Sunshine has Focus healing, so he can take care of himself and be ready to go in 10 min, or if we're in a hurry, he can move forward without a Focus point.
Human (he/his) Fighter 6 HP 80/80 +5 temp| AC 25 or 27| F +12 R +11 W +11 | Perc +11 | Stealth +9 Speed:25 ft | Active Conditions: enlarge, clumsy 1| Hero Pts: 0
Laeron cleans his blade before stowing his weapon. Seeing Black Molly’s injury he says, “I can try to patch up that hurt. I’ve had a lot a practice, I can do a pretty decent job of it.”
If we are taking 10 minutes, Laeron will offer to Treat Wounds for Black Molly. Laeron is an Expert in Medicine and with Assurance (Medicine) can hit DC 20 without a roll. The healing result of 2d8+10 will automatically get Black Molly to max hit points, unless I am missing something.
Taking a few extra minutes to patch each other up doesn’t delay you long, and you quickly follow the path downhill. The way to the meeting site on the River Porthmos weaves through ramshackle homes and rundown businesses. The buildings’ long shadows hide intermittent potholes in the cobblestone streets. After a ten-minute trek, a short flight of stairs leads to a muddy, abandoned dockside neighborhood with several rickety piers. Gentle waves ripple across a pair of bodies lying near the shore.
One of the men’s faces is contorted in terror, and he is clutching his chest. The other man is covered in hundreds of puncture marks and bruises, his clothes thoroughly shredded.
DC 16 Medicine:
You are certain that the first man died purely of fright,while the other man was simultaneously beaten and bitten to death.
DC 23 Occultism check to Identify Magic:
You recognize the traces of a spell and realize that the first man was killed by a phantasmal killer spell.
As some of you are examining the bodies, I would take a Perception check to Seek from anyone interested in doing so. Otherwise let me know what you’re doing.
Klara:
There’s something odd about the rocks in the foundations of the buildings. Pointing this out to a teammate (using Clue In) will help guide their eyes to notice it too, and might help them react to danger more quickly.
Meaning please do the Perception check, and please use Clue In on someone. Succeeding at these Perception checks can give a bonus to Initiative in the next fight.
Your Pursue a Lead bonus does apply to both the Medicine and Perception checks.
Have we left the prison after search and becoming sure that no Pathfinders are hostages in there if so, Klara is ready to depart, as this Peddler seems worth confronting.
Arriving to the meeting site she nods suggesting Laeron to check rocks in the building foundation Clue In while she uses brain powers to think further.
Occultism:1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 10 + 1 = 13
Though the possible magic inside feels unfamiliar from the first perspective. Maybe bodies nearby distract her too much...
Shayna accepts the lute from Corelion. She strums a few chords and admits that it's a superb instrument. "The flute's my instrument, though," she smiles at the elf.
Human (he/his) Fighter 6 HP 80/80 +5 temp| AC 25 or 27| F +12 R +11 W +11 | Perc +11 | Stealth +9 Speed:25 ft | Active Conditions: enlarge, clumsy 1| Hero Pts: 0
Black Molly can retcon the Occultism check related to the magic used to kill the man using fear, but I’m going to move us along into the combat.
Sunshine, Black Molly and Klara all notice something very strange about the rocks in the buildings. They’re moving on their own and rolling uphill! Those three are then ready to act when the small pebbles and gravel begin to gestalt themselves into larger and larger and even larger masses. Which of course, then threaten the Pathfinders (cause when wouldn’t some crazy rock-swarm-creature not be inclined to hurt Pathfinders?)
Blue Bruiser:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22 Green Bruiser:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12 Red Brutalizer:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Dockside Round 1 The Docks Conditions: Bright light
BOLD May Act
Sunshine
Klara
Black Molly
Blue Bruiser
Shayna
Corelion
Laeron
Red Brutalizer
Green Bruiser
To clarify, Sunshine, Black Molly and Klara all happened to beat the DC of the Perception check, gaining a +1 untyped bonus to initiative, and then it just so happened that those were the three that acted before the critters. Just coincidence, no other mechanical benefit.
Device Stratagem :1d20 ⇒ 15
... And she immidiately finds a proper hold on the reliable slingstaff, swing and shoot down largest foe
dmg (total attack=26) with Strategic Srrike:1d6 + 1d10 ⇒ (6) + (10) = 16
Sunshine misses and Klara hits. She realizes as the stone sinks into the blobby mass that she's unable to target any specific body part in spite of it having a vaguely humanoid form. Though her stone does seem to have done some extra damage otherwise.
Immune to Precision damage, appears to maybe be Weak to Bludgeoning
@Shayna: Yes, for sure. You all certainly took 10 to do some healing.
Klara Devised her Stratagem and then attacked. That’s only 2 actions, so she still has a third action remaining.
Black Molly knows a thing or two about creepy death-spirit magic, but neither her nor the Cap’n’s attacks are accurate enough to hit the broad side of a spiritual elephant.
Sunshine’s opponent is the quickest to act and swings its large gravely fists at the ranger.
(KOOR-el-ee-un) M Elf Spellsinger 6 | HP (69/78) | AC 24 | F +11 R +12 W +11 | Perception +11 (Lowlight) | Speed 30
Corelion holds their weapon to the sky, granting it a certain weight, as they focus their combat prowess against blue before bringing down the halberd.
Human (he/his) Fighter 6 HP 80/80 +5 temp| AC 25 or 27| F +12 R +11 W +11 | Perc +11 | Stealth +9 Speed:25 ft | Active Conditions: enlarge, clumsy 1| Hero Pts: 0
Well after Shayna let's loose with her noise blast, Laeron steps forth to challenge the biggest and baddest rock monster to a bit of sword play. "Let's see what you're made of!" Laeron exclaims as he uses one hand to swing his sword, while using his free hand to try to pluck out one of the rocks to see what's going on!
Klara can tell that the smaller (Blue and Green) ones are not technically swarms in spite of being composed of thousands of cobblemites, but are instead aberrations. They do likely share one feature of swarms though, an immunity to mental effects that would target only one creature (Swarm Mind). The big one is a slightly different critter, so perhaps a further study of it might be warranted.
Corelion strikes one of the creatures doing far less damage than he would have expected. The stones seem to part of their own accord as his sharp blade slashes right through it with diminished effect.
Blue Fort DC 21:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29 Red Fort DC 21:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (13) + 17 = 30
Both creatures are affected, though less than Shayna would have hoped for.
Laeron challenges the largest of the creatures, though it doesn’t really seem to understand. Or care. A brief stutter in the flow of time takes what at first appears to be a miss and turns it into a crit!
Hero point used, but damage reduced for Resistance to Slashing.
Laeron spots the one to the north discorporate and begin burrowing through the earth beneath the building, disappearing from sight in the mud. Though he doesn’t have long to think about what he’s seeing before the biggest of the three tries to slam him into the dirt, too.
Fist Strike :1d20 + 16 ⇒ (8) + 16 = 24 Fist Strike :1d20 + 16 - 5 ⇒ (18) + 16 - 5 = 29 Damage, B:2d8 + 10 ⇒ (1, 2) + 10 = 13 Grab vs Fort DC 22:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16
He nimbly dodges from the first swing, only to get slapped by the other hand, and then dances away from its attempt to grab him.
Dockside Round 2 The Docks Conditions: Bright light
BOLD May Act
Sunshine
Klara
Black Molly
Blue Bruiser (-14, hunted)
Shayna
Corelion
Laeron (-13)
Red Brutalizer (-25, Off-guard)
Green Bruiser (Not visible)
As a reference, what you’ve observed or learned so far: Immune to Precision, Weak to Bludgeoning, Resistant to Slashing, Swarm Mind although not a Swarm. Not immune to Crits.
Klara reloads without thinking of next attack and aim to strike larger swarmish creature.
simple attack:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27 Dmg:1d10 ⇒ 4
She also analysing smaller (but still large) creatures to know more
Another action to RK regarding bruises. Especially wonder how they can be created or where came from
Captain Silverbeard misses, and Sunshine hits, though he’s clearly disappointed with how much less it hurts the creature.
Nuthin’ here:
Klara RK:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21
Klara knows that while cobble mites can be kept as pets or familiars, a swarm of them living in a city is rare, and a swarm taking on a humanoid form is unnatural. Decidedly unnatural.
Klara also hits, taking a chunk out of the big one.
The one next to Sunshine isn’t smart, but it knows that the bigger one wouldn’t like it if it tried to steal its meal(s). So it focuses on the snack to its south (Sunshine).
Fist Strike :1d20 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18 Fist Strike :1d20 + 13 - 5 ⇒ (2) + 13 - 5 = 10 Fist Strike :1d20 + 13 - 10 ⇒ (3) + 13 - 10 = 6
It groans in frustration as the slippery kayal dances away from each of its attacks.
Dockside Round 2 The Docks Conditions: Bright light
BOLD May Act
Sunshine
Klara
Black Molly
Blue Bruiser (-23, hunted)
Shayna
Corelion
Laeron (-13)
Red Brutalizer (-34, Off-guard)
Green Bruiser (Not visible)
As a reference, what you’ve observed or learned so far: Immune to Precision, Weak to Bludgeoning, Resistant to Slashing, Swarm Mind although not a Swarm. Not immune to Crits.
(KOOR-el-ee-un) M Elf Spellsinger 6 | HP (69/78) | AC 24 | F +11 R +12 W +11 | Perception +11 (Lowlight) | Speed 30
Corelion lashes out at both giant thingies with an electric arc, before slamming down their halberd on blue.
Electric Arc:4d4 ⇒ (3, 3, 2, 2) = 10 Basic Ref 21 for Red and Blue
halberd vs blue:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27 slashing+electric:2d10 + 8 + 1d4 ⇒ (3, 7) + 8 + (2) = 20 Also a d8 Precision that we don't care about. If that's a crit I'll move blue 5ft west from halberd crit.
Human (he/his) Fighter 6 HP 80/80 +5 temp| AC 25 or 27| F +12 R +11 W +11 | Perc +11 | Stealth +9 Speed:25 ft | Active Conditions: enlarge, clumsy 1| Hero Pts: 0
Laeron focuses on the power that is his birthright, saying "It's time for me to step up, and stand tall! I'm a giant when it comes to fighting evil, because my skills are on another level." With each statement, Laeron incredibly begins to grow in stature until he is well over ten feet tall! He brings his now massive bastard sword down toward the red brutalizer...
Shayna sends a handful of darts into the biggest of the bruisers, not doing much damage.
Red Reflex :1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16 Blue Reflex :1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Corelion zaps both, neither of whom are quick enough to get out of the way. His halberd then hits Blue. It seems to be losing cohesion and likely couldn’t survive another hit.
Three swings and it finally hits the big man like a fully loaded cargo wagon, though it seems sadly unable to get a grip on him.
Suddenly the missing one crawls out of the street itself, oozing up and reforming into its humanoid shape.
3 actions for 2 rounds to get there, no actions left this round.
Dockside Round 3 The Docks Conditions: Bright light
BOLD May Act
Sunshine
Klara
Black Molly
Blue Bruiser (-53, hunted)
Shayna
Corelion
Laeron (-55, Enlarge, Clumsy 1)
Red Brutalizer (-46)
Green Bruiser
As a reference, what you’ve observed or learned so far: Immune to Precision, Weak to Bludgeoning, Resistant to Slashing, Swarm Mind although not a Swarm. Not immune to Crits.
Level 5 summoner | AC 22/23 | HP: 68 | Fort 11, Ref 11, Will 10 | Spell DC 21 | Per 10 | Speed 25’
Molly starts at the creature rising up beside her. ”The hells!?”
She quickly glances toward Silverbeard, and takes a step closer to him while maintaining her enchantment. The old sea dog continues his assault on the big one.
- someone stands behinds this swarm... Thats all Cobbler deads!
Whispers Klara as she Reloading aand send another rock-bullet without even thinking with a sound RRHOW from slingstaff
[dice=simple attack huge "creature"] 1d20+9 [/dice]
Dmg:1d10 ⇒ 2
The brave haslfing reloads again, worring about clumsy fither injures.
Level 5 summoner | AC 22/23 | HP: 68 | Fort 11, Ref 11, Will 10 | Spell DC 21 | Per 10 | Speed 25’
RRho wrote:
- someone stands behinds this swarm... Thats all Cobbler deads!
Whispers Klara as she Reloading aand send another rock-bullet without even thinking with a sound RRHOW from slingstaff
[dice=simple attack huge "creature"] 1d20+9
[dice=Dmg] 1d10
The brave haslfing reloads again, worring about clumsy fither injures.
Black Molly shies away from the one that snuck into the back lines and boosts the Cap’n who sadly misses again.
Klara flings a stone at the biggest of the creatures…. As Molly said, we need a roll please. I’ll move us along, since even a Crit won’t kill it. As you are all about to see…. MWAHAHA!
Sunshine’s chain slices straight through the amalgam of stones like a knife through butter. The creature looks with confusion at what it thought was a snack just before it dissolves into a pile of individual cobble mites. Sunshine swings again at the swarm, and although it hits, it still seems to do less damage than he’d hoped it would.
Still the hunger drives it on, so the swarm flows around the side of the building and tries to grab Sunshine’s legs with a thousand tiny mouths!
Grasping Bites vs Fort DC:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
The kayal easily evades the many tiny grasping teeth, though the gravelly bits do get underfoot and make it hard to move.
This is now a new creature, with a separate stat block, so you can do a new Recall Knowledge check about the swarm. However, I’ll give you that it resisted some of Sunshine’s slashing damage. Also, I feel obligated to inform Sunshine that the swarm’s squares are difficult terrain.
Dockside Round 3 The Docks Conditions: Bright light
BOLD May Act
Sunshine Klara (Need Attack roll)
Black Molly
Blue Bruiser Swarm (-12)
Shayna
Corelion
Laeron (-55, Enlarge, Clumsy 1)
Red Brutalizer (-46)
Green Bruiser
As a reference, what you’ve observed or learned so far about the Big Ones: Immune to Precision, Weak to Bludgeoning, Resistant to Slashing, Swarm Mind although not a Swarm. Not immune to Crits.
Shayna yelps in fright as the Green Bruiser suddenly shows up beside her. She steps away and plays a lively tune on her flute before conjuring a mystical shield.
Human (he/his) Fighter 6 HP 80/80 +5 temp| AC 25 or 27| F +12 R +11 W +11 | Perc +11 | Stealth +9 Speed:25 ft | Active Conditions: enlarge, clumsy 1| Hero Pts: 0
"Uhn...this is getting desperate..." Giant Laeron speaks in a halting and dramatic fashion as he grips his sword in two-hands. "Time for the ol' Hail Desna!" he says as he goes for a massive swing at the Red Brutalizer!
Klara’s stone misses the Hugest of the beasts as Shayna fires up the crowd with a rousing song.
Laeron feels the pressure and in a desperate and heroic move chops straight through it, causing it to dissolve into a smaller pile of gravel!
Which Corelion then smashes and zaps back into inanimate pebbles!
Laeron’s Hero Point strike got a Crit! That (and that alone) put Red to 0 hp. It did become a swarm, but Corelion’s first strike did exactly enough to kill the swarm even accounting for Resistance. Corelion has an extra action.
Green has a bevy of targets available:
North to South :1d3 ⇒ 3 North to South :1d3 ⇒ 1 North to South :1d3 ⇒ 1
As a reference, what you’ve observed or learned so far about Green: Immune to Precision, Weak to Bludgeoning, Resistant to Slashing, Swarm Mind although not a Swarm. Not immune to Crits.
The Blue Swarm is now a different creature, with a separate stat block, so you can do a new Recall Knowledge check about the swarm. However, I’ll give you that it resisted some of Sunshine’s slashing damage. Also, I feel obligated to inform Sunshine that the swarm’s squares are difficult terrain.
Level 5 summoner | AC 22/23 | HP: 68 | Fort 11, Ref 11, Will 10 | Spell DC 21 | Per 10 | Speed 25’
When Molly is struck, Silverbeard staggers in the same way. He turns toward the bruiser with a shout, and swings his hook, sending an arc of shadowy energy toward it.
Silverbeard is finally able to connect, though the Lass is unable to escape. Meanwhile Sunshine and Corelion team up to scatter the swarm, sending cobble mites spilling across the road and into the water.
Dockside Round 4 The Docks Conditions: Bright light; Courageous Anthem!
BOLD May Act
Sunshine Klara
Black Molly (-28, Grabbed)
Shayna
Corelion
Laeron (-55, Enlarge, Clumsy 1)
Green Bruiser (-10)
As a reference, what you’ve observed or learned so far about Green: Immune to Precision, Weak to Bludgeoning, Resistant to Slashing, Swarm Mind although not a Swarm. Not immune to Crits.
The Swarms are a different creature, with a separate stat block, so you can do a new Recall Knowledge check about the swarm (@Klara: I’ll allow it even though there’s none there now, as they were just there and observable when Klara could have acted.) However, I’ll give you that it resisted some of Sunshine’s slashing damage and Sunshine knows that the swarm’s squares are difficult terrain.
Human (he/his) Fighter 6 HP 80/80 +5 temp| AC 25 or 27| F +12 R +11 W +11 | Perc +11 | Stealth +9 Speed:25 ft | Active Conditions: enlarge, clumsy 1| Hero Pts: 0
Laeron takes a few giant steps toward where Klara, Molly, and Shayna are combating the Green Bruiser. "Hello Ladies," he says, trying to be polite. "Cap'n," he says with a nod toward Silverbeard. "Pardon my reach," is his announcement for a massive swing down on the green bruiser!
