Wydroe's Core Run of PFS Scenario 3-19, The Icebound Outpost (Inactive)

Game Master Wydroe

Done.

With no other targets in sight, Salvio reloads his crossbow and moves forward.

The brute nods at the sneak, ”Gud stab.”

Then he hustles around the corner while drawing a javelin.

Move while drawing weapon, Standard will be taken once he knows what he sees around the corner.

”Come heah littuh coward… come heah.”

A rather angry Half Elf bursts forth once the panther has being brought down.

"Running?" she asks coldly as her blade flashes at the whip wielder.

Attack 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 211d10 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Kuikka moves quickly past the bleeding panther and around the corner, trapping (hopefully) the agent without a place to drag their prisoner. She levels a sword at his throat and says, in a dead level voice, "I really think surrendering is your only option."

Cara rushes the man and cuts him with a deft swing of her sword. Kuikka closes on the man asking for him to yield, but he seems more confident as a figure appears in the shadowy gloom that is the west side of the inner sanctum.

@ Leon, you mention a standard action still. I have revealed the inner sanctum. The figure to the south has dim light concealment. Please take your action or let me know you are done. I will post the actions of the enemies up next then.

Round 2
Nate crossbow in hand
panther -18hp
Malon
Kuikka
Cara
Salvio
Leon [standard action remaining]
Man with the whip
Shadowy figure
Slaves

Standard used to move to fully block off the whip guy, I expect it provokes.

Leon, the stairs are 2 squares of movement. I don't think you could have gotten that far. You could have gotten to where I put you with 20' of movement unless you had movement left from your original movement.???He can't threaten AO's with a whip. It requires a feat he does not have.

The man releases the worker and shifts back. He mumbles something.
casting defensively: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
He is looses the spells as mist starts to form but he is not able to complete it.

The shadowy figure raps on the guilded mountain. "Cathixia, get out here. Intruders on the stairs."
The woman advances to attack the burly fighter.
sap attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10; dmg nonlethal: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
But she misses her spot and the sap clangs off his armor.

Round 3
Nate
panther -19hp con chk: 1d20 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 2 = 4
Malon
Kuikka
Cara
Salvio
Cathixia
Leon [slightly adjusted your position, not that it did much]
Man with the whip -6hp (red)
Neevindi (blue)

Bold are up!

The adjusted position is acceptable, forgot about the stairs.

Kuikka steps to the west, leaving the whip wielder to Cara's tender mercies. If she has them.

Standing tall, Kuikka grips her axe tightly and swings in a crushing blow.

greataxe, power attack: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 4 - 1 = 23 for slashing: 1d12 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14 (Oooooh!!)
greataxe, power attack, crit roll: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 - 1 = 4 for slashing: 2d12 + 14 ⇒ (1, 11) + 14 = 26 (or not)

Cara's eyes narrow as she accepts the unspoken task the paladin has given her. Her blade lashes out at the man once more, the strike like a coiling snake.

Attack Whip wielder 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 251d10 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 wow. my turn to crit threat.
Confirm crit?
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 151d10 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

"Told you to surrender......." she grumbles as he realizes her strike might be a little too hard.

Malon takes a five foot step to the west and lets off an acid splash against the man with the whip.

RTA 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 - 4 = 4

Damage 1d3 ⇒ 1

Would someone move me one square to the west, please? Thanks!

Done.

Nate will scurry up to catch the rest of the group, slowing at the stairs. Looking to the sword in one hand and the crossbow in the other Thank you for that. No sense in dropping it when I have two completely functional hands! Nate decides things are confined enough to keep the sword and stow the bow.

Move-30' to stairs (counting the last square as two)
Move action- stow crossbow.

The half orc paladin chops into the roguish woman sending her to the ground dying. Nice roll! Then, Cara does the same to the Whip wielder. Another nice set of rolls! In a matter of seconds, the way into the inner sanctum is cleared. There is still a flickering of light playing on the back wall as if someone is moving but is obscured by the guilded mountain in the center of the chamber.

Round 3
Nate
panther -19hp con chk: 1d20 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 2 = 4
Malon
Kuikka
Cara [Moved you 5' South to be able to attack the whip guy]
Salvio
Cathixia
Leon
Man with the whip -29hp
Neevindi -14hp

Salvio, I think you still can act.

Sorry; I was in a retreat at work, and didn't have much time.

Salvio grubs around in his pack and removes a sunrod, which he strikes on the ground to activate.

As Salvio pulls out his sunrod, a another woman dressed in robe and holding several scrolls appears on the Eastern side of the chamber. She reads a something from one of the scrolls and points at Leon.

Leon is gripped with a magical fear. DC 11, pass shacken, fail panicked.

The woman then grips one of the scrolls remaining as if it were a shield.

Round 3
Nate
panther -19hp
Malon
Kuikka
Cara
Salvio
Cathixia
Leon [save vs fear pending]
Man with the whip -29hp
Neevindi -14hp

Leon is up!

Will Save vs Fear: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Will Save vs Fear Reroll 2-star: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 1 + 2 = 11

Leon panics and drops his javelin, then shakes his head as a divine something is watching over him. He rumbles over to the caster and tries to grab her by the scruff of her neck, ”Nunadat now.”

Improved Grapple vs. CMD - Shaken: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 10 - 2 = 15

The woman starts to grin in triumph as the big man drops his stuff, but that grin quickly turns to a scream as the man approaches and grabs her up in a bear hug.

whip man con chk: 1d20 + 1 - 9 ⇒ (15) + 1 - 9 = 7
rogue lady con chk: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 2 - 4 = 2

Round 4
panther con chk: 1d20 + 1 - 3 ⇒ (12) + 1 - 3 = 10
Nate
Malon
Kuikka
Cara
Salvio
Cathixia [grappled]
Leon [grappled]
Whip guy -30hp
Rogue lady -15hp

Bold are up!

Cara moves down swiftly to deal with their last foe.
Seeing her trapped in Leon's hold.

Slash!!!
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 131d10 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Perhaps we should go save some of the others?

Sunrod held high, the wizard follows Leon up the stairs and into the room. Seeing that the fighter has matters well in hand, he looks around for other foes and readies a spell in case an attacker appears.

Holding standard action to cast daze.

Cara advances and swings at the grappled woman. The woman just avoids the blade shielding herself with the scroll at the last moment.

Salvio looks around but does not anyone else to attack. The woman continues to struggle.

Nate, Malon, and Kuikka still are up!

Nate sees that the big guy seems to have things in hand, hehe, but wonders if it will stay that way. She seems to know magic, who knows what could happen.

I'd better get into position to do something anyway. Excuse me, pardon me, Exc...

Double move to flank with Leon

"Go on, I got these folks," Kuikka growls to her companions as she pulls out her wand and pokes the whip guy, trying to staunch the bleeding.

boopstick: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Malon holds his action, not wanting to chance hitting Leon with an errant Acid Splash.

Malon holds afraid of harming the wrong people. Kuikka heals the dying whip man and stabilizes him. He is still very unconscious.

The woman, still struggling, seems to stab at Leon with another scroll as if it were a small sword.
sword stab while grappled: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 4 - 2 = 3
dmg p: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Malon holds afraid of harming the wrong people. Kuikka heals the dying whip man and stabilizes him. He is still very unconscious.

The woman, still struggling, seems to stab at Leon with another scroll as if it were a small sword.
sword stab while grappled: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 4 - 2 = 22
dmg p: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Crit threat.
crit?: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
crit dmg: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Leon takes a nasty stab.

Round 4
Leon -9hp
Rogue lady con chk: 1d20 + 1 - 5 ⇒ (20) + 1 - 5 = 16

Round 5
Nate
Malon
Kuikka
Cara
Salvio

Leon is up. Then rest of the party. Please post your actions.

Um… you double posted. Or did she two-weapon fight me? I guess regardless it doesn’t matter, he would act the same.

The big man grunts and tries to pin the lady’s arms to her sides with a big bear hug.

Improved Grapple vs. CMD - shaken plus keeping grapple: 1d20 + 10 - 2 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 10 - 2 + 5 = 30

Moving her to the pinned position and planning on tying her up next round.

Kuikka pokes the other Aspis agent, trying to keep her alive as well, then puts the wand away for later use. She takes a step closer to the Leon and the woman who is struggling with him.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

waits to see is Leon pins the girl before deciding to poke her with a sword or not

Yep, that ain't right! We will retcon this a little. Somehow I double posted, so we will use the initial post, though I think it was 1'd because of the double post and anti-tamper coding.

The woman attempts to stab Leon but fails miserably at it.
Leon remains uninjured.

Leon then pins the woman holding her fast leaving her very few options, but she continues to struggle.

Kuikka now directs her healing stick to the roguish woman. The woman jolts back awake and snarls, "I am as good as dead now." "You will haveto kill us." Rogue woman -8hp

Round 5
Nate
Malon
Kuikka
Cara
Salvio
Cathixia [pinned]
Leon [grappled]
Neevindi -8 [prone, unarmed]

"Maybe we'll kill you, but not if we don't have to." With the Aspis agents subdued, Salvio heads back down the stairs to get a better look at the slave labor. "Excuse me...who are you?"

As Salvio approaches the three workers still cowering by the ice wall. He sees three man all dresses more for a ships decks then a frozen tundra. The shiver as the sweat begins to freeze in their hair. They huddle together to try to stay warm in the ice chips they have created.

They look tired and miserable.

One of the slaves with a moustache, stands and says, "I am Makeem. We are slaves bought in Katapesh, Okeno slave markets."

what do you do?

Makeem continues, "We rowed a massive galley for several weeks, not sure how long. We finally arrived as a strange port, we were given wine. We thought in celibration. But it drugged us and we all fell asleep. When we awoke we were here."
He shivers at the cold again and continues, "We have been digging at the ice day after day." Again I am not sure, time is hard to tell here, but I think it have been two weeks maybe."
"Are you going to fight the others?"

If no one else has anything they want to do???"

Meanwhile, the woman attempts to free herself from Leon. cmb check to break the pin: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 Yep, no.

The rogue woman springs to her feet, shifts back 5' and pulls out her dagger. Correct me if I am wrong, Kuikka, I don't believe you have a weapon ready. I believe you have a wand out and a two handed great axe only.

Bring her down!
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 201d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Cara seeing a chance strikes out to end this fight before it gets any further!

@Cara, not sure which woman you are attacking. Are you attacking the woman Leon is holding? Or are you moving up to the rogue who has now sprung up? I will assume you were delaying and you or any of the others I skipped also delayed and you can now act. I just need to understand who you are attacking.

"Leon, do you have any rope?".

Or do I see anything I can tie her up with?

Round 5
Nate [delay]
Malon [delay]
Kuikka
Salvio
Cathixia [pinned]
Leon [grappled, assuming you are continuing to do your stated plan to tie up the scroll weilding woman, need your rolls to maintain grapple and the tie up. You will most likely succeed, just don't roll a 1.]
Neevindi -8 [prone, unarmed]
Cara [??? attacking rogue?]

Thinking about this more, Cara, it seems you are attacking the rogue. I will move you over. Just need Leon's rolls

Cara seeing the woman move to get away, moves quickly to stop the rebellion. She slices through the woman sending her to the ground bleeding again. Neevindi -21hp and dying again.

@Nate, I believe Leon gave you the rope to climb before. I also assume you gave it back to him.

Ah, yes. Nate will assist in trying the woman up.

"This is where we can get some answers, I think."

Malon helped tie up the survivors with the rope, waiting on any new threats to appear.

Salvio's agile mind quickly processes the information from the laborers. Unfortunately, his lack of tact rapidly becomes obvious. "Well, Makeem, I have some bad news--at least to start with. You're in a, a sort of magical bubble, and we don't know how to get you out of it yet. Our, ah, return method won't take extras. At least you won't have to keep working for them--" He indicates the Aspis agents. "--and we can leave some cold-weather gear here when we go back." Boy, that sounded much better in my head.

The brute pulls out some of his extra rope and attempts to wrap it around the lady.

Improved Grapple vs. CMD - shaken plus keeping grapple: 1d20 + 10 - 2 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 10 - 2 + 5 = 16

He looks over at the re-amost-killed enemy, ”Hey uh, I ain’t gunna judge, butcha evah heard of usin da flat parta da blade? Speciully ifya don wanna kill.”

Leon has lots of rope for this specific purpose. The pre-grappled rope plus two more fifty foot sections.

Correct, Kuikka did not have her weapon out.

Kuikka sighs and looks skyward. "This is why I don't help people before we are done, Great One." She draws shifts her opposite hand to the greataxe, steps forward, and slashes at the woman.

greataxe: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23 for slashing: 1d12 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19 (of course)

greataxe, power attack, crit roll: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (17) + 4 - 1 = 20 for slashing: 2d12 + 14 ⇒ (5, 10) + 14 = 29

She looks sadly down at the woman. "I gave you the chance to live."

Kuikka, I think Cara dropped her already.

o_O;;; Or maybe I can't read? I'm not entirely certain who is up and who is not right now.

Combat over! Cara dropped the woman, which is fortunate,because she would have been chopped in half by kuikka. Let me know if you want to stabilize her again. She is close to death. I will hand wave the checks. There are enough people with action left to save her if you want.

Leon continues to hold the struggling woman firmly. He then ties her up and gages her.

Nate puts his own touches on the bindings to help out.

The central sanctum falls eerily quiet with the end of battle.

I will post the discription of this area again soon. If you are curious you can look back at the spoiler prior to combat that has the description. Just tell me what your character is interested in looking out or doing and I will post more as you all look around.

Nate would like to search the bodies, especially the scroll wielder. Assuming they also have cold weather gear...
Speaking toward the slaves, "Here are some coats and things. There are more out there by the entrance. Keep warm until we can figure things out here."

"There might be a fire in the sanctum, too. And some food and water."

He waits for a response from the newly-liberated slaves before returning to the larger room to investigate it further.

On the whip wielding man, you find a scroll

On the roguish woman, you find a potion

On the scroll weilder, you find a scroll

On the desk is a detailed stylized map of the Vudran peninsula.

A heavy, larger statue has been wrapped in blankets and tied with tough twine, and lies on its side beneath Cathixia’s desk.

The slaves continue to stay in the corner. If you bring them cloaks and blankets and such they will use them. They are hesitant to get close to the Aspis folks.

"Whoa, jackpot. Let's see..."

No Spellcraft here

Perception map DC 10: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Perception crates DC 15: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Perception desk DC 15: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

"Oh, um, it looks like there might be another scroll inside of this map. Someone else will need to take a look."