Prey for Death (Inactive)

Game Master andreww

Jax steals all the weapons, ammo and consumables on all 5 bodies before Tomas stuffs them in the closet, now that we are no longer staging the scene, we can steal the weapons. Just not the armor cause stealing the armor takes time.

if the closet does not fit, we can just put them in Orluks office

You quickl manage to hide the bodies in various different nooks and crannies. Someone will find them eventually but for now you are fine. Checking out their weapons you recover a number of different items.

Two magical spears and three magical greatswords. Most are wearing magical armour as well but that will take time to remove. You can IS the items but again that is 10 minutes per item unless someone has Quick Identification.

A quick check of the remaining rooms also reveals a few bits and pieces. The kitchen holds two items of interest, a mithril frying pan (standard grade) and an adamantine cleaver (functions as a hatchet, standard grade).

The officers mess contains a display on the wall which is clearly magical.

There is a magical katana, chain sword and meteor shield here.

At this point you have exhausted this level. You can head back to the upper level, descend to the ground floor or deal with the guards on the ramparts.

Are those castle windows/arrow slits in A12 and A11? Jax will look out the windows/arrow slits in A12. perception: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (18) + 20 = 38
stealth: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (11) + 24 = 35 just in case there are people down there, of course the environment of the arrow slits might provide its own stealth modifier, but I'll let the DM decide that.

"We should deal with the siege engines while the level is quiet." offers Sassarra. "Then we can go up and deal with the sleeping guards."

Agreed. We now know, how they fight and how to overcome them. If we surprise them, we can take them out.

The arrow slits look out to the sides, they do not overlook the areas where the siege engines are. You have previously seen that each siege weapon is manned by 3 guards, an officer and two guards.

I agree, let us destroy the siege weapons, it will give away we are here a little, but it would be better for our men to turn the tides of war.

OK, taking out the guards it is. There are two groups, one at each end with each siege weapon. Do you plan to attack both together or try to break them up in some way? You could try to lure one group inside to deal with them separately, if so I will need some sort of skill check to represent it. For that I think I will do it as a group check, each of you make one roll and we see how many successes you get. You can use any skill provided you give a sensible explanation for how it is relevant. You can also prebuff if you wish to do so. It a wild and windy night so they wont hear the sounds of spellcasting.

One thing to add, you can also earn infiltration points if you can neutralise a guard station/patrol. It does not have to involve killing them. If, for example, you can trap them all outside that would count. Obviously they would eventually find a way inside but the issue is, have you neutralised them for the duration of the infiltration. For example, the last group I ran this for used wall of stone to trap a bunch of sleeping guards in their quarters. I gave them the infiltration point on the basis that, if the alarm was sounded, it would take those guards a significant amount of time to get out.

even before reading your example, I thought about walling the, but that's a lot of walls, too many, I think. I'm blank on ideas to lure one group in. I'd prefer to just rush the first group and kill the before the second arrives. I could also cast Silence on myself and no sound would leave the area around me. But that means no spells.

Silence should work. I'm okay with it, and Tomas should be able to cope. Jax can fly or climb outside of the silence and he should be fine. I can also do a 20' burst of Impenetrable Fog. Not only does this provide concealment*, it is difficult terrain. When they get out of it, I can create another burst, but that takes three actions plus one next round to restart my aura.

What's more, if they are like the other three person patrol with one officer we just faced, the officer is a cleric with high level heal spells. We want him in the silence. And we have to keep him there. I have a reflex-based burst that makes difficult terrain. By flying, we ignore it, but it will slow them down. As you are both rogues, I'm assuming it will be fine to use.

* Technically by RAW, fog in PF2 does not impede attacks that start outside of the fog, pass through the fog and target somebody on the other side. Hopefully Andrew will add the logical extension.

"How about I try to convince them to come in, and you ambush them?"

* Technically by RAW, fog in PF2 does not impede attacks that start outside of the fog, pass through the fog and target somebody on the other side. Hopefully Andrew will add the logical extension.

Yes, absolutely. Tomas, if you are going to try and lure one group inside then go ahead and give me a Deception check. Everyone else can mae a skill check you think is relevant.

Deception: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (9) + 27 = 36

It isn't his best effort, but Tomas straightens his clothing, marches out, and orders the men out there to go into the building in his best imitation of a nobleman who has limited power.

Will try to hide near an area where Tomas is dragging them. stealth: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (12) + 24 = 36

If this does not work, be ready to be silenced. Jax, stay away from me. I will cast Silence and as soon as they are within my auras, you drop a fireball on us! Tomas, wait for my signal.
Just before Tomas opens the door, Skarn first splashes himself with water and 5 seconds later he hides in the opposite corner and activates his aura of unquenchable fire. Go!

casting Rousing splash for 7d4 ⇒ (1, 4, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3) = 17 temp hp. Then he casts Incendiary Aura (25ft radius)
Stealth: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (12) + 27 = 39

Okay, Skarn Waiting for the DM to give the go ahead before I can roll that fireball.

This would be a good time to use one if our prepared distractions, so that the other guard team does not look our way!

I agree about the distraction.

Sassarra will stay inside but call out weakly, "We need a healer"
deception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (17) + 22 = 39

I want to make sure that the officer goes in.

Your prepared distractions only help for failures on dealing with complications. I would have treated this as such a situation, essentially the who goes there complication but you have all passed.

Opening the door, the battlement guards are lured inside, as they enter Skarns silence spell they turn in shock, clearly realising something is up as the door closes on them.

Initiative

Jax : 1d20 + 24 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 24 + 2 = 27, Stealth
Skarn : 1d20 + 27 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 27 + 2 = 42, Stealth
Tomas: 1d20 + 20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 20 + 2 = 25,Stealth, +23 Perception
Sassarra: 1d20 + 26 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 26 + 2 = 44, Stealth

Thats an average of 35.

Patrol Inits: 3d20 ⇒ (8, 10, 6) = 24, they average a 30.

Just a note, please remember to include the consecrate penalty in your rolls.

The silence was comforting. And a strange contrast to the burning heat that also radiated fron Skarn. Without hesitation he slashed at the first two to enter, trying to set them ablaze.

◆attack Guard 1, off guard: 1d20 + 27 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 27 - 1 = 41
damage, slashing, presicion, fire: 3d6 + 8 + 3d6 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 2) + 8 + (6, 3, 4) + 1 + (3) = 35
plus 5d4+1 persistent fire damage
Debilitation: target is enfeebled 1

◆attack Officer, off guard: 1d20 + 27 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 27 - 1 - 4 = 36
damage, slashing, presicion, fire: 3d6 + 8 + 3d6 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 2) + 8 + (1, 4, 6) + 1 + (5) = 38
plus 5d4+1 persistent fire damage
Debilitation: target is enfeebled 1

◆Raise Shield

Sassarra flies to cut off the officer's escape, whipping him with lightning. She follows it up with an icy spear.

half move as part of 2-action blast. no AoO from mobility
elemental blast, 2a, agile, vs off-guard officer: 1d20 + 25 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 25 - 1 = 36
damage, E: 4d6 + 5 ⇒ (1, 2, 3, 3) + 5 = 14
elemental blast, 1a, agile, vs off-guard officer: 1d20 + 21 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 21 - 1 = 36
damage, P: 4d8 ⇒ (4, 7, 2, 3) = 16

Concealed until start of my next action, then invisible again. And all of the bad guys are flanked.

◆◆◆ Tomas will Mark the Officer for Death.

3 Actions, Jax will cast Wall of fire at its basic level. Though I did cast it through the enemies, via the red line, the spell specifically says when a creature passes through or starts their turn there, they take damage.

However, I will go ahead and roll damage for when they start their turn, or the DM can roll it, it is 4d6 fire and the 2d6 persistent from the aura. The Line is 5 feet thick, sorry it is messy.

persistent damage is rolled at the end of the target's turn and it's 5d4+1, not 2d6. And btw, it's not enemies-only, it's for everyone taking fire damage

persistent damage is rolled at the end of the target's turn and it's 5d4+1, not 2d6. And btw, it's not enemies-only, it's for everyone taking fire damage

Yes but only the enemies are touching the wall, allies are on either side of it. And thanks, didn't know it was 5d4+1.

Skarn viciously stabs the first guard in the knee. He then slahes the officer across the back of the hand.

Crit and a hit

Sassarra swoops in and blasts the officer twice, who reels at the attacks.

I assume Skarn will opportune backstab and so I have rolled it to save time. Skarn, in future, please feel free to roll it in a spoiler at the end of your posts.

Tomas makes his preparations while Jax conjures up a wall of flames.

Recovering from the initial shock the guards begin to react. The officer and Guard 2 are engulfed in flames from the wall of fire and then set on fire from Skarns aura.

All three of them draw weapons. The officer smashes his way past the table and brings his blade down at Jax but it goes well wide. The first guard strikes at Skarn but she is clearly so surprised that both blows go well wide.

The second guard also ducks out of the wall of fire and strikes at Jax, landing a powerful and bloody blow.

Jax is in a tight corner. That being said, I will wait until all of my allies go to see if they kill a guard in my melee range before I take my turn. Probably not, but I'll wait. On an unrelated note, what is happening to the table this is in my wall of fire? Does it catch fire, does a section burn away and does a destroyed table give us away, ie awareness? And if the table is on fire, does the fire spread to the rest of the table because it is wood?

Sassarra flies invisibly through the fire wall to follow them, barely noticing the heat. She focuses on the officer, driving a spear of ice through his chest.

wall of fire damage, minus fire resistance: 4d6 - 14 ⇒ (4, 6, 3, 2) - 14 = 1

fly, no AoO from mobility

elemental blast vs officer, 2a, off guard: 1d20 + 25 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 25 - 1 = 43
P damage: 4d8 + 5 ⇒ (7, 5, 7, 4) + 5 = 28
crit damage: 4d8 + 5 + 28 ⇒ (8, 8, 4, 8) + 5 + 28 = 61

Concealed until the start of my next turn, then invisible

Skarn was not happy with the Firewall, because it made the enemies move. Move out of his Aura of Silence, which would have stopped any potential healer from casting spells.
Skarn jumps on the table or moves through the table debris.

◆Athletics: 1d20 + 16 - 1 ⇒ (6) + 16 - 1 = 21

◆attack Guard 2, off guard: 1d20 + 27 - 1 ⇒ (10) + 27 - 1 = 36
damage, slashing, presicion, fire: 3d6 + 8 + 3d6 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 6) + 8 + (3, 2, 4) + 1 + (3) = 36
plus 5d4+1 persistent fire damage
Debilitation: more precision damage

◆attack Guard 2, off guard: 1d20 + 27 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 27 - 1 - 4 = 36
damage, slashing, presicion, fire: 3d6 + 8 + 3d6 + 1 + 1d6 + 2d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 2) + 8 + (4, 1, 6) + 1 + (1) + (5, 5) = 40
plus 5d4+1 persistent fire damage

wall of fire: 4d6 - 7 ⇒ (2, 3, 2, 6) - 7 = 6
Persistent fire damage: 5d4 + 1 - 7 ⇒ (3, 1, 3, 2, 3) + 1 - 7 = 6
DC 10 flat check to remove: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Tomas will get out his whip, move to flank the officer, and attempt to strike: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (3) + 27 = 30

He will look at his whip, look at his allies, and shrug his shoulders.

persistent fire, minus reistance: 5d4 + 1 - 14 ⇒ (1, 3, 4, 1, 4) + 1 - 14 = 0
saving throw: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Sassarra drives a spear of ice through the officers chest!

That is a crit.

As Skarn moves through the wall, the Guard takes a swing at him. Or would if he didnt have Mobility. (Please put a reminder for me about these things as I will forget and end up having to retro things. He strikes the guard with a pair of painful blows.

Tomas moves into position, drawing a strike form the second guard in doing so. Tomas just avoids a very nasty strike (I assumed you Nimble Dodged) He strikes at the flanked officer, connecting with his whip!

A 30 hits his off guard AC. I assume you would have had your weapons out for an ambush so you do not need to draw your whip. Go ahead and roll your damage for your strike, make your third action and roll your bleed and recovery.

Okay, so nobody died, Jax will take 2 5 foot step actions to get away so he don't provoke.
His 3rd action he will cast electric arc using quickened casting feat to turn that spell into one action.
Guards 1 and 2 take electric dmg: 9d4 ⇒ (3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 4, 2, 2) = 22 Spell Save DC is 32, Reflex
bleed dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 2 end bleed: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Whip damage (w/sneak attack): 1d4 + 5 + 3d6 ⇒ (1) + 5 + (6, 5, 4) = 21

◇ Debilitating strike: The guard is now Enfeebled 1

◆ Twist the Knife: The guard now has Persistent Bleed 3

Oops, electric arc is 8d4 at level 14. So that is 20 damage or 10 if they save.

Tomas lashes out at the officer.

Note, you had Marked him for Death so you get a +2 damage bonus against him.

Both of the guards manage to avoid the worst of the lashing electrical energy.

The first guard barrels through the wall of fire to attack Tomas, landing a heavy blow. The second guard focuses on him as well, before stepping out of the flank.

The officer engulfs Tomas in shadowy flames but they wash over him to no effect. Annoyed, he lashes out with his greatsword, landing a single blow. However, he then crumples to the ground, overcome by the flames.

1. small mistake that I didn't notice until now. Debilitations like enfeebled only last until end of next turn.
2. Can I use the You're next feat, because technically I killed the officer with my aura's flames?

Sassarra zips up through the air to provide flanking for her fellow assassins. She slashes out with blades of air.

free fly with 2a, no AoO from mobility

elemental blast vs g2, 2a, agile, off guard: 1d20 + 25 - 1 ⇒ (6) + 25 - 1 = 30
I think that misses even with off-guard

elemental blast vs. g1, 1a, agile, off guard: 1d20 + 21 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 21 - 1 = 35
slashing damage: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 6, 5) = 17

Concealed until the start of my next turn, then invisible

What, I ended my bleed effect after rolling bleed damage and taking 2 dmg, was I hit again?
Electric Arc guards 1 and 2 dmg: 8d4 ⇒ (1, 1, 4, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2) = 19 electric, spell save dc 32 reflex.
Shoot guard 1 hit: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (20) + 24 = 44 dmg: 3d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 5, 1) + 4 = 12 piercing dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 2 fire.

Oh, I critted, but just in case, rolling other things crit dmg: 1d10 ⇒ 2 deadly
bleed dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 2 in case I'm bleeding again flat check to end bleed: 1d20 ⇒ 18

round before:
↺ You're next! Intimidation Guard 2, visual due to Intimidating Glare: 1d20 + 26 - 1 ⇒ (10) + 26 - 1 = 35
Skarn's eyes visible burn and spit flames when he glares into the guard's eyes, making it clear, that the next seconds are his last.

this round:
Waiting for Sass to position himself, Skarn readies his backstabby sword again.

↺Opportune Backstab Guard 2, off guard: 1d20 + 27 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 27 - 1 = 41
damage, slashing, presicion, fire: 3d6 + 8 + 3d6 + 1 + 1d6 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 3) + 8 + (3, 5, 3) + 1 + (6) + (5, 3) = 48
plus 5d4+1 persistent fire damage
Debilitation: more precision damage
probably a crit, probably dead, waiting for confirmation

@Jax, I missed that you had ended your bleed, my roll was for Tomas as he didnt include it in his post.

Sassarra swoops down on the guards, catching one of them. Both guards try, and fail, to dodge the lightning. Jax then impales Guard 1 with his bow.

Skarn, Sassarra missed Guard 2 so no opportune backstab.

changing the narrative, keeping the rolls as first attack

Skarn was fully prepared to once again utilize the opportunity prepared by Sass, but his colleague strangely misses. No problem, I can do it myself, he thinks, because speaking does not work at the moment.

He ◆attacks the flanked guard twice.

◆2nd attack Guard 2, off guard: 1d20 + 27 - 1 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 27 - 1 - 4 = 39
damage, slashing, presicion, fire: 3d6 + 8 + 3d6 + 1 + 1d6 + 2d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 5) + 8 + (1, 6, 4) + 1 + (5) + (1, 5) = 44
plus 5d4+1 persistent fire damage
Debilitation enfeebled 1

Assuming this one will burn to ashes, he steps towards the last enemy.

◆ Feint vs Guard 1: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (8) + 27 = 35 vs Perception DC

◆ Attempt to trip Guard 1: 1d20 + 22 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 22 + 2 = 39 vs Reflex DC

◆ Attempt to trip Guard 2 or Guard 1 if the prior attempt was unsuccessful: 1d20 + 22 + 2 - 5 ⇒ (15) + 22 + 2 - 5 = 34 vs Reflex DC

Looks like the map shifted, and I had a hard time repositioning myself since I can't move through walls
Anyway, electric Arc guard 1 and 2 dmg: 8d4 ⇒ (2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4) = 16 reflex 32
And then bow shoot guard 2 hit: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (12) + 24 = 36 dmg: 3d6 + 4 ⇒ (6, 6, 5) + 4 = 21 piercing and dmg: 1d6 ⇒ 4 fire.

@Jax, only Skarn and Tomas are up.

Skarn runs the guard through with his firs blow. Stepping into the last remaining one he stabs him, leaving him horribly weakened and vulnerable to Tomas.

At this point I am going to call things on the basis that Tomas would likely have changed to hitting people and the last guard has very little health left.

With the patrol defeated all goes quiet. There is no noise from outside savw the howling of the wind. However, there is a second guard post out there and they will start to get suspicious if they dont see their fellows return to their post.

You probably have about 5 minutes before they come looking, what do you do? I assume your various persistent damages are dealt with without needing any more rolls.

Combat status

Sassarra [202], 1 damage
Jax [177], 50 damage
Tomas [120], 75 damage
Skarn [174], 2 damage

Should we do a quick heal up or come find the other group first guys. That way we can treat wounds then use our potions and spells. I have 50 damage on me, but that ain't too bad. Tomas however has more than half the damage on him.

Sassarra looks over at Tomas, "Yes, they did a number on you. I suspect it was because you spend so much time trying fancy tricks and not enough actually killing the enemies. Remember that time is of the essence in these fights."

Round 1
Torrent in the Blood on everybody, including me and Skarn: 7d8 ⇒ (8, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 3) = 21
Channel elements
Round 2
Ocean's Balm on Tomas: 7d8 ⇒ (5, 2, 7, 6, 3, 5, 4) = 32
Ocean's Balm on Jax: 7d8 ⇒ (7, 4, 6, 3, 1, 2, 4) = 27

Not quite healed up, but not bad for two rounds. I won't be able to use the same powers again on you in the fight to come,. I can still do Ocean's Balm on Jax and myself, and I also have battle medicine.

Tomas, one attack over three rounds? Really?!

She takes a look at the officer and adjusts her scarf, taking on the officer's appearance.

"I'll go in front as a distraction. Are we going through the fortress of going along the parapet?" she asks.

Skarn hesitates. As soon as the fight was over, he urges everyone to move on, as he has spells ticking down. He moves 10 ft away from everyone so that hey at least can talk. His Silence was still up!

He points from Sass to Tomas wounds and holds up one thumb. one heal must suffice

Next, he makes it clear that he will ambush them immediately. He points at himself and then towards the way they came from. Then he points at the others and out of the door towards the parapet.

during Sass' second healing round, Skarn has already moved using Sneak action at full speed.
And because you all have at least one stride per round available, I will move you all, too, on the map.
Because Jax is pretty slow, you should come from the outside. Jax can do ranged attacks or spells while moving closer during combat.