GM Otha's Carrion Hill (Inactive)

Game Master Otha

Can we tell from what side it's coming from?

Gonna swift action divine favor on myself then use a scroll of shield of faith on Zylencia.

"May the gods have mercy on our souls."
Piotr prays as his eyes stare at the ceiling in slight fear, waiting for the creature to break through.

The body is still at the entrance of the secret tunnel.

Elena readies her Tactician (Precise Strike) ability for the moment the creature shows up (+1d6 dmg on flanking) and a swift action to throw a challenge at it.

"Come on... where are you?" She whispers under her breath, as a drop of cold sweat runs down the side of her face.

Buffs on Elena:
Protection from Evil +2 AC and Saves
Challenge +1 AC
Bull STR
Lead blades
See invisibility
Expeditious retreat

Elena and Zyl see the entranceway and surrounding bits of wall from the eastern stairwell explode. Elena sees tentacles wrap around the ‘breadcrumb’ lunatics chained to the wall, drain them, and toss ‘em aside like rag dolls…when the beast steps fully into the chamber, it becomes visible to Zyl as well…it is beyond your comprehension…while its assumed primary head spits out a piece of lunatic, the other heads look at the pair and roar…

Anyone coming within 30’ must roll a DC22 Fort save or be sickened for 10 rounds

COMBAT! Round 1 - The bold may post!

Good luck Pathfinders, he’s a tough one…

Zylencia
Elena (-2)
Piotr
The Spawn
White Rose
Aatish

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

will use Resolve for immediate action of 2 rolls take better, 1 resolve remaining

fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Moves forward up to the creature and initiates as a swift action a challenge of the dragon order then strikes

FF Attk: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36
Damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (1) + 25 = 26

P attk: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20
Damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (4) + 25 = 29

Crit Confirm?: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (6) + 17 = 23
Damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (7) + 25 = 32

AC 19

Banner +2/+1 (60 ft.) (Ex) Allies within 60 ft. who can see your banner gain +2 save vs. fear & +1 to hit while charging.

Dragon's Challenge +6 (2/day) (Ex) +6 to damage target, -2 AC vs. others when used, allies gain +2 to hit the target of your challenge.

Buffs
Bulls strength
Dragons Challenge
Elena's Challenge
Anti invis sphere
Shield of Faith

"THERE!" Elena calls the others. She rushes after Zylencia charging at the creature. She brings down the bane weapon with fury!

Stillgut+Protection from evil
Fort save: 1d20 + 10 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 10 + 5 + 2 = 34

Furious attack + Bull Str + Elena's Challenge + Lead blades + Bane + Challenge + Zyl Challenge + Judgement + charge
Bane Longsword +1 Bane Furious attack: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (13) + 21 = 34
Slashing dmg: 2d6 + 19 + 2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) + 19 + (1, 3) = 27

Buffs on Elena:
Protection from Evil +2 AC and Saves
Challenge +1 AC
Bull STR
Lead blades
See invisibility
Expeditious retreat

Current AC 23

Zyls AC is 21 with protection from evil

Zylencia and Elena boldly go right at the evil spawn…unfortunately, the beast is quick and has a long reach and it bites at both as before they get close enough to strike…

Bite (Zyl): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (3) + 18 = 21
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

Bite (Elena): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (7) + 18 = 25
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

…and it’s teeth sink into both!

However, the Pathfinders get retribution quickly. While one of Zylencia’s attacks glances off the thick-skinned beast, the other is a mighty stroke, slashing deep into its torso causing it to roar in pain as blue blood splatters over both Pathfinders… (crit confirms due to it being flat-footed)

Elena follows that up with a worthy blow of her own…her magical blade cutting deep into its other side, causing a wicked gash and a slow viscous flow of blood, causing extra damage against this type of foe, as it howls ever louder…

COMBAT! Round 1 - The bold may post!

Good luck Pathfinders, he’s a tough one…

Zylencia (-11)
Elena (-14)
Piotr
The Spawn (-85)
White Rose
Aatish

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Piotr breathes a heavy sigh of relief after realizing the ceiling and creature didn't come crashing down on him.
Steeling his resolve, he rolls his shoulders and puffs out his chest as he moves into the great hall. He howls a warcry as he strides conifidently towards the beast.
"AAAHHH-WOOOOO!!!
...
"Aww, crap."
He mumbles, noticing Elena and Zylencia are both in front of the creature, blocking his way.

He stops several paces behind the two warrior women and swiftly blesses himself with Milani's divine favor.

Active conditions:
Bulls Str. (+2 attacks)
Divine Favor (+2 luck atk & dmg)
Standard: Holy Strike (Elena)
For later:
Swift: sacred weapon (keen, 4/4 rnds).

Sorry, I fat-fingered the AoOs from my last post; should’ve been +17 not +18; while Elena would still be hit, Zyl would not so I subtracted the 11 damage from that attack…

The angered Spawn attacks, teeth and tentacles flying…

Bite (Zyl): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Tentacle (Elena): 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (8) + 16 = 24
Damage + Grab: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Tentacle (Elena): 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19
Damage + Grab: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Tentacle (Elena): 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Damage + Grab: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Tentacle (Zyl): 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19
Damage + Grab: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Confirm Bite Crit: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (17) + 17 = 34
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

…and its teeth rip thru Zylencia’s armor and rend her flesh badly but she’s agile enough to dodge a tentacle…

Three tentacles strike at Elena and she can only avoid one, the others hit hard and try to attach to her…

Grapple: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20
Grapple: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20

…and, miraculously, neither attach…but both leave whiplike marks on her exposed flesh…

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

Zylencia (-27)
Elena (-28)
Piotr
The Spawn (-85)
White Rose
Aatish

Mood Music (Creepy Horror Music)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Elena spits blood. She's pretty sure she has a broken rib or two. The blood likely helped her slip from the tentacles. "ReAlly NEeD sOME HELP HERE!" her voice weavers a bit with a hint of distress. She doesn't think she can take another beating like that.

She grits her teeth and brings down her sword again with a primal scream hoping to weaken the beast as much as she can.

Furious attack + Bull Str + Challenge + Lead blades + Bane + Challenge + Zyl Challenge + Judgement
Bane Longsword +1 Challenge Furious attack: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20
Slashing dmg: 2d6 + 19 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 2) + 19 + (1, 6) = 34

REROLL
Bane Longsword +1 Challenge Furious attack: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20
Slashing dmg: 2d6 + 19 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 4) + 19 + (6, 3) = 38

Aatish double moves on her riding dog get to the action and looks at the broken body of Elene with surprise and fear.

“Aatish comes to kill!! Yes!! Bu .. but this is the most frightening monster that Aatish has ever seen!!!“ she shouts to the team.

She casts magic missile!!

mm, +2 cl because of spell specialization; +1 damage per die orc bloodline : 4d4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 2, 1, 4) + 4 + 4 = 19

“Yes!! Iron, Blood and death!!“

FF attk: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (5) + 17 = 22
damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (4) + 25 = 29

P attk: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (8) + 25 = 33

Gm/portfolio reroll
FF Attk: 1d20 + 17 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 17 + 4 = 39
damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (7) + 25 = 32

crit confirm?: 1d20 + 17 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 17 + 2 + 4 = 25
damage: 1d8 + 25 ⇒ (4) + 25 = 29

White Rose wants to make sure it stays visible, and maybe make it harder for it to hit her allies.

glitterdust DC 17, targeting the far corner of the creature.

While Aatish lights the spawn up with four magical bolts, the White Rose literally lights up the beast with glitterdust…and the creature barely avoids blindness…

Zylencia takes another powerful swing of her katana, this one catching the spawn in a soft spot underneath a tentacle, the adamantine blade cleaving all the way thru to what this bastard of a creature calls a heart…

…and just like that, the spawn of Yog-Sothoth, with shocked eyes, goes down with a whimper…

COMBAT Over! Pathfinders victorious!

Zylencia (-27)
Elena (-28)
Piotr
The Spawn (-165; DEAD)
White Rose
Aatish

Mood Music (Happy Dance Time)

Carrion Hill - City Map (Slide 2)

Crove’s Asylum (Slide 10)

Elena staggers back and sighs in relief seeing the monster falls down. She will use her wand of clw to heal.
5 charges Average healing

Piotr rejoices with a happy dance.

"Woah. Good job you guys. Let me help you all with some healing."
Fervor Elena: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7
Fervor Zylencia: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4

“Aatish thinks you are all good warriors!!!“ she says proudly.

Elena, if y’all are ready to report back to the mayor, no need to burn uses of your wand, save it for other adventures…

Coughs a bit from the sudden realization that she is injured, as she starts to stumble and rests one hand on the wall to steady herself

"bastard didn't want to die, is everyone ok? is it dead or just playing?"

Elena will hold on the wand then and thank Piotr for the help. She will check on the body and the cultist to see if there was anything indicating what the hell it was and avoid anyone summoning in the future. She's ready to report back to the Mayor. She will ask for the Asylum to be taken over by someone who actually has the patients properly taken care of... she will return the bane sword.

"Thank you... if it wasn't for this... i don't think we would have made it"

EPILOGUE:

The spawn’s corpse quickly slops away into a foul-smelling mess, leaving behind only a noxious, crusty stain of white powder on the ground. Eerily, its death is marked by a sickening sigh that seems to shudder up from the very earth itself, as if something even deeper under Carrion Hill were mourning the spawn’s death...

As the sigh reverberates, anxious to get out of this eerie asylum and report to the mayor, upon hitting the streets, you hear an even greater noise from the skies above Carrion Hill as wheeling storms of crows descend back to the city’s rooftops, cawing and shrieking and cackling in a cacophony that lasts for hours.

Perhaps this is all a coincidence and nothing more than a final act of a world glad to be rid of such an unclean blight…or perhaps it is a precursor to an increase in activity in the area of the worshipers of the Old Gods. With the tale of the heroes spreading, will it be long before the tunnels under the Carrion Hill are explored again?

In any event, with the spawn slain, the Carrion Hill Horror comes to an end and life begins to return to normal. Mayor Heggry honors his promise to award you, and in the light of their vanquishing of the hidden danger presented by the Keepers of the Oldest, he increases the award by an additional 3,000 gp. Of course, the citizens of Carrion Hill are not the only ones to take note of your triumph. The region has long been haunted by the agents of the Old Ones, and they do not take kindly to meddlers in their ways. They are patient, but they are also vengeful. Man may rule now where they once did, but as the stars draw right, the time of the Old Ones' return draws nigh, and the time for heroes has only just begun.

Congratulations, you have successfully completed CARRION HILL!

You each receive 3 XP and 4 PP!

Working on your Chronicles now, will notify you in the Discussion tab when they’re ready…

K.Religion: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Elena has no clue as to why so many crows are here. Maybe they had left because they scared of the monster and just came back now that is dead.

Aatish takes a sample of the spawn’s remains and is a little intimidated by the crows.

Aatish tries to remain silent as she is not really interested in the praise from some mayor who has never fought in a war before!

~

When the mission is over she says farewell to the team.

“Aatish will return to Belkzen now! You take care of yourselves and don’t die … except when in battle!!“ she says while leaving.

"Best of luck on your future endeavors, everyone. I'm going to stick around in this town for a few months. There might be a way I can acquire the deed to that Elm Way Church, possibly with the help of the Pathfinder society. I'd also like to look into finding someone to properly take over the asylum."
Piotr shakes hands and gives hugs all around.
"Take care, my friends... Until we meet again."

"For my part I'll return to Varisia. I have some family matters to attend but I'll come back at the first opportunity. I know we managed to kill a terrible thing, but don't get cocky! Please, be safe. Until we meet again!" Elena gives a big hug to everyone before heading back home for the moment.