Don Jurrri uses his adopted halfling luck to retcon in a diversion.
MegaloMint swims forward, ready to eat some Bunyip!
Bunyip 4 ROARS! It reverberates through the caverns, stirring a primordial fear of the deep dark depths.
Then it swims forward and chomps at the MegaloMint! They don;t like other sharks!
Blood in the water… it reacts to it by entering a BLOOD FRENZY!!!
Bunyip 4 swims up then in.
MISS
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Don Jurri
Interi
Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
➤ Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Bunyip 3
Salka
Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
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Torrent dives into the water happily inquisitively looks around, searching for something when the hungry Seal Sharks.
Torrent's tired eyes deceived her, Alghollthu, here?! she panics at first sight.
She instinctively swims to the chamber's floor, but in her panicked state she takes a moment to collect and protect herself before engaging. Torrent casts a barrier around her and then recycles the force energy back through her gill hook.
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Don Jurri
Interi
Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Bunyip 3
Salka
Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
Interi braves through bravely. Mint less so…
Torrent enters her stance and gets ready to defend against the inevitable onslaught.
Bunyip 2 is unhappy being unable to reach dinner. So it transforms its hindquarters into that of an eel! It slithers forward and strikes at the shark with reach!
The tail clobbers Mint for 6… then wraps around him! . It enters a frenzy — what a lovely meal a shark will be!
Bunyip 3 should probably go for mint… but this mean Tree person just stuck a pick through its eye. So it is rather focused on one particular individual.
MISS
MISS
MISS
… focused poorly, that is.
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➤ Don Jurri
➤ Interi
➤ Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Bunyip 3
➤ Salka
➤ Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
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"Thank you my (blub blub) good sailor" calling back to the hireling hero bravely holding off large crabs.
Holding his own ground, our chivalric hero adapts fancy footwork to underwater treading, adopting a wide stance that leaves false openings, hoping the next bunyip to attack him falls for his ploy. Suddenly, he stabs at the closest beast with speed and precision, and whirls more bubbles with his metal rapier.
◆) Dueling Parry
◆) Confident Finisher
◆) Feint or Swim
+
↺) Opportune Riposte
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Don Jurri
➤ Interi
➤ Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Bunyip 3
➤ Salka
➤ Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
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Salka's eyes widen in fear but she attempts to muscle through (at least what sounded to her like) the terrifying cry of a mighty Linnorm.
With her rarely used longsword in one hand, Salka uses the other to attempt to yank a small cord with a handle on the side of her breastplate.
Unfortunately, she accidentally pulls and further tightens the strap of her armor instead.
Then she attempts to swim over to the wall and up towards the surface.
She clings slightly to the wall with her free hand and holds there, seeing little way to advance further safely from her position.
Don Jurro gets a stab in, but the Bunyip survived and sees through his feint.
Salka moves to a safer position. A tactical move.
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Don Jurri
➤ Interi
➤ Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Bunyip 3
Salka
➤ Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
Rixette has a hard time keeping her cool, but manages to slash her hatchet against the Bunyip! It's not looking very healthy. But it also looks angry.
Interi & Mint are up!
Interi draws the first kill. The Bunyip expires upon the tip of their first strike.
MegaloMint is grabbed by #2. And he's up!
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Don Jurri
Interi
➤ Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Bunyip 3
Salka
Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
Mint chomps the tail that grabbed him. Then he swims away.
Bunyip 4 swims forward and bites at Interi from below — it's in a frenzy!
MISS
MISS
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Don Jurri
Interi
Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
➤ Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Salka
Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
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Having calmed slightly, Torrent realizes her mistake. Deep Seas, these are something else..... Her inner bones still shaking somewhat from the roar.
She then calls upon the power of the sea as she begins to freeze the end of her gillhook. Lysianassa, I know you're out there...
Torrent plunges the gill hook towards the Bunyip directly in front of her .
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The force energy continues to recycle through her weapon as she withdraws it and slams it forward in a wave-rippling fashion.
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The bunyip takes a grievous wound but is still up, thanks to what may be temporary hitpoints of its own barbarian-like frenzy.
Bunyip 2 moves around, frustrated that its maker put so many of them in this small cave.
It reaches its eel-like tail at the swashbuckler…
The tail clobbers Don upside the head! He sees stars.
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➤ Don Jurri
➤ Interi
➤ Mint
Bunyip 4
Bunyip 1
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
➤ Salka
➤ Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
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Salka tries once more to pull the cord of physical enhancement.
This time she pulls the cord but the engine seems to be too waterlogged to start up and none of the gears move.
Then she swims up and positions herself above Don Jurri.
With an unenhanced arm she still tries to stab forward at bunyip #1.
Salka has issues getting her invention running bet she manages to swim forward and stab 1 to death.
This means Interi must begin with the less injured bunyip. They knock it off balance on their first strike and thanks to the creature's barbarian-like blood frenzy they manage the hot on all three attacks!
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➤ Don Jurri
Interi
➤ Mint
Bunyip 4
Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Salka
➤ Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
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Seeing stars, a moment perturbed, the smart Bunyip falls not for Don Jurri's trap - he switches his sword to his left hand, and mirroring his swimming footwork, tries for the other side, slashing wildly before sinking straight through the center with a stroke, and backing his torso away to create another false opening!
◆) Dueling Parry
◆) Feint
◆) Confident Finisher or Strike
+
↺) Opportune Riposte
Don's feint fails yet again. These bunyips have his number!
His strike connects — it's a crit!
Rixette finishes it off!
With another bunyip deceased, Torrent is up.
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Don Jurri
Interi
Mint
➤ Torrrent
Bunyip 2
Salka
Rixette
DC 28 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 20 as second check after first success:
If you end your turn in water and haven’t succeeded at a Swim action that turn, you sink 10 feet or get moved by the current, as determined by the GM. However, if your last action on your turn was to enter the water, you don’t sink or move with the current that turn.
Critical Success You move through the water 10 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 15 feet for most PCs).
Success You move through the water 5 feet, plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Critical Failure You make no progress, and if you’re holding your breath, you lose 1 round of air.
Critical Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet plus 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 10 feet for most PCs).
Success You move up, across, or safely down the incline for 5 feet per 20 feet of your land Speed (a total of 5 feet for most PCs, minimum 5 feet if your Speed is below 20 feet).
Critical Failure You fall. If you began the climb on stable ground, you fall and land prone.
Torrent sends the hook through the Bunyip's gills.
The Bunyip lives on… and it flees! It wriggles through a small hole in the cave floor and vanishes into the depths.
Out of combat!
Don Jurri
Interi
Mint
Torrrent
Salka
After 3 hours healing, you move on.
Water lapping on stone is the loudest sound at the surface of the water in this chamber, marking its isolation from the rest of the Pallid Peak. The stone in the room’s center has broken away, and the water continues down into darkness.
To the north, a wide hallway rises above the water’s edge. To the east, barricades of bone and rocks block two entrances to another chamber beyond.
Who knows what's at the bottom of that hole? Who knows what's past the barricades, or up the hall?
It's dark down there. The shaft plummets down down down down 100 feet — deeper than the glowing algae can reach — but you have Light spells. At the very bottom are runes that glow faintly, like bioluminescent deep sea fish.
You can attempt to deactivate the runes with an additional DC 20 Nature check.
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Peering ominously down the shaft... nope!
The ego of our romantic hero makes oversmothering grasps to hide what is clearly a reaction of fear to the 100-foot swimdown "Perhaps since you have already taken the plunge, no need to double back? Decribe to me what you saw, I have probably heard of it. I am quite well-read, you know..."
"...Ah yes. Those runes appear to control the tide within these caves. Heard some bar patrons mourning the loss of a colleague who drowned in this very spot. Why. They could start flooding At Any Minute!" he looks towards Torrent "Perhaps only You would survive in such a case!"
Letting the gravity sink in momentarily, he then elaborates "I personally, and my Xavier here, lack the skill to do anything about our dire predicament. But as your leader, I have already identified talent" he looks towards Interi "Perhaps you could be of assistance, my good..." and not knowing how to refer to the conrasu, fails to finish his sentence...
Interi heroically scratches out the runes. Nothing seems to happen for now.
With nothing left to do down there, it is time to move on. You can enter the Hallway to the North or check out the Barricades to the East. For those who arent swimmers, you may be happy to know both ways lead to dry land.
"Hold on there, master" Xavier asserts himself as he sees Don Jurri on the verge of downing the whole potion himself "Let us share that - remember who's rowing you out of here if things go sideways..." then to himself "...as they often do..."
Then, as if asking his master (but really directing him...) "To the Barricades then, old boy?"
You exit the water.
The barrier is made of bones and rocks that are lashed together with rope to create a fence. Through tiny gaps in the fence, you can barely see movement on the other side.
Whoever it is overhears Rixeette's comment. What's that? Fermented goodberries? I don't want whatever you're sellin.' I got my own fermented juice, thank you very much! Now skedaddle!
None of your dang business! I No soliciting!
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"It is I, Don Jurri, Modern Knight, and leader of this ragtag crew of Pathfinders. Surely you have heard of me? My exploits are known far and wide..." Xavier rolls his eyes while he continues "...and I have no problem pausing my Great Quest here to regale with you my many adventures over that fermented juice you have so graciously offered to share!"
Somehow, our chivalric hero's misconceptions are inverted by his unexpected charm, as the heart strings of the soon-to-be host receive gentle tugs despite his most-likely prudent reservations!