Rise of the Runelords

Game Master Veniir

Ethan takes a step forward and grasps his holy symbol.

"Stagfather, spare her!"

(casting Stabilize on Ano.)

I might have to post later. For some reason between this site and my ISP I just can't get anything to load or post, probably including this.

Arrian's Buffs and Modifiers:
Bless: +1 morale bonus to hit and on saves vs. fear.
Protection from Evil: +2 resistance bonus on saves and +2 deflection bonus vs. evil creatures.
Bless Weapon: Arrian's falchion is treated as +1 (although it does not grant an actual bonus) and good-aligned vs. DR/evil. Any crit threat is automatically confirmed vs. evil creatures.
See Invisibility
Divine Favor: +2 luck bonus to hit and damage.
Ferocious Loyalty (Alicia): Does not stack with Bless at this time. Now provides +2 (so +1 more) morale bonus to hit with Ano being reduced below 0 HP.
Judgement (Justice): +1 sacred bonus to hit.
Power Attack (2H - Falchion): -1 to hit for +3 damage.
Furious Focus: Penalty to hit on first attack is negated.

MW Falchion: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 7 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 222d4 + 5 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2, 3) + 5 + 3 + 2 = 15

Concealment, High is Good for me: 1d100 ⇒ 71

Arrian roars in fury and fights through the pain of his wounds to defend Ano.

"Bastard! Tonight you sleep in Hell!"

Thank god for bless weapon. That should tear through DR/magic.

Donimah gives an angry roar of her own as Malfeshnekor savages Ano.

"I'll send you there a little faster!" she adds to Arrian's claim, chanting a spell and slamming the butt of her whaling spear on the floor.

The ground beneath Malfeshnekor falls away.

"WAQA!"

Casting create pit under the 10x10 space Malfeshnekor occupies. He needs to make a DC 16 Reflex save to not fall in.

@Alicia: From what I read of hero's defiance, you roll lay on hands, you don't get the max automatically, unless there's something else from your character I forget.

Damn that was a hot round for us.

@Arrian: You had an extra +1 due to high ground.

Alicia shows what paladins are made of, slicing the beast with holy power. It is startled by the sheer ferocity of the attack. It turns its body towards her, ignoring everything else completely. Juriya throws the bomb at it, but it disappears right as the bomb reaches its face.

@Juriya: Blink works by shifting you to the Ethereal plane back and forth, so when it blinks away, it doesn't exist in this plane, so no splash, sorry.

Arrian does a tactical move, taking advantage that the creature is completely focused on Alicia. With his enchanted against evil creatures weapon, he slices it. Not expecting this, the creature collapses, letting out an angry sigh.

@Juriya: You're totally right. After Alicia's crit, it had 7 HP left, so the bless weapon made a huge difference.

@Doni: You can keep your spell if you like, or still create a pit to add some insult.

The group of heroes breathes relieved. They survived this encounter.

Everyone get a hero point for awesomeness!

There are some racks on the corners holding a lot of candles, 60 in total.

A single silver coffer sits on its side on one of the shelves in the western alcove. As you open it after verifying it's not trapped, you find it's filled with white sand.

I did roll the heroic defiance dice in my post (tuesday) before I would have went down, heros defiance rolls one extra dice, which means that due to fey foundling I get an extra +2 as well

Alicia rushes to Anos side and lay her hands upon her

lay on hands on Ano: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (4, 2) + 1 = 7

It is alas not enough to wake her just yet.

Arrian, could you keep slashing the fiend? Not that me or Ethan heals it back up by accident when channeling healing

Juriya rushes over, doing the job in anger without anyone needing to say anything, repeatedly marking and stabbing each and every vital she can remember on fiends.

Coup de Grace, Damage, Crit, Sneak Attack: 1d6 + 3 + 1d6 + 3 + 2d6 - 10 ⇒ (6) + 3 + (5) + 3 + (5, 4) - 10 = 16
Coup de Grace, Damage, Crit, Sneak Attack: 1d6 + 3 + 1d6 + 3 + 2d6 - 10 ⇒ (2) + 3 + (5) + 3 + (2, 6) - 10 = 11
Coup de Grace, Damage, Crit, Sneak Attack: 1d6 + 3 + 1d6 + 3 + 2d6 - 10 ⇒ (1) + 3 + (1) + 3 + (2, 2) - 10 = 2
Coup de Grace, Damage, Crit, Sneak Attack: 1d6 + 3 + 1d6 + 3 + 2d6 - 10 ⇒ (3) + 3 + (5) + 3 + (4, 5) - 10 = 13

And again and again and again. You get the idea. That one delicious in dungeon scene of "lungs, liver, kidney, HEART" where every single vital is stabbed is the idea. Don't know if any of the coup de graces will WORK, so it's more like flailing with her rapier. LMAO. Angry fox.

”May the Stagfather refresh and invigorate you,” Ethan intones.

Channel Energy, 2 uses: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 4, 3) = 15

As Ethan heals the group, Alicia sees what Juriya is doing and, drawing her polearm, happily participates

coup de Grace Lucerne hammer crit: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 3 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 4 + 3 - 2 + 1 = 25

coup de Grace Lucerne hammer crit: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 3 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 4 + 4 + 3 - 2 + 1 = 19

damage: 1d12 + 6 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 6 + 4 = 26
damage: 1d12 + 6 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 6 + 4 = 17

Yuriya, Ano, you want to try that one?

She asks, offering her massive polearm after delivering a very satisfying blow to the barghest

"My geometric approach works best with a rapier. Why do you see me never use anything else? That thing is so ridiculously heavy to these weak muscles, I'd probably only end up injuring myself," Juriya self-deprecates.

Maybe we can train to improve them? I could definitly use some of your flexibility in return! Maybe that would stop me from randomly hitting my head on random ceilings!

Alicia offers

The healing manages to make Ano’s eyes flutter open. She is still very much in a daze. “Wha…what happened? I…I hit that thing and then everything went dark…”

“Ano, you’re alive!” Cherry chirped, snuggling her face. He looked up with what can only be described as a bird’s version of a teary eyed expression, and said to Alicia and Ethan, “Thank you both…”

"There's saws for that," Juri quips. "Kitsune in general are weaker than most other humanoid races, and I'm even weaker than most kitsune barring my Dad who uh... let's not get into why he's like that. " Juriya says, pivoting away from her father's addiction.

She then hugs and turns her attention to Ano. "Ano! You're alive! You all managed to take veritable chunks out of that thing, and I and Alicia made ssure it's dead."

Seeing Malfeshnekor fall, and not from her spell, Donimah's eyes widen in panic and she tries to seize the magic energy before it manifests.

"No! NO! NONONONONONONO!!!" she barks as she claws into the air and yanks and flails. The ground beneath the dead barghest seems to vibrate a bit but remains in place and finally Donimah breathes out a sigh of relief. "I...I retained the spell!" she says. Then she grabs her head. "Ow, ow, OW! Now I know why we casters DON'T try to reverse a spell in the process of being cast. Juriya? I...don't suppose you can whip up some headache medicine?"

"I can help," Ethan offers. If she permits, he places a hand gently on Donimah's forehead. "May Erastil ease your pain."

(Using Calming Touch domain power to remove Donimah's headache.)

"Thank you, Ethan, and thank the Stagfather too," Donimah says politely.

She approaches Malfeshnekor's corpse.

"Arrian? Alicia? Can one of you take off his head? I imagine it'll be useful as a trophy, both to show Gogmurt he'd be smart to maintain the truce we currently have and maybe show to Sandpoint that Thistletop's threat really is neutralized for good."

Then she turns her attention to the loot they've found. She looks over the candles with her arcane sight and shrugs a bit.

"More everburning lights, just smaller. Simple enchantments, but useful ones. Think more than a few people in Sandpoint could make use of them. The goblins probably won't be interested in them, since their flames can't catch, and thus can't set bigger fires."

She's a bit disappointed upon discovering the coffer is full of sand, until she detects something magical within it.

"Interesting..."

She digs into the sand until she finds the ring.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

She turns it over in her fingers as she examines its enchantments, intuits the word that will activate it and slides it on her finger. Then she says the word and a translucent shield of golden light forms in front of her, in the shape of the sihedron rune. Her eyes widen with surprise and desire.

"This...is quite a treasure. It generates protective force that can be wielded like a weightless shield."

She frowns a bit.

"Obviously its nature as a piece of Thassilonian material culture is of interest to me, but considering how...close of a call the fight against Malfeshnekor was, maybe one of the more martial members of our band would benefit from its protection, like you Ano."

The problem with the Ring is that it needs to be wielded unlike the Shield spell. So the 2H weapon users (Ano, Arrian) would not be able to use a 2H weapon. It's a great find though!

Arrian helps Ano up, "Of course you're still alive. You're too tough to let a little critter like this bother you."

Arrian nods at Donimah, "My pleasure."

Measuring the beast up Arrian raises his falchion and brings it down in a powerful chop on the its neck, cleanly severing the head.

"Falchions are great for cutting. Man I could really chop the pot roast the The Hagfish in record time with this sword. Who is still hurt? We have the wands we can use to heal us up."

Basically who needs charges and about how many? Ethan channeled for 15 HP which raises Arrian to 27 HP.

channel: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 +1 from blessed touch trait

channel: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Kelinahat share thy blessings, for we fought hard against evil

Everybody heals for 10 as Alicia channels twice, she heals for 14.

Oh, a fellow Falchion friend? I am fond of them myself.

I do like the lucerne hammer against the undead, or when I need to reach out and touch someone nasty. My tail is actually quite useful for switching weapons. But I think sword and shield was the right call for this nasty thing.

I can also use greatswords though, Kelinahat says that, for adventuring, it is good if people use different weapons, so that they are more likely to be able of making use of whatever they find.

"Lucerne hammers look cool and we could use one to bash open a door or knock down a grate or something. And it's good to have different weapons for different opponents. That's why I purchased this cold iron rapier and this silver heavy mace just in case we need different materials. When I found out how much adamantine cost I almost passed out!"

Alicia's two channels has Arrian fully healed but Ano probably needs a charge or two from the wand. I just need to mark down how many so I don't forget.

half charged wand of CLW on Ano: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

half charged wand of CLW on Ano: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Alicia gently taps Ano twice with her wand of cure light wounds

Feeling better?

Alicia gently taps Ano twice with her wand of cure light wounds

Feeling better?

If Ano needs both charges let me mark off one of them from the wand Arrian has in his items.

Arrian searches the room for anything of value or any other doors or traps.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Alicia gently taps Ano twice with her wand of cure light wounds

Feeling better?

The catfolk staggered up with help from Arrian. "Yeah, a little. Thank you..."

She looks at the wound on her shoulder. "We better cover this up. If my m-Fosyo...sees that she's just gonna flaunt about how right she was...if not..."

Honest, bear those scars with pride. I will go around singing your praises, by having saved my life and vanquished a great evil

And proof to her that she was wrong, and you were right.

Your... Fosyo, sounds like one of these "reverse savants", you see, normally you need to be pretty wise and stuff to be mostly right about like, a few things?

And if you are wise or intelligent enough you are a savant yes?

But reverse savants exist, who are always wrong all the time, and well, they somehow manage to be always wrong all the time, which funnily enough makes them great advisors, as long as you always do the opposite of what they advise.

She pauses

Ethan places a hand on Ano. ”Let’s see if I can rectify things a little better,” Ethan says, grasping his holy symbol with the other.

Convert spell to cure moderate wounds: 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (6, 8) + 4 = 18

That gets up to full with 5 hp over

The pain has now fully subsided, and she smiled, “Thank you Ethan, that helped a lot.”

To Alicia, the catfolk sighs, “I don’t know if that’s the case. It’s…hard to persuade that she’s in the wrong. Even when my father was alive, she wouldn’t accept to back out of an argument unless she was winning it. She just got worse when he died.”

Lets try the double doors? It clearly cant get more difficult then this, right? Right? Alicia chuckles as she knocks on her wooden shield.

"I'm probably paranoid and read too many bestiaries. But yes. It can. "

"Let's get down to the business of ridding this place of its evil, once and for all," Ethan replies, an expression of steely resolve on his otherwise gentle face.

Cherry chirped, his feathers puffed up, "Are you serious?! We just got done dealing with that thing and you want to explore more?! Especially after Ano just-"

"It's okay, Cherry," Ano told the cardinal, petting him gently, "There shouldn't be more to this place. We'll be back home soon enough."

Arrian tries to calm Cherry, "We don't want anyone getting hurt again but the longer we ignore what's happening here the more jeopardy Sandpoint could be in. It means different things to different people but I think we also need to determine how much this complex is tied to Ancient Thassilon. I'm not a big believer in coincidences so if this site has a tie and under the Glassworks did and we've had trouble at both...seems like a connection worth exploring."

The group opens the double doors. Four pillars support the domed ceiling of this room. Several dark alcoves containing standing sarcophagi grace the walls, and a statue of a stern man wielding a glaive and holding a book stands in the southern part of the chamber.

Alicias eye flare blue as she scans the room for signs of evil.

She specifically looks at the glaive wielding statue, half expecting it to be some type of golem, before looking at the alcoves

Scanning for evil She announces from the entrance.

LOL: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (14) - 2 = 12
K History: 1d20 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 8 + (4) = 20

Juriya, both as expected and somewhat out of character (and her depth, she's easily outdone by the wizard on history) for her.

wisdom: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (19) - 1 = 18

I havent been to the "under sandpoint" indicated in the spoiler

So, this area is or was Greedland in Thassilon times?

Did they have countries for all major sins? Like, Lustania, Wrathtovia, Greedland, Pridedonia? Peoples democratic Republic of Envy?

Anyone betting that the Lust runelord was not an attractive redhead?

Alicia jokes as she scans the room

Alicia detects 3 sources of evil from within the walls. They stir at the party's entrance.

To arms, there is evil in the walls, 3 moving sources of it

She says calmly and conversationally.

Wisdom: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

A bit befuddled by Alicia's description he says, "I'll defer to Donimah to explain Ancient Thassilon but it seems their leaders, or Runelords, either embodied or supported certain 'sins' - sort of like deities with areas of concern and edicts."

Since he failed his check Arrian will ask Alicia about her insights later to try to learn the information in the Spoiler tag.

At the report of three sources of evil Arrian tries to determine what it is and where:

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Arrian can't really see, hear or smell anything weird.

This is sort of important: Is the group in the room or is Alicia doing this from outside? Also, sorry I didn't update the map yet. I'll do it tomorrow.

Arrian can't really see, hear or smell anything weird.

This is sort of important: Is the group in the room or is Alicia doing this from outside? Also, sorry I didn't update the map yet. I'll do it tomorrow.

It sounds like Alicia is doing the scanning from outside the room. Arrian was trying to use his darkvision to see if he could find the sources of evil.

Alicia senses it from the cracks on the stone wall.

Alicia senses it from the cracks on the stone wall.

When Alicia informs them where the evil is coming from Arrian draws upon his divine magic to scan the area for magical auras.

Also outside the room Arrian is casting Detect Magic to see if he can discover anything more.

Arrian doesn't detect any magical auras.

The group opens the double doors. Four pillars support the domed ceiling of this room. Several dark alcoves containing standing sarcophagi grace the walls, and a statue of a stern man wielding a glaive and holding a book stands in the southern part of the chamber.

Question: would we even need to make the history check, since Donimah identified Karzoug from the other statues?

"The 'Greedland' was called Shalast," Donimah says flatly.

And on the other hand, what kind of DC would Donimah need to hit to recall the names of the other kingdoms and their respective Runelords?