GM Otha's Carrion Hill (Inactive)

Game Master Otha

Piotr follows Elema. In the dining area, he hops up on one of the tables.
"Open that door carefully, Elena."
He says as he stands with blade ready.

Elena opens the door to reveal a kitchen. There appear to be three closet doors to the south. Upon opening them, you find, in turn, a privy, a pantry, and a trap door which, upon opening, that covered a funnel-shaped hole in the floor. This 3-foot-deep funnel narrows to a 1-foot diameter hole that leads southeast. A foul odor of rot and filth wafts up from this tube…

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Tubular Bells)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 9)

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Goldenwing flies partway down the hole, but notices nothing but the stench.

"Ew. I don't think we should go down there through here... not after the chute to the dirty water cave... let's wait and see if we find other ways down."

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Elena continues to check the doors clockwise. If there's no one else of interest on this floor she would like to check the stairs from the cultist office.

You open other doors till only one remains; you find an armory (D18), baths (D19), laundry (D20), and a guest room (D22). While you find armor, weapons (none better than what you have), large tubs, clean clothes and sheets, you find nothing of significance to your mission…

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Tubular Bells)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 9)

"not sure if there is another way down, though how far is it down there? and if you prefer I can head first, just be prepared to back me up"

"Sounds good. The stairs from his office should lead us right to him. The other cultists were busy in their rooms likely preparing for the monster... I see no reason why this one would be different. Be careful." Elena agrees with Zylencia. She will walk right behind her, ready to provide any help she might need.

Provide Zylencia with advantage on Initiatives

she will move and head down the stairs looking around for something to strike at

Perc: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

You go down the stairs to an alcove with a door. Opening it reveals a hallway with doors, one immediately to your right, the other down the hallway west along with more stairs…

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Tubular Bells)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

"That door on the right must lead to the eastern stairwell and the eastern half of these lower levels. I say go left for now and search the door at the western end of this hall. Let's keep to the left and go section by section rather than random directions."

I think we can send the familiar to look the other way.

Elena nods to Piotr but she will just check if the door to the right is trapped or if she hears anything on the other side before continuing left with the rest of the party.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

If the door to the right is not trapped, Lyn will just sneak in and take a look. If there are more hallways, he would go around to get a feel of the general layout. If he finds people (lunatics or guards) he will avoid them and mention it to the party telepathically.

Lyn Stealth: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (10) + 19 = 29

Elena opens the western door to reveal…

A single large desk sits in the northern part of this room, a highbacked chair with a deep purple cushion sitting just beyond it.

Lyn opens the eastern door, revealing…

The stone tiles on the floor here are of a deep green. Maniacal laughter, cries of pain, screams, and off-key singing echo from the east and west hallways. To the south, the hall ends in a large pair of massive iron doors, while to the north the hall opens into a room containing a round table and a few chairs. An iron door in the southern wall of the eastern room hangs wide open.

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Tubular Bells)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

"Yeah... no." Lynn is going to step back, close and stand by the door to guard it while we finish this side. "Sounds like more crazy people that way."

Elena nods to Lynn and moves further in to check on the next door to see if it's trapped or notices any movement on the other side before opening.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

"they are easily taken care of, let us go and deal with them so they can't be used against us later"

Aatish nods.

“Yes! Let Aatish take care of them!!“

So, which way? To the open area east where Lyn heard the babbling or north thru the door Elena’s looking at? Or both?

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Tubular Bells)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Elena hesitates for a second. "The cultist's office led here. There's a high chance he could be there and we can make sure to surprise him before the Beast," Elena whispers back and points towards the door.

"Okay, Elena. Let's go that way."

Got a direction now via rule of two, will post when I get home later this evening…

Elena opens the door, Piotr right behind. You see an old creepy looking fella, it can be no other than Keeper Crove. He is standing there as if expecting you, casting something…though his expression soon changes as it’s clear it was not you he was expecting but someone else…or perhaps something?

”WHO…ARE…YOU? You’ve ruined everything! This trap was not for you!”

COMBAT! Round 1 - The bold may post!

Elena (-2)
Keeper Crove
Aatish
Piotr
White Rose
Zylencia

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

"He's here!" She warns her friends, giving Zilencia seize the initiative.
please roll with advantage

Elena will move to his side leaving room for the others to engage him and brings down her sword.
Longsword +1 Furious attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
Slashing dmg: 1d8 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21

Init re-roll (Zylencia): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14

Sorry, no change to the initiative order. Elena, did you mean to move to the right of the Keeper? He gets an AoO if you did…I moved you back 5’ for the moment but let me know otherwise…

Elena’s blade barely misses the keeper…with an eerie smile at her, he casts a spell…

Casting Defensively vs DC21: 1d20 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 6 + 4 = 24

…and the room is filled with a cloud and there’s no visibility beyond 5’…and the cloud reeks badly, like severely rotten eggs…

Everyone in the cloud or that enters the room (or as the cloud expands gets caught in it) must make a Fort save or be nauseated for 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 rounds…saving throws must be repeated each round you’re in the cloud…

Elena sees the old man move away…

Concealment Miss Chance <= 20: 1d100 ⇒ 58

Elena, after you roll your Fort save, you get an AoO before he moves out of sight…

COMBAT! End Round 1 / Begin Round 2 - The bold may post!

Elena (-2)
Keeper Crove
Aatish
Piotr
White Rose
Zylencia

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Fort save: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

after moving in, if there is no sign of the person, she will hold her attack till they are around, if they are within sight she will strike out

His AoO against Elena failed…

Elena sees the keeper as he moved out of sight but can’t tell the direction due to the fog…

Acrobatics: 1d20 ⇒ 20

…she is surprised by the keeper’s spryness as he moves too quickly for her to strike…she does hear a faint click as he disappeared from sight…

Sorry, Elena, didn’t foresee him rolling a 20 which surpasses your CMD, so he avoids an AoO…

Zylencia moves in and avoids the nausea from the cloud but can neither see nor detect where the keeper might be…

Will keep this ooc comment as a reminder: Everyone in the cloud or that enters the room (or as the cloud expands gets caught in it) must make a Fort save or be nauseated for 1d4+1 rounds…saving throws must be repeated each round you’re in the cloud…

COMBAT! End Round 1 / Begin Round 2 - The bold may post!

Elena (-2)
Keeper Crove
Aatish
Piotr
White Rose
Zylencia

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Piotr catches a whiff of the foul-smelling green cloud billowing out from the door. He swiftly blesses himself with shield of faith, then goes in, trying to hold his breath.
Fortitude: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
He moves slowly as he tries to find his way through the thick green mist.

White Rose enters the cloud and tries to figure out where their quarry has gone.

Perception: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (9) - 2 = 7
Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

The only thing she finds is her lung, which is now outside her body.

The only thing she finds is her lung, which is now outside her body.

LOL. :-)

Aatish rides forward but stays outside the area of the spell if possible.

"I think he's trying to flee! I just heard a click. There was a door at the back of this room, maybe he's going there," she warns recalling the layout when she entered.

She will do a 5ft step to the door to the north to see if it is open and drink a stillgut potion. ((+5 nauseated))

Fort save: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30

While others move into the room, none can see Keeper Crove anywhere in the room. While WRD, coughs up a lung, Elena looks into the chamber to the north, its door open…upon reflection, she thinks it might’ve been open when she first entered but not sure as the Keeper was standing in front of it…before the cloud starts to envelop this room, she sees…

A large, canopied bed takes up the majority of this room. A quaint writing desk sits next to the bed, and what appear to be three footlockers sit under the bed…but there’s no sign of the keeper…

Will keep this ooc comment as a reminder: Everyone in the cloud or that enters the room (or as the cloud expands gets caught in it) must make a Fort save or be nauseated for 1d4+1 rounds…saving throws must be repeated each round you’re in the cloud…

COMBAT! End Round 2 / Begin Round 3 - The bold may post!

Elena (-2)
Keeper Crove
Aatish
Piotr
White Rose
Zylencia

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Elena tells the others what she sees. "He must be close!"

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

Lynn has blindsense 60ft and will stay put to tell them if he feels Crove or anyone approach.

"A secret door! *cough-cough* He must've gone through a secret door! *cough-cough*"
Piotr shouts between coughs.
Fortitude: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
He feels about with his free hand in the stinky mist.

If that Fort save is a fail, Piotr pulls out his scroll of remove sickness and casts it on himself.

Following Piotrs suggestion Elena will touch around the walls for any sign of a secret door.

Fort save: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (11) + 15 = 26

White Rose picks a chunk of wall not near the others and continues her search.

Perception: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (20) - 2 = 18
Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

That ought to be worth something...

fort : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Aatish tries to push her riding dig to move towards the scent of the man whose scent she is smelling but who is new to the dog….

dc 25 pushing handle animal : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

… but the dog has no clue what the gnome-orc wants.

While Elena finds nothing and a puking Piotr retrieves a scroll to heal his nausea, the White Rose makes a remarkable discovery. Blindly reaching out and feeling along the wall she notices a subtle crack running up and down, the framework of a secret door. She barely has time to alert the others before this door slides open! She and Elena briefly see a room filled with books before the cloud expands into it…

Both Elena and WRD feel a breeze blow between them from the room…a moment later, Piotr hears a faint click and suddenly sees a passage to the east open and begin to fill with the cloud…

Will keep this ooc comment as a reminder: Everyone in the cloud or that enters the room (or as the cloud expands gets caught in it) must make a Fort save or be nauseated for 1d4+1 rounds…saving throws must be repeated each round you’re in the cloud…

COMBAT! End Round 3 / Begin Round 4 - The bold may post!

Elena (-2)
Keeper Crove
Aatish
Piotr
White Rose
Zylencia

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

If piotr tells them, Elena curses under her breath, casts see invisibility from a scroll and enters the newly opened door to the east hoping to see him. She tells the others the direction he's taking.

White Rose heads down the indicated corridor.

Perception: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (19) - 2 = 17
Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14

Elena, it’ll take the whole round to retrieve the scroll and read it…but you can still take a 5’ move towards the door afterwards so I moved you there…

Elena reads a scroll of invisibility and then moves towards the door in pursuit…

The White Rose heads down the corridor, keeping ears and eyes alert for any signs…while the cloud has expanded in the passageway, she moves past the edge of it, seeing the path turns south…looking down there, she sees a dead end…but she also faintly hears what she thinks is heavy breathing to the south as well…

My bad WRD, I forgot to mention you don’t have to keep rolling fort saves if you failed the save as you can’t get any sicker; sorry ‘bout that…

Will keep this ooc comment as a reminder: Everyone in the cloud or that enters the room (or as the cloud expands gets caught in it) must make a Fort save or be nauseated for 1d4+1 rounds…saving throws must be repeated each round you’re in the cloud…

COMBAT! End Round 3 / Begin Round 4 - The bold may post!

Elena (-2)
Keeper Crove
Aatish
Piotr
White Rose
Zylencia

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

fort : 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Aatish again tries to push her riding dig to move towards the scent of the man whose scent she is smelling but who is new to the dog…

dc 25 pushing handle animal : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

… but again the dog has no clue what the gnome-orc wants.

"Seems like he's going East! See if you can cut him off on the other side!" Elena warns to Zylencia and Piotr.

Lynn has telepathy 100ft. He can keep everyone updated of what you want to share. He readies an attack for when he notices a presence at his side with blindsense that should be there and can't see normally.

Sting+Poison: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Sting—injury; save Fort DC 14; frequency 1/minute for 10 minutes; effect sleep for 1 minute; cure 1 save.

fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

nodding as she gets out of the room and makes her way back where she came from

getting in range she strikes

FF attk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33
Damage: 1d8 + 18 ⇒ (5) + 18 = 23

P Attk: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 18 ⇒ (3) + 18 = 21

Crit confirm?: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34
Crit Damage: 1d8 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26

"Move and Die"

"Where is he!?! Where'd he go?"
Piotr swiftly blesses his weapon, giving it a keen edge.

He then reaches out and touches Elena's blade, causing the blade to shimmer with a golden light. (+1d6 dmg to evil creatures).
"Here, Elena, this will hurt the bastard more."
Then he darts to the south, moving slow as he makes his way through the stinky cloud.

Swift: sacred weapon (keen).
Standard: Holy Strike (+1d6 dmg).
Move half speed through cloud.

While Piotr enchants Elena’s sword and Aatish can’t make her dog behave, Zylencia moves outside the room to go where the Lyn awaits, readying an attack should the keeper come thru…

Zyl sees a panel in the wall slide forward, she sees a passage with the White Rose standing 20’ down it pointing back at her…knowing the keeper must be in front of her but invisible, she brings her katana slashing down in the space in front of her…

Miss<=50: 1d100 ⇒ 99

…and she guesses right as she feels resistance as the blade cuts thru something fleshy like, and very visible blood splatters across her…Keeper Crove suddenly appears, her katana cut thru his collarbone and lodged down in his left breast, his eyes glazing over as he slumps to the floor…

He looks up at Zyl, blood bubbling on his lips, gasping, lightly, as he points to the door leading east, ”B-b-beast…invisible…t-tr-trap…”

Just as he breathes out these words, you hear thunderous footsteps pounding the ceiling, shaking the building like a minor earthquake! You can only assume the beast has come to the asylum. The keeper’s eyes light up with fear momentarily…and then they glaze over one last time…he lets out a sigh…and breathes no more…

COMBAT Over! Pathfinders victorious…or perhaps not just yet?

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

This seems like the time when White Rose should cast protection from evil on everyone. Five spell slots, five PCs. Sorry, minions - Goldenwing doesn't like it either.

Each of us should have 2 cure moderate potions and 1 potion of lesser restoration from the mayor.

While we prepare and buff, Lynn will look through the body of the cultist for any other item of interest that could help them.

Elena will:
* Cast scroll of invisibility purge on Zylencia, getting a 25ft radius sphere of anti invisibility and give Aatish a scroll of bull str to cast on her
* Use the potion of lead blades
* Casts expeditous retreat on herself

She will give Seize the Initiative on Zylencia at the start of the battle and ready Tactician/Precise Strike for as soon as she sees the creature as a standard action and Challenge as a swift action.

Ok- we know there's some kind of invisibility trap in the other room, we could use that... but we also know this thing is at least large so if we position ourselves in these hallways it would have to squeeze and get a penalty of -4 on its AC and attacks. With Zylencia having the invisibility sphere around her that should allow everyone to see the creature either way. We would need to position ourselves to attract it into a choke point. What do you think?

Buffs on Elena:
Protection from Evil +2 AC and Saves
Bull STR
Lead blades
See invisibility
Challenge +1 AC
Holy strike? Not sure this will last.

Makes sense! But Aatish can cast Bull's strength on anybody that wants the spell. She has it! Elena, Zyl and Piotr?

Aatish looks at the team.

"Aatish can give you all strength of an orc! Come here!" she demands and casts the spells to make the warriors strong!

The thunder gets closer as the building shakes even worse, parts of the ceiling start to crack and debris floats down…the creature will soon be upon you!

Looks like are y’all are pretty buffed out…please place your icons where you wish them to be as you have just enough time to get there…and then I’ll move us forward…

Status:
Elena (-2)

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Bulls strength may not stack with Zyls belt