[Gameday XII, PF2/Farol] #4-07: A Most Wondrous Exchange! (Inactive)

Game Master Farol

Please dot and delete, game start at 4th of September

You are called into the Grand Lodge for a briefing by chief archivist Zarta Dralneen. They convene in the vaults beneath the lodge, in an office lined with bookshelves and ancient relics in glass cases. An ornate treasure chest rests at the foot of the solid oak desk where Zarta is busily writing.

Zarta holds up a finger, scribing a few lines on the page in front of her before looking up. "Good, you’re here. Thank you for coming; I fear our newer agents lack the experience necessary to handle some of the tasks at hand." She gestures to the chest at the foot of the desk. "This is Biglock, who’s been unusually quiet. Aren’t you going to say hello, Biglock?"

The front of the chest splits open into a gaping, toothy grin. "Just trying not to interrupt the briefing—until it’d be funny." Zarta shakes her head, though the corner of her mouth quirks up in a smile. "Biglock, as you can see, is cursed with a sense of humor. He and his associate, Mr. Glovely, will be giving you the details on these missions. As some of you may recall, we recently obtained a treasure vault formerly held by the Onyx Alliance. They entrusted it to us after a tangle with the night hag Aslynn; it appears there’s something in the vault she wants. To make sense of her plans, it’s vital we properly catalog and secure the vault’s contents. In the process, we’ve found some items that require additional attention. You’ll be heading to the Grand Bazaar to consult with merchants about four of these treasures, as their expertise will be invaluable in identifying, fixing, or locating the items in question."

Images of Mr. Glovely and Biglock are in the Slides

The dwarf wearing a strange breastplate and carrying a Dwarven war axe introduces himself: My name’s Dran’Thil from the family of Dran’Thor and from the clan of Torgin. How much time do we have to accomplish these tasks?

An orc wearing glasses and carrying a comically undersized shortbow lumbers into the room, and his voice is unexpectedly reverent.

"Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Reverend Dran'Thil. Good morning, Mistress Dralneen. Good morning, Master Biglock. My name is Aktuh. I'm happy to assist in finding and fixing things."

Aktuh holds up a partially cursed bottled air. It looks to be about 226/320 of the way to being uncursed. Aktuh is uncursing items through a Vigilant Seal boon.

He’s an elf with a leather armor. On his belt he has a dagger. On his back he has a shortbow. On his right hand is a ring. Hello my name is Fin-thir. The ranger is waiting for the answer to Dran'thil’s question.

Rhiuzzk stands tall, their matte-black hellnkight plate not so much gleaming but absorbing all the light around as though it were some sort of black hole. Their scaled and guantleted hands reveal their ancestry as Iruxi.

Looking to their companions Rhizzuk introduces themselves "Rhizzuk, paladin of Erecura, Queen of Dis. I will do me best to protect you all from harm and smite our foes."

"I'm really hoping we don't need such things on a shopping trip, but being where we are and who we are - not to mention who's stuff we might be dealing with - I appreciate it."

The speaker is a young, pretty sprite accompanied by a brutish, wolf-like animal. She flits about on glowing wings, zipping right up to BigLock and Mr. Glovely to say hello, while her eidolon (easily identified as such by the glowing tattoo emblazoned on his shoulder that matches the pattern of her wings) sniffs the air for trouble. Satisfied, he settles onto the vault floor.

Eventually done introducing herself - "Call me Raindrop!" - and poking about, she flops on top of him and makes herself comfortable.

A goblin wearing an ill-fitting tuxedo leans forward to carefully examine the talking chest. "Interesting."

In addition to the tuxedo, the goblin wears a top hat that is much too small for his oversized goblin head. It is secured by a length of string tied underneath his chin. Turning to the rest of the group he adjusts his cracked spectacles that are also too small and secured with more string before introducing himself. "Good morning everyone. I am Hobbs Picklesmith. I am a practitioner of the eldritch arts. In layman's terms you might call me a wizard." He tips his hat to reveal a tiny hedgehog underneath.

The hedgehog wiggles her nose and makes her introductions. "Hello everyone! My name is Erinac..." Her words are muffled as Hobbs replaces his hat atop his head.

The dwarf wearing a strange breastplate and carrying a Dwarven war axe introduces himself: My name’s Dran’Thil from the family of Dran’Thor and from the clan of Torgin. How much time do we have to accomplish these tasks?

Biglock smiles showing his full teeth "Well, we have 4 items to check, and I will expect for each of them to take couple of hours, so I expect we have two days. Unless you want to impress Zarta and do it all in one!" the chest responds

A goblin wearing an ill-fitting tuxedo leans forward to carefully examine the talking chest. "Interesting."

Biglock squints his eyes looking at Hobbs "Interesting indeed! A goblin in a tuxedo, have you seen anything like that Glovely?" Biglock turns towards his handy assistant who shrugs with a use of his gloves

"I couldn't agree more with you!"

Biglock says to his associate to bring in the poison sword.

"Quite the blade, eh?" Biglock says cheerfully, as Mr. Glovely gingerly holds out a glowing green sword. The blade is chipped and cracked, leaking an unpleasant liquid into the bottom of its translucent sheath. "Or it would be, if it were intact. Don’t take it out of the sheath! It’s made from abysium, a poisonous skymetal, but it’s been damaged. The thing’s leaking all over the place, contaminating everything else in its storage area. We’ve got to get it fixed soon, but skymetals are hard to come by. The only supplier in Absalom is a fetchling by the name of Tesyovensku, who runs a warehouse in the bazaar. Zarta wants you to negotiate purchase of an abysium ingot from them to fix the sword. Easy peasy—or so you’d think, but Tesyovensku has had some run-ins with the Onyx Alliance leader’s agents, so they might be hesitant to touch a job relating to them, even tangentially. The Society’s already arranged a meeting, so your mission is to win them over. Oh! And bring some tea if you can. Tesyovensku always offers customers Shadow Plane teas during business negotiations, so if you bring a gift of your own, it might help your first impression!"

Biglock lends you a messenger’s ring, embossed with the Pathfinders’ insignia above a small beagle, to verify your identities to Tesyovensku.

On your way there you can look for a suitable tea for negotiations elsewhere in the Grand Bazaar with Diplomacy or Society check.

On their way to the Bazaar, the dwarf lets his hireling asks around to find a good tea.

Diplomacy, hireling expert: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

"Ooo, excellent find. This will work perfectly."

"Speaking of things that might work, Tesyovensku is a bit smitten of Ralliadra but isn't sure they can trust her. We could vouch for the Mistress of the Rose!"
(( The Resplendent Rose is a music shop in the bazaar. ))

Two loading doors open onto the floor of this large warehouse, with stacks of lumber and sealed barrels lined up against the walls inside. A colorful fresco is painted on the western wall of the otherwise utilitarian building, depicting various fey creatures and centaurs frolicking amid a lush green forest.

On the warehouse’s eastern side, a smaller interior office juts from the wall, its windows overlooking the fresco. The door bears an engraved plaque reading "By Appointment Only."

When you walk in, you see an odd creature. Their skin is grey, and as you enter they wear a pair of goggles. "Customers, how can I help you?" They greet you pleasantly but warily

Rhizzuk answer "We are Pathfinders, I believe we have an appointment."

Raindrop nods along.
"Yup, that's us. We even brought you a little something!"

Aktuh smiles politely as they offer the tea. "We need to fix a sword," he says. "A sword made of abysium," he says a little more quietly.

The dwarf simply shows the satchel of tea.

"Beware of Pathfinders bearing gifts" Tesyovensku chuckles but you can sense that he is not all that friendly to you

"That is some fine quality tea, let me brew it and we shall talk about the abysium."

Tesyovensku begins to boil water and heats the pot, later on taking time to rinse the leaves and steeping tea. In the air you can smell the aroma of jasmine and white tea.

"So, before we start is this your main purpose of visiting the Bazaar?"

Before starting the negotiations, you can attempt a Diplomacy check or a DC 18 Mercantile Lore check to Make an Impression on Tesyovensku. This check may grant you bonus to the checks during negotiations.

Diplomacy, hireling expert: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17

We came here to meet you indeed. That’s right.

Earlier in the day...

Hobbs Picklesmith wrote:

A goblin wearing an ill-fitting tuxedo leans forward to carefully examine the talking chest. "Interesting."

Biglock squints his eyes looking at Hobbs "Interesting indeed! A goblin in a tuxedo, have you seen anything like that Glovely?" Biglock turns towards his handy assistant who shrugs with a use of his gloves

"I couldn't agree more with you!"

Slightly taken aback, the goblin replies defensively. "It may be a bit worse for wear and a little bit old-fashioned but it's my father's tuxedo. We wore it when he married my mother two hundred and three years ago. Besides, which fashion trends tend to be cyclical. I anticipate ancient formalwear to be the the height of fashion very soon."

Currently...

Hobbs wrinkles his nose at the tea. He pulls out a sack and reaches impossibly far inside, pulling out an additional, far better gift. He smiles broadly as he unscrews a jar of pickles. Wafting the open jar underneath his nose he inhales deeply and sighs. "The perfect complement to a cup of tea. He offers everyone a pickle. These came out quite nicely. Mama had some excellent cucumbers this year. She was also able to cross-breed some rather spicy peppers. I managed to combine them into some exquisite spicy pickles. I think these must be my best yet."
He holds out the jar, offering a very spicy pickle to anyone wishing to partake.

diplomacy-make an impression: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (13) + 16 = 29

"Why, yes, it is. As you can guess, we stopped on the way here to pick that up," she gestures to the teapot, "and I'd like to swing by the Rose on the way back to the lodge, but the metal is our primary goal."

After a moment, she smiles and asks conversationally, "Why do you ask?"

"Our purpose is to fix a sword," Aktuh explains. "Our task is to find some skymetal with which to fix it. We heard you are one of the few to have the expertise in dealing with this dangerous metal."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

The ranger tries to make an impression on Tesyovensku.

Diplomacy:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

Rhizzuk stares as only a Hellknight can, holding off his ire and giving his silver-tongued allies a chance to resolve things peacefully first.

Tesyovensku offers you a cup of hot tea and asks you to sit.

"Ok so you are interested in buying the skymetal. I can see on the hilt of the sword that you are carrying is the Onyx Aliance seal. I had troubles with that group and I am not interested in them getting my products."

Here comes the negotiations, you can use the following suggested skills, you can also use another skill, assuming that it makes sense. For the first round those are:
- Pathfinder Society Lore
- Diplomacy to assuage Tesyovensku’s concerns
about the Society’s ties to the Alliance
- Crafting check to emphasize the danger posed by the sword.
- Society check to speak of their interest in Ralliadra
- Any other check

"And before you get started, I have a scholar interested in buying my stock of skymetal for some academic purposes. I think he wants to test its properties., why would I sell it to you?"

For the second round you can use the following suggested skills:
- Arcana and Engineering Lore
- Diplomacy
- Any other skill that you feel is important

You get a bonus point for the tea, and most of you (who passed the check) will get a bonus modifier to their skill cheks for making an impression

Crafting: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (8) + 19 = 27

"This is an abysium sword that we recovered from the Shadow Plane, a dangerous weapon sought by dangerous foes. We must repair it so we know what it does, or destroy it so nobody can know what it does."

Arcana: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20
Metagamey, but I think that's going to be a fail and Aktuh's supposed to be good at this.
Arcana, Hero Point: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (16) + 17 = 33

"Oh, others want the metal to run scientific experiments? How quaint! Tell me, Tesyovensku, are you a purveyor of trinkets, to be examined intellectually by a bunch of ivory tower theorists? Or would you rather this metal - which could not have come to you cheaply or easily - be wrought for the goodness of all the peoples of Golarion?"

Rhizzuk explains "Where do you think we got the sword from? Only a fool would use such a blade in combat, it's as much a danger to the wielder that any enemy on the battlefield."

warfare lore: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

Rhizzuk then stares down the merchant. "You would sell what is soon to be our metal... to someone else..."

intimidation: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (5) + 17 = 22

The dwarf asks his hireling to take again the lead.

So you see, Sir, you do not need to be concerned by the Pathfinder Society as they try to avoid issues for all Golarion.

Diplomacy, hireling expert: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 12 + 1 = 24

If you sell it to us you will take a decision full of wisdom because the Pathfinder Society will make experiments as well of course but in a context and with precautions not to hurt anybody and not to risk something for Golarion.

Diplomacy, hireling expert: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 12 + 1 = 27

We brought the dangerous, leaky thing with us?!? Oi vey.

"Oh, that symbol? Pfft. Just a reminder of a previous owner. I'm sure the smith will take that off when they reforge the blade... or whatever it is they're going to do."
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (2) + 16 = 18 Pretty lousy but hopefully not a crit fail

"Don't you find academics just sooo boring and stuffy? You've gotta have a bit of adventurer in ya, right? You know you'd rather side with us and help us get the Big Bad Evil Sword (tm) fixed. Makes for a good story. Makes for a better song... Oo, I wonder if I could get Ralliadra to write one..."
With a wink, she adds, "I mentioned we were headed there next, didn't I?"
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (13) + 16 = 29

We are still missing 2 players to roll, but I might not be able to post later on, so I will move us now. Feel free to make your rolls, if it make difference I will retroactively change the outcome ;)

Tesyovensku nods "Well your arguments are almost as good as this tea that you brough. " he reaches out for a piece of paper and quickly prepares the paper work.

"Since you came professionaly to that matter, here is something extra for you." And they give you two pieces spellstrike ammunition type III

With the sealed deal you go back to meet Biglock "Ha! Nicely done, you secured the purchase of skymetal so we can now fix the sword. Just make sure that it did not leak on your back, as that would be unfortunate..." the chest smiles.

Biglock grins as Mr. Glovely’s hands gesture over him in an exaggerated shrug. "What treasure do I have this time, you ask? Well… we don’t have it. At least, we don’t anymore. The Pathfinders found a clockwork familiar in the vault. Zarta thinks its internal memory could have information about the Alliance, which might be handy in the future. But the little critter’s absconded; we thought it was inactive, so we didn’t expect it to escape. It was spotted scampering through the Grand Bazaar the other day. Zarta suspects it’s taken refuge with the Clockwork Caravan of Sihn Siphandon—he’s a traveling inventor who passes through the Grand Bazaar sometimes, and it’s exactly the sort of thing he’d take an interest in. But you’d better hurry and find him before his caravan moves on!"

Mr.Glovely passes you a key and greater crafters eyepiece. Biglock says

"You should be able to use this key use it on the familiar to render it dormant for easy transport, though I don't expect it’ll be hostile"

The ranger tries to speak of their interest in Ralliadra.

Society:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

The ranger says: Best thing for you is you sell it to us.

Diplomacy:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20

Sorry. I had composed a post at work and got distracted by actual work. Looks like it didn't actually post. I'll recreate it as best as I can. Dice rolls should still be the same.

"This sword is extremely dangerous. It's mere existence is a threat to all nearby. You of all people should be aware of that. You would just allow it to cause harm when you have the ability to prevent it? Are you indeed so self-absorbed?"

crafting: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29

"You say you do not wish for your skymetal to find their way into the hands of the Onyx Alliance yet you choose to sell your goods to a lone scholar rather than a highly skilled guild of experienced adventurers? That seems a bit contradictory does it not?"

arcana: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (7) + 18 = 25

Cool three extra successes ! Nicely done.

You head back towards the bazare, you slowly begin to learn to walk in this sea of people. Passing by stores and merchants, hearing yells "Come on in!", "The best axes South of Linnorm!", "Come and try those dates there are to die for!".

With an array of colorful tents and stalls surrounding a crystal-clear fountain, this plaza would normally be buzzing with activity and cheer. Today, it is in utter chaos, as a horde of screaming shoppers rush away from a curious clockwork wagon, upending tents and stalls as they flee. Battered clockwork creatures are arrayed around the wagon, bearing blackened scorch marks and deep gashes. More clockwork creatures are smashing at the caravan’s doors in an attempt to reach its occupant, a disheveled, dark-haired man taking cover behind a broken window. "If you’re here to see the caravan," he calls, in between ducking flying shards of metal, "I’d suggest you come back later! But if you’re here to lend a hand, I won’t turn it down!"

A human is standing on the wagon trying to fend off some clockwork creatures, one of which can clearly casts spells!

You can see three clockworks carrying halberds who are trying to get to a cart, next to them stands a clockwork clearly being able to cast spells. Will you interfere?

★★★
Clockwork orange Round 1

Party Conditions: Party!
Terrain: Bazaar
Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Aktuh (82/82 HP)
➤ Fin-thir (102/102 HP)
White (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Blue (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Rhizzuk (99/99 HP)
Raindrop (97/97 HP)
Dran'Thil (138/138 HP)
Hobbs (72/72 HP)
Red (-0 HP)
Green (-0 HP)

Aktuh draws his shortbow ◆ and Devises a Strategem against the closest construct, in case we need to fight.

◆ Devise a Strategem: 1d20 ⇒ 17
◇ Known Weaknesses: free Recall Knowledge with Devise, Crafting +19

The shot is too good to pass up, so Aktuh fires.

◆ Shortbow: 17 + 16 = 33
Piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 = 8 plus Precision: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6
Crit?: 1d10 ⇒ 4

The ranger steps and hunt prey the green.

Then he fires on the green. (Hunted shot)

+1 striking flaming comp. shortbow:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (15) + 17 = 32

Damage, flaming:2d6 + 1 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (5, 3) + 1 + 2 + (3) = 14

+1 striking flaming comp. shortbow:1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 17 - 4 = 29

Damage, flaming:2d6 + 1 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (5, 1) + 1 + 2 + (3) = 12

Aktuh knows those creature as clockwork soldier, he believes them to be vulnerable to electricity and be very alrert. Have attack of opportunity

Aktuh draws his bow and shoots. The arrows hits the chesis clearly, and Aktuh spots that it resists some of the hit. Hit, almost crit, -9

Fin-thir focuses on another construct and sends two arrows. First hits the creature in a vulnerable spot, while the other hits nearby. Crit + hit -22 + 1d10 burning

deadly damage: 1d10 ⇒ 1

One of the clockworks slowly moves towards pathfinders and strikes with halbeard at Rhizzuk

Halbeard@Rhizzuk: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (5) + 18 = 23
Damage, p: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

But the creature misses.

The clockwork mage waves his hands and soon from the ground reach tentacles.

Tentaclesvs fort DC: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (7) + 20 = 27

Damage, b: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 2) = 6

Only Dran'Thrill avoids the tentacles, while Hobbs is hit more than others

In the circle each turn, the tentalces will try to grab you and will inflict damage at the end of turn. Hobbs crit fail -12

Then the mage shields himself

"Eliminate intruders!"

★★★
Clockwork orange Round 1

Party Conditions: Party!
Terrain: Bazaar
Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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Aktuh (76/82 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Fin-thir (96/102 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
White (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Blue (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
➤ Rhizzuk (93/99 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
➤ Raindrop (91/97 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
➤ Dran'Thil (138/138 HP)
➤ Hobbs (60/72 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Red (-9 HP)
Green (-22 HP) │ burning 1d10

85 HP, actually - the eidolon would be hit and grabbed same as Raindrop.
More importantly, can the tentacles be attacked? That DC is probably out of reach for my wee sprite.

I thought that for area damage only one of the summoner and the eidolon takes the damage.

You're right! Man, it's been a while... it's that we suffer the worst result, not double the effect.
So still 91 HP, that's good.

We should figure out who's carrying the key.

Rhizzuk avoids the construct but can't dodge the tentacles.
Rhizzuk resists 3 bludgeoning from Mortification (As well as Mental and Slashing 4) so 96/99

Rhizzuk flexes and tries to break free from his personal tentacle.

athletics DC 28: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (17) + 18 = 35

Free of his Tentacle Rhizzuk steps out of the field before striking at blue.

hammer time vs Blue: 1d20 + 16 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 16 - 5 = 18
bludgeoning damage: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (7, 6) + 6 = 19

Escape, Step, Strike

Rhizzuk has Retributive Strike and Ranged Reprisal and he'll protect the first ally who gets hit where can can make his strike without stepping back into the tentacles.

Aktuh is Vigilant Seal and would probably be holding the key, as well as anything else that could even be remotely dangerous (or anything that nobody wants to hold).

Hobbs has recognize spell. He can automatically recognize any arcane spell of less than 6th level and I (Halgur) am pretty certain I know what the spell is and that it is in fact arcane. He also gets a check to recognize it and on a critical success he gets a +1 to his save. He cannot get less than a success if it is an arcane spell of 6th level or less. arcana: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30

That crits a level 3 spell only. Not enough for black tentacles. It is black tentacles right?

acrobatics, escape: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15

Hobbs tries to escape, to no avail.

flat check DC5 manipulate: 1d20 ⇒ 2

He attempts to cast a spell and is checkmated by the writhing tentacles.

◆ Escape, ◆◆ cast a spell

"If I were a more vulgar goblin I might be tempted to utter some foul language right about now."

Yeah, black tentacles was my guess. In which case, yes, can attack to escape...

The eidolon savages the tentacle holding him while Raindrop attempts to wriggle free from hers.

◆ Act Together -> Strike Jaws: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (13) + 16 = 29 for 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (3, 6) + 6 = 15 piercing damage.
◆ Act Together -> Escape Acrobatics: 1d20 ⇒ 1 Well, no more of that.

Having heard the warnings about the soldiers' abilities, Raindrop controls the eidolon's anger enough that he moves cautiously towards the closest one.

◆ Step
◆ Step
Any attack would be -10 anyway - not worth provoking

Fortunately not affected by the spell, the dwarf moves away from the tentacles and draws his Dwarven war axe and his whip.

Rhizzuk escapes, moves and attack, missing the target.

Hobbs easily recognizes the spell, but he neither can escape nor he is able to cast a spell. Could you please declare the spells before flat check as that spell is 'wasted'

Dran'thil moves, and draws his weapons.

Raindrop triers to escape, but she fails, fortunatelly her creature obliterates the tentacle holding them and moves closer.

Green clockword moves closer and strikes Rhizzuk

Swoosh@Rhizzuk: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32
Damage, s: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

The other clockwork moves closer to the dwarf and attacks him

Swoosh@Dran'thil: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (12) + 18 = 30
Damage, s: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Swoosh@Dran'thil: 1d20 + 18 - 5 ⇒ (19) + 18 - 5 = 32
Damage, s: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

All three strikes draw blood. Rhizzuk -16, Dran'thill -25

The man on the cart yells "If you could not destroy at least one of them, I would be most greateful!"

Burn: 1d10 ⇒ 31d20 ⇒ 16

Clockwork burns some but the fire stops

★★★
Clockwork orange Round 2

Party Conditions: Party!
Terrain: Bazaar
Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Aktuh (76/82 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
➤ Fin-thir (96/102 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
White (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Blue (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Rhizzuk (80/99 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Raindrop (91/97 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Dran'Thil (113/138 HP)
Hobbs (60/72 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Red (-9 HP)
Green (-25 HP) │

When taken down you have 1 round to stabilize clockwork using crafting, then you can use the key to make them harmless

Devise a Strategem: 1d20 ⇒ 1 vs most damaged (Green?)
Known Weaknesses, Crafting +19

I don't need a concentration check or anything to Concentrate while Grabbed, do I? I did a quick scan and I don't think so.

Meh, looks like it didn't matter.

Without a clean shot, Aktuh tries to Escape.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25

With little other recourse, Aktuh will fire an improvised shot at the second most damaged (Red?)

Shortbow, MAP: 1d20 + 16 - 5 ⇒ (14) + 16 - 5 = 25
Piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 6) + 2 = 11
Crit?: 1d10 ⇒ 8

** spoiler omitted **

Fin-thir focuses on another construct and sends two arrows. First hits the creature in a vulnerable spot, while the other hits nearby. Crit + hit -22 + 1d10 burning

I made a mistake there so one more time crit 14*2 = 28 +1 (deadly = 29 + 12 (hunted shot) = 41 - resistance = 36

Aktuh sends and arrow hitting red clockwork, that makes another crack on its armor. Hit red -6

Fin-thir to go, I had a hell of a day, otherwise I would bot them.

★★★
Clockwork orange Round 2

Party Conditions: Party!
Terrain: Bazaar
Battlemap

──────────
BOLD IS UP!:
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Aktuh (76/82 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
➤ Fin-thir (96/102 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
White (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Blue (-0 HP) │ Crafting to recall
Rhizzuk (80/99 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Raindrop (91/97 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Dran'Thil (113/138 HP)
Hobbs (60/72 HP) │ Grabbed, DC28
Red (-15 HP)
Green (-39 HP)

The ranger tries to escape the grab.

Acrobatics:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (7) + 18 = 25 If success I steps twice. If failure I try again.

Acrobatics:1d20 + 18 - 5 ⇒ (10) + 18 - 5 = 23

Acrobatics:1d20 + 18 - 10 ⇒ (6) + 18 - 10 = 14