office.

Spell light it is! And that's too long.

Pietro pulls his pumpkin-sized head out of the room and after a moment of debate featuring the words "My mother told me to pick this one." Pietro disables the lock on the eastern door by kicking the door off it's hinges.

Str check (enlarged, Str surge): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

Again, Pietro is surprised how easy the job of being a thief must be.

As Pietro continues his destruction of upstairs office space ..
We'll give the others a couple of rounds to catch up here

Grog heads down the cell filled corridor. There is another corridor that branches off to the right, with stairs that lead downward to some type of chamber that appears at first glance to have torture equipment in it. The faint sound of whimpering can be heard from there.

As Pietro continues his destruction of upstairs office space ..

We'll give the others a couple of rounds to catch up here

Honestly he is a bit worried for the others. They should know better than wandering off on their own during an adventure! ;)

Silgil wanders down the corridor, peering into cells as he goes.

Assuming they are not solid doors or something :) I've moved Grog's icon into the corridor with Silgil.

Yeap, those doors are solid. Likely some type of feeding or viewing slot in the door. Most of the cells are occupied by assorted people.

Since he is unable to open the doors, Silgil tries to peer into the slots in the doors.

As noted, there appear to be prisoners in many of the cells. They shrink away from what little light spills through the door flap that Silgil opens to look inside.

As noted, there appear to be prisoners in many of the cells. They shrink away from what little light spills through the door flap that Silgil opens to look inside.

does Grog see where the boss is?

Well, there is a big chamber down the bottom. No sign of a boss down there, but you can't see the whole thing.

Probably because the real 'boss' is still upstairs. XD

"WELL, THAT LOOKS NICE AND BREAKABLE."

To be clear, you have not looked at the room as a whole, just the thin strip down the middle you can see from where you are.

Pietro lifts up a file of papers. Lots of words. So. Many. Words. He needs a drink.

Fortunately it is within his clerical powers to be self-marinating.

When time catches up to him he wanders over to the last door and batters it open.

Grog heads down the hallway and looks for the boss. He eyes one of the prisoners. "Hang on..you'll be out shortly"

Grog slowly advances down into the horrid room.

The bright lighting in this wide chamber highlights the gruesome experiments and tortures performed within. Several broad tables have manacles affixed to either end to restrain struggling subjects, and dark, sticky residue cakes a pair of broad stone basins. Along the north wall stand four stone statues of ghastly figures whose expressions suggest they delight in what they see.

Of course that is when the &%$#! hits the fan as a multi-armed red creature appears in the room.

init blue: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
init red: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Status, Init, roll, if you beat a 13 you may act.
Silgil -
Grog
Irizati.
Baloo; ;
Pietro 6 damage;
RED -init 13

Upstairs Pietro wantonly blesses a table, and his mouth, with some holy water. Wait... is that sound echoing up the stairs from below?

init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Silgil is busy, busy, frightfully busy.

What's the guard RED? Doing behind us?

Int: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Knowledge planes: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

another +4 if evil outsider

Grog pauses at the doorway.

"What in the Nine Hells is that thing?!" He looks behind him and sees the cleric's not there. "Hey BIG GUY GET your butt DOWN HERE! PRONTO!" he shouts.

initiative: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

About how high are the ceilings in that room? And is the floor worked stone?

Meanwhile, in the quiet upstairs office...

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

♪♫ "Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time." ♪♫

Papers. *sigh*

Grog is unclear what the guard is currently doing. From the last look on his face, likely high-tailing it.

The whole basement is worked stone, this is no natural cavern, but a well structured area.

Status, Init, roll, if you beat a 13 you may act.
Irizati.
Baloo; ;
RED -init 13
Silgil -
Grog
Pietro 6 damage;

My bad! Initiative: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (13) - 1 = 12

Irizati has Baloo double move to distract the creature while he steps forward and begins a summon.

Still need to know the ceiling height. Some summons are huge.

Lets go with a 15' ceiling height. It's a big room
Baloo rolls forward. The creature in red seems delighted to have a handy adversary to go to town on. Four arms with four wicked claws strike out at the brave bear.
attacks vs AC 28: 5d20 ⇒ (3, 15, 8, 15, 12) = 53
damage: 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (1, 2) + 6 = 9

However the bears impressive defences seem to save him from the worst of the attacks.

Status, bold may post
Silgil -
Grog
Pietro 6 damage;
Irizati. summoning
Baloo; ; 9 damage
RED -init 13

Tiger not bear. Baloo's AC went up to 35 from being reduced if it matters. Where can I find the chart for scaling damage dice due to size?

Tiger not bear.

Baloo's AC went up to 35 from being reduced if it matters. Where can I find the chart for scaling damage dice due to size?

HERE! This is just one of those bear (and tiger too!) necessities.

Where's our new buddy, Gerard?

If the time jump has--err, jumped, Pietro kicks in the last door (the one with the CR 12 doorplate) in the side hall (even if he hears a commotion downstairs) realizing he only has a few minutes of giant size and strength and that it would slow him to the point that he would be arriving late to be of any immediate use downstairs.

POW! (enlarged, Str surge): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28