[GDXI] PF2e B12 - Somewhere Below (P4) (Inactive)

Game Master UncleFroggy

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While traveling on the Flood Road near Urgir an unexpected storm—a rainstorm drives them to seek shelter in a nearby cave. Inside, you find the remains of a campfire that is 2 days old, as well as some simple traveling gear such as a bedroll and cooking pot. A small note is stuck into a crevice in the cave wall, where it stands out against the dark stone. The crevice is near a narrow tunnel that leads deeper into the caves. The note is written in Common and Orcish, and is dated 2 days before.

If you find this, I am caught somewhere below. I am Lorekeeper Unzgrin, and I’ve gone below to explore what I believe are the ruins of an ancient dwarven outpost. I trust that there is no danger, but if you find this note, and more than a day has passed, then I am likely in trouble. I offer a reward in gold for any assistance in exploring the caves — and for my immediate rescue, should I be in danger.
—Lorekeeper Unzgrin of Urgir

Please Introduce yourselves here

The (very) tall Garundi with dark red hair walks confidently into the cave. She wears loose dark pants that bloom at the bottom over soft black leather boots. An unadorned light-yellow colored dobak tied on the sides covers her torso and hips. She's an unremarkable looking woman except for her eyes; the dark purple irises almost completely cover her sclera, giving her an intense mien. She looks around the cave, noting the gear. Finding a piece of paper wedged into a small crevice she pulls it out and begins reading. After a moment she passes it to another in her party.
"We must help him, " she says as if she expects no argument from her team.

A catfolk bristles at the rain soaking its fur. "Damned rain." He tries to shake out some of the water, but just succeeds in making a wet mess. He seems very concerned that no rain has gotten inside a warterproof pouch. His fur is close cut, having a dark silver almost metallic sheen. At times you catch the fur seemingly moving as if floating in water, moving with unseen air currents, or dancing like flames. You also note that the color of his eyes never seem to match and are always changing too.

"I'm glad he had the foresight to ask for help if he wasn't back, though it's only luck that brought us here so quickly." He looks around that the others and shifts the musket hanging from his shoulder. "Well, if we're going to help him, we might as well be acquainted. I am called Savan."

A pale skinned human female of medium height enters the cave, wearing a now drenched explorer's outfit over leather armor. She also has a backpack, wood shield, starknife and crossbow worn. She reads the note.

"We should dry off first. And my name is Trisha. Pleased to meet you, Savan." Trisha says, looking at Savan and then at the others.

A long-haired woman with loose and long garb is soaked in the rain and quickly finds a cave nearby. Having found shelter, she quickly tries to dry herself to no avail. She is too wet to be successful in doing so without the aid of some change of clothes or something. She eventually notices that she is not alone in the cave.

"Oh, hi." she says lowly and bows. "Caught by the rain too? Unfortunate us. Hehe." she adds. Also, having read the plea of a certain lorekeeper, she does not think twice to join the others to help the missing person, if the lorekeeper is still there. "I am Lady Yukari." she introduces to them. "I would like to join yu in finding this lorekeeper."

Another catfolk with long ears has eluded the rain. He wears all sorts of gears and gizmos, including a comically large turning device slung over his back. You can barely make out a pistol from beneath his coat. At the moment he is paying attention to another of his contraptions. Humanoid in shape, but made of metal it is being carefully dried off and its joints are being lubricated.

"Name is Scratchet. This here is Crank," the catfolk adds turning his companion's namesake on its back. "He gets a bit fritzy if I don't keep him dry."

"And I thought the rain was unexpected!" declares a green-haired gnome as he picks up the note and internalizes its contents. "A wise gnome once said, 'A dab of dullness can lead to fade, but a splash of intrigue adds color for years!'"

"And what was the name of that astute sage, you may ask? Why, Rethersfell the Evocator! Of course!" gnotes the gnome with a bow. "The one and only, at your service."

Assuming that you're all going down after the lost person - there is no natural light in the cave. Darkvision is fine but anyone else will need a light source.

You find a pair of torches as well as flint and steel by the fire.

Each of those gathered in the cave look at her, expectantly. She furrows her brow in thought, reviewing the last few moments. "Oh. Introductions."

She bows slightly to the group; My name is Jinakka. I am pleased to make your acquaintance.

DC 15 Survival: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (6) + 13 = 19

As she straightens she notices the dust on the floor of the cavern has been disturbed.

Trisha will stow one torch in her backpack and light the other torch when the group is ready to go.

Jinakka notices tracks leading into the caves. With a torch lit, the party makes its way down. A passage ranging from 3 to 10 feet wide leads into the caverns below. The cave walls are a mix of natural stone and clay. The ceilings range from 10 feet high in the narrow tunnels to 20 feet high in the largest caverns.

You manage to follow the tracks to what appears to be a large humanoid-sized mushroom standing against the wall of the cavern. Lady Yukari identifies the creature as a Shrieker.

One PC may make a Survival check to silently approach and cut its air sac without triggering it.

Area Map has been posted. It's also linked at the top of the page.

Savan steps aside, letting someone more skilled approach the mushroom. He unslings his musket and takes aim with his darkvision in case something happens.

Scratchet hands Crank a lit torch and waits for someone more suited to the task to act.

Trained in Survival, but only +2.

Each of those gathered in the cave look at her, expectantly. She furrows her brow in thought, reviewing the last few moments. "Oh. Introductions."

She bows slightly to the group; My name is Jinakka. I am pleased to make your acquaintance.

[dice="DC 15 Survival"]1d20+13

As she straightens she notices the dust on the floor of the cavern has been disturbed.

How do you have a 13 modifier to survival??

You find a pair of torches as well as flint and steel by the fire.

Rethersfell reaches for a torch, bypassing the flint and steel and casts light on it.

"Perfect," he remarks as it begins to glow. Having missed the tracks, he follows the party. He knows he lacks the skill to disable the shrieker, but ponders what else he may know about the fungus.
+4 Nature

Jinakka wrote:

Each of those gathered in the cave look at her, expectantly. She furrows her brow in thought, reviewing the last few moments. "Oh. Introductions."

She bows slightly to the group; My name is Jinakka. I am pleased to make your acquaintance.

[dice="DC 15 Survival"]1d20+13

As she straightens she notices the dust on the floor of the cavern has been disturbed.

How do you have a 13 modifier to survival??

Guessing that was supposed to be +3. It's not listed in their trained skills and they have a +3 Wisdom.

Survival to quietly sneak up to it and cut its air sac. You can also rush it and physically kill it, but that will trigger it

Trisha will try to sneak up to the shrieker and cut its air sac.
Survival: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Trisha sneaks up to the shrieker and successfully cuts the air sac, rendering it harmless.

You find more footprints from the shrieker heading south. The passage opens into a large chamber.

The pool in this damp chamber is only a few inches deep. The sound of dripping water echoes throughout the cave. Thick webbing covers a large boulder protruding from the floor at the center of the pool. The desiccated husks of dozens of insects and arachnids, and the bones of a few small mammals, lie in the water. One recently dead spider with an intricate pattern on its abdomen lies near the boulder, a dagger embedded deep in its thorax. The webbing has a distinctly humanoid shape.

"What is all this?" Savan says as he creeps into the chamber. He reaches into his pouch and pulls out a pinch of gunpowder. The geniekin places it into his mouth between his lip and his gums, licking it to wet the powder and suck on it. He can immediately feel the powder invigorate his body and he regrips his musket and moves forward.

Savan approaches the webbing and carefully prods it to see if there's any movement from inside. "Is this our Lorekeeper?"

Jinakka strides next to the webbing and pulls out her dagger to begin to cut into the mass.

Scratchet pulls his pistol from his coat. Whatever made that webbing might still be here.

"I could use a little magic to clean this old cave up, perhaps? Add a nice, minty scent?" suggests Rethersfell. He casts detect magic and focuses on the form in the web, hoping that if someone died unexpectedly, they may have some items of value still on them.

Trisha regards the dead spider thoughtfully.

"Don't know who's in the webbing. But I think the Lorekeeper dispatched the spider." Trisha points out, waiting to see what Savan and Jinakka find in the webbing.

Jinakka cuts the webbing open and you indeed find the missing lorekeeper. She's unconscious, but alive.

You can revive her by healing her. Magical or otherwise is fine

"Is she okay?" she asks the others after they saved the missing lorekeeper, with nothing to offer in terms of healing her or something.

"Someone has a potion or healing spell, right?" Savan's eyes are drawn to the dead spider and the dagger sticking out of it. Like the curious cat, he reached out to pull the dagger from the dead body.

"I'm a cleric of Desna. Yes I have a healing spell." Trisha says.

Trisha walks over to the lorekeeper and casts Heal(verbal,somatic) on them. Heal: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

Trisha gives the blessing of Desna on the unconscious lorekeeper. She groans and her eyes flutter open. "What... what happened? Who are you?" she asks as she rubs the back of her head, and then moves her hand to look at the blood that is caked in her hair. "Oh... The last I remember is heading into a cavern system, looking for signs of ancient ruins. I found a cave... there was a loud shriek... and a spider..."

"Where are my manners? I am Unzgrin, lorekeeper for the Urgir Society of History. Might I trouble you for some water please? I am exploring the caves to find any sign of the dwarves who fled here thousands of years ago after the fall of Koldukar. After this long, any bodies would likely be gone, but I hope to find historic relics they left behind, or perhaps another ancient ruin of some kind to which they had fled. I believed I was on the cusp of an important breakthrough in understanding the history of the dwarves of Koldukar. In my eagerness to discover something significant, I got careless."

Lady Yukari quickly gets close to the lorekeeper, rummages her backpack, and gives her waterskin for the lorekeeper to drink its contents. "Are you alone? It is unwise to go alone in this dangerous place. We just encountered a shrieker mushroom just a while ago before we found you." she says. "I think we better get out of here soon, less we encounter that. For sure there is not only one of that kind here, is it?" pointing to the dead spider's body with a previously-embedded dagger on it.

"Well, I doubt that one was the one that wrapped up Unzgrin."

Eyeing the beast, then looking at the Lorekeeper, Jinakka motions to the exit and says, "Perhaps we should return to the upper cavern."

Savan spits gunpowder-seasoned saliva onto the ground and his fur flares like it's fire for a second. He quickly looks up at the ceiling of the cavern, checking for any sign of another spider. "I think that's a good idea. Let's get out of here."

Listening to the lorekeeper, Trisha realizes that yes there must be another spider somewhere and she'd rather not meet it.

"Yes, let's get out of here." Trisha says, agreeing with the others.

You make your plans to escape the caves. Unfortunately, your voices attract the attention of three spiders, similar in size and appearance to the dead one. They round the corner and attack!

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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
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Those with ** may go

**Savan Genieshot - AC 18, 18/18
**Trisha - AC 16, 17/17
Pink
Scratchet - AC 18, 16/16; Crank AC 16, 18/18
Green
Lady Yukari - AC 18 (19 w/shield), 15/15
Blue
Jinakka - AC 16 (20 mountain stance), 19/19
Rethersfell - AC 13, 16/16

Trisha moves in front of the lorekeeper and shoots her crossbow at the closest spider. Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2

When Savan sees the spiders enter, he instantly brings his musket up. His fur crackles with static electricity. The geniekin steps clear of the boulder, then he brings up his musket and fires at the first spider. He studies the spider as he pulls a bullet to reload.

Attack vs Blue: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 +1 electricity

Recall Knowledge (nature?): 1d20 ⇒ 2

◇ Energy Shot (first three attacks can do 1 point of energy damage)
◆ Step
◆ Strike vs Blue
◆ Thoughtful Reload

Trisha and Savan move and shoot at Blue. Trisha's crossbow bolt and Savan's bullet both strike the spider, wounding it. Savan attempts to recall where he's seen that sort of spider before, but his mind goes blank for the moment.

Pink steps into the water and attempts to make a meal of Jinakka.

Fang vs Jinakka AC 16: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Fang vs Jinakka AC 16, MAP: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

Piercing Damage, Crit: 1d6 ⇒ 2 Doubled to 4
Piercing Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Jinakka, you feel a burning sensation in your arm as the spider's fang enters it.

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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
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Those with ** may go

Savan Genieshot - AC 18, 18/18
Trisha - AC 16, 17/17
Pink
**Scratchet - AC 18, 16/16; Crank AC 16, 18/18
Green
Lady Yukari - AC 18 (19 w/shield), 15/15
Blue (-5)
Jinakka - AC 16 (20 mountain stance), 11/19 (2 x DC 16 Fort Saves pending)

"I knew it."

Scratchet pushes a button on his wrist, smoke billows as gears whirl.

◆ Overdrive
Crafting: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

They seem on the verge of sputtering out, but then they keep going. An automated arm control steadies Scratchet's aim as he levels a pistol at the nearest spider (blue).

◆ Strike
Coat Pistol: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Concussive: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

He then sends Crank to try to repel the bug.

◆ Command Companion

C◆ Stride

C◆ Strike
Fist: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
Bludgeoning: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Scratchet shoots his Coat Pistol at Blue but misses. Crank walks up to Blue and successfully clobbers it, doing some damage, but not enough to put it out of action.

Green spits a stream of webbing at Jinakka, trying to pin her to the floor.

Web vs Jinakka, 2nd range increment: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 7 - 2 = 6

Failing to pin Jinakka to the floor, Green walks over and tries to bite Jinakka instead.

Fang vs Jinakka AC 16, MAP: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

but it, too, is unsuccessful.

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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
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Those with ** may go

Savan Genieshot - AC 18, 18/18
Trisha - AC 16, 17/17
Pink
Scratchet - AC 18, 16/16; Crank AC 16, 18/18
Green
**Lady Yukari - AC 18 (19 w/shield), 15/15
Blue (-10)
Jinakka - AC 16 (20 mountain stance), 11/19 (2 x DC 16 Fort Saves pending)
Rethersfell - AC 13, 16/16

Lady Yukari quickly draws her shortbow moves across the others and raises a magical shield.

◆ Interact to draw shortbow
◆ Stride
◆ Cast a Spell, Shield

Blue turns and fires webbing at Jinakka, hoping to stick her to the rock, before turning back and biting Crank twice.

Web vs Jinakka AC 16: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Fang vs Crank AC 16, MAP: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Fang vs Crank AC 16, MAP 2: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (3) - 3 = 0

Jinakka is caught by the webbing and stuck to the boulder. As the webbing strikes, Jinakka also feels more burning pain across your skin where the webbing touches you.

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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1-2
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
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Those with ** may go

-2-
**Savan Genieshot - AC 18, 18/18
**Trisha - AC 16, 17/17
Pink
Scratchet - AC 18, 16/16; Crank AC 16, 18/18
Green
Lady Yukari - AC 18 (19 w/shield), 15/15 (AC 19)
Blue (-10)

-1-
**Jinakka - AC 16 (20 mountain stance), 11/19 (3 x DC 16 Fort Saves pending; Immobilized, FF, Escape DC 16)
**Rethersfell - AC 13, 16/16

Savan levels his musket at the spider again and fires, missing this time. He squints at the spider again as he grabs another shot and tears it with his teeth. The taste of gunpowder fills his mouth like a shot of adrenaline. He finishes the reload and levels the musket again at the spider. The eye he's using to sight flashes a searing red as he fires again.

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7 +1 Fire

Recall Knowledge: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Attack: 1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (20) + 9 - 5 = 24
Damage (fatal): 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 +1 Fire = 3 damage, doubled to 6
Extra fatal die: 1d10 ⇒ 7

◆ Strike
◆ Thoughtful Reload
◆ Strike

Trisha loads and then shoots her crossbow at the green spider. Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2

Fortitude: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Fortitude: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Fortitude: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Jinakka struggles against the restraint.

Escape: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Savan, which one you shooting at?

Jinakka Poison: 1d6 ⇒ 6

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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1-2
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
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Those with ** may go

-2-
Savan Genieshot - AC 18, 18/18
Trisha - AC 16, 17/17
Pink
Scratchet - AC 18, 16/16; Crank AC 16, 18/18
Green
Lady Yukari - AC 18 (19 w/shield), 15/15 (AC 19)
Blue (-10)

-1-
Jinakka - AC 16 (20 mountain stance), 5/19 (Immobilized, FF, Escape DC 16; Stupefied 1)
**Rethersfell - AC 13, 16/16

Apologies. Savan is shooting at Blue.

Savan draws a bead on the already weakened blue. The bullet hits the spider's head and it explodes like an overripe melon, spraying brain matter everywhere.

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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1-2
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
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Those with ** may go

-2-
Savan Genieshot - AC 18, 18/18
Trisha - AC 16, 17/17
Pink
Scratchet - AC 18, 16/16; Crank AC 16, 18/18
Green
Lady Yukari - AC 18 (19 w/shield), 15/15 (AC 19)

-1-
Jinakka - AC 16 (20 mountain stance), 5/19 (Immobilized, FF, Escape DC 16; Stupefied 1)
**Rethersfell - AC 13, 16/16

"So many legs! Let's see if we can knock down a few."

Rethersfell sends a pair of bolts toward one of the spiders (pink) and a third toward another (green)
3 action magic missile
2MM v pink: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 3) + 2 = 6
1MM v green: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4