GM Erich's #3-18 Dacilane Academy's Delightful Disaster for Gameday XIV (Inactive)

Game Master Thereus, Silver Crusader

Bustral, Alessandra's courageous anthem adds +1 to your spell damage, too. (I forgot to add it to my void warp, but I think GM Erich added it anyway.)

Right where I wanted you!

She cross-slashes at it where it floats near her.

◆ Strike: protector dagger attack (agile, finesse, CA), piercing damage (boosted, CA): 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 10 + 1 - 4 = 261d6 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 7

◆ Strike: protector dagger attack (agile, finesse, CA), piercing damage (boosted, CA): 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 8 ⇒ (20) + 10 + 1 - 8 = 231d6 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 11

That might just do it...

The frostbite does its work, but the daggers finish the deed. The last worm evaporates into the ether.

As the room still twists through reality from their sudden arrival, Tels moves toward the mirror, not realizing the battle was won.

"Here try this!" He pushes one of the cold iron short swords from the displays against the mirror.

It can be grabbed by one of you, but only momentarily, as the room returns back to the stasis before the worms.

yellow fort save vs frostbite: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

Combat Over!
Bustral
Morthos
Yellow Worm -37 damage <destroyed>
Modra
Yata -9 damage
Red Worm -21 damage <destroyed>
Orange Worm -19 damage <destroyed>
Purple Worm -26 damage <destroyed>
Alessandra
Dawnfriend

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Apart from the bit of healing to be done, where does the group want to head to next, the kitchen mess or the wayward student in the library, or maybe even other exploration on your own?

Well done sister. he pats her on the shoulder and you notice it makes clean contact with her spectral form.

Morthos mentions that he hears some chaotic sounds coming from the kitchen and maybe they should go check it out.

Brother Dawnfriend immediately begins pulling out bandages from his healer's toolkit.

Treat Wounds: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Healing: 2d8 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

He mutters, "Medkits were *so* much easier," as he bandages Yata up. "Well, you've still got a little bruise there, but good other than that ... Let's check it again in an hour." He may not have a sense of time, though, because he checks it again in 2 minutes ... and then again in 5 minutes ... and then 8 minutes ... basically, he's just continually coming close to check on the status of Yata's remaining injury.

Alessandra snatches the proffered shortsword and (if she can hold it) gives Tels a thumbs-up in the mirror.

Modra watches Alessandra's attempt to grab the sword with interest, more curious about the planar interaction than about any desire to wield the sword. "Huh. Gonna be careful around mirrors from now on... ye canna be sure, can ye?" He salutes Tels with respect for the attempt to help how he can. "Thought he seemed like a good lad," he adds.

While Dawnfriend is bandaging Yata, the dwarf makes his way around the room to offer a brief remark to each companion, praising everyone's contribution in the fight against the worms. He's particularly impressed by Alessandra's song ("En't never heard anythin' where I felt stronger just hearin' it!") and by Lidya's knack with the flaming dagger ("Do ye make its flame? Or is it always like tha'?")

On the next destination, Modra nods in agreement with Morthos about checking out the kitchen next.

”Owww…good job everyone!” Yata rubs where she got hurt, and sighs in relief as Dawnfriend treats her wounds. She appreciates the constant attention too, it’s nice to have a medic so attentive!

”Kitchen next seems like a good idea. There might be more dangers there, and honestly Alec is not gonna open that lock anytime soon”

Alessandra is now the proud owner of a low-grade cold iron shortsword.

"Let's go show the others what all we learned!" Vim hops out of the room before you all leave. Tels waves at you in the mirror and departs as well.

Yata +6 hp from healing

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When your group returns to the kitchen door, you can see the two students inside, thumbing through the recipe books and looking flustered.

"Why'd they have to give us Woodsedge Tart to make? Do we look like bakers?" Geltra laments.

From your point of view, though, the skillets sputter and pots threaten to boil over, splashing their contents onto the careless student-cooks (they don't seem to notice) or onto the kitchen counters. The counters are covered with small dishes of ingredients ready to add, along with three heavy cookbooks and a healthy coating of flour.

They have made some progress in your abscence, but not enough. You could slide into the kitchen to use Cooking Lore (trained) or Crafting to add the proper ingredients to finish the dish up. Or you could try to use Diplomacy or Occultism to try to communicate with the students when to stir or adjust the heat on a dish.

I'm actually trained in Gastronomy Lore which while not Cooking exactly, it seems like it'd be relevant!

Yata, as one of her current hyperfixations, is studying food and cooking, so she's excited to help with this. She begins trying to help the students by adding ingredients and write in flour simple instructions.

Gastronomy lore: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

Should gastronomy lore not fit enough, that's a 17 diplomacy

Food Lore: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Dawnfriend frowns. "Is it like an Akitonian Tart? I know those use scorpions as a main ingredient ..."

"Stir that one now, or it'll scorch to the pan!"

Diplomacy check: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Bustral looks over the ingredients. "pretty sure these are the ingredients that go next. Hope fully the meal will taste good when we are done."

Crafting (Trained): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Although a past mentor's admonition about the potential perils of too many cooks is in his mind, Modra observes the rest of the party's attempts to help the students with the meal and convinces himself, as one can so easily do, that this is a justified exception to the mentor's advice.

Crafting, T: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

He bumbles in to the kitchen and surely does nothing helpful to solve the problem. He meant well, though.

The group enters and attempts to help the students in various ways. At the moment, the students don't quite seem to notice the hints and aids you are leaving.

Just need Morthos' actions and we will see what happens with the cooking disaster

Round 1 - Bold can act
Morthos
Alessandra
Modra
Bustral
Dawnfriend
Yata
Cooking Disaster

Morthos attempts to talk them through the cooking.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

The group cannot quite get through to the students, and the room fills with a nauseating odor. Perhaps the din of the hissing pots and rattling cookware is too much. The readily apparent disaster recipe builds to a screeching hum and then explodes in a shower of hot oils!

Some of the red-hot splat lands on a nearby cookbook, and the pages sizzle and blacken.

Targets (L to R): 1d6 ⇒ 21d6 ⇒ 51d6 ⇒ 31d6 ⇒ 11d6 ⇒ 4

splatter (fire) vs Bustral: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 111d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
splatter (fire) vs Alessandra: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 151d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
splatter (fire) vs Dawnfriend: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 121d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
splatter (fire) vs Yata: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 281d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
splatter (fire) vs Modra: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 221d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Also, I will need a DC 17 fort save from each of you (or be Sickened 1) before your next actions.

Round 2 - Bold can act
Morthos Need fort save
Alessandra Need fort save
Modra -8 damage Need fort save
Bustral Need fort save
Dawnfriend Need fort save
Yata -12 damage Need fort save
Cooking Disaster (1 cookbook destroyed)

Note all of the skills mentioned previously (including gastronomy!) can be used as a 2 action disable attempt on this hazard. It will take multiple successes to quiet it down.

Fortitude save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Modra's bumbling has left him in prime position to get blasted by the splatter, and his constitution is not up to the task of preventing further harm. "Urk..."

Do we need to be standing anywhere in particular to attempt any of the disable actions? Related question, any possibility of an Athletics interaction for disable? I'm thinking like "Reposition" as grab a pot and yank it off of its heat source.

Fort save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Though not injured, Brother Dawnfriend's orange fur seems to show something of a greenish hue from the skin underneath. "Excuse me," he mutters, as he leans over and begins retching.

◆ Retch check
Fortitude: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 1 = 17

"Oh, much better ..." he gasps, as he tries to fix the situation.

Just curious: Was the cookbook in our reality or theirs? Are the kids reacting to a cookbook bubbling?

◆◆ Disable Hazard
Food Lore: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

OK, going to hero point this ...
Food Lore re-roll: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

Dawnfriend's knowledge of the culinary arts is literally out of this world ... which proves useful in dealing with this strange situation.

Answers: The cookbooks span both "realities". I don't think athletics will work as the pots are more in their reality (but doing damage in yours). Any actions manipulating the ingredients would have to be done in the kitchen proper. The influence checks can be from outside the room. I am contemplating cover when doing the "attacks" (from the fireplace).

"Did you see that? The cookbook is smoking! Weird!" Hari notices with a raised eyebrow.

Fortitude vs. DC: 17: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Bustral tries to vomit the sickness out...

Fortitude vs. sickness: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (13) + 4 - 1 = 16

Bustral then tries to disable the trap....

Crafting (Trained): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

fortitude: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Poor Yata wasn't having a good day...she was very hurt.

"WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE LODGE?!"

She tried disabling the hazard

Gastronomy lore: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

She then did guidance on Morthos.

Modra's resolve to not be sick in front of his companions lasts precisely as long as it takes for other people around him attempting to vomit out the foulness to get past it. He doubles over and heaves.

Fortitude: 1d20 + 8 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 - 1 = 27

As in days of wild youth, the puke-and-rally still can get a dwarf through it. He wipes his forearm across his mouth to try to clean away some of the mess from himself, straightens, and tries again to toss some ingredients into one of the pots that he's pretty sure would blunt some of this chaotic reaction.

Crafting: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Action 1: Attempt to remove sickened (success)
Actions 2-3: Disable

DC 17 Fort save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

The bard turns green, but rather than try to shake off the effect, Alessandra powers through. "No worse than...<urp>...playing for a goblin potluck!"

Diplomacy check to communicate: 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 9 - 1 = 20 **

Third action is a Recall Knowledge attempt to learn more about what's happening; base +8, -1 for being Sickened.

Alessandra surmises that the cooking food has shifted out of phase alongside your group (hence it harms you and not the students). The cookbooks and ingredients strain the edge of the two realities (physically being with the students mostly - i.e. you can't move the cookbooks or pots), but able to absorcb the elements (like the burning oil). The situational and even capricious nature of the boundry interactions of the phases here (and in the room with Tels and Vim earlier) does suggest that maybe the anomoly you are dealing with today was planned by someone, or something...

DC17 Fortitude: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Morthos holds his nose just in time to avoid nauseating effects.

He attempts to communicate across the boundary again.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

With Alessandra and Morthos providing the moral support, Dawnfriend and Yata are able to provide the last few notes on key ingredients (through scribbles in the flour) to finish up the curse'd tart.

The pots begin to simmer approriately, and the kitchen smells turn fragrant and warm.

"Hari, I think they helped us, I saw writings in the flour!" Geltra whispers over the slowly crackling fire.

"Yes, we did most of the work, but a good artiste knows when to find... inspiration." Hari concedes. "Let's remember to take this out in a while when it is done cooking. For now, let's return to the rest of the students to see how they made out. It sounded like there was a ruckus earlier."

Hazard Over!
Modra -8 damage
Yata -12 damage

For scoring that critical on the reroll that saved further damage to your companions, I'm awarding the first hero point replacement to Dawnfriend.

Time to check on Alec's progress? Or do you wish to explore other rooms, Pathfinders?

"Perhaps it would be prudent to heal some before progressing. I have 2 minor heal potions if needed."

....afterwards.

"Now where did Alec get off to? We need to emphasize the need o stay together to the students later."

Can we assume that Alessandra was able to recover from being sickened before the next scene?

I am obviously not the GM but I believe it was just a sickened 1 so that would have been over after a round?
Separate: I believe Yata is still in the Treat Wounds cooldown so that's why I'm trying this on myself instead of on her.

Modra sizes up his burns from the strange enchantment in the fireplace. After a couple of pokes that get him wincing, he pulls out his healer's toolkit and attempts to get some cooling salve onto the wounds. "Ye know," he says as he uses his teeth for leverage to rip off some cloth for a bandage, "they teach ye not ta be goin' inta the fire, but no' so many lessons on what to do when the fire comes out to get ye." He chuckles ruefully.

Medicine: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Healing: 2d8 ⇒ (5, 1) = 6

After some under-his-breath grumbling, he ties off the bandages and looks over his work, mostly satisfied with what he sees. "Tha' one lad's tryin' to pick a lock, ye said? Better be seein' what kind o' trouble's over tha' way once we're ready."

AFAICT getting rid of that condition requires retching and making a new save--it's not like Frightened, where "[u]nless specified otherwise, at the end of each of your turns, the value of your frightened condition decreases by 1."

"I didn't like that at all...it really hurt... Poor Yata is barely standing.

You are correct Alessandra, unless specified with a duration, it takes a successful check to clear the sickness. We can assume there was enough time to do just that before the next "encounter".

Speaking of that --- Modra is at 2 damage now, but Yata is at 15 damage, might want to address that, too.

As you make your way to the library once again, Geltra and Hari peel off to the main chamber.

"Who'd of thought it was cinnamon - from Minata, no less. That was the ingedient we were missing..." Geltra laughs.

Hari pats her good-naturedly on the head. "Good on you to figure it out."

"I had help." she squeaks.

Alessandra draws her bow along the strings of her instrument, playing a soothing melody for Yata.

Casting 1st level soothe: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Under the occult power of her music, the gnome's burns fade away, leaving only a few red patches.

Yata sighs in relief, "Thank you...that's much, much better!

Assuming that healing is good for now (correct me if either of you want to top off..)

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When you all return to the library, Alec sits cross-legged in front of the still unopened door marked "Restricted: Sensitive". His hands rest on his legs, barely grasping his crude thieves' picks.

He looks like he could use a bit of Communication from Beyond to influence his next actions (so, an Athletics, Diplomacy, Occultism, or Thievery check from anyone who wishes to try to communicate some words to him through the shifted planes).

Young Alec, you really don't want to do that.

Of course Morthos doesn't really know what's inside, but if it's locked it can't be good that a student finds it.

Communicate from beyond (Diplomacy): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

"Entry forbidden and could result in expulsion." Bustral tries to communicate...

Communicate from beyond (Occultism): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25

I'm fine with moving on without further healing action.

"Don't we got ta get 'im countin' up types o' documents an' the like?" Modra asks this while observing the mischievous student with amusement. "Turn yer back an' there's always someone makin' trouble..."

The dwarf makes his own attempt to communicate across the planes, rapping the floor with the haft of his warhammer several times in hopes of getting Alec to notice one chalked word on the table behind him: Assignment.

Athletics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

"Wait...before we start talking to him, let's make sure he's all right. There's enough strangeness here that something may have affected him."

Yata tries writing…

diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

I forgot the DC, I think that allows me to do 10 words?

It happens. There will be other locks!

If it’s not a crit…she will just write “learning”, which hopefully he will take as “you’re still learning”

Over the course of the next minute of so, Alec picks up on the hints left by the group.

"Alright. Alright. I get it! Probably just full of more romance novels, anyway!" He starts to get up from the floor, by grabbing onto the door's crossbar.It gives a bit and makes him rearrange his arising.

A massive whoosh in the library introduces four new creatures, likely summoned by the door itself. They appear on various bookshelves and resemble tiny mange-ridden opossums, with boar-like tusks.

Alec, seemingly unaware of the new intruders, simply walks out the door back to the entry hall, still chuckling to himself.

Two of them swoop down from their sudden perches to bite, the first one delivering a spray of vomit in its wake, the second tossing a bruising book at the summoner before turning on the eidolon.

As they get close, you can see "swarms" of lice crawling over their little bodies.

Need DC 18 fort save from Morthos and Alessandra or become sickened 1 (sickened 2 on a crit fail)

orange bite (piercing) vs Morthos: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 111d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
yellow book (bludgeoning) vs Morthos: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 191d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Round 1 - Bold can act
Orange creature
Yellow creature
Yata -1 damage
Purple creature <5 feet up>
Dawnfriend
Bustral
Red creature <5 feet up>
Morthos -7 damage **Need fort save**
Modra -2 damage
Alessandra **Need fort save**

New Pic and map updated. You may provide your Nature bonus to identify them as an action on your turn.

DC 18 Fort save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Alessandra can use Bardic Lore to Recall Knowledge; bonus is +8.

DC18 Fortitude: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

He feels something creeping into his being and introducing warm waves of nausea, but in resolution he fights it off.

Yata jumps seeing the sudden creatures ”Hey! Leave them alone!” she says as she casts electric arc on the ones on both orange and yellow. (DC 17 reflex)

electric arc: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4

She then casts guidance on Morthos.

The electricity finds but one foe and another leaps from the shelf onto poor Yata. As it hovers near her, hundreds of lice jump ship onto the gnome.

Need a DC 15 reflex save from Yata or be infested with their lice buddies (stupefied 1).

orange save vs EA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24
yellow save vs EA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
purple bite (piercing) vs Yata: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 101d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
purple bite (piercing) vs Yata: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 9 - 4 = 181d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Round 1 - Bold can act
Orange creature -2 damage
Yellow creature
Yata -8 damage Need reflex save
Purple creature
Dawnfriend
Bustral
Red creature <5 feet up>
Morthos -7 damage <guidance from Yata>
Modra -2 damage
Alessandra <sickened 1>

Bustral looks at the creature that still hasn't attacked. He concentrates using his innate ability and tries to Daze it...

Daze vs. Red dealing possible Mental damage (Will DC: 17): 1d6 ⇒ 5

....he then says, "Catch!", as a arrow-shaped bolt of force appears before him and strikes the same creature...

Force damage vs. Red: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

cast Daze (2 actions); cast Force Bolt Focus spell (1 action). AC: 15 until next turn.

reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Yata avoids getting infested! "LEAVE ME ALONE!"

◆ Recall Knowledge: Nature +3

Brother Dawnfriend considers what he might know know about these creatures. He then raises a pair of hands toward the purple creature, yelling, "By Sarenrae, leave Yatafriend alone!" as he releases a blast of light at the creature.

◆◆ Cast a Spell: daze - DC 16 Will save vs 1d6 ⇒ 2 mental damage, stunned 1 on critical fail

Dawnfriend is unsure about these little guys...

Dazing rays sprout forth from the group, followed up by a punishing bolt of force. The creature responds with a blast of vomit and then closes on the skittermander.

purple will save vs daze: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
red will save vs daze: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
red bite (piercing) vs Dawnfriend: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 221d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Need DC 18 fort save from Dawnfriend and Alessandra or become sickened 1 (sickened 2 on a crit fail)

Need a DC 15 reflex save from Dawnfriend or be infested with their lice (stupefied 1).

Round 1 - Bold can act
Orange creature -2 damage
Yellow creature
Yata -8 damage
Purple creature -2 damage
Dawnfriend -5 damage Need fort and reflex save
Bustral <AC 15>
Red creature -10 damage
Morthos -7 damage <guidance from Yata>
Modra -2 damage
Alessandra <sickened 1> Need fort save