Jade Regent, the Unexpected Journey

Game Master karlprosek

Winsome gulps as he is addressed by the vicious tengu. Shaking slightly, he draws out another stack of gold coins and casts his spell on them again. He throws the one on the top of the stack at Kikonu.

He casts coin shot again on three more coins, drawing upon his arcane reservoir to increase the spell's potency.

Ranged touch attack (coin shot), masterwork: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 = 17
Coin shot (bludgeoning, magic, piercing): 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Kikonu glares at Winsome as another coin strikes, his red eyes burn into the arcanist like the embers of a fire. He begins to whirl his weapon, a metal ball attached to a sickle by a 10 foot chain, around his head as he launched himself into the air to attack Zaiobe. The metal ball smashes into Zaiobe's side causing her to wince in pain.
Attack roll: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
Damage: 1d3 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Kikonu's sudden departure triggers AoO's from Byron, Hattori, Kelda, and Lyraesel.

Kelda swings her sword at the "tengu" just as he leaps into the air, and her blade slices through empty air where Kikonu had been standing only seconds ago.
Attack roll (Kelda) (raging): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

After we finish these AoO's everyone can take their normal round actions. Just remember that Kikonu is currently hovering about 20' off the ground and is out of reach of everyone without a missile weapon.

AoO

Lyrasesl swings a vicious slash at the tengu as he takes to the air, trying to tear deeper into the enemy.

Ironfang/Bull’s strength/Flank: 1d20 + 4 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 2 + 2 = 20
Cold Iron/Slashing: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 2 = 10

Byron tries to spear the creature again.

AoO attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

AoO damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Naginata AoO: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Naginata AoO damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

As Kikonu takes to the air despite thier attacks, Lyraesel quickly snarls a druidic invocation, taking a wicked looking thorn from a pouch on her hip and magically extending it to the size of a javelin.

Cast Thorn Javelin (Duration 3 mins)

With not much else to do at the moment, Adrian uses his full action to reload his crossbow in anticipation of his next shot.

Zaraleva scowls at the evil son of a devil and loads and fires again.
Crossbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 191d8 ⇒ 3

As Kikonu takes to the air a flurry of blows from Byron, Lyraesel, and Hattori almost take him down but he manages to get airborne as he focuses his rage at Zaiobe, ignoring the others around him.

Focused as he is on his former lover he ignores Zaraleva's crossbow bolt as it lodges in his back, between his wings.

Adrian spans and loads his heavy crossbow ready to take aim at the Oni as it circles about overhead.

Lyraesel draws a plant's thorn from her pouch and, as she casts a spell on it, the thorn grows in size, ready to be wielded as a weapon.

Round #1 Initiative
Winsome
Kikonu
Hattori
Zaraleva
Lyraesel
Adrian
Byron
Zaiobe
Kelda

Round #2
Winsome

Aiko posts her naginata and sends a shuriken winging upward toward the tengu.

Shuriken attack, range: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 5 - 2 = 14

I presume that's a miss.

Also note, I'm using the family name-personal name format, so this character's personal name is Aiko, and her family name is Hattori.

Byron curses and drops his long spear. He draws a heavy crossbow and begins cranking it to load.

Free action to drop and then draw a heavy crossbow and begin loading it.

Aiko drops her naginata and draws a shuriken from her sash. She throws it at the Oni only to have it harmlessly bounce of it's leather armor.

Byron draws his crossbow and begins cranking it back to load.

Zaiobe flies back 5' to get out of range of Kikonu's kusarigama. She draws two arrows which immediately burst into flame and fires them at her former lover. Kikonu swoops to the side as both arrows pass over his head.
Attack roll #1: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15
Attack roll #2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Kelda's longsword clatters on the stones as she draws a javelin from it's quiver on her back and launches it at Kikonu, but she is unable to strike the dodging Oni.
Attack roll (raging): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

Initiative Round #2
Winsome
Kikonu
Hattori
Zaraleva
Lyraesel
Adrian
Byron
Zaiobe
Kelda

Winsome moves closer and throws another coin at the angry tengu.

Ranged touch attack (coin shot), masterwork: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 = 6
Coin shot (bludgeoning, magic, piercing): 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Aiko misses again.

Byron finishes loading the crossbow and studies his target.

Finish the full round action to load and use my move action to Studied Target on Kikonu.

Growling in annoyance at the enemy being out of reach of her physical attacks, Lyraesel hurls the natural javelin, another appearing in her hand even before the poorly aimed attack sails under her target.

Thorn Javelin: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Thorn Javelin/Bull's Strength: 1d6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 2 = 5

Winsome coin sails wide of it's target as Kikonu keeps swooping and diving to avoid attacks.

"You've made a mockery of my love for you and for that you must pay" Kikonu growls at the harpy as he whirls his weapon around and around before lashing out at Zaiobe once again. The metal ball slams into Zaiobe's side causing her to flinch in pain which, ironically, causes Kikonu's second attack to completely miss her.
Attack roll #1: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
Attack roll #2: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Damage: 1d3 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Aiko throws another shuriken at the Oni only to have it miss the cavorting tengu.

Byron takes a deep breath and sights Kikonu, he waits patiently to loose his bolt as he sizes up his opponent.

Lyraesel 's magicked thorn sails low as Kikonu flies up to attack Zaiobe

Initiative Round #2
Winsome
Kikonu
Hattori
Zaraleva
Lyraesel
Adrian
Byron
Zaiobe
Kelda

Zaiobe wasn't looking too hot right now. And no one seems to be able to hit from afar. The best he could do right now was hope his next shot would land.

Heavy crossbow: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Damage: 1d10 ⇒ 7

[whispering to Byron as best as possible]"Make sure your 'familiar' stays within 30' of me in case we need to do the thing." She looks at him with a sideways glance and then looks up at the battle in the air. Hopefully Byron gets it and Kikonu doesn't.

She then fires at the boss monster. Or where she thought he might be, which he wasn't. I need to tune up this crossbow.
Crossbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 131d8 ⇒ 6

Adrian fires his crossbow at Kikonu and the bolt whizzes just past the Oni's ear, causing him to turn and glare at Adrian with pure, unadulterated hate.

Zaraleva stares at her crossbow in disbelief unable to fathom how she could've missed such a large target.

Distracted by Adrian's near miss, Kikonu zigs when he should have zagged and both of Zaiobe's arrows find their target, one in each of Kikonu's wing's shoulder joints, causing the Oni to crash to the cobblestones below where he lies motionless.
Attack roll #1: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24
Attack roll #2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Damage (flaming): 2d8 + 4 + 2d6 ⇒ (4, 6) + 4 + (3, 4) = 21

Kelda, ready to launch her javelin at Kikonu, pauses as he lands, lifelessly, on the battlement before her. Wordlessly, she jams the point of her spear into the birdman's chest piercing his heart. Removing the javelin crimson arterial blood sprays across Kinkonu's ebony feather and his lungs gasp his final breath before he lies still.
Coup de Gras: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (3, 6) + 8 = 17
Fortitude save (DC:27): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Lyraesel resists the urge to howl in triumph as she watches Kelda's final strike, instead looking around for any sign of additional enemies drawn to the noise of battle.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Lyraesel's ears perk up and she swivels he head from side to side, listening. She hears nothing other than the wind sweeping over the battlements.

It wasn't a pretty fight, but they were able to get the job done in the end. That said, he couldn't hide a bit of disappointment as he walked up to the corpse. "I hope we could keep someone alive long enough to ask them what they want in this castle."

Aiko gestures to the mute harpy.

Looking over at Zaiobe at the same time that Aiko does, Lyraesel gives Adrian a baffled look before shaking her head and moving to check the tengu's corpse.

I will tend to your wounds. Please tell Byron your and his history.

Zaiobe continues flying as she ignores Zeraleva's offer to cure her and instead pulls a potion from her pouch and as she drinks it some of her wounds heal.
Cure Moderate Wounds: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (7, 2) + 3 = 12

She stares at Byron, making mental contact.

Byron shoots the crossbow at Zaiobe calling out to the others, "Double cross."

Initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Lyraesel growls, staring up at the harpy as she prepares to resume fighting.

Winsome blinks as he realizes what is going on. "But that's not fair!" he whines.

Initiative: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

"Wait...what? Why, Zaiobe?" She hasn't felt this betrayed since that boy stole her freshly picked mushrooms back in... No this is not the time for that!

Init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

Curse your sudden, but inevitable, betrayal!
Surprise round:
Initiative (Byron): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Initiative (Zaiobe): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Zaiobe cocks her head at Byron's shouted warning. "So be it!" echoes through his mind as Zaiobe begins to cast a spell. As she finishes a glowing, multicolored shield appears around her.

Byron, his crossbow already cocked and loaded, fires at the harpy. So concentrated is he on his target he ignores the flashing lights surrounding Zaiobe and strikes with a bolt that barely grazes her arm.
20% miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 90

Round #1
Initiative (Adrian): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Initiative (Aiko): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Initiative (Kelda): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

Initiative:
Winsome
Kelda
Adrian
Zaraleva
Zaiobe
Byron
Lyraesel
Aiko

Just for the sake of my sanity, she's cast Entropic Shield on herself. Anyone making a ranged attack against her will need to roll percentile dice to avoid the 20% miss chance.

Winsome throws his final remaining coin at Zaiobe.

Ranged touch attack (masterwork coin): 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 1 = 12
Miss chance 20 (low is bad): 1d100 ⇒ 49
Damage (bludgeoning/piercing, magic): 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Adrian shrugged his shoulders at the cold reply as he was preparing for the next challenge. Unfortunately, that challenge happened to be the harpy herself.

"Now do you guys think we shouldn't have gotten information out of him?" Cursing under his breath, he reloads his bolt as he tries to line up for his next shot.

How high up is the harpy?

"Did he look like he wanted to talk?" Lyraesel quips.

She is currently 20 feet in the air and about 10' in front of the battlements.

Winsome's coin whizzes perilously close to Zaiobe's ear a it passes, causing the harpy to glare at him, but her attention is soon drawn to another.

Kelda takes the javelin she just used to dispatch Kikonu and hurls it at Zaiobe. Enraged as she is she ignores the field of shimmering light surrounding the harpy and sinks her javelin deep, as it pierces Zaiobe's armor and the flesh underneath.
Attack roll (raging): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Miss Chance 20%: 1d100 ⇒ 44
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Initiative:
Winsome
Kelda
Adrian
Zaraleva
Zaiobe
Byron
Lyraesel
Aiko

His turn was basically to load the crossbow. It's the only thing he could do at the moment.

Byron reloads his heavy crossbow.

Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 8

*wiff*

Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 7

In fact, won't be able to do anything useful for the rest of the encounter, so I'll just wait for it to be over.

Zaraleva loads and fires.

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d8 ⇒ 6

"We must be doing something wrong..."

Lyraesel attempts to mimic Kelda's action, but loses her grip on the transformed javelin a moment before the key point of her throw, the weapon going skittering off the parapet as another appears in her hand.

Thorn Javelin: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Piercing/Bull's strength: 1d6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 2 = 8
Miss Chance 20%: 1d100 ⇒ 22

Adrian and Byron both take the time to span and load there crossbows and take aim the faithless harpy.

Zaraleva loads and fires her bolt at Zaiobe but the shot sails wide, missing her target by a wide margin.

Zaiobe growls at Kelda and fires a pair of arrows at the Barbarian. Kelda manages to dodge the first arrow, but the second catches her in the shoulder a she tries to twist out of the way.
Attack roll #1: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (3) + 13 = 16
Attack roll #2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Lyraesel throws her thorn javelin at Zaiobe only to curse as her missile falls short of it's target.

Aiko launches a shuriken at Zaiobe and shrugs her shoulders as the throwing star bounces harmlessly off the Oracle's armor.

Round #2
Initiative:
Winsome
Kelda
Adrian
Zaraleva
Zaiobe
Byron
Lyraesel
Aiko

Heavy Crossbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Adrian once again demonstrates a poor efficiency in the use of a crossbow. Shaking his head, he resorted to seeing if he could find something easier to throw at the harpy.

"Does anyone have any rope around to bring her down?" he asked.

"Sooner or later this will work..."
Crossbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 191d8 ⇒ 8
Entropic Shield: 1d100 ⇒ 21

Byron takes a moment to study Zaiobe, and then sends another bolt at her.

Move action to Study Target and then fire!

Crossbow Attack with Study Target: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 1 = 20

Low Misses: 1d100 ⇒ 78

Crossbow Damage with Studied Target: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Winsome frowns. Checking to see he is out of harm's way for the moment, he draws a small chip of stone with carvings on it from his pack and activates it. A ripple in the air flies towards Ziobe, striking her unerringly.

He casts magic missile with his runestone of power.
Force damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 = 6

Winsome, clutching his runestone, launches a barrage of magic missiles at Zaiobe who reels from the impact.

Kelda grabs her third javelin from it's quiver and launches it at Zaiobe, but the projectile falls short as the harpy back away from the attack.
Attack Roll (raging): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Adrian curse in frustration as his crossbow bolt once again fails to find it's target. He begins to search around for some alternative way to bring her down.

Sarenrae, perhaps hearing her cleric's frustration, guides her bolt past Zaiobe's defenses and strikes the harpy, or maybe it was just a lucky shot... who knows.

Zaiobe turn her attention to Zaraleva as she's struck. She fire two arrows at the Cleric of Sarenrae. One arrow pierces a vital spot as blood spurts from the wound.
Attack roll #1: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33
Attack roll (confirm critical): 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (15) + 13 = 28
Attack roll #2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
Damage: 3d8 + 6 ⇒ (1, 2, 7) + 6 = 16
Oof, that's gonna sting.

Byron, taking a moment to analyze his opponents movements, times his shot perfectly as his bolt strikes Zaiobe in midflight.

Round #2
Initiative:
Winsome
Kelda
Adrian
Zaraleva
Zaiobe
Byron
Lyraesel
Aiko

Lyraesel hurls her final javelin at the harpy, snarling angrily as she misses again. "Get down here you %!^!@~"

Thorn Javelin: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Piercing/Bull's strength: 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 1 = 9

Missed, as shown previously.